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University at Buffalo

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Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo

ACSA News – November 2019.

Professor Korydon Smith, Chair of Architecture, received a 2019 Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) for the top book. Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural Enquires and Prospects for a Developing African City (University of Arkansas Press), was co-authored with Toma Berlanda. The book explores complex challenges of planning, design, and construction in informal settlements. With one billion people living in organic cities worldwide and the city of Kigali projected to triple in size within a generation, the book offers place-based research and strategies to scholars and practitioners across disciplines throughout the Global South.

Professor Mark Shepard was awarded a 2019 McDowell Fellowship. One of five architects to be selected from 676 applicants Professor Shepard is using the Fellowship to advance his research in digital design and simulation.

The IDEA Center (Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access) recently launched innovative solutions for Universal Design (isUD tm). The advanced on-line tool provides organizations with a path for building inclusive environments. isUD contains guidelines to address design for usability, wellness and social relations and can be used for design guidance, self-assessment or audited certification. Adapters include Procter & Gamble, Price Waterhouse Coopers, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Uniland Development and Temple Beth Tzedek. To learn more, visit www.thisisud.com.

The IDEA Center partnered with Touch Graphics Inc. to install and evaluate a Touch Responsive Model in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. The model – a 3D representation of buildings and plans of the National Mall – provides information about resources on the Mall, the Smithsonian buildings and directions to all facilities in multiple sensory modes. A kiosk version, that provides specific building information, was also installed at the National American History Museum.

Professor Brian Carter gave a keynote address entitled ‘Books + Buildings’ at the 2019 WNY Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Assistant Professor Charles Davis delivered a lecture at Penn Design. The talk discussed his creative work, entitled ‘Building Black Utopias”, which uses architectural drawings and models to translate the modernist principles of African American literature of the 1960’s and 70’s. His lecture was followed by a panel discussion on the writings of June Jordan, an African American poet who collaborated with Buckminster Fuller in 1965 to design the project “High-rise for Harlem”.

Emily Kutil was appointed 2019/20 Banham Fellow. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati she received an M. Arch and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Prior to her appointment Emily worked in practice in California and with M1DTW in Detroit. A founding member of ‘We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective’ she also taught design and visualization at the University of Detroit Mercy. Her research at UB is focused on the history and future of water, land and power in the Great Lakes Watershed.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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This morning, the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced that Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, FAIA, will be joining the school in January as the next Director, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. He is currently an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, where he served as Dean from 2007 until 2016. See the full announcement at https://arch.illinois.edu/node/950

ACSA Launches Redesigned Website

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ACSA Launches Redesigned Website


Last week, we launched the newly redesigned ACSA website as part of our effort to refresh our brand and aesthetic. While we know many of you loved our old look and feel (we did too!), the user experience could be improved. So, for the past year, the ACSA staff has worked diligently to design the website with you in mind. Today, we’d like to formally introduce you to the key features of the new acsa-arch.org. 

  • New Overall Design
  • Optimized Search Functionality
  • Searchable Proceedings Index
  • New Bookstore Design

New Overall Design

The main goal of the redesign is to allow you to navigate to the content you need easily and efficiently on all devices. We hope you find that the new website will be more clear, user-friendly, and accessible. Check out the Dates + Deadlines section to stay up-to-date on our events and opportunities. 

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Optimized Search Functionality

We have worked diligently to improved the overall site-wide search. Whether you are searching for a specific paper from our Annual Meeting proceedings or all related content on specific topics like “steel,” we hope that you find this experience to be easier and more user-friendly. 

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Searchable Proceedings Index

Researching specific topics has become much easier with our new searchable index of conference proceedings. Find papers or projects dating back to 1995. Make sure you sign in to be able to download PDFs to your computer. 

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New and Improved Bookstore

Interested in purchasing conference proceedings, Architectural Education Awards winners booklets, or the Steel Design Student Competition summary books? Visit our newly designed bookstore and purchase through our vendor, Lulu Press. We are currently working on updating recent conference proceedings and will have those online very soon! 

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We hope that these changes allow you to engage with the content in a new and exciting way. If you have feedback on how we can continue to improve, contact us at info@acsa-arch.org. 

University of Oregon

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Four fellows from around the world have arrived at the UO College of Design’s School of Architecture & Environment for the groundbreaking Design for Spatial Justice Initiative, a fellowship program established in 2019 to support visiting faculty who will engage communities and whose scholarship at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, and economic inequality is enriched by their lived experience.

The fellows include Menna Agha from Egypt, Priyanka Bista from Nepal/Canada, Zannah Mae Matson from Canada, and Karen Kubey from the U.S.

Read the full story: https://design.uoregon.edu/design-spatial-justice-faculty-fellows-join-school-architecture-environment

Pennsylvania State University

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Internationally recognized architecture firm to visit Stuckeman School

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Yolande Daniels, co-principal of Studio SUMO – an award-winning architecture firm known for its thoughtful approach to design both in the United States and Japan, will speak on Oct. 30 as part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. Hosted by the Department of Architecture, the “Building and Unbuilding” lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space.

The firm’s name – “SUMO” – is a blend of co-principal Sunil Bald’s first name and Daniels’ nickname in graduate school (Momo) at Columbia University, which is where the two met. Founded in 1997, the SUMO name became even more fitting when the firm began designing buildings for Josai University in Japan in 2000. The pair was commissioned for an array of buildings for the private university’s campuses including a museum, dormitory and school of management.

That same year, Bald and Daniels were asked to design the Architectural League of New York’s exhibition and were invited to design a temporary new home for the Museum for African Art in Queens, New York. A year later, SUMO’s design was built and several years after that, the firm was invited to design the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art in Brooklyn, which was completed in 2006.

SUMO, which is based in New York, has been featured as one of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices. In 2015, the firm was awarded the Annual Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and also received a Young Architects award from the Architectural League. A finalist in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, SUMO has also received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

The firm’s work, which ranges from installations to institutional buildings to apartment buildings, has been exhibited in the National Building Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, the Field Museum, the GA Gallery and the Urban Center.

Daniels is currently an assistant professor at the University of South California School of Architecture. Previously, she was a visiting professor at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught graduate-level courses at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Pratt Institute and the City College of New York, and also served as the interim director of the Master of Architecture program at Parsons School of Constructed Environments.

Daniels holds a master of architecture from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the City University of New York.

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Open Access and Architectural Content

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AASL Column, October 2019
Lucy Campbell and Barbara Opar, column editors
Column by Barbara Opar

Open Access and Architectural Content

Are you interested in seeing thesis or capstone works from other architecture schools? Have you wanted to read the new work of colleagues who share your interests? Then you may be able to find that content in an institutional repository.

The trend toward Open Access is growing.  The 12th annual International Open Access Week this year is October 21st to the 27th.   Members of this audience are hopefully all aware of this concept. Perhaps your institutions even have mandates for open access publishing. But to recap the words of Peter Suber: “Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm)

Open content is expanding to new forms like textbooks. One of the richest areas of open content though is the institutional repository where the institution manages and disseminates the digital scholarship of its faculty, staff, and students. The institution – and more recently often the library- preserves and distributes the scholarly, professional, scientific and creative output of its community. Generally, the output is full-text and may be multi-media. Often included are dissertations, master’s theses, capstone papers, and honors theses. Many institutions have found that adding this type of content enhances the reputation of the institution. Faculty work may include periodical articles (generally pre or post-print), book chapters, conference presentations or exhibition material. The content of the repository is usually searchable by department, author, and keyword. For faculty, benefits include quick and easy dissemination, discoverability, more usage, and improved impact.

So please explore the rich content the Open Access initiative provides by checking out the list of Open Access Repositories in North America as provided:

Andrews University

Arizona State University

Auburn University

Ball State University

Boston Architectural College 1 – Boston Architectural College 2

California Polytechnic State University

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Carnegie Mellon University

Clemson University 1- Clemson University 2 – Clemson University 3 – Clemson University 4

Columbia University 1 – Columbia University 2

Cornell University

Florida Atlantic University

Florida International University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Illinois Institute of Technology

Kent State University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McGill University

Mississippi State University

Montana State University – Bozeman

New Jersey Institute of Technology

North Carolina State University

North Dakota State University

Ohio State University

Princeton University

Rhode Island School of Design

Roger Williams University

Syracuse University

Washington University in St. Louis

University of Arizona

University of Arkansas

University at Buffalo –(Dissertations and Theses Only)

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley 1 – University of California, Berkeley 2

University of California, Los Angeles 1 – University of California, Los Angeles 2

University of Colorado

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Idaho

University of Illinois

University of Kansas

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Memphis

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska – Lincoln

University of New Mexico

University of Notre Dame

University of Oklahoma – Arch Open Access Started

University of Southern California 1 – University of Southern California 2

University of South Florida

University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Austin

This is a preliminary list of open access institutional repositories in North America with architectural content. Please send additions or corrections to Barbara Opar at baopar@syr.edu.

Pennsylvania State University

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Stuckeman School participates in Textile Intersections conference in London

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – As part of a project developed for an architecture elective course on responsive fiber composites, two recent landscape architecture graduates and their instructor traveled to London in September to display their work at the Textile Intersections conference.

Julian Huang and Jimi Demi-Ajayi, who both graduated in the fall of 2018, along with Felecia Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture who also directs the SOFTLAB in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, installed their “Phototropic Origami Fiber Composite Structure” project at the two-day event. Hosted by the Textile Design Research Group at Loughborough University, the conference was designed to explore collaborations in textile design research.

The project was sponsored by the American Composite Manufacturers Association, which lent the group its expertise and project materials. Students from both the Stuckeman School and Carnegie Mellon attended a workshop for the project that was held at Penn State in February 2018. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce students and faculty to the architectural applications and case studies using fiber composites. Fabrication techniques for fiber composites were demonstrated in the Penn State Stuckeman Family Building Shop.

According to Davis, her team’s project was inspired by “Chakrasana,” an accordion art pavilion that was developed by Joe Choma, assistant professor of architecture at Clemson University. Davis and her architecture and landscape architecture students developed a responsive fiber composite foldable structure by embedding conductive and resistive yarns into a fiberglass knit fabric.

“We used origami as a method to make folds in the fabric allowing the structure to collapse and be flat,” Davis said. “We hoped to make a lightweight portable structure that could take on different shapes when clipped and positioned. This could be used as a shelter in a landscape setting or as a portable structure.”

Davis explained that they embedded a conductive thread that carries an electric current up a length of fiberglass knit that could then carry an electronic signal to a series of LED lights, which are sewn on to the front side of their origami project.

“These LEDs are connected to a photocell that turns the LEDs on and off according to the level of light,” Davis said. “In bright daylight, the LEDs are off and as evening arrives the LEDs are on.”

Demi-Ajayi said that one of the goals of the conference was to integrate cross-disciplinary collaborative research efforts beyond their current work.

“We set up our interactive origami pavilion structure at the conference and exchanged ideas with distinguished guests,” he said. “Overall the event was extremely informative and a lot was learned from the different demonstrations and lectures we attended at the conference.”

When asked about the importance of the conference to other students in architecture, landscape architecture or engineering, Huang added that some of the research that was presented at the conference has great potential for real-world applications.

“There was a chemist who spoke about his research on some interesting aspects of fabric including the development of a suit that could detect low heart rate and other health issues,” Huang said. “Sensors are embedded into the chemical level of the suit material so it would show you when your blood sugar or cholesterol level are high based on sweat. I think people need to know about this invention and be more informed of the potential of the textile industry.”

Pennsylvania State University

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Design by architecture, engineering professor featured in Architect magazine

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The design of mobile low-carbon structures by DK Osseo-Asare, assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State, has been featured by Architect magazine, the journal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Titled “Fufuzela,” the experimental bamboo structures are designed to function at the intersection of architecture and furniture while integrating biology with environmental design and engineering.

As a finalist in the 2019 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1 Young Architects Program, Osseo-Asare, who is also co-founder/principal of the Austin, Texas and Ghana-based architecture and integrated design firm Low Design Office, was commissioned to develop a proposal for the MoMA PS1 museum courtyard in the form of a series of images and a large-scale architectural model. The Fufuzela model and one of the renderings was exhibited over the summer at MoMA PS1, one of the oldest and largest contemporary art institutions in the United States, in Queens, New York. The model will next be on public view as part of an exhibition of architectural models in Austin, Texas, organized by the AIA.

The Stuckeman School provided production support for the development of the project. Architecture students in Osseo-Asare’s Humanitarian Materials Lab helped develop the project concept and build the final model. Danielle Vickers, an undergraduate architecture student, created concept images as part of the presentation delivered to MoMA’s design jury, while Sam Rubenstein, a master of architecture student, conducted bamboo research and created digital 3D models for computer-assisted machining. Rubenstein’s digital model was then used to fabricate all of the component pieces of the site model using a computer numerical control router. Jamie Heilman and Dani Spewak, staff members in the Stuckeman School’s Digital Fabrication Lab, provided instrumental support for iterative design development and production of the final model for MoMA PS1.

“We foresee a future wherein architecture is alive and mobile,” explained Osseo-Asare. “Our research is part of an anticipatory project toward that re-formation of spatial experience wherein architecture can sense and interact with people and its environment.”

The entire model, which measures more than 9 square feet, was packed flat in the Stuckeman Family Building and snapped together upon arrival in New York City, without the use of glue or fasteners. The individual architectural units were built out of laser-cut acrylic modules in the scale model. At full-scale, these architectural elements are a structural scaffolding for a variety of biomaterial systems, which architecture faculty continue to research at Penn State.

Yasmine Abbas, an assistant teaching professor of architecture and engineering design, was also involved in the project by providing materials research and specifying certain configurations to create specific ambiances within the courtyard setting by modulating lighting, humidity and proximity of people to the structures.

True to Osseo-Asare’s research interests in rethinking waste, the site model that was exhibited was constructed entirely out of the packaging crates from a large-format 3D printer. The printer, which was funded by the College of Engineering ‘s School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, will be used to support interdisciplinary collaborative research around humanitarian materials through additive manufacturing by connecting architecture and engineering students through hands-on materials research.

University at Buffalo

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Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo

ACSA news – October 2019.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik and design partner Coryn Kempster represented Buffalo with the project ‘Aldo: a Social Infrastructure’ in the 2019 exhibition ‘Cities’ at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in South Korea.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik received an Independent Projects Grant in the Architecture + Design Program through the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) for the project “Growing up Modern”. The Architectural League of New York was the fiscal sponsor for the application.

With support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the University at Buffalo Resilient Buildings Laboratory, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Nicholas Rajkovich, recently completed a multiyear research project to help architects, builders, facility managers, and policymakers in New York State to address the impact of climate change on the building stock. The research reports, one-page fact sheets, and educational videos are posted at http://ap.buffalo/adapting-buildings.

Assistant Professor Charles Davis was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians. In this capacity he is collaborating with a sub=committee within SAH to create the first ‘Race in Architectural History’ affiliation group of the organization. The group will serve the membership by planning thematic roundtables on race, ethnicity and identity at future annual conferences and organizing publication workshops for new book projects on race and architecture.

Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to the book ‘Canadian Modern Architecture’ that was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Stephanie Cramer, recently appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture at UB, was curator of the exhibition ‘Affordable Housing Initiatives’ which opened in Hayes Hall Gallery in September 2019.

Pennsylvania State University

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Stuckeman School research and design on display in Oslo Architecture Triennale

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The interdisciplinary research and design of a project by several Stuckeman School faculty members and a recent alumna is currently on display at the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT) in Norway through November 24.

“Scorched Earth” is a proposal by Miranda Esposito, a 2018 alumna of the architecture program at Penn State; Marc Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture; Laia Celma, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture; and Pep Avilés, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and the Stuckeman Career Development Professor in Design that pays tribute to the once-thriving Pennsylvania mining town of Centralia, which has been burning underground since a coal mine fire erupted there in 1962.

Once home to more than 2,000 residents, by 2018 the population of Centralia had dwindled to just seven. The proposal, which began as Esposito’s thesis project, is a memorial to all that was lost in the evacuation and abandonment of the city in the months and years after the fire, which is anticipated to burn for another 50 to 200 years.

Funding for Scorched Earth was provided by the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman Fund for Collaborative Design Research at Penn State. Additional funding came from the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture of Acción Cultural Española and the Museum of Architecture in Oslo.

The Penn State team traveled to Oslo for the installation and opening of the exhibit on Sept. 26 and was one of just three teams from U.S. universities invited to exhibit its work.

Held every third autumn at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design over a period of approximately ten weeks, OAT attracts citizens and users of the city, decision makers, professionals and international guests. It is known as one of the world’s prominent arenas for dissemination and discussion of architectural and urban challenges. The theme of this year’s event is “Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth.”

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