Michael D. Kirchmann, international architect and senior design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, New York City will lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on October 17, 2006, 6:00pm - 8:00pm at the Gund Hall Piper Auditorium. As the lead designer for many of SOM’s projects in the Middle East, Mr. Kirchmann will speak about his recent work in the Bahrain Bay. This event is sponsored by the Department of Urban Planning and Design.
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After six months of up and down negotiations, Cleveland State University finally has hired New York architect Charles Gwathmey to design a new, $33 million student center.

Gwathmey will serve as part of a team including the Akron architecture firm of Braun & Steidl, CSU Vice President John Boyle said Tuesday.

“We’re all back on the same track,” Boyle said.

The university announced last March that Gwathmey was its top choice to design the new building, but negotiations broke down over the summer, and the university started considering other architects in August.
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DeKALB - The DeKalb School District said at Tuesday’s school board meeting it is looking at a committee’s request for enlisting the aid of an architect to help map out what future schools should look like.

The district’s Facilities Planning Committee has been working on finding out what the community wants in its future school buildings. The committee is made up of some school board members, community members and school staff.

“We requested (the committee) to come up with recommendations for templates or models and overlay them against (the school buildings) we have,” Schools Superintendent Paul Beilfuss said.
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Washington University named nationally renowned architect and designer Bruce Lindsey as the new dean of the School of Architecture on Thursday. Formerly an architecture professor at Auburn University, Lindsey is known for his work with digital technology and environmental sustainability.

“[He’s] done incredibly interesting work building homes for African Americans in rural parts of Alabama, so he’s really interested in the social context of architecture,” said Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Read more » »

Building a new middle school next to Champ Cooper Elementary School is projected to cost between $9.66 million and $10.8 million and would add 18 to 24 new classrooms to the growing school district in eastern Tangipahoa Parish, an architect said Tuesday.

Hammond architect Michael Holly presented two plans for the new middle school as school officials and parents try to decide whether to build the school and, if so, how much money to seek in a proposed bond issue.

Parents and school officials at the meeting held in the school’s auditorium talked less about the need for the tax than whether school officials are planning for enough space. Read more » »