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Montana State University

Professor John C Brittingham’s seven years of work with Yellowstone National Park and JLF and Associates from Bozeman, Montana was chronicled in an article titled “A Yellowstone Charrette” in the FallWinter issue of Western Arts and Architecture. The article documents the history of three charrettes that Professor Brittingham has coordinated with the help of his graduate students for the park through the School of Architecture. This partnership has generated some $1.8 million in pro bono work with some of the best architects and architectural illustrators in the country. This work has recently been acknowledged at the highest levels of the Park Service in Washington DC and may well become new model and paradigm for design thinking in National Parks. Professor Brittingham is currently working with 12 graduate students in Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim.

Assistant Professor David Fortin’s book titled Architecture and Science-Fiction Film was recently published by Ashgate. His book contemplates the home as one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of ‘otherness’. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrohpies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite – the home – a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.

Assistant Professor Fortin has also recently contributed one of thirteen original essays titled “Philip K. Dick’s Disturbanism: Towards Psychospatial Readings of Science Fiction” to Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, and Modernity published by Routledge. The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual, domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural geography, art history and architectural history.

Catholic University of America

The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America instituted a new position for an Associate Dean for Research to coordinate and support research/creative work efforts at the school. Professor Barry D. Yatt, FAIA, CSI, was appointed the first ADR.

Professor Barry Yatt, FAIA, CSI, co-wrote with Joseph, McCade, Ed.D, a chapter titled “Defining Creativity and Design” for an upcoming book by CTTE, the Council on Technology Teacher Education. This spring, he also will be presenting a three-part national webinar for CSI on the National CAD Standard (NCS), based on the work of a CSI Task Team. He continues to work on the manuscript of his book on predesign analysis Definition: Gaining Insight,. Professor Yatt is also working with a team of experts in artificial intelligence, systems architecture, and space sciences on a grant from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They are developing an “adaptive” (that learns from its experiences) but “psychologically stable” computer program that develops optimized designs for the complex systems applicable to space missions and that are responsive to evolving needs, resources, and conditions. Prof. Yatt’s contribution to the team is in the area of predesign analysis, stakeholder facilitation, and graphic design.

The school recently established a new Center for Building Stewardship as the research arm of the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program.

Professor Julius Levine, FAICP, is nearing completion of a book titled Reweaving a Neighborhood Fabric: Perpetuating Diversity, Buttressing Shepherd Park through the next generation of Ohev Shalom congregants.

Associate Professor Eric Jenkins, AIA, continues to research the links between analytical freehand sketching and design education by examining recent studies in cognitive psychology and in human physiology. He is completing work on a book titled Design by Drawing to be published by Routledge with a grant from the Graham Foundation.

Associate Professor Chris Grech, RIBA, director of the MSSD program is carrying out research for the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute on a database of building materials in the Washington, DC area.

Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich presented two papers this past summer. Urban Pentimento: Redeeming the Metropolitan Landscape, was presented at the EURA conference in Copenhagen and Architecture, Ecology and Economy was presented at the Economy Conference at the School of Architecture in Cardiff, Wales.

Assistant Professor Brad Guy, Assoc AIA, LEED AP, received a grant for $10,009 from the Construction Materials Recycling Association to research and develop a national standard for certification of construction and demolition debris processing facility recycling rates, tentatively titled “Certification of Recycling Rates” (CORR).

Florida International University

March 17, 2014/in School News Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

Associate Professor Adam Drisin has been promoted to Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Architecture + The Arts. Drisin joined FIU in 2004 as Associate Professor and Director of the Architecture program in the School of Architecture following a national search. While his duties remained unchanged, Adam’s title changed to Chair as part of a 2005 reorganization that placed the School of Architecture within the new FIU College of Architecture + The Arts. Under his leadership, the Architecture Program flourished, seeing a 184% increase in applications with over 730 applications this year for only 100 entering seats. The department has also witnessed a dramatic increase in grant productivity going from $66,000 the year of his arrival to $703,000 in 2010. Since 2004, the department has also seen a 240% increase in graduate FTE’s and a fourfold increase in support and funding for graduate students. Professor Drisin’s new position in the Office of the Dean will focus on issues of academic affairs for all departments and schools in the College including Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art & Art History, Music, Theater and Communication Arts. Drisin recently concluded his second term on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education. In recognition of his service to the JAE over the past seven years he received the ACSA Service Award.

Professor John Stuart, AIA, has been named Chair of the FIU Department of Architecture. He has taught at FIU for seventeen years and was promoted to full professor in 2008. Stuart begins this position following his service as Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost, where he collaborated with university administrators to advance initiatives related to faculty retention, workload, mentoring, promotion, and to the work environment for department chairs. He has received university-wide awards for his research and teaching, served as the Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture, and for the past six years has chaired the Faculty Senate Building and Environment Committee, which was instrumental in the creation of FIU’s new Office of University Sustainability. Stuart has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education, participated in design review panels for National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists, and worked with the Association of Climate Change Officers in Washington, DC. As principal of John Stuart Architecture, he has collaborated on award-winning architectural designs for public projects and monuments, curated installations, developed video/sound pieces, and recently created video environments for an experimental opera. His work has been funded by fellowships and grants from Van Alen Institute, Graham Foundation, The Wolfsonian-FIU, National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, among others. Professor Stuart’s books include: The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: Paul Scheerbart’s Novel on Glass Architecture (MIT 2001); Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: From Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (W. W. Norton, 2006 with Jewel Stern)—winner of the New York Book Award; and The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy and Citizenship Building 1933–1940 (University Press of Florida, 2008 with John F. Stack, Jr.)—winner of the Silver Medal from the Florida Book Awards.

This fall the FIU Department of Architecture is also thrilled to welcome two new full-time faculty members, Associate Professor Winifred Elysse Newman and Visiting Instructor Nikolay Nedev.

Associate Professor Winifred E. Newman focuses on the philosophy of aesthetics and science, and the history of science and technology. She has worked in architectural practice in Austin, Chicago, Washington DC, London, and St. Louis, and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Harvard, and Washington University in St. Louis. She was formerly a research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and has a PhD from Harvard. She is a partner in Architect of Record.

Visiting Instructor Nikolay Nedev is a founding partner of NC-office, an award-winning international design practice based in Miami. The work of NC-office has been exhibited in Miami, New York, Boston, and Stockholm. Several projects have also been published in various architectural journals and newspapers including Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana, Azure, Florida InsideOut and the Boston Globe. Most recently NC-office received an award for ‘Excellence in Interior Design’ from the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the Cafe Bustelo project in Miami Beach. Other awards include a citation for “Innovation and Technology” from the Boston Society of Architects for the short film featuring the ‘Third Avenue Commons” residential project in Miami. Nedev received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Assistant Professor David Rifkind has been awarded the 2011 Premio James Ackerman by the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza. The Premio Ackerman is an annual international competition for first monographs in architectural history. The award is made possible by a donation to the CISA Andrea Palladio by James S. Ackerman through the BALZAN Prize he was conferred in 2001. Rifkind’s book, The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy, is based on the dissertation he completed under Mary McLeod at Columbia University in 2007, and will be published in May 2012.

Associate Professor Alfredo Andia has been a consultant to the head of the Office of Coastal Reconstruction for the Master Plan of sixteen towns devastated by the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile’s Bio Bio Region. The Design 7 studio led by Professor Alfredo Andia that proposed the reconstruction of the town of Llico in Chile was selected as a winner in the ACSA/ARCHIVE Competition: I Am a Second Responder.

Auburn University

March 17, 2014/in School News Gulf Region, Southeast Region /by Matrix Admin

Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) would like to congratulate Dr. Rebecca Retzlaff and Dr. Carla Keyvanian for their promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, and to Chair of the Graduate Program for Landscape Architecture, Dr. Rod Barnett, for his promotion to Professor.

University of Louisiana - Lafayette

March 17, 2014/in School News Competitions, Gulf Region /by Matrix Admin

Hector LaSala and Sarah Young, architecture faculty, and Phanat Xanamane, alumni, are members of Creative Action which, in partnership with Urban Land Institute of Louisiana, is launching Imagine Downtown: Open Ideas Competition. They are seeking innovative design proposals to harness creative and sustainable urban design development of six different sites in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. Registration deadline: October 15, 2012. For more information: www.creativeactionacadiana.org

Washington University in St. Louis

March 17, 2014/in School News West Central Region /by Matrix Admin

WUSTL

Interior Urbanism Workshop, drawing lesson at the Cemetery of Mercy, Florence, July 2012. Photograph by Franco Pisani.

The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has recently hired a number of new faculty. Chandler Ahrens is a new Assistant Professor of Architecture. Ahrens is a co-founder and director of Open Source Architecture, and was a lead designer at Morphosis Architects. Prior to joining the Sam Fox School faculty he taught at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. Andrew Cruse is a new Assistant Professor of Architecture. Cruse had been teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School, prior to which he was an Associate at Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston. Kees Lokman is a new Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. Lokman recently received a MDes degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, prior to which he had been teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at Archeworks in Chicago. Eric Hoffman is a new Professor in Practice of Architecture. Hoffman had been teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School. He is a co-director of the firm patterhn and was previously HOK’s design liaison for the St. Louis Art Museum expansion with David Chipperfield Architects.

Peter MacKeith, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture, was appointed Honorary Consul for Finland in the state of Missouri on June 23. MacKeith was Curator for the Nordic Pavilion at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, installing an exhibition entitled LIGHT HOUSES, comprised by 32 site-specific installations by Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian architects, in the Sverre Fehn-designed pavilion. MacKeith’s essay, “The Building Art, the Social Art: Reflections on Nordic Public Architecture,” was included in the catalog for the Louisiana Museum (Denmark) summer exhibition New Nordic: Architecture and Identity.

Peter MacKeith and Eric Hoffman recently completed the construction of Make a House Intelligent shelter/pavilion as part of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s exhibition Design with the Other 90%: Cities at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Igor Marjanovic, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Undergraduate Programs, organized the Interior Urbanism Workshop in Florence together with Franco Pisani from the Institute at Palazzo Rucellai and Alessandro Ayusso from the University of Westminster, London. The workshop brought together a number of UK and US students around issues of cultural identity and collective memory in contemporary European cities. Specifically, the workshop focused on the city’s Cemetery of Mercy and its conversion into a new public space. The workshop also included drawing lessons by Regan Wheat, senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, and a public lecture series titled “The July Issue,” which was held at the Fondazione Michelucci in Fiesole. “The July Issue” featured conceptual artist and architect Gianni Petena, artist Paolo Parisi, the University of Florence, and architects Elena Barthel from the Rural Studio, Alabama, and Jonathan Hill from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, published Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References in summer 2012, and Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa, in fall 2012. McCarter also had several essays and chapters published during summer 2012, including “The Limits of Form: Critical Practice and the Creation of Place,” in The Limits of Form: Enrique Norten TEN Arquitectos, edited by Alejandro Hernandez; “Making Brick Modern: Louis Kahn’s Masonry Structures” and “What Concrete Wants to Be: Louis Kahn’s Precast Concrete Structures,” chapters in L’architrave, le plancher, la plate-bande: A New History of Construction, Volume II, edited by Roberto Gargiani; “A Middle-Ground Modernism: On the Making of an Architecture Appropriate for Its Place and Time,” in A Living Tradition: KPF Arkitekter 2002-2012; and “Frank Lloyd Wright” and “Louis I. Kahn,” chapters in The Great Builders, edited by Kenneth Powell. McCarter gave the lecture, “Demanding Presence: The Unbuilt Works of Louis Kahn,” at the Arhus School of Architecture, Arhus, Denmark, in spring 2012. In his professional practice, McCarter is involved in the renovation and restoration of Le Corbusier’s Apartment and Studio in Paris, as well as in the bookshop and cafe conversion of the garage of Alvar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré outside Paris, both in association with Alfonso Architects of Tampa, Florida. McCarter helped organize the new Master of Science in Architectural Studies degree now offered at Washington University in St. Louis, and he coordinates the MS in Architectural Pedagogy degree.

Eric Mumford, Professor, lectured in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Spotlight Series “Fumihiko Maki’s Mildred Lane Kemper Museum” on November 9, 2011, and at the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) conference, in Brussels, Belgium in June 2012 with a paper presentation in the session: Neither “Modernism” nor “Avant-Garde”: A Roundtable Discussion in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Alan Colquhoun. He was also reappointed as Chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Visiting Committee through 2013.

ACSA Resubmits Bylaw Amendments

March 17, 2014/in ACSA News /by Matrix Admin

The previous Bylaws amendments, sent in November 2011, did not pass because a quorum was not reached. The amendments were generally supported by the membership, but a few schools expressed concerned about being moved to a new region.

For this reason, the Board of Directors decided to adjust the proposed regional boundaries and to resubmit the Bylaws amendments for your consideration. Please see the included Map of Proposed ACSA Regions. We have also separated the Bylaws amendments into two motions and are proceeding with the election of new regional directors using current regional boundaries.

Competed ballots have a return (receipt) deadline of February 8, 2012 to the ACSA national office.

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McGill University

March 17, 2014/in School News Canadian Region, Northeast Region /by Matrix Admin

Two teams from McGill University’s School of Architecture shared first prize in the 17^th Canadian Centre for Architecture Inter-university Charrette (November 10-13, 2011), Liquid City. Team 78 (Hydro cosm: Lance Moore, Alexandre Hamel, and Maxime Leclerc) and Team 26 (Down with the Linear Functional: Gabrielle Poirier, Gabrielle Marcoux, Philippe Larocque, and Marc-Antoine Chartier-Primeau won first prize (ex aequo) in a competition in which a total of 68 teams took part. Organized by the CCA and the École de design of Université du Québec à Montréal, in collaboration with McGill University and Université de Montréal and with the participation of Université Laval, Carleton University, Ryerson University and the University of Toronto, the competition invited students and interns to posit a new relationship between water and city living.

Martin Bressani and Marc Grignon have just published “De la lumière et de l’ombre : les fantasmagories du gaz d’éclairage à Paris au XIXe siècle,” in Speilraum: Benjamin et l’Architecture, Paris : Éditions de la Villette, 2011. With Nicholas Roquet, Bressani also authored, “Entropy in the Home: Reflections on the Nineteenth-Century Interior,” forthcoming in Architecture and Ideas.

Ricardo Castro presented a paper entitled “Breaking the Limits: The Concept of Infinity in the Contemporary Neo-baroque World at The Neo-Baroque Revisited:An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Baroque held at the University of Western Ontario on 13-15 October 2011.

Avi Friedman has just published two books: Decision Making for Flexibility in Housing (Urban International Press) and The Nature of Place; A Search for Authenticity (Princeton Architectural Press). Friedman delivered a keynote opening address at the Housing Now conference at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, and authored a feature article on Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek neighborhood for enRoute Magazine. He also completed a design of a sustainable community for the Municipality of Middlesex Center, Ontario.

Nik Luka recently gave a keynote address entitled “Building better neighbourhoods: lessons and ideas from Montréal’s Green, Active, and Healthy Neighbourhood project” at the “Celebrating Sense of Place and Spirit of Community” conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, as part of the city’s year-long Cultural Capital of Canada activities. Among forthcoming pieces is a critical essay on opportunities for urban sustainability in cottage housing across Canada, part of Urban sustainability: reconnecting place and space (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, edited by Ann Dale, Bill Dushenko, & Pamela Robinson).

University of Arkansas

March 17, 2014/in School News Southwest Region /by Matrix Admin

Community Design Center Receives National Award

A plan that uses modern techniques to revitalize a historic neighborhood in Benton earned the University of Arkansas Community Design Center a 2011 Residential Architect Design Award.

The Community Design Center received a Merit Award in the On the Boards category for the Ralph Bunche Neighborhood Vision Plan.

Forty projects were selected out of 824 entries for recognition in the magazine’s 12th annual design awards competition. This is the most comprehensive housing design awards program in the country, according to the magazine’s website.

Across 15 categories, this year’s jury selected one Project of the Year award, 10 Grand awards and 29 Merit awards. Full coverage of the winning projects will appear in the March/April issue of Residential Architect and at www.residentialarchitect.com.

This Merit Award is the second Residential Architect design award earned by the Community Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

The Community Design Center worked for the first time with the Central Arkansas Development Council, whose main goal is to “build prosperity in low-income communities,” said Steve Luoni, center director. The plan focused on a 100-plus-year-old black neighborhood in Benton, a town of about 29,000 people located about 25 miles southwest of Little Rock. Just south of downtown Benton, the neighborhood occupies a prominent hill with views of downtown.

“The neighborhood has an internal coherence and is in a beautiful geography, but it suffers from disinvestment. New generations have not recharged the neighborhood,” Luoni said. The longtime residents want their children and grandchildren to move back into the neighborhood. The center attempts to provide a guide for such revitalization, with a redevelopment plan that could spark reinvestment and home ownership.

The plan uses concepts presented in the Community Design Center’s Low Impact Development design manual, published in 2010, to address infrastructure issues. Based on an already active street culture, the plan intensifies places for assembly and congregation, both formal and informal. “People here know one another. They’ve known one another for a long, long time,” Luoni said.

The neighborhood is named for Ralph Bunche, a diplomat and educator from Detroit. In 1950, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine – becoming the first person of color to be honored with the prize. He was later involved in the formation of the United Nations and was awarded the Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Though social connectors such as churches and a park remain, small businesses gradually disappeared. In part, this plan aims to revitalize the community with that neighborhood feel. The Residential Architect design awards program recognizes different market grades of houses, with designs that solve for different social issues, Luoni said. This conceptual neighborhood plan could win an award in the same contest that rewards an elaborate built project.

“I appreciate the fact that the awards celebrate the different ways that housing solves for different social issues and accommodates different markets,” he said. “It’s not simply rewarding the preciousness of a design. It’s about the robustness of solutions.”

Faculty News

Steve Luoni, Director of the UA Community Design Center, has been promoted to Distinguished Professor effective July 1, 2011. Luoni currently holds the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies. His design and research have won more than 50 design awards, including Progressive Architecture Awards, American Institute of Architects Honors Awards, a Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism, and American Society of Landscape Architecture Awards, all for planning and urban design.

His work at UACDC specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban and architectural design.

Places Magazine recently published an in-depth profile of UACDC, which kicks off their year-long series profiling community design centers. The article and project images can be accessed at http://places.designobserver.com/

Luoni’s work has also been published in Oz, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architect, Places, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’ hui, Progressive Planning and Public Art Review.

Mark Boyer, Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, has been promoted to Professor effective July 1, 2011. Boyer joined the School of Architecture faculty in 1998

and teaches courses on landscape architecture construction materials and technologies, ecological design studios, and an interdisciplinary course related to alternative stormwater management techniques. His research focuses on green roofs and other sustainable stormwater management technologies.

His students have designed and constructed a wetlands observation deck, and an Environmental Center boat dock in Fayetteville and assisted in the installation of two green roofs on the University of Arkansas campus.

Boyer was part of the interdisciplinary University of Arkansas team that designed Habitat Trails, a sustainable neighborhood for the Benton County chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The project has won seven major awards, including a national Honor Award in Analysis and Planning from the ASLA.

Marlon Blackwell, Head of the Architecture department (and of Marlon Blackwell Architect served as a juror for two architectural competitions this spring. He was one of five Fellows of the American Institute of Architecture who participated in the 2011 Residential Architect design awards program. Blackwell was the Chair of a six person panel, made up of three librarians and three architects, who juried the 2011 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards.

Kansas State University

March 17, 2014/in School News West Central Region /by Matrix Admin

Esteemed Professor Peter Magyar has stepped down as Department Head at Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning & Design after four years of service. He will dedicate his efforts towards his life-long passions of teaching and design research as a member of the architecture faculty. Magyar has been elected as a full member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has also published the book THINKINK, by Kendall Hunt Publishers. Magyar also was appointed as advisor in the graduate program of the Dessau Institute of Architecture, at the Bauhaus, Germany. At the 11th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, in Madrid, Spain, Magyar presented a workshop “SPACEPRINTS — An Ontological and Pragmatic Investigation of the Shape of Infinity — Towards a New Paradigm in the Management of Spatial Perception.” Magyar also gave the opening presentation at Borderline Architecture in the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He published two editorials in the e-architect international newsletter, and in April this year he received the first Pro Architectura Hungarica medal from the Association of Hungarian Architects.

Associate Professor Mathew Knox will be serving as Interim Head of the APDesign Department of Architecture while a department head search is underway.

Assistant Professor Michael McGlynn presented a paper entitled “Blurring Boundaries: Integrated Design, Architectural Technology, and the Beginning Design Student” at the 27th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 1-2, 2011. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings. McGlynn also conducted a teaching workshop at the Society of Building Science Educators Retreat held at Los Poblanos Inn in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 16-17, 2011. The intent of the workshop, “The Horse Before the Cart: Creating Significant Learning Experiences to Deliver Course Content,” was for participants to actively engage in the creation of a variety of significant learning experiences related to teaching architectural technology. The primary outcome of this workshop was the collaborative development of significant learning experiences in support of teaching architectural technology in an integrated manner.

Professor David Seamon published the article, “Gaston Bachelard’s Topoanalysis in the 21^st Century: The Lived Reciprocity between Houses and Inhabitants as Portrayed by American Writer Louis Bromfield,” in Phenomenology 2010, a volume of current phenomenological research edited by philosopher Lester Embree. Seamon presented a paper and co-organized two symposia for the annual meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association, held in Chicago, May 24-28. The first symposium focused on “Phenomenologies of Schools, Cities, and Historic Environments;” Seamon presented the paper, “Jane Jacobs as Phenomenologist: The Lasting Significance of her Understanding of the Urban Lifeworld Fifty Years after Death and Life of Great American Cities.” The second symposium looked at the built work of Kubala Washatko Architects, a Milwaukee design firm that draws on architect Christopher Alexander’s “pattern language” approach to programming and designing. Principal Tom Kubala presented the firm’s 2008 building addition designed for Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1951 First Unitarian Church in Madison, Wisconsin.

Assistant Professor Nathan Howe wrote and presented a paper. “Algorithmic Modeling: Teaching Architecture in Digital Age” at the ACADIA Regional 2011: Parametricism: (SPC) in Lincoln, Nebraska. He also provided a “grasshopper” workshop at the conference for those beginners into the fascinating world of algorithmic modeling. Howe is also finishing an article to be published in the OZ journal titled, “Augmenting Architecture through Algorithmic Modeling.” This summer he will be traveling to Sydney, Australia, to be a part of the opening of the Love:Lace exhibit in the Powerhouse Museum in which Howe’s piece SpiderLACE will be showcased.

This year’s issue of Oz (vol. 33), a student-edited journal, is titled “augment” and examines how the tools designers use affect the objects they make. Oz is working with Monica Ponce de Leon of Office dA, Alan Dunlop, Patrick Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects, and Frank Barkow of Barkow Leibinger Architects. This volume of the journal will feature 10 articles and two interviews, with representation from architects, landscape architects, and interior architects from Kansas City to San Francisco, Berlin, Stockholm and Scotland.

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