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The Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) aims to improve the quality of the regional and urban environment by promoting excellence in design, planning, and public policy in the built environment. This will be achieved through its member and public education, in concert with allied community and professional groups. Join us!

2024 Symposium

The 2024 symposium will be held in Indianapolis, IN in November. Stay tuned for dates and location. Registration will open in July.

2023 RUDC Symposium

The RUDC Symposium, held in Washington, DC October 19-20, covered emerging trends, theories, and technologies that are shaping the future of regional and urban design. Watch the engaging highlight and speaker videos >.

Being an Architect: Lessons From Past Work

  • 1.  Being an Architect: Lessons From Past Work

    Posted 01-10-2022 09:58 AM

    Being Architect: Lessons from the Past (1) 

     This is the first of a planned series on which of my past projects still have relevance 

    There was the green roof, there are the beechwood clad partitions and hallway walls, the mobile partitions, the integrated art, the underground parking garage, the saved tree close to the building, the urban infill between historic homes, the elevator for accessibility, the integration of an urban green space. There was "design assist" for the facades and an envelope consultant who did quality control of our detailing. Ah yes, and all that very contemporary sounding stuff was "fast tracked" in spite of production via the age old techniques of T-squares, ink on vellum and freehand renderings. All this is something that happened some 40 years ago.

    Front of the school facing Bismarck Strasse (School website)

    The architectural project with all these features came to my mind when I was wondering which of the projects I have under my belt as an architect could still resonate with the students that I, at times, try to teach one thing or another. The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me  for my first job out of architecture school. I was supposed to manage this project. My sparse expertise from five years of studies had already faded some during 18 months of the then in Germany mandatory civil service (in lieu of military service) and a stint in the London planning department. That is to say, I was in way over my head. To be a teaching moment, the 41 years old project must be memorable for more than.......
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    [Klaus] Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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