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Kennesaw State University

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Co-chaired by Dr. Saleh Uddin from Kennesaw State University and Dr. So-yeon Yoon from Cornell University, KSU Architecture was well-represented by Dr. Saleh Uddin and Associate Professors Kathryn Bedette, Chris Welty and Michael Carroll at the recent Design Communication Association (DCA) hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Prof. Carroll’s paper on ‘Digital_Hand_Materiality’ was part of a session looking at Virtual and Actual: Process and Product moderated by Prof. Chris Welty, AIA. Examining creative processes, Prof. Kathryn Bedette, AIA paper on Drawing Motion through Stillness: Comparing Disciplinary Approaches; Prof. Chris Welty, AIA paper co-authored with Dr. Arief Seitawan paper entitled Embracing Slowness, Methods to Digital Fluency; and Dr. Saleh Uddin’s paper Current Decline of Design Grammar during the Rise of the Digital Fabrication Era all challenged the relationship between digital/analog and its influence on the way we link the process and product of design.

We are also very proud to note that Architecture Student Kathryn Stapleton received the DCA Juror’s Choice Award in Undergraduate Design Foundation for her “Kinetic Structural System from Geometry.” Congratulations!

See DCA link: http://www.dcaconference2018.org/

Mississippi State University

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Save The Date:

Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program, in cooperation with the Architecture and Construction Alliance (A+CA) announce the Integrated Project Delivery Theater. This interactive symposium is designed to introduce the exciting but complex world of Integrated Practice.

The two-day symposium features the project team responsible for the commission, design, and construction of the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center, a LEED Gold building. Featured presenters include Jose Alvarez, AIA, LEED AP, Project Architect and Principle with the 2014 AIA Firm of the Year Eskew+Dumez+Ripple; Kevin N. Overton, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Project Manager for Turner Construction Company; and Brian Bozeman, LEED AP, Executive Director ADAMS, (client’s representative) for the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center. Coupled with this dynamic project team, integrated practice educators Assistant Professor Michele M. Herrmann, Esq.; Assistant Professor Emily M. McGlohn, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP; and Associate Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA, NCARB, LEED Green Assoc. will offer an exceptional educational opportunity. The unique interactive theater-like presentation includes problem-based learning activities and illustrative visual and verbal presentations designed to generate synthetic comprehension of IPD. The A+CA, through its generous sponsorship, has enabled the MSU faculty to develop this special event. As a critical component to the symposium’s success, the A+CA and MSU School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program invite students and faculty members from all programs of study engaged in Integrated Project Delivery to attend. The symposium will be held in Giles Hall on the MSU campus in charming Starkville, MS.

For more information on the participating practitioners and MSU faculty presenters please visit: http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/ipdtheater2015/

Symposium Date: January 29–30, 2015
Location: School of Architecture
Giles Hall, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
Local Accommodations: Hotel Chester, Downtown Starkville, MS

 

 

Montana State University

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The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Dr. Susanne Cowan has joined the faculty at Montana State University. She received her B.A. in Landscape Architecture, and her Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban design and the social conditions of cities, particularly regarding participatory democracy as a method for making city planning and policy decisions.

In her dissertation, “Democracy, Technocracy and Publicity: Public Consultation and British Planning, 1939-1951”, Susanne explores how architects and town planners created a forum for democratic debate about new planning policies. She recently completed an oral history documentary film, “Design as a Social Act,” which examines how architects have approached the social needs of users in the design process. In her most recent work, she has been tracing the ways that planning policies in de-industrializing cities have shaped the process of urban decay and gentrification, and what positive or negative impacts urban design interventions have had on social and economic conditions of residents.

Susanne’s interest in participatory design grows from her commitment to professional activism in the design of the built environment, demonstrated in her work as an environmental educator for Americorps, and her training as a facilitator for collaborative policy-making.

Teaching Professor John R. (Jack) Smith, ARCH.D., FAIA, NCARB, received a 2014 Citation Award from the AIA Montana Design Awards Program for his House III project in Hulen Meadows, Idaho and a 2014 AIA Idaho Honor Award.

Associate Teaching Professor Chere LeClair, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP was elected as the Northwest and Pacific AIA Regional Director.

Graduate student, Kluane Weibel, received a Merit Award for her project titled “Artic Dwelling” at the AIA Regional Student Leadership Institute Meeting.  Kluane’s advisors were Associate Professors Maire O’Neill and Chris Livingston and Professor Ralph Johnson.

Assistant Professor Bradford Watson, Associate Professor Mike Everts, and Professor John C Brittingham presented at the ACSA International Conference in Seoul Korea.  Assistant Professor Watson presented “Displaced Territories with Sean Burkholder from UBC, Associate Professor Everts presented “Creating Hybrid Programs and Predicting Their Evolution Through 4D Parametric Analysis” and Professor Brittingham presented “Unlikely Partnerships.”

Professor Fatih Rifki presented “Genesis and Epicenter of Renaissance: Florence versus Istanbul” at the 4th Annual International Conference on Architecture in Athens, Greece.

Washington University in St. Louis

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How does one move past a creative standstill? Associate professor Heather Woofter (principal of Axi:Ome), Steve Knight (director of COCAbiz), and poet MK Stallings led workshop participants in a series of hands-on exercises aimed at moving past creative blocks. The workshop concluded with a conversation on ways to nourish innovation. The event, sponsored by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, is part of Build4STL.

http://pulitzerarts.org/events/public-programs/buildstl/

Washington University in St. Louis

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Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor of architecture at Washington University, moderated a closing panel for Comprehensive Design + Science: Visions for St. Louis and the Great Lakes Region. Presented by the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Sam Fox School, the symposium examined the challenges and opportunities facing St. Louis and the Great Lakes region as they seek resilient solutions to the effects of climate change.

The half-day program, presented as part of Marfa Dialogues / STL, presented visionary and practical ideas at the intersection of architecture, design, technology, and activism. From community renewal to watershed management, each project represents a systemic approach to addressing critical urban issues. Presentations included: Old Man River’s City Project by Jonathan Marvel, principal and founder of Marvel Architects and member of the BFI board of directors; Great Cities, Great Lakes, Great Basin of Philip Enquist, partner in charge of Urban Design and Planning at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Plant Chicago by Blayne Greiner of program cultivator; and Public Laboratory for Open Science and Technology by Shannon Dosemagen, president and executive director.

http://www.samfoxschool.wustl.edu/events/symposia/9970

North Carolina State University

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NC State University College of Design in conjunction with the Department of City Planning, Urban Design Center and NC State Foundation presents the 12th Annual Urban Design Conference

Urban Reset: green. smart. just

Set for March 17, 2012 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Raleigh Convention Center.

In the new global economy, successful cities will be green, smart, and just. What should we be doing to design our cities to be more carbon neutral, technologically advanced, and socially equitable? The 2012 annual urban design conference will answer these questions and challenge participants to lead us toward becoming a truly world class region.

Speakers:

Susan Anderson, Director, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) for the City of Portland
Simon Atkinson, Professor of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin/NC State University
Jerome Chou, Director of Programs, Design Trust for Public Space
Don Edwards, Principal and CEO, Justice & Sustainability Associates
Adam Goldberg, Smart+Connected Communities, Cisco Systems
Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Curator, National Building Museum, editor, “Intelligent Cities”
Jess Zimbabwe, Director, ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, MODERATOR

Also, Mitchell Silver, AICP, President of the American Planning Association and Chief Planning & Development Officer and Planning Director for the City of Raleigh, will offer remarks on his observations of the “urban reset.”

APPROVED: 7 hours AIA/HSW/SD and 7 hours AICP CM.

Seeking approval: NC Board of Landscape Architects and GBCI (for LEED AP)

Visit the Urban Design Conference site and register at: http://design.ncsu.edu/urban

Hotel block available at a $109 rate at the Raleigh Sheraton Hotel. (Block extended, now closes 2/22/12.)

Interested in seeing AIA North Carolina’s Center for Architecture and Design while you’re in downtown Raleigh. The Center for Architecture & Design will have a public grand opening on March 17. Ride the R Line after the conference and join them!

Growing in Place Symposium

The 9th annual Urban Design Conference is presented in concert with the 5th annual Growing in Place Symposium held the day before, on March 16, 2012, also in downtown Raleigh. Discounts available when registering for both.

Woodbury University

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Woodbury University will be hosting the Drylands Design Conference, Burbank, CA, March 22-24, 2012.  Organized by Arid Lands Institute in collaboration with the AIA/California Council, the California Architectural Foundation, and US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, the conference will showcase design and policy innovations that address water, energy, and the future of the western American city.

Adjunct Faculty Deborah Richmond participated in a group exhibition entitled Flagstop Alternative Art Event in August in Southern California.  Photographs of shipping containers and loading docks at the Ikea warehouse in Tejon Ranch, originally shot during research for the book Infrastructural City:  Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, were included.  The event was based on an open call format for both curators and artists. http://www.flagstopart.com/

Annie Chu, Associate Professor in Interior Architecture, is serving as a juror for the 2012 AIA Institute Honor Awards in Architecture and the 2012 Twenty-Five Year Award.

Adjunct Faculty, Christoph Korner and his office GRAFT were announced winner of the European Prize for Architecture by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. http://www.europeanarch.eu/eur_arch_prize/index.html

Hadley + Peter Arnold, co-director’s of the Arid Lands Institute (ALI), delivered the keynote to a symposium held at the Land Heritage Institute in San Antonio, TX on September 3rd.  The symposium brought artists, architects, preservationists, archeologists, activists, and planners to explore the theme “Land as Lab.”  In addition, ALI”s GIS work in New Mexico’s Lower Embudo Valley was recently showcased in ‘The Edge,’ online magazine of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.  “Gravity-Fed City,” a chapter documenting ALI’s work on rethinking western US infrastructures in the case-study city of Burbank, CA, will be included in Last Call at the Oasis (Public Affairs, 2012), companion volume to the forthcoming Participant Media film of the same name.

Adjunct Faculty Clark Stevens

and his company are featured in James Russell’s new book The Agile City:  Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, published by Island Press. In his call for a “New Land Ethos”, Russell praises Clark and his office, New West Land Company, for “being among the new breed of environmentalists, planners, developers and investors who cross the divide between traditional environmentalism and on-size-fits-all development to create profit-making projects that conserve and restore damaged landscapes”.

Jennifer Bonner, Professor of Practice, installed a solo exhibition titled WATERMARKS at the Woodbury University’s Hollywood Gallery in September. The installation simulated Venice’s Acqua Alta, documented resiliency across the American landscape, and suggested agency in water fluctuation. Three watershed geographies were examined, thirty-six flooded towns watermarked, and 2,000 gallons of water filled the gallery space. In addition, Jennifer and Adjunct Faculty David Freeland were selected as the “Top Ten to Watch by Ten Architects” in California Home and Design Magazine (September/October 2011 Issue).

Woodbury University Graduate Chair Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is working with Doris Sung (Assistant Professor at USC) and Matthew Melnyk on an installation at the M&A exhibition space in Silver Lake, California.  The project, ‘Bloom’, a 20′ high prickly hour-glass-like installation explores the possibilities of a thermally responsive metal surface which reacts to both the change in temperature and direct solar radiation. When the temperature of the metal is cool, the surface will appear as a solid object, once the afternoon heat penetrates the metal, the panels of custom woven bimetal will adjust and fan out to allow air flow and increase shade potential. The thermo-bimetal alloys used in the project expand the notion of surface and structure in architecture.  The project is scheduled to open in October.

Julius Shulman distinguished Professor of Practice Barbara Bestor and her office have been featured as an “Emerging Talent” in the August release of Martha Stewart magazine for the Nicks Residence in Santa Barbara.

Dr. Anthony Fontenot, Associate Professor, is co-curating the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and has an exhibition opening, “Disappearing Landscapes: The American Delta in Distress“, at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery.

Assistant Professor Maxi Spina’s housing Building in Argentina Jujuy Redux (co-designed with P-a-t-t-e-r-n-s) appeared in September in “Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture”, an exhibition organized by Latin Pratt and aimed to encourage awareness of the unique problems and solutions of a developing continent, like that of Latin America.

Ball State University

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Associate Professor George Elvin gave plenary speeches at Buildgreen Argentina in Buenos Aires and  Arc-LA: The Forum for Latin America’s Leading Architects in San Jose, Costa Rica. Elvin’s article, “Principles of Integrated Practice in Architecture,” was published in the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 

Associate Professor Pam Harwood’s tot spot, an interactive play space, has just opened at the Muncie Children’s’ Museum, a two year student design build project.

Professor Edward W. Wolner has published Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago:  Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

The second edition of The Green Studio Handbook (by Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik) has been recently published by Architectural Press (now an imprint of Taylor and Francis). The first edition has been translated and published in both traditional and simplified Chinese.

Professor Joe Bilello will serve as Director of Ball State’s Australia Centre  in Lennox Head, New South Wales during the spring term.

Graduate students Michela Cupello and Wes Stabbs won the USGBC Multifamily Midrise Design Competition sponsored by AUTODESK. Professor Robert Koester served as their critic/advisor as they developmed their entry.

Catholic University of America

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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.

 

 

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Martin Despang´s “Marienwerder community grocery center” has been recognized with a 2011/2012 Faculty Design ACSA Award. His typological diverse critical practice case studies: “Jibi community grocery center”, ”Headquarters Krogmann”, “Göttingen University Kindergarten” and “Farmhouse Voges” have been featured in the categories of : commercial, work ,education and dwelling in volume 2 of Braun Publishers bestseller, “1000 x European Architecture”.

Lecturers Christopher Trumble, Michael Kothke and Madeline Gradillas will present “Block_Lofting and Deformation_Reformation”,  “Revealing our Connections to the World”, and “Reflective Reuse: Iterative Material to Reinforce the Iterative Process”, respectively, at the The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 2012, the End of/in the Beginning: Realizing the Sustainable Imagination.

Adjunct Lecturer Bil Taylor, via his construction company Just Build, LLC, recently won a 2011 award from the Arizona Masonry Guild for Excellence in the Design and Construction of the Harris-Lebel Residence, Tucson, AZ.

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