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BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

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the northwest, bounded by Edythe, Monument, Madison, Aisquith,<br />

and Central Avenues.(l)<br />

103. The U.S. Office of Education conducted charettes between 1968 and<br />

1970 in several cities and rural areas. The Baltimore Charette was by<br />

far its most ambitious and successful. As time went on, changes in program<br />

at the national level and the U.S. financial recession caused the inevitable<br />

compromises. These same negative forces also killed the charette<br />

program in 1971. Nevertheless, the new Dunbar High School was built and<br />

many of the recommendations of the charette in both form and content survived<br />

in. the final design.<br />

R/UDAT<br />

104. A program with some features in common with the charette process has<br />

been developed by the American Institute of Architects. It is called<br />

Regional/Urban Design Assistance Teams, or R/UDAT's. For some ten years .<br />

the AIA has been sending assistance teams to communities which have called<br />

for help.(2) Processes of the kind described below have now been held<br />

in more than 40 large cities, small towns and rural communities throughout<br />

the United States.<br />

105. Usually a team of eight nationally renowned professionals will be<br />

assembled to form a R/UDAT. A typical team will be composed of four<br />

architects, a planner, an economist, a lawyer, and a sociologist. However<br />

the composition of the teams varies according to the problems and<br />

needs of each community.<br />

106. A R/UDAT program lasts four days, as follows:<br />

I. First day. Morning: briefing by officials. Afternoon: meetings<br />

with community organizations and citizens. Evening: visits<br />

to the site.<br />

II. Second day. Morning: each team member will do individual research,<br />

or meet with selected officials and/or citizens to obtain<br />

data in greater depth. Afternoon: site visits and group<br />

meetings. Evening: team meets and discusses findings and recommendations.<br />

1) Sherwood D. Kohn, op.cit.<br />

2) R/UDAT, Regional/Urban Design Assistance Teams, a program of The<br />

American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., August 1976.<br />

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