To list a conference or competition open for participation by architectural educators and students, please email Kevin Mitchell at kmitchell@acsa-arch.org.
2/16/2012
2012 SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT ARCHITECTS · LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS · HISTORIANS SUMMER
JOBS WITH HABS/HAER/HALS
The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, seeks applications from qualified students for summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, engineering and landscape significance throughout the country. Duties involve on-site field work and the preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last twelve weeks, beginning in May/June. Salaries range from approximately $6,000 to approximately $11,000 for the summer, depending on job responsibility, locality of the project, and level of experience. Applicant must be a U.S. Citizen. Applications Due: 16 February 2012 (postmark date)
Application information can be found on our web site: http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/summer.htm
View examples of HDP documentation on the Library of Congress web site:http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/
Download the HDP Summer 2012 Recruitment Poster from our web site:http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/HDPEmploymentPoster2012highres.pdf (15mb high-resolution .PDF)
For additional information regarding the HABS/HAER/HALS Summer 2012 Documentation Program, please contact: Judy Davis Summer Program Administrator Heritage Documentation Programs Division National Park Service (2270) 1201 Eye Street, NW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20005 Tel: (202) 354-2135 Email:HDP_Summer_Program_Admin@nps.gov
2/16/2012
2012 Carter Manny Award
The Graham Foundation announces the 2012 Carter Manny Award to support doctoral dissertation research and writing. Since the Carter Manny Award’s establishment in 1996, over $500,000 has been awarded in recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work represents some of the most innovative and advanced scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects focus on fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and other related fields. The award is intended to assist students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, and other programs in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. For more information about our grantmaking, to learn if you are eligible for funding, and to access the application, click here to see our grant guidelines.
3/1/2012
BTES 2013 Conference — Call for proposals for venue and conference organizers
The Building Technology Educators’ Society announces its call for the 2013 biannual conference. The committee is accepting proposals for venues and organizers/ conference chairs in two phases. For proposal topics, guidelines and timetable, please visit: http://www.btesonline.org/news.html#RFP
3/16/2012
Pruitt Igoe Now
Pruitt Igoe Now is an ideas competition launched by a non-profit organization of the same name. The subject is the 57-acre site of the long-mythologized Pruitt and Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Missouri, USA -- a site whose future is intertwined with emerging ideas about urban abandonment, the legacy of modernism, brownfield redevelopment and land use strategies for shrinking cities. This competition seeks the ideas of the creative community worldwide: we invite individuals and teams of professional, academic, and student architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, writers, historians, and artists of every discipline to re-imagine the site and the relationship between those acres to the rest of the city. www.pruittigoenow.org
3/24/2012
TOPOLOGICAL URBANISM:
2012 Symposium,
Texas Tech University College of Architecture
9:30 - 1:00 pm / First Floor Gallery in the College of Architecture
‘Topological thinking’ is a term used by Manual de Landa as a way to describe and interpret an understanding of differential geometry. Though for de Landa, this mathematical theory is used to investigate how our environments evolve through intensive differences, or rather determining rates of change within informational data. Within ‘Field Conditions’, Stan Allen describes object to field systematic responses. Allen explains that it is no longer about the ‘global’ rule sets for systems to operate as a ‘whole’, but more importantly it is controlling the clarity of ‘local’ part-to-part interactions. For urbanism, this provides opportunities to analyze and synthesize intensive phase transitions through identification of local interactions. What are the ways that we can organize our analytical evaluations of city development so that we can more successfully create an urban landscape that has the ability to generate ephemeral tissues from various scales and simultaneously constructing an inter-connected urban fabric? This symposium will explore how researchers and practitioners define new explorations and offer new implementations for our built environments with the acknowledgment of understanding these informational intensities of ‘local’ interactions in order to control ‘global’ outputs. With questions, please contact Jeff.Nesbit@ttu.edu
4/2012
Making City: the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in Rotterdam, São Paulo and Istanbul
In just a few decades 80% of mankind will live in cities where more than 90% of our wealth is generated. And all that covers less than 3% of the earth’s surface. Cities are effective, they drive innovation, offer the best answer to overpopulation, and are the greenest answer we have on a planet where crisis and climate change are forcing us to find rigorous solutions. But then cities must be better managed, better designed, better organized, and better planned than they currently are. Only then can cities save us from ourselves. With Making City, the IABR will therefore actively engage with ‘city making’ in the form of concrete projects in three cities: Rotterdam, São Paulo and Istanbul. For this, an international team of curators is engaged in a two-year research programme in these three cities. Their main goal is to redefine the role of and the relation between planning, design and politics and thereby contribute to a more effective toolbox for making the city. Open and new alliances among urban planners, scientists, businesses, developers and local administrators are the driving forces in this endeavour. It will culminate in presentations, exhibitions, lectures and debates in the three cities, after which it is the stated intent of all partners to see the projects realized. Contact Rinske Brand at pers@iabr.nl
5/1/2012
2012 SESAH Annual Meeting: Athens, Georgia, October 17-20, 2012
The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) will hold its 30th Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia, from October 17-20, 2012. The SESAH Host Committee invites abstracts for individual papers or proposals for session panels, consisting of three to four papers and a chair. As with all SESAH conferences, papers and sessions may address any and all aspects of the history of the built environment as well as any geographical region, historical period, or scale. Abstracts should be sent by May 1, 2012 to: Mark Reinberger, College of Environment and Design, 609 Caldwell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, or email to reinberg@uga.edu. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be clearly labeled with the applicant's name, professional affiliation, contact information, a brief C.V., and the title of the proposed paper. Proposals for session panels should include: the title of the session; the names, affiliations, contact information, and C.V.s of all participants; and abstracts of each paper. If by email, please send materials as PDF or MS Word attachments. Digital presentations are required (that is, no slides anymore). Submission of an abstract is considered a commitment to attend the meeting. SESAH offers a limited number of travel grants to help graduate students attend the meeting to deliver papers. If you are a graduate student, identify yourself as such in your submission; you will be sent a travel grant application of your paper is selected.
10/21 - 24/2012
2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association
School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University School of Architecture will be hosting the 2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association. This international conference will bring together world class academics, practitioners, and experts in the fields of Design and Design Communication. The conference is scheduled for October 21-24, 2012 with its academic and enrichment activities taking place in the newly renovated Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building in Stillwater, Oklahoma challenges. The theme for the 2012 DCA conference is “Graphic Quest: the Search for Perfection in Design Communication”. It aims to generate meaningful dialogues, disseminate new knowledge, and a sharing of pedagogy among the conference attendees and participants. Activities will include notable keynote speakers, juried paper sessions, juried design competitions, graphic workshops, gallery exhibitions, and other activities. The School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University in association with the Design Communication Association is committed to fostering a spirit of professionalism, sharing of knowledge, and life-long learning. Expect to receive a call for papers/ exhibition submissions at the beginning of the fall semester 2011. We look forward to welcoming you to our school and will do our best to make this event a joyous and productive gathering of colleagues and scholars who wish to explore diverse interests in the exciting areas of graphic communication. For more information, contact the conference chair: Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi, 101 DWR Architecture Building, Stillwater, OK 74078 mohd.bilbeisi@okstate.edu 405-744-9496; http://www.designcommunicationassociation.org
12/26/2012
CAUMME 2012 International Symposium: Global Impacts and Local Challenges
Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Since the beginning of the new millennium, it was apparent that a new phase inuencing the development of architecture and urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East had begun, when rulers, decision makers, and top government ocials developed stronger interest in architecture and development. With such a sturdy interest many cities in this region are experiencing rapid growth coupled with fast track urbanization processes, and marked by large scale work, learning and residential environments, and mixed use developments. This is witnessed from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization process to Abu-Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Development to Bahrain Financial Harbor, and from Kuwait’s City of Silk to the future city of Qatar, Lusail. Notably, some cities have acquired a geo-strategic importance. Through the shift of global economic forces, they have developed to central hubs between old economies of Western Europe and the rising economies of Asia. In the context of international competition between cities new challenges are emerging. For more on the symposium theme, deadlines and topics, please visit www.caummeyildiz.blogspot.com.
1/12 - 11/2012
Socio Design Foundation--Multiple Ongoing Competitions
For more information, visit: http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/