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University of New Mexico

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Geoffrey C. Adams, Associate Professor, has been appointed the new Director of the Architecture Program in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico.  He succeeds Mark C. Childs, Professor, in this position.

Matthew Gines, Lecturer and Director of the Fabrication Lab, launched CRAF+T: The Center for Research in Advanced Fabrication and Technology. The Center’s research focuses on four areas; digital fabrication, building technology + practices, generative design, and enhanced computational processes.

James and Claudia Horn, Lecturers, led the Global Studio, with the recipient of this year’s Marjorie Mead Hooker Visiting Professorship, Will Bruder.  13 students participated in this intensive summer studio program.

Geraldine Forbes-Isais, Professor and Dean,  and Michaele Pride, Professor and Associate Dean for Public Outreach + Engagement, are planning for The Public Interest Design Institute® to provide training to architecture and other design professionals in public interest design with in-depth studies on methods of design related to critical issues faced by communities, September 2011. 

Prof. Pride and Lecturer Garrett Smith, instructed and guided the summer travel program to Switzerland and Italy. 

Noreen Richards has been appointed visiting assistant professor. She is actively creating connections between the architecture program and the University’s Sustainable Studies Program.

Roger Schluntz, professor and former dean at the University of New Mexico, was elected as the President Elect of the organization; he will then serve a two-year term as President effective 2013.

Kristina H. Yu, Assistant Professor, has presented at the conference, Suburbs and the 2010 Census, at George Mason University, School of Policy, two working papers.  She participated in the National Housing Conference: Solutions for Sustainable Communities.  These presentations and participation are related to her ongoing research and new seminar course titled ‘where is housing now?’.

The American Institute of Architects Students chapter on October 27-30, 2011 will host the regional West Quad Conference. The conference is titled, DEP: Dialogue Evolving Process. The conference questions, “How are architects evolving the standardization of the built environment?” Several workshops, tours and structured discussions and development curriculum are planned. The Keynote speakers are John Padilla (Vice-President AIA National), Eddie and Neal Jones (Jones Studio Inc) and Tom Wiscombe (Emergent Architecture).

North Carolina State University

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Professor Thomas Barrie was an invited speaker at a symposium entitled “Transcending Architecture” hosted by the School of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, October 6-8, 2011. His paper, “The Domestic and Numinous in Architecture,” focused on domestic symbolism often incorporated in sacred architecture.

The European Review has published Professor Thomas Barrie’s article “Sacred Space and the Mediating Roles of Architecture” (European Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 79-94, 2012)

A review of Professor Thomas Barrie’s book The Sacred In-between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge, 2010), appeared in the fall issue of Faith & Form magazine (Vol. XLIV, No. 2, 2011).

The Person Street Project, a community-based urban design project conducted at the College of Design’s Downtown Design studio fall semester 2011, concluded with a public exhibition on Friday, December 2nd. The exhibition, mounted in a storefront space on Person Street, featured urban design proposals and housing designs produced by twelve students in an ARC 401, Architectural Design Urban, studio led by Professor Thomas Barrie. Over 200 people attended the opening, and the project was featured in an article in the News and Observer. The project included research on contemporary urbanism, mixed-use development, and existing city studies and development plans for the project area; the urban and streetscape design for the Person Street neighborhood; and the design of a mixed-use, housing project for the development sites at the north end of Person Street.

The project partners were the Person Street Partnership and the City of Raleigh Urban Design Center. Project sponsors included the Person Street Partnership, the Society for the Preservation of Historic Oakwood and the School of Architecture.

(attached: exhibition photo)

 

Catholic University of America

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The School of Architecture and Planning of The Catholic University of America proudly presents Professor Adèle Naudé Santos, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in the Inaugural Lecture honoring George T. Marcou, FAICP Professor Emeritus, on Wednesday 10/26/11, 5:30pm at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20064.


Professor George Themistoclis Marcou taught at The Catholic University of America from 1962 to 2002. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 1953, and a master’s degree in city planning in 1955. During those years, he met a fellow student and the woman who would become his beloved wife during 56 years, Margaret, who also graduated from MIT. Both raised five children, three golden retrievers, and later enjoyed their eleven grandchildren. Professor Marcou was widely known for his professionalism, wonderful sense of humor, and practical approach to problem solving. Traveling around the world with Margaret, whether it was for business or for pleasure, was a great passion where his fluency in Arabic, Greek and French came in handy. His career as an urban planner began in 1962, when he founded Marcou, O’Leary and Associates, a planning and urban development consulting firm. There he directed projects for numerous counties and cities both in the United States and abroad. The firm received urban design awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including an award for its preservation plan and program for the Vieux Carré Historic District in New Orleans. Projects in the Washington area included Fiscal Impact Analyses for Montgomery County, a program for revitalization of downtown Frederick, Maryland, campus plans for George Washington University and the National Institutes of Health, planning studies for Fairfax County and a study of Washington’s skyline for the National Capital Planning Commission. The firm was acquired by Westinghouse in 1973. In 1977, Professor Marcou became the first manager of the Community Development Bureau of the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, developing policy and action programs for the business community dealing with public issues. Later in 1979, he was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the American Planning Association (APA) where he was responsible for its policy and lobbying program. He also served on the APA’s Political and Legislative Committee. In 1993, Governor Schaffer of Maryland awarded Professor Marcou the Governor’s Award for Professional Excellence and the following year appointed him to the State of Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Commission on which he served for five years. He was often asked to be a guest lecturer at conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad. These invitations took him to Denmark, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He was a longstanding member of Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

 Professor Emeritus George Marcou passed away on April 28, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland.

University of Texas at Austin

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Professor Juan Miró was elected as a 2013 inductee into The University of Texas at Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is among only four new members selected this year. Comprising approximately 5% of the tenured faculty in the university, the Academy provides leadership in improving the quality and depth of the undergraduate experience.

Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Hoidn, Fellow of the O’Neil Ford Centennial Chair in Architecture, was elected a member of the Scientific Committee for the 25th International Building & Life Congress, organized by the Chamber of Architects of Turkey Section of the International Union of Architects (UIA) in Turkey. 

Dr. Nancy Kwallek, director of the UTSOA Interior Design Program, and alumna Elise Wasser-King [MID, ’12] curated a poster and a slide presentation representing work from the school’s bachelor and master’s interior design programs for the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH).

Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture, has written a feature essay for the spring 2013 issue of ArchitectureBoston magazine. This issue’s theme is “Walter Gropius: The Cambridge Years.” Addtionally, Dr. Alofsin was invited to present a paper on “Ornament and Cultural Interpretation” at the international conference, “Dibujar las artes aplicadas: dibujo de ornamentación, arquitectura efirma y retablistica entre Portugal, España y Italia,” which will take place at the University of Cordoba on June 5 and 6. Alofsin’s most recent book, Dream Home: What You Need to Know Before You Buy, was published in April. A consumer’s guide written for a general audience, this colorfully illustrated paperback explains the housing industry, the process of buying a new home, and the architectural issues affecting the quality of life in the home. 

Architectural history professor Christopher Long recently presented two lectures, “Adolf Loos and the Strategy of Sorting” at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (in conjunction with the exhibition “Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary”) and “The Looshaus” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Professor Long also contributed an essay, “Ornament is Not Exactly a Crime: On the Long and Curious Afterlife of Adolf Loos’s Famed Essay,” in Yehuda Safran, ed., Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary (New York: GSAPP, Columbia University, 2013).

Associate Professor Udovi_ki-Selb  at the Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) presented a paper titled “Elusive Faces of Modernity: The Decade-long Urban Debates about the Future of Paris on the Occasion of the 1937 Expo.” Additionally he presented a paper titled “A Transalpine Scientia at Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore” at the “Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture’s Long Past” symposium at MIT held in honor of David Friedman.

Assistant Professor Allan Shearer has received a Mid-Career Grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.

Assistant Professor Matt Fajkus was named a finalist in the “2013 Austin Under 40 Awards,” which recognize a combination of professional achievement and community service. Fajkus was one of five finalists in the Design, Architecture, and Engineering Category. Additionally, Fajkus was honored with Special Mention: Alternative Typology Category, in the “d3 Unbuilt Visions 2012 Competition,” for his Flat House theoretical sustainable design project. The design team included Matt Fajkus, Brandon Hubbard, and Bo Yoon.

 

 

 

University of New Mexico

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Mark Childs’, Professor, new book Urban Composition, gets rave review in Metropolis Magazine.  Staff writer Peter Chomko reviewed Urban Composition for the highly regarded periodical, saying “this is a book that could shape the ideas of urban design’s interested consumers as much as it could the producers.” Childs’ most recent book is published by Princeton Architecture Press, and adds to his repertoire of titles on urban design, which includes Parking Spaces, published by McGraw-Hill, and Squares, from UNM Press. 
http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20120919/cities-should-be-like

Kramer E. Woodard, Associate Professor, was selected finalist and professional award winner with his entry titled; Penthouse Prototype in the juried exhibition ARTIFACTS FOR NEW DOMESTIC THINKING. This exhibition includes furnishings, lighting, furniture, architectural proposals, and artists’ works.  Winners were selected from entries from all Southwestern states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.  Innovative use of materials, conceptual strength, sustainable resourcing, creative functionality, new rituals for domestic usage, innovative technology, and intriguing innovations of form, guided the jurors in selecting the participants for this exhibition.  The jurors included; Laura Carpenter, Michael McCoy, Susan S. Szenasy and Suzanne Tick.

University of Kentucky

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Professor Richard S. Levine has recently retired from teaching after 46 years at the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. From early in his architectural career, Prof. Levine has been a pioneer and advocate for sustainability-oriented architecture. He has over 200 publications on solar energy and sustainable cities and has done sustainable city research and projects in Italy, Austria, China, the Middle East as well as in Kentucky.

He is now devoting his energies to his architectural and urban design practice at the Center for Sustainable Cities Design Studio (CSC Design Studio). Dick Levine’s practice in design has encompassed such areas as structural systems, hospitals, design process, solar oriented architecture and sustainable cities. In the mid ‘70’s his widely published Raven Run Solar Home was the first to incorporate active and passive solar, super insulation, earth tubes, composting toilets, attached greenhouse, and many other integrated features in a single project. The patented active air collectors developed in that project are part of one of the most efficient and least expensive solar collection and storage systems ever devised.

The Hooker Building in Niagara Falls, NY (1978) for which Levine was energy and design consultant, was projected to consume 88% less energy than that of a conventional office building and received the Owens-Corning Energy Conservation Award. Thirteen years later, Norman Foster reproduced Hooker’s double glass wall with its computer operated aluminum louvers in an office building in Duisburg, Germany, sparking a transformation in Europe of energy efficient commercial buildings whose design strategies are now being emulated in the US.

In the mid 1980’s, Prof. Levine, along with his colleague Ernest J. Yanarella, started the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) at the University of Kentucky, to advance the theory and practice of sustainability. In 1994 Levine became the principal author of the European Charter of Cities and Towns Towards Sustainability (the Aalborg Charter), the main vehicle in Europe for carrying out the Local Agenda 21 provisions of the Rio Earth Charter (1992). He also gave the keynote address at the Charter ratification conference.

Partnering with Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, director of Oikodrom: the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, the CSC focused on the city-region as the appropriate scale at which homeostatic relationships between social, environmental and economic issues could be realistically pursued to become the exemplar for the proliferation of sustainability throughout the globe. This was a pivotal determination that would lead to the formulation of the first Operational Definition of Sustainability. In the early 1990’s, the CSC and Oikodrom partnered to work on a series of three commissioned designs for a Sustainable City-as-a-Hill to be built over the Westbahnhof rail-yard in Vienna, Austria. Using Levine’s patented Coupled-Pan Space-Frame (CPSF) structural system as the city’s underlying structural framework a rich, diverse and sustainability driven urban fabric was developed.  Late in his life Lou Kahn had visited an early test of the CPSF and commented, “You should build a museum around it.” The City-as-a-Hill urban form, the Sustainable Urban Implantation, the Partnerland Principle, the Sustainable Area Budget, the Operational Definition of Sustainability, the Multiple, Participatory, Alternative Scenario-Building Process and other sustainable urban design principles were elaborated and integrated in the Westbahnhof project and continue to be studied and expanded upon today.

From 2002-2005, Prof. Levine worked on the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS project which developed sustainable future scenarios for rural villages in six Chinese provinces. This was followed by two successive EC projects focused on the renewal of the Islamic bath house (Hammam) tradition in six Mediterranean countries with the intention of developing and enhancing empowered, sustainable, civil society processes. In 2005, the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS) was formed as an extension of the CSC and Prof. Levine’s private architectural practice. In 2007, the CSCDS, headed by Prof. Levine, organized a system-dynamics modeling seminar in Fez, Morocco. This was part of the ongoing development of the “Sustainable City Game™”, the Sustainability Engine™, and the SCIM (Sustainable City Information Modeling) process.

As a recognition of his leadership and lifetime of work, in 2010 the American Solar Energy Society awarded Dick Levine its “Passive Solar Pioneer” award.  Levine is currently engaged in the design and construction of a number of low cost, zero net energy houses using the passive house standard.  His research and publications continue including his just published book with Ernest J. Yanarella titled, “The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability,” (Anthem Press, 2011). His web site is: www.centerforsustainablecities.com.

 

Cornell University

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Assistant Professor Jeremy Foster joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture as a tenure-track appointment, effective July 1, 2012. Foster’s research focus includes the history and theory of landscapes, cities and built environments, and the role of socio-spatial practices and ideologies in shaping urban environments. He is the author of Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa (2008, University of Pittsburgh Press) along with numerous scholarly articles. He was educated at the University of Cape Town, University of Pennsylvania, and University of London.

 
Mark Cruvellier has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the Department of Architecture. As Chairman of the Department, Cruvellier was also appointed to the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professorship of Architecture.

Kent Kleinman has been appointed to a second five-year term as the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, beginning July 1, 2013. 
http://aap.cornell.edu/arch/news/newsitem.cfm?customel_datapageid_2892=564866

Assistant Professor Jenny Sabin was commissioned by Nike as part of their new FlyKnit Collective to design, fabricate, and build a pavilion structure in New York City. Nike’s FlyKnit Collective is a platform for creative innovators worldwide to generate dialogue around and interact with the fundamental design principals of performance, lightness, formfitting, and sustainability, ultimately converting these abstract benefits into practical, physical structures and spaces that inspire the communities around them in transformative ways. The pavilion is made from threads that change color in the sun or glow at night. The pavilion opened Sept. 15, 2012 and is up through Nov. 4, 2012 at Nike Bowery Stadium, 276 Bowery, New York City.
http://aap.cornell.edu/arch/news/newsitem.cfm?customel_datapageid_2892=559436

Milstein Hall, internationally recognized for its design since opening in August 2011, has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 47,000-square-foot Milstein Hall is an addition to the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and provides studio space for 200 students, a gallery, critique spaces, and a 250-seat auditorium.
http://aap.cornell.edu/arch/news/newsitem.cfm?customel_datapageid_2892=562372

Tulane University

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Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, has been named director of the Tulane City Center as well as the new Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans. In his new roles, Cox will oversee a wide range of initiatives with Tulane architecture faculty and students throughout the New Orleans community. “I’m arriving at Tulane during a fascinating time in the history of the school of architecture and this city,” said Cox. “New Orleans is in the process of realizing its aspiration to lead the nation in democratic practices of design.”

At Tulane, Cox will be working with the highly successful programs of the Tulane City Center, URBANbuild, the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, the preservation program and the school’s new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program, all which are community outreach design initiatives of the university.

Tulane University

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The Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Calott, AIA as the Director of the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program. Professor Calott will guide the program as it enters its third year, following its highly successful launch under the direction of Alexandra (Sandi) Stroud, AIA. He brings an unusual combination of excellence in his creative work as an architect and urban designer, dedication as a teacher at a number of institutions, and success as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. We are delighted that he is joining an already strong faculty at the Tulane School of Architecture teaching in the exciting area of “regenerative development.” The values associated with sustainability are central to the program’s mission, and Calott will add significant expertise in a number of areas as we develop the skills of the next generation of leaders in this dynamic and growing field.

Christopher Calott is an architect, urban designer, and real estate developer, most recently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His architectural firm, CALOTT + GIFFORD Architecture / Urban Design and his closely connected real estate development firm, INFILL SOLUTIONS: Innovative Urban Design and Development, have produced numerous projects that create urban design solutions and employ dense urban-building typologies using modern forms in mixed-use urban infill developments, and affordable housing in the Southwest. He has pursued significant research in the areas of urbanism, housing, and community-based design practices through published investigations tied to teaching appointments at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico, and Latin America. 

 In 2011, Fast Company magazine recognized CALOTT + GIFFORD’s award-winning design practice as one of the “50 brilliant urbanites helping to build the cities of American’s future.” By working as both the architect and developer, his practice has challenged conventional zoning, financing strategies, and modes of development. His innovative work has involved the introduction of new housing types, dense “infill” subdivisions, transit-oriented development, community supported agriculture, vibrant public plazas, and public art to his projects. Calott’s longstanding work and research on informal urbanization patterns and his commitment to design excellence has influenced non-profit affordable housing and publicly financed urban design projects involved with local populations in the Southwest. 

In 2011-2012, Calott received the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He spent the year in residence investigating affordable housing delivery mechanisms, urban design theories, Landscape Urbanism, and Green Infrastructure design strategies, topics that coincided with the work he has pursued throughout his professional and academic career.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (with Honors) in Urban Theory and Design from Brown University, and also studied at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. 

In coming to Tulane and the MSRED program, Calott notes that, “Tulane’s MSRED Program is well integrated within the School of Architecture with significant recognition of the critical role that design plays in the development process of a sustainable urban future. The opportunity of living, learning and working on innovative development practices within the vibrant, resilient community of New Orleans at this powerful time is truly unique, an extraordinary experience I am looking forward to with students and faculty colleagues at Tulane.” Calott is uniquely qualified to join the Tulane School of Architecture faculty and students in connecting architecture, real estate development, and preservation in addressing issues of crucial importance to the future development of our nation’s cities. He believes, “that cities are our most sustainable resource, and hold the key to our social, economic, and culturally equitable future, as well as our planet’s environmental protection. Cities also sustain our cultures, as they are our most beautiful and important works of art.” Calott will begin his work with the MSRED program in July.

North Carolina State University

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Malecha Awarded the 2011 F. Carter Williams Gold Medal

 

Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, of the College of Design at North Carolina State University was awarded the 2011 F. Carter Williams Gold Medal during the annual AIA North Carolina conference held at the Raleigh Convention Center September 8-10.

The F. Carter Williams Gold Medal is the highest honor presented by the chapter to a member of AIA North Carolina in recognition of a distinguished career or extraordinary accomplishments as an architect.

Malecha was honored for his immense contributions to the architecture profession including seventeen years as an architect and educator in the state of North Carolina with a career spanning over five decades between two coasts.

“He’s accomplished more in his career to date than other distinguished professionals have accomplished in this state in a life time,” says alumnus John Atkins III, FAIA.

In 2009, Malecha served as president of the American Institute of Architects, providing distinguished service and leadership throughout a tumultuous time in the nation’s economy.

Alumnus Phil Freelon, FAIA, says, “He’s a leader in the academic and professional world. One could argue that Dean Malecha’s most significant and lasting contribution has been his effort to bring these two factions together. He has written extensively on this topic and he continues to work tirelessly to bridge the gap between architecture education and practice.”

 

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