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University of Arizona

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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.

 

University of Oregon

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The Department of Architecture welcomes international Fulbright Foreign Student Scholars from Lebanon and Pakistan along with Visiting Professor Ralf Weber, professor of architecture and dean of Academic Affairs at Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany and 2012-2013 Margo Grant Walsh Professor in Interior Design Jody Pene IIDA, LEED AP, interior designer at GBD Architects in Portland, Oregon.

Architecture Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi won the Research Excellence Award in the International Research Project of the Year category at the World Congress for Design and Health Academy Awards 2012 for his paper, “The Health Impacts of Daylighting in the Workplace.” His findings were published in World Health Design Journal in July 2012 (pp. 60-67). Elzeyadi was also appointed by the Board to the Congress Scientific committee during the congress, held in in Kuala Lumpur.

Associate Professor Nico Larco is on a Fulbright in Spain this year, working with the University of Navarra in Pamplona and the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona.  He is teaching classes and conducting research on sustainable urbanism–specifically on recent development patterns in these and other Spanish cities.  

The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI), an organization leading multidisciplinary sustainability related research and teaching and founded and run by Prof. Larco and Prof. Marc Schlossberg from the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, is a finalist for the FT/CITI Ingenuity Awards.  As part of this, SCI was recently featured in an article in the Financial Times of London.  

Department Head Christine Theodoropoulos, AIA, left the University of Oregon at the end of August to become Dean at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Judith Sheine, ACSA Distinguished Professor and Professor and Chair of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, will join us winter term as our new department head.  Former Department Head Michael Fifield, FAIA, will serve as Interim Department Head during this transition.

Montana State University

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Professor John C Brittingham’s seven years of work with Yellowstone National Park and JLF and Associates from Bozeman, Montana was chronicled in an article titled “A Yellowstone Charrette” in the FallWinter issue of Western Arts and Architecture.  The article documents the history of three charrettes that Professor Brittingham has coordinated with the help of his graduate students for the park through the School of Architecture.  This partnership has generated some $1.8 million in pro bono work with some of the best architects and architectural illustrators in the country.  This work has recently been acknowledged at the highest levels of the Park Service in Washington DC and may well become new model and paradigm for design thinking in  National Parks. Professor Brittingham is currently working with 12 graduate students in Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim. 

Assistant Professor David Fortin’s book titled Architecture and Science-Fiction Film was recently published by Ashgate. His book contemplates the home as one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of ‘otherness’. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrohpies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite – the home – a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.

Assistant Professor Fortin has also recently contributed one of thirteen original essays titled “Philip K. Dick’s Disturbanism: Towards Psychospatial Readings of Science Fiction” to Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, and Modernity published by Routledge. The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual, domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural geography, art history and architectural history.

University of Southern California

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John Dutton is editing GRIDS-blog: Speculations on Urbanism and the Built Environment.  It can be found at www.GRIDS-blog.com

Mia Lehrer , FASLA, was a featured speaker at the ASLA 2011 Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego. She covered topics from Women in Landscape Architecture to Urban Agriculture, and hosted a field session at the Orange County Great Park. This month Mia appears in Latina Magazine’s Making Us Proud spotlight on influential women.

Rachel Berney, PhD, Interim Director of the MLA Program and assistant professor, gave a talk at Iowa State University on 11/10/2011 titled, “Visible Competency: Building Capital through Public Space in Latin America.”

Lecturer MIna M. Chow, AIA, NCARB has joined as Director of Development for the US Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale for the Institute for Urban Design (IFUD).  The Institute for Urban Design won the U.S. Department of State RFP for their exhibition “Spontaneous Interventions:  Design Actions for the Common Good,” which documents projects initiated by American architects and designers aimed at bringing positive change to the public realm.  The U.S. Pavilion team includes Commissioner and Curators Cathy Lang Ho and Ned Cramer, and the Curatorial Advisory Team of MOMA NYC Senior Curator Paola Antonelli, IFUD Executive Director Anne Guiney, Chief Curator of the Art Institute of Chicago Zoe Ryan, and IFUD Chair Professor Michael Sorkin.  For additional information, please visit:  http://spontaneousinterventions.org or http:// ifud.org.

The ARCC 2010 James Haecker Award was presented to Professor Ralph Knowles on Novermber 12, 2011.  The James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award for Architectural Research is presented by the ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium) for outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields.  Knowles, who has taught at USC for 40 years, is the author of seven books and more than 50 articles. He is a recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ Medal for Research. He has conducted research in Bratislava, Slovakia with the support of a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship. The National Endowment for the Arts honored him for his design research and his work on solar access was supported by the Endowment. He received the USC Associates Award for Teaching Excellence and his book, Sun Rhythm Form, won the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarly Book Award. He has most recently received the USC Distinguished Emeritus Award and the Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society. The main body of is work has focused on design with nature for energy conservation and life quality. He is the creator of the Solar Envelope, a zoning strategy for urban solar access. In his latest book, Ritual House: Drawing on Natures’s Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design, Knowles explores theories relating nature’s rhythms to life’s rituals as a basis for a new architectural aesthetic. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~rknowles

Victor Regnier, professor of architecture and gerontology traveled to Japan to consult with a group of experts on the Toto company’s approach to research in universal design.  Later that month he delivered the Hong Kong Housing Society Distinguished Lecture on Sustainable Housing Development–Innovative Ideas from the Design of Housing for the Elderly in Northern Europe at the University of Hong Kong.  This month he presented a symposium at the American Association of Housing and Services for the Aging in Los Angeles on Danish housing models, and made a presentation at the New Aging Conference at the University of Pennsylvania about Dutch apartment for life projects.  Finally, he debated colleague Jon Pynoos Ph.D at the UCLA Technology and Aging conference on strategies for maintaining independence in the community.  In the Spring he will be presenting a symposium at the Madrid International Congress on Long Term Care and Quality of Life as well as making a presentation at the University of Virginia on Age-friendly communities. 

Assistant Professor Gail Peter Borden’s installation “Light Frames: a material prophecy” opened at Materials and Applications and will be up through mid-March. It consist of a two storey EMT double dome and a vinyl pneumatic chapel. Simultaneously opening, a show entitled “Shallow Spaces” at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas curated a series of resin paintings. In October he lectured at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts as a speaker in the Rice Design Alliance lecture series “A Material World.” He is currently attending a Residency at the MacDowell Colony, the oldest residency program in the U.S. His second book Matter: Material Processes of Architectural Production is at press with Routledge and will be available spring 2011.

Professor Marc Schiler was a participant in the Xi Xi Li She (XXLS) sustainable design charrette, from August 25 through September 1, with a team of architects, engineers, faculty, and students from the U.S. who met on the site of a proposed sustainable development in the Yuhang district of Hangzhou, China.  The program includes a 25,000 square foot video production studio/main hall and a research and educational annex.  The resultant design utilizes environmentally responsive passive principles, a ground source heat pump, photovoltaics, a biogas reactor, and on site collection, storage and processing of rainwater, gray water and black water.  The provincial government and Sally Wu of Phoenix TV sponsored the design charrette and a special province forum where the XXLS design proposal was presented to 300 party officials, business representatives, developers, and investors from China and Hong Kong. Yung Ho Chang (MIT and Atelier FCJZ) delivered a keynote speech on sustainability in Architectur

University of Oregon

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The FIT (Façade Integrated Technologies) Testing Center had a “soft opening” on April 15. This new lab is part of Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi’s High Performance Environments Lab (HiPE) that is a signature research facility of the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST). Full story: http://bit.ly/13kF9b7

Associate Professor Nico Larco has lectured at the Bartlett, Sciences-Po Paris, Sciences-Po Lyon, and the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona while on sabbatical and as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain over the 2012/13 academic year.  Some of the lectures focused on his current research on a Sustainable Urban Design Framework and others focused on the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) that he Co-Founded and Co-Directs.  Prof. Larco also gave a two-day International Seminar on Sustainable Urban Design for students, academics, and professionals at the University of Navarra in Spain.

The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) hosted the second annual Sustainable City Year Program Conference in April.  This conference included over twenty universities from the US and abroad that were interested in replicating the internationally awarded SCYP program run at the University of Oregon.  Four universities that attended the conference last year have already implemented programs and presented their progress and lessons learned as part of this year’s conference.  SCI Co-Directors Associate Professor Nico Larco from Architecture and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg from PPPM led the conference.  

Associate Professor Nico Larco and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg received the 2012 Faculty Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for their founding and leadership of Sustainable Cities Initiative.

The UO Department of Architecture had outstanding participation at the American Solar Energy Society Solar 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland April 16-20, 2013. Faculty, students, and alums in attendance to present papers, moderate sessions, and attend the Society of Building Science Educators Annual Meeting.  UO architecture historically has played a large role at the national solar conference and this year was as energetic as the past record.  Here are the papers and participation from faculty and students:

Meilissa Anderson, Alison Kwok: Zero Net Energy Education: Are We There Yet?
Ihab Elzeyadi: The Right Light: A Comparative Field Assessment of Daylighting Quality and Visual Comfort Inside LEED-rated Elementary Schools; and People + Buildings: A Dialogue Assessing the Application of Occupants’ Engagement in Positive Energy Behaviors in Buildings
Esther Hagenlocher: Color Reflectivity in Daylit Spaces: How Color Reflectivity Affects Experience and Performance
Heather Nelson, Sophia Duluk, Alison Kwok: Comparison of Solar Evaluation Tools: From Learning to Practice
John Reynolds: moderator

Alums:

Martha Bohm: Energy Simulation in Passive Design: Tools for Considering the Invisible
Alfredo Fernandez-Gonsalez (1999) : A Model for Collecting Hourly Simulations of Water Flows in Buildings Featuring Simulations of Water Flows in Buildings
Troy Peters: Modeling Comfort for Passive Solar Savings; It’s Complicated: Choosing the Best Type of Glazing for a Passive Solar Building; Teaching Zero Net Energy Design in  Non-Studio Setting; Smartphone and Daylight
Alexandra Rempel: Oregon Sunspace Redesign/build: New Priorities for Thermal Mass
Yingying Liu: Study on Daylight Usage Design: Perception of Shadows Visual Comfort

The Anthony Wong Scholarship for Research in Sustainable Design, supported Melissa Anderson, Heather Nelson, and Sophia Duluk to travel to the conference.

Professor Howard Davis, Graduate Director, and Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Ph.D., Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL), presented a double lecture at Meiji University in Tokyo as part of ‘The Academic Exchange Symposium’ with Meiji University in Tokyo. The topics of the double lecture were ‘Postindustrial Craftsmanship’ by Howard Davis, and ‘Buildings and Building Designs by CES and HNA in Japan,’ by Hajo Neis.


The FIT (Façade Integrated Technologies) Testing Center had a “soft opening” on April 15. This new lab is part of Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi’s High Performance Environments Lab (HiPE) that is a signature research facility of the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST). Full story: http://bit.ly/13kF9b7




Associate Professor Nico Larco has lectured at the Bartlett, Sciences-Po Paris, Sciences-Po Lyon, and the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona while on sabbatical and as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain over the 2012/13 academic year.  Some of the lectures focused on his current research on a Sustainable Urban Design Framework and others focused on the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) that he Co-Founded and Co-Directs.  Prof. Larco also gave a two-day International Seminar on Sustainable Urban Design for students, academics, and professionals at the University of Navarra in Spain.


The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) hosted the second annual Sustainable City Year Program Conference in April.  This conference included over twenty universities from the US and abroad that were interested in replicating the internationally awarded SCYP program run at the University of Oregon.  Four universities that attended the conference last year have already implemented programs and presented their progress and lessons learned as part of this year’s conference.  SCI Co-Directors Associate Professor Nico Larco from Architecture and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg from PPPM led the conference.  



Associate Professor Nico Larco and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg received the 2012 Faculty Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for their founding and leadership of Sustainable Cities Initiative.




The UO Department of Architecture had outstanding participation at the American Solar Energy Society Solar 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland April 16-20, 2013. Faculty, students, and alums in attendance to present papers, moderate sessions, and attend the Society of Building Science Educators Annual Meeting.  UO architecture historically has played a large role at the national solar conference and this year was as energetic as the past record.  Here are the papers and participation from faculty and students:


Meilissa Anderson, Alison Kwok: Zero Net Energy Education: Are We There Yet?

Ihab Elzeyadi: The Right Light: A Comparative Field Assessment of Daylighting Quality and Visual Comfort Inside LEED-rated Elementary Schools; and People + Buildings: A Dialogue Assessing the Application of Occupants’ Engagement in Positive Energy Behaviors in Buildings

Esther Hagenlocher: Color Reflectivity in Daylit Spaces: How Color Reflectivity Affects Experience and Performance

Heather Nelson, Sophia Duluk, Alison Kwok: Comparison of Solar Evaluation Tools: From Learning to Practice

John Reynolds: moderator

 

Alums:

Martha Bohm: Energy Simulation in Passive Design: Tools for Considering the Invisible

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonsalez (1999) : A Model for Collecting Hourly Simulations of Water Flows in Buildings Featuring Simulations of Water Flows in Buildings

Troy Peters: Modeling Comfort for Passive Solar Savings; It’s Complicated: Choosing the Best Type of Glazing for a Passive Solar Building; Teaching Zero Net Energy Design in  Non-Studio Setting; Smartphone and Daylight

Alexandra Rempel: Oregon Sunspace Redesign/build: New Priorities for Thermal Mass

Yingying Liu: Study on Daylight Usage Design: Perception of Shadows Visual Comfort


The Anthony Wong Scholarship for Research in Sustainable Design, supported Melissa Anderson, Heather Nelson, and Sophia Duluk to travel to the conference.



Professor Howard Davis, Graduate Director, and Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Ph.D., Director of the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL), presented a double lecture at Meiji University in Tokyo as part of ‘The Academic Exchange Symposium’ with Meiji University in Tokyo. The topics of the double lecture were ‘Postmodern Craftsmanship’ by Howard Davis, and ‘Buildings and Building Designs by CES and HNA in Japan,’ by Hajo Neis.


University of Southern California

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Gerdo Aquino, is President of SWA, and Principal at the Los Angeles studio.   Aquino was recently recognized as a Fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects and was recently awarded the Southern California Chapter ASLA Merit Award for the Anning River project in Panzhihua, China and an ASLA National Honor Award for the book Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA which he co-authored.   He is currently working on one of the largest mixed used projects in Cairo, Egypt, and the Samsung Headquarters in San Jose, California.

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

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 real time 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.

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.

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). 

Lecturer Ying-Yu Hung is Managing Principal of SWA Los Angeles, and co-founder of the Infrastructure Research Initiative (I.R.I.S.).  Hung was recently awarded an ASLA National Honor Award and a Southern California Chapter ASLA Honor Award for the book Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA which she co-authored.  She also received a Southern California Chapter ASLA Award of Excellence for Gubei Pedestrian Promenade.  This project is coincidently featured in the December 2012 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.  She recently won the Pudong Waterfront competition in Shanghai, China, a development of mixed use, open space and  a sculpture park along the Huangpu River.   Hung is currently working on international and local projects which include the Fuyang Urban River Design, a mixed use development project along a riverfront in Fuyang, China and the recently awarded Highland Park Streetscape in Los Angeles, California.    

David Lawrence Gray architects has completed design work for a 92 unit adaptive reuse building at 1111 sunset blvd in downtown Los Angeles.  The 50 year old building was designed by William Pereira. The architects have added two stories to the existing top floor. Construction began on December 1 2012.

Adjunct Professor of Architecture Lorcan O’Herlihy has received several accolades in 2012, including a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award nomination, 5 AIA awards, and Interior Design’s Best of Year Award. Lorcan’s design work will be on view Spring 2013 at the MOCA exhibition, A New Sculpturalism, as well as A+D Museum’s Never Built: Los Angeles.

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 V. Mutlow, FAIA, Professor of Architecture, was honored  by the AIA California Council with a ‘Presidential Citation’ for his service to the profession as Chairman of the AIA Los Angeles Chapter’s Fellows Committee. Professor Mutlow has also won the 2012 Professional Builder magazine Platinum Award for Stovall Villa. He received the Los Angeles Architectural Award for “Housing, Multi-Family” from the Los Angeles Business council for Stovall Villa, a 32 unit affordable senior housing complex in Los Angeles.  Professor Mutlow, in partnership with Tighe Architecture, Inc., received a 2012 Westside Prize from the Westside Urban Forum for The Courtyard at La Brea, a mixed-use affordable housing community for seniors, emancipated youths, and persons with special needs in West Hollywood, CA. Professor Mutlow’s firm, John V. Mutlow Architects, Inc., focuses on affordable housing for the elderly, families and persons with special needs. 

Warren Techentin was recently awarded two AIA, NEXT/LA awards for his work.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Mario Cipresso AIA has been named one of the “Top 20 Under 40” for 2013 by Engineering News Record California.  The award celebrates the excellence of young design and construction professionals who have made significant contributions to the profession at an early stage in their careers.  A feature will be published in the February issue of ENR California.

Lecturer Brian Tichenor has written the introduction for, and contributed to ‘California Casa’ (Rizzoli 2012). His work is featured in the January 2013 edition of Architectural Digest, and in ‘Kelly Wearstler: Rhapsody’ (Rizzoli 2012). His firm, Tichenor and Thorp Architects, is currently bringing to completion a six acre Creative Technology Campus in Culver City, integrating three buildings, interiors, and Landscape Architecture.

“Professors Kyle Konis, Karen Kensek, Joon-ho Choi and Anders Carlson, recently received an award of $15,000 from NCARB to implement their proposal “Performance as a Design Driver: Creating a Framework to Integrate Practitioner Knowledge in the Design Studio.”

Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, instructor for ARCH 536, was elected Vice Mayor of the City of Burbank for 2012-13. This year she presented at the California State Trails Conference, addressing the development and implementation of urban trails, tracing their history in Los Angeles’ neighborhoods.

Professor Schierle’s book Structure and Design is posted on more than 30 websites.  Examples:

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Montana State University

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Associate Professor Chris Livingston and Assistant Professor Zuzanna Karczewska attended an international conference in Delft, Netherlands organized by European Association of Envisioning Architecture.  Chris Livingston’s paper was entitled “The ‘Surgeon-Anatomist’ – Architecture, Medicine and possible trajectories for Visualization within Building Information Modeling” and Zuzanna Karczewska’s “Tangibility and Duration of Drawing”.

Associate Professor Maire O’Neill has an upcoming exhibit titled “Taking Stock – A morphology: field documentation of agricultural buildings” at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana.    This exhibit includes building documentation and interpretive drawings reflecting the evolving building practices of livestock producers and farmers settling the intermountain west.  It includes a typological and morphological analysis and will take place October through December 2011.

A proposal written by Milenka Jirasko was one of three international winners of the Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship Competition allowing her to research the former Auschwitz concentration camp in rural Poland this summer.  She won a $3,200 travel stipend to allow her to research sacred spaces that are open to the public under the guidance of Associate Professor Maire O’Neill.  Fellow students Carson Booth, Rachel Haugen, Britni Jezirorski and Chris Taleff were among 33 semifinalists selected overall. The prize is given by the University of California, Berkeley and the Berkeley Prize Endowment to enable winners to travel to gain a deeper understanding of the social art of architecture.  

A team of Montana State University students has won a competition to design an 85-foot ice-climbing tower as part of an attempt to lure the 2013 world cup of ice climbing championship to the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman. The team led by Michael Spencer of Willow Creek, a recent graduate of the MSU School of Architecture, with Tymer Tilton of Missoula a current architecture student, and MSU engineering student P.J. Kolnik, won the MSU-based competition to design the Bozeman Ice Tower under the guidance of Associate Professor Mike Everts.  Everts says “the winning design is composed of angled climbing surfaces that attach to stacked, side-cycled shipping containers. The containers, in addition to being economical and sustainable, are designed to be temporary lodging for visiting athletes”.  The winning design, which can be seen on the Web, http://bozemanicetower.wordpress.com/, includes a tower that can be used for ice or traditional climbing surrounded by a spectator area that will allow the structure to be used as an outdoor concert venue.

Associate Professor Mike Everts received an Honorable mention for the 2011 NCARB Prize.  The submission titled “The Next Generation of Mountain Architects” was recognized by the jury for teaching students leadership skills, communications skills, and how to participate in the community decision-marking process. With guidance from non-faculty architect practitioners and professors, students researched and designed a culturally and environmentally sensitive community center in Phortse, Nepal near Mt. Everest. Students then traveled to Nepal to work with local officials, contractors, and villagers to dig the foundation and construct critical building component prototypes. 

University of Oregon

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Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi is a keynote speaker at the inaugural International Conference for Building Technology, hosted by the KAUST Technological University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 3-5, 2012. The title of his talk is: Regenerative Design: towards Net Positive Buildings and Material Assemblies.

Professor Kevin Nute and graduate student Jeffrey Stattler will present a joint paper entitled The Movements of the Weather as an Interactive Indoor Therapy at the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference in Berkeley, California in March 2013. Kevin will also be presenting his research on naturally-animated indoor spaces together with the work of the ‘Under the Weather’ health-care design studio at the 2013 Environmental Design Research Association conference on Healthy and Healing Places.  His paper entitled The Animation of the Weather as a Means of Sustaining Building Occupants and the Natural Environment, co-authored with former graduate student Aaron Weiss, in collaboration with Jagdeep Bala and Richard Morrocco of the UO Department of Psychology, will be published in The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability.


Elzeyadi is also giving the keynote address for the Architecture 712 conference in Cairo, Egypt on Innovative Facade Technologies for retrofitting buildings + a related research project and workshop.


Elzeyadi is also serving as an External Examiner and Jury chair for Thesis Graduation Projects, Department of Architecture, Kuwait University, Kuwait. Consultant/Architect, Kuwait City School Retrofits and Modernization Projects.

University of Colorado Denver

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Rob Pyatt, Instructor and Research Associate, will lead a new trans-disciplinary design program: “Designing for People and Place: Sustainable & Affordable Housing for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation” through the Native American Sustainable Housing Initiative (NASHI) at the University of Colorado, an interdisciplinary collaboration of faculty and students seeking to improve housing conditions on tribal lands through research, education and outreach activities. Specifically, this initiative establishes a sustainable, affordable and culturally appropriate housing research, design and demonstration home project on the Oglala Lakota College (OLC) campus as the foundation for an ongoing academic service-learning program between the CU Environmental Design program and the Construction Technology program at OLC. The overall objective of the project will be to develop a comprehensive case study to help inform the future housing choices for the Oglala Sioux Tribe and an “applied research” laboratory to educate OLC and CU students in the design and construction of sustainable, affordable, culturally inclusive and regionally appropriate housing.

University of Southern California

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The School of Architecture is developing a travel and a public space-public life survey workshop with Oliver Schulze of Gehl Architects for Summer 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and northern Germany, and a fall studio in Los Angeles connected with the workshop.

In early May, Mario Cipresso AIA will be a juror for “Re-Thinking Shanghai 2012: An International Design Competition for a Sustainable Intervention on the Suzhou Creek”.  The announcement of the winners and awards ceremony will take place in Shanghai on May 10, 2012.

Professor Schierle’s book Structure and Design is required reading at six major schools, including Carnegie Mellon University.

Stovall Villa is a 32 unit affordable housing project designed by John Mutlow for low income seniors and completed in July 2011, which has just been selected as a winner in the  ‘Design Housing, Multi-family’ category of the 42nd annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The project is designed to reinforce the contextual scale and material conditions of adjacent buildings, to expand and more clearly define an existing courtyard, and to provide a series of social spaces that encourage social interaction by either physically or visually interconnecting the spaces. Sustainability/low energy strategies include building over an existing Parking lot, optimal East/West solar orientation, incorporating metal shading screen on the south elevation with a more dense Trex screen on the West elevation and a connection for the future installation of solar Photovoltaic panels. A very short time schedule was established by the two major funding agencies, HUD and LA City which required the Design, Construction Documents and Building Permit to be completed in one year. 

Dana Bauer, in collaboration with Elysian Landscapes, has been commissioned to design the landscape and public urban spaces for a new mixed use development in Hollywood.  Other current projects include an Elementary School Master Plan, also in Hollywood, and a collection of ‘urban product’ prototypes scheduled to begin production this summer.

John Dutton will give an invited public lecture entitled: “Intersections of Architecture and Urbanism: Fin de Siecle City-Building by Wagner, Berlage, and Saarinen” at the School of Architecture of Notre Dame in April. 

Eui-Sung Yi, Adjunct Associate Professor, is Director of Docomomo Korea and the Director of the Bidding Committee to host the next International Conference in Asia. He is excited to address emerging issues of physical versus heritage conservation and the changing definition of modernism in Asia.

Eric Haas, AIA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, curated “Top Fuel: Funnels,” USC’s design-build workshop, in which Achim Menges of Stuttgart University led students investigating performative pneumatic architecture. “Self Preservation,” an article on Haas’ restoration of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments, was published in Dwell (Feb. 2012).

Gail Peter Borden, Director of the Master of Architecture Programs, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. He recently curated and participated in “Material Matters,” a six month installation at the Pacific Design Center and MOCA’s “Design Loves Art program” that had five architects each create five iterative pieces based upon a material logic. Participants included: Gail Peter Borden, Predock/Frane, Jason Payne, Victor Jones and Andrew Atwood. The exhibit is up through the end of summer. In April Borden was named one of Building Design and Construction’s 40 under 40. His third book – Principia: Architectural Principles of Material Form, co-authored with Brian Andrews and published by Pearson is due out in the fall.

Kristine Mun and David Gerber received a USC FIUT Award to implement research on interactive architecture to undergraduate students.   Mun and Gerber will commence a collaborative design project with USC’s School of Cinema and School of Engineering to develop an IA prototype this summer.

Professor Ghirardo has published an article on Lucrezia Borgia’s religion and her entrepreneurial activities in Quaderni Estensi in February 2012, and a chapter entitled “Vicende e calamità delle cose create” in a book on the reclamation of the lands in the Po Valley, edited by Prof. Chiara Visentin.

Chelsea Workspace, a recently completed CNC-milled home-office fit-out in London designed by Alvin Huang, AIA (Assistant Professor at USC School of Architecture, Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture), will be featured in the July/August issue of Dwell Magazine.

Victor Jones had an exhibit entitled “Material Matters: Flat Shapes Justice” at the Pacific design Center for Westweek, March 20-22, 2012.  Jones has an article titled “The Medium of Big: The Culture Now Project Midsize America” in a book by Thom Mayne and Karen Lohman due out in April. 

Chuck Lagreco reports that “The Riverside Group,” the developer of a new destination resort community in the Jinhai lake area outside of Beijing, announced that his team was one of finalists of six architectural firms to proceed into design development phase on luxury residential projects for the new community.  

Esther Margulies, part time Lecturer has joined AECOM’s Los Angeles office as a principal in the Planning Design and Economics business line.  With fellow principal Vaughan Davies and the Urban Design and Landscape Architecture groups they are leading projects in southern California and China in a highly integrated process bringing together design, planning, economics and environmental practices.  AECOM’s landscape architects are currently working on multiple projects that will significantly change Los Angeles’ mobility including the downtown Regional Connector rail stations and improvements to the Central Terminal area at LAX that will dramatically change the image of LAX. Ms. Margulies is also a member of the recently formed  ULI Women’s Initiative and is working with Gail Goldberg and other ULI members to expand the leadership role of women in the Urban Land Institute. 

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.).  Hung is an active lecturer and recently presented at the GSD Harvard for a two day symposium on the topic of landscape infrastructure.  SWA Los Angeles is currently one of the shortlisted teams for the Union Station Master Plan with Metro.  Other projects that she is working on include Emaar Square Landscape Plan in Egypt and the Historic San Jacinto Plaza in El Paso, Texas.

Prof. Graeme M. Morland.  Architect / USC, has recently been appointed to the Los Angeles, Metropolitan Transportatiom Authority, Committee on 21st century planning,  as part of the forthcoming “RAIL-VOLUTION” 2012 conference to be hosted in LA, dedicated to the challenge of “building liveable communities with transit”.    This appointment is concurrent with his School of Architecture, topic studio design studies proposing station site development opportunities for 13 of 42 new station sites currently proposed in LA . These studies are at the request of the LA, Mayor’s office of transportation and are financially supported by the Architectural Guild of the USC School of Architecture.   Following the previous success and joint USC/ MTA publication of a similar study to review the future station site options for the Prairie/Crenshaw corridor, conducted by G. Morland in 1997, It is now anticipated that this renewed interest will be on-going and the results published accordingly. The driving force for these design investigations is predicated on providing incentives to enhance private investment  and economic development at station sites in a dynamic embrace with MTA stations locations, creating exciting new community “places/centres” in hitherto mundane locations. 

Equalbooks has published Volume 12 in the Design Peak series; a comprehensive monograph on B+U’s oeuvre and features a complete overview of the innovative architecture of design duo Herwig Baumgartner and USC Lecturer Scott Uriu over the past 10 years.  Previous monographs within the DesignPeak series include architects such as Morphosis, Delugan Meissl, and Fuksas, among others. The monograph on B+U includes an introduction by architecture critic Stephen Phillips and articles about the firm.  B+U’s work ranges from conceptual projects utilizing sound as a generator for geometry and space, urban utopias imagining what our cities will look like in the future, up to build work and projects that are currently in development. Among the designs featured here, are the Firestone Boulevard office building in Downey, California; the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan; the Tall Emblem Structure for Dubai, UAE; Villas for the Royal family in Al Ain, UAE; the Frank/Kim residence and the Cohen residence in Pasadena, California; Sound cloud and Sound City_ urban intervention projects based on sound study’s, Los Angeles, California ; Sunset Junction_ a permanent installation in Silver Lake, California; Performing Arts Center in Iserlohn, Germany; NTCArt Museum for contemporary Art in New Taipei City, Taiwan; the Ott Winery in Feuersbrunn, Austria; and City Futura_ a utopian urban proposal for the city of Milan, Italy that was featured at the 12th Venice Biennale in 2010.

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