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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Watch the DCP 2020 commencement ceremony, including a message from Dean Chimay Anumba, Academic Achievement Award Recipient Denise Tran, and DCP Alumni.
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In March, the Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (CHU) at the University of Florida School of Architecture, together with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), held the Puerto Rico Re_Start 3 E: Under Emergency as a virtual platform that gathered the participation of over 80 students, stakeholders, agencies, professionals, consultants, architects, researchers and the UNESCO
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Dear DCP Family, First, I hope that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy in the midst of this Coronavirus pandemic. I just wanted to reach out and update you on how the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) is coping with these unprecedented times. With regard to Covid-19, I would like
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