Harrison Fraker, Assoc. AIA, is the 2014 Topaz Medallion recipient, an award administered jointly by the AIA and the ACSA for excellence in architectural education. Fraker, who co-founded the Center for Environmental Study at Princeton University in 1972 (now part of the Princeton Environmental Institute), has spent the last 40 years pushing architects and students to focus on ecology, energy, and environmental stewardship-first at Princeton Energy Group and Harrison Fraker Architects, and then as dean at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. "Architecture, as urbanism, is a systems challenge," Fraker says. "It's about design, but just as much about design that integrates research."
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