Casey Nixon, the 2007 recipient of the Tai Soo Kim Travel Fellowship, presented the results of her work under the Fellowship on May 7 at Wilde Auditorium. Nixon, a 2007 Master’s of Architecture graduate who now works at The SLAM Collaborative in Glastonbury, spoke about her trip to Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway. There, she studied Scandinavian design; almost 90 percent of construction involves prefabricated or modular components. Her stay in Scandinavia was an extension of her Master’s thesis work, which involved cost-effective “kit-of-parts” modular construction that can be put together by volunteers with minimal training and the effect of such construction on people in need of shelter. She also spent time at the Yestermorrow Design-Build School in Vermont to learn how to guide untrained volunteers through the design and construction of small-scale, short-term building projects. And she traveled to southern Mexico under the auspices of Simply Smiles, a group that works to better the lives of poor children. With a group of volunteers, she applied what she had learned by designing and building a home for a needy family from concrete masonry units and corrugated metal roofing. Such materials are easily and locally available, so their purchase also helped the local economy.
From left to right, Michael Crosbie, Chair of
From left to right, Michael Crosbie, Chair of
Architecture, Casey Nixon, and Tai Soo Kim,
sponsor of the fellowship.
The Fellowship was established by area architect Tai Soo Kim, FAIA, of Tai Soo Kim Partners, to encourage the independent study of architecture by graduating Master’s students. Students may travel anywhere they wish, but their program of study must include a service component.
After Nixon’s presentation, Architecture Chair Michael Crosbie announced the recipient of the 2008 award: Tyson Dorman, a graduating Master’s student who has taught in our program, and who works with JCJ Architecture in Hartford. He will be traveling through Asia to study Eastern cultures and help rebuild the Baldan Baraivan monastery, a Buddhist establishment in Mongolia. He hopes to bring “an understanding of the traditions of construction which set eastern culture apart from that of western culture” back to teach at a school of architecture.
Tyson Dorman receives the 2008 Tai Soo Kim
The Fellowship was established by area architect Tai Soo Kim, FAIA, of Tai Soo Kim Partners, to encourage the independent study of architecture by graduating Master’s students. Students may travel anywhere they wish, but their program of study must include a service component.
After Nixon’s presentation, Architecture Chair Michael Crosbie announced the recipient of the 2008 award: Tyson Dorman, a graduating Master’s student who has taught in our program, and who works with JCJ Architecture in Hartford. He will be traveling through Asia to study Eastern cultures and help rebuild the Baldan Baraivan monastery, a Buddhist establishment in Mongolia. He hopes to bring “an understanding of the traditions of construction which set eastern culture apart from that of western culture” back to teach at a school of architecture.
Tyson Dorman receives the 2008 Tai Soo Kim
Travel Fellowship from Michael Crosbie.
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