On September 29, the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture's Outreach Program, Cornerstones, will be holding its 2004 Symposium, "Pittsburgh: Prosperous and Sustainable," in Rangos Ballroom. 

Cornerstones, a center for architectural development and building, was founded by prominent local architect and alumnus Lucian Caste (CFA, 1950) to make the building industry more integrated. Since 2001, Cornerstones has been bringing contractors, real estate professionals, designers, developers, and other members of thearchitectural field together at symposiums to work toward a prosperous, stable, and more sustainable Pittsburgh.

"[Each year, we] pick a topic that fits the Pittsburgh of today," says Caste, the symposium chair.

This year's symposium focuses on the Pittsburgh region and its surrounding environment with an economic, developmental, and global focus. Scheduled speakers include Australian architect Tasman Storey, Amy Liu from The Brookings Institute, and Don Smith, the director of economic development at Carnegie Mellon. Storey will discuss Sydney, Australia's WalshBay redevelopment project. Lui and Smith will discuss the Brookings Institute report, "Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania."

"Cornerstones wants to unify many aspects of the University and is very interested in the development industry and is part of the Architecture department at Carnegie Mellon. We also develop scholarships for students of Architecture and Urban Design," says Caste.

Since the symposium is also designed to bring people from different levels of academia together, Caste encourages all students — not only those with architecture and engineering backgrounds — to attend.