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Associate Professor, Eric J. Jenkins published the chapter, “A Bit of Europe in Maryland: The Bata Colony in Belcamp” in the book Company Towns of the Bata Concern (Franz Steiner Verlag) edited by Ondrej Sevecek and Martin Jemelka).  In addition, Jenkins’ book Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing (Birkhauser) has been released as an EPUB electronic book and is available on iTunes. The EPUB is unique in that drawings can be reviewed at full scale and the searchable index allows for non-linear readings. Jenkins also lectured and directed a workshop on analytical freehand sketching at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed received a publication grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art in Spring 2013. In addition, Professor Morshed was one of the organizers of a conference focusing on the challenges of sustainable growth in developing economies at Berkeley in February and a guest speaker in the Spring Lecture Series of the University of Utah’s School of Architecture in March.

Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim will present the work of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio, entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole and Out Again: Building Technology in the Design Studio” at the BTES 2013 Conference in Rhode Island.  Kim was has also been invited to present her research project on the body, architecture and dwelling (Villa of Veils + Unwrapping the Hanbok) at the Third Annual International Conference on Architecture in Athens, Greece in June 2013.  Recently the studio in which Kim partners, c2architecturestudio, was recognized with an Award of Merit for infoCUBE: light monitors by the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition.

Adjunct Professor Mark McInturff, FAIA was awarded two Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for his Chesapeake Bay House and Gresser Johnson House.

Visiting Critics and E/L Studio firm principals Elizabeth Emerson and Mark Lawrence earned Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for their 63rd Avenue and Lincoln Street residences.

Each summer, CUA School of Architecture and Planning features numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses. Among these are design studios and elective courses, including history of architecture, graphics, furniture design, theory and computer-aided design/fabrication. The CUA 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) is pleased to offer the NADAAA Design studio, led by Nader Tehrani, as the feature summer studio. Julian Palacio, Lecturer, will collaborate with Tehrani in offering this advanced level design studio. The SIA will also host a summer speaker series with Mark Sexton (Krueck and Sexton, Chicago); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). Please visit the CUArch website (architecture.cua.edu) or contact SIA Director Julie Kim for more information.

Two CUArch students received awards in the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition, Andrew Baldwin received an Award of Excellence for his thesis project, Lacrosse as Sacred Iroquois Tradition: The Architecture of Cultural Representation, and Philip Goolkasian received an Award of Merit for his project, the South Capitol Natatorium.

Photo Andrew Baldwin, AIA DC Unbuilt Award 2013

Auburn University

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Marlon Blackwell Architect has received a 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas. In an “aggressive adaptive reuse,” an existing metal shop building was transformed into a sanctuary and fellowship hall. Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, a 1980 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, is founder and principal of Marlon Blackwell Architect and is a Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Third Year architecture students completed the annual “Concrete Comp” at the end of Fall Semester 2012. This competition is sponsored by the Alabama Concrete Industries Association, which provides funding for cash awards to the winning students. Winners included:  First Place, Michael Brudi “HandMade in Alabama”; Second Place, Alex Hays, “C2S”; Third Place, Alexandra Buehning, “Structural Glass CMU.”

4th year architecture celebrated the end of Fall 2012 with the 51st Annual Alagasco Student Design competition. This year’s challenge:  design a new 225,000 SF hospital in Boston on Parcel 11B, located on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a vibrant public corridor created by the monumental public works project of the “Big Dig.” This prominent location suggests a Children’s Hospital is a civic institution and a complex technical and cultural challenge.

Juried by a distinguished and varied panel of professionals including healthcare experts, faculty and architectural professionals, the projects were recognized for their complexity and range, as well as the thoroughness of the design solutions. First place was awarded to Whitney Johnson, second place to Cody Bryant and third place to Samuel Maddox. Honorable mentions were also awarded to Jeffrey Bak, Sean Flaharty, Samantha O’Leary, Austin Powers and Ruben Quesada Alvarado. These students attended the AIA Montgomery Design Awards Gala on December 4 where their final presentations were on display. Awards were made possible by generous support from Alagasco.

The Spring 2013 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning is entitled “Love & Hate: Points of View, Perspectives & Personalities” and is a continuation of the series of the same title from the Fall of 2012. The lectures this year focus on depth as opposed to breadth in the design practice. Lecturers will discuss specific project(s) of the designer’s choice rather than a survey of their respective portfolios with an emphasis on the design process beyond the finished product—often a means to an end. Lecturers will elaborate on the trials and tribulations of specific building endeavors in their recent past—the surprises, the small and large successes and the details of a project cycle.

APLA is particularly pleased to add a variety of speakers this spring including, architects, planners and historians. Scheduled speakers/presentations include:  Chris Leong , a founding partner of Leong Leong; a screening of the film Conversations with Architects, a film produced by Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, Helen Han, architect and filmmaker, and Margaret Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University; Julie Snow, FAIA of Julie Snow Architects; Marla Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans; Nasser Rabbat, the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.

Jack Williams, Professor Emeritus Auburn University, was invited to lecture at Beijing Forestry University in October as part of the University’s celebration of its 60th anniversary. Professor Williams and Beijing Forestry University’s faculty celebrated twenty years of friendship between the two universities Beijing Forestry University’s School of Landscape Architecture is China’s oldest and largest landscape architecture program and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in planning, urban design and landscape architecture.

University of Maryland

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Professor Matthew J. Bell has been elected to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows.  Election to the College status is awarded by a jury of peers and recognizes achievements of national significance in advancing the architectural profession.  The 2013 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony in Denver, Colorado on June 21 during the National AIA Convention. Bell joined Perkins Eastman in 2011 and prior to that was a principal with EE&K Architects for over 11 years and has been a practicing architect and professor of architecture for over 25 years.  His national and international architectural and urban design experience ranges from urban buildings and neighborhoods to the design and implementation of new towns, campuses and large scale development projects.  Creating a diverse portfolio of work has led Matt to unique insights into the urban-environment and design-issue challenges facing our cities, towns, and suburbs. Matthew Bell, FAIA is a principal of Perkins Eastman in Washington DC. As tenured Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Matt teaches architectural and urban design at all levels of the studio curriculum and has spearheaded the schools efforts at the archaeological site of Stabiae, Italy.  

Catholic University of America

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Photo: Sketch-analysis travel through Turkey with Professor Eric Jenkins.

Architect Claudio Silvestrin is the Walton Critic and Professor in residence for 2013.  He is based in London and Milan, and the author of an internationally recognized oeuvre covering architecture as well as a wide range of design scales and interests. Silvestrin’s thoughts and work have been featured in four books, many professional magazines and journals, exhibitions, as well as multiple other media outlets. During his residence at CUA School of Architecture and Planning, architect Silvestrin is directing a design studio centered in the intersection between culture and spirituality. He participates in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and informal meeting with students and faculty. Claudio Silvestrin lectured on his work philosophy and concerns last Wednesday 09/11 at CUAch’s Auditorium. He will be giving a special presentation titled “Works and Inspirations” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM at the Embassy of Italy. Claudio Silvestrin’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. For more information on the Walton Critic Program, contact Associate Professor Julio Bermudez.

This past June, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins directed a special program with sixteen students on a three-week sketch-analysis travel through Turkey. Studying primarily Islamic and vernacular architecture, the students began their studies in Istanbul and then moved onto towns such as Safronbolu, Amaysa, Tokat, Sivas, Konya and Bursa. In addition, Professor Jenkins has been invited by the Washington, DC-based firm Hickok-Cole Architects to lead a workshop related to his most recent book, Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing. The workshop will re-introduce freehand drawing skills, diagramming and specific sketching exercises to the firm’s employees so that sketching might be better re-integrated into the design process.

Associate Professor Julie Kim presented a paper at the 2013 BTES Conference “Tectonics of Teaching” at Roger Williams University in July. She shared the pedagogy and framework of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at CUA in a presentation entitled “Reflections on Building Technology in the Design Studio.”

Assistant Professor Hyojin Kim Ph.D. has joined the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Kim holds a doctorate in Architecture (December 2012) from Texas A&M University. She will be teaching courses in energy modeling and simulation.

Framed within the theme of ABSENCE, the 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture successfully celebrated another year with the completion of the NADAAA Design Studio, led by Nader Tehrani, and co-taught by Julian Palacio, Lecturer (CUA). The SIA also hosted a robust lecture series with presentations from Mark Sexton (Krueck + Sexton, Chicago); Rhett Russo (Specific Objects, NJ); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). The 2014 Summer Institute theme will be HYBRID SCALE. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Julie Kim, SIA Director.

Team Capitol DC’s Harvest Home is Washington DC’s first ever entry for the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Competition. The team’s contributing universities The Catholic University of America (Architecture and Planning), George Washington University (Engineering) and American University (Media and Communications) have been collaborating successfully for over two years. Harvest Home will be donated to Wounded Warrior Homes who specialize in finding accommodation for veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Harvest Home harvests sun, wind, rain and building materials to provide a healing environment for wounded warriors.

 

 

Auburn University

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The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of Auburn University Rural Studio.  Founded in 1993 by Sambo Mockbee and D.K. Ruth, the Studio’s rich existence in rural West Alabama is rooted in building relationships and earning trust from neighbors and friends in the community while immersing architecture students in the culture. Living, learning and working in West Alabama has afforded School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture students the opportunity to apply their skills as designers, while also learning about the nature, history, culture, economy, architecture and community in this unique educational landscape. Rural Studio would like to celebrate and honor the place and its people, which have allowed them to thrive while maintaining rigor and passion.

Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) has been gaining some recognition from some of its youngest alumnae/former students. First, Courtney Brett, and then, Rosannah Sandoval, became the AIA’s youngest licensed architects, in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Ms. Brett, who transferred to Auburn University’s School of Architecture when she was 16, was a Rural Studio participant who graduated in 2007, at age 20. Ms. Brett recently started her own firm, Casburn Brett Architecture, based out of Daphne, Alabama. Ms. Sandoval has a similar story, in that she finished school at the age of 18. At Auburn, she participated in Rural Studio. When her family relocated to California, Ms. Sandoval transferred to California College of the Arts, where she completed her degree. In 2013, Ms. Sandoval became the, now, youngest active Architect member of the AIA, at 23. She works as a designer in Perkins + Will’s San Francisco office

Associate Professor Doug Burleson has retired from the architecture program faculty this May, 2013. Prof. Burleson joined the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture’s (APLA) faculty in 1986, and the span of his teaching roles has covered a broad spectrum of studio year-levels and lecture topics. In addition to teaching in the professional curriculum, Prof. Burleson has taught the Architecture Appreciation course to non-architecture majors for the past six years.

The Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) is pleased to announce a new sponsored student competition. Marvin Windows by Dale Inc, a premier manufacturer of made-to-order wood and clad wood windows, will make an annual in support of awards for the APLA Portfolio Design Competition for fourth year architecture students. The sponsorship comes as a philanthropic gift from the company to the school through the Auburn University Foundation, and will be focused on helping students in the architecture program prepare for their professional careers. As the centerpiece of this support, the architecture program’s annual student portfolio competition has  become the Marvin Windows by Dale Inc Portfolio Competition. Marvin Windows by Dale Inc will also provide technical support for classroom instruction regarding windows and other building enclosure systems. The winners of this year’s competition are:  1st place, Justin Collier; Merit Award, Whitney Johnson, Merit Award, Taiwei Wang.

The Alabama Forestry Association has been sponsoring “wood comp,” second year architecture student design competition, for more than forty years. Participating in this competition has become a milestone experience for generations of Auburn Architecture graduates. During spring semester 2013 the 2nd year students design a branch library for a site  located in Bibb City, Georgia. To prepare for the project, the students traveled throughout the region to view examples of contemporary library designs as well as to gain insight into the changing role of this public institution in today’s electronic age. Winners of the 2013 competition are:  First Place, Kyle Kiersey; Second Place, Timothy Fuerst; Third Place, George Criminale.  Honorable Mentions were awarded to the following:  Lia Bernhardt, Kaylee Bruce, Krystal Duchene, Valyn Daconto.

Several students and faculty from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture have been honored with annual awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The Campus Rain Works Collaborative Team received an ASLA Student Award of Merit for their collaborative design entitled Auburn University Daylighting of Parkerson Mill Creek. The team consisted of landscape architecture students–Maria Hines, Dale Speetjens, Pratisha Shakya, Chen Fan and Xue Hao; architecture students–Brad Green & Cynthia Baker; Jaron Benett, Building Science and Amanda Meder, Horticulture.  Faculty/ staff mentors for the project were:  Darren Olsen, Building Science; Amy Wright, Horticulture; Paul Zorr, Architecture; Charlene LeBleu, Landscape Architecture and Stephen Everett, Auburn University Campus Planning.

Xue Hao, a 2013 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program, received an ASLA Student Award of Honor for Community Design & Service. Elements of the winning project, Rugged Sidewalk and Famous People Wall Elements, will be utilized for redevelopment of the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Civil Rights Trail. The Award of Honor is the highest design award given in landscape architecture. Xue Hao’s work is part of the 2012 Spring LAND 6330 Studio IV taught by Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture. 

HILLworks:  landscape + architecture, the design practice of assistant professor David Hill was recognized by the ASLA with two awards.  The Phrenology Project was awarded a 2013 Merit Award in Research for its investigation into the dynamic spatial qualities of plants through the seasons.  The Transformation Garden, designed for a private residence in Auburn, Alabama, was awarded a 2013 Award of Merit in Design. 

Charlene Lebleu, Associate Professor in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, presented the paper and a poster at the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) World Congress in Auckland, New Zealand, April 11.  The peer-reviewed paper entitled “Designing Africa in Alabama, USA” describes the historic significance of AfricaTown in Mobile County, AL, an area where the descendants of the last recorded group of captive Africans brought to the United States continue to live and make their home.  The paper highlights studio proposals to commemorate the history in the form of a State Park. The poster, “Plaza Independencia—Plaza Formation & Expression: Montevideo, Uruguay,” was co-authored with Marjorie Woodbury, a 2012 graduate of the MLA program. LeBleu and Woodbury traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay in fall 2011 to study urban plazas and continue to collaborate on projects.

Professor Rod Barnett, Program Chair for the Landscape Architecture program, has authored, Emergence in Landscape Architecture (Routledge, 2013).  Emergence in Landscape Architecture attempts to describe how landscape architects can frame their practices in response to the increasingly dramatic disturbances of the 21st century and  charts the development of new realms of interaction in our cities, in forgotten industrial landscapes and across the farms, streams and woodlands of the countryside.

Catholic University of America

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Urban Practice Concentration students from the Master of Architecture program under the direction of professors Eric Jenkins, Mark McInturff, and Elizabeth Emerson presented their Jersey City Harsimus Embankment project at the New York AIA’s Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village on January 18th, 2013. The project was developed during the Fall 2012 and comprised six block-long stone abutments. The Embankment runs through historic Jersey City, yet its future role in the city remains undetermined. Developers, city officials, local residents, architects, and academicians from Columbia and Pratt were among the approximately 200 people who attended the open house to participate in the student presentation and the question & answer session.


Photo Hemeroscopium House, Madrid by Ensamble Studio

The first of the 2013 Spring Lecture Series of the Catholic University of America will feature Antón García-Abril at 6:30pm on February 13, 2013 at the National Builiding Museum in Washington, D.C. Antón García-Abril is an Architect and Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He was previously a professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) and a guest faculty at M.I.T., GSD at Harvard, Cornell and several other universities in North America and Europe. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996 and in 2000 established ENSAMBLE STUDIO, leading a team that began a search for the architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. The work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO shows an ongoing exploration on the relationship of materiality, technology, and architectural space. Through this work, materials and constructive elements are continuously exposed, recontextualized, and reassembled to create and communicate spatial dichotomies in an experimental process that becomes as relevant as its final product. The architectural work and professional accomplishments of Antón García-Abril have been acknowledged in multiple opportunities at national and international arenas.

 

Auburn University

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Director of Auburn University’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama, Professor Cheryl Morgan, served as team leader for an AIA Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) in the Rockaways, New York. Cheryl has previously participated on one of R/UDAT’s Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) projects, and was instrumental to the R/UDAT project held in Birmingham, Alabama in 2011, following the devastating tornado that struck Pratt City.

Master of Community Planning (MCP) program graduate students, Valecia Wilson, Xibei Song and Chen Fan, received 2nd prize from the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association (ALAPA) for their class work in Professor Jay Mittal’s 2012 Fall Semester Urban Economics Class.

Professor David Hill’s design firm, HILLworks, was recently awarded a 2013 Watermark Grand Award honors from publications BUILDER and CUSTOM HOME for his project, “274 Bragg Kitchen” in Auburn, Alabama.  The Watermark Design Awards were created to recognize involvement in the process of innovative kitchen and bath design and construction. Hill is a Prof. in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s (APLA) Master of Landscape Architecture Program.

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School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture Professors’ Elena Bartell and Andrew Freear, along with APLA School Head David Hinson, are included in the inaugural Public Interest Design 100. This list of 100 people and teams “seeks to honor many of the diverse, passionate people at the intersection of design and service.”

A student team from the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture was the first place winner for the second year in a row in the National Organization of Minority Architects’ (NOMA) student design competition. This year’s student design competition team included: Damian Bolden (fifth-year Architecture), Tina Maceri (fourth-year Architecture), Valecia Wilson (first-year Community Planning), Brandon Cummings (first-year Community Planning), Taiwei Wan (fourth-year Architecture), Jack Mok (fourth-year Architecture), Cierra Heard (fourth-year Architecture), and Rachel Latham (fourth-year Architecture). Their winning proposal, “Renovate>Cultivate>Innovate” emphasized collective innovation that grows from the renovation of existing infrastructure and the cultivation of a live/make district. The team identified and strengthened a stunning diversity of activities along a walkable route from rural community to urban village to industrial corridor. The team’s holistic approach was praised by the jury of design professionals as “a catalyst for healing land, people, and economics.”

The Institute for International Education announced that Donneisha Clark, a senior in the College of Architecture Design and Construction has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship for study abroad to Turkey during the spring semester of 2013.  Established in 2000, the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Program is a nationally competitive scholarship program sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. The scholarship offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad.

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Back row: Lu Yongyi, Cai Yongjie, vice dean of the Graduate School of Tongji, Perry Yang, Huang Yiru, vice dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Dong Qi, vice president of Tongji, Li Xiangning, assistant dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Zhuang Yu
Front row, seated (l to r): Alan Balfour, Wu Changfu, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Alan Balfour, former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture, was recently named as advisory professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

The appointment was made by Tongji University president, Dr, Pei Gang. As advisory professor, Balfour will be working with students and faculty in Shanghai in the year ahead and working on a book on the future development of the Chinese city.  This will be a sequel to his 2002 book SHANGHAI: World City._

“Professor Balfour is a renowned scholar with an extraordinary ability to describe the links between social policies, economic aspirations, and the development of cities,” said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Georgia Tech. “He is a perfect choice to help Tongji University charter the past, present, and future of Shanghai.”

Tongji University is one of China’s leading universities directly under the State Ministry of Education. With an enrollment of 50,000 students, it offers degree programs both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The university offers a wide range of academic programs, 14 Schools ranging from architecture and urban planning to engineering to liberal arts and law.

Catholic University of America

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As part of the Catholic University of America Fall Lecture series, Nader Tehrani wil present his lecture “DA DA A NADAA” at 6pm on November 5th, 2012 at the Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C. 

Working on interdisciplinary platforms, Tehrani has focused his research on the transformation of the building industry, innovative material applications, and the development of new means and methods of construction. As the founding principal of office da, Tehrani has received many prestigious awards for his work, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and 13 Progressive Architecture awards. Tehrani is also a professor and the head of the Department of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Photo Samsugn Model Home Gallery by Seungbum Kim

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