Posts Tagged ‘community outreach’
Teens Tour City Gardens
Teens from the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s After School Matters were taken on a tour of nearly-completed City Gardens as part of their research in affordable housing! Joined by Jason Hill of Michaels Development Company, Pete Landon and Trish Girdwood introduced the students to LBBA’s work, opportunities for them in the field, and community-based design approaches which included role-playing and…
Read MoreLBBA Hosts IIT Boeing Scholars on Second Annual Job Shadow Day
Yesterday, LBBA hosted four high school students for the second annual Job Shadow Day. Organized by the IIT Boeing Scholars Academy, Job Shadow Day is a structured work site experience which helps the IIT Boeing Scholars–a diverse group of high-achieving Chicago-area high school students–identify possible career interests. Serena Brewer (Oak Park & River Forest HS), Layalee…
Read MoreAIArchitect Profiles Catherine Baker
LBBA’s Catherine Baker is featured in the most recent issue of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) AIArchitect Magazine. The article, “Catherine Baker, AIA: Linking the Social and Spatial with Community Outreach Architecture,” explores how overlapping principles of architecture and social sciences inform LBBA’s approach to community-engaged design projects. Across all of our outreach efforts,…
Read MoreLBBA hosts an IIT Boeing Scholar
This past Monday, LBBA’s Terran Wilson and Victor Jimenez welcomed Jonnathan, an Amundsen High School Senior who plans to study architecture in college next year. Jonnathan met the staff, received some college advice, and learned all about LBBA through IIT Boeing Scholars Academy’s first job shadow day. Boeing Scholars Academy is a free academic enrichment…
Read MoreA Modern Concept Transforms a Rural Place
Rural Studio (RS) has been improving living conditions of the rural south since it was formed in 1993 by two of Alabama’s Auburn University architecture professors. LBBA’s Alabama native and AU alumni, Terran Wilson, completed her thesis work with Rural Studio. The plans students help create can be used by contractors and their clients to…
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