Tai Soo Kim Traveling Fellowship Awarded

On May 11, in Wilde Auditorium, CETA graduate Michael Varesio presented a report on the trip he took as the 2009 Tai Soo Kim Traveling Fellow. Michael examined the architecture of various Mediterranean sites, including Spain, Morocco, and the island of Santorini, and created a slide show of his trip, sharing the various building styles and influences with an audience that included current architecture students and faculty as well as Tai Soo Kim.

Michael Varesio shares photos of his trip.

Mr. Kim is an architect practicing in the Hartford area who has endowed this fellowship to support the independent travel and inquiry of a University of Hartford Master of Architecture graduate each year. The trips are meant to help the recipients grow as architects.

In this, the fourth year of the fellowship, a trio of graduates received the fellowship. Emphasizing the idea that collaboration is now essential to the practice of architecture, Carolina Calle, Brenda Eaton, and Michelle Miller proposed a collaborative trip to various cities and towns across the United states to examine various communities to learn which components of those communities make them successful—and to strengthen their own collaboration and team skills. They plan to visit Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Savannah, Georgia; and Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Michael Crosbie, Brenda Eaton, Michelle Miller, and Carolina Calle

CETA thanks Tai Soo Kim for his generosity to students and congratulates Michael, Carolina, Brenda, and Michelle on their success.