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Article: The many meanings of accessibility.(ACCESS through architecture)
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- Paraplegia News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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One of the newest additions to Gallaudet University, in Washington D.C., is the James Lee Sorenson Language and Communications Center (October 2008). The university, founded in 1864, has had as its unique mission to provide a bilingual, academically challenging environment as well as professional college degrees for people who are deaf or have hearing impairments. Accessibility has been an evolving core requirement for its facilities, with this recent project continuing to address the multiple needs of this diverse student and faculty community.
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The Sorenson Center's design, by the Washington, D.C., office of Smith Group ...