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Work in Progress has moved online!
With the inauguration of a digital platform, we intend to create new and strengthen established connections among alumni of the RISD architecture program in order to establish a relevant, evolving archive of our creative work and experience, foster conversation, and to maintain a dialogue among alumni in our world beyond the BEB.
Editorial board
Will McLoughlin is a recent graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with both a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, and Bachelor’s of Architecture. He is the recipient of the 2009 Alpha Rho Chi Medal presented by the National Professional Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts recognizing leadership, service, and promise for professional merit. In 2010 he was elected to the RISD Alumni Council, a body of volunteers who oversee the Alumni Association of the College. He was co-founder of Public Street[s], a group working with the City of Providence to utilize grant money from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase foreclosed properties, renovate them in a sustainable manner, and sell them back to low-income individuals and families. He teaches at Parsons The New School for Design, and has been a critic at Rhode Island School of Design. In March of 2011 he joined FXFOWLE Architects in New York City as a designer within the Urban Studio.
Chelsea Limbird graduated from the Master of Architecture program at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Her thesis, the Space of Correspondence, intertwined questions of writing, narrative, metaphor, point of view and the imagination, accumulation, edition and making as the creative path of design. At RISD, she taught in the Architecture, Liberal Arts, Foundations, History of Arts and Visual Culture departments and in the Summer Program for English Language Studies. Chelsea completed the certificate program through Brown University’s Sheridan Center for Teaching. Before RISD, she earned her BA from Brown University with a double concentration in Economics and Architectural Studies.
Currently, Chelsea is a freelance architectural, design and writing consultant in New York City. She teaches at Parsons and New York Institute of Technology and is a regular visiting critic at RISD, Parsons, NYIT, City College of New York, Pratt and the Cooper Union.
Andrew Liebchen graduated in 2009 with a graduate degree in Architecture along with Will and Chelsea. Andrew’s focus at RISD varied wildly from the architecture of the space program, Providence’s history of flooding, astronomy, robotics, and retail design. While at RISD, he helped organize the first (and so far only) Women in Architecture symposium, bringing together three generations of architects to discuss gender and practice. Andrew has a BFA in Set Design from UNCG, and has worked as a professional theatrical scene designer and props artisan.
Today, Andrew runs Deelux, a graphic and web design studio in Providence, with his wife, Chelsea.
Acknowledgements
The editorial board would like to extend special thanks to the contributions from Lynnette Widder and Jason Atkins.