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Associate Professor of Graphic Design Kermit Bailey is the principal investigator on research titled “Mapping Cultural Legacy in The South Park-East.” Bailey received one of the University Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development Grants for $10,000 for this project. Kofi Boone, landscape architecture, and Kermit Bailey, graphic design, are team members with Robin Dodsworth, English (Linguistics), on an interdisciplinary Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) fund grant for $20,000. The title of the project is “On Place: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Exploration of Place-Based Narratives.” Dick Bell (BSLAR 1950), former faculty member, shares insights on his blog: Pebbles In The Pond: News & Musings by Landscape Architect Dick Bell. http://dickbell.wordpress.com Adjunct professor of architecture and author Catherine Bishir is the project coordinator for the N.C. Architects & Builders site, http://ncarchitects. lib.ncsu.edu. This biographical dictionary highlights architects and builders who have produced N.C.’s architecture for more than 300 years. A brief biography plus a building list traces each person’s work in the state. This is a growing Web site, with many more entries still to be added. Landscape Architecture Department Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, has a chapter titled “Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land” that he co-authored with Allan Wallis, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Colorado, Denver, in the book Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures edited by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell, and Sharon K. Collinge. Lope Max Díaz has retired from the College of Design as of June 2009 after being an art educator
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for four decades. He began his career teaching in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, and this year, after 41 years in the classroom (20 in Puerto Rico and 21 at NC State) Díaz felt his time to say “adios” to the classroom had come. “I look forward to my retirement days with much excitement, curiosity and optimism. I will continue to stay active and productive as an artist here in Raleigh, where I have my art studio/workshop space on south Glenwood Ave,” he says. Díaz invites correspondence at P.O. Box 10012, Raleigh, NC 27605 or via e-mail: lopemaxdiaz@gmail.com. Andrew A. Fox, ASLA, has joined the Department of Landscape Architecture as an assistant professor. Fox comes to NC State from the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design where he held the same position. Fox received his Master of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University and his Bachelor in General Studies from the University of Michigan. He is a Registered Landscape Architect and has been a college professor since 2007. Before his return to higher education, Fox was an active practitioner in the Seattle metropolitan region where he was the project landscape architect on numerous awardwinning projects, most notably a 2006 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Award and the 2005 CEFPI James D. MacConnell Award for the nation's top school
development project. His research interests are in sustainable construction methods and technologies, urban design, and outdoor learning environments. Design Writing Criticism students invited Vicky Richardson, Peter Hall and Denise Gonzales Crisp to present on the themes of Discoveries, Contexts and Meanings at Design Council, held June 3 at the School of Graphic Design, London College of Communications with a sponsorship from Represent. Frank Harmon Architect PA, a Raleigh, N.C.-based architectural firm headed by Frank Harmon FAIA, is one of the top 50 firms in the nation, according to Architect magazine’s 2009 “Architect 50” ranking. The professional journal’s annual ranking of the top U.S. firms is intended to promote “a more well-rounded definition of success,” according to senior editor Amanda Kolson Hurley. “The criteria for inclusion comprise a trifecta of critical goals for every practice: profitability, sustainability, and design quality.” David Hill, Assistant Professor of Architecture, received one of four Faculty Design Awards 2008 from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The award, which was presented at the annual meeting held in Portland, recognizes a post-disaster housing project that Hill completed with Professor Laura Garófalo (SUNY Buffalo), and Nelson Tang (March 2002). Alumni Michael Laut, Mike Bissinger and Glenwood Morris joined Percy Hooper as guest lecturers in an eight-week workshop this summer on Design Communication for Entrepreneurs at East Carolina University. The Innovators Academy focuses on boosting the inventors' ability to communicate his or her design ideas effectively. The participants learn practical sketching techniques, 2-D and 3-D digital imaging essentials, physical model building strategies and presentation skills. In addition to teaching these idea communication
skills, the end goal of the workshop is to document the design development of six new products created this summer in the Innovators Academy at ECU.
and history of one of the oldest African-American communities in the country, one listed on the 1991 National Register of Historic Places.
Professor Fernando Magallanes presented his paper, Analysis of the City: Linking Physical and Psychological Contact in Expanding our Knowledge of Urban Environments, at CELA 2008-2009: Teaching + Learning, held in Tucson, AZ.
Associate Professor Vita Plume (Art + Design) is exhibiting her work in a group exhibition, Lieux de mémoire at the Moulin de la Chevrotiere, Deschambault-Grondines. This is one of three exhibitions that make up this year’s International Biennial of Linen in Portneuf, Quebec. The Biennale is open from June 24 to September 27, 2009. Twelve artists from Canada, the U.S., and Australia were invited to participate in this part of the exhibition. Visit www.biennaledulin.ca for more information.
Each year, with extensive input from design professionals, academic department heads, and students, DesignIntelligence selects a team of educators and education administrators who exemplify excellence in design education leadership. Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, is again on this list of the Most Admired Educators 2009. Dean Malecha was named an Honorary Member of the Architects Institute of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and of the Australian Institute of Architects for distinguished contributions to the profession of architecture in 2009, as well. Dr. Celen Pasalar, director of the College of Design’s Downtown Design Studio, has collaborated with the NCSU North Carolina Language and Life Project to establish the South Park-East Raleigh Neighborhood Association’s Preservation and Education Program. Its aim is to promote and preserve the presence
The second edition of Architectural Materials; Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics by Professor of Architecture Patrick Rand and Edward Allen is being translated into French for distribution in French-speaking Canada, France, and other French-language countries. It is also being translated into Portuguese for distribution in Brazil and presumably Portugal. Professor Emeritus of Architecture Fatih Rifki has been named director of the Montana State University School of Architecture. Rifki is the former dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
Professor Emeritus of Architecture Henry Sanoff was invited to speak on “EDRA Perspectives” at a Plenary Session at the 40th anniversary of Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), where he was the principal founder. He also delivered a paper titled, “Participatory Strategies for Developing Community Arts Centers.” The 40th EDRA Conference was held May 27 to May 31, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This year is the 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago and Kristen Schaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, has been much in demand. Dr. Schaffer is an expert on the Plan and its primary author, Daniel H. Burnham. On September 3, she spoke in Hamburg, Germany, on the subject; and in October will deliver lectures at Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Earlier this year, she was interviewed by Chicago Public Radio and quoted in The New Yorker magazine by architectural critic Paul Goldberger. She gave talks at the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, and the Chicago Architecture Foundation; and for the Society of Architectural Historians and the Swedenborg Library, all in Chicago. She also was on the jury for the national architectural competition for a Burnham memorial.
A Raleigh blog has joined forces with the D.H. Hill Library at North Carolina State University to mount an effort to repair a kinetic light sculpture at the library. Goodnight, Raleigh!, an online magazine that looks at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night, has launched an effort to raise $6,000 to repair a light display called Color Wall. Color Wall is a 12 by 36 foot, three-dimensional light mural that can be seen from Hillsborough Street through a glass wall in the library’s book tower. It features changing vertical bands of color when operational, said Goodnight, Raleigh! Contributor Karl Larson, a graphic artist at N.C. State University. Larson, who wrote about Color Wall on Goodnight, Raleigh!, said the light sculpture was created by the late Joe Cox, a long-time professor in NC State’s College of Design. It was installed in 1972, but the mechanical light switching system that changes the light colors began to malfunction several years later. The sculpture has been operational off and on over the years but went dark yet again at the end of 2007, Larson added. He said it was designed to be viewed at night. The $6,000 is to be used to install a modern, computerized switching system to make the Color Wall operational once again. Goodnight Raleigh! has set up a Web page dedicated to telling the Color Wall story and through which online donations may be made to the NCSU Libraries' Art Preservation Fund. Learn more about the Color Wall and contribute to its restoration at www.TheColorWall.org. FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
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