The
University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
is bringing in some of the top architects and urban designers in the
country this week as a finale to a yearlong planning process for
downtown Detroit.
The ninth annual Detroit Design Workshopp starts Friday and will conclude with a presentation at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29 at the
Gem Theatre. The presentation is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
The designers hail from nationally known firms, such as
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP
(SOM) in Chicago, and universities such as Harvard and the University
of Virginia. Local professional architects and experts include Stephen
Vogel, dean of the
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture; Rainy Hamilton of
Hamilton Anderson, and Mark Nickita and Dorian Moore from
Archive DS.
The
workshop is under the direction of Dean Douglas Kelbaugh of the Taubman
College at UM. It is the wrap up of a yearlong market research and
planning process for downtown, funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation, the
CharterOne Foundation, as well as various Detroit area donors, and
sponsored by Downtown Detroit Partnership, Detroit Economic Growth
Corp. and DTE Energy.
For more information, and a look at previous workshops' projects, go to:
http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/5-d/
Source: Eric Dueweke, lecturer, UM Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning;
Chris Leinberger, Professor, UM Graduate Real Estate Program
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