Auburn Urban Studio comes to Pensacola


  • May 9, 2014
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PRESS RELEASE -- The innovative Auburn University Urban Studio will be featured in a Pensacola lecture hosted by the Northwest Florida branch of the American Institute of Architects on May 16. The lecture and reception, free and open to the public, will take place at the Museum of Commerce, 201 E. Zarragossa St. in downtown Pensacola.

The speaker, Cheryl Morgan, FAIA, has recently retired as director of the Urban Studio in Birmingham.  She will review the work of the Urban Studio and share her perspectives on the keys to successful communities.

Founded in 1991, the Urban Studio is a teaching and outreach venue of Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. Immersed in the “teaching laboratory” of Birmingham, the Urban Studio hosts students who are in their fifth year of the School’s Bachelor of Architecture Program, and selected graduate students from the School’s Master’s of Community Planning Program.

The Studio focuses not just on the design of buildings, but also on how their design  can help to make a community a place where people want to live vibrant and stronger economically. The Studio’s Small Town Design Initiative Program worked with more than 75 small towns and neighborhoods in Alabama under Morgan’s direction.

Work done at the Studio is credited with helping jumpstart interest in Birmingham’s now realized Railroad Park, and with helping launch the city’s Design District and Pepper Place Farmers Market.

Morgan is an architect and was the Gresham Professor of Architecture at Auburn. She has over 28 years of teaching and professional experience. She practiced architecture and urban design in the San Francisco Bay area for more than eight years. Before joining the faculty in Auburn in 1992 she was an associate with the Berkeley firm of ELS/Elbasani and Logan. Her last project there was the design of new and adaptive reuse buildings along the Singapore River in five blocks of Singapore’s Clarke Quay Historic District. Morgan’s professional practice now focuses on urban design, community planning and graphic design.

In addition to the AIA Northwest Florida, lecture sponsors include the University of West Florida Historic Trust and IHMC.

The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m., with the reception at 5:30. To RSVP, go to www.aianwfl.com/Events. Details: Email Becky Wilson,

[email protected] or call (850) 466-8461.

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