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June 2024 - Ground is Broken on University of Alabama Biomedical Research and Psychology Building.

March 2024 - Charlie speaks at Samford University to students and Faculty in the School of Architecture.


August 2023 - Charlie takes a position at Williams Blackstock  Architects as an Emerging Professional.

August 2023 - Orthopolis is featured in Dezeen article titled, ‘Seven Cities set in Dystopian futures by Architecture Students’

April 2023 - Charlie serves as an invited juror for Auburn University’s 2023 Spring Thesis Reviews at the Urban Studio.


October 2022 - Orthopolis is featured in Dezeen article titled, ‘SCI-Arc spotlights ten architecture and design projects’.

October 2022 - Orthopolis is featured in Dezeen article titled, ‘SCI-Arc spotlights eight graduate architecture projects’.

September 2022 - Charlie takes a position at BLOX | Giattina Aycock Architecture as an Intern Architect.

September 2022 - Orthopolis is selected to be in the Select Graduate Thesis Exhibition ’22 in the SCI-Arc Gallery.

September 2022 - Charlie Allen graduates from SCI-Arc with distinction. 

Spring 2022 -  Charlie joins Design of Cities studio, ‘Jinghua Ai-Qing Poetry Culture Center,’ produces Ai-Qing Poetry and Culture Center.


Fall 2022 - Charlie joins Design of Cities studio, ‘A Non-Linear Case for a New Type of Urban Intensification in Irwindale California,’ produces Hydrantis.

Summer 2021 - Charlie interns at Baumgartner + Uriu.

February 2021 - Charlie’s essay titled, “The Beginnings of Urban Design: A Timely response to the late Michael Sorkin’s ‘The End(s) of Urban Design’” is published in Underscore Vol.8 - Inter/rupt.


July 2019 - Charlie begins Master of Architecture 1 program at SCI-Arc.


June 2018 - Tropic of Charlie is discovered.