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2015 ACSA Gulf Director Board Candidates

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The initial Gulf Regional Director Election (January 2015) was disqualified due to an ineligible candidate. ACSA regrets this error and have taking steps with the Gulf Nominations Committee to conduct a new election. Following is the information and candidates for regional vote in the 2015 ACSA Gulf Regional Director (April/May 2015).

Online Voting
Below is information on the 2015 ACSA Gulf Election, including candidate information. Official ballots were emailed to all full-member ACSA schools’ Faculty Councilors, who are the the voting representatives. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.

2015 ACSA Regional Director Candidates
The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.

 

2015 GULF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES

           
Francis Elliot Lyn
Florida Atlantic University
                 
Scott L. Ruff
Tulane University


ACSA Election Process
ACSA Bylaws, Article IX, Section 3: Election Process: “Elections shall be held in accordance with the Rules of the Board of Directors. Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors”.

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.

 

2015 ACSA Gulf Region Board Election Timeline

April 10, 2015 Online ballots emails to all Gulf Region Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
May 11, 2015 Deadline for receipt of online completed ballots
May 15, 2015 Gulf Regional Director (2015-2018) announced

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.  


Contact
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
phone: 202.785.2324
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

Tulane University

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Associate Professor Graham Owen was an invited speaker in IIT’s “In the Loop” series.  He spoke on “The Shotgun of Selective Belonging” at the University of Hamburg, and led the Architecture and Globalization session at TU Delft’s Summer School on “Facing Moral Complexity”.  He also gave the closing keynote, on “Whatever Happened to Semi-Autonomy?”, at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture’s Summer 2014 conference, at TU Delft.

University of Miami

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A distinguished leader in contemporary architecture and urbanism has been named the new Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture. Rodolphe el-Khoury, who currently serves as Director of Urban Design at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty and is a partner in the design firm Khoury Levit Fong, will join the University of Miami beginning July 1.

An academic with more than 26 years of experience in the field, el-Khoury joined the faculty at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design in 2005.  Born in Beirut, Lebanon, el-Khoury found his passion early in life. During his stellar career, he has taught at Harvard University, M.I.T., University of Hong Kong, Princeton University and Columbia University among others. 

“I am thrilled to join the University of Miami School of Architecture,” said el-Khoury. “The UM School of Architecture has changed the world as the breeding ground for the New Urbanism. It has an amazing history and continues to have an important role in the field.”   

As a partner in Khoury Levit Fong (KLF) his award-winning projects include Beirut Martyr’s Square (AIA San Francisco), Stratford Market Square (Boston Society of Architecture) and the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art (AIA Cleveland). Recently KLF won international competitions for a planning exhibition hall in Changzhi, China and for the revitalization of Copley Square in Boston. 

“We identified Rodolphe el-Khoury as the new dean of the School of Architecture after an international search,” said UM Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas LeBlanc. “His extensive academic background and experience in the field, as well as his innovative work in imagining how architecture can partner with cutting-edge technology to enhance people’s lives make him the perfect match for the school.”

As co-director of the Responsive Architecture at Daniels laboratory (RAD LAB), el-Khoury, researches architectural applications for information technology aiming for enhanced responsiveness and sustainability in buildings and cities. He spoke at TEDxToronto in September of 2013 about his designs for the “Internet of Things.”  He aims to put every brick online and believes that “embedded technology empowers networked environments to better address the environmental and social challenges we face today.” 

“Rodolphe el-Khoury is a visionary and a top-notch academic,” said UM President Donna E. Shalala. “We expect him to take our School of Architecture to new heights in the 21st century.”

El-Khoury received a doctorate degree in Philosophy and a Master of Arts in Architectural History from Princeton University, as well as a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design.

Last fall, el-Khoury participated in the fifth annual TEDxToronto conference and spoke on “Designing for the Internet of Things,” viewable online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUvg9jcfG8

Auburn University

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Students in the Bachelor of Interior Architecture (ARIA) program held an exhibition of their work in the Dudley Gallery on March 6 in memory of Auburn University professor and alumnus Michael Hubbs. Hubbs, who died last year at age 63, was an interior architecture adjunct professor at Auburn University for nine years and a 1974 graduate of the interior design program. A group of alumni raised $2,070 dollars for a one-time scholarship in memory of Hubbs; the scholarship will be awarded at the end of spring semester to a rising fifth year thesis student in interior architecture.

Designer, urbanist and social innovator Liz Ogbu presented the final lecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s spring 2014 lecture series, “Renegades + Outlaws: Design Thinking at the Edge.” Ogbu runs her own multidisciplinary design and consulting practice, is a faculty member at UC Berkeley and Stanford’s d school and is an IDEO.org fellow. Her lecture, “Creative Disruption: Designing Opportunities for Impact,” was on Wednesday, April 9.

The Environmental Design Program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) hosted Open Ground: Conversations about Communities, Design Thinking + Social Entrepreneurship, on Thursday, April 10. The forum, open to anyone interested in design thinking and socially conscious entrepreneurship, involved presentations and dialogue with thought leaders Liz Ogbu, an IDEO.org fellow from Oakland, CA, who is also on the faculty at Berkeley and the Stanford d school; Blake Canterbury from Dime Creative in Atlanta, GA; and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm in Birmingham, AL.

On April 24 an exhibit of work from the NCARB Award “Urban Healthcare” studio, which will include the Alagasco winners and finalists, will open at the AIA Center for Architecture in Birmingham. Alagasco is sponsoring the opening reception and the exhibit will be up until May 3. To read more about the 52nd annual Alagasco Competition, please visit StudioAPLA.

Congratulations to School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Rural Studio alumni Robert Gay and Lucy Begg on the inclusion of three of their projects, Santa Anna, Escaped Infrastructure, and Chromatic Confluence, in the 2014 AIA Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition. (thoughtbarn.com)

Assistant Professor of Community Planning, Dr. Jay Mittal, spoke at the seventh session of the World Urban Forum in Medellín, Columbia on April 7. A technical forum developed by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), the Forum occurs every two years to examine issues facing global human settlements.

 

Mississippi State University

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The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is pleased to announce the addition of four new faculty members.

Emily McGlohn has joined the School as visiting assistant professor. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and her Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University, where she completed her thesis at the Rural Studio and remained after graduation as an instructor for three years. McGlohn next spent several years in professional practice at William McDonough + Partners and brwarchitects in Charlottesville, Va. 

Jacob Gines is another new visiting assistant professor at Mississippi State this year. He received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah, where he later taught as an adjunct in the design studios. Gines also practiced as a senior associate in the design firm of Method Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Todd Walker, FAIA, is currently serving as a visiting design studio critic in the first-year studio. He is a principle and founding member of the awarding-winning Memphis firm archimania and has also received the prestigious “Eminent Architect of Practice” appointment for spring 2013.
Finas Townsend is currently serving as studio assistant in the first-year design studio. Townsend is from Memphis and received his Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State in 2011.

While on sabbatical leave last year, Professor Rachel McCann, PhD, presented two lectures in Europe, “Architectural Sense” at the Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Space Symposium, University of Nottingham, England; and “Architectural Flesh in the Digital Age” at the Chalmers School of Architecture in Sweden.

David Perkes, AIA, director of the School’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, has been promoted to full professor.

Associate Professor Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA, has been selected as one of three Peer Discipline Reviewers for The Fulbright Program for architecture. Greenwood also serves as a Fulbright Program Campus Representative, working to promote the program to students and faculty.

The Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), a research center under the direction of Associate Professor John Poros, AIA, received the Public Outreach Award from The Mississippi Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MS). The center won the award for its MS Bypass Guidelines, which were published this year. The Public Outreach award was one of only three awards given by the MS APA this year and is for an individual or program that uses information and education about the value of planning to create greater awareness among citizens and other segments of society.

The Carl Small Town Center has also been awarded a grant to work with communities along the Tanglefoot Trail on transportation and economic development issues. The $120,000 grant comes from the federally funded Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, a regional university transportation center located at the University of Florida. The funds will be shared by Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Under the direction of Jassen Callender, associate professor, six teams of fifth-year students had documentary films selected for inclusion in the thirteenth annual Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Miss. The documentaries were produced in the fall of 2011 as part of the Theory of Urban Design course.
The six documentaries selected were:
• Richard Akin, Raymond Huffman, and Taylor Poole, From Field to Fork
• Scott Archer, Charles Barry, and Ryan Morris, Chinese Potatoes
• Audrey Bardwell, Aaron Schwartz, and Meredith Yale, Madison the City Needs (Renewable) Energy
• Anthony Dinolfo, Ryan Santos, and Amy Selvaggio, Point A to Point B
• Ingrid Gonzalez, Sam Grefseng, and Chris Hoal, The Built Environment of Jackson
• Lauren Arrington, Robert Featherston, and Jessica Harkins, Ward 3: Area in Need of Renewal

Jassen Callender also had a chapter, “Sustainable Urban Development,” in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, published by Elsevier.

Visiting Assistant Professor Jacob Gines and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA, are currently collaborating with Mississippi State University Transit to develop a series of pedestrian friendly transit stops and enclosures along proposed bus routes to connect the campus with the city of Starkville, Miss. The work is part of a $2.4 million Mississippi Department of Transportation public transit grant.

Hans Herrmann was also named ‘Emerging Professional’ by the AIA for 2012. His work was included in the annual exhibition, presented at AIA National’s headquarters, the American Center for Architecture, in Washington, D.C.

Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor, had an article published in the summer issue of AIA Forward journal, Forward 112: Process. Forward, a scholarly journal, is produced by the National Associates Committee to provide a voice for Associate AIA members within the Institute.

Alexis Gregory also received  “The Bringing Theory to Practice Project” AACU 2013 Seminar Grant ($1000 w/ April Heiselt)  “ . . . to help support research on service-learning in architecture.” This grant is supported by the S. Engelhard Center and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation.

Assistant Professor Justin Taylor had a paper, “Changing the Culture of Do Not Touch,” accepted to The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environment (IE12) in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Rachel McKinley and Zachary James, students in the School of Architecture, received the Collaborative Project Award from APA MS. The award is for their work done in the Carl Small Town Center’s CREATE Common Ground class last spring, which focused on revitalizing New Albany, Miss. The Collaborative Project Award recognizes research, projects or other activities in which a student has worked collaboratively with practitioners/planners and/or faculty.

Mississippi State’s chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) participated in the national Green Apple Day of Service on Sept. 29. The group volunteered at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum.

Mississippi State University’s Alpha Rho Chi fraternity recently raised and donated $1,250 to the Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity. Daniel Torres serves as the fraternity’s fundraising chairman, and Adam Rhoades is the chapter president. Alpha Rho Chi at Mississippi State primarily includes College of Art, Architecture and Design majors. From the fraternity’s inception almost three years ago, members have focused on donating to Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity.

Mack Braden and Michael Varhalla, students in the School of Architecture, won this year’s Brick Industry Association Design Competition. The two received a $1,000 travel scholarship for their achievement. The project was for the design of a culinary arts school in downtown Memphis, Tenn., as part of the spring 2012 third-year design studio taught by Assistant Professor Alexis D. Gregory, AIA, and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA. Honorable Mention went to Chelsea Pierce and John Thomas.

Dalton Finch, Anthony Penny, Scott Polley and Colton Stephens, third-year students in the School of Architecture, designed the recently completed Habitat for Humanity house located on Steadman Lane in Starkville, Miss. The students worked on the design as part of Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory’s class that included 11 students working on several design options for the nonprofit organization.

Emily Roush Elliott has been chosen as an Enterprise Rose Architecture fellow by the Carl Small Town Center (CSTC). Elliot earned her Bachelor of Science in Design from Arizona State University and her Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. As a Fellow, she will be able to draw from her work in Tanzania, where she successfully integrated social and environmental sustainability in a similarly rural environment, to establish a redevelopment plan for the Baptist Town community in Greenwood, Miss. The CSTC was one of just four national organizations selected to host a Fellow.

See photos, and read more news from the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University at http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/sarcnews/

Tulane University

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Architect Errol Barron, FAIA, was awarded the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) Louisiana Medal of Honor, the highest award given by AIA LA, at its annual Design Conference in Lafayette on September 28.
 
Barron is a principal of Barron/Toups Architects, an award-winning firm entering its fifth decade of business. He is widely recognized as a designer, painter, educator, preservationist, musician, photographer, critic, lecturer, author and civic leader.
 
The Medal of Honor is given by AIA LA to architects who have sustained a lifetime affecting the profession of architecture, and who have significantly advanced the profession and/or provided strong influence on fellow practitioners.
 
Barron/Toups Architects is recognized for its artful blend of modern sensibilities with historic vernacular, as in St. Peter’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Gulfport, Mississippi; and the use of natural light in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. His designs are found both throughout the US and abroad. He has also served as the president of AIA New Orleans and board member of AIA Louisiana, and was elected to AIA Fellowship in 1996.
 
Barron is also a semi-professional (accomplished amateur) flutist, having performed and recorded classical works. His sketches, photographs and watercolors have been exhibited nationally and also published. He has taught architecture for more than 35 years and is currently the Favrot Professor of Architecture at Tulane University.
 
He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tulane, and his master’s in architecture from Yale University, and has studied and practiced in London and New York.
 
“Errol is unwavering in his dedication to producing work of the highest design quality, no matter the challenges and obstacles,” noted architect Douglas Ashe, FAIA. Colleague William Brockway, FAIA, noted, “Errol has published insightful and scholarly essays in widely disseminated journals… has been a consistent winner of design awards… and his work has been featured in many design publications.”
Architect Allan Eskew, FAIA, noted, “Errol has been a motivating force at the Tulane School of Architecture… regarded by graduating students as one of their most stimulating and motivational instructors.”

University of Miami School of Architecture Dean Takes Key Role In the Rebuilding of Haitian Cathedral

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UM School of Architecture Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, will serve as the lead juror of a six-juror panel of a competition to choose the winner of a design to rebuild the Notre Dame de l’Assomption Cathedral in Port Au Prince. The cathedral was destroyed during Haiti’s devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake.

The competition that has drawn 134 submissions was organized by the Archdiocese of Port Au Prince, with the support of UM’s School of Architecture and Faith and Form Magazine. Over 250 architects from throughout the world answered the invitation launched by the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Mgr Guire Poulard to help build a new Cathedral for the nation’s capital.

 The jurors will meet at UM’s School of Architecture during Monday, December 17 and Tuesday, December 18 to review the work of the finalists. The winner will be announced on December 20. The first place winner will receive $12,000, the second place will receive $8,000 and the third place will receive $5,000.

“While each juror will bring a unique perspective to the review of the entries, we will all be looking at the quality of the design and we will take into consideration liturgical goals as well as cultural appropriate,” said Plater-Zyberk.

In the rebuilding of the Roman Catholic cathedral, the goal is to build a structure that can again be a beacon of hope to an entire nation and can serve as a fitting memorial to thousands who perished in the earthquake, according to Yves Savain, consultant to the Archdiocese of Port Au Prince and coordinator of the design competition.

“We feel that the competition will draw a great deal of interest internationally,” said Savain. “The Cathedral is not only a religious symbol but it is a national monument. It has a place in history and in culture and its reconstruction can serve as a catalyst for the rebuilding of downtown Port Au Prince which was also destroyed during the earthquake.”

According to the website on the Cathedral’s rebuilding, www.ndapap.org, it is hoped that the building will be a technologically advanced structure that takes tradition into account.  This vital structure will put into application national and international building codes to ensure a safe center of worship.

A new structure on the same site will have to meet the most rigorous anti-seismic and anti-cyclonic norms. It should also be a “green building” and achieve the highest standards possible of positive environmental performance.  The new cathedral will represent the long held religious faith of the country. 

“It must honor the memory of the thousands who perished in Haiti on that tragic day of destruction,” said Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Mgr.Poulard.

Plater-Zyberk has experience with Haitian rebuilding efforts. In March, 2010 the UM School of Architecture hosted a meeting of Haitian architects, planners and government officials who worked with UM faculty and students, and volunteers from throughout the U.S., on blueprints for the reconstruction of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. During the charette, design teams generated ideas that included the rebuilding of churches, medical clinics, community resource centers and housing.  

In the competition to rebuild the Cathedral, other jurors include Patrick Delatour, architect and former Minister of Tourism for Haiti, Michael Crosbie, architect and editor in chief of Faith and Form, Kia Miyamoto, structural engineer with Miyamoto International, Father Richard Vosko, a liturgical consultant and designer from Clifton Park, N.Y. and Edwidge Danticat, the Miami-based award winning Haitian American writer. 

Editor’s note: Members of the media wishing to speak to the jurors can do so on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 1 p.m. at the School of Architecture. Please contact Barbara Gutierrez at 305-284-5500 or at bgutierrez@miami.edu if you wish to cover the story. 

University of Puerto Rico

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Professor Edgardo Arroyo‘s Second Year Studio participated with a group proposal for 2012 Park(ing)Day.

Professor Andrea Bauzá was part of a design collective that earned an Honorable Mention representing the US at the Venice Biennale

Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez was a moderator at AULA’s symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM).

Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico 1993-2010, a book designed and edited by Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez and Professor Darwin Marrero-Carrero was selected for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID12) in Madrid, Spain

The UPR hosted the premiere of “Unfinished Spaces”, a Sundance documentary about the Arts Schools in Havana, Cuba

Associate Dean Mayra Jiménez represented the UPR in Cádiz, where our journal (in)forma 6 was selected for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura.

Professor Manuel Bermúdez graduate city studio will travel to Panamá, where they will research Old Panama City as part of a 3-year effort to document colonial cities in the Caribbean that includes Cartagena, Havana, New Orleans, Santo Domingo and Old San Juan

ACSA Distinguished Professor Enrique Vivoni, PhD curated an exhibit showcasing the six summer studios he led in Corsica documenting over 100 houses, churches and tombs.

The UPR School of Architecture is engaging municipal authorities to explore collaborative studios on the city. Following the successful studios dedicated to Fajardo, the graduate studio led by Professors Thomas Marvel and Cristina Cardalda will continue to work with the Municipality of Bayamón.

Professors Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, PhD, Manuel Bermúdez and Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez presented the book Ambivalent Spaces: Memory and Oblivion in Modern Social Architecture, at the Colegio de Arquitectos (CAAPPR).

Natalia Rey (MArch 12) won the Best Urban Design Thesis Award from the Colegio de Arquitectos (CAAPPR) and the Jaime Cobas Thesis Award.

The work of Professor Andrés Mignucci was highlighted on ENTORNO Magazine. He is currently working on a book documenting the PR Supreme Court Building.

Mississippi State University

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John Poros, AIA associate professor in the School of Architecture and the director of Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), recently presented a session on his research on rural sustainability at the American Planning Association’s national conference held on April 15, 2013, in Chicago, Ill.  Poros’ session was attended by more than 200 participants and was selected as the Small Town and Rural Planning session for the year.

Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA associate professor, has received a personal invitation from the Gyumri Mayor in Armenia to help celebrate the city’s new declaration as “Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS] cultural capital.” Mayor Samvel Balasanyan asked Greenwood to be a part of various cultural events that will begin on June 1, 2013. Greenwood began research in Gyumri in 2007 with a grant from the Earthwatch Institute and later continued her work as a Fulbright Scholar.

Alexis Gregory, AIA received $1,140 from the National Center for Intermodal Transportation for Economic Competitiveness (NCITEC) to fund research and design for an international competition for an intermodal transit station in Tirana, Albania.  In March 2013, students in the Habitat Prototype House elective course, taught by Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory, received third place in the Community Engagement division of the 2013 Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Adam Trautman, a senior in the Building Construction Science Program, presented the project, “Elevating Habitat: Service-Learning in Design and Construction.” Third-year architecture students Melinda Ingram, Jacob Johnson, Alex Reeves and Mark Riley also worked on the project. Professor Gregory, along with Assistant Professor Jonathon Anderson of the University of North Carolina Greensboro had an article, “Educating ‘Architects’ Within and Beyond the Digital World: A Studio Exploration of Physical Realization through Digital Fabrication,” published in d3:dialog>assemble international journal of architecture + design.

Hans Herrmann, AIA assistant professor, delivered the opening lecture for Clemson University’s spring lecture series, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.” His lecture, “Opportunist[eth]ic” covered his professional development over the past 10 years and how opportunism and ethics have had an influence on his design practice and teaching pedagogy.

The Green Building Technology Demonstration Pavilion project was realized under the guidance of landscape architecture professors W. Cory Gallo, ASLA, and Brian Tempelton, ASLA, and architecture assistant professor Hans Herrmann, AIA. The project demonstrates ecological building and site design principles. The project received over $50,000 in private and public material and funding donations. It is featured by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as a 2013 Year of Public Service Project and most recently was awarded an American Society of Landscape Architects, Mississippi Chapter, Merit Award.

Todd Walker, FAIA, principal partner in the Memphis firm archimania, was named the School’s Eminent Architect of Practice for the Spring semester. Todd lectured and co-taught in the 3rd year Brick Industry Association funded-studio.

The School of Architecture was invited by Richard Ramsey, the director of the Howlin’ Wolf Blues Society to design a Museum to honor the legendary and seminal blues musician who was born in West Point, Mississippi. This project (undertaken by the 4thyear capstone studio w/ Associate Professor Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA, and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA) will be critical to the future design, urban planning, and programming of the actual project.

The School of Architecture and Department of Building Construction Science are proud to announce that through the efforts of their faculty and administration they have been awarded $200,000 in Hearin Foundation Grant Funding to support continued research and development of the “Collaborative Studios: Integrated Learning Toward An Integrated Practice.”  The pedagogical research and course development is being undertaken this summer by four faculty including Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor Hans C. Herrmann, Assistant Professor Tom Leathem (Building Construction Science), and Assistant Professor Emily McGlohn.

Auburn University

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David Hinson, Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) was one of three faculty from Auburn University selected as SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) fellows. The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) is a professional development program that seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within SEC institutions and beyond. It has two components: a university-level development program designed by each institution for its own participants and two, three-day, SEC-wide workshops held on specified campuses for all program participants.

The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) is one of three U.S. Universities to receive a 2012 NCARB Award from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB for “Studio: Urban Healthcare,” a proposal developed by proposal, developed by Professor Christian Dagg and Professor Kevin Moore. “Studio:  Urban Healthcare” was designed to support APLA faculty collaborations with practicing architects and other design professionals with specialized expertise in healthcare architecture while providing critique and direction to fourth year architecture students as they design a small urban hospital.

Cheryl Morgan, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Urban Studio, has been recognized as one of this year’s SMART Women at the inaugural SMART Party, hosted by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, on October 11, 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama. The award from the Women’s Fund recognizes Morgan, a well-known champion for underserved constituencies, and the efforts of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama for their work with small town communities across the State.

The U.S. Green Building Council named  three alumni from the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture to the 2012 class of LEED Fellows: Carlie Bullock-Jones ’99 (Interior Design), Holley Henderson ‘93 (Interior Design), and Paula Vaughan ‘82 (Architecture) are among those named to the green building industry’s most prestigious professional designation.

The College of Architecture, Design and Construction honored its students, alumni, staff and friends on October 25, 2012. Several APLA students and faculty were honored. Outstanding Undergraduate award recipients were Allyson Klinner (Architecture), Nicholas Purcell (Interior Architecture), Marjorie Woodbury (Landscape Architecture), and Franchesca Taylor (Community Planning). APLA supporter Patrick Davis received an award for Distinguished Service, and Professor David Hill received the Outstanding Teaching Award. Three former faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA), Robert Faust, D.K. Ruth and Samuel Mockbee, were named Emeritus Professors at the CADC ceremony, and recognized for their long term and significant contributions to the architecture program, and to the School.

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