On Thursday, November 3rd, the ETCDC Staff and about two dozen current and potential Board Members loaded onto a bus (shout-out to Premiere for driving us!) and took an hour-long trek around Knoxville to view sixty projects the Design Center has worked on in the past or is working on currently. Design Studio Project Coordinator Perry Childress narrated the journey … Read More

It may be the season to sit back, relax, eat turkey and watch football, but here at the Design Center we are going full steam ahead with several projects. Below are updates to some of them. SEEED: the energy-efficiency-focused nonprofit is working with us and volunteer architect Don Horton, AIA, to develop a new multistory mixed-use office building on Martin … Read More

August 3rd was our Celebration at World’s Fair Park and by all accounts, it was a great success. The food was delicious (thanks to Holly’s) the beer was cold (thanks to the Tap Truck), the auction was stunning (thanks to all of our artist donors) and the atmosphere was totally 80s! Check out a handful of photos from the event … Read More

Welcome to the third installment of our new series, ‘From Our Files’, where we show you a potpourri of sketches, old projects, and other fun things we recently found at our office while doing some intense Spring cleaning. For this installment, we’ll focus on a few local Knoxville neighborhoods. The first one, Fourth and Gill, is the neighborhood our office … Read More

Everyone, say hello to the newest member of our Staff here at the Design Center, Ms. Melody Wyatt! Melody joins us after having worked in the past at UT and then for five years at the Boy Scouts’ Great Smoky Mountain Council. She retired in November of 2020 but decided to come out of her retirement to work with us … Read More

This is the second installment our new series, ‘From our Files’, where we take a look back at some of the treasures we’ve found in the trove of files at the Design Center office. The first sketch, seen above, is of a block of Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville from 1982 (forty years ago exactly!). We hope the designs and sketches … Read More

In cleaning our office and organizing our files recently, we rediscovered some old projects and beautiful sketches that had been waiting quietly in our cabinets to be viewed once more. We’ll be sharing some of what we found on here and our social media every month or so for a while, so set back and enjoy what we found, such … Read More

An example of charrette sketchesWe will be conducting our 2022 Community Collaborative Design Charrette from Monday, January 24th through Thursday, February 24th for participating architecture firms and teams of interested designers. The Community Collaborative is a focused effort between organizations on the challenges facing our local communities. The goal of the Collaborative is to highlight an area’s history, bring awareness … Read More

Board Members (L) Patrick Brown, PLA, ASLA (M) Amy Taylor (R) Nathan Hunter, PLA, LEED APA new year means new faces on our Board of Directors, and we are excited to introduce three new faces to you now! Patrick Brown, Amy Taylor, and Nathan Hunter are the most recent additions to our Board, and we are thrilled to have them. … Read More

We’re hiring! We are looking for someone to become our next Design Studio Director, and that person may just be you. This position is the head of our Design Studio and includes overseeing all aspects of ETCDC design projects, including interaction with clients, volunteer advisors, and directing production of the ETCDC Design Studio Staff. Communication skills and organizational aptitude to … Read More