The Department of Architecture at Kennesaw State University welcomes Robert P. Alden AIA, LEED AP, NCARB who was appointed as the 2018 Focus Studio Faculty. He is an architect with over thirty years of professional experience on a wide range of project types and scales — including Georgia World Congress Center, 2002 Perimeter Summit Office Tower, the Reno Nv. Events Center, and 12th & Midtown, a 2.4M square foot, $270M mixed-used development in Atlanta. He has also taught at Chattahoochee Technical College in Woodstock, GA in the interior design program. Rob brings real-world insight to his 2018 Focus Studio entitled: Comprehensive Design and Systems Integration. The Department also welcomes Soleen Karimas the 2018 Focus Studio Faculty. She currently works at Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam Architects as a Project Manager; and her project experience ranges from a single family, high-end residential, to civic buildings, urban design and architectural installations, most notably the US Pavilion in Detroit presented at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Soleen graduated from Georgia Tech with Bachelors of Architecture, Masters of Architecture and Masters of City and Regional Planning. Born in a refugee camp in Iran, Soleen combines her passion for social justice with her eye for design through her non-profit, Design4Refugees, Corp, an organization who aids refugees within camps. Soleen’s 2018 Focus Studio is entitled: Childhood Warscape.
Jeffrey Colllins joins Kennesaw State University this fall 2018 as an Assistant Professor in a tenure track position. Jeffery is a Registered Architect and architectural educator. He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in architecture from The Ohio State University and is currently pursuing a doctorate in architecture, with concentration in design computation, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2009, he has taught architecture studio and lecture courses at Georgia Tech, Southern Polytechnic State University, Auburn University, and Kennesaw State University. In 2018, AIA Atlanta and the Young Architects Forum named Jeffrey as their Emerging Voices honoree.
The Department of Architecture at Kennesaw State University also welcomes Dr. Selen Okcu (PhD 2011, Georgia Institute of Technology), who was appointed a fulltime Lecturer. As a former Research Scientist at NASA and a Design Educator, she has published widely on a variety of emerging architectural topics including culture, perception, and technology. She is the recipient of the King Medal from the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) and the Newman Medal from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
UVA School of Architecture Selects Felipe Correa as Chair of Architecture
The University of Virginia School of Architecture has appointed Felipe Correa as the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and the new chair of Architecture. Currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Correa will assume the role on July 15, 2018.
Correa is an internationally renowned architect and urbanist. Working at the confluence of architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure, he has, through his design practice Somatic Collaborative, developed design projects with the public and private sector in multiple cities and regions across the globe. Designing across multiple scales and varied contexts, Correa is known for using architectural commissions, design competitions, and diverse forms of applied research to facilitate design’s role as a critical mediator between society and space.
At Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Correa co-founded and directed (in collaboration with Ana María Durán) the South America Project (SAP), a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American continent. Correa’s forthcoming book, São Paulo: A Graphic Biography (University of Texas Press, October 2018), presents a comprehensive portrait of Brazil’s largest city, narrating its fast-paced growth and offering a compelling vision of how a city can transform its post-industrial fabric to alleviate the extreme socio-economic divide between city center and periphery. Correa is also the author of the recently published, Beyond the City: Resource Extraction in South America (University of Texas Press, 2016) and Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography (ARD, 2015).
“As one of the leading scholars on architecture and urban design in Latin America, Felipe brings a wealth of knowledge, creativity and experience to UVA,” said Ila Berman, Dean of the School of Architecture. “He will be a tremendous addition to the leadership team of the Architecture School and we’re extremely excited to welcome him to the community.”
Correa’s design work, research, and writings have been published in journals, including Architectural Design, Architectural Record, Harvard Design Magazine, MONU, Ottagono, and PLOTamong many others. He has lectured and exhibited worldwide at many universities and conferences, most recently at Columbia University, Cornell University, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Tulane University, University of Pennsylvania, The National Arts Club of New York, and the Pan-American Architecture Biennale. He is the co-editor of Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices, a publication series that explores the role of architecture and urbanism in the context of international development.
In addition to previous academic appointment at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Correa has taught at Cornell University’s School of Art, Architecture and Planning and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, School of Architecture. Through his academic appointments, he has served various leadership and advisory roles in support of curriculum and student affairs, including the Office of the Provost’s Advisory Board for Architecture Research at Universidad de la República (Uruguay), the Dean’s Academic Diversity Committee at Harvard, and the Dean’s Board of Advisors at Tulane University, among others.
Robin Dripps, Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture and member of the search committee, expanded upon Dean Berman’s enthusiasm about the addition of Correa to the faculty and as the Architecture Chair. “Felipe arrives at the School of Architecture with impressive accomplishments in academic leadership. Demonstrated over a wide range of scales, intellectual territories, and operational logics, he is an impressive intellectual and administrative leader. Felipe’s remarkable research accomplishments and publication record fit well within the department and School while considerably extending possibilities for future research. As a strong advocate for students to take on projects of their own even outside the University, he will help our students in establishing greater presence within the larger global discourse on architecture and design.”
“I am thrilled to join the UVA faculty as the new chair of the Department of Architecture. The instrumental and methodological diversity found in the school’s faculty, paired with an energetic student body, makes the department an ideal laboratory to further advance a collective agenda on how architecture can better bring spatial and aesthetic synthesis to the design challenges of the twenty-first century,” Correa said.
“It is a distinct honor to join UVA and continue to build upon the extraordinary legacy of design education across multiple scales and mediums already present in the department and the school.”
Correa received a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University in 2000, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2003. He is a multi-year recipient of the David Rockfeller Center for Latin American Studies Research Grants, a Graham Foundation Grant awardee, and received the Academic Excellence and Leadership in Urban Design Award from Harvard, among many other awards and fellowships. His work has been exhibited world-wide, most recently in Germany (Ways of Life: Rethinking the role of hinterland living), in Lisbon (The World in Our Eyes: Lisbon Architecture Triennale), in Rotterdam(International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam), and in Buenos Aires (Bienale Internacional de Buenos Aires).
UVA School of Architecture welcomes Ehsan Baharlou as Assistant Professor of Architecture, Advanced Technologies
The School of Architecture is very pleased to announce the recent addition of Ehsan Baharlou to its faculty.
Ehsan Baharlou, a designer and researcher, with a doctorate from the University of Stuttgart, will be joining the School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor of Architecture, Advanced Technologies. Ehsan is currently a post-doctoral associate at MIT, working within the Composite Architectures research group, led by Professor Mark Goulthorpe. Ehsan’s research focuses on the automated production of composite housing and the development of CAD/CAM software customization in composite architectures. His doctoral research was completed under the supervision of Professor Achim Menges and explored the integration of fabrication and construction constraints into a computational model for the realization of informed form generation. This research is part of Ehsan’s ongoing work with the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at Stuttgart, which included the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion (2014-2015), integrating robotic fabrication and an agent-based computational design method. Ehsan has taught computational design seminars and studios to undergraduate, graduate and thesis students over the last seven years. His current research and design work aims to bridge the gap and mediate the cyber-physical interactions between complex forms and advanced manufacturing tools, shifting from a paradigm of abstracted computational design toward an integration of both physical (fabrication and production) and digital investigations. Ehsan Baharlou also holds a Master of Science in Architecture with distinction from the Islamic Azad University of Tehran.
For more on Ehsan’s research, design, and teaching, please visit his website at www.ehsanbaharlou.com
UVA School of Architecture Welcomes New Faculty – Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari
The School of Architecture is very pleased to announce the recent addition of new faculty members to UVA.
Ali Fard, a designer and researcher, with a doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, will be joining the School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor of Urban Design. Ali is the co-founder of the award-winning Op.N, a research and design practice that investigates the operational networks of urbanization, their dialectical relationship to urban agglomerations, and potential spatial registrations that arise from these contextual frictions. Op.N’s work and research exists at the critical junction of architecture, landscape and urban processes. Ali has served as the editor of the New Geographies journal since 2012 and his work has been featured in publications such as The Water Index and Bracket 3: At Extremes. He has held teaching positions at the GSD and University of Waterloo, recently teaching studios and seminars such as: “Species, Spaces and Productive Territories: New Botanic Landscapes,” “Information, Communication, and the Evolving Conceptions of Urban Space,” and “Active Media: Dynamic Representation in Design.”Ali’s current research investigates the operational landscapes of connectivity and the urban/spatial disposition of information and communication technologies. Ali will be teaching between the Urban and Environmental Planning and Architecture Departments and will be a leading contributor to the Next Cities Institute and curricula associated with the Urban Design certificate program and future MUD program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors and a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Doctor of Design from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Ghazal Jafari, an architect and urban designer, and co-founder of Op.N with Ali Fard, will be joining UVA School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor. Ghazal holds a B.Arch. degree from Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, a Master of Urban Design from the University of Toronto, a Master in Design Studies in Landscape, Urbanism and Ecology and a Doctor of Design, both from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. With an interdisciplinary and cross-scalar approach to design research and practice, Ghazal’s work is situated at the convergence of infrastructural landscape, geography, and complex territorial mechanisms. Ghazal has served as a co-editor and key contributor to numerous recent titles including, New Geographies 09: Posthuman (GSD and Actar, 2017), EXTRACTION EMPIRE: Undermining the Systems, States & Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire(MIT Press, 2018), and IMPLOSIONS / EXPLOSIONS: Towards A Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2014). Ghazal co-authored the multi-media project, THE MISSING 400: On the Omission of Women from the Built Environment with Pierre Belanger and Hernan Bianchi, presented in the format of an open letter to Charles Jencks, and addressing the inequalities evident in the history of architectural canon. Prior to co-founding Op.N, she has work with the Planning Alliance in Toronto on projects such as the Port Lands redevelopment and the Oyu Tolgoi new mining town masterplan in Mongolia and with Lateral Office based in Toronto, on Ice Link, Next North, among others. Together, Ali and Ghazal’s research and design practice has investigated diverse and complex territorial networks through projects such as Arctic Resource Urbanization: Urbanization Processes of Resource Extraction in the Arctic, Passive >> Performative: Productive Urban Conduits as Catalysts for Development in Montreal, Parallel Networks: New York’s 6th Borough as a Blue Network, and Infostructures: New Spatial Typologies for an Emerging Information Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech offers an annual prize to promote research on the contributions that women have made to the built environment and the design related disciplines.
Proposal submittal of 500 words and CV is due May 15, 2018.
Professor Kathryn Bedette Named in “100 Influential Women to Know” by Engineering Georgia Magazine
An asset to the design and build profession, Kathryn Bedette has served as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Georgia Advocacy Director in the past and as the Board President presently. She teaches grassroots-driven architecture advocacy in her role at Kennesaw State University and is credited with aiding the passing of the House Bill 943 Indemnification Bill.
As of July 1, 2017, Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University officially completed an institutional merger following receipt of all required regulatory, accrediting and other third-party approvals. The name for the combined institution, which will be the fifth largest in Philadelphia, is Thomas Jefferson University and will be referred to as Jefferson in common usage. The combination will not alter our programs which continue to expand. The College of Architecture and the Built Environment is excited about exploring new opportunities, including ways to investigate issues of health care and the built environment.
Asst. Prof. Jeff Kansler and Professor James Doerfler supervised the Merge art installation designed by architecture students to reflect the merger of Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University. The large glass art installation was built by students from Jefferson and the Finishing Trades Institute and displayed on the center city campus during the Design Philadelphia festival in October 2018.
Several faculty were awarded term chairs by the college. These include: James Doerfler, Professor and Director, The Cheryl Smith, AIA Chair for Architecture; David Kratzer, Assoc. Prof., The RHJ Associates PC Term Chair; Dr. Kihong R. Ku, Assoc. Prof., The Volpe Family Term Chair for Architectural Innovation; and Donald Dunham, Assoc. Professor, The Amanda Weko Family Chair for Architecture
Assoc. Prof. Chris Harnish recently returned from work on his Fulbright Teaching Scholar Fellowship, “Equity, Sustainability and Resilience: Architecture as a Social Force in Humanitarian Development”. The fellowship sponsored his teaching at the University of Malawi Polytechnic where he brought this topic to Malawian architecture students.
Chris also has contributed a chapter to the ebookSustainable Urban Development and Globalization
Two faculty have recently published books. Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Singletary has written “James MacNeil Whistler and France; A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry and Music”. And Prof. Edgar Stach has written “Mies van der Rohe; Space–Material–Detail”
Assoc. Prof. Craig Griffen hosted an AIA Housing Knowledge Community Webinar entitled The Challenge of Incorporating Passive Energy Strategies into Developer Single-Family Suburban Housing
The program welcomes our new faculty member, Asst. Prof. Andrew Hart, who will focus his teaching on the visualization curriculum. Andrew recently served on the NCARB Think Tank in 2016-17.
As of July 1, 2017, Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University officially completed an institutional merger following receipt of all required regulatory, accrediting and other third-party approvals. The name for the combined institution, which will be the fifth largest in Philadelphia, is Thomas Jefferson University and will be referred to as Jefferson in common usage. The combination will not alter our programs which continue to expand. The College of Architecture and the Built Environment is excited about exploring new opportunities, including ways to investigate issues of health care and the built environment.
Asst. Prof. Jeff Kansler and Professor James Doerfler supervised the Merge art installation designed by architecture students to reflect the merger of Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University. The large glass art installation was built by students from Jefferson and the Finishing Trades Institute and displayed on the center city campus during the Design Philadelphia festival in October 2018.
Several faculty were awarded term chairs by the college. These include: James Doerfler, Professor and Director, The Cheryl Smith, AIA Chair for Architecture; David Kratzer, Assoc. Prof., The RHJ Associates PC Term Chair; Dr. Kihong R. Ku, Assoc. Prof., The Volpe Family Term Chair for Architectural Innovation; and Donald Dunham, Assoc. Professor, The Amanda Weko Family Chair for Architecture
Assoc. Prof. Chris Harnish recently returned from work on his Fulbright Teaching Scholar Fellowship, “Equity, Sustainability and Resilience: Architecture as a Social Force in Humanitarian Development”. The fellowship sponsored his teaching at the University of Malawi Polytechnic where he brought this topic to Malawian architecture students.
Chris also has contributed a chapter to the ebookSustainable Urban Development and Globalization
Two faculty have recently published books. Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Singletary has written “James MacNeil Whistler and France; A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry and Music”. And Prof. Edgar Stach has written “Mies van der Rohe; Space–Material–Detail”
Assoc. Prof. Craig Griffen hosted an AIA Housing Knowledge Community Webinar entitled The Challenge of Incorporating Passive Energy Strategies into Developer Single-Family Suburban Housing
The program welcomes our new faculty member, Asst. Prof. Andrew Hart, who will focus his teaching on the visualization curriculum. Andrew recently served on the NCARB Think Tank in 2016-17.
For Fall Semester 2017, the Kennesaw State University Focus Studio Faculty included two visiting faculty: Mostafa W. Alani, AIA Intl. Assoc., LEED Green Assocfocusing onDynamic Environments; Marcel Cadaval Pereira focusing onThe Cultural Work of Architecture; and also one internal professor: Dr. William Carpenter, FAIA with a focus on: Architecture and Film.
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The Department of Architecture at Kennesaw State University welcomes Robert P. Alden AIA, LEED AP, NCARB who was appointed as the 2018 Focus Studio Faculty. He is an architect with over thirty years of professional experience on a wide range of project types and scales — including Georgia World Congress Center, 2002 Perimeter Summit Office Tower, the Reno Nv. Events Center, and 12th & Midtown, a 2.4M square foot, $270M mixed-used development in Atlanta. He has also taught at Chattahoochee Technical College in Woodstock, GA in the interior design program. Rob brings real-world insight to his 2018 Focus Studio entitled: Comprehensive Design and Systems Integration.
UVA School of Architecture Welcomes New Faculty – Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari
The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech offers an annual prize to promote research on the contributions that women have made to the built environment and the design related disciplines.
