B U I L D + D E S I G N
Above: The Princeville, N.C. Mobile Museum created by the 2019 Design + Build session.
THE HENRY W. AND LORENE R. JOHNSTON DESIGN + BUILD PROGRAM:
A Crash Course in Impact, Resilience and Hope By M ax Co h e n
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A F o u n d a t io n o n W h e el s
ome may imagine architecture students in a studio, drawing conceptual designs and grand ideas in their sketchbooks, or perhaps laser-focused on their laptop screens building virtual models of their projects. 4
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Now, thanks to the Henry W. and Lorene R. Johnston Design + Build program, we picture architecture students as a team armed with welding torches, rotary saws and hard hats. In this new vision, architecture students are building a museum for America’s first town chartered by freed slaves — and they’re building it on wheels.