{"id":906,"date":"2017-09-07T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=906"},"modified":"2017-09-01T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T20:07:56","slug":"dcdc-accepts-the-whitney-m-young-jr-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/09\/07\/dcdc-accepts-the-whitney-m-young-jr-award\/","title":{"rendered":"DCDC accepts the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/231733793\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/231733793<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In January, the American Institute of Architects named the School of Architecture&#8217;s Detroit Collaborative Design Center the 2017&nbsp;Whitney M. Young Jr. Award winner.<\/p>\n<p>Named for the civil rights leader, the honor is given to an architect or architectural organization that \u201cembodies social responsibility and actively addresses a relevant issue, such as affordable housing, inclusiveness or universal access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor any architect or organization committed to public interest design, this is without a doubt the highest honor one could hope to receive,\u201d said Will Wittig, AIA, dean of the School of Architecture. You can read what we wrote about in January <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/01\/05\/aia-honors-dcdcs-work-commitment\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The award was officially presented in April in Florida. Watch DCDC Director Dan Pitera and the staff of the organization accept the award in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, the American Institute of Architects named the School of Architecture&#8217;s Detroit Collaborative Design Center the 2017&nbsp;Whitney M. Young Jr. Award winner. Named for the civil rights leader, the honor is given to an architect or architectural organization that \u201cembodies social responsibility and actively addresses a relevant issue, such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-of-architecture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/09\/whitney-featured.jpg?fit=861%2C452&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}