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Contents

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
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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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