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.
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.
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Alexia León – Monday, October 19, 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. “Grounded” will be presented by Alexia León, founder of Alexia León arquitectos and the Leonmarcial arquitectos. An introduction will be led by Alberto Foyo.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
León, born in Lima, received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urbanism at the Ricardo Palma University in 2001 and a master’s degree at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Perú. She opened Alexia León arquitectos and Leondelima workshop in 2006. Her first built work, the Mori House in Playa Bonita (1996-1998; Cañete, Lima), was chosen as one of the six finalists in the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture (2000). The Vertical House (2000-2005; San Isidro, Lima) was nominated for outstanding project in the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) in 2014.
León taught as visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (2007) after which she received an UFI research grant from the MAK Center in Los Angeles. She has participated in “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture” Symposium at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and was nominated for the Marcus Prize for architecture in 2009. Recently, León was nominated for BSI-Swiss Architectural Award under the patronage of the Federal Office for Culture of the Swiss Confederation and of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio at Università della Svizzera in Italy (2016). She has given lectures and workshops in several universities, both in Peru and abroad.
León and Lucho Marcial (Lima,1962) founded Leonmarcial arquitectos in 2011. The studio´s-built work consists of single-family houses, collective housing, community centers, office buildings, a desert community master plan, historic renovation projects and the National Museum of Peru. The studio will participate in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 curated by Hashim Sarkis.
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Paulo Tavares – Monday, November 9, 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. “IN THE FOREST RUINS” will be presented by Paulo Tavares, an architect, researcher, and writer based in South America. An introduction will be led by Cesare Birignani.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
Tavares’s design and pedagogic practice spans a variety of territories, social geographies, and media. He taught design and visual cultures in the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Art at la Pontifícia Universidad Católica of Ecuador in Quito. Prior to this, he led the MA program at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths in London. He is currently professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Brasil. In 2017, Paulo Tavares created the agency Autonoma, a platform dedicated to urban research and intervention. Tavares is a long-term collaborator of Forensic Architecture and co-curated the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019.
Tavares’ work has been featured in exhibitions and publications worldwide, including Harvard Design Magazine, the Oslo Architecture Trienniale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the São Paulo Biennial. He is the author of Forest Law (2014), Des-Habitat (2019) and Memória da Terra (2018).
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Diego Arraigada – Monday, November 30, 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. “Landscape of Resources” will be presented by Diego Arraigada (@diegoarraigada), an architect and professor based in Argentina. An introduction will be hosted by Fabian Llonch.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
Diego Arraigada completed his degree in architecture at the National University of Rosario in 2000 and attained his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California in 2003. In 2006, he established his own practice in Rosario, Argentina. He is a Professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University School of Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been a guest Professor, lecturer, and workshop leader in several universities and institutions abroad.
Among other distinctions, he obtained the Arquitectonica Foundation Prize for young architects and the Fulbright Scholarship in 2002, the Silver Medal at the XII International Architecture Buenos Aires Biennale in 2009, and the National Prize for Technological Innovation in Architecture in 2015. In 2011, he was selected to represent Argentina in the II Latin-American Architecture Biennale in Pamplona, Spain, and in 2014 he was selected for a solo exhibition at LIGA Espacio para Arquitectura, Mexico. In 2016 and 2018, he was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Award for Emerging Architecture (Chicago, 2016). In 2017, he was invited to take part in the II Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Milton Braga – Monday, December 7, 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 final lecture of this series, “Urban discussions in South America: MMBB’s experience,” will be presented by Milton Braga (@mmbb_arquitetos). An introduction will be hosted by Julio Salcedo-Fernandez.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
Milton Braga studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Univerity of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP), Brazil, receiving three degrees – his undergraduate degree in 1986, his Masters in 1999 and a PhD in 2006. He has been teaching at the FAUUSP since 2001 and was Visiting Professor at the University of Florida in 2008.
Braga is the author of O concurso de Brasília: sete projetos para uma capital (2010), a book on the Brasilia competition, which was awarded second place by the 53 º Jabuti Award (the most prestigious prize in Brazilian literature) in the Architecture and Urbanism category in 2011; and won the first prize in the book category of the VIII Ibero American Architecture and Urbanism Bienalle in Cadiz, 2012.
Milton is a founding partner of MMBB Arquitetos. Since its inception in 1991, MMBB has grown in notoriety, earning well-deserved recognition through numerous awards and exhibitions. It received the first prize in the national competition for the Brazilian Pavilion in the coming 2020 Dubai Expo. Its Jardim Edite Social Housing Complex won awards in 2014 at the IX Biennial Iberoamericana de Arquitetctura y Urbanism, in Rosario, Argentina. MMBB also won the Best Entry Award for its Watery Voids proposal in the 3rd International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam, 2007, and won several prizes in various editions of the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo.
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Jeannette Plaut – Monday, November 16, 2020, 5:30 -7:30pm
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. “Experiementation Field” will be presented by Jeannette Plaut, an architect, academician, and a curator at large. An introduction will be led by Denise Hoffman Brandt.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
Plaut has been the Director of CONSTRUCTO since 2008 along with her partner, Marcelo Sarovic. In 2016, she was invited to join the MoMA International Curatorial Institute in Modern and Contemporary Art, and, since 2010, has been the Director of the Young Architects Program in Chile, which is associated with MoMA. Plaut has been a professor at Universidad Católica and UNAB and is the Chief Editor of Trace magazine. She has authored several books including PULSO: New Architecture in Chile, PULSO2: New Architecture in Latin America, Rafael Iglesia, CEPAL, Active Patrimony, LATAM 01 and LATAM 02 and works as a Latin American correspondent for international magazines.
Plaut was also a curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the Director of the National Exhibition at the XV Chilean Biennial, Director of the International Lecture Series at the XIV Chilean Biennial, and is part of the panel of the Rolex Mentor & Protégés Arts Initiative in Switzerland. She was on the jury of the Ibero-American Biennial in Spain, Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and is a nominator of the Beazley Prize of the London Design Museum. Plaut also curated the exhibition EXTRA-ORDINARY: New Practices in Chilean Architecture at the Center for Architecture, AIA, in New York.
Fall 2020 Sciame Series: Patricia Llose Bueno – Monday, November 23, 2020, 5:30 -7:30pm
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. “Decoded Architecture” will be presented by Patricia Llosa Bueno, professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and partner at Llosa Cortegana arquitectos. An introduction will be hosted by Jeremy Edminston.
To join the event, please follow the Zoom link here.
Patricia Llosa Bueno and Rodolfo Cortegana Morgan founded the Llosa Cortegana arquitectos studio in 2005 after having worked independently for a few years – both are graduates of the Ricardo Palma University. Llosa Cortegana arquitectos’ practice encompasses multiple single-family housing projects, cultural, exhibition and educational buildings, among others. They have been recognized by various national and international awards, including the Silver Hexagon at the XVII National Biennale of Architecture, Urbanism, and Arts of Peru in 2016, and were finalists at the 2016 MCHAP Award from the ITT College of Architecture in Chicago. They attained the First Prize at the XX Quito Architecture Biennale in 2016, the ODA 2017 Prize, the Archdaily Work of the Year prize in Santiago de Chile, and won the ON Second Prize in Mexico.
The pair recently published their first book, “The House is an Idea,” in collaboration with José Luis Villanueva, which shares reflections on the signle-family home. They have presented their research in this area at numerous conferences both in Peru and abroad.
Launch of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture
Please join editor-in-chief Prof Lesley Lokko, Dean of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, and guest editor Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to celebrate the launch of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture Volume Two: Noir Radical. With 34 submissions from architects, educators, activists, students, recent graduates and artists, contributors have explored the idea of ‘radical’ across the African continent and the African Diaspora through the lens of three areas: discourse, discipline and development. Together with guest editors Professor Mark Olweny, Prof Emeritus Iain Low and Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, the collection builds on the collection of voices in Volume One: Pupae, and will continue to be an important home for African built environment discourse. Contributors Senzo Mamba, Iain Low, D K Osseo-Asare and Mandy Shindler will each speak about FOLIO’s importance on the continent and in the African diaspora. Owing to the pandemic, Volume Two: Noir Radical is published digitally but print copies will be available in Spring 2021 via www.ssa.ccny.cuny.edu.
ZOOM Meeting ID: 957 9621 0250
Registration is required and space is limited to 300 participants. #folio
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture present the
Environmental Design Research Association 52nd Annual Conference: Detroit/Virtual
The conference will focus on how research, design, and relationships between people and environments contribute to the creation of justice. Current social, health, environmental, and justice challenges call for collaborative and transdisciplinary efforts to pursue intentional questioning of disciplinary borders and sensitive approaches to framing and solving pressing contemporary problems through research and practice. The conference is jointly hosted by the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University.
We invite submissions in one or more of the following topical areas/themes:
framing just worlds
supporting just movements
building just communities
designing just places
sharing just resources
accessing just technologies
creating just societies
The EDRA 52 organizing committee is striving for a HYBRID conference, which would give participants the flexibility to attend events in person and/or virtually. We hope the current conditions will improve. If, in 2021, circumstances make the in-person component of the conference impossible, EDRA52 will necessarily shift to VIRTUAL. Updates will be published regularly on the EDRA52 main page edra.org/edra52.
Key Dates:
AUG 14th: Call for proposals released
AUG 24th: Submission portal opens
OCT 1st: Due date for all Intensives, Abstracts (individual and group presentations), and Full Papers
NOV 10th: Due dates for Video Shorts and Mobile Sessions; Early Bird registration begins
DEC 18th: Poster Abstracts due; Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop (GSMW) applications due
FEB 26th: Regular registration begins/Early Bird registration ends; Mentor applications for GSMW due
MAR 15th: Final date to register for the conference to be included in the EDRA52 program
APR 16th: Poster digital copy due; All virtual materials due
We are pleased to announce our new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture Series, curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch. This series follows the theme, “Far South,” featuring prominent architects from South America who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they face. The series will be hosted entirely via ZOOM on Monday evenings, at 5:30PM EST, this Fall.
We are kicking off the series on Monday, August 31st with “The Circular Horizon,” by Gerardo Caballero, Argentinian architect and 2019 first prize winner for the Argentine Pavilion in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
The lectures are free and open to the public. Check out our calendar for lecture descriptions and Zoom links. We hope you will join us.
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