6th year Student Thesis Project - University of Cincinnati, 1989-90

"The Voice of the Enlightened Anvil"  - A Center for Ironwork Studies. 

A resident school for a master blacksmith and six apprentices, located in rural western Pennsylvania. 

The design solution was influenced and informed by a careful reading of historical texts on the subject and a more general consideration of the roles of history and technology in contemporary life.

Major project components included residence facilities and communal areas for master and apprentices, and the cylindrical teaching/learning Forge Structure-proper.