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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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Photo by Snøhetta: Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo.

The school of Architecture and Planning of the Catholic University of America is pleased to present the Third Edition of our George Marcou Memorial Lecture honoring late Professor Emeritus George Marcou.  This year we are proud to welcome architect Craig Dykers, co-founder of the renowned international firm Snøhetta.  Since their dramatic debut with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, Craig has been an instrumental force in a firm that has produced award winning architecture across the world stage.  Currently heading both the construction of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center and the new Times Square Reconstruction project in New York City, Craig Dykers is also overseeing numerous other Snøhetta projects throughout North America.  His work has led to numerous international awards and recognitions including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture, the World Architecture Award, and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, among many others. The lecture will start at 6 pm. on Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium in the 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 will be presenting the lecture: “NY MASJID: THE MOSQUES OF NEW YORK AND THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITUAL SPACE” by Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds.

There are over 100 mosques in New York City, spaces that range from converted storefronts to high profile free standing buildings designed by name architects. They offer us a chance to understand the ambivalent relationship between design, prayer space and our notion of sacred space in the construction of the mosque, and to chart the interaction between culture, religion and identity in New York City.

Dr. Jerrilynn Dodds is a Professor and Dean of the College at Sarah Lawrence College, where she works on issues of artistic interchange -in particular among Christians, Jews, and Muslims- and how groups form identities through art and architecture. She has a special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. Dr. Dodds is the author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain, and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York. She is also the co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture and many other publications. Dr. Dodds completed a BA at Barnard College and a MA and PhD at Harvard University.

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 welcome.

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Associate Professor, Eric J. Jenkins published the chapter, “A Bit of Europe in Maryland: The Bata Colony in Belcamp” in the book Company Towns of the Bata Concern (Franz Steiner Verlag) edited by Ondrej Sevecek and Martin Jemelka).  In addition, Jenkins’ book Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing (Birkhauser) has been released as an EPUB electronic book and is available on iTunes. The EPUB is unique in that drawings can be reviewed at full scale and the searchable index allows for non-linear readings. Jenkins also lectured and directed a workshop on analytical freehand sketching at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed received a publication grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art in Spring 2013. In addition, Professor Morshed was one of the organizers of a conference focusing on the challenges of sustainable growth in developing economies at Berkeley in February and a guest speaker in the Spring Lecture Series of the University of Utah’s School of Architecture in March.

Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim will present the work of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio, entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole and Out Again: Building Technology in the Design Studio” at the BTES 2013 Conference in Rhode Island.  Kim was has also been invited to present her research project on the body, architecture and dwelling (Villa of Veils + Unwrapping the Hanbok) at the Third Annual International Conference on Architecture in Athens, Greece in June 2013.  Recently the studio in which Kim partners, c2architecturestudio, was recognized with an Award of Merit for infoCUBE: light monitors by the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition.

Adjunct Professor Mark McInturff, FAIA was awarded two Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for his Chesapeake Bay House and Gresser Johnson House.

Visiting Critics and E/L Studio firm principals Elizabeth Emerson and Mark Lawrence earned Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for their 63rd Avenue and Lincoln Street residences.

Each summer, CUA School of Architecture and Planning features numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses. Among these are design studios and elective courses, including history of architecture, graphics, furniture design, theory and computer-aided design/fabrication. The CUA 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) is pleased to offer the NADAAA Design studio, led by Nader Tehrani, as the feature summer studio. Julian Palacio, Lecturer, will collaborate with Tehrani in offering this advanced level design studio. The SIA will also host a summer speaker series with Mark Sexton (Krueck and Sexton, Chicago); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). Please visit the CUArch website (architecture.cua.edu) or contact SIA Director Julie Kim for more information.

Two CUArch students received awards in the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition, Andrew Baldwin received an Award of Excellence for his thesis project, Lacrosse as Sacred Iroquois Tradition: The Architecture of Cultural Representation, and Philip Goolkasian received an Award of Merit for his project, the South Capitol Natatorium.

Photo Andrew Baldwin, AIA DC Unbuilt Award 2013

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The School of Architecture and Planning of the Catholic University of America presents the second George Marcou Memorial Lecture honoring late Professor Emeritus George Marcou. In this opportunity  Michael Arad will be discussing his work with our architectural community. Michael Arad’s design “Reflecting Absence” won the National September 11 Memorial and Museum competition in 2004.The New York-based architect and partner with Handel Architects was one of six recipients of the 2006 Young Architects Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The lecture will start at 5:30pm on Wednesday October 17th, 2012 at the Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C. (Photo: Joe Woolhead)

 

 

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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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The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that the first annual Urban Practice Distinguished Critic will be Tim McDonald of the Philadelphia-based Onion Flats. The intention of the Distinguished Critic program is to engage exemplary urban practitioners who can bring their perspective, methods and work to the students both informally and formally.  The Urban Practice concentration, one of four concentrations in the Master of Architecture program, focuses on architecture that weaves the small and large scales with historical, cultural, social and conceptual contexts. For more information, please see our website: http://urbanpracticeatcuarch.wordpress.com/

Professor Terrance R. Williams, FAIA, and Associate Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, will be at the Urban Affairs Association conference in San Francisco next April to present their paper, “Mid-Sized Cities: A New American Urban Frontier?” The paper focuses on the decades of urban depopulation—especially in mid-sized cities–and the vast surplus of under-utilized infrastructure that literally offers a subsidy to the re-densification our urban communities of all sizes.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, published his book “Oculus: A Decade of Insights into Bangladeshi Affairs.” The book was presented at the Hay Festival 2012, Bangla Academy last November 15th, and at the Baatighar Press Club, Chittagong last December 29th. Dr. Morshed was also an invited panelist at the University of Texas Austin’s Harry Ransom Center last November during the Tenth Biennial Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America”. In addition, Dr, Morshed will be speaking at the School of Architecture, the University of Utah, as part of the Spring Lecture Series in March 2013.

Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins, AIA, published his book “Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing” (Birkhäuser, 2012).  Beginning with the underlying concepts of freehand sketching, the book’s main component is a series of “design acts” that a student might perform in design and analysis. The book contains over 400 drawings exploring the role and the methods of freehand analytical sketching in architectural education.  Jenkins has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Chapter of the AIA. In this position he will work to develop links between academia and practice as well as work on initiatives such as mentoring and A.R.E. preparation and completion.

Assistant Professor Carlos Reimers, PhD, will be presenting a paper at the Cultures of the Suburbs Symposium to be held at Hofstra University, NY this year on June.  The paper is entitled “Informal Suburbia” and it addresses research into the growth of extralegal settlements on the outskirts of cities throughout the United States, and the environmental and political forces that fuel this growth.

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During the Summer 2012, four architecture students at CUA, Peter Miles, Joey Barrick, Nina Tatic, and Filipe Pereira, worked under the direction of Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich to create a design proposal for development of the McMillan Reservoir site. This proposal, which was created in response to a plan created by Envision McMillan Partners, was presented at a July HPRB hearing. The project, which has also been presented to various community groups and other interested parties, has received very positive press from The National Trust for Historic Preservation and other groups.

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Joseph Barrick, a senior at The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture, was awarded Honorable Mention for Community Programming in the Water Works competition sponsored by Gowanus by Design (www.gowanusbydesign.org/water_works).  The project was advised by CUArch Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich and Diane Reynolds as environmental Consultant. It addressed one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how to redeem a toxic Superfund site in the path of Hurricane Sandy, while strengthening the fabrics of a growing urban node. 

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Photo: Sketch-analysis travel through Turkey with Professor Eric Jenkins.

Architect Claudio Silvestrin is the Walton Critic and Professor in residence for 2013.  He is based in London and Milan, and the author of an internationally recognized oeuvre covering architecture as well as a wide range of design scales and interests. Silvestrin’s thoughts and work have been featured in four books, many professional magazines and journals, exhibitions, as well as multiple other media outlets. During his residence at CUA School of Architecture and Planning, architect Silvestrin is directing a design studio centered in the intersection between culture and spirituality. He participates in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and informal meeting with students and faculty. Claudio Silvestrin lectured on his work philosophy and concerns last Wednesday 09/11 at CUAch’s Auditorium. He will be giving a special presentation titled “Works and Inspirations” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM at the Embassy of Italy. Claudio Silvestrin’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. For more information on the Walton Critic Program, contact Associate Professor Julio Bermudez.

This past June, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins directed a special program with sixteen students on a three-week sketch-analysis travel through Turkey. Studying primarily Islamic and vernacular architecture, the students began their studies in Istanbul and then moved onto towns such as Safronbolu, Amaysa, Tokat, Sivas, Konya and Bursa. In addition, Professor Jenkins has been invited by the Washington, DC-based firm Hickok-Cole Architects to lead a workshop related to his most recent book, Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing. The workshop will re-introduce freehand drawing skills, diagramming and specific sketching exercises to the firm’s employees so that sketching might be better re-integrated into the design process.

Associate Professor Julie Kim presented a paper at the 2013 BTES Conference “Tectonics of Teaching” at Roger Williams University in July. She shared the pedagogy and framework of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at CUA in a presentation entitled “Reflections on Building Technology in the Design Studio.”

Assistant Professor Hyojin Kim Ph.D. has joined the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Kim holds a doctorate in Architecture (December 2012) from Texas A&M University. She will be teaching courses in energy modeling and simulation.

Framed within the theme of ABSENCE, the 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture successfully celebrated another year with the completion of the NADAAA Design Studio, led by Nader Tehrani, and co-taught by Julian Palacio, Lecturer (CUA). The SIA also hosted a robust lecture series with presentations from Mark Sexton (Krueck + Sexton, Chicago); Rhett Russo (Specific Objects, NJ); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). The 2014 Summer Institute theme will be HYBRID SCALE. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Julie Kim, SIA Director.

Team Capitol DC’s Harvest Home is Washington DC’s first ever entry for the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Competition. The team’s contributing universities The Catholic University of America (Architecture and Planning), George Washington University (Engineering) and American University (Media and Communications) have been collaborating successfully for over two years. Harvest Home will be donated to Wounded Warrior Homes who specialize in finding accommodation for veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Harvest Home harvests sun, wind, rain and building materials to provide a healing environment for wounded warriors.

 

 

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Urban Practice Concentration students from the Master of Architecture program under the direction of professors Eric Jenkins, Mark McInturff, and Elizabeth Emerson presented their Jersey City Harsimus Embankment project at the New York AIA’s Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village on January 18th, 2013. The project was developed during the Fall 2012 and comprised six block-long stone abutments. The Embankment runs through historic Jersey City, yet its future role in the city remains undetermined. Developers, city officials, local residents, architects, and academicians from Columbia and Pratt were among the approximately 200 people who attended the open house to participate in the student presentation and the question & answer session.


Photo Hemeroscopium House, Madrid by Ensamble Studio

The first of the 2013 Spring Lecture Series of the Catholic University of America will feature Antón García-Abril at 6:30pm on February 13, 2013 at the National Builiding Museum in Washington, D.C. Antón García-Abril is an Architect and Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He was previously a professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) and a guest faculty at M.I.T., GSD at Harvard, Cornell and several other universities in North America and Europe. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996 and in 2000 established ENSAMBLE STUDIO, leading a team that began a search for the architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. The work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO shows an ongoing exploration on the relationship of materiality, technology, and architectural space. Through this work, materials and constructive elements are continuously exposed, recontextualized, and reassembled to create and communicate spatial dichotomies in an experimental process that becomes as relevant as its final product. The architectural work and professional accomplishments of Antón García-Abril have been acknowledged in multiple opportunities at national and international arenas.

 

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