January 16, 2004

MIT and Rhode Island School Collaborate on Design of Asian Women's University

By JEN LIN-LIU

The Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating to design the campus for the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, a nonprofit institution set to open in the fall of 2006 that plans to educate disadvantaged women from Asian nations.

Led by Elizabeth Dean Hermann, an associate professor of landscape architecture and architectural history at RISD, and Ann M. Pendleton-Julian, an associate professor of architecture at MIT, more than 30