Sydney Cormia is a fourth-year architecture student. She is part of the DCP Ambassadors and the current editor-in-chief of Architrave, a publication run by students in the School of Architecture. Cormia is currently interning for RLF in Orlando, a fully integrated team of architects, engineers, interior designers and planners. Internships have changed during the current […]
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The Dragon Group, LLC, led by husband-and-wife team Randall and Yvonne Dragon, specializes in green building consulting and real estate development. They put their skills and passions to great use by joining the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) COVID-19 Task Force. The Dragon Group is working to build equitable and healthy communities one building at
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Three members of DCP’s faculty, along with the help of others, have come together to work on research aimed at helping Parkinson’s Disease patients have safer living areas. Named CODY (Co-Design for You), this study allows the patients to use Virtual Reality (VR) to safely design living areas without the need for actually moving anything
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Clara Martucci is a fourth-year architecture student who is originally from Argentina but now lives in Orlando during the times she’s not in Gainesville for school. She is a member of the DCP Ambassadors and through that association connected with the person who would lead to her current internship. While volunteering at a DCP Ambassadors
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Safia Boustique is the current president of the DCP Ambassadors. She has also started a brand new internship during COVID-19 and it’s definitely not your typical experience at an internship.
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When Dean Chimay Anumba arrived in 2016, he touted his vision for the College of Design, Construction and Planning as OneDCP, meaning all disciplines would come together as one. To further this vision, a class was started in Fall 2018 to teach incoming students how the disciplines the college offers often come together and work with each other in the business world.
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Every summer, prospective architecture and design students flock to the University of Florida School of Architecture to learn in the amazing environment of the Design Exploration Program (DEP). This year, due to COVID-19, the program will be completely online but the experience promises to be just as rewarding.
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By Rosa Medina Lisa Platt is an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design and a member of the Florida Institute of Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) faculty. She is the representative of interior design in FIBER and also the FIBER researcher focusing on healthcare. Her current research deals with infection prevention through resilience design.
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Larry Scarpa, FAIA, BDES ’81, M.ARCH ’87, is co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa, a collective of architects, designers and creative thinkers dedicated to enhancing the human experience. Considered one of the premier design firms in architecture, Brooks+Scarpa is headquartered in California with an office in Florida and projects around the globe.
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The Million Cool Roofs Challenge is a $2 million global competition to rapidly scale up the deployment of highly solar-reflective “cool” roofs in developing countries suffering heat stress and lacking widespread access to cooling services.
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