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Photo: Sketch-analysis travel through Turkey with Professor Eric Jenkins.

Architect Claudio Silvestrin is the Walton Critic and Professor in residence for 2013.  He is based in London and Milan, and the author of an internationally recognized oeuvre covering architecture as well as a wide range of design scales and interests. Silvestrin’s thoughts and work have been featured in four books, many professional magazines and journals, exhibitions, as well as multiple other media outlets. During his residence at CUA School of Architecture and Planning, architect Silvestrin is directing a design studio centered in the intersection between culture and spirituality. He participates in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and informal meeting with students and faculty. Claudio Silvestrin lectured on his work philosophy and concerns last Wednesday 09/11 at CUAch’s Auditorium. He will be giving a special presentation titled “Works and Inspirations” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM at the Embassy of Italy. Claudio Silvestrin’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. For more information on the Walton Critic Program, contact Associate Professor Julio Bermudez.

This past June, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins directed a special program with sixteen students on a three-week sketch-analysis travel through Turkey. Studying primarily Islamic and vernacular architecture, the students began their studies in Istanbul and then moved onto towns such as Safronbolu, Amaysa, Tokat, Sivas, Konya and Bursa. In addition, Professor Jenkins has been invited by the Washington, DC-based firm Hickok-Cole Architects to lead a workshop related to his most recent book, Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing. The workshop will re-introduce freehand drawing skills, diagramming and specific sketching exercises to the firm’s employees so that sketching might be better re-integrated into the design process.

Associate Professor Julie Kim presented a paper at the 2013 BTES Conference “Tectonics of Teaching” at Roger Williams University in July. She shared the pedagogy and framework of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at CUA in a presentation entitled “Reflections on Building Technology in the Design Studio.”

Assistant Professor Hyojin Kim Ph.D. has joined the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Kim holds a doctorate in Architecture (December 2012) from Texas A&M University. She will be teaching courses in energy modeling and simulation.

Framed within the theme of ABSENCE, the 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture successfully celebrated another year with the completion of the NADAAA Design Studio, led by Nader Tehrani, and co-taught by Julian Palacio, Lecturer (CUA). The SIA also hosted a robust lecture series with presentations from Mark Sexton (Krueck + Sexton, Chicago); Rhett Russo (Specific Objects, NJ); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). The 2014 Summer Institute theme will be HYBRID SCALE. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Julie Kim, SIA Director.

Team Capitol DC’s Harvest Home is Washington DC’s first ever entry for the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Competition. The team’s contributing universities The Catholic University of America (Architecture and Planning), George Washington University (Engineering) and American University (Media and Communications) have been collaborating successfully for over two years. Harvest Home will be donated to Wounded Warrior Homes who specialize in finding accommodation for veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Harvest Home harvests sun, wind, rain and building materials to provide a healing environment for wounded warriors.

 

 

Catholic University of America

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The School of Architecture and Planning of the Catholic University of America presents the second George Marcou Memorial Lecture honoring late Professor Emeritus George Marcou. In this opportunity  Michael Arad will be discussing his work with our architectural community. Michael Arad’s design “Reflecting Absence” won the National September 11 Memorial and Museum competition in 2004.The New York-based architect and partner with Handel Architects was one of six recipients of the 2006 Young Architects Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The lecture will start at 5:30pm on Wednesday October 17th, 2012 at the Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C. (Photo: Joe Woolhead)

 

 

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Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Associate Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., and Professor Robert Schubert contributed the chapter “Lumenhaus© and the Eclipsis Sun Control System©” to the book Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes. Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (edited by Franca Trubiano; London & New York: Routledge, 2013, p. 235-248).

Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A. and Associate Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., led a team of six students in a three-week workshop in collaboration with SOM in Chicago. This second workshop over the past year embodies an experimental protocol for the Center for Design Research that integrates teaching and research within an innovative linking of the profession and the academy. The result of this effort is the document, SOM/CDR: Industrial Fabrication, Energy, and the Urban Dwelling. In addition, Dunay and Wheeler delivered lectures at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. A conference sponsored by the U.S. Embassy focused on recent research into sustainability and net-zeor energy dwellings. Dunay’s lecture focused on Innovations in Energy Efficient Buildings. Wheeler presented LumenHAUS, winner of the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe competition, as a case study.

Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., ACSA Distinguished Professor, was named Design Intelligence Most Admired Professor. This is the third consecutive year (fourth overall) Professor Dunay has been recognized. DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 30 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2013 class of education role models was selected with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, and students.

Associate Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program, authored a new book on the œuvre of Basel-based architects Christ & Gantenbein. The book is co-authored with Victoria Easton. The book is published by the German press Hatje & Cantz in an English/German languages edition. 

Clemson University

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Lee III, the 55,000-square-food addition to Clemson’s Lee Hall, received an AIA Institute Honor Award for Design Achievement. Clemson’s alumnus Thomas Phifer ’75, ’77 and Partners of New York designed Lee III in collaboration with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture of Greenville. Lee III completed in April of 2012 was also awarded LEED gold certification by the US Green Building Council.

Professor Lynn Craig FAIA, RIBA received the 2013 AIASC Medal of Distinction, AIASC’s highest honor, at the AIASC annual meeting in Charleston. Craig is the Director of Architect Relations for the School of Design and Building at Clemson where he joined the faculty in 1981.

Assistant professor Ulrike Heine won the 2013 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award. Heine teaches classes in design and sustainability and has been recognized seven times throughout the past year as students in her design studio classes won national and international awards for their work in sustainable design.

DesignIntelligence journal named associate professor Daniel Harding one of the “30 most admired educators for 2013.” 30 most admired educators in design  were chose from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design and interior design. The publication praised Harding’s use of design-build techniques in addressing community issues.  

Associate professor Douglas Hecker and assistant professor Martha Skinner published their work “Seed” in Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing solutions for a Changing World (W. W. Norton, 2013) edited by Bridgette Meinhold.

Clemson graduate students took first and third place in the national/international  AIAS/Kawneer Enlightening Libraries Competition. Laura Boykin won first place, and Sam Pruitt was awarded third place for their design proposals for the Pendleton Library completed in the Fall 2012 studio of assistant professor Dr. Ufuk Ersoy. Their winning entries will be displayed at the AIAS Forum 2013 in Chicago and at the 2013 AIA Convention and Design Exposition in Colorado.

In the 2012 ASC/AGC Region II Design-Build Student Competition, the Clemson  team earned first place. The team consisted of Senior CSM majors Bobby McKinsey and Todd Rapoport, Junior CSM majors Matt Kolacki and Richard Dorn, Senior Architect major Alison Martin and Junior Architect major Abby Buckingham. The team coaches were assistant professor Sallie Hambright-Belue and associate professor Dr. Shima Clarke. 

Assistant Professor David Lee’s work was published in International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, “Autonomous Identities” issue.

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Urban Practice Concentration students from the Master of Architecture program under the direction of professors Eric Jenkins, Mark McInturff, and Elizabeth Emerson presented their Jersey City Harsimus Embankment project at the New York AIA’s Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village on January 18th, 2013. The project was developed during the Fall 2012 and comprised six block-long stone abutments. The Embankment runs through historic Jersey City, yet its future role in the city remains undetermined. Developers, city officials, local residents, architects, and academicians from Columbia and Pratt were among the approximately 200 people who attended the open house to participate in the student presentation and the question & answer session.


Photo Hemeroscopium House, Madrid by Ensamble Studio

The first of the 2013 Spring Lecture Series of the Catholic University of America will feature Antón García-Abril at 6:30pm on February 13, 2013 at the National Builiding Museum in Washington, D.C. Antón García-Abril is an Architect and Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He was previously a professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) and a guest faculty at M.I.T., GSD at Harvard, Cornell and several other universities in North America and Europe. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996 and in 2000 established ENSAMBLE STUDIO, leading a team that began a search for the architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. The work of ENSAMBLE STUDIO shows an ongoing exploration on the relationship of materiality, technology, and architectural space. Through this work, materials and constructive elements are continuously exposed, recontextualized, and reassembled to create and communicate spatial dichotomies in an experimental process that becomes as relevant as its final product. The architectural work and professional accomplishments of Antón García-Abril have been acknowledged in multiple opportunities at national and international arenas.

 

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Associate Professor, Eric J. Jenkins published the chapter, “A Bit of Europe in Maryland: The Bata Colony in Belcamp” in the book Company Towns of the Bata Concern (Franz Steiner Verlag) edited by Ondrej Sevecek and Martin Jemelka).  In addition, Jenkins’ book Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing (Birkhauser) has been released as an EPUB electronic book and is available on iTunes. The EPUB is unique in that drawings can be reviewed at full scale and the searchable index allows for non-linear readings. Jenkins also lectured and directed a workshop on analytical freehand sketching at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed received a publication grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art in Spring 2013. In addition, Professor Morshed was one of the organizers of a conference focusing on the challenges of sustainable growth in developing economies at Berkeley in February and a guest speaker in the Spring Lecture Series of the University of Utah’s School of Architecture in March.

Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim will present the work of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio, entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole and Out Again: Building Technology in the Design Studio” at the BTES 2013 Conference in Rhode Island.  Kim was has also been invited to present her research project on the body, architecture and dwelling (Villa of Veils + Unwrapping the Hanbok) at the Third Annual International Conference on Architecture in Athens, Greece in June 2013.  Recently the studio in which Kim partners, c2architecturestudio, was recognized with an Award of Merit for infoCUBE: light monitors by the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition.

Adjunct Professor Mark McInturff, FAIA was awarded two Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for his Chesapeake Bay House and Gresser Johnson House.

Visiting Critics and E/L Studio firm principals Elizabeth Emerson and Mark Lawrence earned Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for their 63rd Avenue and Lincoln Street residences.

Each summer, CUA School of Architecture and Planning features numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses. Among these are design studios and elective courses, including history of architecture, graphics, furniture design, theory and computer-aided design/fabrication. The CUA 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) is pleased to offer the NADAAA Design studio, led by Nader Tehrani, as the feature summer studio. Julian Palacio, Lecturer, will collaborate with Tehrani in offering this advanced level design studio. The SIA will also host a summer speaker series with Mark Sexton (Krueck and Sexton, Chicago); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). Please visit the CUArch website (architecture.cua.edu) or contact SIA Director Julie Kim for more information.

Two CUArch students received awards in the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition, Andrew Baldwin received an Award of Excellence for his thesis project, Lacrosse as Sacred Iroquois Tradition: The Architecture of Cultural Representation, and Philip Goolkasian received an Award of Merit for his project, the South Capitol Natatorium.

Photo Andrew Baldwin, AIA DC Unbuilt Award 2013

Clemson University

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Merit Awards in the AARP/AIAS Aging in Place Kitchen Design Competition were given to Nick Tafel, Edgar Mozo, Joel Pominville, David Herrero for their project “A Kitchen Alive” and to Diana Rosch for her project “Centre.” Both projects were designed under the supervision of studio instructor Senior Lecturer Annemarie Jacques.  

Clemson University, School of Architecture undergraduate and graduate students won many international and national awards in Spring 2012:

Honorable Mention was given to graduate student Jingjie Zhao, with Professor Keith Green PhD as studio instructor, in the 2011 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition of a Culinary Arts College. There were 303 entries, and the jurors awarded only seven prizes, a 2 percent acceptance rate.

The Winning Project was awarded to Caitlin Ranson and Dianah Katzenberger (both Clemson M. Arch. ’12 graduates,) with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the ACSA 2011-2012 International Sustainable Laboratories Student Design Competition. The Jury awarded only two top prizes and three honorable mentions.

The South Region Winning Project was awarded to Nick Barrett and Sam Pruitt, with Assistant Professor Ulrike Heine as studio instructor, in the 2011-2012 The Sustainable Home, A Habitat for Humanity Student Design Competition, which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and Vinyl Institute. There were 100 submissions, from which the jurors chose four regional winners and three other honors, a 5 percent acceptance rate.

Four faculty members have joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as new permanent faculty this academic year.

Akel Ismail Kahera, Ph.D. has joined Clemson University as a tenured professor and as the newly appointed associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. For the past five years, Akel has served as director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. From 2009 to 2011, he served as interim director of at Prairie View’s graduate studies degree program in community development. He also taught at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of specialization include hermeneutics, design, urbanism, community development, non-Western architecture, and architectural history and theory. He is a practicing architect and designer. Akel is the author of more than two dozen scholarly essays, as well as author or co-author of three books: Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender and Aesthetics, 2002; Design Criteria for Mosques (co-author,) 2009; and Reading the Islamic City, 2011. Akel received a B.Arch. from Pratt Institute, M.Arch from MIT and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. 

Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D. has Joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new tenure-track assistant professor focusing on Western and non-Western history/theory and design. Ufuk is a practicing architect and was an assistant professor of architecture at the Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey prior to moving to Clemson. He is also a guest lecturer in the Program of Architecture, University of New South Wales. He completed his Ph. D. in Architecture under the supervision of David Leatherbarrow at the University of Pennsylvania where he also received his received M.Arch. and M.S. degrees. His research focuses on the glass cultures of 19th– and 20th-century architectures and the consequences of technological changes on the discipline of architecture. Recently, he guest-edited a special issue of the journal World Architecture on “Architecture in Turkey: A Glocal Production” and published his essay “To See Daydreams: The Glass Utopia of Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut” in Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia.  

Dustin Albright, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has joined Clemson University, School of Architecture as a new full-time lecturer teaching design studio and structures courses. Dustin has unique dual expertise in architecture and engineering, coupled with critical engagement with public projects. He has a B.S. in physics from Washington and Lee University, M.S. in civil engineering/structures and M.Arch. from Virginia Tech University. Dustin has been practicing with Craig Gaulden Davis in Greenville since 2008. He has been actively engaged with the profession and local communities through his leadership in AIA Greenville’s Architecture Month.

Nicholas Ault who taught part-time for Clemson University, School of Architecture last year, joins this year as a full-time lecturer teaching design studio and digital communications. His strengths include a comprehensive understanding of current digital practices in architectural design and fabrication, as well as a focus on pedagogy within undergraduate foundation design studios. Nick has a B.S. in technology from Bowling Green State University and an M.Arch. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He practiced in Ohio, held a visiting appointment at UNCC as the director of Digital Fabrications Laboratory and lecturer at the School of Architecture, and taught as an adjunct at Queens University of Charlotte. 

 

Clemson University

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Clemson School of Architecture Celebrates Centennial with Symposium on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

 

CLEMSON, SC— Clemson University’s School of Architecture will celebrate its 100th year of architectural education with a symposium on the timely subject of “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” on Friday, October 18, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lee Hall.

Speakers include noted architectural historian-theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and award-winning, Southeast-based practitioners and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon.

Since its founding in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has sought a balance between service to the state of South Carolina and connections to the wider world. Exemplifying this tradition, founder Rudolph “Pop” Lee (1874-1959)—namesake of Clemson’s award-winning Lee Hall—studied engineering at Clemson Agricultural College, a land grant school, but was trained in architecture at Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Clemson’s architecture program has been mindful of the connections between the local and the global, creating a “Fluid Campus” including full-time study centers in the cities of Charleston, SC, Genoa, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. This geographical approach defined the centennial theme, “Southern Roots + Global Reach.”

The subject of regionalism in architecture has a long history, yet remains timely. Recently, “critical regionalism”—a term coined by symposium keynote speakers Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre in 1981—was the theme of the August edition of the American Institute of Architects’ magazine Architect.

As Tzonis and Lefaivre noted in their recent book, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (2012), regionalism is a “never ending challenge” that has become increasingly significant for architects and regional cultures in an increasingly “flat” and interconnected world.

In the symposium, Tzonis and Lefaivre’s global and historical perspective will be complimented by talks from award-winning architects and educators Marlon Blackwell, Merrill Elam, and Frank Harmon. All based in the Southeast, their experiences have been influenced by familiar engagements with local and global cultures, and uniquely fluid geographies and careers.

The symposium, to be followed by a Beaux Arts Ball, marks the fourth and final major event of the school’s centennial year. In March, Clemson celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa. In May, the school celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston. And in August, the school celebrated the 45th anniversary of its Architecture + Health Program.

The symposium webpage can be found at http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/symposium.html.

The event is free, but registration is requested at https://secure.touchnet.net/C20569_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=30&SINGLESTORE=true.

 

 

Contacts:

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA
Chair of the Clemson University School of Architecture
Email: kschwen@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-3895

Peter L. Laurence, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies
Email: plauren@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1499

Media Contact:
Jeannie Davis
Email: eugenia@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1821

 

Catholic University of America

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As part of the Catholic University of America Fall Lecture series, Nader Tehrani wil present his lecture “DA DA A NADAA” at 6pm on November 5th, 2012 at the Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C. 

Working on interdisciplinary platforms, Tehrani has focused his research on the transformation of the building industry, innovative material applications, and the development of new means and methods of construction. As the founding principal of office da, Tehrani has received many prestigious awards for his work, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and 13 Progressive Architecture awards. Tehrani is also a professor and the head of the Department of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Photo Samsugn Model Home Gallery by Seungbum Kim

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“Box of Miracles: Contemplating a 21st Century Convent” opened January 29th at the Art Gallery of the Wesley Theological Seminary’s  Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. The exhibit features selected design work by CUA sacred space and cultural studies concentration students and senior undergraduate students, and will run until March 1st. This work was produced last semester under the guidance of 2012 Walton Critic Alberto Campo Baeza and CUArch Associate Professors Julio Bermudez and Luis Boza.

 Photo Cube I, Guadalajara, Mexico by Estudio Carme Pinós

Carme Pinós, an Architect and Urbanist based in Barcelona, lectured on her work Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies. Pinós set up her own firm in 1991, after a decade of partnership with Enric Miralles. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the National Prize of Architecture by the Spanish Architects Association in 1995, the 2001 Prize by the Professional Architect Association of the Comunidad Valenciana for the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja, the 2005 Arqcatmón Prize by the Professional Architect Association of Catalonia for the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, as well as the 1st Prize of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture in 2007 for the same building. In 2008 she received the National Prize of Architecture and Urban Space by the Catalan Government for her professional work. Her current work includes the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, the Museum of Transport and Metropolitan Park in Málaga, “La Gardunya” Square in the Historical District in Barcelona comprising “La Gardunya” Square Design, “La Massana” Fine Arts Center, a Housing Block and “La Boqueria” Market’s back façade, as well as a Department Building in the New Campus of the University of Economics in Vienna, the Caixaforum in Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico).


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