Traditional and classical architecture and urbansim occupy a premier place in the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. We draw on the past to build a future at once more humane, more durable, more convenient, more beautiful and more sustainable. Under the tutelage of professor Philip Bess, the six graduate architecture and urban design students studying Northampton this semester---Kalinda Brown, Dan Degreve, Josh Eckert, Scott Ford, Aaron Helfand, and Crystal Olin---are placing the highest priority on beautiful, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly traditional neighborhoods as the physical and spatial context for Northampton to best pursue her common objectives in a way that promotes the well-being of all her citizens. Aside from the studio's internal educational objectives, we seek to offer fresh eyes to assist Northampton in addressing the many challenges she faces today in a manner that will enhance and develop her historic identity as Paradise City. Also, Professor Philip Bess showed a video before Saturday's Final Presentation (at the close of "Design Northampton Week") that included many of us students who are working with you this semester. We thought you might enjoy a LINK to this video, which demonstrates the kind of work we do architecturally (in addition to the work we do urbanistically). |