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Robert G. Shibley, dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, has received the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in recognition of his contributions to design excellence in public architecture over 40 years of teaching, scholarship and critical practice. The prestigious lifetime achievement award was bestowed at the 2014 AIA National Convention in Chicago on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The jury cited Shibley’s leadership and broad-based community collaboration to produce award-winning plans for Buffalo that have spurred new investment and elevated public expectations for design and planning. As UB’s campus architect, Shibley led the development of an ambitious campus master plan that sets new standards for campus architecture. An internationally noted scholar, Shibley has translated this work into models, best practices and case studies for application across the disciplines of architecture and planning. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_thomas-jefferson-award.html

Shibley was also recently recognized by the American Institute of Architects New York State for his design influence on public architecture across the state. He is the first recipient of the AIANYS’s Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Award, which honors architects employed in the public sector in New York State for their contributions to design excellence in public architecture. The award is part of the inaugural Excelsior Awards for Public Architecture, established by the AIANYS and state contracting agencies to provide models for future state-funded building design and professional practice and advocacy. Among other things, the jury cited Shibley’s contributions over the past 32 years as a public architect in service to UB and the region and state that hosts it. In particular, Shibley’s leadership of the UB campus master plan and his innovative use of design competitions was highlighted for elevating expectations for quality architecture at UB and in the Buffalo region. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_nelsonrockefeller.html

Two UB architecture faculty members have won internationally-prominent lifetime achievement awards for their “significant and lasting” contributions to environmental design research, practice and teaching. Lynda Schneekloth, professor emerita of architecture, and Sue Weidemann, PhD, visiting professor of architecture, have each been honored with a 2014 Career Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, a worldwide interdisciplinary organization concerned with the inter-relationships of people with their built and natural surroundings. Schneekloth, who joined UB’s architecture department in 1982, is widely regarded for advancing the dynamics of professional and citizen engagement in placemaking through reflective practice, scholarship, and teaching. She has made significant contributions to environmental design research and practice through the reconceptualization of knowledge and the role of the imaginal in making and unmaking places. For the past 35 years, Weidemann, an environmental psychologist, has focused her practice, research and teaching on the relationships between people and the places and spaces they use. Her contributions to the field include pioneering research on housing satisfaction and workplace design and the development of widely cited social science- and survey-based design methodologies. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/edra_careerawards.html

Jordan Geiger published his essay and in-progress project, “Niagora,” for the inaugural issue of the Applied Research Practices in Architecture Journal. ARPA journal is an online resource organized by the Columbia University GSAPP. “Niagora” explores  US/Canadian border crossings as sites of opportunity for redevelopment, with the introduction of electronic toll collection and pass control services. http://arpajournal.gsapp.org/niagora/

Georg Rafailidis presented a paper on the project ‘Free Zoning’ at the annual Atmospheres symposium at the University of Manitoba earlier this year. He also presented a paper documenting the first year design studios he coordinated at the 30th annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at the Illinois Institute of Technology and will also present the work at the ACSA Fall conference later this year in Halifax, Canada at Dalhousie University. Rafailidis also presented his research on corbelled structures at the fifth annual Sustainable Structures Conference at Portland State University. He received a McDowell Colony fellowship and was a resident from March to April of this year for his research on corbelled structures and the integration of Phase Change Material into ceramic building blocks. In addition, the project MirrorMirror designed by Davidson Rafailidis is the winner of two 2014 AZ Design Excellence Awards, earning both the “People’s Choice Award” and an “Award of Merit” in the Temporary Architecture category sponsored by the design magazine Azure. The project is in the July/August issue of the magazine. MirrorMirror was set-up at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in June and is currently installed at Canalside in downtown Buffalo. It will return to the New Museum in New York for the 2015 IDEAS City Festival. Georg Rafailidis was selected as a participant in the 24th Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September this year.

Jin Young Song’s project Slanted memorial is selected for Bracket 4 Take Action. https://www.brkt.org/issue/contents/all/169/slanted-memorial/13/bracket-takes-action. His project Qube1 is featured in the Architizer article. http://architizer.com/blog/this-ten-hottest-products-trending-this-summer/

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Joyce Hwang‘s practice, Ants of the Prairie, was featured in the Architect’s Newspaper: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7224. She was also featured in Architect Magazine, as part of its ‘Next Progressive’ series: http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/ants-of-the-prairie-into-the-wild_o.aspx. This article will be printed in the May 2014 issue. “Bat Tower,” completed in 2010, was published in Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer, 4th Edition, by Brian Edwards, published by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). On March 13, Professor Hwang delivered a lecture in New York City as part of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award, organized by the Architectural League of New York (http://archleague.org/2014/03/emerging-voices-ants-of-the-prairie-and-rael-san-fratello/). She also gave invited lectures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 6, and at Syracuse University on April 1 as part of a symposium, “Transections: an interdisciplinary exploration of design between the sciences and the humanities” (http://soa.syr.edu/email/2014/transections.html).

Jin Young Song and his research team, Brian Ravinsky (March/MUP) and Yan Duan (MUP) has won the Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund from UB APEC Study Center. The research titled, Prefabricating the Vernacular, is exploring the vernacular architecture focusing on Façade in order to find an alternative way of designing urban housing in the Southeast Asia region under the critique of the distorted modernization in already developed Asian cities. Song will lead the research team for the next two semesters. Jin Young Song’s project Qube also won the Architizer A+ Jury Award in the Products +Living category.

Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” has been selected as the winner of three Architizer A+ Awards. Architecture and Fabrication Category: Popular Choice Winner and Jury Winner, Architecture + Fabrication Category: Jury Winner.  Info can be found at: https://awards.architizer.com/winners/list/?id=2#cat-44-special and http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/04/012.html.  More recent news regarding “project 3xLP” can be found on Bustler, http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winning_skin_installation_3xlp_to_begin_tour_this_fall_in_texas and Archinect, http://archinect.com/news/article/97192468/winning-skin-installation-3xlp-to-begin-tour-this-fall-in-texas.

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Brian Carter was a contributing author to the 4th Edition of Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer recently published by the RIBA. Professor Carter has also been invited to join a team of architects, engineers and clients exploring the use of concrete in modern architecture. The first meeting will be held at St. Johns College, Oxford.

Mark Shepard contributed an essay to Harvard Design Magazine‘s issue on Urbanism’s core (HDM 37), titled “Beyond the Smart City: Everyday Entanglements of Technology and Urban Life.” This issue is the third in a series addressing disciplinary cores in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism respectively. “In contrast to architecture and landscape architecture, however, urbanism is a synthetic field, subsuming not only the discipline of planning and the practice of urban design but also concepts of the relationship between them. These three issues will help instigate new disciplinary methods and domains of investigation.” (Mostafavi, HDM 35)

Harry Warren designed a Music School at Onondaga Community College while a Design Principal at Cannon. The project was recently finished and won a Design Honor Award from the WNY AIA.

In January, Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” was selected as the Best Fabrication Project of 2013 as part of the first annual Best of Design Awards: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7069.  “project 2XmT” was also published in Metropolis Magazine: http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/March-2014/Innovation-at-SUNY-Buffalo-Benefits-From-Local-Skills/ and is in the running for two Architizer A+ Awards (public voting is open until March 21st): Architecture + Fabrication: https://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=44 and Architecture + Materials: http://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=46.  Additional information can be found at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/03/012.html  

In February, Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia completed a large-scale installation of their SKIN competition winning entry titled, “project 3xLP”, at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the TEX-FAB 5 event.  The exhibition will next be traveling to Houston, TX and then to Dallas, TX as part of the Facades + Conference in October 2014.  “project 3xLP” was done in collaboration with Philip Gusmano, MArch 2015, Daniel Vrana, MArch 2015, and David Heaton, BS 2014 with fabrication sponsorship by TEX-FAB, Rigidized Metals Corporation, A. Zahner Company and technical support from ARUP, Montreal.  News about “project 3xLP” can be found at: Texas Architect Magazine: https://texasarchitects.org/v/texas-architect-magazine/ and Inhabit: http://inhabitat.com/patterned-3xlp-wall-made-from-locally-sourced-steel-wins-the-skin-digital-fabrication-competition/3xlp-wall-5/?extend=1

Jin Young Song‘s project QUBE is an Architizer A+ Award finalist. It intends to innovate furniture design with an architect’s view, creating a catalyst, a little item to exemplify the holistic change of mechanism in our experience within living space.See: https://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=62
and http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/youngsong_qube.html

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Joyce Hwang was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

H+W Studio (Hiro Hata, Harry Warren and Mike Williams), part of the UB Regional Institute, have been hired to review the design of a new, $200 Million (US) university campus for the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dennis Maher and Nerea Feliz conducted the 2013 Barcelona Study Abroad Program with 12 students from June-August. The group held seminars and studios in the gothic-vaulted workshop space of Catalan landscape architect Beth Gali. Maher also conducted the workshop “Drawing the Fargo House” with Buffalo-area teachers who were invited to Maher’s residence in order to undertake a series of house-drawing experiments. In addition, a book chapter by Maher entitled, “900 Miles to Paradise and Other Afterlives of Architecture” has been published in Architecture Post Mortem (Ashgate Press), a collection of essays edited by Donald Kunze, David Bertolini, and Simone Brott.  Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. Maher has also produced a limited-edition print, commissioned by organizer’s of the Echo Art Fair.  The print depicts a study for Common Cosmos, a forthcoming installation by Maher that will be sited at Cornell University.

Nick Bruscia and Chris Romano have been selected as a finalist in the TEX-FAB Skin Competition for their entry project 2XmT, a self-supporting sheet metal system that emerged out of their research collaboration with the Rigidized Metals Corporation.  They are 1 of 4 finalists moving onto the second round of the international competition and will be supported with a $1,250 stipend to develop a new physical prototype of their system which will be exhibited at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference at the University of Waterloo in October, 2013.  The winner will be announced at the conference and will build a full-scale prototype with fabrication sponsorship by Zahner Co. and exhibited in Austin, Texas for the TEX-FAB 5 event in early 2014.  http://tex-fab.net/skin-results/

Elevator B, by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Dan Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern, was published in the July 2013 issue of Architectural Record (both in print and online). Elevator B was the winning project of the Hive City Design Competition, organized by the Ecological Practices Research Group.

Atlantic Cities (June 2013) published an interview with Andrew Perkins (M.Arch ’12), Stephen Zacks and Jerome Chou on the Flint Public Art Project. Perkins’ involvement with the Flint Public Art Project stems from his M. Arch thesis project conducted with Matthieu Bain, “Dwelling on Waste”: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/06/how-much-crazy-art-would-it-take-make-you-want-visit-flint-michigan/5920/

Ariel Resnick (graduate) with Kim Dai, Danielle Krug and Kathryn Hobert are finalists in a recent competition held by Morpholio, with the final outcome to be heard after August 20th. The competition, entitled “Inside 2013,” was assembled as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today’s emerging talent. An article features some of the work of the finalists can be seen at http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/inside_2013_competition_finalists/. The link to the morpholio home page is http://mymorpholio.com/site.php.

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Joyce Hwang was selected to participate in the 2014 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), “Urban by Nature.” She will be building and installing a second iteration of “Bat Cloud” at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Netherlands as part of the Biennale’s exhibition. Joyce also received an Awesome Without Borders grant (from the Awesome Foundation + the Harnisch Foundation) to help support this project.

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Professor Carter was the editor of the book that was  recently published by TUNS PRESS and which highlighted the work of the award winning Canadian designers Battersby Howat.

Dennis Maher‘s exhibition “Common Cosmos: 287 F-14853” has opened at Sibley Hall Dome, Cornell University.  The exhibition runs until December 20. An article in the Cornell Chronicle reviewed the exhibition: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/10/embedded-life-stuff-dennis-mahers-work.  Maher has published “Nightworks,” photographic works and text, in the Fall issue of MAS Context: http://www.mascontext.com/issues/19-trace-fall-13/nightworks/. Maher has also published an essay in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Dada/Surrealism. The essay, entitled “Luxor, Endlessness and the Continuous Key: Architecture and the Esoteric in Breton, Kiesler, and Schwaller de Lubicz” may be read at http://ir.uiowa.edu/dadasur/.

Nick Bruscia and Chris Romano completed Project 2XmT in partnership with a local metal production company, Rigidized Metals. An article about the work was published in the Buffalo News at: http://mobile.buffalonews.com/?articleRedirect=1

Dean Robert Shibley has received the American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS) 2013 Educator Award. The prize recognizes notable contributions and accomplishments by an architectural educator in New York State, and Shibley accepted the award at the AIANYS annual convention, held recently in Syracuse, N.Y. Since joining the School of Architecture and Planning in 1982, Shibley has served as professor in both the architecture and planning departments, with eight years as chair of architecture (1982-1990). He was appointed dean in 2011. Learn more: http://ap.buffalo.edu/news-events/latest_news.host.html/content/shared/ap/articles/news/shibley_educatoraward.detail.html

Dean Robert Shibley was recently featured in Domus, an international magazine on architecture, art and design, in a Q&A feature investigating the process behind the realization of UB’s Solar Strand. The 3,200-panel, ground-mounted solar array envisions energy in a new way, as part of a new cultural landscape. As campus architect for the University at Buffalo and chair of the artist selection committee for the Solar Strand, Shibley guided the vision and installation of the 750-kilowatt array, designed by renowned landscape architect and artist Walter Hood. Read the article here:  http://www.domusweb.it/en/interviews/2013/09/02/forms_of_energy_.html

UB architecture students, Wei Dai and Minku Jeon, were awarded second prize in the 2013 ACSA Fabric in Architecture Design Competition. The students were enrolled in ARCH 404 “Collaboration + Competition’ taught by Professor Brian Carter and Adjunct Professor Michael Williams.

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Assistant Professor Georg Rafailidis gave a lecture about his work in practice and teaching at the Academy of Art University in their Fall Events 2013 Lecture Series, Department of Architecture, San Francisco CA on November 14th. Link to lecture series poster:
http://archinect.com/news/article/84680198/get-lectured-academy-of-art-university-fall-13. The New Museum in New York lent the structure “MirrorMirror” by Davidson Rafailidis, to the Echo Art Fair at the Erie County Public Library Downtown Buffalo, NY September 7-8. Link: http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/a-dazzling-tent-that-enhances-street-fests/. The project is also covered in the Fall issue of Forward, the scholarly journal of the American Institute of Architects. The scholarly journal, Forward, is produced by the National Associates Committee to provide a voice for Associate AIA members within the Institute. “Free Zoning”, a project that won the Strip-Appeal competition to reinvent vacant strip malls, was exhibited at the 2013 Eme3 exhibition “Bottom-Up” in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

In October, Nick Bruscia and Chris Romano conducted a 2-day fabrication workshop titled, “Rigidized Metal Forming”, as part of the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference in Waterloo, CA.  The workshop was located at Silo City and focused on drawing-to-production methods using thin-gauge, textured stainless steel sheets.  The event was sponsored by Rick Smith and Rigidized Metals and was attended by many B/a students.
They also presented a peer-reviewed paper titled, “Material Parameters and Digitally Informed Fabrication of Textured Metals” along with a poster exhibition of project 2XmT.

During the conference they were also invited to present project 3xLP, which was on display as one of four finalists in the TEX-FAB Skin Competition, in the Pecha Kucha event titled, “Showcase: Work in Progress”.  During the ACADIA conference, TEX-FAB announced project 3xLP as the Winner of the international SKIN Competition.  Shortlisted as one of the four finalists by the first Round jury in August, the Second Round jury: Neil Denari, James Carpenter, Mic Patterson and BIll Zahner conferred and chose project 3xLP based on its meeting all the competition criteria to the highest degree, for its clarity, and overall project development.  

Romano and Bruscia will build a fourth generation, full-scale prototype with fabrication sponsorship by Rigidized Metals and Zahner Co. for the TEX-FAB 5 event in Austin, Texas, February 2014. Both project 2XmT and project 3xLP were done in collaboration with B/a students Phil Gusmano, M.Arch 2015, and Dan Vrana, M.Arch 2015.  News about both project 2XmT and project 3xLP can be found at:
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/11/012.html
http://www.tex-fab.net/competitions/
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/75117
http://www.archdaily.com/447193/3xlp-winner-of-skin-digital-fabrication-competition/
http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/3xlp_wins_skin_digital_fabrication_competition/
http://archinect.com/news/article/85857848/3xlp-wins-skin-digital-fabrication-competition
http://www.technology4change.com/page.jsp?id=293

In November, Romano and Bruscia presented a second peer-reviewed paper titled, “Analyzing Material Behavior using Cold-Formed, Textured Stainless Steel” at the 47th Annual ASA International Conference in Hong Kong, China.

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Dean Robert Shibley was a member of the conference organizing committee for the 2013 Remaking Cities Conference in Pittsburgh, PA., which convened urbanists and leaders last fall from around the world to assess and share best practices for the future of post-industrial cities. Sponsored by the Remaking Cities Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the American Institute of Architects, the first Remaking Cities Conference was held in Pittsburgh in 1988 to address the precipitous decline of industrial cities and regions and North American and Europe in the 1980s. Shibley presented “Post-Industrialism and the Physical City,” a case study on Buffalo and its resurgence based on a legacy of historic architecture and world-class urban design and a community-driven planning framework that has facilitated investment in the urban core. The Buffalo case study, along with Germany’s Ruhr Valley, was also explored through a workshop on community-building strategies for the post-industrial city, with topics including urban design, preservation, infill development strategies, and the role of industrial legacies in urban regeneration.

Also this past fall, Shibley participated in the Legacy City Design Bruner Loeb Forum in Detroit, MI. The forum convened change agents in urban design, architecture, planning and community leadership to share best practices, learn from failed implementation and brainstorm new innovations in design and development that address the common issues of chronic population loss and excessive land vacancy in the rustbelt cities of Southeast Michigan, Northeast Ohio and Upstate New York. Shibley presented “Vacancy, Density, and New Neighborhoods,” addressing innovative strategies in infill development and urban design in Buffalo. The Bruner Loeb Forum is a partnership between the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence and the Loeb Fellowship Program that brings together distinguished practitioners from across the country to advance creative thinking about placemaking in American cities. The Legacy City Design forum was hosted by the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, The City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture, The American Assembly at Columbia University and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center.

Research Associate Professor Bradshaw Hovey was a participant in both conferences and will co-author a book chapter on the Remaking Cities conference with Shibley. Professor Emeritus Lynda Schneekloth was also an invited participant in the Remaking Cities conference.

In December, Christopher Romano attended final reviews at both University of Detroit Mercy (second year) and Alfred State University (third year).

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This year’s John and Magda McHale Fellow is Swiss architect Philippe Rahm. He will be conducting research on “meteorological architecture” through a graduate studio, multiple presentations and a public lecture. This year’s Peter Reyner Banham Fellow is Curt Gambetta, who will be conducting research on the public life of sanitation infrastructure through seminars, a public lecture and exhibition.  He will also be teaching design studio in the Junior year. 
Professor Edward Steinfeld presented at the U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability on September 12-13 in Arlington, VA. The World report on disability summarizes the best available scientific evidence on disability and makes recommendations for action in support of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Development of the Report was sponsored by the World Health Organization and the World Bank. Professor Steinfeld was the primary contributor to the built environment section.  
Dennis Maher has been selected by the John R. Oishei Foundation to be a member of the Oishei 20 Leaders Group. The distinction recognizes emerging leaders of the city of Buffalo who are under the age of 40. He has also been named a winner of the 2011 Real Art Ways STEP UP Competition.  The award recognizes emerging artists residing in New York and New England with a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, one of the oldest alternative spaces in the U.S. http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm#stepup11 
Jordan Geiger presented a commissioned research and design installation at "Les Modernes," international biennial arts festival in Normandy, July-August 2011. "Emission," was produced with grad students Daniel Barry and Adam Laskowitz of the Situated Technologies Research Group at the University at Buffalo's Architecture Department. Geiger will also be presenting "The ABCs of VLOs," on the architecture and interaction design of Very Large Organizations, at the international workshop, "Territoriality of the Commons," Erkner, Germany, September 2011. 
Christopher Romano, Shadi Nazarian, and Nicholas Bruscia presented a paper titled, "The Living Wall: A Microcosm of Design/Build Practice" at this year's Building Technology Educator's Society Conference in Toronto.   
Joyce Hwang served on the jury for the Animal Architecture Awards Competition (http://www.animalarchitecture.org/animal-architecture-awards/). 
Martha Bohm and Chris Romano led the Sustainable Futures interdisciplinary service learning abroad program from May 24 to August 2 in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Students from four US universities participated, and faculty from UB, University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin, and University of Costa Rica taught coursework. The students’ design for renovation of the Monteverde Institute is scheduled to break ground this fall. Concurrently, the program brought practitioners down to Costa Rica for the first of an annual two-week AIA CEU program focused on sustainable design in the tropics. http://www.sustainablefutures2011.org

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University at Buffalo Professor of Architecture and director of UB’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), Edward Steinfeld, co-chaired The International Conference on Best Practices in Universal Design with his son, Aaron Steinfeld, a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, and Peter Blanck, chair of Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute. This was one of six conferences that took place in Toronto between June 5 and June 8 as part of the 2011 Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology (FICCDAT).  The three-day universal design conference covered subjects including housing and home modifications, along with public building, community environments and public transportation. Steinfeld and Kate Seelman of the University of Pittsburgh gave the opening keynote based on “Enabling Environments”, their chapter in the recently released World Health Organization’s World Report on Disability. Beth Tauke, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, presented “Bridging the Gap: Using Architecture & Social Justice to Increase Access to UD” and the “Universal Design Identity Program”, as well as two poster sessions including “The LIFEhouse™: A Sense-ible Home for ALL of Life” and Finding a New Lockwood: Multi-sensory wayfinding in a university library”.

Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis participated in the International Architecture Festival Eme 3 in Barcelona from July 1 to July 3. They exhibited their project “Selective Insulation,” gave a lecture and took part in a debate about “sustainability vs. greenwashing.” For more information:
http://eme3.org/index.php?/program-eme320/program/
http://eme3.org/index.php?/eme32011/participants2011/. “Selective Insulation was also published in “ARCHITECTURE LOW COST, LOW TECH,” Actes Sud, 2011, and in “Inventario” 02.

Prof. Rafailidis also published “Cafe Culture in an Era of Precarious Employment,” by Tonya Davidson and Georg Rafailidis in Canadian Dimension Volume 45, Issue 2 May/June 2011. And Stephanie Davidson is also participating in the 63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY from July 24 to September 25.

Dr. Jean La Marche conducted a graduate studio in the Material Culture Group in the spring term. Students designed and constructed four towers at Griffis Sculpture Park in western New York. The 1st year students also designed and built their final semester project, the “Living Wall,” at Griffis Park: http://www.griffispark.org.

Dennis Maher completed a new installation at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts as part of the Pittsburgh Biennial. The Biennial is a collaboration between the PCA, the Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum, and the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon: http://biennial.pittsburgharts.org/. Prof. Maher has also been selected to be the next Artist-in-Residence at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. His forthcoming project, “The Real and the Unreal House,” will open at the Albright Knox in 2013.

Robert Garlow, a graduate student in the Material Culture Group, was one of seven finalists in Art Park, New York sculpture competition.

MJ Carroll, a graduate student in the Inclusive Design Group, won the 2011 AIA New York State Student Award. 

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