{"55684":{"#nid":"55684","#data":{"type":"profile","title":"David Yocum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Yocum is a Visiting Lecturer at the Georgia Institute of \nTechnology where he teaches design studios and serves as a guest critic \nand lecturer.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYocum\u0027s academic focus is the training of students in critical design\n thinking with an emphasis on real world implementation of creative \ninvention.  He has spent his 10 year career executing proposals and \nbuilt projects across a wide scale of work, from single room buildings \nto new urban campuses for major universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYocum trained and practiced for 8 years with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam\n Architects in Atlanta, Georgia, where as a Senior Project Architect he \nwas responsible for the design and delivery of award winning works such \nas the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, the\n Mountain Tree House in Dilliard, GA, and the New United States \nCourthouse in Austin, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2006, Yocum launched BLDGS, a new practice with Brian Bell, AIA.  \nTheir firm is a full service architectural venture dedicated to the \ncreation of inventive and enduring works of architecture and urban \ndesign.  Current projects include private residences and public art \ngalleries in and around the Atlanta area.  Recent awards include a 2007 \nNational AIA Small Project Award for Villa de Murph, a conversion of an \nabandoned urban warehouse into a residence and work studio.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received his Bachelor of Arts in 1992 from Dartmouth College with \nmajors in History and Studio Art, where he was James B. Reynolds \nScholar, and his Master of Architecture in 1997 from Harvard University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27369","created_gmt":"2010-05-13 11:42:07","changed_gmt":"2012-11-12 16:29:23","author":"Erin Howe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[{"id":"9276","name":"School of Architecture"}],"classification":["Faculty"],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["dy@bldgs.org"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}