The PRA Prize in Architecture and Community Design

at University of South Florida’s College of The Arts/School of Architecture and Community Design (SACD)

Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP and the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee’s School of Architecture and Community Design are excited to announce the $5,000 PRA Prize and included offer of a 2023 paid summer internship at the PRA Sarasota Office.

Details are outlined below:

• The PRA Prize in the amount of $5,000 will be awarded to a student in recognition of architectural design that displays exceptional creativity and technical mastery.

Where Generations Meet

For millennia, people have lived together across many generations.  Indeed, living with one’s grandparents, or town elders, was a commonplace and even honored tradition in the 19th and early 20th century of many cultures.  The explosion of residential development and wide acceptance of automobile-based planning in the postwar era provided unmitigated prosperity, with a reduction in mixed generations and cohousing. The reduction of generations living together is an unintended consequence of the post-war era prosperity,

Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP (PRA) is happy to announce that Samantha Johnson has recently joined the firm’s Sarasota office as a Project Specialist.

Where Design Meets Curriculum

Traditional school design lacks the flexibility needed for today’s curriculum and often limits student exposure to opportunities outside of core subjects. In the past two decades, our perspective on school design has evolved to be more student-centered and promote collaboration and more personalized learning opportunities. School buildings are no longer simple places we send our children to receive direct instruction for nine months of the year. Instead, they are tools used to enhance learning and provide access to discovery.