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acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture
2007-08 Student Competitions find program and registration details starting on page 4
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ACSA 97th Annual Meeting
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2008 ACSA Administrators Conference 2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar
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2008 Walter Wagner Forum Call for Papers
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First Place Winner 2006-07 AISC Student Design Competition Jason Campigotto, Blake Chamberlain, & Victoria Butzer, Lawrence Technological University
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around the country to serve, and assigned an ACSA board liaison to each group. Nominated members were invited to participate, and many agreed. We also published a call for participants in the January 2007 ACSA News, seeking wider public input regarding issues, and a broader pool of volunteers.
Pascale Vonier, Editor Editorial Offices 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006, USA Tel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448 Website: www.acsa-arch.org ACSA Board of Directors, 2007–2008 Kim Tanzer, RA, President Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Vice President Theodore C. Landsmark, M.Ev.D., JD, PhD, Past President Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, D.Arch, RA, Secretary Graham Livesey, Treasurer Patricia Kucker, EC Director Stephen White, AIA, NE Director Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA, SE Director Russell Rudzinski, SW Director Loraine D. Fowlow, W Director Keelan Kaiser, AIA, WC Director George Baird, Canadian Director Tony Vanky, Associate AIA, Student Director Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director ACSA Mission Statement To advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty, and students. This support involves: • Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline; • Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity; • Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education • Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society. The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0048. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446
At the ACSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia we hosted a working session for the membership, organized primarily according to the newly established task forces. An AIA-sponsored luncheon in Philadelphia also focused on the lead-up to the ARC. This time next year the NAAB Accreditation Review Conference (ARC) will be wrapping up, and all five collateral organizations (ACSA, AIA, AIAS, NCARB and NAAB) will have come to agreement on the shape of architectural accreditation for the next five years. The ACSA began preparing for the conference this time last year, and we have used the 200607 academic year to cast a broad net, seeking input from our membership at every opportunity. We are well aware that, while all the collateral organizations share responsibility for designing and enforcing the accrediting standards, the ACSA represents the people who will implement and be subject to them. Following are the contours of this highly collaborative process.
During the spring and summer of 2007 each topic group wrote a position paper that the ACSA board reviewed at our August meeting. The board requested a final two page summary from each task force by October 1, 2007, and the collection was sent to the three Fall Conferences for discussion and response by conference attendees and faculty councilors. The same package will be shared at the Administrators Conference in early November. During the Fall 2007 ACSA board meeting, responses will be distilled into a coherent set of positions that we will bring to our membership at the Annual Business Meeting in Houston in late March 2008.
Process and Outreach to Members We have used every avenue available to solicit participation from our members.
Based on discussion at this meeting we will forward the ACSA’s formal positions to the National Architectural Accrediting Board for their consideration in early April 2008.
At the November 2006 Administrators Conference Business Meeting, President Ted Landsmark announced the October 2008 ARC and welcomed input from administrators at or after the meeting.
The ACSA now has a Web page and blog devoted to our ARC issues on our site. Visit our home page, www.acsa-arch. org, and review the issues and even post comments on the blog.
The ACSA Board of Directors, which met immediately after the conference, spent several hours developing an initial set of issues we thought our members would support. We created ten topic groups, nominated chairs and members from
The ACSA board’s Architectural Education Committee, co-chaired in 2006-07 by Northeast Director Stephen White and Past President Steven Schreiber and (PRESIDENT’S COLUMN continued on page 4)
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ACSA is working to duplicate research in Europe about the skills that graduates of architecture degree programs should possess. The existing research, called The Tuning Project, is part of efforts by the European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture (ENHSA) to understand the diversity of architecture curricula through common reference points. Educators locate these reference points in the language of learning outcomes and, in particular, in the competencies that students demonstrate, and programs attempt to measure, throughout their education. The ENHSA research, led by Constantin Spiridonidis, of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, involves surveys of architecture educators and heads of firms. The surveys are designed to identify the most highly valued competencies for graduates of architecture degree programs. Firm representatives rate the importance of 34 competencies (see examples below) and the extent to which they believe the competency is developed in the architecture programs that prepare their employees. Educators rate a longer list of competencies, grouped into general, professional, and research types. If you wish to browse the Tuning Project, visit www.enhsa.net and click the Tuning Project link.
Competencies That Educators Rate General Competencies • Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team. • Capacity to apply a spirit of synthesis of ideas and forms. Professional Competencies • Ability to create architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements. • Necessary design skills to meet building users’ requirements within the constraints imposed by cost factors and building regulations. Research Competencies • Critical awareness of the relationship between current architectural discourse and practice and the architecture of the past. • Ability to define research topics which will contribute to knowledge and debate within architecture.
engagement and the acsa by graham livesey and kenneth schwartz
The role of the ACSA is to provide a collective voice for schools of architecture in the United States and Canada and to provide vehicles for teaching, learning, research, and practice for faculty members and students in our schools. Is the ACSA a club? No. Is it seen by some as such? Yes. Does the ACSA suffer from cronyism? Probably, but no more so than other such organizations. Is the ACSA trying to be inclusive and to involve as many member schools and faculty as possible? Yes. Can we become more inclusive? Certainly.
The ACSA Board of Directors has always been committed to attracting new participants in the organization, and has implemented many new vehicles for doing so. The organization is also open to constructive criticism, to new ideas for programs, projects, and methods of delivery, and to adding new participants in our many programs. Some recent initiatives intended to expand member participation include: • Asking the broader membership to propose session topics for the ACSA Annual Meeting • Adding poster sessions as a new venue for presentation at the Annual Meeting • Increasing financial support for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) in its renewed commitment to publishing built and conceptual design projects • Creating task forces composed of ACSA members to advise the ACSA board on issues ranging from governance to peer review to accreditation • Creating a series of readers based on ACSA conference and journal presentations with Routledge. (ACSA held an open call for series editorial board members and continues to encourage proposals readers.) • Encouraging member contributions to the ACSA News and website and increasing information for ACSA members in these venues ACSA seems to cater to some people better than others. Younger faculty seeking tenure and those who are willing to contribute their volunteer time to the many roles in the organization are among those who are most consistently engaged with ACSA. But there are many opportunities afforded by the organization, and we are seeking involvement from those who have not previously been involved or who have not been involved for some time. We are looking for ideas, and for more participation, by tenured and senior faculty members and from anyone else who has felt “left out”. The ACSA provides opportunities for involvement in the schools locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Scholarly opportunities include organizing conferences, giving papers at ACSA conferences, chairing conference sessions, publishing in the JAE, and using ACSA competitions for studio projects. Members also have opportunities to serve as a Faculty Councilor, run for a seat on the board of directors, participate in task forces, and work with collateral and partner organizations. If you or a colleague you know are interested in being more engaged in the ACSA, please contact your school’s Faculty Councilor, your ACSA Regional Director or officer, or the staff at the national office in Washington. The organization can only continue to thrive when there are diverse and committed faculty who are wiling to become involved.
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in 2007-08 by East Central Regional Director Keelan Kaiser, has and will continue to coordinate the ACSA’s efforts. The ACSA Topic Groups We formulated topic groups based on our understanding of issues of continuing or emerging interest in architectural education. Current topic groups, and their chairs, are: • Architecture as a Discipline (leader: Kendra Schank Smith) • Community Responsibility & Society (Marilys Nepomechie) • Global Change (Tony Vanky, Andrew Caruso, Kim Tanzer) • Integrated Practice/Comprehensive Design (Renee Cheng) • Interiors (Brian Kernaghan, Anders Nereim) • Internship (Catherine McNeel) • Sustainability (Walter Grondzik) • Urban Design (George Baird) The ACSA Core Principles Recognizing that the topic groups, above, offer an à la carte series of important but disconnected issues, the ACSA board sought to underpin them with a simple conceptual foundation—principles we believe most of our members support. Moving from most specific to most general, in a pedagogical sense, these are the ability to: 1. Design the technical and creative aspects of building projects in appropriate media; 2. Lead interdisciplinary projects ethically, collaboratively, and responsibly; 3 Be active stewards of the environment; 4. Think and act critically; and 5. Work in a nurturing, engaging, safe environment.
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As we begin to develop imageable positions to present to our colleagues within the collateral organizations we will be guided by these principles, which we believe remain constant despite changes in technology and political and legal climates and the rapidly emerging changes in our global context. Collateral Collaborations and Positions As the ACSA has reach inward to receive and stimulate input from our membership we have also reached outward, working with the collateral organizations to find consensus and understand and respond to critical points of difference.
The ACSA hosted the Five Presidents Meeting in May 2007 and organized a lengthy discussion about the future of architectural education, working backwards from the world we imagine we will inhabit in 2025. This discussion led to a recognition of common goals we shared for the next generation’s graduates. The ACSA board and membership have met with representatives from collaterals in a variety of other contexts, and have heard and responded to their initial topics of interest. These topics include sustainability, leadership, streamlining the internship process, and focusing on integrated practice, among others. The leaders of each organization have also met with the ACSA membership in a variety of forums. The NAAB reports it is developing a Web page on its website at www.naab.org that will contain a variety of information, including a results of a survey with over 1,000 participants, position papers by collateral organizations, and other pertinent materials. In addition, the NAAB has created a series of crosscutting task forces dedicated to exploring the future of accreditation in a global context, in every sense of the word. Populated by people from each collateral, include ACSA members, these task forces are: • • • •
The Future of Architecture Education Regulatory Issues Accreditation Issues Student Learning Criteria & Related Conditions & Procedures
NAAB’s President-elect Bruce Blackmer and President Wayne Drummond are working hard to ensure a strong, research based lead-in to the 2008 ARC. How You Can Participate The ACSA continues to welcome input from our members. As I said at the outset, we are the group in this process with the most at stake. As this summary demonstrates, the ACSA has sought to work inclusively with our membership, and collaboratively with our collateral partners. We will continue to do so for the next 365 days. After reviewing the ACSA website and the NAAB website, if you believe we’ve missed something, or if you see clouds on the horizon, let us know. Keelan Kaiser’s email address is kkaiser@judsoncollege.edu. Undine Hunt, the ACSA staff member tracking the ARC process, can be reached at uhunt@acsa-arch. org. You can reach me at tanzer@ufl.edu. We await your responses.
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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 will be online beginning December 2007.
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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
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 will be online beginning December 2007.
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Nature Center on Chicago’s Northerly Island Using Metal in Construction METAL CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION Deadline for entries: 5 pm, November 5, 2007
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FIRST PRIzE Team/Individual: School: Faculty Sponsor:
For a competition brochure, contact: Metal Construction Association—Student Competition 4700 W. Lake Avenue Glenview, IL 60025 847/375-4718 • Fax 877/665-2234 mca@metalconstruction.org • www.metalconstruction.org
Cash prizes totaling $7,800 will be awarded to the winning students, the faculty sponsors, and their schools. $ 2,500 $ 1,500 $ 500
SECOND PRIzE Team/Individual: School: Faculty Sponsor:
$ 1,500 $ 750 $ 250
ThIRD PRIzE Team/Individual: School: Faculty Sponsor:
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This metal-in-construction competition challenges entrants to address architectural, structural, functional, cultural, and environmental issues in the design of various facilities at the Nature Center of Northerly Island. These facilities should utilize sheet metal and other metal materials, as well as metal structural members. The proposed project will be located on Northerly Island, a 91-acre peninsula that sits on the shoreline of Lake Michigan just south of downtown Chicago. The design should be sensitive to the purpose of the center as well as the context and activities surrounding this location, which is adjacent to the Museum Campus, a popular attraction for families and students.
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Seeking the City Visionaries on the margins
Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the margins of mind and space. Cities and civilization have been inextricably linked throughout history, and the architecture of the city has been an expression of civilization’s highest collective achievements. But in recent decades cities have become hollow: Shifting social and economic pressures are challenging traditional urban forms and rituals, while new communications technologies have changed the nature of the social and physical network within which people dwell. A global and generic megalopolis is the city’s future. The city exists at a collision of forces of power. Globalization has given rise to a search for identity in a world of blurred boundaries. Spatially, this teeming agglomeration of people densely accommodated does not follow conventional planning
methods; the ubiquity of electronic communications replaces face to face contact, and the nonplace realm grows with an energy that eludes control. Corporations see the city as a commodity and aggressively deploy their brands everywhere, draining away diversity while defending their profits at all cost. Meanwhile, classes of citizens struggle to find their place in the economic and social milieu of the metropolis, challenging globalizing forces with grassroots, community-based efforts. Architects and planners play only marginal roles of corrective interventions. How can we understand the emerging city and mitigate cultural, economic and spatial conflict in the fluid and pluralistic society? What roles can architecture and architects play? What visions will emerge from the margins to nurture sustainable dwelling places and promote diversity of people, of ideas, and of possibilities?
Deadline—November 12, 2007 Poster sessions are a fixture at many scholarly meetings. They offer an informal setting for thinkers and scholars to share emerging research and speculators to explore new directions. Typically, presenters exhibit posters illustrating their work for others to study and comment upon in direct oneon-one dialogue.
From a number of general areas in which architectural scholars work we have identified several that we hope embrace the research and creative work of a majority of our members. Because each of these areas utilizes distinct methods of inquiry, we encourage the submission of posters relying on textual, quantitative, graphic and/or spatial evidence. We recognize that research is often done in the context of studio teaching and such research is also encouraged. The thematic areas are listed below.
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Materials In recent years the convergence of new manufacturing processes and new materials has led to a proliferation of material studies with spatial, economic and societal implications. In addition, traditional materials and their methods of fabrication continue to hold interest for researchers and offer new information to the construction industry.
Building behaviors Sustainability has led to a renewed interest in the behaviors of buildings, particularly related to energy usage. In addition, lighting, acoustical responsiveness and structural stability are increasingly at the foreground of public interest.
Media Investigations Theories and practices of media and representation, ranging from historic drawing techniques to contemporary digital modalities, are critical to the production of architectural ideas. Scholars and designers often focus their inquiries on this key link in the design process.
Design research in the studio context The studio is the traditional core of the architecture school. The 1996 Boyer Report on architectural education described it as the “holy of holies” of architectural education: “these studios scruffy though they may be are models for creative learning that others on campus might well think about.” Since the Boyer report was written design has become a hot transdisciplinary phenomenon, putting the architecture studio in an enviable position relative to our peers in the academy. This topic might include research done on the design studio or research done in the design studio.
Urbanism Designers and scholars study and engage the differences between private and public, individual and societal spaces, incorporating buildings and public space in a variety of scales and densities within an increasingly global context. Two well-developed research trajectories are smart growth and new urbanism, and we solicit posters from our members working in these areas. In addition, we are seeking proposals that redefine architecture, urban design, city planning, and life in the cyber-age, in unexpected terms. We recognize that positions taken today may be located on the periphery of the architectural discourse but are poised to make a significant impact tomorrow.
Housing As the planet’s population grows it becomes increasingly imperative that housing effectively provide appropriate shelter with reduced means. Housing research varies from historic and emerging typologies to urban and social concerns to evolving family types, all set in a global arena of cultural confluences. Research and design projects in all these areas are encouraged. Poster Submission Requirements The poster submission site will be open on August 20, 2007. Authors will submit a 500-word abstract and a PDF or JPEG of the poster (not to exceed 20” x 30” portrait orientation). Abstracts need to be formatted for blind peer review, as well as the posters. submit online at: www.acsa-arch.org
Open An Open Submission will accommodate promising research posters that do not fall into any of these areas. Timeline Aug 20: Online poster submission site opens Nov 12: Poster submission deadline Dec 03: Accept/reject notifications sent to all authors Jan 09: Poster presenter registration deadline
Accepted poster authors will have a 20” x 30” (portrait orientation) space on a tack board on which to post materials. Authors must stand at their posters during presentation time to discuss them with other participants. Posters are not required to be mounted; a flat tackable surface and tacks will be provided. Other materials for presentation are the responsibility of the authors. Accepted authors will be notified by December 3, 2007 and must register for the conference by January 7, 2008 in order to be included in the proceedings.
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History/Theory Scholarship on historic architects, settings, periods and themes occurs in a variety of research modalities. In addition ideas of design epistemology are often reflected in essays falling under this broad rubric.
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Architecture in an expanded field, interiors to landscape Scholarship and design-based investigations situated at the architectural scale often slip toward the space of the room or the expanse of the site. Indeed some of the most often studied projects of recent years operate within this larger field of space making. This topic seeks to provide a home for work beyond the precise scale of the building.
special focus sessions AIA 150 Blueprint for America: Town and Gown collaborations Moderator: Marvin Malecha, North Carolina State U, AIA First Vice President/President-Elect Panelists: Anthony Costello, Professor Emeritus, Ball State U 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the modern American Institute of Architects. In celebration thereof, the Institute set about three initiatives, including the Blueprint for America, whose aim is to demonstrate the value of design and professional service for the benefit of local communities. To date, over 100 AIA components have engaged in community-driven planning and improvement projects across the nation. Many of these projects feature collaborations between AIA chapters and schools of architecture. The projects presented in this session represent the best of these, as they fulfill the promise of both towngown cooperation and the AIA 150 BFA Program.
Affordable Housing Education Moderator: TBD Panelists: TBD The ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award is granted jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects, Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Committee (AIA, HCR KC) to recognize the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities. The award will be granted for the first time in fall 2007. This session will include presentations from award-winners in two categories—Excellence in Housing Design Curriculum, and Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity—as well as a summary of the results of the ACSA Affordable Housing Education Survey. Moderators: Task Force Chair Tom Barrie, North Carolina State University and Michaele Pride, University of Cincinnati.
Architectural Research Centers Consortium: Is the Academy Ready? Moderator: TBD Panelists: TBD This session focuses on the pedagogical and academic dimensions of “Integrated Practice”. This intriguing national curricular issue will be discussed through the framework of the following questions: What are the innovative course-models that are successfully meeting the challenge of “Integrated Practice”? How should schools introduce this new subject matter and related practice-based design tools and technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM)? What are the research dimensions of integrated practice? Are there inherent sustainability efficiencies and advantages built into the understanding of this process? A distinguished panel of educators and practitioners will discuss these questions and present their insights and experiences. Best practices among schools and architectural firms pioneering this concept will be explored.
Constructing Houston: Culture and the Built Environment Moderator: Rafael Longoria, U of Houston Presenters: Stephen Fox, Anchorage Foundation of Texas: Houston and the Menil Aesthetic; Stephen Klineberg, Rice University: Questioning Houston Respondents: Adele Santos, MIT*; Josef Helfenstein, Menil Collection; Rick Lowe, Project Row Houses* Founded by land speculators in 1836, immediately after Texas was separated from Mexico, Houston is now the fourth largest city in the United States. This panel will provide a variety of perspectives on the culture and built environment of this elusive city that straddles the border between the old South and the new West.
From Canvas to Communities Moderator: William D. Williams, U of Virginia Panelists: TBD This session will discuss the role of artists and architects in community development and preservation, as exemplified by ongoing initiatives in three Houston communities—Freedman’s Town, the Fifth Ward, and Project Row Houses—all of whom are caught in a redevelopment struggle with development and gentrification. Are artists and architects merely unwitting agents of unwanted change? How/can design and the creative spirit really make a difference?
Pathogenesis and the Urban Laboratory Moderator: Bruce Webb, U of Houston Panelists: Carlos Jimenez, Jimenez Studio, Rice U Peter Cook, Bartlett School of Architecture*; Graham Livesey, U of Calgary; Trevor Boddy, Architect/Critic, Vancouver; Lars Lerup, Dean, School of Architecture, Rice U What if we were to listen to Reyner Banham’s alternative manifesto that the city is very much a scrambled egg, or the situationists critique that the city has collapsed into streams of images sanctioned by business and bureaucracy, or Paul Virilio’s assessment that speed, ubiquity, instantaneousness dissolve the city and displace it in time, or that Houston is really a high stakes Monopoly board game as Reyner Banham suggested, or Baudrillard’s assertion that the technological city is little more than a gigantic circulating, ventilating and ephemeral connecting space where the scene and the mirror have given way to the screen and the network?
The End of Architecture Revisited Moderator: Dietmar Froehlich, U of Houston Panelists: Trevor Boddy, Architect/Critic, Vancouver; Bruce Sterling, Sci-fi Writer, Italy*; Peter Cook, Bartlett School of Architecture*; Roger Connah, Writer/Architect, Wales*; Michelangelo Sabatino, Architectural Historian, U of Houston Speculating about the end of something is almost as common as dreaming up new beginnings. Nothing lasts forever: One thing gives way to another, or disappears like a creature lost to natural selection, or becomes so radically altered that it is no longer recognizable by its old name and definition. Such speculations were at the heart of the Vi-
t r a n s l a t i o n: from understanding to misreading and back again Moderator: TBD Panelists: TBD Teaching requires one to translate their experiences into models and lessons for their students. This is particularly true for beginning design students, for whom broad concepts and complex methods must be translated into more simple terms to ease understanding and acquisition. Though a selection of papers presented at the 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this session will explore aspects of translation related to curriculum, pedagogy, and process in the teaching of beginning design.
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GalvestoN, TEXAS is a small romantic island tucked deep within the heart of south Texas possessing all the charm of a small southern town with its soft sandy beaches to famous 19th century architecture. Tour Guide: Dwayne Jones Menil Collection is a unique museum designed by Renzo Piano, located in the Museum District housing the collection of John and Dominique de Menil. The museum building is the centerpiece of a neighborhood featuring satellite gallery spaces and related cultural instituitons set in a parklike setting. Cy Twombly Gallery designed by Renzo Piano, has a sophisticated roofing system that allows for an even diffusion of natural light, being dispersed within the galleries by the stretched cotton fabric ceiling. The building houses more than thirty of Twombly’s paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, dating from 1953 to 1994. Tour Guide: Ronnie Self
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Downtown Houston contains the headquarters of many prominent companies, major performing arts facilities, the Historical District, and a diverse collection of high-rises. There is also an extensive network of pedestrian tunnels and skywalks connecting the buildings of the district. Tour Guide: Michelangelo Sabatino Rothko Chapel designed by Phillip Johnson, is a non-denominational chapel founded the de Menil’s. The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art. Byzantine Fresco Chapel designed by Francois de Menil, is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the entire western hemisphere. the Quaker Meeting House is the conception of James Turrell, a well-known artist, and designed by Leslie Elkins. Tour Guide: Nora Laos Rice University occupies a distinctive, tree-shaded, nearly 300-acre campus only a few miles from downtown Houston, with many architecturally significant buildings. Tour Guide: Drexel Turner
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enna conference convened in 1993 by Peter Noever in which seven, radical young architects, most of the now eminent, mused and fretted about the fate of their profession that no longer seemed vital or respected. The conference ended in a spirit of renewal, architecture did not end, but that’s not to say the question has been put to rest. At an earlier time Michel Foucault noted the how architects have been caught in a paradigm shift in which they are marginalized: “Architects are not the engineers or technicians of the three great variables: territory, communication and speed.” What then is left? Politicians, technocrats, developers, bankers, and builders are in control. Reactionary trends grow more popular; architecture has distanced itself from the real problems of a world culture and the mega- urban environment. Except for a cadre of “Starchitects,” rock star like luminaries of the profession, architecture is retreating from public consciousness. And the proliferation of entertainment culture and the virtual world has nudged architecture further into the background. This panel will explore the mission and definition of the architecture profession in the future.
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Art Deco lightrail/walking tour This tour will highlight many of the Art Deco buildings along the light rail system. The Main Street line is the first phase of a projected 73 miles of light rail service in Houston with completion schedule in 2025. Tour Guide: self guided, maps provided by Rice Design Alliance/ Celeste Williams University of houston Tour Guide: Stephen James.
hotel information Doubletree Houston Downtown 400 Dallas Street Houston, Texas 77002 Tel: 713.759.0202 www.doubletree.com Rate: Single/Double – US $145
The freshly renovated Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown is a full service hotel centrally located on the edge of downtown in the heart of Houston’s business and financial district. Convenient sky-bridges connect the hotel to the Allen Center buildings and Heritage Plaza. Also, the Doubletree is connected to downtown Houston’s underground tunnel system. You must call hotel directly to make your reservation and to receive the special conference rate, mention the ACSA Annual Meeting and book by February 23, 2008.
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houston ship channel and harbor is a diversified complex public and private facilities which has been instrumental in the city of Houston’s development as a center of international trade. It is also home to a $15 billion petrochemical complex, the largest in the nation and second largest worldwide.
keynote speakers thursday evening—rice university, physics amphitheater
Richard Sennett London School of Economics
Richard Sennett is a professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT. In the school, he teaches in the Cities Programme and trains doctoral students in the sociology of culture. His three most recent books are studies of modern capitalism: The Culture of the New Capitalism, (Yale, 2006), Respect in an Age of Inequality, (Penguin, 2003) and The Corrosion of Character, (Norton 1998). He is currently writing a book on craftmanship. Professor Sennett has been awarded the Amalfi and the Ebert prizes for sociology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the Academia Europea. He is past president of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Saskia Sassen is now at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago and London School of Economics. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization. (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers). Her books are translated into sixteen languages. Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.
saturday evening—university of houston*
Elizabeth Diller Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
Charles Renfro Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
2008 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Recipient
Elizabeth Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Their work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. DS+R is currently working on various projects for Lincoln Center such as the Julliard School, Alice Tully Hall, and the School of American Ballet; The High Line, a park situated on the obsolete railway running through the Chelsea neighborhood of New York; and the Kopp Townhouse, a private residence in Manhattan. DS+R’s new building for the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art opened in December 2006. DS+R has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first in the field of architecture; the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; the Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from MIT; an Obie Award for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for their multi-media theater work, “Jet Lag”; and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the “Blur Building,” a building made of fog for the Swiss Expo 2002. Diller is Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University. *Lecture sponsored by Tau sigma delta
Charles Renfro joined Diller + Scofidio in 1997 and was promoted to partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 2004. As a collaborator with Diller+Scofidio, he has served as Project Leader on Brasserie, Eyebeam, the BAM master plan (with Rem Koolhaas/OMA), Blur, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, and the redesign and expansion of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts among other projects. Prior to joining DS+R, Renfro was an associate at Smith-Miller Hawkinson Architects where he was project architect on several commercial and cultural facilities, and Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He was a founding partner of Department of Design in Brooklyn. His independent art and architectural work has been exhibited in several galleries including the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the Farish Gallery and Rice University Art Gallery in Houston. His writing has been published in Bomb and A+U magazines. Renfro is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s GSAPP. He has been on the faculty of Columbia since 2000.
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Host School University of Oregon Co-chairs Mark Gillem, U. of Oregon Phoebe Crisman, U. of Virginia
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Recent cultural changes have placed architects in a promising position to initiate positive change through design insight and proactive practice. Greater concern for the environment, the desire for a heightened sense of place and sensory experience, technological advances, the increasing importance of visual images in communication, and interdisciplinary collaborations all create favorable conditions for design innovation. As the disciplinary limits of architecture continue to expand, architects and architecture students are faced with the difficult and exhilarating challenge of synthesizing complex issues and diverse knowledge through physical design across many scales.
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By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more significant within society. o What social value does design have for individual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have beyond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What pedagogical value does design education offer to other disciplines? o What are the ways in which design education can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?
These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Portland is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Architects there have worked collaboratively with other professions to transform Portland into a vibrant, diverse, and livable city that highlights the multiple benefits of design. They have worked with transportation engineers to develop a comprehensive public transit system that focuses development in a predictable way. They have collaborated with landscape architects to ensure that public open space is a priority in the heart of the city and at its edges. They have teamed with urban designers, interior designers, and developers to create memorable settings and buildings that capture the spirit of the place. Within this intellectual and physical context, we ask conference participants to consider the multiple values of design for our discipline, our profession, and our society.
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Call for Session Topics Stage One Deadline for Session Topic Proposals: January 4, 2008
The ACSA Annual Meeting serves as a forum for discussion and speculation related to the meeting theme, as well as the exploration of a broad scope of research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty members have the opportunity both to propose session topics and to submit papers related to a range of given topics.
Topic proposals may, for example, address questions relating to history, theory, criticism, design, digital media, technology, pedagogy, construction, materials, practice, society, and culture. Session Topic proposals may also cut across traditional categories or address emerging issues. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused. Each proposal should clearly identify its subject, premise, and scope of the proposed Session Topic. Session Topic Selection Process Session Topics are selected through a blind peer review process. In addition to the blind process, the conference co-chairs may identify additional session topics and moderators. The selection process takes into consideration both the merits of the Session Topic proposals, as well as the importance of organizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting. The authors of the Session Topics selected in the first stage will serve as Session Topic Chairs for their respective sessions. Working in collaboration with the conference co-chairs, their responsibilities include: maintaining a blindreview process for all papers submitted during the entire review process; enlisting three blind reviewers for each of the papers submitted to their Session Topic; recommending final papers for presentation; and moderating their respective sessions during the Annual Meeting. Eligibility All Session Topic Chairs must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members by September 1 of the academic year during which the Annual Meeting will occur. Prospective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Session Topic proposal. Please visit the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch. org, to obtain detailed instructions and template for submitting a topic. The deadline to submit a Session Topic is January 4, 2008.
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November 6-10, 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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Gangnam, Seoul Office Building, TY PETERSON, University of Hawai’i School of Architecture
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The Department of Architecture is pleased to welcome Marc N. Cabrinha, Elizabeth Golden, Hulett J. Jones, Chandrika Vardhan Jajjia, Ansgar M. Killing, Marc J. Neveu, Eric T. Nulman, Troy N. Peters, and Bryan S. Ridley as new faculty. They have joined the department in a variety of teaching and research capacities for the academic year 2007-08. Lecturer Richard Beller will be teaching during the academic year 2007-08 at the Cal Poly – Washington Alexandria Architectural Consortium (WAAC). Assistant Department Head Bruno Giberti has been appointed Associate Department Head for Student Affairs for the Architecture Department. Associate Professor Michael Lucas presented
last August a paper titled “Safeguarding suspected urban archeological sites” at the 2007 Pecos Conference on Southwest Archeology, Pecos National Historic Park, New Mexico. Assistant Professor Stephen Phillips and architect Guillermo Yanguez from Berlin will be joining ten students of our program at the 2007 November Herbstakademie Workshop in Neukloster, Germany. Professor Emeritus Larry Loh and James Bagnall have returned to the Architecture Department for the Fall and Winter quarters. We are delighted to welcome them back. Professor William Benedict and Professor Sandra Miller have been named Professor Emeriti of the Architecture Department. We thank them wholeheartedly for their dedication and inspiration to generation of students.
Professor Terry Hargrave has retired from the Architecture Department and will be teaching every fall quarter under the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP). Trained at Washington State University and MIT, Professor Hargrave joined Cal Poly in 1978. Through his unconditional interest towards the well being of his students, he has inspired generations of alumni to become creative and idealistic thinkers as they pursue their architectural oriented careers. He has been generous in nurturing his students, colleagues, and administrators over his long tenure at Cal Poly, and we look forward to his continuous presence during his FERP years with us. Professor Sandy Miller has retired from the Architecture Department and will be teaching every fall and spring quarter under the Faculty (WEST continued on page 18)
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Early Retirement Program (FERP). Professor Miller initiated and directed the San Francisco Urban Design Internship Program for the Architecture Department. She has taught and mentored her students with great passion and love, and has enabled generations of alumni to be prepared to accept the highest professional responsibilities in many of the leading architectural firms in San Francisco and the Bay Area. We look forward to Professor Miller’s continued involvement and guidance over the next five years. University of Oregon Corey Griffin has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor after a successful structures faculty search. Corey has spent the last two years in Bozeman, Montana teaching design studios, building technology and structural engineering in the School of Architecture at Montana State University. Corey will be teaching structures, an advanced technology elective and introductory design.
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Assistant Professor Nico Larco has been awarded a $28,000 grant from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) to continue his research on ‘Fringe Urbanism’ and suburban multifamily housing. His project studies this overlooked example of density in suburbia and investigates changes in its design and development that can lead to more integrated environments. Professor Larco has also received a grant from the Yamauchi fund and from the Department of Architecture to support a Fall design studio on this topic. The funding will be used to take students to Phoenix, Arizona to visit prominent multifamily projects and a number of architectural firms. Professor James Tice recieved a 65K Old Masters in Context Grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for a traveling exhibition scheduled to open in the Winter of 2009 entitled “Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour.” The exhibit focuses on urban views of the city by this 18th century artist which are also geo-referenced to the 1748 Nolli map of Rome using GIS technology. The University of Minnesota Press recently published America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire by Assistant Professor Mark L. Gillem.
His book, which is the result of extensive fieldwork in Asia and Europe, examines the spatial, social, and political impacts of exporting suburban patterns of development to American military bases overseas. He has given lectures on the book in the Middle East, Europe, and across the United States. Associate Professor Kevin Nute has been promoted to full professor. Dr. Nute received both the University’s John Yeon and Van Evera Bailey faculty research awards this year, and will deliver the Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art at the LA County Museum of Art this December. Assistant Professor Brook Muller was an invited scholar-in-residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and School of Architecture at Taliesin East in Spring Green, Wisconsin in August 2007. Assistant Professor Mark L. Gillem has recently been awarded several grants to support his research and studio teaching. He received $75,000 from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to continue a City Design lecture series and to study the relationship between multi-way boulevards and more sustainable patterns of land use. His Winter 2007 studio received a grant from the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects to conduct field research on riverfront development. And his Spring 2007 studio received a grant to support its field research into mixed-use buildings. The students in these studios also helped coordinate two public charrettes this spring as part of the AIA150 celebration in Eugene and Springfield. Results of the workshops can be seen at www. franklincorridor.org. Associate Professor Hajo Neis, director of the Portland Architecture Program, arranged for a cooperation and sponsorship of the 45th annual International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Conference, which was held at the Governor Hotel in Portland in June. The University of Oregon will launch the first product design degree program available to undergraduate students in the state in the fall of 2008. The new program in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts will award a four-year bachelor’s degree and a five-year bachelor of fine arts degree. The cross-disciplinary program
will combine courses and studios in the humanities, cultural anthropology, business, art and architecture with specific coursework in product design. Students can apply for admission before Feb. 1, 2008. Initial industry partners include Columbia Sportswear, ZIBA Design, NIKE, Sandstrom Design and Intel. The partners will provide advice and internships and will participate in joint projects. University of Southern California New faculty this semester at the USC School of Architecture include Rachel Berney ASLA, Lauren Matchison, Scott Mitchell, Denise Zacky, Mario Cipresso, Bung Ko, Chet Widom FAIA, Ying-Yu Hung ASLA, Peter Zellner, Sandra Brown, Vinayak Bharne, Karen Adnoff ASLA, Michael McGowan ASLA, Gerdo Aquino ASLA, Ann Gray FAIA, Mahmoud Gharachedaghi FAIA, Tomlinson Holman, Ray Kappe FAIA, Christy McAvoy, Jon Mills AIA, Judith Mussel, Aaron Ragan, Marcello Sgambelluri, and Bryant Yeh. Mario Cipresso and Chris Warren will be lecturing on October 18th at LACE Gallery in Hollywood as part of the LA Forum’s “Out There Doing It” series, presenting the ideas and work of their firm, Studio Shift. Founder Maro Cipresso relaunched the “Death by Architecture” website this year. USC has established a graduate overseas program and sent the first group to Hainan, China this summer. Students from Columbia University and Tongji University participated in Hainan. This program joins our three undergraduate overseas programs in Italy, France and Asia/Malaysia. Prof. G G Schierle, PhD, FAIA has a new book, Structures in Architecture, posted online at: www.usc.edu/structures and his presentation, Design for Earthquake Safety, is also posted at the AIA web site: http://www.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/conted_SA04.pdf. Ann Gray FAIA of Balcony Press is the recipient, with Pacific Institute, of a Conrad N Hilton Foundtion grant for publication of a book entitled Water is Key: A Better Future for Africa and a companion exhibit of the West Africa photographs of Gil Garcetti. www.balconypress. com. Books are available for NGOs to use as the basis for events and fundraising for African water projects.
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Student work from University of Hawai’i School of Architecture: Historic Maui - Mantokuji Soto Japanese Temple in Paia, 1921
Professor Victor Regnier, FAIA, was honored as the 2007 USC Distinguished Alumnus for his exemplary research, teaching and professional work in the area of housing for mentally and physically frail older people. Mark Gangi is currently in the conceptual design phase of Burbank Classical Arts Center Performing Arts / Dance / Music / Radio Station / Mixed Use Facility. This summer he curated an exhibit titled ‘Spotlight on Modernism’ - a
Survey of Modern Architecture in the Pasadena area of Southern California. Mark Gangi and Prof. Michael Lehrer, FAIA, received an AIAPF 2007 Honor Award for his project “Museums of Water + Life.” (note: this was the only honor award from 80 entries) USC Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter is collaborating with Prof. Marc Bernstein from the new USC Energy Institute on the Sustainable Infrastructure Assessment for the Island of Catalina
to develop a Baseline Resource and Infrastructure Action Plan and Near-term Infrastructure Scenarios. Prof. Spiegelhalters solar powered, “Eco-friendly Building” in Breisach, Germany, was recently featured on the HGTV-channel in the US TV 26 part series of the “World’s Most Extreme Homes”. The feature was produced by Pioneer Productions in London and comprised post-occupancy data and user interviews of how the building performs.
west central Visiting Associate Professor Antony Wood, RIBA was interviewed on CNN Canada in September on the Business News Network. Wood, who is Executive Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at IIT, discussed the economic viability of super scrapers. The September 2007 Chicago magazine’s article on “10 New Chicago Masterpieces” listed Assistant Professor John Ronan’s Gary Comer Youth Center and IIT’s State Street Village (Murphy/ Jahn Architects) as in the top ten. Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Geiger reviewed Chicago’s Urban Nature: A Guidebook to the City’s Architecture and Landscape by Sally
A. Kitt Chappell in the September 2007 issue of Landscape Architecture magazine. Architecture Director of Research Resources Matthew Cook and Illinois Institute of Technology Librarian Christopher Stewart received a grant for a “Green Technology Collection Enhancement Partnership” in the subject of Green Architecture and Landscape Design from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois for fiscal year 2008. Instructor Blake Davis received an IIT Teaching Grant for Innovative Faculty for his project “The Cast Paper Dome: An Opportunity to Develop New Materials and Construction Techniques for Sustainable Building.”
Iowa State University The College of Design and Sioux City Great Places Committee hosted a grand opening celebration for the ISU Design West Studio Sept. 22, in Sioux City. The studio facility is at 1014½ Fourth St. The event began with a brief news conference followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours of the facility. The ISU Design West studio is a new satellite program of the College of Design. It expands regional educational opportunities in the design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, graphic design and interior design. The program is a partnership of the College of Design, Iowa State University Extension, and Sioux City, supported in part by an Iowa Great Places grant.
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east Central Ball State University Dr. Carol Flores, professor of architecture, has received the BSU Outstanding Faculty Award. She is also an internationally recognized scholar focusing on aesthetics, meaning and symbolism of architecture and their relationship to culture. Her scholarship has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize. Recently her book, Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture and Theory in the Age of Transition, was published by Rizzoli International and named by The Architects’ Journal as one of the “10 best books of the year.” Consistently she also meets community service obligations, as evidenced by her many presentations to civic organizations and her presidency of the Muncie Art Student League. Dr. Antonieta Angulo has been recently appointed as Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Architecture at Ball State University. Her previous academic affiliations include Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and Texas A&M University. Dr. Angulo’s research work is in the field of design education with an emphasis on the application of digital technology, and her teaching responsibilities are mainly in the field of visualization and design.
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The Design Communication Association Conference 2007 took place in Muncie and Indianapolis, Indiana, last September, hosted by the College of Architecture and Planning. Chaired by associate dean and professor Michel Mounayar, the DCA meeting offered a new opportunity to explore and develop a fresh conversation about issues that shape our understanding of contemporary communication. Under the theme Flow / Filter / Feeling / Function / Focus conference organizers were particularly interested in bridging and connecting to the multi-faceted community that engages in design or communication. To learn more details about the conference visit www. designcomm.org Michael Gibson has joined the College of Architecture and Planning faculty at Ball State University as an instructor teaching in the second year curriculum for the 2007-2008 academic
year. Gibson will also be working within the Institute for Digital Fabrication at BSU’s Center for Media Design as a research fellow. Originally Midwesterner and Miami (OH) alum, Michael arrived from the Boston area, where he received his M.Arch from the GSD at Harvard and worked in the office of Paul Lukez. Walter Grondzik has joined the Department of Architecture as a professor. His areas of primary responsibility include building environmental systems and studio integration. Grondzik is co-author of The Green Studio Handbook and the 10th edition of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, and editor for the 2nd edition of ASHRAE’s Air-Conditioning System Design Manual. Instructors Jason Johnson and Wil Marquez -with Sam Alcorn, exhibited Catch and Release Part 1 at the Scripted by Purpose Exhibit. The exhibit opened September 7th in the F.U.E.L. Gallery in Philadelphia. The project uses the scripting of solar data to create a serially varied set of prototypes for a solar responsive pavilion. To learn more about the exhibit visit www. scriptedbypurpose.net. Johnson and Marquez also presented Catch and Release Part 2, a solar responsive pavilion, as part of the Aesthesia; the UN Ocular Effect symposium at Southern Illinois University on September 29th. The presentation included a full scale digitally generated and fabricated pavilion for the accompanying exhibit at the SIU Museum of Art. Funding and fabrication facilities for both exhibits were provided by the Institute for Digital Fabrication. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY The College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Jonathan Fleming has been granted tenure. The CAED is also pleased to announce the appointment of Assistant Professor Jason Turnidge. Professor Turnidge will lead the college initiatives in the area of Digital Design & Fabrication and will supervise the creation of the new CAED Digital Media Lab. Prof. Turnidge and Assistant Professor Kathryn Strand were
recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the Art-City & Peepshow International Rupture ‘Live’ Architecture Competition. Their design for the Ceruti House, co-authored with CAED Professor Thomas Stauffer, received the Architecture Magazine 2006 House of the Year Award. Adjunct Professor Elizabeth Murphy has led her HABS (Historic American Building Survey) class to win the First Prize in the 2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize. This is the fifth time in the last eight years that Prof. Murphy has led her historic preservation class to win the first prize in such a contest. Adjunct Professor Gary Sampson (who teaches a class at CAED on “Theory and Culture of Design”) was awarded a Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Scholarship for Fall 2007 at Case Western Reserve University and participated in the related seminar on the theme “Cityscapes”. Promoted to full Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art in May, Prof. Sampson co-chaired in April (with Saul Ostrow) the conference “Art/ Design/Knowledge: Developing a Leadership Position in Graduate Education”, funded by the Cleveland Foundation. Professor Sampson chaired a session of the College Art Association annual conference in February on the meaning of photography in contemporary culture and lectured in June at The Cleveland Museum of Art on “Ansel Adams and Group f64”, in conjunction with the jointly sponsored Cleveland Museum of Art / Cleveland Institute of Art show “Ansel Adams: A Legacy”. Adjunct Professor Pete Shannon will have an encyclopedia article being published this January 2008 in: Exploring America History from Colonial Times to 1877, Marshall Cavendish Publishers. LAWRENCE TECHnological university Architecture students Grant Helmcamp and Stuart Johnson took first place in the American Society of Heating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 2007 Sustainable Architecture Competition held in San Francisco. Their winning entry was a sustainable laboratory building in New York City, which they developed as part of the Sustainability Studio taught by Associate Profes-
Lawrence Tech took first place in the 200607 annual steel design student competition sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Students from more than 50 universities submitted more than 400 entries in two major categories. Lawrence Tech won the competition for designing a museum of steel for Pittsburgh’s Carry Furnace. Lawrence Tech students Jason Campigotto, Blake Chamberlain and Victoria Butzer won with their entry, [inter] + syncopation, which integrated a new building with the existing bridge. Dr. Rochelle Martin, Associate Professor, was the team’s faculty sponsor. Lawrence Tech students also took first place in the same category in 2006. A team of graduate students, Brian Leung, Laura Roberts, and Nicholas Shango, where awarded an Honorable Mention in the New York 2007 Tower Museum in Manhattan international design competition. The competition was organized by Arquitectum, an organization centered in Spain. The project was completed in the graduate studio lead by Betsy and Shane Wil-
liamson of WilliamsonWilliamson and coordinated by Assistant Professor Philip Plowright. Support faculty were Dr. Rochelle Martin, Dr. Virginia North, and Adjunct Professors Diaan van der Westhuizen and Elizabeth Keslacy. Dr. Dale Allen Gyure, Associate Professor, presented a paper on “’The crowning feature of our system:’ Late-Nineteenth-Century High School Architecture as the Public Face of American Middle Class Aspiration,” at the Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Adjunct Professor James Conway co-authored a book on Detroit’s Historic Fort Wayne, which was recently published by Arcadia Publishing. Dr. Joongsub Kim, RA, AIA, AICP, Associate Professor of Architecture, published an article entitled “Perceiving and Valuing Sense of Community in a New Urbanist Development: A Case Study of Kentlands” in Journal of Urban Design. Dr. Kim also directed a youth program entitled “Kids’ Farms: Sustainable Community Design” this past summer in collaboration with several middle/high schools in Detroit’s underserved communities. This program was funded by the American Architectural Foundation in Washington, D.C., and conducted at The Detroit Studio Community Outreach Program, which Kim directs.
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Dr. Kim published the Troy Maple Road Corridor Study, the results of a funded community design project conducted at The Detroit Studio, spring semester 2006. The project was funded and published by the Oakland Business Review in summer 2007. And Dr. Kim’s spring term 2007 studio developed design and planning guidelines for downtown Detroit, its riverfront, and surrounding communities focusing on sustainable urban design and agriculture development. Public presentation and exhibition of the study outcomes were held at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. This project was sponsored by The Greening of Detroit and the City of Detroit Planning Department, and funded in part by the American Architectural Foundation and the Boston Society of Architects.
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Anirban Adhya, Assistant Professor, has received one of the ten “2007 AIA Research Grants” by the AIA RFP Research Funding Program for his submission “Exploring Public Realm-understanding multiple ways of publicness in urban America: learning from the college towns.” The grant of $7,000.00 is awarded to complete the proposed research and document it in a report by December 1, 2007. Professor Adhya will be eligible to present findings at the 2008 AIA National Convention in Boston, and the work also will appear in other venues including possible publication.
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sor Daniel Faoro. Lawrence Tech students have finished first or second in ASHRAE’s national competition for the past four years. Helmcamp and Johnson will present their winning project at ASHRAE’s annual winter meeting to be held in New York City.
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southeast CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of america Assistant Professor Luis Eduardo Boza and Assistant Professor Adnan Morshed were nominated for the Provost’s 2006 Excellence in Research and Scholarship award. Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins, AIA received the Catholic University of America’s 2006 James E. Dornan Memorial Undergraduate Educator of the Year award. This award recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding classroom teaching ability, academic advising and publications. Also, Eric was among five faculty members from across campus nominated for the Provost’s 2006 Excellence in Teaching award. Faculty members Michelle Rinehart, David Shove-Brown and Luis Eduardo Boza and student members of The Catholic University of America Design Collaborative (CUAdc) were awarded the 2007 Inform Award for the design and construction of the Stuart-Hobson Middle School Library in Washington, DC by the Virginia Society of the AIA and the Virginia Center for Architecture and the 2007 American Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) Collaborative Practice Award.
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The work of Assistant Professor Luis Eduardo Boza and Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Geiss and their design & research collaborative, re_form (www.reformarch.com) was included in the exhibit USELESS at the Project 4 Gallery in Washington, DC. Exhibited were a series of digital designed and fabricated prototypes and material investigations for a commissioned public art project in Washington, DC. Under the direction of Assistant Professor Luis Eduardo Boza, the 2007 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) examined the notion of the “Architect as Steward”. The theme Assuming Responsibility: Investigating the Architecture of Stewardship was meant to serve as a pre-cursory investigative period prior to the 2007 ACSA Southeast Fall Conference held at CUA in October. The SIA lecture series included Cameron Sinclair (Co-Director, Architecture for Humanity), John Quale (Assistant Professor, UVA, Director, ECOMOD), John Peterson (Founder, PUBLIC Ar-
chitecture), Dan Pitera (Executive Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center) and Andrew Freear (Director, RURAL Studio). Student work, interviews and scholarly articles from the 2007 SIA can be found in the upcoming issue of the SIA Journal. Designed and edited by CUA architecture students Thom Medek and Hau Bui, the journal will be distributed with the conference proceedings during the upcoming ACSA SE conference. The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce the following new full-time faculty: Associate Professor Raj Barr-Kumar FAIA, Associate Professor Hazel Edwards, Assistant Professor Christopher Grech, and Professor-in-Practice Temple Washington. The following visiting critics have re-joined or are new this year: Mark McInturff, FAIA, Christina Cole, Caterina Frisone, Mark Lawrence, Scott Aker, and Doug Dalkemper, AIA.
The paper briefly outlined the history of the Design/Build studio at Louisiana Tech University, highlighted the 2006-2007 student work the 5/30 project, an environmentally friendly mostly PVC free Habitat for Humanity Home and the pedagogical, professional and personal opportunities and challenges inherent in student design/build projects. Additionally, Professors Brooks and Stevens were awarded a $5,000.00 grant by the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation to further support the work of the Design/Build Studio at Tech. Associate Professor Guy W. Carwile presented a paper on HABS documentation at the Symposium on Architecture for the Twenty-first Century hosted by Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The paper, entitled “Beyond the Lines... Making Documentation More Meaningful”, argues for an expanded role for architectural documentarians that includes typological and precedent investigations.
Louisiana Tech University After serving as the Interim Director for the previous two years, Karl Puljak has been appointed as the Director of the School of Architecture. The School of Architecture welcomes Assistant Professor Stephanie Carwile to the Interior Design Program and welcomes back Assistant Professor Kevin Singh in his new position as Assistant Professor. The School also congratulates Professor Robert Fakelmann, Professor Guy Carwile and Associate Professor Alexis Wreden on their recent promotions and Assistant Professor Damon Caldwell on receiving tenure. Assistant Professor Robert Brooks presented a paper co-authored by Assistant Professor Kevin Stevens titled “The 530 Project: Design/ Build Studio, Service Learning, and Greening the Habitat for Humanity Home” at the Symposium on Architecture for the Twenty-first Century hosted by Louisiana State University and at the Campus Compact of Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma Regional Meeting “Developing Citizens through Leadership and Civic Engagement” in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The School of Architecture has also inaugurated its Paris Study Abroad Program in conjunction with the School of Art. Assistant Professor Lisa Mullikin and the architecture students were based in the St. Germain-des-Pres Quarter of Paris for a three week immersion course to study the architecture and urban design of Paris. North Carolina State University Professor of Architecture Fatih Rifki left his tenured position at NC State’s School of Architecture and will be given emeritus status for his service to NC State University. Rifki worked at the College of Design for more than 20 years, serving as professor, director of the School of Architecture and associate dean for research and graduate studies and inaugural director of the Ph.D. in Design program. Currently, Rifki is serving as Professor and Dean of the American University of Sharjah in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. After 26 years, Frank Harmon, FAIA, is retiring from teaching at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, although he will be given a special appointment at the College next spring (to be announced).
Professor of Architecture Roger Clark, FAIA, authored School of Design: The Kamphoefner Years 1948-1973 Reflections and Recollections. He was asked to complete the history book project begun by Bob Burns, FAIA, by Burns’ wife, Norma DeCamp Burns, FAIA. The book was distributed at the naming ceremony of the Robert Paschal Burns Auditorium and the S. Aaron Allred Gallery in Kamphoefner Hall on NC State’s campus. Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios, FAIA, gave a presentation at the 34th Annual North Carolina Indian Unity Conference in Raleigh on March 15. As a guest of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Bizios discussed panelization as a promising construction method for affordable housing. Bizios and a team of School of Architecture graduate students are currently focusing on the design of a modest house to be built with structural insulated panels for Tribe members who are presently living in inadequate trailers. Bizios was named an Outstanding Extension Service Award recipient for the College of Design at the “Celebrating an Engaged University” awards ceremony on April 23, 2007. This award is given in recognition of her dedication and demonstrated achievements in serving the people of North Carolina. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Professor Bechhoefer, FAIA is now a professor emeritus, having retired in May after 37 years with the School. Most recently he led a study program and design workshop in Thailand, in
conjunction with the Faculty of Architecture at Chiang Mai University. Publication of the work is available at http://www.lulu.com/ content/1044107. Professor Guido Francescato retired on July 1st, 2007. He joined the University of Maryland in 1978 as Chair of the Department of Housing and Design and was a faculty member in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation since 1992. Matthew Bell was promoted to full Professor and Madlen Simon was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, in June 2007. Distinguished Professor Richard Etlin’s keynote address, “In Face of Death: Calming the Mind, Mining the Soul,” at the international symposium /Der bürgerliche Tod: Stätdische Bestattungskultur von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert/ has appeared in the acts of the symposium published by the German National Committee of ICOMOS in conjunction with the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich. Two UMD graduate students, Florence Ho and Brian Essig were honored for design excellence by the AIA Maryland Society in the inaugural 2007 AIA Maryland Student Design Competition. Florence’s first place comprehensive design studio project, “A Winery for Sugarloaf Mountain,” included a reworking of vernacular form in a modern vocabulary, and involved a sophisticated level of integrated design using both traditional representation and evolving digital technologies. Peter Noonan, Professor of the Practice and Professor Ralph Bennett were their respective design critics.As a principal with Mcinturff Architects, Prof. Noonan continues to lead as project architect on several buildings. A new downtown Washington DC home for the Textile Museum is slated for construction in 2008, and the recently completed adaptive & mixed use project 1247 Wisconsin Avenue has garnered eight design awards, including an AIA National Housing Award. Garth Rockcastle, FAIA, Professor & Dean, this summer received (along with his colleagues at MS&R, LTD - his design practice) two national awards, one from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (an
Honor Award) and the other from the Urban Land Institute, a Waterfront Award) and a 15 page feature in Metropolis for the new Urban Outfitters Headquarters, of six adaptively reused structures in the old Navy Yard in south Philadelphia. Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D., Associate Dean co-led the session, “Speed Mentoring” at the recent AIA Convention in San Antonio, TX along with Grace Kim, AIA of Seattle, WA; they were also interviewed for the AIA Architecture Knowledge Review Podcast Series. To access the podcast, visit http://www.aia.org/pod_default. In December, he will be presenting “Tapping Future Talent: Connecting with Schools” at the AIA Conference, The Future of Professional Practice: The Next Generation of Integrated Delivery, Emerging Technology, and Practice Management. Assistant Professor Isaac Williams is a recipient of this year’s Henry C. Welcome Fellowship, issued by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
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On September 11th, 2007, the University’s Solar Decathlon Team --- comprising students from architecture; mechanical, electrical, structural, environmental, and aerospace engineering; computer science; economics; English; landscape architecture; and business; plus faculty and industry advisors, and faculty advisers Associate Professor Amy Gardner, Adjunct Associate Professor Julie Gabrielli, Mark McInturff and Dr. Kaye Brubaker --- celebrated the near completion of the construction of LEAFHouse, our entry for this year’s international solar house competition on the National Mall in Washington. University of Virginia The School of Architecture has named associate professor of architecture Craig Barton to serve as chairman of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The three-year appointment, announced by Architecture School Dean Karen Van Lengen, will begin this fall. In addition to his role as chairman, Barton is director of the Urban Studies Program and is a faculty fellow at the University’s Center of the Study of Local Knowledge. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 24)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus of Architecture Eduardo Catalano, received an honorary doctorate of fine arts and letters from NC State University in absentia in May 2007. College of Design Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, presented Catalano with his hood at a ceremony in Catalano’s home in Cambridge, Mass., in June 2006. A worldrenowned architect who headed NC State’s architecture department for five years during the 1950s, Argentina native Eduardo Catalano has produced revolutionary and notable works of architecture in a career spanning more than 50 years.
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Bennett Neiman, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University had his article “The bebop Studio” published in Digital Pedagogies, the Form Z Joint Study Program Report 2005-06.
Virginia Tech University A team that includes Margarita McGrath, assistant professor of architecture, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (Science of Design Program) for “Collaborative Research: Investigating and Refining the Studio Experience as a Method for Teaching Human Computer Interaction.” A team that includes Michael Ermann, assistant professor of architecture, is working with a large multidisciplinary team on another NSF submission, “Phoebe’s Field,” a project in innovative science learning. Developed through an NSF Planning Grant, this proposal to fund a traveling exhibit designed to make the abstract physics of fields concrete and relevant to middle school boys and girls is currently under review. The 25th Anniversary Edition of Olivio Ferrari’s toy MASS, which is a measuring tool and an exercise in geometry, is available for purchase. Based on the familiar carpenters’ measuring rule, its ten foldable parts can be configured into a myriad of shapes and variable lengths. The late Ferrari developed Virginia Tech’s architecture foundation program in the 1960s. Proceeds go to the Lucy and Olivio Ferrari Scholarship Fund, which enables students to study abroad. To purchase MASS, please contact: Kid O, 123 West 10th Street, New York, New York 10011, 212/366-5436, www.kidonyc.com. The International Archive of Women in Architecture has awarded a Commendation to Eran Ben-Joseph, professor of landscape architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.; Holly D. BenJoseph, landscape architect in Acton, Mass.; and Anne C. Dodge, a city planner in Cambridge, for their project, Against All Odds: MIT’s Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture in the sixth annual Milka Bliznakov Prize.
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Markus Breitschmid, assistant professor of architecture, has edited a book, Thoughts on Building, published by Virginia Tech Architecture Publications. The book, a result of the exhibition “Thoughts on Building” held at Virginia Tech in April 2007, contains statements by philosophers, architects, artists, and others on the all-encompassing problem of building.
Associate professors Mark J. Clayton, Robert Warden, and Ergun Akleman were promoted to Full Professors. Visiting assistant professor Elton Abbott was promoted to Associate Professor of Practice & Assistant Dean for Special Projects; Visiting assistant professor Marcel Erminy was promoted to Senior Lecturer; and visiting lecturer Meg Jackson was promoted to a Lecturer. Returning faculty include visiting assistant professor Gabriela Campagnol who teaches history of modern architecture; visiting assistant professor Jill Mulholland who teaches design studios; and visiting associate professor Tom Parker who teaches design detailing. New faculty hires include: Associate professor Tim McLaughlin formerly from Industrial Light and Magic, and Lucasfilm Feature Animation, Nicasio, California joined the department to chair of the visualization faculty. Assistant professors Brian Dougan from American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, teaches design foundations; and Sarah Deyong from Pratt Institute, Princeton, NJ, Brooklyn, New York, teaches 20th Century architectural theory and practice. Professor of Practice Ken Yeang from University of Sheffield, UK, joined to lecture on sustainability and eco systems. Assistant lecturer Blake Godkin from the Honors Program also a Ph D student in URSC, Texas A&M University, teaches design process. Visiting assistant professors Craig Babe joined the department from Michael Graves & Associates, Princeton, NJ to teach design studios; Juan-Carlos BaltazarCervantes from the Energy Systems Lab, Texas A&M University teaches a graduate seminar on applied solar energy; and Logan Wagner from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas teaches design studio. Texas Tech University John White, AIA, Professor, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University received notification from HABS that the drawings of the JA Ranch (oldest ranch in the Texas Panhandle) submitted for the 2007 Peterson Prize Competition this year won 4th place. A certificate will be given to each
tulane university Associate Professor Scott Bernhard was appointed interim dean of Tulane University’s School of Architecture replacing Reed Kroloff who is the newly appointed director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini gave a lecture at the Fakultät für Architektur in Innsbruck entitled, “Making Ten Years”. Also, the work of Professor Eloueini’s design practice, AEDS, was part of the exhibition, “100% Design” in London this past summer. His office AEDS was recently featured in a variety of publications including: House and Garden UK, SPA-DE vol.7 Japan, IW magazine Taiwan and the Architect’s Newspaper. The work of Professor Eloueini will be presented in a monograph published by AADCU in China early next year. Assistant Professor, Robert Gonzalez was recently named to the editorial board of the journal PLUCK, the Journal of African-American Arts & Culture. He has also published an essay in the Santiago, Chile-based journal, Revista ARQ, titled “The Columbus Lighthouse Competition: Revisiting Pan-American Architecture’s Forgotten Memorial.” Victor Jones joined the Tulane faculty this year. Principal of FJA, Inc., Los Angeles, he is currently engaged in several design projects related to expanding the architectural application of structural plastics. Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel will film a six-part documentary this coming fall 2008 involving students in Tulane University’s URBANbuild program. Founded in 2005 prior to Katrina, URBANbuild is aimed at rehabilitating low-income neighborhoods through the construction of student-designed and built housing prototypes. The mission of URBANbuild took on greater urgency in the aftermath of Katrina, as-
Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton, director of the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center recently hosted two special Gulf Coast Recovery Mayors’ Institutes, programs of the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Conference of Mayors, and the American Architectural Foundation. Mayors from across Louisiana and Mississippi, including Mayor Durel of Lafayette, Mayor Holden of Baton Rouge, Mayor Holloway of Biloxi, among many others, each presented an ongoing recovery-related project, and received hands-on aid from a panel of experts. The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center’s is also working in Changxing, China, in conjunction with the American Planning Association, to implement, in early 2008, the first Scenic Highway in China. The Center’s highway design, led by Director Grover Mouton, includes touristbased nodal development that takes advantage of existing scenery, including the historic canals which remain the primary means of transportation in the area. Adjunct associate professor Laurel Porcari recently received two grants for her research in architectural glass: One from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the other grant from the Surdna Foundation to teach architectural kiln formed glass to high school students. Visiting Assistant Professor, Patrick Rhodes, Executive Director and Founder of Project Locus, was awarded 2007 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Places Design Award for his project, “House of Dance and Feathers” The project is currently featured in The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s exhibition, “Design for the Other 90%” open through late September 2007. New faculty this semester include: Scott Ball, Carey Clause and Nick Marshall.
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University at Buffalo The Department of Architecture at the State University of New at Buffalo is pleased to announce two new tenure track Assistant Professor appointments: Assistant Professor Sergio López-Piñeiro received his Diploma in Architecture from ETS Arquitectura Madrid in 1998 and his MArch degree from Princeton University in 2004. He has previously worked as a designer at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-02) and at no.mad (Madrid, 1998-2000). Currently, he is a registered architect in Madrid and maintains an independent practice, Holes of Matter. Sergio López-Piñeiro’s work focuses on the production of blank architecture. The development of this architectural proposition will be explored in his forthcoming book, The Enabler, published as the result of the work produced under 2006-2007 Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship at Buffalo. Assistant Professor Despina Stratigakos is an architectural historian with an overarching interest in gender and modernity in European cities. Her forthcoming book, A Women’s Berlin (University of Minnesota Press), investigates the conception of a city built by and for women, a place that was imagined and partially realized in the years before the First World War. She has published on the public image of women architects; the gender politics of the Werkbund; connections between architectural and sexual discourses in Weimar Germany; and exiled Jewish women architects in the United States. In addition, Eva Franch Gilabert has been selected as the 2007-08 Peter Reyner Banham fellow. Her research at Buffalo will focus on the “Architecture of doubt” in three operative fields of utopias (historic), metaphors (formal-cognoscitive) and atmospheres (experiential). Franch has been awarded the Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship, the La Caixa 20052007 postgraduate fellowship, the Incubadora del FAD prize for emerging architects 2007, a Pasajes-iGuzzini prize, and the Dragados Foundation prize. Franch has studied at the TU Delft, ETS Arquitectura Barcelona, and Princeton University.
We have been mounting summer abroad programs continuously since 1989. The in-residence programs run for 8 to 10 weeks and are comprised of the regular courses and studios in our curricula. This summer three programs were mounted: the Costa Rica sustainable futures program in the cloud forest, directed by Lynda Schneekloth, has been in operation for 16 years; the biennial program in Barcelona, begun in 1989 by the late John Archea, is directed by Bonnie Ott with Joyce Hwang; and, the Rome program, led by Frank Fantauzzi, includes a 10 day tour of northern Italy.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST The Master of Architecture at UMass Amherst is now New England’s first public NAAB program. The program kicked off a year of celebrations with a symposium on “Questionable Beauty” and reception. The program welcomes the following new faculty: Skender Luarasi, designer, Assistant Professor, design and representation. David Dillon, architecture critic, Lecturer, writing Peter Yost, building scientist, Lecturer, building physics. Kathleen Lugosch was promoted to Professor.
PENN STATE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURE The Master of Architecture program at Penn State provides individuals who hold a baccalaureate degree in architecture (B.Arch.) the opportunity to expand their knowledge of architectural design and architectural and urban theory. The post-professional Master of Architecture program offers three distinct options for graduate-level studies: - Community and Urban Design - Digital Design - Culture, Society, and Space Students interested in architectural and urban design or digital visualization may study within the Community and Urban Design or Digital Design options, while students interested in architectural and urban theory may elect the Culture, Society, and Space option. All three courses of study offer students the opportunity to work with faculty who are recognized leaders in their field, and all three programs are housed within a brand new state-of-the-art building recently awarded a Gold LEED Rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. For more information about this exciting opportunity to conduct graduate-level study in Penn State's Department of Architecture, please visitwww.arch.psu.edu, call 814.865.9535, or e-mail KLD1@psu.edu Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce. U.Ed. ARC 07-59
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sisting in the rebuilding of many New Orleans neighborhoods devastated by the storm. Byron Mouton, a Tulane architecture professor and co-director of URBANbuild is joined by fellow faculty members Sam Richards and Emilie Taylor in instructing and supervising the student designers and builders. The series is coproduced, written and directed by Michael Selditch and Stan Bertheaud professor of architecture at Woodbury University.
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2008 aia education honor awards Call for nominations Deadline January 16, 2008 The American Institute of Architects is pleased to announce the 2008 Education Honor Awards Program. The awards jury will seek evidence of exceptional and innovative courses, initiatives, or programs that: deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community; contribute to the advancement of architecture education; have the potential to benefit and/or change practice and/or; promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other educators.
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Special Journal Issue on Hurricane Response At the request of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), ACSA is supporting the publication of a special issue of the journal Cityscape devoted to university-based rebuilding efforts in the Gulf region after the 2005 hurricanes. Kathy Dorgan, Michael Monti and Kinnard Wright will serve as co-editors for the special issue, slated for release in July 2008. Dorgan was the principal investigator for ACSA’s 2006 Affordable Design: Convening the Conversation project, supported by a grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation. (A copy of the project’s final report is available on ACSA’s website, www.acsa-arch.org.) ACSA members who are or were involved in rebuilding efforts in the Gulf are especially encouraged to submit their work for publication, according to the guidelines of the call for papers. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research University-Based Reconstruction Projects Responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Cityscape seeks submission of articles documenting work by university-based architecture, landscape architecture, or planning programs to aid in the Gulf-region’s disaster recovery process. Specifically, articles are sought documenting built or substantially completed projects, including homes, parks, and other community development projects. Articles will be published in the July 2008 issue. The issue will be edited by Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, Dorgan Architects, and Michael Monti, PhD, executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of articles. The goal of this issue is to document both the products and the processes by which university faculty, staff, and students worked with local residents in addressing the residents’ needs and concerns. Articles should include descriptions and images of the planning, design, and construction process. Preference will be given to articles that also include a critical evaluative component. This may include responses to such questions as: • • • • • • •
How did the participants involve local voices in the planning, design, and construction process? What goals were set out for the project, and how were they met? What evaluation components were used during and after the project? What administrative structure was used to support the project? How were educational objectives balanced with community objectives? What obstacles and advantages were encountered because the teams were university based? What parts of the project can be generalized for use in future rebuilding efforts?
Articles may, but are not required to, document projects carried out under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Universities Rebuilding America Partnership (URAP) or Community Outreach Partnerships Centers Program (COPC) programs and other HUD funding programs. Deadline for article submissions is November 15, 2007. Complete submission information is at www.acsa-arch.org. Contact Kathleen Dorgan (dorgan@kdorgan.net) or Michael Monti (mmonti@ acsa-arch.org) with questions about issue content. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research strives to share HUD-funded and other research on housing and urban policy issues with scholars, government officials, and others involved in setting policy and determining the direction of future research. Cityscape focuses on innovative ideas, policies, and programs that show promise in revitalizing cities and regions, renewing their infrastructure, and creating economic opportunities. A typical issue consists of articles that examine various aspects of a theme of particular interest to our audience.
Editorial Content The bulk of the book should be created from scholarly papers and design work presented at ACSA conferences. Up to five chapters that do not come from ACSA conferences may be included to supplement or frame the book. These chapters may be specially prepared for the volume or come from other sources. The editors are expected to write introductions and other material surrounding the volume’s core content. Editorial Support The proposal form outlines in greater detail the editorial support available for the volume and the expected responsibilities of editors, authors, and ACSA in completing the manuscript for an accepted proposal. ACSA seeks proposals for thematic anthologies of papers presented at its conferences. The volumes will be included in the “Architectural Education Series” with Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The second volume, which follows The Green Braid published in March 2007, will focus on urban design, and is planned for release in 2008. Books in the series are intended as texts or supplemental readers for lecture and studio courses. As such, the book’s content should be selected for use primarily by faculty and students. Proposals Proposals must be made using a special proposal form, available at www.acsaarch.org. Prospective editors should plan to clearly articulate the volume’s subject and the editor’s particular approach to addressing it. The proposal should indicate the overall organization of the book and describe each part or section. Proposals from editorial teams are encouraged.Proposals will be reviewed by a series editorial board. The board will recommend acceptance, rejection, or revision of proposals. Once a proposal is accepted, the editors will be offered a contract for publication.
Royalties for sales of books in the series will go to ACSA. However, editors of volumes under contract for the series will receive a stipend to support manuscript completion. Additionally, the index to the volume will be prepared by the publishers at no cost to the editors. Upon request, ACSA can make available PDF copies of ACSA proceedings for prospective editors to use, as well as a PDF copy of the Index of the Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meetings 1985–2006. Contact Kevin Mitchell, kmitchell@acsa-arch. org, 202/785 2324, to access the digital documents or with other questions. Deadline Proposals received by February 1, 2008, will be reviewed by March 15, 2008. Editorial Board Michael Benedikt, U of Texas at Austin; Luis Carranza, Roger Williams U; Thomas Fisher, U of Minnesota; Lisa Iwamoto, U of California at Berkeley; Fernando Luiz Lara, U of Michigan; John Stuart, Florida International U
the 2008 ncarb prize
Call for PAPERS Deadline February 5, 2008 The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is now accepting entries for the 2008 NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy. Now in its seventh year, the NCARB Prize supports combined practice and education initiatives at the university level. Architecture schools with NAAB-accredited degree programs are invited to submit established projects, completed or in progress by the end of the fall 2007 term, that respond to the integration of education with practice. Submissions must represent a unique effort to integrate education and practice initiatives while allowing students to earn academic credit.
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Six cash awards, totaling more than $60,000, will be presented. NCARB will award one grand prize of $25,000 and five additional awards of $7,500. At the discretion of the jury, honorable mentions may also be awarded. Submitted programs should represent experience in areas of practice culture such as: • Leadership • Economic • Practice Management • Ethics • Political • Sustainability • Social • Legal • Project Development • Research • Public Benefit • Building Systems • Infrastructure/ Context • Allied/Affiliate Professionals • The six winning programs will be selected prior to the ACSA Annual Meeting and announced at the ACSA Awards Luncheon. All prize-winning submissions will be exhibited at the NCARB Annual Meeting and featured in NCARB’s Direct Connection and will be submitted to the AIA, ACSA, AIAS, and the national media. HOW TO SUBMIT Visit the NCARB web site (www.ncarb.org/prize) to download an entry packet for the 2008 competition. Submissions are due on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. For more information contact: Greg Hall, AIA, Ph.D., Director, Education, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards 1801 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202/783-6500 Fax: 202/783-0290 E-mail: ncarbprize@ncarb.org
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2008 EAAE/ARCC Conference
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The European Association for Architectural Education and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium extend an invitation to all architectural researchers whose research has focused on the importance of the relationship between the digital and analogue worlds: • either as their main point of focus, or as a subaspect of their work; • either focusing on methodological aspects, or on artistic aspects; • on all scales of architectural research, from towns to buildings; • focusing on methods and issues originating in the major global challenges arising from population growth, urban growth or climatic changes to which the architectural agenda has a contribution to make. Contextual issues acquire new meanings at this interface – or else they lose their meaning. In the words of Saskia Sassen, the term ‘local’ does not mean local in a traditional sense but ‘a microenvironment with a global span’. Traditional institutional geographical hierarchies co-exist with the collapse of hierarchies. Images are distributed so rapidly and in so many different contexts that the authority of the architectural image is undermined and must be replaced. Real estate is a situated global liquid – rapid global financial speculations have changed the role played by the building in a range of social structures.
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The paper review for this conference will be conducted in two stages. The first stage of the review will involve a blind peer review of the brief abstract. Successful review at this stage will result in an invitation to submit a full paper for peer review. Deadline for the initial 500-word (maximum) abstract is December 3, 2007. Visit www.arccweb.org for more information. Conference Venue & Accomodations The conference will be held between 25-28 June in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture is the host institution for this conference. Results of the first stage selection process will be conveyed to all submitters by January 11, 2008.
LECTURE SERIES: ‘DOUBLE EDGE’ The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a series of public events throughout the year. Lectures offer the opportunity to hear about the new work of prominent architects, theorists and historians. Exhibitions feature innovative student and faculty work, as well as the work of local and national architects, artists and designers. All events are free and open to the public. www.aud.ucla.edu 11/7/2007 1973: SORRY, OUT OF GAS The CCA’s major fall exhibition is an unprecedented exploration of the architectural response to the 1973 oil crisis. Featuring architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue map the global response to the shortage and its relevance to architecture today. www.cca.qc.ca 11/7/2007 concept to craft: the architecture of miller|hull University of Maryland Fall Lecture: David Miller, FAIA, Founding Principal, Miller|Hull Partnership, LLC. Chair and Professor, Univesity of Washington, Department of Architecture. Returning 2002 Kea Distinguished Professor Lecture. www.umd.edu 11/8/2007 - 11/29/07 Yesterday Today Featuring three of the central figures working to develop solutions during the time of the energy crisis, Yesterday Today investigates architectural ideas of the 1970s in light of contemporary environmental issues through lectures by Jon Naar, Le Paradigme solaire /The Solar Paradigm (8 November); Michael Reynolds, The Earthship Sustain-
able Housing Concept (15 November); and Witold Rybczynski, Green Before Green (29 November). www.cca.qc.ca 11/12/2007 building, presence and being Princeton Fall Lecture: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guerard Professor in Literature, Stanford University. soa.princeton.edu 11/12/07 Architecture, Technology, and the Historical Subject Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris la Villette, in Atlanta. www.coa.gatech.edu/news/event.php www.paris-lavillette.archi.fr 11/13/07 Regional Architecture and Identity in the Age of Globalization Center for Study of Architecture in the Arab Region in Tunis, Tunisia. The CSAAR 2008 conference will focus on the causes and effects of emergent trends in architecture and urbanism in the Gulf. www.csaar-center.org 11/15/07 The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity International Conference EMMTEC, University of Lincoln, UK. This conference considers the influence of the Humanities on the processes of design. By taking both historical and contemporary perspectives, the conference explores how the traditional inter-relationship between word and image, highlighted for example in architecture, theatre, interior design and landscape design, has in more recent years become subsumed by the dominance of the digital image as the only legitimate means of developing and communicating design ideas. www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/human
1/7/08 DESIGNING THE PARKS A conference in two parts examining the design of buildings and landscapes in regional, state, and national parks. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service. Designing the Parks, Part 1: The History of Park Planning and Design, Charlottesville, Virginia (May 20-22, 2008) Designing the Parks, Part 2: The Present and Future of Park Planning and Design, San Francisco, California (Fall 2008) aseh.net/conferences/other-conferences/cfpdesparks
Competitions / Grants 12/1/07 John Brinckerhoff jackson prize & David R. Coffin Publication Grant The Foundation for Landscape Studies is now accepting nominations for the 2008 John Brinckerhoff Jackson prize and the David R. Coffin publication grant. Both will be awarded to publications on landscape and garden design written in English without restrictions to the subject or time period treated or to nationality of the author. Both prizes will be awarded by a jury made up of members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. foundationforlandscapestudies.org/awards.html 12/17/07 Integrating Habitats: A Design Competition The Challenge: Blend. Balance. Integrate. The Details: Integrating Habitats seeks multidisciplinary, collaborative designs of the future that integrate built and natural environments. Winning designs selected by this world-renowned jury will redefine the current language
and standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development, maximizing biodiversity and safeguarding water quality for this generation and those to come. Deadline: December 17, 2007. www.metro-region.org/integratinghabitats 1/4/08 CRS Archive Scholar Opportunity at Texas A&M University If you are you a faculty member, graduate student, doctoral student, or post-doctoral student in architecture, engineering, business or a related discipline, then you may be eligible for an award up to $2,500. Through the CRS Center Archive Scholar program, the CRS Center at Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, will reimburse your expenses related to research that utilizes the business records, architectural programs, articles, slides, photographs, video, audio tapes and/or personal records of the former A/E/C firm Caudill Rowlett and Scott (CRS). This award is intended to help offset living and travel expenses incurred in visiting the CRS Center, as well as other expenses related to the support of research, scholarship and publication that makes use of the archives. www.crscenter.tamu.edu 1/15/2008 2008-2009 WILLIAM WAYNE CAUDILL PH.D. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP The Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University is pleased to announce that proposals are invited for the 2008 William Wayne Caudill Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Architecture for applicants to the Ph.D. Program in Architecture. The award also qualifies out-of-state students for a tuition reduction to that of an in-state student. Deadline 15 January 2008. crscenter.tamu.edu 1/15/08 The 99k House: Competition For an Affordable, Sustainable House Prototype The Rice Design Alliance (RDA) and AIA Houston announce a two-stage national competition to design a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of the low-income family
in the Gulf Coast region. The competition objectives are to: broaden awareness of green building strategies applicable to affordable housing, generate and publicize buildable examples of sustainable, affordable houses, and construct an exemplary sustainable, affordable house prototype. Deadline: January 15, 2008. www.the99khouse.com
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Professional Opportunities NCARB offers HSW Credits NCARB’s newest monograph, Security Planning and Design, presents concepts, principles, and processes for incorporating enhanced security into the design of new and existing buildings. Those who successfully complete the Security Planning and Design quiz will earn 12 professional development units and/or AIA learning units in health, safety, and welfare. www.ncarb.org/publications/titles/security.html 11/15/07 NCARB Seeks Authors The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards seeks authors for two new monographs: Building Commissioning and Natural Hazards – Flooding. Also for mini-monographs on topics that fulfill health, safety, and welfare continuing education requirements. Interested authors should submit a letter indicating their experience with the subject matter, a resume, references, an outline and an unedited writing sample. Deadline: November 15, 2007. www.ncarb.org/continuinged 11/30/07 XIIIth Architecture & Behaviour Colloquium at Monte Verità: Call for Participation The XIIIth Colloquium will be a new opportunity to present and further discuss recent research in the field of educational architecture, as well as recently completed practical examples of a new generation of schools in developing countries. The main theme of the Colloquium will – again – be the issue of the interrelationship between the built environment in schools and the level of learning attained by students. www.monteverita.org
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11/7/2007 The architecture of justice University of Maryland Fall Lecture: Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE; Bemis Professor of Social Sciences, MIT; Fellow, NY Institute for the Humanities, NYU. 2007 Urban Studies and Planning LeFrak Lecture. www.umd.edu
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