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Dear Architectural Librarians,

We are pleased to announce the publication of Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships. The collection of 19 essays, by contributors from across the United States,

brings together the best in current practice and thinking regarding public-interest architectural internship and advocates for new models that will have the power to profoundly change the architectural profession and our communities.

The essays in this collection address a broad range of considerations regarding public-interest internships, outlining the issues, identifying the benefits, confronting the challenges, and offering lessons from the field and dreams for the future of public-interest architecture. Some contributors challenge the architecture profession to embrace its ethical responsibility for contributing to the public good and train new generations to do so. Other writers present successful examples of innovative internships provided by academic institutions and nonprofits. Several authors inspire with personal accounts of the joys and satisfactions of community engagement work, even in the face of disappointments and compromises. While the collection is not intended to be exhaustive, its breadth is sufficient to fuel a vibrant conversation in the hope of inspiring the creation of new public-interest internships and informing the ongoing updates to the Intern Development Program (IDP).

We hope you will consider adding Bridging the Gap to your library. It is available at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bridging-the-gap-public-interest-architectural-internships/17446483.

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Sincerely,

Professor Georgia Bizios, FAIA

Katie Wakeford, Intern Architect

Editors

The Editors:

Georgia Bizios, FAIA, is an ACSA Distinguished Professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In 2004, she founded the Home Environments Design Initiative with the mission to initiate, facilitate, and coordinate scholarship, research, and outreach in quality design for home environments. In addition to teaching, Bizios has focused her practice on residential architecture and has sought to mentor and supervise architecture interns.

Katie Wakeford is coeditor of both Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism (New York: Metropolis Books, 2008), a collection of essays on design in the service of the greater public good. Wakeford spent five years as an intern architect with the NC State University School of Architecture’s Home Environments Design Initiative, an affordable housing outreach effort. She is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Essay Contributors:

Victoria Beach

Thomas Fisher

Marvin Malecha

Michael Pyatok

Jess Zimbabwe

Stephen Luoni

Len Charney

Gabe Bergeron

John Quale

David Perkes

Christina Calabrese

Diane Georgopulos

Katherine Williams

Esther Yang

Bryan Bell

Haley Loram

Luke Perry

Luke Clark Tyler

Bridging the Gap offers tremendous value in addressing the important linkage between architectural internship and public service. As such, this discourse has the ability to positively influence the emerging generation’s conception of practice and the value that design thinking has in serving society.

Bizios and Wakeford have assembled a timely, convincing, and highly useful collection of essays that demonstrates the power of public service to expand the education of architects through direct community engagement, greatly multiplying the dividends of internship. Bridging the Gap enriches the literature on public-interest practice, and establishes the relevance of social equity to our continuing discourse on professional development.

This volume brings together a host of case studies in alternative futures for design discipline graduates. Graduates seeking meaningful, compassionate, socially relevant engagement will find this volume enlightening and a mine of trajectories. Faculty will find it a great pedagogic companion for a challenging, though opportunity-filled, future in the contemporary academy. Professionals should find it simply humbling.

Nineteen perspectives that will change the way you view the profession of architecture and the business behind design. Relevant to students and professionals alike, this collection highlights multiple avenues to engage in public-interest projects and careers, which are becoming ever more integral to the design of the built environment.