Bryan Bell

Bryan Bell

Bryan Bell is a current Professor of Architecture at the NC State College of Design. He is also the founder of Design Corps, who's mission is to to provide the benefits of architecture to those traditionally un-served by the profession in order to create a positive change within communities. Design Corps utilizes design advocacy and education to help communities shape their environments and address their social, economic, and environmental challenges. Bell's current focus is on public interest design, which he describes as a needs-driven practice that "puts creative abilities to practical use to improve communities." He has revolutionized public interest design using interdisciplinary and innovative protocols, procedures, and economic models to adapt to the changing nature of clients and economic conditions....
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Brittain Storck

Brittain Storck

Brittain Storck is a professional landscape architect with a background in natural resource-based recreation projects, greenway and trail design, and active community design and planning. She's Alta's regional landscape architecture studio director and the board director of North Carolina Rail Trails. Storck has managed projects across the nation and cultivated an understanding of the complexities associated with design of open spaces. She considers the essence of her work to be connections, which designers must cultivate using "an awareness and consideration of our environment, culture, health, economy, and aesthetic while creating a variety of solutions for the human experience." Through these connections Storck aims to identify a balance between where we live and how we live....
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