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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

University of Texas at Austin

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Lois Weinthal, associate professor and graduate advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program, is pleased to announce the release of her book, Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory, published by Princeton Architectural Press. In this anthology, Weinthal frames the interior in a range of scales, from the clothing we wear to the city we inhabit. Between these scales is an array of layers that can be pulled apart and further investigated, often revealing an identity by which we surround ourselves. From clothing to the closet to the concept of domesticity, interior design can be seen as the stage set by which we act out our lives as we move fluidly between these layers.

Weinthal presented a book talk in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design on Thursday, October 20.  

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, along with three colleagues, will present keynote lectures at the “Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design (SCAD)” Symposium, to be held November 16 to 19 at the German House in New York City. The symposium will address the theoretical and methodological achievements of the cognitive and computational disciplines in the domain of architectural design. Wang will speak on “On the notions of Cognitive Entities and Cognitive Identities in Architecture.” 

The October 21, 2011, edition of The Daily Texan featured the article,  “Dean of Architecture Emphasizes Green Construction,” highlighting Dean Fritz Steiner’s participation in the Texas Book Festival, which will take place October 22 and 23 at the State Capitol in Austin.i 

Assistant Professor Matt Fajkus‘ Bat House Visitor Center project was selected for inclusion in  “More Than Architecture” exhibit, up through October 30 in the Fine Arts Building on the UT campus. Fajkus won 2nd and 3rd places in AIA Napkin Sketch Competition. The exhibit is up through October 31 at the Austin AIA office. 

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As part of the School of Architecture’s continued interest in Latin America, an agreement with the University of São Paulo was signed by UTSOA’s Dean Fritz Steiner and FAU-USP’s Dean Carlos Alberto Ferreira Martins on June 3, 2013. The agreement will create joint programs in architectural history and theory at both universities and will be coordinated by Associate Professor Fernando Lara at UT Austin and Professor Renato Anelli at USP. The agreement is expected to facilitate the exchange of faculty and graduate students between both programs, as well as open other funding opportunities.

In 2013–2014, the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture is pleased to welcome Assistant Professors Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, and Sarah Lopez to the faculty. 

O’Neil Ford Duograph 5: Paraguay, edited by Barbara Hoidn, was published this summer by the O’Neil Ford Centennial Chair and the Center for American Architecture and Design.

Assistant Professor Matt Fajkus has been honored with a 2013 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, its highest teaching honor.

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, co-curated the exhibition “Culture:City” with Matthias Sauerbruch, of Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin, which showed at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, from 14 March to 26 May 2013. The exhibition continues at the Kunsthaus Graz from 28 June to 13 October 2103. 

Professor Wang served as a member of the jury for the XII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in Madrid, Spain and as a reviewer for the IX Congreso Internacional Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española at the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona.

Associate Professor Fernando Lara, has authored “Urbanidades.” Those who read Portuguese can follow his writings at: revistaforum.com.br/urbanidades/.

Associate Professor Ming Zhang has co-authored an article, “Predicting Transportation Outcomes for LEED Projects,” in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

At the request of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb has completed a review of fourteen scholarly papers, essays, and articles. The newly established Italian government agency invited internationally selected scholars to evaluate through a peer reviewing process the level and quality of scholarly production in Italy. The field of architectural history and theory was directed by Professor Carlo Olmo from the Politécnico di Milano. The Ministry of Culture announced the work completed on July 19, and the results of the 20-month work were published at ANVUR.org.

Natalie de Blois, pioneering architect at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and former UTSOA faculty member, died in Chicago, on Monday, July 22, at the age of 92. 

Assistant Professor Petra Liedl is leading the Energy (Ex) Change Conference, being host by the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

The conference will investigate By what processes have Munich and Austin come to be recognized as regional centers of energy innovation? What is each doing to enhance energy performance in the built environment, and what could be improved? Most importantly, how can this knowledge be optimized and translated to other regions? The conference is planned for October 1st and 2nd and more information may be found at http://energy-ex-change.com/

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Lois Weinthal, Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser for the Master of Interior Design Program recently presented a paper, titled “Embedded Emotions in Objects of the Architectural Interior,” at the interdisciplinary conference, “Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiality of Emotions,” at Princeton University.  Associate Professor Lois Weinthal also participated on a panel at the Dallas Center for Architecture, organized by the AIA Dallas Women in Architecture Committee.

 Dr. Nancy Kwallek, director of the Interior Design Program, published a paper, titled “Ellen Swallow Richards: Visionary on Home and Sustainability,” in the summer 2012 issue of Phi Kappa Phi FORUM. better living”).  

The firm Alterstudio has been busy this year. The firm includes Associate Dean Kevin Alter, Ernesto Cragnolino [B.Arch. & B.Arch.Eng. ’97], and Tim Whitehill [B.Arch. ’02].On August 8, the “Hillside Residence” will be the setting for one of this year’s “Discover Design Over Dinner,” presented by the Austin Foundation for Architecture. The “Elizabeth House” won a 2012 AIA Austin Design Award and, in January, was open to the public as part of the Austin Modern Home Tour. The recently published book, 21st Century Architecture: Designer Houses, includes a feature on the “Windsor East Residence” (the only building included from Texas). The firm’s design for the “Three Court House” was featured in an article in Austin Home Magazine‘s spring 2012 issue.

Alter presented a lecture on current work in Boston, in concert with the opening of an exhibition of five recent houses titled “Looking for Trouble.”  

Senior Lecturer and Architectural Conservation Laboratory Director Fran Gale and independent conservator Casey Gallagher [MSHP ’09] will assist with an evaluative study of the effects of the 2011 Bastrop fire on Bastrop State Park’s historic structures, which were built in the early 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The study is funded by a $25,000 grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department from the National Park Service.  

In June, Dean Fritz Steiner traveled to Turkey. Steiner and landscape architect Charles Waldheim, of Harvard University, were invited by Osmangazi Municipality, in Bursa Province, and Anadolu University to participate on a panel with local experts on devastating earthquakes that struck several regions in Turkey in 2011.  

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Professor Richard Cleary, Page Southerland Page Fellow in Architecture, has been honored with a 2011 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.
Established by the UT System Board of Regents in 2008, the awards reward outstanding classroom performance by contingent, tenure track, and tenured faculty members. The awards, which range from $15,000 to $30,000, are considered to be among the highest cash prizes offered in higher education in the country.

The August 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine highlights the UTSOA/University Co-op Materials Resource Center in the School of Architecture in Dan Jost’s article, http://archives.asla.org/lamag/education.html “Material Evidence.” Jost writes about the growing trend to maintain materials collections within various universities’ schools of architecture to promote “hands-on learning.”

Established in the fall of 2001, the  Materials Lab encompasses the materials collection, gallery/exhibition space, classrooms, and the Architectural Conservation Lab.

Professor Larry Speck‘s and Professor Richard Cleary‘s new book, The University of Texas at Austin: The Campus Guide, has just been published by Princeton Architectural Press as part of their campus guide series.

The Phillips Residence, designed by Professor Michael Garrison, Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellow in Architecture, has been awarded a LEED Platinum rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. The residence is one of the first houses in Austin to receive this rating.

Dean Fritz Steiner‘s book, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, was reviewed in the August/September 2011 edition of Planning magazine.

The Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris has invited Associate Professor Danilo Udovicki-Selb to take part in one of three conferences in October (Istanbul, Athens, and Naples), to be held on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Le Corbusier’s “journey to the east.”

Alterstudio recently received five http://www.dreamhomeawards.com, 2011 Dream Home Silver Design Awards. http://alterstudio.net/  Alterstudio includes Associate Dean Kevin Alter, Lecturer Ernesto Cragnolino [B.Arch. & B.Arch.Eng. ’97], Tim Whitehill [B.Arch. ’02], and Matt Slusarek[M.Arch. ’05]. Russell Krepart [M.Arch. ’02] worked with Alterstudio on the Scout Island Residence. UTSOA alum Tracey Overbeck Stead [B.S.I.D. ’97] was the interior designer on the Cascadera Residence.

Assistant Professors Tamie Glass and Ulrich Dangel have received a http://www.dreamhomeawards.com/ 2011 Dream Home Silver Design Award for the remodel of a 1980s residence originally designed by former School of Architecture dean Alan Taniguchi. Effective September 1, 2011, Dangel will be promoted to associate professor.

Associate Professor Vincent Snyder‘s Urban Reserve 22 Residence was recently profiled in ArchDaily.com.

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mueller‘s article, “Looking for Home after Katrina: Postdisaster Housing Policy and Low-Income Survivors,” co-authored with Holly Bell, Beth Brunsma Chang, and John Henneberger, was recently published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPE). Effective September 1, 2011, Mueller will be promoted to associate professor.

Senior Lecturer Steve Ross [M.S.A.S. ’90] was profiled by Alcalde magazine in an article by Mike Agresta titled “Building a Better Framework.”

Lecturer Mark Simmons, UTSOA alum Lars Stanley [M.Arch. ’03], and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center were featured in a story titled “Making Every Raindrop Count,” in the August 25, 2011, edition of The New York Times.

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Professor David Heymann recently returned from the southern France, where he was in residence with the The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar Residence. Directed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and based in Ménerbes, France, the program provides residencies for mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. While at the Dora Maar House, he worked on a manuscript of essays.

Heymann is a practicing architect and a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. The focus of Heymann’s writing, research, and practice is the complex relationships of buildings and landscapes, particularly sustainable constructions and natural landscapes. His built work has been variously published and recognized with design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York.

Professor Heymann’s article, “The Eastward-Moving House,” was just published at Places: Design Observer. The subject of the essay is the relationship of house form to values held regarding land, landscape, the landscape of the family, nature and cosmology. The form of the essay is a fiction, generated in response and as an addition to another fiction: J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House.” Written in 1953, Jackson’s great essay (long out of print) is also posted in Places.

From Heymann’s introduction: “If the centerline of Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House” is the availability of unconsumed land to be transformed by value systems into landscapes, the conceit of this later essay is that such land no longer exists, and a cycle of re-consumption in landscape making has begun.”

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, co-curated the exhibition and co-edited the catalogue on “Alvaro Siza: From Line to Space” at the Siza Pavilion, Hombroich, Germany. Professor Wang also contributed to the Capus Ultzama 2011, Pamplona, Spain, June 23-25, 2011, on the subject of abstraction and modernization. The conference was organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, Madrid/Pamplona. Other speakers included Gerardo Caballero, Eduardo Pasquera, Marcelo Villafañe, Tadej Glazar, Anne Lacaton, and Camilo Rebelo.

Professor Juan Miró contributed an article titled “Let’s Guide Austin’s Growth to Preserve Landscape, Offer Compact Alternative” to the June 15, 2011, edition of the Austin American-Statesman. In the article, Miró compares two models of city development-the Landscape City and the Compact City-and suggests: “As Austin continues to grow, it is not about choosing one model over the other; we must embrace the virtues of both models and mesh them successfully.”

Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui is featured in Archinect in their  “Working out of the Box” series.
Archinect highlights Siddiqui’s current work and explores his professional path. In part, Siddiqui explains, “I am increasingly interested in ways of defining space through means other than the introduction of new architectural volumes, focusing instead on imaginative re-tailoring of existing structures, performance-driven surface manipulations, exploiting relationships between objects and occupants, and taking advantage of ephemeral aspects of spatial experiences such as light, sound and smell.”

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Assistant Proferssor Allan Shearer is to be promoted to associate professor (with tenure), effective September 1, 2013.

During November and December 2012, Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb had four articles published in Il Giornale Dell’Architettura, Turin, Italy. The articles included a five-year revisiting of Steven Holl’s Kansas Art Museum and reviews of the Miró Rivera Architects’ Formula 1 in Austin, Texas; Farshid Moussavi’s Cleveland Art Museum; and ENEAD’s addition to Louis Kahn’s Yale Art Museum.

Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui‘s practice, ISSSStudio, recently completed a temporary installation at the Metro Show, a premier art fair held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City from January 24 to 27. of Modern Art in New York.

Professor Larry Speck, FAIA, is featured in an article, titled “Lives, Eats, Teaches, Designs, Breathes, Sleeps Architecture,” in Metal Architecture magazine.

Miró Rivera Architects (Professor Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera, principals) designed the entry sequence into the facility, Grand Plaza, Observation Tower, Tower Amphitheater, and Main Grandstand.

The National Board of the Ordem dos Arquitectos, the Chamber of Architects of Portugal, has conferred the title of Honorary Member to Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor of Architecture.

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe‘s stone lithography work is included in a show titled “Proof,” presented by the Auckland Print Studio in New Zealand.

Dean Fritz Steiner is featured on the National Design Museum Gallery. The gallery is a newly created interactive site for the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design

 


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Associate Professor Elizabeth Mueller has been elected to serve a three-year term on the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA). Dedicated to creating interdisciplinary spaces for engaging in intellectual and practical discussions about urban life, the UAA is the international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, and public service professionals.

Dean Fritz Steiner was on a panel of professors from both sides of the Pacific talking about the amazing cultural exchange happening between American and Chinese universities and the rising stature of landscape architecture in China.

 

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Lois Weinthal, associate professor and graduate advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program, is pleased to announce the release of “After Taste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design,” co-edited with Kent Kleinman and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

After Taste is comprised of texts, interviews, and portfolios that collectively document new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. The book’s central argument is that the field of interior design is inadequately served by its historical reliance on taste-making and taste-makers, and, more recently from a set of theoretical concerns derived from architecture. The volume seeks to set an expanded frame by advancing new voices and perspectives in both the theory and practice of interior design, considered as an independent discipline. After Taste offers expansive views of interior studies, highlights emerging areas of research, identifies allied practices, and makes public its under-explored territory.

Professor David Heymann presented a lecture called “Landscape Is Our Sex,” about the strange rhetoric of landscape used by architects, at the Iowa State University College of Design. 

Professor Larry Speck lectured on “Teaching Creative Problem Solving,” as part of the Discovery Learning Luncheon Seminars series hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Speck explains, “Educating the next generation to maximize creative thinking requires stimulating the whole brain—encouraging both right brain and left brain thinking. [… we must go beyond focused training for specific jobs and help create graduates who can think broadly and solve problems creatively.” 

BEYOND LEED: REGENERATIVE DESIGN SYMPOSIUM

Friday, January 27 – Saturday, January 28

Mebane Gallery, Goldsmith Hall

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture 

The “Beyond LEED” Symposium will focus on the themes, issues, and design approaches to sustainability not yet captured by LEED and other existing rating systems.

During the two-day symposium, nationally and internationally known designers, advocates, and scholars will present their visions of sustainable design and participate in dialogue about the next generation of green building strategies, standards, certification, and performance evaluation. 

Invited speakers include:

*  Scott Horst, United States Green Building Council

*  AIA representative, American Institute of Architects

*  Bill Browning, Terrapin

*  Bob Berkebile, BNIM

*  Werner Lang, Technical University Munich

*  David Heymann, The University of Texas at Austin

*  Danielle Pieranunzi, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

*  Leslie Moody, The Partnership for Working Families

*  Reid Ewing, The University of Utah

*  Raymond Cole, The University of British Columbia

The panelists will be moderated by Mike Conroy, an internationally recognized expert in certification and standard development, and principal of Colibrí Consulting – Certification for Sustainable Development, and author of Branded. 

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David Heymann, Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture, has published an article titled “A Life in Ruins” in the journal, Places.

The American Psychoanalytic Association has awarded Adjunct Professor Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D., with its Distinguished Service Award.

Assistant Professor Barbara Brown Wilson has just begun a new research relationship with the Surdna Foundation. Working alongside researchers at the Kresge Foundation, Brown Wilson and graduate assistant Nicole Joslin are conducting a scan of diversity and leadership development practices within the community engaged design field.

Dean Fritz Steiner is featured in the January/February issue of Texas Architect magazine. In “New Urban Tapestries,” he calls for more interconnected green infrastructure in cities, and cites visionary examples in Paris, Newark, and Seattle, as well as Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio.

On November 8, Professor Juan Miró and his partner Miguel Rivera, Miró Rivera Architects (MRA), gave two presentations at the Texas Society of Architects 74th Annual Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. The first presentation discussed their Lifeworks project, one of this year’s TSA Design Award winners. The second lecture focused on the MRA-designed Grand Plaza at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), exploring the development of the complex from site selection to completion.

Professor Steven Moore will travel to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, March 7–13, to lecture and serve as external evaluator of a Ph.D. dissertation, “Sustainability in Practice: Social Science Perspectives on Architectural Design, Research and the Implementation of Building Solutions.”

Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla, with Professor Juan Ignacio del Cueto of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), coordinated a three-day colloquium named “Architectural Roof: Contributions of Ibero-America to Construction History,” which was held December 9–12 at the UNAM School of Architecture in Mexico City

 

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