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University of Oregon

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John Wiley & Sons published the 3rd edition of Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Associate Professor Rob Thallon and Edward Allen, FAIA.

Professor G.Z. “Charlie” Brown won a $25,000 research grant, with matching funds from the University of Oregon, the University of Tennessee, and John Wiley & Sons. Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi won a $25,000 grant in addition to matching funds from the Van Evera Bailey Foundation, Oregon BEST, and Glumac Engineering. The UO projects are expected to provide funding for graduate and undergraduate student researchers and expand ongoing work in labs. 

Brown’s project, “New Knowledge Structure for Designing Net-Zero Energy Buildings,” aims to provide more sophisticated tools for energy-efficient architecture “by organizing much of the knowledge of net-zero energy building design.” He and co-investigator Mark DeKay of the University of Tennessee hypothesize “that we can generate, test and publish an integrated knowledge structure for net zero energy design that will help designers choose families of design strategies and, thereby, broaden the number of net-zero designers, improving the sophistication of their designs.”

Elzeyadi’s longtime pursuit of energy-efficient classroom retrofitting technology was the focus of his proposal. His submission, “Green Classroom Toolbox: Evidence-Based Integrated Design Tools to Guide Architects in Retrofitting K-12 School Facilities for Climate Change,” outlined his research objective of “developing evidence-based design guidelines for retrofitting existing educational spaces through the Green Classroom Toolbox (GCT) project in five US Climate Zones.” 

Associate Professor Mark L. Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP lectured at the North China University of Technology in Beijing on the topic of sustainable urbanism in October. Using case studies from across the U.S., Dr. Gillem discussed the role of walkable streets, downtown parks, and public transit in making density livable and sustainable. On November 4, he lectured at Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture in Vietnam. In his lecture, “Urban Design: Sustainable Principles and Practices,” Dr. Gillem discussed ways in which urban design could address key challenges facing Ho Chi Minh City including integrating land use patterns and public transportation, adding parks and open spaces to the heart or urban areas, and regulating sustainable development through the use of form-based codes.  On November 9 and 10, he chaired the first-ever Regional Workshop hosted by the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. The event, held in downtown Denver, brought together over 200 planners from a variety of federal agencies including the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Federal Transit Authority, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Participants addressed the conference theme, “Interagency Collaboration for Sustainable Landscapes,” in paper presentations, panel sessions, and roundtable discussions.  

The University of Oregon hosted the Fall 2011 International PUARL Conference in Portland, October 28-31: “Generative Process, Patterns, and the Urban Challenge.” The keynote address was delivered by Professor Donald Corner. 

 

 

City College of New York

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Sara Caples of Caples Jefferson Architects has returned as Distinguished Visiting Professor this semester. Her firm just received a 2011 MASterworks Award for Best Restoration for the Queens Theater in the Park. Also joining us for the first time as Distinguished Visiting Professor is Ann Beha, whose eponymous firm, based in Boston, has built an impressive, highly awarded body of work of additions to historic buildings and settings.

Associate Professor Jacob Alspector’s most recent appearance on the internet radio program “Burning Down the House” covered the topics of the education of architects and their path toward licensure.

 Professor Hillary Brown, FAIA, has been named an executive committee member of the Education for Sustainability (EfS) Working Group. EfS is being convened for New York State institutions of higher education, in alignment with the goals set by the national Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

 ACSA Distinguished Professor Lance Jay Brown has been busy, serving as: a juror for the AIA NYS Honor Awards; advisor to the ENYA 2012 Competition “The Harlem Edge”; organizer of an AIANY panel discussion on “Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today, reviewed in Curbed; and a panel for the NYC Department of Design and Construction on climate change and sea level rise. He will deliver the 2012 Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, in May.

 A drawing by Adjunct Professor Caleb Crawford was included in the exhibition “C I T Y” at the Bridge Gallery on Orchard Street.

 Adjunct Associate Professor Antonio Di Oronzo was awarded his first project in China, a 120,000 sq. ft., 5-star hotel in Shenzhen. His firm bluarch was also just awarded the design of a rehabilitation complex on a 40-acre site in Cleveland County, North Carolina. 

 Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston lectured at Sydney University School of Architecture, Design and Planning as part of their 2011 speaker series. His project Urban Space Station was included in the show “A Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City” at the Noguchi Museum. 

Associate Professor Edward Eigen participated in a panel discussion on the “Formless” hosted by The Storefront for Architecture. His presentation examined Louis Braille’s “relief writing” and the medico-religious history of spit (saliva). His biblio-geographical study “Where Time Never Stands Still: On the Losses of Mont-Saint-Michel,” appears in the most recent issue of Thresholds, the journal of the MIT School of Architecture. Interviewed by the architect Iñaki Ábalos, his views on “Ideal Beauty” can be found in the volume Jardin y Paisaje. At a Yale conference he presented the challengingly titled paper “Some Preliminary Notes on Historical Seismicity and Cognate Developments in Time Series Analysis with Specific, though Intermittent, Reference to the Antillean Island of La Española (Ayiti) and Cities and Towns of the Former Saint-Domingue: April 20, 1564–January 12, 2010 ( 21:53 GMT).” 

Professor Peter Gisolfi, Department Chair, has published a series of recent articles: “Collaboration and Compromise, A Misunderstood Aspect of the Design Process” and “Small-Scale Solution to Alternative Energy Resistance” in ArchNewsNow.com; “Sites Unseen” in American School & University (August 2011); “Effective Additions” in American School Board Journal (Sept 2011); and “The Architectural Jumble” in American School Board Journal (Oct 2011). His firm, Peter Gisolfi Associates, received two 2011 design awards from the AIA Westchester/Hudson Valley: a Citation for the Peekskill Middle School, and an Honor Award for Goodhue Memorial Hall at the Hackley School in Tarrytown. Goodhue Memorial Hall also received a 2011 Citation of Excellence from Learning by Design. 

Adjunct Lecturer Domingo Gonzalez delivered the keynote presentation “Historic Lighting: An Evolutionary Overview” at the 2012 annual meeting and symposium of the Association of Preservation Technology Northeast Chapter (APTNE). His firm’s award-winning Old DC City Hall / Courthouse restoration project was profiled in International New Landscape (Sept 2011).

Professor Toni Griffin delivered the lecture “Design and the Just City” at the University of Notre Dame. She contributed the opinion “Seizing an Opportunity” to a discussion on the New York Times Room for Debate blog, and participated in the Zoning the City conference sponsored by the New York City Department of City Planning, Harvard’s GSD and Baruch College. 

An article about the ambitious painted artwork project at Bronx Community College Library by Adjunct Lecturer Daniel Hauben was published in the Bronx Times (Febrary 3, 2012).

MArch Program Director and Assistant Professor Brad Horn authored a chapter in The Story of Design Education (Peking University Press, 2011). Berman Horn Studio’s Wooster Street Social Club project was published in New York Magazine.

A proposal for the Busan Opera House in South Korea by Adjunct Assistant Professor Vanessa Keith’s firm Studioteka was published in Mark magazine (Dec 2011/Jan 2012). Her firm’s project Nurse Bettie Bar is featured, with an interview, in Design Bureau (Mar/Apr 2012).

Assistant Professor Fran Leadon was profiled in CityLand, the monthly journal of the Center for New York City Law.

Model Shop Director Jorge Plazas and his firm MRK Lab, working with Illi.SITE.Studio, completed construction on the Franklyn Avenue Bar in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Dean George Ranalli’s Saratoga Community Center is featured in John Hill’s Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture (W. W. Norton Publishers, 2011). Dean Ranalli is also profiled in two online video segments: “Pratt Eye on Alumni: George Ranalli” features an interview about the Valentine Chair #2 and “Building Cities, Revisited,” by CUNY Media. Dean Ranalli’s fourth monograph In Situ is scheduled for release this summer. 

Recess, a restaurant project by Associate Professor Julio Salcedo-Fernandez’s firm scalar Architecture, appeared in the book Gusto: a Journey Through Culinary Design by Bridget Vranckx. Salcedo and scalar Architecture’s inflatable proposal for the Farnsworth Residence is included in the invited group exhibition “The Homestead Project” at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, running through Sept 2012.

Associate Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson presented the paper “De-domestication and the Wild: The Carnivorous Wolf and the Feral Herbivore,” at the March 2012 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Meeting and spoke on “Soft Infrastructure for Climate Change Mitigation” in the City College Interdisciplinary Climate Change Seminar, organized by Prof. Marco Tedesco of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. She presented her work at the conference RISK at the University of Michigan and served as a juror for the 2012 AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design.

The design by Professor Achva Benzinberg Stein, FASLA, for the Moroccan courtyard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was prominently featured in an article in Landscape Architecture Magazine (Feb 2012). 

Associate Professor Elisabetta Terragni was invited to enter the competition “Minna-no-Ié / Home-for-All,” to design concepts for communal gathering places to benefit and encourage those affected by the Japan earthquake. The project was included in the exhibition “A see-worthy vessel” at the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture in Imabari, Japan. Her Trento Tunnel Project is included in the “Re-Cycle” exhibit at the new MAXXI museum in Rome, where she also participated in the “Re-cycling Italy” design workshop and served as advisor to the 2012 Young Architects Program at MAXXI, in collaboration with MoMA PS1. Her collaborative project for a Panorama of the Cold War was published in Abitare (Nov 2011).

As an architectural photographer at Esto, Adjunct Associate Professor Albert Vecerka worked on two note-worthy projects at Lincoln Center: making still and time-lapse images of the IBM Centennial Exhibition designed by Ralph Appelbaum, and photographing the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center for the Rockwell Group. Also, he documented a house upstate for Weiss/Manfredi and is currently photographing their new Visitors Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A highlight of his recent work, however, was documentation of CCNY’s own Solar Roofpod.

Associate Professor Christian Volkmann, in collaboration with faculty from the engineering and economics departments, was awarded a $50,000 City SEED grant award from the Provost’s Office in conjunction with the Office of Research Administration for the interdisciplinary proposal “Daylight Reuse for Improving Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings.”

Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Wilks, FASLA, and her firm W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, in conjunction with Civitas, won a competition to design a new 21st century park for Calgary on an island in the Bow River which balances the river ecology with recreational needs. 

Associate Professor June Williamson received a $10,000 Independent Award from the New York State Council on the Arts to support publication of her manuscript Designing Suburban Futures. Travelling to the Pikes Peak region of Colorado, she participated pro-bono in a Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) for the AIA’s Community by Design program. As 2012 George Pearl Fellows at the University of New Mexico, she and Ellen Dunham-Jones delivered a public lecture and day-long “master class.” Her guest post “Retrofitting for Fecundity” was published on the BMW Guggenheim LAB|log. 

An apartment renovation, constructed in primary colored Lego, by Adjunct Associate Professor Suzan Wines’ firm I-Beam Design, was recently featured in New York Magazine (Feb 5, 2012) in the article “The 20-000 Brick Apartment.”

Adjunct Professor Bill Young has been appointed Wetland Scientist for Yellow Bar Island in Jamaica Bay. The project, designed and managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, will take ten months to rebuild the island back to its historic dimensions. Sea level rise, pollution, and other phenomena have reduced this fifty acre island to almost half its size of one hundred years ago.

Tulane University

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TEN MILE GARDEN  and INSTANT  [play]GROUND  designed by Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore in collaboration with Mona El Khafif, Cesar Lopez and Anesta Iwam have been selected to receive a grant to support the full construction for the URBAN PROTOTYPING Festival in San Francisco in October 2012. Over 100 projects were submitted and 18 were selected to be displayed at the UP Event. Both projects focus on building a community through civic engagement and participation, reimagining modes of production of public space. 

New Frontiers in Research and Pedagogy: Collaborative Approaches in Architectural Education

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Barbara Opar, column editor

 

The Association of Architecture School Librarians held a second special focus session at the 2012 Boston meeting. This session examined ways in which faculty and librarians have collaborated to explore innovative approaches to the development of writing, research and design skills.

Gilda Santana from the University of Miami spoke to her work as a studio-embedded librarian. Gilda  works  directly with students in the design studio, instructing and assisting them in research at the point of use. Her presence in the design studio has helped to diminish the boundaries between the library and studio as well as to reinforce the concept of the library and librarian as design resources. Students see the relationship between research and design and have easy and direct access to an on-site librarian.

Research and design skills can also be impacted by new kind of tools being offered by certain libraries. To that end, Amy Trendler spoke to Ball State University’s Building Samples Collection. Amy noted the importance of collaboration in shaping the collection and tailoring its content and organization to meet the needs of patrons.

Heather McCann of MIT then described GIS Services at her institution. Architecture students  work with GIS tools and resources to find data, create base maps, explore demographics and terrain data and learn how to export this information into CAD and Adobe Illustrator. Faculty can request additional more targeted  training sessions to meet the needs of their specific classes.

Stacy Brinkman, the Art/Architecture Librarian at Miami University and Diane Fellows, Associate Professor presented an overview of their multi-year collaboration in terms of information literacy. Information literacy goals have been integrated into course learning objectives in the M. Arch pre-thesis  seminar. Concepts such as audience, authority, methodology, and different ways of evaluating information are embedded into writing assignments. Professor Fellows described how the use of methods already familiar to the architecture student- such as the sketch notebook, hand drawings, and even visual posters – have been  utilized  as concept generators to help explore the connection between visual thinking and the art of writing.

From reference and instruction to collection building, collaboration between faculty and librarians can take many shapes.  Each, however,  can help further the architectural education process.

Lawrence Technological University

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Students from the Master of Urban Design (m.U.D.) program at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University have won the Outstanding Student Project Award from the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP/APA Michigan) for the “Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines” they developed for the City of Southfield, Michigan.

The award was presented on Oct. 17 at the MAP annual conference in Traverse City. Winning the award were one LTU graduate student and two graduates of the m.U.D. program, Carolina Ferrero and Michael Mason. LTU graduate student Matthew Galbraith, CoAD student representative to MAP, acted as the nominator.  In order to complete the design guidelines, the LTU students extended the internship they took for a course, Principals and Practices of Urban Design, taught by m.U.D. coordinator and Assistant Professor Constance Bodurow. Working as interns in the planning department under Planning Director Terry Croad, the students documented three districts/neighborhoods and dozens of buildings built in the Mid-Century Modern style from the 1950s to the early 1970s that are important to the architectural heritage of Southfield, which grew rapidly after World War II as a first-ring suburb of Detroit.

One of the most significant buildings in Southfield is the former Reynolds Metals Regional Sales Office designed by Minoru Yamasaki, a Troy-based architect best known for the World Trade Center in New York.

The design guidelines provide the Southfield Planning Department with an essential tool to keep significant structures and districts intact. The guidelines not only define the style and identify significant structures, but also provide recommendations for enhancements through the use of case studies.

The student authors gathered input from local historians, architects, and academics in order to comprehensively identify, document, and inventory the city’s significant resources. The recommendations made by the students were considered and applied, resulting in the adoption of Low Impact Design Guidelines for the City of Southfield.

“The Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines is a valuable asset for the Planning Department in our understanding and review of redevelopment of existing Mid-Century Modern buildings and sites,” said Terry Croad, Southfield’s director of planning who worked with the student interns.

The MAP award recognizes the high-quality design guidelines and detailed direction exhibited throughout the manual.

Texas A&M University

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Dr. Anat Geva, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University became the President of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) as of this October. SESAH was founded in 1982 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta as a nonprofit organization to promote scholarship on architecture and related subjects and to serve as a forum for ideas among architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others involved in professions related to the built environment. SESAH holds an annual meeting, publishes a newsletter three times a year, an annual scholarly journal, ARRIS, and presents annual publication awards and   the “Best of the South” Preservation award.

University of Oregon

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Associate Professor Mark Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. He will be leading the division’s 2011-2012 conferences in Denver and Los Angeles. His Urban Design Lab has received a grant from Camp Lutherwood in western Oregon to develop a master plan for the site through a participatory process.

Professor Kevin Nute presented an exhibition of the work of  his ‘Healing Healthcare Spaces’ design studio to the Northwest  Architecture for Health Panel in August, and has also contributed a chapter on ‘Japanese Art as a Means to Organic Architecture’ for the forthcoming book Reception et diffusion en Occident de l’espace architectural et de l’art des jardins du Japon (Paris: French School of Far Eastern Studies, 2011). 

University of Oklahoma

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Associate Professor David L. Boeck and College of Engineering Professor Musharraf Zaman have been awarded a two-year $250,000 grant from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to study the use of Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) in road mix design. A significant number of asphalt shingles are damaged each year in Oklahoma due to storms, and this grant will allow testing which should prove their viability in road construction.

Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi will be presenting a paper entitled “Contributions of the Middle East to European Architecture” at the 5th Annual ASMEA (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa). Conference on October 11-13, 2012 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bozorgi is also the Founder of the The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture at the College of Architecture, which was established in the spring of 2012. The Center seeks to advance knowledge of the Middle Eastern built environment and culture, and will support scholarship that is of historical and contemporary importance, by acting as a coordinating body for participating universities and institutions whose research focus relates to this geographic area.

 

Assistant Professor Daniel Butko was the Instructor for a Spring Intercession Course in which students designed and built a playhouse for the Playhouse Parade project for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Oklahoma County. This is the third year the college has been involved in the project. The playhouses were raffled off in early June 2012 to raise money for CASA, which provides trained court appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused or neglected children in the juvenile court system. The playhouse was designed to be easy to assemble with light-weight materials, and to be weatherproof. The students used harvested cedar from around the Norman campus and wood donated from local construction sites in this year’s design. Krone Construction and Western Plastics also donated materials. Enrolled and volunteer students included Aaron Crandall, Haven “Bud” Hardage, Nick Norsworthy, Hunter Roth, Alma Sandoval, Trent Still, Jason Tyler, and Ryan Williams. Faculty reviewing the design and assisting included Assistant Professor Tony Cricchio, Professor Joel Dietrich, Dean Charles Graham, Shop Manager Hunter Roth, and Assistant Professor Stephanie Pilat.

Professor Butko is also on the planning committee for the 164th Meeting/Conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Please see the web site for details:  http://acousticalsociety.org/meetings/kansas_city

The Oklahoma City Skydance Bridge, completed following a national competition with a design consortium assembled by OU Mabrey Presidential Professor Hans E. Butzer, was recently completed in Oklahoma City and has now been recognized as one of the 50 best public art projects by the 2012 Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts. Included in the multidisciplinary team that designed the $6.8M pedestrian bridge are OU faculty members Dr. Chris Ramseyer, P.E. and Stan Carroll, AIA.

“Tomorrow’s Yukon” is an initiative that will engage the City of Yukon in a partnership with faculty and students from the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) College of Architecture. Associate Professor Marjorie Callahan, Architecture, and Associate Professor Leehu Loon, Landscape Architecture, are directing a design studio which will provide the initial visionary steps to stimulate ideas for (1) a streetscape on Main Street and Route 66 and, (2) a new city hall complex capable of consolidating all city services. This project will involve the beloved Oklahoma Route 66, which runs through the heart of the Yukon community. The students’ landscaping and architectural conceptual plans and models will demonstrate ideas for: (1) colorful and safe streetscapes; (2) retail and office options; (3) a government central campus; (4) the beautification of the Route 66 to Garth Brooks Drive; (5) a parkway system of bicycle trails; and, (6) other important connections to children’s state of the art playgrounds, housing, schools and festivals.

Associate Professor Lee Fithian was awarded a grant by SAIC in the amount of $5,000  to provide the continuing education program series in sustainability entitled “ Acquisition, Coordination and Dissemination of AIA+2030 Curriculum.”

Professor Fithian and Associate Professor Tamera McCuen (Construction Science), were awarded OU Provosts’ Dream Course funding in the amount of $20,000 for the interdisciplinary collaboration “BIM for Constructors” which will be used to enhance curriculum for over 70 graduate and undergraduate OU College of Architecture students. The grant provides the opportunity for students, academicians and professionals to train in BIM and interact in a virtual charrette via the upcoming BIMStormtm OKC on November 7, 2012:  http://www.bimstorm.com/i/OklahomaStorm.php. Professors Fithian, McCuen, and Butko will be working together in this collaborative effort with the Construction Science students and the Design 7 studio in Architecture to design a mixed-use building in the Core to Shore re-development area of Oklahoma City.

Adjunct Lecturer Geoff Parker was the Winner of the 2012 Architectural Record “Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest” in the Professional Division. You may view his entry via this link: http://archrecord.construction.com/features/cocktail_napkin_sketch_contest/2012/.

Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Pilat has been awarded an AAUW American Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant for 2012-13, which provides support for work on her forthcoming book, Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era (Ashgate, 2014).

M. Arch Grad Student Andrew Stevens has won 2nd Place in the National ACSA/NSF jointly sponsored Open Challenge Competition “The Architecture & Engineering of Sustainable Buildings”.  http://www.sustainableae.com/ This award gives $2,000 for to the student and $500 to the faculty involved; in this case Professor Lee Fithian.

In other student news, Lisa Om and Ana Ruiz were just awarded the Newman Medal for Excellence in Acoustics based on work performed in Spring 2012 architectural acoustics class.  http://www.newmanfund.org/newman-student-awards/. Keaton Cizek,  as a member of the OU Habitat for Humanity Group (HFH for Cleveland County), is involved in the “Shackathon,” a fundraising and awareness event held in fall semester which engages many student organizations as well as any person walking along the South Oval for a day. Participating student organizations are allotted a plot of grass along the Oval upon which to build a minimal shelter with limited materials. Facts about poverty displayed by the participants raise awareness among passersby, who are then asked to donate whatever they can to the cause (Cleveland County HFH). Friendly competition among the participating student organizations encourages hard work.

2014 ACSA Fall Conference: REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

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Deadline: February 28, 2013

The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2014 ACSA Fall Conference. This ACSA Fall Conference will be thematic in focus and feature scholarly presentations, based on peer-reviewed abstracts, and a digital proceedings that will be available in ACSA’s permanent online archive.

The Fall Conference is an opportunity for the host school to bring educators from across North America and beyond to their campus. The thematic focus can highlight a school’s strengths and demonstrate educational excellence to upper administration. Other goals for the new format include strengthening social opportunities for participants with common scholarly interests and bringing concentrated visibility to the work being done in the topic area.

Attendance at the Fall Conference is anticipated to be 100-200 people, with host schools using campus facilities or other appropriate venues (including a local hotel or conference center) for conference sessions. Joint proposals from neighboring schools and partnerships with other groups (such as those formed around the thematic area) are welcome.

Final proposals will be reviewed and selected through the ACSA Board of Directors Scholarly Meetings Committee.


Proposals should be 3 pages or less, excluding supporting documents, and should include:

1)   A title and paragraph-length description of the conference that clearly identifies the theme.

  • Further explanation for the theme is encouraged. However, a separate brief description of the conference is required.

2)   Proposed dates for the conference.

  • The Fall Conference should occur in late September or October, typically a Thursday–Saturday.

3)   The name of the conference chair or co-chairs, as well as any other relevant organizers.

  • Identify one or more faculty members to act as chair and whose area of expertise relates to the proposed theme. The chair(s) will be responsible for the academic portion of the conference and will work with ACSA staff on logistical details, communication with partners, and other planning and promotion duties.

4)   A description of other potential conference features: partnerships, sponsors, keynote speakers, tours, etc. that would enhance the conference.

5)   Clear expression of interest by school.

  • Show evidence of support from the school’s dean, provost, or other appropriate university representatives through letters and/or supporting documents.

6)   A description of other resources available for the conference.

  • This includes potential venues for conference sessions, keynote lectures, and receptions; potential tour sites; or other local connections to enhance the conference.

  • Fall Conferences are normally funded by income from registration fees and sponsorship. This income pays for expenses related to meeting space, audio-visual equipment, invited speaker travel and honoraria, and food and beverage.

  • ACSA will provide the following support: international promotion of the conference, from the call for papers through the proceedings publication; an online system (including staff support) for submission, review, and upload of scholarly material; publishing services for conference programs and proceedings; and other planning services, such as negotiation and coordination of meeting facilities.

  • In-kind support from the school is requested for invited speaker costs, a/v equipment, meeting space, student volunteers, etc. Schools providing in-kind support will be recognized for their contribution in promotional materials, and participation of students and faculty in the conference will be invited.


ACSA has held successful Fall Conferences the last two years:

  • 2012 ACSA Fall Conference: OFFSITE / Modular Building Institute

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Host Schools: Temple University
Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, University of Utah; John Quale, University of Virginia; & Rashida Ng, Temple University
Website: https://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/fall-conference/2012-fall-conference

  • 2011 ACSA Fall Conference: Local Identities / Global Challenges

Location: Houston, TX
Host Schools: Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University
Co-chairs: Ikhlas Sabouni and Jorge Vanegas
Website: https://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/fall-conference/2011-fall-conference

Schools interested in hosting are encouraged to contact the ACSA to discuss potential arrangements prior to making a proposal.

 SUBMISSION AND INFORMATION
Please submit your proposal and direct questions to: Eric Wayne Ellis, Director of Operations and Programs, eellis@acsa-arch.org, phone: 202.785.2324.

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