Corps values: in the Peace Corps, architects learn to think globally and design locally.(practice)

From: Residential Architect | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Weber, Cheryl | Copyright information

architect Jack Tucker owes his life's direction to the call of adventure and the hand of fate. As a student at the University of Arkansas in the early 1960s, he was on a date with a girl who mentioned that the Peace Corps exams were being held the next day. Interested in the prospect of travel, he agreed to meet her at the student union in the morning. "We partied heavily that night," recalls Tucker, FAIA, Jack R. Tucker & Associates Architects, Memphis, Tenn. "I wasn't feeling goo...

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