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University of Oklahoma

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The University of Oklahoma dedicated Gould Hall for the College of Architecture in a public ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 14. It is the first time that students from all five disciplines – architecture, construction science, interior design, landscape architecture, and regional and city planning – are housed under one roof. The result, says College of Architecture Dean Charles Graham, will be greater opportunities for interdisciplinary study and a more rounded learning experience. The newly renovated building features a two-story, vaulted gallery – the Buskuhl Gallery – that allows for the flexibility of lighting and space necessary to adequately accommodate the students’ work in a professional manner, as well as a beautiful space in which to host receptions, symposia and traveling exhibits. Among the innovative features of the new building are a “Super Studio,” featuring two 40-inch plasma televisions and an interactive technology table, which allows six students to share their work with the professor and other students, and a full and mini “Learn Lab.” Learn Labs differ from traditional classrooms in that they have no typical “front”; rather, space is arranged in such a way as to encourage interaction among the students and professor. Three projectors allow students to share their work on one or all of the screens, and a ceiling-view document camera can be used to zoom in on an object and display it on one or more of the projector screens.

Oklahoma educator and urban designer Blair Humphreys was named Executive Director of the Institute for Quality Communities at the OU College of Architecture. The Institute for Quality Communities, founded in 2008, builds on OU’s success as an outstanding research university. Humphreys will guide the Institute in its work to build more vibrant, sustainable and equitable communities throughout Oklahoma and provide more research and educational opportunities for OU students. In spring 2011, Humphreys was the faculty adviser for a group of students from OU’s College of Architecture and Michael F. Price College of Business competing in a national urban design competition for The Urban Land Institute. The team placed in the top four, competing against 152 others from across the United States and Canada.

Ron Frantz, an architect who specializes in small-town design and preservation has joined the Institute for Quality Communities as the director of Small Town Studios. Frantz, who has done extensive work with both national and state Main Street programs, also has been named a Wick Carey Professor and will teach in the college’s Division of Architecture.  Frantz will provide design and planning experience by pairing faculty and students to projects in small towns across the state.

University of Texas at Austin

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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/

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, hosted at IIT College of Architecture, has announced the launch of The Skyscraper Center, a new web site that will be a top resource for information on tall buildings around the world. The Skyscraper Center contains a profile for every completed building taller than 200 meters globally, as well as thousands of other projects in various stages of development. The home page of The Skyscraper Center features a powerful world map tool which can generate important facts and tall building lists on any county in the world. Additionally, new features allow users to easily access updated news on projects and view the latest additions to the database.


 Explore the database at http://skyscrapercenter.com/

University of Illinois at Chicago

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The School is pleased to announce the appointment of the following faculty members: Clinical Professors Sam Jacob (FAT) and Andrew Zago (Zago Architecture), Assistant Professors Kelly Bair and Lluis Ortega, and Clinical Assistant Professors Paul Andersen, Julia Capomaggi, Grant Gibson, and Andrew Moddrell.  Branden Hookway will be joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2012.  This cohort of appointments adds significantly to the international design reputation of the faculty, as well as expands the School’s continuing commitment to the areas of advanced technology and contemporary theory and criticism.


Clinical Assistant Professor Paul Andersen’s design practice, !ndie Architecture, contributed the project “Invisible Garage” to the 306090 book Making a Case (February 2012). In collaboration with David Salomon, Andersen wrote The Architecture of Patterns (Norton, 2010), which examines a new generation of patterns in contemporary architecture. Andersen also co-curated Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess, which was exhibited throughout the MCA Denver during the 2010 Biennial of the Americas.

Assistant Professor Kelly Bair’s most recent work, “Rustication Never Sleeps,” was exhibited at the WUHo Gallery in Los Angeles in March 2011 as part of the show Mock-ups, which featured seven full-scale prototype proposals by emerging designers. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor Sarah Blankenbaker exhibited drawings at the WUHo Gallery in Los Angeles as part of the show 2D3D: Drawings in the Post-Digital Age (April 2011). With Zago Architecture, Blankenbaker also participated in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opened in February 2012.

Clinical Assistant Professor Julia Capomaggi edited the book Spain Pavilion at Expo Shanghai 2010 by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (Editorial Pencil, 2010). Her design practice, prefix-re, recently was awarded a honorable mention in a competition for urban equipment in Ycoor Crans-Montana, Switzerland and started the construction of Carcarana House in Argentina. She is currently writing her dissertation about furniture and interior space.

Assistant Professor Judith K. De Jong exhibited her project “How the Strip Mall Can Save Suburbia” in the exhibition 13.3% at the WUHo Gallery in Los Angeles (December 2010). She was named a Faculty Scholar for 2011–2012 at the Great Cities Institute, where she is investigating how changing relationships between city and suburb are manifested in spaces of commerce and domesticity. She and Assistant Professor Clare Lyster (with McLain Clutter) received the 2011–2012 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award, Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity for the submission Housing Urbanism: 5 Proposals for Chicago.

Associate Professor Sarah Dunn‘s design practice UrbanLab was named a finalist in the 2012 Young Architects Program competition hosted by MoMA PS1. UrbanLab was also part of a team led by landscape architecture firm !melk on the shortlist for the Navy Pier Pierscape redesign competition. 

Assistant Professor Alexander Eisenschmidt received a Graham Foundation Publication Grant for the book Chicago in the World in collaboration with Jonathan Mekinda. Eisenschmidt hosted the Informal Cities Symposium at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (October 2010) and chaired the panel on the topic of the modern and contemporary metropolis at the ACSA West Central Fall Conference at UIC (October 2010). In addition, he lectured at the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia (April 2011) and the International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, an event associated with the 2010 Lisbon Triennial of Architecture (October 2010). 

Emerita Professor Roberta Feldman, along with Bryan Bell, Sergio Palleroni, and David Perkes, was awarded the 2011 Latrobe Prize from the AIA for research on Public Interest Practices in Architecture, and is on the Studio Gang team for the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream (February 2012). She was also awarded the 2011 ACSA Award for Service.

Adjunct Professor Paul Florian’s design firm Florian Architects won an AIA Chicago Honor Award and an AIA Illinois Honor Award in 2010 for the Hyde Park Bank Loan Processing Center in Chicago. In 2011, the firm won an AIA Small Projects Honor Award for the Goodsell Residence, which was also published in Chicago Architect (August 2011). 

Professor Michael Gelick was elected to an international committee by the Israeli Council for Higher Education Quality Assessment and Assurance System to review and make recommendations for the four schools of architecture in the State of Israel. His design firm, Gelick and Associates, won a Critical Dunes Residential Design Award from Preserve the Dunes Inc. for a residential complex in Wilderness Dunes, Michigan.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Iker Gil exhibited the project “Inside Marina City” at the Art Institute of Chicago (September 2011) and was invited to contribute to the exhibition “Urban China: Informal Cities” at the Museum of Contemporary art Chicago (October 2010). With the Chicago Architecture Club, his design practice, MAS Studio, organized the international design competition “Network Reset: Rethinking the Chicago Emerald Necklace.”

Associate Professor Sharon Haar co-edited a volume of the journal Nakhara: Dynamic City, published by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand with colleagues in the US, Belgium, and Thailand, and spoke at the Learning Spaces colloquium at IE University in Segovia, Spain (September 2011). In 2011, Haar’s book The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago was published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Clinical Professor Sam Jacob co-edited the Architectural Design issue Radical Post-Modernism with Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, and Charles Holland (September 2011). In March 2012, Jacob will lead a panel entitled “No Do-Overs” as part of the exhibition Ceci n’est pas une reverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman at the Graham Foundation. 

In March 2011, Clinical Assistant Professor Jimenez Lai opened a solo show, “White Elephant (Privately Soft),” at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, KY, and received a grant from the Graham Foundation for the book Citizens of No Place (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). In June 2011, Lai published “Primitives” in Log 22. Lai also co-organized and spoke at a TEDx event in Chicago (August 2011) and attended the Buenos Aires Biennale as a speaker and an exhibitor (October 2011).

Assistant Professor Sean Lally was named a winner of the 2011–2012 Rome Prize Competition by the American Academy in Rome. The award, granted for the project “Gradient Nolli,” includes an eleven-month research fellowship in Italy.

Assistant Professor Clare Lyster’s article “New Ecologies of Airline Flow” won the 2010–2011 JAE Best Design as Scholarship Article Award. Her essay “Infrastructural Cartography: Drawing the Space of Flows” will be included in the forthcoming publication Mobility (Ashgate, 2012). In Fall 2011, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, where she co-taught a seminar titled “The Third Coast Project.” Her work was the subject of the exhibition SYSTEMscapes: Diagramming Distribution Flow at the Chicago Arts District June–September 2011.

In June 2011, Clinical Assistant Professor Andrew Moddrell’s firm PORT A+U received an honorable mention in the Van Alen Institute’s Life at the Speed of Rail competition for the proposal “I Love GLC (Great Lakes City).” In November 2010, PORT A+U was awarded the unanimous first prize in the FORMCities design competition sponsored by Mississippi State University and the Jackson Community Design Center for the project “Re-Cultivating the Forest City.”

Assistant Professor Lluis Ortega published essays on contemporary architecture in the journals Harvard Design Magazine and PLOT and in books featuring the work of Carles Muro (Editorial Lampreave) and Alfons Soldevila (UPC editions). His design practice, F451arquitectura, recently completed three projects in Barcelona and is currently developing an international ferry terminal in Menorca, two high school buildings in Barcelona, and a collaborative research with Modultec on prefabricated buildings for projects in Mali, Brazil, and Spain.

Assistant Professor Paul Preissner exhibited work, delivered a keynote lecture, and participated in the conference at the 13th Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture (October 2011).

A team led by Professor Xavier Vendrell‘s firm Xavier Vendrell Studio was named one of five finalists for the Navy Pier Pierscape competition. The proposal, which redesigns Navy Pier’s public spaces, is on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation through May 2012. With Professor Doug Garofalo, Vendrell also collaborated on a plan for the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago as part of “Design on the Edge: Chicago Architects Reimagine Neighborhoods,” an exhibition curated by Stanley Tigerman at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (September 2011).

Professor Dan Wheeler exhibited and lectured on the work of his firm Wheeler Kearns Architects at the BEB Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design in April 2011. The firm was also a SEED Design Award winner for the Inspiration Kitchen in East Garfield Park in Chicago (March 2011). In May 2011, Wheeler participated in the panel discussion “How Chicago Are You?” at the Graham Foundation. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor Kirk Wooller authored and edited the book 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse (AA Publications, 2011), which brings together editors from twenty leading contemporary architectural magazines to discuss collectively the role editors play in shaping architectural discourse.

Clinical Professor Andrew Zago‘s firm Zago Architecture led one of five teams exhibiting work in Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at the Museum of Modern Art (February 2012). The exhibition envisions new schemes for housing and transportation in American suburbs. 

The University and School of Architecture community mourns the loss of Professor Doug Garofalo, who died at his home Sunday, July 31, 2011. Doug began his teaching career at the UIC School of Architecture in 1987, moving through all faculty ranks from part-time adjunct to tenured full professor, and also served as Interim Director 2001–2003. In 2009, Doug was named a University Scholar, the first time in twenty-six years that a member of the School of Architecture was so honored. Representing the highest ideal of the academic-practitioner, Doug was a tireless mentor and source of inspiration for the students, junior faculty, and young architects that worked with him.

In memory of Doug and in recognition of his exceptional life and career, the School has established the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship, an endowed fund dedicated to bringing a young practitioner or recent graduate to teach and conduct independent design research within the School of Architecture. With the generous support of friends, family, colleagues, former students, and clients, the first Garofalo Fellow is expected to take residence at the School in Fall 2013. For more information on the Fellowship, please visit www.arch.uic.edu/garofalofellowship.php.

 

 

 

University of Minnesota

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Both Renee Cheng, head of the School of Architecture, and Tom Fisher, dean of the College of Design, were listed among the top 25 most admired design educators by Design Intelligence. Fisher has been writing about design in the Huffington Post, has recently published a piece “The Death and Life of Great Architecture Criticism for Places,” and continues to write every other month for Architect magazine about past P/A Award winning projects. He also lectured at Yale and Auburn on topics related to creating more resilient communities, the subject of his next book.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Professor Jeffrey L. Day in a collaboration between Min | Day and FACT has won two more awards in 2013 for the Bemis InfoShop project: an AIA San Francisco Honor Award for Interior Architecture and an AIA National Small Project Honor Award. The project has previously received awards from AIA Nebraska and AIA Central States Region.

Mr. Day was invited to present “Anything Goes” as the annual Eva Maddox lecture at the University of Illinois-Chicago on April 1, 2013. 

Mr. Day with Min | Day were selected as semi-finalists in the “Typecast | Recast” public art commission in Omaha. The finalist(s) will be announced in mid-May.

Professor Wayne Drummond attained Emeritus Dean rank and was honored by The College of Architecture during the Legacy of Leadership ceremony in April 2013.

Associate Professor Chris Ford presented a paper titled “The Composite Drawing in Architectural Education,” at the Design Communication Association conference at Oklahoma State in Oct 2012. 

Mr. Ford also lectured on his “REIs: Renewable Energy Infrastructures” research at the University of Hawai’I in Dec 2012. It has since been published in the journal Edinburgh Architecture Research #33. 

Assistant Professor Tim Hemsath was awarded a two-year $15,000 grant by the AIA Upjohn Research Initiative for A Framework for an Energy Efficient and Computer Automated Housing Design.

Professor Rumiko Handa published her article “Sir Walter Scott and Kenilworth Castle: Ruins Restored by Historical Imagination” in Preservation Education and Research, Journal of the National Council for Preservation Education, volume 5 (2012), 29-44. Her photograph of Kenilworth Castle made the journal’s cover.  

Dr. Handa’s article titled “Indigo Jones and Stonehenge: The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Restored,” is included in the book Ordo et Mensura IX, edited by Florian Huber and Rolf C.A. Rottländer and published by Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, Germany (2012). 

Professor Mark Hoistad has been given Adjunct Professor status at XiAn Jioatong University for three years, where he has acted as visiting critic and lectured twice. 

Assistant Professor Brian M. Kelly will be featured in two forthcoming journals – the International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design (title “HP2”) and AIA’s Forward (titled “Making by Proxy: A Contemporary Definition of Manufacturing”).

Mr. Kelly presented papers at AAE conference at Nottingham Trent University, ARCC conference at UNC Charlotte, and ATMOS 5 conference at University of Manitoba.

Mr. Kelly’s design research work titled “HP2” was short listed from a national call for the IDEC Design Awards Program in the category of “Design as Idea.” The work was part of the ACSA’s National Conference poster session in San Francisco.

Mr. Kelly co-authored a paper with Eric Leahy (UNL ’12), which will be included in the MediaCities 4 conference at the University of Buffalo. 

Associate Professor Nathan Krug will receive a ‘Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students’ from The Parents Association, University of Nebraska – Lincoln for his “significant contribution to their lives while at UNL.”

Assistant Professor Peter Olshavsky has received a $10,000 Layman Seed Grant to support his project “Story-telling Machines: North American Architecture of Late-Modernity, 1969-1999.”

Dr. Olshavsky presented a paper, “Re-Telling Paris: Creative History as Perceptual Place-making” and moderated a session at the National Conference of the Beginning Design Student at Temple University.

Dr. Olshavsky is organizing a paper session called “Global Architectural Machine Traditions” for ACSA Miami and is currently accepting submissions.

Professor and Dean Emeritus Cecil Steward was honored during the College of Architecture’s Legacy of Leadership ceremony in April 2013.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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IIT College of Architecture faculty have been recognized in AIA Chicago’s 2011 Design Excellence Awards. At the October 28th event, five faculty members’ firms received awards.

The College of Architecture faculty honorees are listed below by award. For complete coverage of the 2011 awards, including photos of each winning design, visit AIA Chicago’s web site.

Distinguished Building Honor Award
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building.

Distinguished Building Citation of Merit
John Ronan, John Ronan Architects. Gary Comer College Prep.
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. Fullerton and Belmont Stations Reconstruction.

Interior Architecture Citation of Merit
Andrew Metter, Epstein | Metter Studio. Serta International.

Regional & Urban Design Honor Award
Martin Felsen, UrbanLab. Farming the Chicago Stock Yards.

Regional & Urban Design Citation of Merit
Thomas Hoepf, Teng + Associates. Moraine Valley Community College Entrance Gateway + Quadrangle.

IIT College of Architecture’s Paris Program students recently conducted a collaborative workshop with IE University in Segovia, Spain. Segovian “esgrafiado,” a traditional facade surface technique, was used as a point of departure. Under the guidance of renowned Segovian artisan Julio Barbero Artesanos, the session began as an active seminar with students working in traditional techniques, tools, materials, and processes. A technical architect, Anna Marasuela, presented a contemporary perspective on variations in system performance and its inherent efficiency with respect to embodied energy and material reuse. 

After this initial training, students developed contemporary production ideas, speculating on material adaptations, the implications of altering production processes, and the effects on the system’s programmatic and communicative abilities.

View coverage in El Adelantado de Segovia newspaper

University of Oklahoma

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University of Oklahoma Division of Architecture: September 2013

Associate Professor David L. Boeck was recently appointed the South Central Regional Coordinator for the Design Communications Association (DCA) and elected a board member to the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).  Professor Boeck presented a co-authored paper entitled “The Healthful and Helpful House in Positive Aging” with Associate Professor Hepi Wachter (Interior Design) and Professor David Moxley (Social Work) at EDRA44 Providence. 

The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture (CMEAC) at the College of Architecture established Spring 2012 by Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi held the inaugural CMEAC Symposium in March 2013.  The event spanned three days, opening with an art exhibit from renowned Iranian artist and architect Abdolhossein Pazoki and featuring a keynote address by Gisue Hariri, principal of Hariri & Hariri Architects of New York.  The Farzaneh family has granted CMEAC a $350,000 endowment, establishing a Presidential Professorship in Persian Architecture.  For more information, please visit: www.ou.edu/cmeac

Assistant Professor Daniel Butko presented two papers (one coauthored with an undergraduate student) at the ASA/ICA acoustics conference in Montreal, June 2013.  Professor Butko sponsored five undergraduate student research teams at the 2013 OU Honors College Undergraduate Research Day.  One team comprised of Architecture student Peter Mall and Construction Science student Holly Snow won a Distinction in Undergraduate Research Award for their work with Professor Butko and Dr. Lisa Holliday (CNS).  Professor Butko was also recently appointed to the Newman Student Award Fund Advisory Committee.

Assistant Professor Thomas Cline is currently leading a multidisciplinary team consisting of AIAS, Freedom By Design, Sooners Without Borders, and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society in building a human waste composting eco-latrine at the OU Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station.  The eco-latrine is intended to support the research efforts of faculty and students in Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Biology, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, and Meteorology.

Assistant Professor Tony Cricchio was the instructor this year for the annual Playhouse Parade project in which students design and build a playhouse for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Oklahoma County. This is the fourth year the college has been involved in the project. The playhouse was one of three constructs donated by local firms, which were raffled off in late June 2013 to raise money for CASA.  Funds raised goes directly to CASA, which provides trained court appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused or neglected children in the juvenile court system. The playhouse was designed to be easy to assemble with lightweight materials.  Enrolled students included Aaron Crandall, Victoria Waggoner, Samuel Carpitcher-Sexton, Mindy Gowen, Kristi Epperson, Ninh Ly, and Marina Soares.  Assistance included Gould Hall Building Facility Manager Jerry Puckett and Shop Manager Hunter Roth.  The team was awarded the People’s Choice Award based on the number of ticket sales per playhouse entered.

Dr. Stephanie Pilat has been awarded a Wolfsonian-FIU fellowship, which will allow her to spend three weeks in residence at the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida Spring 2014.  She will be conducting research on a new project entitled “Shaping the Body Politic: Architecture for Youth and Sports in Fascist Italy.”

The Compressed Earth Block (CEB) research team – consisting of Assistant Professors Daniel Butko (Arch), Dr. Lisa Holliday (CNS), Matthew Reyes (CNS), Scott Williams (LA), Dean Charles Graham, Dr. Kianoosh Hatami (CEES), and Dr. Chris Ramseyer (COE), numerous students, and Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity (CCHFH) community volunteers – is working diligently to complete the CEB residence adjacent to a conventionally wood-framed residence in Norman, OK.  Both houses are on schedule for completion Spring 2014 and comparative data will be collected upon completion and into occupancy.  Photo shows construction progress of both residences as of August 2013. For more information, please visit http://ceb.ou.edu

The Oklahoma City Skydance Bridge, designed by the national competition-winning consortium that includes Division of Architecture Director Hans E. Butzer, Professor in Practice Stan Carroll and College of Engineering Dr. Chris Ramseyer, received the 2013 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award given by the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations. The award was given at the association’s September awards ceremony in Atlanta, GA.

In other student news, the College of Architecture recently awarded over $110,000 in scholarships to students from all disciplines (Architecture, Construction Science, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Regional & City Planning, the Tulsa Urban Design Studio, and Environmental Design.  At the Scholarship Banquet, the College also honored outstanding alumni contributors and educators, including Adjunct Architecture Lecturer Geoff Parker who was awarded the Division of Architecture 2013 Outstanding Adjunct Award.  A series of videos from the 2013 Placemaking Conference, organized by Assistant Professor Blair Humphreys and Adjunct Lecturer Umit Hope Mander of the The OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC), are posted at http://iqc.ou.edu/

Iowa State University

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Iowa State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Hauptmann as Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture. Only recently arrived at ISU, Professor Hauptmann was previously Director of the Delft School of Design at the TU Delft, The Netherlands. Hauptmann practiced Architecture in Switzerland, Spain and America; her research draws on a trans-disciplinary approach to architecture, including disciplines of art, philosophy, cultural & media studies, social science and neuroscience as exemplified in her edited volume Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noopolitics.

We are also pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Andrea Wheeler as Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, where she teaches courses in technical building systems and comprehensive design. Wheeler has degrees in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering from Oxford Brookes University as well as a PhD from the University of Nottingham. In 2007 she was awarded a prestigious three-year ESRC/EPSRC fellowship award to examine sustainable schools and subsequently worked as a research fellow for a central UK government research unit. She has recently been awarded $12,000 in seed funding to continue this research with a project entitled Iowa’s New School Buildings: A Future Invested in Sustainability.

In addition to these new appointments, Ulrike Passe has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Passe has been a faculty member at Iowa State since 2006, where she teaches architectural design and environmental forces and control systems and serves as director of the Center for Building Energy Research and plank leader of the Iowa NSF EPSCoR Building Science plank. Her research focuses on the relationship of spatial composition and fluid dynamics of air-flow as an approach to energy efficient building design and the evaluation of building integrated passive and renewable energy systems. She received her Diplom-Ingenieur in Architecture from the Technical University in Berlin and is a licensed architect in Germany.

University of Houston

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Associate Professor Michelangelo Sabatino co-published Arthur Erickson: Layered Landscapes – Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives (Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2013).  The Italian translation of his award-winning book Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2010) was published by Franco Angeli Edizioni in Milan (2013).

An excerpt from his co-edited book Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Routledge with Jean-Francois Lejeune) was published in Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedenknect eds., The Rationalist Reader: Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-1940 / 1960-1990 (London: Routledge, 2013).

As Associate Reviews Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education, Sabatino recently helped launch online reviews.

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