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Gabriella Gutierrez, Associate Professor, was recently awarded the title of Regents Lecturer at the University of New Mexico. The title acknowledges a faculty member’s contribution to their respective academic programs in areas of teaching, research, and community outreach.  Professor Gutierrez recently contributed to a successful grant application submitted by the New Mexico Des Moines Public School System for funding to build a new school based health care center on their campus, which is in a designated “frontier” area of northeastern New Mexico.

Sebastian Mariscal, designer, developer builder & educator, with offices in SD & NY and projects in CA, NY and Mexico, joined the faculty as the Visiting International Professor of Architecture for Spring 2012 semester.  He will work closely in the graduate studio with Albuquerque architect and Lecturer, Sam Sterling AIA, and students on the exploration of emotions and immateriality in Architecture. 

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3rd AULA Latin American Architecture Symposium

 

The NEW Mexico

13-15 September, 2012

 

Important changes are underway in both Mexico and those parts of the United States that were once part of Mexico. Thirty years ago, Joel Garreau identified MEXAMERICA as one of the nine distinct cultural regions of North America. Since then, the Latino population in the USA has exploded and significant scholarship is emerging on the fast-growing Latino built environments in the USA. The word AMEXICO describes the considerable changes that have taken place in large parts of Mexico since the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Contemporary Mexican cities offer ample evidence of increased American mercantile presence.  While in the cultural realm, the most prominent Mexican artists and architects have reacted to 70 years of introspective work with an enthusiastic embrace of international currents.

 

Following the success of the first two AULA conferences at Harvard University (Import/Export: Latin American Urbanities) and Tulane University (En el AULA), The NEW Mexico: Third AULA Latin American Architecture Symposium provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the built environments of AMEXICO and MEXAMERICA bringing together prominent scholars and practitioners from both sides of the border to the University of New Mexico. Mexico Cit y

Participants:

DANIEL ARREOLA

TEDDY CRUZ

DEREK DELLEKAMP

LUIS CARRANZA

JOSE CASTILLO

GABRIEL DIAZ MONTEMAYOR

ARMANDO FLORES SALAZAR

STEPHEN FOX

CAROLYN E. GONZALES

MOISES GONZALES

FERNANDO LARA

SARAH LYNN LOPEZ

JUAN MIRO

FIAMMA MONTEZEMOLO

FRANCISCO JAVIER RODRIGUEZ

SAIDEE SPRINGALL

 

Chairs:

ROBERT ALEXANDER GONZALEZ

GERALDINE FORBES ISAIS

RAFAEL LONGORIA

All events free an d open to the public an d will ta ke place at the Auditorium of the UNM Architecture & Planning Buil ding

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Matthew A. Barstow, 4th year student of Architecture, has recently been elected to serve as the 56th National President of The American Institute of Architecture Students, for the 2012-2013 term.  Barstow currently serves as the Director of the Western Quadrant.  Additionally, he serves on many national committees for both the AIA and AIAS;  the AIA Board Knowledge Committee, the AIAS Government Advocacy Task Force, and a three year appointment to the AIAS Accreditation Review Conference Task Force.  Barstow is working towards his congressional testimony in support of architectural student loan exemptions and AIAS’ increased financial viability.

Mark C. Childs, Professor and Director Emeritus, contributed to the The Plazas of New Mexico, published in the fall by Trinity University Press, San Antonio. The book resulted from a ten year study at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning involving sixty UNM students, four outside scholars and six faculty members from the UNM. The book, edited by Chris Wilson and Stefanos Polyzoides, chronicles a rich history of Pueblo and Hispanic plazas and Anglo courthouse squares, and the everyday life and community celebrations that help sustain them.   It also profiles the revitalization of historic community places, and the development of new plazas over the past decade.

Christopher Mead, Regent’s Professor and Dean Emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, has several book projects underway: as a companion to Roadcut: The Architecture of Antoine Predock, published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2011, he is editing a book of Predock’s architectural sketches; in conjunction with Making Modern Paris: Victor Baltard’s Central Markets and the Urban Practice of Architecture, scheduled for publication in 2012 by Penn State Press, he is contributing to a book to be published by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris as part of its exhibition of Victor Baltard’s work.

Roger Schluntz, Professor and Dean Emeritus, for the second year, is managing the competition for the Jeff Harnar Award, underwritten by the Thornburg Charitable Foundation, for what is deemed the best completed work of contemporary architecture in New Mexico. Larry Speck, FAIA and Chair of the 2012 Harnar Jury, will be making a special presentation in the Pearl Auditorium on the UNM Campus the evening of February 2 (Thursday), beginning at 7:00 PM. The title of his illustrated talk is “Architecture Transforming Everyday Life.” Other jury members for the 2012 Jeff Harnar Award, are Marilys Nepomechie, FAIA, Miami Beach, Florida; Kihei Mayer, graduate student at the SA+P;: Prof. Mark C. Childs, AIA; and Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA, Phoenix and Austin.  Formal announcement for the prize will be the evening of February 24, also at Pearl Hall, a gala event that will feature guest speakers Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi (Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, New York City).

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Mark Childs’, Professor, new book Urban Composition, gets rave review in Metropolis Magazine.  Staff writer Peter Chomko reviewed Urban Composition for the highly regarded periodical, saying “this is a book that could shape the ideas of urban design’s interested consumers as much as it could the producers.” Childs’ most recent book is published by Princeton Architecture Press, and adds to his repertoire of titles on urban design, which includes Parking Spaces, published by McGraw-Hill, and Squares, from UNM Press. 
http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20120919/cities-should-be-like

Kramer E. Woodard, Associate Professor, was selected finalist and professional award winner with his entry titled; Penthouse Prototype in the juried exhibition ARTIFACTS FOR NEW DOMESTIC THINKING. This exhibition includes furnishings, lighting, furniture, architectural proposals, and artists’ works.  Winners were selected from entries from all Southwestern states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.  Innovative use of materials, conceptual strength, sustainable resourcing, creative functionality, new rituals for domestic usage, innovative technology, and intriguing innovations of form, guided the jurors in selecting the participants for this exhibition.  The jurors included; Laura Carpenter, Michael McCoy, Susan S. Szenasy and Suzanne Tick.

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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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Norman Crowe, Adjunct Faculty at the University of New Mexico, and Emeritus Professor from University of Notre Dame, has completed a book entitled, The Travel Sketches of John McHugh: A Record of His Travels and Observations and a Guide to Sketching in the Field.  It is currently in production at Sunstone Press, Santa Fe.  An earlier book, with co-author Paul Laseau, Visual Notes: For Architects and Designers, has been recently re-issued by Wiley & Sons, Publishers in a revised and considerably expanded edition.

Casey McLaughlin, fourth year student, was the overall winner with his design “Bringing Outside In,” a door to the AIAS President’s office in Washington, DC.  The competition sponsored by VT Industries and administered by the AIAS, challenged students to develop a door focused on types of threshold: designed transition, energy passage, security, universal accessibility, physical composition.

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Eleni Bastéa, Ph.D., Professor, received a grant from the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence to develop a new interdisciplinary course titled: “Cities and Literature: Urban Change and Urban Narratives in Contemporary Europe,” Spring 2012.

Margaret Pedone AIA, Lecturer, recently was awarded an ‘unbuilt citation award’ from the AIA Albuquerque for her project “3 River Barges”.

Kramer E Woodard, Associate Professor, has received a United States utility patent for his innovative prefabricated wall and structure system for use in small dwellings, particularly where rapid deployment is needed, as in disaster relief. Currently Woodard is working on two other systems to provide heating, cooling and electricity using solar energy, that will work in conjunction with the wall system. He expects utility patents for those systems next year.

Kristina H. Yu, Assistant Professor, competed and recently was awarded the Teaching Allocation Grant UNM for her study titled, “Technologically Enhanced Interactive Desk Critique: Reinvigorating the Studio Classroom”.  Prof. Yu along with Electrical Computer Engineer Prof. Olga Lavrova (UNM) competed to teach interdisciplinary courses ”Communal Concerns – Housing and Photovoltaic Assets” to be taught at the Schloss Dyck Foundations in Neuss, Germany Summer 2012.  Yu was recently selected to participate in the NSF funded faculty leadership workshop under the initiative of the NM Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.   The training, courses and funding are directly related to her research area of Housing Development and Shared Amenities.

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