{"id":65455,"date":"2025-04-14T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=65455"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:00:28","slug":"in-award-winning-course-students-solve-global-challenges-brick-by-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2025\/04\/14\/in-award-winning-course-students-solve-global-challenges-brick-by-brick\/","title":{"rendered":"In Award-winning Course Students Solve Global Challenges Brick by Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide\" style=\"min-height:613px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-65457 lazyload\" alt=\"students in Tanzania with bricks outdoors\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3.jpg\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1707;object-position:52% 34%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"52% 34%\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/04\/McCormick_Tanzania-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ba9f453792ff5c7d562f41e35be0f126\">The collaborative course between architecture and engineering challenges conventional architectural thinking<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What if the design of a brick could reduce the spread of malaria?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That question lies at the heart of the course \u201cBuilding Health: Resilient Building Materials for Global Health &amp; Sustainability.\u201d Cross-listed between architecture and civil engineering and developed collaboratively by architecture professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/liz-mccormick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liz McCormick<\/a>&nbsp;and civil engineering professor <a href=\"https:\/\/cee.charlotte.edu\/directory\/brett-q-tempest-phd-pe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brett Tempest<\/a>, \u201cBuilding Health\u201d challenges conventional architectural thinking by seeing vast untapped potential for the humble brick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through innovations in both the geometry of bricks and their composition, students in the seminar are creating building blocks that can outwit mosquitoes, make spaces more comfortable to inhabit, and reduce negative impact on the environment. 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--smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/1340;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The curriculum\u2019s expansive approach recently earned McCormick a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsa-arch.org\/press-release-winners-announced-for-the-2025-brick-in-architecture-education-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 Brick in Architectural Education Prize<\/a> from the Brick Industry Association and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The award recognizes architecture courses that \u201ccreate a stimulating environment for learning about brick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCormick says that as an architect, researcher, and teacher she likes \u201cto do things as simply as possible \u2013 really big things with small modifications.\u201d Not only a guiding principle, \u201cHigh-Performance, Low-Tech\u201d is the name of another award-winning course, for which she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2021-01-22\/course-architecture-professor-wins-national-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received a 2021 Buell Center Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several years McCormick has particularly been interested in tropical climates, and in 2022 she visited the East African nation of Tanzania for the first time after attending a Pan-African Mosquito Control Association conference. She also began working with Tempest, whose research involves incorporating natural and recycled materials into concrete and masonry construction to improve environmental sustainability. Brick is the most common building material in the world, but the manufacturing process can often lead to high levels of environmental pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2023, McCormick and Tempest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2023-04-27\/professors-nsf-grant-allows-students-join-research-project-tanzania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, \u201cSustainable Housing &amp; Protective Building Materials: Masonry as a Link Between Accessible Construction, Energy, Human Comfort and Mosquito Control in Rural Tanzania.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;The three-year grant would allow the professors to fund student researchers in field work in Tanzania. 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