The AASL Core Reference List

 

Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors

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.

 

Auburn University

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.

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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’s work 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. 

Professor and Director Jeffrey L. Day’s firm Min | Day won several awards:
2015 AIA Nebraska Design Awards. 

> Honor Award, Architectural Interiors: Bucktown House
> Merit Award, Unbuilt: BART / Muni Market Street Entrances
> Honor Award, Architectural Detail: Dr. No Cabinet
> Merit Award, Architectural Interiors: Spirits Pavilion, Slow Food Nation

AIA Central States Design Awards and from the AIA Chicago:

> 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)

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Assistant Professor Marc Schulitz‘s firm Schulitz Architekten, along with São Paulo-based Tetra Arquitetura won the 2015 International Olympic Committee/International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities Silver Award for the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil.

Professor Dr. Pablo La Roche led a design team that included alums Aireen Batungbakal (’10) and Arianne Ponce (’15) in the 2015 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 the Island Council to address solutions ranging from government and residential infrastructure to water management and energy usage. Tristan da Cunha lays 1,750 miles — about 7-10 days of sailing — southwest of Cape Town.

Professor Gary L. McGavin, AIA recently 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.

Call for Nominations: 2017 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

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

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

Nominee Qualifications

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

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

ACSA Update 1.15.16

 

January 15, 2016

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2016 ACSA Board Candidates

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.

 

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Call for Abstracts/Projects: 2016 International Conference

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.

 

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Host the ACSA Fall Conference

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.

 

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RFQ for 2016 MICD Regional Sessions

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.

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
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2017 ACSA Fall Conference: Request for Proposals

Deadline: March 1, 2016

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.

ACSA Fall Conferences from the last four years:

Location: Syracuse, NY
Host Schools: Syracuse University
Co-chairs: Roger Hubeli & Julie Larsen, Syracuse University
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Location: Halifax, NS
Host School: Dalhousie University
Co-chairs: Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University; Ursula Hartig, Technical University of Berlin & Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University 
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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 
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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

Location: Houston, TX
Host Schools: Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University
Co-chairs: Ikhlas Sabouni and Jorge Vanegas
Conference Website

Schools interested in hosting are encouraged to contact the ACSA to discuss potential arrangements prior to making a proposal.

SUBMISSION AND INFORMATION
Please submit your proposal, by March 1, 2016, and questions to:

Eric Wayne Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org
phone: 202.785.2324

ACSA Update 1.8.16

 

January 8, 2016

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Join ACSA for Webinar on Academic Internships
on January 22

Increasingly, architecture schools are seeking ways for students to receive work experience while enrolled. Join us on January 22 from 2:00pm–3:00pm ET, to discuss efforts to develop relationships with firms, establish mutual goals for a work-while-studying experience, and innovative ways to use federal work-study funds to place students. Registration is free at acsa-arch.org/webinars.

 

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Call for Abstracts

The conference will focus on emerging disglobal narratives in the academic and design communities throughout the Americas through six topics and one open category. Authors are invited to submit 500 word abstracts in English or Spanish and a maximum of 5 images. The abstracts should be prepared for a blind peer review process with no references to author or institution. The same abstract may not be submitted to multiple topics. Submit by January 20.

 

Call for Projects

In recognition of highly visual research and creative work, the conference will feature a juried Research + Design Projects Exhibition. Educators, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are invited to submit their work as a single PDF image (20″ x 30″ in. portrait), along with an optional abstract. Selected projects will be included in a physical exhibition held during the conference and published in a digital proceedings. There will also be special merit awards in student and professional categories. Submit by February 24.

 

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North Carolina State University

Call for Academic Projects in Public Interest Design
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016 (5PM EST)

Learn More and Submit at http://seednetwork.org/pideg-call-for-academic-projects/

This call seeks College and University projects that evince the strategies and philosophies of public interest design pedagogy. Submitted projects will be double blind peer reviewed for inclusion in Part 2 of the book, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, edited by Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell and under contract with Routledge. This publication, the second in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebook series, will address a specifically academic audience of educators, scholars, and administrators intent on understanding the complexities of public interest design pedagogy.

Submissions are desired from across the disciplines of design including but not limited to: architecture, communication design, environmental design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, service design, urban design, and urban planning. Applicants whose projects embrace diversity and inclusion both within the academy and beyond are strongly encouraged to submit.

Please visit the SEED Network for complete information about the review process, submission themes, schedule, and requirements.

Questions may be directed to:
Lisa M. Abendroth, Professor
Communication Design Coordinator   
Metropolitan State University of Denver            
Founding Member, SEED Network             

lisa@seednetwork.org

University of Texas at Austin

On November 6, Professor Juan Miró, FAIA, accepted the 2015 Edward Romieniec Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions from the Texas Society of Architects. Additionally, Miró Rivera Architects’ (MRA) Chinmaya project graced the cover of Texas Architect‘s September/October 2015 Design Awards issue. The Hindu temple and educational building are the first phase of the mission’s new campus in North Austin.

Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb‘s recent and upcoming scholarly activities include:

  • Edited O’ Neil Ford Monograph 6: Narkomfin: Moisej J. Ginzburg, Ignatij Milinis, jointed published (fall 2015) by the School of Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design, __usev State Museum of Architecture, and the O’Neil Ford Chair in Architecture.
  • Authored the lead chapter, “L’Exposition de 1937 n’aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions,” In Architecture of Great Expositions 1937–1959, London: Ashgate, 2015. Editors Vladimir Paperny, Alexander Otenberg, and Rika Devos.

Students from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) took fourth place overall in the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition in Irvine, California, for their project, the NexusHaus. Over 75 students from seven disciplines were involved on the NexusHaus. School of Architecture instructors Michael Garrison, Petra Liedl, and Adam Pyrek supervised the students throughout the two-year project, with support from Michael Webber of UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, as well as TUM’s Werner Lang.

For the Badlands National Park Studio’s midterm review last week, six National Parks Service (NPS) staff came to Austin, from the park and from two NPS regional offices. Other NPS personnel observed and commented online. In September, 13 students (from five countries and six UTSOA graduate degree programs) traveled to the park for nine days of intensive fieldwork and interviews. Studio instructors Michael Holleran and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla accompanied them, as well as six staff members from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Ecological Design Group.

Michael Benedikt, Larry Doll, Michael Garrison, and Larry Speck — on their 40th anniversary of teaching and service to the School of Architecture celebrated with a  school-wide Conversation and 4×40 Fiesta

Associate Professor Fernando Lara’s 2015 publication, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, was named a runner-up at the Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards ceremony, held November 2, in Austin, Texas.

Danze Blood Architects [Elizabeth Danze, FAIA, and John Blood, AIA] received a 2015 Texas Society of Architects (TxA) Studio Award for their Saints Peter and Paul Chapel.

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe‘s book, Beyond BIM: Architecture Information Modeling, was just published by Routledge.

The award-winning residential designs of Alterstudio Architects LLP are showcased in “6 Houses,” an exhibit running through January 19, 2016, in Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery.

Alterstudio principal, Professor Kevin Alter, presented a lecture at the exhibit opening on October 26. In addition to garnering numerous awards including the Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects and Design Excellence awards from the American Society of Interior Design and the International Interior Design Association, the homes featured in the exhibit also drew praise from essayists in the book, 6 Houses, which features designs Alter created with firm partners Ernesto Cragnolino [B.Arch. ’97, BSAE ’97, BA Plan II ’97] and Tim Whitehill [B.Arch. ’02].

Assistant Professor Robert Young‘s article, “The Oregon Way: Planning a Sustainable Economy in the American West,” was published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER).

Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry/ El arte de la cantería mixteca by Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla was awarded with a medal for the best published work at the Architecture Biennale of Mexico City 2015.