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Kennesaw State University
The Department of Architecture at Kennesaw State University welcomes Robert P. Alden AIA, LEED AP, NCARB who was appointed as the 2018 Focus Studio Faculty. He is an architect with over thirty years of professional experience on a wide range of project types and scales — including Georgia World Congress Center, 2002 Perimeter Summit Office Tower, the Reno Nv. Events Center, and 12th & Midtown, a 2.4M square foot, $270M mixed-used development in Atlanta. He has also taught at Chattahoochee Technical College in Woodstock, GA in the interior design program. Rob brings real-world insight to his 2018 Focus Studio entitled: Comprehensive Design and Systems Integration.
The Department also welcomes Soleen Karimas the 2018 Focus Studio Faculty. She currently works at Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam Architects as a Project Manager; and her project experience ranges from a single family, high-end residential, to civic buildings, urban design and architectural installations, most notably the US Pavilion in Detroit presented at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Soleen graduated from Georgia Tech with Bachelors of Architecture, Masters of Architecture and Masters of City and Regional Planning. Born in a refugee camp in Iran, Soleen combines her passion for social justice with her eye for design through her non-profit, Design4Refugees, Corp, an organization who aids refugees within camps. Soleen’s 2018 Focus Studio is entitled: Childhood Warscape.
University of Buffalo
Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture Greg Delaney and his students were presented with the inaugural Studio Prize for Excellence in studio curricula by Architect magazine in April 2017. The studio, entitled ‘Good Grids’, drew inspiration from a 1913 Chicago City Club competition focused on re-energizing an urban grid in turn-of the century America.
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik presented the paper ‘Bringing play into the architecture curriculum’ at the 2017 US Play Coalition Conference at Clemson University. Professor Jamrozik was also invited to present the paper at the 43rd. Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Play (TASP) at the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY in Spring, 2017.
Adjunct Professor Virginia Melnyk was awarded a 2017 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Summer Artist in Residency.
Assistant Professor Jin Young Song’s proposal Metabolic Evolution was awarded first prize on the One Idea Competition for the Self-Evolving City of the Future. The competition was sponsored by the Seoul Museum of Art. http://selfevolving.org/?c=45/46, http://dioinno.com/Connected-Living-Metabolic -Evolution-through-Prefabrication-and.
Assistant Professor Jin Young Song was awarded a 2017 Techne Faculty Fellowship by UB’s Techne Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies.
University of Texas At San Antonio
Armando Araiza, Lecturer, led his undergraduate students in the design, fabrication, and mounting of a public art installation mounted on the façade of the Houston Street Parking Garage in downtown San Antonio, TX. The installation was composed of 128 individual aluminum modules clustered to create 16 unique tiles. The tiles were designed to evoke handmade Mexican “talavera” tiles, and composed to recall a map of San Antonio.
Ed Burian, Professor, had his essay on Mexico City’s geography, environmental challenges, and recent proposals for regenerative landscapes published as a chapter in René Davids, ed., Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America, University Press of Florida, (2016). He also recently lectured on, “The Reinterpretation of Mayan Architecture in Mexico and the US,” at a symposium for a traveling national exhibition, Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed, that featured Mayan artifacts and interpretative exhibits at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX.
Ian Caine, Assistant Professor, recently published an article in Log, and has work in progress for MONU, Scenario, and Lunch. He is also guest editing a special issue of Sustainability with Dr. Rebecca Walter that examines the prospects to achieve sustainable growth in suburbia. He continues his work as a researcher at the Spatial History Project at Stanford University, where he is leading an effort to create an interactive chronology that examines the suburban expansion of San Antonio, Texas. Caine also received the 2016-2017 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, given to three architectural faculty nationwide for excellence in early career teaching. Additionally, Architecture 2030 included a studio curriculum that he developed with Dr. Rahman Azari in the 2016 Pilot Curriculum Project, acknowledging it as one of seven nationwide that “transform the culture of sustainable design education.” Students from this same studio have won national awards in the AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition in each of the last two years.
Antonio Petrov, Assistant Professor, had his exhibit, 1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future, featured at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. The exhibit features a 50-foot-long model of Broadway, a street that has the potential to become San Antonio’s great urban avenue. He also recently organized a symposium, Puro- On the Edge of Future on how the term “puro” reflects layers of San Antonio’s history, culture, economy, philosophies and how it also influences the physical environment, especially with the city’s growth.
Shelley Roff, Associate Professor, is completing a forthcoming book, Treasure of the City: Public Construction in Late Medieval Barcelona, that illustrates the transformative role the construction of public works, monuments and urban spaces played in the crystallization of municipal power in late medieval Barcelona. The text is an urban and architectural history that grounds its theses in the city’s social, political and economic history. Her investigation of the historical development of Barcelona also includes a virtual reconstruction of the medieval city.
Candid Rogers, Lecturer, received awards for the design of “House 117’ as a Special Mention in the Architzer 2017 A+Awards program in the “Architecture + Stone” category, a 2016 AIA Honor Detail Award, and an AIA Citation Design Award 2016 for the Barrera House. He also had one of his students win the 2016 ACSA Farnsworth House Competition.
Stephen Temple, Associate Professor, is editing and writing a book under contract with Routledge for publication in 2018 entitled, Promoting Creative Thinking in Beginning Design Studios, which will reveal myriad under-regarded issues in introducing creative thinking in beginning design studio courses, how learning and creative thinking happens, and how it transforms student design thinking. He also published two papers, “Developing Abstraction through Experience in Architectural Pedagogies: Making is Connecting” in The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, and “Learning to Draw Through Digital Modeling” in Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor, had his research paper co-authored with Professor Marc Schiler and Karen Kensek of the USC School of Architecture, “Is Exterior Glare Problematic?: Investigation on Visual Discomfort Caused by Reflected Sunlight on Specular Building Facades,” win the Best Paper Award at the 32nd International Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference recently held in Los Angeles, CA.
American University of Sharjah
The Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates is pleased to announce the following faculty appointments commencing Fall 2016.
Jason Carlow has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. His design work, research and teaching are centered on the relationship between digital and traditional modes of drawing, modeling and fabrication. He holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. His design and research work has been published and exhibited internationally in venues including the Hong Kong / Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Beijing Architecture Biennial as well as in architectural exhibitions in Hong Kong, Xian, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Shanghai, London and Washington DC.
Greg Watson has been appointed as a Professor. Before joining AUS, he was the Emogene Pliner Professor of Architecture at LSU and served as an associate professor at Mississippi State University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Minnesota. He has also held visiting and adjunct positions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Maine College of Art, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Watson’s teaching and research focuses on design process, materials, landscape design and representation. Throughout his academic career he has received numerous awards, most recently the 2015 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor Award.
As an architect, his work includes award-winning projects while practicing in Chicago, Minneapolis, Maine, South Carolina and Mississippi. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited at galleries in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Annapolis, Mississippi, and Louisiana. These scholarly pursuits in architecture and art have been supported from the Mississippi State University Office of Research, the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Watson holds a BA in psychology from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.
Matthew A. Trimble has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. Trimble is a principal and founder of Radlab, an experimental design and fabrication firm. He has a diverse range of experience working and consulting in the field of architecture for firms that include Neil M. Denari Architects, Behnisch Behnisch and Partner, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, and dECOi Architects. Trimble has taught seminars, workshops, and studios internationally for both graduate and undergraduate students at the Boston Architectural College, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Trimble holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture degree from The University of Memphis, where he received the Frances F. Austin Scholarship, and a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Avalon Travel Fellowship.
Mara Marcu has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Fall of 2016. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and founder of MM13. Her work focuses on providing for a digital and material workflow that connects design, fabrication, and culture-specific topics. Prior to her academic career, she worked for Rafael Vinoly Architects in NYC, and on the Shobac Cottages, as part of Ghost Lab 7, with Brian MacKay-Lyons in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2010 Marcu trained with Pritzker Prize Laureate Glenn Murcutt in Australia. Her education includes a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston where she received the Best in Show Design Award. In 2011 she was the recipient of the University of Virginia Fellowship. Mara is the founder of ECHOS with the first upcoming volume published with Actar.
Igor Peraza has rejoined the architecture faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2016-2017 academic year. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Peraza holds a BSc of Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, received a scholarship to do his Master of Architecture at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, and obtained his Ph.D at the University of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. Professionally, he worked for five years at the Atelier of Arata Isozaki and led the Domus (Museum of Mankind) project on-site in La Coruña, Spain. In 2000 he relocated to Barcelona to work with Miralles Tagliabue as Director of the Santa Caterina Market project. Peraza went on to serve as Director of EMBT’s Shanghai office were he led numerous projects including the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, the New Campus of Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Museum for the Chinese painter Zhang Daqian. He has previously taught at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the European Institute of Design, Tongji University, and served as a visiting professor at the Lebanese American University from 2013 to 2015.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska’s College of Architecture Among Awardees at AIA-NE Annual Gala
At this year’s Excellence in Design Gala, the American Institute of Architects, Nebraska Chapter (AIA-NE) presented five Honor Awards and eleven Merit Awards selected from Nebraska architects’ submissions and evaluated by Ohio jurors.
Faculty, students and alumni from the College of Architecture were among the honorees.
Architectural Program Director Jeffrey L. Day (and his Omaha and San Francisco based architectural firm Min | Day) won two distinguished honors at the event. Min | Day was presented with the following awards on September 29th:
- • Honor Award in the Architecture category for their project entitled “Blue Barn Theatre & Box Car 10” Omaha, Nebraska. This project was conceived as a new arts hub in a rapidly changing district near downtown Omaha. The experimental theatre opens to the city outdoors through a public open space anchored with a mixed-use building.
- • Merit Award in the Unbuilt Architecture category for their project entitled “Hexad” Lincoln, NE.
Hexad is a caretaker’s house for a private estate in a sculpture garden. The 832 sq. ft. building separates the basic functions of home into living, eating, bathing and sleeping, into four 160 sq. ft. wings. Current M.Arch student Jacob Doyle also worked on the Hexad project while an intern at Min | Day in 2016.
College of Architecture recent graduates were recognized as well. David Alcala and Joshua Puppe, both currently employed in BVH’s Lincoln office, won a Merit Award in the Emerging Professionals category for their project entitled “Ephemerality – St. Joseph’s Catholic Church,” a project they designed in ARCH 410 under studio instructor Mark Bacon’s direction.
In this design, the church is strengthened through the employment of light, material logic and the concept of ascension through architecture. The project’s goals were achieved through designing spaces around light such as the main chapel and other areas in darkness such as the private chapel to reflect the program of the room. The project was previously recognized with an SGH / Dri-Design scholarship.
Several College of Architecture alumni had their work recognized with the AIA-NE Excellence in Design awards and the full award list may be accessed through www.aiane.org website. The Excellence in Design program is an annual event for Nebraska architects who submit built and unbuilt projects for consideration. Categories for consideration include Architecture, Interior Architecture, Unbuilt, Excellence in Masonry and Details. For Emerging Architects the categories are Unbuilt Design and Architectural Detail.
Projects were judged based on a variety of features, including unique design, originality, extended use attributes, sustainability, budget and use of environmental surroundings. More information about each of these projects can be found at
http://www.aiane.org/aia_design_awards/2016_excellence_in_design_awards/.
American University of Sharjah
The Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates is pleased to announce the following faculty appointments commencing Fall 2015.
Daniel Chavez has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. With over eleven years in the architectural profession working with RMKM Architecture and at the office of Antoine Predock Architect he has completed many built projects in New Mexico as well as contributing to international projects in Winnipeg, Shanghai and Chengdu. He also worked with Gensler Architecture on the Virgin Galactic Space Port competition team and with Gould-Evens Architecture on CNM Westside Phase III. A passionate furniture designer and maker, Chavez strives for simplicity in his work believing inherent qualities of a material inform design. His courses in material fabrication employ traditional wood working techniques to exhibit structural and architectural principals. Previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at AUS, in spring 2015 Chavez introduced full-scale, project-based learning to the Interior Design program at AUS. His efforts in leading the Senior Project design/build initiative will continue indefinitely.
Marcus Farr has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. Farr has 10 years of experience working in architecture, urban design & site specific landscape architecture throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia. This includes collaborations with the offices of James Burnett, SOM, Gensler, Carlos Jimenez Studio, HOK, Robert A.M. Stern, PDR and HKS. Relative publications include Landscape Architecture Magazine, Texas Architect, Architectural Record, Architect, Cite Magazine, The New York Times, and World Architecture Magazine. Marcus received a post-professional M.Arch from Rice University, as well as a Professional Degree in Architecture (B.Arch) and a B.A. in Studio Art from Drury University with further studies at the AA. His teaching will focus on performative & sustainable building methods, professional practice & digital design/fabrication.
Gregory Thomas Spaw has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. He is an educator, designer, scholar and entrepreneur. Concurrent with his academic engagement, Spaw is a principal of SHO, a design collaborative that straddles the territories of teaching, research and practice. He has previous held the Ann Kalla Assistant Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, served as a visiting professor at the Cracow University of Technology, and taught undergraduate and graduate studios, seminars, and electives at the University of Tennessee. His previous professional experience includes work with the award winning offices of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Preston Scott Cohen Inc., and Asymptote. He also contributed toward Independent Architecture’s entry for the PS1 Young Architects Program Competition in Queens, New York and worked on location in Seoul, Athens, and Brussels with LASSA on a series of diverse projects. Gregory holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and a Master in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Igor Peraza has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Peraza holds a BSc of Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, received a scholarship to do his Master of Architecture at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, and obtained his Ph.D at the University of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. Professionally, he worked for five years at the Atelier of Arata Isozaki and led the Domus (Museum of Mankind) project on-site in La Coruña, Spain. In 2000 he relocated to Barcelona to work with Miralles Tagliabue as Director of the Santa Caterina Market project. Peraza went on to serve as Director of EMBT’s Shanghai office were he led numerous projects including the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, the New Campus of Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Museum for the Chinese painter Zhang Daqian. He has previously taught at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the European Institute of Design, Tongji University, and served as a visiting professor at the Lebanese American University from 2013 to 2015.
Matthew A. Trimble has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Trimble founded Radlab in 2008. He has a diverse range of experience working and consulting in the field of architecture for firms that include Neil M. Denari Architects, Behnisch Behnisch and Partner, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, and dECOi Architects. Trimble has taught seminars, workshops, and studios internationally for both graduate and undergraduate students at the Boston Architectural College, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Trimble studied architecture at The University of Memphis (BFA), where he received the Frances F. Austin Scholarship, and holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Avalon Travel Fellowship.
Washington University in St. Louis
2014 URSA Grants Awarded
WUSTL’S Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance grants, which provide one-year, $25,000 seed funding to full-time university faculty members. Recipients include Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, and Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene & Martha Lohman Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, for research titled “Quantifying Benefits of Vacant Land Utilization in Shrinking Cities.”
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Zeuler Lima
Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi
In this opening lecture, associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, will discussed Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi, which he curated. The exhibition, produced with the curatorial assistance of MArch students Marina Miers and Colby Perrine, presented a chronological analysis of the Italian-Brazilian architect’s oeuvre through a collection of digital renderings and photographs taken by Lima and Nelson Kon.
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Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, delivered a presentation titled Lina Bo Bardi House: Betwixt and Between as part of a symposium on modern Latin American design hosted by the Americas Society’s Visual Arts program.
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Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis
John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the lecture, Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis, as part of the 2015 MLA Saturday Lecture Series. His talk raised awareness about what he calls the greatest challenge facing the emergence of sustainable communities: social and environmental justice, and the related economic inequities.
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New Orleans Under Reconstruction
Martin C. Pederson‘s review of the book New Orleans Under Construction: The Crisis of Planning for Architectural Record includes a quote from an essay by associate professor Derek Hoeferlin. Titled “Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Programs, Venues and Collaborations,” Hoeferlin’s chapter of the book includes student work from WUSTL architecture studios.
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Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery & Dialogue
The WUSTL community came together to explore the important issues of race and ethnicity at this university-wide event. Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogueincluded a series of panel conversations and open forums with scholars, students, and leaders, exploring challenges that the university community is facing, particularly in light of recent events in the St. Louis region and across the country.
Panelists from the Sam Fox School included associate professor Bob Hansman (opening event) and associate professor Denise Ward-Brown (The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity).
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Public Lecture Series: Living Better Than Inhabiting
Javier Maroto, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture, will deliver a talk titled Living Better Than Inhabiting to kick off the spring 2015 Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. Maroto and his partner, Alvaro Soto, co-founded the firms SOLID architecture and Maremoto Paisajes in 2001 to carry out projects of architecture, urbanism, and landscape in an holistic manner. Maroto’s lecture will focus on the construction of a paradox between living and inhabiting. The needs and the aspirations settled within the current frame of our lives should be squeezed and mingle to redefine a new contemporary space concept suitable to a better and more conscious lifestyle.
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LIMA featured in Journal of the Architecture Program at TUM, Germany
The January issue of the Journal of the Architecture Program at the Technical University of Munich features an interview with associate professor Zeuler Lima, in which he discusses his book Lina Bo Bardi and his collaboration on the centennial exhibition at the Munich Architecture Museum that celebrates the Italian-Brazilian architect.
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Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home
Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet.
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DFA Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Human-Centered Design
Design for America, a network of student-led studios creating local and social impact through interdisciplinary design, will bring together the following panel of academic and professional experts to explore what it means to design physical, virtual, and systematic solutions for the complex challenges facing individuals and communities:
- Frank Bergh, BS08 Engineering, director of engineering operations, Socore Energy; co-founder, Engineers Without Borders at WUSTL
- Heather Corcoran, director, College & Graduate School of Art
- Bruce Lindsey, dean, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
De Andrea Nichols, BFA10, MSW14, director of creative changemaking, Catalysts by Design; community engagement manager, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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OneSTL Conference: Linking Research and Practice:
Equitable Economic Growth and Sustainable Water Infrastructure
Equitable Economic & Community Development and Water Infrastructure are the main focus of this year’s OneSTL Conference. The topics were chosen based on a survey that asked local government and non-profit representatives to identify priority areas for sustainability and where research could support local decision-making. Speakers with WUSTL ties include:
Assistant professor Patty Heyda and assistant professor Molly Metzger (Brown School), who are are panelists for Workshop I: Equitable Economic Development
Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, who is a panelist for Workshop II: Water Infrastructure.
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Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home
Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet.
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Architecture Around the World Lecture Series: 79 Views of the Gateway Arch
Visiting assistant professor Justin Scherma discussed 79 Views of the Gateway Arch, a photographic and historical survey of the official neighborhoods of St. Louis as part of the Architecture Around the World Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by The Society of Architectural Historians St. Louis Chapter and Steedman Architectural Library.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ACSA News – 3.18.15
Abbas Aminmansour was selected for the 2015 American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Special Achievement Award. Per AISC’s web site, “A Special Achievement Award provides special recognition to individuals who demonstrated notable singular or multiple achievements in structural steel design, construction, research or education. This award honors living individuals who have made a positive and substantial impact on the structural steel design and construction industry.” The award will be presented at the opening plenary session of the North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC) on Wednesday March 25, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Associate Professor Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED-AP received a UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award in late 2014; served on the 2015 American Institute of Architects National Technology in Architectural Practice Innovation Awards Jury in February; published a book review on BIM Design in The International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (IJAEC) in February; will be giving a TEDx Talk, “Creating Career Control Joints,” in April; will be presenting a paper, Leveraging Data in Academia and Practice: Geometry, Human- and Building-Performance, at the Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) 2015 in Chicago in April; has an article, Who Will Lead Our Industry’s Data-Driven Future?, in DesignIntelligence in May; will be delivering a talk, “AESOP: The Data-Centric Practice of the Future,” at KA Connect 2015 in San Francisco, CA in May; will be presenting Leveraging Data Across the Building Lifecycle on data-informed design at the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction (ICSDEC) in Chicago in May; wrote a new book, Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, to be published by Wiley in the Fall, foreword by James Timberlake FAIA of KieranTimberlake; has papers accepted and will be presenting at the Building Technology Educators Society (BTES) Conference, presenting in Salt Lake City, UT in June; developing an online course ARCH 164: Architecture as a Second Language; contributed to an article in Architect Magazine on Best Practices in BIM, integrated design and leadership.
Kevin Hinders will be giving a paper alongside Michael Loganbill at the upcoming AIA conference describing the Chicago Studio- its pedagogy and practice.
Paul Kapp has published his latest book: The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi, has been released by the University Press of Mississippi.
Joy Monice Malnar’s co-authored book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands received excellent reviews in a diverse range of publications from the Canadian Architect (November 2014, page 46), to the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2014.932496) to the First American Art Magazine (No. 5, Winter 2014, page 68). She is currently teaching in the ISoA’s new Chicago Studio program established with the support of the Chicago architecture firm VOA.
Polygon Sculpture Studio, designed by Professor Jeffery Poss and two recent ISoA graduates at Workus Studio, received 2014 Merit Award for Architectural Design from the American Institute of Architects Central Illinois Chapter. The studio is perched at the top of a steep lakefront property overlooking Lake George in upstate New York.
Faculty within the detail+FABRICATION Program of the Illinois School of Architecture are exploring the role of fabrication and making in an exhibit entitled “Speculative Visions of Pragmatic Architectures” at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign. Rather than privileging finished products, objects, or built work, these designers are placing an increased focus on the process of making as a means for surveying alternative outcomes. The exhibit is curated by detail+FABRICATION program chair Professor Jeffery Poss, and features the work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, Fabrication Coordinator Hugh Swiatek, and Visiting Faculty Brian Vesely and Camden Greenlee. The exhibit runs through the summer of 2015.
In recognition of his work in Haiti following the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, Assistant Professor Mark S Taylor has been awarded a University of Illinois’ 2014-2015 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
In 2014, the Urban Communication Foundation selected Thérèse Tierney’s book, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society, as a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award. Also that year, Tierney’s essay, “Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics & Implications,” won Honorable Mention for “Best Faculty Research in the Humanities” by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. More recently, she published on digital topics such as “Crowdsourcing Crisis Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience,” European Business Review (7/2014) and “Will 3D Printing Revolutionize Architecture?” BIF Design Education (2/6/2014). This April, Tierney is curating an exhibition, “Building the Future: Interaction Design” sponsored by [co][lab] in Urbana, Illinois.
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