Leadership

The Board of Directors shall be the administrative and governing body of the Association. The Board is empowered to transact all business not specifically reserved for action by the membership. It is also empowered to adopt Rules to address policy issues in its discretion. The Board of Directors shall consist of the following members:

Sara Taketatsu

Vice President
American Institute of Architecture Students
Washington, DC

Gundula Proksch

Associate Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Antje Steinmuller

Chair and Associate Professor
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Sharon Haar

Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Jeffrey L. Day

Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE

Courtney Crosson

Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Robert A. González

Dean
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Michael J. Monti

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Washington, DC

Victor Rubin

Senior Fellow
PolicyLink
Oakland, CA

Anne Bordeleau

Director and Associate Professor
University of Waterloo
Cambridge, ON, Canada

June Williamson

Associate Professor
City College of New York
New York, NY

Rashida Ng

Chair and Associate Professor
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Lynne Dearborn

Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Submit your abstracts by May 19th for the 2021 AIA/ACSA INTERSECTIONS Research Conference: COMMUNITIES. For this conference, there will be five tracks focused on building resilient communities: Equitable Communities, Healthy Communities, Zero-Carbon Communities, Community Localism, and Post-Pandemic Communities. #intersectionsconference #communities #resilientcommunities #equity #healthycommunities #communitylocalism #postpandemic #covid19 #callforabstracts

Join us April 1 at 6pm ET for our next ACSA webinar: “Culturally Responsive Teaching: Providing an Equitable Architectural Education” featuring ACSA Director of Research and Information Kendall Nicholson @kan8g.

As educators, our mission is to ensure that every student can succeed. As a discipline, architecture often prioritizes the “product,” and the “place” before considering the “people”. This lecture will share the theoretical framework originally established by Gloria Ladson-Billings in her efforts to reach students from diverse backgrounds, and the tangible strategies necessary for validating students’ voices. By developing a socio-political consciousness, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) empowers faculty to engage students in ways that architects should engage the public.

Join us April 9th for the next ACSA workshop: “Alternative Frameworks for Architectural Practice: The Cooperative Network”.

This workshop explores the potential of cooperative models in architecture, which espouse collaboration in lieu of competition. These models leverage resource and knowledge distribution as alternatives to prevailing free-market modes of contemporary practice. By rethinking the profession in terms of the social, economic, and political potential offered by these practices, architects may foreground care over profit and commonized use-values over exchange values in order to create more equitable, just, and livable communities. In this workshop, members of the Architecture Lobby guide attendees through a series of explorations to collectively deepen our understanding of cooperative models in architectural practice.

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On Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm, the ACSA will hold its Spring Business Meeting via Zoom. Faculty at all ACSA member schools are invited to join us. The meeting is an opportunity for the board of directors to update the membership on ACSA’s activities and to hold some structured conversations on change happening in architectural education. We especially encourage each school’s Faculty Councilor to attend, but all faculty are welcome.
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Tonight at 5:30, join us to honor the 2021 Architectural Education Award winners and hear from Kathryn H. Anthony @kathryn.h.anthony. Stick around to mingle with the award winners. #ACSA109 #ACSAANNUAL #2021ArchEdAwards #facultyawards

Join us April 6th to discuss “Expanding the View into Post-Professional Degree Programs” moderated by @chrisfordaia and Marc Neveu. Panelists include: M. Elen Deming, @jeremy_ficca @mehlikainanici and @fernandoluizlara. If you are already attending #ACSA109, you have been automatically signed up. If not, sign up for free on our website.

Next Friday evening, we welcome Johnpaul Jones, the recipient of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allie’s Arts Gold Medal.

Johnpaul Jones has a distinguished 52-year career as an architect and founding partner of Jones & Jones. Earning his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1967, his design philosophy emerged from his Choctaw-Cherokee ancestors, which connects his work to the natural world, animal world, spirit world, and human world.
Mr. Jones’ designs have won widespread acclaim for their reverence for the earth, for paying deep respect to regional Indigenous architectural traditions and native landscapes, and for heightening understanding of Indigenous People and their diverse Native cultures of America. Johnpaul has led the design of numerous cultural centers and museums with tribes spanning the North American continent, culminating in his 12-year engagement as overall lead design consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C. #johnpauljones #ACSA109 #keynotespeaker #109closingkeynote #tausigmadelta

One week from today at 5pm, we will honor the winners of the 2021 Architectural Education Awards and hear from Topaz Laureate Kathryn H. Anthony. Register today for #ACSA109! @kathryn.h.anthony of @archatillinois

The #ACSA109 OPENING KEYNOTE: EXPANDING THE VIEW OF THE PROFESSION

What will it take for the architecture profession to catch up to the changing demographics of the United States and Canada? We kick off the 109th ACSA Annual Meeting with a panel of speakers from the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) to discuss their efforts to double the number of Black architects by 2030 and what change in the academy and the profession is happening now and needs to happen urgently.

+ National Organization of Minority Architects @nomanational @nomas_national

Join us next week for the virtual 109th ACSA Annual Meeting! Register before tomorrow March 17 for the regular conference rate. Hear discussions about expanding the profession to welcome underrepresented prospective architects, learn about the latest in architectural research from faculty and students, and honor the Topaz Laureate and the TSD gold Medalist. There will be networking opportunities as well. Register today!

Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our full members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together ACSA schools represent some 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.

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