ACSA News January 2008 by Pascale Vonier

january 2008 volume 37 number 5

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2007 Administrators Conference Goes Global See page 6 for details

ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools Goes Online Go to page 8 to learn how to set up your school’s listing

in this issue: 2

President’s Column

NAAB Board of Directors Call

Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

2007 Administrators Conference Recap

ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools 2007 College + Career Expo Recap

Student Director’s Column

ACSA Student Design Competitions

Architecture School Exhibit Call to Participate 2008 ACSA Administrators Conference

96th ACSA Annual Meeting—Houston

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

REGIONAL NEWS

ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

2008 Walter Wagner Forum

from the president

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Nine forms of architectural intelligence? by kim tanzer

tial evidence, we often overlook or undervalue our students who excel in other areas, areas necessary to practice but not generally rewarded in school.

Pascale Vonier, Editor Editorial Offices 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006, USA Tel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448 Website: www.acsa-arch.org ACSA Board of Directors, 2007–2008 Kim Tanzer, RA, President Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Vice President Theodore C. Landsmark, M.Ev.D., JD, PhD, Past President Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, D.Arch, RA, Secretary Graham Livesey, Treasurer Patricia Kucker, EC Director Stephen White, AIA, NE Director Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA, SE Director Russell Rudzinski, SW Director Loraine D. Fowlow, W Director Keelan Kaiser, AIA, WC Director George Baird, Canadian Director Tony Vanky, Associate AIA, 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. The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0048. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

This led to a discussion of the work of Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education at Harvard University and a MacArthur genius award winner, who has, over the past 25 years, identified nine forms of intelligence. His work can be explored in more detail through his website at http://www.howardgardner.com/index.html .

Where do all the architecture students go? This is a question that puzzles and concerns many of us, in the schools and in the practice arena. We recognize that there are thresholds in the path to professional practice that lead to attrition, from challenges in school, to the complexities of the IDP process, to difficulties in advancing through traditional routes of practice. Certainly, not all potentially good architecture students who begin school complete our programs. Another commonly disseminated statistic—perhaps just a guesstimate—is that only 50% of the people who complete architecture school become licensed architects. What happens to the rest? The first zone of attrition is schools of architecture. In discussing this question at last spring’s Five Presidents meeting we brought forward two theories. First, because architecture is a rigorous discipline relative to other majors, some students realize they do not want to work as hard as architecture programs expect them to work. I argued that we are better off, as a discipline, without these students.

Gardner has identified nine types of intelligence, which he believes all people possess to some degree. He argues that the two forms of intelligence most prized in scholastic settings, linguistic and mathematical intelligence, belong to this larger set, which he characterizes as relatively independent ways of processing the world’s stimuli. Gardner’s nine intelligences, and their most obvious connections to architecture, are: 1.

4. Second, we discussed the possibility that, because schools of architecture disproportionately privilege design, which is evaluated largely through visual and spa-

Linguistic intelligence. This is the intelligence architects use to understand clients’ wishes, to make verbal presentations, to write proposals and reports, and to learn information presented in written form. Logical mathematical intelligence. This intelligence is used in calculating structures, square footages, budgets, and energy demands, to name a few quantifiable subsets of architectural performance. Musical intelligence. For those who compare architecture to frozen music, or those who have studied music, this intelligence provides a way of ordering architecture into rhythmic phrases, repetitive elements, and symphonic wholes. Spatial intelligence. This is, of course, the most prized intelligence in most schools of architecture, al-

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ACSA seeks Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster

Deadline March 10, 2008 The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for ACSA representatives on National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members participating in the accrediting process will be made by NAAB. NOMINATING PROCEDURE 1. Members of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on visiting teams for a term of four years. 2. Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via ACSA News. Proposals must include complete curriculum vitae. 3. The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters. NOMINEE QUALIFICATIONS • The candidate should demonstrate: • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience; • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work; • Administrative experience; and • An association with several different schools. Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.) ACSA NOMINEE SELECTION Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively, are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteristics exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service. DESCRIPTION OF TEAM AND VISIT Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.

The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process. The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications. TEAM SELECTION The visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by providing resumes of prospective team members.

A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if: • The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated with a rival institution; • The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution; • The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to evaluate the program. NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines. Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting. NOMINATIONS DEADLINE AND CALENDAR The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a curriculum vitae, is Monday, March 10, 2008. Send nomination materials to: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ACSA (NAAB Visiting Team) 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 Electronic submissions, including the candidate’s CV, should be sent to nominations@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2008. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2008-09 team visits in November 2008.

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journal of architectural education

O P E N C A L L fo r D e s i g n S u b m i s s i o n s Journal of Architectural Education Design Editor:

Jori Erdman, Clemson University (jerdman@clemson.edu)

Beginning with the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education, the JAE established the publishing of architectural design (research, scholarship, and critical inquiry) as central to the journal’s mission. In addition to publishing juried “design articles,” the JAE’ expanded Reviews Section now includes reviews of buildings, projects, installations, exhibitions, and competitions, in addition to various documents. In this Open Call we invite submission of previously unpublished design work for blind peer-review. This work may be the product of an academic studio, or created directly by the submitting author(s). Work will be judged primarily on how it extends architectural inquiry, particularly in relation to image and text. Submission requirements and the review process are outlined on the JAE website at http://jaeonline.org/ under the category, Design as Scholarship. These General Design Submissions (those not related to a particular theme call) received, before March 7, 2008, will be juried by the JAE’s Design Committee at ACSA’s National Meeting in Houston. Premiated submissions from this Open Call will be published as design articles in Volume 62 (2008-09). Deadline for Submission: March 07, 2008 Inquiries: George Dodds, Executive Editor, at gdodds@utk.edu

Image courtesy of Peter Schneider [Oxygen House, Design Study/Disegno. ª 2007, Estate Douglas Darden.]

IMMATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

Theme Editors: Julio Bermudez, University of Utah (bermudez@arch.utah.edu) Thomas Barrie, North Carolina State University (tom_barrie@ncsu.edu)

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New materials, building systems, construction techniques, global practices, in addition to digitally generated designs, representations, and fabrication technologies, have gained privileged positions of late in architectural theory, pedagogy, and practice. The focus has shifted towards the quantitative and measurable, away from more intangible albeit fundamental aspects of architectural production. The resulting bifurcation of the material and the immaterial calls for a reconsideration of the qualitative, ineffable, numinous, and immeasurable in architectural production. This theme issue provides opportunities for educators, researchers, and practitioners to broaden the scope of contemporary discourse, confront current academic and professional presumptions, and contribute to alternative histories, theories, critiques, and practices of our nuanced discipline. Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representational methods have their own histories of examining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experi-

mental, comparative, and analytical tools to interpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity for contributors to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories. What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can today’s representational media emulate the ineffable? How can we distinguish between the numinous and the merely luminous? Will new developments in the sciences, psychology, and philosophy bring new insights to the question of the immaterial in our increasingly material culture? The editors seek critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly immaterial. The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) inquiries of historical and contemporary issues regarding immateriality. All submissions must be received Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5 pm U.S. Eastern Time. Premiated design and text-based submissions will be published in Volume 62, Number 2, in the November 2008 issue of the JAE. Please consult the JAE website for submission guidelines and other useful information at (www.jaeonline.org/) or visit (faculty.arch.utah.edu/jae/).

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lowing architects to imagine projects in three dimensional form and to present their imaginings to others. It serves as a critical base intelligence for all architects. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. This capacity allows people to think using their whole bodies, or portions of their bodies like their hands. It might help architects imagine or test moving through architectural space, or to build models, or to build full scale constructions. Interpersonal intelligence. This form of social intelligence allows architects to communicate effectively with others, take the appropriate (leader/non-leader) role in collaborative projects, and communicate effectively with clients or other public audiences. Intrapersonal intelligence. This intelligence allows architects to be self-reflective--to understand themselves, what they value, and what they need. Naturalist intelligence. Architects use this intelligence to make decisions regarding distinctions in the larger natural world, or, as an evolutionary substitute, the built world. It allows people to differentiate between types of trees, qualities of clouds, or even, Gardner believes, between types of sneakers or furniture. Existential intelligence or the “intelligence of big questions.” While Gardner is not yet convinced that this is a distinct ninth form of intelligence, it would allow architects to ask big questions regarding the future of the planet, the value of friendship, or the size of the universe.

How can schools of architecture cultivate a broad range of intelligences, without diminishing our use of spatial intelligence to communicate through form? As educators, we can frame assignments and introduce information to strengthen and reward a variety of intelligences beyond spatial intelligence. Written assignments, evaluated for writing quality as well as subject matter, will enhance students’ linguistic intelligence. Subject matter requiring mathematical competence, often seen as difficult and necessary but uninspiring, can be recast more positively for students and faculty alike. Collaborative projects, in which the quality of communication, not just the final product, can be privileged, will support

interpersonal intelligence. Design-build projects, furniture making projects, sensitive design of spatial sequences and even model building, will strengthen and reward bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Assignments or courses framed to allow students to engage “big questions” and to look to the natural world around them for guidance will help them exercise their existential and naturalist intelligence.

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president’s message (cont.)

As many practitioners and academics have come to recognize, architecture’s future holds increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative projects. Strengthening each student’s intelligence in as many dimensions as possible will lead to greater individual and disciplinary success.

A more holistic approach to architectural education, one that strengthens, evaluates and rewards multiple intelligences, should be matched by parallel profession recognition. Recently, while discussing the serious limitations that follow from recognizing individuals for what is so often a group effort, Beverly Willis suggested a new model for architectural awards programs. She compared the recognition of films by the movie industry with that of excellent buildings among architects. She suggested that we might learn something from the Academy Awards, where the best director is recognized, but so is the best cinematographer, best screenplay, best picture (including its producers), and best actors. Translating this analogy into architecture, best buildings would be recognized for their interiors, site designs, client commitment, public presence, sustainable material choices, etc., publically acknowledging the many people whose contribute to excellence. Lifetime achievement awards, similarly, would be spread more broadly than the relatively few recognitions that are now doled out to a very small group of practitioners. Whatever mechanisms the schools and profession chose to recognize the many intelligences necessary to design and construct a quality built environment, it is clear that we currently do too little to recognize the multiplicity of our students’ and colleagues’ talents. It may be that those who leave the discipline of architecture during or soon after school do so because our system of recognition is too narrowly focused on spatial intelligence. To prosper as a discipline in the coming century, we need to find ways to keep our best and brightest, no matter their range of strengths.

Participate in the Accreditation Review Conference Now The much-discussed 2008 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference is not just an event scheduled for next October. It’s happening right now online and through other various channels. During October and November ACSA shared the reports of 9 topic groups working on issues related to the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s Conditions and Procedures. We asked for feedback at our three ACSA Fall Conferences and at the Administrators Conference. We continue to ask your feedback through our ACSAccred blog at ACSAccred.blogspot.com. What’s next? The ACSA board of directors is working to distill the issues into a clear and succinct statement for the membership to review and contribute. Read more about these efforts at ACSA’s website at acsa-arch.org/about/naabhome.aspx and share your views on how to improve accreditation of schools as well as outcomes for students.

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2007 administrators conference

Courtyard of Rapson Hall at the University of Minnesota

2007 Administrators Conference Goes Global by thomas fisher, university of minnesota, conference co-chair

For the first three days in November, deans, department heads, directors, and faculty, from both architecture and landscape architecture programs across North America and abroad, met in downtown Minneapolis to share ideas and gather information about how to help their own regions, institutions, and schools prepare for the effects that climate change will have on the designed environment. The 2007 ACSA/CELA Administrator’s Conference had three parts.

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After an initial overview of climate change by Minnesota climatologist Mark Seeley, the first day began with a description of a proposed National Academy of Environmental Design, led by ACSA President Kim Tanzer, with the goal of coordinating and funding research on sustainability related to work being done in the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences. Discussion of the proposal occurred throughout the conference, with a lunch devoted to getting input on its structure and purpose, and a discussion of the next steps for the Academy at the conference’s conclusion. The rest of the first day focused on national and international efforts, including work going on in the schools related to rebuilding after Katrina, dealing with global flooding, reclaiming damaged landscapes, and designing more sustainable housing and infrastructure. The polar explorer, Will Steger, and the renewable energy advocate, J. Drake Hamilton, capped the first day with terrific keynote addresses, co-sponsored by the Urban Land Institute Minnesota and AIA Minnesota. The second day addressed sustainability on the local and regional scale, with examples of what

state and municipal governments are doing to green their communities, followed by talks on energy conservation and habitat preservation, with tours of Minneapolis culminating in a reception at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, shared with the AIAS Midwest Quad conference. The second day also saw an energetic talk by Anthony Cortese, who has led the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment, and who called upon every ACSA and CELA school to get their Presidents to sign the commitment. The final day drilled down to the institutional level. It began with a spirited discussion of the 2008 Accreditation Review Conference, with some calling for evolution and others for a more revolutionary approach to the revision of accreditation standards to reflect the monumental changes facing our fields. Sessions on the impact of integrated practice and on the 2030 Challenge on both the schools and professions, as well as on the challenges of constructing new school buildings and greening existing campuses filled out the remainder of the morning, with a round-robin description of what schools around North America are doing to address climate change, each in their own way. The global nature of the problem was underscored by a day-long pre-conference in which North American academic leaders met with their peers in Europe, Central and South America, Australasia, and the Arab peninsula to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working across national boundaries to address common problems. It was impossible not to come away from these events without being better prepared for the stormy weather on the horizon.

From left, Thomas Fisher, Ralph Rapson, Harrison Fraker

Guthrie Theater by Jean Nouvel

If you would like to submit further resources for our ‘post conference’ page at acsa-arch.org, please email pvonier@acsa-arch.org.

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post conference resources

AIA Committee on the Environment www.aia.org/cote Architecture 2030 A non-profit, nonpartisan and independent organization, established in response to the global-warming crisis. Its mission is to transform the Building Sector into a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis. www.architecture2030.org

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education A member organization of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education in partnership with businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies that support our mission. www.aashe.org Minneapolis Public Library

At the ACSA Administrators Conference in Minneapolis in November, a group of about twenty women administrators, including ACSA President, Kim Tanzer, and ACSA Secretary, Carmina Sanchez, met and inaugurated the Women’s Leadership Council (WLC). Professor Geraldine Forbes Isais, Director of the Architecture Program at the University of New Mexico, and former ACSA President, was elected as founding President of the newly formed Council, which began to formulate its mission and an agenda for the next year. The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation of New York, which initiated the first ACSA Annual Meeting Travel Fellowship in 2007, sponsored the meeting. The Council will be holding an organizational session at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston (March 27-30) to discuss issues of leadership and mentorship and plans to hold a half-day workshop at the 2008 ACSA Administrator’s Meeting in Savannah. All who are interested in these issues for women in architecture and architectural education are encouraged to come to the planning meeting in Houston. Please contact Geraldine Forbes Isais; gforbes@unm.edu or Judith Sheine; jesheine@csupomona.edu for more information.

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Seeks to advance the status of women practitioners in the architecture professions. www.bwaf.org.

European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture (ENHSA) www.enhsa.net www.enhsa.net/tuning.htm Fresh Energy A nonprofit nation-leading global warming solutions program working to transform our energy systems into 21st century technologies, which support the health of our economies and environment while moving toward energy independence. www.fresh-energy.org Global Warming 101 The Will Steger Foundation’s first initiative, Global Warming 101, raises broad public awareness about global warming as witnessed through Will Steger’s polar expeditions. Its initiative is to educate the connected audience about the effects of human actions upon the global climate, empower individual choices and support grassroots efforts that lead to massive institutional reform and technological innovation. www.globalwarming101.com www.willsteger.com Presidents’ Climate Commitment www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org Second Nature Second Nature helps colleges, universities or associations develop, advance, and achieve a vision of a truly sustainable higher education institution, one that fully prepares its graduates for the challenges of the 21st century. www.secondnature.org

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Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) Building research activity in sustainable design, energy-efficient buildings, windows, building design process and evaluation, human factors, and building science. www.csbr.umn.edu

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news from acsa

acsa unveils archschools.org guide to architecture schools goes online

The ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools, is going online! At the end of January, ACSA will launch the “searchable” edition to the general public on www.archschools.org. Access to the site will be completely free, requiring only that the user log in (exisitng ACSA members can use their current login information). There are two different Guide interfaces, one for the head administrators to manage their listings, and one for prospective students and the general public to search them. The public site allows users to easily and efficiently search for architecture schools based on their preferred criteria (e.g., university setting, financial info, specializations etc.) ACSA is also planning a printed 8th Edition, to reflect the updated information from the website. “A free, searchable online version of the ACSA Guide will greatly help our members’ visibility to prospective students and the profession alike,” says ACSA executive director Michael Monti. “Schools can update content as often as they wish, so users will always have access to the latest information.”

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getting started how to edit your school’s listing

As of right now, ACSA member schools are already able to prepare their listing for the site’s public launch at the end of this month. Head administrators will have full access to their school’s listing through the Guide interface and be able to edit it as they see fit. To access your school’s listing, log on to acsa-arch.org as you normally would (using your exisiting login information), and look under My Profile for the Guide Info link. From this page you will see the editable criteria displayed across the top in eight tabs: Academic Sessions, Degree Programs, Financial Info, Demographics, Narratives, Specializations, Images, and the Home tab. Log on now and start managing your data for the online ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools!

Schools may change the staff person in charge of managing their listing, by contacting Kathryn Swiatek at kswiatek@acsa-arch.org, or by calling 202/ 785 2324 x6.

COLLEGE + CAREER EXPOs a double success in 2007 by kathryn swiatek

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This past fall, ACSA and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) organized two Architecture College + Career Expos to provide students and parents the opportunity to meet with school representatives and explore the exciting careers and programs available in architecture. The first Expo took place on the campus of the University of Southern California on September 29, and was co-hosted by Woodbury University. 210 students from six states participated in the five-hour event. 32 schools attended to provide students with information on their undergraduate and/ or graduate programs, along with several local architecture firms whom spoke with students on their career experiences and company opportunities. The second Expo was hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology, which took place on October 27. Over 110 students came to speak with

representatives from 31 schools nationwide about their programs. Each Expo kicked off with a Portfolio Development presentation by Harold Linton (portfoliodesign.com). Two workshops were also available throughout the day for students and parents to learn how to choose the right architecture program, as well as a workshop on “A Day in the Life of an Architect”. Preliminary planning has begun for next year’s Architecture College + Career Expo. We will be sending out information shortly with details on location, registration, and “Save the Date” notices. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the national office should you have any questions or suggestions for next year’s Expo.

by tony p. vanky

tectural education? Free flowing information has become fundamental to how education and practice are evolving. Classrooms use Blackboard, firms use BIM. Professors need email and students need the Facebook. Imagine the difficulty for use on a non-neutral Internet based on current usage: Would it be slower to connect with peers in Savannah or Singapore? Would a college’s IT department need to pay different network rates for you to send an email to a Gmail, a Yahoo and a (dot)edu address? And would everyone have had access to the successful 2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-In?

On this page, the editor of ACSANews allows the student director to opine on some aspect of architectural practice or education. In this month’s piece another matter will be the focus and it is not a usual suspect or an architectural buzz term. Likely, it is as unknown within the architectural community as it is in our general population. It has no physicality but its effect is enormous. It is the matter of the internet— net neutrality to be precise. Net neutrality has been a quiet debate in Washington, weighing whether internet providers should give users equal access to content or if they can be allowed to discriminate. This should not be confused with the attempts at blocking illegal data. In the words of internet pioneer Vint Cerf, with neutrality there would be “no gatekeepers over new content or services.” Currently, when you search the term “widget”, your internet service provider takes you to Google, Yahoo or any other engine with the same vigor as the other. Without neutrality, a service provider can decide that Fox News is preferred and slow (or deny) access to CNN, MSNBC and any other source at their discretion. At the core of case for network neutrality is to prevent centralized control over the future of the Internet. If this is broad reaching item, why specifically mention it, let alone dedicate an entire article to it, in a newsletter for archi-

With this liberated data, students and professors are able to create podcasts of their classes and firms can design from anywhere in the world. With a click of a mouse, we have access to exabytes of knowledge. Innovations to the practice of architecture and the new technologies in education, like blogs and podcasts, and many of the biggest architectural buzz terms around globalization, BIM and integrated practice rely on the free transmission of data. If we consider the analogy of a highway the lack of neutrality would, in a sense, allow the highway authority the ability chose its favorite brands. Could a Ford grant you access to a special rush-hour lane at the expense of its competitors? In the worst of cases, rather than try to make the best product, companies could battle to make deals with highways. If a specific software were substituted for Ford, imagine the ramifications in our studios and firms as the power of choice--and market-driven innovation--erodes. Data is a precious commodity within our trade. In the end, should it not be to the user to define what the long-term vision of the Internet is rather than AT&T’s?

Assorted Blogs: Inhabitat—www.inhabitat.com NOTCOT—www.notcot.org Tropolism—www.tropolism.com BLDGBLOG—bldgblog.blogspot.com Core77—www.core77.com

practice analysis download 2007 survey results The 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture is now available to download from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards’ (NCARB) web site. The results will be used to shape the foundation of an architect’s entry into the profession: the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®), and, for the first time, the Intern Development Program (IDP). To read the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture, please copy and paste the link below into your web browser:

www.ncarb.org/forms/ 2007NCARBpracticeanalysis.pdf

it’s about time... online timeline collects data on american women architects

Professor Diane Favro, Director of the Experimental Technologies Center in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California at Los Angeles, collaborated with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation to create the Timeline of American Women of Architecture. The online, wiki-style database currently lists the names of 850+ women architects who practiced between the years 1900-1980. The American Institute of Architects provided this list of women AIA members with which to initiate the Timeline. Please assist in making the Timeline a useful biographical resource by contributing information about the work and lives of American women architects, or by adding the names of women architects not yet represented. The Timeline aspires to be a comprehensive resource for researchers and others interested in these practitioners, whether for publications or as seed material for a college course. To help expand knowledge about the role of women in architectural history, please contribute to the Timeline’s growing database. The Center would also be interested in your ideas of how to improve the function of the Timeline. Send your feedback to director@bwaf.org. www.bwaf.org/timeline

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student design competition

2007–2008 acsa/aisc

assembling housing student design competition

INTRODUCTION The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the seventh annual steel design student competition for the 2007‑2008 academic year. Administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (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. CATEGORY I Assembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing because it offers the greatest 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. Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time. CATEGORY II Open. The ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a greatest amount of flexibility with the context.

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SCHEDULE Registration Begins December 5, 2007 Registration Deadline February 8, 2008 Submission Deadline May 28, 2008 Winners Announced June 2008 Publication of Summary Book Summer 2008

Awards Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2008, 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) and the AISC website (www.aisc.org). SPONSOR The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a nonprofit 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 market-building 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. INFORMATION Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should be addressed to: Eric W. Ellis AISC Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) fax: 202.628.0448 email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

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NEW VISIONS OF SECURIT Y: RE-LIFE OF A DF W AIRPORT TERMINAL 2007-08 ACSA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security Student Design Competition

Major changes to airline operations, passenger expectations, and aviation security over the past 30 years, along with the aging terminal buildings, make it necessary for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to explore designs for a major terminal re-life.

SCHEDULE Registration Mid-project Review Questions Deadline Answers Posted Submission Deadline Winners Announced Summary Book

September 2007 to February 8, 2008 December 7, 2007 March 1, 2008 March 15, 2008 June 4, 2008 June 2008 Summer 2008

AWARDS A total of $70,000 will be awarded for the competition, distributed as follows:

Designs for the re-life of DFW Terminal A should focus on: • Accommodating current and emerging security requirements • Converting its 1970’s architecture into 21st century statements • Incorporating sustainable design • Incorporating the airport’s new train system, SkyLink • Optimizing operational efficiencies • Including space for concessions

Mid-Project Review: 5 awards of $2,000 ($1,500 for student/team, $500 for faculty sponsor)

DFW Airport opened in 1975 as a regional airport. Today, DFW is a major international gateway serving over 55 million passengers annually, with 70% of passengers connecting. DFW is a major hub for the nation’s largest airline, American Airlines.

Second Place Student/Team $10,000 Faculty Sponsor $4,000

This competition will focus on DFW Airport Terminal A. Originally built in 1975, DFW Terminal A has 1,000,000 square feet, and serves domestic flights on two stories, with a two level roadway system, 30 gates, and offices for American Airlines’ domestic operations. SPONSORS Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate–Transportation Security Laboratory Supporting Sponsors: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) / American Airlines (AA) / Corgan Associates, Inc. Administrator: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

Final Prize: First Place Student/Team $20,000 Faculty Sponsor $8,000

Third Place Student/Team $6,000 Faculty Sponsor $2,000 Honorable Mention: $10,000 total, made at jury’s discretion. INFORMATION Direct questions about the program and submissions to: Eric W. Ellis / DFW Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

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INTRODUCTION Air travel is undergoing unprecedented change due to evolving security imperatives, technological developments, and sharply increasing demand. In recognition of the formidable challenge of securing the nation’s aviation facilities against deliberate attack, the architectural community should anticipate the permanent requirement to design airports (if not all transportation facilities) with security in mind.

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student design competition

CONCRETE

thinking for a sustainable world

international student design competition

Opportunity

In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students are challenged to investigate innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives. The competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility. Category I – Recycling Center Design an environmentally responsible recycling center focused on reusing today’s materials 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” submission boards and a design essay.

Payoff

Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive prizes totaling nearly $50,000.

Call for Entries

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Registration Begins Registration Deadline Submission Deadline Results

Dec 05 2007 Feb 08 2008 May 14 2008 Jun 2008

For additional competition information, visit www.acsa-arch.org. For a complete guide to concrete solutions for sustainable design, visit www..ConcreteThinker. com. Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

architecture schools exhibit Call for submissions

January 16, 2008 “Intent to Participate” email Deadline Send an “intent to participate” email to Eric Ellis at eellis@acsa-arch.org containing individual coordinators’ contact information.

Deadline January 16, 2008 This is a “Call to Participate” in the ACSA Architecture School Exhibit, which will be on display at the 2008 ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston, TX and at the 2008 AIA National Convention in Boston, MA. We are asking each member school to provide a single 20”x20” panel, highlighting things such as student work, faculty work, curriculum structure, facilities, program activities, international programs, post professional opportunities, and other areas of interest to practicing architects, alumni, academic peers, and the public attending the conferences. All panels must use a standard title block, which can be downloaded from the ACSA Website. Other than the standard title block, the information and layout of each panel is at the schools discretion. We are looking forward to this opportunity to promote our schools’ diverse architecture programs.

March 5, 2008 Receipt of Board Deadline Ship final board to: ACSA / Attn: School Exhibits 1735 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 USA

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Standard panel title block: download the InDesign template from the ACSA website (20” x 20” presentation board: firmly mounted or drawn directly on foam core, with a standard 2” title block.) www.acsa-arch.org/schoolexhibit.aspx

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in the curriculum in the university in the economy

November 6-8, 2008 Savannah, Georgia Co-Chairs A l a n P l at t u s , Ya l e | C r y s ta l W e av e r , Sc a d host school S ava n n a h C o l l e g e o f A r t a n d D e s i g n

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KING T H E C I T Y V I S I O N A R I E S O

96th ACSA Annual Meeting Houston, TX | March 27â&#x20AC;&#x201D;30, 2008 Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown

host school Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the margins of mind and space. Cities and civilization have been inextricably linked throughout history, and the architecture of the city has been an expression of civilizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest collective achievements. But in recent decades cities have become hollow: Shifting social and economic pressures are challenging traditional urban forms and rituals, while new communications technologies have changed the nature of the social and physical network within which people dwell. A global and generic megalopolis is the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. The city exists at a collision of forces of power. Globalization has given rise to a search for identity in a world of blurred boundaries. Spatially, this teeming agglomeration of people densely accommodated does not follow conventional planning methods; the ubiquity of electronic communications replaces face to face contact, and the non-place realm grows with an energy that eludes control.

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Corporations see the city as a commodity and aggressively deploy their brands everywhere, draining away diversity while defending their profits at all cost. Meanwhile, classes of citizens struggle to find their place in the economic and social milieu of the metropolis, challenging globalizing forces with grassroots, community-based efforts. Architects and planners play only marginal roles of corrective interventions. How can we understand the emerging city and mitigate cultural, economic and spatial conflict in the fluid and pluralistic society? What roles can architecture and architects play? What visions will emerge from the margins to nurture sustainable dwelling places and promote diversity of people, of ideas, and of possibilities?

University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture

co-chairs

Dietmar Froehlich University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Michaele Pride University of Cincinnati School of Architecture & Interior Design

KeyNote Speakers Richard Sennett London School of Economics Saskia Sassen Columbia University Elizabeth Diller Diller Scofidio + Renfro 2008 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Receipent Charles Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro

PAN AMERICAN REUNION OF SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE

REUNION PANAMERICANA DE ESCUELAS DE ARQUITECTURA

25–26 March 2008

25 y 26 de Marzo del 2008

Following on the success of the Deans of the Americas conferences in Miami and Panama City, ACSA invites all deans, directors, and architectural educators to participate in a Pan American Reunion of Schools of Architecture to take place in Houston, Texas prior to the start of the 96th ACSA Annual Meeting.

Siguiendo el éxito de las conferencias de Decanos de las Américas en Miami y Panamá, la ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) convoca a educadores de la arquitectura a participar en una Reunion Panamericana de Escuelas de Arquitectura que se llevará a cabo en Houston previo al comienzo de la Nonagésima Sexta Junta Annual del ACSA.

Topics of discussion will include the future of architectural education, hemispheric cooperation, accreditation mechanisms, and professional reciprocity.

Temas a díscutir incluirán el futuro de la educación arquitectónica, la cooperación hemisférica, mecanismos de acreditación, y reprocidad profesional.

The scheduled events will begin the evening of Tuesday, 25 March 2008, and continue all day on Wednesday, 26 March 2008. Participants are then encouraged to attend the 96th ACSA Annual Meeting which will take place 27-30 March 2008. A special fee for Deans of the Americans participants will cover both events without additional cost.

Los eventos comenzarán la noche del martes 25 de Marzo, y continuarán durante todo el miércoles 26 de Marzo. Todos los asistentes estan cordialmente invitados a participar en la Nonagésima Sexta Junta Annual del ACSA del 27 al 30 de Marzo en la misma ciudad sin costo adicional.

Chairs: José Luis Cortés, Universidad Iberoamericana; Geraldine Forbes, University of New Mexico; and Rafael Longoria, University of Houston

Coordinadores: José Luis Cortés, Universidad Iberoamericana; Geraldine Forbes, University of New Mexico; and Rafael Longoria, University of Houston

For more information please visit: www.acsa-arch.org

Para información favor de visitar: www.acsa-arch.org

Practice + Education Saturday’s sessions offer content for architects who teach, particularly parttime. Attend workshops on pedagogy, writing, internship, and more. Saturday will also feature the first ACSA Poster Sessions hosted by Universtiy of Houston. Poster sessions are a fixture at many scholarly meetings. They offer an informal setting for thinkers and scholars to share emerging research in direct one-on-one dialogue. Following the poster sessions is the Keynote Lecture by Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medalist Elizabeth Diller and her partner Charles Renfro, from the internationally recognized firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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seeking the city

Preconference:

tours THURSDAY HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL & HARBOR Half Day Tour GALVESTON, TEXAS Full Day Tour FRIDAY MENIL COLLECTION & CY TWOMBLY GALLERY DOWNTOWN HOUSTON

hotel Doubletree Houston Downtown 400 Dallas Street, Houston, Texas 77002 Tel: 713.759.0202 | www.doubletree.com Rate: Single/Double – US $145 (To receive the special conference rate, mention the ACSA Annual Meeting and reserve your hotel room no later then February 23, 2008.)

SATURDAY UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON RICE UNIVERSITY ART DECO LIGHTRAIL Self guided walking tour For complete tour information visit: www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

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ROTHKO CHAPEL, BYZANTINE FRESCO CHAPEL, AND THE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

Additional Events

Paper Sessions • Architecture Among Disaster • Architecture in the Humanities: Literature, Film, Theater, And Art • Beyond Blade Runner Fiction and Reality: Visions of Urbanity in Popular Arts - Film, TV, Comics • Branding and the Built Environment • Cities, Public Spaces, and Social Imaginary • City and Nature • Emerging Pedagogy: New Approaches to Architecture and Design Education • GIS and the Design Disciplines

Thursday NCARB from IDP to Certification

KEYNOTE LECTURE Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen Welcome Reception Sponsored by Rice University

Friday ACSA Regional Caucus Breakfast

This year the ACSA is hosting a Regional Causus Breakfast, a perfect chance to meet with your Regional Director to discuss issues facing your school and bring up any questions or concerns you have which will then be passd on to the ACSA Board of Directors. These conversations will continue in the ACSA Business Meeting to follow. Faculty Councilors and all attendees are invited.

• Localization: Particularity in the Face of Globalization • Magical Urbanism • Mobility and Architecture: From Walking City to the Unwalkable City • Networked Urbanism: Place and Placemaking Without Propinquity • New Modes of Architectural Conceptualization and Production

ACSA Business Meeting

• On Drawing • Place and the Non-Place Realm • Rapid Shelter: Prototypes and Experiments Past, Present, Future

• Sustainability - On the Urban Scale • Sustainable Design and Beyond • The Design of MAKING • The End of Architectural History and Reports of Its Demise • The Politics of Space

Tau Sigma Delta Members Meeting

special focus sessions • Constructing Houston: Culture and the Built Environment

• AIA 150 Blueprint for America: Town and Gown Collaborations

• From Canvas to Communities

• Affordable Housing Education

• Pathogenesis and the Urban Laboratory

• Journal of Architectural Education (JAE): Alternative Practices

• Technology • The End of Architecture Revisited

• Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC): Is the Academy Ready?

Tau Sigma Delta advisors, students, and representatives from programs wishing to estabilish new chapters will meet to discuss news from the past year and upcoming events and issues facing the society.

Awards Ceremony and Reception Faculty Design Award

• Visionary Education for Tomorrow

• Accreditation Review Conference

Establishing and Maintaining a Tau Sigma Delta Chapter Workshop

• translation: from understanding to misreading and back again

The ACSA Faculty Design Award recognizes exemplary built and unbuilt work that advances the general understanding of the discipline of architecture.

Saturday Association of Architecture School Librarians PRACTICE ACADEMY Collaborative Practice Award

The ACSA Collaborative Practice Award recognizes programs that demonstrate how faculty, students, and community / civic clients work to realize common objectives.

KEYNOTE LECTURE Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro Host School Reception Sponsored by University of Houston

visit www.acsa-arch.org/conferences for a list of Paper authors Full Session Descriptions and Continued Schedule Updates

Sunday TEACHING IDP IN YOUR PRO PRACTICE CLASS: CURRICULUM THAT WORKS Women’s Leadership Council

This organizational session will discuss issues of leadership and mentorship and plans to hold a half-day workshop at the 2008 ACSA Administrator’s Meeting in Savannah. All who are interested in these issues for women in architecture and architectural education are encouraged to attend.

technology & sustainability

thursday

12:00-2:00

2:30-4:30

Urbanism

The Discipline

Pedagogy

PS: New Modes of Architectural Conceptualization & Production

PS: Cities, Public Space, & Social Imaginary

PS: Architecture Among Disaster

PS: Architectural Curricula for the Flatworld

PS: GIS & the Design Disciplines

SFS: Constructing Houston

PS: Architecture in the Humanities: Session 1

PS: Localization: Face of Globalization

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Session 1

5:30-7:30

sENNETT/sASSEN lECTURE

7:30-10:30

Regional Caucus Breakfast & ACSA Business Meeting

11:00-1:00

friday

Abstract book Digital proceedin and gs available acsa-arc at h.org

2:30-4:30

PS: The Design of Making

PS: Building Skins: Session 1

PS: City & Nature

Faculty Design

PS: Mobility & Architecture

PS: The Politics of Space: Formations of Democracy

Faculty Design

SFS: The End of Architecture Revisited

Partners 17 SFS: ARCC NCARB from IDP to Certification SFS: AIA 150

SFS: Accreditation Review Conference

Tau Sigma Delta Workshop

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Session 2

SFS: JAE Alternative Practices

PS: Southeast Regional 5:30-7:30

saturday

8:00-10:00

10:30-12:30

seeking the city

The 96th ACSA Annual Meeting schedule has been outlined using a framework of five general tracks. These tracks, Technology & Sustainability, Urbanism, The Discipline, Pedagogy, and Partners, are meant to be broad in scope and an organizational method. This is a tentative schedule and subject to change. Please refer to acsa-arch.org/conferences for the most up-to-date schedule.

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Schedule by track

ACSA Awards Ceremony PS: Building Skins: Session 2

PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: Session 1

SFS Affordable Housing Education

Collaborative Practice

PS: On Drawing

PS: Rapid Shelter

PS: Visionary Education for Tomorrow

PS: The Design of Making: Session 2 / Magical Urbanism

Writing Workshop

PS: Central Regional

2:00-4:00

PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: Session 2

SFS: Pathogenesis & the Urban Laboratory

PS: Architecture in the Humanities: Session 2

Teaching Teachers to Teach Workshop

Practice Academy

PS: Southwest Regional 5:00-8:30 PS: Sustainable Design & Beyond

PS: Networked Urbanism

PS: The Politics of Space: Building & Meanings

PS: The End of Architectural History

SFS: From Canvas to Communities 10:30-12:30

PS: Paper Session

SFS: Technology

SFS: Special Focus Session

PS: Place & the Non Place Realm

PS: Beyond Blade Runner Fiction & Reality PS: Branding & the Built Environment

SFS: translation: from understanding to misreading & back again

Teaching IDP in your Pro Practice Class

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8:00-10:00

poster sessions & Diller/Renfro Lecture

registration form "

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REGISTRATION FEES (Circle One) early by jan 23, 2007

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$250

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$150

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$190

Deans of the Americas Meeting (tuesday, wednesday)

$125

Topaz Recipient Luncheon (saturday)

FREE

Sponsored Luncheon (friday)

FREE

Ship Channel and Harbor (Thursday)

$50

Galveston, Texas (Thursday)

$60

Menil, CY Twombly (Friday)

$40

Downtown Houston (Friday)

$15

Rothko, Byzantine, Quaker Meeting (Friday)

$40

Rice University (Saturday)

$40

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Cancellation Policy Cancellations must be received in writing, no later than February 28, 2008 to qualify for a refund, less a processing fee of $50. This fee also applies to PayPal purchases. Unpaid purchase orders will be billed at the full rate specified in the order unless cancelled before the deadline; Standard cancellation fees will apply. Contact For questions regarding registrations for the conference, contact Kevin Mitchell at 202/785 2324 ext 5; kmitchell@acsa-arch.org. For all other conference questions, contact Mary Lou Baily at 202/785 2324 ext 2, mlbaily@ acsa-arch.org Payment ACSA accepts cash (on-site only), checks, money orders, Visa, and Mastercard. All payments must be in US dollars. Checks or international money orders should be made payable to ACSA and drawn on a bank located in the United States or Canada. Advance payments must be received at the ACSA national office by February 8, 2008. After that date, proof of purchase order, check requisition or on-site payment will be required upon conference check-in.

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CONTACT INFORMATION School Attending Representative (Full Complimentary Registration)

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EXHIBIT ITEMS (Check all that apply and enter the number requested) Exhibit Table/Registration

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Losses: ACSA shall bear no responsibility for damage to Exhibitor’s property or for lost shipments either arriving at or departing from the show, nor for moving costs. Damage to such property is Exhibitor’s own responsibility. If an exhibit fails to arrive at the meeting, Exhibitor is responsible for the exhibit space rental fee. ACSA advises Exhibitors to insure against these risks.

ACSA offers exhibit tables at a special rate for schools at the 2008 ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. The rates include one full conference registration (valued at $395) and one “exhibit hall only” registration, so you can send one representative from the school to attend the full conference, one representative to staff the exhibit booth, and get the price of the table at a generous discount! Exhibit table/registration $600.00–ACSA member schools Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Your exhibit table space includes: • 6’ table, drapes, for 3 ½ days

• School name listed in the on-site program • One full complimentary meeting registration per table and one “exhibit hall only” registration Special Services Additional carpeting, lighting, electric, internet etc. are not included and must be purchased separately by the Exhibitor with prior written approval from ACSA and must comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Cancellation Policy In the event that a school must cancel their Exhibit Space, ACSA must receive a written notice no later than Monday, February 15, 2008 to qual-

ify for a full refund. Any cancellations after this date wil result in a $100 cancellation fee and the individual’s full registration will be canceled. For more information, please contact: Kathryn Swiatek, Membership/Marketing Manager, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006, kswiatek@acsa-arch.org Tel: 202.785.2324 ext 6, Fax: 202.628.0448

Deadline for receipt of form at ACSA office: February 8, 2008. RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW!

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Host School University of Oregon Co-chairs Mark Gillem, U. of Oregon Phoebe Crisman, U. of Virginia

thematic overview

Recent cultural changes have placed architects in a promising position to initiate positive change through design insight and proactive practice. Greater concern for the environment, the desire for a heightened sense of place and sensory experience, technological advances, the increasing importance of visual images in communication, and interdisciplinary collaborations all create favorable conditions for design innovation. As the disciplinary limits of architecture continue to expand, architects and architecture students are faced with the difficult and exhilarating challenge of synthesizing complex issues and diverse knowledge through physical design across many scales.

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By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more significant within society. o What social value does design have for individual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have beyond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What pedagogical value does design education offer to other disciplines? o What are the ways in which design education can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?

These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Portland is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Architects there have worked collaboratively with other professions to transform Portland into a vibrant, diverse, and livable city that highlights the multiple benefits of design. They have worked with transportation engineers to develop a comprehensive public transit system that focuses development in a predictable way. They have collaborated with landscape architects to ensure that public open space is a priority in the heart of the city and at its edges. They have teamed with urban designers, interior designers, and developers to create memorable settings and buildings that capture the spirit of the place. Within this intellectual and physical context, we ask conference participants to consider the multiple values of design for our discipline, our profession, and our society.

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Call for Session Topics Stage One Deadline for Session Topic Proposals: January 4, 2008

The ACSA Annual Meeting serves as a forum for discussion and speculation related to the meeting theme, as well as the exploration of a broad scope of research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty members have the opportunity both to propose session topics and to submit papers related to a range of given topics.

Topic proposals may, for example, address questions relating to history, theory, criticism, design, digital media, technology, pedagogy, construction, materials, practice, society, and culture. Session Topic proposals may also cut across traditional categories or address emerging issues. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused. Each proposal should clearly identify its subject, premise, and scope of the proposed Session Topic. Session Topic Selection Process Session Topics are selected through a blind peer review process. In addition to the blind process, the conference co-chairs may identify additional session topics and moderators. The selection process takes into consideration both the merits of the Session Topic proposals, as well as the importance of organizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting. The authors of the Session Topics selected in the first stage will serve as Session Topic Chairs for their respective sessions. Working in collaboration with the conference co-chairs, their responsibilities include: maintaining a blindreview process for all papers submitted during the entire review process; enlisting three blind reviewers for each of the papers submitted to their Session Topic; recommending final papers for presentation; and moderating their respective sessions during the Annual Meeting. Eligibility All Session Topic Chairs must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members by September 1 of the academic year during which the Annual Meeting will occur. Prospective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Session Topic proposal. Please visit the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch. org, to obtain detailed instructions and template for submitting a topic. The deadline to submit a Session Topic is January 4, 2008.

Call for papers Stage Two Deadline for Paper Proposals: September 15, 2008 The Call for Papers will list the final Session Topics and will be announced in the March 2008 ACSA News as well as on the ACSA website. All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Typically, each session will be composed of three or four presentations, with time for discussion. All papers will be submitted through an online interface and must meet the general criteria identified in the call for papers and in the submission guidelines. Each author will be limited to one submission per Session Topic. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission. In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference cochairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be required to register for the conference before the conference Proceedings go to press. For additional information, visit the ACSA website, or contact: Conferences Manager / ACSA conferences@acsa-arch.org

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call for participation

Proposals for session topics related to the conference theme are requested, as are proposals related to the full range of subject areas within architecture, its related disciplines, and its allied professions.

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Deep Matters The path to meaningful and provocative architectural research

2008 ACSA/AIA teachers seminar June 19-22, 2008 Cranbrook Academy of Art Co-Chairs Stephen Kieran KieranTimberlake Associates James Timberlake KieranTimberlake Associates Max Underwood Arizona State University

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Architects tend to see most acts of design as unique – a flywheel of initial input uninformed by past results marginally informed by performative information. Site and program together give rise to circumstance. Circumstance inspires intention. Design organizes intention into instruction. Builders construct from what we instruct. And we all move on to the next set of circumstances and program, none the wiser. Architecture exists in a world where all we ever do is design and build prototypes, with little real reflection and informed improvement from one act of design to the next. The flywheel begins anew with different information, leading to different results but little change. As educators of architects, we focus nearly all our efforts on the planning side of this flywheel. The bulk of our curriculum remains embedded in the nineteenth century design studio where we plan, and then we plan again, with little real growth in the quality and productivity of what we do, either artistically or technically. While an ever increasing number of schools have included the second part of the flywheel – constructing – in the curriculum, few schools of architecture teach research skills and fewer yet insist upon critical reflection and learning based upon research findings. And even fewer define, expect, furnish and share deep results from architectural research. This affects our students as they become practitioners into a rapidly changing professional world, where cross-

disciplinary collaboration, integration, visualization making are the new norm.

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Design innovation has become the Holy Grail in architecture: but how do we define innovation? How do we define research that supports innovation? What are the characteristics of innovation and what deep knowledge and information informs it? In modifying the flywheel, how do we embed reflection and learning into the process of making our architecture? How do we learn to ask the right questions and collect the measurable data that can improve our architecture? How do we provide architectural researchers with the deep skill set necessary to support performative architecture? What is that deep skill set? How do we make the leap from research in the academy to research in our professional offices? What is the economic model for affording deep architectural research in professional practice? How do we go about funding such research in the academy and in practice? Deep Matters intends to delve deeply into this topic with the intention of developing research approaches, research models that the academy will begin to frame education around. Presentations of papers will inform breakout sessions of workshops to help develop a blueprint for deeply embedding research into our everyday lives as teachers and practitioners.

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1. Defining Architectural Research in the Academy and Practice. What is interesting and why? 2. The Emerging Methods of Research Innovation. What are the networks, collaborations, visualization opportunities, strategies and tactics? 3. Case Studies of Bleeding Edge and Innovative Applied Research. What are the acknowledged in depth current case studies of projects or groups which are redefining the integration of research into practice and education? 4. Open Submissions. What areas of research innovation outside of architecture might inform the way forward? What arenas within architecture might the first three categories not capture?

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Call for Papers

Paper Submissions Due: March 5, 2008

Note: Submissions should not exceed 4,000 words, excluding endnotes. Include illustrations you intend to use during the presentation at the 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar. All references, research, and information should be attributed properly. The deadline for submission is March 5, 2008. Authors will submit papers through an online interface found on the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch.org/conferences. Authors need not be ACSA members but will require an account on the ACSA website. Submissions will undergo a blind peerreviewed process, and authors of accepted papers will be notified at the beginning of April 2008. All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the conference co-chairs. Accepted authors agree to present the paper at the 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar, and must register for the conference.

Submission Requirements Authors may submit only one paper per theme category. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple categories. When submitting your paper, prepare to follow these steps, which you will be guided through using the online interface.

Timeline Jan 14: Online paper submission site open Mar 5: Paper submission deadline April: Authors notified June 19- 22: 2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar

1. Log in to the ACSA website with your username and password. 2. Enter the title of your paper. 3. Type or paste in a biographical state ment for all authors (5,000 character limit) 4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any 5. Upload a complete final version of your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines: • Omit all author names, affiliations, or any other identifying information from the paper to maintain an anonymous review process. • Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included. • Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper. 6. Upload image files separately. Images must be in TIF or JPG format and 300 dpi. 7. Download and review the copyright form. 8. Click Complete this Submission to final ize your submission. Note: your paper is not submitted unless you click the Complete this Submission button and receive an email confirmation.

Contact Mary Lou Baily, mlbaily@acsa-arch.org If you do not have a username or password please send a request via email to membership@acsa-arch.org. In the subject line put “2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar Username/Password Request”, in the body include the primary authors full name, affiliation (school and/or company), mailing address, email address, and phone number.

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Submission Process Students, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit papers to the 2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar, Deep Matters: The path to a provocative architectural research. All papers must be scholarly in content and format, and must be written in English. Papers submissions should clearly address the theme within which the submission is focused and within which it would be considered as topically appropriate. The organizers of Deep Matters will craft an interactive program around accepted papers, invited speakers, and workshops.

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Lighting concept for an orphanage in Chilca, Peru, by undergraduate student David Mosemann, Technical Systems Integration at Penn State University, Assoc. Prof. Ute Poerschke.

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Ball State University Associate Professor Pam Harwood is the faculty director of a Lily funded Business Fellows project this academic year whose intent is to develop a Guidebook for the Design + Planning of Charter School Facilities in Indiana. The Charter Schools Business Fellows team is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Architecture and Planning, Teachers College, Miller College of Business, and the College of Science and Humanities. This interdisciplinary student team is working with specific Charter Schools in Indiana, their administration, faculty, staff, and young students, to develop strategies, guidelines, and well illustrated “design patterns” for the design and planning of innovative and responsive school facilities. The developed “pattern language manual” will include a graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practices in school planning and design. Additional emphasis will be placed on supporting the entrepreneurial Charter School vision, efficiently maximizing student safety and learning, providing facility and needs assessment and renovation of existing buildings that are to be used as Charter School facilities, and adhering to best practice standards of ecological design. Associate Professor Jonathan C. Spodek, AIA has been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to the National Center for Preservation

Technology and Training’s (NCPTT) Board of Directors. NCPTT’s mission is to advance the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships.

Gregory Stroh have co-authored the design for the Ceruti House, which had received one of Architecture Magazine’s “2006 House of the Year Awards”. Project team members included Assistant Professors Jason Turnidge and Kathryn Strand, Adjunct Professor Jonathan Kurtz, and recent graduate Allen Slamic. Lawrence Technological university

Associate Professor Kevin Klinger delivered a talk in New York City entitled: “Digital Fabrication: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture” at the Architecture Record 2007 Innovation conference. Assistant Professor Timothy Gray has received a grant from the Indiana Department of Energy and Defense to fund the installation of a photovoltaic array on the “Straw bale Eco-Center”, a student designed and student constructed facility intended to demonstrate how to live sustainably in the Midwest. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Correction from the ACSA News, Nov 2007 issue: [Assistant Professor Jason Turnidge’s and Assistant Professor Kathryn Strand’s] design for the Ceruti House, co-authored with CAED Professor Thomas Stauffer, had received the Architecture Magazine “2006 House of the Year Award”. is corrected as: CAED Professor Thomas Stauffer and Associate Professor

Michael Wolk (Adjunct Professor) and Associates Architects completed the Arnold Zlotoff Tool Museum in South Hero, Vermont this past summer. The project consisted of the renovation and transformation of a 19th century, two story New England barn into an early American tool and implement museum as well as workshop and vintage car collection. The change of function allowed for creative use of new fenestration and exterior materials while maintaining and restoring the old timber frame, which is entirely exposed. Adjunct Professor Martin Schwartz presented a lecture and design workshop, “How Light Generates Architectural Space and Form,” to the fifth-year students at the University of Arkansas in October. The all-day session was convened to show how an understanding of daylight is capable of influencing architectural design including the overall organization of a building, its structure, its circulation systems, and the selection of materials and their detailing.

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Lighting concept for a Fitness Club by undergraduate student Hallie Terzopolos, Technical Systems Integration at Penn State University, Assoc. Prof. Ute Poerschke.

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Hartkopf and faculty, students and staff from the CBPD and the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, are developing IW2: The Building as Power Plant (BAPP), a six-story, 64,175-square-foot office building proposed for the university campus. The BAPP team expects the building will generate more energy than it consumes in the form of non-renewable resources. More information and sketches of the BAPP can be found at http://www.arc.cmu. edu/bapp/index.html.

Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Professor Volker Hartkopf has been named chair of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sustainable Building Construction Initiative (SBCI). The SBCI (http://www.unepsbci.org/) works with governments and companies worldwide to adopt sustainable building practices. “I am pleased to have been asked to chair the UNEP Think Tank and shall work hard with my colleagues to develop well-informed policy instruments, which can generate positive solutions to our resource and environmental challenges,” said Hartkopf, director of the university’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD). “Together we want to enable future generations to live a life in dignity with health and within an ever-improving environment.”

Through his development and application projects, Hartkopf has demonstrated ways to reduce

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buildings’ resource consumption while improving the human quality of life within those buildings and surrounding communities. Hartkopf believes sustainable building can be economical and yield political benefits. To disseminate his message, Hartkopf is working with industry, governments and colleagues around the world to encourage each school to advance sustainable building practices.

Professor Donald Kunze has been awarded LSU’s Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair for Spring 2008. He will conduct a studio and seminar in the School of Landscape Architecture, focusing on Surrealist gardens developed through analogies drawn from film. His article, “Architecture and Its Doubles,” will appear in January 2008 in a collection on Architecture and Violence: Reception and Reproduction, edited by Bechir Kenzari and published by Actar, (NORTHEAST continued on page 26)

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Since 1972, Hartkopf has pursued socially and environmentally responsible solutions to major challenges. Hartkopf’s projects range from hurricane-proof refugee camp redevelopment in Bangladesh and earthquake-resistant housing and schools in Peru, to breakthrough commercial buildings in Europe, China and the United States and master planning effort in Wolfsburg, Germany.

The BAPP project is a further development of The Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace (IW), inaugurated in December 1997. The IW is the first living laboratory in the building industry, worldwide, and is constantly monitored and assessed by students, staff and faculty.

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Barcelona. His article on Giambattista Vico’s influence on cultural geography will appear later in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift for Elsevier Press. David Celento, Assistant Professor of Architecture. Prior to joining Penn State, David was a lecturer at Harvard GSD, and ran their Digital Fabrication Lab following his graduation from the program. His interests are in digital design and fabrication, CNC, rapid prototyping, laser scanning, mass-customization, web based configurators, mobility, prefabrication, and emergent design methodologies. Recently, David and Del Harrow (a ceramics collaborator at PSU School of Visual Arts) were one of five international teams awarded a thirteen week residency at EKWC (European Ceramics Work Centre) in the Netherlands to explore ceramics in architecture. David’s work in the area of adaptive multi-modal urban dwellings (dubbed “Jump Box”) will be presented at the ASCAAD (Arabian Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design) conference in Egypt this fall, as well as the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities this winter. Other current endeavors include consultation with Pittsburgh Corning to reinvent glass block, an article regarding ornament for the upcoming Fall/Winter issue of Harvard Design Magazine, and a fabrication workshop at Izmir University of Economics, in Turkey, this coming spring. James Cooper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Architecture. Prior to joining Penn State, Jamie was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University, where he taught design, drawing and history in their program in Florence Italy for four years. Jamie holds a M.Arch. from the University of Michigan. Subsequently, he completed a Masters and Ph.D. in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where his areas of study included ancient Roman, Renaissance/Baroque and Nineteenth/Twentieth Century European Architecture. His Ph.d. dissertation focused on the architecture of Michelangelo, specifically, the Campidoglio in Rome, utilizing a methodology that combines his skills and background in architectural drawing, design, history and computer modeling. Since the completion of his Ph.D., Jamie has continued

research on Michelangelo, examining his use of drawing and precedent in the design process, and has recently had an article on the early design development of the Palazzo dei Conservatori accepted for publication in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). Jamie has recently written a scholarly review for JSAH that will appear in the next issue, and is currently completing articles on the Laurentian Library and the facade project for San Lorenzo in Florence. Jamie teaches design and visual communications courses at Penn State. Jodi LaCoe, Assistant Professor of Architecture. After serving as coordinator of Penn State’s first year studio sequence for the past two years, Jodi La Coe was recently appointed on the tenure track. Her integration of tangible sustainable practices into beginning design-build studio has had success in coordination with the Penn State Materials Reclamation and Reuse Center founded by Associate Professor James Kalsbeek. Last spring, Jodi La Coe and Amy Williamson conducted a studio for first year students to design and build furniture using salvaged materials for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Robert Holland, Associate Professor of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. Bob Holland returns to his Alma Mater following a successful career as Vice President of Resort Development for Walt Disney Imagineering. He has been jointly appointed to the Departments of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. Bob teaches a senior level architecture course in Professional Practice and project integration studio courses for graduate and undergraduate level architectural engineering students. Nadir Lahiji, Associate Professor of Architecture, joins the faculty at Penn State on a fulltime basis beginning in the January 2008. The Penn State Solar Decathlon Team achieved fourth place standing overall in the international competition between 20 university teams to design, build and operate a solar powered home. The DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) competition took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., October 12-20. This was the third Solar Decathlon Competition and the first entry by a team from the Pennsylvania State University. The PSU Team brought together students and faculty from

throughout the University. Associate Professor Scott Wing and Assistant Professor Lisa D. Iulo were faculty advisors to the team. Syracuse University Associate Professor Lori Brown exhibited a series of her drawings from her “Politicizing the Female Body” project in the “In the Country of Last Refuge” at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey, from October 20th to November 17th, 2007. A chapter of Associate Professor Brian Lonsway’s forthcoming book, Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy, will be published in the anthology The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self. Assistant Professor Jon Yoder presented his research on the architecture of John Lautner as an invited panelist at Taliesin, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Spring Green, Wisconsin, on September 23rd, 2007. Associate Professor Jonathan Massey’s article, “Looking Through Axonometric Windows,” was published in the Architectural Theory Review, August 2007 issue. Associate Professor Julia Czerniak is on 20 professors and practitioners chosen to launch the first “Enetiative” projects — the Syracuse Campus-Community Entrepreneurship initiative, which connects campus and community organizations by providing entrepreneurship grants to fund ideas for revitalizing Central New York in the areas of technology, neighborhoods, and the arts. Temple University This fall, Temple University welcomed Assistant Professors Robert Trempe and Scott Gerald Shall. Professor Trempe, a former lecturer with Temple, exhibited the piece, “Connections”, at the 2007 ACM/SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in San Diego, California in August. The work, which uses data driven world GDP information as a catalyst for a qualitative construction, was published in the yearly ACM/SIGGRAPH “Electronic Arts and Animation Catalog.” The work has also been selected for the 11th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival.

Associate Professor Sally Harrison has joined the editorial board of the new journal Context published by the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia. Adjunct Professor Brian Philips and principal of Interface Studio Architects won a 2007 Residential Architect Merit Award for its Sheridan Street Housing project. The 13-units of green affordable housing will meet LEED standards and consume 40% less energy than typical new construction. Université Laval This Fall the School and the Canada Research Chair in Built Religious Heritage have jointly acquired a Zund Precision Cutter. This 3-axis CNC technology not only supports the research program of the Chair, particularly those projects that involve stakeholders in exploring appropriate interventions on the built environment, but also consolidates an emerging field of research and teaching at the School in virtual environments and digital fabrication. Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Built Religious Heritage, Tania Martin was recently nominated to the Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. This past summer she organized an innovative field school in Percé, Gaspésie, Québec. This intensive, bilingual three-week course in the documentation, interpretation and intervention in built heritage and cultural landscapes brings together instructors and students from a number of disciplines and institutions in Québec, Canada, and the United States to work with key stakeholders and local community members on cultural resources projects in the Gaspésie. The first edition of the field school (2007) focused on two parishes, one Catholic and one Anglican. The Université Laval pedagogical development

program, the Fondation communautaire Gaspésie-les Îles, and the Vernacular Architecture Forum all supported the development of the field school. Three teams of students won awards in the 2006-07 ACSA/PCA Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World, International Student Design Competition: Giséle Fraser, Daphnee Van Lierde, and Mikaëlle Rolland-Lamothe, won First Place; Francois Riverin, Sylain Lagacè, and Philippe Lafrance-Boucher won Third Place; and Anabel Arsehault, Gabrielle Nadeau, and Olivier Boucher won an Honorable Mention. The students were supervised by the Physical Ambiences in Architecture Design Studio professors Claude Demers, Marie-Claude Dubois, and Andre Potvin. Vincent Charbonneau-Deslaurier received 4th prize ex-aequo in the 7th Organisation international des scénographes, techniciens et architectes de théâtre (OISTAT) International Architecture Competition. Jacques Plante, who supervised the Bassin Louise, Québec City theatre project, represented Canada at the Quadriennale Internationale de Théâtre de Prague, where he also presented his design research, “Utopia, Counter-utopia : a Tunnel in Transformation,” which is funded by a Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec career fellowship. Jean-Philippe Saucier and David Brassard

received recognition for their entry in the Jardins éphèmeres [Ephemeral Gardens] competition organized by the Société du 400e anniversaire de Québec [400th Anniversary of Quebec Society]. Adjunct Professor and architect Anne Vallières, with Bélanger Beauchemin Architects, and in collaboration with Assistant Professor GianPiero Moretti and students and graduates of the School, won the provincial architectural competition for the Îlot des Palais, a museum and interpretation center for a site of archeological importance. A number of other adjunct faculty and alumni won various honors in the 2007 Quebec Order of Architects Prizes of Excellence.

Adjunct professor François Dufaux, obtained his Ph.D. at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies University College London (UCL), England. Jeremy Whitehand, Birmigham and Mike Batty, UCL were the examiners. His thesis is entititled “The Origin of Montreal Housing Tradition, 1825-1850.” Professor Georges Teyssot presented “TraumHaus: L’”Intérieur comme métaphore des sentiments” at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette symposium entitled Architecture and the Technological Unconscious, and also gave a lecture “Mapping the Threshold: A Theory of Design and Interface”, at the AA School of Architecture in London.

Professors Nancy van Dolsen, left, with daughter Eliza, and Tania Martin recording the St-Peter’s Malbay rectory with Université Laval students Christian Gagnon, Jimmy-Lee Jones, and Cédric Leboeuf-Faure. Photo by John Wood.

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Chair of the Architecture Department, Professor Lindsay Bremner was an invited participant in the Urban Age India Conference in Mumbai in November. Professor Bremner’s recently published works include “Nomadism, Ruination, and Fear. Urbanism in South Africa Since Apartheid” in the June 2007 issue of Architectural Review and a book review of The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape, and Politics in 20th Century South Africa by Jennifer Beningfield.

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Southeast Florida International University The Florida International University School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of two new faculty colleagues. Assistant Professor Ebru Ozer, MLA (Louisiana State) joins the Department of Landscape Architecture. Assistant Professor David Rifkin, PhD (Cornell) joins the Department of Architecture, teaching history and theory. In June, Dr. Rifkin presented preliminary research on Italian colonial urbanism in Ethiopia at the second biannual African Architecture Today conference in Kumasi, Ghana. The Paul L. Cejas Eminent Scholar Chair in Landscape Architecture brought University of Genoa scholars Annalisa Calcagno Maniglio and Adriana Ghersi to the School of Architecture. Professor Ghersi and Landscape Architecture Dean Maniglio lectured and directed a department-wide workshop on brownfields mitigation/ restoration. Associate Professor Alfredo Andía, PhD was invited to present an exhibit and direct a design workshop at the School of Architecture, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Dr. Andía was a keynote speaker at a conference entitled ‘The Contemporary City’, sponsored by the Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile.

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Professor Jaime Canavés, FAIA is the inaugural recipient of the William G. McMinn FAIA Outstanding Educator Award, established by AIA Florida/ Caribbean. He was invited to lecture and direct a design workshop at the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe in Barranquilla, Colombia. Professor Canavés has been elected 2008 Vice President of AIA Florida. With Carlos Caususcelli, Professor Canavés has published Bienal Miami + Beach 2001-2005: A retrospective (Ediciones TRAMA, 2007). Associate Professor Marilys Nepomechie, FAIA is essayist and editor of the bilingual volume, designed by Marta Canavés, ASLA, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, with translations by Adjunct Professor Daisy Alvarez. With Carlos Caususcelli, Professor Nepomechie is the designated co-recipient of the 2007 AIA

Miami Award for Writing about Architecture. She has been elected to the national Advisory Group of the AIA Small Projects Practitioners Knowledge Community. Associate Professor John A. Stuart and co-author Jewel Stern received a 2006 New York Book Award for Architectural History from the New York Society Library for Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (Norton, 2006). Professor Stuart was also awarded a 2007-08 New York Prize Fellowship from the Van Alen Institute, and a 2007 University Faculty Research Award. Associate Professor A. Gray Read, PhD has published The Miniature and the Gigantic in Philadelphia Architecture: Essays on Designing for Human Scale (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). Dr. Read was also awarded a University Faculty Teaching Award. Assistant Professor Roberto Rovira, ASLA led the Landscape Architecture design team for Arquitectonica/Geo in their invited entry to “Envisioning Hudson Square”. The proposal is on exhibit at the St. Johns Center, New York. Professor Rovira is also the designated recipient of an AIA Miami Award for Landscape Architecture Educator of the Year. FIU Student Olivier Montfort earned first place honors for his entry to the national Decatur Modern Design Challenge competition. Professor Jaime Canavés was his Faculty Advisor. Montfort is also the recipient of the AIA Miami Architecture Student of the Year Award. Jamie Maloney, Anthony Rojas, and Juan Ramos won second place in the US Green Building Council Emerging Talent Competition. Professor Marilys Nepomechie was their Faculty Advisor. University of North Carolina at Charlotte In October, the College of Architecture hosted the fall 2007 South Quad Regional Conference for the American Institute of Architecture Students. Over 80 students from nine different schools in the South East joined the students of the CoA for a weekend celebrating architectural educa-

tion. Michael Williams of Liquid Design spoke Friday evening at the USNWC about his work on the center, Rodolfo Machado of Machado + Silvetti joined us Saturday evening for a lecture pertaining to his design work for museums, and workshops exploring different methodologies for process and representation were held by various professors within the College. Assistant Professor Emily Makas, PhD in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, had her dissertation “Representing Competing Identities: Building and Rebuilding in Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegovina” selected for the Best Dissertation Award, 2006, by the Urban History Association. Assistant Professor Zhongjie Lin, Ph.D., has received a publication contract from Routledge to work on his book project entitled Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan. This is intended as the first book-length archival study of Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s that has profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism, involving such figures as Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Arata Isozaki and Kenzo Tange, among others. Tracing the evolution of Metabolism from its inception at the 1960 World Design Conference to its spectacular swansong at the Osaka World Exposition in 1970, the book cuts a cross section to examine the formative period of postwar Japanese architecture. Particularly, it focuses on the Metabolists’ utopian concepts of the city, and investigates the design and political implications of their visionary planning in the postwar society. Part of the primary research for this project has been done during 2004-2006, when Dr. Lin spent fourteen months in Tokyo conducting field research under the Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship and the Asian Cultural Council Research Grant. The result was his dissertation submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. More on-site and archival studies will be carried out in the coming year for this book, which will be the result of substantial rewriting based on rich archival materials and numerous interviews with the Metabolist architects, architectural historians and urbanists.

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Assistant Professor Corey Saft participated in the DesignTrain Congress in the Netherlands and published an article in Batture, Louisiana State University School of Architecture Journal.

southwest Texas A&M College of Architecture’s ninth Annual Faculty Research Symposium, “Research on the Built and Virtual Environments: Global Symposia Presentations 2007,” was held Oct. 29th at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus. The daylong research showcase featured a series of faculty presentations previously delivered at scholarly venues around the world during the 2006-07 academic year. Fifty-seven papers were presented under parallel sessions on pedagogy, assessment, visual studies, modeling, sustainability, urban forms, general systems, economics, history, health, disasters, and theory. A reception recognizing the students and faculty who participated in the design and construction of the 2007 Texas A&M entry in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition was held at the College of Architecture, November 13th. Faculty advisors from architecture included professors, Tom Regan (Dean of college of architecture, and TAMU Campus Planner), Pliny Fisk III, Jeff S. Haberl, Charles Culp, Jorge Vanegas, Mark J. Clayton (Interim Head of department of architecture). Also contributing to the project were architecture professors Robin Abrams, Ergun Akleman, John Fairey, Rodney Hill, Anne Nichols, Mary Saslow, and Phil Tabb. Faculty advisors from Construction Science: Charles Graham (Executive Associate Dean), Leslie Feigenbaum, Skip Coody, and John Nichols. Faculty advisors from Landscape architecture and urban planning: Chris Ellis Ben Zoghi, Jody Naderi, and Tom Woodfin. The team has adopted the “groHome” concept, developed by team leader Pliny Fisk, which focused on sustainability, open source systems, disaster relief, and technological growth. The participation in the Solar Decathlon competition was equally a competitive entry, an educational endeavor, and a real world business plan. The collaborative project won several awards: the first-place for “appliances” under the specific categories of the DOE competition; additional awards under the specific categories for “hot water” and “safety”; Students Choice Award first-place by the American Institute of Architecture Students

(AIAS) and the American Institute of Architects Committee of the Environment; The National Award first-place for “groHome” by Lifecycle Building Challenge under Building Category/ Tier Students; and third-place for “curb Appeal” by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB); For more details on the project please visit http://archone.tamu.edu/solardecathlon Corgan Associates from Dallas, Texas won a 2007 design award citation from AIA Dallas under the unbuilt design category for their entry in the international competition of “The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.” Associate professor Anat Geva, Ph.D. of Texas A&M University served as a consulting architect to the project introducing an academic approach into the firm’s practice environment, which propelled the competition team’s design thinking both at a conceptual and pragmatic level. For more details on the project please see the 2007 November/December Texas Architect issue (page 16). Skylights, a cistern for recycling rainwater and a scenic tree-lined lot – all are elements of what could be one of the nation’s greenest health centers if the clients follow the recommendations of 16 architecture students at Texas A&M University. In turn, the center could serve as a blueprint for similar facilities elsewhere. Thirdyear students in a studio co-taught by Texas A&M professor George J. Mann, AIA (the Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Chair in Health Facilities Design) and professor emeritus Joseph J. McGraw created a 6,000-square-foot cardiovascular diagnostic center for Dr. Virginia Y. Gonzalez, an interventional cardiologist in West Monroe, La., and center administrator Kevin Marcantel. Natural lighting and functional floor plans were common characteristics in all the students’ individual projects. Some unique elements of their sustainable designs include a windmill that generates electricity, round rooms and glass walls. The project is part of Texas A&M’s Architecture for Health Program, which has participated in more than 500 projects since it was created in 1966. The program is affiliated with the Texas A&M Health Science Center and includes faculty fellows from numerous disciplines.

The Louisiana Division of historic preservation has awarded a Historic American Building Survey grant to Director, Robert McKinney to begin documentation of the Academy of Sacred Heart Campus in Grand Coteau which dates to the 1830. University of New Mexico Students of Assistant Professor Tim Castillo were recently honored by the Form Z International Joint Study, Annual Awards Program. Arturo Nunez, a recent graduate of the undergraduate program (spring 2007) was selected by an international jury panel. His project “urban furniture” was awarded the honor of distinction (first place) in the Fabrication category. He was flown by Form Z to the ACADIA conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to receive this award. In addition, the team of Arturo Nunez, Alberto Rodriquez and Jake Semler received honorable mention (second place) in the fabrication category. Their entry for the Duke City Shootout Film Festival installation received the award. Their work will be published in the Joint Study Annual Report in 2008. On Friday, November 2, 2007, the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) conferred its annual Distinguished Leadership Award for excellence in higher education on Dr. Phillip Gallegos from the University of New Mexico. The Design-Build Institute of America is the nation’s most significant organizations advocating innovation in the design and construction industry by combining multi-disciplinary teams in providing single source project delivery. The award was based upon his accomplishments in creating a graduate certificate program at the University of Colorado Denver for the Department of Architecture. Dr. Gallegos (SOUTHWEST continued on page 30)

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Professor of Research. Dr. Gallegos is directing community design and design-build programs for the University in communities of New Mexico as well as to the professions of architecture and construction. For the summer of 2008, the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico is preparing to provide professional course work in establishing design-build theory, practice and tools.

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was both a faculty member and former Chair of the Department of Architecture. The certificate program included extensive classroom work, fieldwork and an architecture design studio that terminated in award of a certificate after four courses. It currently is one of five national programs, including the DBIA program, to award certification in design-build project delivery.

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Dr. Gallegos was recently appointed Director of Community Outreach for the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico and holds the position of Associate

Roger Schluntz, dean, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, has led a campus development master plan visioning charrette and design workshop Sunday, Nov. 11, through Wednesday, Nov. 14 for the future campus expansion and renovation of the University of New Mexico. Roger Schluntz has assembled a charrette team that included faculty and students as well as UNM’s campus architect, planners and landscape architects. He has also drawn in professionals locally and nationally. The team interviewed various individuals and groups representing the Health Sciences Center, Science and Technology Park, Athletics, Housing, Sustainability, Historic Preservation, Student Affairs and Recreation and others. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m., in the newly built Pearl Hall auditorium, the formal presentation of the charrette concepts was presented.

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west central Illinois Institute of Technology In November, Dean Donna Robertson FAIA, John and Jeanne Rowe Chair, presented a talk on Mies van der Rowe at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s symposium in Scottsdale, in which she said she encourages innovation beside the great masters’ ideas. The occasion marked the 75th anniversary of Wright’s apprentice program, the Taliesin Fellowship, which was accredited in the 1980s as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Professor Mahjoub Elnimeiri was quoted and featured in Spire Watch No. 2, a newsletter published by Chicago Line Cruises, “architectural biographers of the Chicago Spire,” in an article on “Digging deep to build higher,” about how North America’s tallest tower is taking root at Ogden Slip. Associate Professor Frank Flury and his 11 fourth-year students are redesigning and replacing the Meadow Studio at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois. The studio designed and built in 1943, is being refined by the group who pledge to make it as green as possible and blend it in with the surrounding prairie much as the existing structure had. Associate Professor Harry Mallgrave moder-

University. Jana Brink, a graduate student at Judson, presented a paper at the International Network for Traditional Architecture and Urbanism in Romania. The paper was presented in September, and was on housing for the Bayash, a traditionally nomadic group in Croatia.

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ated a panel on “China and the Crisis of Infrastructure” at the Chicago Architecture Foundation in October. His studio recently went to Tongji University in Shanghai to study advanced urban planning, as part of the work of IIT’s new Center for Sustainable New Cities, started by Profs. Mallgrave and George Schipporeit. The Center is collaborating with The Harris School of Public Policy on courses and research. Assistant Professor John Ronan picked up four awards at AIA Chicago’s 2007 Design Excellence Awards. His Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago won for Distinguished Building and received a Citation of Merit for its green roof, in the Sustainable Design category, as well as a Divine Detail Award. Ronan’s Akiba-Schecter Jewish Day School in Chicago also received a Citation of Merit under the Distinguished Building category. Martin Felsen’s UrbanLab also won a Citation of Merit Award in the Divine Detail category for Hannah’s Bretzel in Chicago. Studio Associate Professor Martin Felsen’s firm, UrbanLab explores the future of Chicago and what it means to be a “global city” in Map This! Envisioning a Global City, in Hall Gallery at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The exhibition, which runs from January 10-March 21, 2008, is intended for Chicagoans and visitors, and features photographs, diagrams, and threedimensional maps created by students from Illinois Institute of Technology and the University

of Illinois at Chicago. The IIT Campus was recently named as one of 150 Illinois Great Places by AIA Chicago. These places have been identified as uniquely contributing to their community’s quality of life; they are considered the best of the best in Illinois. Nominations from across the state were weighed against a rigorous set of criteria including the AIA’s “10 Principles of Livable Communities.” As well, the exterior restoration project of S. R. Crown Hall won the 2007 Chicago Architecture Foundation Patron of the Year award, in the Institutional Category for Restoration. Judson University Keelan Kaiser has taken the position of Interim Chair of the Departments of Art, Design, and Architecture (DADA). Dr. Jhennifer Amundson had her book on Thomas Ustick Walter’s Lectures on Architecture published last spring by the Philadelphia Atheneum. Royce Earnest has also taken the position of graduate coordinator for the architecture program at Judson. Royce Earnest also presented a paper at McGill University’s conference on “Poetry and Ethics in Architecture” in September 2007. His paper was a landscape perspective on land ethics. Dr. Chris Miller led a team of students in a design charrette in Newark, Ohio. The charrette was a visioning effort conducted by the Neighborhood Design Center, and organized by Denison

The department recently celebrated groundbreaking for Klai Hall, which will house half of the department following its completion. Klai Hall will become the department’s second building in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The department initiated its Center for Community Planning & Design with a visioning project for the town of Underwood, North Dakota. Students from both Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs participated in the project led by Assistant Professor Mark Lindquist. Associate Professor Don Faulkner’s book titled Introduction to Environmental Design was recently published by Kendall/Hunt. Associate Professor Ronald Ramsay was recently awarded a Graham Foundation Grant in the amount of $10K to support the production of the Agincourt Exhibit at the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota. Associate Professor Darryl Booker and Adjunct Assistant Professor Joan Vorderbruggen led a group of students to the southwestern United States to conduct field study into Organic Architecture and Natural Building. Associate Professor Ganapathy Mahalingam recently presented his research at the CAAD Fu(WEST CENTRAL continued on page 32)

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Re-opening of IIT’s College of Architecture library--the Graham Resource Center--which was recently renovated and doubled in size. Photo by Mindy Sherman.

NDSU’s Department of Architecture & Landscape Architecture recently added two new tenure-track faculty to its Architecture Program at the rank of Assistant Professor. David Crutchfield received his post-professional M. Arch. degree from the Sustainable Design program at the University of Texas – Austin, and his B. Arch. degree from Kansas State University. Regin Schwaen completed his architectural education at Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, Denmark; prior to joining NDSU he taught at Virginia Tech.

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tures conference in Sydney, Australia. Assistant Professor Mike Christenson recently presented his research at the ACADIA Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia and at the DEFSA Design Educators’ Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Students working with Assistant Professor Steven Wischer created One to One: Artifacts to Aid in Architectural Experience, which ran at the NDSU Downtown Gallery through October 23.

The School of Architecture hosted the following exhibition: “School Buildings-The State of Affairs: A New Architecture for a New Education.” The exhibit featured the design team, John Comazzi (assistant Professor), Adam Jarvi (research assistant) and Jim Dozier (adjunct assistant professor); along with Mark Ziegler, portfolio manager for schools at IMMO, city of Zurich; EdithAckerman, professor of developmental psychology, University of Aix-Marseille 1, France, and currently visiting scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture; and ElizabethHebert, author, school design consultant, and former principal, Crow Island School, Winnetka, Illinois.

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sented by Building Design + Construction. The building, BDC notes, “takes full advantage of its Lake Michigan site, but sensitive design and thoughtful sustainable features help it tread lightly on the city’s waterfront. Also in the area of sustainability, Professor Bill Huxhold has been appointed to the Advisory Committee overseeing a $69,450 grant for developing the Great Lakes Cities Permeability Index. The planning grant is funded by the Great Lakes Protection Fund. The index will help Great Lakes cities to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the impact of polluted stormwater runoff on the water quality of the Great Lakes by effectively applying Green Infrastructure (GI) approaches.

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Assistant Professor of Architecture, Marc Swackhamer and partner Blair Satterfield, from Rice University (slvDESIGN), received the Best in Category Award in the Environments category of the 53rd Annual Design Review in The International Design (ID) Magazine for their project “Drape Wall + House.” Their winning entry can be viewed in the July / August issue of ID. The winner of this award is selected from hundreds of applicants from all over the world by a prestigious jury of experts. This year’s jury included Marc Tsurumaki of LTL Architects in New York, Joe Rose, Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics and Director of the Post-Professional Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Swackhamer’s current research expands on “Drape Wall + House” through a new collaboration with Professor Gary Meyer of Computer Science and Engineering.Under this new effort, Professors Meyer and Swackhamer are exploring the use of proprietary predictive paint software to explore the visual and performative possibilities of using metallic automotive paint in an architectural context. Their new work will be featured in upcoming exhibition entitled “Here By Design” at the Goldstein Museum of Design, along with many other Twin Cities designers. The School of Architecture will host the ACADIA Annual Conference at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2008. The conference will take place from October 16 -19, 2008 and is titled “Silicone & Skin: Biological Processes and Computation.”

Congratulations to Mark Keane on his promotion to Professor. Professor Keane and his partner, Professor Linda Keane (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), have been instrumental in the creation of the School for Urban Planning and Architecture (SUPAR), a new Milwaukee Public Schools charter high school that opened this fall to ninety-four MPS students. UWM SARUP freshmen are engaged as support members with several graduate students steering development. The Keanes have also developed NEXT, the design education website, (www.next.cc), which is in its pilot phase with users from grade 5 to freshmen in college, from areas across the US and Europe. It has been disseminated at teacher’s conferences, design conferences, and workshops across the country. NEXT was funded by grants from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Study of the Fine Arts and UWM and was nominated for a City of Chicago Green Design Award by Mayor Daley in the spring of 2007. Associate Professor Jim Shields (with HGA Architects) has received the Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Wisconsin Society for Architects and the Wisconsin “Golden Trowel Award” from the International Masonry Institute for the design of St. Anthony the Hermit Church, Menomonee Falls, WI. The Wisconsin Green Building Alliance awarded Professor Shields its Award of Excellence for the sustainable, energy efficient design of the Great Lakes Corporate Office Space. Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, designed by Professor Shields (with HGA Architects) received the Silver Award pre-

Skycar City, edited by Winy Maas and Grace La was published by Actar, Barcelona, September 2007. The book, a theoretical and practical vade mecum of future architectural and urban design, originated in the Marcus Prize Studio co-taught by Associate Professor La and internationally acclaimed architect, Winy Maas (MVRDV). Associate Professor La and her partner, James Dallman (La Dallman Architects), have been awarded Second Place from 109 submissions for the West End Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project was exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The Marsupial Bridge and Urban Spaces project, designed by La Dallman Architects was awarded the Silver Medal of the Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. The project was published in Spain’s A+T and Canada’s Azure. LaDallman’s design work and writing entitled, “Modernism Redux,” was also published in The Green Braid, edited by Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria. SARUP extends its congratulations to Kyle Talbott on his receiving tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. wASHINGTON uNIVERSITY IN sT. lOUIS Associate professor Eric Mumford, PhD, was an invited lecturer at the conference “Modern Urbanism: CIAM in Colombia,” hosted by the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, in May 2007; and at the conference “Concealing the Designer” at the Technical University, Berlin, in June 2007. Mumford also reviewed The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft by Anne Friedberg for Architectural Record.

Associate professor Bob Hansman and his son Jovan Hansman were featured as part of the series “Assignment America” on the Aug. 10, 2007, broadcast of Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News. The story highlighted Hansman’s work teaching inner-city youth. Visiting professors for the 2007-08 academic year include Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D., executive director of the nonprofit organization Terreform as well as partner with Michael Sorkin Studio, New York; and Lawrence Scarpa, principal of Pugh + Scarpa in Santa Monica, who will serve as the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor for the spring semester.

Scarpa also will serve as jury chair for the Sam Fox School’s 2008 Steedman Traveling Fellowship Competition. Open to young architects from around the world, the biennial competition was launched in 1925 and carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States. Registration deadline is Jan. 29, 2008, and the competition brief will be published Jan. 31, with the deadline for entries March 13. Winners will be announced March 29. For more information, visit http://www. steedmancompetition.com. Robert McCarter was installed as the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the

Sam Fox School Nov. 19, 2007. His installation address “Architecture as Experience” examined the role of context and perception in modern architecture. The Ruth and Norman Moore Professorship in Architecture was established in 1986 and is the oldest endowed professorship in the College and Graduate School of Architecture. The professorship was previously held by the distinguished architectural historian Udo Kultermann and the South African architect Jo Noero.

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Assistant professor Igor Marjanovic will be one of the speakers at the symposium “Mobility of the Line” at the University of Brighton, UK, Jan. 10-12, 2008. He was also elected to serve as the ACSA Faculty Councilor.

west Professor Ralph Johnson has been named as the new Executive Director of the Wheeler Center. The Wheeler Center is an educational forum where issues that affect Montana and the region are taken up in a regular, systematic and rigorously non-partisan way. Although the Wheeler Center has a close working relationship with Montana State University, it is an independent, non-profit organization, with its own board of directors. The Center depends entirely on private contributions for its programs and administration. Past visiting faculty member Luis Longhi from Lima, Peru is returning to the School of Architecture to deliver a lecture on the topic of his recently finished book titled Architecture on Stage. Veronica Schreibeis (MSU graduate) worked with Luis on this book, translating the text into English, so that the book would be a bilingual text—providing both Spanish and English text in support of the architectural work presented. Assistant Professor Mike Everts chaired an architectural panel discussion in October for HATCH FEST in Bozeman, Montana. New faculty member Bruce Wrightsman participated in the panel as well which was real time web cast. HATCH is a year round program, designed

to develop and foster the growth of creative minds through mentorship. Since inception in 2004, Hatch has successfully developed an environment that strikes the enthusiasm and stimulation of young artist’s creativity throughout the world, by connecting new filmmakers, musicians, photographers, designers, architects, writers and fine artists with the movers and shakers in the entertainment industry. The unique partnerships with student talent and industry professionals make stars into ‘superstars’ and benefit both mentor and student.

a bachelor of arts in architecture in 1968. Upon graduation, both men joined the Peace Corps, Miller serving in Brazil and Hull in Afghanistan. Both returned home committed to create socially responsible and humane public architecture.

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Miller and Hull are the 37th and 38th recipients of the Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award. Previous winners include broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, author Sherman Alexie, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, cartoonist Gary Larson, astronaut John Fabian, sports broadcaster Keith Jackson and wheat researcher Orville Vogel.

On October 19 David Miller and Robert Hull founding Partners of the Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle Washington received the WSU Regents Distinguished Alumni Award. This is the highest award given by WSU to distinguished alumni. Miller and Hull are the first architects to receive this award and join the likes of Irwin “Ernie” Rose Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This award goes to WSU alumni who have made a truly distinguished contribution to society. They are architectural innovators with strong social consciences who have made a lasting impact on their field,” said WSU President Elson S. Floyd. Business partners since 1977, Miller and Hull met as classmates at WSU, where each earned

In 2003, Miller|Hull was named AIA Firm of the Year. The recognition acknowledges embodiment of the highest principles of architecture. The firm’s work has been published and referenced in more than 160 national and international publications.

Aaron Pasquale, a Washington State University Master of Architecture student, is spending his 07-08 academic year at WSU’s sister university, the Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XUAT) in Xi’an, China. Aaron is working with the Green Architecture Research Center of XUAT in developing prototype solar housing for rural families in Tibet. In addition to these responsibilities, Aaron is completing (WEST continued on page 34)

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his M.Arch courses via distance connections with the School of Architecture at WSU, as well as teaching English to Chinese graduate students. He is directed by WSU architecture faculty David Wang, Greg Kessler and Matt Cohen. The opportunity arose out of a 2-week visit to Xi’an and Tibet of 8 design students last May, led by David Wang and the director of WSU’s Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Nancy Blossom. The School of Architecture and Construction Management has initiated a new Institute for Sustainability. The Institute is a collaboration between the school, Civil Engineering and the WSU Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory. The focus of the Institute is to integrate sustainable design with sustainable materials development. Students are working in conjunction with faculty and researchers on new materials development and their application to architectural design. Work is being conducted through courses as well as direct participation by students in research initiatives. University of Arizona

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On November 1st the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture inaugurated its $12.3 million dollar expansion, which will unite its two schools under one soon-to-be-green roof. Former Dean Richard Eribes initiated the building expansion project in 1998 after enlarging the college to include planning and landscape architecture programs. The Phoenix office of Jones Studio was the architect of the new building and renovation of the original architecture school structure. One of the project intentions is to serve as a didactic tool, revealing the active systems, structural logic, and a number of sustainable strategies appropriate to the Sonoran Desert, of which the 11,500-gallon water harvesting system and the Landscape Research Garden it nourishes are the stars. Professor Ignacio San Martin was invited to deliver a keynote address at the 2007 International Congress of Urbanism under the topic “New Scales of Sustainable Territories” which will take place at the Rafael Moneo’s Kuursaal Palace in San Sebastian, Spain. Continuing with his research work on sustainable cities, he will

travel next January to Santiago, Chile to a colloquium with his colleagues at the Universidad Catolica de Chile to outline a collaborative research proposal on a variety of planning/design related issues applicable to the native population of the Atacama Desert. This spring, two new faculty will join the U of A. Ron Rael will be pursuing tenure and taking a leadership role in the foundation design studio curriculum and digital design methodologies. Ron has been teaching at Clemson for several years and has been researching the relationship and contrast between industrial and non-industrial modes of production as evidenced in his Constructed Topographies: Earth Architecture in the Landscape of Modernity. Virginia San Fratello will also join the U of A, from Clemson. Her research in digital fabrication techniques will compliment the U of A’s strong hands-on, design-build tradition and emerging material technology focus. She will be teaching in the design studios and materials and methods sequences of the curriculum. Together with Rael, she has been co-directing Clemson’s program in Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy and principal of RURAL OFFICE ARCHITECTURE. Their joint interest in innovative fabrication technologies in the service of community outreach projects fit well with the University of Arizona’s vision. University of California, Berkeley To recognize commercial buildings that do much more than provide the space and tools for workers to toil away, the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment has issued its first-ever “Livable Buildings Awards.” The center’s kudos for building resource efficiency, architectural design and occupant satisfaction are unique in the building industry because they consider the building users’ feelings about features such as lighting, acoustics and thermal comfort, said Edward Arens, the center’s director and a UC Berkeley professor of architecture. The 2007 Livable Buildings Award winners include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis,

Md.; the low-energy laboratory and offices of the Global Ecology Research Center for the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University; and the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. The awards were announced on Thursday, Oct. 18, in conjunction with a center meeting with its industry advisory board. The Philip Merrill Environmental Center was the first building to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s Platinum rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) R. The Kirsch Center is a 22,000-square-foot California Community College showcase for sustainability and energy innovation, thanks to the efforts of students, who pushed for solar energy, natural day lighting and ventilation, efficient heating and cooling, and the use of recycled, renewable and non-toxic materials. The center has become a popular place on campus to study and socialize, and enrollment in environmental courses taught in the facility has sky-rocketed. The awards jury commended the designers of the Global Ecology Research Center for “creating a building that makes the expression of a sustainable ethic clear, but not overwhelming.” The low -energy laboratory brings attention to important environmental issues identified by the Carnegie Institute, including water conservation and reducing carbon emissions from building operations. To be considered for the award, buildings had to be among the top 10 performers in the Center for the Built Environment’s Web-based Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality Survey, which has been conducted with more than 38,000 individuals in over 320 non-residential buildings in North America. The survey collects occupant ratings of indoor environmental quality features including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustics, cleanliness, spatial layout and even office furnishings -- all of which have a big impact on worker comfort and productivity. The idea is to help building owners and operators make adjustments to existing buildings, and help architects, engineers and builders con-

struct better ones in the future. The survey also is sometimes used to gauge the performance of green building design elements. A seven-member jury of leaders from the building industry reviewed additional information submitted by the finalist buildings including basic building characteristics, measured energy use data, green building features, and other information relevant to the buildings’ intent and design.

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The jury also selected two buildings for Honorable Mention recognition: Donald Bren Hall at UC Santa Barbara, the first laboratory building to receive LEED platinum recognition; and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Building in Menlo Park, which has received LEED gold certification. In addition to the winners and honorable mentions, the finalists included: Blakely Hall in Issaquah, Washington; the Chicago Center for Green Technology in Chicago; the Department of the Interior National Business Center in Denver, Colorado; McCuen Center One in Sacramento; Swinerton Headquarters in San Francisco. The Center for the Built Environment survey results and photos of the 2007 Livable Buildings Award winners are online at: http://www.cbe. berkeley.edu/livablebuildings/index.htm. Information about the occupant survey is on the Web at: http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/research/ survey.htm.

The University of Colorado Denver’s TrailerWrap project (refer to Photos 1 & 2) has just been awarded an Architect’s Choice Award. Sponsored by The American Institute of Architects Denver Chapter, Rocky Mountain News, and the City and County of Denver, the Architect’s Choice Awards recognize excellence in the design and construction of new residential construction as well as in the remodeling, renovation and rehabilitation of existing housing projects. TrailerWrap is a highly collaborative design/ build project that connected a group of faculty and design students from the University of

Photo 1: Before and after photos of the University of Colorado’s TrailerWrap project. TrailerWrap was awarded an Architect’s Choice Award by AIA Denver. Photo credit: copyright Michael de Leon Photography.

Colorado with a group of non-profits and other partners with interests in the areas of affordable housing, service learning, diversity, civic and ethical engagement to explore issues of socially and ecologically responsible design. It explores the aspects of inhabiting simple shelter in ways that conventional trailer house design and construction have ignored in the interest of efficient manufacturing systems and mass production. The project’s tangible outcome is a rich, affordable setting that exists as a portable example of how the debilitated trailer house can be economically rehabilitated to become a viable, contemporary home.

TrailerWrap sets out to provide simple and affordable solutions that can improve the spatial and material quality, the energy efficiency, the environmental quality, the psychological context, and the social and behavioral consequences of an abandoned and debilitated trailer house through its reconstruction and rehabilitation. The project addresses the difficult questions surrounding the future of the aging trailer house as a pervasive example of affordable housing within the typology of the American

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house. The project serves as a concrete example of a process that allows the debilitated trailer house that populates so many of the vernacular and cultural landscape of Colorado and the American west to be effectively rehabilitated into a contemporary, useful and affordable alternative for high density housing within the context of the American trailer park. For information on the TrailerWrap project, contact Peter Schneider at peter.schneider@colorado.edu. The College of Architecture and Planning at University of Colorado, Boulder is proud to announce the recent opening of its new emerging practices research educational facility in the Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC). This 14,000 sq. ft. facility serves upper division undergraduates, graduate and Ph.D. students, and college faculty. The facility has state-ofthe-art analog and digital shops and labs, and supports 5 studios of 15 students each as well as multiple support seminars. The facility targets collaborative engagement on diverse built environment projects with local and regional professional, industrial, manufacturing and public sector components. Allen Harlow, Architecture department faculty, is the Director of the facility. He is supported by an interdisciplinary faculty advisory board that assists in identifying project opportunities for semester or year long engagement in the CINC facility.

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University of Oregon Professor Michael Fifield, AIA, AICP and Assistant Professor Mark Gillem, AIA, AICP managed the Portland Courtyard Housing Design Competition. Over 250 submissions from 15 countries and 35 states were received and evaluated in a blindreview process. The jury selected 8 projects for monetary awards totaling $20,000 and another 13 projects received commendation awards. Results can be seen on www.courtyardhousing.org. Associate Professor Peter Keyes, working with former students Lucas Posada, Kai Yonezawa and Tyler Nishitani, won the Merit Award (second

Photo 2: Front porch and interior of University of Colorado’s TrailerWrap project. Photo copyright Michael de Leon Photography.

place) in the Portland Courtyard Housing Design Competition, which attracted over 250 submissions from 35 states and 15 foreign countries. The design featured medium-density housing for families on an infill site, with options for resident choice and future adaptability. Associate Professor Nancy Cheng was hosted by Kumamoto University in December 2007 to work on design collaboration research and curriculum ideas. She participated in an NSF-funded Living In the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) Community Building project at Santa Clara University in November, for designing new pedagogies in computing education. A paper titled “The Green Church” by Dr. Mark L. Gillem was selected as one of the 10 Best Papers from the 2007 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC). The paper will be published in the ARCC Journal. Associate Professor Hajo Neis, director of the Portland Architecture Program, presented the case of the new University of Oregon urban building facilities in downtown Portland at the ACSA City Campus Conference in Cambridge, Canada, in a paper co-authored with department head Christine Theodoropoulos and associate dean

Rob Thallon. The new satellite Portland location will open in the spring of 2007 with advanced study and research opportunities. University of utah Tony Serrato Combe was the keynote speaker at the SIGRADI conference in Lima, Peru. He also lectured at the Center for Architectural Studies in Tunisia. Martha Bradley was appointed the first Dean of the new Honors College at the University of Utah. Martha has also been appointed as vice chair of both the Utah State Board of History and the Utah Heritage Foundation. Bill Miller received the Bronze Medal from the Utah AIA for his contributions to architectural education and practice. Bob Young was awarded the Lucybeth Rampton Award from the Utah Heritage Foundation and was on sabbatical as the winner of the University of Utah’s John R. Park Fellowship. Mimi Locher won the Santa Fe, NM International Design Competition for a mixed-use housing and her book, Super Potato, was published this past summer. Anne Mooney received numerous awards, including the AIA Western Regional Design Award, the AIA Utah Design Honor Award for the Arcadia Museum and three Design Arts Utah Awards for the Daybreak Concept House,

Joerg Rugemer won the Purchase Prize for the Library for the Department of Philosophy at the University Goettingen, First Prize for a high technology park in Shanghai, and a First Prize for a Shanghai train station. He also won several awards for his LIDL Superstore project in Mannheim which is included in the exhibition: 10/400 – 10 Years of City Development / 400 Years of the City of Mannheim. Patrick Tripeny’s second and third textbooks: Simplified Design of Concrete Structures and Simplified Design of Steel Structures (in conjunction with USC professor James Ambrose) were published and distributed in 2007. Peter Goss completed a photographic exhibition: The Re-Photography of George Edward Anderson’s Environmental Portraits which opened at Brigham Young University in September and is now at the Museum of San Rafael in Emery County, Utah. Tom Carter is completing work with the National Park Service/Historic American Buildings Survey to develop a new set of guidelines for producing measured drawings of historical buildings and landscapes. Lisa Henry Benham lectured at the University of Virginia Art Museum as part of the Dresser Trunk Project, which features 11 display trunks designed by architects from around the country; each trunk tells the stories of places of refuge along the Southern Crescent Railroad Line during the Jim Crow Era. Ryan Smith traveled to Uganda to explore the possibility of creating a design-build program in conjunction with designbuildBLUFF(University of Utah) and the Sisinja Children’s Foundation.

tecture in the Pacific Northwest (UW Press). His firm, Miller/Hull Partnership was the recipient of the Architecture Firm Award by the American Institute of Architects in 2003. Miller and his partner Robert Hull FAIA were named joint recipients of the Washington State University 2007 Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award. The award is the highest honor granted to WSU alumni; previous recipients include Edward R. Murrow, Gary Larson and Paul Allen. Professor Emeritus of Architecture Francis D.K. (Frank) Ching was one of four individuals and six groups to receive the American Institute of Architect’s 2007 Honors for Collaborative Achievement award. Ching was also honored at the 2007 National Design Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Ching was awarded the Special Jury Commendation, as a “visual futurist who has influenced a generation of designers and who continues to shape the fundamental vocabulary of virtually every designer and architect through his exceptional body of writing and illustration.” Professor Daniel S. Friedman, FAIA, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, served as chair of the 2007 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize jury, which biennially awards $100,000 in support of research to advance architectural practice; Friedman also cochaired the 2007 ACSA/AIA 2007 Cranbrook Teachers Seminar.

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Former Department Chair Vikram Prakash has been promoted to the rank of Professor. His recent co-edited book (with Peter Scriver), Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon, was published by Routledge in 2007. Professors Prakash and Ching, and MIT Professor Mark Jarzombeck, co-authored A Global History of Architecture (Wiley and Sons, 2006); this book explores architectural history through an innovative, concurrent timeline format with a wideranging global perspective.

Professor David Miller, FAIA, founding principal of the Miller/Hull Partnership, was appointed as the Chair of the Department of Architecture in 2007. Miller has served on the faculty since 1990. Nationally recognized as a leader in sustainable design, he is the author of Toward a New Regionalism; Environmental Archi-

Pritzker Prize Laureate and Callison Distinguished Professor Glenn Murcutt will join the faculty for his fifth master studio at the University of Washington in Spring 2008. A book featuring his work with UW students is currently being edited by Lecturer Jim Nicholls and will likely be published in 2008.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair Alex T. Anderson’s recent book, The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture (UW Press) examines French domestic interiors and their role in shaping modern architecture. Professor Emeritus of Architecture Grant Hildebrand’s book, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Palmer House, (co-authored by Anne and Leonard K. Eaton; UW Press), profiles a late house by Wright located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In Fall 2007 the department moved back into Architecture Hall after a successful $22 million dollar renovation designed by Thomas Hacker Architects of Portland, Oregon. This historic structure is one of the original buildings from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held on the University of Washington campus. The UW Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design & Planning are jointly undertaking two studios funded by the Universities Rebuilding America Partnership for Post-Katrina assistance (Winter 2007 and Winter 2008). UW Students recently won Project Locus’s Design Build Challenge 2007 in New Orleans and will host the event in Seattle in 2008. UW Past AIAS President, Ryan Wong, won the organization’s top Chapter President Award in 2007. In addition, the Sustainable Design Institute was opened within the college as an interdisciplinary home for translating sustainable research into practice. The Institute will promote interdisciplinary collaboration on research and design projects; integrate science, planning, design and engineering disciplines to advance ecological and sustainable design outcomes and explore the broadest possible applicability of sustainable design practices in urban contexts in the Puget Sound and beyond. Faculty changes this year include the retirement of Associate Professor Elaine Day LaTourelle, Professor Francis D.K. Ching and Senior Lecturer Andy Vanags. Both Ching and Vanags will continue to teach on reduced schedule. Assistant Professor Robert Peña joined the faculty at the University of Washington in the Fall of 2007.

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ACSA CALENDAR january 2 ACSA Offices Reopen

Session Topic Proposals Due 97th ACSA Annual Meeting

School Exhibit Email Deadline Intent to Participate ACSA/AIA Annual Conferences

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Early Bird Registration Deadline 96th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Submission Deadline Walter Wagner Forum

february 8

Registration Deadline Student Competitions

march 1 Questions Deadline DFW Student Design Competition

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To provide seed funds for applied research projects that advance professional knowledge and practice.

Paper Submission Deadline 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

Q&A Emailed and Posted Online DFW Student Design Competition

19 Registration Deadline 96th ACSA Annual Meeting

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25-26 Pan American Reunion of Schools of Architecture 96th ACSA Annual Meeting

27-30 96th ACSA Annual Meeting

innovations.

emerging professionals; historic preservation; facilities management; diversity;

F o r m at F o r s u b m i s s i o n

health-care facilities; public architec-

ture; religious architecture; regional and

Digital submissions only (by e-mail,

urban design; small projects; technol-

PDF, or MS Word document, three-page

ogy in architectural practice; and envi-

maximum), including the following: title;

projects to be completed in a seven-

ronment and sustainability.

principal investigator(s); institutional af-

Description

filiation; 250-word project abstract; bud-

month period beginning May 2008. The AIA will award up to 10 grants of $7,000 each for selected projects. This grant qualifies recipients to have their findings and outcomes published both electronically in the AIA Soloso online database and in a nationally distributed publication: The American Institute of Archi-

get; clients and constituencies (and/or n

aia research priorities

knowledge communities) served; 250-

Sustainability (e.g., the consequences

word summary of projected outcomes;

of global demand for resources,

and the names and contact information

climate change mitigation, carbon-neu-

for three references.

tral buildings, building regeneration or disassembly); limitations of water avail-

selection process

ability on buildings; urbanization (e.g.,

effects of aging infrastructure, optimiz-

A panel of seven professionals and

ing conditions for human development);

educatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including representatives

demographic measures of public health

of the academic community, the Archi-

and well-being; energy consumption

tectural Research Centers Consortium,

and better metrics for building perfor-

the AIA Board Knowledge Committee,

mance (e.g., benefits of daylighting

and AIA National staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will evaluate

versus artificial light); ergonomics for

each submission and select the grant

research context

users of particular facilities (e.g., move-

awardees.

(knowledge areas)

ment patterns, next-generation flexible

Volume 4. Preference will be given to PhD candidates and junior faculty members focusing on completion or distribution of research or on initial explorations of a particular concept.

models; and other novel concepts or

tion and practice; interior architecture;

The AIA seeks proposals for research

tects Report on University Research,

Submission Deadline School Exhibit Boards

rate architecture; design-build; educa-

Proposals that address building typol-

facilities); enhancements to defining

ogy, practice issues, or materials and

the purpose of facilities; relationship

methods of construction are welcome.

of buildings to community identity,

Richard L. Hayes, PhD, AIA, CAE

Also of interest is research on educa-

heritage, and the broader ecological

Managing Director

tional facilities; building performance;

function (i.e., urban form and wellness);

AIA Knowledge Resources

building science; design; aging; corpo-

integrated practice collaboration

rhayes@aia.org

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April 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

Winners announced at AIA Convention in Boston

Deadline for submissions

May 23, 2008

First half of funds awarded

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December 16, 2008 Complete reports due December 18, 2008 Second half of funds awarded

the 2008 ncarb prize

The Role of Architecture Schools in Service to Society

Call for nominations

Call for PAPERS

Deadline January 16, 2008

Deadline February 5, 2008

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is asking for nominations to the 2008 Education Honor Awards Program. The purpose of the awards program is to discover and recognize the achievement of individuals who serve the profession as outstanding teachers. Coordinated by the AIA Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN), the awards celebrate excellence in architecture education as demonstrated in classroom, studio, and/or community work, or in courses offered in various educational settings. All courses, initiatives, or programs completed within the last five years and that have not previously received an AIA Education Honor Award are eligible for consideration. Courses must be part of a program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) or the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB).

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is now accepting entries for the 2008 NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy. Now in its seventh year, the NCARB Prize supports combined practice and education initiatives at the university level. Architecture schools with NAAB-accredited degree programs are invited to submit established projects, completed or in progress by the end of the fall 2007 term, that respond to the integration of education with practice. Submissions must represent a unique effort to integrate education and practice initiatives while allowing students to earn academic credit.

The awards jury will seek evidence of exceptional and innovative courses, initiatives, or programs that: • deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community; • contribute to the advancement of architecture education; • have the potential to benefit and/or change practice; and/or • promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other educators. Submissions must include (1) hard copy of all required letters and forms together with an electronic copy (on CD) of all items to be reviewed by the jury in advance of the jury meeting, including the abstract, 5-page description of the course, and selected examples of student work. The electronic submission, including all required items, should be a maximum of 70 MB. Materials to be reviewed by the jury should not reveal the name of the institution or individuals involved. For electronic submission guidelines, please go to: www.aia.org/ed_honorawards_2008. The winning entries will be selected by an independent jury. Winners will be notified in February 2008. The awards will be conferred during the 2008 AIA National Convention, May 15-17, in Boston, where award recipients are invited to present their work in a special session. In addition, presentation boards prepared by the award recipients will be displayed in the convention gallery. The awards will be announced at the ACSA Annual Meeting and in various publications. Selected additional entries may also be published by the AIA in other venues. All submitters grant to the AIA the nonexclusive right to publish, reproduce, sell at cost, and otherwise distribute copies of the submission or of matter excerpted in whole or part from the submission. All entries or queries should be addressed to: Catherine M. Roussel, AIA | Director of Education The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 202.626.7417 | croussel@aia.org

The EPN Advisory Committee is composed of educators and practitioners dedicated to the professional preparation of architects.

Six cash awards, totaling more than $60,000, will be presented. NCARB will award one grand prize of $25,000 and five additional awards of $7,500. At the discretion of the jury, honorable mentions may also be awarded. Submitted programs should represent experience in areas of practice culture such as: • Leadership • Economic • Practice Management • Ethics • Political • Sustainability • Social • Legal • Project Development • Research • Public Benefit • Building Systems • Infrastructure/ Context • Allied/Affiliate Professionals • The six winning programs will be selected prior to the ACSA Annual Meeting and announced at the ACSA Awards Luncheon. All prize-winning submissions will be exhibited at the NCARB Annual Meeting and featured in NCARB’s Direct Connection and will be submitted to the AIA, ACSA, AIAS, and the national media. HOW TO SUBMIT Visit the NCARB web site (www.ncarb.org/prize) to download an entry packet for the 2008 competition. Submissions are due on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. For more information contact: Greg Hall, AIA, Ph.D., Director, Education, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards 1801 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202/783-6500 Fax: 202/783-0290 E-mail: ncarbprize@ncarb.org

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Acsa Seeks Book Proposals for architectural education series Editorial Content The bulk of the book should be created from scholarly papers and design work presented at ACSA conferences. Up to five chapters that do not come from ACSA conferences may be included to supplement or frame the book. These chapters may be specially prepared for the volume or come from other sources. The editors are expected to write introductions and other material surrounding the volume’s core content.

Editorial Support The proposal form outlines in greater detail the editorial support available for the volume and the expected responsibilities of editors, authors, and ACSA in completing the manuscript for an accepted proposal.

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ACSA seeks proposals for thematic anthologies of papers presented at its conferences. The volumes will be included in the “Architectural Education Series” with Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The second volume, which follows The Green Braid published in March 2007, will focus on urban design, and is planned for release in 2008. Books in the series are intended as texts or supplemental readers for lecture and studio courses. As such, the book’s content should be selected for use primarily by faculty and students. Proposals Proposals must be made using a special proposal form, available at www.acsaarch.org. Prospective editors should plan to clearly articulate the volume’s subject and the editor’s particular approach to addressing it. The proposal should indicate the overall organization of the book and describe each part or section. Proposals from editorial teams are encouraged.Proposals will be reviewed by a series editorial board. The board will recommend acceptance, rejection, or revision of proposals. Once a proposal is accepted, the editors will be offered a contract for publication.

Royalties for sales of books in the series will go to ACSA. However, editors of volumes under contract for the series will receive a stipend to support manuscript completion. Additionally, the index to the volume will be prepared by the publishers at no cost to the editors. Upon request, ACSA can make available PDF copies of ACSA proceedings for prospective editors to use, as well as a PDF copy of the Index of the Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meetings 1985–2006. Contact Kevin Mitchell, kmitchell@acsa-arch. org, 202/785 2324, to access the digital documents or with other questions. Deadline Proposals received by February 1, 2008, will be reviewed by March 15, 2008. Editorial Board Michael Benedikt, U of Texas at Austin; Luis Carranza, Roger Williams U; Thomas Fisher, U of Minnesota; Lisa Iwamoto, U of California at Berkeley; Fernando Luiz Lara, U of Michigan; John Stuart, Florida International U

AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects call for submissions January 31, 2008 The Top Ten Green Projects program seeks to identify and recognize the benefits of a high performance, sustainable design approach; to educate the architectural community and the public at large on the increased value that sustainable design provides for developers, building owners and occupants; and to acknowledge architects as experts in the creation of energy conscious and environmentally responsible design solutions. Projects may be located anywhere in the world, but must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States. Visit www.aiatopten.org for complete details on eligibility and submission requirements.

CHALLENGING THE PARADIGM save the date March 10, 2008 “Challenging the Paradigm, A Conversation with Three Deans of Architecture,” will take place March 10, 2008, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and will include Frances Bronet, Dean, School of Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Donna Robertson, Dean, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Karen Van Lengen, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, and Wanda Bubriski, Director of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, will moderate the conversation. The conversation will start with biographical background such as the sources, inspirations, and training that led to careers in architecture, along with the preparations that led to current positions in leadership. The conversation’s theme, Challenging the Paradigm, will bring in issues like access to power within architectural education, and will address the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities that come with this power and the possibility to shape architecture’s future. Challenging the Paradigm is a collaboration between the National Building Museum and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation to celebrate Women’s History Month. www.nbm.org/events or www.bwaf.org/events

Competitions / Grants 1/4/08 CRS Archive Scholar Opportunity at Texas A&M University If you are you a faculty member, graduate student, doctoral student, or post-doctoral student in architecture, engineering, business or a related discipline, then you may be eligible for an award up to $2,500. Through the CRS Center Archive Scholar program, the CRS Center at Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, will reimburse your expenses related to research that utilizes the business records, architectural programs, articles, slides, photographs, video, audio tapes and/or personal records of the former A/E/C firm Caudill Rowlett and Scott. Deadline: January 4, 2008. www.crscenter.tamu.edu 1/15/08 The 99k House: Competition For an Affordable, Sustainable House Prototype The Rice Design Alliance (RDA) and AIA Houston announce a two-stage national competition to design a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of the low-income family in the Gulf Coast region. The competition objectives are to: broaden awareness of green building strategies applicable to affordable housing, generate and publicize buildable examples of sustainable, affordable houses, and construct an exemplary sustainable, affordable house prototype. Deadline: January 15, 2008. www.the99khouse.com 1/15/08 2008-2009 WILLIAM WAYNE CAUDILL PH.D. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP The Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University is pleased to announce that proposals are invited for the 2008 William Wayne Caudill Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Architecture for applicants to the Ph.D. Program in Architecture. The award also qualifies out-of-state students for a tuition reduction to that of an in-state student. Deadline 15 January 2008. crscenter.tamu.edu

1/15/08 STREETSCAPE IN A NEW WORLD Sponsor: New World China Land Limited; di Magazine Type: Open, international, ideas Location: Bejing, China. Chongwenmenwai Street in the Chongwen District of Beijing and Shanghai Huaihaizhong Road are the two most important cities in China. Realize the thrust of this competiiton in your design: bringing enjoyment back to streets, streets back to life, and developing streets as City Life Enabler. Present your understanding and redefinition of the comprehensive functions of the district. In your design, please consider sustainability of the site, including how to enable it to possess the capability to continuously renovation. Deadline: January 15, 2008. www.nwusd.com 1/29/08 STEEDMAN FELLOWSHIP international design COMPETITION Competitors are to develop concepts for the adaptive reuse of an abandoned industrial building located on the Mississippi riverfront, just north of downtown St. Louis, MO and Eero Saarinenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gateway Arch. With the exception of three historic facades, the 100,000 sf building is left up to the competitor. Deadline 29 January 2008. www.steedmancompetition.com 2/1/08 Dorothy P. Spence Memorial Scholarship Program The Dorothy P. Spence Memorial Scholarship honors the late Dorothy Spence, Honorary AIA, longtime Executive Director of AIA Georgia and eloquent advocate of Architecture in Georgia. The program assists students in one of their final years of a professional degree program in architecture in the state of Georgia and is administered in conjunction with the three Georgia schools accredited by NAAB: Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art & Design, and Southern Polytechnic State University. Deadline: February 1, 2008. www.aiaga.org

2/4/08 summer jobs with habs/haer/hals The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, seeks applications from qualified individuals for summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, landscape and technological significance throughout the country. Duties involve on-site field work and preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last twelve weeks, beginning in May/June. Salaries range from approximately $6,000 to approximately $11,000 for the summer, depending on job responsibility, locality of the project, and level of experience. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Deadline: February 4, 2008. nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/maritime.htm 2/10/08 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE: DISTURBING NOTIONS OF STRUCTURE IN ORGANIZATIONS Call for Papers for the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. Brussels, Belgium | May 15-16, 2008. This workshop seeks contributions which will examine the relationship between architecture and the organizational context which offer new perspectives on organizational behaviour and theory. Contributions might include original work on methods and methodology including photo and auto ethnography, gendered aspects of structures, political aspects of space, ethics and ethical structures, symbolic aspects of organizational spaces and structures. The intention is to disturb comfortable and conventional notions of structure and to pose alternative perspectives, methods and approaches. Deadline: February 10, 2008. www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_ announcement.asp?event_id=577 (OPPORTUNITIES continued on page 42)

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2/19/08 08 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION Sponsor: eVolo Architecture Type: Open, international, 1-stage, anonymous Location: New York City. This competition is to continue exploring on new ideas and concepts for vertical density. Deadline: February 19, 2008. www.evolo-arch.com 3/15/08 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Library of Congress $10,000 Fellowship The BWAF is seeking applicants to develop the first stage of a guide to the work of women architects in the Library’s collections. BWAF grants and fellowships are given to individuals and institutions for a variety of projects. Deadline: March 15, 2008. www.bwaf.org/grants 3/31/08 the ]present[ ARCHITECTURE’S CHALLENGE Sponsor: IMUAU; EAAE Type: Open, international, 2-stage, anonymous, student, ideas Location: Bucharest, Romania. The projects can be either individual or designed by a student team coordinated by a faculty member. Awards: Prize I: 6,000 Euro; Prize II: 4,000 Euro; Prize III: 3,000 Euro; Mentions: 1,000 Euro each. Deadline: March 31, 2008. www.iaim.ro/en/aeea2008

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Conferences / Lectures 1/7/08 DESIGNING THE PARKS A conference in two parts examining the design of buildings and landscapes in regional, state, and national parks. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service. Designing the Parks, Part 1: The History of Park Planning and Design, Charlottesville, Virginia (May 20-22, 2008) Designing the Parks, Part 2: The Present and Future of Park Planning and Design, San Francisco, California (Fall 2008) . Deadline: January 7, 2008. aseh.net/conferences

1/30/08 architexture EXPLORING TEXTUAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SPACES CALL FOR PAPERS: This interdisciplinary conference investigates relationships between architectural and literary constructions of space. We welcome a wide range of disciplinary theorisations of the concepts of text and space, literature and architecture. This international event aims to bring together scholars, artists, architects, writers, urban planners and film-makers and many other interested individuals and organisations. Deadline: January 30, 2008. www.architexture.info 2/15/08 CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: As in past IASTE conferences, scholars and practitioners from architecture, architectural history, art history, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, geography, history, planning, sociology, urban studies, and related disciplines are invited to submit papers that address one of the following three tracks: Epistemologies of Tradition, Fundamentalism and Tradition, and Regeneration and the Practices of Tradition. Deadline: February 15, 2008. www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste 5/28-31/08 IASS-IACM 2008 Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures “Spanning Nano to Mega” will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. To address a broad interpretation of “Shell and Spatial Structures” the Sixth Conference will include presentations regarding computation for any long-span, lightweight, fabric, or thin-walled structures: (1) at a variety of scales -- spanning nano to mega, (2) in a diversity of application fields, and (3) in both technology and nature. iassiacm2008.us 3/13-16/08 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Georgia Institute of Technology. In the spirit of Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, his seminal rethinking of the founding distinctions of modernity, this conference puts forward for debate the ways in which disciplines operate

within beginning design education: not only at the level of pedagogies and curricula but in the very constitution of beginning design education itself. The conference is organized into four sections, with each section taking a different approach to the beginnings/disciplinarity problematic. The sections are outlined under Overview. Proposals for papers and panel discussions are outlined under Call. www.coa.gatech.edu/beginningdesign08

Professional Opportunities NCARB offers HSW Credits NCARB’s newest monograph, Security Planning and Design, presents concepts, principles, and processes for incorporating enhanced security into the design of new and existing buildings. Those who successfully complete the Security Planning and Design quiz will earn 12 professional development units and/or AIA learning units in health, safety, and welfare. www.ncarb.org/publications/titles/security.html 3/15/08 NCARB Seeks Authors The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards seeks authors for two new monographs: Building Commissioning and Natural Hazards – Flooding. Also for mini-monographs on topics that fulfill health, safety, and welfare continuing education requirements. Interested authors should submit a letter indicating their experience with the subject matter, a resume, references, an outline and an unedited writing sample. Deadline: March 15, 2008. www.ncarb.org/continuinged Murphy: Journal of Architectural History and Theory Murphy is an academic journal of architectural history and theory published once or twice a year in Portuguese and English by the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra and Coimbra University Press. In particular, Murphy is interested in texts that contribute to the cross-referencing of architectural and urban history and theory with art history, the history of science, the history of culture, anthropology, geography, gender studies, philosophy and visual studies. www1.ci.uc.pt/murphy/murphy/index.html