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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Architectural Design, a spring core studio in the RISD Architecture curriculum, recently completed a sustainable community garden for neighborhood residents, the Chinese Christian Church and Heritage Park YMCA in Pawtucket, RI. The project was featured on May 18 in The Pawtucket Times. More information about the garden can be found at (http://www.risd.edu/About/News/Community_Garden_Blossoms.aspx).
Jonathan Knowles has been appointed to Associate Professor at the RISD Architecture Department.
Fulbright Grants were awarded to Athanasiou Geolas (BArch 11), who will be doing research in Greece and to Reed Duecy-Gibbs (MArch 11), who will be in Turkey to conduct his research.
UNLV Architecture Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The award was presented during a luncheon on November 15, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The awards recognize professors for their influence in the classroom and their commitment to undergraduate students. Fernandez-Gonzalez was selected from a pool of nearly 300 top professors nationwide and a broad range of academic disciplines and institutional types.
“Great faculty dedicated to the success of our students are the backbone of UNLV and our tradition of educational excellence,” said UNLV President Neal Smatresk. “Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez has been an outstanding mentor and coach for students by engaging them in relevant research that is contextually linked to their major interest. UNLV is proud of his accomplishments and of our architecture program.”
Fernandez-Gonzalez was also the recipient of the 2012 UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and UNLV’s nominee to the Nevada System of Higher Education Regents Teaching Award. He is presently the Director of the Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory and the Architecture Program Coordinator.
The U.S. Professors of the Year Program began in 1981 and is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. Judges selected national and state winners based on four criteria:
– Impact on and involvement with undergraduate students
– Scholarly approach to teaching and learning
– Contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession
– Support from colleagues and current and former students
“The winners have drawn on the best of what we know from cognitive science, learning theory and evidence-based practices in post-secondary instruction to orchestrate extraordinary opportunities for the students in their classrooms,” said Anthony S. Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a statement. “In honoring these distinguished professors who have exhibited excellence in teaching in their disciplines and extraordinary dedication to their students, we are supporting the centrality of teaching on campus and recognizing its importance to the future of our country.”
This year, a state Professor of the Year was recognized in 30 states and the District of Columbia. CASE assembled two preliminary panels of judges to select finalists. The Carnegie Foundation then convened the third and final panel, which selected four national winners. CASE and Carnegie select state winners from top entries resulting from the judging process. For additional information please visit: http://news.unlv.edu/release/architecture-professor-named-nevada-professor-year
Susan Rogers and Rafael Longoria have received a $25,000 NEA grant for their Collaborative Community Design Initiative 2.
Patrick Peters and Cheryl Beckett (Graphic Communications Department) have received a Merit Award from the Society of Graphic Designers for their collaborative project: Dis(solve): The Japhet Creek Project. The student team is: Arantza Alvarado, Ramon Arciniega, Joanna Bonner, Lindsey Bowsher, Danny Carter, Hei Man, Alison Cheuk, Megan Conkin, Jose Alfredo Dehuma, Hai Phi Dinh , Miguel Farias Nunez, Amy Heidbreder, Marcia Hoang, Aike Jamaluddin, Zach Kimmel, Kyra Lancon, Jennie Macedo, Leah Macey, Jenny Ng, Jane Nghiem, Diana Ngo, ViVi Vu Nguyen, Rachel Outlaw, Ada Pedraza, Christopher Steven Pine, Anna Reyes, Jessica Rios, Josh Robbins, Haley Ross, R-Jay Ruiz, Hector Solis, Brad Sypniewski, Tam Truong, Erin Woltz.
Associate Professor Michelangelo Sabatino was named as a Fellow in Residency at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, established in 1908, and providing crucial time and space to artists such as Leonard Bernstein, James Baldwin, Thornton Wilder, and Alice Walker. Michelangelo plans to begin his residency in December, 2011.
Associate Professor Brian Johnson was awarded the prestigious ACADIA Society Award last fall. This award recognizes extraordinary contributions and service to the ACADIA community, and was presented at the ACADIA 2010 “Life in:formation” conference at The Cooper Union in New York City (October 21-24, 2010).
Sharon Egretta Sutton was chosen to receive the 2011 Whitney M. Young, Jr. Award by the American Institute of Architect’s Board of Directors at its December meeting. One of the Institute’s highest honors, the award recognizes Sutton’s commitment to advancing minority participation in the design professions and advocating for environmental and social justice. An ACSA Distinguished Professor and fellow in the American Institute of Architects, Sutton served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, University of Cincinnati, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University before her joining the faculty of the University of Washington in 1998. In addition, Sutton is co-editor of a new book, The Paradox of Urban Space: Inequity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities (Palgrave Macmillan).
UW Faculty and students won awards this year at the Living City Design Competition juried in Vancouver BC. This was a major international competition focusing on how cities might become communities that reach the goals of the Living Building criteria for sustainability. Second place went to UW students Andy Brown, Rob Potish, Jonathan French and Ryan Heltzel-Drake taught by Affiliate Professor David Strauss, with the name Atelier. The GU Team made up of Assistant Professor Gundula Proksch, Josh Brevoort, Lisa Chun, Mac Lanphere (recent UW graduate), Lauren McCunney (recent UW graduate), & Cameron Hall, won the “Images that Provoke Award”. The jury commented on how the submission “makes the viewer feel physically transformed into an imagined reality”.
Associate Professor Rick Mohler’s firm, Adams Mohler Ghillino, was recently recognized through several awards and publications. The Wall House was named the Home of the Year by Seattle Homes and Lifestyles magazine and was recognized in the AIA Seattle/Seattle Times Future Shack program. It was featured in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of SH&L and the 9/12/2010 issue of Pacific Northwest Magazine. The firm’s View Residence was featured on the cover of the Jan/Feb issue of Seattle Homes and Lifestyles. The Flip/Flop House(s) was featured in the July issue of the national trade magazine Builder in an article on housing innovation and was the AIA Seattle/Daily Journal of Commerce Project of the Month for September with a feature in the DJC on 9/15.
Professor Steve Badanes was an invited speaker at the International Forum on New Regionalism in North america at the University of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador in March 2011. In February, Badanes was a juror for the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture in Sante Fe NM, and delivered a lecture at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In November he spoke at University of Hawaii, Manoa, and he will be the keynote speaker at the Timber Framers Guild of North America conference in Port Townsend WA in may.
Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Golden presented two papers at ACSA in Montreale this year, “Traditional Translations: the Universal Optimizing the Handcrafted” and “Following the Berlin Wall”. Assistant ProfessorsGundula Proschk and Rob Corser also presented in Montreale.
Assistant Professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino presented at the Revitalize Washington Main Street Conference with a paper entitled “Sustainability and Preservation for Washington State: Challenges and Opportunities” and a paper for ARCC in Detroit entitled “Urban Grain and Neighborhood Vibrancy.” Merlino and Professor of Architecture / UW College of Built EnvironmentsDean Daniel Friedman were invited participants at the 25th Mayor’s Institute on City Design National Summit in Chicago on April 25-27.
Professor MARY COMERIO received the United Nation’s Green Star Award, from the U.N.’s Environment Programme, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Green Cross International. Comerio’s primary focus for last 25 years has been the seismic safety of housing and post-disaster recovery. Her research on the costs and benefits of seismic rehabilitation for existing buildings has been widely published; she is an internationally recognized authority on post-disaster reconstruction. Most recently, Comerio provided invaluable advice on UNEP’s post-disaster engagement in Sichuan Province China, evaluating new sustainable building prototypes, and in Haiti, advising UN early-recovery teams on challenges related to damaged structures.
Assistant Professor Maria Paz Gutierrez has been named to the 2011-2012 Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Scholar Program as part of a 20-member team working to promote best practices in fighting poverty and inequality in the Western Hemisphere. She will work in her native Chile on a sustainable and affordable housing prototypethat also could be deployed in an emergency, particularly a flood. Working with her on the project in Chile will be UC Berkeley graduate research assistants Kylie Han and John Faichney. (For more, see http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/25/architect-fulbright-nexus-scholar/)
Gutierrez also received the university’s 2011Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award (Junior Faculty). And was named Bentley’s Educator of the Year. (See the latter here: http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/Academic/Networking+and+Development/BE+Awards/2011+Winners.htm)
CRANZ, along with ASSOCIATE Professor RAVEEVARN CHOKSOMBATCHAI and ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RONALD RAEL contributed to a show of novel outdoor seating at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center which opened in June. Called SEAT, the yearlong exhibition curated by artist and landscape designer Topher Delaney, of Seam Studio, includes work by more than 40 designers, artists, and architects. Each team was given a site on the former Fort’s 13-acre waterfront campus, which now serves as an arts and culture venue.
The College of Environmental Design Library’s Head LibrarianElizabeth Byrne received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award at commencement in May. After joining the Environmental Design Library as its Head in 1984, Byrne established the library as one of finest architecture, landscape, and planning libraries in North America. She also recently co-edited the book Design on the Edge, which traces the history of architectural education at Berkeley.
ASSOCIATE Professor DANA BUNTROCK and Professor SUSAN UBBELOHDE brought a team of graduate students and energy specialists (including a number of alumni now working in Ubbelohde’s firm, Loisos + Ubbelohde) to Tokyo for a four-day energy conservation workshop in June, funded in part by the university’s Center for Japanese Studies. Participants in the workshop included Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, Jun Aoki and designers from organizations such as Nikken Sekkei, Takenaka Construction and Kajima; leading academics from the University of Tokyo, Keio, Tokyo Fine Arts University and Tokyo Metropolitan University were also involved.
BUNTROCK was also awarded a one-semester Faculty Residential Research award for Spring, 2012, by the university’s Institute of East Asian Studies, for research titled “Shaped by Disaster: Architectural and Engineering Practices after 3/11.” BUNTROCK’S book, Materials and Meaning in Japanese Architecture was a finalist for the EDRA “Great Places” award and she also recently wrote two book reviews, on Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s photographs of Katsura, for the on-line L.A. Review of Books (http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7336308794/the-eyes-think) and the May issue of Visual Resources.
GREG CASTILLO was awarded an Associate Professor Fellowship from the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities for 2011-2012. The program enables faculty members to devote a Spring semester to research while participating in a weekly roundtable composed of senior and junior faculty members and Graduate Dissertation Fellows. Greg’s research project, “Toward an Emotional History of German Reconstruction,” will examine postwar German architecture through methods pioneered by contemporary historians of emotions.
ASSOCIATE Professor Mark Anderson received an Honor Award from the AIA-SF for his “Lips Tower.” (http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/15288#more-15288)* In July, Anderson brought two student teams to Singapore for the Vertical Cities Competition (http://www.verticalcitiesasia.com/). Dean Jennifer Wolch is participating in a related symposium.
ASSISTANT Professor Nicholas de monchaux was a featured speaker at the 2011 “Urban Systems Symposium” in New York City in mid-May and as part of the “Ultra Exposure Forum,” at Little Tokyo Design Week in mid-July with Sylvia Lavin, Elizabeth Diller, Rene Daalder, Machiko Kusahara and Hiroki Azuma.
De Monchaux also spoke about his new book in a number of very cool settings:
ASSISTANTProfessor Ronald RaeL’s firm, Rael San Fratello, is one of ten finalists in a Van Alen Institute competition considering the environmental, cultural and economic impact of high-speed rail. The finalists were exhibited at the National Building Museum, and participants will engage in panel discussions throughout the country this summer.
Rael also published his project “Border Wall as Architecture” in the refereed journal Environment and Planning D, vol. 29, issue 3 and his review of the book The Masons of Djenné by Trevor H. J. Marchand. (Bloomington: Indiana University
Designs for Living in Upper Volta (1985), written with Trinh Minh-ha. Rael also presented the paper Border Wall as Architecture at the International conference “Fences, Walls and Borders: State of Insecurity?,” at the University of Quebec at Montreal and held in association with the Association for Borderlands Studies in May.His firm Rael San Fratello Architects published their 2010 sukkah, now titled “Homeless House” in the new journal SOILED’s debut edition. (http://cartogram.org/soiled.html)
Emeritus Professor Marc Treib a grant form the Graham Foundation for a research project entitled, “National Modernism: The Landscapes of Christopher Tunnard and Sutemi Horiguchi.” (http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/3973-national-modernism-the-landscapes-of-christopher-tunnard-and-sutemi-horiguchi)
Professor Nezar Alsayyad spoke at New Castle University in March.
And he was also in the news a great deal, for his insights on the built environment in Cairo:
And IwamotoScott’s “Jellyfish House” is now part of the Architecture & Design Permanent Collection at San Francisco MOMA, exhibited until November in the show “The More Things Change.” Images of the recently reproduced 3D-printed model, its installation at SFMOMA, and the original project drawings are now viewable in a photoset on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isar/sets/72157626799271833/
Working with 14 students as part of a year-long research studio for graduating M.Arch candidates, Associate ProfessorRenee Chow developed and tested a new paradigm in integrative urban design, sponsored by grants from the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute and our own department. The project site was located along the edge of a historic district in Tianjin, China; the final projects and design processes were presented in Tianjin in June and have been selected for exhibition at the 2011 Chengdu Biennale in October.
In late May, Professor HARRISON FRAKER gave the Annual David Goldberg Lecture in Architecture to the Arts Council of Princeton.
Professor CRIS BENTON’s aerial photography was paired with the work of landscape photographer Chris Foster in an exhibition at the Pictopia Gallery in Berkeley in June.**
PROGRAM NEWS
1) A conference titled “The Death and Life of ‘Social Factors,’” took place at the University of California Berkeley April 29 to May 1. The conference questioned the status, the boundaries, and the future of social and behavioral research in environmental design. It was organized by Berkeley doctoral students Lusi Morhayim, Georgia Lindsay, and Jonathan Bean, and brought together 200 participants from 35 countries.
PROFESSORSGalen Cranz, Margaret Crawford, & Michael Southworth led keynote panel discussions. Paper sessions covered topics such as special needs populations, design for health, sustainability, perception, place identity, theoretical explorations within the field, and the practice of socially conscious architecture. The digital proceedings are now available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/conf/deathandlife.
The Journal of Urban Design will also publish a special issue devoted to papers first presented at the conference, and a Facebook group, “The Death and Life of Social Factors,” will act as a discussion board for continuing conversations and information about the field; membership is open to all.
2) An exhibit entitled “Gardens for Peace” opened in the College of Environmental Design’s Library, in June and runs through late September. The exhibition commemorates a 1985 competition for a National Peace Garden, to be built in the nation’s capital, and was curated by Gar-Yin Lee (MLA ‘11).
3) The Environmental Design Archives was honored with a certificate of appreciation by California Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. The certificate read:
UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives
Honoring consistent dedication and commitment to perpetuate the maintenance and growth of the history of California’s built environment, and for promoting scholarly research, teaching support, preservation, and public service, thereby benefitting all the people of the City and County of San Francisco and the State of California.
In addition, Curator Waverly Lowellpresented work on Greenwood Common to the Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting. Lowell was also invited to participate in a multi-campus Research Group focusing on California Architecture and Design that has received funding from the UC Humanities Research Institute.
Visual Resources collection Librarian Jason Millerwill be serving as the Production Editor for the eVRA Bulletin of the Visual Resources Association.
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