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University of Oklahoma

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Assistant Professor of Architecture Thomas Cline has completed the design, fabrication, and installation of a tabernacle for the St. Thomas More University Parish in Norman, Oklahoma.  The existing parish and student center was designed by Raymond Yeh, FAIA, former Dean of the OU College of Architecture. The white oak tabernacle features a gold-leafed carving of a pelican feeding its chicks, a traditional Eucharistic symbol of the Catholic Church.

Stan Carroll, AIA, joined the Division of Architecture as a Professor of Practice for the Spring 2012 semester. He will be working with the first year students to help transform the way they think, both digitally and in the Creating_Making focus of the division’s new curriculum. Stan is president of Beyond Metal and works as a hands-on designer of sculpture, architecture, furniture, and architectural metal specialties.

The OU College of Architecture’s undergraduate program was named among the top 10 in the South, according to “Design Intelligence,” a twice-monthly report of the Design Futures Council. The design recognized three aspects of the college — creative programs, outstanding faculty and premier facilities. Read more. 

The Institute for Quality Communities continues their Streets for People lecture series this semester among other lectures and events in the College. Get the Spring calendar here with additional events to be added throughout the semester.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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A student competition called The Architecture and Engineering of Sustainable Buildings has been organized by Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour.  The competition is scheduled for the spring 2012 semester and will be conducted by the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA) across the United States and Canada.  Visit the ACSA Competition Web Site for more information. 

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour presented a paper titled “Tall Buildings and Sustainability – – An Integrated Approach” at the 2011 World Conference by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).  The conference was held in Seoul, Korea October 10- 12, 2011.

Assistant Professor Mark Taylor received the 2011 AIA Central Illinois Outstanding Educator Award.

Associate Professor William Worn presented a paper titled “Post-Industrial Transformation and the Obesogenic City” at a 2-day architectural symposium held at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Britain, on November 22-23, 2011.

Professor R. Alan Forrester, Director of the School of Architecture from 1981-1998, passed away on November 23, 2011. His family is planning a memorial to be announced at a later date. 

Michael J. Plautz, ’67 graduate of the University of Illinois School of Architecture, passed away on January 6, 2012, at the age of 68. 

Assistant Professor Therese Tierney has signed a book contract with Routledge for her book titled Public Space/ New Publics: Connected Culture of the Network Society. Her essay titled “Accessing Urban Information: [i-metro] as a locative media commons” will be published in the Leonardo Journal ISAST: Environment 2.0  in 2012.  Prof. Tierney will also be presenting a paper titled “Intelligent Infrastructure: Mobile Networks as Tactical Transportation” at the ACSA Conference in Boston March 1-3, 2012. 

The School of Architecture, in conjunction with the School of Landscape Architecture, announces the Spring 2012 Lecture Series. Lecturers include:  David Salmela, Salmela Architecs; Brad Lynch, Brininstool + Lynch; Florian Idenburg, Solid Objectives; David Brown, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University; Christopher Leong, Leong Leong Architecture; Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Atelier Bow Wow; Marvin Trachtenberg, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Craig Schwitter, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers; and Ken Smith. 

Professor Kathryn Anthony has designed two new iPhone apps titled “Design Student Survival Guide” and “Student Survival Guide,” and was featured in an article through the CITES Academic Technology Services website at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at http://blogs.cites.illinois.edu/cites-ats/2012/02/29/faculty-member-launches-new-iphone-apps/.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Assistant Professor Sean Keller has received a grant from the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.  The Warhol Foundation program supports contemporary art writing that engages a broader audience and whose rigor strengthens critical art writing as a discipline. Sean Keller, along with co-author Christine Mehring, will use the funding for their forthcoming book, Munich ’72: Olympian Art and Architecture (Chicago), which examines the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics on German postwar identity, international artistic exchanges, and computational methods of architectural design.
http://artswriters.org/index.php?action=grantee_detail&grantee_id=126&year=2011

Assistant Professor Marshall Brown will deliver the keynote address at the SUPERstructure symposium sponsored by the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object

will focus on interdisciplinary scholarship and practice in design, craft, and fine art as it pertains to the built environment:   SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, March 23-24, 2012, http://www.thedcca.org/ghsymposium

Associate Professor John Ronan’s firm, John Ronan Architects, received the 2012 AIA Institute Honor award for the Poetry Foundation. The Chicago home of Poetry Magazine and Poetry Foundation administration, the building features public performance space, a gallery, and library. The building is sheathed in perforated oxidized zinc, with layers of glass and wood. AIA likened the building’s subtle, unfolding design to a poem being “revealed line by line. http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/architecture/PoetryFoundation/index.htm

Illinois Institute of Technology

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ComEd announced the winners of its “Powerful Design” contest, in which local architecture students created design concepts for a new training facility on Chicago’s South Side, on May 1.  IIT architecture undergraduate students Andrea Zuniga and Daniel Caven created the winning entry, entitled “Seed of Light.”  The contest also included teams from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

The winning team members will receive paid summer internships at Design Organization, the Chicago architecture firm selected by ComEd to design the new facility. The winning team also will receive a $1,500 cash prize to be split evenly among the team members.

“We’re excited to engage with aspiring architects and provide students with a real-world opportunity to showcase their skills,” said Anne Pramaggiore, president and CEO, ComEd, at a news conference at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Pramaggiore served as a member of the contest jury, which included Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects; Lourdes Gonzalez, senior vice president of Primera Engineers; Raj Gupta, CEO of Environmental Systems Design, Inc.; and Wilbur Milhouse III, president and CEO at Milhouse Engineering & Construction.

“Selecting a winner was not easy as all of the entries were very strong,” said Raj Gupta. “It is exciting to see such talented aspiring architects developing design concepts at this level.”

Participants were at least fourth-year undergraduate or master’s students. While “Seed of Light” won first place, other prize winners included the “Looking In, Climbing Up” entry from UIC, the “Arena” entry from UIC, and the “Aletheia” entry from the SAIC.

“We’re excited to offer internships to the talented winners of this competition,” said Spero Valavanis, president of Design Organization. “They have demonstrated considerable skill, creativity and vision and we are eager to work with them and ComEd on this important project.”

As part of the company’s $2.6 billion investment under the Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act enacted last fall by the Illinois General Assembly, ComEd will build a LEED-certified facility to train a new generation of utility workers in the advanced skills needed to modernize the electric grid.  The training center will contain classrooms, office space, new technology exhibits, conference rooms and student break areas.  It also will feature 20 indoor underground cable-splicing bays, a weather-protected pole yard, overhead conductors, distribution automation equipment, manholes and substation equipment for use by trainees.  ComEd plans to begin construction on the facility later this year.

“We are proud to be part of this process and to showcase the work of local architecture students,” said Lynn J. Osmond, president and CEO of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. “We encourage Chicagoans to come see the works of these talented students enrolled in the top architecture programs in a city known for great architecture.”

The Powerful Design contestants were honored at an awards ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on May 1 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.  The entries will be on display through May 23, 2012.

Master of Architecture student Anne Dudek was chosen as AIA Chicago’s 2012 Martin Roche Travel Scholar. Dudek will use the $5,000 grant to travel to China, where she will research living conditions for migrant workers in cities. Dudek plans to continue this research through her IIT Masters Project and her planned professional focus on social architecture.

MLA student Fa Likitswat has won the 2012 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for her work in Adjunct Professor Terry Guen’s Fall 2011 graduate studio, “Catalytic Waterways.” The studio explored urban conditions adjacent to Chicago’s river and canal systems in order to design a new sustainable city form that integrates natural ecosystem types into the urban fabric

Likitswat’s project, “The Gravity of Transformation,” focused on the area surrounding the Santa Fe Railroad elevator at the head of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Likitswat’s design called for a cultural and recreational site, a food production and marketplace area, and a habitat island.

The Schiff Foundation Fellowship is administered by the Art Institute of Chicago for the purpose of supporting young architects. As the Schiff Foundation winner, Fa Likitswat receives a $15,000 award and her project will become part of the permanent collection of architectural drawings housed within the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Nghia Phan, winner of the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship! Phan will receive a stipend to study at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland under Professor Fernando Porte-Agel, Head of the Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory. Phan will focus on applications for the small scale wind turbine in the built environment.  

The ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship program promotes exchanges and sharing know-how between the United States and Switzerland.

Professor Dirk Denison’s firm, Dirk Denison Architects, has received The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing Award for the Carmel Residence in Carmel by the Sea, California. The beach house features dramatic views of the Pacific and large sliding windows that allow breezes through the house’s courtyard. Jurors praised the integration of living and outdoor spaces and described the residence as “a sanctuary for living and meditation.”
http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/housing-awards/CarmelResidence/index.htm

IIT College of Architecture faculty have been recognized in AIA Chicago’s 2012 Small Project Awards. At the May 11th event, three faculty members’ firms received awards.

The College of Architecture faculty honorees are listed below by award. For complete coverage of the 2012 awards, including photos of each winning design, visit AIA Chicago’s website (www.aiachicago.org).
Small Project Structure | Honor Award
Richard Blender, Blender Architecture. Garden Infrastructure + Connector
Small Project Structure | Citation of Merit
Thomas Roszak, Thomas Roszak Architecture. The Clark Family Welcome Gallery at Adler Planetarium
Small Object | Citation of Merit
Martin Felsen, UrbanLab. Art Chicago: Video Arcade 

 

Southern Illinois University

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Shannon Sanders McDonald, Assistant Professor, AIA is a new faculty member at Southern Illinois University School of Architecture. She has authored the book: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form published by the Urban Land Institute that was the basis for a recent exhibit at the National Building Museum titled: House of Cards. She has written numerous articles and given many presentations all over the world on parking, architecture, urban design, sustainability, transportation and their future synergies. Her current research is with new movement technologies and 21st century design.

Craig Anz, Associate Professor, PhD  is working with an interdisciplinary team on relocation efforts for the area of Olive Branch, Illinois.  The region was severely affected by the 2010 flooding and levee breaks along the Mississippi River, requiring a large-scale FEMA buyout of properties.  Funded by a Walton Family Foundation grant, Dr. Anz is leading the design charette processes and the implementation of the Strategic Vision Documents for the development of a new, ideal town and distinct place within its region.   In addition, the process is engaging research and publication at multiple levels of disciplinary inquiry and knowledge integration to foster long-term use as a model case study.    

   

University of Texas at Austin

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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.  

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Assistant Professor Karl Wallick’s article “Generative Processes: Thick Drawing” will be published in the February 2012 issue of The International Journal of Art & Design Education. Wallick’s recently published book on Kieran Timberlake Inquiry was selected as a notable book for 2011 on the website www.designersandbooks.com by Phil Patton, a writer for the New York Times.

Graduate students Curtis Ryan, Sara Maas, Kyle Blomquist, and Megan Gelazus were one of five winning teams of the Architecture at Zero competition for zero net energy (ZNE) building designs sponsored by PG&E and the San Francisco AIA. The work was part of Adjunct faculty Nick Cascarano’s Competitions Studio in collaboration with Associate Professor Mike Utzinger’s Fundamentals of Ecological Architecture.

Associate Professor James Wasley (UWM), along with Emily Kilroy and Associate Professor John Quale (UVA) have edited “Carbon Neutral Affordable Housing: A Guidebook for Providers, Designers and Students of Affordable Housing.” The work was sponsored by the AIA, Society of Building Science Educators and other sources.  

The Rice Design Alliance’s Spotlight Award honored Associate Professor Grace La and Adjunct faculty James Dallman of the firm, LA DALLMAN.  The international award, which recognizes exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their professional careers, carries a cash prize and invitation to lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  LA DALLMAN is the first United States practice to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to acclaimed architects Antón García-Abril of Spain and Sou Fujimoto of Japan.  

LA DALLMAN was also invited to lecture about their work at several universities and institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Drury University, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The National Building Museum.  Additional speaking and professional engagements include Grace La serving as a juror and panelist for the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Convention; and James Dallman serving as juror and panelist for 2011 Critical Mass, held at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Design projects by LA DALLMAN are recently published in Small Scale (Princeton Architectural Press); and Architectural Highlights (Shanglin A&C).

Associate Professor Mo Zell and Adjunct faculty Marc Roehlre will present design research in collaboration with their firm bauenstudio at the ACSA National Conference in Boston. The projects to be presented in the poster session include ‘Chicago REDOX: Reduction/Oxidation’, in collaboration with graduate student Keith Hayes, and ‘Balmart: Reclaiming Public Space’.

Professor Mark Keane, UW-Milwaukee, and Prof. Linda Keane, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will be offering K-12 design education teacher in-services in Madison, Milwaukee and Racine in the coming months.  www.NEXT.cc is the award winning host curriculum greening K-12 education across the country. NEXT.cc will also be part of a panel at the National Art Educators Association in New York in March 2012.  If interested in the possibility of a K-12 design education forum at the San Francisco ACSA conference in 2013, contact <lkeane@saic.edu>. In the meantime visit www.NEXT.cc

UWM School of Architecture & Urban Planning is pleased to announce the formation of a new Fellowship Program, offering one-year fellowships in the areas of design instruction and architectural research.  The fellowships are geared toward focusing and expanding design research, energizing the architectural curriculum with current discourse, as well as confirming an academic career path for candidates in the formative stage of their professional lives. Innovative and emerging designers, architecture practitioners, and scholars are encouraged to conduct design research and to participate in the SARUP community through the teaching of studios and seminars.  Further information about the new program, such as the submission requirements and deadline of March 13, 2012, can be found on the SARUP and UWM websites.


University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Associate Professor Jeff Day has been promoted to Full Professor.

Mr. Day’s architectural practice Min | Day (www.minday.com) received an AIA National Small Project Award of Excellence for their “L Residence” in Omaha NE.  The “L Residence” also received a 2012 ACSA Faculty Design Honorable Mention award.  Min | Day received two 2011 AIA Nebraska design awards: an Honor Award for the Soft Cube in Omaha NE and a Citation for Fogscape / Cloudscape in San Francisco CA. Soft Cube was a collaboration between Min | Day and Mr. Day’s FACT course (Fabrication and Construction Team), which is a graduate level Architecture elective.  The firm was also named Designer of Distinction by the San Francisco Design Center.

Mr. Day has delivered several lectures recently including the University of Idaho, AIA Omaha, the University of Kansas, the ACADIA regional conference at UNL, AIA South Dakota, Omaha Volume 10, South Dakota State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Newcastle.  Furthermore, Min | Day has work published in several new publications in Canada, Bulgaria, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.

Min | Day’s Faux Gardens project in Zhengzhou, Henan, China is featured in an exhibition titled “UnMade in China: Architecture Undone in PRC” in both Shanghai and Beijing China.  Other selected projects were authored by UN Studio, MVRDV, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, NADAA, and De Architekten Cie among others.

Min | Day is currently one of five architecture firms (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, el dorado inc, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and VJAA) selected to participate in the 1% Habitat Initiative intended to bring good, sustainable design to the Habitat for Humanity house. The firm’s first home is the Patio House, which is being first built in Sheridan WY.

During the Spring 2012 semester, Mr. Day has coordinated our London Program, now in its 42nd consecutive year.  The theme for this semester-long immersive experience is Olympic Urbanism, and both London and Barcelona are being investigated where urban development has spanned 20 years.

Wayne Drummond FAIA was awarded the 2011 Harry F Cunningham Gold Medal by the AIA Nebraska chapter in recognition for his “profound effect on the profession of Architecture in the state of Nebraska.”  After (11) years of administrative service to the University of Nebraska, Mr. Drummond has resigned from his role as Dean of the College of Architecture effective Aug 2011.  As Dean Emeritus, Mr. Drummond remains a member of the Architecture faculty and is now Director of the UNL College of Architecture Healthcare Initiative.  In Aug 2011, James O’Hanlon from the UNL College of Education became Interim Dean for one year.  A national search brought two finalists to campus in April 2012 but ultimately did not result in an external hire.  On April 26, Kim Wilson ASLA was appointed Interim Dean for a period of three years.

Associate Professor Chris Ford (www.chrisfordoffice.com) presented his research / design proposal titled “REIs: Renewable Energy Infrastructures” at the 100th Annual Meeting of the ACSA.  Mr. Ford also had examples of student work selected from a 5th / 6th year Vertical studio titled “Destination: NEW YORK” for the ARCHIVE 100 project.

Professor Rumiko Handa presented a paper titled ““Architecture of the Everyday: Theorizing the Performance of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent,” at the Experiencing the Everyday: Atmosphere Symposium at the University of Manitoba.  Furthermore, she presented “Learning from the Ruins: Theorizing the Performance of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent” at the Architecture Culture Spirituality Forum in Isla Mujeres Mexico. 

Associate Professor Steve Hardy presented a paper titled “A Computational (Sub)Urban ReMix, Design Experiments in Poly-Variable Formations’” at the 2011 PUARL conference in Portland OR.  Mr. Hardy also co-authored two papers with Urban Future Organization colleague Jonas Lundberg (www.urbanfuture.org) for the 2011 ACADIA conference at the University of Calgary and the 2011 IAPS conference at the Architectural Institute of Korea.

Assistant Professor Peter Hind has been selected to Chair the Nebraska Innovation Campus Architecture Review Committee.  Mr. Hind (www.foundarchitects.com) received two 2011 AIA Nebraska People’s Choice awards for their 1980 Residence design in both Architecture and Architectural Detail categories.

Assistant Professors David Karle, Brian Kelly, and Peter Olshavsky presented papers at the 2012 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at Penn State University in March 2012.  Mr. Olshavsky also presented a paper titled “La Maison Suspendue: An Everyday Pataphysical Machine” at the Experiencing the Everyday: Atmosphere Symposium at the University of Manitoba. 

Professor Tom Laging FAIA has resigned from his role as Director of the Architecture Program.  Professor Jeff Day was appointed Interim Director for a period of one year.  A national search for a new Director is expected during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Adjunct Professor Terry Guen will work on the Navy Pier redesign, slated to open for the pier’s centennial in 2016. Guen’s design team, lead by landscape architect James Corner, was chosen by the Navy Pier board in an international competition. The board will work with the Corner team on the final design proposal over the next few months.

The James Corner team’s competition design proposal included a more graceful integration of the Ferris Wheel’s park with the main promenade, hanging gardens, a swimming pool with a sand beach, and a new amphitheater.

Professor Robert Krawczyk is showing two pieces from his Strange Attractor series at the Kinetic Energy exhibit at the Fermilab Art Gallery in Batavia, Illinois.  Strange attractors generate repeating point patterns in two-dimensional space while their coloring algorithms which represent time produce images of coherent three-dimensional forms. The third dimension is determined by the perception of the viewer coupled with the created intent. 

Adjunct Associate Professor Janet Krehbiel Pieracci‘s work is featured in a new exhibit at The Lutheran Center in Baltimore. The exhibit, entitled Forced Migrations: Holding Memory of People and Place, examines issues of displacement in China, Darfur, Guatemala, and Afghanistan. 

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and several members of the Illinois Institute of Technology faculty have been awarded a grant from the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) to study the energy-saving effectiveness of green wall façade systems.

The project will analyze the ability of green wall systems, such as hanging gardens and “living walls,” to improve a building’s energy performance by decreasing heat transfer through facades. The study will also quantify the potential energy savings.

“This is developing as a key topic for the building industry as designers look for new ways to reduce a building’s energy consumption without reducing the aesthetics and atmosphere,” said CTBUH research associate Payam Bahrami.

Building designers are increasingly incorporating green walls into projects in an effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The building industry uses 50.1 percent of all energy produced in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. While glass and metal give modern building facades sleek appearances, their lower thermal resistance to heat transfer results in higher heating and cooling loads.

Green wall facades are seen as one solution to creating more sustainable buildings. Green walls consist of plants integrated into vertical building surfaces, including hanging gardens, living walls and bioshaders.

This new study will develop a green wall model to simulate thermal processes in facade-integrated vegetation systems. A separate vegetation model will be developed to account for the thermal properties of plants and thermal processes in vegetation.

The $25,000 grant from WISER’s Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grants program will be used to leverage larger grants, Dr. Bahrami said. Based at IIT, WISER focuses on developing innovative education and research programs to promote sustainability and clean energy.

The interdisciplinary team assembled for this research project includes Professor Peter Osler, Director of the Landscape Program in IIT’s College of Architecture, Dr. Herek Clack of the IIT Armour College of Engineering, Dr. Antony Wood from IIT’s College of Architecture and CTBUH Executive Director, Dr Payam Bahrami, Research Associate for the CTBUH, IIT architecture Ph.D. candidate Irina Susorova and two graduate students will also assist on this project.

The project is part of the on-going collaboration between CTBUH and the IIT College of Architecture.  The project is expected to report its finding in May 2013.

Bachelor of Architecture students Mikie Smit and Michelle Davidson’s WorldServe Project won first place in the Un-Competition Project, sponsored by Black Spectacles and supported by the Chicago Architectural Club and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The international competition challenged architects to engage in design entrepreneurship by inventing, designing, and building a project.

Smit and Davidson’s WorldServe Project invited young architects to self-fund both a trip to Mexico and materials to build homes for the needy. Founded in 2008, the WorldServe Project has completed several projects to date.

IIT College of Architecture Graduate students have designed a studio for the non-profit Eden Place Nature Center, located in Chicago’s Fuller Park neighborhood.  Nature Studio is a small (700 sq ft) classroom that has been designed to help Eden Place reinforce its role as a positive and influential force that seeks to improve the lives of South Chicago citizens. The team is now seeking both in-kind and monetary donations for construction materials for the design/build project. 

Washington University in St. Louis

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Chandler Ahrens, Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis was featured in the book in “Architect’s Notebook” published by Damdi Publishing Co. released in October. He also had two articles published in the book “Architecture in Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture” edited by Aaron Sprecher and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa published by Routledge in October. He has had an installation accepted to the “Indianapolis Installation Nation” forthcoming in 2014.

Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, had his book, Carlo Scarpa, published by Phaidon Press, Ltd., London, at the beginning of October 2013. This 288 page, more than 350 illustration book, which includes a generous selection of Scarpa’s drawings, is the first comprehensive monograph on the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, who died in 1978. In addition to detailed design examinations and “walk-throughs” of the architect’s built works, and discussion of a number of unbuilt projects and glass designs, the book also includes a listing of the Scarpa’s complete works prepared by the Carlo Scarpa Archives.

Zeuler R. Lima, Ph.D., Associate Professor will be launching his comprehensive artistic biography of architect Lina Bo Bardi (Yale University Press) with a lecture at the Collins/Kaufman series in Art History at Columbia University on Tuesday, November 26 at 6:30pm.

Lina Bo Bardi is the first comprehensive study of Bo Bardi’s career and showcases author Zeuler Lima’s extensive archival work in Italy and Brazil. The leading authority on Bo Bardi, Lima frames the architect’s activities on two continents and in five cities. The book examines how considerations of ethics, politics, and social inclusiveness influenced Bo Bardi’s intellectual engagement with modern architecture and provides an authoritative guide to her experimental, ephemeral, and iconic works of design.

Eric Mumford, Ph.D., Professor, participated in an event at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design on October 14, 2013 to celebrate the publication of A Second Modernism, MIT and the Techno-Social Moment, which includes his essay on the history of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-71.

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