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Virginia Tech – Architecture Program:

Faculty Publications, Awards, Exhibition, Invited Lectures, etc.:
Professor Jack Davis, F.A.I.A., Dean Emeritus, was awarded the William C. Noland Medal, the highest award given to a member architect by the Virginia American Institute of Architects, for his extraordinary achievements over the past several decades. The medal was bestowed upon the recipient during the Visions for Architecture gala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November 2018.

Professor Emeritus Dayton Eugene Egger’s book The Paradox of Place: In the Line of Sight was published by ORO Editions. The book was edited by Gregory Luhan. It is supplied with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton. A book vernissage was held at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center in November 2018.

Visiting Assistant Professor Kevin Jones, A.I.A.was recognized with the Virginia Emerging Professional Award by the Virginia American Institute of Architects.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, S.I.A.and architect Valerio Olgiati’s new book Non-Referential Architecture was published by Simonett & Baer. The book appeared in its original English version as well as in a translated German edition. The book was presented during the annual Porto Academy held at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) in Portugal in July 2018.

Following faculty member has been granted promotion by the university:
Associate Professor Patrick Doan, R.A. has been promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Associate Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A. has been promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Associate Professor Paola Zellner-Bassett has been promoted from the rank of Associate Collegiate Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Following architecture faculty have been appointed to administrative positions:
Professor Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D.,has been appointed Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

In Memoriam:
Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, and Virginia Tech President Emeritus Dr. Charles Steger, F.A.I.A., passed away on May 6, 2018.

T.A. Carter Professor Emeritus Dr. Dennis Kilper, A.I.A., with a 34-year tenure (1975-2009) at Virginia Tech’s architecture program, passed away on January 14, 2018.

Professor Emeritus Robert Ning-Shee Chaing, a professor at Virginia Tech’s architecture program form 1968 to 1998, passed away on October 9, 2017.

Catholic University of America

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Join CUArch 2018 Walton Critic Susan Jones (atelierjones, Seattle) in a talk about the interactions between materiality, light, design, sustainability and the sacred in architect Jones’ practice (ranked 7th in the US for design quality in late 2017)

“Light Leaps Forward” will be on 09/17/18 at 5:00pm in the Koubek auditorium followed by a reception.

Open to all.

American University of Sharjah

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The Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates is pleased to announce the following faculty appointments commencing Fall 2016.

Jason Carlow has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. His design work, research and teaching are centered on the relationship between digital and traditional modes of drawing, modeling and fabrication. He holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. His design and research work has been published and exhibited internationally in venues including the Hong Kong / Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Beijing Architecture Biennial as well as in architectural exhibitions in Hong Kong, Xian, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Shanghai, London and Washington DC.

Greg Watson has been appointed as a Professor. Before joining AUS, he was the Emogene Pliner Professor of Architecture at LSU and served as an associate professor at Mississippi State University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Minnesota. He has also held visiting and adjunct positions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Maine College of Art, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Watson’s teaching and research focuses on design process, materials, landscape design and representation. Throughout his academic career he has received numerous awards, most recently the 2015 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor Award.

As an architect, his work includes award-winning projects while practicing in Chicago, Minneapolis, Maine, South Carolina and Mississippi. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited at galleries in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Annapolis, Mississippi, and Louisiana. These scholarly pursuits in architecture and art have been supported from the Mississippi State University Office of Research, the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Watson holds a BA in psychology from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.

Matthew A. Trimble has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. Trimble is a principal and founder of Radlab, an experimental design and fabrication firm. He has a diverse range of experience working and consulting in the field of architecture for firms that include Neil M. Denari Architects, Behnisch Behnisch and Partner, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, and dECOi Architects. Trimble has taught seminars, workshops, and studios internationally for both graduate and undergraduate students at the Boston Architectural College, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Trimble holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture degree from The University of Memphis, where he received the Frances F. Austin Scholarship, and a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Avalon Travel Fellowship.

Mara Marcu has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Fall of 2016. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and founder of MM13. Her work focuses on providing for a digital and material workflow that connects design, fabrication, and culture-specific topics. Prior to her academic career, she worked for Rafael Vinoly Architects in NYC, and on the Shobac Cottages, as part of Ghost Lab 7, with Brian MacKay-Lyons in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2010 Marcu trained with Pritzker Prize Laureate Glenn Murcutt in Australia. Her education includes a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston where she received the Best in Show Design Award. In 2011 she was the recipient of the University of Virginia Fellowship. Mara is the founder of ECHOS with the first upcoming volume published with Actar.

Igor Peraza has rejoined the architecture faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2016-2017 academic year. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Peraza holds a BSc of Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, received a scholarship to do his Master of Architecture at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, and obtained his Ph.D at the University of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. Professionally, he worked for five years at the Atelier of Arata Isozaki and led the Domus (Museum of Mankind) project on-site in La Coruña, Spain. In 2000 he relocated to Barcelona to work with Miralles Tagliabue as Director of the Santa Caterina Market project. Peraza went on to serve as Director of EMBT’s Shanghai office were he led numerous projects including the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, the New Campus of Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Museum for the Chinese painter Zhang Daqian. He has previously taught at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the European Institute of Design, Tongji University, and served as a visiting professor at the Lebanese American University from 2013 to 2015.

Philadelphia University

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In the fall of 2015, Assoc. Professor Chris Harnish was invited to South Africa for the International Trans-disciplinary Workshop “Transforming Johannesburg: Reshaping Socio-Ecological Landscapes Through Collaborative Practices” in Johannesburg, where he led a research group on Eco-incremental Housing.  He also presented a lecture at the University of Witswatersrand titled “Housing as an Incremental Process: Designing for Customization and Adaptability”.

Assoc. Professor Kihong Ku led a cross-disciplinary team of faculty and practitioners that was awarded a 2015 NCARB Award to develop strategies for architectural textile composites for building envelopes.  Dr. Ku’s team received $34,208 in funding for an interdisciplinary and experimental architecture design studio to explore innovative approaches to architectural textile composites.  Dr. Ku was also named the Volpe Chair for Architectural Innovation by Philadelphia University

New Assistant Professor Jeffrey Kansler will be joining the architecture faculty from UIUC in the fall of 2016 to coordinate and teach the structures curriculum.

Assoc. Professor David Kratzer is leading a community outreach studio in which his students are working with Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) on a proposal for a new train station for the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia.

John Hubert, adjunct professor, has had four teams from PhilaU (out of a total of 30 national participating teams) selected as finalists in the US Department of Energy (DOE) 2016 Race To Zero Student Design Competition that asks students to generate creative energy efficient design solutions for sustainable homes in four separate housing categories.

Professor James Doerfler, Director of Architecture, is hosting a special session at the 2016 International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA) in Guimaraes, Portugal titled “Beyond Disciplines: Building Transdisciplinary Teams” 

As result of speaking as a panelist at the 3rd Hemispheric Meeting of Deans in Guatemala, Assoc. Professor Craig Griffen’s article “The Online Studio Problem: Assessing the Role of Distance Learning in Design Pedagogy” was published in the UNAM, Mexico City journal Bitacora 30.

Catholic University of America

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Reclaim + Remake Symposium, April 11-13, 2013 “Waste is a Resource in the Wrong Place and Time”

The symposium is proposed to bring together the most innovative practices in education and research for current and future reuse and recycling of material resources in the built environment. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles J. Kibert, Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Mr. Jan Jongert, Founder 2012Architecten, Rotterdam,  Mr. Scott Boylston, Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Sustainable Design Program, Savannah College of Art and Design.

Abstracts for presented papers and designs are welcome from designers, educators, researchers and advanced university students who are engaged in knowledge creation and dissemination for the responsible use and end-of-life management of building material resources. Abstracts should be 300-500 words. A two-stage blind process will be used for abstract submittals and for full paper submittals. Proceedings will be produced from accepted papers and presentations. Abstracts Deadline: November 12, 2012. 

More information and submissions: http://architecture.cua.edu/reclaimremake

Auburn University

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David Hill, assistant professor of landscape architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and principal at D.I.R.T. studio, was a Resource Team member in the 59th National Session of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design (MICD), June 4-6, 2014, in Louisville, KY. MICD, a National Endowment for the Arts Leadership Initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United State Conference of Mayors, organizes two-and-a-half-day sessions in which mayors engage leading design experts in case-study problems to find solutions to the most critical design challenges facing their cities. For more, click here. 

David Hill’s award-winning repurposing and renovation of a warehouse into his stunning home on Bragg Avenue is profiled in the July/August 2014 issue of Dwell. Read “Family-Friendly Renovation of a Brick Warehouse in Alabama by clicking here.

Cheryl Morgan, Auburn architecture alumna, professor and director of the Urban Studio, was inducted into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows at an Investiture Ceremony at the 2014 National AIA Convention in Chicago on June 27.    Prof. Morgan was nominated for the College of Fellows by the Birmingham Chapter of the AIA, in recognition of her innovative approaches to instruction and outreach and the impact of her work in these arenas on the careers of her students and in the lives of small towns and communities across the state, region and nation. Morgan’s non-traditional approach to teaching has evolved through her thirty years of studio teaching and through her work with under-served people and places in Alabama. For more, read here.

Professor and Chair of Architecture Behzad Nakhjavan recently participated in the Washington University architecture alumni exhibition titled ”Drawing.”   The intent of the exhibit was to show a range of interpretations of what drawing means today from sketches and conceptual drawings to construction and fabrication drawings.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s summer edition of the newsletter has been released. To catch up on our amazing alumni, diverse faculty, and hard-working students, please visit StudioAPLA.

Rural Studio projects and alumni have been featured  in different publications recently: The Lions Park Scout Hut in Architectural Record: the 20K House project is featured in GreenBuildingAdvisor: and Rural Studio Alum Daniel Splaingard reflects on his time at the Rural Studio.

Auburn University

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Alex Krumdieck, a principal in the Birmingham-based architecture and interior design firm Krumdieck A + I, has been hired as Interim Director of APLA’s acclaimed Urban Studio program based in Birmingham, Alabama. Alex will lead the APLA’s teaching team in Birmingham, focusing on the Fifth Year architecture students who choose the Urban Studio as the venue for their final year of study. Alex follows Cheryl Morgan, long-time Urban Studio Director, who retired last December. In addition to his teaching role, Alex will coordinate the outreach and community-based design activities of the Urban Studio and serve as a liaison to the other APLA and CADC faculty engaged in learning and outreach activities in Birmingham.

Phillip Ewing, BArch/ BIArch ’12, and MIT’s first recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Fellowship, has been lead architect for the CityHome project developed through MIT’s Changing Places Research Group. The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization, and Phillip was responsible for the overall design of the unit, from concept to construction drawing and fabrication. Working with the other lead engineering researchers on integrating their disparate mechanisms into one cohesive package, the team still works to maintain “plug-and-play” add-ons as the project continues to develop. The development of this micro-unit apartment was a demonstration platform for Phillip’s MIT thesis research, and you can watch a demo here.

Meagan Winchester, a senior in Environmental Design from Tampa, Florida, won first place for her poster presentation in the Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities category in Research Week’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium. Her poster, The Issues of Desertification and Food Production, presented her research on the topic of desertification and its effects throughout the world and the product that she designed to help repair land that was not previously desert but had become so because of human activities. Posters presentations were judged on quality of content, conclusions, visual material, presentation, originality, and significant to discipline. For more, read here .

Rural Studio Director Andrew Freear and Professor Elena Barthel, with Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and photographer Timothy Hursley,  published Rural Studio at Twenty by Princeton Architectural Press. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, co-founded by visionary Samuel Mockbee and his friend and colleague D.K. Ruth, and now directed by their equally dedicated and forward-thinking successor Andrew Freear. In addition to showcasing an impressive portfolio of projects, stunningly captured by photographer Timothy Hursley, this book provides an in-depth look at how Rural Studio has thrived through challenges and triumphs, missteps and lessons learned.

Purchase the book from this retailer to ensure that a portion of the proceeds go to the Rural Studio.

The Rural Studio is part of an exhibition currently on view in Paris at the Cite_ de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. The exhibition, ‘Re-Enchanting the World,’ was designed in collaboration with winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Rural Studio’s own Elena Barthel worked on Rural Studio’s contribution to the exhibition, which will run through October 6, 2014.

On May 14 the City of Austin, Texas announced that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, a product of a two-year collaboration between artists/architects Lucy Begg and Robert Gay of Thoughtbarn.  Begg and Gay, both Rural Studio alumni, were commissioned in 2012 to oversee the design and implementation of the community garden at the North Austin Community Recreation Center. The project’s aim was to blend artistic innovation with the necessary functionality and sustainability needed to run such a garden in cooperation with the community, Begg and Gay collaborated with the community throughout the design process and established the Garden Leadership Group to develop a governing structure for the garden as well as bylaws, membership fees and rules; the Group will be lead by community volunteers. As the garden gains membership, it will expand to fill a 20,000 square foot area of the park.

From May 25-August 3, 2014, The Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia, will be showing Design for Social Impact, an exhibition which offers a look at how designers, engineers, students, professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from the Southeastern United States are using design to solve the problems of the 21st century.

The exhibition includes projects by Georgia Tech Students, Plywood People, Stanford’s d-School, MIT’s D-Lab, Stryker, Michael Graves, Interface, Steelcase, Mad Housers, Auburn University and many others.

Ryan Stephenson, BArch ’08, and the Stephenson Design Collective  were featured in the  Seattle Times in a piece about a modern house they designed for a client.  For more, read here.

Professor and former Director of the Urban Studio, Cheryl Morgan was included, along with the Urban Studio, in a Wall Street Journal article featuring projects where commercial properties were converted into residences.  For more, read here.

APLA Alum and architect Bruce Lanier (Arch ’99) in a partnership with artist Heather Spencer Holmes, created a headquarters for Birmingham, Alabama’s collaborative community called MAKEbhm.  With a passion for creativity and community, MAKEbhm rents its space to anyone with creative ideas  about business, organizations, etc. and a desire to collaborate.  Read more here.

 

Auburn University

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Nearly 40 creative research projects by CADC faculty, graduate and undergraduate students were exhibited in the Auburn University Research Week 2014 Creative Scholarship Showcase at the Auburn and Dixon Conference Center, April 15_16. Every school was represented, and projects ranged from the collaboration by interior architecture professor Sheri Schumacher and graphic designer professor Robert Finkel that created the Alabama Workshop[s] Brochure/Poster; industrial design student Ben Travis’s portable coffee press; graphic design student Avenley Horner’s Form Magazine; to landscape architecture professor David Hill’s Phenology project. “The depth, breadth and beauty of CADC creative research is, as Karen Rogers, CADC Associate Dean for Research, describes it, “absolutely stunning.”

Professor Emeritus Steffen R. Doerstling, PhD, passed away on Saturday, April 19. He was 86. Doerstling joined Auburn Architecture faculty in 1966 and retired in 1995. He is survived by his wife Ingrid, his son, Mark, his daughter-in-law and grandchildren. 

The Auburn University Office of Sustainability announced its 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award winners on Tuesday, April 22.  Judd Langham, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, a 2007 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, was one of the alumni recipients and Alexis Harrison, a senior in Environmental Design who will earn a minor in Sustainability, received a student award.  They were selected as “representatives of the larger passion and commitment to sustainability that exists within the Auburn community.”

Several faculty members and graduate students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) were involved in technical sessions at Advance in Atlanta, the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 26-29. 

Lauren Waldroop, a senior in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Environmental Design (CADC) program, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research and study in Germany in the coming academic year. Lauren, who has dual degrees in Environmental Design and German with a double minor in International Business and Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, will study with Professor Jan Pieper in the Department of Architectural History at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University in Aachen, Germany. She will be part of a team of faculty and students conducting a comparative study of Northern Renaissance and Southern Renaissance architecture in theaters.

Graduate Students in the Master of Integrated Design & Construction program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction won several awards in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Challenge Home Student Design Competition to develop cost-effective zero energy ready homes for mainstream builders. Working under the direction of Professors Christian Dagg and Mike Thompson, the students designed two prototypes for a 1,600 square foot house that costs $110 square foot to build. The students competed against 28 schools from across the U.S. and Canada. The MIDC Orange Team won “Best Design Solution, and MIDC Blue team  won “Best Presentation “ and special recognition for “Subject Area Award: Design Goals” and  “Subject Area Award: Net Zero Design Integration.”The Auburn University Master of Integrated Design & Construction (MIDC) program is one of the only degree-granting programs in the United States that is jointly housed between construction management and architecture programs—Auburn University’s McWhorter School of Building Science and the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

On May 16 former Auburn University Urban Studio director Cheryl Morgan  presented a retrospective of Urban Studio work for the AIA Northwest Florida at the Museum of Commerce in Pensacola, Florida.

APLA congratulates alumnus Heather Brantley Stallworth (BArch / BIntArch ’00) and Catalyst Architects, LLC on being presented with the Robert Mills Design Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the design of ‘Seahorse: A Beach House.’  Amanda Herron Loper (BArch / BIntArch ’05) recently received an AIA San Francisco Merit Award for Interior Architecture  for the St. Frank Coffee shop.

APLA alumni–founded Epicenter recently announced that the Union Pacific Foundation will be contributing a sixth year of support.  The Foundation was Epicenter’s very first supporter in 2008 and is honored to be one of the Foundation’s forty-one grantees to which they awarded over two million dollars this year.

 

Virginia Tech

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Henri deHahn, provost for the NewSchool of Architecture + Design in San Deigo, California, will join Virginia Tech in June as the director of the School of Architecture + Design (http://www.archdesign.vt.edu) in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

DeHahn will provide leadership to the undergraduate and graduate programs within the school, including the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, and interior design as well as the six research and outreach centers housed within the school. 

Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design offers undergraduate and graduate education through the Blacksburg, Va., campus, the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center in Alexandria, Va., and programs engaged at the Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva san Vitale, Switzerland.

“Henri brings a wealth of national and international experience from large and academically diverse institutions to the School of Architecture + Design,” said Jack Davis, Reynolds Metals Professor of Architecture and dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Prior to his most recent role as provost at the NewSchool of Architecture + Design, deHahn was department head and professor for the Department of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and has held faculty positions with ETH Zurich — a renowned university in Zurich, Switzerland — and the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., and served as a visiting professor at the Aayojan School of Architecture in Jaipur, India.

In addition to his academic experience, deHahn has worked as an architect and consultant on a variety of projects in the United States and Switzerland.

DeHahn earned his Master of Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and his Bachelor of Science from the Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland. He has completed additional studies in New York. at The Cooper Union and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Auburn University

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McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors were selected to be among the AD100, Architectural Digest magazine’s biennial list of the top talents in architecture and interior design. The new list was announced November 2013. McAlpine Tankersley Architecture was founded in Montgomery in 1983 and is the partnership of Alabama natives and Auburn School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) graduates Bobby McAlpine (’81), Greg Tankersley (’85), John Sease (’92) and Chris Tippett (’92).

Matthew Leavell, Project Director at Alabama Innovation Engine, was recently recognized in Birmingham magazine’s Groundbreaker’s series for his work with Engine on the Cahaba Blueway. Labeled by the Smithsonian as one of the top biologically diverse ecologies in the United States, Leavell, advocates that the Cahaba River is far more than a blue line that runs through the state, but has the potential to be a dynamic resource that can initiate economic development throughout the state in rural and urban communities.

APLA faculty (Professors Justin Miller, Robert Sproull and David Hinson) and the Alabama Association of Habitat Affiliates (AAHA) have been awarded second year funding of external grant which will support continued improvement in the quality of affordable housing in the state and affiliate training in best practices related to whole building performance. The state affiliates participating in the grant program, Green Home Alabama, will construct 16 Energy Star certified homes this upcoming spring and summer. The DESIGNhabitat program will be involved in the design of the two HERS 24 index homes, commonly referred to as a net zero ready home. Professors Miller and Sproull will lead this initiative, working with a team of undergraduate students this spring to design these net zero ready demonstration homes in close collaboration with the partner affiliates and future homeowners.

Rural Studio’s Newbern Town Hall was voted the 2014 Building of the Year in the category of Public Architecture by ArchDaily readers. From over 3,500 projects from around the world, its readership chose the best architecture in 14 categories. The Auburn student design team of Brett Bowers, David Frazier, Mallory Garrett and Zane Morgan worked with the Town of Newbern and its civic leaders to develop a formal gathering place for community functions. The Newbern Town Hall was completed in 2013 and, along with the Newbern Volunteer Fire Department (a 2005 Rural Studio Project), creates a civic space in Newbern, Alabama.

The Safe House Museum in Greensboro, Alabama was the Third Place winner in the public voting of World-architects eMagazine Building of the Year American-Architects 2013. The student team of Chris Currie, Cassandra Kellogg, and Candace Rimes restored the museum’s two existing shotgun houses and linked the buildings together. They also added a new gallery space for African-American art. The Safe House Museum is of great historical significance to the Civil Rights movement in Hale County, where once the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan.

The 2013–2014 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is entitled Renegades + Outlaws: Design Thinking at the Edge.” The series is conceived as a way to consider perceptual outliers within the design profession and includes the following visiting lecturers:  Richard Weller – Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, University of Pennsylvania; Gina Reichert – Founding Principal, Design 99; William O’Brien, Jr. – Founding Principal, WOJR; Jon Coddington – Professor and Head, Department of Architecture + Interiors, Drexel University; Liz Ogbu – Designer, Urbanist, Researcher, Social Innovation Strategist. For more information, please visit:  http://cadc.auburn.edu/architecture/special-programs/lecture-series

Charlene M. LeBleu, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, has been elected Vice President for Research of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) for 2014_2016. As Vice President for Research, LeBleu will guide a national research agenda of developing areas of knowledge in landscape architecture including collaborating with related organizations in establishing research priorities. LeBleu will serve a two-year term from March 2014_March 2016.

Rod Barnett, Chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, gave the Olmsted Lecture at the Harvard GSD in November 2013. His presentation, called Nonlinear Encounters, focused on aspects of his recent book Emergence in Landscape Architecture, which the publisher Routledge says is selling “brilliantly.” To view the lecture, please visit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=820vwFYR2lU

Maria Hines, a recent graduate of the Environmental Design program, and student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Auburn, had an article accepted in the Spring 2014 issue of AUJUS (The Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Design). 

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