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AA Visiting School Los Angeles  This summer the USC School of Architecture and Architectural Association will be hosting the 1st ever AA Visiting School Los Angeles, co-directed by Alvin Huang (USC), Kevin Patrick McClellan (UTSA) & coordinated by Danielle Rago.  http://losangeles.aaschool.ac.uk/ 

Registration is open to students and professionals alike, who are interested in participating in a 10 day design charette focused on exploring the legacy of experimental housing in LA through the lens of contemporary design methodologies.  Expect to explore computational design strategies, implement digital fabrication processes, work with a global network of like-minded designers, researchers, and educators, and experience the iconic legacy of LA’s mid-century modernist homes.

Confirmed design instructors include:

  • Marc Fornes, TheVeryMany, Harvard GSD
  • Jenny Wu, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Sci-Arc
  • Adam Marcus, Variable Projects, CCA
  • David Freeland, FreelandBuck, Sci-Arc
  • Kevin Patrick McClellan, TexFab, UTSA
  • Alvin Huang, Synthesis Design + Architecture, USC 

Confirmed guest lectures include:

  • Neil Denari, NMDA, UCLA
  • Heather Roberge, Murmur, UCLA
  • Tom Wiscombe, Principal, Tom Wiscombe Design, Sci-Arc

Event Details:

  • June 16-27, 2014 at the USC School of Architecture
  • the Visiting School program is a global initiative by the Architectural Association to explore methods of design thinking developed at the AA in various global locations
  • an intensive 10 day design charrette bringing 50-60 students/professionals from around the world to LA to explore the applications of parametric modelling and digital fabrication to investigate a contemporary take on the Case Study movement.
  • event coincides with LA Design Festival and Dwell on Design 
  • We will host a public exhbition and panel discussion at Dwell on Design
  • we will host tours and visits to various iconic LA residential projects including the Goldstein Villa, Case Study 22, Eames House, and Neutra VDL.

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Michele Saee has been named IAA Professor for the International Academy of Architecture.  Academic Council at its XXXVIII session (12 April 2014). The “Michele Saee Monograph” is near completion and will be published in English and Chinese by China Architectural Press. This is the second monograph of Michele Saee’s work that reflects his work in the last eighteen years. The first book was published by Rizzoli. Prof. Saee has two new projects in construction in Los Angeles; one Tahiti Marina Apartments and Docks (a 149 unit apartment building in the Marina del Rey) and a house in Bel Air.

Adjunct Associate faculty member Warren Techentin recently opened an exhibition at the Materials & Applications gallery in Los Angeles, entitled La Cage aux Folles. This experimental bent steel tube structure explores the craft of pipe bending and joins form, computational procedures, and fabrication processes into a complex structure that assumes can challenges the notion of occupation and enclosure.

Leonard Marvin is currently Senior Design Manager in USC Capital Construction responsible for the “USC Village” project which is the largest USC project designed and constructed on either the University Park Campus or the Health Science Campus.

Assistant Professor Kyle Konis’ paper entitled:” Predicting visual comfort in side-lit open-plan core zones: Results of a field study pairing high dynamic range images with subjective responses,” was recently published in the journal Energy and Buildings. (Volume 77, July 2014, Pages 67–79).

Adjunct Professor Lorcan O’Herlihy’s firm, LOHA, is currently designing three mixed-use developments in the heart of Downtown LA’s Arts District and two university housing projects. On a smaller but just as important scale, LOHA has been rethinking urban infrastructure and has billboard structures and bus shelters going up throughout the LA region. Further afield, LOHA was recently selected as one of five shortlisted architects in an international competition to design a port terminal in Taiwan.

Professors Douglas Noble and Karen Kensek are coordinating a four-day architecture licensing lecture series in Los Angeles, May 29 – June 1, 2014.  More than 25 individual classes, and all are free and open to everyone. RSVP is required on the website (search for “NotLY USC”)

Assistant Professor Rachel Berney has developed a new online course for the Fall 2014 term. Created to run jointly with USC’s Public Health Program in the Keck School of Medicine, the course, ARCH 521 Health and the Design Environment, will explore the relationship between human health and well-being and designed environments through the lenses of landscape, place, and architecture.

Assistant Professor Alison Hirsch’s book, City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America was released in early April (University of Minnesota Press). Her essay “Visualizing Ceaseless Change” came out in the new book, Design in the Terrain of Water (edited by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha). She recently received the James H. Zumberge Research Grant for the development of her next book. 

Ken Breisch will be giving a lecture to the Santa Monica Conservancy on the Los Angeles architect, John Byers, on June 1, 2014.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang will be presenting the paper “Pure Tension: Intuition, Engineering, & Fabrication” at the The 19th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia in Kyoto, Japan.  He has also been invited to speak as part of the “New Materials, New World” panel at Dwell on Design organized by Dwell Magazine in Los Angeles and at “Perspective 2014” the annual design meeting organized by The Plan Magazine in Venice, Italy. His firm Synthesis Design + Architecture was recently announced the winner of an invited competition to design a public art installation for the Slauson Metro Station in South Central Los Angeles.  He is currently co-directing the upcoming AA Visiting School Los Angeles (June 16-27) and co-chairing the 2014 ACADIA Conference (October 23-26).

Geoffrey von Oeyen, Lecturer, was awarded the 2014 Architectural League Prize by the Architectural League of New York. The League Prize is one of North America_s most prestigious awards for young architects. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, Overlay, asks how the idea of overlay (iterative, conceptual, and notational) drives discourse, tension between iterations, design solutions, and the parameters by which work is reviewed. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, the competition draws entrants from around North America. Winners will lecture in June and display their work in an exhibition on view through the summer. Their ideas and work will also be featured in original interviews and video on the League_s website. One of six winners, von Oeyen will lecture about his work on June 24, 2014 with two other firms, followed by an opening reception for the group exhibition.

Lecture:

Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue

Exhibition:  June 24—August 1, 2014

The exhibition will be open daily 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will also be open on the evenings of the lectures.

 

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David Jason Gerber, D.Des, Assistant Professor USC School of Architecture and USC Viterbi School of Engineering was invited to chair the Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design Symposium in 2014 (SimAUD 2014), he was also invited to be chair of the ACADIA 2014 “Design Agency” conference to be held at USC. Dr. Gerber presented research and held workshops at Tsinghua University Beijing China on the topics of building performance through design computation. He is a keynote at Istanbul Technical University, Middle East Technical University and at Ozyegin Unviersity  where he will hold a workshop titled “Design Agency | Informed Surface Tectonics”. Dr. Gerber is the first repeat recipient of the competitively awarded IDEA studio research grant from Autodesk Inc. Dr. Gerber has been invited to be an editor for the International Journal of Architecture and Computing and for a special edition of the Journal of Simulation.

Diane Ghirardo‘s book chapter, La “Terza” Repubblica Italiana: Spettacolo e spreco dell’architettura e dell’ambiente,” just appeared in the book edited by G. Bonini and C. Visentin, Geografie, storie, paesaggi per un’Italia da cambiare (Arachne, Rome, 2013). She presented a lecture on architecture and the environment at Palazzo Capponi in Florence in October 2013. and another on Aldo Rossi at the University of Ferrara (November 2013).

Andy Ku, Lecturer, and Partner of OCDC will be featured as one among three up and coming artists from Los Angeles and Japan in a contemporary exhibition at the JACCC. The exhibit features diverse media including painting, drawing, installation, and architecture. Opening Reception is on November 23 at 2pm, showing at the George Doizaki Gallery through December 22.

Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, Mayor of Burbank lead a panel at the October 2013 Cal APA Conference. The panel, “Lost and Found: Creating Public Places in Overlooked Spaces,” critically evaluated three case studies that resulted in repurposing the public rights-of-way. The innovative approaches were discussed by Steve Rasmussen Cancian, Shared Spaces Landscape Architecture; Veronica Hahni, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative; and Tori Kjer, Trust for Public Land.

Visiting Professor Charles Anderson, FASLA, will be a speaker at The American Society of Landscape Architects National Convention in Boston on November 15th. The presentation is titled “Seattle’s  Olympic Sculpture Park Turns 5” and will highlight a design practice called “Urbanature.”

Mario Cipresso, AIA, adjunct assistant professor of architecture received first prize in the “Re-Envisioning 7th Street” competition in Long Beach, California.  His entry also received the People’s Choice Award.  The East 7th Street Collaboration asked artists & architects to envision the street as an urban boulevard that supports and reflects the culture of the neighborhoods it intersects.

Lecturer Vinayak Bharne in his capacity as Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides recently completed a 200-acre master plan for a marina resort in Panama City. His project for the downtown transformation of the city of Lancaster, California was also recognized with the International Downtown Association’s (IDA) Pinnacle Award at the World Congress in New York City. He was also recently invited by the Business Goa magazine to opine on the ongoing plan for the future of Panaji, the capital of the state of Goa, India.

Aaron Neubert, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and his firm ANX’s Sycamore House was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times. In addition, his Busan Opera House was included in the Ifengspace monograph “To Enjoy To Listen”.

Assistant Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was recently selected as a 2013-2015 Upjohn Scholar. His proposal Daylighting Design Performance Criteria for Alzheimer Care Facilities, Towards Evidence-based Best Practices for Improved Health has been awarded a $25,000.00 matching funds grant.

Assistant Professors Kyle Konis and Karen Kensek have been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas) to conduct research on Passive and Low Energy Strategies to assist the non-residential commercial market in achieving Sustainability, Zero Net Energy (ZNE), and Thermal Comfort as part of the SoCal Gas Commercial Sustainable Development Program (CSDP). 

Alexander Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture program, has been consulting and providing strategic advice and materials to a local effort to influence a decision by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on an up to 1 billion dollar restoration of an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River.

Amy Murphy, Associate Professor, will be partnering with Michael Maltzan Architecture to design an upcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on German Expressionist Cinema (expected to open in Fall 2014).

Gail Peter Borden, Discipline Head of Architecture and Director of Graduate Architecture Programs will have several featured commissioned pieces at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Additionally his installation Light Frames will be included in a museum exhibition in the spring the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach. His fourth book: Process: Material and Representation in Architecture with Routledge will be on shelves in spring along with his introductory framing essay to Material ConneXtion’s Material Innovation: Innovations in Architecture by Thames and Hudson. This fall professor Borden was appointed Faculty Master of the USC Parkside Arts and Humanities Residential College.

Tom Kundig, FAIA of Olson Kundig Architects—2013-2014 visiting professor and Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA Chair in Architecture at USC—designed one of the venues that will be used for Project Los Altos, the off-site exhibition program for SFMOMA. The 242 State Street building will host SFMOMA from November 9, 2013 through March 2, 2014

Neil Leach has been appointed Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He has also published 2 books, Digital Workshop in China (Tongji UP, 2013) and Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research (CABP, 2013), curated 2 exhibitions, Interactive Shanghai in Shanghai and the 2013 DADA Student Exhibition in Beijing, and organised 2 conferences, Interactive Shanghai in Shanghai with Philip Beesley as keynote speaker, and 3-D Printing in Concrete in Dessau with Behrokh Khoshnevis and Enrico Dini as keynote speakers.

Patrick Tighe, FAIA, Adjunct Professor, won a 2013 AIA award from the AIA, California Chapter for the Sierra Bonita Affordable Housing. 

The project was also awarded the IDEAS2 Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for excellence & innovative design in steel frame buildings. 

Rob Ley, Principle of Urbana, completes ‘May/Septmber’, a 14,000 sq. ft. interactive facade at the new Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis IN this month.  A grand opening is schedule for February, 2014.  Ley’s firm also recently completed a permanent outdoor installation ‘Floating Point’ as part of a new high density residential development outside of San Francisco, CA.  Ley also has past projects included in the recent Acadia conference, and included in recent publications Performative Materials in Architecture and Design by Sneha Patel and Installation Art II edited by Annie Lai.

 

 

 

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