Patrick and Nancy Latrop Professor Emeritus Dayton Gene Egger was inducted into the university’s “Virginia Tech Academy of Professors Emeriti and Emeritae” earlier this year. He also received the “Career Achievement Award” of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2011. Professor Egger was been a faculty member since 1969. Despite his offical retirement in 2010, he continues to be engaged in the nurishment of students and faculty colleagues of the School of Architecture + Design.
Professor Scott Poole, AIA, Director of the School of Architecture + Design from 2004 until 2011, is the new Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee. Professor Poole has been a faculty member at Virginia Tech since 1986. The School of Architecture + Design wishes Scott Poole the best of luck and success with his new responsibilities.
LumenHAUS, the Virginia Tech solar house, a project led by T. A. Carter Professor Robert Dunay, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor Joseph Wheeler, AIA, and Professor Robert Schubert, and created by hundreds of students across many disciplines, is currently situated on exhibit with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, the twentieth-century masterpiece of modern architecture in Plano, Illinois. Citing the Farnsworth House as precedent for its pavilion type design, the LumenHAUS / Farnsworth House Exhibition in runs through October 23, 2011. Previously, the LumenHAUS was on exhibit at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., on the National Mall in Washington D.C., on Times Square in New York City, on Millennium Park in Chicago, and in Madrid, Spain where it won the international Solar Decathlon Europe Competition.
Professor Dr. Charles Steger, FAIA, President of Virginia Tech, hosted an event to help build corporate partnerships through School of Architecture + Design’s Center for Design Research in conjunction with the Farnsworth House / Virginia Tech LumenHAUS exhibition. Present were Joel Bagnal and Dean Kershaw representing L-3 STRATIS, Bob Gunn from Clark/Nexsen, Kristine Fallon of Kristine Fallon Associates Inc., Robert Turner, former partner at SOM, Reynolds Metals Professor of Architecture Jack Davis, FAIA, Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, and T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Design Research.
T. A. Carter Professor Robert Dunay, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor Joseph Wheeler, AIA, and Visiting Instructor Andrew Balster led a team of the School of Architecture + Design’s Center for Design Research to form a research collaboration focusing on the development of high density, net-zero residential housing with SOM, Chicago. The workshop aimed to initiate the next frontier of design research after LumenHAUS, the Virginia Tech Solar House. The research team worked with the partners of the firm as well as staff experts in the fields of planning, high-density residential housing, structure and environmental design to develop an innovative concept for the future of housing. This effort begins a strategic partnership between the academy and profession.
G.T. Ward Professor of Architecture Donna Dunay, FAIA, Chair of the International Archive of Women in Architecture and T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, directed and taught inside Architecture and Design, offered by the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech this summer. In its 15th year, inside Architecture has served over 1000 high school students. For individuals seeking an insight into the world of design, this year’s course of 100 participants offered workshops, lectures and seminars across an interdisciplinary spectrum of interests.
G.T. Ward Professor of Architecture Donna Dunay, FAIA, and Associate Professor Kay Edge travelled to Tokyo in June to install the exhibit “For the Future: Pioneering Women in Architecture from Japan and Beyond,” a collaborative effort of The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) with the International Union of Women Architects (UIFA) Japan. The exhibition is shown at the Architectural Institute of Japan and it features international pioneering women in architecture. The materials are drawn from the IAWA Center collections held at Virginia Tech along with additional early Japanese women pioneers. A special section of the exhibition was devoted to IAWA founder Professor Emeritae Dr. Milka Bliznakov, Ph.D., who passed away last year. Professor Edge delivered the Exhibition Opening Lecture “Overlaps and Parallels.” Professor Dunay gave the Annual UIFA Japon Lecture “For the Future:” delivered at the Campus Innovation Center, Tokyo. Later this Fall, the exhibition will be mounted at two additional locations in Tokyo, UIA 2011 TOKYO (International Union of Architects) 24th World Congress of Architecture at the Tokyo Forum and the Gender Equality Center, Chiba Ward, Tokyo.
Professor Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E., has had the following papers published: “Vibration Serviceability of A Building Floor Structure – Part I: Dynamic Testing and Computer Modeling” and “Vibration Serviceability of A Building Floor Structure – Part II: Vibration Evaluation and Assessment” in: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities of the American Society of Civil Engineers, December 2010 Edition; “Vibration Studies of A Cantilevered Structure Subjected to Human Activities Using A Remote Monitoring System” in: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April 2011 Edition; “A Study of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Movements During A New York City Marathon” in: Journal of Bridge Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineering, February 2011 Edition. Professor Setareh also presented the following papers at the Sixth International Structural Engineering Construction Conference in Zurich, Switzerland: “Structural Behavior of Double-Layer Braced Barrel Vaults” and “An Analytical Study of Steel Flat Double Layer Grid Spatial Structures.”
Professor Scott Poole, AIA, T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor and Reynolds Metals Professor of Architecture Jack Davis, FAIA, Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, initiated and led this year’s International Architecture and Design (IAD), a study abroad/continuing education course for senior level practitioners, a study of Alvar Aalto, Finnish and Scandinavian architecture. The program is in its 15th year. Professor Dr. Charles Steger, FAIA, President of Virginia Tech, joined the group of distinguished architects.
The School of Architecture + Design has appointed Associate Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., to be chair of the Bachelor of Architecture’s Core Professional Program beginning with the academic year 2011/12.
The following faculty members have been appointed into a tenure-track appointment:
Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Ing.-Arch. Christian Gänshirt, Ph.D., a registered architect in Germany and an architecture historian, is joining the faculty on the rank of associate professor on tenure-track. He studied at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, from where he received his master degree, the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and the University of Cottbus, Germany, from where he obtained his doctorate. He has previously taught at the University of Hannover, the Berlin University of the Arts, the University of Kassel, and at the University of Cottbus, all in Germany. Before returning to obtain his doctorate, Gänshirt practiced architecture for several years. Among other engagements, he was an executive project architect for Alvaro Siza in Oporto, Portugal, for three years. Gänshirt is the author of Tool for Ideas. An Introduction to Architectural Design (Basel: Birkhäuser 2007). He will offer courses in history, theory and design.
Aki Ishida, AIA, a graduate from the University of Minnesota and Columbia University, is joining the faculty as a tenure-track assistant professor to offer courses in architecture design, building construction technology and building materials. She has practiced architecture for fourteen years, among other offices, at I.M. Pei Architect, James Carpenter Design Associates, and Raphael Vinoly Architects. Previously, she has taught at Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Parsons School of Design.
Paola Zellner Bassett is a registered architect in Argentina, where she has been graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. She obtained her graduate degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Zellner Bassett is new on a tenure-track assistant professor appointment after she has taught at Virginia Tech as a visiting faculty for the previous three years. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she had academic appointments at the University of Michigan and at Woodbury University. Zellner Bassett will offer courses in architecture design, building materials, and building construction.
The following faculty members have been newly appointed as visiting faculty:
Robert Holton, RA, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Columbia University, joins the architecture program on a two-year visiting appointment. He has practiced architecture for fifteen years, among other offices, at Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York and Paris for five years. Previously, he has taught at Pratt Institute and Florida International University.
Erin Putalik, RA, a graduate from Brown University and the University of Michigan, joins the architecture program on a two-year visiting appointment from practice. She has worked for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects since 2007.
Tim Frank, RA, a graduate from Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, joins the architecture program in a two-year visiting appointment. He is the Principal of Tim Frank Architecture in Atlanta and he has been teaching at Georgia Institute of Technology during the past six years.
Benjamin Rice, a graduate from Southern California Institute of Architecture and Princeton University, joins the architecture program on a one-year appointment from practice. He most recently worked for Reiser + Umemoto in New York City.
Christopher Pritchett, a graduate from Virginia Tech, rejoins the architecture program on a one-year visiting appointment. Pritchett returns from Scandinavia, where he studied ecclesiastical architecture.
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