Phil Freelon
07.10.2019
Celebrating the Legacy of Phil Freelon

Phil’s legacy will live on in our hearts and memories; in the spirit of his family; in the communities he so passionately served; and in the scores of beautiful and uplifting places he designed to stand tall and proud—just like him.

 

We invite you to reflect on his remarkable legacy and share your favorite memories of Phil.
06.26.2019
Welcome Christopher Counts, Award-Winning Landscape Architect
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07.15.2019
Perkins and Will along with Rafael de La-Hoz to design new European Commission office building
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07.10.2019
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07.09.2019
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07.09.2019
Remembering Phil Freelon, America’s Humanitarian Architect
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07.02.2019
Our Denver Studio Announces New Design Leadership
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06.28.2019
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06.26.2019
Introducing Our E. Todd Wheeler Health Fellowship: Class of 2020
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06.26.2019
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06.26.2019
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06.26.2019
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06.26.2019
Meet Aliza Goldsmith, an E. Todd Wheeler Health Fellow, Class of 2020
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06.26.2019
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06.05.2019
A Paradigm Shift in Science Education and Research
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06.04.2019
The Intersection of Academic Learning, Research Ideation and Industry Incubation
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06.04.2019
The City of Toronto Releases its First Resilience Strategy
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06.01.2019
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06.01.2019
Public Health Initiatives to Counter High Consequence Disease
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04.24.2019
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, the Denmark Practice of Perkins and Will, Names Sanne Wall-Gremstrup New Managing Director
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04.23.2019
Convergence 2019: Building an Innovation Ecosystem
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04.10.2019
University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute Brings Innovation in Care to Neurological Patients
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03.28.2019
We’re Proud to Be a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality”
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03.26.2019
Paving the Way for New Mothers in the Workplace
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03.19.2019
Design by Drone: New Perspectives for All Stages of Design
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03.15.2019
Game Day: Changing the Building Code
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03.11.2019
San Francisco-Based Pfau Long Architecture Joins Perkins and Will, Reinforcing Both Firms’ Commitment to Bay Area Community
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02.25.2019
ResilientSEE: A Framework to Achieve Resilience Across Scales
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02.21.2019
Welcome Morgan Fleming, Our Dubai Studio’s New Design Director
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02.04.2019
Proud to be Recognized in the Top 2 on Interior Design 2019 Giants List
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01.31.2019
National Museum of African American History and Culture Receives AIA National Design Award
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01.09.2019
An Adventure to La Biennale di Venezia: From Saudi Arabia, to Los Angeles, to Italy, and Back
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01.04.2019
Campus Student Center at East Carolina University is Complete
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12.18.2018
Perkins and Will Research Journal Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Issue
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12.06.2018
Aaniin Community Centre and Library Wins Interior Design’s Best of Year Award
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12.06.2018
Building on a Legacy: The E. Todd Wheeler Health Fellowship
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12.05.2018
New Health Fellowship Honors Visionary Architect E. Todd Wheeler
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12.04.2018
The Law of the Land: Exploring the Future of Legal in London (and Beyond)
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11.30.2018
Turning Imagined Designs into Constructed Reality with Robots
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11.30.2018
Confronting the Perfect Storm of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Social Inequity
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11.21.2018
Cultivating a Healthy Future in Mattapan: New Life for a 1780’s Farmhouse
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11.08.2018
Atlanta Studio Welcomes Industry Leader Kim Rousseau as New Managing Principal
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11.08.2018
Perkins and Will Recognized on 2018 “Architect 50” List of Leading U.S. Design Firms
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11.06.2018
Miami Studio Unveils Baptist Health Facility at 709 Alton Road
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11.06.2018
Fitwel Progress Report: Seven Studios, Seven Health Impact Categories
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11.05.2018
University of Washington Life Sciences Building Designed for Next-Generation of Research, Teaching, and Outreach
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10.31.2018
Robin Guenther, FAIA, Honored with 2018 “Women In Design” Award from Healthcare Design and Contract magazines
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10.31.2018
Pat Bosch Speaks about Diversity in Design at Fast Company’s 2018 Innovation Festival
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10.23.2018
In Conversation: 8 Colleagues on Diversity in the Architecture Industry
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10.15.2018
High Speed Rail: Considerations for a Future in the U.S.
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10.10.2018
An Iconic Home for River Researchers
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09.24.2018
Climate Change and Our Response: Why Design for Resilience is Needed Now More Than Ever
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09.17.2018
Perkins and Will Named a “Design Company of the Year” Finalist by Fast Company
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09.05.2018
A High School Field House Fostering Spaces for All
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08.27.2018
Perkins and Will’s Los Angeles Studio Announces New Leadership for Corporate and Commercial Projects
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08.22.2018
Building Resilience in a Changing World
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08.13.2018
Perkins and Will Makes Strategic Hire to its London Studio
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08.13.2018
It Takes More than Money to Fund Resilience
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07.30.2018
The Only Firm to Win Two 2018 National Healthcare Design Awards from the AIA
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07.25.2018
This Just In: There’s More to the Open Office Than Headlines Suggest
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07.24.2018
Recently Published Real-World Research Reinforces the Benefits of Sit-Stand Desks in the Workplace
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07.24.2018
Reconciling Planetary Health in City Building
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07.17.2018
Perkins and Will-Designed Damen Green Line Station Will Enhance Access and Economic Development in the Near West Side
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07.09.2018
Perkins and Will Welcomes Kimberly Hickson as Principal
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07.06.2018
Lights! Camera! Architecture! Cinematic Strategies for Architectural Storytelling
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06.28.2018
We Change What We Design By Changing Who Designs It
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06.25.2018
Perkins and Will Wins No. 2 Spot on Architectural Record’s 2018 Top 300 List
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06.20.2018
Baylor Scott & White Health’s New Sports Therapy & Research Complex Draws Clear Connection Between Population Health and Physical Fitness
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06.12.2018
Our Director of Global Diversity Sworn in as IIDA International Board President
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06.12.2018
Co-Piloting Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program
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05.31.2018
That Vacant Building Has a Better Use
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05.23.2018
Good Design is a Safety Feature
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05.14.2018
Acclaimed Transportation and Mobility Consultancy Nelson\Nygaard Hires City of Portland’s Top Transportation Leader as Managing Director
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05.11.2018
How to Design a Better Lactation Room? Ask a User
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04.19.2018
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Achieves LEED Platinum Certification
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04.18.2018
Perkins and Will Celebrates 10 Years as One of Canada’s Greenest Employers
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04.12.2018
Powerful and Eloquent, REM Architectural and Landscape Concept to Transform Greater Montreal Cityscape
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04.05.2018
Northwestern University Opens Ryan Fieldhouse, Multi-Sport Training Facility
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03.27.2018
The Lauck Group, Inc., One of Texas’s Premier Interior Architecture Firms, Joins Perkins and Will
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03.27.2018
Perkins and Will Report Urges a People-First Approach to Integrate Emerging Transportation Technologies
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03.21.2018
Why Wood? A Look at Vancouver’s Skytrain Stations
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03.12.2018
Perkins and Will Retains No. 2 Ranking on Interior Design’s 2018 Giants List
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03.05.2018
We Won the Design Competition for York University School of Continuing Studies
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02.28.2018
New Managing Director Appointed to New York Studio
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02.28.2018
Next-Generation Space Design: What Goes into our “Secret Sauce”?
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02.26.2018
Three Perkins and Will Architects Elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows for 2018
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02.21.2018
Casey Jones, a National Leader in Design Excellence, Joins Perkins and Will
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02.20.2018
We Continue to Raise the Bar by having One of the Highest Number of Certified Passive House Designers in North America
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02.20.2018
Fast Company Names Us One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture
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01.31.2018
Convergence: A New Paradigm for New Challenges
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01.29.2018
Principal And Design Board Member Joan Blumenfeld Named 2018 Contract Design Legend
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01.23.2018
World-Renowned Danish Design Firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Joins Perkins and Will
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01.18.2018
Perkins and Will Hires New Healthcare Practice Leader for its Boston Studio
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01.05.2018
Perkins and Will to Design Suzhou Science & Technology Museum
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12.22.2017
Phil Freelon, “America’s Humanitarian Architect,” is Fast Company’s 2017 Architect of The Year
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12.21.2017
Perkins and Will Adds New Virtual Reality App to Growing Portfolio of Digital Experience Tools
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12.19.2017
Perkins and Will’s Climate Change Preparedness Plan for the Nation’s Capital Receives Top Award from Bloomberg Philanthropies
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11.27.2017
Celebrating the First Phil Freelon Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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11.21.2017
Urban Land Institute Recognizes Two Perkins and Will Projects with 2017 Global Excellence Awards
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11.21.2017
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Honored with Two Healthcare Design Awards
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11.08.2017
U.S. Green Building Council Adopts Resilient Building and Design Standard – RELi
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11.08.2017
We Launched Revamped Material Transparency Website and “Precautionary List” of Hazardous Building Materials
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11.07.2017
New Managing Director of San Francisco Studio Brings Client Perspective, Insights, to Role
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10.30.2017
Phil Freelon of Perkins and Will Receives North Carolina’s Highest Civilian Honor
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10.05.2017
International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Names Gabrielle Bullock International Board President-Elect
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10.04.2017
Perkins and Will Announces Merger with Sink Combs Dethlefs, a National Leader in Sports, Recreation, and Entertainment Architecture
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10.04.2017
Designing for Cultural Resilience
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09.29.2017
Perkins and Will Positions Itself for Growth in the EMEA region and Names New Managing Director for London Studio
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09.22.2017
New Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University Opens
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09.06.2017
Perkins and Will and Tuskegee University Launch Annual Professional Visiting Scholar Program
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08.16.2017
An Iconic Science and Research Campus in San Diego’s Biotech Hub
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08.03.2017
Two Projects Earn Design Excellence Awards for Health and Wellness
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07.19.2017
Perkins and Will Congratulates Principal Inducted into RAIC College of Fellows and the Vancouver Office’s Newest Promotions
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06.29.2017
British Columbia’s First WELL Certified Workplace for New and Existing Interiors
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06.22.2017
We Are Still In
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06.22.2017
Restoration of Houston’s Historic Emancipation Park Completes
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06.22.2017
New Study: Use of Standing Desks in Workplace Linked to Increased Productivity, Improved Health
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06.12.2017
Want a Healthy Building? Follow This Primer on Two New Wellness Standards
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05.16.2017
Phil Freelon Named One of Fast Company’s Most Creative People
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05.10.2017
Zena Howard Appointed to Managing Director of Perkins and Will’s North Carolina Practice
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05.09.2017
Countdown to Completion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Begins
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04.26.2017
Allen Institute Receives High Honors – Lab of the Year Award
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04.25.2017
New Design Director Joins Los Angeles Studio
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04.20.2017
Perkins and Will Invests in Socially and Environmentally Supportive Workplace Culture
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04.19.2017
New Interior Design Director Joins New York Studio
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04.18.2017
New Managing Director Joins Atlanta Studio
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04.03.2017
Design as a Business Strategy: Tapping Data is Easier Than You Think
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03.09.2017
It’s a Sign: The Vital Role of Branding and Wayfinding at Schools
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03.01.2017
What California High-Speed Rail Can Learn from Europe
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01.06.2017
Beyond Millennials: Meet the New Group Inspiring Workplace Innovation
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11.17.2016
In Their Own Words: Phil Freelon, On Our Way
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11.17.2016
In Their Own Words: Zena Howard, Designing for Community
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10.12.2016
Designing Innovative Campuses for Tomorrow’s Students
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10.07.2016
In Their Own Words: Phil Freelon, Building a Legacy
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10.07.2016
In Their Own Words: Zena Howard, Uniting Toward the Future
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10.07.2016
Transportation, Technology, and Urban Transformation: A Conversation
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09.24.2016
In Their Own Words: Zena Howard, A Personal Journey
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09.24.2016
In Their Own Words: Phil Freelon, A Personal History
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09.23.2016
Celebrating the Grand Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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06.09.2016
Aftershock: How Design Mitigates Environmental Stressors
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11.17.2015
Transformational Transportation: Catalyst to a World-Class City
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06.01.2015
Tech’s Influence on the Workplace: Four Lessons from the Field
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05.21.2015
From Kindergarten to Career: Space Through the Lens of Learning
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02.24.2015
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