The American Institute of Architects has today announced the twelve new winners of the prestigious annual Education Facility Design Award. Seven Awards of Excellence and five Awards of Merit were given out overall. The winners were selected by the AIA’s Committee on Architecture for Education.
March 4, 2021
When a pandemic stops you from seeing the world, you may as well become a tourist in your own backyard.
That’s the mantra adopted by Sophie Crafts, an educator in the Cambridge Public Schools system, who is nearly done with a unique “pandemic project”: Walking every single street of the People’s Republic.
“When we went into lockdown last spring, I started going for daily walks like a lot of people as a chance to get out of the house, get some fresh air, and some exercise,” Crafts said. “But I realized I didn’t actually know my neighborhood that well.”