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Texas A&M University

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Professor Shelley Holliday has been appointed by the Department Head, Professor Ward Wells, as the Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University. Professor Holliday is currently a senior lecturer and has been on faculty since spring 2000.  Her areas of interest include structural steel, structural and material detailing, bridging the architecture/engineering gap, and interdisciplinary design. Professor Holliday has been honored to receive many teaching awards, the latest most distinguished award being the Distinguished Achievement Award for excellent teaching Spring 2013.

University of Texas at Austin

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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 will be presenting the Guadalupe Garage Green Wall project research at the ACADIA 2014 Conference, to be held October 23 to 26, in Los Angeles.   

Washington University in St. Louis

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Christof Jantzen, I-CARES Professor of Practice, is principal of Studio Jantzen, which has teamed up with Behnisch Architekten on the City of Santa Monica Parking Structure #6. The garage, which is located in a downtown area on the Los Angeles coastline, “seeks to enhance this public energy, via a spatially dynamic and highly performative façade,” according to designboom.

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/behnisch-studio-jantzen-santa-monica-parking-structure-07-09-2014/

Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecturer Ersela Kripa and visiting assistant professor Stephen Mueller, partners of AGENCY, collaborated with an interdiscipinary team of design professionals–including assistant professor Kees Lokman–on XFL, a model partnership and reuse for low-density retail parking lots in cities with lagging stormwater infrastructure. The project was a finalist in Infill Philadelphia’s nationwide design competition, and was published in Issue 71 of Archiworld. http://agencyarchitecture.com/project/performative-landscape/

Washington University in St. Louis

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The latest issue of Landscape World (issue 72) features ElastiCity, a collaboration involving lecturer Ersela Kripa, visiting assistant professor Stephen Mueller, assistant professor Kees Lokman, Nash Waters (MArch14), and Ivy Wang (MArch13). The speculative project calls for an adaptable city center and performative landscape in Gjilan, Kosovo, an emerging region of Southern Europe.

http://agencyarchitecture.com/project/elasticity/

Washington University in St. Louis

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Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, delivered a standing-room-only presentation illuminating the career of architect Alvar Aalto as part of the kickoff to FinnFest. Ritva Koukku-Ronde, Ambassador of Finland to the United States, was among those in attendance. The book engages the architecture of one of the twentieth century’s most popular and accessible masters through an integrated examination of his major works, and how they engage the light, climate, and topography of their sites, exemplifying the way in which Aalto extended Finnish tradition and engaged newly emerging Modern materials.. The event also celebrated the publication of “Aalto,” authored by McCarter and published by Phaidon. McCarter discussed the book in an interview for the show “Section D,” which was air August 12 on Monocle 24 radio. http://monocle.com/radio/shows/section-d/

Washington University in St. Louis

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As part of a conference session on “The Role of Green Spaces for People in Shrinking and Growing Cities,” assistant professor Catalina Freixas presented the paper A quantitative sustainability assessment: effectiveness of green-blue infrastructure in a shrinking city, which she co-authored with senior lecturer Pablo Moyano at the 12th International  Conference on Urban History: Cities in Europe. Cities in the World. The conference took place in Lisbon on September 3-6, 2014

http://www.eauh2014.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php?conference=conference&schedConf=eauh2014&page=schedConf&op=trackPolicies

Washington University in St. Louis

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The professional/faculty category of the juried Research + Design Exhibition at the ACSA/AIK International Conference features Geographies of a Global Company Town, a project/poster by assistant professor Patty Heyda. The poster was produced in an advanced architecture studio as part of Heyda’s ongoing Emergent Urbanisms project. It includes drawings by Bryan Bogaards, MArch14, and current MArch student Acyn Xinrui Zhong. In addition, associate professor John Hoal will present the paper MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers, Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Midwest River Basins during a conference session at 9:30a June 23. The paper is co-authored by Hoal, assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, and Dale Morris, senior economist for The Royal Netherlands Embassy.

Washington University in St. Louis

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Associate professors Sung Ho Kim and Heather Woofter, principles of Axi:Ome, discussed their design plans for the Grand Center Art Walk and share initial project models. The project is a stitched landscape that joins several art and media institutions in Grand Center. By evoking a heightened sense of the site (subtle sounds of the wind, presence of the sky, partial views of facades, etc.), the Art Walk establishes art as part of our built and natural environment and encourages pedestrians to observe and interface with the uniqueness of each “urban room” along the path.  

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