ArchRecord Editors Picks for 2012
Architectural Record’s “Editor’s Picks: Best Architecture of 2012” is studded with GSD stars. Here’s the list of their projects that “defined the year in design.”
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Theaster Gates Awarded Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics
Theaster Gates (LF 2011) has been named inaugural winner of the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics at the New School. The biennial prize honors an artist who has taken risks to advance social justice. Read more on the LOEBlog.
MLA, DDes and LF alumni inducted into ASLA Council of Fellows
Several MLA alumni and affiliates have been inducted into the 2012 ASLA Council of Fellows.
Road Less Traveled: First year MUPs and MAUDs tour Boston’s lesser known sites
On September 15, first year MUPs and MAUDs took an introductory bus of tour Boston led by Alex Krieger (professor in practice of urban design) and Jim Stockard (curator of the Loeb Fellowship). The tour focused on parts of the city that many tourists and Bostonians do not visit and provided students from the two programs a chance to interact.
GSD teams win Pruitt Igoe Now competition
Xiaowei R. Wang (MLA '13) and Heather Dunbar (MLA '13) were awarded first place in the competition to re-imagine the vacant Pruitt Igoe housing project in St. Louis, for their submission “St. Louis Ecological Production Line.” Third prize went to the Social Agency Lab for “The Fantastic Pruitt-Igoe!,” with a team including GSD students and alums.
Janet Echelman (AB ’87, LF ’08) named an Architectural Digest AD Innovator
Janet Echelman (AB '87, LF '08) is changing the very essence of urban spaces with her public artworks. Architectural Digest highlights her current projects and plans for future installations.
Introducing the 2013 Loeb Fellows
The new Loeb Fellowship class includes an environmental policymaker, an electronic gaming designer, 3 producers of urban spectacle, and an architect who uses her craft for conflict resolution.
Maurice Cox (LF ’05) appointed as Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane School of Architecture
Maurice Cox (LF '05) new Associate Dean for community engagement at Tulane School of Architecture.
Maurice Cox new associate dean at Tulane
From urban design to community development to civic leadership to education, with a stop at the Loeb Fellowship, Maurice Cox (LF 2005) has taken an unusual path to his role as architectural educator. On July 1 he was named associate dean for community engagement and director of Tulane City Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more at the LOEBlog