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Compiled and submitted by Edward R. Burian, Associate Professor, 1 Sept. 2015

Faculty News

Faculty in the Department of Architecture have recently published books, received design awards for built work, curated exhibitions, led innovative graduate design studios, and engaged in leadership roles in professional organizations.

Edward Burian, Associate Professor, has published his book, The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to Present, (University of Texas Press, 2015) that explores the undervalued architectural culture of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur from 1821 to the present; and is the first overview of the region during this time period in English or Spanish. His introductory essay was also recently published in English and Spanish in, Reforma 27/Alberto Kalach, (Arquine and Editorial RM, Mexico City, 2015). He recently wrote two chapters for, Arquitectura de Coahuila a través del tiempo, (Biblioteca Milenio de Historia, 2015), that explores the architecture in Coahuila from the colonial era to the present and will be published in Spanish in full color and is co-sponsored by the government of the state of Coahuila.  One chapter considers the representation of the public domain in terms of civic buildings, while the other discusses current and future directions for the architecture of Coahuila.

Ian Caine, Assistant Professor participated in the fall of 2014 in an exhibition titled To-Be-Destroyed (TBD) at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto, Ontario, CA. The museum featured his project titled Living Galleries alongside the work of dozens of artists and designers from around the world, including Gordon Matta-Clark (United States), Jeanne van Heeswijk (Rotterdam), and Jesse Harris (Toronto). The exhibition imagined new approaches and possible futures for the contemporary art gallery, emphasizing the potential of new museums to emerge as mutable — not fixed — entities. The Living Galleries proposal imagines the venue for the new museum as the city itself, with the first exhibition a history of suburban sprawl.  

Dr. Sedef Doganer, Assistant Professor is the graduate advisor of record and Associate Dept. Head in the Department of Architecture. She recently published a book chapter titled, “New Hotel Design,” that will appear in, Tourism and Recreational Buildings,” published by VITRA Contemporary Architecture Series, (2013) in both English and Turkish. Among other grants, she has been awarded an interdisciplinary grant by San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau to study “State of San Antonio Heritage Resources” for approximately $30,000 annually with Prof. Bill Dupont and Dr. David Bojanic (College of Business). 

Diane Hays, FAIA, Senior Lecturer and Interior Design Coordinator, received a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Honor Award for her two UTSA Dept. of Architecture design-build studio projects at Bexar County’s Raymond Russell Park in San Antonio, TX.
 

Dr. Angela Lombardi, Assistant Professor has co-edited Lima, The Historic Center: Analysis and Restoration/ Centro Histórico. Conocimiento y restauración / Centro storico. Conoscenza e restauro, (Peru: Patrizia / Rome: Gangemi editore, 2012), that identifies and evaluates the endangered architectural heritage of Lima, Peru and was published in English, Spanish, and Italian.
 

Andrew Kudless of MATSYS in Oakland, CA http://matsysdesign.com/ was the Dean’s Distinguished 2014 Visiting Critic, teaching a graduate studio focusing on digital fabrication in which the studio designed, fabricated, and constructed a wood lattice structure in a park here in San Antonio, TX.

Kevin McClellan, former Adjunct Professor, was featured in Texas Architect, (March/April 2014)  for his innovative work with TEX-FAB, http://www.tex-fab.net/, a nonprofit organization that connects professionals, students, and the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry to advance the discipline of architecture in its adoption of digital fabrication. He currently works as a Project Architect for Marmon Mok in San Antonio.

Taeg Nishimoto, Professor, has researched and explored materials as well as their applications for site specific installations as well as product designs for lighting fixtures. Installations using fabric and lighting were presented as a part of the city of San Antonio’s public art program to liven the downtown street by staging a nightly performance in the empty storefront spaces. Other lighting product designs using fabric, papercrete and resin impregnated mesh fabric were featured in numerous international design websites, including evolo (US), Designstreet (Italy), Arthitectural (England), and Morfae (Greece). His prototype design for play furniture using the concrete impregnated fabric called CCpf has received a design copyright.

Dr. Antonio Petrov, Assistant Professor has recently lectured and participated in panel discussions at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts in Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 67th Annual Conference in Austin, TX where he co-chaired a session on “Sacred Power: Religion, Politics and Architecture in the 20th Century.” His forthcoming book chapter, “Mediterranean Frontiers: Ontology of a Bounded Space in Crisis”, will appear in The Design of Frontiers: Control and Ambiguity published by Ashgate in July 2015. He has also published articles in journals and periodicals including, Arqa, ARRIS, Design Engine, Manifest, Mas Context and MONU. He is also currently working on an edited volume titled The City after the City to be published by Archeworks Papers, and a manuscript titled, Between Autonomy and Total Immersion in which he traces new forms of the secular in evangelical architecture in the United States. He was recently the Caudill Visiting Critic at Rice University, and the co-director of the Expander program, an interdisciplinary research think tank, at Archeworks in Chicago. 

Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies was one of four UTSA faculty to receive the 2014 UT System’s Regents Outstanding Teaching Award awarded for extraordinary classroom performance and dedication to innovation. He was also a member of an interdisciplinary team of UTSA researchers to receive a $40,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to study of the energy efficiency and cost effectiveness of radiant barrier retrofits of historic homes in hot, humid climates, and also part of another interdisciplinary team of architecture and engineering faculty who received $16,500 from Harland Clarke Company to study continuous improvement and sustainability of their facilities. Recently, he was elected Vice President of the Architectural Research Centers Association (ARCC), an international association of schools of architecture and research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture and a supporting infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines.
 

Candid Rogers, AIA, Adjunct Professor, recently had his residential project in Marfa, TX published in TX Architect. He also won a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Award for his “Dos Diez” residential extension to an 1872 stone cottage in San Antonio, TX.

Javier Sánchez, design principal of the noted Mexico City architecture and development firm Jsa has a new book on the work of the firm, Urban Interlacing: Javier Sánchez, 2004-2013, (Arquine, 2014) published by the leading architectural press in Latin America. He was the initial Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Critic in the UTSA DOA for 2013, and his graduate studio at UTSA examined Colonia Atlampa, the last remaining parcel of underutilized urban land in the central core of Mexico City. The studio produced a group urban design proposal and individual mixed use infill projects.

A recent symposium and exhibit Walter Eugene George and the Cultural Legacy of the Rio Grande examined the work of retired UTSA faculty member Eugene George who passed away last year was held at the Institute for Texas Culture on Feb. 1st-28th 2014. George held the first San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professorship and during his career he generated some 500 drawings and 16,000 collected photographs focusing on the “Rio Grande Corridor” between Eagle Pass, TX and Brownsville, TX. 


 

Washington University in St. Louis

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Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture has been contracted to write two books during his spring 2014 sabbatical; Steven Holl (Phaidon Press) and Herman Hertzberger (nai010), both of which will be published in 2015. In February 2014, McCarter gave a lecture in the SOM New York Professional Development Series, entitled; “Taking the Book to the Light: Louis Kahn’s Transformation of the Library in Three Designs,” and in March 2014 he gave a Dean’s Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia, entitled; “The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality.”

Washington University in St. Louis

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John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the presentation, Designing Aging: Urban Design for Healthy Lifelong & Age-Integrated Communities as part of the Conference on Older Adults in the Community: Capacities and Engagement for Aging-in-Place.WUSTL and the National University of Singapore organized the conference as part of the launch of the Next Age Institute.
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A video profile of John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, and Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor, is included in Navigating the Rivers: A Collection of Modern-Day Stories. Featured in conjunction with the exhibition Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham & the River, this event offered a screening of five videos of St. Louisans whose lives are intertwined with the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, followed by an onstage conversation with many of those individuals.  As part of I-CARES-funded research, Hoal and Hoerferlin have focused on the development of a Climate Adaptation Performance Model for fluvial zones along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers.
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Railway Exchange Studio Featured on HEC-TV
Reporter Sharon Stevens highlighted the efforts of graduate architecture students to reimagine the Railway Exchange Building, working in partnership with Downtown STL, Inc., for HEC-TV’s all new Impact program. Students developed their ideas for the fall 2014 studio Metamorphic Cities: Sustainable Strategies for Adaptive Reuse, led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas.
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Cloud Talk: Urbanism
Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, delivered the talkUrbanism as part of IIT Architecture Chicago’s Cloud Studio. Sponsored by the PhD program, the studio brought together undergraduate and graduate students to work on projects related to the city of Chicago.
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Why Lina Bo [Bardi]?
Zeuler R. Lima, PhD, associate professor and author of the biography Lina Bo Bardi, reflected on why the Italian-born architect was ignored for such a long time, and emerged 20 years after her death at the center of the discourse about contemporary architecture. The lecture explored the genealogy of her work and life, and raised questions about the recovery of her memory, especially in her native country.
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SMALL BUILDINGS: built, unbuilt, unbuildable
Juried by dean of architecture Bruce Lindsey and professor of art Buzz Spector, this exhibition explores the craft of the architectural model, and includes work by several Sam Fox School faculty, students, and alumni. On View March 13-May 10.
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Lina Bo Bardi: Visionary Architect – Part 1
Associate professor Zeuler Lima participated in the first part of two panel discussions presented by AIA New York that will celebrate 100 years since the birth of architect Lina Bo Bardi. Lima presented his short documentary Lina Bo Bardi, curator, and also showed a timeline highlighting graphic productions that the Italian-Brazilian architect developed throughout her entire life, her thoughts about design, and the authenticity of her texts.

Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, delivered a presentation about the life and work of one of the most important architects in Latin America, Lina Bo Bardi. Lima’s talk unveiled how considerations of ethics, politics, and social inclusiveness influenced the Italian-Brazilian architect’s intellectual engagement with modern architecture which resulted in her experimental, ephemeral, and iconic works of design.

In addition, Lima discussed Bo Bardi’s paradigmatic project SESC Pompeia leisure center at MoMA as part of the retrospective exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980.
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Activating Energy Capacity of Urban Vacant Land
Assistant professor Natalie Yates delivered a lecture titled Activating Energy Capacity of Urban Vacant Land at this year’s Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture conference. The talk reflected work undertaken by Yates, assistant professor Patty Heyda, and former assistant professor Christine Yogiaman.

Washington University in St. Louis

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2014 URSA Grants Awarded
WUSTL’S Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance grants, which provide one-year, $25,000 seed funding to full-time university faculty members. Recipients include Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, and Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene & Martha Lohman Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, for research titled “Quantifying Benefits of Vacant Land Utilization in Shrinking Cities.” 

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Zeuler Lima
Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi  
In this opening lecture, associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, will discussed Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi, which he curated. The exhibition, produced with the curatorial assistance of MArch students Marina Miers and Colby Perrine, presented a chronological analysis of the Italian-Brazilian architect’s oeuvre through a collection of digital renderings and photographs taken by Lima and Nelson Kon.
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Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, delivered a presentation titled Lina Bo Bardi House: Betwixt and Between as part of a symposium on modern Latin American design hosted by the Americas Society’s Visual Arts program. 
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Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis
John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the lecture, Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis, as part of the 2015 MLA Saturday Lecture Series. His talk raised awareness about what he calls the greatest challenge facing the emergence of sustainable communities: social and environmental justice, and the related economic inequities.
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New Orleans Under Reconstruction
Martin C. Pederson‘s review of the book New Orleans Under Construction: The Crisis of Planning for Architectural Record includes a quote from an essay by associate professor Derek Hoeferlin. Titled “Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Programs, Venues and Collaborations,” Hoeferlin’s chapter of the book includes student work from WUSTL architecture studios.
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Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery & Dialogue 
The WUSTL community came together to explore the important issues of race and ethnicity at this university-wide event. Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogueincluded a series of panel conversations and open forums with scholars, students, and leaders, exploring challenges that the university community is facing, particularly in light of recent events in the St. Louis region and across the country.

Panelists from the Sam Fox School included associate professor Bob Hansman (opening event) and associate professor Denise Ward-Brown (The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity). 
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Public Lecture Series: Living Better Than Inhabiting 
Javier Maroto, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture, will deliver a talk titled Living Better Than Inhabiting to kick off the spring 2015 Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. Maroto and his partner, Alvaro Soto, co-founded the firms SOLID architecture and Maremoto Paisajes in 2001 to carry out projects of architecture, urbanism, and landscape in an holistic manner. Maroto’s lecture will focus on the construction of a paradox between living and inhabiting. The needs and the aspirations settled within the current frame of our lives should be squeezed and mingle to redefine a new contemporary space concept suitable to a better and more conscious lifestyle.  
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LIMA featured in Journal of the Architecture Program at TUM, Germany
The January issue of the Journal of the Architecture Program at the Technical University of Munich features an interview with associate professor Zeuler Lima, in which he discusses his book Lina Bo Bardi and his collaboration on the centennial exhibition at the Munich Architecture Museum that celebrates the Italian-Brazilian architect.
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Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home   
Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet.
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DFA Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Human-Centered Design 
Design for America, a network of student-led studios creating local and social impact through interdisciplinary design, will bring together the following panel of academic and professional experts to explore what it means to design physical, virtual, and systematic solutions for the complex challenges facing individuals and communities:

  • Frank Bergh, BS08 Engineering, director of engineering operations, Socore Energy; co-founder, Engineers Without Borders at WUSTL
  • Heather Corcoran, director, College & Graduate School of Art
  • Bruce Lindsey, dean, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

De Andrea Nichols, BFA10, MSW14, director of creative changemaking, Catalysts by Design; community engagement manager, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

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OneSTL Conference: Linking Research and Practice:
Equitable Economic Growth and Sustainable Water Infrastructure

Equitable Economic & Community Development and Water Infrastructure are the main focus of this year’s OneSTL Conference. The topics were chosen based on a survey that asked local government and non-profit representatives to identify priority areas for sustainability and where research could support local decision-making. Speakers with WUSTL ties include: 

  • Assistant professor Patty Heyda and assistant professor Molly Metzger (Brown School), who are are panelists for Workshop I: Equitable Economic Development

Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, who is a panelist for Workshop II: Water Infrastructure.
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Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home   
Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet.
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Architecture Around the World Lecture Series: 79 Views of the Gateway Arch  
Visiting assistant professor Justin Scherma discussed 79 Views of the Gateway Arch, a photographic and historical survey of the official neighborhoods of St. Louis as part of the Architecture Around the World Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by The Society of Architectural Historians St. Louis Chapter and Steedman Architectural Library.

University of Kansas

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The University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning
[Re] Engaged Architecture Symposium, Celebrating 20 years of Studio 804

 

The (Re)Engaged Architecture Symposium welcomes speakers of international stature to discuss their projects and processes, and to reflect upon the body of work created by Studio 804, headed by Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill over the past twenty years. Studio 804 is an internationally recognized design/build program that engages design, craft, practice, and community to build healthy communities through the power of design.

 

 

Invited Speakers:

 

 

Brian MacKay-Lyons_[MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects]
Frank Harmon [Frank Harmon Associates]
Andrew Freear [Rural Studio]
Ted Flato [Lake | Flato]
Brigitte Shim [Shim-Sutcliffe Architects]
Marlon Blackwell [Marlon Blackwell Architects]
+ remarks by Susan Szenasy [Metropolis magazine]

 

The symposium will take place Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at our East Hills Construction Innovation Laboratory in Lawrence, KS.

 

For more information, please visit: www.studio804.com/symposium or contact Joe Colistra (jcolistra@ku.edu) 

 

To register: http://cpep.ku.edu/architecture

 

University of Oklahoma

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University of Oklahoma Division of Architecture: October 2014

DesignIntelligence (DI) Magazine has named Director and Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA and Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Dr. Stephanie Pilat as two of DesignIntelligence’s 30 Most Admired Educators for 2015. 

In association with the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture, Assistant Professor Dr. Catherine Barrett, AIA chaired the 2014 Creating_Making Forum, November 5-7. Sessions, keynote speakers, and student workshops built upon discourse introduced at the inaugural 2010 Creating_Making Forum. Featured speakers included E.B. Min, principal at Min|Day, and Kristen Murray, principal at Olson Kundig Architects. Both Min and Murray collaborated with select students in 1-1/2 day workshops that generated ideas for art installations within downtown Norman’s Main Street.

 

Associate Professor David Boeck, AIA is leading a 4th year studio class to New Orleans this semester to explore the Claiborne Avenue site related to the 2015 NOMA Student Competition. The project allows Architecture and Interior Design students to collaborate with OU’s NOMAS chapter. The 3rd year Interior Design students are designing a restaurant within the complex.

Professor and Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi recently returned from a sabbatical in the Middle East where he visited, surveyed, and documented 27 architectural sites of various historical nature and size particular to Iranian desert architecture. He is currently working with professional filmmakers in Oklahoma City and New York to assemble and edit hundreds of hours of video into three documentaries focused on courtyard architecture, historical wind catchers, and ancient technology to bring subterranean water to remote locations. For more information about CMEAC, vist: http://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/centers/CMEAC.html

Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA, through his practice Butzer Gardner Architects, recently received an Honor Award from AIA Central States Region and an Honor Award AIA Central Oklahoma chapter for the “SLIVR” Building.

Associate Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Marjorie P. Callahan, AIA recently authored Teaching Leadership Skills: “Practice” Coursework in Architecture Education Program in the Journal of Social Sciences Collection. Marjorie was also an invited Conference Facilitator on Leadership Issues at the recent State of Oklahoma Women in Higher Education Conference. She also collaborated with Professor Debra Reisweber on the 2014 published book Sooner State of Mind: Forging Leadership Legacies North of the Red River.

Associate Professor and Associate Director of Curriculum Development Anthony Cricchio, RA and Associate Professor Lee Fithian, AIA helped lead OU’s 2nd annual C5 Capstone Collaborative Competition. Ten interdisciplinary teams, consisting of senior Architecture, Interior Design, and CNS students partnered with JE Dunn Construction and architectural firm ADG. The two-week competition focused on an urban infill rehabilitation scenario in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown. Through the use of BIM and other collaborative technologies, students presented comprehensive and interior concepts along with cost estimates and schedules for the client group.

Director of Small Town Studios Associate Professor and Director of Small Town Studios Ron Frantz, AIA collaborated with the CoA’s Division of Regional and City Planning to host the recent American Planning Association (APA) Oklahoma Chapter Conference. Ron was also a guest speaker in OU’s recent inaugural Placemaking Academy.

Long time DivA supporter and award winning architect John Ward, AIA, principal at TAP Architecture in Oklahoma City, recently joined the faculty as a Professor of Practice.

Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA has been working with Hornbeek Blatt Architects on the 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City. New York-based Deborah Berke & Partners are the design architects. The project is an adaptive reuse project transforming the historic Fred Jones building into a boutique hotel that will showcase permanent and rotating artwork.

Additional news includes:

Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape students are collaborating on a design competition to re-imagine a section of historic Route 66 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Design teams are challenged to change perceptions of the stretch of road by redesigning the streetscape and cultural experience. Teams are also developing new ideas for signage along Route 66 which draw from the legacy of the legendary road’s neon signs. Led by Director of Urban Design Shawn Schaefer and Director of Regional and City Planning Dr. Dawn Jourdan, the faculty team includes Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Pilat, Assistant Professor Scott Williams, and Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA. The project has been supported by a $10,000 grant from the Signage Foundation, Inc. Each student on the winning team will be awarded a travel grant to support a Spring 2015 trip to Chicago.

Jerri Hodges Bonebrake, Bruce Goff’s long-time assistant, sadly passed away late 2014. The CoA’s Jerri Hodges Bonebrake award will continue to recognize outstanding staff. A newly developed student scholarship in her name is being developed to reward outstanding creative students.

Washington University in St. Louis

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IN THE NEWS

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association is the first public museum exhibition of drawings from the private collection of Boyarsky, arguably one of the most influential figures in 20th-century design education and the longtime chair of the Architectural Association in London. It also explores Boyarsky’s role as a collector of drawings and, metaphorically speaking, of the ideas and people that have come to define a key moment in architectural history. The exhibition is co-organized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum). It is curated by Igor Marjanovi_, associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School, and Jan Howard, curator of prints, drawings and photographs and curatorial chair at the RISD Museum. Marjanovic participated in numerous programs related to the exhibition, including gallery talks and a panel discussion with Chris Bardt, Jan Howard, and Lesley Lokko.

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Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin and associate professor John Hoal presented a MISI-ZIIBI workshop studying climate change issues in Brisbane, Australia, during the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference. Hoeferlin and  Hoal, were both instrumental in the redesign of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the two faculty took a ride down the Mississippi River with KPLR’s Patrick Clark in an effort to encourage St. Louis residents to look towards the future. Work for MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers was also featured in an exhibit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference. Their exhibit, funded in part by a WUSTL I-CARES grant, will display multidisciplinary research that deploys a workshop framework methodology and climate adaptation performance model for climate change scenario planning for multiuse “fluvial zones” along the Mississippi River basins and abroad. Lecturer Jonathan Stitelman produced the exhibit design.
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Associate professors Sung Ho Kim and Heather Woofter, co-founders of Axi:Ome, discussed ways urban spaces can connect through art at the CEL Center for Architecture + Design, as part of St. Louis Design Week.

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Associate professor Zeuler R. Lima, PhD, delivered the opening lecture for the exhibition 3 Sites, Lina Bo Bardi, organized in collaboration with the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich. He we also deliver a lecture on his book “Lina Bo Bardi” at the 4th Symposium of Museum Architecture at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In addition, Lima traveled to Germany to help set up a video he produced for the exhibition Lina Bo Bardi, 100, on view November 13-February 22 at the Architekturmuseum at the Technische Universität München. Lima also delivered a November 14 lecture at the symposium that accompanied the launch of the exhibition catalogue. On December 11, Lima delivered a lecture in Paris on his book and presented “Lina Bo Bardi, curator,” the short pedagogical film he wrote and produced about the architect’s museological experience and thought-provoking proposals. Last, the curators of the Museum of Modern Architecture at MAXXI, Rome, recently interviewed associate professor Lima about “Lina Bo Bardi,” his biographic book on the Italian-Brazilian architect. The interview will be included in the museum’s exhibition about Bo Bardi’s Italian experience, along with a video documentary Lima prepared for the show, which is on view December 18-March 15.
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Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor, discussed his new book on the work of Alvar Aalto in a lecture at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The Finnish architect and designer was one of the 20th-century’s most popular and accessible Modernist masters. A book signing will follow the lecture.
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Kelley Van Dyck Murphy and Lavender Tessmer, both lecturers in architecture, were among the winners of Sukkah City STL 2014: Between Absence and Presence. Presented by St. Louis Hillel and the Sam Fox School, the contemporary design competition challenged participants to reimagine the traditional Jewish sukkah through the lens of contemporary art and architecture. Ten cutting-edge sukkahs by architects and designers from around the nation were installed on campus.

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Senior lecturer in architecture Pablo Moyano Fernández presented the abstract Self-sufficient Housing in St. Louis at the Housing Education Research Association conference. The abstract speculates about why and how the city of St. Louis lost an alarming part of its population and suggests possibilities for the future. The presentation showcases a selection of design studio projects that address emergent challenges for future generations of designers.  

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Associate professor John Hoal, a founding partner of H3 Studio, is leading a team of local, national, and internationally known experts as finalists in a global design competition to improve river management and the rebuilding of the lower Mississippi River Delta. Titled Changing Course: Navigating the Future of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, the competition aims to halt land loss and restore the delta ecosystem while improving navigation and strengthening the resilience of local communities and industry. In addition to Hoal, WUSTL is represented with assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, and several alumni serving on the H3 Studio design team, including project manager Matthew Bernstine (MUD14), as well as Laura Lyon (MArch00), Bryan Robinson (MArch04), Tim Breihan (MArch/MUD08), Courtney Cushard (MUD11), Colleen Xi Qiu (MArch/MUD12, MSAS13), and Junru Zheng (MLA14). In addition, Hoal sat down with a diverse panel of water experts and offered an important thought on “How we can reconstruct our neighborhoods, our cities, and our region to actually be water responsive, water-based cities” as part of Nine Network’s Stay Tuned.

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Visiting assistant professors Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller collaborated with artist Wendy Mark on an installation that is featured in Mark’s exhibition Beginning with Square One. Cloudspace is a custom-fabricated spatial and optical device that interprets and expands Mark’s work. Kripa and Mueller designed, fabricated, and installed the project; their project team included MArch students Yu Xin and Bin Feng, who assisted with the digital design and production files. Other students assisted in the prototyping process in the School’s fabrication lab.

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HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes, a project led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas and senior lecturer Pablo Moyano, has been awarded a Neighbors Naturescaping grant. Their project aims to increase biodiversity in Old North St. Louis through the implementation of a rain garden and a nectaring garden. These small planting areas will allow the HUB team to register the project as part of the Milkweeds for Monarchs Initiative and help St. Louis reach its target of 200 new monarch gardens in 2014.
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The West End Neighborhood Sustainability Plan, produced by Master of Urban Design students, is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Student Project Award from the Missouri Chapter of the American Planning Association. The plan was produced for the spring 2014 course Contemporary Practices of Sustainable Urbanism, taught by associate professor John Hoal, with Colleen Xi Qiu (MArch/MUD12, MSAS13) serving as a teaching assistant.

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Over the past two decades, the rise of “material studies” has energized various disciplines by proposing objects as the very object of study, thereby opening up new and vital questions about many well-trodden topics. This two-day symposium explored how material culture and artistic production have helped generate political change from antiquity to the present. Several members of the Sam Fox School discussed their papers: Jesse Vogler, visiting assistant professor, Monika Weiss, associate professor, Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and chief curator. In addition, Anna Vallye, postdoctoral research associate, moderated comments and discussion as the discussant for the panel on Spatialization.

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In 1974, more than 450 students, scholars, and practitioners from across the country came to Washington University to have courageous conversations about the status of women in architecture and allied fields. On November 7-9, the Sam Fox School marked the symposium’s 40th anniversary with Women in Architecture 1974 | 2014, a three-day event that celebrates the achievements of the last four decades but also underscores the need for continuing conversation–and action.

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Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures explored the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine, and neuroscience with the human brain as a central focus. Participants included the Sam Fox School’s Sung Ho Kim (associate professor of architecture), Ron Leax (Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art), and Patricia Olynyk (director of the Graduate School of Art); WUSTL Arts & Sciences professors Rebecca Messbarger, Kathy Miller, and Larry Snyder; and Mark Cohen and Jim Gimzewski, and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Art | Sci Center and Lab, the Sam Fox School, and WUSTL’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

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The O’Fallon Neighborhood Community Development and Design Program is one of 10 recipients of this year’s Outstanding Local Government Achievement Awards, presented by the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. The program is a collaboration between the Brown School’s Alliance for Building Capacity, Lou Colombo, the City of St. Louis, the O’Fallon Community Development Organization, and the North Newstead Association. As part of a fall 2012 course, visiting assistant professor Justin Scherma and Colombo led a team of students from both the Sam Fox School and the Brown School–including Alfredo Zertuche (MArch14), Binqi Luo (MArch15), Dustin Garness (BA11/MSW13)–in working with the community on housing and commercial center plans for the project. Neighborhood residents provided long-term vision statements, described desired outcomes, and prioritized strategies. The plans will be submitted for adoption by the City of St. Louis and provide a model for university-enabled neighborhood planning that is designed to give voice to disadvantaged citizens interested in working to improve their neighborhood.

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This fall, Downtown STL, Inc. and the Sam Fox School partnered to explore adaptive reuse possibilities for the Railway Exchange Building, working in cooperation with the owners of the iconic structure. At a December 10 reception and exhibition, students from Metamorphic Cities: Sustainable Strategies for Adaptive Reuse, a graduate architecture studio led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas, presented their responses to a call for innovative design ideas to reimagine the 21-story high-rise building, reinvigorate the surrounding area, and contribute to the continuing transformation of downtown St. Louis.

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Eric Mumford was appointed the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and a Faculty Scholar, Institute for Public Health, at Washington University in St. Louis. He also recently published two peer-reviewed articles: Eric Mumford, “The Changing Forms of Metropolitan North America,” in Evelien van Es, et al. eds., CIAM 4 and comparative analysis (Bussum, the Netherlands: Thoth, 2014) and Eric Mumford, “Alvar Aalto’s Urban Planning and CIAM Urbanism,” Alvar Aalto-Second Nature (Weil-am-Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum, 2014).

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The curators of the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Argentina awarded the Montessori Children’s School project submitted by Raymond E. Maritz Professor Adrian Luchini “Distinguished” honors (the equivalent of second prize) in the Landscape and City category. The project, which features an addition to an existing facility in St. Louis, sought to “operate within those aesthetic canons that normally define the lack of concrete identity in all suburbia in the U.S., while trying to radically change the existing image of a building from the ’60s.”

 

 

 

University of Minnesota

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Thomas Fisher, Dean: After nearly two-decades as Dean at the University of Minnesota, Thomas Fisher has announced that he will step down from that position in the summer of 2015. After leaving the deanship this summer, he will assume the positions of Dayton Hudson Land Grant Chair in Urban Design and director of the University’s Metropolitan Design Center. In that capacity, he will continue his research and teaching in conjunction with metro-area partners and grant makers. Professor Fisher also finished the manuscript for his next book, Some Possible Futures, as well as two introductions to books on the work of Pugh + Scarpa and Fernau & Hartman, and two chapters on books dealing with architecture labor and public-interest design. He continues to write for the last page of Architect magazine every other month and for a variety of other publications. Professor Renee Cheng, who served as Head of the School of Architecture from 2004-2014, and stepped down from that position on July 1 to assume a new leadership role as Associate Dean for Research and Outreach at the College of Design. During her tenure Professor Cheng established the nation’s first and only Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDA), and more recently the Master of Science in Research Practice (MS-RP), which aims at halving the amount of time from high school to licensure for architects–from an average of 14.5 years to 7. Associate professor of architecture Marc Swackhamer has been named head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. He has served as the director of the University’s Master of Architecture program since 2012 and is the co-founder of HouMinn Practice, which focuses on full-scale prototyping of lightweight, responsive, and digitally pre-fabricated construction systems. “The discipline of architecture is undergoing tremendous change,” says Swackhamer. “Schools must quickly and nimbly adjust to those changes, yet remain clear and stable with regards to the disciplinary core of the profession. I envision a program that will lead the discipline through a dynamically changing landscape, while simultaneously clarifying and stabilizing the long-held skills that distinguish architecture from other fields of study.” Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) was awarded the University of Minnesota Imagine Chair in the Arts, Design and Humanities for 2014-2016. He will work on a collaborative project over a two year cycle of programming that includes an exhibition, symposia and coursework with faculty from across the University (in the Twin Cities and in Duluth campuses of the University of Minnesota). Additionally, Professor Saloojee and a collaborative team (including James Wheeler-Architecture, Vince deBritto-Landscape Architecture, and Jamuna Golden-Landscape Architecture) from the University of Minnesota were awarded a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant for a two year cycle of work in partnership with the St. Louis River Alliance and Duluth-LISC (Duluth). This group will work in and with communities, stakeholders, public, private, local and state partners in Duluth to help imagine and develop a resilient and sustainable urban future for the St. Louis River Corridor. Associate Professor Blaine Brownell is the new Director of the Master of Architecture program and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. He is also the 2014 Materials and Products Chair for Hanley Wood’s Vision 2020 program, and presented “Visible Green: New Material Opportunities in Sustainable Design” at the Vision 2020 symposium at Greenbuild in October. He published an article of the same title in EcoBuilding Review (Winter 2014), as well as “Material Resilience in Two Dimensions” in the Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences (April 2014) and the essay “Manipulating the Material Code” in Materials Experience (Elsevier, 2013). He continues to contribute regularly to the Mind & Matter column in Architect magazine. Associate Professor John Comazzi delivered a lecture on the life and career of the architecture photographer Balthazar Korab in Columbus, IN (November 20). Korab is the subject of Comazzi’s book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Comazzi was also a panelist at the recent AIA-MN Convention on the subject of Design-Build in the academy. He was joined by Marc Swackhamer, Head of the Architecture Department at UMN to discuss the opportunities for collaboration with practitioners, community organizations, and industry on design-build projects.

Washington University in St. Louis

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The curators of the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Argentina awarded the Montessori Children’s School project submitted by Raymond E. Maritz Professor Adrian Luchini “Distinguished” honors (the equivalent of second prize) in the Landscape and City category. The project, which features an addition to an existing facility in St. Louis, sought to “operate within those aesthetic canons that normally define the lack of concrete identity in all suburbia in the U.S., while trying to radically change the existing image of a building from the ’60s.” 

University of Texas at Austin

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Faculty News January 2015

The School of Architecture received news of a $1 million grant from the Still Water Foundation, an Austin-based foundation that supports the arts and other causes.  The award is to support the renovation of the school’s Battle Hall (Cass Gilbert 1910), the West Mall Office Building, and to build the John S. Chase addition to the School of Architecture.

Associate Professor Emeritus Owen Cappleman passed away in Austin, Texas, on September 25, 2014, at the age of 76.

The T3 Parking Structure, designed by Associate Dean Elizabeth Danze and Senior Lecturer John Blood, Danze Blood Architects, has won the American Architecture Award for 2014 from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press. 

Two UTSOA faculty members have received 2014 University Co-op Research Awards.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla was awarded a $5,000 Creative Research Award for “Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry: 16th Century Ribbed Vaults in Mixteca, Mexico,” an exhibit that showcases three cathedral vaults using a 3-D laser point scanner and printer. Senior Lecturer Rachael Rawlins was awarded the $5,000 Best Research Paper Award for “Planning for Fracking on the Barnett Shale: Urban Air Pollution, Improving Health Based Regulation, and the Role of Local Governments,” Virginia Environmental Law Journal. The article undertakes the most comprehensive review and analysis of air quality monitoring, regulation, and health effects assessment on the Barnett Shale. 

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe  presented the Guadalupe Garage Green Wall project research at the ACADIA 2014 Conference.

 

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