Collaboration Aims to Refresh National City

More than 70 fourth-year undergraduate architecture students at NewSchool will join the collaboration to better National City.

NATIONAL CITY, CA—NewSchool of Architecture & Design is joining forces with the American Institute of Architects; local architecture, engineering and design firms; local universities; and real estate developers to reinvent Downtown National City. NewSchool students and faculty will collaborate with the City of National City, the AIA, Glumac Engineers, KPFF Consulting Engineers, Mackenzie Inc., Sillman Wright Architects, the San Diego State University Civil Engineering Department, University of California San Diego Structural Engineering Department and Malik Infill Development for the project.

Under the direction of its Integrated Design Studio faculty member Daniela Deutsch, NewSchool has proposed new, sustainable designs aimed to stimulate economic revitalization in cities such as Portland, Seattle and Austin. This year, more than 70 undergraduate architecture students will collaborate over the next several months with the municipal and industry partners to create a vision and strategies for the development of a new, sustainable urban neighborhood in Downtown National City.