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ProPEL ACSA Update 9.11.15
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Thérèse F. Tierney was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Illinois Informatics Institute where her research focuses on networked urbanism. In July, Tierney served as an external PhD examiner for Maryam Fazel, University of Sheffield, UK; thesis title: “Locative Media: from transcendental technologies to socio-formative spheres (an examination of the interface between place, agent and locative media).” More recently, Tierney’s invited essay, “Point Clouds, Locative Media, and Digitizing the Image of the City” will be published this December 2015 in Now, There: Scenes from a Post-Geographic City (Mimi Zeiger, Editor).
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED-AP, will have a new book to be published in October, Data-Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, 1st Edition (Wiley, 2015). An additional new book, Convergence: An Integrated Framework for Architecture (AD, 2016).
He was a Keynote speaker at The Next Frontier: Mining and Leveraging Data in BIM, BIM Perspectives conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC, 2015. He also gave/will give the following lectures: Measuring the Immeasurable, Validating the Ineffable, New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, 2015; Public Lecture: What Leveraging Data Meansfor You, Your Career, Firm and Profession, AIANY Technology Committee, Centerfor Architecture, NYC; Lecture: The Data on Data-Centric Practices, Knowledge Architecture, KA Connect 2015, knowledge management conference, San Francisco, CA; Lecture: National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) 2015 Symposium, 50 Shades of Leadership, Urbana, IL, 2015; Lecture: Architects Design By Manipulating Data, Not Form, AIA Northeast Illinois, 2015.
He also delivered two talks at Building Technology Educators’ Society 2015 International Conference: Educating the Technology-Inclined Design Architect; & Data Driven Design in Education and Practice.
He was featured in “Deep Data: How Greater Intelligence Can Lead To Better Buildings,” by C.C. Sullivan, in Building Design + Construction magazine, June 2015, pp.43-46. He was interviewed on BIM in education, BIMThoughts podcast S2E12, 2015.
Professor Deutsch also developed and delivered an online course on design thinking, Architecture as a Second Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts, 2015.
He was also invited as a Board Member, Advisor, UK-based Building Research Establishment (BRE) Advisory Board on BIM education in the US, 2015-16 and a Board Member, Virtual Builders, US BIM education, 2015-16.
During the summer Assistant Prof. Mark Taylor directed a summer design studio that worked in collaboration with Prosperity Gardens, a non-for profit organization who transforms vacant land into productive urban farm land. Students investigated the adaptive re-use of a former police evidence building and produced designs for a wash, pack and storage facility to be located on a one acre site in downtown Champaign. Funding secured from ADM with allow the facility to be built in the coming year.
University of Texas At San Antonio
Compiled and submitted by Edward R. Burian, Associate Professor, 1 Sept. 2015
Faculty News
Faculty in the Department of Architecture have recently published books, received design awards for built work, curated exhibitions, led innovative graduate design studios, and engaged in leadership roles in professional organizations.
Edward Burian, Associate Professor, has published his book, The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to Present, (University of Texas Press, 2015) that explores the undervalued architectural culture of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur from 1821 to the present; and is the first overview of the region during this time period in English or Spanish. His introductory essay was also recently published in English and Spanish in, Reforma 27/Alberto Kalach, (Arquine and Editorial RM, Mexico City, 2015). He recently wrote two chapters for, Arquitectura de Coahuila a través del tiempo, (Biblioteca Milenio de Historia, 2015), that explores the architecture in Coahuila from the colonial era to the present and will be published in Spanish in full color and is co-sponsored by the government of the state of Coahuila. One chapter considers the representation of the public domain in terms of civic buildings, while the other discusses current and future directions for the architecture of Coahuila.
Ian Caine, Assistant Professor participated in the fall of 2014 in an exhibition titled To-Be-Destroyed (TBD) at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto, Ontario, CA. The museum featured his project titled Living Galleries alongside the work of dozens of artists and designers from around the world, including Gordon Matta-Clark (United States), Jeanne van Heeswijk (Rotterdam), and Jesse Harris (Toronto). The exhibition imagined new approaches and possible futures for the contemporary art gallery, emphasizing the potential of new museums to emerge as mutable — not fixed — entities. The Living Galleries proposal imagines the venue for the new museum as the city itself, with the first exhibition a history of suburban sprawl.
Dr. Sedef Doganer, Assistant Professor is the graduate advisor of record and Associate Dept. Head in the Department of Architecture. She recently published a book chapter titled, “New Hotel Design,” that will appear in, Tourism and Recreational Buildings,” published by VITRA Contemporary Architecture Series, (2013) in both English and Turkish. Among other grants, she has been awarded an interdisciplinary grant by San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau to study “State of San Antonio Heritage Resources” for approximately $30,000 annually with Prof. Bill Dupont and Dr. David Bojanic (College of Business).
Diane Hays, FAIA, Senior Lecturer and Interior Design Coordinator, received a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Honor Award for her two UTSA Dept. of Architecture design-build studio projects at Bexar County’s Raymond Russell Park in San Antonio, TX.
Dr. Angela Lombardi, Assistant Professor has co-edited Lima, The Historic Center: Analysis and Restoration/ Centro Histórico. Conocimiento y restauración / Centro storico. Conoscenza e restauro, (Peru: Patrizia / Rome: Gangemi editore, 2012), that identifies and evaluates the endangered architectural heritage of Lima, Peru and was published in English, Spanish, and Italian.
Andrew Kudless of MATSYS in Oakland, CA http://matsysdesign.com/ was the Dean’s Distinguished 2014 Visiting Critic, teaching a graduate studio focusing on digital fabrication in which the studio designed, fabricated, and constructed a wood lattice structure in a park here in San Antonio, TX.
Kevin McClellan, former Adjunct Professor, was featured in Texas Architect, (March/April 2014) for his innovative work with TEX-FAB, http://www.tex-fab.net/, a nonprofit organization that connects professionals, students, and the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry to advance the discipline of architecture in its adoption of digital fabrication. He currently works as a Project Architect for Marmon Mok in San Antonio.
Taeg Nishimoto, Professor, has researched and explored materials as well as their applications for site specific installations as well as product designs for lighting fixtures. Installations using fabric and lighting were presented as a part of the city of San Antonio’s public art program to liven the downtown street by staging a nightly performance in the empty storefront spaces. Other lighting product designs using fabric, papercrete and resin impregnated mesh fabric were featured in numerous international design websites, including evolo (US), Designstreet (Italy), Arthitectural (England), and Morfae (Greece). His prototype design for play furniture using the concrete impregnated fabric called CCpf has received a design copyright.
Dr. Antonio Petrov, Assistant Professor has recently lectured and participated in panel discussions at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts in Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 67th Annual Conference in Austin, TX where he co-chaired a session on “Sacred Power: Religion, Politics and Architecture in the 20th Century.” His forthcoming book chapter, “Mediterranean Frontiers: Ontology of a Bounded Space in Crisis”, will appear in The Design of Frontiers: Control and Ambiguity published by Ashgate in July 2015. He has also published articles in journals and periodicals including, Arqa, ARRIS, Design Engine, Manifest, Mas Context and MONU. He is also currently working on an edited volume titled The City after the City to be published by Archeworks Papers, and a manuscript titled, Between Autonomy and Total Immersion in which he traces new forms of the secular in evangelical architecture in the United States. He was recently the Caudill Visiting Critic at Rice University, and the co-director of the Expander program, an interdisciplinary research think tank, at Archeworks in Chicago.
Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies was one of four UTSA faculty to receive the 2014 UT System’s Regents Outstanding Teaching Award awarded for extraordinary classroom performance and dedication to innovation. He was also a member of an interdisciplinary team of UTSA researchers to receive a $40,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to study of the energy efficiency and cost effectiveness of radiant barrier retrofits of historic homes in hot, humid climates, and also part of another interdisciplinary team of architecture and engineering faculty who received $16,500 from Harland Clarke Company to study continuous improvement and sustainability of their facilities. Recently, he was elected Vice President of the Architectural Research Centers Association (ARCC), an international association of schools of architecture and research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture and a supporting infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines.
Candid Rogers, AIA, Adjunct Professor, recently had his residential project in Marfa, TX published in TX Architect. He also won a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Award for his “Dos Diez” residential extension to an 1872 stone cottage in San Antonio, TX.
Javier Sánchez, design principal of the noted Mexico City architecture and development firm Jsa has a new book on the work of the firm, Urban Interlacing: Javier Sánchez, 2004-2013, (Arquine, 2014) published by the leading architectural press in Latin America. He was the initial Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Critic in the UTSA DOA for 2013, and his graduate studio at UTSA examined Colonia Atlampa, the last remaining parcel of underutilized urban land in the central core of Mexico City. The studio produced a group urban design proposal and individual mixed use infill projects.
A recent symposium and exhibit Walter Eugene George and the Cultural Legacy of the Rio Grande examined the work of retired UTSA faculty member Eugene George who passed away last year was held at the Institute for Texas Culture on Feb. 1st-28th 2014. George held the first San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professorship and during his career he generated some 500 drawings and 16,000 collected photographs focusing on the “Rio Grande Corridor” between Eagle Pass, TX and Brownsville, TX.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech’s architecture programs can report two new administrative appointments:
Associate Professor of Architecture Jim Bassett has been appointed as the new chair of Foundation Studies. The chair of Foundation Studies is responsible for first year of study for undergraduate degree programs of architecture, landscape architecture industrial design, and interior design in the School of Architecture + Design.
Associated Professor of Architecture David Dugas has been appointed as the new chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program. David Dugas is responsible for the second and third years of study of the Bachelor of Architecture program.
Following promotions and awarding of tenure of architecture faculty have been made by Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors: Professor of Architecture Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D., R.A. was promoted to the rank of professor.
Associate Professor of Architecture Dr. Elizabeth Grant, Ph.D., R.A. was granted tenure and was promoted to the rank of associate professor.
Virginia Tech’s architecture program can report the following outstanding achievement:
Nicholas Coates, who graduated in May (2015) with a B.Arch. degree, has received the prestigious 2015 Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM) Prize, a $50,000 travel and research fellowship [http://www.somfoundation.som.com/fellow/nicholas-coates]. His winning research proposal was entitled, “The Corner: A Marker of the New, A Memory of the Past.” Nick plans to travel to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Faculty, students, and alumni congratulate Nicholas Coates for this outstanding achievement. Virginia Tech’s architecture program would also like to thank SOM for its continued support and investment towards the fostering of the education of architects.
Faculty News:
Professor of Architecture Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E. was awarded a $10,000 grant by the Structural and Architectural Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation to promote research experience for undergraduates. The grant sponsors participation of undergraduate students in research on building vibration serviceability issues. Three of his students, Sarah Spanski, Ava Mohebbi, and Emily Bell participated in the same program last year. Each presented the results of their studies at the 2015 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Cheney, Washington, in April 2015. The papers have also been published as part of the conference.
Research Assistant Professor David Clark, Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., members of the Center for Design Research (CDR) were invited to exhibit experimental student work developed with emerging digital technology at the 2015 International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Technological Material Transformations featured projects developed with digital tools in the center’s undergraduate studio and work from the new robotics facility.
Robert Dunay, David Clark and Nathan King also presented work from the Virginia Tech Center for Design Research to a New York audience at Hafele headquarters in Manhattan. Furthering the goal to embed emerging technologies within architecture and design curriculums, Building the Future through Digital Design and Fabrication, a lecture accredited for AIA learning units, summarized past work of the Center while offering a prospectus for the future of design education and practice.
As part of the Design Boston Biennial, the Center for Design Research (CDR) worked with Mass Design Group in Boston to design, fabricate and erect an experimental pavilion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston MA. The structure is the first building project produced using the newly launched Center for Design Research Design Robotics Studio led by Dr. Nathan King, David Clark, and Director of the Center for Design Research, Robert Dunay.
Professors King, Clark, and Dunay also hosted the first annual Design Robotics Summit in the newly developed Architecture + Design, Center for Design Research, Design Robotics Studio that included participants from: University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Autodesk, and The Living.
Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Schaffer Sommers, University of Virginia, along with a number of contributing faculty members from both universities announced the development of the Commonwealth Consortium for Design and Health.
Nathan King, along with collaborators Rachel Vroman, Kathy King, and Olga Mesa led the panel Innovating Ceramics: Collaboration, Technology, and Pedagogy at the 49th annual National Council on Education in the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) conference in Providence, Rhode Island.
With Stefanie Pender, Rhode Island School of Design, and Dr. King co-founded the Glass Robotics Laboratory, a research collaboration that merges traditional glass working techniques and emerging design and computational technologies that led to the creation of the first ever Robotically 3D Printed Glass artifact.
Work produced at Virginia Tech by Assistant Professor Nathan King, Matt Lutz, Norwich University, and a team of collaborators entitled PLUG: Portable Laboratory on Uncommon Grounds was published in the recently released book Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues by Lisa M. Abendroth (Editor), Bryan Bell (Editor).
Through their collaboration The United Nathans, Nathan Melenbrink and Nathan King published a paper entitled “Fulldome Interfacing: A Real-time Immersive Environment as a Tool for Design” as part of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in the spring of 2015.
Robert Dunay and Professor of Architecture Jack Davis, F.A.I.A., Dean of Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies, lead the program International Architecture and Design (IAD) in its 20th year. Principals and senior level architects traveled to Portugal and Spain for an in-depth review of the work of Alvaro Siza and Souto de Moura. After visiting a number of works in Lisbon, the group of 15 architects met with Siza in his office in Porto. Participants receive 36 AIA learning units during the week-long course.
Instructor of Architecture Rengin Holt has been awarded the third prize in theBellingham National 2015 Art Exhibition and Awards for her monoprint entitled, “Around the Corner” [http://www.whatcommuseum.org/galleries/current-gallery/566-bellingham-national-2015]. The selected works was exhibited at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington.
Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Laura McGuire, Ph.D. recently published an essay, “Energy, Correalism, and the Endless House,” in Endless Kiesler, Klaus Bolliger and Florian Medicus, eds. (Basel: Birkhäuser/Edition Angewandte, 2015). She also published an entry on Scientific Management in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Clive Edwards, ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).
Professor of Architecture Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A. has been awarded an honorary medal by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú, the professional association of Peruvian architects. Breitschmid was awarded the medal for his contributions on the theme of “Modernismo Suizo.” Swiss Modernism is well recognized in Peru because a number of Swiss architects and designers immigrated to the Andean nation just after World War II and produced influential work that shaped the tradition of modern architecture of Peru. Breitschmid has authored several books and essays on the modern architecture of Switzerland that speak to that significant legacy.
Virginia Tech’s architecture program can also report a prominent departure of one of its allied faculty and program alumnae:
Professor Mitzi Vernon will be leaving Virginia Tech as she was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Professor Vernon’s expertise will be missed at Virginia Tech, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the School of Architecture + Design. We will miss Mitzi and wish her the best in her new role.
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