PRESCOTT TRUDEAU



INFORMATION
    I am an Architectural Designer at MASS Design Group and Master of Architecture graduate from University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Film and Animation. I have served in Americorps and the Taubman Public Design Corps, and was recently a Dow Sustainability Fellow, researching agricultural waste production and the circular economy. I have professional experience as a curator, exhibition designer, fabricator, filmmaker and artisan baker, among other things.



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Downtown Local Food Campus

A food business training facility and year-round market that faciltates food production, business scale-up and knowledge sharing for a diversity of local food producers and consumers.

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w/ MASS Design Group
Albuquerque, NM
2022 - In Progress
Predesign | SD

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St. John’s College Bookstore

A renovation of the Santa Fe campus’ bookstore that playfully engages with interiors by Alexander Girard while celebrating the Great Books curricula of St. John’s College.

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w/ MASS Design Group
Santa Fe, NM
2023 - In Progress
DD | CD | CA

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Sustainable Land Stewardship Plan

A strategic plan and conceptual design that lays the groundwork for future land use development aligned with Reunity Resources’ organizational objectives of creating closed-loop systems for climate resilience.

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w/ MASS Design Group
Santa Fe, NM
2024
Predesign | Masterplan

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El Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes

A memorial to protect an ancestral burial mound of the Lipan Apache tribe, facilitating a healing journey with interpretive history that centers Indigenous presence in far West Texas. 

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w/ MASS Design Group
Presidio, TX
2022 - 2024
Predesign | DD | CA

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Living Monument

A 100,000-acre site that spans the border of what we now call the United States and Canada, creating a living monument to restore Native habitat and reconnect Indigenous communities across colonial borders.

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w/ MASS Design Group
The 49th Parallel
2022
Predesign

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Midtown Arts & Design Alliance

A rehabilitation plan to reactivate the vacant Ricardo Legorreta designed facilities on the former Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus in Midtown, Santa Fe. 

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w/ MASS Design Group
Santa Fe, NM
2023 - In Progress
Predesign | Masterplan

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Reteti Elephant Sanctuary

A permanent exhibition that tells the hidden stories and heroes behind saving orphaned elephants in Kenya.

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w/ MASS Design Group
Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya
2023 - 2024
Exhibit Design | CA

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Site of Social Experiment

A media-free refuge for rest and relaxation, this project proposes an alternative, energy-conscious model for co-living within and against the 24/7 attention-based economies of online communication and streaming platforms, round-the-clock cable news, and digital marketing.

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Thesis Studio
Fall 2021/Winter 2022
Instructor: Cyrus Pennaroyo

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Re-Plant

Sited in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction and anchored by the 536,000 sq ft vacant Fisher Body Plant 21, the project approaches the redevelopment and adaptive reuse of this former industrial area through urban strategies focused on affordability, biodiversity and social connectivity.

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Systems Studio
Fall 2021
Instructors: Lars Grabner, Christina Hansen

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Both/And Box

A material meditation on the design practices of Gio Ponti and Venturi Scott Brown, practictioners that believed designed objects and architecture should contain contradictions and embrace ambiguity.

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Propositions Studio
Winter 2021
Instructor: Mick Kennedy

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Public Bank

A socially-minded financial institution that prioritizes public access over profit and acts as a defense against Wall Street’s speculative stockpiling and systemic disenfranchisement

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Institutions Studio
Fall 2020
Instructor: Eduardo Mediero

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Terrestris Redivivus 

A remanufacturing facility for construction and demolition waste. Built at an immense scale with an impermanent, modular logic, the project acknowledges building material lifespan while questioning it’s conventional application.

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Situation Studio
Winter 2020
Instructors: Laida Aguirre, Daniel Jacobs, Michael Lauritano

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Taubman BioLab

Seeking to identify methods of incorporating biological sciences into architectural education, Taubman BioLab proposes a material-driven course of study through the deployment of a pop-up lab that operates within the traditional studio context.

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Architecture Student Research Grant
Summer 2022

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Off-Type

A research exploration into typological morphologies - hybrid building types that express ambiguity, fluidity and elusiveness.

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W/ Hanghar LLC. 
2021
Madrid, Spain

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Detroit Horse Power

A sustainable manure management plan and facility for the Detroit-based urban equestrian center.

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Dow Sustainability Fellowship
Winter/Fall 2021
U-M Graham Institute

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Teaching Curricula

A critical component of my professional practice, teaching provides the opportunity to support the ambitions of young people while gaining new ideas and perspectives. 

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Seminar & Studio Proposals, Documentation of Student Work, Student Animations, etc.  

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