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University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Professor George Dodds, PhD, has been re-appointed to another term (2018-23) as the University of Tennessee’s Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor in the College of Architecture and Design. There are 10-12 Beaman Professorships at the university at any given time. According to Interim Provost John Zomchick, the professorship recognizes “our very best teacher-scholars.” In May, 2018, Dodds presented the paper: “Re-architecting Practice: Duvall Decker’s Addition to Tougallo College,” (co-authored with Professor Jori Erdman, LSU) at the International ARCC Conference at Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia.

Kennesaw State University

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Exciting afternoon of presentations at Kennesaw State University for the 3-Minute Thesis Preliminary Round, where 22- architecture students competed for the final round. The exercise challenges students to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance in just three minutes.  3MT® is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ). 

Tulane University

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Title: Yamuna River Project Wins International Architectural Book Award

Oct 16, 2018

Yamuna River Project, New Delhi Urban Ecology, by Tulane School of Architecture Dean and Koch Chair in Architecture Iñaki Alday and University of Virginia architecture professor Pankaj Vir Gupta, was recently selected as one of the top 10 architectural books of the year by the Frankfurt Book Fair and German Architecture Museum (DAM).

The highly-respected International DAM Architectural Book Award attracted submissions from 96 architectural and art publishers this year. A jury of external experts and DAM representatives judged the 238 total entries on design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation and topicality.

The Yamuna River Project, founded by Alday and Vir Gupta at UVA in 2014, is a long-term interdisciplinary research initiative working to revitalize both the ecology of the heavily polluted Yamuna River and the essential relationship between the river and life in New Delhi.

As one of the most rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, New Delhi faces enormous challenges of urban and social equity at a time of economic and climatic uncertainty. Consequentially, the citizens of the world’s largest democracy live amidst extreme environmental degradation. Existing government structures have been hard pressed to cope with the pace of the complex and rapidly evolving dynamics of economic and climate change.

Yamuna River Project, New Delhi Urban Ecology details five years of research with the goal of engaging government agencies, experts and activists to reimagine and transform the river through a holistic, multidisciplinary approach.

The book is published by Actar and available for purchase online.

BLANCHE

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BLANCHE

Shortly after I was nominated in late 2015 for the future president of our association, I took a quick look at the long list of past presidents to see how many of them were from Canadian schools. To my surprise, there was only one – Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, from the University of Toronto, who served in 1986-1987. Out of curiosity, I searched for more information about her and, needless to say, I was very impressed by what I learned.

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a pioneering woman in fields dominated by men, architecture and planning. She was the first woman to lead a faculty of architecture in Canada (and in North America), as dean at the University of Toronto from 1977 to 1982. She was the first woman to be elected an officer and a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

She was also the first woman elected president of ACSA.

As an architect, planner, and educator, Blanche has had a distinguished career as an award-winning practitioner and teacher who taught architecture and urban design in several schools in the United States and Canada. Born in 1923 in Britain, she grew up in Montreal, where she graduated with an architecture degree from McGill University. Upon obtaining a degree in planning from Harvard, she taught for several years at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard before moving back to Montreal. She developed the first courses in urban design at Université de Montréal and then at McGill, before accepting a leadership position at the University of Toronto in 1977, a city where she lives today.

In recognition of Blanche’s outstanding contributions, McGill University presented her with the honorary Doctor of Science in 2014. As noted on McGill’s website, Blanche, with her late husband Sandy, had “a key role in preserving Old Montreal during the 1960s and courageously led the charge to protect the south slope of Mount Royal from urban developers.” The two of them then “helped design Montreal’s Expo ’67, the immediately successful international exhibition that came to symbolize Canada’s cultural effervescence in its centennial year.” To honor this remarkable legacy, there is a prize for urbanism in Québec given in Blanche’s name. She is also featured in the forthcoming documentary movie “City Dreamers” (Rêveuses de villes), alongside Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, as women “who carved out a place for themselves in a man’s world, dreamt of human-scale cities and began drawing the urban centres of our future.”

I hope it comes as no surprise that ACSA Board of Directors has decided to recognize Blanche’s exceptional career in architectural education with an ACSA Distinguished Service Award, which will be formally presented at the upcoming Administrators Conference in Québec City, October 25 –27, 2018. We hope that many of you will join us then at Chateau Frontenac to honor this remarkable member of our community.

For more information about Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, please see the entry under her name in the Canadian Encyclopedia and also among the Pioneering Women of American Architecture.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Associate Professor Peter Olshavsky’s essay “Reconfiguring Architectural Agency” appeared in the catalogue for Steven Holl’s exhibition at the Dorsky Museum. As part of the museum’s Hudson Valley Master series, Steven Holl: Making Architecture, examines the work of one of the world’s foremost architects (http://www.stevenholl.com/exhibits/126).

Curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine in collaboration with Steven Holl Architects, the exhibition reveals Holl’s intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models and related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects, among them the Arts Building at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania; The Kennedy Center Expansion, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Maggie’s Cancer Care Center in London.

Dr. Olshavsky was invited to write an essay linking Holl’s work to architectural phenomenology. The essay argues that Holl’s recent architecture is rooted in a reconfigured notion of architectural agency. This reconfiguration provides three opportunities. 

“It enables us to re-describe Holl’s important relation to the tradition of phenomenology. It shows architecture’s active comportment in socially embedded settings,” said Olshavsky. “It advances the insight: architecture makes us what we are”.

With a research focus in history, theory and design, Dr. Olshavsky was a clear choice for selection. “As a scholar in architectural history and theory, this was a wonderful opportunity to help shape the discourse on Holl’s recent work. Holl and the Dorsky Museum were very engaged and supportive,” commented Olshavsky. “I hope we will be able to work together again in the future.”

The exhibition is currently at Soongsil University Gallery in Seoul, Korea and will continue to travel internationally.

“Dr. Olshavsky’s invitation to author the essay exemplifies the quality of scholarly work produced by our renowned faculty. It is gratifying to see Peter’s work continually showcased on an international stage,” said College of Architecture Dean Katherine Ankerson.  

University of Virginia

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SAO PAULO: A RADICAL EVOLUTION [SYMPOSIUM]

PRESS RELEASE

No other city in the world has as great a concentration of inner-city post-industrial land as that of São Paulo. This unique urban situation demands attention and rewards analysis.

São Paulo: A Radical Evolution Symposium brings together a number of internationally renowned scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and urban governance to reflect on São Paulo. The discussion will focus on the city’s river systems, primarily the Tietê River, and the re-integration of its adjacent post-industrial land into the life of the city. Furthermore, the panelists will deliberate on the design procedures that can transform post-industrial land into vibrant mixed-use inner-city districts.

Supported by the Haddad Foundation, the event marks the launch of São Paulo: A Graphic Biography (University of Texas Press, 2018), the first comprehensive study of the city’s evolution, by Felipe Correa, Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia.

Comparative in scope, the symposium opens a dialogue between world renowned international experts who have developed extensive research and complex projects in equivalent metropolitan areas across the globe, and Brazilian urbanists who have deep knowledge of the lessons and challenges —current and historic— present in São Paulo. Organized in three interrelated topics based on chapters and themes from the book, panelists and respondents will open conversations on the exchange of urban concepts and technical expertise across disciplines, continents and cultures, and how these relate specifically to São Paulo.

Hosted by Insper and organized by the University of Virginia School of Architecture, along with the South America Project and Harvard University’s Brazil Office, the event opens an important space for discussions between design and governance, placing São Paulo in the context of global design practices.

 

WHAT: SAO PAULO: A RADICAL EVOLUTION [SYMPOSIUM]

WHEN: NOVEMBER 27, 2018 @ 9am

WHERE: INSPER AUDITORIUM [300 Quatá Street, Vila Olímpia – São Paulo/SP – Brazil]

 

CO-CONVENED BY: FELIPE CORREA AND SOL CAMACHO

SPONSORED BY: THE HADDAD FOUNDATION

 

[FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC]

Registration required. Please RSVP: saopaulo@somatic-collaborative.com

Press inquiries: saopaulo@somatic-collaborative.com; @aschool_uva; @felipecorrea_sc

 

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS

– Renato Anelli
Architecture Historian and Professor, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo

– Vinicius Andrade 
Principal, Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados
Professor of Urbanism, Insper (São Paulo)

– Ila Berman 
Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor, University of Virginia School of Architecture

– Anita Berrizbeitia 
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

– Priscila Borin de Oliveira Claro 
Professor, Insper
Member of the Núcleo de Medição para Investimentos de Impacto Socioambiental (São Paulo)

– Sol Camacho 
Principal, Raddar Architecture
Cultural Director, Instituto Bardi

– Felipe Correa 
Principal, Somatic Collaborative (New York City)
Chair of the Department of Architecture and Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor, University of Virginia School of Architecture

– Sergio G. Lazzarini 
Chafi Haddad Professor of Management, Insper (São Paulo)

– Jorge Francisco Liernur 
Architecture Historian and Professor of Architecture, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires)

– Raul Justo Lores
Journalist and Writer
Editor in Chief, da Vejinha (São Paulo)

– Michael Maltzan 
Principal, Michael Maltzan Architects (Los Angeles)

– Michael Sorkin
Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio (New York City)
Distinguished Professor of Architecture. The City College of New York

Download the Press Release and Poster.

Call for Nominations: 2019-2020 ACSA Board of Directors

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Deadline: October 17, 2018

The ACSA invites nominations and self-nominations for three positions on the Board of Directors. Please review the following eligibility requirements, timeline, and background information that describes the organization’s intended directions in coming years.

Open Board Positions: Second Vice President, Two At-Large Directors
Eligible nominees for all Board positions must meet the following requirements:

  • Second Vice President. Candidates shall be full-time, tenured, tenure-track, or fixed-term faculty members of a Full Member school at the time of nomination and throughout the four-year term of office.
  • At-Large Directors. The ACSA Bylaws permit no more than one At-Large Director to come from a school that is not a Full Member. For the 2019-20 Board, the Nominations Committee may consider a candidate from a Candidate or Affiliate Member school that has been a member of ACSA for at least two full years. Nominations of candidates from full-member schools continue to be encouraged for At-Large Director positions.

Position Descriptions
Terms for directors begin on July 1, 2019, with terms of service noted below. All directors are expected to attend three board meetings a year: a fall meeting, which typically occurs in conjunction with the Administrators Conference; a spring meeting, which typically occurs in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Meeting; and a summer meeting, occurring in 2019 in conjunction with the NAAB Accreditation Review Forum, July 23–27. Additionally, board members serve on committees, which may entail travel to a meeting one time per year and conference calls one to two times per month.

The Second Vice President serves a four-year term. The elected person serves for one year, respectively, as Second Vice President, First Vice President/President-Elect, President, and Past President. The President is responsible for calling meetings of the Board of Directors, preparing an agenda, and presiding at such meetings. The President coordinates activities of the board, ACSA committees, and liaison representatives. The President serves as ACSA liaison with the officers of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and the American Institute of Architecture Students; and serves as ACSA representative to the Five Presidents Council. During the term of office, the President also prepares a brief report of activities of the organization and the Board of Directors for dissemination to the constituent associations. As First Vice President, the person will chair the Planning Committee, and, as Past President, the person will serve as chair of the Nominations Committee.

The At-Large Directors serve a three-year term as voting members of the Board. In addition, they serve as liaison to member schools, including participating in organized business meetings; maintaining contact with Faculty Councilors and others associated with member schools; assisting member schools upon request; advising Candidate or Affiliate member schools; and advising the Board of issues and concerns raised by members. At-Large Directors contribute to the work of the Board through actively serving on Board committees, contributing to collective deliberations, and performing other duties as provided by the Rules of the Board of Directors or as requested by the Board.

2018-19 Nominations Committee

Francisco Rodriguez, Past President, Universidad de Puerto Rico (chair)
José L.S. Gámez, At-Large Director, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
June Williamson, At-Large Director, The City College of New York
Deborah Hauptmann, External Member, Iowa State University
Samia Kirchner, External Member, Morgan State University
Andrew Vernooy, External Member, Montana State University

Timeline
As part of a 2017 governance change, ACSA now publishes a preliminary slate of Board-approved candidates in November 2018, followed by a period during which members may petition for the inclusion of additional candidates to the slate. A final slate of candidates, including candidates by petition, will be published in early January, when the online balloting process will open. Candidates will be notified of the results in mid-February. The results of this election will be announced online and at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh in March 2019.

October 17, 2018       Deadline for nominations.
November 16, 2018    Preliminary slate of candidate names announced.
December 28, 2018    Deadline for submission of petitions to add candidates to the slate.
January 9, 2019         Final slate of candidates and ballot materials published and sent to ACSA Full Member schools.
February 8, 2019        Deadline for ballot submissions.

Nomination Requirements
Nominations for all ACSA Board positions should include a CV, a letter of interest from the nominee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is October 17, 2018.

Nominations should be sent to:

Email (preferred): msturges@acsa-arch.org
Michelle Sturges, Membership Coordinator
ACSA Nominations, 1735 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006

DESIRED COMPETENCIES AND BACKGROUNDS FOR NOMINEES
ACSA actively seeks equitable and representative involvement by a broad range of people on its Board and other volunteer bodies. The Board of Directors should represent a diversity of background, experience, expertise, and geography. This shall also include racial, ethnic, and gender diversity.

Prospective candidates and nominators are encouraged to review the strategic initiatives and priority objectives, included below, to understand future directions for ACSA board activities. The areas described below include (but are not limited to) experience producing scholarship and/or funded research, understanding processes for recruiting students from a variety of backgrounds, and experience communicating the value of architecture, whether in a disciplinary or professional context. However, the desired competencies of board members should not be narrowly understood. Regional and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity are also important to the ACSA. The vacancies on the board come from directors whose primary affiliations are in the Gulf, East Central, and West regions. Ensuring regional diversity, therefore, is among the Board’s priorities. Finally, previous experience with ACSA committees, conference leadership, or other Board appointments is desired.

Strategic Initiatives: 2016–2019 and 2019-2022
With the new academic year, ACSA begins its third year of a three-year strategic plan cycle. At the same time, the organization will spend this year updating the plan’s objectives for a new three-year cycle beginning in 2019-20 and continuing through 2021-22. Therefore, incoming Board members can expect to serve on a board with a renewed outlook on strategic initiatives balanced by a measure of continuity reflected in its current priority strategic objectives.

The strategic plan is broad in scope, and each year the Board of Directors assesses priority objectives to be achieved through a number of strategies. Development and execution of many of these strategies are left to ACSA’s three Program Committees, which are appointed annually by the Board and charged with specific deliverables.

Among the priority objectives anticipated for the organization are the following.

Advancing the Knowledge Base Through Research and Scholarship. Support for architectural scholarship and research is vital to faculty development and to the growth and enhancement of the discipline and profession. Over the last two years ACSA created white papers on tenure and promotion (2017) and opportunities in the STEM field (2018). The organization will build on this work by focusing on institutional measures of quality in research, as judged both within and outside the discipline. It also seeks to strengthen architectural pedagogy through a revived Teachers Conference in 2019 and efforts within the Education Committee to provide resources to support the scholarship of teaching and learning in architectural education.

Intersections Between Enrollment, Diversity, and Inclusion. The organization continues to address the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the profession and in the student body. Recent work by the ACSA Education Committee to understand and address systemic barriers to inclusion have begun this process, while more work remains to be done. Intersecting with questions of inclusiveness are recent trends of declining enrollments in architecture schools. The organization continues to work to engage community colleges as a pathway for bringing highly qualified students into the design professions. The role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions in diversifying the profession is also a focus.

Engaging the Global Architecture Community. Finally, the importance of international connections is in view for ACSA, both as it relates to research and scholarship and to our understanding of diversity and inclusion. In 2018 ACSA published a report on international engagement at architecture schools, and by the end of the calendar year ACSA will hold three conferences in Europe and Canada to bring together educators and practitioners from every continent. The organization is also exploring changes to its membership structure and scholarly programs to engage more international faculty.

Members are also encouraged to review the strategic plan’s objectives to understand opportunities for service on the ACSA Board of Directors. Among the priority objectives for the organization over the next three years are the following.

Goal 1. Thought Leadership and Knowledge Generation. ACSA will support, interpret, and disseminate research and knowledge related to architecture and architectural education, and will convey that knowledge effectively to faculty, schools, students, the profession, and the public.

1.4     Improve the value of ACSA conferences, publications, and other offerings.

Goal 2. Advocacy and Impact. ACSA will advance an inclusive, diverse discipline and profession. As the link among the academy, practice, and the collateral organizations, ACSA will be at the center of evolving discourses on education, research, practice and civic engagement in the designed environment.

2.1     Increase understanding of the specific systemic barriers to achieving gender and racial diversity in architectural education and the profession.
2.5     Expand multi-collateral conferences and workshops focused on education, research, practice, and civic engagement.

Goal 3. Partnership and Convening. ACSA will be a leader in partnership with constituent organizations and stakeholders.

3.2     Expand the conversation about the future of design, education, and practice.
3.3     Enhance ACSA’s research capabilities through national and international partnerships.

Goal 4. Member Engagement and Support. ACSA will be a progressive leader and trusted resource in architectural education and research. ACSA will increase its relevance to faculty and schools around the world by affording opportunities for disciplinary innovation and career advancement.

4.1     Increase the number of peer-reviewed publication opportunities.
4.3     Improve the data that ACSA provides to member schools.

Kennesaw State University

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Parking Day Tactical Urbanism

Having won an award in 2017 Park(ing) Day, the students in Professor Zamila Karimi’s Tactical Urbanism class was invited to participate in Park(ing) Day 2018 at Lenox Mall, Atlanta on Friday September 14. This event was sponsored by Liveable Buckhead Inc.

Morphogenesis Chair is an exploration on how design contributes to the material production of space. Using the concept of ‘PLAY’ students designed a set of six-chairs using slats of birch plywood cut on CNC. Each slat is finished with two colors – red and blue on either side to read as one field of color in one direction. The chairs are designed as a kit of parts which can be configured in multiple ways playing with perception to create a fun colorful playscape for all to be in.

Students (design team): Christine Vu, Steven Yang, Dyesha Holmes, Nhan Luu, Asbiel Samaiego, Eduardo Parra, Michelle Nguyen, Diego Vazquez, Nelly Mehrjerdian, Dayzha King, Andrew Smith, Morgan Fredrick.

University at Buffalo

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ACSA News – September 2018

Assistant Prof. Erkin Ozay presented a lecture entitled ‘Cities and Schools in America, 1896-2015’ at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo on September 14, 2018. 

Associate Prof. Joyce Hwang was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAR) for a three year term staring in 2018. She has also been appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto where she is teaching a graduate studio entitled ‘Zoological Cities’ in Fall 2018.

‘Pest Architecture’ – written by Associate Prof. Joyce Hwang – was published in World Architecture, July 2018. The journal also featured two projects designed by Prof. Hwang – the Bat Tower and Bat Cloud. Her work was also featured in ‘Designing a City that Makes Room for Nature’ published as part of the “Urban Ark Los Angeles’ series – an environment storytelling partnership between KCET and UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies.(http://www.kcet.org/shows/earth-focus/designing-a-city-that-makes-room -for nature) 

Adjunct Assistant Prof. Coryn Kempster was awarded the League Prize from the Architecture League of New York for work done in collaboration with Assistant Prof. Julia Jamrozik. A group exhibit of the winners was recently shown at Parson School of Design (https://archleague.org/competition /league-prize-2018-objective/)   

The film ‘See It Through Buffalo’ is currently on view in Venice, Italy. Directed by Clinical Assistant Prof. Greg Delaney and produced by Paget Films in association with the School of Architecture and Planning of the University at Buffalo the film is showing at Time Space Existence – an exhibition organized by the Global Art Affairs Foundation and hosted by the European Cultural Centre alongside the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Assoc. Prof.Joyce Hwang, Clinicla Asst. Prof. Greg Delaney, Assist. Profs. Nick Rajkovich, Julia Jamrozik and Erkin Ozay, Clinical Assoc. Prof. Kerry Traynor, and Camden Miller presented ‘Unstately: Bottom –Up and Middle-Out Practices’ at the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The panel discussion focused on the work of faculty in Buffalo and was coordinated with the curatorial theme ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ (http://dimensionsof citizenship.org/events/unstately-bottom-up-and-middle-out-practices) 

Prof. Korydon Smith and Associate Professor Joyce Hwang were appointed ChaIr and Associate Chair of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo in July 2018.

Prof. Hadas Steiner jointly organized the first conference on the subject of queer space at the Society of Architectural Historians 2018 Conference with Dirk van den Heuvel. Prof. Steiner’s article “A Bird in the Hand’ was published by MIT in ‘Thresholds’, no.46, Summer 2018. Pp. 36-43. Prof. Steiner gave a lecture entitled ‘The Accidental Visitant’ at the Stuckeman School of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2018.

Prof. Brian Carter served as a professional advisor to the GSA Design Excellence program in Boston in August, 2018.

Catholic University of America

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Join CUArch 2018 Walton Critic Susan Jones (atelierjones, Seattle) in a talk about the interactions between materiality, light, design, sustainability and the sacred in architect Jones’ practice (ranked 7th in the US for design quality in late 2017)

“Light Leaps Forward” will be on 09/17/18 at 5:00pm in the Koubek auditorium followed by a reception.

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