March 28-30, 2019 | Pittsburgh, PA

107th Annual Meeting

BLACK BOX: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era

Schedule

October 3, 2018

Paper submission deadline

November 2018

Notifications sent to authors

December 2018

Final revised papers and copyright forms due

January 2019

Conference registration deadline for presenters

Events Schedule

Following is the conference schedule and is subject to change. Please check back for the most up-to-date information.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

5:30pm	ACSA/AIA Housing & Community Development Workshop

Thursday, March 28, 2019

9:00am	Registration
9:00am	Workshop – ACSA/AIA Housing & Community Development Workshop – TAD Defining Your Research Workshop – Accreditation Changes Workshop
2:00pm	Peer-Reviewed Sessions – Architecture of Attunement and Planetary Ecology 1 – The Planetary and the Quotidian – After the Flow – Architectural Urbanism(s) in the Post-Digital Era 1 – Imaging Architecture – Thesis or Moonshot? Breaking the Traditional Portfolio to Practice Pipeline – Deductive, Inductive… Adaptive Methods in Architectural Design
	Special Focus Session – Designing Pedagogies: Futuring New ACSA Programs and Project
3:30pm	Break
4:00pm	Peer-Reviewed Sessions – Architecture of Attunement and Planetary Ecology 2 – Drawing Attention – After the Flow – Architectural Urbanism(s) in the Post-Digital Era 2 – Design-Build: Pedagogy, Practice, Production – What’s the Matter with Climate Change? – Being Versus Becoming the Core of Architecture
	Special Focus Session – Equity in Practice: Creating Diverse, Inclusive & Equitable Workplaces
	Meeting – DPACSA Meeting (private)
6:00pm	Plenary – Opening Plenary: Peggy Deamer & Antoine Picon
7:00pm	Opening Reception

Friday, March 29, 2019

8:30am	Registration
9:00am	Breakfast – Regional Caucuses : Northeast, Mid Atlantic, Gulf, East Central, West Central, West, & Canada
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Peer-Reviewed Sessions – Draw(in)g to a (W)hole 1 – Climate, Environment, and Control: Challenging Narratives and Norms – Black Box, White Cube: Exhibiting Architecture in Theory and Practice 1 – Sea Creatures Make an Underwater Face; or An Alternative Disciplinary Coherence – Competitions 1
	Workshop – Shaping a Career Path in Architectural Education: Faculty Workshop
	Special Focus Sessions – Prospective Author Session for the TAD Journal – Historic Preservation and NAAB SPC’s
12:00pm	Lunch (on your own)
2:00pm	Peer-Reviewed Sessions – Draw(in)g to a (W)hole 2 – Disciplinary Failures: Errors and Omissions as Alternative Trajectories – Black Box, White Cube: Exhibiting Architecture in Theory and Practice 2 – Search \| Research \| Repeat – History & Precedent in the Design Process – Competitions 2 – Delirious Data
	Special Focus Sessions – Raising Our Sights: Expanding the Professional Practice Curriculum – Material Disruption (BTES)
3:30pm	Break
4:00pm	Plenary Meeting – ACSA Business Meeting
5:30pm	Plenary Keynote – Awards Reception & Topaz Medallion: Toshiko Mori

Saturday, March 30, 2019

7:30am	Registration
8:00am	Meeting & Breakfast – Tau Sigma Delta – Breakfast & Meeting
	AIAS – American Institute of Architecture Students CRIT Live
9:00am	Peer-Reviewed Sessions – Material Frontiers 1 – Open Projects Session 1 – Theory’s Rise and Fall: Contexts and Conditions – Being Ecological 1 – Questions of Abstraction in Beginning Design – Computation in the Core: Critical Pedagogies
	Special Focus Session – Drawing for the Design Imaginary: Roundtable
	AIAS – American Institute of Architecture Students CRIT Live
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Peer-Reviewed Sessions: – Material Frontiers 2 – Architecture, Engineering and the Multiplicity of the Creative Process – Drawing’s Tacit Practices – Being Ecological 2 – Becoming Digital 1 – Computer Composition: Design After Machine Learning
	Special Focus Sessions – Assessing the Quality of Architecture Research & Scholarship – Liberal Arts Colleges
	AIAS – American Institute of Architecture Students CRIT Live
12:30pm	Lunch (on your own)
	Carrie Furnaces Industrial Tour (separate registration required)
2:30pm	Peer-Reviewed Sessions: – Geometry, the Metrics of Space and Its Architectural Instruments – Open Projects Session 2 – Architecture’s Politics of Appearance – Being Versus Becoming the Core of Architecture – Becoming Digital 2
	Special Focus Sessions: – Around the World: Global ACSA – JAE Special Focus Session – The Pulse of Professional Practice
	AIAS – American Institute of Architecture Students CRIT Live
4:00pm	Transportation to Carnegie Museum of Art
5:00pm	Plenary – TSD Gold Medal: Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu*
6:00pm	Closing Party & Black Box Exhibition*

*In partnership with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s, Heinz Architectural Center and the Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture.

Sunday, March 31, 2019

9:00am	Frank Lloyd Wright Tour (separate registration required)

Questions

ACSA Conferences

Allison Smith
ACSA, Programs Manager
202-785-2324
asmith@acsa-arch.org

Eric W. Ellis
ACSA, Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org

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