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Schedule

2011 ACSA Administrators Conference - Old School / New School

*Sessions on Friday afternoon have been pushed back by 30 minutes. Sessions scheduled to begin at 1:30pm will now begin at 2:00pm, and sessions scheduled for 3:30pm will now begin at 4:00pm. The off-site keynote will still begin at 6:30pm.

Thursday, November 10

10:30am-5:00pm

New Administrators Workshop
      Marvin Malecha, North Carolina State University
    Robert Greenstreet, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
      Rodner Wright, Florida Atlantic University

2:00pm-5:00pm

NAAB: Team Member Preparation
Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director
Keelan Kasier, NAAB President

6:00pm-8:30pm

Welcome from ACSA President, Judith Kinnard

Opening Remarks
Norman Millar, Woodbury University
Margaret Crawford, University of California, Berkeley

Opening Keynote Panel and Reception

Friday, November 11

8:30am-10:00am	6 Pedagogical Manifestos Moderator Alan Balfour, Georgia Tech Daniel Friedman, University of Washington Bill Braham, University of Pennsylvania Darren Petrucci, Arizona State University Kim Tanzer, University of Virginia Dagmar Richter, Pratt Institute Hernan Diaz Alonso, Southern California Institute of Architecture Robert Somol, University of Illinois, Chicago
8:30am-10:00am	ARCC Member Meeting
10:30am-12:00pm	Challenges and/or Opportunities? Ila Berman, California College of the Arts Michael Speaks, Univesrity of Kentucky Frances Bronet, University Oregon Richard Sommer, University of Toronto Nathan Miller, NBBJ Steven Lewis, RAW
10:30am-12:00pm	NAAB: Team Room Prep Workshop Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director Keelan Kasier, NAAB President
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch Discussions Speaker: Judith Kinnard, ACSA President Announcement of NCARB Grants
1:30pm-3:00pm	Changing Academic Economies Moderator, Tom Buresh, UC Berkeley Judith Sheine, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona Donna Robertson, Illinois Institute of Technology Andrew Chandler, City College of San Francisco Chris Genik, The New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego Amy Murphy, University of Southern California Wendy Ornelas, Kansas State University John Casbarian, Rice University
1:30pm-3:00pm	Ask the NAAB Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director Keelan Kaiser, NAAB President
3:30pm-5:00pm	Regulatory Changes Amidst the Evolving Economies Moderator Patricia Oliver, University of Houston Kenneth Schwartz, Tulane University Xavier Costa, Northeastern University Qingyun Ma, University of Southern California Bernardo Gomez Pimienta, Universidad Anahuac Mexico City Ruth Reed, RIBA Anne Laird Blanton, AIA California Council Terrance Galvin, Canadian Architectural Certification Board
3:30pm-5:00pm	Dialogues with Gensler: Building on Partnerships Participants: Andrew Caruso, Gensler Peter Barsuk, Gensler Nathan Kim, Gensler Shawn Gehle, Gensler
3:30pm-5:00pm	ARCC Planning Meeting
6:30pm-9:00pm	Keynote and Reception* Interlocutor: Frances Anderton, KCRW Speaker: Thom Mayne, Morphosis *This keynote will be held off-site in downtown Los Angeles at the California Department of Transportation District 7 Headquarters building, designed by Thom Mayne. Join us immediately following the keynote for a reception at the Bradbury Building. Please plan to take public transportation to this event. Directions will be provided on-site at the conference.

Saturday, November 12

8:30am-10:00am	ARCC Sponsored Breakfast
8:30am-10:00am	Women's Leadership Council
10:00am-11:30pm	Integrated Practice Delivery in the Curriculum Sponsored By: Autodesk Moderator: Michael Jemtrud, McGill University
12:00pm-2:00pm	Blue Sky Curricula for the Next Century: A Working Session Hitoshi Abe, UCLA Monica Ponce de Leon, University of Michigan Javier Quintana, IE University Preston Scott Cohen, Harvard University Barbara Bestor, Woodbury University William Williams, University of Cincinnati

Sunday, November 13

All Day Session

NAAB: Team Chair Training

Session Descriptions

Friday Sessions

6 Pedagogical Manifestos

In five minutes each speaker will deliver their argument for what they see as the key issue(s) in teaching architecture today. Theory, Social Concerns, Building Perfomance+Sustainablity, Parametrics, or Entrepreneurship? Should these be the drivers of architectural pedagogy?

Challenges and/or Opportunities

How should architecture schools respond to the changes posed by social media, the
proliferation of data, globalization, climate change, and demands for economic and ethnic diversity? Are our existing educational concepts and methods adequate?

NAAB: Team Room Prep Workshop

This is an interactive workshop on the preparation and curation of team rooms for 2012 NAAB visits. This is a great opportunity for administrators from any program with a 2012 visit to review the 2011 Procedures on the content and format of team rooms and to learn from the experience of team chairs and program administrators. Best practices and lessons learned from the 2011 Survey of NAAB Accreditation Activites will be included.

Changing Academic Economies

As the economic downturn challenges endowments, state budgets, and professional opportunities, how are architecture schools reacting? Are important differences emerging between private, public, and for-profit education?

Ask the NAAB

This will be an open, scheduled time for program administrators, individually interested in serving on visiting teams, and others to visit with NAAB leaders and to ask specific questions about NAAB visits, team preparation, report writing, the ARS, plans for the next accreditation review conference, or general operations. The session will be free-flowing and interactive. All are welcome.

Regulatory Challenges Amidst Evolving Economies

Are architectural schools’ ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions supported or hindered by the regulation and collateral organizations? Should we be looking at other international models? What would be an ideal relationship between the schools and the profession?

Dialogues with Gensler: Building on Partnerships

We invite ACSA attendees to participate in two separate, yet related discussions during this session:

1. Trends in higher education and their impact on spaces devoted to learning

This discussion will present observations and connections between decades of research that examine how technological and social trends in work environments parallel student and progressive institutions’ expectations of their own learning environments.

2. Transitioning a generation into practice

Your graduates are the future of our firm, and we are keenly interested in building strategic partnerships and programs that advance the professional development of a new generation of design professionals.

Brief presentations will provide a context from which attendees will engage in interactive discussion for the remainder of the session.

Saturday Sessions

Integrated Practice in the Curriculum

The next installment in a continuing series of sessions on efforts made in schools to evolve curricula in concert with changes in architectural project delivery.

Blue Sky Curricula For the Next Century; A Working Session

Building on the previous sessions, what new curricula might emerge, imagined without the constraints of the current system? A series of educators will present their Blue Sky Outlines and will then lead a work group to refine it.

Sunday Sessions