As architects and urban professionals engaged in the stewardship of the built environment, we are challenged to reconsider the future of architecture, cities, and the pedagogies with which we endeavor to understand the spatial dimensions of humanity’s wellbeing. Are our building sciences adequate to address the calamities of future pandemics, economic inequity, and other social pathologies? Emboldened by an unflinching belief in technological prowess, have we forgotten the time-tested passive methods of keeping buildings healthy and economical? Are we developing our cities turning a blind eye to the systemic racial and gender injustices that plague our cities? Have we undermined the power of empathy in user-conscious space-making?
The Spring Panel Series 2021 at the Catholic University of America Architecture plans to develop a critical conversation on post-pandemic thinking on spatiality (Feb. 22), urbanity (Mar. 15), and pedagogy (APR. 12). Adnan Morshed, professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, CUA, will moderate the panels that include academics, architects, urban planners.
“Box of Miracles: Contemplating a 21st Century Convent” opened January 29th at the Art Gallery of theWesley Theological Seminary’s Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. The exhibit features selected design work by CUA sacred space and cultural studies concentration students and senior undergraduate students, and will run until March 1st. This work was produced last semester under the guidance of 2012 Walton Critic Alberto Campo Baeza and CUArch Associate Professors Julio Bermudez and Luis Boza.
Photo Cube I, Guadalajara, Mexico by Estudio Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós, an Architect and Urbanist based in Barcelona, lectured on her work Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium of the Crough Center for Architectural Studies. Pinós set up her own firm in 1991, after a decade of partnership with Enric Miralles. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the National Prize of Architecture by the Spanish Architects Association in 1995, the 2001 Prize by the Professional Architect Association of the Comunidad Valenciana for the Juan Aparicio Waterfront in Torrevieja, the 2005 Arqcatmón Prize by the Professional Architect Association of Catalonia for the Cube Tower in Guadalajara, as well as the 1st Prize of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture in 2007 for the same building. In 2008 she received the National Prize of Architecture and Urban Space by the Catalan Government for her professional work. Her current work includes the Catalan Government Headquarters in Tortosa, the Museum of Transport and Metropolitan Park in Málaga, “La Gardunya” Square in the Historical District in Barcelona comprising “La Gardunya” Square Design, “La Massana” Fine Arts Center, a Housing Block and “La Boqueria” Market’s back façade, as well as a Department Building in the New Campus of the University of Economics in Vienna, the Caixaforum in Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Tower in Guadalajara (Mexico).
The School of Architecture & Planning at the Catholic University of America, Spain Arts & Culture, and the District Architectural Center are co-sponsoring the lecture by Spanish architect Iñaqui Carnicero on “Second Hand Spaces.” Iñaqui Carnicero has been an Associate Professor of design at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid for 13 years and is currently a Visiting Critic at Cornell University. He is also the director of “Symmetries” an architecture platform that relates Roman and contemporary strategies in the city. His work has been widely recognized in multiple occasions by publications, exhibitions, and prestigious awards. Carnicero´s lecture will explore the relationship between architecture and the economical context through some of his projects, and the opportunities that these constrains can offer in the design process. The lecture is on Thursday 10/24 at 6:00pm, at the District Architectural Center located at 421 7th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20004 and entry is free for all public. Registration is required at http://aiadac.com/calendar/event/architecture-week-lecture-iñaqui-carcinero Photo: hangar-16-matadero-madrid by Symmetries.
Photo by Snøhetta: Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo.
The school of Architecture and Planning of the Catholic University of America is pleased to present the Third Edition of our George Marcou Memorial Lecture honoring late Professor Emeritus George Marcou.This year we are proud to welcome architect Craig Dykers, co-founder of the renowned international firm Snøhetta.Since their dramatic debut with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, Craig has been an instrumental force in a firm that has produced award winning architecture across the world stage.Currently heading both the construction of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center and the new Times Square Reconstruction project in New York City, Craig Dykers is also overseeing numerous other Snøhetta projects throughout North America. His work has led to numerous international awards and recognitions including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture, the World Architecture Award, and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, among many others. The lecture will start at 6 pm. on Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 at the Koubek Auditorium in the Crough Center for Architectural Studies, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington D.C. All are welcomed.
Associate Professor, Eric J. Jenkins published the chapter, “A Bit of Europe in Maryland: The Bata Colony in Belcamp” in the book Company Towns of the Bata Concern (Franz Steiner Verlag) edited by Ondrej Sevecek and Martin Jemelka).In addition, Jenkins’ book Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing (Birkhauser) has been released as an EPUB electronic book and is available on iTunes. The EPUB is unique in that drawings can be reviewed at full scale and the searchable index allows for non-linear readings. Jenkins also lectured and directed a workshop on analytical freehand sketching at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Associate Professor Adnan Morshed received a publication grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art in Spring 2013. In addition, Professor Morshed was one of the organizers of a conference focusing on the challenges of sustainable growth in developing economies at Berkeley in February and a guest speaker in the Spring Lecture Series of the University of Utah’s School of Architecture in March.
Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim will present the work of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio, entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole and Out Again: Building Technology in the Design Studio” at the BTES 2013 Conference in Rhode Island.Kim was has also been invited to present her research project on the body, architecture and dwelling (Villa of Veils + Unwrapping the Hanbok) at the Third Annual International Conference on Architecture in Athens, Greece in June 2013.Recently the studio in which Kim partners, c2architecturestudio, was recognized with an Award of Merit for infoCUBE: light monitors by the 2013 AIA DC Unbuilt Competition.
Adjunct Professor Mark McInturff, FAIA was awarded two Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for his Chesapeake Bay House and Gresser Johnson House.
Visiting Critics and E/L Studio firm principals Elizabeth Emerson and Mark Lawrence earned Washingtonian Residential Design Awards for their 63rd Avenue and Lincoln Street residences.
Each summer, CUA School of Architecture and Planning features 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. The CUA 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture (SIA) is pleased to offer the NADAAA Design studio, led by Nader Tehrani, as the feature summer studio. Julian Palacio, Lecturer, will collaborate with Tehrani in offering this advanced level design studio. The SIA will also host a summer speaker series with Mark Sexton (Krueck and Sexton, Chicago); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). Please visit the CUArch website (architecture.cua.edu) or contact SIA Director Julie Kim for more information.
Closing this Fall Series, the School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of America will be presenting the lecture “Mies van der Rohe: A Negative Theology” by Professor Thomas Mical, November 20th at 6:00pm. Professor Mical will reflect upon tactics of negation, absence, and a focus upon subtractive processes within the architecture and legacy of Mies van der Rohe, while drawing upon the under-examined spiritual context of the avant-garde recodings of historical and technological forces driving modernity. The lecture reinterprets Mies van der Rohe later glass, concrete, and steel design provocations as an incomplete negation, with details persisting as hosts of telling traces or minimal differences exposed in the historical turbulence of the twentieth century. Modern architecture after Mies is repurposed as a demonstration of what must remain almost hidden and nearly silent within the spatial arenas of modern transparency. Thomas Mical is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of South Australia, where he does research in the history of modern thought in architecture. He has published widely on surrealism, transparency, and cinematic urbanism and taught in several universities in the U.S. and internationally, including the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carleton University, and the Vienna University of Technology. The lecture will be at the Koubek Auditorium, Crough Center for Architectural Studies, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. N.E. Washington D.C. All are welcomed.
The School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of America will be presenting the lecture: “NY MASJID: THE MOSQUES OF NEW YORK AND THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITUAL SPACE” by Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds.
There are over 100 mosques in New York City, spaces that range from converted storefronts to high profile free standing buildings designed by name architects. They offer us a chance to understand the ambivalent relationship between design, prayer space and our notion of sacred space in the construction of the mosque, and to chart the interaction between culture, religion and identity in New York City.
Dr. Jerrilynn Dodds is a Professor and Dean of the College at Sarah Lawrence College, where she works on issues of artistic interchange -in particular among Christians, Jews, and Muslims- and how groups form identities through art and architecture. She has a special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. Dr. Dodds is the author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain, and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York. She is also the co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture and many other publications. Dr. Dodds completed a BA at Barnard College and a MA and PhD at Harvard University.
The lecture will be at the Koubek Auditorium, Crough Center for Architectural Studies, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. N.E. Washington D.C. All are welcome.
Joseph Barrick, a senior at The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture, was awarded Honorable Mention for Community Programming in the Water Works competition sponsored by Gowanus by Design (www.gowanusbydesign.org/water_works).The project was advised by CUArch Associate Professor Miriam Gusevich and Diane Reynolds as environmental Consultant. It addressed one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how to redeem a toxic Superfund site in the path of Hurricane Sandy, while strengthening the fabrics of a growing urban node.
Photo: Sketch-analysis travel through Turkey with Professor Eric Jenkins.
Architect Claudio Silvestrin is the Walton Critic and Professor in residence for 2013. He is based in London and Milan, and the author of an internationally recognized oeuvre covering architecture as well as a wide range of design scales and interests. Silvestrin’s thoughts and work have been featured in four books, many professional magazines and journals, exhibitions, as well as multiple other media outlets. During his residence at CUA School of Architecture and Planning, architect Silvestrin is directing a design studio centered in the intersection between culture and spirituality. He participates in the life of the school through guest talks, reviews, and informal meeting with students and faculty. Claudio Silvestrin lectured on his work philosophy and concerns last Wednesday 09/11 at CUAch’s Auditorium. He will be giving a special presentation titled “Works and Inspirations” hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 17 at 6:00PM at the Embassy of Italy. Claudio Silvestrin’s residence is made possible in part by the Clarence Walton Fund for Catholic Architecture. For more information on the Walton Critic Program, contact Associate Professor Julio Bermudez. This past June, Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins directed a special program with sixteen students on a three-week sketch-analysis travel through Turkey. Studying primarily Islamic and vernacular architecture, the students began their studies in Istanbul and then moved onto towns such as Safronbolu, Amaysa, Tokat, Sivas, Konya and Bursa. In addition, Professor Jenkins has been invited by the Washington, DC-based firm Hickok-Cole Architects to lead a workshop related to his most recent book, Drawn to Design: Analyzing Architecture through Freehand Drawing. The workshop will re-introduce freehand drawing skills, diagramming and specific sketching exercises to the firm’s employees so that sketching might be better re-integrated into the design process. Associate Professor Julie Kim presented a paper at the 2013 BTES Conference “Tectonics of Teaching” at Roger Williams University in July. She shared the pedagogy and framework of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at CUA in a presentation entitled “Reflections onBuildingTechnology in the Design Studio.” Assistant Professor Hyojin Kim Ph.D. has joined the Master of Science in Sustainable Design program at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. Kim holds a doctorate in Architecture (December 2012) from Texas A&M University. She will be teaching courses in energy modeling and simulation. Framed within the theme of ABSENCE, the 2013 Summer Institute for Architecture successfully celebrated another year with the completion of the NADAAA Design Studio, led by Nader Tehrani, and co-taught by Julian Palacio, Lecturer (CUA). The SIA also hosted a robust lecture series with presentations from Mark Sexton (Krueck + Sexton, Chicago); Rhett Russo (Specific Objects, NJ); Nader Tehrani (NADAAA, Boston); Lyn Rice (Rice+Lipka, NYC); and Andrea Leers (Leers Weinzapfel, Boston). The 2014 Summer Institute theme will be HYBRID SCALE. Questions should be directed to Associate Professor Julie Kim, SIA Director. Team Capitol DC’s Harvest Home is Washington DC’s first ever entry for the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Competition. The team’s contributing universities The Catholic University of America (Architecture and Planning), George Washington University (Engineering) and American University (Media and Communications) have been collaborating successfully for over two years. Harvest Home will be donated to Wounded Warrior Homes who specialize in finding accommodation for veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Harvest Home harvests sun, wind, rain and building materials to provide a healing environment for wounded warriors.
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