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Texas A&M University

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Dr. Phill Tabb is a co-chair for the up-coming Architecture Culture and Spirituality (ACS) Symposium being held at Serenbe Community locate southwest of Atlanta, Georgia this June 29th-July 1st, 2011.  He is co-charing this with Dr. Julio Bermudez of Catholic University.  They will have 30 presentations and discussions throughout the symposium that are organized around two general themes of grounded versus higher principled expressions of sacred architecture.  

Dr. Phill Tabb is a co-editor with Professor Nader Ardalan of Harvard University for an entire issue 2A Magazine dedicated to last year’s ACS symposium held at St. Johns Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.  The issue is scheduled to come out sometime in May 2011.  It features 20 of the presentations on various aspects of the sacred in architecture.  Articles cover issues around three general themes of theory, precedence and practice relative to the spiritual in design.

Healthcare Design magazine’s editorial board and staff and the publishing staff at the Center for Health Design, Texas A&M University, whose members advance the idea that design can be used to improve patient outcomes in health care environments, have compiled a list of the 25 most influential people in healthcare design in 2010. The 2010 list recognizes four faculty members at Texas A&M University:

Kirk Hamilton, professor of architecture, No. 3;

George J. Mann, professor of architecture, holder of the Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Chair in Health Facilities Design, No. 13;

Mardelle Shepley, professor of architecture, holder of the William H. Peña Endowed Professorship in Information Management, director of Texas A&M’s Center for Health Systems and Design, No. 18;

Roger S. Ulrich, professor of architecture, holder of the Julie and Craig Beale ’71 Endowed Professorship in Health Facilities Design, No. 10 .

University of Texas at Austin

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Professor David Heymann recently returned from the southern France, where he was in residence with the The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar Residence. Directed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and based in Ménerbes, France, the program provides residencies for mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. While at the Dora Maar House, he worked on a manuscript of essays.

Heymann is a practicing architect and a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. The focus of Heymann’s writing, research, and practice is the complex relationships of buildings and landscapes, particularly sustainable constructions and natural landscapes. His built work has been variously published and recognized with design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York.

Professor Heymann’s article, “The Eastward-Moving House,” was just published at Places: Design Observer. The subject of the essay is the relationship of house form to values held regarding land, landscape, the landscape of the family, nature and cosmology. The form of the essay is a fiction, generated in response and as an addition to another fiction: J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House.” Written in 1953, Jackson’s great essay (long out of print) is also posted in Places.

From Heymann’s introduction: “If the centerline of Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House” is the availability of unconsumed land to be transformed by value systems into landscapes, the conceit of this later essay is that such land no longer exists, and a cycle of re-consumption in landscape making has begun.”

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, co-curated the exhibition and co-edited the catalogue on “Alvaro Siza: From Line to Space” at the Siza Pavilion, Hombroich, Germany. Professor Wang also contributed to the Capus Ultzama 2011, Pamplona, Spain, June 23-25, 2011, on the subject of abstraction and modernization. The conference was organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, Madrid/Pamplona. Other speakers included Gerardo Caballero, Eduardo Pasquera, Marcelo Villafañe, Tadej Glazar, Anne Lacaton, and Camilo Rebelo.

Professor Juan Miró contributed an article titled “Let’s Guide Austin’s Growth to Preserve Landscape, Offer Compact Alternative” to the June 15, 2011, edition of the Austin American-Statesman. In the article, Miró compares two models of city development-the Landscape City and the Compact City-and suggests: “As Austin continues to grow, it is not about choosing one model over the other; we must embrace the virtues of both models and mesh them successfully.”

Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui is featured in Archinect in their  “Working out of the Box” series.
Archinect highlights Siddiqui’s current work and explores his professional path. In part, Siddiqui explains, “I am increasingly interested in ways of defining space through means other than the introduction of new architectural volumes, focusing instead on imaginative re-tailoring of existing structures, performance-driven surface manipulations, exploiting relationships between objects and occupants, and taking advantage of ephemeral aspects of spatial experiences such as light, sound and smell.”

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Martin Despang´s newest case study of his prototype for “eco- and archi-friendly” educational design, a postfossil kindergarten for Germany´s oldest University of Göttingen, has been published in Archetcetera: http://archetcetera.blogspot.com/. Author Phyllis Richardson has peer reviewed Martin´s work in her XS series books and her article about cutting edge wood architecture in the Financial Times. The Göttingen kindergarten is a hybrid of landscape and architecture using thermal mass through exposed prefabricated concrete.

Assistant Professor, Susannah Dickinson presented a paper titled ‘Architecture and Biological Systems’ during the ACSA Teachers Seminar; Performative Practices: Architecture and Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, in New York, NY. She has also been selected to attend the NEH Summer Institute, “Beyond the Land Ethic: Sustainability and the Humanities.”

R. Brooks Jeffery has been promoted to Full Professor with a joint appointment in the Schools of Architecture plus Landscape Architecture and Planning.  Jeffery remains the Director of the Drachman Institute, the College’s outreach unit as well as Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Heritage Conservation Certificate program.

University of Oregon

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Associate Professor Mark Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. He will be leading the division’s 2011-2012 conferences in Denver and Los Angeles. His Urban Design Lab has received a grant from Camp Lutherwood in western Oregon to develop a master plan for the site through a participatory process.

Professor Kevin Nute presented an exhibition of the work of  his ‘Healing Healthcare Spaces’ design studio to the Northwest  Architecture for Health Panel in August, and has also contributed a chapter on ‘Japanese Art as a Means to Organic Architecture’ for the forthcoming book Reception et diffusion en Occident de l’espace architectural et de l’art des jardins du Japon (Paris: French School of Far Eastern Studies, 2011). 

University of North Carolina Charlotte

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Professor David Walters led one of five urban design teams engaged in a large scale block-by-block design and coding project for the historic core and adjacent neighborhoods in Beaufort, SC organized by the City of Beaufort with the Lawrence Group as lead consultants. This innovative design and coding project will result in a form-based code calibrated to detailed site-specific proposals for future development within the historic context.

Walters’ work on place-specific urban design and form-based coding is also featured in a commissioned paper entitled “Smart Cities, Smart Places, Smart Democracy: Form-based codes, electronic governance and the role of place in making smart cities.” This paper, which features a case study of the work in Beaufort, SC, will be published in a special themed issue of the European journal “Intelligent Buildings International.”

Associate Professor Jose Gamez and his collaborative efforts through the Design + Society Research Center was recently awarded a $20,000 matching grant from the City of Charlotte’s Neighborhood Services and Economic Development.  The funding augments previous funding from Z Smith Reynolds Foundation and is intended to support efforts to address crime and safety in Windy Ridge, a foreclosure hit neighborhood in NW Charlotte.  This on-going, action-based research project has recently been covered by an Associated Press article, featuring the work of faculty and students who aim to help stabilize the neighborhood.  The story appeared in The Charlotte Observer, the San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Denver Post, WRAL in Raleigh, BusinessWeek.com, MSN Money section online, and many other smaller newspapers.

Associate Professor Peter Wong served on the panel discussion “Modernism at Risk: Challenges and Solutions to the Preservation of Modern Architecture” at the Wells Fargo Auditorium in Uptown Charlotte, as part of Historic Charlotte’s “Mad About Modern” Preservation Program.  Other panelists included John Boyer of the Bechtler Museum of Art, George Smart of Triangle Modernist Houses, and Robert Ciucevich of Quatrefoil Consulting.

Assistant Professor Jeff Balmer presented “The Diagram & Beginning Design Education” at the 27th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, hosted by the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Assistant Professor Chris Beorkrem presented “Material Ecologies in Parametric Design Software” at the

International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction held on the campus of the

University of Kansas.  Also, five student groups from his spring term Topical Design Studio were selected as Finalists in the ShiftBoston Barge 2011 design competition.  Each proposal was designed using a combination of off-the-shelf unconventional recycled or “pre-cycled” components in conjunction with digitally manufactured connections.  

Assistant Professor Zhongjie Lin received a research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago) for his research project “Constructing Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement.” This is Dr. Lin’s second Graham Foundation grant award. He received a publication grant award in 2008 for his book Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan. The current project will focus on the planning and development of the “model new towns” emerging from the current massive urbanization in China, and study them through the lens of urbanism and utopianism. 

Assistant Professor Emily Makas co-authored the book “Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas” with John Stubbs of Columbia University, published by Wiley Press.  This book serves as the first comprehensive survey that examines in detail architectural conservation practice on a wide comparative basis.

Assistant Professor Nick Senske presented “A Curriculum for Integrating Computational Thinking” at the

ACADIA Regional Conference: Parametricism: (SPC), held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 

Catholic University of America

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

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

Photo Samsugn Model Home Gallery by Seungbum Kim

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. 

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