Architecture & Sustainable Design Articles

An associate professor of architecture at Penn College will offer a presentation, "How Architecture Reflects Cultural Values," at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 16,in the Thomas T. Taber Museum (858 W. Fourth St.) The presentation by Dorothy J. Gerring will look at how buildings and architectural ideas are a reflection of and response to cultural values.

Students from the School of Construction and Design Technologies are displaying their knowledge and skills by creating an area of respite to be enjoyed by the Penn College community. A Remembrance Garden, designed by students in the architecture program at the college, is being constructed on the east side of the Carl Building Technologies Center.

"Green for the Mainstream," an overview of environmentally responsible building projects, will be presented March 28 at Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport. The presentation, by Margo Thompson of the National Association of Home Builders Research Center, is free and open to the public. It will be offered at 3:30 p.m.

Four architectural technology majors are the winners of the 2006 "Strongest Bridge" contest: Corey N. Andreas, of Bloomsburg; Ryan L. Lewis, of Abbottstown; Matthew C.Toth, of Lancaster;and Henrik L. Berger, of RR 1, Huntingdon. Their bridge, made of construction paper and glue as outlined in the annual competition, weighed .35 of a pound and carried 136.2 pounds 389 times its weight!

A western Pennsylvania couple's fruitful effort to obtain health-insurance legislation on behalf of their son an architectural technology student in Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies and others whose coverage was in danger of lapsing while on active military duty, has been chronicled by the Leader Times in Kittanning. The story is available here.