Jim Lutz
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN USA
"Establish your own Manifesto. Establish what's important to you."
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Jim's work combines: Design, Engineering, and Building Things
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Architecture
University of California-Berkeley
Graduate Degree
Architecture
Syracuse University
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
1.
Remembers being in the first grade and telling someone he wanted to be an architect.
2.
Received a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and a master's from UC Berkeley, both in architecture.
3.
Says his work is also his love-his two great hobbies, reading and traveling, overlap in architecture.
4.
Practiced architecture in California for nearly 20 years; did commercial, residential, and historic preservation projects.
5.
Now teaches sustainable design and architecture at the University of Memphis.
6.
He encourages his students to boil down their beliefs into two paragraphs, write their own manifestos and stick to them.
7.
Says you have to have so much belief in what you do that you'd be willing to yell about it to a crowd of people.
8.
He loves sustainable architecture, says his main goal is to solve the problem at hand without endangering future generations' resources.
