Fermata Arts Foundation (FAF), a US non-profit organization based primarily in New England, is launching a new Center for the History of the Building Arts, to be established in two locations, in Vermont and Massachusetts.
The Burnt Mountain Center, located in central Vermont’s Green Mountains, is an educational center engaged in the teaching and research on issues of our time at the intersection of architecture, climate and culture.
Drawing on over a decade of architecture and arts research and educational exchanges under the auspices of Fermata Arts Foundation, Burnt Mountain Center director Sean Cummings is leading the architectural design of the Center in collaboration with colleagues from educational institutions in the post soviet space.
Intercultural knowledge gained through this contact between students, professionals and instructors of built environment studies has inspired the creation of an open campus of buildings that will celebrate and test historical knowledge as well as future technologies for climate resiliency and design excellence. The campus will support experimental design and construction by visitors as well as a unique venue for conferences on our focus topics of study.