2024-11-23T06:30:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150424369/esteemed-academic-and-architect-janice-shimizu-has-passed-away-at-54 Josh Niland 2024-04-17T13:54:00-04:00 >2024-04-22T12:44:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/81/81b88aca62b58ec246539bb87dcbcdbc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Archinect is remembering the life and legacy of <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/17716/ball-state-university" target="_blank">Ball State University</a> architecture professor Janice Shimizu, who has passed away at the age of 54.</p> <p>Janice won many hearts and minds throughout an estimable career in academia and the professional realm, sentiments that were repeated by the many people with whom she became familiar through her involvement in the Japanese-Canadian community in and around her native Manitoba.&nbsp;</p> <p>She earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/31567/university-of-manitoba" target="_blank">University of Manitoba</a> before completing her graduate studies at <a href="https://archinect.com/sciarc" target="_blank">SCI-Arc</a>, later entering professional practice with <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/117998/thom-mayne" target="_blank">Thom Mayne</a> and <a href="https://archinect.com/morphosis" target="_blank">Morphosis</a> in Los Angeles and, in 2004, founding the now widely-recognized studio <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/40371622/shimizu-coggeshall-architects" target="_blank">Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects</a> (S+Ca) with husband Josh Coggeshall.</p> <p>Revisit our <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150012972/machines-don-t-care-a-conversation-about-exhibit-columbus-s-student-built-structures" target="_blank">2017 Archinect Sessions conversation</a> with Janice Shimizu below.&nbsp;<br></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://archinect.com/people/cover/1906872/donna-sink" target="_blank">Donna Sink</a> has shared the following thoughts with Archinect: &ldquo;Janice was not only deeply respected but deeply loved by her colleagues and by hundreds o...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/149938788/breaking-cad-from-meth-house-to-ball-state-studio-project Julia Ingalls 2016-04-06T18:17:00-04:00 >2016-04-10T00:34:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/p1/p162bglvrjxr8txi.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A group of fourth-year Ball State architecture students are refurbishing a former meth house in the Thomas Park-Avondale neighborhood in Muncie as a studio project. The studio class is working with ecoREHAB, a local nonprofit that provides sustainable rehabilitation of housing and neighborhoods. &ldquo;The whole goal is to revitalize the community more so than to earn money,&rdquo; said Taylor Sheppard, a senior architecture major.</p></em><br /><br /><p>For more on drugs in architecture:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/59901119/narquitectura-inside-the-fortified-palaces-of-mexico-s-drug-lords" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Narquitectura: Inside the Fortified Palaces of Mexico's Drug Lords</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/53759034/powering-mumbai-with-magic-mushrooms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Powering Mumbai with Magic Mushrooms</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/tacos/a-new-memorial-to-the-victims-of-drug-war-violence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a new memorial to the victims of [drug war] violence</a></li></ul><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/mr/mrmqucmx1fyprvox.jpg"></p>