Director of Tulane Regional Urban Design Center and Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton has been been selected as this year’s recipient of the Gulf-South Summit Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction in Higher Education. This is a wonderful recognition of Professor Mouton’s contributions. The Gulf-South Summit is an annual conference aimed to promote networking among practitioners, research, ethical practices, reciprocal campus-community partnerships, sustainable programs, and a culture of engagement and public awareness through service-learning and other forms of civic engagement. Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction will be given to a member of the teaching faculty who has demonstrated excellence incorporating service-learning pedagogy in the college/university classroom.
Adjunct Lecturer Will Bradshaw, co-founder and president of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC (GCE) recently published an article, “Creative Construction,” in the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate. The article investigates the capacity for environmental innovation in real estate development firms and argues that the Green development adopters change firm structure in ways to make adoption of environmental innovation easier, taking greater control of the projects, seeking more patient capital and creating longer-term relationships with design and construction talent.
Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of New Orleans Observed; Drawings and Observations of America’s Most Foreign City by Favrot Professor Errol Barron FAIA. This book uses drawings and written observations to reflect on the physical nature of New Orleans and how it may offer alternatives to urban design as found in many American cities. What qualities are found here that contradict the world of strip malls and McMansions? The unique character of the city is explored in over 124 drawings and accompanying text that celebrate the physically sensuous and strangeness of America’s most foreign city.
The Fay Jones School was twice rankedNo. 1in a national survey of “top brands” in architectural education, according to a survey conducted by theDesign Futures Council. The results were published in the November/December 2012 issue ofDesignIntelligence. The Fay Jones School was included in this survey of the “top brands,” a sampling of architecture school brand strengths based on surveys and interviews byDesignIntelligenceeditors. The school tied for No. 1 in the nation in the “Top for Regional Respect and Admiration” category, sharing that distinction with California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and the University of Oregon. The Fay Jones School also tied for No. 1 in the nation in the “Best Small School Design Program” category, sharing that with Rice University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Fay Jones School is also ranked 19th in the nation in the 13th annual survey of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools,” a study conducted by the Design Futures Council and also published in the November/December 2012 issue ofDesignIntelligence. The survey lists the top 20 undergraduate architecture programs for 2013.
In this ranking, the Fay Jones School was the eighth best program among public universities. Since its last ranking byDesignIntelligence, in 2008, the school has improved one spot overall and three spots among public universities.
The renovation of Vol Walker Hall and the addition of the Steven L. Anderson Design Center, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, is more than halfway finished. Keep up with the progress on ourblogdedicated to the project, “Architecture in the Making.” It features photo galleries and webcam views with time-lapse photography.
Stephen Luoni, director of theUniversity of Arkansas Community Design Center, has received a $50,000 fellowship grant fromUnited States Artists(USA).
A2012 USA Ford Fellow, Luoni was one of 54 artists to receive a fellowship fromUnited States Artists, a national grant-making and advocacy organization, which awarded 50 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. The recipients were announced at a Dec. 2 ceremony hosted by actor/director Tim Robbins, which also featured performances by new and former fellows, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Luoni is a Distinguished Professor of architecture in the Fay Jones School, where he is also theSteven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies. TheCommunity Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School, specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban and architectural design, with a focus on shaping urban design approaches to issues of sustainability.
This award is the largest that Luoni has personally received. In the seven-year history of theUSA Fellows program, this is the first year for Arkansas to be represented. He shared the spotlight with other USA Fellows who included author Annie Proulx, choreographer Tina Brown and jazz musician Jack DeJohnette.
Faculty, students and alumni of the Fay Jones School were recognized with awards from theArkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Design awards and other awards were given during the annualAIA ArkansasState Convention, held in September at the Hot Springs Convention Center. School faculty, alumni and students won all four awards given – three honor awards and one merit award.
The Cantilever House, the design/build home done by the Fay Jones School’sdesign/build programduring the 2010-11 school year, won an Honor Award.
The Museum Store at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, designed byMarlon Blackwell Architect, won an Honor Award.
Eco Modern Flats, designed byModus Studioin Fayetteville, won a Merit Award.
In addition,Tim Maddox(B.Arch. ’02), managing principal atdeMx architecture, received the 2012 Emerging Professional Award at the ceremony. And,George Wildgen, a former Professional Advisory Board member for the school, received an Award of Merit at the awards ceremony.
David J. Buege, Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas, accepted a Tenured position as Professor of Architecture as of Fall 2012. Buege previously served as director of the architecture program. He has also been director of the architecture program at Philadelphia University, and has taught at Auburn University, Mississippi State University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He taught a seminar at Auburn’s Rural Studio for several years and was interim director of the Rural Studio in 2007-08.
He has worked in the offices of Eisenman Architects and Bartos-Rhodes Architects in New York.
He received a B.S. degree in Environmental Design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied for one year at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and received his M.Arch. degree from Princeton University.
In addition, architecture professor David Buege was selected as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators for 2013.” The DesignIntelligence staff solicited input from design professionals, academic leaders and students. They said Buege “brings a clarity and consistency of rigor, focus and exploration to his work with faculty, administration and students. He has become well known for high standards and getting the best out of each person he works with. He makes the difficult easier to understand.”
Assistant Professor Marc Manack comes to the Fay Jones School of Architecture from Cleveland, Ohio, where he founded and is currently principal of the architecture and design firm SILO AR+D. Manack’s teaching responsibilities include design studios, professional practice, and design theory seminars that support his research interests in repositioning computation’s disciplinary agenda. Manack has taught previously at the Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design and at Ohio State University’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.
Assistant Professor Frank Jacobus comes to the University of Arkansas from the University of Idaho. As a new faculty member at the Fay Jones School of Architecture Frank teaches Design I and Honors Research Methods. Frank is a registered architect and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a post-professional MArch II from the University of Texas at Austin. His thesis research at the University of Texas focused on the affects of emerging technologies and media on the discipline of architecture and was selected by the architecture faculty as the “Outstanding Masters Design Study”. While in Austin he was an invited member to a project titled “Resilient Foundations: The Gulf Coast after Katrina”, which was exhibited at the 10th annual architecture show at the Venice Biennale. Frank’s research while at the University of Arkansas has primarily centered on our evolving perceptions of the built environment and the effects of emerging media and technology on the conceptualization of that environment. Frank believes deeply in the educational value of continually testing architectural projects through physical making. His work has been published widely in conference proceedings and journals. Frank resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife Emilie and his two sons, Topher and Benny.
Amber Ellett, NCARB, LEED AP joins the faculty of the Fay Jones School of Architecture as a Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching courses in architectural design, environmental technology, and site phenomenology. She previously taught at the College of Architecture, Art, and Design at Mississippi State University, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching courses in architectural design, active building systems, and foundational drawing.
Ellett is a registered architect and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Science in Design (Architecture), Studio Art Minor with honors and high distinction from the University of Nebraska.
Angie Carpenter is teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the third-year studio in fall 2012 / spring 2013. She received her Master of Architecture degree in 2012 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Carpenter is an Alumna of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.
Heather McArthur is teaching as an Adjunct Instructor in the third-year studio in fall 2012. She has a Master of Architecture from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Assistant Professor Peter Laurence contributed an essay to Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, released by Planners Press in April with early reviews at Planetizen and The Huffington Post. His book on Jacobs is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press
Magdalena Garmaz, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, will serve as the Interim Program Chair for the college-wide Bachelors of Environmental Design major. Her two-year term appointment is effective on August 16, 2012.
Auburn University Architecture Thesis student work was recently featured in an exhibition during the first annual ‘Montgomery Street Fair’ on April 21, 2012. The event was produced by Helicity Montgomery, a local non-profit that seeks to be a catalyst for the continued cultural and social development of the City of Montgomery and surrounding areas through arts and community engagement. For several years, Auburn architecture has cultivated a thesis studio that explores the possibilities of the urban revitalization of downtown Montgomery; with each passing year the projects have become more and more relevant to the conversation about how to improve Montgomery’s urban landscape. By working with the City of Montgomery Department of Development and local architects, professors Behzad Nakhjavan and Magdalena Garmaz have immersed their students in tangible issues, shaping the would be hypothetical explorations into increasingly applicable design solutions for Montgomery. Several Projects have been selected to be showcased further at Department of Development at a reception in early June.
Brandon Block, a May 2012 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was one of two top winners in the “Live.Work.Learn” student architecture contest announced at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, DC. Sponsored by Boral Bricks, the contest was planned in collaboration with the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and required students to design a live/work building using brick for 70 percent of the exterior siding. Entries were judged on their excellence in live/work design and creative use of bricks by a panel representing industry leadership in the architecture, brick, and building industries. Block’s winning design was part of his undergraduate comprehensive thesis project developed under the direction of Professor Behzad Nakhjavan.
Dr. Rod Barnett, Chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and Dr. Paul Cullen, A Fulbright Scholar visiting from AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, have collaborated to produce an exhibition entitled “Contingency” on display in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction Gallery. This collaborative project has involved an investigation of a range of urban sites in Auburn and Birmingham, AL and speculations on their possible development and regeneration. Dr. Barnett and Dr. Cullen have used photographs, models, and drawings to present their speculative responses to these sites.
Dean’s Executive Board member, Patrick B. Davis, Jr., FAIA, has been appointed by Governor Robert Bentley to the Alabama Board of Architects. Davis, member of The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects, has nearly four decades of experience as an architect specializing in all aspects of healthcare planning and design. He is employed with CMH Architects, Inc., in Birmingham, AL, as Vice President of Healthcare Services.
Donald C. Brown, FAIA, from AIA Montgomery, was elected 2013-14 AIA Vice President. A 1971 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Brown is owner and lead principal of Brown Studio Architecture in Montgomery.
APLA Alum, Daniel Heath (’08), has been awarded the Charles Rieger and John D. Graham Architectural Art Prize, an awarded fellowship organized at the bequest of the late Charles Rieger, Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.
Mark Matel, a 2011 graduate of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Masters of Design-Build program (now the Master of Integrated Design and Construction) has been awarded a the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship. Matel is among five chosen for the class of 2012–2014 Rose Fellows. He will be working in the Roxbury neighborhood, a community in Boston, MA, to redevelop Bartlett Yards, a former transit yard, into a sustainable residential and commercial node.
Matel is the third School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture alumnus to win a Rose Fellowship since the program began in 2000. He joins Steve Hoffman, class of 2000-2003 and Daniel Splaingard, class of 2009-2012. Matel will begin his fellowship in January 2012.
The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Highlighting this milestone is a three-day symposium in October on “Transcending Architecture – Aesthetics and Ethics of the Numinous.” Lectures on sacred architecture will be led by a field of renowned scholars and practitioners from disciplines ranging from architecture and religion to philosophy and social work. The symposium is organized by Associate Professor Dr. Julio Bermudez, director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate concentration. For more information check: http://www.sacred-space.net/symposium/
Architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the Professor in Residence at CUArch this Fall 2011. He is directing a month long graduate studio investigating the relationship between architecture and spirituality. He is also thoroughly involved in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and spontaneous engagement with students. Juhani Pallasmaa’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. Past Walton Critics include architects Antoine Predock (2009) and Craig Hartman (2010). Visit CUAArch site at http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/releases/2011/ArchVisitor.cfm for more information.
Assistant Professor Hollee Hitchcock Becker and Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim joined The Catholic University of America in August. Professor Becker comes to CUA from Kent State University and has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Kent State University. She will be teaching Structures and doing research on environmentally-adaptive facades and pre-fabricated disaster resistant replacement housing. Professor Kim comes from The University of Mercy at Detroit where she also directed the March program. She has degrees from Wellesley College and MIT and is the founder of c2architecturestudio, an award-winning design practice included in Architectural Record’s Emerging Architect series (06/10). This is also one of 12 architectural firms included by the Korean Architects Association as “Young Korean Architects in the Global Context.” Professor Kim will be teaching Design Studios, building technology and directing the 2012 Summer Institute for Architecture.
Professor Randy Ott, Dean of the School of Architecture, was recognized with an award of the AIA Washington DC chapter in the ‘Unbuilt’ category. The “Salt Chapel” on the edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake was chosen among more than 100 submissions presented. The jury found the project an adventurous exploration or form, context, and poetry.
Associate Professor Dr. Adnan Morshed, was invited by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, to present the paper, “The Central Threat: Dhaka as a Frontier in the Climate-Change Narrative of Bangladesh.” Dr. Morshed’s article, “Ascending with Nine Chains to the Moon: Buckminster Fuller’s ideation of the Genius,” was published in the GSD journal New Geographies. His review of the National Building Museum exhibition, Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, is forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Associate Professor Eric Jenkins presented the paper “Belcamp: A Little Bit of Europe in Maryland” at the Conference on Company Towns of the Bata Concern held in Prague, March 2011.
Professor of Practice Dr. Raj Barr-Kumar, FAIA RIBA, was the keynote speaker at the Memorial Celebration honoring Architect Raimund Abraham held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC last September. His award-winning design of the restaurant ‘Bibiana’ in Washington DC was featured in the Fall issue of Architecture DC. He was also the keynote speaker at the City School of Architecture and the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, and a featured speaker at the Pacific Area Quantity Surveyors World Congress. The Financial Times of Sri Lanka published a full page interview with Dr Barr entitled “Go Green to Make Green.”
The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America instituted a new position for an Associate Dean for Research to coordinate and support research/creative work efforts at the school. Professor Barry D. Yatt, FAIA, CSI, was appointed the first ADR. Professor Barry Yatt, FAIA, CSI, co-wrote with Joseph, McCade, Ed.D, a chapter titled “Defining Creativity and Design” for an upcoming book by CTTE, the Council on Technology Teacher Education. This spring, he also will be presenting a three-part national webinar for CSI on the National CAD Standard (NCS), based on the work of a CSI Task Team. He continues to work on the manuscript of his book on predesign analysis Definition: Gaining Insight,. Professor Yatt is also working with a team of experts in artificial intelligence, systems architecture, and space sciences on a grant from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They are developing an “adaptive” (that learns from its experiences) but “psychologically stable” computer program that develops optimized designs for the complex systems applicable to space missions and that are responsive to evolving needs, resources, and conditions. Prof. Yatt’s contribution to the team is in the area of predesign analysis, stakeholder facilitation, and graphic design. The school recently established a new Center for Building Stewardship as the research arm of the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program. Professor Julius Levine, FAICP, is nearing completion of a book titled Reweaving a Neighborhood Fabric: Perpetuating Diversity, Buttressing Shepherd Park through the next generation of Ohev Shalom congregants.
Associate Professor Eric Jenkins, AIA, continues to research the links between analytical freehand sketching and design education by examining recent studies in cognitive psychology and in human physiology. He is completing work on a book titled Design by Drawing to be published by Routledge with a grant from the Graham Foundation.
Associate Professor Chris Grech, RIBA, director of the MSSD program is carrying out research for the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute on a database of building materials in the Washington, DC area. Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich presented two papers this past summer. Urban Pentimento: Redeeming the Metropolitan Landscape, was presented at the EURA conference in Copenhagen and Architecture, Ecology and Economy was presented at the Economy Conference at the School of Architecture in Cardiff, Wales. Assistant Professor Brad Guy, Assoc AIA, LEED AP, received a grant for $10,009 from the Construction Materials Recycling Association to research and develop a national standard for certification of construction and demolition debris processing facility recycling rates, tentatively titled “Certification of Recycling Rates” (CORR).
In the fall of 2010, the Elmore County Economic Development Authority approached the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture for help envisioning design options for a new interpretive center at the site of a five-mile wide meteor impact crater in Wetumpka, Alabama. Today the remains of this crater create one of the only accessible ocean impact craters in the world, and the ECEDA hopes the facility will one day become part of a “trail” of science and space related attractions that would begin the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Sixty second-year architecture students, under the direction of Professors Justin Miller, Ryan Salvas, Bob Faust, and Robert Sproull developed design proposals for the facility as part of an annual competition sponsored by the Alabama Forestry Association and the City of Wetumpka. The students’ designs were judged by a panel of architects and special guests from Elmore County who included Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis. The winning model, belonging to student Ryan Zimmerman, was unveiled at a press conference and reception at the City of Wetumpka Administration Building on August 23.
The City of Wetumpka and ECEDA are currently working with Auburn University Montgomery’s Center for Government to complete various grant applications for the project and hope to break ground on the crater center by January 1, 2015.
_Andrew Freear, Wiatt Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Rural Studio, was included in the Oxford American’s ”The Most Creative Teachers in the South” (August 2011, Issue 74).
One of thirteen educators chosen from throughout the region, Freear was included among “Influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classroom, and in some cases, whose assignments become homes.”
Professor Christian Dagg, Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Interior Architecture program, has been named Acting Head of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture while Professor David Hinson completes a sabbatical leave.
Last Spring 2011, The School of Architecture (S|ARC) funded its first Eminent Architect of Practice visiting studio faculty program. Larry Scarpa, FAIA (2010 AIA Firm of the Year), was selected for the inaugural appointment; he taught in the capstone 4th year studio with Assistant Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA and Professor Michael Berk, AIA (Director of the School of Architecture). Herrmann and Berk also received a $10,000 grant from the Richard Adkerson fund to run a design competition (in that capstone studio) for the master planning, programming, and design of a proposed ‘Alumni and Distinguished Guest House’ facility on the campus.
Jim West, AIA, (Dean of the College of Architecture, Art + Design) was elected president of the national board for the Architecture + Construction Alliance (A+CA) for this academic year. The mission of the A+CA is to foster collaboration among schools that are committed to interdisciplinary educational and research efforts between the fields of architecture and construction, and to engage leading professionals and educators in support of these efforts.
Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) Associate Professor David Perkes, AIA, was awarded the 2011 Latrobe Prize ($100,000) from the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. The Institute awarded the prize to Prof. Perkes and other members of a research team for their proposal: “Public Interest Practices in Architecture.” The team will investigate the needs addressed by public interest practices and the variety of ways that public interest practices are operating. The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is awarded biennially for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession. Perkes was also honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” on Tuesday, July 19 for his work to strengthen the local economy, create jobs and help the Gulf Coast recover from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The White House Champions of Change initiative profiles Americans from all walks of life who are helping the country rise to the challenges of the 21st century. Jane Greenwood, AIA, Associate Professor, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and perform research at Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction in Yerevan, Armenia during the 2010-2011 academic year with a recent extension through the Fall 2011 semester. Dr. Rachel McCann, Professor, received the single top teaching honor that MSU bestows upon it faculty: 2010 Grisham Master Teacher Award (with $10k prize). Dr. McCann also received the MSU Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award the previous year.
Associate Professor Adam Drisin has been promoted to Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Architecture + The Arts. Drisin joined FIU in 2004 as Associate Professor and Director of the Architecture program in the School of Architecture following a national search. While his duties remained unchanged, Adam’s title changed to Chair as part of a 2005 reorganization that placed the School of Architecture within the new FIU College of Architecture + The Arts. Under his leadership, the Architecture Program flourished, seeing a 184% increase in applications with over 730 applications this year for only 100 entering seats. The department has also witnessed a dramatic increase in grant productivity going from $66,000 the year of his arrival to $703,000 in 2010. Since 2004, the department has also seen a 240% increase in graduate FTE’s and a fourfold increase in support and funding for graduate students. Professor Drisin’s new position in the Office of the Dean will focus on issues of academic affairs for all departments and schools in the College including Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art & Art History, Music, Theater and Communication Arts. Drisin recently concluded his second term on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education. In recognition of his service to the JAE over the past seven years he received the ACSA Service Award.
Professor John Stuart, AIA, has been named Chair of the FIU Department of Architecture. He has taught at FIU for seventeen years and was promoted to full professor in 2008. Stuart begins this position following his service as Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost, where he collaborated with university administrators to advance initiatives related to faculty retention, workload, mentoring, promotion, and to the work environment for department chairs. He has received university-wide awards for his research and teaching, served as the Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture, and for the past six years has chaired the Faculty Senate Building and Environment Committee, which was instrumental in the creation of FIU’s new Office of University Sustainability. Stuart has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education, participated in design review panels for National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists, and worked with the Association of Climate Change Officers in Washington, DC. As principal of John Stuart Architecture, he has collaborated on award-winning architectural designs for public projects and monuments, curated installations, developed video/sound pieces, and recently created video environments for an experimental opera. His work has been funded by fellowships and grants from Van Alen Institute, Graham Foundation, The Wolfsonian-FIU, National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, among others. Professor Stuart’s books include: The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: Paul Scheerbart’s Novel on Glass Architecture (MIT 2001); Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: From Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (W. W. Norton, 2006 with Jewel Stern)—winner of the New York Book Award; and The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy and Citizenship Building 1933–1940 (University Press of Florida, 2008 with John F. Stack, Jr.)—winner of the Silver Medal from the Florida Book Awards.
This fall the FIU Department of Architecture is also thrilled to welcome two new full-time faculty members, Associate Professor Winifred Elysse Newman and Visiting Instructor Nikolay Nedev.
Associate Professor Winifred E. Newman focuses on the philosophy of aesthetics and science, and the history of science and technology. She has worked in architectural practice in Austin, Chicago, Washington DC, London, and St. Louis, and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Harvard, and Washington University in St. Louis. She was formerly a research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and has a PhD from Harvard. She is a partner in Architect of Record.
Visiting Instructor Nikolay Nedev is a founding partner of NC-office, an award-winning international design practice based in Miami. The work of NC-office has been exhibited in Miami, New York, Boston, and Stockholm. Several projects have also been published in various architectural journals and newspapers including Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana, Azure, Florida InsideOut and the Boston Globe. Most recently NC-office received an award for ‘Excellence in Interior Design’ from the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the Cafe Bustelo project in Miami Beach. Other awards include a citation for “Innovation and Technology” from the Boston Society of Architects for the short film featuring the ‘Third Avenue Commons” residential project in Miami. Nedev received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Assistant Professor David Rifkind has been awarded the 2011 Premio James Ackerman by the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza. The Premio Ackerman is an annual international competition for first monographs in architectural history. The award is made possible by a donation to the CISA Andrea Palladio by James S. Ackerman through the BALZAN Prize he was conferred in 2001. Rifkind’s book, The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy, is based on the dissertation he completed under Mary McLeod at Columbia University in 2007, and will be published in May 2012.
Associate Professor Alfredo Andia has been a consultant to the head of the Office of Coastal Reconstruction for the Master Plan of sixteen towns devastated by the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile’s Bio Bio Region. The Design 7 studio led by Professor Alfredo Andia that proposed the reconstruction of the town of Llico in Chile was selected as a winner in the ACSA/ARCHIVE Competition: I Am a Second Responder.
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