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Join CUArch 2018 Walton Critic Susan Jones (atelierjones, Seattle) in a talk about the interactions between materiality, light, design, sustainability and the sacred in architect Jones’ practice (ranked 7th in the US for design quality in late 2017)
“Light Leaps Forward” will be on 09/17/18 at 5:00pm in the Koubek auditorium followed by a reception.
Open to all.
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Reclaim + Remake Symposium, April 11-13, 2013 “Waste is a Resource in the Wrong Place and Time”
The symposium is proposed to bring together the most innovative practices in education and research for current and future reuse and recycling of material resources in the built environment. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles J. Kibert, Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Mr. Jan Jongert, Founder 2012Architecten, Rotterdam, Mr. Scott Boylston, Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Sustainable Design Program, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Abstracts for presented papers and designs are welcome from designers, educators, researchers and advanced university students who are engaged in knowledge creation and dissemination for the responsible use and end-of-life management of building material resources. Abstracts should be 300-500 words. A two-stage blind process will be used for abstract submittals and for full paper submittals. Proceedings will be produced from accepted papers and presentations. Abstracts Deadline: November 12, 2012.
More information and submissions: http://architecture.cua.edu/reclaimremake
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Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins‘ sketch “Drawing Light from Darkness” was awarded Runner Up amongst registered architects in Architectural Record’s 2014 Napkin Sketch Contest.
Associate Professor Adnan Morshed will present talks based on his forthcoming book, Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder (University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2014), at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum in September 2014 and the Birkbeck, University of London, in October 2014 – http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/impossible-heights. He will be a panel discussant at the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments in Kuala Lumpur in December 2014.
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Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins, as an AIA District of Columbia chapter board member, is organizing a two-part portfolio and résumé workshop. The fall session will be a “how to” of graphic layout and content with a spring session will be one-on-one “desk critiques” with an architect and student. Students and recent graduates from the area schools of architecture are invited to attend these free workshops.
Associate Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, will present two talks based on his forthcoming book, Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder (University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2014). The first is at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach on Sept. 19, 2014 and the other at the Birkbeck, University of London, on Oct. 23, 2014. Professor Morshed will serve on the keynote panel at the Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2014.
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“Box of Miracles: Contemplating a 21st Century Convent” opened January 29th at the Art Gallery of the Wesley Theological Seminary’s Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. The exhibit features selected design work by CUA sacred space and cultural studies concentration students and senior undergraduate students, and will run until March 1st. This work was produced last semester under the guidance of 2012 Walton Critic Alberto Campo Baeza and CUArch Associate Professors Julio Bermudez and Luis Boza.
Photo Cube I, Guadalajara, Mexico by Estudio Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós, an Architect and Urbanist based in Barcelona, lectured on her work Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies. Pinós set up her own firm in 1991, after a decade of partnership with Enric Miralles. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the National Prize of Architecture by the Spanish Architects Association in 1995, the 2001 Prize by the Professional Architect Association of the Comunidad Valenciana for the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja, the 2005 Arqcatmón Prize by the Professional Architect Association of Catalonia for the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, as well as the 1st Prize of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture in 2007 for the same building. In 2008 she received the National Prize of Architecture and Urban Space by the Catalan Government for her professional work. Her current work includes the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, the Museum of Transport and Metropolitan Park in Málaga, “La Gardunya” Square in the Historical District in Barcelona comprising “La Gardunya” Square Design, “La Massana” Fine Arts Center, a Housing Block and “La Boqueria” Market’s back façade, as well as a Department Building in the New Campus of the University of Economics in Vienna, the Caixaforum in Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico).
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Photo by Danya Bateman
Closing this Fall Series, the School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of America will be presenting the lecture “Mies van der Rohe: A Negative Theology” by Professor Thomas Mical, November 20th at 6:00pm. Professor Mical will reflect upon tactics of negation, absence, and a focus upon subtractive processes within the architecture and legacy of Mies van der Rohe, while drawing upon the under-examined spiritual context of the avant-garde recodings of historical and technological forces driving modernity. The lecture reinterprets Mies van der Rohe later glass, concrete, and steel design provocations as an incomplete negation, with details persisting as hosts of telling traces or minimal differences exposed in the historical turbulence of the twentieth century. Modern architecture after Mies is repurposed as a demonstration of what must remain almost hidden and nearly silent within the spatial arenas of modern transparency. Thomas Mical is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of South Australia, where he does research in the history of modern thought in architecture. He has published widely on surrealism, transparency, and cinematic urbanism and taught in several universities in the U.S. and internationally, including the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carleton University, and the Vienna University of Technology. The lecture will be at the Koubek Auditorium, Crough Center for Architectural Studies, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. N.E. Washington D.C. All are welcomed.
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The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America instituted a new position for an Associate Dean for Research to coordinate and support research/creative work efforts at the school. Professor Barry D. Yatt, FAIA, CSI, was appointed the first ADR.
Professor Barry Yatt, FAIA, CSI, co-wrote with Joseph, McCade, Ed.D, a chapter titled “Defining Creativity and Design” for an upcoming book by CTTE, the Council on Technology Teacher Education. This spring, he also will be presenting a three-part national webinar for CSI on the National CAD Standard (NCS), based on the work of a CSI Task Team. He continues to work on the manuscript of his book on predesign analysis Definition: Gaining Insight,. Professor Yatt is also working with a team of experts in artificial intelligence, systems architecture, and space sciences on a grant from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They are developing an “adaptive” (that learns from its experiences) but “psychologically stable” computer program that develops optimized designs for the complex systems applicable to space missions and that are responsive to evolving needs, resources, and conditions. Prof. Yatt’s contribution to the team is in the area of predesign analysis, stakeholder facilitation, and graphic design.
The school recently established a new Center for Building Stewardship as the research arm of the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program.
Professor Julius Levine, FAICP, is nearing completion of a book titled Reweaving a Neighborhood Fabric: Perpetuating Diversity, Buttressing Shepherd Park through the next generation of Ohev Shalom congregants.
Associate Professor Eric Jenkins, AIA, continues to research the links between analytical freehand sketching and design education by examining recent studies in cognitive psychology and in human physiology. He is completing work on a book titled Design by Drawing to be published by Routledge with a grant from the Graham Foundation.
Associate Professor Chris Grech, RIBA, director of the MSSD program is carrying out research for the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute on a database of building materials in the Washington, DC area.
Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich presented two papers this past summer. Urban Pentimento: Redeeming the Metropolitan Landscape, was presented at the EURA conference in Copenhagen and Architecture, Ecology and Economy was presented at the Economy Conference at the School of Architecture in Cardiff, Wales.
Assistant Professor Brad Guy, Assoc AIA, LEED AP, received a grant for $10,009 from the Construction Materials Recycling Association to research and develop a national standard for certification of construction and demolition debris processing facility recycling rates, tentatively titled “Certification of Recycling Rates” (CORR).
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The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Highlighting this milestone is a three-day symposium in October on “Transcending Architecture – Aesthetics and Ethics of the Numinous.” Lectures on sacred architecture will be led by a field of renowned scholars and practitioners from disciplines ranging from architecture and religion to philosophy and social work. The symposium is organized by Associate Professor Dr. Julio Bermudez, director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate concentration. For more information check: http://www.sacred-space.net/symposium/
Architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the Professor in Residence at CUArch this Fall 2011. He is directing a month long graduate studio investigating the relationship between architecture and spirituality. He is also thoroughly involved in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and spontaneous engagement with students. Juhani Pallasmaa’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. Past Walton Critics include architects Antoine Predock (2009) and Craig Hartman (2010). Visit CUAArch site at http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/releases/2011/ArchVisitor.cfm for more information.
Assistant Professor Hollee Hitchcock Becker and Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim joined The Catholic University of America in August. Professor Becker comes to CUA from Kent State University and has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Kent State University. She will be teaching Structures and doing research on environmentally-adaptive facades and pre-fabricated disaster resistant replacement housing. Professor Kim comes from The University of Mercy at Detroit where she also directed the March program. She has degrees from Wellesley College and MIT and is the founder of c2architecturestudio, an award-winning design practice included in Architectural Record’s Emerging Architect series (06/10). This is also one of 12 architectural firms included by the Korean Architects Association as “Young Korean Architects in the Global Context.” Professor Kim will be teaching Design Studios, building technology and directing the 2012 Summer Institute for Architecture.
Professor Randy Ott, Dean of the School of Architecture, was recognized with an award of the AIA Washington DC chapter in the ‘Unbuilt’ category. The “Salt Chapel” on the edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake was chosen among more than 100 submissions presented. The jury found the project an adventurous exploration or form, context, and poetry.
Associate Professor Dr. Adnan Morshed, was invited by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, to present the paper, “The Central Threat: Dhaka as a Frontier in the Climate-Change Narrative of Bangladesh.” Dr. Morshed’s article, “Ascending with Nine Chains to the Moon: Buckminster Fuller’s ideation of the Genius,” was published in the GSD journal New Geographies. His review of the National Building Museum exhibition, Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, is forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Associate Professor Eric Jenkins presented the paper “Belcamp: A Little Bit of Europe in Maryland” at the Conference on Company Towns of the Bata Concern held in Prague, March 2011.
Professor of Practice Dr. Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA RIBA, was the keynote speaker at the Memorial Celebration honoring Architect Raimund Abraham held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC last September. His award-winning design of the restaurant ‘Bibiana’ in Washington DC was featured in the Fall issue of Architecture DC. He was also the keynote speaker at the City School of Architecture and the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, and a featured speaker at the Pacific Area Quantity Surveyors World Congress. The Financial Times of Sri Lanka published a full page interview with Dr Barr entitled “Go Green to Make Green.”
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