September 2009

Give Us A Lift!

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
As part of our goal to make our campus facilities universally accessible, Yestermorrow needs your help to raise $25,000 to install a vertical platform lift. Our main building is nearly ADA accessible, but we don’t have any way for someone with a wheelchair or walker to go between the two floors without going outside and through the parking...

Read this post >

Architecture and Design Film Festival Featured in Seven Days

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Unique Film Festival in Waitsfield Celebrates Architecture and DesignState of the ArtsBy Kirk Kardashian [09.16.09]"If Kyle Bergman wasn’t an architect, he’d be a filmmaker. That’s why the 47-year-old New York resident combined his profession with his passion to create the Architecture and Design Film Festival, a new four-day event taking...

Read this post >

Discussion of Modern Architecture in VT on Vermont Edition

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
From today's Vermont Edition with Jane Lindholm, "Homes and buildings in Vermont aren't often thought of as "Modern" with a capital "M." Most of our structures tend to veer toward the more quaint and old-fashioned. And without a strong corporate presence in many areas of the state, the large, modern structures found in many cities, aren't...

Read this post >

Architecture students learn to unlock their creativity with concrete

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
by Dirk Van Susteren, correspondent © Sept. 11, 2009, Norwich University Office of CommunicationsChristy Ketchel, dressed in work clothes, looked up an 11-foot embankment as a large cement-mixing truck poured its contents into forms for a wall of what will one day be a small cabin.“Isn’t it great? It looks like a blow-up mattress,” she...

Read this post >

Fabric Formed Concrete

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Last week was very exciting with the International Society of Fabric Forming workshop going on, led by YM instructor Sandy Lawton and Norwich University professor Eleanor D'Aponte. It was quite an international crew, from Copenhagen to Manitoba to Chile and a few locals mixed in too! They worked for over a week to prepare forms and pour the...

Read this post >