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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. 

 

University of Houston

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The Team of Assistant Professor William Truitt won an Honorable Mention in the Transiting Cities – Low Carbon Futures competition: Hydraulic Network by the Truitt Foug Architects team (William Truitt, Carolyn Foug, Marsha Bowden, Adam Wong) of Texas.

The competition was part of a research project by The Office of Urban Transformation Research (OUTR) at RMIT University. It invited international landscape architects, architects, urban planners and associated design disciplines to develop alternative innovative visions to help Latrobe City, in eastern Victoria, make the transition from traditional mining to a prosperous low-carbon society. 

Erling Cruz received an Honor Award in the AIA Fort Worth Excellence in Design Student Awards program for his Birdwatch Towers.  The Studio Instructor was Tom Colbert.

Washington State University

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An interdisciplinary student team from Washington State University won first place in the Design-Build division of the 24th annual Associated Schools of Construction Regional Student Competition, held in Sparks, Nevada on February 19, 2011. The team, which competed against nine other universities, was coached by Associate Professor David Gunderson and included Construction Management students Adam Heffner, Taylor DeGrande, Michaela Ripley, Jason Nanni and Jordan Meehan; and architecture students Shane Fagan and Stephanie Severance. In sixteen hours the team developed a design-build proposal for a Behavioral and Social Sciences Building on a university campus. The problem sponsor and judge, Swinerton Construction, has built the 88,000 square foot facility at Humbolt State University in California.

Associate professor Ayad Rahmani chaired a panel on “Art and Architecture” in the conference “Civility and Democracy” held at Washington State University Spokane, March 3-5, 2011. Other panels addressed history, religion, philosophy and communication. Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the conference hosted distinguished scholars including Ed Feiner (Perkins and Will and former GSA chief architect), Joan Ockman (University of Pennsylvania), Alan Plattus (Yale University), and Witold Rybczynski (University of Pennsylvania).

Associate Professor Matthew A Cohen co-organized the international conference “Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture” at Leiden University, March 17-19, 2011. Presenters included Howard Burns (keynote), Jean-Louis Cohen and Marvin Trachtenberg. The conference marked the 60th anniversary of a conference on proportional systems organized by Le Corbusier and Rudolf Wittkower in Milan in 1951. In the opening lecture Cohen argued for a new understanding of proportional systems as narrative structures unrelated to architectural aesthetics. His conference interview with architectural historian James S. Ackerman, who participated in the 1951 conference, is available at:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/proportion-conference.

Professors Paul Hirzel and Gregory Kessler, and Associate Professor Matthew A. Cohen, led a study tour to Portugal in March 2011 for the upper-level graduate studios from Pullman and Spokane. The tour focused on modern architecture and urbanism in Lisbon, Sintra and Porto, including works by Alvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Professor Bashir A. Kazimee completed his edited book Heritage and Sustainability in the Islamic Built Environment, forthcoming by the WIT Press. The book explores heritage and sustainability in the Islamic built environment.

Debora Ascher Barnstone has been promoted to Professor of Architecture. Dr. Ascher-Barnstone has contributed the chapter “Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic,” to Berlin Divided City 1945-1989, edited by Sabine Hake and Philip Broadbent, published by Berghahn, 2010. She also contributed the chapter “Tales from the East: Food, Drink and Art Patronage in Inter-war Breslau,” to Ezelsoren, Winter 2011.

Second-year undergraduate students of Associate Professor Robert Barnstone have launched a website envisioning an “Electric Highway” across the United States. Developed in collaboration with the Green IT Alliance, it includes designs for highway facilities and power generation for cities. The project is inspired by a current Department of Transportation initiative to make the I-5 corridor the nation’s first electric highway. See: http://electrichighwaywsu.blogspot.com/.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Assistant Professor Karl Wallick’s article “Generative Processes: Thick Drawing” will be published in the February 2012 issue of The International Journal of Art & Design Education. Wallick’s recently published book on Kieran Timberlake Inquiry was selected as a notable book for 2011 on the website www.designersandbooks.com by Phil Patton, a writer for the New York Times.

Graduate students Curtis Ryan, Sara Maas, Kyle Blomquist, and Megan Gelazus were one of five winning teams of the Architecture at Zero competition for zero net energy (ZNE) building designs sponsored by PG&E and the San Francisco AIA. The work was part of Adjunct faculty Nick Cascarano’s Competitions Studio in collaboration with Associate Professor Mike Utzinger’s Fundamentals of Ecological Architecture.

Associate Professor James Wasley (UWM), along with Emily Kilroy and Associate Professor John Quale (UVA) have edited “Carbon Neutral Affordable Housing: A Guidebook for Providers, Designers and Students of Affordable Housing.” The work was sponsored by the AIA, Society of Building Science Educators and other sources.  

The Rice Design Alliance’s Spotlight Award honored Associate Professor Grace La and Adjunct faculty James Dallman of the firm, LA DALLMAN.  The international award, which recognizes exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their professional careers, carries a cash prize and invitation to lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  LA DALLMAN is the first United States practice to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to acclaimed architects Antón García-Abril of Spain and Sou Fujimoto of Japan.  

LA DALLMAN was also invited to lecture about their work at several universities and institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Drury University, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The National Building Museum.  Additional speaking and professional engagements include Grace La serving as a juror and panelist for the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Convention; and James Dallman serving as juror and panelist for 2011 Critical Mass, held at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Design projects by LA DALLMAN are recently published in Small Scale (Princeton Architectural Press); and Architectural Highlights (Shanglin A&C).

Associate Professor Mo Zell and Adjunct faculty Marc Roehlre will present design research in collaboration with their firm bauenstudio at the ACSA National Conference in Boston. The projects to be presented in the poster session include ‘Chicago REDOX: Reduction/Oxidation’, in collaboration with graduate student Keith Hayes, and ‘Balmart: Reclaiming Public Space’.

Professor Mark Keane, UW-Milwaukee, and Prof. Linda Keane, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will be offering K-12 design education teacher in-services in Madison, Milwaukee and Racine in the coming months.  www.NEXT.cc is the award winning host curriculum greening K-12 education across the country. NEXT.cc will also be part of a panel at the National Art Educators Association in New York in March 2012.  If interested in the possibility of a K-12 design education forum at the San Francisco ACSA conference in 2013, contact <lkeane@saic.edu>. In the meantime visit www.NEXT.cc

UWM School of Architecture & Urban Planning is pleased to announce the formation of a new Fellowship Program, offering one-year fellowships in the areas of design instruction and architectural research.  The fellowships are geared toward focusing and expanding design research, energizing the architectural curriculum with current discourse, as well as confirming an academic career path for candidates in the formative stage of their professional lives. Innovative and emerging designers, architecture practitioners, and scholars are encouraged to conduct design research and to participate in the SARUP community through the teaching of studios and seminars.  Further information about the new program, such as the submission requirements and deadline of March 13, 2012, can be found on the SARUP and UWM websites.


Woodbury University

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Coinciding with the Drylands Design Competition sponsored by the California Architectural Foundation, Woodbury University SoA proclaims Fall Semester 2011 officially the “Semester of Water” for anyone willing to accept the challenge. Please see www.drylandscompetition.org for details. At this nexus of water and energy shortages and climate change, the competition is based upon the premise that designers of the built environment have an opportunity to present ideas that might bridge between science and policy. All faculty are encouraged to consider traditions, technologies, mythologies, the arts, and daily rituals in the broad context of water in the built environment from the scale of the hand to the scale of the oceans, as possibly interpreted and applied through all levels of the curriculum.

The School of Architecture at Woodbury University has embarked upon a faculty search and welcomes Dr. Anthony Fontenot as Associate Professor in Architecture; Mark Erikson, who will be returning to start his first year of his full time appointment as Assistant Professor in Architecture; Chandler Ahrens as Visiting Assistant Professor in Architecture; and Mimi Zeiger as the first Director of Communications for the School of Architecture.

Barbara Bestor has completed her appointment as Graduate Chair and will stay in the school of architecture as the Julius Shulman Professor of Practice in a two-year visiting appointment. Professor Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter has step down as B.Arch Chair in Los Angeles in order to become the new Graduate Chair of the M.Arch program. Professor Jeanine Centuori has now become the Los Angeles B.Arch Chair. Professor Vic Liptak has finished her four-year appointment as Dean of Faculty and will now double as the School of Architecture Associate Dean and active collaborator of the Office of Academic Affairs. Adjunct Faculty Louis Molina has become the B.Arch LA Assistant Chair. Jennifer Bonner has completed her one-year Visiting appointment and will become a Professor of Practice in Architecture. John Southern has completed his appointment as B.Arch LA Assistant Chair and has become a Professor of Practice in Architecture. Adjunct Faculty Kristin King has become a Visiting Professor in Interior Architecture.

After the successful completion of the initial spring semester hosted by the Pantheon Institute, Woodbury’s Rome Center for Architecture and Culture  (RCAC), under Professor Paulette Singley’s directorship, is finalizing plans to have Iowa State as the host institution. Starting next Spring, the center intends to have a year-round program (Spring and Fall) open to graduate and undergraduate Architecture and Interior Architecture students from LA and San Diego.

Professor of Architecture and Chair of the M.Arch Program, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter (together with Doris Sung, USC, and Matthew Melnyk, NOUS Engineering) received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The grant is for their Sunny-Side-Up project, a prototype for a building membrane using thermobimetal, a heat-sensitive smart material responsive to temperature variation. The project is scheduled to be installed this fall at the M&A exhibition space (http://www.emanate.org/). Also, Ingalill has been invited to moderate a session at the fall 2011 ACADIA conference: Integration Through Computation.

Two Woodbury SoA faculty, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, Professor and M.Arch Chair, and Barbara Bestor, Julius Shulman Professor of Practice, are both included in the book, Architecture:  A Woman’s Profession, edited by Tanja Kullack, which includes well-known female architects such as Caroline Bos, Sheila Kennedy, Farshid Moussavi, Monica Ponce de Leon, Dagmar Richter, and Denise Scott-Brown among others.

After completing a successful fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Associate Professor Joshua Stein is being granted an additional opportunity to take a one-year joint appointment between the Architecture and Ceramics departments at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Adjunct Faculty Rene Peralta has been named Director of the new Graduate Program: MDes L+U, Masters of Design in Landscape and Urbanism at Woodbury University, San Diego. In addition, Rene (and his work at Generica) was part of the Emergent Mexican Architecture in the MARQ museum of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an invited speaker in the Latin American Architecture Congress in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and in Anyang, Korea as part of the Anyang Public Art Project (APAP) Open University week organized by Kyong Park. Rene’s essay “Drive by Tijuana” was published in the book GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place: M. Dear, J. Ketchum, S. Luria, D. Richardson (Routledge, 2011)

Adjunct Faculty Jonathan Linton received the 2010 Orchid Award for Architecture for UCSD Housing Dining Hospitality Building, San Diego Architecture Foundation as a project architect for Studio E Architects. Jonathan was also shortlisted (with Foundation For Form) for the F.W. Woolworth Company Redevelopment project, Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Diego.

Annie Chu, Associate Professor in Interior Architecture, delivered keynote presentation at the Women in Design Symposium in Dublin in June 24th. Annie was named by The Los Angeles Times on July 12th as one of top 25 to follow on Twitter (and one of four in the category of architecture) http://t.co/LU9fJ0k. Currently Annie is working on exhibition design for Now Dig This! : Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 to open in October at the Hammer Museum, and LA Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 to open in September at LACE. Both shows are part of the Getty Center sponsored Pacific Standard Time initiative, an unprecedented program that brings together over 60 cultural organizations to explore the birth of the Los Angeles arts scene.

Assistant Professor Maxi Spina taught an Advanced Digital Design Workshop entitled “The Mathematics of the Pliant Species” in the School of Architecture in Lund University, Sweden, during February 2010 as part of the “Architectural Mutations” Workshop series, which included distinguished critics such as Abelardo Gonzalez and Peter Cook, among others (http://pliantspecies.blogspot.com). In addition, Maxi has lectured about his work at MSA at Lund University, Sweden, in February 23rd, and at the University of Florida at Gainesville, FL in March 23rd. 

Linda Taalman, Assistant Professor, is exhibited in Rethink LA at the A+D Museum, an exhibition that challenges designers, artists, planners and policy makers throughout LA to imagine a city-in-transition, fifty years in the future.

Professor of Practice, John Southern, was recently quoted as a primary source in the Guardian U.K. in regards to the topic of “urban acupuncture”.  Southern’s firm, Urban Operations, is researching and developing design ideas for how urban pocket parks can incrementally change the cityscape, one neighborhood at a time, by using derelict medians and abandoned streets as potential sites and catalysts for environmental transformation.

Rinehart Herbst (Catherine Herbst, Undergraduate Chair of Woodbury SoA San Diego) wins a 2011 AIA California Council Award for San Dieguito River Park.

Three Woodbury SoA faculty win 2011 AIA LA Restaurant Design Awards: Pitfire Pizza in Los Angeles by Bestor Architecture (Barbara Bestor) | Earl’s Gourmet Grub in Los Angeles by FreelandBuck (David Freeland) | City Center’s Aria Pool Deck in Las Vegas by GRAFT (Christoph Korner).

Lawrence Technological University

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Ayodh Kamath has accepted our offer as an assistant professor, specializing in Digital Design and Production Technologies.

We are pleased to announce the composition of CoAD’s academic administrative team for fall 2013:

Glen LeRoy, Dean
Amy Deines, Associate Dean
Scott Shall, Chair of Architecture
Peter Beaugard, Chair of Art and Design
Martin Schwartz, Associate Chair of Architecture

Clemson University

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Clemson School of Architecture Celebrates Centennial with Symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

 

CLEMSON, SC— Clemson University’s School of Architecture will celebrate its 100th year of architectural education with a symposium on the timely subject of “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lee Hall.

Speakers include noted architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and award-winning, Southeast-based practitioners and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon.

Since its founding in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has sought a balance between service to the state of South Carolina and connections to the wider world. Exemplifying this tradition, founder Rudolph “Pop” Lee (1874-1959)—namesake of Clemson’s award-winning Lee Hall—studied engineering at Clemson Agricultural College, a land grant school, but was trained in architecture at Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Clemson’s architecture program has been mindful of the connections between the local and the global, creating a “Fluid Campus” including full-time study centers in the cities of Charleston, SC, Genoa, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. This geographical approach defined the centennial theme, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.”

The subject of regionalism in architecture has a long history, yet remains timely. Recently, “critical regionalism”—a term coined by symposium keynote speakers Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in 1981—was the theme of the August edition of the American Institute of Architects’ magazine Architect.

As Tzonis and Lefaivre noted in their recent book, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (2012), regionalism is a “never ending challenge” that has become increasingly significant for architects and regional cultures in an increasingly “flat” and interconnected world.

In the symposium, Tzonis and Lefaivre’s global and historical perspective will be complimented by talks from award-winning architects and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon. All based in the Southeast, their experiences have been influenced by familiar engagements with local and global cultures, and uniquely fluid geographies and careers.

The symposium, to be followed by a Beaux Arts Ball, marks the fourth and final major event of the school’s centennial year. In March, Clemson celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.

The symposium webpage can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/symposium.html.

The event is free, but registration is requested at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20569_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=30&SINGLESTORE=true.

 

 

Contacts:

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Chair of the Clemson University School of Architecture
Email: kschwen@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-3895

Peter L. Laurence, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: plauren@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1499

Media Contact:
Jeannie Davis
Email: eugenia@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1821

 

Louisiana State University

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The School of Architecture is please to announce that Greg Watson has joined the faculty as an Associate Professor this fall.

Greg Watson received his BA in Psychology from Columbia University and his MArch from 

Washington University in Saint Louis. He has practiced in Chicago, Maine, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Minnesota. Watson’s research has been supported by grants from the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Mississippi State University Office of Research, the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited at galleries in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The School of Architecture is please to announce that Alice Guess has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall.

Alice Guess holds a five year M. Arch from Tulane University and an M. Arch
from McGill University’s Architectural History and Theory Program. A South
Carolina native, she has practiced architecture in Louisiana, North Carolina and
South Carolina. For the last decade she has worked with Reggie Gibson in
Charleston, South Carolina, becoming principle of Gibson Guess Architects in
2007. Before coming to LSU she taught at the Clemson Center for Architecture
in Charleston.Alice Guess.

 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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The American Institute of Architecture Students has recognized a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor for his excellence as an educator.

Brian Ambroziak, an associate professor in the UT College of Architecture and Design, recently received the AIAS Educator Honor Award.

The student organization honored Ambroziak based on its criteria that the recipient must provide outstanding contributions to the formal education of architecture students, be exemplary in teaching about architecture and the built environment, and provide contributions to the academic and career counseling of architecture students.

Ambroziak’s UT students nominated him for the award.

“His first concern is for the well-being of his students and their development as critically minded individuals,” said Annie Stone, a UT architecture student and one of Ambroziak’s nominators. “He is devoted to helping each of us define our own artistic consciences–what moves us to draw, to write, to speak, and to act.”

Scott Poole, dean of College of Architecture and Design, called Ambroziak “an institution builder.”

“In addition to the excellence of his teaching, innovative approach to creative research and well-respected scholarship, he is dedicated to service of the college and university, generously committing time and energy to building a better institution,” he said. “He leads by example and is a superb mentor to our students as well as his peers.”

Ambroziak also led the UT, Knoxville, AIAS chapter to receive additional honors. The student organization was given an honorable mention as chapter of the year, and architecture student Amanda Gann was granted the Chapter President Honor Award.

“The numerous awards won by his students are a testament to his ability to create exceptional learning environments where students are nurtured, inspired, challenged and introduced to the serious responsibility and enduring value of architecture,” said Poole.

“The prestigious recognition that accrues from awards of this caliber continues to elevate the stature of our college and the University of Tennessee at a national level.”

Ambroziak earned his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. He has served as a faculty member at the UT College of Architecture and Design since 2002. 

University of Calgary

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The Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary has appointed Dr. David Monteyne as Associate Dean of Architecture.

Trained at the University of British Columbia and the University of Minnesota, Monteyne has been teaching in the Faculty of Environmental Design since 2005. Prior to his academic career, he worked several years as a heritage consultant in Vancouver. He has held fellowships at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Cambridge University. As an architectural historian, has recently authored Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War.

As one of two Canadian teams chosen to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s bi-annual solar house design/build competition, Team Alberta is preparing to ship to California their entry in the 2013 Solar Decathlon competition. Faculty Advisor Loraine Fowlow has been working for almost two years with students in Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering, and Business from the UofC and Mount Royal University to design Borealis, a 900 square foot house comprised of three prefabricated modules designed to accommodate working professionals in remote regions of Alberta. Designed to be entirely net zero and powered solely by a 10kW PV and solar thermal tube arrays, Borealis provides private, comfortable and sustainable housing for an under served population.  Borealis is currently deemed to qualify for LEED Platinum. 

Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac organized and co-chaired the “Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change” international symposium, which was held on April 26 and 27, 2013, at the Banff Centre (www.buildingdynamics.org). Over 120 participants, mostly from North America, joined 16 invited speakers for presentations and discussions related to the broad symposium themes of change, building dynamics and dynamic buildings. Speakers included Sir Peter Cook from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, Chuck Hoberman from New York, Enric Ruiz Geli from Barcelona, Kas Oosterhuis from Rotterdam, among others. The symposium was sponsored by Oldcastle Building Envelope, DIRTT, Haworth, EVDS, and Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID).

Branko Kolarevic has completed on June 30, 2013 his three-year term appointment as Associate Dean (Academic) for the architecture program.

Branko Kolarevic delivered an invited presentation at the symposium on design research which was held on May 14 and 15 at Holmsbu in Norway. The symposium was organized by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). On May 22 he delivered a research seminar on “Performative Architecture” for MPhil and PhD students at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture. He was one of the invited speakers at the “Intersections” symposium in New York, which was held on May 31 at the City College of New York (CCNY). He was also one of the keynote speakers at the “Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing (SIM)” Conference held from June 26 to 29 in Lisbon and organized by the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon.

“The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada selected the University of Calgary’s Child Development Centre (CDC) as one of about 15 Canadian case studies for its 2030 Challenge web area (http://2030.raic.org/index_e.htm. The CDC achieved a 77% reduction in energy use on the 2030 Challenge rating scale, tied with Manitoba Hydro Place  for the best for any project outside the relatively mild regions of British Columbia.

Dr. Love was the energy systems consultant. He is the only energy systems advisor to have more than one project selected by the RAIC, the other being Lawrence Grassi School.”

Dr. Brian R. Sinclair, in April 2013, was an invited speaker at the international symposium “Building Dynamics: Architecture of Change” held in Banff Canada.  His talk centered on agility in architecture, open buildings and systems of flexibility in design & construction.

Dr. Brian R. Sinclair, in June 2013, was conferred the prestigious “Rev. Dr. Chief John Snow Sr. Award for Excellence in Teaching + Research” in recognition of his dedication to and work with Canada’s First Nations communities.

Dr. Brian R. Sinclair, in August 2013, delivered the opening lecture of the 2013-2014 academic year at the School of Architecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  His talk, entitled “Devising Design”, explored critical qualities of design appropriate for our complex and demanding times.

Dr. Brian R. Sinclair, in July 2013, was inducted into Lambda Alpha International, the Honorary Society for the Advancement of Land Economics.  Membership in LAI is reserved for those who have demonstrated leadership in, and built a compelling reputation of significant contributions to, the field of land economics.

Assistant Professor Jason Johnson and Professor John Brown are part of a team in the Faculty of Environmental Design to receive a 2013 Mayor’s Urban Design Award from the city of Calgary.  On September 29, 2012, more than 75 students from the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) volunteered to put their stamp on a pop-up park in Victoria Park. The park began as an effort to take a derelict construction site and turn it into a public asset. The EVDS volunteers added six custom-designed benches designed by Guy Gardner and Assistant Professor Jason Johnson. Their work took place as part of the first annual Green Apple Day of Service.

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