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University of Southern California

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Aroussiak Gabrielian presented her research, Mediated Visions: The City Re-Imag(in)ed, at the Mediated City Conference which took place in Los Angeles in early October.  Her paper from the conference was selected for publication in the peer reviewed Journal of Architecture, Media, Politics and Society.  Student work from Aroussiak’s Spring semester landscape studio, Transient Topographies, was exhibited at the Writers Bootcamp Gallery at Bergamont Station in Santa Monica in mid-October.  Aroussiak also served as a facilitator at the 5D Worldbuilding Institute’s, Spaces of Fiction Conference, which took place at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she is currently an Annenberg Fellow and Ph.D candidate. 

Jennifer Siegal, Adjunct Associate Professor, gave a GoogleTechTalk and exhibited the AERO-Mobile (a moveable retail environment made of up-cycled parts discarded by the aerospace industry) at Google Los Angeles. Commissioned by the Kaneko museum in Omaha, NE as part of the Truck-A-Tecture exhibition, the project was exhibited at Theatrum Mundi “Designing for Free Speech” in NYC and “To Be Destroyed” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto.

Vittoria Di Palma has been invited to give a talk on the subject of her new book, Wasteland, A History (Yale: 2014) at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, as part of the Cambridge Talks IX conference, “Inscriptions of Power: Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis,” which will be held from April 2-3, 2015.  http://cambridgetalks2015.wordpress.com/ 

Drawings and models by Lorcan O’Herlihy have been added to the Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collection.  They will be exhibited in early 2015 as part of Sketch to Structure.  This exhibit unfolds the architectural design process to show how buildings take shape. With sketches, plans, blueprints, renderings, and models from the Heinz Architectural Center collection, this exhibition reveals that architectural design, from initial concept to client presentation, isn’t straightforward. Beautiful hand-drawn sketches by Lorcan O’Herlihy show an architect quickly capturing ideas about shapes and color. Pencil drawings of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records by Richard Neutra show a master draftsman at work. And watercolors by Steven Holl of a client’s home render in beautiful detail, on a single sheet of paper, the planned building’s exterior, floor plan, and elevation.

Erik Mar has been designing the new 15,000 sf South Whittier Library since April; it’s targeting LEED Platinum and is now in Plan Check. He will start on the new 7,000 sf Los Nietos Library in November. Both are for the LA County Public Library, and are 2 out of the 3 all new libraries funded by Supervisor Knabe’s $45 million project: Operation Libraries. http://knabe.com/issues/operation-libraries/#.VE0heoeBndk 

On October 9, Ted Bosley moderated a workshop entitled “Authenticity in the Age of Sustainability” at the annual international historic house museum conference (DEMHIST), held this year in Compiegne, France. Attending were colleagues from the National Trust (UK), the European Association of Royal Residences (ARRE), and numerous historic sites around the world.

Neil Leach has recently published an issue of Architectural Design on Space Architecture, together with two papers for the 2014 Acadia conference. He is currently on leave from USC as a Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD.

University of Southern California

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100 Years of Architecture at USC!  2014 marks the exciting milestone of educating the 100th class of students at USC Architecture. These 100 classes have produced more than 5,000 alumni who are advancing modernism, prefabrication, sustainability and urban design. The students in these 100 classes have been mentored by faculty members who are leaders in modern architectural design, construction and conservation excellence, and who have developed a multidisciplinary perspective on the design of projects in urban settings. USC Architecture is proud to have been the first accredited architecture school in Southern California, and the first in the west to teach a curriculum focusing on modernism, highlighted by a faculty supporting the Case Study House Program through teaching, research and practice. To commemorate the centennial, 2014 will be marked by several once-in-a-century events, including a lecture series, special scholarship announcements and the launch of a fundraising campaign. USC Architecture is known for real-time design, focused on the now. Our centennial is another opportunity to move from thinking to building, from students to leaders and from Los Angeles to the world. These concepts will guide us as we begin our next 100 years.

University of Southern California

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New faculty teaching in the USC School of Architecture this semester include Marwan Al-Sayed, Sofia Borges, Tina Chee, Stephen Deters, Ian Dickenson, Steven Ehrlich, Maria Esnaola, Ryan Guitierrez, Karen Janosky, Erin Kasimow, David Maestres, Michael McGowan, Andrew Watkins, and Takashi Yanai.

The USC School of Architecture will host the fifth annual Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute on September 16-18. Sponsored by Enterprise Community Partners, the Institute brings together a team of designers (including USC faculty member Lorcan O’Herlihy) and a team of non-profit developers who each present a project in the schematic design phase for feedback. This year’s theme is “Sustainable, Connected Communities, ” addressing best practices in community design and how L.A. can become a national model for transit-oriented development. Brought to USC by Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA and  John Mutlow, FAIA, the conference will include 3rd year undergraduate students who will be developing some of the projects further in studio. David Baker, FAIA, LEED AP and Andrea Cochran, FASLA are the keynote speakers; their lecture on Wednesday, September 16, at 6 pm in the Gin D. Wong Conference Center, Harris Hall, is open to the public.

Hraztan Zeitlian’s work as Director of Design at DLR for the LAUSD Edward R Roybal Learning Center High School was used as a setting for the VW GTI TV AD with Michael Ballack during FIFA World Cup, shown on ESPN2 TV Channel.

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Dvt/2014-volkswagen-golf-gti-greatest-hits-featuring-michael-ballack

Prof. Emeritus Roger Sherwood continues to add to his website on “Modern Housing Prototypes.”  The HousingPrototypes.org website now contains hundreds of buildings, and includes detailed descriptions, drawings, photos and much more.  Most building types can be readily researched in books and magazines. Because of the large worldwide production and very dynamic nature of housing construction, however, it is very difficult to track new developments in housing design. Books quickly obsolesce and few libraries have the resources to even subscribe to the range of periodicals necessary to track new developments. The advantage of web-based material is that it offers a dynamic database accessible by anyone with a computer. It can be periodically revised and thus allows the researcher to continually update their knowledge about a particular subject. HousingPrototypes.org was conceived to fill the need for a dynamic, interactive database about housing. It provides the research instrument to monitor research about historic and new developments in the field of international multi-family housing. The current phase of construction provides data on an international selection of both new and old housing projects of the past century or so. New case studies will be frequently and continually added.  HousingPrototypes.org is published free on the Internet as an information service.

Southern California Institute of Architecture

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Cultural studies professor David Bergman recently completed several urban planning studies, including a Downtown Overlay Plan for the City of Lancaster, a Land Use and Economic Plan for Saticoy, Los Angeles and a Film Studio Feasibility Plan for the City of Washington, D.C. He also contributed an opinion piece focusing on the LA River Master Plan, published by the LA Business Journal.

Design faculty Joe Day (M.Arch ‘94) published his research into the overlap between prison and museum design in his new book, Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime, published by Routledge Press. Day also completed two Southern California residential projects, the C-Glass House in Marin and the 4/Way House in Topanga.

Graduate Programs Chair Hernan Diaz Alonso completed the design for the Center of Experience and Media for Boeing’s Seattle outpost, where construction is scheduled to start in April. Most recently, Diaz Alonso received several architectural awards including The Architectural Review’s Emerging Architecture Award 2014, and one of Architect Magazine’s 2014 P/A Citation Awards. He was also named Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.

Design faculty Ramiro Diaz Granados (B.Arch ‘96) was commissioned to design a permanent installation for the Oregon State University’s Student Experience Center. He also recently exhibited his work in a group show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Almost Anything Goes: Architecture & Inclusivity.

SCI-Arc Director of Academic Affairs Ming Fung and partner Craig Hodgetts received an AIA LA Next LA Award for Building Blocks, a modular classroom infrastructure designed for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Fung currently serves as President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and will assume the role of President of ACSA in July 2014.

Cultural Studies Coordinator Todd Gannon edited a new book published by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. Gannon’s Et in Suburbia Ego: Jose Oubrerie’s Miller House gathers new commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary architecture, alongside a wealth of newly commissioned photographs and never-before-published drawings and models from Oubrerie’s archive which documents the house at a level of detail not normally seen in architectural monographs.

Design faculty Marcelyn Gow participated in the Archilab group exhibition on view at the FRAC Center in Orleans, France from September 2013—March 2014. She also contributed written essays to architectural publications including Minutiae: In Thesis Now and Onramp #4, both published by SCI-Arc Press, the Archilab Exhibition Catalog published by the FRAC Center, and contributed to the In Taboos and Tatoos pamphlet series produced by UrbanOps in Los Angeles.

Design faculty Margaret Griffin and SCI-Arc Undergraduate Programs Chair John Enright received an AIA LA Award for the design of the St. Thomas Apostle School. Margaret Griffin was also awarded the John S. Bolles Fellowship from the AIA California Council, and received a certificate of appreciation from the AIA LA Board of Directors.

Design faculty Elena Manferdini recently exhibited her work in the Almost Anything Goes group exhibition exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art and in the Erasmus Effect group show at the MAXXI in Rome, Italy. Manferdini was awarded the 2013 Educator’s Award by the AIA Los Angeles, and received the ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence for her research contributions to digital design in architecture.

Cultural studies faculty Ilaria Mazzoleni published her research into biomimetic architecture in her new book, Architecture Follows Nature: Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design, co-edited with evolutionary biologist Shauna Price.

SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss received a Progressive Architecture Citation Award from Architect magazine for his Albuquerque Rail Yards Master Plan to convert a 27.3-acre site just south of Downtown Albuquerque into a mixed-use development. Metropolis magazine featured Moss on the cover of its January 2014 “Game Changers” issue, highlighting Hayden Tract, the architect’s decades-long urban project in Culver City, west of downtown Los Angeles. 

Design faculty Anna Neimark and her practice First Office completed Paranormal Panorama, an installation for the screening of Cold Rehearsal, an experimental film by directors Constanze Rhum and Christine Lang screened at the MAK Center in Los Angeles from November 2013-March 2014. Niemark also exhibited work in the LA Forum’s Out There Doing It Series, and contributed the “mess, n.” essay to Onramp #4: Another Fine Mess, published by SCI-Arc Press, and the essay How to Domesticate a Mountain to Perspecta 46.

Design faculty Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom were shortlisted for the MoMA P.S. 1 Young Architects Program, a high profile annual competition challenging emerging architects to design a temporary installation within the walls of the P.S. 1 courtyard. Pita also exhibited her work with FPmod in a solo show on view in the SCI-Arc Library. Curated by Joseph Rosa, the UMMA Table & Objects exhibition was previously installed at the University of Michigan Museum of Modern Art.

SCI-Arc design faculty John Southern‘s critical field survey, Wilshire Star Maps, was part of the Archizines exhibition on view at the University of Hong Kong/Shanghai Study Centre through March 9, 2014. The two-part, limited-run publication produced by Southern and his LA-based office, Urban Operations, presents the latent formal and programmatic potential of the otherwise unnoticed skyscrapers along Wilshire Boulevard.

Design faculty Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser completed the Carbon Beach House and Studio in Malibu, Calif., which represents the first instantiation of Testa/Weiser’s all composite Carbon Tape House prototype. They collaborated with Greg Lynn on his exhibition, Archeology of the Digital exhibited at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal and at Yale University. Peter Testa’s essay Autonomous Translations, addressing representation in architecture and next generation digital interfaces appeared in the newly release book by SCI-Arc Press, Fabrication and Fabrication.

Applied Studies Coordinator Tom Wiscombe advanced into Stage II of the international competition for the Kinmen Port Terminal in Taiwan. Stage I competition finalists included Visual Studies Coordinator Andrew Zago.

University of Oklahoma

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Assistant Professor Catherine Barrett contributed to a recent publication, the Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices (Universal Dictionary of Creative Women), published by Editions des femmes (Paris: 2013). Her contribution, written in French, included three essays about American women: one on the architect Josephine Wright Chapman, one on the architect Mary Colter, and one on the landscape architect Lutah Riggs.

Associate Professor David L. Boeck served as advisor to a team of 4th and 5th year Architecture students in the 2013 NOMAS Design Competition, which called for developing property on the near-northeast side of Indianapolis in the Friends and Neighbors, Oakhill, Fall Creek Place, and Reagan Park neighborhoods. This project incorporated ideas from city-developed plan to create a carbon neutral mixed-used transit oriented development (TOD). The team attended the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference and presented their solution entitled Indy Park.



The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture (CMEAC) at the College of Architecture established Spring 2012 by Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi sponsored a special screening, a presentation by, and banquet for the award-winning Canadian/Iranian author and documentary filmmaker Dr. Farzin Rezaeian on his latest film Recreating Pasargadae: Cyrus the Great’s Paradise.

Assistant Professor Daniel Butko presented an authored poster entitled Mining Landscapes of Waste and a separate paper entitled Returning to Earth coauthored with Assistant Professor Dr. Lisa Holliday (CNS), Assistant Professor Matthew Reyes (CNS), Dr. Kianoosh Hatami (CEES), and Dr. Chris Ramseyer (COE) at the 2013 ACSA Fall Conference in Fort Lauderdale.

Architecture Division Director and Professor Hans E. Butzer, with his practice Butzer Gardner Architects, received AIA Honor Awards from the AIA Oklahoma Chapter for the Woodland Residence and 7@Crown Heights. He and his team also earned an AIA Merit Award for the Nichols Law Firm from the AIA Central States Region. Professor Butzer also made an invited TEDx presentation titled “Surroundings Matter” at a TED-sponsored event. Hans, along with his Skydance Bridge Design Team, presented at the AIA Oklahoma/Central States Region Convention with a focus on collaboration. Hans was also an invited lecturer in the University Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Seminar Series, presenting his firm’s work and its relationship to culture, place, and identity.

A team of undergraduate Architecture students led by Assistant Professor Thomas Cline was awarded 2nd place in the 2013 AIA Central States Student Design Competition. The team consisted of 4th year students Bud Hardage and Minh Tran, 3rd year student Jessika Poteet, and 2nd year students Corey Hardy and Victor Trautman (alternate). The competition pairs regional student teams with local architecture firms over a 16 hour charrette.

Associate Professor Lee Fithian presented a paper coauthored with CNS Associate Professor Tamera McCuen entitled BIMStorm OKC: A Virtual Event to Build Community and Enhance Connectivity at the FOREFRONT: Architects as Collaborative Leaders conference in Salt Lake City. FOREFRONT is a conference jointly sponsored by the AIA Center for Integrated Practice, AIA Utah, and the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning and is in partnership with ACSA.

In other news, a group of faculty and students from the College of Architecture’s Compressed Earth Block (CEB) research team consisting of Assistant Professors Daniel Butko (Arch), Dr. Lisa Holliday (CNS), Matthew Reyes (CNS), Scott Williams (LA), Dean Charles Graham, 4th year Architecture student Aaron Crandall, and 3rd year Construction Science student Holly Snow coauthored and presented a total of four papers and two posters at the 2013 Earth USA Conference in Santa Fe, NM.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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UNLV Architecture Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).  The award was presented during a luncheon on November 15, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

The awards recognize professors for their influence in the classroom and their commitment to undergraduate students. Fernandez-Gonzalez was selected from a pool of nearly 300 top professors nationwide and a broad range of academic disciplines and institutional types.

“Great faculty dedicated to the success of our students are the backbone of UNLV and our tradition of educational excellence,” said UNLV President Neal Smatresk. “Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez has been an outstanding mentor and coach for students by engaging them in relevant research that is contextually linked to their major interest. UNLV is proud of his accomplishments and of our architecture program.”

Fernandez-Gonzalez was also the recipient of the 2012 UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and UNLV’s nominee to the Nevada System of Higher Education Regents Teaching Award.  He is presently the Director of the Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory and the Architecture Program Coordinator.

The U.S. Professors of the Year Program began in 1981 and is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.  Judges selected national and state winners based on four criteria:

 – Impact on and involvement with undergraduate students

 – Scholarly approach to teaching and learning

 – Contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession

 – Support from colleagues and current and former students

“The winners have drawn on the best of what we know from cognitive science, learning theory and evidence-based practices in post-secondary instruction to orchestrate extraordinary opportunities for the students in their classrooms,” said Anthony S. Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a statement. “In honoring these distinguished professors who have exhibited excellence in teaching in their disciplines and extraordinary dedication to their students, we are supporting the centrality of teaching on campus and recognizing its importance to the future of our country.”

This year, a state Professor of the Year was recognized in 30 states and the District of Columbia. CASE assembled two preliminary panels of judges to select finalists. The Carnegie Foundation then convened the third and final panel, which selected four national winners. CASE and Carnegie select state winners from top entries resulting from the judging process.  For additional information please visit: http://news.unlv.edu/release/architecture-professor-named-nevada-professor-year

Kansas State University

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David Seamon, Professor of Architecture, published the article, “A Jumping, Joyous Urban Jumble”: Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities as a Phenomenology of Urban Place,” in the peer-reviewed, open-source Journal of Space Syntax, vol. 3 (fall), pp. 139-49 (available at: http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/journal/index.php/joss/issue/view/5/showToc ). Seamon attended and presented a blind peer-reviewed paper at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, August 8 -11.

Associate Professor of Architecture Mick Charney conducted the workshop “Looking for Mr. Wright, and Finding Him on Facebook” at the Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK at the 19th International Conference on Learning, August 14-16.  Additionally, Charney presented the paper “Hint Fiction and Vivid Grammar: Quick Ways to Jump-start Writing Objectives” at the 13th National Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning in Traverse City, Michigan, September 20-23; he also served as a judge for the Laurie Ryan Memorial Award, a $400 prize presented to the author of the best poster at the Lilly Conference.

A team of K-State students advised by Assistant Professor Michael Gibson collaborated with the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center in Topeka, KS to design and construct a new outdoor pavilion to enhance the Discovery Center’s outdoor learning initiative. The pavilion (photo above), dubbed the “Outdoor Learning Classroom,” was supported in tandem by the Discovery Center and by Westar Energy, who provided reclaimed utility poles to serve as the primary structure. Students ultimately provided over 800 hours of volunteer work over four weeks designing and constructing the project. The project opened in late August and the process and final installation is exhibited in a blog found at http://teeculus.wordpress.com/. 

Professor of Architecture Peter Magyar and his ARCH 806 Master of Architecture students went on a week-long field trip to Budapest, Hungary, for an architectural site visit during September 2012, which is a first step in the planned cooperation between K-State and the Technical University of Budapest. The maiden trip project, which will be designed simultaneously by selected students of both Universities, hopefully will be followed by cooperation between other colleges, resulting in possible student and faculty exchanges, and mutual research projects.

Professor of Architecture Susanne Siepl-Coates and her ARCH 806 Master of Architecture students went on a week-long field trip to Zurich, Switzerland to visit the 2012–2013 Distinguished Regnier Visiting Professor Beat Kaempfen in September. Visiting many of Kaempfen’s exemplary buildings, students learned about Swiss standards with regard to ecological, sustainable and energy-efficient design.

Professor of Architecture Jim Jones and Professor of Architecture Dragoslav Simic took their ARCH 304 and ARCH 806 Master of Architecture students on a week-long field trip to Honduras for an architectural site visit for the design of a Trauma Center for the Island of Roatan.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Instructors Emily Andersen and Geoff DeOld of DeOld Andersen Architecture are among five design teams selected from more than 50 applicants to develop a conceptual design for an urban community space for the “Green in the City” competition. DAA is partnered with Project for Public Spaces of New York City. 

Professor Rumiko Handa’s article “Sen no Rikyu and the Japanese Way of Tea: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Everyday,” appeared in Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture 4, no. 3 (November 2013), out from Bloomsbury Journals. Dr. Handa gave a lecture, “Architecture as Nature: Japanese Ways of Understanding Artifacts,” at the University of Manitoba in November, drawing from the research she conducted in Japan and at the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies.

This past spring Professor Mark Hoistad was named an adjunct faculty member at both Chongqing University and Xi’An Jiaotong University in China where he taught seminars on urban theory.  This fall, he was invited to deliver keynote addresses at three conferences at Chinese Universities. The first at the Third International Symposium on Architectural Heritage Preservation and Sustainable Development at Tianjin University, “Balancing Continuity and Change: Preservation and Sustainability at the Macro Scale.”  This talk situated a conceptual master plan Professor Hoistad recently completed with his Chinese research partner, Professor Chen Yang, in the contemporary circumstance of Xi’An at the site of a former Han Dynasty palace. The second address, “Changing Focus: Teaching Architectural History in a time of Rapid Change and Complexity,” was delivered at the 2013 International Symposium on Teaching and Research of Architectural History at Chongqing University. The third presentation, “Resilience follows the Rule of More than One,” was delivered at a joint workshop, Resilience in Human Settlements sponsored by Chongqing University, University of Sheffield (UK), Cardiff University (UK), Kobe University (Japan) and Kyushu University (Japan). In addition this fall, Professor Hoistad with his Chinese partner, developed a conceptual master plan for a heritage park at the archeological site of Qin Dynasty palace at the Qinghan new town.

Assistant Professor Brian M. Kelly has two projects selected as finalists for a national design award through the Interior Design Educators Council and is invited to present the work at the annual conference in New Orleans, LA.

Professor Jeffrey L. Day served as design awards jury chair for AIA Northern Colorado and presented a lecture at the chapter’s November, 2013 conference in Boulder. Day’s firm Min | Day won 2 awards in the 2013 AIA Nebraska design awards program: a Merit Award for Unbuilt work for the Community CROPS Food Center and Merit Award for the Stones Table in the Details category. The Stones Table also won a Citation Award in September 2013 in the AIA San Francisco chapter’s Constructed Realities design awards program, In November Professor Day served as a juror in phase one of the “Green In The City” design competition and in December, he served as a visiting critic at The Design School at Arizona State University.

Catholic University of America

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As in the previous four years, the School of Architecture & Planning at The Catholic University of America had a world-renown architect teaching a studio and lecturing at CUArch as part of our Walton Critic Program. Previous Walton Critics included Antoine Predock (2009), Craig Hartman (2010), and Juhani Pallasmaa (2011).

This year the Walton Critic and Professor in Residence was architect Alberto Campo Baeza. Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect internationally known for his luminous, simple yet nuanced, and always provocative architecture. His work is the result of a long, continuous, and disciplined investigation into the miracle of light in space. He has received extensive global recognition, including the Buenos Aires Biennial International Critic Prize (2009), the Eduardo Torroja Award (2005), the Venice Biennial (2000), and the Miami Gold Biennial Gold Medal (2000). Campo Baeza was also a selected candidate for The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010 Architecture Award and a finalist in the 2011 Premio de Arquitectura Española. His built work, drawings, and ideas have been widely published in Spanish, English, Italian, French and Japanese. Campo Baeza has been a faculty member at the ETSAM-UPM in Madrid since 1976. On 09/12/12, Campo Baeza presented the lecture “Ineffable Architecture: Buliding Poetry by Thinking with Your Hands” at the Crough Center for Architectural Studies of The Catholic University of America. Additionally, on 09/19/12 7:00pm, Alberto Campo Baeza gave a lecture on his current work and reflections at the District Architecture Center (DAC) in downtown DC as part of the event “Architecture Week 2012” organized by the DAC. Please contact Director of the Sacred Spaces concentration Professor Julio Bermudez for more information.

The 2012 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) included several successful new initiatives including an Architectural Design Studio led by Ben Gilmartin (Diller Scofidio + Renfro); a Traveling Studio to NYC with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and Boston with Stoss LU; and a Design-Build Studio in Hopewell, Ohio. The Summer Institute also hosted a successful speaker series with Steve Vogel (University of Detroit Mercy); June Williamson (City College of New York); Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects); and Ben Gilmartin (Diller Scofidio + Renfro). A publication is currently in development with an anticipated January 2013 release date.

Each summer, the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning conducts the Summer Institute for Architecture featuring numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses.  Among these are design studios and elective courses, including history of architecture, graphics, furniture design, theory, and computer-aided design/fabrication. Plans for the 2013 SIA include the NADAAA Design Studio (directed by Nader Tehrani) and a traveling studio to Los Angeles, CA. Please contact SIA Director Professor Julie Kim for more information.

Associate Professor Julio Bermudez received a grant to complete the second phase of his interdisciplinary neuroscience research of architecturally induced contemplation (done in collaboration with several researchers and departments of the University of Utah). Bermudez will be presenting two papers this Fall. The first work coauthored with Brandon Ro is entitled “Extraordinary Architectural Experiences: Comparative Study of Three Paradigmatic Cases of Sacred Space (The Pantheon, The Chartres Cathedral and the Chapel of Ronchamp) at the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances (Montreal, Canada). The second work “fMRI Study of Architecturally-Induced Contemplative States” will be presented at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) 2012 Annual Conference (La Jolla, CA). In addition, professor Bermudez will travel this November to the University of San Juan in Argentina invited by the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo to give a lecture entitled “Lo Cotidiano y lo Sagrado: Reflexiones desde el Arte y la Arquitectura” and teach the course “Philosophy in/of Architecture.”

As part of the AIA National Convention in Washington this past May, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins participated in the AIA Los Angeles and Broadcaster’s multimedia guide to Washington, DC architecture. This smartphone application helps guide listeners to architectural sites accompanied by commentary from local architects and educators.

Assistant Professor Hollee Hitchcock Becker presented a paper in the Smart and Sustainable Building Environments Conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil last June 2012. She also won a SASBE 2012 “Highly Commended Paper Award” for her work entitled “Sustainable, Affordable Housing using Locally-grown Bamboo”.

Assistant Professor Carlos Reimers was invited to be part of the Network Session “The Search for Multi-Story Incremental Housing” organized by the MIT’s Special Interest Group in Urban Studies SIGUS and presented in the Sixth Session of the United Nations World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy in September 2012. Professor Reimers also presented a paper on alternatives for the manufactured housing industry entitled “Beyond the Trailer: Rethinking Affordable Manufactured Housing in the U.S.” in the ACSA Fall 2012 Conference in Philadelphia “Off Site”.

The Catholic University of America is pleased to announce four new faculty members:

Assistant Professor Patricia Andrasik has been teaching both studios and sustainability courses at the CUArch Master of Sustainable Design Program since 2004, while practicing at an international architectural firm, She teaches LEED(ing) Green; Sustainable Synergies in Building Assessment, and recently developed a course called LEED EB: O&M on the Crough Architectural Center at CUA tracking and metering utility consumption to improve sustainability. Patricia will be launching two new courses in lighting and environmental analytics next year. 

Assistant Professor Dr. Charles Hostovsky joined the Catholic University of America to teach in the Master of City and Regional Planning program. “Chuck” is a Registered Professional Planner in Canada, and taught for 15 years at the University of Toronto. He has published widely and won two teaching awards, including the 2011 Government of Canada award for teaching sustainability. In professional practice for 25 years and with an extensive portfolio of planning projects, he was one of the Project Managers that won the Canadian Institute of Planners award for planning excellence in Transportation and Infrastructure in 2011.

Assistant Professor of Practice John Nahra, is the owner and Principal of Nahra Architects. John has been an architect in the design and construction industry of the greater Washington, DC area for the past 10 years. He received his dual degrees in Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of America and is a member of the AIA, NCARB and the USGBC. John will be exploring the added value of architectural design in the real estate development process as well as serving as advisor in the Thesis program.

Visiting Assistant Professor David Dewane is an architect with Gensler.  In 2010 he founded Librii with seed funding from the World Bank Institute. The project aims to construct a network of digital libraries along Africa’s expanding fiber optic infrastructure. David trained at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, TX under renowned Pliny Fisk III and has a Master of Architecture from Rice University. He has held leadership positions on three teams in the U.S. DOE’s Solar Decathlon competition.

In the summer of 2009, the Catholic University of America Design Collaborative (CUAdc) was approached  by the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land with the special request to design four Hermitages on the Monastery grounds in Washington DC. A design studio led by CUAdc Director William Jelen AIA began work analyzing the site and the unique challenges and opportunities of the task. On the following Fall, two graduate studios led by professor George Martin and professor Lou Boza examined both the spiritual opportunities and the tectonic opportunities of a hermitage building. Finally in the Spring of 2010 as part of Catholic University’s Comprehensive Design Studio, Director Jelen led a 12 architecture student studio towards a singular design. This group known as Studio 12, designed what became the concept of the first Hermitage to be built. The design concept centered on the interplay and blending of the sacred and profane worlds as they pertain to an individual’s daily patterns, routines, and needs. The idea that each moment of ordinary daily life can be an opportunity for sacred appreciation and meditation, guided everything from the choice of natural materials and textures to the orientation of the unit itself facing East towards Jerusalem. The hermitage contains a sleeping area, kitchenette, and bathroom in approximately 350sf. The design incorporated sustainable site considerations, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems including the use of natural ventilation. Through the choice of materials the design was meant to integrate into the existing historic campus. The first Hermitage is ADA compliant as well. The design for the project was awarded the 2010 AIA Unbuilt Award from the DC chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Work of the CUAdc has continued through the completion of construction on the interior design for the Hermitage including designing and fabricating a custom made chair, bed and desk for the Hermitage. For more information contact CUAdc Director William Jelen.

Auburn University

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Students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) took first place in this year’s student design competition. Held in conjunction with NOMA’s annual conference in Atlanta, GA, October 20-22, 2011, the student design competition challenged teams to balance the historic character of Atlanta’s Washington Park/Vine City communities while developing a new MARTA Transit Village that preserved and enhanced the existing corridor. Competing against 15 teams from across the country, the Auburn team’s design of The Vine City Village won the first place prize of $1,500.  Auburn University’s student team was Damian Bolden, Phillip Ewing, Sarahgrace Godwin, Kyle Johnson, Weng Lon Lao, Tanner Backman, Jordan Cox, Andrew Dolder, Yesufu O’ladipo, and  Laura Taylor.

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