USF SACD presents a lecture by David Dowell, a principal architect at el dorado, inc., in Kansas City, MO. David Dowell, AIA, is a partner at el dorado, and founder of the Design+Make Studio at Kansas 
State University. Both are enormously optimistic, interwoven endeavors, focused on architecture as a tool to cultivate dignified common ground. David and his partners at el dorado believe that good 
design is possible anywhere, for anyone; and that well-crafted buildings still matter. David’s work spans a broad range of typologies - from bridges to houses, academic facilities to streetscapes, 
cultural buildings to master plans. With students, he recently completed an affordable housing duplex, and an environmental education facility in the Kansas Flint Hills, the most endangered ecosystem in 
North America. All of his work involves some degree of hands-on self-performance in implementation, ranging from fabrication of select details to wholesale oversight of design and construction.