FACULTY NEWS Emily Baker, assistant professor of architecture, received the Early Career Faculty Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction, which recognizes faculty who demonstrate promise in the areas of structural steel research, teaching and other contributions to the structural steel industry. She was the first architecture professor to be recognized with this award. Marlon Blackwell, Distinguished Professor, was awarded the 2020 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (AIA); was named the 2020 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year; and was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in early 2021 (see p. 3). Blackwell and his Fayetteville-based firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects, also received a 2020 AIA Arkansas Honor Award for the Lamplighter School Barn in Dallas and the Thaden School Reels Building in Bentonville. The Lamplighter School Innovation Lab was recognized with an Education Facility Design Award from the AIA’s Committee on Architecture for Education, and it won in the Education category for completed projects in the 2020 PLAN Awards. The firm’s Thaden School Bike Barn won in the Institutional K-12 category of the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards. Ngozi Brown, who joined the school as a lecturer in the Department of Architecture in fall 2020, served as a panelist in the school’s “Designing While Black: A Conversation on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Design Professions” virtual panel discussion (see p. 7). Jessica Colangelo, assistant professor of architecture, and Charles Sharpless, assistant professor of interior design, were selected for a joint summer 2020 fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, which was postponed until summer 2021. Salvage Swings, a project through their professional practice Somewhere Studio, received one of seven 2020 AIA Small Project Awards as well as an Honorable Mention in the Temporary Installation category in the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards. Colangelo and Sharpless also were selected for an Honorable Mention in the 2020 ACSA Faculty Design Award category for their Salvage Swings project. Kimball Erdman, associate professor of landscape architecture, gave the lecture “Using Digital Technologies to Document and Interpret Japanese American Internment in Arkansas” at the University of Arkansas at Monticello as part of the Arkansas Stories of Place and Belonging series in fall 2019. He also led a team whose “Jerome Relocation Center” report tied for second place in the 2020 Historic American Landscapes
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Survey (HALS) Challenge (see p. 14). John Folan, head of the Department of Architecture, led two projects, as director of the Urban Design Build Studio, that earned design awards from both the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh AIA chapters. The project “Millvale Moose” won an Honor Award in the Impact Design category at the 2019 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Awards and a Certificate of Merit in the Small Projects category at Design Pittsburgh 2019. The project “Home Incubator” won a Bronze Award in the Impact Design category at the 2019 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Awards and a Certificate of Merit in the Small Projects category at Design Pittsburgh 2019. A Weatherization Kit, created by the Freedom by Design chapter Folan previously led at Carnegie Mellon University, won the inaugural 2020 SEED Award for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in design, architecture and land development, presented by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network (see p. 26). Greg Herman, associate professor of architecture, is co-principal investigator on Housing the Human and the Sacred, a project that will introduce the renowned architecture of Fay Jones to a broader audience through interactive gaming technology. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Herman and David Fredrick a $250,000 grant to expand their project to five additional Fay Jones-designed structures following the prototype A House of the Ozarks, which included an interactive virtual tour of the Jones Family Home. In 2019, Herman gave a presentation on the project, “Fay Jones’s Home: A House of the Ozarks,” at the Fayetteville Public Library. Brian Holland, assistant professor of architecture, took over as coordinator of the school’s lecture series in 2020 and organized the virtual event “Piggybacking Practices: A Symposium on Architecture and Inequality” in March 2021. Jisun Lee joined the school in fall 2020 as an assistant professor of interior design. Her design research examines the relationships between the built environment and human behavior, integrating advanced research methods with emerging technologies. Steve Luoni, Distinguished Professor, was one of five educators selected to receive the 2020 Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Luoni and the team at the U of A Community Design Center won a 2020 PLAN Award for the Center for Farm and Food System Entrepreneurship in the Education Category for future projects. The center’s Wahiawa Value-Added Agricultural Product Development Center project received an
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