{"57845":{"#nid":"57845","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Looks to India, China to Enhance Design Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe newly established Reinsch-Pierce International Initiatives Endowment Fund accelerates ambitious international research and teaching platforms at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture. Alumnus Al Pierce and his wife Lola Reinsch, along with their family, generously awarded the gift, jointly commemorative of Mr. Pierce\u0027s 50th reunion, son Gerald\u0027s recent graduation and Alan Balfour\u0027s recent appointment to Dean of the College of Architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBalfour\u0027s aspirations for the College of Architecture includes a focused effort to advance strong international programs and projects in the most impacted areas of global development. \u0022These programs must be in countries like India, China, Central America or South America, where issues will arise that will increasingly disturb the futurerapacious resource consumption\u2014uncontrolled population growth and seemingly irrepressible urban formations of extremes in wealth and poverty,\u0022 said Balfour. \u0022These must be explicitly humane and public projects committed to applying all the power of design and planning knowledge in anticipation of the emergence of vast global cities with vast concentrations of power, wealth, chaos and disease\u2014uncontrolled and uncontrollable.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Pierce Family made a special five year, $50,000 commitment to fuel the initiative. In addition, they generously funded a workshop class to design a sustainable hospital in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo for Health In Harmony, a rural clinic, with a grant of $10,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Borneo Workshop represents a great win-win for College of Architecture students and, we hope, for rural Indonesians living adjacent to the rainforest with limited access to healthcare,\u0022 said Architecture Program director Ellen Dunham-Jones. \u0022Through the generous support of the\u0026nbsp;Reinsch-Pierce Family, our students will have a rare opportunity to approach a real-world design challenge head-on, looking at socio-cultural contexts in addition to architectural, healthcare and sustainable design contexts. In addition, the project will serve as a model for future hospitals in other locations, making a lasting impact on development in these areas.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop will be led by graduate student Arief Setiawan, who draws from Georgia Tech\u0027s research strengths in appropriate building traditions, green construction and healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Pierce Family funds strategic partnerships for College of Architecture"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe newly established Reinsch-Pierce International Initiatives Endowment Fund accelerates ambitious international research and teaching platforms at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pierce Family funds strategic partnerships for College of Archit"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2008-12-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:43","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57846":{"id":"57846","type":"image","title":"Alumnus Al Pierce and wife Lola Reinsch with Colle","body":null,"created":"1449176187","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:27","changed":"1475894508","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:48","alt":"Alumnus Al Pierce and wife Lola Reinsch with Colle","file":{"fid":"190684","name":"tbl33036.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbl33036_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbl33036_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19437,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tbl33036_0.jpg?itok=R20IKiO5"}},"57847":{"id":"57847","type":"image","title":"Map of Borneo","body":null,"created":"1449176187","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:27","changed":"1475894508","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:48","alt":"Map of Borneo","file":{"fid":"190685","name":"tkp33128.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkp33128_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkp33128_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8107,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tkp33128_0.jpg?itok=GuzpAvep"}}},"media_ids":["57846","57847"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1737","name":"architecture school"},{"id":"1732","name":"china design"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"1736","name":"design school"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"638","name":"georgia tech architecture"},{"id":"239","name":"georgia tech design"},{"id":"1731","name":"india design"},{"id":"1733","name":"international architecture"},{"id":"1734","name":"international architecture education"},{"id":"1730","name":"international design"},{"id":"1735","name":"international design education"},{"id":"167108","name":"school of industrial design"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}