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School
of Architecture and Planning
Dean
Roger L. Schluntz
Architecture and
Planning Rm. 105
505-277-2879
schluntz@unm.edu
Listed below are the
community and outreach programs of the School of Architecture and Planning.
Design and Planning
Assistance Center (DPAC)
Established in 1969, the Design and Planning Assistance Center provides
state-wide and preliminary design services statewide to non-profit organizations
and others, including neighborhood associations, citizens' groups, cooperatives,
private non-profit service organizations, rural communities and public
agencies. In the last decade the Center has served more than 150 client
groups in over 75 locations throughout New Mexico. DPAC is built on the
idea that providing a needed service where faculty and students learn
from one another with the clients they serve heightens the educational
experience for all.
Los Ranchos Town
Center - In spring 2000, a DPAC studio investigated the potential
for a new plaza near the intersection of 4th and Osuna in the Village
of Los Ranchos. The students presented designs at the Village Farmer's
Market, a meeting of the 4th Street Business Association, and a public
meeting at the Village Hall.
Fourth Street
Mall - Graduate students worked in a DPAC studio located in a storefront
in downtown Albuquerque. In consultation with the Downtown Action Team
and other downtown groups, the students developed a proposal for remodeling
the 4th Street Mall. Their proposal, based on the structure of hot air
balloons, won a design award from the American Institute of Architects,
New Mexico Chapter and was published in the Albuquerque Tribune.
Institute for Environmental
Education (IEE)
The Institute for Environmental Education has two operational missions:
(1) promote design education for teachers, children and the community
through an integrated model of teaching and learning similar to that of
the architectural design studio, and (2) conduct studies and research
that address learning and teaching environments, facility programming
and design, and the relationship of the school to its community context.
A nationally recognized provider of innovative curriculum and instructional
materials, the Institute offers the opportunity for architecture students
to teach architecture and design to children in public and private schools.
Resource Center
for Raza Planning (RCRP)
The Resource Center for Raza Planning promotes integration of higher education
and traditional communities in New Mexico through the application of multidisciplinary
and intergenerational planning processes and techniques. The program conceives
planning as directly responsive to community needs. Issues of interest
include land use, land ownership infrastructure, transportation, water
rights, water use and quality, agricultural preservation, and economic
development. The RCRP has four major objectives: (1) produce, compile,
and distribute educational materials, (2) generate and nurture individuals
interested in planning and development issues, (3) produce research and
policy analysis of planning issues, and (4) partner with other organizations
and agencies to promote sustainable economic development strategies.
John Gaw Meem Lecture
Series
The School of Architecture and Planning offers an extensive public lecture
series featuring renowned architects, and landscape architects. A public
exhibition program complements the lecture series, and frequently includes
student work. To stimulate collaboration and interdisciplinary relationships,
the School also hosts a number of public forums and seminars with presentations
by invited guests who are engaged in innovative research or professional
work.
Central Arts District
The School provided project coordination and lead urban design services
for workshops that utilized local architects and art organizations to
develop specific design strategies to transform four blocks in downtown
Albuquerque into an Arts District. Working with current property owners
and developers, several properties were identified and designed for conversion
to arts uses. As a result of the workshop, up to $6 million dollars in
"seed money" has been committed to realize qualifying projects
in Albuquerque's new Central Arts District through the Enterprise Foundation
in Washington, D.C.
The Mexico Summer
Urban Design Program
This program is a collaboration between the Universidad Anahuac, the University
of Arkansas, and the University of New Mexico and is conducted in Mexico.
The 10-week summer program immerses architecture students in an extraordinary
range of cultural and urban architectural experiences. For five weeks,
students travel to pre-Columbian and colonial archeological sites and
cities throughout Mexico. The remaining five weeks are spent in Mexico
City where students from Mexico and the US engage in a dialogue on the
modern city. The work produced in the Mexico Summer Urban Design Program
over the last three years has been featured in ARGUINE, Latin America's
leading design magazine, in December 2001.
Silver City "Your
Town" Workshop
School or Architecture and Planning faculty were invited to participate
and provide urban design services for a community design workshop held
in Silver City, NM in October 2001. The workshop was designed to help
community leaders develop strategies for directing their town's future
growth while preserving its past. Faculty from UNM presented examples
of excellent design and preservation practices and facilitated the community
in an intensive two-day urban design session. Results and recommendations
from this workshop will be incorporated into Silver City's Planning Guidelines.
New Mexico State
Fair Master Development Plan
The School will provide an urban design/master planning study to envision
the development future for the 267-acre New Mexico State Fairgrounds.
The School has been asked to conduct this study in an effort to positively
direct increasing development pressures on this key urban site. Additionally,
fair officials are interested in improving the Fair's physical interface
with its surrounding neighborhoods and enhancing their existing programs
to encourage year-round destination uses. The School will coordinate a
large public planning design workshop, which will include students, faculty,
and local and outside urban design experts to produce a long-term, sustainable
development plan for the Fair.
The Anapra/Sunland
Park Border Research Studio
Funding from the J.B. Jackson Endowment at the School will be supporting
an international planning and research collaboration at the Anapra, Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico/Sunland Park, NM contingent borderlands in the spring semester
of 2002. The intent of this research and design studio is to engage a
cross-section of students from several graduate programs in the communities
at the border. Participants in this endeavor will include Urban Design
students from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City,
Landscape Architecture students from Auburn University, Planning and Architecture
students from the University of New Mexico, and we are presently discussing
the participation of Architecture students from Chihuahua, Mexico. Local
and State agencies participating will include The City of Sunland Park,
The NM State Land Office, the Instituto de Arqitectur, Designo e Arte,
the Planning arm for Ciudad Juarez, and several social service providers
based in El Paso and Juarez. The studio will be focused on the provision
of housing and social service and also on the issues of border passage,
infrastructure, industry, and the commercial marketplace.
Santa Fe Farmer's
Market
In 1998, a studio of planning and architecture students conducted a design
study for the Friends of the Santa Fe Farmer's Market. The study assisted
the market in articulating the program for the future permanent market
site, examining various potential sites within the Santa Fe Rail Yards,
developing a prototype design, fund raising, and estimating the cost of
development. The work won an AIA/NM design award, and has been critical
in helping the Market obtain design and development grants.
Comments to dgon@unm.edu
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