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University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Assistant Professor Erkin Ozay was an invited panelist for the symposium ‘Minding the Gap’ held in Washington DC in January 2019. The event, organized by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee, brought together educators, researchers and practitioners to discuss the future of urban design education in the USA.

Associate Professor Joyce Hwang was selected as one of five designers and artists invited to develop a proposal and prototypes to transform exterior spaces at Matadero, a contemporary arts center in Madrid. The “Mutant Cyborg Garden” is being coordinated and directed by the architecture office ‘elii’ and Matadero Madrid. Professor Hwang recently conducted workshops with design students in Madrid and that work culminated in an exhibition at Matadero for the 2019 Madrid Design Week. She is working in collaboration with the architect Nerea Feliz.

Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to ‘Twisted”. The book was recently published by Actar Publications, New York & Barcelona. The chapter written by Professor Carter is entitled ‘Textiles, Machines, Flow and Factories’.

Tulane University

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Title: Professor Cordula Roser Gray Publishes Essay on Social Resilience

Mar 12, 2019

Professor of Practice Cordula Roser Gray’s new essay on social resilience, titled “Learning from New Orleans: Social Resilience for Urban Ecosystems” and coauthored with Marcella Del Signore, is featured in the new Routledge publication Architecture and Resilience – Interdisciplinary Dialogues

This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.

To read more about the essay click here.

Tulane University

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Title: Best of Architecture New Orleans 2019 Features Alumni, Board Member, Former Faculty

Mar 11, 2019

Several alumni and friends of the Tulane School of Architecture are prominently featured in the 2019 listing “Best of Architecture” by New Orleans Magazine.

As John Klingman, the author of the piece and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Tulane, writes: “This year’s outstanding projects are quite diverse; they are all different in terms of use, building type and neighborhood. Perhaps this is indicative of the strength and vision at work in New Orleans architecture today. What all of the featured projects have in common is the evidence of great design energy combined with demonstrated professional competence in the service of the people and institutions of our city.”

The affiliated architects and designers include:

  • Trapolin-Peer Architects: Peter Trapolin (A’77); Ashley King (A’98); Shea Trahan (A’13)
  • Lee Ledbetter & Associates: Lee Ledbetter (former adjunct faculty)
  • Manning Architects: Dominic Willard (A’03); Michelle Carroll-Barr (A’14)
  • studioWTA: Wayne Troyer (A’83); Natan Diacon-Furtado (A’14); Daniel Kautz (A’09); Ross Karsen(A’06)
  • Gould Evans Architects: Robert Riccardi (A’91 and Board of Advisors); Curtis Laub (A’06); Jenny Renn Key (A’15); Brian Webber (A’15); Elaine Damico (A’18)

To read the full story a see pictures of the projects, click here.

University of New Mexico

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The University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) has announced that the winner of the 2019 Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture in New Mexico is New Mexico Highlands University Trolley Barn.  The renovation was designed by Baker Architecture + Design, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The subtle and sophisticated renovation of an historic building has helped rejuvenate NMHU’s campus.  The firm received a $10,000 prize.  This is the third time that the firm has won the award.  Last year’s winner was SITE Santa Fe, designed by SHoP Architects in New York City.

The announcement was made in Friday, February 22nd in the auditorium of the UNM School of Architecture + Planning building, designed by Antoine Predock.  The Jury Chair and Lecturer was Marc Tsurumaki of LTL Architects in New York City.

The award honors the late Jeff Harnar, know for his groundbreaking design in contemporary architecture in, mostly in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In addition to the contemporary architecture award, the Jeff Harnar Award for Unbuilt Architecture was given two four UNM undergraduate architecture students:  W. Martin Joyce, Martin Luna, Jade Sheridan Moore and Jacqueline Smith.  Their winning project “Marsborial Oasis Simulation System (MOSS)” imagined the first human settlement on the planet Mars.

The winners of the Unbuilt Landscape Architecture category were Jared Winchester of Entropic Industries, and Cory Greenfield of CampoVerde Architecture, for their project “Wilding Towers.”  The project was sited in a full-scale fake city in for 35,000 people in Lea County, NM.  However the city will not have any inhabitants, but will instead be a site to test driverless vehicles, smart grids and other merging technologies.  The towers consist of a steel frame, compacted earth and seed blocks.  As the blocks are eroded by wind and rain, the looser inner seed mix is exposed and allowed to germinate on the surface of the tower and to propagate across the city’s surfaced.

UNM Architecture Department Chair John Quale manages the awards.  The Thornburg Foundation financially supports the awards.  For more information about the awards, go to architecture.unm.edu and www.jeffharnarawardcom.

@jeff_harnar_award @unm_architecture @baker_a_d

Equity by Design: 2018 Key Findings

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The 2018 Equity in Architecture Survey was designed in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and over 50 volunteers from around the country with the goal of generating a comprehensive national data set detailing current positions and career experiences of architecture school graduates. The resulting data set—the largest ever collected on equity within the profession—documents the experiences of 14,360 individuals representing all 50 states and nations on six continents. This unprecedented collection of professional voices is the testimony that allows us to build a deeper understanding of our strengths as a profession, and to gain insight into the critical work needed to provide each individual within our field with opportunities to thrive and to make a lasting impact within the communities that we serve. The survey analysis highlights the voices heard, the values held and the visions harnessed for the future of the profession.

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Voices
Voices offers insight into personal and professional milestones that have the tendency to hinder career progression and inßuence decisions to leave the Þeld. Our research indicated that the Masters of Architecture degree is becoming increasingly popular. Our respondents with master’s degrees tended to carry higher debt levels for longer after graduation than their counterparts with bachelor’s degrees. This was especially true for black men with master’s degrees, who still carried an average of $55k, or about 6 times as much debt on average as an Asian female w/ a bachelor’s degree, ten years after graduation.

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Values
Values explores the personal and collective values that guide us in our careers, and the ways in which the narratives that we shape about our professional worth influence our professional experiences.  This year’s data indicates that there’s a gender-based pay gap in every project role. In fact a man working as a design principal makes roughly $20k more per year than the average female respondent working in the same position. We also observed a race-and gender-based pay gap at every level of experience within the profession, with the largest pay differences observed between white men and black women.

Vision
Vision enumerates the ingredients of a satisfying career in architecture by detailing the key components of our career perceptions, and the ways in which individuals and firms can positively influence workplace culture and project outcomes through the lens of equitable frameworks. On the topic of culture and relationships, our analysis comprises a variety of measures that assess an individual’s relationship to their peers and their firm’s management. We found that white male respondents tended to have more positive perceptions in each of these areas than women or respondents of color.

Over the coming year, Equity by Design and the ACSA will continue analysis of the dataset, focusing on each of the research topics identified in the preliminary analysis in greater depth. These findings will be published on Equity by Design’s website through a series of “deep dive” articles, with each focusing on a single survey topic. These findings will be compiled in a Final Report, which will be issued in 2019.

Research by Kendall A. Nicholson, EdD, Assoc. AIA, NOMA
Director of Research and Information

CLICK HERE for more information about the work of Equity by Design.


Equity by Design: Voices, Values, Vision!
by AIA San Francisco and the Equity by Design Committee

Tulane University

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Title: Small Center Project Named Finalist for 2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Feb 20, 2019The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) selected Parasite Skatepark, a project of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at the Tulane School of Architecture, as one of five finalists for its 2019 Gold and Silver medal prizes.

Parasite Skatepark is New Orleans’ first official skatepark. Previously, the city had no official skateparks and few places for kids to exercise outside of team sports leagues. With that in mind, a group of skaters got together and started a Do-It-Yourself skatepark. Small Center faculty and architecture students provided technical assistance to the group, which ultimately evolved into into the nonprofit Transitional Spaces. Through time, strategic partnerships, and a series of state and local approvals, the grassroots public park officially opened in 2015.

“The range of issues addressed in this year’s submissions reflect the evolution of our understanding of placemaking in cities,” said RBA founder Simeon Bruner in a press release. “The five finalists illustrate the shifting role of design in response to the imperatives of social inclusivity and environmental resilience.”

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, RBA is a biennial design award recognizing transformative places that contribute to the economic, environmental, and social vitality of American cities. Seventy-eight projects in 27 states have been honored since its founding. The Gold Medalist will receive $50,000 and four Silver Medalists will each receive $10,000 to enhance their projects.

RBA entries comprise completed projects across the contiguous United States. Finalists and medalists are chosen by a nationwide committee of urban experts through an in-depth evaluation process involving input from the award application, site visits, interviews with project participants and community members, and committee discussions.

For more information, read the RBA blog post.

Pennsylvania State University

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Architecture’s Hadighi coedits new book on fashion label building he co-designed

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Mehrdad Hadighi, Stuckeman Chair of Integrative Design and head of the Department of Architecture at Penn State, has coedited a new book that explores the architecture of the 11-story Lafayette 148 New York clothing factory in China, which he designed in collaboration with Tsz Yan Ng, an assistant professor of architecture in Taubman College at the University of Michigan.

The Lafayette 148 New York label is described as “clothing designed for the modern, sophisticated woman made from the most luxurious fabrics.”

Twisted, which was recently published by Actar Publishers, features detailed documentation of the building and explores the architectural, socio-cultural, artistic, and historical contexts of the building in Shantou, China. The factory is organized around the flow of production – from the design of a garment to the shipment of the final product.

Hadighi and his coeditors – Ng and Marc J. Neveu, head of the architecture program in The Design School at Arizona State University – break down the design process of the Lafayette 148 New York building while weaving in essays about the complex socioeconomic and structural challenges such a project presents.

The publication, which is geared to those with a strong interest in architecture, touches on some of the larger issues that go into the design of a building, including the ecological footprint, social concerns regarding labor and construction and the historical context of the area, among others.

More information on Twisted can be found on the Actar website.

Cover imagery: But-Sou Lai Photography

Tulane University

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Title: Tulane School of Architecture’s Community Design Center Nationally Recognized for Collaborative Approach

Feb 7, 2019Thirteen years of working hand-in-hand with partners, students, and faculty has led the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at the Tulane School of Architecture to be recognized with a national architecture award this week.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture named the Small Center, which is housed within the Tulane School of Architecture, as one of only four Collaborative Practice Award recipients for the 2018-2019 academic year.

In particular, the award highlights the Parasite Skatepark project, a New Orleans park that officially opened in 2015 following years of efforts by local skaters to establish a recreation space. The Small Center provided various types of technical assistance, such as convening stakeholders and designing the park’s masterplan. Ultimately, collaboration between a nonprofit of local skaters, city and state agencies, professional architects, and Tulane students led to the designation of the city’s first official skatepark.

The project shows that the design process can serve as a capacity and coalition builder, said Ann Yoachim, Small Center director and professor of practice at the Tulane School of Architecture. And the award is a reflection of the center’s belief that engagement is a core part of any successful design effort, she said.

“Teaching students to recognize the value of partner expertise, the necessity of a multitude of voices to produce high-quality responsive design projects, and the power of design to address larger societal issues is at a core of the Center’s mandate. We are honored to be recognized by our peers for this commitment,” Yoachim said. “Together, we will continue to work to create a city that is shaped by all.”

“This award is a recognition of the Tulane School of Architecture’s leadership, through the Small Center, in architecture and social engagement. We are committed to supporting our community through high quality design and beauty, which are essential to develop pride and care for neighborhoods,” said Iñaki Alday, dean of the Tulane School of Architecture and Koch Chair in Architecture. “Each project is also an innovative exploration, advancing the field of design and of community engagement processes through multidisciplinary modes, all in the real life.”

Since 1997, the ACSA’s Collaborative Practice Award honors best practices in university-based and community-engaged programs. This award was proposed by Thomas Dutton and Anthony Schuman as a means to recognize ACSA’s commitment to community partnerships in which faculty, students and neighborhood citizens are valued equally and that aim to address issues of social injustice through design.

Call for Nominations: 2019 ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2019 ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster

Deadline: March 6, 2019

The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2019 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members participating in the accrediting process will be made by NAAB.

Nominating Procedure

  1. Members of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on visiting teams for a term of four years.
  2. Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via ACSA News. Proposals must include a 2-page curriculum vitae (please include any accreditation experience).
  3. The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters.

Nominee Qualifications

  • The candidate should demonstrate:
  • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience;
  • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work;
  • Administrative experience; and
  • An association with several different schools.

Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on a temporary leave of absence.)

ACSA Nominee Selection
Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent the geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service.

Description of Team and Visit
Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.

The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process. The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications.

Team Selection
The visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by providing resumes of prospective team members.

A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if:

  • The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated with a rival institution;
  • The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution;
  • The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to evaluate the program.

NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines. Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations Deadline and Calendar
The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a 2-page curriculum vitae (please include any accreditation experience), is March 6, 2019. E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to msturges@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2019. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2019-2020 team visits in November 2018.

Nominations should be sent to:

Michelle Sturges (ACSA, Board Nominations)
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Email: msturges@acsa-arch.org

Art and Architecture e-Portal: A New Resource

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

Ever wish you could easily search the contents of book chapters and locate topics within them?  Yale University Press is currently in a pilot phase with a new product that does just that. The A&AePortal (www.aaeportal.com) is an innovative and dynamic platform that features important art and architectural history books in an accessible and highly discoverable way.  Developed with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this e-resource includes offerings by Yale University Press, MIT Press, Harvard’s Belknap Press, the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University Art Museums and the Yale University Art Gallery, with Princeton University Press titles soon to be added. .

The e-Portal has about 120 titles at present, and additional books are added monthly.  Of the twenty subject areas, those which most directly relate to architecture are: General art history and theory, Architecture and urban history, Design and graphic design and Landscape Studies. Currently there are 13 titles under Architecture and urban history. Yet, this limited list includes the essential William McDonald two volume set, Architecture of the Roman Empire.

A broad search of Frank Lloyd Wright yields 79 results, ranging from brief mentions of his work to substantive information on the Imperial hotel, Temple Sholom, and the Barnsdall and Hollyhock houses. The book chapter on the Temple Sholom has been extracted from Alice Friedman’s American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.

 A quick search of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals yields mostly design information on the building, making Friedman’s book chapter even more important. In addition to text, the Art and Architecture e-Portal includes a feature that allows for several ways to search the over 20,000 images in the database, all of which are tagged with robust metadata, and many images that were originally in black and white in the print books have been replaced with color on the site

Designed to support instruction, the e-portal also provides a way of creating course packs for instructors.

As it grows, the Art and Architecture e-Portal has the potential to become a valuable tool for the study of architecture. About 60 institutions are currently trialing this resource, which will be launching in July 2019 for institutional subscriptions.    If you are interested in learning more about the A&AePortal for your institution, contact sara.sapire@yale.edu.

 

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