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University at Buffalo

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Joyce Hwang was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

H+W Studio (Hiro Hata, Harry Warren and Mike Williams), part of the UB Regional Institute, have been hired to review the design of a new, $200 Million (US) university campus for the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dennis Maher and Nerea Feliz conducted the 2013 Barcelona Study Abroad Program with 12 students from June-August. The group held seminars and studios in the gothic-vaulted workshop space of Catalan landscape architect Beth Gali. Maher also conducted the workshop “Drawing the Fargo House” with Buffalo-area teachers who were invited to Maher’s residence in order to undertake a series of house-drawing experiments. In addition, a book chapter by Maher entitled, “900 Miles to Paradise and Other Afterlives of Architecture” has been published in Architecture Post Mortem (Ashgate Press), a collection of essays edited by Donald Kunze, David Bertolini, and Simone Brott.  Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. Maher has also produced a limited-edition print, commissioned by organizer’s of the Echo Art Fair.  The print depicts a study for Common Cosmos, a forthcoming installation by Maher that will be sited at Cornell University.

Nick Bruscia and Chris Romano have been selected as a finalist in the TEX-FAB Skin Competition for their entry project 2XmT, a self-supporting sheet metal system that emerged out of their research collaboration with the Rigidized Metals Corporation.  They are 1 of 4 finalists moving onto the second round of the international competition and will be supported with a $1,250 stipend to develop a new physical prototype of their system which will be exhibited at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference at the University of Waterloo in October, 2013.  The winner will be announced at the conference and will build a full-scale prototype with fabrication sponsorship by Zahner Co. and exhibited in Austin, Texas for the TEX-FAB 5 event in early 2014.  http://tex-fab.net/skin-results/

Elevator B, by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Dan Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern, was published in the July 2013 issue of Architectural Record (both in print and online). Elevator B was the winning project of the Hive City Design Competition, organized by the Ecological Practices Research Group.

Atlantic Cities (June 2013) published an interview with Andrew Perkins (M.Arch ’12), Stephen Zacks and Jerome Chou on the Flint Public Art Project. Perkins’ involvement with the Flint Public Art Project stems from his M. Arch thesis project conducted with Matthieu Bain, “Dwelling on Waste”: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/06/how-much-crazy-art-would-it-take-make-you-want-visit-flint-michigan/5920/

Ariel Resnick (graduate) with Kim Dai, Danielle Krug and Kathryn Hobert are finalists in a recent competition held by Morpholio, with the final outcome to be heard after August 20th. The competition, entitled “Inside 2013,” was assembled as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today’s emerging talent. An article features some of the work of the finalists can be seen at http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/inside_2013_competition_finalists/. The link to the morpholio home page is http://mymorpholio.com/site.php.

Auburn University

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Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, has been elected to the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s Council of Fellows, the highest honor that ASLA bestows upon its members. LeBleu, who joined the faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in 2004, was nominated by Alabama ASLA chapter for her contribution of knowledge to the profession of landscape architecture and for her lifelong pursuit of research, education and leadership in storm water research, design, and implementation. She will be inducted into the Council of Fellows at the ASLA annual meeting in Boston on November 17, 2013. LeBleu is the third ASLA Fellow in the State of Alabama, and the first woman Fellow in Alabama since 1899.

Ivan Vanchev and Doug Bacon, students in the Master of Integrated Design and Construction program, received an Honorable Mention  in the 2013 Leicester B. Holland Prize: A Single Sheet Measured Design Competition for their drawing, “Auburn Oaks and Toomer’s Corner.” Thier drawing will be put in the Library of Congress and will be available on the National Park Service website as part of the Historic America Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER).  Vanchev and Bacon produced their entry as part of an independent study directed by Professor Rebecca Retzlaff.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) was well represented  when winners were recently announced for the 2013 Birmingham AIA Design Awards competition. Many Honor and Merit Awards were awarded to alumni-led teams and firms. Williams Blackstock Architecture (Joel Blackstock ’80), Dungan Nequette Architects (Jeff Dungan  ’93 and Louis Nequette ’93), Live Design Group  (Aubrey Garrison III ’66, Craig Krawczyk ’97, Jeff Quinn ’78) and GA Studio (several Auburn alumni associates and interns) were among those represented in multiple award categories.

APLA alumnus Samuel “Jack” Bassett (’08) is one of six young professionals chosen by the Design Futures Council as an Emerging Leader for 2013. Each honoree will receive  a scholarship to attend the 12th annual Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in October. The annual summit brings together a delegation of 100 people from the world’s most influential design, engineering and construction firms to explore innovation in sustainable design. The scholarship is sponsored by DuPont Building Innovations as a way to invest in the young talent in the design and construction industry.

 

Call for Nominations: ACSA Board

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2014 Board of Directors
Deadline: October 16, 2013

The ACSA Nominations Committee invites nominations for two national officers two regional director positions and on the 2014 Board of Directors. The offices are President-elect and Secretary. The two regional director positions are for Northeast Region Director & Mid Atlantic Region Director.

President-elect
The president-elect will serve a three-year term starting July 1, 2014; one year each as vice president, president, and past president; presiding at meetings of the Association and is responsible for calling meetings of the Board of Directors, preparing an agenda for such meetings, and presiding at such meetings. The president coordinates activities of the board, Association committees, and liaison representatives, provides liaison with the officers of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and the American Institute of Architecture Students, and serves as representative to the Five Presidents’ Council. The president also prepares a brief report of activities of the Association and the Board of Directors during the term of office for dissemination to the constituent associations.

Secretary
The Secretary serves for a two-year term starting July 1, 2014, keeps minutes of all meetings, and distributes copies of the minutes to all members of the Board. The Secretary maintains the Bylaws of the Association as well as all other documents required by corporate law, incorporating revisions and additions as required by action of the Association and Board of Directors. The Secretary also maintains the Rules of the Board of Directors and reviews the Bylaws and Rules periodically to determine whether they need to be updated. The Secretary serves as Parliamentarian for the Association inconnection with its Annual Meeting.

The Nominations Committee is chaired by Donna Robertson additional members include Glenn Wiggins, ACSA Northeast Director; Leslie Van Duzer, ACSA Canadian Director & Judith Sheine, University of Oregon (outside member) will review nominations for the two national officer positions.

Northeast Region Director & Mid Atlantic Region Director
Each Regional Director shall be a full-time and/or tenured or tenure-track faculty member of a full member school and shall be on the faculty of a school in the region represented.

The term of office shall be three years beginning July 1, 2014, and extending through June 30, 2017. Regional Directors serve the ACSA in at least three ways – as members of the Board of Directors, on a variety of national committees, and as executive officers of their regional constituent associations. In this latter role, the Regional Director sets the agenda and chairs meetings of his or her regional council. He or she maintains a file of regional records, correspondence, and minutes of regional meetings. The director is responsible for the fiscal affairs of the constituent association and is accountable to his or her regional council for these funds. He or she provides assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. The Director prepares annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s annual report and provides updates to the constituency on both regional and national matters of note. He or she administers the nomination and election of the subsequent Regional Director and performs such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Regional Directors are required to attend three Board meetings a year: a fall meeting which typically occurs after the Administrator’s Conference, a spring meeting which typically occurs after the ACSA Annual Meeting, and a summer meeting.

Each region will have a Regional Nominations Committee made up of regional constituents that will review applications received and develop a slate of not less than two nor more than three candidates. Ballots will be mailed to all full member schools in the appropriate region by mid-January, 2014. The results of this election will be announced online, in ACSA updates and at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Miami, FL in 2014. Candidates will be notified of the results in mid-February.

Electronic submissions are encouraged and can be sent to Eric Ellis at: eellis@acsa-arch.org. Nominations should include a CV, a letter of interest from the nominee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is October 16, 2013.

Nominations should be sent to:
Email (preferred): eellis@acsa-arch.org
ACSA, Board Nominations
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Washington University in St. Louis

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The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has recently hired Catalina Freixas as a new Assistant Professor of Architecture. Freixas had been teaching as a Senior Lecturer at the Sam Fox School, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School prior to that. She is also co-director of the firm laulab in St. Louis. Freixas will be serving as the ACSA faculty council for the Washington University in St. Louis.

Assistant Professor Catalina Freixas and Senior Lecturer Pablo Moyano Fernendez’s paper “Prairie to Prairie: Ungrowth in American Cities” has been published in the Journal of Suburban Sustainability, Scholar Commons, University of South Florida Libraries, Bepress, 2013. This paper examines the current role eco-urbanism plays in St. Louis City through the examination of three eco-urbanism strategies that can be found within the city: community gardens, greenways, and urban forests. In April, Freixas & Moyano’s project “HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes” was selected as a Finalist in the Sustainable Land Lab Competition. The proposal for a vacant plot in Old North St. Louis (ONSL) consisted of various eco-urbanism strategies: a pollinator nectaring garden and gathering place. The project and its accompanying research effort has been awarded the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) Research Grant 2013, from Washington University on St. Louis, a Faculty Creative Activity Research Grant (CAR) by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and a Gephardt Institute of Public Health grant, from Washington University in St. Louis. The I-CARES research proposal aims to conduct a quantitative sustainability assessment on the effects of eco-urbanism strategies in the community. The CAR grant aims to increase the quality of life in ONSL via: i) the actual implementation of specific eco-urbanism strategies on an existing vacant lot ii) providing data and analysis on the impact of eco-urbanism strategies using the project as a case study. The Gephardt’s grant will support the design, construction and installation of urban furniture on ONSL.The project is intended to culminate with “Re-surfacing onsl”, an exhibition in ONSL Restoration Group, during the summer 2014.

Professor Stephen Leet curated and designed the exhibit “red” in the Kemper Art Museum September 20, 2013 – January 6, 2014.  The exhibit includes works by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Andres Serrano, Marcel Duchamp, Ettore Sottsass and others.

On September 19, 2013, Richard Franklin, AIA, principal of Franklin Associates, will deliver a feature lecture at Washington University in St. Louis, co-sponsored by AIA St. Louis and NOMA St. Louis. A pre-reception will be held at 6:00 pm followed by the lecture at 6:30PM in Steinberg Auditorium.  The St. Louis native is noted as the first African American graduate of WashU’s School of Architecture (day school), earning a BA with a major in Architecture in 1970 and a MArch/MUD in 1974. His long list of projects includes the restoration of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Strivers Gardens Apartments, the construction phase of the September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site, and collaboration with the design team for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History.  This event is open to the public with a suggested donation of $5 (Free for members of AIA, NOMA and Washington University in St. Louis). 

Chandler Ahrens, Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and co-author Aaron Sprecher, Assistant professor at McGill University have been accepted to publish their paper “Processing Transdisciplinary Knowledge, Intensity, Extensity and Potentiality in Digital Architecture” in the forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Knowledge, Society, and Technology. In addition, Chandler is a jury member for AIA Dallas design awards.

NAAB Releases Draft Conditions for 2014

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Last week the National Architectural Accrediting Board released a first draft of the 2014 Conditions, opening a 90-day comment period. The draft contains many substantial changes over the 2009 Conditions that reflect the comments by ACSA and the other collaterals in official position papers and during the Accreditation Review Conference in July.  
The number of Student Performance Criteria has been reduced. Most notably, Comprehensive Design is now called Integrative Design and stands apart in its own realm among the other SPC. 
The so-called Five Perspectives that programs must address in their Annual Program Report were rewritten. Leadership, Collaboration, and Environmental Stewardship are now out of the SPC and anchored in the Perspectives, reflective of the way these values cut across architectural education. 
Many other details related to changes remain unclear. In its companion document to the new draft, which explains the major changes, NAAB notes it will move instructions for what to include in the APR to a separate document. How these requirements will change over 2009 is still not clear. These details affect whether or how much the amount of content required for an accreditation report and visit has been reduced for programs, a key tenet of ACSA’s. 
I invite you to download the documents and begin considering them, as the ACSA Board of Directors has started to do. You can post quick thoughts below or send an email to arc@acsa-arch.org. 
In coming weeks, we will develop a formal feedback mechanism, once the board has had more time to digest and discuss the change.  
Norman Millar
President


             
Download the 2014 NAAB Conditions for Accreditation First Draft		    


             
Download the ACSA/ARC Position Paper


A new fall, a new way of reaching out

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AASL Column, September 2013
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, editors

Each new fall brings all of us in academia new challenges- faculty and librarians alike. But at the same time, it is a time of new beginnings and we all start the fall ready to reach out and try new ways of doing things. For librarians, this means trying to maximize our effectiveness with students and faculty. We want them to become familiar with who we are, with what we can do to help them and what kinds of new and different resources exist in our libraries and online.  Here are some of the ways our members are trying to help educate students about new tools and new initiatives:

Fifteen Minute Mini-Orientations.  Responding to the oft heard complaint that students don’t have enough time to attend workshops during orientation week, UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Library instituted thematically-based 15 minute long “mini-orientations” beginning every half hour for two hours over two days.  Themes included “10 Things You Should Know about the Library”, “Finding the Right Electronic Resource”, “Linking Google Scholar to Berkeley Resources”, “Using Alerting Services”, “Avery Index”, and “Finding Images”.  Held on a drop-in basis, most students came for one session and stayed for three or four, asking their own questions in the time between sessions.  Eight 15 minute sessions held over two days attracted a total of 60 students with more than a few “wow” moments.  Berkeley library personnel jokingly considered holding a future session for graduate students entitled, “Writing Your Dissertation in 15 minutes”.

Flash Mob Table Tents.  A couple years back UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Library purged the library of unwelcoming paper signs that warned of theft, prohibited eating and cell phones usage, and explained arcane policies best left to the website or face-to-face contact.  We then purchased 20 5”x7” acrylic table tents. Most of the time the four and eight person study tables remain sign-free, but when staff  need to promote a service (e.g. Zotero trainings, our group study room, a new resource, a community event) paper signs are quickly printed out on the color printer, inserted into the table tents, and placed on the large work tables.  Because there are so few signs in the library, these seem to get noticed and Berkeley personnel has seen a direct correlation between setting up the tents and the use of services advertised.  The tents stay up for 1-3 days and then “disappear” for a couple weeks.  Just like a “flash mob”, they appear all at once to make their statement, and then disappear nearly as quickly.

Student Organized Workshops.  Scheduling topic- or resource-specific workshops is a thankless task, rewarded with low attendance and requests for additional classes at “better times”.  Berkeley Environmental Design Library staff  informed students that if they organized a group of at least five students for a topical workshop (generally citation management), the instructor would find a mutually agreeable time to hold it, and then advertise it to the rest of the college.  Generally two or three such workshops are scheduled by students each semester and attendance has increased from 1-4 participants to 5-20; no more one-on-one workshops.  There’s something about students organizing themselves that seems to work.

Trainer the Trainer. At Syracuse University, the architecture librarian has worked with the Director of Recruiting to offer a training session for the peer advisors. The peer advisors help orient new students and often become the go-tos for incoming students. By having a special session for the advisors, both the new students and advisors receive updates on the library.

Name Our Catalog. As a way of making students aware of changes to the library management system, the Library at the NewSchool of Architecture+ Design in San Diego sponsored a student competition to name the new online catalog. Library staff was able to market its services while engaging students in library operations.

Exhibits of Student Architecture Work: Art libraries have created galleries or other such spaces to show student work, but displaying architecture student work in the library has not been as prevalent. At Woodbury University, library personnel have collaborated with architecture faculty on the installation of exhibits of student-generated 3D prints, plans, and models.

Show & Tells: Inspired by C-Span’s “Book TV,” Woodbury plans to host a reception where members of the campus community will showcase publications, designs, exhibits, or any other creative project they have completed within the past year.  The informal “show & tell” format will foster discussion and, hopefully, future collaboration.

Film Screenings: Using documentaries from the library collection, Woodbury personnel hope to host a film series next spring that would feature screenings and a discussion facilitated by an architecture faculty member whose focus is related to the subject of the film.

Special attention to faculty: Offerings in this first group are focused on both students and faculty. But libraries do try to give special attention to their faculty through other venues as well. Copyright workshops address academic integrity. But in addition to training sessions, many libraries host new faculty to lunch to allow for informal discussion. In the case of the NewSchool, the library has a happy hour the first Friday of the term. Faculty can catch up on new library initiatives, chat with their colleagues and develop collaborations with other faculty as well as the library.

These are some of the ways in which architecture librarians have been trying to “get the word” out there. Perhaps your libraries and librarians are trying other new ways of reaching out to students and faculty. Perhaps you can think of other ways. Tell us!  We would love to hear from you.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design

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NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) announces the appointment of Tatiana Berger as associate professor of architecture. Berger brings more than 20 years of international experience in both professional practice and education to NSAD, having collaborated with renowned architectural firms and designers, such as Richard Meier and Álvaro Siza Vieira, on numerous high-profile projects in Europe, Russia and the United States.

Berger’s work includes designs for multiuse, megaform structures over the Moscow railways; a study for sustainable housing outside Beijing, China; and the reconstruction of the historic Chiado district in Lisbon, Portugal. She was also hired by ILF Consulting Engineers as a project manager on the 2014 Winter Olympics project. Berger studied under eminent architectural historian, writer, and critic Kenneth Frampton, and she has been a guest critic at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, Moscow School of Architecture, and the School of Architecture in Porto, Portugal. 

“Tatiana Berger’s impressive global and interdisciplinary credentials make her uniquely suited for this role, as her experience and knowledge will help shape our students’ views and understanding of the global design field,” said NSAD Interim President Vivian A. Sanchez. “We look forward to her contributions at NewSchool, where her experience will provide invaluable insight for our students as they develop skills for success in the global workforce.”

Berger directs her own design-build architecture firm in La Jolla, Calif., and her interdisciplinary work in design and construction includes developing urban environments, landscapes, buildings and furniture. In the field of academia, Berger has served as a faculty member at Boston Architectural College and as an adjunct faculty member at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. In 2010, she co-founded the Compostela Institute, a summer academy for the study of architecture and landscape architecture in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Berger holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in architecture from Princeton University. In addition to Frampton, some of the most distinguished critics in the world have written about Berger’s professional and academic work, including William J.R. Curtis and Juhani Pallasmaa.

Berger joins other recent additions to NSAD’s faculty and administration as part of the school’s emphasis on interdisciplinary and global design education opportunities. In May, Linda Sellheim was named Digital Media Arts chair, overseeing educational collaborations between NSAD and the award-winning Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand; and Elena Pacenti joined NSAD in August as director of the Domus Academy School of Design at NSAD, which is offering a new interior design program, developed in collaboration with Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. At NSAD, Berger will teach in the school’s Master of Architecture program.

Auburn University

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APLA alum Nicholas Holt (‘93) was recently named a Senior Fellows of the Design Futures Council by the Design Futures Council (DFC). Technical director at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s New York office, Holt was one of thirteen inductees named for “significant contributions toward the understanding of changing trends, new research, and applied knowledge that improve the built environment and the human condition.” (http://www.di.net/news/design-futures-council-announces-2013-senior-fellows/)

Professor Christian Dagg, AIA, has been named as Program Chair for the Master of Integrated Design & Construction program, a collaborative academic program between the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and the McWhorter School of Building Science.  Dagg has been on the faculty of Auburn University’s School of Architecture since the fall of 2000, where he has served in several leadership positions, including Program Chair for Interior Architecture and a year level coordinator for Second and Fourth Year Design Studios in Architecture.

A retrospective of the work of Professor Emeritus, Robert L. Faust will be hosted by the Department of Art in the College of Liberal Arts at the Biggin Art Gallery, Biggin Hall, Auburn University during the month of December. Drawings, photographs and models of Faust’s work as an architect will be featured. The exhibit is curated by APLA’s Professor Christian Dagg.

An integrated studio of third and fourth year Interior Architecture students has mounted an exhibit cataloging design possibilities for the Atlanta Central Library in Atlanta, Georgia. Commissioned in the late 1960’s but not completed until 1980, the iconic downtown library is the final building by celebrated modern architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). Using the work of Breuer as a guide, the studio led by Kevin Moore and Nathan Foust has re-imagined the expansive public interior by developing meaningful luminous and acoustic variety. The exhibit of student work is on display in the Dudley Commons Gallery, at Auburn University’s College or Architecture Design and Construction, weekdays until September 30.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s Rural Studio has been awarded a $42,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the documentation of the Rural Studio’s 20 years of bringing quality design to rural Alabama. The project will include the creation of a documentary and social media campaign that highlights Rural Studio’s anniversary project to build eight 20K House projects. Art Works grants support exemplary projects in thirteen artistic disciplines and fields: arts education, dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, opera, presenting, theater and musical theater, and visual arts.

OCUS 11 ante litteram, an exhibition of new works by Margaret Fletcher, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, will open on Saturday, September 14, at Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. An opening reception will be on Saturday, September 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Fletcher will deliver an artist talk on Saturday, October 12 at 2 p.m.

The 2013 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is entitled “Renegades + Outlaws: Design Thinking at the Edge.”  The series is conceived as a way to consider perceptual outliers within the design profession. Wide interpretation of the lecture series theme is encouraged, from practitioners that rely on collaborative practices of art, architecture, filmmaking, and design to practitioners that engage in significant contextual work designed to profoundly affect the essential community in which it resides. Lecturers will elaborate on projects, processes, research, motivation, missions, etc. that have evolved within their practices and have created moments that we can identify as driven by designers who are outlaws and renegades. Details for about the lecturers and the lecture calendar can be found at:  http://cadc.auburn.edu/apla/Lists/APLANews/DispForm.aspx?ID=207

University at Buffalo

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Joyce Hwang was selected to participate in the 2014 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), “Urban by Nature.” She will be building and installing a second iteration of “Bat Cloud” at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Netherlands as part of the Biennale’s exhibition. Joyce also received an Awesome Without Borders grant (from the Awesome Foundation + the Harnisch Foundation) to help support this project.

ACSA Moves Ahead With Developing Career Outcomes Data Effort

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Based on a call for input in August 2013, nearly 30 schools have shared their experiences and goals, representing all of ACSA’s regions and a broad range of school and program sizes and types, both accredited and non-accredited. Among these schools there was strong interest in developing and participating in an ACSA-wide career outcomes survey effort.

A detailed summary of what we’ve learned from these conversations can be found here. This includes a note on how many schools currently have exit and post-graduation surveys; some best practices addressing the challenges of maintaining alumni contact information and increasing response rates; and a list of values that schools expressed relative to the development of an ACSA-wide instrument.

With this input and the guidance of a Data Collection and Research Advisory Committee, the ACSA is aiming to present an initial proposal in time for in-person feedback and discussions at the Administrator’s Conference in Providence,November 14-16, 2013. Our goal is to develop a pilot exit and post-graduation survey for a limited number of interested schools to deliver in spring/summer 2014, with a wider round to follow.

If your school may be interested in participating in this initial pilot survey, please get in touch with Lian Chang at lchang@acsa-arch.org or 202 785.2324. You can also share your thoughts by commenting below.

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