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Kansas State University

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Architecture Professor David Seamon attended the 30th annual International Human Research Science Conference, held in Oxford, England, July 27-30, 2011. He organized a symposium, “Lived Relationalities among Place, Space, and Environmental Embodiment.” The three symposium presenters were health sociologist Dr. Andrew Moore, a research associate with the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University in Staffordshire, England; Dr. Sam Griffiths, a Lecturer in urban morphology and theory at University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture; and Seamon, whose presentation was entitled, “‘Seeing’ Merleau-Ponty’s Perception: Possibilities in the Urban Photographs of New York City Photographer Saul Leiter. Seamon also presented “Homeworld, Alienworld, and Being at Home in Alan Ball’s HBO Television Series, Six Feet Under,” a blind-reviewed paper presented at the 7th annual Religion, Literature, and the Arts conference held at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 27. The conference theme was “Uncanny Homecomings: Narrative, Structures, Existential Questions, Theological Visions.”

Professor Donald Watts joined more than one hundred former Peace Corps Volunteers who had served in Afghanistan as part of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps in Washington D.C.  He represented our college at a special reception for former Peace Corps Afghanistan volunteers hosted by His Excellency, Ambassador Eklil Hakimi at the Afghan Embassy in Washington. Watts served as the architectural coordinator of the Kansas State University / Kabul University Partnership Program occurring between 2007 and 2010.

Assistant Professors Nathan Howe and Sam Zeller with the help of fourth-year students Ethan Rhoades, Hana Havlova, Matthew Whetstone and Scott Davis entered  and won the international design competition The 2011 Friends of Seger Park Playground Sprayground in Philadelphia, PA. This competition was to look at the site of their existing water feature and envision a design that would be contemporary, interactive and provide an icon for their park. The team has now been commissioned to produce a promotional model and construction documents while Seger Park continues to raise funds for the project’s implementation.

Greg Sheldon, James Pfeiffer, and Rick Schladweiler from the Kansas City-based firm BNIM are co-teaching a fourth-year design studio this fall. The trio is quite enthusiastic about diving into teaching design. Sheldon, associate principal at the firm, and 2006 Architect of the Year for the AIA Kansas City chapter, taught building construction techniques to beginning students at the KC campus of the University of Missouri, but has never taught studio. The trio intends to fold verifiable design techniques into the studio’s semester-long project.

Tulane University

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Favrot Professor of Architecture Ammar Eloueini, Intl. Assoc. AIA and principal of Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio is one of the five finalist for the prestigious 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. He is competing for the opportunity to design and construct an installation within MoMA PS1’s courtyard in Long Island City, Queens. The winners will be announced in February 2012.


Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Professor Emerita Ellen Weiss from Newsouth Books with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This text interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Professor Weiss has taught architectural and planning history at many prestigious universities for nearly half a century. She has served on the boards of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians.

Washington University in St. Louis

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Assistant professor Catalina Freixas and senior lecturer Pablo Moyano Fernandez participated in the 7th conference on Perspectivas Urbanas 7, Ciudades Americanas, organized by the Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Europea de Madrid, which introduced three perspectives on the current state of American cities. Freixas and oyano introduced the phenomenon of “ungrowth” in American cities, with a focus on St. Louis as an example of a shrinking city. Their presentation includes their ongoing research on eco-urbanism strategies as a response to the problem of “thinning” in post-industrial cities. The proceedings from the conference will be published in Perspectivas Urbanas 7.

Freixas and Moyano’s full paper “Eco-urbanism: Sustainable Strategies for Vacant Lots in St. Louis”, has been selected for oral presentation at the EDRA45 New Orleans and publication in the EDRA45 Conference Proceedings. The paper introduces The Sustainable Land Lab, an initiative by the Sustainability Office of Washington University in St. Louis that aims to showcase strategies that can transform vacant land into sustainability-advancing assets. The paper discusses the five implemented projects that resulted from the Sustainable Land Lab Competition using the Triple Bottom Line Sustainability criterion as defined by the City of St. Louis Sustainability Plan. Present research looks into HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes, a finalist proposal focused on a synergistic approach to eco-urbanism, while ongoing research aims to ultimately assess all five projects.

Assistant professor Catalina Freixas co-authored an article on biomimicry titled “Developing a Common Ground for Learning from Nature,” which was published in the fall 2013 issue of Zygote Quarterly.

Zeuler R. Lima’s recently published Lina Bo Bardi (Yale University Press, 2013) has been listed among the top 10 design books of 2013 by The Guardian (United Kingdom) and also among the 10 notable books by Designers and Books (USA).

Montana State University

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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. 

Clemson University

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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.

North Carolina State University

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Photo: North Carolina State University’s team in Walt Disney’s Imagineering 21st ImagiNations Design Competition L-R Kyle Thompson, Michael Habersetzer, Andy Park, Brian Gaudio Photo Credit: Gary Krueger, Walt Disney Imagineering

February 3, 2012 — Glendale, CA – The winners of the annual Walt Disney Imagineering ImagiNations Design Competition were announced on Friday, February 3 at Imagineering headquarters in Glendale, California. The ImagiNations Design Competition is a program designed and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering to encourage university students to consider careers in creative and technical fields including digital arts, engineering, and architecture.

For this year’s ImagiNations design competition, students from American universities and colleges were given a unique challenge: “Imagine it’s the year 3011. Disney has entertainment experiences all over the world, many which don’t even exist today. The human race is finally living on the moon and Walt Disney Imagineering wants to be the first one to provide entertainment and/or recreation to the new citizens there. What would you imagine that this new Disney experience could be?”

First Place and “Best in Show” was awarded to students Brian Gaudio, Michael Habersetzer, Andy Park and Kyle Thompson of North Carolina State University. Their project, “The Mind of Molly Mouse” utilizes modern-day 3011 technology to communicate the sweeping story of Molly, a descendant of Mickey Mouse, over the course of their stay.

Second Place was awarded to Carnegie Mellon University “Create the Night Finale,” which is an interactive nighttime spectacular and experience. The three members of the Carnegie Mellon University team are Michael Honeck, Ping Li, and Franz Mendonsa.

Third Place was awarded to Utah State University for their Disney Galactic Cruiseline: “The Oneiro.” Guests will be at ease in this contemporary environment designed to offer the luxuries of a seven-star resort with the thrill of space exploration. The three members of the Utah State University team are Jason Cooper, Adam Dambrink and Philip Le Goubin.

Twenty-one college students from six universities were finalists in Walt Disney Imagineering’s 21st ImagiNations Design Competition. ImagiNations is an annual program designed and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm of all Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide, which allows participants to showcase their talents and gain practical knowledge in design from leaders in immersive storytelling and themed entertainment.

This marks the third time in four years that a North Carolina State University team has placed in the top three. Last year’s North Carolina State team “Fantasia: The Lost Symphony,” placed second in the competition.

Participants work for several months on their concepts and presentations, which are evaluated by a team of Imagineers. The projects and concepts presented are not necessarily intended to be built by Disney – they are a way for the entrants to demonstrate their skill and creative abilities. In consideration for the opportunities provided by Imagineering, submissions become the sole property of Walt Disney Imagineering and Imagineering retains all rights to use and/or display the submissions and the materials contained in them.

A position at Walt Disney Imagineering is often found on surveys of “dream occupations,” and the company uses ImagiNations as a way to reach out to the widest possible talent pool for its future. The top three placed teams were awarded cash prizes with the first place team receiving $3,000. An additional $1,000 grant was awarded to the first place team, to be equally divided among its sponsoring universities and/or organizations.

The six teams of finalists visited Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale from January 30 to February 3 to make professional presentations to the judging panel, interview for paid internships and get a behind-the-scenes tour of Disneyland from the viewpoint of Imagineers. During their week at Imagineering, the teams met and networked with Imagineers from a variety of disciplines.

Imagineers are famous for telling stories through three-dimensional attractions and experiences. The judges are looking in particular for the ability of technology, architecture, costumes, transportation, and attractions to support the story – and participants are advised to “begin with a great story before developing anything else.”

The judges apply the same criteria to the entries as they would to their own work – beginning with the team’s ability to collaborate across different disciplines and backgrounds; the mastery of their individual skills; whether it provides an engaging guest experience; the ability of the experience to demonstrate respect and inclusion for the diverse array of families who visit Walt Disney parks & resorts, and that it is unique in that it is not limited to what guests already experience in Disney parks and resorts.

The competition is open to students from colleges and universities in the United States that are Juniors, Seniors, or full-time Graduate students, or within one year after graduation, enrolled in Architecture, Arts, Animation, Computer Science, Construction/Project Management, Creative Writing, Engineering, Game Design, Graphics/ Communications Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interactive Media Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Media Production (Digital, TV, Film), Theater Design & Production.

 

Lawrence Technological University

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Students from the Master of Urban Design (m.U.D.) program at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University have won the Outstanding Student Project Award from the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP/APA Michigan) for the “Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines” they developed for the City of Southfield, Michigan.

The award was presented on Oct. 17 at the MAP annual conference in Traverse City. Winning the award were one LTU graduate student and two graduates of the m.U.D. program, Carolina Ferrero and Michael Mason. LTU graduate student Matthew Galbraith, CoAD student representative to MAP, acted as the nominator.  In order to complete the design guidelines, the LTU students extended the internship they took for a course, Principals and Practices of Urban Design, taught by m.U.D. coordinator and Assistant Professor Constance Bodurow. Working as interns in the planning department under Planning Director Terry Croad, the students documented three districts/neighborhoods and dozens of buildings built in the Mid-Century Modern style from the 1950s to the early 1970s that are important to the architectural heritage of Southfield, which grew rapidly after World War II as a first-ring suburb of Detroit.

One of the most significant buildings in Southfield is the former Reynolds Metals Regional Sales Office designed by Minoru Yamasaki, a Troy-based architect best known for the World Trade Center in New York.

The design guidelines provide the Southfield Planning Department with an essential tool to keep significant structures and districts intact. The guidelines not only define the style and identify significant structures, but also provide recommendations for enhancements through the use of case studies.

The student authors gathered input from local historians, architects, and academics in order to comprehensively identify, document, and inventory the city’s significant resources. The recommendations made by the students were considered and applied, resulting in the adoption of Low Impact Design Guidelines for the City of Southfield.

“The Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines is a valuable asset for the Planning Department in our understanding and review of redevelopment of existing Mid-Century Modern buildings and sites,” said Terry Croad, Southfield’s director of planning who worked with the student interns.

The MAP award recognizes the high-quality design guidelines and detailed direction exhibited throughout the manual.

University of New Mexico

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Mark C. Childs‘, Professor, book Urban Composition will be published as part of Princeton Architectural Press’s Architectural Briefs in April 2012. The book discusses how individual buildings, gardens, public arts works and other built forms can compellingly help compose larger, collectively-made forms such as streets, districts and cities.

Devendra Contractor AIA, Lecturer, with Jared Winchester, received a citation for 2011 AIA Albuquerque unbuilt design award for their competition entry “Patterned Occupancies”, a cross-cultural IT hub outside of New Delhi.

Jared Winchester’s, Lecturer, design projects, SKY_NET: A Power Migration Network and Groundings: Landslide Mitigation Housing with Viktor Ramos, included in Bracket [Goes Soft], edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard, will be published June 2012.  The project “Grounding” received 1st place in the 2011 D3 Natural systems competition and a citation for 2011 AIA Albuquerque unbuilt design award.

 

 

 

 

 

University of Louisiana - Lafayette

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Hector LaSala and Sarah Young, architecture faculty, and Phanat Xanamane, alumni, are members of Creative Action which, in partnership with Urban Land Institute of Louisiana, is launching Imagine Downtown: Open Ideas Competition. They are seeking innovative design proposals to harness creative and sustainable urban design development of six different sites in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. Registration deadline: October 15, 2012. For more information: www.creativeactionacadiana.org

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