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Bryan Bell is a Professor at the School of Architecture, NC State University. Bell holds degrees from Princeton and Yale Universities and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1991 he founded the nonprofit organization Design Corps with the mission “to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without ...
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, Master of Architecture, 1997 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Bachelor of Architecture, 1990
Critical Design Thinking, Interdisciplinary Design, Embedded Technologies, Urbanism, Urban Design, Housing, Public Space, Geometry, and Visual Thinking
Brian Bell is Professor of the Practice of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of the firm BLDGS. He most recently has been teaching advanced design studios for graduate-level students, with a focus on developing students’ understanding of the critical reciprocities and potentials between urban and architectural des...
“The Pressures of Paradox: Michelangelo and the Sforza Chapel”, appeared in Conventions of Architectural Drawings, edited by James Ackerman and Wolfgang Jung, 2000
Emerging Voices Award, Architectural League of New York, | Brian Bell and David Yocum, 2017 Architecture Merit Award, AIA Georgia | Caddell School of Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017 Silver Medal Firm-of-the-Year Award, AIA Atlanta| BLDGS, 2016 Architecture Honor Award, AIA South Atlantic Region (2016), Architecture Hono...
Brian Bell, AIA. PRINCIPAL. Brian is co-founder and principal of BLDGS. His primary interest and 26 years’ experience is in creating high quality works of architecture and urbanism that deeply engage our senses and experience in the world. Brian is also a Professor of the Practice in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where ...
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Brian Bell is co-founder and principal of BLDGS, a full-service architectural practice dedicated to the creation of inventive and enduring works of architecture. Brian’s interests focus on the mysterious relationship between buildings, cities, and perception. Brian is a professor of Practice in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of ...
BRYAN BELL JR., AIA (1960-) Bell holds degrees in architecture from Princeton and Yale. In 1985 he was Samuel Mockbee's project director on three houses for rural families in Mississippi. In 1989 he worked for Steven Holl in New York. Meanwhile, his sister was helping migrant workers in rural Pennsylvania, urging Bell to consider making a more ...
Jun 1, 2011 · For Bryan Bell, AIA, founder and executive director of Raleigh, N.C.–based Design Corps, the traditional walls between design and building limit how much good that design can accomplish. Bell, along with Roberta Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, and David Perkes, AIA, received the 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize for Public Interest Practice in Architecture.
May 1, 2019 · The Atlanta-based architect has forged an innovative approach to adaptive reuse. Brian Bell, one of two principal architects behind the emerging BLDGS firm in Atlanta, never set out to focus on adaptive reuse. But whether it’s due to the region’s surplus of old industrial buildings or the firm’s knack for responding well to constraints ...
