ACSA News April 2008

april 2008 volume 37 number 8

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

Meet ACSA’s Newly Elected Board Members Election results are listed on page 2

97th ACSA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Read the topic descriptions starting on page 7

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2008-09 ACSA Board Election Results

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NAAB Annual Report Submission System

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2008 Administrators Meeting

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2008 ACSA Fall Conferences

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2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

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97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Call for Papers

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Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

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ACSA Student Design Competitions

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REGIONAL NEWS

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ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

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NAAB Call for Participation in ARS Doubletree Houston Downtown

2008 board elections

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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.

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Vice-President/President Thomas Fisher University of Minnesota

Secretary Mitra Kanaani NewSchool of Architecture

Northeast Director Brian Kelly University of Maryland

Southwest Director Ursula Emery McClure Louisiana State University

West Director Stephen Meder University of Hawaii at Manoa

Student Director Deana Moore University of North Carolina at Charlotte

All new ACSA board members will officially take office in July 2008.

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naab to unveil online system to collect data, annual reports by andrea rutledge

Today, architecture programs know the NAAB Annual Report as “Appendix H”, two pages of tables and blanks that have to be filled in each year and sent to the NAAB along with a narrative that describes responses to the last Visiting Team Report and any changes to the program. Together these two documents represent what can be a frustrating exercise in information gathering and analysis by program administrators and their assistants. By November 2008, as currently planned, the whole exercise will be (a) easier and (b) Web based.

In The Diversity Demographic Data Audit, commissioned by The American Institute of Architects and released in October 2005, the data collected annually by the NAAB were described by NAAB staff as “so unreliable that last year it did not analyze or report on the data it received from the schools.” The report went on to recommend [that] NAAB require architecture schools, as a condition for renewing their accreditation annually, to provide to NAAB reliable and verifiable information, similar to the information the schools currently maintain and provide to the U.S. Department of Education each year. We recommend that NAAB implement mandatory reporting and quality control measures whereby data reports submitted to NAAB as part of the annual accreditation process must be approved (signified by seal or signature) by the office of the Registrar for the submitting college/university.

In 2006, the NAAB and ACSA began to identify both the common and discrete information needs of the two organizations. The two organizations are now building a database and the appropriate user interfaces for collecting and maintaining the information. In 2007, the NAAB completed an analysis of the information it was seeking: information that supported its core mission of accrediting U.S. architecture degree programs—information that was consistent, rigorous, verifiable, and comparable. To that end, the NAAB has decided to replace Appendix H with a Web-based questionnaire that will have four sections.

Section I will capture statistical information on both the institution in which an architecture program is located and the program itself. For the purposes of this section, the definitions are taken from the glossary of terms used by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS is the “core postsecondary data collection program for the National Center for Education Statistics. Data are collected from all primary providers of postsecondary education in the [U.S.] in areas including enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty, staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid.” Much of the institutional information requested in Section I corresponds to

reports submitted to IPEDS in the fall. Thus the NAAB is proposing to move the deadline for architecture programs annual reports to a time after the relevant IPEDS reports are due. The information collected

by NAAB in Section I is similar in type and scope to information collected on member institutions by the ACSA. The NAAB and ACSA have agreed to collect each data point only once and to share statistical and institutional data collected by both organizations. The ACSA uses this information to prepare and publish its online Guide to Architecture Schools; the NAAB will use the information to support accreditation activities and to provide relevant reports to other architectural, collateral organizations like The American Institute of Architects or the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Section II will include a file transfer option for submitting the section of the narrative report in which programs respond to causes for concern and not met conditions and criteria cited in the most recent Visiting Team Report. If a program had zero “not mets” in the most recent VTR or was “cleared of future reporting” in subsequent annual reports, no file transfer will be required.

Section III will include a file transfer option for submitting a narrative that describes significant changes to the program that may be of interest to subsequent visiting teams or to the NAAB. This section features a Yes/No option so that programs can indicate whether they have anything to report. In addition, this section will be linked to other questions in Section I for which a narrative may be required. (e.g., “Does your institution have plans to discontinue any of its NAAB-accredited degree programs? Yes or No.” A “yes” answer would trigger a reminder to upload a narrative report on this item in Section III.) Finally, in Section IV, users can review their submissions, correct errors, complete sections they may have inadvertently left blank, and submit the completed annual report to the NAAB. The Web based interface will provide help features and definitions. It will also be designed to let the end-user know when certain sections have been completed and whether required sections have been left blank. In addition, the interface will be dynamic so that the response to the question about which degrees a program offers will trigger the interface to require a corresponding set of grids on student characteristics. For example, if an institution offers both a B. Arch. and an M. Arch., they will have to complete two grids for student characteristics. Likewise, if a program is located in a public college or university, they will have to provide information on in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees, whereas a private institution would not have to provide that information.

Finally, the system will provide reports and analysis based on information that is consistent, comparable, rigorous, and verifiable. Information can (NAAB ARS continued on page 4)

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NAAB-Annual Report Submission (ARS) system will change everything about how accredited and candidate architecture programs and those overseas programs designated as substantially equivalent provide annual reports to the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

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be reported in the aggregate by region or by type of institution. When the time comes to write an APR, the NAAB would provide past annual reports to programs showing graphic representation of changes over time. In addition, programs could request annual reports or trend reports by contacting the NAAB. The questionnaire that will form the basis for the interface has been developed, vetted, and revised. A Web design firm has been identified to work with the NAAB to develop the database and the interface. At its February meeting, the NAAB Board will consider changing the date for the submission of annual reports from a deadline of June 1 to an open reporting period of November 1-30. In order to move forward and to be sure we have the feedback of potential end-users, the NAAB is seeking a small group of programs that represent a variety of programs and institutions

(large, small, public, private, and so on) to serve as beta testers during the coming summer. From May until August, this group will be asked to test the interface, report problems, suggest solutions, and request modifications.

We need architecture programs to tell us what works and what could be changed. If your program is interested, please contact me at arutledge@ naab.org or call 202.783.2007.

The development and implementation of this new system is a big step forward for the NAAB and for architecture education. We believe that bringing the system online in 2008, as a companion to the work of the Accreditation Review Conference, represents a powerful opportunity to make deep, systemic, and significant change in the way information is collected, analyzed, and used. Eventually, it is hoped, that the information from NAAB-ARS can be compared to information captured by the other collaterals. Together, these data sets will provide the profession and the academy with a complete picture of the growth and development of the profession.

NAAB SEEKS school participation in BETA TEST of new data collection system The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is seeking eight-to-ten programs with accredited degrees to be part of the beta testing team for the new annual report submission system. This is the new, automated system for submitting annual report to the NAAB currently under development and scheduled to launch in the fall.

The NAAB wants to be sure that the interface not only works the way it is intended to, but is also attractive, user-friendly, and loaded with the appropriate features and short-cuts. In order to be sure we integrate the comments and experience of potential end-users, the NAAB is seeking a group of programs that represent the variety of degrees offered and types of institutions (large, small, public, private, multiple-track degree programs, schools with two degree programs, and so on) to serve as beta testers during the coming summer. From May until August, this group will be asked to test the interface, report problems, suggest solutions, and request modifications. We have one volunteer already, and are looking for eight or nine more to tell us what works and what could be changed.

If your program is interested, please contact Andrea Rutledge at arutledge@naab.org or call 202.783.2007.

2 0 0 8 A CS A A d m i n i s t r a t o r s c o n f e r e n c e

design

in the curriculum in the university

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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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Material is the matter-of-fact of architecture; it is the means of execution, a method of expression, and a major force of resistance. Opposed to paper or cardboard architecture - interested in removing the variable and agency of material, vaunting representation over construction - the architectural discipline today has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with issues of materiality.

Material Matters focuses on the pedagogy of material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture.

Beginning with material as a premise for architectural discourse, the conference will revolve around the design decisions and physical making that emerge from material interaction. This conference will confront the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications, re-applying typical processes of fabrication and methods of construction while engaging emerging techniques.

The evolution of material sensibility demands a fundamental re-thinking, grounded in the analysis and design of material processes: their current applications and limitations.

Material Matters will confront issues of materiality in multiple forms: Design - formal and functional implications of building materials as process applications; Processes - fabrication, technology and making; Context - place and material vernacular; Precedent - case studies in material application and conceptual detailing of design; Theory - conceptual premise of making; Material Detail - piece and connection; Material Ecology & Sustainability; Pedagogy - the role of materiality in design education; Material Art, Media, and History

Keynote Speakers Include:

Nader Tehrani

Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott

Tom Wiscombe

Marcello Spina and Georgina Huljich

Office dA, Boston EMERGENT, LA

Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, LA

Conference Co-Chairs:

Gail Peter Borden, AIA

Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Southern California

Michael Meredith

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Associate Professor of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design

Submission Requirements: Abstracts and Projects Due: June 15th, 2008 Notifications: July 15th, 2008 Final Papers Due: September 1, 2008

For detailed submission requirements, visit www.acsa-arch.org

2008 ACSA Fall Conference October 16-19, 2008

The University of Southern California

The path to meaningful and provocative architectural research

2008 ACSA/AIA teachers seminar

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Deep Matters

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

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, deep inquiry, integration, visualization and reflective making are the new norm.

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 Deep Matters will be organized are as follows: 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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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.

97th acsa annual meeting

the value of design design is at the core of what we teach and practice

Call for Papers Submissions Due: September 17, 2008 The following call for submissions is the result of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed process. The twenty-two topics below have been categorized into eight general topics that relate to the overall theme of the Annual Meeting.

Full topic descriptions are available at: www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

portland, oregon march 26-29, 2009 Host School University of Oregon Co-chairs Mark Gillem, U. of Oregon Phoebe Crisman, U. of Virginia

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC VALUE OF DESIGN

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.

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 material and technical value does design bring to the physical environment? 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.

The “Social” Value Of Design Coleman A. Jordan, U. of Michigan What are the social values of design and what are the implications thereof? Social values of design address the power dynamics of our built environment, including “the social, political, and economic forces, embodied in the forms, processes, and manner in which buildings are used.” This session will include the milieu of praxis, theory, and academe and the “education of an architect.”

Architecture as a Vessel for Values Karen Cordes Spence, Drury U. In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, it is of merit to revisit Roland Barthes’ 1964 essay “The Eiffel Tower” to examine the link between architecture and social and cultural values.

Barthes notes that the Parisian landmark is at once both empty and everything, accepting various meanings assigned by a diversity of people over time. Looking not exclusively at the architecture or at its meanings, this session seeks out the play between: as architects, how do we understand the connection between built form and its significance? As studio critics, how do we discuss and teach this understanding?

More out of Less: The Value of Resourcefulness in Design Jenny E. Young and John Rowell, U. of Oregon This session invites papers to reflect on the design for budget-challenged projects that have social significance and high community value.

In projects for communities where resources are limited, what really matters? How do designers and teachers of design innovate where “less [can be] more?” How do they craft designs that are affordable? How do they use ingenuity and capability to make places of quality out of very little? How do they measure what elements in design have the most significant impact? Papers that address these themes and others that highlight exemplary projects that demonstrate the resourcefulness of designers are welcome.

RESEARCH VALUE OF DESIGN The Future of the Thesis Thomas Mical; Carleton U Nana Last, Rice U. We wish to speculate on how the architectural thesis performs, or could perform, if it were to transform into something it has only occasionally accomplished ... as speculative critique, trans-disciplinary research, a purer questioning, technological innovation, or the exposure of that which has been often been hidden, suppressed, or absent from recent architectural thought. This panel is intended to include a broad range of articulated individual positions, possibly supported by case studies, to raise the question of epistemology - specifically: Under what new or urgent conditions can architectural knowledge or insights still be produced in a thesis? What is it that the best theses reveal that only emerges through thesis, and how can this be taught?

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE OF DESIGN How Long Can You Tread Water?

Sandy Stannard, Cal Poly State U. Ecological luminaries such as architect Ed Mazria have re-analyzed the statistics, revealing that architecture with all of its associated technologies and materials consume nearly 50% of the energy generated in the United States. Given this context, the aim of this session will be to explore how our creative work reflects upon, questions, and relates to the broader field of architecture in correspondence with the natural environment. Given the energy consumption embodied in the production and operation of buildings, how are design studios and other architectural courses responding to contemporary environmental challenges, to calls for carbon neutrality, and to the performance targets outlined by Architecture 2030? Papers are encouraged to report on student or other projects that address the junction between the ecological and built environments.

Sustenance in Architecture: Making as Re-making Sheryl Boyle, Carleton U. Federica Goffi, Carleton U. In the contemporary western world there is a disjunction between ‘architecture’ and ‘conservation’. By redefining the meaning of sustainability as being derived from sustenance, we can reconsider our approach to this disjunction.

The continuty of ideas embodied in exisitng building stock provides nourishment for architecture. Rather than setting a dialectic oposition of ‘new’ and ‘old’, architecture should be read as a palimpsest. This session aims to provoke speakers to reflect on the ‘sustenance’ of sustainability as a way of breaking the barrier between new and old, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.

Exchanging Change: How University Research Centers Change And Are Changed

By The Profession To The Benefit Of Both G.Z. Brown, U. of Oregon; Joel Loveland, U. of Washington; Judy Theodorson, Washington State U.; Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, U. of Idaho; Tom Wood, Montana State U. What are the benefits to knowledge development that result from linking academic research centers and professional offices. We welcome papers documenting: 1) case studies of building projects that have resulted in positive changes to methods used by the university or professionals; 2) facilities and administrative structures that are catalyst for linkage; 3) innovations that resulted from collaboration between university and professionals in which changes played an important role; 4) activities from the profession whose outcome resulted in linkage to and changes in the academic center and activities from the academy that resulted in changes in the profession. We encourage papers that are jointly authored by academics and practicing architects.

URBAN VALUE OF DESIGN Urban by Design? The Value of Design in Urban Reconnaissance & Repair José L.S. Gámez, U. North Carolina—Charlotte Susan Rogers, U. of Houston In 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in cities; by late 2007, that proportion had grown to over 50%. With this concentration, we have witnessed a flattening of the physical city with the simultaneous production of a radically uneven social and economic landscape. This has resulted in a “semi-urbanized” landscape shaped by global capital and lacking in experiential, tactile and visual qualities. This session seeks proposals that investigate emergent spatial practices, tactical occupations and/or appropriations that refocus our attention on the social value of space and provide new models for urban and suburban reinvention and repair.

The Question of Design in Affordable Housing William Williams, U. of Virginia In affordable housing, there is little consideration given to design choices outside of economic concerns. Unfortunately, these choices are often limited to making housing more affordable without considering how to making affordable housing more livable. Prefabrication, material choices, and plan efficiencies have all been used as strategies to cut cost, but what are the strategies available to designers to create value beyond utility. This session will explore the role of design in affordable housing as it relates to challenging contemporary notions of aesthetic value.

Submission Requirements All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers.

Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. An author can present no more than two papers at the Annual Meeting. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools or become supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission.

Papers submissions (1) must report on recently completed work, (2) cannot have been previously published or presented in public except to a regional audience, and (3) must be written in English. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, excluding the abstract and endnotes.

Submission Process The deadline for submitting a paper to a session for the Annual Meeting is September 17, 2008. Authors will submit papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your paper, you will be guided with the Web interface, through the following steps.

1. Log in with your ACSA username and password.

2. Enter the title of your paper.

3. Select the Session Topic for your submission.

4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any. (Note all authors must be current members of ACSA.) 5. Upload your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines. * Omit all author names from the paper and any other identifying information to maintain an anonymous review process. * Do not include an abstract in the file. * Use the template provided on the website to format your paper. * Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included. * No more than five images may be used in the paper. Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper.

6. Download the copyright transfer form.

7. Click Submit to finalize your submission. Note: Your paper is not submitted unless you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

AESTHETIC & REPRESENTATIONAL VALUE OF DESIGN Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture Sanda Iliescu, U. of Virginia Collages kindle in us a sense of hope. Something that was simply garbage has been lifted out, repaired, and accorded new aesthetic value. This salvage speaks as a story of survival, a sign that things, and by analogy we ourselves, may withstand difficulties and be renewed. Not unlike a collage fragment, a building is an insertion into a pre-existing fabric. Global warming, poverty, and decay now threaten architecture’s pre-existing fabric. As our cities are filled with unsightly and dangerous junk, might the poetics of collage begin to bridge aesthetics and ethics—“good form” and form that contributes to the common good? This session invites papers that examine collage in architecture and/or art, whether theoretical, historical, or from an author’s own practice or teaching.

The Architectural Model between Material and Idea Matthew Mindrup, Carleton U. Paul Emmons, Virginia Tech Over the millennia, physical models continually serve as important tools for the architect to study and communicate a design in threedimensions. However, the historical experimentation with different modeling materials, methods, and interpretations has also shown their ability to play a role in design by instigating and demonstrating new architectural conceptions. As a counterbalance to naïve realism in modeling, this session invites papers that examine the value of physical models in both physical and virtual design practices as a generative tool to aid the imagination of new architectural ideas that synthesize the complexities of program, new building technologies and the sensory experiences of place.

Emerging Technologies: The Ethics of Digital Design Jason Oliver Vollen, U. of Arizona Bradley Horn, City College of New York The current dialogues of scholars and practitioners seem to focus on computational design and fabrication as either a practical or an aesthetic concern. On one end of the spectrum new technologies are framed as the only means by which to solve the world’s ecological crisis; on the other they are celebrated as vehicles of formal expression. This panel begins with the premise that in order to find value in emerging digital practices we must consider the ethical. The goal for this session is to discuss the development of an ethic that will allow us to re-examine the complex relationship between digital design, material, and the world at large.

MATERIAL & TECHNICAL VALUE OF DESIGN Design Abstraction and Building Construction Jonathan Ochshorn, Cornell U. Examining the conceptualization and production of architecture from Vitruvius to the present time, one notices a qualitative shift in both the meaning and ramifications of abstraction in relation to functional elements that comprise works of architecture. This session intends to initiate an exploration of the relationships between design abstraction and building construction. Specific issues of interest include: [1] History and theory of abstraction in architectural design [2] Abstraction and the reality of construction: problem or opportunity? [3] Teaching design abstraction in relation to construction [4] Reducing building envelope failure through applications of reliability theory, BIM and other means.

Material and the Making of Architecture Gail Peter Borden, U. of Southern California Materials are the matter that makes architecture. It is the means of execution, a major force of resistance, and means of expression. The architectural discipline has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with materiality. This session focuses on material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. The discussion will focus on materiality and its associated design decisions.

Confronting the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications and re-applying them to challenge emerging techniques, it considers materiality, its production/fabrication processes, and the process of synthesizing material and design methodology to generate a material architecture.

Teaching Technology as Design Ulrich Dangel, U. of Texas at Austin This session will look at the relationship between design and technology teaching from a pragmatic and creative perspective, with a particular focus on the social, cultural, educational, and curricular aspects that have to be considered by technology teachers in response to the current situation at our schools. By re-thinking present-day conventions, it will explore how new and innovative approaches can aid in the development of comprehensive educational strategies, the establishment of deeply integrated curricula, and ultimately the possible reshaping of the educational experience for future architects in the United States.

Indeterminacy: Design-build as Reflectionin-Action John Comazzi, U. of Minnesota This session seeks papers and presentations detailing the effective execution of design-build practices in promoting what Donald Schön refers to as reflection-in-action. Through design-build programs, many schools have produced shifts in their curricular structures while recalibrating conventional forms of student interaction within collaborative learning environments. Working across multiple disciplines while utilizing a range of fabrication methods, these programs have established new pedagogical imperatives that sponsor projective approaches to practice, industry and education.

By embracing a broad range of exemplary work this session seeks to contextualize and problematize design-build practices in providing frameworks for the critique of their successes and shortcomings.

METHODOLOGICAL VALUE OF DESIGN What is Design Thinking?

Thomas Fisher, U. of Minnesota For the design community to convey the value of what we do, we need to have a much clearer idea of what constitutes design thinking and how it differs from other modes of thought. Architecture, as a discipline, has tended to mystify the thought process of its major practitioners, viewing their thinking as something to imitate rather than analyze and critique apart from the designs they produce. This session seeks papers that explore this, evaluating the ways in which designers think, comparing it to other modes of inquiry, and/or defining what makes our mode of thinking, in fact, exceptional.

Group Effort - Successful Collaborative Design Jeff Schnabel, Portland State U. The academic studio frequently supports a culture of individual achievement through solitary investigations. Arguably this model fails to prepare students with many of the skills they will need to navigate a professional design process that from beginning to end requires working with others. This session seeks to review and reveal strategies for working collaboratively in the academic studio where design ideas emerge that are richer and more valuable than solutions created by individual effort. Papers are encouraged which illustrate processes and products from academic and professional settings which heighten solutions through a group design process.

PEDAGOGICAL VALUE OF DESIGN Pedagogies of Study Abroad Heinrich Schnoedt, Virginia Tech Study abroad programs have been regarded as seminal to the complete education of an architect for centuries. To understand more clearly the importance and impact of such programs in today’s architecture curricula, this session challenges contributors to critically assess successful curricular models, their didactic approaches, and the modes by which success becomes evident. It further seeks to clarify the future role of study abroad programs and their possible contribution toward comprehending culture in local and global environments.

The Doctor in the Studio: Ph.D.’s and Design Pedagogy Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U. With the increased popularity of Ph.D. programs in architecture, it is more common for faculty to have a professional degree and a Ph.D. without a professional license. Yet as departments look to define themselves in relation to the profession, the licensing boards, and their students, these faculty can be pushed to the margins of discussions about design pedagogy and curriculum development. Conflicts can arise between educators who come to teaching from practice and those who stayed in academia. This panel invites papers which explore the challenges, questions, and rewards that result from the engagement of Ph.D.’s with studio curricula.

OPEN SESSION ACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into one of the above topics.

Architectural History and the Design Studio Vandana Baweja, U. of Michigan This panel addresses the question: What pedagogical value does design education offer to architectural history? Papers that present studio projects with an analysis of the discursive impact of studio education on architectural history are invited. The objective of the session is not just to present case studies, but also to draw metacognitive conclusions on how architectural history and the design studio can be imagined intertextually. We invite papers that focus on: bridging the disciplinary divide between architectural history and the design studio, cutting across the textual/visual production and consumption of knowledge, and research methods in the history oriented design studio.

Design Curriculum Design Michael Peters, Texas Tech U. An examination of how design curriculums are structured can inform a discussion of the nature of architectural education in the coming decades. Primary concerns of any design curriculum include: 1) How we can better prepare students to visualize design and respond to the environment; 2) How are new and emerging technologies, such as digital design and representation, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrated into the curriculum; 3) How should design schools engage the profession, and; 4) How should a design education begin and how should it end. In short, this session examines how we will prepare students for the evolving field of architecture and the future of practice.

Paper Presentation All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the session topic chairs.

Selection is based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the discipline of architecture, and relevance to the session topic. All authors will be notified of the status of their paper and will receive comments from their reviewers.

Accepted authors will be required to complete a copyright transfer form and agree to present the paper at the Annual Meeting before it is published in the proceedings.

Each session will have a moderator, normally the topic chair. Session moderators will notify authors in advance of session guidelines as well as the general expectations for the session. Moderators reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines. Failure to comply with the conference deadlines or with a moderator’s request for materials in advance may result in an author being dropped from the program, even though his or her name may appear in the program book.

In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly.

Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation are required to register for the Annual Meeting.

Timeline April—Call for Papers announced July 16—Paper submission site opens September 17—Paper submission deadline October 27—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments.

Accepted authors revise/pprepare papers for publication December 3—Final revised papers and copyright forms due January 14—Paper presenter registration deadline

Contact Mary Lou Baily, conferences manager, with questions about paper submissions (mlbaily@acsa-arch.org, 202.785.2324 x2).

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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.

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 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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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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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.

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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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.

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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

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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.

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.

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

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

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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thinking for a sustainable world

international student design competition

Opportunity

In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students are challenged to investigate innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives.

The competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility.

Category I – Recycling Center Design an environmentally responsible recycling center focused on reusing today’s materials to preserve tomorrow’s resources.

Category II – Building Element Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.

Execution

Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” submission boards and a design essay.

Payoff

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

Learn More

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 College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) announces the appointment of Professor James Dalton as Interim Dean, Associate Professor Maurizio Sabini as Associate Dean, Assistant Professor Diane Davis-Sikora as Associate Dean for Architecture, and Associate Professor Pamela Evans as Associate Dean for Interior Design.

Adjunct Professor Beth Bilek-Golias has been appointed Coordinator of the new Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program.

Adjunct Professor Gary Balog has been elected to the AIA College of Fellows.

Adjunct Professor Paola Giaconia presented her most recent book Eric Owen Moss: The Uncertainty of Doing (Skira, Milan 2006) at the MAXXI (Museum for Contemporary Art) in Rome, Italy, in November 2007. Prof. Giaconia has more recently edited: S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea, episode publishers, 2008 (exhibition catalogue, SESV gallery, Florence, January-February 2008).

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The professional work of Adjunct Professor Filippo Caprioglio has been recently featured in: Giovanni Caprioglio: Space & Context. Recent Architectures (1997-2007), with Dario Vatta & Filippo Caprioglio, with a text by Thomas Schumacher.

“Metrogramma”, the firm of Adjunct Professor Alberto Francini, has been appointed to lead the team of experts for the new master plan of Milan. The firm is among the finalists of two major international competitions: the redevelopment of the Santa Chiara area in Pisa and the new facilities for the new railway station in Bologna. The work of the firm, awarded last year with the international Iakov Chernikov Prize “Challenge of the Time”, has been recently featured on Domus (September 2007) and Abitare (February 2008).

Pinch House: Model Interior Student : Kevin Leciejewski Fallingwater Visiting Artist Activity Center Prototypical Housing; ARC 401 Fallingwater Honors Studio Miami University Department of Architecture and Interior Design Fall 2007; Instructor; John M. Reynolds

Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

Dr. Gyure is conducting research for a book on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida.

Lawrence technological University Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., has been awarded a $5,000 Franklin Research

Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP has received a research grant award from the Graham Foundation in Spring 2008. The

grant will support his research on the search for national identity in architecture and urban design in Korea and other countries. Urban design students at the Detroit Studio, a community outreach program directed by Dr. Kim, presented their urban design recommendation to the City of Inkster Tax Increment Finance Authority (TIFA) and City Council in December

sity of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas, Austin.

Assistant Professor John Humphries joined the Department of Architecture and Interior Design to lead the graphics curriculum and teach foundation courses. Humphries received his Master of Architecture from the University of Texas, Arlington.

2007. The public presentation was held at the City Hall in Inkster, Michigan. This project is funded by the City of Inkster/TIFA. Also Dr. Kim participated in the University of Michigan annual design charrette as a co-team leader. The 10th annual charrette was held in the City of Troy, Michigan in January 2008.

Miami University James Lentini has been named Dean, School of Fine Arts. A Detroit native, Dr. Lentini is recognized for performances of his compositions worldwide. In addition to composing, Dr. Lentini is a performing guitarist. He received a doctorate from the University of Southern California. In 2003, Dr. Lentini was appointed as the founding Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Music at The College of New Jersey. Previously, Dr. Lentini held the position of Professor of Composition at Wayne State University from 1988- 2003, where he also served as Acting Chair and Associate Chair of the Department of Music.

John Weigand has been named Chair of the Department. John earned architectural degrees at Miami and at the University of Illinois (M.Arch), and worked professionally in Chicago from 1980 to 1991, prior to teaching. At Miami, John developed the BFA in Interior Design (1995) and continues involvement in national interior

architecture initiatives. He is a current member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Board of Directors, has served on the IIDA Strategic Planning Committee, co-chaired the 2003 Body of Knowledge Conference in Washington DC, and has participated in numerous national programs addressing collaborative design education and practice. Weigand is co-author, with Peg Faimon, of The Nature of Design, a book about design fundamentals. In 2001, he was awarded the NCARB Prize for creative integration of practice and education in the academy, for his work with collaborative, internet-based design.

Ben Jacks was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. He also published “Walking and Reading in Landscape,” in Landscape Journal, Fall, 2007.

Assistant Professor Mary Ben Bonham joined the Department of Architecture and Interior Design to teach design and environmental technology. Bonham, a registered Architect (Kentucky) and LEED Accredited Professional, comes to Miami from Cambridge, Massachusetts where she practiced with Prellwitz Chilinski Associates from 1995 to 2007 on a wide array of academic, retail, and residential projects.

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Visiting Professor Erika Mühlthaler joined the department for the Spring term. For the past seven years Prof. Mühlthaler has been an assistant professor in the Department of Construction and Design at the Technical University in Berlin, after having also taught at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She graduated from the TU Berlin and received a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture from the ETH/Zürich. In 2006, she organized the exhibition “Lehrnen von O.M. Ungers” that explored Ungers’ teaching at the TU before his appointment to Cornell.

Summer programs have been expanded to include studios and workshops in Turkey, China, and New Mexico, in addition to offerings in Cincinnati (Over-the-Rhine), London, Italy, and Ghana.

Assistant Professor Anna Sokolina lectured on Russian war memorials in May, at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; in October, at the Annual Symposium of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (Virginia Tech). She will speak at New York University in March.

Assistant Professor Diane Fellows recently completed two short films, “the Alley” and “TopoNarratives 1-4.” Using a non-linear narrative structure, live action and mixed-media, the films explore the transformation of the personal story of immigration and refuge to the perception and construction of private and public place and space. “the Alley” won a Finalist Certificate in the New York Festivals Awards, 2008 in the Short Films: Historical category. The NYF is in its 51st year of honoring excellence in international work in Advertising, TV and Radio Broadcast, International Film and Video in educational, industrial, commercial, corporate, and Independent Film and Video productions.

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Pinch House: Model Exterior Student : Kevin Leciejewski Fallingwater Visiting Artist Activity Center Prototypical Housing; ARC 401 Fallingwater Honors Studio Miami University Department of Architecture and Interior Design Fall 2007; Instructor; John M. Reynolds

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The Taubman College at the University of Michigan is hosting three visiting professors this term. The 2008 Eliel Saarinen Professor is Coy Howard of Los Angeles. The Colin Clipson Visiting Fellow and Charles Moore Visiting Professor are jointly held by Doug Graf from Ohio State University; and the Sojourner Truth Fellow is Patrick Rhodes, founder and executive director of Project Locus, a nonprofit corporation that addresses underserved communities through architecture, planning and urban design.

This year’s lecture series includes eight presentations on the theme of diversity in our schools and profession. Fall semester featured Majora Carter from the Sustainable South Bronx; Teddy Cruz from San Diego/Tijuana and Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald from Studio SUMO, NYC. This Winter semester, Milton Curry from OrbitMCAdesignstudio/Cornell University;

Mimi Hoang from nArchitects, and Kadambari Baxi from imageMachine are included in the series.

Last Fall the Architecture Program was host to the international workshop - Borderlands coordinated by Assistant Professor Gretchen Wilkins and in partnership with Tohoku University, Miyagi University, Tohoku Institute of Technology (all from Sendai, Japan); the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia; the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM) in France; and the Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain. Sponsored annually by one of the participating universities, the 2007 workshop investigated a site in southwest area of Detroit bounded by West Grand Boulevard, Rosa Parks Boulevard, the Detroit River and Michigan Avenue.

This January the college hosted its 10th annual Design Charrette, focused on transit-oriented development (TOD) that concentrated compact, mixed-use development in walking distance of a proposed rail and bus transit station between

Birmingham’s walkabe downtown and Troy’s auto-oriented Big Beaver corridor. Over 50 graduate students worked for four days in four teams led by 15 visiting and local professionals and faculty.

And the Doctoral Program in Architecture is holding 3 symposiums this semester, with the visits of Werner Sobek from Stuttgart, Jonathan Hill from the Bartlett School in London and Reinhold Martin from Columbia University, who will give a public lecture and hold a seminar with PhD and MSc students.

In addition, the faculty and students at the TCAUP are organizing an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on international metropolitan expansion, entitled “Global Suburbs,” to be held in Ann Arbor, March 7-8, 2008. It will bring together students and research scholars from various disciplines, both within and outside of the University of Michigan, to share recent research and emerging perspectives on suburbanization the world over. More information at: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/globalsuburbs/home.

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Associate Professor Ronald Ramsay recently produced the Agincourt Exhibit at the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota. The exhibit, embodying the typical story of the “American town,” chronicled the development of the imaginary town of Agincourt, Iowa, and included contributions from sixty people, including Ramsay’s students, NDSU architecture faculty and alumni, and local musicians.

Associate Professor Regin Schwaen, in collaboration with architectural photographer Meghan Duda, won in January 2008 an “Art & Architecture Award for Best Lighted Structure” in a Fargo design competition. The two submitted a proposal for a transparent “light-pyramid” and were locally published for their achievement.

Assistant Professor Bakr Aly-Ahmed recently introduced a pedagogical innovation within his structures course in the interest of integrating mathematical and conceptual experience in a single learning model. His students employed a new graphical method of calculating shear and moment magnitudes by means of lasercut templates without recourse to complex formulas. The laser cutter also facilitated the structures students’ production of large-scale models, which together with associated drawing sheets and calculation notes, were recently presented in a public exhibition.

Assistant Professor Mike Christenson recently presented his ongoing research work in a paper titled “The architecture school building structuring perception of the city” at the ACSA Central Regional Conference at the University of Water-

loo in Cambridge, Ontario, and also in a paper titled “Stewardship and mediating artifacts: Forwarding the incomplete” at the ACSA Southeast Regional Conference in Washington, DC. As a part of NDSU’s contribution to the “Focus the Nation” 2030 Initiative, Assistant Professor David Crutchfield recently presented some of his developments relating to his work on “A Critical Sustainable Design” and “Greenwash in Architecture.” His presentation was entitled “Moving Beyond Me: Empowering the Green Consumer.” Separately, he presented on “The Green Imperative: Why People Choose Green” with a subsequent discussion on individual, societal, and designer motivations in sustainable architecture. He is also currently consulting and contributing to the development of a forthcoming regional “Green Expo.”

Assistant Professor Ozayr Saloojee is co-organizing a symposium at entitled “Sacred Sights | Sacred Sites: Architecture, Ethics and Spiritual Geographies.” The symposium will be held from April 4th to April 6th, 2008 at the School of Architecture, and is paralleled with a photographic and artistic exhibition exploring the local and global religious architecture. Confirmed speakers include Professor Daniel Bertrand-Monk (George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colage University, and currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.) and Professor Alona NitzanShiftan (Senior Lecturer, Technion, Israel, and Visiting Fellow at the Frankel Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan).

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Renee Cheng was one of three speakers at the Symposium on Integrated Practice and Architectural Education, hosted at Auburn in February. Other speakers were representatives from Mortenson Construction and Mophosis Architects.

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NDSU Architecture students Sarah Hooge and Nakina Wegman are the recipients of the first annual KKE Vision Award, presented in October by the KKE Charitable Foundation and the NDSU Development Foundation. The 2007-08 award competition required students to build a one-meter-long model on an axis that evolved from solid to void.

Jenny Grasto, an NDSU architecture graduate, is the new Architecture/Landscape Architecture Library Associate.

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ics Seminar were each awarded an AIA COTE (Committee on the Environment Award) for their work in the course. Their projects will be on display around the country at a number of AIA conferences this year.

DRAPE Wall, a project by Marc Swackhamer and partner Blair Satterfield, was included in Blaine Brownell’s new book, Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, published by Princeton Architectural Press this year.

Marc Swackamer and Blair Satterfield presented a lecture on their design work (slvDESIGN) as part of Rice University’s School of Architecture 2008 Spring Lecture Series.

In tours of another kind and place, Assistant Professor Manu Sobti led undergraduate and graduate architecture students on a trip to India where they visited, among other cites, New Delhi, Agra, and Ahmedabad. Under the rubric: Critical Mapping of the Built Environment, students collaborated on urban analysis projects of several Indian sites with their peers from the Ahmedabad School of Architecture. This trip was made in conjunction with a new design studio offered this spring by Professor Sobti titled: Studies in Urban and Community Design Theory: The Urban Artifact and Historical Layers.

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Architecture Students in Motion, AIAS FORUM 2007, Milwaukee

AIAS Forum 2007: Architecture in Motion was, by all accounts, hugely successful. Joey Lawton, Assoc. AIA, and SARUP graduate, chaired the four-day event organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students. Approximately 850 people attended the conference which offered educational programs, workshops, job and school fairs, as well as numerous regional and city tours.

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that UWM will be one of 20 universities selected from an international competition to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. SARUP Assistant Professor Greg Thomson, with Assistant Professor Chris Cornelius (Architecture), Assistant Professor Yaoyu Li (Mechanical Engineering), and Assistant Professor Abdolhosein Nasiri (Electrical Engineering) submitted the winning proposal and will head an interdisciplinary team that will design and build an 800 square foot house powered entirely by solar energy.

Dean Bruce Lindsey, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration, was the chair of the ACSA Faculty Design awards and will moderate a session at the upcoming ACSA Annual Meeting.

Professor Harry Van Oudenallen was awarded a Commendation for his Eco Board Walk entry for the Portland Courtyard Housing Competition, Eastern Portland Infill Category. The competition sought affordable, environmentally sustainable courtyard housing that created a pedestrianfriendly, family-oriented neighborhood.

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Assistant Adjunct Professor Matt Jarosz’s Competition Studio has, once again, produced winning competition entries. Students in this studio have recently garnered awards in the 2007 AIAS/ Kawneer Pediatric Rehabilitation Center Competition and AIAS/vinyl Institute Competition. Now undergraduates Dan Makouske and Ryan Menghe’s entry: “Adaptable Arts,” has been selected as one of three finalists in the United States Institute for Theatre and Technology Architectural Commission 2008 “Ideal Theatre” Student Competition. Makouske and Menghe will present their design at the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Houston on March 21 where a first place winner will be selected.

Associate Professor Grace La led an integrated practice studio this past fall entitled, “Auditoria Redux: A Study in Material, Form, and Experience.” The studio, which focused on the evolution of civic gathering spaces and their associated techonologies, was funded by the international furniture company, KI. Prof. La also delivered the keynote address to KI’s international furniture meeting in February, entitled, “Architecture in an Era of Change.” The lecture illuminated the studio’s research, theorized about architecture trends and tools, and disseminated the work of La Dallman Architects as a mode of design research and praxis.

Associate professor Eric Mumford, PhD, published an article, “National Defense Migration and the transformations of American urbanism, 1940-1942” in the February issue of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Peter MacKeith, associate dean and associate professor of architecture, and Michael Repovich, lecturer in architecture, have received a one year, $15,000 Washington University I-CARES grant (International Center for Advanced Research in Energy and Sustainability) for research on “Zero-Energy, High-Performance Building Standards,” a series of case studies in building design specifically directed at sustainable and net-zero energy campus building design. MacKeith’s essay, “Designed Education,” on the new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts buildings designed by Fumihiko Maki, will appear in an April 2008 special issue of Japan Architect.

Assistant professor Igor Marjanovic coordinated a symposium “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness,” which took place on March 6, 2008. The symposium brought together speakers whose creative and scholarly work intersects with race and identity, providing an opportunity for critical reflection on the role that race plays in the creation and interpretation of art and architecture. The speakers included architects Craig Barton, Yolande Daniels, and Darell Fields; artists Willie Cole and Radcliffe Bailey; and, art historians Kymberly Pinder, Krista Thompson, and Hamza Walker.

Assistant professor Heather Woofter received a $10,000 research grant for her work on the Metabolic City, which will culminate with an exhibition at the Mildred Kemper Lane Art Museum at Washington University in St Louis in October 2009. The grant was awarded

by The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St Louis.

Lecturer Ian Caine participated as a juror for the AIA Design Awards / Mid-Missouri Region in December 2007, selecting one honor and two merit awards for the region.

Lecturer Derek Hoeferlin serves on the CITYbuild Member Council. The CITYbuild Consortium of Schools was awarded the 20072008 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award.

Donald N. Koster III, AIA, LEED AP, visiting assistant professor and Weese Fellow was awarded a $ 2,500.00 Faculty Innovation Grant for service learning by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis. The grant was written to support on-going community collaboration in the Ville Neighborhood of St. Louis through the course Community Development in the Ville: Community Supported Agriculture.

Lecturer Gay Lorberbaum received a $2,500 grant from the Gephardt Institute of Public Service at Washington University in St Louis for the “ALBERTI Program – Architecture for Young People.” The program is intended to introduce the inner city students to architecture and its opportunities.

Lecturer Jodi Polzin will present a paper “Reconsidering the Margin: Exploring Ways to Resituate Community-Based Academic Initiatives” at the “Erasing Boundaries – Supporting Communities” symposium in New York City in April. This service-learning symposium will include speakers from architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, Architecture professor Carl Safe curated an exhibition titled The Lens of ArchitectureRonchamp through Herve, which opened at the Sam Fox School Feb. 25, 2008. The exhibition features works by the Hungarianborn photographer Herve (Laszlo Elkan), who worked with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the architect’s death in 1965. The exhibition also marked the formal opening of a new studentbuilt gallery/review room — developed as part of a recent design/build studio led by Safe — in the Sam Fox School’s Steinberg Hall.

southeast This spring’s visiting design critics include Michael Graves, Michael Graves & Associates, Princeton, New Jersey; Gustavo Luis Moré, G. L. Moré & Asociados, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Enrique Larranaga, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela.

The School of Architecture American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) University of Miami Chapter hosted the annual Southeastern United States Quad Conference in Miami from February 29th through March 2nd. Students from around the country attended “Trends and Traditions,” which included lectures, workshops, tours and architectural firm visits.

Professor Jean-Francois Lejeune was the first recipient of the University of Miami Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where he worked on his research project “The Modernity of the Informal: The Rural Ideal in Italian Urbanism, 1900-1960.”

As part of the School’s Rome Program, faculty members Jean-Francois Lejeune, Jacob Brillhart, Carmen Guerrero and Tom Spain led a charrette with students and residents which focused on the renovation of public squares and the creation of an archeological park around the ancient aqueduct sites in the town of Castel Madama near Rome.

Professor Nicholas M. Patricios is one of 21 signatories to the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism Venice Declaration on the conservation of monuments and sites in the 21st Century.

The American Institute of Architects Miami Chapter presented several awards to students and faculty at their Annual Awards presentation: Student Mark Schreiber was named the School’s Student of the Year; Denis Hector received the Presidential Award for his ongoing support of AIA educational programs; Jaime Correa received the award for the best urban design architect; Max Strang received the Young Architect of the Year award; Carlos Casuscelli for Writing about Architecture; Maricarmen Martinez, Design Merit Award for a house on Miami Beach.

Professor Charles Bohl of the School’s Knight Program in Community Building served as a juror for the Fourth Annual Invitational Case Competition at the Center for Real Estate Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The School along with the Bass Museum of Art and DoCoMoMo Florida presented a day long conference “Preserving the Modern: Building and Landscape Preservation in Miami – A Contemporary Agenda” January 25 and 26. Speakers included Charles Gwathmey, FAIA, Principal, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York; Richard John, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture; Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA, Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Professor, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida; Marc Treib, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; Rocco Ceo, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami; Jean-Francois Lejeune, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami; Randy Mason, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine Lynn, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami.

Professor Carlos Casuscelli was one of the publishers of the book Bienal Miami + Beach 20012005: A Retrospective (Ediciones TRAMA, 2007).

Director of Graduate Studies Teofilo Victoria and his firm De La Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists were among the ten 2008 winners of the seventh annual Palladio Awards competition, sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes, recognizing outstanding work in traditional design for commercial, institutional, public and residential projects.

University of Miami School of Architecture Distinguished Professor and Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA and her partner and adjunct faculty member Andres Duany, FAIA have been named the 2008 Driehaus Laureates. The Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, which was founded in 2003, is the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment and is awarded annually to an outstanding architect or firm whose work applies the principles of classicism, including sensitivity

to the historic continuum, the fostering of community, and the impact to the built and natural environment in contemporary contexts. The Prize is presented annually by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Plater-Zyberk and Duany are founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and partners in the Miami firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company.

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University of north carolina at charlotte Assistant Professor Zhongjie Lin, Ph.D., received a research grant from the Graham Foundation for his book project Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan, which is currently under contract with Routledge.

Partnering with New York City based real estate analysts HR&A, Associate Professor Deb Ryan has been selected to develop an Urban Design Redevelopment Plan for the Arts and Cultural District in Greensboro, North Carolina. She also recently edited and published What’s Right About Our Region: Authentic Urbanism in the Carolinas (available through Blurb.com) a compendium of case studies written to celebrate the Urban Open Space Leadership Institute and the work of its alumni. Professor Ryan has also been chosen by the Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council as a 2008 Woman of Distinction for her work on the Environment.

Professor David Walters in collaboration with former Associate Professor Chris Grech has recently edited a book entitled The Future Office, published by Routledge in Great Britain.

The book examines the latest practices and influences in office design, ranging from information technology to urban design.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville The College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has committed to make its own building -- as well as all its studio projects -- more environmentally friendly.

The college is one of only four design institutions in the nation to make such a commitment.

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By a unanimous vote of the faculty, the college has adopted a plan to achieve a carbon-neutral design community and include the elimination or reduction of the need for fossil fuel as a central tenet in its design education.

This plan is part of the 2010 Imperative, a challenge issued to colleges of design across the U.S. to incorporate environmental principles by 2010.

The goal of the 2010 Imperative is to create young architects who realize that the less energy used in construction and operation of a building, the less greenhouse gases will be produced, and that such design not only slows environmental degradation but creates meaningful and beautiful architecture.

With input from UT Facilities Services, the college is studying ways to increase the energy efficiency of the Art and Architecture Building, in which it is housed, and reduce its carbon footprint. Simple strategies involving waterless plumbing fixtures and occupancy sensors for lights already are being implemented. Future plans include the purchase of carbon offsets and potential LEED Existing Building certification.

“We want our plan to be a prototype for change for the university and design schools across the country,” said John McRae, dean of the College of Architecture and Design. “While many institutions are working toward becoming more environmentally friendly campuses, we’re going a step further and teaching our students how to put these principles into practice.”

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All courses from history to technology will consider the interface between energy, building and the environment. Perhaps more ambitious, the imperative requests that member institutions achieve a carbon-neutral design school campus by 2010.

The 2010 Imperative challenge was issued by Architecture 2030, a nonprofit whose mission is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the building sector, with the goal that all new construction should be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Numerous national organizations are backing the 2010 Imperative, including the American

Institute of Architects, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Green Building Council, American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

By adopting the 2010 Imperative, the College of Architecture and Design seeks to positively impact the threat of global climate change and resource depletion.

“These changes will put us at the forefront of environmental efforts nationwide,” McRae said.

The college’s action builds on a number of major environmental steps taken by UT Knoxville as part of the Make Orange Green effort. The campus was recently recognized for its work on climate change in a report by the National Wildlife Federation, and was also the first university in the U.S. certified by the Green Seal organization for green cleaning practices.

For more information about UT Knoxville environmental efforts, visit http://environment. utk.edu. For more information regarding the 2010 Imperative, visit http://www. architecture2030.org.

University of Virginia Gro Harlem Brundtland, special envoy on climate change at the United Nations, former prime minister of Norway and a former directorgeneral of the World Health Organization, will be awarded the 2008 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture at the University of Virginia Founder’s Day festivities in April.

Brundtland will give a public talk on Friday, April 11, at 3 p.m., in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium.

“In honoring Dr. Brundtland we celebrate her legendary leadership in global sustainability and the stewardship of our environment, values that we have championed and developed in our work at the School of Architecture. We are so pleased to share our school’s accomplishments with such a distinguished figure and we all look forward to her University address on April 11th,” said Architecture School Dean Karen Van Lengen.

A politician, physician, diplomat and activist, Brundtland gained international recognition in the 1980s for supporting and promoting sus-

tainable development as chair of the United Nations’ World Commission of Environment and Development, known as the Brundtland Commission. The commission’s report, “Our Common Future,” outlined the broad political concept of sustainable development that takes into embraces multi-disciplinary considerations, including energy, industry, population and human resources, food security, species and ecosystems, international cooperation, decision-making systems and international economic relations.

The commission’s recommendations led to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, at which representatives of 172 governments and 2,400 representatives of nongovernmental organizations concerned about the environment agreed on a Climate Change Convention that developed into the Kyoto Protocol.

Brundtland spent the first 10 years of her professional career as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system, where she championed children’s health issues and became increasingly aware that many of those health concerns are related to environmental issues. Her work in this area led to her appointment as Norway’s Minister of the Environment in 1971. In 1981, at age 41, she was appointed prime minister, the youngest person and first woman to hold that post.

It was during her 10 years as prime minister that she developed a growing concern for environmental issues of global significance and chaired the U.N.’s World Commission on Environment and Development. In 1998, after stepping down as prime minister, Brundtland became director-general of the World Health Organization, where she combined her skills as doctor, politician and activist to advocate and work for equitable and sustainable health systems in all countries.

Since 2007 Brundtland has served as a U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change.

Former recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, which was created in 1966 to recognize outstanding achievement in design or distinguished contributions in the field of architecture, include; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (the first recipient), Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Lewis Mumford, Vincent Scully, Dan Kiley, Jane Jacobs,

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Glenn Murcutt, James Turrell, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid.

The Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and its counterparts in law and civic leadership are the highest external honors bestowed by the University, which grants no honorary degrees.

The awards recognize achievements of those

who embrace endeavors that the author of the Declaration of Independence, third U.S. president and founder of the University of Virginia, himself, excelled in and held in high regard.

Sponsored jointly by the University and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello,

the annual awards are conferred during the Founder’s Day celebrations surrounding Jefferson’s birthday, April 13. Awardees each deliver a public lecture at the University and engage in dialogue with students and faculty members. In addition to receiving a medal struck for the occasion, they will attend ceremonies in the Rotunda and a dinner at Monticello.

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northeast Dr. Marco Frascari, Director, is pleased to announce that internationally renowned philanthropist, developer, architect and Carleton graduate, Dr. David J. Azrieli, is donating $5.5 million to establish a permanent endowment for the newly named Azrieli School of Architecture. He reinvesting in his alma mater because he wants to ensure that the School maintains its standing as “the best in Canada.” The endowment will provide the School with annual funding to introduce leading edge academic programs, including new undergraduate specializations and a new design-research Ph.D. program, the first of its kind in Canada. The endowment will also allow for an expansion of the School’s Directed Studies Abroad program, which supports overseas work experience and exchanges. Proceeds from the endowment will also fund new prestige scholarships to be awarded to promising Azrieli Scholars, as well as continuing education opportunities and technological upgrades within the School.

Janine Debanné, Associate Professor, recently received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for Assistance to Practitioners, Critics and Curators of Architecture to write a book on modernist houses of the Ottawa region and their architects. Professor Debanné’ s project, entitled Research on Dwelling: Outaouais Modernist Homes, will present a group of as-yet little known but significant works of residential architecture built in the Canadian National Capital region in the postwar period. This project is in continuity with her research and writing on the reception of modernist environments, and on Lafayette Park, Detroit.

Federica Goffi has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Architeture at Carleton University, currently teaching aural architecture, hybrid technologies and design studios. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Interior Architecture Department of the Rhode Island School of Design, teaching adaptive reuse, time-architecture and architectural representation. She is a PhD candidate in Architectural Representation and Education, at the Washington-Alexandria Architectural Center, Virginia Tech. She holds a ‘Dottore in Architettura’ from the University of Genoa, Italy. She is a licensed architect in her native country, Italy. She recently completd a book chapter, “Architecture’s Twinned Body: Building and Body” in Frascari, Hale, and Starkey (eds.), From Models to Drawings: On Representation in Architecture (Routledge, 2007). In November 2007 she presented a paper on ‘Renaissance Visual Thinking: Architectural Representation as Medium to Contemplate True Form’ at ‘The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity’ at the University of Lincoln, UK. Yvan Cazabon, Associate Professor and Associate Director (Undergraduate Studies), is continuing his research-based teaching in architecture and theatre, and this year his students are working on a development and design proposal for the Arts Court District in downtown Ottawa. The existing and proposed facilities will house numerous arts groups including visual, video artists, dance groups, theatre groups and festival organizers. Their proposals examine multiple public and supporting spaces ranging from permanent galleries, temporary/traveling exhibit spaces, large and small black-box theatres, dance performance studios, interstitial exhibition/performance spaces as well as pub-

lic/commercial spaces to support the financing of art groups. The student projects will be displayed in an exhibition as part of the “The Creative Construct: Building for Culture and Creativity” CECC conference in April-May 2008.

Dr. Thomas Mical was awarded tenure. He is a recent recipient of the Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, which includes a $15,000 grant for the development of a internetbased course on the Introduction to Urban Morphology, with an emphasis on non-Western cities.

He has also been awarded a $100,000 Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for 2007-2010 for research and publication of book manuscripts on “The Optic of New Architecture: From Transparency to Blurring.”

Pennsylvania State University David Celento, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Penn State has received funding from Pittsburgh Corning to “Reinvent Glass Block”. Students will spend the Spring ‘08 semester working with Pittsburgh Corning, exploring design solutions in their digiFAB class (497c). Final projects will involve digital fabrication studies and will be presented to the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Corning for production consideration.”

University at Buffalo Edward Steinfeld, Professor of Architecture and Director of the IDEA Center joined James Leahy and Steven Bauer of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center on Technology Transfer, also based at UB, to give a presentation at the an(NORTHEAST continued on page 24)

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nual meeting of the Assistive Technology Industries Association. They explored how assistive technology can be transformed into mass marketed products, using inventions like the telephone, email, optical character recognition and voice recognition, all of which were first applied to address needs of people with disabilities.

On November 20, 2007, Beth Tauke was a featured speaker at the Universell Utforming Over Alt (Universal Design for All) Norwegian Conference held at Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway. The conference goal was to establish a strategy for new research in universal design in Norway. Universal design is increasingly being used both in legislation and planning at all levels of Norwegian society. Tauke’s lecture focused on innovative research practices and highlighted the recent work of The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access,

which is considered to be “the premier research center on Universal Design in the built environment in the U.S.” In addition, Tauke gave two other presentations and lead a panel discussion on the challenges of research, development, and practice in inclusive outdoor and urban environments.

Kenneth S. MacKay, AIA, presented a paper at “The Future of Professional Practice: The Next Generation of Integrated Delivery, Emerging Technology, and Practice Management” AIA conference in Washington, DC December 2-4, 2007. His paper, entitled “Teaching Integrated Building Systems and Sustainable Design,” explored the development of graphic tools to teach building systems integration and the relationship of integrated systems to sustainability by immersing students in a virtual environment that imitates the complexity of the real-world collaboration, decision-making, and material choices in design.

Joyce Hwang presented a paper titled “Cultivating Cities: Diagnostic and Projective Mapping” at the International Housing and Planning World Congress, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in September 2007. In addition, “Enticing the Flood,” a project she produced in collaboration with seniors Kelly Zona and Joshua Gardner was selected as a Finalist in the 2G Venice Lagoon Park Ideas Competition.

Hadas Steiner received a research grant from the Getty Foundation to complete her project on Reyner Banham and the visual methodology employed in A Concrete Atlantis to analyze the defunct forms of American industrial architecture that influenced the course of Modernism. “Banham in Buffalo” explores the approach as applied to the case of the grain elevator and daylight factory through a close study of the archeological use of historical photographs and the production of images to illustrate the argument of his text.

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Associate Professor Ken McCown previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for four years in architecture and landscape architecture, and taught in the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona for five years. He was the Director and Fellow of the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House II for five years. His research interests grow from his background in landscape architecture and architecture including: interdisciplinary design theory, water infrastructure and pollution ecologies, urban design competitions, regenerative design, digital representation and Richard Neutra.

Assistant Professor Gabriel Diaz-Montemayor (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1975) is received a degree in architecture from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico and landscape architecture from Auburn University. He has prac-

ticed architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico since 1998. He is a partner of the firm LABOR (Landscape, Architecture, Border) in Chihuahua, Mexico since 2002. Has taught at the Superior Institute of Architecture and Design -ISAD- (1998-2006) in Chihuahua, the New School of Architecture -ARQPOLI- of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico -PUPR- in San Juan (2002) and Auburn University (2006-2007).

His research interests include the built realm within the border area between the US and Mexico, the opposition between formal and informal patterns of urbanization and architecture, and the exploration of innovative infrastructural/ urban systems as landscape architecture.

prize in both the Temple of Laughter and the Millenium Café competitions. Other competition prizes include Future Visions of Kyoto, Aomori Housing, Shinkenchiku Residential Design (three times) and the Oklahoma Memorial.

In 2003 Jason and Alex came to the US to conduct a sabbatical research/lecture tour of North American Suburbs. Prior to joining ASU he worked in Texas, Nebraska and Iowa. His teaching explores the design build studio as a vehicle for research interests in both digital fabrication and everyday aesthetics. Completed works in this field include Arts Pavilion for Iowa State and the Sioux City Bus Stops.

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Jason Griffiths gained his professional qualification at the Bartlett UK and is a partner of Gino Griffiths Architects in collaboration with Alex Gino. He began teaching in 1994 at the Bartlett (M.Arch.) and then went on to teach at Oxford Brookes and University of Westminster as a senior lecturer. Jason’s teaching career is paralleled with competition work winning prizes in eleven competitions including first

Faculty members of California College of the Arts Architecture Program shared their visions of what San Francisco might look like 100 years from now in a nationwide “City of the Future” design competition, sponsored by the History Channel.CCA faculty were involved in 5 of the 8 San Francisco teams, including Craig Scott, Associate Professor and co-owner of Iwamo-

toScott, the team which placed first. Pfau Architecture, owned by CCA Adjunct Professor Peter Pfau, received the IBM Innovation and Technology award, as well as an honorable mention.

Peter Anderson, CCA Adjunct Professor and partner of the firm Anderson Anderson Architecture, and Byron Kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri of Kuth/Ranieri Architects were also selected teams competing in San Francisco. The submissions were exhibited at CCA in February and were presented by finalists at a conference organized

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CCA will be partnering with Santa Clara University to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon.

CCA students and faculty will bring their architecture and design skills to the interdisciplinary engineering team that placed third in the 2007 competition.

Mara Baum, adjunct professor, was a contributing author to the USGBC’s recently released National Green Building Research Agenda. She also just received two grants, from the AIA College of Fellows Upjohn Initiative ($18,000) and the Boston Society of Architects ($14,000), for a new project, “Eco-Effective Design and Evidence-Based Design: Removing Barriers to Integration.” She is co-principal investigator with Bill Rostenberg, Anshen+Allen and Mardelle Shepley, Texas A&M.

Katherine Rinne, adjunct professor of architecture, published the essay “Between precedent and experiment: restoring the Acqua Vergine in Rome (1560-1570)”, in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and invention from the late Re-

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naissance to early industrialisation, edited by L. Roberts, S. Schaffer and P. Dear, (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam: December 2007). She is also one of two Americans to have been invited to speak at a conference: “La civilta` delle acque dal Medioevo al Rinascimento” at the Fondazione Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti in Mantova, Italy in October.

Kate Simonen, Associate Professor of Architecture, essay’s ‘Prefab NOW?’ was published in the Winter 2007 issue of ArcCA: the journal of the AIA California Council.

Bruce Tomb, adjunct professor of architecture, exhibited his project “The (de)Appropriation

Project Archive” (http://www.deappropriationproject.net) at the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco as well as a new prototype, titled “Console” in the exhibition “New West Coast Design” at the Museum of Craft and Design.

This freestanding basin expands Tomb’s current “Infinite Fitting” line. In collaboration with Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier, Tomb has received a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts where they will be fabricating the new “Ant Farm Media Van V.8/Time Capsule.” The project is a fusion of Ant Farm’s “Media Van” (circa 1971) and the “Citizen’s Time Capsule,” (1975) In another collaboration with Chip Lord, Tomb is developing a temporary public art project called (WEST continued on page 26)

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Schwartz and Architecture, the firm of Neal Schwartz, Associate Professor of Architecture, received the 2008 California Home & Design Award for residential architecture and was selected for the AIA SF 2007 Home Tours program. Schwartz also edited and wrote an essay for the book Vertical Places: The Tall Building in the World City as part of the CCA Architecture Series and authored and edited the Memorial Design Feasibility Study for the National AIDS Memorial. As a Board of Director of this organization, he recently briefed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the progress of the memorial design. Recent projects by Schwarts and Architecture have been published in Dwell, California Home & Design, Western Interiors, and Zyzzyva: the Journal of West Coast Writers and Artists.

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head up the development of all of their California properties in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. LifeHOUSE is based in Grand Rapids, MI and is expanding into the California market with the acquisition of nine properties from Chico to San Diego. Dettmer Architecture will be providing professional services including master planning, architectural design, preparation of construction documents, and construction administration for the rehabilitation of existing facilities and development of new projects. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare design throughout the western states, Randy is excited to be involved with LifeHOUSE, with their reputation for high quality projects and excellence in the marketplace.

He is also working on the projects with associate Doug Faner, Assoc AIA (ARCH ’03).

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Assistant Professor Tom di Santo just completed Construction Administration on the recently opened Housing Administration Building on the Cal Poly Campus. The new building was designed by the office of Rebecca L. Binder FAIA. For news on the building, refer to the latest Cal Poly Report dated 9 January, 2008.

Professor Chris YIp presented a paper titled “The Boundaries of a Trans-national Survey of Asian Architectural and Urban History,” at the 6th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 1-12-2008, Honolulu, HI.

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“Zocalito” for the City of San Jose’s program: “Who’s on 1st/What’s on 2nd,” scheduled for August of 2008. Finally, Bruce Tomb’s project for The Bath Pod / Hibbs-Gray Vertical Addition is scheduled for construction in the Spring of 2008. As a part of a new Master Bedroom suite, the Bath Pod is a prefabricated fiberglass composite bathroom cantilevered over the glass turret of an existing 1950’s modern home located in San Francisco. The Bath Pod will set precedence as the first architectural load bearing use of composites in San Francisco. The bath pod was recently featured in Architecture of the

San Francisco Bay Area: A History and Guide by Mitchell Schwarzer (William Stout Publishers).

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Professor Arthur Chapman and Jens Pohl (35 years of service), Prof. Margot McDonald (15 years of service), Media Production Specialist Josef Kasperovich and Prof. Michael Lucas (10 years of service) received the 2008 Cal Poly Service Awards.

Lecturer Randoph C. Dettmer has been selected by LifeHOUSE Retirement Properties to

Professor Donna Duerk became one of the founding members of the Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at its first meeting in Reno, Nevada, in January of 2008. Information about the SATC is available at www.spacearchitect.org. Duerk’s NASA Contractor Report of 2004, A Curriculum for Aerospace Architecture, complete with technical corrections, is available on the website as a PDF under publications.

Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Mary Grow, Ph.D., has been named Faculty and Curriculum Chair at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Dr. Grow joins core architectural faculty Dr. Sidney Robinson and Aris Georges, and building technology faculty Brian Maxwell, who were appointed in 2007.

Assistant Professor Michael Everts received the 2008 Award for Excellence from the Montana State University Alumni Office and the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce in recognition for his exceptional student guidance and inspiration. The award is one of the highest honors at MSU. The student recipient, Sarah Berwald, selected Professor Everts as a mentor who most demonstrated a dedication and commitment to the excellence within students.

Assoc. Professor, Maire O’Neill has joined the Montana Board of Architects, the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) Board of Directors and is Chair of the VAF 2009 conference, to be held in Butte, MT in June ’09.

The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, founded

by Jenni Lowe Anker, has awarded Professor Michael Everts and the School of Architecture, in cooperation with Bob Mechels of Dowling Sandholm Architects, the Khumbu Climbing School project in Phortse, Nepal. The Foundation established the climbing school as an active way to “increase the safety margin of Nepali climbers and high altitude workers by encouraging responsible climbing practices in a supportive and community-based program.” The school is dedicated to the memory of climber great Alex Lowe. Alex is Jenni’s late husband who died seven years ago in an avalanche on Mt. Everest.

Currently, the climbing school does not have a dedicated facility to hold the hands-on classes taught by world-class climbers. In addition to indoor climbing walls, the facility will have a large auditorium for community gatherings. For the first phase, Professor Everts awarded architecture student Heather Archer a 3-week traveling scholarship (18 January – 7 February 2008) to gather the initial on-site information with Conrad Anker and MSU alumni Marie Folgert of Dowling Sandholm. Over the course of the next semester, Professor Everts and Ms. Archer will organize the notes, sketches, photos, and videos from the trip into a project definition document to be used for fund raising. Subsequent studios will be offered for students to work with the Foundation and the community of Phortse to finalize the design. Construction is scheduled to begin in the Summer of 2009.

The Gallatin Valley Food Bank Addition received a 2007 AIA Montana Honor Award, the highest

award given by the AIA in Montana. Christopher Livingston AIA, Assistant professor in the School of architecture, and the students enrolled in the design/build studio completed the project during the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2006. This 2,700 sq. ft. addition to the Gallatin valley food bank provides additional storage space to accommodate the food bank’s various programs which serve the community. This project was a collaborative effort between the School of Architecture and the School of Engineering. Students performed all construction of the project including concrete foundations, radiant floor slabs, steel erection, wood framing, structural insulated panel roof systems, and installation of glazing and finish packages.

University of California, Berkeley Professor Rene Davids was advanced to Full Professor in 2007; he has more recently been elected to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects. The Jury of Fellows acknowledged his “notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture”. With partner’s Christine Killory, Davids is also expecting a second volume of the AsBuilt series to be published by Princeton Architectural Press this Spring.

Associate Professor Susan Ubbelohde’s firm Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates provided daylight consulting for three projects that recently received design and sustainability awards: The Apple Store Fifth Avenue in New York with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects received an AIA San Francisco Design Merit Award; The Chartwell School in Monterey, with EHDD Architects received an AIA San Francisco Honor Award for Energy + Sustainability and LEED Platinum Certification; The Global Ecology Research Center in Stanford CA also with EHDD Architects was selected as of the AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects 2007. The last building also also received a Livable Buildings Award from the University of California Center for the Built Environment and previously received an AIA San Francisco Excellence in Sustainability 2005 award.

Waverly Lowell, Curator of the Environmental Design Archives was recently honored with the 2006-2007 Distinguished Librarian Award by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley. The biannual award recognizes excellence in librarianship that

furthers teaching and research at UC Berkeley.

In addition, her book Architectural Records: Managing Design & Construction Records, coauthored with Tawny R. Nelb and published by the Society of American Archivists won their Waldo Gifford Leland Award which rewards writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice.

Dr. Annmarie Adams, William C Macdonald Professor of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal Canada, is the first Arcus Endowment Scholar-in-Residence at the College of Environmental Design. The Arcus Endowment was established in 2000 with a generous gift from the Arcus Foundation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Endowment seeks to support a wide range of critical and creative activities that explore the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. Adams was appointed following a national nomination process. Her most recent book, Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press. During her residency in the Spring 2008 semester, she is undertaking research and writing for her next book, to be co-authored with Dr. Abigail Van Slyck of Connecticut College, entitled House/Plan: A History of Domestic Space in America, 1608-2008. She is also teaching an interdisciplinary graduate seminar entitled Sex and the Single Building. She will give the Arcus Endowment Lecture on March 5 as part of the Department of Architecture’s Spring Lecture Series. A symposium featuring Adams and past recipients of Arcus Endowment project funding will be held on April 4, 2008. For more information, contact: ArcusEndowment@gmail. com <mailto:ArcusEndowment@gmail.com> Associate Professors Lisa Iwamoto, Jill Stoner and Mark Anderson led teams in the “Cities of the Future” challenge sponsored by the History Channel, presenting visions for San Francisco in the year 2018. Iwamoto’s partnership, IwamotoScott Architecture, received the $10,000 purse for top place in a regional competition from a jury that included professor of landscape architecture at Berkeley, Walter Hood.

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of [the Iwamoto/Scott] ...utopia...” The works of all teams were on display at the California College of the Arts. IwamotoScott will compete on-line against teams from Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; to vote, go to <http://www.history. com/cityofthe future>. Alumna Anne Fougeron also received wide attention for her proposal.

More can be seen in an article at <money.cnn. com> and at <sfgate.com>.

Joe Slusky’s sculptures were exhibited at the Smith Andersen Edition Gallery in Palo Alto in January. An cover article on the show for the Palo Alto on-line, an internet based news weekly, called Slusky’s sculptures “Visual Jazz” and quoted him as saying, “Welding is drawing in space.”

Dana Buntrock will lecture April 1 at the University of Pennsylvania, in a talk co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and School of Design. Buntrock will also speak at Clemson University March 28, as part of a series on critical practices in the discipline of architecture.

Galen Cranz will lecture for for the Parks and Recreation Dept. in Portland, Oregon, May 13 .

University of Colorado Associate Professor Christopher Koziol will be an opening plenary speaker for the US International Congress of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) 11th International Symposium in Washington DC on May 29. Together with representatives of UNESCO and the World Bank, he will be addressing the theme of US participation in the global preservation community.

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University of Hawaii at Manoa The former Director of School of Architecture at Montana State University, Clark E. Llewellyn, AIA has been appointed as the Dean of School of Architecture, effective July 01, 2007. Llewellyn earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University and Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He is making strong commitments toward digital technologies, design communications, collaborative relationships, actively engaging the forces of globalism, and serving the unique peoples, place, and cultures of Hawaii, the Pacific, Asia and the world.

Associate Professor David Rockwood has been appointed as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture, effective July 2007. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 1983 after having earned a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Oregon in 1978.

He previously served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, and as Acting Chair, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Institute. Rockwood also serves as the Director of the Construction Process Innovations Lab at the School.

Design Intelligence asked professional practice firm presidents and managing directors to nominate their most admired and respected educators based on their recent experiences with colleges and universities. Among the top five reasons cited for nominations were: balances practice, theory, and technology; innovative and visionary; and agents of change. Donald Goo FAIA, professor and director of the practicum studio at the School of Architecture is listed among the most admired educators of 2008. The practicum is the cornerstone of the first Architectural Doctorate degree in the nation approved by NAAB. The practicum studio is a unique program that places students in major US and international design firms to learn from direct mentorship with the senior or managing principal of the office. In addition to gaining experience about professional services, the students learn about leadership from proven leaders, critical and independent thinking and the influence of culture on design and decision making.

Professor Spencer Leineweber, FAIA was a chapter contributor to the recently published Hawaiian Modern, the Work of Vladimir Ossipoff, published by Yale University Press in cooperation with the Honolulu Academy of Arts. This book is the catalogue for a traveling exhibit, organized by Dean Sakamoto that opened in Honolulu in October, 2007 and will be at Yale University School of Architecture Gallery, September 2nd - October 24th, 2008.

Primary authors are Dean Sakamoto and Karla Britton, both of Yale School of Architecture, with a forward by Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Don J. Hibbard, an architectural historian, based in Hawaii and Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture

at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote additional chapters.

Associate Professor Kazi K. Ashraf joins the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education for the period 2007-2010. He guestedited the January 2008 issue of Architectural Design “Made in India” featuring contemporary architecture in India. His essay, “Taking Place: Landscape in the Architecture of Louis Kahn” appeared in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education. Another essay, “The Buddha’s House,” is forthcoming in the spring 2008 issue of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. He is currently completing two book projects: Architecture and Asceticism, and The Idea of Hometown (with Jyoti Puri, sociology professor, Simmons College).

Associate Professor Pu Miao’s design for the Reception Center of Minhang Ecological Garden, Shanghai won a Far East Architectural Award on December 15, 2007. This award of US$15,000 was judged by an international panel including Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard GSD. The Chinese translation of Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities (Kluwer, 2001), a book edited and co-authored by Miao, was published by China Building and Architecture Press in 2007. Miao also saw two of his designs completed in 2007, a community center and a riverside café in Kunshan (near Shanghai), which experimented on new relationships between landscape and building.

Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Systems Laboratory Stephen Meder has been elected as ACSA Western Regional Director.

The School has two community design projects underway in American Samoa; (1) the updating of a Master Plan for the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) and (2) the repair and restoration of the Leone’ Congregational Church, the oldest Christian church in American Samoa. Associate Professor Fred L. Creager, AIA, traveled to Pago Pago early March along with five students to research and program the needed work Adjunct Assistant Professor Kyle Hamada Assc. AIA, an associate at the Honolulu firm Urban Works, has been acknowledged by the

Three sides are faced with bark-like strips of red cedar but the fourth opens to the water. Completely. Translucent hangar doors retract and glass walls fold like accordions, opening the 2,200-square-foot house to Chesapeake Bay.

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The house was built in six weeks using off-site fabricated parts locked into place by half a dozen workers. It can also be taken apart and the pieces recycled.

Associate Professor Alfredo FernandezGonzalez was the recipient of the 2007 Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award.

Associate Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez produced in the Fall of 2007 the interactive DVD “The 2030 Challenge: Environmental Design in the Face of Climate Change.” A copy of this interactive DVD, which features contributions

by Edward Mazria, Pliny Fisk III, John Reynolds, Susan Roaf, and Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez was mailed to the library of every NAAB accredited program in the United States. For further information please visit: http://www. unlv.edu/labs/neatl/2030/ Ralph Stern (UNLV) and Nicole Huber (University of Washington), Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2008) Essays and photo-documentation addressing the urbanization of the Mojave funded in part by the United States Embassy Berlin and the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) at the College of Design, Arizona State University.

An exhibit with this title opened December 2007 in Berlin, continuing to ASU in March where it will be coupled with a symposium hosted by PURL. Thereafter the exhibit will travel to the University of Washington.

Glenn NP Nowak has joined the School of Architecture as Assistant Professor. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State University and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University. Glenn recently delivered the paper, “The Art of Architectural Civil War” at the Hawaii International Arts and Humanities Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2008.

University of Washington Carefully tucked into a stand of pines on the Maryland shore, Loblolly House is a study in the pragmatic and the poetic.

Designed for Philadelphia architect Stephen Kieran, the home was also a chance to test new, far more efficient and environmentally sensitive ways to build houses.

Pending approval by the Board of Regents, Kieran and James Timberlake, partners at KieranTimberlake and fellows of the American Institute of Architects, will hold a University of Washington professorship in sustainability - one of the first such professorships in the U.S. As inaugural holders of the Mithun/Russell Family Foundation Professorship in Sustainability, Kieran and Timberlake will teach six related courses exploring designs and methods for reducing environmental impacts of construction.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, building and operating homes and other structures generates 40 to 50 percent of all greenhouse gases in the U.S. Additional studies suggest that more than half of leftover building materials wind up in landfills - and those numbers don’t include gas-fueled cars and trucks shuttling workers and materials.

Sustainability studies have thus become top priority at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. “Our communities urgently need critical, creative thinking in sustainable building design,” said Daniel S. Friedman, dean of the college and an AIA fellow. “Kieran and Timberlake are among the first to attack the problem systemically, through technology transfer and novel production.”

Funding for the professorship comes from Seattle-based Mithun, a national leader in sustainable design, and The Russell Family Foundation in Gig Harbor, Wash.

“The next opportunity for design innovation is to solve the challenges confronting global

systems,” said Bert Gregory, president and CEO of Mithun and an AIA fellow.

“This new professorship will help bring science and design together for wholly integrated solutions.”

“We are eager to see the best ideas about sustainable design shared broadly,” said Nancy McKay, environmental sustainability manager for The Russell Family Foundation.

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“The professorship clearly presents an opportunity for collaboration, a hybrid design lab that crosses disciplines - architecture, engineering, construction, landscaping - within one educational community,” Timberlake said.

In December, the AIA formally recognized KieranTimberlake for sustainable design, choosing the 55-person group for its annual Firm Award.

Also, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City recently chose KieranTimberlake to design and construct one of five full-scale houses for a 2008 exhibition on prefabricated building.

Kieran and Timberlake based much of their early thinking on ways the automotive, aircraft and shipbuilding industries are radically reinventing themselves. Instead of inefficient, part-by-part construction, they’ve switched to integrated units built on factory floors.

But forget one-design-fits-all. KieranTimberlake buildings include pre-wired mechanical systems plus custom elements appropriate for the client and building site - things like custom-designed sunshades that allow a building to recognize the sun as a primary source of energy.

KieranTimberlake is also recognized for bringing research to its practice. In 2003, the firm developed SmartWrap, a masscustomizable, high-performance building façade. For the University of Pennsylvania, the firm designed and installed the first actively ventilated curtainwall in North America.

Other KieranTimberlake buildings have been recognized for their environmentally thoughtful design. The Sidwell Friends Middle School and the Sculpture Building and Gallery at Yale University, for example, have achieved LEED Platinum, the highest rating from the United States Green Building Council.

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4/18/08 ANZAScA 2008 Innovation, Inspiration and Instruction: New Knowledge in the Architectural Sciences ANZAScA 2008: the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association. Advances in architecture, engineering and construction are fundamentally reliant on developments in science and technology. Whether these advances are in the environmental sustainability of a building, in its design theory, or in the education of future researchers, science remains a critical component of the built environment. Dates: November 2628, 2008. Host: University of Newcastle.

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4/30/2008 International Federation on Ageing How can designers impact on the life of older people? Ageing Design Montréal (ADM), a nongovernment organization, is hosting the IFA’s 9th Global Conference on Ageing. The conference Shaping Tomorrow Today speaks to the need to understand how the many facets of design impact on the Health, Participation and Security of older people. Students, educators, practitioners and designers from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, whole sessions and poster presentations. Deadline: April 30, 2008. www.ageingdesignmontreal.ca 5/2/2008 Video Killed the Radio Star The aim of this symposium at the University of Sheffield is to investigate how the rules of scholarly endeavour might apply to continually expanding and changing new media. How do conventions and concepts of literacy apply when the material to be read and interpreted shifts within a timescale of less than a generation? In particular, whether and how designers can intelligently appropriate visual material in a way that can be subjected to rigorous and scholarly critique? This inter-disciplinary symposium seeks to explore issues of visual literacy

across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations.

Deadline: May 2, 2008.

E-Mail: s.k.clark@sheffield.ac.uk 5/16/2008 The 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2008) Designing Socially Aware Interactions San Juan, Puerto Rico; December 3-5, 2008 Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and understand the interactions between designing and social intelligence. The workshop’s theme this year on designing socially aware interactions acknowledges the essential need for designing tools, procedures, and techniques to improve the interactions by addressing socially related factors. Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition including design, workspaces, education, e-commerce, entertainment, digital democracy, and other fields are invited to participate.

Deadline: May 16, 2008. cdr.uprrp.edu/SID2008/default.htm

Competitions / Grants 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