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2 0 0 8 C A LEND A R February 6 - March 7 Graphic Design Practitioners Show Brooks Hall Gallery February 29 Natural Learning Initiative Symposium: Growing in Place Marbles Kids Museum Saturday, March 1 5th Annual Urban Design Conference – Intelligent Design www.design.ncsu.edu/urban March 10 - April 4 Art + Design Practitioners Show Brooks Hall Gallery March 12 Art + Design Lecture: Alumna Natalie Chanin March 20 Landscape Architecture Lecture: Kenneth I. Helphand Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall March 14 and 28 College of Design Career Interview Days Brooks Hall 12 noon to 6 p.m.

April 12 Kick-off of 60th Anniversary Celebration 11th Annual Design Guild Award dinner honoring Jim Goodmon The Umstead Hotel and Spa www.design.ncsu.edu/guild

April 7 Architecture Lecture: Alexander Tzonis Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall April 10 Annual Charles A. Berger Memorial (Landscape Architecture) Lecture: Randy Hester, UC Berkeley Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall April 10 Art to Wear Fashion Show The Court of North Carolina 8:30 p.m.

April 14 Architecture Lecture: Jeanne Gang Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall

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May 15 Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by the firm DiMella Shaffer, 281 Summer Street, Boston 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. www.design.ncsu.edu/rsvp May 19 - August 20 Summer Exhibition Brooks Hall Gallery

Design Camp (for high school students) Overnight Design Camps (for 11th & 12th grade students) Dates: June 22 - 28, 2008 & July 20 - 26, 2008 Design Day Camp (for 10th & 11th grade students) Dates: July 7 - 11, 2008 Design Camp at Marbles (Grades 6th - 8th) www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/campus/summer

Design Guild Award Distinguished Alumna

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May 10 Spring Commencement

DESIGN CAMPS – organized by Contemporary Art Museum Initiative. Visit www.design.ncsu. edu and click on the link to Design Camp in the left column.

Design Points Along a Compass

Recognitions

May 5 - 10 Spring Graduation Show

March 24 Architecture Lecture: Herman Hertzberger Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall April 7 - May 2 Exhibition: Peter Batchelor Retrospective Brooks Hall Gallery

DEAN’S MESSAGE

All ARCHITECTURE LECTURES are held in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall at 6 p.m. and are co-sponsored by AIA Triangle and the School of Architecture at NC State University. A reception follows the lecture. AIA CES credits are provided.

OUR THANKS College of Design lectures and exhibitions are sponsored in part by Design Guild Dean’s Circle and Benefactor members. For more details, go to www.design.ncsu.edu/events.

We welcome your submission of alumni news items in addition to your comments about this publication. To receive our electronic newsletter, DESIGNlife, please send us your e-mail address.

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Chatterjee Designs New Capital City Wolflands Provides NC State Second Life Designing Play with a Purpose Legacy Connections Local Heroes Recognized at Historic Yates Mill County Park Destination Prague Croxton Excels in Sustainable Design Historic Homecoming: Architectural Photographer John M. Hall Affordable Housing Internship Program Launched Achieve! The Campaign for NC State

Commencement Address

In Memoriam

Alison Smith development assistant

College News

Angela Brockelsby assistant director of communications

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Sherry O’Neal editor; director of communications

EXHIBITIONS are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery. VISITORS are encouraged to verify time and location of events, which are subject to change. For more information, call 919/515-8313 or sign up for DESIGNlife, an e-newsletter, at www.design.ncsu.edu (link to “news & events” from pull-down menu).

The Design Guild is an association of alumni, friends, design professionals and industry leaders established in 1996 to promote design education at the NC State University College of Design through private contributions and gifts. The publication of Design Influence is fully supported by Design Guild funds.

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www.design@ncsu.edu or address correspondence to: NC State University College of Design Campus Box 7701 Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 919/515-8313 Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA dean Carla Abramczyk assistant dean for external relations and development Jean Marie Livaudais director of professional relations

Craig McDuffie (BEDV 1983) designer COVER A moment on the catwalk from “2007 Collection: Art to Wear” held on The Court of North Carolina. See more, page 35.

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April 12 Kick-off of 60th Anniversary Celebration 11th Annual Design Guild Award dinner honoring Jim Goodmon The Umstead Hotel and Spa www.design.ncsu.edu/guild

April 14 Architecture Lecture: Jeanne Gang Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall

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May 15 Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by the firm DiMella Shaffer, 281 Summer Street, Boston 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. www.design.ncsu.edu/rsvp May 19 - August 20 Summer Exhibition Brooks Hall Gallery

Design Guild Award Distinguished Alumna

features

May 10 Spring Commencement

DESIGN CAMPS – organized by Contemporary Art Museum Initiative. Visit www.design.ncsu. edu and click on the link to Design Camp in the left column.

Design Points Along a Compass

Recognitions

May 5 - 10 Spring Graduation Show

March 24 Architecture Lecture: Herman Hertzberger Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall April 7 - May 2 Exhibition: Peter Batchelor Retrospective Brooks Hall Gallery

DEAN’S MESSAGE

OUR THANKS College of Design lectures and exhibitions are sponsored in part by Design Guild Dean’s Circle and Benefactor members. For more details, go to www.design.ncsu.edu/events.

We welcome your submission of alumni news items in addition to your comments about this publication. To receive our electronic newsletter, DESIGNlife, please send us your e-mail address.

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Commencement Address

In Memoriam

Alison Smith development assistant

College News

Angela Brockelsby assistant director of communications

Notes

Sherry O’Neal editor; director of communications

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Alumni/Friends Faculty/Staff Students

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Donor Support College Faculty & Staff Listing

Craig McDuffie (BEDV 1983) designer COVER A moment on the catwalk from “2007 Collection: Art to Wear” held on The Court of North Carolina. See more, page 35.

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Compass by Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, Dean

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he underlying motivation for design action is summed up well by Thomas Edison’s insistence that creativity and innovation be measured by usefulness and marketability. His belief in the instrumental nature of creativity defines a particularly American contribution to the search that pervades the essence of what is now referred to as a D School mentality. Engineering, business and even medical programs have become increasingly curious about the studio method and the processes that accompany it. This curiosity is reflected in the round of management publications that explore themes such as serious play, modeling techniques and the celebration of new product development. It is no longer a question of design as part science and part humanities exploration. Design thought processes are increasingly accepted as a distinct and complementary way of understanding to these traditional perspectives.

Mr. Edison’s approach to innovation articulated a value system that included a specific focus on solutions to societal needs, collaboration among individuals with complementary skills creating a master mind mentality, a willingness to build upon ideas from many sources and the tireless pursuit of the resolution of concepts. His personal library was impressive and his interest in Shakespeare as intense as his fondness for mathematics and chemistry. The record of his activities is no less than the recollection of the birth of the design process that has become the underlying structure of the curriculum we pursue today in design education. Well before the establishment of the Bauhaus in Germany, he linked his creative and passionate group of “muckers” to industry-focused product development. The spirit that was fostered among this group is best characterized as a studio model. The industry-based research and development model owes its foundation to him.

There is considerable debate on the subject of teaching design thinking. The essence of the debate centers on the importance of the connection between thinking, making and doing. It is a return to the fundamental philosophy of Thomas Edison. Instrumentalism, the nineteenth-century American approach to education that led to the establishment of the land-grant university, connected advanced study to the common problems of industry and agriculture to nurture an improved life for the citizens of the country. This model is the inspiration of the creative intellect, tested by the problems of environment and society that results in the development of products. It is an exemplar of thinking, making and doing. It is therefore an ideal crucible for fostering the design culture. It is also the ideal crucible for the application of design thinking, making and doing. Therefore, it is this culture of thought and action that is the departure point for exploration in all directions from tools for heart surgery, to

new animation and gaming strategies, to new forms of communication and identity development, to the exploration of material and fibers development, to concepts of land and resource management, to the solutions to the affordable housing imperative, to great schools by design, to sustainable development guidelines for communities. The culture of design is an incredible vehicle for exploration along all points of the compass. It is possible to look in any direction and see the importance and the relevance of this process. It is for this reason that a College of Design within a land-grant institution is at the very core of its foundational principals. Service learning is alive in every corner of the design experience. Students and faculty are engaged with the belief that what is being pursued is for the greater good. The work of designers in American culture is dedicated to foster a better place, innovative products and vital new industries. It is time for this

amazing force within American culture to be unleashed. A design education is no less than the instigation of this force within the creative spirit to thoughtfully engage the irresistible urge to make and do. Those who urge the intimate connection between thinking, making and doing understand that design thinking is the foundation of thoughtful action. Yet, it is also the provocation for new ways of making and doing that further enrich the thought process and inspire model behavior. And, it is the doing that proves the efficacy of the journey. Thoughtfulness, exploration through demonstration and exemplary conduct are the pillars of a true design culture.

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Design Guild Honors Jim Goodmon

College of Design Selects Natalie S. Chanin as Distinguished Alumna Award Winner Please join the Design Guild in honoring Jim Goodmon at the 11th annual Design Guild Award Dinner on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at the Umstead Hotel and Spa. Go to www.design.ncsu.edu/guild for information.

im Goodmon believes in building strong communities. President and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting, he has distinguished himself in business and as an advocate for North Carolina communities. Goodmon and his wife Barbara have worked to improve the lives of countless people in the Triangle and across the state. The rehabilitation of the urban built environment has been a significant focus of Goodmon’s work. By bringing together philanthropy with business investment savvy, he is revitalizing communities economically and culturally. Design Guild President Michael Cole says “From Raleigh’s Capitol Broadcasting Company headquarters to Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District; from Briggs Hardware on Fayetteville Street to Rocky Mount Mills, Jim Goodmon has been a tireless advocate and catalyst for progressive, historic preservation, adaptive re-use, creative urban design solutions and innovative mixed-use developments.” For his innovative approach to preserving architectural treasures and renewing urban environments, the Design Guild is proud to name Jim Goodmon the 2008 Design Guild Award recipient.

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Above, Jim Goodmon. Below (left), Briggs Building, (right) American Tobacco Historic District.

The 11th annual Design Guild Award Dinner will kick-off the College of Design’s 60th anniversary! Stay tuned for news and events: www.design.ncsu.edu/60.

ighteen alumni were honored for their achievements at the NC State Alumni Association’s Fourth Annual Evening of Stars Gala at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary in November. Each of NC State’s 10 colleges, the Wolfpack Club and the Alumni Association celebrated alumni for their successes in their careers and their contributions to their communities and to their alma mater. “Each of our honorees is a talented, extraordinary individual, who adds value to an NC State diploma and serves as an inspiration for others, as well as being a worthy role model for our current students,” said Chancellor James L. Oblinger during the evening’s ceremony. “They are achievers of the highest order— alumni who are making a difference in their communities, in our state and in the world.”

Natalie S. Chanin (BED 1987) of Florence, Ala., received a Distinguished Alumna Award from the College of Design. Chanin worked in the United States and abroad for 22 years as a costume designer and stylist before returning to her native Alabama to film a short documentary, “Stitch”. During the documentary’s filming, she co-founded

Project Alabama, launching a couture line that produced handsewn garments using Depressionera quilting and stitching techniques that were beautiful and durable. Project Alabama earned national accolades for its creativity, beauty and celebration of the past. In 2006, Project Alabama ceased operations and Chanin launched Alabama Chanin, where she continues to create limited-edition, handmade jewelry, clothing, home furnishings and textiles made with recycled and organic materials. Made and signed by a team of more than 30 local artisans, Alabama Chanin designs are steeped in traditions that emphasize quality of cut, detail, craftsmanship and style. Although Chanin could not be present at the Evening of the Stars event, Chandra Cox and Michael Pause accepted the award on her behalf. Chanin prepared a DVD of her work. RECOGNITION

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Design Guild Honors Jim Goodmon

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Above, Jim Goodmon. Below (left), Briggs Building, (right) American Tobacco Historic District.

The 11th annual Design Guild Award Dinner will kick-off the College of Design’s 60th anniversary! Stay tuned for news and events: www.design.ncsu.edu/60.

Chatterjee Designs New Capital City

ot many designers have an opportunity to have an impact in designing a brand new capital city, but that is exactly what Dr. Sudeshna Chatterjee (Ph.D. 2006) is doing in the new Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Chatterjee is working on the conceptual visualization of the whole city based on a land use plan and transportation grid worked out by the planners. As the urban designer, Chatterjee contributed to the development of the masterplan by introducing human scale and appropriate grains to the development zones with due consideration for good urban form, symbolism, imagery and aesthetics. She brought in latest research understanding to setting development goals and creating urban design standards and guidelines for this 21st century capital city. Chatterjee is the first woman urban designer to lead the creation of a design-led vision for a capital city anywhere in the world. “I never thought I would design a capital city, simply because there are so few of them designed from scratch,” Chatterjee says, “I was very careful to understand what has historically made capital cities special. I tried to adapt some of the time-tested urban design ideas that had allowed capital cities to express power and solidify their identities and married them to present discourses on sustainable design, green urbanism and human cities with a special focus on pedestrians, women, children and people with different abilities to create a capital city that is green, equitable and responsive to the everyday needs of all citizens.” A partner in Kaimal Chatterjee and Associates, an architecture, urban design and research practice, Chatterjee now lives in New Delhi. Her project in Chhattisgarh is designing the most important areas of the capital city of Naya Raipur including the Central Business District, transportation hubs, the area around the capitol complex as well as typical residential neighborhoods. Chatterjee says, “a city plan does not create a city by itself.

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A car-free central plaza with multiple activity settings and spaces for display of local art in the heart of the Central Business District.

Historically this is a complex process of negotiations and collaborations. In this case, public-private partnerships will give physical shape to the city plan with the state playing a more regulatory role. That is why it was important to create a very detailed design code for the city which laid out for its builders the intention for future developments as well as ways to attain them in an equitable, sustainable and successful manner.” Chatterjee’s award-winning background in urban design and children’s environments began in her native Calcutta, India, where she went to architecture school at Jadavpur University Calcutta. She received first class honors for her B.Arch degree and the best final year architectural thesis award. Fascinated by large urban-scale projects and the complexities of cities, Chatterjee continued her studies in the master of urban design program in the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. There, she received the departmental gold medal for best urban design student and the T.J. Manickam gold medal for best graduate thesis among all departments in 1997-98.

She worked as an urban designer and architect in the practice of Joseph Allen Stein (Stein Mani Chowfla Architects) until 2002. During her spare time, she actively devoted time to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that design and enhance children’s environments such as parks, play schools and school for special needs children. With a goal to become an expert on research and design of children’s environments, especially in developing cities, Chatterjee began working as a research associate with the Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network in Delhi. She developed work on children’s housing rights in South Asia, resulting in two international publications and gained first-hand networking with officials from the United Nations Child-Friendly Cities Secretariat in international conferences. This experience and networking greatly benefited her in designing her Ph.D. dissertation on child-friendly cities. In 2001 she won a Mellon short-term fellowship to attend an international seminar series titled “Contested Childhood in a Changing Global Order” held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Chatterjee made the decision prior to the seminar that she wanted to pursue a Ph.D. She chose to study at NC State so she could work with Robin Moore, director of the Natural Learning Initiative and professor in landscape architecture. Continuing to win awards for her research, Chatterjee’s dissertation was selected as the only NC State nominee to the national CGS/microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation awards in the field of Fine Arts/Humanities. Her dissertation is titled “Children’s Friendship with Place: An Exploration of Environmental Child Friendliness of Children’s Environments in Cities.” In April 2006, while Chatterjee was preparing for her dissertation defense in Raleigh, she was invited to serve as the News Archive Editor for the international peer-reviewed journal, “Children, Youth and Environments (CYE).” She has since contributed over 50 news stories on the subject to CYE and has been made a research affiliate of the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Chatterjee also has a hand in designing several schools as developmentally adequate and child-friendly environments, including the first environmental school in the central Himalayas through community participation. She is also an integral part of a new initiative to provide sustainable community owned rural education in villages across India.

Her firm was selected to redesign the public spaces of Apollo Hospital, the largest, private hospital in New Delhi. Recently, Chatterjee was invited to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, by the World Education and Cambodia Living Arts (CLA) to understand how performing arts have been revived in that country through the intervention of organizations such as CLA. This preliminary research is exploring the possibility of a new arts-led planning vision of the city including creation of an arts district in Phnom Penh to promote the city as a venue for big international arts events. “I feel really happy that I had been given the opportunities to use my training in community and environmental design research to understand the needs of a community before developing policies or designs to bring in preferred change through physical interventions,” she says. Chatterjee continues to teach graduate courses in the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, and work as an editor, writer and reviewer for CYE and EDRA. As for the future, she hopes to publish her dissertation into a monograph. She also wants to write a children’s book on some of the findings she feels have great value for environmental education. The Arab Urban Development Institute is spearheading an international initiative to create child-friendly cities across the Middle East by creating the right regional, national and local policies. Chatterjee has been engaged by AUDI as a resource person with international expertise on child-friendly cities to provide content and peer review regarding the new policies and guidelines emerging out of this initiative. However, her goal of making cities childfriendly through design is coming true by being an integral part of designing this Typical Residential Sector Layout – A multi-nodal open space system with pedestrian and cycle new capital city—a routes that connects the neighborhood end to once in a lifetime end and centers the diverse mix of housing types opportunity. around a shared community space. FEATURE ARTICLE

Chatterjee Designs New Capital City

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A car-free central plaza with multiple activity settings and spaces for display of local art in the heart of the Central Business District.

Wolflands Provides NC State Second Life

or students enrolled in distance education classes, one challenge is in having face-to-face interactions with their instructor and other students. At NC State, research being conducted by DELTA (Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications) is exploring how 3-D online learning environments can be used to simulate these interactions and provide other venues for students to hold meetings, engage in role-playing activities, simulate a real-world lab experience, or even allow prospective students to visit the campus and interact with current students—virtually. Linden Lab’s Second Life is one such tool the team at DELTA is exploring. Second Life is a virtual reality universe that is centered in a 3-D visual space. The use of Second Life has taken off quickly since its inception in 2003, with Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale reporting as many as 57,000 users logged in worldwide at any given time, and nearly 9 million accounts in total. Second Life has its own economy, where users purchase virtual clothing, homes and even pets using Linden Dollars. Popular television shows such as “CSI,” “Law and Order” and “The Office” have all aired episodes involving Second Life. Dozens of corporations, including BMW, Ben & Jerry’s and IBM, see the economic potential of this budding new

technology and have developed a presence in Second Life. More than 100 universities also have a presence in Second Life. Dr. Tom Miller, Vice Provost for DELTA, charged his team with investigating Second Life as part of their 3-D Online Learning Environments initiative in June 2007. “3-D virtual environments will have a very significant impact on online learning,” Miller said. “By providing mechanisms for virtual co-location for students and teachers to interact, they add back in a ‘learning community’ aspect which has always been a critical component of face-to-face instruction but has been sorely lacking in traditional online learning environments.” The DELTA Second Life team, with project leadership provided by Amanda Robertson (BGD 1997, MID 2004), has created an island for NC State named Wolflands. Wolflands is available to the public, though the island has not yet been publicized widely. DELTA is building the proof of concept and will continue to maintain and support Second Life during this research phase. “If the university decides that Second Life is a viable production tool, there would need to be resources established and training available for instructors,” said Robertson.

DELTA design team (left to right): Ben Huckaby, Mike Cuales and Amanda Robertson; Ilana Marks and Saba Kawas review library space revisions.

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Robertson and the Second Life team are not duplicating NC State’s campus in a photo-realistic way, but decided to make Wolflands a futuristic space—one that embraces the conventions established by Linden Lab. Flight, for example, is the main mode of navigation for characters, or avatars, in Second Life. “The approach to defining the design and development in Second Life has been to create an overall open atmosphere that embraced the navigation of avatars and the unique aspect afforded by this digital space,” said Robertson. “This is a huge collaboration effort amongst several talented people, including several faculty who were already familiar with Second Life and expressed an early interest in researching it with us.” The Second Life team includes Robertson, Ben Huckaby (BAD 2007, CSC 2006), Master of Art + Design student Saba Kawas, Senior Anni Albers Scholar Ilana Marks and Senior in Communication Studies student Alan Youngblood. The DELTA team is managed by College of Design alumnus Michael Cuales (MID 2000), DELTA’s Associate Director of Creative & Multimedia Production Services. D.H. Hill Library and the colleges of Design, Education, Engineering, Management and Textiles all have a presence on the Wolflands campus. Saba Kawas has developed the NCSU Library space and is eager to get applications in place to allow avatars to use library services. According to Robertson, “The library will serve as the hub of the island and provide resources and information for all who visit.” The DELTA team has worked closely with library staff to develop this space and define what services should be available. Kawas, an international student who majored in architectural engineering for her undergraduate degree, joined the DELTA team in August 2007. She fashioned the furniture in the Learning Commons on Wolflands to replicate the new look of the furniture in the real-life library. Kawas has even reproduced the Color Wall—which faces Hillsborough Street in D.H. Hill and was designed by the late Professor of Art + Design Joe Cox—in her rendering of the library in Second Life. Youngblood worked on the design for the Brickyard in Second Life, development of the asteroids, and is working on the Wolfline of Tomorrow, a tram-like spacecraft that will provide information about services and tours of Wolflands for visitors. Marks suggested the futuristic theme of NC State. “The application is more readily understandable by younger people of the gaming generation,” Marks said. She built the Wolflands version of Brooks Hall, translating

Top to bottom: College of Education students in Bookhenge; Futuristic view of the Bell Tower; College of Design holds critique in the spacecraft. FEATURE ARTICLE

Wolflands Provides NC State Second Life

DELTA design team (left to right): Ben Huckaby, Mike Cuales and Amanda Robertson; Ilana Marks and Saba Kawas review library space revisions.

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Top to bottom: College of Education students in Bookhenge; Futuristic view of the Bell Tower; College of Design holds critique in the spacecraft. FEATURE ARTICLE

the importance of the rotunda to College of Design students and faculty through a translucent and dynamic structure. Huckaby, who also has an undergraduate degree in computer science and was part of the gaming studios while enrolled in the College of Design, is the technology lead and manages group rights and permissions for Second Life. Robertson said there are many technology adopters on campus and part of DELTA’s mission is to extend the reach of the faculty through leveraging technology. She sees researching the potential of 3-D online learning environments, such as Second Life, as part of this mission. Second Life has been well received and many people see the possibilities for education, added Robertson. During the pilot phase of the research, several professors are using the Second Life for distance learning. Each professor uses the tool differently, just like in face-toface classes. Robertson is using Second Life to hold virtual critiques for a design course she teaches in the College of Design. Students in the College of Management are researching marketing in Second Life to get a perspective on changes in marketing communications over the past 60 years. Wolflands is designed to support several classes and small groups of students, where asteroid classrooms float above the island as private meetings spaces.

According to Marks, “The biggest benefit of Second Life is better incorporating distance education students into the class experience. Previously, students in distance ed communicated with their peers and professor primarily through flat interfaces—Web sites, chat rooms, E-mails. In Second Life, distance education students feel more included in the class because they have avatars with which they can interact. Though the distance between the students, classroom, and professors remains, associating the avatars with real people makes the interaction feel more genuine.” For Robertson, continuous developments in Second Life have opened up new ways to improve the perceived realism of the environment. “Part of the fun in Second Life is finding ways to improve the experience others have, particularly students and potential students, when they visit Wolflands,” Robertson said. An impressive example is the weather maker; with this feature, you can make it rain or snow in certain areas of the island. The Second Life team sees the project’s potential to encourage distance learning among new audiences, embracing the university’s mission of creating innovative learning environments. “[Second Life] could be huge with high school students and a big draw for students interested in mentoring with other students,” said Cuales. He added that DELTA’s responsibility is to continue to investigate technology tools and present the university with options that work best for their varied audiences.

Current NC State colleges with a presence on the island include: College of Education College of Management College of Engineering College of Textiles College of Design

The development team includes: Amanda Robertson, DELTA, Senior Multimedia Specialist Ben Huckaby, DELTA, Multimedia Specialist Mike Cuales, DELTA, Associate Director of Creative & Multimedia Services Saba Kawas, DELTA Intern, Graduate Student in Art + Design in the College of Design Ilana Marks, DELTA Intern, Undergraduate Student, Art + Design in the College of Design and xxx in the College of Textiles Alan Youngblood, DELTA Intern, Undergraduate Student, Communication in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Current faculty members working in Second Life are: Cris Crissman, ECI 521: Teaching Literature for Young Adults, College of Education Claudia Kimbrough, BUS 465: Integrated Marketing Communications Management, College of Management Lynda Aiman-Smith, MBA 530: Managing People in the High Tech Environment, College of Management Amanda Robertson, ADN 219: Digital Imaging, College of Design

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Several library staff collaborators include: Carolyn Argentati, Associate Vice Provost and Deputy Director of Libraries Josh Wilson, Reference Librarian Kawanna Bright, Instructional Services Librarian

Designing Play with a Purpose

magine the thrill of having a toy you designed to decrease childhood obesity winning accolades as 2007 Product/Invention of the Year. That is what happened to inventor Christian Hölljes (MID 1982), president of TM Newgent, Inc., with his new learning and exercise toy the Smart Cycle . Hölljes has had a stellar career working with excellent companies from partnering with Katsuya Nakagawa, inventor of Nintendo Entertainment Systems to Apple Computer, Inc. He has been his own boss developing products for 15 years. Hölljes says he began building the tools for success while at NC State. “Learning to conceptualize, draw and design, and build at NC State during my student years helped hone my creative process,” says Hölljes. Describing design as a color in your palette or one tool in your toolbelt, Hölljes explains how he developed his idea for the TM Smart Cycle . “The purpose of the original concept Turn-2-Learn was to correlate sounds and screen behavior to intuitive gross motor skills in children. With more than 12 million obese children in our country, something has to be done. Why not incorporate learning with exercise?” says Hölljes. TM The Smart Cycle , which earned Hölljes the Inventor of the Year award from Mattel/Fisher Price, has been a great success. It is one of the top ten best-selling toys on Amazon and on Disney’s FamilyFun Web site. The product has also been featured on NBC’s Today, Live with Regis and Kelly and The New York Times. Hölljes has had numerous previous successes, including National

Media Specialist for Apple Computer and serving as the V.P of Product Development for Machina, Inc., which placed more than 40 toy inventions with companies such as Mattel, Hasbro, Tiger Electronics and YES! in the mid-1990s. He left Machina to run a research and development group for Radica Games who has since been acquired by Mattel. “I developed the new PlayTV line with technology partner, Katsuya Nakagawa who left Nintendo to found SSD in Japan,” Hölljes adds. Armed with this background, Hölljes left Radica in 2000 to start Newgent, TM Inc. He says the Smart Cycle is the first in a line of Active Learning concepts he is developing and patenting Hölljes had fun with industrial design while in school and developed interactive, multimedia design as a working professional. The idea of Active Learning and the KID (Kinetic Interactive Devices) stems from breakthrough research in Neuro Science where it has been discovered that the human brain grows as a result of exercising. Hölljes thinks, “America needs to reinvent itself. We have a strong work ethic here but need to live up to the global challenge to reduce our carbon footprint in designs and methods of learning and doing business if we are to be competitive with the waking giants of the East.” Above: Smart CycleTM wins Most Innovative Toy of the Year and Educational Toy of the Year. Left: Play-TV line. FEATURE ARTICLE

Current NC State colleges with a presence on the island include: College of Education College of Management College of Engineering College of Textiles College of Design

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ven though their design school experiences were more than two decades apart and in different disciplines, Barry Carpenter (BLA 1972) and his daughter Cara Carpenter (BGD 1996) share similar memories about the College of Design. Barry says that in his day, the critiques in the Rotunda were merciless. “You were lucky if they said anything nice. Going first was not good because the professors were pumped up to really critique you, and if you went last, the previous ‘all-nighter’ made you too tired to be effective in presentation. They operated on the weeding-out method of design—after two years of this kind of thing, only the students who cared about design wanted to hang in there and make it a career,” he laughs. “By the third year you had to know your stuff. You had to think on your feet, and by that time they knew that design was in your blood,” he adds. The best thing about his experience was the basic design curriculum of the first two years; to him it was “mind-blowing” especially for a self-described “kid from a cotton mill town.” “The most valuable knowledge that I gained was that of the design process; it’s the glue that holds everything else together and allows you to be creative within boundaries,” says Barry. “It is the combination of creativity, process and a love of design that makes the work rewarding and fun.” Design seems to run in Cara’s family. In addition to her father being a landscape architect, her mother’s grandfather was Raleigh architect James Matthew Kennedy. He studied textiles at NC State when it was still called North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and he designed Raleigh’s City Market and Murphey School. What’s more, her brother is a potter in Asheville. Growing up in Raleigh, Cara spent many a weekend at the then-called School of Design drawing on studio chalkboards and playing at the Egg. When it came time for her to apply to colleges, she was undecided. “I didn’t have a vocabulary to describe what I thought I wanted to do,” she says. “I liked color and making things ‘essentially design’ but without any art experience in high school, I was having a difficult time verbalizing my thoughts and figuring it out. My dad helped me formalize what I was thinking about into something that I could do with my life.” Once she discovered graphic design (with much credit given to an open house presentation by Meredith Davis), she was hooked. At the School of Design, Cara took in everything. She explains that even

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Local Heroes Recognized at Historic Yates Mill County Park though she was using computers and her father’s medium in school was drawing, the design process they learned was fundamentally the same, and to this day that shared experience gives them a strong foundation for talking about design. Barry says that “the ‘legacy factor’ does help build a foundation for the children of designers,” and Cara adds that she can’t imagine not having someone like her dad to talk with about design. “He was a great resource for me when I was in school. After a crit—good or bad—it was nice to have someone to share it with, someone who understood! I still rely on my talks with him.” It’s hard for her to imagine how her dad must have felt returning home to Gastonia for breaks and not having anyone to talk with about this great thing called design. “I feel very fortunate to have had the benefit of my dad’s experience, otherwise I might not have ever discovered this profession that is so important to me. It’s bigger than a profession—it’s my life.” Barry is quick to add that he believes that “NC State was a good place for Cara, providing her with a strong design education.” After graduation, they both worked for professional firms, and now they each have their own design businesses. Barry and his wife Phoebe Kilby started Sympoetica in 1986. Sympoetica focuses on community planning and design, making places where people want to live, work and enjoy life. Cara went into business for herself in 2006 with the opening of Studio Pragmatik in Chicago. Studio Pragmatik is a graphic design firm that develops identity, collateral, and other projects for organizations including Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. Father and daughter have collaborated on projects together. Last year they developed placemaking streetscape banners for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia. “The client loved it, and I enjoyed working with her,” says Barry. If you are have a legacy Top: Cara Carpenter–UA Today, United Airlines connection, please E-mail employee publication; Bottom: Barry Carpenter– Wyndhurst, bird's eye view of the town center design@ncsu.edu with details.

By Rebeccah J.W. Cope, Park Manager

istoric Yates Mill County Park will soon feature several new outdoor exhibit panels, in addition to the cultural and natural history exhibits that are already on display in the park’s educational center. The 174-acre park, which opened to the public in May 2006 and has already hosted more than 150,000 visitors, features Historic Yates Mill (circa 1750)—Wake County’s last remaining, water-powered gristmill. Yates Mill ground corn and wheat into meal and flour, sawed logs, and carded wool for over 200 years. It closed for business in the mid 1950s, after which time the building started to physically decline. Thanks to a grassroots, community effort, the mill was saved from near ruin and is now fully restored and operable, with guided tours offered on a regular basis and corn-grinding demonstrations by costumed interpreters offered on the third weekend of each month, March through November. NC State University professor, Dr. Don Barnes, who was teaching classes in the mid 1970s with the then School of Design, became increasingly concerned about the physical decline of the mill and interested in trying to restore it for educational purposes. Barnes decided to make Yates Mill the focus of his historic preservation and architecture classes, and worked with his students to clean up and create measured drawings of the mill, to research possible restoration techniques, and to build a blacksmith shop on-site to

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be used for educational purposes, among other activities. The shop (or “log cabin”) remains on-site today and is used for educational demonstrations and park storage. One of the new outdoor exhibit panels will focus on these early efforts to save the mill. The panel, made of embedded fiberglass, metal and wood, will soon be located near the cabin and tell the Design School story. Other outdoor exhibits will focus on park habitats and wildlife. For more information on the planned outdoor exhibits and/or to learn more about mill tours and other park programs, please call the park office at 919-856-6675.

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Destination Prague

“Words cannot describe the semester in Prague, being immersed into the rich culture of the ancient city and walking on every worn cobblestone street filled with life, leading to new discovery in the city each day. It was an adventure to remember.”

estled in the heart of Old Town Square in Prague in a 14th-century building, NC State’s Prague Institute is an educational destination providing quality programming for about 30 students each semester. For 14 years, the College of Design held a summer program in Prague that has evolved into a much more diverse program since becoming a year-round Institute in 2005. “It’s an absolutely vital experience to the college student, especially to design students, who have the opportunity to live and work in a place as culturally rich and exciting as Prague.” Will Lambeth – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

“The study of design is strengthened by making connections across disciplines, intellectual positions and places. It is challenged by a multitude of questions. It is for these reasons that inclusion of the entire

Justin D. LeBlanc – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture “Through traveling, I learned more about architecture than I ever have before.” Maria Hill – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

Students learn to pronounce Czech words with no vowels.

university community in the Prague experience is crucial. Prague is a wonderful diversion from learning as usual. In a new place, with many perspectives flourishing the students evolve new ways of seeing. They take on the beginner's mind and grow beyond all expectations. It is this “Prague is about a culture with as much recent history as legend, and the struggle to adapt to modern times without losing its charm. My experience

RIght: Prague’s Old Town Square Below: A fruit and vegetable market is conveniently located around the corner from the Prague Institute.

there taught me about the humble pride that comes from a nation of so few who continue to fight to keep their language and their culture alive.” Davis Hammer – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

experience that will make them learners throughout their lives,” says Dean Marvin J. Malecha. As the first branch of NC State abroad, the success of the Prague Institute’s Director Dana Bartelt (BEDLA 1980, MPD 1988) in offering more collaborative, creative and innovative programs has extended the outreach to include more of the campus community. “We now offer general education requirements including courses in literature, entymology, and Czech language, courses in accounting and international studies in addition to our design studios,” says Bartelt. According to Bartelt, each discipline has the opportunity to visit their Czech equivalents. Students are immersed in the rich cultural

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activities such as the opera and exhibitions in the city in addition to excursions to other European locations. Local Czech artists continue to teach and collaborate with NC State students. Bartelt is hard at work cultivating relationships with different Czech universities in hopes of expanding the institute’s connections. Because of the location in Prague, students will get unique, creative opportunities that are not readily available near Raleigh. “This spring and fall we are offering a whole initiative in fashion and costume design,” says Bartelt. The students will take fashion illustration, the history of fashion design and costume design classes. Czech designers will teach design and pattern cutting and take the students on field trips that include Milan and Paris. Design courses offered this summer include fibers & surface design with Susan Brandeis and Vita Plume and a graphic design studio with Maura Dillon and Scott Townsend.

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Destination Prague

Justin D. LeBlanc – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture “Through traveling, I learned more about architecture than I ever have before.” Maria Hill – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

Students learn to pronounce Czech words with no vowels.

RIght: Prague’s Old Town Square Below: A fruit and vegetable market is conveniently located around the corner from the Prague Institute.

there taught me about the humble pride that comes from a nation of so few who continue to fight to keep their language and their culture alive.” Davis Hammer – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

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Master’s of Accounting students at the windows of the institute. FEATURE ARTICLE

“I learned an interesting quote that I’ll never forget. They say that ‘Americans live to work and Europeans work to live’.” Emily Axtman – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

Bartelt says, “The international access and joint collaboration between disciplines encourages us all to learn from each other.” The Prague Institute includes wireless Internet access and houses two studios, two classrooms and a seminar room. What began in 1991 as an experience for design students has become a thriving educational destination for all NC State students. More disciplines are requiring an international component and seeking collaborations.

Two new GER courses (Crop Science–STS 323 Global Sustainable Human Development, taught by Dr. Bob Patterson, and FOR 248, taught by Dr. Gary Blank) and a course on Czech historical environments will

For that, Prague is the place to be for many reasons, according to Professor of English Wilton Barnhardt, who teaches the Magical Realism creative writing experience with Professor of English John Kessel. “Prague and central/eastern Europe are historically important in the development of magic realist fiction… NC State’s Prague Institute is an ideal location to explore these forms of writing,” Barnhardt says. “I have had many oppurtunities in the past, but this was the oppurtunity of a lifetime; it was the most valuable experience possible and will stay with me for the rest of my life.” Katherine Truncellito – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

“Prague was one of the best experiences of my life! It was an opportunity to branch away from the redundancies of everyday living as well as

“The Provost wants us to keep extending outreach to include more of the campus community,” says Bartelt. “We are establishing more relationships with different Czech universities, Charles University and the University of Economics. The quality and creativity of the

experience the abnormal and unfamiliar, delivering a truly epiphany-like experience! When the time comes for me to travel again to the mystical city of Praha there will be no hesitation!” Jarrett Zeigler – Sophomore, now in the United States Marine Corps

be offered this summer as well. The Masters of Accounting (MAC) program returns with Dr. Bruce Branson for the third summer, and Dr. Heidi Hobbs with Dr. Dennis Daley will introduce the International Studies program this summer.

programming and the professionals in their respective fields who come to the Prague Institute will see it as a destination!” “The charms of the setting in one of Europe's most beautiful cities, the history of Czech art and music going back to the 1700s, in particular the avant garde movements centered on Prague between the world wars, make this a valuable experience for any student of the arts and writing,” says Kessel. Barnhardt sums up the appeal of teaching and learning in Prague as the city’s ability to inspire. “This is the original Bohemia, after all,” he says. “If you can’t find inspiration in this beautiful baroque city of cafes, palaces, cobblestones and statuary, then maybe you're in the wrong line of work.” “Not a day goes by without thinking about my experience abroad in Prague. To even think that I was given the opportunity to live and breathe in such a place filled with history boggles my mind, it seems like a dream but really has changed me as a person and broadened the

Clockwise from top, left: Crowds gather at a big screen on Old Town Square to watch World Soccer Championship; The Institute’s courtyard entrance; Boating on Bezdrev pond.

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Clockwise from top, left: Design students in a 6-week summer painting studio; A discussion in the summer Creative Writing Experience; Students and faculty enjoy a night at the opera; Home away from home.

way I think. Man how I miss it!” E. Anne Daniel – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

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“I learned an interesting quote that I’ll never forget. They say that ‘Americans live to work and Europeans work to live’.” Emily Axtman – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

“Prague was one of the best experiences of my life! It was an opportunity to branch away from the redundancies of everyday living as well as

Clockwise from top, left: Crowds gather at a big screen on Old Town Square to watch World Soccer Championship; The Institute’s courtyard entrance; Boating on Bezdrev pond.

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way I think. Man how I miss it!” E. Anne Daniel – Senior '08 Undergrad. Architecture

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Croxton Excels in Sustainable Design

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iving green” and sustainability are popular terms these days, but environmental design is not a new concept for Randy Croxton (B.Arch. 1968). After graduating from the School of Architecture, Croxton worked in New York City with I.M. Pei until 1974, when he partnered with Harry Wolf and Marley Carroll (B.Arch. 1962) to found Wolf Associates, New York. In founding Croxton Collaborative Architects in 1978, Croxton says, “I felt at the time that architecture was dominated by the ‘star’ architect and a style-driven/superficial approach to design. My intention was to build a firm around a collaborative or team approach and, more importantly, to bring greater meaning and value to the design process by placing issues of site, community, environment and client mission first in criteria for design excellence. These deeper and unique insights would then inform the unique design/stylistic expression of each project. For our firm, there would be no repetitive ‘signature’ look; each project would be unique to its client, site and natural setting.” Early success came in 1984, with the firm’s receipt of the AIA National Honor Award for Design Excellence for the restoration/renovation of the landmark 1928 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Headquarters in downtown Winston-Salem, N.C. Notably, this was completed in collaboration with Hammill-Walter Associates (Lloyd Walter, Jr. – B.Arch. 1960). In 1986, with the commission for the new headquarters of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a final evolution of those principles emerged that has guided the work of the firm to this day. NRDC

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challenged Croxton to produce a breakthrough project that exemplified resourcefulness at all levels: energy, air quality, human health and wellbeing, productivity, design excellence and to achieve it all at a market-rate budget and schedule. The project that emerged achieved a 500 percent increase in the amount of outside air provided per person (over the then American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers’ standard), cut energy consumption by 50 percent over codecompliant standards and created the first true ‘ecologically informed’ project of the modern era1. NRDC (1988) and Audubon House (1992) (the first whole building system to incorporate these principles) are recognized as the “foundational projects” of Green Architecture in America. Audubon House was featured as a PBS special and as a book (co-authored by Croxton) published by John Wiley and Sons, which fully documented this new and deeply resourceful approach to high-performance architecture/interior design. In the same period, 1990/1991, Croxton participated in the conceptual organization and formation of the new AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) and, while serving on the National Board of the AIA from 1991-1994, was Board Liaison to COTE. Internationally, Croxton represented both the The Bay Education Center’s lobby floor features a lasercut linoleum floor map of Narragansett Bay.

The Bay Education Center’s three-tiered design in the administrative wing (left) maximizes daylight and features light “sails” (right) to reflect light to the ceiling and diffuse light into workstations.

AIA and the International Union of Architects (UIA) in the Preparatory Committee (PREP COMM) meetings at the United Nations in New York City prior to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1992. The core issue under negotiations was the Agenda 21 section on “Human Settlements” and how to define/incorporate the new concept of Sustainability2. Croxton was invited and presented Audubon House, as an exemplar of sustainability, at both the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992 and the U.N. Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995. Importantly, Croxton also developed “metrics,” or measures of sustainability, which were presented at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and formally incorporated in the first two National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Green Demonstration Projects completed by Croxton Collaborative in 1994. These models preceded the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED 1.0 program by five years. Croxton was active in the conceptual organization and formation of the USGBC and delivered the first Pioneer of Green Design lecture at the USGBC National Convention in 2006. For the last three consecutive years (2005-2007) Croxton Collaborative Architects has won the profession’s highest award for sustainable design excellence, the National AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects award. The firm was the primary author for the Sustainable Design Guidelines and Reference Manual for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center in New York City. In addition, they have received the 2004 EPA Region Two Environmental Quality Award for Leadership, the 2005 USGBC

National Leadership Award, the 2005 EPA Region One Phoenix Award for Outstanding Brownfield Redevelopment, and the first Annual Sustainability Award given by the City of Philadelphia in 2007. Croxton’s course “Architecture and Sustainability,” taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in the Executive Education Program, is entering its 14th year and Croxton continues to lecture nationally and internationally. The new Ministry of Tourism Offices, an office complex of 250,000 square feet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by Croxton Collaborative and located in the Diplomatic Quarter, was just fully occupied in December 2007. Looking back on his formative years at the then-School of Design, Croxton admits that it was many years past graduation that he attended school’s 50th Anniversary and fully understood Dean Kamphoefner’s conscious strategy of selecting strong, individualistic and innovative faculty. “The students’ impression may have been one of being pushed and pulled and having to defend many points of view, however, I feel that whatever levels of innovation or reconsideration I have been able to achieve in my career have been fundamentally facilitated by that experience,” says Croxton. 1 Climate = seasonal heating and cooling required. Building Type = commercial office building. 2 Sustainability is a concept first articulated in the United Nations Brundtland Commission Report: “Our Common

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Historic Homecoming: Architectural Photographer John M. Hall

n 1974, armed with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from NC State, North Carolina native John M. Hall moved to New York City, where he found success both before and behind the camera. “I was lucky,” says Hall. “I fell into a great crowd that included Andy Warhol and Andy’s friend, interior designer Jed Johnson. We traveled to see the world, and I always sought to visit the architectural sites.” To earn money for his travels, Hall was a model for a time for Elite Modeling Agency in both Paris and Milan. He settled back in New York in 1980 to concentrate on building a freelance photography business. When he began to take pictures, Hall found he had a good sense of composition, although he admits he didn’t know much technically. He preferred to shoot interiors and architecture because he found these subjects to be “a bit more intellectual.” According to Hall, the interiors photography world in New York was then relatively small. When he started, he was the new kid in town and there was no guarantee of work. But he gradually got a portfolio together—“winging it, while learning a lot of technique”—and built a commercial client base in New York and beyond.

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Now well-established, Hall performs shooting assignments worldwide and his name regularly appears on photographic spreads in such architectural and interiors magazines as Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Art & Antiques, House Beautiful, Interior Design, Veranda, and The New York Times. Over the years, Hall has also pursued a keen interest in fine art photography, which now commands as much of his time as his commercial work. His art photographs have been exhibited frequently in solo and group exhibitions, and are represented in numerous museum and private collections. “Most of my fine art pieces are limited editions of large scale, ink-jet prints on archival paper—of images ranging from nature to architectural abstractions,” Hall observes. Clockwise from top, left: John M. Hall in his New York studio; three Genoa, Italy images include Palazza Grimaldi Doria, Albergo di Poveri entrance, and view from balcony onto Via Garibaldi.

One assignment Hall particularly enjoyed was the Polaroid-sponsored, award-winning book Greek Revival America. For that project, he traveled to his home state, where his photographs included the N.C. State Capitol. Those pictures earned him praise from Raymond Beck, historian and site manager of the Capitol. “John was fascinated by the building and its architecture,” recalls Beck. “Any time he was in town during the restoration of the Capitol, John would check in on its progress.” Beck became site manager in 2005 and set out to get really good photographs that captured the essence of the restored building. “I knew that John had Top to bottom, left to right: N.C. State photographed the collection of private residences and estates Capitol – rotunda gallery, 2nd floor; third owned by Richard Hampton Jenrette in his book Adventures floor staircase to attic and roof; third floor With Old Houses. I was impressed with his style,” he adds. Hall vestibule (design after Soane); House Chamber – view from Speaker’s rostrum; was engaged to document the Capitol. and House Chamber – public gallery detail. Later, Beck proposed to Hall that he expand his existing coverage by taking a series of additional photographs that could be used for postcards. “Ray wanted a small, elegant portfolio of singular images that would lend themselves to the postcard project,” says Hall. “This has been an ongoing collaborative effort,” observes Beck. “John has truly captured the Capitol’s unique and extraordinary architectural features.” The first series of six postcards by Hall are available now at the Capitol. Beck hopes to release the second set of six postcards in April. “Eventually, we hope to do a photographic guidebook of the Capitol—our first comprehensive souvenir book, which will bring together all of John Hall’s Capitol photographs,” says Beck. “We have been very impressed with John’s work and have established a wonderful relationship.” Hall’s photographs of the building will be featured at the North Carolina State Capitol Foundation’s third State Capitol Society Ball, to be held April 5 at the Capitol. The event will benefit ongoing educational and restoration programs. For more information, visit www.ncstatecapitol.org. FEATURE ARTICLE

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Affordable Housing Internship Program Launched

rchitecture students Imran Aukhil* and Wendy Legerton** had the experience of a lifetime during the summer of 2007. They worked as architecture interns addressing affordable housing issues at Self-Help, a nationally recognized Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) based in Durham, N.C. NC State School of Architecture Professor Georgia Bizios, intern architect Katie Wakeford, and affordable housing professionals at SelfHelp supervised the students’ work and challenged them to apply their design knowledge and skills in the service of local communities. The job opportunities were a result of an NC State University Extension Grant awarded to Wendy Legerton and Imran Aukhil, 2007 Self-Help/Home Professor Bizios Environments Design Initiative Affordable Housing Interns. in support of this pilot project. The funding launched the Affordable Housing Internship Program, partnering NC State College of Design’s Home Environments Design Initiative (HEDI) with Self-Help. Self-Help is a community development lender and real estate developer with the mission to serve women, minorities, rural residents, and low-wealth families and communities. It works closely with other local developers, such as Durham Community Land Trustees and Durham Habitat for Humanity, to deliver housing to families living at or below 80 percent of median area income. Self-Help has a large internship program, employing as many as 25 students from various disciplines every summer, but the organization had not previously employed architecture students. The HEDI grant funding

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opened the door for the two architecture students to be hired for 10-week summer internships. For Legerton and Aukhil, this was an immersion experience in service learning and a chance to contribute their summer hours to Self-Help’s efforts to provide affordable housing. Internships Offer Varied Experiences Legerton has become painfully aware of the affordable housing needs in our area and the world. “There is a global housing crisis. The need for decent affordable housing is persistent,” she reflects. Her work focused in the Southwest Central Durham area, specifically the Burch Avenue, West End, and Lyon Park neighborhoods. She collaborated with neighborhood groups and the housing developers to outline residential design guidelines. “The first step was listening to community members describe the architecture that defined their neighborhoods and the type of space they wanted to create, then we could write down what criteria should be used to evaluate proposals,” she says. Legerton explains the purpose of the guidelines is to communicate the community’s wishes to the developers and to empower citizen groups in evaluating proposals for home construction more effectively and consistently. Legerton was pleased to work with a committed and active group of neighbors who want to improve their quality of life and bring affordable housing into their communities in a way that respects and improves existing patterns. She is convinced that community involvement and interdisciplinary collaboration provide a system of checks and balances for the design guidelines so they maintain comprehensive and realistic perspectives. She enjoyed the interdisciplinary atmosphere of her internship and learned from her involvement with community members, developers, construction managers, and lenders. “I was glad to contribute my design training for affordable housing, and I felt valued as a team member.” Aukhil worked as a residential construction manager for properties owned by Self-Help. His tasks varied from inspecting a house being considered for demolition and redevelopment to working on material specifications for a soon to be constructed “green” home. He discovered

Streetscape analysis by Wendy Legerton.

that balancing sustainability with affordability can be difficult. The goals of making a house cost-efficient and environmentally responsible require thoughtful negotiations and sometimes compromise. Aukhil also prepared the drawings required for town approval of a Self-Help development project in Goldsboro, N.C. Like Legerton, his job involved opportunities to meet with community members, listen to their needs and learn how his design training could be useful to local neighborhoods. Lessons Learned The practical experience of the internships was enriched by a commitment to understand and apply current thinking on service-learning pedagogy. During meetings with Bizios, Wakeford, and Dr. Patti Clayton, Director of the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement, the students were introduced to theoretical frameworks of service-learning and encouraged to examine the challenges and successes of their work in the field. Critical reflection essays written by the interns at the end of the summer provided valuable insight for both students and faculty. Aukhil learned that the practice of architecture is different than the

theory. “As an architect, you have to help fill the gaps between the contractors, lenders, politicians, responding to codes and regulations and differing opinions. It is a struggle,” he notes. “These lessons and reflections are invaluable to my understanding of housing design and construction,” he adds. Legerton continued to work as an intern at Self-Help during fall semester. The work has focused her career goals. “I will continue to ask, ‘How can I use my design training to serve the world’s greatest needs?’ When I look for jobs, I will look for firms that are involved in social and environmental justice work and value team building and interdisciplinary collaboration.” Aukhil stated that he would like to see this Affordable Housing Internship Program develop further, to include more organizations and more students. Indeed, HEDI is currently seeking funding to continue to support future interns in public service and specifically affordable housing. Professor Bizios points out that “such opportunities for students and recent graduates make the School of Architecture a leader in providing new models for architecture internships, integrating education and practice while serving the public.” * Imran Aukhil is a senior in the BEDA program and plans to graduate in May 2008. **Wendy Legerton received her M.Arch. degree in December 2007.

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Streetscape analysis by Wendy Legerton.

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A chieve ! T he Camp aig n for NC S t a t e

s of December 31, 2007, the College of Design is 96 percent toward its $9 million campaign goal. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends of the college, we have just under $370,000 to raise by June 30, 2008, when the campaign comes to its official close. When we started this campaign six and a half years ago and the original goal of $4.5 million was set, many wondered how the college would be able to raise that sum of money in six years. Then just three years into the campaign as the college was about to meet this goal early, the challenge was made to double the original goal to $9 million. Once again, alumni and friends helped the college rise to this challenge. So what have these millions of dollars been used for and how does your support benefit the college and its students? The following is a list of some of the new funds and endowments that have been established since the Achieve! Campaign started in 2001. The net result of these new funds is: • More than $500,000 in new endowed scholarships and fellowships that along with the new annual awards generate more than $38,000+ in new scholarship and fellowship awards made to students each year. • More than $700,000 in new endowed lecture funds that will generate $28,000+ annually for special lectures and seminars. • More than $300,000 in new endowed international funds that will generate more than $13,000+ annually for student travel and study abroad. • More than $250,000 pledged to endow the Student Publication Fund that has re-established the college’s Student Publication plus an additional $250,000 planned gift to this fund. • $100,000 gift for the renovation of the entrance gallery for the auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall. • More than $3 million in pledged deferred gifts benefiting multiple departments within the college. • More than $100,000 in annual gifts made to special project funds each year.

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2007/2008 Scholarship and Fellowship Reception On November 7, 2007, scholarship and fellowship recipients gathered with the donors of their awards in the rotunda of Brooks Hall. This annual event gives the students the opportunity to thank their donors in person and allows the donors to see the work in the scholars’ studio. This year more than 60 students received scholarships and fellowships totaling more than $75,000.

New Scholarship and Fellowship Funds: New Endowments

New Lecture and Seminar Funds:

Contemporary Art Museum Initiative of the

L. Franklin Bost Industrial Design Fellowship

Robert P. Burns Memorial Fund

College of Design

Endowment

Robert P. Burns Lectures and Seminars on

Design Professional Outreach Fund

Landscape Architecture Scholarship Endowment

Structural Innovations Endowment

Design Research and Engagement Fund for Excellence

LS3P Scholarship

Eduardo Catalano Endowed Lecture/Seminar on

Enkeboll Foundation for Arts and

Catherine S. & Herbert P. McKim Diversity

Innovations in Contemporary Architecture

Architecture Fund

Scholarship Endowment for Architecture

MacMillan Family Lectureship

Home Environments Design Initiative Fund Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) Fund

O’Brien/Atkins Associates Fellowship Endowment Leet Alexander O’Brien AIA Scholarship

New International Travel Awards:

NLI Preschool Outdoor Environments

Wendy L. Olson Fellowship Enhancement

Abee Family Prague Institute Scholarship

Research Fund

Endowment for Public Service in Landscape

Barbara and George Malecha Prague

Prague Fund

Architecture

Scholarship Fund

Research Ergonomics and Design (RED) Lab Fund

Peterson Associates Scholarship Endowment

Noble McDuffie Study Abroad Scholarship

School of Architecture Publications Fund

Doug Westmoreland Scholarship

John Reuer Memorial Endowment

George Smart Special Studio Project Fund Student Publication Endowment

Leazar Hall Design Fundamentals Scholarship David Allen Scholarship Robert Roberson with Megan Casanega

Triangle Brick Scholarship Scott Mollenkopf, Ken Holland, and Ray Wells with recipients Maria Papiez and Kimberly Nelson

Boney Architects Scholarship Margaret Jamison with Charles Boney, Jr.

(Building to Endowment)

New Deferred Gifts:

Claudia Gabaldón-Cotrim Landscape Architecture

Anonymous – Scholarship for Industrial Design

for International Students (Building to Endowment)

Douglas Brinkley Jane Fadum

New Annual Awards

Linda Noble and Craig McDuffie

AIA NC Eastern Section Scholarship

Sherry O’Neal

AIA Piedmont Section Scholarship

Gordon Schenck

AIA Winston-Salem Scholarship

George Smart, Sr.

CertainTeed Architectural Scholarship

Ray and Melba Sparrow

Design Dimension Scholarship

Betty Trent and Jeffrey Barger

Duda/Paine Architects Fellowship Etta Bea Scholarship

New Special Project Funds:

Moseley Architects Fellowship

S. Aaron Allred Entrance Gallery Fund

NC Masonry Contractors Association Sigmon

The Advanced Media Lab Fund

Memorial Scholarship

American Home Project

Pumpkin King Scholarship

Architecture Book Fund in Honor of Henry Sanoff

Patrick Rand / CCMA Scholarship

Architecture Faculty Development Endowment

Roughton Nickelson De Luca Architects Scholarship

in Honor of Former Faculty Members

Smith Sinnett Architecture Scholarship

Art to Wear Fashion Show Fund

Technical Achievement in Industrial Design

Bio-fuel Compatible Diesel

Scholarship from Tackle Design

College of Design Diversity Initiative Fund

Urban Design Studio Fund

It is not too late to be a part of the Achieve! Campaign and make a difference in the life of the college. Our goal is to go beyond the $9 million target and continue the moment of giving back that this campaign has inspired and carry it into the 60th Anniversary Celebration year for the college. Please contact Carla Abramczyk (see below) to discuss all of the giving opportunities that are available.

Support the college Carla Abramczyk, Assistant Dean for External Relations and Development, can be contacted by phone at 919.513.4310 or E-mail at carla_abramczyk@ncsu.edu.

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A chieve ! T he Camp aig n for NC S t a t e

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New Scholarship and Fellowship Funds: New Endowments

New Lecture and Seminar Funds:

Contemporary Art Museum Initiative of the

L. Franklin Bost Industrial Design Fellowship

Robert P. Burns Memorial Fund

College of Design

Endowment

Robert P. Burns Lectures and Seminars on

Design Professional Outreach Fund

Landscape Architecture Scholarship Endowment

Structural Innovations Endowment

Design Research and Engagement Fund for Excellence

LS3P Scholarship

Eduardo Catalano Endowed Lecture/Seminar on

Enkeboll Foundation for Arts and

Catherine S. & Herbert P. McKim Diversity

Innovations in Contemporary Architecture

Architecture Fund

Scholarship Endowment for Architecture

MacMillan Family Lectureship

Home Environments Design Initiative Fund Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) Fund

O’Brien/Atkins Associates Fellowship Endowment Leet Alexander O’Brien AIA Scholarship

New International Travel Awards:

NLI Preschool Outdoor Environments

Wendy L. Olson Fellowship Enhancement

Abee Family Prague Institute Scholarship

Research Fund

Endowment for Public Service in Landscape

Barbara and George Malecha Prague

Prague Fund

Architecture

Scholarship Fund

Research Ergonomics and Design (RED) Lab Fund

Peterson Associates Scholarship Endowment

Noble McDuffie Study Abroad Scholarship

School of Architecture Publications Fund

Doug Westmoreland Scholarship

John Reuer Memorial Endowment

George Smart Special Studio Project Fund Student Publication Endowment

Leazar Hall Design Fundamentals Scholarship David Allen Scholarship Robert Roberson with Megan Casanega

Triangle Brick Scholarship Scott Mollenkopf, Ken Holland, and Ray Wells with recipients Maria Papiez and Kimberly Nelson

Boney Architects Scholarship Margaret Jamison with Charles Boney, Jr.

(Building to Endowment)

New Deferred Gifts:

Claudia Gabaldón-Cotrim Landscape Architecture

Anonymous – Scholarship for Industrial Design

for International Students (Building to Endowment)

Douglas Brinkley Jane Fadum

New Annual Awards

Linda Noble and Craig McDuffie

AIA NC Eastern Section Scholarship

Sherry O’Neal

AIA Piedmont Section Scholarship

Gordon Schenck

AIA Winston-Salem Scholarship

George Smart, Sr.

CertainTeed Architectural Scholarship

Ray and Melba Sparrow

Design Dimension Scholarship

Betty Trent and Jeffrey Barger

Duda/Paine Architects Fellowship Etta Bea Scholarship

New Special Project Funds:

Moseley Architects Fellowship

S. Aaron Allred Entrance Gallery Fund

NC Masonry Contractors Association Sigmon

The Advanced Media Lab Fund

Memorial Scholarship

American Home Project

Pumpkin King Scholarship

Architecture Book Fund in Honor of Henry Sanoff

Patrick Rand / CCMA Scholarship

Architecture Faculty Development Endowment

Roughton Nickelson De Luca Architects Scholarship

in Honor of Former Faculty Members

Smith Sinnett Architecture Scholarship

Art to Wear Fashion Show Fund

Technical Achievement in Industrial Design

Bio-fuel Compatible Diesel

Scholarship from Tackle Design

College of Design Diversity Initiative Fund

Urban Design Studio Fund

Support the college Carla Abramczyk, Assistant Dean for External Relations and Development, can be contacted by phone at 919.513.4310 or E-mail at carla_abramczyk@ncsu.edu.

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C o mm e nc e m e n t Commencement Address by Gianfranco Zaccai NC State University College of Design, December 19, 2007 Zaccai was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate at the University Commencement Ceremony. He is co-founder, president and CEO of Continuum, with offices in Boston, Milan, and Seoul.

raduating Class of 2007, faculty, parents, family members, guests, and students of the North Carolina State University College of Design; it is an honor and a pleasure to speak to you today. A few years ago I had the pleasure to work with the Indian designer Ranjit Makkuni to develop an interactive exhibit on Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian independence and the inspiration for such future leaders as Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Gandhi wanted to unite the Indian people to end the British domination of India by first ending the British monopoly on cloth manufacturing. As a result, he suggested that if each Indian spun his or her own thread and wove his or her own cloth there would be no more need for imported cloth in India. Gandhi, in fact, is often pictured spinning a charka, the traditional Indian spinning wheel, while speaking (as made indelible in our consciousness by the famous picture by Margaret Burke White). What this act symbolized was more than thread spinning. The charka was symbolic of the power of an individual act leading to collective action.

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As a result, we decided to utilize the charka as an interface device in this exhibition. Two Charkas would be mounted on both sides of glass panels and an array of these would be in a room. Visitors could affect the images and sounds they would see and hear all around them by spinning each charka at various speeds and in different directions. The most interesting aspect of this interaction is that each charka communicates with all the others; thereby magnifying or canceling out the actions of each individual spinner. Our purpose was not only to create an interface between the visitor and the exhibition, but to provoke an interaction between and among people. In the exhibition, the charka is meant to be a vehicle by which each individual can sense their personal power to affect change and to demonstrate the power of collective action for both good and bad. Gandhi’s use of the charka represents, in the fullest sense, an act of design at the grandest scale. A designed act that comes from understanding …the deep understanding of human needs and aspirations, the understanding of economic forces, and the understanding of the importance of the artifact as both a tool and a symbol. Most of all, it represents the design of an emotional and spiritual connection that speaks a universal language across the world. I think that ultimately our mission as designers is to spin our own creative charkas, not only for our own benefit, but also for the common good of countless others.

It is seductive to think of ourselves as the next great “Rock Star” designer or artist (and I certainly hope that each of you will achieve both great wealth and international fame). But is this what the world really needs? And will this give you all the personal satisfaction you seek in your lives and when you look back at the end of your careers? In all probability most of you will live in the less rarefied atmosphere that most designers work in. In fact, many of you may not even work in traditional design roles. But all of you will be designing your lives and influencing the lives of countless others. In all cases your goal should be to be truly “Renaissance” men and women at a time when a new Renaissance in our country and the world is sorely needed. I would like to suggest that another, earlier “Renaissance Person,” Leonardo DaVinci, still serves as a model for us. I do not say this because the book The DaVinci Code was popular—in fact I am not a fan of the book at all—rather, I prefer to quote Michael Gelb. The author of a lesser known book DaVinci Decoded states that Leonardo DaVinci integrated in his life and his work essential guiding principles of the complete creative person. Although I may also question many of Gelb’s points, I believe that the following principles should be integrated into our daily lives and into our values as designers and as creative people of integrity: 1. Curiosità (Curiosity) – Seek the Truth – An unrelenting quest for continuous life-long learning. 2. Dimostrazione (Demonstration) – Show Responsibility – A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence and a willingness to learn from mistakes. 3. Sensazione (Sensation) – Sharpened Awareness – The continued refinement of the senses. Leonardo noted that “the five senses are the ministers of the soul.” 4. Sfumatura (Blurring) – Engaging the Shadows – The willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty. (continued)

Dean's Award Winner

“On occasion there are individuals who stand out among the graduating class for the extra life effort dedicated to accomplishing the goal of graduation. It is appropriate that we recognize this performance with the Dean’s award for outstanding College K.C. Kurtz accepts the “Wings on Wings” Citizenship and Academic Dean’s Award. Excellence. The painting of Natalia Goncherova depicting the good citizen angel Michael astride the Greek mythical creature Pegasus inspires this award known as Wings on Wings. This mixing of symbols reminds us that opportunity represented by Pegasus must be matched by the responsible behavior of Michael. It is my pleasure to present the Dean’s Award ‘Wings on Wings’ to K.C. Kurtz who is graduating with a Master of Architecture Degree. K.C. served as a graduate teaching assistant with Wendy Redfield, Dona Stankus, Randy Lanou and I add with pleasure, myself. He was a member of the first team of architecture students to work with Professor Georgia Bizios on the Lumbee Indian Affordable Housing project; and he was a member of the state and national sustainability design team from the School of Architecture that eventually won national recognition from the US Green Building Council. K.C. has represented the College of Design as a presenter at the NC State Sustainability Conference, the Central Carolina Community College Sustainability Fair, the Home Builders’ Association of Orange, Chatham and Durham County’s Green Home Tour, and on UNC Radio’s ‘The State of Things.’ He has also been interviewed for two articles in The News & Observer. While he has been active in many college programs he has also earned membership into the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society. K.C. stands out by exhibiting his enthusiasm for design and for the college. Again, it is with great pleasure that I present K.C. with the Wings on Wings Dean’s Award.” —Dean J. Marvin Malecha COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

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Dean's Award Winner

5. Arte/Scenza (Art/Science) – Cultivation of Balance – The balance of left-right brain thinking culminating in whole brain thinking. 6. Corporalità (Corporality) – Integration – The integration of mind and body, the masculine and feminine, through the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise. 7. Conessione (Connection) – Practice of Love – A recognition and appreciation of the interconnectedness of all things in this world and above. To this I would add three others that I am quite confident Leonardo practiced: 8. Disciplina (Discipline) – Embrace constraints, they are your friends. Cost limitations, schedules, the limits of technical and scientific possibility, and the wishes of people who are different than you (clients, collaborators, and end users) are not restrictions to creativity, they are the stimulus of creativity! 9. Eleganza (Elegance) – Don’t just design trendy land fill, seek to find the truly elegant solution. Do more with less. Seek to reduce needless features and material waste. Always seek to add humanity, wit, charm, and subtlety in all that you do. And finally: 10. Obbligo (Obligation) – Remember what you were given: by your friends (and people who may not have seemed to be your friends at the time because they forced you to confront difficult issues), your family, and the North Carolina State University College of Design. Remember to give back each in your own way and to pass on what you have received to others. Finally, I would ask you all to take these principles, interpret them in your own ways, and to go and spin your own design charkas. Be true to the Gandhian ideals of individual action and collective responsibility. Spin your dreams and turn them into action, and, most importantly, help others to discover and spin their own dreams! Thank you and congratulations!

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Design Council Congratulations

“In just a few more minutes, you all seated here will become graduates of the College of Design. It is my official obligation to wish you all congratulations, but as a fellow student (for a little longer at least), it is also my personal privilege. You have made it. You have achieved the goal all design students aspire to from the moment we enter as freshmen. You have survived nearly one half of a decade (and in some cases even longer) of intensive studios, critical evaluations, and seemingly endless projects. And now, having made it through your FINAL final critiques, you sit before us in what I am sure can only be described as varying degrees of shock. But whether or not you can fully appreciate this moment, my wish is that in the future you are able to look back on your time at the College of Design and feel that you truly have accomplished something great. None of us here can be certain of what the future may hold. The best we can do is face what is ahead armed with what we have learned in this place. And I’m not just talking about the abilities to develop the perfect concept or craft an immaculate model, however important those skills may be. Hopefully our experience here has taught us much more than just how to design and produce graphics, indoor experiences, outdoor spaces, products, and great works of art. We also should have learned that as designers it is our job to go against the grain. We must think differently, fail gloriously, and always live inquisitively. Above all, the most important lesson we should take away from the College of Design is to constantly challenge what we are told, and to never stop asking questions. On the first day in my freshmen studio, a certain professor told my class we were only allowed to ask him one question the entire semester. Of course, this in no way prevented us from asking many questions a day, but we always received the same answer: “Are you sure you want that to be your one question?” Inevitably, as true designers, we asked the questions, and we ended up answering them ourselves. I think that is what our professor was looking for us to do, and now, as you leave this place, it is what the world will be looking for you to do.” —Marie Fornaro, Design Council President

In Memoriam Dr. Bob Stipe

John Charles Brown (B.Arch. 1968)

Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture Dr. Bob Stipe passed away Sunday, September 23, 2007. After several years as the principal planner at City & Town Planning Associates, he joined the UNC Institute of Government as an Assistant Director from 1957 to 1974. He rose through the ranks from Instructor to Professor of Public Law and Government, specializing in planning, zoning, and historic preservation and conservation law. In 1974 and 1975 he served as Director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and State Historic Preservation Officer. He joined the faculty of the Landscape Architecture Department in the School of Design at N.C. State University, where he was Professor of Design and taught courses in community design policy, historic preservation, and the legal aspects of landscape and townscape conservation. Bob retired in 2002 after more than 44 years of university teaching, and was named Professor Emeritus of Design at the School of Design. However, in addition to very limited private consulting in the area of historic preservation and preservation planning policy, he continued to teach part time at the School of Design and lecture widely around the United States and Central Europe. A former Senior Fulbright Research Fellow at University College, London University, in 1968-69, Dr. Stipe received the Secretary of the Interior’s Distinguished Conservation Service Award in 1978. He is a Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and in 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a UNESCO organization based in Paris, France. He was the editor of A Richer Heritage published by the UNC Press in 2003 and author of several chapters in that book. He was the editor of a series of volumes on historic preservation in ten other countries. During his long career he had been the principal draftsman of North Carolina’s preservation legislation and had authored more than 100 articles and publications about planning and historic preservation and had produced several films in these areas. In 1988 he was awarded the Louise DuPont Crowninshield Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Trust’s highest award for a lifetime of superlative achievement in the field of historic preservation. He was a member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., and had been awarded honorary distinguished memberships in a number of national and international preservation organizations.

John Charles Brown, 63, passed away on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at NC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. John was a native of Norfolk, Va., and graduated from NC State University in 1968. He practiced architecture in Charlotte and Raleigh. He began with Odell Associates, Inc. and later joined the firm of Peterson-Clary, Inc. Subsequently he became a partner in Peterson Associates, Inc., of which he was a Vice-President. He headed the Raleigh office of Peterson Associates before becoming a founding partner in BJAC, P.A., of Raleigh in 1994. Illness forced him to retire in 2003. His major clients included Stanly Regional Medical Center, Rex Hospital, NC Memorial Hospital, and Maria Parham Hospital. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Bradley Ward Davis (BLA 1971; MLA 1978) Bradley Ward Davis, 59, of Charlotte, passed on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at his residence. He was born on September 17, 1948 in Washington, D.C., to the late Wallace B. and Dorothy Heitritter Davis. He was a partner with LandDesign since 1979. He served as president of the company from 2001-2006. The firm has 230 employees in six offices domestically and an office in Beijing, China. Davis was Partner-in-Charge of the Charlotte office. His services included directing design and planning, project administration, and management. Throughout his career, he focused on urban design and comprehensive master planning, and in particular, the development of town and community plans which synthesize growth and environmental objectives. Davis served on service organizations and task forces including the Governors Commission on Smart Growth, Urban Land Institute Smart Growth Committee, Voices and Choices Land Use Action Team, Charlotte 2015 Task Force, the Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Commission, and the Charlotte Urban Forum. Davis was awarded the NCASLA North Carolina Award in 2006 “in recognition of a career of achievement, leadership, and service at the highest level by a professional who has statewide stature and has made a lifetime contribution to the profession of landscape architecture.” Memorial donations in memory of Bradley W. Davis may be made to NC State Foundation College of Design Campus, Box 7701, Raleigh, NC 27695-7701.

Correction: The Fall 2007 Design Influence listed the degree and graduation date of the wrong W.B. Griffin. Mr. Griffin received a Bachelor in Architecture degree from NC State in 1942. [Sincere apologies to Billy Griffin (BPD 1969).] IN Memoriam

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Design Council Congratulations

In Memoriam Dr. Bob Stipe

John Charles Brown (B.Arch. 1968)

C O L L EGE N E W S Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NC State University College of Design Reconnect. Remember what it felt like to discover design. Find old friends. Meet new ones. See what students are doing now. Learn about the future of design. Have fun. Kicking off with the 11th annual Design Guild Award Dinner on April 12, 2008, the year-long 60th anniversary celebration will feature alumni receptions, exhibitions, lectures, tours and more, wrapping up with reunion weekend, April 3-6, 2009. Stay tuned: www.design.ncsu.edu/60. The 60th anniversary celebration of events is overseen by a dedicated executive committee of alumni volunteers: • Walt Teague (M.Arch. 1989) – Executive Chair – TFF Architects & Planners, LLP • Chuck Flink (BEDL 1982) – Greenways Incorporated • Barbara Wiedemann (MPD 1991) – Barbara Wiedemann Design Inc. • Guy Marshall (BEDP 1990) – Hawk Blade Studios, LLC • Tracy Spencer (BAD 2004) – Empire Properties • Sean Hilliard (MID 2007) – Tackle Design, Inc. • Kristen Hess (BEDA 1996) – HH Architecture If you are interested in volunteering to help contact your fellow alumni to tell them about 60th anniversary activities, please let us know! E-mail design@ncsu.edu. Want to make sure you hear up-to-date news about anniversary events? Send the college your latest contact information and sign up for DESIGNlife at www.design.ncsu.edu/enews_subscribe.html.

International Design Competition Narrows Field to 10 Winners Including Two with NC State Connections Two of the 10 winners of the Design Competition “What if New York City...”, sponsored by the New York City Office of Emergency Management, have connections to NC State University’s College of Design. The award-winning design teams are faculty member and alumnus David Hill and team members Laura Garófalo (associate professor), Nelson Tang (alumnus), Henry Newell (alumnus), Megan Casanega (graduate student), and alumni Darrel Mayer and Elizabeth Kolepp-Mayer. To view designs, visit www.nyc.gov/html/whatifnyc/html/ home/home.shtml. The competition asked for submissions that design post-disaster relief housing in the event that a Category 3 Hurricane makes land-fall in the city. The winners enter into a contract with New York City to further develop landscape and housing design proposals. Each winner receives a $10,000 prize.

Marbles Kids Museum and the College of Design Team Up On September 29, 2007, a new partnership between Marbles Kids Museum and the College of Design was announced during the ribbon-cutting celebration for the new museum. Marbles was created through the merger of two existing children’s museums, Exploris and Playspace. The college’s relationship with Marbles will be coordinated through CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) using faculty and students as resources for developing collaborative programs and exhibits. Faculty and students were involved in brainstorming ideas for a hands-on creativity and innovation exhibit that opened in February 2008. CAM staff is developing a summer design camp for middle school students that will be housed at Marbles in July 2008. The partnership between Marbles and the College of Design will open up valuable opportunities for students to serve as volunteers, interns, designers and “play partners” on the floor and behind the scenes of the museum. In addition, this relationship expands CAM and the College of Design’s K-12 art and design initiative.

Urban Growth: Intelligent by Design – Sustainable Models for Development The College of Design, in collaboration with the Raleigh Department of City Planning and supported by the NC State Foundation, held its 5th annual urban design conference on March 1 at downtown Raleigh’s Cardinal Club. Almost 200 participants, including designers, city officials and students and faculty members, learned about sustainable models, strategies and practical information for the planning, design, development and building needed to accommodate urban growth. Featured speakers included Bill Struever, Founder, CEO and President of Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse (developers of Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District); Steve Schuster, AIA, of Clearscapes; Mitchell Silver, AICP, Director of Raleigh Department of City Planning; Heather L. Venhaus of Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center and Jose Almiñana of Andropogon, both representing the Sustainable Sites Initiative; and William F. “Bill” Hunt, Ph.D., PE, NC State University Biological and Agricultural Engineering/Stormwater Engineering Group.

Supporter US Green Building Council NC Triangle Chapter Patrons AIA Triangle Cherokee ColeJenest & Stone Empire Properties Kimley Horn & Associates/Urban Resource Group North Carolina American Society of Landscape Architects Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Contributors Adams Products Company Clancy & Theys JDavis Architects KlingStubbins

College of Design Reception in New Bern The firm of Maune Belangia Faulkenberry Architects, PA, hosted the College of Design’s alumni reception in its beautifully renovated offices during the AIA North Carolina design conference held in New Bern last September.

Photos: KC Ramsay

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Left to right: Reception; Paul Boney and Jay Peterson; Randy Croxton and Fran Drummond; Dean Marvin Malecha speaks with reception host Bill Faulkenberry.

DesignIntelligence Magazine Ranks Several College of Design Programs Several College of Design programs earned accolades in the November/December 2007 issue of DesignIntelligence. The Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs were listed in the top 15 programs; the Landscape Architecture graduate program was ranked in the top 20; and the undergraduate Architecture program was ranked in the top 20 programs. Dean Marvin J. Malecha was selected as one of DI’s 25 Most Admired Educators of 2008.

Growing in Place In concert with the urban design conference, College of Design’s Natural Learning Initiative presented “Growing in Place,” a symposium on planning and design for urban families, held at the Marbles Kids Museum on February 29, 2008. Symposium speakers included: Dan Douglas, MCP, Director of the Raleigh Urban Design Center; Sally Edwards, President and CEO of Marbles Kids Museum; Professor Robin Moore, Director of the Natural Learning Initiative; Russ Stephenson, AIA, Raleigh City Council Member; and Rodney Swink, FASLA, Director of the North Carolina Office of Urban Development. The John Rex Endowment was the major sponsor of the symposium. The Raleigh Department of City Planning and the Marbles Kids Museum also sponsored the event.

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Photos: KC Ramsay

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Left to right: Reception; Paul Boney and Jay Peterson; Randy Croxton and Fran Drummond; Dean Marvin Malecha speaks with reception host Bill Faulkenberry.

College NEWS

College of Design and the American Architectural Foundation Host School Design Institute

Designers, engineers team up on high-tech art

Historic Initiative Results In Landmark Commitment to Sustainability

by Nate deGraff, Engineering Communications

by Kim Weiss

The College of Design, in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation, hosted the Great Schools by Design Institute on October 2830, 2007, at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation located on Centennial Campus. The seven school districts from North Carolina and Virginia that were present at the School Design Institute were the Wake County Public School System, Johnston County Schools, Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools, Guilford County Schools, Richmond Public Schools, Albemarle County Public Schools, and the Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools. During the event, school district leaders collaborated with nationally known school design experts and College of Design faculty members to discuss challenges and critical school development issues in the Southeast region. The results of the School Design Institute will be published in a report that will detail recommendations and an array of good school design ideas. The event was sponsored by Target Corporation and co-sponsored by the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.

Take 11 designers and four engineers, throw in some sensors and a whole lot of creativity, and what do you get? Campus art that moves, talks and lights up—all at a visitor’s command. Students in design and electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University teamed up this fall to create three interactive art installations for one of the university’s newest buildings. The artwork was unveiled December 17 in the west atrium of Engineering Building II on the university’s Centennial Campus. One installation, dubbed “Mr. Sound,” is an experimental theater that lets the audience play an active role. Sensors connected to floor panels and poles detect when visitors are touching them, triggering individual sound tracks created by the students. The result is a chorus of sounds that can be manipulated by the visitor. Another piece is a series of umbrella-like fans lining a staircase. Sensors detect when visitors begin climbing the stairs, telling the fans to begin spinning as the visitors approach them. Students named it “Scyphozoa (skih-foh-ZOH-ay) volubilis.” The third installation senses when visitors come in one part of the building, prompting wood panels on an adjacent wall to open and close depending on how many people have entered the space. The panels display a blue light. The artwork is called “Wax and Wane.” The students worked all semester on the project, weathering many late nights to finish it in time. “In the end, they were extremely happy to be part of this unique experience,” said Mehmet Ozturk, a professor of electrical and computer engineering who advised the engineering students with Alex Dean, associate professor in the same department. Dana Raymond, associate professor of art and design, advised the design students. The building that houses the artwork, Engineering Building II, opened in fall of 2005. The design students are Jenna Bost, Lauren Deans, Enrique Dominguez, Julianne Gonski, Will Hagna, Dana Hartweg, Miles Holst, Maddie Langley, Lauren Pegram, Morgan Spivey and Andrea Stroud. The engineering students who worked on the project are Eric Aumiller, Jason Frankie, Richard Jankovics and George Platica.

In an unprecedented initiative, the North Carolina component of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-NC ) announced in November 2007 that it would hold a design competition to select the architect for its new headquarters building on a high-profile site in downtown Raleigh. In all 50 states, an AIA component has never built its own headquarters from the ground up, so conducting a competition to select the designer “was the obvious and only solution,” said David Crawford, executive vice president of AIA-NC . What made the competition more profound, however, was the understanding that this 12,000-square-foot building, representing a $4.5 million investment by AIA-NC , “will be our testament to sustainable architecture, the built environment, and the role of architects in this endeavor,” said Walt Teague, immediate past president of AIA-NC . Crawford added that the organization “made it a goal to use [the] new facilities to teach the public about what it means to design with the environment and future in mind.” Architects who entered the competition understood that the headquarters was to be designed to meet both LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards and AIA’s COTE (Committee On The Environment) objectives, which address appropriateness to the region, land use and site ecology, sustainable materials and methods of construction, water usage, and energy efficiency. On January 23, the jury of esteemed architects from across the nation

Home Environments Design Initiative (HEDI) provides design consultation The Home Environments Design Initiative (HEDI) is providing design consultation to Our Children’s Place, a local non-profit. Our Children’s Place is a residential initiative allowing young children (babies and preschoolers) to live with their mothers while the women serve out their sentences for non-violent offenses. The program will be housed in an existing building, Deerfield Cottage, in Butner, N.C. HEDI research assistants Michael DeMonaco and Jon Hindman built a presentation model to be used by the non-profit for fundraising and community awareness events. The architect of record for the building renovation will be Angerio Design.

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completed its deliberation of the 48 projects entered and announced that Frank Harmon Architect PA of Raleigh had won First Place with a proposal that they praised for being “of its place,” for making good use of a difficult site, for integrating sustainable design principles rather than using them as applique, and for “embracing the community.” Second place went to Pearce, Brinkley, Case + Lee, PA of Raleigh, and third place went to Kenneth E. Hobgood, Architects, also of Raleigh. According to Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal, his firm’s design “aspires to become a role model for healthy urbanism, both for chapter members and future development in downtown Raleigh.” He pointed out that the previous AIA-NC headquarters did this in its time by adaptively re-using an historic structure: an old water tower also in the downtown area. “The new headquarters faces a 21st Century challenge, however,” he said, “which is the global necessity to conserve and protect our natural resources.” William McMinn, FAIA, Dean Emeritus of Cornell University’s College of Architecture selected the judges for the competition. They were: Daniel Bennett, FAIA, Dean of the College of Architecture at Auburn University; Allison Ewing, AIA, LEED® AP, a partner in Hayes + Ewing Design in Charlottesville, Va.; David Lee, FAIA, partner in Stull & Lee, Boston; and jury chair Susan Maxman, FAIA, founder and design principal of SMP Architects in Philadelphia. Drawings of all the winning design may be seen at www.aianc.org.

Engineering building II art installations (top to bottom): “Mr. Sound”; “Scyphozoa”; “Wax and Wane”.

College NEWS

College of Design and the American Architectural Foundation Host School Design Institute

Designers, engineers team up on high-tech art

Historic Initiative Results In Landmark Commitment to Sustainability

by Nate deGraff, Engineering Communications

by Kim Weiss

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Engineering building II art installations (top to bottom): “Mr. Sound”; “Scyphozoa”; “Wax and Wane”.

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The February 2008 issue of Step Inside Design features emerging talent and highlights three designers connected to the College of Design. Emmet Byrne (BGD 2003), named emerging talent number nine, is a designer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Alejandro Quinto, named emerging talent number 16, served as designer-in-residence in the Graphic Design Department. Amber Howard (MGD 2007), emerging talent number 17, is an adjunct visiting professor in the Graphic Design Department. Meredith Brickell (BEDN 1994) will show recent work, including ceramics and drawings, in the Bull City Arts Collaborative (BCAC) Upfront Gallery in downtown Durham, N.C.,

from April 3-May 30. The reception is Friday, April 18 from 6-9 p.m.; and the exhibit will also be open during the Full Frame weekend (April 4-6) when the BCAC has open studios as part of the Durham Artwalk. More details at www.bullcityarts.org.

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K. Daryl Carrington, AIA, (Ph.D. 2006), director of sustainable design for JDavis Architects’ Philadelphia studio, has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Carrington, who has over 25 years experience as an architect, oversees the implementation of sustainable design strategies on a firm-wide basis and manages the firm’s Philadelphia studio. Wendy Coulter (BEDA 1993; BID 1994), is president of Hummingbird Creative Group, a Raleigh-based creative services firm that has been named to The Triangle Business Journal’s list of the top 25 graphic design firms in the Triangle of North Carolina. The publication determines the top 25 graphic design firms according to the number of Triangle employees dedicated to graphic design. Hummingbird Creative specializes in branding, logo design, corporate identity and advertising. Bibi Dimmette Coyne (BEDV 1991) is the associate art director for a newly launched regional publication, atHome in Fairfield

County, published by Moffly Publication in Westport, Conn. The magazine was recently recognized at the Ozzies, a design award sponsored by Folio Magazine. atHome received a bronze award in the Best New Magazine, Consumer category. www.foliomag.com/page. asp?prmID=392 Bill Davis (MLA 2007) joined Stimmel Associates P.A. as a landscape architectural technician. Stimmel is a landscape architectural, land planning and civil engineering business in Winston-Salem, N.C. Jenny M. DeMarco (MLA 2006) is a landscape architect at The Paul Hogarth Company in Belfast, Ireland. College of Design alumnus Phil Freelon (BEDA 1975) was selected as Designer of the Year in the January 2008 issue of Contract magazine. Peter C. Gormley (MLA 1986) is the pastor of a growing church and a part-time landscape architect in the upscale residential and multifamily market in Sarasota, Fla. Anna Griffin (BEDV 1988) was featured in an article titled “Snap Shots: Anna Griffin: From Scrapbooks to Saucers” in the Fall 2007 issue of Scrapbooking & Beyond. Griffin started her own company in 1994 after working for The John Harland Company and Vera Wang. Griffin’s

designs can be seen at her Web site www.annagriffin.com. William Griffin Jr. (BAD 2000) earned the certificate in documentary studies from Duke University in November 2007. The certificate program is offered by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Duke Continuing Studies. Jonathan Harb (BID 1995) started his own company, Whiskytree, a concept art, digital environment and matte painting studio. His studio is in downtown San Rafael, California. www.whiskytree.com/ Barrett L. Kays, Ph.D. (MLA 1973) was inducted as Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects at their annual meeting in San Francisco. Kays is a nationally recognized landscape architect, soil and groundwater scientist with Landis, Inc., in Raleigh, N.C. Kays’ design projects have received national and state honors from American Society of Landscape Architects. Melissa K. Kennedy (BGD, BID 1990) is senior graphic designer at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. As part of the marketing and communications department, she will be leading and implementing the graphic design initiatives and direction for the museum. Joyce Watkins King (BEDV minor in Textiles 1979) has a show, “Organic Instincts: Inspired by Nature,” new mixed media and encaustic works, at Morning Times Gallery on Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh, N.C., in March 2008.

conducting research in the areas of wayfinding by visually impaired pedestrians and their use of building materials as travel aids.

Greg Lindquist’s (BAD 2003) exhibition, “Industry,” was on view from February 7 through March 8, 2008, at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York, N.Y. The show consisted of new paintings and works on paper that focus on the transformation of the Williamsburg and Red Hook waterfronts from icons of the industrial revolution to symbols of luxury in the era of rampant residential growth. Anna Marich Mehlman (BEDA 2001, B.Arch. 2002), an associate with The Freelon Group, was honored with a Presidential Award at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Triangle Section’s 2007 annual meeting in October. Marich received the Triangle AIA Award for Graphics. She joined The Freelon Group in 2002. Jenifer Padilla (BAD 1996), senior designer in advertising and brand marketing at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, received accolades for the BCBS annual report from the PR News Platinum PR Awards. Andrew Phillip Payne (BEDA 2001, M.Arch 2003, Ph.D. 2007) is a professor of architecture in the School of Building Arts, Department of Architecture, at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Payne teaches the master’s thesis level Design Studio and an undergraduate construction technology class. He will continue

Carrie Wagner (BEDV 1987) lives in Asheville, N.C., where she will have a photographic exhibit called “Portraits of Uganda” at the Asheville Area Arts Council Gallery in March 2008. Wagner lived in Uganda from 1991 to 1994. This solo exhibition is the first time these images have been on display. Her Web site is www.lifeportraitsbycarrie.com. Hannah Whitaker (BAD minor in Spanish 2007), a Park Scholar while enrolled at NC State, has committed to two years with Teach for America. She will teach a first-grade class of English Language Learners in the Bronx in New York City. While teaching, she will pursue a master’s degree in teaching English as a Second Language. Teach for America is a competitive program that builds a group of promising teachers. (www.teachforamerica.org) Benjamin S. Whitener (M.Arch. 2002) has been named principal at Cummings & McCrady Inc.

Reconnect. Find old friends. Meet new ones. See what students are doing now. Learn about the future of design. Remember what it felt like to discover design. Have fun. ALUMNI/Friends NOTES

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conducting research in the areas of wayfinding by visually impaired pedestrians and their use of building materials as travel aids.

Reconnect. Find old friends. Meet new ones. See what students are doing now. Learn about the future of design. Remember what it felt like to discover design. Have fun. ALUMNI/Friends NOTES

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Kermit Bailey, associate professor of graphic design, presented at the 2007 SECAC conference in Charleston, W.Va. on October 18. His lecture and presentation was titled “Telling contemporary stories of change as diagrammatic methodology. In December 2007, Professor of Architecture Tom Barrie presented a paper at the Urban Regeneration of Local Governments in Chungcheong Region (Korea) Symposium. His paper was titled “Is the North American Mid-sized City a Model for Regenerative Urbanism?” Also, in November he presented a paper titled “The Path as a Mediator–Spatial Sequences and Symbolism of Korean Soen (Zen) Buddhist Monasteries, with a Case Study of Tongdo-sa,” at the 2007 International Association for Environmental Philosophy Annual Meeting in Chicago. Barrie is co-editor of an upcoming issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) titled “Immateriality in Architecture.” For the past 56 years the JAE has served as the scholarly publication of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and is published quarterly by Blackwell Publishing. Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design Peter Batchelor, FAIA, FAICP, will have an exhibition titled “Urban Images: A retrospective of creative works in urbanism, 1960-2007” in Brooks Hall Gallery from April 7 until May 2, 2008. Professor of Art + Design Susan Brandeis was visiting artist at Virginia Commonwealth University January 28-30, 2008. She gave a talk about her work and met with students. She also will be a guest presenter, speaker and exhibitor

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at the 2008 Festival of the Quilt in Birmingham, England. The event draws work and audience from all over Europe and displays more than 1,000 quilts. Professor Brandeis will teach a master class and give two lectures in addition to having an exhibition of her work at the event. Art + Design Department Head Chandra Cox has her artwork included in North Carolina Studies, Houghton Mifflin's Grade 4 social studies book. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, ©2009). Art + Design Associate Professor Patrick FitzGerald, along with alumni Amanda Robertson, Lee Cherry and David Millsaps had their EAT Collaborative’s Consumer Culture Garden on exhibit from December 14, 2007, through February 24, 2008, at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut. FitzGerald’s individual work is among the images that appear on Raleigh buses through ArtOn-The-Move, a project of The City of Raleigh Arts Commission, in partnership with Capital Area Transit. Art-On-The-Move places original art on the sides of Raleigh buses. A modern house designed by Professor in Practice Frank Harmon, FAIA, is featured in the January 2008 edition of Architectural Record. The title of the article is “Frank Harmon raised the StricklandFerris Residence off the ground, then let its roof take flight.” Professor of Industrial Design Percy Hooper was a speaker at the 12th Annual Independent Inventor National Conference, sponsored by the

NC State College of Textiles and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The conference was held September 13-15, 2007. Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-il Jin’s students had a successful award-winning year in 2007. In the International New York Auto Show’s Traffic Safety Competition, Jin’s students garnered five of the six awards—second through fifth place and the visionary award. One student was a finalist in the Fresh Wood competition and another won first prize in the Oak competition. His students won two international awards, as well—second place in the International Quiksilver Innovation Contest and first place in the pontoon design category and the Anchor Scholarship in the Marine Design Resource Alliance design competition. The art of Professor of Art + Design Charles Joyner is on display through March 24, 2008, in Cary’s Town Hall Gallery. The exhibition is titled “Patterns of Commonality.” Joyner’s work is a creation of mixed media that explores crosscultural issues, ancestry, rituals, religion and spirituality. Tracy Krumm, visiting Assistant Professor in Art + Design, showed several new sculptures in Interlaced, an exhibition of textile work created with alternative (non-fiber) materials. The exhibition, at the Hoffman Gallery of the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts in Portland, ran from January 24 to February 24, 2008. Professor of Industrial Design Glenn Lewis has accepted a seat on the 2008 NOMA Conference

Advisory Board. The conference will be held in Washington, D.C., this year. Dean Marvin J. Malecha, president-elect of the American Institute of Architects, served on the Millennium Seminar Panel on Green Design, held at NC State on October 16. The panel was moderated by acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose. The panel also included noted architect Thom Mayne and public health expert Dick Jackson.

Malecha also received the Dale Prize from the College of Environmental Design’s Department of

Urban and Regional Design at Cal Poly Pomona in February. Malecha, the former dean of that college, was chosen as the Scholar category winner. This is the fifth year of the Dale Prize program, which recognizes planning excellence, creates dialogue between scholars and practitioners, and enriches planning education.

Patrick Rand gave an invited presentation “The Value of Masonry in Sustainable Design” at the annual meeting of The Masonry Society. The presentation took place in Pittsburgh on November 10. Rand and the TMS Sustainability Committee, which he chairs, are developing a comprehensive paper on the same subject.

Associate Professor of Art + Design Vita Plume, who serves on the Board for the Textile Society of America (TSA), was asked to represent TSA on a study tour of Japan. Plume was in Japan from October 27 through November 12 with a group that included Yoshiko Wada, a well-known textile educator from California. While in Japan, the group studied every type of textile from handmade to nuno-textiles to Shibora, which is the topic of Plume’s professional research. Plume had work in the e-gallery Fiberscene, organized by Susan Taber-Avila and Myra BlockKaiser in the San Francisco area. The exhibition, “Latvian Roots,” will be on view until May 1, 2008, when it moves into the gallery archives.

Associate Professor of Art + Design Dana Raymond executed his performance sculpture titled “Orchestrated Reflections” in Big Rapids, Michigan, on February 21, 2008. The sculpture is a collaboration between the City of Big Rapids and Ferris State University. Eight vehicles driving around the city grid performed the “score” simultaneously and eight musicians maneuvered around a scaled-down version of the same grid installed in the mechanics bays at Ferris State’s Heavy Equipment Technology facility. Scott Townsend, associate professor of graphic design, completed an exhibition titled “map stories” in Tokyo in July. In June 2008 he will do an exhibition in Berlin.

Roger Cannon (M.Arch. 1979) and Visiting Assistant Professor Susan Cannon (BEDA 1978), principals of Cannon Architects, took home the President’s Award at the Design with Brick 2007 awards presentation, held during the AIA North Carolina Design and Brick Awards Banquet on September 14. The firm was one of six architectural design teams recognized for exceptional skill and creativity in designing with brick. The winners of the biennial competition, hosted by Brick SouthEast, were honored at the New Bern Convention Center in New Bern, N.C. The design team won the President’s Award for the Leazar Hall addition and renovation on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The total interior demolition and renovation transforms a building formerly used by nine different departments into a studio + classroom building for the College of Design. Interior renovations uncovered original trusses and clerestories concealed above ceilings and opened the floor plan to form interior connections between studios, review rooms, and support spaces. This 62,000-square-foot renovation and addition project is the first phase of an overall master plan for NC State’s College of Design. Leazar Hall, originally a dining hall, was completed in 1912. It had been subdivided over the years into a maze of offices and classroom spaces. This project restored the three-level building into a single-use building for studios, seminar rooms, review rooms, materials lab and faculty offices. Belden Brick Company, through General Shale Brick, provided the brick for this project. Judges said, “The project is a skillful renovation and adaptive use of a nice existing historic building. The clean modern language employed in the articulation of new components contrasts with the historic surrounding in an elegant way.” FACULTY/STAFF NOTES

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S T U DE N T S Splinter has been featured in at least five online publications. Ben Greene, a master’s student in industrial design, won the second prize in the International Quiksilver Innovation Contest, sponsored by Quiksilver Europe. Greene’s entry was created

NC State University industrial design graduate student Vyasatja “VT” Jyothigowdanapura submitted the overall winning entry in the Marine Design Resource Alliance (MDRA) competition called Grand Toura, a fresh design for pontoon boats that incorporated a blend of physics providing environmentally friendly propulsion. In addition to the $3,500 Anchor Scholarship, Jyothigowdanapura won the $6,000 Premier Pontoons Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Pontoon Design. Master of Industrial Design Student Joe Harmon created a wooden car design, called the Splinter, that has garnered attention on the Internet.

during his summer studio with Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-il Jin. The contest designs, open to students and professionals, were presented at WINTER ISPO 2007 in Munich, Germany. Junior in Art + Design Sarah Yarborough and business partner Victor Lytvinenko (business degree 2004) created Verses Jeans (www. versesjeans.com), a line of blue jeans that are made with North Carolina denim. Graduate Student in Architecture Sarah Corbitt made a presentation in December 2007 about three green rooftop designs she researched for an independent study on vegetative roofs

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with Georgia Bizios. With support from the companies American Hydrotech, Inc., American Wick Drain, Carolina Stalite, Carolina Stonecrops, Colbond, Firestone Building Products, Hamlin Roofing Co., and Xero Flor, Corbitt grew samples for review in 2' x 2' plexiglass frames. Students in ADN272, the Introduction to Surface Design class, presented their part in a semesterlong community collaboration project, Threads of HOPE. They produced bag designs for HOPE Works, a multicultural, community-based self-help group located in Sampson and Duplin counties, N.C. Anni Albers Scholar Brandon Alley traveled to New York City with four other students and College of Textiles faculty. Alley received a Young Menswear Association Fashion Scholarship in 2007 and was an invited guest at the 2008 YMA Geoffrey Beene Fashion Scholarship Dinner, held at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on January 9.

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Some of the 2007 designs from (l-r) Liz Dickinson, Elizabeth Bradford and Emily Cosgrove.

In January 2008, students in computer science and industrial design teamed up to pitch ideas for a computer game development class at NC State University. Students work in multidisciplinary teams over the course of the semester and showcase their finished projects at an event in May during dead week. The pitch party was held in D.H. Hill Library and video game play followed. Industrial Design Senior Ashley Vercoe’s studio work, developing a kangaroo care simulator to be used in a neonatal incubator based on universal design and human-centered design principles, was highlighted in a joint publication between Design for All Institute of India and Design For All Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. Her work was presented first in a series dedicated to student work in the area of Design for All. This is in recognition of her hard work in pulling together information from multiple classes and pursuing her passion in Universal Design as a focus in Industrial Design. According to Dr. Sharon Joines, “Ashley went the extra mile to write up her work for publication and succeeded!”

The annual Collection: Art to Wear fashion show will be held Thursday, April 10 (rain date TBD) in The Court of North Carolina on main campus. This year’s director is Liz Morrison. Fourteen designers and one design team have been juried into this year’s event. Designers are Charity Mize, Iris Chen, Justin LeBlanc, Eleanor Hoffman, Adrienne McKenzie, Shelley Smith, Vansana Nolintha, Kristin Grieneisen/Brandon Alley, Katelyn Wells, Jessica George, Meghan Holliday, Jennifer Bost, Rhiannon Taylor, Liz Bradford and Bryce Ruiz. Faculty advisors for the student-run show are Lope Max Diaz (Design) and Cindy Istook (Textiles). The students have developed a Web site that will post up-to-date information closer to the event, including parking information.

Students from ADN102 Art + Design Fundamentals studio presented concept proposals for a Veterans Memorial to the Town of Garner’s (N.C.) Veterans Memorial Committee at the Garner Town Hall on February 12, 2008. Town of Garner officials contacted Associate Professor Dana Raymond, who directed the project, with a need for inspiration to develop a vision for a town memorial honoring Garner veterans. An exhibition titled “Passing Over: Remembering the Boylan Bridge” designed by graphic design graduate students Steve Harjula and Samyul Kim was on display at

the Raleigh City Museum through February. Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Will Temple curated the show that was in honor of the centennial of the Boylan Heights neighborhood (1907-2007). The November/December 2007 issue of FiberArts features the third annual showcase of top student work in fiber. The showcase illustrates the variety of work coming from the students both in the United States and Canada. Art + Design (fibers and surface concentration) Graduate Student Jacqueline Nouveau was one of 16 students featured. The Master of Graphic Design Candidates at the College of Design held their third biannual graduate symposium, titled “Option Shift Control: Collaboration and Co-creation by Design,” on November 30 and December 1, 2007. Presentations, activities, artifacts and discussions included current studio projects that investigate and respond to the topic of collaboration and co-creation in an age of audience empowerment. STUDENT NOTES

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Some of the 2007 designs from (l-r) Liz Dickinson, Elizabeth Bradford and Emily Cosgrove.

College of Design Faculty and Staff

DE S IG N G U I L D Design Guild is an association of alumni, friends, design professionals and industry leaders established in 1996 to promote design education at the NC State University College of Design through private contributions and gifts. For information on how to join the Design Guild, please contact the Office of External Relations at 919-515-8313.

Design Guild Board of Directors Michael S. Cole, ASLA, ColeJenest & Stone PA, President Turan Duda, AIA, Duda/Paine Architects LLP,

Vice President

Charles H. Boney, Jr., AIA, LS3P/Boney C. David Burney, AIGA, Red Hat H. Clymer Cease, Jr., AIA, Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA Philip G. Freelon, FAIA, The Freelon Group Inc. Craig McDuffie, McDuffie Design W.G. “Bill” Monroe III, AIA, WGM Design Inc. Monty Montague, IDSA, BOLT Mack Paul, Kennedy Covington Frank D. Thompson, AV Metro Inc. Ralph Thompson, Thompson Consulting LLC Frank J. Werner, Adams Products Company Barbara Wiedemann, Barbara Wiedemann Design

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Dean’s Circle ($5,000) Richard A. Curtis Benefactor ($2,500-$4,999) Adams Products Company Douglas D. Westmoreland Eugene R. Montezinos Riley Contracting Group Partner ($1,000-$2,499) AV Metro, Inc. BOLT Cherry Huffman Architects Clearscapes PA ColeJenest & Stone PA Cort Architectural Group PA Randolph R. Croxton Dixon Weinstein Architects PA Duda/Paine Architects LLP Empire Properties The Freelon Group Inc. Richard J. Green Polly Hawkins Hite Associates PC Gene W. Jones Kennedy Convington LSV Partnership PA Marvin J. and Cindy Malecha McDuffie Design Charles A. Musser, Jr. O'Brien/Atkins Associates PA O'Dell Associates Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA Red Hat Inc. Robinson Deabler Architects

Skinner, Lamm & Highsmith PA Small Kane Architects PA Macon S. Smith Szostak Design Inc. John and Patricia M. Tector Thompson Consulting LLC Triangle Brick David W. Tobias Barbara Wiedemann WGM Design Inc. Associate ($500-$999) Carla C. Abramczyk Harry Bates BMS Architects PC Derek Close Design Harmony Inc. William B. Hood Jova/Daniels/Busby KlingStubbins Karen Ireland Koestner John & Tracy Martin Mara E. Murdoch Linda J. Noble Ozell Stankus Associates Architects Inc. Katherine N. Peele William M. Singer Site Solutions Rodney L. Swink Fred M. Taylor Walton R. Teague Frank D. Thompson Thomas A. Trowbridge Constantine N. Vrettos

Individual ($250-$499) E.P. Aretakis Douglas M. Bennett Charles H. Boney, Jr. Clement & Wynn Program Managers Inc. Reginald H. Cude Paul Falkenbury Donna W. Francis Gantt Huberman Architects Raymond H. Goodmon III Dorothy M. Haynes HPM Group Inc. Rayford W. Law B. Kenneth Martin Julie McLaurin Claude McKinney Ruby C. McSwain Linda Perry Meeks M.C. (Mac) Newsom III Alwyn H. Phillips III O. Earl Pope, Jr. K.C. Ramsay John S. Rodgers Theresa Rosenberg Gordon H. Schenck, Jr. Martha Scotford James W.M. Smith George W. Stowe III Trout & Riggs Construction Co. Lora A. Wall K.H. Webb Architects PC

Angelo Abbate Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture

Pamela Christie-Tabron Administrative Secretary, Graduate Studies

Carla Abramczyk Assistant Dean for External Relations and Development

Roger H. Clark Professor of Architecture

Delsey Avery Administrative Assistant, Research and Extension

Dr. Nilda Cosco Research Associate Professor, Natural Learning Initiative

Kermit Bailey Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Chandra Cox Head, Art + Design Department Associate Professor of Art + Design

Dr. Donald A. Barnes Professor Emeritus of Architecture

Denise Gonzales Crisp Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Thomas Barrie Professor of Architecture

Meredith Davis Director, PhD Program Professor of Graphic Design

Dana Bartelt Director, Prague Institute Peter Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Architecture Paul R. Battaglia Assistant Professor of Architecture Bill Bayley Director of Information Technology Laboratory Georgia Bizios Director, Home Environments Design Initiative Professor of Architecture Kofi Boone Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Susan Brandeis Professor of Art + Design Barbara Brenny Visual Resources Librarian, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library Gene Bressler Head, Department of Landscape Architecture Professor of Landscape Architecture Angela Brockelsby Assistant Director of Communications, External Relations Dr. Anita R. Brown-Graham Director, Institute for Emerging Issues Professor of Landscape Architecture

Dr. Michael Pause Professor of Art + Design

Wayne Taylor Professor Emeritus of Art + Design

Bong-il Jin Associate Professor of Industrial Design

Santiago Piedrafita Head, Graphic Design Department Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Dr. Sharon Joines Assistant Professor of Industrial Design

Dr. J. Wayne Place Professor of Architecture

Dr. John O. Tector Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Support Associate Professor of Architecture

Chris Jordan Director of Materials Laboratory and Facilities

Vita Plume Assistant Professor of Art + Design

Joey Jenkins Computing Consultant, Information Technology Laboratory

Jim Dean Manager, Materials Technology Labs Karen E. DeWitt Head, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library Lope Max Díaz Associate Professor of Art + Design Ed Driggers Accounting Technician Catherine Dorin-Black Library Technical Assistant, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library Cheryl Eatmon Administrative Secretary, Industrial Design and Graphic Design Patrick FitzGerald Associate Professor of Art + Design Vincent M. Foote Professor Emeritus of Industrial Design Amy Frisz Career Counselor, External Relations Laura Garófalo Assistant Professor of Architecture Frank Harmon Professor in Practice of Architecture Dottie Haynes Assistant Dean for Administration David Hill Assistant Professor of Architecture

Tim Buie Assistant Professor of Industrial Design

Nancy Hitchcock Information Specialist in Universal Design, Research and Extension

Lee Cherry Manager, Advanced Media Lab

Percy Hooper Associate Professor of Industrial Design

Charles Joyner Professor of Art + Design Haig Khachatoorian Professor of Industrial Design David Knight Technician, Materials Laboratory Bryan Laffitte Head, Industrial Design Department Associate Professor of Industrial Design Jack Lancaster Technician, Materials Laboratory Glenn E. Lewis Professor of Industrial Design Jean Marie Livaudais Director of Professional Relations, External Relations Austin Lowrey Professor Emeritus of Graphic Design Fernando Magallanes Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Marvin J. Malecha Dean Professor of Architecture Joe McCoy Coordinator of Network & Hardware Services, Information Technology Laboratory Claude E. McKinney Professor Emeritus of Design Dr. Lee-Anne Milburn Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Robin C. Moore Director, Natural Learning Initiative Professor of Landscape Architecture Marva Motley Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Sherry O’Neal Director of Communications, External Relations Dr. Celen Pasalar Extension Planning Specialist Director, Downtown Design Studio Research and Extension

J. Patrick Rand Professor of Architecture Dr. Cymbre Raub Associate Professor of Art + Design Dana Raymond Associate Professor of Art + Design Wendy Redfield Associate Director, School of Architecture Assistant Professor of Architecture Arthur R. Rice Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Research and Extension Professor of Landscape Architecture Holly Richards Student Services Assistant Dr. Fatih Rifki Professor Emeritus of Architecture Jackie Robertson Administrative Secretary, Academic Affairs Michael Rodrigues Budget Manager Henry Sanoff Professor Emeritus of Architecture Dr. Kristen Schaffer Associate Professor of Architecture Martha Scotford Professor of Graphic Design Julie Sherk Research Associate, Natural Learning Initiative Carla Skuce Executive Assistant to the Dean Sharon Silcox Library Assistant, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library Alison Valentine Smith Administrative Secretary, External Relations A.T. Stephens Director, Contemporary Art Museum Research and Extension Sandi Sullivan Administrative Secretary, Architecture

Will Temple Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Dr. Paul Tesar Head, School of Architecture Professor of Architecture James D. Tomlinson Research Associate Professor Director of Community Development, Research and Extension Susan Toplikar Associate Professor of Art + Design Scott Townsend Associate Professor of Graphic Design Hazel Tudor Registrar Sean Vance Extension Assistant Professor, Interim Director, Center for Universal Design Shirley Varela Research Assistant, Natural Learning Initiative Katie Wakeford Research Assistant, Home Environments Design Initiative Fei Wang Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Ti-Yuan Wang Technology Support Technician, Information Technology Laboratory Nicole Welch Education Curator, Contemporary Art Museum Research and Extension Anne Wessing Administrative Secretary, Architecture Richard R. Wilkinson Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture Stephanie Statham Witchger Library Technical Assistant, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library Janice Wong Accounting Technician

College of Design Faculty and Staff

Design Guild Board of Directors Michael S. Cole, ASLA, ColeJenest & Stone PA, President Turan Duda, AIA, Duda/Paine Architects LLP,

Vice President

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Angelo Abbate Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture

Pamela Christie-Tabron Administrative Secretary, Graduate Studies

Carla Abramczyk Assistant Dean for External Relations and Development

Roger H. Clark Professor of Architecture

Delsey Avery Administrative Assistant, Research and Extension

Dr. Nilda Cosco Research Associate Professor, Natural Learning Initiative

Kermit Bailey Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Chandra Cox Head, Art + Design Department Associate Professor of Art + Design

Dr. Donald A. Barnes Professor Emeritus of Architecture

Denise Gonzales Crisp Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Thomas Barrie Professor of Architecture

Meredith Davis Director, PhD Program Professor of Graphic Design

Dr. Michael Pause Professor of Art + Design

Wayne Taylor Professor Emeritus of Art + Design

Bong-il Jin Associate Professor of Industrial Design

Santiago Piedrafita Head, Graphic Design Department Associate Professor of Graphic Design

Dr. Sharon Joines Assistant Professor of Industrial Design

Dr. J. Wayne Place Professor of Architecture

Dr. John O. Tector Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Support Associate Professor of Architecture

Chris Jordan Director of Materials Laboratory and Facilities

Vita Plume Assistant Professor of Art + Design

Joey Jenkins Computing Consultant, Information Technology Laboratory

Tim Buie Assistant Professor of Industrial Design

Nancy Hitchcock Information Specialist in Universal Design, Research and Extension

Lee Cherry Manager, Advanced Media Lab

Percy Hooper Associate Professor of Industrial Design

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Articles inside

Achieve! The Campaign for NC State

Students

College Faculty StaffListing

Faculty/Staff

Affordable Housing Internship Program Launched

Alumni/Friends

Historic Homecoming: Architectural Photographer John M. Hall

Croxton Excels in Sustainable Design

Wolflands Provides NC State Second Life

Chatterjee Designs New Capital City

Designing Play with a Purpose

Local Heroes Recognized at Historic Yates Mill County Park

Legacy Connections

Destination Prague

Distinguished Alumna

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