Rotch Studio exhibit 2009
2009 Rotch Studio winner
Recipient
Marshall Brown
Institution
Illinois Institute of Technology
Destination
Agadir, Morocco
Jury
Jury Chair Tim Love AIA, Boston Society of Architects board member, associate professor at Northeastern School of Architecture and principal of Utile, an architecture and urban-planning firm
Alexander d’Hooghe, assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT
Ana Miljacki, assistant professor of architecture at MIT
Richard Sommer, associate professor and director of the Urban Design program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Peter Wiederspahn, secretary of the Rotch Fellowship, Boston Society of Architects board member, associate professor at Northeastern School of Architecture and practicing architect
Studio
Marshall Brown, a professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, received the 2009 Rotch Travelling Studio grant to study Agadir, Morocco with his students. His design studio, “Extending the Synthetic City,” exposed students to the North African take on Modern architecture and urbanism by travelling to Agadir, a town reconstructed according to CIAM Athens Charter principles after an earthquake in 1960.