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January 31, 2007

WSU team heading to China and Tibet

A team of Washington State University architecture, landscape architecture and interior design faculty and students are heading to China and Tibet in May to see how people there design, furnish and occupy their homes.

Led by Professor Nancy Blossom, director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane, and architecture professor David Wang, the team will spend three weeks working with their counterparts from Xian University in China and Tibet.

The goal is to promote research that crosses academic disciplines and national boundaries, according to Blossom. The group will focus on how local materials and customs in architecture, landscaping and home interiors respond to the natural environment.

Blossom said there has been little research about materials, types of furniture and how Tibetans use their homes.




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