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Mobridge Friends:

Assistant Professor Chuck MacBride's Mobridge Waterfront Plan has won a Merit Award from the South Dakota American Institute of Architects.  

Regardless of the particulars of the scheme (especially relative to the pool), a panel of nationally recognized architects from outside South Dakota reviewed a range of projects and determined this scheme as meritorious work in terms of its plausibility, its representational clarify, and the relevant sense of impact it would make on a community.

We're very appreciative of the people of Mobridge for allowing us to use your town as a design subject in these projects that build on the work started by the University of Utah.  We're carrying on that effort in the Wrigley Square Project this year.  The students who have worked on Mobridge now for three years have started calling this part of the town below the tracks…LoMo (Lower Mobridge).  There's a lot to learn from your town and you've made it easy for us to do so. 

A State AIA Design Award is a great professional honor for Chuck.  The project will be published in the national American Institute of Architects Journal.   This puts Mobridge in good positive national scale news again.  The Waterfront project team was Chuck MacBride with students Emily Heezan (second year) from Pierre and Miranda Christensen (third year) from Lake Benton, MN and Jacob Urban (fourth year) from Rapid City.  Tom Uniterseher provided funding support for the construction of the wonderful model by Emily and Miranda.

When the time is right, Chuck would like to show you all issues and ideas in that model about parcelizing LoMo.  There's a whole lot more in the scheme than a pool.  His scheme is composed of recommendations, suggestions, and discussion starters.  Sooner than you think, the way you divide up that land is going to shape a core part of your city.  In this award the State AIA recognizes that he's offering Mobridge professionally strong advice about those decisions.

Yours,


BRIAN  T.  REX Associate Professor & Head
Department of Architecture
South Dakota State University 

www.sdstate.edu/arch   

(605) 688 4841