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Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Professor Beatriz del Cueto became the first Puerto Rican woman and the second person on the island to receive the Rome Prize Award for 2011 in the category of Architectural Preservation and Conservation. The prize includes a scholarship for a period of six (6) months to two (2) years at the academy in Rome.

Professor Andres Mignucci FAIA has been named Visiting Scholar and Maxfield Lecturer 2011-2012 at the School of Architecture at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Mignucci recently published his book Jesus Eduardo Amaral Architect, a monograph on one of Puerto Rico’s leading modern architects and founder of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico.

Professor Smyrna Mauras Modesti has joined the faculty this Fall and is the Coordinator of the Interior Design Program.

Professors Yara Maite Colon, Sotirios Kotoulas, Claudia Rosa Lopez, Maria Isabel Oliver, and Nelly Toledo have joined the faculty this Fall. Prof. Colon holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from the Escuela Tecnica Superior d’ Arquitectura de Barcelona; Prof. Kotoulas holds a Masters in Architecture and History and Theory of Architecture from Mc Gill University in Canada; Prof. Claudia Rosa Lopez holds a Master of Fine Arts and Design from Savannah College of Art and Design; Prof. Oliver holds a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University and has taught at the City College of New York, Parsons School of Design, the Cooper Union and the University of Puerto Rico. Prof. Toledo will be conducting the course on Industrial Design. 

Professor Yara Maite Colon was invited to participate on the VII International Congress of Modern History of Architecture in Spain. Colon’s lecture ‘Los principios de Cuadernos de Arquitectura (1944-1950): convicciones entre lineas durante la posguerra’ will be part of the conference regarding the propaganda and manifestos of journals between 1900-1975.

Professor Javier Santiago lectured at the University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Carolina, on the topics of Interior Design and Social Responsibility, and on a research focused on the quality of life of young Puerto Rican homosexuals. He was awarded a Bronze Award Nude/Body Category fro the 2011 Single Image Contest, Color Photography Magazine.  His photographic work was included in Professor Miguel Rodriguez Casellas article Puertorricanism or living in the surface, published in the Harvard Design Magazine.

Professor Yazmin Crespo was a speaker at the Federation of Caribbean Architecture Association Conference in Ponce.

Professor Francisco de la Cruz was awarded Third Place for the photographic work Art and City at the 2010-2011 Puerto Rico Design Exchange Competition.

Dean Carlos Betancourt has invited professors Yazmin Crespo, Heather Crichfield, Andres Mignucci, Maria Isabel Oliver (coordinator), and Maricelis Ramos, to participate in the new editorial board of the next issue of the Politecnica School of Architecture journal Polimorfo. Former editor Oscar Oliver Didier will be the new editor of the Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico journal Entorno, and former editor Marcelo Lopez Dinardi is conducting graduate studies at Columbia University. 

Rice University

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Professor Neyran Turan and Wortham Fellow Neeraj Bhatia were recent recipients of two separate Graham Foundation Grants. Turan was the founding editor-in-chief of the Harvard-based journal, New Geographies, which was awarded its second grant from the Graham Foundation for its upcoming issues next year. Bhatia’s grant was awarded for the project, Housing in the Arctic Petropolis of Tomorrow, which, “seeks to catalogue the landscape, cultural, material, and construction systems of the indigenous Inuit housing types, and the modern prefabrication construction techniques and materials employed in the Arctic, to forecast new housing typologies that will provide sustainable shelter to the emerging Arctic petropolis.”

Dean Sarah Whiting, whose essay Speculating Beyond Iconicity: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Project appears in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalog, Architecture of Invention, lectured on Goldberg’s work in a symposium at the Art Institute on October 29 and will be giving a solo lecture on Goldberg at the Chicago Arts Club on January 11.

The work of Nonya Grenader, Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Associate Director of the Rice Building Workshop, was featured on November 9 in the New York Times article, For the Director of the Menil Collection, an Unadorned Home.

On October 24, Professor Albert Pope lectured at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Professor Pope showed two recent projects: his design for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Competition (a collaboration with Schaum/Sheih), and his redevelopment project for the Fifth Ward of Houston funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The intent of the presentation was to propose a unified design logic capable of spanning from the architectural scale of 10 blocks to the urban scale of 1000 blocks.

Wortham Assitant Professor Reto Geiser lectured at the University of Toronto, Canada on November 7 at a conference held on the occasion of Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday: McLuhan100 Then/Now/Next International Conference & DEW Line Festival. His plenary talk was titled From the Faculty of Inter-Relation to the Explorations Group: Exchanges Between Sigfried Giedion and Marshall McLuhan. Additionally, Geiser’s essay, In the Realm of Architecture, Some Notes on Ai Weiwei’s Spatial Tempations appears in the exhibition catalog, Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture.

John J. Casbarian, Director of External Programs and Harry K. & Albert K. Smith Professor was invited to participate on the panel Changing Academic Economies at the annual ACSA Administrators Conference, which was held on November 11 in Los Angeles.

Professor Carlos Jiménez lectured in conjunction with the exhibition, Breaking Borders: New Latin American Architecture, a joint effort of Latin Pratt and the Pratt Institute of Architecture. The exhibition highlights contemporary architecture of the past 10 years from 45 firms representing more than 10 countries in Latin America. Jiménez also served as the juror for two distinguished competitions: Houston’s internationally acclaimed touring program of short-form media, Independent Exposure 2011: Visual Architecture (Oct. 10-11), and the Open Competition for Fundecor Headquarters, Puerto Viejo, in San Jose, Costa Rica (Oct. 20-22). Additionally, Jiménez lectured at the Third International Congress of Architecture and the Environment at UNAM, Mexico City (Oct. 18), and delivered In-sights on Color and Architecture at the Rice Gallery (Oct. 25).

Stephen Fox, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, led a day-long tour of domestic architecture in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, on September 22 in conjunction with the Building Communities Conference, sponsored annually by the Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, on October 15, Fox was the first recipient of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America Texas Chapter’s Board of Directors Award as part of the John Staub Awards Celebration.

Rice University

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Jessica Tankard, an M. Arch degree candidate who recently completed her thesis, will be a Fulbright ambassador from the United States to the Netherlands from September through May.  As a guest researcher at the Technical University of Delft, Jessica’s research will focus on methods for integrating energy generation into buildings beyond climate-dependent photovoltaics, and will culiminate in a design conclusion.

We are delighted to welcome four members to the RSA faculty this fall.  Troy Schaum and Reto Geiser will be joining us as Assistant Professors, and Bryony Roberts and Neeraj Bhatia will be the 2011-2013 Wortham Fellows.

Schaum was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the RSA this past year, and a Wortham Fellow prior to that. He is a founding partner of the architecture practice Schaum/Shieh, and previously practiced with OMA as well as Jim Jennings.  Geiser comes to Rice from the ETH Zurich, where he obtained his Ph.D. and has been teaching studio as well as courses in history, theory, and criticism. He writes extensively and is half of the firm MG&Co.   Roberts is completing her M.Arch. at Princeton and has worked for the architecture firms Mansilla Tunon and WORKac. She brings an interest in architecture’s intersection with contemporary art, as well as issues of modern and contemporary preservation.  Bhatia will be extending his current fellowship. He is a partner in The Open Workshop and the Director of InfraNet Lab.

Dean Sarah Whiting was a respondent at the symposium ‘Private Places, Public Power,’ held at Rice’s Humanities Research Center. Whiting lectured at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture and also gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, along with R.E. Somol, entitled ‘Doppler Redux.’ Additionally, she participated on a panel at the RPA’s Urban Systems Symposium in New York and a panel at MIT on ‘Pedagogical Practices.’

Professor Farès el-Dahdah delivered the lecture ‘Architecture and Anthropophagy: Lucio Costa et al’ at the MIT School of Architecture.

Professor Ron Witte gave a lecture entitled ‘Track Jumping’ at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture.

Wortham Fellow Neeraj Bhatia will lead a group of recent graduates at Archiprix, a biennial international competition for the best graduation projects in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.  The group will participate in a weeklong competition examining radical speculations on the future of Manhattan.  As part of this event, Bhatia will also give a lecture entitled “Territorial Ecological Form” at MIT and engage in a series of debates moderated by Michael Kubo.  Bhatia also published an Op-Ed in the most recent issue of DOMUS magazine entitled “The Urban Project of Plurality.”

Professor Carlos Jimenez and Visiting Studio Critic Derek Dellekamp were respondents on panel discussions at LATITUDES, a two-day symposium at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture that reflected on architecture in the Americas.

Professor Carlos Jimenez is also serving as an invited jury member on a number of competitions this spring.   Additionally, works and writings by Professor Jimenez were featured in the following publications: ARCHITECT’S SKETCHBOOKS, ARQUINE, and ATLAS: ARCHITECTURES OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

Assistant Professor Neyran Turan has recently published a chapter on the contemporary urbanism of Istanbul in MEGACITIES. Turan also published an article in 20/20: EDITORIAL TAKES ON ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE.

Professor Mark Wamble gave a lecture at the School of Architecture at Auburn University entitled ‘Just a Moment’ that focused on five projects produced by Interloop-Architecture between 2008 and 2010.

Professors Nonya Grenader and Danny Samuels received the 2010-2011 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award for their CORE HOUSES projects, which include the Extra-Small (XS) House, New Core/Existing Row Houses, and the ZeRow House.

‘Cuttings,’ an 11-image series by Lecturer in Architecture Frank White, was recently acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. White’s work was also honored at last year’s AIGA Texas Show.

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