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University of Texas at Austin

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Professor David Heymann recently returned from the southern France, where he was in residence with the The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar Residence. Directed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and based in Ménerbes, France, the program provides residencies for mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. While at the Dora Maar House, he worked on a manuscript of essays.

Heymann is a practicing architect and a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. The focus of Heymann’s writing, research, and practice is the complex relationships of buildings and landscapes, particularly sustainable constructions and natural landscapes. His built work has been variously published and recognized with design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York.

Professor Heymann’s article, “The Eastward-Moving House,” was just published at Places: Design Observer. The subject of the essay is the relationship of house form to values held regarding land, landscape, the landscape of the family, nature and cosmology. The form of the essay is a fiction, generated in response and as an addition to another fiction: J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House.” Written in 1953, Jackson’s great essay (long out of print) is also posted in Places.

From Heymann’s introduction: “If the centerline of Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House” is the availability of unconsumed land to be transformed by value systems into landscapes, the conceit of this later essay is that such land no longer exists, and a cycle of re-consumption in landscape making has begun.”

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, co-curated the exhibition and co-edited the catalogue on “Alvaro Siza: From Line to Space” at the Siza Pavilion, Hombroich, Germany. Professor Wang also contributed to the Capus Ultzama 2011, Pamplona, Spain, June 23-25, 2011, on the subject of abstraction and modernization. The conference was organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, Madrid/Pamplona. Other speakers included Gerardo Caballero, Eduardo Pasquera, Marcelo Villafañe, Tadej Glazar, Anne Lacaton, and Camilo Rebelo.

Professor Juan Miró contributed an article titled “Let’s Guide Austin’s Growth to Preserve Landscape, Offer Compact Alternative” to the June 15, 2011, edition of the Austin American-Statesman. In the article, Miró compares two models of city development-the Landscape City and the Compact City-and suggests: “As Austin continues to grow, it is not about choosing one model over the other; we must embrace the virtues of both models and mesh them successfully.”

Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui is featured in Archinect in their  “Working out of the Box” series.
Archinect highlights Siddiqui’s current work and explores his professional path. In part, Siddiqui explains, “I am increasingly interested in ways of defining space through means other than the introduction of new architectural volumes, focusing instead on imaginative re-tailoring of existing structures, performance-driven surface manipulations, exploiting relationships between objects and occupants, and taking advantage of ephemeral aspects of spatial experiences such as light, sound and smell.”

University of Oklahoma

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Arn Henderson, FAIA, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, will receive OHC’s highest honor, the Oklahoma Humanities Award, for his dedication to the humanities through his study of architecture as it relates to Oklahoma’s past, present, and future. Mr. Henderson is the author and co-author of numerous works including Architecture in Oklahoma: Landmark and Vernacular (1978), The Physical Legacy: Buildings of Oklahoma County 1889-1931 (1980) and currently at press, Bruce Goff: Architecture of Discipline in Freedom (2012).

Dr. Charles Warnken, Associate Professor of Regional and City Planning and previously Interim Division Director, has been promoted to Associate Dean for the College of Architecture.  Dr. Dawn Jourdan has assumed the responsibility as Director of the Division.

Hans Butzer, the Mabrey Presidential Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and the Director of Butzer Gardner Architects has recently been appointed Director of the Division of Architecture at the College of Architecture.

A Summer Academy Grant of $59,000 to be allocated over three years has been awarded to Elizabeth Pober, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at the University of Oklahoma, along with her collaborators, Thomas Cline (Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Holly Mills. The new program will provide thirty 9th and 10th grade students a one week opportunity to study our built environment disciplines at the college each summer for the next three years. 

Associate Professor of Construction Science Tamera McCuen and Associate Professor of Architecture Lee Fithian were awarded a $20,000 Provost Grant to lead a Dream Course entitled “Building Community and Enhancing Connectivity – BIMStorm™ OKC” during the Fall 2012 semester at the University of Oklahoma. The course raised OU’s image as a leader in interdisciplinary collaboration enabled by innovative technology. This Dream Course provided a unique opportunity for students to work with design and construction professionals on virtual teams. By working with the City of Oklahoma City and industry partners throughout BIMStorm™ OKC, students furthered their discipline knowledge and collaborative skills in a project-based learning environment that represented leading-edge technology and innovative project delivery methods for the 21st-century architect, planner and construction manager.

During the course, students learned virtual design and preconstruction analysis, which is the future of the built environment. Students participated on interdisciplinary teams and used building information modeling (BIM) as a tool for working together. Virtual teams are now a reality in the 21st century construction industry and provide alternatives to traditional methods of teaming that expand the possibility of interfacing teams with a large pool of professionals and consultants. The ability to bring together virtual teams enhances solutions for design and construction of capital projects. The BIMStorm™ OKC project sites were located in the River District area of the Oklahoma City Core to Shore Plan which is the land area between the relocated I-40 and the Oklahoma River. The interdisciplinary student teams worked in a joint partnership with the City of Oklahoma City Planning Department and industry participants for the virtual BIM event held on November 7, 2012. Students developed design alternatives that could be tested and analyzed in BIM to verify feasibility and constructability. The industry partners provided valuable insight to students about real world solutions. The dynamics of students, city officials, and industry partners all working toward one goal had implications for each group with information sharing, problem solving, and solution testing. The virtual team context offered OU students a differentiator and experience uncommon to the majority of students of the built environment.

  

(BIMStorm poster, left; and students in lab, right)

Professor Khosrow Bozorgi is organizing a “Symposium for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture” that will take place at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture March 7-8, 2013. Please visit the college web site for further details about speakers and topics.

 

Catholic University of America

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The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Highlighting this milestone is a three-day symposium in October on “Transcending Architecture – Aesthetics and Ethics of the Numinous.” Lectures on sacred architecture will be led by a field of renowned scholars and practitioners from disciplines ranging from architecture and religion to philosophy and social work. The symposium is organized by Associate Professor Dr. Julio Bermudez, director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate concentration.  For more information check: http://www.sacred-space.net/symposium/

Architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the Professor in Residence at CUArch this Fall 2011. He is directing a month long graduate studio investigating the relationship between architecture and spirituality. He is also thoroughly involved in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and spontaneous engagement with students. Juhani Pallasmaa’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. Past Walton Critics include architects Antoine Predock (2009) and Craig Hartman (2010). Visit CUAArch site at http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/releases/2011/ArchVisitor.cfm for more information.

Assistant Professor Hollee Hitchcock Becker and Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim joined The Catholic University of America in August. Professor Becker comes to CUA from Kent State University and has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Kent State University. She will be teaching Structures and doing research on environmentally-adaptive facades and pre-fabricated disaster resistant replacement housing. Professor Kim comes from The University of Mercy at Detroit where she also directed the March program. She has degrees from Wellesley College and MIT and is the founder of c2architecturestudio, an award-winning design practice included in Architectural Record’s Emerging Architect series (06/10). This is also one of 12 architectural firms included by the Korean Architects Association as “Young Korean Architects in the Global Context.” Professor Kim will be teaching Design Studios, building technology and directing the 2012 Summer Institute for Architecture.

Professor Randy Ott, Dean of the School of Architecture, was recognized with an award of the AIA Washington DC chapter in the ‘Unbuilt’ category. The “Salt Chapel” on the edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake was chosen among more than 100 submissions presented. The jury found the project an adventurous exploration or form, context, and poetry.

Associate Professor Dr. Adnan Morshed, was invited by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, to present the paper, “The Central Threat: Dhaka as a Frontier in the Climate-Change Narrative of Bangladesh.” Dr. Morshed’s article, “Ascending with Nine Chains to the Moon: Buckminster Fuller’s ideation of the Genius,” was published in the GSD journal New Geographies. His review of the National Building Museum exhibition, Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, is forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Associate Professor Eric Jenkins presented the paper “Belcamp: A Little Bit of Europe in Maryland” at the Conference on Company Towns of the Bata Concern held in Prague, March 2011.

Professor of Practice Dr. Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA RIBA, was the keynote speaker at the Memorial Celebration honoring Architect Raimund Abraham held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC last September.  His award-winning design of the restaurant ‘Bibiana’ in Washington DC was featured in the Fall issue of Architecture DC. He was also the keynote speaker at the City School of Architecture and the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, and a featured speaker at the Pacific Area Quantity Surveyors World Congress. The Financial Times of Sri Lanka published a full page interview with Dr Barr entitled “Go Green to Make Green.” 

University of Oregon

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UO undergraduate architecture students Benjamin Bye, Alex Kenton and Jason Rood won first place in the ACSA Timber in the City: Urban Habitats contest, which called for proposals for mixed-use development in the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook. 

UO Masters of Interior Architecture student Yin Yu is a finalist in the Oregon Best Red List Design Challenge. 

Recent UO Masters of Architecture graduate Rachel Auerbach, M.Arch ’09, won the AIA Center for Emerging Professionals 2013 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes significant contributions of interns at early stages in their careers, in honor of Pettigrew, who was committed to community and professional service.

Professor James Tice was selected for the 2013 UO Outstanding Research Career Award sponsored by the UO Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education. The award highlights outstanding research activities at the University of Oregon. 

Adjunct professor Michael Pyatok recently won a competition sponsored by the City of Oakland for a high-rise, market-rate tower located on Oakland’s downtown Lake Merritt. The site was recently created as part of a redesign and expansion of the parkland along the southern edge of the lake. Pyatok also recently presented his firm’s work in low-rise, high density housing at the Center for Architecture in NYC as part of the opening of an exhibit about that topic, sponsored by the AIA. Pyatok will also be serving on the jury of the annual Builder’s Choice awards for housing sponsored by Hanley Wood publishers.  

Professor Howard Davis has co-founded a new research and consulting group, the Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism (CIU), which is concerned with the relationships between urban form / building types, and social / economic inclusion in cities. The CIU has carried out projects in China, London and currently Portland, Oregon.  He recently spoke about this work at the annual meeting of the International Seminar on Urban Form in Brisbane, and at universities in Brisbane and Melbourne. 

 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Diebedo Francis Kere, founder of Kere Architecture (http://www.kere-architecture.com) based in Berlin, Germany has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Marcus Prize for Architecture.

The Marcus Prize is a $100,000 award funded by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and administered through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning to recognize emerging talent in architecture worldwide. The Marcus Prize provides a $50,000 award to the winner and a further $50,000 to the School to run the competition and bring Kere to Milwaukee to lead a design studio.

During the spring 2012 semester, Mr. Kere will make scheduled visits to the School. He will co-direct a graduate studio project on specific challenges in architecture that inspire enduring benefits to the physical environment, and will be invited to participate in public workshops and lectures.

Diebedo Francis Kere was born in Burkina Faso in 1965, the first-born son of the chief of the village of Gando. He was awarded a scholarship to complete his secondary education in Berlin and, upon completion, enrolled in the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2004 he completed his degree.

In 1998, Kere founded the organization Bricks for the Gando Schools, through which he raised the funds to build a new primary school in his home village. Here, he adapted construction techniques to take advantage of passive ventilation strategies, local resources and technical skills. The results illustrate the power of architecture to change a community.

On May 19, 2011, a six-person jury convened in Milwaukee to select among the 30 international nominees drawn from 13 countries, all practicing architects who were nominated by one or more of a select international committee of nominators. The Jurors: Toshiko Mori, FAIA, the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, (New York City); Carlos Jimenez, Principal of Carlos Jimenez Studio, Professor at Rice University and a jury member of the Pritzker Architectural Prize, (Houston); Sarah Herda, director of The Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, (Chicago); Robert Greenstreet, Dean, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning (Milwaukee), Steve Marcus, CEO, The Marcus Corporation Foundation (Milwaukee) and Chris Cornelius, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning (who will coteach the studio with Kere) reviewed the portfolios, CVs and work statements of each nominee before selecting Kere to receive the Marcus Prize.

According to juror Toshiko Mori, “Kere is…able to translate western architectural traditions into indigenous processes and values. His desire to make sophisticated and uncompromised buildings with so few resources is an empowering and optimistic lesson to share with students.”

The Marcus Prize has been awarded to MVRDV, Rotterdam (2005), Barkow + Leibinger Architects, Berlin (2007) and Alejandro Aravena, Elemental, Chile (2009). Work from the Marcus Prize studios has been published on countless websites and international journals, and in several books, including Skycar City (Aktar) and Architecture Now! 7 (Taschen). The student work has been displayed at the 2008 Venice Biennale and has won a design award. The Marcus Prize has been described as “the most lucrative prize for young designers in the world matched only by the Pritzker.”

The Marcus Corporation Foundation is the philanthropic arm of The Marcus Corporation, a lodging and entertainment company with headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Marcus Prize is part of the Marcus family’s ongoing commitment to support the growth and development of the practice of architecture in Milwaukee.

Prof. Bill Huxhold is to be inducted into the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)’s GIS Hall of Fame later this year. URISA established the Hall of Fame in 2005 “to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s or an organization’s record of contribution to the advancement of the industry demonstrates creative thinking and actions, vision and innovation, inspiring leadership, perseverance, and community mindedness. In addition, nominees must serve as a role model for those who follow. URISA Hall of Fame Laureates are individuals or organizations whose pioneering work has moved the geospatial industry in a better, stronger direction.”

The Association of Architecture Organizations honored www.NEXT.cc at its Philadelphia conference October as the sole U.S Nominee and Award winner at the United International Architects Competition in Japan.  Prof. Mark Keane, UWM, president, and Prof. Linda Keane, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, director of NEXT.cc welcome all ACSA members to engage in this free K-12 design education website <www. NEXT.cc>.

Southern California Institute of Architecture

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The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) today announced that 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis has been elected a SCI-Arc Trustee.

“Thom Mayne is the quintessential SCI-Arc architect,” said Director Eric Owen Moss. “His addition to the board is indicative of the fact that SCI-Arc continues to re-imagine the content of architecture.”

The Board, chaired by Jerold B. Neuman, elected Mayne at its quarterly board meeting held last week. “Thom is an incredible addition to the team at a time when SCI-Arc is reaching new levels of academic achievement with a Board striving to meet ever increasing levels of excellence.”

A product of the anti-establishment of the 1960s, Mayne was among seven faculty members and approximately forty students who left Cal Poly Pomona in 1972 to create SCI-Arc, “a college without walls.” Since then, he has been a frequent guest, juror, lecturer and generous supporter of the school. As SCI-Arc prepares to turn 40 next year, Mayne’s appointment to the Board of Trustees, effective immediately, complements a series of events that have prompted the school’s growth both physically and programmatically.

Founded as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and rigorous research, Mayne’s firm, Morphosis Architects, was formed in 1972, the first year of SCI-Arc’s history. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture awards, over 100 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions. Drawings, furniture, and models produced by Morphosis are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco MOMA; the MAK in Vienna; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; and the FRAC Centre in France. Some of his best-known commissions include the Caltrans Building in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Federal Building, 41 Cooper Square—The Cooper Union’s new academic building in Manhattan, the Phare Tower in Paris and the FLOAT House—a pre-fabricated housing prototype—in New Orleans.

In addition to co-founding SCI-Arc, Mayne has remained active in academia. He has held teaching positions at Columbia, Yale (Eliel Saarinen Chair in 1991), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Eliot Noyes Chair in 1998), California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, SCI-Arc, Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and several other international institutions. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

Mayne holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, who holds an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles, make their home in Los Angeles.  

University of British Columbia

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Blair Satterfield has co-authored an essay with his HouMinn partner, Marc Swackhamer titled “Built to Change: A Case for Disintegration and Obsolescence.” This essay appears in the newly published book “Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production,” edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith and published by Rutledge Press.

Professor Satterfield’s practice, HouMinn, in collaboration with the architects VJAA and artist Diane Willow, was shortlisted to submit a scheme for the redesign of the Mississippi River Plaza on the University of Minnesota campus. An exhibition of the teams’ entries will be on display at the Weisman Art Museum’s grand re-opening on October 2, 2011. Teams will present their work to a jury on October 26, when a winner will be decided.  

Matthew Soules’ practice MSA is featured in Twenty + Change this year in Toronto, Ontario. Twenty + Change is a biennial exhibition and publication series dedicated to promoting emerging Canadian designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design who are pushing the boundaries of their discipline.  

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Martin Despang’s Architectural Neighboring/New Community Center has been awarded the 2011-2012 Faculty Design Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. This award provides a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding working architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.  Despang and firm Despang Architekten will also be featured in the articles, “Value-Added Architecture – Companies and their Corporate Architecture” by the Goethe Institute for the firm’s Krogmann Headquarters, as well as “Post-Fossil Day Care Building” by XIA International Online for the firm’s work at Georg-August-University Göttingen.  The articles are available at http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/nba/en8554596.htm and http://www.xia-international-online.com/articles/artikel/article/post-fossil-day-care-building-1.html

 

Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited, as the curator of “The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham” exhibition,  to lecture on February 22nd on the topic of “Collaborations in Space and Time“ at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, where the exhibition is on view through May 7th, 2012. Weinstein has also been invited to lecture in the Architecture Program of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about connections between the making of performances, their environments, and utopia (February 29, 2012). While at Monash she will participate in workshop that centers around these same topics of performance and utopia with her hosts, architect Matthew Bird and choreographer Phillip Adams, and their students.

 

Lecturer Michael Kothke and firm HK Associates, Inc. have been awarded a citation for the Barrio Historico House in the “Live” category of Architect magazine’s Annual Design Review 2011 and is featured in the Winter edition of Luxe Magazine. 

 

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects will lecture on February 2, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix. This is the first in a four part lecture series called COLOR + ART in Contemporary Architecture which pairs an architect and an artist. 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Dean of the University of Tennessee,  Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design Receives National Recognition

KNOXVILLE— Scott Poole, the new dean of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design, was named to the “25 Most Admired Educators of 2012” by DesignIntelligence, a report published by the Design Futures Council.

The annual honor is bestowed on leading design professionals who demonstrate excellence as administrators and educators. DesignIntelligence staff creates the list based on input from thousands of professionals in academia and industry, spanning the fields of architecture, interior design, industrial design and landscape architecture.

Poole joined UT in July. Prior to coming to the university, he served as the director of the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. Poole has also been recognized by the Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture for his distinguished service.

Poole received a bachelor of arts degree from Temple University, where he was part of the honors anthropology program and an All-American athlete. He earned a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas and was a student Fulbright Scholar.

“Our goal is to make Knoxville a design research hub that reaches out from Tennessee to the world,” he said. “To enhance curricula in the college, we will be adding courses, programs, technological capability, intellectual capital and industrial affiliates.

“The college will play a primary role in meeting the global demand for creativity and become a recognized center for design thinking.”

Susan Martin, UT provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, said: “The College of Architecture and Design’s programs are among some of the most noted and well-respected in the region and nation. We are fortunate to have Dean Poole in the leadership position to further advance the college and build upon its strong foundation.”

The College of Architecture and Design houses architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. The undergraduate architecture program was ranked a Top 20 program for 2011 by DesignIntelligence. The college’s landscape architecture master’s program, which opened in 2008, is the only program of its kind in the state.

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