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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Professor Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA and the fall 2019 FACT studio are among the honorees at this year’s AIA Central States Region Design Excellence Awards Celebration earning a Merit Award for their project “Sheridan County Fairgrounds 4H Campus” held September 25 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Their submission was an outgrowth of FACT’s spring 2018 project with the Sandhills Institute in nearby Rushville, Nebraska. The studio’s project partner, the Sheridan County 4H Foundation, sought a master plan with new and repurposed buildings to replace disconnected existing structures in disrepair. The goal for phase one, completed in 2020, was to produce a detailed design proposal to assist the 4H Foundation in refining the project scope, forming a clear vision for the fairgrounds and producing materials to support fundraising and development.

Although the 2019 studio has ended, FACT interns are working with Actual Architecture Co. to advance the project and assist the 4H Foundation in realizing the project.

“We look forward to continuing to develop this project and increasing its impact,” said Day.

Representing a cross-disciplinary collaboration of master of architecture students and undergraduates from architecture, interior design and landscape architecture, the team comprised of Ashley Glesinger, Paige Haskett, Jerry Philbin and Andres Villegas.

As Day explains, so often culture and the built environment are ignored and overlooked in rural communities. Projects like the 4H Foundation collaboration give students an opportunity to invert commonly held misconceptions that the urban setting is the center of culture while rural areas are simply supporting hinterland.

Day, program administrators and the students are thrilled with the recognition.

“The AIA Central States Region award affirms our goals for the FACT studio, where students work in cross-disciplinary teams to co-design a project with faculty,” said Day. “The award demonstrates that our collaborative approach yields design proposals that hold their own among the best architects in the region.” “It’s so exciting to see the 4H Foundation project get recognition outside of the college,” said master of architecture student Ashley Glesinger. “The award is testament to the relevancy and importance of the issues addressed by the studio and our Sheridan County collaborators.”

“I would like to offer my congratulations to Professor Day and the FACT students,” said Architecture Program Director David Karle. “The award-winning design/build studios in the College of Architecture are more than just projects. They are tools for our students to collaboratively engage communities and partners to realize a spatial design.”

The AIA Central States Region Design Excellence Awards Celebration is an annual event that recognizes outstanding regional architecture from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The AIA Design Excellence Awards have been developed to encourage and recognize excellence in architecture, to elevate public awareness and to recognize the architects, consultants, contractors and owners whose efforts enhance the built environment.

Entries were judged based on a variety of features, including unique design, originality, extended use attributes, sustainability and use of environmental surroundings.

Pennsylvania State University

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC) is collaborating with the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs at Penn State to bring its annual Flash Symposium and Open House to the virtual environment on Sept. 25. The theme of the 2020 online event is “Design Thinking.”

“This symposium explores how, as designers, we design thinking,” said Yasmine Abbas, assistant teaching professor in the Stuckeman School’s Department of Architecture and the lead organizer of the event. “How do we design holistic approaches to curating and optimizing the spaces, scenarios and systems within which we design – so as to fully and beneficially leverage the feedback loops between our environmental (and social and psychological, etc.) contexts and our thinking (processes and outcomes)?”

“Making the program virtual is particularly meaningful at the present moment,” added DK Osseo-Asare, assistant professor of architecture and engineering design, and symposium co-organizer. “Especially during a time of COVID-19 – when many of us are socially distanced from not only each other, but also our research labs, libraries, classrooms and workshops/fabrication labs; and when systemic issues of racial and social justice and equity are resurfacing once again in the United States.

“It is critical for us, as a society, to discover how better understanding of these relationships can inform redesign of our world to be more just, more sustainable, more healthful and more inclusive into the future.”

Speakers for the virtual event, which will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., include:

  • Winifred Elysse Newman, acting associate dean for research and graduate studies and Homer Curtis Mickel and Leona Carter Mickel Endowed Chair in the School of Architecture at Clemson University, and director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments. In her talk, titled “What does digital have to do with it?” she will speak about the expanding digital world and how the relationship between designers and digital tools fosters computational design thinking.
  • Dan Lockton, assistant professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Imaginaries Lab. “New Ways to Think, New Ways to Live: Imaginaries, Design, and Futures” will explore idea of imaginaries — the mental images and understandings people have of big concepts from the climate to their own health — and how designers can work with these, to uncover them, help people share them and help people reimagine how life could be.
  • Aradhana Goel leads research and design strategy for Bayer Pharmaceutical’s cardiovascular therapeutics platform as part of the Digital Ventures team. She will speak on “Design Thinking in Service of Behavior Change,” or how design and data together can help create sustainable behavior change and help reframe people’s perspectives.
  • Katja Hölttä-Otto, associate professor of product development in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Aalto University. Her talk will touch on the role of empathy in design for well-being and discuss evidence-based decision-making in multidisciplinary design processes.
  • Darla Lindberg, professor of architecture at Penn State, will also present the findings of her book “Outside the Skin: Systems Approaches to Society’s Larger Structural Issues.” Published in January 2019 by Applied Research & Design, the book takes design thinking outside the skin (of buildings and people) to present an emergent architecture of collective choice and consequence.

“We are fortunate to have a some of the leading engineering design researchers right here at Penn State. This event will help strengthen our students’ and faculty ties with international design leaders and help us continue to broader our notions of design and its impact in the world.,” said Scarlett Miller, associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, and director of both the Brite Lab and the Engineering Design program in SEDTAPP. Miller also contributed to organizing the symposium.

In addition to the speakers, SCDC faculty and student researchers will share the projects they have been working on for the past year via an online platform that translates the physical layout of the SCDC and SEDTAPP facilities into in a virtual interactive space.

“Typically, our researchers have their posters on display in our lab within the Stuckeman Family Building during the Open House and they discuss their projects with symposium participants who tour our space,” explained José Pinto Duarte, director of the SCDC and the Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation. “This year, due to concerns surrounding the spread of the coronavirus, our researchers will present their posters online, which actually allows people from around the world to see the important work we are doing, not just those who are on campus.”

The SCDC is devoted to advancing design research and learning in computational design. The center’s research includes engaging in architectural robotics, simulation and visualization, game development, geographic information systems, sustainable development and digital fabrication, as well as historical and theoretical aspects of computation in design.

Registration for the 2020 Flash Symposium, which is free and open to the public, is required via https://bit.ly/Flash_20. For more information, including the full schedule of events, visit the event website.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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University of Nebraska’s Hyde Lecture Series Presents “Building Justice- Design and Planning for a Just Society”.

​This year, the University of Nebraska’s Hyde Lecture Series, hosted by the College of Architecture,​will feature speakers from across disciplines that are united under the common theme of “Building Justice- Design and Planning for a Just Society.”

Our professions have long excluded people of color and under-served groups in both process and outcomes. To confront it, the 20-21 Hyde Lecture Series brings lecturers who believe that design and planning should be explicitly engaged with fostering a just society. Doing so is an act of hope requiring, not only, an awareness of true inequity, but also a compulsion to refute it in its many forms.

The college’s Hyde Lecture Series is a long-standing, endowed public program. Each year the college hosts compelling speakers in the fields of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and planning that enrich the ongoing dialog around agendas which are paramount to the design disciplines and our graduates.

For more information about our lecture series visit: https://architecture.unl.edu/degree-programs/2020-21-hyde-lecture-series

Florida International University

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FIU | New 2-Year Non-Residential Doctor of Design Degree

Florida International University now joins Harvard GSD and a handful of universities worldwide in offering a Doctorate of Design (DDes) program.

The Doctor of Design is a 60-credit post-professional degree program. It prepares students for the highest levels of the profession and academia, and for contributions to the greater body of design knowledge through scholarship, research, and innovation. The STEM program focuses on the application of the latest computer tools to the design, visualization, and fabrication of the built environment.

As a post-professional degree, the Doctor of Design provides specialized credentials for advanced professional and academic applied research. The FIU DDes is flexible enough to suit working professionals, who may be unable to commit to a full-time residency program. It is designed to be particularly attractive to those teaching or aspiring to teach in college/university departments of architecture both in the United States and worldwide — especially those already research active.

The FIU DDes is a 2-year, minimum residency program that requires students to be in residence for only 9 days of intensive study in each of the first two semesters, and for shorter periods in subsequent semesters. Instruction during the residential periods will take place primarily in FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios at the heart of Miami Beach.

The program launches in January 2021.  Applications for the inaugural cohort are due by 1 October 2020.

For further details see:

City College of New York

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Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Teresa Moller – Monday, September 14, 2020, 5:30-7pm

Please join us for the new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series, titled Far South. Curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch the series features prominent architects from South America who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. The second lecture of this series, “WHY. Design Fundamentals in Nature,” will be presented by Theresa Moller, a renowned self-taught Landscape Architect from Chile, has worked in the field for thirty years on projects throughout a broad range of scales. An introduction will be led by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson.

To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.

Moller’s approach to her work is very unique – careful observation and awareness of the landscape is key in developing her successful social-culture projects. Essential within her philosophy is making the natural environment accessible people so they can connect and value nature around them. Believing strongly in the power of simplicity, she considers what is on site to be of utmost importance before starting a design, beginning with what exists before moving on to what is needed in order to bring the experience of nature closer to people.

Wedged between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes mountain range to the east, Chile is a linear country of 4,270 km that greatly benefits from such contrasting landscapes and offers remarkable natural resources. Moller prides herself in being able to work with such a diversity of landscapes, from the Atacama Desert in the north to the lakes and glaciers of the south. These have been the settings for the majority of her projects, and have therefore been her teachers. For Moller, every project is a direct and unique result of its environment.

Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Luis Callejas – Monday, October 5, 2020, 5;30-7:00pm

Please join us for the new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series, titled Far South. Curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch the series features prominent architects from South America who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. The fourth lecture of this series, entitled “Recent Works,” will be presented by Luis Callejas (@lcla_office), whose practice and research challenges the distinction between architecture and landscape architecture. An introduction will be led by Shawn Rickenbacker.

To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.

Callejas’ projects range from scenography design to master plans, cities, gardens, installations, open buildings and vast landscapes. Some of his completed works include the aquatic center for the XI South American games and an open-air complex of swimming pools and public space in Medellin. His works has been exhibited recently at the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, the 2016 Lisbon Triennial, the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennial, the 2019 Seoul Architecture Biennial, the 2010 Latin American Architecture Biennial, and 2018 Venice Biennial, and among others. Callejas is a full-time professor at the Oslo School of Architecture. Before joining AHO, he taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 2011 to 2016 (Architecture and Landscape Architecture).

Since 2008, Callejas has received diverse recognitions in twenty-five design competitions. He was awarded with the Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects in 2013 and selected as one of the world’s ten best young practices by the Lakov Chernikhov International Foundation in 2010, for which he was nominated again in 2012 and 2014. In 2016, Callejas was one of the three finalists for the Rolex mentor and protege arts initiative. In 2019, he was awarded the Patrick Geddes fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.

Callejas is the author of Pamphlet Architecture 33 (Princeton Architectural Press, NY). The competition for PA33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today. Other books include a monograph on his work “From paisajes emergentes to LCLA office” – edited by Giacinto Cerviere – which is titled Archipielago de Arquitectura. Works and texts by Callejas have been published by Abitare, Domus, Metropolis, Jola, Harvard design magazine, Praxis, Mark, C3, Scape, DeArq, Architectural review, LA Times, among others.

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