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Title: Tiffany Lin Work Selected for Exhibition at University of Massachusetts

Jan 29, 2019

Tiffany Lin, Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane, will have her work on exhibit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, running Feb. 4-28, 2019. The exhibit, Datum Drawing explores the use of datum in drawing as an architectural or spatial point of reference.

“I am thrilled to be a part of an exhibition that showcases speculative drawing and painting as integral to the architectural design process,” Lin said.

A datum line is a line to which dimensions are referred on engineering drawings, and from which measurements are calculated. The term datum refers to a piece of information or a fixed point of scale that serves as a reference in defining geometry of a composition and in measuring aspects of that geometry to assess its relations to another value in space.

The exhibit features two architects and two artists that employ the use of datum lines in their work. Along with Lin’s architectural art, the exhibit will also include Aaron Collier, Assistant Professor of Art at Tulane University; Perry Kulper, Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan; and Derek Lerner, an artist based in New York City.

“It is an honor to be in a group show with Perry Kulper as we often reference his work in core studio teaching and I look forward to meeting him,” Lin said.

Click here for more information about the exhibit and its related events.

Tulane University

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Title: Associate Professor Graham Owen Publishes in Architecture Philosophy

Jan 22, 2019

Associate Professor Graham Owen has published an article titled “The Anthropology of a Smoke-filled Room” in Architecture Philosophy. The essay is a critical assessment of participant-observation studies of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) undertaken from the perspective of Actor Network Theory (ANT), an approach developed by philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour.

Owen’s paper contrasts the relative absence of discussion of issues of studio labour and working conditions with their prominence in recent work by activist observers of architectural education and practice, and examines the reasons that ANT might have a “blind spot” to such issues. Owen also spoke on OMA, on the topic of the post-political, at the “Building as Service” conference held in July 2018 at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

To read the full article in Architecture Philosophy, click here.

Tulane University

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Title: Alumnus Prefab Work Wins National Awards

Jan 10, 2019Maziar Behrooz, TSA ’85, and his firm MB Architecture received several awards in 2018 for the project Bard College Center for Experimental Humanities. The building was named runner-up in Dwell magazine’s 2018 Best of Design awards in the prefab category. DrivenxDesign also gave the project awards in two categories: DrivenxDesign New York, Public & Institutional, Gold 2018, and DrivenxDesign Now, Social and Community-Oriented Design, Silver 2018.

For more information about the project on Dwell.com, click here.

Click here for the DrivenxDesign New York award page, and click here for the DrivenxDesign Now award page.

Tulane University

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Title: Richard Campanella Appointed Associate Dean for Research

Oct 18, 2018

The Tulane University School of Architecture has named Senior Professor of Practice Richard Campanella as Associate Dean for Research. In this role, he will facilitate the production, publication and dissemination of new knowledge and innovative ideas, reinforcing the School of Architecture’s commitment to research.

Campanella brings a prolific portfolio of award-winning research to the position, including 10 books and more than 200 other publications on New Orleans and Louisiana geography, history, architecture, urbanism, culture and related topics.

As Associate Dean for Research, Campanella will identify and curate external research opportunities, assemble multidisciplinary research teams to respond to proposals, and coordinate faculty, staff and students pursuing research grant funding.

Campanella has worked at Tulane since 2000 and in the School of Architecture since 2012.

Tulane University

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Title: Yamuna River Project Wins International Architectural Book Award

Oct 16, 2018

Yamuna River Project, New Delhi Urban Ecology, by Tulane School of Architecture Dean and Koch Chair in Architecture Iñaki Alday and University of Virginia architecture professor Pankaj Vir Gupta, was recently selected as one of the top 10 architectural books of the year by the Frankfurt Book Fair and German Architecture Museum (DAM).

The highly-respected International DAM Architectural Book Award attracted submissions from 96 architectural and art publishers this year. A jury of external experts and DAM representatives judged the 238 total entries on design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation and topicality.

The Yamuna River Project, founded by Alday and Vir Gupta at UVA in 2014, is a long-term interdisciplinary research initiative working to revitalize both the ecology of the heavily polluted Yamuna River and the essential relationship between the river and life in New Delhi.

As one of the most rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, New Delhi faces enormous challenges of urban and social equity at a time of economic and climatic uncertainty. Consequentially, the citizens of the world’s largest democracy live amidst extreme environmental degradation. Existing government structures have been hard pressed to cope with the pace of the complex and rapidly evolving dynamics of economic and climate change.

Yamuna River Project, New Delhi Urban Ecology details five years of research with the goal of engaging government agencies, experts and activists to reimagine and transform the river through a holistic, multidisciplinary approach.

The book is published by Actar and available for purchase online.

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

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SUSTAINASPEAK: A GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN TERMS, by Elizabeth Lewis, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor, is published by Routledge of Taylor & Francis Group, London. 
 
Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations. The complex and evolving language used in the sustainable design community can be very challenging; particularly to those new to environmentally friendly and resource-efficient design strategies that are needed today. 
 
The book has over 200 term definitions with further sources and is clearly cross-referenced withSustainaspeak, Theoryspeak and Archispeak terms. The book is illustrated throughout with sustainable award-winning buildings by e.g. Behnisch, Architerra, Brooks+Scarpa, EHDD, HOK, KieranTimberlake, Lake | Flato, Leddy Mahtum Stacy, Smith Group, SMP, Perkins + Will, ZGF, VMDO, Kubala Washatko, and McDonough + Partners.
 
A few of the terms covered include:
Adaptation; Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Chilled Beams; Circular Economy; Cogeneration; Ecological Design; Energy Efficiency; Eutrophication; GreenScreen; Industrial Ecology; JUST; LEED; Living Building Challenge; Paris Climate Agreement; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Sustainable Development; Systems Thinking; Upcycling; Vernacular; WELL; Xeriscaping.
 
Elizabeth Lewis, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor at Florida A&M University School of Architecture, has over 25 years of design teaching experience with a research focus on high-performing and net-zero buildings. She has an undergraduate degree from Tulane University with her Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. A licensed architect, she is active in the profession, AIA leadership, a founder of USGBC Florida Capital Region Chapter, and a contributor to Decoding Theoryspeak.  
 

Tulane University

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Virtual Metropolis, an interactive virtual reality project on which Associate Professor Graham Owen collaborated in the mid-1990s, has been selected by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France for its collection of best artists’ CDs of that era.  Led by Owen’s former Thesis student Robert Ouellette, the collaboration brought together Toronto-based designers and artists.  Virtual Metropolis anticipated Google Street View by 12 years, but went further by using architecture as a portal, a series of wormholes to worlds and artworks beyond.  At the BNF, the project will run on emulators of the original operating systems.  Prof. Owen has also published “Whatever Happened to Semi-Autonomy?” in Architecture Philosophy; and “City of Risk:  Organization and Individualization in the Urban Recovery of New Orleans” in the minnesota review, in its Special Focus on “Katrina, Ten Years Later”, from Duke University Press.

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2015 ACSA Gulf Director Board Candidates

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The initial Gulf Regional Director Election (January 2015) was disqualified due to an ineligible candidate. ACSA regrets this error and have taking steps with the Gulf Nominations Committee to conduct a new election. Following is the information and candidates for regional vote in the 2015 ACSA Gulf Regional Director (April/May 2015).

Online Voting
Below is information on the 2015 ACSA Gulf Election, including candidate information. Official ballots were emailed to all full-member ACSA schools’ Faculty Councilors, who are the the voting representatives. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.

2015 ACSA Regional Director Candidates
The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.

 

2015 GULF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES

           
Francis Elliot Lyn
Florida Atlantic University
                 
Scott L. Ruff
Tulane University


ACSA Election Process
ACSA Bylaws, Article IX, Section 3: Election Process: “Elections shall be held in accordance with the Rules of the Board of Directors. Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors”.

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.

 

2015 ACSA Gulf Region Board Election Timeline

April 10, 2015 Online ballots emails to all Gulf Region Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
May 11, 2015 Deadline for receipt of online completed ballots
May 15, 2015 Gulf Regional Director (2015-2018) announced

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.  


Contact
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
phone: 202.785.2324
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

Tulane University

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Associate Professor Graham Owen was an invited speaker in IIT’s “In the Loop” series.  He spoke on “The Shotgun of Selective Belonging” at the University of Hamburg, and led the Architecture and Globalization session at TU Delft’s Summer School on “Facing Moral Complexity”.  He also gave the closing keynote, on “Whatever Happened to Semi-Autonomy?”, at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture’s Summer 2014 conference, at TU Delft.

Mississippi State University

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Save The Date:

Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program, in cooperation with the Architecture and Construction Alliance (A+CA) announce the Integrated Project Delivery Theater. This interactive symposium is designed to introduce the exciting but complex world of Integrated Practice.

The two-day symposium features the project team responsible for the commission, design, and construction of the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center, a LEED Gold building. Featured presenters include Jose Alvarez, AIA, LEED AP, Project Architect and Principle with the 2014 AIA Firm of the Year Eskew+Dumez+Ripple; Kevin N. Overton, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Project Manager for Turner Construction Company; and Brian Bozeman, LEED AP, Executive Director ADAMS, (client’s representative) for the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center. Coupled with this dynamic project team, integrated practice educators Assistant Professor Michele M. Herrmann, Esq.; Assistant Professor Emily M. McGlohn, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP; and Associate Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA, NCARB, LEED Green Assoc. will offer an exceptional educational opportunity. The unique interactive theater-like presentation includes problem-based learning activities and illustrative visual and verbal presentations designed to generate synthetic comprehension of IPD. The A+CA, through its generous sponsorship, has enabled the MSU faculty to develop this special event. As a critical component to the symposium’s success, the A+CA and MSU School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program invite students and faculty members from all programs of study engaged in Integrated Project Delivery to attend. The symposium will be held in Giles Hall on the MSU campus in charming Starkville, MS.

For more information on the participating practitioners and MSU faculty presenters please visit: http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/ipdtheater2015/

Symposium Date: January 29–30, 2015
Location: School of Architecture
Giles Hall, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
Local Accommodations: Hotel Chester, Downtown Starkville, MS

 

 

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