Design Assistant
Resume:
Q u ard ean Lewis-A l len PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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January 2012-Present
Founder/CEO, Young Designers Profiled (.org) Brooklyn, NY
\\ Video database of stories from young minority designers involved in social design initiatives
Somer ville, MA 02143
to be used as a learning resource and inspiring minority youth to enter the design fields.
quardean.com
+1-646-***-**** Writer/Content Producer, Harvard GSD Digital Communications Cambridge, MA January 2012-Present
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\\ Contributor to blog, create graphics, and photography
@qlogsTLBA
Architecture Intern, Dr. Aloy & Gesare Chife Foundation Anam, Anambra, Nigeria June 2011-August 2011
Anam New City Ogwuyo Site
\\ Research and design of eco-sustainable rurban (rural + urban) affordable housing
\\ Land and community surveys, CD Production
EDUCATION
\\ Ogwuyo Exhibition
Harvard University Graduate School of Design,
May 2011-Present
Candidate for Master in Architecture I Founder & Editor, The Last Black Architect (.com) Brooklyn, NY
Cambridge, MA 2009-2013 \\ Webmaster and marketing for design education and social content blog
\\ Paris Studio Abroad @ Le Laboratoire, \\ Blogger, infographics and other graphic design
Paris, France Fall 2011
August 2010-Present
Facilities Management Intern, GSD Building Services Cambridge, MA
\\ Proposals for room renovations, CD Production, client interaction
SUNY at Buffalo School of Arch and Planning,
Shop Assistant, GSD Woodshop Cambridge, MA Sept 2009-May 2011
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Cum Laude
Buffalo, NY 2005-2009 \\ Proposal, design and implementation of safety placards for shop machines
\\ Fabrications and woodwork assistant
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Architecture Intern, Facilities Planning and Design, John Beane Center Buffalo, NY July 2008-May 2009
Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors \\ Structural and MEP CD Production, rendering and 3D modeling of campus facilities
Brooklyn, NY 2001-2005
Student Assistant, Materials and Methods Shop SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY Sept 2007-June 2009
\\ Fabrications and woodwork assistant
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS
Harvard GSD International Community Service
Fellowship Travel Award 2011 RESE ARCH EXPERIENCE
Spring 2005
Mt. Paran Baptist Church Scholar 2004, 2005 Hamlin Park Local Preservation District Re-evaluation Buffalo, NY
\\ Survey and preparation of Building Assessment for Allentown Certified Local Preservation
EXHIBITIONS + COMPETITIONS District prepared for the City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning
Loeb Library Gallery, Paris Studio Spring 2005
Performance Programming St. John s Baptist Church Buffalo, NY
\\ Cambridge, MA Spring 2012
\\ Feasibility assessments and research to develop design for a collaborative proposal for the
Cummulus Exhibition with Ciro Najle, Le Laboratoire rehabilitation and expansion of landmark church, assessed by the church council
\\ Paris, France Fall 2011
SERVICE + ACTIVITIES
Blueprints of Paradise Exhibition, Afrika Museum
Honorable mention in Competition Fall 2011
Harvard GSD Mudworks, Volunteer
Fall 2010 + Spring 2012
Project Link, Harvard GSD
\\ Berg en Dal, Netherlands Summer 2011
\\ Assist in outreach workshops to introduce high school students to the design professions
Elemental House Exhibition, UB Anderson Gallery
Harvard GSD Trays Journal, Contributor Fall 2010
\\ Buffalo, NY Summer 2005
Harvard GSD Social Change and Activism (SoCA), Chair 2010-2012
\\ Initiated DO! Design Opportunity, an annual compendium on design activism and social justice
PROF ESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
\\ Lecture and meeting planning and moderation
Software
Harvard GSD Green Team, Member Fall 2010
Autodesk [AutoCAD 3D Studio Max Revit]
\\ Designed GSD Green Maps
McNeel Rhinoceros [V-Ray and Grasshopper] Adobe
Harvard GSD National Organization of Minority Architecture and Design Students (NOMAdS), Chair
[Photoshop InDesign Illustrator AfterEffects
BAC + HO+K Service Learning Project for United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury (UNLR) 2010-2011
Premiere] Microsoft [Excel Word Powerpoint] \\ Held charrette for design of community information kiosks to better inform Lower Roxbury Fall 2010
Digital Project/Catia Multiframe Google SketchUp neighbors and visitors of their local events, urban farmer s market activities and the sites rich history.
Conference Planning Committee for National Conference, BosNOMA, Student Liaison Fall 2010
Digital Fabrication Harvard College Kuumba Singers, Tenor and Finance Committee Member Fall 2010
Z-Corp and Dimension ABS rapid prototyping Advisory Board for Universal Design, IDeA Center/NEA/HBCU, Student Representative 2009-2010
CNC routing laser cutting Harvard GSD Real Estate Development Club, Member Fall 2009
Other
L ECTURES + PUBLICATIONS
Structural and MEP CD Document Production Harvard GSD Student Lecture Series Talk: Anam New City Project, Lecturer Cambridge, MA Spring 2012
Social Media Consultant Lewis-Allen, Quardean; Doyle, Shelby (Eds.). DO!: Design Opportunity, Tangible Futures Cambridge: Fall 2010
SEO and Web Marketing Student Publication of Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2010.
Web Digital Photo Optimization and Video Editing Harvard GSD Loeb Fellows Invite: Sermon On the City Performance-Talk with Theaster Gates in Fall 2010
conversation with Michael Hays, Panel Cambridge, MA
Fluent in English. Conversational Spanish.
Harvard GSD SoCA Talks Series with Bryan Bell, Chee Pearlman and Theaster Gates, Moderator Fall 2010
TRAVELS Cambridge, MA
AFRICA Nigeria [Lagos, Anam, Calabar] Harvard GSD A View on Harvard II. London: TANK Publishers. 2010. Spring 2009
CENTRAL AMERICA Panama [Panama City]
EUROPE Italy [Milan, Florence, Venice, Rome, Capri, INDEPENDENT COURSEW ORK + W ORKSHOPS
2010
Pompeii, Sorento, Tuscany, Lake Como, Pisa] \\ France Harvard GSD, Grant-writing Workshop
Harvard GSD, Alternative Orphanage Designs + New Spaces for Haiti s Children Workshop with 2011
[Paris, Poissy] \\ UK [London] \\ Spain [Barcelona]
the GSD Social Agency Research Lab
Pratt Institute, Portfolio Development Workshop 2004
Q u ar d ean Lewis-A l len
42 Calvin Street Apt 2L
Somer ville, MA 02143
quardean.com
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PERFORMATIVE ARTS CENTER
North End, Boston, MA, US
Critic Maryann Thompson GSD Core 3 Fall 2011
Coordinator Jonathan Levi
The program was large: three performance arts
theatres, a dance studio, a school, a restaurant, a
cafe, among other requirements. The site was in
Boston s North End perched between a newly
constructed ice skating rink and an existing sports
recreational park. It was populated with trees and
artificial shrubbery. The intervention seeks to
reconcile the reconcilable effects of placing so large
a program onto a relatively small site.
The site is split into two halves: nature and
sculpture. On the natural side, ideals of submer-
gence, intimacy, and enclosure push the buildings
mass underground, allowing for the park to extend
itself from the ground to the roof, seamlessly. This
half of the site is filled with private program that
requires less exposure to public visibility, i.e. the
school and dance studio. On the other half of the
site, the half more exposed to public programs such
as the theatres and restaurants, the building
emerges as sculpture, as public spectacle, pulling to
the surface the program within.
The buildings sweeping and curving gesture is both
aesthetic and performative. On the submerged end,
the sweep reveals an outdoor amphitheater adjacent
to a summer fountain/winter ice rink. The center
rotation of the building seeks to attenuate the heat
island effect and thermal gain of the large exposed
concrete surface of the structure by turning the
green roof into a green wall. The same move also
turns the schools windows into skylights for the
exhibition space and the corridors of the theatres.
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