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Perspective Online
  BUILDING COMMUNITY July 2009  
[UF landscape architecture student Hannah Plate (left) and urban and regional planning student Cristine Barone explore the Mother Temple Pura Besakih on the western face of Gunung Agung. ]

UF landscape architecture student Hannah Plate (left) and urban and regional planning student Cristine Barone explore the Mother Temple Pura Besakih on the western face of Gunung Agung. View additional photos by landscape architecture professor Kevin Thompson.

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McCredie House
Close up of wood
McCredie house before deconstruction, Bottom photo: Close up of finished wood.

UF architecture lecturer Tom Smith and his wife, Edith Williams, donated 1800s heart pine wood to the UF Solar Decathlon Team. The team helped deconstruct the McCredie house near Micanopy, Fla., in exchange for the salvaged materials.

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View images of the deconstruction

To support the team through material donations or sponsorship, please contact Lynne Capece.

 

DCP in Nantucket

Chris Burger UF historic preservation master's student Chris Berger examines paint samples from the Maria Mitchell House using a microscope purchased this season for the new Preservation Institute: Nantucket architectural materials conservation laboratory.

See images from this year's PI:N program.

 

Top 100 Green Design Firms

The Gator Nation really is everywhere. Many Gators work at firms listed on the The Top 100 Green Design Firms by Engineering News-Record. View the list of alums and firms. Did we miss you? Please let us know.

 

Award Spotlight

Congratulations to the DCP alumni and faculty winners of the 2009 Florida/Caribbean Honor & Design Awards!

Unbuilt
Donna Cohen, M.Arch 1999 and architecture associate professor, and Claude Armstrong, architecture visiting professor

Fielding W. Featherston, M.Arch 2004 and ARC 2000

Rebecca Talbert, M.Arch 2004 and ARC 2000

Florida Community Design Center with Executive Director Martin Gold, interim director of the School of Architecture

Theoretical & Research
Damien Blumetti, M.Arch 2009 and ARC 2007

Honor Awards
Gold Medal: Enrique Woodroffe, M.Arch 1976 and ARC 1972

Silver Medal: Mark Smith, ARC 1995 and Bruce Gora, ARC 1973 (posthumously)

McMinn Educator Award: Karl Thorne, architecture professor emeritus

Associate Individual Honor Award: Jedd Heap, ARC 1998

Did you receive an AIA or other award? Tell us about it.



SPRING 2009 GUEST LECTURERS & JURORS

Thank You to our Spring 2009 guest lecturers and jurors.


FRIENDS WE'LL MISS

The College of Design, Construction and Planning says goodbye to our alumni and students who have passed away between July 2008 and March 2009:

School of Architecture
Melody "Starr" Bishop, student
Angelo Chiarella, 1957
Jack Durre, 1967
Norman Giller, 1945
Jim Guest, 1948
Gregory Harry, 1981
Dorothea Lyne, 1971
Leon Meyer, 1963 and 1982
Michael Reifenberg, 1980
Mark Vigneault, 1985
Edgar Wilson, 1949
Edwin York, 1956

Rinker School of Building Construction
Elio Alonso, 1951
Jonathon Barres, 1974 and     1975
John Beckenbach, 1962
William Benton, 1959
W. Robert Billingsley, 1969
Charles Bryson, 1959
William Burton, 1956
Roy Camp, 1970
Franklin Collins, 1954
Ronald Collins, 1967
Donald Evans, 1950
Randal Flage, 1972
Jeffrey Kalish, 1992
William Lassiter, 1951
Charles Manning, 1956
Addison Mead, 1951
Glen Reddish, 1962
George Sarris, 1955
Zachary Schlitt, 2004
Teryl Talbot, 1996 and 1993
Hugh Thompson, 1950
Edward Watts, 2004

Department of Landscape Architecture
James Chanatry, 1975
Charles Shepherd, 1954 and      1956
Jeremy Smith, student


ALUMNI NEWS

Check out what your fellow alumni are doing. We want to hear from you! Share your news with us for a future issue of Perspective Online.

W. Jonathan Braddock, ARC 2001, graduated from MIT with a master's in architecture in 2005 and has been working at Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York City since then.

Paul Goodwin III, BCN 1994, has been named president of Coastal Mechanical Services LLC in Melbourne.

Tim Hoeft, M.Arch 2006 and ARC 2004, and his firm, Straughn Trout Architects LLC, received a 2009 AIA Tampa Bay Merit Award for its McKay Archives Center on the Florida Southern College campus in Lakeland.

Jose Miranda, M.Arch 1988, principal of Miranda Architects in Fernandina Beach, has been re-appointed to the Florida Historical Commission.

Jonathan Moore, ARC 1995, has won two awards through his firm, ROJO Architecture. He received the 2009 AIA Tampa Bay People's Choice Award for ISPC's new corporate offices and an award from the Hillsborough County Planning Commission for the Hillsborough Achievement and Resource Center's new Center for Life Development.

Tony Rivas, BCN 1975, is the director of educational facilities for WG Mills, Inc., a Sarasota-based CM and works out of the Clearwater office. He lives in St. Petersburg and is a LEED AP, CCM, and a CGC. He and his wife, Nieves, celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in June.

Bradford Sims, MBC 1996, has been named dean of the College of Technology at Indiana State University, effective Aug. 1. He is currently professor and chair of the construction management department in the Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology at Western Carolina University.


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