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           INTEGRATED PATH TO ARCHITECTURAL LICENSURE (IPAL)

 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) has been given the privilege of starting a New Online Graduate Program, IPAL (Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure).

IPAL is NCARB approved and SIUC is the only school in the State of Illinois that has this graduate architecture program. The new IPAL Master’s Program will begin its first semester in Fall 2018.

The online IPAL program is designed so that the very best students will be able 

to finish their AXP hours, receive their Master’s Degree and Architectural Registration

in 5 semesters (upon completing all requirements of the degree & ARE). Some of the requirements of the IPAL degree are that the applicant must have at least 2000 AXP hours, a NCARB record file, and a letter of recommendation from their design firm’s Principal. You can learn more about the IPAL Master’s Program from NCARB (https://www.ncarb.org/become-architect/ipal/programs), SIUC (http://architecture.siu.edu/graduate/online-ipal-master-of-architecture/) , and/or Michael Brazley, IPAL Coordinator (mdbraz7@siu.edu).

If you know of anyone that qualifies for this program and is interested, please steer him or her towards SIUC. The IPAL program begins Fall 2018; we are looking nationwide for students.

Michael D. Brazley, PhD., AIA, NCARB, NOMA

IPAL Coordinator, Associate Professor

School of Architecture

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

875 South Normal Avenue

Carbondale, Illinois 62901

Email: mdbraz7@siu.edu

Cell:     618 559-5112

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Chad Schwartz, AIA is a new Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, having spent the last eight years practicing architecture in the Phoenix area and teaching in the Design School at Arizona State University.  He is licensed as a registered architect in both Arizona and Illinois and holds an NCARB certificate.  Professor Schwartz has taught design studio at multiple levels as well as professional practice and building construction and has co-taught courses in architectural history and structures.  His professional work includes single-family and multi-family housing, education facilities, libraries and other community projects, juvenile justice facilities, commercial and retail work, and Native American projects.  Professor Schwartz’s research interests include the integration of typical and a-typical building materials and full-scale design work in the studio environment, the ability of the detail to take the role of the generator of architectural design, the effects of materiality and detail on our perception of space, and the evolution of building construction courses in the teaching of architecture.  Above all, his primary belief in practicing architecture is that the architect should design for the place and those who will occupy that place.

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The School of Architecture at Southern Illinois University has been awarded a 100,500.00 sub-grant to support its upcoming partnership with community resource center The Delta Center in Cairo, IL. 

This sub-grant, coordinated by Assistant Professors Shannon McDonald, Laura Morthland, and Chad Schwartz, along with core project founder Professor Emeritus Robert Swenson, is part of a larger 727,500.00 grant awarded to the Delta Center by the United States Department of Labor to initiate a YouthBuild program in Cairo and surrounding Alexander County. 

YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program that provides classroom instruction geared towards obtaining high school diplomas or GEDs along with occupational skills training in the construction industry for at-risk individuals ages 16-24. 

Amongst other responsibilities, the School of Architecture will provide the YouthBuild program with permitted construction documents for small single family residences generated by SIU architecture and interior design students while studying in a pair of building technology courses being tailored to this partnership. 

A third course, offered in the summer, will give these students an opportunity to spend four weeks in Cairo working side-by-side with the YouthBuild students during the construction process.  In addition, the faculty involved will be providing services to the program that include mentorship for women in the profession and LEED accreditation expertise.

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Professor Jon Davey PhD, AIA, and  Assistant Professor Shannon Sanders McDonald AIA completed an eight day design charrette providing design assistance and consultation to families who lost their homes or were partially destroyed during the recent tornado that struck Harrisburg Illinois.  With the approval of the Mayor Eric Gregg faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students and March Alumni set up an atelier (studio) in the Harrisburg Public Library.  A total of two faculty, nine students and one alumnus provided design assistance to over 23 families completing 20 new home designs and 3 structural consultations.  The Design Atelier (studio) was structured as a typical office with each student taking on one or more projects, interviewing the families and designing their new homes.   

Shannon Sanders McDonald, an assistant architecture professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale has authored a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Science and Technology edited by Robert A Meyers titled: Personal Rapid Transit and its Development.  It is a peer-reviewed coverage of sustainability science and technology from nearly 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists and engineers, who write on more than 600 separate topics in 42 sections. ESST establishes a foundation for the many sustainability and policy evaluations being performed in institutions worldwide. 

Assistant Professor Norm Lach AIA, Professor Jon Davey PhD, AIA, Assistant Professor Shannon Sanders McDonald AIA and two students participated in the AIA Leadership Institute this summer in Chicago, Il.  This bi-annual leadership workshop assists individuals with formalizing and developing broad visions for our profession and communities. 

Assistant Professor Norm Lach AIA, FALA Director of the Architectural Studies Program completed a one year term as Chairman of the Illinois Architectural Licensing Board and is also serving on the Illinois AIA Board of Directors.

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Shannon Sanders McDonald, Assistant Professor, AIA is a new faculty member at Southern Illinois University School of Architecture. She has authored the book: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form published by the Urban Land Institute that was the basis for a recent exhibit at the National Building Museum titled: House of Cards. She has written numerous articles and given many presentations all over the world on parking, architecture, urban design, sustainability, transportation and their future synergies. Her current research is with new movement technologies and 21st century design.

Craig Anz, Associate Professor, PhD  is working with an interdisciplinary team on relocation efforts for the area of Olive Branch, Illinois.  The region was severely affected by the 2010 flooding and levee breaks along the Mississippi River, requiring a large-scale FEMA buyout of properties.  Funded by a Walton Family Foundation grant, Dr. Anz is leading the design charette processes and the implementation of the Strategic Vision Documents for the development of a new, ideal town and distinct place within its region.   In addition, the process is engaging research and publication at multiple levels of disciplinary inquiry and knowledge integration to foster long-term use as a model case study.    

   

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Assistant Instructor Thad Heckman, RA of the School of Architecture Southern Illinois University Carbondale is the first winner of the newly created Leicester B. Holland Prize was selected by a jury held on August 31, 2011. The Holland Prize, a competition open to both students and professionals, recognizes the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic building, site, or structure prepared by an individual(s) to HABS/HAER/HALS standards and guidelines. http://www.cr.nps.gov/hdp/competitions/holland_winners.htm The prize honors Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952), FAIA, who in the 1930s was chairman of the AIA’s Committee on Historic Buildings, head of the Fine Arts Division of the Library of Congress and first curator of the HABS collection, a co-founder of the HABS program, and the first chair of the HABS Advisory Board. It is administered by the Heritage Documentation Programs and is supported by the Paul Rudolph Trust, Architectural Record, a magazine of the American Institute of Architects, and the Center for Architecture, Design & Engineering in the Library of Congress.  The prize is intended to increase awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of historic sites, structures, and landscapes throughout the United States while adding to the permanent HABS, HAER and HALS collection at the Library of Congress, and to encourage the submission of drawings among professionals and students. By requiring only a single sheet, the competition challenges the delineator to capture the essence of the site through the presentation of key features that reflect its historic and its architectural, landscape architectural, or engineering significance. Assistant Instructor Heckman’s winning submittal is of the Richard Buckminster Fuller & Anne Hewlett Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois.  From 1959 to 1970, Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Beginning as an assistant professor, he gained full professorship in 1968, in the School of Art and Design.      

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