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Education:
The Ribbon that Ties the Community Together by Richard Hunt, AIA, Designer
Project Condit Elementary School Client Houston ISD Principal in Charge Todd Lien, AIA Right Library at Condit Elementary School, Houston ISD
Education is the ribbon that ties the community together. It is a symbolic phrase with extraordinary meaning for the community of Bellaire, a tight knit suburb of Houston, Texas. Bellaire, like many other communities, is steeply invested in the education of their children and their community as a whole. When the time arrived for the Houston Independent School District (HISD) to construct a replacement school for their beloved Condit Elementary, the community of Bellaire was going to play a huge part. Embracing this heightened sense of community, HISD brought together parents, teachers, and administrators along with members of the Bellaire community to form a Project Advisory Team (PAT).
Condit Elementary is embedded into the very fabric of Bellaire. The school has served the community for over 100 years. PAT members, many of whom currently have children attending Condit, also went to Condit themselves. Moreover, some of them have parents that attended Condit. The committee was comprised of generations of previous elementary school children who were beaming with passion and pride for their school and their community. Our task of designing 22
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