Go beyond curbless showers and hand rails. Principal designer and professor Peter Wilson explains the fundamentals of designing for senior living and an aging population.
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Peter is again teaching a graduate elective comprehensive course on Interior Architecture. This course is an intensive survey of world interior architectural aspects to design, with a concentration on western trends, covering central Mediterranean ancient cultures, through current built environments on an international framework. Topics include basic interior elements within an historic context, color theory, FF&E interfaces, sustainability of conventional and innovative material selections and how these affect how and why we create interior environments. The course culminates with a design charette project of a local café/bistro
peter is speaking to the undergraduate and graduate architectural degree students about aspects of carving out a successful career strategy both while in school and post-degree. In today’s competitive marketplace, despite trends of the “great or quiet resignation” and thinking budding professionals hold all of the cards, learn why it is important to have and how to create a solid foundation and well-laid path to ensure and facilitate your professional future .
Peter outlines the difference between these two disciplines and why it is important to understand the varying skills, roles and responsibilities involved for projects, whether it be a student level investigation or a real client project. He evaluates a broad spectrum of project types and sizes world-wide. He also tries to clarify the blurred distinction and qualifications of these design realms.
As founder of the ateri group LLC, Peter is an architect, interior designer, mentor, community leader and advocate for public and private sector development alike. With a Masters of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, his professional career has spanned 30 years, specializing in planning and design delivery of hospitality, retail, senior living, workplace, multi-family & private residential built environments, covering various sizes, budgets (small to multi-million dollar hard/soft packages), complexity and funding sources. He has led master and strategic planning initiatives throughout the eastern states, extending into the mid-west, in addition to serving as an architectural programming and design consultant on several international development projects. Moreover, he is a relationship-builder with numerous repeat clientele initiatives. Leading by example and integrity is his hallmark.
Peter has been a professional mentor, reviewer and taught architectural and interior design studios, as well as architectural history at Morgan State University’s Graduate Program, Anne Arundel County Community College, and Washington University in St Louis.
