Shortly after becoming chancellor of Syracuse University in 2005, Nancy Cantor introduced her Scholarship in Action initiative, which aims to meld academic study with community redevelopment efforts. As part of that wide-ranging effort, the Syracuse University School of Architecture, led by dean Mark Robbins, spawned a local design-build workshop, as well as a Gluckman Mayner–designed renovation of an old furniture warehouse in downtown Syracuse that now contains classrooms, a cafe, and an art gallery.
The most recent undertaking in this series of efforts is the competition "From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes," which will introduce three exemplary sustainable homes to a nearby neighborhood straitened by deindustrialization. The SU architecture school revealed the contest winners, selected by an 11-person jury, on January 22: Architecture Research Office (ARO) with Della Valle Bernheimer, both based in New York; Cook+Fox Architects, also of New York, with Terrapin Bright Green, a sustainability consultant; and the Philadelphia design-build firm Onion Flats.
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