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Clemson Architecture Professor Emeritus Receives Japanese National Medal of Distinction

Tuesday, June 20th, 2017

Clemson University Professor Emeritus Yuji Kishimoto has been awarded a national medal of distinction — the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays Medal — by the Emperor of Japan in a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Tokyo. An honorable certificate signed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also was presented to Kishimoto for his longtime efforts to promote academic, cultural and economic relations between the United States and Japan.

“I am thrilled that Yuji has been recognized for his lifetime of service and his incredible work to forge closer ties between the United States and Japan,” said Clemson President James P. Clements. “Yuji also has represented Clemson in a world-class manner for well over 30 years as a faculty member, adviser and ambassador of the university and the state of South Carolina, and I am honored to call him a colleague and a friend.”

“I am very humbled by this news and honored to share it with and represent Clemson University,” Kishimoto said. “Helping to establish the Japan America Association of South Carolina and my position as special assistant to the president of Clemson University supported these activities and created the environment in which I have been able to achieve the level and the quality for these recognitions by the Japanese government.”

The Japan America Association of South Carolina was established in 1989 to create an environment for the business collaboration between the U.S. and Japan and to start a Japanese Saturday school for the children of Japanese industries in the Upstate area. Kishimoto served two terms as the association’s first president.

“Yuji Kishimoto’s work to build community within Clemson and with our international partners has made a big difference in the lives of many Clemson faculty, staff and students,” said Robert H. Jones, Clemson’s executive vice president for academic affairs and provost. “This award is a well-deserved recognition of years of excellent work.”

Kishimoto taught architecture studio at Clemson from 1980 until his retirement in 2011. He served for several years as special assistant to the president of Clemson for U.S.-Japan relations and continues to assist area groups with outreach efforts with Japan. In this role, Kishimoto has served as an ambassador, strengthening and developing new avenues to connect the Clemson community and the Japanese people.

“Yuji Kishimoto is a builder of bridges between people and between countries,” said Richard Goodstein, dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. “Throughout his career at Clemson, Professor Kishimoto’s passion for academic and cultural exchange between the U.S. and Japan opened doors of understanding and opportunity for countless Clemson students.”

Much of Kishimoto’s international activity has centered on academic and cultural exchanges and economic development. For more than two decades, he directed the Southeast U.S.-Japan Architectural Exchange, which brought leading architects from Japan to lecture in the Southeast and placed architecture students in internships in Japan. He also directed numerous exchange programs with Japanese companies and institutions of higher education, including Fuji-Photo Film, Toyota Technological Institute, Waseda University in Tokyo and the University of Tokyo. Kishimoto also was instrumental in developing the Clemson University-FUJIFILM Endowment, which provides support for students to participate in exchange programs in Japan.

In addition to academic exchanges, Kishimoto has served in numerous capacities to foster and facilitate academic and artistic exchange and collaboration between the two countries as well as economic development initiatives. For 20 years, he served as the executive director of the U.S.-Japan Alliance with Clemson University and in 1989 was awarded the S.C. Ambassador for Economic Development by S.C. Gov. Carroll Campbell.

Kishimoto is, by any standard, a Renaissance man. Not only does his resume illuminate successful careers as an architect, educator and international ambassador, but his oil paintings have been displayed and collected in various galleries throughout the U.S. and in Japan. He is an accomplished classical guitarist, who has infused his life and work with music. And he has run 24 marathons, including the Boston Marathon five times.

Kate Schwennsen, director of Clemson’s School of Architecture, said, “We thank Yuji Kishimoto for modeling what it means to be a global citizen architect for our students and faculty.”

Kishimoto’s academic degrees include a Master of Education from the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Wadesa University. He is a native of Tokyo, Japan, and is married to Toshiko Kishimoto, Clemson professor emeritus of Japanese. The Kishimotos have a daughter, Kyo, who also is an architect and is married to architect and Clemson graduate David Brown.

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Originally published on SumterCeo.com.

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We are saddened to share the news of the passing of Assistant Professor of Architecture, Armando Montilla Navarro. Professor Montilla was killed in a car accident on Friday, October 2, 2015.  He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Urban Geography from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, his M.Arch from Pratt Institute, and B.Arch from Universite de Montreal.  He joined the faculty at Clemson in 2009.  Condolences can be sent to nbrown4@clemson.edu and will passed along to his colleagues at Clemson and his family in Venezuela.

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 The U. S. Department of Energy selected Clemson University team to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition. Over the coming months, Associate Professor Vincent Blouin, PhD principal investigator and the Clemson Solar Decathlon team will design, construct and test their house before reassembling it at the competition site in Irvine, CA.

Ulrike Heine has been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor. Heine teaches classes in design and sustainability and has been recognized more than  seven times throughout the past years as students in her design studio classes won national and international awards for their work in sustainable design.

Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD contributed to A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 1960-2010 edited by E. G. Haddad and D. Rifkind (Ashgate, 2014) with his chapter “Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959.”

Assistant Professor Armando Montilla published his article “Retracing Propinquity and the Ethno[flow]” in Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 2(3), ‘Complex Urbanism’ pp. 142 – 148. Montilla will also present his paper “Suburban Re-structuring and Dense Agglomeration Resilience in the midst of the ‘Ethnocity’: The case of Miami’s Hispanic community ‘Unrooting’ and the Foreclosure Crisis” at the ATINER 3rd Conference in Urban Studies and Planning in Athens, Greece, June 10-13, 2014. 

Assistant Professor Carlos Barrios, PhD presented and published his following peer-reviewed papers: “Navigation and Visualization in Multidimensional Spaces” in Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) Kyoto Japan, May 2014; “Parametric Models in Hyperspace” in 102nd ACSA annual meeting. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Miami Florida, April 2014; “A Textile Block Grammar: Shape Grammars in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Californian Textile Block Houses” in Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica Digital, SIGraDi, Valparaiso, Chile, November 2013.

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, presented his Assistive Robotic Table (“ART”) at CHI 2014 in Toronto, and will present the LIT KIT at Design or Interactive Systems (DIS 2014) in Vancouver. Green is principal investigator for both of these NSF-supported projects featuring embedded computing. Green is co-author of Architectural Robotics: Towards an Ecosystem of Bits, Bytes and Biology, forthcoming from MIT Press.

AIASC, its section champions and Clemson architecture students and faculty have received a 2014 national AIA Component Excellence Award in the Public Affairs and Communications: Outstanding Overall Program category for “Kids in Architecture Workshops.” This collaborative project celebrated the coincident centennials of AIASC and Clemson architecture while providing an opportunity for children to explore the creation of architecture through drawing, modeling and a full-size interactive model. A unique aspect of the program was the collaborative teaming: Clemson architecture students and faculty in Genoa (Italy), Charleston and the Clemson campus; AIASC architects from Spartanburg, Greenville, Columbia, Charleston, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach; and the children’s museums in each of these cities. Professor Lynn Craig and Associate Professor Daniel Harding, Associate Professor Ray Huff and Lecturer David Pastre took the lead.

Lynn Craig, FAIA, RIBA, has been recognized for his 33 years of dedicated service to the School of Architecture. Last year, Craig received the 2013 AIASC Medal of Distinction, AIASC’s highest honor.

Fourth-year undergraduate architecture student Nick Tafel (Senior Lecturer Annemarie Jacques and Lecturer Dustin Albright, faculty advisers) won the AIAS/AGA Ascension Design Competition. The competition challenged students to design adaptable, lightweight wheelchair ramps using galvanized steel to be implemented throughout the country in the AIAS Freedom By Design program. 

Clemson’s School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Ulrike Heine will be serving as the School’s Associate Chair; Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD will continue his leadership as Director of Graduate Programs; and Associate Professor Rob Silance and Assistant Professor Sallie Hambright-Belue will be serving as Co-Directors of Undergraduate Studies.

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Merit Awards in the AARP/AIAS Aging in Place Kitchen Design Competition were given to Nick Tafel, Edgar Mozo, Joel Pominville, David Herrero for their project “A Kitchen Alive” and to Diana Rosch for her project “Centre.” Both projects were designed under the supervision of studio instructor Senior Lecturer Annemarie Jacques.  

Clemson University, School of Architecture undergraduate and graduate students won many international and national awards in Spring 2012:

Honorable Mention was given to graduate student Jingjie Zhao, with Professor Keith Green PhD as studio instructor, in the 2011 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition of a Culinary Arts College. There were 303 entries, and the jurors awarded only seven prizes, a 2 percent acceptance rate.

The Winning Project was awarded to Caitlin Ranson and Dianah Katzenberger (both Clemson M. Arch. ’12 graduates,) with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the ACSA 2011-2012 International Sustainable Laboratories Student Design Competition. The Jury awarded only two top prizes and three honorable mentions.

The South Region Winning Project was awarded to Nick Barrett and Sam Pruitt, with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the 2011-2012 The Sustainable Home, A Habitat for Humanity Student Design Competition, which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and Vinyl Institute. There were 100 submissions, from which the jurors chose four regional winners and three other honors, a 5 percent acceptance rate.

Four faculty members have joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as new permanent faculty this academic year.

Akel Ismail Kahera, Ph.D. has joined Clemson University as a tenured professor and as the newly appointed associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. For the past five years, Akel has served as director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. From 2009 to 2011, he served as interim director of at Prairie View’s graduate studies degree program in community development. He also taught at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of specialization include hermeneutics, design, urbanism, community development, non-Western architecture, and architectural history and theory. He is a practicing architect and designer. Akel is the author of more than two dozen scholarly essays, as well as author or co-author of three books: Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender and Aesthetics, 2002; Design Criteria for Mosques (co-author,) 2009; and Reading the Islamic City, 2011. Akel received a B.Arch. from Pratt Institute, M.Arch from MIT and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. 

Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D. has Joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new tenure-track assistant professor focusing on Western and non-Western history/theory and design. Ufuk is a practicing architect and was an assistant professor of architecture at the Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey prior to moving to Clemson. He is also a guest lecturer in the Program of Architecture, University of New South Wales. He completed his Ph. D. in Architecture under the supervision of David Leatherbarrow at the University of Pennsylvania where he also received his received M.Arch. and M.S. degrees. His research focuses on the glass cultures of 19th– and 20th-century architectures and the consequences of technological changes on the discipline of architecture. Recently, he guest-edited a special issue of the journal World Architecture on “Architecture in Turkey: A Glocal Production” and published his essay “To See Daydreams: The Glass Utopia of Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut” in Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia.  

Dustin Albright, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new full-time lecturer teaching design studio and structures courses. Dustin has unique dual expertise in architecture and engineering, coupled with critical engagement with public projects. He has a B.S. in physics from Washington and Lee University, M.S. in civil engineering/structures and M.Arch. from Virginia Tech University. Dustin has been practicing with Craig Gaulden Davis in Greenville since 2008. He has been actively engaged with the profession and local communities through his leadership in AIA Greenville’s Architecture Month.

Nicholas Ault who taught part-time for Clemson University, School of Architecture last year, joins this year as a full-time lecturer teaching design studio and digital communications. His strengths include a comprehensive understanding of current digital practices in architectural design and fabrication, as well as a focus on pedagogy within undergraduate foundation design studios. Nick has a B.S. in technology from Bowling Green State University and an M.Arch. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He practiced in Ohio, held a visiting appointment at UNCC as the director of Digital Fabrications Laboratory and lecturer at the School of Architecture, and taught as an adjunct at Queens University of Charlotte. 

 

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Dr. Henrique Houayek and his team that laureated honorable mention in the International Architecture competition for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Port. This competition was organized by the City Council of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Government. and its theme was to revitalize the old Rio de Janeiro Port by hosting a substantial part of the 2016 Olympic games facilities – Games operational support, Olympic villages, media and convention center, offices and hotels.

Dr. Henrique Houayek was also part of the team that won first prize in the International Architecture competition for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Park. This competition was organized by the City Council of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Government. and its theme was to develop a new part of the city inserting multiple stadiums, hotels, media and Olympic training center, moreover this project aims to develop a new lecagy for the city of Rio de Janeiro.

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Clemson University, School of Architecture celebrates its centennial with a series of events including exhibitions, lectures and symposia:

 

ANNUAL CAF/ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
All lectures in the 2013 series will be given by individuals who have a connection to Clemson’s School of Architecture — alumni, former teachers and friends. Sponsored by the Clemson Advancement Foundation for Design and Building and the School of Architecture

March 25, 2013: Symposia and receptions in Genoa, Clemson, Charleston and Barcelona
THE VILLA AT 40
Celebrating four decades of life-changing education at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa

May 3, 2013: CAC.C-hosted sessions of the SCAIA Annual Conference
ARCHITECTURE + COMMUNITYBUILD IN CHARLESTON, S.C.
Celebrating 25 years of teaching, research and community outreach at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston

August 22–23, 2013: Symposium, reception and address
2013 SAR ARCHITECTURE FOR HEALTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIA: LOCAL ROOTS AND GLOBAL REACH
Chautauqua 4.0 — Health Care Architecture in the Public Realm Keynote Speaker: Michael Murphy with MASS

September 30–October 30, 2013: Exhibition
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH: 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE
A monthlong exhibition in the Lee Gallery to explore and honor the people, themes and stories of the past century

October 18, 2013: Symposium
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH
A daylong symposium featuring a keynote lecture by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, Ph.D., on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

October 18, 2013: Celebration
GET YOUR BEAUX-ARTS ON!
A formal reception in Lee III, the new Thomas Phifer addition to Lee Hall

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/

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Lee III, the 55,000-square-food addition to Clemson’s Lee Hall, received an AIA Institute Honor Award for Design Achievement. Clemson’s alumnus Thomas Phifer ’75, ’77 and Partners of New York designed Lee III in collaboration with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture of Greenville. Lee III completed in April of 2012 was also awarded LEED gold certification by the US Green Building Council.

Professor Lynn Craig FAIA, RIBA received the 2013 AIASC Medal of Distinction, AIASC’s highest honor, at the AIASC annual meeting in Charleston. Craig is the Director of Architect Relations for the School of Design and Building at Clemson where he joined the faculty in 1981.

Assistant professor Ulrike Heine won the 2013 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award. Heine teaches classes in design and sustainability and has been recognized seven times throughout the past year as students in her design studio classes won national and international awards for their work in sustainable design.

DesignIntelligence journal named associate professor Daniel Harding one of the “30 most admired educators for 2013.” 30 most admired educators in design  were chose from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and interior design. The publication praised Harding’s use of design-build techniques in addressing community issues.  

Associate professor Douglas Hecker and assistant professor Martha Skinner published their work “Seed” in Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing solutions for a Changing World (W. W. Norton, 2013) edited by Bridgette Meinhold.

Clemson graduate students took first and third place in the national/international  AIAS/Kawneer Enlightening Libraries Competition. Laura Boykin won first place, and Sam Pruitt was awarded third place for their design proposals for the Pendleton Library completed in the Fall 2012 studio of assistant professor Dr. Ufuk Ersoy. Their winning entries will be displayed at the AIAS Forum 2013 in Chicago and at the 2013 AIA Convention and Design Exposition in Colorado.

In the 2012 ASC/AGC Region II Design-Build Student Competition, the Clemson  team earned first place. The team consisted of Senior CSM majors Bobby McKinsey and Todd Rapoport, Junior CSM majors Matt Kolacki and Richard Dorn, Senior Architect major Alison Martin and Junior Architect major Abby Buckingham. The team coaches were assistant professor Sallie Hambright-Belue and associate professor Dr. Shima Clarke. 

Assistant Professor David Lee’s work was published in International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, “Autonomous Identities” issue.

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CAF Lecture: Miguel Roldan

The director of the Barcelona Architecture Center, design studio professor in the Clemson Genova Fluid Campus program, and partner in Roldan + Berengue’ Arquitectura, Barcelona, will speak in Lee 2-111, 3/9/2012, 1:30pm

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, will co-host “ar-CHI-tecture,“ a workshop of the  CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Austin, Texas, May 5-10), the premier international conference on human-computer interaction [HCI]. The workshop is based on the premise that the methodological toolbox of HCI researchers and practitioners can be invaluable for understanding the challenges of designing buildings that meet users’ needs. Conversely, architectural knowledge is essential for HCI professionals and researchers designing interactive technologies for architectural settings. The workshop will bring together these communities to explore the benefits of archi_tecture, envisioned as integral to an expanded CHI community, and identify fundamental differences, similarities and synergies between design and research approaches that use architecture in different ways within HCI. Green co-authored with Mark Gross of CMU the interactionsfeature, “Architectural Robotics, Inevitably” published in the January + February 2012 issue. The article presents a case for “architectural robotics” – intelligent and adaptable physical environments. Green has prior and active funding as PI from the National Science Foundation for designing, prototyping and evaluating complex, environmental-scaled “architectural robotics.”

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Clemson School of Architecture (CSoA) celebrated its 100th year of architectural education with a symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18. The keynote address was given by architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, who coined the term “critical regionalism” and who recently wrote a book with the same title, published by Routledge last December. Other speakers were noted Southeast-based practitioner-educators Marlon Blackwell (based in Fayetteville, AK), Merrill Elam (Atlanta), and Frank Harmon (Raleigh, NC).

Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD, Clemson’s director of graduate studies and conference organizer, says that the school’s strong regionalist concern is “what made us seek out Tzonis and Lefaivre and three prominent regional architects to help celebrate our centennial.” Clemson, the only school of architecture in the state of South Carolina, also maintains a “Fluid Campus,” urban satellites offering to its nearly 400 students semester-long study in Charleston, SC, Barcelona, and Genoa, where the school has owned a villa since 1972. Off-campus study is in fact required of the school’s undergraduates. With the theme of “Southern Roots + Global Reach,” the centennial year also marked the 40th and 25th anniversaries of the Genoa and Charleston programs, as well as the 45th year of the school’s Architecture + Health program. 

The CSoA Architecture + Health Program brought 20 students to the Annual Healthcare Design Conference in Orlando and involved in the following activities:

– Five students participated in a design Charrette with Professor David Allison. The remainder of the students worked as volunteers at the Conference. 

– May 2013 graduate Minglu Lin received a National Healthcare Environments Design Award for her comprehensive project last year.

– May 2013 graduate Lisa Marchi presented her Thesis and AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Fellowship proposal at the Conference. 

– Associate Professor Dina Battisto and her PhD student Debbie Franqui presented their research on Post Occupancy Evaluation. 

– Professor David Allison with Frank Zilm from the University of Kansas conducted a panel session on MOOCs in architecture and health education.

Also, The Architecture + Health Program will be offering a summer study abroad program for academic credit in Northern Italy the last two weeks in May of 2014. It will explore the historic and contemporary healthcare architecture of northern Italy. 

Professor David Allison FAIA, ACHA, has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American College of Healthcare Architects position. The American College of Healthcare Architects provides board certification in the specialty area of architectural practice in health facilities design and advancement to fellowship is one of the highest honors the American College of Healthcare Architects can bestow upon a certificant. Fellowship is granted to architects specializing in healthcare who have shown distinction in fulfilling the Area of Expertise. Nominations should be based on the certificants contributions that impact the healthcare profession as a whole in fulfilling the Area of Expertise. Achievements should include those that are national in scope and have made substantial and positive contributions to the American College of Healthcare Architects as well as to architecture and society. The link to the ACHA organization and Fellowship is: http://www.healtharchitects.org/Member/fellowship_info.asp. Allison was also named by Designintelligence one of “30 Most Admired Educators for 2014,” a list that includes the 30 most admired educators in design, chosen from architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and interior design. The publication states, “Thanks to his knowledge and connections to the workforce, he knows that his students are in demand, and pushes each one to be the best.”

Lecturer Nicholas Ault has been appointed the Professor in Residence at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies, Genoa. Ault also designed the Clemson Centennial Gallery Exhibit entitled Southern Roots + Global Reach. 

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, received an award of $199,995 from the National Science Foundation supporting the design, prototyping and evaluation of the LIT ROOM, an evocative, literacy support tool at room-scale. The LIT ROOM is a novel suite of user-friendly, networked, “architectural-robotic” artifacts embedded in the everyday physical space of the library. This physical-digital environment is transformed by words read by its young visitors so that the everyday space of the library “merges” with the imaginary space of the book: The book is a room. The test bed for the LIT ROOM is a ground zero for literacy: the Richland County Public Library of Columbia, South Carolina – the largest public library in the State. Green is Principal Investigator for the LIT ROOM research, joined by Co-PIs Ian Walker (ECE) and Susan Fullerton (Education). Green is PI as well for the NSF-funded Assistive Robotic Table [ART], the key component of his larger “home+” suite of robotic, networked furnishings supporting independence for clinical populations and those aging in place. With Mark Gross of CMU, Green is co-authoring Architectural Robotics forthcoming from MIT Press to further establish this subfield at the interface or architecture and computing.

Assistant Professor Sallie Hambright-Belue and Associate Professor Robert Silance have recently co-authored an essay entitled, Consecrated Community: The Indian Field Methodist Campground which will be published in the Unpublished issue of the journal CLOG coming out later this year. The essay describes the unique morphology of the early Christian campground and its importance in defining a culture’s place in the world. 

 

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