ACSA Announces New Executive Editor for Technology | Architecture + Design Journal

Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019 – Marci S. Uihlein,ORCID iD icon P.E., Associate AIA, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named the Executive Editor of the journal Technology | Architecture + Design for Volumes 3 and 4. Uihlein was a founding editorial board member for TAD and served as Issue Editor for Volume 2, Issue 1 OPEN which was published in Spring 2018.

Uihlein’s research focuses on the structural engineering profession: its history, the professional relationship between architects and engineers, and creativity in structural engineering design. Uihlein has published articles in the Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, and Construction History, among others. Before coming to academia, she was an engineer with Arup in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where she designed public and private building projects. She is the past president of the Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES), on the management committee of the Construction History Society of America, and a 2016-2018 Design Research Fellow for the College of Fine & Applied Arts.

TAD is a peer-­reviewed, international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design. Its first two volumes were published in 2017 and 2018. Volume 3, under Uihlein’s leadership as Executive Editor, features a themed issue titled Urbanizing as well as an open-topics issue. Volume 4, Issue 1 will focus on the theme of Translation.

TAD is published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), a nonprofit membership association dedicated to leading architectural education and research. A nine-person Editorial Board is responsible for the content of the TAD journal and its website. TAD’s larger Advisory Board brings together leaders within the architecture, engineering, construction, and design fields. www.tadjournal.org

About the ACSA
Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA has grown to represent over 200 schools in several membership categories, including full membership for all accredited programs in the United States and government-sanctioned schools in Canada, candidate membership for schools seeking accreditation, and affiliate membership for schools with two-year and international programs. Through these schools, over 6,000 architecture faculty are represented. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues, including journals, scholarly meetings, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations. www.acsa-arch.org

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Mississippi State University

THE UnBUILT CROSBY ARBORETUM
E. Fay Jones (1954-1998) is an internationally known architect from Arkansas who won the American Institute of Architects’ highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal, in 1990. He designed 218 projects, 129 of which were constructed, including some of our country’s most revered and celebrated structures, such as the Throwncrown Chapel, which was named by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as the fourth most significant building of the twentieth century. Jones also received an AIA Design Honor Awards, and was later recognized as one of the ten most important American architects of the century.
We are very fortunate that Mississippi State University is the recognized steward of one of his most renowned structures, the Pinecote Pavilion located in Picayune, MS on the grounds of the Crosby Arboretum. The Pinecote Pavilion is one of Jones’ three AIA Design Honor Award winning projects. The work has been recognized in books, journals, magazines, and exhibitions worldwide. While the Pinecote Pavilion is well-cared for by MSU Extension Services, regrettably the remainder of Jones’ Master Plan, inclusive of four other beautifully designed structures, was never fully realized. With this exhibition, we hope to bring to life the unbuilt works that Jones created to fit into the landscape of the Crosby Arboretum.
The exhibition will open March 29, 2019 with a guest lecture by the President of the American Institute of Architects, Mississippi native, and the author of The Architecture of E. Fay Jones, Mr. Robert Ivy.
The Unbuilt Arboretum exhibition is made possible by the Criss Trust Grant
and the ORED Undergraduate Research Program.
Presented by:
Prof. Hans C. Herrmann & Student Research Assistants

Tulane University

Title: School Convenes Water, Design, and Social Sciences Experts

Mar 25, 2019

Academic and practice professionals from a wide range of backgrounds – water management, design, architecture, engineering, planning, law, natural and social sciences – came together at Tulane School of Architecture on March 12, 2019, to discuss their work, addressing grand challenges at the intersection of urbanization and river and coastal dynamics.

The afternoon event was structured in two sessions, each with six short presentations and panel discussions wth the audience afterward. The dialogue was part of a process to build a pan-university research initiative at Tulane University around river-coastal urbanism issues. From New Delhi, India, to the Gulf Coast of the United States, the panelists and audience members shared experiences working with communities facing sea level rise, land loss, climate change and extreme weather events, water contamination, and other serious threats. As a result, the group began to inform new methods of inquiry in different disciplines, creating potential opportunities for important new cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations.

In addition to faculty from Tulane School of Architecture, the attendees represented the University of Virginia, Tulane School of Science and Engineering, Tulane ByWater Institute, Tulane School of Liberal Arts, Tulane School of Professional Advancement, Tulane Law School, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago, and private engineering firm BuroHappold.

To view a slideshow of images, visit our photo album on Flickr here. View clips from some presentations here.

Pennsylvania State University

Architecture graduate student selected for prestigious women’s shadowing program

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Madhubala Ayyamperumal, a Penn State graduate student who is pursuing degrees in architecture and architectural engineering, was selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants from across the globe to attend Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s (SOM) Women’s Initiative Shadowing Program in Chicago earlier this semester.

The SOM initiative is a four-day winter program that provides experience, mentorship and guidance to talented female students planning to pursue careers in architecture, engineering or related fields. The program was established in 2011 to cultivate and promote the continued development and success of women at SOM and within the design disciplines.

Some of the activities Ayyamperumal worked on during the program included construction site visits to understand the complexities involved in construction administration in high-rise buildings, and one-on-one mentorship sessions with architects, designers and engineers to learn more about the professions. She also participated in interactive question-and-answer sessions and shadowed architects during client meetings, material procurement and presentations.

“My favorite parts of the program were the one-on-one mentor sessions and portfolio reviews,” said Ayyamperumal, who is pursuing a Master of Architecture and a Master of Engineering in Architectural Engineering with a focus on construction management concurrently. “I also liked the tour of the miniature wind tunnel model within the office to understand how architects and engineers conceptualize skyscrapers.”

Ayyamperumal earned her Bachelor of Architecture at the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli, India. She chose to pursue graduate school at Penn State because of the highly ranked architecture program, extraordinary design faculty and the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing research group.

“I was also offered a graduate teaching assistantship, which was a great opportunity to teach and learn from professors and students,” she said.

Ayyamperumal intends to graduate in May and believes that the two disciplines she is studying work cohesively to help her understand complex concepts.

“Architecture helps me conceive a building conceptually making it more meaningful, contextual and sustainable, while a degree in engineering helps me in understanding the technical and practical constraints involved in realizing this concept,” she said.

One of her favorite classes was the Technical Systems Integration course taught by Ute Poerschke, a professor and the interim head of the Department of Architecture. Ayyamperumal said the class helped her understand integration of various technical aspects of building design like lighting, acoustics and HVAC systems.

“This course widened my perspective towards architecture and helped me understand that it is equally important to integrate building systems as much as it is to conceive an architectural concept,” said Ayyamperumal.

While participating in the program, she made valuable connections within the architecture and design industries and had the opportunity to explore Chicago.

“I got to meet some really interesting people from various backgrounds and disciplines, which gave me a good understanding of what an entry-level person would get to work on in an office of this scale,” she said.

While visiting Chicago during the program, she visited the Chicago Architecture Center and other famous modernist buildings by Mies van der Rohe, a renowned German-American architect, such as the Crown Hall, SOM’s Willis and John Hancock Tower and Sullivan Center.

SOM is a globally recognized architecture, interior design, engineering and urban planning firm. Since its inception in 1936, the company has become one of the largest and most influential firms in the industry, with more than 10,000 projects in 50 countries.

In addition to attending SOM’s prestigious program, Ayyamperumal was an intern with Gensler in San Diego last summer where she was involved in the design of educational and workplace facilities. She also had the opportunity to use a sophisticated virtual reality lab.

As a graduate student, Ayyamperumal is involved with the American Institute of Architect Students and United States Green Buildings Council (USGBC) Penn State chapters. She is a LEED Green Associate as well as a nominee of Jonathan Speirs Scholarship at the University level and USGBC Green Build Scholar. She was also recently awarded the College of Arts and Architecture’s Creative Achievement Award.

Ayyamperumal says she hopes to make a positive impact on people’s lives through the medium of a built environment. After graduation, she would like to end up in a firm where she will be challenged to push both design and construction limits and be able to design buildings that are socially and environmentally responsible.

Pennsylvania State University

Stuckeman School, College of Medicine faculty to host Wearing the Future Workshop

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Faculty members from the Stuckeman School and the Penn State College of Medicine have come together to organize the Wearing the Future Workshop from 9:30 a.m.to 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 25 at the Hilton Garden Inn Hershey, 550 East Main Street, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.

The event is free and open to the public.

The purpose of the workshop is to develop partnerships between researchers who work on problems in wellness and health care that can be addressed using sensors, devices, materials/fabrics and other computational materials worn on the body.

“This workshop provides the opportunity to discuss how we can harness the potential of wearables and smart materials to meet wellness and health care needs,” said Felicia Davis, assistant professor of architecture.

Davis is cohosting the conference with Rebecca Bascom, a professor in the College of Medicine and a practicing pulmonary critical care doctor at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Participants from the University Park area are welcome to take the University Park – Hershey Shuttle Service offered through the Penn State Office of the Vice President of Research to the event with the shuttle departing from the Nittany Lion Inn for Hershey at 6:50 a.m. on Monday. Transportation from the College of Medicine in Hershey to the hotel and back for return shuttle service will be provided to workshop participants.

Questions about the workshop can be directed to Davis at fadav@psu.edu.

Tulane University

Title: Alumni (M.Arch ’98) Win International Award for Confluence Park

Mar 22, 2019

Tulane School of Architecture alumni Tenna Florian (M.Arch ‘98) of Lake|Flato Architects in San Antonio, Texas, and Andrew Kudless (M.Arch ‘98) of Matsys Design in Oakland, California, were both on the design team for Confluence Park, which was recently awarded a 2019 Institute Honor Award for Architecture by AIA International. Additionally, Kudless who is an associate professor at California College of the Arts, was awarded the 2019 Faculty Design Award for Confluence Park by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

As described by the architects, “Along the bank of the San Antonio River, Confluence Park is a living laboratory designed to broaden its visitors’ understanding of south Texas ecotypes and the impact of urban development on local watersheds. A destination for learning and recreation, the park is a piece of the country’s largest environmental restoration project and an accessible gateway to outdoor activity.

“To better serve San Antonio’s most economically challenged communities, the San Antonio River Foundation tasked the design team with transforming a former construction storage yard into a unique outdoor education center. The design reflects the idea of confluence—the park is situated at the junction of the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek—throughout. Grand gestures such as the park’s shaped lands represent the convergence of ecotypes, while the central pavilion’s concrete petal structures draw inspiration from plants that funnel rainwater to their roots. The petals, of which the pavilion boasts 22, stand 26 feet high and form a network of vaults that provide shade from the Texas sun and flow rainwater directly to an underground cistern.

“The park is located beside Mission Reach, an eight-mile stretch of the San Antonio River with a riparian woodland ecosystem that connects—via a network of pedestrian trails—the downtown San Antonio River Walk to several south side communities and five UNESCO World Heritage Spanish mission sites. Surrounding homeowners concerned about safety initially balked at the idea of the project and asked that adjacent dead-end streets remain fenced off. Throughout construction, foundation representatives canvased entire neighborhoods to provide updates on the park. These interpersonal connections created a groundswell of enthusiasm, and fences were eventually replaced with gates, providing easier access to a new neighborhood amenity.

“Early in the design process, the foundation realized it was creating a venue that could easily surpass its intended program. Evolving the design, the team and client trended toward the aspirational to maximize the efforts of local organizations striving to make a positive impact on San Antonio. Since the park opened, in March 2018, the collaborative ethos evident in the foundation’s directives has already made a positive impact on the community. In just a few short months, the park hosted nearly 140 educational events presented by 24 nonprofits which were attended by more than 9,000 registrants.”

Read the official announcement from the AIA International here.

Read the ACSA Faculty Design Award announcement here.

Photo Credit: Casey Dunn

The AASL Conference at Pittsburgh

AASL Column, March 2019
Lucy Campbell and Barbara Opar, column editors

AASL will be meeting alongside ACSA in Pittsburgh so we wanted to share details of our sessions. ACSA members are welcome to join us as time permits. Our Friday sessions will take place in the Washington Room on the second floor of the Westin Hotel.

Friday will kick off with a vendor showcase at 8:00 a.m. In attendance will be representatives from Artstor, Building Types Online, FIMo, Bloomsbury Digital Library, and Pidgeon Digital.

“Pittsburgh’s Built Environment: What’s the Story? What’s the Buzz? will begin at 10:05a.m.  The panelists are Christine Mondor, Rob Pfaffmann, and Charles L. Rosenblum.

We hope you will consider joining us for our Digital Preservation Panel which takes place from  12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. The Planning Committee for the upcoming AASL Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh is excited to invite the members of ACSA to this joint session on digital preservation. Our conference theme is Black Box: Articulating the Architecture Information Professional’s Core in a Post-Digital Era building on ACSA’s conference theme. We ask the question: What are the challenges that information professionals specializing in Architecture and its related fields face in a post-digital era? One of the major challenges is the preservation of architectural records which include and will continue to include mixed media – drawings, physical models, and a dizzying array of digital records. Our panelists – Katie Pierce Meyer, Head of Architectural Collections at the University of Texas at Austin, Ann Whiteside, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Resources at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Matthew Allen, a lecturer at the University of Toronto and a PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design – are experts in this field and have undertaken research and practical projects in order to develop best practices and to search for possible solutions. Please join us on Friday to learn more.

Our Saturday sessions will be held at Carnegie Mellon University.

Some spots are available for the Association of Architecture School Librarian’s (AASL) Frank Lloyd Wright tours on Sunday, March 31st. These tours are open to both ACSA and AASL attendees and attractively priced.

Just 60 minutes from Pittsburgh in Laurel Highlands are three Frank Lloyd Wright masterpieces; Polymath Park Resort’s Duncan HouseFallingwater, and Kentuck Knob. AASL is offering two tours on Sunday, March 31st. The first tour is a full day of all three Frank Lloyd Wright houses for $100. The tour includes the bus ride from the Westin Hotel to Polymath Park to tour the Duncan House, lunch at TreeTop Restaurant, bus to Fallingwater and then to Kentuck Knob. The second tour is to Fallingwater for $50. The tour includes a bus ride to Fallingwater and then the bus will take you to the Pittsburgh airport. The agenda and times are below.

Sunday, March 31, 2019
8:00 am – 9:30 am | FLW Tour 1, Westin Hotel Lobby to board bus at 8am sharp (1 hour and 30 min bus ride)
10:00 am – 11:00 am | Duncan House
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Lunch at Polymath Park
12:40 pm – 1:30 pm | bus ride
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Fallingwater tour
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | bus ride
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee break at Kentuck Knob
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Kentuck Knob tour
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm | FLW Tour 1, Bus ride back to Westin Hotel

For the full day tour Click here to register.

8:00 am | FLW Tour 2, Meet up: Westin Hotel Lobby, Westin Hotel Lobby to board bus at 8am
sharp (1 hour and 30 min bus ride)
10:00 am -11:00 am | tour of Fallingwater
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | lunch at Fallingwater Cafe (not included in price)
12:30 pm -2:00 pm | gift shop/walk grounds
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm: bus to Pittsburgh airport (1 hour and 45 min. bus ride – will arrive at airport around 3:45 pm)
3:45 pm | FLW Tour 2, Arrives at Airport

For the Fallingwater tour Click here to register

Visit our conference website to learn more: https://research.lib.buffalo.edu/2019AASLPittsburghConference/home

Pennsylvania State University

Stuckeman-led team earns seed grant to develop solutions to river flooding in Pennsylvania

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Lisa Iulo, associate professor of architecture and director of the Hamer Center for Community Design in the Stuckeman School, is the lead researcher on an interdisciplinary team that has received funding from Penn State to develop community-based solutions to river flooding in the state of Pennsylvania under the University’s strategic plan seed grant program.

The proposal, titled Penn State Initiative for Resilient Communities (PSIRC): A Pilot to Develop Community-Based Solutions to Riverine Flooding, is one of nine that received University funding as part of the third round of seed grants for strategic initiative pilot programs this semester. Since last year, Penn State has invested more than $4 million in over 20 pilot programs, while simultaneously advancing the vital and transformative work of its faculty, staff and students.

The thematic priority of Penn State’s strategic plan that the PSIRC project most closely relates is “Stewarding our Planet’s Resources.”

Lara Fowler, senior lecturer in the Penn State Law School; Klaus Keller, professor in the Department of Geosciences; Robert Nicholas, associate research professor with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute; Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy in the College of the Liberal Arts; and Homer “Skip” Wieder, chair of the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, are co-principal investigators on the project.

According to a 2018 Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency report, flooding is “the most frequent and damaging natural disaster that occurs throughout the Commonwealth.” The impact of flooding is exacerbated by wildly dramatic changes in precipitation and increased development of land.

The proposed PSIRC project will “bring together experts and pilot engagement in flood-impacted communities along the Susquehanna River to address flood risk and community development,” explained Iulo.

Iulo and her team have established a network of collaborators – scholars, practitioners and community members – to assist on the project, including experts in flood modeling and policy, as well as representatives from Penn State’s Sustainability Institute, the Lewisburg (Pennsylvania) Neighborhoods Corporation, the Lycoming County Government Planning and Community Development Department, Pennsylvania Floodplain Managers Association and the SEDA Council of Governments. A strong partnership has been forged in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, as a pilot for this initiative.

The project includes two components. The first is working with the Borough of Selinsgrove to develop a “vision plan” for community resilience to climate impacts and economic revitalization. Selinsgrove is an urban community with a population of about 5,900 (according to a 2017 U.S. Census Bureau report) that is located on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The borough worked with a Penn State landscape architecture studio class and the Hamer Center in 2006 to develop a master plan for its central business district, which resulted in the development of a “community commons” area in the downtown area. In February 2018, the borough reconnected with the Hamer Center, requesting help in: (1) understanding the borough’s socioeconomic challenges and opportunities, and (2) developing a plan to address both the flood risk and economic development of the area.

During initial discussions, it became evident that Selinsgrove is indicative of challenges faced by many of Pennsylvania’s riverine communities, thus it was designated as a pilot, where lessons learned can inform other communities throughout the Susquehanna River Basin. Therefore, a significant component of PSIRC is to broadly engage with stakeholders and decision-makers about flood resilience in the state’s riverine communities. There are more than 70 historically and culturally significant urban centers and rural communities along the Susquehanna River that are facing increased risk of floods, which result in economic, environmental and social stresses – threats that disproportionately affect low-income households.

PSIRC is synergistic with another Stuckeman School effort supported by a Penn State Strategic Plan Seed Grant, the Ecology + Design (E+D) initiative, which is led by Andy Cole, associate professor of landscape architecture and ecology. This spring, a landscape architecture course taught by Stephen Mainzer, assistant teaching professor, has taken on the project in Selinsgrove with the support of the Hamer Center and E+D. The students in Mainzer’s class are looking at a socio-ecological systems (SES) approach to balancing flood attenuation techniques with the town’s economic resources through a series of linked urban development projects.

Selinsgrove residents experience the same issues as other communities along the Susquehanna: poor economic development, storm water and flooding issues, traffic and pedestrian patterns, and housing and land utilization. An important part of the Selinsgrove community is also the interaction between nearby Susquehanna University, the downtown area and access to the Susquehanna River. The class presented initial analysis and design visions to members of the Selinsgrove community on Feb. 28 to get feedback before they adjust and finalize their designs. Students will exhibit their final projects for the Selinsgrove public on May 1.

“Selinsgrove has presented a complex socio-environmental challenge for the students. The areas with the highest risk of flooding are also some of the most highly valued historic areas of the town – such as homes with waterfront views and the downtown area; yet our novel approach is demonstrating that a locally-sensitive solution can be both inspiring and accessible,” explained Mainzer. “The students are generating bold ideas grounded in environmental evidence, mostly through good old-fashioned pen and paper techniques.”

The student engagement though Mainzer’s class is building excitement for the PSIRC pilot study and is contributing to the development of an update to the 2006 community master plan. With the support of Penn State’s Strategic Plan funding, PSIRC will be working over the next year to build research and educational opportunities and relationships across Penn State and with partner communities and organizations to develop tools, design strategies, data sources, risk assessments and values-informed decision support approaches to provide an application-oriented proof-of-concept pilot study in Selinsgrove.

“This pilot will allow us to deepen collaborations with the stakeholders and decision-makers in Selinsgrove and along the Susquehanna while establishing key tools and processes useful for other communities struggling to address community resilience and revitalization issues,” said Iulo.

In the long term, the goal of the PSIRC project is to establish collaborations with colleges and universities across the state of Pennsylvania to help build and strengthen relationships with their local communities through the state’s shared common research interests of water, energy and land resources.

ACSA Announces Agenda for Annual Business Meeting and Regional Caucuses

ACSA members are invited to attend the ACSA Regional Caucuses and Annual Business Meeting on Friday, March 29 in Pittsburgh.

REGIONAL CAUCUSES AGENDA
Friday, March 29, 2019, 9:00–10:00 am
Westin Pittsburgh Hotel

  1. Input on Research & Scholarship Committee White Paper Draft and the Status of Research in Member Schools
  2. Input on Partnerships Regarding Pedagogy, Research, and International Collaboration
  3. Open Discussion or New Business

All conference participants are encouraged to attend the meeting of their region at rooms throughout the hotel.

ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA
Friday, March 29, 4:00–5:00 pm
Westin Pittsburgh Hotel

  1. Call to Order 
    Branko Kolarevic, President
  2. Member School Registration 
    Nichole Wiedemann, Secretary/Treasurer
  3. Introduction of Current and Incoming ACSA Board Members and Guests 
    Branko Kolarevic
  4. President’s Report
    Branko Kolarevic
  5. First Vice President’s Report 
    Rashida Ng
  6. Secretary/Treasurer’s Report 
    Nichole Wiedemann
  7. Other Business
    ACSA Data Presentation
    Technology | Architecture + Design
    Journal of Architectural Education
    Collateral Partners
  8. New Business
  9. Adjournment and Recognition of Outgoing Board Members

For more information on the ACSA107 Conference, visit acsa-arch.org/107.

Pennsylvania State University

Stuckeman’s Duarte coedits new book on customization and design

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – José Duarte, Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation and director of the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing at Penn State, has coedited a new book about the effect that non-designers, who have access to mass customization tools – such as parametric modelers, digital fabrication tools and 3D printers, have on the design process, particularly in the field of architecture.

Branko Kolarevic, a professor in environmental design at the University of Calgary, is the coeditor of the book, titled Mass Customization and Design Democratization.

Duarte and Kolarevic served as co-chairs of an international symposium of the same that Penn State hosted in May 2017 in Philadelphia. The book, which was published by Routledge, is a summary of the discussions and key takeaways from the symposium.

According to the book’s description, “Parametric design and digital fabrication are enabling non-designers to mass produce non-standard, highly differentiated products – from shoes and tableware to furniture and even houses. The result of these newly available mass customization tools has been a ‘democratization’ of design.”

The book, which is the first to tackle this phenomenon, “…examines what mass customization means for architecture and the building industry and investigates its impact on the sector’s most commoditized enterprise – suburban housing.”

More information on Mass Customization and Design Democratization can be found on the Routledge website.

The Stuckeman School is hosting a book launch event at 6 p.m. on March 26 in the Jury Space of the Stuckeman Family Building. Duarte and Kolarevic will give a brief lecture and will be on hand to sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase at the event.