Just recently Assistant Professor Dr. Ole W. Fischer has published Nietzsches Schatten – Henry van de Velde: von Philosophie zu Form [Nietzsche’s Shadow – Henry van de Velde: from Philosophy to Form] (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2012), 624p, ill. In addition he contributed to several exhibition catalogues on van de Velde, which open this year, since 2013 is the 150th anniversary of this important artist, architect, designer, educator and theoretician, and Dr. Fischer is invited as a keynote speaker at the forthcoming “12. International Bauhaus Colloquium” in Weimar, Germany, April 4-7.
Mark Gangi, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB is speaking at the AIACC Academy of Emerging Professionals annual conference titled ‘the state of (re)imagining our future’ on September 22. http://aiacc.org/2012/08/15/top-ten-reasons-to-attend-progression-conference/ . Mark serves on the AIA National Center for Civic Leadership Committee.
Ken Breisch was elected First Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians in April. His article “Hollywood” was published in American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (Columbia College Chicago Press), and in June he delivered the paper, “Adobe or Concrete?” at the annual conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Jennifer Siegal will serve as a juror for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 in Madrid, Spain. Additionally, she served as a juror for the 2012 AIA Pasadena & Foothill design awards.
David Lawrence Gray Architects have purchased a 100 year old building near the corner of 4th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. They are in the process of restoring and adding a 6th floor to be occupied by architects, engineers and post production facilities.
Post-graduate architecture faculty Christophe Cornubert was invited to participate in the opening event of the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, joining Winy Maas (MVRDV), Clement Blanchet (OMA), Bjarke Ingels (BIG), and Ole Scheeren in discussion about the future of cities and new models of architecture practice.
Professor John Mutlow recently won two awards for his projects. He received the Los Angeles Business Council “42nd Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards” for STOVALL VILLA, a four story, 32 unit affordable senior housing project with senior amenities and a subterranean garage, just south of Exposition Park and USC. The project is designed around a central social courtyard. Financed by HUD (the federal government) and LAHD (the City of Los Angeles). Construction completed 2011. Multow also received the West Side Urban Forum “Westside Prize 2012: for THE COURTYARD AT LA BREA, a four story, 32 unit mixed use and mixed occupancy affordable housing project in West Hollywood, for emancipated youths, AIDS and senior residents. The project is designed to edge the sidewalk and contextually connect to the exuberance of several Art Deco buildings along La Brea, with a major architectural celebration at the entrance.
Eric Nulman presented a paper at the ACSA International Conference in Barcelona, Spain titled “An Alternative Model For Undergraduate Thesis Instruction: Using Collaborative Full-Scale Design Exercises To Supplement Individual Research Projects”
Douglas Noble and Karen Kensek have hosted more than a dozen architectural licensing study hall sessions in the past year. These free study hall sessions have been attended by hundredson interns from the Los Angeles region.
Assistant Professor Erin Moore has been elected to the board of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC).
Associate Professor Brook Muller’s book Ecology and the Architectural Imagination was released this February (Routledge). He presented his paper “The Captured Gesture: Studio Performance at the Intersection of Thinking and Drawing,” coauthored with Leonard Yui, at the European Association for Architectural Education/Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Research Conference “Beyond Architecture: Making New Connections and Intersections” held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His paper “Adaptive Architectures and Dynamic Urban Ecologies,” coauthored with Josh Cerra, will be presented at The Environmental Design Research Association “EDRA 45 Building With Change” conference in New Orleans in May.
Associate Professor Nico Larco is continuing to work with colleges and universities interested in developing broad based, university wide programs that engage with cities. These programs are modeled on the Sustainable City Year Program pioneered at the University of Oregon. In January and February he held daylong workshops at the University of Tennessee and for multiple colleges and universities in Maine.
‘Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods’ by Associate Professor Nico Larco, Kristin Kelsey, and Amanda West will be published by Island Press and will be available in mid-March. Aimed at architects, planners, and developers, the book provides design and code guidance for walkability and connectivity in multifamily site design.
Professor Alison Kwok presented “Zero net energy education: mind the gap,” at the ARCC/EAAE 2014 International Conference on Architectural Research; she also received ASHRAE grant funding for “Campus Un-plugged” that looks at energy audits of campus buildings.
The first two buildings of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU)’s new Stryiskiyi Park campus recently opened near the historic center of Lviv in western Ukraine. Professor Gerald Gast and graduate students from the Urban Projects Workshop of the University of Oregon Portland Program developed the first master plan and have worked with the University on the campus development since 2008.
UCU is the first Catholic university on the territory of the former Soviet Union and a model of independent education in Ukraine. Founded in 1928, the University was closed by the Soviets in 1945 and reopened in 2002 following Ukraine’s independence. Architects for the first two buildings, an academic center and student housing, were designed by KMW Architecture of Boston. Two additional buildings are in design. Professor Gast and University of Oregon graduate students developed the master plan and continue work on its development, advising the University on architect selection, programming and building design.
Assistant Professor Kyuho Ahn will deliver two papers at the 2014 IDEC International Conference.
A paper, “Empirical Approach in Designing a Store: Comfort, Arousal, and Motivation” co-authored with King Tang, former graduate student, will be presented. Ahn developed an interdisciplinary theoretical model, A2S model, that conceptualizes relationship between store-environment and consumer behaviors. This paper provides empirical evidences to support the theory. This experimental study suggests that ‘comfort’ and ‘intermediate arousal condition’ moderate positive shopping responses in a store environment that is manipulated by lighting and sound.
Another paper “Utilitarian Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Inclusive Design Graduate Seminar” co-authored with Molly Rogers, adjunct instructor of product design program, disseminates pedagogic aspects of an interior architecture graduate seminar that engaged architecture/interior design students and community members with disabilities in exploration of inclusive design issues.
Also, a former student research paper, “Designing for All: Better Spaces for the Vision Impaired” by Qing Ju (M.I.Arch ’13) and McCall Wood (M.Arch ’13) will be delivered at the conference. This paper disseminates research findings on inclusive design issues for people with vision impaired.
Dean Janice Cervelli joined the Executive Advisory Committee for U of A’s “The Next 125” at the invitation of President Eugene G. Sander. The University is celebrating 125 years since Arizona’s 13th Territorial Legislature authorized it’s establishment in 1885. Dean Cervelli will be involved in high-level decision making and long-term strategic planning related to the next major strategic plan for the UA.
Associate Professor Martin Despang of Despang Architekten was featured in The Chengdu 7788 Culture, the September issue of Ingenuity magazine. The article, “High-Class Arcology,” features an interview with Despang and highlights four Despang Architeketen projects as case studies in its review of highly efficient buildings and the firm’s approach in designing diverse building typologies to foster a sustainable, bioclimatic lifestyle.
UNLV Architecture Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was named the 2012 Nevada Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The award was presented during a luncheon on November 15, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The awards recognize professors for their influence in the classroom and their commitment to undergraduate students. Fernandez-Gonzalez was selected from a pool of nearly 300 top professors nationwide and a broad range of academic disciplines and institutional types.
“Great faculty dedicated to the success of our students are the backbone of UNLV and our tradition of educational excellence,” said UNLV President Neal Smatresk. “Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez has been an outstanding mentor and coach for students by engaging them in relevant research that is contextually linked to their major interest. UNLV is proud of his accomplishments and of our architecture program.”
Fernandez-Gonzalez was also the recipient of the 2012 UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and UNLV’s nominee to the Nevada System of Higher Education Regents Teaching Award. He is presently the Director of the Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory and the Architecture Program Coordinator.
The U.S. Professors of the Year Program began in 1981 and is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. Judges selected national and state winners based on four criteria:
– Impact on and involvement with undergraduate students
– Scholarly approach to teaching and learning
– Contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession
– Support from colleagues and current and former students
“The winners have drawn on the best of what we know from cognitive science, learning theory and evidence-based practices in post-secondary instruction to orchestrate extraordinary opportunities for the students in their classrooms,” said Anthony S. Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a statement. “In honoring these distinguished professors who have exhibited excellence in teaching in their disciplines and extraordinary dedication to their students, we are supporting the centrality of teaching on campus and recognizing its importance to the future of our country.”
This year, a state Professor of the Year was recognized in 30 states and the District of Columbia. CASE assembled two preliminary panels of judges to select finalists. The Carnegie Foundation then convened the third and final panel, which selected four national winners. CASE and Carnegie select state winners from top entries resulting from the judging process. For additional information please visit: http://news.unlv.edu/release/architecture-professor-named-nevada-professor-year
UCLA Architecture’s new IDEAS platform to encourage research collaboration with industry
Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn and Thom Mayne to lead expanded UCLA Architecture and Urban Design master’s program at new satellite location
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) today announced the launch of IDEAS, a new platform for cross-disciplinary research collaborations among students, faculty, industry and other partners that will radically question, challenge and expand the current parameters of architecture practice. As part of this initiative, the department has added a new Los Angeles satellite location and significantly expanded its master’s of architecture program, which will now feature studio courses taught by several of the biggest luminaries in the field — Thom Mayne, Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry, with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies.
The revamped, self-supported Master of Architecture II program, which will continue to be known as SUPRASTUDIO, has been expanded threefold, from 15 to 45 students, for the 2013–14 academic year. During these yearlong, post-professional studios, students will study with one of the three world-renowned, award-winning architects, focusing on a research theme in collaboration with an industry or nonprofit partner and a broad array of outside consultants.
Such collaborative approaches to addressing next-generation design questions have become increasingly important as rapid advances in technology and more complex problems in urbanism have led to greater areas of overlap between architecture and urban design and adjacent industries like transportation, entertainment and technology, said Hitoshi Abe, professor and chair of A.UD.
The new applied research platform provided by IDEAS and the expansion of SUPRASTUDIO will allow students to pivot out from traditional architecture to discover new applications for architectural expertise, he stressed.
“Industry often uses the language of architecture to speculate on the future of their fields,” Abe said. “SUPRASTUDIO, with its unique format, works with these partners in collaborative research and opens up the future possibilities for architecture from the outside in.”
To test new design concepts, SUPRASTUDIO students will have access to the 6,000-square-foot Advanced Technologies Lab, located at A.UD’s new hub at the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista, Calif., where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose aircraft in the 1940s and where A.UD’s current neighbors include YouTube and Earthbound Media Group. The lab offers students the opportunity to examine not only how robotics and other technologies can change the way buildings are made but how to integrate such advanced technologies into architecture and urban design methodology.
The Advanced Technologies Lab is sponsored in part by Toyota, which served as a corporate sponsor for A.UD’s 2008–09 SUPRASTUDIO and is an A.UD partner in ongoing initiatives.
The three studios for the 2013–14 academic year are:
Frank Gehry | Gehry Partners | Gehry Technologies
Led by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Frank Gehry, this studio will explore the possibilities for intelligent micro-technologies that support going “off the grid” at both the building scale and the urban scale. Currently, the built environment is organized around networks of distribution infrastructures — for power, water, heat, fuel and other services — that over the past century have dramatically affected the structure of the environment and people’s way of way of life. Often, this design for the grid comes at the expense of the needs of people. But what if the grid itself were unnecessary? The studio will hypothesize what new cities might look like if inhabitants could control their own creation and consumption of energy, cooling, water and other services.
Greg Lynn
Lynn, A.UD professor and winner of the 2008 Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, will team up with an industry leader to research the future implications of robotic and intelligent environments. The studio will explore the potential for “transformable structures” — buildings and other structures equipped with robotics and intelligent sensing technologies that can adapt, move and transform smartly in response to various environmental situations.
Thom Mayne | NOW Institute
In collaboration with policymakers and government partners, Thom Mayne, recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and a distinguished professor at A.UD, will lead the newly formed NOW Institute with director Eui-Sung Yi, building on 10 years of previous research initiatives that span cities across the United States and the world, including Los Angeles, New Orleans, Madrid, Beijing and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The focus of this studio will be the investigation and application of urban strategies to complex problems in modern, advanced metropolises and informal settlements, encompassing cities affected by the challenges of resilience, culture, sustainability and mobility.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD), part of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, pursues issues confronting contemporary architecture and urbanism through its bachelor’s of arts program in architectural studies and its four advanced degree programs: the master’s of architecture I, master’s of architecture II, master’s of arts in architecture and doctorate of philosophy in architecture. The programs’ primary focus on advanced design is complemented by concentrations in technology and critical studies of architectural culture.
The Biosphere 2Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO)will consist of three massive landscapes constructed inside an environmentally controlled greenhouse facility. A scale-model built by Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinsonand two third-year architecture students,David Kim and James Carrico, will be displayed for visitors at Biosphere 2. For more info visit: http://leo.b2science.org/node/36
OF ARCH #118: International Magazine of Architecture and Design features the Tucson Zoo and Natatorium in Reid Park, by Burns Wald-Hopkins Shambach Architects with design consultation on fabric structures by Professor R. Larry Medlin.
Adjunct Lecturers Teresa Rosano and Luis Ibarra (Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, Inc.) have three projects featured in Contemporary Villas, Strahan, McMillan, and McMillan, eds. (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2011).
UO undergraduate architecture studentsBenjamin Bye, Alex Kenton and Jason Rood won first place in the ACSA Timber in the City: Urban Habitats contest, which called for proposals for mixed-use development in the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook.
UO Masters of Interior Architecture student Yin Yu is a finalist in the Oregon Best Red List Design Challenge.
Recent UO Masters of Architecture graduate Rachel Auerbach, M.Arch ’09, won the AIA Center for Emerging Professionals 2013 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes significant contributions of interns at early stages in their careers, in honor of Pettigrew, who was committed to community and professional service.
Professor James Tice was selected for the 2013 UO Outstanding Research Career Award sponsored by the UO Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education. The award highlights outstanding research activities at the University of Oregon.
Adjunct professor Michael Pyatok recently won a competition sponsored by the City of Oakland for a high-rise, market-rate tower located on Oakland’s downtown Lake Merritt. The site was recently created as part of a redesign and expansion of the parkland along the southern edge of the lake. Pyatok also recently presented his firm’s work in low-rise, high density housing at the Center for Architecture in NYC as part of the opening of an exhibit about that topic, sponsored by the AIA. Pyatok will also be serving on the jury of the annual Builder’s Choice awards for housing sponsored by Hanley Wood publishers.
Professor Howard Davis has co-founded a new research and consulting group, the Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism (CIU), which is concerned with the relationships between urban form / building types, and social / economic inclusion in cities. The CIU has carried out projects in China, London and currently Portland, Oregon. He recently spoke about this work at the annual meeting of the International Seminar on Urban Form in Brisbane, and at universities in Brisbane and Melbourne.
Rene Peralta, Director Master of Science in Architecture, Landscape and Urbanism, will be speaking in Denver’s Start Up Week, in Denver Colorado; the event will showcase Denver’s entrepreneurial community with an emphasis on technology, design, social entrepreneurship and business. Peralta is now the president of the board of Fundación Esperanza de Mexico, a non-profit organization in Tijuana, Mexico that promotes self-built housing and community building for low income families.
Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter (Graduate Chair) and Dr. Amit Wolf (graduate faculty) received a Graham Foundation Grant. Since this is a Grant for Organizations, WUHO (Woodbury Hollywood Gallery) / Woodbury University is listed as the grantee. The project, Beyond Environment, is a proposal for an exhibition and a publication and explores the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena’s collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Ingalill will be presenting a paper at the Fall ACSA Conference titled “Fieldwork Tahiti: Houses of Flux.” She will be on sabbatical during Fall 2013.
Co-Chair of Master of Real Estate and Development Ted Smith and his firm McCormick Smith and Others prepared models and renderings for the “Making Room” exhibition in the Museum of the City of New York which opened in January and will show until September 15th. The exhibit, sponsored by Citizens Housing and Planning Council and the Architectural League of New York, examines the impact of shared housing in the effort to provide affordable housing for young professionals, artists, and entrepreneurs that make such a vital contribution to the city economy and culture. The design presented, the New York GoHome, examines the advantages shared housing brings to micro unit designs in a high rise configuration.
Assistant Professor Maxi Spina’s “Three’s a crowd,” a simultaneous exploration on the slippages existing between form, color and geometry was exhibited this summer in “On the Road,” a series of Pop-up exhibitions that highlight the work of emerging contemporary architecture practices in Los Angeles. In addition, Spina’s recently finished “Jujuy Redux Apartment Building” appeared in the Book Innovative Residences published by Hong Kong Architecture Science Press, and was featured in the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Database. In March, Maxi presented at the annual ACSA conference the paper “Heterotopic Speciation,” which discusses his latest research on alternative parametric modeling and drawing techniques. This Fall, Maxi will be presenting at the TxA Interactive conference in Dallas the paper “Bursting Margins: Involute Assemblies and Emergent Silhouettes,” which discusses the research carried out over the last year on flexible envelopes and modular assemblies for the Woodbury Canopy Project.
The Arid Lands Institute (ALI), launched this summer a 2-year watershed-based planning process in rural New Mexico, led by ALI’s Co-Director Peter Arnold with B.Arch student Ethan Dingwell; The project is funded by the EPA. In July, ALI hosted the Sixth Annual “Celebrando las Acequias,” a community-based conference on climate adaptation in the rural west. The event was funded by Metabolic Studio, a program of the Annenberg Foundation.
ALI research was featured in the fall 2013 issue of BOOM: A Journal of California (University of California Press); in “Pivot: Water Scarcity as Design Opportunity”, with funding by the World Water Forum; in a special issue of ARID: A journal of Art, Design and Ecology, edited by ALI’s Co-Director Hadley Arnold and Kim Stringfellow and funded by Metabolic Studio; In August, Hadley Arnold was a panelist on TakePartLive Television premiere of “Last Call at the Oasis: On why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.”, hosted by Participant Media. Finally, ALI was chosen for the Fall 2013 prestigious AIA/LA Presidential Honor Award for Public Service.
Associate Professor Martin Despang´s “Marienwerder community grocery center” has been recognized with a 2011/2012 Faculty Design ACSA Award. His typological diverse critical practice case studies: “Jibi community grocery center”, ”Headquarters Krogmann”, “Göttingen University Kindergarten” and “Farmhouse Voges” have been featured in the categories of : commercial, work ,education and dwelling in volume 2 of Braun Publishers bestseller, “1000 x European Architecture”. Lecturers Christopher Trumble, Michael Kothke and Madeline Gradillas will present “Block_Lofting and Deformation_Reformation”, “Revealing our Connections to the World”, and “Reflective Reuse: Iterative Material to Reinforce the Iterative Process”, respectively, at the The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 2012, the End of/in the Beginning: Realizing the Sustainable Imagination.
Adjunct Lecturer Bil Taylor, via his construction company Just Build, LLC, recently won a 2011 award from the Arizona Masonry Guild for Excellencein the Design and Construction of the Harris-Lebel Residence, Tucson, AZ.
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