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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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.

Auburn University

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.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

March 17, 2014/in School News East Central Region /by Matrix Admin

NEW PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN:
THE NASHVILLE SUMMER PROGRAM IN URBAN DESIGN

TK Davis, Associate Professor of Architecture, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

During Summer 2012, Thomas K. Davis FAIA will, again, serve as the Nashville Summer Urban Design Program Director for the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Davis will teach nine credit hours during the first two curriculum components of the program (nine weeks).

This past Summer 2011, the UT School of Architecture offered this inaugural urban design program based at the Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC), to the mutual benefit and synergy of the College and the Center, as a natural extension of the decade long partnership between the two entities.

A three-course sequence— theory, design and a practicum– over a 15-week period from May 9 through August 7 involved 14 students. Students from the University of Tennessee were encouraged to enroll in all three sequential courses, and were prioritized for enrollment, but they could elect to take one or two of the courses alone.

Nashville’s Metro Arts Commission released a study in 2010 touting the city as a powerhouse for the creative class. Using data from 2007-2008, the Western States Arts Federation ranked Nashville 4th in the country in overall “cultural vitality”—behind New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Vitality was gauged by looking at the number of creative professionals (actors, writers, designers and architects among them), as well as total spending on “creative life” (support for not only the symphony and concerts, but small businesses like guitar stores). More than 38,000 creative professionals worked in the region during the study period, and nearly $1 billion a year was spent on creative life, according to the report.

UT lecturers Gary Gaston and Stephanie McCullough will have primary faculty roles during the final component of a proposed three-part curriculum structure (six weeks) this summer. During this final segment, T. K. Davis will provide oversight and will be at the NCDC assisting in teaching a total of four two-day visits (eight days total, including the beginning, conclusion, and two intermediate points during the six weeks).

Students may choose to live with family, friends or make their own living arrangements during the program. Alternatively, excellent housing is available at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in the West End, at a rate of $62 per night (or less, based on duration of stay), including free parking and buffet meals by reservation on a per meal cost basis.

Students are responsible for arranging and paying for all housing, meals, travel, parking and entry fees during the program. The mini-term course will include an overnight field trip to Columbus, Indiana, with students responsible for their personal costs to participate. Columbus, a four hour drive form Nashville, is one of the nation’s most concentrated centers for distinguished modern architecture and landscape design.

University of Tennessee students enrolled in the Interior Design or Landscape Architecture Programs also may apply for enrollment, subject to the advanced approval of their program’s faculty leadership.

Students enrolled in architecture programs at other universities are also welcome and encouraged to apply for enrollment.

Inquire of the College of Architecture and Design for more information. Costs and additional information is available for viewing or download here.

University of Minnesota

March 17, 2014/in School News West Central Region /by Matrix Admin

Renee Cheng, Professor and Department Head: Renee Cheng will be one of the featured speakers for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) national conference on Lean Construction in San Antonio Texas. Speakers are industry leaders in integrated project delivery and lean principles.

Marc Swackhamer, Associate Professor: Professor Swackhamer’s practice, HouMinn, collaborated over the summer with the architects VJAA and artist Diane Willow to submit a “Request for Qualifications” to redesign the Mississippi River Bridge Plaza on the University of Minnesota campus. Their team was shortlisted and submitted a scheme for the competition on September 1. An exhibition of all four short-listed teams’ entries will be on display at the Weisman Art Museum’s grand re-opening on October 2, 2011. Teams will present their work to a jury on October 26, when a winner will be decided. Professor Swackhamer also co-authored an essay with his HouMinn partner, Blair Satterfield titled “Built to Change: A Case for Disintegration and Obsolescence.” This essay appears in the newly published book “Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production,” edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith. Finally, Professor Swackhamer was appointed to a two-year term as Director of Design for the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.

Lance LaVine, Professor: Lance LaVine received an International Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota for the work on his upcoming book that will compare 25 influential architectural texts with the design ethics manifested in 25 significant modern buildings. The texts inlcude LeCorbusier’s seminal work “Towards a New Architecture” and others written after that period. The buildings include LeCorbusier’s important buildings such as Villa Savoye and iconic buildings designed by others after that time.

Robert Mack, Adjunct Professor: AIA Minnesota has recognized the firm MacDonald and Mack Architects, Ltd. with its 2011 Firm Award. Given biennially, this prestigious award is presented to firms that have contributed to the advancement of the profession in the areas of technology, service and design. MacDonald & Mack Architects has been described as “The gold standard for preservation architecture.” Stuart MacDonald and Bob Mack, Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture began their practice 35 years ago with unbridled energy, enthusiasm, and deep respect for treasured landmark structures.

Adam Marcus, Cass Gilbert Design Fellow: Adam Marcus has been appointed the Cass Gilbert Design Fellow for the 2011-2012 academic year. Adam comes to Minneapolis from New York City, where he practiced with Marble Fairbanks since 2005 and taught at the Department of Architecture at Barnard and Columbia Colleges. At UMN he is teaching undergraduate and graduate design studios, and he is organizing a symposium to be held in the spring semester that will focus on the role of digital technologies in design education.

Tulane University

March 17, 2014/in School News Southwest Region /by Matrix Admin

Professor Eugene Cizek will receive the prestigious James Marston Fitch Award from the National Council of Preservation Educators at a dinner in his honor on October 21st at the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual national conference in Buffalo, New York. Gene has practiced historic preservation since the mid-1970’s beginning with his pioneering advocacy work and restoration projects in Faubourg Marigny located adjacent to the Vieux Carree. In 1997 Gene founded the Masters in Preservation Studies graduate program within the Tulane School of Architecture that has since served as a principal training opportunity in architectural preservation in the state of Louisiana. Gene’s keen eye for worthwhile architectural preservation projects, his wide range of accomplishments as a teacher, and his unmatched enthusiasm and skills as an advocate and preservation planner have made him a mainstay of the preservation scene in New Orleans and the nation. Tulane University congratulates him heartily on this award of distinction.

Tulane University is pleased to announce the establishment of USGBC Students – Tulane Group, initiated by the members of the new MSRED program. USGBC Students is a national initiative to recruit, connect and equip the next generation of green building leaders by empowering them to transform their campuses, communities and careers. Over 50 charter class members have been recruited, ranging in disciplines from real estate development, architecture, biology, and business. The activities for the fall includes lectures with local professionals focused on sustainable practices in the fields of business, ecological studies, and historic renovation and various community service initiatives. The group also intends to provide tools for members to become LEED accredited, as well as help connect them to the national USGBC community.

Favrot Professor of Architecture Errol Barron’s visionary architectural work is featured in the Symposium and Exhibition, Speculative Propositions: Heightened Acuity, hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s School of Architecture and Design.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Kentaro Tsubaki’s article Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Extension is in the new book, Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, published by Rutledge Press. The article explores the nature of extension and aims to raise a fundamental question about the way current architectural practice engages the matter and the act of making.

Kansas State University

March 17, 2014/in School News Competitions, Conferences, West Central Region /by Matrix Admin

Architecture Professor David Seamon attended the 30^th annual International Human Research Science Conference, held in Oxford, England, July 27-30, 2011. He organized a symposium, “Lived Relationalities among Place, Space, and Environmental Embodiment.” The three symposium presenters were health sociologist Dr. Andrew Moore, a research associate with the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University in Staffordshire, England; Dr. Sam Griffiths, a Lecturer in urban morphology and theory at University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture; and Seamon, whose presentation was entitled, “‘Seeing’ Merleau-Ponty’s Perception: Possibilities in the Urban Photographs of New York City Photographer Saul Leiter. Seamon also presented “Homeworld, Alienworld, and Being at Home in Alan Ball’s HBO Television Series, Six Feet Under,” a blind-reviewed paper presented at the 7^th annual Religion, Literature, and the Arts conference held at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 27. The conference theme was “Uncanny Homecomings: Narrative, Structures, Existential Questions, Theological Visions.”

Professor Donald Watts joined more than one hundred former Peace Corps Volunteers who had served in Afghanistan as part of the 50^th Anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps in Washington D.C. He represented our college at a special reception for former Peace Corps Afghanistan volunteers hosted by His Excellency, Ambassador Eklil Hakimi at the Afghan Embassy in Washington. Watts served as the architectural coordinator of the Kansas State University / Kabul University Partnership Program occurring between 2007 and 2010.

Assistant Professors Nathan Howe and Sam Zeller with the help of fourth-year students Ethan Rhoades, Hana Havlova, Matthew Whetstone and Scott Davis entered and won the international design competition The 2011 Friends of Seger Park Playground Sprayground in Philadelphia, PA. This competition was to look at the site of their existing water feature and envision a design that would be contemporary, interactive and provide an icon for their park. The team has now been commissioned to produce a promotional model and construction documents while Seger Park continues to raise funds for the project’s implementation.

Greg Sheldon, James Pfeiffer, and Rick Schladweiler from the Kansas City-based firm BNIM are co-teaching a fourth-year design studio this fall. The trio is quite enthusiastic about diving into teaching design. Sheldon, associate principal at the firm, and 2006 Architect of the Year for the AIA Kansas City chapter, taught building construction techniques to beginning students at the KC campus of the University of Missouri, but has never taught studio. The trio intends to fold verifiable design techniques into the studio’s semester-long project.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

March 17, 2014/in School News Mid Atlantic Region /by Matrix Admin

Associate Professor Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., Chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program, has edited the text for the book publication “Olgiati”. The volume is published by Birkhäuser Publishers in Basel in 2012. Besides the English edition, there are editions in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. Breitschmid was also invited to moderate the event “Architettare: Tradition & I”, a discussion on architecture among internationally active architects, by the Organizzazione Studenti Accademia of the Accademia di Architecttura at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana, held on May 31, 2012.

Assistant Professor Aki Ishida has been awarded Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Education Grant to design an interactive installation reinterpreting Japanese lantern festivals for the AIA Blue Ridge chapter’s design award exhibit on September 14, 2012. The project is designed in collaboration with the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at Virginia Tech.

North Carolina State University

March 17, 2014/in School News Awards, Conferences, Southeast Region /by Matrix Admin

New Hires:

Assistant Professors Dr. Soolyeon Cho, Dana K. Gulling, and Sara Queen, have joined the faculty at College of Design School of Architecture at North Carolina State University.

Assistant Professor Cho’s expertise is in energy modeling and performance simulation for the design and development of sustainable buildings. His research and work experience includes energy savings calculation, high-performance building design, energy-efficient systems design, renewable energy systems integration, and performance Measurement and Verification (M&V). Prior to joining the faculty at the College of Design, Dr. Cho was an Assistant Professor of Architecture for three years at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC, where he developed core courses in the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program. Since 1999, Dr. Cho has conducted numerous research projects related to energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the built environment. During the summer of 2010, Dr. Cho received a fellowship from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy and conducted a research for the development of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010. In his Ph.D. research in Architecture at Texas A&M, Dr. Cho developed a methodology to develop an easy-to-use simulation tool for the selection of high-performance systems. This tool was designed to help building practitioners make quick design decisions for their design projects. He earned his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Korea.

Assistant Professor Gulling’s teaching and research broadly examines the growing importance of design integration of building services, systems, and details to architectural design. Her research specialty focuses on manufacturing processes and new materials and their potential application in architectural design. Prior to joining the College of Design, Professor Gulling was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico and at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has taught graduate and upper-level architecture design studios in construction technology, architectural structures, and seminars on manufacturing. In August of 2009, Professor Gulling co-organized the Building Technology Educators’ Society Conference, titled ‘Assembling Architecture’, which brought together educators, researchers, and practitioners with a focus on building technology.

Dana holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in Structural Engineering and a Master’s of Architecture from Yale University. Additionally, Professor Gulling is a registered architect.

Assistant Professor Queen’s research and teaching focuses on k-12 design education and the application of cartographic tools to represent the dynamic and ever-shifting nature of landscape with the built-environment. She earned her Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from the College of Design at North Carolina State University and her Masters of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She worked as a project manager with Frank Harmon Architect from 2002-2005 on award-winning projects including the Strickland Ferris Residence and Prairie Ridge Eco-Station. She has taught studios at Harvard University in the Career Discovery and Project Link programs. Professor Queen has also led middle school design studios and k-12 teacher workshops in Design Thinking at Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum. Before joining the full time faculty, Professor Queen was a Teaching Fellow within the College of Design leading graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars.

Faculty News:

Professor Georgia Bizios and co-editor Katie Wakeford have published a new essay collection titled Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships. Twenty-two contributors from across the United States contributed to the book which brings together the best in current practice and thinking regarding public-interest architectural internship and advocates for new models that will have the power to profoundly change the architectural profession and our communities. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a faculty development grant from the NC State University College of Design. The collection is available at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bridging-the-gap-public-interest-architectural-internships/17446483.

Professor Georgia Bizios’ professional practice was honored with a 2011 AIA Triangle Residential Tour Award for the Davis Residence. A jury selected six homes for recognition through a rigorous peer review process. Over three hundred visitors toured the house. For more information please visit: http://www.bizios.com/.

Associate Professor Kristen Schaffer gave an invited conference presentation in Hamburg, Germany. The conference was part of Hamburg’s preparation for nominating the city’s early warehouse and office district for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The conference papers will become part of the official submission to UNESCO. The international conference was organized by ICOMOS Germany and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Department for Heritage Preservation, in cooperation with Hafen City University and the Sutor Foundation. Dr. Schaffer spoke on the early tall office building in Chicago.

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