The newly renovated and expanded Seaton and Regnier Halls have been operational since August 2017. The late 19th century and early 20th century existing structures have been transformed into an innovative 21st century learning and teaching environment, designed by the architecture firms Ennead Architects, BNIM, el dorado, and landscape architecture firm Confluence. The project included the renovation of 80,000 square feet of Seaton Hall and the addition of 114,000 square feet of new construction. The building has consolidated our fabrication capabilities into one 20,000 square-foot shop, adjacent to the new home for our college’s library. A 300-seat auditorium has also been added to building for guest lectures and events. The studios feature cutting-edge technology with integrated design labs and collaborative spaces, while the energy efficient design reduces maintenance and operating costs.
Taught by Professors Liz Martin-Malikian, Peter Pittman and Arash Soleimani, 60-Students display their ‘Materials Exploration’ projects from Environmental Technology: Materials & Methods course. Exploring material characteristics, students worked in teams of 2-3 to make three parametric tiles in concrete, wood, and polymer all with the same design, but with a different material.
Under the direction of Professor Zamila Karimi, architecture students are challenging what constitutes an urban space by creating outdoor furniture that is interactive and playful instead of drab and utilitarian. This fall, students taking the Tactical Urbanism course offered by the Department of Architecture were tasked with creating a series of so-called “urban chairs.” The chairs were designed and built by the students with the intent that they could be configured in multiple ways in order to make public spaces more appealing. See link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25fR5nLBFk
Co-chaired by Dr. Saleh Uddin from Kennesaw State University and Dr. So-yeon Yoon from Cornell University, KSU Architecture was well-represented by Dr. Saleh Uddin and Associate Professors Kathryn Bedette, Chris Welty and Michael Carroll at the recent Design Communication Association (DCA) hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Prof. Carroll’s paper on ‘Digital_Hand_Materiality’ was part of a session looking at Virtual and Actual: Process and Product moderated by Prof. Chris Welty, AIA. Examining creative processes, Prof. Kathryn Bedette, AIA paper on Drawing Motion through Stillness: Comparing Disciplinary Approaches; Prof. Chris Welty, AIA paper co-authored with Dr. Arief Seitawan paper entitled Embracing Slowness, Methods to Digital Fluency; and Dr. Saleh Uddin’s paper Current Decline of Design Grammar during the Rise of the Digital Fabrication Era all challenged the relationship between digital/analog and its influence on the way we link the process and product of design.
We are also very proud to note that Architecture Student Kathryn Stapleton received the DCA Juror’s Choice Award in Undergraduate Design Foundation for her “Kinetic Structural System from Geometry.” Congratulations!
The American University of Sharjah Department of Architecture is pleased to announce a number of award winning projects completed as part of the Design Build Initiative.
The Tarkeeb Wall, completed this fall under the guidance of Associate Professor William Sarnecky and Project Leader Layth Mahdi received the Design Award for design excellence in the Student Graduation Project Category at the 2015 AIA Middle East Design Awards. Fourteen students are credited with the completion of this project, which serves as a space for gathering and display at the entrance of the College of Architecture, Art, and Design.
Be-ah Reclaimed Wall, the culmination of the inaugural interior design build studio led by Assistant Professor Daniel Chavez received an Honorable Mention in the Student Graduation Project Category at the 2015 AIA Middle East Design Awards. Taking advantage of reclaimed material from a local landfill, the studio and project served as the culmination of the interior design degree sequence.
Completed in the summer of 2015, the AVM Pavilion led by former Professor Assistant Kenneth Tracy won a Merit Award in the Student Graduation Project Category at this year’s AIA Middle East Design Awards. Serving as the manifestation of a year long option studio, the jury “praise(d)” the student’s design process and the “quality of the end product”.
In the spring of this year, former Assistant Professor Emily Baker was honoured with a ACSA design build award in association with her fifth year Audi-Fab Research Studio. The project had previously won a 2014 AIA Middle East Merit Award in the Student Graduation Category.
Through the University’s support of the Design-Build Initiative directed by Professor Michael Hughes and the CAAD Labs directed by Assistant Professor Ammar Kalo the Department of Architecture is committed to full-scale teaching. The College of Architecture, Art and Design Labs house an extensive and ever growing array of analog and digital equipment enabling faculty and student research in robotics, thermoforming, CNC milling / routing, rapid prototyping, wood and metal fabrication, and ceramics.
The University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning [Re] Engaged Architecture Symposium, Celebrating 20 years of Studio 804
The (Re)Engaged Architecture Symposium welcomes speakers of international stature to discuss their projects and processes, and to reflect upon the body of work created by Studio 804, headed by Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill over the past twenty years. Studio 804 is an internationally recognized design/build program that engages design, craft, practice, and community to build healthy communities through the power of design.
Invited Speakers:
Brian MacKay-Lyons_[MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects] Frank Harmon [Frank Harmon Associates] Andrew Freear [Rural Studio] Ted Flato [Lake | Flato] Brigitte Shim [Shim-Sutcliffe Architects] Marlon Blackwell [Marlon Blackwell Architects] + remarks by Susan Szenasy [Metropolis magazine]
The symposium will take place Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at our East Hills Construction Innovation Laboratory in Lawrence, KS.
Through the Smart Communities Initiative, UT will partner faculty and students with cities, counties, special districts, and other municipal groups to engage in real-world problem solving aimed at improving the region’s economy, environmental sustainability, and social integrity.
The goals of the SCI are to help students gain real-world experience and make valuable contacts in the community. It will be a component of UT’s new Quality Enhancement Plan, which in turn is an important part of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Colleges reaccreditation process.
The city of Cleveland, Tennessee, has been chosen as the first partner city for UT’s new service-learning program, the Smart Communities Initiative. The partnership begins this fall.
The University of Tennessee is investing in downtown Knoxville by renovating and furnishing a historic North Gay Street property for a new fabrication lab, studio, and gallery.
UT is leasing the 20,000-square-foot building known as the Jewel at 525 North Gay Street for several College of Architecture and Design programs. The building’s glass storefront will house a new studio and gallery, and two floors of industrial space will be designated for a fabrication laboratory known as the UT Fab Lab.
The first year will involve $680,000 in renovations and the installation of equipment and furnishings.
“Our new space on North Gay will allow us to continue to have a presence in downtown Knoxville during this exciting moment in the city’s revitalization,” said Scott Poole, dean. “We hope that our college can partner with the city and together envision a more beautiful, more ecologically balanced, and more livable urban environment.”
The building is just two miles from the campus and is accessible to students by public transportation. The project will serve as a living example of architectural preservation and sustainable urbanization.
“The skylighted space beyond the storefront is ideal for our new state-of-the-art fabrication facility that will feature 3D printers, laser cutters, and robotics in addition to standard metal and woodworking equipment,” said Poole. “The new technologies, in particular, will allow our students to work with 21st century tools, discovering both their limitations and the hidden potential of this equipment.”
This initiative is part of a comprehensive effort to improve the college’s learning and teaching environments.
Numerous college faculty have been involved in regional forums and development plans, including those for the Plan East Tennessee (PlanET) Consortium, an initiative supported by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In Clay County, Kentucky, flooding or ice frequently blocks access to emergency services. If a tornado hit the area, shelter would also be hard to find. A group of UT faculty members and students is trying to change this situation.
The effort known as Appalachia UTK is made possible through a $1.5 million grant over three years from the US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Over three years, the group aims to have a comprehensive assessment of the community’s health status, living conditions, and disaster readiness and vulnerability; an enhancement of overall wellness, including structural safety of homes and buildings; and the development of a community that has sufficient disaster preparedness training and resources. The project members will write grants to pay for costly updates and work with UT students and volunteers to implement solutions.
Clay County is an isolated area ranked 119th out of 120 Kentucky counties on major health indicators. Much of the population is ill-equipped to deal with a disaster because of poor housing, few shelters, inadequate sanitation, limited public resources, poverty, and lack of disaster education and essential reserves of food and water.
Participants from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design are John McRae and J. David Matthews.
Tricia Stuth, who was instrumental in the design of a nationally recognized energy sustainable project, the New Norris House, has received the James R. Cox Professorship.
The three-year award provides Tricia Stuth a stipend to be used at her discretion. Stuth is an associate professor in the College of Architecture and Design. She is a licensed architect.
The award is named for Knoxville native James R. Cox, whose gifts to the university through his sister and nephew, Charlotte and Jim Musgraves, helped establish the professorships in 2002 for faculty in the arts, theater, biological and physical sciences, architecture, and forestry studies. Recipients are chosen by a committee for their excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
Stuth led the design, construction, and evaluation of the New Norris House, which is now one of the most energy-efficient homes in Tennessee. It recently was named one of the nation’s top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE).
The New Norris House is also one of the first in Tennessee to earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. The house was developed by UT students in conjunction with Stuth and other UT faculty members.
Stuth and her husband, Ted Shelton, an associate professor of architecture, also have designed and built two homes in North Knoxville and preserved a third.
The project, Ghost Houses, drew the attention of international architecture and design publication Dwell. The homes were featured in the magazine last year. The project also received an American Institute of Architects National Small Projects Award.
Stuth is director of her college’s Design/Build/Evaluate Initiative (DBEI), a multi-disciplinary learning program. She spearheaded successful efforts last year for the initiative to be co-funded by the UT Office of Research.
Over the last three years, Stuth and her collaborators have received national awards including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s National Design/Build Award and an honorable mention for the main award given by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. She also received the New Faculty Teaching Award given jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architecture Students.
Thomas K. Davis, an associate professor of architecture, has received a national award for his exemplary engagement and outreach scholarship. This was one of eight granted in the nation.
Thomas K. Davis’s program, which focuses on outreach partnerships in greater Nashville, was selected by a panel of university engagement administrators through the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Award and the Engagement Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award program. The awards program seeks colleges and universities that have redesigned their learning, discovery, and engagement functions to become more involved with their communities.
Davis received a plaque at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference and was recognized during the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities’ annual meeting.
This is the third consecutive year UT has received an exemplary proposal award.
The first initiative of the partnership was producing “The Plan of Nashville,” a two-and-a-half-year project that developed a community-based vision and design principles for metropolitan Nashville’s urban core. The plan has been extended through Davis’ urban design courses, which, to date, have enrolled more than 200 students in addressing civic design issues in Middle Tennessee. The work was centered through the UT College of Architecture and Design’s partnership with the Nashville Civic Design Center.
First Endowed Professorship Named in UT College of Architecture and Design History
The at the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has named Lawrence Scarpa, an internationally celebrated architect, as its BarberMcMurry Professor, the first endowed professorship in the college’s history.
Scarpa, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), will teach a design studio and seminar during the 2014 spring semester.
Following the 2014 studio, Scarpa will give a UT student an internship or full-time position at his Los Angeles-based firm, Brooks + Scarpa.
Scarpa will also deliver a lecture and exhibit his work during the UT Church Memorial Lecture Series. A publication documenting the seminar will be produced.
As the design principal in charge, Scarpa leads an architectural practice that has received more than 50 major design awards. They include the National Firm Award from the AIA in 2010, and five AIA Committee on the Environment-Top Ten Green Building Project Awards. Scarpa also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Interior Design Magazine in 2009.
The BarberMcMurry Professorship was established to promote design excellence through teaching by a visiting professor, an internationally or nationally recognized practicing architect. It is the result of two gifts—a bequest from Charles I. Barber, one of Knoxville’s most respected architects, and another from his firm, BarberMcMurry architects. In 2011, the firm’s leaders, Kelly Headden and Charles Griffin, UT architecture alumni, matched the Barber gift to produce the $1 million endowment.
The position is also part of Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek’s vision to create more endowed chairs and professorships across the UT campus.
In the last two decades, Scarpa has taught at several universities. He currently is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California, where he was named the John Jerde Distinguished Professor in 2011. In 2012, he was a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
The state of Tennessee is selling one of the greenest homes in the state – the New Norris House.
The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) named the New Norris House one of the nation’s top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design in 2013. It also is one of the first buildings in Tennessee to earn the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes Platinum certification, the highest standard for sustainability.
The New Norris House has received other recognitions, including a 2013 Design Build Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, a 2012 Residential Architect Merit Award for Single-Family Housing, and the 2011 Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board. It also won the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet Sustainable Design Competition
The house is a technologically advanced reinterpretation of the historic homes first built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 as part of the Norris Dam project. It has become a nationally recognized model for efficient and sustainable living.
The UT College of Architecture and Design led the project, which was executed in cooperation with the community to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Norris community. Four other UT departments and a variety of corporate and industry partners supported the project. The project was launched with support from a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability.
Julie Beckman, the award-winning designer of the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial and the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial, has been appointed director of student services for UT’s College of Architecture and Design.
In her new role, Beckman will provide leadership for essential student academic services that align with national best practices. She will be charged with developing partnerships with various industries to facilitate opportunities for students to gain practical experience. Beckman also will teach lower-division courses as needed.
She is a founding partner of KBAS with husband, Keith Kaseman. The firm’s awards include the Project of the Year from McGraw Hill Construction Magazine, a National Honor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies and the Philament Award from the Illumination Engineering Society of North America, all in 2008. The firm also received a Design-Build Excellence Award from the Design-Build Institute of America in 2011 and a National Medal of Service from the American Institute of Architects in 2012.
She comes to UT from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Beckman earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
Baltimore – Students and faculty from the School of Architecture and Planning have been invited for the third straight year to participate and exhibit an environmental installation for Artscape. The project, titled Destination 1 is a music pavilion and DJ dome inspired by the visionary ideas of Buckminster Fuller. A forefather of the modern sustainability movement, Fuller sought ways to help humanity better understand the inherent connections of Earth’s living systems that bind us all together. Melding with Artscape’s 2013 theme “No Passport Required,” Destination 1 seeks to celebrate the oneness of the human race regardless of nationality, ethnic, geographic, cultural or financial boundaries. Working with reclaimed / re_purposed materials, Destination 1 seeks to deconstruct those boundaries. Thus, by promoting a global “oneness” and encouraging visitors to think holistically about our planet, we can encourage all to be better stewards of the planet we share, our “Spaceship Earth.”
Led by faculty members Brian Grieb, AIA and Brian Stansbury, Destination 1 will be a centerpiece of the festival along the Charles Street promenade. The team has collaborated with local DJ’s and artists who will help activate the space with music performances. Throughout the three_day event, DJ’s will be spinning found records for a local salvage company. On Saturday evening, the sounds of Kinetic Light Instruments designed by artists McCormack and Figg, will help bring the first ever “Artscape After Dark” event to life.
“We are excited to once again be selected by Artscape and the Baltimore Office and Promotion & the Arts,” said Brian Grieb, faculty advisor for Destination 1. “The event provides a fantastic environment for our students to display their talents and creative energy, while creating a vibrant and thought provoking space for festival attendees.”
“Working on Destination 1 is extremely rewarding to see our concepts and models become physical structures,” said team member Courtney Morgan, a junior in the architecture program at Morgan State University. “It’s hard work, but at the end of day when you walk past all the things we have built, it definitely puts a smile on my face seeing what we have accomplished.”
Assistant Professor of Architecture Thomas Cline has completed the design, fabrication, and installation of a tabernacle for the St. Thomas More University Parish in Norman, Oklahoma.The existing parish and student center was designed by Raymond Yeh, FAIA, former Dean of the OU College of Architecture. The white oak tabernacle features a gold-leafed carving of a pelican feeding its chicks, a traditional Eucharistic symbol of the Catholic Church.
Stan Carroll, AIA, joined the Division of Architecture as a Professor of Practice for the Spring 2012 semester. He will be working with the first year students to help transform the way they think, both digitally and in the Creating_Making focus of the division’s new curriculum. Stan is president of Beyond Metal and works as a hands-on designer of sculpture, architecture, furniture, and architectural metal specialties.
The OU College of Architecture’s undergraduate program was named among the top 10 in the South, according to “Design Intelligence,” a twice-monthly report of the Design Futures Council. The design recognized three aspects of the college — creative programs, outstanding faculty and premier facilities. Read more.
The Institute for Quality Communities continues their Streets for People lecture series this semester among other lectures and events in the College. Get the Spring calendar here with additional events to be added throughout the semester.
The Department of Architecture celebrates its centennial with a reunion that will take place in Lawrence April 26-27, 2013. The centennial was launched last spring with the publication of Vitruvius on the Plains: Architectural thought at Kansas, 1912-2012 (The Lowell Press, 2012). Edited by Professor Stephen Grabow, the book offers a brief history of the school and its faculty. It contains a collection of thirty-seven essays written over the last century. The collection illustrates the way various schools of thought have converged at KU during the past 100 years.
Associate Professor Shannon Criss was recently elected to serve as the ACSA West Central Regional Director. She has also been selected to serve a two-year appointment as a University of Kansas Service Learning Faculty Fellow. She will work with faculty and staff to program new initiatives that broaden the understanding of engaged-community learning pedagogy within the university. She also recently presented a paper at the Biannual National Conference of the Design Communication Association at Oklahoma State University in October 2012 entitled “Drawn Through: The Sectional Perspective as a Tool of Engagement.”
Students in Professor Kent Spreckelmeyer’s Health & Wellness capstone studio won a number of honors for their spring 2012 semester work. Sara Mae Martens, Maia Hoelzinger, Stephen Mayer, and Lindsay Slavin won an honorable mention for their submission to the AIAS/SAGE “Renewing Home” Competition. Rana Elmghirbi won a third-place award in the Open Political Response category of the [Un]Restricted Access Competition, hosted by Architecture for Humanity. Dan DeWeese won first prize in the open-submission category of the ACSA Steel Competition. Sara Mae Martens had her thesis project published in the November 2012 issue of the AIA/AAH Academy Journal, and Graham Sinclair had his thesis published in the October 2012 issue of Healthcare Design.
Four graduate students won an honorable mention in the ACSA’s Sustainable Lab Competition. The students, Ike Chinton, Joel Herman, Sara Lichti, and Taylor Maine were in a design studio taught by Associate Professor Paola Sanguinetti.
The University of Kansas awarded Keith Diaz Moore, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, one of five Strategic Initiative grants. This grant will support an interdisciplinary examination of the role architecture plays in resilient lifestyles for older adults. This research involves colleagues in environmental studies, gerontology, nursing, occupational therapy, psychology, political science and urban planning. It is notable for placing architecture and design at the forefront of KU’s efforts to enhance its impact upon the world.
Assistant Professor Chad Kraus and the students of the design-build Dirt Works Studio completed the Roth Trailhead, a 122-foot-long rammed earth wall and sun-shading canopy. The Roth Trailhead received an Honor Award from AIA Kansas and the Monsters of Design Best-in-Show award from the AIA Kansas City Young Architects Forum. In addition, during the summer of 2012, Professor Kraus presented and published two essays on rammed earth architecture as part of RESTAPIA 2012, the First International Conference on Rammed Earth Conservation in Valencia, Spain.
In June, Architecture Lecturer Bob Coffeen, received a Bose Educational Excellence Award. He also served as chair for the national meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in Kansas City in October.
NIls Gore, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, presented a paper at the ACSA Offsite conference entitled “Designing Better Portable Classrooms.” The paper described a design studio process that started with the observation that virtually every school district in the U.S. utilizes portable classroom units as a way of relieving overcrowding and as “short-term” solutions to changing enrollments, shifting demographics, and uncertain funding for capital improvement projects.
Assistant professors Genevieve Baudoin and Bruce A. Johnson presented a paper entitled, “Off-Site / Off-World: Prefabrication for Extreme Conditions and Unpredictability,” at the ACSA Off-Site Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Their paper is a product of their overlapping research in the integration of systems, structure and site. It explores the techniques employed in parallel industries at the limits of prefabrication as a means of generating site-specific relationships in normative prefabrication.
Chester Dean Lecturer Frank Zilm along with Professors KentSpreckelmeyer and KeithDiaz Moore, received an honorable mention for their 2012 NCARB Awards proposal. It was titled, “Integrating Specialized Knowledge in Architectural Curricula”. The awards are intended “to challenge conventional teaching pedagogy and create new curricular models for design studios. ”
In August, Studio 804 – led by Dan Rockhill, the Department of Architecture’s J.L. Constant Professor of Architecture – completed Galileo’s Pavilion, a highly sustainable classroom building, for Johnson County Community College, in Overland Park, Kansas. This fall, Studio 804 received two AIA Kansas Honor Awards for Galileo’s Pavilion and another project, the Center for Design Research, completed in 2011.
In early November, the American Institute of Architecture Students sponsored the Midwest Quad Conference. The event, themed “Building Communities” was held in Kansas City, Mo., and drew over 300 students from 13 states. Professor Dan Rockhill gave the keynote, address. The SADP’s Dean, John Gaunt, held a drawing workshop. Faculty members Genevieve Baudoin, Bruce Johnson, Chad Kraus, and Anne Patterson also gave presentations. Assistant Professor Kapila Silva is the KU AIAS faculty advisor.
2013 marks the Centennial Celebration for the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Since 1913, the University of Minnesota School of Architecture has been building a vibrant legacy. Over its first century, the collective impact and achievements from this program in the College of Design have been both significant and extensive. The School of Architecture Centennial Celebration was a two-day tribute to how this remarkable school—as a nexus for students, educators and practitioners—has been shaping spaces and the future of architecture through its educational vision. On October 25-26, classmates and colleagues celebrated 100 years of education and shared ideas and dreams for the next century of achievement. Events began Friday evening with a Centennial Reunion Party at Ralph Rapson Hall and culminated Saturday evening with a Centennial Gala at the Historic Train Depot in downtown Minneapolis. Blaine Brownell, Associate Professor of Architecture: Blaine Brownell’s fifth book, Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture was published by Princeton Architectural Press last year. He continues to teach studios and seminars with a focus on emergent materials and applications at the University of Minnesota, where he was promoted to associate professor with tenure last spring. Blaine’s recent pedagogical collaborations include an international workshop with Kaori Ito at the Tokyo University of Science, a biomimicry studio with Marc Swackhamer at Tianjin University, the Transmaterial Research Symposium with Tim Schork and John Sadar at Monash University in Melbourne, and a responsive architecture studio with Billie Faircloth and Ryan Welch (KieranTimberlake) at the University of Minnesota. His work was recently featured in the Architalx Voices of Design exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art and the Hello Materials exhibit at the Danish Design Center. Blaine co-directs UMN’s M.S. program in Sustainable Design, serves on the editorial board of the National Institute of Building Sciences’ journal JNIBS, and recently completed a three-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education. He also writes a monthly print column and biweekly online article for Architect magazine entitled “Mind & Matter.” John Comazzi, Associate Professor of Architecture:In July 2013, Professor Comazzi lectured and participated in a panel discussion (with Will Miller) on the Miller House and Gardens in Columbus, Indiana. The program was part of the Member’s Weekend for members of the Association of Architecture Organizations, and Professor Comazzi’s lecture focused on the collaborative practices of design that produced the Miller House and Gardens based on archival research he has been conducting at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Eero Saarinen Archive at Yale University. This Fall, Professor Comazzi and colleague Marc Swackhamer (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota) completed a design-build project for the redesign of the front offices in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. The two faculty worked with three graduate students and utilized the digital fabrication lab at the University to complete the project. Also, in May and June of 2013, Professor Comazzi led a group of 10 undergraduate students (8 architecture, 1 landscape architecture, and 1 interiors), on a program abroad in Florence, Italy. The program explored the development of the city’s urban morphology, building typologies, and landscapes, in a hands-on active learning experience. Thomas Fisher, Dean and Professor: Dean Fisher gave a talk “Cities and the Survival of the Species” at the Future Cities, Livable Futures conference in Cincinnati; has written a chapter “The Performance of Buildings, Architects, and Critics” for a forthcoming book Architecture Beyond Criticism; and has written a chapter “Variability in Fracture-Critical Systems” for a forthcoming book Sources of Variability in Human Performance.
R.T. Rybak, Distinguished Visiting Professor: Outgoing Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will become a distinguished visiting practitioner, with a joint appointment at both the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the College of Design. Rybak will teach one course this spring, titled “Mayor 101”, in which he will explore the political, administrative, design and bureaucratic challenges of running one of the largest and most dynamic cities in the United States. The course will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Under the auspices of the Humphrey School and the College of Design, Rybak will also plan and host a conference for faculty, students, and civic and policy leaders, focusing on the key challenges facing urban areas in the United States. He will teach two additional courses, one in fall 2014 and one in spring 2015.
Marc Swackhamer, Associate Professor of Architecture: Professor Marc Swackhamer and his HouMinn Practice partner, Blair Satterfield from the University of British Columbia presented their research on variable vacuum forming in October at the annual ACADIA Conference (Association of Computer Aided Design In Architecture). Their paper, titled “Breaking the Mold: Variable Vacuum Forming,” focused on a renovation project in Minnesota’s School of Architecture main office. The space was re-skinned with a new programmatically-tuned, adaptive surface as part of the School’s Centennial celebration in late October. Professor John Comazzi from Minneosta’s Architecture program was also a designer and adviser on the project, along with a group of Masters of Architecture students.
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