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Events /
Exhibition: “Anthony Ames, Architect: Residential Landscapes" High Museum through Aug. 23

Modern Atlanta / Design Is Human kickoff party and exhibition on 5/15

Modern Atlanta / Roji trailer preceding Houselife screening on 5/16, 5:30 p.m.

Lecture / Phu Hoang (BS Arch 1996), New York on 5/21

Career Discovery begins 6/8

Alumni /
Joe Claghorn (M Arch 2003) graduates from Harvard University with a Master in Landscape Architecture and has been chosen to speak as the Harvard Commencement Student Orator. Read more>>

David Roland Rinehart (BS Arch 1977) recently published a study of the life and work of Atlanta-based architect Henri Jova. Entitled Henri Jova – Classical Intermezzo: An Architect's Life, the book was distributed for the Atlanta History Center. Read more>>

Mike Watkins (MS Arch 2008) of Town Architects and Jeremy Sommer (MS Arch 2008) of Sommer Design Studios won a competition to design Jamaica housing development Luana Gardens organized by Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ).

Heather Cook Elliott (M Arch 2005) of HGA Architects and Engineers became a licensed Architect and was recognized as an up-and-coming business leader in the Milwaukee Business Journal “40 Under 40.”

Anthony Jason Dooley (BS Arch 1999; M Arch 2007) recently joined the firm of Fouse Architecture & Interiors in Woodstock as an Associate/Studio Director. He became a licensed architect in the State of Georgia in December.

In Memoriam: John H. “Jack” Summer (BS Arch 1942) on April 26. Summer designed many churches, hotels and other buildings throughout metro Atlanta and led the effort to place a memorial in Amfreville, France, to commemorate the fallen from the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Read more>>

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Students /
Doctoral student Ann Carpenter has been selected by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Governing Board to serve as one of only two student representatives nationally.

Jonathan Aprati won the AIA 2009 Committee on the Environment Prize for “Eco Skins: The Design of Low Energy High Performance Building Envelopes.” The jury commended the work for its innovative solution to shading of the sun. Created in Franca Trubiano’s Façades studio, the work was displayed at Greenprints 2009.

Faculty /
Architecture instructor Jonathan Lacrosse (BS Arch 1998) was selected for Atlanta Magazine's exclusive list of the top 10 young architects in Atlanta.

Judy Gordon, architecture instructor and designer with O Architects, was commended for her work on Kozmo Gastro Pub in Alpharetta, Ga. According the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the new restaurant “brings the cool, urban sensibility of the Globe to a suburban strip center in the Johns Creek area.”

Building Construction faculty Ionnis Brilakis and Zhenhaua Zhu received top prize for their paper “Real-Time Concrete Damage Visual Assessment for First Responders” at the 2009 Construction Research Congress in Seattle.

Michael Dobbins, professor of practice in City and Regional Planning and Architecture, is serving on the 2009 selection committee for the Rudy Bruner Award recognizing urban excellence.