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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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Beth Tauke and Jean La Marche worked on a team that won the 2011 Golden Key Award by the Greater Chicago Home Builders Association and a National Home Builders Association Award for their work on the Lifehouse, a house that is built on universal design principles. 

Joyce Hwang‘s projects “Bat Tower” and “Intensified Reflections” were included in a new book: Art+Scape, recently published by Dopress Books, based in Shenyang, China (http://www.dopress.com/DopressBooks.asp).Both Mark Shepard and Joyce Hwang were mentioned in The Pop Up City, an Amsterdam-based blog on urbanism and design, in their series of articles “Top Ten Trends for 2012.” Mark is listed in “Trend 9: Revival of Psychogeography:” http://popupcity.net/2012/01/trend-9-the-revival-of-psychogeography/ and Joyce is listed in “Trend 7: Design for Animals:” http://popupcity.net/2012/01/trend-7-design-for-animals/. Joyce Hwang was first selected by the MacDowell Colony for a fellowship. Then, after her residency was over, she was named a “National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.”

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Professors Martha Bohm and Christopher Romano led the Sustainable Futures interdisciplinary service learning abroad program from May 20th to July 30th in Monteverde, Costa Rica.  Students from two US universities participated, and faculty from UB, University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin, and University of Oregon taught coursework.  The students worked on the design for a waste water treatment plant in the town of Santa Elena and for a large scale, sports complex in the village of Los Llanos.  In addition, on June 22nd, Professor Bohm and Program Coordinator Anibal Torres organized a half day “Forum on the Future of Sustainable Design” in Monteverde.  Invited guests included landscape architect Alberto Negrini, architect Pietro Stagno, and director of the Federal Association of Engineers and Architects” Olman Vargas Zeledon.” http://www.sustainablefutures.org

Assistant Professor Georg Rafailidis and Clinical Assistant Professor Stephanie Davidson were awarded an honorary mention at the 2012 R+D (Research + Development) Award by ARCHITECT, the magazine of the American Instutute of Architects AIA, for their research on Phase Change Materials (http://www.architectmagazine.com/research/2012-rd-awards-honorable-mention-thermometric-fac.aspx). The project Found Space Tiles, ceramic tiles by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis has been selected to be shown by Material (matera.nl) in the exhibition Architect@Work in Shanghai China, September 2012. The project Bulged Penny Rounds, ceramic tiles, has been selected in the exhibition Think: Material at IIDEX in Toronto, Canada, September 2012. Work by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis was featured in the recent issue (#27) on haptics of Intérieurs Magazine (http://www.magazineinterieurs.com/).

A project by Assistant Professor Dennis Maher was featured in a one-person exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. In “The House of the Unmaker,” Maher transported furnishings and objects from his own house and re-framed them through a new construction in the gallery. The exhibition publication includes an essay by Peggy Deamer (Yale School of Architecture). Maher also exhibited work as one of two jury-selected featured artists at the Echo Art Fair in Buffalo. In addition, sets designed and built by Dennis Maher are featured in the new short film Dissent, by Italian director Helmut Dosantos.  Dissent recently screened at the AOF International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Dennis Maher also has begun his residency as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence. Maher is working with local tradespeople in the home renovation industry in order to re-imagine living environments as material, social, and psychological constructs. Information about the project can be read at http://www.albrightknox.org/education/artist-in-residence-program/dennis-maher/

In addition, Dennis Maher and Adjunct Professor Nerea Feliz led a summer study abroad program in Barcelona Spain. Students made use of new studio space in the Gothic quarter of the city by working on a large scale collective city drawing, and proposing its transformation into a vertical Rambla construction.

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An article on Digital Journal reports Beth Tauke, professor of architecture, is part of a team of sisters who received the Gold Award from the Chicago Home Builder's Association and the Best Universal Designed Home from the National Association for Home Builders for a concept house they created in suburban Chicago. http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/589626. The home meets the physical needs and lifestyle of people of all ages. It has also been published at http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/EPZA7D 

Kenny Cupers gave a lecture at the University at Michigan on February 23: http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/news_and_events/events/?event=0000c0a8de11000007d2ce0100000134d6b7d0793204581b 

Beth Tauke was a jury member for the AIA 2012 Diversity and Inclusion Awards. She also gave a lecture at the Museum of Disability History on March 7 on "The Sensible House." 

Hadas Steiner presented a paper, "Architecture's Biological Legacy," in Scholars @ Hallwalls lectures sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/7KNZMX 

An article in Metropolis Magazine about the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides accessible housing to injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reports the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research is funding a five-year, $4.75 million study by UB's Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access of the houses located in Virginia's Fort Belvoir. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20120214/coming-home 

Laura Garófalo's project Buoyant was selected by an international jury to be featured at the 13th International Garden Festival of the Jardins de Métis/Redford Gardens in Quebec, Canada. The installation will be at the Jardin de Métis in the summer of 2012. 

In March Laura Garófalo participated in the jury of the d3 Housing for Tomorrow International Competition, in New York City as a co-director. She also presented the paper "Laminar Folds: Fabric Structure Molds to Jigs" at the ACSA 100th Anniversary National Convention in Boston, MA in the Advanced Composite Fabrication Technologies for Architecture session.

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