The Boston Architectural College (BAC) has been accepted by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for participation in the inaugural launch of the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure Initiative, validating the College’s longstanding tradition of integrating in-class and experiential learning in architectural education.
As the only school in New England to earn recognition in NCARB’s Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure, the BAC aims to reconfigure the graduate architecture degree program, accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), to be able to offer students the opportunity to qualify for architectural licensure at the time of graduation. The College’s accepted proposal demonstrates the strong alliance that exists between practice and academics; it was crafted by a balanced team composed of two deans, Len Charney, dean of Practice and Karen Nelson, dean of the School of Architecture, along with key staff; Beth Lundell Garver, director of foundation instruction in practice, and Kyle Sturgeon, director of advanced architecture studios and building technology.
NCARB’s Licensure Task Force commended the BAC for its substantial effort in creatively incorporating experience and examination into the existing NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture curriculum, synthesizing pre-graduation academic coursework, internship requirements, and access to all divisions of the Architect Registration Examinations® (ARE®). This recognition enables the BAC to introduce a series of progressive educational changes that stand to benefit all BAC architecture students by eventually reshaping the College’s architecture curriculum.
The College is currently the only NAAB-accredited architecture degree-granting program to combine academic coursework with systematic qualitative and quantitative assessment of professional skills gained through non-classroom instruction and architectural internship. Moving forward, the College anticipates new collaboration with the 12 other accepted schools and welcomes conversations surrounding this process. NCARB has established a new Integrated Path Evaluation Committee (IPEC) to oversee the ongoing work of this initiative. It is anticipated that the IPEC will continue to coach accepted programs, promote engagement with jurisdictional licensing boards regarding necessary law or rule changes to incorporate integrated path candidates, and oversee the acceptance of future program applicants.
“Being selected as an NCARB ‘integrated path’ pilot recognizes the Boston Architectural College’s tradition of integrating rigorous academic coursework with applied, practice-based learning in monitored and evaluated experience settings,” said Len Charney. “It not only underscores the exceptional potential of the BAC’s approach but also strengthens the commitment of all partners—students, administrators, educators, and supervising practitioners alike—to redouble the collective efforts to communicate openly and ensure a student’s ultimate success.”
As described by Kyle Sturgeon, “This is a real game-changer for us. It advances what we have been doing to a higher level, bringing everyone involved together to accelerate and better prepare our architecture students’ path to licensure.”
The ACSA board of directors is pleased to announce the results of the 2016 ACSA Elections:
First Vice President: Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, Universidad de Puerto Rico Second Vice President: Branko Kolarevic, University of Calgary West Director: Corey T. Griffin, Portland State University East Central Director: Kelly Bair, University of Illinois at Chicago
Online Voting Below is information on the 2016 ACSA election, including candidate information. Official ballots were emailed to all full-member ACSA schools’ Faculty Councilors, who are the the voting representatives. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2016.
2016 ACSA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
First Vice President The First Vice President will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2016, with the first year served as First Vice President/President-Elect, the second year served as President, and the third year served as Past President. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.
Second Vice President The Second Vice President will serve on the Board for a four-year term, beginning on July 1, 2016, with the first year served as Second Vice President, the second year served as First Vice President/President-Elect, the third year served as President, and the fourth year served as Past President. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.
The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2016. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.
ACSA Election Process ACSA Bylaws, Article IX, Section 3: Election Process: “Elections shall be held in accordance with the Rules of the Board of Directors. Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors”. The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2016.
2016 ACSA Board Election Timeline
January 11, 2016
Ballots emailed to all Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
February 10, 2016
Deadline for receipt of completed online ballots ACSA office
March 2016
Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Seattle
The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2016.
College of Architecture Students Work with UNMC and MMI on Facility Design Concepts
Nothing is more exciting to a design student than the possibility of their designs actually being used in real-world situations. The work of UNL interior design and architecture students this past semester has set the groundwork for a new facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
When College of Architecture Instructor Sheila Elijah-Barnwell had heard that UNMC was considering a new facility for Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI), a healthcare facility that focuses on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, she jumped at the opportunity. She approached Dr. Wayne Stuberg, Professor and Interim Director of MMI, and Ron Schaefer, Interim Executive Director, Facilities Planning & Construction, with a proposal to involve her students in selecting a site and developing design concepts.
MMI welcomed the idea; in fact, a new facility had been on their radar for several years as part of their strategic campus plan and the idea of involving College of Architecture students in their strategic campus plan seemed like a great idea.
“Since we are part of the training institution of Nebraska, this was an ideal way to have UNMC collaborate with UNL on a project that would benefit the students as well as the families we serve,” said Dr. Stuberg.
“The facility is quite outdated, having first been built in the 50s and having been added on to twice,” commented Dr. Stuberg.
The College of Architecture and its students were equally excited, but they had their work cut out for them. This wasn’t just a weeklong project for these students. They spent a great portion of their semester researching multiple subjects related to this project even before developing design proposals.
In the beginning the students got to know MMI, who MMI was, what services they provided and who their clients were.
Next, students worked on site selection. They analyzed the UNMC campus and presented site proposals to the MMI administrators. Feedback from the MMI team was crucial to the students as they developed their preliminary designs further.
“Since we are multi-faceted in what we do, it was important for the students to understand how we should best be position within the new building,” Dr. Stuberg commented. “From these conversations, the students gained an understanding regarding the relationships between the departments and how to strategically locate those areas that shared clients or education and research interests.”
MMI met with the students again to go over their preliminary plans. “We had some key requirements to be carried through for all conceptual plans such as a central reception area,” Dr. Stuberg said.
A centralized location would allow for multi-disciplinary evaluations and reduce the need for the client to move from one departmental area to the next.
The culmination of the entire process came at last in early December when the twelve teams presented their final proposals to the MMI administrators and directors. MMI representatives were impressed by the teams’ creativity and said they had come a long way during this process.
“They needed to understand the needs of a complex population including the clinicians, staff members, researchers, students, clients and client families,” Elijah-Barnwell explained. “They did a great job of processing all those needs and client requirements and created some -thoughtful design proposals.”
“We hit the ground running with our research,” explained Luke Abkes, fifth-year master of architecture student. Abkes said even before he put pen to paper, he did hours of research on the client and the Institution.
MMI was the ideal partner according to the faculty and students.
“MMI was great with communicating their ideas and giving us feedback; they were very generous with their time,” Abkes added. “MMI was as invested in this project as we were which created a mutual excitement for everything that was going on.”
The students appreciated input from outside of the classroom for a different perspective and experience. “We were excited to finally have a real client and a real building that we were working on and they were excited because they were getting all of these brand new ideas from students who were thinking outside of the box, where as an architect, that they hire in the future, might be a little more bound by budget,” Abkes added.
Interior Design Instructor Stacy Spale thought having a real “client” pushed the students to excel. “The students did great with the client experience. I think the students always care more when it’s a real client, and it has real potential. In five or six years, some of the ideas our students presented might end up in the real new Munroe-Meyer Institute. That’s really exciting and inspiring. It gave them a since of purpose and direction. It’s not just an academic exercise, it has the potential to really change things.”
The average visitor might not understand the level of planning that goes into designing a building and all the considerations that are taken into account. However, these student teams thought of everything down to every material they chose and the reason for it. For example, they chose clear glass in areas where light can inspire people and open up a space and translucent or opaque glass in other areas where privacy was important.
Ashley Wojtalewicz, fourth-year interior design student and Luke Abkes’ interdisciplinary project partner, said the interior design students were assigned to detail out the recreational therapy area and the main lobby space. Both the architectural and the interior design students placed a great amount of consideration into the needs of MMI’s disabled patient population.
“With our material choices, the concept doesn’t really feel clinical at all but yet it still supports clinical activities, and that’s what we were going for as a team, we didn’t want the clients to feel like they were in an institution,” Wojtalewicz added.
Material choices were important to Wojtalewicz for user comfort. For example, many interior designers chose carpet in appropriate spaces not only for comfort but also the acoustics in the room.
Interior design finish materiality was also useful to guide the user through the facility in an intuitive, seamless way, also known as “wayfinding,” which was a common theme woven into many of the student proposals.
“Using materiality, there are different ways that we can give visual cues to the patient; so if they can’t read, they still know where to go,” commented Wojtalewicz. Wayfinding is spatial problem-solving using landmarks or visual cues. The interior design students used their material selections to intuitively lead patients through the building. In one proposal, all blue lines on the floor lead to the front desk and all red lines lead to physical therapy, etc. In another proposal, all the levels of the building have different wall colors to assist the visitor with wayfinding.
Both Wojtalewicz and Abkes, said their instructors were key contributors to the project’s success.
“My instructor, Stacy Spale, has given us really great feedback as we moved through the process,” commented Wojtalewicz. “She has a great deal of background in healthcare design.”
Abkes concurred and added, “My instructor Sheila is actually an adjunct professor who also works at HDR. She’s very well connected with a lot of the healthcare industry around Omaha. She was able to bring in real-world experience.”
From MMI’s standpoint, “It’s a win-win situation,” Dr. Stuberg said.
The students presented themselves and their ideas well and were very professional through the whole project. Dr. Stuberg admitted at times, the students would bring up ideas that MMI hadn’t even thought of yet. Dr. Stuberg said he can see components of the student designs being incorporated into the final facility. He added that their designs and research will definitely be part of the foundational document they give the contracted architectural firm.
When asked if he would partner with the College of Architecture again given a similar opportunity, Dr. Stuberg responded, “I would do this again in a heartbeat!”
Navigation tabs of AASL Core Reference List organized by research category.
Need to identify the key publications or databases to refer to for a variety of specific architectural research needs? Do you need to quickly distribute a list of major technical handbooks and standards or other resources to your undergraduate class? Then check out the AASL Core Reference List for help!
AASL would like to share with you the results of this important team effort. The Association of Architecture School Librarians has just completed a project designed to benefit faculty and students in schools of architecture as well as our fellow librarians. For several years, task force members Kathy Edwards (Clemson), Janine Henri (UCLA), Barbara Opar(Syracuse) and Amy Trendler (Ball State) have been creating a list of core reference resources needed for academic programs in architecture.
First, the task force identified essential categories of reference tools and then developed a list of corresponding resources for each category which would aid researchers from beginner to advanced. The list includes the following categories:architecture schools; bibliographies/guides to research; biographical resources; building codes and regulations; cost estimating; dictionaries and encyclopedias; graphic standards and drawing guides; surveys and histories of architecture; special collections; indexes and databases; professional practice; specifications and trade literature; guides to architectural styles; technical handbooks and standards; and finally visualresources. In addition to the original categories the authors added a section listing publications relevant to each of the NAAB Student Performance Criteria and related subcategories. The authors collaborated using Springshare’s online LibGuides platform, which facilitated compiling the resources for each category, reviewing each other’s selections, and eventually publishing the Core Reference List. Overall editing of the AASL Core Reference List was completed by Barret Havens, Outreach Librarian at Woodbury University in Burbank.
AASL hopes that this guide will prove useful to faculty, students and fellow librarians in quickly ascertaining core reference works in the field of architecture. As a catalog of key resources, it could become part of the NAAB accreditation used to evaluate architecture libraries. AASL’s core periodical list– which is in the process of being updated- has been used in this way. We welcome your input and feedback on this and other lists we develop and update in the hopes of benefiting the field of architectural education.
Danielle S. Willkens, PhD, Assoc AIA, FRSA and visiting assistant professor of architecture at Auburn since 2014, has been awarded the prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship by the Society of Architectural Historians. This $50,000 award allows an emerging scholar to travel anywhere in the world for one year to gain firsthand experience of architecture and landscapes. For more, click here.
“Homage to Malevich,” a quilt created by Sheri Schumacher, associate professor emerita, has been accepted for exhibition at the QuiltCon West Conference sponsored by the Modern Quilt Guild in Pasadena, California, February 18-21. The largest modern quilt show in the world, QuiltCon West will feature 375 quilts from more than 1,340 entries. For more about QuiltCon West, click here.
Auburn fifth-year Architecture / Interior Architecture dual degree student, Sarah Wahlgren was elected National President of the American Institute of Architecture Students for 2016-2017. Read more here.
Lecturers Emily Andersen and Geoff DeOld’s firm DeOld Andersen Architecture has speculations on the public right-of-way included in “Public Public,” an exhibition examining pubic space in public places through the lens of art/architectural interventions and investigations.
Professor and Interim Associate Dean Rumiko Handa has contributed a chapter titled “Experiencing the Architecture of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent,” in Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality: Essays on the Experience, Significance, and Meaning of the Built Environment. The book was co-edited by Julio Bermudez, Thomas Barrie, and Phillip Tabb, and came out in October this year from Ashgate.
Handa presented a paper titled “W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz: Architecture as a Bridge between the Lost Past and the Present,” at the Reading Architecture Symposium, held in Athens, Greece, in June 16-18, 2015.
Handa also presented a paper titled “Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Synecdoche, Palimpsest, and Wabi in Architecture of the Everyday,” at the International Conference on East Asian Architecture Culture, held in Gwangju, Korea, in November 10-14, 2015.
MS-ARCH graduate Tshui Mum Ha presented a paper titled “Reuse, Recycling, and Reintroduction of History with Contemporary Eyes through Adaptive Reuse, at the International Conference on East Asian Architecture Culture, held in Gwangju, Korea, in November 10-14, 2015. The paper is based on her Master of Science in Architecture thesis, and Rumiko Handa was her thesis advisor.
Associate Professor Tim Hemsath’s international conference presentation on ‘Building Design with Energy Performance as Primary Agent’ is scheduled to be published in the Energy Procedia Journal. This spring he has been invited to speak at two events. First, on the subject of Zero-net Energy Homes at the Nebraskan’s for Solar March meeting and second at the Nebraska ASHRAE Chapter on Building Energy Modeling in Design. In partnership with the University of Missouri, Professor Hemsath will help lead two student design teams to compete in the national Race to Zero competition sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy and held at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Research Support Facility, April 16th to 17th.
Professor Sharon Kuska, was listed as one of Design Intelligence’s 25 Most Admired Educators for 2016.
Assistant Professor Peter Olshavsky, Ph.D. will be presenting a paper on Daniel Libeskind’s “Three Lessons in Architecture” at the Society of Architectural Historians’ conference this coming April. Olshavsky’s essay, “Hidden Multitude: Libeskind’s Three Lessons in Architecture” will be published in the forthcoming peer-reviewed journal Dialectics (University of Utah).
Lecturer Bob Trempe’swork has been selected as one of only two submissions picked from the United States for the Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice sponsored by The Forks Renewal Corporation. A total of 160 entries were submitted from all over the world as part of this year’s competition. These designs will be installed on the Red River Mutual Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as part of a system of warming huts and ice trails adding to the area’s growing tourist attractions.
> Honor Award, Interior Architecture, Bucktown House, AIA Central States Region > Interior Architecture, Bucktown House, AIA Chicago 2015 Design Excellence Award Min | Day’s work has been featured in several publications including:
> Omaha World Herald, “Blue Barn Theatre’s new home has slightly larger capacity, one-of-a-kind features,” by Betsie Freeman, September 9, 2015 > Interior Design magazine, “Influence is Immortality” (includes Bucktown House) by Fred A. Bernstein, October 2015 pp162-164 > Chicago Architect magazine, (Bucktown House) Nov./Dec. 2015
Finally, Min | Day has been shortlisted as a finalist of the Architecture League of New York’s 2016 Emerging Voices award and lecture series.
Alumni Kevin Bukowski and Liz Szatko (2015 Bachelor of Science in Design graduates) won two awards for their Air Rights Architecture project in the 2015 AIA Nebraska Design Awards The pair collaborated on this design in Assistant Professor David Karle’s ARCH 410 studio during the fall of 2014. The two awards are:
> Merit Award, Emerging Architects Unbuilt > People’s Choice, Emerging Architects Unbuilt (this award is determined by popular vote, not jury)
Assistant Professor Marc Schulitz‘s firm Schulitz Architekten, along with São Paulo-basedTetra Arquiteturawon the 2015 International Olympic Committee/International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities Silver Awardfor theArena Fonte Novain Salvador, Brazil.
Professor Dr. Pablo La Roche led a design team that included alumsAireen Batungbakal (’10) andArianne Ponce (’15) in the2015 Tristan da Cunha Design Competition, launched on behalf of the island government of 270 residents. Their entry,t37, made it to the juried selection presented to theIsland Council to address solutions ranging fromgovernment and residential infrastructure towater management and energy usage.Tristan da Cunha lays 1,750 miles — about 7-10 days of sailing — southwest ofCape Town.
Professor Gary L. McGavin, AIArecently signed a new contract with NCARB to convert and update NCARB’s Professional Development Program Momograph – Seismic Mitigation into an electronic format. It is due in March 2016.He also taught a course for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services at Parsons in Pasadena for the Pasadena-Foothill Chapter of the AIA. The class trains licensed architects, engineers and building officials to travel to disasters for California’s Safety Assessment Program (SAP) immediately following a significant disaster.
Associate Professor Michael Fox published a new book with Princeton Architectural Press: “IA: Adaptive World” as part of the Architectural Briefs series. He was the Keynote speaker at the AIAOC Awards Ceremony and lectured at the Professional Practice Week hosted by Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The event highlighted for the student how excellent building requires attention to many of the operational aspects of architectural practice. Michael’s lecture focused on innovative architectural design and practice.A project “Eco 29, an interactive Wedding Hall” in Israel done by his office FoxLin with Associate Professor Juintow Lin recently received an AIA award.
Associate Professor Juintow Lin‘s students’ design for a cabin for the State Park system was recently given an AIA design award.
Faculty member Mitchell de Jarnett and CPP students Erin Day, Hana Lemseffer, Kirill Volchinskiy received honorable mention in the international Istanbul Community Garden Competition for their entry: “The City Below, The Ground Above.” The CPP team worked alongside ex-CPP (now ELAC) faculty Orhan Ayyuce, Woodbury faculty Joshua G. Stein and student Eda Yetim. Faculty member Barry Milofsky of M2A Architects received a 2015 California Preservation Foundation Award for the restoration of the Rosslyn Hotel Apartments to provide housing for 264 homeless veterans and chronic homeless in the 1923 historic hotel originally designed by the office of John Parkinson.
Faculty member Omar L. Garza, SE of Nous Engineering led the structural engineering for The Pulp Pavilion project by Ball-Nogues Studio which was recognized by Architect Magazine for the 2015 R+D Awards. The project consisted of a pavilion made of seven 20-foot-tall woven “trees” that joined together in a latticed roof. Multiple failure tests on mock-ups along with a finite element analysis of the entire pavilion helped understand its performance under live and wind loads.
2017 ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster Deadline: February 24, 2016
The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2017 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members participating in the accreditation process will be made by NAAB.
Nominating Procedure
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.
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).
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 temporary leave of absence.)
ACSA Nominee Selection Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent 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 February 24, 2016. E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to eellis@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2016. 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 2016-2017 team visits in November 2016.
Nominations should be sent to: ACSA, Board Nominations 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 Email: eellis@acsa-arch.org
We are pleased to present the slate of candidates for the 2016 national board! New this year is the selection of a first and second Vice President, following the Bylaws change in November. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by 5pm PT, February 10, 2016.
This year’s conference in Santiago will focus on emerging disglobal narratives in the academic and design communities. Submit your abstracts by January 20 and your projects by February 24.
The ACSA Board invites proposals from member schools to host the 2017 Fall Conference, an opportunity to bring educators from around the world to your campus. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2016.
The Mayor’s Institute on City Design is accepting applications to host 2016 MICD sessions. Architecture, planning, and landscape architecture schools, design organizations, and nonprofits are eligible to apply. Deadline: February 10, 2016, 4 p.m. ET.
The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2017 ACSA Fall Conference. This ACSA Fall Conference will be thematic in focus and feature scholarly presentations, based on peer-reviewed abstracts, and a digital proceedings that will be available in ACSA’s permanent online archive.
The Fall Conference is an opportunity for the host school to bring educators from across North America and beyond to their campus. The thematic focus can highlight a school’s strengths and demonstrate educational excellence to upper administration. Other goals for the new format include strengthening social opportunities for participants with common scholarly interests and bringing concentrated visibility to the work being done in the topic area.
Attendance at the Fall Conference is anticipated to be 100-200 people, with host schools using campus facilities or other appropriate venues (including a local hotel or conference center) for conference sessions. Joint proposals from neighboring schools and partnerships with other groups (such as those formed around the thematic area) are welcome.
Final proposals will be reviewed and selected through the ACSA Board of Directors Scholarly Meetings Committee.
Proposals should be 3 pages or less, excluding supporting documents, and should include:
1) A title and paragraph-length description of the conference that clearly identifies the theme.
Further explanation for the theme is encouraged. However, a separate brief description of the conference is required.
2) Proposed dates for the conference.
The Fall Conference should occur in late September or October, typically a Thursday–Saturday.
3) The name of the conference chair or co-chairs, as well as any other relevant organizers.
Identify one or more faculty members to act as chair and whose area of expertise relates to the proposed theme. The chair(s) will be responsible for the academic portion of the conference and will work with ACSA staff on logistical details, communication with partners, and other planning and promotion duties.
4) A description of other potential conference features: partnerships, sponsors, keynote speakers, tours, etc. that would enhance the conference.
5) Clear expression of interest by school.
Show evidence of support from the school’s dean, provost, or other appropriate university representatives through letters and/or supporting documents.
6) A description of other resources available for the conference.
This includes potential venues for conference sessions, keynote lectures, and receptions; potential tour sites; or other local connections to enhance the conference.
Fall Conferences are normally funded by income from registration fees and sponsorship. This income pays for expenses related to meeting space, audio-visual equipment, invited speaker travel and honoraria, and food and beverage.
ACSA will provide the following support: international promotion of the conference, from the call for papers through the proceedings publication; an online system (including staff support) for submission, review, and upload of scholarly material; publishing services for conference programs and proceedings; and other planning services, such as negotiation and coordination of meeting facilities.
In-kind support from the school is requested for invited speaker costs, a/v equipment, meeting space, student volunteers, etc. Schools providing in-kind support will be recognized for their contribution in promotional materials, and participation of students and faculty in the conference will be invited.
Location: Halifax, NS Host School: Dalhousie University Co-chairs: Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University; Ursula Hartig, Technical University of Berlin & Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University Conference Website
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Host School: Florida Atlantic University Co-chairs: Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University; Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University; Rosemary Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology Conference Website
Location: Philadelphia, PA Host Schools: Temple University Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, University of Utah; John Quale, University of Virginia; & Rashida Ng, Temple University Conference Website
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