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University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Professors George Dodds, Ph.D., and David Matthews have been named associate deans of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  

In his role as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research, Dodds will administer curricular development, research activities, study abroad programs, student professional and academic organizations, and admissions and enrollment activities of the college.

Dodds, a UT faculty member for nearly twelve years, has served in numerous leadership roles and been recipient to several awards. In addition to this position, Dodds was recently named Chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and received one of UT’s most prestigious awards, the Chancellor’s Honor for Excellence in Advising. In late April, UT also appointed Dodds the Alvin and Sally Beaman Professorship, a distinguished service award which honors only the very best teacher-scholars of the university.

Matthews came to UT in 2010 when appointed Chair of the Interior Design Program. He has nearly twenty years of teaching experience in interior design and architecture. Prior to coming to the College of Architecture and Design, Matthews, in addition to his faculty position, was the Director of Academic Technologies at Ohio University.

As the Associate Dean of Communications and Facilities, Matthews will oversee technology issues related to faculty research, teaching and creative activities, facility operations, renovations and equipment, and communication initiatives and efforts. 

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.

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.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Professor Harry Mallgrave will be awarded an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council.  The twelve fellowships announced on September 27 reward individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including the worlds of education, sustainability, engineering, property development, journalism, politics and the wider built environment industry.  The 2013 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have made a particular contribution to architecture in its broadest sense. This includes its promotion, administration and outreach, and its role in building more sustainable communities and in the education of future generations.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect, scholar, editor, and professor of history and theory at Illinois Institute of Technology.   After several years in architectural practice, he took his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 under the supervision of Stanford Anderson.  His dissertation topic -The Idea of Style: Gottfried Semper in London -presaged his focus on German theory in his early career.  This phase of his work culminated in the intellectual biography Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, which won the prestigious Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the American Society of Architectural Historians.

He has written numerous books and articles on the history and theory of architecture including: Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present.  In recent years Mallgrave’s interests have broadened, as indicated by his book The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture.  He has more recently followed up on this study with Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design, to be published in 2013.  It appeals to the emotional process of embodied simulation, rejects overly conceptualized approaches to theory and the objectification of design (viewing buildings as objects), and argues for a return to the focus of design to where it formerly resided -the human experience of inhabiting the world.

Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Williams will be featured in the new Dreams in Jay-Z Minor exhibition at the Blanc Gallery as part of a series of exhibitions for Chicago Artists Month. Williams and fellow Chicago artist Krista Franklin drew on a series of mutually recurring dreams as inspiration for their work.

The exhibit explores notions around dream states, hyper-reality, upward mobility, hopes and aspirations of African Diasporic peoples, black opulence, black excellence, and excess.

Using a variety of mediums, from paintings, handmade paper, print, altered books and collage, Dreams in Jay-Z Minor is a visual metaphorical play of installation, 2D, and 3D works.

Master of Architecture alumna Diane Hoffer-Schurecht has received the AIA Chicago‘s 2012 Chicago Award for Architecture. Select area architecture schools are invited to participate in this annual award and each are allowed to nominate five students to compete. Competition entries are school studio projects that are submitted at the end of the spring semester. As the first place winner, Hoffer-Schurecht will receive the Benn-Johnck Student Award of $500.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Assistant Professor Mark Taylor has received $25,000 from the University of Illinois’ Research Board to facilitate collaboration with Elizabeth Hausler of Build Change which will focus on establishing material, component and assembly testing protocols for earthquake-resistant housing in Leogane Haiti.

Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson won first place in the competition “Floornature NextLandmark architecture contest” recognizing built work by designers/architects who graduated after 2000. His project (ROPE pavilion) was on display at the 13th Venice Biennale. Prof. Erickson has also been selected to the 2013 Warming Huts Competition jury.

Associate Professor Kevin Hinders and Visiting Professor Camden Greenlee received an Honorable Mention in the “FIVE Design Challenge Competition” for their project titled “MAKE IT (HAPPEN)!” 

Professor Kathryn Anthony’s new iOS apps, Design Student Survival Guide, and Student Survival Guide, were featured in Hackcollge.com’s article on “10 iOS Apps Every Student Should Download.” HackCollege is a student-powered lifehacking blog/website whose motto is ?Work Smarter, Not Harder.?

 
Associate Professor Scott Murray’s new book, Translucent Building Skins: Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture, will be published by Routledge in September 2012. Murray is also the author of Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press).

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour organized a student competition titled The Architecture and Engineering of Sustainable Buildings during the Spring 2012 semester.  The completion was open to students in architecture, engineering and construction programs and was conducted by the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).  Sponsors included the National Science Foundation (NSF); School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Department of Material Science and Engineering at UIUC; College of Engineering at UIUC; Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill; Perkins + Will; Wiss, Janney, Elstner (WJE); Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM); Thornton Tomasetti (TT) Engineers; Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).  Prize winning submissions will be recognized by ACSA and exhibited at the 2012 ACSA Annual Meeting and at the 2012 AIA National Convention.

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour & Dr. Ajla Aksamija of Perkins + Will co-organized a workshop on sustainable design held July 26-27, 2012 at the Chicago office of Perkins + Will.  30 invited architects, engineers, scientists, researchers and students participated in the event for presentations and discussions on the latest in sustainable design with an integrated approach.  The workshop was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation and supported by Perkins + Will. 

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor spent three weeks in Leogane Haiti during May 2012. During the research trip he oversaw the installation of the roof and final structural elements of the Kay Fanm Yo (Women’s House) he designed. With funding from the University of Illinois Research Board, and in collaboration with Build Change he also conducted preliminary testing of concrete masonry units which are now being produced in large volume in the region. Preliminary results indicate that the majority of producers are not reaching the national guidelines for compressive strength. 

Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway was a panelist with Karen Kice, The Neville Byran Assistant Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago; discussing Aaron Jones Installation work at New Projects in Chicago in April 2012. Erik was selected as Designer and Invited Guest Article for d3:dialogue>blur, International Journal of Architecture and Design, New York; due out later 2012. The article is about three recent hemingway+a/studio flat pack architectural projects he is completing in Hong Kong, Urbana, and Chicago. Hemingway’s professional sponsorship of one of the four Internationally recognized entries from his competition studio in the Fall 2011, was recently published in the May 2012 issue GROUND UP, Landscapes of Uncertainty; by the School of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California at Berkeley.

Allison Warren, Instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Architecture  mounted a solo exhibition entitled “Fallen Hemlock” at Georgetown College, Lexington, Kentucky in Fall 2011. The 4,000 sf exhibition examined the plight of the Hemlock tree in Eastern Kentucky and Northeast region by beetle infestation through the wrapping of a live healthy Hemlock tree in white clothes, similar to mummification.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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In April, Associate Professor Mohamed Boubekri gave a presentation entitled “Daylighting Design and Users’ Response” at the International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference in Italy.

David M. Chasco, FAIA, Professor and Director of the School of Architecture was honored by being named a Fellow at the AIA National Convention in Denver in June 2013. The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.  Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.  David Chasco has dedicated his career to promoting a unified profession by fostering design excellence in the academic and public realms, after achieving creative design excellence in the profession.  

Director Chasco is pleased to announce that a final “signing ceremony” to move the Versailles Study Abroad Program to Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Valles (ETSAV) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya–Barcelona TECH will be held October 23 in Barcelona, with the Rector of UPC. 

Assistant Professor Kenny Cupers’ edited volume Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture was just published by Routledge (2013).

Associate Professors Lynne Dearborn and John Stallmeyer received the 2013 Achievement Award from the Environmental Design Research Association for their book Inconvenient Heritage in June.  This book examines the processes and products of UNESCO’s inscription of Luang Prabang, Laos as a World Heritage Site, with specific reference to the architecture and form of the city. 

Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson gave a presentation entitled “urban FILTER” at the 2013 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting: New Constellations, New Ecologies in California.

Visiting Lecturer Camden Greenlee and Visiting Instructor Brian Vesely received an honorable mention in the 2013 Tex-Fab competition entitled “Skin – An International Two-Stage Digital Fabrication Competition.”  Their project “Hydromorph” investigates the potential role of the building envelope as a device to mitigate the destructive effects of perennial floods, reflecting the critical thinking applied to real world problems.  http://tex-fab.net/skin-results/.

The Designers and Books website has listed Associate Professor Ralph Hammann’s latest book Creative Engineering, Architecture and Technology (DOM Publishers, Feb. 2013) as one of the ten most notable books on architecture for 2013.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway gave a presentation entitled: mies [UPGRADE] at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 101st Annual Meeting; ACSA 101: New constellations/New Ecologies in California in March.

The third edition of the Lisbon architecture Triennale, entitled “Close, Closer” has accepted the work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, “Hand_flexivel – €2500” for showcasing during this event.  To be held September 12-December 15, 2013, this event encourages multiple possibilities of architectural output through critical and experimental exhibitions, performances and debates throughout the city for the purpose of examining global spatial practice.

Prof. Emeritus Paul Armstrong and Associate Professor Paul Kapp received the 2013 Historic Preservation Book prize for their text SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City.  This award is given by the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation to a new book which it deems has made the most significant contribution to the intellectual vitality of historic preservation in America.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp was named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2013-2014 academic year.  Kapp will be in residence at the University of Birmingham Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage in the United Kingdom.

Associate Professor Joy Monice Malnar of the Illinois School of Architecture, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Frank Vodvarka, Professor of Fine Arts at Loyola University Chicago, have co-authored the new book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN and released in August 2013.  The book positions 56 recent architectural projects for the first time as a significant genre. Daniel J. Glenn points out that the “book recognizes not only the extraordinary new works of architecture just beginning to transform reservation communities but also the significance of making that transformation.”

The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable and the University of Washington, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity invited Prof. Malnar to present a public lecture focused on the release of her new book at their 16th Annual Summer Solstice – Juneteenth Celebration and Scholarship Benefit (Seattle, June 14, 2013). Ten of the Northwest region architects featured in the book participated in a roundtable panel discussion moderated by Malnar. A book signing was sponsored by Peter Miller Architecture & Design, a Seattle bookstore.  Malnar presented an introduction to her book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands at the National American Indian Housing Council’s (NAIHC) 39th Annual Convention in Chicago (May 22, 2013) The session focused on the new houses and housing complexes recently built to reinforce cultural and environmental sustainability on reservations. Malnar is currently planning a symposium on current American Indian architecture issues to take place in Spring 2014 on the UIUC campus.

Associate Professor Heather Minor was named a Fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2013-14 academic year.  Her research will concentrate on Giovanni Battista Piranisi.

Associate Professor Heather Minor received an honorable mention for the 2013 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians for her book The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome.  This award was established to recognize the most distinguished works of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.

Professor Jeffery S. Poss, FAIA was invited to give a lecture on his professional and academic work at the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal in October.  That same week Poss Co-Hosted the Constructed Environment Conference in Lisbon, an Associate Project of “Close, Closer,” the 2013 Lisbon Architectural Trienniale.  Beatrice Galilee, Chief Curator of the Triennale, was plenary speaker.

Associate Professor John Senseney was named an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the 2013-13 academic year.

Associate Professor John Senseney was appointed Book Review Editor for Europe, Africa, and Asia pre 1750 for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the leading journal on the built environment and spatial practice, which has defined the field of architectural history.

Adolf Sotoca Garcia, Assistant Professor at the DUOT, ETSAV Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-Barcelona TECH, has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor for the 2013-2014 academic year at the Illinois School of Architecture.

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor gave a presentation entitled “Residential Reconstruction in Haiti” at the Residential Building Design and Construction Conference in Pennsylvania in February.

Assistant Professor Marci S. Uihlein gave a presentation entitled “Structural Integration: An Undefinable Idea?” at the 1st Annual International Conference on architecture and Civil Engineering in Singapore in March.

Assistant Professor Marci S. Uihlein was awarded the 2013 Building Technology Educators’ Society’s Emerging Faculty Award. 

Visiting Instructor Brian Vesely received an honorable mention for his entry in the 2013 Burning Man Competition to design a new airport terminal and pilots lounge at the Black Rock City Municipal Airport.  Vesely’s project created a unique design of a fluid space which would accommodate large numbers of airport passengers in comfort and style, using the topography and weather of the area as his inspiration.  http://ecologicdesighlab.com/competition-results/.

In October 2013, Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D., administrator for undergraduate student services presented on the topic of “Career Designing: Connecting to the Future” at the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference in Indianapolis and “Architecture and Beyond: Opportunities Abound” at the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Northeast Quad Conference at Keene State College, Keene, NH.  He also recently submitted the manuscript for the 3rd edition of Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design.

Allison Warren, Lecturer, has been designated a 2013 University CAEPE Award Finalist for her work in ARCH 576. Since 2009, the annual public engagement and community development seminar called CU-Engage has enrolled over 350 community participants in a variety of field projects. C-U Engage connects the design currency and critical thinking abilities of architecture graduate students to design projects of community partners while developing professional practice skills.

In June 2013, Assistant Professor Therese Tierney was awarded a 2013 Consulate General of France in San Francisco Smart and Digital Cities Fellowship as one of ten participants from academic, public and private sectors to attend the digital world festival Futur-en-Seine in Paris followed by the Innovative Cities Convention in Nice.  Participants were selected based on the quality of their work on the use of new technologies and data to build the next generation of cities.  Prof. Tierney presented a paper in Nice entitled “Cultural Infrastructure: From Museums to Mobile Apps.”

Assistant Professor Thérèse F. Tierney’s book, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society was published by Routledge as part of their media research series in August 2013. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635233/

Tierney has two papers recently published by MIT Press:  “Disentangling Social Media: Public Space and Internet Activism” in Thresholds 41: MIT Journal of Architecture, and “Locative Media: A Critical Appraisal and Intervention” in Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for Arts, Sciences, Technology, Issue 46:3.  Tierney also presented a paper, “Urban Culture: From Museum to Mobile App” at the Innovative Cities Conference for Intelligent and Sustainable Cities in Nice, France this summer.

Tierney’s applied research proposal, [i-metro] information commons, will be on display for the Paseo Project International Design Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain 2013.  [i-metro], an interactive installation for transit riders, contributes to new forms of public engagement by creating socially rich glocal nodes for public benefit by linking the scale of the webpage to that of the city in real time.

Tierney’s article “Architecture of Thought” was just published in “Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review” vol XXIV.  Her essay “Positioning Locative Media: A Critical Urban intervention” was just published in “Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of Art, Science & Technology.”

Tierney was interviewed about Smart Cities for The TechMap –  “Is Paris a Smarter City than New York?”  It was based on her research experiences documenting sustainable cities this summer as part of an international fellowship. http://thetechmap.org/2013/08/23/is-paris-a-smarter-city-than-new-york/

UIUC Professor Emeritus James Warfield of the Illinois School of Architecture was honored in Shanghai in July at the Tongji University opening ceremonies for the “Warfield Archives of Vernacular Architecture.” The dedication of this remarkable research collection is a milestone in 25 years of collaboration between the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University and the School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Warfield Archives represent 50 years of research in vernacular architecture: field notes, journal entries, photos, on-site sketches and drawings, and journal entries by James Warfield, ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture at the University of Illinois. The archives preserve Warfield’s worldwide research conducted in over 60 countries with support from the Graham Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Program, the Carnegie Foundation and, most significantly, the University of Illinois Research Board.

The initial collection, dedicated at the July 5, 2013 Shanghai ceremony, consists of over 20,000 photographic images and written documents. It is anticipated that the archives will grow by 5000 new entries per year with digital records housed and curated by the CAUP Architecture Museum. The complete permanent and updated collection will be available worldwide through links at Tongji University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Warfield website www.jameswarfield.us.

In celebration this memorable achievement, Director David Chasco invited a number of international scholars and colleagues to write in regard to Professor Warfield’s work and research collection. The words of Zheng Shiling, Juhani Pallasmaa, A. Richard Williams, Wu Jiang, Chang Qing, Patricia McKenzie, Robert Riley, Robert Mooney, James Knight, and Liu Yuting were included in the dedication day ceremonies. http://www.jameswarfield.us/1/Catalog-for-the-July-5-2013/29162438_X45WXx#!i=2483787152&k=H5bTJmz

Last year Professor Warfield was named to the faculty of Tongji University, and, simultaneously, to the Board of Editors of China’s new professional journal Heritage Architecture. By this appointment, Warfield joined a list of honorary and advisory professors at Tongji that includes: Chinese American architect I. M. Pei; British architect Richard Rogers; Indian architect Charles Correa; former UIUC Plym Distinguished Professor Ken Yeang; longtime Dean of MIT Stanford Anderson; chief conservation architect of the Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris Benjamin Mouton; and Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Since 1988, Professor Warfield has led the University of Illinois/Tongji University Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning.  The College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University is widely considered the top program in urban planning in China, and ranks first or second among the leading architecture schools.  Throughout his 25 year association with Tongji University, Professor Warfield has fostered the careers of numerous Chinese students and faculty. His former teaching assistants in the Illinois program include professionals of considerable stature: the Vice President of Tongji University; the Head of International Programs at Tongji University; the CEO of the major Shanghai architectural firm UN+ Architects; the Head of the Interior Design Program in CAUP; and the former Vice Mayor of the City of Shanghai in charge of construction.

CAUP Director of the Department of Architecture, Professor Chang Qing, FAIA, stated that Warfield’s faculty appointment was made on the basis of his leadership in this program, the oldest international program in the college, and based upon his 2009 book and major exhibit “Roads Less Traveled” at Kengo Kuma’s Z58 in Shanghai. These works are based upon Warfield’s research, travel journals and photos of vernacular architecture in 32 culture areas around the world.

Warfield is also author of Dancing Lessons from God and The Architect’s Sketch, published respectively in English and Chinese in the USA and China. Warfield has taught for 40 years at the University of Illinois and continues to head a graduate studio in design and a Campus Honors capstone seminar “Architecture as Gateway to Culture.” He also leads a springtime sketch trip to the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini for architecture students in the School of Architecture’s Versailles study abroad program. In China, he writes quarterly essays on vernacular architecture in the “Warfield Column” in Heritage Architecture. In 2002, Warfield was named and ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

 

 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Associate Professor David Fox has been recognized as a Fulbright Fellow in support of research and teaching in Krakow, Poland. He will teach drawing and design classes at the Krakow Polytechnic during the spring semester 2013. Prof. Fox specializes in affordable housing design, urban residential development, freehand drawing and perception, and architectural photography. He has taught for many years in Krakow in support of the UTK College of Architecture and Design’s study abroad program in Poland. 

Associate Professor Ted Shelton has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architecture. The 2013 jury elevated only 122 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows. Out of a total AIA membership of over 80,000 there are over 3,000 members distinguished with this honor. Prof. Shelton’s recognition by the AIA follows a distinction earned last spring when he was named a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design.

Associate Professor T.K. Davis, FAIA, has been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with the 2012-2013 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for his Nashville-focused project Collaborations in Transit-Oriented Development. The award honors excellence in community outreach through school-based design work. Prof. Davis will be presented with this award at the 101st ACSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. 

Associate Professor Tricia Stuth, AIA, Assistant Professor Robert French, Professor Emeritus Richard Kelso, and Lecturer Samuel Mortimer have been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with the 2012-2013 ACSA Design Build Award for A New Norris House. This design-build project, a sustainable single-family home, was developed in collaboration with students of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and engineering over several semesters. The project is rooted in the cultural and historical context of the town of Norris, Tennessee, a planned community developed by TVA in 1933 for the builders and operators of Norris Dam. The New Norris House project engages issues of sustainable design for the 21st century and explores how architecture might promote cultural conservation and stewardship. Profs. Stuth, French, Kelso, and Mortimer will be presented with this award at the 101st ACSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

The New Norris House has received Platinum Certification from the USGBC through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) program. This is the first LEED™ Platinum project executed by the University of Tennessee, and it is only the tenth LEED™ Platinum home in the state. 

The L’Exode Secondary School designed by students and faculty of the University of Tennessee has opened in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti. Professor John McRae, FAIA, taught the interdisciplinary studio and associated seminar courses where students developed the design for this school. Prof. McRae’s work is part of the ongoing Haiti Project, which he heads.

The University of Tennessee’s Landscape Architecture Program has earned initial accreditation from the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB), making it the only accredited program in the state and one of only a few such programs in the southeast. 

Lawrence Technological University

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Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, Ph.D., AIA, AICP received the inaugural Michael Brill Grant Award in Urban Communication and Environmental Design, sponsored by the Urban Communication Foundation and the Environmental Design Research Association. Professor Kim’s study focuses on urban communication and citizen participation in the Rust Belt Region. Professor Kim also presented a poster entitled “The Role of Urban Agriculture in the Design and Planning of Cities and Communities” at the 2011 ACSA National Conference, Montreal, Canada. Professor Kim chairs the American Institute of Architects Detroit Chapter Urban Priorities Committee, which organized the four-month long event called “Detroit: By Design” this past spring and summer. Designers from several countries and the USA participated in the three symposiums and exhibits at the Detroit Public Library, focusing on transportation, urban centers, and urban agriculture.

LTU hosted nearly 100 visitors from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy to the Wright-designed Gregor Affleck House in August as part of the Conservancy’s Destination Detroit weekend event. Visitors from sixteen states toured the house along with two other Wright designs in the area: the Melvyn and Sara Smith House in Bloomfield Hills and the Dorothy Turkel House in Detroit. Associate Professor and Wright Conservancy Board of Directors member Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., organized the Affleck visit and acted as host.

Assistant Professor Jim Stevens organized and conducted a digital fabrication and parametric workshop at Universiteti POLIS in Tirana, Albania.

The College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) is proud to announce the successful completion of the inaugural year of its Master of Urban Design [M.U.D.] Program. Assistant Professor Constance Bodurow, Program Coordinator, reports many successes, including the first student  cohort and graduates, the first annual Sustainable Urbanism dialogue + lecture with Dr. Mitchell Joachim, and the first annual celebration and dinner at the LTU’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Affleck House. For more information, go to http://www.ltu.edu/architecture_and_design/urbandesign_curriculum.asp

Fourth-year Architecture students Adam Murray and Mark Schovers took third place in the Integrated Building Design category of the 2011 American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air- Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) competition. The students competed against undergraduate and graduate students from around the world as part of Associate Professor Daniel Faoro’s Sustainable Design Studio last Spring. The project outline called for a 23,000 square foot renovation and addition  to The Drakewell Museum in Pennsylvania, Florida. Jurors included members of the LTU University Center for Sustainability and Associate Professor Edward Orlowski, LEED, Professor Will Allen, Assistant Professor Ashraf Rageb, Ph.D, Adjunct Instructors Celeste Novak and Deirdre Hennebury adjunct faculty, and co-advisor Associate Professor Janice Means, PE, assisted the students at quarterly reviews. Their computer models utilized the Green Building Studio® whole building energy analysis software. Athena® software was used to access the LCA and embodied energy data for the project. Profs. Faoro and Means will attend the ASHRAE awards ceremony in January, where the project will be exhibited.

Adjunct Instructor Corrie Baldauf has been awarded a prestigious Kresge Artist Fellowship, sponsored by the Troy-based Kresge Foundation. The twelve award winners will each receive $25,000. They were chosen from among 450 applications from visual artists in the Detroit metro area. This year’s judges included Nick Cave from the Art Institute of Chicago; Mary Fortuna, exhibitions director at Rochester’s Paint Creek Center for the Arts; Mame Jackson, professor emeritus at Wayne State University; Anne Pasternak of Creative Time, Inc.; and Fred Wilson, artist and MacArthur Fellow.

Paul Urbanek, AIA, LEED AP, B.S.Arch.’81, B.Arch.’82, design director and vice president at the Detroit office of SmithGroup, one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the country, has been named the 2011 recipient of LTU’s Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award. Urbanek’s design portfolio includes civic, commercial, academic, and cultural commissions for national and international clients. His work has been widely published and has received numerous awards at the local, state, and national levels. Recent design accomplishments include the state-of-the-art Clinical & Translational Research Building at the University of Louisville and the James Clarkston Environmental Discovery Center at Indian Springs Metropark.

The work of retired Professors John Sheoris, FAIA, Joseph Savin, and Harvey Ferrero was displayed in the gallery of the University Technology and Learning Center as part of the new Master Practitioner Folio Series presented by the CoAD. Sheoris joined the full-time faculty at Lawrence Tech in 1981 and taught until 2001. A graduate of Yale University with two degrees in architecture, he came to Detroit in 1953 to serve as director of design at Harley, Ellington, and Day. In 1963, he moved to Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, where he became corporate vice president and director of the health facilities division. Sheoris was responsible for the design of major local, national and international health facilities, including a trauma/clinic center in Taipei, Taiwan, and a military hospital in Nuremberg, Germany.

Between 1969 and 2010, Savin taught architectural design at LTU from 1969 to 2010, along with six years at the University of Michigan, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1955. One of Savin’s early jobs was with Eero Saarinen & Associates in Bloomfield Hills where he worked on the TWA Terminal Building. He later became president of Savin, Wycoff, Phillips Architects before branching off to form his own office.

Ferrero taught architecture from 1962 to 2002 and also worked as an architectural illustrator. A 1955 graduate of LTU, he worked as an illustrator for the U.S. Army and later apprenticed with Bruce Goff in Oklahoma for two years before returning to Detroit to become a registered architect and a professor.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning has recently published James W. Shields, FAIA:  Built Work with HGA Architects, Forward by Robert Greenstreet and Essay by Sebastian Schmaling, SARUP, 2012.  The 90 page book documents ten built award-winning buildings by Associate Professor Jim Shields with plans, sections, photos and text.  Shields also won an AIA Wisconsin Merit Design Award this year for the design of the Cambridge Commons Residence Hall, which has received LEED Gold certification.  Shields was also invited this summer to present his planned renovations and additions to the Milwaukee Art Museum at Taliesen, the home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright in Spring Green, Wisconsin.  The presentation and subsequent discussion of the project was video taped, and will be available online as the first in a series of the “Taliesen Tapes”, sponsored by AIA Wisconsin.

LA DALLMAN, the architecture practice of Associate Professor Grace La and Adjunct Faculty James Dallman, was featured in Architect magazine (June 2012).  The article included LA DALLMAN’s unique practice environment and design process with detailed images of drawings, models, and studio space.  The National Endowment for the Arts has recognized the Harmony Project, designed by LA DALLMAN, with a $100,000 Our Town grant.  The Harmony Project is a collaborative building of the Milwaukee Ballet, the UWM Peck School of the Arts, and the Medical College of Wisconsin.  The work of Grace La and James Dallman’s UWM-KI studio, Learning Landscapes, is exhibited at Discovery World science and technology museum (August-December 2012).  The exhibition, entitled “DRIFT Seating” includes design process, models, prototypes, drawings, and research.  The studio is funded by the international furniture manufacture, KI.  Videos of the project can be viewed at http://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/news/kistudio-videos.cfm.  Grace La will deliver several guest lectures this fall including at North Carolina State University College of Art & Design (Sept 2012), and the Louisiana State University College of Art & Design (Nov 2012).

Professor Mark Keane, UWM, President of the non-profit design education website NEXT.cc, and Prof. Linda Keane, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Director of NEXT.cc, will be coordinating the K-12 Design Education Session at the March 2013 National ACSA conference in San Francisco. Streams of discussion will include project-based learning, environmental design in K-12, trans-disciplinary instruction, the state of architectural presence in high schools, and on-line options.  For more information, please contact Prof. Keane <keane@uwm.edu> In the meantime, please visit the current 2.0 version of NEXT <www.NEXT.cc>

Professor Don Hanlon has been recognized by the University of Wisconsin System for Excellence in Teaching. The UW Regents award is given to two teachers from among all the instructors in the 13 universities and 13 colleges that comprise the UW System, in recognition of outstanding career achievement in teaching.  This is just the most recent accomplishment for Professor Hanlon, who received the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001, which is given to just one instructor every year, and who continues, on a daily basis, to inspire, encourage and motivate students to aspire to greater heights.

Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions, edited by Associate Professor Linda Krause is a collection of lively and intriguing essays examining cities in the aftermath of global development and recession.  The volume includes chapters by noted architects, landscape architects, urban and regional planners, geographers, and film and literary critics.  Included are essays by Associate Professor Mo Zell and former SARUP Professor Sherry Ahrentzen. The book will be available in December 2012 from Rutgers University Press. 

Associate Professor Mo Zell and Assistant Professor Jasmine Benyamin have been invited to participate on a panel entitled  “Educating Architects – The Next Generation,” as part of a two day reunion and celebration of Yale Women in Architecture to be held in New Haven, Nov 30–Dec 1.

“Empty Pavilion,” a project by Assistant Professor Kyle Reynolds and McLain Clutter with Ariel Poliner, Mike Sanderson and Nate Van Wylen, is a meditation on Detroit’s evacuated urban context and an experiment in the ability of architecture to make visible a latent public in the city. The project aspires to create an architecture that is physically and semantically empty, while solicitous of public interaction and imaginative projection. The creators of the “Empty Pavilion” have no specific use or meaning in mind – hoping instead that the project will invite unplanned occupancies and creative associations. This project was funded by a Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Research Through Making grant. 

Adjunct Professor Ash Lettow has an article forthcoming in Iowa Architect featuring a project in Cedar Falls Iowa by the firm Invision Architects. A series of Lettow’s drawings and mixed media works will be on view at the Studio Lounge Gallery in Milwaukee Wisconsin in January 2013.

Associate Professor Arijit Sen received a UWM Research Growth Initiative Award for 2012-2013, for his work on “Intertwined Geographies of Transcultural Contact: Cultural Landscapes of Muslim Immigrants in Milwaukee and Chicago.”

Dean Bob Greenstreet has been granted the Freedom of the City of London. The Freedom is believed to date back to the Thirteenth Century. In Bob’s words, “privileges accorded to recipients have included the right to walk around London with an unsheathed sword (it used to be a lot rougher in my old neighborhood than it is now), the right to be hung with a silk, rather than hemp, noose should the occasion demand it (notably treason or murder) and, my personal favorite, the right to herd sheep over London Bridge. These days, the Freedom is seen as largely symbolic and tends to be more of a charitable and educational nature.” Former awardees of the honorary freedom include Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Luciano Pavarotti, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Pitt the Elder (and Younger) and J. K. Rowling. The summer of 2012 was a busy one for the Dean, who found himself running from twelve angry bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This year Dean Greenstreet also became an American citizen.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Contemporary Follies, a new book by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn, lists Associate Professor Frank Flury‘s 2009 design/build studio project among its outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature.

The Field Chapel project was designed and executed by students in Flury’s advanced design/build studio for an ecumenical church cooperative in Boedigheim, Germany. Under Flury’s direction, the students developed “an interdenominational chapel, a space for people who are in a search for God – a place for quiet reflection, but also one that welcomes hikers and cyclists who appreciate a rest stop that has a sense of beauty.”

In a dramatic step forward for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s research department, steel giant ArcelorMittal has awarded the CTBUH a $300,000 grant to study the life cycle of structural systems in tall buildings. The two-year study, announced during the 9th World Congress dinner in Shanghai, will focus on different aspects of the long-term sustainability of different frameworks of towers more than 300 meters. “At the end we hope to have a tool to reassess the sustainability of tall buildings,” said Jean-Claude Gerardy, manager, commercial sections sales and marketing for ArcelorMittal.

Chicago Architectural Club‘s latest project, “2012 Chicago Prize Competition: Future Prentice” generated 81 new visionary proposals for Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. The effort was led by CAC co-presidents Brian Strawn and IIT College of Architecture Adjunct Associate Professor Karla Sierralta, in collaboration with AIA Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

The project asked for alternative solutions for one of Chicago’s most architecturally significant modern buildings, Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, now slated for demolition by its owner, Northwestern University.

Competition jurors included Professor John Ronan and Studio Associate Professor Martin Felsen.  Recent IIT Architecture alums Noel Turgeon (M.Arch. ’12), Andres Lemus (B.Arch. ’12) and Stephanie Fumanelli (B.Arch. ’12) submitted entries along with Adjunct Professor Terry Surjan.

Chicago Architectural Club also invited ten young studios to submit commentaries and proposals for Prentice, including the studios of Studio Assistant Professor Mary Pat Mattson, Adjunct Associate Professor Martin Klaschen, and Studio Associate Professor Tim Brown.

Work from the Future Prentice competition is featured in the exhibit “Reconsidering an Icon” currently on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation until February. The work will also be featured in a forthcoming publication, “100 Ideas for Prentice.” 

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