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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.

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Clemson University

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Two faculty members have joined Clemson University’s School of Architecture as new permanent faculty this academic year, bringing with them a rich and impressive range of experience and expertise.  Sallie Hambirght, AIA, LEED AP, (B.S. In design, Clemson University; M.Arch., Yale University), is a new assistant professor focusing on beginning design and visualization.  Sallie has served as a lecturer at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston and at the Georgia Institute of Technology; has worked in the offices of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Eisenman Architects; and has her own practice in South Carolina.  Ray Huff, AIA (B.Arch., Clemson University), the founding director of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CAC.C) is now associate professor of architecture and director of the CAC.C.  Ray comes to his position as an award-winning educator and director through a path of exemplary and critical architectural practice, as a principal and partner in the firm of Huff + Gooden Architects LLC, with offices in New York and Charleston.

Keith Evan Green, RA, PhD, Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer Engineering, was awarded funding for “architectural robotics” research from the National Science Foundation; and his monograph, Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino, was recently published in Japanese translation by Kajima Press. Green was awarded $271k as Principal Investigator from the Smart Health and Wellbeing Program of NSF to design and prototype an Assistive, Robotic Table [ART]. A discrete component of an envisioned suite of robotic furnishings, ART is comprised of a novel “continuum robotic” table surface that gently folds, extends, and reconfigures to support work and leisure activities; a smart storage volume that physically manages and delivers personal effects; and an accessorized headboard. These components of ART will recognize, communicate with, and partly remember each other in interaction with users and with other components of the suite. ART is intended to empower people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. Collaborating on the research are Clemson colleagues in ECE (I. Walker) and Psychology (J. Brooks), as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering of Kaiserslautern, Germany. The prototype will be tested in the research team’s home+ residential lab within the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (see www.IMSA-Research.org). The theoretical underpinning for ART and other applied “architectural robotics” projects by Green is his monograph, Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino, which has just been published in Japanese translation by Kajima press. Through the case of these two architects and friends, Green’s monograph explores how architectural artifacts might be rendered “nearly alive” by their designers and users.  

Southern California Institute of Architecture

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The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) today announced that 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis has been elected a SCI-Arc Trustee.

“Thom Mayne is the quintessential SCI-Arc architect,” said Director Eric Owen Moss. “His addition to the board is indicative of the fact that SCI-Arc continues to re-imagine the content of architecture.”

The Board, chaired by Jerold B. Neuman, elected Mayne at its quarterly board meeting held last week. “Thom is an incredible addition to the team at a time when SCI-Arc is reaching new levels of academic achievement with a Board striving to meet ever increasing levels of excellence.”

A product of the anti-establishment of the 1960s, Mayne was among seven faculty members and approximately forty students who left Cal Poly Pomona in 1972 to create SCI-Arc, “a college without walls.” Since then, he has been a frequent guest, juror, lecturer and generous supporter of the school. As SCI-Arc prepares to turn 40 next year, Mayne’s appointment to the Board of Trustees, effective immediately, complements a series of events that have prompted the school’s growth both physically and programmatically.

Founded as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and rigorous research, Mayne’s firm, Morphosis Architects, was formed in 1972, the first year of SCI-Arc’s history. With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture awards, over 100 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions. Drawings, furniture, and models produced by Morphosis are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco MOMA; the MAK in Vienna; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; and the FRAC Centre in France. Some of his best-known commissions include the Caltrans Building in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Federal Building, 41 Cooper Square—The Cooper Union’s new academic building in Manhattan, the Phare Tower in Paris and the FLOAT House—a pre-fabricated housing prototype—in New Orleans.

In addition to co-founding SCI-Arc, Mayne has remained active in academia. He has held teaching positions at Columbia, Yale (Eliel Saarinen Chair in 1991), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Eliot Noyes Chair in 1998), California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, SCI-Arc, Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and several other international institutions. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

Mayne holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California. He and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, who holds an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles, make their home in Los Angeles.  

2014 ACSA Board Candidates

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NEW ONLINE VOTING
Below is information for the 2014 ACSA elections, including candidate information (links). Official ballots were emailed to Faculty Councilors of each full-member school. The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by 5pm PT, February 14, 2014.
 

2014 ACSA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The President-Elect will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2014, with the first year served as Vice President, the second year served as President, and the third year served as Past President. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.


Peter B. MacKeith II, Washington University in St. Louis



Marilys R. Nepomechie, FAIA, Florida International University


2014 ACSA SECRETARY ELECTION
The Secretary serves for a two-year term, beginning on July 1, 2014. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.

 


Gregory A. Luhan, University of Kentucky


Edward Mitchell, Yale University


2014 ACSA REGIONAL DIRECTOR ELECTIONS
The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2014. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.

 

2013 Northeast Candidates


John Cays, New Jersey Institute of Technology


Patricia Seitz, Massachusetts College of Art and Design


2013 Mid Atlantic Candidates

 


Craig S. Griffen, Philadelphia University


Carlos A. Reimers, Catholic University of America


ACSA ELECTION PROCESS
Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors.
The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by 5pm PT, February 14, 2014.

 

2014 ACSA BOARD ELECTION TIMELINE

January 16, 2014
 Ballots emailed to Faculty Councilors at full-member schools
February 15, 2014, 5pm PT
 Deadline for submission of online ballots
April 2014
 Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Miami Beach, FL

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by 5pm PT, February 14, 2014.  

CONTACT
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs

Tulane University

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Tulane School of Architecture welcomes the following new non-tenure track faculty for the 2011-12 academic year.  The following adjunct faculty has been appointed as part of the school’s new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program. 

M. Tatiana Eck, most recently Vice President of Architecture and Development at AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp. and a registered architect and LEED AP at William McDonough + Partners before that. Her BA in Architecture, cum laude, is from Princeton University and she holds two master’s degrees, in Architecture and in Urban and Environmental Planning, from the University of Virginia. 

Kelly Longwell, Director in the New Orleans office of Coats Rose, where she concentrates in the areas of real estate, affordable housing and taxation. She holds a LL.M degree in Taxation from New York University, a JD from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.

Casius Pealer, is Principal of Oyster Tree Consulting L3C, a mission-driven limited liability corporation that provides affordable housing and community development advising services. He served as the first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building Council and is a Senior Sustainable Building Advisor for the Affordable Housing Institute in Boston, MA, and he is 2011 Chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing Committee.  He holds a Masters in Architecture degree from Tulane University’s School of Architecture and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Ommeed Sathe, has served as Director of Real Estate Development for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (“NORA”) since June 2007. He received his JD from Harvard University Law School, a Master in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in Urban Planning and Neuroscience.

Z Smith, AIA received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT, master of architecture degree from UC Berkley, his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University.  He is director of Sustainable Design at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Architects.

Reuben Teague, is co-founder and principal of Green Coast Enterprises. He has been named an Echoing Green fellow for 2008-10, one of Gambit Magazine’s “40 under 40” for 2009, one of Fast Company’s “10 Coolest Innovators Rebuilding New Orleans,” and one of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” by Business Week. He holds a JD from New York University School of Law and an AB in Economics from Princeton University.

Seth Welty, LEED AP received his Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University and won a prestigious Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship under whose support he worked for the last three years on rebuilding efforts in Biloxi, Mississippi with the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. Welty’s primary area of interest is finding venues and methods of practicing a socially responsible architecture that takes a more inclusive, active role in shaping equitable and sustainable environments. 

Drexel University

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After 37 years on the Drexel faculty and 25 years of leadership Paul M. Hirshorn, AIA has retired at the end of the academic year 2010-2011. Hirshorn was Head of the Department of Architecture from 1986 to 2007, Head of the Department of Architecture + Interiors from 2007 to 2010 and served as Architecture Program Director this past year. Under his leadership the Arfaa Lecture Series was established, the Architecture Program’s off-campus studies programs were launched and the unique 2+4 architecture degree program was created. Paul Hirshorn has worked tirelessly for the Department, the Program and for Drexel University and we would like to thank and acknowledge him for his many contributions.


Assistant Professor Dr. Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis, AIA has assumed the position of Program Director for Architecture in July 2011. Dr. Altenmüller-Lewis had served as Associate Director of the Architecture Program since she began teaching at Drexel in September 2008. This past spring Professor Altenmüller-Lewis won the prestigious Allen Rothwarf Award for Teaching Excellence, Drexel’ University’s highest teaching award.

Erik Sundquist has joined the Department of Architecture + Interiors as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Architecture Program. Prior to his appointment at Drexel University, Sundquist taught at the College of Architecture and the Arts at Florida International University in Miami Florida. As a practicing architectural designer he has collaborated with architects, artists, industrial designers and interior designers on high profile projects that span four continents. Eric Sundquist received his BA in Psychology and Economics from The University of Massachusetts, a MA in Political Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook and his MArch from Florida International University. In his teaching and research, he has explored the role of sustainability in professional practice and effects of digital based design on traditional notions of building tectonics and scale.

Nicole Koltick has been promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture + Interiors. She coordinates the technology course work and digital initiatives in the Interiors Design undergraduate and Interior Architecture and Design graduate programs. Nicole Koltick received an M. Arch. from UCLA and a BFA, in Art with University Honors, from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a principal of the trans-dicsiplinary design firm lutz/koltick. Koltick’s current research interests include future speculation, robotics, computation, artificial intelligence and interactive environments. She is interested in exploring the boundaries between technology, science, the “natural,” the built environment and its inhabitants. Nicole Koltick works with complex and fantastical narratives as well as multi-agent systems and advanced computational strategies to envision new landscapes, environments and territories for inhabitation.

Pennsylvania State University

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Assistant Professor of Architecture David Celento recently signed an agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishers for a new book entitled Digital Toolbox. The focus of this book will be on essential 3D digital design skills, with insights into the processes used by various international designers to realize notable digital works. The book is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2012.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Rebecca Henn (Penn State) and Professor Andy Hoffman (University of Michigan) are under contract with MIT Press to produce the book “Constructing Green: Sustainability and the Places We Inhabit.” The volume is a multi-disciplinary perspective on social factors related to green building, from properly incentivizing design and construction team members, to the ways that sustainable buildings can change the way we engage with technology and each other. Key chapters by Bill Browning and Monica Ponce de Leon (Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan) look to the future relationship between the design of structures and humanity’s relationship with the natural environment. Authors include international scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, management, sociology, economics, and natural resources. The volume provides both practical strategies for overcoming social and psychological barriers to green building, as well as theoretical findings for scholarly research. The book is scheduled for publication in late 2012. 

University of Houston

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UH SICSA Documentary Awarded Worldfest Gold Remi
Larry Bell, Professor and Director of SICSA

A documentary film about our University of Houston Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) has received a Gold Remi award at the 44th annual Worldfest-Houston 2011 international film festival. Competition entries in various categories represented 21 countries.

The SICSA film was produced and directed by Nikola Knez of IFILIMS LLC. We are grateful for his outstanding achievement on our behalf.

In 2010 Popular Science magazine featured SICSA in its selection of “30 Awesome College Labs”. Our current projects include an advanced Mars mission planning and design contract with Boeing, and a lunar habitat development conceptualization and educational interactive simulation contract with the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
 
SICSA sponsors the M.S. Space Architecture graduate program in the University of Houston’s College of Architecture. Many of our students work at NASA and affiliated aerospace companies.

Mayor Parker Launches Partnership with UH for Unique Emergency Solar-Powered Generation
On 18 April 2011, Mayor Annise Parker and the University of Houston unveiled a new partnership for solar powered generation. Through SECO grant funding, the City is purchasing emergency solar powered container offices/generators, designed by the University of Houston and Amaresco Solar Solutions. These first-of-its-kind solar units will provide mobile emergency power for small power consuming devices needed during an emergency. In non-emergency times, they can be used as spaces for offices, direct services, storage, first aid stations or cooling locations during special events.

UH Architecture 5th Year Design Studio
The 5th year design studio was featured on Houston PBS ‘UH Moment’ and can be viewed at http://www.uh.edu/multimedia/?mm_catId=UH Moment&mm_videoId=AQ-kYNIefn8

2014 Haiti Summer Studio Ð Call for Participation

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Submission Deadline: February 19, 2014

The 2014 Haiti Summer Studio is a public-interest design education and service-learning project organized through a partnership with Howard University (HU), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and conducted with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with support from the Fetzer Institute. The 2014 Haiti Summer Studio is the continuation of the “2011 Haiti Idea Challenge” where students were challenged to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods and structures affected by the 2010 earthquake. 

The 6-credit architectural studio, under the auspices of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), will expose up to 16 students to readings, design exercises, and a two week trip to work with local organizations and schools in Haiti on a design project that will help residents develop the capacity to improve their daily lives through architectural solutions. Through this service learning opportunity, students will be exposed to educational content that fosters awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. The outcomes of the studio will be documented and published by the ACSA as a model for other schools to use service learning to implement collaborative and participatory design processes that empower local citizens and foster community resilience.

The studio will be led by Professor Lynne M. Dearborn of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), School of Architecture and the project led by the partnership of Professors Edward Dunson, Victor Dzidzienyo and Bradford Grant of Howard University  (HU) School of Architecture and Design along with Michael Monti and Eric Ellis of the ACSA. A three-person committee will review the applications and select students to participate.

Curriculum for Service Learning
The curriculum is composed of a four preparatory workshops in early May 2014 conducted via electronic communications and an eight-week studio course in June and July. Students and faculty will travel to Haiti during two of the eight weeks.

Four Preliminary Preparatory workshops, late spring 2014
These digital workshops will include readings and discussion of Haiti and travel along with Exposing students to the principles of love, forgiveness, and compassion

Eight-Week Studio (June 2–July 26, 2014)

(June 2-7, 2014) First week spent in Champaign (UIUC).
Doing research and beginning to practice journaling, meditative sketching and drawing, and initial work on the design project.

(June 8-22, 2014) Two weeks spent in Haiti.
 Initial activities include working with the local school of architecture to understand the experience and processes of Haitian students, participating in a short-term design charrette. Remaining activities will involve working with a rural community on a design project linked to the efforts of one or more NGOs in Haiti. Throughout students will continue discussions of collaborative and participatory design processes and carry out the reflective journaling and sketching.

(June 23-July 26, 2014) Final five weeks spent in Champaign (UIUC).
 Completing the remaining work on the Haiti design project, keeping up communications with Haiti contacts, developing perspectives on how to generalize the design and interaction processes the students experienced in Haiti, and preparing their final design projects for sharing with Haitian-American communities and other architecture schools. 

Call for Participation
Eligibility: Students who will be entering their 4th, 5th, or 6th year of a professional architecture education, in the Fall of 2014, are invited to apply for a position in the 2014 Haiti Summer Studio, June 2–July 26, 2014.  

Application Requirements:

  • Academic Record updated academic transcript(s) including all coursework that is being applied to applicant’s current academic architectural program.
  • 300 word (max) essay describing your background, skills, career interests within architecture, and why you should be considered.
  • Letter of Recommendation from a Faculty Sponsor (1-page, includes student’s range of interest, knowledge, and experience)
  • Sample of Free-hand Sketching demonstrating ability (3-page max)

What’s in it for the students?

  • A rich educational experience, helping students develop reflective design process
  • 6 studio credits
  • A trip to Haiti
  • Portfolio and resume builder
  • Direct experience in participatory and collaborative design with local Haitian residents

Student Expectations

  • Ability to pay University of Illinois UC tuition & fees (expected tuition & fees: undergraduate IL residents $3,045, non-residents $5652; graduate IL residents $3,616, non-residents $6,934)
  • Ability to secure housing in Champaign-Urbana (available University Housing: expected cost for 6 weeks on campus: $1,176 per person, shared room; $1,764 per person, single room)
  • Ability to Travel Internationally and if a non-US citizens to secure a visa if necessary.
  • Ability to pay/travel to Champaign (travel to Haiti, room and board and travel within Haiti are covered for all accepted students)
  • Willingness to abide by University of Illinois travel abroad health and safety requirements (and in case of emergency all sponsor protocols) and faculty instructions during the term of the summer course.
  • Willingness/Ability to meet University of Illinois requirements for immunizations for University enrollment and travel abroad.
  • Enrollment in the UIUC for the summer of 2014 for a 6-credit studio.

 

Submission Process

All submission should be sent digital in a single email to Eric W. Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs at eellis@acsa-arch.org by 5pm PT, February 19, 2014.

Additional questions on the studio and submissions should be addressed to:
Eric Wayne Ellis
ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

 

Lawrence Technological University

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The College of Architecture and Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Deines as the Chair of the Art and Design Department. Professor Deines has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts in Design from Wayne State University and a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, along with NCIDQ certification in interior design and associate membership in the AIA. She has taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy since 2000. In the past, she has also taught at Warsaw Polytechnic University and the Cleveland Urban Design Center at Kent State University. Professor Deines has a wealth of professional experience with Green + Deines Studio, Awake by Design, Rossetti Architects, Swanson Meads Architects, and JPRA Associates.

Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., published his second book, The Chicago Schoolhouse,1856-2006: High School Architecture and Educational Reform (Center for American Places at Columbia College and University of Chicago Press, 2011), and presented a lecture on the book in June at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Dr. Gyure also was named a member of the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

Two of the college’s adjunct professors where rewarded for their continuing education in the past months. Jennifer L. Malia, IIDA, LEED AP, received her Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC), while Jane McBride received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wayne State University in Detroit.

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