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Illinois Institute of Technology

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Associate Professor John Ronan’s firm, John Ronan Architects, received the 2012 AIA Institute Honor award for the Poetry Foundation. The Chicago home of Poetry Magazine and Poetry Foundation administration, the building features public performance space, a gallery, and library. The building is sheathed in perforated oxidized zinc, with layers of glass and wood. AIA likened the building’s subtle, unfolding design to a poem being “revealed line by line.”
http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/architecture/PoetryFoundation/index.htm

Assistant Professor Sean Keller has received a grant from the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.  The Warhol Foundation program supports contemporary art writing that engages a broader audience and whose rigor strengthens critical art writing as a discipline. Sean Keller, along with co-author Christine Mehring, will use the funding for their forthcoming book, Munich ’72: Olympian Art and Architecture (Chicago), which examines the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics on German postwar identity, international artistic exchanges, and computational methods of architectural design.

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Change

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by Judith Kinnard, FAIA
2010-11 ACSA President 

Over the last year I have had the opportunity to participate in a number of critical conversations around the theme of change in the profession and in architectural education.  At our meetings and in discussions with our collateral organizations, we have explored the dynamic conditions that will inevitably impact our pedagogy, our practices, our organizations and perhaps most significantly in our universities.   Our school leaders gathered in Los Angeles last November to engage in debate regarding pedagogical futures.  At the ACSA Annual Meeting in Boston we heard papers on cutting edge digital explorations in research and teaching. In Barcelona last week we broadened these discussions to include the voices of our colleagues from over 20 countries in 6 continents. 

There are paradoxes as we look ahead. Although we cannot ignore the impacts of digital methods on teaching, learning and research, our schools have largely affirmed the relevance of the design studio as a physical environment where ideas are exchanged and artifacts are crafted. While there are advances in teaching and research methods based on partnerships outside of our schools, with industry, the professions, and community groups, we need to be careful to maintain disciplinary focus and curricular clarity. I believe that the schools and the faculty need to be more open to evolving and responsive curricula, degree programs and research centers, while expanding our commitment to career mentorship and lifelong learning.

The recent study by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce identified the high unemployment rate for architecture majors.   The widespread publication of articles relating to this report together with an increased public focus on student debt may have a continuing impact on our schools.  Though the number of applicants to architecture schools appears to have shown only a modest decline, we are all aware of the significant reduction in applications professional degree programs in law and business.  What does this mean for our schools and for our curricula? I have been struck by the conflicting imperatives that we face to become more fully grounded in the notion of architect as generalist and at the same time more specialized in our teaching.  In my view the early years of undergraduate curricula need to recognize and facilitate the multiple career paths that our students will pursue, while the final years of our graduate programs need to involve intense and rigorous explorations of the integrated issues of building design and research.

I think we can all acknowledge that most schools provide minimal support for students as they make the transition to first jobs and eventual careers.  For the many students who will not find jobs in architecture or chose to pursue other paths schools offer little guidance or mentorship. The thresholds between education, practice, and career need to be fully designed and supported.  Some schools have done significant work in this regard and have used their continued relationship to alumni to provide connections, enhance development efforts and to provide important data regarding the outcome of an education in architecture.  Connie Caldwell’s work at Syracuse University is the most impressive in this regard (http://soa.syr.edu/index.php?id=22).

The profession and the schools clearly need to work in collaboration to meet the challenges for today’s recent graduates and emerging professionals.     In 1996, Ernest Boyer and Lee Mitgang wrote in Building Community: 

The worlds of practice and education depend on each other for their purpose and vitality…. In the end, the academy and the profession also share an obligation to serve the needs of communities, the built environment and society as a whole.”  

I would argue that in today’s economy this dual obligation extends to the future of the profession. Recent changes to the Internship Development Program have embraced the concept of school-based programs that can be pursued both for academic credit and IDP hours.  This may well reinvent curricula at schools that choose to develop programs that move their graduates closer to the “licensure on graduation” model that has been the norm in international architectural education and in other professions in the US and Canada.  We should be appreciative of the NCARB leadership for supporting these initial steps.

As we head into discussions with our collateral organizations relating to the next Accreditation Review Conference (ARC), ACSA has been forceful in our position that expanding the mandates of the accreditation conditions is not the way to allow schools to leverage their individual missions and settings.  The academy and profession have experienced major challenges since the last Accreditation Review Conference (ARC) held in July 2008. University endowments have eroded and state support for higher education has been drastically cut. The 2013 ARC must acknowledge the dynamic and constrained environments that both practice and education are facing. Increasingly, schools will need the freedom and flexibility to negotiate the opportunities and challenges associated with these conditions within their specific institutional setting and professional affiliations. 

It has been an honor to serve as President of ACSA in this Centennial year.  I have benefited enormously from the support of our patient and thoughtful executive director, Michael Monti PhD. I am grateful to the board for their service and support and to the prior leadership of our organization, particularly Daniel Friedman whom I had the opportunity to work with in the year leading up to this one.  Donna Robertson’s unique combination of leadership skills and nuanced understanding of the issues facing our member schools will serve us very well in the year to come.

2013 ARC: Evolution or Revolution?

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As we prepare for the 2013 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference, the ACSA Board of Directors would like to hear your thoughts on some of the most pressing issues regarding conditions and procedures. Every week leading up to the Administrators Conference in Austin, we will ask one question for your feedback. Please share these with your colleagues and keep the conversation going. Please comment below.

Question: How much should we change the Conditions?

Cornell University

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Cornell University’s Milstein Hall – the first new building in over 100 years for the renowned College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) – opened its studios for students in late August with completion coming in October 2011. Led by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, who directs the New York office, and Pritzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas, the design for the 47,000-square-foot building physically unites the AAP’s long-separated facilities to form a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.

“Milstein Hall operates on many levels,” says AAP dean Kent Kleinman. “It redefines the entry for the northern edge of the campus; it provides a permeable boundary between academic space and the public; it offers extraordinary spatial relationships between internal programmatic elements; and it offers a landscape of studios that fosters a level of interaction between our undergraduate and graduate architecture students that we have never enjoyed before.”

Milstein Hall’s large horizontal plate connects the second levels of the AAP’s existing Sibley Hall and Rand Hall to provide 25,000 square feet of studio space with panoramic views of the surrounding environment. Enclosed by floor-to-ceiling glass and a green roof with 41 skylights, this “upper plate” cantilevers almost 50 feet over University Avenue to establish a relationship with the Foundry, a third existing AAP facility. The wide-open expanse of the plate — structurally supported by a hybrid truss system — stimulates interaction and allows flexible use over time.

Beneath the hovering studio plate, the ground level accommodates major program elements including a 253-seat auditorium, and a dome that encloses a 5,000 square foot circular critique space. The dome serves multiple functions: it supports the raked auditorium seating, it becomes the stairs leading up to the studio plate above, and it is the artificial ground for an array of exterior seating pods fostering public activities.

Associate Professor Mark Cruvellier was appointed to a three-year term as the department chair of architecture effective July 1, 2011.  As noted in AAP dean Kent Kleinman’s announcement, “[Cruvellier] has a long administrative track record, but even more importantly, he has the skills and disposition to support a strong team.” Cruvellier takes over as chair from Dagmar Richter who begins as a department chair at the Pratt Institute this January.

Associate Professor Lily Chi was appointed director of graduate studies (Field of Architecture), and Associate Professor Andrea Simitch was named director of the B.Arch. program. A search for the Edgar A. Tafel Professor of Architecture / Director of Professional M.Arch. Program is underway.

AfterTaste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design, coedited by AAP dean Kent Kleinman, will be released in October 2011. The book includes texts, interviews, and portfolios based on the annual AfterTaste symposia hosted by Parsons The New School for Design. The materials document new theories and emerging critical practices that argue that the field of interior design is inadequately served by its historical reliance on taste-making and taste-makers, and attempt to promote new voices and perspectives in both the theory and practice of the discipline.

Tulane University

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The Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce that the Tulane City Center, in conjunction with Grow Dat Youth Farm and New Orleans City Park is the recipient of a 2012 SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design.

The Grow Dat Youth Farm received one of six awards of excellence, representing the very best examples of the mission and principles of social, economic, environmental design, offering tangible evidence of how design is effectively playing a role in addressing the most critical issues around the globe, addressing the biggest social and economic challenges. Grow Dat is a four acre farm where high school students from diverse backgrounds become young leaders through the meaningful work of growing healthy food. High school students work as “crew members” learning to plant, harvest, and cook while participating in leadership training classes. In its second growing season, the program is host to 25 young leaders working with dedicated staff in a new non-profit organization created by the Tulane City Center and Tulane University to serve vital needs in the New Orleans community. Tulane faculty members Scott Bernhard, Emilie Taylor and Abigail Feldman and TCC Associate Director Dan Etheridge led teams of architecture students in the design and construction of the farm infrastructure and facilities in a 6000 square foot compound on the four-acre farm site. More than 45 students of architecture have worked on the design and construction of the project and more than a dozen departments of Tulane University have been involved in establishing the Grow Dat program. The facility features: bio-filtration, composting toilets, on-site water sequestration, soil remediation, passive cooling and extensive material recycling and repurposing. Project completion is scheduled for May of 2012.

 

Book, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Professor Emerita Ellen Weiss, has been reviewed in numerous venues, including New York Times article, Pioneering Architect and The Mobile Times-Register article, Southern Bound: Tuskegee architect finally gets his due.  Professor Weiss has also been on multiple radio interviews including NPR Morning Edition. The text interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Professor Harry Mallgrave will be awarded an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council.  The twelve fellowships announced on September 27 reward individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including the worlds of education, sustainability, engineering, property development, journalism, politics and the wider built environment industry.  The 2013 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have made a particular contribution to architecture in its broadest sense. This includes its promotion, administration and outreach, and its role in building more sustainable communities and in the education of future generations.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect, scholar, editor, and professor of history and theory at Illinois Institute of Technology.   After several years in architectural practice, he took his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 under the supervision of Stanford Anderson.  His dissertation topic -The Idea of Style: Gottfried Semper in London -presaged his focus on German theory in his early career.  This phase of his work culminated in the intellectual biography Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, which won the prestigious Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the American Society of Architectural Historians.

He has written numerous books and articles on the history and theory of architecture including: Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present.  In recent years Mallgrave’s interests have broadened, as indicated by his book The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture.  He has more recently followed up on this study with Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design, to be published in 2013.  It appeals to the emotional process of embodied simulation, rejects overly conceptualized approaches to theory and the objectification of design (viewing buildings as objects), and argues for a return to the focus of design to where it formerly resided -the human experience of inhabiting the world.

Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Williams will be featured in the new Dreams in Jay-Z Minor exhibition at the Blanc Gallery as part of a series of exhibitions for Chicago Artists Month. Williams and fellow Chicago artist Krista Franklin drew on a series of mutually recurring dreams as inspiration for their work.

The exhibit explores notions around dream states, hyper-reality, upward mobility, hopes and aspirations of African Diasporic peoples, black opulence, black excellence, and excess.

Using a variety of mediums, from paintings, handmade paper, print, altered books and collage, Dreams in Jay-Z Minor is a visual metaphorical play of installation, 2D, and 3D works.

Master of Architecture alumna Diane Hoffer-Schurecht has received the AIA Chicago‘s 2012 Chicago Award for Architecture. Select area architecture schools are invited to participate in this annual award and each are allowed to nominate five students to compete. Competition entries are school studio projects that are submitted at the end of the spring semester. As the first place winner, Hoffer-Schurecht will receive the Benn-Johnck Student Award of $500.

Auburn University

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Marlon Blackwell Architect has received a 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas. In an “aggressive adaptive reuse,” an existing metal shop building was transformed into a sanctuary and fellowship hall. Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, a 1980 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, is founder and principal of Marlon Blackwell Architect and is a Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Third Year architecture students completed the annual “Concrete Comp” at the end of Fall Semester 2012. This competition is sponsored by the Alabama Concrete Industries Association, which provides funding for cash awards to the winning students. Winners included:  First Place, Michael Brudi “HandMade in Alabama”; Second Place, Alex Hays, “C2S”; Third Place, Alexandra Buehning, “Structural Glass CMU.”

4th year architecture celebrated the end of Fall 2012 with the 51st Annual Alagasco Student Design competition. This year’s challenge:  design a new 225,000 SF hospital in Boston on Parcel 11B, located on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a vibrant public corridor created by the monumental public works project of the “Big Dig.” This prominent location suggests a Children’s Hospital is a civic institution and a complex technical and cultural challenge.

Juried by a distinguished and varied panel of professionals including healthcare experts, faculty and architectural professionals, the projects were recognized for their complexity and range, as well as the thoroughness of the design solutions. First place was awarded to Whitney Johnson, second place to Cody Bryant and third place to Samuel Maddox. Honorable mentions were also awarded to Jeffrey Bak, Sean Flaharty, Samantha O’Leary, Austin Powers and Ruben Quesada Alvarado. These students attended the AIA Montgomery Design Awards Gala on December 4 where their final presentations were on display. Awards were made possible by generous support from Alagasco.

The Spring 2013 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning is entitled “Love & Hate: Points of View, Perspectives & Personalities” and is a continuation of the series of the same title from the Fall of 2012. The lectures this year focus on depth as opposed to breadth in the design practice. Lecturers will discuss specific project(s) of the designer’s choice rather than a survey of their respective portfolios with an emphasis on the design process beyond the finished product—often a means to an end. Lecturers will elaborate on the trials and tribulations of specific building endeavors in their recent past—the surprises, the small and large successes and the details of a project cycle.

APLA is particularly pleased to add a variety of speakers this spring including, architects, planners and historians. Scheduled speakers/presentations include:  Chris Leong , a founding partner of Leong Leong; a screening of the film Conversations with Architects, a film produced by Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, Helen Han, architect and filmmaker, and Margaret Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University; Julie Snow, FAIA of Julie Snow Architects; Marla Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans; Nasser Rabbat, the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.

Jack Williams, Professor Emeritus Auburn University, was invited to lecture at Beijing Forestry University in October as part of the University’s celebration of its 60th anniversary. Professor Williams and Beijing Forestry University’s faculty celebrated twenty years of friendship between the two universities Beijing Forestry University’s School of Landscape Architecture is China’s oldest and largest landscape architecture program and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in planning, urban design and landscape architecture.

Catholic University of America

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Photo: Sketch-analysis travel through Turkey with Professor Eric Jenkins.

Architect Claudio Silvestrin is the Walton Critic and Professor in residence for 2013.  He is based in London and Milan, and the author of an internationally recognized oeuvre covering architecture as well as a wide range of design scales and interests. Silvestrin’s thoughts and work have been featured in four books, many professional magazines and journals, exhibitions, as well as multiple other media outlets. During his residence at CUA School of Architecture and Planning, architect Silvestrin is directing a design studio centered in the intersection between culture and spirituality. He participates in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and informal meeting with students and faculty. Claudio Silvestrin lectured on his work philosophy and concerns last Wednesday 09/11 at CUAch’s Auditorium. He will be giving a special presentation titled “Works and Inspirations” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM at the Embassy of Italy. Claudio Silvestrin’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. For more information on the Walton Critic Program, contact Associate Professor Julio Bermudez.

This past June, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins directed a special program with sixteen students on a three-week sketch-analysis travel through Turkey. Studying primarily Islamic and vernacular architecture, the students began their studies in Istanbul and then moved onto towns such as Safronbolu, Amaysa, Tokat, Sivas, Konya and Bursa. In addition, Professor Jenkins has been invited by the Washington, DC-based firm Hickok-Cole Architects to lead a workshop related to his most recent book, Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing. The workshop will re-introduce freehand drawing skills, diagramming and specific sketching exercises to the firm’s employees so that sketching might be better re-integrated into the design process.

Associate Professor Julie Kim presented a paper at the 2013 BTES Conference “Tectonics of Teaching” at Roger Williams University in July. She shared the pedagogy and framework of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at CUA in a presentation entitled “Reflections on Building Technology in the Design Studio.”

Assistant Professor Hyojin Kim Ph.D. has joined the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Kim holds a doctorate in Architecture (December 2012) from Texas A&M University. She will be teaching courses in energy modeling and simulation.

Framed within the theme of ABSENCE, the 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture successfully celebrated another year with the completion of the NADAAA Design Studio, led by Nader Tehrani, and co-taught by Julian Palacio, Lecturer (CUA). The SIA also hosted a robust lecture series with presentations from Mark Sexton (Krueck + Sexton, Chicago); Rhett Russo (Specific Objects, NJ); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). The 2014 Summer Institute theme will be HYBRID SCALE. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Julie Kim, SIA Director.

Team Capitol DC’s Harvest Home is Washington DC’s first ever entry for the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Competition. The team’s contributing universities The Catholic University of America (Architecture and Planning), George Washington University (Engineering) and American University (Media and Communications) have been collaborating successfully for over two years. Harvest Home will be donated to Wounded Warrior Homes who specialize in finding accommodation for veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Harvest Home harvests sun, wind, rain and building materials to provide a healing environment for wounded warriors.

 

 

Tulane University

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iLounge { instant / interim / interactive } designed by Tulane School of Architecture (TSA) Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore in collaboration with Mona El Khafif, Associate Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) is selected for the full construction and implementation, co-commissioned by Northern Spark and ZERO1. Its installation is scheduled for Northern Spark 2012 in June in Minneapolis and the 2012 ZERO1 Art & Technology Biennial in September in San Jose. The funding is partially supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is currently under construction by TSA and CCA team. http://www.zero1biennial.org/content/Marcella-del-Signore-and-Mona-El-Khafif

The Tulane City Center (TCC) is collaborating with the Tulane Master of Real Estate Program (MSRED) to develop affordable housing options for the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative (JPNSI). Faculty members Casius Pealer and Cordula Roser Gray in conjunction with Dan Etheridge (Associate Director TCC) are in the process of developing conversion strategies for 2 multi-unit housing projects in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans that aim at advancing equitable housing patterns, neighborhood stability and community driven land-use planning. With the help of a community land trust (CLT) model of land stewardship and shared equity, JPNSI hopes to offer affordable housing options to local residents by encouraging resident controlled development and promoting community building initiatives. The project is funded through a grant from the Surdna Foundation.

The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC) has been selected to host the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD), South Regional session, to be held this fall. The Mayors’ Institute is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors. It is considered the country’s premier educational initiative for public officials.

In collaboration with the Mayors’ Institute founders, TRUDC Director Grover Mouton helped form the regional session format in 1991, allowing each conference to focus on the unique planning and design issues facing a particular region. Since that time, he has hosted more than 50 mayors at numerous MICD conferences in New Orleans. Eight mayors from across the Southeastern US will be invited to the upcoming forum, where they will be advised by planning, design, development, and preservation experts from across the country. Professor Mouton and TRUDC staff will visit each participating city, and guide the mayors in selecting and presenting design challenges from their respective cities, ensuring that each project presented is met with appropriate design and policy solutions from the assembled expert panel. The MICD South Regional session will be held in the fall of 2012.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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In April, Associate Professor Mohamed Boubekri gave a presentation entitled “Daylighting Design and Users’ Response” at the International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference in Italy.

David M. Chasco, FAIA, Professor and Director of the School of Architecture was honored by being named a Fellow at the AIA National Convention in Denver in June 2013. The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.  Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.  David Chasco has dedicated his career to promoting a unified profession by fostering design excellence in the academic and public realms, after achieving creative design excellence in the profession.  

Director Chasco is pleased to announce that a final “signing ceremony” to move the Versailles Study Abroad Program to Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Valles (ETSAV) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya–Barcelona TECH will be held October 23 in Barcelona, with the Rector of UPC. 

Assistant Professor Kenny Cupers’ edited volume Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture was just published by Routledge (2013).

Associate Professors Lynne Dearborn and John Stallmeyer received the 2013 Achievement Award from the Environmental Design Research Association for their book Inconvenient Heritage in June.  This book examines the processes and products of UNESCO’s inscription of Luang Prabang, Laos as a World Heritage Site, with specific reference to the architecture and form of the city. 

Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson gave a presentation entitled “urban FILTER” at the 2013 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting: New Constellations, New Ecologies in California.

Visiting Lecturer Camden Greenlee and Visiting Instructor Brian Vesely received an honorable mention in the 2013 Tex-Fab competition entitled “Skin – An International Two-Stage Digital Fabrication Competition.”  Their project “Hydromorph” investigates the potential role of the building envelope as a device to mitigate the destructive effects of perennial floods, reflecting the critical thinking applied to real world problems.  http://tex-fab.net/skin-results/.

The Designers and Books website has listed Associate Professor Ralph Hammann’s latest book Creative Engineering, Architecture and Technology (DOM Publishers, Feb. 2013) as one of the ten most notable books on architecture for 2013.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway gave a presentation entitled: mies [UPGRADE] at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 101st Annual Meeting; ACSA 101: New constellations/New Ecologies in California in March.

The third edition of the Lisbon architecture Triennale, entitled “Close, Closer” has accepted the work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, “Hand_flexivel – €2500” for showcasing during this event.  To be held September 12-December 15, 2013, this event encourages multiple possibilities of architectural output through critical and experimental exhibitions, performances and debates throughout the city for the purpose of examining global spatial practice.

Prof. Emeritus Paul Armstrong and Associate Professor Paul Kapp received the 2013 Historic Preservation Book prize for their text SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City.  This award is given by the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation to a new book which it deems has made the most significant contribution to the intellectual vitality of historic preservation in America.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp was named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2013-2014 academic year.  Kapp will be in residence at the University of Birmingham Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage in the United Kingdom.

Associate Professor Joy Monice Malnar of the Illinois School of Architecture, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Frank Vodvarka, Professor of Fine Arts at Loyola University Chicago, have co-authored the new book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN and released in August 2013.  The book positions 56 recent architectural projects for the first time as a significant genre. Daniel J. Glenn points out that the “book recognizes not only the extraordinary new works of architecture just beginning to transform reservation communities but also the significance of making that transformation.”

The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable and the University of Washington, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity invited Prof. Malnar to present a public lecture focused on the release of her new book at their 16th Annual Summer Solstice – Juneteenth Celebration and Scholarship Benefit (Seattle, June 14, 2013). Ten of the Northwest region architects featured in the book participated in a roundtable panel discussion moderated by Malnar. A book signing was sponsored by Peter Miller Architecture & Design, a Seattle bookstore.  Malnar presented an introduction to her book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands at the National American Indian Housing Council’s (NAIHC) 39th Annual Convention in Chicago (May 22, 2013) The session focused on the new houses and housing complexes recently built to reinforce cultural and environmental sustainability on reservations. Malnar is currently planning a symposium on current American Indian architecture issues to take place in Spring 2014 on the UIUC campus.

Associate Professor Heather Minor was named a Fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2013-14 academic year.  Her research will concentrate on Giovanni Battista Piranisi.

Associate Professor Heather Minor received an honorable mention for the 2013 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians for her book The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome.  This award was established to recognize the most distinguished works of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.

Professor Jeffery S. Poss, FAIA was invited to give a lecture on his professional and academic work at the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal in October.  That same week Poss Co-Hosted the Constructed Environment Conference in Lisbon, an Associate Project of “Close, Closer,” the 2013 Lisbon Architectural Trienniale.  Beatrice Galilee, Chief Curator of the Triennale, was plenary speaker.

Associate Professor John Senseney was named an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the 2013-13 academic year.

Associate Professor John Senseney was appointed Book Review Editor for Europe, Africa, and Asia pre 1750 for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the leading journal on the built environment and spatial practice, which has defined the field of architectural history.

Adolf Sotoca Garcia, Assistant Professor at the DUOT, ETSAV Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-Barcelona TECH, has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor for the 2013-2014 academic year at the Illinois School of Architecture.

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor gave a presentation entitled “Residential Reconstruction in Haiti” at the Residential Building Design and Construction Conference in Pennsylvania in February.

Assistant Professor Marci S. Uihlein gave a presentation entitled “Structural Integration: An Undefinable Idea?” at the 1st Annual International Conference on architecture and Civil Engineering in Singapore in March.

Assistant Professor Marci S. Uihlein was awarded the 2013 Building Technology Educators’ Society’s Emerging Faculty Award. 

Visiting Instructor Brian Vesely received an honorable mention for his entry in the 2013 Burning Man Competition to design a new airport terminal and pilots lounge at the Black Rock City Municipal Airport.  Vesely’s project created a unique design of a fluid space which would accommodate large numbers of airport passengers in comfort and style, using the topography and weather of the area as his inspiration.  http://ecologicdesighlab.com/competition-results/.

In October 2013, Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D., administrator for undergraduate student services presented on the topic of “Career Designing: Connecting to the Future” at the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference in Indianapolis and “Architecture and Beyond: Opportunities Abound” at the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Northeast Quad Conference at Keene State College, Keene, NH.  He also recently submitted the manuscript for the 3rd edition of Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design.

Allison Warren, Lecturer, has been designated a 2013 University CAEPE Award Finalist for her work in ARCH 576. Since 2009, the annual public engagement and community development seminar called CU-Engage has enrolled over 350 community participants in a variety of field projects. C-U Engage connects the design currency and critical thinking abilities of architecture graduate students to design projects of community partners while developing professional practice skills.

In June 2013, Assistant Professor Therese Tierney was awarded a 2013 Consulate General of France in San Francisco Smart and Digital Cities Fellowship as one of ten participants from academic, public and private sectors to attend the digital world festival Futur-en-Seine in Paris followed by the Innovative Cities Convention in Nice.  Participants were selected based on the quality of their work on the use of new technologies and data to build the next generation of cities.  Prof. Tierney presented a paper in Nice entitled “Cultural Infrastructure: From Museums to Mobile Apps.”

Assistant Professor Thérèse F. Tierney’s book, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society was published by Routledge as part of their media research series in August 2013. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635233/

Tierney has two papers recently published by MIT Press:  “Disentangling Social Media: Public Space and Internet Activism” in Thresholds 41: MIT Journal of Architecture, and “Locative Media: A Critical Appraisal and Intervention” in Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for Arts, Sciences, Technology, Issue 46:3.  Tierney also presented a paper, “Urban Culture: From Museum to Mobile App” at the Innovative Cities Conference for Intelligent and Sustainable Cities in Nice, France this summer.

Tierney’s applied research proposal, [i-metro] information commons, will be on display for the Paseo Project International Design Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain 2013.  [i-metro], an interactive installation for transit riders, contributes to new forms of public engagement by creating socially rich glocal nodes for public benefit by linking the scale of the webpage to that of the city in real time.

Tierney’s article “Architecture of Thought” was just published in “Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review” vol XXIV.  Her essay “Positioning Locative Media: A Critical Urban intervention” was just published in “Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of Art, Science & Technology.”

Tierney was interviewed about Smart Cities for The TechMap –  “Is Paris a Smarter City than New York?”  It was based on her research experiences documenting sustainable cities this summer as part of an international fellowship. http://thetechmap.org/2013/08/23/is-paris-a-smarter-city-than-new-york/

UIUC Professor Emeritus James Warfield of the Illinois School of Architecture was honored in Shanghai in July at the Tongji University opening ceremonies for the “Warfield Archives of Vernacular Architecture.” The dedication of this remarkable research collection is a milestone in 25 years of collaboration between the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University and the School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Warfield Archives represent 50 years of research in vernacular architecture: field notes, journal entries, photos, on-site sketches and drawings, and journal entries by James Warfield, ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture at the University of Illinois. The archives preserve Warfield’s worldwide research conducted in over 60 countries with support from the Graham Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Program, the Carnegie Foundation and, most significantly, the University of Illinois Research Board.

The initial collection, dedicated at the July 5, 2013 Shanghai ceremony, consists of over 20,000 photographic images and written documents. It is anticipated that the archives will grow by 5000 new entries per year with digital records housed and curated by the CAUP Architecture Museum. The complete permanent and updated collection will be available worldwide through links at Tongji University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Warfield website www.jameswarfield.us.

In celebration this memorable achievement, Director David Chasco invited a number of international scholars and colleagues to write in regard to Professor Warfield’s work and research collection. The words of Zheng Shiling, Juhani Pallasmaa, A. Richard Williams, Wu Jiang, Chang Qing, Patricia McKenzie, Robert Riley, Robert Mooney, James Knight, and Liu Yuting were included in the dedication day ceremonies. http://www.jameswarfield.us/1/Catalog-for-the-July-5-2013/29162438_X45WXx#!i=2483787152&k=H5bTJmz

Last year Professor Warfield was named to the faculty of Tongji University, and, simultaneously, to the Board of Editors of China’s new professional journal Heritage Architecture. By this appointment, Warfield joined a list of honorary and advisory professors at Tongji that includes: Chinese American architect I. M. Pei; British architect Richard Rogers; Indian architect Charles Correa; former UIUC Plym Distinguished Professor Ken Yeang; longtime Dean of MIT Stanford Anderson; chief conservation architect of the Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris Benjamin Mouton; and Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Since 1988, Professor Warfield has led the University of Illinois/Tongji University Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning.  The College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University is widely considered the top program in urban planning in China, and ranks first or second among the leading architecture schools.  Throughout his 25 year association with Tongji University, Professor Warfield has fostered the careers of numerous Chinese students and faculty. His former teaching assistants in the Illinois program include professionals of considerable stature: the Vice President of Tongji University; the Head of International Programs at Tongji University; the CEO of the major Shanghai architectural firm UN+ Architects; the Head of the Interior Design Program in CAUP; and the former Vice Mayor of the City of Shanghai in charge of construction.

CAUP Director of the Department of Architecture, Professor Chang Qing, FAIA, stated that Warfield’s faculty appointment was made on the basis of his leadership in this program, the oldest international program in the college, and based upon his 2009 book and major exhibit “Roads Less Traveled” at Kengo Kuma’s Z58 in Shanghai. These works are based upon Warfield’s research, travel journals and photos of vernacular architecture in 32 culture areas around the world.

Warfield is also author of Dancing Lessons from God and The Architect’s Sketch, published respectively in English and Chinese in the USA and China. Warfield has taught for 40 years at the University of Illinois and continues to head a graduate studio in design and a Campus Honors capstone seminar “Architecture as Gateway to Culture.” He also leads a springtime sketch trip to the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini for architecture students in the School of Architecture’s Versailles study abroad program. In China, he writes quarterly essays on vernacular architecture in the “Warfield Column” in Heritage Architecture. In 2002, Warfield was named and ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

 

 

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