113th Annual Meeting

Moderator: Jori Erdman, James Madison University

Representing Renovation/ Reuse/ Time
Ryan Roark, Illinois Institute of Technology

Architectural Custodians: Retroactive Urban Photography in Berlin, Seville & Santurce
Armando Rigau, Universidad De Puerto Rico

New Faculty Teaching
Amanda Ortland, University of Southern California
New Faculty Teaching Award

Landscape Pedagogy into Architecture: Un-Build and Go Public
Dragana Zoric & Jason Lee, Pratt Institute

Organizers:
Ceara O’Leary, University of Detroit Mercy
Alexis Gregory, Mississippi State University

Description:
Community-engaged architectural education takes different forms across institutions. We know that studios and other courses that engage with community can be extractive and problematic, if not guided by an ethics of practice and partnership. This session will continue to build a community of engaged-architectural educators and work toward repair in our methods of working with community in the classroom, ensuring equitable processes, and elevating both community value and pedagogical outcomes. The session will share restorative case studies in community-engaged curricula and develop an ethics of engaged-education, leveraging existing resources and building support for this work within our institutions.

Organizers:
Sara Queen, Rosa McDonald, Allison Grubbs & Emily Burdo, North Carolina State University

Description:
This workshop will unpack shifting requirements of contemporary undergraduate student populations and outline the need for architecture curriculum to expand accessibility in relation to common mental health challenges. Through both interactive lectures and group discussions, faculty and administrators will come away equipped with resources to build flexible, empathetic, and mental-health informed approaches to learning accommodations while maintaining the rigor fundamental to design pedagogy. The session will be led by a team of social workers, faculty, and administrators who have collaborated on a multi-year funded project to strengthen student mental health within the College of Design at NC State.

Moderator: Joshua A. Foster, East Los Angeles College

Three Local Repair Ecologies: The Case For Place-based Repair Infrastructures
Cynthia Deng, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Elif Erez, Studio Gang Architects

Mapping Entropy: An Alternative Demolition Model
Tieru Huang, Wenzhou-Kean University

Tidal Territories
Jess Vanecek, University of Virginia

Here for the Foreseeable Future: Toward a Scalar System of Resilience on the Southeastern US Gulf Coast Christian Ayala Auburn University
Rusty Smith, Elizabeth Garcia, Rob Holmes & Daniel, Meyer Auburn University

Moderator: Gregory Luhan, Texas A&M University

Eco-resilient Tectonics: Living Building Materials In Multi-species Earthen Construction
Ehsan Baharlou, University of Virginia

Developing Resource-Informed Lightweight Lattice Systems: Hybrid of 3D Printable Lattice and 3D Scanned Non-Standard Wood
Edgar Montejano Hernandez  & Sina Mostafavi, Texas Tech University

Sylvan Scrapple
Katie MacDonald  & Kyle Schumann, University of Virginia
Faculty Design Award

Moderator: AnnaMarie Bliss, Ranken Technical College

Sound, Body, Space: A Collaborative, Kinesthetic, Situated Approach to Pedagogy
Rachel Dickey & Jessica Lindsey, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Façade City: The Courthouse Town as Pedagogical Device
David Turturo, Texas Tech University

Organizers:
Ceara O’Leary, University of Detroit Mercy
Ann Yoachim, Tulane University
Michaele Pride, University of New Mexico
A.L. Hu, Columbia University & Association for Community Design
Darius Sollohub, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Description:
As the field of public interest design evolves to include new modes of practice, university-based community design centers continue to offer longstanding and newfound models for designing in partnership with communities. This second-annual round table for university-based community design centers will include a recent survey of design centers, a new “atlas” from the Association of Community Design, and a deeper dive into assessment and the professionalization of community design as they relate to the future of the field. The session will also point attendees to Tulane’s Small Center, a marquee host city case study, and conclude with a social mixer.

Moderator: Julian Bonder, Roger Williams University

Ms. Goody: Respectability and Memory in the Liminal Spaces of Jamaican Mothers
Stacy Scott, University of Virginia

An Action-Based Framework to Expand Understanding Through Design
Karla Sierralta, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Diversity Achievement Award

Moderator: Chris Ford, Stanford University

The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic (Re)production
Mark Stanley, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Architect as Developer Developer: Custom Tools for Architect-Developer Collaboration
Matt Conway, University of California, Berkeley & California College of the Arts
Nate Imai, University of San Francisco

Reframing Authorship: The Evolving Role of Architects in the Age of Generative AI
Karla Saldana Ochoa, University of Florida
Lee Su Huang, Lawrence Technological University

Organizers:
Silvina Lopez Barrera, David Perkes, SaMin Han, Jacob A. Gines & Michael Herndon, Mississippi State University

Description:
Nearly two decades have passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated thousands of homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In the aftermath, the vacant land left by Katrina led to uneven development that continues to negatively impact coastal communities. This session highlights the underlying climate justice issues in the Gulf Coast region that affect communities’ resilience capacity. Panelists will discuss research and pedagogy focused on resilience and environmental justice, examining the roles architects and landscape architects can play in crafting equitable and healthy communities that respond and adapt to climate change. This session will discuss a multi-year design/research initiative supported by NASEM.

Organizers:
Edson Cabalfin, Tulane University
Shelby Doyle, Iowa State University
Vivian Lee, University of Toronto
Leyuan Li, University of Colorado Denver
César Lopez, University of Virginia
Gilberto Lozada Báez, AIAS
Kiwana T. McClung, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Ceara O’Leary, University of Detroit Mercy

Description:
Academic faculty have reported mental health concerns for decades. These issues have been attributed to various reasons such as chronic stress and anxiety, gender inequities, workload imbalance, lack of institutional support, competitive environment, and other systemic issues. However, the recent pandemic has exacerbated the negative impact of the academic system on the mental health and well-being of faculty. More faculty have reported suffering from depression and anxiety while also being expected to address students’ mental well-being needs. While there has been general research on faculty and students’ mental health and well-being, few studies have shed light on the specific context of architectural education. This session discusses architecture educators’ mental health and well-being challenges, especially in the post-pandemic era.

Moderator: Michaele Pride, University of New Mexico

Reconnect South Park: Community Repair through Youth Engaged Design Education
Richard Mohler & Julie Parrett, University of Washington

Engaging Histories of Repair: Ruggles Station and Boston’s Southwest Corridor
Mary Hale, Amanda Lawrence, Lucy Maulsby & Sara Carr, Northeastern University

Everyday Forms of Care: Learning from the Incremental Industrial Architecture in South China
Vincent Peu Duvallon, Linnéa Moore, Ziyi Zhou & Tieru Huang, Kean University

Moderator:Gregory Luhan, Texas A&M University

Mapping Human Agency in the AR-Enabled Co-Production of an Urban Community Podium
Sina Mostafavi, Bahar Bagheri, Edgar Montejano Hernandez, Asma Mehan, Caleb Scott & Cole Howell, Texas Tech University

How Will The 3d Concrete Printing Technology Affect The Future Of Architectural Design?
Soo Jeong Jo & Meredith Gaglio, Louisiana State University

Hosts:
Meg Jackson, University of Houston
Liane Hancock, University of New Mexico
Matt Shea, University of Colorado Denver
Pasquale de Paola, Louisiana Tech University

Panelists:
Masataka Yoshikawa, Lawrence Technological University
Katie Stranix, University of Virginia
Kory Beighle, Kansas State University
Sara Queen, & Burak Erdim, North Carolina State University

Description:
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), this 90-minute focus session provides an analysis of decades of design research tracking contextuality, continuum, and change over time. The findings map the conference’s influence on the trajectory of academic discourse in beginning design education and valuable insights into the historical and contemporary priorities of architectural education in relation to changing global contexts. A selection of projects from the most recent conference presents the newest research in foundation pedagogy. This session concludes with a discussion of educational strategies and policymaking that address future potentialities for beginning design education.