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Students at Miami University received awards from the International Green Community Design Competition sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
The competition encourages students to explore sustainable planning strategies such as brownfield/grayfield redevelopment, transit-oriented communities, natural resource management and land conservation, and to develop a proposal to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
Total number of submitted projects for the competition was 260, which represent 1,322 student participants and approximately 200 faculty from 76 universities and 15 countries.
The following senior architecture majors received honorable mention: Alex Libengood of Stow; Eric Six of Pylesville, MD; John Simenic of Chardon; Sylvia Piszczor of Alsip, IL; and Lauren Wetula of Westlake. They were sponsored by Miami faculty from architecture and interior design: Thomas A. Dutton, Scott Johnston and John Blake
. Their winning project was titled, “The Greenest Brick.” Judges noted, “This project used a highly innovative idea, transforming an abandoned subway line into a bike path.”
The following senior architecture majors received a project citation: Andrew Putz of Cincinnati; Luke Smith of Bethel; Jessica Forsythe of Painesville; Maxwell Edward Szewczyk Streeter of Wyoming; and Grace Harter of San Marino, CA. They also were sponsored by Miami faculty: Dutton, Johnston and Blake
. Their project was titled, “Pieces in a Framework: Green Design Initiative."
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