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Sundance Channel: Architecture School
Architecture News - Aug 26, 2008 - 15:32 8737 views
The six-part series from creators Michael Selditch and Stan Bertheaud follows a group of students at Tulane University`s prestigious School of Architecture as they submit competing designs for an affordable home in Katrina-battered New Orleans. The stakes are high: the winning model will be built during the course of the school year and put up for sale, enabling one fledgling architect to begin his or her career with a high-profile splash.
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL opens a window onto the art and science of architecture while telling a unique and uplifting story about the literal rebuilding of New Orleans. Filmed during the 2007-2008 school year, the series follows the construction of the third home in Tulane University`s URBANbuild program, which offers fourth-year architecture students the opportunity to design and build a low-cost single-family home over the course of the school year. Founded in 2005, URBANbuild is a partnership between Tulane`s School of Architecture and Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans {N.H.S.}, a nonprofit agency that works to restore urban neighborhoods.
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