Todd Gannon Announced as Section Head of Architecture
The Knowlton School is pleased to announce that Professor Todd Gannon has been appointed the next Section Head of Architecture. Gannon comes to the Knowlton School fromthe Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he taught history, theory and design studio. Prior to his arrival at SCI-Arc in 2008, Gannon taught at Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA, where he also received his Ph.D.
“Todd is uniquely qualified to lead the Architecture Section forward,” according to Knowlton School Director Michael Cadwell. “He is an experienced practitioner and academic who is well acquainted with the school and a respected voice in the discipline.”
Professor Gannon will return to his academic roots, having received his architectural undergraduate (BSARCH ‘95) and graduate (MARCH ‘97) degrees at the Knowlton School. “I am thrilled to return to Columbus and to rejoin the Knowlton School as architecture section head. Ohio State is one of the premier public universities in the country and the Knowlton School has long played a leading role in advancing both the discipline and the practice of architecture worldwide,” said Gannon.
More recently at Knowlton, Gannon has juried the graduate architecture 2017 Exit Review Prize, lectured during the 2014 Baumer Lecture Series, and editedEt in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House, a book of essays on Knowlton School Professor Emeritus José Oubrerie’s most notable built work in the United States.
Gannon’s appointment follows the retirement of Professor Robert S. Livesey, who has served as section head for the past four years. “I look forward to building on the formidable achievements of my predecessor, Professor Robert Livesey,” Gannon added, “and to working with Knowlton School students, faculty and staff to develop innovative, equitable, and sustainable strategies to meet architecture’s twin responsibilities to organize the built environment and to advance the public imagination.”
Gannon’s scholarship focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002), Pendulum Plane/Oyler Wu Collaborative (2009), and monographs on the work of Thom Mayne, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Steven Holl, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Eric Owen Moss. Gannon’s book on the architecture critic and historian Reynar Banham is forthcoming as are publications on speculative architecture in Southern California.
Gannon has lectured at institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia, and is a frequent conference participant and jurist. He served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, where he directed publication efforts from 2008-2010. His work has been recognized and supported by the Graham Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and UCLA.
Armando Araiza, Lecturer, led his undergraduate students in the design, fabrication, and mounting of a public art installation mounted on the façade of the Houston Street Parking Garage in downtown San Antonio, TX. The installation was composed of 128 individual aluminum modules clustered to create 16 unique tiles. The tiles were designed to evoke handmade Mexican “talavera” tiles, and composed to recall a map of San Antonio.
Ed Burian, Professor, had his essay on Mexico City’s geography, environmental challenges, and recent proposals for regenerative landscapes published as a chapter in René Davids, ed., Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America, University Press of Florida, (2016). He also recently lectured on, “The Reinterpretation of Mayan Architecture in Mexico and the US,” at a symposium for a traveling national exhibition, Maya:Hidden Worlds Revealed, that featured Mayan artifacts and interpretative exhibits at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX.
Ian Caine, Assistant Professor, recently published an article in Log, and has work in progress for MONU, Scenario, and Lunch. He is also guest editing a special issue of Sustainability with Dr. Rebecca Walter that examines the prospects to achieve sustainable growth in suburbia. He continues his work as a researcher at the Spatial History Project at Stanford University, where he is leading an effort to create an interactive chronology that examines the suburban expansion of San Antonio, Texas. Caine also received the 2016-2017 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, given to three architectural faculty nationwide for excellence in early career teaching. Additionally, Architecture 2030 included a studio curriculum that he developed with Dr. Rahman Azari in the 2016 Pilot Curriculum Project, acknowledging it as one of seven nationwide that “transform the culture of sustainable design education.” Students from this same studio have won national awards in the AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition in each of the last two years.
Antonio Petrov,Assistant Professor, had his exhibit, 1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future, featured at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. The exhibit features a 50-foot-long model of Broadway, a street that has the potential to become San Antonio’s great urban avenue. He also recently organized a symposium, Puro- On the Edge of Future on how the term “puro” reflects layers of San Antonio’s history, culture, economy, philosophies and how it also influences the physical environment, especially with the city’s growth.
Shelley Roff, Associate Professor, is completing a forthcoming book, Treasure of the City: Public Construction in Late Medieval Barcelona, that illustrates the transformative role the construction of public works, monuments and urban spaces played in the crystallization of municipal power in late medieval Barcelona. The text is an urban and architectural history that grounds its theses in the city’s social, political and economic history. Her investigation of the historical development of Barcelona also includes a virtual reconstruction of the medieval city.
Candid Rogers, Lecturer, received awards for the design of “House 117’ as a Special Mention in the Architzer 2017 A+Awards program in the “Architecture + Stone” category, a 2016 AIA Honor Detail Award, and an AIA Citation Design Award 2016 for the Barrera House. He also had one of his students win the 2016 ACSA Farnsworth House Competition.
Stephen Temple, Associate Professor, is editing and writing a book under contract with Routledge for publication in 2018 entitled, Promoting Creative Thinking in Beginning Design Studios, which will reveal myriad under-regarded issues in introducing creative thinking in beginning design studio courses, how learning and creative thinking happens, and how it transforms student design thinking. He also published two papers, “Developing Abstraction through Experience in Architectural Pedagogies: Making is Connecting” in The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, and “Learning to Draw Through Digital Modeling” in Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor, had his research paper co-authored with Professor Marc Schiler and Karen Kensek of the USC School of Architecture, “Is Exterior Glare Problematic?: Investigation on Visual Discomfort Caused by Reflected Sunlight on Specular Building Facades,” win the Best Paper Award at the 32nd International Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference recently held in Los Angeles, CA.
Sarah Cowles led a seminar: “Sylviculture: metaphor, narrative and aesthetics in forest gardens” at the Harvard Forest in Petersham Massachusetts in October. Recent publications include “All that and more” and “Propagating an idea” in recent issues of Landscape Architecture Magazine. “The Low-Flow”, a series of drawings on the Arroyo Seco Channel, was published in Art Papers magazine.
Professor Marc Schiler was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times and by Curbed LA regarding the glare reflected from the new Wilshire Grand project, by A C Martin. Schiler is an expert in solar convergence and glare, having solved the issues with the Walt Disney Concert Hall and having consulted on buildings such as the Ping An Financial Center in Shenzhen, China, the Lumina Foundation in Arles, France, the Lewis Science Library at Princeton University and many other buildings, which have, as a result, NOT been featured in articles about problems with glare. Los Angeles Times, “The glass on the Wilshire Grand is creating too much glare, says one neighbor who wants the project halted,” by Hugo Martin, November 16, 2016, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wilshire-grand-glass-20161116-story.html
Rob Berry presented “The City is in the Details”, a lecture on his recent work, at East Los Angeles College as part of their Fall 2016 Architecture Department Lecture Series.
Kelly Shannon was a jury member of the International Landscape Design Competition for the Han River, Da Nanang City, Vietnam in November 2016. There were two second places (OMG, Belgium and CPG, Singapore) and two third (Deso, France and Nikken Sekkei, Japan) places awarded.
Karen M. Kensek and Douglas Noble organized the Facade Tectonics 2016 World Congress in October with nearly 500 attendees from around the world. Noble also served as a reviewer at Cal Poly Pomona in October.
Associate Professor Chuck Lagreco organized a trip to 5th year studio to San Francisco to for his studio team in Fall 2016.
Mina Chow AIA Senior Lecture lectured on architecture and cultural diplomacy with Visiting Senior Scholar Conrad Turner, U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence at the USC Annenberg Master on Public Diplomacy program with presentation of her work-in-progress documentary “FACE OF A NATION: What Happened at the World’s Fair?”
Jennifer Park received the campus-wide “Staff Recognition Award” from the University of Southern California in November 2016. The University recognizes one staff member every month, and must select from among more than 13,000 staff members.
Brendan Shea led a workshop as part of Roundhouse at Taylor Yard, a project of USC Roski Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere. The workshop, entitled “Surveying The Land”, explored architecture’s history, disappearance, and ruin at Taylor Yard through documentation of site in various media.
Alvin Huang and his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture were recently honored with a number of awards from the American Institute of Architects. At the annual AIA Los Angeles Design Awards, SDA received the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Presidential Honoree Emerging Practice Award, the highest honor the AIA|LA can bestow upon an emerging practice for consistent innovation in practice. SDA also received an AIA|LA Design Award Citation for the their Pure Tension Pavilion. At the AIA California Council Leadership Summit, Alvin Huang received the 2016 AIA California Council Young Architect Award which honors individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their architectural career.
Hadrian Predock lectured about his work at Cal Poly Pomona on October 21st. He conducted a workshop and also delivered a lecture at the UNLV architecture school on October 8-10. He served as a juror on the 2016 Ohio AIA design awards.
Three CADC students are among the 105 Auburn student-athletes named to the 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll. Lucas Grady, a senior in architecture, is a Men’s Track & Field athlete (Hurdles/Mid-distance); Veronica Elder is a junior in industrial design and a Women’s Track & Field athlete (Distance/Cross Country); and Marshay Ryan is a junior in architecture and Women’s Track and Field athlete (jumps). The 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2015 Summer, 2015 Fall, and 2016 Spring terms. For more, click here.
Two CADC student-athletes are also on the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll list. Among the 84 Auburn student-athletes are Andrew Autrey (pre-Building Science) and Raymond Lester (Architecture). Each student-athlete must 1) have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution; 2) be on scholarship or a letter winner; 3) have completed 24 semester hours of non-remedial credit at the nominating institution; and 4) have been a member of the varsity team for the sport’s entire NCAA Championship segment. For more, click here.
Any student-athlete who participates in a Southeastern Conference championship sport or a student-athlete who participates in a sport listed on his/her institution’s NCAA Sports Sponsorship Form is eligible for nomination to the Academic Honor Roll.
Rachel Hamrick, a senior in the Environmental Design program from Eufaula, Alabama, was one of four recipients of the Outstanding ePortfolio Award for 2016. Hamrick received the honor during the third annual ePortfolio Awards Luncheon hosted by Provost Timothy Boosinger on May 3. She was nominated by Magdalena Garmaz, Environmental Design Program Chair and Ann & Batey Gresham Professor of Architecture. For more, read here.
Professor Ben Farrow has been named the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International Programs for the College of Architecture, Design and Construction as of August 1. Farrow is a tenured Associate Professor and William Hunt Professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science and has been the chair of the undergraduate program in Building Science. He worked in industry for 15 years before he joined the Building Science faculty in 2006. In his new position, Farrow will be responsible for all matters broadly related to undergraduate academic programs in the college. He will work closely with college leadership and the faculty to assist with curricular processes, provide oversight of program assessment, oversee undergraduate study abroad programs and manage student recruitment, advising and placement. For more, read here.
Evan Forrest ‘09, Terran Wilson ‘09, Danny Wicke ‘07, & John Marusich ‘07 are Auburn Architecture alumni working in Chicago selected to participate in AIA Chicago’s Bridge mentorship program which pairs AIA Fellows with young aspiring architects looking to connect with the past while looking towards the future. The program and participants were featured in a full article in AIA Chicago’s Chicago Architect Magazine’s July/August issue titled “The Future of Architecture.” You can read the issue here.
Andrew Freear will be taking some well-deserved time off this year and has left Rural Studio in the capable hands of Xavier Vendrell as Acting Director and Fifth-year Professor. Vendrell has been Third-year visiting professor at Rural Studio for the past two years. He will focus the Studio on a combination of community, garden-to-table, and small home projects. A native of Barcelona, where he has been practicing architecture since 1983, Vendrell and his office won the competition for the Poblenou Park in the Olympic Village in Barcelona in 1988. Vendrell founded Xavier Vendrell Studio Chicago/Barcelona in 1999, a collaborative practice of architecture, landscape, and design. For more RS fall teaching news, please click here.
Cakeitecture Bakery owner Carie Tindill, Auburn BArch ’05 and MIDC ‘06, and her assistant Kelly Oslick, competed on an August episode of Cake Wars. For more, click here.
Three Auburn alumni were among the 149 elevated to the American Institute of Architects prestigious 2016 College of Fellows: Larry S. Cash (Chapter: AIA Alaska, Firm: RIM Architects); Paula Burns McEvoy (Chapter: AIA Atlanta, Firm: Perkins+Will); and C. Al York (Chapter: AIA Austin, Firm: McKinney York Architects). “We are extremely proud of Paula, Larry, and Al,” says David Hinson, Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. “Elevation to the AIA College of Fellows is a fitting recognition of their positive impact on the profession and the benefits of their work to society. Their careers are a credit to Auburn, and our students and faculty are inspired by their example.” For more, read here.
Josiah Brown, a fifth-year architecture student from Ashland City, Tennessee, is the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s first recipient of the Aydelott Travel Award. The Aydelott Travel Award was established by Alfred Lewis Aydelott, FAIA (1916–2008) and his wife, Hope Galloway Aydelott (1920-2010), to encourage architecture students to “become proficient in the art of architectural analysis.” The $2.4 million endowment established by this well-known Memphis architect and his wife creates a $20,000 travel award for architecture students at four universities: Auburn University, Mississippi State University, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and the University of Tennessee. Read more here
The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture was well represented among the award winners at the “This is Research: Student Symposium 2016,” held on April 13 at the Student Center. Out of the more than 400 undergraduate and graduate students who competed from Auburn and AUM, APLA students, Abigail Katsoulis and Madeline Gonzales, fifth-year architecture students, took home two first place awards and one second place in the Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities category. Ryan Bowen, a dual Environmental Design/Master of Landscape Architecture student, won first place for his poster presentation in the undergraduate category, and Livia Lima, a first–year MLA student, won second place in the graduate Creative Scholarship category for her oral presentation. To read more about the research, read here.
The Design Museum Foundation has developed a major, nationally-traveling exhibition on the importance of play and how designers translate play objectives into innovative, extraordinary, outdoor play environments. The exhibit, called “Extraordinary Playscapes,” includes Rural Studio’s Lions Park Playscape as one of the selected contributors. Currently open in Boston, the exhibit will be in Portland, OR next. Read more here.
StudioAPLA: the Summer Issue, the newsletter for the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s, is available now.
Geoffrey von Oeyen, Assistant Professor of Practice, is scheduled to lead the design and construction of a pavilion in Xi’an, China, and to participate in a symposium in Shenzhen, China. Assistant Professor Alison Hirsch recently had an article released in Journal of Architectural Education (70/1) titled “Grounding Diaspora: negotiating between home and host” and another in Landscape Journal (34/2) titled ““Urban Barnraising: Activating Collective Ritual to Promote Communitas.” She contributed a chapter titled “Expanded ‘Thick Description’: The Landscape Architect as Critical Ethnographer,” to Innovations in Landscape Architecture (edited by Jonathon Anderson and Daniel Ortega), which will be released by Routledge next month. She presented “The Geography of Civil Unrest: Designing the Public Realm in the Insurgent Spaces of the City” at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) annual conference in March and will be a Distinguished Speaker in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s “The New Landscape Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future” taking place in June in Philadelphia.
Patrick Tighe, Adjunct Professor, is proud to be exhibiting at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Tighe was a keynote speaker at the California Housing Coalition Conference in Santa Barbara. Tighe also recently presented lectures at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Louis Obispo and was a keynote speaker at WestWeek 2016. Tighe is proud to be exhibiting at the 2016 Venice Biennale. New York Magazine recently featured the work of Tighe Architecture in an article on New LA Architecture by Justin Davidson. Tighe was a keynote speaker at the California Housing Coalition Conference in Santa Barbara. Tighe also recently presented lectures at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Louis Obispo and was a keynote speaker at WestWeek 2016.
Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA will be accepting an AIA Housing Award in recognition of his multi-family complex Cloverdale749 at the national AIA Convention in Philadelphia. In the coming months, Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects will see the completion of several projects – including Sunset La Cienega, a significant new development in West Hollywood encompassing a mix of retail, residential and pedestrian spaces. In addition, LOHA has projects in Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York in various stages of development.
Mina Chow has launched an international social media campaign for FACE OF A NATION on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to provide a public platform for intelligent discussion about the role of architecture and design in cultural diplomacy and conflict resolution. As a result of the film’s significance, Skywalker Sound (George Lucas/THX) has agreed to join our team, and they are exploring ways they will contribute. A venture capitalist has invested further resources with another generous contribution. Mina also has presented her works-in-progress at several symposiums at USC Annenberg’s Center for Public Diplomacy between 2014-2016. (She is speaking again at a 1-day conference on Friday May 6, 2016.) FACE OF A NATION has progressed to fine-cut with 34 animations-in-progress.
MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE ANNOUNCES MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 FINALISTS
Five to be Celebrated at April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium
Chicago, Illinois – March 18, 2016 – Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison announced the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists. The finalists will be celebrated at the April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium and Award Dinner at which the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 recipient will be announced.
Earlier in March, MCHAP announced the MCHAP 2014/15 Nominees and Jury. MCHAP also outlined the main events within the second cycle of the biennial prize including the MCHAP.emerge Symposium and the October 19, 2016 MCHAP Symposium.
MCHAP is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP.emerge is the corresponding biennial prize for the best built work from an emerging architecture practice. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives. MCHAP was officially launched in February 2014 at an event hosted by Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and which featured Kenneth Frampton, President of the inaugural MCHAP Jury.
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists were selected by the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury, led by Jury President Stan Allen, from among the 55 MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS of architecture in the Americas, realized between January 2014 and December 2015, which have been put forward by 95 nominators from throughout the Americas. Nominations were received in January and February and were included in the MCHAP 2014/15 Exhibition held at S. R. Crown Hall on March 4th and 5th at which time the jury held its first jury session.
San Francisco Building; Asunción, Paraguay; Jose Cubilla & Asociados
The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Symposium and winner announcement will be held on April 1, 2016 at S. R. Crown Hall. In afternoon sessions the practices of the finalist projects will present their work and engage in substantive discussions with the jury, the IIT Architecture faculty and student body, as well as the larger MCHAP Network and Chicago architecture community. The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 recipient will be announced at the evening award dinner. The authors of the winning project will be recognized with the MCHAP.emerge Award, the MCHAP Research Professorship in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology for the following academic year, and funding of up to $25,000 USD in support of research and a publication related to the theme of “Rethinking Metropolis.”
MCHAP Finalist Announcement in late June
The MCHAP Jury will announce the finalists for the MCHAP 2014/15 in late June after the jury tour of the finalist sites. The tour will include visits with members of the MCHAP Network of architects, academics, and schools and is part of a strategy to build a vibrant network that unites architects working in the Americas and opens the discourse with others around the world. The exact date of the finalist announcement is to be determined.
MCHAP Symposium and Winner Announcement on October 19, 2016
IIT ‘s College of Architecture will host a day-long symposium including sessions for students, faculty and the architects and clients of the finalists in dialogue about the nominated works and how they contribute to the college’s continuing conversation — Rethinking Metropolis. Later in the afternoon, the general public will be invited to a moderated discussion between the architects and jury about the context of contemporary practice. At the end of the day of activities the winner of the Americas Prize 2014/15 will be announced at the MCHAP Award Dinner. The author of the MCHAP winner will be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year, and funding of up to $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of ‘Rethinking Metropolis.’
For more information about MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge, MCHAP.student, their purpose, process and timeline, visit http://www.mchap.org.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives.
The first cycle of this award culminated in 2014 with the selection of seven finalists and then two winners, the Iberé Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, designed by Alvaro Siza and the 1111 Lincoln Road the mixed use parking structure in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Visit www.mchap.org.
About IIT Architecture Chicago
IIT Architecture Chicago welcomes students, faculty, and guests from around the globe who share our interest in “Rethinking the Metropolis.” We conduct research; we analyze existing phenomena; we learn from other disciplines. We question the roles of architecture, landscape, and urbanism in our changing world.
IIT Architecture’s curriculum is structured around our innovative “horizontal Cloud Studio” introduced by Dean Wiel Arets—a school-wide design and research laboratory in which students from all degree programs work together on topics related to the metropolis.
With a history of design excellence and technical expertise, an unmatched professional studio curriculum, and inspiring surroundings in S. R. Crown Hall designed by Mies van der Rohe, IIT Architecture is one of the schools most respected by architectural firms around the world. The College offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree, four different Master’s degrees (M.Arch, M.L.A., M.L.A./M.Arch., MS.Arch.), and the only Ph.D. in Architecture offered in Chicago. Visit www.arch.iit.edu.
About Illinois Institute of Technology
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,300 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment. Visit www.iit.edu.
Vinayak Bharne has been appointed Executive Editor of the India and Netherlands based quarterly, “My Liveable City.” In this capacity, he will help expand its global reach and direct its future issues and themes. He was also a speaker in the USC Urban Growth Seminar Series at the Price School of Public Policy. His talk titled “Urban Design: The Pluralism of Practice” elaborated on his ongoing projects in the United States, Panama, China, India and Japan. Bharne is currently editing “The Companion of Global Heritage Conservation,” for Routledge Press, London. This 40-chapter volume examines the relationship of heritage conservation planning with the specific agencies, governance structures and cultural expectations across the world. The volume is slated for release mid 2017. Steven Ehrlich will be speaking at the AIA National Convention in May, in Philadelphia as part of the College of Fellows 2 + 2 program. The program supports mentorship by showcasing the work of two Fellows alongside the work of two recent national recipients of the AIA Young Architects award. The work of Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai was recently recognized by the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, two projects (John M Roll Courthouse and McElroy Residence) were awarded for their achievements in design. The projects will be part of a traveling exhibition titled “New Los Angeles Architecture” which will be opening in June of 2016.
Jose Sanchez has released Block’hood, a city-building simulation video game that focuses on notions of ecology, decay and coexistence. The game was released on the Steam platform getting a very positive review from the media and the community. The game will enable research on crowdsourcing, problem solving, systems education and how games can impact reality. The game will continue development for the rest of the year.
Rob Berry’s essay “In Defense of the Drought” was published as an op-ed in the Winter 2016 issue of the LA Forum Newsletter. This spring he is serving as a juror on the review panel for the Cavin Family Travelling Fellowship. With his practice Berry and Linné, he recently completed two collaborative public space projects: a parklet in Rancho Cucamonga, in collaboration with utopiad.org, and Todos Juntos, a public plaza at the Benjamin Franklin Public Library in Boyle Heights, in collaboration with Lyric Design + Planning.
Assistant Professor Travis Longcore (Landscape Architecture program) was an invited speaker for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop panel on Ecology, Physiology/Human Health and Light at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering in Irvine, California.
The Boston Architectural College (BAC) has been accepted by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for participation in the inaugural launch of the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure Initiative, validating the College’s longstanding tradition of integrating in-class and experiential learning in architectural education.
As the only school in New England to earn recognition in NCARB’s Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure, the BAC aims to reconfigure the graduate architecture degree program, accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), to be able to offer students the opportunity to qualify for architectural licensure at the time of graduation. The College’s accepted proposal demonstrates the strong alliance that exists between practice and academics; it was crafted by a balanced team composed of two deans, Len Charney, dean of Practice and Karen Nelson, dean of the School of Architecture, along with key staff; Beth Lundell Garver, director of foundation instruction in practice, and Kyle Sturgeon, director of advanced architecture studios and building technology.
NCARB’s Licensure Task Force commended the BAC for its substantial effort in creatively incorporating experience and examination into the existing NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture curriculum, synthesizing pre-graduation academic coursework, internship requirements, and access to all divisions of the Architect Registration Examinations® (ARE®). This recognition enables the BAC to introduce a series of progressive educational changes that stand to benefit all BAC architecture students by eventually reshaping the College’s architecture curriculum.
The College is currently the only NAAB-accredited architecture degree-granting program to combine academic coursework with systematic qualitative and quantitative assessment of professional skills gained through non-classroom instruction and architectural internship. Moving forward, the College anticipates new collaboration with the 12 other accepted schools and welcomes conversations surrounding this process. NCARB has established a new Integrated Path Evaluation Committee (IPEC) to oversee the ongoing work of this initiative. It is anticipated that the IPEC will continue to coach accepted programs, promote engagement with jurisdictional licensing boards regarding necessary law or rule changes to incorporate integrated path candidates, and oversee the acceptance of future program applicants.
“Being selected as an NCARB ‘integrated path’ pilot recognizes the Boston Architectural College’s tradition of integrating rigorous academic coursework with applied, practice-based learning in monitored and evaluated experience settings,” said Len Charney. “It not only underscores the exceptional potential of the BAC’s approach but also strengthens the commitment of all partners—students, administrators, educators, and supervising practitioners alike—to redouble the collective efforts to communicate openly and ensure a student’s ultimate success.”
As described by Kyle Sturgeon, “This is a real game-changer for us. It advances what we have been doing to a higher level, bringing everyone involved together to accelerate and better prepare our architecture students’ path to licensure.”
Paul Battaglia, a member of the Standards Technical Panel for Underwriters Laboratories, participated in reviews of current best procedures for penetration seals in fire-rated construction at the UL conference in Chicago in February, 2016
Assistant Professor Jin Young Song’s GLASS HOUSE project was selected for the 2016 ACSA Annual Meeting (http://dioinno.com/GLASS-HOUSE) and his SILO PROJECT received a special mention in the international competition ‘Unbuilt Vision’ (http://dioinno.com/Hotel-Ascension)
Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett presented her design research and professional work at the University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City Planning Department in Vietnam in January 2016. She also served as a guest critic for final reviews in Urban Design in Ho Chi Minh City.
Professor Brian Carter wrote the chapter on Steven Holl’s winning design for the Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow that was published in ‘Competitions 2014’.
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