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indicator of MU's public acceptability).

From: "david burson" <david.burson at verizon.net>
To: "Jesse Burson" <cat13 at illrepute.org>,
	"Emmett Burson" <eburson at andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: AIArchitect, May 19, 2003 - Neuroscience Research Grains Support from Legacy Pr
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:23:52 -0400

The architecture/neuroscience nexus lives long and prospers, with
serious Pittsburgh connections.  Eberhard is former head of the CMU
Dept. of Architecture and a one-time collaborator with Peter Floyd of
Wallace and Floyd fame.  Damianos has been a major practicioner on the
Pittsburgh scene for decades; he re-did the existing galleries in the
Carnegie Museum of Art around the same time that Edward Larrabee Barnes
built the new Scaife wing, sometime in the early '70's.  Latrobe, PA is
where Rolling Rock beer is brewed.  Their slogan was "mountain water
makes the difference"; they used to have a kinetic billboard downtown on
the Boulevard of the Allies around Smithfield Street with a rotating
golden helix simulating a continuously pouring stream of beer.  

Small worlds rule.

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05/2003	 
Neuroscience Research Gains Support From Legacy Project, Latrobe Grant

<http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw0509/expo2003/expo0509eberh
ard2.jpg> A two-decade-old research partnership focused on the emerging
understanding of the relationship between the brain and the built
environment has culminated in the Academy of Neuroscience for
Architecture, the Legacy Project of the 2003 AIA National Convention in
San Diego. In turn, College of Fellows Chancellor Sylvester Damianos,
FAIA, announced during the May 9 general session of the AIA national
convention that the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture will
receive the Latrobe Fellowship, a $100,000 grant to pursue research to
answer questions about how the human brain perceives architecture.

<http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw0509/expo2003/expo0509white
law2.jpg> The Legacy Project, a new formal collaboration of architects
and scientists to study how the human brain perceives and responds to
cues from architecture, that has been in the works for 18 months, marks
a "new beginning bursting with potential," said Alison M. Whitelaw, San
Diego Architectural Foundation president, who announced the legacy
project at the same session.

The foundation, with the support of the AIA national component and its
leadership, established the not-for-profit academy to collect and
disseminate hard scientific data on links that, Whitelaw said, will
validate existing hypotheses or provide new findings to bridge
neuroscience research and architecture studies. The academy's San Diego
location will take advantage of the area's nexus of neuroscience experts
and activities.

An advisory committee of architects and neuroscientists is developing
short- and long-term planning goals and, with an organizing committee
primarily composed of San Diego architects, is working out the academy's
management, communication, and business matters. Among them are plans to
identify potential funding sources, establish workshops, line up
projects in architecture education, and develop videos and an Internet
site.

Neuroscience research receives $100,000 from College of Fellows
The winning proposal, "Fundamental Neuroscience Research and Development
for Architecture," a project presented by John P. Eberhard, FAIA, seeks
to define and study the links between neuroscience and the built
environment that are the focus of the academy.

<http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw0509/expo2003/expo0509eberh
ard1.jpg> The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is
awarded biennially by the AIA College of Fellows for research leading to
significant advances in the architecture profession. The award was
doubled from $50,000 to $100,000 this year. The jury, which Damianos
stressed was not affiliated with the legacy project organizers, included
Chair Cynthia Weese, FAIA, dean of the Washington University School of
Architecture; Thomas W. Ventulett, FAIA, principal of AIA Firm Award
Winner TVS & Associates; Robert Geddes, FAIA, Topaz Medallion winner;
Robert A. Odermatt, FAIA, former College of Fellows chancellor and
founder of the Latrobe Fellowship program; and Sylvester Damianos, FAIA,
2003 chancellor of the College of Fellows. The jury complimented all the
grant proposals for promoting significant research that strengthens the
profession.

"We enormously appreciate the support of the College of Fellows," said
Eberhard. "Over the next two years, we expect to expand considerably the
knowledge base that allows us to practice architecture."