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The Ohio State University

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Todd Gannon Announced as Section Head of Architecture


The Knowlton School is pleased to announce that Professor Todd Gannon has been appointed the next Section Head of Architecture. Gannon comes to the Knowlton School from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he taught history, theory and design studio. Prior to his arrival at SCI-Arc in 2008, Gannon taught at Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA, where he also received his Ph.D.

“Todd is uniquely qualified to lead the Architecture Section forward,” according to Knowlton School Director Michael Cadwell. “He is an experienced practitioner and academic who is well acquainted with the school and a respected voice in the discipline.”

Professor Gannon will return to his academic roots, having received his architectural undergraduate (BSARCH ‘95) and graduate (MARCH ‘97) degrees at the Knowlton School. “I am thrilled to return to Columbus and to rejoin the Knowlton School as architecture section head. Ohio State is one of the premier public universities in the country and the Knowlton School has long played a leading role in advancing both the discipline and the practice of architecture worldwide,” said Gannon.

More recently at Knowlton, Gannon has juried the graduate architecture 2017 Exit Review Prize, lectured during the 2014 Baumer Lecture Series, and edited Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House, a book of essays on Knowlton School Professor Emeritus José Oubrerie’s most notable built work in the United States.

Gannon’s appointment follows the retirement of Professor Robert S. Livesey, who has served as section head for the past four years. “I look forward to building on the formidable achievements of my predecessor, Professor Robert Livesey,” Gannon added, “and to working with Knowlton School students, faculty and staff to develop innovative, equitable, and sustainable strategies to meet architecture’s twin responsibilities to organize the built environment and to advance the public imagination.”

Gannon’s scholarship focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002), Pendulum Plane/Oyler Wu Collaborative (2009), and monographs on the work of Thom Mayne, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Steven Holl, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Eric Owen Moss. Gannon’s book on the architecture critic and historian Reynar Banham is forthcoming as are publications on speculative architecture in Southern California.

Gannon has lectured at institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia, and is a frequent conference participant and jurist. He served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, where he directed publication efforts from 2008-2010. His work has been recognized and supported by the Graham Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and UCLA. 

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Photo Caption: Left to Right: MCHAP Director Dirk Denison, Jury Member Florencia Rodriguez, Jury President Stan Allen, MCHAP.emerge winner Wonne Ickx representing Productora, Jury Member Dean Wiel Arets.

 

MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 WINNER ANNOUNCED

 

Award for Emerging Architecture Goes to Pavilion on the Zocalo; Mexico City, Mexico by Productora

Chicago, Illinois – April 4, 2016 – Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) 2014/15 Jury President Stan Allen, MCHAP 2014/15 Juror Florencia Rodriguez, and MCHAP Director Dirk Denison announced the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Winner, Pavilion on the Zocalo; Mexico City, Mexico; Productora, at the April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium and Award Dinner at S. R. Crown Hall, the home of IIT College of Architecture.

The authors of the winning project, represented at the MCHAP.emerge Symposium by Wonne Ickx, will be recognized with the MCHAP.emerge Award, the MCHAP Research Professorship in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology for the 2016/17 academic year, and funding of up to $25,000 USD in support of research and a publication related to the theme of “Rethinking Metropolis.”

The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Symposium included afternoon sessions during which the practices of the finalist projects presented their work and engaged in substantive discussions with the jury, the IIT Architecture faculty and student body, as well as the larger MCHAP Network and Chicago architecture community. In addition to Pavilion on the Zocalo; Mexico City, Mexico; Productora, the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists included:

C.I.D.; Road to Ayquina, Chile; Emilio Marin & Juan Carlos Lopez Arquitectos

Haffenden House; Syracuse, United States; Jon Lott, PARA Project

OZ Condominiums; Winnipeg, Canada; 5468796 Architecture

San Francisco Building; Asunción, Paraguay; Jose Cubilla & Asociados

The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists were selected by the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury from among the 55 MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS of architecture in the Americas, realized between January 2014 and December 2015, which have been put forward by 95 nominators from throughout the Americas. Nominations were received in January and February and were included in the MCHAP 2014/15 Exhibition held at S. R. Crown Hall on March 4th and 5th at which time the jury held its first jury session.

The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).

MCHAP is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP.emerge is the corresponding biennial prize for the best built work from an emerging architecture practice. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives. MCHAP was officially launched in February 2014 at an event hosted by Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and which featured Kenneth Frampton, President of the inaugural MCHAP Jury.

MCHAP Finalist Announcement in late June

The MCHAP Jury will announce the finalists for the MCHAP 2014/15 in late June after the jury tour of the finalist sites. The tour will include visits with members of the MCHAP Network of architects, academics, and schools and is part of a strategy to build a vibrant network that unites architects working in the Americas and opens the discourse with others around the world. The exact date of the finalist announcement is to be determined.

MCHAP Symposium and Winner Announcement on October 19, 2016

IIT ‘s College of Architecture will host a day-long symposium including sessions for students, faculty and the architects and clients of the finalists in dialogue about the nominated works and how they contribute to the college’s continuing conversation — Rethinking Metropolis. Later in the afternoon, the general public will be invited to a moderated discussion between the architects and jury about the context of contemporary practice. At the end of the day of activities the winner of the Americas Prize 2014/15 will be announced at the MCHAP Award Dinner. The author of the MCHAP winner will be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year, and funding of up to $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of ‘Rethinking Metropolis.’

For more information about MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge, MCHAP.student, their purpose, process and timeline, visit http://www.mchap.org.

 

Ohio State University

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Professor Michael Cadwell’s Small Buildings was republished in Pamphlet Architecture 11-20, the second volume of collected work in the acclaimed Pamphlet Architecture series.

Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture faculty are joint researchers on the $865,000 HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) Community Challenge grant received by MOPRC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission) for an urban agriculture overlay and food-based economic development in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus. Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones (architecture) is the lead PI with Assistant Professors Jacob Boswell and Katherine Bennett (Landscape Architecture) and Assistant Professor Charisma Acey (City & Regional Planning). The design team will advise on schematic proposals for the 3.5 acre site through March 2013. Jones has leveraged a second year of the $50,000 grant from the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative to support research activities, faculty, and students. The design team recently published Urban Farmscapes: for Communities Markets and New Ecologies, that documents 72 urban agriculture case studies.

Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones curated the symposium asking, “What does Design have to do with Poverty,” at the Knowlton School of Architecture on October 28, 2010, moderated by Jones and funded by the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative. Presentations included Susan Melsop, Assistant Professor of Design/OSU, E.J. Thomas, Habitat for Humanity, Charisma Acey, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning/OSU, and Matt Persinger, Yale University, Design/Build Program.

Professor Jeffrey Kipnis gave the Dean’s Lecture at Staedelschule, Frankfurt Germany, and was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Calgary University. Kipnis participated in panel discussions at IIT, Tokyo University, The Architectural Association of London, TU- Berlin, Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennale, Harvard GSD, and the University of Michigan. He also organized the conference “A Better Future through Architecture” at Georgia Tech where he gave the keynote address. 

Assistant Professor Karen Lewis and students were recognized in the Van Alen Institute’s “Life at the Speed of Rail” competition. “Switch Space,” by Emma Cucurrean-Zapan and Christine Yankel, was developed as part of her winter studio on Ohio’s high speed rail system, was recognized as a winning project. Professor Lewis’s own project, “Health Corridor,” was awarded an Honorable Mention. Karen Lewis’s collaborative project “Harbor Port” was noted with an honorable mention in the One Prize Competition. Harborport was developed with Jason Kentner, Sean Burkholder, and Matthew Banton.  Lewis is currently writing a book, “Graphic Design for Architects” that will be published by Routledge Press February 2013.

Professor Robert S. Livesey, who co-taught with the late Architect James Stirling at Yale University, was cited in the exhibition “An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale” and interviewed for the accompanying James Stirling documentary.   Livesey authored a review of the exhibition for Constructs, the bi-annual news magazine highlighting activities and events at the Yale School of Architecture.  Associate Professor Jane Murphy’s and Michael Cadwell’s work, produced as students of Stirling and Livesey, was included in the exhibition.  Murphy was also interviewed for the Stirling documentary.   

Professor Jose Oubrerie’s diagrams and photographs of Firminy Church were published in “Les 20 ans de Nemausus” December 2010 by Edition de l’Esperou and School of Architecture of Montpellier France.  He was selected as the Baird Distinguished Professor at Cornell University for 2011. He was also a panelist at a symposium at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and gave public lectures at City College of New York, Bowling Green University, University of Kentucky School of Architecture and Design, and AIA Kentucky.  Professor Oubrerie also presented the lecture, “Architecture in a Time of Uncertainty,” at Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Associate Professors Lisa Tilder and Stephen Turk were awarded the 2010-2011 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award and ACSA Collaborative Practice Honorable Mention.  Tilder and Turk’s “Pod Home” was published in NANO HOUSE: Innovations for Small Dwellings, ed. Phyllis Richardson (UK: Thames & Hudson) and was featured in NANO HOUSE reviews by the Los Angeles Times, Irish Times and others. 

Associate Professor Lisa Tilder published “The Lost Decade?” in field journal: issue 4, Ecology (Sheffield, UK) and was a contributing author to Vitamin Green, ed. Joshua Bolchover (UK: Phaidon Press).  Tilder gave the keynote address, “Media Ecologies” at the University Bauhaus Weimar.  Tilder served as a juror for the ACSA ARCHIVE “Being Resourceful” competition.

Associate Professor Stephen Turk published “Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project” in Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography, edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth, (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag).  This publication stems from his lecture presented at the Tanzkongress 2009 at the Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany.  Associate Professor Turk’s exhibition design/installation in collaboration with Norah Zuniga Shaw, “Synchronous Objects, Reproduced” for the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, was published in ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Stefan Riekeles and Andreas Broeckmann (Kehrer Verlag: Heidelberg – Berlin).

School News

Professor Ann Pendleton-Jullian completed her term as Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture and has returned to the full-time faculty to pursue research.  Professor and Section Head of Architecture Mike Cadwell has been appointed Interim-Director of the KSA.   Associate Professor S. Beth Blostein has assumed the role of Architecture Section Head.  Professor Robert S. Livesey has been appointed Head of the KSA’s Landscape Architecture Section, with an international search for Landscape Architecture Section Head underway.

Lawrence Technological University

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The College of Architecture and Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Deines as the Chair of the Art and Design Department. Professor Deines has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts in Design from Wayne State University and a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, along with NCIDQ certification in interior design and associate membership in the AIA. She has taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy since 2000. In the past, she has also taught at Warsaw Polytechnic University and the Cleveland Urban Design Center at Kent State University. Professor Deines has a wealth of professional experience with Green + Deines Studio, Awake by Design, Rossetti Architects, Swanson Meads Architects, and JPRA Associates.

Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., published his second book, The Chicago Schoolhouse,1856-2006: High School Architecture and Educational Reform (Center for American Places at Columbia College and University of Chicago Press, 2011), and presented a lecture on the book in June at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Dr. Gyure also was named a member of the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

Two of the college’s adjunct professors where rewarded for their continuing education in the past months. Jennifer L. Malia, IIDA, LEED AP, received her Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC), while Jane McBride received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wayne State University in Detroit.

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.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Associate Professor Brian Schermer, Sherry Ahrentzen (University of Florida), and Carole Deprés (Université Laval) are pleased to announce the publication of their co-edited book: Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries: The Milwaukee School in Environment-Behavior Studies. With 12 chapters authored by UWM graduates and other contributions, this book celebrates the nature, history and ongoing contributions of UW-Milwaukee’s PhD Program in Architecture. It also celebrates the program’s values —namely an understanding of architecture and built and natural settings as the locus of human endeavor and the conviction that research and design application can enhance the quality of people’s lives. View the book at Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3873453

Professor Mark Keane, President of www.NEXT.cc, and Prof. Linda Keane, SAIC, Director of www.NEXT.cc, are organizing a special session on K-12 design education at the upcoming ACSA National Conference in San Francisco. Please come to engage the panel of invited national organizations including the Vitruvius Program, Association of Architectural Organizations, Ace Mentor, San Francisco Builds, Kid MOB, and AIAS for discourse on STEM to STEAM, digital outreach to national high schools, marketing design fields to the next generation, project based learning, and design education as a means to integrate the traditional silos of K-12 education.  Session TH 3/21 3:30. Contact keane@uwm.edu

Assistant professor Karl Wallick recently won an AIA Cincinnati merit award for his County Line Barn project. This April, Prof. Wallick will be coordinating the symposium, Evolutionary Infrastructure, with Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi as part of the 2013 Urban Edge Award. The symposium will include a multidisciplinary panel of innovators in the fields of architecture, infrastructure, art, landscape, ecology, and urban design. The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning introduced the biennial Urban Edge Award in 2006 to recognize excellence in urban design and the ability of individuals to create major, positive change within the public realm.

Associate Professor Chris Cornelius received the Richard B. Ferrier Prize for Best Physical Submission in the 2012 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition. The Ken Roberts Memorial delineation competition is the oldest architectural drawing competition in the world. Cornelius also had a second submission selected as a finalist in the Physical Submission category. Both drawings will be a part of an exhibit of all of the 2012 winners sponsored by AIA Dallas.

Associate Professor Manu Sobti’s photo exhibit titled “Silk Road Travels 1” is a collation of select images from his extensive travels across the vast expanses of Central Asia and China. While his images capture the silence, solitude, resonance of these landscapes, Sobti also views architecture and its urban/rural settings as the rich background that plays out complex human choreographies and everyday stories. He examines the multiplicity of times and traditions within his deliberate framing of the background, foreground and middle ground in each rendition, connected to his special way of telling his stories. The exhibition runs from January 23 – March 3rd at the Studio Lounge in Milwaukee.

 

Miami University

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Miami University, Associate Professor Diane Fellows and students of arc107 “Global Design”  skyping with Sahar Qawasmi, Architect, RIWAQ, Occupied Palestinian Territory. 

Associate Professor Diane Fellows (Miami University) and Sahar Qawasmi (Architect, RIWAQ, Occupied Palestinian Territory) are co-authors of “Contesting Boundaries:  Academia, Design and Experiencing Global Crises in Real Time regarding the consequence of contemporary Diaspora to people and place within the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The paper is to be presented at the “6th International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, UCLA, January 2012″ and the “Conference in Communication and Media Studies: (Re)Making and Undoing of Peace/Conflict”,  Famagusta, North Cyprus, April, 2012. Sahar Qawasmi is a graduate of the M.Arch program of Miami University, and, currently, lives and works in her home-city of Ramallah. Fellows teaches “arc107 Global Design”, part of the Miami University’s Foundation Plan to engage students across the university disciplines with global concerns and contexts. Fellows and Qawasmi frame the discussion through personal experience and an inter-generational perspective of modern and contemporary Diaspora, as arc107 Global Design students negotiate the discourse while listening to and seeing life in Ramallah unfold in real-time. 

University of Kentucky

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Professor Richard S. Levine has recently retired from teaching after 46 years at the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. From early in his architectural career, Prof. Levine has been a pioneer and advocate for sustainability-oriented architecture. He has over 200 publications on solar energy and sustainable cities and has done sustainable city research and projects in Italy, Austria, China, the Middle East as well as in Kentucky.

He is now devoting his energies to his architectural and urban design practice at the Center for Sustainable Cities Design Studio (CSC Design Studio). Dick Levine’s practice in design has encompassed such areas as structural systems, hospitals, design process, solar oriented architecture and sustainable cities. In the mid ‘70’s his widely published Raven Run Solar Home was the first to incorporate active and passive solar, super insulation, earth tubes, composting toilets, attached greenhouse, and many other integrated features in a single project. The patented active air collectors developed in that project are part of one of the most efficient and least expensive solar collection and storage systems ever devised.

The Hooker Building in Niagara Falls, NY (1978) for which Levine was energy and design consultant, was projected to consume 88% less energy than that of a conventional office building and received the Owens-Corning Energy Conservation Award. Thirteen years later, Norman Foster reproduced Hooker’s double glass wall with its computer operated aluminum louvers in an office building in Duisburg, Germany, sparking a transformation in Europe of energy efficient commercial buildings whose design strategies are now being emulated in the US.

In the mid 1980’s, Prof. Levine, along with his colleague Ernest J. Yanarella, started the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) at the University of Kentucky, to advance the theory and practice of sustainability. In 1994 Levine became the principal author of the European Charter of Cities and Towns Towards Sustainability (the Aalborg Charter), the main vehicle in Europe for carrying out the Local Agenda 21 provisions of the Rio Earth Charter (1992). He also gave the keynote address at the Charter ratification conference.

Partnering with Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, director of Oikodrom: the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, the CSC focused on the city-region as the appropriate scale at which homeostatic relationships between social, environmental and economic issues could be realistically pursued to become the exemplar for the proliferation of sustainability throughout the globe. This was a pivotal determination that would lead to the formulation of the first Operational Definition of Sustainability. In the early 1990’s, the CSC and Oikodrom partnered to work on a series of three commissioned designs for a Sustainable City-as-a-Hill to be built over the Westbahnhof rail-yard in Vienna, Austria. Using Levine’s patented Coupled-Pan Space-Frame (CPSF) structural system as the city’s underlying structural framework a rich, diverse and sustainability driven urban fabric was developed.  Late in his life Lou Kahn had visited an early test of the CPSF and commented, “You should build a museum around it.” The City-as-a-Hill urban form, the Sustainable Urban Implantation, the Partnerland Principle, the Sustainable Area Budget, the Operational Definition of Sustainability, the Multiple, Participatory, Alternative Scenario-Building Process and other sustainable urban design principles were elaborated and integrated in the Westbahnhof project and continue to be studied and expanded upon today.

From 2002-2005, Prof. Levine worked on the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS project which developed sustainable future scenarios for rural villages in six Chinese provinces. This was followed by two successive EC projects focused on the renewal of the Islamic bath house (Hammam) tradition in six Mediterranean countries with the intention of developing and enhancing empowered, sustainable, civil society processes. In 2005, the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS) was formed as an extension of the CSC and Prof. Levine’s private architectural practice. In 2007, the CSCDS, headed by Prof. Levine, organized a system-dynamics modeling seminar in Fez, Morocco. This was part of the ongoing development of the “Sustainable City Game™”, the Sustainability Engine™, and the SCIM (Sustainable City Information Modeling) process.

As a recognition of his leadership and lifetime of work, in 2010 the American Solar Energy Society awarded Dick Levine its “Passive Solar Pioneer” award.  Levine is currently engaged in the design and construction of a number of low cost, zero net energy houses using the passive house standard.  His research and publications continue including his just published book with Ernest J. Yanarella titled, “The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability,” (Anthem Press, 2011). His web site is: www.centerforsustainablecities.com.

 

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