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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.

 

University of Waterloo

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View of Arctic Adaptations exhibition, Arctic Adaptations, 2014.
Image courtesy of Latreille Delage Photography.

Canada at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, Canada’s national exhibition at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition— la Biennale di Venezia, recently received a Special Mention Golden Lion Award for Canada and was ranked as one of the top 10 exhibitions by AZURE. The exhibition was organized and curated by Lateral Office, whose partners are Lola Sheppard, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and Mason White, Associate professor at the University of Toronto. Matthew Spremulli, adjunct professor the University of Waterloo, is a co-curator.

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 surveys a recent architectural past, a current urbanizing present, and a projective near future of adaptive architecture in Nunavut, Canada’s newest, largest, and most northerly territory, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2014. Today, there are almost 33,000 people living in 25 communities across two million square kilometres, making Nunavut one of the least densely populated regions in the world. These communities, located above the tree line and with no roads connecting them, range in population from 120 in the smallest hamlet to 7,000 in Nunavut’s capital city of Iqaluit. The climate, geography, and people of Nunavut, as well as the wider Canadian Arctic, challenge the viability of a universalizing modernity.

Modern architecture and urbanism encroached on this remote and vast region of Canada in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, or trade, among others. However, the indigenous Inuit people have inhabited the Canadian Arctic for millennia as a traditionally semi-nomadic people. Inuit relations with Canada have been fraught with acts of neglect, resistance, and negotiation. People have been re-located; trading posts, military infrastructure, and research stations have been built; and small settlements are now emerging as Arctic cities. Some have described this rapid confrontation with modernity as a transition “from igloos to internet” compressed into forty years. This abruptness has revealed powerful traits among its people—adaptation and resilience—qualities which modern architecture has often lacked.

Arctic Adaptations responds to the shared theme of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition: Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014. The exhibition documents modernism’s legacy in this remarkable but relatively unknown region of Canada, describes the contemporary realities of life in its communities, and examines a projected role for architecture moving forward. It argues that modern Inuit cultures continue to evolve and merge the traditional and the contemporary in unique and innovative ways, and questions whether architecture, which has largely failed this region—both technically and socially—can be equally innovative and adaptive.

The exhibition looks at the past 100 years through a series of carvings by Inuit artists of important buildings. It presents its current context through a series of bas relief models describing every community in Nunavut, paired with photographs taken by residents within each community. It projects forward 15 years, through a series of speculative architecture projects

Developed by five design teams. Each team is made up of a Canadian school of architecture, a Canadian architecture office with extensive northern experience, and a Nunavut-based organization. Each team’s proposal examines one theme – housing, health, education, arts, or recreation – and is rooted in Nunavut’s distinct land, climate and culture. A series of 15 ‘living models’ brought to life by time-based animations, hover in the exhibition space, describing proposals at three scales: the territorial, the community and the architectural scale.

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 will be at the Canada Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia from June 7 – November 23, 2014.

A catalogue, Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, as well as a broadly accessible publication, entitled Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Shifting Territory, will accompany Arctic Adaptations. After the exhibition returns from Venice it will tour Canada in 2015-17.

Links to other media:

Azure Magazine:

http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/dispatch-venice-biennale/

 

Canadian Architect

http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/canadas-arctic-adaptations-nunavut-at-15-honoured-by-a-special-mention-at-the-14th-international/1003111917/

http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/arctic-adaptations-nunavut-at-15-to-represent-canada-at-the-14th-international-architecture/1003092884/

ACSA Update 6.13.14

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June 13, 2014

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Connect to the ACSA/AIK International Conference

To help you plan your OPEN CITIES experience, check out the mobile app. Features include a detailed schedule, speaker bios, maps and a documents guide including paper abstracts. You will also be able to share your own pictures of Seoul in the Gallery, or by using #opencities14 on Twitter. Downloading the OPEN CITIES app is quick and easy. You can get it for your iPhone, iPad, Android, or web browser.

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Bring a Guest to Monday Evening’s Toyo Ito Lecture

Guests are welcome to come see Toyo Ito deliver the keynote lecture Monday, June 23, 2014, 5:00-6:30pm at the Ewha Womans University.

 

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Read the Paper Abstracts and View the Research + Design Project Winners

We offer full PDF downloads of the paper abstracts and a gallery of the Research + Design Projects. The projects will also be on display at the Ewha Womans University.

 

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Download an at-a-glance Schedule

In Seoul, we will hand out a shortened version of the schedule for attendees, but you can also download it in advance! Check out the app to select the sesions you want to attend and add them to “My Schedule.”

 

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Architecture Students Travel to Haiti for Service Project

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Washington, D.C., June 6, 2014 – The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is partnering with Howard University, School of Architecture and Design with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture to lead a public-interest design education and service-learning project in Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes, Haiti. With support from the Fetzer Institute, the 2014 Haiti Summer Studio is the continuation of the “2011 Haiti Idea Challenge” where students were asked to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, and neighborhoods affected by the 2010 earthquake. The challenges include designing and building a media resource center in an area without running water or electricity and using designs that can be built by local residents themselves.

Ten students and six advisors from the U.S. will join Howard University’s partner, Mercy Outreach Ministry International, and Haiti’s University GOC on a design project that will help Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes residents develop the capacity to improve their daily lives through architectural design solutions. The group will spend two weeks in Haiti, where the students will practice the principles of compassionate and participatory design. The outcomes of the studio, including a documentary video chronicling the experience, will be published by the ACSA as a model for other schools to use service-learning to implement collaborative and participatory design processes that empower local citizens and foster community resilience.

The studio will be coordinated by Professor Lynne M. Dearborn of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), School of Architecture and the project led by the partnership of Professors Edward Dunson, Victor Dzidzienyo and Bradford Grant of Howard University (HU) School of Architecture and Design along with Michael Monti and Eric Ellis of the ACSA.

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About ACSA
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The school membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 schools in several membership categories. These include full membership for all accredited programs in the United States and government-sanctioned schools in Canada, candidate membership for schools seeking accreditation, and affiliate membership for schools for two-year and international programs. Through these schools, over 5,000 architecture faculty are represented. In addition, over 500 supporting members composed of architecture firms, product associations and individuals add to the breadth of interest and support of ACSA goals. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations. www.acsa-arch.org

ABOUT HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The School of Architecture and Design has a tradition of activist community service in design that advances collaborative scholarship, research, teaching and learning in the global context. Howard has produced more African American and Black architects than any other institution in the world. www.howard.edu

ABOUT THE ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Illinois School of Architecture is one of the oldest and largest schools of architecture in the country. Since the initiation of its architectural curriculum in 1867, the University of Illinois has consistently broken new ground in the education of architects in the United States. www.arch.uiuc.edu

ABOUT MERCY OUTREACH MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL, INC
MOM the international outreach mission of the Full Gospel Church of the Lord’s Missions International, Inc. It is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the transmission of appropriate technology for sustainable community and economic growth in developing countries. MOM has targeted the dispossessed and suffering in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It is listed among the poorest of all countries in the developing world. MOM is particularly dedicated to the rural communities that are isolated and without modern sanitation, food, water, and educational and medical facilities. www.mercyoutreachministry.org

ABOUT FETZER INSTITUTE
The Fetzer Institute is a nonprofit, private operating foundation based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Established by broadcast pioneer John E. Fetzer (1901-1991), the Institute uses its philanthropic resources to create programs that foster awareness of the power that love, forgiveness, and compassion can have in our world. Visit Fetzer Institutes Website at www.fetzer.org

 

Washington University in St. Louis

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On April 26, 2014, Dean and Professor Emeritus Constantine E. (Dinos) Michaelides participated as a keynote speaker in a seminar organized by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and the Natural Environment (ELLET – NGO) and the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. The seminar took place on the island of Hydra. Titled “The Study of Hydra, Fifty Years Later” Michaelides’s presentation focused on both the Greek and US roots of the original study as well as subsequent publications on the development of the island town during recent decades.

AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller have been selected to contribute to the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale as an OFFICE US Outpost Architect.  The mission of OFFICE US is to “critically reflect on the production of US architectural firms abroad, while simultaneously projecting a new model for global architectural practice open to all of us.”  Commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture and curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Anna Miljacki, and Ashley Schafer, the US contribution will collaboratively research, study, and remake projects from an onsite archive‘ of 1,000 buildings designed by US offices over the last 100 years.
AGENCY is one of 90 architects worldwide who will collaborate with the eight OFFICE US partners headquartered in the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale to collectively redefine architectural production.

Washington University in St. Louis

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Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, had his monograph on Alvar Aalto published by Phaidon Press in June 2014. McCarter lectured on “The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa” at the University of Virginia (March 2014), Dalhousie University Halifax (April 2014), and the University of South Florida Tampa (May 2014). McCarter lectured on “The Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright” and “Wright at the Start: The Prairie Houses as Origin of Wright’s Ordering Principles” at Dalhousie University Halifax (April 2014), the University of Oregon (April 2014) and for the FLW Gordon House Conservancy in Portland, Oregon (April 2014). McCarter lectured on “Taking the Book to the Light: Louis Kahn’s Evolution of the Library in Three Designs” in the SOM New York Professional Development lecture series (February 2014). McCarter was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the Washington University interdisciplinary journal, The Common Reader, and as a Founding Member of the International Advisory Council for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

Using Neatline to bring research to life; a collaborative project at the University of Virginia

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors

June column written by Rebecca Cooper Coleman, Architecture and Instruction Librarian, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts library and Ronda Grizzle, Project Management & Training Specialist, Digital Research & Scholarship, University of Virginia

In the Fall semester of 2014, seventeen students enrolled in On Haj with Ibn Jubayr: Reconstructing the 12th Century Mediterranean.  The course, cross-listed as both an architectural history and art history seminar, focused on the writings of 12th century Muslim Ibn Jubayr as a starting point for broader exploration of the visual culture associated with pilgrimage and Mecca.  Final projects in the class consisted of online exhibits created using Neatline, which was developed in the University of Virginia Library Scholar’s Lab, and is described as “a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts…”  Successful integration of Neatline into the course required collaboration between faculty member Lisa Reilly, course teaching assistant Elizabeth Mitchell, Scholar’s Lab technical trainer Ronda Grizzle and GIS specialist Kelly Johnston, and Architecture Librarian Rebecca Cooper Coleman.  Through their work with Neatline, students brought their research to life, using the tools and methodologies of the experimental humanities to create coherent narratives on their themes.  Students also learned to navigate primary sources and negotiate issues of intellectual property while curating their work for the web.  The collaboration between faculty and the Library in shaping and executing the assignment promoted numerous learning objectives that stretched far beyond the course title and allowed students to acquire skills that will continue to serve them as scholars.

The exhibits can be viewed here.

Your Jurisdiction and You

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By Michael Monti, ACSA Executive Director

Expect cautious optimism over the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) endorsement of a path for students to earn an architectural license and a professional degree together. The decision last week sets in motion a process to get the first students underway. The idea is easy to get behind, but for these plans to succeed, schools and state licensing boards will need to collaborate. A change to a licensing regulation may be necessary, but alone it is not sufficient. Licensure upon graduation will instead require substantial commitments from schools and the profession.

From the schools it starts with a commitment to design a curriculum that adds professional competency—attested to by the license—as one of its outcomes. This drastic expansion in scope should not be underestimated. Schools and the profession will have to build and sustain a system to move students along a path that will take 10 years to bring to maturity.  

From the profession there must be a commitment to employ students regularly. This is not an infusion of free labor, it is more like a compact between firms and schools to have ongoing conversations about the experiences that students will get while working. 

The path to licensure is greatly streamlined when students satisfy educational and licensing requirements at the same time. Students seeking a license at graduation may need additional support.

Students must be confident that employment opportunities early in school will be in supply. During the contraction of the profession in 2008 and the years after, architecture programs faced real difficulties matching students and employers. Students looking for a job will have to be savvy about finding the right match. Firms taking students will have to adjust, as well. Interns need IDP experience across a number of work areas, and architecture schools typically define in advance the educational outcomes that work in a professional office will occasion. In other words, what happens in the office will have to be purposely educational.

A clear path to being an architect starting after high school is a potential game changer, but only with a lot of coordination, transparency, and frank assessments of the costs and benefits will it succeed. Start by looking where you live to see what the state requirements for registration are. What degree is required for registration? When can someone start taking the ARE? Are additional requirements in place?

If you’re lucky, you, too, could live in a state that wants your school to be responsible for both the education and the training of architects.

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