Julie Flohr
Architect
Chicago, U.S.


Submission: Syllabus for "CUSTOMIZABLE KIT FOR CALUMET: Interfacing industry and ecology for civic uses."
A post graduate studio project (ARCH501) at Ball State University, 2004.

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All images are that of former student Nutthawut Piriyaprakob who participated in Flohr's studio.

Bio:

Julie Flohr studied and worked in both France and the United States. While in the office of Garofalo Architects, Flohr worked on the Nothstine Residence (Green Bay, Wisconsin) and a temporary architectural space in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois profiled in Between the Museum and the City: Garofalo Architects (2004). Her work was also featured on the October cover of Metropolis. With Cecilia Benites and Clare Lyster, Flohr founded DB4PS – Design Bureau for Public Space. Their scheme, titled "Assembled Ecologies: Infrastructure à la carte," was a winning entry in the 21st-Century Lakefront Park Competition sponsored by the Graham Foundation in 2004. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and served as a visiting professor at Ball State University in the fall semester, 2004.




Chicago's Southside: home to more than 53 toxic landfills and factories
David Naguib Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago, ppbk. ed. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004), 190.