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 Excellencein the Design and Construction of the Harris-Lebel Residence, Tucson, AZ.
The Sustainable Real Estate program had a booth in the Expo of the Urban Land Institute Fall meeting in Los Angeles in October.Several students joined Director Alexandra Stroud to talk to interested students and promote the program.Director Stroud participated on a panel at the ULI Fall Meeting entitled Post-Catastrophe Reconstruction: Case Studies of Japan, Chile, Haiti, and New Orleans.She spoke on a panel with representatives of these other disasters about the recovery effort in New Orleans.
Faculty members Alexandra Stroud, Tatiana Eck, Casius Pealer and Reuben Teague all participated in the Green Build conference in Toronto in early October.Professor Stroud and Professor Pealer were included in the Greenbuild NEXT VIP interview series .Professor Eck is an integral part of the Green Build conference planning committee.Professor Pealer participated in the Affordable Housing Forum.Professor Teague presented at the conference in a presentation entitled, 100 Sustainable Homes; Lessons Learned in New Orleans’ Project Home Again with Tulane School of Architecture alumni, John Williams.
The Sustainability and Globalization lecture series is underway.The September lecturer was Allison Plyer with Greater New Orleans Community Data Center presenting the Index at Six, a report summarizing the progress of New Orleans since Katrina.The October lecture was given by Terry Henry, of Global Perpetual Energy.His company is developing a device that produces enough wind, water and solar power to power a small city post disaster.
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 100th 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 40th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.
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