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                       Full Scholarship:
                       Designing Places for Learning

                       Spring 2017

















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                       WELCOME                                         54        Architectural Achievement:
                                                                                   Dynamic Forms Enliven Charter School
                       5          Expansive Developments                                by Steven K. Dickens, AIA, LEED AP

                                   by Mary Fitch, AICP, Hon. AIA       62        The Business of Academics:
                                                                                   Office Conversion Provides Unusual Setting
                       n  DETAILSDC                                                for K-12 School

                       13        The Architect as Public Artist                         by Steven K. Dickens, AIA, LEED AP
                                       by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Assoc. AIA
                                                                       n  SPECIAL FEATURE ON
                                                                          THE SHAW NEIGHBORHOOD
                       n  ACADEMIC, MUSEUM,
                         AND RESEARCH BUILDINGS                        68        Shaw Builds Up:
                                                                                   Modern Designs Take an
                       20        A Dream Deferred No More:                         Evolving Neighborhood to New Heights
                                   Long-Awaited African American Museum                   by Ronald O’Rourke
                                   Opens on Mall
                                       by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Assoc. AIA  82        Making Room:
                                                                                   Two Modest Houses Take Differing Paths
                       30        Collaboration on the Chesapeake:                  to Greater Living Space
                                   New Building for the Smithsonian                     by Denise Liebowitz
                                   Environmental Research Center
                                       by Mary Jane Bolle              92        Aesop’s Fabulous:

               d.      38        Recentered:                                       Rigorous Elegance Marks Shaw
                                   UDC Project Creates New Face for Campus              Skincare Shop
                                                                                        by Denise Liebowitz
                                       by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Assoc. AIA

                       46        An Architectural Conversation:
                                   Hodson House Captures the Spirit
                                   of St. John’s College
                                       by Holly Feldman-Wiencek
                 ic.
                       ON THE COVER:  The Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
                                               in Edgewater, Maryland, by EwingCole.
                                               Photo courtesy of © Ron Blunt / www.ronbluntphoto.com
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