Fall 2017 seminar: B.Arch. candidate, architecture
Duncan Steele is currently a third-year B.Arch. student at Cornell University. His work concentrates on the intersection between social policy and architectural design. He believes in drawing as an analytical tool for exposing and unpacking injustices imposed on the subjugated by their environments and is currently researching public space typologies designed to inflict suffering. His background with Ithaca's Building Community and Maximum City, a Toronto organization dedicated to connecting youth with the agency to affect planning policy and development, led to a lifelong investment in design as catalyst for social progress. If architecture is the built form of a society's values, Steele aspires to further one through practice that communicates a popular desire to equitably serve the disadvantaged.