The initial Gulf Regional Director Election (January 2015) was disqualified due to an ineligible candidate. ACSA regrets this error and have taking steps with the Gulf Nominations Committee to conduct a new election. Following is the information and candidates for regional vote in the 2015 ACSA Gulf Regional Director (April/May 2015).
Online Voting Below is information on the 2015 ACSA Gulf 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, May 11, 2015.
2015 ACSA Regional Director Candidates The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. 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, May 11, 2015.
2015 ACSA Gulf Region Board Election Timeline
April 10, 2015
Online ballots emails to all Gulf Region Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
May 11, 2015
Deadline for receipt of online completed ballots
May 15, 2015
Gulf Regional Director (2015-2018) announced
The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.
The School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame would like to invite you to attend our 2013-2014 Lecture Series. Attendees are eligible to receive AIA/CE credits. All lectures begin at 4:30 pm in 104 Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
September 9th, 2013 Nancy Steinhardt Chinese Architecture & the Beaux-Arts
September 16th, 2013 Joe Burns Designing Sustainable High Rise Architecture
November 4th, 2013 Eduardo Luis Rodriguez Havana 1900: The City and its Architects
November 20th, 2013 Thomas Beeby The Richard H. Driehaus Prize Lecture
November 25th, 2013 John Ochsendorf On Vaulting
February TBC Rob Krier TBC
March 3rd, 2013 Craig Hamilton Temples and Tombs
March 31st, 2013 Ruan Yisan TBC
April 16th, 2013 Roger Scruton Order and Fluidity: Reflections on Post-Modern Architecture
UCLA A.UD ANNOUNCES 5 NEW POSITIONS AT IDEAS SATELLITE CAMPUS FOR EXPANDED SUPRASTUDIO / M.ARCH.II PROGRAM
Five years ago, the M.Arch. II, Post-Professional Degree Program at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) was restructured into a research and development based SUPRASTUDIO format, reflecting a new model for Post-Professional architectural education. SUPRASTUDIO is a calendar yearlong integrated curriculum led by a senior member of the A.UD design faculty in collaboration with an industry partner. Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, and Greg Lynn have collaborated over the years with Disney Imagineering, Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts. In August 2012, University of California President Mark Yudof and the University of California Board of Regents announced the conversion of the M.Arch. II program to a self-supporting status. This conversion allows for the ambitious expansion of the program to conduct three separate SUPRASTUDIOs per year at a new offsite facility with an unprecedented Advanced Technologies Laboratory to explore how the next generation will integrate technology into the built environment.
SUPRASTUDIO is located at IDEAS, an off-site location south of UCLA that is a new platform in architectural education to advance cross-discipline research and development with industry and outside partners to expand the future parameters of architectural practice. It will also serve as home to multi-year research initiatives, an ongoing cross-discipline lecture series, and other public programs.
UCLA A.UD seeks to appoint five new faculty and staff for IDEAS and the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program. These positions should be filled before the start of the June 2013 SUPRASTUDIO, and include:
•SUPRASTUDIO Program Director
•IDEAS Technology Director
•Critical Studies Lecturer
•Powerpack Studio Lecturer
•IDEAS Lab Supervisor (Staff Position)
SUPRASTUDIO Program Director
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment of a Program Director for the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program and to oversee the activities at IDEAS.
SUPRASTUDIO will have three studios led by three senior design faculty in partnership with three industry collaborators. The Program Director will report to the Chair of the Department and will be responsible for coordination with the three studios, oversight and coordination of non-studio courses in the curriculum, maintaining ongoing and developing new relationships with industry partners, and teaching.
The Program Director, with the studio assistants, will be responsible for teaching the summer session Pre-Studio for all incoming M.Arch. II students. The Program Director will also coordinate and teach two quarters of a lecture series with invited industry guests in a seminar setting for students and faculty. Additionally, special projects within IDEAS and research and development projects that exceed the rhythm of the SUPRASTUDIO courses to become long-term research initiatives will fall under the purview of the Program Director.
This position is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career professional that’s interested both in teaching and the administrative roles related to program building at the ground level of a dynamic new initiative that will redefine Post-Professional research and teaching of architecture. The candidate must be able to work with senior faculty and world-class industry partners. This position will allow the candidate to integrate into an already established faculty, but with the autonomy of a new program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate vision and a commitment to expanding the role of architectural design and innovation into culture and industry.
The Program Director position provides full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
IDEAS Technology Director
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Technology Director for IDEAS, a newly established off-campus facility that houses the department’s expanded M.Arch.II/SUPRASTUDIO program. The individual will be responsible for teaching, acquisitions, and research associated with technology initiatives central to the mission of UCLA A.UD, IDEAS and the three SUPRASTUDIOs.
The Technology Director will be responsible for the IDEAS facility as well as the research and development initiatives that take place within it. The Technology Director will be an active partner and liaison between the faculty, students, and industry partners. Teaching responsibilities will include two Technology Lecture courses during Summer session and two Technology Seminar courses taught to a combination of M. Arch. II and M. Arch I Graduate Students throughout the rest of the year. The Technology Director will report to the Chair of the Department.
This position has teaching and program oversight roles and is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career person with vision and expertise on the integration of technology into new environmental approaches and paradigms for research and education with senior faculty and industry partners at the highest level. Candidates must be able to initiate innovative research in either architecture or environments in the public sphere that engage robotics and sensing technology. Some experience with digital fabrication is expected but fabrication should not be the primary focus or expertise for applicants for this position.
An advanced architecture degree is mandatory for this position.
The IDEAS Technology Director position provides full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
Critical Studies Lecturer
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment in Critical Studies of a Lecturer eager to contribute to the intellectual and creative culture of the school by teaching a variety of courses in both graduate and undergraduate degree programs. The position offers the opportunity to participate in the launch of several new initiatives, including SUPRASTUDIO at IDEAS, an off-site post professional degree program focusing on architecture and industrial culture. The candidate should be able to teach courses on post-war theories of architecture, advanced formal analysis, architecture and visual culture, and the history of modern architecture. The appointment will also include collaborative academic responsibilities in the Curatorial Project, a recently established center that will be developing exhibitions and publications with an international scope and ambition.
The ideal candidate will have or be working towards a PhD, be able to demonstrate a commitment to advanced architectural ideas and innovative approaches to their dissemination, a strong record of teaching and the promise of producing a scholarly body of work appropriate for a continuing appointment at a top ranking university. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
Powerpack Studio Lecturer
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design– in conjunction with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies – is seeking an exceptional candidate to lead a research studio during the 2013 academic year.
The POWERPACK studio will be lead by Frank Gehry and members of his architectural practice and technology company, in collaboration with UCLA faculty and industry partners. The studio’s mission will be to explore the potential for new, small scale, networked, and intelligent building technologies to radically rethink the modern building and city, at a multiplicity of scales from the micro device to the urban.
UCLA is seeking to fill a one-year lecturer appointment to coordinate this curriculum under the supervision of Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies to conduct the overall studio and workshop instruction. The ideal candidate will have a wide range of experience in urban and building level design, strong experience as a studio instructor, and significant expertise in technology.
Minimum requirements include:
An advanced degree (MArch or equivalent) in architectural or urban design.
Substantial prior experience as a lead studio instructor or TA.
Strong background in parametric modeling, scripting, BIM or related digital modeling software
Additional experience desired includes the following:
Urban design and related topics such as transportation
Environmental design or building energy systems engineering
Robotics, or micro control systems design and prototyping
The position is a one-year Lecturer position for the period July 2013-June 2014.
IDEAS Lab Supervisor
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Lab Supervisor for IDEAS, a newly established off-campus facility that houses the department’s expanded SUPRASTUDIO program.
The individual will be responsible for the physical IDEAS facilities including classrooms, laboratories, studios, offices, exhibition spaces, and shop as well as training and assistance with the students and faculty. The Lab Supervisor must coordinate the technical and research relationships with industry partners as well as the robotic suppliers to the laboratory. The Lab Supervisor will also be responsible for daily operations of the lab and shop and its power equipment, tools, supplies, and student assistants.
There will be several unprecedented robotically controlled machines as well as a sensing laboratory that have never been in any architecture school before. The Lab Supervisor needs to initiate and maintain relationships with the manufacturers, users, and development teams for these machines as well as training the faculty and students in their use.
The Lab Supervisor will work with and report to the IDEAS Technology Director for the acquisition and use of the machines in the labs. As well, they will develop the policies and training for the students and faculty.
Familiarity and experience with industrial robotics, sensing technology and composite construction is a benefit. The operations, maintenance, and safety of the lab are the responsibility of the Lab Supervisor. Several years experience with similar industrial facilities or academic laboratories and shops with similar equipment is a requirement.
An associate degree or greater is mandatory for this position.
This is a staff position with full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
HOW TO APPLY
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Candidates to the four academic positions below are requested to furnish a letter of intent with a curriculum vitae, one or two examples of work, with a description of each project (non-returnable), and the names, phone numbers, mail and e-mail addresses of three references able to provide a knowledgeable evaluation of the applicant’s qualifications.
Examples of work should be submitted both digitally at the following links, and as hard copy portfolios to the address below:
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design Attn: “POSITION NAME” Search Committee 1317 Perloff Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095
STAFF POSITION Candidates for the IDEAS Lab Supervisor may apply starting late December at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/
Application deadline for all positions is February 28, 2013. Review of applications will take place in early March with interviews scheduled later during that same month.
Proof of U.S. Citizenship or eligibility for U.S. Em loyment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986). The University of California, Los angeles is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.
The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California has the luxury of being a large school in a major city. There are several thousand architects living and working near our downtown location. USC thanks our dedicated full-ntime and part-time faculty. There were 128 faculty members teaching in our school for 2013-2014. The photo shows a small group at a faculty retreat in November, 2013.
Executive Director, Yestermorrow Design/Build School
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Eric Cook Joins Yestermorrow as Semester Program Director
Waitsfield, VT., August 29, 2013—Yestermorrow Design/Build School recently announced the hire of Eric Cook as its Semester Program Director. Mr. Cook will lead the school’s Semester in Sustainable Design/Build, both as teaching faculty and program director. He recently moved to Waitsfield, VT from Salt Lake City, where he ran his own design/build firm, Eric Cook Design/Build, and was partner and project manager of the firm RenovateSALTLAKE.
A 2006 graduate of the University of Utah’s Master of Architecture program, Eric also holds a MA in Mathematics from the University of Utah and a BA in Mathematics and Russian from Colby College. In his former role as Project Coordinator for DesignBuildBLUFF, Mr. Cook supported graduate architecture students in designing and building sustainable homes on the Navajo reservation in Bluff, Utah.
In directing Yestermorrow’s Semester in Sustainable Design/Build for college students, Eric leads students as they translate theory into practice, ultimately building an architecturally innovative high-performance shelter that they collaboratively design. The Semester in Sustainable Design/Build is based in Montpelier, VT and is offered in partnership with UMass Amherst’s Architecture+Design program.
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Yestermorrow Design/Build School was founded in 1980 on the belief that the best built environment depends on the joint cooperation of designers, builders, and homeowners. The school empowers people to express their values and lifestyle through an integrated design/build process, and to foster a self-awareness that reconnects people to their communities, their natural environment, and to each other. Yestermorrow’s hands-on workshops, certificate programs, and semester programs are taught by nationally recognized architects, builders, and craftspeople. Classes are for people of all ages and experience levels, from novice to professional. Learn more at www.yestermorrow.org or call 888-496-5541.
Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture has been contracted to write two books during his spring 2014 sabbatical; Steven Holl (Phaidon Press) and Herman Hertzberger (nai010), both of which will be published in 2015. In February 2014, McCarter gave a lecture in the SOM New York Professional Development Series, entitled; “Taking the Book to the Light: Louis Kahn’s Transformation of the Library in Three Designs,” and in March 2014 he gave a Dean’s Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia, entitled; “The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality.”
Reclaim + Remake Symposium, April 11-13, 2013 “Waste is a Resource in the Wrong Place and Time”
The symposium is proposed to bring together the most innovative practices in education and research for current and future reuse and recycling of material resources in the built environment. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles J. Kibert, Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Mr. Jan Jongert, Founder 2012Architecten, Rotterdam, Mr. Scott Boylston, Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Sustainable Design Program, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Abstracts for presented papers and designs are welcome from designers, educators, researchers and advanced university students who are engaged in knowledge creation and dissemination for the responsible use and end-of-life management of building material resources. Abstracts should be 300-500 words. A two-stage blind process will be used for abstract submittals and for full paper submittals. Proceedings will be produced from accepted papers and presentations. Abstracts Deadline: November 12, 2012.
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) released a request for research proposal to assist in determining future policies related to NCARB programs including the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®).
As the profession of architecture evolves, and to ensure continued validity of the licensure decision made by each jurisdictional licensing board, the Intern Development Program (IDP) and ARE must also evolve. Historically, NCARB completes a practice analysis of the profession every five to seven years with the most recent being completed in 2012. The data from this analysis is used to inform changes related to the IDP, ARE, and the NCARB Education Standard.
To better inform the timing of the next practice analysis and upcoming policy decisions around ARE 5.0, NCARB is funding a study on the rate of change within the architectural profession. The request for proposals from interested researchers has been issued with initial research results expected to be delivered by the end of the year. Parties interested in reviewing the request for proposal and submitting a proposal can contact Jared Zurn, Director of Examination, at jzurn@ncarb.org.
ACSA is pleased to announce the winners of the election for the following positions:
PRESIDENT-ELECT Bruce Lindsey Washington University in St. Louis
TREASURER Rashida Ng Temple University
2015 WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR Nadia M. Anderson Iowa State University
Due to an administrative error in the nominating process, the Gulf Regional Director election was disqualified and ACSA will conduct a new election by the end of this spring semester.
Sign Up for Tours in Toronto
Start planning now! The co-chairs have lined up a range of exciting topics and speakers, including Thom Mayne. ACSA is also offering walking tours of unique spots around Toronto. Be sure to reserve your room at the conference hotel before February 24, 2015 for the discounted rate.
Call for Nominations: 2016 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team Roster
The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2016 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. Nominations are due February 25, 2015.
Submission Site Now Open for 2014-15 Steel Student Design Competition
The 15th annual steel design competition is intended to challenge students to explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. This year, students are invited to design a library or to design a steel solution of their choice in the open category. Students must register by March 25, 2015.
Call for Proposals: Housing Research
The AIA Housing Knowledge Community seeks proposals for its Housing Research Webinar Series focused on practice in housing and community development. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and invited speakers will receive a $500 honorarium. Submit your proposal through the ACSA website. Deadline: March 31, 2015.
The latest installment of the AASL column by Jamie Rogers and John Nemmers. This article revisits the projects they presented at last year’s AASL Conference in Miami along with Mark V. Sullivan (“Utilizing GIS to Explore Historic Areas and Architecture”) and provides an update on how the projects have progressed since then.
2015 ACSA Architecture Schools Advancement Development Forum
This forum will feature panel discussions and sessions on issues facing university development. The objective of the forum is to examine core fundraising strategies, exchange ideas of best practices, evaluate challenges of architecture programs, and learn new approaches to fundraising and development opportunities. The forum will be an opportunity to network with your peers. Bring questions and ideas to share with your development colleagues. Registration is $135 and includes all the day’s activities: breakfast, lunch, and closing reception.
Next year’s ACSA Annual Meeting will take place March 17-19, 2016 in Seattle, WA. The conference co-chairs seek session topics that explore particular ways in which the discipline of architecture produces new forms of knowledge and, in turn, how architecture is shaped by research and innovation outside the field. New submission site opens next week.
Registration Deadline Extended to Register for the 2014-15 Steel Competition
The 15th annual steel design competition is intended to challenge students to explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. This year, students are invited to design a library or to design a steel solution of their choice in the open category. Students must register by April 1, 2015.
The AIA Housing Knowledge Community seeks proposals for its Housing Research Webinar Series focused on practice in housing and community development. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and invited speakers will receive a $500 honorarium. Submit your proposal through the ACSA website. Deadline: March 31, 2015.
ACSA invites your school to participate by hosting one of four sessions, or to become a supporting program. The deadline for sponsorship registration is Friday April 3, 2015.
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The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California has the luxury of being a large school in a major city. There are several thousand architects living and working near our downtown location. USC thanks our dedicated full-ntime and part-time faculty. There were 128 faculty members teaching in our school for 2013-2014. The photo shows a small group at a faculty retreat in November, 2013.
