PASADENA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE RECEIVED 17 DESIGN PROPOSALS
14:27, 4 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS: The Pasadena Armenian Genocide
Memorial Committee announced that the Committee received 17 design
proposals for the Armenian Genocide Memorial project proposed to be
located in Memorial Park in the City of Pasadena. Six of the design
proposals are from students at the Pasadena Art Center College of
Design, reports Armenpress citing Asbarez. The Committee has formed
an independent panel of 3 distinguished professional judges to
review and rank all 17 design proposals. The review panel’s written
recommendations will be forwarded to the Board which will make the
final selection. The independent review panel met on December 1 to
begin the review process. One of the judges was Stefanos Polyzoides
a principal of Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists.
Polyzoides’ distinguished career covers the areas of architectural and
urban design education, design and theory. He is an Associate Professor
of Architecture at the University of Southern California and has been a
Visiting Professor at several schools including Princeton University,
where he was on the Advisory Board of the School of Architecture from
1983-1990. His recent design experience includes major urban design
projects, such as the Pasadena Civic Center/Midtown Urban Design
Program; the San Gabriel Valley Urban Design Plan for seven cities in
the San Gabriel Valley; the 1,000-acre Playa Vista New Town; the Los
Angeles Downtown Strategic Plan; the Beverly Hills Downtown Enhancement
Plan; and the Glendale Town Center for Glendale, California. The
other judges were Ruben Amirian a prominent architect/artist who has
served on the design review board and historic commission in Glendale
and Neshan Peroomian a contractor and prominent Armenian-American
community leader. The review panel’s written recommendations will be
forwarded to the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Armenian Genocide
Memorial Committee which will make the final selection.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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