Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design 2022–2023 Annual Report

GERALD D. HINES

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

2022–2023 ANNUAL REPORT

FORWARD

OUR STUDENTS AND FACULTY ARE MAKING THEIR MARK ON THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WORLD.

work of the program and the extraordinary designers it has cultivated for the design industry.

This May, the Hines College graduated its largest class –190 students! Among these students, the Class of 2023 collectively won 31 awards. I am incredibly proud of our students’ work and the architects and designers we send out into the world. We want to continue building upon this standard of excellence as we grow and help the University become a top 50 public university.

Over this past year, the College embarked on an extensive strategic planning process engaging our entire College community – students, faculty, staff, and alumni – in preparation for the College’s future. Led by Gensler facilitators Jim Oswald and Maria Edmundson, the process began with a faculty retreat and included many meetings of the College’s leadership team, a working group comprised of our members representing all our constituents, and two open house events (fall and spring). The resulting Strategic Plan Framework is comprehensive of our goals and what we aspire to be. Please take time to review the framework included in this annual report. In the fall, our faculty and administration will begin matching our strategic plan framework with action items attached to the six major goals.

Jeff Feng and Mark Kimbrough were appointed codirectors of the industrial design program this year. The pair led in an interim capacity following the departure of founding director EunSook Kwon in 2020. This coming academic year, our ID program celebrates its 20th anniversary, looking back on the incredible award-winning

Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez stepped into the role of interim director for the interior architecture program this past year and will continue in the role as the College opens an official search for the director position. She received national attention this past spring for her Graham Foundationfunded exhibition “Hair Salon.”

I am pleased to announce Jason Logan as our new associate professor and Keeland Design Exploration Lab director. The provost’s 2021 “Key Initiatives” established his position to further advance the design/build program and appoint a faculty director over the Keeland Lab. The synergy between the Keeland Lab and the forthcoming Construction Robotics and Advanced Technology (CRAFT) Lab will allow our students and faculty to expand design research and explore fabrication in innovative ways and on multiple scales.

It has been an impactful year, and we are proud to share

Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA, Dean ACSA Distinguished Professor Director, designLAB

“I am incredibly proud of our students’ work and the architects and designers we send out into the world.”

STRATEGIC PLANNING FRAMEWORK

OVER THE COURSE OF THE 2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR, the Hines College community came together to develop its next strategic plan, incorporating input and involvement from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The resulting strategic plan framework is our starting point for moving forward and advancing the College over the next several years.

PURPOSE

The Hines College of Architecture and Design challenges students to cultivate knowledge, creativity, critical thinking, and empathy to be reflective practitioners and design collaborators. We catalyze student potential and utilize design to strengthen our communities and address contemporary issues with action-oriented, innovative solutions to make the Earth a better place to live.

VISION

The Hines College is a leader in holistic, interdisciplinary design education that empowers students to proactively create more sustainable built environments, systems, and objects and to shape the evolving role of the architect/ designer. The College develops critical pedagogies, research, and practice to tangibly improve equity, resilience, and other shared challenges through the power of design.

VISION ELEMENTS

As designers and change agents of the future, our students will continue to address climate crisis and its disproportionate impact on marginalized peoples. We cultivate our students’ awareness, sensitivity, and curiosity

about the communities and cultures they design with and their sense of responsibility for how their work contributes to equity and sustainability.

Cross-pollination between programs emulates the interdisciplinary collaboration that characterizes real-world practice and enables students to succeed as well-rounded critical thinkers and designers, who can implement innovative solutions, evolve the role of the designer, and influence emergent practices.

We engage with design, design media, history/theory/ criticism, and technology as they evolve. We leverage emerging tools and concepts for practice and research and equip our students with the skills and critical lens that will allow them to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

VALUES

• Life-Long Learning

• Collaboration

• Responsibility

• Stewardship

• Empowerment

• Universal Respect

WE BELIEVE STATEMENTS

WE BELIEVE DESIGN IS A KEY PART OF SHAPING A CHANGED, BETTER WORLD.

We believe… design has exponential value and our work creates ripples far beyond our sphere. We must consider the needs of future generations in addition to our own.

We believe… design is a public good and all communities should have access to it. It must be inclusive and participatory.

We believe… designers have a responsibility to respond to our climate crisis; we must consider our impact on people and our planet in every aspect of our work.

We believe… technology is a powerful tool and a force for good in design when we engage with it in a thoughtful, nuanced manner.

WE BELIEVE THE HINES COLLEGE SHOULD BE A KEY TO STUDENT SUCCESS – STUDENTS ARE OUR COLLEGE’S GREATEST INVESTMENT AND ASSET.

We believe… education should empower students with the tools to pursue self-directed learning and continual self-improvement over the course of their whole lives.

We believe… a Hines College education prepares our students to make a difference in the wider world, impact their chosen professions, and determine their own life paths.

We believe… understanding history and context, a wellrounded course of study, and disciplinary proficiency set the foundation for strong professional outcomes and good design.

We believe… integrating expansive, critical thinking, creative making skills, and a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach is essential to problem-solving in design and beyond.

WE BELIEVE EDUCATION IS A SHARED ENDEAVOR THAT IMPACTS EVERYONE AND FUNDAMENTALLY REQUIRES COLLABORATION.

We believe… in shared educational responsibility and ownership – students and instructors are partners in learning.

We believe… students should have choice and the ability to pursue their design interests in their educational paths.

We believe… mentorship plays a crucial guiding role for the learning and development of students, faculty, and staff.

We believe… we grow as practitioners and instructors through continued education across and beyond the field as well as through engagement and mastery of new technologies.

WE BELIEVE WE ARE PEOPLE FIRST AND A CULTURE OF CARE AND WELLBEING HELPS EVERYONE IN OUR COLLEGE FLOURISH.

We believe… in embracing and celebrating difference in its many forms.

We believe… we must create equitable learning opportunities for all students and nurture each one’s unique abilities to become our society’s future leaders, innovators, and implementors.

We believe… our faculty is our greatest resource and supporting their research and professional aspirations furthers the long-term success of the Hines College.

We believe… everyone in the College benefits when we act with care for one another and for our shared spaces. Responsibility for the environment of the College starts with our students, faculty, and staff.

GOALS

GOAL ONE: CURRICULUM + PROGRAMS

Develop adaptable, diverse, pedagogically-driven curricula that give students agency in their course of study, motivate faculty with compelling teaching opportunities, and systemically build design media and technology competencies.

Strategies

• Promote a student-centric pedagogical approach that celebrates critical thinking and making, while emphasizing collaboration and innovation.

• Increase curricular flexibility and diversity to promote choice for students, customization for a desired career or professional path, and a less rigidly linear progression of courses.

• Promote balance between all programs in the College and create space for new, complementary programs to offer a more comprehensive architecture/design education.

• Identify opportunities at the College and University levels for interdisciplinary work within the curriculum, including offering interdisciplinary studios and/or courses and strengthening shared degree collaborations.

• Embed ecological consciousness and sustainability in the curricula in a comprehensive manner for students of all levels.

• Promote fluency in design history, theory, and criticism so students have a deep understanding of the communities and contexts within which they are designing.

• Build a robust sequence of courses in design media for all undergraduate programs that provides a strong base level of skill and technical competency and supports peer-to-peer learning through a shared language of tools and technologies.

• Ensure access to up-to-date technology in the College including computers labs, studios, and research labs.

GOAL TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

Make sustainability a core value set underlying the Hines College culture for teaching, research, service, and operations.

Strategies

• Define and advance the College’s comprehensive perspective on ecological sustainability in design and our commitment to caring for our planet, which will be integrated in everything we do.

• Institutionalize environmentally sustainable practices in standing operating procedures, material selection and use, waste management, and printing for the College and evaluate impact, using the College and community as a living laboratory for sustainability.

• Project University- and Houston-specific sustainability practices to broader audiences.

GOAL THREE: CULTURE OF CARE + WELLBEING

Strengthen our community bonds and embody a culture of care – for ourselves, one another, and the environment of the Hines College.

Strategies

• Offer opportunities for student connection and feedback at a variety of levels, including within programs and across the College.

• Sustain and strengthen faculty and staff networks within the College to nourish a shared sense of purpose, aligned and effective approaches to pedagogy, interdisciplinary partnerships, and awareness of student needs.

• Create opportunities that promote faculty/staff and student interaction, different modes of studying and working, and a sense of ownership within the College.

• Be sensitive to the financial burdens of a design education and help all students to excel, regardless of socioeconomic status.

• Encourage an environment that enables and supports effective mental health management.

• Normalize mental health care, heighten our community responsiveness to challenges, and promote access to University of Houston resources.

GOAL FOUR: GLOBAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Because the Hines College connects to the world beyond the University, we engage with peers and partners on local, regional, and global levels to discuss the trends, challenges, and changes in design and participate in creating solutions.

Strategies

• Capitalize on the city of Houston as a global center for an array of industries and cultures and serve our local community, especially those who traditionally lack access to design, through knowledge sharing and dedicated projects.

• Raise awareness of our programs across the design education landscape, as a partner for those in our region, and for professional firms looking to hire the best talent.

• Learn from and build relationships with other design colleges and programs in our region, nationally, and internationally.

• Strengthen study abroad and international programs in strategic locations, such as Mexico and the Global South.

• Recruit a rich faculty community from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, prioritizing a variety of expertise, specialization, and experience.

• Continue to engage diverse and distinguished practicing architects and designers from around the world.

GOAL FIVE: PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION + DEVELOPMENT

Bolster the professional success of all members of the Hines College community through mentorship, skill-building, robust connections to practice, and networking.

Strategies

• Prioritize mentorship for both students and instructors, with particular emphasis on providing knowledgeable guidance and advising to students on curricular choices, course of study, and career options.

• Invest in technology engagement and training for faculty and staff to support advancements in teaching and research outcomes.

• Equip students with a foundation of skills and a framework of understanding of the software, applications, and tools used in design firms and enable them to comfortably move between digital and analog workflows.

• Partner with professional design practitioners to continue to ground the College’s approach in the real-world demands of the design professions, to invite professionals to engage with courses, and to expose students to a wide array of practitioners over the course of their study.

• Leverage the College as a hub for continued learning, professional connection, and advancement for our alumni, in addition to our faculty, staff, and current students.

GOAL SIX: RESEARCH

Bolster the professional success of all members of the Hines College community through mentorship, skill-building, robust connections to practice, and networking.

Strategies

• Invest in infrastructural support dedicated to increasing research opportunities and funding, building/maintaining interdisciplinary partnerships, and pursuing synergistic research relationships outside academia.

• Develop and support research initiatives for faculty and students that are awarded annually.

• Partner with external industry and community stakeholders to drive research that serves society, making sure correct steps are taken to include the communities for and with whom we are designing.

• Leverage labs and centers as hubs for partnerships and advanced research studios. Continue to upgrade and establish facilities to support research

PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS SPREAD: THE HINES COLLEGE COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS THE FRAMEWORK AND ADD THEIR FEEDBACK.

COLLEGE CULTURE

During the spring semester, the Hines College assembled a task force to undertake the annual review of the College Culture Statement. The following is the updated statement for implementation during the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design strives to empower ethical and critical thinkers who understand the power of design to shape our physical and social environment, are skilled in their craft, and assume leadership roles within their chosen professions. The College provides an educative environment in which students negotiate the complexities of contemporary design practice and sociopolitical issues.

The College views design as an investigative process with diverse outcomes. Design is a process-oriented open-ended inquiry yielding unique responses and provoking questions. We acknowledge design disciplines are dynamic, and design is central to the way we engage the world.

The College is an incubator for ideas. Studios, seminars, lectures, and all educational environments are venues for discourse and experimentation. The College participates in and encourages vibrant and intense discussions of issues impacting our world.

The College believes sustainability and ecology are critical to society’s future. The decisions we make possess far-reaching consequences. We must think critically about practice today and the ramifications for the future, including ecological, sociocultural, and economic considerations.

The College engages in constructive critique as a necessary means of engaging the world. The College approaches critique in good faith as an act of care and collaboration. We encourage engagement in critique to create proactive, critical, and optimistic contributions to our design disciplines. We believe design possesses the capacity to make our world better.

The College embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. Compassion for others’ experiences and respectful communication should be demonstrated, even in matters of conflict. Equitable and accessible environments cultivate a productive educational culture valuing social justice.

The College supports freedom of inquiry. Design promotes exploration, collective dialogue, and integrative thinking. We celebrate intellectual independence and welcome complex conversations informed by differences in opinion, allowing for effective, multifaceted discourse.

The College advocates for an environment of support and wellness. Our community treats each other with kindness, respect, and empathy. While the field of design requires rigor and dedication, the College encourages a healthy balance between work and personal life. Health, welfare, and personal well-being supersede the production of work.

The College encourages collaboration for advancement. We recognize individuals possess unique strengths, gifts, perspectives, and the ability to help one another. We strive to work together cohesively and inclusively for growth.

The College, as a collective, is responsible for its buildings, their use, and the health and safety of its users. This responsibility is exemplified through intentional and sustainable practices demonstrating respect for the buildings, creating a safe and healthy working and learning environment for their occupants, and underscoring our values as environmental stewards on local, regional, and global scales.

This is a living document. Each spring, the College Culture Committee convenes to review, obtain feedback, and update the culture statement with the intention of publishing the revised statement at the start of the new academic year. This College Culture Statement is not only an aspiration; it is an acknowledgment of the College’s commitment to upholding values and practices of respect, inclusion, and community among its members and their contributions.

COLLEGE PERFORMANCE MEASURES

GRADUATION FACTS AND FIGURES

GRADUATES BY THE NUMBERS

190 TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES (HIGHEST IN COLLEGE’S HISTORY)

56% FEMALE GRADUATES

29 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

44% MALE GRADUATES

The diverse graduating student body included international students from Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Phillippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

DEGREE BREAKDOWN

33 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

1 MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

113 BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

11 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

1 MASTER OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE STUDIES

4 MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

23 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

4 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

2023 SUPER JURY AND GRADUATION AWARDS

AMERICAN INSITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AWARDS

Raffaella Montelli • AIA Academic Excellence Award

Kim Saotonglang • AIA Academic Excellence Award

OUSTANDING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Suochun Fang • Graduate Industrial Design

Sarah Wong • Undergraduate Industrial Design

Gina Biscardi • Undergraduate Interior Architecture

GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Felipe Pérez Villarreal • Graduate Design Award

Raffaella Montelli • Graduate Design Award

Brent Montero • Graduate Design Award

Priscilla Clavel • Best Master Project of the Year

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Michael Ibay • Undergraduate Design Award-Honorable Mention

Omar Vasquez • Undergraduate Design Award-Honorable Mention

Trang Ly • Undergraduate Design Award-Honorable Mention

Edgar Castillo • Undergraduate Design Award-Honorable Mention

Ashton Ezell • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Resolution

Claudia Orellana • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Resolution

Ba Reum Son • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Resolution

Juan Barron • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Innovation

Vivian Dao • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Innovation

Mary Garcia-Aguilera • Undergraduate Design Award-Runner Up for Concept

Adrian Cardenas • Undergraduate Design Award-First Place

HONORS THESIS AWARDS

Triciajane Asuncion • Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award

Andrew Medina • Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AWARDS

Haleigh Esene • IDSA Houston Chapter Undergraduate Student Merit Award

Josh Lu • ID Design Award-Honorable Mention

Andreina Pereira • ID Design Award-Honorable Mention

Sarah Wong • Best Senior Project Award

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Amatullah Gulamhusein • Outstanding Design Award for Interior Architecture

STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS

Tarek Moubayed • Nia Becnel Leadership Award

Mary Garcia-Aguilera • Myron C. Anderson Leadership Award

Kadmiel Konan • Alpha Rho Chi Award Leadership Award

Raffaella Montelli • Architectural Research Centers Consortium Award

OPPOSITE PAGE, LEFT TO RIGHT: DEAN PATRICIA BELTON OLIVER PRESENTS AWARDS TO ANDREINA

PEREIRA AND KADMIEL KONAN

BELOW: ASHTON EZELL, BA REUM SON, AND CLAUDIA ORELLANA RECEIVE DESIGN AWARDS

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

NEW MEMBERS

Atkinson is the Managing Director and Principal for IA Interior Architects' Houston studio. She brings over 23 years of experience playing a leading role in strategic planning, managing, designing, administering, and negotiating a wide variety of project types. Atkinson and her team are responsible for the design of millions of square feet of different space types that have impacted and improved thousands of lives in the Houston community and beyond. Atkinson builds successful internal and external coalitions along with a studio culture stressing accountability and continuous improvement with measurable results.

She is a licensed Interior Designer in the State of Texas, a member of IIDA Texas Oklahoma Chapter and NAIOP. The proud mother of two daughters, Atkinson enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, and all things surrounding wellness.

Veteran industry leader Chris Kirch has worked through the ranks within his twenty-five-year construction tenure. Kirch started as a field laborer / intern while obtaining his degree from Northern Arizona University in Construction Management and progressively continued to grow his career. Spanning across four states, he has managed complex healthcare and higher education projects with Baylor Scott & White, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Memorial Hermann Healthcare, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and the Texas State University System.

Kirch is an Executive Founding Board Member of the Lean Institute of Houston, a LEED-accredited building professional, and an executive board member with the American Heart Association as well as Vice President for Cyclist for a Cause, an organization benefiting MS research. He stays incredibly active in his free time as a husband to his wife Kristin and father of three children.

MICHELLE ATKINSON Managing Director and Principal, IA Interior Architects –Houston Office

CHRIS KIRCH, LEED AP BD&C Operations Manager, Texas Division, Kitchell Contractors, Inc.

CURRENT MEMBERS

MARILYN ARCHER, FIIDA, ASID, LEED AP - CHAIR

Principal and Founder, archer + eby design

Retired Professional Services Firm Practice Area Leader and Principal, Gensler

ARTURO “ART” CHAVEZ, AIA, LEED AP (B.ARCH. '90)

Senior Principal, Page

THOMAS E. “CHIP” CLARKE

President | Western U.S., Transwestern

ROBERT DEL’VE, AIA

Managing Director of Project Management, CBRE - Houston Office

MICHAEL DESGUIN, AIA

Senior Vice President of Conceptual Construction, Hines

STEPHEN DRIVER

Senior Vice President/Partner, Harvey Builders

BENITO GUERRIER (M.ARCH. '91)

Executive Vice President, Kirksey Architecture

EMILY HOWARD-WILSON (BFA '04)

Tenant Representative, Fritsche Anderson Realty Partners

LAURI GOODMAN LAMPSON (BFA ‘88)

President & CEO, PDR

GARY LONGBOTHAM (BFA '73)

Principal, J. Tyler Office Furniture & Services

KEITH PROBYN

Vice President Real Estate Americas, Shell US, Inc.

DEAN STROMBOM (M.ARCH. '80)

Principal, Gensler - Houston Office

JOE WEBB, AIA (B.ARCH. '71)

Founder and Principal, Webb Architects

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF ART AND DESIGN (NASAD) ACCREDITATION

In April 2023, the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts engaged in the University’s first National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accreditation review. NASAD establishes rigorous national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials art/ design-related disciplines. The organization includes approximately 337 accredited institutional members among schools, conservatories, colleges, and universities.

Through the NASAD process, the Hines College pursued accrediting its interior architecture and industrial design programs. The accreditation team was very impressed with the University’s programs. The Hines College is reviewing the visit report and will respond in September 2023. The NASAD board is scheduled to meet in October 2023 to vote on accreditation for the University of Houston.

NASAD accreditation and institutional membership will connect the Hines College’s programs to a greater network of academic institutions preparing artists and designers, providing resources for advancing education in these disciplines.

S-AR | 2022 STERN VISITING PROFESSOR

The William F. Stern Endowed Visiting Professorship was established in 2015 to bring world-class visiting critics and lecturers to the Hines College. Since then, the College has welcomed Wendell Burnette (2018), MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple (2019), Brooks + Scarpa (2020), MAIO (2021), and most recently, S-AR (2022).

This fall, professor Celeste Ponce joined with S-AR, an architectural design studio based in Mexico (Monterrey and Mexico City), led by architects César Guerrero and Ana Cecilia Garza. Together, they collaborated on a fifth-year studio entitled, “Changing the Scale of Ideas,” based on the major theme of S-AR’s practice, scale. The firm’s approach is less concerned with a project’s relationship to its site and more interested in its potential to transcend scales regardless of materiality.

Throughout the semester, S-AR visited the Hines College to work directly with students enrolled in the studio. Guerrero also presented the year’s opening Stern Lecture on September 26

NEW TRAVEL AWARD OPENS WORLDVIEW FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDENTS

Scott Ziegler, AIA, founder and senior principal of Ziegler Cooper Architects, gifted $25,000 to the Hines College to establish a new travel award. Motivated by personal experience and the success of a similar program at his firm, the award seeks to enrich students’ cultural understanding of the world through international travel. The annual award allows for two upper-level students to have the opportunity to travel abroad and enrich their cultural understanding of people and architecture.

SUMMING IT UP WITH ARCHITECTURE OFFICE

This spring, the Hines Design as Scholar/Scholar as Design initiative kicked off with “The Sum of Its Parts” exhibition in March. The show featured the work of Hines College students in three undergraduate research studios featuring Architecture Office founders Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh. Inspired by the Swiss theme code of “New Glarus,” the exhibition features fourteen study models and fourteen corner assembly models built using found model kit parts of alpine buildings, as well as seven drawings of chalet elements and fourteen drawings of their respective arrangements. "Similar to interpreting the strict stylistic guidelines set by ‘New Glarus,’ students in the studio worked with model kits from the ‘Switzerland’ series by Gebr. FALLER GmbH. The first day in studio, when the students received their kits, might have been the most exciting moment of the semester," said Louie.

McIntosh added, "Over the semester, the students' design interpretations were surprising and delightful. By displaying all of their models, the exhibition gives the visitor insight into the complex and multivalent applications of the ‘New Glarus’ guidelines."

Through showing the Swiss chalet in a variety of ways, the students' works show that learning from “New Glarus” goes beyond Swiss or American architecture while exploring a design methodology for the multiple and evolving forms of a significant building type.

REIMAGINING THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

The Hines College is working to strategically revamp the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design (BSED) degree program to provide our current and incoming students with another path for their educational careers at UH. Under the premise of a trimester format, where students would participate in classes during the fall, spring, and summer semesters, the revamped BSED allows students to take advantage of UHin4, guaranteeing a fixed tuition rate throughout their studies at the University. Ultimately, the fixed tuition rate will cost students less than the current five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree. Students opting for the BSED degree may obtain a professional degree for licensure by pursuing a two-year Master of Architecture after completing their undergraduate studies.

OPPOSITE PAGE: HINES COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WORKED WITH NICOLE MCINTOSH AND JONATHAN LOUIE OF ARCHITECTURE OFFICE TO STUDY THE THEMES OF “NEW GLARUS,” RESULTING IN AN EXHIBITION ENTITLED “THE SUM OF ITS PARTS” (PHOTO BY LEONID FURMANSKY)

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ANDREW KUDLESS’ EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF AI IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Kendall Professor and Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technology (CRAFT) Lab Andrew Kudless authored “Diffused Narratives” for Gradient Journal. In the story, he takes readers on two concurrent journeys through his career and the emergence of AI tools in design. On the subject of using AI as a tool, he said, “Instead of attempting to fit AI image generation into the architectural visualization box, we should instead think of it as its own new tool that occupies a new territory."

DANIEL JACOBS HONORED WITH ACSA COURSE DEVELOPMENT PRIZE

Instructional assistant professor Daniel Jacobs received an Honorable Mention from the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture's (ACSA) 2023 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society for his submission, “Liquid Ecologies: Water, Land, and Oil in the Gulf of Mexico.” His proposal offers a design studio working on the whole of the Gulf of Mexico as a space of inquiry. Students will use mapping techniques, fieldwork, and visualization to reframe the region as an interwoven site, developing design proposals for new associations and institutions within and across this vital landscape.

DALIA MUNENZON RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS SOM FOUNDATION RESEARCH PRIZE

SOM Foundation awarded Dalia Munenzon, assistant professor of urban design in sustainable communities and infrastructure, the 2023 SOM Foundation Research Prize. Munenzon and research partner Liz Gálvez (Yale Architecture) submitted their proposal “Collective Comfort: Framing the Cooling Center as a Resiliency and Educational Hub for Communities in Desert Cities,” rethinking community cooling centers and exploring opportunities to combat heat-vulnerable communities.

HINES COLLEGE HOSTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOR PANEL EXPLORING HOUSTON CLIMATE AND COMMUNITIES

In March, the Hines College welcomed Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), along with local Houston-area high school students to campus for the presentation “Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition." Following the presentation, a panel entitled "The Role of Design in Imagining Long-term Futures (‘Futuring’)” included the Hines College’s own faculty Dalia Munenzon and Susan Rogers, as well as Dr. Lauren Alexander (Gulf Research Program), Matthijs Bouw (Harvard GSD/Penn/One Architecture & Urbanism), Ms. Cleo Johnson (Black United Fund of Texas), alumna Margaret Wallace Brown (City of Houston Planning & Development), and Ross Wimer (AECOM). The event also included a presentation of student work and the Youth Environmental Summit. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner proclaimed the day as “Houston Climate Futures by Design Day.”

DANIEL JACOBS EARNS UH NEW FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD

Assistant instructional professor Daniel Jacobs earned a UH New Faculty Research Award for the proposal, “MESO-COSM: Between the Laboratory and the Planet.” “I always try to incorporate the research we do in our practice with the topic studios I have been running, which attempt to unpack our troubled relationship to environmental systems and use design to imagine alternative future,” Jacobs says. Along with Brittany Utting, his partner and co-founder at HOME-OFFICE, the presented a Trans-Scalar Lecture at the Hines College during the spring dealing with similar topics.

ANDREW KUDLESS AWARDED AIA NATIONAL COTE TOP 10 AWARD

Kendall Professor and Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technology (CRAFT) Lab, Andrew Kudless, and his collaborators at Lake | Flato Architects were honored by the AIA Committee on Environment (COTE) with a Top 10 recognition. The 27th annual AIA COTE awards honors projects combining design with sustainability and equity along with social and economic values for communities. This award recognizes Confluence Park, a “living learning laboratory” for the San Antonio Foundation, designed and developed by Kudless and Lake | Flato.

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JASON LOGAN AND MATTHEW JOHNSON WIN TXA 2023 DESIGN AWARD

The Texas Society of Architects honored faculty Jason Logan and Matthew Johnson of LOJO Architecture as part of their annual 2023 Design Awards. The pair designed “XO House” in Houston, inspired by courtyards found in the Roman domus and shaped like an “X” and “O.” Spaces are carved into the forms, and windows are thoughtfully placed to offer views of the city and the house's courtyard. The winning home was also previously featured in The Architect's Newspaper

DEEPA RAMASWAMY SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT

The Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts chose history, theory, and criticism assistant professor Deepa Ramaswamy as one of the 64 international recipients for her proposal “Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay's Coasts.” Since 1956, the Foundation has funded projects seeking to challenge the study of architecture and its place among the arts, culture, and society. Ramaswamy also received a UH New Faculty Research Award for the same proposal.

TXA AWARDS THE IRRITABLE HOUSE REVOLUTIONIZING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The Texas Society of Architects (TxA) named Rafael Beneytez-Durán and Ophélia Mantz, Hines College faculty and leaders of Z4A Architects, as a recipient of the 2023 Studio Awards for their project, “The Irritable House.” The submission embodies a forwardthinking approach to address the displacement caused by the new M-45 speedway in Madrid, Spain. By offering a flexible, adaptable, and cost-effective solution, the project's cutting-edge modular design and use of industrial materials showcase a commitment to sustainability and accessibility.

2023 AIA HOUSTON DESIGN AWARDS

Adjunct faculty member Jesse Hager’s firm CONTENT Architecture won two 2023 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Houston Design Awards for their “Grennoch Residence” and “Puzzle House.” Faculty members Ross Wienert and Katie BraddockLaRose worked on both projects, while alumna Otilia Gonzalez worked on “Puzzle House.” The “Grennoch Residence” design addresses Houston’s flooding problems by lifting the living spaces above the ground floor. The “Puzzle House” contains many details alluding to the family’s affinity for puzzles.

Michelle Ovanessians ‘23 won an AIA Houston Design Award for her conceptual work

“NUKE TOWN” designed as a student in adjunct professor Joshua Smith’s ARCH 5500 studio. The jurors commended the innovative drawings and graphic quality representing the narrative concepts demonstrated in Ovanessians’ submission.

STUDENTS WIN AIA FORT WORTH MERIT AWARDS

The AIA Fort Worth chapter honored students Kim Saotonglang, Yasmeen Saab, and Triciajane Asuncion with Merit Awards as part of their annual Excellence in Architecture Student Design Awards. Kim won for “ASCENSION,” a project set in a post-apocalyptic underground dwelling. Yasmeen and Triciajane were recognized for “Pe-Tree,” a space addressing the needs of the predominately Black and brown Third Ward community.

STUDENTS SHOWCASE DESIGNS AT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Students Kieran Renfrow and Yasmeen Saab were selected to exhibit their project “Substrate” at WantedDesign Manhattan Launch Pad in May. Launch Pad is an international platform for emerging designers and their concepts in furniture and home design. The juried show was a collaboration between WantedDesign and Design Milk and occurs during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. “Substrate” is an adaptable, amorphous architectural system providing resources and shelter to users and their communities. Kieran and Yasmeen shared, "We worked incredibly hard on this project, which was also very personal and explorative for us both. We put a tremendous amount of love, thought, and creative expression into this project, and we were able to create a body of work together as best friends, which was another unique experience. It brought to light our passions for both communities, people, environments, and design."

SPREAD: THE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

JEFF FENG AND MARK KIMBROUGH BEGIN AS NEW ID CO-DIRECTORS

Following the departure of founding director EunSook Kwon in 2020, Jeff Feng and Mark Kimbrough served as interim co-directors of the Hines College’s renowned industrial design program while searching for its new director. Beginning in fall 2022, Dean Oliver appointed Feng and Kimbrough as the new official co-directors for the program.

JACOB ABRAHAM (B.S. ’22) WINS INTERNATIONAL TOYOTA LOGISTIC DESIGN COMPETITION

At a ceremony in Brussels, Belgium, the international Toyota Logistic Design Competition named industrial design student, now alumnus, Jacob Abraham (B.S. ’22) as its first-place winner. His design “Oro,” a delivery device created to navigate dense urban environments, was chosen from among over 200 entries from around the world. “Oro,” which translates to “gold” in Spanish, acquired its name due to its overall form, including two sliding rings on the vehicle. Although there is no actual gold in the product design, the name “Oro” is a metaphor for the precious items being carried and the two rings forming.

STUDENTS AND FACULTY AWARDED IDSA BRONZE FOR PROSTHESIS DESIGN

Industrial design students and recent graduates David Edquilang (B.S. ’22) and Niell Gorman (B.S. ’21), along with industrial design co-director and associate professor Jeff Feng, received a Bronze Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America's (IDSA) International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). The group designed “Knack,” an upper limb prosthesis developed to provide disadvantaged amputees with an improved ergonomic and functional prosthesis experience. As a considerably more flexible and preferred option, 3D-printed prostheses offer a higher level of dexterity. “Through a partnership with local healthcare professionals, the team saw the opportunity to develop and build fully functional prostheses for patients in need at no cost,” said Feng.

PROFESSORS RECEIVE VENTUREWELL RESEARCH GRANT

Assistant professor Min Kang and associate professor and co-director Jeff Feng received a $26,500 VentureWell Course and Program grant. The grant funds their proposal and course, "Design for Sustainable Consumption in People's Daily Living: Exploration and Entrepreneurship." Students have the opportunity to introduce solutions and inventions promoting zero-waste products and services with advanced technology. "The impactful of sustainable design comes from discovering and solving the problems within the context of the systems, not merely applying green materials to the products," added Kang. "We are building this course for students to study system-level solution design that can create sustainable problem-solving systems."

STUDENT PEDRO SANDOVAL AWARDED FURNITURE DESIGN RECOGNITION

Industrial Design student Pedro Sandoval received the inaugural 2022 John Conrad Student Pinnacle Award at the International Society of Furniture and Design awards ceremony for his “Blum” chair design. It took him over a month of intense building and planning to complete the chair. “Essentially, it boiled down to a combination of complex geometry, as well as calculations, understanding the material, craftsmanship, a whole lot of quick design decision-making compromises, determination, and discipline,” he explained.

STUDENTS INVESTIGATE ELECTRIC VEHICLE DESIGN IN SPONSORED STUDIO AND EXHIBITION

During the fall semester, Photon Auto, TexPower EV Technologies, and IQP (Integrated Quantum Photonics) sponsored a studio aimed at designing the next generation of luxury electric vehicles and culminating in an EV Concepts Exhibition. The event featured exterior and interior designs by the students and a chance to win a prize and internship with Photon Auto. “Through our program, students in the past have designed other modes of transportation, such as bicycles and electric scooters, but we’ve never done a car,” said Mark Kimbrough, co-director of industrial design.

CO-DIRECTOR MARK KIMBROUGH HONORED WITH GRAPHIC DESIGN USA AWARD

Graphic Design USA announced co-director of industrial design Mark Kimbrough as an award winner for his logo design in the category of corporate branding. "I was instrumental in helping morph the registration mark into something that could have much more flexibility," Kimbrough said. "They [Umbach Consulting Group] just needed the flexibility to use the logo slightly differently. I came up with the idea of integrating color to represent certain segments of their business.”

THIS SPREAD: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDENTS UNVEIL THEIR ELECTRIC VEHICLE DESIGNS AT THE EV CONCEPTS EXHIBITION AT THE END OF THE FALL SEMESTER

STUDENTS’ EV VEHICLE DESIGNS AT HOUSTON AUTOMOTIVE SHOW

Collaborating with UH Energy, industrial design showcased their work at the Houston Automotive Show at NRG Center. Work on display included their 2022 automotive design studio, sponsored by Photon Auto, TexPower EV Technologies, and IQP (Integrated Quantum Photonics). Khanh Vu and Thomas Feuillet worked on the Photon Vision interior concept while Pedro Sandoval designed the exterior. They won first place for their design last fall, earning a cash prize and internships with Photon Auto. The team was joined at the UH Energy booth with Joshua Lobo from the UH Technology Division.

STUDENT TOPS BIENENSTOCK FURNITURE COMPETITION

Student Mariana Anzures won first place out of 53 entries in the 2023 Bienenstock Furniture Library Furniture Competition for her chair “Siva Afi,” named after a traditional Samoan fire dance. "I was deeply inspired by the shapes dancers make with their bodies and the movement of a flame dancing in the wind," shared Anzures. She credits her studio professors, Min Kang and Jeff Feng, for their mentorship during the project and for impressing upon her the importance of telling a story through her final submission.

STUDENTS DOMINATE FIT SPORT DESIGN AWARDS

The 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards, recognizing innovative equipment and apparel design, honored six industrial design student winners from the Hines College. “As their professor, I was impressed by the level of commitment demonstrated by my senior students during this project,” shared assistant professor Elham Morshedzadeh, Ph.D.

• Akanksha Bhatia, Winner in Sport Equipment Design - Sailing & Surfing for “Nautis”

• Diego Romero, Winner in Sport Equipment Design - Parasports for “STRIDE SIGHT”

• Emily Sonnier, Winner in Sport Equipment Design - Urban Sports for “TOIS Modular Bag System”

• Luis Valdes, Winner in Sport Equipment Design - Rack Sports for “Spiral (Tennis Machine)”

• Toluwalase Adedipe, Honorable Mention for “Brisk (Cycling Helmet)”

• Estelle Lee, Honorable Mention for “Ripple (Wireless Earbuds)”

STUDENTS BATTLE TO THE TOP IN BAUER COMPETITION IN PRODUCT DESIGN

Two industrial design students entered the annual Bauer Battle of the Classes this year. Both of the submissions were developed as a part of associate professor George Chow’s INDS 3501 studio. At the start of the studio, students worked for three weeks on research to gain customer insights about their product concepts. Used in conjunction with their design knowledge and skills, the information allowed them to build and refine proof-of-concepts for their ideas.

Maha Alsagheer won first place in the Battle of the Classes hosted by the C.T. Bauer College of Business. After observing her father's struggle with needles dislodging during dialysis treatments, she was inspired to create “IVLOCK” to keep needles from slipping loose.

Danny Blacker won third place in the Battle of the Classes hosted by the C.T. Bauer College of Business. Danny created “Aire” after trying to figure out when he needed to change his AC filter since moving into a new home.

DAVID EDQUILANG SELECTED FOR OPEN SOURCE PROSTHESIS DESIGN

The iF Design Awards selected industrial design student and alum David Edquilang (B.S. ’23) among its best winners for his concept “Lunet.” Out of 7,000 entries from across the globe this year, 76 concepts were honored; however, only nine top winners were selected as "Best of the Year" to receive funding to continue their work. “Lunet” is a 3-D printed mechanical finger prosthesis reducing costs and allowing for flexible and customizable production. The prosthesis can be quickly produced and assembled since it requires no metal fasteners. With this win, Edquilang hopes to continue working on innovative solutions helping humanity. "I hope my work can inspire people and young designers to be more compassionate to help each other, as the world truly needs it."

IDSA STUDENT MERIT AWARDS

Hines College industrial design students have consistently received recognition as the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) annual merit award winners, and this year is no exception. In 2023, IDSA selected undergraduate student Haleigh Esene and graduate student Suochun Fang for its Student Merit Awards. These awards highlight the very best creativity, problem-solving, and design brilliance in each of IDSA’s five North American Districts.

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DIRECTOR SHERYL TUCKER DE

VAZQUEZ EARLER THIS SPRING 50 GERALD D. HINES

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

STUDENTS AND ALUMNI RECOGNIZED BY ACSA STEEL COMPETITION

The ACSA awarded Nastassia Chua, Rebekah Mireles, and Sharon Lott, along with their faculty sponsor Sheryl Tucker Vazquez, with an honorable mention for its 2022 Steel Competition in the category Towards a New Monumentality. “‘Strange Fruit: Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue’ received an honorable mention for its approach in transforming an existing memorial to create a space for discussion and exchange,” the jurors explained. “The construction techniques are well researched and bring forward a powerful idea of what a monument can be in the 21st century.”

STUDENTS ACHIEVE TOP 100 IN NATIONAL ARCHITIZER CHALLENGE

Student teams of Michelle Ovanessians and Bruno Xavier, along with Kim Sao and Blake Wilcox, ranked in the top 100 finalists of the Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2022! Michelle and Bruno submitted their “Unearthing Nostalgia from their Collection of Bosnian Tales” project. Their work was also announced as a pre-selected project for the 2022 Inclusion Award for the New York City Architecture Biennial this year. Kim and Blake had four entries in the finals, including their work “Mirror.”

DESIGN COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION FEATURES STUDENTS AND FACULTY FOR ANNUAL EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE

The Design Communication Association (DCA) released selections for its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference. Among 175 total submissions, Hines College students and faculty were among the 69 entries selected for the exhibition, including eight projects representing 13 students and faculty. DCA is a professional organization consisting of professors from different architecture schools, interior designers, and graphic designers, aiming to support educators, teach, and promote design communication to students.

KIOSK K67: SYSTEM FOR URBAN IMAGINATION EXHIBITION OPENS WITH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

Assistant professor and alumnus Dijana Handanovic (M.Arch. ’15, B.F.A. ’09) opened “Kiosk K67: System for Urban Imagination” at the UH Blaffer Art Museum in January. Designed in 1966 by Sasa Machtig, K-67 kiosks were a central part of Yugoslavian daily life, serving as newspaper stands, coffee shops, flower shops, post offices, and more. The kiosks were neutral and accepting, in contrast to the brutalist architecture and forced ideology of Yugoslavia at the time. Most of the 7500 pieces produced until 1999 were destroyed in the war, and the remaining kiosks are in poor condition. Handanovic has journeyed to find four kiosks and restored three. Along with showcasing the kiosk, Handanovic also partnered with alumnus Adam Spencer Cook (B.Arch. ’11, B.S. ’11, B.B.A. ’11 – Shop Called Shop) and European furniture company Zanat to expose students to the possibilities of reinventing traditional crafts in modern ways. Kiosk K67 received national media coverage from The Architect’s Newspaper

GRAHAM FOUNDATION FUNDED HAIR SALON: BLACK HAIR AS ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION OPENS AT THE HINES COLLEGE

Led by interim director of interior architecture Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, “Hair Salon” explores the generative potential of natural Black hair in the conception of architecture through a collaboration of architects and artists from across the country, supported by a Graham Foundation grant. Like race and architecture, hair texture and its care practices are constructs that can be utilized as a means of dominance and control or as a force of resistance and liberation. As an extension of the Black body, natural Black hair remains at the center of dialogues on power, cultural value, beauty, and social standing. It is a compelling tool to engender conversations on the power of Blackness as a cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic force. “Hair Salon” creates a new architectural language/ syntax inspired by the material properties of natural Black hair and the rules of its hair care practices. “Hair Salon” received national media coverage from The Architect’s Newspaper and Architectural Digest

THIS SPREAD: OPENING NIGHT FOR THE KIOSK K67 EXHIBITION BY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIJANA

HANDANOVIC IN THE BLAFFER ART MUSEUM COURTYARD

DESIGN/BUILD

JASON LOGAN NAMED NEW KEELAND LAB DIRECTOR

In 2021, Provost Short awarded the Hines College a “Key Initiatives” award, opening a search for the new faculty director of the Burdette Keeland, Jr. Design Exploration Laboratory, a new research liaison officer staff position, and two graduate assistant student positions to advance the Design/Build program. In 2022, Maria Modelska was hired as the staff research liaison offer. After a second search this year, Hines College faculty member and alumnus Jason Logan (B.Arch ’00) start the new academic year as the associate professor and director of the Keeland Lab.

BUILD+

The College continues its work in preparation for establishing BUILD+, a 501c 3 nonprofit organization. The new venture will greatly expand the College’s ability to explore more substantial design/build opportunities for our students and independently build speculative projects. Patrick Peters, Jason Logan, and Gail Peter Borden are working closely with Dean Oliver and Maria Modelska to explore existing programs and model the new BUILD+ organization among the best programs in the country.

DESIGN/BUILD STUDIO ERECTS OUTDOOR CLASSROOM AT HISD MIDDLE SCHOOL

Design/build studio students, along with professors Patrick Peters and Jason Logan, put their design, planning, and implementation skills to the test to build an outdoor classroom at Frank Black Middle School in the Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston. The 296-square-foot steel structure includes an array of features promoting sustainability. “These students are in the early stage of their architectural educations and their budding careers, so the impact of this hands-on, full-scale work to their professional growth is profound,” Peters said.

PATRICK PETERS RECEIVES INAUGURAL AISC AWARD OF DISTINCTION

The American Institute of Steel and Construction (AISC) awarded professor Patrick Peters its inaugural Award of Distinction. AISC Senior Structural Steel Specialist Alex Morales surprised Peters in-person with the news, who believes this honor is really about the students. "Through his years of work in design/build, Peters has created an open lab affording real-world exposure and design experience to students constituting the future of architecture," said Morales, who nominated Peters for the award.

CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE

RUFFINO HILLS REDEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DAY

The city of Houston proclaimed August 23, 2022, as “Ruffino Hills Redevelopment Community Day,” acknowledging efforts by professor Bruce Race, his students, and the community to redevelop the former household waste landfill Ruffino Hills at the intersection of I-69 and the Sam Houston Tollway. "The community wanted something that would improve their economy, as well as recreational parks and educational components," said Race. “But this isn’t just an urban planning assignment, it’s a research project that can improve the quality of life for people in the area. My students and I showed how to make this an energy-positive project that meets the city’s climate action plan targets.”

BRUCE RACE HONORED WITH AMERICAN PLANNING TEXAS + HOUSTON AWARD

The American Planning Association (APA) Texas chapter awarded professor Bruce Race, Ph.D., FAIA, FAICP with the 2022 Gold Award for his “Ruffino Hills Landfill” proposal. The project received the APA Houston Chapter’s Gold Resilience Award earlier this year. Similar to his “Robins Landing Town Center: Strategies and Guidance for Resilience project,” “Ruffino Hills Landfill Resilient Redevelopment and Detention” was the first considered by UH students who strongly believed in impacting communities.

MATERIALS RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE (MRC)

WEBSITE

During the 2022-2023 academic year, the MRC database website was entirely rebuilt to offer easier searches for users and align with UH branding standards. Based on the research of worldwide digital material libraries, the new MRC database catalog aims to better target any search on materials, including manufacturing country origin and physical properties. The new website design has the ability to support future additional filters highlighting complementary ecological criteria within the selection of materials.

UNDERVALUED MATERIALS IN TEXAS / RESEARCH FUNDINGS

The MRC has been working to investigate the possibility of developing a lab on undervalued materials existing in Texas, such as hemp, seaweed, and wool. The objectives of this research aim at determining which raw materials and waste materials are best suited for producing well-designed, high-quality, and environmentally friendly products.

BUILDING AN ETHOS

The MRC aspires to be a platform for building a new ethos on materials through educational tools. The MRC library hosted various studio courses during the year, spreading more ecological practices in the choice of materials while developing the architectural strategy. Director Ophélia Mantz presented some of the MRC’s educational tools during the ACSA/EAAE international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, this past June 2023.

COMMUNITY DESIGN RESOURCE CENTER (CDRC)

SUSAN ROGERS ADMIRED WITH AIA HOUSTON AWARD FOR CIVIC VISION

The AIA Houston chapter recognized the work of professor and director of the Community Design Resource Center (CDRC) with the Honor Award for Civic Vision. "I was honored and humbled to receive an Honor Award for Civic Vision from AIA Houston. Over nearly two decades, I have worked side by side with community leaders, students, partners, and allies to define and develop design strategies bringing us closer to a more just and equitable city," she shared. “As a result, this award and recognition from AIA Houston is shared with everyone who has been part of the CDRC and each of the community organizations and leaders who have trusted us."

OST/SOUTH UNION QUALITY OF LIFE AGREEMENT

In December 2022, the CDRC began the process of updating the OST/South Union Quality of Life Agreement in partnership with Houston LISC and Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation. The Quality of Life Agreement is a communitydeveloped plan to guide their efforts over the next five years.

Project Team: Susan Rogers (director), Diana Arias, Natalie Armstrong, Marco Chapa, Sharon Lott, Davone Morgan, Regyna Palacios

HARRIS COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION PLAN FRAMEWORK

The CDRC and Dr. Tane Ward are working in partnership with Harris County, the Jacob + Terese Hershey Foundation, and the Coalition for Equity, Environment, and Resilience (CEER) to develop a set of visions and values to frame the Harris County Climate Justice Plan.

Project Team: Susan Rogers (director), Marco Chapa

COLUMBIA TAP TRAIL ACTION PLAN

The CDRC is working in partnership with the Friends of Columbia Tap to develop an action plan for the Columbia Tap Trail. The vision will be supported through a community-driven design and planning process focused on collaboratively developing projects, priorities, and implementation strategies.

Project Team: Susan Rogers (director), Diana Arias, Natalie Armstrong, Marco Chapa, Regyna Palacios

THE VOICES OF PEOPLE. THE STORIES OF PLACE. THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER

Susan Rogers and Jose Mario Lopez received a $10,000 grant from the ArCH Houston Foundation to curate an exhibit opening in spring 2024. The exhibit will amplify and center the voices, visions, and stories of neighborhood leaders who have worked side by side with the CDRC over nearly two decades and create a shared space to envision a more equitable, resilient, and democratic city.

CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INNOVATION GRANT FOR FACULTY

Susan Rogers and Cheryl Beckett received a $10,000 Faculty Innovation Grant from the Mitchell Center to support their collaboration across the fall 2023 and spring 2024 semesters. This project will further support UH’s Third Ward Initiative and provide a model for how universities can engage in mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships with communities, their residents, leaders, and organizations.

CHAPTERS PUBLISHED IN INFORMALITY AND THE CITY AND ABOUT STREETS

Susan Rogers had her book chapter “Tanks, Wells, Tacos, and Pitches” published in Informality and the City, edited by Gregory Marinic and Pablo Meninato. An additional book chapter, in collaboration with Kaede Polkinghorne, is forthcoming, titled “Repeating the Past: The Politics of Highway Expansion in Houston” in About Streets, edited by Gregory Marinic and Pablo Meninato.

THIS SPREAD: THE HINES COLLEGE BUILDING HOUSING THE CONSTRUCTION

ROBOTICS AND FABRICATION

CONSTRUCTION ROBOTICS AND FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY (CRAFT) LAB

Fundraising is underway to complete the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technology (CRAFT) Lab.

MISSION

Under the direction of Andrew Kudless, the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor of Design Technologies, the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) Lab supports the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design in exploring innovative new ways of designing, building, and living in the world through the use of emerging technologies, materials, and processes.

Our research topics pursue the critical engagement of emerging technologies, including machine learning, robotics, augmented reality, and additive manufacturing. At the same time, we have a deep respect for traditional ways of making and look to build upon these by introducing computational design logic, new materials, and the critical application of new technologies.

How objects, spaces, and buildings are designed and made is rapidly transforming. It is imperative the Hines College finds ways of making the built environment less carbonintensive while simultaneously developing the landscape to be more resilient to change. In addition, new technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation, create opportunities and challenges to how we currently operate.

Like the wave of innovation occuring during the mid-20th century, our world is currently experiencing the beginning of the next industrial revolution. The roles of architects and designers and the related industries of manufacturing and construction are rapidly changing and being challenged to be more sustainable and productive.

The CRAFT Lab serves our community in important ways:

• We serve students by preparing them to become leaders in their fields through critically engaging emerging technologies.

• We serve faculty by enabling them to pursue their research through the most advanced technologies.

• We serve the wider University of Houston academic community and our industry partners in collaborating on innovative research projects.

VISION

We envision the CRAFT Lab as a world-class research facility drawing the most talented students and faculty to the University of Houston in pursuit of cutting-edge research on how we can collectively create more sustainable and innovative architecture and design. Located in one of the country’s fastest-growing cities, the Lab aims to contribute to a more resilient built environment through partnerships with leading design, architecture, and construction practices.

GOALS

• Create the most advanced center for emerging technologies used within design, architecture, and construction in Texas and one of the top facilities in the world. The equipment, processes, and knowledge available at the Lab will be a beacon of innovation for the University, the city of Houston, and the state of Texas.

• Develop robust interdisciplinary connections with faculty and students throughout the Hines College’s industrial design, interior architecture, and architecture programs to unleash the creative potential for world-class research.

• Partner with regional, national, and international industry, academic, and public partners in collaborative research projects expanding the capacity and network of the Hines College.

• Establish a well-funded and active post-professional program for students pursuing world-class research and make the Hines College a recruitment hub for future professional and academic leaders.

• Empower our communities through an intense focus on the sustainability and accessibility embodied in the materials, technologies, and processes used to make the world. We strive to create a more just environment supporting access to advanced technologies regardless of background. As part of a public institution, the Lab pursues research benefiting the public good by making highquality architecture and design more accessible, safer, and in solidarity with the natural world.

• Attract, retain, and collaborate witwh the most innovative faculty, students, and researchers and collectively produce research projects at the forefront of design technologies.

THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT: AN OVERVIEW OF THE ADVANCED WOOD FABRICATION AND CONSTRUCTION ROBOTIC LABS; THE EARTH PRINTING LAB; THE ARMATURE COURTYARD; THE WORK YARD; AND THE CASTING ROOM

THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT: THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LAB; THE INTERACTION AND COLLABORATION STUDIO; THE SANDING ROOM; AND THE CIRCULAR MATERIALS LAB;

NEW LABS AND WORK SPACES

27 RESEARCH AREAS

6 STRATEGIC GOALS

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WAYS TO SERVE THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

850+ STUDENTS SERVED

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

In February 2023, the Hines College hosted its largest career fair to date. Companies in attendance advertised over 90 job postings, resulting in 1,847 student applications. The fair expanded across two days for the first time in the College’s history and kicked off with an evening networking reception welcoming employers and over 170 students

PARTICIPATING FIRMS

• AECOM

• Aracadis IBI Group

• BB&W Architects

• Benjamin Johnston Design

• Brave/ Architecture

• BRW Architects

• CannonDesign

• Claycomb Associates, Architects

• Clayton Korte

• Collaborate Architects

• Corgan

• Diamond Development Group

• Energy Architecture

• FGMA Architects

• Fifth Dimension Interior & Architects

• Gensler

• GLMV Architecture

• Goree

• GPD Group

• Harrison Kornberg

• HDR

• Heights Venture

• HKS

• HOK

• House & Robertson Architects

• Jacobs

• Kendall/Heaton Associates

• Mark W. Todd Architects

• MARS

• McLemore Luong Architects

• Meeks + Partners

• Method Architecture

• Moody Nolan

• Nelson Partners

• Nina Magon Studio

• Page/

• PBK Architects

• Perkins and Will

• PGAL

• PhiloWilke Partnership

• Powers Brown Architecture

• Shepley Bulfinch

• Smith & Company Architects

• SmithGroup

• Stantec

• Steinberg Dickey Collaborative

• STG Design

• Studio Red Architects

• THR 3E Design

• Timberlyne

• VLK Architects

• W Partnership

• Wold Architects & Engineers

• Worrell Design Group

• Kirksey Architecture

• Lake Flato Architects

• Ziegler Cooper Architects OPPOSITE PAGE: HINES COLLEGE STUDENTS IMPRESSED FIRMS AND PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS OVER TWO DAYS AT THE COLLEGE’S

design LAB

CENTENNIAL PLANNING

designLAB was delighted to see the first of their gateway monument markers competed at the new UH Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. The gateway monument sign is the first of five markers to be completed in preparation for the University of Houston Centennial Celebration in 2027. John Tsai, a former faculty member and member of our designLAB team, worked with Page/ on the construction and installation.

The University is moving forward with plans for its Centennial celebration. The Office of James Burnett (OJB) has been hired to execute the Centennial Master Plan projects. designLAB is thrilled to see its project proposals for the campus realized through OJB over the next four years. Among the several projects approved for execution is the refurbishment of Wilhelmina’s Grove.

OPPOSITE PAGE: THE FIRST GATEWAY MONUMENT MARKER AT THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (PHOTO BY PHOTO BY HESTER AND HARDAWAY PHOTOGRAPHERS); A RENDERING OF THE REDESIGNED WILHELMINA’S GROVE

THIS SPREAD: HINES COLLEGE STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS PUT ON WELCOME DAY EACH YEAR TO WELCOME INCOMING

FRESHMEN STUDENTS

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

STUDENTS LEAD ANNUAL WELCOME DAY

Each year, the Hines College’s student organizations make each Welcome Day special. This annual, student-led tradition has taken place for the last three decades and leaves a powerful impression on both incoming students and student volunteers. The College is incredibly grateful to our dedicated student leaders, organizers, and volunteers for an outstanding job in welcoming new students and creating an atmosphere of community

ABOVE: THE SEMESTER KICKS OFF WITH WELCOME DAY WHERE STUDENT LEADERS GUIDE NEW STUDENTS AND WELCOME THEM TO THE COLLEGE. (ALL WELCOME DAY PHOTOS PROVIDED BY LORYN LAMONTE, KATE RODRIGUEZ AND EMMELIA WARD.)

HINES COLLEGE STUDENT COUNCIL GIVES BACK WITH GRAZIEGIVING TRADITION

Last fall, the Hines College Student Council (STUCO) hosted the annual Graziegiving Dinner. STUCO president Kadmiel Konan gave updates on projects and initiatives that the council had worked on over the semester. Bringing food trucks to the College and better studio chairs were among the highlights. For two weeks before the dinner festivities, the student council and the College also worked to raise canned and nonperishable food items for donation to the Houston Food Bank. They were able to drop off over 2,500 goods to the food bank.

BELOW: HINES COLLEGE STUDENTS CELEBRATE THEIR WORK AND GIVE THANKS TOGETHER AT THE ANNUAL GRAZIEGIVING DINNER WHERE FACULTY AND STAFF VOLUNTEER SERVE FOOD

THIS SPREAD: FACULTY PREPARED FOR THE NEW SEMESTER AND STRATEGIC PLANNING AT THE FACULTY RETREAT IN AUGUST 2022

FACULTY

FACULTY HIRING UPDATES

CO-DIRECTORS OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (FALL 2022)

Jeff Feng and Mark Kimbrough

KEELAND LAB DIRECTOR + ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (FALL 2023)

Provost’s Key Initiative Search

Jason Logan

In 2021, Provost Short awarded the Hines College a “Key Initiatives” award, opening a search for the new faculty director of the Keeland Design Exploration Lab, a new research liaison officer staff position, and two graduate assistant student positions to advance the Design/Build program.

UPCOMING FACULTY SEARCHES (2023-2024):

• Director (Interior Architecture)

• Assistant Professor (Industrial Design)

• Assistant Professor (History, Theory, Criticism)

• PEN/TT Instructional Professor (Architecture)

NEW FACULTY BOOKS

Donna Kacmar

Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels

Designed by Architects

Peter Zweig

Living + Dying INbetween the Real + the Virtual

Stephen Fox

The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe

Michael Kubo

Futures of the Architectural

Exhibition: In Conversation with Students

THIS PAGE: DEAN PATRICIA BELTON OLIVER INTRODUCES NEW FACULTY AT THE FACULTY RETREAT IN AUGUST 2022

STAFF

NEW STAFF HIRES

DIMENSION MAGAZINE

In fall 2022, the Hines College launched its new magazine DIMENSION. The biannual publication highlights the advancements of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, seeking to better engage our internal and external

constituents and celebrate the extraordinary work of our College community. The fall 2022 inaugural issue received a prestigious Gold Award from the Council of the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards.

Connie Barr Director of Business Operations

Ylei Gachupin Program Coordinator I

Colleen Maynard Assistant to the Dean

Katherine Wolf Academic Advisor II

STAFF RECOGNITION

ASSOCIATE DEAN TRANG PHAN, PH.D. DEFENDS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

In September, Associate Dean Trang Phan, Ph.D., successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Situating the Identities and Experiences of Asian American Pacific Islander Students at an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution,” aimed to raise awareness of the complexity of AAPI student identities and experiences. Phan has been a significant asset to the Hines College for decades, working closely with students, faculty, and staff to support our College’s student experience. In the fall, she was promoted to associate dean of student affairs and enrollment management at the Hines College.

DEAN OLIVER NAMED ONE OF HOUSTON’S TOP 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

Houston Woman Magazine named dean Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA, DPACSA as one of “Houston's 50 Most Influential Women.” Since 2008, the magazine has accepted nominations and chosen the city's most influential women leaders. Dean Oliver was noted for her contributions in higher education, leadership, and expanding the Hines College's international programs. In the special issue, Oliver said, "I have always been attracted to design because there is no 'right' answer. Perfection is unattainable. As educators, we never stop asking the questions, evens as the 'answers' remain elusive."

HINES COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM HONORED WITH INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL AWARDS

The Hines College’s marketing, communications, and external relations team is changing the way it engages our College community. In the last year, the team – Stephen Schad (executive director of communications), Dianca Chase (director of alumni relations), Nicholas Nguyen (digital media program manager), and Symone Daniels (graduate assistant) – won multiple awards for the College’s communications initiatives:

• CASE Circle of Excellence – Gold Award / DIMENSION Magazine (inaugural fall 2022 issue)

• Collegiate Advertising Awards – Silver Award / Annual Report (2020-2022 issue)

• Educational Advertising Awards – Gold Award / DIMENSION Magazine (inaugural fall 2022 issue)

• Educational Advertising Awards – Merit Award / Social Media: Instagram

ALUMNI ALUMNI AWARDS

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

In September 2022, the Architecture and Design Alumni Association celebrated its 2022 Alumni Awards winners and welcomed alumni back to the Hines College for an evening reconnecting with one another. Alumni attending the meeting in person and virtually also received Hines College news from dean Patricia Belton Oliver, FAIA, regarding recent student and faculty successes, new faculty hires, and the strategic planning process. During the meeting, the association also held an election and welcomed Eric Hudson (M.Arch. ’08) as president, Robert Kohutek (M.Arch. ’05) as vice president, Jennifer Murray (M.A. ’22) as treasurer, and David Sahagun (B.Arch. ’09, B.S. ’09) as secretary.

ALUMNA MELVALEAN MCLEMORE WINS YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Texas Society of Architects bestowed alumna Melvalean McLemore, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP (B.Arch. ’09) with their 2022 Award for Early Career Professional Achievement in Honor of William W. Caudill, FAIA. The award recognizes young, licensed members who have shown exceptional leadership through considerable contributions to the profession during the early stages of their careers. The AIA Houston chapter also recognized McLemore with the 2023 Ben Brewer Young Architect Award celebrating excellence in ability, exceptional work, and significant architectural contributions by architects in their first ten years of practice.

Margaret Wallace Brown, AICP, CNU-A ’80 Distinguished Alumni Award

Mark Nolen, AIA, LEED AP ’82 Leadership Alumni Award

Jake Donaldson, AIA Legacy LEED AP, NCARB ’06 Successful Entrepreneur Award

Rachel Wilkins ’12 Outstanding Young Alumni

ALUMNI ESTABLISH PLANNED GIFTS SUPPORTING FUTURE PROGRAMMING

Hines College alumni Joe Webb (B.Arch. ‘71) and Michael Johnson (B.Arch. ‘67, B.S. ‘67) established their own planned gifts at the University of Houston, setting the stage for two future endowments supporting the Hines College in perpetuity. Webb’s gift institutes the Joe Douglas Webb Endowed Chair for Urban Design, supporting faculty leadership and research of urban design in the nation’s fourth largest city. Johnson’s gift creates the Michael S. and Anne Johnson Endowed Visiting Lecture, bringing expert guest lecturers, including practicing architects and emerging talent, to enrich students’ education.

HINES ALUMNI HONORED AT THE 9TH ANNUAL COUGAR 100

The University of Houston and the University of Houston Alumni Association honored outstanding UH alumni-owned and operated businesses in an event on February 13 for the 9th annual Cougar 100 Awards. Every year, companies are ranked by the percentage of compound annual growth in sales or revenue across a three-year period with gross revenues above $250,000, and in business for five years or more. The Cougar 100 awards seek to recognize growing and successful Cougar-run businesses and connect alumni with fellow business owners supporting that “Cougars should be doing business with Cougars.” The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design has become a staple of the Cougar 100 Awards, spotlighting its alumni’s success in industry, including among this year’s winners:

#10 Element Architects, LLC – Michael Graham (B.Arch. ’99)

#24 Aria Signs – Shaya Attaei (B.Arch ’13, M.Arch. ’15)

#26 H4 Architects and Engineers, LLC – Alan Hensley (’03, M.Arch. ’04), Sherie Hensley (B.S. ’98)

#68 PhiloWilke Partnership – Steven Schultz (B.Arch. ’80)

Joe Webb

Michael Johnson

AIA HOUSTON FIRM OF THE YEAR

AIA Houston honored AMB Architects as its Firm of the Year at the annual 2023 AIAH gala. Congratulations to Alyse Makarewicz (B.Arch. ’97, B.S. ’97 ), president of AMB Architects, and her team of Hines College alumni, including Jeylen Arteaga (B.S. ’ 19), Steven Griffin (B.S. ’23), Jesus Guillen (B.Arch. ’22), Lauren Houser (B.Arch. ’ 11), Katherine Marquez (B.Arch.’08, B.S. ’08), and Eric Trudelle (B.S. ’ 19).

PAPERCITY MAGAZINE DESIGN AWARDS

In April, PaperCity Magazine announced its annual Design Awards, kicking off Texas Design Week Houston. The awards recognize the extraordinary work of Houston interior designers and architects in 21 categories. Congratulations to Hines College alumni honored among this year’s award winners, including Tiger Lyon (M.Arch. ’14), Kelie Mayfield (M.Arch. ’08), Vivi Nguyen (B.Arch. ’11), Lisa Pope Westerman (M.Arch. ’01), and Jared Wood (B.Arch. ’98).

ALUMNI CONGRATULATE THE CLASS OF 2023

The Architecture and Design Alumni Association continued its annual tradition of celebrating and networking with the Hines College’s newest graduates. Alumni board members distributed graduation gifts following rehearsal the week of graduation and embraced these new alumni to the Association. The relationships developed through the College’s alumni network help launch professional careers and carry our alumni throughout their work in industry.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNI RECEPTION

This summer, the Hines College hosted an alumni reception in San Francisco, California, in conjunction with the national American Institute of Architects (AIA) Conference. The lively event welcomed alumni from across all the College’s disciplines located in the Bay area and those visiting for the AIA conference to a trendy speakeasy venue in Union Square. Attendees networked with their fellow alumni and learned more about the College’s advancements in the past several years.

MEDIA MENTIONS

India Education Diary (International): University of Houston: UH Researchers Engage Community to Create Award-winning Plan for Resilience

Houston Public Media (Regional): UH Moment: Researchers Engage Community to Create Award-winning Plan for Resilience

Houston Chronicle (Regional): New Houston Endowment HQ Brings the City One Step Closer to New Age Modern Design

Dezeen (International): How AI Software Will Change Architecture and Design

CultureMap Houston (Regional): Cool New UH Exhibition Showcases Cutting-edge Student Electric Vehicle Design

The Architect’s Newspaper (National): University of Houston Displays Restored K67 Kiosk from Yugoslavia

Rice University (Regional): How a Former Landfill Could Help Fight Floods and Reimagine a Swath of Southwest Houston

Houston CityBook (Regional): A New ‘Hair Salon’ Opens Today at UH – and It’s Not What You Think

Houston Chronicle (Regional): Each Curl is Mighty –Black Hair as Architecture

Architectural Digest (National): How This Designer is Using Black Hair to Inspire the Architecture World

The Architect’s Newspaper (National): Hair Salon: A New Exhibition at the University of Houston Explore the Architectural Properties of Black Hair

Yes! Magazine (National): How Black Hair Can Inspire Architecture

Houston Chronicle (Regional): What to Know About Buying EV in Texas

Modern Steel Construction (National): UH’s Patrick Peters Bridges the Gap Between Architecture and Fabrication – the Classroom and the Community

The Architect’s Newspaper (National): The Graham Foundation Announces Its 2023 Individual Grantees

Texas Architect (Regional): UT Austin Hosts “Architecture After AI” Symposium

Houston CityBook (Regional): As Changes are Afoot at Famed Design Firm, New Leader Touts ‘No Boundaries

Houston Public Media (Regional): The Extraordinary Measures It Took to Build Skyscrapers in Houston’s Soft Soil

Texas Architect (Regional): This Is Us: K67, More Than a Memory

DesignBoom (National): Nine Innovative iF Design Student Award 2023 Winners Lead Global Improvement

Houston Chronicle (Local): Astros Owner Jim Crane Buys $24M Historic River Oaks Home Only to Tear it Down

OPPOSITE PAGE: “SIGNAL BRAIDS AND SONG MAPS” BY HINES COLLEGE ALUM WILLIAM D. WILLIAMS WAS PART OF THE HAIR SALON

FACULTY RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

AMNA ANSARI

• Amna Ansari and Marcus Martinez, Associates UltraBarrio, received a Texas Society of Architects 2022 Design Award for their “Roaming CartOgraphies” project for Connect Community.

• Associates UltraBarrio - Amna Ansari and Marcus Martinez’ project, Roaming Cart-Ographies,” was published in Texas Architect as a Texas Society of Architects 2022 Design Award winner, September issue, pp 9293

• Amna Ansari and Marcus Martinez/Associates

UltraBarrio won a 2022 AIA Houston Urban Design Award for their “Roaming CartOgraphies, Houston.

RAFAEL BENEYTEZDURÁN

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran’s paper, “Margins,” was published in The Brooklyn Rail, Journal of Art, Culture, and Politics, January, 2023

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran’s paper, “Air: A Field of Intense Materiality,” was published in PLAT 11: Soft, Architectural Journal, November 22, 2022

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran’s article, “The Garden and the Breathing: A Narrative about the Architecture of Air amid the Fears of the Anthropocene,” in Materia Aaquitectura: Academic Journal of the Escuela de Arquitectura USS, Chile, Bilingual, November 2022

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran’s article, “Logicas Territoriales,” was published in Premios Pritzker: Descubrir el Arte,

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran completed his “Boulder House,” an individual residence in Madrid, Spain.

• Prof. Beneytez-Duran’s feature, “Z4A, Office of Architecture,” was published in Casa de Arquitectura, Queretaro, Mexico, October 2022

GAIL BORDEN

• Prof. Borden, a principal of Borden Partnership, is serving his third year on the AIA Houston Board of Directors.

• Prof. Borden was elected to the Design and Studio Awards Committee of the Texas Society of Architects. He will serve until 12-31-2024

• Prof. Borden has been invited to become a member of Facilities Committee of the Houston Zoo.

• Prof. Borden placed as one of four architects selected as finalists in the international competition:Revitalizing Your Work, by Gagganeau and Architectural Digest, Conversation with Sam Cochran, Fall, 2022

• Prof. Borden’s art works were exhibited in “Dimensional Iterations,” an exhibition at Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX.

• Prof. Borden was a guest lecturer at the University of Memphis, Department of Architecture, in March, 2023: “Borden Partnership: Recent Works and Ongoing Projects.”

GEORGE CHOW

• Prof. Chow was invited to facilitate a discussion workshop present his paper titled, “Keys to Successful Studio Projects: A Graduate Industrial Design Studio Case Study,”” at the IDSA International Design Conference in Seattle. WA, September, 2022.

• Prof. Chow is the Southern District Industrial Designers Society of America representative through 2023

• Prof. Chow’s paper, “Cardboard Watercraft: A Case Study in Teaching Sustainable Design,” was accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023), in San Francisco, July 20-24, 2023 where he was also a session chair.

JOE COLACO

• Prof. Colaco was interviewed on Houston Public Media’s Houston Matters, by Michael Hagerty, “The extraordinary measures it took to build skyscrapers in Houston’s soft soil.” Structural engineer Joe Colaco explains the innovations that were necessary to build Houston’s skyline, July 6, 2023

TOM DIEHL

• Prof. Diehl’s article, “The Spirit of the Im-Age: Balancing iconic design with more equitable outcomes,” was published by Texas Architect, JanuaryFebruary issue, pp. 62-69.

JEFF FENG

• Prof. Feng and Min Kang received a VentureWell New Curriculum Grant for their proposal, “Design for Sustainable Consumption in People’s Daily Living: Exploration and Entrepreneurship.”

Next-Gen Stroke Rehab: Robot at Home: Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Developed at UH in Clinical Trials.

• Prof. Feng’s paper, “The Grit of Innovation – The Process and key ingredients in Creative Problem Solving,” was accepted for presentation at the International Academic Forum International Conference on Education.

• Prof. Feng was the Keynote Speaker and Innovation Instructor at the entrepreneurship Training Camp at the Innovation Center of the University of Puerto Rico Piedras Campus.

• Prof. Feng and Ziad Qureshi’s paper, “Efficacy in synergistic Innovation: Managing Co-Creation Design in an Interdisciplinary Studio,” was published in the Internaional Journal of Design Education, October, 2022

• Prof. Feng and Student David Edquilang’s paper, “A Novel Headset System Synchronizing Vision and EEG Testing for a Rapid Assessment and Diagnosis of Concussions and Other Brain Injuries,” was published in the AHFE International Open Access.

STEPHEN FOX

• Prof. Fox has just published a new book, The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe., Texas A & M University Press, 2023 Photography was by Paul Hester. The 360 page book covers the career of one of Texas’ most notable and prolific architects of the first half of the 20th century.

• Prof. Fox was guest editor of Classicist, published by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Texas edition No. 19. His lead essay, Classicizing the Cities of Texas: Building modern Civility,” pp 6-38, sheds light on the classical architecture in Texas, from the 1800s to today.

MICHAEL GONZALES

• Prof. Gonzales’ and Meg Jackson’spaper, “Intersections: A Synthesized Approach to Biology, Computation and Design,” cowritten with Meg Jackson, was accepted for presentation at the National Conference for the Beginning Design Student, in South Dakota.

• Prof. Feng has collaborated with Cullen College of Engineering to create an EEG Headset. He has filed for a utility provisional patent for the healthcare product:

• Prof. Feng has filed a Provisional Patent for his “EEG Headset for BCI Applications.

• Prof. Feng is Chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America Houston Chapter.

• Michael Gonzales’ and Meg Jackson’s paper, “Parametric Drawing,” was accepted for presentation at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in North Dakota, May 18-20, 2023

• Prof. Gonzales created a permanent installation: “Willow Tree,” at the

Houston Methodist Hospital Centennial Tower, in collaboration with Shane and Peter Allbritton.

• Prof. Gonzales created a permanent installation: “DPLEX Landmark Sculpture, at the Durham Convention and Arts Complex in Durham, NC, in collaboration with David Wilson.

• Prof. Gonzales created a permanent installation, “ForKids Landmark Sculpture,” at the ForKids Headquarters, Chesapeake, VA, in collaboration with David Wilson.

• Prof. Gonzales participated in an invitational competition: “Africa to Carolinas,” by North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, Winnabow, NC, in collaboration with David Wilson and Stephen Hayes.

• Prof. Gonzales participated in an invitational competition: “The Prison Awareness Quilt Reimagined,” by Arise Collective, Raleigh, NC in collaboration with Carlos Gonzalez, David Wilson, and Eliza Redmann.

JESSE HAGER

• Content Architecture/Jesse Hager’s “Allston Residence” received a 2022 Texas Society of Architects Design Award. The awards jury members were: Monica Chadha, AIA, Civic Projects; Paul Danna, FAIA, SOM; Jeff Goldstein, FAIA, DIGSAU; Claire Weisz, FAIA, WXY.

• Content Architecture/Jesse Hager’s “Allston Residence” was published in Texas Architect for his Texas Society of Architects 2022 Design Award, September issue, pp 50-51

• Content Architecture/Jesse Hager’s “Puzzle House” was published in Houstonia Magazine. “This Minimalist Houston Heights Home Is an Ode to Puzzles,” by Melissa Dalton, September 6, 2022.

• Jesse Hager/Content Architecture won a 2022 AIA Houston Residential Design Award for his Rice Magister House.

• Jesse Hager/Content Architecture’s “Puzzle House” was featured on the AIA Houston Home Tour 2022 Faculty members Ross Wienert and Katie La Rose also worked on this award-winning project.

• “Into the Green,” an article featuring the Allston House designed by Jesse Hager/Content Architecture. The award-winning house was given a six-page layout in Texas Architect, JanuaryFebruary, pp. 42-47

AIA Houston Design Award for his Puzzle House.

DIJANA HANDANOVIC

• Prof. Handanovic’s exhibition

“Kiosk: K67” opened at the Blaffer Art Museum on January 26, 2023. The K67 on display is a carefully restored original kiosk from the 1960s, shipped to Houston from Bosnia. The exhibit describes the importance of the kiosk to the culture of Yugoslavia and illustrates how an object like the kiosk can have monumental significance to a country and its people: representing politics, socioeconomic impact, and deep cultural identity. The exhibit was on display through March 6

• Architect’s Newspaper published a story on the exhibition of the “Kiosk: K67” that opened at the Blaffer Art Museum on January 26, 2023 “Blast from the Past: University of Houston displays restored K67 kiosk from Yugoslavia,” by Kristine Klein, January 27, 2023, focused on the kiosk as connective cultural tissue for all ethnic groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• Prof. Hager’s firm, CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award for his Grennoch Residence.

• Prof. Hager’s firm, CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023

• Prof. Handanovic’s presentation, “Inventive Resilience,” has been accepted for presentation and publication at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting in St. Louis, March 30-April 1, 2023.

• Prof. Handanovic’s K67 Kiosk project was the subject of an article by Jes Deaver ’ 16, This is Us: K67, More Than a Memory,” in Texas Architect, July-August issue.

• Prof. Handanovic’s article, “Informalizing Yugoslavia,” was published in Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, Interventions, by Gergory marinic and Dijana handanovic.

MEG JACKSON

• Prof. Jackson and Prof. Michael Gonzales published their paper, “Pattern Performance,” in Space Within and Around, edited by Weiling He, China Architecture and Building Press, 2023

• Prof. Jackson’s paper, “Territory and Interdisciplinary-ness in Architecture Education” was presented at the National Conference on Beginning Design Student 38, Spring, 2023

• Prof. Jackson’s paper, “Intersections & Synthesized Approach to Biology, Computation, and Design,”, written with Michael Gonzales, was presented at the National Conference on Beginning Design Student 38, Spring, 2023

DANIEL JACOBS

• Prof. Jacobs’ exhibition, “HOMEOFFICE, FIELD STATION,” the Weil Project Wall, the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, July22-June, 2023

• Prof. Jacobs’ presented his lecture, “HOME-OFFICE, FIELD STATION,” at the Architectures of Transition: 2022-2023 Lecture Series, the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NYC, March 2023

• Prof. Jacobs’ and Brittany Utting conducted an AIAS workshop, “Simple Machines,” at the Texas A&M University, February, 2023.

• Prof. Jacob’s proposal for the 2023 ACSA Course Development Prize competition, “Liquid Ecologies: Land, Water, and Oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” received an honorable mention. There were five winners and one honorable mention.

• Prof. Jacobs, and Brittany Utting’s paper, “Field Guide to a Contested Forest,” was published in Disc Journal 2.0: Intimacy, January, 2023

Architecture Education.” Journal of Architectural Education 76:2, Ed. Jay Cephas, Igo Marjonovic, Ana Miljacki, 2022

• Prof. Jacobs received a New Faculty Research grant for MESO-COSM, FOR $6000

• Prof. Jacobs and Brittany Utting received a Rice University & Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for “MESO-COSM: Between the Laboratory and the Planet” Diluvial Houston Initiative.

DONNA KACMAR

• Prof. Kacmar gave a webinar sponsored by AIA Houston on “Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects,” on Tuesday, April 11, 2023

• Prof. Kacmar’s book, Big Little Hotel, was published this spring, 2023, by Routledge.

• Prof. Kacmar’s lecture, “Finding Pictures: Happy 100th Birthday Victor A. Lundy,” was organized by the Library of Congress, with virtual presentation of Victory Lundy at 100, organized by MAS Context, January, 2023

• Prof. Jackson’s paper, with Prof. Michael Gonzales, “Parametric Drawing,” was presented at the National Conference on Beginning Design Student 38, Spring, 2023

• Prof. Jacobs, Utting, Brittany, “PALM-HOUSE and the Scalability of Infrastructure, PLAT 10.5, 2022, online.

• Jacobs, Daniel with Frank Burridge, Aaron Cayer, Kirsten Day, Peggy Deamer, et al. “Beyond Capitalism? Organizing

• Prof. Kacmar served on the Metal Building Manufacturers Association Editorial Advisory Board.

MIN KANG

• Prof. Kang and Jeff Feng received a VentureWell New Curriculum

Grant for their proposal, “Design for Sustainable Consumption in People’s Daily Living: Exploration and Entrepreneurship.”

MARK KIMBROUGH

• Graphic Design USA Award for Logo Design, beating out over 10,000 entries.

• Prof. Kimbrough received a US patent for his “Collapsible Display.”

MICHAEL KUBO

• Prof. Kubo’s paper, “Nation Building: TAC & U.S. Architects from Rome to North Africa,” was accepted for presentation in the session: Architecture and Modernization in North Africa at the Society of Architectural Historians’ Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada, in April, 2023.

• Prof. Kubo was a panelist in the Rice Design Alliance Fall Civic Forum, “Texas is Urban.” Other panelists Kathryn Holliday, UT Arlington, Jeffrey Lieber, Texas State University, and moderator Troy Schaum, Rice Architecture.

• Prof. Kubo’s book, Futures of the Architectural Exhibition, ed. Michael Kubo and Reto Geiser, Zurich: Park Books, was published in 2022

in Roberto Fabbri and Sultan Al Qassemi, ed., Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities, London: Routledge.

• Prof. Kubo’s double blind,peerreviewed article, “Genius versus Expertise: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architects Collaborative at the University of Baghdad,” was published in Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 8: Impatient Cities of the Gulf, 2022, pp. 2-29

• Prof. Kubo’s paper, “The Return of the Precedent: Reading Perspecta in the 1960s.” was accepted for presentation at the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Seventh International Conference, Madrid, Spain, June, 2022

• Prof. Kubo participated as a panelist, “Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf,” Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, May 3, 2022 Other panelists included Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Roberto Fabbri, and Trinidad Rico.

How the 1970s Shaped Houston,” Preservation Houston/ Docomomo US, March 15, 2022, with Kerry Goelzer, Anna Mod, Liz Waytkus.

• Prof. Kubo received recognition for his current research, “GULF: Architecture, Ecology, and Precarity on the Gulf Coast in the National Council of University Research Administrators Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 2 (March/April 2022): 62, Envisioning an EcologicallyMinded Model in Architecture.”

• Prof. Kubo received the Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award from the Department of Research. Michael will be recognized at an Awards Dinner in May and will receive a cash award of $8,000

• Prof. Kubo contributed a peerreviewed book chapter, “Building Identities: Transnational Exchange and the Authorship of Modern Gulf Heritage,” was published

• Prof. Kubo participated as a panelist in, “Concrete Paradise: Okinawan Brutalist Architecture,” Japan Society, New York, March 30, 2022. Other panelists included Paul Tulett.

• Prof. Kubo participated as a panelist in, “Building Space City:

• Prof. Kubo contributed a book chapter, “Collective, Collaborative, Corporate,” in Haral Engler, Stephanie Herold, Scarlet Wilks, ed.,Kollektiv und Killaborativ: positionen germeinschaffilichen Arbeitens in der Architektur und Planung vom 20, Jahrhundert bus zu Gegenwart (Bamberg University of Bamberg Press, 2022, pp15-24.

• Prof. Kubo’s article “After Architecture: Anxious Design Criticism in Design Book Review.” was published in James Graham, ed., Reviewing Design Book

Review (San Francisco California College of the Arts, 2023

• Prof. Kbbo participated in the Rice Design Alliance Civic Forum, Texas is Urban, with Kathryn Holiday, Jeffrey Lieber, and Raul Ramos, November 2022.

ANDREW KUDLESS

• Prof. Kudless’ article, “Diffused Narratives,” was published in Gradient Journal. The article offers Andrew’s perspective on AI and its impact on the design industry.

• Prof. Kudless is featured in “Architect’s Newspaper: the Architects Designing Surreal Worlds with AI”, by Gaelle Faure, January 31, 2023

• Prof. Kudless gave a workshop on Biomimicry and Biophilia at Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX. The workshop was cotaught with Kate Sector, Kathy Zarsky, Tenna Florian, and Kell Lyons.

• Prof. Kudless’ book chapter, “Diffusion: A Taxonomy of Prompt Engineering in Architecture Design,” Edited by Mathias del Campo, Wiley, Expected Summer, 2023

University, College of Design + Construction, Pullman, Washington, as part of their Spring Lecture Series.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker at CAPLA, University of Arizona, Spring Lecture Series.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker at a Symposium on generative and Machine Learning Ceativity in Art, Architecture and Engineering at Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker at “Architecture After AI” at University of Texas Austin.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker at the 2022-2023 Christopher Kelley Leadership Development Program with AIA Houston on the topic of 3D Printing in Architecture.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker on the topic of AI in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Prof. Kudless was an invited speaker at Cornell University on the topic of AI in Architecture.

England., on the subject of AI and Authorship.

• Prof. Kudless was on the Epilogue Keynote Panel for the ACADIA 2022 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, on the subject of AI and Architecture.

• Prof. Kudless’ lecture, “Relinquishing Control: AI as Therapy for the Discipline of Architecture, was presented at the DigitalFutures Online Symposium.

• “Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, Is the Writing on the Wall for the Creative Professions?”, online magazine, Wallpaper magazine, by Johanthan Bell, December, 2022.

• “Interview with Andrew Kudless,”, Attitude Interior Design magazine, issue 108, November/ December, 2022. Print and online magazine by Ines Graca, 2022 on AI Research and more.

• “How AI software will change architecture and design,” Dezeen, November, 2022. Interview by Ben Dreith.

• Prof. Kudless’ Public Art commission for a Life Schience Camus in San Carlos, CA is in progress and will be due in 2025

• Prof. Kudless was an ivited speaker at Washington State

• Prof. Kudless was a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas, Austin on Sketching with AI.

• Prof. Kudless was a visitng lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London,

• “Dream Worlds: Three Experts Discuss Midjourney’s Promise and Pitfalls,” The Architect’s Newspaper, print and online magazine, by Jack Murphy.

• “AI Tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney are helping architects – and their clients – design

new buildings,” Fast Company, September 12, 2022, online magazine by Nate Berg.

MILI KYROPOULOU

• The Houston Chapter of the IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association, was selected to receive the 2022 IBPSA-USA Outstanding Chapter Award, under Prof. Kyropoulou’s presidency. This award recognizes one or more IBPSAUSA Chapters that have provided outstanding leadership in the promotion of building simulation through chapter activities and have been key in promoting and fostering the vision and mission of IBPSA-USA.

• Prof. Kyropoulou, with Subramaniam, S., and Hoffmann, S., published, “Modeling Photosynthetically Active Radiation using a spectrally weighted raytracing approach,” for eCAADe, (Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe), Gratz, Austria.

• “Outdoor Educational Spaces: Generative Shading Design for a Warming Climate,” 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild,.

Comfort Zone of ASHRAE Standard 55.”

KATIE LAROSE

• Katie LaRose, of CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award for work on the Grannoch Residence

• Katie LaRose, of CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award for work on the Puzzle House.

JASON LOGAN

• Prof. Logan was selected to participate in Tallwood Design Institute’s 2023 Mass Timber Design Build Workshop at Oregon State University, May 1820. The workshop will be held at the Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Lab in Corvallis, Oregon. All costs are paid by the Institute.

• Prof. Logan and partner Matt Johnson (LOJO) have won a Texas Society of Architects Design Award for their XO House. This year, the jurors (Douglass Alligood, AIA, with BIG, Paola Calzada with Paola Calzada Arquitectos, and Thomas Robinson, AIA, with Lever Architecture) awarded 23 projects out of 234 submissions.

“Strategies for a Domestic Commons,” was published in About Streets: Perspectives on Urban Design, Architecture, and Placemaking, eds. Gregory Marinic and ablo Meninato, Springer, Rotterdam.

RAFAEL LONGORIA

• Prof. Longoria presented his paper, “Interconnected Urbanities: Twin Cities of the Texas-Mexico Border,” at the Texas Society of Architects Conference in El Paso, Texas, October 27-29, 2022

• Prof. Longiria and Emilio Longoria, wrote a chapter, “Informality in South Texas: Understanding the Evolution of Colonias in El Cenizo and Rio Bravo,” in Informal Cities, Springer Books, Rotterdam The Netherlands.

• Prof. Longoria and Prof. Stephen Fox co-wrote “A Brief Architectural History of Mexico City: Hopeful Rebar: Informal Urbanism in Mexico City, for URBANIA, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

• Prof. Longoria is the Co-Editor of AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Americas.

• Prof. Kyropoulou was an invited panelist at the Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild, Chicago, “Debate: It’s Time to Revise the Standard Thermal

• Prof. Logan was published in The Architects Newspaper, “ Where We Live Lately,” for his XO House, January/February, 2023

• Prof. Logan’s book chapter,

SHAWN LUTZ

• Prof. Lutz’ project, “The Allston Residence,” was published in Texas Architect Magazine, September/October, 2022

• Prof. Lutz’ “Allston Residence” won a Texas Society of Architects Design Award, 2022, with Content Architecture.

• Prof. Lutz won a 2022 Designbuild Institute of America, DBIA, National Award of Excellence, for his LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment Terminal B project with HOK.

• Prof. Lutz won a 2022 Urban Land Institute New York, ULI, Excellence in Civic Development for the LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment – Terminal B project with HOK.

OPHÉLIA MANTZ

• Prof. Mantz’s paper, “Matterscapes,” was accepted for presentation at the ACSA/ EAAE Teachers Conference: Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect. The conference was in Iceland, in June, 2023

• Prof. Mantz’ paper, “Nature as a Construction Material,” has been accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on the Constructed Environment, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, May 17-18, 2023

• Prof. Mantz was invited to participate in a round table discussion organized by the Villa Albertine and the French Consulate of Monterrey at the Centro de Investigacion, Innovacion, y Desarrollo de las Artes.

• Prof. Mantz was invited to participate in a panel discussion with scholars, artists, and community partners from around the Gulf Coast for Gulf Coast Connections, Center for Environmental Studies and Humanities Research Center, at Rice University, April 21-22

• Prof. Mantz presented a paper, “Material Culture: From the Object to the Workshop,” at AMPS/ International Interdisciplinary Conference: Livable Cities, New York, June 14-16

• Prof. Mantz’ article, “Doing More with Less, or the Art of Being Relilient,” was published in STATES Magazine: Vialla Albertine, 2023

• Prof. Mantz’ article, “Matter of Transgression,” was published in the SAJ Serbian Architectural Journal of the University of Belgrade, June, 2023

Politics, Society): Liveable Cities Conference, in New York, June 14 -16

• Prof. Mantz contributed a book chapter, “Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter: Towards the possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities,” for Continency in Architecture: Temporal and Technical Ecology as a Medium Towards Equilibrium, Springer, Editors: Maurizio Carta, Maria Perbellini, and J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez.

• Prof. Mantz received the 20222023 UH-NRUF, National Research University Fund for new faculty.

• Prof. Mantz was invited to lecture on “The Practice and Research work of Z4A,” at the Casa de la Arquitectura, Queretaro MX.

MARCUS MARTINEZ

• Associates UltraBarrio/ Marcus Martinez and Amna Ansarireceived a Texas Society of Architects 2022 Design Award for their “Roaming Cart-Ographies” project for Connect Community.

• Prof. Mantz and Prof. Beneytez-Duran participated in a podcast, “Temporal and Technical Ecology,” on U-Tube, February, 2023, sponsored by researchpod.

• Prof. Mantz’ paper, “Material Culture: From the Object to the Workshop,” has been accepted for presentation at Amps (Architecture, Media,

• Marcus Martinez and Amna Ansari’s project, Roaming Cart-Ographies,” was published in Texas Architect as a Texas Society of Architects 2022 Design Award winner, September issue, pp 92-93

ELHAM MORSHEDZADEH

• Prof. Morshedzadeh’s paper, “Tapping into Community Expertise: Stakeholder Engagement in the Design Process,” was published in The Policy Design and Practice Special Issue “DesignLed Policy and Governance in Practice: A Global Perspective” through PoGoSIG. The paper will be presented virtually at the 6th International Conference on Public Policy, hosted by the International Public Policy Association, June 27-29

• Prof. Morshedzadeh’s paper, “ WIP: Interdisciplinary Design Course and Community Empowerment,” was accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023), in San Francisco, July 20-24, 2023.

• Prof. Morshedzadeh was elected to the IDSA Women in Design (WID) South Representative committee member The Industrial Designers Society of America has created a Women in Design Deep Dive which is a two-day conference in Chicago, March 27-29. In her new position, Elham is responsible for the organization of this meeting.

for her paper, “Tapping into Community Expertise: Stakeholder Engagement in the Design Process Policy Design and Practice.” This will be a virtual presentation for the session: Design-Led Policy and Governance in Practice: A Global Perspective.” The chair of the session is Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University. Participants include: Jon Stever, Innovation for Policy Foundation; Maxim Lamirande, Universite de Liege; Justyna Starostka, Aalborg University.

• Prof. Morshedzadeh’s paper, “Community-Centered Participatory Ressearch in Healthcare Design Education,” was presented at the International Design Conference & Industrial Designers Society of America Education Symposium.

DALIA MUNENZON

• Prof. Mumenzon contributed “Chapter 11 – The Urban Commons as a Remedy to Climate Change Vulnerabilities,” in C. Veddeler, J. Julliper, M. Gath-Morad, & amp; I. van der Wal (Eds.), Future Cities –City Futures, Emerging Urban Perspectives, TU Delft Open.

in the Boston Harbor: Lessons Learned from Past Projects Toward a Resilient and Sustainable Urban Future,” im Alberti, F., Amer, Ml, Mahgoub, Yl, Galla, P., Galderisi, A., and Strauss, E. (eds) Urban and Transit Planning Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, springer, Cham.

• Lotfata, A., Munenzon, D., “The Interplay of Intersectionality and Vulnerability Towards Equitable Resilience,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, Pulgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Munenzon, D. & Gallagher, K., “The adaptive island: proving ground for temporal awareness in the Antropocene,” The Plan Journal.

• Prof. Munenzon participated in a Symposium with Harvard GSD on “Houston Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition.”

• Prof. Mumenzon participated in a Rice University Center for Environmental Studies School of Architecture, School of Humanities, Gulf Coast Connection Symposium, presenting, “(Future) Littoral Environments.”

• Prof. Morshedzadeh was invited to participate in the ASS Internationale de Politiques Publiques

• Prof. Munenzon’s article “Drawing Water from Aridlands,” in On Site Review, 1 (42), 26-29

• Prof. Mememzon and Y Titelboim co-wrote “Transformative Actions

CARA MURRAY

• Prof. Murray gave a MFAH Glassell School Workshop on the photography of small objects.

PATRICK PETERS

• Prof. Peters, with designLAB, UH Master Plan and Centennial Master Plan. Other designLAB projects include:

• UH Clear Lake Signage and Wayfinding

• UH at Sugar Land Signage and Wayfinding

• Wilhelmina’s Grove

Concept III Development and Renderings

• UH Hobby School Site

Concept and Renderings

• UH Exterio and Interior

Signage Standards update

• Prof. Peters won the Inaugural American Institute of Steel and Construction Award of Distinction, recognizing individuals who have produced high-quality work in the steel industry.

CELESTE PONCE

• Prof. Ponce’s article, “Seeing Double: a Journey Along the Rio Bravo: Stopping at Twenty-Eight Border Crossings in Texas,” was published in CITE 103.

• Prof. Ponce’s article, “Breathing Lessons,” was published in the July/ August issue of Texas Architect.

BRUCE RACE

• Dr. Race was recognized on August 23, 2022, by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner with “Ruffino Hills Redevelopment Community Day.” The Ruffino Hills planning study was a collaborative effort by TIRZ 20, Ruffino Hills Stakeholder

Working Group, Brays Oak Management District, Houston One Voice, the City of Houston and Dr. Bruce Race, professor of architecture at the University of Houston. The study focuses on redeveloping the dormant Ruffino Hills site in southwest Houston that formerly served as a household waste landfill for the cities of Bellaire and West University Place.

• Dr. Race led a panel on “Equitable Access to Transportation Services in the Texas Triangle” at the American Planning Association Texas Conference in El Paso, TX, October 20, 2022

• Dr. Race led a panel on “Smart and Equitable E-Mobility” at the American Planning Association Texas Conference in El Paso, TX, October 21, 2022

• The Ruffino Hills project, led by Dr. Race, won the 2022 Gold Award for Resilience from Texas American Planning Association. The Ruffino Hills Redevelopment Study was funded by the Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority (TIRZ 20).

September 7, 2022, by Rebeca Howley with Greg Ortiz, on News 88 7

• Dr. Race was a panelist for the “Taste of Science” American Planning Association. Urban Planning Event in San Antonio. Panelists included Stephen Klineberg, Founding Director of the Kinder Institute, Curtis Davis, at the Axelrad Garden, October 27

• Dr. Race presented his paper, “Smart and Equitable E-Mobility,” at Texas Southern University Center for Transportation Training and Research. He also gave a workshop at the symposium on November 3

• Dr. Race offered a webinar to Houston Galveston Area Council/DoE Clean Cities Program fleet managers on, “Zero-Emission Vehicles and Their Impact on Climate Equity

• Dr. Race produced “Come Home to El Monte: Housing and Residential Mixed-use Strategy,” for the city of El Monte, CA.

DEEPA RAMASWAMY

• Dr. Race was recognized for his Ruffino Hills project in an interview and story on UH Moment: Researchers Engage Community to Create AwardWinning Plan for Resilience on

• Dr. Ramaswamy chaired a panel at the Post-Urban Humanities Global (Un)Conference. She presented a paper titled, “Reclaimed Lands.” Deepa has joined the Urban Humanities Network which includes Princeton, University of Arizona,

UCLA, UC Berkeley, Washington U in St. Louis, and Harvard.

• Dr. Ramaswamy presented a paper at the Annual International Society of Architectural Historians Conference in Montreal. She presented her paper titled, “Land, Reclamation, and Speculation in Colonial Bombay.”

• Dr. Ramaswamy has received a UH New Faculty Research Award for her research, “Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coast.”

• With over 500 applications from around the world, it is wonderful that Dr. Ramaswamy has been awarded a Graham Foundation award for her project, “ “Reclaimed Lands: The Ecological Legacies of Colonial Bombay’s Coasts.”

MARTA RODRGUEZ

• Prof. Rodriguez is the Founder and Curator of Habitable City, and online journal Promoting a more egalitarian, connected, safe, and livable city.

and interiors fuels innovation at the architecture and urban scale.

• For her blog she has authored:

“The Generation of Japanese Architects Before Seijima,”

“Charlotte Perriand and Her Mountain Shelters,”

“The Demountable Architecture of Eileen Gray”:

“Charlotte Perriand and Kazuyo Sejima: Petite Architecture”

“Petite Architecture”

“Feminism and Architecture”

SUSAN ROGERS

• Prof. Rogers was awarded the AIA Houston Civic Vision Award. The award is given to an individual who has significantly improved the quality of life in Houston through influence on the built environment. Her work crossing the disciplines of architecture, design, planning, community development, social practice, and activism—is also grounded in the pragmatism necessary to imagine and create real and lasting civic change.

sustainable community plan for OST/South Union.

• The CDRC is working with Dr. Tane Ward in partnership with Harris County, the Teresa Hershey Foundation, and the Coalition for Equity, Environment, and Resilience (CEER) on a funded project to develop a framework for the County Climate Justice Plan.

• Prof. Rogers is an Advisory Board Member of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, National Neighborhood Indicators Project (June 2016-Present) .

• Prof. Rogers is a Houston Housing Working Group Member (2016-Present).

KRISTIN SCHUSTER

• Prof. Rodriguez’ article, “Charlotte Perriand & Kazuyo Seijima: From the Chair to the City.” was published August, 2022 in Habitable city.

• Prof. Rodriguez has a Blog: Subtle Revolution, which researches how experimentation in furniture

• Prof. Rogers moderated a panel that included CoAD Alumni, P.J. Glasco ’02 and Micki Washington ’04, sponsored by AIA Women In Architecture. The panel was held on April 13 at MATCH.

• Prof. Rogers CDRC is working in partnership with LISC Houston and the Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation to develop a

• Prof. Schuster’s article, Into the Green, analyzes the award-winning house by fellow-professor Jesse Hager. The article appeared in the January-February issue of Texas Archiect, pp. 42-47.

RONNIE SELF

• Prof. Self received a UH 2023 Small Grant Award to aid in the development of his book, The Architectur of Texas Art Museums.

JOSHUA SMITH

• Joshua Smith won a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award in the Conceptual category as

Michele Ashley Ovanessian’s (’23) project, Nuke Town.

RIVES TAYLOR

• Prof. Taylor has been involved in the DOE Carbon Capture Testing Lab in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where he worked on Master Planning for King Salman Bay, the RAK Emirate Sector 6 City Plan, Harris County Imagination Zones, Resilience Design Stards, and the TKE Elevator Tower, Research Center and North America Headquarters.

• Prof. Taylor is the Principal and Resilience Center Research Director for Gensler.

• Prof. Taylor is an AIA National Education Committee member.

WILLIAM TRUIT

• Prof. Truitt won a Learning by Design Award for Madison High School, Huitt Zollars.

SHERYL TUCKER DE VAZQUEZ

• Prof. Tucker de Vazquez’ exhibition, “Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture,” was sponsored by the Graham Foundation, The AfricanAmerican Studies Department, and the Hines College of Architecture and Design.

• A review of her project, “Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture,” was published in Yes! Magazine.

• A review of Prof. Tucker de Vazquez’ exhibition, “Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture,” was published in February, 2023.

ADAM WELLS

• Prof. Wells has re-instituted BAD (Blaffer Art and Design) with the Blaffer Art Museum. BAD provides a platform for UH students to design limited edition art and design objects that are both showcased and sold in the Blaffer Art Museum as a hybrid exhibition/boutique project.

LISA POPE WESTERMAN

• Lisa Pope Westerman won a 2023 Paper City Design Award for a “Singular Space: for Farm at Wellville, Casita 1.

ROSS WIENERT

• Prof. Wienert’s paper, “Experiential Mapping: A Non-Traditional Approach to Orthographic Projection,” was accepted for presentation at the Design Communication Association’s International Conference, in October at Auburn University.

National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in South Dakota.

• Prof. Wienert, of CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award for his work on the Grennoch Residence.

• Prof. Wienert, of CONTENT Architecture, received a 2023 AIA Houston Design Award for his work on the Puzzle House.

• Prof. Wienert’s article, “Collective Efforts,” on the Montrose Collective, designed by Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, was published by Texas Architect, January/February, 2023

• Prof. Wienert’s article, “Magic Island,” on the POST Houston designed by OMA, was published in Texas Architect, November/December, 2022

• Prof. Wienert’s drawing, “Experiential Mapping Puzzle House,” won a 2022 Award of Distinction from the Design Communications Association.

PETER ZWEIG

• Prof. Tucker de Vazquez was published in The Architect’s Newspaper, “The Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture, January/February, 2023

• Prof. Wienert’s paper, “Experiential Mapping: A Non-Traditional Approach to Orthographic Projection,” was accepted for presentation at the

• Prof. Zweig’s book, Living + Dying In Between the Real + The Virtual, was published by AD + R, 2022. This book explores the impact of the Metaverse on the built environment and architecture.

STUDENT RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

TOLUWALASE ADEDIPE

• Toluwalase received an honorable mention in the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design sailing and surfing category for the design Brisk (Cycling Helmet).

MARY CARMEN

GARCIA AGUILERA

• Mary Carmen received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Runner Up for Concept for The Institute of Certainty.

• Mary Carmen received the Hines College’s 2023 Myron C. Anderson Leadership Award.

MAHA ALSAGHEER

• Maha won first place in the 2023 Bauer College Battle of the Classes for the design IVLOCK.

MARIANA ANZURES

• Mariana won first place in the 2023 Bienenstock Furniture Library Competition for her chair Siva Afi

TRICIAJANE ASUNCION

• The AIA Fort Worth chapter honored students Yasmeen Saab and Triciajane Asuncion with a Merit Award as part of their annual Excellence in Architecture Student Design Awards for their design Pe-Tree

• Triciajane received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award for About Time: Redressing the Runway.

JUAN BARRON

• Juan received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Runner Up for Innovation for Bellaire Boulevard, No.6

AKANKSHA BHATIA

• Akanksha won the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design sailing and surfing category for the design Nautis.

GINA BISCARDI

• Gina received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Undergraduate Interior Architecture Award.

DANNY BLACKER

• Danny won third place in the 2023 Bauer College Battle of the Classes for the design Aire.

ADRIAN CARDENAS

• Adrian received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design First Place Award for Scaling Up: From House to Housing.

EDGAR CASTILLO

• Edgar received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Honorable Mention for Bioswale.

KAI WEN CHUA

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Kai Wen Chua for the project Voronoi Drawing: Where’s Waldo? in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

NASTASSIA CHUA

• The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded Nastassia Chua, Rebekah Mireles, and Sharon Lott, along with their faculty sponsor Sheryl Tucker Vazquez, with an honorable mention for its 2022 Steel Competition in the category Towards a New Monumentality for their project “Strange Fruit: Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue.”

PRISCILLA CLAVEL

• Priscilla received the Hines College’s 2023 Best Master Project of the Year for Destructive Interference.

VIVIAN DAO

• Vivian received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design

Award Runner Up for Innovation for Bellaire Boulevard, No.6

DAVID EDQUILANG

• David and alumni Niell Gorman (B.S. ’21), along with faculty member Jeff Feng, received a Bronze Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for their design Knack

HALEIGH ESENE

• Haleigh was awarded the 2023 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Undergraduate Student Merit Award.

• Haleigh received the 2023 IDSA Houston Chapter Undergraduate Student Merit Award.

ASHTON EZELL

• Ashton received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Runner Up for Resolution for Swiss Brothers.

SUOCHUN FANG

• Suochun was awarded the 2023 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Graduate Student Merit Award.

• Suochun received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Industrial Design Award.

AMATULLAH GULAMHUSEIN

• Amatullah received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding

Design Award for Interior Architecture

MICHAEL IBAY

• Michael received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Honorable Mention for Razzle Dazzle.

KADMIEL KONAN

• Kadmiel received the 2023 Alpha Rho Chi Leadership Award.

ESTELLE LEE

• Estelle received an honorable mention in the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design sailing and surfing category for the design Ripple (Wireless Earbuds).

SHARON LOTT

• The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded Nastassia Chua, Rebekah Mireles, and Sharon Lott, along with their faculty sponsor Sheryl Tucker Vazquez, with an honorable mention for its 2022 Steel Competition in the category Towards a New Monumentality for their project “Strange Fruit: Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue.”

JOSH LU

• Josh received the Hines College’s 2023 ID Design Award Honorable Mention for TrekSafe.

• Josh received first place for his interior automotive design as part of the EV Concepts Exhibition sponsored by

Photon Auto, TexPower EV Technologies, and IQP (Integrated Quantum Photonics).

TRANG LY

• Trang received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Honorable Mention for Circle of Bamboo.

TAREK MOUBAYED

• Tarek received the Hines College’s 2023 Nia Becnel Leadership Award.

ANDREW MEDINA

• Andrew received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis Award for Blurring the Borderlands.

REBEKAH MIRELES

• The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded Nastassia Chua, Rebekah Mireles, and Sharon Lott, along with their faculty sponsor Sheryl Tucker Vazquez, with an honorable mention for its 2022 Steel Competition in the category Towards a New Monumentality for their project “Strange Fruit: Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue.”

RAFAELLA MONTELLI

• Rafaella received the 2023 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academic Excellence Award.

• Rafaella received the Hines College’s 2023 Graduate Design Award for the project Allombra.

• Rafaella received the 2023

Architectural Research Centers Consortium Award.

BRENT MONTERO

• Brent received the Hines College’s 2023 Graduate Design Award for the project Post-Maya.

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured

Brent Montero, Rohini Nair, and Antonette Serafin for their project Inventory + Reveal La Biennale Di Venezia in its 2022 DCA Juried Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

ROHINI NAIR

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured

Brent Montero, Rohini Nair, and Antonette Serafin for their project Inventory + Reveal La Biennale Di Venezia in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

ASIA NOLAN

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Asia Nolan for the project Low Fidelity in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

CLAUDIA ORELLANA

• Claudia received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Runner Up for Resolution for Swiss Brothers.

MICHELLE OVANESSIANS

• Michelle Ovanessians and Bruno Xavier ranked in the top 100 finalists of the Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2022 with their submission Unearthing Nostalgia from their Collection of Bosnian Tales project.

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Michelle Ovanessians and Bruno Xavier for their project A Bosnian Folktale in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

ANDREINA PEREIRA

• Andreina received the Hines College’s 2023 ID Design Award Honorable Mention for Syntec.

ANGEL PRESAS

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Angel Presas for the project Light Pollution in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

KIERAN RENFROW

• Kieran Renfrow and Yasmeen Saab were selected to exhibit their project Substrate at WantedDesign Manhattan Launch Pad in May, an international platform for emerging designers and their concepts in furniture and home design.

DIEGO ROMERO

• Diego won the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design parasports category for the design STRIDE SIGHT.

YASMEEN SAAB

• The AIA Fort Worth chapter honored students Yasmeen Saab and Triciajane Asuncion with a Merit Award as part of their annual Excellence in Architecture Student Design Awards for their design Pe-Tree

• Kieran Renfrow and Yasmeen Saab were selected to exhibit their project Substrate at WantedDesign Manhattan Launch Pad in May, an international platform for emerging designers and their concepts in furniture and home design.

PEDRO SANDOVAL

• Pedro received the inaugural 2022 John Conrad Student Pinnacle Award at the International Society of Furniture Design awards ceremony for his Blum chair design.

• Pedro received first place for his exterior automotive design as part of the EV Concepts Exhibition sponsored by Photon Auto, TexPower EV Technologies, and IQP (Integrated Quantum Photonics).

KIM SAOTONLANG

• The AIA Fort Worth chapter honored student Kim Saotonglang with a Merit Award as part of their annual Excellence in Architecture Student Design Awards for the design ASCENSION.

• Kim received the 2023 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academic Excellence Award.

• Kim Saotonlang and Blake Wilcox ranked in the top 100 finalists of the Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2022 with four entries in the finals, including their work Mirror

ANTONETTE SERAFIN

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Brent Montero, Rohini Nair, and Antonette Serafin for their project Inventory + Reveal La Biennale Di Venezia in its 2022 Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

BA REUM SON

• Ba Reum received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Runner Up for Resolution for Swiss Brothers

EMILY SONNIER

• Emily won the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design urban sports category for the design TOIS Modular Bay System.

BRUNO XAVIER

• Michelle Ovanessians and Bruno Xavier ranked in the top 100 finalists of the Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2022 with their submission Unearthing Nostalgia from their Collection of Bosnian Tales project.

• The Design Communication Association (DCA) featured Michelle Ovanessians and Bruno Xavier for their project A Bosnian Folktale in its 2022 DCA Juried Design Communication Exhibition as part of the 2022 DCA Biannual Conference.

LUIS VALDES

• Luis won the 2023 FIT Sport Design Awards in the sport equipment design rack sports category for the design Spiral (Tennis Machine).

OMAR VASQUEZ

• Omar received the Hines College’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Award Honorable Mention for Razzle Dazzle.

FELIPE PÉREZ VILLARREAL

• Felipe received the Hines College’s 2023 Graduate Design Award for the project Houston Water Cistern.

BLAKE WILCOX

• Kim Sao and Blake Wilcox ranked in the top 100 finalists of the Architizer One Drawing Challenge 2022 with four entries in the finals, including their work Mirror

SARAH WONG

• Sarah received the Hines College’s 2023 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Undergraduate Industrial Design Award.