“With vigor”. That was Christopher Diehl’s response as he voiced his expectations to follow Ruth Durack’s example as he plans to take over the position of director of Kent State’s Urban Design Collaborative on May 1st.
Steven Fong, director of Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design also announced that he plans to move all of KSU’s master’s degree program (architecture) to Cleveland by 2009 and plans to use the majority of the budget to attract lecturer’s and speakers in an attempt to increase exposure for Cleveland students and designers.
This doubly impressive move by Steven Fong strongly indicates his decisive approach towards making Kent State a premier architecture school that practices what it teaches and allows for a multitude of partnership possibilities between the school and the city of Cleveland.
Both Fong and Diehl have impressive resumes to counter the staggering load that they are undertaking by forcing the school to look at the larger picture and visualize how they can shape the future of the region instead of solely responding to it. I am very excited to see what the future will bring. Hopefully the master’s program will maintain its key location downtown and increase collaboration with some of the other planning/design entities in order to strengthen Cleveland’s arts and architectural community.
Actually, out of all this, I see only good things.
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PD's Steven Litt writes much better then me.
More thanks to MarJ
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