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M. Brian Tichenor AIA has just completed the restoration of a four-acre Thomas Church garden in Pebble Beach, and is in the final stages of planning for the first large residence built to Passivhaus standards in Monterey County.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Gerdo Aquino, is President of SWA, and Principal at the Los Angeles studio.   He recently co-authored a book, published by Birkhauser/Actar, entitled Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA.   For the fall/winter of 2011 he lectured at GSD Harvard, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of Virginia on “Transportational Futures” and Landscape Infrastructure.  He has recently been awarded the 2011 Westside Prize Merit Award, Open Space Category for Milton Street Park, Marina Del Rey, CA.  He is currently working on the recently awarded Shanghai Disney Project (Residential, Dining and Entertainment Area), a pedestrian streetscape in El Paso, Texas, and a linear urban park along Ballona Creek in Marina Del Rey.  Gerdo will be speaking on a panel on October 28th at the ULI Conference entitled: From Eye Sore to “A Must See:” Creating Urban Parks from Thin Air and Adding Real Estate Value.

Visiting Assistant Professor Ying-Yu Hung is Managing Principal of SWA Los Angeles, and co-founder of the Infrastructure Research Initiative (I.R.I.S.), recently co-authoring the book “Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA”, published by Birkhauser/Actar.  She was a finalist for the 2011 ULI Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition for Gubei Pedestrian Promenade in Shanghai, China.  Hung is an active lecturer and recently presented a panel on the topic of landscape infrastructure at this year’s National American Planning Association conference held in Boston and CELA in Los Angeles.  In the fall/winter of 2011 she lectured at GSD Harvard, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of Virginia on “Transportational Futures” and Landscape Infrastructure.   In August, SWA Los Angeles won 2nd Place in the 2016 Rio Olympic Competition in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.  Her current projects include the Fuyang Riverfront Concept Master Plan in China.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Eric Haas, AIA received a Preservation Design Award from the California Preservation Foundation for the restoration of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments. He also presented the project on the panel “Renovating an Icon” at Dwell on Design 2011 in Los Angeles.

Professor Marc Schiler tested and evaluated the reflective and specular implications of using a foamed aluminum material on the exterior of the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France, designed by Frank Gehry.  Gehry continues to push the envelope in using new materials.  Professor Schiler also documented the interesting instances of solar convergence over the span of a day at the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, designed by Rafael Vinoly.  Preliminary results were presented at the Facades Tectonics conference at USC.  

Visiting Assistant Professor Kristine Mun has been invited to participate in the LA Downtown Artwalk event from October 13-18, 2011. She will be showcasing her Studio402 projects, entitled “Architecture and the Logic Machine: Behavior and Material Application”

Assistant Professor Karen M. Kensek is organizing the sixth annual BIM conference to be held in Los Angeles on July 13, 2012.

Faculty members Doris Sung and Rob Ley were awarded the 2011 AIA National Upjohn Grant to support ongoing research that their respective design offices have engaged dealing with responsive materials within architecture.  Both Rob and Doris have separately received support from previous Upjohn Grants, this year’s award marks the first time that they will be working together on a new project.

Lecturer Carlo Aiello co-edited the new book ‘Evolo Skyscrapers’ which is an investigation on the future of vertical density. The publication was presented last September at the 2011 Interior Design Show West (IDSWest) in Vancouver. It received instant praise by the public and critics.

Assistant Professor Ken Breisch has been asked to join the “Los Angeles Architecture, 1940-1990″ Exhibition Advisory Committee for the Getty Research Institute, as well as the Los Angeles Arboretum Preservation Advisory Group, and the Survey LA Review Committee.

Adjunct Professor Veronica G. Galen, Assoc. AIA, IES, LEED AP BD+C, designed the lighing for the Silver Award winning Dream Home 2011 Custom Contemporary Home of the Year and Best Whole House Remodel for residential projects with Kollin Altomare Architects, and was part of the team awarded an Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Award of Merit for the lighting design of Chase Bank Colorado Boulevard.

Adjunct Professor Regula Campbell AIA authored a presentation in June at the International Federation of Landscape Architecture World Congress: “Scales of Nature”, Zurich, Switzerland on the topic:  Biodiversity in the City: Enrichment for Urban Life and Work – “Making It Personal, Making It Real”.

Adjunct Professor Doug Campbell ASLA will be recognized by the Government of Hangzhou, China this October for his contribution to the region’s “Quality of Life” through his design of  a recently completed sustainable new town re-visioning a former  industrial site in the City’s northern district.

An exhibition featuring design work addressing the proposed USC/Hybrid High Charter School by School of Architecture Associate Professor Chuck Lagreco’s 2011 spring topic studio students will be on display at a reception in the new Rossier School of Education Computing Center – part of a continuing collaboration on educational facilities by the two schools focusing on the neighborhoods around the campus.

Studio work on the Owens Lake dust mitigation project influenced the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to hire three local landscape architecture firms to be part of the current phase of design and construction for over 2.7 square miles of the lake. He has also joined the team in an advanced research capacity.

Architecture Lecturer, Christine Lampert’s firm,  Lampert Dias Architects, Inc.  has just finished the construction administration phase for the 8000 square foot San Clemente Senior’s Community Center that they designed in downtown San Clemente. The Center officially opened on Monday October 3, 2011.

Cory Ticktin, A.I.A. who is a Design Principal with AECOM in Los Angeles currently oversees the Studio’s International work in Asia. Mr. Ticktin is currently working on a number of projects in Asia including a 130,000 M² Mixed-Use commercial development in Bangkok, Thailand currently under construction, a 45,000 M² Corporate Headquarters for Unilever also in Bangkok, an 80 meter tall office tower in Bangalore, India, two 130 meter tall residential towers also in Bangalore and a 100 meter tall residential tower in Pune, India.

Associate Professor Trudi Sandmeier is the new Director of USC Graduate Historic Preservation Programs. She recently curated an L.A. Food Noir film event at the historic Orpheum Theatre and will be both a panelist and moderator for the upcoming Historic Preservation Symposium at Cornell University.

Ed Woll reports that construction is substantially complete for Young Burlington Apartments (affordable supportive housing for young people) in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood and 60% complete for Jovenes Houses (transitional housing for disadvantaged youth) in East Los  Angeles.  Projects on the boards include developments in Eagle Rock and in Pomona providing affordable supportive housing for families, seniors and homeless veterans.  The projects in Eagle Rock and Pomona will have substantial urban-farming components.

Victor Regnier FAIA, Vice Dean + Professor of Architecture will present the keynote address for the 14th Annual Sarnat Symposium on Geriatric Care in Los Angeles, CA.  In November, he will keynote the Caser Foundation International Conference on Architectural Design and Long Term Care in Madrid, Spain.

Gary Paige’s architecture project, “Type Variant Houses” and artwork, “Ruled Surfaces” is the subject of an exhibition entitled “Other Works” at the School of Architecture at UC Berkeley, along with architects Wes Jones and IDEA Office partners Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen.

Michael Hricak, FAIA, Adjunct Associate Professor, served as a panelist and presented a talk on urban design and public health to a gathering of elected leaders, city managers and agency officials and staff from 88 municipalities and at the Los Angeles 2011 BIKE SUMMIT, sponsored by LA County Department of Public Health, and hosted by the City of Long Beach.

Professor James Steele is organizing a Symposium called the “Critics Forum” about the History of USC School of Architecture, which will also appear as a book in a years time, and he is eagerly anticipating the publication of a monograph on Sidney Eisenshtat that he edited for the USC School of Architecture Guild Press, in May.

Vinayak Bharne has been named a contributing editor of Kyoto Journal in Japan. He will serve as the south Asian commentator providing perspectives on architecture, urbanism & cultural anthropology. He is also contributing a chapter in the forthcoming book “Planning Los Angeles” (APA Planners Press 2012).

Lecturer Mina Chow, AIA, NCARB, dZI Media, Inc. have completed their “rough cut” for a new web series on innovative architecture.  The series was created with the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s office with Prof. Jim Steele and Getty Research Institute Wim de Witt as humanities advisors.  You may view the “rough cut” at: http://vimeo.com/29752344

Assistant Professor Victor Jones and the Watts House Project were awarded a 2011 Graham Grant to complete work for the Watts House Project’s Platform fence, pocket park, and façade improvement. He will be a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in December to pursue research on the Italian Structural Engineer, Sergio Musmeci. He delivered a project presentation “Cultivating Cultures” at the 2011 ACSA Fall Conference / Houston entitled “Local Identities Global Challenges”

Douglas Noble, FAIA, Ph.D., is organizing the 8th FACADE TECTONICS conference, to be held in Los Angeles June 28-July 1, 2012.  The Call for papers is at:  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~dnoble/facadetectonics8.htm

Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Hricak, FAIA, and his Venice based design firm recently received city approval for an innovative hotel and conference center to be built in Redondo Beach, California which promises to set new standards for design and sustainability in this beachside community. 

Prof Graeme M. Morland recently delivered lecture demonstration entitled, “SKETCHING WITHOUT FEAR” on the occasion of USC’s “GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY with the ARTS” annual event. For many people, picking up a pencil to sketch what they see is intimidating and disappointing as the resultant image bears little resemblance to the subject before them.  Invariably, this moment of frustration is translated as failure and they are persuaded that they cannot draw. This “crash course” was designed to alay these fears by demonstration and guidance, walking novice students through the process of constructing a drawing, establishing “datums”, understanding the rudiments of perspective, the limits of “vision”, graphic heirarchy, and the basics of skiagraphy.

The work of lecturer Rebecca Lowry will be on display at Los Angeles Gallery g825, opening October 15, and at Cain Schulte Gallery in San Francisco, opening November 3. The LA show will present a new body of work, focussing on representations of music, while the SF show will present a broad sampling of work from the last three years. 

Visiting Professor Jennifer Siegal was awarded a Visions and Voices grant to produce the symposium Motopia: A New Age for Modular Construction to be held at USC on November, 2, 2011. Find out more at  http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/893725. 

University of California, Los Angeles

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UCLA Architecture Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne Awarded AIA Gold Medal

           

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design distinguished professor, Thom Mayne, has received the 2013 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal, considered to be among the profession’s highest honors an individual architect can receive. Mayne will be honored in March 2013 at a special event in Washington, D.C. as well as at the 2013 AIA National Convention in Denver.

Gold Medal recipients are individuals “whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.” Mayne, known for his government and institutional projects, has brought his desire to push the definition of architecture and its role in a community to his UCLA students for more than 20 years.

“I connect research to my professional practice by engaging the UCLA students in real world projects that allow them to apply their intensive research and interact with professionals in the field,” Mayne explained.

Under Mayne’s direction, UCLA students have worked on innovative projects for the contemporary city covering the urban landscape of Los Angeles, profound growth of Madrid, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and integrating public policy and urban studies with contemporary culture in “Culture Now.”

Through Professor Mayne’s groundbreaking studios, outcomes have resulted in the 2005 Progressive Architecture Award for “L.A. Now: Volume Three and Volume Four” and the creation of the Float House in New Orleans – the first floating house permitted in the United States and an affordable, sustainable housing project for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right developed in collaboration with Mayne’s firm Morphosis.


In 2012, Thom Mayne established the Now Institute, which is embedded in UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. The Institute confronts the paradigm shift occurring at this moment in the field of architecture and on the constantly changing constitutions of cities and regions. Through yearlong studios, the Institute provides graduate students the opportunity to engage with government agencies and community partners in city-scale research and urban implementation.

Through the Now Institute, Mayne’s current research studio, Haiti Now, seeks to discover what urban planners and architects can do in the long-term rebuilding and recovery effort following the January 2010 earthquake. In November, Mayne and Now Institute director, Eui-Sung Yi, traveled to Haiti with nine UCLA graduate students to explore the role of culture in the reconstruction and community resilience.

In 2013-2014, Mayne, along with world-renowned architects and UCLA faculty Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry, will lead the first set of new SUPRASTUDIOs. Mayne’s studio builds on his previous UCLA research initiatives and will be the investigation 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.  

University of New Mexico

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Eleni Bastéa, Ph.D., Professor, was interviewed for the English-language documentary “Smyrna. The destruction of a cosmopolitan city, 1900-1922”, which was directed by Maria Iliou and premiered in Athens in January 2012 (90 min., Proteas production). “Smyrna” was subsequently shown on Greek television and the Benaki Museum in Athens. In collaborating with the director both as a historical consultant and an interviewee, Bastéa drew from her own on-going archival research on Smyrna (present-day Izmir, in Turkey), as well as family stories and oral-history interviews she conducted over the years. Her research has been supported, in part, by the Graham Foundation and by the Research Allocations Committee (UNM) travel grants.

Jeremy Jerge, graduate student, is one of 16 finalists in the2011 Fentress Global Challenge competition.  His submission, “2100 Air Terminal of the Future” was developed in Associate Professor Kramer Woodard’s 604 graduate architecture studio course this past fall.  This project was selected from over 200 competition entries.  

University of Oregon

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Kingston Heath, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation announces that his program recently received a gift of $2.8 million dollars by Art DeMuro, President of the Venerable Group, Inc.  This gift has led to a proposal to move the program from Eugene to Portland to better address content related to “green preservation.”

Heath has been elected for his third term on the Board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.  He will be chairing a session at the Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.  His paper on the “Croatia Conservation Field School,” that he founded and co-directs, will be presented at the “Preservation Education: Sharing Practices and Finding Common Ground” symposium September 8 & 9 in Providence, R.I. He will also be presenting a paper, and serving on a panel, at the American Folklore Society forum on Integrating Folklore and Preservation in New Orleans, October 24-27.  

Professor Howard Davis’s new book, Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life, has been published by Routledge.  Davis delivered a keynote lecture at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements in Famugusta, North Cyprus, in April.

Brook Muller has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts beginning June 2012.

Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Ph.D., Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL), and his thesis design students presented their advanced studio work on Regenerative Design at the Oregon Design Conference April 2012 in Salishan: “Redesigning andRebuilding Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods, Streets, Buildings and Gardens, Destroyed by War, Terrorism, Natural Disaster, and Human Failure.” The work focuses on real world problems, and students are working with communities, agents, NGO’s and agencies interested in long-term generative recovery in projects in Japan, Haiti, Malawi, Bosnia, Hungary, China, Netherlands, and the US. 

PUARL also co-sponsored the 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference (IMCL) May 2012 in Portland, with the participation of Neis and Emeritius Professor Jim Pettinari.

Associate Professor Mark L. Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP was part of a teaching team that received the 2011 Workforce Development Through Training Award from the Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership.  This national award recognizes teaching excellence and was awarded at the GOVGreen Conference in Washington DC on December 1. Dr. Gillem has developed and teaches a series of planning and urban design courses for the federal government. He also recently received a major design award from the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. His firm, The Urban Collaborative, LLC, prepared the Southwest Campus Area Development Plan for Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The jury recognized the plan as the Outstanding Area Development Plan at an award ceremony in Los Angeles in April 2012. While in Los Angeles, he was the Chair of the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division Annual Training Workshop. The event attracted over 300 planners working for and with federal agencies. He also recently spoke on sustainable master planning in Los Angeles at a NASA workshop and at George Mason University in Washington DC where he announced the release of a new master planning policy for the Department of Defense that he authored. 

Woodbury University

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The Center for Community Research and Design’s “Rethinking Accessibility,” supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, is part of a national exhibition at the Community Design Collaborative in Philadelphia called “Leverage”; the exhibition showcases community engagement practices around the United States.  The CCRD’s Darfur school project is curently in the planning stages, with student Art Nesterenko’s project chosen by the Darfur Rehabilitation Project.  Plans are underway to raise funds for the project to be built in Chad, Africa.

BArch. Chair Jeanine Centuori’s work with partner UrbanRock Design (Russell Rock, collaboration) “Conditional Reflections” has been featured in “Modern in Denver Magazine.”  It is an integrated public art project with architects Semple Brown in Denver.  The project transforms three glass facades of the public pool structure into meditations on the three states of water.  They are accompanied by a courtyard design. Also, Jeanine’s practice recently completed a Public Art Master Plan for the city of Tucson that articulates a vision for a five-mile stretch of Grant Road.  The plan has been adopted by the city. 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Chandler Ahrens, has projects published in the recently released book Performalism, Form and Performance in Digital Architecture edited by Eran Neuman and Yasha Grobman. Eran Neuman is a partner of Chandler’s in the practice, Open Source Architecture, along with Aaron Sprecher. Open Source Architecture co-designed the exhibition Performalism, Form and Performance in Digital Architecture at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2008 with Yasha Grobman.

Jose Parral, Assistant Professor and Rene Peralta, Director of the Master’s in Landscape + Urbanism will be lecturing on Octobre 31st,  as part of the Education Sessions in the 2011 American Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, CA. The title of the session is: The San Diego-Tijuana Border: A Cause and Effect Relationship.

Assistant Professor Maxi Spina’s housing Building in Argentina Jujuy Redux (co-designed with P-a-t-t-e-r-n-s) appeared in the Book “Pulsation in Architecture”, by Eric Goldemberg, as well as in the symposium and book launch held at Columbia University. The book highlights the role of digital design as catalyst for a new spatial sensibility related to rhythmic perception while it proposes a novel critical reception of computational architecture based on the ability of digital design to move beyond mere instrumentality, engaging with core aspects of the discipline.

Professor Paulette Singley and Assistant Professor Linda Taalman join a stellar speaker line-up for the MAK Center Fall Fundraiser 2011 on October 16 at the Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach.

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne singled out Julius Shulman distinguished Professor in Practice Barbara Bestor’s design for Intelligentsia Coffee in Silver Lake as one of the best commercial and retail interiors in Los Angeles. 

WATERMARKS: Acqua Alta, Resiliency, and Precise Meanders Exhibition by Professor of Practice Jennifer Bonner was featured by the LA Weekly and ArchDaily. LA Weekly writer Tibby Rothman called the installation at the WUHO gallery “an ephemeral meditation on life in the time of global warming.”

University of Southern California

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David Gray has been hired to do a 92 adaptive reuse project on an 1960 William Pereira hi-rise building in downtown Los Angles.  Mr. Gray has bought a 101 year old Building on Broadway and is in the process of restoring it to  tech office space and a bar.   Mr. Gray and his firm are working on a sustainable low cost building system for China.

Edwin Woll with Tomko Woll Group Architects Inc, collaborating with Ena Dubnoff Architect (USC ’60), reports completed construction and full occupancy for Young Burlington Apartments (21 affordable apartments plus extensive social services serving special needs youth), completed construction for renovation of Joveness Houses (8 affordable apartments for young adults transitioning into the work force),  onset of construction for renovation of 47 SRO units for the Downtown Womens’ Center, achievement of entitlements for 57 units of affordable housing in Eagle Rock targeted for seniors and homeless veterans, and onset of design for new affordable housing in East LA.

Professor Kim Coleman and Adjunct Professor Mark Cigolle are teaching and developing collaborations with European architects and students, including EMBT and the University of Roma Tre, for the USC Architecture global programs.  For more info see the web sites: http://arch-pubs.usc.edu/uscBCN/, and http://arch-pubs.usc.edu/uscMXP/.

Visiting Professor Jennifer Siegal served on the AIA LA Interior Architecture student jury. Her work is featured this month in the books Bracket (goes soft), Eco-House Renovations: 45 Green House Conversions and the article “On Mobility” in Intérieurs Magazine. She lectured at Cal Poly Pomona and will speak at the upcoming USC Façade Tectonics #8 Conference with a lecture entitled MOTOPIA DEPLOYED: Strategies for the Language of Movement in the Age of Off-Site Construction.

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Dr. David Gerber‘s work on Multidisciplinary Design Integration and Search, was most recently included in the exhibition gallery at TED 2012. The work is on permanent display at 1 Market Street in San Francisco as part of the Autodesk Gallery. Dr. Gerber has recently published 4 papers on his research at SimAUD 2012 and at CAADRIA 2012.  

Douglas Noble is organizing ”FACADE TECTONICS 8,” to be held at USC from June 28 through July 1, 2012. 

Alexander Robinson and W. Andrew Atwood received a grant from Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio to design and build a custom landscape prototyping machine in order to improve the design of dust mitigation landscapes at the Owens Lake in Lone Pine, California. The prototyping machine will hybridize engineering physical modeling techniques, robotic technology, digital projection, and 3D scanning to create a new multi-sensory design platform for addressing the complex issues present on the lake. The machine is designed to create a common ground where designers, engineers, and the public can dynamically engage in the multiple concerns inherent to the lake.

Lauren Matchison, NCARB, Assistant Professor in Practice, recently received a USC C3 Grant to fund technological advancement in the classroom.

Tigran Ayrapetyan has being presented with Certificate of Recognition from California State Assembly for the longstanding service to the community and to Education throughout Southern California;  and with Recognition Plaque from The Knights of Vartan (Armenian benevolent organization) for distinguished service and leadership in the field of education.  The awards were presented to him at the 47th Annual Tri-Lodge Vartanantz Banquet on February 12, 2012.  

Lecturer Mina M. Chow has created a new PBS 6-part series called “BRAVE NEW WORLD:  Architectural Icons” about innovative architecture in Los Angeles that will be filmed both in 3d and HD video.  The film team is in pre-production for the first episode, “The Divine vs. the Deviant” on the California Missions to the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral.  Chow will be featured as an architecture expert on a new PBS broadcast called “10 Buildings that Changed America,” with Host Geoffrey Baer airing on WTTW 11 PBS Chicago, as well as other PBS stations throughout the nation. She talks about the innovations behind Trinity Church, the Wainwright Building, Robie House, Vanna Venturi house, Seagram Building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and others that make great American Architecture.

Ken Breisch will be presenting a paper entitled “‘Up Against the Wall in Southern California:’ Adobe and Concrete Construction in the Early Twentieth-Century,” at the Annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum in May in Madison, Wisconsin, and he has just completed an essay on “Architectural Education in Los Angeles: 1940-1980,” for an upcoming Getty Research Institute catalogue on architecture in Southern California from the same period.

Christopher Warren and his office, WORD (Warren Office for Research and Design), will be featured in this summer’s issue of eVolo magazine, presenting their design for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial. 

Eric Nulman presented a lecture titled “Pedagogy at Full-Scale” at the Whither Installation Symposium organized by the Architecture Program of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Eric was awarded the 2011-12 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award at the ACSA Annual Meeting; the award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.

Landscape Architecture Instructor Travis Longcore, Ph.D. was the keynote speaker at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Science Convivium at its Front Royal, Virginia facility in March. He spoke on the topic of urban bird conservation to an audience of over 100 employees from the Smithsonian’s biological conservation centers, including the National Zoo.  

Brian Tichenor AIA wrote the introduction to California Casa (Rizzoli, 2012), a new survey of populist spanish influenced architecture in Southern California in the 1920s-30s. His firm’s work is featured in the aformentioned book, and in Houses by the Sea (Thames and Hudson, 2011)

 Over spring break, Professor Marc Schiler presented “Moral Architecture: An Impact on Creation and an Objective Vocation“ at Judson’s symposium on Christ in Architecture.  Nicholas Wolterstorf, author of Art in Action was the keynote speaker.  Schiler’s presentation makes the argument for stewardship, not just from the carbon footprint standpoint, but from considering the impact of the use of limited resources in competition with third world needs for those same resources. 

In January Peter Simmonds attended the ASHRAE Meeting in Chicago where he serves on several technical committees. Peter is also a member of the Standard 55 committee that determines Occupant Comfort in buildings. On January 30th, he presented a guest lecture at Woodbury University on Thermal Comfort and Intelligent Buildings, On February 3rd he lectured on Intelligent Building Controls at Cal State Pomona. On February 7th Peter participated in the Washington State University forum on Health Care Design. On March 13th, 14th and 15th he lectured in Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg as part of the ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Program. On March 23rd he presented a lecture on Radiant Cooled Ceiling for HSBC, Hong Kong. On March 28th and 29th peter was a thesis reviewer at the Sam Fox School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Erik Mar, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has designed two public libraries for the County of Los Angeles which are currently under construction. Located in Compton and in Pico Rivera, both are targeting LEED Platinum ratings. He is designing an addition to a third library, in East Los Angeles, scheduled to begin construction later this year. In May and June of this year, Mr. Mar will speak at two LA County Environmental and Sustainable Living Fairs, in Agoura Hills and in Compton.” 

Karen Kensek is organizing “PRACTICAL BIM,” the 6th annual BIM conference at USC in July, 2012.

Doris Sung received a second grant award from the AIA Upjohn Initiative with Rob Ley to combine thermobimetals and Nitinol into an active/passive building skin system.  Her last AIA Upjohn grant, along with a Graham Foundation Grant, an Arnold W. Brunner Award, an USC ASHSS and URAP awards, supported the fabrication of an installation called ‘BLOOM’ at the Materials&Application Gallery in Los Angeles.  On view until August 2012, ‘Bloom’ is a large monocoque structure that is skinned with a smart thermobimetal.  The sun-shading and self-ventilating surface of individual tessellated pieces curl when the temperature rises.  Doris will deliver a TED talk about the innovative use of this material at the upcoming TEDxUSC on May 4, 2012.

University of Oregon

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The University of Oregon Department of Architecture is pleased to welcome Assistant Professors Daisy-O’lice Williams and Philip Speranza, new faculty in design communications.

The 2011 Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architectural Design is John Paul Jones, FAIA, principal of Jones and Jones, Seattle. Johnpaul Jones earned his bachelor of architecture from the UO in 1967. His firm received the ASLA Firm Award in 2003. Johnpaul is a Fellow in the AIA and his honors also include the AIA Seattle Medal of Honor, the Executive Excellence Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the 1998 Elis F. Lawrence Medal from the UO School of Architecture & Allied Arts.

Professor Howard Davis was the recipient of the Thomas F. Herman  Award, the highest teaching honor for senior faculty members at the University of Oregon.

Professor Kevin Nute’s chapter on ‘Japanese Art as a Means to Organic Architecture’ will appear in a forthcoming book published by the French School of Far Eastern Studies in Paris, Reception et diffusion en Occident de l’espace architectural et de l’art des jardins du Japon, Paris, 2012. His paper ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and the Woodblock Print’ will appear in the Bulletin de l’Association Franco-Japonaise, Paris, in March 2012.

Professor Gerald Gast’s design thesis students at the University of Oregon’s Portland Program are working on a two-year project with the City of Portland’s Office of Healthy Working Rivers.  2011 projects focused on the Willamette River North Reach, the city’s industrial waterfront.  This year’s work addresses the Willamette Central Reach, Portland’s Downtown Riverfront. An exhibit of the first year of work was opened by Mayor Sam Adams at City Hall in June, with a second event planned for June ’12. 

University of Arizona

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Professor of Architecture and Environmental Science, Dr. Nader Chalfoun’s paper titled “A Method for Greening University Campus Buildings While Fostering Hands-on Inquiry-Based Students` Learning”, has been accepted for presentation at the 6th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation (IMETI 2013), to be held in Orlando, USA, on July 9-12, 2013.  The project is part of a multi-year collaboration between the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the University of Arizona Facilities Management where students and faculty conduct level III energy audits on campus buildings.


Associate Professor Beth Weinstein will participate in the Performance Studies International #19 Conference, held at Stanford in June, with the following research/practice projects:  “Borrowed Space and Time”, a paper addressing borrowed temporal and spatial structures and concepts as the springboard for scenographic designs;  “Choreographing Space, Structuring Dance”, a presentation of drawings of choreographed architectures created for dance-based performances; and “Shuttling: Of  Matter, Journey, and Occasion”, a praxis presentation of ephemeral event spaces iteratively developed during a journey.

Linda C. Samuels, Sustainable City Project Director, and her three team members have been selected to attend the Sustainable Cities Design Academy sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation in Washington D.C. this summer. Their application, “Linking the Warehouse Arts District”, was one of eight chosen teams, each of which will receive assistance in further incorporating sustainable initiatives in their urban design problems. 


Dr. Samuels will also lecture on the role of the Sustainable City Project in Tucson’s emerging downtown eco renaissance on April 30th as part of Arizona’s Landscape Architecture Month lecture series. Master of Landscape Architecture candidate, Daniel Morgan, will also discuss how issues of resilience are being explored in Samuels’ current interdisciplinary urban design studio. 

Samuels, Renewable Energy Network director Ardeth Barnhart, and City of Tucson’s Sustainability Director Leslie Ethen’s contribution “Test Case Tucson: Green Walk, Model Block, and Eco Square” has been accepted to the 2013 EcoCity World Summit in Nantes, France.

Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinson will present “Isomorphic City: A Customizable Future Scenario”, co-authored with B.Arch students David Gonzalez and Kyle Szostek at SIMAUD 2013, The Symposium for Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design, in San Diego, April 7-10. 

Dickinson has also published the article, “Balance in Control: The Case of an Urban Design Studio at the University of Arizona” in the March issue of the International Journal of Architectural Research.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have had their 2011 lecture at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador published. The book includes images and complete lecture transcripts from all the presenters. (other presenters include: Karen Rogers, Dan Hoffman, Marlon Blackwell, Brian Mackey-Lyons, David Hinson, Steve Badanes, and Daniel Wicke from Rural Studio). Ibarra Rosano Design Architects is a regional winner in the 2010-2012 Sub-Zero Wolf Kitchen Design Competition and will be attending an awards ceremony in Santa Barbara, CA in March, and the national conference in Madison, WI in May.

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University of Oregon Department of Architecture Retains NAAB Accreditation

The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) has confirmed a full eight-year accreditation renewal for both the bachelor of architecture and master of architecture programs at the University of Oregon Department of Architecture.

NAAB is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture. Eight years is the new maximum term effective for decisions made after July 1, 2013, making the Department of Architecture, in the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts, one of the first to receive this new term of accreditation.

The NAAB team acknowledged some of the Department of Architecture’s strengths, including a vibrant learning environment, the dedication and diverse body of work of the faculty at both the Eugene and Portland campuses, the energy and leadership involvement of the students, and the engagement of alumni and local professionals. They also noted that the department is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable practices and education.

The UO Department of Architecture was founded in 1914 and was one of the first programs accredited by NAAB.  DesignIntelligence currently ranks the UO architecture program first in the nation for sustainable design education.

“We are appreciative of NAAB’s assessment of our programs and we will continue to enhance and improve our professional design education,” said Judith Sheine, department head. “I extend my thanks to the dedicated faculty, practitioners, staff and students whose shared work demonstrates the value and achievements of the Department of Architecture.”

In addition to the B.Arch and M.Arch programs, the UO Department of Architecture also offers professional bachelor of interior architecture and master of interior architecture degrees, both accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), one-year post-professional master of science in architecture and master of science in interior architecture degrees, and a Ph.D. in architecture.

Story by Amy Pinkston

 

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Beth Weinstein has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure, and is spending her sabbatical fall semester between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Paris, France.

While in Melbourne, she was a guest of the dance company BalletLab, and a contributor to their current performance project, TOMORROW. (http://www.balletlab.com/works/upcoming/double-bill-and-all-things-return-to-nature-/-tomorrow/phils-5)

Weinstein recently published “Performance Space: Distributed v. Consolidated” as a chapter within The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. The book reflects on the recent 12th edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and also includes chapters from an international list of theorists and artists: Marvin Carlson (USA), Christopher Baugh (UK), Thea Brejzek (DE), Guy Gutman (IL), Barbora P_íhodová (CZ), and Arnold Aronson (USA). The book’s essays look at various aspects of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and serve as a starting point for a deeper theoretical evaluation of contemporary theatre and scenography.”

Weinstein lectured in the Spannweiten (span widths) series at the Technische Universität Dresden on May 30th in conjunction with the TU Dresden Department of Architecture installation of the Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham exhibition, curated and designed by Weinstein.

In June, Professor Weinstein participated in a curated panel at the Performance Studies International Conference  #18 in Leeds, entitled “Beyond Training: Event Experience in Education” with Dr. Rodrigo Tisi (Dean of Art, Architecture & Design: UNIACC Santiago, Chile) and Dr. Dorita Hannah (Wellington, NZ). In this context she presented University of Arizona students’ built designs for performance environments and interventions in public space.

Architectural historian Associate Professor Lisa Schrenk has joined the faculty of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. In May she traveled with Norwich University architecture student Katherine Anderson to Cuba while advising Anderson on her summer research fellowship, which explored pre- and post-revolutionary-era architecture in Havana and Puerto Rico. Prior to moving to Tucson, Professor Schrenk received a 2012 Excellence in Research award and was named as a Charles A. Dana I Award recipient for excellence in teaching, research, and service at Norwich.

Visiting Professor Brian Delford Andrews recently published a pamphlet entitled “Militaristic Detritus”, which documents his tenure as the 55th Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska, School of Architecture.  The booklet documents his work on the award winning project, “The House of War”, as well as detailing the student’s work on four various projects that dealt with the concept of Militaristic Detritus.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have won their 8th AIA Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for their latest project. The Levin Residence will air on HGTV’s Extreme Homes in the fall of 2012, and is featured on the cover of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine and in the fall issue of LUXE magazine.

 

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