Assistant Professor Peter Laurence contributed an essay to Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, released by Planners Press in April with early reviews at Planetizen and The Huffington Post. His book on Jacobs is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press
Professor Neyran Turan and Wortham Fellow Neeraj Bhatia were recent recipients of two separate Graham Foundation Grants. Turan was the founding editor-in-chief of the Harvard-based journal, New Geographies, which was awarded its second grant from the Graham Foundation for its upcoming issues next year. Bhatia’s grant was awarded for the project, Housing in the Arctic Petropolis of Tomorrow, which, “seeks to catalogue the landscape, cultural, material, and construction systems of the indigenous Inuit housing types, and the modern prefabrication construction techniques and materials employed in the Arctic, to forecast new housing typologies that will provide sustainable shelter to the emerging Arctic petropolis.”
Dean Sarah Whiting, whose essay Speculating Beyond Iconicity: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Project appears in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalog, Architecture of Invention, lectured on Goldberg’s work in a symposium at the Art Institute on October 29 and will be giving a solo lecture on Goldberg at the Chicago Arts Club on January 11.
The work of Nonya Grenader, Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Associate Director of the Rice Building Workshop, was featured on November 9 in the New York Times article, For the Director of the Menil Collection, an Unadorned Home.
On October 24, Professor Albert Pope lectured at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Professor Pope showed two recent projects: his design for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Competition (a collaboration with Schaum/Sheih), and his redevelopment project for the Fifth Ward of Houston funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The intent of the presentation was to propose a unified design logic capable of spanning from the architectural scale of 10 blocks to the urban scale of 1000 blocks.
Wortham Assitant Professor Reto Geiser lectured at the University of Toronto, Canada on November 7 at a conference held on the occasion of Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday: McLuhan100 Then/Now/Next International Conference & DEW Line Festival. His plenary talk was titled From the Faculty of Inter-Relation to the Explorations Group: Exchanges Between Sigfried Giedion and Marshall McLuhan. Additionally, Geiser’s essay, In the Realm of Architecture, Some Notes on Ai Weiwei’s Spatial Tempations appears in the exhibition catalog, Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture.
John J. Casbarian, Director of External Programs and Harry K. & Albert K. Smith Professor was invited to participate on the panel Changing Academic Economies at the annual ACSA Administrators Conference, which was held on November 11 in Los Angeles.
Professor Carlos Jiménez lectured in conjunction with the exhibition, Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture, a joint effort of Latin Pratt and the Pratt Institute of Architecture. The exhibition highlights contemporary architecture of the past 10 years from 45 firms representing more than 10 countries in Latin America. Jiménez also served as the juror for two distinguished competitions: Houston’s internationally acclaimed touring program of short-form media, Independent Exposure 2011: Visual Architecture (Oct. 10-11), and the Open Competition for Fundecor Headquarters, Puerto Viejo, in San Jose, Costa Rica (Oct. 20-22). Additionally, Jiménez lectured at the Third International Congress of Architecture and the Environment at UNAM, Mexico City (Oct. 18), and delivered In-sights on Color and Architecture at the Rice Gallery (Oct. 25).
Stephen Fox, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, led a day-long tour of domestic architecture in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, on September 22 in conjunction with the Building Communities Conference, sponsored annually by the Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, on October 15, Fox was the first recipient of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America Texas Chapter’s Board of Directors Award as part of the John Staub Awards Celebration.
The School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of America will be presenting the lecture: “NY MASJID: THE MOSQUES OF NEW YORK AND THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITUAL SPACE” by Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds.
Dr. Jerrilynn Dodds is a Professor and Dean of the College at Sarah Lawrence College, where she works on issues of artistic interchange -in particular among Christians, Jews, and Muslims- and how groups form identities through art and architecture. She has a special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. Dr. Dodds is the author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain, and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York. She is also the co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture and many other publications. Dr. Dodds completed a BA at Barnard College and a MA and PhD at Harvard University.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster
Deadline: February 8, 2012
(originally posted on Jan. 4, 2012, reposted on Feb. 6, 2012)
The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members participating in the accrediting process will be made by NAAB.
Nominating Procedure
Nominee Qualifications
The candidate should demonstrate:
Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.)
ACSA Nominee Selection
Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service.
Description of Team and Visit
Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.
The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process. The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications.
Team Selection
The visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by providing resumes of prospective team members.
A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if:
NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines. Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations Deadline and Calendar
The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a curriculum vitae, is February 8, 2012. E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to eellis@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2012. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2012-2013 team visits in November 2012.
Nominations should be sent to:
Email (preferred): Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs at eellis@acsa-arch.org
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Professors George Dodds, Ph.D., and David Matthews have been named associate deans of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
In his role as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research, Dodds will administer curricular development, research activities, study abroad programs, student professional and academic organizations, and admissions and enrollment activities of the college.
Dodds, a UT faculty member for nearly twelve years, has served in numerous leadership roles and been recipient to several awards. In addition to this position, Dodds was recently named Chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and received one of UT’s most prestigious awards, the Chancellor’s Honor for Excellence in Advising. In late April, UT also appointed Dodds the Alvin and Sally Beaman Professorship, a distinguished service award which honors only the very best teacher-scholars of the university.
Matthews came to UT in 2010 when appointed Chair of the Interior Design Program. He has nearly twenty years of teaching experience in interior design and architecture. Prior to coming to the College of Architecture and Design, Matthews, in addition to his faculty position, was the Director of Academic Technologies at Ohio University.
As the Associate Dean of Communications and Facilities, Matthews will oversee technology issues related to faculty research, teaching and creative activities, facility operations, renovations and equipment, and communication initiatives and efforts.
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) has confirmed a full eight-year accreditation renewal for both the bachelor of architecture and master of architecture programs at the University of Oregon Department of Architecture.
NAAB is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture. Eight years is the new maximum term effective for decisions made after July 1, 2013, making the Department of Architecture, in the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts, one of the first to receive this new term of accreditation.
The NAAB team acknowledged some of the Department of Architecture’s strengths, including a vibrant learning environment, the dedication and diverse body of work of the faculty at both the Eugene and Portland campuses, the energy and leadership involvement of the students, and the engagement of alumni and local professionals. They also noted that the department is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable practices and education.
The UO Department of Architecture was founded in 1914 and was one of the first programs accredited by NAAB. DesignIntelligence currently ranks the UO architecture program first in the nation for sustainable design education.
“We are appreciative of NAAB’s assessment of our programs and we will continue to enhance and improve our professional design education,” said Judith Sheine, department head. “I extend my thanks to the dedicated faculty, practitioners, staff and students whose shared work demonstrates the value and achievements of the Department of Architecture.”
In addition to the B.Arch and M.Arch programs, the UO Department of Architecture also offers professional bachelor of interior architecture and master of interior architecture degrees, both accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), one-year post-professional master of science in architecture and master of science in interior architecture degrees, and a Ph.D. in architecture.
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Professor Michael Cadwell’s Small Buildings was republished in Pamphlet Architecture 11-20, the second volume of collected work in the acclaimed Pamphlet Architecture series.
Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture faculty are joint researchers on the $865,000 HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) Community Challenge grant received by MOPRC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission) for an urban agriculture overlay and food-based economic development in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus. Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones (architecture) is the lead PI with Assistant Professors Jacob Boswell and Katherine Bennett (Landscape Architecture) and Assistant Professor Charisma Acey (City & Regional Planning). The design team will advise on schematic proposals for the 3.5 acre site through March 2013. Jones has leveraged a second year of the $50,000 grant from the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative to support research activities, faculty, and students. The design team recently published Urban Farmscapes: for Communities Markets and New Ecologies, that documents 72 urban agriculture case studies.
Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones curated the symposium asking, “What does Design have to do with Poverty,” at the Knowlton School of Architecture on October 28, 2010, moderated by Jones and funded by the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative. Presentations included Susan Melsop, Assistant Professor of Design/OSU, E.J. Thomas, Habitat for Humanity, Charisma Acey, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning/OSU, and Matt Persinger, Yale University, Design/Build Program.
Professor Jeffrey Kipnis gave the Dean’s Lecture at Staedelschule, Frankfurt Germany, and was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Calgary University. Kipnis participated in panel discussions at IIT, Tokyo University, The Architectural Association of London, TU- Berlin, Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennale, Harvard GSD, and the University of Michigan. He also organized the conference “A Better Future through Architecture” at Georgia Tech where he gave the keynote address.
Assistant Professor Karen Lewis and students were recognized in the Van Alen Institute’s “Life at the Speed of Rail” competition. “Switch Space,” by Emma Cucurrean-Zapan and Christine Yankel, was developed as part of her winter studio on Ohio’s high speed rail system, was recognized as a winning project. Professor Lewis’s own project, “Health Corridor,” was awarded an Honorable Mention. Karen Lewis’s collaborative project “Harbor Port” was noted with an honorable mention in the One Prize Competition. Harborport was developed with Jason Kentner, Sean Burkholder, and Matthew Banton. Lewis is currently writing a book, “Graphic Design for Architects” that will be published by Routledge Press February 2013.
Professor Robert S. Livesey, who co-taught with the late Architect James Stirling at Yale University, was cited in the exhibition “An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale” and interviewed for the accompanying James Stirling documentary. Livesey authored a review of the exhibition for Constructs, the bi-annual news magazine highlighting activities and events at the Yale School of Architecture. Associate Professor Jane Murphy’s and Michael Cadwell’s work, produced as students of Stirling and Livesey, was included in the exhibition. Murphy was also interviewed for the Stirling documentary.
Professor Jose Oubrerie’s diagrams and photographs of Firminy Church were published in “Les 20 ans de Nemausus” December 2010 by Edition de l’Esperou and School of Architecture of Montpellier France. He was selected as the Baird Distinguished Professor at Cornell University for 2011. He was also a panelist at a symposium at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and gave public lectures at City College of New York, Bowling Green University, University of Kentucky School of Architecture and Design, and AIA Kentucky. Professor Oubrerie also presented the lecture, “Architecture in a Time of Uncertainty,” at Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Associate Professors Lisa Tilder and Stephen Turk were awarded the 2010-2011 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award and ACSA Collaborative Practice Honorable Mention. Tilder and Turk’s “Pod Home” was published in NANO HOUSE: Innovations for Small Dwellings, ed. Phyllis Richardson (UK: Thames & Hudson) and was featured in NANO HOUSE reviews by the Los Angeles Times, Irish Times and others.
Associate Professor Lisa Tilder published “The Lost Decade?” in field journal: issue 4, Ecology (Sheffield, UK) and was a contributing author to Vitamin Green, ed. Joshua Bolchover (UK: Phaidon Press). Tilder gave the keynote address, “Media Ecologies” at the University Bauhaus Weimar. Tilder served as a juror for the ACSA ARCHIVE “Being Resourceful” competition.
Associate Professor Stephen Turk published “Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project” in Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography, edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth, (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag). This publication stems from his lecture presented at the Tanzkongress 2009 at the Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany. Associate Professor Turk’s exhibition design/installation in collaboration with Norah Zuniga Shaw, “Synchronous Objects, Reproduced” for the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, was published in ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Stefan Riekeles and Andreas Broeckmann (Kehrer Verlag: Heidelberg – Berlin).
School News
Professor Ann Pendleton-Jullian completed her term as Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture and has returned to the full-time faculty to pursue research. Professor and Section Head of Architecture Mike Cadwell has been appointed Interim-Director of the KSA. Associate Professor S. Beth Blostein has assumed the role of Architecture Section Head. Professor Robert S. Livesey has been appointed Head of the KSA’s Landscape Architecture Section, with an international search for Landscape Architecture Section Head underway.
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.
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).
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.
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