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may 2009
volume 38
number 9
acsaNews
publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture
ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon
Read the highlights on page 4
in this issue:
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President’s Message
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97th ACSA Annual Meeting Recap
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ACSA 100th Anniversary Celebration
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ACSA 100th Anniversary Web Curator
Call for Nominations
President’s Report: The Year in Review
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NAAB Accreditation Review
ACSA International Relations
10
ACSA Memorials
11
Journal of Architectural Education
Call for Submissions
12
98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans
16
2009 ACSA Administrators Conference
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ACSA Fall Conferences
Call for Proposals
20
2009-10 ACSA Awards Program
21
Student Design Competitions
25
REGIONAL NEWS
40
OPPORTUNITIES
ACSA Calendar
23
NAAB Procedures for Accreditation, 2009 Ed.
Student artwork at the 97th Annual Meeting closing reception at Portland State University
photo by Eric W. Ellis
from the president
Reflections on Leadership
by marleen kay davis
acsaNews
Pascale Vonier, Editor
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Website: www.acsa-arch.org
ACSA Board of Directors, 2008–2009
Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, President
Thomas Fisher, Vice President
Kim Tanzer, AIA, Past President
Mitra Kanaani, AIA, D.Arch, Secretary
Graham Livesey, Treasurer
Patricia Kucker, East Central Director
Brian Kelly, AIA, Northeast Director
Andrew D. Chin, Southeast Director
Ursula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Southwest Director
Stephen Meder, West Director
Keelan Kaiser, AIA, West Central Director
George Baird, FRAIC, AIA, Canadian Director
Deana Moore, Student Director
Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director
ACSA Mission Statement
To advance architectural education through support
of member schools, their faculty, and students. This
support involves:
• Serving by encouraging dialogue among
the diverse areas of discipline;
• Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly
and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary
activity;
• Articulating the critical issues forming the
context of architectural education
• Fostering public awareness of architectural
education and issues of importance
This advancement shall be implemented through five
primary means: advocacy, annual program activities,
liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination
of information and response to the needs of member
schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a
global society.
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Leadership is demonstrated in many
different ways, and different types of
leadership are appropriate in different
contexts at different times. I thought I
would conclude my year as ACSA president with some observations on leadership, as well as a sincere thank you to
all who contributed to the accomplishments of ACSA over the past year.
While it has been an honor to serve in a
leadership role with ACSA, the organization derives its real strength through its
members and their participation. Thanks
to a first rate ACSA staff, opportunities
for participation are plentiful and meaningful participation is maximized.
“Participation is the first stage of leadership,” were the words that welcomed
my sons to high school, where the faculty had a “leadership curriculum.” The
school defined leadership in four stages,
roughly corresponding to the four years
of high school, unified by service activities; participation, contribution, responsibility; and finally, directing the efforts
of others. Dispelling the stereotype of
active-leader/passive-follower is one of
the best ways to understand the many
forms of effective leadership.
Teaching is, I believe, one of the most
profound forms of leadership, with
lasting effects in developing thinking
ability, skills, knowledge, values, and
confidence in the next generation. The
“positional authority” of a teacher is a
sacred trust, but not the true source of
inspired leadership. Different teaching
styles seem to rely on different motivational techniques: praise, criticism,
encouragement, communication styles,
high standards, objective analysis, humor, consistency, etc. Interestingly, students respond differently to their different teachers, while the “best” students
seem to respect all their teachers and
to take advantage of each one’s unique
strengths. The exposure to so many
teaching/leadership styles, particularly
in the interpersonal environment of the
studio, is a healthy experience for our
students, preparing them for the range
of interpersonal encounters with clients
and others.
Leadership by example is a powerful
force. As a student, watching faculty
dedication was one of the most inspirational influences for me: no matter
how late I left the studio, Mathius Ungers was in his office, with a team of
post-professional students, working on
his latest competition. Later, as one of
the early female faculty members in the
male-dominated domain of architecture,
I was very aware that female students
seemed to watch me very closely. I had
to set, and meet, high standards of professionalism. We are all role models for
our students, and they need many types
of role models.
When I became a new parent and as I
watched my children grow, I was also
struck by the overlap in qualities related
to leadership, teaching, parenting, and
coaching. In each of these roles, overreliance on “positional authority” is
the most ineffective form of leadership.
“Because I said so” might achieve immediate results, but will never truly
motivate­—nor inspire—others.
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The ability to visualize what doesn’t exist
comes easily to designers, but not to everyone. In fact, it is easier to identify obstacles
to any new idea. For a designer, an obstacle is
a new opportunity. Designers enjoy imagining
new ways to achieve different goals and overcome obstacles. We are comfortable with developing concrete ideas within the ambiguity
of the unknown. Describing ideas, overcoming
obstacles, and helping to create a collective
vision is where designers, simply in participation, can make invaluable leadership contributions to our different communities.
ACSA is a service organization, creating value
for our schools and faculty members. Theories
of “servant leadership” seem especially appropriate for a service organization: working for
the collective group. As an elected leader for
ACSA, I worked in this way, partly as a “steward” of a great organization, with a clear mission developed by my predecessors. Because
designers can so easily imagine new ideas
and goals, I felt that one important role as
president was to focus our energy and to keep
our core mission clear: service to the schools,
through communication, publications, information, opportunities, awards, conferences,
networking, and organizational structure.
As described in the Annual Business Meeting
Summary (found on page 7), the ACSA Board
of Directors identified key priorities for the
year: diversity, planning for ACSA’s 100th anniversary in 2012, the National Academy of Environmental Design, and vigilant participation
in the NAAB reassessment of the Conditions
for Accreditation. “Design” served as a unifying theme over the last year in our two major
conferences and in the various “president’s
letters” that I have written. We must value our
expertise as design thinkers and design edu-
cators, while articulating that design can be a
form of applied research as well as a basis of
leadership.
The elected leaders for ACSA change each year,
with a complete turnover every three years.
However, an indispensable form of leadership
for ACSA comes from the full-time professional
staff at our national office, assembled by our
executive director, Michael Monti.
While all of us are busy in our day jobs as design educators, the ACSA staff wakes up every
day, thinking about the best way to provide
service to all of the ACSA schools. It has been a
pleasure to work with this group, and I deeply
appreciate the professional contributions of
each one and their sense of team work in moving ACSA forward:
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Project Manager Eric Ellis, who oversees the complexity of awards, competitions, and other projects;
Conferences Manager Mary Lou Baily,
who oversees the myriad details involved in our successful conferences;
Membership/Marketing Manager Kathryn Swiatek, who manages the database and sponsorships;
Communications Manager Pascale
Vonier, who oversees everything from
the weekly email blasts to many of our
various print publications;
Administrative Assistant Kevin Mitchell
who brings graphic design skills in laying out the ACSA News among other
responsibilities; and our newest staff
addition,
Administrative Assistant Danielle
Washington, with her great people skills,
honed by a major in psychology.
Mike Monti recently celebrated his five-year anniversary with ACSA, and it is an understatement
to say that he deserves great credit for genuine
leadership in making a more effective ACSA organization over that time. I have joined his fan club.
Everyone who works with him appreciates the
intelligent guidance he shows in transforming the
operational and substantive aspects of ACSA.
In closing, I want to extend a genuine thankyou to everyone who contributes to the success
of ACSA, through demonstrating leadership in
participation, contribution, and service; the
ACSA staff, the current ACSA Board members,
my predecessors (and mentors) as ACSA Board
members, the JAE Editorial Board, the hardworking conference co-chairs, the regional
conference co-chairs, the many accreditation
task force members, the faculty councilors at
each school, the administrators leading the
schools, and all the faculty participants in our
conferences, awards programs, competitions,
publications, committees, and other activities.
Thanks to you, the schools and faculty of ACSA
have greatly benefited.
If our graduating students need to develop
a viable and creative “Plan B,” the same can
be said for our schools, which are facing increasingly grim futures in this great recession. This is a deeper challenge, and we will
need to preserve design education in the face
of significant educational cut-backs. (“Budget correction” was the latest euphemism I
heard.) Architects will need to protect our core
strengths in studio-based learning and design
thinking, while imagining creative solutions
for providing student opportunities, streamlining curriculum, leveraging expertise, insuring
faculty development, outsourcing course components, forming creative partnerships, generating income and cutting costs.
As a professional organization, ACSA can help
its member schools and faculty by a sharing of
ideas and best practices.
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Development of a collective vision empowers
groups, organizations, and teams. Great leaders do not impose a top-down vision, but have
the ability to articulate—and develop—a collective, shared vision. Interestingly, the word
“vision” is derived from the visual: our domain
as designers.
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97th annual meeting
2008-09 Architectural Education Awards Ceremony at University of Oregon
The shared values of design
by pascale vonier
At the end of March, educators, practitioners, and students gathered in
beautiful downtown Portland to share their views on the value of design
across social, aesthetic, environmental, economic, and pedagogical borders. This year, over 400 participants attended the 97th Annual Meeting,
which was hosted by the University of Oregon, and co-hosted by Portland
State University. Co-chairs Mark Gillem, University of Oregon, and Phoebe
Crisman, University of Virginia, organized a program of events including
120 paper presentations, 10 special focus sessions, and 4 critical converstaions, which sparked a wide-range of provocative discussions.
tablished panel discussions to share school’s successful best practices and
initiated an informal LGBT Breakfast. The Women’s Leadership Council
held a third successful meeting and participants worked together to form
action items to complete over the next months. A workshop is planned
for the Administrators Conference in St. Louis that would cover various
issues of interest to women in academia, such as how to find a publisher.
Also, at the 98th ACSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, the group hopes
to have a workshop to offer advice on negotiation and looking for new
hires.
Portland was an ideal backdrop for these conversations as it is an inherently interdisciplinary city, bringing a balance between design, local
heritage, and area redevelopment. Architects work with transportation
engineers and planners to make affordable and appealing communities
and attendees got to explore some of the newly revitalized areas during
the various walking tours.
In an effort to continue building ACSA’s knowledge base, the second annual poster sessions took place Friday afternoon, during which attendees
mingled with poster presenters to exchange ideas and build upon new
ones. That evening, University of Oregon hosted the 2009 Architectural
Education Awards Ceremony and reception at their new White Stag building. The ceremony is also an opportunity for fellow collateral organizations—JAE, AIA, NCARB, and ARCC—to present their education awards.
During the Saturday luncheon, outgoing ACSA Canadian Director George
Baird introduced this year’s Topaz Medal recipient Adèle Naudé Santos
with a personal story, which depicted Santos as a spirited, determined,
and passionate individual.
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Opening night kicked off with lectures by Michael Pyatok, an Oaklandbased architect widely known for his expertise in the development and
design of low-income and affordable housing, and David Miller, co-founder of notable Seattle firm Miller|Hull and chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. Both architects’ design values draw
upon the heritage of the community within which they build and on the
importance of creating, what Miller called, “long-life, loose-fitting architecture of deconstruction” that can be adapted for future reuse.
After the lectures, during a discussion moderated by co-chair Mark Gillem,
Miller and Pyatok talked about the importance of place and community
in their work. While they both work in very different communities; Miller
works in downtown zones and tries to open his work to the street and
greenspaces, whereas Pyatok, who designs social housing, faces the challenge of protecting his residents from outside elements, they both believe
that the residents and neighbors should be a part of the design process
from the start and that architects and builders should not put alien buildings in existing communities. Pyatok said, “We do not want to stigmatize
with odd, out-of-place architecture.”
ACSA continued to make diversity within the profession a priority at this
year’s annual meeting, ACSA Northeast Regional Director Brian Kelly es-
Closing keynote and 2009 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medalist Patricia Patkau
reiterated the themes brought up by Miller and Pyatok, emphasizing the
value of buildings that have reprogrammable lives. Patkau’s work also
relates strongly to its surroundings, she spoke of the value of designing
buildings that years from now will be so highly regarded that they would
never be torn down. This new economic downturn is giving architects
pause on how they can work closer to their communities for sustained
growth.
Thank you to our co-chairs, Mark Gillem and Phoebe Crisman, and the
host schools for all their hard work. ACSA is already looking forward to
next year’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans! For more information on this
year and next year’s conferences please visit acsa-arch.org.
For a complete recap of ACSA’s annual business meeting, you can find
President Marleen Davis’ article on page 6.
by brian kelly
ACSA embarked on an ambitious plan to recognize an
upcoming milestone in architectural education, its 100th
anniversary, which will take place in 2012. The centenary
is being envisaged as a constellation of events that will
mark this occasion ranging from scholarly events and
publications to broad public outreach initiative on the
topic of architectural education.
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ACSA TO CELEBRATE
CENTENNIAL IN 2012
The ACSA Board of Directors established a steering
committee comprised of nationally recognized leaders,
scholars, and practitioners in the field of architecture.
Four major projects are currently being planned that will
form the basis for the celebration: a scholarly book, a
web based exhibition, a special edition of the Journal of
Architectural Education (JAE), and special events at the
100th national meeting in Boston, MA.
The scholarly book will examine major themes that
shaped architectural education in North America. The
project team will be lead by an internationally renowned
scholar who will be assisted by an editorial board of
commensurate rank. Book chapters will be solicited from
scholars with a demonstrated expertise in architectural
history and architectural education.
From left to right per row: Women’s leadership council reception; Keynote
lecturers David Miller and Michael Pyatok; Topaz Medallion Recipient Adèle Naudé
Santos; Keynote lecturer Patricia Patkau; reception at University of Oregon; Poster
Session; AIA President Marvin Malecha, ACSA President Marleen Davis, ACSA
President-Elect Tom Fisher; closing reception at Portland State University
To see more photos from the conference visit acsa-arch.org/conferences
JAE is planning for a special edition to focus on themes
relevant to the 100th anniversary. Additionally, events are
being planned for the 2012 national meeting in Boston.
For more information see: www.acsa-arch.org/100
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The web-based exhibition is planned as a centerpiece
for the 2012 of the ACSA, and will demonstrate that
the achievements of architectural education in North
America are significant and provide value, interest,
and opportunities for all citizens. The website will
appeal to two principal audiences. Students, parents,
guidance counselors, and teachers in K-12 settings will
experience the dynamics of architectural education
and learn about the variety of career paths available.
Second, citizens, community, and civic leaders will find
the website a valuable resource about community design
centers, service learning, and public scholarship venues
throughout North America that bring design excellence
and the resources of the academy to the public. The
website will gather content from schools of architecture
throughout North America to portray design excellence in
the context of equity and social justice, diversity, quality
of life, sustainability, and civic leadership.
ACSANEWS May 2009
president’s report: the year in review
summary of the Annual Business
Meeting, held in Portland
by marleen kay davis
Given the distinguished 97-year history of ACSA, it would be presumptuous to claim that this
has been ACSA’s best year. Nevertheless, I am pleased to report that ACSA is in excellent shape:
organizationally, financially, and in terms of the services that it provides to its member schools
and faculty.
At the Annual Business Meeting in Portland, the ACSA Board reported on the priorities, operations, and accomplishments of the ACSA. This report, summarizes some of the key accomplishments of the last year.
ACSA 100th Web
Exhibition CURATOR
1.
A once-in-a-century opportunity for ACSA will occur in 2012, when we celebrate ACSA’s
100th anniversary. The ACSA Board of Directors and a steering committee, led by ACSA
Northeast Director Brian Kelly, has brainstormed ideas to mark this centennial. These efforts include; a scholarly book as a critical review of architectural education over the last
century; an innovative web-based exhibit targeted to a broad contemporary audience;
and thematic issues of the Journal for Architectural Education. Our 2012 Annual Meeting will be in Boston, home of the first school of architecture at MIT, founded in 1965.
2.
The National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED), created in 2007, continues in its
start-up phase, with the ACSA leadership of Kim Tanzer, Michael Monti, Tom Fisher, and
many others. Modeled on the existing National Academies chartered by Congress, the
NAED aspires to be the central repository of expertise related to environmental research
and design, with a goal of developing transformative design practices and policies in the
face of a global environmental crisis. The National Academy of Environmental Design
has incorporated, with 22 member organizations, representing over 500,000 members.
3.
Inspired by the AIA Gateway Commitment to Diversity in April 2008, ACSA
has focused on diversity this year. ACSA Northeast Director Brian Kelly
has proactively established panel discussions at both of our major conferences, initiated an informal LGBT Breakfast during the Annual Meeting, and
has started a collection of best practices and other resources for schools.
4.
Hundreds of ACSA faculty have been involved in accreditation, either in preparation
for a visit, on a team, or as part of the two year process to reassess the Conditions
for Accreditation. Under the direction of ACSA West Central Director Keelan Kaiser as
chair of the Architecture Education Committee, ACSA has provided reports, recommendations, commentary, and responses at each stage of this two-year process. On
March 1, the NAAB issued its final draft for the Conditions, which will be approved in
July 2009. We were pleased that there were no major “surprises” and that many of
the ACSA recommendations have been respected. Nevertheless, a number of detailed
concerns have been identified, in the hopes of improving the final set of revised Conditions. Thanks to ACSA staff efforts, our web site has complete documentation of the
communication during this two-year process: At this point, I confess to NAAB Fatigue!
5.
The ACSA regional conferences continue to be popular, typically with intriguing
themes that attract national interest in the peer-reviewed selection process. We had
three regional conferences last fall, and special thanks are due to the host schools.
6.
Over the last year, Michael Pride and Ted Landsmark deserve great credit in initiating
“Inside / Out”, a series of informal discussions among architectural educators and our
colleagues in interior design. First held in conjunction with Kentucky Derby weekend at
the University of Cincinnati in 2008, additional day-long meetings have been held at
call for nominations
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The Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture proposes to create a cutting-edge
website to promote the value that an education
in architecture can bring to students, citizens,
and the communities in which they live and
work. The project is planned as a centerpiece for
the 2012 centennial anniversary of the ACSA,
the membership organization for schools of
architecture in the United States and Canada.
ACSA is seeking nominations (candidates may
be either self-nominated or nominated by a
colleague) for the position of curator who will
serve as the primary contact with individuals,
schools, and other organizations that are
portrayed in the web site. The curator should
have significant knowledge of architectural
education as well as a working knowledge of
digital media. ACSA sees this as an opportunity
to sponsor creative work of a talented faculty
member who will work in collaboration with the
ACSA 100th Anniversary Steering Committee,
the ACSA Board of Directors, and a professional
web designer in two phases under two separate
contracts. This is a part-time position.
For a complete description of this position
and the web exhibition project visit:
www.acsa-arch.org/100
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Created last year, the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors
is defining its mission as a group of past winners of ACSA Distinguished Professor awards.
ACSA holds two major conferences each year, both of which exceeded
our projections for attendance. Thanks to our conference co-chairs,
Crystal Weaver of SCAD, and Alan Plattus of Yale, the ACSA Administrator’s Conference in Savannah was excellent, with the theme:
“Design… in the Economy, in the University and in the Curriculum.”
With just over 400 attendees, our Annual Conference in Portland had
a great sense of energy, derived from the keynotes, the walking tours
of Portland, the Topaz Award presentation by Adele Naude Santos,
and the many conference sessions. Everyone enjoyed the two receptions at Portland State University School of Architecture and at
the downtown center of the University of Oregon. Our conference
co-chairs, Mark Gillem of the University of Oregon, and Phoebe Crisman of the University of Virginia. developed a theme related to “the
Value of Design,” which generated a record number of submissions.
9.
The ACSA Treasurer Graham Livesey reported a healthy financial profile for the ACSA: thanks to continued vigilance while expanding effectiveness, the organization has operated in the black, although our
reserve fund investments are fluctuating in this unstable economy.
10. Publication efforts are a key service of ACSA, facilitating
communication as well as providing a major venue for faculty
scholarship and peer recognition. The Journal of Architectural
Education (JAE) has an active Editorial Board under the leadership
of Executive Editor George Dodds. Routledge has sponsored
a series of edited books based on ACSA past conferences:
the latest book, entitled Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader,
edited by Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCullough.
The 8th Edition of the ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools has
been printed, along with full text accessibility on our website.
The ACSA staff has completed an important, but time-consuming,
priority identified by faculty: past ACSA Conference Proceedings
are now indexed and will be available on our website.
11. Communication efforts continue to improve, particularly with expansions of our handsome web site. We plan a website exhibit of
awards and award projects. I hope you’ve noticed, and read, the
weekly email mini-blasts, in which we try to focus on 2-3 key issues.
12. Awards and competitions are an important form of peer recognition
valued by faculty. Hundreds of submissions to the various awards programs are judged by dozens of faculty involved different award juries.
During the Awards Ceremony, numerous faculty or programs received
award recognition. For the first time, the Award Ceremony included
images related to teaching and creative activity of the recipients.
13. As a direct outcome of some of the discussions related to accreditation, an ad hoc committee from the other collaterals developed a concept plan for an “Education Analysis.” The study
would address “What Does an Architect Need to Learn and
When?” looking at three settings: formal education, internship, and life-long learning related to continuing education. If
funded as a grant, this has the potential to be a landmark study.
14. Over the last year, the ACSA staff has completed five grants, related to the ACSA Centennial, Universal Design, and the Education Analysis. Last fall, the ACSA received a grant from the NEA.
15. A new initiative is an expansion of resources for faculty that will
be posted on the web site. with an on-going “call for content,” we
plan to build up the ACSA website as a place where faculty can
share resources related to course development and career planning.
16. ACSA has joined with AIA in “A Call for Action” related to the Obama
stimulus plan. We want our web sites to feature faculty and student
work that would relate to some of the opportunities in federal financing for short-term construction, as well as long-term research
funding. Although we currently have a submission deadline of April
15, we will continue to build this resource in the foreseeable future.
17. Rather than reading memorials regarding deceased faculty at our
Annual Meeting, ACSA will start a new tradition of collecting,
and archiving, these important tributes to architectural educators.
18. Looking forward to next year, President-Elect Tom Fisher reported on
the plans and priorities for the upcoming year, with an emphasis on
the economy, the environment, and equity. He outlined the themes
for the Administrators Conference in St. Louis in addressing global
economic challenges and opportunities, along with the “Re-Building” theme for the Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans.
Providing service to ACSA schools and faculty is a multi-dimensioned task,
with impressive efforts as described. None of this would be possible without the enthusiasm and professional dedication of the ACSA staff, under
the direction of Executive Director, Michael Monti. I want to express my
deepest gratitude for their efforts, as well as a genuine thank you to all
those who participate and contribute to ACSA. Thank you!
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the ACSA Administrators Conference in Savannah and at the IDEC
conference in March 2009. An average of 50 participants at each
of the three meetings discussed curriculum, disciplinary challenges,
and opportunities for collaboration. Nationally, many universities are
moving interior design from an art or human ecology environment
into a design-oriented academic unit. Bringing the two disciplines together while respecting the autonomy of each is an important goal.
ACSANEWS May 2009
accreditation review
NAAB RELEASES PROPOSED CONDITIONS
by michael j. monti
The National Architectural Accrediting Board published the details of its restructured Conditions for
Accreditation, providing the final draft of a document that seeks to differentiate institutional support from student performance standards, all the
while increasing the the reporting requirements for
schools.
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Find tuition and admissions
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The 2009 print edition is
now available
The 2009 proposed Conditions were released for a
90-day public comment period on March 1. “Overall, we are pleased with the final draft, particularly
that there are no major 11th hour surprises,” said
ACSA President Marleen Kay Davis. “We feel that
many of our ACSA recommendations have been
honored, with the increased emphasis on sustainability, with the less-prescriptive wording of most of
the Student Performance Criteria, with the emphasis on faculty development, with the clustering of
SPC’s into areas related to core values, rather than
curriculum, and with a broad emphasis on leadership and ethics as part of professional coursework
in integrated practice.”
More Information
A complete summary of the process to develop ACSA’s positions
on accreditation is available on a
special page of the website. Visitors will find resources such as:
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ACSA’s responses to NAAB
A PowerPoint presentation
summarizing issues with
the proposed Conditions
A version of the proposed
Conditions highlighted to
demonstrate significant
changes since 2004
A summary of reporting
requirements, including
those which may be difficult for schools to
implement.
The final draft of the Conditions is the last step of
a more than two year process of development. More than 100 faculty and administrators
contributed to ACSA’s efforts to identify issues for discussion with the new Conditions, while
NAAB engaged a similarly large group for its own efforts.
The resulting final draft presents the conditions in two parts: “Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement” and “Educational Outcomes and Curriculum.” The second part comprises the Student Performance Criteria, which have been reduced to 31, from
34, and which have been grouped into three realms, Critical Thinking and Representation,
Integrated Building Practices, Technical Skills and Knowledge, and Leadership and Practice.”
Of major concern for the ACSA Board of Directors with the new draft is the increased reprorting requirements included in the draft. These include significantly increased requirements
around faculty credentials, public information (such as Architect Registration Exam pass
rates), and budgets.
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The ACSA board released a summary of the reporting requirments that highlights those issues
which the board is concerned will be difficult for programs to implement. “The proposed Conditions clarify the content required in the Annual Program Report. However, we are concerned
that some of the information required for the APR is overly prescriptive and only marginally
related to the quality of the school or the students’ education,” President Davis said.
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ACSA has emailed schools about the proposed Conditions and held a forum for discussing
the Conditions at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting and Annual Business Meeting. Based on
member feedback and its own deliberations, the board plans to provide a formal response to
the draft by May 1.
TRANS-NATIONAL COMPETENCIES IN EDUCATION
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
by michael j. monti
The Santiago meeting continued previous
discussions of developing and measuring
competencies designed for graduates of
professional architecture degree programs, with
four of the meeting’s sponsoring schools giving
presentations on their curricula. Two other
sessions focused on developing and measuring
competencies specific to sustainability and
digital technologies.
In session one, representatives from
Universidad de Chile (whose 19th century
main administratiion building was the venue
for the meeting), Universidad de Concepcion,
Universidad Central de Chile, and Universidad
del Bío Bío.
Representatives from more than 20 schools
in South American, Central America, Mexico,
and Europe gathered in Santigago, Chile, to
continue a series of discussions of common
competencies sought as outcomes from
architectural education.
The meeting, titled “Educating Architects in a
Fast Changing World,” is the third organized
by the European Network of Heads of Schools
of Architecture (ENHSA), spearheaded by
Constantin Spiridonidis (Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece) in conjunction with a
group of Latin American architecture programs.
ACSA is also a participant of this thematic
network, which received a grant of more than
300,000 to support six meetings in locations in
Through the presentations and discussion following, it became clear that schools were cognizant of the challenge of evolving curricula to
match changes in professional practice. Participants marked changes in the overall context of
educational delivery, such as a movement to
outcomes-based frameworks based more on
projects and problem-solving and less on traditional disciplinary areas. At the same time,
the continued challenge of producing graduates with strong technical skills, particularly
those tied to traditional architectural practice,
presents schools an imperative to develop curricula that educate students with a broad understanding of the multidisciplinary context in
which architecture as a discipline and profession exists and still with a mastery of a range of
professional skills.
Additional sessions focused on specific
competencies in sustainability and in response
to the development of digital tools. These
discussions involved presentations from more
than 12 educators from Europe and South and
Central America, providing a range of looks
at projects and collaborations. Of particular
interest is “e-archi.doct,” a project sponsored
by the European Union that connects 15 schools
of architecture in Europe to create a virtual
campus through which students can pursue
post-professional (post-master’s) studies in
architecture. As Spiridonidis commented in
the presentation, this initiative responds to
the interest in developing a stronger research
consciousness in architectural education
through broad and deep opportunities for study,
largely through virtual means, across Europe.
The closing session involved a discussion of the
next steps for this group, as well as the overall
purposes of these meetings. As a European
Union¬–funded project, it was intended as
a way to increase transparency and mobility
in education—goals that match those of the
Bologna Accord, which continues to transform
higher education in Europe by attempting
to standardize the structure of educational
degrees. Yet, as was discussed, there is an
underlying interest in the funding organization
to export the European educational model
around the world—an opportunity for
engagement that would ultimately be left to
non-European schools to decide.
LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOLS
DEVELOP ACCORD
Since the beginning of this project in early
2008, participants have discussed whether or
not a multinational association of architecture
schools in Latin America was needed. With
more than 200 schools in South America alone
and more than 75,000 students, the opportunity to benefit from increased cooperation and
sharing of information seemed strong.
During the meeting in Santiago, Pilar Barba,
director of the school of architecture at the
Universidad de Chile, produced a letter of intent to create an American Network of Heads of
Schools of Architecture (ANHSA), similar to that
in Europe and well as to ACSA in the United
States and Canada and ASINEA in Mexico.
The purposes of ANHSA, as indicated in the
letter, include establishing a network open to
all schools of architecture to “analyze, debate,
revise, and construct.”
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Latin America and Europe. Previous meetings
were held in Crete, in September 2008, and
Lima, in February 2008.
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memorials
THOUGHTS OF MAX
by tony schuman
It was my great pleasure and privilege to have
known Max Bond since the heady days at Columbia in the late 60s when he came to the school
to help guide our initial efforts at community engagement in Harlem. Over that period he was a
friend and mentor and valued colleague through
a variety of circumstances and efforts. Through it
all he was remarkably consistent in his values, his
demeanor, and his architecture.
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Following that first design studio in East Harlem
in the fall of 1968, where Max was advisor to
a group of us working with the Real Great Society, my early conversations with Max revolved
around his work in Ghana. During the presidency
of Kwame Nkrumah, Max spent several years in
Ghana teaching at the University of Science and
Technology in Kumasi and building, most notably
the library in Bolgatanga in the northeast corner
of the country. As I prepared to make my own
journey to West Africa, aided by a Kinne travel
grant from Columbia, Max provided documentary materials, encouragement, and a list of contacts in Kumasi. The latter, mostly faculty from
Washington University in St. Louis and the Tropical Architecture program from the AA, received
me warmly based on my association with Max.
I was interested at the time in the intersection
between indigenous and contemporary architecture, and Max’s library provided one convincing
strategy – a fundamentally modernist notion inflected toward and informed by local culture in
the form of an broad flat concrete roof hovering
over a collection of smaller pavilions housing the
library functions in an organization reminiscent
of a tribal family compound.
In the years since, I had occasion to visit other
works by Max, among them the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change in
Atlanta, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
and the Schomburg Library in Harlem. Max’s architecture was, like his demeanor, utterly without
bombast. He derived his designs from careful
consideration of site, history, and culture, including the culture of the construction workforce. In
Atlanta, his choice of materials (masonry) and
structural forms (the vault) reflected the use of
these materials and methods in traditional African building but also the demographics of the
local labor pool, where African Americans were
skilled in masonry but absent from some other
trades because of racial discrimination. In Birmingham, his building, though substantial in size,
defers in significant ways to the Sixteenth Street
Baptist Church, site of the horrific bomb attack
by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963 that took the lives of
four young girls. The Civil Rights Institute, located
across the street from the church, is set back from
the building line so that the main façade of the
church is visible to people coming down the sidewalk. Inside the Institute, the route of the visit is
organized so that as the visitor nears the end of
the trajectory, he/she confronts a window whose
gaze focuses on the church façade. The Schomburg Library employs African hardwoods and
elements like a relief map of Africa in the lobby
floor to convey a sense of origins, but the architecture itself is straightforwardly modern. When
I asked Max about the evolution of his design
vocabulary, notably the absence of an attempt to
represent “black culture” through formal devices,
his response was candid: ‘This is the idiom I am
comfortable with.”
Max was a busy man. As an educator, practitioner, and leading figure in the African American
cultural community he was in great demand as
a speaker, as an advisor, as a consultant. In my
experience Max was someone who said ‘yes”
more often than not to these requests for his assistance. One secret of his ability to do so was
that he worked collaboratively. During the City
College years, he relied heavily on his partner,
Don Ryder, to manage their architectural practice, and on Prof. Feigenberg, his Associate Dean,
to help out at the College. So when we demonstrated in front of the South African embassy,
Max was there. When Karen Phillips, Beverly Willis and I organized a two-day, two-city workshop
on “Working Neighborhoods”, Max was there.
He answered the call when asked to head a
“critical conversation” at an annual meeting of
ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) in which faculty had an opportunity
to participate in a plenary session through a refereed response to a short “provocation” issued
by the invited speaker. Max’s topic was “Working Cities: Density, Risk, Spontaneity.”
In person Max was always thoughtful, always
congenial, and always trying to promote a unified, collective response to issues. However
softly he spoke, he was fervently committed to
fundamental principles of equal rights and social
justice, and he was a champion of these values
in every aspect of his life work. He was a participant in a study tour of Cuba for architects and
planners organized by Jill Hamberg and me in
1980 to meet with our Cuban colleagues. Max
maintained contact over the years with several
of these distinguished architects and educators,
among them Roberto Segre, Fernando Salinas,
Mario Coyula and Ruben Bancrofft, the Dean of
ISPJAE, the School of Architecture at the University of Havana. When Max became Dean of the
School of Environmental Design at City College
in 1985, he was in a position to extend these
contacts in the form of an exchange program
which for seven years took City College students
to Cuba, led by Prof. Alan Feigenberg, to engage
design projects with their student counterparts.
Regrettably, U.S. Immigration policy prevented
the Cuban students from being able to return the
visit in New York.
My last sustained interaction with Max was at a
3-day charrette held at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT) two years ago, organized
by the RPA, and sponsored by the City of Newark, to develop a “Draft Vision Plan” to lead the
way into a renewed planning effort in the city.
At Mayor Cory Booker’s invitation, Max was a
key participant in this effort. In typical fashion
he cut through the welter of sectoral concerns
(transportation, housing, public safety, economic
development, etc.) to suggest that we focus on
social equity as a core value of the undertaking,
a recommendation very much taken to heart by
those present.
As the preeminent African American architect
in the nation, Max was a role model for people
of color in the design professions. He wore this
mantle gracefully, leading through quiet example
and soft persuasion. In the process he became
a role model for us all of ethical, committed,
thoughtful citizenship. We mourn with his family, friends and colleagues this terrible loss.
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journal of architectural education
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1932. Courtesy Marlborough Gallery,
London
O P E N C A L L for Submissions
Journal of Architectural Education
This is a reminder that the JAE is continuously accepting the submission of previously
unpublished text based articles and design work for blind peer-review. Manuscripts will be
considered in two categories:
1.
2.
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Scholarship of Design - manuscripts that are primarily text based (7000 words
max. including endnotes) with illustrations serving to support the text.
Design as Scholarship - 8 (eight) page manuscripts that are primarily visual
ZLWKWH[WZRUGVPD[LQFOXGLQJHQGQRWHVDQGOLVWRI½JXUHVVHUYLQJWRVXSport the images. This work may be the product of an academic studio, or created
directly by the submitting author(s).
Submission requirements and the review process are outlined on the JAE website at
http://jaeonline.org/ under the category, Design as Scholarship.
Refer all inquiries to:
George Dodds, PhD
JAE Executive Editor
[email protected]
Phoebe Crisman Learning Barge, JAE 61:1, 2008 JAE Best Design as
Scholarship Article
Emerging Asia:
Visions, Tensions and Transformations
Theme Editors:
Marco Cenzatti, Harvard University ([email protected])
Lisa Findley,California College of the Arts ([email protected])
Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia ([email protected])
The recent outpouring of various and extraordinary design practices in Asia has driven
home the point that the architecture of Asia today is inconceivable without an account of
its historical and theoretical positions. The recent spectacular performances of architecture
for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 represent just one among several
attempts of countries in Asia to register their presence on the world stage today. As
architecture increasingly lays claim on Asia’s imagination and creativity, it has also
played an indispensible role in defining the Asian experiences and discourses of
modernity, nationalism and globalization. These undertakings, however also raise critical
concerns about the actual and potential impacts of architecture and urban design on social,
political and environmental change.
The goal of this special issue is to explore theories, histories, pedagogies and practices that
have emerged from the rapidly changing realities of architectural representation in Asia
today. Thematically, the special issue has its trio focus:
2). Examine the role of transnational design ideologies and practices which involved
Western collaborators (architects and architectural schools and professional associations)
in the production and representation of architecture in Asia.
3). Examining architecture as the material site for the formation of political identities and
public memories within the historical context of Asian situation.
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1). Exploring the production, reception and strategies of architecture and urban design as
they are crystallized in the particular context of rapid and traumatic urbanization.
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Call
For Papers
Submissions Due: September 30, 2009
The following call for submissions is the result
of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed process.
Full topic descriptions are available at:
www.acsa-arch.org/conferences
New Orleans | March 4-7, 2010
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Host School
Franca Trubiano, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tulane University
Co-chairs
Bruce Goodwin, Tulane University
Judith Kinnard, Tulane University
Theme
Overview
What is the role of the building in architectural discourse
today? As schools engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues
that are essential to the expanded field of architectural
practice, does the art and craft of building design remain
central to our curricula? Sophisticated technologies
now allow us to preview the appearance and predict the
performance of proposed buildings. Our traditional conception of design is challenged as decision-making can
be automated and building parts can be cut, routed or
printed to exact tolerances. Yet the ecological, economic
and cultural contingencies that surround each project
are increasingly complex. Recent events have exposed
the fragility of buildings as objects in the face of natural
and man-made forces and the critical role of infrastructure has been made increasingly apparent.
The 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting will engage multiple
themes associated with the changing art of building both
as artifact and as process in architecture and related disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might
balance traditional definitions of aesthetics, urbanism,
preservation and construction with innovative practices
that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.
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Bridging the Gap Between Qualities and
Quantities in Design Practice
These debates will be informed by the city of New Orleans. More than 3 years after Hurricane Katrina the
process and results of the re-building efforts at work in
this most vibrant and unique of American cities will be an
important point of reference and topic for discussion.
Despite conditions of need and crisis, many false and
unproductive characterizations continue to shape the
teaching of design in schools of architecture. Most evident is the divide that separates qualitative and quantitative descriptions, and measurements of space and
matter. This session encourages the presentation and
discussion of architectural projects, student or otherwise, theoretical or built, conceived and executed using analytical processes predicated on the evaluation
of specified data-scapes. The adoption of verifiable
processes, whether in service to structural design,
environmental sustainability, energy measurements
or systems management, can contribute to the definition of a building’s performance and as such begin
to bridge the present divide. Papers are sought which
make evident the use of analytical processes in the reconceptualization of architectural design.
Constructs and Concepts: Building in the
Design Studio
Scott Murray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In recent decades, architectural practice has traditionally been marked by a pervasive and perhaps necessary, though one might say unnatural, separation of
the process of design from the act of building. This divergence is codified in the terminology of practice: the
transition from the design development phase to construction documents technically marks a clean break
at the end of a project’s design and the beginning of
its construction. The rise of construction management,
as a profession outside of architecture, has further entrenched the architect’s disassociation with building.
These distinctions are perhaps just as evident in architecture schools, where design studios do not typically address the issues and challenges arising from
construction, ideas more often tackled in technology
courses which may or may not be related to studio work.
This session invites papers and projects that explore
diverse strategies for integrating the physical act of
making into a broader definition of design.
Alexandder Ortenberg and Axel Schmitzberger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The term “detail” itself has undergone many changes in meaning and identity and is in need of special
attention. Architecture schools do not teach how
to develop building details—even though the majority of offices will charge entry level employees
with precisely this type of architectural production. We seem to agree that once young architects have acquired problem solving skills they
will be able to master the specifics of detail on
their own. This question, however, has not been
adequately discussed as a theoretical subject.
The proposed session attempts to reinvigorate the
discourse of the detail as part of architectural education, as a practical issue and as an ethical and
philosophical quest.
Disaster as Design Moment in New Orleans
and Beyond
Jacob A. Wagner, University of Missouri-Kansas City
This session seeks papers that address the concept of a “design moment” in the wake of disasters, including Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The idea of a “design moment” suggests an uncommon opportunity to create significant interventions in the basic urban form of a particular city.
In contrast to the incremental growth of a city,
design moments are characterized by dramatic alterations of urban form in a short period of time that
may accelerate existing trends or radically transform building practice. Design moments provide a
critical juncture in the life of a particular city that
reveal both continuity and conflict with the urban
past. Beyond the impacts to the physical city, a design moment can alter the social structure, act as a
catalyst for new approaches to design education,
or foster new schools of thought that influence the
design professions for several decades.
Energy and Environmental Simulation in the
Design Studio
Ute Poerschke, Lisa D. Iulo, and Loukas N. Kalisperis,
Pennsylvania State University
The most important decisions related to energy are
made in the early design stage, for example the
building’s siting and orientation, its main materiality and construction. Since this stage is rarely accompanied by consultants for reasons of cost and
time, architects increasingly perform energy and
environmental simulation in order to receive alternative input for the idea generation process. The
session seeks papers that discuss the role of energy and environmental simulation in the architecture and urban design curricula. The main intent of
this session is to collect, exchange, and compare
teaching experiences of implementing energy and
environmental simulation in architectural undergraduate and graduate courses in order to further
enhance integrated strategies and inspire curriculum refinements.
Flood Architecture
Eduard Epp, University of Manitoba
Flood Architecture addresses cultural settlement
ideals and practices in geographic regions temporally affected by extreme hydrological/climatic
cycles, primarily in river basins. It is constituted
and determined by geophysical, technological, and
socio-cultural systems working inter-dependently
in time, space, and formal constitution. Flood Architecture recognizes and addresses the [potential]
leadership role of the design disciplines [architects,
industrial designers, landscape architects, urban
designers] as ‘agents of positive change’ together
with other allied disciplines including politicians,
civic administrators, engineers, community activists, and so on. The opportunity arises for leading
academics, practitioners and students to address
Flood Architecture in relation to these sub-themes
through both poetic and purposeful design proposals and works and to provide evidence through a
very significant academic setting.
Authors may submit only one paper per session
topic. The same paper may not be submitted to
multiple topics. An author can present no more
than two papers at the Annual Meeting as primary author or co-author. All authors submitting
papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member
schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools
or become supporting ACSA members at the time
of paper submission.
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Papers submissions (1) must report on recently
completed work, (2) cannot have been previously
published or presented in public except to a regional audience, and (3) must be written in English. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000
words, excluding the abstract and endnotes.
S u bm i s s i on P r o c e s s Flow and Contemporary Architecture Practice
Nana Last, Rice University
One of the prevailing constructs of contemporary
architecture practice is that of flow. Appearing
in and around various discussions from smooth
space, to systems theory, material logics, emergence and temporality, the construct of flow is
nearly as ubiquitous as it is broad. This makes
the intersections between flow and architecture
at once obvious and ill-defined, potentially potent
and transformative yet too frequently associated
solely with specific types of formal manipulations.
The construct of flow, however, is positioned to
serve as more than a design tool for architecture:
it is situated in a position to open up issues of deep
concern to architecture’s own definition, functioning and practical limits. This panel seeks papers
that examine models, constructs and phenomena
of flow in modern and contemporary architecture,
landscape and urban practices. Papers on all aspects of this topic that examine how flow contributes to or reimagines the discipline and practice of
architecture.
Honorable Mention: Losing to the Competition
Michael A. McClure, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
This session aims to interrogate the value of competition entries that did not make the cut, and
the role of competitions in design practice and
education. Specific ‘losing’ entries are important
examples of the working practices of particular
emerging and established designers. The schemes
of academic design competitions that did not win
or place nonetheless hold great value for the students, the school, and the larger academy.The session welcomes debate regarding their role within
larger contexts; social, practical, historical, pedagogical; it welcomes pedagogical approaches,
historical and contemporary practices, multi-disciplinary comparisons that engage competitions as
an active agent in the work
The deadline for submitting a paper to a session
for the Annual Meeting is September 30, 2009. Authors will submit papers through the ACSA online
interface. When submitting your paper, you will
be guided with the Web interface, through the following steps.
1. Log in with your ACSA username and password.
2. Enter the title of your paper.
3. Select the Session Topic for your submission.
4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any.
5. Upload your paper in MS Word or RTF format.
Format the paper according to these guidelines.
* Omit all author names from the paper and
any other identifying information to maintain an
anonymous review process.
* Do not include an abstract in the file.
* Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper.
Footnotes should NOT be included.
* No more than five images may be used in the
paper. Images (low resolution) and captions
should be embedded in the paper.
7. Click Submit to finalize your submission.
Note: Your paper is not submitted unless you
click the Submit button and receive an automatic
email confirmation.
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Detail Question(ed)
All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and
the evaluation furnished by three peer reviewers.
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Call
For Papers
Integrating Sustainability Into Architectural
Education: Are We There Yet?
Making Sense of the Architectural Production
of ‘Others’
John B. Hertz, University of Texas at San Antonio
Sabir Khan, Georgia Tech
Sustainability is now a key issue in the ethical and
technical concerns of practicing professionals.
This session will measure the progress of the integration of these same concerns into the broader
architectural curriculum. This session will ask participants to take part in a discussion about the pedagogical changes that are integrating sustainability into the broader curriculum, including technical
areas as well as studio, history/theory, and others.
While case studies are important as a snapshot of
where we are, papers should also reflect on how
individual course experiences relate holistically
to other academic offerings and to the curriculum
as a whole. It is also open to more encompassing
viewpoints regarding the greening of architectural
education, including the role of external forces,
such as accreditation criteria or calls by the AIA
for greater responsibility in the preparation of future professionals.
For a number of well-intentioned, if under-reflected, reasons - globalization of practice, cross-cultural awareness, NAAB criteria, curricular breadth
- there is general agreement that courses on the
architecture of people, periods, and places outside the Greco-Roman diffusion stream ought to
be included in the curricula of US architecture
schools. This session proposes to give these courses - and the theoretical and pedagogical questions
that their presence in architectural curricula raises
- the comprehensive appraisal they rarely get. This
session invites papers that unpack courses on architectural production in the ‘non-West’ in order to
engage and map underlying epistemological and
methodological questions. The larger goal of this
session is to sponsor a clear-headed conversation
about the relationship of such courses to architectural curricula and to architectural practice today. John Enright, University of Southern California
Material Making: The Process of Precedent Re-Generating Form: New and Old Methods
of Conceiving, Finding, Generating, Composing, and Iterating Forms in Architecture
Intersecting Infrastructures: Public Works
and the Public Realm
Katherine W. Rinne, California College of the Arts
Infrastructure is the foundation of every community
and it is the quality and extent of that infrastructure
that determines in large part the economic and social health of towns and cities. Clean water, good
schools, affordable housing, and reliable public
transportation are all essential components of city
building and for the creation of a stimulating and
open public realm. This session will focus on architectural, landscape, and urban research, practice,
and teaching that promotes deeper understandings
of the connections between the construction of
civic infrastructures and the construction of a public realm in cities and towns, and the creation of
social equity. Papers that address how infrastructures can be used as generator of design thinking
(rather than as afterthoughts left to engineers) are
especially welcome as are those that address the
rebuilding and restoration of existing or failed infrastructures as opportunities to create a more just
environment.
Is Architecture Critical?
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Marc J. Neveu, California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo
Within the context of natural, designed, economic,
environmental, and other disasters, the justification
of architecture has been understandably put into
question. What guides the making of architecture?
Is it an immediate response to a crisis; the desire
for long-term social well-being; the effect of building on natural resources; or is it simply an economic opportunity? What role does theory, if any, still
play? This session asks the question: Can architecture still be critical? This session seeks papers that
argue for, or against, demonstrate, reveal, or castigate architecture as a critical project. Papers may
relate to projects that are historical, contemporary,
future oriented, academic or professional.
Gail Peter Borden, University of Southern California
Making is a fundamental process of architecture.
Material is essential to the activity of design as well
as the resultant of the process. The role of making
and the dialogue of a design with material is the focus of this session. The session will illuminate the
potential of new materials, provide a re-interpretation of common “everyday” materials, and embrace
the process of making as a generative mechanism
of form. Papers should look at the particular the
role of materials in architecture and their influence
on precedents [both contemporary and historical]
of design process, fabrication methodology, construction procedures and legibility and influence
on built work. As in any case study method, papers should look for the deeper didactic lessons of
the precedent. The lessons may be practical and
technical in nature, or may address qualitative and
aesthetic realms. Papers for this session should be
founded in materials with the desire to identify lessons from their innate qualities and the process of
their use through design precedents.
Public-Interest Architecture
Elizabeth Martin, Southern Polytechnic State University
Architects and all design professionals are undergoing a major transformation that is both proactive (searching for roles with greater relevance)
and reactive (responsing to the humanitarian and
environmental crisis facing the world). The collaborative projects or research studies explored in
this session takes the point-of-view that an architecture of public-interest might emerge in partnership with practice, ie, public health, environmental
advocacy groups, or design/build clients. This session will demonstrate the modest, yet we believe
productive ways to prepare architecture students
to serve as stewards for our communities. Re-Building Mobility: Mobile Architecture
and the Effects on Design, Culture, Society
and the Environment
This topic addresses mobility and prefabrication in
architecture and seeks proposals that examine new
models and research that further the discussion of
how mobility and prefabrication are affecting design
and education. It has been fifty years since a group
of Airstreams caravaned through Africa. Since that
time, the notion of mobility in architecture has had
a rich history, from Fuller’s early work involving
mobility and pre-fabrication to today’s preoccupation with digital technologies. The recent Hurricane
Katrina disaster produced the “FEMA trailer,” as
provisional housing that remained for months as
urban reminders of the tragedy. This topic asks for
contributions that address the breadth of mobility
and prefabrication in architecture from high-end
prefab techniques and strategies, to possibilities
involving efficient alternatives for disaster relief, to
new paradigms in design technology and education.
William T Willoughby, Louisiana Tech University
As we rebuild architecture today, each era of designers must generate forms that best reflect their
times’ available technology. Today, generative
scripting for 3-D modeling application and tools allow designers to parametrically adjust, transform
dynamically, and evolve forms that improve performance based on environmental or programmatic
demands. The transparency of tracing paper allowed past generations of designers to overlay, deliberate over change, and explore subtle iterations
of design. Computational equivalents now allow
architects to explore, analyze, and generate variations in building form dynamically. In an attempt
to critically assess new and old methods of form
finding and responses to building performance
issues, this session seeks current scholarship on
form generation as well as historical examples of
iterative design methods.
Shrinking Cities Syndrome: Agendas for ReBuilding Andreas Luescher, Bowling Green State University
Sujata Shetty, University of Toledo
Cites all over the world are facing the prospect
of declining populations, collectively becoming
part of a global shrinking city phenomenon. While
much of the discussion of shrinking cities has focused on Europe, the challenge is acute in the U.S.,
where, following suburbanization, many cities now
present a classic ‘doughnut’ form – a sparse core
surrounded by rings of smaller cities. Cities in the
U.S. industrial mid-west are facing the additional
consequences of the decline of the manufacturing
industry and the housing foreclosure crisis. The
session takes advantage of the conference themes
to reflect on the challenge of preserving and reusing urban fabric with architectural and cultural interest within shrinking cities.
Marc J. Neveu and Don Choi, California Polytechnic
State University
Almost every school of architecture offers a suite
of courses in architectural history and theory. But
what purposes do these classes serve? After all,
the National Architectural Accreditation Board
(NAAB) requires not that such history courses be
taught but simply that students learn about Western, non-Western, and national/regional traditions.
At a time when architectural technology, pedagogical approaches, and historical methodology
are changing rapidly, how might history and theory
coursework be reconceived? This session aims to
examine strategies by which architectural history
and theory courses can address contemporary developments in architectural history, practice and
pedagogy. This session invites papers that question the content, role, and goals of courses in architectural history and theory.
Teaching Architecture - Perfecting Pedagogy
Robert J. Dermody, Roger Williams University
Every day, professors of architecture strive to
teach, inspire and engage their students in various
subjects from history and studio, to technology and
theory. They explain, share, convey, and impart
knowledge using a wide variety of formats and
methods. They do this as both accrediting bodies
and the profession require increased knowledge
and skills from graduates of architecture programs. This session seeks papers that share best practices
of teaching all courses in architecture degree programs in today’s more technically demanding environment. As schools attempt to satisfy increasing
NAAB requirements, and accommodate students’
desire for more technology teaching methods must
evolve. Presentations in this session will offer an
opportunity for faculty members of all levels to
engage in a dialogue about the craft of teaching
architecture.
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In more recent times, architecture schools across
the US have contributed substantially to humanitarian efforts to mend or improve the built environment
for populations in dire need. Building on the activism
and the hands-on teaching of the late Samuel Mockbee, many design-build programs have focused a lot
of energy, effort, and resources on helping residents
of underserved communities regain a sense of dignity by helping design and build housing, schools,
and community facilities. A number of notable organizations like Architects Without Frontiers, Architecture for Humanity, Design Corps, and Habit for
Humanity have formed collaborative partnerships
with schools of architecture on the frontline of this
massive and complex effort to assist those in need.
This session seeks papers and presentations examining design-build programs and projects that effectively integrate humanitarian directives and comprehensive pedagogical frameworks. While raising the
level of understanding, consciousness and ethics of
the architectural academic community.
Open Session
ACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into
one of the above topics.
Accepted authors will be required to complete a
copyright transfer form and agree to present the
paper at the Annual Meeting before it is published
in the proceedings.
Each session will have a moderator, normally the
topic chair. Session moderators will notify authors in advance of session guidelines as well as
the general expectations for the session. Moderators reserve the right to withhold a paper from the
program if the author has refused to comply with
those guidelines. Failure to comply with the conference deadlines or with a moderator’s request
for materials in advance may result in an author
being dropped from the program, even though his
or her name may appear in the program book.
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In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference
co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Session topics must
receive a minimum of 6 reviewable submissions
in order for the session to continue in the review
process. If a session receives fewer than 6 submissions, the session will be canceled, the papers
referred to the Open Session topic and grouped
with other open papers on similar subjects for
standard review. Chairs of canceled sessions will
be invited to chair an Open Session and continue
overseeing the peer review process and make
decisions on papers.
Accepted papers will be published in a digital
proceddings avialable for free download from the
ACSA website and a printed version on the proceeddings will be availbale for purchse after the
meeting.
Authors whose papers have been accepted for
presentation and publication in the proceedings
are required to register for the Annual Meeting.
T i m e l i n e April—Call for Papers announced
July 15—Paper submission site opens
September 30—Paper submission deadline
October—Accept/reject notifications sent to
authors with reviewer comments. Accepted authors revise/pprepare papers for publication
November 20—Final revised papers and copyright forms due
December 16—Paper presenter registration
deadline
Contact Mary Lou Baily, ACSA Conferences Manager,
with questions about paper submissions (mlbaily@
acsa-arch.org, 202.785.2324 x2)
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All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at
least three reviewers. Official acceptance is
made by the session topic chairs. Selection is
based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the
discipline of architecture, and relevance to the
session topic. All authors will be notified of the
status of their paper and will receive comments
from their reviewers.
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2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference
ECONOMIES:
ART+ARCHITECTURE
Establishing new directions for creative leadership, education and practice
The first joint conference for the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the
National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA)
Host School
Co-chairs
hotel
Theme
Host School: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Peter MacKeith + Carmon Colangelo
Chase park Plaza Hotel
212 N. kingshighway Blvd.
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Rate $165
The first joint Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and
National Council of Art Administrators (ACSA/NCAA) administrators’
conference, Economies: Art + Architecture, is being planned for
expansive and inclusive interpretation – promoting rich dialogue between
both groups of leaders about current issues in the fields of art, architecture,
and design education.
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This timely theme will serve as a catalyst in the discussion of broad areas
such as efficiency, ecology, sustainability, technology, entrepeneurship,
ethics, public art, urbanism, the new economy, and the market.
2010 Conference locations:
ACSA Northeast Region (Brian Kelly, ACSA Northeast Regional Director)
ACSA West Region (Stephen Meder, ACSA West Regional Director)
ACSA West Central Region (Keelan Kaiser, ACSA West Central Regional Director & Gregory Palermo, ACSA West Central Regional Director-Elect)
ACSA Fall Conferences are smaller than the national conferences and tend to be thematic in focus. They are most often held at the school itself,
or some combination of the school and local venues, for cost control as well as to give our constituents the opportunity to really get to
know the school, students, and faculty at the host location. Fall conferences also tend to be a bit more flexible and/or inventive than the
national version. Collaboration between schools is encouraged where appropriate. Fall Conferences are an opportunity for the host school
to bring educators from across the association to their campus, demonstrate education excellence to upper administration, and provide an
exceptional venue for student learning. They are often times a significant visibility opportunity for programs.
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Please visit the ACSA website (https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/regionalmeetings.aspx) to find a digital copy of the ‘Guide to Planning
ACSA Fall Conferences’. If you might be interested in hosting a 2010 ACSA Fall Conference, please read through the booklet and feel free
to contact your Regional Director directly with any questions, or contact Eric Ellis at the ACSA national office. Typically, Fall Conferences pay
for themselves by conference fees and contribution from the host school and ACSA.
Proposals to host a 2010 Fall Conference should be submitted by June 30, 2009. They may be submitted via mail or email and should be
submitted to your Regional Director and copied to Eric Ellis at the national office ([email protected]).
Proposals should include, at a minimum:
• Conference chair or co-chairs
• Proposed dates (late September or October, typically a Thursday - Sunday. These dates will be coordinated through the national office to
exclude overlapping fall conferences. The conference also includes the regional meeting which should be coordinated with the RD.)
• Possible theme/topics
• Possible locations/venues
• Letter of institutional support.
Submissions will be reviewed by committee including the Regional Director, past fall conference co-chairs, and Eric Ellis as staff support.
Recent history of Fall Conference host schools:
ACSA Northeast Region
2008 – University of Massachusetts Amherst (Without a Hitch: New
Directions in Prefabricated Architecture)
2006 – Université Laval (Imag(in)ing worlds to come)
ACSA West Region
2008 – University of Southern California (Material Matters: making
architecture)
2006 – Woodbury University (Surfacing Urbanisms: Recent Approches to
Metropolitan Design)
ACSA West Central Region
2008 – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ([ARCHITECTURE] in
the age of [DIGITAL] reproduction)
2006 – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Reconciliation | Remediation:
Post-Industrial Transformation)
ACSA Northeast Region Director – Brian Kelly, [email protected]
ACSA West Region Director – Stephen Meder, [email protected]
ACSA West Central Regional Director – Keelan Kaiser & Gregory Palermo, [email protected] & [email protected]
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Host School: University of New Mexico & University of Texas Arlington
Co-chairs: Tim Castillo, Phillip Gallegos, Kristina H. Yu, University of New Mexico | Brad Bell, Wanda Dye, Kathryn Holliday, University of Texas at Arlington
Conference Theme Understanding the value of “place” and cultural
specificity bring a unique design, technical, and
economic responses that challenges traditional
canons of practice and pedagogy.
Within the context of practice and pedagogy of
design, the conference title Shifting Design Identity
will seek to address international and regional
southwest responses to key questions:
The contemporary world is undergoing a major shift
in cultural process, global culture is a ubiquitous
condition that is a product of media and emerging
networks defined by new technologies. As designers
we are asked to respond and shape the future utilizing
new tools to create designs that will respond to fluid
transformation of built environment.
• Design Identity: Design roles are in a tumultuous
world of collaboration, competition, and collegiality
with many disciplines. A principal question to
explore is the definition of “design” and “role”
where professions have lost much of their force for
change to global pressures in the Southwest.
• Economic: The global economy is shifting its
priorities to address depleting resources and
environmental conditions. Designers today are
faced with emerging challenges to develop new
models for practice and pedagogy that address the
needs of our global environment.
• Cultural: The Southwest, in particular, and the
North American-Latin-Indigenous community,
in general, characterize a region of parallel
worldviews, cultures, history, contemporary
agendas, and contradictions. Can the inconstancy
of land, cultural territories, and technologies form
meaningful relationships thru design?
• Technologies: Given that design is not stable by
nature, cans the range of realities: virtual to the
real, and the tools that help create it, reconcile
shifting sense of space and place?
As we begin to understand the future of design as a
convergence of disciplines, culture and technology,
a new paradigm for creating space can emerge.
As schools of design begin to recalibrate, the
profession continues to explore the interdisciplinary
collaboration as a means of execution.
Shifting design identity intends to explore this
new paradigm influenced by culture, context,
sustainability and technology while exploring these
transformations occurring in pedagogy and practice
in the global environment.
Schedule Thursday October 15, 2009
Keynote Speaker: UNM Sponsored
Opening Reception
Friday, October 16, 2009
Culture and Inhabiting the Everyday Landscape
8:30 – 10:00 Session 1: Kristina Yu, UNM
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Wanda Dye, UTA
Lunch
Emerging Technologies
1:30 – 3:00 Session 3: Tim Castillo, UNM
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4: Bradley Bell, UTA
Keynote Speaker: UTA Sponsored
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Community Engagement
8:30- 10:00 Session 5: Kathryn Holliday, UTA
10:30- 12:00 Session 6: Phillip Gallegos, UNM
Lunch
Afternoon Tours: Los Alamos & Acoma
Emerging Technologies
The evolution and application of digital technology has reconfigured the
design profession. As new technologies continue to emerge, integration
and exploration have redefined the way
think about the architectural design
process. Designers are now presented
with a broad spectrum of cross-disciplinary opportunities to enhance and
expand current design methodologies.
As these new innovative strategies
continue to emerge, avenues for social
and cultural application are providing
a dynamic new direction for how we
practice and teach design.
Community Engagement
Architecture in the modern era is engaged in critical thinking about complex societal systems. A tremendous
pressure for change challenges historical myths about the design professions. From the utopianism of the
modernist movement to the hands-on
engagement of the deign-build ethos,
architects have developed multiple
strategies for creating an architecture
that serves a broad sense of external
community. Architecture and design
education has come under increasing
pressure to consider multiple layers of
disciplines, technologies, and cultural
systems across regions, countries and
peoples.
Submission Deadlines
Abstracts Due: May, 4, 2009 | Accepted/Decline Response: June 1, 2009
Final Papers Due: September 15, 2009
Poster Session
ACSA Southwest also welcomes submissions for poster presentations.
Posters should address the broad
themes of the conference as described
above; topics related to cross-border
and international issues and projects
are particularly welcome.
Authors
should submit a 250-word abstract
and a PDF or JPG of the poster design
for review. Posters should be formatted to be 48”x36” vertical orientation
and the poster should include a title,
presenter’s name and affiliation. Posters should be unmounted; boards and
tacks will be provided at the conference. Presenters should be prepared
to stand with their posters to discuss
and answer questions with conference
participants. The poster session will
be held Friday evening before the keynote address.
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Culture and Inhabiting the Everyday Landscape
Our daily experiences – working, shopping, driving, living in our homes -- are
made up of encounters with ubiquitous, non-specific design. “One size
fits all” structures and spaces are the
status quo in our progressively complex, globalized world. We find ourselves drawn into an unavoidable relationship with the built environment.
Paul Groth writes: “Landscape denotes
the interaction of people and place, a
social group and its spaces, particularly to the space the group belongs
and from which its members derive
some part of their identity and meaning.” (p.1, Understanding Ordinary
Landscapes) The identities of inhabitants are impacted by these spaces and
slowly, everyday activities in everyday
landscapes can accumulate gradually
into cultural space.
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2009-2010 ACSA Awards Program
Call for Nominations & Submissions
NEW ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
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Kiel Moe, Northeastern University, Project: TUBEHOUSE
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Each year the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture honors architectural educators for
exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service.
The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge
base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector.
New online submissions will begin in Summer 2009. Please visit the ACSA website for more information.
www.acsa-arch.org/awards
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thinking for a sustainable world
international student design competition
Opportunity
This fourth annual Concrete Thinking For A Sustainable World competition
offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum
flexibility.
Category I TransiT Hub
Design an environmentally responsible Public Transportation
Center focusing on architectural innovations to preserve tomorrow’s
resources.
Category II building ElEmEnT
Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable
solution to real-world environmental challenges.
Execution
Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” digital submission boards and a design
essay uploaded through the ACSA website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or
Image (JPEG) Files - www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
Payoff
Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive prizes totaling
nearly $50,000.
registration begins
registration deadline
submission deadline
results
dec 05 2008
Feb 09 2009
Jun 03 2009
Jun
2009
learn more
Program updates, including information on jury members, as they are confirmed, may
be found on the ACSA website at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
sponsors
Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & the National Ready Mixed
Concrete Association (NRMCA) and administered by Association of Collegiate Schools
of Architecture (ACSA).
For complete information go to www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
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Preservation as Provocation
Re-thinking Kahn’s Salk Institute,
2008-09 International Student Design Competition
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student design competitions
INTRODUCTION
Jonas Salk commissioned the renowned Philadelphia architect Louis I Kahn to design his new Institute for Biological Studies
in 1959. Together they collaborated and designed a facility uniquely suited to scientific research. This competition invites
architecture students to imagine the next chapter in the life of one of America’s architectural treasures, which was designated
a Historic Landmark in 1991. This challenge asks designers how the preservation of these extraordinary buildings can
provoke a profound rethinking of our current conventions about composition, construction, and building performance. The
aim is to envision a new type of facility that would be unimaginable without the existing structures.
THE CHALLENGE
The Salk Institute has been a highly successful research facility, but the changing landscape of science requires an evolution
of the campus; along with respect of the architectural and historic integrity of the site. According to the Salk Institute’s Master
Plan, “Our successful recruitment efforts are dependent on having state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment, as well
as ancillary support systems that allows our scientists to focus on their work.” Embrace the design scheme and intent of the
original master plan.
SCHEDULE
December 05, 2008
Registration Begins, online
February 09, 2009
June 17, 2009
June 2009
Summer 2009
Registrations Deadline
Submission Deadline
Prize winners chosen by the design jury
Competition Summary Publication
(registration is free)
AwARDS
Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $10,000. The design jury will meet in June 2009 to select
winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of
winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa arch.org/competitions.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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www.acsa arch.org/competitions.s.
Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
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2008-2009 acsa/aisc
Life Cycle of a School
STEEL design student competition
INTRODUCTION
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the ninth annual steel design student
competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. Administered by ACSA and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction
(AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related
to the use of steel in design and construction.
THE CHALLENGE
The ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two
separate categories:
Category I – LIFE CYCLE OF A SCHOOL will challenge architecture students to design a school for the 21st century that
critically examines life cycle and proposes an innovative solution in steel. The problem of urban growth and decay is larger than
an individual building. Therefore, architects should consider a total life cycle assessment approach to designing buildings so that
they may be adaptable, flexible, and accommodate change. This project will allow students to explore many varied functional and
aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for schools because it offers a high strength to weight ratio
and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts, or prefabricated, to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus
reducing the cost of construction. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over
the life of the facility.
Category II – OPEN with limited restrictions. This open submission design option will permit the greatest amount of flexibility.
SCHEDULE
December 5, 2008
February 9, 2009
May 6, 2009
May 2009 Summer 2009 Registration Opens online (registration is free)
Registration Deadline
Submission Deadline
Prize winners chosen by the design jury
Competition Summary Publication
SPONSOR
American Insitute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profit technical institute and trade
association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States.
AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and marketbuilding activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification,
standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction
industry providing timely and reliable information.
For complete information go to www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
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Awards
Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000. The design jury will meet in May 2009
to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results
directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at acsa-arch.org and the AISC web site at aisc.org.
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2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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How can we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings
INTRODUCTION
The 2008-2009 GREEN COMMUNITY Competition is oriented to challenge students to rethink their communities. From
major cities to college campuses, designers, planners, policy makers, and citizens are rethinking their own towns and
cities’ relationship to the environment, from where the energy originates, to where the waste ends up. The GREEN
COMMUNITY Competition will expand on themes from the National Building Museum’s sustainable exhibits Green
Community (2008-2009), Big and Green (2003), and The Green House (2006–2007). The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition
will focus entirely on the issues of sustainable development—how can individuals plan, design, and construct the world
between the buildings.
The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition will encourage students to consider environmental sustainability dependant
upon collective, community-scale efforts. The competition will also examine ways of reducing the impact of our built
environments on the Earth. The competition will explore sustainable planning strategies such as brownfield/grayfield
redevelopment, transit-oriented communities, natural resource management, and land conservation.
THE CHALLENGE
The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition offers students the opportunity to think critically about their communities, looking
ahead to a sustainable future. Locate a site in your local community or region, identify the barriers and strengths to
living sustainably, and develop a proposal to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the
environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
December 5, 2008
Registration opens online (registration is free)
February 9, 2009Registration Deadline
May 20, 2009Submission Deadline
June 2009 Prize winners chosen by the design jury
Summer 2009 Competition Summary Publication
Awards
Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $7,000. The design jury will meet
June 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of
the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org/
competitions). Competition finalists will present their concepts at the National Building Museum with travel costs covered
by the competition sponsors. Prize winning submissions will be exhibited at the National Building Museum, highlighted in
Architectural Record, displayed at the 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting and at the 2010 AIA National Convention, and will be
published in the competition summary publication.
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COMPETITION SPONSORS
Since 1857, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has represented the professional interests of America’s architects. As AIA
members, over 74,000 licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners express their commitment to excellence in
design and livability in our nation’s buildings and communities.
Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K Architects) is an internationally-renowned firm that has distinguished itself by creating
great places.
McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. From project and
product information to industry news, trends and forecasts, we provide industry players the tools and resources that help them save
time, money, and energy.
COMPETITION ORGANIZERS
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 to enhance the quality of
architectural education. ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.
The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design,
engineering, construction, and planning.
Essential to the profession for more than 110 years, Architectural Record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends,
building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.
For complete information go to www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.
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The Department of Architecture at Texas A&M
University is pleased to announce and welcome
new Assistant Professors Stephen Caffey,
Gabriela Campagnol, Gabriel Esquival,
Klein Glowacki, Eugene Wagner and Xuemei
Zhu, Juan Carlos Baltazar Cervantes.
Dr. Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M university, and a faculty fellow with the College of Architecture’s Center
for Heritage Conservation is participating in a
statewide initiative aimed at developing an online database of historic Texas church buildings
that can be used by anyone interested in reviving
or repurposing the state’s endangered sacred
places. Know as the Western Religious Heritage
Collaborative Initiative, the effort was launched
last January by the Texas Historical Commission
in collaboration with Partners in Sacred Places
(PSP), a nonprofit and nonsectarian organization
dedicated to promoting the stewardship of historic religious properties. An article by Stephen
Sharpe, detailing The Western Religious Heritage
Collaborative Initiative, appeared in the March/
April 2007 issue of Texas architect.
Dr. Stephen Caffey received his PhD in Art
History from University of Texas at Austin in May
2008. His immediate research projects include
a planned collaboration with the Visualization
department on digitally re-creating the visual
and spatial experience of a no-longer-extant
rotunda annex to the music hall at Vauxhall
Pleasure gardens outside London in the mid18th century; an art-historical case-study
of the visual and spatial programs created
by landscape architect Lancelot Brown in
his 1770 plan for Claremont, Robert Clive’s
country house in Surrey; and a transdisciplinary
examination of the aesthetics of sustainability
in the 21st century.
Dr. Gabriela Campagnol received her PhD in
Architecture and Urban Planning from University
of S.Paulo in August 2008. Her research interests
are industrial heritage, conservation and
adaptive reuse of industrial buildings; history of
company towns, American and South American
modern and colonial architecture; Her current
research investigates the origins, development,
and spatial organization of several sugar mills
located in Brazil, Cuba and United States.
Professor Gabriel Esquival received his
Master’s Degree in Architecture from The Ohio
State University. Gabriel Esquivel is a practicing
architect. He is currently working on different
collaborative projects by himself and with Kivi
Sotamaa with whom he created an office called
ESQUIVEL SOTAMAA DESIGN, concentrating on
developing a diversity of High Design projects,
concentrating on the importance of affect.
Dr. Klein Glowacki received his PhD in Classical
and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr
College in 1991. He is the author of numerous
articles on ancient Greek art and archaeology,
and is the co-editor of Stega: The Archaeology
of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete
(forthcoming 2009). He currently working on a
publication of an ancient domestic architectural
complex (c. 1100 BCE) from the archaeological
site of Vronda-Kavousi in eastern Crete and a
monograph on the ancient sanctuaries on the
slopes of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
With a background in anthropology and
archaeology architect Professor Dr. Eugen
Logan Wagner, integrates the architectural
history of the region of Middle America and
the Southwest with the revival of architectural
crafts, methods and vernacular techniques
from the past to create regional sustainable
modern architecture and historic architectural
preservation strategies for historic buildings. Dr.
Wagner is currently working on a book on the
origins and evolution of open urban space in
Middle America, to be published by UT Press.
Articles by Dr. Wagner have been published
in National Geographic Magazine; Artes de
Mexico; Fine Homebuilding and others.
Professor Xuemei Zhu is expecting her PhD in
October, 2008 from Texas A&M University. She
is currently a Faculty Fellow of the Center for
Health Systems and Design, an interdisciplinary
center housed jointly in the colleges of Architecture and Medicine at Texas A&M University. Her study has been highlighted in several
public media, including the TIME magazine.
Besides teaching environment-behavior relationships and evidence-based design, Professor
Zhu is working on two multi-disciplinary team
projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with a total budget of about
$430,000. These projects examine the potential of environmental improvements and policy
interventions in promoting children’s active
school transportation (e.g. walking) and reducing health disparities.
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Assistant Professor Michelangelo Sabatino,
PhD, of the Gerald D. Hines College of
Architecture was appointed History and Theory
Coordinator. He published an article entitled
“Space of Criticism: Exhibitions and the
Vernacular in Italian Modernism,” in the Journal
of Architectural Education 62:2 (February,
2009). Sabatino delivered a paper entitled
“The ‘Primitive’ in Italian Futurist Art and
Architecture: The Case of Capri” at the College
Art Association (CAA), Annual Conference
in Los Angeles. He served as Moderator for a
symposium entitled “The Centennial of Italian
Futurism,” at the Italian Institute of Culture,
Los Angeles. He also received a “Best Paper”
award for his essay “From Blueprint to Digital
Model: The Information Age, Archives and
the Future of Architectural History” at the
2008 EAAE/ARCC International Conference in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Sabatino presented a
paper entitled “Douglas Cardinal: Rethinking
the ‘Primitive’ in Contemporary American
Indian Architecture” at the annual conference
of the Society of Architectural Historians held in
Pasadena, California.
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The NDSU Department of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce
The Albert Levering Prize. Recognizing the ongoing importance to freehand drawing as a tool
for design, the Levering Prize is being offered to
encourage creative expression in various media
(pencil, charcoal, pen-and-ink, etc.). Third- and
fourth-year students in the department’s two
programs are eligible. The prize will be awarded
for the first time during the 2009-2010 academic year. The prize commemorates Albert Levering (1865-1929), a 19th- and early 20th-century
architect-designer-delineator whose career included architecture, journalism and illustration.
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Dr. Paul Gleye, the Chairperson of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for the last decade, has stepped down, and
Dr. Ganapathy Mahalingam has stepped in as
Interim Chairperson for the department, until a
permanent Chairperson is appointed for the
department.
The maiden voyage of the department’s first annual Term Abroad Program in Barcelona, Spain,
is underway during Spring Semester 2009, under
the leadership of Assistant Professor Stephen
Wischer. The program, which is based upon
precedents set by the University of Calgary and
Carleton University, offers students the opportunity to pursue intensive studio exploration and
supplemental seminars in the culturally rich mosaic of Barcelona for a three-month period. Students are exploring the design of a train station,
hotel, and a “client based” residence through
the symbolic structure of the Citizen “X,” which
pushes students to empathically interpret the
historical, factual and experiential influences of
the place through design exploration born from
and created for the life as it is lived here. Several exhibitions will demonstrate these designs
to the public including one in Barcelona before
the program concludes. The other exhibition
scheduled for September 2009 will bring the
experience of Barcelona to the department and
the interested public.
As part of a third-year design studio analysis,
Assistant Professor David Crutchfield and As-
sociate Professor Ron Ramsay led two classes
of students on an extensive tour of the Historic
Fargo Theatre as well as their second new stateof-the-art theater space: “Off Broadway” (currently under construction). The tour included a
review of both acoustic and blackbox theater
design principles, walk-throughs of the backstage and support areas, as well as a discussion
on the history and operation of theaters with
the facility’s Executive Director and staff.
NDSU Architecture students are designing a
booth for the second annual regional “GreenEXPO.” The display is expected to include several ecologically-sensitive design studio projects
and other related exhibits. This year, Assistant
Professor David Crutchfield was elected to
serve as Chair of the Valley Earth Week committee, the organizers of the event.
Assistant Professor Mike Christenson recently
received an award for Best Paper from the 2008
ANZAScA conference (Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association), for his
paper titled “Testing the relevance of parameterization to architectural epistemology,” which
he presented in November 2008 at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
The paper discussed aspects of building information modeling (BIM) software impacting the
study of existing works of architecture.
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at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor Scott Murray is a recipient
of a 2008 grant from the Graham Foundation
to support his research on innovative curtain
wall design in contemporary architecture, the
subject of a forthcoming book.
Associate Professor Jeffery Poss recently received two design awards. Meditation Hut II
“Le Cadeau” a small structure designed and
constructed by Poss, received a First Place in
the At Home Architect and Design Awards 2008
held in October in St. Louis and was published in
the November/December issue of the At Home
magazine. His design for the Peoria County
WWI & II Veterans Memorial received a 2008
AIA Honorable Mention Design Award from the
AIA Central Illinois Chapter. He has also been
in collaboration with the campus’ College of
Education and Architect Professor Emeritus
A. Richard Williams to develop an addition to
William’s iconic 1965 Education Building.
Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour presented a paper titled “Current Practices in Design and Construction of Tall Buildings” at the
2008 East Asia Structural Engineering and Construction conference in Taipei, Taiwan. In addition, Professor Aminmansour has been asked
by the Tall Buildings committee of the American
Society of Civil Engineering to lead the development of a manuscript on integrated design
and construction of tall buildings. Professor
Aminmansour was voted as a full member of
the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings.
He also is serving as an invited member of the
International Technical Committee of the 7th
Asia Pacific Structural Engineering & Construction Conference (APSEC 2009), August 4–6,
2009, Awana Porto Malai, Langkawi, Malaysia.
The School of Architecture of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UN + Architecture, Shanghai, China have announced the
opening of a new exhibit Roads Less Traveled
by James P. Warfield, ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture, Emeritus. The exhibition
opened with a book signing on January 4, 2009
at Kenga Kuma’s Z58 in Shanghai and continues through February 2.
Roads Less Traveled is a book and exhibition of
visual and verbal memoirs based upon forty-five
years of travel and research in vernacular architecture by American architect James Warfield.
Its text is culled from Warfield’s travel journals,
spontaneous accounts written on site as he
experienced the places and people of cultures
around the world. Portrait galleries celebrate
the dignity of the individual, the distinctiveness
of cultures, and the commonality of mankind.
Roads Less Traveled, presented in both English
and Chinese text and over 400 photographs, is a
retrospective from a scholar and a traveler who
has been privileged to explore in his lifetime the
color, texture and richness of our shared world
patrimony.
The fall 2008 issue of NOMA Magazine, the
publication of the National Organization of Minority Architects indicated that among all of the
accredited programs of the American Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is ranked fourth
from the top on the list of “Universities with 10
or more Licensed African-American Graduates”
with 53 individual graduates. The National Organization of Minority Architects on the Illinois
campus is a vibrant, committed student organization that hosts a significant annual symposium
on issues facing the architecture discipline.
Inspired by this year’s centennial of the Burnham Plan, which created such iconic features
as the city’s lakefront, the Chicago Architectural
Club announced the winner of an ideas competition, slyly called “Burnham 2.0”. Three UIUC
alumnus, Elba Gil, David Lillie, and Andres Montana, along with Michael Cady, had the winning
design from more than 70 qualified entries and
received a $10,000 prize.
Gilfillan Callahan Nelson Architects collaborated
with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture in fall 2008 to sponsor a graduate-level design studio project for the
deaf-blind and autistic students in an interactive
school, Keeneyville Elementary School District 20.
Professor Botond Bognar’s book titled, Beyond
the Bubble: The New Japanese Architecture, has
just been published by Phaidon Press in London.
Assistant Professors Roger Hubeli and Julie
Larsen of APTUM Architecture (project, “FLIPPING THE STRIP”) were awarded third place
in the Flip a Strip competition (www.flipastrip.
org) organized by the Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art and is on exhibit until January 18, 2009. The competition looked at the architectural potential of existing strip malls and
“…to envision a new future for this lowly (yet
overabundant) building stock.”
stitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
Orlando, Florida, in January 2009.
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The School of Architecture and Planning will
add the departments of Interior Design, Design,
and Digital Media as part of the restructuring
of the Fine Arts program and will be titled the
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
starting in July 2009.
Assistant Professor Mo Zell was awarded one
of the UWM Stipends for Undergraduate Research Fellows for research work to be conducted this spring with Tas Oszkay, an undergraduate architecture student. The research analyzes
exemplars of K-12 educational facilities. Data
collection will be focused on 15 case studies
representing a number of different educational
models worldwide.
The School of Architecture is organizing the
40th Annual conference of the Environmental
Design Research Association (EDRA 40) meeting in Kansas City May 27-31, 2009. Chairs
are Professors Keith Diaz-Moore, Marie Alice L¹Heureux, Mahbub Rashid and Kent
Spreckelmeyer. The Kansas City AIA is also a
sponsor of the event.
Professor Gaylord Richardson is retiring after
successfully teaching in the School of Architecture since 1975. He completed his last semester teaching fifth year design and his popular
course on Advanced Architectural Presentation
Techniques.
Professor Marie Alice L’Heureux has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with
tenure starting in the Fall 2009 semester.
Professor Bill Carswell is teaching a $15,000
practice-sponsored ŒCongregate Housing:
Residence Hall Design¹ studio.
A team of Professor Richard Farnan¹s students,
Ivan Chan and Blake Perkins received a competition mention in the eVolo skyscraper competition. Dr. Bezaleel Benjamin, Professor of Architecture, read a paper titled “Regulating Artificial
Gravity Forces in Space Exploration” at the 47th
Aerospace Sciences Meeting of the American In-
Assistant professors Kapila Silva and Jae
Chang traveled with a group of students to Korea, Malaysia, and other areas of the Far East and
collaborated with students at the the Universiti
Teknologi in Malaysia to assess the impact on
the local population of the United Nations¹ designation of Melaka as a World Heritage site.
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Professor Linda Krause and Professor Patrice Petro, Director, Center for International
Education have organized the CIE 2009 Conference- Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found.
Conference participants include Ackbar Abbas,
Sherry Ahrentzen, Robert Bruegmann, Tim Ehlinger, UWM Dean Bob Greenstreet, Alfonso
Iracheta, Andrew Kincaid, Paula Massood, Linda
McCarthy, Robert Neuwirth, Stephanie Smith,
Adjunct Professor Christine Scott Thomson,
Charles Waldheim, Georgia Butina Watson,
John Urry, and Assistant Professor Mo Zell.
More information about the conference can be
found at the following link:http://www4.uwm.
edu/CIE/research/conferences/Sustaining_Cities
John Wiley & Sons published Professor Don
Hanlon’s new book, Compositions in Architecture, in March. It is designed to be used in
several ways: as a text for courses in theory and
design methods, and as a studio companion. It
contains many analyses of buildings that can
help students understand how theory relates to
compositional principles and techniques. It also
demonstrates the utility of precedent analysis
in architectural design.
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The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
of the National Park Service, The Athenaeum
of Philadelphia and The American Institute of
Architects (AIA) announced the 2009 Charles
E. Peterson Prize, which annually recognizes
the best set of measured drawings prepared
to HABS standards and donated to HABS by
students. Visiting Assistant Professor Charles
Pipal’s student team, as part of his Arch 518
Recording Historic Buildings course, received
an honorable mention for their project Altgeld
Hall (historically known as ‘Library Hall’). The
student team consisted of: Caroline Andrews,
Allan Bernhart, Kimberly Gareiss, Katherine Lipes, James Mangrum, Timothy Penich, Joshua
Ream, Mark Stoner, and Crystal Whiters.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Peter MacKeith, associate dean and associate
professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School
of Design and Visual Arts, served as the St. Louis
coordinator for the exhibition Eero Saarinen:
Shaping the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (January 30 - April 27, 2009).
The exhibition is curated by Donald Albrecht in
conjunction with an international consortium of
Finnish and American scholars. The show was organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New
York; the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., with the support of the Yale University
School of Architecture. This is the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish American architect, who created
the monumental St. Louis Gateway Arch as well
as sweepingly abstract terminals for New York’s
John F. Kennedy International and Washington’s
Dulles International airports. The retrospective
examines the aesthetic, cultural, and political
significance of his work within the larger context
of postwar modern architecture, with materials
drawn largely from the archives of Saarinen’s
office, including drawings and full-scale building
mock-ups of more than 50 projects. In addition,
the Kemper Art Museum sponsored 1000 Arches,
a community project that invited the public to
create short films inspired by the St Louis Gateway Arch. Selected entries were screened at the
museum on April 18, 2009.
From Jan. 30 to March 9, 2009. the Sam Fox
School at Washington University in St. Louis hosted an exhibition titled On the Riverfront: St. Louis
and The Gateway Arch. The show was curated by
Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox
School and associate professor of architecture
and Eric Mumford, PhD, associate professor of
architecture, history, and art history. On the Riverfront profiled the people, events and conditions
that culminated in the 1947-48 competition from
which Eero Saarinen’s design was chosen, as well
as the monument’s subsequent construction and
its place in American architecture. In conjunction
with the exhibition, the Sam Fox School hosted
a symposium on Jan. 31, 2009. Participants from
Washington University in St Louis included: Cynthia Weese, former dean of Architecture; Robert
McCarter, the Ruth & Norman Moore Professor
Eero Saarinen, with J. Henderson Barr (renderer), Dan Kiley (landscape architect), Alexander Hayden Girard, and Lilly Swann
Saarinen. Detail from Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, First Stage Competition entry, 1947. Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial Archives, National Park Service. From the exhibition “On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch.
of Architecture; Stephen Leet, associate professor of architecture; Eric Mumford, associate professor of architecture; Patricia Heyda, visiting
assistant professor of architecture; Robert Duffy,
Senior Adjunct Lecturer; Mary Brunstrom, doctoral student, Washington University in St. Louis;
and William Gass, one of the most critically acclaimed authors of fiction and critical prose and
the David May Distinguished University Professor
Emeritus in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis. Also participating were: EevaLiisa Pelkonen, Yale University, co-editor of the
exhibition catalog for Eero Saarinen: Shaping the
Future; architect Robert Burley, who led the Arch
design team for Eero Saarinen and Associates;
and Charles Birnbaum, founder of The Cultural
Landscape Foundation and former coordinator of
the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative. Other speakers and respondents included
Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor, Helsinki,
Finland; Robert Moore, National Park Service, St.
Louis; Hélène Lipstadt, DOCOMOMO US, Boston;
Gyo Obata, architect and founding partner of
HOK, St. Louis; Jane Amidon, associate professor
of landscape architecture, Ohio State University;
Sarah Goldhagen, historian and critic, The New
Republic; Harold Roth, architect, New Haven, CT;
landscape architect Susan Saarinen (Saarinen’s
daughter) and former Finnish ambassador Matti
Häkkänen (Saarinen’s second cousin).
Patricia Heyda, LEED AP, visiting assistant
professor of architecture, co-organized the
Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette
in St. Louis Nov. 6-9, 2008. The event brought
together professionals with 48 students in art,
architecture, landscape design, urban design
and transportation engineering from five universities: Washington University, Drury University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
University of Southern Illinois -Edwardsville and
Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Working in inter-disciplinary teams, the students
brainstormed ideas for revitalizing St. Louis’
central riverfront and Arch grounds. The charrette was co-funded by the St. Louis Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects Scholarship
Fund and by the Transportation Engineering Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. All proposals
were exhibited at the Landmarks Association of
St. Louis and in Steinberg Gallery at Washington
University, in conjunction with the major retrospective of Eero Saarinen’s work at the Mildred
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Sophia Psarra, associate professor of architecture, has published the book Architecture and
Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural
Meaning, published by Routledge. The book explores the ways in which arrangement of spaces, social relationships, and cultural content
are fundamental to how buildings are shaped,
used, and perceived. Narrative enters architecture through the ways in which space is structured to achieve specific effects on our perception. Architects employ conceptual-formal patterns independently from a viewer’s experience
but also organize space from the viewpoint of
an observer. The act of perceiving is linked with
the sequential unfolding of information as our
bodies pass through space.
Examining the three notions of conceptual,
perceptual, and social space, Architecture and
Narrative explores the ways in which these
three dimensions interact in the design and life
of buildings. Looking at how meaning is constructed in buildings and how it is communicated to the viewer, this intriguing study will be of
interest to anyone concerned with architecture
and culture: from architects to museum specialists and exhibition designers.
M.Arch. students Ryan Horsman and Jason
Dembski won second place in the Student
Product Design category of the second annual International Design Awards Competition
for their “Chopstick/Steamer Stool.” Horsman
and Dembski developed the Chopstick/Steamer
Stool as part of a summer abroad program at
B.A.S.E. Beijing with support from founders
Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray. The goal
of this particular project—taking cues from
Chinese culture and its ability to make excess/
waste useful—was to (re)use everyday Chinese
items in new ways. The Chopstick/Steamer Stool
takes traditional bamboo steamers, thousands
of disposable chopsticks, and simple cushioning material and combines them into a piece
furniture. The stool uses six bamboo steamers
stacked vertically and bound. Peaking out of
the top steamer are thousands of disposable
chopsticks—accumulated in less than a year
by a ‘one child policy’ family—packed together
and standing on end. Serving as a middleman
between the steamers and the chopsticks is
a basic cushion. Although foam is ideal, the
cushion could be made of anything from an
old rickshaw seat to a pile of rags. The cushion
allows the chopsticks to move independently
under pressure and prevents them from falling through the steamer racks. When combined
in this way, these fundamental Chinese items
form a deceptively comfortable stool which can
reasonably be made without spending a single
yuan. Four stools were made this summer. At
the time of entry two prototypes were on display in FEI Space in Beijing’s 798 Arts District
and two others were sold through FEI Space.
A project by Michigan Architecture students
Francis Wilmore, Jennifer Cramer, and Courtney
Brinegar has been selected as a special mention
for the 2009 Skyscraper Competition organized
by eVolo Architecture, which called for “innovative designs that take into consideration the
historical and social context, the existing urban
fabric, the human scale, and the environment.”
The group’s project is called “niu shu” and was
originally created for the team’s graduate studio with Max Fisher visiting professors David
Erdman and Clover Lee for fall 2008. The class
focused on creating new approaches towards
high-rise living in Hong Kong, which is generally driven by the economics of development.
The team describes niu shu: “In the reality of a
global consumerist society, William McDonough
states that we need to ‘honor commerce as the
engine of change.’ This project aspires to an
aliveness that is not only literal in an environmental sense but also culturally and formally.
The niu (new) shu (shoe) is a play on the pronunciation of the denoted Mandarin words for
twisting and tree that carry a connoted English
context. Hong Kong is comprised of a repetition
of ubiquitous, shoebox-like forms that are only
differentiated through their marketing. As the
towers grow from the ground they translate the
lost space of nature into an enhanced environment of consumerism. By using sustainability
as a visible marketing tool to differentiate our
design the complex becomes a living organism
that prospers from a blurring of what is residential enrichment and commercial capital.”
According to Wilmore, “we worked within this
economic scheme to create a unique living experience for residents that would be subsidized
through a hydroponic farm within the towers.
The food would then be processed and sold in
the market at the base of the towers.”
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Niu shu will be featured in several architecture
and design journals including eVolo MAGAZINE.
In addition, it will be included in an exhibition
planned for the summer of 2009 in New York
City. The exhibition will present the best projects
of the 2006-2009 Skyscraper Competition.
Professor of Practice in Architecture Mary-Ann
Ray received a grant from the Graham Foundation for the forthcoming publication of the project
Caochangdi : Beijing Inside Out - Farmers, Floaters, Taxi Drivers, Artists, and the International Art
Mob Challenge and Re-make the City, authored
by Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, co-principals of Studio Works in Los Angeles. The content
for this work has involved nearly sixty students
from Taubman College to date through their involvement with seminars in Ann Arbor and with
the Beijing studio that has taken place at BASEbeijing for the past three years with Mangurian,
Ray, and Robert Adams, associate professor at
Taubman College.
Caochangdi, one of nearly 500 urban villages
in the city of Beijing, tells the story about itself
and its mostly illegal residents, including farmers,
“floaters” (members of the Floating Population
who are rural to urban migrants), taxi drivers, and
world-class artists. The village also has embedded
within it both the problems and possibilities of a
new urban space that is redefining the city of Beijing at this pivotal point in human history when
cities make up half of the world’s population. The
authors, who live and work in Caochangdi for
part of each year, dissect the multiple phenomena that form this dynamic urban condition.
Caochangdi : Beijing Inside Out will be published
by Timezone8 publishers, Beijing, and distributed
by DAP (Distributed Art Publishers), and will include never before published texts by Pi Li and Ai
Weiwei. The book is expected to be published in
the spring/summer of 2009.
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Assistant Professor Thomas Morton received
the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award at
the 2009 Conference. Professor Max Underwood was named a President’s Professor in
the Fall of 2009. Director Darren Petrucci was
named one of the Emerging Voices of 2009 by
the Architectural League New York and his and
Assistant Professor Renata Hejduk’s VH-R10g
House on Martha’s Vineyard was picked as one
of Architectural Record’s 2008 Record Houses
and received an AIA Arizona Merit Award. Professor Dan Hoffman with Studio Ma won an
AIA Arizona Merit Award for their 130 North
Central housing in downtown Phoenix. In 2008,
two teams co-taught by Associate Professor Ken
McCown won student awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and in the
“Integrating Habitats” competition in Portland,
OR one student team earned a first prize and
another won and honorable mention.
University of Calgary
The Architecture Program is pleased to announce the appointment of two new faculty
members in the areas of materials/methods,
and digital fabrication: Jason Johnson and
Josh Taron. Jason was educated at Ball State
University and the Architectural Association,
and was recently an adjunct professor at Ball
State. Josh was educated at Berkeley and ScArc and joins us from practice in Los Angeles.
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David Monteyne will be a Visiting Scholar at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal during the Winter 2009 term.
The book Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture,
co-edited by Branko Kolarevic, Haworth Chair
in Integrated Design, and Kevin Klinger, was recently published by Routledge. The book examines the synergetic relationships between design
and making in architecture and the increasing
attention devoted to intricate, often complex effects in material and surface articulation. Dr. Kolarevic has given several public lectures in 2008;
his lecture titled “Integrated Design: From Digital
to Material” at the University of Salford School of
the Built Environment in Manchester was the inaugural lecture for that School’s newly launched
MS program in Digital Architectural Design.
Marc Boutin was named Associate Dean (Architecture) on July 1, 2008. This is a new position that coincides with the administrative
reorganization of the Faculty of Environmental
Design into two graduate programs: Architecture and Environmental Design. He delivered
an invited lecture on “Negotiated Space” during Copenhagen’s Metropolis workshops in July
2008, and led a design workshop exploring the
same theme for the Nordhaven area of the city.
The second, revised edition of Wine By Design,
by Loraine Fowlow and Sean Stanwick, will
be released by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. The
book highlights the best of international contemporary winery design, and includes commentary on current trends in the wine industry
such as wine tourism, celebrity wineries, and
the winery hotel/spa, as well as the development of green/sustainability initiatives.
Graham Livesey is working on a doctorate at
TUDelft in the Netherlands and is examining the
legacy of the Garden City movement. He gave a
paper at the recent AHRA Conference at the University of Sheffield entitled “Assemblage, Agency,
and Ecologies of the Contemporary City.”
Catherine Hamel has the essay “Crossing into
the Border: an Intersection of Vertical and Horizontal Migration,” coming out in March 2009
in the book in Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations
on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge,
edited by A. Broeckmann and G. Nadarajan.
Visitors to the Architecture Program during
2008-09 include the distinguished Zagreb-based
architect Hrvoje Njiric, as the 2009 William
Lyon Somerville Visiting Lecturer; he directed a
studio charrette on homelessness and gave a
public lecture. The 2008 Gillmor Visiting Lecturer
was Karen Till from Virginia Tech. Marc Fornes
was the inaugural 2009 Dale Taylor Lecturer, he
directed a one week digital fabrication workshop; Fornes is the founder of THEVERYMANY, a
design studio and collaborative research forum.
Guest reviewers for final design projects have
included John Shnier (Toronto), Randy Cohen
(Montreal), Adrian Blackwell (Toronto), and Michael Everts (Montana State).
University of California, Berkeley
Therese Tierney is a doctoral scholar at UC Berkeley has recently published Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface (Princeton Architectural
Press). The book argues that the integration of
digital methodologies into architectural pedagogy and practice have opened up an ontological
crisis. Abstract Space demonstrates in both text
and graphics that the architectural expression (of
which the image is an important and powerful
part) is not limited to one definition; it exists as
a complexity and is variable. Therese is currently
a Malcolm Reynolds Fellow at UC Berkeley and
was a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s Media Lab during 2005.
Avigail Sachs, PhD candidate at CED has published recently two articles: “The Postwar Legacy of Architectural Research” in JAE 62/3 pp.
53-64)and “Marketing through Research: William Caudill and Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS)”
in: JOE 14/1 pp. 737-752
The new Berkeley Summer Program
[IN]ARCHITECTURE comprised of an eightweek curriculum will be launched from June
22- August 14. For information please see
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/programs/summer.
At the Spring 2009 ACSA conference in Portland,
Keith Plymale lecturer at UC Berkeley presented conceptual digital modeling work performed
by his first year undergraduate studio. The projects are the result of a research grant and collaboration with Autodesk software company
and has led to some evolutionary discussions
about first year pedagogy and the design of the
software being used to produce digital models
in concert with physical models.
University of Nevada Las Vegas
A design team of twelve students led by Glenn
NP Nowak, Assistant Professor, exhibited their
architectural installation at the Fringe Festival
University of Oregon
Professor Kevin Nute has received funding support from the University’s Office of Equity and
Diversity to organize a series of special lectures
on the Japanese American Internment in the Pacific Northwest, to be hosted by the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts between April and
June. The lectures relate to a diversity-centered
design studio Professor Nute is teaching in the
spring, “Outside Inside—The Pacific Northwest’s Japanese American Internment Remembered,” which is being funded by a Joel Yamauchi Memorial Fund award. The studio involves
the design of a new Oregon Nikkei Legacy
Center in Portland’s former Japantown as well
as new visitor interpretive facilities at the Minidoka National Historic Site in southern Idaho,
where the majority of Oregon’s Japanese American population was incarcerated between 1942
and 1945. The lectures will examine the legal
and human implications of the Internment and
its relevance today. Speakers include Tetsuden
Kashima, Professor of American Ethnic Studies
at the University of Washington, Seattle; Peggy
Nagae, lead attorney on the successful Minoru
Yasui Supreme Court appeal; Wendy Janssen,
National Park Service Superintendent, Minidoka
National Historic Site; and former University of
Oregon students who were held at Minidoka.
An accompanying photo exhibit has been created by the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center with
the help of the School of Architecture, and will
become a permanent traveling educational
exhibit after the University of Oregon lecture
series. Professor Nute has also been invited to
teach as a Visiting Fellow at the University of
Queensland, Australia in the fall, when he will
be giving a series of lectures and seminars at
other Australian schools on his work on the role
of time in architectural space.
Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi was selected
by the School board of Visitors external review
committee to receive the 2009 Mulvanny G2
Faculty Research Award for his research project
entitled, GATE: Green Affordable Teaching/Learning Environments. The committee commented
that Elzeyadi’s proposal articulated a national
statement of need for research to correlate built
environment retrofit of existing classrooms with
student health and well being. The project is particularly timely and has the potential to provide
a metric for a knowledge-based economy.
Professor Jim Pettinari and Associate Professor
Hajo Neis with the help of graduate research
students finished a research project on ‘centers
and corridors’ in the Portland Metropolitan Area
with a study on “Vision of Future Downtown Tigard.” The study, which can be seen at the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory
website (puarl.uoregon.edu), was done in close
cooperation with Tigard planners Ron Bunch
and Sean Ferelly and received acclaim by the
city and the Metropolitan Government METRO.
In a next project, Neis and Pettinari will focus on
a seven-mile corridor in the City of Tigard.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter is organizing with
GLUMAC and moderating a Sustainability Innovation Event featuring one of the world leading
architects on Sustainability and Advanced Building Systems Integration “Christoph Ingenhoven
Architects” at the USC Energy Institute on Oct.
2. 2008. Co-Sponsors include CLUMAC, Gensler
Architects, GABA German-American-Business
Association, and others. Christoph Ingenhoven
designed numerous award-winning Low-Energy-High-Rise-Buildings and recently the zerofossil-energy main train station infrastructure in
Stuttgart, Germany, which will also be featured
in his innovation lecture at the Architectural Records Innovation 2008 Conference in New York
City. Prof. Spiegelhalter is also collaborating with
Landscape architect Peter Drecker in Germany
on a master plan with sustainability indicators
for a low-carbon, Zero-Fossil-Energy-Settlement
proposal (Nullenergiesiedlung) for the redevelopment of the Brownfield area of Thyssen-Krupp
in Oberhausen, Germany, 2008-2009.
The USC School of Architecture, Anthony A.
Marnell II. Italian Studies program, based at
the Centro DI Cultura Scientifica “Alessandra
Volta”, Villa Olmo in Como has been asked
to participate in an appointed Task force,
“Think Tank” to study the future Economic
and Planning strategies for the City of Como.
Appointed by the Mayor of Como and the
Centro Volta Scientific Council, a group of 11
business professionals from the City are working
alongside the following Academic Panel: Prof
Umberto Bertele, Planning Strategies, Politecno
di Milano; Prof Guido Martinotti, Urban
Sociology, University Degli Studi di Milano
Bicocca; Prof Gioachino Garofoli, Economics
and Politics, University degli Studi dell’ Insubria;
Prof Graeme M. Morland, Architecture / Urban
Design, Director, USC, School of Architecture;
Italian Studies program, Prof Giuseppe Filiputti,
Architect, Milan, USC Program Co-ordinator. In
January 2008, the Second intermediate report
was presented to the City, following a working
session with the Mayor and the Panel.
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Students from the USC Chase L. Leavitt Graduate
Building Science program published 14 papers
at conferences including the Oxford Conference
– 50 years on – Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education; Solar2008, the American
Solar Energy Society in San Diego; the Society
of Building Science Educators Retreat; the ACSA
Conference in Houston, and the 2008 Composites Australia/Composites CRC Conference.
Over the summer Eui-Sung Yi and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter collaborated for Chang Yo Architects on
an competition entry for the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo. Their design incorporated an innovative environmental engineering solution surpassing LEED standards that we developed with Buro
Happold Los Angeles. Their proposal has made the
final shortlist of three. Ryall Porter Architects N.Y.
and WROAD started a collaboration on a high end
residence project in Santa Monica. The ambition
of the project is to achieve a zero-energy solution
in collaboration with Buro Happold.
Michael Hricak, FAIA and Mina Chow, AIA
are currently providing observations and commentary on some of America’s most revered
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in Australia this past month. Glenn and his
students also delivered formal presentations of
their work to the School of Architecture at the
University of Adelaide. The design team members along with Dr. Janet White, Assistant Professor, are representing the work in Las Vegas
venues throughout the semester. Information
on this design project can be found at www.
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buildings on the AIA affiliated website www.
shapeofamerica.org. Buildings examined include Kahn’s Exeter Library, the Cadet Chapel
at the USAF Academy, Taliesin West and the
Hearst Castle.
Michael Hricak is currently
serving on the Editorial Advisory Board for Architectural Record. This past summer Michael
Hricak participated in “Dwell on Design/Los
Angeles” speaking on sustainability practices
in residential architecture.
Mark Gangi was elected President of the AIA
Pasadena Foothill Chapter 2009. He aslso won
a 2008 AIACC Savings by Design Award in Sustainability Water + Life Museums 2008
Gail Peter Borden received the prestigious
Borchard Fellowship which will provide him with
the Chateau de Bretesch and $30,000 to study
the material implications of Ledoux and the tectonic implications of architecture parlant.
John Enright, Assistant Professor at USC and
principal of Griffin Enright Architects, received
a California Council AIA Honor Award for the
“Keep Off the Grass! Installation.” The firms
Point Dume Residence was featured in an article
in the New York Times entitled, Of the Sea and
Air and Sky, in November. Three residential
projects are featured in the recent publication,
1000x Architecture of the Americas, edited by
Michelle Galindo, Verlagshaus Braun, 2008.
John Enright lectured at the LA Forum as part
of its “Loose Talk: Out Their Doing series,”
moderated by Eric Owen Moss. Other recent
lectures include “Recent Work” at Outlet
16 at the Mandrake, and “In the Academic
Realm: 3 projects that explore new strategies
in Educational Architecture,” at the Los Angeles
AIA’s Design Dialogues event.
Chris Warren and Mario Cipresso of Studio
SHIFT have been selected by RFP as one of
seven firms to compete in the second stage of
a competition for a Center for Disease Control
Complex (approx. 430,000SF) in Taiwan. The
proposal is due in March.
Doug and Regula Campbell were invited to
present a case study of their masterplan, architectural and landscape architectural design of
Audubon Center at Deb’s Park for the Designing the Parks Conference Part II held in Sausalito, CA in early December 2008. The project was
selected not only for its LEED’s Platinum rating,
its inclusive planning and design process, and
that it offers a welcoming, educational wilderness experience to its underserved neighborhood as well as the region; but also because it
uses the interpretive media of architectural and
landscape architectural design to deepen visitors’ experience of and connection to Nature.
southeast
Catholic University of America
Assistant Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD,
presented an invited talk “Architecture Without
(Male) Architects: Women’s Empowerment in
Grameen Bank Housing in Bangladesh ,” at the
htc.workshop, School of Architecture , Florida
International University, in November 2008. He
has received a $10,000 grant from the Royal
Netherlands Embassy in Washington to organize the Dutch lecture series at CUA, “The
Dutch Element at NY400: Celebrating 400 Years
of Dutch-American Friendship.” The series included four speakers from the Netherlands :
Nathalie de Vries of MVRDV, Edzo Bindels of
West 8, Lars Spuybroek of Nox, and Jurgen Bey
of Studio Makkink and Bey.
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Professor John Stuart recently completed The
New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and
Community Building, 1933-1940. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2008. (co-edited
with John F. Stack, Jr., and with contributions
by Mary N. Woods, Cornell University; Marianne Lamonaca, The Wolfsonian-FIU; and Ted
Baker, formerly of FIU). The book appeared in
coordination with the exhibition A Bittersweet
Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-1943,
which Stuart co-curated with Marianne Lamonaca and Jon Mogul of The Wolfsonian-FIU.
Associate Professor Marilys Nepomechie,
FAIA, and Landscape Architecture Chair Marta
Canaves, ASLA, IIDA have been awarded 2008
design honors from the American Institute of Architects Florida/ Caribbean Region and from the
Miami Chapter of the AIA for sustainable, affordable housing and infrastructure in Smoketown,
Kentucky; the project was researched in collaboration with the University of Kentucky College
of Design. The AIA Florida/ Caribbean design
awards were juried in Buenos Aires. The distinguished international jury panel was chaired by
Jorge Glusberg, director of the Museo Nacional
de Bellas Artes, Argentina. Jury for the AIA Miami Awards was held in Boston, Massachusetts.
Nader Tehrani, of Office d’A and MIT, chaired a
panel of prominent architects and critics.
Nepomechie was named winner of the
2008 William G. McMinn Honor Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Architecture
Education, conferred by the Florida/Caribbean
Association of the American Institute of
Architects. She and Marta Canaves were
invited speakers at the 2008 AIA Florida/
Caribbean Annual Convention.
Nepomechie and Canaves are also the recipients
of a Cejas Research Endowment Grant in support
of their interdisciplinary scholarship on mid-century hotels and tourism in Miami, Florida and La
Habana, Cuba. Nepomechie is essayist and editor, and Canaves the designer, of Bienal Miami +
Beach 2001 - 2005: A retrospective (Ediciones
TRAMA, 2007). Published by Professor Jaime Canaves, FAIA and University of Miami Adjunct Professor Carlos Casuscelli, the bi-lingual volume
has been designated as an international book
award finalist by the 9th Bienal de Arquitectura/
Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
Nepomechie was an invited speaker at the 2008
National Grassroots Conference in Washington
Nepomechie has been named to the Editorial Advisory Board of Architectural Record.
Professor Jaime Canaves, FAIA, IIDA is the recipient of the AIA Miami 2008 Architect of the Year
Award. Canaves was invited as guest speaker
and member of the International jury panel for
the XXI Bienal de Arquitectura de Colombia in
Cartagena and the 2008 Bieanl de Arquitectura
de la Republica Dominicana in Santo Domingo.
He participated as a panelist for the Response
and Responsability Round Table during the Build
Boston Conference. The Session was sponsored
by the International Committee of the Boston
Society of Architects.
Professor Jeffrey Kipnis (The Ohio State University) is the 2008-2009 Paul L. Cejas Eminent
Scholar in Architecture. Kipnis gave four lectures
outlining problems confronted in contemporary
architectural practices, and held a series of seminars with graduate students and faculty during
his fellowship. Bernard Tschumi was the 20072008 Cejas Eminent Scholar.
Assistant Professor David Rifkind organized
the first two htc.Workshops, a series of semi-annual symposia which provide a forum for new
research in architectural history, theory and criticism. The htc.Workshop invites emerging scholars to discuss their work with peers and senior
scholars representing a number of disciplines in
order to work through difficult material in a collegial setting. Consistent with the international
focus of FIU and the Department of Architecture,
the htc.Workshop places special emphasis on
contemporary research examining architecture
in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia
and Eastern Europe. The fall htc.Workshop featured papers by Esra Akcan (University of Illinois
at Chicago), Adnan Morshed (Catholic University), and Sarah Teasley (Northwestern University), and was moderated by Katherine Wheeler
(University of Miami). The spring htc.Workshop
presented work by Colette Apelian (Berkeley
City College), Vladimir Kulic (Florida Atlantic
University), and Itohan Osayimwese (University
of Washington), was moderated by Marianne
Lamonaca (The Wolfsonian-Florida International University), and featured a keynote lecture by
Fasil Giorghis (Addis Ababa University).
The undergraduate architecture program at FIU
has – for the first time – received over 1,000 applications for the 60 seats of the entering 2009
freshman class.
Assistant Professor Jason Chandler organized
the exhibition Engaging the Urban, featuring 23
recent infill projects by ten young Miami firms.
The exhibition opened with a roundtable discussion moderated by department chair Adam
Drisin and Assistant Professor David Rifkind.
Assistant Professor and digital design coordinator Eric Goldemberg coordinated a two-day
conference, Digital Pulse in Architecture, which
focused on the discussion and showcase of digital design’s potential to unveil rhythmic sensations, the fundamental pulsation qualities of
architecture. The symposium was a unique event
for the state of Florida, as it showcased the work
of some of the most relevant designers of digital
production. The keynote was delivered by architecture critic and theorist Jeffery Kipins, and the
guest speakers were Hernan Diaz Alonso, principal of Xefirotarch, Ali Rahim, design director
at Contemporary Architecture Practice, Ferda
Kolatan, principal of su11, Perry Hall, painter and
musician, David Ruy, co-director of Ruy Klien,
Marcelo Spina, leader of PATTERNS, and Eric
Goldemberg, principal of MONAD Architects. The
conference represented an opportunity to reveal
and disseminate provocative concepts and innovative fabrication techniques of contemporary
architecture design, a revelation of cutting-edge
technologies that are changing the way in which
space is conceived and built.
Savannah College of Art & Design
Brian Wishne has accepted the position of dean
for the School of Building Arts. He has served
as chair of the department of architecture at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has
worked as project designer at a number of design firms including Engberg Anderson Design
Partnership and Space Design International Inc.
Wishne also has served as a staff designer with
Michael Graves and Associates in Princeton, N.J.,
and as a faculty member for the University of
Cincinnati’s School of Architecture and Interior
Design. He is the recipient of an Honor Award for
Design Excellence from the Architects’ Society of
Ohio of the American Institute of Architects and
an Award for Excellence in Architectural Design
from the Cincinnati chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Professor Emad Afifi was the keynote speaker at
the annual conference of the Illumination Engineering Society of North America (IES). The topic
of the keynote address was “Inspiration-- Shedding Some Light on the Value of Design, Creativity and Innovation”.
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Professor Scott Dietz received an AIA Design
Honor award for the Julia & Malcolm Butler
residence, Savannah, Georgia. The project was
published in the AIA Georgia Journal. He also
received an award from the Historic Savannah
Foundation for the Deborah & Roy Williams residence in Savannah, Georgia.
Professor Matthew Dudzik had a paper accepted to the Art and Design for Social Justice
Symposium hosted by Florida State University.
This paper presents findings from his research
‘Examining the Psychology of Space in a Culture
of Fear,’ and is co-authored with Professor Hannah Mendoza, a professor if Interior Design at the
Savannah College of Art and Design.
Dr. Mohamed Elnahas joined the Savannah
College of Art and Design in September 2008.
He is teaching environmental control and design studio. His teaching philosophy revolves
around bridging the gap between technical
courses and design studio by integrating other
classes in studio projects.
Professor Alexis Gregory served as the moderator of a panel discussion at the 2009 AIA South
Carolina Spring Meeting in Charleston, SC. The
panel topic is “Overcoming Obstacles to Women’s
Achievement in Architecture in South Carolina.”
Prof. Hug Ngo gave a lecture in the College of
Architecture at Texas Tech University. He also received the runner up award to the 2008 Educator
of the Year Award from Bentley Systems Inc.
Professor Andrew Payne has officially completed his PhD in Design from the College of Design
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Boston, Massachusetts. She serves as National
Vice Chair of the AIA Small Projects Advisory
Group, and on the Institute’s 2009 Small Firms
Task Force.
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at NC State University. His research “Understanding Change in Place” focused on way-finding by visually impaired pedestrians. He also had
a paper presented in the 2008 West Fall ACSA
Conference in Los Angeles, CA, and two magazine articles published in Jacksonville Magazine
on Universal Design and Aging in Place.
Chair Scott Singeisen presented a paper, coauthored with Dr. David Dirlam, titled, “Collaboratively Crafting a Unique Architecture Education
through MODEL Assessment” at the SID2008
conference, The 7th International Workshop on
Social Intelligence Design - Designing Socially
Aware Interactions.
Professor Scott Sworts’ spring 2008 Design
Studio VI course received an Honorable Mention award in the Leading Edge Design Competition. The Award was a Citation of Merit for
Integration of Onsite Energy Generation.
Prof. Ming Tang was interviewed by Charlie
Rose for his award winning project Folded Bamboo House in New York City. His design was the
only architectural project selected by the jury
in the finalist of the Earth Award 2009. He also
won the third place of Live the Box competition
sponsored by AIA Newark & Suburban and the
Young Architects Forum, which was featured
in the article named “The Shipping Container
as Building Block” by Antoinette Martin in the
New York Times. He also won an Honorable
Mention in the Re: Construct: Sustainable Materials and Building Practices competition, the
second place in the Streetscape in A New World
international competition in Shanghai, China,
and the third place in Homeland Rehabilitation:
Design Competition of Rehabilitating Wenchuan Earthquake-stricken Area, China.
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Prof. Ming Tang had his book, Urban Paleontology: Evolution of Urban Forms, published in October 2008, co-authored with Professor Dihua
Yang.
Professor Tim Woods’ “Moon River House” will
be published in a Rizzoli publication, titled Southern Cosmopolitan by author Susan Sully in March
2009. His sustainable modular home design
called the “Living Machine” was published in the
2009 Jan/Feb issue of Natural Life Magazine.
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
5th Year student Je’Nen Chastain was elected
from the floor of the AIAS Annual Meeting to the
office of AIAS President. She is the second student in 2 years to be elected to a National AIAS
position. Deana Moore was elected as AIAS Vice
President in 2008.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Mohammad Gharipour finished his PhD dissertation in December
2008. His dissertation, “Pavilion Structure in Persianate Gardens: Reflections in the Textual and
Visual Media” was supervised by Prof. Douglas C.
Allen at Georgia Institute of Technology. Gharipour’s recent paper, “Achaemenids’ Contribution
to the History of Garden Design” which is published in the Journal of Middle Eastern and North
African Intellectual and Cultural Studies, explores
the origins of the fourfold gardens (chaharbagh)
in Near Eastern literary documents.
Assistant Professor Chris Beorkrem of the Digital Design Center and Associate Professor Jose
Gamez of the Design and Society Research Center received a grant from the Arts and Science
Council of Charlotte entitled: Industrial Recycling
as Pavilion Installation. The Grant will subsidize
the construction of a pavilion at a local non-profit
made of remnants from local industrial manufacturing facilities and constructed using digital
manufacturing tools.
Assistant Professors Chris Beorkrem and Jeff
Balmer gave an invited presentation with Dr.
Anne Harley (Department of Music) at the National Opera Association’s Annual Meeting in
Arlington, VA. They presented work from three
operas, which have been produced over the last
three years integrating real-time technology
within Operatic performances.
book in German and English languages is titled
The Significance of the Idea in the Architecture of
Valerio Olgiati and is published by Niggli Verlag
(www.niggli.ch) in Zürich/Sulgen, Switzerland.
Michael Ermann, Associate Professor of Architecture, is part of a faculty team that received
an award from the Institute for Society, Culture,
and Environment (ISCE) to support development activites for “Phoebe’s Field”, a travelling
exhibition designed to make abstract physics of
fields concrete and relevant to middle school
students. The team also received an Educational Enhancement Collaboration Grant.
Juhani Pallasmaa, Professor Emeritus of the
Helsinki University of Technology, presented
the Robert Turner-Lecture supported by Robert
Turner and Rengin Holt introducing his newest
book The Thinking Hand. He also served as a
design critic and lecturer.
Marie Zawistowski, graduate from the Ecole
d’Architecture at Paris-Malaquais, and Keith Zawistowski, graduate from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute & State University, joined the faculty as
visiting instructors. Paola Zellner Bassett, graduate from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos
Aires and from the Southern California Institute
of Architecture, joined the faculty as a lecturer.
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Architecture, was spearheading the organization
of the symposium “Ferrari Symposium III: Territories of Opportunities” featuring leactures by
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Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Assistant Professor of
Architecture, has published a new book on the
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students at the College of Design, University of
Minnesota.
Howard University
Howard University School of Architecture
and Design has appointed Jack Travis, FAIA,
NOMAC as the 2008-09 James E. Silcott Endowed Chair. As Silcott Chair, Travis will work
collaboratively with students and faculty in the
Department of Architecture exploring Black culture in architecture and environmental design.
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
Assistant Professor Fran Leadon, AIA, is
co-authoring the upcoming fifth edition of
the AIA Guide to New York City with Norval
White, FAIA. The new edition is the first since
2000 and will be published in 2010 by Oxford
University Press. White and Leadon are revisiting and re-evaluating each building from
the last edition, taking all new photographs,
and writing new descriptions of significant
recent construction. Leadon has taught the
freshman design studio at City College since
2000, and this year also taught an elective
course, Documenting New York City. His
students gained unique perspectives of the city
by visiting, photographing, and writing about
both historic and more recent buildings, and
some of their discoveries will be included in the
new edition of the Guide.
Dalhousie University
On November 14 2008, Professor Richard
Kroeker, Dalhousie University was awarded the
2008 Erich Schelling Medal in Architecture Medal
at a ceremony in Karlsruhe Germany. The inter-
national medal is awarded every two years for
leading edge design work.
Pictou Landing Health Centre , designed by Prof.
Richard Kroeker and Prof. Brian Lilley of Dalhousie University with Architect Peter Henry, also of
Dalhousie, was selected as a finalist in the 2008
World Architecture Awards Health category at
the 2008 World Festival of Architecture in Barcelona, Spain.
April 4 and 5, 2008 Dalhousie University Architecture Professor Richard Kroeker co-chaired a
symposium on Dakota Sacred Lands at the College of Design, University of Minnesota together
with Virajita Singh of University of Minnesota
Center for Sustainable Building Research. The
symposium brought together key players related
to the issue of sites that are sacred to the Dakota
and other Native American cultures. It was part
of a conference hosted by the University of Minnesota College of Design entitled: Sacred Sites /
Sacred Sights : architecture, ethics, and spiritual
geographies. The Dakota Sacred Sites symposium
received funding from the Graham Foundation.
It was a result of design studio work on Oheyawahi, a significant Dakota sacred site under
Jack Travis is a distinguished architect, practitioner and teacher having published his seminal
book African American Architects in Current
Practice in 1991. He has taught and lectured at
a number of Architecture Schools and program
including the University of Cincinnati, Pratt Institute, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Travis founded the AfricCulture/Design-Culture
Studio in 1994, which seeks to collect, document and disseminate information on Black
Culture as it relates to environmental design. He
has had major appointments with AIA, NOMA,
Harlem’s Community Board and HGTV’s Trend
Smart Team. Travis has appeared in all of the
prominent design publications as well as the
New York Times, New York Newsday and the
Daily News. He is most highly recognized as one
of the leading designers involved in African and
African American cultural factors in design and
is the “Cultural Design Consultant” for Frederic
Schwartz Architects and HOK Architects.
The Silcott Chair was created in 2002 by James
E. Silcott, a distinguished alumni of the School
of Architecture and Design and member of
Howard University Board of Trustee, to provide
student support and to highlight and enhance
the School of Architecture and Design.
Professors Harry Robinson, Barbara Laurie
and Silcott Chair Jack Travis are each members
of an architecture team short listed as finalist for
the Smithsonian’s New National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
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engage in an architecture design competition to
determine the final architect for the NMAAHC.
Professor Robinson’s team includes Foster &
Partners and Blackburn Architects. Alford Blackburn with her husband, the late Walter Blackburn, both Howard graduates, started Blackburn and Schneider Architecture in Indianapolis many years ago. Professors Laurie’s team
includes her firm of Devrouax & Purnell and
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Marshall Purnell,
partner of of Devrouax & Purnell is the immediate past president of the American Institute
of Architects. Silcott Chair Travis is with Moody
Nolan Ltd. And Antoine Predock Architects. Curtis Moody of Moody Nolan is the principal of
one of the largest African American owned and
staffed architecture firms in the country.
The NMAAHC will be located on a five acre site
between the Washington Monument and the
National Museum of American History on the
national Mall and is the last building to grace the
Mall. It is proposed to be completed by 2015.
Professor Celik is a native of Istanbul, received
her B. Arch. at Istanbul Technical University, her
M. Arch. at Rice, and earned a Ph. D. from the
University of Berkeley. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in the history of
architecture including survey courses, honors
seminars and directed studies. She lectures extensively here and abroad in Turkish, English, and
French.
Norwich University
Zeynep Celik, Distinguished Professor at the
NJIT College of Architecture and Design, has
recently published Empire, Architecture, and the
City – French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914
(University of Washington Press, 2009). In it, Professor Celik examines the political agendas of the
French and Ottoman empires and their influence
on modern infrastructure and city building as evidenced in outlying cities of Algeria and Tunisia. In
her nuanced look at cross cultural exchanges, Celik shows how remarkably similar buildings and
urban forms manifest a great variety of meanings
depending upon their authors. She summarizes
her work with ideas on how each empire’s different mind-set engaged cultural differences, race,
and civilizing missions very differently.
Associate Professor Lisa Schrenk’s book Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of the
1933-34 Century of Progress International Exposition (University of Minnesota Press) was recently named to Choice Reviews List of Outstanding
Academic Titles. The monograph examines the
development and promotion of modern architectural ideologies, aesthetics, building practices,
and materials during the late 1920s and early
1930s in the context of Chicago’s Second World’s
Fair. In connection with her research on the exposition, Dr. Schrenk is a consultant for the upcoming exhibit “Designing the World of Tomorrow:
America’s World Fairs in the 1930,” scheduled to
open at the National Building Museum in October
2010, and recently co-authored the paper “Traveling the Rails to a Century of Progress: American
Railroads and the Second Chicago World’s Fair”
at the 2009 Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association meeting
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Zeynep Celik is author of several books in her
field of study including The Remaking of Istanbul:
Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth
Century, Displaying the Orient, and Urban Forms
and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under
French Rule. She is currently editing, with two
colleagues, a collection of essays entitled Walls
of Algiers: Narrative of the City though Text and
Image, to be published by Getty Publications
Dr. Schrenk is on sabbatical for the 2008-09
school year completing research for a new book
that explores the educational environment of
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park studio and how
the architect used the physical structure of the
architectural office as an experimental design
laboratory. Part of her current research was funded by a “We the People” grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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and the University of Washington Press in May
of 2009. Professor Celik is also curating two
scholarly exhibitions “Empire, Architecture,
and the City” to be mounted in the gallery of
the Banque Ottomane in Istanbul in March
2010 and “Walls of Algiers” which opened at
the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in
March 2009 and will be shown again at the
Contemporary Center of Architecture in New
York in late 2009.
Syracuse University
“Home Turf,” an exhibition of green design research produced by Syracuse faculty was held
in the school’s gallery February 23 – April 3rd.
Variously directed towards the larger project
of calibrating building weight in the planetary
balance, Associate Professors Ted Brown and
Anne Munly (Munly Brown Studio), Assistant
Professor Michael Carroll (atelier BUILD), Assistant Professor Kevin Lair (MOD-ECO Design)
with UPSTATE: Fellow Joe Sisko (CELL), Assistant Professor Albert Marichal (Albert Marichal
Studio), Assistant Professor Michael Pelken
(energydesignlab), and Associate Professor Tim
Stenson (Stenson Building + Furniture Design)
presented a broad range of work on “green” topics, from houses to housing, and from products to
infrastructure.
Assistant Professor Jean-François Bédard published “Political Renewal and Architectural Revival during the French Regency: Oppenord’s Palais-Royal” in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. The
article focused on the political message crafted
by Philippe d’Orléans in his use of seventeenthcentury royal forms as implemented by his architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord in the refurbishment
of the duke’s Parisian palace.
Associate Professor Mark Linder lectured on
February 5 at the Cooper Union. Other speaking
events this year include a public lecture at Ohio
State, a presentation in the workshop “Exploring
the Role of History in Contemporary Architectural
Practice” at MIT, a lecture at TU Delft in a seminar
series to launch a new research program titled
“Architecture as Craft,” and a keynote address at
the conference “Expertise: Media Specificity and
Interdisciplinarity” at Tel Aviv University.
Associate Professor Brian Lonsway’s book,
Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy has been published by Routledge Press. The book explores the contemporary
architecture of theme-based design from a variety of angles to prompt a new understanding of
architecture’s role in the increasingly diversified
consumer environment. Tracing the convergence
of scientific design research, consumer psychology, and Hollywood story-telling techniques, the
chapters of the book examine how the design of
theme parks, casinos, and shopping malls has in-
fluenced our unexpectedly themed spaces, from
the city to the MRI machine.
Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture by Associate
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair
Jonathan Massey has just been released by
University of Pittsburgh Press. Massey offers
the first biography of Claude Bragdon - an early
and unique, but often overlooked, advocate of
architectural modernism – and draws on a rich
trove of previously unpublished work to show
how American modernists committed to social
reform used ornament in new ways to engage
the media and audiences of mass society.
of the contemporary universe, requiring architects with astuteness and agility to respond to
its challenges. Study within the graduate program is research driven, in three interconnected
clusters – Infrastructure, Site, Territory and Environment, Emerging Architecture of Advanced
Technologies, and Design Democracies.
The keynote drawing of Professor John Pron’s
September 08 Old City gallery show titled PHILApocalypse, a 12’long and 6’ high interpretive
rendered collage of the city of Philadelphia
inundated with rising tides and uncontrolled
flooding, was displayed in the at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, One Parkway,
13th floor, 1515 Arch Street.
in Philadelphia. An exhibit of the six finalist
designs as well as the semi-finalist proposals
was displayed at the Center for Architecture/
AIA Philadelphia during the month of February
2009. The six finalists will build their shelters
at the Schuylkill Center in the spring, with an
opening reception on Saturday May 9, 2009.
Professor Ng collaborated with an artist, Nami
Yamamoto, on the design entitled “Firefly.”
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University at Buffalo
The Monographic Serial SHARESTAN devoted
its Autumn 2008 issue to the work of Mehrdad
Hadighi. In addition to the chronicle of his work,
the issue includes 5 scholarly critical essays.
Temple University
The four-year Bachelor of Science in Architecture
is a pre-professional degree, qualifying graduates to apply for admission to the two-year professionally accredited Master of Architecture
program, required for professional registration.
The four-year Bachelor of Science in Architectural Preservation focuses on the application of
architectural and historical knowledge to the
existing built environment. Developed with
Temple’s Fox School of Business, the four-year
Bachelor of Science in Facility Management
educates students on project planning and
programming, real estate, financial accounting,
contract law, operations management, and research methods for facility managers.
The Master of Architecture at Temple University
is a two-year, professionally accredited architecture program for holders of a recognized fouryear pre-professional undergraduate architecture
degree or equivalent. The program assembles
the ingredients – students, faculty, issues, ideas
and tools – to engage with the urgent urban, environmental, spatial, cultural, political and technological issues of our times. It asks students to
consider reflexively how architects impact on the
world and ways in which we can do this better. It
recognizes the complexity and interconnectivity
Associate Professor Sally Harrison served as
a juror of (IN)PLAY SPACE: 2009 Green Spaces
Competition of the James River Green Building
Council in Richmond, Virginia.
Assistant Professor Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s
design work has been selected by Phaidon
press to be published in upcoming 10x10x3
monograph as well as in the upcoming Harvard
Design Magazine. Weiss also contributed
essays to Beyond Post-Contemporary by SUN
Publishers and to Monument to Transformation,
published by JRP-Ringier. Weiss published
the book: Camp David Spectacle of Retreat
[ISBN: 978-0-557-04639-3], documenting
research with students at Tyler School of Art,
Architecture Department. Weiss gave lectures
at the Architecture Day in Stockholm at the
invitation of Swedish Association of Architects,
at the Neo-Liberal Frontline: Urban Struggles in
Post-Socialist Societies in Zagreb, Croatia and
at Zones of Conflict Conference at University
College London.
Assistant Professor Sneha Patel and Adjunct
faculty Jack Fanning were awarded as one of
eight selected entries for [spot], a design competition to build a series of outdoor interventions
that explored the dynamics of the urban parking spot in October 2008. The competition was
sponsored by Design Philadelphia and Qb3.
Assistant Professor Rashida Ng was selected
as a winner of the Gimme Shelter Competition
at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education to build a sustainable woodland shelter
on the organization’s 350-acre nature preserve
Edward Steinfeld and Danise Levine of
the IDEA Center were invited participants in a
weeklong charette conducted by Duany Plater
Zyberk for the Atlanta Regional Commission on
the Planning of Lifelong Communities from Feb.
10-17. Both assisted the charette team to develop six schemes for neighborhoods in the Atlanta region that would support aging in place.
Edward Steinfeld gave a lecture at the Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Department at
Southern University on Universal Design for Aging in Place on Feb. 20.
University of Maryland
Professor Matthew Bell, AIA served as
faculty adviser for an interdisciplinary team
of graduate students who earned one of the
six Honorable Mentions awarded in the ULI
Hines 2009 Urban Design Competition. The
team placed in the top ten of over ninety
submissions. The team included five graduate
students—three from the Planning program
and one each from the Architecture and Real
Estate Development programs. Team members
include: Senait Kassa, Nicole Wynands, Nicolas
Dei Castelli (Planning); Lin Mao (Architecture);
and Priya Kanchan (Real Estate Development)
with Marc McCauley of RCLCO Real Estate
Advisors serving as professional adviser.
Dean Garth Rockcastle, FAIA conceived of the
national traveling exhibit entitled SUBSEQUENT
ACTION: Creative Work on Neglected Ground.
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Temple University’s Department of Architecture
of the Tyler School of Art is pleased to announce
four new degree offerings beginning in the fall
semester of 2010, the B.S. in Architecture, the
B.S. in Architectural Preservation, the B.S. Facility Management and a two-year professionally
accredited M. Arch degree.
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Master’s thesis project by Castellammare di Stabia native, Leonardo Varone, M. Arch., ‘06, one of
the speakers featured in the video. Maryland’s
effort includes Professor Lindley Vann’s Vesuvian region summer archeology courses, giving
Maryland architecture students the opportunity for hands-on experience in archaeological
exploration and documentation and Professor
Matthew Bell is developing a series of urban
and landscape proposals for the site.
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Frances Halsband, FAIA will serve as the Spring
2009 Kea Distinguished Professor in the Architecture program. Kea Professors serve as critics
and lecturers in the Architecture Program. They
bring unique perspectives from practice and/or
academia that enhance the academic experiences of students and faculty colleagues.
Subsequent Action: Creative Work on Neglected Ground exhibit at the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland.
Image Credit: Jeff Gipson.
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Dean Rockcastle has also served as the show’s
initial curator and organizer while the show
has been on display in the Kibel Gallery at
the University of Maryland from February to
March. The exhibition of 32 adaptive reuse
projects from across the country will now
travel to other cities across the country over
the next two years. Rockcastle conceived
of the show to evolve as it travels before it
returns to Maryland in its transformed form.
Each site has a host curator who can edit up
to 20% of the show, replacing original works
with local or alternative examples. The creative
work featured in the exhibition shares an
enthusiasm and commitment to discover and
reawaken the neglected, marginalized, and
even derelict structures, landscapes, and urban
places, through insightful, constructive and
creative engagement of adaptive reuse. The
work here focuses on completed work rather
than theoretical or propositional visions. The
designers included have used diverse but
complementary strategies for interpreting,
editing, reframing, and often contrasting much
of what was neglected or invisible in existing or
found circumstances.
The primary reason then for organizing and circulating this exhibit is to share and develop the diverse ways and many talents that have emerged
recently to work alternatively with the remnant
fabric of our ever changing, existing, material
culture. Until recently it was rare to see important new construction projects creatively and
respectfully engage neglected or deteriorating
structures and places. And, while such work is
now more common, still lacking is recognition of
why or how this work achieves its unique value.
Unlike working on unfettered sites, designers
who engage the complex, idiosyncratic circumstances they are provided (whether by choice
or by requirement) work creatively in ways that
recognize or make the most of these unusual and
often eccentric conditions. This exhibition seeks
to provide insight into these ways of working by
developing and using a taxonomy of terms that
seek to describe or reveal relationships between
diverse design processes and the resultant work.
It thereby seeks to develop a more cogent understanding or at least a language or index of critical
terms and insights for seeing and associating the
variety of creative strategies and techniques being used. This emerging index is not intended to
be definitive or restrictive, but rather associative,
instigative and revelatory with an eye towards its
potential usefulness and ability to build upon.
The University of Maryland’s project in Stabiae,
Italy, was recently featured on the CBS Evening
News. The project is focused upon building a
world-class archeological park at the site, just
three kilometers from Pompeii, and began as a
Professor Halsband’s practice, Kliment Halsband won the 1997 AIA Firm Award and the
1998 Medal of Honor from NYCAIA. In addition,
the firm has won four national honor awards
and has been awarded three projects through
the GSA Design Excellence program: Federal
Courthouses in Gulfport, MS and Brooklyn, NY
and a Visitor Center for the Franklin Roosevelt
Presidential Library in Hyde Park.
Professor Halsband served as Dean of the
School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in New
York. She has also served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Universities of Maryland, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, California
at Berkeley and Ball State. She has taught at
Cincinnati, Columbia, and in joint studios with
Robert Kliment at Harvard, North Carolina
State, Pennsylvania, Rice and Virginia.
Professor of the Practice Gary Bowden, FAIA
retired at the end of the Fall semester 2008,
after nearly 10 years of service to the School.
Professor Bowden was an esteemed colleague,
and led the Master of Architecture thesis
sequence for many years. Professor Bowden
joined the faculty as the Professor of Practice
in 2001 after retiring from RTKL Associates Inc.
capping nearly three decades of practice during
which time he served as Senior Vice President,
Director of the Commercial Design Studio in
the Baltimore office, and a member of its Board
of Directors. He has served in leadership roles
on numerous award-winning international,
retail, mixed-use and urban design projects. His
Wentworth University
Professor Thomas M. Lesko, AIA, presented the
paper “Architectural Perception and Communication” to the 2007 Design Communication
Association convention at Ball State University.
His article, “Design: redesign” appeared in The
Journal of Light Construction in May 2007. He
will be presenting his work on “Design Concept Creation and Communication: The Concept
Pyramid” at the 2009 Design Communication
Association convention at Southern Polytechnic
University. Prof. Lesko was recently re-elected to
the Board of Directors of the Design Communication Association. He was also re-appointed as
the editor for Opportunities, the Association¹s
electronic newsletter.
Klopfer Martin Design Group, the firm of
Mark Klopfer, ASLA, Associate Professor
of Architecture, in collaboration with Chan
Krieger Sieniewicz, won an invited, two round
international competition to redesign the
Bund in Shanghai. Working with the Shanghai
Municipal Engineering Design & Research
Institute (SMEDI), the team has just completed
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design development. The project is one of the
major works being undertaken by the Shanghai
Municipal Government in preparation of its
hosting the 2010 World Expo. The project
includes reducing the existing 10 lanes of traffic
along the Huang Pu River to four and diverting
through traffic to an underground tunnel now
under construction. The roadway reduction
allows an increase of public landscape, creation
of four urban plazas, and improved access to
the Bund¹s historic pedestrian promenade. The
firm is also developing the landscape of Herzog
& de Meuron¹s 56 Leonard Street in Manhattan,
a residential tower of 400 feet with numerous
roof terraces and a sculpture by artist Anish
Kapoor. Prof. Klopfer was recently appointed
to the editorial board of Architecture Boston, a
publication of the Boston Society of Architects.
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include a caption and photographer credit.
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contributions in this regard were recognized
by his advancement to The College of Fellows
of The American Institute of Architects in 1994.
Although his projects in the Caribbean, South
Africa and The United Arab Emirates sought to
celebrate the essence of place and identity, he
has also been recognized for similar regional
design efforts closer to home. The Reginald F.
Lewis Museum of Maryland African American
History and Culture in Baltimore, the Master
Plan of Downtown Silver Spring Maryland and
The Avenue at White Marsh are examples of his
culminating projects at RTKL.
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events of note
Conferences / Lectures
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5/27/09
SYMPOSIUM ON CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
Environmental Design Research Association
(EDRA), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
This full-day symposium presents on-going research, teaching, and design drawing on Alexander’s work. For further information and list of
participants, contact co-organizer David Seamon
at [email protected] or visit: www.edra.org.
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6/10/09
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WRITING: WRIGHT,
WOMEN AND NARRATIVE
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 6:30 pm
Moderator: Sarah Williams Goldhagen, The New
Republic; Participants: Carol Gilligan, New York
University; Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University; Beverly Willis, FAIA
Honoring Taliesin Fellow Lois Gottlieb, this special evening program features the premier of “A
Girl Is A Fellow Here: 100 Women Architects in
the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright”, a new 15minute documentary film produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, followed by
a panel discussion that seeks to expand definitions of architectural genius in which collaboration, in general, and women, in particular, assume greater stature in the remarkable history
of Frank Lloyd Wright and in the rich history of
American architecture. Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Beverly
Willis Architecture Foundation. Tickets required.
www.guggenheim.org/PublicPrograms or contact
the Box Office at 212 423-3587
6/30/09
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
THE BLITZ AND ITS LEGACY
University of Westminster, London; September
3-4, 2010. September 2010 marks the seventieth anniversary of the Blitz on London, and the
beginning of mass aerial bombardment which
devastated many areas of both the capital and
other large cities in Britain. The Blitz and its
legacy conference aims to be a total history of a
total war phenomenon, focusing upon the expe-
ACSA CALENDAR
rience of aerial attack through film, images, written texts and oral testimony. It will also explore
the reconstruction of the devastated areas, and
aim to provide an historical audit of successes
and failures in reconstruction by 1970.For more
information regarding submission themes, procedures, and address, please contact either Dr.
Mark Clapson at the University of Westminster:
[email protected] or Professor Peter
Larkham at Birmingham City University: Peter.
[email protected]
Competitions / Grants
6/22/09
WATERFRONT CENTER ANNUAL AWARDS
The Waterfront Center Annual Awards Program
is a juried competition to recognize: top-quality urban waterfront projects; comprehensive
waterfront plans; outstanding citizen efforts;
and, student waterfront work. Winners receive
international recognition through a major media
release announcing and describing the selected
entries and a special display on our web site featuring each winner including a web link to the
winner’s website. Award winners are invited to
attend a special awards ceremony, reception and
dinner during the Center’s annual conference.
http://www.waterfrontcenter.org/
6/30/09
FONDATION LE CORBUSIER
Grant for young researcher, year 2009
For the coming academic year 2009-2010, the
Fondation Le Corbusier will attribute one grant
to young researchers wishing to devote their
studies to Le Corbusier’s work. The research proposals should concern primarily the aspects of
his work that have not been the subject of sufficient in depth research, or, in the case of areas
already studied, propose an original approach
(multi-disciplinary, comparative, transverse, etc.).
All of the aspects of Le Corbusier’s work are acceptable as research subjects and biographical
research contributing to an understanding of
the man and his work may also be proposed.
For more information and proposal guidelines:
[email protected]
MAY
6
Submision Deadline
AISC Student Competition
20
Submision Deadline
GREEN COMMUNITY Competition
JUNE
3
Submision Deadline
PCA Student Competition
17
Submision Deadline
Preservation Student Competition
July
15
Submision Deadline
ACSA News September Issue
8/15/09
INDUSTRIAL FABRICS ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL (IFAI)
2010 ARCHITECT STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
This scholarship award provides tuition expenses
at an accredited college, university or technical
school. To qualify for the award, applicants must
be studying to pursue a career in lightweight
fabric structures. Recipients will be announced
at the IFAI Expo 2009 in San Diego, CA.
[email protected].
Program Accreditation Processes in Architecture and
Urban Planning: Library Responsibilities
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steven w. brown, university of alabama
While architectural program accreditation is managed by the National Architectural Accrediting
Board (NAAB), urban planning programs are accredited through the Planning Accreditation Board
(PAB). Academic programs in both disciplines must
initially apply for accreditation and submit periodic
reaccreditation applications to ensure continued
quality in the students’ education.
The NAAB accreditation recognizes architecture
programs that meet specific benchmarks in the
mission and education provided. Accredited
schools must meet minimum standards on a periodic basis by submitting an Architecture Program
Report (APR) and passing a site visit from an NAAB
team (NAAB, 2004).
The role of architecture librarians on accreditation site visits has been discussed historically and
is once again under review. J.C. Henning (1975)
noted the NAAB’s desire for evaluation of library
quality and relevance in their support of architecture programs (p. 540). Henning, along with other
architecture librarians, recommended that a librarian “should be included on the accrediting team
or at least should be utilized by the NAAB as a
consultant” (p.540). More than 30 years later, the
NAAB does not include the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) among its official
members, but it does consult these librarians when
revising the Conditions of Accreditation and to
help improve site visit effectiveness (Association
of Architecture School Librarians [AASL], 2008;
Aurand, 2007). Martin Aurand describes AASL’s
Task Force on Training NAAB Visiting Teams for
Library Evaluation, whose purpose was to create
an instructional tool to improve the effectiveness
of NAAB site visit teams in evaluating libraries
(para. 3). This group evolved into the Task Force
on NAAB Accreditation Review to participate in
the 2008-2009 revision process for the Conditions
of Accreditation (AASL, 2008).
For urban planning programs, the PAB provides
a similar path to recognition through accreditation standards (Planning Accreditation Board
[PAB], 2006). Urban planning accreditation is a
much younger process than that of architecture
programs. The PAB began in 1984 and, similar to
the NAAB, routinely revises its Accreditation Document. Urban planning programs are required to
periodically submit a Self-Study Report and pass a
site visit review to gain accreditation.
Several authors (Dagenhart & Sawicki, 1992;
Drummond, et al., 2008; NAAB, 2004; PAB, 2006)
note or imply a connection between architecture
and urban planning education when discussing
accreditation of programs. Dagenhart and Sawicki (architecture and urban planning professors
respectively) mention the historical connection between architecture and urban planning, but argue
that the two fields should be separated from each
other due to a “radical divergence” (p. 1) in many
facets of the two professions. Specifically, they
mention differences in concept, history, the professions and academics, thereby proclaiming the link
“mythical” (p. 1).
This opinion did not seem to be shared by members of the NAAB (2004) and PAB (2006) when
they wrote their accreditation procedures. When
discussing institutional relations in the accreditation process for urban planning programs, the PAB
requires a school to describe the program’s relationships with its department, school, college and
other related elements of the school. Since many
schools administratively place their architecture
and urban planning programs in the same college,
the link is implied in the PAB’s accreditation standards (p.12). The NAAB requires schools to demonstrate their accomplishment of thirteen condi-
tions. NAAB (2004) notes under “Architectural
Education and the Students” subsection 3.1.2 of
conditions that a program must demonstrate how
students are exposed to “the work of the allied
design disciplines” (p. 2-3). Subsection 3.1.4, “Architectural Education and the Profession,” implies
a link as well by requiring accredited programs to
teach students the “roles and responsibilities of
the associated disciplines” (p. 3). As in the PAB
standards, the link between architecture and urban planning is not explicitly written, but the implication of a linkage is present. In the process of
updating the Conditions of Accreditation, Drummond, et al. (2008), also known as the Emerging
Accreditation Model Task Group, explicitly identify
urban planning as a related discipline by investigating PAB’s accreditation standards (para. 3-4)
for changes and opportunities for collaboration.
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As of the printing of this article, there were 134
NAAB-accredited (or candidate) architecture programs in the United States and Canada (ACSA,
2008a). Seventy-three PAB-accredited (or candidate) urban planning programs were available to
students in the United States and Canada (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning [ACSP],
2007; PAB, 2008). Fifty-one of those schools
offered programs in both disciplines. Thirty-six
of those schools (71%) offered these programs
through the same academic college (see table
1). This suggests a strong bond between the two
disciplines and that the accreditation processes
should complement each other as well. Since
libraries are evaluated in both accreditation processes, there may be an opportunity for shared
evaluation or report duplication by librarians serving both programs.
Dagenhart and Sawicki note that many of the
older and larger urban planning programs have
historically been housed in architecture departments (p.3). Dagenhart and Sawicki’s appendix
lists the 53 architecture and urban planning programs that were housed in the same college in
1990 (p. 14-15). Their list has surprisingly little
overlap with the schools listed in table 1, as only
(AASL continued on page 42)
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Architecture and urban planning programs undergo periodic accreditation processes to maintain
program quality. These disciplines share some
common characteristics and are often housed in
the same college. This study analyzes the administrative locations of accredited architecture and urban planning programs. This paper will also reveal
the frequency of program co-location in colleges
of architecture or similar units and help determine
accreditation process similarities between the disciplines. A second analysis of accreditation processes as they impact libraries can be found in the
full report at the AASL website.
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association of architecture school librarians (cont.)
seven schools (Auburn, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo,
Cal Poly-Pomona, Ball State, Southern California,
Arizona, Oklahoma and Utah) offer both programs
through the same college in 2008. This suggests a
vast evolution in the education of both disciplines
as programs are closed, are born and are moved to
different academic units.
An opportunity for further research exists in a historical analysis of the accreditation conditions for
both programs. The full report on the AASL website
only investigated the accreditation processes as
they exist today. How did the conditions and criteria evolve over time and how did one discipline’s
accreditation process affect the other, if at all?
This research could also reveal insight into Dagenhart and Sawicki’s question of how much the two
disciplines really are connected. Is it a mythical
connection as Dagenhart and Sawicki suggest, or
are they bound closer to the accreditation philosophies of the NAAB and PAB? The historical analysis might also reveal the reasons for the dramatic
difference between Dagenhart and Sawicki’s 1990
list of programs housed in the same college versus
the 2008 list in Table 1.
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Arizona State University
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Auburn University
University of California, Berkeley
Ball State University
University of Cincinnati
California Polytechnic State University,
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University of Colorado Denver
California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona
University of Florida
Clemson University
University of Kansas
Columbia University
University of Maryland at College Park
Cornell University
University of Michigan
Florida Atlantic University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of New Mexico
Harvard University
University of Oklahoma
Iowa State University
University of Pennsylvania
Kansas State University
University of Texas at Austin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Utaha
Morgan State University
University of Virginia
Ohio State University
University of Washington
Pratt Institute
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Texas A & M University
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