ACSANewsDigest - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

October 2012 Issue 11
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cornell university
Assistant Professor Jeremy Foster joined the
faculty of the Department of Architecture as
a tenure-track appointment, effective July
1, 2012. Foster’s research focus includes
the history and theory of landscapes, cities
and built environments, and the role of socio-spatial practices and ideologies in shaping urban environments. He is the author of
Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa (2008, University
of Pittsburgh Press) along with numerous
scholarly articles. He was educated at the
University of Cape Town, University of Pennsylvania, and University of London.
Mark Cruvellier has been promoted to the
rank of full professor in the Department of
Architecture. As Chairman of the Department, Cruvellier was also appointed to the
Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professorship of Architecture.
Kent Kleinman has been appointed to a
second five-year term as the Gale and Ira
Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture,
Art, and Planning, beginning July 1, 2013.
Assistant Professor Jenny Sabin was commissioned by Nike as part of their new FlyKnit Collective to design, fabricate, and
build a pavilion structure in New York City.
Nike’s FlyKnit Collective is a platform for
creative innovators worldwide to generate dialogue around and interact with the
fundamental design principals of performance, lightness, formfitting, and sustainability, ultimately converting these abstract
benefits into practical, physical structures
and spaces that inspire the communities
around them in transformative ways. The
pavilion is made from threads that change
color in the sun or glow at night. The pavilion opened Sept. 15, 2012 and is up
through Nov. 4, 2012 at Nike Bowery Stadium, 276 Bowery, New York City.
Milstein Hall, internationally recognized
for its design since opening in August
2011, has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
The 47,000-square-foot Milstein Hall is an
addition to the College of Architecture, Art,
and Planning and provides studio space for
200 students, a gallery, critique spaces,
and a 250-seat auditorium.
new jersey institute of technology
The College of Architecture and Design at
NJIT is pleased to announce that Dr. Jesse
LeCavalier joined us in the fall of 2012 as
Assistant Professor of Architecture. Before
coming to NJIT, LeCavalier was a Poiesis
Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a senior
researcher at the Singapore-ETH Center’s
Future Cities Laboratory. From 2010-11,
he was the Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the
University of Michigan’s Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is
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also a member of Co+LeCavalier, a design
studio concerned with transforming everyday
life at a range of scales, including furniture,
buildings, and urban design. He is a coauthor, with John Harwood and Guillaume
Mojon, of the publication This Will _ This
(Standpunkte, 2009). His article “All Those
Numbers: Logistics, Territory, and Walmart”
for Design Observer: Places was named one
of “Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism” from the Atlantic in 2011. He has also
contributed to journals such as MAS Context, MONU and 306090, as well as the
collections Infrastructure as Architecture
(Jovis Verlag, 2010), Cities of Change: Addis
Ababa (Birkhäuser, 2009) and Deviations:
Designing Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2008).
His research concerns questions of logistics,
form, and representation as they relate to
architecture. LeCavalier is currently working
on a book about Walmart’s spatial operations
and their architectural, territorial, and political implications.
MID ATLANTIC
Auburn university
Professors Andrew Freear and Cheryl Morgan
will receive two of the highest honors awarded to faculty at Auburn University at the
seventh annual Faculty Awards: Celebrating
Excellence ceremony on October 30. Cheryl
Morgan, Director of the Urban Studio will
receive the Award for Excellence in Faculty
Outreach, and Andrew Freear, Director of the
Rural Studio, will receive one of the Gerald
and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential
Awards for Excellence.
The Cahaba River Society, Alabama Innovation Engine and Douglas Barrett, Associate
Professor of Graphic Design at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham, have secured a
$47,820 grant from SAPPI Fine Paper North
America’s Ideas that Matter program. The
funding will be used to produce a storybook
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and video to educate people about the region
around the Cahaba River and build support
for stewardship and increased river access.
Entering its third year of operation, Alabama
Innovation Engine is a design-based community development initiative that began as
a partnership between Auburn University’s
Urban Studio and the University of Alabama’s Center for Economic Development.
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Jocelyn Zanzot and Artist Dan Neil have
collaborated through their Mobile Studio
with Macon County Youth to enter the National Civic Data Challenge, a competition
that asks people to make information about
civic health accessible and meaningful.
Their filming entry which documents a cocreative art process to engage the topic and
results in landscape architecture proposals
for the transformation of the built environment to increase civic health received honorable mention at the annual conference
Friday September 14th 2012.
Professor and Chair of Architecture, Behzad
Nakhjavan has received a three week fellowship from the Visiting Artists and Scholars
Program at the American Academy in Rome
for the 2012-2013 Academic Year .
Associate Professor and Associate Dean
for Graduate Studies and External Affairs
Karen Rogers has been invited to serve on
the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research
Center’s selection committee for the 20132014 resident research scholarships. The
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, a component of the Georgia O’Keeffe
Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sponsors research in American Modernism (late
nineteenth century to present) by awarding
stipends to historians in the fields of art,
architecture and design, literature, music
and photography and to museum professionals who wish to organize an exhibition
at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Dr. Paul Cullen was a Visiting Fulbright
Scholar with APLA’s Master of Landscape
Architecture program during Summer Semester 2012. An Associate Professor in
the School of Visual Arts at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, Dr.
Cullen teaches sculpture and practices as a
sculptor. While in Auburn, Dr. Cullen collaborated with Rod Barnett, Chair of the
George Marcou Memorial Lecture, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. (Photo: Joe Woolhead)
Master of Landscape Architecture program
on an interdisciplinary project – Contingency
- that developed proposals for interventions
at a range of sites across Alabama. These
proposals were exhibited in the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Gallery
in June 2012.
The APLA teaching team for Fall 2012 includes the following adjuncts: Dan Bennett (CPLN), Josh Emig (INDC), Dick Hudgens (ARCH-Rural Studio), Alex Krumdieck
(ARCH), Judd Langham (LAND), Jacqueline
Margetts (LAND), Stacy Norman (INDC),
Randal Vaughan (ARCH), and Ben Weisman
(ARCH), Kelly Homan (LAND).
Phillip Ewing, a May 2012 graduate of the
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was awarded the first
Richard Taylor Fellowship at MIT, where Ewing will pursue a graduate degree in architecture beginning this fall.
The first ever Southeastern Student Planning Conference, developed by the Georgia
state chapter of the American Planning Association (GPA), took place in September in
Columbus, Georgia. Intended to encourage
student attendance from planning programs
throughout the southeast, the experience exposed attendees to other planning students
and practitioners in the region. Sixty-six
city and planning graduate students from
ten universities attended and of the twenty
– two presented papers selected by the Student Program Committee, five APLA Master’s of Community Planning students pre-
sented four papers to assembled attendees.
Student presenters were Spencer Moore,
Auburn University’s representative on the
Student Program Committee and a second
year student working toward a dual degree in
Community Planning and Public Administration, Jaime Larzelere (MCP) and Jes Laing
(MCP) who jointly presented, Rafael Egues
(MCP/MLA), and Juan Diego Donoso (MCP),
and Dale Speetjens (MLA).
Auburn University’s chapter of the American Association of Architecture Students
(AIAS) recently announced that their annual Internship Fair will be March 18-19,
2013 at the Auburn University Student
Center. Details regarding the event are
available at http://apps.cadc.auburn.edu/
aias/internship/index.htm
catholic university
The School of Architecture and Planning of
the Catholic University of America presents
the second George Marcou Memorial Lecture honoring late Professor Emeritus George
Marcou. In this opportunity Michael Arad
will be discussing his work with our architectural community. Michael Arad’s design
“Reflecting Absence” won the National September 11 Memorial and Museum competition in 2004.The New York-based architect
and partner with Handel Architects was one
of six recipients of the 2006 Young Architects Awards from the American Institute of
Architects. The lecture will start at 5:30pm
on Wednesday October 17th, 2012 at the
Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for
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the DAC. Please contact Director of the Sacred Spaces concentration Professor Julio
Bermudez for more information.
Architectural Studies, Catholic University of
America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C.
As in the previous four years, the School
of Architecture & Planning at The Catholic
University of America had a world-renown
architect teaching a studio and lecturing at CUArch as part of our Walton Critic
Program. Previous Walton Critics included
Antoine Predock (2009), Craig Hartman
(2010), and Juhani Pallasmaa (2011).
This year the Walton Critic and Professor
in Residence was architect Alberto Campo
Baeza. Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect internationally known for his luminous,
simple yet nuanced, and always provocative architecture. His work is the result of
a long, continuous, and disciplined investigation into the miracle of light in space. He
has received extensive global recognition,
including the Buenos Aires Biennial International Critic Prize (2009), the Eduardo
Torroja Award (2005), the Venice Biennial
(2000), and the Miami Gold Biennial Gold
Medal (2000). Campo Baeza was also a
selected candidate for The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010 Architecture
Award and a finalist in the 2011 Premio
de Arquitectura Española. His built work,
drawings, and ideas have been widely published in Spanish, English, Italian, French
and Japanese. Campo Baeza has been
a faculty member at the ETSAM-UPM in
Madrid since 1976. On 09/12/12, Campo
Baeza presented the lecture “Ineffable
Architecture: Buliding Poetry by Thinking
with Your Hands” at the Crough Center
for Architectural Studies of The Catholic University of America. Additionally, on
09/19/12 7:00pm, Alberto Campo Baeza
gave a lecture on his current work and reflections at the District Architecture Center
(DAC) in downtown DC as part of the event
“Architecture Week 2012” organized by
The 2012 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) included several successful new
initiatives including an Architectural Design Studio led by Ben Gilmartin (Diller
Scofidio + Renfro); a Traveling Studio to
NYC with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and Boston with Stoss LU; and a Design-Build Studio in Hopewell, Ohio. The
Summer Institute also hosted a successful speaker series with Steve Vogel (University of Detroit Mercy); June Williamson
(City College of New York); Billie Tsien (Tod
Williams Billie Tsien Architects); and Ben
Gilmartin (Diller Scofidio + Renfro). A publication is currently in development with an
anticipated January 2013 release date.
Each summer, the Catholic University
of America School of Architecture and
Planning conducts the Summer Institute
for Architecture featuring numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses.
Among these are design studios and elective courses, including history of architecture, graphics, furniture design, theory, and
computer-aided design/fabrication. Plans
for the 2013 SIA include the NADAAA
Design Studio (directed by Nader Tehrani)
and a traveling studio to Los Angeles, CA.
Please contact SIA Director Professor Julie
Kim for more information.
Associate Professor Julio Bermudez received a grant to complete the second
phase of his interdisciplinary neuroscience research of architecturally induced
contemplation (done in collaboration with
several researchers and departments of the
University of Utah). Bermudez will be presenting two papers this Fall. The first work
coauthored with Brandon Ro is entitled
“Extraordinary Architectural Experiences:
Comparative Study of Three Paradigmatic
Cases of Sacred Space (The Pantheon,
The Chartres Cathedral and the Chapel of
Ronchamp) at the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances (Montreal, Canada).
The second work “fMRI Study of Architecturally-Induced Contemplative States” will
be presented at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) 2012 Annual
Conference (La Jolla, CA). In addition, professor Bermudez will travel this November
to the University of San Juan in Argentina
invited by the Facultad de Arquitectura y
Urbanismo to give a lecture entitled “Lo
Cotidiano y lo Sagrado: Reflexiones desde
el Arte y la Arquitectura” and teach the
course “Philosophy in/of Architecture.”
As part of the AIA National Convention in
Washington this past May, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins participated in the AIA
Los Angeles and Broadcaster’s multimedia
guide to Washington, DC architecture. This
smartphone application helps guide listeners to architectural sites accompanied by
commentary from local architects and educators.
Assistant Professor Hollee Hitchcock
Becker presented a paper in the Smart and
Sustainable Building Environments Conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil last June 2012.
She also won a SASBE 2012 “Highly Commended Paper Award” for her work entitled
“Sustainable, Affordable Housing using
Locally-grown Bamboo”.
Assistant Professor Carlos Reimers was
invited to be part of the Network Session
“The Search for Multi-Story Incremental
Housing” organized by the MIT’s Special
Interest Group in Urban Studies SIGUS
and presented in the Sixth Session of the
United Nations World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy in September 2012. Professor
Reimers also presented a paper on alternatives for the manufactured housing industry entitled “Beyond the Trailer: Rethinking
Affordable Manufactured Housing in the
U.S.” in the ACSA Fall 2012 Conference
in Philadelphia “Off Site”.
The Catholic University of America is pleased
to announce four new faculty members: Assistant Professor Patricia Andrasik has been
teaching both studios and sustainability
courses at the CUArch Master of Sustainable Design Program since 2004, while
practicing at an international architectural
firm, She teaches LEED(ing) Green; Sustainable Synergies in Building Assessment,
and recently developed a course called
LEED EB: O&M on the Crough Architectural Center at CUA tracking and metering
utility consumption to improve sustainability. Patricia will be launching two new
courses in lighting and environmental analytics next year.
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Assistant Professor Dr. Charles Hostovsky
joined the Catholic University of America
to teach in the Master of City and Regional
Planning program. “Chuck” is a Registered
Professional Planner in Canada, and taught
for 15 years at the University of Toronto. He
has published widely and won two teaching
awards, including the 2011 Government of
Canada award for teaching sustainability.
In professional practice for 25 years and
with an extensive portfolio of planning projects, he was one of the Project Managers
that won the Canadian Institute of Planners
award for planning excellence in Transportation and Infrastructure in 2011.
Assistant Professor of Practice John Nahra,
is the owner and Principal of Nahra Architects. John has been an architect in the
design and construction industry of the
greater Washington, DC area for the past
10 years. He received his dual degrees in
Architecture and Civil Engineering at the
Catholic University of America and is a
member of the AIA, NCARB and the USGBC. John will be exploring the added value
of architectural design in the real estate
development process as well as serving as
advisor in the Thesis program.
Visiting Assistant Professor David Dewane
is an architect with Gensler. In 2010 he
founded Librii with seed funding from the
World Bank Institute. The project aims
to construct a network of digital libraries
along Africa’s expanding fiber optic infrastructure. David trained at the Center for
Maximum Potential Building Systems in
Austin, TX under renowned Pliny Fisk III
and has a Master of Architecture from Rice
University. He has held leadership positions on three teams in the U.S. DOE’s Solar Decathlon competition.
In the summer of 2009, the Catholic University of America Design Collaborative (CUAdc)
was approached by the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land with the special request
to design four Hermitages on the Monastery
grounds in Washington DC. A design studio
led by CUAdc Director William Jelen AIA began work analyzing the site and the unique
challenges and opportunities of the task. On
the following Fall, two graduate studios led
by professor George Martin and professor
Lou Boza examined both the spiritual opportunities and the tectonic opportunities of a
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hermitage building. Finally in the Spring of
2010 as part of Catholic University’s Comprehensive Design Studio, Director Jelen led
a 12 architecture student studio towards a
singular design. This group known as Studio 12, designed what became the concept
of the first Hermitage to be built. The design concept centered on the interplay and
blending of the sacred and profane worlds as
they pertain to an individual’s daily patterns,
routines, and needs. The idea that each moment of ordinary daily life can be an opportunity for sacred appreciation and meditation,
guided everything from the choice of natural
materials and textures to the orientation of
the unit itself facing East towards Jerusalem. The hermitage contains a sleeping area,
kitchenette, and bathroom in approximately
350sf. The design incorporated sustainable
site considerations, electrical, plumbing
and mechanical systems including the use
of natural ventilation. Through the choice of
materials the design was meant to integrate
into the existing historic campus. The first
Hermitage is ADA compliant as well. The design for the project was awarded the 2010
AIA Unbuilt Award from the DC chapter of
the American Institute of Architects. Work of
the CUAdc has continued through the completion of construction on the interior design
for the Hermitage including designing and
fabricating a custom made chair, bed and
desk for the Hermitage. For more information contact CUAdc Director William Jelen.
As part of the Catholic University of America Fall Lecture series, Nader Tehrani wil
present his lecture “DA DA A NADAA”
at 6pm on November 5th, 2012 at the
Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center
for Architectural Studies, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E.
Washington D.C.
Working on interdisciplinary platforms,
Tehrani has focused his research on the
transformation of the building industry,
innovative material applications, and the
development of new means and methods
of construction. As the founding principal
of office da, Tehrani has received many
prestigious awards for his work, including
the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award
in Architecture, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and
13 Progressive Architecture awards. Tehrani is also a professor and the head of
the Department of Architecture at the MIT
School of Architecture and Planning.
clemson university
Merit Awards in the AARP/AIAS Aging in
Place Kitchen Design Competition were
given to Nick Tafel, Edgar Mozo, Joel Pominville, David Herrero for their project
“A Kitchen Alive” and to Diana Rosch for
her project “Centre.” Both projects were
designed under the supervision of studio instructor Senior Lecturer Annemarie
Jacques.
Clemson University, School of Architecture
undergraduate and graduate students won
many international and national awards in
Spring 2012:
Honorable Mention was given to graduate
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student Jingjie Zhao, with Professor Keith
Green PhD as studio instructor, in the
2011 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition of a Culinary Arts College. There were
303 entries, and the jurors awarded only
seven prizes, a 2 percent acceptance rate.
The Winning Project was awarded to Caitlin Ranson and Dianah Katzenberger (both
Clemson M. Arch. ’12 graduates,) with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the ACSA 2011-2012 International
Sustainable Laboratories Student Design
Competition. The Jury awarded only two top
prizes and three honorable mentions.
The South Region Winning Project was
awarded to Nick Barrett and Sam Pruitt,
with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as
studio instructor, in the 2011-2012 The
Sustainable Home, A Habitat for Humanity Student Design Competition, which was
sponsored by the National Endowment for
the Arts and Vinyl Institute. There were
100 submissions, from which the jurors
chose four regional winners and three other
honors, a 5 percent acceptance rate.
Four faculty members have joined Clemson
University, School of Architecture as new
permanent faculty this academic year.
Akel Ismail Kahera, Ph.D. has joined Clemson University as a tenured professor and
as the newly appointed associate dean for
research and graduate studies in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.
For the past five years, Akel has served as
director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie
View A&M University in Texas. From 2009
to 2011, he served as interim director of
at Prairie View’s graduate studies degree
program in community development. He
also taught at Texas Tech University and
the University of Texas at Austin. His areas
of specialization include hermeneutics, design, urbanism, community development,
non-Western architecture, and architectural history and theory. He is a practicing
architect and designer. Akel is the author
of more than two dozen scholarly essays, as
well as author or co-author of three books:
Deconstructing the American Mosque:
Space, Gender and Aesthetics, 2002;
Design Criteria for Mosques (co-author,)
2009; and Reading the Islamic City, 2011.
Akel received a B.Arch. from Pratt Institute, M.Arch from MIT and Ph.D. in Near
Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D. has Joined Clemson
University, School of Architecture as a new
tenure-track assistant professor focusing
on Western and non-Western history/theory
and design. Ufuk is a practicing architect
and was an assistant professor of architecture at the Izmir Institute of Technology in
Turkey prior to moving to Clemson. He is
also a guest lecturer in the Program of Architecture, University of New South Wales.
He completed his Ph. D. in Architecture
under the supervision of David Leatherbarrow at the University of Pennsylvania where
he also received his received M.Arch. and
M.S. degrees. His research focuses on the
glass cultures of 19th- and 20th-century
architectures and the consequences of
technological changes on the discipline of
architecture. Recently, he guest-edited a
special issue of the journal World Architecture on “Architecture in Turkey: A Glocal
Production” and published his essay “To
See Daydreams: The Glass Utopia of Paul
Scheerbart and Bruno Taut” in Imagining
and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia.
Dustin Albright, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has
joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new full-time lecturer teaching design studio and structures courses.
Dustin has unique dual expertise in architecture and engineering, coupled with
critical engagement with public projects.
He has a B.S. in physics from Washington
and Lee University, M.S. in civil engineering/structures and M.Arch. from Virginia
Tech University. Dustin has been practicing with Craig Gaulden Davis in Greenville
since 2008. He has been actively engaged
with the profession and local communities
through his leadership in AIA Greenville’s
Architecture Month.
Nicholas Ault who taught part-time for
Clemson University, School of Architecture last year, joins this year as a full-time
lecturer teaching design studio and digital
communications. His strengths include a
comprehensive understanding of current
digital practices in architectural design
and fabrication, as well as a focus on pedagogy within undergraduate foundation de-
sign studios. Nick has a B.S. in technology
from Bowling Green State University and
an M.Arch. from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. He practiced in Ohio,
held a visiting appointment at UNCC as the
director of Digital Fabrications Laboratory
and lecturer at the School of Architecture,
and taught as an adjunct at Queens University of Charlotte.
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university of hawaii
UH Manoa school of architecture student wins second
place in international design competition
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa School of
Architecture graduate student Sofija Kavcic
took second place in the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) Student
Design Competition.
The contest, titled Integrated Communities:
A Society for All Ages, challenged students to
explore solutions that integrate older persons
into the fabric of the community. Winners
were announced recently in Naples, Italy
and included students from eight countries
including China, Guatemala, Ireland, Sudan,
South Korea, United Kingdom, United Arab
Emirates and the United States – Kavcic is
the only winner from the United States.
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“The student designs succeed on several
levels: their thoughtful research and responsiveness to the needs of older persons;
the balance of creativity and practicality and ultimately, their youthful optimism
which will benefit us all,” Professor Dianne
Davis, founding president of the ICCC.
“The fast approaching ‘agequake’ makes
it vital that this phenomenon of aging be
studied and approached by students in a
pro-active manner.”
Kavcic’s design, Kakaako Building Blocks,
envisions a vibrant multi-generational
neighborhood fused by functional city
blocks that keep families close. Daycare
for seniors and young children is combined
and contained within a common living
area. Facilities for recreation, exercise, education, public services, retail and health
care are all accessible via walkable pathways within a city block.
Kavcic explains, “The flexibility of the architectural programming is ensured by the
use of modularity. The typical unit assembly system resembles the building blocks
toy assembly system, hence the name
Building Blocks.”
As a winner, Kavcic will present her design
at United Nations’ headquarters in New
York City on October 1, 2012 as part of the
UN World Habitat Day.
More information about this year’s contest
and awards can be found at http://www.international-iccc.org/studentdesign.htm
Roger Schluntz, FAIA and Professor, has
been appointed as the Region III Representative of the Union Internationale des
Architectes(International Union of Architects, or UIA ) to its Scientific Committee;
charged with the program development for
the next UIA World Congress of Architects.
The 2014 Congress will be held in Durban,
South Africa, where the committee members
also conducted their initial meeting in late
June. The UIA represents some 1,300,000
architects in more than 100 countries. The
UIA was founded in 1948 to unite the architects of all countries in a federation of
their national organizations, which includes
the AIA of the United States.
UNIVERSITY of new mexico
UNIVERSITY of washington
Stephen Mora, Lecturer, with students, is
recognized in suckerPUNCH with the installation project, “Intervention”. This installation sits at the belly of the George Pearl
Hall, designed by AIA Gold Medalist, Antoine Predock. The plaza level of Pearl Hall
provides an open canvas for a spatial intervention of this scale, one that explores the
manifestation of complex geometry through
the techniques of CNC fabrication, tectonics, details and joinery.
Assistant Professor Kathrina Simonen
and Liv Haselbach of Washington State
University College of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Washington
researchers Elaine Oneil of the College of
the Environment and Joyce Cooper of the
College of Engineering, submitted the Life
Cycle Assessment and Buildings Research
for Washington State (LCA for WA) report
to the State Legislature on September 1st,
2012. This research to explore the potential of integrating LCA methods and data
ticular project,” says Kavcic. “She helped
me crystallize ideas and pull it all together. I
couldn’t have done it without her.”
Kavcic is enrolled in the D Arch program at
UH Manoa’s School of Architecture – the
only NAAB accredited Doctor of Architecture
in the United States and Canada. She holds
a Dipl.-Ing. (M.S. equivalent) diploma in Architecture from the University of Belgrade.
After graduation she plans to specialize in
designing high-profile urban dwellings.
“This award comes as the result of the education and research I have done during my
doctorate studies at UH. The trip to New
York is a great opportunity for me to present
my project and represent the School of Architecture,” says Kavcic. “United Nations
Ambassadors and officials, world leaders,
private sector and related experts will also
be presenting at the high-level session, so
I feel honored to be invited. It’s certainly a
confirmation that my choice of UH was the
right one.”
Professor Spencer Leineweber, FAIA, Chair
of Professional Programs at the School of
Architecture, served as mentor to Kavcic on
the project. Prior collaborations also resulted in awards for Kavcic, but none as prestigious as the ICCC contest.
“She has provided tremendous support to
me throughout my studies and on this par-
Intervention with Stephen Mora at University of New Mexico SA+P
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into the State Building Code was funded
by Washington Senate Bill 5485. As part
of this research, two stakeholder workshops
were held which included presentations on
topics such as: LCA fundamentals, LCA
policy and LCA in Practice. This presentations were recorded and are posted online
along with the final report report at http://
courses.washington.edu/lcaforwa/wordpress/.
Assistant Professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino
was awarded the 2012 Runstad Real Estate Center Fellowship and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in March 2012. This fellowship, now in its second year, is a program
that selects a diverse group of academics,
professionals and students to pursue research questions related to design, building, development and their environmental
and economic concerns. The 2012 Fellows
consisted of two professors, Merlino and
Carrie Sturts Dossick (Construction Management); professionals Jason Twill (Senior
Project Manager, Sustainability, Vulcan
Inc.) and Liz Dunn (Consulting Director
of the Preservation Green Lab, Founder
of Dunn and Hobbes, LLC) and students
Natalie Gualy (M.Arch, MSRE 2012) and
Ian Fishburn (MSRE, 2012). The fellows
spent seven days in Istanbul, investigating the urban growth policies of this architecturally rich and dynamic “megacity”,
and discussing its current trajectory with
real estate professionals, government officials, designers, academics, activists and
citizens. The findings provided a startling
reminder that despite conjectures about
post-consumer, post-carbon ‘creative culture’ cities, homogenized 20th century
ambitions still largely determine the way in
which the globe’s most architecturally and
culturally unique cities are pursing growth
in the 21st century. The Fellows will present their experiences on November 8 at
6pm in Architecture Hall at the University
of Washington.
Professor Steve Badanes traveled to Australia in March for a lecture tour, and spoke
at UTS in Sydney, UniSA in Adelaide, and
UTas and Hobart AIA in Tasmania. The
Neighborhood design/build Studio, which
Badanes directs with Jake LaBarre, won
4 out of 7 Honor Awards at the 2012 AIA
Pacific Region Student Awards for the Urban Farm Supershed. Badanes chaired the
Louisiana AIA Awards jury, and traveled to
Lafayette LA in September to present the
awards, and to speak at the La AIA Convention and at the Tulane City Center. A recent
film focused on the Seattle icon Fremont
Troll, a project led by Badanes and his firm
Jersey Devil, premiered this fall. The film,
Hall of Giants ‘chronicles the creation and
endurance of the much beloved Fremont
Troll and explores the public art movement
in Seattle and beyond. Through interviews
and hundreds of rare photographs and archival footage, viewers will take an historical journey through Seattle’s earliest years
and on up to the present, where art and
artists still struggle to survive in an everchanging city.’
Robert Hutchison was promoted to Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department
of Architecture, College of Built Environments, December 2011. His firm, Hutchison & Maul Architecture is a partner with
the Uniontown Community Development
Association on the Addition to the historic
Artisan Barn project, which was one of 80
projects to be awarded a 2012 National
Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant.
Robert Hutchison was one of eight featured
Speakers at the 2012 AIA Arkansas State
Convention, Little Rock AR, September
2012. Hutchison was an invited Speaker
& Reviewer for the Kansas State University
College of Architecture, Planning & Design,
Manhattan KS, September 2012.
Professor Sharon Sutton published a Critical
book essay of “Service-Learning in Design
and Planning,” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19, 1, in press for
late October, early November.
The Department of Architecture at the University of Washington is working with aid
organization Ayni Education International,
the Janet W. Ketcham Foundation, architect Salim Rafik, and architect Bob Hull,
founding partner of the Seattle based firm
Miller Hull, to design the new Gohar Khaton
Girls’ School in Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan.
Bob Hull and Assistant professor Elizabeth
Golden are leading a graduate architecture
studio focused on developing culturally and
environmentally responsive design solutions
for the project, which is slated for construction in early 2013.
woodbury UNIVERSITY
Visiting Assistant Professor Curt Gambetta
recently co-edited the August 2012 issue
of the Indian journal “Seminar” entitled
“Streetscapes: A Symposium on the Future of the Street.” The issue examined the
present and future of street life and space
in Indian cities, considering issues ranging from architecture, transport, and land
use to emerging forms of street culture and
activism about public space. Issue content
is available at: http://www.india-seminar.
com/2012/636.htm
Jeanine Centuori, Professor and LA Undergraduate Chair, and Adjunct Faculty Sonny
Ward received funding from the Home Depot Foundation, Backyard Products and
More, and Los Angeles Works for a design/
build project for the Shadow Hills Riding
Club, an equestrian therapy facility. The
first part of this project was published in
the Los Angeles Times in May 2012.
Assistant Professor Maxi Spina received a
‘Merit Award’ at the 2012 AIA|LA Design
Awards for the Jujuy Redux Apartment
Building in Rosario, Argentina (co-designed
with PATTERNS). Merit Award recognizes
exemplary, innovative and well-resolved
design, worthy of professional recognition.
In addition, Jujuy Redux appeared in the
September issue of The Architect Magazine
as well as on the Sept-Nov issue of Plot
Magazine.
Adjunct Faculty Deborah Richmond received an ‘Honor Award’ at the 2012
AIA|LA Design Awards for the Silverwood
Lake State Recreation Area Visitors Center in San Bernardino County, CA. Honor
Award is the highest award and celebrates
extraordinary, thoroughly resolved architectural design, worthy of the profession’s
highest regard. Additionally, Deborah, as
co-chair of the AIA|LA Committee on the
Environment (COTE), has launched a new,
citywide campaign entitled ‘(What is) the
Nature of Los Angeles?’ The campaign
started on October 24th with the panel discussion ‘On Uneasy Earth’ and featured a
land artist, engineer and geologist.
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Master of Real Estate Development (MRED),
Ted Smith and his firm McCormick Smith
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The “Outdoor Learning Classroom,” a collaboration between K-State students advised by Professor Michael Gibson and the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center in Topeka, Kansas.
& Others received an ‘Honor Award’ at the
2012 AIA|San Diego Design Awards for the
Weinman Residence in Del Mar.
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David Seamon, Professor of Architecture,
published the article, “A Jumping, Joyous
Urban Jumble”: Jane Jacobs’s Death and
Life of Great American Cities as a Phenomenology of Urban Place,” in the peerreviewed, open-source Journal of Space
Syntax, vol. 3 (fall), pp. 139-49 (available
at:
http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/journal/
index.php/joss/issue/view/5/showToc
).
Seamon attended and presented a blind
peer-reviewed paper at the annual meeting
of the International Society for the Study of
Religion, Nature and Culture, held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California,
August 8 -11.
A team of K-State students advised by Assistant Professor Michael Gibson collaborated
with the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center
in Topeka, KS to design and construct a new
outdoor pavilion to enhance the Discovery
Center’s outdoor learning initiative. The pavilion (photo above), dubbed the “Outdoor
Learning Classroom,” was supported in tandem by the Discovery Center and by Westar
Energy, who provided reclaimed utility poles
to serve as the primary structure. Students
ultimately provided over 800 hours of volunteer work over four weeks designing and constructing the project. The project opened in
late August and the process and final installation is exhibited in a blog found at http://
teeculus.wordpress.com/.
Associate Professor of Architecture Mick
Charney conducted the workshop “Looking
for Mr. Wright, and Finding Him on Facebook” at the Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK at the 19th
International Conference on Learning, August 14-16. Additionally, Charney presented the paper “Hint Fiction and Vivid Grammar: Quick Ways to Jump-start Writing
Objectives” at the 13th National Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, Michigan, September 20-23; he also served as a
judge for the Laurie Ryan Memorial Award,
Professor of Architecture Peter Magyar
and his ARCH 806 Master of Architecture
students went on a week-long field trip to
Budapest, Hungary, for an architectural
site visit during September 2012, which
is a first step in the planned cooperation
between K-State and the Technical University of Budapest. The maiden trip project,
which will be designed simultaneously by
selected students of both Universities,
hopefully will be followed by cooperation
between other colleges, resulting in possible student and faculty exchanges, and
mutual research projects.
kansas state UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor and SD Undergraduate
Chair, Catherine Herbst and Adjunct Faculty Todd Rinehart received a ‘Merit Award’
at the 2012 AIA|San Diego Design Awards
for their Modest House.
Bloom, an installation at M&A by Professor
and LA Graduate Chair Ingalill WahlroosRitter, USC Assistant Professor Doris Sung
and Structural Engineer and SCI-Arc Lecturer Matthew Melnyk, was exhibited in October in ACADIA 2012 at California College
of the Arts. ‘Bloom’ was made possible
with grants from the LA County Arts Commission, AIA Upjohn Fellowship, Arnold W.
Brunner Award, Graham Foundation Grant,
USC ASHSS Award, USC URAP Award,
Woodbury Faculty Development Award and
in-kind donations from Engineered Materials Solutions.
Light fixture designs by Professor Ingalill
Wahlroos-Ritter, Julius Shulman Distinguished Professor of Practice Barbara Bestor, Associate Professor Annie Chu, and
Adjunct Faculty Francios Perrin were on
view at “Light My Way, Stranger”, The MAK
Center for Art and Architecture’s first Day
of the Dead Auction, on Friday, November
2nd.
a $400 prize presented to the author of the
best poster at the Lilly Conference.
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Professor of Architecture Susanne SieplCoates and her ARCH 806 Master of Architecture students went on a week-long
field trip to Zurich, Switzerland to visit the
2012–2013 Distinguished Regnier Visiting
Professor Beat Kaempfen in September.
Visiting many of Kaempfen’s exemplary
buildings, students learned about Swiss
standards with regard to ecological, sustainable and energy-efficient design.
Professor of Architecture Jim Jones and Professor of Architecture Dragoslav Simic took
their ARCH 304 and ARCH 806 Master of
Architecture students on a week-long field
trip to Honduras for an architectural site visit
for the design of a Trauma Center for the Island of Roatan.
Texas A&M University
A new mobile app developed by SMARTreview, a startup company co-founded by
Mark Clayton, professor of architecture at
Texas A&M, provides designers and regulators quick access to fire safety codes adopted in the U.S. and many international
regions that provide safeguards for people
in homes, schools and workplaces.
The iOS and Android app, SMARTreview
Fire Safety, provides calculations and tables from the International Code Council’s
Quick Reference Guide to Fire Safety to
determine whether a building’s specifications are in compliance with ICC codes. A
companion desktop app for the Windows
operating system is also available.
“The software represents many years of
work to develop a powerful and robust algorithm for checking particular requirements
in the building code,” said Clayton. “The
app should pay for itself in reduced time on
its first use on a project by eliminating the
tedium of looking up figures and requirements in building code books, but its real
value comes in speeding the process of obtaining a permit and ultimately the completion of a building.”
Additional apps are in development, Clayton said, that address other calculations
in the ICC code, the International Energy
Conservation Code, the International Residential Code, American Disabilities Act
compliance, and other regulations.
University of Houston’s Graduate Design/Build Studio’s steel, shade structure across from Youngblood Intermediate
School.
“As a start-up company, we expect to hire
additional staff as revenue is generated,”
he said.
The 14th Annual Texas A&M College of Architecture Research Symposium: Natural,
Built, Virtual will take place Monday, Oct.
22 at the Langford Architecture Center on
the Texas A&M campus.
This year’s symposium includes invited or
refereed presentations and papers from the
2011-12 academic year. The symposium
will feature approximately 50 presentations divided into diverse categories and
delivered in several concurrent sessions
throughout the day. This year’s presentations are grouped in broad categories
including invention, energy, modeling,
management, policy, pedagogy, aging, innovation, perception, history, archaeology,
excogitation and well-being.
The college’s annual symposium was established more than a decade ago to underscore the influence of research on teaching
and practice. It also serves as a catalyst for
research-informed teaching in the College of
Architecture’s five undergraduate and nine
graduate degree programs. And, because
many of the presentations were originally
delivered at scholarly venues abroad, the
event also showcases the global influence of
research conducted by college faculty.
Rituals developed by ancient Greeks to
sustain relationships with their gods will
be discussed by Kevin Glowacki, assistant
professor of architecture at Texas A&M, at
6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Glowacki will focus on a sanctuary and architectural remains of Aphrodite and her son
Eros, gods of love, marriage and fertility, on
the north slope of the Acropolis in Athens.
“The open-air sanctuary is an instructive example of a less formal or ‘popular’ shrine,
where the ancient Athenians made dedications of sculpted reliefs, marble statuettes,
and terracotta figurines,” said Glowacki. He
will present an analysis of the three main
types of rituals performed at the sanctuary,
intended to create and sustain personal relations between mortals and their gods: prayer,
sacrifice and dedication.
University of houston
Summer time is work time for the University
of Houston’s Graduate Design/Build Studio
(UH GDBS). Each year, the studio’s students
brave Houston’s heat to help enhance the
city’s landscape.
By designing and constructing useful community amenities, UH GDBS has helped
local schools, parks, and nonprofit organizations. This year was no different as the
studio produced a solar-powered outdoor
classroom/butterfly pavilion for Alief’s community garden.
Their hard work received a “green” thumbs
up from the community and soon will be presented with the Mayor’s Proud Partner Award
by Keep Houston Beautiful. The award
honors projects that enhance and beautify
the city. UH architecture professor Patrick
Peters and GDBS students will accept the
award during the 28th annual Mayor’s Proud
Partners Awards luncheon at noon; Oct. 28
at the Houston Hilton Post Oak Hotel.
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This steel, shade structure will be welcomed
to the community Nov. 10 during a ribboncutting event. With solar-powered ceiling
fans, the pavilion will provide community
members with a place to cool off, as well as
a perfect space for educational demonstrations on planting, cooking, vegetables and
other topics.
The garden and classroom site are located
across the street from Youngblood Intermediate School (at Beechnut Street and Dairy
View Lane) on property owned by Alief Independent School District. Once completed, the school can use the classroom for
outdoor activities.
Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi will be presenting a
paper entitled “Contributions of the Middle
East to European Architecture” at the 5th
Annual ASMEA (Association for the Study of
the Middle East and Africa). Conference on
October 11-13, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Bozorgi is also the Founder of the The
Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and
Culture at the College of Architecture, which
was established in the spring of 2012. The
Center seeks to advance knowledge of the
Middle Eastern built environment and culture, and will support scholarship that is of
historical and contemporary importance, by
acting as a coordinating body for participating universities and institutions whose research focus relates to this geographic area.
Houston’s SPARK School Park Program
funded the project with support from Alief
Independent School District, Alief International District and Coca-Cola. Other collaborators include architect Christof Spieler and
Tolunay-Wong Engineers Inc.
Another UH project received an honorable
mention from Keep Houston Beautiful. A solar-powered outdoor demonstration kitchen
that was designed by UH architecture and
graphic communication students was recognized by this awards program.
For additional details on the project and
how it was developed, view the original
press release.
GDBS is part of UH’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Past community projects include a solar shade tree for McReynolds Middle School and an amphitheater
classroom for T.H. Rogers School. To learn
more about GDBS, visit http://www.uh.edu/
gdbs/.
University of oklahoma
Associate Professor David L. Boeck and
College of Engineering Professor Musharraf Zaman have been awarded a two-year
$250,000 grant from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to study the use of
Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) in road
mix design. A significant number of asphalt
shingles are damaged each year in Oklahoma due to storms, and this grant will allow
testing which should prove their viability in
road construction.
Assistant Professor Daniel Butko was the
Instructor for a Spring Intercession Course
in which students designed and built a
playhouse for the Playhouse Parade project for CASA (Court Appointed Special
Advocates) of Oklahoma County. This is
the third year the college has been involved
in the project. The playhouses were raffled
off in early June 2012 to raise money for
CASA, which provides trained court appointed volunteers who advocate for the best
interests of abused or neglected children in
the juvenile court system. The playhouse
was designed to be easy to assemble with
light-weight materials, and to be weatherproof. The students used harvested cedar
from around the Norman campus and wood
donated from local construction sites in
this year’s design. Krone Construction and
Western Plastics also donated materials. Enrolled and volunteer students included Aaron
Crandall, Haven “Bud” Hardage, Nick Norsworthy, Hunter Roth, Alma Sandoval, Trent
Still, Jason Tyler, and Ryan Williams. Faculty
reviewing the design and assisting included
Assistant Professor Tony Cricchio, Professor
Joel Dietrich, Dean Charles Graham, Shop
Manager Hunter Roth, and Assistant Profes-
sor Stephanie Pilat.
Professor Butko is also on the planning committee for the 164th Meeting/Conference
of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
Please see the web site for details: http://
acousticalsociety.org/meetings/kansas_city
The Oklahoma City Skydance Bridge, completed following a national competition with
a design consortium assembled by OU Mabrey Presidential Professor Hans E. Butzer,
was recently completed in Oklahoma City
and has now been recognized as one of the
50 best public art projects by the 2012
Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts. Included in the multidisciplinary team that designed the $6.8M pedestrian bridge are OU faculty members Dr.
Chris Ramseyer, P.E. and Stan Carroll, AIA.
“Tomorrow’s Yukon” is an initiative that will
engage the City of Yukon in a partnership
with faculty and students from the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) College of Architecture. Associate Professor Marjorie Callahan,
Architecture, and Associate Professor Leehu
Loon, Landscape Architecture, are directing
a design studio which will provide the initial
visionary steps to stimulate ideas for (1) a
streetscape on Main Street and Route 66
and, (2) a new city hall complex capable of
consolidating all city services. This project
will involve the beloved Oklahoma Route 66,
which runs through the heart of the Yukon
community. The students’ landscaping and
architectural conceptual plans and models
will demonstrate ideas for: (1) colorful and
safe streetscapes; (2) retail and office options; (3) a government central campus; (4)
the beautification of the Route 66 to Garth
Brooks Drive; (5) a parkway system of bicycle
trails; and, (6) other important connections
to children’s state of the art playgrounds,
housing, schools and festivals.
Associate Professor Lee Fithian was awarded
a grant by SAIC in the amount of $5,000
to provide the continuing education program series in sustainability entitled “Acquisition, Coordination and Dissemination of
AIA+2030 Curriculum.”
Professor Fithian and Associate Professor
Tamera McCuen (Construction Science),
were awarded OU Provosts’ Dream Course
funding in the amount of $20,000 for the
interdisciplinary collaboration “BIM for Con-
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structors” which will be used to enhance
curriculum for over 70 graduate and undergraduate OU College of Architecture students. The grant provides the opportunity for
students, academicians and professionals to
train in BIM and interact in a virtual charrette via the upcoming BIMStormtm OKC on
November 7, 2012: http://www.bimstorm.
com/i/OklahomaStorm.php. Professors Fithian, McCuen, and Butko will be working
together in this collaborative effort with
the Construction Science students and the
Design 7 studio in Architecture to design a
mixed-use building in the Core to Shore redevelopment area of Oklahoma City.
Adjunct Lecturer Geoff Parker was the Winner of the 2012 Architectural Record “Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest” in the Professional Division. You may view his entry via
this link: http://archrecord.construction.
com/features/cocktail_napkin_sketch_contest/2012/.
Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Pilat has
been awarded an AAUW American Summer/
Short-Term Research Publication Grant for
2012-13, which provides support for work
on her forthcoming book, Reconstructing
Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the
Postwar Era (Ashgate, 2014).
M. Arch Grad Student Andrew Stevens has
won 2nd Place in the National ACSA/NSF
jointly sponsored Open Challenge Competition “The Architecture & Engineering of Sustainable Buildings”. http://www.sustainableae.com/ This award gives $2,000 for to the
student and $500 to the faculty involved; in
this case Professor Lee Fithian.
In other student news, Lisa Om and Ana
Ruiz were just awarded the Newman Medal
for Excellence in Acoustics based on work
performed in Spring 2012 architectural
acoustics class. http://www.newmanfund.
org/newman-student-awards/. Keaton Cizek,
as a member of the OU Habitat for Humanity Group (HFH for Cleveland County), is involved in the “Shackathon,” a fundraising
and awareness event held in fall semester
which engages many student organizations
as well as any person walking along the
South Oval for a day. Participating student
organizations are allotted a plot of grass
along the Oval upon which to build a minimal shelter with limited materials. Facts
about poverty displayed by the participants
raise awareness among passersby, who are
then asked to donate whatever they can to
the cause (Cleveland County HFH). Friendly
competition among the participating student organizations encourages hard work.
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Professor Harry Mallgrave will be awarded
an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council. The twelve fellowships announced on
September 27 reward individuals from a
diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including
the worlds of education, sustainability, engineering, property development, journalism,
politics and the wider built environment
industry. The 2013 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have made a particular
contribution to architecture in its broadest
sense. This includes its promotion, administration and outreach, and its role in building
more sustainable communities and in the
education of future generations.
Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect,
scholar, editor, and professor of history and
theory at Illinois Institute of Technology.
After several years in architectural practice,
he took his doctoral studies at the University
of Pennsylvania in 1983 under the supervision of Stanford Anderson. His dissertation
topic -The Idea of Style: Gottfried Semper
in London -presaged his focus on German
theory in his early career. This phase of his
work culminated in the intellectual biography Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, which won the prestigious
Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the American Society of Architectural Historians.
He has written numerous books and articles
on the history and theory of architecture
including: Modern Architectural Theory: A
Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968
to the Present. In recent years Mallgrave’s
interests have broadened, as indicated by
his book The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture. He has
more recently followed up on this study with
Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities
for Design, to be published in 2013. It appeals to the emotional process of embodied
simulation, rejects overly conceptualized
approaches to theory and the objectification
of design (viewing buildings as objects), and
argues for a return to the focus of design to
where it formerly resided -the human experience of inhabiting the world.
Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Williams will be featured in the new Dreams in
Jay-Z Minor exhibition at the Blanc Gallery
as part of a series of exhibitions for Chicago
Artists Month. Williams and fellow Chicago
artist Krista Franklin drew on a series of
mutually recurring dreams as inspiration for
their work.
The exhibit explores notions around dream
states, hyper-reality, upward mobility,
hopes and aspirations of African Diasporic
peoples, black opulence, black excellence,
and excess.
Using a variety of mediums, from paintings,
handmade paper, print, altered books and
collage, Dreams in Jay-Z Minor is a visual
metaphorical play of installation, 2D, and
3D works.
Master of Architecture alumna Diane Hoffer-Schurecht has received the AIA Chicago’s 2012 Chicago Award for Architecture. Select area architecture schools are
invited to participate in this annual award
and each are allowed to nominate five students to compete. Competition entries are
school studio projects that are submitted at
the end of the spring semester. As the first
place winner, Hoffer-Schurecht will receive
the Benn-Johnck Student Award of $500.
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GULF
Louisiana State University
The School of Architecture is please to announce that Greg Watson has joined the faculty as an Associate Professor this fall.
Greg Watson received his BA in Psychology
from Columbia University and his MArch
from Washington University in Saint Louis.
He has practiced in Chicago, Maine, South
Carolina, Mississippi, and Minnesota. Watson’s research has been supported by grants
from the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Mississippi State University Office
of Research, the College of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture at the University
of Minnesota, and the Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. His
paintings, drawings, and prints have been
exhibited at galleries in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Mississippi,
and Louisiana.
The School of Architecture is please to announce that Alice Guess has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall.
Alice Guess holds a five year M. Arch from
Tulane University and an M. Arch from McGill University’s Architectural History and
Theory Program. A South Carolina native,
she has practiced architecture in Louisiana,
North Carolina and South Carolina. For the
last decade she has worked with Reggie Gibson in Charleston, South Carolina, becoming principle of Gibson Guess Architects in
2007. Before coming to LSU she taught
at the Clemson Center for Architecture in
Charleston.Alice Guess.
Associate Professor Jim Sullivan received a
Baton Rouge AIA Merit Award for a pavilion
that he and LSU School of Architecture students Steven Armstrong, Marc Berard, Megan Harris, and Stacy Palczynski designed
and built. For more information see http://
www.la-ab.com/#YMCA-Design-Build.
Associate Professor of Architecture Ursula
Emery McClure and several of her students
were recently awarded the 2012 Charles E.
Peterson Prize for their entry “Fort Proctor.”
The two groups of students involved with
winning the Prize are: (spring 2012) Cody
Blanchard, Annette Couvillon, Lindsay Boley, Christopher Peoples, Sarah Kolac, Taylor
Alphonso, and (fall 2011) Taylor Alphonso,
Ben Buehrle, Audrey Cropp, and Claire Hu.
David Bertolini, PhD along with co-editors
Don Kunze, PhD and Simone Brott, PhD
have a collection of essays titled Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture Of Decline, Dystopia, And Death on
that was accepted for publication by Ashgate Press. Forthcoming in 2013.
Architect Errol Barron, FAIA, was awarded
the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) Louisiana Medal of Honor, the
highest award given by AIA LA, at its annual
Design Conference in Lafayette on September 28.
Barron is a principal of Barron/Toups Architects, an award-winning firm entering its
fifth decade of business. He is widely recognized as a designer, painter, educator, preservationist, musician, photographer, critic,
lecturer, author and civic leader.
The Medal of Honor is given by AIA LA to
architects who have sustained a lifetime affecting the profession of architecture, and
who have significantly advanced the profession and/or provided strong influence on fellow practitioners.
Barron/Toups Architects is recognized for its
artful blend of modern sensibilities with historic vernacular, as in St. Peter’s by the Sea
Episcopal Church in Gulfport, Mississippi;
and the use of natural light in the Ogden
Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
His designs are found both throughout the
US and abroad. He has also served as the
president of AIA New Orleans and board
member of AIA Louisiana, and was elected
to AIA Fellowship in 1996.
Barron is also a semi-professional (accomplished amateur) flutist, having performed
and recorded classical works. His sketches,
photographs and watercolors have been exhibited nationally and also published. He
has taught architecture for more than 35
years and is currently the Favrot Professor of
Architecture at Tulane University.
He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tulane, and his master’s in architecture from Yale University, and has studied
and practiced in London and New York.
“Errol is unwavering in his dedication
to producing work of the highest design
quality, no matter the challenges and obstacles,” noted architect Douglas Ashe,
FAIA. Colleague William Brockway, FAIA,
noted, “Errol has published insightful and
scholarly essays in widely disseminated
journals… has been a consistent winner
of design awards… and his work has been
featured in many design publications.”
Architect Allan Eskew, FAIA, noted, “Errol
has been a motivating force at the Tulane
School of Architecture… regarded by graduating students as one of their most stimulating and motivational instructors.”
University of puerto rico
Professor Edgardo Arroyo’s Second Year Studio participated with a group proposal for
2012 Park(ing)Day.
Professor Andrea Bauzá was part of a design
collective that earned an Honorable Mention
representing the US at the Venice Biennale
Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez was a moderator at AULA’s symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM).
Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico
1993-2010, a book designed and edited by
Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez and Professor Darwin Marrero-Carrero was selected
for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño
(BID12) in Madrid, Spain
The UPR hosted the premiere of “Unfinished Spaces”, a Sundance documentary
about the Arts Schools in Havana, Cuba
Associate Dean Mayra Jiménez represented
the UPR in Cádiz, where our journal (in)forma 6 was selected for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura.
Professor Manuel Bermúdez graduate city
studio will travel to Panamá, where they
will research Old Panama City as part of
a 3-year effort to document colonial cities
in the Caribbean that includes Cartagena,
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Havana, New Orleans, Santo Domingo and
Old San Juan.
Design from the University of Puerto Rico
and an M.Arch from Syracuse University.
ACSA Distinguished Professor Enrique Vivoni, PhD curated an exhibit showcasing
the six summer studios he led in Corsica
documenting over 100 houses, churches
and tombs.
Professor Jorge Rigau FAIA, received the
Distinguished Architecture Professor Award
from the Polytechnic University of Puerto
Rico in May 2012.
The UPR School of Architecture is engaging
municipal authorities to explore collaborative studios on the city. Following the successful studios dedicated to Fajardo, the
graduate studio led by Professors Thomas
Marvel and Cristina Cardalda will continue
to work with the Municipality of Bayamón.
Professors Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, PhD, Manuel Bermúdez and Dean Francisco Javier
Rodríguez presented the book Ambivalent
Spaces: Memory and Oblivion in Modern Social Architecture, at the Colegio de Arquitectos (CAAPPR).
Natalia Rey (MArch 12) won the Best Urban
Design Thesis Award from the Colegio de
Arquitectos (CAAPPR) and the Jaime Cobas
Thesis Award.
The work of Professor Andrés Mignucci was
highlighted on ENTORNO Magazine. He is
currently working on a book documenting
the PR Supreme Court Building.
Polytechnic University
of Puerto Rico
Dean Carlos E. Betancourt LLambias AIA,
and Interior Designer Smyrna Mauras, CODDI, announced the inauguration of the Interior Architecture Program in the Spring 2013.
Dean Betancourt also announced the integration of the Landscape Architecture program to the school of Architecture ARQPOLI.
Professor Diana G. Rivera was appointed as
the new Associate Dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of
Puerto Rico (PUPR). Professor Rivera has
been teaching for seventeen years and has
taught design studios at various levels. Professor Rivera has a B.A. in Environmental
Professor Miguel Del Río AIA, has been appointed AIA Regional Director for the areas
of Florida and the Caribbean. The appointment took place on July 2012 during the
AIA Convention in Palm Beach.
Professor Andres Mignucci AIA, will be lecturing at Tulane School of Architecture, the
lecture ‘The City is not a blank slate” will
take place this coming month. Also, Professor Mignucci announced the publication of
his next book Contexts: Parque Munoz Rivera and the Supreme Court.
Professor Nadya K. Nenadich mentored second place award winning students Glorimer
Anselmi, Nestor Bartolomei, Javier Bidot,
Cristhian Cano, Marcos Colón and Janice
Quevedo, for the San Juan 3D Competition
sponsored by Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas. Nenadich also gave
the lecture “La erosión de la gestión común
de lo común” for the Arquitectonics International Workshop “Architecture, Education
and Society” at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) on May, 2012.
Professor María Gabriela Flores AIA, gave
the lecture “Consideraciones de Diseño para
Vivienda en Puerto Rico” as part of the design competition “Nueva Vivienda para Puerto Rico 2012” at the Puerto Rico’s Architects
Association (CAAPPR) on May 10, 2012.
Professor Omayra Rivera, coordinator of the
Collaborative Design Studio, is offering a
course at Beta Local in Old San Juan in collaboration with the project ENLACE for Caño
Martín Peña. Moreover, Professor Rivera
presented the paper “Participatory Analysis
of the Living Environment: The Plus Ultra
Neighborhood”, together with professors
Leandro Madrazo and Angel Martin Cojo
from the School of Architecture La Salle in
Barcelona at the Association of Collegiate
School of Architecture (ACSA) Conference
on June, 2012, that took place at the Center
of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.
Professors Yazmín Crespo and Omayra Rivera, together with Andrea Bauzá, presented
the work produced by their collaborative
studio “Taller Creando Sin Encargos’, at the
Puerto Rico’s Architects Association (CAAPPR) on August 16, 2012. They were also
guest speakers at the University Radio talk
show “Arquitectura de Hoy”.
Professor Yazmín Crespo gave a history and
theory of architecture summer course at the
Elisava School of Design in Barcelona on
June, 2012.
Professor Vladimir García has joined the ArqPoli faculty. Professor Garcia, who has a
Masters Degree from SCIArc, was recently
awarded, together with Doel Fresse, the First
Prize from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture: Galería Espacio Temporal (GET) Design
Competition 2011 for the Revuelo installation. Revuelo was selected as one of the
projects to represent Puerto Rico in the Third
Design Biennial in Madrid on November
2012. Professor Garcia gave a lecture about
this art-installation at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
and at the Puerto Rico’s Architects Association (CAAPPR) on March, 2012.
Professor Maria Isabel Oliver conducted a
Summer Advanced History Course together
with the Centro de Estudios Martianos in
Havana, Cuba. The project Havana: topologies of a transitional city, examines through
videos and urban acoustics, the topological
‘invariances’ of memory, history and identity within the ‘variant’ uses of contemporary society.
Professor Oscar Oliver Didier, together with
16 students, traveled to Berlin, Germany, to
conduct the Summer Studio Berlin: Enduring Impermanence. The project evaluates
place and the crisis of permanence.
The Study Abroad Exhibitions Berlin: Enduring Impermanence and Havana: topologies