Both Renee Cheng, head of the School of Architecture, and Tom Fisher, dean of the College of Design, were listed among the top 25 most admired design educators by Design Intelligence. Fisher has been writing about design in the Huffington Post, has recently published a piece “The Death and Life of Great Architecture Criticism for Places,” and continues to write every other month for Architect magazine about past P/A Award winning projects. He also lectured at Yale and Auburn on topics related to creating more resilient communities, the subject of his next book.
Associate Professor, Ozayr Saloojee (in collaboration with Vincent DeBritto, Jamuna Golden and Cynthia Lapp in Landscape Architecture) received $31,250 in grants from three separate agencies (The Institute on the Environment, The Imagine Fund and the Institute for Advanced Study) at the University of Minnesota for their interdisciplinary multi-year M.Arch/MLA graduate research design studio and community initiative titled “Design Duluth.” The project investigates the design and engagement of complex systems at large and small scales using the port city of Duluth, Minnesota as a local laboratory to test global issues. The initiative is a collaboration of the School of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, the City of Duluth, private and public stakeholders and several NGOs. In addition, the project was designated a Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study, and will develop transdisciplinary coursework, reading seminars, faculty and student masterclasses through a series of public lectures and academic and curricular programming.
Professor Saloojee (with visiting faculty Brad Agee, Landscape Architecture) lead the College of Design’s inaugural semester abroad program to Rome and Istanbul and participated in the opening of the University of Minnesota’s and College of Design’s Istanbul Center, located in the vibrant Beyo_lu district of Istanbul. The program hosted 12 undergraduate students from Architecture and Landscape Architecture from January through May and will be offered again in the Spring of 2014.
Thomas Fishser, Dean and Professor of Architecture, appeared in the PBS show, 10 Buildings that Changed America. He also wrote several pieces about design and education in the Huffington Post and several articles on past P/A Award winning projects for Architect magazine, as well as a peer-reviewed essay on “Creating Public Value” for the Public Administration Review. He gave a talk, as well, at the U.S. Department of Transportation on fracture-critical infrastructure, based on his new book Designing to Avoid Disaster (Routledge, 2012).
Professor Ignacio San Martin, Dayton Hudson Chair of Urban Design programs and Director of the Metropolitan Design Center, was awarded with the prestigious University of Minnesota President’s Community Research Scholar Award for his work in the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
John Comazzi, Associate Professor and Director of the BS Degree Program (Architecture), recently spoke on the subject of his book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), during an event co-sponsored by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Knoll Furniture, a2modern, and the AIA. He also delivered a paper at a recent symposium organized by the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. The symposium was organized around the theme of “Visual Culture and the Archive” and was held in honor of Francis X. Blouin’s 32 years as Library Director. Professor Comazzi’s paper, “Balthazar Korab: Anticipating the Archive” focused on his extensive research on the Balthazar Korab archive, prior to its acquisition by the Library of Congress in 2011. Comazzi was also recently awarded a grant through the Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry & Scholarship Program administered through the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. His grant, entitled, “The Miller House: A Model for Collaborative Design” will fund archival research in preparation of a manuscript on the unique collaborations formed around the design and construction of the Miller House in Columbus, IN.
In May and June of 2013, Professor Comazzi will lead a group of 10 undergraduate students (8 architecture, 1 landscape architecture, and 1 interiors), on a program abroad in Florence, Italy. The program will explore the development of the city’s urban morphology, building typologies, and landscapes, in a hands-on active learning experience.
Last Spring 2011, The School of Architecture (S|ARC) funded its first Eminent Architect of Practice visiting studio faculty program. Larry Scarpa, FAIA (2010 AIA Firm of the Year), was selected for the inaugural appointment; he taught in the capstone 4th year studio with Assistant Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA and Professor Michael Berk, AIA (Director of the School of Architecture). Herrmann and Berk also received a $10,000 grant from the Richard Adkerson fund to run a design competition (in that capstone studio) for the master planning, programming, and design of a proposed ‘Alumni and Distinguished Guest House’ facility on the campus.
Jim West, AIA, (Dean of the College of Architecture, Art + Design) was elected president of the national board for the Architecture + Construction Alliance (A+CA) for this academic year. The mission of the A+CA is to foster collaboration among schools that are committed to interdisciplinary educational and research efforts between the fields of architecture and construction, and to engage leading professionals and educators in support of these efforts.
Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) Associate Professor David Perkes, AIA, was awarded the 2011 Latrobe Prize ($100,000) from the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. The Institute awarded the prize to Prof. Perkes and other members of a research team for their proposal: “Public Interest Practices in Architecture.” The team will investigate the needs addressed by public interest practices and the variety of ways that public interest practices are operating. The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is awarded biennially for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession. Perkes was also honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” on Tuesday, July 19 for his work to strengthen the local economy, create jobs and help the Gulf Coast recover from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The White House Champions of Change initiative profiles Americans from all walks of life who are helping the country rise to the challenges of the 21st century. Jane Greenwood, AIA, Associate Professor, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and perform research at Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction in Yerevan, Armenia during the 2010-2011 academic year with a recent extension through the Fall 2011 semester. Dr. Rachel McCann, Professor, received the single top teaching honor that MSU bestows upon it faculty: 2010 Grisham Master Teacher Award (with $10k prize). Dr. McCann also received the MSU Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award the previous year.
The School of Architecture and Planning of The Catholic University of America proudly presents Professor Adèle Naudé Santos, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in the Inaugural Lecture honoring George T. Marcou, FAICP Professor Emeritus, on Wednesday 10/26/11, 5:30pm at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20064.
Professor George Themistoclis Marcou taught at The Catholic University of America from 1962 to 2002. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1953, and a master’s degree in city planning in 1955. During those years, he met a fellow student and the woman who would become his beloved wife during 56 years, Margaret, who also graduated from MIT. Both raised five children, three golden retrievers, and later enjoyed their eleven grandchildren. Professor Marcou was widely known for his professionalism, wonderful sense of humor, and practical approach to problem solving. Traveling around the world with Margaret, whether it was for business or for pleasure, was a great passion where his fluency in Arabic, Greek and French came in handy. His career as an urban planner began in 1962, when he founded Marcou, O’Leary and Associates, a planning and urban development consulting firm. There he directed projects for numerous counties and cities both in the United States and abroad. The firm received urban design awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including an award for its preservation plan and program for the Vieux Carré Historic District in New Orleans. Projects in the Washington area included Fiscal Impact Analyses for Montgomery County, a program for revitalization of downtown Frederick, Maryland, campus plans for George Washington University and the National Institutes of Health, planning studies for Fairfax County and a study of Washington’s skyline for the National Capital Planning Commission. The firm was acquired by Westinghouse in 1973. In 1977, Professor Marcou became the first manager of the Community Development Bureau of the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, developing policy and action programs for the business community dealing with public issues. Later in 1979, he was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the American Planning Association (APA) where he was responsible for its policy and lobbying program. He also served on the APA’s Political and Legislative Committee. In 1993, Governor Schaffer of Maryland awarded Professor Marcou the Governor’s Award for Professional Excellence and the following year appointed him to the State of Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Commission on which he served for five years. He was often asked to be a guest lecturer at conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad. These invitations took him to Denmark, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He was a longstanding member of Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Professor Emeritus George Marcou passed away on April 28, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Judith Kinnard, Harvey-Wadsworth Chair of Landscape Urbanism and Professor of Architecture was named as one of the DesignIntelligence 25 Most Admired Educators of 2012. Professor Kinnard’s commitment to architectural education spans 28 years, having taught at Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. In her studio teaching, she focuses on institutional programs and their creative engagement of physical and cultural context. Her current research and teaching also involves the development of innovative approaches to low-rise/high-density housing for American cities. She maintains an active practice.
Favrot Professor and Dean Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA delivered a plenary address at the IBM Smarter Cities Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in November, discussing the strategies and initiatives that Tulane School of Architecture and Tulane University have taken in the recovery of New Orleans. He participated in this event with Ginni Rometty, the new President and CEO of IBM. He also gave a talk at the same conference on the Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies project that he has undertaken for the school’s 100 year-old building. The pre-design phase has been completed by FXFOWLE and el dorado architects with a strong team of sustainable engineering and landscape consultants.
Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to be the recipient of the 2011 NCARB Grant. This grant supports the creation and implementation of new methods to integrate practice and education in the academy. The funded proposal authored by adjunct assistant professor Z Smith and assistant professor Kentaro Tsubaki aims to integrate the post-building performance survey/analysis into pre-building design practice in the educational setting. The funds will be used to equip our students with the latest, most advanced technologies to collect and analyze building performance data in the newly developed technology course slated to be offered in the 2012-13 academic year.
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