Faculty/Staff

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Catherine Bishir, adjunct professor in architecture, has received with co-author Michael Southern, a national Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History for the series of architectural books on North Carolina, published by the University of North Carolina Press. All three books are in the Lyons Design Library: A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina, and A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina. Bishir has just published The Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington, North Carolina: An Antebellum Architectural Treasure and Its People.

Gail Peter Borden, architecture, has been selected for an invited competition to design a garden pavilion at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The jurors selected from emerging architects around the globe to participate in the construction of an exhibition of four garden pavilions that celebrate the “next” generation of design. The competition entries will be open to the public in April 2005. Additionally, Borden displays his work in an exhibition titled “Architecture Mechanisms” in the Brooks Hall Gallery from February 6 through March 11, 2005.

Susan Brandeis, art + design, was visiting artist in the Art Department at Indiana University (Bloomington) during the last week in October. She gave a workshop for fibers students on machine embroidery and a lecture for the department titled: “Post-Digital Textiles: Rediscovering the Hand.” Brandeis is also one of seven artists from the U.S. and Canada featured in an exhibit of woven and printed textiles titled “Hypertextiles,” at the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery from February 8 through March 8, 2005.

Susan Brandeis and Vita Plume, art + design, were both invited to exhibit works in the exhibition “Recursion: Material Expression of Zeros and Ones” held at the Museum of Design Atlanta from January 11 through March 26, 2005. The exhibition will be open during the College Art Association Conference in February.

Tony Brock, graphic design, is currently working on a Learning in a Technology Rich Environment grant focusing his research on synthesizing faceto-face virtual studios.

Timothy Buie, industrial design, and Appalachian State University ID Assistant Professor and Alumnus Banks Talley (MID 2002) visited each other’s studios during the fall semester. Pictured below, Buie (far right) visited Talley’s studio at Appalachian State on

November 2, 2004, to make a slide presentation and interact with students. Appalachian has a relatively new industrial design program. Pictured below, Talley (foreground) returned the favor on December 3, 2004, when he returned to his alma mater to serve as guest jurist in Buie’s ID 201 Marionette Project. Talley is pictured with Jeff Poon.

The Third Edition of Precedents in Architecture by Roger Clark, architecture, and Michael Pause, art + design, is now printed and available. The publication provides a vocabulary for architectural analysis that illuminates the works of leading architects and aids architects and designers in creating their own designs.

Roger Clark, Frank Harmon and Gail Peter Borden, architecture, served on the design jury for the Chesapeake Bay AIA Honor Awards Program in October. Part-time faculty Jeffrey Lee, Susan Cannon, and Phil Szostak also served on the jury.

Denise Gonzales Crisp, graphic design, is featured in a book by Stefan G. Bucher titled All Access: The

Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers (Rockport Publishers, 2004). Crisp was an invited speaker at GraficEurope, Oct. 14-16, 2004. Both Crisp and Meredith Davis have accepted an invitation to be on the editorial board of a new journal, Design Studies Review.

Meredith Davis, graphic design, and Paul Tesar, architecture, teamed up to co-author a chapter titled “Inquiry by Design: Learning in the Studio Setting.” The article appears as Chapter 14 in the book Teaching and Learning through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors, edited by Virginia S. Lee. Stylus Publishing published the book in September.

Lope Max Díaz, art + design, was invited to be sole juror for the Carol Woods Retirement Community residents 2004 Annual Art Exhibition in Chapel Hill, N.C., on December 3, 2004. He reviewed the artwork submitted for the art show, granted awards, and gave a brief talk on his award selections as well as on the show in general. Díaz was also invited to participate in an art exhibition called “Social Justice” held at Peace College in Raleigh, N.C. from September 27 -November 5, 2004. An exhibition of his work titled “Lope Max Díaz/Recent Paintings 2004” was on display at Galeria Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, from October 21 - November 14, 2004.

Jeremy Ficca, architecture, presented a research paper on recent work at the ACSA northeast conference held Oct. 28-31 at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture; he exhibited design work titled “Performative Surfaces and Skins” at the ACADIA/AIA conference held Nov. 8-14 in Toronto/ Cambridge, Ontario, Canada; and Ficca and Gail Peter Borden presented at ArchEx (formerly Build Virginia) on the topics of digital representation and fabrication on Nov. 10 in Richmond.

Frank Harmon, architecture, recently had his work included in Business Week as one of “Ten Projects that Illustrate How Good Design Achieves Business Objectives are Recognized with a 2004 Business Week/Architectural Record Award” in the November 1, 2004, edition. Harmon’s awardwinning Penland School of Arts project was recognized. Harmon was selected as The News & Observer’s Tarheel of the Week (Sunday, January 23, 2005) for his commitment to sustainable design.

Percy Hooper, industrial design, presented a keynote address at the Industrial Designers Society of America Educators Conference in Pasadena, California, October 25, 2004. The title of Hooper’s presentation was “Finding ID Education Funding in a Culture that Does Not Seek Grants.”

Charles Joyner, art + design, was included among the 75 artists participating in the “Art on Paper 2004” exhibition held November 14, 2004, – January 23, 2005, at the Witherspoon Gallery at UNCG in Greensboro. Joyner’s mixed media piece is called “Sankofa” was among the works made on or of paper.

Haig Khachatoorian, IDSA, industrial design, attended the 2004 China International Industrial Design Summit, held October 18-21 in Wuxi, in the province of Jiangsu. The conference was the largest design event in China’s history. The theme of the conference was Innovation, Exchange and Development of Design in China, and convened the world’s most influential designers, design firms and organizations, as well as academic institutions in building a more cooperative global design community.

Glenn E. Lewis, IDSA, industrial design, has been selected to serve on the Licensure Team for Nonpublic post-secondary educational institutions to conduct degree activity in North Carolina. The Licensure Team serves the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina and is administered through the office of the President for Academic Affairs, Office of the President of UNC. Lewis also has been awarded a third travel grant in the amount of $1,000 from the NCSU Africa Project, administered through the Africana Studies Program. His work is focused on providing Ghanaian artisans access to computer graphics in their design process, establishing a multimedia lab for computer graphics and 3-D modeling, and encouraging collaborative relationships to assist artisans in responding to a changing western market.

A Randallstown, Md., steering committee that hosted an Urban Design Assistance Team has received the Chapter Community Initiative Award from the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association. The team was chaired by Fernando Magallanes, landscape architecture, and was recognized at an APA awards ceremony during the World Town Planning Day on November 8 in Baltimore. The team, which consisted of 12 professionals drawn from the design disciplines, also included two NC State College of Design landscape architecture students, Jesse Turner and Joel Osgood. Peter Batchelor, FAIA, FAICP, architecture, managed the Randallstown team and has been involved as manager, chairman, or participant for 19 teams throughout the United States since 1970.

Marvin Malecha, dean, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Board of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He also serves as the AIA’s Southeastern Region director, which includes North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Additionally, the editors of the journal DesignIntelligence recently ranked Malecha second on its national list of “30 Leaders Who Bridge Practice, Education.” The 30 “role models” were selected based on nominations from architecture firms in the United States.

Lee-Anne Milburn, landscape architecture, joined the college in January as an assistant professor. Prior to coming to NC State, she taught at Mississippi State University. Milburn holds degrees in Fine

Natural Learning Initiative Update

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Natural Learning Initiative Robin Moore and Educational Specialist Nilda Cosco were mentioned in “A Chip Off the Old Park,” article that appeared in the New York Times Sept. 30, 2004. The article was referring to the opening of the new Teardrop Park at Battery Park City in New York on which the Natural Learning Initiative served as part of the design team.

Moore and Cosco were invited to participate in Open Space: People Space, an international conference on inclusive outdoor environments, held in Edinburgh, UK, Oct. 27-29, 2004. Cosco presented the Plenary Session titled “Environmental Interventions for Healthy Development of Young Children in the Outdoors.” Moore, director of NLI, presented a paper titled “Urban Childhood Outdoors: Retrospect and Prospect for Evidence-Based Practice and Action Research on a Critical Issue of our Time.” Both Cosco and Moore led a workshop, “Evaluating Universal Outdoor Design: Kids Together Park Post Occupancy Evaluation.”

The pair also taught an intensive four-day course on children and the environment for the master program in child development at the School of Human Kinetics, Technological University of Lisbon, Portugal, held November 22-26, 2005. Arts and Landscape Architecture. In 2004, Milburn won the national award for research in landscape architecture in Canada and was nominated for an Award of Excellence for her work with professional landscape architects. Her current research examines the relationship between research and practice in the profession.

Vita Plume, art + design, had work on display at Artspace, in downtown Raleigh, in the juried exhibition “Fine Contemporary Craft” on view from November 20 - January 15, 2005. Sandra Blain, a professor of ceramics at the University of Tennessee, juried the national exhibition and selected 57 pieces from 297 entries. NCSU alumni whose work is also in the show are: Georgia Springer, Peg Gignoux, and Jeana Klein.

Following the success that Dana Raymond, art + design, and his sculpture studio class had with a public art installation in Knightdale last year, the Garner Arts Association is sponsoring a similar project in Garner. The artwork has been commissioned as Garner’s first public sculptures in honor of the town’s 100th anniversary. The art is scheduled to be unveiled in April.

Wendy Redfield, architecture, has an article titled “The Suppressed Site: Revealing the Influence of Site on Two Purist Works,” in the new book Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies edited by Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn (Rutledge Press). A release party was held at The Van Alen Institute in New York in February, 2005.

Molly Renda, visiting lecturer in graphic design, won first place in the Scholarly and Reference division for design and production in the 19th annual New York Book Show for her work designing the interior of Rarest of the Rare, Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History published by HarperCollins Resource. Renda is currently teaching the Graphic Design sponsored studio focusing on the redesign of NC State alumni magazine.

Multiple Perspectives, an installation (on the back cover) by Kathleen Rieder, art + design, opened at Meredith College’s Frankie G. Weems Art Gallery on November 7 and ran through December 12, 2004. A gallery talk and opening reception was held on Sunday, Nov. 7 in the Gallery.

Henry Sanoff, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, won a Reviewer Recognition Award from the fifth annual international DesignShare Awards program, co-sponsored by School Construction News and the C/S Group. The Laguna Child and Family Development Center designed by Henry Sanoff received a design award. Sanoff also served as keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference for EnvironmentBehavior Studies School of Architecture, Tianjin University held in Tianjin, China, October 22-25, 2004. Sanoff’s presentation was titled “CrossCultural Methods of Community Participation.”

Jay Tomlinson, extension and engagement, is working with the Town of Broadway, N.C., and graduate students to upgrade the appearance of the town and to plan a means to attract new business to the downtown area. Workshops were held in the fall with plans to hold two more meetings this spring to start developing a plan for revitalization. The project has been featured in The Sanford Herald.

The College’s Center for Universal Design as well as its Director of Design Leslie Young were among 21 individuals and organizations who received 2004 Ron Mace Designing for the 21st Century Awards. Adaptive Environments, a Boston-based, international nonprofit organization dedicated to researching, gathering and promoting the most current ideas and information on Human-Centered Design worldwide, presented the awards.

Assistant Professors of Architecture Gail Peter Borden and Jeremy Ficca both received one of five national faculty design awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Borden won for his research into affordable single-family housing called “20 propositions for suburban living.” Borden’s award-winning designs have been featured in several publications. An exhibition by Gail Peter Borden, [X]perience Mechanisms, will be held in Brooks Hall Gallery from February 6 through March 12, 2005.

Ficca won for his research, “Performative Surfaces” which investigates plywood and mdf surfaces that respond to their changing programmatic and environmental conditions.

In addition, Borden received the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award.

An awards ceremony will be held at the ACSA National Convention held in Chicago in March 2005.

Top: Gail Peter Borden’s “20 propositions for suburban living” Bottom: Jeremy Ficca’s “Performative Surfaces” shows bendable light-defusing surface.