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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.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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A student competition called The Architecture and Engineering of Sustainable Buildings has been organized by Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour.  The competition is scheduled for the spring 2012 semester and will be conducted by the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) across the United States and Canada.  Visit the ACSA Competition Web Site for more information. 

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour presented a paper titled “Tall Buildings and Sustainability – – An Integrated Approach” at the 2011 World Conference by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).  The conference was held in Seoul, Korea October 10- 12, 2011.

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor received the 2011 AIA Central Illinois Outstanding Educator Award.

Associate Professor William Worn presented a paper titled “Post-Industrial Transformation and the Obesogenic City” at a 2-day architectural symposium held at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Britain, on November 22-23, 2011.

Professor R. Alan Forrester, Director of the School of Architecture from 1981-1998, passed away on November 23, 2011. His family is planning a memorial to be announced at a later date. 

Michael J. Plautz, ’67 graduate of the University of Illinois School of Architecture, passed away on January 6, 2012, at the age of 68. 

Assistant Professor Therese Tierney has signed a book contract with Routledge for her book titled Public Space/ New Publics: Connected Culture of the Network Society. Her essay titled “Accessing Urban Information: [i-metro] as a locative media commons” will be published in the Leonardo Journal ISAST: Environment 2.0  in 2012.  Prof. Tierney will also be presenting a paper titled “Intelligent Infrastructure: Mobile Networks as Tactical Transportation” at the ACSA Conference in Boston March 1-3, 2012. 

The School of Architecture, in conjunction with the School of Landscape Architecture, announces the Spring 2012 Lecture Series. Lecturers include:  David Salmela, Salmela Architecs; Brad Lynch, Brininstool + Lynch; Florian Idenburg, Solid Objectives; David Brown, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University; Christopher Leong, Leong Leong Architecture; Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Atelier Bow Wow; Marvin Trachtenberg, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Craig Schwitter, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers; and Ken Smith. 

Professor Kathryn Anthony has designed two new iPhone apps titled “Design Student Survival Guide” and “Student Survival Guide,” and was featured in an article through the CITES Academic Technology Services website at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at http://blogs.cites.illinois.edu/cites-ats/2012/02/29/faculty-member-launches-new-iphone-apps/.

University of Puerto Rico

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The UPR School of Architecture organized and co-hosted a Symposium titled Education of an Architect – 40 years later – John Hedjuk & the Cooper Union.  The Symposium celebrated the particular point of view and legacy of Hedjuk as Dean of the Cooper Union. The debates instigated a discourse on the evolution of architectural pedagogy from the first publication of Education of an Architect and the 1971 MoMA exhibition to the present. The guest speakers were Lebbeus Woods, Val Warke, Lance Jay Brown, David Gersten, Diane Lewis, Michael Kwartler, David Shapiro, Zubin Singh, Jim Williamson and Guido Zuliani.  The panels were moderated by Sotirios Kotoulas, Javier de Jesus and Francisco Javier Rodriguez.

In collaboration with the AIA-PR, the UPR released a publication on Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico: 1993-2010. The book was edited by Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA and Prof. Darwin Marrero.

The UPR School of Architecture is celebrating its 45th anniversary. As part of the occasion, the School’s auditorium will be named after its founder, Jesús Eduardo Amaral (B.Acrh Cornell, 1951).

The UPR School of Architecture received a $100,000 grant to fund the installation of 100 solar panels that will save thousands of dollars on the electricity bill as well as over 100,000lbs of carbon emissions.  Together with other sustainable measures implemented by Profs. Crisitna Algaze, LEED AP, and Brenda Martínez, LEED AP, this project will allow the school to surpass the requirements for a LEED certification under the Existing Building Category.

Prof. Mayra Jiménez-Montano has been named Associate Dean, while Humberto Cavallín, Ph.D. and Prof. Anna Georas will direct the Undergraduate and Graduate programs respectively.

The Community Design Studio, directed by Prof. Elio Martínez-Joffre, is collaborating with the Ricky Martin Foundation to design a center for abused children in the municipality of Loíza.  The project is slated for construction in 2012.

For the 5th contiguous year the UPR participated of the AEC Global Teamwork studio, organized by Prof. Renate Fruchter at Stanford University.  The studio is locally coordinated by Prof. Humberto Cavallín, Ph.D.  Rebecca Diaz, and her team, won the Native Award Challenge, because of the sensitive use of local resources in their design project. This honor was awarded by Swinerton Incorporated.

The UPR School’s 2009 Solar Decathlon entry (CASH) was selected for the Ibero American Design Biennial (BID10) in Madrid, where it received the Design Development Prize.

Prof. Fernando Abruña, FAIA, received the Henry Klumb Award, the Puerto Rico College of Architects (CAAPPR) highest distinction for a practitioner.

The new General Studies Building for the UPR-Río Piedras campus designed by Prof. José Javier Toro, of the firm Toro Ferrer Architects, received AIA awards in both Florida and Puerto Rico and was recently published in Architectural Record.

Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA, offered a lecture at Tulane University titled Three Short Stories Without an Ending.  He also received a FIPI grant to conduct research on the history of architectural pedagogy and was selected to participate on the Ibero American Design Biennial (BID10) in Madrid under the Industrial Design category.

Prof. Jorge Lizardi, Ph.D. finished his new book offering a critical view of public housing endeavors during the twentieth century titled Vivir y pensar la comunidad moderna. Together with Prof. Manuel Bermúdez, he is also facilitating a Graduate Studio project documenting Caribbean cities including Havana, Santo Domingo, Cartagena and San Juan.

Prof. Javier Isado edited the 5th edition of the School’s magazine (in)forma, dedicated to Digital Narratives, while Prof. Darwin Marrero edited the 6th edition on Hypertourism.

Profs. Fernando Lugo and Maria Rossi are offering a Graduate Joint Studio together with Oklahoma State University’s Profs. Awilda Rodríguez and Paolo Sanza.  Last year, Prof. Anna Georas offered a Graduate Joint Studio with PENN Design (W.Dubbeldam, F.Kolatan, R.Snooks) and the City College of New York (J. Salcedo), while Prof. Jorge Ramírez-Buxeda conducted a Joint Studio with the Pratt Institute (A. Barker).

The UPR School of Architecture is now offering a joint MArch-Juris Doctor degree with the UPR Law School, and is currently working on a joint MArch-MBA degree with the UPR Graduate School of Business Administration.

The work of Profs. Pedro Cardona, Jorge Ramírez-Buxeda, Nataniel Fúster, Eugenio Ramírez, Ernesto Rodríguez and Francisco Gutiérrez was recognized during the 2010 AIA-PR Chapter Awards Ceremony.

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Christopher Domin was a featured speaker at the East-West Dialogues Symposium held November 16 and 17 at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The symposium was a forum to investigate the built work of Florida’s modernist architects.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s paper “High and Dry: Performances Around Water’s Absence” was accepted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and will be presented at the 101_1 Waste(lands)+Material Economies / Less is More: Creativity Through Scarcity paper session during the ASCA annual meeting this coming March in San Francisco.

November 14th is the anticipated book launch date for Ground|Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, co-edited by Associate Professor Beth Weinstein, Ellen McMahon (Fine Arts) and Ander Monson (creative writing). The book collects critical and creative work of faculty and students in the arts, design, architecture, and the sciences reflecting on the impact of climate change upon Tucson’s local waterways. The projects, seminar, and studios documented in the book, and the book’s production were primarily supported by a grant from the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. Ground|Water will be distributed by the University of Arizona Press.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s exhibition, The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham has been installed at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris.

Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinson’s paper “Sustainable Design Processes” has been published as part of the International Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference Proceedings (PLEA 2012) recently held in Lima, Peru.  The paper describes biomimetic and parametric design strategies used in a recently completed studio.

Dr. Linda C. Samuels joins the faculty of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) as the new Project Director for the Sustainable City Project, a research, teaching, and outreach effort collaboratively supported by CAPLA; the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS); and the Institute of the Environment (IE). The Sustainable City Project is a think tank, make tank, say tank and do tank committed to research, design innovation, boundary-free collaboration, urban activism, intellectual interchange, and inclusive outreach. It is housed in the new UA Downtown location, the historic Roy Place Building. Samuels recently received her doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Eve Edelstein, MArch, PhD (neuroscience), Assoc AIA, F-AAA, Research Fellow (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), and former faculty member at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design (San Diego) as well as a former Senior Research Specialist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, will be joining the CAPLA faculty in the Spring. She will be working in collaboration with Esther Sternberg to start a new center for Place and Well-being.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have a project in Architectural Record’s online article, “Featured Houses, September 2012: Volumes in the Landscape.”

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano’s Levin Residence is featured on the fall 2012 cover of LUXE interiors + design magazine, Arizona edition. They are also published in World Interior Design: Glamourous Living Space” by Phoenix Publishing. In addition, Ibarra Rosano’s first project, the Garcia Residence, made Architizer’s list of Top 10 Desert Dwellings. 

 

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