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Traditional design has been steadily gaining in strength at GTech.   The Harrison Design Associates Visiting Scholar in Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse, a recently-endowed chair, provides enough money to have an outside studio professor come for one semester a year to teach a graduate studio design course.   Although it has been labeled an historic preservation course, it was endowed in the name of Dr. Elizabeth Dowling, an architecture professor at Georgia Tech who teaches and supports educating students in classical design.

The Harrison Design Associates Visiting Scholars so far have been Gene Surber (2003), Anne Fairfax (2004), Gregory Saldana (2005), and Richard Sammons (2006).   Christine Frank will fill the post in 2007.   The position is sometimes used for a graduate studio and sometimes for an elective open to both undergraduates and graduates.   Augmenting these courses and Professor Elizabeth Dowling's elective course in Classical Design, in 2006, and again in 2007, Jonathan Lacrosse will be offering a course in neotraditional residential design with prizes sponsored by Historical Concepts.

There are also several courses on New Urbanism.   Dr. Mine Hashas teaches two courses on Community Design and Development. The first is an introduction to the principles of new urbanism while the second focuses on more in-depth analysis of local new urbanist case studies. Brian Leary, the project manager of Atlantic Station, also offers an annual course using Atlantic Station as a case study for the process of integrating design, planning, permitting, construction, and marketing of new urbanism. These courses augment the urban design studios and other required coursework for the Master of Science degree with a concentration in Urban Design.

Faculty contacts:
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director, Architecture Program; CNU
Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Professor of Architectural History, author of The American Classicist
Anne Fairfax, Visiting Scholar 2004; Fairfax and Sammons Architects