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University of Houston

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  • Assistant Professor Wendy Fok who has received a $6,000 grant from the New Faculty Research Grant program sponsored by the University of Houston Department of Research to further her research in digital fabrication and tooling. 
  • Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Industrial Design Student Mariel Pina was named as one of two first prize winners at the 2012 International Housewares Student Design Competition.  The 19th year of juried competition was reviewed by 10 judges, mostly from the housewaresindustry including Umbra and KitchenAid. Mariel’s project, Ambos, was recognized highly by professionals from the 2011 IDSA International Design Conference in New Orleans and the IHA award signifies her excellence. She will receive a cash prize ($ 2,500), and be invited to the 2012 International Home and Housewares show in Chicago from March 8-13, 2012.  

University of Oregon

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Kingston Heath, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation announces that his program recently received a gift of $2.8 million dollars by Art DeMuro, President of the Venerable Group, Inc.  This gift has led to a proposal to move the program from Eugene to Portland to better address content related to “green preservation.”

Heath has been elected for his third term on the Board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.  He will be chairing a session at the Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.  His paper on the “Croatia Conservation Field School,” that he founded and co-directs, will be presented at the “Preservation Education: Sharing Practices and Finding Common Ground” symposium September 8 & 9 in Providence, R.I. He will also be presenting a paper, and serving on a panel, at the American Folklore Society forum on Integrating Folklore and Preservation in New Orleans, October 24-27.  

Professor Howard Davis’s new book, Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life, has been published by Routledge.  Davis delivered a keynote lecture at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements in Famugusta, North Cyprus, in April.

Brook Muller has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts beginning June 2012.

Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Ph.D., Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL), and his thesis design students presented their advanced studio work on Regenerative Design at the Oregon Design Conference April 2012 in Salishan: “Redesigning andRebuilding Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods, Streets, Buildings and Gardens, Destroyed by War, Terrorism, Natural Disaster, and Human Failure.” The work focuses on real world problems, and students are working with communities, agents, NGO’s and agencies interested in long-term generative recovery in projects in Japan, Haiti, Malawi, Bosnia, Hungary, China, Netherlands, and the US. 

PUARL also co-sponsored the 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference (IMCL) May 2012 in Portland, with the participation of Neis and Emeritius Professor Jim Pettinari.

Associate Professor Mark L. Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP was part of a teaching team that received the 2011 Workforce Development Through Training Award from the Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership.  This national award recognizes teaching excellence and was awarded at the GOVGreen Conference in Washington DC on December 1. Dr. Gillem has developed and teaches a series of planning and urban design courses for the federal government. He also recently received a major design award from the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. His firm, The Urban Collaborative, LLC, prepared the Southwest Campus Area Development Plan for Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The jury recognized the plan as the Outstanding Area Development Plan at an award ceremony in Los Angeles in April 2012. While in Los Angeles, he was the Chair of the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division Annual Training Workshop. The event attracted over 300 planners working for and with federal agencies. He also recently spoke on sustainable master planning in Los Angeles at a NASA workshop and at George Mason University in Washington DC where he announced the release of a new master planning policy for the Department of Defense that he authored. 

University at Buffalo

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Korydon Smith reports that “Building Neighborhoods that Build Social and Economic Prosperity: Manual for a Complete Neighborhood” received a Congress for New Urbanism 2013 Global Award for Excellence in Urban Design as well as a 2013 Residential Architect Design Award in the “On the Boards” category. The collaborative project focused on housing design for a hillside settlement in Kigali, Rwanda, and involved the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (Stephen Luoni, Director, and  Jeffrey Huber), Korydon Smith (Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at UB), Peter Rich (South African architect and recipient of the WAF 2009 World Building of the Year), and Tomà Berlanda (Senior Lecturer at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology). Smith, along with Rich, led a group of nine architecture students from the University of Arkansas to Rwanda in September 2011. These students and faculty, in partnership with architecture students and faculty from the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, conducted first-hand research of domestic architecture and life in rural and urban Rwanda, contributing to a semester-long design studio on urban housing in Kigali. Luoni and Huber, along with students and staff at the UACDC, furthered the work with the publishing of the aforementioned manual. The work is ongoing and involves partnerships with planning and government officials in Kigali, as Rich leads the implementation of the proposals. Likewise, Smith is currently completing a book on the work tentatively titled Translating Kigali, Rwanda: Cultural Inquires and Architectural Prospects for a Developing African City. The aforementioned awards are the second and third awards the work has garnered, adding to the 2012-2013 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award received last month.

Joyce Hwang‘s article “Living Among Pests” is published in Volume #35: Everything Under Control.  Volume is published by Archis (Netherlands), with Editor-in-Chief Arjen Oosterman, Managing Editor Brendan Cormier, and Contributing Editors Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, and Mark Wigley. For more info, see: http://archis.org/publications/volume-35-everything-under-control/

 “Jordan Geiger: Very Large Organizations,” a solo exhibition, opened at WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles from April 6-28, 2013. The show tracks a contemporary phenomenon: the convergence of multiple infrastructures and global networks in the built environment. Geiger ascribes the term Very Large Organizations (VLOs) to this confluence of technological, legal, economic, material, and cultural forces. It is through this identification that Geiger makes visible the impact of large-scale systems such as global communications and supranational legal and financial constructs on the construction and inhabitation of space. By identifying these systems, Geiger also finds an embedded field of inquiry rich with opportunities for architectural engagement and action.

Geiger is also conference co-chair, together with professors Mark Shepard and Omar Khan, of the international event, “MediaCity 4: MediaCities.” The conference, exhibition and workshops are hosted for the first time in the United States, and are hosted at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning May 3-5, 2013. Reflecting on pluralities and globalities, on MediaCities everywhere, the event features keynotes and speakers from varied fields and countries all over the world. It opens new lines of inquiry and emergent relations between urbanity and digital media that are found in non-Western cities, in post-Capitalist cities, in cities hosting civic turbulence or crossing international boundaries. The gathering focuses on what urban-medial relations are taking shape differently in urban milieux that may have been heretofore overlooked.

Geiger’s essay, “Maximal Surface Tension: Very Large Organizations and Their Apotheosis in Songdo,” has been published in the journal SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy, issue 4: Currency. His project, “Emission,” has been selected for publication in the June 2013 issue of the journal MAS Context.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Seventeen student projects from the first-year IIT Architecture 114 Studio 2 class are currently on display on the grounds of the Farnworth House in Plano, Illinois. The final project was entitled “Shade,” and students worked in groups of two or three to design and construct projects consistent with that theme. The work was an academic exercise, but the materials used for the project—cedar and corrugated plastic—were selected knowing that the projects would be displayed outdoors. In early April the entire class of 100+ students visited the Farnsworth House to understand the site conditions and tour the house. The projects were then designed for specific sites, qualities of light, and views on the Farnsworth grounds. The seven IIT instructors involved in the project are Kathy Nagle, Paul Pettigrew, Jill Danly, Coleen Humer, Lukasz Kowalczyk, Alex Paradiso, and Amanda Williams, exhibited in cooperation with Farnsworth House Executive Director Whitney French. The projects will be on display at the Farnsworth House at least through the end of the summer.

IIT Architecture Dean Donna Robertson will serve as the Vice-President/President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). She began her term as vice president on July 1, and will begin a one-year term as president in July 2012. Robertson joins ACSA with a long record of service in the profession. She served as an ACSA representative to the NAAB board of directors, including one year as president in 2003. While serving NAAB, Robertson chaired the 2003 Validation Conference, during which the organization revised its Conditions for Accreditation. The ACSA is a non-profit membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The ACSA has more than 250 member schools representing more than 5,000 faculty. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations.

A July 15 Inside Higher Ed article looks at the gender makeup of university academic leadership, noting that at IIT women “lead three of the university’s schools — including engineering and architecture.” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/07/15/at_university_of_richmond_women_hold_majority_of_academic_dean_jobs

Donna V. Robertson FAIA is featured in the May/June 2011 Issue of Chicago Architect Magazine.

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Donna V. Robertson FAIA was the Keynote Lecturer for the Hunter Douglas’ Archiprix Tour 2011. The study trip is with 190 people from 22 countries. The majority of the audience members were architects of the better to best level in their respective countries. The event was held on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chicago, IL

Adjunct Associate Professor, John DeSalvo, Wins AIA Chicago Small Projects Honor Award. John DeSalvo Design, won the top honor award at the AIA Chicago Small Projects Awards on June 10th for the Retreat House/Church Residence. The summer beach home in Michigan City, Indiana uses natural and local materials and features a metal exterior.

DeSalvo’s project was also featured in the June 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine.

Read the column, “My House: Come Sail Away”.

Adjunct Professor Barbara Geiger’s book Low-Key Genius: The Life and Work of Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds [Paperback] is recently released and available at Amazon.com.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported on July 8 that President Obama has appointed IIT Adjunct Professor Terry Guen as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Guen is president and principal of Terry Guen Design Associates, Inc. and teaches in the landscape architecture program.

Adjunct Professor Thomas Roszak designs New Welcome Gallery at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Completed in June 2011, the new Clark Family Welcome Gallery at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL may now be added to the growing list of unique and interesting projects of Thomas Roszak Architecture, LLC.  Through smart and collaborative design, Roszak led the team to meet project goals by creating a multifunctional space that provides a welcoming gathering area while also initiating an exciting pre-show experience necessary in optimizing the planetarium’s main event, the Sky Theater. http://thomasroszak.blogspot.com/2011/06/thomas-roszak-architecture-designs-new.html

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor, Christopher D. Rockey of Rockey Structures, participates as a judge in the 2010-2011 ACSA/AISA Steel Design Student Competition for a Homeless Assistance Center. Criteria for the judging of submissions includes the creative use of structural steel in the design solution, successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to basic architectural concepts such as human activity needs, structural integrity, and coherence of architectural vocabulary.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Marshall Brown is featured in the July Brooklyn Rail article chronicling the recent efforts of activists to steer the troubled Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in Brooklyn in a new, more community-focused direction, includes quotes from IIT Assistant Professor of Architecture Marshall Brown, who is a founding member of the UNITY group proposing an alternate development plan for the area. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/local/unity-a-desperate-plea-for-adult-supervision

Associate Professor John Ronan just won the Rudy Bruner award, see here: http://www.brunerfoundation.org/rba/index.php?page=News-2011Awarde

New York Institute of Technology

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Amale Andraos of WORKac served as Visiting Professor of Architecture for the Spring Semester.

Students at New York Institute of Technology are designing a sustainable model for school buildings in underserved school communities in the Dominican Republic; this is in collaboration with the Hostos Dream Project. In December 2010, a group of students were also awarded the grand prize for their design of an energy-efficient hangar for the historic U.S.S. Intrepid.

Professor Victor Deupi delivered a presentation on “Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli and Ibero-American Patronage in 18th-century Rome” at the CAA annual conference in New York on February 12, 2011.

Professor Gabriel Fuentes recently delivered a paper entitled “Between History and Modernity: Searching for Lo Cubano in Modern Cuban Architecture” at the 2011 Cuba Futures: Past and Present International Symposium hosted at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). His essay will be published as part of an edited volume entitled Cuban Intersections of Urban and Literary Spaces published by SUNY Press in late 2011. Fuentes also  presented “Expanded Territories: Engaging the Emerging Urbanisms of the Developing World” at the 2010 ACSA Northeast Conference, Urban/Suburban Identity hosted by the University of Hartford.   

Professors Michael Schwarting and Frances Campagni delivered a lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on the Aluminaire House.  Professor Schwarting gave a paper entitled “Gestalt Theory in Architecture” at the Politecnico di Milano, where he also sat on studio reviews. Professor Campagni’s paintings and drawings were the subject of a solo exhibition on March 1-April 26 in Port Jefferson, NY.

Professor Vossoughian’s ground-breaking first book, Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis, has just been reissued in paperback. In the summer of 2012, Professor Vossoughian will also be a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. 

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, hosted at IIT College of Architecture, has announced the launch of The Skyscraper Center, a new web site that will be a top resource for information on tall buildings around the world. The Skyscraper Center contains a profile for every completed building taller than 200 meters globally, as well as thousands of other projects in various stages of development. The home page of The Skyscraper Center features a powerful world map tool which can generate important facts and tall building lists on any county in the world. Additionally, new features allow users to easily access updated news on projects and view the latest additions to the database.


 Explore the database at http://skyscrapercenter.com/

Illinois Institute of Technology

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IIT College of Architecture faculty have been recognized in AIA Chicago’s 2011 Design Excellence Awards. At the October 28th event, five faculty members’ firms received awards.

The College of Architecture faculty honorees are listed below by award. For complete coverage of the 2011 awards, including photos of each winning design, visit AIA Chicago’s web site.

Distinguished Building Honor Award
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building.

Distinguished Building Citation of Merit
John Ronan, John Ronan Architects. Gary Comer College Prep.
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. Fullerton and Belmont Stations Reconstruction.

Interior Architecture Citation of Merit
Andrew Metter, Epstein | Metter Studio. Serta International.

Regional & Urban Design Honor Award
Martin Felsen, UrbanLab. Farming the Chicago Stock Yards.

Regional & Urban Design Citation of Merit
Thomas Hoepf, Teng + Associates. Moraine Valley Community College Entrance Gateway + Quadrangle.

IIT College of Architecture’s Paris Program students recently conducted a collaborative workshop with IE University in Segovia, Spain. Segovian “esgrafiado,” a traditional facade surface technique, was used as a point of departure. Under the guidance of renowned Segovian artisan Julio Barbero Artesanos, the session began as an active seminar with students working in traditional techniques, tools, materials, and processes. A technical architect, Anna Marasuela, presented a contemporary perspective on variations in system performance and its inherent efficiency with respect to embodied energy and material reuse. 

After this initial training, students developed contemporary production ideas, speculating on material adaptations, the implications of altering production processes, and the effects on the system’s programmatic and communicative abilities.

View coverage in El Adelantado de Segovia newspaper

University of Maryland

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Professor Matthew J. Bell has been elected to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows.  Election to the College status is awarded by a jury of peers and recognizes achievements of national significance in advancing the architectural profession.  The 2013 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony in Denver, Colorado on June 21 during the National AIA Convention. Bell joined Perkins Eastman in 2011 and prior to that was a principal with EE&K Architects for over 11 years and has been a practicing architect and professor of architecture for over 25 years.  His national and international architectural and urban design experience ranges from urban buildings and neighborhoods to the design and implementation of new towns, campuses and large scale development projects.  Creating a diverse portfolio of work has led Matt to unique insights into the urban-environment and design-issue challenges facing our cities, towns, and suburbs. Matthew Bell, FAIA is a principal of Perkins Eastman in Washington DC. As tenured Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Matt teaches architectural and urban design at all levels of the studio curriculum and has spearheaded the schools efforts at the archaeological site of Stabiae, Italy.  

Virginia Tech

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For UIA 2011 TOKYO 24th World Congress of Architecture, G.T. Ward Professor of Architecture Donna Dunay, FAIA, and Helene Renard, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Virginia Tech, gave opening and closing talks for the exhibit, “For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond,” mounted at the Tokyo Forum. “For the Future:” showcases work in an historical framework through projects and achievements between Japan and the US, and beyond. The exhibition designed as a collaborative effort of the International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech with the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA) Japan to celebrate 25 years of the IAWA presents unique, early and largely unknown histories of women’s contributions to architecture. 

University of Texas at Arlington

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The Program of Landscape Architecture at UT Arlington has been ranked 13th in the nation for 2013 according to DesignIntelligence, a national evaluating service based in Washington DC.  The Program was previously ranked 15th in 2011.  In order to be ranked all schools must be accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accredited Board (LAAB.)  UT Arlington received its 5th consecutive re-accreditation in 2011 with its next review scheduled for 2017.

The Program was established by pioneer Dallas practitioner Richard B. Myrick in 1978.  It originally offered both bachelor’s and master’s degrees but became a master’s-only curriculum in 1988.  It is one of four accredited programs in Texas and one of 48 graduate programs in the US.  Tied with UT Arlington for 2013 were Auburn University, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington.  “We were tied with some other schools last time,” said Dr. Pat D. Taylor, Director of the Program.  “But, only one of those—the University of California at Berkeley—received ranking again this time.”

Taylor added, “We’re quite proud of our students, faculty and alumni for helping us achieve this recognition, and it says a great deal about the leadership of the School of Architecture and the University, as well.  It also underscores our belief that North Texas is a remarkable laboratory for studying landscape architecture.”

The Program enrolls approximately 50 students with many coming from around the world to live and study in Dallas / Ft. Worth.   Most recently students from UT Arlington won 7 of 12 design competitions sponsored by the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

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