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University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway has named Robert Alexander González as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) effective July 1, 2020.

“I am excited to bring Robert González to UNM as our next dean of Architecture and Planning.  His ability to connect with external communities will bring great benefits to our faculty and students in their scholarship and professional service to New Mexico,” Holloway said.

González looks forward to his new role at UNM including the opportunity to work with faculty, staff, students and the people of New Mexico.

“I am excited about joining the UNM School of Architecture and Planning family. I found the School to be unlike any other program with its diverse faculty and staff dedicated to serving a culturally rich region, especially with two standout design research centers, DPAC, the second oldest community design center in the country, and the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute,” said González. “This is a model for other institutions that want to integrate multiple disciplines that are strongly rooted in community engagement. I’m inspired by the opportunity to help strengthen the fulfillment of the School’s mission and share the School’s formula for success, which has been spearheaded by excellent educators and a legacy of recognized visionary leadership.”

González, who comes to UNM from Texas Tech University (TTU), fills the position held on an interim basis by Mark Childs since July 2019 following the departure of former dean Geraldine Forbes Isais. A registered architect in the State of Texas, González is currently the Director of both the Architecture Program, where he has led the professional program, managing undergraduate education (supervising all faculty on the El Paso campus), student recruiting, admissions, fundraising, strategic planning and graduation, and the TTU El Paso Regional Site.

He helped expand the site to include Historic Preservation Studies, with a new graduate degree in this field, as well as new degrees in Retail, Hotel, and Institutional Management. González worked for nine years to engage TTU in the city’s downtown renaissance, and he hopes to encourage the same kind of partnerships between the SA+P and Albuquerque and Santa Fe, where he currently resides.

González is particularly excited about the opportunities provided by his appointment as dean of UNM’s SA+P. “As the only New Mexico School offering professionally accredited degrees in Architecture, Community Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture, the School has impacted the region with planning and design excellence,” he said. “I’m very excited to find new ways to broaden the students’ professional trajectory and career opportunities, not just across the state, but nationally.”

“Robert has done many exciting things in his career, and grown the TTU program in El Paso considerably. He was visionary in finding a way to place the program in the El Paso Union Depot train station, a historic building designed by legendary architect Daniel H. Burnham,” Provost Holloway said. “That took some real out-of-the-box thinking. Our architecture and planning faculty are creative thinkers, and I’m confident that having Robert leading the school is going to result in some really exciting new directions for UNM.”

González’s research focuses on U.S.-Latin American relations and representations of Pan-Americanism in the built environment. He also examines U.S.-Mexico border issues as built form, ephemeral installations, and public rituals. He published Designing Pan-America: US Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere, a field-leading book in U.S. diplomacy and World’s Fair studies and he has published numerous articles and book chapters.

A rising voice in architectural education, González led a $5.9 million Department of Education Hispanic-Serving Institution STEM Grant, serving as Project Manager and Principal Investigator, and working closely with a community college partner. He is the incoming President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and former board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Journal of Architectural Education. He is the founding editor of the international journal AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Américas. During his career, he earned the TTU Hemphill Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award, the ACSA Creative Achievement Award and the Faculty Design Award, and is a Ford Foundation Fellow.

González received his B.Arch in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin (1990), a S.M.Arch.S in Architecture (History, Theory and Criticism) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) and his Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley (2002).

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The University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning has announced that the Tres Volcanes Collaborative Community School, by Jon Anderson Architecture has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture. This innovative building is located on the west side of Albuquerque. Each year, the winner of this award receives $10,000.

The award ceremony was held on Friday, Feb. 28, at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning and included a lecture from Jury Chair Alberto Kalach.

The 2020 Jury included Alberto Kalach, Principal at Taller De Arquitectura “X”; Rafael Longaria, Professor of Architecture at University of Houston; Dale Rush, Principal at Hazelbaker Rush; Fransciso Uviña Contreras, Director of UNM Historic Preservation & Regionalism Graduate Certificate; and Emily Vogler, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Rhode Island School of Design.

For the third year, the awards ceremony also included the Jeff Harnar Awards for Unbuilt Design.

The recipient of the Jeff Harnar Award for Unbuilt Architecture was Ke Vaughn Harding, a recent graduate of the Master of Architecture at the University of New Mexico.  His design was entitled “Aguas Efimeras,” sited in Xochimillco, Mexico City. Harding received $250 for the award.

The recipient of the Jeff Harnar Award for Unbuilt Landscape Architecture was Ryan Franchak, a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, for his project “Reimagining the Griegos Drain,” sited in Albuquerque, NM. Franchak also received $250.

The Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture, established by the Thornburg Charitable Foundation, is considered to be the most prestigious recognition for contemporary architectural design in New Mexico.

The Harnar awards and program are organized by John Quale, Chair of the UNM Department of Architecture, and sponsored by the Thornburg Foundation, who have supported the award since 2007. For more on the awards, please visit: http://www.jeffharnaraward.com/

 

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The University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) has announced that the winner of the 2019 Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture in New Mexico is New Mexico Highlands University Trolley Barn.  The renovation was designed by Baker Architecture + Design, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The subtle and sophisticated renovation of an historic building has helped rejuvenate NMHU’s campus.  The firm received a $10,000 prize.  This is the third time that the firm has won the award.  Last year’s winner was SITE Santa Fe, designed by SHoP Architects in New York City.

The announcement was made in Friday, February 22nd in the auditorium of the UNM School of Architecture + Planning building, designed by Antoine Predock.  The Jury Chair and Lecturer was Marc Tsurumaki of LTL Architects in New York City.

The award honors the late Jeff Harnar, know for his groundbreaking design in contemporary architecture in, mostly in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In addition to the contemporary architecture award, the Jeff Harnar Award for Unbuilt Architecture was given two four UNM undergraduate architecture students:  W. Martin Joyce, Martin Luna, Jade Sheridan Moore and Jacqueline Smith.  Their winning project “Marsborial Oasis Simulation System (MOSS)” imagined the first human settlement on the planet Mars.

The winners of the Unbuilt Landscape Architecture category were Jared Winchester of Entropic Industries, and Cory Greenfield of CampoVerde Architecture, for their project “Wilding Towers.”  The project was sited in a full-scale fake city in for 35,000 people in Lea County, NM.  However the city will not have any inhabitants, but will instead be a site to test driverless vehicles, smart grids and other merging technologies.  The towers consist of a steel frame, compacted earth and seed blocks.  As the blocks are eroded by wind and rain, the looser inner seed mix is exposed and allowed to germinate on the surface of the tower and to propagate across the city’s surfaced.

UNM Architecture Department Chair John Quale manages the awards.  The Thornburg Foundation financially supports the awards.  For more information about the awards, go to architecture.unm.edu and www.jeffharnarawardcom.

@jeff_harnar_award @unm_architecture @baker_a_d

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UNM Master of Architecture graduate (2018) Farrokh Rostami Kia, was selected to have an image from one of his studio projects appear on the cover of the AIAS magazine CRIT.  The project was developed in an ARCH 602 studio taught by Associate Chair / Principal Lecturer Karen King. 

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We are pleased to announce that we have hired Dr. Aaron Cayer as our new Assistant Professor of Architectural Historian, joining Eleni Bastea, Professor of Architecture.  We look forward to his arrival in the fall semester. 

We recent converted back to be a department, after almost 50 years as a program.  When architectural education began at UNM in 1936, it was a department with a chair.  Now in 2018, we have returned to that status.  Nothing really changes, but it helps us avoid confusion at the university level.

Department Chair, John Quale, manages the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture – www.jeffharnaraward.com.  This year, the winner is SHoP Architects of NYC for their recently completed project SITE Santa Fe.  The local architect of record is Allegretti Architects in Santa Fe.  This year, we also added an upbuilt category, limited to designers living in New Mexico.  One of our graduate students, Darby Prendergast, won the Unbuilt Architecture category, and Surroundings Studio, a local landscape architecture firm, won in the Unbuilt Landscape Architecture category. 

Assistant Professor of Architecture Ane Gonzalez Lara, collaborating with Associate Professor Katya Crawford and Assistant Professor Kathy Kambic (both in UNM’s Landscape Architecture department, won 1st Place in the Re-Thinking Competition. 

2018 Master of Architecture graduates have already found jobs at SHoP Architects, Kieran Timberlake, and firms in LA, Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, etc. — as well as firms around New Mexico.

Lastly, we look forward to hearing the results of our recent accreditation visit.  We believe it went well –

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Mark C. Childs, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, recently  published “Learning from New Millennium Science Fiction Cities,” Journal of Urbanism, V8, N1, March 2015, 97-109.

 

Kristen Shaw and Mira Woodson, Lecturers, are curators  and participants for the extensive city-wide exhibition On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design.  Following architecture faculty are participants of this exhibition: Tim Castillo, Kramer Woodard, Kima Wakefield, Chris Beccone, Efthimios Maniatis, Cory Greenfield and Jared Winchester. www.ABQontheMap.com

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Mark C. Childs‘, Professor, book Urban Composition will be published as part of Princeton Architectural Press’s Architectural Briefs in April 2012. The book discusses how individual buildings, gardens, public arts works and other built forms can compellingly help compose larger, collectively-made forms such as streets, districts and cities.

Devendra Contractor AIA, Lecturer, with Jared Winchester, received a citation for 2011 AIA Albuquerque unbuilt design award for their competition entry “Patterned Occupancies”, a cross-cultural IT hub outside of New Delhi.

Jared Winchester’s, Lecturer, design projects, SKY_NET: A Power Migration Network and Groundings: Landslide Mitigation Housing with Viktor Ramos, included in Bracket [Goes Soft], edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard, will be published June 2012.  The project “Grounding” received 1st place in the 2011 D3 Natural systems competition and a citation for 2011 AIA Albuquerque unbuilt design award.

 

 

 

 

 

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Stephen Mora, Lecturer, with students, is recognized in suckerPUNCH with the installation project, “Intervention”.  This installation sits at the belly of the George Pearl Hall, designed by AIA Gold Medalist, Antoine Predock. The plaza level of Pearl Hall provides an open canvas for a spatial intervention of this scale, one that explores the manifestation of complex geometry through the techniques of CNC fabrication, tectonics, details and joinery. 
http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2012/09/12/intervention/

Roger Schluntz, FAIA and Professor, has been appointed as the Region III Representative of the Union Internationale des Architectes(International Union of Architects, or UIA ) to its Scientific Committee; charged with the program development for the next UIA World Congress of Architects.  The 2014 Congress will be held in Durban, South Africa, where the committee members also conducted their initial meeting in late June.  The UIA represents some 1,300,000 architects in more than 100 countries.  The UIA was founded in 1948 to unite the architects of all countries in a federation of their national organizations, which includes the AIA of the United States.  

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Jorge Colón, AIA, Assistant Professor of research and research methodologies, is an architect and director of LÓNdesign, an architecture studio with a focus on housing, in-fill projects, and the renovation and adaptive re-use of existing structures.  He holds degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), Arizona State University (MArch), and Harvard University (MDesS), where his research centered on informal settlements, cultural geographies, and housing in rapidly urbanizing urban centers. Colón has lectured publicly on a range of issues related to design and urban development, and his work has won several design awards, including recognition by the American Institute of Architects.  He brings these interests and experience to the University of New Mexico, where he will teach upper level design studios as well as seminars in research methodologies and communication.

Kuppu Iyengar, Associate Professor, has been appointed the new Associate Director of the Architecture Program in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico.  He succeeds Geoff C. Adams, Associate Professor, in this position.

Alex Webb, LEED AP, Assistant Professor of emergent technologies, joins the UNM SAAP faculty from the Los Angeles area where he was an Adjunct Faculty member at Woodbury University and a Lecturer at Otis School of Design.  He received his degrees at SCI-Arc (M.Arch) and Colorado College (B.Arts, English) and studied at the Berlage Institute and Columbia University’s GSAAP.  Webb has worked for numerous architectural firms in the LA area including Marmol Radziner + Associates, Patterns, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Gensler.  He was recently awarded a ($2,000) Woodbury University Research Grant for a project titled Fabric Formed Performance.  Fabric Formed Performance will be on display in Hollywood at WUHO. Webb will teach design studios and seminars in both the areas of Building and Design Technologies.  

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