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UNLV School of Architecture welcomed
Darren Petrucci
on Wednesday, October 10, 2004 7:00-8:30 pm

Darren Petrucci is an associate professor of architecture at Arizona State University and the founder and principal of A-I-R [Arichecture-Infrastructure-Research] Inc. He discusses "alternate strategies for developing new urban infrastuctures that are public amenitites and aid in the creation and revitalization of distinct identities within the contemporary city"--Email announcement about lecture from the UNLV School of Architecture. He uses projects he has done as illustrations

Faculty biography from:
http://www.asu.edu/caed/sala/faculty/html/faculty_petrucci.htm (last accessed Oct 2004)

"Darren Petrucci is the Director of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Arizona State University, and founder and principal of A-I-R [Architecture-Infrastructure-Research] Inc. He received both a Master's Degree in Architecture, and a Master's Degree of Architecture & Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

His design and research focuses on what he calls "iAmenity InfrastructureTM" which develops new public-private urban infrastructures that create identity and facilitate multiple scales of public use within the contemporary city. His work has been exhibited in Phoenix and New York, published in Architecture Magazine, Sprawl and Public Space published by the National Endowment for the Arts with Princeton Architectural Press, and Re-Envisioning Landscape/Architecture, published by Actar.

He is the winner of a Progressive Architecture Award from Architecture Magazine for his project "GLUE: Generic Landscapes Urban Environments" (commercial corridor revitalization strategies along Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale Arizona). And the NCARB Prize for his project "Stripscape: Pedestrian Amenities on 7th Avenue", which will be completed in September of 2003. "

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