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’.
Professors Kim Coleman and Warren Techentin, in conjunction with Wong Chiu Man and Maria Warner Wong, principals of WOW Architecture in Singapore and USC Architecture graduates, are leading research studios in the graduate and fifth year undergraduate programs that explore innovative design solutions for Bhartiya City, a 150-acre creative hub currently in construction near Bangalore. Thanks to the generosity of the Bhartiya corporation, the group traveled to India for twelve days in January, researching the country’s culture and traditions. The research will culminate in a planned exhibition in fall, 2016.
Dr. Joon-Ho Choi at USC has published a journal article, entitled “Investigation of human eye pupil sizes as a measure of visual sensation in the workplace environment with a high lighting colour temperature” in the journal of Indoor and Built Environment. He will host an intensive seminar, titled “Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) as a Proactive Environmental Design and Control Tool in Modern Buildings” at the Environmental Design Research Association-EDRA 47 Conference in Raleigh, NC in May 2016.
Trudi Sandmeier, director of Heritage Conservation programs, will serve as a moderator for the upcoming international Iconic Houses Conference at the Getty Center. She has also been chosen to chair the Awards Jury for the Los Angeles Conservancy’s upcoming Preservation Awards program.
John V. Mutlow Architects, Inc. recently won the Award for Innovation in Quality Affordable Housing – USA, as part of Build Magazine UK’s Architecture Awards 2015 program.
Eric Haas, Adjunct Associate Professor and Principal of DSH // architecture, presented his firm’s adaptive reuse projects and current work at the AD&A Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara in January.
Assistant Professor Alison Hirsch will serve as a panelist in the California Historical Society’s February 16th program, “The Continued Legacy of Anna and Lawrence Halprin.” Her article, “Urban Barnraising: Activating Collective Ritual to Promote Communitas” comes out in Landscape Journal this month and her article (co-authored with Aroussiak Gabrielian), “Grounding Diaspora: negotiating between home and host” will come out in the Journal of Architectural Education next month (March).
Patrick Tighe, FAIA, Adjunct Professor, will lecture this Spring as part of the Cal Poly Pomona Lecture Series. Tighe will also present the work of the firm as part of the Cal Poly San Louis Obispo lecture series. Patrick Tighe Architecture was recently awarded 2 Best of Year Awards from Interior Design Magazine (published in the January issue).
Lisa Little has been selected as a finalist by theTacoma Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium for two large public art installations to be constructed as part of their new facility. In addition, her practice Vertebrae has been selected to participate in the upcoming Come In!: DTLA exhibition series, opening in March 2016. Vertebrae also recently completed a laser cut, powder-coated, long-span aluminum shade canopy in Venice, CA entitled Troll Blue Swell.
The competition to redesign Pershing Square, LA’s most maligned but also most promising park, Pershing Square Renew, started with 54 teams. In October, that was narrowed to ten semi-finalists. Six of the ten included USC School of Architecture faculty, representing the school’s on-going legacy and impact on the shape of the city. The competition to design the new City Hall park in DTLA for the entire block adjacent to Grant Park at 1st and Broadway has been narrowed down to four teams, including USC professor Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA and his firm Brooks + Scarpa. Final designs were submitted just before the new year holidays. Public presentations from the four firms will occur on Friday Jan 15, 2006 with the winner selected shortly afterwards.
Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, Adjunct Professor and principal of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA] will be collaborating with Art Share L.A. to renovate and update their home in the Arts District. LOHA will work with Art Share to carry on their mission of fostering a creative environment for artists and the surrounding neighborhood by developing a space containing a combination of galleries, classrooms, subsidized live-work lofts, event and performance venues, and other community-building spaces. In addition, LOHA will be working with Detroit artist Olayami Dabls on building his African Bead Museum to display and celebrate a collection of African art and artifacts. LOHA’s work with Dabls and the African Bead Museum will join another new LOHA project in Detroit, designing a key component of a catalytic new development in Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood, the city’s largest residential project in decades. Selected by the Brush Park Development Company, LOHA will design four mixed-use buildings that will become the cornerstones of this significant revitalization effort, incorporating housing, retail, dining, and various arts and cultural amenities on an 8.4 acre site in historic Brush Park.
Geoffrey von Oeyen, Assistant Professor of Practice, organized a national meeting of the Architectural Division of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) at the USC School of Architecture on January 27 and 28, 2016. Bill Kreysler, Chair, presented to a large audience of USC students and faculty an overview of the ACMA’s work to extend composites research and practice to architectural applications. About twenty national leaders in the composites industry met with students during a reception to discuss current materials research and design techniques.
Kyle Konis, Ph.D AIA, Alejandro Gamas, and Karen Kensek published a paper in the journal Solar Energy entitled, “Passive Performance and Building Form: An Optimization Framework for Early-Stage Design Support.” The paper documents work completed under the Innovative Design for Energy Efficiency Activities (IDEEA) program under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.
Alvin Huang, Assistant Professor, has been awarded the 2016 ACSA Faculty Design Award for the Durotaxis Chair, a fully 3D printed rocking chair which utilizes multi-material 3D printing to express variable structural performance and ergonomic conditions. His work has also recently been featured in Autodesk’s LineShapeSpace.com article “5 Ways Architects & Postdigital Artisans are Modernizing Craftsmanship” and in The Architect’s Newspaper. On March 30, Alvin will be the keynote speaker at the AIA East Bay’s Design & Technology Symposium in Oakland, California.
KnitKnot architecture, the firm of Maria Esnaola, has been awarded a first prize in the Europan 13 Competition (Europan 13_The Adaptable City. http://www.europan-europe.eu/en/) for the municipality of OS (Norway). Europan is a biennial competition for architects under 40 years old to design innovative housing schemes for sites across Europe. The competition encourages architects to address social and economic changes occurring in towns and cities.
Laurel Consuelo Broughton, Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC SOA and her studio WELCOMEPROJECTS participated in the exhibition Errors, Estrangements, Messes, and Fictions alongside Andrew Kovacs and First Office at All Gallery in Los Angeles. The large exhibition was curated by Hadrian Predock and sponsored by USC School of Architecture. In February, Laurel was invited as a guest speaker in The XLab: Cross-Disciplinary Practice and Collaboration at University of Minnesota Collage of Design.
Chu+Gooding Architects are designing an exhibition for Artist Rodney McMillian at the Studio Museum in Harlem which opens on March 24th in New York City. Their Santa Monica Canyon house provides the backdrop for actress Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Terrence Malick feature film ‘Knight of Cups’ which opens March 3rd. Their Hollywood Hills home of celebrity photographer James White is being published multiple times – the cover of Sept 2015 Elle Decor, Vogue Living Australia, Architectural Digest Russia & German Design Magazine Places of Spirit.
Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble have been awarded a grant from the Precast Concrete Institute Foundation in support of a design studio to examine the use of precast in extreme climates. The studio will work with the National Park Service to study precast as a strategy for the extreme temperature swings in the desert at Joshua Tree National Park. The projects will be fully off-grid, and will be situtated in a high seismic- zone. Noble and Kensek will travel to the PCI convention in Nashville to present the results of this three-year study.
PHOTO: La Cage aux Folles, a 17 foot bent steel tube structure by Warren Techentin, was previously on exhibition at Materials & Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake from April 19th through September 2nd. Once built, La Cage actively engaged the community by opening the sidewalk as a pocket park and through curated performances
Assistant Professor Alexander Robinson was selected to be a Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture for 2015-2016. This spring his machine for designing the Owens Lake Dust Control Project was exhibited at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions gallery as part of the show “After the Aqueduct”. In May he and Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma will co-present at the Dumbarton Oaks conference, “River and Cities”.
Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma was recently awarded the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Prize by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) for her book, Wasteland: A History. The annual prize is awarded for the best scholarly book on an eighteenth-century subject. Di Palma and Wasteland: A History were also recognized by the PROSE Awards (The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) this year with an honorable mention in the architecture and urban planning category. In addition, Wasteland was one of five books awarded the 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
This semester select landscape architecture students are enrolled in a unique studio: A New Waterfront for Old Istanbul / Rethinking the Eminönü Waterfront. Taught by Adjuncts Takako Tajima and John Dutton. The studio reimagines the public infrastructure at the water’s edge of Eminönü, a neighborhood on Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula within walking distance to Istanbul’s most famous sites (i.e. Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, etc.). The work of the studio aims not only to develop ideas for a new urban space and waterfront edge but also to address how the new will connect to the old. The studio included a weeklong site visit to Istanbul during which time students had the opportunity to present their preliminary designs at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Architecture.
Professor and program director Kelly Shannon co-authored (with Bruno De Meulder) ‘Towards a Resilient Hoog Kortrijk, Belgium: The conversion of a fragments, post-war development’ for Topos 90: Resilient Cities and Landscapes and penned ‘Preemptive design opportunities to mitigate disasters’ (the editorial) for the Journal of Landscape Architecture (theme issue Disaster: 2015-1) as well as the journal’s ‘Urbanization and Risk: In Conversation with Miho Mazereeuw’ and short book review of ‘Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disaster’. In July, she will be a keynote speaker at the Designing Inclusion: Co-Producing Ecological Urbanism for Inclusive Housing Transformations in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the International Summer School.
Professor Emeritus and former Landscape Architecture Director, Robert Harris, received the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award. USC proudly praised his inspiring creativity, compassionate teaching and mentorship, and enduring contributions to the University and the School of Architecture
Associate Professor (Research) Dr. Travis Longcore, published research in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on the feasibility of configuring LED lamps to minimize insect attraction, with targeted application in the tropics to reduce transmission of insect-borne diseases. The paper was part of a special issue on the impacts of artificial lighting on biological communities and received significant international media attention.
Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented “City Choreography” at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the “Spatial Politics and the City” symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.
Associate Professor (Research) Dr. Travis Longcore and Assistant Professor Rachel Berney organized a multi-school talk and discussion on cities and climate change, headlined by USC¹s Director of Graduate Studies in Landscape Architecture, Kelly Shannon, with her talk on “Water Urbanism: Learning from Then and Now.” Visitors included the McKinley Futures joint MLA-MARCH studio from the University of Washington, Seattle, under the direction of Dave Miller and Ben Spencer, and faculty member Måns Tham from KTH in Stockholm, along with students from KTH¹s 5-year architecture program. Tham also gave a guest lecture and workshop on hybrid urban infrastructures in Longcores¹ Urban Nature class.
Assistant Professor Rachel Berney, Assistant Professor of Practice Lauren Matchison and Lecturer Lee Schneider have created a new course, called Visual Storytelling and Entrepreneurship in Media. Itwill provide graduate students with much needed entrepreneurial expertise and literacy in online media to define and promote design-driven projects. Further, the course offers graduate students new methods of visual research. It embraces an entrepreneurial approach and addresses current trends in design, data, and research.
Dr. David Gerber has recently published the book ‘Paradigms in Computing’ with eVolo Press. He has also published and presented his research at the Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design annual conference (SimAUD 2015). His work has also been accepted for publication at the CAADFutures 2015 bi-annual conference and will be included in the CAADFutures Book published by Springer.
Vinayak Bharne was elected to the Board of Directors of Pasadena Heritage, one of Southern California oldest heritage non-profits. He was also one of seven invited presenters at the Urban Edge Prize 2015 Seminar – Resilience & Change – at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
John Dutton will be a featured speaker for two panels at the 2015 Dwell on Design Conference May 29th -31st at the Los Angeles Convention Center. He will be presenting new ideas for urban housing for baby-boomers with architect Barbara Bestor as part of their Grey Gardens collaboration. At a second panel, he will present his vision for the transformation of Los Angeles freeways into new networks of greenways.
Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented “City Choreography” at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the “Spatial Politics and the City” symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.
Vittoria Di Palma’s book Wasteland, A History (Yale 2014) has recently been awarded three prizes: the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Book Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and a 2015 PROSE Awards Honorable Mention in the Architecture and Urban Planning category.
Assistant Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was invited to speak at the 2015 AIA National Convention on his ongoing research focused on daylight and health in buildings.
This year, Doris Sung was named a 2014 US Artist Fellow, joining an impressive list of past architects and artists. She also received an ACSA Faculty Design award for ³eXo” and a National AIA Small Projects Award for ³Bloom”.
Aroussiak Gabrielian’s research will be exhibited at the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the end of this month. Additionally, she has been invited to present her work at AVANCA|CINEMA 2015: International Conference of Cinema, Art, Technology, and Communication which will take place in Portugal in July, and at the International Visual Methods Conference 2015, taking place in Brighton, UK in the Fall.
Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been named to Perspective Magazine’s 40 Under 40 2015, a selection of “40 creative stars under the age of 40 who will shape the design world in the decades to come.” Huang will be giving a lecture on his recent work as part of the CalPoly SLO LA Metro Program spring lecture series in May and will be featured in a panel discussion about “3D Printing and the Future of Design” at the Dwell on Design Conference in June at the LA Convention Center.
The work of Patrick Tighe FAIA featured on the cover of the recent issue of Global Architecture / GA Houses 140.
Professor Joon-Ho Choi recently attended the Architectural Research Centers Consortium Conference, held in Chicago, IL. As an ARCC New Investigator Award recipient, he gave a special lecture on “Human-Building Integration: Proactive Indoor Environmental Quality Control Approaches” at the conference. Dr. Choi also presented his recent research outcomes with his students, Spurthy Yogananda (Climate-Responsive Evidence-Based Green Roof Design Decision Support for the U.S. Climate), Chao Yang (Methods for Estimating Energy Use Intensity Based on Building Façade Features), and Yiyu Chen (Building Performance Analysis Considering Climate Changes). Dr. Choi was invested and gave a special talk on his research, titled “Comprehensive Post-Occupancy Evaluation” to the U.S. Green Building Council – Los Angeles Chapter.
Christopher Warren participated in the group exhibition, “Waiting for Guggenheim,” at the University of Southern California on April 8th, which highlighted faculty submissions to the competition. He also participated in the panel discussion for the event, which examined the inherent complexities that exist in competitions of this grand scale. His office, WORD, currently has two projects under construction for French fashion company A.P.C. (in collaboration with French design architect Laurent Deroo), as well as a cafe and new residence in the L.A. area
Hraztan Zeitlian, AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, is a Juror this year for the American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) Design Awards.
Geoffrey von Oeyen’s work for the 2014 Architectural League Prize will be featured in the book Young Architects 16 by Princeton Architectural Press, to be published in May. In June, Geoffrey will be curating an exhibition of graduate student work and moderating a panel discussion regarding his advanced design studio titled “Performative Composites: Sailing Architecture.” The event will take place on June 16 at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, California, and is sponsored by the USC School of Architecture, The City of Santa Monica, and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park by DSH // architecture, the firm of Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Haas, was published in the May 2015 issue of Dwell. Haas will present the project, a renovation of Welton Becket’s 1955 New York Life building for a charter middle- and high school, at Dwell on Design in June. DSH’s project Cat’s Cradle will be published in the forthcoming Nanotecture from Phaidon Press.
Laurel Consuelo Broughton and her studio WELCOMEPROJECTS’ diptych, The In Crowd was published in Offramp #9, the SCI_arc architectural journal and the research project Two-Face is forthcoming in the Princeton School of Architecture’s journal, Pidgin #19. In April, Laurel gave the talk and workshop, Things Become Other Things at Syracuse University School of Architecture. This past fall she was selected with Andrew Kovacs to be part of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Out There Doing It event series where they discussed their own work as related to their collaborative project Gallery Attachment / As Builts. An outdoor installation and companion drawing show, Gallery Attachment / As Builts was sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the John Chase Memorial Fund and shown at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles. In November, she presented the talk, At Play, as part of the symposium Delight at Princeton University.
Karen M. Kensek and Douglas Noble were selected to present at the 2015 AIA National Convention on the subject of professional licensing in architecture.
Gail Peter Borden was elected to the AIA College of Fellows as the youngest recipient in the history of California. He was honored with the 2015 USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Students, and was also awarded the USC Associates Award for Artistic Expression, the highest honor the University Faculty bestow on it members for significant Artistic Expression. His book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production has been commissioned with a follow-up compilation entitled Lineament: Material Geometry in Architectural Production forthcoming in 2016 and also by Routledge Press.
G. M. Morland, Architect. NCARB. ARCUK. Assoc Professor, curated an exhibit of his work called: A RETROSPECTIVE: 50+ YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES: 1963—2015. BC. (before computer). The work exhibited presumed to be both educational and informative to students of architecture and design at USC today, and hopefully fueled the healthy discussion and debate regarding design description and presentation which now bridges from the soul of emotion with hand drawings, to the current wizardry of digital technology. An exhibition of work, initiated at the Glasgow school of Art, Scotland, developed at the U of I in Chicago, and realized at USC in Los Angeles, covering a 50+ year period, required the compilation, editing and formatting of hundreds of drawings, generally classified in three categories, namely:
A. The “Sketchbook”. Images of places and events visited.
B. Drawings that describe “ Visions of Place”, architectural ideas & projects.
C. Drawings that inform the anatomy and material assembly of “Place”, the method and process of “making and constructing”. A catalogue of this exhibit will be forthcoming.
The latest built project of Lecturer Nefeli Chatzimina has been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2015 and was featured as a cover for the EK Magazine. Nefeli lectured at the BNCA University of Pune, the University of Mumbai and the Studio-X of Columbia University in Mumbai, India. Nefeli is organizing International Advanced Architectural Workshops in Athens during the Summer.
Also as founder of X|Atelier recently received a commission for the construction of an interior law office space downtown Los Angeles.
Lawrence Scarpa’s firm Brooks + Scarpa was selected from the shortlist of Snohetta, BIG, SHOP and NAADA to design the new $75 mil. mixed-use parking structures as part of the $2 billion MCCA Boston Convention Center expansion. Brooks + Scarpa has also been shortlisted to compete for the $370 million Seattle/Sound Transit E360 Metro line extension which includes two stations, a major transit center and pedestrian bridges connecting to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA also received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects California Council.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Landscape Architecture as Necessity 3-Day Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Thursday – Saturday, 22-24 September 2016
As climate change rapidly takes its place at the forefront of contemporary global challenges, landscape architecture is becoming an urgent necessity. Landscape architecture is uniquely able to synthesize ecological systems, scientific data, engineering methods, social practices, and cultural values, and integrate them into the design of the built environment. At the same time, its creative methods and visual vocabularies can help to shape questions and formulate novel approaches in more traditionally scientific or data-driven fields. Expanding and sharing platforms and interests will activate greater comprehension of the value of landscape-based strategies in environmental decision-making. Landscape Architecture as Necessity seeks to demonstrate, through international built work and ongoing design research, that the professions of the built environment, together with expertise from a wide range of relevant fields, are essential to moving beyond rhetoric to address the myriad challenges confronting urban and rural territories alike. A call for papers will be coming shortly. For more information, confirmed speakers and updates, see the conference website: arch.usc.edu/landscapeasnecessity
Patrick Tighe Architecture was awarded 2 Best of Year Awards by Interior Design Magazine. The work of Patrick Tighe Architecture was included in the top 10 list of the best residential projects by Azure Magazine. Patrick Tighe Architecture recently completed a hill side residence featured as cover story in Interior design magazine.
Nefeli Chatzimina recently completed a Flagship store for Orizon Insurance Company in Athens- which has been nominated to enter Phase 2 for the ‘Mies Van Der Rohe Awards 2015‘
The American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) has announced the Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, as the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service. This award is the most significant honor presented by the AIACC for service to the profession and is presented to an individual as recognition of outstanding contributions to the improvement of the built environment and contribution to the goals of the architectural profession.
Mr. Scarpa’s record of accomplishments stretching some 30 years runs the gamut, from award-winning design, to outstanding firm leadership, to creative and innovative service. His record of individual design awards is significant by itself, yet Mr. Scarpa has served on countless AIA National, AIACC and AIALA, boards, steering committees, editorial advisory boards, nominating committees, awards juries, etc., for nearly two decades. He has also served on an equal number of significant advisory boards for the Federal, State and Local Governments and several other important and prominent national organizations.
Design Leadership – Having received more than 100 significant design awards including the 2014 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Award in Architecture, the 2010 National AIA and AIACC Architecture Firm Award, Interior Design Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 14 National AIA Institute Design Awards, 5 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Building Awards and a host of other significant national and international honors including several AIA Presidential Citations, Scarpa has been a internationally recognized leader on design.
Community Impact –A professor in architecture for more than two decades Scarpa is currently on the faculty at USC. He has pioneered new ways of delivering sustainable buildings and affordable housing. His work in this area has received international recognition. He has co-founded Livable Places, The Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute and The A+D Museum, non-profit organizations that have positively impacted the built environment. He has served on several prominent community boards and advisory groups including the US General Services Administration, US Department of State, MacArthur Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners and The Mayor’s Institute on City Design.
Scarpa’s life’s work is exemplified by his commitment to the promotion of architecture and the profession through design excellence, as well as community and professional outreach and education.”
CU Denver offers undergraduate architecture degree in Colorado
DENVER (January 26, 2015) The University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce the creation of the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program. The new degree is the only program in Colorado to offer architecture specific coursework to undergraduates.
CU Denver received approval from the Board of Regents to initiate a four year BS in Architecture degree program in October 2012. The new program has now completed four semesters and has grown from 32 students in the first semester to 213 in the Fall 2013 semester. The program has also attracted over 35 international students, including a cohort of 23 students from Brazil in an agreement with the Brazilian government, and numerous community colleges and out of state transfers.
As a pre-professional program, the BS in Architecture program prepares graduates to enter accredited professional Master of Architecture (MArch) programs at CU Denver and across the country. Students who complete the BS in Architecture degree and enroll in the MArch program at CU Denver have the advantage of completing the MArch degree in two years instead of the usual three and a half years to complete a Master’s program. _ The MArch degree is the NAAB accredited professional program.
“The CU Denver undergraduate and graduate Architecture programs offer citizens in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain region, and beyond, a clear path to the practice of architecture,” said Program Director Phillip Gallegos. “Students in our BSArch program benefit and learn from close contact with graduate students, practicing architects and other design, construction and real estate professionals working in the field.”
The University of Colorado Denver provides a quality academic experience through engagement with gifted faculty members, exposure to original research and real-world learning. Located in the heart of downtown, CU Denver offers its 14,000 students unparalleled internship, career and networking opportunities. Part of the fabric of the city, CU Denver has evolved into a leading urban public university boasting eight schools and colleges, and offering bachelor through doctoral degrees. CU Denver is a community where students learn with purpose and benefit from a range of opportunities that enhance their lives and careers.
For more information please contact:
Phillip Gallegos, Arch D
Associate Professor
Director, Bachelor of Science in Architecture Program
Thomas Fisher, Dean: After nearly two-decades as Dean at the University of Minnesota, Thomas Fisher has announced that he will step down from that position in the summer of 2015. After leaving the deanship this summer, he will assume the positions of Dayton Hudson Land Grant Chair in Urban Design and director of the University’s Metropolitan Design Center. In that capacity, he will continue his research and teaching in conjunction with metro-area partners and grant makers. Professor Fisher also finished the manuscript for his next book, Some Possible Futures, as well as two introductions to books on the work of Pugh + Scarpa and Fernau & Hartman, and two chapters on books dealing with architecture labor and public-interest design. He continues to write for the last page of Architect magazine every other month and for a variety of other publications. Professor Renee Cheng, who served as Head of the School of Architecture from 2004-2014, and stepped down from that position on July 1 to assume a new leadership role as Associate Dean for Research and Outreach at the College of Design. During her tenure Professor Cheng established the nation’s first and only Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDA), and more recently the Master of Science in Research Practice (MS-RP), which aims at halving the amount of time from high school to licensure for architects–from an average of 14.5 years to 7. Associate professor of architecture Marc Swackhamer has been named head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. He has served as the director of the University’s Master of Architecture program since 2012 and is the co-founder of HouMinn Practice, which focuses on full-scale prototyping of lightweight, responsive, and digitally pre-fabricated construction systems. “The discipline of architecture is undergoing tremendous change,” says Swackhamer. “Schools must quickly and nimbly adjust to those changes, yet remain clear and stable with regards to the disciplinary core of the profession. I envision a program that will lead the discipline through a dynamically changing landscape, while simultaneously clarifying and stabilizing the long-held skills that distinguish architecture from other fields of study.” Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) was awarded the University of Minnesota Imagine Chair in the Arts, Design and Humanities for 2014-2016. He will work on a collaborative project over a two year cycle of programming that includes an exhibition, symposia and coursework with faculty from across the University (in the Twin Cities and in Duluth campuses of the University of Minnesota). Additionally, Professor Saloojee and a collaborative team (including James Wheeler-Architecture, Vince deBritto-Landscape Architecture, and Jamuna Golden-Landscape Architecture) from the University of Minnesota were awarded a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant for a two year cycle of work in partnership with the St. Louis River Alliance and Duluth-LISC (Duluth). This group will work in and with communities, stakeholders, public, private, local and state partners in Duluth to help imagine and develop a resilient and sustainable urban future for the St. Louis River Corridor. Associate Professor Blaine Brownell is the new Director of the Master of Architecture program and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. He is also the 2014 Materials and Products Chair for Hanley Wood’s Vision 2020 program, and presented “Visible Green: New Material Opportunities in Sustainable Design” at the Vision 2020 symposium at Greenbuild in October. He published an article of the same title in EcoBuilding Review (Winter 2014), as well as “Material Resilience in Two Dimensions” in the Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences (April 2014) and the essay “Manipulating the Material Code” in Materials Experience (Elsevier, 2013). He continues to contribute regularly to the Mind & Matter column in Architect magazine. Associate Professor John Comazzi delivered a lecture on the life and career of the architecture photographer Balthazar Korab in Columbus, IN (November 20). Korab is the subject of Comazzi’s book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Comazzi was also a panelist at the recent AIA-MN Convention on the subject of Design-Build in the academy. He was joined by Marc Swackhamer, Head of the Architecture Department at UMN to discuss the opportunities for collaboration with practitioners, community organizations, and industry on design-build projects.
The Department of Architecture welcomes Robert Alexander to join the faculty as an Assistant Professor Design and Digital Instruction. Robert Alexander, principal of BobCat Studio received his bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona in 2001. In 2005 he received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In addition to his professional experience on a wide variety of projects with the architecture firms Rafael Vinoly Architects, Behnisch Architekten, and Daly Genik. In 2008, Mr. Alexander won the Cavin Fellowship and received the Boston Society of Architect’s Rotch Scholarship in 2013, which started his current research on the urban effects of large-scale incomplete building projects in Europe.
Associate Professor and Chair, Sarah Lorenzen recently co-curated the widely acclaimed Competing Utopias exhibit at the Neutra VDL House
Professors Lauren Weiss Bricker and Luis Hoyos have contributed articles to the forthcoming catalog Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the Art, Architecture & Design Museum, UCSB from September 12-December 12, 2014. Professor Bricker has also written “Civic and Educational ‘Architecture As Environmental Expression,’” which will be included in the catalog accompanying the exhibition An Eloquent Modernist: E. Stewart Williams, Architect, the inaugural exhibition of the Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion; the exhibition November 9, 2014-February 22, 2015.
Professor Hofu Wu, recently presented “Outside Forces – Academic Perspective” to showcase the status of the Cal Poly Pomona Healthcare Initiative from the students innovative researches and designs at the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) California Health facility Forum in Oakland, CA.
Associate Professor Pablo La Roche recently published an article in the journal Energy and Buildings entitled Comfort and Energy in Smart Green Roofs. He also presented papers at three recent conferences including the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, and two papers the World Sustainable Building Conference SB14. He has presented eight recent lectures including, the American Solar Energy Society National Conference ASES 2014, the Society of Building Science Educators Annual Retreat, the Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja, Madrid, the Practica y Enseñanza de la Arquitectura en California International Workshop Sustainability in the Built Environment, Seville, Spain, and the Façade Tectonics Conference at the University of Southern California. He is the current President of SBSE, the Society of Building Science Educators.
Associate Professor Michael Fox recently presented a paper at the 2014 ACADIA, (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference on the Eco-29 project which is a fully interactive kinetic event Hall in Israel. He also wrote the preface to the conference proceedings and is the current president of the Organization. He recently authored a chapter in the book “Building Dynamics”, by Routledge Press, edited by Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac. He also contributed to the book, “Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research” edited by Neil Leach,by AD. He authored a chapter in the journal PAJ 109 on Performance and Architecture, edited by Chris Perry and Catheryn Dwyre.
Associate Professor Juintow Lin recently led an attempt to revitalize the California State Parks system, where 12 Cal Poly Pomona graduate architecture students took on the challenge of redesigning a modern cabin and succeeded. The California Parks Forward Commission is making an effort to reach out to students for creative and innovative ideas, as younger generations are not visiting state parks. The students began their project in spring 2014. The timing was just right for the project because of available funding. The Resources Legacy Fund, a consortium of major foundations in California, funded the project. The 150-square-foot cabin is made from recycled and prefabricated elements. It includes a full-sized bed, a bunk bed, and a bench that can accommodate four people. High triangular windows, French doors, and a sloped roof allows for maximum light to enter the cabin. The first prototype was constructed in 4 days in a factory in Phoenix AZ, by CAVCO.
Lecturer Barry Milofsky was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to the Cultural Heritage Commission of the City of Los Angeles, the five-member commission that considers nominations of sites as City Historic-Cultural Monuments (designated City landmarks) and reviews proposed project work affecting more than 1000 existing Historic-Cultural Monuments. The Commission also serves as the city’s primary forum for the discussion of historic preservation policy. Recommendations of the Cultural Heritage Commission are forwarded to the City Council for their final action. The Cultural Heritage Ordinance also gives the Commission the authority to temporarily delay alteration or demolition of historically significant structures until a proper review can be completed.
Lecturer Katrin Terstegen is a Designer and Project Manager with Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles, where she recently completed “Various Small Fires”, an art gallery in Hollywood, as well as the “Vault House” in Oxnard.
Lecturer Jose Herrasti’s firm MUTUO is currently working on a 5 acre park in the Coachella Valley in collaboration with KDI, a nonprofit dedicated to the creation of low cost, high impact environments that improve the physical, economic, and social quality of life of under-served communities. MUTUO has also been working with a developer in El Paso, TX to transform an area of dilapidated buildings into a thriving community. They are also beginning construction of a three single family development in the Hollywood Hills and a residence in Cordoba, Mexico.
Scott Uriu along with his business partner Herwig Baumgartner have been chosen as one of the 2014-2015 COLA Master Artist Fellowship – Cultural Grant Artists for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The prestigious City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowships honor a selection of the best of Los Angeles contemporary arts. These awards allow very accomplished artists to focus on creating a new work to be exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in May of 2015. Uriu and Baumgartner have been chosen as one of the 2014-2015 COLA Master Artist Fellowship – Cultural Grant Artists for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The prestigious City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowships honor a selection of the best of Los Angeles contemporary arts. These awards allow very accomplished artists to focus on creating a new work to be exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in May of 2015. Uriu has been selected to be one of the speakers at the TxA Emerging Design + Technology Conference where Baumgartner+Uriu will make a presentation on Responsive Architectural Environments in Houston TEXAS. Baumgartner+Uriu’s installation Apertures uses sensors and sound feedback loops to immerse the visitor in his or her own biorhythms. The TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference Nov7th-8th brings experimental research and exploration among academics and practitioners to a broad audience of designers, practicing architects, construction industry executives, building products manufacturers, students, and other researchers.
USC faculty member Laurel Consuelo Broughton (WELCOMEPROJECTS) presented work and participated in a symposium at Princeton SOA on November 15, 2014, titled “F_i_r_m_n_e_s_s_,__C_o_m_m_o_d_i_t_y_,_ & Delight,” along with Mark Foster Gage (Mark Foster Gage + Associates), Andrew Kovacs (Archive of Affinities), Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular), and Michael Loverich (Bittertang). On November 1st, 2014 Broughton’s project in collaboration with Andrew Kovacs, Gallery Attachment (www.galleryattachment.com) opened in Chinatown in Los Angeles with a corresponding show of drawings, As Builts at Jai and Jai Gallery. In October she released The Miranda, a collaboration with writer, director, and artist Miranda July with a short film that launched on Vogue.com. As well throughout the fall, Laurel was also featured in the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Out There Doing It which invites young architects to present their work in a series of events and discussions.
The University of Southern California School of Architecture announces the appointment of Kelly Shannon as Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program and Landscape Architecture Discipline Head, effective January 1, 2015. She joins the USC faculty as Professor of Architecture. Dr. Shannon is currently Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape of the Oslo School of Architecture. She also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Urbanism, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture at KU Leuven. “The landscape program at the USC School of Architecture has grown steadily, and with a new director as accomplished as Kelly Shannon, the program is poised for global impact in cross-disciplinary research and cross-territorial practice,” said Dean Qingyun Ma. The USC landscape architecture program has a longstanding commitment to urban and environmental discourse. Its impact has expanded with the leadership of retired director Robert Harris and through cross_-disciplinary connections with the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Spatial Sciences Institute of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The Master of Landscape Architecture First Professional Curriculum and Advanced Standing Curriculum are accredited by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board.
USC Landscape Architecture student work proposing new uses for the Santa Monica Airport will be exhibited at the Writers Boot Camp Gallery, Bergamot Station, on Thursday, October 23, 6-9 pm. “Reimagining Santa Monica Airport – Part 1” features work from Christopher Sison, Chen Liu, Zeek Magallanes, and Yongdan Chunyu, all students from a USC graduate landscape architecture studio taught by Aroussiak Gabrielian. The exhibit is sponsored by Airport2Park, a coalition supporting the creation of a park on the land that is currently the Santa Monica Airport. First used informally as a landing strip by pilots flying WWI biplanes, the 227-acre site was the home of the Douglas Aircraft Company, and in the 1970s, it became a general aviation airport, currently serving about 300 people daily who fly privately. As the airport is surrounded on all sides by residential areas, noise and air pollution have long been local community issues. ‘’What is amazing about getting students involved in projects that address sites currently in transition, like the airport site, is the capacity of their visions to affect policy change, as well as provide advocacy of worthwhile community efforts through design speculation,” said Gabrielian.
Dr. David Gerber, Alvin Huang and Jose Sanchez, all Assistant Professors of Architecture at the USC School of Architecture recently co-chaired ACADIA 2014 | Design Agency, ACADIA’s annual conference at USC.
Dr. Gerber published and co-edited a book Titled “Paradigms in Computing | Making Machines and Models for Design Agency in Architecture” with eVolo and ACTAR-D. He was also the first multiple recipient of Autodesk’s competitive IDEA studio research grant. Dr. Gerber is a current editor of two leading design and computing research journals Simulation and the International Journal of Architecture and Computing. Dr. Gerber was the chair of this years’ Simulation in Architecture and Urban design Symposium. Dr. Gerber has published his research this year in eCAADe, CAADRIA, ACADIA, SimAUD and numerous journals including Energy and Buildings, Automation and Construction, and Design Studies as well as been the editor of the proceedings for SimAUD and ACADIA. Dr. Gerber’s Parametric Design course at USC has won research and teaching support from Dassault Systems (3DS).
AIA Los Angeles (AIA|LA) announced the 2014 Design Awards winners on Wednesday evening, October 29, 2014. The annual AIA Los Angeles Design Awards honor excellence in work built by Los Angeles architects (Design Awards) as well as work by Los Angeles designers as yet unbuilt (Next LA Awards). In both the Design and Next LA categories. among the USC Architecture faculty winning awards for built work were Lawrence Scarpa, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Warren Techentin and Alvin Huang:
Lawrence Scarpa (Brooks+Scarpa) for PICO PLACE, a 36-unit affordable housing project in Santa Monica for very low income tenants. The jury appreciated the idea of a certain responsiveness of the overall mass. “The project is cohesive but it has a lot of complexity. There’s an impression of openness from the street-side. Trade of tightness to achieve spaciousness within the public was a challenge.”
Lorcan O’Herlihy for the Edison Language Academy. “The moves of this project are the right moves – said the jury. It’s a simple diagram, it could have been boring, but it adhered to its own principals and articulated in those pieces. It’s hard to do. The designers have created value within limited resources. Very clear ideas organize the whole and make it really easy to understand.”
Warren Techentin for his project “La Cage aux Folles.” Located in the Materials & Applications courtyard exhibition gallery La Cage aux Folles explored the craft of pipe bending and joined form, computational procedures, and fabrication processes in the making of a 17 foot high structure which encouraged informal use and programming throughout its exhibition. This project is in collaboration with USC professor and structural engineer, Anders Carlson. “It’s very original, sophisticated, and elegant project,” said the jury. “It’s very clever. It’s a wonderful folly. It’s magic.”
Alvin Huang of Synthesis Design+ Architecture won an award for unbuilt work for theDaegu Gosan Pulic Library. “The jury applauded this design for challenging the conventions of library typology. It is a very comprehensive and resolute idea, both formally and spatially. The plasticity of the project allows it to reconfigure itself into a terrain for books. The projects articulates a library in the 21st century to accommodate books, data and a variety of elements – and figures out a way to make it seamless and useful.”
In October, the Italian state television network RAI’s documentary on Lucrezia Borgia was televised, for which Prof. Diane Ghirardo was the historian of record. The documentary in part based upon Prof. Ghirardo’s research, addresses Borgia’s entrepreneurial and reclamation activities in 16th century Italy, among other topics. The Portuguese architectural publication, Arqa, published an article by Prof. Ghirardo on the restoration of Modern Movement architecture in the June 2014 issue, and also in 2014, the Polish architectural journal RecyklingIdee. Pismo spotecznie zaangazowane translated and published her essay on Manfredo Tafuri, which originally appeared in Perspecta in 2001. Her edited volume, Aldo Rossi’s Municipio a Borgoricco was published in November 2014 by the town of Borgoricco.
Professors Goetz Schierle, Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble are preparing a book on tensile fabric structures co-edited with other USC faculty.
Hraztan Zeitlian received the AIA California Council Presidential Citation Award on 10/23/2014, for having helped “ . . . confirm the architects’ role and responsibility to society on a larger scale. Your dedication on behalf of the architectural profession, and the future of design is deeply appreciated and recognized.”
Lecturer Andy Ku and his Los Angeles-based firm, OCDC have recently been commissioned to design a 3D printed housing prototype for a Hong Kong-based, consumer goods design and development company. In August, OCDC opened its first satellite office in Hong Kong.
Lecturer Geoffrey von Oeyen is organizing a major event titled “Performative Composites: Sailing Architecture” at the USC School of Architecture on November 3 + 4. Through workshops, panel discussions, and an exhibition that includes the design of Greg Lynn’s new trimaran and the hydrofoil from an America’s Cup catamaran, this event explores how new materials and techniques in sailing, particularly carbon fiber composites, allow for designers to reconsider the multiplicity of spatial, formal, and environmental forces in architecture in important new ways. Presenters and panelists include Greg Lynn, Bill Kreysler, Bill Pearson, Kurt Jordan, Fred Courouble, Lynn Bowser, Bruno Belmont, Neil Smith, and Rick Pauer.
Assistant Professor Alvin Huang and his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture were awarded an AIA|LA NextLA Design Award for their Daegu Public Library Proposal at the annual AIA Los Angles Design Awards on October 29, 2014. Additionally, a 1/2 scale prototype of their Durotaxis Chair, a multi-material 3D printed chair that gradiates from soft to rigid was exhibited at the recent ACADIA Design Agency Conference at USC and has been featured in numerous publications including Dezeen, 3D Printing Industry, Inside 3D Printing, TCT Magazine, and others. Three additional projects (Chelsea Workspace, Daegu Public Library, and Pure Tension Pavilion) were also included in the peer-reviewed ACADIA exhibition, as well as the publication and presentation of a peer-reviewed paper entitled “Nearly Minimal: Intuition, Analysis, and Information.”
Eric Haas, Adjunct Associate Professor, presented his paper “Do We Have to Stick to the Script? : Cities, Surveying and Descripting” at the Mediated City Conference held at Woodbury University in October. Haas’s firm DSH was recently named a finalist in the Spark > Spaces 2014 Design Awards for the Larchmont Charter Lafayette Park school. The firm is beginning work on renovating a 1953 Neutra & Alexander building for use as a preschool.
Jose Sanchez has recently co-chaired Acadia 2014 Conference ‘Design Agency’, with speakers including Zaha Hadid, Will Wright and Casey Reas. In the event, he exhibited ‘Polyomino’, a 3d printed piece sponsored by Stratasys as part of the ‘From gaming to making’ research, connecting gaming technology with the maker movement. Jose will be speaking in Autodesk University in Vegas in a panel dedicated to the future of technology and the integration of gaming in the world of design.
Christopher Warren, and his office, WORD, received an AIA|LA 2014 Design Merit Award for A.P.C. Melrose Place, an adaptive re-use project built for the French fashion label’s Los Angeles flagship store – in collaboration with A.P.C. New York and Laurent Deroo Architecte, Paris.
Douglas Noble and Karen Kensek received the AEP Educator Award from the California Council of the AIA.
Assistant Professor Alison Hirsch will be lecturing on her recent book, City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America (University of Minnesota, 2014), at the Graham Foundation in Chicago on December 4th (6pm). The event will also serve as a book launch and signing.
Ken Breisch has been named as Co-chair of a Task Force to Develop Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Art and Architectural History Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure. This study is co-sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians and the College Art Association and has been funded with a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The USC School of Architecture faculty Alvin Huang, Jose Sanchez, and David Gerber hosted and chaired this years’ ACADIA annual conference entitled Design Agency. The event was the most widely attended in history with 545 participants including, students, professionals, and academics from every continent. The conference peer review accepted 74 papers and 50 projects from a very competitive pool. The event had keynote and awardee lectures including Zaha Hadid, Casey Reas (UCLA), Will Wright (of SimCity fame), Neil Gershenfeld (MIT) Nancy Cheng (UofO), Jenny Sabin (Cornell), and Marc Fornes. During the week of events 10 workshops were supported by NBBJ, SOM, Zaha Hadid Architects, Woods Baggot, Autodesk, Formlabs, Marc Fornes, Roland Snooks,and Robots in Architecture. The conference included an exhibition in part sponsored by Stratasys with an amazing collection of 3D prints on display including works from Alvin Huang, Jose Sanchez, and David Gerber. The event culminated with a day long Hackathon lead by Jose Sanchez.
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