Sketches on Display in the AIA Minnesota Gallery,
March 2010 - May 2010

AIA Minnesota member architect Duane Thorbeck, FAIA, is president of Thorbeck Architects, Ltd, a past president of AIA Minnesota; received a 2009-2010 Buckman Fellowship for Leadership in Philanthropy; and his book Rural Design: A New Design Discipline will be published by Routledge in 2012.

Thorbeck’s sketches are on display now at the AIA Minnesota office The AIA Minnesota Gallery at the AIA Minnesota office in International Market Square, Suite 54, during office hours of 8;00a.m. - 5:00p.m. Monday-Friday.

Thorbeck’s travel sketches are from a book that Thorbeck is still working on to be titled: Architect’s Travel Sketches: A Recording of Natural and Human Landscapes.

Thorbeck’s first book: Rural Design: A New Design Discipline will be published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books in January 2012 in both the US and UK. It is the first in the English language explaining what rural design is and what it can do for rural communities throughout the world in resolving rural land use issues. The book started with a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and outlines Thorbeck’s professional and academic design background integrating architecture and landscapes and designing buildings for animals, and why he became concerned about the future of rural America and in turn with rural areas internationally. To further research rural problems, 12 years ago Thorbeck founded the Center for Rural Design at the University of Minnesota.