News2.6.2016
Associate Professor Dominick Pilla Featured in an Interview on NBC
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Mapping American Legacy Cities (2015) is a comparative data report analyzing the urban trends of population loss, race and ethnicity, residential density and vaccy, unemployment and income for 48 Legacy Cities in the United States. Legacy Cities are cities greater than 50,000 in population that have lost over 20% of their population since peak levels. Inclusion
The JMBC newsletter is back! Pardon our absence over the last 18 months, but we’ve been quite busy launching our Legacy City Design website, publishing The Just City Essays, Volume 1, mentoring students of color interested architecture, and much more. We have had an exciting three semesters worth of projects since our last newsletter. We raised over
The J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City has appointed Quilian Riano as its first J. Max Bond Senior Fellow for the fall 2015 semester. Riano will work with JMBC leadership in the development of JMBC’s Design for the Just City Initiative. Riano is a designer, researcher, writer, and educator working out
In fall 2014, we welcomed two new junior, full-time faculty members: Prof. Ahu Aydogan Akseli and Prof. Frank Melendez. Prof. Aydogan Akseli’s research focuses on building systems. She holds a B.Arch. from Uludag University, an M.Arch. and M.S. in Engineering Management from the Izmir Institute of Technology as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in
In summer 2015, rising fifth-year B.Arch. student Matthew Addeo participated in the Three + Two Ghana Earth Building Workshop. Matthew helped build a single-family house in the Abetenim village, whose design was inspired by traditional courtyard houses of the Ashanti region.