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Todd Ferking

Todd Ferking

Founder of Arcis Studio; K-12 education design consultant and principal architect at DLR Group with 25 years of experience designing learning environments.

Jul 15, 2026

13:36
What paid off well in, in that design of the Compton High, kinda what you guys learned and infused into Centennial and, and kind of your thinking on that whole, um, those two projects in particular.
13:51
Yeah.
13:51
Both of them were very exciting projects.
13:54
You know, I think, you know, Compton's doing some interesting things right now in terms of really prioritizing design, uh, and really trying to provide world-class educational facilities for their students, which is pretty remarkable as you look back in the history of that Compton community, you know, and how can these schools become catalysts for positive change within the communities.
14:16
Both...
14:17
Compton's been going through quite a bit of community change, right? Like I think it's an extremely underestimated community.
14:25
And so the opportunity to go in and make a meaningful difference within that community and really leverage all the cool things that Compton School District and the Compton community were trying to achieve, and really not diluting the concepts to really provide and propel that community forward and basically leading the way.

19 MINS LATER

33:57
It's like it was '98, '99

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