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Kennesaw State University

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KSU Architecture’s Associate Professor Kathryn Bedette, AIA and President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Georgia Chapter proposed the Diversity Pipeline and National Representation resolution to AIA leadership on June 20th at the 2018 Conference on Architecture in New York, New York. The initiative passed asserting a need for a national leadership pipeline of ethnically diverse women candidates for positions on the Institute Board of Directors and Strategic Council, this resolution called for a plan to support the Institute’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Bedette also serves as the Architect Licensing Advisor for Georgia and was awarded the 2016 AIA Atlanta James Gant Fausett, FAIA, Service to the Profession Award.

Associate Professor Chris Welty, AIA is currently the President-Elect for the AIA-Atlanta and serving as the KSU Architect Licensing Advisor for the National Council of Architectural Registration Board. Building upon his experience in practice, Welty also is the coordinator for KSU Department of Architecture’s Profession Program Sequence. His pedagogical interests center on integration of digital technologies and the art of craft focused around the notion of making.

Alumna Jessika Nelson, Assoc. AIA is currently serving as the Programs Director for AIA Atlanta, and was previously the 2013-2014 Chapter President of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). Remaining active in the department, Nelson participated as a volunteer for the Georgia Regional Future City Competition hosted by Kennesaw State University. 

Assistant Professor Tim Frank, AIA received an 2018 AIA Georgia Design and Honor Award for his Angier Springs Monumental Work located along the Atlanta Beltline. Frank’s permanent structure creates a new kind of urban room for the city, offering a retreat for those traveling the promenade. Akin to a budding forest, the open field of slender pillars explores the light demarcation of public space without explicit boundaries. See link:  https://www.aiaga.org/design-award/angier-springs-monumental-work/

Kennesaw State University

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Exciting afternoon of presentations at Kennesaw State University for the 3-Minute Thesis Preliminary Round, where 22- architecture students competed for the final round. The exercise challenges students to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance in just three minutes.  3MT® is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ). 

University of Virginia

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SAO PAULO: A RADICAL EVOLUTION [SYMPOSIUM]

PRESS RELEASE

No other city in the world has as great a concentration of inner-city post-industrial land as that of São Paulo. This unique urban situation demands attention and rewards analysis.

São Paulo: A Radical Evolution Symposium brings together a number of internationally renowned scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and urban governance to reflect on São Paulo. The discussion will focus on the city’s river systems, primarily the Tietê River, and the re-integration of its adjacent post-industrial land into the life of the city. Furthermore, the panelists will deliberate on the design procedures that can transform post-industrial land into vibrant mixed-use inner-city districts.

Supported by the Haddad Foundation, the event marks the launch of São Paulo: A Graphic Biography (University of Texas Press, 2018), the first comprehensive study of the city’s evolution, by Felipe Correa, Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia.

Comparative in scope, the symposium opens a dialogue between world renowned international experts who have developed extensive research and complex projects in equivalent metropolitan areas across the globe, and Brazilian urbanists who have deep knowledge of the lessons and challenges —current and historic— present in São Paulo. Organized in three interrelated topics based on chapters and themes from the book, panelists and respondents will open conversations on the exchange of urban concepts and technical expertise across disciplines, continents and cultures, and how these relate specifically to São Paulo.

Hosted by Insper and organized by the University of Virginia School of Architecture, along with the South America Project and Harvard University’s Brazil Office, the event opens an important space for discussions between design and governance, placing São Paulo in the context of global design practices.

 

WHAT: SAO PAULO: A RADICAL EVOLUTION [SYMPOSIUM]

WHEN: NOVEMBER 27, 2018 @ 9am

WHERE: INSPER AUDITORIUM [300 Quatá Street, Vila Olímpia – São Paulo/SP – Brazil]

 

CO-CONVENED BY: FELIPE CORREA AND SOL CAMACHO

SPONSORED BY: THE HADDAD FOUNDATION

 

[FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC]

Registration required. Please RSVP: saopaulo@somatic-collaborative.com

Press inquiries: saopaulo@somatic-collaborative.com; @aschool_uva; @felipecorrea_sc

 

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS

– Renato Anelli
Architecture Historian and Professor, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo

– Vinicius Andrade 
Principal, Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados
Professor of Urbanism, Insper (São Paulo)

– Ila Berman 
Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor, University of Virginia School of Architecture

– Anita Berrizbeitia 
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

– Priscila Borin de Oliveira Claro 
Professor, Insper
Member of the Núcleo de Medição para Investimentos de Impacto Socioambiental (São Paulo)

– Sol Camacho 
Principal, Raddar Architecture
Cultural Director, Instituto Bardi

– Felipe Correa 
Principal, Somatic Collaborative (New York City)
Chair of the Department of Architecture and Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor, University of Virginia School of Architecture

– Sergio G. Lazzarini 
Chafi Haddad Professor of Management, Insper (São Paulo)

– Jorge Francisco Liernur 
Architecture Historian and Professor of Architecture, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires)

– Raul Justo Lores
Journalist and Writer
Editor in Chief, da Vejinha (São Paulo)

– Michael Maltzan 
Principal, Michael Maltzan Architects (Los Angeles)

– Michael Sorkin
Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio (New York City)
Distinguished Professor of Architecture. The City College of New York

Download the Press Release and Poster.

Kennesaw State University

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Parking Day Tactical Urbanism

Having won an award in 2017 Park(ing) Day, the students in Professor Zamila Karimi’s Tactical Urbanism class was invited to participate in Park(ing) Day 2018 at Lenox Mall, Atlanta on Friday September 14. This event was sponsored by Liveable Buckhead Inc.

Morphogenesis Chair is an exploration on how design contributes to the material production of space. Using the concept of ‘PLAY’ students designed a set of six-chairs using slats of birch plywood cut on CNC. Each slat is finished with two colors – red and blue on either side to read as one field of color in one direction. The chairs are designed as a kit of parts which can be configured in multiple ways playing with perception to create a fun colorful playscape for all to be in.

Students (design team): Christine Vu, Steven Yang, Dyesha Holmes, Nhan Luu, Asbiel Samaiego, Eduardo Parra, Michelle Nguyen, Diego Vazquez, Nelly Mehrjerdian, Dayzha King, Andrew Smith, Morgan Fredrick.

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.

North Carolina State University

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Students from NC State College of Design Honored with Architecture Award during the 2018 Venice Biennale

An inquiry of innovation, forward thinking, and global design has inspired the work of students at North Carolina State University’s College of Design School of Architecture. Eleven students who participated in an advanced architecture studio, Airport Design (ARC 503), were invited to exhibit their work, “Airports of the Future: Global Design Thinking,” during the 2018 Venice Biennale. This exhibition has been honored by the European Cultural Center (ECC) with The Architecture University Project Award 2018 for its contribution to research, for highlighting the significance of airport space, and for valuing the experiential journey.

Five student teams each created designs for airports in different cities around the globe, integrating advanced transportation technologies while considering their location’s culture, geography, and economy. Starting with the concept of the airport as a vital urban site of connection and exchange, the student teams developed radical new building typologies—pushing the limits of what an airport can be in an increasingly networked world. With the guidance of  Professor of Architecture Wayne Place, Ph.DP., and Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA; Ana-Maria Drughi; and Joshua Stephens, AIA, NCARB, of Fentress Architects, the student teams developed comprehensive strategies for their chosen sites, including proposals that focused on issues of sustainability, ecology, building technology, and social justice.

Their project models and video concepts are on display through November 25, 2018, in Venice at the Time Space Existence exhibition hosted by the European Cultural Centre. The exhibition explores imaginative concepts of future innovation in air travel and anticipates the constantly evolving global challenges of airport design.

Read Full Story: https://design.ncsu.edu/architecture-studio-honored-with-award-during-venice-biennale/

Kennesaw State University

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Kennesaw State University (KSU) alumni Christian Fraser, Ryan Horgan and designer Maria Montgomery tour 30-architecture students from Prof. Martin-Malikian’s Environmental Technology class through Perkins+Will Atlanta. The offices were redesigned in 2009 into a high-performance sustainability-focused office building. The project earned LEED Platinum with 95-points awarded, which is the most of any project in the Northern Hemisphere to date under the 2009 version of LEED for New Construction.  This adaptive reuse project is located in the heart of midtown Atlanta across from the High Museum of Art and is the recipient of the Urban Land Institute’s Development of Excellence Award.

North Carolina State University

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NC State University, College of Design, School of Architecture will be holding an Open House for graduate programs in Architecture. The event will provide an opportunity for prospective graduate students interested in learning more about the degrees offered, admissions, program highlights, and certificate and concentrations within Architecture. All are Welcome and Registration is encouraged. 

 DATE: Friday, October 19th

 TIME: 11:45 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. (evening events are optional)

 LOCATION: NC State College of Design, School of Architecture: Raleigh, NC

 LEARN MORE: HERE (https://design.ncsu.edu/event/architecture-graduate-open-house-2/)

Kennesaw State University

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Congratulations to the Department of Architecture’s Liz Martin-Malikian, Michael Carroll, and Dr. Miné Hashas-Degertekin, who have each been appointed 2018-2019 Sustainability Faculty Fellowships with the Center for Diversity Leadership and Engagement at Kennesaw State University.

 

Liz Martin-Malikian (left) will be developing a new curriculum in Real Estate Sustainable Development as a campus-wide undergraduate minor to prepare students for careers in the corporate sector, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or environmental advocacy groups. As proposed, this new minor would be an interdisciplinary one-year program to prepare students to become effective and influential participants in the fields of real estate, finance, design and development. The intent of this undergraduate minor is to not only help students develop a systems-level perspective of the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable developments, but also raise awareness within the broader campus community.

Michael Carroll’s (middle) academic research focuses on materiality and material expression in contemporary architecture. As Sustainability Faculty Fellow 2018-19, Professor Carroll’s project, entitled “Performative Façades: De-constructing Identity Through Architectural Design”, embraces sustainability from both a technological and a cultural perspective. The proposal centers not only cutting edge innovative materials and performative façade technologies that filter light and air, but also how these can be deployed in the design of a series of façade systems for non-profit groups in Metro Atlanta that traditionally have been under-represented. These façade systems would not only make buildings that house these groups more ecologically sustainable but also positively contribute to the cultural identities of those organizations.

Miné Hashas-Degertekin (right) has been working with various government agencies, non-profit, and advocacy groups including Atlanta Regional Commission, Transformation Alliance, GA Stand Up, ULI-Atlanta, City of Atlanta, and Soccer in the Street, etc. for identifying social, economic and cultural patterns, physical character and place making solutions to challenge anticipated gentrification in West-End Neighborhood. She has integrated various students taking her courses to the projects via internships, research, sustainable urban design proposals and associated community participation processes. Continuing these partnerships and based on the study results, Dr. Hashas-Degertekin will be developing an implementation project addressing the same issues in West-End involving additional faculty and students.

 

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