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Title:  Montana State University — College of Arts and Architecture

Laura Dornberger (Partner, AIA, LEED AP, Locati Architects) speaking: “Advisory Council is a group of our peers that are in the profession that have come together to form a community that helps support the School of Architecture.”

Sid Scott (Partner, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Scott/Edwards Architecture) speaking:  “For me, the real root of the Advisory Council is having the connection to the school and being able to give back to the program.”

Laura Dornberger speaking: “We provide scholarships for the students and fundraising.”

Ben Tintinger (Partner, AIA, Mosaic Architecture) speaking: “Not only that, but have a chance to mentor students and connect students with practice. There’s a huge importance to students understanding what’s happening in the profession and the kinds of things that you will do in the profession [that] you don’t necessarily do in school.”

Laura Dornberger speaking: “It’s a two-way street. It’s not only just for students to learn more, but personal experience from mentoring architecture students, it’s just as beneficial for the professionals to do it and learn on that side.”

Sid Scott speaking: “I always feel like I get so much more than I give to the Advisory Council. I always come away refreshed about what I do.”

Laura Dornberger speaking: “And then there’s the recruiting side where students are recruited to the program and then from the program, back to Advisory Council.”

Matt Aune (AIA, NCARB, GGP, Mosaic Architecture) speaking: “That younger group of the Advisory Council which we need to keep recruiting is really crucial because students are going to be more apprehensive to go talk to an older Principal in general. So we started reaching out as the younger group, to do very specific portfolio reviews, what would you ask in an interview session, and look at resumes.”

Ben Lloyd (AIA, Vice President, Henneberry/Eddy Architects) speaking: “The Advisory Council for me is fulfillingbecause it allows me, as a practitioner in Bozeman next to Montana State University, to see MSU alum come back and to cross-pollinate ideas. I get to be here and show off Bozeman; they bring their ideas back to Montana State University in a regular way that makes us all stronger.”

Matt Aune speaking: Having the opportunity to create a project on my alma mater was a dream, so when this project came out we felt we had a great opportunity because of the relationship we had built.”

Ben Tintinger (Partner, AIA, Mosaic Architecture) speaking: “And that comes back to the Advisory Council—being able to come back here and visit with students and mentor with students when we have the opportunity.”

Matt Aune speaking: “We spent a whole week here on campus in each of the dining halls asking questions, getting student input and that really ended up driving a lot of why it is called The Pavillion. It’s this marketplace. They wanted a different dining experience. The dining deck views to make as great an opportunity as you can of the site. The angles and the sweeping pitches of the roof lead your eyes up to the Bridgers and point your eye up to the mall of Montana Hall.

Ben Tintinger speaking: This and Jabs Hall and some of the other projects on campus are really setting the bar for high architecture in Montana.

Ben Lloyd speaking: The Jabs Hall—you walk in and you get a sense of life in business. You’re connected visually to people. Cross-disciplinary interaction was really important on our list of goals. We want engineers and artists and other people from campus to come and talk about business in a common place and we created those spaces to do that.”

Laura Dornberger speaking:  We think we can help the school in looking toward the future to make these programs amazing for our students.”

Sid Scott speaking : “You get caught up in the real world and all the things you have to do from a professional standpoint, running a business and all those things. I come here for the Advisory Council and it’s like another world. It reminds me why I became an architect in the first place.”

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