œWe do normal roofs that look like roofs and houses that look like houses, says Will Dowdy (™05), an architect at the Northern California firm of Anderson|Kim Architecture+Urban Design. œIt™s more traditional. It™s been done before, but it works pretty well, just like it has for a long time.

This approach to architecture, one that prioritizes classical forms over novelty and fashion, is œquite parallel to what happens at 91Ώμ»ξΑΦ Aquinas College in terms of education and philosophy, Mr. Dowdy explains. œThe architecture that we do is creating the built environment within which the City takes place ” the City as understood by Aristotle and St. 91Ώμ»ξΑΦ and the other authors that you read at the College.¦ It™s fleshing out those ideas and trying to envision the actual place in which the City can flourish.

Mr. Dowdy received his training at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, where, at the school™s invitation, he earned double master™s degrees in architecture and architectural design and urbanism. In 2009, he was awarded the university™s prestigious Hammond Beeby Rupert & Ainge Graduate Prize.