Students put their imaginations to work at Adams Charrette
Design concepts and construction schedules that reimagine the area around Langford C were created by student teams from all of the college’s undergraduate degree programs during the Feb. 25-27, 2022 Harold L. Adams Interdisciplinary Charrette for Undergraduates.
Nine student teams vied for a total of $4000 in prizes in the charrette, the brainchild of Harold L. Adams ’61, an Outstanding Alumnus of the College of Architecture.
Adams, who endowed interdisciplinary professorships in each of the college’s four departments, conceived of the charrette to overcome the “silo effect” in academia that can isolate students and faculty within the sphere of their own disciplines.
This year’s charrette committee consisted of Adams; Ahmed Ali, associate professor of architecture; Zofia Rybkowski, associate professor of construction science; Courtney Starrett, associate professor of visualization, and Xinyue Ye, associate professor of urban planning.
