{"68771":{"#nid":"68771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Partners with High Museum to Celebrate Architecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs a part of Atlanta\u0027s High Museum of Art\u0027s touring exhibit\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECelebrate Architecture! Renzo Piano \u0026amp; Building Workshop\u003C\/em\u003E, the College of Architecture partnered with the High to sponsor a day of design activities at the museum for the whole family. Director of Architecture, Ellen Dunham-Jones pulled in twenty architecture students to share their passion for architecture by leading several hands-on workshops and serve as volunteers for the day. The workshops, along with a digitally manufactured installation created by Georgia Tech Instructor Tristan Al-Haddad, were part of a program developed by Hope Cohn, freelance curator for the High.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This was one of the best family days we\u0027ve ever had at the museum and we have the collaboration with the College of Architecture and the student volunteers to thank for that,\u0022 said Cohn. \u0022The children participating in the workshops related well to the Architecture students. And the installation was architectural, bright, vibrant, dynamic and playful. You knew something exciting was happening when you walked in the door and saw it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe packed event introduced hundreds of eight to twelve years olds and their parents to the fascinating world of architecture. In workshops, held in the High Museum\u0027s Green Family Education Center, participants created architectural art, built models, built bricks and drew drawings that were then projected and dimensionalized through the use of a Computer Aided Design program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022artnering with the High not only gives us a tremendous opportunity to showcase our talented students, but to share with the High in demonstrating the value that we both believe great architecture contributes to communities,\u0022 said Dunham-Jones. \u0022Plus, I think we inspired some of the members of the next generation to join us and have an enormous amount of fun.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArchitecture students Matt Lewis and Kara Cristaldi organized and led the \u0022Inside out: The Art of Architecture\u0022 workshop where participants built their own architectural study mini-museum model to highlight and display their selection of art works from the permanent collection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents Steve Georgalis, Brandon Clifford and Jason Mabry organized and led the \u0022Cool Tools and Materials Demonstration\u0022 workshop where participants learned all about the math and science skills architects use in their work as they watched demonstrations of the tools of the trade used to design and create an architectural plan for a building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents Matt Swartz and Shawn Kinsey organized and led the \u0022Designing Computer Automated Drafting Demonstration\u0022 workshop where participants viewed a special demonstration of the new computer design technologies that help architects do their work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAl-Haddad also designed, built and installed \u0022Space Index,\u0022 a 12-foot digitally-manufactured catanoid structure that was displayed in the atrium of the High as a way to highlight the use of advance digital modeling for construction. Al-Haddad designed Space Index using a computer aided design program and fabricated using the computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines in the College\u0027s Advanced Wood Products Lab. He also spent the day in the atrium discussing the development of Space Index.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents share their passion for architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27220","created_gmt":"2006-03-21 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Leslie Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68772":{"id":"68772","type":"image","title":"Space Index, on view in atruim","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17"},"68773":{"id":"68773","type":"image","title":"Making bricks in the Cool Tools workshop","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17"},"68774":{"id":"68774","type":"image","title":"CAD software demonstration","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17"}},"media_ids":["68772","68773","68774"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"125","name":"art"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"13643","name":"digitally manufactured installations"},{"id":"167177","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"1169","name":"tristan al-haddad"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeslie Sharp\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture, Dean\u0027s Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lsharp3\u0022\u003EContact Leslie Sharp\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1096\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["leslie.sharp@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}