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Article: The New School to study Environment and Design.(AWARDS, ASSOCIATIONS AND EVENTS)
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- February 22, 2006
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The New School has announced the establishment of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, a major education and research initiative in the field of environmental studies.
The center, officially launched in January 2006, will build an undergraduate curriculum in environmental and allied sciences and support cross-disciplinary, long-term research projects. The university has appointed Joel Towers, an architect and educator, as the director of the center and the associate provost of environmental studies for the university. Towers formerly served as director of sustainable design at Parsons The New School for Design and will continue to serve its faculty of ...