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Help ACSA Member Schools Recover Post-Hurricane

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From the Executive Director

ACSA is asking member schools to identify themselves if they are able to support schools significantly affected by the three major hurricanes that have hit Houston, South Florida, and Puerto Rico over the last three weeks. At least nine full and candidate member schools are in the heaviest hit areas. 
The island of Puerto Rico was hit by Irma and Maria, and seems to have been the most damaged. Reports from ACSA’s president, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Suarez, who is a professor at Universidad de Puerto Rico and weathered the storm with his family on the island, match those in the media: the immediate needs are electricity and the ability to establish basic services, followed by a long term clean up and rebuild. 
We have no word yet on the status of the four architecture schools on the island, as cell phone service is very limited. However, with estimates in the months for restoring electricity to the island, students and faculty may need immediate help resettling on a temporary basis. Longer term, the universities and parts of the island will engage in a rebuilding process that could benefit from the energy and talents of architecture schools and their students. 
If your school, your faculty, or your students and related organizations wish to offer assistance to the universities, please email me with details: exdir@acsa-arch.org. Describe briefly the kinds of assistance you’re willing to offer, such as housing and office space for students or faculty, space in academic courses, or other support. 
The schools in Houston, Miami, Boca Raton, and Tampa seem to be back working (and helping others to rebuild), but may have suffered disruptions. Four architecture schools in Puerto Rico are members: Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Universidad De Puerto Rico, and Universidad del Turabo.

University at Buffalo

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Charles Davis joined the faculty of the School of Architecture at the University at Buffalo as an Assistant Professor of Architecture where he is teaching history and criticism. Professor Davis’s article “Louis Sullivan and the Physiognomic Translation of American Character” was recently published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. In addition, his co-edited book on race and modern architecture was awarded a $10,000 publication grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He is collaborating on this project with co-editors Irene Cheng (California College of Arts) and Mabel Wilson (Columbia University)

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik recently presented” ‘Full Circle’ and other ways of bringing people together” at the symposium ‘Public Art: New Ways of Thinking and Working’ at York University in Canada.

In collaboration with Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempster, Professor Jamrozik designed and built the installation ‘Vertical Line Garden’ at the 2017 International Garden Festival in Grand-Metis in Quebec.

‘Dialogue’ – a project commissioned by LANDstudio and designed by Professors Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster – was installed in the See Also Program at the Eastman Reading Garden of Cleveland Public Library.

Professor Annett W. LeCuyer and Professor Brian Carter were the 2017 International Architects in Residence at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. They taught a design studio and gave public lectures in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Assistant Professor Jin Young Song presented two papers – ‘Compact Renaissance: the Case of Yangpyeong and Seoul in South Korea” and “Alternative Actuation Techniques for Kinetic Surface” at the UIA 2017 World Architects Congress. The first was selected as an Outstanding Paper & Design Work by the UIA 2017 Scientific Committee. The project was initiated in an integrated design studio in architecture and planning at UB.

Professor Jin Young Song’s submission ‘Connected Living: Metabolic Evolution through Prefabrication and Artificial Intelligence’ was selected as the winning entry at the UIA 2017 World Architects Congress in South Korea and is currently being shown in ‘The Self-Evolving City’ at the Seoul Museum of Art. 

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Learn more about University at Buffalo, here. 

Miami University

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Thomas A. Dutton, Cincinnati Professor of Community Engagement and member of the Architecture and Interior Design faculty at Miami University, died at home in Oxford, OH, surrounded by family June 13, following an eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Tom Dutton joined the Miami faculty in 1977, following his graduate studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, MO. He had received his professional B.Arch. degree in 1975 from Cal/Poly San Luis Obispo. 
 
During his 40 year career at Miami, Dutton was active in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood (OTR) on issues of affordable housing, poverty and racial equity since 1981, and brought students to the neighborhood starting in 1996 for a capstone design/build studio course. The urban studio work was supported and informed by Dutton’s provocative seminar courses on the Oxford campus and by his deep knowledge of the socio-economic and political culture of urban Cincinnati. 
Prof. Dutton was active in the ACSA regionally and nationally, having served as the department’s representative, a member of the Inter/national Board of the ACSA as East Central Regional Director, 1995-1998, Treasurer of the Inter/national Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 1999 – 2001, and was a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Architectural Education (1989-1994) and its Associate Editor for Book Reviews (1995-1999). Dutton was also a member of the Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), from Summer 2010 to February 2011. He was the recipient of the ACSA’s Creative Achievement Award in 1990 for his sustained contributions to architectural design education and his creative use of the design studio. In 2009 he won the Thomas Ehlrich from Campus Compact, and in 2012 the OTR program was the regional winner of the Outreach Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award, and a finalist for a national award. 
The Dutton family — his wife Janis and sons Nathan and Nolan — together with the Miami University community, will hold a memorial to celebrate his life and legacy onSaturday 7 October 2017. The event will take place from 1-4 PM in the Dolibois Room of the Shriver Center on the Miami Campus. The formal event will begin at 2 PM, with light refreshments to follow. 
Out-of -town guests should contact the Department of Architecture and Interior Design concerning parking. The Department’s memorial can be read at the following:
 

SlideRoom Acquisition Strengthens ArchCAS

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Michael J. Monti, Executive Director

ACSA has some exciting news to coincide with the start of your school year: Liaison, ACSA’s software partner in ArchCAS, the new centralized application service for graduate programs in architecture, has acquired SlideRoom, the portfolio company best known for its seamless integration of multimedia components into application review workflows.


This is great news for architecture schools because it promises stronger integration in ArchCAS of a software tool that many programs use for admissions and other functions. In other words, the value of ArchCAS to ACSA programs is even greater. If you are not already on the list of participating programs, it’s not too late — contact me directly at (exdir@acsa-arch.org) to get started. Liaison, ACSA’s partner that powers ArchCAS, offers quick and seamless implementation, so we can add your program to this national program directory right away. 

 

Liaison and ACSA are also looking for subject matter experts to help guide the strategic development of these tools as we continue to integrate SlideRoom’s creative skill assessment technology within the ArchCAS application platform. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, please contact me (exdir@acsa-arch.org) with your availability for a quick call to discuss next steps. 

 

University of Toronto

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08.28.17 – Associate Professor Shane Williamson appointed Director of the Daniels Faculty’s Master of Architecture program

Associate Professor Shane Williamson has been appointed Director of the Master of Architecture Program for a three-year term effective July 1, 2017.  Williamson’s research and creative practice employ advanced digital tools as a means to critically engage/transform traditional modes of construction and tectonic expression. His work seeks to situate digital fabrication and wood construction in a broader cultural context and link theories of design and technology to sustainable building strategies. He is a Principal of Williamson Williamson Inc., a Toronto-based architecture and design studio that operates at multiple scales ranging from furniture design to master planning. One of the recurring themes within his (and Betsy Williamson’s) studio’s body of work is the notion of “Incremental Urbanism” which recognizes the possibilities of intensification latent in the morphology of urban fabric.

Williamson’s built, projected, and speculative work has been widely-published and has garnered significant awards and accolades, including the Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement and the Professional Prix de Rome for Architecture from the Canada Council of the Arts, the Emerging Architectural Practice Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Young Architects Prize and the Emerging Voices Award from the Architecture League of New York, and various design/construction awards, including awards from Residential Architect, a Journal of the American Institute of Architects, the Ontario Association of Architects, the Canadian Green Building Council, and the Canadian Wood Council.

Williamson brings with him his interest in our Master of Architecture program’s relationship to the City of Toronto and the broader profession, and his focus on the nexus between architecture, urbanism, and digital (and traditional) modes of representation and fabrication.

Learn more about University of Toronto.

What's in a Name? Design, and Library

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Lucy Campbell and Barbara Opar, column editors
Column by Ed Teague, Head, Design Library, and Portland Library and Learning Commons, University of Oregon


On July 1, 2017, the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts was renamed the College of Design http://aaa.uoregon.edu/college-of-design  after a collaborative process involving the school’s several departments and other stakeholders.  As Dean Christoph Lindner stated, “As the home of creativity at the UO, the new College of Design will unlock our ability to achieve new levels of success, building on a tradition of innovation dating back over 100 years.  Our new name signals a shared commitment to creative problem-solving, original thinking and real-world engagement.” (1) Although not officially part of the college, the Architecture and Allied Arts Library, the branch library that primarily supports the college’s academic programs, changed its name as well, to the Design Library. Such a changeover is not simple: Signage, web pages, job titles, catalog entries, directories and maps, social media, and book spine labels required revision.

A library collection has been associated with the College of Design since its establishment in the early 20th century, with Portland architect Ellis Fuller Lawrence as the first dean. The first manager of the library collection was a woman whose history deserves better recognition.

Camilla Leach was born in New York in 1835, and following college, traveled west.  She obtained teaching assignments in French or art in Chicago, then in California’s Bay Area, and in Oregon became head of a private school in Portland.  In 1895, Miss Leach was employed by the University of Oregon in Eugene as a registrar while also serving as the university’s librarian.  The university, only twenty years old at this time, had a small library collection that was relocated several times before the first purpose-built library opened in 1906.  Resistant to retiring, and beloved by faculty and students, Miss Leach worked in the new library until 1914 when, at the age of 79 years, she transferred to the new School of Architecture and Allied Arts, where she served as librarian and clerical assistant for the next ten years. In his moving commemoration of the respected Miss Leach, who died in 1930, Dean Lawrence noted that she was in the process of translating Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (Paris, 1869-73) for the benefit of the students.

Today, the Racinet volume can still be found among the collections of today’s Design Library http://library.uoregon.edu/aaa/index.html , which in 1992 was the focus of an expansion of Lawrence Hall, the home of the College of Design.  Occupying three floors, the library’s sunlit spaces and seating arrangements provide a welcoming environment for users. A hallmark of the space is a two-story reading room named for Marion Dean Ross, the first chair of the Art History department, whose bequest created an endowment dedicated to the acquisition of rare works that state funding could not afford.  The Ross fund allowed an enhancement of a collection of rare books given by donors over the years.

Library staff have informally named a smaller reading room after Camilla Leach. In addition to enabling study and research, this room is used to present to eager audiences selections from the library’s collection of artist’s books, rare books, and other artifacts.  If Miss Leach returned, she would recognize some of these rare materials, but would regard most fondly the architecture student drawings http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39794  dating from the founding of the college, and preserved throughout the years by her dedicated successors.

(1)    Announcing the New College of Design, Around the O, April 17, 2017, https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uos-new-college-design-will-put-focus-creativity

 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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In January 2017 the Department of Architecture moved into the new 87,200 sq.ft. Design Building in the center of the UMass Amherst Campus. The state of the art facility, designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates is one of the largest mass timber structures in the US.

Ajla Aksamija has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Her book Integrating Innovation in Architecture: Design, Methods and Technology for Progressive Practice and Research was published by John Wiley & Sons. She published three journal articles in The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, the Journal of Architectural Engineering and the Perkins+Will Research Journal. She presented papers at the 3rd International Conference on Biodigital Architecture & Genetics in Barcelona, Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) 2017 Conference in Toronto, PowerSkin 2017 Conference in Munich, and the Facade World Congress in Los Angeles.

Caryn Brause, Assistant Professor, published The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration (Routledge 2017). The book received First Prize in the 2017 Building Technology Educator’s Society (BTES) Book Award. 

Carey Clouse has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

Sandy Litchfield, Assistant Professor presented in an Invitational group exhibition, “East by Northeast: New Directions in Landscape” (September 25th through October 22nd) at the  Martha Gault Art Gallery, Slippery Rock University, PA. 

Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History, published two books to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act:  Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation (UMass, 2016), and Why Preservation Matters (Yale, 2016). 

Pari Riahi joined UMass in the fall of 2016 as an Assistant Professor. She received the FRG/HEG grant at UMass for her research: Reconfiguring Parisian Suburbs. She has published an invited paper in the Journal of Architecture and presented at the 105 ACSA Annual Meeting in Detroit.

Stephen Schreiber, Chair, was elected as a regional director of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at its 98th Annual Business Meeting. 

The UMass Amherst’s Department of Architecture hosts a diverse and multi-disciplinary Lecture Series in the fall of 2017. For more info see: 2017 UMass Amherst lecture series

Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech – Architecture Program:

Following architecture faculty has been appointed to administrative positions:

Dr. Richard Blythe, Ph.D., has been appointed Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to the rank of Professor of Architecture. Blythe, former professor and dean of RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia, will join Virginia Tech on Oct. 10, when the college’s sixth dean, Jack Davis, F.A.I.A. will step down to teach after 11 years at the helm of the college. Prior to his role as dean, Blythe served for five years as head of the RMIT School of Architecture and Design. He lectured at the University of Tasmania for 14 years, where he served as deputy head of the School of Architecture and was the vice chancellor’s representative on the Tasmanian government’s Building and Construction Industries Council. Blythe earned a Ph.D. in design/practice-based research from RMIT University; a master of architecture from the University of Melbourne; and bachelor’s degrees in architecture and environment design from the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology.

Associate Professor Hunter Pittman, R.A., has been appointed as Director of the School of Architecture + Design. Pittman served as Interim Director during the previous year. Pittman is the former chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and the chair of the Advanced Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program of the School of Architecture + Design.

Associate Professor Dr. Hilary Bryon, Ph.D., has been appointed as Assistant Director of Special Projects of the School of Architecture + Design.

Associate Professor Mario Cortes has been appointed as chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program.

Following faculty member has been granted promotion by the University:

Professor Michael Ermann has been promoted from the rank of Associate Professor with tenure to the rank of Professor.

Following new faculty have been hired to the architecture program:

Assistant Professor Katie MacDonald has been appointed to a teaching position at the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. MacDonald is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard University. She is co-founder and co-principle of After Architecture. MacDonald has held teaching appointments at Temple University, Philadelphia University, and Boston Architectural College.

Faculty Publications, Exhibition, Invited Lectures, etc.:

Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Grant, Ph.D., R.A., has published the book “Integrated Building Performance with Design: An Architecture Student’s Guidebook” (Routledge, 2017, 220 pages, 199 Color Illustrations).

Associate Professor Dr. Hilary Bryon, Ph.D., has published a chapter titled “Contra-Construction: Theo van Doesburg’s Obliques View of Modern Architecture” in Companions to the History of Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2017).

Professor Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D, P.E., and his students designed and developed the Portable Tuned Mass Damper, which is a device that can be used to reduce structural vibrations. The work has been debuted in several national and international publications. The research was sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Several graduate and undergraduate architecture and engineering students contributed to the research and development of the devices.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., published an article titled “Alpine Architecture” to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the production of the legendary treatise “Alpine Architecture” by famed German architect Bruno Taut in the British journal Disegno. Quarterly Journal of Design. No. 14, London: Spring 2017. Breitschmid also published a chapter titled “Glass House at Cologne,” discussing the landmark Glass Pavilion of 1914 by Bruno Taut in “Companions to the History of Architecture” (Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2017). Breitschmid was invited to present a lecture on “Ludwig Mies van der Rohe” as part of presentation cycle focused on the city of Berlin at the Accademia di Architettura of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio on March 9, 2017.

Picture Credit: Richard Blythe, the New Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Associate Professor Thomas Forget presented “Change of Scale: A Model of City as Territory” in the session City Models: Making and Remaking Urban Space at the 70th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) at the University of Strathclyde, Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, June 7-11, 2017.

Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee presented “From Blue-Printing to Finger-Printing: Building Healthy Communities with Scenario Planning” at CUPUM2017 15th International Conference at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, July 11-14. His paper will be published as a book chapter in Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures by Springer Press (2017). 

Associate Professor Nadia Anderson presented “Gentrification: The New Urban Renewal, Cherry, Charlotte, NC” at the 48th Annual Conference of EDRA at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Madison, WI, June 1-4, 2017. 

Assistant Professor Rachel Dickey presented, “Soft Computing in Design: Developing Automation Strategies from Material Indeterminacies” at CAADFutures 2017: Future Trajectories of Computation in Design at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-14, 2017. 

Associate Professor Chris Beorkrem’s 2nd edition of Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication (Routledge Press, 2017) was released August 1, 2017.

Associate Professor Mona Azarbayjani presented “Visual Qualities and Perceived Thermal Comfort” and “Questionnaire Survey on Factors Influencing Occupant’s Overall Satisfaction on Different Office Layout in a Mixed-Humid Climate” at the 2017 ARCC Conference “Architecture of Complexity” at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, June 14-17, 2017.  

Associate Professor Jefferson Ellinger presented “Next Generation Building Technologies: A Different Path Towards Commercialization” at the 2017 ARCC Conference “Architecture of Complexity” at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, June 14-17, 2017.

Associate Professor Deb Ryan was elected Chair of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Planning Commission, effective July 1, 2017. The role of the Planning Commission is to advise the Mayor, Charlotte City Council and the Mecklenburg County Commissioners on all matters related to urban design, long range planning and rezoning.

Assistant Professor Marc Manack of SILO AR+D was selected to exhibit in the “Biennial 600: Architecture” at the AMoA in Amarillo, Texas Jul 14-Oct 1, 2017.  Recently nominated for a USA Artists Fellowship, he’s presently in Chicago with 10 SoA students for two weeks working on four design-builds raising awareness to the challenges of public housing. This work will be part of the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial, Sep 16-Jan 7, 2018. 

Associate Professor Peter Wong and Professor Chris Jarrett presented “RAW: Social and Economic Complexity in Wilmore” at the 2017 ARCC Conference “Architecture of Complexity” at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, June 14-17, 2017.  

Associate Professor Nadia Anderson with Associate Professor’s Jose Gamez and Betsy West were awarded a ‘Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund’ grant ($5,000) to bring Majora Carter to UNC Charlotte during AY 17-18.

Associate Professor Emily Makas presented “Interpreting Mostar in the City’s Museums” at the IFPH-FIHP 4th Annual Conference at the University of Bologna, Campus Ravenna, Italy, June 5-9, 2017.  She also presented “Multiculturalism in Public Histories of Mostar and Sarajevo since the Bosnian War” at the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) 2017 Conference at the Van Lear Jerusalem Institute, June 13-15, 2017. 

Associate Professor Zhongjie Lin presented “Rethinking the Compact City” at the 11th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference in Harbin, China, June 16-18, 2017.  He also presented “Toward an Asian Sustainable Urbanism” and “Suzhou Industrial Park: A Case Study in Town Building Based on Singapore Model” at the Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) 2017 International Conference, “Design to Thrive,” Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3-5, 2017.

Kyounghee Kim was promoted to Associate Professor with Permanent Tenure. This summer she has been overseeing facade fabrication of Xiqu Center (Chinese Opera House) in West Kowloon, Hong Kong designed by BingThom Architects (completion 2018). She presented “Bio-Climatic Design: Double Skin Facades Climate Implications on System Selection” at the International Conference on Environment, Energy, and Sustainability in Phuket, Thailand, Aug 6-7, 2017. 

Associate Professor Chris Beorkrem, Professor Eric Sauda and students Jack (Michael-Paul) James and Ashley Damiano will be presenting co-authored papers at the 2017 Design Modeling Symposium, “Humanizing Digital Reality” at Ecole National Superiore d’Architecture de Versailles in Paris, France, Sep 18-20, 2017.  The Conference Proceedings will be published as a book by Springer Press. 

Professor Emeritus David Walters co-authored “Collaboration and Co-Production with Communities in Masterplanning,” a chapter in Rethinking Masterplanning: Creating Quality Places (ICE Publishing, 2017). 

Professor Eric Sauda’s co-authored paper “Urban Activity Explorer: Visual Analytics and Planning Support Systems (w/ A Karduni, H Cho, W Dou, W Ribarsky, G Wessel) was also published as a book chapter in Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures by Springer Press (2017). 

Assistant Professor Catty Dan Zhang received Harvard’s Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability. The award is presented annually in recognition of the best Master in Design Studies (MDes) thesis in the area of technology and sustainable design. She’s currently working on the design of the Silverlake International School with located in Fuyang District, Hangzhou, China with Axi:Ome. 

Assistant Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou gave an invited talk and workshop at UN Studio (Ben Van Berkel & Caroline Bos) in June 2017 on the future of mobility and the implications of shifting modes of transportation on architecture and urbanism. He was also invited as one of the Technical Chairs for the upcoming ACADIA 2017 Conference, “Disciplines Disruption” at MIT (Nov 2-4) and will be co-organizing a session on education. 

Visiting Assistant Professor Gustavo Leclerc wrote the catalogue essay, “Tiempo de Hibridos: Migration, Hybridity and Cosmopolitics at the US-Mexico Border” for the exhibition The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibilities at the Craft & Folk Art Museum Los Angeles (CAFAM), opening Sep 10, 2017. 

NewSchool of Architecture & Design

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NewSchool of Architecture & Design Welcomes Renowned Architects Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa and Sergei Gepshtein  as Guest Lecturers in Neuroscience for Architecture

 Special four-day executive course focusing on exploring the juncture of brain and the built environment 

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – August 14, 2017 – NewSchool of Architecture & Design (NewSchool) is excited to welcome world-renowned architects and visionary leaders as guest lecturers at its new, innovative Neuroscience for Architecture Summer Intersession Program. This special four-day executive course, which kicks off today and runs through August 17, 2017, provides American Institute of Architects (AIA) continuing education credits for attendees, but more importantly, examines the juncture of brain and the built environment.

Leaders in the field of neuroscience for architecture will discuss their work as it relates to building bridges between these two fields. Special guest lectures and panel discussions will be held, featuring renowned architect Steven Holl, FAIA and noted Finnish architect/author/critic Juhani Pallasmaa, Hon. FAIA. Joining them will be NewSchool neuroscience faculty members Gil Cooke, FAIA and Tatiana Berger, Assoc. AIA, along with guests Gordon Chong, Ph.D., FAIA and Alison Whitelaw, FAIA. Prominent neuroscientists featured in the program include Fred Gage, Ph.D., Thomas Albright, Ph.D., and Sergei Gepshtein, Ph.D. of the Salk Institute, and Eduardo Macagno, Ph.D., Founding Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego.

Special Guest Lectures:

Juhani Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect, professor of architecture, and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. Pallasmaa’s approach to architecture and design is rooted in phenomenology, in which he allows the environment to inform his designs. As a leading international figure in contemporary architecture, design, and art culture, he has written and lectured extensively throughout the world on architecture and the visual arts, environmental psychology, and cultural philosophy for more than 40 years.

Steven Holl, who leads an internationally renowned architecture and urban design office with locations in New York City and Beijing, is an American artist and award-winning architect. He is known for his organic design approach in which the site itself generates an “architectural idea,” which he then applies. Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each site to create a concept-driven design. He was one of the keynote speakers at last fall’s Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture conference.

Sergei Gepshtein is the founding director of the Collaboratory for Adaptive Sensory Technologies at the Salk Institute. With a background in neurobiology, psychology, and vision science, he brings a unique perspective on how visual systems organize information and shape our perception.

The Neuroscience for Architecture Summer Intersession Program will include studio work along with other guest lecturers and studio time. This unique course also features noted neuroscientists describing current research and discussing its implications for design. This course is intended for licensed architects, urban designers, planners, design professionals, healthcare industry professionals, doctoral candidates, and post-graduate students in architecture and related fields. 

For more information on NewSchool of Architecture and Design, please contact Rachael Lighty at rlighty@newschoolarch.edu. 

About NewSchool of Architecture & Design:
Located in San Diego’s design district, NewSchool of Architecture & Design prepares students for career success in design fields through an emphasis on interdisciplinary and global design skills, industry collaborations and real-world projects. Programs include architecture, construction management, product design, media design, design studies, and interior architecture and design. NewSchool is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission. NewSchool’s Bachelor and Master of Architecture programs are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). NewSchool is one of more than 70 institutions in 25 countries that comprise the Laureate International Universities network. Through collaborations with sister  institutions in the Laureate network, including Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, NewSchool students are prepared to work in global and diverse organizations. For more information, visit www.newschoolarch.edu

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