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Professor of Architecture and Environmental Science, Dr. Nader Chalfoun’s paper titled “A Method for Greening University Campus Buildings While Fostering Hands-on Inquiry-Based Students` Learning”, has been accepted for presentation at the 6th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation (IMETI 2013), to be held in Orlando, USA, on July 9-12, 2013.  The project is part of a multi-year collaboration between the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the University of Arizona Facilities Management where students and faculty conduct level III energy audits on campus buildings.


Associate Professor Beth Weinstein will participate in the Performance Studies International #19 Conference, held at Stanford in June, with the following research/practice projects:  “Borrowed Space and Time”, a paper addressing borrowed temporal and spatial structures and concepts as the springboard for scenographic designs;  “Choreographing Space, Structuring Dance”, a presentation of drawings of choreographed architectures created for dance-based performances; and “Shuttling: Of  Matter, Journey, and Occasion”, a praxis presentation of ephemeral event spaces iteratively developed during a journey.

Linda C. Samuels, Sustainable City Project Director, and her three team members have been selected to attend the Sustainable Cities Design Academy sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation in Washington D.C. this summer. Their application, “Linking the Warehouse Arts District”, was one of eight chosen teams, each of which will receive assistance in further incorporating sustainable initiatives in their urban design problems. 


Dr. Samuels will also lecture on the role of the Sustainable City Project in Tucson’s emerging downtown eco renaissance on April 30th as part of Arizona’s Landscape Architecture Month lecture series. Master of Landscape Architecture candidate, Daniel Morgan, will also discuss how issues of resilience are being explored in Samuels’ current interdisciplinary urban design studio. 

Samuels, Renewable Energy Network director Ardeth Barnhart, and City of Tucson’s Sustainability Director Leslie Ethen’s contribution “Test Case Tucson: Green Walk, Model Block, and Eco Square” has been accepted to the 2013 EcoCity World Summit in Nantes, France.

Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinson will present “Isomorphic City: A Customizable Future Scenario”, co-authored with B.Arch students David Gonzalez and Kyle Szostek at SIMAUD 2013, The Symposium for Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design, in San Diego, April 7-10. 

Dickinson has also published the article, “Balance in Control: The Case of an Urban Design Studio at the University of Arizona” in the March issue of the International Journal of Architectural Research.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have had their 2011 lecture at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador published. The book includes images and complete lecture transcripts from all the presenters. (other presenters include: Karen Rogers, Dan Hoffman, Marlon Blackwell, Brian Mackey-Lyons, David Hinson, Steve Badanes, and Daniel Wicke from Rural Studio). Ibarra Rosano Design Architects is a regional winner in the 2010-2012 Sub-Zero Wolf Kitchen Design Competition and will be attending an awards ceremony in Santa Barbara, CA in March, and the national conference in Madison, WI in May.

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Associate Professor Martin Despang’s Architectural Neighboring/New Community Center has been awarded the 2011-2012 Faculty Design Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. This award provides a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding working architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.  Despang and firm Despang Architekten will also be featured in the articles, “Value-Added Architecture – Companies and their Corporate Architecture” by the Goethe Institute for the firm’s Krogmann Headquarters, as well as “Post-Fossil Day Care Building” by XIA International Online for the firm’s work at Georg-August-University Göttingen.  The articles are available at http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/nba/en8554596.htm and http://www.xia-international-online.com/articles/artikel/article/post-fossil-day-care-building-1.html

 

Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited, as the curator of “The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham” exhibition,  to lecture on February 22nd on the topic of “Collaborations in Space and Time“ at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, where the exhibition is on view through May 7th, 2012. Weinstein has also been invited to lecture in the Architecture Program of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about connections between the making of performances, their environments, and utopia (February 29, 2012). While at Monash she will participate in workshop that centers around these same topics of performance and utopia with her hosts, architect Matthew Bird and choreographer Phillip Adams, and their students.

 

Lecturer Michael Kothke and firm HK Associates, Inc. have been awarded a citation for the Barrio Historico House in the “Live” category of Architect magazine’s Annual Design Review 2011 and is featured in the Winter edition of Luxe Magazine. 

 

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects will lecture on February 2, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix. This is the first in a four part lecture series called COLOR + ART in Contemporary Architecture which pairs an architect and an artist. 

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Associate Professor Christopher Domin was a featured speaker at the East-West Dialogues Symposium held November 16 and 17 at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The symposium was a forum to investigate the built work of Florida’s modernist architects.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s paper “High and Dry: Performances Around Water’s Absence” was accepted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and will be presented at the 101_1 Waste(lands)+Material Economies / Less is More: Creativity Through Scarcity paper session during the ASCA annual meeting this coming March in San Francisco.

November 14th is the anticipated book launch date for Ground|Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, co-edited by Associate Professor Beth Weinstein, Ellen McMahon (Fine Arts) and Ander Monson (creative writing). The book collects critical and creative work of faculty and students in the arts, design, architecture, and the sciences reflecting on the impact of climate change upon Tucson’s local waterways. The projects, seminar, and studios documented in the book, and the book’s production were primarily supported by a grant from the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. Ground|Water will be distributed by the University of Arizona Press.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s exhibition, The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham has been installed at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris.

Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinson’s paper “Sustainable Design Processes” has been published as part of the International Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference Proceedings (PLEA 2012) recently held in Lima, Peru.  The paper describes biomimetic and parametric design strategies used in a recently completed studio.

Dr. Linda C. Samuels joins the faculty of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) as the new Project Director for the Sustainable City Project, a research, teaching, and outreach effort collaboratively supported by CAPLA; the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS); and the Institute of the Environment (IE). The Sustainable City Project is a think tank, make tank, say tank and do tank committed to research, design innovation, boundary-free collaboration, urban activism, intellectual interchange, and inclusive outreach. It is housed in the new UA Downtown location, the historic Roy Place Building. Samuels recently received her doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Eve Edelstein, MArch, PhD (neuroscience), Assoc AIA, F-AAA, Research Fellow (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), and former faculty member at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design (San Diego) as well as a former Senior Research Specialist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, will be joining the CAPLA faculty in the Spring. She will be working in collaboration with Esther Sternberg to start a new center for Place and Well-being.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have a project in Architectural Record’s online article, “Featured Houses, September 2012: Volumes in the Landscape.”

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano’s Levin Residence is featured on the fall 2012 cover of LUXE interiors + design magazine, Arizona edition. They are also published in World Interior Design: Glamourous Living Space” by Phoenix Publishing. In addition, Ibarra Rosano’s first project, the Garcia Residence, made Architizer’s list of Top 10 Desert Dwellings. 

 

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Associate Professor Martin Despang´s newest case study of his prototype for “eco- and archi-friendly” educational design, a postfossil kindergarten for Germany´s oldest University of Göttingen, has been published in Archetcetera: http://archetcetera.blogspot.com/. Author Phyllis Richardson has peer reviewed Martin´s work in her XS series books and her article about cutting edge wood architecture in the Financial Times. The Göttingen kindergarten is a hybrid of landscape and architecture using thermal mass through exposed prefabricated concrete.

Assistant Professor, Susannah Dickinson presented a paper titled ‘Architecture and Biological Systems’ during the ACSA Teachers Seminar; Performative Practices: Architecture and Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, in New York, NY. She has also been selected to attend the NEH Summer Institute, “Beyond the Land Ethic: Sustainability and the Humanities.”

R. Brooks Jeffery has been promoted to Full Professor with a joint appointment in the Schools of Architecture plus Landscape Architecture and Planning.  Jeffery remains the Director of the Drachman Institute, the College’s outreach unit as well as Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Heritage Conservation Certificate program.

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Associate Professor Martin Despang´s post-fossil (Passive House standard) kindergarten for the University of Göttingen has been published in the 6.2011 issue of the international AIT / Architecture Interior Technology magazine.  He has also been published in the Frechmann Kolón book, Wood Houses (2010), for Despang Architekten’s renovation of the half-timbered farm house “Voges Redux.” 

Associate Professor Christopher Domin, Master of Architecture Program Chair, presented applied building skin research developed in CALA’s Materials Laboratory at the World Sustainable Building Conference in Helsinki, Finland.  Another joint research investigation into Regional Technology issues was presented at the International Passive and Low Energy conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium over the summer.  This work was co-developed with Professor Larry Medlin along with advanced graduate and undergraduate CALA students.

The College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture initiated an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation in conjunction with the UA School of Anthropology and Department of Materials Science & Engineering.  The program is coordinated by Professor R. Brooks Jeffery and focuses on a service-learning model of education.  More information is on the program’s website, http://cala.arizona.edu/heritage.

Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited to join the Design Committee of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Since 2009, she has served as a member of the JAE’s Editorial Board and Reviews Board.

New members of the Architecture Faculty, Luis Ibarra + Teresa Rosano, have won their 7th Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for a house designed for Patagonia, Arizona.

Adjunct Lecturer Wil Peterson, has been named one of five finalists in the furniture category of the ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition.

Adjunct Lecturer Mark Ryan has won the competition for Avendia Rio Salado / Broadway Road (ARS) in Phoenix, AZ.  The proposal for an 8-mile stretch of the Broadway Road will create a series of Community Beacons that will be visible day and night, acknowledging the historic diversity of agriculture and industry between two adjacent village neighborhoods.  The installations will also function as passive cooling towers and drinking fountains.

 

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Dean Janice Cervelli joined the Executive Advisory Committee for U of A’s “The Next 125” at the invitation of President Eugene G. Sander. The University is celebrating 125 years since Arizona’s 13th Territorial Legislature authorized it’s establishment in 1885. Dean Cervelli will be involved in high-level decision making and long-term strategic planning related to the next major strategic plan for the UA. 

Associate Professor Martin Despang of Despang Architekten was featured in The Chengdu 7788 Culture, the September issue of Ingenuity magazine.  The article, “High-Class Arcology,” features an interview with Despang and highlights four Despang Architeketen projects as case studies in its review of highly efficient buildings and the firm’s approach in designing diverse building typologies to foster a sustainable, bioclimatic lifestyle.  

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Associate Professor  Martin Despang´s post-fossil (Passive House standard) kindergarten for the University of Göttingen has been selected for “Day of Architecture” on 26 June 2011, as part of Germany’s national outreach of the “National Architectural Chamber.”

Professor Mary Hardin returns from sabbatical to be promoted to Associate Dean for the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. While on sabbatical, she studied examples of earthen architecture in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico and now has an adobe residence under construction.

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Beth Weinstein has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure, and is spending her sabbatical fall semester between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Paris, France.

While in Melbourne, she was a guest of the dance company BalletLab, and a contributor to their current performance project, TOMORROW. (http://www.balletlab.com/works/upcoming/double-bill-and-all-things-return-to-nature-/-tomorrow/phils-5)

Weinstein recently published “Performance Space: Distributed v. Consolidated” as a chapter within The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. The book reflects on the recent 12th edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and also includes chapters from an international list of theorists and artists: Marvin Carlson (USA), Christopher Baugh (UK), Thea Brejzek (DE), Guy Gutman (IL), Barbora P_íhodová (CZ), and Arnold Aronson (USA). The book’s essays look at various aspects of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and serve as a starting point for a deeper theoretical evaluation of contemporary theatre and scenography.”

Weinstein lectured in the Spannweiten (span widths) series at the Technische Universität Dresden on May 30th in conjunction with the TU Dresden Department of Architecture installation of the Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham exhibition, curated and designed by Weinstein.

In June, Professor Weinstein participated in a curated panel at the Performance Studies International Conference  #18 in Leeds, entitled “Beyond Training: Event Experience in Education” with Dr. Rodrigo Tisi (Dean of Art, Architecture & Design: UNIACC Santiago, Chile) and Dr. Dorita Hannah (Wellington, NZ). In this context she presented University of Arizona students’ built designs for performance environments and interventions in public space.

Architectural historian Associate Professor Lisa Schrenk has joined the faculty of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. In May she traveled with Norwich University architecture student Katherine Anderson to Cuba while advising Anderson on her summer research fellowship, which explored pre- and post-revolutionary-era architecture in Havana and Puerto Rico. Prior to moving to Tucson, Professor Schrenk received a 2012 Excellence in Research award and was named as a Charles A. Dana I Award recipient for excellence in teaching, research, and service at Norwich.

Visiting Professor Brian Delford Andrews recently published a pamphlet entitled “Militaristic Detritus”, which documents his tenure as the 55th Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska, School of Architecture.  The booklet documents his work on the award winning project, “The House of War”, as well as detailing the student’s work on four various projects that dealt with the concept of Militaristic Detritus.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have won their 8th AIA Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for their latest project. The Levin Residence will air on HGTV’s Extreme Homes in the fall of 2012, and is featured on the cover of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine and in the fall issue of LUXE magazine.

 

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