BGSU architecture students exhibit work at Toledo Design Center

Students of architecture at BGSU and others in geography and planning at the University of Toledo spent the fall semester designing a future for the city of Toledo.

Their work, featuring a scale model of Toledo, analytical models of specific sites and drawings of model cities from around the world, will be on permanent display at the Toledo Design Center following a public presentation Tuesday (Dec. 7) at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Main Branch. The project is titled “Urbanism Studio 2004.”

Students from the Architecture and Environmental Design Studies Program at BGSU worked in cooperation with the Department of Geography and Planning at UT, and the design center. Students, faculty members, design professionals and interested community members met biweekly for the past four months to generate ideas for the design of downtown Toledo.

“Urbanism Studio is dedicated to investigating Toledo’s urban culture, cultivation of thoughtful and effective planning, and development of urban form,” said Andreas Luescher, architecture and environmental design studies.

As a founding member of the Toledo Design Center, Luescher said he hopes the current exhibit will stimulate more students to become involved with prospective community projects.

Luescher said the process of launching an educational project advocating advancement of public awareness and appreciation of design in northwest Ohio has been both challenging and rewarding.

The presentation will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library, followed by a reception in honor of the participants from 5-7 p.m. at the design center, 322 N. Huron St.

For more information, contact Luescher at aluesch@bgnet.bgsu.edu.