sustainability

Leading Architect in Campus Design and Planning to Lecture Monday

Adam Gross' firm designed the new School of Nursing at Duke University, which maximizes day-lighting in interior spaces, among other sustainable strategies.

Soon after architect Adam Gross joined the 92-year-old Baltimore firm Ayers/Saint in 1984, the firm made a strategic decision to specialize in design and planning for nonprofit institutions, with a specific focus on higher education. Now one of the leaders in campus design and planning, Ayers/Saint/Gross is currently working on 40 campuses for clients such as John Hopkins University Hospital, Rutgers School of Law and Emory University. "I cannot tell you how interesting it is, every day," Gross said in a 2000 interview with Edward Gunts, architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun. "It's like town planning, You can do just about any building under the sun. And every campus is different. They all have different cultures and different characters and different levels of leadership."

Gross will discuss his work in a lecture titled " Blobs/Slashes/Worms vs. Points/Lines/Planes" that will take place at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, in Ken Shollmier Hall (Vol Walker Hall Room 103).  

This fall Mr. Gross is teaching and lecturing at the University of Arkansas School of Architecture as the Fay Jones Chair in Architecture, a position funded by a generous gift from Don and Ellen Edmondson. He and professor Tahar Messadi are leading an urban planning project in which fourth-year architecture students address the revitalization of South Fayetteville's Walker Park neighborhood.