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The University of Oklahoma joined Harvard University as one of only two universities with multiple teams honored in the 10th annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.  One OU team received an “Honorable Mention First Place” and the other an “Honorable Mention Overall Merit” in the competition, placing them both in the top 10 percent of the field, which consisted of 139 graduate-level teams from 64 universities throughout United States and Canada. Serving as advisers were Blair Humphreys, executive director of the Institute for Quality Communities, and Associate Professor of Architecture Hans Butzer. “The Veranda” placed fifth receiving “First Place Honorable Mention” and featured a dynamic public space connected to the Buffalo Bayou trail network. The team members were fifth-year architecture students Adelle York, who served as team leader, Aric Yarberry and Grant Hromas; regional and city planning graduate student Ty McCarthy, and MBA student Ohm Devani. “The Foundry” received an “Honorable Mention Overall Merit” for their proposal to create a district designed to empower startup entrepreneurs. Members of the team were regional and city planning graduate students Phillips Walters, who served as the team leader, and Shane Hampton; landscape architecture graduate student Alex Tyler; architecture graduate student Grant Evert, and fifth-year architecture student Preston Kunz. Read more.

University of Oklahoma architecture and construction science students made history by winning all categories of the 17th Region V Associated Schools of Construction/TEXO Student Competition, a first for any university in the region and a first for the competition. The OU students won in the Commercial Building, Design Build, Design Build International, and Heavy Civil categories of the competition held in Dallas.  The teams were coached by Tammy McCuen, OU assistant professor of construction science, and Anthony Cricchio, OU assistant professor of architecture (Design Build); Ken Robson, OU construction science professor, and Dublin Institute of Technology Professor Lloyd Scott (International Design Build); Dominique Pittenger, OU adjunct professor of construction science (Heavy Civil); and Richard Ryan, OU professor of construction science (Commercial Building). Read more.

The OU College of Architecture will remodel an old nearby hotel that was damaged in a 2009 fire. The Alvis Hotel in Pauls Valley suffered fire damage in Sept. 2009. The students, alongside associate professor of architecture Ron Frantz, will assist in the remodeling of the hotel, which was built in the late 1800s. The Alvis property is working toward being registered with the National Register of Historic Places, which will open the project up to tax credits and federal funding to allow the students a large amount of leeway, Frantz said. Read more.

Faculty in the College of Architecture will present papers and research during our second annual Research and Creative Activity Day on March 14, 2012. See the full schedule and topics.

Designers James Burnett and Jereck Boss of Project 180, the significant street and public space overhaul underway in downtown Oklahoma City, will speak about their work in Norman and Oklahoma City as part of the Streets for People lecture series presented by the Institute for Quality Communities on Thursday, March 15, 2012.

University of Oklahoma

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Assistant Professor Catherine Barrett contributed to a recent publication, the Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices (Universal Dictionary of Creative Women), published by Editions des femmes (Paris: 2013). Her contribution, written in French, included three essays about American women: one on the architect Josephine Wright Chapman, one on the architect Mary Colter, and one on the landscape architect Lutah Riggs.

Associate Professor David L. Boeck served as advisor to a team of 4th and 5th year Architecture students in the 2013 NOMAS Design Competition, which called for developing property on the near-northeast side of Indianapolis in the Friends and Neighbors, Oakhill, Fall Creek Place, and Reagan Park neighborhoods. This project incorporated ideas from city-developed plan to create a carbon neutral mixed-used transit oriented development (TOD). The team attended the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference and presented their solution entitled Indy Park.



The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture (CMEAC) at the College of Architecture established Spring 2012 by Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi sponsored a special screening, a presentation by, and banquet for the award-winning Canadian/Iranian author and documentary filmmaker Dr. Farzin Rezaeian on his latest film Recreating Pasargadae: Cyrus the Great’s Paradise.

Assistant Professor Daniel Butko presented an authored poster entitled Mining Landscapes of Waste and a separate paper entitled Returning to Earth coauthored with Assistant Professor Dr. Lisa Holliday (CNS), Assistant Professor Matthew Reyes (CNS), Dr. Kianoosh Hatami (CEES), and Dr. Chris Ramseyer (COE) at the 2013 ACSA Fall Conference in Fort Lauderdale.

Architecture Division Director and Professor Hans E. Butzer, with his practice Butzer Gardner Architects, received AIA Honor Awards from the AIA Oklahoma Chapter for the Woodland Residence and 7@Crown Heights. He and his team also earned an AIA Merit Award for the Nichols Law Firm from the AIA Central States Region. Professor Butzer also made an invited TEDx presentation titled “Surroundings Matter” at a TED-sponsored event. Hans, along with his Skydance Bridge Design Team, presented at the AIA Oklahoma/Central States Region Convention with a focus on collaboration. Hans was also an invited lecturer in the University Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Seminar Series, presenting his firm’s work and its relationship to culture, place, and identity.

A team of undergraduate Architecture students led by Assistant Professor Thomas Cline was awarded 2nd place in the 2013 AIA Central States Student Design Competition. The team consisted of 4th year students Bud Hardage and Minh Tran, 3rd year student Jessika Poteet, and 2nd year students Corey Hardy and Victor Trautman (alternate). The competition pairs regional student teams with local architecture firms over a 16 hour charrette.

Associate Professor Lee Fithian presented a paper coauthored with CNS Associate Professor Tamera McCuen entitled BIMStorm OKC: A Virtual Event to Build Community and Enhance Connectivity at the FOREFRONT: Architects as Collaborative Leaders conference in Salt Lake City. FOREFRONT is a conference jointly sponsored by the AIA Center for Integrated Practice, AIA Utah, and the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning and is in partnership with ACSA.

In other news, a group of faculty and students from the College of Architecture’s 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, 4th year Architecture student Aaron Crandall, and 3rd year Construction Science student Holly Snow coauthored and presented a total of four papers and two posters at the 2013 Earth USA Conference in Santa Fe, NM.

University of Minnesota

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Blaine Brownell, Assistant Professor
This year, Princeton Architectural Press published Brownell’s fourth book, entitled Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers. The book considers Japan’s sophisticated design and material culture, and is organized along four primary themes—lightness, atmosphere, flow, and emergence. The book includes interviews with twenty individuals including Hitoshi Abe, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, and Kazuyo Sejima. Brownell continues to write a monthly one-page column entitled “Mind & Matter” in Architect magazine, in addition to a blog that appears twice a week on Architect’s website. In July, Brownell wrote “An Uncertain Future” about Japanese architects’ perspectives on rebuilding Japan in a supplement to the London Times. His article “Peering into the Floating World” about Japanese designers’ approaches to light and materials appeared in the June issue of Architectural Lighting. Christopher Kanal interviewed Brownell for his article “Houses of the Rising Sun” in the November issue of Sublime magazine. Brownell also gave lectures entitled ““Material Evolution: Assessing Disruptive Change in Technology and Nature” at Harvard University on September 16 and “Material Resilience: Innovative Technologies for Adaptable Buildings and Cities” at the University of Southern California on September 13. Brownell continues to co-direct the Master of Science in Architecture–Sustainable Design program with Jim Lutz at the University of Minnesota.

Marc Swackhamer, Associate Professor of Architecture
The Weisman Art Museum (WAM) at the University of Minnesota announced in October that a team led by School of Architecture Adjunct Professors Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James of VJAA, working with Associate Professor Marc Swackhamer and Blair Satterfield of HouMinn Practice and artist Diane Willow, Associate Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Fine Art, was announced the winner of the Weisman Art Museum’s Plaza Design Competition. The competition focused on the plaza at the east end of Washington Avenue Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis. This is a busy thoroughfare for bikers and pedestrians. Students, staff, faculty and visitors to the Twin Cities Campus, over 20,000 people per day, use this important public space. The next phase of the project will be to hold meetings with the winning team, and the campus community, in the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration to refine the design and implement the plan.

John Comazzi, Assistant Professor of Architecture
John Comazzi (Assistant Professor of Architecture and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture), was an invited presenter and moderator at the annual conference of the Association of Architecture Organizations in Philadelphia, PA.  Comazzi is a co-chair of the organizations Architecture and Design Education Network (A+DEN).  He has also been invited to join the planning committee for the upcoming Midwest regional conference for the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) to be held in Minneapolis in April 2012.  

Professor Julia W. Robinson
Julia Robinson is teaching an undergraduate design studio that is working with the Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood of the city of St Paul, exploring how to design dense housing acceptable to the neighborhood on a 2 1/2 acre site.

University of Texas at Austin

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Professor Juan Miró was elected as a 2013 inductee into The University of Texas at Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is among only four new members selected this year. Comprising approximately 5% of the tenured faculty in the university, the Academy provides leadership in improving the quality and depth of the undergraduate experience.

Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Hoidn, Fellow of the O’Neil Ford Centennial Chair in Architecture, was elected a member of the Scientific Committee for the 25th International Building & Life Congress, organized by the Chamber of Architects of Turkey Section of the International Union of Architects (UIA) in Turkey. 

Dr. Nancy Kwallek, director of the UTSOA Interior Design Program, and alumna Elise Wasser-King [MID, ’12] curated a poster and a slide presentation representing work from the school’s bachelor and master’s interior design programs for the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH).

Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture, has written a feature essay for the spring 2013 issue of ArchitectureBoston magazine. This issue’s theme is “Walter Gropius: The Cambridge Years.” Addtionally, Dr. Alofsin was invited to present a paper on “Ornament and Cultural Interpretation” at the international conference, “Dibujar las artes aplicadas: dibujo de ornamentación, arquitectura efirma y retablistica entre Portugal, España y Italia,” which will take place at the University of Cordoba on June 5 and 6. Alofsin’s most recent book, Dream Home: What You Need to Know Before You Buy, was published in April. A consumer’s guide written for a general audience, this colorfully illustrated paperback explains the housing industry, the process of buying a new home, and the architectural issues affecting the quality of life in the home. 

Architectural history professor Christopher Long recently presented two lectures, “Adolf Loos and the Strategy of Sorting” at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (in conjunction with the exhibition “Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary”) and “The Looshaus” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Professor Long also contributed an essay, “Ornament is Not Exactly a Crime: On the Long and Curious Afterlife of Adolf Loos’s Famed Essay,” in Yehuda Safran, ed., Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary (New York: GSAPP, Columbia University, 2013).

Associate Professor Udovi_ki-Selb  at the Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) presented a paper titled “Elusive Faces of Modernity: The Decade-long Urban Debates about the Future of Paris on the Occasion of the 1937 Expo.” Additionally he presented a paper titled “A Transalpine Scientia at Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore” at the “Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture’s Long Past” symposium at MIT held in honor of David Friedman.

Assistant Professor Allan Shearer has received a Mid-Career Grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.

Assistant Professor Matt Fajkus was named a finalist in the “2013 Austin Under 40 Awards,” which recognize a combination of professional achievement and community service. Fajkus was one of five finalists in the Design, Architecture, and Engineering Category. Additionally, Fajkus was honored with Special Mention: Alternative Typology Category, in the “d3 Unbuilt Visions 2012 Competition,” for his Flat House theoretical sustainable design project. The design team included Matt Fajkus, Brandon Hubbard, and Bo Yoon.

 

 

 

University of Minnesota

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2013 marks the Centennial Celebration for the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Since 1913, the University of Minnesota School of Architecture has been building a vibrant legacy.  Over its first century, the collective impact and achievements from this program in the College of Design have been both significant and extensive. The School of Architecture Centennial Celebration was a two-day tribute to how this remarkable school—as a nexus for students, educators and practitioners—has been shaping spaces and the future of architecture through its educational vision. On October 25-26, classmates and colleagues celebrated 100 years of education and shared ideas and dreams for the next century of achievement. Events began Friday evening with a Centennial Reunion Party at Ralph Rapson Hall and culminated Saturday evening with a Centennial Gala at the Historic Train Depot in downtown Minneapolis.
Blaine Brownell, Associate Professor of Architecture: Blaine Brownell’s fifth book, Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture was published by Princeton Architectural Press last year. He continues to teach studios and seminars with a focus on emergent materials and applications at the University of Minnesota, where he was promoted to associate professor with tenure last spring. Blaine’s recent pedagogical collaborations include an international workshop with Kaori Ito at the Tokyo University of Science, a biomimicry studio with Marc Swackhamer at Tianjin University, the Transmaterial Research Symposium with Tim Schork and John Sadar at Monash University in Melbourne, and a responsive architecture studio with Billie Faircloth and Ryan Welch (KieranTimberlake) at the University of Minnesota. His work was recently featured in the Architalx Voices of Design exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art and the Hello Materials exhibit at the Danish Design Center. Blaine co-directs UMN’s M.S. program in Sustainable Design, serves on the editorial board of the National Institute of Building Sciences’ journal JNIBS, and recently completed a three-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education. He also writes a monthly print column and biweekly online article for Architect magazine entitled “Mind & Matter.”
John Comazzi, Associate Professor of Architecture: In July 2013, Professor Comazzi lectured and participated in a panel discussion (with Will Miller) on the Miller House and Gardens in Columbus, Indiana. The program was part of the Member’s Weekend for members of the Association of Architecture Organizations, and Professor Comazzi’s lecture focused on the collaborative practices of design that produced the Miller House and Gardens based on archival research he has been conducting at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Eero Saarinen Archive at Yale University. This Fall, Professor Comazzi and colleague Marc Swackhamer (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota) completed a design-build project for the redesign of the front offices in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. The two faculty worked with three graduate students and utilized the digital fabrication lab at the University to complete the project. Also, in May and June of 2013, Professor Comazzi led a group of 10 undergraduate students (8 architecture, 1 landscape architecture, and 1 interiors), on a program abroad in Florence, Italy. The program explored the development of the city’s urban morphology, building typologies, and landscapes, in a hands-on active learning experience.
Thomas Fisher, Dean and Professor: Dean Fisher gave a talk “Cities and the Survival of the Species” at the Future Cities, Livable Futures conference in Cincinnati; has written a chapter “The Performance of Buildings, Architects, and Critics” for a forthcoming book Architecture Beyond Criticism; and has written a chapter “Variability in Fracture-Critical Systems” for a forthcoming book Sources of Variability in Human Performance.

R.T. Rybak, Distinguished Visiting Professor:  Outgoing Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will become a distinguished visiting practitioner, with a joint appointment at both the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the College of Design. Rybak will teach one course this spring, titled “Mayor 101”, in which he will explore the political, administrative, design and bureaucratic challenges of running one of the largest and most dynamic cities in the United States. The course will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Under the auspices of the Humphrey School and the College of Design, Rybak will also plan and host a conference for faculty, students, and civic and policy leaders, focusing on the key challenges facing urban areas in the United States. He will teach two additional courses, one in fall 2014 and one in spring 2015.

Marc Swackhamer, Associate Professor of Architecture: Professor Marc Swackhamer and his HouMinn Practice partner, Blair Satterfield from the University of British Columbia presented their research on variable vacuum forming in October at the annual ACADIA Conference (Association of Computer Aided Design In Architecture). Their paper, titled “Breaking the Mold: Variable Vacuum Forming,” focused on a renovation project in Minnesota’s School of Architecture main office. The space was re-skinned with a new programmatically-tuned, adaptive surface as part of the School’s Centennial celebration in late October. Professor John Comazzi from Minneosta’s Architecture program was also a designer and adviser on the project, along with a group of Masters of Architecture students. 

Southern Illinois University

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Chad Schwartz, AIA is a new Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, having spent the last eight years practicing architecture in the Phoenix area and teaching in the Design School at Arizona State University.  He is licensed as a registered architect in both Arizona and Illinois and holds an NCARB certificate.  Professor Schwartz has taught design studio at multiple levels as well as professional practice and building construction and has co-taught courses in architectural history and structures.  His professional work includes single-family and multi-family housing, education facilities, libraries and other community projects, juvenile justice facilities, commercial and retail work, and Native American projects.  Professor Schwartz’s research interests include the integration of typical and a-typical building materials and full-scale design work in the studio environment, the ability of the detail to take the role of the generator of architectural design, the effects of materiality and detail on our perception of space, and the evolution of building construction courses in the teaching of architecture.  Above all, his primary belief in practicing architecture is that the architect should design for the place and those who will occupy that place.

University of Kansas

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Note that this does not pertain to the University of Kansas but rather the Architectural Research Centers Consortium

2011-12 ARCC Awards Programs

 

 

The Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. (ARCC) is an international association of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture in architecture and related design disciplines. In furthering this mission, ARCC runs an annual awards program which is now seeking nominations for this year.

ARCC James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award

The award, named in honor of ARCC’s founding Executive Secretary, recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields, including urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, and interior design. Nominees, therefore, should have demonstrated, whether in professional practice, academics, or service, a record of sustained and significant research leadership accomplishment at the national or international level. Nominations are due on 20 January, 2012.

ARCC Incentive Fund Award

The ARCC Incentive Fund Award each year is offered to member institutions of ARCC to aid in the support of architectural research. This funding is intended to supplement and support ongoing efforts to disseminate findings of architectural research. The proposals are awarded for work to be completed during the following academic year.

Proposals are due on 20 January, 2012. 

ARCC New Researcher Award

The ARCC New Researcher Award each year is offered to member institutions of ARCC to acknowledge and reward emerging figures in architectural and environmental design research that demonstrate innovation in thinking, dedication in scholarship, contributions to the academy, and leadership within architectural and environmental design research. Nominations are due on 20 January, 2012.

ARCC King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design

Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), this award is given to one student per ARCC member college, school, institute, or unit. Selection of recipients is at the discretion of the individual member institutions, but is based upon criteria that acknowledge innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research.

King nominations are due 06 April, 2012.

Please visit the ARCC website (arccweb.org) for further information on requirements for the various award submissions.

For further information, feel free to contact Keith Diaz Moore, Vice-President of ARCC and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Kansas at diazmoore@ku.edu.

Oklahoma State University

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Oklahoma State University will host the 2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association from October 21-24, 2012. The conference theme is Graphic Quest: the Search for Perfection in Design Communication. For more information contact the conference chair, Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi (mohd.bilbeisi@okstate.edu) or visit www.designcommunicationassociation.org.

Oklahoma State University’s new Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building received a 2011 AIA Oklahoma Honor Award. The design was a collaboration of OSU School of Architecture faculty and students and Studio Architecture of Oklahoma City. Professors Jeff Williams and Randy Seitsinger led the design process initially, while Williams continued to work with Studio Architecture and other consultants through completion. Associate Professor Khaled Mansy assisted with the design of the day-lighting systems.

Michael Rabens was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2011. Rabens teaches a variety of architectural history and theory courses. His research interests focus on the architecture of 17th- and 18th-century France and 19th- and 20th-century Chicago.

Assistant Professor Jerry Stivers and Assistant Professor Awilda Rodríguez Carrión were recently awarded the Big 12 Faculty Fellowships for the 2012 term.  Both are investigating aspects of Revit integration and applications within the curriculum.  Stivers will be visiting the University of Kansas and Kansas State University; Rodríguez Carrión will be visiting Texas A&M University.

OSU School of Architecture Associate Professor Paolo Sanza, Assistant Professor Awilda Rodríguez Carrión, and alumnus Gloriana Barbosa were runners up in the international Ceramics of Italy Exhibit Design Competition, among 80 entries. The judges were Bernard Tschumi, Laurinda Spears, and Michael P. Johnson.

Associate Professor Tom Spector has completed work with co-author Rebecca Damron on the book How Architects Write, a handbook for students and practitioners wishing to improve their writing, for the Routledge Press. Spector will be chairing a session for the first conference of the ISPA (the International Society for Philosophy in Architecture) to be held at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 10-12, 2012. For more information about the conference, see www.isparchitecture.wordpress.com/.

Associate Professor Khaled Mansy returned from his fall 2011 sabbatical. In his sabbatical he conducted two research projects in Cairo, Egypt and Chicago, Illinois. In Cairo, he collaborated with a research team of faculty and graduate students from the American University in Cairo (UIC) to study the performance of light wells as required by the Egyptian Building Code. In Chicago, he was hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology and interviewed architects and engineers of leading design firms documenting the most current practice in the design of high-performing buildings.

Professor Jeff Williams also returned from his fall 2011 sabbatical. He explored the integration of urban issues in curriculums within schools of architecture throughout the western United States. He studied thirty-six schools of architecture and visited fourteen. A website documenting the sabbatical research is forthcoming.

Washington University in St. Louis

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Professor Eric Mumford gave a paper, “CIAM, Berlin, and the New Monumentality” at the Yale “Achtung Berlin” symposium on February, 16, 2013. He was also reappointed as  Chair of the Committee to Visit the Harvard School of Design through 2014.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University and the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution presented The Innovative Metropolis: Fostering Economic Competitiveness Through Sustainable Urban Design February 21. The daylong symposium, held at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., explored the intersections between sustainable urban design and economic growth, as well as the implications of both for design practice and public policy. Peter MacKeith, Associate Dean of the Sam Fox School and Associate Professor of Architecture, in partnership with Rob Puentes, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, organized the symposium. Bruce Lindsey, Dean of Architecture and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration, and Associate Professor John Hoal, Chair of the Master of Urban Design program, led a Sam Fox School team of participants, including Christof Jantzen, I-CARES Professor of Practice; and Assistant Professor of Architecture Seng Kuan. 

Eric R. Hoffman, Professor of Practice in the Sam Fox School, has won a national 2013 Young Architects Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Hoffman is both the first Sam Fox School faculty member and the first Sam Fox School alumnus (MArch05) to receive the honor, among the highest available to architects in the early stages of their careers. 

Esley Hamilton, Lecturer in Architecture and preservation historian for the St. Louis County Parks Department, has been granted honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Celebration of the Reopening of the Villa Tugendhat: Mies Here and There
January 21, 2012

9 am — Opening Remarks:
Dean Donna Robertson

9:15 am — Mies There: Restoration of the Villa Tugendhat
Iveta Cerna, Architect, Head of the Project Office at the Villa and Secretary of Tugendhat House International Committee and Ivo Hammer, University Professor (retired), restorer and conservator, and Chairman of Tugendhat House International Committee

10 am — Mies Here: Mies in the US and the Villa Tugendhat
Dirk Lohan, Principal, Lohan Anderson

11 am — The Role of the Brno School of Architects on and in the Modern Movement in Architecture
Professor Petr Pelcak, School of Architecture, Brno University of Technology

12 pm Panel Discussion

12:30 pm Exhibition of the Villa Tugendhat
Graham Resource Center at the Lower Level, Crown Hall

Hosted By: IIT College of Architecture and the Mies van der Rohe Society

Sponsored By: The KMD Foundation and Chicago Sister Cities International

Coordinator: Judith W. Munson, JD, Executive Director, ICPHEP, Adj. Prof. John Marshall Law School

Symposium is free and open to the public. Call 312.567.3312 for information.
MTCC Auditorium
3201 S. State Street
Chicago, IL 60616
arch@iit.edu

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