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University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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A group of students and faculty from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s P3: People, Prosperity, and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability.Their project will receive up to $90,000 in grant funding to turn the designs into real-world applications and implement them in the marketplace.

The UT Green Oak Project developed oak construction techniques that use undried oak, which is known as “green” oak, as an energy-efficient and carbon-friendly wood product. The project received $15,000 in the first phase of the competition to investigate the material. Associate Professor Ted Shelton of the UT School of Architecture is the lead principal investigator on the project.

 

University projects from across the country competed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 27 as part of the National Sustainable Design Expo. UT’s team was one of seven winners selected by a panel of experts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was the only project in an architecture-related discipline to claim a prize. 

 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Thomas K. Davis, an associate professor of architecture, has received a national award for his exemplary engagement and outreach scholarship. This was one of eight granted in the nation.

Thomas K. Davis’s program, which focuses on outreach partnerships in greater Nashville, was selected by a panel of university engagement administrators through the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Award and the Engagement Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award program. The awards program seeks colleges and universities that have redesigned their learning, discovery, and engagement functions to become more involved with their communities.

Davis received a plaque at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference and was recognized during the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities’ annual meeting.

This is the third consecutive year UT has received an exemplary proposal award.

The first initiative of the partnership was producing “The Plan of Nashville,” a two-and-a-half-year project that developed a community-based vision and design principles for metropolitan Nashville’s urban core. The plan has been extended through Davis’ urban design courses, which, to date, have enrolled more than 200 students in addressing civic design issues in Middle Tennessee. The work was centered through the UT College of Architecture and Design’s partnership with the Nashville Civic Design Center.

In Clay County, Kentucky, flooding or ice frequently blocks access to emergency services. If a tornado hit the area, shelter would also be hard to find. A group of UT faculty members and students is trying to change this situation.

The effort known as Appalachia UTK is made possible through a $1.5 million grant over three years from the US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Over three years, the group aims to have a comprehensive assessment of the community’s health status, living conditions, and disaster readiness and vulnerability; an enhancement of overall wellness, including structural safety of homes and buildings; and the development of a community that has sufficient disaster preparedness training and resources. The project members will write grants to pay for costly updates and work with UT students and volunteers to implement solutions.

Clay County is an isolated area ranked 119th out of 120 Kentucky counties on major health indicators. Much of the population is ill-equipped to deal with a disaster because of poor housing, few shelters, inadequate sanitation, limited public resources, poverty, and lack of disaster education and essential reserves of food and water.

Participants from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design are John McRae and J. David Matthews.  

 

American University of Sharjah

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Four projects associated with the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) were recognized at the first American Institute of Architects Middle East Region Design Honor Awards. The jury was chaired by Larry Scarpa of Brooks + Scarpa in Los Angeles, CA and jury members included Lorcan O’herlihy and Alice Kim.

Assistant Professor Bill Sarnecky received a Merit Award in the Interior Architecture category for CAAD’s Booth designed and built for SaloneSatellite 2012 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Italy. The jury also awarded Sarnecky a Merit Award in the Unbuilt category for the Tarkeeb group design-build project. The project will result in a new entry and display wall at the College of Architecture, Art and Design at AUS.

The jury awarded Assistant Professors Christine Yogiaman and Ken Tracy a Merit Award for Cast Thicket, a prototypical installation that furthers earlier research into tensile concrete molds through the use of plastic form-work and a layered structural network.

The jury also awarded Assistant Professor George Newlands a Citation Award for a contemporary addition to a traditional adobe residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Assistant Professor Emily Baker presented her research, Spin-Valence, in a talk entitled “Search for a Rooted Aesthetic” at the Fabricate 2014 conference held in Zurich, Switzerland.  Her paper of the same title is published in “Fabricate: Negotiating Design & Making.” 

Assistant Professor Faysal Tabbarah, in collaboration with Mobius Design Studio, has been awarded first place in the first Maraya Art Park Competition for their entry, Parasol. The proposal will be constructed in mid-2014.

Associate Professor Michael Hughes’ PORCH_house Prefab received an AIA Design Honor Award from the Louisiana AIA and an AIA Design Merit Award from the Arkansas AIA. Hughes also contributed a chapter titled “Constructing a Contingent Pedagogy” to the new book “Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice” edited by Harriet Harriss and Lynnette Widder. Publication by Routledge is scheduled for summer 2014.

 

Mississippi State University

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The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is pleased to announce the addition of four new faculty members.

Emily McGlohn has joined the School as visiting assistant professor. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and her Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University, where she completed her thesis at the Rural Studio and remained after graduation as an instructor for three years. McGlohn next spent several years in professional practice at William McDonough + Partners and brwarchitects in Charlottesville, Va. 

Jacob Gines is another new visiting assistant professor at Mississippi State this year. He received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah, where he later taught as an adjunct in the design studios. Gines also practiced as a senior associate in the design firm of Method Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Todd Walker, FAIA, is currently serving as a visiting design studio critic in the first-year studio. He is a principle and founding member of the awarding-winning Memphis firm archimania and has also received the prestigious “Eminent Architect of Practice” appointment for spring 2013.
Finas Townsend is currently serving as studio assistant in the first-year design studio. Townsend is from Memphis and received his Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State in 2011.

While on sabbatical leave last year, Professor Rachel McCann, PhD, presented two lectures in Europe, “Architectural Sense” at the Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Space Symposium, University of Nottingham, England; and “Architectural Flesh in the Digital Age” at the Chalmers School of Architecture in Sweden.

David Perkes, AIA, director of the School’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, has been promoted to full professor.

Associate Professor Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA, has been selected as one of three Peer Discipline Reviewers for The Fulbright Program for architecture. Greenwood also serves as a Fulbright Program Campus Representative, working to promote the program to students and faculty.

The Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), a research center under the direction of Associate Professor John Poros, AIA, received the Public Outreach Award from The Mississippi Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MS). The center won the award for its MS Bypass Guidelines, which were published this year. The Public Outreach award was one of only three awards given by the MS APA this year and is for an individual or program that uses information and education about the value of planning to create greater awareness among citizens and other segments of society.

The Carl Small Town Center has also been awarded a grant to work with communities along the Tanglefoot Trail on transportation and economic development issues. The $120,000 grant comes from the federally funded Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, a regional university transportation center located at the University of Florida. The funds will be shared by Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Under the direction of Jassen Callender, associate professor, six teams of fifth-year students had documentary films selected for inclusion in the thirteenth annual Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Miss. The documentaries were produced in the fall of 2011 as part of the Theory of Urban Design course.
The six documentaries selected were:
• Richard Akin, Raymond Huffman, and Taylor Poole, From Field to Fork
• Scott Archer, Charles Barry, and Ryan Morris, Chinese Potatoes
• Audrey Bardwell, Aaron Schwartz, and Meredith Yale, Madison the City Needs (Renewable) Energy
• Anthony Dinolfo, Ryan Santos, and Amy Selvaggio, Point A to Point B
• Ingrid Gonzalez, Sam Grefseng, and Chris Hoal, The Built Environment of Jackson
• Lauren Arrington, Robert Featherston, and Jessica Harkins, Ward 3: Area in Need of Renewal

Jassen Callender also had a chapter, “Sustainable Urban Development,” in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, published by Elsevier.

Visiting Assistant Professor Jacob Gines and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA, are currently collaborating with Mississippi State University Transit to develop a series of pedestrian friendly transit stops and enclosures along proposed bus routes to connect the campus with the city of Starkville, Miss. The work is part of a $2.4 million Mississippi Department of Transportation public transit grant.

Hans Herrmann was also named ‘Emerging Professional’ by the AIA for 2012. His work was included in the annual exhibition, presented at AIA National’s headquarters, the American Center for Architecture, in Washington, D.C.

Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor, had an article published in the summer issue of AIA Forward journal, Forward 112: Process. Forward, a scholarly journal, is produced by the National Associates Committee to provide a voice for Associate AIA members within the Institute.

Alexis Gregory also received  “The Bringing Theory to Practice Project” AACU 2013 Seminar Grant ($1000 w/ April Heiselt)  “ . . . to help support research on service-learning in architecture.” This grant is supported by the S. Engelhard Center and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation.

Assistant Professor Justin Taylor had a paper, “Changing the Culture of Do Not Touch,” accepted to The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environment (IE12) in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Rachel McKinley and Zachary James, students in the School of Architecture, received the Collaborative Project Award from APA MS. The award is for their work done in the Carl Small Town Center’s CREATE Common Ground class last spring, which focused on revitalizing New Albany, Miss. The Collaborative Project Award recognizes research, projects or other activities in which a student has worked collaboratively with practitioners/planners and/or faculty.

Mississippi State’s chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) participated in the national Green Apple Day of Service on Sept. 29. The group volunteered at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum.

Mississippi State University’s Alpha Rho Chi fraternity recently raised and donated $1,250 to the Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity. Daniel Torres serves as the fraternity’s fundraising chairman, and Adam Rhoades is the chapter president. Alpha Rho Chi at Mississippi State primarily includes College of Art, Architecture and Design majors. From the fraternity’s inception almost three years ago, members have focused on donating to Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity.

Mack Braden and Michael Varhalla, students in the School of Architecture, won this year’s Brick Industry Association Design Competition. The two received a $1,000 travel scholarship for their achievement. The project was for the design of a culinary arts school in downtown Memphis, Tenn., as part of the spring 2012 third-year design studio taught by Assistant Professor Alexis D. Gregory, AIA, and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA. Honorable Mention went to Chelsea Pierce and John Thomas.

Dalton Finch, Anthony Penny, Scott Polley and Colton Stephens, third-year students in the School of Architecture, designed the recently completed Habitat for Humanity house located on Steadman Lane in Starkville, Miss. The students worked on the design as part of Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory’s class that included 11 students working on several design options for the nonprofit organization.

Emily Roush Elliott has been chosen as an Enterprise Rose Architecture fellow by the Carl Small Town Center (CSTC). Elliot earned her Bachelor of Science in Design from Arizona State University and her Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. As a Fellow, she will be able to draw from her work in Tanzania, where she successfully integrated social and environmental sustainability in a similarly rural environment, to establish a redevelopment plan for the Baptist Town community in Greenwood, Miss. The CSTC was one of just four national organizations selected to host a Fellow.

See photos, and read more news from the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University at http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/sarcnews/

University of Kansas

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Note that this does not pertain to the University of Kansas but rather the Architectural Research Centers Consortium

2011-12 ARCC Awards Programs

 

 

The Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. (ARCC) is an international association of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture in architecture and related design disciplines. In furthering this mission, ARCC runs an annual awards program which is now seeking nominations for this year.

ARCC James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award

The award, named in honor of ARCC’s founding Executive Secretary, recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields, including urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, and interior design. Nominees, therefore, should have demonstrated, whether in professional practice, academics, or service, a record of sustained and significant research leadership accomplishment at the national or international level. Nominations are due on 20 January, 2012.

ARCC Incentive Fund Award

The ARCC Incentive Fund Award each year is offered to member institutions of ARCC to aid in the support of architectural research. This funding is intended to supplement and support ongoing efforts to disseminate findings of architectural research. The proposals are awarded for work to be completed during the following academic year.

Proposals are due on 20 January, 2012. 

ARCC New Researcher Award

The ARCC New Researcher Award each year is offered to member institutions of ARCC to acknowledge and reward emerging figures in architectural and environmental design research that demonstrate innovation in thinking, dedication in scholarship, contributions to the academy, and leadership within architectural and environmental design research. Nominations are due on 20 January, 2012.

ARCC King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design

Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), this award is given to one student per ARCC member college, school, institute, or unit. Selection of recipients is at the discretion of the individual member institutions, but is based upon criteria that acknowledge innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research.

King nominations are due 06 April, 2012.

Please visit the ARCC website (arccweb.org) for further information on requirements for the various award submissions.

For further information, feel free to contact Keith Diaz Moore, Vice-President of ARCC and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Kansas at diazmoore@ku.edu.

University of Arizona

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Beth Weinstein has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure, and is spending her sabbatical fall semester between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Paris, France.

While in Melbourne, she was a guest of the dance company BalletLab, and a contributor to their current performance project, TOMORROW. (http://www.balletlab.com/works/upcoming/double-bill-and-all-things-return-to-nature-/-tomorrow/phils-5)

Weinstein recently published “Performance Space: Distributed v. Consolidated” as a chapter within The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. The book reflects on the recent 12th edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and also includes chapters from an international list of theorists and artists: Marvin Carlson (USA), Christopher Baugh (UK), Thea Brejzek (DE), Guy Gutman (IL), Barbora P_íhodová (CZ), and Arnold Aronson (USA). The book’s essays look at various aspects of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and serve as a starting point for a deeper theoretical evaluation of contemporary theatre and scenography.”

Weinstein lectured in the Spannweiten (span widths) series at the Technische Universität Dresden on May 30th in conjunction with the TU Dresden Department of Architecture installation of the Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham exhibition, curated and designed by Weinstein.

In June, Professor Weinstein participated in a curated panel at the Performance Studies International Conference  #18 in Leeds, entitled “Beyond Training: Event Experience in Education” with Dr. Rodrigo Tisi (Dean of Art, Architecture & Design: UNIACC Santiago, Chile) and Dr. Dorita Hannah (Wellington, NZ). In this context she presented University of Arizona students’ built designs for performance environments and interventions in public space.

Architectural historian Associate Professor Lisa Schrenk has joined the faculty of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. In May she traveled with Norwich University architecture student Katherine Anderson to Cuba while advising Anderson on her summer research fellowship, which explored pre- and post-revolutionary-era architecture in Havana and Puerto Rico. Prior to moving to Tucson, Professor Schrenk received a 2012 Excellence in Research award and was named as a Charles A. Dana I Award recipient for excellence in teaching, research, and service at Norwich.

Visiting Professor Brian Delford Andrews recently published a pamphlet entitled “Militaristic Detritus”, which documents his tenure as the 55th Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska, School of Architecture.  The booklet documents his work on the award winning project, “The House of War”, as well as detailing the student’s work on four various projects that dealt with the concept of Militaristic Detritus.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have won their 8th AIA Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for their latest project. The Levin Residence will air on HGTV’s Extreme Homes in the fall of 2012, and is featured on the cover of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine and in the fall issue of LUXE magazine.

 

North Carolina State University

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New Hires:

 

Assistant Professors Dr. Soolyeon Cho, Dana K. Gulling, and Sara Queen, have joined the faculty at College of Design School of Architecture at North Carolina State University.

 

Assistant Professor Cho’s expertise is in energy modeling and performance simulation for the design and development of sustainable buildings. His research and work experience includes energy savings calculation, high-performance building design, energy-efficient systems design, renewable energy systems integration, and performance Measurement and Verification (M&V). Prior to joining the faculty at the College of Design, Dr. Cho was an Assistant Professor of Architecture for three years at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC, where he developed core courses in the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program. Since 1999, Dr. Cho has conducted numerous research projects related to energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the built environment. During the summer of 2010, Dr. Cho received a fellowship from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy and conducted a research for the development of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010. In his Ph.D. research in Architecture at Texas A&M, Dr. Cho developed a methodology to develop an easy-to-use simulation tool for the selection of high-performance systems. This tool was designed to help building practitioners make quick design decisions for their design projects. He earned his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Korea.

 

Assistant Professor Gulling’s teaching and research broadly examines the growing importance of design integration of building services, systems, and details to architectural design.  Her research specialty focuses on manufacturing processes and new materials and their potential application in architectural design. Prior to joining the College of Design, Professor Gulling was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico and at the Savannah College of Art and Design.  She has taught graduate and upper-level architecture design studios in construction technology, architectural structures, and seminars on manufacturing.  In August of 2009, Professor Gulling co-organized the Building Technology Educators’ Society Conference, titled ‘Assembling Architecture’, which brought together educators, researchers, and practitioners with a focus on building technology.

 

Dana holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in Structural Engineering and a Master’s of Architecture from Yale University. Additionally, Professor Gulling is a registered architect. 

 

Assistant Professor Queen’s research and teaching focuses on k-12 design education and the application of cartographic tools to represent the dynamic and ever-shifting nature of landscape with the built-environment.  She earned her Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from the College of Design at North Carolina State University and her Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She worked as a project manager with Frank Harmon Architect from 2002-2005 on award-winning projects including the Strickland Ferris Residence and Prairie Ridge Eco-Station.  She has taught studios at Harvard University in the Career Discovery and Project Link programs. Professor Queen has also led middle school design studios and k-12 teacher workshops in Design Thinking at Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum.  Before joining the full time faculty, Professor Queen was a Teaching Fellow within the College of Design leading graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars.

 

Faculty News:

 

Professor Georgia Bizios and co-editor Katie Wakeford have published a new essay collection titled Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships. Twenty-two contributors from across the United States contributed to the book which brings together the best in current practice and thinking regarding public-interest architectural internship and advocates for new models that will have the power to profoundly change the architectural profession and our communities. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a faculty development grant from the NC State University College of Design. The collection is available at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bridging-the-gap-public-interest-architectural-internships/17446483.

 

Professor Georgia Bizios’ professional practice was honored with a 2011 AIA Triangle Residential Tour Award for the Davis Residence. A jury selected six homes for recognition through a rigorous peer review process. Over three hundred visitors toured the house. For more information please visit: http://www.bizios.com/.

 

Associate Professor Kristen Schaffer gave an invited conference presentation in Hamburg, Germany. The conference was part of Hamburg’s preparation for nominating the city’s early warehouse and office district for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.  The conference papers will become part of the official submission to UNESCO.   The international conference was organized by ICOMOS Germany and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Department for Heritage Preservation, in cooperation with Hafen City University and the Sutor Foundation. Dr. Schaffer spoke on the early tall office building in Chicago.

 

University of Minnesota

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Dewey Thorbeck, Adjunct professor of architecture and director of the Center for Rural Design: Thorbeck’s book Rural Design: A New Design Discipline was named by Routledge as one of its 15 best selling architecture books in 2012. The book formed the basis for a Rural Design Exhibit displayed in the College of Design at the U of MN that will be transformed into a pop-up traveling exhibit. Thorbeck has also been invited to speak about rural design at the University of Manitoba School of Architecture; Manitoba Planning Conference in Winnipeg; Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio; and the American Planning Association national conference in Chicago.

Associate Professor John Comazzi (architecture) published a book on the life and career of Balthazar Korab, one of the most prolific and celebrated architecture photographers working in the second half of the twentieth century. The book, Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), gives a detailed account of Korab’s circuitous path from his roots in Budapest Hungary, to his migration through war-torn Europe and his eventual move to the United States (1955) to work as designer and photographer in the office of Eero Saarinen and Associates (1955-58). The images in the book feature numerous portfolios of mid-century modern architecture and previously unpublished images of industrial and vernacular architecture from around the world. The book was partially funded by a Graham Foundation Grant and was recently listed by the Guardian UK in their list of “Best Architecture Books of 2012”

Architecture Faculty Awarded Imagine Fund Grants: Numerous members of the Architecture Faculty at the University of Minnesota secured Imagine Fund Grants of $5000 for research and project development. Below is a list of awardees and their grant titles:

Assistant Professor Blaine Brownell (Architecture) – Architectural Frontiers in China
Associate Professor Arthur Chen (Architecture) – Typological Study of Swahili Public Squares
Professor Renee Cheng (Architecture, Head) – Architecture in Modern China: Lost Art or Strong Tradition?
Assistant Professor Greg Donofrio (Architecture) – Market Forces: The History Behind the Infrastructure of What We Eat
Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (Architecture) – Stonecutting Indigenous Artistry: the Sixteenth-Century Ribbed Vaults of la Mixteca, Mexico
Professor Lance LaVine (Architecture) – Analysis of Architectural Design Constructs 1927-Present
Assistant Professor Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) – Constructing Muslim Space and Image in Cape Town (1794-1868)
Associate Professor Marc Swackhamer (Architecture) – Var Vac Wall System: an Installation in the School of Architecture

The School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota will celebrate the centennial of its founding. As we look past over our 100 years of education, we will also look forward to the next century of achievement and development. Weekend events will include architecture tours, lectures, exhibitions, and time to catch up with friends during celebration activities both on and off campus.

The College of Design at the University of Minnesota will host Public Interest Design Week – March 19-24, 2013 – set to take place on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus. The University’s College of Design, in conjunction with Design Corps and PublicInterestDesign.org, announced last month what will be one of the largest gatherings public interest design advocates. In addition to keynotes by thought-leaders such as New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, D-Rev: Design Revolution CEO Krista Donaldson, and Liz Ogbu of California College of the Arts’ Center for Art & Public Life, among others, the inaugural Public Interest Design Week will feature a variety of events, symposia, and workshops.

The School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota launched a new MS in Research Practices Degree Program. Starting this spring, the School of Architecture will offer a new concentration in research practices within their master of science in architecture degree (MS-RP) for students starting the fall of 2013. The program aims at halving the amount of time from high school to licensure for architects–from an average of 14.5 years to 7. By offering this model, the School of Architecture nudges the profession toward true culture change, one that expects all students to be licensed upon graduation, regardless of their final career choices. It also takes advantage of recent changes to the National Council of Architectural Registration Board’s Intern Development Program and Architect Registration Examination, and leverages the historically strong connection between practice and academy in the Minneapolis/St Paul community. The new MS-RP was recently featured in articles that appeared in both Architect Magazine and Design Intelligence (written by Department Head, Renee Cheng).

The Architecture program at the University of Minnesota hosted another round of its yearly Catalyst program during the Spring Term 2013. The Catalysts program is an innovative feature of the School’s graduate M.Arch curriculum during which professional degree students in architecture step out of the day-to-day curriculum to work with small teams of faculty that encourage high-risk work. Each workshop is led by a host UMN faculty member in conjunction with an invited guest instructor from outside the University. The visiting faculty help provide novel insights and techniques for students, and they are typically recognized leaders within their field or specialty. Each guest also delivers a public lecture during the week.
This year’s Catalysts are organized under the broad theme of “”1913/2013/2113.”” The theme is inspired by the School’s upcoming Centennial in 2013, and guests included:
1. Daniel S. Friedman, Ph.D., FAIA, Dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington
2. Nathan Miller, Director of Computational Design at CASE
3. Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor, Harvard GSD
4. Billie Faircloth,  AIA, Research Director at KieranTimberlake
5. Karen Lewis, The Ohio State University
6. Barry Kudrowitz, Assistant Professor of product design, University of Minnesota

This spring the College of Design at the University of Minnesota expanded its program in Istanbul, Turkey to a full-semester course. Architecture and landscape architecture students, led by Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) and Lecturer Brad Agee (Landscape Architecture), spent their first 5 weeks in Rome, Italy, after which they will travel to Istanbul, where they’ll spend the next 11 weeks exploring the architectural and landscape fabrics of the vibrant, historical city.
In development since 2006, the program’s evolution into a full-semester was made possible with gifts from Mark and Nedret Butler (both B.Arch ’72), Peggy and Dave Lucas, Paul and Mary Reyelts, Ertugrul and Karen Owen Tuzcu, Vickie Abrahamson, and Dan Avchen (B.Arch ’72).

Tulane University

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Director of Tulane Regional Urban Design Center and Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton has been been selected as this year’s recipient of the Gulf-South Summit Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction in Higher Education. This is a wonderful recognition of Professor Mouton’s contributions. The Gulf-South Summit is an annual conference aimed to promote networking among practitioners, research, ethical practices, reciprocal campus-community partnerships, sustainable programs, and a culture of engagement and public awareness through service-learning and other forms of civic engagement. Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction will be given to a member of the teaching faculty who has demonstrated excellence incorporating service-learning pedagogy in the college/university classroom.

Adjunct Lecturer Will Bradshaw, co-founder and president of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC (GCE) recently published an article, “Creative Construction,” in the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate. The article investigates the capacity for environmental innovation in real estate development firms and argues that the Green development adopters change firm structure in ways to make adoption of environmental innovation easier, taking greater control of the projects, seeking more patient capital and creating longer-term relationships with design and construction talent.

Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of New Orleans Observed; Drawings and Observations of America’s Most Foreign City by Favrot Professor Errol Barron FAIA. This book uses drawings and written observations to reflect on the physical nature of New Orleans and how it may offer alternatives to urban design as found in many American cities. What qualities are found here that contradict the world of strip malls and McMansions? The unique character of the city is explored in over 124 drawings and accompanying text that celebrate the physically sensuous and strangeness of America’s most foreign city.

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Martin Despang’s Architectural Neighboring/New Community Center has been awarded the 2011-2012 Faculty Design Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. This award provides a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding working architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.  Despang and firm Despang Architekten will also be featured in the articles, “Value-Added Architecture – Companies and their Corporate Architecture” by the Goethe Institute for the firm’s Krogmann Headquarters, as well as “Post-Fossil Day Care Building” by XIA International Online for the firm’s work at Georg-August-University Göttingen.  The articles are available at http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/nba/en8554596.htm and http://www.xia-international-online.com/articles/artikel/article/post-fossil-day-care-building-1.html

 

Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited, as the curator of “The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham” exhibition,  to lecture on February 22nd on the topic of “Collaborations in Space and Time“ at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, where the exhibition is on view through May 7th, 2012. Weinstein has also been invited to lecture in the Architecture Program of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about connections between the making of performances, their environments, and utopia (February 29, 2012). While at Monash she will participate in workshop that centers around these same topics of performance and utopia with her hosts, architect Matthew Bird and choreographer Phillip Adams, and their students.

 

Lecturer Michael Kothke and firm HK Associates, Inc. have been awarded a citation for the Barrio Historico House in the “Live” category of Architect magazine’s Annual Design Review 2011 and is featured in the Winter edition of Luxe Magazine. 

 

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects will lecture on February 2, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix. This is the first in a four part lecture series called COLOR + ART in Contemporary Architecture which pairs an architect and an artist. 

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