In Award-winning Course Students Solve Global Challenges Brick by Brick

What if the design of a brick could reduce the spread of malaria?

That question lies at the heart of the course “Building Health: Resilient Building Materials for Global Health & Sustainability.” Cross-listed between architecture and civil engineering and developed collaboratively by architecture professor Liz McCormick and civil engineering professor Brett Tempest, “Building Health” challenges conventional architectural thinking by seeing vast untapped potential for the humble brick.