Taubman College Class Notes 2013-2014
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Charles Correa
1950s Charles Correa, B.Arch.’53, HSCD’80
To celebrate Correa’s gift of over 6000 of his drawings to RIBA’s British Architectural Library, the London-based institute mounted an exhibition from May to September 2013 that presented a unique view into the iconic Indian architect’s oeuvre. His considerable body of work includes landmark projects, such as the Kanchanjunga apartments in Mumbai, and is known for uniting modernist principles with India’s rich traditions, climate and sense of place. His buildings have helped define the architecture of post-independence India. From cultural and civic monuments to modest housing developments, Charles Correa’s influence and style have spread far beyond the subcontinent. It was the first major UK show focusing on the multi-award-winning architect.
Wilfred Armster
observation for clients in Metropolitan Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland. He is planning to retire in the not-toodistant future. Wilfred Armster, B.Arch.’64
received an AIA Connecticut 2013 Residential Merit Design Award for Cube House VI, Guilford, Connecticut. The project was built on the foundation of an old concrete block garage. The client wanted a house with open space, ample natural light, and one in which all of the elements were designed to contribute to her work as an artist. The home offers views through all four elevations and most of the wood material is reclaimed. Armster also received an AIA New England 2012 Merit Award for Design Excellence for Wall/Bridge House, Greer, South Carolina for a project designed to be used as a home and studio.
Bob Ziegelman, FAIA, B.Arch.’58
Dennis Holloway, B.Arch.’66
In June 2013, the American Institute of Architects/Michigan honored Ziegelman and his firm, Luckenbach/Ziegelman Architects PLLC, with the “25 Year Award” for his project, Azars Oriental Rugs Showroom in Birmingham, Michigan. This honor is for a distinguished project, executed prior to 1988 and used for at least 25 years for the same purpose for which it was designed.
was invited by Duy Tan University in Danang, Vietnam, to teach a one month course on sustainable architecture and urban design in Fall 2013. The focus of the course work was global warming, rising sea levels, and how that will affect half of Vietnam’s 80 million people, as well as Asia’s largest rice producing land area which presently lies below the predicted flood line.
1960s Earl Durand Jr., B.Arch.’63
founded the Durand Company in 1996 in Alexandria Virginia, to provide technical peer review, code review and construction
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Dennis King, FAIA, FESD, LEED AP, B.Arch.’69
principal of DMKING Consulting, LLC, was appointed in October 2013 by AIA/Michigan to fill the role of public policy director as a consultant to the organization. The director position was created to focus on public awareness, government affairs and fund development. Prior to forming
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Aaron Shephard
his consulting firm, King spent 34 years at Harley Ellis Devereaux, ultimately serving as chairman and CEO of the organization from 1991 through 2010. During his tenure, the firm grew from its historic single office in Detroit to its current national design firm recognition with five locations across three States. Through DMKING Consulting LLC, King offers his business knowledge and experience to established companies, growing organizations, and entrepreneurs interested in improving their bottom line performance through client focus and staff engagement.
colleges and universities through publications, conferences, and community engagement. Manning Thomas is the Centennial Professor in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan and an inducted fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planning, a professional organization for U.S. urban planners. Her latest books include the co-edited The City after Abandonment (2013), the forthcoming co-edited Mapping Detroit: Evolving Land Use Patterns and Connections (2014), and Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, 2nd ed. (2013). The first edition of the latter book received the 1999 Paul Davidoff Award from ACSP. Her latest research concerns the response of Detroit neighborhood organizations to the foreclosure crisis in Detroit.
1970s Charles W. Jr. Cole, AIA, FACHA, B.S.’73, M.Arch.’75
was elected to fellowship of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA). Fellowship is the highest honor bestowed on a certificate holder by the ACHA, and it is granted to ACHA Board certified architects specializing in healthcare who have shown distinction in fulfilling an area of expertise as determined by the College’s Council of Fellows. He is currently president of HuntonBrady Architects in Orlando, Florida. He has also been named a fellow in the American Institute of Architects. June Manning Thomas, FAICP, Ph.D.’77
was inducted as president of the governing board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), in November 2013. Manning Thomas will serve a two-year term of office. ACSP promotes education, research, service and outreach in the U.S. and throughout the world by seeking to strengthen the role of planning education in
Barbara Spreitzer-Berent, M.U.P.’77
has won the 2013 Andrus Award for Community Service, AARP’s most prestigious and visible volunteer award. She was honored on February 3, 2014 during AARP Michigan’s volunteer recognition ceremony in Grand Rapids. The AARP Andrus Award for Community Service recognizes members and volunteers who are significantly enhancing the lives of individuals age 50 and over. Spreitzer-Berent took the leadership role in training and mobilizing more than 30 volunteers to help Michiganders to better understand the Affordable Care Act. Aaron Shepard, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, B.S.’78, M.Arch.’81
was recently elevated to principal for the Healthcare Studio at Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED) where he also serves as a Project Manager. Shepard has built a long career in science, research and healthcare architecture. Based in HED’s Chicago
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Brian Dunbar
Michael Poris
office, he brings over 33 years of experience and has led numerous large scale and complex projects to their successful completion.
through support of education/training and/or by expanding the knowledge base of economic developers. In a press release by MEDA, it was noted that: “Perrin serves as an excellent role model for the importance of the economic development profession. He took the reins at Highland Park in 1989. It was a community that was transitioning from the loss of an enormous taxpayer, and he led them forward, building a viable business community. While working with his partners at HP Devco, Inc., to attract more than 50 major businesses to the community and over $350 million in residential, industrial and commercial development to the area, Perrin found time to teach and mentor others in the profession. He served on the MEDA Board of Directors from 2007 to 2010, serving as President in 2009. He has contributed to other organizations to advance the economic development profession: Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency, Reggie McKenzie Foundation Advisory Council and the City of Southfield Building Authority. There is a lot to learn from the example that Mr. Emanuel presents to his fellow economic developers.” He is president of HP Devco, Inc.
Brian Dunbar, B.S.’79, M.Arch.’81
is executive director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and professor emeritus at Colorado State University. Through IBE, he has guided project work and facilitated design charrettes for the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, American Institute of Architects, cities, numerous school districts, and the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office. He is co-author of “147 Tips on Teaching Sustainability” and his sustainable building teaching and research have been honored and recognized by the AIA, the USGBC-Colorado Chapter, the Colorado Governor, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, communities, businesses and universities. His recent project, The Paul Smith Children’s Village and the Lowes Discovery Lab, at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Wyoming, was awarded LEED® Platinum certification. The project is one of less than 300 projects worldwide to achieve Platinum status and is also the first public children’s garden to receive such recognition.
1980s Perrin Emanuel, M.U.P.’80
was awarded the 2013 Conboy Award by the Michigan Economic Developers Association (MEDA). This award is given to MEDA members who have made substantial, longterm contributions to MEDA, specifically focusing on the advancement of the economic development profession
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Lisa Lamkin, B.S.’81, M.Arch.’83
has been elected to serve as the 2014 president of the Dallas Chapter of the AIA. She is a principal at Brown Reynolds, Watford Architects. She is married to Robert Lamkin, B.S. in Architecture ’81 and M.Arch.’83, who is a principal at Hensley Lamkin Rachel in Dallas, Texas. Michael Poris, B.S.’85
and his firm McIntosh Poris was honored in June 2013 by the American Institute of Architects/Michigan with the “Low Budget/Small Project Award” for his Shutter House
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in Birmingham, Michigan. This award is given to projects that exhibit a “powerful transformation of house to home via strategic placement and development of a few architectural elements.” The Shutter House was also awarded a 2013 AIA Detroit award. McIntosh Poris won a 2013 Detroit Home award in Commercial Building Architecture for the Vinsetta Garage in Royal Oak. John Ronan, B.S.’85
was featured in the exhibition, “Iterations: John Ronan’s Poetry Foundation,” at the Art Institute of Chicago, December 14, 2013 – March 30, 2014. The exhibition provides a look into the design process of the award-winning Poetry Foundation building by John Ronan Architects. It presents a range of work related to the building, from a sequence of concepts and sketches to the final presentation model.
1990s
promising and exciting social innovations and businesses have come about by chance. Many of the people behind them didn’t consciously set out to solve anything, but they did. Janz’s chapter is “Building for a Better Future.” Elizabeth George, B.S.’98, M.Arch.’01, M.S.’11
a designer at Q4 Architects and lead architect for the project ‘Core’, designed a sustainable, affordable, disaster resilient house specifically for tornadoes. The ‘Core’ house features a 600 square-foot concrete core surrounded by flexible rooms. It essentially moves the tornado cellar above grade. The tornado-proof house will be built in Joplin, Missouri. This entry in the Designing Recovery competition held by the American Institute of Architects in the fall of 2013 that addressed the destruction caused by natural disasters, such as Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina by awarding design proposals for houses meant to withstand them.
2000s
Stanley E. Cole, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, M.Arch.’94
is the designer for Neumann/Smith Architecture’s graduate student housing project at Central Michigan University which was awarded LEED® Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is one of the first university-owned student housing facilities in the country to be awarded this rating. Wesley Janz, Ph.D.’95
is one of the individuals featured in the book titled “The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator.” The book was compiled and edited by Ken Banks and includes a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The book premise is how some of the most
Joseph King, M.Arch.’00
is a principal at Booth Hansen and spent 8 years in the Chicago office before moving back to California two years ago to establish a San Francisco office. Recent projects include a glass, steel, and concrete beach house in Beverly Shores, Indiana, as well as a vacation home in Palm Springs. Additionally, he led the Booth Hansen team’s entry in the architecture@zero competition, for which they won top honors with the Merit Award.
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Marcy Giannunzio, B.S.’02, M.Arch.’04
was recently selected as a recipient of the 2013 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Washington, DC Emerging Architect Award. The award recognizes individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their architectural career. Most notably in 2012, beyond her role as Secretary of the AIA D.C. Committee on the Environment (COTEdc), she designed and led the construction of the 2012 COTEdc Big Build Booth at the National Building Museum. Each year COTEdc constructs a booth for the Big Build event to teach children how to design a sustainable house using environmentally friendly materials. The booth, made from cardboard tubes donated by local architecture firms, was designed to be easy to transport, modular, and able to be erected each year. In addition, Giannunzio’s work on the Sam Gilliam Art Studio project with Steven L. Spurlock, FAIA, LEED AP of WNUK SPURLOCK Architecture was recently awarded a 2012 AIA DC Chapter Design Award of Excellence in Interior Architecture. Mike Piché, M.Arch.’04
was named the 2013 American Institute of Architects Colorado Young Architect of the Year and recently became princpal at Studio B Architects in Aspen, CO. He is also owner/principal of office527. The award is given for design excellence, community involvement and contributions to the profession. Projects that he has made significant contributions to have been recognized with 19+ design awards and 30+ publications. He is a member of the AIA Colorado Design Conference, AIA Colorado West Programs Committee and YAAG boards. At Studio B, he is currently finishing construction on an artist’s studio outside
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of Aspen; starting design on the Aspen Community School in Woody Creek, CO; finishing construction documents on the ‘Non-Finito’ house; and completing the design of a single family residence in Boulder, CO. At Office 527 he hopes to break ground on new house in Kauai, Hawaii in January. He is a registered architect in both Colorado and Hawaii. Kevin Erickson, M.Arch.’07
is principal at KNE studio in New York City and assistant professor in architecture at the University of Illinois. He studies digital fabrication and designing at 1:1 scale. Employing CNC routing, modeling, and other prototyping processes, he explores relationships between three-dimensional space and two-dimensional media. His efforts are often put toward competitions, lately including the Omotesando Fashion Museum and the urban SHED competitions, for which he was one of three finalists. Recently, the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) launched a design competition to ensure storm and social resiliency in Inwood/Washington Heights in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. KNE studio was one of eight firms invited by NYRP to participate in the EDGE/ucation Pavilion Design Competition, to compete for the chance to create a state-of-the-art, flood-resistant outdoor recreation and learning center at Sherman Creek Park along the Harlem River in Inwood/Washington Heights.
2010s Shintaro Hori, M.U.P.’12
in July 2013 was awarded a two-year assignment as deputy chief from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Joseph Filippelli
to work for United Nations World Tourism Organizations (UNWTO) in Nara, Japan. UNWTO is a specialized agency of the United Nations, comprising 156 member states, 6 associated members and more than 400 affiliate members, The UNWTO’s mission is to promote responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism, including tourism development, visa facilitation, reduction of poverty, as well as the improvement of transportation connectivity. Hannah Hunt Moeller, B.S.’12, M.S.’13
presented a version of the paper, “Life on the Edge: Peri-Urban Borders of the Greater Urban Milieu” at the “Le Vie die Mercanti, XI international conference on Heritage, Architecture & Landesign” in Capri, in June under the title “Peripheral Porosity: Cultural Landscapes of Indigenous Heritage Conservation.” The research looks at peri-urban settlement patterns through the lens of growing metropolitan cities in Bolivia. MONU, Magazine on Urbanism, Issue #19 - GREATER URBANISM features an article by Hunt Moeller that her essay focuses on peri-urban settlement patterns in Bolivian cities.
Joseph Filippelli, M.Arch.’13
won the Workplace of the Future Design Competition with his entry, Vertical Flux. The contest, presented by Metropolis Magazine and Business Interiors by Staples, challenged entrants with a question of workplace mobility: “How do you create some kind of a container for this mobility that’s a paradigm for place — even when you’re wireless and in the cloud?” Filipelli’s Flux best addressed that difficulty, choosing to “offer the office’s imagined occupants the widest range of possibilities…baked in a continuum of environments…adjacent to each other, like the pavilions of a botanical garden.” As a result, his building flows from floor to floor, evaporating the strict demarcations of levels and embracing the mobility of the modern workplace. Filippelli’s idea evolved from his master’s thesis project — under the guidance of assistant professor Jennifer Maigret — which asserted that the advent of inoperable windows and standardized temperature robbed the workplace of its individuality and had a trickle-down effect on the workplace habitat. The interconnected, fluid variety of his office structure is a natural evolution of that thesis.
Chris Bennett, M.Arch.’13
received an Honorable Mention for “Reclaimed Lookout” a Bay Bridge House Design Competition. Reclaimed Lookout is a house perched atop Yerba Buena Island, looking north over the space that components of the house once occupied, the Bay Bridge. Reclaimed Lookout utilizes scrap steel from the Bay Bridge for the structure of the house and the Brise Soleil solar detailing. Bennett was also presented a KRob 2013 award for “Ballet Assemblies”, which explores representational and proto-formal techniques about the assemblies of architecture. Bennett is currently attending the GSD at Harvard University.
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in memoriam Norman N. Andersen, B.S.Arch.(Arch. E.)’42
Dalton, MA, April 24, 2013 Helen L. Morrison, A.B.’45
Emeryville, CA, June 2, 2013 Charles W. Pearman, B.Arch.’47
Trumansburg, NY, May 16, 2013 Ken O. Fryar, B.Arch.’49
Michigan City, IN, April 17, 2013 James A. Hewlett, B.Arch.(Arch. E.)’49
Riverside, CA, July 13, 2013 Calvin J. Tobin, B.Arch.’49
Highland Park, IL, April 29, 2013 R. Holland Brady, B.Arch.’50
Tryon, NC, June 20, 2013 Phelps M. Connell, A.B.’50 (LS&A)
Cleveland, OH, October 22, 2013 Charles Lamb, B.Arch.’50
Chestertown, MD, December 12, 2013 Jean D. Connell, A.B.’51 (LS&A)
Ann Arbor, MI, August 16, 2013 Jay S. Pettitt, B.Arch.’51
Clawson, MI, July 9, 2013 Richard J. Penney, B.Arch.’53
Gaylord, MI, April 7, 2013 Charles R. Hornbach, B.Arch.’54
Noblesville, IN, February 23, 2013 Sunchien Hsiao, B.Arch.’51, M.Arch.’52
Ann Arbor, MI, January 2, 2014 James A. van Sweden, B.Arch.’60
James C. Snyder, M.Arch.’66, MCP’67, Ph.D.’71, Ann Arbor, MI
Professor Emeritus James C. Snyder passed away on June 24, 2013, at the age of 73, after an 18-year battle with cancer. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Jim graduated from Ohio State University in 1963 with a B.Arch. He continued his education at the University of Michigan obtaining an M.Arch. in 1966, an M.C.P. in 1967, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning in 1971. Jim taught Architecture and Urban Planning at Georgia Technological University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before returning to the U of M in 1980 as a professor with appointments in both Urban and Regional Planning and Architecture. During the course of his appointment, 1980–2004, he served as Chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Program, as Associate Dean, and as Interim Dean. His teaching area was fiscal planning and management with a strong commitment to the integration of sound fiscal and physical planning within a well-designed and safely built environment. His research interests involved urban security systems. Working with his colleague, Professor Mitchell Rycus, they initiated the Studies in Urban Security Group (SUSG) in 1985 that focused on applied research in the area of urban security and safety. Over the years, SUSG supported over 100 graduate students in both architecture and planning and surpassed $3,000,000 in sponsored funding. He was a private consultant on matters of urban security across the country, including work with the EPA, Detroit Police, and the Olympics in Atlanta. In 2005, after his retirement, Jim became an active volunteer at the Washtenaw County Jail, using his many years of teaching experience to connect with inmates and help them “transition home” from the penal system. Jim believed in service to his community and was also a volunteer with the St. Vincent de Paul organization. He is survived by his wife Jeanne, his daughters Jamie M. Nielsen and Jennifer T. Snyder, and his two grandsons Joshua J. Nielsen and Henry M. Ernst.
Washington, DC, September 20, 2013 W. Esterline, B.L.Arch.’61
Chicago, IL, October 1, 2013 Eugene Terrill, B.Arch.’61
Charlotte, NC, October 12, 2013 James C. Snyder, M.Arch.’66, M.C.P.’67, Ph.D.’71 (SNRE)
Ann Arbor, MI, June 24, 2013 Leo W. DiGiulio, B.S.’69
Ann Arbor, MI, July 18, 2013 Beth G. Fader, A.M.’72 (EDU), wife of the late Professor Emeritus Lester Fader, B.Arch.’50
Midvale, UT, June 13, 2013 Richard W. Wedge, B.S.’73, M.Arch.’75
Georgetown, IN, October 19, 2013 Ward H. Squires, B.S.’76, M.Arch.’86
Kalamazoo, MI, July 25, 2013 Damon R. Kane, B.S.’80, M.Arch.’82
North Wales, PA, August 21, 2013 Ernest O. Moore, D.Arch.’80
Asheville, NC, September 29, 2013 Michael C. Dempsey, B.S.’02 (LS&A), M.U.P.’03
Plymouth, MI, August 11, 2013 Irene M. Olencki, wife of the late Professor Emeritus Edward Olencki
Ann Arbor, MI, July 24, 2013
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Jay S. Pettitt, Jr., FAIA, B.Arch.’51, Crystal Lake, MI
Jay S. Pettitt, Jr., died at his home on July 9, 2013. Born in Detroit Michigan, Jay graduated from Redford High School, served in the US Army during WW II and received his B.Arch. degree from the University of Michigan in 1951. He married Ruth Elizabeth Voigt in 1947, and they raised their family in Redford Township, Michigan before moving to northern Michigan in 1988. Jay worked at Albert Kahn Associates from 1951 to 1988. He held many positions, including Vice President, Director of Architecture and was a principal of the firm. He was active in the Michigan Society of Architects serving as its President in 1967. He was also recognized as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). Jay was the 4th generation of Pettitts to live in or near Benzonia, MI. The family has been involved with the economic, religious, political and educational development of Benzie County for over 150 years, with Jay carrying on the family tradition of serving the community through work with the Crystal Lake & Watershed Association, the Benzie Area Historical Museum, and the Benzie County Building Authority. From 1993 - 1996 Jay was the deputy supervisor and then supervisor for Benzonia Township. Most recently, he was overseeing the design and replacement of The Maples, Benzie County Medical Care Facility. Jay was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth, and his siblings. He is survived by his children J. Stuart Pettitt, B.Arch.’72, (Debbie), Laura Pettitt (Bob), Lynn Pettitt (Mike), and Carol Friendly (Ian). Always concerned about access to the Architecture Program, Jay was a generous annual donor, and he left an estate gift to the Architecture Alumni Scholarship Endowment.