Cal Poly Architecture Show 'Small Servings' to Showcase Big Ideas May 25-27

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Cal Poly fifth-year architecture students will exhibit their design-studio thesis work on campus during "Small Servings," one of the largest architecture and design exhibitions between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The exhibit begins Friday, May 25, with an opening reception from 3 to 6 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium in the University Union. It continues over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The event is free and open to the public.

The event culminates a year of thesis work by nearly 150 graduating architecture students, who were allowed to choose their own topics from the Cal Poly architecture program's many options. The result is a remarkable array of imaginative and diverse projects.

"These thesis projects offer students an opportunity to address problems and solutions in both architecture and society," said Barry Williams, architecture lecturer.

"Small Servings" will feature student designs for furniture, affordable housing, urban areas, community centers and other projects. Proposed project sites span the globe from the village of San Simeon in San Luis Obispo County to Kenya, Africa.

The architecture student club, Alpha Rho Chi, and a committee of architecture students are organizing the exhibition with the help of Architecture Department faculty. Alumni and the College of Architecture and Environmental Design Foundation will also provide support. For information on the exhibition, call 805-756-1316 or visit http://architectureshow.calpoly.edu/. For more information on the Architecture Department, visit www.arch.calpoly.edu.

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