Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was selected to receive the 2012 UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award. He was also chosen by the UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award Committee to be UNLV’s nominee for the 2012 Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award. The Regent’s Award is Nevada’s most prestigious teaching recognition and the sole nomination to this award constitutes a great honor.
Robert Greenstreet, Intl. Assoc. AIA, accomplished architect, prolific author, and celebrated educator, is the recipient of the 2013 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. In his more than 35-year career, Greenstreet has taught at five schools of architecture in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has spent the last 20 years as dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), making him one of the longest-serving architecture deans in North America. The Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has been deeply involved in architecture education for at least a decade.
In March, Greenstreet will be awarded the medallion at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) annual meeting in San Francisco. The AIA will also recognize him at the 2013 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver in June.
Greenstreet has devoted his career to fostering connections between academia and professional practice. In addition to instructing thousands of students, Greenstreet has held numerous positions at UWM, including assistant vice chancellor and deputy chancellor for campus and urban design; he also served as 1995–96 president of the ACSA. In 1998, he received the ACSA’s Distinguished Professor Award and was named one of the “Most Admired Educators” of 2010 by DesignIntelligence. Greenstreet has authored or co-authored seven books devoted to various areas of professional practice, with a particular focus on architecture and the law.
‘Mentor and friend’
After growing up in London, Greenstreet began his architectural education at Oxford Polytechnic University (now Oxford Brookes) in 1970, earning his undergraduate degree there and continuing into its Ph.D. program in the late 1970s. He worked in private practice while pursuing his doctorate, focusing on a range of residential, commercial, and institutional projects, and finishing his degree in 1983.
By the 1980s, Greenstreet had moved to the United States, where he served as an adjunct and visiting professor at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Ball State University, before joining the UWM faculty. At UWM he developed and taught several new courses, including those focused on advanced presentation techniques, building technology, and law and practice for architects. He has also led numerous design studios and study-abroad programs. Greenstreet has spearheaded interdisciplinary and professional program development between architecture students and those studying such diverse subjects as film, art history, engineering, business, and law. Reaching out beyond academia, Greenstreet played a fundamental role in the development of a new public high school in Milwaukee, the School for Urban Planning + Architecture, which enrolled its first class in 2007.
Research and writing have also been major aspects of Greenstreet’s career. In addition to seven books, he has published more than 150 papers and articles internationally, appearing in such journals as Progressive Architecture, Licensed Architect, Architecture, and Architectural Research Quarterly. He has also served as editor of The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, Student Edition, and is co-author of The New Administrator’s Handbook and The Junior Faculty Handbook on Tenure and Promotion.
“I have witnessed him act as mentor and friend to the most influential deans, and offer reassuring assistance to the most junior professor,” wrote Marvin Malecha, FAIA, dean of the North Carolina State University College of Design and former AIA president, in a recommendation letter. “I never met an individual more generous with his time and energy to our beloved architectural community.”
‘Town and gown’
Greenstreet’s work has taken him to the streets of his adopted city as well. In Milwaukee, he served as chair of the City Plan Commission from 1993 to 2004, during which time he was involved in upgrading the city’s 80-year-old zoning code, adjudicating decisions about future development, and assisting in the selection of architects for major building projects such as Pier Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Public Market, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
In addition to his deanship, Greenstreet is currently Milwaukee’s chair of city development, which he calls a “groundbreaking experiment to connect ‘town and gown.'” He works regularly with the mayor’s office on matters of planning, design, and development, leading design reviews in the city and coordinating the activities of the architecture school with city projects and programs.
The May 2009 architecture issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education featured Greenstreet on its cover, posing in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum and its birdlike 2001 addition designed by AIA Gold Medalist Santiago Calatrava—a building that some say catapulted Milwaukee onto the architectural A-list. The accompanying article describes Greenstreet as a tough negotiator with high expectations for architecture in the city. “As architects, we liked having one of us as the city planner,” local architect Greg Uhen, AIA, told the Chronicle. “I think his biggest influence is [that] he raised the bar for design in the city.”
Among other projects, Greenstreet also conceived and executed a program called Community Design Solutions, which helps UWM students work with AIA members so that they can provide pro bono services to inner-city neighborhoods and community groups. Greenstreet also served as an advisor to internationally renowned architect Antoine Predock, FAIA, on his award-winning design for the Indian Community School of Milwaukee. “His energy, enthusiasm and scope,” Predock wrote in a recommendation letter, “are boundless.”
“Great cities don’t just happen,” Greenstreet wrote in a 2008 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial. “They require planning, forethought, and an insistence on good design.”
Associate Professor Martin Despang´s post-fossil (Passive House standard) kindergarten for the University of Göttingen has been published in the 6.2011 issue of the international AIT / Architecture Interior Technology magazine. He has also been published in the Frechmann Kolón book, Wood Houses (2010), for Despang Architekten’s renovation of the half-timbered farm house “Voges Redux.”
Associate Professor Christopher Domin, Master of Architecture Program Chair, presented applied building skin research developed in CALA’s Materials Laboratory at the World Sustainable Building Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Another joint research investigation into Regional Technology issues was presented at the International Passive and Low Energy conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium over the summer. This work was co-developed with Professor Larry Medlin along with advanced graduate and undergraduate CALA students.
The College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture initiated an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation in conjunction with the UA School of Anthropology and Department of Materials Science & Engineering. The program is coordinated by Professor R. Brooks Jeffery and focuses on a service-learning model of education. More information is on the program’s website, http://cala.arizona.edu/heritage.
Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited to join the Design Committee of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Since 2009, she has served as a member of the JAE’s Editorial Board and Reviews Board.
New members of the Architecture Faculty, Luis Ibarra + Teresa Rosano, have won their 7th Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for a house designed for Patagonia, Arizona.
Adjunct Lecturer Wil Peterson, has been named one of five finalists in the furniture category of the ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition.
Adjunct Lecturer Mark Ryan has won the competition for Avendia Rio Salado / Broadway Road (ARS) in Phoenix, AZ. The proposal for an 8-mile stretch of the Broadway Road will create a series of Community Beacons that will be visible day and night, acknowledging the historic diversity of agriculture and industry between two adjacent village neighborhoods. The installations will also function as passive cooling towers and drinking fountains.
Assistant Professor Burak Erdim, has joined the faculty at College of Design School of Architecture at North Carolina State University.
Burak Erdim is a registered architect and he is currently finalizing his dissertation in Architectural History titled, “Modernism and Revolution: Architectural Education, Development, and the Cold War Middle East, 1950-62,” under the direction of Professor Sheila Crane at the University of Virginia.
His research focuses on post-colonial encounters across the globe, particularly in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. He presented his work in a number of conferences and invited lectures nationally and internationally, and published a component of his master’s work on Bruno Taut’s encounter with Turkey in an essay titled, “From Germany, to Japan, and Turkey: Modernity, Locality, and Bruno Taut’s Transnational Details from 1933-38.” The essay was included in Lunch (2007), an academic journal published by the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
As a Ph.D. candidate, Burak has spent a year as a Fulbright Research Grantee (2007-08) and as a Dumas Malone Research Fellow (summer 2008) in Turkey.
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A team consisting of Architecture graduate students K. Matt Teti and L. Katy Kiang and Architecture undergraduate students Stacy Goodman and Elizabeth Gutierrez led by Assistant Professor Dana Gulling won first place at the national NCMA Unit Design Competition. The competition is sponsored by the National Concrete Masonry Association’s Education and Research Foundation.
The School of Architecture’s ARC 232 Structures and Materials course has been participating in the annual competition for over 15 years. In recent years, NC State has been placing at the national level including last year’s third place finish after Georgia Tech and University of Southern California. This year, NC State was able to dethrone Georgia Tech who won previously for three years in a row.
Prior to joining the Architecture faculty in 2012, Professor Gulling was at the University of New Mexico and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She has over seven years of teaching experience and research in the area of building technology and design.
Gulling says, “I am very proud of the students and all of their hard work. The students submitted a wonderful design proposal and gave an excellent presentation at the NCMA conference. Also, I would like to thank (Professor of Architecture) Pat Rand and Frank Werner (local sponsor with Adams an Oldcastle company) for the feedback that they gave to the students during the design process.”
The Department of Architecture and Interior Design is pleased to announce Mary Ben Bonham and John Humphries have been promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor.
Associate Professors Mary Ben Bonham and Scott Johnston won the 2013 Interior Design Educators Council Media Award. “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum, “ a multi-disciplinary, multi-university approach to lighting education initiated by a group of educators and funded by the $50,000 Twentieth Anniversary Grant awarded by the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. The Nuckolls Fund awarded a total of more than $695, 000 to institutions and individuals to support and encourage lighting education in the US and Canada. Bonham and Johnston collaborated with the following colleagues nationally: Katherine S. Ankerson (project lead) and Neal Hubbell of Kansas State University; Betsy Gabb, Lindsey Ellsworth-Bahe, Timothy Hemsath, Clarence Waters and Nate Krug, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Nancy Kwallek, University of Texas at Austin. “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum” supports lighting as critical to all aspects of design, and especially promotes early engagement of lighting issues in student design education. The program is comprised of seven interactive modules (applicable to architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture as well as to architectural engineering), content, examples, definitions, and educator resources are provided, supplemented with animations, audio, and other interactive features. ACSA colleagues are invited to start using the site, accessible at http://tedore.net/Nuckolls/about/
Department Chair John Weigand was invited to join the AIA Ohio Board of Directors as representative of the four accredited Ohio schools. In this role, Weigand will be asked to keep the board apprised of activities within the schools and to help to better connect the profession with education. Professor Weigand’s article ““Rethinking Professional Identity in Interior Design.” is published in Meanings of Designed Spaces, edited by Tiiu Vaikla-Poldma. New York: Fairchild Books, 2013.
John Blake, DesignBuild Studio Coordinator for the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, was quoted in the January 2013 issue of AIArchitect. The feature article, “Urban Reinvestment and Development Efforts” refers to several of the department design build initiatives in the Over-the-Rhine community. The DesignBuild studio has a semester long residency program and recently received accolades in the national competition for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award.
The Department of Architecture and Interior Design was recognized with a “Presidential Citation in Recognition of Exceptional Service to the Profession and Society” at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Ohio awards conference in Cleveland. The department received the award for the Ghana Design-Build Studio created by Associate Professor Emerita Gail Della Piana, and currently facilitated by J. E. Elliott.
Alumni Chuck Armstrong, Director of Design for Corgan, and Mike Hemme, BA ‘04, of the Corgan Mission Critical studio hosted a weeklong design workshop in Dallas, TX for the second year graduate studio. As part of the Traveling Studio experience facilitated by Graduate Director Craig Hinrichs, the studio designed a series of buildings for retail, residential and office use on a 2-acre site in the West End Historic District of Dallas.
Jassen Callender, Director of the Jackson Community Design Center (JCDC), was recently promoted with tenure to Associate Professor. Professor Callender and Ms. Whitney Grant (research assistant at the JCDC) were invited delegates to the National Building Museum’s ‘Intelligent Cities’ Initiative held last summer 2011.
Associate Professor Greg Watson exhibited his paintings + drawings: “Speculative Propositions: Heightened Acuity” at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Symposium in Lafayette LA, where he also was a presentation panelist. Prof. Watson also received the MSU Student Association CAAD Teacher of the Year award for 2011.
Justin Taylor, Assistant Professor, received a ($5,000) grant from Audubon to design a series of free-standing “Bird-Watching Porches” and a master plan for the Audubon Strawberry Plains sanctuary in Holly Springs, Mississippi; an additional $30k was just awarded by National Audubon for construction.
Assistant Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA received an honorable mention from the ACSA for his work with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The project was recognized in 2011 as part of the Collaborative Practice Awards category. Professor Herrmann also received a Schillig Special Teaching Projects Grant ($1800) from the MSU Provost’s office for research in Energy Efficient Design. In addition Prof. Herrmann has also recently completed two funded ($5,000) service-learning projects in collaboration with Gulf States Metal Buildings and the MSU Institute for Golf.
Miguel Lasala, Lecturer, and Anne-Sophie Demare, Architect, Paris, France, won the artistic prize ($10,000) for the their submission (Gather) in the international design competition entitled: Ideas on Edge in Parramatta, Australia.
Jenny Kenne Kivett, LEED AP, Lecturer, contributed a chapter (co-authored with Dan Rockhill) to the book Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity (Metropolis Books) highlighting the design/build work of Studio 804 (University of Kansas) in their recovery efforts at Greensburg, Kansas. Another of Kivett’s collaborations w/ Studio 804, the Springfield Residence, received a 2011 EcoStructure Evergreen Award. Kivett also received an MSU Artist Incentive Grant ($3,500) for the design and fabrication of a student lounge and furniture installation in the Sanderson Recreational Center on the MSU campus.
The Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), endowed by Fred Carl (CEO, Viking Range Corp), under the Direction of John Poros, Associate Professor, is pleased to announce the appointment of Leah Kemp as its new Assistant Director.
The CSTC was awarded the 2011 Jim Segedy Award for Outstanding Student Project for a Small Town or Rural Area by the Small Town and Regional Planning Division of the American Planning Association (APA) at their annual meeting in Boston, MA. The project awarded, the Baptist Town Revitalization Plan, is a master plan for the Baptist Town community in Greenwood, MS, a historic African-American community in the city. The CSTC organized panel sessions on community design centers in rural areas and the challenges of rural community design for the Association for Community Design’s National Conference “Design in Action” in Philadelphia, PA.
A team of 5th year S|ARC students took second place in the peer-reviewed international-juried competition: Addressing the Urban Divide. The competition was part of the FORMcities International Urban Design Symposium help at the Mississippi State University, School of Architecture Jackson Center.
Judith Kinnard, Harvey-Wadsworth Chair of Landscape Urbanism and Professor of Architecture was named as one of the DesignIntelligence 25 Most Admired Educators of 2012. Professor Kinnard’s commitment to architectural education spans 28 years, having taught at Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. In her studio teaching, she focuses on institutional programs and their creative engagement of physical and cultural context. Her current research and teaching also involves the development of innovative approaches to low-rise/high-density housing for American cities. She maintains an active practice.
Favrot Professor and Dean Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA delivered a plenary address at the IBM Smarter Cities Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in November, discussing the strategies and initiatives that Tulane School of Architecture and Tulane University have taken in the recovery of New Orleans. He participated in this event with Ginni Rometty, the new President and CEO of IBM. He also gave a talk at the same conference on the Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies project that he has undertaken for the school’s 100 year-old building. The pre-design phase has been completed by FXFOWLE and el dorado architects with a strong team of sustainable engineering and landscape consultants.
Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to be the recipient of the 2011 NCARB Grant. This grant supports the creation and implementation of new methods to integrate practice and education in the academy. The funded proposal authored by adjunct assistant professor Z Smith and assistant professor Kentaro Tsubaki aims to integrate the post-building performance survey/analysis into pre-building design practice in the educational setting. The funds will be used to equip our students with the latest, most advanced technologies to collect and analyze building performance data in the newly developed technology course slated to be offered in the 2012-13 academic year.
Associate Professor Chris Livingston and Assistant Professor Zuzanna Karczewska attended an international conference in Delft, Netherlands organized by European Association of Envisioning Architecture. Chris Livingston’s paper was entitled “The ‘Surgeon-Anatomist’ – Architecture, Medicine and possible trajectories for Visualization within Building Information Modeling” and Zuzanna Karczewska’s “Tangibility and Duration of Drawing”.
Associate Professor Maire O’Neill has an upcoming exhibit titled “Taking Stock – A morphology: field documentation of agricultural buildings” at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana. This exhibit includes building documentation and interpretive drawings reflecting the evolving building practices of livestock producers and farmers settling the intermountain west. It includes a typological and morphological analysis and will take place October through December 2011.
A proposal written by Milenka Jirasko was one of three international winners of the Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship Competition allowing her to research the former Auschwitz concentration camp in rural Poland this summer. She won a $3,200 travel stipend to allow her to research sacred spaces that are open to the public under the guidance of Associate Professor Maire O’Neill. Fellow students Carson Booth, Rachel Haugen, Britni Jezirorski and Chris Taleff were among 33 semifinalists selected overall. The prize is given by the University of California, Berkeley and the Berkeley Prize Endowment to enable winners to travel to gain a deeper understanding of the social art of architecture.
A team of Montana State University students has won a competition to design an 85-foot ice-climbing tower as part of an attempt to lure the 2013 world cup of ice climbing championship to the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman. The team led by Michael Spencer of Willow Creek, a recent graduate of the MSU School of Architecture, with Tymer Tilton of Missoula a current architecture student, and MSU engineering student P.J. Kolnik, won the MSU-based competition to design the Bozeman Ice Tower under the guidance of Associate Professor Mike Everts. Everts says “the winning design is composed of angled climbing surfaces that attach to stacked, side-cycled shipping containers. The containers, in addition to being economical and sustainable, are designed to be temporary lodging for visiting athletes”. The winning design, which can be seen on the Web, http://bozemanicetower.wordpress.com/, includes a tower that can be used for ice or traditional climbing surrounded by a spectator area that will allow the structure to be used as an outdoor concert venue.
Associate Professor Mike Everts received an Honorable mention for the 2011 NCARB Prize. The submission titled “The Next Generation of Mountain Architects” was recognized by the jury for teaching students leadership skills, communications skills, and how to participate in the community decision-marking process. With guidance from non-faculty architect practitioners and professors, students researched and designed a culturally and environmentally sensitive community center in Phortse, Nepal near Mt. Everest. Students then traveled to Nepal to work with local officials, contractors, and villagers to dig the foundation and construct critical building component prototypes.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named Adjunct Associate Professor Thomas Jacobs as a recipient of the 2012 Young Architect Award. The annual award recognizes young architects who demonstrate exceptional leadership and have made significant contributions to the profession. Along with his work at IIT College of Architecture, Jacobs is a principal at Krueck + Sexton Architects and is an active advocate for local community development and planning.
M.Arch. alum Charlotte Page and Studio Associate Professor Susan Conger-Austin have teamed up to produce the exhibition Unfolding Space | an architecture of moments, opening January 20th at the Floating World Gallery. The exhibition is a perceptual investigation of place which features work by artist Yozo Hamaguchi.
The exhibit runs January 20 – February 17, 2012, with an opening reception on January 20th. For more information, visit: www.floatingworld.com.
The exhibition is supported by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the IIT College of Architecture.
ASCENT, a new solo exhibition by Adjunct Assistant Professor Homa Shojaie, opens on January 20th at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition. The exhibit is part of Shojaie’s 2011-2012 BOLT Residency, a program funded by the Chicago Artists’ Coalition to promote and evolve professional and artistic practices. The ASCENT exhibition will investigate the material space of canvas.
The exhibition runs January 20 – February 10, 2012.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
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/
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