{"241521":{"#nid":"241521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Architecture faculty presenting, participating in World Architecture Festival.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA contingent of faculty from the School of Architecture are traveling to Singapore for the World Architecture Festival where they will not only present, but will find out if their shortlisted projects will win accolades from some of the profession\u2019s most acclaimed reviewers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty members Michael Gamble, David Yocum and Brian Bell have architectural projects on the shortlist of those that will be presented at the festival. Associate Professor Michael Gamble\u2019s firm, Gamble and Gamble Architects, was nominated in the \u201cfuture projects residential\u201d category for their zero energy house project. Professors of the Practice Yocum and Bell, who are principals in the firm BLDGS, are on the shortlist in the \u201ccompleted projects: religion\u201d category for the Congregation Or Hadash Synagogue. Both teams will present their projects to a panel of international judges, and category winners will then compete for World Building of the Year or Future Project of the Year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, School Chair George Johnston will lead a panel discussion in a session entitled, \u201cEducational values: what are we teaching and why?\u201d on the state of architectural education. Joining Professor Johnston on the panel are Frazer Macdonald Hay of the Glasgow School of Art and Odile Decq of Ecole Speciale d\u2019Architecture in Paris. Johnston will also serve as member of the jury reviewing projects in the categories of \u201cfuture projects: education\u201d and \u201ccompleted projects: health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe World Architecture Festival is the largest festival and live awards program for the global architecture community. This year, it will be held in Singapore October 2-4, featuring 300 practices presenting their work, 95 international judges, 70 speakers from all parts of the architecture profession, and representatives from over 60 countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe World Architecture Festival is recognized as one of the premier events in the profession with its unique blend of issues driven conference and live-presentation competition jury,\u201d said Johnston, chair of the School of Architecture. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor simply to be shortlisted in this competition, so we at the School are honored and excited that Michael Gamble, David Yocum and Brian Bell are so ably representing the School of Architecture and indeed all of Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Architecture faculty presenting, participating in World Architecture Festival.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Architecture faculty presenting, participating in World Architecture Festival."}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2013-10-01 12:48:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:00","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"241501":{"id":"241501","type":"image","title":"Gamble World Arch Festival","body":null,"created":"1449243688","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:28","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Gamble World Arch Festival","file":{"fid":"198000","name":"zero_energy_house_3-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zero_energy_house_3-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zero_energy_house_3-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17646,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/zero_energy_house_3-2.jpg?itok=ekP19Vd4"}},"241511":{"id":"241511","type":"image","title":"Yocum World Arch festival","body":null,"created":"1449243688","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:28","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Yocum World Arch festival","file":{"fid":"198001","name":"or_hadash_001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/or_hadash_001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/or_hadash_001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29122,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/or_hadash_001.jpg?itok=JPJak32T"}}},"media_ids":["241501","241511"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"}],"keywords":[{"id":"74001","name":"Brian Bell"},{"id":"75461","name":"david yocum"},{"id":"5658","name":"michael gamble"},{"id":"167177","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"75451","name":"world architecture festival"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-0693\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}