KU architecture school celebrates ‘symbolic’ groundbreaking for Marvin

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At left, Alan Black, Professor Emeritus, Urban Planning at KU and 804 Studio student Christine Harwood, St. Louis, MO., visit during a celebration for the new addition to the School of Architecture's Marvin Hall. A model of the new addition, called The Forum, which is being built by Kansas University's Studio 804, will house the KU School for Architecture, Design and Planning's first-ever lecture room. Black and Harwood were at a ceremonial groundbreaking at the Lied Center Friday.

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The construction site for the new addition to Marvin Hall is viewed outside the windows of the walkway between Marvin and the Fine Arts building on the Kansas University campus.

After clearing another set of bureaucratic hurdles, Kansas University's Studio 804 is ready to begin putting in place the first pieces of a new addition to Marvin Hall.

The addition will house the KU School for Architecture, Design and Planning's first-ever lecture room and commons area at its home in the 105-year-old Marvin.

Studio 804, a year-long workshop that takes students from the design of a building through construction, began the project last fall.

On Friday the school celebrated what architecture school dean John Gaunt described as a "symbolic groundbreaking" at the Lied Center Pavilion. The school hosted the Studio 804 students, faculty, alumni, KU administrators and potential donors to learn about Studio 804's work so far and the building soon to be.

It was good timing, too, Gaunt said. "They got the go ahead from Topeka. They're all clear on codes. The students are ready to dig in," he said.

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