Sigrid Adriaenssens, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and M. Christine Boyer, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Architecture, are working to establish the relationship between the health effects of noise pollution and socioeconomic status by studying areas of Trenton, New Jersey.
Leeb, a professor of electrical engineering, and Norford, a professor of architecture, are working together to test a system called non-intrusive load monitoring, or NILM (rhymes with "film"), which uses a wallet-sized blue box, a PC and some very advanced software to measure fluctuations in voltage and current hundreds of times each second.
Culver City firm wHY Architecture is working on the new design, he said, and the museum "should be up and running in a couple of years". Maurice Marciano rejoined the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in October and was recently named one of the world's top 200 active art collectors by Artnews magazine.
But neither these voices and sounds nor the symbols of writing, sculpture and architecture, are works of art; works of art exist only in the minds that create or recreate them.
She had been studying landscape architecture and was working for the National Parks Conservation Association.
When he brought his camera to Oxford's campus to document the university's architecture, he was working to insure that he could capture detail beyond the formal scenes he had been arranging at his estate, and was also enchanted by the idea of imbuing his images with a historical quality that might help them transcend his era.
A UC Berkeley graduate, who had studied architecture and was working at Disney Imagineer, ice cream was certainly a deviation.
The graduate of Georgia Tech's architecture school was working for the city's Housing Authority, helping design police stations and other civil structures.
"I was working on architecture, construction, shaping," said Ann Demeulemeester backstage, surrounded by the feathered headgear that gave the thin, dark silhouettes what she called "something mysterious, intriguing — and that is what keeps me going".
"When I was working in architecture, I worked so hard and I still got let go.
