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University at Buffalo

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Robert G. Shibley, dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, has received the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in recognition of his contributions to design excellence in public architecture over 40 years of teaching, scholarship and critical practice. The prestigious lifetime achievement award was bestowed at the 2014 AIA National Convention in Chicago on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The jury cited Shibley’s leadership and broad-based community collaboration to produce award-winning plans for Buffalo that have spurred new investment and elevated public expectations for design and planning. As UB’s campus architect, Shibley led the development of an ambitious campus master plan that sets new standards for campus architecture. An internationally noted scholar, Shibley has translated this work into models, best practices and case studies for application across the disciplines of architecture and planning. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_thomas-jefferson-award.html

Shibley was also recently recognized by the American Institute of Architects New York State for his design influence on public architecture across the state. He is the first recipient of the AIANYS’s Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Award, which honors architects employed in the public sector in New York State for their contributions to design excellence in public architecture. The award is part of the inaugural Excelsior Awards for Public Architecture, established by the AIANYS and state contracting agencies to provide models for future state-funded building design and professional practice and advocacy. Among other things, the jury cited Shibley’s contributions over the past 32 years as a public architect in service to UB and the region and state that hosts it. In particular, Shibley’s leadership of the UB campus master plan and his innovative use of design competitions was highlighted for elevating expectations for quality architecture at UB and in the Buffalo region. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_nelsonrockefeller.html

Two UB architecture faculty members have won internationally-prominent lifetime achievement awards for their “significant and lasting” contributions to environmental design research, practice and teaching. Lynda Schneekloth, professor emerita of architecture, and Sue Weidemann, PhD, visiting professor of architecture, have each been honored with a 2014 Career Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, a worldwide interdisciplinary organization concerned with the inter-relationships of people with their built and natural surroundings. Schneekloth, who joined UB’s architecture department in 1982, is widely regarded for advancing the dynamics of professional and citizen engagement in placemaking through reflective practice, scholarship, and teaching. She has made significant contributions to environmental design research and practice through the reconceptualization of knowledge and the role of the imaginal in making and unmaking places. For the past 35 years, Weidemann, an environmental psychologist, has focused her practice, research and teaching on the relationships between people and the places and spaces they use. Her contributions to the field include pioneering research on housing satisfaction and workplace design and the development of widely cited social science- and survey-based design methodologies. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/edra_careerawards.html

Jordan Geiger published his essay and in-progress project, “Niagora,” for the inaugural issue of the Applied Research Practices in Architecture Journal. ARPA journal is an online resource organized by the Columbia University GSAPP. “Niagora” explores  US/Canadian border crossings as sites of opportunity for redevelopment, with the introduction of electronic toll collection and pass control services. http://arpajournal.gsapp.org/niagora/

Georg Rafailidis presented a paper on the project ‘Free Zoning’ at the annual Atmospheres symposium at the University of Manitoba earlier this year. He also presented a paper documenting the first year design studios he coordinated at the 30th annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at the Illinois Institute of Technology and will also present the work at the ACSA Fall conference later this year in Halifax, Canada at Dalhousie University. Rafailidis also presented his research on corbelled structures at the fifth annual Sustainable Structures Conference at Portland State University. He received a McDowell Colony fellowship and was a resident from March to April of this year for his research on corbelled structures and the integration of Phase Change Material into ceramic building blocks. In addition, the project MirrorMirror designed by Davidson Rafailidis is the winner of two 2014 AZ Design Excellence Awards, earning both the “People’s Choice Award” and an “Award of Merit” in the Temporary Architecture category sponsored by the design magazine Azure. The project is in the July/August issue of the magazine. MirrorMirror was set-up at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in June and is currently installed at Canalside in downtown Buffalo. It will return to the New Museum in New York for the 2015 IDEAS City Festival. Georg Rafailidis was selected as a participant in the 24th Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September this year.

Jin Young Song’s project Slanted memorial is selected for Bracket 4 Take Action. https://www.brkt.org/issue/contents/all/169/slanted-memorial/13/bracket-takes-action. His project Qube1 is featured in the Architizer article. http://architizer.com/blog/this-ten-hottest-products-trending-this-summer/

University of Southern California

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Vittoria Di Palma’s new book, Wasteland, A History, has just been published by Yale University Press. 

Dr. David Gerber of the USC School of Architecture chaired SimAUD 2014 an international conference on topics of simulation in architecture and urban design. Dr. Gerber is co-chairing this years’ ACADIA 2014 Design Agency conference hosted at the Unviersity of Southern California School of Architecture. Dr. Gerber is the first multiple recipient of the IDEA studio research grant from Autodesk Inc. and also received a second National Science Foundation grant award to support undergraduate student involvement in research. 

The study “Evidence-based model of building facade features using data mining for assessment of building performance” by Ph.D. Candidate Andrea Martinez and Assistant Professor Joon-Ho Choi is being presented (by Professor Choi) at the Indoor Air 2014 – ISIAQ Conference in Hong Kong. 

Neil Leach recently contributed to the new PhD program in Digital Design at the European Graduate School in Switzerland as a Professor of Digital Design, and is currently on a 3 week lecture tour of India and China. His latest publication, an issue of Architectural Design, Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research, will be published in the Fall, along with Swarm Intelligence: Architectures of Multi-Agent Systems, a volume that he has co-edited with Roland Snooks.

Professor James Steele is leading the first Foreign Studies Program which is based in Sao Paulo Brazil, with study trips to Ouro Preto, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janerio. It also includes travel to Buenos Aires, Lima, Peru, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Iberoamericana University in Mexico City (doing an urban planning project with Mexican students there) Merida and Yucatan, studying Mayan ruins.

Joon-Ho Choi, Assistant Professor of Building Science attend the International Society of Indoor Air Quality held in Hong Kong in July 2014, and presented two of his researches, “Evidence-based model of building façade features using data mining for assessment of building performance”, and “Visual environmental quality control using human physiological signal in an office workplace.” He was also selected as a recipient of the New Investigator Award in 2014-2015 by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, based on his “Human-Building Integration” research.

Dr. Travis Longcore (Associate Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture) is overhauling and offering the undergraduate course Ecological Factors in Design for the first time in over a decade.  The course is required in the newly re-launched undergraduate minor in Landscape Architecture and is an elective in the undergraduate B.S. degree in GeoDesign, a new major that is a collaborative venture between the School of Architecture, Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Karen M. Kensek collaborated with students to have four papers presented in San Francisco at ASES/ Solar 2014 in July and new alumni Alejandro Gamas and Elham Motevalian received travel scholarships to attend: 

  • Gamas, Alejandro, Kyle Konis, and Karen Kensek. “A Parametric Fenestration Design Approach for Optimizing Thermal and Daylighting Performance in Complex Urban Settings.”
  • Motevalian, Elham, Douglas Noble, Marc Schiler, and Karen Kensek. “Performance of Double Skin Façades: Effects on Daylight and Visual Comfort in Office Spaces.”
  • Tucker, Tyler, Karen Kensek, and Kyle Konis. “Performative Shading Design: Parametric Based Study of Shading System Configuration Effectiveness and Trends.”
  • Qian, Chenchuan (Trent), Karen Kensek, and Paul Ronney. “Thermal Mass and Time Lag: Calculating Heating and Cooling Energy from a Building Roof/wall.”

 

Kensek also had two papers chosen for presentation at 2014 ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA, Building Simulation Conference:

  • Sehrawat, Praveen and Karen Kensek. “Urban Energy Modeling: GIS as an Alternative to BIM.” 
  • Singh, Sukreet and Karen Kensek. “Early Design Analysis Using Optimization Techniques in Design/Practice.”  

University of Toronto

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Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, FRAIC, retired architect, educator and urban planner,  received an honorary doctorate in science  from McGill University on May 29.

Among many accomplishments, Ms. Van Ginkel, 90, was the first woman elected as an officer of the RAIC in 1972 and became its first female Fellow in 1973. She was the first woman to head a Canadian architecture school – at the University of Toronto – and is acclaimed for achievements in safeguarding Montreal’s cultural heritage.

Annmarie Adams, MRAIC, who represents the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture on the board of the RAIC, read the citation, calling van Ginkel “a visionary, a mentor extraordinaire and a true citizen of the world.”

University at Buffalo

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Joyce Hwang‘s practice, Ants of the Prairie, was featured in the Architect’s Newspaper: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7224. She was also featured in Architect Magazine, as part of its ‘Next Progressive’ series: http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/ants-of-the-prairie-into-the-wild_o.aspx. This article will be printed in the May 2014 issue. “Bat Tower,” completed in 2010, was published in Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer, 4th Edition, by Brian Edwards, published by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). On March 13, Professor Hwang delivered a lecture in New York City as part of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award, organized by the Architectural League of New York (http://archleague.org/2014/03/emerging-voices-ants-of-the-prairie-and-rael-san-fratello/). She also gave invited lectures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 6, and at Syracuse University on April 1 as part of a symposium, “Transections: an interdisciplinary exploration of design between the sciences and the humanities” (http://soa.syr.edu/email/2014/transections.html).

Jin Young Song and his research team, Brian Ravinsky (March/MUP) and Yan Duan (MUP) has won the Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund from UB APEC Study Center. The research titled, Prefabricating the Vernacular, is exploring the vernacular architecture focusing on Façade in order to find an alternative way of designing urban housing in the Southeast Asia region under the critique of the distorted modernization in already developed Asian cities. Song will lead the research team for the next two semesters. Jin Young Song’s project Qube also won the Architizer A+ Jury Award in the Products +Living category.

Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” has been selected as the winner of three Architizer A+ Awards. Architecture and Fabrication Category: Popular Choice Winner and Jury Winner, Architecture + Fabrication Category: Jury Winner.  Info can be found at: https://awards.architizer.com/winners/list/?id=2#cat-44-special and http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/04/012.html.  More recent news regarding “project 3xLP” can be found on Bustler, http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winning_skin_installation_3xlp_to_begin_tour_this_fall_in_texas and Archinect, http://archinect.com/news/article/97192468/winning-skin-installation-3xlp-to-begin-tour-this-fall-in-texas.

Online Paging: Delivering Interdisciplinary Print Resources to a Diverse Scholarly Community

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
Column Written by David Eifler, Librarian, Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley

 

Librarians are committed to improving the user experience and often this involves behind the scenes work to improve public services.  A recent initiative at the University of California Berkeley demonstrates this.

The interdisciplinarity of research in all fields is growing (biomorphology in architecture, river restoration in landscape architecture, and planners who research an ever-increasing number of disciplines from public health to transportation to business). At the University of California, Berkeley it has been increasingly apparent that students and other scholars frequently do without print material, or elect electronic resources, rather than transverse our 23 large and subject-specific libraries to obtain the wide variety of materials they want. Actual and perceived barriers to accessing print material may make electronic resources seem more attractive.

One solution to eliminate the spatial barriers to access was to institute a paging service where a book from any library could be requested and sent to any other library to be picked up. Similar to public libraries with branches, books and other circulating items within Berkeley’s libraries can be requested online (through our library catalog), pulled from the stacks by library staff, and delivered to one of 23 circulation points around campus. In order for it to succeed in one location, it had to be implemented campus-wide. Such was born “online paging,” which we expect patrons will eventually refer to by the label of the button used to initiate a transfer: “request”.

At Berkeley, a Paging Task Force with librarians and staff members was formed in October 2013 with a clear mandate from library administration to explore effective ways to implement a paging system. We first solicited input from colleagues who had already implemented similar services at Ball State, Ohio State, Stanford, University of Oregon, and UT Austin, (many of whom were contacted via the Association of Architecture School Librarians listserv.)  After exploring paging implementations at these and other public and academic libraries, as well as past policies and practices at Berkeley, the task force’s report was issued in mid-December and our implementation timeline, which called for an intersession “soft rollout,” was subsequently approved.

The implementation team that met throughout the spring addressed a number of issues prior to making this service available, including whether to fine patrons who requested but didn’t pick up books (no), which libraries to involve (all using our integrated library catalog), and what to do if another patron pulled a requested book off the shelf before it could be retrieved by staff (give it to the patron with the item in hand), and whether patrons would be able to request books from the same library where they were intended to be picked up (yes). At Berkeley, implementing “online paging” happened in tandem with library-wide standardization of loan periods across disparate campus libraries. This made testing of the new online paging service more complex, but greater standardization of loan periods will ultimately lead to a more cohesive library experience (common loan periods) for patrons.

The result: any book that circulates for longer than 7 days can be requested online from any campus library and will be delivered to any campus library within three days. Scholars will no longer need to navigate the Library of Congress call number system in 23 different locations to obtain the wide variety of intellectual content needed to support their interdisciplinary research. Undergrads who may have succumbed to the tendency to rely solely on electronic sources will now have the option to request print. Faculty who bemoaned the amount of time they spent traveling among libraries will now be able to engage in more fruitful research.

As of this writing, UC Berkeley’s online paging has been available for just over a week and already 300 items have been requested. Since we have just begun publicizing the service and summer classes begin in a week, it is too soon to report about online paging’s success. However, initial conversations with faculty and students indicate that it will be a popular service and one that has long been anticipated by our patrons. By removing the impediment to accessing our collection caused by having to navigate 23 libraries, we are facilitating the enhanced flow of information embodied in physical texts across the campus. We now have a delivery system in place that will allow us to more accurately assess the ongoing importance of print in an increasingly electronic world.

 

University of Oregon

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Professor Alison Kwok has been named Director of Graduate Studies in the Architecture Department.

Associate Professor Brook Muller is the author of Ecology and the Architectural Imagination (Routledge, 2014), on the architectural possibilities of ecology embedded from conceptual phases onward, how notions of function and structure of ecosystems can inspire ideas of architectural space making and order, and how the architect’s role and contribution can shift through this engagement. 

The 3rd edition of Sun, Wind, and Light by Mark KeKay and University of Oregon Professor G.Z. (Charlie) Brown is now available (Wiley, 2014). This fully updated edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. 

Associate Professor Nico Larco, Kristen Kelsey, and Amanda West just published Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods (Island Press, 2014). The book focuses on overlooked opportunities for walkability and is meant to be a guide for designers, planners, and developers.

Professor Kingston Heath, director of the Historic Preservation Program, has been awarded the 2014 Excellence Award for Directors of Graduate Studies by the University of Oregon Graduate School.

University of Oregon architecture student Cameron Huber received first place for the design of a green single-family house in the perFORM 2014: A House Design Competition. Huber won the $2,000 first place award for his entry, entitled HO[MIN]ID that the judges said showed restraint, purity of form, friendliness to neighborhood context and understanding of energy performance within a holistic approach to sustainability. 

University of Oregon interior architecture student Madeline Gorman won first place in the inaugural International Interior Design Association Oregon chapter design charrette in March at the Eastside Exchange Building in Portland, Oregon.

University of Oregon architecture student Grace Aaraj was an invited student speaker at the TEDx UOregon: Intersections: Diversity is Critical to Creativity. Her presentation was on the crossroads of language and creativity.

Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco presented a lecture at the National Conference of the American Planning Association in Atlanta and led a one day workshop at the University of Connecticut.  Both events focused on the SCYP model and how it can be adapted to different campuses throughout the country.

Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco lectured in Libreville, Gabon on the work of the Sustainable Cities Initiative and met with university faculty and officials from the Gabonese national government.  SCI is currently pursuing both research and educational partnerships with the University of Omar Bongo and with l’Agence Nationale des Grands Travaux (ANGT) through the Gabon Oregon Center.

Career Instructor Megan Haight gave a presentation entitled, “An Exercise in Public Engagement: Eugene YMCA Renewal,” at the 2014 Oregon Design Conference, May 1-3, 2014. Megan was joined by two UO students, Leslie Walker and Bob Nicholls; Dave Perez, the Executive Director of the Eugene Family YMCA; and Eric Gunderson, a partner at PIVOT design.

 Students from the University of Oregon are participating the Vicenza Architecture Program led by Professors Don Corner and Jenny Young.  After field studies in Roma and Firenze, they pursue a studio course in Vicenza for the spring term. This year’s trip includes a cross-cultural workshop with students from the Hochschule Darmstadt.

The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) hosted its third annual Sustainable City Year Conference in April.  The conference included faculty, administrators, and staff from colleges and universities around the globe that were interested in learning how to implement the SCYP model of broad-based collaborative engagement with local municipalities. It also included representatives from many of the thirteen programs

around the country that have adopted and adapted this model.  The model pairs as many as 35 courses from multiple disciplines within a single university with real-world projects from a single partner city. Associate Professor in Architecture and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco and Associate Professor in Planning and SCI Co-Director Marc Schlossberg helped organize and lead this year’s conference. 

Associate Professor and SCI-China Program Head Yizhao Yang and Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco will be leading a three day training workshop in Chengdu, China this summer.  This workshop will focus on Sustainable Urban Design and is run by the Sustainable Cities Initiative’s SCI-China Program.

 

 

 

University of Southern California

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The Platform is a collaborative design/build project by Assistant Professor Victor Jones for the Watts House Project (WHP), a non-profit neighborhood redevelopment organization located in South Central Los Angeles.  The Platform is part of a grassroots effort to transform three dilapidated shotgun houses on 107th Street to establish a cultural destination accommodating administrative offices, a community-run coffee shop, gardens, exhibition spaces and a meeting hall.  Assistant Professor Victor Jones united members from the community, an artist, two grant agencies, and five students from USC’s School of Architecture to realize the project.  Students worked alongside local residents to envision the insertion of a multi-purpose surface that redefines the entire site.  One continuous wall sheathes the front elevations of two existing structures and encloses the open space between them to create two new public spaces: a pocket park along the sidewalk and an internalized courtyard space.  The collaborative team identified existing forms of fence enclosure in the surrounding neighborhood to imagine how a ubiquitous residential element could be adopted to serve institutional and commercial needs.  The subtle manipulation of property enclosure allows the Platform to fit comfortably within its residential setting while adapting to specific performative needs.   

Washington University in St. Louis

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Internationally acclaimed landscape architect Rod Barnett has been appointed chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He will join the program Aug. 1.

A noted theorist and scholar, Barnett has designed landscapes in New Zealand, Australia, China, the Pacific Islands and the United States. He is the author of “Emergence in Landscape Architecture” (2013), which utilizes contemporary systems theory to explore how relatively simple interactions, filtered through continual processes of adaptation and evolution, create larger environments of dizzying complexity.

“Rod Barnett is one of the most interesting and original thinkers in landscape architecture today,” says Bruce Lindsey, dean of architecture and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration. “He is an innovative educator whose experiments with self-organization and nonlinear systems are grounded in a deep knowledge of art, history, philosophy, science, and design. We are delighted to welcome him to the faculty.”

“I am excited about the breadth and depth of experience Rod brings to the school,” says Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts. “During this important phase in our expansion of the landscape architecture program, his leadership will guide and strengthen our efforts in the areas of recruitment and program development, attracting the best students both nationally and internationally.” 

Barnett’s minimalist design for Lumley Plaza in Auckland City incorporates stone, water and evergreens — the essential elements of a Japanese stroll garden. The project won a Gold Award for commercial landscape design from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.  

Auburn University

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Alex Krumdieck, a principal in the Birmingham-based architecture and interior design firm Krumdieck A + I, has been hired as Interim Director of APLA’s acclaimed Urban Studio program based in Birmingham, Alabama. Alex will lead the APLA’s teaching team in Birmingham, focusing on the Fifth Year architecture students who choose the Urban Studio as the venue for their final year of study. Alex follows Cheryl Morgan, long-time Urban Studio Director, who retired last December. In addition to his teaching role, Alex will coordinate the outreach and community-based design activities of the Urban Studio and serve as a liaison to the other APLA and CADC faculty engaged in learning and outreach activities in Birmingham.

Phillip Ewing, BArch/ BIArch ’12, and MIT’s first recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Fellowship, has been lead architect for the CityHome project developed through MIT’s Changing Places Research Group. The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization, and Phillip was responsible for the overall design of the unit, from concept to construction drawing and fabrication. Working with the other lead engineering researchers on integrating their disparate mechanisms into one cohesive package, the team still works to maintain “plug-and-play” add-ons as the project continues to develop. The development of this micro-unit apartment was a demonstration platform for Phillip’s MIT thesis research, and you can watch a demo here.

Meagan Winchester, a senior in Environmental Design from Tampa, Florida, won first place for her poster presentation in the Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities category in Research Week’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium. Her poster, The Issues of Desertification and Food Production, presented her research on the topic of desertification and its effects throughout the world and the product that she designed to help repair land that was not previously desert but had become so because of human activities. Posters presentations were judged on quality of content, conclusions, visual material, presentation, originality, and significant to discipline. For more, read here .

Rural Studio Director Andrew Freear and Professor Elena Barthel, with Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and photographer Timothy Hursley,  published Rural Studio at Twenty by Princeton Architectural Press. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, co-founded by visionary Samuel Mockbee and his friend and colleague D.K. Ruth, and now directed by their equally dedicated and forward-thinking successor Andrew Freear. In addition to showcasing an impressive portfolio of projects, stunningly captured by photographer Timothy Hursley, this book provides an in-depth look at how Rural Studio has thrived through challenges and triumphs, missteps and lessons learned.

Purchase the book from this retailer to ensure that a portion of the proceeds go to the Rural Studio.

The Rural Studio is part of an exhibition currently on view in Paris at the Cite_ de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. The exhibition, ‘Re-Enchanting the World,’ was designed in collaboration with winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Rural Studio’s own Elena Barthel worked on Rural Studio’s contribution to the exhibition, which will run through October 6, 2014.

On May 14 the City of Austin, Texas announced that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, a product of a two-year collaboration between artists/architects Lucy Begg and Robert Gay of Thoughtbarn.  Begg and Gay, both Rural Studio alumni, were commissioned in 2012 to oversee the design and implementation of the community garden at the North Austin Community Recreation Center. The project’s aim was to blend artistic innovation with the necessary functionality and sustainability needed to run such a garden in cooperation with the community, Begg and Gay collaborated with the community throughout the design process and established the Garden Leadership Group to develop a governing structure for the garden as well as bylaws, membership fees and rules; the Group will be lead by community volunteers. As the garden gains membership, it will expand to fill a 20,000 square foot area of the park.

From May 25-August 3, 2014, The Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia, will be showing Design for Social Impact, an exhibition which offers a look at how designers, engineers, students, professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from the Southeastern United States are using design to solve the problems of the 21st century.

The exhibition includes projects by Georgia Tech Students, Plywood People, Stanford’s d-School, MIT’s D-Lab, Stryker, Michael Graves, Interface, Steelcase, Mad Housers, Auburn University and many others.

Ryan Stephenson, BArch ’08, and the Stephenson Design Collective  were featured in the  Seattle Times in a piece about a modern house they designed for a client.  For more, read here.

Professor and former Director of the Urban Studio, Cheryl Morgan was included, along with the Urban Studio, in a Wall Street Journal article featuring projects where commercial properties were converted into residences.  For more, read here.

APLA Alum and architect Bruce Lanier (Arch ’99) in a partnership with artist Heather Spencer Holmes, created a headquarters for Birmingham, Alabama’s collaborative community called MAKEbhm.  With a passion for creativity and community, MAKEbhm rents its space to anyone with creative ideas  about business, organizations, etc. and a desire to collaborate.  Read more here.

 

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