ACSA News May 2008 by Pascale Vonier

may 2008 volume 37 number 9

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar Read more and find out how to register on page 16

in this issue: 2

President’s Column

96th Annual Meeting Recap

Executive Director’s Column

2008 ACSA Fall Conferences

Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

ACSA Student Design Competitions

ACSA/ACC Plastics Case Study

2007-08 ACSA Awards Recipients

2008-09 ACSA Awards Program

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Research, Innovation, and the Culture of Studio by kim tanzer

but because it is recognized internationally as one of the very best dining experiences in the country.

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 0448. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

“Two classic Alice themes emerge…first, relying on friends, never doing anything alone; and, second….producing an effect of apparent simplicity that is underlain by layers of experiment and subtlety.” The description above summarizes the way Alice Waters--proprietor, hostess, chef, and menu planner at Chez Panisse; co-inventor of California cuisine; promoter of the Slow Food Movement in the United States; advocate of local sourcing of food a Yale University and beyond— and her team worked their magic. The book Alice Waters and Chez Panisse describes how Waters, while acknowledged to be the maestro at Chez Panisse, is far from a heroic individualist. Instead, she works with a group of friends-turnedcolleagues to pursue a vision which incorporates the experience of dining, the taste of fresh food, and an unexpected combination of ingredients, served by people who care as much about each other as about designing peak food experiences. Over 25 years they reinvented their supply chain, offered employee benefits unheard of in the restaurant industry then or now, and, through daily collaborative research, invented a new type of cuisine. Chez Panisse is legendary, not because of these “back of house” issues,

I happened to be reading about Alice Waters and Chez Panisse as I began working with the AIAS leadership to evaluate studio culture policies across the US, and began seeing similarities between this extraordinary, food-research collaborative and the best examples of studio culture policies. The best policies use a simple NAAB requirement to paint a picture of the value of the design studio. They situate the studio historically and within their institutions. They explain the importance of collaboration, the necessity of respect for all team members, and the need to value all aspects of students’ lives, not just their commitment to studio. These policies tell the story of design as we all love it, through simple documents which they disseminate to entering students as a rite of passage. The best studio culture policies turn a tedious accreditation requirement into a balanced narrative celebrating the value and culture of the studio experience. In the same way that Chez Panisse is not just a restaurant, many of us understand that studio is not just a class or a classroom, but a remarkable environment. We have experienced the productive groupthink that emerges when a group of bright, talented design students turn their attention to a well crafted design question, considered through space-making and communicated through drawings, models, and animations. The luckiest among us, studio teachers, are given the opportunity to raise such questions once or more every semester, and to have the assistance of our students in developing responses. At a fundamental level, through the studio, our students help us learn. At this spring’s ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston we hosted a panel discussion

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The group began speaking of the creation of a “zone of resistance,” borrowing the term from Richard Sennett, who spoke of the resistance produced by the slowness of drawing. It became clear that each of these Distinguished Professors constructs a zone of resistance to focus his students’ attention on a particular architectural question while rendering frictionless other parts of the architectural equation. Isn’t this what good researchers do? Discipline was another term that permeated both the Distinguished Professors’ discussion and the Sennett lecture. Both venues addressed the fact that discipline--embedded in practices such as drawing or design and developed in an orderly, persistent fashion over a long period of time--led to excellence. Excellence, in turn, might lead to innovation. Disciplined design, set in a precisely constrained zone of resistance while “relying on friends, never doing anything alone...producing an effect of apparent simplicity that is underlain by layers of experiment and subtlety,” seems the perfect description of the design studio. This description also applies to research laboratories in the sciences, as I understand them. Without suggesting artificially close alignments, I think it is fair to say that the best design studios--taught by experienced professors who pose careful and challenging questions and lead teams of students with enthusiasm and focus--serve as sites of design research and, in the best cases, sites of design innovation. Obviously, without carefully bounded questions which recognize and work at the margins of the known, simplistic uniqueness could be mistaken for significant

innovation. The best studio teachers, like the best scientists, know the difference. The connection between research and innovation depends on the experience, intelligence and creativity of the team and its leader. As the scientist is to the studio critic, so the laboratory is to the studio. Andrew Caruso, AIAS President and leader of the studio culture evaluation project, has observed that the expectations students develop in studios while in school may transfer to their expectations of the profession, for better and for worse. If the schools’ studio cultures do establish lifelong patterns, what might they be? Can we, as educators, improve our studio culture practices? Might such improvement, as a result, contribute positively to the profession beyond the academy’s doors? There is much consternation among our professional colleagues about the number of students who graduate with professional architecture degrees then choose not to become licensed architects. Some of my own students, who love the studio experience in school, regret the loss of flexibility, creativity and fun that often marks the transition from school to the professional office. While I understand well the different ways professional firms must engage the world of business, I wonder if the open-ended contexts found in most schools’ studios could be transferred more effectively to practice, much as firms like Google have integrated play and efficiency into a new business model. Inversely, I wonder if studio professors might seek to model the best of the studio cultures we find among our colleagues in practice. A year ago I had the privilege of preparing for and participating in a panel discussion with Sir Richard Rogers during the ACSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Both Sir Rogers’s lecture and the discussion that followed demonstrated an amazing studio culture in action. His studio’s work is research based and innovative in a number of dimensions, from social engagement to sophisticated

technological invention. They work collaboratively, mix work and play, and apply high standards to all facets of their shared experience, from project delivery to office parties. Their firm’s constitution expresses one of the most powerful ethical statements I’ve ever heard architects make, and one I hope all my colleagues will consider as we craft the environment of our studios, along with the architectural particulars of our own research questions:

“…‘The practice of architecture is inseparable from the social and economic values of individuals who practice it and the society which sustains it’. Ownership: The practice is entirely owned by a charity. No director has direct equity in the company. Pay: The highest paid director is paid a capped multiple of the lowest paid architect of two years standing. Profit: The company’s profit is divided between employee profit sharing, contributions to charity and investment. Charity: Employees of two years standing are allocated a sum to be donated to a charity of his/her choice Environment: The practice avoids work for military projects, prisons or arms manufacturers.” How well does the culture of your studio compare to this position? It has been a pleasure writing the President’s Column this year, and I appreciate the good cheer with which my sometimes provocative comments have been received. It also has been a pleasure serving as President of the ACSA, and I look forward to working with all of you in the future to strengthen our discipline and to make it increasingly meaningful during these uncertain times. 1 Thomas McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution, p. 309. See http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID= 1&navIDs=1,5,1160 .

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consisting of ACSA Distinguished Professors, as part of a larger project to create an Academy of Distinguished Professors. The panelists, Peter Waldman from the University of Virginia, Roger Clark from North Carolina State University, and David Heymann from the University of Texas at Austin, reflected on their teaching and shared the architectural and pedagogical questions that currently interest them.

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visionaries emerge at acsa’s 96th annual meeting by pascale vonier

Left: Poster Sessions held at University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Right: Opening keynote lecture by Richard Sennett at Rice University’s Physics Amphitheater.

Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the margins of mind and space. Over 400 educators, practitioners, students, critics, and futurists from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas gathered in downtown Houston for ACSA’s 96th Annual Meeting. Hosted by the University of Houston, the conference discussions centered around the role of architects as visionaries, shaping cities against the tendencies of globalization to narrow identities.

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This year‘s over 120 papers were organized into 5 session tracks, ranging from technology and sustainability to pedagogy. The Special Focus Sessions, organized by co-chairs Deitmar Froehlich and Michaele Pride, included a number of renowned scholars, critics, and artists such as architect Sir Peter Cook, sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling, critic Trevor Boddy, and film director Andrew Garrison.

cocktail reception surrounded by downtown Houston skyscrapers. The following day, 2008 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion recipient Stanley Tigerman presented his work at a luncheon with a series of 14 slides, painting a picture of his career and the central role of education and place in his work. On Saturday, after the first-annual Poster Session held at the University of Houston, Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro gave the keynote lecture, in dueling slide presentation formats. Diller, who also received the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, discussed the challenges and achievements of three of the firm’s recent projects, while Renfro kept the audience at full attention by simulcasting his lecture through images and commentary typed simultaneously on a separate screen. Following the lecture, the audience moved to the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture building to listen to live jazz, have food and drinks, and view current student work.

Members celebrated the meeting’s opening night by attending Richard Sennett’s keynote lecture and opening reception at Rice University. The lecture was held in the impressive physics amphitheater, a classic academic lecture hall with tiered seating and exposed wood structure, which was a dramatic backdrop to his talk on architectural process from the standpoint of craft, drawing from his 2008 book, The Craftsman.

The Pan American Reunion of Schools of Architecture, which preceded the Annual Meeting, brought a strong international presence, as many of the attendees stayed for the duration of the conference and other joined to present their work. The conference was also a landmark for the creation of the College of Distinguished Professors and the first Women’s Caucus organizational session to discuss issues of leadership and mentorship and plans to hold a half-day workshop at the 2008 ACSA Administrators Meeting in Savannah.

The midpoint of the conference was punctuated by the newly slimmed down and visually engaging Awards Ceremony. Attendees gathered for the Friday evening reception to honor their fellow peers and enjoy an outdoor

ACSA is already looking ahead to next year’s Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. We look forward to seeing you there! For more information on this year’s and next year’s conferences please visit acsa-arch.org.

Thank you to this year’s sponsors.

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Three actions were taken during the meeting to initiate the College. First, a council was appointed to serve as an organizing committee. Chair Lance Brown was joined by Sherry Ahrentzen, Geraldine Forbes Isais, Marvin Malecha and Ikhlas Sabouni, all themselves Distinguished Professors and/ or Topaz Medallion winners. Second, all current Distinguished Professors and Topaz Medallion winners were invited to attend a private session for the purpose of formally convening the group. Third, a thoughtful and lively panel discussion, consisting of Distinguished Professors Peter Waldman, Roger Clark, and David Heymann, was held as part of the meeting’s agenda.

From left to right: Gregory Palermo, Victor Regnier, Roger Clark, David Heymann, Ikhlas Sabouni, Marvin Malecha, Lance Brown, Stanley Tigerman, Max Underwood, George Dodds.

At the March 2008 Annual Meeting of the ACSA, several steps were taken to create a College of Distinguished Professors. This College, proposed by Marvin Malecha to the ACSA Board of Directors in 2006, will formally engage all previous winners of the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award and the Topaz Medallion, creating a collective body similar to the AIA College of Fellows.

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ACSA Works to Establish COLLEGE of Distinguished Professors

The College is charged with four responsibilities. It will: 1) Provide assistance to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in the process of selecting Distinguished Professor honorees. 2) Develop a network of mentoring matching junior faculty and Distinguished Professors. 3) Identify and disseminate best practices in teaching, scholarship and service. 4) Establish and maintain the Honor Role of Distinguished Professors to be prominently displayed in the national offices of the ACSA. The Distinguished Professor Award has been given annually since 198485, to a total of 60 or more professors, many still teaching. The Topaz Medallion has been given jointly by the ACSA and the AIA since 1977, to a total of 31 awardees.

Tuesday and Wednesday’s Building Architects/Construyendo Arquitectos, the Pan American Reunion of Schools of Architecture, brought more than 30 participants from the Chile, Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, United States, and Canada for a day and a half of presentations and discussions on the future of architectural education, hemispheric cooperation, accreditation mechanisms, and professional reciprocity. Co-chairs José Luis Cortés (Universidad Iberoamericana), Geraldine Forbes Isais (University of New Mexico), and Rafael Longoria (University of Houston) assembled a program of speakers that energized participants to both continue to cross borders with their faculty, students, and curricula, and to explore the implications of trends affecting architectural education and practice today. Lars Lerup, Rice University, gave the opening keynote presentation, introducing the contemporary urban situation of Houston, while local architect Carlos Jimenez gave a keynote lecture reflecting on the growth of his practice with an eye to the challenges that future architects will face in today’s global society. Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta and Carlos Jimenez

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from the executive director

ACSA Task Force Calibrates Peer Review Venues by michael j. monti

ACSA offers many of the relatively few venues for competitive, peerreviewed scholarship and meets common standards for peer review with these venues, according to a recent report. The report, made by an ad hoc Peer Review Task Force created by the ACSA board of directors, recommends that ACSA work to provide clearer information on peer review policies and procedures as well as aggregate information on the acceptance rates and processes of venues such as the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), ACSA Annual Meeting, and ACSA annual awards program. “Compared with other fields, there are relatively few outlets for architectural scholarship in North America. ACSA controls a considerable percentage of these, and thus bears particular responsibility for ensuring that faculty who participate in conferences, JAE, etc., can rely on the association’s policies during tenure and promotion,” the report said. The task force worked in fall of 2007 to review peer review policies, procedures, and acceptance rates of ACSA’s peer-reviewed publications and conferences and calibrate them against journals and conferences in other disciplines. In addition to confirming that ACSA’s activities met established standards and procedures, the task force encouraged the organization to develop a statement on peer review that “would demonstrate the association’s commitment to both the spirit and the letter of its peer review policies.” The task force cited the College Art Association’s statement as a model.

The task force also recommended the organization make peer-reviewed conference papers more widely available. At present, the report notes, conference proceedings are not indexed and are not routinely available in libraries. “A good deal of scholarly production in our field thus essentially ‘disappears’ after its presentation, missing an opportunity to build a body of research while, we suspect, leaving interested parties in other fields at something of a loss to understand how we advance and share knowledge. This leaves peer review under the ACSA’s purview as a form of validation, but we believe it could play a role in dissemination—clearly a topic beyond our mandate but one we would encourage the Board to investigate.” At its March 2008 meeting, the board of directors asked that ongoing work to index the proceedings and make this index available online continue and be completed as soon as possible. Further, the board plans to work on developing a statement on peer review, following the suggestions of the task force. Peer Review Task Force Members Craig Barton, University of Virginia Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University, chair Wellington “Duke” Reiter, Arizona State University Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle, Hampton University Brenda Case Scheer, University of Utah ACSA thanks the members for their service!

ACSA Peer Review Calibration Matrix April 2008

Venue ACSA FALL CONFERENCES 2007 Paper/Design Presentations Southwest Conference Southeast Conference East Central Conference

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2009 97th ACSA ANNUAL MEETING Session Topic Proposals 2008 96th ACSA ANNUAL MEETING Poster Presentation Paper Presentation 2007-08 ACSA AWARDS PROGRAM Faculty Design Collaborative Practice New Faculty Teaching Creative Achievement Distinguished Professor Housing Awards

Standard Abstract or Blind Peer Non-blind Number of Complete Included in Total Acceptance Review Peer Review Reviewers Submission Proceedings Submissions Rate (%)

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29% 34% 76% Paper and poster submissions are made to specific topic 18% sessions, each organized by a chair who does not know identity of authors, oversees peer review, and accepts submissions. Session topic proposals outline peer-reviewed 70% paper sessions and form the basis for the Annual Meeting 44% call for papers ACSA published a summary awards booklet in March 2008. 8% ACSA Board's Awards Committee oversees review of 31% awards submissions. Faculty Design Awards reviewed by separate jury and may select additional presentations at the 38% Annual Meeting that do not receive the award. 43% 38% 25%

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Material is the matter-of-fact of architecture; it is the means of execution, a method of expression, and a major force of resistance. Opposed to paper or cardboard architecture - interested in removing the variable and agency of material, vaunting representation over construction - the architectural discipline today has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with issues of materiality. Material Matters focuses on the pedagogy of material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. Beginning with material as a premise for architectural discourse, the conference will revolve around the design decisions and physical making that emerge from material interaction. This conference will confront the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications, re-applying typical processes of fabrication and methods of construction while engaging emerging techniques. The evolution of material sensibility demands a fundamental re-thinking, grounded in the analysis and design of material processes: their current applications and limitations. Material Matters will confront issues of materiality in multiple forms: Design - formal and functional implications of building materials as process applications; Processes - fabrication, technology and making; Context - place and material vernacular; Precedent - case studies in material application and conceptual detailing of design; Theory - conceptual premise of making; Material Detail - piece and connection; Material Ecology & Sustainability; Pedagogy - the role of materiality in design education; Material Art, Media, and History

Keynote Speakers Include:

Nader Tehrani

Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott

Tom Wiscombe

Marcello Spina and Georgina Huljich

Office dA, Boston EMERGENT, LA

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

Conference Co-Chairs:

Gail Peter Borden, AIA

Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Southern California

Michael Meredith

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Associate Professor of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design

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

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

2008 ACSA Fall Conference October 16-19, 2008

The University of Southern California

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IMMATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

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

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

ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURES | ALTERNATIVE PRACTICE Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions Theme Editors: Lori Ryker, Executive Director, Artemis Institute Michael Flowers and Judson Moore, farm architecture and research The development of the architect-practitioner has long been recognized as an elaborative and continuous course of study. For a majority of practitioners the formal foundation of professional architectural practice, as taught in most schools, often sets the trajectory for their work as practitioners supported by professional organizations. Yet many who received the same formal education develop “alternative practices” outside the received conventions or boundaries of the profession. These alternative practices are not intentionally oppositional to convention, but rather practical evolutions.

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

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

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

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

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97th acsa annual meeting

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

Call for Papers Submissions Due: September 17, 2008 The following call for submissions is the result of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed process. The twenty-two topics below have been categorized into eight general topics that relate to the overall theme of the Annual Meeting. Full topic descriptions are available at: www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

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

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC VALUE OF DESIGN

thematic overview Recent cultural changes have placed architects in a promising position to initiate positive change through design insight and proactive practice. Greater concern for the environment, the desire for a heightened sense of place and sensory experience, technological advances, the increasing importance of visual images in communication, and interdisciplinary collaborations all create favorable conditions for design innovation. As the disciplinary limits of architecture continue to expand, architects and architecture students are faced with the difficult and exhilarating challenge of synthesizing complex issues and diverse knowledge through physical design across many scales. By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more significant within society. o What social value does design have for individual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have beyond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What material and technical value does design bring to the physical environment? o What pedagogical value does design education offer to other disciplines? o What are the ways in which design education can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?

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

The “Social” Value Of Design Coleman A. Jordan, U. of Michigan What are the social values of design and what are the implications thereof? Social values of design address the power dynamics of our built environment, including “the social, political, and economic forces, embodied in the forms, processes, and manner in which buildings are used.” This session will include the milieu of praxis, theory, and academe and the “education of an architect.” Architecture as a Vessel for Values Karen Cordes Spence, Drury U. In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, it is of merit to revisit Roland Barthes’ 1964 essay “The Eiffel Tower” to examine the link between architecture and social and cultural values. Barthes notes that the Parisian landmark is at once both empty and everything, accepting various meanings assigned by a diversity of people over time. Looking not exclusively at the architecture or at its meanings, this session seeks out the play between: as architects, how do we understand the connection between built form and its significance? As studio critics, how do we discuss and teach this understanding? More out of Less: The Value of Resourcefulness in Design Jenny E. Young and John Rowell, U. of Oregon This session invites papers to reflect on the design for budget-challenged projects that have social significance and high community value. In projects for communities where resources are limited, what really matters? How do designers and teachers of design innovate where “less [can be] more?” How do they craft designs that are affordable? How do they use ingenuity and capability to make places of quality out of very little? How do they measure what elements in design have the most significant impact? Papers that address these themes and others that highlight exemplary projects that demonstrate the resourcefulness of designers are welcome.

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

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE OF DESIGN How Long Can You Tread Water? Sandy Stannard, Cal Poly State U. Ecological luminaries such as architect Ed Mazria have re-analyzed the statistics, revealing that architecture with all of its associated technologies and materials consume nearly 50% of the energy generated in the United States. Given this context, the aim of this session will be to explore how our creative work reflects upon, questions, and relates to the broader field of architecture in correspondence with the natural environment. Given the energy consumption embodied in the production and operation of buildings, how are design studios and other architectural courses responding to contemporary environmental challenges, to calls for carbon neutrality, and to the performance targets outlined by Architecture 2030? Papers are encouraged to report on student or other projects that address the junction between the ecological and built environments. Sustenance in Architecture: Making as Re-making Sheryl Boyle, Carleton U. Federica Goffi, Carleton U. In the contemporary western world there is a disjunction between ‘architecture’ and ‘conservation’. By redefining the meaning of sustainability as being derived from sustenance, we can reconsider our approach to this disjunction. The continuty of ideas embodied in exisitng building stock provides nourishment for architecture. Rather than setting a dialectic oposition of ‘new’ and ‘old’, architecture should be read as a palimpsest. This session aims to provoke speakers to reflect on the ‘sustenance’ of sustainability as a way of breaking the barrier between new and old, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.

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

URBAN VALUE OF DESIGN Urban by Design? The Value of Design in Urban Reconnaissance & Repair José L.S. Gámez, U. North Carolina—Charlotte Susan Rogers, U. of Houston In 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in cities; by late 2007, that proportion had grown to over 50%. With this concentration, we have witnessed a flattening of the physical city with the simultaneous production of a radically uneven social and economic landscape. This has resulted in a “semi-urbanized” landscape shaped by global capital and lacking in experiential, tactile and visual qualities. This session seeks proposals that investigate emergent spatial practices, tactical occupations and/or appropriations that refocus our attention on the social value of space and provide new models for urban and suburban reinvention and repair. The Question of Design in Affordable Housing William Williams, U. of Virginia In affordable housing, there is little consideration given to design choices outside of economic concerns. Unfortunately, these choices are often limited to making housing more affordable without considering how to making affordable housing more livable. Prefabrication, material choices, and plan efficiencies have all been used as strategies to cut cost, but what are the strategies available to designers to create value beyond utility. This session will explore the role of design in affordable housing as it relates to challenging contemporary notions of aesthetic value.

Submission Requirements All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. An author can present no more than two papers at the Annual Meeting. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools or become supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission. Papers submissions (1) must report on recently completed work, (2) cannot have been previously published or presented in public except to a regional audience, and (3) must be written in English. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, excluding the abstract and endnotes.

Submission Process The deadline for submitting a paper to a session for the Annual Meeting is September 17, 2008. Authors will submit papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your paper, you will be guided with the Web interface, through the following steps. 1. Log in with your ACSA username and password. 2. Enter the title of your paper. 3. Select the Session Topic for your submission. 4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any. (Note all authors must be current members of ACSA.) 5. Upload your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines. * Omit all author names from the paper and any other identifying information to maintain an anonymous review process. * Do not include an abstract in the file. * Use the template provided on the website to format your paper. * Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included. * No more than five images may be used in the paper. Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper. 6. Download the copyright transfer form. 7. Click Submit to finalize your submission. Note: Your paper is not submitted unless you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

AESTHETIC & REPRESENTATIONAL VALUE OF DESIGN Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture Sanda Iliescu, U. of Virginia Collages kindle in us a sense of hope. Something that was simply garbage has been lifted out, repaired, and accorded new aesthetic value. This salvage speaks as a story of survival, a sign that things, and by analogy we ourselves, may withstand difficulties and be renewed. Not unlike a collage fragment, a building is an insertion into a pre-existing fabric. Global warming, poverty, and decay now threaten architecture’s pre-existing fabric. As our cities are filled with unsightly and dangerous junk, might the poetics of collage begin to bridge aesthetics and ethics—“good form” and form that contributes to the common good? This session invites papers that examine collage in architecture and/or art, whether theoretical, historical, or from an author’s own practice or teaching. The Architectural Model Between Material and Idea Matthew Mindrup, Carleton U. Paul Emmons, Virginia Tech Over the millennia, physical models continually serve as important tools for the architect to study and communicate a design in threedimensions. However, the historical experimentation with different modeling materials, methods, and interpretations has also shown their ability to play a role in design by instigating and demonstrating new architectural conceptions. As a counterbalance to naïve realism in modeling, this session invites papers that examine the value of physical models in both physical and virtual design practices as a generative tool to aid the imagination of new architectural ideas that synthesize the complexities of program, new building technologies and the sensory experiences of place. Emerging Technologies: The Ethics of Digital Design Jason Oliver Vollen, U. of Arizona Bradley Horn, City College of New York The current dialogues of scholars and practitioners seem to focus on computational design and fabrication as either a practical or an aesthetic concern. On one end of the spectrum new technologies are framed as the only means by which to solve the world’s ecological crisis; on the other they are celebrated as vehicles of formal expression. This panel begins with the premise that in order to find value in emerging digital practices we must consider the ethical. The goal for this session is to discuss the development of an ethic that will allow us to re-examine the complex relationship between digital design, material, and the world at large.

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

Material and the Making of Architecture Gail Peter Borden, U. of Southern California Materials are the matter that makes architecture. It is the means of execution, a major force of resistance, and means of expression. The architectural discipline has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with materiality. This session focuses on material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. The discussion will focus on materiality and its associated design decisions. Confronting the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications and re-applying them to challenge emerging techniques, it considers materiality, its production/fabrication processes, and the process of synthesizing material and design methodology to generate a material architecture.

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

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

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

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

PEDAGOGICAL VALUE OF DESIGN Pedagogies of Study Abroad Heinrich Schnoedt, Virginia Tech Study abroad programs have been regarded as seminal to the complete education of an architect for centuries. To understand more clearly the importance and impact of such programs in today’s architecture curricula, this session challenges contributors to critically assess successful curricular models, their didactic approaches, and the modes by which success becomes evident. It further seeks to clarify the future role of study abroad programs and their possible contribution toward comprehending culture in local and global environments. The Doctor in the Studio: Ph.D.’s and Design Pedagogy Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U. With the increased popularity of Ph.D. programs in architecture, it is more common for faculty to have a professional degree and a Ph.D. without a professional license. Yet as departments look to define themselves in relation to the profession, the licensing boards, and their students, these faculty can be pushed to the margins of discussions about design pedagogy and curriculum development. Conflicts can arise between educators who come to teaching from practice and those who stayed in academia. This panel invites papers which explore the challenges, questions, and rewards that result from the engagement of Ph.D.’s with studio curricula.

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

Architectural History and the Design Studio Vandana Baweja, U. of Michigan This panel addresses the question: What pedagogical value does design education offer to architectural history? Papers that present studio projects with an analysis of the discursive impact of studio education on architectural history are invited. The objective of the session is not just to present case studies, but also to draw metacognitive conclusions on how architectural history and the design studio can be imagined intertextually. We invite papers that focus on: bridging the disciplinary divide between architectural history and the design studio, cutting across the textual/visual production and consumption of knowledge, and research methods in the history oriented design studio. Design Curriculum Design Michael Peters, Texas Tech U. An examination of how design curriculums are structured can inform a discussion of the nature of architectural education in the coming decades. Primary concerns of any design curriculum include: 1) How we can better prepare students to visualize design and respond to the environment; 2) How are new and emerging technologies, such as digital design and representation, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrated into the curriculum; 3) How should design schools engage the profession, and; 4) How should a design education begin and how should it end. In short, this session examines how we will prepare students for the evolving field of architecture and the future of practice.

Paper Presentation All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the session topic chairs. Selection is based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the discipline of architecture, and relevance to the session topic. All authors will be notified of the status of their paper and will receive comments from their reviewers. Accepted authors will be required to complete a copyright transfer form and agree to present the paper at the Annual Meeting before it is published in the proceedings. Each session will have a moderator, normally the topic chair. Session moderators will notify authors in advance of session guidelines as well as the general expectations for the session. Moderators reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines. Failure to comply with the conference deadlines or with a moderator’s request for materials in advance may result in an author being dropped from the program, even though his or her name may appear in the program book. In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation are required to register for the Annual Meeting.

Timeline April—Call for Papers announced July 16—Paper submission site opens September 17—Paper submission deadline October 27—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments. Accepted authors revise/pprepare papers for publication December 3—Final revised papers and copyright forms due January 14—Paper presenter registration deadline

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

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Deep Matters The path to meaningful and provocative architectural research

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June 19-22, 2008 Cranbrook Academy of Art co-chairs Stephen Kieran KieranTimberlake Associates

James Timberlake KieranTimberlake Associates

Max Underwood Arizona State University

Keynote Speakers Brent M. Segal, PhD Nantero, Inc., a leading Nanotechnology company

Thomas Daniel, PhD University of Washington, Biology Department

Jack Keebler

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

making our architecture? How do we learn to ask the right questions and collect the measurable data that can improve our architecture? How do we provide architectural researchers with the deep skill set necessary to support performative architecture? What is that deep skill set? How do we make the leap from research in the academy to research in our professional offices? What is the economic model for affording deep architectural research in professional practice? How do we go about funding such research in the academy and in practice? Deep Matters intends to delve deeply into this topic with the intention of developing research approaches, research models that the academy will begin to frame education around. Presentations of papers will inform breakout sessions of workshops to help develop a blueprint for deeply embedding research into our everyday lives as teachers and practitioners. The themes around which Deep Matters will be organized are as follows: 1. Defining Architectural Research in the Academy and Practice. What is interesting and why? 2. The Emerging Methods of Research Innovation. What are the networks, collaborations, visualization opportunities, strategies and tactics? 3. Case Studies of Bleeding Edge and Innovative Applied Research. What are the acknowledged in depth current case studies of projects or groups which are redefining the integration of research into practice and education? 4. Open Submissions. What areas of research innovation outside of architecture might inform the way forward? What arenas within architecture might the first three categories not capture?

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INTRODUCTION The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the seventh annual steel design student competition for the 2007‑2008 academic year. Administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. CATEGORY I Assembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing because it offers the greatest strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time. CATEGORY II Open. The ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a greatest amount of flexibility with the context.

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

Awards Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2008, to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org) and the AISC website (www.aisc.org). SPONSOR The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a nonprofit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel–related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information. INFORMATION Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should be addressed to: Eric W. Ellis AISC Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) fax: 202.628.0448 email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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thinking for a sustainable world

international student design competition

Opportunity

In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students are challenged to investigate innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives. The competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility. Category I – Recycling Center Design an environmentally responsible recycling center focused on reusing today’s materials to preserve tomorrow’s resources. Category II – Building Element Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.

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

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

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

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

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architecture and plastic defining, thinking and constructing with plasTic

Kingsdale School by Architects De Rujke, Marsh, Morgan (dRMM) of London

Chameleon House by Anderson Anderson Architects of Seattle/ San Francisco

Defining, thinking and making with plastic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a material which is really thousands of materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is inherently difficult. PMMA, PIR, PUR, PE are sanctioned acronyms obscuring long chemical names of performance driven materials which are everywhere in the architectural project, at every scale, varied in hardness, softness, form and performance. From the ubiquitous polyethylene (PE) to the emerging ethylene-tetra-fluro-ethylene (ETFE) this seven chaptered website seeks to decode the relationship between architecture and plastic. Its resources, surrounded by technical fact, historical fact, and design concept, provide faculty and students of architecture a starting point for plastic deployment, interrogation and experimentation.

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2007-2008 ACSA Award Recipients

ACSA Distinguished Professor Awards

ACSA/AIA Topaz Medallion

Stanley Tigerman, FAIA

David Heymann

Tigerman McCurry Architects

University of Texas at Austin

Gregory Palermo Iowa State University

Victor Regnier

University of Southern California

ACSA Faculty Design Awards

Gail Peter Borden, LA Markings

CITYbuild Consortium of Schools

University of Southern California

Grace E. La & James Dallman, Great Lakes Future University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

University of Illinois at Chicago University of Virginia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Southern California

Historical Chicago Greystone Initiative, Roberta M. Feldman Learning Barge Studio, Phoebe Crisman

J. Meejin Yoon, Interactive Public Space Gail Peter Borden, Low Country Line House

The New Orleans Mission Family Shelter Project Team

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ACSA Creative Achievement Awards

Rodolfo Imas

ACSA Collaborative Practice Awards

ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Awards

New York Institute of Technology

Jason Alread, Karen Jeske, Thomas Leslie, James Miller, Joe Muench, & Carl Rogers Iowa State University

Ian MacBurnie & Mark Gorgolewski Ryerson University

Stephen Luoni, Aaron Gabriel, & Jeffrey Huber University of Arkansas

Peter MacKeith

Washington University in St. Louis

NFT

JAE

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Ulrich Dangel

University of Texas at Austin

Aaron Gabriel

University of Arkansas

Jodi La Coe

Pennsylvania State University

Journal of Architectural Education Best Articles

Lois Weinthal

The University of Texas at Austin

Panayiota I. Pyla

JAE Best Design as Scholarship Article

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign JAE Best Scholarship of Design Article

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ACSA 2007-08 faculty Design Award Recipient, J. Meejin Yoon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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regional news

southeast catholic university of america

Assistant Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, has recently received the 2007 Graham Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities grants for the publication of his forthcoming book, The Architecture of Ascension: Airplanes, Skyscrapers, and the American Imagination of the Future City. He has also been awarded the biennial MIT Lawrence B. Anderson Award for the study of women’s empowerment through the language of vernacular architecture in rural Bangladesh. clemson University

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Clemson University Associate Professor Jori Erdman has been named Director of the CU Community Research and Design Center. The Center focuses on outreach and research projects with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations between the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and planning. In addition, the Center Director coordinates participation with the South Carolina Design Arts Partnership which is a joint effort on the part of Clemson University, the South Carolina Arts Commission and various professional organizations. Erdman has stepped down from the role of Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Architecture in order to take on this new position within the College of Architecture, Arts, & Humanities. Associate Professor Keith Evan Green, Ph.D., has been jointly appointed as Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering [MSE]. Green has already worked closely with the School of MSE on a number of initiatives. He participated in MSE’s strategic planning process, helping to define an emphasis area on “architectural materials.” He directs IMSA (Intelligent Materials & Systems for Architecture), a research unit bringing together Architecture, MSE and the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering. He serves as Co-PI with MSE faculty members on the R-TEX project, a low-cost and intelligent construction panel of recycled fibers. And he has co-authored papers with MSE Professor Michael Ellison, presented at ETH, Zurich and the Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Green also serves on the Technical Advisory Commit-

Wonderland Summer Camp for Physically and Mentally Challenged Individuals, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, by graduate students Zahidul Islam, Silika Rahman Kona, and Shehnaz Talukder, University of Missouri-Columbia. Studio Professor Dr. Saleh Uddin.

tee for the National Textile Center, which counts Clemson’s School of MSE as a partner. Professor Stephen Verderber was the leader of a team that received an ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for 2008, for his studio-based design for a 40-bed homeless shelter for women and their children in post-Katrina New Orleans. This facility, the New Orleans Mission Family Shelter, is the first LEED (silver level) project in New Orleans. His forthcoming book on pre and post-Katrina conditions in New Orleans, Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City is scheduled for release in summer 2008 (University of Texas Press).

Savannah college of art and design The “Moon River House” by Professor Tim Woods was published in a Rizzoli publication, titled Southern Cosmopolitan by author Susan Sully. Professor Alexis Gregory has recently completed the Architectural Registration Exam to become a licensed architect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was also awarded the SCAD Presidential Fellowship for the Winter Break in order to develop a new course entitled “Women in Architecture.” In January she had a poster accepted to be presented at the 96th

Katrina; his thesis centers on architecture as a humanitarian and social art for people in need. Funding for the project is coming from grants and rebuilding programs. Professor Ming Tang and Professor Dihua Yang won the First Price of Self-sufficient Housing competition, Advanced Architecture Contest. This international competition focuses on the design of a “self-fab house” using industrial or traditional craft-based techniques generated on the basis of the knowledge of the information age, such as digital processes, softwaredriven manufacturing, skills and know-how in the use of new or established materials, the strategic recycling of other chains of production or familiarity with the historical processes of the construction of habitats in natural environments, revised in the light of new standards of sustainability.

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Professor Ming Tang’s paper, “City Generator, GIS driven Genetic Evolution in Urban Simulation”, is accepted and presented in the 96th ACSA conference, Seeking the City, in Houston, TX in March. 2008. Professor Scott R. Singeisen was appointed as the chair of the architecture department in fall, 2007.

ACSA Conference in March. The title is “Identifying Obstacles to Professional Achievement Affecting Women in Architecture, and to Determine the Causes of High Attrition Rates in South Carolina” and is based on her thesis for her Master of Science in Architecture. Professor LaRaine Papa Montgomery led her Design Studio II students to Pass Christian, Mississippi, working with local community leaders

in design and construction assistance. Christopher Boone, a graduate student in the architecture program, is designing a community center for Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian as his thesis project, and will lead a group of student and local volunteers there this summer to break ground for the new center, which will be designed to LEED standards. Chris was in the first group of students who, in 2005, witnessed the devastation and loss from Hurricane

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Wonderland Summer Camp, Missouri. Recipient of AIA Mid-Missouri Design Award/Unbuilt Category. University of Missouri-Columbia students: Zahidul Islam, Silika Rahman Kona, and Shehnaz Talukder. Faculty: Dr. Saleh Uddin

Professor Andrew Payne, Matthew Dudzik, Julia Granacher, and Scott Sworts joined Savannah College of Art and Design as fulltime faculty. Professor Andrew Payne holds PhD from North Carolina State University. He has also worked with StudioGAP as a design consultant in Raleigh, North Carolina. Professor Matthew Dudzik received a BFA in Architecture at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and later went on to get his M-Arch at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. While in St. Louis he sat on the board of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, was published in the Brazilian architecture journal ‘Revista Pós número 20’ and exhibited at FAU in São Paulo, Brazil.

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to exhibit work at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy. The title of the exhibition, industrialize furniture, links design with emerging digital and technical processes, particularly computer controlled systems. The body of the work links experimentation in design research initiated in earlier projects, such as the Solar Decathlon, and previous exhibitions at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York. The exposition, the largest and most important of its kind in the world, will showcase the best work from more than 50 countries and will give students the chance to interact with top international designers. Terry Surjan, associate professor, has organized two competition and exhibition studios in spring 2008. The first was for the History Channel’s City of the Future competition, January 7 through January 15, when seventeen undergraduate students, first through fifth year, projected 100 years into the future of Washington, D.C. The project was recorded for the

History Channel City of the Future Television Program. The second exhibition studio, which Surjan organized with the school and CUP, is for the London Festival of Architecture, which takes place June 20-July 20, 2008. Virginia Tech is the only American school that will participate in the LFA. The studio is proposing a suitcase pavilion, wherein a group of six to ten students will travel to London and assemble the pavilion in a street exhibition. Mehdi Setareh, architecture professor in the School of Architecture + Design, invites intern and practicing architects to participate in the Structural Technology continuing education seminar at 1021 Prince Street in Alexandria, Va., on May 16 to 18, and at 117A Surge Building, School of Architecture + Design, in Blacksburg, Va., on May 30 to June 1. The course provides an overview of structural technology topics. Part One, General Structures, reviews structural theory and behavior of different building components in steel, concrete, and wood. Part Two, Lateral Forces, emphasizes the effects of lateral forces on building structures. Setareh is

a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and Michigan and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Concrete Institute, and the Architectural Engineering Institute. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1990 and has been at Virginia Tech since 1997. For more information about the seminar in Alexandria, go to http://www. caus.vt.edu/struct/alexandria/P1.htm. For more information about the seminar in Blacksburg, go to http://www.caus.vt.edu/struct/blacksburg/ P1.htm. For more information, contact Setareh at setareh@vt.edu; by phone at (540) 231-5204; or by fax at (540) 231-9938. The faculty of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies who teach doctoral level classes have been ranked the 5th most productive faculty of architecture, design, and planning in the nation by Academic Analytics and the most productive program at Virginia Tech. The rankings have been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Books, journal articles and citations in other articles were among the factors considered in evaluating productivity.

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California College of the Arts Ila Berman joined the CCA faculty in January 2008 as chair of the Architecture Program. She holds a doctorate of design and a master of design studies, both in architecture, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Her BArch (summa cum laude) is from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Ila comes to CCA from Tulane University, where she has been associate dean of the School of Architecture since 2004. She is also the director of the graduate program, a Harvey-Wadsworth Professor of Urbanism, a women’s studies faculty associate, and a member of the executive advisory board of the Newcomb College Institute, an academic center dedicated to enhancing women’s education at Tulane. Before her association with Tulane, which began in 1994, she held teaching positions at Harvard University, the Cooper Union, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

David Gissen joined the CCA faculty in September as an assistant professor of architecture. David is a historian and theorist whose research draws on the interplay of contemporary architectural and geographical theories, particularly examinations of space, nature, and geo-politics. He is the editor of the book Big and Green and author of a forthcoming book on conceptualizations of nature in architectural theory—both published by Princeton Architectural Press. He has published his essays in numerous journals and edited collections and he has received several grants and awards including two Graham Foundation grants and the Richard J. Carroll lectureship from the Johns Hopkins University for contributions to the history of architectural engineering. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia (BS Arch), Yale University (M. Arch) and the University College London, University of London (PhD).

Andrew Kudless joined the CCA faculty in September as an assistant professor of architecture. He is the founder of Matsys (materialsystems.org), a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Andrew has taught at The Ohio State University, the Architectural Association, and Yale University. In 2005 Andrew was the Howard E. LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners at OSU. He has a MA in emergent technologies and design from the Architectural Association and a MArch from Tulane University. He is the recipient of a 2004 FEIDAD Design Merit Award and a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship in Japan. He has worked as a designer for Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York and Expedition Engineering in London. The work of Matsys has recently been published in the journal Praxis and the book Digital Diagrams. In addition, Andrew’s work has been exhibited

Mona El Khafif joined the CCA faculty in September as an associate professor of architecture. Mona is completing her PhD from the Technical University of Vienna. She received her professional architecture degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1996. She has been a visiting assistant professor at the Tulane University School of Architecture and an assistant professor at the Institute for Urban Development, Landscape Architecture, and Design. Mona’s research in the field of urban planning has led to numerous publications and she has participated in workshops and exhibited her work internationally. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Associate Professor William Benedict has retired from the Architecture Department and will be teaching under the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP). He received his B.Arch from Kansas State University and his M.Arch from The University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Charles Moore. Since joining Cal Poly in 1990, he has been a leader in matters of curricular adjustments, most notably in the areas pertaining to first year, the integration of the Architecture and Construction Management design studios, and the development of a unique co-op experience in major cities in California. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he served between 2002 and 2006 as the Interim and Associate Department Head. He has gracefully guided generations of students to find a balance between creativity and their professional aspirations, thus enabling them to find a seemingless approach between academia and the practice of architecture. We look forward to his continuous involvement with the Architecture Department. Professor Thomas Fowler, IV had two articles published in the 2006-07 Form.Z Joint Study Journal Partnership in Learning, issue No. 15: “Light Motion Machines” and “Intimate and Transparent Production of Space.” He received a

2008 AIA Honor Award for the Collaborative Integrative-Interdisciplinary Digital Design Studio (CIDS) proposal, and will participate on a panel discussion at the AIA Convention in Boston on May 15th with five other winners to present his proposal. Early March, he received his Architectural Registration in the State of New York.

of several demonstration projects to be used as a platform for applied research. Students, faculty and researchers from architecture, material science, urban design, agriculture and life sciences, as well as various engineering departments, will participate in the project through more than twenty courses.

Professor Brian Kesner has retired from the Architecture Department after five years of reduced teaching responsibilities under the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP). Trained at Berkeley for his undergraduate and graduate education, Professor Kesner joined Cal Poly in 1980. He has promoted design excellence throughout the entire curriculum and his passion focused on the areas of housing and sustainability. He has served generously generations of students to become community activists and advocates of a more sustainable environment. He will be thoroughly missed by his colleagues and look forward to his future participation with the Department.

The project is being funded, in part, by a $100,000 grant from the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE).

Professor Margot McDonald is the 2008 Host Campus Chair of the UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference that will take place at Cal Poly’s San Luis Obispo campus between July 31-Aug 3, 2008. For further information, please log onto http://sustainability.calpoly.edu. Lecturer Marc J Neveu will present a paper entitled “Inferential Walks through Scarpa’s Woods” at the Architexture Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in April. university of arizona Assistant Professors of Architecture Dale Clifford and Jason Vollen and School of Architecture Director Larry Medlin, in collaboration with Joseph Simmons, head of the Department of Material Science and Engineering, have the honor of leading the University of Arizona’s multi-departmental team in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. This will be the first time a university in the state of Arizona competes in the Decathlon. The project is a natural extension of the research and teaching that both Clifford and Vollen have been conducting in the Emerging Material Technologies graduate program, and a new direction in the School of Architecture’s tradition in innovative research projects. The UA Decathlon house is planned on being the first

University of oregon Associate Professor Alison Kwok received the Women in Solar Energy Award from the American Solar Energy Society. The award is given to a woman who has contributed significantly to the acceptance and advancement of women in solar energy by advocacy, education, technical expertise, promotion, and/or through significant contributions to the field. The award will be given at the American Solar Energy Society’s Solar 2008 conference in San Diego, May 4-8, 2008. Professor Kevin Nute will be the keynote speaker at the Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan event at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, this October. Dr. Nute has also been asked to write on the architectural impact of Ando Hiroshige for the special edition of Andon, the international journal of Japanese arts and crafts, being published this year in memory of the celebrated Japanese woodblock print artist. “Thirteen Years in Old Town-Chinatown: University of Oregon Architecture Projects”, an exhibition of work from the University of Oregon Portland Architecture, opened February 7 at Project O Gallery in Portland. The retrospective exhibit of Old Town-Chinatown projects begins with work from a design studio taught by Suenn Ho and Associate Professor Gerald Gast in 1995 and ends with proposals for an Old Town-Chinatown “Commons and Library” from a Fall 2007 studio taught by the same faculty members. In between are recent design thesis projects in the neighborhood. The 1995 studio work first proposed the new “Festival Streets” in Chinatown, later built by the City of Portland and Portland Development Commission. (WEST continued on page 28)

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internationally including From Diagram to Code, or The Computational Turn of Contemporary Architecture, Maison de L’Architecture de la Ville, Marseille, France, 2007; and Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies, Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006.

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Emeritus Professor Jim Pettinari, Associate Professor Hajo Neis and Associate Professor Gerald Gast, contracted an urban design project with the City of Tigard as part of their ongoing work in the Portland Urban Projects Workshop (PUPW) at the University of Oregon, Portland Campus. The project calls for downtown urban and architectural improvements. Graduate students will have a learning experience as part of the team. University of southern California The University of Southern California (USC) School of Architecture is pleased to announce the approval of a new doctoral degree program. In Fall 2008 the School will begin offering a Ph.D. in Architecture. This new doctoral program will allow the School to pursue in-

depth research while preparing students for careers as leaders in both the profession and academia. Graduates are expected to become leading voices in professional architecture and architectural engineering firms. Some graduates may also seek careers in university teaching and research. The doctoral degree program is an intensive and collaborative adventure. Participants are expected to bring a strong academic record and a serious commitment to research and teaching. The initial focus of the degree program will be on the building sciences and technology. “The School has great strengths and a lengthy history of research in structures, environmental control systems, materials/methods, sustainability and digital processes.” According to recently appointed program chair Douglas Noble, FAIA. Ph.D. “We are especially interested in technology integration and design intelligence,

and the Ph.D. program will allow us to seek additional federal and private research grants.” Recent funded research has included urban glare/daylight analysis, seismic performance, energy management systems and digital toolbuilding. The endowment of the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program, dedicated in 2005, has encouraged substantial expansion of the School’s graduate programs and the recent building expansion of the new Robert H. Timme Architectural Research Center has provided a home for the faculty and students in the Ph.D. program. Associate Professor Douglas Noble, FAIA, Ph.D. has been appointed chair of the new program. Noble joined the School of Architecture in 1991 and is currently serving as Associate Dean.

northeast syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor today announced the appointment of Mark Robbins, dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture, as the University’s senior advisor for architecture and urban initiatives. In this new capacity, Robbins, who will continue as dean, will advise Cantor and Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina on SU’s design and architecture initiatives in the City of Syracuse and on campus.

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Robbins’ additional role underscores the importance of architecture, landscape architecture and planning in the revitalization efforts for Syracuse and the University’s commitment to the many collaborative initiatives taking place on campus and in the city. The appointment also acknowledges and formalizes Robbins’ role in bringing innovative design to the fore, raising awareness about its significance and highlighting the importance of architecture, landscape architecture and planning in the University’s building and revitalization projects.

“This appointment recognizes the critical role that Mark has played, and will continue to play, in providing vision, expertise and intellectual capital to the University and the city in the many design, building and revitalization projects under way,” says Cantor. “Whether it’s the renovation of Slocum Hall, restoring homes on the Near Westside, transforming The Warehouse, or leading the design of the Connective Corridor, Mark’s excellence and dedication to the University and community exemplify our vision for Scholarship in Action.” Robbins will serve in an advisory role on design and architecture initiatives both in the city and on campus, including such projects as the Connective Corridor, the Near Westside Initiative and the recently announced JPMorgan Chase Technology Center. He will be an advisor in architect selection and design decisions, working with SU personnel, community groups and private developers. Robbins will also act as SU’s liaison with city and county authorities and represent the senior administration on matters pertaining to urban initiatives and campus planning.

Robbins is excited about his new role as well as the opportunity to continue his duties as dean of the School of Architecture. “In only a few years, the Chancellor has established a climate in which the University truly excels as an intellectual enterprise, through its collaborative interdisciplinary work on campus and off,” he says. “The enhancement of the built environment is just one form that this takes. This work has been accomplished through the efforts of committed groups and individuals. The University and the region offer unique assets which strengthen the long-term revitalization project.” Before assuming the position as ninth dean of the School of Architecture, Robbins was the director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., where he developed an aggressive program to strengthen the presence of innovative design in the public realm through New Public Works, a program that sponsored numerous national design competitions. He was the curator of architecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts

in Columbus, Ohio, and an associate professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University from 1990–99. Notable among his awards are the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a fellowship in the visual arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. His book Households, a series of portraits of people and their homes that presents a contemporary visual commentary on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment, was published by The Monacelli Press in 2006.

The School of Architecture currently occupies a 140,000-square-foot warehouse in downtown Syracuse renovated by Gluckman Mayner Architects, soon to be the permanent home of UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate created at the school in 2005 as a resource for the city, campus and region to address critical issues of urban revitalization. Numerous design studios have focused on Syracuse and the region, several of which have become projects on the Near Westside—such as the proposed new WCNY public broadcasting headquarters by Koning Eizenberg Architecture of Santa Monica. Many of these projects were

featured in the recent “Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan” exhibition at The Warehouse, a survey of new building, landscape and infrastructure projects in progress on the SU campus and in the City of Syracuse, including work by Hargreaves and Associates, Scogin Elam, Toshiko Mori, Richard Gluckman and faculty members of the School of Architecture.

In America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools for 2006, UT Arlington’s School of Architecture was ranked fifth overall in the region and and tied for first place with Rice University in the “Most Innovative Architecture Programs” category.

including Assistant Professor Liam O’Brien, Assistant Professor Michael Beaman, Assistant Professor Talia McCray, Associate Professor Werner Lang and, in fall 2008, Assistant Professor Cisco Gomes. Finally, we want to acknowledge the significant contributions of three retiring members of the faculty: Richard Swallow, who joined the School of Architecture in 1957; Dan Leary, who returned to the University in 1966 after graduating in architectural engineering in 1962; and Gerlinde Leiding, who joined the School of Architecture in 1968.

UPSTATE recently received $2.5 million as part of the University’s debt reinvestment program that will support work for the Syracuse Arts, Technology and Design Quarter, part of the Near Westside Initiative.

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University of texas at arlington In the ninth annual publication of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools for 2008, Design Intelligence has ranked Graduate Architecture Program at The University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Architecture as second in the South, just behind Clemson University. This area includes Texas and Oklahoma and the states extending to the East Coast, stretching up to Virginia. UT Arlington’s graduate program was actually ranked in second place in the region in two separate analyses, based on evaluations provided by architectural firms within the Southern region. The first provides a ranking of schools within the region, while the other compares the program at UT Arlington among architecture schools across the country the nation. Harvard University was ranked third. The survey was conducted by Design Intelligence in mid-2007 and involved leaders of architecture firms who have had direct experience over the past five years in the hiring and performance of recent architectural graduates. Many of the firms that participated in the study are leaders in their market sector and have won major national, state, local and market-sector awards.

“Any ranking system has questionable merits,” said Architecture Dean Donald Gatzke, “but it is indicative of a rising reputation of the school within the profession and testimony to the success of our graduates.”

Design Intelligence is a bi-monthly report on the future and the repository of timely articles, original research, and industry news. It is published by the Design Futures Council, an interdisciplinary network of design, product, and construction leaders exploring global trends, challenges, and opportunities to advance innovation and shape the future of the industry and environment. Members include leading architecture and design firms, dynamic manufacturers, service providers, and forward-thinking AEC firms of all sizes that take an active interest in their future. university of texas at austin The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture welcomed five new faculty members

In recognition of excellence in teaching and scholarship, Assistant Professor Uli Dangel received the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, Professor David Heymann received the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award and Associate Professor Lois Weinthal received the JAE Best Design as Scholarship Article Award. Associate Professor Chris Long received a Texas Exes Teaching Award. The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts awarded grants to Assistant Professor Billie Faircloth for the publication project titled Architecture and Plastic and Associate Professor Chris Long to research his new book project on the GermanAmerican designer Kem Weber, titled Kem Weber and Modern Design in Southern California.This (SouthWest continued on page 30)

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spring, a “Books & Buildings” event at the School of Architecture recognized four books and five authors including Professor Emeritus Hal Box, Think Like an Architect; Associate Professor Dean Almy, Center: On Landscape Urbanism; Associate Professor Richard Cleary, Bridges; and Associate Professor Kent Butler and Professor Frederick Steiner, Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition. In addition, Professor Frederick Steiner edited The Essential Ian McHarg. Professor Michael Benedikt has two books recently published. God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy came out in November from Bottino Books, New York, and God, Creativity, and Evolution: The Argument from Design(ers), was published in January by the Center for American Architecture and Design. Associate Professor Chris Long published Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design. Professor Steven Moore has published his fourth book, Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba, and

Frankfurt with Roman & Littlefield. Technology, Sustainability, and Cultural Identity by Professor Larry Speck was released last summer. Professor Anthony Alofsin was a Fellow of the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy, in fall 2007. His latest book, When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language on the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933, will appear in fall 2008 in a paperback edition from the University of Chicago Press. In recognition of professional accomplishment, Associate Professor Louise Harpman’s firm, Specht Harpman, won a Texas Society of Architects award for the zeroHouse, a completely self-sufficient, prefabricated offthe-grid dwelling prototype. The project appeared on the cover of Texas Architect in the October 2007 awards issue. Design-build work by Senior Lecturer Steve Ross and Jack Sanders [M.Arch.’05] for the new El Cosmico lodging development in Marfa was published in the November issue of Dwell Magazine. As

a result of his sustainable and innovative urban design work, Professor Sinclair Black has been honored with the 2008 CNU Athena Medal. Lecturers Judith Birdsong, Bill Jackson, Riley Triggs, and Jonathan Smith [B.Arch.‘03 ] have organized an exhibit, “AD Stenger: Houses,” on display this spring in our Mebane Gallery. Stenger, an Austin architect, built his first home in the late 1940s and subsequently developed three distinct neighborhoods characterized by a modest yet innovative design style that looked to contemporary aeronautics for inspiration. Assistant Professor Ulrich Dangel’s exhibit “Baukunst: Contemporary Architecture in Vorarlberg, Austria” was on display at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in February. Assistant Professor Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram curated the exhibit “Lessons from Rome: The Work of Robert Venturi, Tod Williams, Thomas Phifer, and Paul Lewis,” which was displayed recently at the American Academy in Rome, the Politecnico di Milano in Lecco, Italy, and our Mebane Gallery.

east central University of cincinnati A University Research Council grant has been awarded to Assistant Professor Michael Zaretsky for a heliodon and other passive design research tools for SAID. Assistant Professor Michael Zaretsky and Visiting Associate Professor Dr. Adrian Parr and are co-editing the upcoming issue of Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture focusing on the concept of Sustainability (www. drainmag.com).

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Professor Gordon Simmons is retiring from the school this spring. This summer, Professor Hank Hildebrandt will launch a new exchange program between SAID and Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, with an International Summer Workshop that brings UC and Turkish students together in the

study of architecture, interior design, and culture. Also working to make the program an interdisciplinary experience is Planning Professor Frank Russell and students from the Planning School of DAAP. This summer Assistant Professor Rebecca Williamson will be teaching a course on the History of the Italian City at the University of Torino, Italy, in a program organized by the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC). Cincinnati’s new exchange program with École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris, initiated by Rebecca Williamson, allows two ESA students to study in Cincinnati during the fall quarter, and two Cincinnati students to study in Paris during the spring semester. In addition to the regular exchange activities, Assistant Professor Marshall Brown has received a grant to visit Paris this spring to observe urban design teaching at ESA.

Assistant Professor Marshall Brown contributed his essay, “Not Good, But Well Behaved, Notes on an Urban Insurgency” to Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York (2007: Princeton Architectural Press), the companion book to the Municipal Arts Society of New York’s current exhibition on Jane Jacobs. Two grants have been awarded to Assistant Professor Elizabeth Riorden for authoring a Site Management Plan for the Unesco World Heritage Site of Troy in Turkey-- $9000 from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and $25,000 from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Several of the School’s graduate students will participate in this project, two of them traveling to Turkey with Professor Riorden in August 2008. Her website on Troy (supported by a $182,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities) went live in the second half of 2007 and can be seen at http://www.cerhas.uc.edu/troy. She is invited to speak about this project at

Visiting Assistant Professor Ericka M. Hedgecock is leading an interdisciplinary team of architecture, interior, and graphic design students and faculty in the development of exhibition designs for the Fernald Preserve Visitor’s Center in southwest Ohio. The project is sponsored by the Department of Energy and will open to the public in June 2008. July 13-19, SAID will host the third Summer CAMP, an introduction to architecture for rising 8th and 9th graders, targeting ethnic minorities. The one week day camp features design studio, tours of significant buildings, and volunteer mentors from local firms. The design program will be led by professors Tom Bible and Michaele Pride. University of notre dame The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture has a number of visiting professors teaching in spring 2008 including Steven Peterson, a principal of Peterson/Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design. Peterson/Littenberg was one of the seven design teams selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to present proposals for the World

Trade Center site. Prof. Peterson has a 40-year involvement with urban design and city planning. He is teaching graduate students at Notre Dame’s Rome Studies Center. Other visiting professors include Neil Hoyt, an associate with Konstant Architecture of Skokie, Illinois and Thomas Norman Rajkovich, principal of Thomas Norman Rajkovich Architects of Evanston, Illinois. Notre Dame’s Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture recently doubled. Since its establishment in 2003, each winner has received a $100,000 cash award. Starting in 2008, each recipient will receive a $200,000 cash prize -- making it the most lucrative international architecture honor. Richard Driehaus also will increase the architecture school’s annual Henry Hope Reed Award from its current $25,000 to $50,000. The Hope Award is given annually to an architect for outstanding contributions to the welfare of the traditional city and its design. The 2008 recipients of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize are Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the husband-and-wife team who lead the Miami firm Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ). Roger G. Kennedy, the National Park Service director under President Clinton for four years, will receive the Henry Hope Reed Award in association with the Driehaus Prize. The Center for Building Communities, a new Notre Dame initiative that addresses

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architectural and urban design needs around the country. Led by professors Ron Sakal, CBC executive director, and Sallie Hood, CBC director of design, the center serves a national constituency, offering design studios focusing on sustainable architecture and urban design. Supported in part by an ongoing gift from Champion Enterprises, Inc., a leader in factorybuilt construction, CBC studios place a special emphasis on modular building technology and the ways it can quickly and dramatically help strengthen communities. The CBC also has a new Web site: http://buildingcommunities. nd.edu/

After 33 years at Notre Dame, Professor Norman Crowe is retiring. Crowe, well-known for his popular book, Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World (MIT Press) has specialized in blending architecture, urban planning and nature. He has developed a reputation for shaping a curriculum that helps students learn about and relate to the natural world around them. Beginning in the 2007-2008, Notre Dame students entering their fourth year may participate in two new concentrations: the Preservation and Restoration Concentration and the Architectural Practice and Enterprise Concentration. With the latter, up to eight architecture students per year take courses in accounting, management, statistics and corporate finance, among other courses through Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

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events of note Conferences / Lectures 5/5/2008 Designs on e-Learning Penn State University’s College of Art and Architecture’s e-Learning Institute has recently partnered with University of Arts London to host the 3rd International Designs on E-Learning. Planned for September 9th & 10th, 2008 the conference promises to continue its invigorating examination of established practice in the field, of innovations in teaching and learning with technology, of the challenges and successes presented by the visual nature of our discipline, and of the benefits of online and blended learning. Abstract Deadline: May 5, 2008. http://designsonelearning.psu.edu 5/7-9/2008 Mayors’ Institute on City Design In partnership with the Metro Council, the University of Oregon, and Portland State University, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) will hold a regional institute in Portland, May 7-9, 2008. For two and a half days eight mayors from the northwest part of the country will work with a select group of expert planners and architects to address urban design challenges facing their city. The focus of the regional institute is downtown redevelopment. Mayors will identify a problem in their city and present their case to the group of design team experts. In this rare opportunity, they will work together offering suggestions and discussing potential solutions for each case study. Equally, the design professionals will make short presentations in their field of expertise. 5/8/2008 TRIBUTE TO A MIRACULOUS MEGA-PROJECT NYPL Donnell Library Auditorium The Skyscraper Museum presents a cavalcade of New York scholars and story-tellers to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the opening of Rockefeller Center and its 70-story signature tower, the RCA Building/30 Rockefeller Plaza. Now considered the very heart of midtown and beloved as a public space of architectural quality and urbanity, Rockefeller Center had a com-

plex and controversial early history. The enormous three-block, eleven-acre, fifteen-building complex was a gigantic gamble that defied the New York model of high-rise development on single sites. As a mega-project, Rockefeller Center is a surprising success. skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/rock_center.htm 5/9-25/08 Headlines 2008 UW Professional’s Advisory Council’s (PAC) Spring Exhibit In May of this year, the University of Washington, Department of Architecture will hold its Fourth Annual Spring Exhibit, Headlines., organized by the PAC. It has grown every year since 2005 and in 2007 (78) entries represented (44) Washington firms. The exhibit is non-juried. Entries reference the educational background of each member of the team, and alumni from architectural schools throughout the country and abroad are represented. Criteria are that works be commissioned, but not yet built, and that the ‘Headline’ makes a point about the underlying design concept of each work. In this way, Headlines seeks to give students, faculty, and the public a glimpse into the professional design studio and a preview of buildings which will soon become reality. Dates: May 9-25, 2008. Host: University of Washington http://depts.washington.edu/archdept/activities_ advisorycouncil.html for more information, or contact us at archpac@u.washington.edu . 5/16/2008 The 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2008) Designing Socially Aware Interactions San Juan, Puerto Rico; December 3-5, 2008 Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and understand the interactions between designing and social intelligence. The workshop’s theme this year on designing socially aware interactions acknowledges the essential need for designing tools, procedures, and techniques to improve the interactions by addressing socially related factors. Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition including design, workspaces, education, e-commerce, entertain-

5/19-22/2008 ECOBUILD AMERICA Ecobuild America and AEC-ST is THE annual gathering place for AEC professionals who design, construct, manage facilities and specify building products, materials, and services. These events cover the unique intersection where ecology meets technology. www.ecobuildfall.com 5/26-28/2008 Corporations and cities Colloquium at Flagey, Brussels Corporations and Cities is an initiative of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. It consists of a series of workshops to be held in spring and autumn of 2008, a three-day colloquium to be held in May 2008, and an anthology of case studies and essays to be published in early 2009. corporationsandcities.org 6/9/2008 agency The 5th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. The conference will attempt to energise these relationships by addressing issues of agency, and will specifically address the role of architectural humanities research as an agency of transformation. Host: University of Sheffield Abstract Deadline: June 9, 2008. http://www.agency-conference.info/ For all inquiries contact: ahra08@sheffield.ac.uk

Competitions / Awards AIA AWARDS The American Institute of Architects has a long tradition of recognizing individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievements in support of the profession of architecture and the AIA. Learn more about AIA National

Awards Programs, submission information and deadlines. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Going Green! The 2008 AIA Housing Awards and the 2008 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards are now accepting online entries. Click on the appropriate link above to begin your submission. aia.org/awards

ects to be considered for the Award, but eligible projects must be designed for or used by Muslim communities, in part or in whole, wherever they are located. akdn.org

Brick In Architecture Awards Architectural and design firms from around the country can enter their best material to be judged by a jury of their peers. Any work of non-residential architecture completed within the last five years, in which brick is the dominant building material, is eligible. gobrick.com

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM Fulbright grants are made for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. www.cies.org

COMPETITIONS MAGAZINE Stay informed about major competition events in architecture, landscape architecture, and public art around the world. Discover successful strategies of well-known designers. http://competitions.org/ EDRA/PLACES Awards In cooperation with Metropolis Magazine The awards program reflects the related missions of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Places, and Metropolis in their effort to create an expanded forum about environmental and urban design while enhancing awareness and concern for the public realm. Planning Awards recognize projects that make proposals for the future design, use or management of a place. Research Awards recognize projects that investigate the relationship between design and human behavior, culture or experience. In 2008, a new award category for outstanding books was added. www.places-journal.org/awards Aga Khan Development Network The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks out the broadest possible range of architectural interventions: contemporary design projects and those demonstrating the use of appropriate technologies are considered, as are restoration and social efforts. There are no fixed criteria as to the size, type, nature, location or cost of proj-

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN The AAUW Educational Foundation has a long and distinguished history of advancing educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe. One of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest sources of funding for graduate women, the Educational Foundation provided $4 million in funding more than 250 fellowships, grants, and special awards to outstanding women in the 2007-08 academic year. Due to the generous contributions of AAUW members across the U.S., a broader community of women continues to gain access to educational and economic opportunities so that all women have a fair chance. aauw.org/fga AAF Minority/Disadvantaged Scholarships The American Architectural Foundation offers the Minority/Disadvantaged Scholarships in order to encourage diversity and equity in the architectural profession. These scholarships are open to high school seniors and college freshmen who plan to study architecture at a NAAB-accredited program. Twenty awards are made per year and may be renewed for two additional years, ideally maintaining 60 students in the program in any given year. Scholarship amounts range between $500 and $2,500 and are determined by evaluation of financial need information provided by the student and the school. archfoundation.org/aaf/aaf

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ment, digital democracy, and other fields are invited to participate. Deadline: May 16, 2008. cdr.uprrp.edu/SID2008/default.htm

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