|
contents | america | ||||
| Enterprise brings design excellence to American low-income communities Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise), an affordable housing developer, will hold the inaugural Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute July 21 - 23, 2010 in Minneapolis. Lawrence Scarpa of Pugh + Scarpa, the 2010 American Institute of Architects Firm of the Year, will provide the keynote speech on July 21st at 6:00 p.m. at the MacPhail Center for Music, located at 501 S. 2nd Street, during a reception that is open to the public. The two-and-a-half-day Institute will take place at the McKnight Foundation where an eight person design resource team composed of top architects, urban designers, green policy experts and creative financiers will work with a development team of seven nonprofit housing developers to address design challenges of real affordable housing projects that are still in the schematic design phase. Design resource team members scheduled to participate include Mr. Scarpa (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Maurice Cox (Charlottesville, Va.), an architect and professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, both of whom were instrumental in the creation of the Institute; David Baker (San Francisco, Calif.), founder of David Baker + Partners; Julie Eizenberg (Santa Monica, Calif.), principal, Konig Eizenberg Architecture; Daniel Hernandez (New York, N.Y.), director of planning, the Jonathan Rose Companies; Deidre Schmidt (Boston, Mass.), executive director of the Affordable Housing Institute; David Rubin, partner of The Olin Partnership (Philadelphia, Pa.); Chris Velasco (Minneapolis, Minn.), president of Projects Linking Art, Community & Environment (PLACE) and Dana Bourland (Columbia, Md.), vice president, Enterprise Green Initiatives. Members of the development team were invited by Enterprise to participate in the Institute and will travel from across the country to work with the design resource team on ways to overcome specific challenges posed by their developments in the design phase, including how to maximize sustainability, affordability and livability. Two local, Minnesota-based nonprofit development organizations, Aeon and MetroPlains, will participate in the Institute, along with developers from Brooklyn, New Orleans, Seattle and Boston. The Institute's public program on July 21 will engage local residents, housing developers, community leaders and members of tenant organizations in a public discussion of local community design and development issues. This local community engagement is central to the approach Enterprise takes to affordable housing and community development, stemming from the belief that to build a community one must be part of the community and engage all local stakeholders in the planning of any future development. The program will conclude with a summary of the lessons learned on major themes that arose during the Institute, and selected proceedings from the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute will be published on sponsor websites. The Institute is made possible by support from the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Federal Home Loan Banks, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and the Kendeda Fund. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Exhibition News :: home page |