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September 2021A full-scale replica of one of the oldest timber trusses destroyed during the ruinous April 2019 fire at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral recently concluded a several-week showing at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.View The Architect’s Newspaper — **September 2021**
A full-scale replica of one of the oldest timber trusses destroyed during the ruinous April 2019 fire at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral recently concluded a several-week showing at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
**View The Architect’s Newspaper**

August 23, 2021On a Thursday afternoon in August, architecture student Juan Soto was part of a team of more than 50 architects, carpenters, and students pulling ropes to raise a hand-built, full-scale truss on the campus of The Catholic University of America.View Catholic University — **August 23, 2021**
On a Thursday afternoon in August, architecture student Juan Soto was part of a team of more than 50 architects, carpenters, and students pulling ropes to raise a hand-built, full-scale truss on the campus of The Catholic University of America.
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August 16, 2021In the final pages of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when Quasimodo scrambles through the rafters of his lair, Victor Hugo wrote in 1831 of the “prodigious timber-work so dense it was called ‘the forest.’”View Curbed/New York Magazine — **August 16, 202**1
In the final pages of *The Hunchback of Notre Dame,* when Quasimodo scrambles through the rafters of his lair, Victor Hugo wrote in 1831 of the “prodigious timber-work so dense it was called ‘the forest.’”
**View Curbed/New York Magazine**

August 3, 2021Cardinal Wilton Gregory and the team of students, carpenters, architects and crafts people gently pull a truss into its vertical position on the lawn of the mall at The Catholic University of America.View the Catholic Standard — **August 3, 2021**
Cardinal Wilton Gregory and the team of students, carpenters, architects and crafts people gently pull a truss into its vertical position on the lawn of the mall at The Catholic University of America.
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August 6, 2021Marie Brown was among those who watched the fire in 2019, stunned. Before the flames were even extinguished, she was on the phone, strategizing about how to help rebuild it with others connected to Handshouse Studio, which she leads as executive director.View CatholicPhily — **August 6, 2021**
Marie Brown was among those who watched the fire in 2019, stunned. Before the flames were even extinguished, she was on the phone, strategizing about how to help rebuild it with others connected to Handshouse Studio, which she leads as executive director.
**View CatholicPhily**

August 6, 2021After months of preparation, the campus played host for two weeks to a 75-person crew that took logs transported from the mountains of Virginia, cut them into timbers and assembled the truss using tools and techniques employed nearly a millennium ago.View Catholic News Service — **August 6, 2021**
After months of preparation, the campus played host for two weeks to a 75-person crew that took logs transported from the mountains of Virginia, cut them into timbers and assembled the truss using tools and techniques employed nearly a millennium ago.
**View Catholic News Service**

**August 10, 2021**
A faithfully reconstructed, full-scale replica of one of the oldest timber trusses destroyed during the April 2019 fire at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral is now on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., as part of the museum’s scaled-back 2021 Summer Block Party.
**View The Architect’s Newspaper**

August 3, 2021Catholic University (CUA) students and Handshouse Studio host a ceremony to hand raise a full-scale truss of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC., on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.View UPI — **August 3, 2021**
Catholic University (CUA) students and Handshouse Studio host a ceremony to hand raise a full-scale truss of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC., on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
**View UPI**

August 2, 2021 Catholic University to recreate Notre Dame de Paris truss with medieval methods… The 10-day project will produce a full-sized replica of Truss #6, which will then tour Washington D.C. on exhibition.View Aleteia — **August 2, 2021**
Catholic University to recreate Notre Dame de Paris truss with medieval methods…
The 10-day project will produce a full-sized replica of Truss #6, which will then tour Washington D.C. on exhibition.
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July 30, 2021 Visitors to Catholic University’s campus this week saw an unusual site on the University Lawn: a team of 40 carpenters and framers using axes to construct a large triangular shape out of 30 white oak logs.View The Catholic University of America — **July 30, 2021**
Visitors to Catholic University’s campus this week saw an unusual site on the University Lawn: a team of 40 carpenters and framers using axes to construct a large triangular shape out of 30 white oak logs.
**View The Catholic University of America**

July 21, 2021 Craftsmen in US use medieval techniques to reconstruct Notre Dame roof supportA full-scale truss fit for the Paris cathedral will be built in Washington, DC this summer as part of a teaching project by Handshouse StudioView The Art Newspaper — **July 21, 2021**
**Craftsmen in US use medieval techniques to reconstruct Notre Dame roof support**
A full-scale truss fit for the Paris cathedral will be built in Washington, DC this summer as part of a teaching project by Handshouse Studio
**View The Art Newspaper**

July 26. 2021 It worked 800 years ago: CUA students building replica of Notre Dame roof truss using medieval techniquesView WTOPnews — **July 26. 2021**
It worked 800 years ago: CUA students building replica of Notre Dame roof truss using medieval techniques
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Oct. 15, 2019 A TREE FALLS IN THE WOODS AND BECOMES ART MADE FROM NATURE, THIS ART IS MEANT TO RETURN TO ITS ROOTSView Chronicle Show, WCVB — **Oct. 15, 2019**
A TREE FALLS IN THE WOODS AND BECOMES ART
MADE FROM NATURE, THIS ART IS MEANT TO RETURN TO ITS ROOTS
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Aug. 12, 2019 The local news in Philadelphia featured a segment on the Gourd Banjo Project exhibition at the Museum of the American RevolutionView NBC-10 Segment on the Gourd Banjo Project — **Aug. 12, 2019** The local news in Philadelphia featured a segment on the Gourd Banjo Project exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution
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Sept. 1, 2019 One Impulse from a Vernal Wood Around the bend, two storm-downed trees have been milled and reconstituted with mortise-and-tenon joinery in a zig-zag pattern, using the stumps as anchor points.View Chronogram — **Sept. 1, 2019** One Impulse from a Vernal Wood Around the bend, two storm-downed trees have been milled and reconstituted with mortise-and-tenon joinery in a zig-zag pattern, using the stumps as anchor points.
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July 12, 2019 A 'surprise' in the woods… Couple energize Chesterwood with forest-based contemporary sculpture exhibitView The Berkshire Eagle — **July 12, 2019** A 'surprise' in the woods…
Couple energize Chesterwood with forest-based contemporary sculpture exhibit
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May 13, 2019 MassArt students create toys for elephants at New Bedford zooView the The Boston Globe — **May 13, 2019** MassArt students create toys for elephants at New Bedford zoo
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April 18, 2017 Trojan Horse replica takes shape at Norwell’s Handshouse Studio

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