Shaping a Community’s Quality of Life
Involved with music and the arts from an early age, Andrew Jiang considered pursuing a degree in musical performance. Along the way he discovered the field of architecture and felt it was the “perfect...
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At 19, Frank Fu Is Already Applying Architecture to Art
(Architecture 4th Year)Frank Fu (Architecture 4th Year) has lived the world over, from Shenzhen, China, to Abu Dhabi to Omaha, Nebraska. When Fu knew he wanted to study architecture, though, he knew Â鶹APP was the place to...
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Rachel Wiesbrock Wants to Rethink the Future of Accessible Architecture
(Architecture 4th Year)Having been born and raised in what she calls “a generic town†northwest of Â鶹APP, Rachel Wiesbrock (Architecture 4th Year) says coming to study architecture in Â鶹APP—and all the opportunity it...
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A Life-Changing Layover
(M.L.A./M.ARCH. 3rd Year)When Alexis Arias-Betancourt (M.L.A./M.ARCH. 3rd Year) was confronted with a 20-hour layover in Â鶹APP on a trip to China, he decided to make the most out of the situation with a trip to S. R. Crown...
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Connecting People with Plants in the City
(M.L.A.+U Student)When Matt Callone (M.L.A.+U Student) helped create a community garden as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at an elementary school in Knoxville, he realized what he wanted to do with his life. After seeing...
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Tatiana Guider’s Guiding Light? Landscape Architecture
(M.L.A.+U 1st Year)Tatiana Guider (M.L.A.+U Student) calls the landscape architecture profession her “light at the end of the tunnel.†After being tossed the keys to a skid steer on a landscape installation project...
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Making the World a Better Place, One Design at a Time
(Architecture 5th Year)Growing up, Prim Rattanathumawat (Architecture 5th Year) says she always had an interest in architecture; her father, after all, was a civil engineer. But when her home country of Thailand was hit...
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Architect Since Age Four
(M.ARCH. 1st Year)When Aman Panach (M.ARCH. 1st Year) was four, she visited her grandfather in India as he was in the midst of remodeling his house. Naturally, she took an interest. “We would walk around and talk about...
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How Marcos Petroli Became a Master of Arches
(Ph.D. Candidate)Marcos Petroli’s (Ph.D. Candidate) career in architecture began in his native Brazil. After receiving his degree from the Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul, Petroli taught as an adjunct...