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Clemson School of Architecture Celebrates Centennial with Symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

CLEMSON, SC— Clemson University’s School of Architecture will celebrate its 100^th year of architectural education with a symposium on the timely subject of “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lee Hall.

Speakers include noted architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and award-winning, Southeast-based practitioners and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon.

Since its founding in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has sought a balance between service to the state of South Carolina and connections to the wider world. Exemplifying this tradition, founder Rudolph “Pop” Lee (1874-1959)—namesake of Clemson’s award-winning Lee Hall—studied engineering at Clemson Agricultural College, a land grant school, but was trained in architecture at Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Clemson’s architecture program has been mindful of the connections between the local and the global, creating a “Fluid Campus” including full-time study centers in the cities of Charleston, SC, Genoa, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. This geographical approach defined the centennial theme, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.”

The subject of regionalism in architecture has a long history, yet remains timely. Recently, “critical regionalism”—a term coined by symposium keynote speakers Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in 1981—was the theme of the August edition of the American Institute of Architects’ magazine Architect.

As Tzonis and Lefaivre noted in their recent book, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (2012), regionalism is a “never ending challenge” that has become increasingly significant for architects and regional cultures in an increasingly “flat” and interconnected world.

In the symposium, Tzonis and Lefaivre’s global and historical perspective will be complimented by talks from award-winning architects and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon. All based in the Southeast, their experiences have been influenced by familiar engagements with local and global cultures, and uniquely fluid geographies and careers.

The symposium, to be followed by a Beaux Arts Ball, marks the fourth and final major event of the school’s centennial year. In March, Clemson celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25^th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45^th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.

The symposium webpage can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/symposium.html.

The event is free, but registration is requested at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20569_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=30&SINGLESTORE=true.

Contacts:

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Chair of the Clemson University School of Architecture
Email: kschwen@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-3895

Peter L. Laurence, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: plauren@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1499

Media Contact:
Jeannie Davis
Email: eugenia@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1821

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Southeast Region /by Matrix Admin

Two faculty members have joined Clemson University’s School of Architecture as new permanent faculty this academic year, bringing with them a rich and impressive range of experience and expertise. Sallie Hambirght, AIA, LEED AP, (B.S. In design, Clemson University; M.Arch., Yale University), is a new assistant professor focusing on beginning design and visualization. Sallie has served as a lecturer at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston and at the Georgia Institute of Technology; has worked in the offices of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Eisenman Architects; and has her own practice in South Carolina. Ray Huff, AIA (B.Arch., Clemson University), the founding director of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CAC.C) is now associate professor of architecture and director of the CAC.C. Ray comes to his position as an award-winning educator and director through a path of exemplary and critical architectural practice, as a principal and partner in the firm of Huff + Gooden Architects LLC, with offices in New York and Charleston.

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, was awarded funding for “architectural robotics” research from the National Science Foundation; and his monograph, Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino, was recently published in Japanese translation by Kajima Press. Green was awarded $271k as Principal Investigator from the Smart Health and Wellbeing Program of NSF to design and prototype an Assistive, Robotic Table [ART]. A discrete component of an envisioned suite of robotic furnishings, ART is comprised of a novel “continuum robotic” table surface that gently folds, extends, and reconfigures to support work and leisure activities; a smart storage volume that physically manages and delivers personal effects; and an accessorized headboard. These components of ART will recognize, communicate with, and partly remember each other in interaction with users and with other components of the suite. ART is intended to empower people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. Collaborating on the research are Clemson colleagues in ECE (I. Walker) and Psychology (J. Brooks), as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering of Kaiserslautern, Germany. The prototype will be tested in the research team’s home+ residential lab within the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (see www.IMSA-Research.org). The theoretical underpinning for ART and other applied “architectural robotics” projects by Green is his monograph, Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino, which has just been published in Japanese translation by Kajima press. Through the case of these two architects and friends, Green’s monograph explores how architectural artifacts might be rendered “nearly alive” by their designers and users.

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March 17, 2014/in School News Gulf Region, Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

CLEMSON — Two teams of Clemson University’s School of Architecture graduate students have earned first and second places in Dow Chemical Company’s Dow Solar Design to Zero Competition. Three additional Clemson teams received honorable mention and ancillary awards.

The international competition challenged undergraduate and graduate students to conceptualize energy-efficient, sustainable residential solutions on a global scale. Clemson’s ambitious teams were selected by a group of their contestant peers as the winners from a pool of 131 design teams from 19 countries.

Winners were announced Wednesday during a ceremony at the National Home Builder’s International Builders’ Show in Orlando and online through a Facebook Livestream.

Clemson’s Live/Work team won first place and $20,000 with its sleek, modern design. Eric Laine of Indianapolis and Suzanne Steelman of Las Vegas embraced the social and economic aspects of life and created a home that incorporates both commercial and residential functionalities.

Daniel Kim of Vienna, Va. and Caitlin Ranson of Pickens received second place and $10,000 for their Project Zero design. The structure’s concrete masonry units create a seamless house that reimagines spaces and blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior with “zones” intended to increase ventilation.

Honorable Mention was awarded to John Oxenfeld of Tega Cay and Adam Wilson of Chester for their unique Partial Submersion design.

Mike Niezer of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Adrian Mora of Miama took the Design Integration Award for seamlessly integrating space, materials and technology to craft a serene and environmentally sound breatheZERO home.

The Built-In Photovoltaic Design Award went to Jason Drews of Houston and James Graham of Wilmington, N.C., for their Below Zero design, incorporating optimal solar angles.

Architecture school chairwoman Kate Schwennsen said she is very pleased with the success of these students, as are their design studio professor, Ulrike Heine, and consulting professors Daniel Harding and Bernhard Sill.

“The accomplishments of these students and faculty represent the highest aspirations, values and abilities of the School of Architecture,” Schwennsen said. “The work is innovative, technologically integrated and sophisticated, optimistic, engaged with industry, clearly and beautifully communicated, the result of collaborative design processes.

“It addresses one of the critical issues of our time and is focused on leaving the world better than they found it,” she said. “The School of Architecture couldn’t ask for better representation of its potential.”

Contestants created designs for three connected residences, including areas for privacy and recreation. In addition to traditional design elements, students were tasked with incorporating environmentally friendly, recyclable materials with near zero-energy efficiency standards.

Dow sponsored the competition as part of its commitment to the environment, health and safety as demonstrated in its 2015 Sustainability Goals.

[The winners are (left to right) Jason Drews, James Graham, Adrian Mora, Daniel Kim, Caitlin Ranson, John Oxenfeld, Adam Wilson, Suzanne Steelman and Eric Laine. Michael Niezer is not pictured.]

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, co-hosted the Graduate Student Symposium at the ACM Creativity & Cognition 2011 conference, hosted by Georgia Tech. At the same conference, he presented a demonstration of his developing, architectural-robotic “ART” project that is supported by the National Science Foundation in the cross-cutting, ”Smart Health & Wellbeing” Program (NSF award #IIS-1116075, $271k). ART is one component in a suite of intelligent components collectively called home+. home+ aims to increase the quality of life of both healthy individuals, as well as persons with impaired mobility, by intelligently supporting the physical organization of their immediate environment. Green presented developments of the ART project also in San Francisco at the Assistive Robotics workshop of IROS 2011, the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Conferences, International, Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

Clemson School of Architecture Celebrates Centennial with Symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

CLEMSON, SC— Clemson University’s School of Architecture will celebrate its 100^th year of architectural education with a symposium on the timely subject of “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lee Hall.

Speakers include noted architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and award-winning, Southeast-based practitioners and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon.

Since its founding in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has sought a balance between service to the state of South Carolina and connections to the wider world. Exemplifying this tradition, founder Rudolph “Pop” Lee (1874-1959)—namesake of Clemson’s award-winning Lee Hall—studied engineering at Clemson Agricultural College, a land grant school, but was trained in architecture at Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Clemson’s architecture program has been mindful of the connections between the local and the global, creating a “Fluid Campus” including full-time study centers in the cities of Charleston, SC, Genoa, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. This geographical approach defined the centennial theme, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.”

The subject of regionalism in architecture has a long history, yet remains timely. Recently, “critical regionalism”—a term coined by symposium keynote speakers Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in 1981—was the theme of the August edition of the American Institute of Architects’ magazine Architect.

As Tzonis and Lefaivre noted in their recent book, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (2012), regionalism is a “never ending challenge” that has become increasingly significant for architects and regional cultures in an increasingly “flat” and interconnected world.

In the symposium, Tzonis and Lefaivre’s global and historical perspective will be complimented by talks from award-winning architects and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon. All based in the Southeast, their experiences have been influenced by familiar engagements with local and global cultures, and uniquely fluid geographies and careers.

The symposium, to be followed by a Beaux Arts Ball, marks the fourth and final major event of the school’s centennial year. In March, Clemson celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25^th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45^th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.

The symposium webpage can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/symposium.html.

The event is free, but registration is requested at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20569_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=30&SINGLESTORE=true.

Contacts:

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Chair of the Clemson University School of Architecture
Email: kschwen@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-3895

Peter L. Laurence, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: plauren@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1499

Media Contact:
Jeannie Davis
Email: eugenia@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1821

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Southeast Region /by Matrix Admin

Assistant Professor Peter Laurence contributed an essay to Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, released by Planners Press in April with early reviews at Planetizen and The Huffington Post. His book on Jacobs is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

The faculty, staff and students of Clemson University’s School of Design and Building have enthusiastically moved into the 55,000-square-foot addition to Lee Hall. This showcase building provides not only a new home, but one that is a model for sustainability. The building’s anticipated energy consumption will make it one of the most energy efficient buildings in the U.S., featuring exterior and interior skylights, geothermal radiant heating and cooling, natural ventilation and the largest university Garden Roof installation in the Southeast.

The Lee Hall complex houses our master’s and undergraduate programs in architecture, art, city and regional planning, construction science and management, landscape architecture and real estate development, and the doctoral program in planning, design and the built environment. Thomas Phifer and Partners designed Lee III in collaboration with McMillan Pazdan Smith. Holder Construction was the Construction Manager at-Risk.

photo: Annmarie Jacques

Graduate student Joe Podolski from Clemson University and Fred Lebed and Andrew Leung from University of Illinois at Chicago were awarded an honorable mention for their contribution to the the AIAS/Kawneer Competition.

The prompt was that due to global climate change coastal cities are in more danger than ever. After Hurricane Katrina, the Super Dome was used as a shelter, using this as an example each group was charged to think up a stadium that would be able to be used more effectively in both a crisis and as a stadium in normal times. Their response was a form derived from the many shapes water creates and using lighting to inform the public on a large scale.

More information can be found at the competition website: http://kawneer.aias.org/winners/

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

Professor David Allison was identified as the 4th most influential person in a national poll conducted by Healthcare Design Magazine.

Associate Professor Dina Battisto continued her research on “Creating World Class Facilities for the Military Health System”, and “Patient Room of the Future”, sponsored by the Department of Defense through NXT. She received first place in the Conceptual Design Category of the Healthcare Environments Award, sponsored by the Center for Health Design, American Institute of Architects, Contract Magazine and Medquest Communications, for the project “Village Family Practice Clinic”, with McMilan, Pazdan Smith Group.

Professor Keith Green, PhD, and Associate Professor Dan Harding have been awarded two-year Creativity Professorships from the College of Architecture, Art and Humanities. Each are part of the initial class of four professors from the college who begin their terms this fall. The Creativity Professorship Program recognizes faculty members engaged in exemplary, creative teaching and/or research activities, and encourages faculty to explore creative research initiatives. Green, Director of Clemson’s Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems & Environments (iMSE) has recently received his second NSF grant, this time for ART, an intelligent environment for aging in place. Harding, Director of Clemson’s Community Research and Design Center (CRDC), had a student team recognized with an honorable mention in the international design competition, Structures for Inclusion 11: Social Economic Environmental Design International, for their project done in collaboration with the Student Organic Farm and a local elementary school.

Associate Professor Doug Hecker served as the director for HATCH Architecture, Asheville, NC, which he used as a platform to engage practitioners and the pubic in a dialogue regarding design and its impact on culture and economic development, and for which a group of his digital design students designed and fabricated a digital design build information pavilion for the HATCH festival.

Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine has completed the design and documentation of her research project, the Clemson Zero Energy House, a prototype of sustainable architecture in hot, humid climates.

Lecturer Ashley Jennings has developed a method of performing a life cycle cost analysis for historic buildings to mitigate to justify LEED/Green Globe certification of historic buildings renovated with state funding, and was awarded a Carolopolis Award from the Preservation Society of Charleston for the renovations to a historic property.

Assistant Professor Peter Laurence, PhD, is completing his book, Jane Jacobs and the City, for the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Assistant Professor David Lee’s creative inquiry “Computational Design Group” completed two projects under the them of “Material Intelligence”. One was exhibited in Greenville, SC, and the other is a permanent installation in Lee Hall on the Clemson campus.

Associate Professor Rob Silance has completed his prototype design for design studio workstations, to be put into production this fall, for first installation in the new Lee Hall in January 2012.

Professor Stephen Verderber, PhD, is completing work on his sixth book, Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health, to be published by Routledge in the Spring of 2012.

Clemson University

March 17, 2014/in School News Conferences, International, Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin