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David Perkes
Posted: October 23, 2007

David Perkes is an architect and Associate Professor for Mississippi State University School of Architecture. For the past seven years, David has been the director of the Jackson Community Design Center, and since Hurricane Katrina, has been leading the newly establishment Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. As director of the Design Center, David has overseen projects that range from neighborhood planning to feasibility studies to affordable and sustainable housing. Under his leadership the Jackson Community Design Center has assisted many community organizations and has been recognized with an Honor Award from the Mississippi Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, has a sustainable Habitat for Humanity house that was selected in the National AIA “Show Your Green” program to be featured in the Design Advisor, and has received support from the National Endowments for the Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, and other local and national organizations. Professor Perkes was selected as the designer from Mississippi in January 2004 issue of International Design in which a designer is featured from each state. His work now focuses on rebuilding Mississippi Gulf Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The work initiated by the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio includes housing and community planning in Biloxi, Mississippi, and other communities, working with Architecture for Humanity and with other local and national partners.  Mississippi State University was one of seven universities to receive a HUD University Rebuilding America Partnership grant, which helps fund housing and neighborhood planning work in East Biloxi.  He has a Master of Environmental Design degree from Yale School of Architecture, a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Utah, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Gulf Coast Community Design Studio

GCCDS
Posted: October 23, 2007

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