112th Annual Meeting

A Stop Worth Waiting For: How Transit Amenities Can Serve a Larger Public Good
Julia Lindgren, University of Texas at Arlington

Space For Free
Stephanie Davidson & Eira Roberts, Toronto Metropolitan University

Access + Opportunity = Empowerment: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Through Hands-on Material Exploration
Jonathon Stevens, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Blind Design Workshop: Advancing Inclusivity with Non-Visual Pedagogy
Andrew Gipe-Lazarou, Virginia Tech
Diversity Achievement Award

Splendid Vacancies
Marcos Parga, Syracuse University

Adapting Boundaries: Maintaining Small Retail Strip Malls While Expanding Affordable Housing
Mitchell Hubbell, Tulane University

Micro-Trinity Homes; Affordable, Sustainable, Urban Infill Housing
Craig Griffen, Thomas Jefferson University

Innovative Solutions for Inclusive Housing: The Extended Family Home as a Model for Change
Jonathan Hanna, Lawrence Technological University

Vertical Farming in Vacant Buildings
Christine Allen, University of the District of Columbia
AIAS CRIT Scholar

Building Integrated Agriculture Simulation (BIA-SIM)
Manabendra Nath, Josh Draper & Alexandros Tsamis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

From the Ground Up: Regenerative Regional Design in Alabama Black Belt
Samuel Maddox, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Places & Plants: Exploring Weeds And Other Self-Seeded Plants As Architectural Forensics
Noémie Despland-Lichtert, University of Arizona

Organizer:
Christopher L Cosper, Ferris State

In March 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a synthesis report looking at seven years of climate research: the window to avoid the worst consequences of anthropogenic climate change will close by the end of this decade. The time to begin seriously addressing climate change in architecture programs has long since passed. The goal of this special topic is to gather climate advocates who are interested in immediately taking “direct action” with the intent of making all attendees of the 112th Annual Meeting of the ACSA uncomfortable with the status quo.

The ChatGPT Effect: Rethinking Architectural Pedagogy in the AI Age
Anthony Brand, University of Auckland

Infilling the Missing Middle: Leveraging Scripting Tools to Identify Small-Scale Odd Lots
Nate Imai, Texas Tech University
Matt Conway, University of California, Los Angeles

Beyond Precedents: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Text-to-Image AI
Camille Sherrod, Kean University

Free to All: Outdoor Spaces for the Boston Public Library
Chana Haouzi, University of Chicago
Matthew Okazaki, Tufts University

Re-Imagining Tea Carts in Calicut, India
Naeera Ali, benoy
Anna Lukose, City of Vancouver

The Hip-Hop Xpress: Double Dutch Boom Bus
Kevin Erickson ,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Design Build Award

Building Better Water Systems
Kulsum Fatima, University of Calgary
AIAS CRIT Scholars

Quantifying The Environmental Benefit Of Adaptive Reuse: A Case Study In Poland
Ming Hu, University of Notre Dame
Jakub Świerzawski, Academy of Silesia
Justyna Kleszcz, Opole University of Technology
Piotr Kmiecik , The Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Wałbrzych

The Complex Landscape of Wind Energy Waste
Dragana Zoric, Pratt Institute

CanoPIT: Valorizing Food Waste into Printable Biomaterials for Participatory Learning
Yuanyi Cen, Ji Yoon Bae, Laia Mogas-Soldevila , Andreina Sojo  & Abigail Weinstein, University of Pennsylvania

Re-Usable Design: A Public Interest Design Build in a Historic Texas Freedman’s Town
Julia Lindgren, University of Texas at Arlington

Organizers:
Patty Heyda, Washington University in St. Louis
Maria Arquero de Alarcón, University of Michigan
Mona El Khafif, University of Virginia
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dean Almy, University of Texas at Austin
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez, City College of New York
Marcella Del Signore, New York Institute of Technology
Nico Larco, University of Oregon

Open to all ACSA conference participants, and current and future ‘members’ of the UDAC (a growing collaborative that welcomes faculty and chairs of urban design programs, and those who teach urbanistic topics within an architecture, landscape or planning setting). Issues and Agendas: A follow-up to the general discussion session from Thursday’s sessions. Issues and agendas discussed by the break-out groups, are to be brought back to the larger group and inform the framework discussion for pursuing next steps. The meeting will include a presentation of the status of the UDAC website and other data research conducted by the membership.

Presenters:
Ricardo Devesa, Actar D Editor in Chief
Brian Brash, Actar D National Sales Manager

In the digital era, publishing architecture must take advantage of the potential of content platforms with multiple formats and the possibility of using various channels. However, readers demand — in the face of the avalanche of digital publications — a curated content that is focused and built with rigor and authority. On its 30th anniversary Actar consolidates its online presence through the launch of urbanNext Lexicon, aiming at the creation and dissemination of specialized content in architecture and urbanism.  The platform is composed of “Lexicons” that organize the more than 3500 posts in clusters of information related to a research topic. The posts are categorized into different formats such as essays, talks, podcasts, book excerpts, projects, and photographic surveys exploring topics and spaces through images rather than words. Apart from providing access to 100 e-Books by Actar, urbanNext publishes weekly content by various influential contributors including architects, urbanists, researchers, artists, and more. Together, they all present the opportunity to engage in the future challenges of our cities.

Teaching Timber Across the Curriculum: A Two-Studio Sequence on Mass Timber
Michael Harpster & Sarah Thomas Karle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Integrating Research Impact into Architectural Education
Traci Rider, North Carolina State University
Ming Hu, University of Notre Dame
Xiao Hu, University of Idaho
Jeannine Vail, University of North Texas
Rosa McDonald, North Carolina State University
Soo Jeong Jo, Louisiana State University
Burcu Salgın, Texas A&M University

Constructing Commonality: Autoethnography in Architectural Pedagogy and Practice
Jenny French Harvard University
Anda French Princeton University

New Faculty Teaching 
Lindsey Krug, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
New Faculty Teaching Award

New Faculty Teaching
Robert Williams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
New Faculty Teaching Award

The Mizer’s Ruin
Jason Griffiths, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Design Build Award

Designing and Building with Plastic Waste
Jason Scroggin, University of Kentucky

Incremental House
Jeremy Ficca, Carnegie Mellon University

Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center
Scott Lawrence, University of Idaho
Design Build Award

The Charlottesville Tapes Revisited: Disciplining Architecture Then and Now
Lauren McQuistion University of Virginia

Jugoplastika: Women, Plastics and a Factory that Defined a Nation
Dragana Zoric Pratt Institute

Processional Dérive: Review of New Orleans Black Masking Indian Parading as Psychogeographical Praxis
Thomas Mouton

An Architectural Imaginary of Identity and Exclusion: Drawing Out the Legacies of Japanese American Designers after WWII Incarceration
Kelley Murphy, Washington University in St. Louis
Diversity Achievement Award

Presenters:
Mireille Roddier & McLain Clutter, University of Michigan
Irene Brisson, Louisiana State University
Britt Eversole, Syracuse University

An increasing number of expert scientists and economists are rallying to identify economic degrowth as an unavoidable stage in the course towards sustainable energy consumption. For architecture, degrowth does not merely imply more energy efficient building practices, but rather the expenditure of less net material and energy flow, and therefore less building. How do we radically reframe our productivist model of education to teach critical conservation, adaptive reuse, maintenance and care, both in the content of our architectural pedagogy and in the organization of our institutions?

Decolonizing Design with Indigenous and Land-Based Paradigms
Honoure Black, Lancelot Coar  & Shawn Bailey, University of Manitoba

Reimagining the Alaska Atlas
Amanda Aman, University of Texas at Arlington

International Partnerships At A Distance: The Ethic And Value Of Community Engaged Design In Contexts Far From The Studio Setting
Courtney Crosson, University of Arizona

Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In International Design Studio Pedagogy
Madlen Simon, University of Maryland
Shaimaa Hameed Hussein, Al-Nahrain University

The Activated Atlas
Erin Kasimow, University of Southern California
Creative Achievement Award

By Right or Might: notes on the MPL-Collective’s Self-Managed Social Housing Projects
Gonzalo Munoz-Vera, Carleton University

Trans- And Gender-diverse Perspectives On Gender-inclusive Student Housing Options, Design Features, And Plans
Casey Franklin & Sam Church, University of Kansas

Designing Out: A Framework for Studying Hostile Design
Solmaz Kive, University of Oregon

Common Tactics: An Approach to Attainable Infill Housing
Michael Harpster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Organizers:
Megan Groth & Aaron Gensler, Woodbury University

Now is the time to critically interrogate the training of professional architects, and in particular, the professional practice course. Students are demanding to be taught more critical, socially and environmentally-conscious approaches to practice while firms demand that architecture schools produce their ideal employee: Revit-ready and able to complete a full drawing set on their first day. Professional practice courses are caught in the middle, often taught by adjunct faculty with embarrassingly low pay, little time and no input on curriculum, who are tasked with using their one course to fulfill a burdensome number of NAAB Accreditation Requirements. This action session uses the Turncoats debate format to ask if we, as faculty and administrators, can do better—better for our students, for ourselves and the future of the profession— in the current format or whether we need to knock it all down and start again? A Turncoats event is part spectacle, part rousing debate and altogether an enjoyable evening of challenging questions that asks participants to weigh provocations from both sides of an argument. The event requires a live audience in a closed-door venue where phones and recording are disallowed, drinks are plentiful, and audience participation is encouraged and expected.

Debaters ‘For’
Renee Cheng, University of Washington
Cruz Garcia, Iowa State University
Nea Maloo, Howard University

Debaters ‘Against’
Julia Andor, American Institute of Architecture Students
Debbie Chen, Rhode Island School of Design
Beth Lundell Garver, Boston Architectural College

Moderators:
Nora Wendl, JAE Executive Editor & University of New Mexico
Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, University of British Columbia
Fred Scharmen, University of Maryland
Priya Jain, Texas A&M University

Presenters:
Ozayr Saloojee, Carleton University
Billy Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
Neeraj Bhatia, California College of the Arts
Zannah Matson, University of Colorado Boulder
Brittany Utting, Rice University

The Journal of Architectural Education has been the primary venue for scholarship on architectural education since 1947. The JAE editorial board strives to create thematic issues that reflect the contemporary concerns of educators and students. Join the design editor and theme editors of three present and upcoming issues—JAE 78.1 “Infidelities,” JAE 78.2 “Worlding. Energy. Transitions,” and JAE 79.1 “Architecture Beyond Extraction” as they present on the urgency of these thematic issues, answer audience questions about content and submissions, and share their visions for the future of architectural education.

Please join us in celebrating your peers’ achievements and distinguished work. Each year the ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors and projects inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector. This Plenary will include a presentations by the Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, as the 2024 winner of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.