"Future-Use Architecture", a project by faculty members at Northeastern, wins $100K Latrobe Prize

2017-04-24T13:03:00-04:00

Awarded every other year by the AIA College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize is a major award—$100,000—granted to a two-year project that leads “to significant advances in the architectural profession.” This year, the award, which is named after architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was given to a team of three faculty members of Northeastern University’s School of Architecture and Resilient Cities Laboratory.

Their project is titled “Future-Use Architecture”, and focuses on “the balance between flexible and fixed building systems to respond to unforeseeable contingencies while conserving the essential architectural design and performance.” In other words, the project seeks to study how to design for unknown futures, with a focus on adaptive reuse and regeneration. The researchers are examining the tectonic and performative attributes of a building within the purview of its future use in the long-term, acknowledging persistent change as fundamental. According to the press release, the jury ...

Latrobe Prize Research on Public Interest Practices Released

2013-07-22T20:08:00-04:00

A comprehensive report on the research into current public interest practices in architecture has recently been released and is now available at www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/document/aiab099531.pdf

The research was funded by the 2011 Latrobe Research Prize $100,000 grant, awarded by the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. Latrobe prize recipients and report authors are: Roberta Feldman, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Sergio Palleroni, senior fellow for the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; David Perkes, AIA, director of Gulf Coast Community Design Studio at Mississippi State University; and Bryan Bell, executive director of Design Corps.

Among the findings of the report is that public interest design is transforming architectural practices. This transformation to a more public interest model can be seen as a wide-spread response to the concern that the conventional model of practice responds solely to the paying clie...

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"Future-Use Architecture", a project by faculty members at Northeastern, wins $100K Latrobe Prize

Latrobe Prize Research on Public Interest Practices Released