Oct. 28, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ray Ladd
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
(805)756-7432, rladd@calpoly.edu
Architecture Student Wins Wood Products Award
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Fifth-year Cal Poly architecture student
Kendall
Harris, working with Professor Jonathan Reich, earned one of the
top
three design awards in the 2003-04 Association of Collegiate Schools
of
Architecture (ACSA) wood products competition.
The Carl E. Darrow Student Design Competition, sponsored by the
Wood
Products Council, drew nearly 700 submissions worldwide for categories
in architecture, interior design and furniture.
The competition challenged students to design a food market on
the site
of Boston’s Big Dig. Students were encouraged to be creative
in their
use of wood and wood products, paying attention to the properties
and
benefits of wood as a structural material. For the competition,
Harris
and Reich went to Boston to conduct site surveys and other research.
The prize-winning projects will be exhibited at the 2005 ACSA annual
meeting in Chicago and the 2005 American Institute of Architects’
National Convention in Las Vegas. ACSA will publish the top three
designs on a CD Rom.
Cash prizes were awarded to the winning students and their faculty
sponsors.
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