Posts Tagged ‘community outreach’
LBBA’s Catherine Baker Participating on Two Panels at Design in Action 2011
The Chicago-based AAO (Association of Architecture Organizations) is hosting its annual Design in Action Conference in Philadelphia this year. The 2.5 day conference includes keynote events, 20+ breakout sessions, a community design exhibition, workshops, hands-on building opportunities and mobile tours, with a focus on community collaboration and design within architecture and the built environment. Catherine will…
Read MoreairLab
Airlab is a team of 5 high school students and 3 college-level mentors, now young Chicago civic leaders, whose mission is to research and collect data on the indoor air quality (IAQ) at the Rosa Parks Apartments in the West Humboldt Park Community. Our program goals are to educate communities, organizations, and city leaders to…
Read MoreShadelab Recognized on Public Interest Design
Public Interest Design (PID), a blog developed as a communications hub to grow interest in the public design movement, recognizes community activities related to good design. Shadelab, LBBA’s summer internship program from last year, has recently been acknowledged by PID for their efforts to environmentally assess and generate community interest in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.…
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…
Read MoreLBBA at NHS’ 24th Annual NeighborWorks Day
On Saturday, June 4, Jeff, Terran and Evan worked side-by-side with residents to beautify a block in the Roseland neighborhood. The Beautification Project focused on painting fences and porches, cleaning a vacant lot and planting flowers on the 40 West block of 108th street.
Read MoreLBBA at Marwen Career Day
Jack participated in Marwen’s annual Career Day this past Saturday, May 14. Career Day is an event for Marwen students, alumni, family and friends to meet professionals in arts-based careers to ask a bunch of questions about their jobs, their education and to review portfolios. You can read about LBBA’s continued involvement with Marwen here.…
Read MoreAchieving Design Excellence in Affordable Housing Conference
Pete will be participating in a panel at Enterprise Community Partner‘s “Achieving Design Excellence in Affordable Housing” conference this Friday. The conference aims to “explore new approaches and opportunities in affordable housing design.” A complete schedule of the conference is available here (PDF). Innovative Models of Engagement (2:30 pm – 3:45 pm) This panel will…
Read MoreMosaic Tile Work for Rosa Park Apartments with archi-treasures and Bickerdike
A bunch of us went over to West Humboldt Park to help the archi-treasures and Bickerdike team work on a huge mosaic tile project that will be mounted on our recently completed Rosa Parks Apartments complex. It was a beautiful day and we had a great turn out—some folks cranked away at cutting and placing…
Read MorePete Landon Recognized in i4design’s Suite 16
Pete was recently included in i4design Magazine‘s 4th annual Suite 16. The Suite 16 includes “the Midwest’s most innovative design pros who are pushing old boundaries, exploring new concepts and making a difference in design with the work that they do.” Following is his profile where he was named “The Ethicist,” see the complete feature…
Read MoreVon Humboldt Elementary School Classroom 101: A Plan for Change
Last summer LBBA partnered with Classroom 101 of Von Humboldt Elementary School to address issues they and many other classrooms face in their school. The partnership was started when entering into the Open Architecture Network Challenge: designing a new classroom. Our approach was to focus on upgrading a first grade classroom in an architecturally significant…
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