{"46066":{"#nid":"46066","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Culture-Rich Student Group Sweeps National Competitions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) prevailed at the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) nation-wide conference in St. Louis, MO. The group received the top prize for its entry in the design competition, and was named Chapter of the Year, besting heavyweight NOMAS chapters at Cornell, the University of Florida, Syracuse and University of Illinois, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NOMA competition guidelines set in Spring 2009 issued a challenge to analyze, absorb and engage the culturally fertile and diverse urban landscape of Benton Park--a St. Louis neighborhood in transition. The client for the competition is an immigrant family from Bogota, Columbia. Consisting of a husband, wife, two children, and two grandparents (one who uses a wheelchair), the family recently inherited a piece of land in Benton Park and needed a home.  Georgia Tech\u0027s entry, Casa de Espacio Chispa, \u0022blew the jury away,\u0022 according to Bill Stanley, one of the first African-American graduates of the Architecture Program at Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe jury was made up of seasoned academics and professionals--Sean Vance, AIA, NOMA (NC State University); Chris Hinton-Lee, AIA, SES (US Army Corps of Engineers); and Michael Willis FAIA NOMA(MWA). They noted that Georgia Tech NOMAS\u0027s passion for design was extremely evident in the team\u0027s verbal presentation, and that the entry showed a was a clear notion of universally accessible design, which reflected their understanding for the client\u0027s needs.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u0027s work was guided by three volunteer instructors--Herman Howard and Nekia Strong of HOK Atlanta; and Georgia Tech instructor Dawn Trimble. Participating students included Chad Boone, Saa Camanor, Ashley Johnson, Inbeom Lee, Ken Mai, Arpan Patel, Audrey Plummer, Ralph Raymond, Joi Ricks, Chi Chi Ugenyi, Donniece Wright and Vincent Yee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech NOMAS aims to build a strong chapter of design students and professionals whose sensibilities and interests include a strong promotion of diversity. The group\u0027s recent activities include the highly successful Women in Architecture Symposium and mentoring program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENOMAS commended for design excellence and chapter leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2009-10-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:09","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46067":{"id":"46067","type":"image","title":"Detail: Casa de Espacio Chispa","body":null,"created":"1449174347","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:47","changed":"1475894409","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:09","alt":"Detail: Casa de Espacio Chispa","file":{"fid":"100963","name":"thx79396.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thx79396_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thx79396_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23966,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thx79396_0.jpg?itok=p71IU0U9"}},"46068":{"id":"46068","type":"image","title":"tpq79396.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449174347","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:47","changed":"1475894409","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"100964","name":"tpq79396.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpq79396_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpq79396_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":41391,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpq79396_0.jpg?itok=naCqQ3ZC"}}},"media_ids":["46067","46068"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"638","name":"georgia tech architecture"},{"id":"7004","name":"minority architecture students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=tw117\u0022\u003EContact Teri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}