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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)

 

 

Catholic University of America

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The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that the first annual Urban Practice Distinguished Critic will be Tim McDonald of the Philadelphia-based Onion Flats. The intention of the Distinguished Critic program is to engage exemplary urban practitioners who can bring their perspective, methods and work to the students both informally and formally.  The Urban Practice concentration, one of four concentrations in the Master of Architecture program, focuses on architecture that weaves the small and large scales with historical, cultural, social and conceptual contexts. For more information, please see our website: http://urbanpracticeatcuarch.wordpress.com/

Professor Terrance R. Williams, FAIA, and Associate Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, will be at the Urban Affairs Association conference in San Francisco next April to present their paper, “Mid-Sized Cities: A New American Urban Frontier?” The paper focuses on the decades of urban depopulation—especially in mid-sized cities–and the vast surplus of under-utilized infrastructure that literally offers a subsidy to the re-densification our urban communities of all sizes.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed, PhD, published his book “Oculus: A Decade of Insights into Bangladeshi Affairs.” The book was presented at the Hay Festival 2012, Bangla Academy last November 15th, and at the Baatighar Press Club, Chittagong last December 29th. Dr. Morshed was also an invited panelist at the University of Texas Austin’s Harry Ransom Center last November during the Tenth Biennial Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America”. In addition, Dr, Morshed will be speaking at the School of Architecture, the University of Utah, as part of the Spring Lecture Series in March 2013.

Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins, AIA, published his book “Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing” (Birkhäuser, 2012).  Beginning with the underlying concepts of freehand sketching, the book’s main component is a series of “design acts” that a student might perform in design and analysis. The book contains over 400 drawings exploring the role and the methods of freehand analytical sketching in architectural education.  Jenkins has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Chapter of the AIA. In this position he will work to develop links between academia and practice as well as work on initiatives such as mentoring and A.R.E. preparation and completion.

Assistant Professor Carlos Reimers, PhD, will be presenting a paper at the Cultures of the Suburbs Symposium to be held at Hofstra University, NY this year on June.  The paper is entitled “Informal Suburbia” and it addresses research into the growth of extralegal settlements on the outskirts of cities throughout the United States, and the environmental and political forces that fuel this growth.

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During the Summer 2012, four architecture students at CUA, Peter Miles, Joey Barrick, Nina Tatic, and Filipe Pereira, worked under the direction of Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich to create a design proposal for development of the McMillan Reservoir site. This proposal, which was created in response to a plan created by Envision McMillan Partners, was presented at a July HPRB hearing. The project, which has also been presented to various community groups and other interested parties, has received very positive press from The National Trust for Historic Preservation and other groups.

Catholic University of America

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Joseph Barrick, a senior at The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture, was awarded Honorable Mention for Community Programming in the Water Works competition sponsored by Gowanus by Design (www.gowanusbydesign.org/water_works).  The project was advised by CUArch Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich and Diane Reynolds as environmental Consultant. It addressed one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how to redeem a toxic Superfund site in the path of Hurricane Sandy, while strengthening the fabrics of a growing urban node. 

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 would like to announce the following faculty appointments for the Fall 2013 semester.

Cristiano Luchetti is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Luchetti holds a Master of architecture from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a registered architect with more than 16 years of experience in leading the design of a variety of large scale projects in residential, commercial, and hospitality sectors in Europe, China, India, Middle East, and South East Asia. In addition, he has gained over 13 years of experience in teaching architectural design and visual communication for several European and North American Universities. Luchetti will be teaching architectural design studios and drawing classes.

Maria Mortera is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Mortera earned her M.Arch at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked as a design consultant for luxury and corporate retail brands in San Francisco and Southern California. Her areas of research and teaching revolve around the empowerment of individuals through design and the built environment. From urban sites to marginalized communities she focuses on the material construction of space and the ways in which it fosters a sense of place and identity. Mortera will be teaching courses within the Interior Design programme.

George Newlands is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Newlands’ areas of teaching focus on beginning design studio, landscape design, materials and methods of construction. A registered architect in New Mexico, he was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and the University of New Mexico. His previous teaching experience includes time as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico, School of Architecture and Planning. He has worked professionally for 20 years with firms such as Antoine Predock Architect, and Garrett Smith Architect. Since 2006 he has maintained his own architectural studio practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Patrick Rhodes is appointed as Director of Foundations. Rhodes received a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. In 2001, he formed Project Locus, a nonprofit corporation, to design and build community structures in areas of need. Following Hurricane Katrina, working with more than 35 students from Kansas State University, Project Locus designed and rebuilt the House of Dance and Feathers Mardi Gras Indian Museum in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. His work has been exhibited and published widely. His honors include a 2007 EDRA Places Design Award and the 2007 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. During the last ten years, Patrick, through the work of Project Locus, has developed a successful model for community-based design, operating within the margins of society among populations that are extremely underserved, and tackling issues that the architecture profession, at-large, either cannot or will not address. As Director of Foundations at the American University of Sharjah, Patrick will continue this work by engaging the local UAE community through outreach at the high school level and by developing a dynamic first year program that will position students to excel as designers and, ultimately, become leaders in the region and around the world.

Juan Roldán is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Roldán earned his Master Degree in Architecture at the Polytechnic School of Madrid. He has also studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Roldán’s teaching experience includes 8 years at EPS CEU University (Architecture Department). He has been in charge of the Madrid Think Tank as Director of Communication and Coordinator of the recently launched MoUID, Master of Urban Interior Design (a collaboration between EPS CEU and the Politecnico di Milano). He has been recently awarded by the Madrid’s Architects Association for his short film “Deployable Deck for Las Ventas Arena: an unbuilt project by Carlos Hurtado, 1999”. Roldan will be teaching courses within the Interior Design programme.

Kenneth Tracy is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Tracy is an Architect, fabrication specialist and teacher. In 2010 Tracy co-founded Yogiaman Tracy Design, an award winning, experimental firm with projects in Indonesia and the US. Formerly Tracy was a founding partner at Associated Fabrication, a digital millwork shop in Brooklyn, NY whose clients include Zaha Hadid Architects, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Chanel, KAWS, Vito Acconci and MoMA. Tracy received his Master of Architecture Degree from Columbia University, and Bachelor of Design Degree from the University of Florida. Kenneth is currently an Assistant Professor of architecture at the American University of Sharjah. Previously, Tracy taught at Washington University where in 2009 he established a CNC research lab, the Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. As well as teaching, Tracy has been invited to lecture at Syracuse University, Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Texas at Arlington, University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. Tracy’s areas of teaching focus on digital design and fabrication.

Christine Yogiaman is appointed as rolling-contract track (tenure-track equivalent) Assistant Professor. Christine Yogiaman directs Yogiaman Tracy Design, yocy, a research and design practice that focus on the utilization of digital techniques along with contextual influences to create culturally embedded, affective work. Currently working on projects in Indonesia, yocy combine labor-intensive acts in craft culture with rule-based, digital frameworks, multiplying the everyday to intensify space. Christine has taught at Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape where she coordinated the graduate core studios and digital representation curriculum. Christine won 3rd place in the 2012 Steedman International Design Competition, and 1st place in the 2012 TEX-FAB APPLIED: Research through Fabrication competition. Yogiaman’s areas of teaching focus on digital design and fabrication.

Mahyar Arefi is appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in planning from the University of Southern California in 1999, and also holds Master degrees in urban design and architecture. He has been recipient of many awards including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development doctoral dissertation in 1998-99, Goody Clancy’s 2005 Faculty Fellowship, and Fulbright Scholarship in 2006. He has published extensively in scholarly journals including Journal of Urban Design, Cities, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Design International, Cityscape, City, Culture, and Society, and Town Planning Review. His new book Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets by Routledge is in press. Arefi will be teaching within the Master of Urban Planning programme.

Camilo Cerro is appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor. Cerro is an American-born Architect with experience in sustainable design, residential and retail architecture, furniture making and social design. He has a master of architecture from Columbia University in New York where he has lived for the past 16 years. His work has taken him all over the world where he had direct experience observing the social needs of different communities, convincing him that the role of the designer resides on solving societal problems through design.

Daniel Chavez is appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor. Chavez has worked in the architectural profession for over 11 years and has completed many successful projects in his home state of New Mexico, as well as participating on global projects in Winnepeg, Shanghai and Chendu. Many of his completed projects are small scale, which allowed him to see these projects through from conception to completion of construction, usually acting as project manager while simultaneously designing and producing construction documents. This all-in-one history of work along with his many years working in the construction industry and as a furniture maker has given him a unique perspective as a designer. On large scale projects, Chavez has been an instrumental team member at the office of Antoine Predock, with Gensler Architecture on the Virgin Galactic Space Port competition team and with Gould-Evens Architecture on CNM Westside Phase III. Chavez’s teaching will focus on architectural design studios and material fabrication.

Massimo Imparato is appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor. Imparato has a Master’s Degree in Architecture, and practiced Urban Design with Giancarlo De Carlo at ILA&UD. He had been Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the Universities of Milan Politecnico and Trento. Imparato’s design firm StudioBau operates at the scales of architecture, interior and furniture design. He has been art director of a number of furniture companies including Azucena, the Italian high end furniture Brand, manufacturing produtcs by Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua. Imparato will be teaching in both, the Architecture and Interior Design programmes.

 

 

Catholic University of America

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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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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.

 

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. 

 

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Clemson University, School of Architecture celebrates its centennial with a series of events including exhibitions, lectures and symposia:

 

ANNUAL CAF/ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
All lectures in the 2013 series will be given by individuals who have a connection to Clemson’s School of Architecture — alumni, former teachers and friends. Sponsored by the Clemson Advancement Foundation for Design and Building and the School of Architecture

March 25, 2013: Symposia and receptions in Genoa, Clemson, Charleston and Barcelona
THE VILLA AT 40
Celebrating four decades of life-changing education at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa

May 3, 2013: CAC.C-hosted sessions of the SCAIA Annual Conference
ARCHITECTURE + COMMUNITYBUILD IN CHARLESTON, S.C.
Celebrating 25 years of teaching, research and community outreach at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston

August 22–23, 2013: Symposium, reception and address
2013 SAR ARCHITECTURE FOR HEALTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIA: LOCAL ROOTS AND GLOBAL REACH
Chautauqua 4.0 — Health Care Architecture in the Public Realm Keynote Speaker: Michael Murphy with MASS

September 30–October 30, 2013: Exhibition
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH: 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE
A monthlong exhibition in the Lee Gallery to explore and honor the people, themes and stories of the past century

October 18, 2013: Symposium
SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH
A daylong symposium featuring a keynote lecture by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, Ph.D., on “The Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization”

October 18, 2013: Celebration
GET YOUR BEAUX-ARTS ON!
A formal reception in Lee III, the new Thomas Phifer addition to Lee Hall

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/architecture/celebration/

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

 

Southern Polytechnic State University

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Professor Elizabeth Martin-Malikian was awarded the Visuality, Memory and Text within Cities Fellowship in Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh.  Working within a multidisciplinary think-tank exploring methodologies of urban research and fieldwork; exhibition design; urban semiotic landscapes, visual knowledges and theories of visuality, visual cultures of cities, Liz’s research topic is entitled “Hedonistic Urbanism: The Beirut Post-war Experience.” Her first paper presentation of this initial research work was at the ACSA 2013 Annual Conference in San Francisco as part of the urban geographies of multiculturalism session.

Liz has also recently been appointed as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Civil Engineering and Architecture Journal. She has more than 10 years of experience as one of the U.S. overseas editors of Monument, an Australian design magazine.

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