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Catholic University of America

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

Clemson University

Merit Awards in the AARP/AIAS Aging in Place Kitchen Design Competition were given to Nick Tafel, Edgar Mozo, Joel Pominville, David Herrero for their project “A Kitchen Alive” and to Diana Rosch for her project “Centre.” Both projects were designed under the supervision of studio instructor Senior Lecturer Annemarie Jacques.  

Clemson University, School of Architecture undergraduate and graduate students won many international and national awards in Spring 2012:

Honorable Mention was given to graduate student Jingjie Zhao, with Professor Keith Green PhD as studio instructor, in the 2011 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition of a Culinary Arts College. There were 303 entries, and the jurors awarded only seven prizes, a 2 percent acceptance rate.

The Winning Project was awarded to Caitlin Ranson and Dianah Katzenberger (both Clemson M. Arch. ’12 graduates,) with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the ACSA 2011-2012 International Sustainable Laboratories Student Design Competition. The Jury awarded only two top prizes and three honorable mentions.

The South Region Winning Project was awarded to Nick Barrett and Sam Pruitt, with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the 2011-2012 The Sustainable Home, A Habitat for Humanity Student Design Competition, which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and Vinyl Institute. There were 100 submissions, from which the jurors chose four regional winners and three other honors, a 5 percent acceptance rate.

Four faculty members have joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as new permanent faculty this academic year.

Akel Ismail Kahera, Ph.D. has joined Clemson University as a tenured professor and as the newly appointed associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. For the past five years, Akel has served as director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. From 2009 to 2011, he served as interim director of at Prairie View’s graduate studies degree program in community development. He also taught at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of specialization include hermeneutics, design, urbanism, community development, non-Western architecture, and architectural history and theory. He is a practicing architect and designer. Akel is the author of more than two dozen scholarly essays, as well as author or co-author of three books: Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender and Aesthetics, 2002; Design Criteria for Mosques (co-author,) 2009; and Reading the Islamic City, 2011. Akel received a B.Arch. from Pratt Institute, M.Arch from MIT and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. 

Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D. has Joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new tenure-track assistant professor focusing on Western and non-Western history/theory and design. Ufuk is a practicing architect and was an assistant professor of architecture at the Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey prior to moving to Clemson. He is also a guest lecturer in the Program of Architecture, University of New South Wales. He completed his Ph. D. in Architecture under the supervision of David Leatherbarrow at the University of Pennsylvania where he also received his received M.Arch. and M.S. degrees. His research focuses on the glass cultures of 19th– and 20th-century architectures and the consequences of technological changes on the discipline of architecture. Recently, he guest-edited a special issue of the journal World Architecture on “Architecture in Turkey: A Glocal Production” and published his essay “To See Daydreams: The Glass Utopia of Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut” in Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia.  

Dustin Albright, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new full-time lecturer teaching design studio and structures courses. Dustin has unique dual expertise in architecture and engineering, coupled with critical engagement with public projects. He has a B.S. in physics from Washington and Lee University, M.S. in civil engineering/structures and M.Arch. from Virginia Tech University. Dustin has been practicing with Craig Gaulden Davis in Greenville since 2008. He has been actively engaged with the profession and local communities through his leadership in AIA Greenville’s Architecture Month.

Nicholas Ault who taught part-time for Clemson University, School of Architecture last year, joins this year as a full-time lecturer teaching design studio and digital communications. His strengths include a comprehensive understanding of current digital practices in architectural design and fabrication, as well as a focus on pedagogy within undergraduate foundation design studios. Nick has a B.S. in technology from Bowling Green State University and an M.Arch. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He practiced in Ohio, held a visiting appointment at UNCC as the director of Digital Fabrications Laboratory and lecturer at the School of Architecture, and taught as an adjunct at Queens University of Charlotte. 

 

Clemson University

Clemson School of Architecture Celebrates Centennial with Symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

 

CLEMSON, SC— Clemson University’s School of Architecture will celebrate its 100th year of architectural education with a symposium on the timely subject of “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lee Hall.

Speakers include noted architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and award-winning, Southeast-based practitioners and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon.

Since its founding in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has sought a balance between service to the state of South Carolina and connections to the wider world. Exemplifying this tradition, founder Rudolph “Pop” Lee (1874-1959)—namesake of Clemson’s award-winning Lee Hall—studied engineering at Clemson Agricultural College, a land grant school, but was trained in architecture at Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Clemson’s architecture program has been mindful of the connections between the local and the global, creating a “Fluid Campus” including full-time study centers in the cities of Charleston, SC, Genoa, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. This geographical approach defined the centennial theme, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.”

The subject of regionalism in architecture has a long history, yet remains timely. Recently, “critical regionalism”—a term coined by symposium keynote speakers Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in 1981—was the theme of the August edition of the American Institute of Architects’ magazine Architect.

As Tzonis and Lefaivre noted in their recent book, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (2012), regionalism is a “never ending challenge” that has become increasingly significant for architects and regional cultures in an increasingly “flat” and interconnected world.

In the symposium, Tzonis and Lefaivre’s global and historical perspective will be complimented by talks from award-winning architects and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon. All based in the Southeast, their experiences have been influenced by familiar engagements with local and global cultures, and uniquely fluid geographies and careers.

The symposium, to be followed by a Beaux Arts Ball, marks the fourth and final major event of the school’s centennial year. In March, Clemson celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.

The symposium webpage can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/symposium.html.

The event is free, but registration is requested at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20569_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=30&SINGLESTORE=true.

 

 

Contacts:

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Chair of the Clemson University School of Architecture
Email: kschwen@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-3895

Peter L. Laurence, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: plauren@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1499

Media Contact:
Jeannie Davis
Email: eugenia@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1821

 

Catholic University of America

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

Catholic University of America


“Box of Miracles: Contemplating a 21st Century Convent”
opened January 29th at the Art Gallery of the Wesley Theological Seminary’s  Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. The exhibit features selected design work by CUA sacred space and cultural studies concentration students and senior undergraduate students, and will run until March 1st. This work was produced last semester under the guidance of 2012 Walton Critic Alberto Campo Baeza and CUArch Associate Professors Julio Bermudez and Luis Boza.

 Photo Cube I, Guadalajara, Mexico by Estudio Carme Pinós

Carme Pinós, an Architect and Urbanist based in Barcelona, lectured on her work Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies. Pinós set up her own firm in 1991, after a decade of partnership with Enric Miralles. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the National Prize of Architecture by the Spanish Architects Association in 1995, the 2001 Prize by the Professional Architect Association of the Comunidad Valenciana for the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja, the 2005 Arqcatmón Prize by the Professional Architect Association of Catalonia for the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, as well as the 1st Prize of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture in 2007 for the same building. In 2008 she received the National Prize of Architecture and Urban Space by the Catalan Government for her professional work. Her current work includes the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, the Museum of Transport and Metropolitan Park in Málaga, “La Gardunya” Square in the Historical District in Barcelona comprising “La Gardunya” Square Design, “La Massana” Fine Arts Center, a Housing Block and “La Boqueria” Market’s back façade, as well as a Department Building in the New Campus of the University of Economics in Vienna, the Caixaforum in Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico).


Clemson University

Clemson School of Architecture (CSoA) celebrated its 100th year of architectural education with a symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18. The keynote address was given by architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, who coined the term “critical regionalism” and who recently wrote a book with the same title, published by Routledge last December. Other speakers were noted Southeast-based practitioner-educators Marlon Blackwell (based in Fayetteville, AK), Merrill Elam (Atlanta), and Frank Harmon (Raleigh, NC).

Assistant Professor
Peter Laurence, PhD, Clemson’s director of graduate studies and conference organizer, says that the school’s strong regionalist concern is “what made us seek out Tzonis and Lefaivre and three prominent regional architects to help celebrate our centennial.” Clemson, the only school of architecture in the state of South Carolina, also maintains a “Fluid Campus,” urban satellites offering to its nearly 400 students semester-long study in Charleston, SC, Barcelona, and Genoa, where the school has owned a villa since 1972. Off-campus study is in fact required of the school’s undergraduates. With the theme of “Southern Roots + Global Reach,” the centennial year also marked the 40th and 25th anniversaries of the Genoa and Charleston programs, as well as the 45th year of the school’s Architecture + Health program. 

The CSoA Architecture + Health Program brought 20 students to the Annual Healthcare Design Conference in Orlando and involved in the following activities:

– Five students participated in a design Charrette with Professor David Allison. The remainder of the students worked as volunteers at the Conference. 

– May 2013 graduate Minglu Lin received a National Healthcare Environments Design Award for her comprehensive project last year.

– May 2013 graduate Lisa Marchi presented her Thesis and AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Fellowship proposal at the Conference. 

– Associate Professor Dina Battisto and her PhD student Debbie Franqui presented their research on Post Occupancy Evaluation. 

– Professor David Allison with Frank Zilm from the University of Kansas conducted a panel session on MOOCs in architecture and health education.

Also, The Architecture + Health Program will be offering a summer study abroad program for academic credit in Northern Italy the last two weeks in May of 2014. It will explore the historic and contemporary healthcare architecture of northern Italy. 

Professor David Allison FAIA, ACHA, has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American College of Healthcare Architects position. The American College of Healthcare Architects provides board certification in the specialty area of architectural practice in health facilities design and advancement to fellowship is one of the highest honors the American College of Healthcare Architects can bestow upon a certificant. Fellowship is granted to architects specializing in healthcare who have shown distinction in fulfilling the Area of Expertise. Nominations should be based on the certificants contributions that impact the healthcare profession as a whole in fulfilling the Area of Expertise. Achievements should include those that are national in scope and have made substantial and positive contributions to the American College of Healthcare Architects as well as to architecture and society. The link to the ACHA organization and Fellowship is: http://www.healtharchitects.org/Member/fellowship_info.asp. Allison was also named by Designintelligence one of “30 Most Admired Educators for 2014,” a list that includes the 30 most admired educators in design, chosen from architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and interior design. The publication states, “Thanks to his knowledge and connections to the workforce, he knows that his students are in demand, and pushes each one to be the best.”

Lecturer Nicholas Ault has been appointed the Professor in Residence at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies, Genoa. Ault also designed the Clemson Centennial Gallery Exhibit entitled Southern Roots + Global Reach. 

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, received an award of $199,995 from the National Science Foundation supporting the design, prototyping and evaluation of the LIT ROOM, an evocative, literacy support tool at room-scale. The LIT ROOM is a novel suite of user-friendly, networked, “architectural-robotic” artifacts embedded in the everyday physical space of the library. This physical-digital environment is transformed by words read by its young visitors so that the everyday space of the library “merges” with the imaginary space of the book: The book is a room. The test bed for the LIT ROOM is a ground zero for literacy: the Richland County Public Library of Columbia, South Carolina – the largest public library in the State. Green is Principal Investigator for the LIT ROOM research, joined by Co-PIs Ian Walker (ECE) and Susan Fullerton (Education). Green is PI as well for the NSF-funded Assistive Robotic Table [ART], the key component of his larger “home+” suite of robotic, networked furnishings supporting independence for clinical populations and those aging in place. With Mark Gross of CMU, Green is co-authoring Architectural Robotics forthcoming from MIT Press to further establish this subfield at the interface or architecture and computing.

Assistant Professor Sallie Hambright-Belue and Associate Professor Robert Silance have recently co-authored an essay entitled, Consecrated Community: The Indian Field Methodist Campground which will be published in the Unpublished issue of the journal CLOG coming out later this year. The essay describes the unique morphology of the early Christian campground and its importance in defining a culture’s place in the world. 

 

University of Maryland

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.  

Philadelphia University

We are pleased to welcome Professor James Doerfler as the new Director of the Architecture Program.  James comes to us from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he was serving as Interim Head of the Architecture Department.  James will oversee the Bachelor of Architecture and the four-year Architectural Studies programs as well as supervising the development of new graduate programs.

Assistant Professor Daniel Chung recently received a $25,000 National Center for Preservation Technology and Training grant to research methods to improve simulation and verification techniques in energy modeling of historic buildings. This research investigates improving energy simulation methods of existing buildings to help model building material assemblies and improve accuracy in energy modeling of historic buildings.

Led by Associate professors
David Kratzer (architecture) and Frank Baseman (graphic design), with exhibition advising by Assistant Professor Donald Dunham, architecture and graphic design students collaborated to create an exhibit celebrating the life of Arlen Specter entitled “Single Bullet: Arlen Specter and the Warren Commission Investigation of the JFK Assassination.” that places visitors “in the place of” Specter and JFK during the assassination and the subsequent Warren Commission to understand the nature and gravity of the events.

Associate Professors Carol Hermann, along with Director of Construction Management Greg Lucado and Asst. Professor of Interior Design Jake Tucci, were awarded a University Nexus Learning Grant to work on “A Common Core Experience to Promote Understanding of the Relationships between Professions.” 

Associate Professor Craig Griffen was awarded a University Online Nexus Learning Grant to research best practices for online studio delivery procedures.

Edgar Stach, Professor of architecture, and Assistant Professors of architecture Kihong Ku and Daniel Chung were awarded a university Innovations in Research Grant to conduct new research to support the Philadelphia University MAG Composites Institute. The professors will explore Digitally-driven Fiber Composites for Complex Buildings.

During the Summer of 2013, Assistant Professor Chris Harnish and 7 architecture students traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to research the urban conditions in Alexandra Township. The students led community design workshops, conducted interviews of stakeholders, and researched site conditions in a historic youth precinct.

Clemson University

 

Clemson University, School of Architecture celebrates its centennial with a series of events including exhibitions, lectures and symposia:

 

ANNUAL CAF/ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
All lectures in the 2013 series will be given by individuals who have a connection to Clemson’s School of Architecture — alumni, former teachers and friends. Sponsored by the Clemson Advancement Foundation for Design and Building and the School of Architecture

March 25, 2013: Symposia and receptions in Genoa, Clemson, Charleston and Barcelona
THE VILLA AT 40
Celebrating four decades of life-changing education at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa

May 3, 2013: CAC.C-hosted sessions of the SCAIA Annual Conference
ARCHITECTURE + COMMUNITYBUILD IN CHARLESTON, S.C.
Celebrating 25 years of teaching, research and community outreach at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston

August 22–23, 2013: Symposium, reception and address
2013 SAR ARCHITECTURE FOR HEALTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIA: LOCAL ROOTS AND GLOBAL REACH
Chautauqua 4.0 — Health Care Architecture in the Public Realm Keynote Speaker: Michael Murphy with MASS

September 30–October 30, 2013: Exhibition
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH: 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE
A monthlong exhibition in the Lee Gallery to explore and honor the people, themes and stories of the past century

October 18, 2013: Symposium
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH
A daylong symposium featuring a keynote lecture by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, Ph.D., on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

October 18, 2013: Celebration
GET YOUR BEAUX-ARTS ON!
A formal reception in Lee III, the new Thomas Phifer addition to Lee Hall

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/

Morgan State University

Baltimore – Students and faculty from the School of Architecture and Planning have been invited for the third straight year to participate and exhibit an environmental installation for Artscape. The project, titled Destination 1 is a music pavilion and DJ dome inspired by the visionary ideas of Buckminster Fuller. A forefather of the modern sustainability movement, Fuller sought ways to help humanity better understand the inherent connections of Earth’s living systems that bind us all together. Melding with Artscape’s 2013 theme “No Passport Required,” Destination 1 seeks to celebrate the oneness of the human race regardless of nationality, ethnic, geographic, cultural or financial boundaries. Working with reclaimed / re_purposed materials, Destination 1 seeks to deconstruct those boundaries. Thus, by promoting a global “oneness” and encouraging visitors to think holistically about our planet, we can encourage all to be better stewards of the planet we share, our “Spaceship Earth.”

Led by faculty members Brian Grieb, AIA and Brian Stansbury, Destination 1 will be a centerpiece of the festival along the Charles Street promenade. The team has collaborated with local DJ’s and artists who will help activate the space with music performances. Throughout the three_day event, DJ’s will be spinning found records for a local salvage company. On Saturday evening, the sounds of Kinetic Light Instruments designed by artists McCormack and Figg, will help bring the first ever “Artscape After Dark” event to life.

“We are excited to once again be selected by Artscape and the Baltimore Office and Promotion & the Arts,” said Brian Grieb, faculty advisor for Destination 1. “The event provides a fantastic environment for our students to display their talents and creative energy, while creating a vibrant and thought provoking space for festival attendees.”

“Working on Destination 1 is extremely rewarding to see our concepts and models become physical structures,” said team member Courtney Morgan, a junior in the architecture program at Morgan State University. “It’s hard work, but at the end of day when you walk past all the things we have built, it definitely puts a smile on my face seeing what we have accomplished.”

Learn more at: www.destination1.org

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