Writings

Medical Campuses as Good Neighbors

By Kathryn Madden, AICP, and David Gamble, AICP

The stakes for both medical institutions and their neighborhoods are too high not to cooperate. Read More

On Drawings

Drawing is a necessary act of life. It is an affirmation of our need to represent our hopes and dreams as well as register commentary about our daily life. For architects it is an essential tool of representation - the fundamental ability to analyze, represent and describe our intentions. The skills to describe conceptual and perceptual ideas, to describe a spatial context and to imagine what has not yet been seen or experiences are wondrous gifts that can only be nurtured by experience and practice. Read More [pdf]

On Community Design

The Syracuse University School of Architecture Community Design Center was organized by David Gamble. Start up monies came from the School of Architecture and subsequent support came in the form of a Syracuse University Vision Fund Grant for a three-year period. An initial course offering was posted on a volunteer basis and immediately 32 students showed up as first time participants. Since the fall of 1998, the CDC has worked on several different projects in the Syracuse Community, involving students from all over the University, civic and neighborhood leaders and residents of the city. The CDC has won several public service awards, and there is the general recognition that this form of community involvement is an essential part of a contemporary university education. Read More [pdf]

Ten Tips for Pro-Bono Work in Community

Working in a pro-bono capacity within community settings can be fraught with potential pitfalls. In particular, planning within neighborhoods often takes place in the midst of multiple parties with competing agendas. Therefore, community designers invariably work to negotiate conflict. Follow these tips to help structure a more inclusive, engaged and successful process. Read More