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Auburn University

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Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture has released the most recent issue of its newsletter, StudioAPLA. The Summer Issue features events, student work, faculty and alumni news. 

Sheri Schumacher, Interior Architecture Program Chair in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was one of the twenty-three artists receiving awards at the 41st Montgomery Art Build Museum Exhibition on Friday, June 12. She was awarded the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Fund Award for her mixed media textile, “Margins.” Ninety-seven artworks were selected for exhibition from 427 entered by 127 artists. All the winning pieces will be on display at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts through August 9. The Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition is a partnership between the museum and the Montgomery Art Guild. For more, go to this link.

Timothy Fuerst, a rising fifth-year architecture/interior architecture student in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, received First Prize in the Auburn University Outstanding ePortfolio competition at the second annual ePortfolio Award Luncheon in May.  The exceptional work of thirteen finalists was honored, five from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction. The ePortfolios were judged on effective communication, critical thinking through reflection, technical competency, and visual literacy. Finalists were nominated by faculty or peers, and their ePortfolios were reviewed by a committee made of faculty and students. For more, read here

Samuel Thomas Hurst IV, Dean of the Auburn College of Architecture, Design and Construction from 1958-1961, died on April 10 in Montecito, California. A Georgia Tech graduate, Hurst served in the Navy during World War II. He studied with Walter Gropius at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and Gropius remained a mentor and lifelong friend who influenced Hurst to devote himself to education with the spirit of the Bauhaus.  For more, click here.

North Carolina State University

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Now available — Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook

Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues introduces the standards and rigor that are needed to build public interest design into a practice that has a major global impact. Writings by Thomas Fisher, Heather Fleming, Michael Cohen, Michael P. Murphy Jr., Alan Ricks, and others cover topics such as professional business development, increasing positive impact, design evaluation, capacity building, and many more. 

Themes, including public engagement and project assessment, are presented throughout the book and provide clear methods for an informed practice. Included are a step-by-step methodology and other tools for professionals to grow their public practices with new clients, new fee sources, and more meaningful design solutions. Groundbreaking is an Issues Index that categorizes 90 critical issues addressed by design which are clearly documented by an array of community projects focusing on global challenges.

This comprehensive manual also contains a glossary, a case study locator atlas, and a reading list, integrating research and techniques so that you can design community-centered environments, products, and systems. Whether you are working in the field of architecture, urban planning, industrial design, landscape architecture, or communication design,this book will inspire a public interest design practice that is informed and inclusive.

To order through Publisher, click here.

 

Marilys R. Nepomechie of Florida International University Starts Term as ACSA President and Bruce Lindsey of Washington University in St. Louis as President-Elect

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Marilys R. Nepomechie of Florida International University Starts Term as ACSA President and Bruce Lindsey of Washington University in St. Louis as President-Elect 

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce that Marilys Nepomechie, Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University (FIU), has begun her term as ACSA President for 2015-2016 academic year. She assumes the role one year after her election to the board as Vice President/President-Elect.

Since 2003, Nepomechie has represented ACSA on National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) visiting teams as both team member and chair, and authored white papers for the 2013 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference—on the role of social responsibility in architecture curricula, and on innovative models of education and accreditation. In 2004 Nepomechie co-chaired ACSA’s 92nd Annual Meeting, Archipelagos: Outposts of the Americas, in Miami, Florida.

As president of ACSA, Nepomechie has vowed to address the challenges facing ACSA schools, including diminishing institutional funding to support faculty and student work; a need to increase student and faculty diversity; the imperative to facilitate broad accessibility and affordability to our programs; the challenges of reframing the possibilities offered by online education; and in response to the breadth and rapid pace of change in the academy and the profession, the need to reassess, and perhaps recalibrate, our curricular structures.

Inaugural Director of the accredited professional program in Architecture at FIU, Nepomechie was lead faculty advisor for the award-winning FIU 2011 Solar Decathlon project and currently serves as the faculty advisor in architecture to the joint Tsinghua University (THU)-FIU Solar Decathlon China 2013 effort. She has served on the Editorial Review Board of Architectural Record and on the National Board of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment. Nepomechie is a registered architect and holds the Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been inducted to the AIA College of Fellows.

Bruce Lindsey, teacher and administrator at Washington University in St. Louis, is also starting his term as Vice President this month. Lindsay has made significant contributions to beginning design education, sustainable design education, and community design education. He served as head of Auburn’s School of Architecture from 2001-06, and in 2005, he received the AIA’s National Teaching Honor Award for his work in beginning design at Auburn. Before that, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as associate head of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture and as associate professor of art and architecture from 1994-2001. In 1997, he co-chaired “Not Only But Also,” the 14th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Pittsburgh. Lindsey has been a visiting professor at Arizona State University and at Catholic University, and was the Pierce Visiting Critic at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He will begin his term as ACSA President in July 2016.

ACSA Update 7.3.15

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ACSA Update

 
July 3, 2015

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Exhibit at the 2015 College + Career Expo

ACSA invites your school to participate in the annual Expo, on November 21, 2015, by reserving an exhibit booth or premium sponsorship. The deadline for exhibitor registration is Friday October 23, 2015.

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What Should JAE 70:2 Be About?

We are asking you to tell us what the topic should be for JAE 70:2. What is the next important question in the architectural discourse of professional practice and/or education? What burning issues should the JAE be addressing? Submit your proposals by September 1, 2015.

Free Web-based Resources to Add to Your Quiver of Tricks over the Summer

The AASL recommends some resources to help keep up with trends and developments in architecture and design-related disciplines as well as preparing for the next semester of teaching, research and academic ventures.

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HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
University of Arkansas

PROGRAMS MANAGER
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

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Free Web-based Resources to Add to Your Quiver of Tricks over the Summer

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
Column written by Barbara Opar

Summer is officially here! And with it, nice weather (hopefully), home chores, travel plans and just maybe–a little time to catch up on some reading or update your skill set in preparation for another busy fall. There may be a backlog of specialized publications for you to plow through during your summer “down time” (is there really such thing in academia?)  from departmental newsletters to targeted scholarly journals–let alone more general sources like The Chronicle of Higher Education. Despite that, AASL would like to recommend a few more resources. You may or may not be familiar with them but we believe they will be invaluable to you in terms of keeping up with trends and developments in architecture and design-related disciplines as well as preparing for yet another busy semester of teaching, research and academic ventures.

Architecture Week & ArchInnovations

In terms of general overviews of goings-on in the profession, Architecture Week continues to be a vital resource. Another perhaps lesser known source is ai (ArchInnovations), an online magazine which features information about–and reviews of–new buildings, as well as events, archived projects, and books.

ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews

A bi-monthly publication of the Art Libraries Society of North America, ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews target projects, products, events, and issues within the broad realm of multimedia and technology related to arts scholarship, research, and librarianship.

Social Media Site for the Architecture Professional

Want to post the best of your student work? Architizer is a social-networking web site that allows architects to swap news, showcase their portfolios and, most importantly, get their work in front of architecture buffs and potential clients. In a sense, it functions like Facebook for architects.

Digital Collections

Digital collections abound. Often drawn from archival collections, these sites provide a wealth of information and serve to aid the researcher looking for overviews as well as the professional designer needing to incorporate images.  The Society of Architectural Historians lists notable projects on its site. Also consider public library collections when researching major urban centers. Public libraries like New York Public Library have substantial digital collections.

Geospatial Data

Looking to use more geospatial data in your design teaching?  Check out Earthworks, which features downloadable geospatial data sets from across the world contributed by multiple academic institutions, available via Stanford University’s EarthWorks portal. Go-Geo is another useful source of this type.

Planetizen

Focusing your work on urban design? Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It labels itself a one-stop source for urban planning news, editorials, book reviews, announcements, jobs, education, and more. Coverage includes infrastructure, climate change, and historic preservation.

Preservation

Interested in preservation topics? The National Trust for Historic Preservation publishes a blog consisting of stories, news, and notes.

Sustainability

Sustainability takes many forms and there are many online resources. A couple notable examples include Ecotecture, the Journal of Ecological Design and Energy Design Resources which presents tools, articles and media covering a broad base of topics within the overall genre of green building and design.

Material Resource

Finally, another site published by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), Material Resource, the blog for materials collections in art, architecture, and design environments brings together events, resources and postings about specific collections topics.

We hope you will explore these sites and find new and useful information to prepare you for a productive academic year. Need more? Your University’s architecture or design librarian and AASL member will be willing and able to help.

ACSA Update 6.26.15

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ACSA Update

 
June 26, 2015

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Submit to the 2015-16 Architectural Education Awards

Each year, the Architectural Education Awards honor educators for their exemplary work. This year, ACSA and the AIA are excited to announce a new award: Practice + Leadership, recognizing best practice examples of highly effective teaching, scholarship, and outreach in the areas of professional practice and leadership. Deadline for submissions is September 23, 2015. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply at acsa-arch.org/awards.

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What Should JAE 70:2 Be About?

We are asking you to tell us what the topic should be for JAE 70:2. What is the next important question in the architectural discourse of professional practice and/or education? What burning issues should the JAE be addressing? Submit your proposals by September 1, 2015.

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Explore ACSA Data Resources

Explore a number of reports and interactive graphics on topics such as budgets and enrollment, gender diversity, community design, and more.

ACSA CAREERS

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT—COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Iowa State University

TEACHING FELLOW IN RESIDENCE FOR 2015-16
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN RESEARCH (Tenure Track)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education.
 

ACSA Update 6.12.15

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ACSA Update

 
June 12, 2015

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Professor and Administrator Salaries in Architecture

How much do architecture professors and deans earn relative to their counterparts in other majors? In ACSA’s new visualizations of 2014-15 CUPA-HR salary data, you can see that architecture salaries are above average when you consider all institutions–but below average within the higher-paying doctoral and research institutions where architecture schools are most often located.

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Explore ACSA Data Resources

Explore a number of reports and interactive graphics on topics such as budgets and enrollment, gender diversity, community design, and more.

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Early Registration Open for 2015 Fall Conference

Syracuse University School of Architecture is hosting this year’s ACSA Fall Conference, October 8-10. Register online now and save $135 off full registration.

ACSA CAREERS

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT—COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Iowa State University

TEACHING FELLOW IN RESIDENCE FOR 2015-16
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN RESEARCH (Tenure Track)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education.
 

University of Buffalo

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Mirror Mirror, the award winning entry in the 2013 Streetfest competition designed by Davidson Rafialidis, was installed at the Bowery in New York City on May 30 for IDEAS CITY 2015: http://www.ideas-city.org/#event/mirrormirror . The tents are in the collection of the New Museum.

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Shannon Bassettdelivered a lecture of her design work and research at the Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Beijing in June 2015. The lecture was entitled ‘Weaving Relationships between Ecologies and the Constructed Environment – Catalysts for Urban Development – Design Strategies at the Intersection of Architecture, Urban Design and Ecology’.

Stephanie Cramer is teaching construction at the annual summer Design Workshop Program at Parsons in 2015.

Miguel Guitart, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, has co-edited the book Emak Bakia! Design Processes Around Man Ray’s Emak Bakia House. The book is the result of a Research Studio around the documentary film Emak Bakia! (Basque for Leave me alone!) in Biarritz, France, that took place in the academic course 2013-2014 at the School of Engineer and Architecture at the University of Zaragoza. The book, co-edited by Iñaki Bergera, Eduardo Delgado Orusco, Miguel Guitart, Jesús Leache and Ana Morón, has contributions of famous Spanish writer Bernardo Atxaga and film maker Oskar Alegria, and has been published by TC Cuadernos. 

Edward Steinfeld, director of the IDeA Center, received the James Haecker Lifetime Achievement Award, an award that recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields. He gave a keynote presentation during the ceremony. 

 

IDeA Center staff shared their research at various conferences including the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA), and Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA). The list of presentations includes:

 

Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Annual Conference, 2015 in Chicago

Title: Effectiveness of Design Standards in Improving Residence Hall Usability and Satisfaction  
Author(s): Jonathan White, Sue Weidemann, Elyse Skerker and Edward Steinfeld
Presenter(s):  Jonathan White and Edward Steinfeld

Title: Universal Design in Architectural Education: Who is Doing It? How is it being done?
Author(s): Megan Basnak, Beth Tauke, and Sue Weidemann
Presenter(s): Megan Basnak

 

AOTA 95th Annual Conference & Expo, 2015 in Nashville

 

Poster Session: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing the Usability of Two ATMs Across Diverse User Groups (PO 1092)
Presenter(s): Jim Lenker and Brittany Perez

 

Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) Annual Conference, 2015 in Los Angeles

 

Title: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Home Modification Professionals: A Snapshot on the State of Practice
Author(s): James Lenker, Danise Levine, Karen Kim, and Sue Weidemann
Presenter(s): Karen Kim

Title: Factors Influencing Walking Behavior in Older Adults: The Impact of Environmental Perceptions, Personal Characteristics, and Neighborhood Type
Author(s): Jordana Maisel
Presenter(s): Molly Ranahan

 

Title: An Exploratory Study of Long Term Care Concerns in the LGBT Community in Western New York
Title: Addressing the Needs of Older Adults in Public Rightsof-Way: An Opportunity to Promote Independence, Social Participation, and Active Living
Author(s): Molly Ranahan
Presenter(s): Molly Ranahan

Title: Effectiveness of Design Standards in Improving Residence Hall Usability and Satisfaction
Author(s): Jonathan White, Sue Weidemann, and Elyse Skerker
Presenter(s): Elyse Skerker and Sue Weidemann

Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Annual Conference, 2015 in Denver

 

Title: Effectiveness of Design Standards in Improving Residence Hall Usability and Satisfaction  
Presenter(s):  Jonathan White and Edward Steinfeld
Author(s): Jonathan White, Sue Weidemann, Elyse Skerker and Edward Steinfeld

Title: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Home Modification Professionals: A Snapshot on the State of Practice
Author(s): James Lenker, Danise Levine, Karen Kim, and Sue Weidemann
Presenter(s): James Lenker

 

Panel Discussion: Impact of Proposed Changes to the ICC/ANSI A117.1 Accessibility Standard
Presenter(s): Jonathan White

Workshop: Improving Home Modifications through Practice-Based Research
Moderator(s): James Lenker

 

ACSA Update 6.5.15

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ACSA Update

 
June 5, 2015

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TIMBER IN THE CITY: Urban Habitat Competition

ACSA is pleased to announce the second Timber in the City Competition for the 2015-2016 academic year. The competition is a partnership between the Binational Softwood Lumber Council (BSLC), the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design (SCE).

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What Are You Doing This Summer?

Are you running a studio this summer? Are you traveling abroad? Share it on social media with the hashtag #IMadeThat and show us. Tag it, and we will feature it on IMadeThat.com.

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2015 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative

Named for the AIAÕs first president, Richard Upjohn, these grants provide matching funds of up to $30,000 for applied research projects that advance the value of design and professional practice knowledge. The 2015 Call for Submissions is online and the deadline is September 1, 2015.

Citation Analysis and Tenure Metrics in Architecture and Design-Related Disciplines

Librarians at many institutions are being asked to perform citation analysis, which is typically used to evaluate the merit of an individual publication or a body of work. Over the last few years there have been a growing number of publications that have revealed the deficiencies of the commonly used tools and methods for citation analysis.

 

ACSA CAREERS

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT — COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Iowa State University

TEACHING FELLOW IN RESIDENCE FOR 2015-16
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN RESEARCH (Tenure Track)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education.
 

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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ACSA News – 5.27.15

On April 14, 2015 Mark Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Illinois School of Architecture, was honored with the 2015 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement for his untiring contributions to improve lives in Haiti. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Taylor made numerous trips to Léogâne, the town at the epicenter of the quake, to help assess the damage in the town and develop schematic designs for a school, a hospital, and a midwifery training center. His trips revealed the enormous challenges related to building safe and resilient structures, in a country where many people live on less than $1 a day. Undaunted by these challenges, Taylor developed collaborations, both internationally and locally, to improve building design, construction practices and the quality of locally produced building materials. The Kay Fanm Yo (Women’s House) was completed in January 2013.

 

Illinois School of Architecture, Assistant Professor, Sudarshan Krishnan, will be one of the key speakers at the conference “State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering Structures and Materials” organized by the Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE) in Quito, Ecuador, in July 2015. The title of his lecture is “Design of Cable and Suspension Structures.” He will also be delivering a series of special lectures to the civil engineering students at the Universidad Central del Ecuador and ESPE on the “planning of structural systems for medium and high-rise structures,” with an emphasis on seismic considerations. 

 

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