Georgia Tech’s Scheller College Annual Report

Students and faculty from the Scheller College of Business and across Georgia Tech have partnered to create a website tracking the effects of COVID-19 on Georgia’s economy. The website is designed to document the far-ranging effects of the virus on the health and well-being of the statewide economy and provides data on multiple sectors including employment, health care, real estate, sales tax, transportation, public companies, and more.

Data on this website is updated regularly, daily in some cases, to provide state residents and other interested parties with the knowledge to facilitate understanding and decision making in the current and post-COVID environment. Beyond the web page, students also host the COVID Conversations Podcast and keep a running timeline of virus-related events in Georgia and the effects of the virus on Georgia public schools.

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Georgia Tech’s End of Year Show Press Release

Spring 2020 semester work from the Master of Science in Urban Design Studio (Ellen Dunham-Jones’ D+R Studio) and from some of our seminars. Georgia Tech faculty and students were involved in curating this work for the End of Year Show.

GT Ambassador and Guest Presenter for the Master of Science in Urban Design Virtual Open House

The MSUD is oriented to those who wish to expand upon their previous professional education and experience and enter urban design practices either in private firms or public agencies. The one-year, three-semester MSUD curriculum equips students with the skills to practice urban design in today’s marketplace and the knowledge and vision to tackle global challenges in redesigning and adapting our cities and suburbs for the 21st century. Students with professional degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, and civil engineering bring their expertise to MSUD collaborative studio projects while learning the core historical, legal, environmental and dimensional knowledge fundamental to the practice of urban design. The open house occurred online on March 30, 2020.

GT Ambassador for the College of Architecture’s Dean and Educational Advisory Board (EAB)

Nationally awarded with an Honorable Mention in the 18th Annual ULI Hines Student Competition, my team was asked to present our project to the College of Architecture’s Dean and his Educational Advisory Board. We discussed the Institute’s ongoing effort to raise interest among students and professionals in creating projects that better communities, improve development patterns, and increase awareness of the need for multidisciplinary solutions to development and design challenges. "The importance of the ULI Hines Student Competition for graduate students is the nature of its interdisciplinary emphasis,” said Doyle. “This competition immerses a diverse group of graduate students with unique post-undergraduate backgrounds and skillsets that allow new ideas and the byproducts of these ideas to become tangible solutions to real-life issues needing resolution or mitigation.”

EAB Presentation is available upon request through the “Contact” Tab

2020 ULI Hines Student Competition Honorable Mention - ‘Health on Higher Ground’ Team 2019-336

On behalf of the Urban Land Institute and Hines, I am very pleased to inform you that the jury selected your proposal, Health On Higher Ground, for an Honorable Mention. All entries were anonymous to the jury during their full review; the jury did not know which university or team members produced the entries they reviewed. They selected your proposal for Honorable Mention from among 113 submissions. Congratulations!

The assignment for this year's competition explored the redevelopment of a site in Miami with the Florida East Coast Roast Railway splitting the site into the Wynwood and Edgewater neighborhoods. Student groups imagined that the Tri-Rail would begin providing commuter rail service to downtown Miami in 2021. They were tasked with redeveloping the parcels in the site area to accommodate a station in Midtown Miami, and turning the site into “a thriving, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood.”

Project Pro Forma, Narrative, and Poster are available upon request through the “Contact” Tab

Georgia Tech Studio Spotlight Recognitions

The Fall 2019 semester’s Studio Spotlight is the M.Arch Core I Studio. The Studio Spotlight recognizes the exemplary work of the few students who mastered coursework materials in the Fall of 2019. Work from Stephen Conschafter, Will Reynolds, Breanna Rhoden, Caite Canfield, Rand Zalzala, George Doyle, and Kate Dimopolous. The Fall 2019 semester’s Studio Spotlight is Georgia Tech’s Core I Master of Architecture studio. The exhibition of final projects from the Core I Studio titled, “House for a Musician: Iterations and Abstractions” is located on the 3rd Floor of Architecture West at the Georgia Tech Campus.

from atlanta to the acropolis

George Doyle IV, a civil engineering major, first learned of the work of the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) when he participated in the Art and Architecture in Greece and Italy Study Abroad program in 2014. Three years later, he became the third Georgia Tech student to make contributions to the Acropolis.

Doyle found his passion for history and ancient architecture particularly enriched when the program visited the Acropolis to hear a guest lecture by Petros Georgopoulos, a sculptor with YSMA.

"To me, the Acropolis is one of — if not the — most important monuments in all of Western civilization,” Doyle said. “YSMA's continuous restoration efforts are a service not only to the people of Greece, but to the people of the free world. Being a part of such a momentous effort has been an incredible personal experience for me."

Doyle participated in YSMA’s efforts as a member of the Parthenon Restoration Service and spent two months working on the rock.

Doyle’s tasks included creating educational presentations on the Parthenon for English speaking students and tourists, transcribing YSMA’s restoration processes into a simplified Gantt Chart for better visual representation, hand-drafting new mechanical parts for a mechanism used in YSMA's marble member transportation process, learning to sculpt Pentelic marble from sculptors whose techniques come from the legendary school on the Greek island of Tinos, and applying these techniques to three marble members who will be installed back onto the Parthenon.