March 15-17, 2018  |  Denver, Colorado

106th ACSA Annual Meeting

THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE

Schedule

April 2017

Call for Papers/Projects announced

October 4, 2017

Paper/project submission deadline

November 2017

Notifications sent to authors

January 2018

Conference registration deadline for presenters

Event Schedule

Following is the conference schedule, which is subject to change.  Please check back for the most up-to-date information.

Wednesday, March 14

9:00am-6:00pm

Workshop Housing & Community Development Workshop

Thursday, March 15

9:00am-2:00pm

Workshop Defining Your Research Workshop

9:00pm-12:00pm

Workshop – Accreditation Workshop

2:00pm-3:30pm

Paper Sessions – A Question of Leadership I
– The First Hundred Days
– Open – Pedagogy

Project Session – Building Behaviors

Special Focus Session – Beginning Design
– Resiliency & Architectural Education

3:30pm-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Award Presentation – Creative Achievement Award

Paper Sessions – A Question of Leadership II
– Drawing in the Post-Digital Era
– The Ethics of Neo-Orientalist Architectural Production

Project Session – Housing

Special Focus Sessions – JAE, “Preserve”
– Technology Matters (BTES)

Meeting – College of Distinguished Professors (DPACSA – Private)

6:00pm

Opening Keynote: Odile Decq

7:00pm

Opening Reception

Friday, March 16

9:00am-10:30am

Award Presentation Design-Build Award

Paper Sessions: – States of Disrepair / Acts of Repair
– A Discipline Adrift?
– Open – Ethics

Project Session: – Media Investigations

Special Focus Sessions: – International Engagement Best Practices and Opportunities
– Technology | Architecture + Design Journal Session
– ProPrac – Unite! (NCARB & ACSA)

10:30am-11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Award Presentation – Housing Design Education Award

Paper Sessions: – States of Disrepair / Acts of Repair
– Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) I
– Open | Technology

Project Session: – Architecture in an Expanded Field, from Interiors to Landscapes

Special Focus Sessions: Technology in the Academy (Autodesk)
Special Focus Session: Design Build eXchange (dbX)

Workshop: – New Faculty Workshop

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch: on your own

Open House: – University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning

2:00pm-3:30pm

Award Presentation: – Distinguished Professor Award

Paper Sessions: – On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Instrumentality for Architecture
– Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) II
– Ethics, Development and Donald Trump

Project Sessions: – History/Theory
– Architecture in an Expanded Field, from Interiors to Landscapes

Special Focus Session: – Moving Towards an Equitable Future
– The Plan Journal

3:30pm-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Regional Caucuses: – Northeast, Mid Atlantic, Gulf, East Central, West Central, West, Canada

5:30pm-6:30pm

ACSA Business Meeting

6:30pm-7:30pm

Awards Reception

7:30pm

Topaz Keynote: Jorge Silvetti

8:00pm

DPACSA Dinner (Private)

Saturday, March 17

8:00am-9:00am

Tau Sigma Delta Breakfast & Annual Meeting

9:00am-10:30am

Award Presentation: – Faculty Design Award

Paper Sessions: – Architecture of the other 99%?
– Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) III
– History and Theory as Methods of Ethical Engagement?

Project Session: – Materials

Special Focus Session: – Urbanism and Urban Design in Architectural Education

10:30am-11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Award Presentation: – New Faculty Teaching Award

Paper Sessions:

– Neither Form Nor Place: The Case for Space I

– Disciplinary Hybrids: Landscape as Architecture. Architecture as Landscape

– Open – History/Theory

Project Session: – Open

Special Focus Sessions: – NAAB 101: Digital Accreditation
– JAE, “The Project of Projecting”
– Advancing Design-Build Pedagogy+Research: Lessons from Rural Studio & Co. Building Workshop

12:30pm-2:30pm

Lunch: on your own

Open House: – University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning

2:30pm-4:00pm

Award Presentation: – Collaborative Practice Award

Paper Sessions: – Neither Form Nor Place: The Case for Space II
– The Next Digital Turn: Identifying Inequalities
– Product / Process: Balancing the Deliverables in Academic Design/Build

Project Session: – Urbanism

Special Focus Session: – Academia & Practice: Point – Counterpoint

Film Screening: – The Intimate Realities of Water @ University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning

4:00pm-4:30pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm-6:00pm

Award Presentation: – Practice + Leadership Award

Paper Sessions: – By Any Means Necessary
– Open | Urbanism
– Educating for Hubris or Humility?

Project Sessions: – Design Research in the Studio Context

Special Focus Session: – Architectures Approach to STEM

6:30pm-7:30pm

TSD Gold Medal & Closing Keynote: Tod Williams & Billie Tsien

7:30pm

University of Colorado Denver – Closing Party

Eric W. Ellis
ACSA, Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org

Allison Smith
ACSA, Programs Manager
202-785-2324
asmith@acsa-arch.org