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ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, online international series of round table discussions

The schools of architecture of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ETSA-Vallès, Spain), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) jointly organize a series of panel discussions dedicated to the current status of architectural education.

ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Over the last 25 years, the evolution of the profession and discipline of architecture has faced cultural, societal, and technical changes that have had an inevitable impact on both professional practice and institutional education. The environmental crisis, social inequity, fluctuating demographics, the eruption of digital technology and technological progress, and the absence of universal pedagogical models are just a few among many converging factors that invite us to reflect on the present and future of the discipline and of the institutional education of architects.

In the past, there were only a few models of architectural pedagogy that were adopted by educational institutions regardless of their geographical location and cultural identity. However, the globalization of the profession, the democratization of education, and the worldwide increase of schools of architecture (both public and private) in the last 25 years have led to the emergence of new models. Furthermore, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously posed challenges and opened new avenues for educating future architects that deserve serious consideration.

Offered online in a hybrid, bilingual format (English/Spanish), the series is free and open to interested educators, students, researchers, and professionals worldwide.

This first series of five roundtables with representatives from the three co-organizing schools and two specially invited guests will focus on the design project as the backbone of architectural education.

For additional information please visit, On Architectural Education: A Virtual Roundtable – School of Architecture (illinois.edu)

or write to > magali@illinois.edu

Registration for participation* is required. To register go to > https://go.illinois.edu/onarchitecturaleducation

[* participants who attend a minimum of 4 panels will receive an official certificate of attendance and participation]

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

March 10, 2017/in School News /by Matrix Admin

Thérèse Tierney has published a new book, Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation (University of Virginia Press 2017). She has been asked to speak at the Workshop on Urban Mobility in the Era of Smart and Connected Communities, co-organized by the Chicago Department of Innovation & Technology, Transportation, and the Array of Things (AoT). The workshop focuses on new opportunities to link growing data streams to the critical urban mobility challenges.

Kathryn Anthony has published a new book, Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places (Prometheus Books 2017).

ROPE pavilion, a temporary winter shelter designed by Associate Professor Kevin Erickson and built alongside other pavilions by Anish Kapoor, Frank Gehry and others in Winnipeg, is featured in Philip Jodidio’s new book The New Pavilions published by Thames & Hudson. http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-new-pavilions-hardcover

Professor Joy Monice Malnar, AIA, retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on January 15, 2017, after nearly two decades on the faculty of the School of Architecture. Upon retirement, she was awarded emeritus status by the university’s Board of Trustees. Malnar’s career exemplifies the value of situating an architecture school within an arts college at a research university. In her scholarship, her experience as a licensed architect was carefully integrated with other disciplines—some far beyond architectural studies—to fashion a specialization that inquires into the sensory experience of the built environment.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s project mies[UPGRADE] in a Mies van der Rohe space in Chicago, was recently published in Blur: d3:dialog, international journal of architecture + design.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

October 27, 2016/in /by Matrix Admin

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of 4 Illinois School of Architecture graduate students – Meagan Radloff, Aarefa Kuresh Palgharwala, Kiel Fahnstrom and William Smarzewski – in the second Volterra, Italy 2016 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra- Detroit Foundation at the Volterra International Residential College. The Workshop was held from July 27 through August 6^th, 2016. Participating university teams included the University of Detroit-Mercy led by Professor Wladek Fuches (President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation), Warsaw Technological University (Poland) led by Dean/Professor Jan Slyke, Ph.D. and Professor Gorgio Castellano of the University of Pisa.

Professor Chasco was invited to lead the 2016 Workshop and select an internationally accomplished Illinois School of Architecture alumnus as the Workshop Captain. Alumnus David Miller FAIA of the Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle was selected. David Miller provided overall design guidance as well as presenting two lectures: one on his lifetime of built design efforts including the expansion of the Pike Street Market in Seattle, and second lecture on his design philosophy and interpretation of the Gates of Volterra design approaches. Professor Fuchs presented the 3^rd lecture on his findings of the design of the Volterra Roman Theatre. Professor Chasco presented the 4^th lecture on a retrospective design career in both practice and the academy. The Workshop project titled “The Gates of Volterra” explored the contemporary re-interpretation of the role of the city gate in the historical urban context.

Four university integrated teams of students designed urban and architectural responses respecting and integrating new contemporary uses at each gate: Porta all’Arco, Porta Fiorentina, Porta Selci, and Porta San Francesco. The students’ design efforts were exhibited and presented to various Volterra townspeople and stakeholders. Professor Chasco has been invited by the University of Detroit-Mercy to participate in the Volterra 2017 Summer International Design Workshop as well as lead a graduate semester study abroad at the Volterra Center in the Fall of 2017.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp was recently appointed to the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Board of Advisors.

Associate Professor and Associate Director for the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy Paul Kapp’s essay, “Intangible Industrial Heritage,” was chosen as one of only eight essays for the US/ICOMOS Report, With a World of Heritage So Rich, a report commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act. You can read his essay and the others on this website: http://www.usicomos.org/about/wwhsr/

Associate Professor Thérèse F. Tierney has been invited to present a Distinguished Faculty lecture by the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory at UIUC. The lecture is titled, “Networked Urbanism: Geographies of Information” October 24th, 2016.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

September 19, 2016/in School News /by Matrix Admin

Randy Deutsch, Clinical Associate Professor has written a third book, Convergences: The Redesign of Design (to be published by Architectural Design, early 2017, London.)

Invited to write a chapter featuring the work processes of KieranTimberlake, Kruek+Sexton, SOM, LMN, and POPULOUS in Richard Garber’s Workflows: Expanding Architecture’s Territory in the Design and Delivery of Buildings (to be published by Architectural Design, early 2017, London.)

He was invited to speak on BIM in a Time of Simultaneity, Superintegration and Convergence at the University of Southern California (USC) BIM Symposium.

He was also invited to speak at the following:

Big Data and the Built Environment workshop at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Northwestern University’s School of Engineering on data-driven construction.
He presented 21st Century Skillsets: Assuring Architects and Emerging Professionals Stay Ahead at the 2016 AIA Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Participated in the Design Futures Council Forum on Design Education in Philadelphia, PA.
Associate Director of Graduate Studies Spring 2016/Spring 2017.
Selected to lead the Chicago Studio Fall 2016, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited to serve as special advisor to NIBS buildingSMART Alliance.
Invited to serve as SME in BIM for the 100-year old BRE Research Group, London, England.
Led Harvard GSD executive education program for the fourth year.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway‘s flat pack research and design work on a two Mies van der Rohe space upgrade projects in Chicago, were recently published in Blur: d3:dialog, International Journal of Architecture + Design available through Amazon.

Erik is engaged on another flat pack research and design work project in another Mies van der Rohe space upgrade in Chicago. This is related to and furthers the work he did for the 2009 Hong Kong/ Shenzhen Biennial due to be built and completed later this year.

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of 4 Illinois School of Architecture graduate students – Meagan Radloff, Aarefa Kuresh Palgharwala, Kiel Fahnstrom and William Smarzewski – in the second Volterra, Italy 2016 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra- Detroit Foundation at the Volterra International Residential College.

The Workshop was held from July 27 through August 6^th, 2016. Participating university teams included the University of Detroit-Mercy led by Professor Wladek Fuches (President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation), Warsaw Technological University (Poland) led by Dean/Professor Jan Slyke, Ph.D. and Professor Gorgio Castellano of the University of Pisa.

Professor Fuchs presented the 3^rd lecture on his findings of the design of the Volterra Roman Theatre. Professor Chasco presented the 4^th lecture on a retrospective design career in both practice and the academy. The Workshop project titled “The Gates of Volterra” explored the contemporary re-interpretation of the role of the city gate in the historical urban context. Four university integrated teams of students designed urban and architectural responses respecting and integrating new contemporary uses at each gate: Porta all’Arco, Porta Fiorentina, Porta Selci, and Porta San Francesco. The students’ design efforts were exhibited and presented to various Volterra townspeople and stakeholders.

Professor Chasco has been invited by the University of Detroit-Mercy to participate in the Volterra 2017 Summer International Design Workshop as well as lead a graduate semester study abroad at the Volterra Center in the Fall of 2017.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 25, 2016/in /by Matrix Admin

As part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s 50th Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 16, 2016, University of Illinois School of Architecture students showcased work from their current investigations into city improvement projects around the CTA Red Line, including ideas for streetscaping, retail and new mid-rise towers.

Randy Deutsch – Associate Professor

Leading a Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Executive Education course for the third year, BIM: Lessons in Leadership, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. http://bit.ly/1YVWseC

Presenting “21st Century Skillsets: Assuring Architects and Emerging Professionals Stay Ahead,” at the AIA National Convention, Philadelphia, PA May 19, 2016 http://bit.ly/1SNsQyG

Invited to present “Big Data in the Construction Industry,” Executive Management for Design and Construction, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2016

Invited guest speaker, Strategic Workshop on Big Data in the Built Environment, Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, June 16-17, 2016

Serving as the BIM SME, BRE Research Group, London

New book published: Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data (Wiley) http://bit.ly/1Oe2XDh

Book reviewed, Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, by Lachmi Khemlani, AECBytes, March 24, 2016 http://bit.ly/1rCNIjx

Forthcoming book, Convergence: The Redesign of Design (AD, March 2017)

Featured in ARCHITECT magazine, “The Tech to Expect in 2016” http://bit.ly/1Kfwr2k

Delegate, Design Futures Council, Leadership Forum on Design Education, Philadelphia, PA, May 18, 2016

Invited to serve as NIBS buildingSMART Alliance as Special Advisor 2016-17

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

February 23, 2016/in School News /by Matrix Admin

Professor David Chasco, FAIA was invited to be the jury chair for the AIA Michigan 2015 Honor Awards Program, held June 5, 2015. Approximately 80 entries were submitted by AIA Michigan based firms and were reviewed. Twelve projects were given Honor Awards in categories of Building, Interior Architecture, Low Budget/Small Project, Unbuilt and Steel, that “exhibited design excellence through creative responses to issues and challenges.” Professor Chasco also selected several alumni of the Illinois School of Architecture, Carol Ross Barney, FAIA and Brian Vitale, AIA (2014 Young Architect Award) both of Chicago, to comprise the Honor Award Design Award Jury. David then participated in the Honor Award Ceremony at Detroit’s AIA Honor Award-winning Woodward Garden Theatre.

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of 6 Illinois School of Architecture graduate students – Angel Ng, Jienan Zhang, Christian Pepper, Katherine Stowell, William Smarzewski, and Yang Yu – in the first Volterra 2015 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by their Volterra (Italy) Detroit Foundation in the Volterra International Residential College. The Workshop was held from July 27 through August 7^th, 2015. Participating university teams also involved the University of Detroit-Mercy led by Dean Will Wittig and Professor Wladek Fuches (President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation), Warsaw Technological University (Poland) led by Professor Jan Slyke, Ph.D. and University of Pisa representative Giulio Pucci. James Timberlake of Kiernan Timberlake Architects, an alumnus of UDM and designer of the new U.S. Embassy, London, was the Workshop captain. The Workshop project titled “Il Foro Ecological” explored the theme of the relationship between society and technology through the creation of a new Urban District on a large site inhabited by a large public parking lot, the ruins of first century BC Roman Theatre, Roman Baths and bounded by the Volterra hilltop ring road on one side and the medieval defensive wall on the other. The site was part of the old Etruscan and Roman City. Three (3) university integrated teams of students designed urban responses respecting and integrating the site antiquities with a redirected pedestrianized ring road, new baths, marketplace grounds and facilities and other uses deemed appropriate. The culmination of the students’ design efforts was a final exhibition and presentation to various Volterra interested townspeople and stakeholders including Mr. Mario Buselli, Mayor of Volterra. Professor David Chasco has been invited by the University of Detroit-Mercy to head the Volterra 2016 International Design Workshop as well as select a UIUC School of Architecture alumnus as the Workshop Captain.

Professor David Chasco FAIA, and Chicago Architects Carol Ross Barney FAIA and Brian Vitale AIA of Genseler, juried the recently held Michigan Masonry Institute Architectural Awards. The three had also judged the 2015 AIA Michigan Honor Award recently. Professor Chasco is also a member of the new Campus Master Plan Advisory Committee to advise the University of Illinois Campus Planners, the Smith Group over the next 1 ½ years. He also continues to serve as the Co-Chair of the Chancellor’s Design Advisory Committee which conducts design reviews of all relevant campus architectural projects.

Erik M. Hemingway, associate professor of design in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and principal of hemingway+a/studio, will deliver a special public presentation to introduce the design problem for the 2016 Laskey Charrette. During this intensive, weekend-long workshop, sophomore architecture students work in teams to brainstorm ideas for a given design challenge. Their final designs are exhibited and reviewed, with a jury of faculty awarding prizes.

The charrette is presented annually by Studio L in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design to honor Professor Emeritus Leslie J. Laskey and his singular approach to design education during his 35-year WashU tenure.

With over two decades of design experience as principal of hemingway+a/studio, Hemingway’s projects have been recognized in such publications as architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Global Architecture, and *surface. Before coming to the University of Illinois, he taught design at the University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Technological University; and Louisiana State University, as the Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair.

His academic studios are engaged with design competitions as a medium of entrepreneurial critical practice and material experimentation. He is the faculty sponsor for his students’ design work, which have resulted in twelve recognitions for global issues ranging from the United Nations on Aging, Barcelona Collective Housing, Steel Design, Preservation as Provocation, Socio Design Foundation, and a Modular School for Burmese Refugees. Two built projects from his seminar material work, mundane[UPGRADE], were published in Exploring Materials by Princeton Architectural Press.

Hemingway earned a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Before establishing his practice, he worked in the offices of Arquitectonica and Zaha M. Hadid. His most recent research has been engaged in significant residential structures designed by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago and A. Quincy Jones in Los Angeles. Featured in an exhibition, Erik Hemingway Modernism, at the Krannert Art Museum in 2015, these combine a “more for less” approach based on his flat pack fabrication and preservation upgrades within existing Modernist homes.

Professor Marci S. Uihlein is the new President-Elect for the Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) and will serve as President of the organization in 2017.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

October 15, 2015/in /by Matrix Admin

Mohamed Boubekri, Associate Professor, most recent book Daylighting Design: Planning Strategies and Best Practice Solutions was published by Birkhaüser Verlag. This is a follow-up book to his previous book: Daylighting, Architecture and Health published by the Architectural Press/Elsevier.

Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway‘s creative design/preservation and research work on his Urbana Modernist residence was featured in the December/January 2015 Dwell Issue in an article entitled “Buy A Piece of American Modernism with these 8 For Sale Homes”. It was the first of eight featured with other homes designed by Phillip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Urbana Modernist residence was also featured again in Curbed with an article “Oh Look, Someone already restored this 1967 Home For You”. Erik is currently designing a Pre-Fab addition to an A. Quincy Jones designed Eichler in Los Angeles, based on this previous work and his continued research on flat pack/ fabrication.

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Thérèse F. Tierney was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Illinois Informatics Institute where her research focuses on networked urbanism.

Associate Professor of Architecture Thérèse F Tierney was invited to exhibit “ZIPBox Housing: a transit-oriented development” at MIT Disrupting Mobilities: A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures, November 11-13, Cambridge, MA, co-convened by Ryan Chin, City Science Initiative, MIT media lab and Susan Shaheen, TSRC, University of California Berkeley. The Disruptive Mobility Summit brings together leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of current innovations within mobility networks.

The UIUC advisory board unanimously approved Tierney’s joint appointment with the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory. Faculty are appointed to the Unit in recognition of the relevance of their research and teaching to theoretically informed interdisciplinary work. Tierney’s transdisciplinary research on 21st c. urbanism, “Point clouds, locative media, and digitizing the image of the city” is featured in a multimedia exhibition titled “Now/There: Scenes from a Post Geographical City” in Los Angeles from Sept -24 -Oct 29. In December, the exhibition travels to Shenzhen, China as part of the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism + Architecture, curated by Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner, ETH Zurich, and Doreen Heng Liu.

http://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/shenzhen-hong-kong-bi-city-biennale-of-urbanism-architecture/

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

June 2, 2015/in School News East Central Region /by Matrix Admin

ACSA News – 5.27.15

On April 14, 2015 Mark Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Illinois School of Architecture, was honored with the 2015 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement for his untiring contributions to improve lives in Haiti. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Taylor made numerous trips to Léogâne, the town at the epicenter of the quake, to help assess the damage in the town and develop schematic designs for a school, a hospital, and a midwifery training center. His trips revealed the enormous challenges related to building safe and resilient structures, in a country where many people live on less than $1 a day. Undaunted by these challenges, Taylor developed collaborations, both internationally and locally, to improve building design, construction practices and the quality of locally produced building materials. The Kay Fanm Yo (Women’s House) was completed in January 2013.

Illinois School of Architecture, Assistant Professor, Sudarshan Krishnan, will be one of the key speakers at the conference “State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering Structures and Materials” organized by the Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE) in Quito, Ecuador, in July 2015. The title of his lecture is “Design of Cable and Suspension Structures.” He will also be delivering a series of special lectures to the civil engineering students at the Universidad Central del Ecuador and ESPE on the “planning of structural systems for medium and high-rise structures,” with an emphasis on seismic considerations.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

September 12, 2014/in School News East Central Region /by Matrix Admin

This spring Kevin Erickson was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

The urban design work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway was a Selected Featured Project for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Open Professional Category International Competition. Hemingway’s residential design work was 1 of 54 International projects selected for the publication Global Architecture Houses Project 2014 A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo. His project was also featured in the exhibition at Global Architecture Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Erik Hemingway’s creative design work on four Modernist Residences [3 built and 1 un built] located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Urbana; will be featured from January 30 through May 2015 in a solo exhibition at the Light Court in the Krannert Art Museum adjacent to the Galley of the traveling exhibit MetaModern. As a digital Multi Media Exhibition of these spectacular renovated Mid Century Modernist Residences first designed by A. Quincy Jones; Robert Anshen; Mies van der Rohe, and John Replinger, this exhibit of Erik’s preservation and rehabilitation work to the general public will be instrumental in raising the value and potentially saving lesser known modernist homes and the history of their design importance.

Professor and dF Chair Jeffery Poss, and Visiting Instructor David Emmons won two national awards for the Folding Farm II produce transport vehicle and a deployable farm stand. It received First Prize in ‘Services: Personal Transportation’ in the 2013 Green Dot Awards™, which strive to reward and promote forward-thinking businesses that create environmentally friendly products or services, and to reward revolutionary green proposals. The jury selected winners from thousands of entries from over 25 countries.

Folding Farm II also received an Honorable Mention in the AIA 2014 Pop Up Project Design Competition. The design jury commented that Folding Farm II was…”Very cool looking and a truly local producer. Could be a mobile suite for a larger farmer. Sellable and familiar, but for a boutique seller. Beautiful story or hyper local vendor.” The digital Fabrication Laboratory, “dF LAB,” received grants from the University Provost, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Illinois School of Architecture for state-of-the-art equipment to expand digital fabrication capabilities.

Joy Monice Malnar, AIA was invited by the Scent Marketing Institute (an international organization of perfumers) to present in June a keynote address on scent and architecture at their New York ScentWorld 2014 conference. In May, Malnar presented “New Housing on Indigenous Lands,” at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. She presented “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands: Cultural & Environmental Sustainability in Tribal Communities,” at the June AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago, for 1.5 Health Safety and Welfare Learning Units. And in August, she presented “Architectural Museum Design for Living Artifacts,” to museum curators at The Inclusive Museum 7^th Annual Conference, Los Angeles. Her article co-authored with Frank Vodvarka “Architectural Design for Living Artifacts” was published in Multi-sensory Museum: A Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, edited by Dr. Nina Levent, former executive director of Art Beyond Sight and Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of The Senses & Society journal.

Chicago Studio – Growing from outreach efforts with the City of Chicago Mayor’s office and Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development, the Urbanism Program Area has launched the Illinois School of Architecture’s inaugural Chicago Studio this Fall, 2014. The Chicago Studio is located at 224 South Michigan Avenue, collaborating with VOA Associates Inc., and offering graduate students the opportunity to study, live and work for one semester in Chicago’s loop. These graduate students take studio, seminars and a professional development course. The studio is focused on an urban design project determined in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development. The professional development course engages Chicago’s architectural offices to understand each firm’s ideology and their methods of delivery for both clients and the general public. The Chicago Studio’s goal is to immerse students as fully as possible in Chicago’s architectural offerings. To facilitate this goal, each firm supplies one or more professional mentors to enable each graduate student to have a mentoring relationship for the semester with a Chicago professional. The students are also linked to the Chicago Architecture Foundation where they volunteer several times during the semester. Participants engage with the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University (current ISoA faculty involved: Kevin Hinders, Coordinator and Brian Hammersley).

Over the summer, Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D. moderated the session: Architects and Beyond: Career Opportunities Abound at the AIA Convention in Chicago. As well, the third edition of his book, Becoming an Architect was published by Wiley; in all, the book through its first two editions has sold more than 20,000 copies. Waldrep also served as the author of the chapter – The Career Paths of an Architect, for the AIA Handbook of Professional Practice.

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour has been elected for a two year term as the Vice Chair of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

July 21, 2014/in School News East Central Region /by Matrix Admin

Associate Professor Mohamed Boubekri was selected as a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar. He will be working in building technology at Arel University in Turkey.

Assistant Professor Kenny Cupers has authored/edited two new publications: Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture (Routledge, 2013, ed.); and The Social Project: Housing Postwar France (University of Minnesota Press, 2014, author).

Assistant Professor Kenny Cupers also received full funding from the Campus Research Board for six-weeks of summer travel for his continued research on “Architectural Modernism and Environmental Science in Imperial Germany.”

Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn has received the 2013-2014 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement in recognition for her work of many years with public and community organizations in the Midwest and internationally, including the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance in St. Clair County, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, and the Olivette Park Neighborhood Association. In addition, she has been invited by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to be the lead instructor in the ACSA Haiti Design Challenge International Service-Learning Studio in the summer of 2014.

Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson was recently invited by actress Bette Midler and her non-profit organization the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to participate in a design competition for a boat storage facility and outdoor classroom in Sherman Creek Park along the Harlem River in Upper Manhattan, along with eight other emerging New York based architects. In addition, Kevin was also invited by Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture to collaborate in their Canadian Prix de Rome Prize Project “Table for Twelve,” a traveling research project that invited prominent voices in eight international cities to discuss the factors that create a strong commitment to architecture in these places. Kevin hosted the NYC dinner along with Kyle May, editor of CLOG Journal.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp was selected as a 2013-14 Fulbright scholar. He is currently completing his resident research at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Associate Professor Paul Kapp was also the keynote speaker at the Sixth International Conference on Industrial Heritage at the University of Rijeka in Rijeka, Croatia on April 25, 2014.

Associate Professor Joy Malnar’s co-authored book New Architecture on Indigenous Lands (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) was reviewed by Choice and the Art Libraries Society of North America. It was also listed on A Daily Dose of Architecture as one of John Hill’s select group of recommendations for the 2013 year. During the 2014 summer she will be giving presentations on her book at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas and at the AIA 2014 National Convention in Chicago. Her article, “Architectural Design for Living Artifacts,” was published in Multi-sensory Museum: A Cross-disciplinary Perspective on Multiple Modalities of a Museum Experience edited by Dr. Pascual-Leone and Dr. Nina v. K. Levent (AltaMira, Press, 2014). She will be presenting material from this chapter at the The Inclusive Museum Conference in Los Angeles. Her book, Sensory Design (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) was the topic of Cyrus Stuart Kerr’s paper, “A review of the evidence on the importance of sensory design for intelligent buildings,” in the journal Intelligent Buildings International, 2013 Vol. 5, No. 4, 204–212. She will be a keynote speaker at the ScentWorld conference in New York.

Associate Professor Heather Minor has been awarded full funding from the Research Board for summer research for her project entitled “The Art of Winckelmann: Preliminary Research.”

Professor and dF Chair Jeffery Poss, received a Mies Van Der Rohe Special Recognition Award for his project Meditation Hut III “Victor” in the 2014 AIA Honor Awards. The design award recognizes innovation in overall concept design or detail.

The Nathan Clifford Ricker Award recognized Assistant Professor Mark Taylor, Associate AIA, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his dedication and talent as an AIA Associate member architecture educator in Illinois. A large component of Taylor’s humanitarian work in Haiti and in the agricultural U.S. has an educational component, and he often brings his research into the classroom where he hopes to inspire the next generation of architects to work with underserved communities. His students at the University of Illinois welcome the opportunities he provides to use their skills in real-world situations, such as an assessment of a hospital partially destroyed by the 2010 Haitian Earthquake and the development of a new master plan. Taylor also aims to reach a wider audience through online open source resources and informative videos.

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor was recognized at the 2014 AIA Illinois Honor Awards and received the Nathan Clifford Ricker Honor Award for his dedication and talent as an AIA Associate member architecture educator. He consistently brings his humanitarian work in Haiti and in the agricultural U.S into the classroom, to inspire the next generation of architects to work with underserved communities. Taylor also aims to reach a wider audience through online open source resources and informative videos.

Assistant Professor Therese Tierney has received Honorable Mention award from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Prizes for her research entitled “Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics & Implications”, April 8, 2014.

Assistant Professor Thérèse Tierney also had an Invited Interview: “Is Paris a Smarter City than New York?” PRIME HubTech, August 23, 2013.

Assistant Professor Tierney recently authored, “Will 3D Printing RevolutionizeArchitecture?,” Illinois MakerLab, BIF Design Education, February 6, 2014. In addition, she was an Invited Lecturer and Panel Moderator: “How Can Big Data Boost Urban Resilience?” The conference was organized by California France Forum on Energy Efficiency Technologies (CaFEET), Stanford University, CA, November 22, 2013.

Assistant Professor Marci Uihlein has received full funding from the Campus Research Board for her research on “The Structural Engineer as Designer: Architecture’s Creative Partner.”

Assistant Professor Marci Uihlein received the 2013 Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) Emerging Faculty Award. This national award recognizes a “rising educator in building technology education who has demonstrated particular excellence in teaching and innovation during the formative years of their architectural teaching career.”

On the Urbana campus, Lorado Taft’s Alma Mater bronze sculpture has been restored and re-dedicated. For the school’s contribution to the dedication time capsule, Visiting Instructor Brian Vesely designed a “Primitive Hut” artifact of hydraulic cement cast into a 3D printed mold. The surface articulation on the sides of the artifact is binary code – a protruding sphere indicating 1, and a subtracted sphere indicating 0. The binary code describes the School’s Spring 2014 Lecture Series.

Heritage Architecture, China’s first ever multi-disciplinary journal on historic preservation, has named ACSA Distinguished Professor James Warfield as featured columnist for the quarterly publication. “Value in the Vernacular” will begin “The Warfield Column” in the premier issue of the journal in Summer 2014.

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