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Student Center as seen from the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Van Ness Street, NW.
from the Catholic University of America and a Master of
Architecture from Yale University. “I was part of one of the first
groups to use the [UDC] campus, and I was really able to take
advantage of that institutional history.”
The Student Center already appears to be a great success.
“Before, students had nowhere to gather, which was a real problem
for a commuter school,” said Lemke. “When I last visited there
was a ton of students in the building. Erik Thompson [UDC’s
director of real estate and capital construction] said it has definitely
made a difference.”
The university administration hopes to build on-campus
housing in the future in accordance with a master plan by RTKL
Associates (now CallisonRTKL). Meanwhile, the new Student
Center is playing a vital role in providing a shared sense of identity
for the widely dispersed university community, while helping to
foster new relationships between the university and neighboring
residents and workers.
Courtyard between the new Student Center at left and
an existing building on the UDC campus.
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