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Clemson University

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 The U. S. Department of Energy selected Clemson University team to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition. Over the coming months, Associate Professor Vincent Blouin, PhD principal investigator and the Clemson Solar Decathlon team will design, construct and test their house before reassembling it at the competition site in Irvine, CA.

Ulrike Heine has been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor. Heine teaches classes in design and sustainability and has been recognized more than  seven times throughout the past years as students in her design studio classes won national and international awards for their work in sustainable design.

Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD contributed to A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 1960-2010 edited by E. G. Haddad and D. Rifkind (Ashgate, 2014) with his chapter “Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959.”

Assistant Professor Armando Montilla published his article “Retracing Propinquity and the Ethno[flow]” in Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 2(3), ‘Complex Urbanism’ pp. 142 – 148. Montilla will also present his paper “Suburban Re-structuring and Dense Agglomeration Resilience in the midst of the ‘Ethnocity’: The case of Miami’s Hispanic community ‘Unrooting’ and the Foreclosure Crisis” at the ATINER 3rd Conference in Urban Studies and Planning in Athens, Greece, June 10-13, 2014. 

Assistant Professor Carlos Barrios, PhD presented and published his following peer-reviewed papers: “Navigation and Visualization in Multidimensional Spaces” in Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) Kyoto Japan, May 2014; “Parametric Models in Hyperspace” in 102nd ACSA annual meeting. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Miami Florida, April 2014; “A Textile Block Grammar: Shape Grammars in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Californian Textile Block Houses” in Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica Digital, SIGraDi, Valparaiso, Chile, November 2013.

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, presented his Assistive Robotic Table (“ART”) at CHI 2014 in Toronto, and will present the LIT KIT at Design or Interactive Systems (DIS 2014) in Vancouver. Green is principal investigator for both of these NSF-supported projects featuring embedded computing. Green is co-author of Architectural Robotics: Towards an Ecosystem of Bits, Bytes and Biology, forthcoming from MIT Press.

AIASC, its section champions and Clemson architecture students and faculty have received a 2014 national AIA Component Excellence Award in the Public Affairs and Communications: Outstanding Overall Program category for “Kids in Architecture Workshops.” This collaborative project celebrated the coincident centennials of AIASC and Clemson architecture while providing an opportunity for children to explore the creation of architecture through drawing, modeling and a full-size interactive model. A unique aspect of the program was the collaborative teaming: Clemson architecture students and faculty in Genoa (Italy), Charleston and the Clemson campus; AIASC architects from Spartanburg, Greenville, Columbia, Charleston, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach; and the children’s museums in each of these cities. Professor Lynn Craig and Associate Professor Daniel Harding, Associate Professor Ray Huff and Lecturer David Pastre took the lead.

Lynn Craig, FAIA, RIBA, has been recognized for his 33 years of dedicated service to the School of Architecture. Last year, Craig received the 2013 AIASC Medal of Distinction, AIASC’s highest honor.

Fourth-year undergraduate architecture student Nick Tafel (Senior Lecturer Annemarie Jacques and Lecturer Dustin Albright, faculty advisers) won the AIAS/AGA Ascension Design Competition. The competition challenged students to design adaptable, lightweight wheelchair ramps using galvanized steel to be implemented throughout the country in the AIAS Freedom By Design program. 

Clemson’s School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Ulrike Heine will be serving as the School’s Associate Chair; Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD will continue his leadership as Director of Graduate Programs; and Associate Professor Rob Silance and Assistant Professor Sallie Hambright-Belue will be serving as Co-Directors of Undergraduate Studies.

University of Southern California

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Assistant Professor Kenneth Breisch  is currently at work on a history of the Los Angeles Public Library, the centerpiece of which will be a chapter on Bertam Grosvenor Goodhue’s Central Building, which opened in 1926. “In part and in detail the building recalls numerous ancient styles,” observed Goodhue’s associate architect, Carleton Monroe Winslow, “for no building, particularly a Library, can disregard the accumulation of architectural experience of the past.”  As conceived by the architect, working in collaboration with the poet and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander and sculptor Lee Lawrie, this “accumulation of architectural experience” can be perceived in manifold and ambiguous ways.  Goodhue’s “modified” Spanish Colonial forms, for example, suggest a plethora of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions.  Articulated with classical pilasters and pylons that metamorphose into busts of ancient artists and philosophers, Goodhue’s library sits like a great ziggurat in a lush garden.  The central tower, its crowning pyramid sheathed in colorful mosaic tiles, recalls at once Iberian, Byzantine and Egyptian sources, as well as the form of a modern American skyscraper. Alexander’s inscriptions, as well as Lawrie’s sculptural figures, likewise, borrow from Greece and Rome, the ancient Near East, Egypt, China and India, to create a veritable cathedral of knowledge, intended to be experienced as a literary and philosophical journey through history.

Professor Breisch is the former Director and founder of the School’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, which, under his leadership, has been the recipient of California Preservation Foundation President’s and a Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation awards. He has taught at SCI-Arc, The University of Delaware and The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Breisch has published numerous articles, book reviews and book chapters on American architectural history, especially in the areas of library design and vernacular building. His book, Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology, was published by MIT in 1997.
 
He is the co-editor of Constructing Image, Identity and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, IX (Nashville: University of Tennessee Press: 2003) and Building Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture X, which will be published in 2005. He is currently completing a book on the history of library design for the Library of Congress, and is working on a book on the history of the Los Angeles Public Library system. His research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Michigan.
 
Professor Breisch has been a member of the board of directors of The Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Society of Architectural Historians, and currently serves as President of the latter group. He has been a member of the Santa Monica Planning Commission and is now on the Library Board in that city.

University of Southern California

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Selected for its embrace of technology and sustainability, the TR+2 StudioHouse in Pacific Palisades, designed by Adjunct Professor Mark Cigolle and Professor Kim Coleman, was the site of one month of events marking the international launch of BMW’s i8 carbon fiber hybrid sports car.

Associate Professor Amy Murphy’s chapter “New Orleans, Nature, and the Apocalyptic Trope” has been included in the recently released Verso publication New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning, co-editors: Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, and Anthony Fontenot, with a foreword by Mike Davis.  

Professor Diane Ghirardo, Ph.D. presented a paper, “Who is the Architect?” at the American Association of Italian Studies conference in Zurich in May 2014; in April, she lectured at the University of Enna in Sicily on “Women and Space in Early Modern Italy,” and on “Lucrezia Borgia entrepreneur,” at Casa Romei, in Ferrara. 

Vittoria Di Palma’s essay “Empire Gastronomy,” which explores connections between architecture, the outline drawing, and the invention of nouvelle cuisine, has just been published in AA Files 68. 

Patrick Tighe, FAIA, had the privilege of being a juror for the 2014 New York AIA Awards. Jurors included Giancarlo Mazzanti, Kunle Adeyemi, Reed Kroloff, Sheila Kennedy, Sharon Johnston, Robert Campbell, Alberto Campo Baeza, Regine Leibinger and Joeb Moore. An exhibition of the award winning work is currently on view at The Center for Architecture, New York. Patrick Tighe Architecture was awarded a 2014 AIA, HUD Secretary’s Housing Award. The award is granted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development along with the National Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The project will be recognized at the 2014 National AIA Convention In Chicago (June) where Tighe will participate in a panel discussion and present the work. Tighe also served as a juror for the 2014 2 x 8 competition. The 2 x 8 honors and exhibits the best work of California’s Architecture schools. 

Scott Uriu’s work has been added to the permanent collection of the FRAC Center in Orleans France for his firms model, drawings, and animation of the project “Animated Apertures”.   Uriu will be featured in the July 2014 issue of Interior Design Magazine for his “Aperture” installation at the SciArc gallery (Baumgartner+Uriu).  

1567 will be Co-Chairing ACADIA 2014 together with Alvin Huang and David Gerber, to be hosted in October 2014 in USC School of Architecture. Keynote speakers include Zaha Hadid, Will Wright and Casey Reas among others. The event will bring together the design community interested in the intersection between design and technology showcasing the fore-front of techniques and paradigms that constitute our practice.  Jose has also been selected as a cluster champion for Smart Geometry Conference 2014 to be held in Hong Kong.  Together with Satoru Sugihara and Sergio Irigoyen, the ‘BLOCK’ cluster will focus in developing a game app, for urban speculation and analysis of the different agencies that determine the urban density of Hong Kong.

Neil Leach has been appointed Professor at the European Graduate School, and is teaching on their new PhD program in Digital Design. He is publishing three new edited volumes this year, including an issue of Architectural Design on ‘Space Architecture: The New Frontier of Design Research’. 

Adjunct Associate Professor Jennifer Siegal’s newest mobile project will be featured in the Truck-A-Tecture exhibition at the Kaneko Museum opening on June 27 in Omaha, NE. In August it will travel and be on display at Google, Venice (Silicon) Beach, CA.

Adjunct Associate Professor Yo-ichiro Hakomori will be leading the Global Initiative Study Abroad program to Asia in the Fall Semester, 2014.  Along with landscape professor Takako Tajima, the two will lead a group of students to Japan and China.  While in Japan, the program will engage in a joint urban design workshop with students from Meiji University School of International Architecture and Urban Design, and the University of Dortmunt, Germany.  In China the group will work with students from the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture to research preservation and repurposing the traditional Hutong.  The semester will culminate with an landscape urban design studio at the Hong Kong University in Shanghai.

Eric Nulman recently completed a fellowship at The MacDowell Colony. While in residence, Eric worked on the project Mono Environments; Mono Environments was design research on the use of ephemeral ornament (colored-light shadows) to generate a singular spatial aesthetic. Eighteen light patterned environments were created using physical models with custom cut theatrical gels to filter sunlight onto interior walls and floors; these temporary environments were documented in situ with photographs and represented through drawings. 

Rob Ley, Lecturer, recently completed an interactive curtain wall facade as part of the New Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis, IN.  The project stretches 12,000 s.f. and changes color through lenticular articulation in response to the building users’ direction of travel and speed. 

Dr. Travis Longcore (Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Associate Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences) was an invited speaker at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities Spring Symposium “Envisioning Drought-Resilient Cities.”  He spoke on “Interstitial Greening for a Drought-Reslient City.”  Longcore was also a quoted expert in the Los Angeles Times on issues associated with alley cleanups.   

Dr. David Jason Gerber is co-chairing this years’ ACADIA 2014 Annual conference titled Design Agency held at the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Dr. Gerber chaired and edited the 5th annual conference on Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design. 

Professor James Steele, Ph.D. has been selected to be a member of the  jury for the International Design Competition for the Noble Quran Oasis, held from May -1 to 15th in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

Lecturer Mina M. Chow, AIA, NCARB and USC School of Cinematic Arts Adjunct Associate Professor Mitchell Block have won a prestigious documentary grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts  for their film FACE OF A NATION:  “What Happened at the World’s Fair?”  An inquiry into national identity and the importance of the vision through the architecture of World’s Fairs, the film introduces the debate about the importance of vision created by architects as part of the immigrant American dream. 

Dr. Joon-Ho Choi, Assistant Professor of Building Science at USC was recently invited to the National Math and Science Competition as a special lecturer. He talked about “How and why to be an engineer/ scientist” for K-12 students. Dr.  Choi will open a new course, titled “Sustainable Design for Healthy Indoor Environments” in the fall semester of 2014 based on his robust research experience with the Workplace 20.20 project supported by the General Services Administration. He will present two of his research papers at the 13th International Society of Indoor Air Quality: “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”. The conference will be held in Hong Kong in July 7 to 12, 2014. 

Lawrence Scarpa and his partner Angela Brooks of Brooks + Scarpa were named the recipients of the 2014 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Award in Architecture. 

Assistant Professor Rachel Berney has been awarded entry into the USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant Writing Mentorship Program. During the 2014-2015 school year, she will develop funding proposals for her new Los Angeles-based research project MOBILE CITIES, under the mentorship of Dr. Ann Forsyth of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. 

Assistant Professor Alexander Robinson recently delivered a keynote lecture at a symposium on “Parametrics” at Washington State University. He also presented his recent work in a lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and presented peer reviewed work at CELA in Baltimore and SIMAUD in Tampa, Florida (by proxy). 

Victor J. Jones, Assistant Professor of Architecture has been newly appointed to the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Lecturer Vinayak Bharne’s latest book Zen Spaces & Neon Places: Reflections on Japanese Architecture and Urbanism was released on May 1. The book brings together two decades of Bharne’s scholarship on Japan since his first trip in 1993 as the Asia-Pacific Development Commission Traveling Scholar from India.

Lecturer Nefeli Chatzimina – Founder of X|Atelier Architects – completed construction of a Flagship store for a prestigious Insurance Company in Athens, Greece. Nefeli during the Summer 2014 will be organizing International Architectural Design Workshops in Europe [Athens and Innsbruck]. Selected students from USC will participate in this design academic research with the title ‘Functionless’ using the latest computational design techniques and digital fabrication technologies. X|Atelier workshops are based on Nefeli’s current PhD Research as a selected candidate from the University of Athens in Greece. 

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

Virginia Tech

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Henri deHahn, provost for the NewSchool of Architecture + Design in San Deigo, California, will join Virginia Tech in June as the director of the School of Architecture + Design (http://www.archdesign.vt.edu) in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

DeHahn will provide leadership to the undergraduate and graduate programs within the school, including the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, and interior design as well as the six research and outreach centers housed within the school. 

Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design offers undergraduate and graduate education through the Blacksburg, Va., campus, the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center in Alexandria, Va., and programs engaged at the Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva san Vitale, Switzerland.

“Henri brings a wealth of national and international experience from large and academically diverse institutions to the School of Architecture + Design,” said Jack Davis, Reynolds Metals Professor of Architecture and dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Prior to his most recent role as provost at the NewSchool of Architecture + Design, deHahn was department head and professor for the Department of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and has held faculty positions with ETH Zurich — a renowned university in Zurich, Switzerland — and the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., and served as a visiting professor at the Aayojan School of Architecture in Jaipur, India.

In addition to his academic experience, deHahn has worked as an architect and consultant on a variety of projects in the United States and Switzerland.

DeHahn earned his Master of Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and his Bachelor of Science from the Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland. He has completed additional studies in New York. at The Cooper Union and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Auburn University

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Nearly 40 creative research projects by CADC faculty, graduate and undergraduate students were exhibited in the Auburn University Research Week 2014 Creative Scholarship Showcase at the Auburn and Dixon Conference Center, April 15_16. Every school was represented, and projects ranged from the collaboration by interior architecture professor Sheri Schumacher and graphic designer professor Robert Finkel that created the Alabama Workshop[s] Brochure/Poster; industrial design student Ben Travis’s portable coffee press; graphic design student Avenley Horner’s Form Magazine; to landscape architecture professor David Hill’s Phenology project. “The depth, breadth and beauty of CADC creative research is, as Karen Rogers, CADC Associate Dean for Research, describes it, “absolutely stunning.”

Professor Emeritus Steffen R. Doerstling, PhD, passed away on Saturday, April 19. He was 86. Doerstling joined Auburn Architecture faculty in 1966 and retired in 1995. He is survived by his wife Ingrid, his son, Mark, his daughter-in-law and grandchildren. 

The Auburn University Office of Sustainability announced its 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award winners on Tuesday, April 22.  Judd Langham, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, a 2007 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, was one of the alumni recipients and Alexis Harrison, a senior in Environmental Design who will earn a minor in Sustainability, received a student award.  They were selected as “representatives of the larger passion and commitment to sustainability that exists within the Auburn community.”

Several faculty members and graduate students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) were involved in technical sessions at Advance in Atlanta, the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 26-29. 

Lauren Waldroop, a senior in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Environmental Design (CADC) program, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research and study in Germany in the coming academic year. Lauren, who has dual degrees in Environmental Design and German with a double minor in International Business and Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, will study with Professor Jan Pieper in the Department of Architectural History at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University in Aachen, Germany. She will be part of a team of faculty and students conducting a comparative study of Northern Renaissance and Southern Renaissance architecture in theaters.

Graduate Students in the Master of Integrated Design & Construction program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction won several awards in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Challenge Home Student Design Competition to develop cost-effective zero energy ready homes for mainstream builders. Working under the direction of Professors Christian Dagg and Mike Thompson, the students designed two prototypes for a 1,600 square foot house that costs $110 square foot to build. The students competed against 28 schools from across the U.S. and Canada. The MIDC Orange Team won “Best Design Solution, and MIDC Blue team  won “Best Presentation “ and special recognition for “Subject Area Award: Design Goals” and  “Subject Area Award: Net Zero Design Integration.”The Auburn University Master of Integrated Design & Construction (MIDC) program is one of the only degree-granting programs in the United States that is jointly housed between construction management and architecture programs—Auburn University’s McWhorter School of Building Science and the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

On May 16 former Auburn University Urban Studio director Cheryl Morgan  presented a retrospective of Urban Studio work for the AIA Northwest Florida at the Museum of Commerce in Pensacola, Florida.

APLA congratulates alumnus Heather Brantley Stallworth (BArch / BIntArch ’00) and Catalyst Architects, LLC on being presented with the Robert Mills Design Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the design of ‘Seahorse: A Beach House.’  Amanda Herron Loper (BArch / BIntArch ’05) recently received an AIA San Francisco Merit Award for Interior Architecture  for the St. Frank Coffee shop.

APLA alumni–founded Epicenter recently announced that the Union Pacific Foundation will be contributing a sixth year of support.  The Foundation was Epicenter’s very first supporter in 2008 and is honored to be one of the Foundation’s forty-one grantees to which they awarded over two million dollars this year.

 

Creating a Reading List for Architecture Students

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
Column written by Rose Orcutt, Architecture Librarian, University of Buffalo

 

At the University at Buffalo, undergraduates and graduate students in the School of Architecture & Planning often inquire about “reading lists” that can provide an introduction/overview to various theories, typologies, and architectural influences covered in their classes.

I consulted with seven of my architecture faculty, including the Dean of Architecture, and from them I received a number of responses and suggestions, including reading lists from Princeton and Yale. This exchange developed into discussions on the demand for other architecture related reading lists. Based on popular assignments and students’ research interests, we are creating lists on the history of Buffalo and Western New York, gender/identity in architecture, a faculty publication list, and a UB architecture and planning research centers’ reading list.

The first list compiled is made up of resources considered to be  the ‘classics’ in architecture based on the Princeton, Yale, and UB architecture faculty suggestions.  This list is not a static document, but updated routinely though my Blog at http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/architecture/?page_id=1188 . Resources are arranged by years published, rather than topics, because the subjects are too varied, thus making the list unmanageable. The American Planning Association has a similar list (arranged by decades) for their top 100 essential planning books at http://planning.org/centennial/greatbooks/ .  A Pinterest page http://www.pinterest.com/ublibraries/architecture-reading-list/, developed by a library school graduate student, also highlights the classic resources. Both the Pinterest site and the blog provide direct links to the UB Library catalog record, so students can quickly refer to the resource.

 

2000s:

Allen, S., & Agrest, D. (2000). Practice: architecture, technique, and representation. Australia: G+B Arts International.

Balmond, C., Smith, J., & Brensing, C. (2002). Informal. Munich ; New York: Prestel.

Bergdoll, B. (2000). European architecture 1750-1890. New York: Oxford University Press.

Colquhoun, A. (2002). Modern architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Eisenman, P. (2004). Eisenman inside out: Selected writings, 1963-1988. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Foreign Office Architects., & Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, E. (2003). Phylogenesis: Foa’s ark. Barcelona: Actar.

Forty, A. (2000). Words and buildings: A vocabulary of modern architecture. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson.

LeGates, R. T., & Stout, F. (2003). The city reader. London: New York.

Reiser, J., & Umemoto, N. (2006). Atlas of novel tectonics. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 

Smithson, A. M., & Smithson, P. (2001). The charged void–architecture. New York: Monacelli Press.

1990s:

Allen, S. (1999). Points + lines: Diagrams and projects for the city. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Blaser, W. (1997). Mies van der Rohe. Basel ; Boston: Birkhauser Verlag.

Boyer, M. C. (1996). The city of collective memory: Its historical imagery and architectural entertainments. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Corner, J. (1999). Recovering landscape: Essays in contemporary landscape architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Eisenman, P. (1999). Diagram diaries. New York: Universe.

Evans, R. (1997). Translations from drawing to building and other essays. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Hays, K. M. (1998). Architecture theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.

Hays, K. M. (1998). Oppositions reader: Selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture, 1973-1984. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Jackson, J. B. (1994). A sense of place, a sense of time. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Koolhaas, R. (1994). Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. New York: Monacelli Press.

Koolhaas, R., Mau, B., Sigler, J., Werlemann, H., & Office for Metropolitan Architecture. (1998). Small, medium, large, extra-large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau. New York, N.Y.: Monacelli Press. 

Lynn, G. (1998). Folds, bodies & blobs : collected essays. [Bruxelles]: La Lettre volée.

Schneider, U., Feustel, M., Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen., & Kunstcentrum deSingel (Antwerp, B. (1999). Toyo Ito: Blurring architecture. Milan: Charta.

Venturi, R., Museum of Modern Art (New York, N., & Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. (1990). Complexity and contradiction in architecture. New York : New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago.

1980s:

Banham, R. (1980). Theory and design in the first machine age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Foster, H. (1983). The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture. Port Townsend, Wash.: Bay Press.

Kern, S. (1983). The culture of time and space 1880-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Krauss, R. E. (1985). The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 

Libeskind, D. (1981). Between zero and infinity: Selected projects in architecture. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications.

Le Corbusier. (1986). Towards a new architecture. New York: Dover Publications.

Lynch, K. (1984). Good city form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Rossi, A., & Eisenman, P. (1982). The architecture of the city. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Rowe, C. (1982). The mathematics of the ideal villa, and other essays. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Salvadori, M., Hooker, S., & Ragus, C. (1980). Why buildings stand up: The strength of architecture. New York: Norton.

1970s:
Conrads, U. (1971). Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Tafuri, M. (1979). Architecture and utopia: Design and capitalist development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.


1960s:

Banham, R. (1969). The architecture of the well-tempered environment. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press.

Giedion, S. (. (1967). Space, time and architecture: The growth of a new tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Le Corbusier, Boesiger, W., & Girsberger, H. (1967). Le Corbusier, 1910-65. New York: Praeger.


1940s:

Giedion, S. (., & Library of Robert Duncan (State University of New York at Buffalo). (1948). Mechanization takes command, a contribution to anonymous history. New York: Oxford University Press.

University of Southern California

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USC professors have won a highly prestigious NASA research award to develop new robotic construction technologies for building structures on the Moon and Mars. Professors Behrokh Khoshnevis (Industrial Engineering), Anders Carlson (Architecture), Neil Leach (Architecture) and Madhu Thangavelu (Astronautics) have been awarded a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts [NIAC] research award for a project entitled, ‘ISRU Based Robotic Construction Technologies for Lunar and Martian Infrastructure’. The project is based on the concept of ‘In Situ Resource Utilization’ [ISRU], and seeks to use resources readily available on the Moon and Mars as construction materials for novel robotic construction technologies in order to build infrastructure components such as roads, landing pads, blast walls and storage spaces. The project builds upon the success of an earlier NIAC Phase 1 award won by the team for a project entitled, ‘Contour Crafting Simulation Plan for Lunar Settlement Infrastructure’.

Assistant Professor Anders Carlson is Co-PI on the project. He is examining the environmental variables affecting infrastructure design including extreme thermal cycling, radiation, micrometeorite impacts, vacuum, and moon or Mars gravity. Integrated design is being investigated to understand the importance of each environmental constraint and its comparison to design on earth. His focus is on assessing the viability of different structural forms influenced by the Lunar and Martian environments, construction methods and sequencing, and heat transfer. The research will rely on informed parametric design to conduct optimal form-finding based on environmentally imposed constraints and various competing objectives including material processing, transport and quantity.

The recent promise of Landscape Architecture is predicated on capturing an expanded territory of the urban matrix. Landscape Urbanism positions the profession to engage with the entire “horizontal body” of the city, suggesting that landscape architects are poised to succeed in this complex negotiation.

However, while the profession has enjoyed a growing role in planning, it often finds itself sidelined in determining the morphology of urban infrastructure – the instrumental built form that patterns the vast majority of the urban condition.

The work of the Landscape Morphologies Lab, directed by USC landscape architecture professor Alexander Robinson, seeks to build tools and methodologies for advancing the craft and agency of design practices in instrumental territories, where performance issues overshadow most design agendas.

One such project, in collaboration with Andrew Atwood, includes the development of a landscape prototyping machine to improve the design of dust mitigation landscapes at the Owens Lake in Lone Pine, California. The prototyping machine hybridizes engineering metrics, physical modeling, robotic technology, digital projection, and 3D scanning to create a multi-sensory design platform for addressing the complex issues present on the lake. The machine creates a common ground where designers, engineers, and the public can dynamically engage in the multiple agendas inherent to the lake.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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A group of students and faculty from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s P3: People, Prosperity, and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability.Their project will receive up to $90,000 in grant funding to turn the designs into real-world applications and implement them in the marketplace.

The UT Green Oak Project developed oak construction techniques that use undried oak, which is known as “green” oak, as an energy-efficient and carbon-friendly wood product. The project received $15,000 in the first phase of the competition to investigate the material. Associate Professor Ted Shelton of the UT School of Architecture is the lead principal investigator on the project.

 

University projects from across the country competed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 27 as part of the National Sustainable Design Expo. UT’s team was one of seven winners selected by a panel of experts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was the only project in an architecture-related discipline to claim a prize. 

 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Philip Enquist, partner in charge of urban design and planning and leader of the City Design Practice at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, has been named the 16th University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is one of the world’s leading urban planning, architecture and engineering firms.

Enquist and a select research team will serve as Governor’s Chair for High Performance Energy Practices in Urban Environments and will be affiliated with and administer projects through the UT College of Architecture and Design.

The Governor’s Chair team will be a research partnership among many designers at the firm who specialize in sustainable urbanism and high-performance buildings. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s City Design Practice is the world’s most highly awarded urban planning group.

The contract between ORNL, UT and the design firm is pending.

“This position will surely lead to innovative discoveries and enhance our reputation as a leader in the field of design and urban environments,” said UT Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “This is yet another step toward our university becoming a Top 25 research institution.”

The Governor’s Chair was selected following a national search. Only those candidates from firms with a research division and capable of providing a collaborative team as part of their appointment were considered.

“Enquist and his studios have improved the quality and efficiency of city living on five continents,” said Scott Poole, dean of the College of Architecture and Design. “Skidmore, Owings and Merrill has erected the tallest man-made structures in the world, created advanced building technologies and material systems and been central to the planning of cities across the world.”

Funded by the state of Tennessee and ORNL, the Governor’s Chair program attracts top researchers to broaden and enhance the unique research partnership that exists between the state’s flagship university and the nation’s largest multi-program laboratory.

Poole noted that by 2015, more than 80 percent of the U.S. population will be living in urban areas. This creates multiple environmental challenges that will be solved by a combination of cultural shifts and technological advances in the fields of regional planning, architecture, engineering and the building sciences.

“High-performance buildings in dense urban settings will be a key feature of a better, more secure energy feature, and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is a world leader in this area,” Poole said.

The Governor’s Chair will use ORNL’s Build¬ing Technologies Research and Integration Center. The center aims to push new energy-efficient building products to the market.

“The creation of this position is further evidence of the commitment Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have to lending their nationally recognized expertise to advance sustainability on a local and global scale,” said Martin Keller, ORNL’s associate lab director for energy and environmental sciences.

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and its team of designers will promote innovative energy practices for new and existing buildings in urban areas, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, create the foundation for new UT graduate programs and develop new models for the contemporary construction industry.

Enquist is an authority on holistic city building. His global experience includes city revitalization throughout China, the Canary Wharf Master Plan in London and National Planning Development Strategies for the Kingdom of Bahrain. Enquist leads SOM’s pro bono initiative, begun in 2009, to develop a 100-year design vision for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region.

In the U.S., his work includes numerous planning strategies for leading universities, the Chicago Central Area Plan, the Millennium Park Master Plan in Chicago and the District of Columbia Height Master Plan Modeling Analysis.

“The new Governor’s Chair will be a catalyst for change, bringing new re¬search in emerging clean energy technologies and sustainable practices to traditional urban design practices,” Poole said. “The Chair will lead the development of new forms of urban design practice. Its applied research will be a powerful contributor to urban development and economic growth of the state of Tennessee and the region. “

UT Knoxville currently has 14 of the 16 positions in the statewide program.

To learn more about the Governor’s Chair program, visit http://www.utk.edu/govchairs.

To learn more about ORNL, visit http://ornl.gov.

To learn more about the UT College of Architecture and Design and follow the progress of the research, visit http://archdesign.utk.edu

To learn more about Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, visit http://www.som.com. 

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