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American University of Sharjah

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The American University of Sharjah Department of Architecture is pleased to announce a number of award winning projects completed as part of the Design Build Initiative.

The Tarkeeb Wall, completed this fall under the guidance of Associate Professor William Sarnecky and Project Leader Layth Mahdi received the Design Award for design excellence in the Student Graduation Project Category at the 2015 AIA Middle East Design Awards. Fourteen students are credited with the completion of this project, which serves as a space for gathering and display at the entrance of the College of Architecture, Art, and Design.

Be-ah Reclaimed Wall, the culmination of the inaugural interior design build studio led by Assistant Professor Daniel Chavez received an Honorable Mention in the Student Graduation Project Category at the 2015 AIA Middle East Design Awards. Taking advantage of reclaimed material from a local landfill, the studio and project served as the culmination of the interior design degree sequence.

Completed in the summer of 2015, the AVM Pavilion led by former Professor Assistant Kenneth Tracy won a Merit Award in the Student Graduation Project Category at this year’s AIA Middle East Design Awards. Serving as the manifestation of a year long option studio, the jury “praise(d)” the student’s design process and the “quality of the end product”.

In the spring of this year, former Assistant Professor Emily Baker was honoured with a ACSA design build award in association with her fifth year Audi-Fab Research Studio. The project had previously won a 2014 AIA Middle East Merit Award in the Student Graduation Category.

Through the University’s support of the Design-Build Initiative directed by Professor Michael Hughes and the CAAD Labs directed by Assistant Professor Ammar Kalo the Department of Architecture is committed to full-scale teaching.   The College of Architecture, Art and Design Labs house an extensive and ever growing array of analog and digital equipment enabling faculty and student research in robotics, thermoforming, CNC milling / routing, rapid prototyping, wood and metal fabrication, and ceramics.

(photo credits: William Sarnecky and Juan Roldan)

 

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 2015.

Daniel Chavez has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. With over eleven years in the architectural profession working with RMKM Architecture and at the office of Antoine Predock Architect he has completed many built projects in New Mexico as well as contributing to international projects in Winnipeg, Shanghai and Chengdu. He also worked with Gensler Architecture on the Virgin Galactic Space Port competition team and with Gould-Evens Architecture on CNM Westside Phase III. A passionate furniture designer and maker, Chavez strives for simplicity in his work believing inherent qualities of a material inform design. His courses in material fabrication employ traditional wood working techniques to exhibit structural and architectural principals. Previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at AUS, in spring 2015 Chavez introduced full-scale, project-based learning to the Interior Design program at AUS. His efforts in leading the Senior Project design/build initiative will continue indefinitely.

Marcus Farr has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. Farr has 10 years of experience working in architecture, urban design & site specific landscape architecture throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia. This includes collaborations with the offices of James Burnett, SOM, Gensler, Carlos Jimenez Studio, HOK, Robert A.M. Stern, PDR and HKS. Relative publications include Landscape Architecture Magazine, Texas Architect, Architectural Record, Architect, Cite Magazine, The New York Times, and World Architecture Magazine. Marcus received a post-professional M.Arch from Rice University, as well as a Professional Degree in Architecture (B.Arch) and a B.A. in Studio Art from Drury University with further studies at the AA. His teaching will focus on performative & sustainable building methods, professional practice & digital design/fabrication.

Gregory Thomas Spaw has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. He is an educator, designer, scholar and entrepreneur. Concurrent with his academic engagement, Spaw is a principal of SHO, a design collaborative that straddles the territories of teaching, research and practice. He has previous held the Ann Kalla Assistant Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, served as a visiting professor at the Cracow University of Technology, and taught undergraduate and graduate studios, seminars, and electives at the University of Tennessee. His previous professional experience includes work with the award winning offices of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Preston Scott Cohen Inc., and Asymptote. He also contributed toward Independent Architecture’s entry for the PS1 Young Architects Program Competition in Queens, New York and worked on location in Seoul, Athens, and Brussels with LASSA on a series of diverse projects. Gregory holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and a Master in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Igor Peraza has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. 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. 

Matthew A. Trimble has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Trimble founded Radlab in 2008. 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 studied architecture at The University of Memphis (BFA), where he received the Frances F. Austin Scholarship, and holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Avalon Travel Fellowship.

Clemson University

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We are saddened to share the news of the passing of Assistant Professor of Architecture, Armando Montilla Navarro. Professor Montilla was killed in a car accident on Friday, October 2, 2015.  He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Urban Geography from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, his M.Arch from Pratt Institute, and B.Arch from Universite de Montreal.  He joined the faculty at Clemson in 2009.  Condolences can be sent to nbrown4@clemson.edu and will passed along to his colleagues at Clemson and his family in Venezuela.

Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech’s architecture programs can report two new administrative appointments:

Associate Professor of Architecture Jim Bassett has been appointed as the new chair of Foundation Studies. The chair of Foundation Studies is responsible for first year of study for undergraduate degree programs of architecture, landscape architecture industrial design, and interior design in the School of Architecture + Design.

Associated Professor of Architecture David Dugas has been appointed as the new chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program. David Dugas is responsible for the second and third years of study of the Bachelor of Architecture program.

Following promotions and awarding of tenure of architecture faculty have been made by Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors: Professor of Architecture Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D., R.A. was promoted to the rank of professor.

Associate Professor of Architecture Dr. Elizabeth Grant, Ph.D., R.A. was granted tenure and was promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Virginia Tech’s architecture program can report the following outstanding achievement:

Nicholas Coates, who graduated in May (2015) with a B.Arch. degree, has received the prestigious 2015 Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM) Prize, a $50,000 travel and research fellowship [http://www.somfoundation.som.com/fellow/nicholas-coates]. His winning research proposal was entitled, “The Corner: A Marker of the New, A Memory of the Past.” Nick plans to travel to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Faculty, students, and alumni congratulate Nicholas Coates for this outstanding achievement. Virginia Tech’s architecture program would also like to thank SOM for its continued support and investment towards the fostering of the education of architects.

Faculty News:

Professor of Architecture Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E. was awarded a $10,000 grant by the Structural and Architectural Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation to promote research experience for undergraduates. The grant sponsors participation of undergraduate students in research on building vibration serviceability issues. Three of his students, Sarah Spanski, Ava Mohebbi, and Emily Bell participated in the same program last year. Each presented the results of their studies at the 2015 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Cheney, Washington, in April 2015. The papers have also been published as part of the conference.

Research Assistant Professor David Clark, Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., members of the Center for Design Research (CDR) were invited to exhibit experimental student work developed with emerging digital technology at the 2015 International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Technological Material Transformations featured projects developed with digital tools in the center’s undergraduate studio and work from the new robotics facility.

Robert Dunay, David Clark and Nathan King also presented work from the Virginia Tech Center for Design Research to a New York audience at Hafele headquarters in Manhattan. Furthering the goal to embed emerging technologies within architecture and design curriculums, Building the Future through Digital Design and Fabrication, a lecture accredited for AIA learning units, summarized past work of the Center while offering a prospectus for the future of design education and practice.

As part of the Design Boston Biennial, the Center for Design Research (CDR) worked with Mass Design Group in Boston to design, fabricate and erect an experimental pavilion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston MA. The structure is the first building project produced using the newly launched Center for Design Research Design Robotics Studio led by Dr. Nathan King, David Clark, and Director of the Center for Design Research, Robert Dunay.

Professors King, Clark, and Dunay also hosted the first annual Design Robotics Summit in the newly developed Architecture + Design, Center for Design Research, Design Robotics Studio that included participants from: University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Autodesk, and The Living. 

Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Schaffer Sommers, University of Virginia, along with a number of contributing faculty members from both universities announced the development of the Commonwealth Consortium for Design and Health.

Nathan King, along with collaborators Rachel Vroman, Kathy King, and Olga Mesa led the panel Innovating Ceramics: Collaboration, Technology, and Pedagogy at the 49th annual National Council on Education in the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) conference in Providence, Rhode Island. 

With Stefanie Pender, Rhode Island School of Design, and Dr. King co-founded the Glass Robotics Laboratory, a research collaboration that merges traditional glass working techniques and emerging design and computational technologies that led to the creation of the first ever Robotically 3D Printed Glass artifact.

Work produced at Virginia Tech by Assistant Professor Nathan King, Matt Lutz, Norwich University, and a team of collaborators entitled PLUG: Portable Laboratory on Uncommon Grounds was published in the recently released book Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues by Lisa M. Abendroth (Editor), Bryan Bell (Editor).

Through their collaboration The United Nathans, Nathan Melenbrink and Nathan King published a paper entitled “Fulldome Interfacing: A Real-time Immersive Environment as a Tool for Design” as part of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in the spring of 2015.

Robert Dunay and Professor of Architecture Jack Davis, F.A.I.A., Dean of Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies, lead the program International Architecture and Design (IAD) in its 20th year. Principals and senior level architects traveled to Portugal and Spain for an in-depth review of the work of Alvaro Siza and Souto de Moura. After visiting a number of works in Lisbon, the group of 15 architects met with Siza in his office in Porto. Participants receive 36 AIA learning units during the week-long course.

Instructor of Architecture Rengin Holt has been awarded the third prize in theBellingham National 2015 Art Exhibition and Awards for her monoprint entitled, “Around the Corner” [http://www.whatcommuseum.org/galleries/current-gallery/566-bellingham-national-2015]. The selected works was exhibited at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington.

Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Laura McGuire, Ph.D. recently published an essay, “Energy, Correalism, and the Endless House,” in Endless Kiesler, Klaus Bolliger and Florian Medicus, eds. (Basel: Birkhäuser/Edition Angewandte, 2015). She also published an entry on Scientific Management in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Clive Edwards, ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Professor of Architecture Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A. has been awarded an honorary medal by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú, the professional association of Peruvian architects. Breitschmid was awarded the medal for his contributions on the theme of “Modernismo Suizo.” Swiss Modernism is well recognized in Peru because a number of Swiss architects and designers immigrated to the Andean nation just after World War II and produced influential work that shaped the tradition of modern architecture of Peru. Breitschmid has authored several books and essays on the modern architecture of Switzerland that speak to that significant legacy.

Virginia Tech’s architecture program can also report a prominent departure of one of its allied faculty and program alumnae:

Professor Mitzi Vernon will be leaving Virginia Tech as she was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Professor Vernon’s expertise will be missed at Virginia Tech, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the School of Architecture + Design. We will miss Mitzi and wish her the best in her new role.

North Carolina State University

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Now available — Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook

Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues introduces the standards and rigor that are needed to build public interest design into a practice that has a major global impact. Writings by Thomas Fisher, Heather Fleming, Michael Cohen, Michael P. Murphy Jr., Alan Ricks, and others cover topics such as professional business development, increasing positive impact, design evaluation, capacity building, and many more. 

Themes, including public engagement and project assessment, are presented throughout the book and provide clear methods for an informed practice. Included are a step-by-step methodology and other tools for professionals to grow their public practices with new clients, new fee sources, and more meaningful design solutions. Groundbreaking is an Issues Index that categorizes 90 critical issues addressed by design which are clearly documented by an array of community projects focusing on global challenges.

This comprehensive manual also contains a glossary, a case study locator atlas, and a reading list, integrating research and techniques so that you can design community-centered environments, products, and systems. Whether you are working in the field of architecture, urban planning, industrial design, landscape architecture, or communication design,this book will inspire a public interest design practice that is informed and inclusive.

To order through Publisher, click here.

 

Virginia Tech

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Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., Co-Director of the School of Architecture + Design’s Center for Design Research, principal investigator of the VT FutureHAUS initiative, has lead a team of researchers and students in exhibiting a prototype kitchen, the FutureHAUS Kitchen, at the Kitchen and Bath industry show in Las Vegas in Janaury 2016. In May, the kitchen and living room will be exhibited at the National AIA Convention Expo in Atlanta. The research investigates better utilization of industrialized processes to build architecture.  By delivering large, complex, house assemblies as “cartridges,” a more sophisticated prefabricated product may be delivered to the job site or the assembly plant. This cross-disciplinary project engages students from Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Art, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering.  

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., has been invited to lecture at the Colegio Arquitectos del Perú in Lima, Peru. The lecture was supported by the Institute of Peruvian Architects, the Embassy of Switzerland in Lima and with an International Travel Grant from the Virginia Tech – Office of the Vice President for Research.

Virginia Tech

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ACSA Faculty News – Virginia Tech

Professor Dr. Bert Rodriguez-Camilloni, Ph.D., served as a discussant in the session “Brutalism in the Americas: North-South Connections,” at the forthcoming 68th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to be held between April 2015 in Chicago, IL. Professor Rodriguez-Camilloni will also be recognized at a special reception sponsored by the president of the society for his 40 years of membership and service to the SAH.

ACSA Distinguished Professor, T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., Research Assistant Professor David Clark of the Center for Design Research (CDR) conducted the workshop Design Robotics Summit, sponsored by the School of Architecture + Design. Over 60 students, faculty and staff from a number of colleges, universities, and industry collaborators including University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, AutodeskTM, and The Living, participated in the workshop. The results of the workshop will be presented at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City.

Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Director of the Center for Design Research (CDR), together with Cark Nexson, an award winning architectural and engineering firm organized and hosted an exhibition showcasing experimental digital fabrications. Students participating in the exhibition include Laura Escobar, Ryan Hawkins, Brian Kato, David Kolodziej, Aaron Payne, Stephen Perry, Hannah Utter, and Dan Ventresca. David Clark and Negar Kalantar, PhD student, directed the CRD – (trans)LAB studio. Nathan King directed the robotics segment.

Assistant Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A., had four recent installation works exhibited in the solo show Ground to Sky: Triptychs in Three Scales at the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The show runs from January 27 to May 30, 2015 and was accompanied by Ishida’s lecture ‘Urban Light and Human Temporality’ on February 11.

Aki Ishida was also appointed by National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa as a panelist for the NEA’s Art Works grants, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category, in June to July 2014.

Cloud, a public art installation designed by Aki Ishida and Associate Professor Ivica Ico Bukvic, School of Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Cinema, in collaboration with students of Virginia Tech, was installed at Welburn Square in Ballston, VA on October 2 and 3, 2014. Cloud was commissioned by the Ballston Business Improvement District and was also exhibited in the group show ‘Public Displays of Innovation’ at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA. November 26, 2014 to January 18, 2015.

Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., lead a panel at the international conference for NCECA in March 2015. This panel was an extension of Nathan Kings’s research and teaching related to digital materials systems (Ceramics in this case) and Design Robotics.

 

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

Georgia Institute of Technology

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ARCC Call for Articles

2015 Edition of Enquiry/the ARCC Journal of Architectural Research
Vol 12, No 1 (2015) November/December

www.arcc-journal.org

Submission deadline: July 1, 2015
Submission process: Online (authors must register with journal website)

Enquiry / The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research would like to extend a Call for Articles for the 2015 edition of the journal. Enquiry is indexed by the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Worldcat, OAIster, and Google Scholar. Enquiry is a member of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and archived by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and LOCKSS.

Call for Articles

Rather than limited to a single disciplinary concern or theme, editions of Enquiry are focused on modality of research in architecture and allied fields. These modalities encompass contributive, speculative and intensive areas of studies.

[producing a knowledge base] Contributive research is qualified by employing established protocols for data collection internal to the architectural discipline. Research methodologies, outcomes and instruments should be explicitly stated, as well as potential methodological alternatives, stressing the contribution and expansion on relevant existing research.

[how to work from a knowledge base] Speculative research leverages an existing knowledge base (history, economics, building sciences, sociology, etc.) to project its significance to current architectural design and education. Such work is required to identify the competing theoretical and historic frameworks and argue the validity of what is proposed compared to actual situations, either discursive of physical.

[how is a knowledge base constructed] Intensive research should identify particular mechanisms, institutions, and conditions that form contemporary architectural research. It is primarily the study of research structures including funding sources and values, dissemination venues, teaching and practice relationship and a sustained and critical inquiry on the apparatus that supports architectural research.

In all architectural research is qualified not just by the accuracy of its findings, but also the consequence of its findings. However, to speculate effectively, with conviction and evidence, requires a space where methodology, evidence, and speculation can be presented and discussed in a credible arena. Enquiry would like tooffer the academic community in architecture that arena.

Submission

Potential authors need to register at the Journal’s website in order to submit an article for consideration ( http://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/user/register ).

Articles should be written in English and be between 4000 and 9000 words. They should include an abstract and keywords located before the introduction. The authors’ names should not appear anywhere on the titlepage or manuscript as the journal is double-blind peered reviewed. Files should be in .doc, .docx or .rtf fomats. Total file size should not exceed 2mb in size. Images may be embedded in files submitted for review, but they should be at screen resolution. Otherwise, images may be uploaded as supplementary material if they are located for placement in the main text. Full submission guidelines can be found at http://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/information/authors.

Southern Polytechnic State University

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Currently on research leave from SPSU, Liz Martin-Malikian is conducting fieldwork exploring postwar reconstruction in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the University of Edinburgh postgraduate program. While there, Liz also curating a Pop-up Studio-X Beirut for Columbia University’s global networking program creating an educational forum to explore the future of the city. Made-up of local practitioners, academic scholars and neighborhood activists, the forum works as a global network for sharing ideas and projects about the built environment in postwar Beirut. 

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