Professor Jim Love was co-applicant for a
successful $5 million award granted by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada, to establish a "Smart Net Zero Energy
Buildings Research Network." The Ralph Klein Environmental Education Centre
in Calgary won a 2011 Sustainable
Architecture and Building Magazine award. Adjunct Professor Chris Roberts was project architect,
while Jim Love was the LEED coordinator and energy and commissioning consultant.
Dr. Brian R. Sinclair,
FRAIC, had his new book entitled “Campus Design + Planning: Culture, Context
and the Pursuit of Sustainability” published by the Canada Green Building
Council (CaGBC). He recently completed a lecture tour in the Middle East, including the Inaugural Address in the “Sustainability
Lecture Series” sponsored by the Responsible Urbanism Research Laboratory
(RURL) at Zayed University (Abu Dhabi). In 2010 Dr. Sinclair received the President’s Medal
of Distinguished Achievement by the International Institute for Advanced Studies
in Systems Research and Cybernetics in Germany.
David Monteyne
published his book, Fallout Shelter:
Designing for Defense in the Cold War, with the University of Minnesota
Press.
Graham Livesey has published the following contributions to
books in the last year: “Assemblage,” “Fold + Architecture,” “Rhizome +
Architecture,” and “Space + Architecture,” in A. Parr, ed., The Deleuze Dictionary (Edinburgh
University Press); “Event Theory and Creative Agency,” in Faber, Krips, and
Pettus, eds., Event and Decision:
Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze and Whitehead (Cambridge Scholars
Publishing); and, “Ecologies, Assemblages and the Patchwork City,” in A. Parr,
and M. Zaretsky, eds. New Directions in
Sustainable Design (Routledge).
The Architecture Program recently hosted the ACADIA 2011 Annual Conference (Association
for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). This international event was
organized by faculty members Jason Johnson, Josh Taron, Vera Parlac, and
Branko Kolarevic.
In 2011, the program has hosted the following distinguished
scholars in our short course series: the William Lyon Somerville design
charrette in January was taught by architect Adam Caruso of London; the Taylor
Visiting Lecturer in February was Drura Parrish of the University of Kentucky;
and the Gillmor Theory Seminar in October was taught by Dr. Jane Rendell of the
Bartlett School of Architecture, London.