Visiting architect

Michael Rotondi, right, architect and director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, chats with Rodner Wright, left, associate dean of MSU's School of Architecture, and David Perkes, assistant professor of architecture, during a recent visit to campus. Besides a lecture, Rotondi presented a design problem for architecture students to solve in a 24-hour period: construct a squatters' community using found materials. First-place winners received $1,000 made possible by donations from Viking Range Corp. of Greenwood, The Chalet of Starkville and Zeno Yeats, a Memphis architect.