ACSA News March 2008 by Pascale Vonier

march 2008 volume 37 number 7

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Publishes Report for 2008 Accreditation Review Conference Read the proposed changes starting on page 4

Seeking the City: Visionaries on the Margins See page 10 for the latest schedule and session descriptions

in this issue: 2

President’s Column

ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools

ACSA 2008 ARC Report

96th ACSA Annual Meeting—Houston

2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

ACSA Student Design Competitions

REGIONAL NEWS

OPPORTUNITIES

ACSA Calendar

Call for NAAB Visiting Team Representative

Call for NAAB Associate Executive Director

Doubletree Houston Downtown

from the president

Leadership and Cool by kim tanzer

acsaNews 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

Because our colleagues, particularly in the AIA and NCARB, have chosen to focus on the importance of leadership within architectural education in the context of the upcoming NAAB Accreditation Review Conference, I have begun to speculate about the relationship between leadership and cool. Can our discipline model both leadership and cool? If not, which will we choose? I began thinking about the relationship between leadership and cool in an unlikely place—a daylong workshop devoted to disability research and advocacy, which brought together disciplinary leaders from across my state. I was invited to participate to bring an environmental design perspective to an otherwise policy-driven discussion. As speakers introduced themselves, a remarkable number of narratives began with a close personal experience with a disability, their own or that of a family member. It was clear that, unlike many academic conferences, most of the people in attendance had an urgent need to make positive change—the quality of their own lives depended on it. Toward the day’s end the subject turned to the role of the built environment in easing the daily lives of those who live with serious disabilities. The symposium’s participants, clearly

frustrated, asked me why the heft of doors, the height of tables, the location of light switches did not accommodate their limitations. I answered mildly that architects must consider many, often competing, needs and that budgets sometimes preclude truly sensitive solutions. But as I answered I thought about the modest attention paid to universal design in most architecture curricula. I silently remembered the exasperated expressions, rolled eyes, and general impatience expressed when such subjects are part of required course work or mentioned during critiques. I thought, too, about the few students and colleagues I have known with life-changing disabilities, and how my students and I suffered just observing their formidable inconveniences. Through body language and pregnant silences it has always been clear to me that subjects like disability, whether through accident or aging, are not considered cool. Leadership, it seems to me, demands that we speak for those who cannot effectively speak for themselves. But given the chance, did I speak up? Do any of us adequately address the difficult subjects—disabilities, climate change or others—the ones we know are not cool? As I’m writing in an airport, I have leaned on Wikipedia to define the unspoken quality we all know so well. Cool is described as a “self-conscious aplomb in overall behavior…a set of discernible bodily movements, postures, facial expressions and voice modulations that are acquired and take on strategic social value within the peer context.”1 Think about the last architectural review in which you participated, and the behaviors of the participants. Was there evidence of cool? Architectural reviews are a powerful form of consensus building within our discipline, drawing on verbal logic and on many tacit elements, such as embodied communication, to argue posi-

It doesn’t take much imagination to realize that, should we be lucky enough to live long lives, most of us will encounter some disability. If we have children or aging parents, we recognize the value of ramps, legible circulation, well-lit spaces, and easily gripped handles. Some argue that such decisions are too minute to merit design consideration in architecture school—that they fall into the realm of the specifications writer. The practicing architects among us will concede this point in some cases, but not in all. Another more disturbing rationale was advanced through the deconstructivist critiques of the 1990s—that we avoid discussions of physical difficulties because we fear them ourselves. The challenge of cool is that its requisite self-conscious aplomb precludes discussion of the subject at all—not just in student settings but also largely among ourselves. So does being cool make it difficult to lead in challenging circumstances? Are architects up to the task of speaking for those people who lack an effective voice, whether due to infirmity, poverty, or other forms of social injustice? Can those of us in the academy educate

our students to make such leadership the new cool? While Wikipedia highlights examples of cool found in many cultures through history, I first came upon the concept in academic context in the writing of Robert Farris Thompson, a noted African art scholar. He identified cool as a quality present in the Yoruba and Ibo cultures beginning in the 15th century. He has characterized it as a balance of “conciliation and gentleness of character, the ability to defuse fights and disputes, of generosity and grace.”3 Like many Americans during this election season I have thought about qualities of leadership and reflected on three widely considered to be among the world’s most gifted recent leaders, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Thich Nhat Hanh. All three are known as revered activists, working to effect change with grace under extremely adverse circumstances. All three, and many others doing similar work, have managed to fuse leadership and cool. Can architects follow this lead? Our youngest colleagues in AIAS are already doing so. Their Freedom By Design initiative helps disabled people in need of architectural assistance through simple building projects. While the projects may not all be formal masterworks,

the scope of their ambition and their conceptual framework is amazing. Because the projects—ramps, door widenings, and such—are modest, students can accomplish them within busy schedules. The projects simultaneously satisfy their design-build urges and their need to provide service, while giving public evidence that young architects care about those in need. Our students are not waiting for our generation to affirm that what they are doing is cool.

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tions. To what end do we direct this charged form of persuasion? What is the strategic social value of avoiding discussion of physical infirmities or other “unpleasantnesses”?2

Collateral discussions about architectural accreditation reveal an urgent desire to play a leadership role in managing rapidly unfolding global change. While our colleagues in the profession seek to mandate leadership, and our students have begun to exhibit it in their behavior, what role will we play? Will we choose leadership or cool, or both? Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_ %28aesthetic%29, accessed February 13, 2008. The quote references Marcel Danesi, Cool - The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence, University of Toronto Press, 1994 2 Some readers may be unfamiliar with the phrase “the late unpleasantness,” the term some Southerners use to refer to the Civil War, and therefore might not understand my reference. I have always found this term intriguing and believe the concept is applied, though not by name, to a great many things, and not just in the South 3 Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_ %28aesthetic%29, referring to Robert Farris Thompson, especially Flash of the Spirit, Random House 1984. Accessed February 13, 2008. 1

ACSA Joins International Competencies Grant

ACSA President Kim Tanzer traveled to Lima, Peru, for the first multinational meeting, sponsored by a grant from the European Union’s Erasmus Project. She presented interim results of ACSA’s survey, ACSA’s participation in the 2008 Accreditation Review Conference, and NAAB’s efforts to establish a mutual recognition agreement of accrediting systems around the globe. On the third day of the Lima meeting, participants toured Pachacamac, a spiritual center south of Lima that has been in continuous use from 0 BCE until the Spanish occupation.

ACSA members are invited to take the competencies survey by visiting the website, www.acsa-arch.org, and clicking the link on the home page.

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In February, ACSA participated in a meeting of European and Latin American educators to discuss research into student competencies. As reported in the December ACSA News, ACSA is duplicating research by the European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture to measure the relative importance of a list of skills that graduates of preprofessional, professional, and doctoral programs should possess. The research also asks practitioners to rate the importance of certain competencies and the extent to which graduates are perceived to obtain them during education.

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2008 accreditation review conference

CHANGE IS THE NEW STATUS QUO acsa frames six ways to strengthen naab conditions

Following is the main section of the issue paper ACSA published on February 18 for the 2008 National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) Accreditation Review Conference (ARC). It outlines key forces ACSA members say are shaping architectural education and their programs today and in coming years. The paper concludes with six recommendations for action during and after the ARC. Members should download the complete paper from our website, www. acsa-arch.org/naab, or ACSAccred.blogspot.com. The complete version includes proposed changes to NAAB Conditions and Student Performance Criteria as well as background information on the processes through which these issues and recommendations were developed.

The paper is intended for discussion at ACSA schools in the weeks leading up to the ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston. ACSA plans an interactive exhibit and programming on Friday of the meeting where members can discuss these issues. (See timeline below.) Changes to NAAB Conditions and Procedures will affect students graduating from 2010 to 2015 and beyond, and ACSA urges its members to be involved in the discussions.

Read the ACSA paper, as well as those of the other collaterals, and give us your feedback!

ARC TIMELINE December 2006–October 2007—ACSA Topic Groups develop reports on key issues facing ACSA schools in the short and long term. October 2007—ACSA publishes final reports of Topic Groups, solicits feedback at ACSA’s three Fall Conferences. November 2007—ACSA solicits feedback on Topic Group recommendations at Administrators Conference. November–December 2007—ACSA Board of Directors reviews recommendations and feedback, begins to develop final draft report. February 2008—ACSA publishes final draft report, solicits feedback from membership through March 28, 2008. March 2008—ACSA Annual Meeting to feature session on ARC; Annual Business Meeting scheduled as last official forum for input. April 2008—ACSA Board of Directors to make final revisions to ARC report. June 2008—Leaders of five collateral organizations meet to review NAAB’s work on emerging accreditation models and changes to Conditions. July 2008—NAAB board to meet to review final refinements to emerging accreditation models and changes to Conditions. October 22–23, 2008—Accreditation Review Conference scheduled, Tucson, Arizona.

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ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION & ACCREDITATION An ACSA Report for the 2008 Accreditation Review Conference CHANGE IS THE CONTEXT within which the architecture profession approaches this opportunity to revise standards for the education of future architects. The need for change, or more specifically for guidance and grounding amidst change, is not itself new. What is new is how the profession articulates the forces driving change today and more importantly what strategies and methods we use to advance the discipline of architecture through professional education.

tions for evolution of the NAAB Conditions for Accreditation. Two appendices accompany the report, one with specific proposed changes to the Conditions and the other with background material developed to produce this report.

This report is the result of 18 months of discussion within ACSA about architectural education and accreditation. It identifies four key conditions driving change within architectural education, and links these conditions to several challenges and opportunities that architecture programs face on their own and in relation to accreditation. The report concludes with six recommenda-

The Context Today Change Is Global in Scale Architecture programs must respond to a host of rapidly changing global circumstances that affect how graduates understand professional obligations and opportunities. The deterioration of the natural environment, the complexity of economic and social systems, and the fluidity

ACSA asks for comment on the issues and recommendations presented here through Friday, March 28, 2008, the date of ACSA’s Annual Business Meeting in Houston, Texas.

of architectural practice—which is becoming increasingly sensitive to international forces and dependent on specialized knowledge—are among the leading issues that give focus to the global opportunities and challenges facing architecture graduates. Knowledge Is Expanding More than ever, architectural practice takes place within a network of interrelated disciplines. As this network expands, the knowledge needed to practice is becoming simultaneously broader, more specialized, and more diverse in scope. This emerging context translates into a complex, but no less compelling, portrait of an architecture graduate: a creative, responsive, and technically proficient designer, an acute synthesizer of knowledge, and a deft leader and collaborator within a multidisciplinary team.

Design Is in Demand The public has shown a growing interest in recent years in architecture and design. Yet discussions within the architecture profession indicate strong concern over architects playing a diminishing role in the design and construction of the built environment. This apparent paradox prompts the need for renewed perspective on the purposes of architectural education, particularly the extent to which changes foreseen today will be sufficiently planned to adjust to the realities that graduates will face in 5 years, 10 years, and beyond. In this expanded scope, architecture programs face high expectations from multiple stakeholders, but they also face rich opportunities to develop within the context of their own missions and institutions. As presented in the next sections, ACSA welcomes the call for evolution in architectural education and practice. In planning for and implementing change, the ACSA affirms the fundamental sentiments expressed in the Boyer/Mitgang Report: 1. that architecture education programs should be guided by diverse missions informed by an understanding of architecture as a profession that serves society; 2. that professional programs should be evaluated through “standards without standard– ization”; 3. that students should learn in a supportive climate. Accreditation has an important role in this, both in assuring minimum standards and in promoting program development. Professional Education and Core Values Architecture programs find themselves in a context of complex and rapid evolution. ACSA

ACSA programs strive to achieve a vision they develop for themselves, and at each school this vision involves a curriculum and learning environment that far exceeds minimum professional standards. This commitment to a vision of architectural education that is broader than technical proficiency is rooted in the nature of the academy and in the values and ethics of the architecture profession itself. ACSA is advocating for accreditation conditions and procedures that encourage programs to be more responsive to external changes, to be more supportive of faculty development, and to be less prescriptive of the means and methods by which conditions and criteria are met. To achieve this goal, ACSA has articulated the following core values that underlie architectural education within the contemporary context. These values provide an underpinning for educational program missions and curricula, but they also can form a template through which to evaluate programs. The ACSA Board of Directors is confident these values can be affirmed throughout the profession and specifically in the context of accreditation, as discussed in the first recommendation below. Core Values Graduates of professional architecture programs should be able to: 1. Design architecture projects with creativity and technical mastery.. 2. Lead interdisciplinary design projects ethi– cally and collaboratively. 3. Be active stewards of the environment. 4. Think and act critically. Moreover, students of professional architecture programs should have the opportunity to: 5. Work in a nurturing, engaging, and safe environment Minimum Standards and Innovation Given the context of rapid change and schools’ commitments to program development, what role should the accreditation process play in recognizing and encouraging innovation and experimentation in architecture education pro-

grams? This topic is particularly important given calls in recent years for programs to adjust to the rapidly evolving nature of architectural practice. Moreover architecture programs operate within an increasingly competitive environment—contending for resources within the university and vying among themselves for the most promising students. The Role of Accreditation in a Climate of Change The ACSA fully endorses the need for innovation within architectural education and practice. The vitality of the profession and its tradition of design thinking and practice demand this. Innovation is a key component of the work being done at ACSA schools, comprising, among other efforts, new modes of course delivery, multidisciplinary education, and novel programs that emphasize values such as social justice and environmental sustainability.

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members believe that institutional stability and a commitment to program renewal and development are essential to their success in this environment. They further believe that accreditation and program development can play complementary roles, although the obligations that arise from both activities are not the same.

However, the organization also asserts that accreditors should have only a limited role in mandating significant changes in program curricula in response to contemporary trends. The role of accreditation in evaluating and recognizing innovation should be similarly limited. Accreditation ensures that graduates meet minimum standards of preparation for a professional career in architecture. These minimum standards have been developed within NAAB for more than 60 years, periods during which the profession has seen both unprecedented changes and strong veins of tradition. The accreditation process—committed as it is to the laborious, methodical, and objective evaluation of minimal levels of conformity in educational content and outcome—cannot be expected to stay ahead of rapid changes that unfold quickly, unpredictably, and diversely. Instead of accreditation being the impetus for program innovation and change, the competitive environment of architectural education itself has been, and should continue to be, the key motivator. In fact, overly prescriptive accreditation criteria can limit the latitude for innovation within the many different ACSA programs. Shared Responsibilities Changes in global context, in professional context, and in educational context all demand adjustment in architecture as in other professions. Indeed, the ACSA urges greater collaborative (EDUCATION & ACCREDITATION continued on page 6)

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University Demands Are Increasing Over the past two decades universities have largely remade themselves in response to shrinking public funding and increased public and stakeholder scrutiny. They seek resources from a variety of funding sources, including tuition, grants, and private gifts, and are held accountable for their decisions in quantitative terms. Architecture programs are thus doubly challenged to articulate the value of design education to multiple audiences (university leaders, students, funders, and the wider public) and to do so using measures that have not been central to the culture of the discipline.

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leadership regarding innovation by all the collateral organizations, across the full span of architects’ careers. ACSA members are proud to be responsible for students’ formative years, yet collectively we recognize that these constitute but the first 12% of most architects’ professional lives. In today’s context of rapid change, innovation must also be tracked, assessed, and shaped collaboratively across the remaining 88% of our colleagues’ careers. Change must be managed strategically and, most important, collectively. New Metrics and Flexibility ACSA’s professional member programs are accountable to both NAAB and regional or other specialized accreditation standards. In recent years, universities have increasingly had to develop metrics by which to assess quality in their programs. Within this challenging context of increasing accountability, professional programs need the flexibility for experimentation, innovation, and change. ACSA recommends caution in using accreditation standards to respond to rapid change, whether that change resides in education, professional practice, or society. Yet, ACSA also recognizes that the accreditation review process, and in particular the site visit, leads to review of programs’ multiple strengths, innovations, and leadership roles. ACSA schools tout these strengths to prospective students and other constituencies. Thus, as outlined below, ACSA recommends that visiting teams verify the program’s efforts to innovate—particularly those efforts that respond to the competitive marketplace—but not to evaluate or compare them beyond minimum standards.

versities within which our programs exist, the ACSA recommends the following. 1. Categorize Student Performance Criteria Based Upon Core Values Make the current Student Performance Criteria more legible and less a checklist for use by visiting teams, by making the implicit structure of criteria explicit and hierarchical with the core values listed above (see graphic). This will allow for greater discussion in programs of the interconnected set of expectations put on graduates of architecture programs. It will further articulate the close connection between education and practice that underpins NAAB requirements.

2. Strengthen and Differentiate Societal and Environmental Values This recommendation affirms more strongly the profession’s ethical commitments, particularly to the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

To achieve this, revise and increase levels of expectation in Student Performance Criteria, and revise the “NAAB Perspectives” to include separate perspectives on the relationship between the profession and society, and the profession and the natural environment. The NAAB perspectives were previously designed to reflect each of the collateral organizations’ interests. However, in recent years the collaterals have worked to develop shared values that can be articulated through shared perspectives.

3. Strengthen Faculty and Program Development in a Climate of Rapid Change This recommendation reflects the profession’s shared commitment to lifelong learning and universities’ typical requirement that faculty develop in the areas of teaching, research, and service. Architecture programs should show evident support for the development of faculty in their roles as practitioners or as more tradi-

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ACSA Recommendations Architectural accrediting standards identify and define minimum standards in the context of a rapidly changing professional landscape. Professional architecture education programs strive to meet NAAB standards, while at the same time they respond to their own complex institutional contexts, where many demands for institutional citizenship bear little relation to the demands of ultimate professional licensure for students. To continue to advance architectural education in a way that addresses the needs of the profession and that of the uni-

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leaD interDisciplinary Design projects ethically anD collaboratively

Formal Ordering Systems Fundamental Design Skills Use of Precedents Program Preparation Structural Systems Life Safety Building Envelope Systems Building Service Systems 23. Building Systems Integration 24. Building Materials and Assemblies 25. Construction Cost Control 26. Technical Documentation 28. Comprehensive Design

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7. Collaborative Skills 12. Human Behavior 13. Human Diversity 14. Accessibility 27. Client Role in Architecture 29. Architect’s Administrative Roles 30. Architectural Practice 31. Professional Development

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15. Sustainable Design 17. Site Conditions 19. Environmental Systems

1. Speaking and Writing Skills 2. Critical Thinking Skills 3. Graphics Skills 4. Research Skills 8. Western Traditions (combined with 9) 9. Non-Western Traditions (combined with 8) 10. National and Regional Traditions

4. Cultivate Program Innovation and Continuous Improvement This can be done by reviewing and verifying programmatic innovation through the site visit process. Like every sector of global society, architecture programs realize the importance of increased emphasis on and leadership in sustainability, emerging technologies, and global business practices, among other developing trends. Most schools make serious efforts to meet accrediting conditions, but, cognizant of global change, many do much more. Such a verification process would confirm claims made by schools using objective methods such as interviews with students, faculty, university partners, or professional practices; review of student or faculty work; or visits to campus- or community-based facilities. Potentially, in time, a catalog of such verified innovative programs could be shared and might point toward important disciplinary directions. Such an objective process would be intended to independently verify examples of programmatic innovation, not to

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determine whether previous changes in the Conditions have led to sought-after improvements in the architecture profession and the built environment. This recommendation thus affirms the need for schools to develop their curricula through a critical review process, and it underscores the need for the profession as a whole to do a better job critically assessing quality throughout the continuum of education, internship, and professional practice.

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evaluate them or compare them to each other. 5. Strategically Evolve the Existing Conditions with Assessment Models This recommendation extends beyond the current Accreditation Review Conference. It reflects three strong positions found within the ACSA membership through surveys and discussions. • ACSA programs believe that, in this accreditation review cycle, the current NAAB Conditions require evolution, not revolution. They can provide a focus around which programs can evolve and improve to adapt to the shifting realities facing graduates, interns, and practitioners today. Moreover, rapid changes in accreditation standards would not match the prospects for radical curriculum change within universities, where professional curricula are intertwined with other university education requirements. • NAAB-mandated changes must be accompanied by well-developed methods for visiting teams and schools alike to assess whether such changes increase the quality of educational content and student outcomes. • The accreditation process itself must undergo an assessment process to determine its effectiveness in evaluating quality in curricula and in student outcomes, and to

6. Establish the Commitment to Lifelong Learning. Many of today’s most vexing problems did not exist as recently as the previous NAAB Validation Conference in 2003, so changing accrediting standards to respond to them would have been literally impossible. Moreover, relying on accreditation to effect change leaves firms waiting for graduates to develop through internship. A broader effort is needed to support colleagues working at all levels in the profession. Working together, the five collateral organizations provide the best means to discuss and develop resources of knowledge and best practices to share with students, interns, associates, and partners in firms globally.

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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tional academic researchers. This can be evaluated in particular through the NAAB Conditions addressing the academic context (3.1.1) and human resource development (3.6).

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Emerging Trends in Practice, Society Form Key Issues for Collaterals Integrated project delivery, sustainability, leadership and collaboration, and strengthening the continuum of architecture education and practice continue to be top issues for the four architecture collateral organizations, as they continue to prepare and publish materials to inform the the 2008 National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) Accreditation Review Conference. Here is a quick look at their progress to date.

NAAB Task Forces Hand off Work to Two Groups

NAAB’s 2008 President Bruce E. Blackmer explains the ARC as a design process, with various constituencies within and around NAAB involved in planning, programming, schematic design, design development, and construction documents phases.

The NAAB task forces were populated with sitting NAAB members and senior staff as well as people selected from rosters of 12–15 nominees named by each of the four collaterals (ACSA’s appointees can be found on our NAAB ARC page, www.acsa-arch.org/naab).

As spring blooms into March, the ARC moves to the schematic design phase, following work by five NAAB task forces, formed in fall 2007 to undertake the work of gathering issues and trends to inform the next phases. These five task forces delivered reports to the NAAB board and more specifically to the two remaining task forces charged with taking the next steps in the ARC by developing “emerging accreditation models” and considering edits to the existing NAAB Conditions and Student Performance Criteria.

Wayne Drummond, NAAB’s 2007 president and an ACSA appointee, not to mention ACSA past president, serves as chair of the Emerging Accreditation Model task force, while Thomas Fowler, IV, 2008 NAAB secretary and an ACSA appointee and previous ACSA secretary, will chair the task force focused on Evolution of Conditions and Student Performance Criteria. These two groups will initiate the schematic design work described by Blackmer.

NAAB Task Force Callout for Issues and Trends • International/ Global Trends • Trends in Accreditation • Trends in Education • Trends in Regulation • Trends in the Professions • Evolution of Conditions and Student Performance Criteria (still active) • Emerging Accreditation Model (still active)

Schematic design within NAAB continues through the spring and up to NAAB’s July board meeting, where work to define a working accreditation model to be considered in the early fall and up to the October 22–23, 2008, Accreditation Review Conference in Tucson, Arizona.

NAAB task forces to date. Six representatives from each collateral, plus a slate of additinoal invited guests will participate in what Blackmer calls a crit session. ACSA President Kim Tanzer thinks the opportunity for an interim look at the “design” work should prove productive. “In reviewing the ARC process last fall, the collateral leaders agreed that we would all be best served if discussions among our organizations and other stakeholders in the accreditation process could happen before the actual October 2008 meeting,” Tanzer said. “There is general agreement about the importance of many key issues facing architectural education. But we all would benefit from more opportunities to gauge where we can agree on meaningful changes in accreditation requirements.” Information on NAAB’s efforts, including a forum in which to post comments on their process, is available at NAAB’s newly redesigned website, www.naab.org.

It reaches a key point for input in the first week of June, when the five collaterals will organize a two day meeting to discuss the work of the two

AIA White Paper, Conference Book, and More Challenge Schools to Advance

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The AIA’s white paper for the ARC delivered a broad message that accreditation standards needed radical change in light of increasing demands for high performance buildings, integrated design and project delivery methods, a more diverse and inclusive profession, and a higher percentage of graduates with internship and leadership experience. The paper (available at www.aia.org) pointedly avoids specific recommendations for educational curricula or accreditation standards in favor of what reads as a cold-eyed look at the challenges facing architects in today’s industry climate. Sections on sustainability and

integrated project delivery urge educators and practitioners to push themselves to develop their expertise and knowledge to address both societal needs and competing market demands. Other sections on leadership skills and gender and ethnic diversity in the profession prompt schools and the profession to find ways to put graduates and the profession in the best position to succeed in a 21st century global economy. In February AIA and ACSA also published the proceedings from their Cranbrook 2007 joint conference—a document intended to spark discussions about what must change in edu-

cation broadly and accreditation narrowly. The conference, titled Integrated Practice and the Twenty-first Century Curriculum, set 130 people exploring “the impact of virtual construction and related integrated project delivery methods on the professional curriculum in architecture.” The resulting discussions and proposals documented in the proceedings provide further fare to digest when considering possibilities for changes to accreditation standards. (Copies of the proceedings were sent in February to ACSA faculty councilors for distribution within each school’s faculty. Contact Kevin Mitchell, kmitchell@acsa-arch.org, if you wish to receive a copy directly.)

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NCARB Position Paper Cites Deficiencies in Education

Intoning that “the NAAB, the architecture profession, and the academy must be ready to implement important changes,” the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) presented a five-point list of “essential” ARC topics as well as some provocative recommendations for NAAB requirements in its January 2008 Position Paper (available at www. ncarb.org/forms/ARCpositionpaper.pdf).

Miller, University of Utah, and then revised and approved by the NCARB Board of Directors in January before its publication. ACSA’s Northeast Director, Stephen White, Roger Williams University, served as ACSA’s observer on the Education Committee. ACSA’s Student Director, Tony Vanky, also served on the committee as the American Institute Architecture Students observer.

Among the key topics affecting education and practice are: • Incorporation of professional knowledge, skills, and tasks required during education. • The increased integration of education, internship, and practice. • Leadership in the building industry. • Sustainability and stewardship of the natural and built environment. • Globalization, accreditation, and registration.

One of the report’s key recommendations is that 12 areas identified in NCARB’s recently published 2007 Practice Analysis are deficiencies in architectural education that must be addressed through accreditation (available at ncarb.org/ forms/2007NCARBpracticeanalysis.pdf).

The recommendations made in the 10-page report include “[requiring] teaching pedagogies that provide a foundation in and understanding of integrated design and practice” and requiring students to enroll in NCARB’s Intern Development Program (IDP) after certain points of their education. The report was prepared by the NCARB Education Committee, chaired in 2007-08 by William C.

The 2007 Practice Analysis—which reports results from NCARB’s survey research to validate content in its Architect Registration Examination and, new for 2007, IDP—identified 17 areas of knowledge or skill that recently licensed practitioners learned after licensure. Because these areas were deemed important for a recently licensed architect practicing independently, the NCARB Board of Directors dubbed them “deficiencies” in the ARC position paper. More specifically, the ARC position paper states “the NCARB Board of Directors has determined that 12 of these deficiencies must be addressed during education,” rather than internship.

The 12 areas cited include: • project financing and funding. • project budget management • construction conflict resolution. • legal and ethical issues pertaining to contracts • legal and ethical issues pertaining to practice (liens, taxation, licensure); • business planning • strategic planning • financial management • risk management (e.g., professional and general liability); • marketing and communications; and • contract negotiations (e.g., fees, scope, schedules) • entrepreneurship. The jump from the information presented in the Practice Analysis to the judgment and recommendation about deficiencies in the ARC position paper caught members of the ACSA board by surprise. “The Practice Analysis does not conclude that these are deficiencies in education. The NCARB board made that leap.” said Kim Tanzer, ACSA president. “These are 12 of the 17 areas of knowledge or skill that a recently licensed architect learns after licensure. The community needs to have more conversation about shared responsibility.”

At press time, the American Institute of Architects was continuing its work soliciting and vetting member and stakeholder opinions for the ARC. For the 2008 ARC AIAS has broadened its focus beyond studio culture, where it was previously successful in 2003 in having a Condition added measuring schools’ studio culture policies and implementation. According to their website, www.aias.org, they are crafting their ARC discussions around a publication, “Focus 2020: Imagining the Future Design Professional.” They are developing a survey and statement on 10 key opportunities for innovation in architectural education, seeking borad input on the changing nature of the design professional in contemporary society, and spearheading a studio culture review initiative, in which AIAS will review progress and feedback on five years’ worth of program studio culture policy development and use to date.

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

host school

University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture

Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown

co-chairs 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. 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?

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 Recipient Charles Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Topaz Presentation

Stanley Tigerman Tigerman McCurry Architects 2008 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion Recipient

PAN AMERICAN REUNION OF SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE*

Pre-Conference Schedule TUESDAY, 25 March 2008 1:00pm – 6:00pm

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

Registration desk open at Doubletree Hotel Downtown

6:00pm – 8:00pm OPENING SESSION

Topics of discussion will include the future of architectural education, hemispheric cooperation, accreditation mechanisms, and professional reciprocity. 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. For more information please visit: www.acsa-arch.org *Separate registration required

Welcome, Kim Tanzer, ACSA President, pre-conference co-chairs, and Carlos Morales, ISTHMUS Keynote Speaker, Lars Lerup, Rice University Welcome Reception

WEDNESDAY, 26 March 2008 9:30am – 11:00

Moderator: Geraldine Forbes, University of New Mexico Sharon Matthews, Former NAAB Exec. Dir., Hector García Escorza, COMAEA, Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Ball State University

11:30am – 1:00pm

SESSION 2 / Hemispheric Cooperation: Exchanges and Research

Moderator: José Luis Cortés, Universidad Iberoamericana David Covo, McGill University, Carlos Morales, ISTHMUS, Martha Kohen, University of Florida, Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota

2:30pm – 4:00pm

SESSION 3 / The Future of Architectural Education: Opportunities and Change Moderator: Rafael Longoria, University of Houston Michaele Pride, University of Cincinnati, Alberto Pérez Gómez, McGill University, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta, Universidad Anahuac

5:30pm – 7:30pm CLOSING SESSION

Keynote Speaker, Carlos Jimenez, Rice University Reception, open to all Annual Meeting participants

annual meeting tours This half day tour will explore the diversified complex of public and private facilities that have been instrumental in Houston’s development as a center of international trade.

GALVESTON, TEXAS

In the Historic District Galveston’s rich architectural heritage is worth a closer observation. This tour, led by Dwayne Jones, Executive Director of the Galveston Historical Foundation, will be a close up view of the work of local prominent architects Nicholas Clayton, Alfred Muller, Nathaniel Toby, George Stowe, Donald McKenzie, and Charles Bulger. The principal focus will be residential work from 1870 to 1930 in the East End Historic District. Guests may tour several properties to experience more fully the density and character of Galveston’s historic buildings. Wear comfortable walking shoes.

NEW TOUR

MENIL HOUSE

A tour of the family home of John and Dominique de Menil, designed by Philip Johnson in 1951, will afford us a glimpse of the history behind the founders of the Menil Foundation and the rich cultural and intellectual impact they had on Houston. The International Style house has been called “the dna” of the menil collection art museum, and for half a century was the nexus of the de menils’ pioneering advocacy of modernism and humanitarianism.

SESSION 1 / International Accreditation: Global Practice and Immigration

FRIDAY MENIL COLLECTION & CY TWOMBLY GALLERY

The Menil Collection, designed by Renzo Piano and located in the Houston Museum District, houses the splendid collection of John and Dominique de Menil. The museum building is the centerpiece of a residential ‘campus’ setting that also incluces sculpture park, the Cy Twombly Gallery (also designed by Renzo Piano), and Richmond Hall (site of Dan Flavin fluorescent light installations). Both The Menil and THE CY Twombly Gallery are renowned for their roofing systems that modulate the Texas sun and bathe the galleries in soft natural light.

DOWNTOWN HOUSTON

The headquarters of many prominent companies, major performingart facilities, the Historical District, and a diverse collection of high-rises are all located here.

PAINTING WITH PIGMENT AND LIGHT: FOUR 20TH-CENTURY SANCTUARIES

Visit four modern sanctuaries, completed between 1971 and 2002. Though each sanctuary is architecturally unique, all incorporate skylights that enhance the meditative experience of the space. Significant works of art are integral to each chapel as well, particularly at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel-Museum, designed by François de Menil to shelter two 13th-century Cypriot frescoes, restored by the Menil Foundation. As its name suggests, the Rothko Chapel, designed by Philip Johnson, houses an installation of paintings by the artist; the Quaker Meeting House, designed by Houston architect Leslie Elkins, incorporates a piece by James Turrell; and St. Basil is Philip Johnson’s architectural transformation of a painting by the Russian Suprematist painter, Kasimir Malevich.

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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.

THURSDAY HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL & HARBOR

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SATURDAY UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CAMPUS TOUR

The University of Houston is an urban research university housed in a sprawling park like campus near downtown Houston. On Saturday Architecture lecturer Stephen James leads a tour that will examine the history of the campus and the challenges the university faces as it implements a new master plan that will transform it from commuter school to residential campus.

RICE UNIVERSITY

Explore buildings by, Cram & Ferguson, Howard Barnstone, Eugen Aubry, Jamas Stirling & Michael Wilford, Cesar Pelli, Robert A. M. Stern, and Michael Graves.

ART DECO LIGHTRAIL

Celeste Williams, recipient of RDA’s 2000 Initiatives for Houston grant, designed this self-guided tour after her extensive research into cataloguing Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in Houston. There are many fine examples of these buildings along the new METRORail line, the penultimate being the original Gulf Building, now the JP Morgan Chase Bank building. The tour will end here with a brief talk by Celeste.

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Session 1 and Session 2

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Beyond Blade Runner Fiction and Reality: Visions of Urbanity in Popular Arts - Film, TV, Comics Building Skins

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Branding and the Built Environment Cities, Public Spaces, and Social Imaginary City and Nature Emerging Pedagogy: New Approaches to Architecture and Design Education

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Session 1 and Session 2

Seeing Through Allied Eyes and Matter Makes Meaning

GIS and the Design Disciplines 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 On Drawing Place and the Non-Place Realm Rapid Shelter: Prototypes and Experiments Past, Present, Future Sustainability - On the Urban Scale

Sustainable Housing and International Best Practices

• Sustainable Design and Beyond • The Design of MAKING

Session 1 and Session 2

• The End of Architectural History and Reports of Its Demise • The Politics of Space

Formations of Democracy and Building and Meaning

• Visionary Education for Tomorrow

Thursday Meeting of Building Technology Educators Society

Learn more about the emerging Building Technology Educators Society and share ideas about future activities. The session includes a report from the organizing committee on progress to date to formalize the organization, an opportunity for all current members and interested educators and others, to share in developing our vision, and a discussion of plans for the 2009 Building Technology Educators Symposium.

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.

ACSA Business Meeting

All are encouraged to attend the ACSA Business Meeting. Find out what the ACSA Board of Directors and Committees are working towards in shaping architecture education.

NCARB from IDP to Certification AIA 150 Blueprint for America: Town and Gown Collaborations 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the modern American Institute of Architects. In celebration thereof, the Institute set about three initiatives, including the Blueprint for America, whose aim is to demonstrate the value of design and professional service for the benefit of local communities. To date, over 100 AIA components have engaged in community-driven planning and improvement projects across the nation. Many of these projects feature collaborations between AIA chapters and schools of architecture. The projects presented in this session represent the best of these, as they fulfill the promise of both town-gown cooperation and the AIA 150 BFA Program.

Architectural Research Centers Consortium: Is the Academy Ready?

This session focuses on the pedagogical and academic dimensions of “Integrated Practice”. This intriguing national curricular issue will be discussed through the framework of the following questions: What are the innovative coursemodels that are successfully meeting the challenge of “Integrated Practice”? How should schools introduce this new subject matter and related practice-based design tools and technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM)? What are the research dimensions of integrated practice? Are there inherent sustainability efficiencies and advantages built into the understanding of this process? A distinguished panel of educators and practitioners will discuss these questions and present their insights and experiences. Best practices among schools and architectural firms pioneering this concept will be explored.

Constructing Houston: Culture and the Built Environment Founded by land speculators in 1836, immediately after Texas was separated from Mexico, Houston is now the fourth largest city in the United States. This panel will provide a variety of perspectives on the culture and built environment of this elusive city that straddles the border between the old South and the new West.

KEYNOTE LECTURE Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen Opening Reception Rice University

Architectural Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Three topics will be discusses, (1) Interaction between the Academy and Practice; (2) The role and Impact of Research on Architectural Education; and (3) The Interface between the Academy and the Public Realm.

Establishing and Maintaining a Tau Sigma Delta Chapter Workshop

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.

Women’s Leadership Council NEW TIME

• Architecture Among Disaster • Architecture in the Humanities: Literature, Film, Theater, And Art

Additional Events

NEW SESSION

Paper Sessions

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.

Faculty Design AwardS

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

Journal of Architectural Education (JAE): Alternative Practices

Presentation topics and a panel discussion will range from architecture as activism to material-based explorations. Submissions prompted by the session will be published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education.

The End of Architecture Revisited

Speculating about the end of something is almost as common as dreaming up new beginnings. Nothing lasts forever: One thing gives way to another, or disappears like a creature lost to natural selection, or becomes so radically altered that it is no longer recognizable by its old name and definition. What then is left? Politicians, technocrats, developers, bankers, and builders are in control. Reactionary trends grow more popular; architecture has distanced itself from the real problems of a world culture and the mega- urban environment. Except for a cadre of “Starchitects,” rock star like luminaries of the profession, architecture is retreating from public consciousness. And the proliferation of entertainment culture and the virtual world has nudged architecture further into the background. This panel will explore the mission and definition of the architecture profession in the future.

Accreditation Review Conference Tau Sigma Delta Members Meeting ACSA Awards Ceremony

Affordable Housing Education

The ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award is granted jointly by the ACSA & the AIA, Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Committee to recognize the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities. This session includes presentations from award-winners this year, in two categories—as well as a summary of the results of the ACSA Affordable Housing Education Survey.

PRACTICE ACADEMY

The practice academy is a new partnership among the AIA, the architectural academy, and architecture firms to provide a framework for a rigorous internship for students and architectural interns. The Boston Architectural Coll., U. of Cincinnati and Iowa State U. will demonstrate successful ways that firms and schools can join forces in supporting emerging professionals and will highlight challenges they have learned from in the first two years of the pilot program.

Collaborative Practice Award

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

Pathogenesis and the Urban Laboratory

What if we were to listen to Reyner Banham’s alternative manifesto that the city is very much a scrambled egg, or the situationists critique that the city has collapsed into streams of images sanctioned by business and bureaucracy, or Paul Virilio’s assessment that speed, ubiquity, instantaneousness dissolve the city and displace it in time, or that Houston is really a high stakes Monopoly board game as Reyner Banham suggested, or Baudrillard’s assertion that the technological city is little more than a gigantic circulating, ventilating and ephemeral connecting space where the scene and the mirror have given way to the screen and the network?

NEW SESSION

Failing Often Failing Early

Field Notes from Explorations in BIM, IP and Collaborative Practices in Architectural Education. What is being done to prepare our students to shape the future of architectural education in light of shifting common practices in the profession? Collaborative interdisciplinary ways of working, virtual rehearsal of construction and integrated project delivery techniques (such as BIM and CAD/CAM) are too-often unaccounted for in architectural curricula. Join this working session reviewing our “field notes” of trends, shared goals and techniques of architectural coursework that explores cutting edge practices. A preconference call for syllabi forms the basis of this session but participants are encourage to bring their own course work and contribute to the discussion of model curricula.

NAAB APR Training Poster Sessions KEYNOTE LECTURE Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro Host School Reception University of Houston

The introduction to the IDP students get from their Pro Practice class is the foundation from which they spring forward to pursue licensure after graduation. In this session, attendees will learn how to set up comprehensive IDP curriculum for their pro practice classes; see how their current curriculum matches up to that of other schools; and be introduced to best practices in teaching about IDP. Attendees will leave with a plan for how to effectively teach IDP in their own Pro Practice classes.

Architectural Excellence through Diversity

“Decisions are made by those who show up.” So goes the well-known phrase, equally applicable in formal and informal political circumstances. But volunteering to participate is only the first step, especially in academic contexts. Along the way many thresholds—admissions to schools, firms’ hiring patterns, schools’ tenure and promotion habits, informal invitations made through collegial networks—have tended to discourage or exclude some members of our highly diverse community. This panel, comprised of academic gatekeepers, will discuss ways to promote architectural excellence through diversity.

From Canvas to Communities

This session will discuss the role of artists and architects in community development and preservation, as exemplified by ongoing initiatives in three Houston communities—Freedman’s Town, the Fifth Ward, and Project Row Houses—all of whom are caught in a redevelopment struggle with development and gentrification. Are artists and architects merely unwitting agents of unwanted change? How/can design and the creative spirit really make a difference?

ACSA is grateful for the support and assistance from the following sponsors:

Host School

University of Houston

reception Rice University

Keynote Lecture Tau Sigma Delta

Topaz Luncheon American Institute of Architects

Poster Printing

translation: from understanding to misreading and back again

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The AASL will hold its Annual Meeting in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Meeting. AASL meeting sessions will address aspects of architecture librarianship including instruction and special collections.

Sunday TEACHING IDP IN YOUR PRO PRACTICE CLASS: CURRICULUM THAT WORKS

Teaching requires one to translate their experiences into models and lessons for their students. This is particularly true for beginning design students, for whom broad concepts and complex methods must be translated into more simple terms to ease understanding and acquisition. Though a selection of papers presented at the 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this session will explore aspects of translation related to curriculum, pedagogy, and process in the teaching of beginning design.

NOW available at: www.acsa-arch.org/ conferences A complete list of Paper & Poster Authors, Panelists, & Moderators Continued Schedule Updates NEW Downloadable Abstract Book and Proceedings

hotel Doubletree Houston Downtown 400 Dallas Street, Houston, Texas 77002 Tel: 713.759.0202 | www.doubletree.com Rate: Single/Double – US $145

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Schedule by track

thursday

technology & sustainability 9:30 - 11:30

Building Technology Educators Society

12:00-2:00

2:30-4:30

The 96th ACSA Annual Meeting schedule has been outlined using a framework of five general tracks. These tracks 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.

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 5:30-7:30

sENNETT/sASSEN lECTURE

7:30-10:30

Regional Caucus Breakfast & ACSA Business Meeting

11:00-1:00

friday

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Seeing Through Allied Eyes

PS: The Design of Making

PS: Mobility & Architecture

PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: Sustainable Housing

PS: City & Nature

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

PS: The Politics of Space: Formations of Democracy

SFS: Architectural Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Tau Sigma Delta Workshop

SFS: The End of Architecture Revisited

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Matter Makes Meaning

SFS: JAE Alternative Practices

Faculty Design 2:30-4:30

Partners

Faculty Design

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Council

SFS: Accreditation Review Conference Tau Sigma Delta Members Meeting

5:30-7:30 8:00-10:00

ACSA Awards Ceremony PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: International Best Practices

SFS Affordable Housing Education

Collaborative Practice

PS: On Drawing

PS: Rapid Shelter

PS: Visionary Education for Tomorrow

saturday

PS: Southeast Regional 10:30-12:30

PS: Building Skins: Session 1

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

Writing Workshop

PS: Central Regional 2:00-4:00

PS: Building Skins: Session 2

SFS: Pathogenesis & the Urban Laboratory

PS: Architecture in the Humanities: Session 2

Failing Often Failing Early

NAAB APR Training

PS: Southwest Regional 5:00-8:30

sunday

8:00-10:00

Practice Academy

poster sessions & Diller/Renfro Lecture PS: Sustainable Design & Beyond

PS: Networked Urbanism

PS: The Politics of Space: Building & Meanings

PS: The End of Architectural History

Teaching IDP in your Pro Practice Class

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

SFS: Technology

PS: Place & the Non Place Realm

PS: Beyond Blade Runner Fiction & Reality PS: Branding & the Built Environment SFS: Architectural Excellence through Diversity

SFS: translation: from understanding to misreading & back again

PS: Paper Session

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TOURS (Circle all that apply) Ship Channel and Harbor (Thursday)

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Galveston, Texas (Thursday)

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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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inquiry, reflective

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.

The themes around which will be organized are as follows:

Deep

Matters

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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Call for Papers coming in April 2008!

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.

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) 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.

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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/).

ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURES | ALTERNATIVE PRACTICE Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions Theme Editors: Lori Ryker, Executive Director, Artemis Institute Michael Flowers and Judson Moore, farm architecture and research

These new and emerging practices are valuable because they recognize the need to respond to the actualized world, in all its complexities, in a more nuanced manner than is typically offered within the strictures of conventional practice. They most often evolve from observing, interpreting, gauging, and re-tooling new and interconnected conditions within the context of the established parameters of environment, society, economy, geo-political conditions, traditional and emerging technologies, and materiality. Choosing not to limit explorations and responses to conventional spatial tectonics or institutional dynamics, the work produced under the broad heading of “alternative” may be altogether unique and/or seemingly unprecedented explorations – virtual or physical – crossing and integrating disciplinary and technological boundaries.

The loosely associated practitioners of alternative practices cast their conceptions broadly across evolving realities, producing elaborative discourses, programmatic mutations, material operations, ephemeral environments, metaphysical proclivities, reconfigured assumptions of place, and the virtual unfolding of the perceptible world. Often, this work goes unrecognized as it is defies simple categorization. It is not effaced by accepted disciplinary boundaries and consequently, the work is typically not represented in conventional architectural publications. Yet the evolution of conventions, norms, and the diminution of disciplinary boundaries are precisely the conditions that these practices take up and encourage. For them, the complex reality of contemporary cultures is not a problem to be solved, but rather an opportunity to explore transformative assumptions and perceptions of architectural production.

The theme editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) submissions that critically consider the myriad practices that engage in such alternative notions of architecture. Deadline for all submissions is 5 pm EST, September 01, 2008.

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The development of the architect-practitioner has long been recognized as an elaborative and continuous course of study. For a majority of practitioners the formal foundation of professional architectural practice, as taught in most schools, often sets the trajectory for their work as practitioners supported by professional organizations. Yet many who received the same formal education develop “alternative practices” outside the received conventions or boundaries of the profession. These alternative practices are not intentionally oppositional to convention, but rather practical evolutions.

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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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CONCRETE

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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.

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The Architecture Program announces the hiring of Vera Parlac as a Studio Instructor and Lecturer in Materials and Methods. Last July, Professor Loraine Fowlow was appointed as Interim Dean for a 2 year term, and Professor John Brown was named Associate Dean (Research). Our Architecture Program Director, Marc Boutin, and his firm Marc Boutin Architect, participated in the 2007 Sao Paolo Biennale, and the design work of the firm has been recognized by two Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, and two Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Mayor’s Urban Design Awards. Professor Jim Love was named Chair in Sustainable Building Technologies. He did the energy engineering for the University of Calgary’s 120,000 square foot Child Development Centre, which was certified LEED platinum in October. In November, the Canadian Solar Industries Association selected the Centre as “Photovoltaic Project of the Year.” The building is equipped with an extensive array of sensors and is being used for graduate thesis research. Associate Professor Catherine Hamel published the chapter, “Drawing Lines of Confrontation,” in a collection from Routledge entitled From Models to Drawings.

Parti models from Ron Choe, “Architecture in Progress: A Catalyst for Experience” (University of Calgary, Master’s Degree Project, 2007). Winner of Canadian Architect Award for best graduating design work in a Canadian school. Courtesy of Ron Choe.

Associate Professor Graham Livesey was elected to a two year term as ACSA Treasurer beginning July 1, 2007. Ron Choe, a 2007 graduate of our program, has been awarded the 2007 Canadian Architect Award for graduating design work for his thesis entitled “Architecture in Progress: A Catalyst for Experience. “ Moreover, in the most recent statistics comparing schools in North America, our graduates ranked exceptionally well on the ARE exams, registering a 100% pass rate in six of the nine exam categories. Visiting Lecturers for the Architecture Program’s annual Somerville Design Charrette and Gillmor Theory Seminar were, respectively, the Dutch architect Koen van Velsen, and Professor Setha Low from the Environmental Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. University of California, Berkeley Lisa Iwamoto was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She and her partner, Craig Scott, gave the Michael Owen Jones Endowed Lecture at University of Virginia last fall, with an accompanying exhibition. Iwamoto also lectured on their work at Cairo University. IwamotoScott’s work was included in a number of

exhibitions: Exceptional Houses” at the Architecture Centre, Czech Republic; “Open House” at the Center for Contemporary Art, Poland; “CCA at 100” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and “A Model Building” at the Palo Alto Art Center. IwamotoScott’s work was published in journals in the U.S, Korea, Australia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Italy during the fall of 2007. Lisa Iwamoto will be lecturing on the work of her firm IwamotoScott Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and Virginia Tech (March 12). Iwamoto and her partner Craig Scott also speak at the Alaska Design Forum in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska, in February. Raveevarn Choksombatchai lectures at New York’s Center for Architecture on February 21, in a talk titled “/Grey Matters.”/ Galen Cranz lectures March 31 in Atlanta, Georgia at the 7th annual parks and greenspace conference “Park Pride.” A book of photographs by Jean-Paul Bourdier, titled Bodyscapes and including a DVD by Trinh Minh-Ha, was published by Earth Aware in 2007. Professor Rene Davids and his partner Christine Killory edited a new book: Details in Con(WEST continued on page 24)

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The Architecture Program announces the appointment of Branko Kolarevic as the Haworth Chair in Integrated Design. This research chair is externally endowed by Haworth, one of the largest manufacturers of architectural interior products. At the ACADIA 2007 Conference in Halifax, Kolarevic was awarded the 2007 ACADIA Award in Innovative Research. Kolarevic was one of the invited speakers at the 2007 “Innovation” conference in New York, organized by Architectural Record magazine. He was also a keynote speaker at the SIGRADI conference in Mexico City. His book, Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, originally published in 2003, is now in third printing.

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High strength to weight recycled panels from 100% waste fibers. Photo credit: Julee Herdt, University of Colorado

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temporary Architecture (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). Professor Renee Chow spoke at the opening forum for the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale in Architecture and Urbanism. Her work remains on display at a related exhibition until March. Galen Cranz held a visiting appointment at Kolding Design School in Denmark, lecturing at Arhus, Kolding, and Copenhagen in October, 2007. Cranz has a chapter in the new book, Designing for Designers edited by Jack Naser, et al (Fairfield Press).

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Dean Harrison S. Fraker, Jr. spoke at the Commonwealth Club in December 2007 on how to create modern, sustainable neighborhoods, China and the landmark Treasure Island Master Plan. A podcast of the event, called “Creating 21st Century Sustainable Neighborhoods,” is online at http://fora.tv/2007/12/10/Creating_ 21st-Century_Sustainable_Neighborhoods. Yehuda Kalay co-edited New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, (London: Routledge, 2007) with Thomas Kvan and Janice Afleck.

The Center for the Built Environment recently named three recipients for its first-ever Livable Buildings Awards: The Global Ecology Research Center at Stanford University (Architect: EHDD Architecture), De Anza College’s Kirsch Center (Executive Architect: VBN Architects,Design Architect: Van der Ryn Architects), and the Philip Merrill Environmental Center is home to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Architect: SmithGroup, Inc.). More on these awards can be found at http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/livablebuildings/index.htm. University of Colorado Julee Herdt, architect, and professor, at the University of Colorado (CU), has received a State of Colorado, Advanced Technology Fund Research Grant in the amount of $245,000 for her project entitled: “Diverting Solid Waste into High Performance, Environmental Building Products.” The work will focus on broad issues of sustainability and green design by demonstrating technical and economic feasibility of turning solid waste into environmentallysound, economically-viable, high performance building materials and specifically, “BioSIPs”, a biobased structural insulated panel system which Herdt patented at CU and has applied in award-winning building applications.

Herdt’s State of Colorado grant project will include BioSIP finite modeling of structural, thermal, and systems connector performance characteristics; physical fabrication of a range of BioSIP panel types; and architectural design and construction of a solar powered BioSIP case study structure. The work will also include volumetric quantification of post-consumer solid waste to be diverted from Colorado’s waste stream into value-added BioSIP building products; and, next step pre-commercialization and business planning by Herdt’s architecture and development firm, The Architecture Plant in collaboration with CU’s Business School and a consortium of private investors. Julee Herdt and student researcher, CU M.Arch candidate, Kellen Schauermann (co-inventor with Herdt on recent generation BioSIPs) will work with the State of Colorado to transform solid waste into clean business growth, jobs, and sustainable products for a healthier environment and economy. The work also builds on Herdt’s collaboration with the U.S. Department of Housing (HUD) Partnerships for Advancing Technologies in Housing (PATH). Herdt began her environmental building materials research while pursuing an M.Arch at SCIArc in 1988.

Clemson University The School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine. Her area of primary responsibility is teaching design with a special focus on sustainability. Prior to coming to Clemson, she worked as a practicing architect and spent three years teaching Design, Construction and Energy Responsible Planning at the Technical University Berlin (Germany). Tuskegee University This year, the theme of Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture Spring Lecture Series is “Cast Down Your Buckets”, a quote that recalls a quote in Booker T. Washington’s legendary 1895 speech which later came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise Speech given before the Cotton States and the attendees of the International Exposition in Atlanta. As the speech so well spoke of finding resources among our available assets, so did the opening lectures by the Department’s newly appointed Associate Dean, Dr. Richard Dozier, AIA, on January 16th and guest presentation by Stanford Britt, FAIA, on February 6th. Through funds from a Getty Foundation Grant, Tuskegee’s Department of Architecture is also gearing up for a Colloquium and Charrette on Historic Campus Planning held on the university’s hallowed grounds on April 14th. The colloquium’s keynote speakers are Phil Freelon, FAIA and Harvey Gantt, FAIA. A “Call for Papers” has been issued and the deadline for full paper submissions is March 14th. For more information on the colloquium contact Asst. Professor, Margôt Stephenson-Threatt. at 205240-3771 or by e-mail at margot@Tuskegee.Edu or margotst121@yahoo.com. University of Florida ARC director Martha Kohen served as a doctoral jury member in France at Universite de Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle IHEAL/Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amerique Latine on December 3rd and chaired a Diploma (TDPLG) jury at Ecole d’architecture de Paris la Villette on December 19th.

“Education Facility Security Handbook,” coauthored by University of Florida School of Architecture associate professor Michael Kuenstle, AIA and Don Philpott of Reuters and the Homeland Defense Journal, has been published by Government Institutes, Scarecrow Press, Inc. The book provides design guidance for architects, engineers, facilities planners and school administrators with a twofold approach to creating a safe environment for schools. The first part of the book addresses how to design and build a safe school and includes a section on safe school building design research with contributions by School of Architecture associate professor Nancy Clark and Urban and Regional Planning professor Richard Schneider PhD, AICP. The second part of the book shifts from physical infrastructure to inhabitants with a discussion of various policies and practices implemented to reduce crime and violence in schools. The book was featured as Government Institutes book of the month for October 2007. This project and subsequent book publication builds on Prof. Kuenstle’s funded research accomplished with the publication of the “Florida Building Code Handbook for New Educational Facilities Construction (2004)” developed in collaboration with Prof. Clark and the publication of the “Florida Safe School Design Guidelines (2002)” developed in collaboration with Prof. Clark and Prof. Schneider. For additional information contact Associate Prof. Michael Kuenstle, AIA at 352-392-0205 (ext. 217) or 352- 376-1977. e-mail: kuenstle@ ufl.edu

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Assistant Professors , B. D. Wortham, Isaac Williams, Michael Ambrose, and Angel Nieves, along with Dean Garth Rockcastle and Shop Steward Tom Swift (with the help of some 20 Maryland architecture students) won the IBM Innovations in Technology Award for their proposal for the Washington DC, Future of the City Competition. Their work, along with the other winners from this competition in DC, Atlanta and San Francisco will be featured as part of the History Channel’s program series on cities this spring. Distinguished University Professor, Richard Etlin has been appointed Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religious Architecture of the World, a multivolume project that will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.

University of Maryland The School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation received a gift of $3,000,000 from John and Karen Colvin to establish The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development. The Colvin Institute will be the home of the School’s new Master of Real Estate Development program. Associate Professor Brian Kelly is taking a leave of absence from his position as Director of the Architecture Program to work on a campus planning project. Associate Professor Madlen Simon has agreed to serve as the Interim Director of the Architecture Program.

Last fall semester, University of Maryland architecture students in the Advanced Technology class led by Assistant Professor Deborah Oakley and Associate Professor Carl Bovill swept the field in the first international Tilt-Up Concrete Association competition. A co-requisite class with the graduate level comprehensive studio, the project was undertaken as a semester warmup. In a blind independent review process, the students captured first, second and third places in the competition from a field of nearly 60 entrants, and several students also received honorable mentions as well. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 26)

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Associate Dean Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D. was honored with an American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Presidential Citation presented by President Andrew Caruso at the AIAS Forum in Milwaukee, WI in December 2007; in addition, he presented on the topic of “After School, What?” to the student attendees at the Forum. He also recently authored the article, Resources for Aspiring Architects in _Design Intelligence: 2008 America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools_ released in December 2007.

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University of Tennessee Associate Professor Hansjörg Göritz was one of 11 invited European keynote speakers at this year’s renowned ‘Dortmunder Architekturtage’ | Dortmund Days of Architecture in Germany. In addition, his studio has been invited to contribute to an accompanying exhibition. The title of this year’s prestigious program was ‘Stadtbaukunst: Das Dach’ | Urban Design: The Roof. He titled his talk ‘Roofing the Legislation’. Göritz also was invited by the German government to submit a proposal for the German Pavilion at the 11th Biennale di Architettura di Venecia

2008. As a possible architectural director for this most prestigious international venue, he proposed a concept entitled ‘Lust - Feinheiten Deutscher Baukunst | Lust - Sensitivities in German Architecture’. Göritz’s architecture firm, HansjörgGöritzArchitektur, was recently awarded second prize in collaboration with LohausCarlLandschaftsarchitektur and Drewes+Speth Ingenieure for the commissioned revision of a design entry for the New Rhine River Embankment Promenade at Basel, Switzerland. HansjörgGöritzArchitekturstudio is about to complete an important European success in an international design competition. Seven years after having been awarded first prize, the studio’s planning for the State Capitol Parliament and State Capitol Forum for the Principality of Liechtenstein is going to be completed this fall. In accordance with special opening ceremonies of each plenum’s session, the grand opening will be an act of state on February 15, 2008. The Principality of Liechtenstein issued a stamp commemorating the opening ceremonies. For more information, visit www.hansjoerggoeritz.com. Göritz also participated in this year’s conference of the Southeast Chapter Society of Architectural Historians [SESAH] in Nashville. As a practicing architect, he was invited to moderate the session

on ‘Structure - Technology - Construction’. George Dodds, Associate Professor, delivered an opening address at the Plenary Session of the 4TH ARCHITECTURE AND ITS EDUCATION CONFERENCE, held at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey. The theme of three-day conference (November 7-9, 2007) was “Architectural Education: Continuity and Change.” Professor Dodds was invited as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education to speak on the role of research and publishing in architectural academe. Also participating in the opening session were Adrian Joyce, Senior Adviser, Architectural Council of Europe, and Jack Pringle, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Turkish Chamber of Architects and METU. Professor Dodds’s address will be published in the Turkish Chamber of Architect’s journal Mimiarlik. In December, Professor Dodds continued his archival research, jointly funded by a Graham Foundation Grant and his UTK James R. Cox Professorship, on his forthcoming book Landscape and Garden in the Work of Carlo Scarpa. In February, Professor Dodds was an invited External Examiner of the University of Colorado, Denver, College of Architecture and Planning. Applied Research team members and Assistant Professors Brian Ambroziak, Katherine Bambrick-Ambroziak, Ted Shelton and Tricia Stuth are among Phase I winners of the Jefferson Heights Tomorrow Sustainable Housing Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Lyndhurst Foundation, Chattanooga Neigborhood Enterprise and the RiverCity Company, challenged entrants to create a sustainable, market rate design for speculative single-family houses for nine vacant lots in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The lots are the final stage of re-development of an historic but languishing inner-ring neighborhood. The development is a participant in the LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program. The team’s entry, titled LATLONG, offers a housing type that considers environmental and cultural shifts – by day, season, and generation – and is adaptable to each of the nine lots. Orientation and initial solar modeling informed designs, shaping, for instance, light monitors and roof forms to admit and mitigate useful

solar gain and to prevent overshadowing of adjacent houses. Variations on the type are predicated on retaining two significant trees and lead to an overall site plan, landscape and community that embrace time, the seasons and the occupants’ everyday rituals. The project demonstrates that sustainability is a qualitative and quantitative goal; that speculative housing can elevate the daily rhythms of its occupants’ lives; and that community is critical to the design of an individual residence. The team is currently developing the design for Phase II of the competition.

Virginia Tech university Two School of Architecture + Design faculty— Ron Kemnitzer, IDSA, an industrial design professor and Industrial Design Society of America Chairman of the Board, and Gene Egger, the Nancy and Patrick Lathrop Professor of Architecture and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies Director of Special Programs—have been named by the Design and Futures Council and the journal DesignIntelligence as two of 28 educators most admired and respected in the fields of interior design, interior architecture, architecture,

design, architectural engineering, industrial design, and landscape architecture. The Henry H. Wiss Center for Theory and History of Art and Architecture, a center of the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, presents “The Majesty and Mystery of Peru,” an annual summer trip to a destination rich in both ancient and contemporary culture from July 31-Aug. 13. This trip is led by Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni, architecture professor and director of the Wiss Center. Registration deadline is April 2. For more information, call (540) 231-5324.

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southwest Urs Peter Flueckiger, Associate Professor, was awarded a grant from the Research Enrichment Fund Grant Competition, 2007, Texas Tech University entitled: “Prefabricated Dwelling: A Laboratory for the Study of Sustainable Architecture and Technology in West Texas”. Associate Professor Flueckiger also had his house design chosen for publication in CORRUGATED IRON: Building on the Frontier. Book, Adam Mornement and Simon Holloway, Authors. Publisher: W. W. Norton, London/New York, 2007. His book Donald Judd, Architecture in Marfa, Texas will be released in October 2007. Published by Birkhauser Basel in both English and German. Book description: This book is the first to address Judd’s built work from an architectural perspective. Elizabeth Louden, Ph.D., Professor, completed her Doctoral Degree, University of York, York, U.K. Dissertation working title – “Wood, Weathering and the West, a study of the ranch building wood deterioration in the Llano Estacado, 1950-1950.” July, 2007. Dr. Louden had three funded research projects this summer: • Bryson Farmstead (1873), Leander, Texas partnering with HHM, Inc., Austin, Texas and TxDot. • Mesa Water Boosting Station (1930s), El Paso, Texas partnering with HHM, Inc., Austin, Texas and TxDot. • Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (ca.400), Ro-

man Forum, Rome, partnering with Ball State University, University of Bath, UK, and Cambridge University, UK. Dana Campbell, Instructor, participated in a group show at the Underwood Center August 18 through September 25. The opening reception is on September 7 for the First Friday Art Trail. Instructor Campbell also 6 watercolor renderings of 3 different “bonus rooms” located in the townhomes of the Raider Village Development. The renderings were commissioned by Studio West and used for the opening of the Raider Village Community. Clifton Ellis, PhD, Assistant Professor, published a peer-reviewed article about his research on the visual expression of ideology, focusing on the Gothic Revival and Slavery in antebellum Charleston. The article is in the Summer 2007 issue of The Southern Quarterly. This year Dr. Ellis also finished his second year on the Board of Vernacular Architecture Forum, chaired the Papers Committee for the 2007 National Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum which met in Savannah, submitted a proposal for a paper to be presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Cincinnati, and published a book review in Winterthur Portfolio, the peer reviewed journal of Early American Material Culture. The book is S. Max Edelson’s “Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina.” Harvard University Press, 2006.

LaGina Fairbetter, Instructor, painted animatronic dinosaurs and murals of Mesozoic landscape with creatures currently on exhibit in museums in Kalamazoo, Nashville, South Hampton and the Witte Museum in San Antonio. Instructor Fairbetter’s paintings and restored models of contemporary and prehistoric whales are scheduled for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu in 2008. Lahib Jaddo, Associate Professor, participated in the Boise State University Women’s Center annual reception for the National Juried Art Show for Women’s History Month. Best in Show went to Lahib Jaddo of Texas for her painting “Kahve Yuke.” UNIVERSITY of houston Assistant Professor Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture presented a paper “Primitive” Tectonics: The Canadian Architecture of Arthur Erickson at the international conference “Tectonics – Making Meaning” held at the University of Technology, Eindhoven, (December 10-12, 2007). Sabatino presented a paper entitled North-South: The Mediterranean Vernacular and the Histories of Modern Architecture at the symposium on the “Bauhaus and the Mediterranean” organized by the Zentralinstitut Für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (January 25-26, 2008).

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northeast Boston Architectural College The Solar Decathlon took place at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from Oct. 12–20. The decathlon is an international competition among architecture students that takes place every two years. Based on a rigorous pre-selection process, the US Department of Energy picks teams of students from 20 schools of architecture worldwide who each spend two years researching, organizing, designing, fund-raising, constructing and operating an 800-square-foot single-family home, all of whose energy needs are met by solar power. One of the selected 20 entries for the Solar Decathlon was from Boston: architecture students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, partnered with students from the Boston Architectural College, created a sustainable – and very livable – zero-energy house. The MIT/BAC team placed 13th out of 20 teams in the Department of Energy competition to build a practical solar home. The Solar 7 house earned praise for its efficient use of solar energy. It placed eighth for engineering and sixth in a distance competition in which the team drove an electric car charged by the house. The house was one of seven to win full marks for using less energy than its solar panels generated.

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“People come for all kinds of reasons,” said Kevin Horne, a BAC student, was one of the architects for the project. “But we’re all interested in sustainable architecture. [Solar Decathlon] gives us the chance to experiment, to play, to share ideas.” The mission of the team’s solar home is to demonstrate the attractiveness and affordability of a solar home to the average consumer. It simultaneously empowers each citizen to positively impact energy society by providing non-intrusive but pervasive means to monitor energy usage within the home and its related environment. The finished house was disassembled, trucked to Washington, D.C., and was reassembled in a solar village on the Washington Mall where it joined solar homes from 19 other universities.

The student team lived in them for eight days and the houses, and the sponsors’ exhibits, were open to the public for two weeks. At least 30,000 people were expected to pass through the house. Teams competed in various categories and were evaluated for architecture, energy performance, and marketability. Aside from these categories, the students showed the judges the extent of their energy-efficient appliances. They had to accomplish various household chores, including cooking dinner for the judges; washing and drying a load of towels; and heating a shower’s water to 110 degrees. The Solar 7 house currently sits disassembled in storage in New Hampshire, and will be put up for sale. The Solar Decathlon is sponsored by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the US Department of Energy, in partnership with its National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the American Institute of Architects, the National Association of Home Builders, BP, the DIY Network and Sprint. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Correction from the ACSA News, Feb 2008 issue. This item was posted to the incorrect region: Professor Mark Jarzombek has been named Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning to focus on arts and diversity programs, working in particular with Dr. Robbin Chapman who has joined the School as Manager of Diversity Recruiting. We warmly welcome new faculty members Associate Professor (with tenure) Rahul Mehrotra, recognized world-wide for his work in India; Associate Professor (with tenure) Nader Tehrani, co-founder with Monica Ponce de Leon of Office dA and recently named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow; and Assistant Professor Ana Miljacki, who brings a background in design and also in history and contemporary theory. Associate Professor of Building Technology John Ochsendorf won a 2007-08 Rome Prize,

the first engineer ever to win in the 113-year history of the Rome Prize Competition sponsored by the American Academy in Rome. Associate Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon has won an ACSA Faculty Design Award, a 25K RISD/Target Emerging Designer Athena Award, and a $50K Wade Award from MIT for outstanding teaching, design, and leadership. As Howeler + Yoon, Yoon and her partner Lecturer Eric Howeler received two Honor Awards from the Boston Society of Architects and their work is included in Architectural Record’s 2007 Design Vanguard. Professor and Department Head Yung Ho Chang through his firm Atelier FCJZ has completed the masterplan for the research and development campus of Novartis in Shanghai and is now designing one of the laboratory buildings. Assistant Professor of Building Technology Marilyne Andersen is consulting with Chang on daylighting and solar energy for this project. Pennsylvania State University Penn State Department of Architecture congratulates the 2007 ACSA award recipients including Penn State Assistant Professor of Architecture Jodi LaCoe, ACSA/AIAS New faculty Teaching Award recipient. The New Faculty Teaching Award is given jointly by ACSA and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). This award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career. Nadir Lahiji, Associate Professor of Architecture, joined the faculty at Penn State on a full-time basis beginning in January 2008. Professor Lahiji is an architect, educator and a critical theorist. His teaching and research are focused on the problem of modernity and critical social theory in architecture discourse. He is particularly interested in contemporary cultural theory and on border crossing between architecture and other disciplines. On the question of modernity, he has co-edited an anthology of critical and theoretical essays entitled Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). This collection, to which a number of prominent critics and writers have contributed, explores the ideology of

hygiene in the formation of modernity in the early twentieth century in the work of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier. He has done extensive archival research on the work of Le Corbusier which yielded the essay titled “Le Corbusier reading Georges Bataille’s La Part maudite,” published in JAE. An abridged version of this article has appeared as a chapter in the recent book Surrealism and Architecture (Routledge, 2005). Recent publications include essays in Architecture Theory Review, Built Environment, Journal of Architectural Education, AA Files, and Any. He has taught in a number of institutions including, Georgia Tech, University of

Pennsylvania, Penn State University, University of Cincinnati, Pratt Institute, Drexel, and Lebanese American University. Currently he teaches courses on critical theory and modernity at the Pennsylvania State University. Nadir Lahiji’s current research, a manuscript for a book project in progress, is tentatively entitled “The Sublime Object of Baroque: Architecture in the Society of Enjoyment.” This study explores the return of the “baroque” in contemporary cultural and philosophical discourse and critically examines its importation in the contemporary architectural theory and practice. Against this uncritical approach, this study will investigate

the problem of “Sublimation” in the center of the baroque concept through the psychoanalytical theory in the work of Jacques Lacan. The study aims at a political, ethico-aestheic, and socio-cultural critique of the production of architecture in contemporary culture, characterized as the “neo-baroque” forms within the culture industry of the late capitalism. It will attempt to construct an alternative social-critical theory of architecture capable of cultural analysis of architecture production in contemporary society singularly named as the “Society of Enjoyment.”

spatial environments for three works by HSDC choreographers that took place in S. R. Crown Hall at the end of January. The collaboration was featured on Chicago Public Radio, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine and Newcity.Studio Associate Professor Martin Felsen and his students helped design an exhibit, “Map This! Chicago,” displayed at the Chicago Architecture Foundation through March 21. The exhibit was featured in the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Journal and in a radio interview on WDCB.

organizations highest award for educators, the Nathan Clifford Ricker Award, for his dedication and talent of an AIA member architecture educator in Illinois. The award is named after the first person to graduate from a university program in architecture in the United States. Ricker graduated from the University of Illinois in 1873.

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Illinois Institute of Technology Donna V. Robertson FAIA, John and Jeanne Rowe Chair, and Dean of the College of Architecture, received the AIA Chicago Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes a significant contribution made to the profession of architecture or to the betterment of Chicago’s built environment by an individual or organization. Robertson was chosen for her achievement in revitalizing the college, which last year was ranked among “America’s Top 15 Bachelor of Architecture degrees” by Design Intelligence. Past honorees have included architects, craftspersons, educators, authors, journalists, and organizations of various types.

Adjunct Associate Professor and landscape historian Barbara Geiger had an article in the Chicago Tribune’s Home and Garden section as an expert for the “Fleur du jour” section.

Assistant Professor John Ronan was featured in the Chicago Tribune for being one of eleven people from the Arts named Chicagoans of the Year. His firm won four awards in this year’s Chicago Design Excellence Awards sponsored by Chicago AIA.

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In an unprecedented collaboration between professional dance artists and students of architecture, Associate Professor Dirk Denison and his advanced studio worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to design elements and

At the AIA Illinois Honor Awards Dinner & Ceremony at the Historic Hotel Baker in St. Charles, Illinois on Tuesday, November 1, 2007, UIUC School of Architecture Professor Robert I. Selby, FAIA, received the statewide

Director David M. Chasco, AIA, has been named the Chancellor’s Advisor for Architecture and Campus Planning.

The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the 2008 paperback edition of Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession, by Professor Kathryn H. Anthony, Ph.D. The book earned the American Institute of Architects’ Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement and the Environmental Design Research Association’s Achievement Award. It serves as a valuable text for professional practice courses, offering tools for achieving and maintaining diversity in architectural firms. Professor Kathryn Anthony has also been selected for the 2008 Faculty Fellows in Entrepreneurship program at UIUC for her proposal for a discipline-specific entrepreneurship course titled, Entrepreneurship in Design, Diversity, Environment and Behavior. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 30)

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Marcie Uihlein has joined the School of Architecture faculty in the Study Abroad Program in Versailles, France teaching Structures. Also joining the faculty are Peter Arbour, Design, and Jean-Brice Viaud, Design. Associate Professor Erik M. Hemingway, Principal of hemingway+a/studio and Associate Professor has again been invited to participate for the special issue of the Global Architecture publication, titled “GA HOUSES PROJECT 2008”. The issue focus is on residential projects (private houses) which are to be built near future or under construction now. Approximately 60 prominent architects from all over the world are invited to present their outstanding residential works in progress. A group exhibition of the works takes place at the Global Architecture Gallery coinciding with the publication in Tokyo in March. hemingway+a/studio also has a solo exhibit entitled “fringe_architecture” at the UIUC School of Architecture Gallery in March as part of the spring exhibition series. He also presented his work “sonic[FOLDS]/ fringe_architecture” at the AIA Illinois Annual Conference in November.

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Each year the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) honors excellence and distinguished achievement in architectural education. Professor Panayiota Pyla has won the 2007 JAE Best Scholarship of Design Article Award. An awards ceremony, including a visual presentation of the winner’s accomplishments will be showcased at a plenary session during the ACSA 96th Annual Meeting, March 27-30, 2008, held in Houston, TX. In October of 2007 Assistant Professor John C. Stallmeyer was an invited speaker at a symposium in Nicosia Cyprus sponsored by the University of Cyprus entitled Architectural Dialogues: Aspects of Development and Knowledge Regions. His presentation “The Promises and Pitfalls of Informational Development: Spatial Lessons from Bangalore India” explored the urban and architectural implications of information technology development. This spring Assistant Professor Tom Kamm will be offering a public lecture series “Issues

in Contemporary Architecture” at the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art, in Washington DC. http://www.phillipscollection. org/html/center.html#Lecture On Saturday, November 3, 2007, six University of Illinois students, four from industrial design and two from architecture, met Chicago’s Mayor Daley and gave him a tour of the UIUC Solar House. The tour was part of a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of a Green Resource Center at Chicago’s Center for Green Technology. The solar house, named elementhouse, was UIUC’s entry to the Solar Decathlon earlier this month, which took place in on the national mall in Washington DC. The house won first in the categories of Comfort Zone and Marketability, and finished ninth overall in the competition. The house was moved to Chicago and located at the Center for Green Technology where it was showcased during the Green Build Conference November 7-9, 2007. The solar house will remain at the Center of Green Technology until March of 2008 before returning home to the UIUC campus. Visiting Professor Mike Jackson, FAIA, announced that the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) won an award at the 2007 National Preservation Awards ceremony in Minnesota. Upstairs Downtown is an awardwinning initiative created to help owners reclaim and reuse the vacant upper floors, and turn them into income-producing properties. The Upstairs Downtown training program was developed by the IHPA for the Illinois Main Street program. It is designed for building owners, contractors, architects, city officials, preservationists, and downtown professionals. University of Kansas Keith Diaz Moore, associate professor and Chair of the School and his co-authors, Lyn Geboy and Gerald Weisman of the University of Milwaukee, have won the 2007 Joel Polsky Prize given by the American Society of Interior Design educational foundation. Their book, “Designing a Better Day: Guidelines for Adult and Dementia Day Services Centers,” was published in 2006 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Dan Rockhill, a member of

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School of Architecture and Urban Planning for 27 years has been appointed the J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture at KU. The endowed professorship was created by the late J.L. “Tommy” Constant. Earlier this year, Rockhill was also named a finalist for a National Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt museum. First honors in the Student Design Competition sponsored by ASA Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics was awarded to Andrew Miller, Megan Hunziker, and Matt Pauley under the guidance of Professor Bob Coffeen. The new joint urban design studio between KU and Kansas State University has started in downtown Kansas City funded by the Kemper Foundation. Professor Richard Farnam from KU is leading the studio and 8 students from KU and 8 from KState are in the first cohort. Kapila Silva, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee has joined the KU faculty as a visiting adjunct. Assistant Professor Marie Alice L’Heureux’s article “Tõnismäelt kadunud sõdur,” [The Lost Soldier of Tõnismägi] was published in Kunst. ee:kunsti ja visuaalkultuuri kvartaliajakiri [Estonian Quarterly of Art and Visual Culture in the 2 (2007) issue. University of Minnesota Bill Conway’s joint project with the University of Arkansas CDC and others, “Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas: Lifestyles and Ecologies”, has been awarded a 2008 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The projects will be published in Architectural Record and displayed at the 2008 AIA Annual Convention in Boston in May. Conway+Schulte Architects has been selected by the City of Little Rock, Arkansas as the design team for the MacArthur Park Masterplan Project. The Project involves the renovation of MacArthur Park. At 26.5 acres it is the city’s oldest park and home of the Arkansas Art Center and MacArthur Military Museum. In addition to the park masterplan, the project requires that our team improve connectivity between the park, local neighborhoods and

In October 2007, John Comazzi participated in an international symposium on Architecture and Pedagogy at the Loris Malaguzzi Center in Reggio-Emilia, Italy. His design for a children’s play piece, /In-The-Fold/, was published in the Sept/Oct issue of Fabric Architecture. This same design was also exhibited in an Exhibition entitled Aesthesia at Southern Illinois University at which John also delivered a paper on the topic of kinesthetic learning in design for a corresponding symposium. He has a forthcoming article detailing his participation in the 2007 Design Camp (with Anselmo Canfora, Assistant Professor, UVa and Wendy Friedmeyer, Educational Coordinator, Design Institute) to be published in an forthcoming issue of Fabric Architecture. He has written a review of the Tyrone Guthrie Theater and the Walker Art Center to appear in an forthcoming issue of JAE on Architecture and Performance. And he was recently awarded $20,000 for his proposal Parallel Play: Design in Education, (with Janet Abrams, Director and Wendy Friedmeyer, Educational Coordinator, of the University’s Design Institute) for new initiative funding from the College of Design. Renee Cheng, Head of the School of Architecture, was elected to be the 2009 president of AIA-Minnesota. Kate Solomonson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, was asked to lead the design and architecture collaborative portion of Quadrant, a program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study. Ozayr Saloojee presented a paper entitled Narrative (Hi)Stories: Architecture, Religion and Sacred Space at “The Past in the Present,” a conference hosted by the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.

Architectural Research Centers Consortium JOURNAL spring 2008

Call for papers Deadline April 20, 2008 The ARCC Journal is seeking papers focused on research and rigorous methodologies employed in the study and making of architecture. The area of focus of the Spring 2008 issue of the journal is architecture as a communicative medium. As sensuous beings, we experience “place” as self, yet our sensibility of this experience is defined by our relationship with the other. Thus, an effective place design is one that can cross over the limits enforced by abstract experience into the semiotic constructs required for linguistic expression. In addition, evolving philosophies in art, economics, politics, and technology give new methods and manners of semantic appropriation of architecture—by both designers and participants. For the Spring 2008 issue of ARCC Journal we invite papers which explore communication in its various forms in the design and/ or critique of architecture. Discussion may include (but not limit to) study of historic precedents and theoretical constructs in the relationship of language and architecture; the use of semantic expression in the teaching of architecture; new semantic appropriations of architecture as enabled by new technologies; sustainability as a form of expression in architecture/design; as well as the evolution and extinction of architectural entities and philosophies in evolving sociocultural contexts. Papers submitted may

present empirical research that deal with the design of architecture (and/or its elements) or speculative research that looks at theoretical frameworks for empirical work leading to the design of architecture (and/ or its elements). We encourage participation from disciplines outside architecture (art, landscape, computation, planning) to frame design and the built environment within the context of semantics and linguistic expression.

There is a two step process for accepting paper proposals. 1) Initial proposal includes a cover page, 300 word abstract, outline of content, keywords and key references, images (optional). Submission: cover + maximum 3 pages, with no identifying content. All paper proposals are subject to a blind peer review process by an editorial board drawn from member schools and named by the ARCC Journal review editorial review board. (Due March 1, 2008: send as pdf via e-mail to mwingert@ temple.edu) 2) Full papers are reviewed by ARCC review committee. Papers are expected to be roughly 5,000 words. Instructions for paper submission will be sent with letters of acceptance. (Draft paper due April 20, 2008, final paper due May 20, 2008) For further information contact: J. Brooke Harrington, Editor, ARCC Journal; jharring@temple.edu or Anijo Punnen Mathew, Guest Editor; amathew@caad. msstate.edu

ACSA Listserv Members are invited to join ACSA’s Listserv, a forum for quick communication among ACSA faculty members. To subscribe to the list, send an email to “listserv@arch.utah.edu” with the following message in the *body* of the email: Subscribe ACSA-list [Your Full_Name] Thanks to the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning.

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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

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. www.coa.gatech.edu/beginningdesign08

3/7/2008 CALL FOR 2008-2009 FELLOWS Van Alen Institute’s New York Prize Fellowship supports advanced research and experimental pratice in public architecture. Fellows are based at the Institute, where they generate projects on the most significant issues shaping public life and the built environment today. The Institute welcomes proposals for projects in public architecture from emerging scholars and practitioners in the design and planning disciplines, and other fields in the arts, humanities and sciences. Fellowship awards include project support, work and gallery space at the Institute, publication in Public Practice, stipend, and a range of project production, research, and programming resources. Deadline: March 7, 2008. www.vanalen.org/nyprize

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

4/1/2008 EDUCATION FOR AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE This is a forum for environmental design educators, students, and practitioners from around the world concerned for the future of architectural education. Hosted by the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, USA, it is an initiative of the CIB Commission: Open Building Implementation. The forum’s theme - the design of open-ended yet sustainable physical environments – will be engaged through paper sessions, exhibits of student and professional work focused on the conference theme, and selected real-time DESIGN EXERCISES. Deadline: April 1, 2008. www.bsu.edu/bfi/openarchitectureconference 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

3/27/2008 TOTEM-INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE The ideas competition, in a single stage, is organised in the framework of the UIA Congress Turin 2008. Based on the congress theme, Transmitting architecture, competitors are invited to design a totem, an architectural object for communication, information and exchange to be located in one of the following three types of environment: a social context: poverty; a natural context: ecology; an urban context: metropolis. Deadline: March 27, 2008. competition_totem@uia2008torino.org www.totem.uia2008torino.org 3/31/2008 the ]present[ ARCHITECTURE’S CHALLENGE 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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3/31/2008 The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK) at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) is hosting the fourteenth YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School in Finland. This year’s theme will be “Regenerating Urban Core”. The lectures as well as the given projects will reflect the theme. Summer School also provides the participants with an opportunity to publish their writings in an official publication. Students at all levels of studies, and young professionals, from all disciplines related to physical planning are invited to apply. We look forward to receiving applications, among others, from urban planners, architects, sociologists and geographers! The course will be held 1123 August 2008. Deadline: March 31, 2008. website: http://ytksummerschool.tkk.fi

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ACSA seeks Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster Call for nominations 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.)

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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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