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Architecture Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi is a featured presenter at this year’s  Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in San Francisco November 14-16. Presented by the U.S. Green Building Council, the gathering is the premiere event for green building design and research. Elzeyadi will present his talk, “Quantifying the Impacts of Green Schools on People and Planet,” on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8 a.m.

The Green Studio Handbook, by Professor Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik (Ball State University) was recently released in Portuguese by Bookman Editora LTDA; it joins other translations in Korean and Chinese. Professor Kwok also received a Distinguished Service Award and Student Chapter Advisor of the Year award from the American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

Nancy Cheng presented “Shading with Folded Surfaces:  Designing with Material, Visual and Digital considerations” at ECAADE’2012, the 30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, held at the Czech Technical University in Prague, September 12-14, 2012.

Nancy Cheng is directing the Shanghai Xian Dai Visiting Architects’ program, hosting nine award-winning designers from China’s largest architecture firm to learn about sustainable design in Eugene and Portland.  Xian Dai invited University of Oregon students as the first Americans to join their summer intern program in 2010 and has supported an on-going exchange. 

As the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)’s 2009-2011 President, Professor Nancy Cheng encouraged partnerships with SmartGeometry, Tex-Fab and the AIA. This collaboration resulted in a vibrant 2012 conference hosted by Jason Johnson of the California College of the Arts with stellar exhibits designed by Nataly Gattengo and Brian Price, keynotes, panels and scholarly papers invigorated by a new generation.

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Associate Professor Nico Larco (Architecture) and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg (PPPM) received the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) 2012 Sustainable Leadership Award. This award was for the development and leadership of the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) program at the University of Oregon that Prof. Larco and Prof. Schlossberg co-founded and co-direct.  

Alison Kwok served as one of four jury members for the Architecture at Zero 2012 competition, which supports an action plan of the California Public Utilities Commission that all new residential construction in California be zero net energy by 2020. The goal for new commercial construction is to achieve zero net energy by 2030. 

Associate Dean and Associate Professor Brook Muller gave a talk “Adaptive Architectures” at the Design Futures Council “11th Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design” (September in Portland, OR); presented a paper “Myths of Knowledge Creation in Sustainable Architecture” at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments Conference (October in Portland, OR); and participated in the “The Booth Kelly EcoDistrict: Design And Infrastructure Innovations” session at the Ecodistricts Summit (October in Portland, OR).

Associate Professor Nico Larco is on sabbatical and is a Fulbright Scholar in Spain during the 2012/2013 academic year. For the Fulbright, Prof. Larco is conducting research on large lot developments in northern Spain and the effects these developments have on urban sustainability. Prof. Larco is working with the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya and the Universidad de Navarra on this research.  The Sustainable Cities Initiative, led by Professors Nico Larco (Architecture) and Marc Schlossberg (PPPM), is one of six finalist for the Financial Times of London’s FT/Citi Urban Ingenuity Award. As stated in the award announcement, ‘the awards aim to recognize leaders, teams, organizations and community groups that have developed innovative solutions to urban challenges that benefit cities, citizens and urban communities in the fields of education, energy, healthcare and infrastructure.’ 

Associate Professor Nico Larco presented an invited lecture entitled, “Sustainable Urbanism: A Framework for Urban Design,” at the Cycle d’Urbanism Program at Sciences Po in Paris. 

The University of Oregon’s architecture program was recently selected as the nation’s number one program for sustainable design education in the 2013 report of architecture schools. The top-ranked program has been recognized multiple times as leading sustainable design education. The undergraduate architecture degree program is ranked overall at number 13 and in the top 6 of programs at public universities. There are 154 accredited architecture programs in the United States. The Interior Architecture Program remains in the top 10 programs and within the top four accredited graduate programs. It was also recognized as fifth by architecture deans for its collaborative curriculum and breadth of subject matter.

University of Southern California

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Lecturer Vinayak Bharne has released a new book titled The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (Routledge), a 24-chapter edited anthology on the phenomemon of urban Asia. His other book Rediscovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture & Urbanism of India (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) is also due for release early January 2013. In his practice as Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides, the boulevard transformation in the City of Lancaster’s (CA) downtown was recognized with the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement – Overall Excellence, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s highest honor.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang, AIA and his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture are amongst 1 of 5 teams shortlisted out of 166 submissions for a public art installation at Space Port America in New Mexico.  SDA was also recently named to the Rami George Holland Year End Review 2012: 30 Cultural Pioneers by the year 2030, and placed 5th in the Chengdu Wuzhou International Plaza design competition.  Additionally, Alvin has also been named the 2013 Taylor Seminar Visiting Scholar at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design.  In February 2013, Alvin will lead a 1 week design/build workshop focused on form-finding, material performance and digital fabrication which will culminate in a full-scale installation, lecture, and exhibition of recent work. 

Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2012 Semester.  His firm Brooks + Scarpa received a NextLA AIA Honor Award, the firm’s 68th AIA Award. They were also shortlisted for the new $390 million, 550,000 sq. ft. Los Angeles Federal Courthouse and the $80 million Federal Courthouse located in Mobile, Alabama.

In December Assistant Professor Kenneth Breisch presented the paper, “Rediscovering the Fachwerk House in America: Preservation, the Bechers and Modernism” at the symposium “Typologie und Kontext” at the University of Siegen, Germany.  He gave a keynote lecture in November at the symposium, “Glessner House at 125,” in Chicago.  Breisch is also serving as the General Chair for the Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians to be held in Buffalo in April 2013.

Jennifer Siegal will be featured in the upcoming Swedish documentary Off the Grid. Her work will be published in the revised edition of Robert Kronenburg ‘s Architecture in Motion: The History and Development of the Portable Building by Routledge, Oxford and Salvage Secrets published by W.W. Norton and Co.

Lecturer Scott Uriu‘s work has been published in the book Panel Layout – Competition a 3 volume book featuring 267 competition projects from 72 designers from around the world.   Scott Uriu’s firm B+U’s NTCArt museum in Taiwan and Performing Arts Center for Iserlohn Germany are featured in the book.  In March Form Magazine features the Performing Arts Center in Iserlohn, Germany. 

With the addition of a high resolution laser and camera scanner Alexander Robinson continues to expand and develop the technological capabilities of his Landscape Morphologies Lab This technology will allow for the realtime analysis and projection of forms generated with the lab’s robotic modeling of landscapes with sand and other mediums. 

Peter Simmonds was in Shenzhen, China with Thom Mayne of Morphosis presenting the Morphosis design for the Hanking Tower Competition which they won, beating some serious competition for this 360m high tower. Simmonds also presented at the faculty Pecca Kucha offering an Engineering perspective of Architecture. He also gave a seminar on designing comfortable spaces at the Southern California ASHRAE technical seminar in Downey.

Adjunct Professor Veronica G. Galen successfully passed the Lighting Certificate exam and was the lighting designer for various projects that received awards from the AIA/California Council. She has also accepted a position as Secretary of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Los Angeles Chapter (IESLA).

Ed Woll (Tomko Woll Group Architects Inc) has attended openings for three recently-completed residential developments in the past two months:  Young Burlington apartments near Koreaown, Joveness Houses in East LA and Jill’s Place (permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless women in downtown LA.)  These projects were done in collaboration with USCArch alumna Ena Dubnoff.  In the works are renovation of an existing pool and parking garage for a condominium complex in West LA’s “Million Dollar Mile” and a new housing development for seniors and homeless veterans in Eagle Rock.

Diane Ghirardo‘s new book, Italy. Modern Architectures in Context, has just been published by Reaktion Press in London and Chicago.

Erik Mar recently completed the 7200 sf East Rancho Dominguez Library, in Compton, CA. It is the first LEED Platinum rated building owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles.

John Frane, partner in the firm Predock_Frane, was in Washington DC in December to jury the 2013 Progressive Architecture Awards which will be announced after the first of the year. Earlier this year he was a juror for the Tampa chapter of the AIA 2012 Design Awards with fellow USC faculty Alice Kimm and Larry Scarpa. Earlier this year Predock_Frane participated in the ‘100 YC’ Exhibition at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Venice Italy. Their project, titled ‘Faces of Maribor’ re-conceptualized the historic core of the city of Maribor  Slovenia, speculating on the issues of urban evolution and challenging traditional notions of history and memory as definers of our collective urban fabric. In the spring they collaborated with the contemporary dance duo Casebolt & Smith to design the sets for their world renowned performance piece O(h)! 2012 also marked the start of two significant new cultural project, an expansion of a buddhist monastery in New Mexico and a new art exhibition space in the Hollywood arts district.

Tom Marble’s work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, MONU Magazine, LA Times Magazine, and Metropolis; his After the city, this (is how we live) was published by the LA Forum for Architecture & Urban Design in 2008; he led an urban design studio Urban Successionism in Colorado Springs, at Colorado College Spring 2012; and he is at work on The Expediter, a noir tale of urban love and betrayal soon to be completed.

Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, RIBA was named #35 in Middle East Architect Magazines’ 50 most influential people on regional architecture. The list recognizes principals, figureheads, association heads and academics, in addition to designers of landmark buildings, known throughout the globe.

University of Arizona

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Wendell Burnette, of Wendell Burnette Architects and Adjunct Lecturer, received a 2013 AIA Western Mountain Region Award of Excellence for his Desert Courtyard House; the project also received a 2013 AIA Arizona Honor Award.
 
Professor of Architecture and Environmental Science, Dr. Nader Chalfoun and his Masters of Science in Architecture “House Energy Doctor” program and studio 601 has been featured in the UA Global Reach November 2013, vol. 12, No. 1 issue http://issuu.com/uaoc/docs/global_reach_fall_2013 and described as “Beautiful Program Encourages International Sustainability”

Professor Nader Chalfoun, Ph.D., LEED AP, CEA, Director of the “House Energy Doctor” program and Chair of CAPLA’s Masters of Science in Architecture program has been awarded and gained national recognition as a “Legend in Energy” by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) on Tuesday September 24, 2013 in Washington DC.

Professor Nader Chalfoun’s paper titled ” ‘A study and analysis of the effect of Natural ventilation on housing in Hot and Humid Climate’ has been accepted for publication and oral presentation at the International Sustainable Built Environment conference 28-30 January 2014, Intercontinental Doha, Doha, Qatar.

Assistant Professor Dr. Clare Robinson participated as an expert on Student Unions in a panel discussion Can the Center Hold? Reactivating the Student Center on the Modern Campus organized by Gensler’s Chicago office in late August. The student center discussion was a part of a series on student spaces on college campuses.

Assistant Professor Dr. Clare Robinson presented a paper in late September “Modern Mid-Century Student Union Buildings for Middle-Class College Culture” at the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians conference at the University of North Carolina.

Mark Ryan, of Mark-Ryan Studio and Assistant Lecturer, received a 2013 AIA Western Mountain Region Award of Merit for his RE-JUV project for the Colorado River Indian Tribes.  

Dr. Linda C. Samuels, Sustainable City Project Director, was selected to receive a $60,000 Faculty Research Grant from the University of Arizona’s Renewable Energy Network. The grant will be utilized to explore more sustainable alternatives to the limited-use focus of the typical interstate highway. Part of the larger CANAMEX project intended to link Canada and Mexico through the United States, this research provides a unique opportunity to reimagine the old infrastructure paradigm. SCP will focus on the segment linking Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson in partnership with faculty from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and University of Nevada – Las Vegas.

Assistant Professor, Chris Trumble, was awarded the 2013 AIA Arizona Educator Award.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein participated in the Performance Studies International Conference #19 at Stanford University in June 2013. During the conference she participated in a Curated Panel: Event-Space Now (& Then) :: Architectures (in & out) of time with a presentation “Choreographing Space, Structuring Dance,” a paper titled “Borrowed Space and Time” addressing narrative as the springboard to performance collaborations, and a praxis session/presentation related to SHUTTLE: a mobile performance desert laboratory. 

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein, on November 16th, gave a performative presentation, “Shuttling: conditioning, co-creating, situating,” at SEAM 2013 in Sydney, Australia, with Dr. Mick Douglas (RMIT University, Melbourne) and Dr. James Oliver (University of Melbourne). The presentation explored how acts of curating, authoring and ‘audiencing’ might open up to the dynamic flux of creative processes and how creative practices may extend beyond human agency to explore how non-human and elemental forces contribute to performative encounters.  The presentation unfolded as a multi-writer/reader text in three movements that elaborated (I) conditioning, (II) co-creating, and (III) situating. At SEA2013 Weinstein also chaired a session at SEAM on the topic of  “Legacies.”

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein attended the Conference of the International Federation of Theater Research, and presented a paper “Bringing Performativity into Architectural Pedagogy and Practice “ in the context of the Theater Architecture Working Group (Barcelona. July 23, 2013).

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s Recent publications include “Performing Architectures: Closed and Open Logics of Mutable Scenes,” in Performance Research Journal 18.3 : On Scenography.  161-168 + “Performing the [Spatio-Material-Temporal] Interval,” published in the Proceedings of the Dhillon Marty Foundation’s Community Week 2013: Material Equilibrium. + At the invitation of faculty at the Ecole Nationale Superieur d’ Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham exhibition will be on view November 18 – Dec 7, 2013.

University of Southern California

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David Jason Gerber, D.Des, Assistant Professor USC School of Architecture and USC Viterbi School of Engineering was invited to chair the Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design Symposium in 2014 (SimAUD 2014), he was also invited to be chair of the ACADIA 2014 “Design Agency” conference to be held at USC. Dr. Gerber presented research and held workshops at Tsinghua University Beijing China on the topics of building performance through design computation. He is a keynote at Istanbul Technical University, Middle East Technical University and at Ozyegin Unviersity  where he will hold a workshop titled “Design Agency | Informed Surface Tectonics”. Dr. Gerber is the first repeat recipient of the competitively awarded IDEA studio research grant from Autodesk Inc. Dr. Gerber has been invited to be an editor for the International Journal of Architecture and Computing and for a special edition of the Journal of Simulation.

Diane Ghirardo‘s book chapter, La “Terza” Repubblica Italiana: Spettacolo e spreco dell’architettura e dell’ambiente,” just appeared in the book edited by G. Bonini and C. Visentin, Geografie, storie, paesaggi per un’Italia da cambiare (Arachne, Rome, 2013). She presented a lecture on architecture and the environment at Palazzo Capponi in Florence in October 2013. and another on Aldo Rossi at the University of Ferrara (November 2013).

Andy Ku, Lecturer, and Partner of OCDC will be featured as one among three up and coming artists from Los Angeles and Japan in a contemporary exhibition at the JACCC. The exhibit features diverse media including painting, drawing, installation, and architecture. Opening Reception is on November 23 at 2pm, showing at the George Doizaki Gallery through December 22.

Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, Mayor of Burbank lead a panel at the October 2013 Cal APA Conference. The panel, “Lost and Found: Creating Public Places in Overlooked Spaces,” critically evaluated three case studies that resulted in repurposing the public rights-of-way. The innovative approaches were discussed by Steve Rasmussen Cancian, Shared Spaces Landscape Architecture; Veronica Hahni, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative; and Tori Kjer, Trust for Public Land.

Visiting Professor Charles Anderson, FASLA, will be a speaker at The American Society of Landscape Architects National Convention in Boston on November 15th. The presentation is titled “Seattle’s  Olympic Sculpture Park Turns 5” and will highlight a design practice called “Urbanature.”

Mario Cipresso, AIA, adjunct assistant professor of architecture received first prize in the “Re-Envisioning 7th Street” competition in Long Beach, California.  His entry also received the People’s Choice Award.  The East 7th Street Collaboration asked artists & architects to envision the street as an urban boulevard that supports and reflects the culture of the neighborhoods it intersects.

Lecturer Vinayak Bharne in his capacity as Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides recently completed a 200-acre master plan for a marina resort in Panama City. His project for the downtown transformation of the city of Lancaster, California was also recognized with the International Downtown Association’s (IDA) Pinnacle Award at the World Congress in New York City. He was also recently invited by the Business Goa magazine to opine on the ongoing plan for the future of Panaji, the capital of the state of Goa, India.

Aaron Neubert, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and his firm ANX’s Sycamore House was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times. In addition, his Busan Opera House was included in the Ifengspace monograph “To Enjoy To Listen”.

Assistant Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was recently selected as a 2013-2015 Upjohn Scholar. His proposal Daylighting Design Performance Criteria for Alzheimer Care Facilities, Towards Evidence-based Best Practices for Improved Health has been awarded a $25,000.00 matching funds grant.

Assistant Professors Kyle Konis and Karen Kensek have been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas) to conduct research on Passive and Low Energy Strategies to assist the non-residential commercial market in achieving Sustainability, Zero Net Energy (ZNE), and Thermal Comfort as part of the SoCal Gas Commercial Sustainable Development Program (CSDP). 

Alexander Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture program, has been consulting and providing strategic advice and materials to a local effort to influence a decision by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on an up to 1 billion dollar restoration of an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River.

Amy Murphy, Associate Professor, will be partnering with Michael Maltzan Architecture to design an upcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on German Expressionist Cinema (expected to open in Fall 2014).

Gail Peter Borden, Discipline Head of Architecture and Director of Graduate Architecture Programs will have several featured commissioned pieces at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Additionally his installation Light Frames will be included in a museum exhibition in the spring the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach. His fourth book: Process: Material and Representation in Architecture with Routledge will be on shelves in spring along with his introductory framing essay to Material ConneXtion’s Material Innovation: Innovations in Architecture by Thames and Hudson. This fall professor Borden was appointed Faculty Master of the USC Parkside Arts and Humanities Residential College.

Tom Kundig, FAIA of Olson Kundig Architects—2013-2014 visiting professor and Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA Chair in Architecture at USC—designed one of the venues that will be used for Project Los Altos, the off-site exhibition program for SFMOMA. The 242 State Street building will host SFMOMA from November 9, 2013 through March 2, 2014

Neil Leach has been appointed Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He has also published 2 books, Digital Workshop in China (Tongji UP, 2013) and Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research (CABP, 2013), curated 2 exhibitions, Interactive Shanghai in Shanghai and the 2013 DADA Student Exhibition in Beijing, and organised 2 conferences, Interactive Shanghai in Shanghai with Philip Beesley as keynote speaker, and 3-D Printing in Concrete in Dessau with Behrokh Khoshnevis and Enrico Dini as keynote speakers.

Patrick Tighe, FAIA, Adjunct Professor, won a 2013 AIA award from the AIA, California Chapter for the Sierra Bonita Affordable Housing. 

The project was also awarded the IDEAS2 Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for excellence & innovative design in steel frame buildings. 

Rob Ley, Principle of Urbana, completes ‘May/Septmber’, a 14,000 sq. ft. interactive facade at the new Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis IN this month.  A grand opening is schedule for February, 2014.  Ley’s firm also recently completed a permanent outdoor installation ‘Floating Point’ as part of a new high density residential development outside of San Francisco, CA.  Ley also has past projects included in the recent Acadia conference, and included in recent publications Performative Materials in Architecture and Design by Sneha Patel and Installation Art II edited by Annie Lai.

 

 

 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was selected to receive the 2012 UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award.  He was also chosen by the UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award Committee to be UNLV’s nominee for the 2012 Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award.  The Regent’s Award is Nevada’s most prestigious teaching recognition and the sole nomination to this award constitutes a great honor.

University of Southern California

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 Jose Sanchez, assistant professor of architecture has just joined USC coming from The Bartlett, UCL in London where he formerly taught. He will be exhibiting the ‘Bloom’ project, designed and developed for the 2012 London Olympics the 5th of September at the new Frac building for the Archilab opening in Orleans, France. Later in the year he will be presenting his paper ‘Gamescapes’ in Acadia 2013 in Waterloo, where he develops a framework for using game mechanics as a design heuristics. Additionally, he will be presenting his paper ‘Hacklikes’ in the TxA conference in Texas taking place the 7-9 of November of 2013. His paper connects ideas of gaming, design and object oriented ontology. Jose, director of the Plethora-Project (www.plethora-project.com), is currently working with the support of Soomeen Hahm on the translation the over 120 videos of online teaching, his current public repository, into Chinese language, attempting to open the field of computational architectural design via online teaching to China

DSH // architecture, the firm of Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Haas, was named a finalist in the 2013 Spark > Spaces Design Competition for the Para Los Niños Family Center in downtown Los Angeles. The firm also recently completed the renovation of Welton Becket’s 1955 New York Life building to house a 500-student charter middle & high school. 

Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA and his firm Brooks + Scarpa received six 2013 American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) Design Awards. He also chaired the 2013 Monterey Design Conference held  at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA. His building, Metalsa Center for Manufacturing Innovation was published in The Plan, Architect Magazine, Architectural Review and several other books and journals.

Principals of Ehrlich Architect Steven Ehrlich, FAIA and Takashi Yanai, AIA were speakers at the 10th annual Reinvention Symposium produced by Residential Architect Magazine. The symposium, held in San Francisco October 9-11th, was focused on Resilience and how architects can lead the way as change agents for near- and long-term shifts in the environment, demographics, economics, technology, and much more.

Victor Regnier FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Gerontology is continuing his exploration of the hybrid housing/service model “Apartments for Life” (A4LIFE); that uses universal design principles, adaptable physical adjustments and technology to maintain older frail people in normal purpose-built independent housing. He has just completed a 56 page monograph that chronicles the work of his Spring graduate studio–a 60 unit project on the northwest corner of the USC campus.  The project integrates an emeriti center, USC civic engagement, 14 classrooms, an auditorium, café and coffee house in a moderate-density mixed-use setting.  Copies of the publication entitled USC Apartment for Life are available from Blurb, Inc. for $80. http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=USC+Apartment+for+Life&filter=bookstore&commit=Search(ISBN#978-0-578-12743-9) OR you can request a FREE PDF by emailing him directly at regnier@usc.edu. 

Professor Regnier has made presentations in the last year to the University of Iowa Medical School, the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, and carried out discussion sessions at the Hammar Museum and Westside Urban Forum (LA) on this topic.  He will continue to present A4LIFE ideas at a symposium at the University of Kansas in November, a Healthcare Forum in Michigan in the Spring and a soon to be scheduled seminar at Clemson University in their healthcare Architecture program.  An article reviewing the history and future trajectory of this concept will appear in the ASA (American Society for Aging) journal in the Spring.  A Q+A on the studio can be downloaded at  http://asaging.org/blog/life-way-we-want-it-conversation-gero-architect-victor-regnier-faia

Jennifer Siegal, Adjunct Associate Professor and Principal of Office of Mobile Design, was recently featured by international Swedish filmmaker, Jesper Wachtmeister, in his documentary film Microtopia — an examination of modern alternative dwellings and mobile lifestyles. The film profiles Siegal’s first prototype for prefab dwelling: “Joshua Tree PreFab”, a fully functional mobile dwelling that also embodies responsible, sustainable, and aesthetically beautiful design. The film has received international attention and acclaim, drawing attention to current trends in dwellings and use of space, as well as looking to the future for the  impact and influence design will have on lifestyles and resources. Siegal will be lecturing this Fall at RTKL’s Corporate Officer’s Meeting and at Texas Tech College of Architecture El Paso, in partnership with the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department.

Professor Schierle added iconic structures to his web site http://www.usc.edu/structures  (click the tent icon) OR the direct link: http://www-classes.usc.edu/architecture/structures/Projects/Iconic%20Projects.htm.

Todd Gish, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, is part of the local committee working to bring the national conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History to Los Angeles in 2015.

Ken Breisch is the General Chair for the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians to held in Austin, Texas, in April 2014, and recently served as the Moderator for a Panel Discussion Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the re-opening of the Los Angeles Public Library Central Building. 

Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, lecturer, elected Mayor of Burbank for FY13-14, addressed the State of the L.A. River Watershed Symposium along with Mayor Eric Garcetti held October 10 in Downtown Los Angeles. Several landscape Architects attend the conference including Esther Margulies of AECOM also a lecturer. In September Mayor Gabel-Luddy lead a Burbank Delegation to Incheon, Korea for a Sustainable Cities Conference. 

Joon-Ho Choi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Building Science at USC was invited by the Philips Research Center, located in Briarcliff Manor, New York in August to talk about one of his recent research work, entitled “Human-Building Interaction: Potential Use of Human Bio-Signals for Building Environmental System Controls”, and part of the work will be presented at the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers – Indoor Air Quality (ASHRAE-IAQ) Conference held in Vancouver, Canada on October 15 through 18, titled “Human-Environment Interaction: Potential Use of Pupil Size for Visual Environmental Controls.”

Peter Simmonds and Pavel Getov presented a workshop titled “EPIDERMIS/HYPOTHALAMUS: BUILDING ENVELOPE AS A FACTOR CONTROLLING OCCUPANT THERMAL COMFORT” at the AIA Monterey Design Conference. There were more than 150 attendees.

Lecturer Scott Uriu‘s work will be exhibited in two upcoming Architecture and Design events in Santa Fe; Design Santa Fe – DesignLAB Next Nest at the SITE Gallery sponsored by Metropolis Magazine, and the Life Support: Art<->Design Sustenance exhibition to be held at the David Richard Gallery, both opening November 1st. Uriu’s Lima Project has been featured in the September issue of Green Buildings Magazine, Mark magazine #40, and the August issue of Urbanista.   Uriu’s Firestone Project  has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Architecture Record, and The Architects Newspaper regarding its inclusion in the Neverbuilt exhibition.  Uriu’s Keelung Project has been featured in the July B1 Magazine, and Future magazine #39/40, and his firm (Baumgartner+Uriu) has been featured in the Hindu Newspaper June 15th.   In April 2014 Baumgartner+Uriu will be exhibited in the SciArc Main Gallery in Los Angeles.  In October, Baumgartner+Uriu has been chosen by the Santa Cruz Metro Transit Authority as the Architect for the Watsonville Transit Center.

Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Southern California, was invited by the City of Los Angeles Department of Urban Planning and the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria to speak at a conference entitled “The Urbanization Challenge –Smart City Solutions from Austria and California,” at LA City Hall on October 11. He will speak on the topics of high performance buildings and resource efficient development.

Travis Longcore, Associate Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture was guest editor of a special issue on human-caused mortality of birds in Canada, published in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology.  His guest editorial noted the need to adopt best management practices to reduce mortality such as bird-safe building design to reduce collisions with windows.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been awarded a 2013 AIA|LA NextLA Design Award for the Pure Tension pavilion, a portable tensile membrane solar-powered charging station for the new Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid, which launches on October 10, 2013 in Rome, Italy.  He will be giving a lecture of his recent work on October 7, at the Aura Magna Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy.  Additionally, professor Huang has been appointed Program Director for the newly launched Architectural Association Globabl Visiting School Los Angeles, taking place in Summer 2014.

Laurel Consuelo Broughton and her studio WELCOMEPROJECTS’ installation, Black Holes opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art as part of their Wall Works Series and runs through January 12, 2014. A play on words, in Black Holes over five hundred kindergarden through twelfth grade students interpret ideas about abstract space through drawing inside of blank Tetra Pak milk cartons. Installed all together, the group produces a part to whole simultaneity. On November 1,2013 Laurel will lecture on her work at Cal Poly Pomona as part of their Fall lecture series. 

University of Arizona

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Associate Professor Christopher Domin was a featured speaker at the East-West Dialogues Symposium held November 16 and 17 at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The symposium was a forum to investigate the built work of Florida’s modernist architects.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s paper “High and Dry: Performances Around Water’s Absence” was accepted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and will be presented at the 101_1 Waste(lands)+Material Economies / Less is More: Creativity Through Scarcity paper session during the ASCA annual meeting this coming March in San Francisco.

November 14th is the anticipated book launch date for Ground|Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, co-edited by Associate Professor Beth Weinstein, Ellen McMahon (Fine Arts) and Ander Monson (creative writing). The book collects critical and creative work of faculty and students in the arts, design, architecture, and the sciences reflecting on the impact of climate change upon Tucson’s local waterways. The projects, seminar, and studios documented in the book, and the book’s production were primarily supported by a grant from the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. Ground|Water will be distributed by the University of Arizona Press.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein’s exhibition, The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham has been installed at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris.

Assistant Professor Susannah Dickinson’s paper “Sustainable Design Processes” has been published as part of the International Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference Proceedings (PLEA 2012) recently held in Lima, Peru.  The paper describes biomimetic and parametric design strategies used in a recently completed studio.

Dr. Linda C. Samuels joins the faculty of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) as the new Project Director for the Sustainable City Project, a research, teaching, and outreach effort collaboratively supported by CAPLA; the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS); and the Institute of the Environment (IE). The Sustainable City Project is a think tank, make tank, say tank and do tank committed to research, design innovation, boundary-free collaboration, urban activism, intellectual interchange, and inclusive outreach. It is housed in the new UA Downtown location, the historic Roy Place Building. Samuels recently received her doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Eve Edelstein, MArch, PhD (neuroscience), Assoc AIA, F-AAA, Research Fellow (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), and former faculty member at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design (San Diego) as well as a former Senior Research Specialist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, will be joining the CAPLA faculty in the Spring. She will be working in collaboration with Esther Sternberg to start a new center for Place and Well-being.

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, AIA LEED AP, of Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, have a project in Architectural Record’s online article, “Featured Houses, September 2012: Volumes in the Landscape.”

Adjunct Lecturers Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano’s Levin Residence is featured on the fall 2012 cover of LUXE interiors + design magazine, Arizona edition. They are also published in World Interior Design: Glamourous Living Space” by Phoenix Publishing. In addition, Ibarra Rosano’s first project, the Garcia Residence, made Architizer’s list of Top 10 Desert Dwellings. 

 

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Associate Professor Martin Despang´s post-fossil (Passive House standard) kindergarten for the University of Göttingen has been published in the 6.2011 issue of the international AIT / Architecture Interior Technology magazine.  He has also been published in the Frechmann Kolón book, Wood Houses (2010), for Despang Architekten’s renovation of the half-timbered farm house “Voges Redux.” 

Associate Professor Christopher Domin, Master of Architecture Program Chair, presented applied building skin research developed in CALA’s Materials Laboratory at the World Sustainable Building Conference in Helsinki, Finland.  Another joint research investigation into Regional Technology issues was presented at the International Passive and Low Energy conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium over the summer.  This work was co-developed with Professor Larry Medlin along with advanced graduate and undergraduate CALA students.

The College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture initiated an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation in conjunction with the UA School of Anthropology and Department of Materials Science & Engineering.  The program is coordinated by Professor R. Brooks Jeffery and focuses on a service-learning model of education.  More information is on the program’s website, http://cala.arizona.edu/heritage.

Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein has been invited to join the Design Committee of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Since 2009, she has served as a member of the JAE’s Editorial Board and Reviews Board.

New members of the Architecture Faculty, Luis Ibarra + Teresa Rosano, have won their 7th Southern Arizona Home of the Year Award for a house designed for Patagonia, Arizona.

Adjunct Lecturer Wil Peterson, has been named one of five finalists in the furniture category of the ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition.

Adjunct Lecturer Mark Ryan has won the competition for Avendia Rio Salado / Broadway Road (ARS) in Phoenix, AZ.  The proposal for an 8-mile stretch of the Broadway Road will create a series of Community Beacons that will be visible day and night, acknowledging the historic diversity of agriculture and industry between two adjacent village neighborhoods.  The installations will also function as passive cooling towers and drinking fountains.

 

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Diane Ghirardo‘s new book, Modern Architectures in History. Italy, appeared in January from Reaktion Press, and Tsinghua University Press just published a second Chinese edition of her 1996 book, Architecture After Modernism as part of a series of five books on the subject of modern architecture in the west.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang and his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture have received first prize in the invited design competition for the 180,000sqm Shanghai Wuzhou International Plaza.  Additionally, construction was recently completed on the SDA designed 7,500sqm facade and 20,000sqm interior for the CentralPlaza Lampang in Thailand.   Finally, the SDA designed Chelsea Workspace project is one of 24 projects shortlisted out of 233 submissions for the Architects Journal Small Projects Award 2013.  The winner of the award will be announced in February. 

Lawrence Scarpa and his firm Brooks + Scarpa has won the commission for the new $23 million Southern Utah University Center for the Arts.   The project includes the 22,000 sf Southern Utah Museum of Art,  a 33,000 sf Shakespeare Theatre and a 26,000 sf Artistic Production and Educational Center.  

Adjunct assistant professors Christopher Warren and Mario Cipresso received a special mention in the category of ‘social infrastructure’ in the d3 Unbuilt Visions Competition for their project, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control Complex. Christopher is also leading a study abroad studio in Rome this spring, focusing on an urban intervention in the Ostiense area south of the city center.

Associate Professor (Research) Travis Longcore is appointed in the Spatial Sciences Institute and teaches in Landscape Architecture.  His recently released research on the species composition of birds killed by communication towers was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America and Smithsonian’s blog.

An article entitled “Tree Huggers” by Warren Techentin was recently released in the book Infrastructural City  – a book of essays edited by Kazys Varnelis and published by ACTAR which look at infrastructure and networks in Los Angeles.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Eric Haas, AIA lectured on “Syntax and Sensation” at the NewSchool of Architecture + Design, as part of the FSDA lecture series.

Lecturer Scott Uriu‘s firm B+U will be included upcoming show at THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES (MOCA), A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”, with its project the Frank Kim Residence, exhibited in Model and other media.  The show will run from June 2, 2013 through September 2, 2013. Other participants include AC Martin Partners, Atelier Manferdini, Ball-Nogues Studio, Belzberg Architects, Bestor Architecture, Brooks + Scarpa Architects, Coscia Day Architecture and Design, Coy Howard & Company, Daly Genik Architects, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Franklin D. Israel Design Associates, Gehry Partners, Greg Lynn FORM, Hodgetts + Fung, JOHNSTONMARKLEE, Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, MAKE Architecture, Mark Mack Architects, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis Architects, Neil M. Denari Architects, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Patrick Tighe Architecture, Predock Frane Architects, Randall Stout Architects, RoTo Architects, Saee Studio, Studio Works Architects, Tom Wiscombe Design, Touraine Richmond Architects, VOID, Warren Techentin Architecture, and XTEN Architecture.

Jennifer Siegal’s thesis students installed Prefab House on the USC campus, view at http://arch.usc.edu/notes/prefab-house-timelapse. She is the Keynote Speaker for the Atmosphere 5 Ecology and Design Conference, University of Manitoba, and a speaker for the Prefab Architecture symposium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

 

 

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Associate Professor Eve Edelstein, joins CAPLA and the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona as Deputy Director of Research. Dr. Edelstein is developing curricula for students and professionals in research-based design, and is currently teaching an interdisciplinary seminar on Neuro-Architecture, revealing how architecture, planning and landscape architecture influences the brain, body and biosphere.  Dr. Edelstein was an invited speaker at the Glass Mind Workshop in London UK where the international faculty discussed the application of neuro -architectural concepts and 3D virtual reality immersive CAVE techniques to explore how natural and architectural surfaces impact perception and actions by measuring neural and psychophysiological responses.  Dr. Edelstein is participating in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Summit on Green Building & Human Health to promote recognition of the connection between sustainable building methods and human health in order to advance and development practices and policies for improved outcomes.

Associate Professor Beth Weinstein, Ellen McMahon, and Ander Monson, editors of the recently published book Ground/Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River will hold a signing and take part in “Bat Night and the Rillito River Project”: A discussion with Creative Director of the Rillito River Project Ellen Skotheim, bat expert Yar Petryzyn, UA Professors Gregg Grafin (Institute for the Environment) and Beth Weinstein (School of Architecture) focusing on the art, design and science collaborations done for Bat Night 10.

Adjunct Lecturer Brian Andrews’ new book Architecture Principia: Architectural Principles of Material Form has just been published by Pearson. The 600-page reference guide was co-authored with Gail Peter Borden of USC and “provides a comprehensive look at the foundational themes of architecture. Simultaneously fundamental and advanced, the text employs comparative precedents, case studies from across the history of architecture, consistent and clear graphic language, and a parallel visual and textual presentation of each architectural principle. Written by designers, for designers, the text is intended to serve as an analytical handbook of the concepts behind these diverse, formal principles as viewed through the history of architecture.”

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