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Associate Professor ofGraphic Design Kermit Baileyis the principal investigator on research titled “Mapping Cultural Legacy in The South Park-East.” Bailey received one ofthe 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 ofthe project is “On Place: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Exploration ofPlace-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 ofarchitecture and author Catherine Bishir is the project coordinator for the N.C. Architects & Builders site, http://ncarchitects. lib.ncsu.edu. This biographical dictionaryhighlights architects andbuilders who have produced N.C.’s architecture formore than 300 years. A brief biographyplus abuildinglisttraces 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 ofLand” that he co-authored with Allan Wallis, Associate Professor ofPublic Policy, UniversityofColorado, Denver, in the bookRemedies 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 ofJune 2009 after being an art educator

DESIGN IN FLUEN CE / FALL 2009 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 LandscapeArchitecture as an assistant professor. Fox comes to NC State from the University ofGeorgia College ofEnvironment & Design where he held the same position. Fox received his Master ofLandscape Architecture from Louisiana State University and his Bachelor in General Studies from the University ofMichigan. 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 ofDiscoveries, Contexts and Meanings at Design Council, held June 3 at the School ofGraphic Design, London College of Communications with asponsorship from Represent.

Frank Harmon Architect PA, a Raleigh, N.C.-based architectural firm headed by Frank Harmon FAIA, is one ofthe top 50 firms in the nation, according to Architectmagazine’s 2009 “Architect 50” ranking. The professional journal’s annual ranking ofthe top U.S. firms is intendedto promote“amorewell-rounded definition ofsuccess,” according to senior editor Amanda Kolson Hurley. “The criteria for inclusion comprise a trifecta ofcritical goals for everypractice: profitability, sustainability, and design quality.”

David Hill, Assistant Professor ofArchitecture, received one offour Faculty Design Awards 2008 from the Association ofCollegiate Schools ofArchitecture (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 Academyfocuses onboostingthe inventors'abilitytocommunicatehisorherdesignideas effectively. The participants learn practical sketching techniques, 2-D and 3-D digital imagingessentials, physical model buildingstrategies and presentation skills. Inadditiontoteachingtheseideacommunication

skills, the end goal ofthe workshop is to document the design development ofsix new products created this summer in the Innovators Academy at ECU.

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.

Each year, with extensive input from design professionals, academic department heads, and students, DesignIntelligence selects a team ofeducators and education administrators who exemplify excellence in design education leadership. Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, is again on this list ofthe Most Admired Educators 2009. Dean Malecha was named an Honorary Member ofthe Architects Institute ofthe Republic ofChina (Taiwan) and ofthe Australian Institute ofArchitects for distinguished contributions to the profession ofarchitecture in 2009, as well.

Dr. Celen Pasalar, director ofthe College ofDesign’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 and history ofone ofthe oldest African-American communities in the country, one listed on the 1991 National Register ofHistoric Places.

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 ofthree exhibitions that make up this year’s International Biennial ofLinen 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 ofthe exhibition. Visit www.biennaledulin.ca for more information.

The second edition ofArchitectural Materials; Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics by Professor ofArchitecture 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 ofArchitecture Fatih Rifki has been named directorofthe MontanaState University School ofArchitecture. Rifki is the formerdean ofthe School ofArchitecture and Design at the American University ofSharjah in the United Arab Emirates. ProfessorEmeritus ofArchitecture Henry Sanoffwas invited to speakon “EDRA Perspectives” at a Plenary Session at the 40th anniversary ofEnvironmental Design Research Association (EDRA), where he was the principal founder. He also delivered apapertitled, “ParticipatoryStrategies for DevelopingCommunity 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 ofthe Plan of Chicago and Kristen Schaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School ofArchitecture, 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 ofTechnology (IIT). Earlier this year, she was interviewed by Chicago Public Radio and quoted in The New Yorkermagazine by architectural critic Paul Goldberger. She gave talks at the Art Institute ofChicago, 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 ofthe 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 ofcolor 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 ofDesign. 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 offand on over the years but went dark yet again at the end of2007, 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.