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Title: Tiffany Lin Work Selected for Exhibition at University of Massachusetts

Jan 29, 2019

Tiffany Lin, Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane, will have her work on exhibit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, running Feb. 4-28, 2019. The exhibit, Datum Drawing explores the use of datum in drawing as an architectural or spatial point of reference.

“I am thrilled to be a part of an exhibition that showcases speculative drawing and painting as integral to the architectural design process,” Lin said.

A datum line is a line to which dimensions are referred on engineering drawings, and from which measurements are calculated. The term datum refers to a piece of information or a fixed point of scale that serves as a reference in defining geometry of a composition and in measuring aspects of that geometry to assess its relations to another value in space.

The exhibit features two architects and two artists that employ the use of datum lines in their work. Along with Lin’s architectural art, the exhibit will also include Aaron Collier, Assistant Professor of Art at Tulane University; Perry Kulper, Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan; and Derek Lerner, an artist based in New York City.

“It is an honor to be in a group show with Perry Kulper as we often reference his work in core studio teaching and I look forward to meeting him,” Lin said.

Click here for more information about the exhibit and its related events.

Washington University in St. Louis

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The professional/faculty category of the juried Research + Design Exhibition at the ACSA/AIK International Conference features Geographies of a Global Company Town, a project/poster by assistant professor Patty Heyda. The poster was produced in an advanced architecture studio as part of Heyda’s ongoing Emergent Urbanisms project. It includes drawings by Bryan Bogaards, MArch14, and current MArch student Acyn Xinrui Zhong. In addition, associate professor John Hoal will present the paper MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers, Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Midwest River Basins during a conference session at 9:30a June 23. The paper is co-authored by Hoal, assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, and Dale Morris, senior economist for The Royal Netherlands Embassy.

Washington University in St. Louis

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Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin wrote a chapter titled “Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Programs, Venues and Collaborations” in the recently published book New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning, edited by Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, and Anthony Fontenot. Hoeferlin’s chapter includes student work from WUSTL architecture studios.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1615-new-orleans-under-reconstruction

Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecturer Ersela Kripa and visiting assistant professor Stephen Mueller, partners of AGENCY, collaborated with an interdiscipinary team of design professionals–including assistant professor Kees Lokman–on XFL, a model partnership and reuse for low-density retail parking lots in cities with lagging stormwater infrastructure. The project was a finalist in Infill Philadelphia’s nationwide design competition, and was published in Issue 71 of Archiworld. http://agencyarchitecture.com/project/performative-landscape/

University of New Mexico

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Jorge Colón, AIA, Assistant Professor of research and research methodologies, is an architect and director of LÓNdesign, an architecture studio with a focus on housing, in-fill projects, and the renovation and adaptive re-use of existing structures.  He holds degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), Arizona State University (MArch), and Harvard University (MDesS), where his research centered on informal settlements, cultural geographies, and housing in rapidly urbanizing urban centers. Colón has lectured publicly on a range of issues related to design and urban development, and his work has won several design awards, including recognition by the American Institute of Architects.  He brings these interests and experience to the University of New Mexico, where he will teach upper level design studios as well as seminars in research methodologies and communication.

Kuppu Iyengar, Associate Professor, has been appointed the new Associate Director of the Architecture Program in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico.  He succeeds Geoff C. Adams, Associate Professor, in this position.

Alex Webb, LEED AP, Assistant Professor of emergent technologies, joins the UNM SAAP faculty from the Los Angeles area where he was an Adjunct Faculty member at Woodbury University and a Lecturer at Otis School of Design.  He received his degrees at SCI-Arc (M.Arch) and Colorado College (B.Arts, English) and studied at the Berlage Institute and Columbia University’s GSAAP.  Webb has worked for numerous architectural firms in the LA area including Marmol Radziner + Associates, Patterns, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Gensler.  He was recently awarded a ($2,000) Woodbury University Research Grant for a project titled Fabric Formed Performance.  Fabric Formed Performance will be on display in Hollywood at WUHO. Webb will teach design studios and seminars in both the areas of Building and Design Technologies.  

University of Minnesota

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John Comazzi, Assistant Professor of Architecture, has been awarded an Imagine Fund Grant for Research in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota. As a continuation of his past fellowship in the College Readiness Consortium (CRC) at the University, Comazzi has been granted additional funding to co-develop design-based curricular units in collaboration with PK-12 Educators and scholars from the College of Education.  This curriculum will implement design-based projects and professional development workshops designed to advance post-secondary preparedness among middle and high school students throughout the state of Minnesota.  

University of New Mexico

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Eleni Bastéa, Ph.D., Professor, received a grant from the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence to develop a new interdisciplinary course titled: “Cities and Literature: Urban Change and Urban Narratives in Contemporary Europe,” Spring 2012.

Margaret Pedone AIA, Lecturer, recently was awarded an ‘unbuilt citation award’ from the AIA Albuquerque for her project “3 River Barges”.

Kramer E Woodard, Associate Professor, has received a United States utility patent for his innovative prefabricated wall and structure system for use in small dwellings, particularly where rapid deployment is needed, as in disaster relief. Currently Woodard is working on two other systems to provide heating, cooling and electricity using solar energy, that will work in conjunction with the wall system. He expects utility patents for those systems next year.

Kristina H. Yu, Assistant Professor, competed and recently was awarded the Teaching Allocation Grant UNM for her study titled, “Technologically Enhanced Interactive Desk Critique: Reinvigorating the Studio Classroom”.  Prof. Yu along with Electrical Computer Engineer Prof. Olga Lavrova (UNM) competed to teach interdisciplinary courses ”Communal Concerns – Housing and Photovoltaic Assets” to be taught at the Schloss Dyck Foundations in Neuss, Germany Summer 2012.  Yu was recently selected to participate in the NSF funded faculty leadership workshop under the initiative of the NM Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.   The training, courses and funding are directly related to her research area of Housing Development and Shared Amenities.

University of Washington

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Assistant Professor Kathrina Simonen and Liv Haselbach of Washington State University College of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Washington researchers Elaine Oneil of the College of the Environment and Joyce Cooper of the College of Engineering, submitted the Life Cycle Assessment and Buildings Research for Washington State (LCA for WA) report to the State Legislature on September 1st, 2012.   This research to explore the potential of integrating LCA methods and data into the State Building Code was funded by Washington Senate Bill 5485.   As part of this research, two stakeholder workshops were held which included presentations on topics such as:  LCA fundamentals, LCA policy and LCA in Practice.  This presentations were recorded and are posted online along with the final report report at http://courses.washington.edu/lcaforwa/wordpress/.

Assistant Professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino was awarded the 2012 Runstad Real Estate Center Fellowship and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in March 2012.  This fellowship,  now in its second year, is a program that selects a diverse group of academics, professionals and students to pursue research questions related to design, building, development and their environmental and economic concerns.  The 2012 Fellows consisted of two professors, Merlino and Carrie Sturts Dossick (Construction Management); professionals Jason Twill (Senior Project Manager, Sustainability, Vulcan Inc.) and  Liz Dunn (Consulting Director of the Preservation Green Lab, Founder of Dunn and Hobbes, LLC) and students Natalie Gualy (M.Arch, MSRE 2012) and Ian Fishburn (MSRE, 2012). The fellows spent seven days in Istanbul, investigating the urban growth policies of this architecturally rich and dynamic “megacity”, and discussing its current trajectory with real estate professionals, government officials, designers, academics, activists and citizens. The findings provided a startling reminder that despite conjectures about post-consumer, post-carbon ‘creative culture’ cities,  homogenized 20th century ambitions still largely determine the way in which the globe’s most architecturally and culturally unique cities are pursing growth in the 21st century.  The Fellows will present their experiences on November 8 at 6pm in Architecture Hall at the University of Washington.

Professor Steve Badanes traveled to Australia in March for a lecture tour, and spoke at UTS in Sydney, UniSA in Adelaide, and UTas and Hobart AIA in Tasmania. The Neighborhood design/build Studio, which Badanes directs with Jake LaBarre, won 4 out of 7 Honor Awards at the 2012 AIA Pacific Region Student Awards for the Urban Farm Supershed.  Badanes chaired the Louisiana AIA Awards jury, and traveled to Lafayette LA in September to present the awards, and to speak at the La AIA Convention and at the Tulane City Center.  A  recent film focused on the Seattle icon Fremont Troll, a project led by Badanes and his firm Jersey Devil, premiered this fall. The film, Hall of Giants ‘chronicles the creation and endurance of the much beloved Fremont Troll and explores the public art movement in Seattle and beyond.  Through interviews and hundreds of rare photographs and archival footage, viewers will take an historical journey through Seattle’s earliest years and on up to the present, where art and artists still struggle to survive in an ever-changing city.’

Robert Hutchison was promoted to Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, College of Built Environments, December 2011.  His firm, Hutchison & Maul Architecture is a partner with the Uniontown Community Development Association on the Addition to the historic Artisan Barn project, which was one of 80 projects to be awarded a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant.  Robert Hutchison was one of eight featured Speakers at the 2012 AIA Arkansas State Convention, Little Rock AR, September 2012.  Hutchison was an invited Speaker & Reviewer for the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning & Design, Manhattan KS, September 2012.

Professor Sharon Sutton published a Critical book essay of “Service-Learning in Design and Planning,” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19, 1, in press for late October, early November.

The Department of Architecture at the University of Washington is working with aid organization Ayni Education International, the Janet W. Ketcham Foundation, architect Salim Rafik, and architect Bob Hull, founding partner of the Seattle based firm Miller Hull, to design the new Gohar Khaton Girls’ School in Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan. Bob Hull and Assistant professor Elizabeth Golden are leading a graduate architecture studio focused on developing culturally and environmentally responsive design solutions for the project, which is slated for construction in early 2013.

 

Lawrence Technological University

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Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., has been promoted to Professor of Architecture. During the summer, Dr. Gyure participated in a symposium in London, sponsored by the University of Melbourne, entitled “School is Another Place: The Making and Meaning of the School Environment in the Twentieth Century.” Dr. Gyure’s paper focused on mid-century “casual” school buildings and their relationship to child-centered culture. He also presented a lecture, “Serenity and Delight: The Architectural Humanism of Minoru Yamasaki,” as part of the Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America symposium at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. And Dr. Gyure’s article, “A Lost Opportunity: Wright’s Ill-Fated Music Building for Florida Southern College,” was published in the spring edition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly.

Deirdre L. C. Hennebury has joined the LTU faculty as Assistant Professor of History and Theory.  An interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton, Harvard and the University of Michigan, Deirdre’s research focuses on the use of cultural institutions, such as museums and libraries, to create signature landmarks that act as catalysts for economic growth and social improvement. Other research interests include how architecture, history and place are leveraged for educational and financial purposes.

Ayodh Kamath, Assistant Professor of Digital Design and Production Technologies.  He received his Master of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute Technology.  He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Sushant School of Art and Architecture, in India.  Professor Kamath is a Partner Architect at Kamath Design Studio, in New Dehli, India.

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