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Peter Mackeith  Begins Tenure As Dean Of The Fay Jones School Of Architecture

 

Peter MacKeith began his appointment July 1, 2014, as the new dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. He arrives in the school after a distinguished 15-year career at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he rose to tenured full professor and associate dean. He is an internationally recognized design educator whose work encompasses architectural design, design research and publication, and exhibition curation and design. He has spent 25 years as a liaison between the design cultures of the United States and the Nordic nations, particularly Finland.

Links to interviews and announcements about Peter may be found here:

Marlon Blackwell, Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture, has received a $50,000 fellowship grant from United States Artists, a national grant-making and advocacy organization. United States Artists awards several fellowships each year, under names such as Ford, Rockefeller and Knight. Blackwell, who was awarded a Ford Fellowship, is one of 34 artists to receive a 2014 United States Artists fellowship. The Fellows were selected from 116 nominated artists living in the United States and Puerto Rico and were chosen by a panel of expert peers in each artistic discipline. Blackwell, honored in the Architecture and Design category, is a nationally and internationally recognized teacher and one of the nation’s most respected regional modernist architects. He is founder and principal at Marlon Blackwell Architects, based in Fayetteville. Blackwell is the second faculty member from the Fay Jones School to receive this prestigious honor from United States Artists. Steve Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and a Distinguished Professor, was named a Ford Fellow in 2012. The Fay Jones School joins the ranks of Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Southern California Institute of Architecture for having multiple members of their faculty selected in the USA Fellows program since it began in 2006.

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/25586/blackwell-named-ford-fellow-in-united-states-artists-fellowship-program

 

Vol Walker Hall Project Short-Listed for 2014 World Architecture Festival Awards

The home of the Fay Jones School of Architecture – the renovated Vol Walker Hall with its new addition, the Steven L. Anderson Design Center – has been chosen as a finalist in the 2014 World Architecture Festival Awards, the world’s largest architecture design awards program serving the global community.

More than 400 projects from more than 40 countries were short-listed across 31 individual award categories for the festival, to be held this week in Singapore. The Vol Walker Hall project is one of 16 short-listed projects in the Higher Education and Research category. This project is the only one in its category to represent the United States.

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/25335/vol-walker-hall-project-short-listed-for-2014-world-architecture-festival-awards


Fay Jones School Architecture Program Receives Eight-Year Reaccreditation from National Board

The professional Bachelor of Architecture program in the Fay Jones School of Architecture recently was granted an eight-year term of reaccreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

“The team believes that the Fay Jones School of Architecture provides an active learning environment that emphasizes knowledge through drawing, modeling, and experiential design,” stated the visiting team in its summary. “Administration, faculty, and students are committed to design for a new decade that engages community, new technologies, and environmental awareness. The team was impressed with the vitality of the student body, their dedication to community engagement and sustainability, and their passion for architecture.”

In July, the National Architectural Accrediting Board met to review the Visiting Team Report, the product of a three-member team’s visit to the Fay Jones School in February. The directors of the National Architectural Accrediting Board voted to continue full accreditation for the new maximum term of eight years. The Fay Jones School architecture program is scheduled for its next accreditation visit in 2022

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/25087/fay-jones-school-architecture-program-receives-eight-year-reaccreditation-from-national-board 

Marc Manack and Frank Jacobus, both assistant professors of architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and co-principals of the architecture firm SILO AR+D, have won an award for their project, the Super Sukkah.

Their project was one of the 10 cutting-edge sukkahs selected in the competition, “Sukkah City STL 2014: Between Absence and Presence.” The 10 winning projects, chosen from a field of 33 entries, were created both by individuals and teams of architects and designers from around the country. The winning projects of the competition will be on display from Oct. 7 to 12 at Washington University in St. Louis. Each winning entry receives a $1,000 honorarium to defray construction costs.

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/25417/fay-jones-school-professors-design-among-winners-at-sukkah-city-stl-2014 


Creative Corridor Project in Little Rock Honored by American Society of Landscape Architects

A plan to transform four neglected blocks of Main Street in downtown Little Rock into an arts district has won a 2014 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Faculty and staff members of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas designed this award-winning work.

The Creative Corridor, designed by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and Marlon Blackwell Architect won an Honor Award for Analysis and Planning, one of five awarded. This is the design center’s sixth ASLA award and the fifth that they have received in this category. The ASLA award represents the highest recognition in landscape architecture design and planning open to North American organizations for work underway worldwide. Thirty-four award-winning projects were selected from more than 600 entries.

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/25463/creative-corridor-project-in-little-rock-honored-by-american-society-of-landscape-architects


Fay Jones School Partners With Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Fay Jones School of Architecture students and faculty have a unique opportunity to be involved with the public display of a 60-year-old house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville acquired the Bachman Wilson House, built in 1954 near the Millstone River in New Jersey. It has been disassembled and transported to the museum’s 120-acre grounds, where it is being reconstructed. This home is one of Wright’s “Usonian Houses,” a group of 60 middle-income family homes that were typically small, single-story structures with no garage and minimal storage. They used native materials, flat roofs and cantilevered overhangs, and emphasized a strong visual connection between interior and exterior spaces.

In collaboration with Crystal Bridges, Fay Jones School students, led by Santiago R. Pérez, Assistant Professor and 21st Century Chair in Integrated Practice, are in the final “prefabrication phase” of a three-semester effort to design, develop and fabricate a small architectural interpretation pavilion for the Bachman Wilson House reconstruction on the museum grounds.

This initiative is a confluence of “Design-Build” and “Digital-Fabrication” cultures and practices, informed by Usonian principles, into a hybrid DESIGNFAB practice model, championed by Pérez. In conjunction with the Pavilion project, Pérez delivered a lecture at Crystal Bridges titled “Rethinking Wright: Adapting Usonian Principles in 21st Century Architecture.”

In addition, during the fall 2014 semester, Fay Jones School students will analyze and document the reconstruction of the house for inclusion in the Historic American Buildings Survey, under the leadership of professor Greg Herman.

For additional information, see: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/23407/fay-jones-school-partners-with-crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art 

http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/24337/perez-to-present-rethinking-wright-lecture-at-crystal-bridges-on-may-21

 

Florida International University

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The national fraternity of architecture students, Alpha Rho Chi, honored Associate Professor David Rifkind with the organization’s highest award at its centennial convention last week. Professor Rifkind was initiated into FIU’s Alpha Rho Chi chapter, Nicon, last year as one of two faculty brothers, along with Malik Benjamin. The Alpha Rho Chi Gold Medal requires the approval of at least three-quarters of the fraternity’s chapters and alumni associations, which demonstrates the commitment of FIU students in recognizing their faculty. This is the first award of the Gold Medal in the past 15 years. Previous winners include I.M. Pei, R. Buckminster Fuller and Samuel Balen, FAIA.
FIU architecture student Eneida Piñon, the Worthy Architect of Nicon Chapter, was named one of three John R. Ross Scholars at the banquet celebrating Alpha Rho Chi’s centennial. Pinon was cited for her tremendous service to the her fellow students and to the university. Her award includes a scholarship.
The FIU architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture students who comprise Nicon Chapter were recognized with the annual “So” Whitten Award as the APX chapter with the highest cumulative grade point average. The honor demonstrates our students’ commitment to academic excellence, alongside their collegiality and devotion to fostering an academic community.

Mississippi State University

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The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is pleased to announce the addition of four new faculty members.

Emily McGlohn has joined the School as visiting assistant professor. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and her Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University, where she completed her thesis at the Rural Studio and remained after graduation as an instructor for three years. McGlohn next spent several years in professional practice at William McDonough + Partners and brwarchitects in Charlottesville, Va. 

Jacob Gines is another new visiting assistant professor at Mississippi State this year. He received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah, where he later taught as an adjunct in the design studios. Gines also practiced as a senior associate in the design firm of Method Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Todd Walker, FAIA, is currently serving as a visiting design studio critic in the first-year studio. He is a principle and founding member of the awarding-winning Memphis firm archimania and has also received the prestigious “Eminent Architect of Practice” appointment for spring 2013.
Finas Townsend is currently serving as studio assistant in the first-year design studio. Townsend is from Memphis and received his Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State in 2011.

While on sabbatical leave last year, Professor Rachel McCann, PhD, presented two lectures in Europe, “Architectural Sense” at the Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Space Symposium, University of Nottingham, England; and “Architectural Flesh in the Digital Age” at the Chalmers School of Architecture in Sweden.

David Perkes, AIA, director of the School’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, has been promoted to full professor.

Associate Professor Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA, has been selected as one of three Peer Discipline Reviewers for The Fulbright Program for architecture. Greenwood also serves as a Fulbright Program Campus Representative, working to promote the program to students and faculty.

The Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), a research center under the direction of Associate Professor John Poros, AIA, received the Public Outreach Award from The Mississippi Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MS). The center won the award for its MS Bypass Guidelines, which were published this year. The Public Outreach award was one of only three awards given by the MS APA this year and is for an individual or program that uses information and education about the value of planning to create greater awareness among citizens and other segments of society.

The Carl Small Town Center has also been awarded a grant to work with communities along the Tanglefoot Trail on transportation and economic development issues. The $120,000 grant comes from the federally funded Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, a regional university transportation center located at the University of Florida. The funds will be shared by Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Under the direction of Jassen Callender, associate professor, six teams of fifth-year students had documentary films selected for inclusion in the thirteenth annual Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Miss. The documentaries were produced in the fall of 2011 as part of the Theory of Urban Design course.
The six documentaries selected were:
• Richard Akin, Raymond Huffman, and Taylor Poole, From Field to Fork
• Scott Archer, Charles Barry, and Ryan Morris, Chinese Potatoes
• Audrey Bardwell, Aaron Schwartz, and Meredith Yale, Madison the City Needs (Renewable) Energy
• Anthony Dinolfo, Ryan Santos, and Amy Selvaggio, Point A to Point B
• Ingrid Gonzalez, Sam Grefseng, and Chris Hoal, The Built Environment of Jackson
• Lauren Arrington, Robert Featherston, and Jessica Harkins, Ward 3: Area in Need of Renewal

Jassen Callender also had a chapter, “Sustainable Urban Development,” in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, published by Elsevier.

Visiting Assistant Professor Jacob Gines and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA, are currently collaborating with Mississippi State University Transit to develop a series of pedestrian friendly transit stops and enclosures along proposed bus routes to connect the campus with the city of Starkville, Miss. The work is part of a $2.4 million Mississippi Department of Transportation public transit grant.

Hans Herrmann was also named ‘Emerging Professional’ by the AIA for 2012. His work was included in the annual exhibition, presented at AIA National’s headquarters, the American Center for Architecture, in Washington, D.C.

Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor, had an article published in the summer issue of AIA Forward journal, Forward 112: Process. Forward, a scholarly journal, is produced by the National Associates Committee to provide a voice for Associate AIA members within the Institute.

Alexis Gregory also received  “The Bringing Theory to Practice Project” AACU 2013 Seminar Grant ($1000 w/ April Heiselt)  “ . . . to help support research on service-learning in architecture.” This grant is supported by the S. Engelhard Center and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation.

Assistant Professor Justin Taylor had a paper, “Changing the Culture of Do Not Touch,” accepted to The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environment (IE12) in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Rachel McKinley and Zachary James, students in the School of Architecture, received the Collaborative Project Award from APA MS. The award is for their work done in the Carl Small Town Center’s CREATE Common Ground class last spring, which focused on revitalizing New Albany, Miss. The Collaborative Project Award recognizes research, projects or other activities in which a student has worked collaboratively with practitioners/planners and/or faculty.

Mississippi State’s chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) participated in the national Green Apple Day of Service on Sept. 29. The group volunteered at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum.

Mississippi State University’s Alpha Rho Chi fraternity recently raised and donated $1,250 to the Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity. Daniel Torres serves as the fraternity’s fundraising chairman, and Adam Rhoades is the chapter president. Alpha Rho Chi at Mississippi State primarily includes College of Art, Architecture and Design majors. From the fraternity’s inception almost three years ago, members have focused on donating to Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity.

Mack Braden and Michael Varhalla, students in the School of Architecture, won this year’s Brick Industry Association Design Competition. The two received a $1,000 travel scholarship for their achievement. The project was for the design of a culinary arts school in downtown Memphis, Tenn., as part of the spring 2012 third-year design studio taught by Assistant Professor Alexis D. Gregory, AIA, and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA. Honorable Mention went to Chelsea Pierce and John Thomas.

Dalton Finch, Anthony Penny, Scott Polley and Colton Stephens, third-year students in the School of Architecture, designed the recently completed Habitat for Humanity house located on Steadman Lane in Starkville, Miss. The students worked on the design as part of Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory’s class that included 11 students working on several design options for the nonprofit organization.

Emily Roush Elliott has been chosen as an Enterprise Rose Architecture fellow by the Carl Small Town Center (CSTC). Elliot earned her Bachelor of Science in Design from Arizona State University and her Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. As a Fellow, she will be able to draw from her work in Tanzania, where she successfully integrated social and environmental sustainability in a similarly rural environment, to establish a redevelopment plan for the Baptist Town community in Greenwood, Miss. The CSTC was one of just four national organizations selected to host a Fellow.

See photos, and read more news from the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University at http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/sarcnews/

Mississippi State University

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John Poros, AIA associate professor in the School of Architecture and the director of Carl Small Town Center (CSTC), recently presented a session on his research on rural sustainability at the American Planning Association’s national conference held on April 15, 2013, in Chicago, Ill.  Poros’ session was attended by more than 200 participants and was selected as the Small Town and Rural Planning session for the year.

Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA associate professor, has received a personal invitation from the Gyumri Mayor in Armenia to help celebrate the city’s new declaration as “Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS] cultural capital.” Mayor Samvel Balasanyan asked Greenwood to be a part of various cultural events that will begin on June 1, 2013. Greenwood began research in Gyumri in 2007 with a grant from the Earthwatch Institute and later continued her work as a Fulbright Scholar.

Alexis Gregory, AIA received $1,140 from the National Center for Intermodal Transportation for Economic Competitiveness (NCITEC) to fund research and design for an international competition for an intermodal transit station in Tirana, Albania.  In March 2013, students in the Habitat Prototype House elective course, taught by Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory, received third place in the Community Engagement division of the 2013 Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Adam Trautman, a senior in the Building Construction Science Program, presented the project, “Elevating Habitat: Service-Learning in Design and Construction.” Third-year architecture students Melinda Ingram, Jacob Johnson, Alex Reeves and Mark Riley also worked on the project. Professor Gregory, along with Assistant Professor Jonathon Anderson of the University of North Carolina Greensboro had an article, “Educating ‘Architects’ Within and Beyond the Digital World: A Studio Exploration of Physical Realization through Digital Fabrication,” published in d3:dialog>assemble international journal of architecture + design.

Hans Herrmann, AIA assistant professor, delivered the opening lecture for Clemson University’s spring lecture series, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.” His lecture, “Opportunist[eth]ic” covered his professional development over the past 10 years and how opportunism and ethics have had an influence on his design practice and teaching pedagogy.

The Green Building Technology Demonstration Pavilion project was realized under the guidance of landscape architecture professors W. Cory Gallo, ASLA, and Brian Tempelton, ASLA, and architecture assistant professor Hans Herrmann, AIA. The project demonstrates ecological building and site design principles. The project received over $50,000 in private and public material and funding donations. It is featured by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as a 2013 Year of Public Service Project and most recently was awarded an American Society of Landscape Architects, Mississippi Chapter, Merit Award.

Todd Walker, FAIA, principal partner in the Memphis firm archimania, was named the School’s Eminent Architect of Practice for the Spring semester. Todd lectured and co-taught in the 3rd year Brick Industry Association funded-studio.

The School of Architecture was invited by Richard Ramsey, the director of the Howlin’ Wolf Blues Society to design a Museum to honor the legendary and seminal blues musician who was born in West Point, Mississippi. This project (undertaken by the 4thyear capstone studio w/ Associate Professor Jane Britt Greenwood, AIA, and Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann, AIA) will be critical to the future design, urban planning, and programming of the actual project.

The School of Architecture and Department of Building Construction Science are proud to announce that through the efforts of their faculty and administration they have been awarded $200,000 in Hearin Foundation Grant Funding to support continued research and development of the “Collaborative Studios: Integrated Learning Toward An Integrated Practice.”  The pedagogical research and course development is being undertaken this summer by four faculty including Assistant Professor Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor Hans C. Herrmann, Assistant Professor Tom Leathem (Building Construction Science), and Assistant Professor Emily McGlohn.

Tulane University

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Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, has been named director of the Tulane City Center as well as the new Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans. In his new roles, Cox will oversee a wide range of initiatives with Tulane architecture faculty and students throughout the New Orleans community. “I’m arriving at Tulane during a fascinating time in the history of the school of architecture and this city,” said Cox. “New Orleans is in the process of realizing its aspiration to lead the nation in democratic practices of design.”

At Tulane, Cox will be working with the highly successful programs of the Tulane City Center, URBANbuild, the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, the preservation program and the school’s new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program, all which are community outreach design initiatives of the university.

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Dean Carlos E. Betancourt LLambias AIA, and Interior Designer Smyrna Mauras, CODDI, announced the inauguration of the Interior  Architecture Program in the Spring 2013. Dean Betancourt also announced the integration of the Landscape Architecture program to the school of Architecture ARQPOLI.


Professor Diana G. Rivera was appointed as the new Associate Dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR). Professor Rivera has been teaching for seventeen years and has taught design studios at various levels.  Professor Rivera has a B.A. in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.Arch from Syracuse University.


Professor Jorge Rigau FAIA, received the Distinguished Architecture Professor Award from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico in May 2012.


Professor Miguel Del Río AIA, has been appointed AIA Regional Director for the areas of Florida and the Caribbean.  The appointment took place on July 2012 during the AIA Convention in Palm Beach.


Professor Andres Mignucci AIA, will be lecturing at Tulane School of Architecture, the lecture ‘The City is not a blank slate” will take place this coming month.  Also, Professor Mignucci announced the publication of his next book Contexts: Parque Munoz Rivera and the Supreme Court.


Professor Nadya K. Nenadich mentored second place award winning students Glorimer Anselmi, Nestor Bartolomei, Javier Bidot, Cristhian Cano, Marcos Colón and Janice Quevedo, for the San Juan 3D Competition sponsored by Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas.   Nenadich also gave the lecture “La erosión de la gestión común de lo común” for the Arquitectonics International Workshop “Architecture, Education and Society” at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) on May, 2012.


Professor María Gabriela Flores AIA, gave the lecture “Consideraciones de Diseño para Vivienda en Puerto Rico” as part of the design competition “Nueva Vivienda para Puerto Rico 2012” at the Puerto Rico’s Architects Association (CAAPPR) on May 10, 2012. 


Professor Omayra Rivera, coordinator of the Collaborative Design Studio, is offering a course at Beta Local in Old San Juan in collaboration with the project ENLACE for Caño Martín Peña. Moreover, Prof. Rivera presented the paper “Participatory Analysis of the Living Environment: The Plus Ultra Neighborhood”, together with professors Leandro Madrazo and Angel Martin Cojo from the School of Architecture La Salle in Barcelona at the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) Conference on June, 2012, that took place at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.


Professors Yazmín Crespo and Omayra Rivera, together with Andrea Bauzá, presented the work produced by their collaborative studio “Taller Creando Sin Encargos’, at the Puerto Rico’s Architects Association (CAAPPR) on August 16, 2012. They were also guest speakers at the University Radio talk show “Arquitectura de Hoy”.


Professor Yazmín Crespo gave a history and theory of architecture summer course at the Elisava School of Design in Barcelona on June, 2012. 


Professor Vladimir García has joined the ArqPoli faculty. Prof. Garcia, who has a Masters Degree from SCIArc, was recently awarded, together with Doel Fresse, the First Prize from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture: Galería Espacio Temporal (GET) Design Competition 2011 for the Revuelo installation. Revuelo was selected as one of the projects to represent Puerto Rico in the Third Design Biennial in Madrid on November 2012.  Prof. Garcia gave a lecture about this art-installation at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and at the Puerto Rico’s Architects Association (CAAPPR) on March, 2012. 


Professor Maria Isabel Oliver conducted a Summer Advanced History Course together with the Centro de Estudios Martianos in Havana, Cuba. The project Havana: topologies of a transitional city, examines through videos and urban acoustics, the topological ‘invariances’ of memory, history and identity within the ‘variant’ uses of contemporary society.


Professor Oscar Oliver Didier, together with 16 students, traveled to Berlin, Germany, to conduct the Summer Studio  Berlin: Enduring Impermanence. The project evaluates place and the crisis of permanence. 


The Study Abroad Exhibitions Berlin: Enduring Impermanence and Havana: topologies of a transitional city will be held at the Antiguo Cuartel de Ballaja  in November 2012. 


Dean Carlos E. Betancourt Llambias AIA, announced the production of the third ArqPoli Polimorfo journal edition “Architecture to come” and the ArqPoli deBrief student work catalog, to be released in the upcoming months.

Florida International University

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Instructor Eric Peterson exhibited his material research and his students’ furniture designs at the Coral Gables Museum in Coral Gables, Florida. The exhibition is a retrospective of three years of research on upcycling shipping pallets into fine furniture and architectural building products. Wood from used shipping pallets is investigated for its potential as cladding, surface, structure, or spatial modulator. The exhibition reveals the hidden potential of an overlooked material and invites us to examine the ramifications of our participation in global material and product transportation networks. Research made possible with generous support of Whole Foods Market, South Florida Regional Distribution Center.

Associate Professor Gray Read’s book, Modern Architecture in Theater: The experiments of Art et action, will be published in January by Palgrave Press in their Pivot Series. The book examines Parisian architect Edouard Autant’s exploration of the art of architectural design through a series of modern theatrical performances presented by Art et action, a company he formed with actress Louise Lara. Together, they merged British director Edward Gordon Craig’s strategies for spatial set design with an approach to performance emphasizing multi-sensual simultaneity. In five types of modern theater, they created spaces and performances that anticipate the architecture and actions of an ideal, modern city.

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Professors Marilys Nepomechie, Marta Canaves, Gray Read, Nick Gelpi and Thomas Spiegelhalter gave the following peer-reviewed research project presentations at the 2013 ACSA Regional Conference: Subtropical Cities 2013 – Design Interventions for Changing Climates at Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale

1. ‘The Unflat Pavilion: Responsive Materialism + Adaptive Fabrication’ and ‘Compelling Evidence of Premeditation – Mocking The Museum’ by Nick Gelpi
2. ‘Mitigate, Adapt, Sustain: Emerging Workflows and Design Protocols for Carbon Neutral Subtropical H2 Cities’ by Thomas Spiegelhalter
3. ‘Miami 2100: Envisioning our Second Century’, by Marta Canaves and Marilys R. Nepomechie
4. ‘Birds of Lincoln Road’, by Gray Read

The conference was co-chaired by Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University and Rosemary Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

The Department of Architecture at Florida International University announces that Professor John Stuart has been promoted as the founding Associate Dean of Cultural and Community Engagement | Executive Director for the College of Architecture + the Arts’ Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS). With a primary focus of cultivating engaged scholarship, creative activities, and service learning partnerships within the College, with other University units, and with community partners, John will oversee the daily operations of MBUS. John has recently served as Chair of the Department of Architecture and Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost.  His research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Fine Arts, Van Alen Institute, and the National Science Foundation.  As a practicing architect, researcher, and educator, he sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education and will co-chair the 102nd annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture on Miami Beach in 2014. 

Associate Professor Jason Chandler was elected Department Chair by the faculty, and assumes his new role after serving as Associate Chair for the past two years. Jason’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from The National Institute for Architectural Education, The International Hurricane Center, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, The United States Department of Education and The Metropolitan Center at FIU. He also served as the architecture faculty advisor for FIU’s award-wining 2005 Solar Decathlon Home. Jason is a licensed architect in the State of Florida. In addition to his extensive portfolio of built work, he has earned recognition in several international design competitions. He received Second Prize in the 81st Paris Prize Architectural Design Competition, Honorable Mention in the 2001 the Scattered Housing Competition, First Prize in the 2004 Miami Beach Design Life Competition and Honorable Mention in the 2008 Miami Waterworks competition. His entry for the 2005 Parachute Pavilion Competition has won both Miami and Florida A.I.A. awards. 

Associate Professor Camilo Rosales was awarded the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Grant by the U.S. Department of State. Rosales, along with a team of researchers that he led, received a total award amount of $791, 531. Through this grant, Rosales and his team will work to create programs that support energy reduction with three Latin American Universities and the three cities of Valdivia (Chile), Goiania (Brazil), and Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). 

David Rifkind was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. His house, co-designed with Holly Zickler, was published in the September-October issue of Residential Architect.

Tulane University

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The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center continues its work in the design education of public officials both in the US and abroad.  After a visit to New Orleans to better understand its urban character, planning and government officials from Jintang, Chengdu, China, have asked the TRUDC to create a master plan for their new town.  Accommodating approximately 150,000 new residents, TRUDC Director Grover Mouton and Project Director Nick Jenisch are working closely with several government agencies to aid in the implementation of the plan, including green infrastructure retrofitting of existing streets, design of all new roadways, siting and design for new civic buildings such as a stadium, library, and cultural center, and application of design guidelines to define and control the urban character of each new-town district.  As in each of its projects, the TRUDC has engaged School of Architecture students, who have contributed critical design and research work to the project.  The plan has been presented onsite to Jintang government leadership and is currently moving from design to engineering and implementation.

University of Arkansas

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Fay Jones School of Architecture

The Fay Jones School was twice ranked No. 1 in a national survey of “top brands” in architectural education, according to a survey conducted by the Design Futures Council. The results were published in the November/December 2012 issue of DesignIntelligence. The Fay Jones School was included in this survey of the “top brands,” a sampling of architecture school brand strengths based on surveys and interviews by DesignIntelligence editors. The school tied for No. 1 in the nation in the “Top for Regional Respect and Admiration” category, sharing that distinction with California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and the University of Oregon. The Fay Jones School also tied for No. 1 in the nation in the “Best Small School Design Program” category, sharing that with Rice University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The Fay Jones School is also ranked 19th in the nation in the 13th annual survey of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools,” a study conducted by the Design Futures Council and also published in the November/December 2012 issue of DesignIntelligence. The survey lists the top 20 undergraduate architecture programs for 2013.

In this ranking, the Fay Jones School was the eighth best program among public universities. Since its last ranking by DesignIntelligence, in 2008, the school has improved one spot overall and three spots among public universities.

The renovation of Vol Walker Hall and the addition of the Steven L. Anderson Design Center, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, is more than halfway finished. Keep up with the progress on our blog dedicated to the project, “Architecture in the Making.” It features photo galleries and webcam views with time-lapse photography.

Stephen Luoni, director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, has received a $50,000 fellowship grant from United States Artists (USA).

A 2012 USA Ford Fellow, Luoni was one of 54 artists to receive a fellowship from United States Artists, a national grant-making and advocacy organization, which awarded 50 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. The recipients were announced at a Dec. 2 ceremony hosted by actor/director Tim Robbins, which also featured performances by new and former fellows, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Luoni is a Distinguished Professor of architecture in the Fay Jones School, where he is also the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies. The Community Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School, specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban and architectural design, with a focus on shaping urban design approaches to issues of sustainability.

This award is the largest that Luoni has personally received. In the seven-year history of the USA Fellows program, this is the first year for Arkansas to be represented. He shared the spotlight with other USA Fellows who included author Annie Proulx, choreographer Tina Brown and jazz musician Jack DeJohnette.

Faculty, students and alumni of the Fay Jones School were recognized with awards from the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Design awards and other awards were given during the annual AIA Arkansas State Convention, held in September at the Hot Springs Convention Center. School faculty, alumni and students won all four awards given – three honor awards and one merit award.

In addition, Tim Maddox (B.Arch. ’02), managing principal at deMx architecture, received the 2012 Emerging Professional Award at the ceremony. And, George Wildgen, a former Professional Advisory Board member for the school, received an Award of Merit at the awards ceremony.

David J. Buege, Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas, accepted a Tenured position as Professor of Architecture as of Fall 2012. Buege previously served as director of the architecture program. He has also been director of the architecture program at Philadelphia University, and has taught at Auburn University, Mississippi State University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He taught a seminar at Auburn’s Rural Studio for several years and was interim director of the Rural Studio in 2007-08.

He has worked in the offices of Eisenman Architects and Bartos-Rhodes Architects in New York.

He received a B.S. degree in Environmental Design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied for one year at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and received his M.Arch. degree from Princeton University.

In addition, architecture professor David Buege was selected as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators for 2013.” The DesignIntelligence staff solicited input from design professionals, academic leaders and students. They said Buege “brings a clarity and consistency of rigor, focus and exploration to his work with faculty, administration and students. He has become well known for high standards and getting the best out of each person he works with. He makes the difficult easier to understand.”

Assistant Professor Marc Manack comes to the Fay Jones School of Architecture from Cleveland, Ohio, where he founded and is currently principal of the architecture and design firm SILO AR+D. Manack’s teaching responsibilities include design studios, professional practice, and design theory seminars that support his research interests in repositioning computation’s disciplinary agenda. Manack has taught previously at the Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design and at Ohio State University’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.

Assistant Professor Frank Jacobus comes to the University of Arkansas from the University of Idaho.  As a new faculty member at the Fay Jones School of Architecture Frank teaches Design I and Honors Research Methods.  Frank is a registered architect and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a post-professional MArch II from the University of Texas at Austin.  His thesis research at the University of Texas focused on the affects of emerging technologies and media on the discipline of architecture and was selected by the architecture faculty as the “Outstanding Masters Design Study”.  While in Austin he was an invited member to a project titled “Resilient Foundations: The Gulf Coast after Katrina”, which was exhibited at the 10th annual architecture show at the Venice Biennale.  Frank’s research while at the University of Arkansas has primarily centered on our evolving perceptions of the built environment and the effects of emerging media and technology on the conceptualization of that environment.  Frank believes deeply in the educational value of continually testing architectural projects through physical making.  His work has been published widely in conference proceedings and journals.  Frank resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife Emilie and his two sons, Topher and Benny.

Amber Ellett, NCARB, LEED AP joins the faculty of the Fay Jones School of Architecture as a Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching courses in architectural design, environmental technology, and site phenomenology.  She previously taught at the College of Architecture, Art, and Design at Mississippi State University, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching courses in architectural design, active building systems, and foundational drawing.

Ellett is a registered architect and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Science in Design (Architecture), Studio Art Minor with honors and high distinction from the University of Nebraska. 

Angie Carpenter is teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the third-year studio in fall 2012 / spring 2013. She received her Master of Architecture degree in 2012 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Carpenter is an Alumna of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

Heather McArthur is teaching as an Adjunct Instructor in the third-year studio in fall 2012. She has a Master of Architecture from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

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