{"id":396,"date":"2019-05-15T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/?p=396"},"modified":"2019-05-23T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:30:38","slug":"iaf-scholarship-spotlight-chris-reinhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/2019\/05\/15\/iaf-scholarship-spotlight-chris-reinhart\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Scholarship spotlight: Chris Reinhart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IAF scholarship helps former college dropout realize his dreams of becoming an architect<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chris Reinhart: IAF Scholarship recipient 2011, 2012, and 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chris Reinhart didn\u2019t take the traditional route to\narchitecture school. But Reinhart isn\u2019t what you\u2019d call a traditional kind of\nguy. He built his first home out of straw bales and salvaged materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he graduated from Lafayette Jefferson High School, the\nacademically gifted 18-year-old headed off to Indiana University and the world\nappeared to be his oyster. However, after five semesters, he \u201cvery ungracefully,\u201d\ndropped out. He formed a rock band, Cadmium Orange and got a construction job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, at age 40, Reinhart is days away from receiving his master\u2019s degree in architecture, and he\u2019s working part-time as a design associate at Cripe Architects, a job he said he landed, in part, because of the Indiana Architectural Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the scholarship presentation, IAF asked each of the\nrecipients to say a few words about their project. Reinhart talked about a\nhypothetical design for a future charter school in Bloomington. He doesn\u2019t\nremember exactly what he said, but he remembers the call he got from Cripe\nasking him to come in and talk about a job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reinhart\nwas \u201cprepared, polished and engaging,\u201d said Fred Green, Cripe\u2019s\npresident and COO and former IAF board member. Reinhart grabbed his attention\nas soon as he started speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think I was in the middle of dessert when he began\nspeaking, and I thought who is that? He presented himself in a very organized\nand thoughtful manner, and you could tell he was a little older than the rest\nof the students, a life-long learner who had been around the block and knew\nwhat he was talking about,\u201d Green remembered. \u201cI thought this is a guy who\ncould really be an ambassador for our firm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reinhart is grateful for IAF, which awarded him three scholarships and helped him make connections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt made it finally possible to go to school and not be so\nstressed out,\u201d said Reinhart, a single dad who commutes from Bloomington to\nMuncie as he completes his masters. \u201cI have enormous gratitude for IAF for two\nreasons, helping me make it through school and bringing together all these Indy\nfirms and providing me the opportunity to make myself known to them. It\u2019s very\nmeaningful to have a great relationship with an employer I love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s also doing work he\u2019s passionate about. Reinhart\u2019s love\nof architecture began to build as he worked up through the ranks in\nconstruction. He became enamored with the thought of building his own house, so\nhe took some workshops about earth and straw bale construction, bought a little\nland on a hillside in Bloomington and went to work on a cottage, which began\nhis working lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That became the genesis for going back to college. After a\n10-year hiatus, he enrolled in the design technology program at Ivy Tech.\nThings began to click. He became president of the Ivy Tech Ecology Club, and by\nthe time he graduated from Ivy Tech in 2009, with a 4.0 GPA, won the Janine C\nRae Humanitarian Award, was named the Outstanding Student in Design Technology,\nwas named the Bryon Fellow and was a commencement speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up was Ball State\u2019s prestigious College of Architecture\nand Planning. Reinhart enrolled at the age of 32. Along with his bachelor\u2019s\ndegree he collected even more accolades. He won the prestigious Udall Scholar\naward in 2012, and was awarded Indiana Architecture Pinnacles of Excellence\nawards in both 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he received the CAP Best and Brightest\nAward, was named a Building Better Communities Fellow and won the Building\nBetter Communities Leadership Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reinhart has found his stride. When he completes his\nmasters, he\u2019s going to stay put in Bloomington and help Cripe develop the\ndesign market in Bloomington and will become Cripe\u2019s director of sustainability  and research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the intersection of technology and architecture as\nit relates to human wellness,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to do more with evidence-based\ndesign, not just in medical office buildings, but also in retail and office\nsettings. There are a lot of improvements that can be made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he no longer lives in the straw-bale house, he\u2019s\nplanning an addition to bring it up to 1,200 or 1,300 square feet, and maybe\nmove back in when his son, who is now 17, heads off to college. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IAF scholarship helps former college dropout realize his dreams of becoming an architect Chris Reinhart didn\u2019t take the traditional route to architecture school. But Reinhart isn\u2019t what you\u2019d call a traditional kind of guy. He built his first home out of straw bales and salvaged materials. When he graduated from Lafayette Jefferson High School, the academically gifted 18-year-old headed off to Indiana University and the world appeared to be his oyster. However, after five semesters, he \u201cvery ungracefully,\u201d dropped out. He formed a rock band, Cadmium Orange and got a construction job. Today, at age 40, Reinhart is days away from receiving his master\u2019s degree in architecture, and he\u2019s working part-time as a design associate at Cripe Architects, a job he said he landed, in part, because of the Indiana Architectural Foundation. During the scholarship presentation, IAF asked each of the recipients to say a few words about their project. Reinhart talked about a hypothetical design for a future charter school in Bloomington. He doesn\u2019t remember exactly what he said, but he remembers the call he got from Cripe asking him to come in and talk about a job. Reinhart was \u201cprepared, polished and engaging,\u201d said Fred Green, Cripe\u2019s president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-q2-newsletter","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/architectureindiana.com\/homepage-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}