Brandt’s personal design studio is located on Bond Hall’s lower level, along with the woodshop that houses the School’s furniture design concentration. Part of Brandt’s agreement when he was hired in 1992 by former architecture chairman Thomas Gordon Smith was to maintain a professional presence within the School. “It is important for students to see my work progress,” Brandt says. “Along with the students I take a pile of rough lumber to a finished project.” Furniture design programs are typically part of university art departments, not schools of architecture. Notre Dame is the only university in the nation that exclusively operates its furniture design concentration out of an architecture program. Not only do students see the relationship between furniture and architecture, Brandt says, but they turn two-dimensional designs into three-dimensional objects.