Gina Van Tine, AIA, LEED AP has grown-up, and spent her entire career in the Detroit metro area. Since co-founding inFORM studio (formerly known as Van Tine|Guthrie studio of architecture) in 2000, she has been growing her firm in the planning, designing and building of buildings in and around Detroit ever since. “Detroit has always been a source of innovation,” says Van Tine. “Where better to have a firm that relies so heavily on [innovation]?”
Recently inFORM was announced as the winner of the Providence Pedestrian|Cycling Bridge, and was named 2011 Firm of the Year by the American Institute of Architects Michigan Chapter. In 2004, John Gallagher of the Detroit Free Press wrote, “…this young firm is one to watch.”
Metamorphosis: Detroit
Detroit history is a hotbed of creative innovation. The remarkable era of the rise of Detroit was clearly based on location, a synergy of creative minds working in a specified city. How do we place Detroit as a viable assimilation of creative minds for its future? Join a diversified panel of professionals’ opinions on Detroit as place, and hear how conference attendees weigh in on these issues through a conference wide poll of six critical issues facing Detroit’s future.
As an attendee during this presentation, you will learn:
- What are the current challenges businesses face with a headquarters in the Detroit region
- What are the potential advantages of both being located or relocating to the City of Detroit
- A vision for the metamorphosis of Detroit over the next 10-20 years
This topic will be presented by Gina Van Tine and Michael Guthrie, Co-Founders of inFORM.
