Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design has named James A. Doerfler, AIA, CSI, interim head of its Architecture Department.
Doerfler is a native of Connecticut. He earned a bachelor’s degree in art history with a concentration in architectural history from the University of Hartford and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University. At Syracuse, he studied under distinguished educator Werner Seligman.
A member of the American Institute of Architects and president-elect of the Building Technology Educators Society, Doerfler has more than 25 years of international practice experience. He has maintained his own architecture practice in each of the cities he has lived. His work spans the globe including projects in Australia, China, Spain, Switzerland and the U.S. Doerfler is a registered architect in New York and New South Wales, Australia.
He has taught at Cal Poly since 2005. Doerfler is a leader in developing award-winning interdisciplinary design studios and using software to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration at Cal Poly. His work and research focus on connecting conceptual design to digital fabrication methods using digital tools to supplement the design process. He is the founding director of the college’s Digital Fabrication Laboratory, director of the Architecture Graduate Program, and coordinator of co-op programs that facilitate student placement in professional practices around the world.
“I am greatly honored to be chosen to lead at one of the finest architecture departments in the country,” Doerfler said. “Being a part of the faculty here has given me great insight into how special our program is. I look forward to guiding the program with our excellent faculty to advance our strengths as we prepare students to be architects in the 21st century.”
Doerfler succeeds outgoing department head Henri de Hahn, who accepted a position as provost at New School of Architecture + Design in San Diego. De Hahn’s leadership accomplishments include the development of the architecture core curriculum, advancing interdisciplinary design, and expanding off-campus programs.
An article on Digital Journal reports Beth Tauke, professor of architecture, is part of a team of sisters who received the Gold Award from the Chicago Home Builder's Association and the Best Universal Designed Home from the National Association for Home Builders for a concept house they created in suburban Chicago. http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/589626. The home meets the physical needs and lifestyle of people of all ages. It has also been published at http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/EPZA7D
Beth Tauke was a jury member for the AIA 2012 Diversity and Inclusion Awards. She also gave a lecture at the Museum of Disability History on March 7 on "The Sensible House."
Hadas Steiner presented a paper, "Architecture's Biological Legacy," in Scholars @ Hallwalls lectures sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/7KNZMX
An article in Metropolis Magazine about the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides accessible housing to injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reports the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research is funding a five-year, $4.75 million study by UB's Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access of the houses located in Virginia's Fort Belvoir. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20120214/coming-home
Laura Garófalo's project Buoyant was selected by an international jury to be featured at the 13th International Garden Festival of the Jardins de Métis/Redford Gardens in Quebec, Canada. The installation will be at the Jardin de Métis in the summer of 2012.
In March Laura Garófalo participated in the jury of the d3 Housing for Tomorrow International Competition, in New York City as a co-director. She also presented the paper "Laminar Folds: Fabric Structure Molds to Jigs" at the ACSA 100th Anniversary National Convention in Boston, MA in the Advanced Composite Fabrication Technologies for Architecture session.
Geoffrey C. Adams, Associate Professor, has been appointed the new Director of the Architecture Program in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. He succeeds Mark C. Childs, Professor, in this position.
Matthew Gines, Lecturer and Director of the Fabrication Lab, launched CRAF+T: The Center for Research in Advanced Fabrication and Technology. The Center’s research focuses on four areas; digital fabrication, building technology + practices, generative design, and enhanced computational processes.
James and Claudia Horn, Lecturers, led the Global Studio, with the recipient of this year’s Marjorie Mead Hooker Visiting Professorship, Will Bruder. 13 students participated in this intensive summer studio program.
Geraldine Forbes-Isais, Professor and Dean, and Michaele Pride, Professor and Associate Dean for Public Outreach + Engagement, are planning for The Public Interest Design Institute® to provide training to architecture and other design professionals in public interest design with in-depth studies on methods of design related to critical issues faced by communities, September 2011.
Prof. Pride and Lecturer Garrett Smith, instructed and guided the summer travel program to Switzerland and Italy.
Noreen Richards has been appointed visiting assistant professor. She is actively creating connections between the architecture program and the University’s Sustainable Studies Program.
Roger Schluntz, professor and former dean at the University of New Mexico, was elected as the President Elect of the organization; he will then serve a two-year term as Presidenteffective 2013.
Kristina H. Yu, Assistant Professor, has presented at the conference, Suburbs and the 2010 Census, at George Mason University, School of Policy, two working papers. She participated in the National Housing Conference: Solutions for Sustainable Communities. These presentations and participation are related to her ongoing research and new seminar course titled ‘where is housing now?’.
The American Institute of Architects Students chapter on October 27-30, 2011 will host the regional West Quad Conference. The conference is titled, DEP: Dialogue Evolving Process. The conference questions, “How are architects evolving the standardization of the built environment?” Several workshops, tours and structured discussions and development curriculum are planned. The Keynote speakers are John Padilla (Vice-President AIA National), Eddie and Neal Jones (Jones Studio Inc) and Tom Wiscombe (Emergent Architecture).
Boston Architectural College Announces the Appointment of Three Design Heads
The Boston Architectural College announces the appointment of three new department Heads.
Maria Bellalta has been named Head of the BAC’s Landscape Architecture program. Her professional credentials include practice with Sasaki Associates, Copley Wolff Design, and Martha Swartz Partners. She has worked on planning and landscape projects throughout the United States and Western Europe, with an emphasis on urban sustainability. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame, and from the Landscape Architecture program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has taught at Harvard, at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, and at the Boston Architectural College. “Understanding the principles of urban ecology and landscape design is essential for designing and maintaining sustainable communities,” she has said. “I am very excited about joining forward-thinking design peers in enabling future designers to address the issues of building environmentally sustainable cities.”
Crandon Gustafson has been named Head of the BAC’s Interior Design program. He previously headed the Interior Design program at Harrington College of Design in Chicago, where he initiated their masters program. Trained as an architect at the University of Colorado, he worked for a number of years at the Chicago offices of Gensler, and Perkins + Will, and was managing architect for Chicago Public Schools. He is an ASID member, and was elected President of the Illinois chapter of the International Interior Design Association. He holds NCIDQ certification, and is LEED accredited. “Interior Designers have special expertise in space planning, lighting, ergonomics, health and wellness planning, addressing issues of aging, and evidence-based design. These skills contribute to our understanding of sustainability, and to the human factors engineering that is increasingly shaping our design decisions. It will be very stimulating to bring these specific perspectives to the education of architects and Landscape Architecture professionals, as well as to our emerging professional interior designers.”
Karen Nelson has been named Acting Head of the BAC’s Architecture program. Educated at M.I.T. and Columbia, she has taught at RISD and at the BAC for over a decade where she has directed advanced studio education. A much revered teacher and mentor, she oversaw the College’s Solar Decathlon studios, is managing the BAC’s spring 2012 architecture re-accreditation process, and continues to recruit and manage adjunct architecture faculty. She has brought to the BAC many noted outside speakers including Snohetta, Steven Benisch, Hollwich Kushner, and Howeler Yoon to assist students in understanding the work of the most innovative designers working today. “We have enjoyed working across our disciplines in the past,” she reports, “and the need for interdisciplinary research and practice is greater than ever before. Our graduates will create career paths unthought-of just a few years ago. As educators we will need to be increasingly creative in preparing students to enter fields that require open-mindedness and professional agility.”
“These accomplished educators bring a wealth of experience to the BAC’s programs of practice-based design education,” according to President Ted Landsmark. “As we diversify our programs to better anticipate the requirements of professional design practice, the need has grown for program leaders who collaborate across the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. Integrated design practice, virtual modeling of work over great distances, increased management expectations, and new career opportunities are transforming the design professions toward greater collaboration among clearly defined bodies of knowledge. These new program Heads have demonstrated leadership in their respective fields, and have shown the ability to grow student expertise through multidisciplinary work. They bring professional skills and foresight to the BAC and to the design professions globally.”
BAC Provost Julia Halevy adds, “We’re thrilled to have assembled this group of thoughtful and collaborative designers. We are developing a new Foundation curriculum with their input, and we anticipate that our graduates will not only understand their responsibilities within the traditional design disciplines, but will also be highly innovative in shaping design practices into the future.”
For further information contact Janet Oberto, Director of External and Government Relations, at 617-585-0266, or Janet.oberto@the-bac.edu.
Professor Edward Steinfeld and Dr. Kathryn Seelman of the University of Pittsburgh presented "Enabling Environments", their chapter in the recently released World Health Organization's World Report on Disability, at the U.S. Launch and Symposium on the Report in Arlington, Va on September, 12 (see http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/conferences/2011/).
Professor Thomas Barrie was an invited speaker at a symposium entitled “Transcending Architecture” hosted by the School of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, October 6-8, 2011. His paper, “The Domestic and Numinous in Architecture,” focused on domestic symbolism often incorporated in sacred architecture.
The European Review has published Professor Thomas Barrie’s article “Sacred Space and the Mediating Roles of Architecture” (European Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 79-94, 2012)
A review of Professor Thomas Barrie’s book The Sacred In-between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge, 2010), appeared in the fall issue of Faith & Form magazine (Vol. XLIV, No. 2, 2011).
The Person Street Project, a community-based urban design project conducted at the College of Design’s Downtown Design studio fall semester 2011, concluded with a public exhibition on Friday, December 2nd. The exhibition, mounted in a storefront space on Person Street, featured urban design proposals and housing designs produced by twelve students in an ARC 401, Architectural Design Urban, studio led by Professor Thomas Barrie. Over 200 people attended the opening, and the project was featured in an article in the News and Observer. The project included research on contemporary urbanism, mixed-use development, and existing city studies and development plans for the project area; the urban and streetscape design for the Person Street neighborhood; and the design of a mixed-use, housing project for the development sites at the north end of Person Street.
The project partners were the Person Street Partnership and the City of Raleigh Urban Design Center. Project sponsors included the Person Street Partnership, the Society for the Preservation of Historic Oakwood and the School of Architecture.
Instructor Eric Peterson exhibited his material research and his students’ furniture designs at the Coral Gables Museum in Coral Gables, Florida. The exhibition is a retrospective of three years of research on upcycling shipping pallets into fine furniture and architectural building products. Wood from used shipping pallets is investigated for its potential as cladding, surface, structure, or spatial modulator. The exhibition reveals the hidden potential of an overlooked material and invites us to examine the ramifications of our participation in global material and product transportation networks. Research made possible with generous support of Whole Foods Market, South Florida Regional Distribution Center.
Associate Professor Gray Read’s book, Modern Architecture in Theater: The experiments of Art et action, will be published in January by Palgrave Press in their Pivot Series. The book examines Parisian architect Edouard Autant’s exploration of the art of architectural design through a series of modern theatrical performances presented by Art et action, a company he formed with actress Louise Lara. Together, they merged British director Edward Gordon Craig’s strategies for spatial set design with an approach to performance emphasizing multi-sensual simultaneity. In five types of modern theater, they created spaces and performances that anticipate the architecture and actions of an ideal, modern city.
The School of Architecture and Planning of The Catholic University of America proudly presents Professor Adèle Naudé Santos, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in the Inaugural Lecture honoring George T. Marcou, FAICP Professor Emeritus, on Wednesday 10/26/11, 5:30pm at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20064.
Professor George Themistoclis Marcou taught at The Catholic University of America from 1962 to 2002. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1953, and a master’s degree in city planning in 1955. During those years, he met a fellow student and the woman who would become his beloved wife during 56 years, Margaret, who also graduated from MIT. Both raised five children, three golden retrievers, and later enjoyed their eleven grandchildren. Professor Marcou was widely known for his professionalism, wonderful sense of humor, and practical approach to problem solving. Traveling around the world with Margaret, whether it was for business or for pleasure, was a great passion where his fluency in Arabic, Greek and French came in handy. His career as an urban planner began in 1962, when he founded Marcou, O’Leary and Associates, a planning and urban development consulting firm. There he directed projects for numerous counties and cities both in the United States and abroad. The firm received urban design awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including an award for its preservation plan and program for the Vieux Carré Historic District in New Orleans. Projects in the Washington area included Fiscal Impact Analyses for Montgomery County, a program for revitalization of downtown Frederick, Maryland, campus plans for George Washington University and the National Institutes of Health, planning studies for Fairfax County and a study of Washington’s skyline for the National Capital Planning Commission. The firm was acquired by Westinghouse in 1973. In 1977, Professor Marcou became the first manager of the Community Development Bureau of the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, developing policy and action programs for the business community dealing with public issues. Later in 1979, he was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the American Planning Association (APA) where he was responsible for its policy and lobbying program. He also served on the APA’s Political and Legislative Committee. In 1993, Governor Schaffer of Maryland awarded Professor Marcou the Governor’s Award for Professional Excellence and the following year appointed him to the State of Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Commission on which he served for five years. He was often asked to be a guest lecturer at conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad. These invitations took him to Denmark, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He was a longstanding member of Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Professor Emeritus George Marcou passed away on April 28, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, instructor in the USC Master of Landscape Architecture program, was elected in April to a 4-year term as the newest member of the Burbank City Council. She will be serving as liaison to the Cultural Arts Commission and the Sustainable Commission in the City.
Paul Danna, AIA, has won the commission to design the new California State Superior Courthouse in Long Beach, with design partner Jose Palacios, AIA. He is also serving on the Executive Committee of AIA/Los Angeles, as Past President of the Chapter.
Christoph Kapeller will be presenting his research project “Chengdu Sp[eculative Mapping” at the Chengdu Biennale 2011 from September 29th until October 30th.
Kris Mun, designer and exhibitor for AAC’s Digital Futures exhibition in Shanghai August 2011, showed her work amongst other prominent practices, including Zaha Hadid Architects, Greg Lynn, UNStudio, that are engaging in computational and digital fabrication strategies in architecture.
M. Brian Tichenor, AIA, ASLA , is contributing a chapter for the upcoming Rizzolli publication ‘The California Casa’, and his work has been featured in the books ‘ Classic Homes of California’ and ‘At Home’, both published this year.
Linda C. Samuels, USC lecturer since the fall of 2010, has received a grant from UCLA’s Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in support of her research on failed projects for the 101 ‘trench’ site, a quarter mile stretch in downtown Los Angeles where the freeway descends below grade. This research is part of her dissertation focusing on urban infrastructure redevelopment projects.
Mark Gangi, AIA, NCARB, LEED-AP was featured on AIA National Podcast as the Citizen Architect on the Move for September 2011 http://idimultimedia.net/clients/aia_podcast/07152011/Mark_Gangi_711.mp3
Adjunct Professor Regula Campbell AIA authored a presentation in June at the International Federation of Landscape Architecture World Congress: “Scales of Nature”, Zurich, Switzerland on the topic: Biodiversity in the City: Enrichment for Urban Life and Work – “Making It Personal, Making It Real”.
Joe Sturges, Lecturer has completed WIldwood School campus as senior designer with Nancy Power & Associate in conjuction with Koning Eizenberg Architects. Other projects completed this year include Children’s Institute with KEA and Indian Paintbrush Productions with Barton Myers Associates Inc.
Victoria Turkel Behner, PhD, is designing the upcoming exhibition “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opening January 2012.
Adjunct Professor Doug Campbell ASLA will be recognized by the Government of Hangzhou, China this October for his contribution to the region’s “Quality of Life” through his design of a recently completed sustainable new town re-visioning a former industrial site in the City’s northern district.
Dr. Ken Breisch has stepped down after twelve years as Director of Graduate Programs in Historic Preservation, a program which he founded in 1999. He will resume teaching and writing full-time in the School of Architecture.
Gary Paige’s architecture project, “Type Variant Houses” and artwork, “Ruled Surfaces” is the subject of an exhibition entitled “Other Works” at the School of Architecture at UC Berkeley, along with architects Wes Jones and IDEA Office partners Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen.
Assistant Professor, Victor Jones and the Watts House Project were awarded a 2011 Graham Grant to complete work for the Watts House Project’s Platform fence, pocket park, and façade improvement.
Alvin Huang was appointed as a Tenure-Track Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles. He will be teaching graduate and thesis design studios focused on advanced digital design techniques, material performance, and digital fabrication. His office, Synthesis Design + Architecture, has also moved to Los Angeles from London.
Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Hricak, FAIA, and his Venice based design firm recently received city approval for an innovative hotel and conference center to be built in Redondo Beach, California which promises to set new standards for design and sustainability in this beachside community.
Scott Uriu, lecturer at USC, partner in the firm BplusU, was chosen as one of the finalists in the Silver Lake Sunset Junction Competition in June by the City of Silver Lake, also in June BplusU were chosen for the 2011 AIA Emerging Professional exhibit in Washington DC, BplusU’s work has been recently published in the book “Futuristic-Vision of future living”, and in August was featured in the LA Times LA Home section.
Assistant Professor Rachel Berney is presenting the paper “A New Spatial Fix: The Promise of Public Space in a Fragmented Buenos Aires” at the ACSP Conference in Salt Lake City, October 13-16, 2011. Students from USC’s MLA Program in the School of Architecture have work represented in the forthcoming book, “Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings” (Editor, Nadia Amoroso). Contributor for USC MLA, Rachel Berney.
USC Emeritus Professor Robert S. Harris, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor and former ACSA President, concluded a 5-year appointment as Director of the USC Master of Landscape Architecture program. He was recognized as CELA Outstanding Educator for 2011, and will be awarded Honorary ASLA. membership at the ASLA Annual Meeting in October 2011.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Neimark’s installation of an enormous extrusion of the Soviet hydraulic network in foam will open at the WUHO gallery in Hollywood on December 8th, accompanied by the publication, “The Infrastructural Monument: Stalin’s Water Works under Construction and in Representation,” in the forthcoming issue of Future Anterior. Research for this project has been supported by the USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) and the Harvard GSD Appleton Traveling Fellowship.
Erik Mar is working on two Los Angeles County Public Libraries, of 7200 sf and 16,000 sf. He also delivered a lecture on sustainability and environmental imperatives to the Public Library staff on their 2011 Staff Training Day.
Lecturer Mina M. Chow, AIA, NCARB, is shooting a pilot episode for web series on innovative architecture in Los Angeles with the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, and the Getty Research Institute Wim de Witt and USC School of Architecture Professor Jim Steele as humanities advisors.
Christine Lampert whose firm is Lampert Dias Architect’s Inc. along with PDS West is working on a master plan to redesign a large portion of the Laguna Woods Village in Laguna Woods California. Laguna Woods is a community with a population of over 15,000 senior citizens in South Orange County. The project includes bringing the 1960’s designed community into the 21st century.
Professor Marc Schiler presented a new definition for Performative Facades at the Facade Tectonics Conference, July 30, and at a public lecture at USC on Wednesday, August 24, based on research done during his sabbatical on reflective facades from Odeillo, France to Berlin.
Adjunct Associate Professor Warren Techentin and his firm Warren Techentin Architecture (WTARCH) won First Prize in the STREET 2020 Vision Competition in conjunction with the inaugural Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) for 2011. The international competition invited architects, landscape architects, and planners to focus on the hybrid issue of ‘Landscape Urbanism’ as applied to making a new street in Estonia’s capitol city. The competition sought design solutions to offset traffic concerns while improving the quality of urban life for pedestrians and cyclists.
Assistant Professor Karen M. Kensek organized the Fifth Annual Symposium on “Building Information Modeling: Extreme BIM” last July. Plans are already underway for the sixth conference to be held in Los Angeles in summer 2012.
Travis Longcore, Ph.D., of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute has become a guest critic and instructor in the Landscape Architecture program, bringing his expertise on urban ecology, restoration, conservation planning, and GIS to the curriculum.
Victor Regnier FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Gerontology will present a paper at the LeadingAge Conference in Washington DC on Dutch Service-hybrid Housing Models, as well as jury a competition for the Aging Means Business: Design for a New Age conference in Boston–both in the Fall.
“Structure and Design,” a book by Professor G. Goetz Schierle, is posted on over 30 international web sites.
Lauren Matchison, NCARB, is currently designing a sustainable beach bungalow in Orange County.
Rob Ley was recently won two separate competitions to design permanent installations in both Seattle, WA & Kansas City, MO and is recently included in Madeline Schwartzman’s new book ‘See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception’ and Rashida Ng’s upcoming book ‘INPUT_OUTPUT: Performative Materials in Architecture and Design’.
Eric Haas, AIA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and his firm DSH had their project 2636 Residence featured in the exhibit “Tokyo/LA Houses” at July’s Little Tokyo Design Week in Los Angeles.
USC faculty Behrokh Khoshnevis (Engineering), Neil Leach (Architecture), Anders Carlson (Architecture) and Madhu Thangavelu (Astronautics) have won a NASA grant to explore the use of the robotic fabrication technology, Contour Crafting, for building structures on the Moon. The grant was one of 30 awarded to over 700 applicants by the NASA Innovation Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC). For further details see: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/08/7306644-out-of-this-world-ideas-funded
Ric. Abramson (2nd year Studio Critic)/Workplays studio recently completed its latest project, Demitasse Coffee Bar Lounge, downtown Los Angeles in Little Tokyo.
JFAK Architects, the firm of Associate Professor and UG Chair Alice Kimm, FAIA, was awarded two AIA California Council Design Awards for projects completed at Caltech and in Santa Monica. JFAK’s downtown parking structure for the LAPD was featured in Architectural Record and named one of the “5 most beautiful parking garages in Los Angeles” by LA Weekly.
Assistant Prof. Dr. David Gerber will present design computation research ‘Building Skin Intelligence’ at the ACADIA 2011 conference, he will keynote the largest and leading Brazilian AEC venue on ‘Building Industry Innovation: An Evolution of Building Information Modeling and Computing in the AEC.’
Assistant Professor Gail Peter Borden was named Director of the Master of Architecture Program. His recently opened installation at the USC-URC, entitled Density Frames consists of a variably triangulated structure interlaced with a multistory pneumatic and coincided with the release of his 2nd book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production from Routledge.
Vinayak Bharne has authored a chapter titled “Saving the Qanat: The Dilemmas of Sustainability & Strategic Conservation in Yazd, Iran” in the forthcoming book “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” (010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011)
Esther Margulies principal at ValleyCrest Design Group in Los Angeles has been working on the 2014 World Horticultural Exposition Exposition in Qingdao, China along with design build projects in Santa Monica and Malibu California.
Contact Associate Professor Douglas Noble, FAIA, Ph.D., (dnoble@usc.edu) for details on how to submit paper and session proposals on the subject of building envelopes for the 8th FACADE TECTONICS CONFERENCE scheduled for June, 2012, in Los Angeles.
Peter Simmonds has designed two LEED Platinum buildings so far and is working on number three.
Todd Gish, PhD, AIA, is contributing a chapter to an upcoming anthology on urban planning in Los Angeles; the essay joins a revisionist literature demonstrating a long history of plans for LA, created by prominent national planners who utilized the best professional practices of their day.
Interim Executive Editor Graham Livesey, University of Calgary Associate Editor (Design) Amy Kulper, University of Michigan Associate Editor (Reviews) Alexander Eisenschmidt, University of Illinois at Chicago Associate Editor (Media) Marc Neveu, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Design+
The JAE invites unpublished text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) submissions for publication in the Fall 2013 issue that explore contemporary architectural design and design pedagogy, within the following rubrics:
Design + Theory: What is the role of theory in contemporary design, or is theory dead? Are there emerging theories that need wider exposure? Are old design theories being revived?
Design + History: What are current issues in architectural history that impact on contemporary design? How should historical debates be framed in design discourses? Are historical precedents important in contemporary practice?
Design + Technology: What is the role of building science in design studio? Do architects need greater technical expertise? What are emerging technologies, materials, assemblies, and practices that are influencing contemporary design? Has technology replaced theory?
Design + Material Culture: How is material culture shaping, or being shaped, by design? Does architecture play a central role in material cultures?
Design + Representation: Are contemporary representational practices dominating design processes? Has there been a revolution in representation? Has architecture been reduced to representation? What are emerging representational approaches?
All unsolicited submissions will be subject to a blind peer review process. For further information refer to the Submit to JAE, Editorial Guidelines, and The JAE Process sections at www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-press/JAE.
The submission deadline for all manuscripts for the Fall 2013 issue (Volume 67:2) is March 15, 2013, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in future issues.
Refer all inquires to: Graham Livesey Interim Executive Editor eeditor@acsa-arch.org
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