april 2008 volume 37

number 8 acsaNews

in this issue:

publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2 2008-09 ACSA Board Election Results

3 NAAB Annual Report Submission System

4 2008 Administrators Meeting

5 2008 ACSA Fall Conferences

7 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

8 97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Call for Papers

12 Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

13 ACSA Student Design Competitions

16 REGIONAL NEWS

30 ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

36 NAAB Call for Participation in ARS

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MeetACSA’sNewlyElectedBoardMembersElection results are listed on page 2

97thACSAAnnualMeetingCallforPapersRead the topic descriptions starting on page 7

acsaNewsPascale Vonier, Editor

Editorial Offices1735 New York Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20006, USATel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448Website: www.acsa-arch.org

ACSA Board of Directors, 2007–2008Kim Tanzer, RA, PresidentMarleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Vice PresidentTheodore C. Landsmark, M.Ev.D., JD, PhD, Past PresidentCarmina Sanchez-del-Valle, D.Arch, RA, SecretaryGraham Livesey, TreasurerPatricia Kucker, EC DirectorStephen White, AIA, NE DirectorKenneth Schwartz, FAIA, SE DirectorRussell Rudzinski, SW DirectorLoraine D. Fowlow, W DirectorKeelan Kaiser, AIA, WC DirectorGeorge Baird, Canadian DirectorTony Vanky, Associate AIA, Student DirectorMichael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director

ACSA Mission StatementTo advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty, and students. This support involves:

• Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline;• Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity;• Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education• Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance

This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society.

The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, Sep-tember through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0048. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

new acsa board members

All new ACSA board members will officially take office in July 2008.

SecretaryMitra Kanaani NewSchool of Architecture

Southwest DirectorUrsula Emery McClure Louisiana State University

Student DirectorDeana MooreUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

Vice-President/PresidentThomas Fisher University of Minnesota

West DirectorStephen Meder University of Hawaii at Manoa

Northeast DirectorBrian Kelly University of Maryland

2008 board elections

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naab to unveil online system to collect data, annual reportsby andrea rutledge

NAAB-Annual Report Submission (ARS) system will change everything about how accredited and candidate architecture programs and those overseas programs designated as substantially equivalent provide annual reports to the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Today, architecture programs know the NAAB Annual Report as “Appen-dix H”, two pages of tables and blanks that have to be filled in each year and sent to the NAAB along with a narrative that describes responses to the last Visiting Team Report and any changes to the program. Together these two documents represent what can be a frustrating exercise in in-formation gathering and analysis by program administrators and their as-sistants. By November 2008, as currently planned, the whole exercise will be (a) easier and (b) Web based.

In The Diversity Demographic Data Audit, commissioned by The American Institute of Architects and released in October 2005, the data collected annually by the NAAB were described by NAAB staff as “so unreliable that last year it did not analyze or report on the data it received from the schools.” The report went on to recommend

[that] NAAB require architecture schools, as a condition for re-newing their accreditation annually, to provide to NAAB reliable and verifiable information, similar to the information the schools currently maintain and provide to the U.S. Department of Educa-tion each year. We recommend that NAAB implement mandatory reporting and quality control measures whereby data reports sub-mitted to NAAB as part of the annual accreditation process must be approved (signified by seal or signature) by the office of the Registrar for the submitting college/university.

In 2006, the NAAB and ACSA began to identify both the common and dis-crete information needs of the two organizations. The two organizations are now building a database and the appropriate user interfaces for col-lecting and maintaining the information. In 2007, the NAAB completed an analysis of the information it was seeking: information that supported its core mission of accrediting U.S. architecture degree programs—informa-tion that was consistent, rigorous, verifiable, and comparable. To that end, the NAAB has decided to replace Appendix H with a Web-based question-naire that will have four sections.

Section I will capture statistical information on both the institution in which an architecture program is located and the program itself. For the purposes of this section, the definitions are taken from the glossary of terms used by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS is the “core postsecondary data collection program for the National Center for Education Statistics. Data are collected from all primary providers of postsecondary education in the [U.S.] in areas including enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty, staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid.” Much of the institutional information requested in Section I corresponds to

reports submitted to IPEDS in the fall. Thus the NAAB is proposing to move the deadline for architecture programs annual reports to a time after the relevant IPEDS reports are due. The information collected by NAAB in Section I is similar in type and scope to information col-lected on member institutions by the ACSA. The NAAB and ACSA have agreed to collect each data point only once and to share statistical and institutional data collected by both organizations. The ACSA uses this information to prepare and publish its online Guide to Architec-ture Schools; the NAAB will use the information to support accredita-tion activities and to provide relevant reports to other architectural, collateral organizations like The American Institute of Architects or the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Section II will include a file transfer option for submitting the sec-tion of the narrative report in which programs respond to causes for concern and not met conditions and criteria cited in the most recent Visiting Team Report. If a program had zero “not mets” in the most recent VTR or was “cleared of future reporting” in subsequent annual reports, no file transfer will be required.

Section III will include a file transfer option for submitting a narra-tive that describes significant changes to the program that may be of interest to subsequent visiting teams or to the NAAB. This section features a Yes/No option so that programs can indicate whether they have anything to report. In addition, this section will be linked to other questions in Section I for which a narrative may be required. (e.g., “Does your institution have plans to discontinue any of its NAAB-ac-credited degree programs? Yes or No.” A “yes” answer would trigger a reminder to upload a narrative report on this item in Section III.)

Finally, in Section IV, users can review their submissions, correct er-rors, complete sections they may have inadvertently left blank, and submit the completed annual report to the NAAB.

The Web based interface will provide help features and definitions. It will also be designed to let the end-user know when certain sections have been completed and whether required sections have been left blank. In addition, the interface will be dynamic so that the response to the ques-tion about which degrees a program offers will trigger the interface to re-quire a corresponding set of grids on student characteristics. For example, if an institution offers both a B. Arch. and an M. Arch., they will have to complete two grids for student characteristics. Likewise, if a program is located in a public college or university, they will have to provide infor-mation on in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees, whereas a private institution would not have to provide that information.

Finally, the system will provide reports and analysis based on information that is consistent, comparable, rigorous, and verifiable. Information can

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be reported in the aggregate by region or by type of institution. When the time comes to write an APR, the NAAB would provide past annual reports to programs showing graphic representation of changes over time. In addi-tion, programs could request annual reports or trend reports by contacting the NAAB.

The questionnaire that will form the basis for the interface has been devel-oped, vetted, and revised. A Web design firm has been identified to work with the NAAB to develop the database and the interface. At its February meeting, the NAAB Board will consider changing the date for the submis-sion of annual reports from a deadline of June 1 to an open reporting period of November 1-30. In order to move forward and to be sure we have the feedback of potential end-users, the NAAB is seeking a small group of programs that represent a variety of programs and institutions

(large, small, public, private, and so on) to serve as beta testers during the coming summer. From May until August, this group will be asked to test the interface, report problems, suggest solutions, and request modifications. We need architecture programs to tell us what works and what could be changed. If your program is interested, please contact me at arutledge@naab.org or call 202.783.2007.

The development and implementation of this new system is a big step for-ward for the NAAB and for architecture education. We believe that bringing the system online in 2008, as a companion to the work of the Accreditation Review Conference, represents a powerful opportunity to make deep, sys-temic, and significant change in the way information is collected, analyzed, and used. Eventually, it is hoped, that the information from NAAB-ARS can be compared to information captured by the other collaterals. Together, these data sets will provide the profession and the academy with a com-plete picture of the growth and development of the profession.

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2008 AcsA Admin istrAtors conference

november 6-8, 2008 savannah, georgiaCo-Chairsalan Plattus, Yale | CrYstal Weaver, sCadhost sChoolsavannah College of art and design

naab seeKs school participation in beta test of new data collection system

The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is seeking eight-to-ten programs with accredited degrees to be part of the beta testing team for the new annual report submission system. This is the new, automated system for submitting annual report to the NAAB currently under development and scheduled to launch in the fall.

The NAAB wants to be sure that the interface not only works the way it is intended to, but is also attractive, user-friendly, and loaded with the appropriate features and short-cuts. In order to be sure we integrate the comments and experience of potential end-users, the NAAB is seeking a group of programs that represent the variety of degrees offered and types of institutions (large, small, public, private, multiple-track degree programs, schools with two degree programs, and so on) to serve as beta testers during the coming summer. From May until August, this group will be asked to test the interface, report problems, suggest solutions, and request modifications. We have one volunteer already, and are looking for eight or nine more to tell us what works and what could be changed.

If your program is interested, please contact Andrea Rutledge at arutledge@naab.org or call 202.783.2007.

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Material is the matter-of-fact of architecture; it is the means of execution, a method of expression, and a major force of resistance. Opposed to paper or cardboard architecture - interested in removing the variable and agency of material, vaunting representation over construction - the architectural discipline today has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with issues of materiality.

Material Matters focuses on the pedagogy of material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. Beginning with material as a premise for architectural discourse, the conference will revolve around the design decisions and physical making that emerge from material interaction. This conference will confront the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications, re-applying typical processes of fabrication and methods of construction while engaging emerging techniques.The evolution of material sensibility demands a fundamental re-thinking, grounded in the analysis and design of material processes: their current applications and limitations.

Material Matters will confront issues of materiality in multiple forms: Design - formal and functional implications of building materials as process applications; Processes - fabrication, technology and making; Context - place and material vernacular; Precedent - case studies in material application and conceptual detailing of design; Theory - conceptual premise of making; Material Detail - piece and connection; Material Ecology & Sustainability; Pedagogy - the role of materiality in design education; Material Art, Media, and History

Keynote Speakers Include:

Nader Tehrani Lisa Iwamoto and Craig ScottOffice dA, Boston Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco

Tom Wiscombe Marcello Spina and Georgina HuljichEMERGENT, LA P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, LA

Conference Co-Chairs:

Gail Peter Borden, AIA Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Southern California

Michael MeredithAssociate Professor of ArchitectureHarvard Graduate School of Design

Submission Requirements:

Abstracts and Projects Due: June 15th, 2008Notifications: July 15th, 2008Final Papers Due: September 1, 2008

For detailed submission requirements, visit www.acsa-arch.org

2008 ACSA Fall ConferenceOctober 16-19, 2008The University of Southern California

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2008 ACSA/AIA teACherS SemInAr

June 19-22, 2008

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Co-ChAIrSStephen KieranKieranTimberlake Associates

James timberlakeKieranTimberlake Associates

max underwoodArizona State University

Architects tend to see most acts of design as unique – a flywheel of initial input uninformed by past results marginally informed by performative information. Site and program together give rise to circumstance. Circumstance inspires intention. Design organizes intention into instruction. Builders construct from what we instruct. And we all move on to the next set of circumstances and program, none the wiser. Architecture exists in a world where all we ever do is design and build prototypes, with little real reflection and informed improvement from one act of design to the next. The flywheel begins anew with different information, leading to different results but little change.

As educators of architects, we focus nearly all our efforts on the planning side of this flywheel. The bulk of our curriculum remains embedded in the nineteenth century design studio where we plan, and then we plan again, with little real growth in the quality and productivity of what we do, either artistically or technically. While an ever increasing number of schools have included the second part of the flywheel – constructing – in the curriculum, few schools of architecture teach research skills and fewer yet insist upon critical reflection and learning based upon research findings. And even fewer define, expect, furnish and share deep results from architectural research. This affects our students as they become practitioners into a rapidly changing professional world, where cross-

disciplinary collaboration, deep inquiry, integration, visualization and reflective making are the new norm.

Design innovation has become the Holy Grail in architecture: but how do we define innovation? How do we define research that supports innovation? What are the characteristics of innovation and what deep knowledge and information informs it? In modifying the flywheel, how do we embed reflection and learning into the process of making our architecture? How do we learn to ask the right questions and collect the measurable data that can improve our architecture? How do we provide architectural researchers with the deep skill set necessary to support performative architecture? What is that deep skill set? How do we make the leap from research in the academy to research in our professional offices? What is the economic model for affording deep architectural research in professional practice? How do we go about funding such research in the academy and in practice?

Deep Matters intends to delve deeply into this topic with the intention of developing research approaches, research models that the academy will begin to frame education around. Presentations of papers will inform breakout sessions of workshops to help develop a blueprint for deeply embedding research into our everyday lives as teachers and practitioners.

The themes around which Deep Matters will be organized are as follows:

1. Defining Architectural Research in the Academy and Practice. What is interesting and why?

2. The Emerging Methods of Research Innovation. What are the networks, collaborations, visualization opportunities, strategies and tactics?

3. Case Studies of Bleeding Edge and Innovative Applied Research. What are the acknowledged in depth current case studies of projects or groups which are redefining the integration of research into practice and education?

4. Open Submissions. What areas of research innovation outside of architecture might inform the way forward? What arenas within architecture might the first three categories not capture?

Deep MattersThe path to meaningful and provocative architectural research

portland, oregonmarch 26-29, 2009

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co-chairs

mark gillem, U. of oregon

Phoebe crisman, U. of virginia

design is at the core of what we teach and practice

the value of design97th acsa annual meeting

Recent cultural changes have placed archi-tects in a promising position to initiate positive change through design insight and proactive practice. Greater concern for the environment, the desire for a heightened sense of place and sensory experience, technological advances, the increasing importance of visual images in com-munication, and interdisciplinary collaborations all create favorable conditions for design inno-vation. As the disciplinary limits of architecture continue to expand, architects and architecture students are faced with the difficult and exhila-rating challenge of synthesizing complex issues and diverse knowledge through physical design across many scales.

By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more signifi-cant within society.

o What social value does design have for indi-vidual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have be-yond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What material and technical value does de-sign bring to the physical environment?o What pedagogical value does design educa-tion offer to other disciplines?o What are the ways in which design educa-tion can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?

These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meet-ing in Portland, Oregon. Portland is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Ar-chitects there have worked collaboratively with other professions to transform Portland into a vibrant, diverse, and livable city that highlights the multiple benefits of design. They have worked with transportation engineers to devel-op a comprehensive public transit system that focuses development in a predictable way. They have collaborated with landscape architects to ensure that public open space is a priority in the heart of the city and at its edges. They have teamed with urban designers, interior design-ers, and developers to create memorable set-tings and buildings that capture the spirit of the place.

Within this intellectual and physical context, we ask conference participants to consider the multiple values of design for our discipline, our profession, and our society.

thematic overview

Submissions Due: September 17, 2008

The following call for submissions is the result of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed pro-cess. The twenty-two topics below have been categorized into eight general topics that relate to the overall theme of the Annual Meeting. Full topic descriptions are available at:www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

call for PaPers

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC VALUE OF DESIGNThe “Social” Value Of Design Coleman A. Jordan, U. of MichiganWhat are the social values of design and what are the implications thereof? Social values of design address the power dynamics of our built environment, including “the social, political, and economic forces, embodied in the forms, processes, and manner in which buildings are used.” This session will include the milieu of praxis, theory, and academe and the “educa-tion of an architect.”

Architecture as a Vessel for ValuesKaren Cordes Spence, Drury U.In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, it is of merit to revisit Roland Barthes’ 1964 essay “The Eiffel Tower” to examine the link between architecture and social and cultural values. Barthes notes that the Parisian landmark is at once both empty and everything, accepting var-ious meanings assigned by a diversity of people over time. Looking not exclusively at the ar-chitecture or at its meanings, this session seeks out the play between: as architects, how do we understand the connection between built form and its significance? As studio critics, how do we discuss and teach this understanding?

More out of Less: The Value of Resourcefulness in DesignJenny E. Young and John Rowell, U. of OregonThis session invites papers to reflect on the de-sign for budget-challenged projects that have social significance and high community value. In projects for communities where resources are limited, what really matters? How do de-signers and teachers of design innovate where “less [can be] more?” How do they craft de-signs that are affordable? How do they use in-genuity and capability to make places of quality out of very little? How do they measure what elements in design have the most significant impact? Papers that address these themes and others that highlight exemplary projects that demonstrate the resourcefulness of designers are welcome.

research valUe of DesiGNThe Future of the Thesis Thomas Mical; Carleton UNana Last, Rice U. We wish to speculate on how the architectural thesis performs, or could perform, if it were to transform into something it has only occasion-ally accomplished ... as speculative critique, trans-disciplinary research, a purer questioning, technological innovation, or the exposure of that which has been often been hidden, sup-pressed, or absent from recent architectural thought. This panel is intended to include a broad range of articulated individual positions, possibly supported by case studies, to raise the question of epistemology - specifically: Under what new or urgent conditions can architec-tural knowledge or insights still be produced in a thesis? What is it that the best theses reveal that only emerges through thesis, and how can this be taught?

Exchanging Change: How University Re-search Centers Change And Are Changed By The Profession To The Benefit Of BothG.Z. Brown, U. of Oregon; Joel Loveland, U. of Washington; Judy Theodorson, Washington State U.; Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, U. of Idaho; Tom Wood, Montana State U.What are the benefits to knowledge develop-ment that result from linking academic re-search centers and professional offices. We welcome papers documenting: 1) case studies of building projects that have resulted in posi-tive changes to methods used by the university or professionals; 2) facilities and administra-tive structures that are catalyst for linkage; 3) innovations that resulted from collaboration between university and professionals in which changes played an important role; 4) activities from the profession whose outcome resulted in linkage to and changes in the academic center and activities from the academy that resulted in changes in the profession. We encourage pa-pers that are jointly authored by academics and practicing architects.

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE OF DESIGNHow Long Can You Tread Water?Sandy Stannard, Cal Poly State U. Ecological luminaries such as architect Ed Maz-ria have re-analyzed the statistics, revealing that architecture with all of its associated tech-nologies and materials consume nearly 50% of the energy generated in the United States. Giv-en this context, the aim of this session will be to explore how our creative work reflects upon, questions, and relates to the broader field of architecture in correspondence with the natu-ral environment. Given the energy consumption embodied in the production and operation of buildings, how are design studios and other architectural courses responding to contempo-rary environmental challenges, to calls for car-bon neutrality, and to the performance targets outlined by Architecture 2030? Papers are en-couraged to report on student or other projects that address the junction between the ecologi-cal and built environments.

Sustenance in Architecture: Making as Re-making Sheryl Boyle, Carleton U. Federica Goffi, Carleton U.In the contemporary western world there is a disjunction between ‘architecture’ and ‘conser-vation’. By redefining the meaning of sustain-ability as being derived from sustenance, we can reconsider our approach to this disjunction. The continuty of ideas embodied in exisitng building stock provides nourishment for archi-tecture. Rather than setting a dialectic oposi-tion of ‘new’ and ‘old’, architecture should be read as a palimpsest. This session aims to pro-voke speakers to reflect on the ‘sustenance’ of sustainability as a way of breaking the barrier between new and old, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.

URBAN VALUE OF DESIGNUrban by Design? The Value of Design in Urban Reconnaissance & RepairJosé L.S. Gámez, U. North Carolina—CharlotteSusan Rogers, U. of HoustonIn 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in cities; by late 2007, that proportion had grown to over 50%. With this concentration, we have witnessed a flattening of the physi-cal city with the simultaneous production of a radically uneven social and economic land-scape. This has resulted in a “semi-urbanized” landscape shaped by global capital and lacking in experiential, tactile and visual qualities. This session seeks proposals that investigate emer-gent spatial practices, tactical occupations and/or appropriations that refocus our atten-tion on the social value of space and provide new models for urban and suburban reinven-tion and repair.

The Question of Design in Affordable HousingWilliam Williams, U. of VirginiaIn affordable housing, there is little consider-ation given to design choices outside of eco-nomic concerns. Unfortunately, these choices are often limited to making housing more af-fordable without considering how to making affordable housing more livable. Prefabrica-tion, material choices, and plan efficiencies have all been used as strategies to cut cost, but what are the strategies available to designers to create value beyond utility. This session will explore the role of design in affordable hous-ing as it relates to challenging contemporary notions of aesthetic value.

sUbmissioN reqUiremeNtsAll papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers.

Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. An author can present no more than two papers at the An-nual Meeting. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools or become supporting ACSA mem-bers at the time of paper submission.

Papers submissions (1) must report on re-cently completed work, (2) cannot have been previously published or presented in public except to a regional audience, and (3) must be written in English. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, ex-cluding the abstract and endnotes.

sUbmissioN ProcessThe deadline for submitting a paper to a session for the Annual Meeting is Septem-ber 17, 2008. Authors will submit papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your paper, you will be guided with the Web interface, through the follow-ing steps.1. Log in with your ACSA username and password.2. Enter the title of your paper.3. Select the Session Topic for your submis-sion.4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any. (Note all authors must be current members of ACSA.)5. Upload your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines.* Omit all author names from the paper and any other identifying information to main-tain an anonymous review process.* Do not include an abstract in the file.* Use the template provided on the website to format your paper. * Use endnotes or a reference list in the pa-per. Footnotes should NOT be included.* No more than five images may be used in the paper. Images (low resolution) and cap-tions should be embedded in the paper. 6. Download the copyright transfer form.7. Click Submit to finalize your submis-sion. Note: Your paper is not submitted un-less you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

aesthetic & rePreseNtatioNal valUe of DesiGNCollage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture Sanda Iliescu, U. of VirginiaCollages kindle in us a sense of hope. Some-thing that was simply garbage has been lifted out, repaired, and accorded new aesthetic val-ue. This salvage speaks as a story of survival, a sign that things, and by analogy we ourselves, may withstand difficulties and be renewed. Not unlike a collage fragment, a building is an inser-tion into a pre-existing fabric. Global warming, poverty, and decay now threaten architecture’s pre-existing fabric. As our cities are filled with unsightly and dangerous junk, might the poet-ics of collage begin to bridge aesthetics and ethics—“good form” and form that contrib-utes to the common good? This session invites papers that examine collage in architecture and/or art, whether theoretical, historical, or from an author’s own practice or teaching.

The Architectural Model between Material and IdeaMatthew Mindrup, Carleton U.Paul Emmons, Virginia TechOver the millennia, physical models continu-ally serve as important tools for the architect to study and communicate a design in three-dimensions. However, the historical experi-mentation with different modeling materials, methods, and interpretations has also shown their ability to play a role in design by instigat-ing and demonstrating new architectural con-ceptions. As a counterbalance to naïve realism in modeling, this session invites papers that examine the value of physical models in both physical and virtual design practices as a gen-erative tool to aid the imagination of new ar-chitectural ideas that synthesize the complexi-ties of program, new building technologies and the sensory experiences of place.

Emerging Technologies: The Ethics of Digi-tal DesignJason Oliver Vollen, U. of ArizonaBradley Horn, City College of New YorkThe current dialogues of scholars and prac-titioners seem to focus on computational de-sign and fabrication as either a practical or an aesthetic concern. On one end of the spectrum new technologies are framed as the only means by which to solve the world’s ecological crisis; on the other they are celebrated as vehicles of formal expression. This panel begins with the premise that in order to find value in emerg-ing digital practices we must consider the ethi-cal. The goal for this session is to discuss the development of an ethic that will allow us to re-examine the complex relationship between digital design, material, and the world at large.

material & techNical valUe of DesiGNDesign Abstraction and Building Construction Jonathan Ochshorn, Cornell U.Examining the conceptualization and produc-tion of architecture from Vitruvius to the pres-ent time, one notices a qualitative shift in both the meaning and ramifications of abstraction in relation to functional elements that com-prise works of architecture. This session intends to initiate an exploration of the relationships between design abstraction and building con-struction. Specific issues of interest include: [1] History and theory of abstraction in archi-tectural design [2] Abstraction and the reality of construction: problem or opportunity? [3] Teaching design abstraction in relation to con-struction [4] Reducing building envelope failure through applications of reliability theory, BIM and other means.

Teaching Technology as DesignUlrich Dangel, U. of Texas at AustinThis session will look at the relationship be-tween design and technology teaching from a pragmatic and creative perspective, with a par-ticular focus on the social, cultural, educational, and curricular aspects that have to be consid-ered by technology teachers in response to the current situation at our schools. By re-thinking present-day conventions, it will explore how new and innovative approaches can aid in the development of comprehensive educational strategies, the establishment of deeply inte-grated curricula, and ultimately the possible reshaping of the educational experience for future architects in the United States.

Material and the Making of ArchitectureGail Peter Borden, U. of Southern CaliforniaMaterials are the matter that makes architec-ture. It is the means of execution, a major force of resistance, and means of expression. The architectural discipline has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with materiality. This session focuses on mate-rial exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. The discussion will focus on materiality and its associated design decisions. Confronting the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applica-tions and re-applying them to challenge emerg-ing techniques, it considers materiality, its pro-duction/fabrication processes, and the process of synthesizing material and design methodol-ogy to generate a material architecture.

Indeterminacy: Design-build as Reflection-in-ActionJohn Comazzi, U. of MinnesotaThis session seeks papers and presentations de-tailing the effective execution of design-build practices in promoting what Donald Schön refers to as reflection-in-action. Through de-sign-build programs, many schools have pro-duced shifts in their curricular structures while recalibrating conventional forms of student interaction within collaborative learning envi-ronments. Working across multiple disciplines while utilizing a range of fabrication methods, these programs have established new peda-gogical imperatives that sponsor projective approaches to practice, industry and education. By embracing a broad range of exemplary work this session seeks to contextualize and prob-lematize design-build practices in providing frameworks for the critique of their successes and shortcomings.

methoDoloGical valUe of DesiGNWhat is Design Thinking?Thomas Fisher, U. of MinnesotaFor the design community to convey the value of what we do, we need to have a much clearer idea of what constitutes design thinking and how it differs from other modes of thought. Ar-chitecture, as a discipline, has tended to mystify the thought process of its major practitioners, viewing their thinking as something to imitate rather than analyze and critique apart from the designs they produce. This session seeks papers that explore this, evaluating the ways in which designers think, comparing it to other modes of inquiry, and/or defining what makes our mode of thinking, in fact, exceptional.

Group Effort - Successful Collaborative DesignJeff Schnabel, Portland State U.The academic studio frequently supports a cul-ture of individual achievement through solitary investigations. Arguably this model fails to pre-pare students with many of the skills they will need to navigate a professional design process that from beginning to end requires working with others. This session seeks to review and reveal strategies for working collaboratively in the academic studio where design ideas emerge that are richer and more valuable than solutions created by individual effort. Papers are encouraged which illustrate processes and products from academic and professional set-tings which heighten solutions through a group design process.

PeDaGoGical valUe of DesiGNPedagogies of Study Abroad Heinrich Schnoedt, Virginia TechStudy abroad programs have been regarded as seminal to the complete education of an archi-tect for centuries. To understand more clearly the importance and impact of such programs in today’s architecture curricula, this session chal-lenges contributors to critically assess success-ful curricular models, their didactic approaches, and the modes by which success becomes evi-dent. It further seeks to clarify the future role of study abroad programs and their possible contribution toward comprehending culture in local and global environments.

The Doctor in the Studio: Ph.D.’s and Design PedagogyKimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U.With the increased popularity of Ph.D. programs in architecture, it is more common for faculty to have a professional degree and a Ph.D. without a professional license. Yet as departments look to define themselves in relation to the profes-sion, the licensing boards, and their students, these faculty can be pushed to the margins of discussions about design pedagogy and curric-ulum development. Conflicts can arise between educators who come to teaching from practice and those who stayed in academia. This panel invites papers which explore the challenges, questions, and rewards that result from the en-gagement of Ph.D.’s with studio curricula.

Architectural History and the Design Studio Vandana Baweja, U. of Michigan This panel addresses the question: What peda-gogical value does design education offer to architectural history? Papers that present stu-dio projects with an analysis of the discursive impact of studio education on architectural history are invited. The objective of the session is not just to present case studies, but also to draw metacognitive conclusions on how archi-tectural history and the design studio can be imagined intertextually. We invite papers that focus on: bridging the disciplinary divide be-tween architectural history and the design stu-dio, cutting across the textual/visual production and consumption of knowledge, and research methods in the history oriented design studio.

Design Curriculum DesignMichael Peters, Texas Tech U.An examination of how design curriculums are structured can inform a discussion of the na-ture of architectural education in the coming decades. Primary concerns of any design cur-riculum include: 1) How we can better prepare students to visualize design and respond to the environment; 2) How are new and emerging technologies, such as digital design and repre-sentation, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrated into the curriculum; 3) How should design schools engage the profession, and; 4) How should a design education begin and how should it end. In short, this session examines how we will prepare students for the evolving field of architecture and the future of practice.

oPeN sessioNACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into one of the above topics.

PaPer PreseNtatioNAll submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official accep-tance is made by the session topic chairs. Selection is based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the discipline of architec-ture, and relevance to the session topic. All authors will be notified of the status of their paper and will receive comments from their reviewers.

Accepted authors will be required to com-plete a copyright transfer form and agree to present the paper at the Annual Meeting before it is published in the proceedings.

Each session will have a moderator, normal-ly the topic chair. Session moderators will notify authors in advance of session guide-lines as well as the general expectations for the session. Moderators reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines. Failure to comply with the con-ference deadlines or with a moderator’s re-quest for materials in advance may result in an author being dropped from the program, even though his or her name may appear in the program book.

In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation are required to register for the Annual Meeting.

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April—Call for Papers announced

July 16—Paper submission site opens

September 17—Paper submission deadline

October 27—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments. Accepted authors revise/pprepare papers for publication

December 3—Final revised papers and copyright forms due

January 14—Paper presenter registration deadline

Contact Mary Lou Baily, conferences manager, with questions about paper submissions (mlbaily@acsa-arch.org, 202.785.2324 x2).

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IMMATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTUREJournal of Architectural Education Call for SubmissionsTheme Editors: Julio Bermudez, University of Utah (bermudez@arch.utah.edu) Thomas Barrie, North Carolina State University (tom_barrie@ncsu.edu)

New materials, building systems, construction techniques, global practices, in addition to digi-tally generated designs, representations, and fabrication technologies, have gained privileged positions of late in architectural theory, peda-gogy, and practice. The focus has shifted towards the quantitative and measurable, away from more intangible albeit fundamental aspects of architectural production. The resulting bifurca-tion of the material and the immaterial calls for a reconsideration of the qualitative, ineffable, numinous, and immeasurable in architectural production. This theme issue provides opportuni-ties for educators, researchers, and practitioners to broaden the scope of contemporary discourse, confront current academic and professional pre-sumptions, and contribute to alternative histo-ries, theories, critiques, and practices of our nu-anced discipline.

Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representa-tional methods have their own histories of exam-ining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experi-

mental, comparative, and analytical tools to in-terpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity for contributors to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories.

What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can today’s representational media emu-late the ineffable? How can we distinguish be-tween the numinous and the merely luminous? Will new developments in the sciences, psycholo-gy, and philosophy bring new insights to the ques-tion of the immaterial in our increasingly mate-rial culture? The editors seek critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly imma-terial. The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholar-ship) inquiries of historical and contemporary is-sues regarding immateriality.

All submissions must be received Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5 pm U.S. Eastern Time. Premiated design and text-based submissions will be pub-lished in Volume 62, Number 2, in the November 2008 issue of the JAE. Please consult the JAE website for submission guidelines and other use-ful information at (www.jaeonline.org/) or visit (faculty.arch.utah.edu/jae/).

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The development of the architect-practitioner has long been recognized as an elaborative and continuous course of study. For a majority of practitioners the formal foundation of professional architectural practice, as taught in most schools, often sets the trajectory for their work as practitioners supported by professional organizations. Yet many who received the same formal education develop “alternative practices” outside the received conventions or boundaries of the profession. These alternative practices are not intentionally oppositional to convention, but rather practical evolutions.

These new and emerging practices are valuable because they recognize the need to respond to the actualized world, in all its complexities, in a more nuanced manner than is typically offered within the strictures of conventional practice. They most often evolve from observing, interpret-ing, gauging, and re-tooling new and interconnected conditions within the context of the established parameters of environment, society, economy, geo-political conditions, traditional and emerging technologies, and materiality.

Choosing not to limit explorations and responses to conventional spatial tectonics or institutional dynamics, the work produced under the broad heading of “alternative” may be altogether unique and/or seemingly unprecedented explorations – virtual or physical – crossing and integrating disciplinary and technological boundaries.

The loosely associated practitioners of alternative practices cast their conceptions broadly across evolving realities, producing elaborative discourses, programmatic mutations, material operations, ephemeral environments, metaphysical proclivities, reconfigured assumptions of place, and the virtual unfolding of the perceptible world.

Often, this work goes unrecognized as it is defies simple categorization. It is not effaced by accepted disciplinary boundaries and consequently, the work is typically not represented in conventional architectural publications. Yet the evolution of conventions, norms, and the diminution of disciplinary boundaries are precisely the conditions that these practices take up and encourage. For them, the complex reality of contemporary cultures is not a problem to be solved, but rather an opportunity to explore transfor-mative assumptions and perceptions of architectural production.

The theme editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) submissions that critically consider the myriad practices that engage in such alternative notions of architecture. Deadline for all submissions is 5 pm EST, September 01, 2008.

ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURES | ALTERNATIVE PRACTICEJournal of Architectural Education Call for SubmissionsTheme Editors: Lori Ryker, Executive Director, Artemis Institute Michael Flowers and Judson Moore, farm architecture and research

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INTRODUCTIONThe Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the seventh annual steel design student competition for the 2007-2008 academic year. Administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Con-struction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working in-dividually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

CATEGORY IAssembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing because it offers the greatest strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time.

CATEGORY IIOpen. The ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a greatest amount of flexibility with the context.

SCHEDULE Registration Begins December 5, 2007Registration Deadline February 8, 2008Submission Deadline May 28, 2008Winners Announced June 2008Publication of Summary Book Summer 2008

AWARDSWinning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2008, to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org) and the AISC website (www.aisc.org).

SPONSORThe American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chi-cago, is a nonprofit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction in-dustry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel–related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardiza-tion, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.

INFORMATION Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should be addressed to:

Eric W. EllisAISC CompetitionAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006

tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) fax: 202.628.0448 email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.

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assembling housingstudent design competition

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INTRODUCTIONAir travel is undergoing unprecedented change due to evolving security imperatives, technological developments, and sharply increasing demand. In recognition of the formidable challenge of securing the nation’s aviation facilities against deliberate attack, the architectural community should antici-pate the permanent requirement to design airports (if not all transportation facilities) with security in mind.

Major changes to airline operations, passenger expectations, and aviation security over the past 30 years, along with the aging terminal buildings, make it necessary for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to explore de-signs for a major terminal re-life.

Designs for the re-life of DFW Terminal A should focus on:• Accommodating current and emerging security requirements• Converting its 1970’s architecture into 21st century statements• Incorporating sustainable design• Incorporating the airport’s new train system, SkyLink• Optimizing operational efficiencies• Including space for concessions

DFW Airport opened in 1975 as a regional airport. Today, DFW is a major international gateway serving over 55 million passengers annually, with 70% of passengers connecting. DFW is a major hub for the nation’s largest airline, American Airlines.

This competition will focus on DFW Airport Terminal A. Originally built in 1975, DFW Terminal A has 1,000,000 square feet, and serves domestic flights on two stories, with a two level roadway system, 30 gates, and offices for American Airlines’ domestic operations.

SPONSORSSponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate–Transportation Security Laboratory

Supporting Sponsors: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) /American Airlines (AA) / Corgan Associates, Inc.

Administrator: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

SCHEDULE Registration September 2007 to February 8, 2008Mid-project Review December 7, 2007Questions Deadline March 1, 2008Answers Posted March 15, 2008Submission Deadline June 4, 2008Winners Announced June 2008Summary Book Summer 2008

AWARDSA total of $70,000 will be awarded for the competition, distributed as fol-lows:

Mid-Project Review: 5 awards of $2,000 ($1,500 for student/team, $500 for faculty sponsor)

Final Prize:First Place Student/Team $20,000 Faculty Sponsor $8,000

Second Place Student/Team $10,000 Faculty Sponsor $4,000

Third Place Student/Team $6,000 Faculty Sponsor $2,000 Honorable Mention: $10,000 total, made at jury’s discretion.

INFORMATIONDirect questions about the program and submissions to:

Eric W. Ellis / DFW Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006

tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

DownloaD the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. registration is online.

NEW VISIONS OF SECURIT Y:RE-LIFE OF A DF W AIRPORT TERMINAL2007-08 ACSA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security Student Design Competition

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In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students are challenged to investigate innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives. The competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility.

Category I – Recycling CenterDesign an environmentally responsible recycling center focused on reusing today’s materials to preserve tomorrow’s resources.

Category II – Building ElementDesign a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.

Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” submission boards and a design essay.

Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive prizes totaling nearly $50,000.

Registration Begins Dec 05 2007Registration Deadline Feb 08 2008Submission Deadline May 14 2008Results Jun 2008

For additional competition information, visit www.acsa-arch.org. For a complete guide to concrete solutions for sustainable design, visit www..ConcreteThinker.com.

Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

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kENT STATE UNIVERSITY

The College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) announces the appointment of Professor James Dalton as Interim Dean, As-sociate Professor Maurizio Sabini as Associate Dean, Assistant Professor Diane Davis-Sikora as Associate Dean for Architecture, and Associ-ate Professor Pamela Evans as Associate Dean for Interior Design.

Adjunct Professor Beth Bilek-Golias has been appointed Coordinator of the new Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program.

Adjunct Professor Gary Balog has been elected to the AIA College of Fellows.

Adjunct Professor Paola Giaconia presented her most recent book Eric Owen Moss: The Uncertainty of Doing (Skira, Milan 2006) at the MAXXI (Museum for Contemporary Art) in Rome, Italy, in November 2007. Prof. Giaconia has more recently edited: S(E)OUL SCAPE. To-wards a New Urbanity in Korea, episode pub-lishers, 2008 (exhibition catalogue, SESV gal-lery, Florence, January-February 2008).

The professional work of Adjunct Professor Filippo Caprioglio has been recently featured in: Giovanni Caprioglio: Space & Context. Re-cent Architectures (1997-2007), with Dario Vat-ta & Filippo Caprioglio, with a text by Thomas Schumacher.

“Metrogramma”, the firm of Adjunct Profes-sor Alberto Francini, has been appointed to lead the team of experts for the new master plan of Milan. The firm is among the finalists of two major international competitions: the redevelopment of the Santa Chiara area in Pisa and the new facilities for the new railway sta-tion in Bologna. The work of the firm, awarded last year with the international Iakov Chernikov Prize “Challenge of the Time”, has been re-cently featured on Domus (September 2007) and Abitare (February 2008).

LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., has been awarded a $5,000 Franklin Research

Grant from the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Gyure is conducting research for a book on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida.

Associate Professor Joongsub kim, PhD, AIA, AICP has received a research grant award from the Graham Foundation in Spring 2008. The

grant will support his research on the search for national identity in architecture and urban design in Korea and other countries. Urban design students at the Detroit Studio, a com-munity outreach program directed by Dr. Kim, presented their urban design recommendation to the City of Inkster Tax Increment Finance Authority (TIFA) and City Council in December

Pinch House: Model Interior Student : Kevin Leciejewski Fallingwater Visiting Artist Activity Center Prototypical Housing; ARC 401 Fallingwater Honors StudioMiami University Department of Architecture and Interior Design Fall 2007; Instructor; John M. Reynolds

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2007. The public presentation was held at the City Hall in Inkster, Michigan. This project is funded by the City of Inkster/TIFA. Also Dr. Kim participated in the University of Michigan an-nual design charrette as a co-team leader. The 10th annual charrette was held in the City of Troy, Michigan in January 2008.

MIAMI UNIVERSITY

James Lentini has been named Dean, School of Fine Arts. A Detroit native, Dr. Lentini is rec-ognized for performances of his compositions worldwide. In addition to composing, Dr. Len-tini is a performing guitarist. He received a doctorate from the University of Southern Cali-fornia. In 2003, Dr. Lentini was appointed as the founding Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Music at The College of New Jersey. Previ-ously, Dr. Lentini held the position of Professor of Composition at Wayne State University from 1988- 2003, where he also served as Acting Chair and Associate Chair of the Department of Music.

John Weigand has been named Chair of the De-partment. John earned architectural degrees at Miami and at the University of Illinois (M.Arch), and worked professionally in Chicago from 1980 to 1991, prior to teaching. At Miami, John developed the BFA in Interior Design (1995) and continues involvement in national interior

architecture initiatives. He is a current member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Board of Directors, has served on the IIDA Stra-tegic Planning Committee, co-chaired the 2003 Body of Knowledge Conference in Washington DC, and has participated in numerous national programs addressing collaborative design edu-cation and practice. Weigand is co-author, with Peg Faimon, of The Nature of Design, a book about design fundamentals. In 2001, he was awarded the NCARB Prize for creative integra-tion of practice and education in the academy, for his work with collaborative, internet-based design.

Ben Jacks was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. He also pub-lished “Walking and Reading in Landscape,” in Landscape Journal, Fall, 2007.

Assistant Professor Mary Ben Bonham joined the Department of Architecture and Interior Design to teach design and environmental technology. Bonham, a registered Architect (Kentucky) and LEED Accredited Professional, comes to Miami from Cambridge, Massachu-setts where she practiced with Prellwitz Chilin-ski Associates from 1995 to 2007 on a wide ar-ray of academic, retail, and residential projects. She is former adjunct faculty with the Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology, and is a graduate of the Univer-

sity of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas, Austin.

Assistant Professor John Humphries joined the Department of Architecture and Interior De-sign to lead the graphics curriculum and teach foundation courses. Humphries received his Master of Architecture from the University of Texas, Arlington.

Visiting Professor Erika Mühlthaler joined the department for the Spring term. For the past seven years Prof. Mühlthaler has been an assis-tant professor in the Department of Construc-tion and Design at the Technical University in Berlin, after having also taught at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She graduated from the TU Berlin and received a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture from the ETH/Zürich. In 2006, she organized the exhibi-tion “Lehrnen von O.M. Ungers” that explored Ungers’ teaching at the TU before his appoint-ment to Cornell.

Summer programs have been expanded to in-clude studios and workshops in Turkey, China, and New Mexico, in addition to offerings in Cincinnati (Over-the-Rhine), London, Italy, and Ghana.

Assistant Professor Anna Sokolina lectured on Russian war memorials in May, at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; in October, at the Annual Symposium of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (Virginia Tech). She will speak at New York University in March.

Assistant Professor Diane Fellows recently completed two short films, “the Alley” and “TopoNarratives 1-4.” Using a non-linear nar-rative structure, live action and mixed-media, the films explore the transformation of the per-sonal story of immigration and refuge to the perception and construction of private and pub-lic place and space. “the Alley” won a Finalist Certificate in the New York Festivals Awards, 2008 in the Short Films: Historical category. The NYF is in its 51st year of honoring excellence in international work in Advertising, TV and Radio Broadcast, International Film and Video in edu-cational, industrial, commercial, corporate, and Independent Film and Video productions.

Pinch House: Model Exterior Student : Kevin Leciejewski Fallingwater Visiting Artist Activity Center Prototypical Housing; ARC 401 Fallingwater Honors StudioMiami University Department of Architecture and Interior Design Fall 2007; Instructor; John M. Reynolds

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Associate Professor Ronald Ramsay recently produced the Agincourt Exhibit at the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota. The exhibit, embodying the typical story of the “American town,” chronicled the development of the imaginary town of Agincourt, Iowa, and included contributions from sixty people, in-cluding Ramsay’s students, NDSU architecture faculty and alumni, and local musicians.

Associate Professor Regin Schwaen, in collabo-ration with architectural photographer Meghan Duda, won in January 2008 an “Art & Archi-tecture Award for Best Lighted Structure” in a Fargo design competition. The two submitted a proposal for a transparent “light-pyramid” and were locally published for their achievement.

Assistant Professor Bakr Aly-Ahmed recently introduced a pedagogical innovation within his structures course in the interest of integrating mathematical and conceptual experience in a single learning model. His students employed a new graphical method of calculating shear and moment magnitudes by means of laser-cut templates without recourse to complex formulas. The laser cutter also facilitated the structures students’ production of large-scale models, which together with associated draw-ing sheets and calculation notes, were recently presented in a public exhibition.

Assistant Professor Mike Christenson recently presented his ongoing research work in a paper titled “The architecture school building structur-ing perception of the city” at the ACSA Central Regional Conference at the University of Water-

loo in Cambridge, Ontario, and also in a paper titled “Stewardship and mediating artifacts: For-warding the incomplete” at the ACSA Southeast Regional Conference in Washington, DC.

As a part of NDSU’s contribution to the “Focus the Nation” 2030 Initiative, Assistant Professor David Crutchfield recently presented some of his developments relating to his work on “A Critical Sustainable Design” and “Greenwash in Architecture.” His presentation was entitled “Moving Beyond Me: Empowering the Green Consumer.” Separately, he presented on “The Green Imperative: Why People Choose Green” with a subsequent discussion on individual, so-cietal, and designer motivations in sustainable architecture. He is also currently consulting and contributing to the development of a forthcom-ing regional “Green Expo.”

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

The Taubman College at the University of Michigan is hosting three visiting professors this term. The 2008 Eliel Saarinen Professor is Coy Howard of Los Angeles. The Colin Clipson Visiting Fellow and Charles Moore Visiting Professor are jointly held by Doug Graf from Ohio State University; and the Sojourner Truth Fellow is Patrick Rhodes, founder and executive director of Project Locus, a nonprofit corporation that addresses underserved communities through architecture, planning and urban design.

This year’s lecture series includes eight presentations on the theme of diversity in our schools and profession. Fall semester featured Majora Carter from the Sustainable South Bronx; Teddy Cruz from San Diego/Tijuana and Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald from Studio SUMO, NYC. This Winter semester, Milton Curry from OrbitMCAdesignstudio/Cornell University;

Mimi Hoang from nArchitects, and Kadambari Baxi from imageMachine are included in the series.

Last Fall the Architecture Program was host to the international workshop - Borderlands - coordinated by Assistant Professor Gretchen Wilkins and in partnership with Tohoku Uni-versity, Miyagi University, Tohoku Institute of Technology (all from Sendai, Japan); the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia; the Ecole Nationale Supéri-eure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM) in France; and the Universtitat Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain. Sponsored an-nually by one of the participating universities, the 2007 workshop investigated a site in south-west area of Detroit bounded by West Grand Boulevard, Rosa Parks Boulevard, the Detroit River and Michigan Avenue.

This January the college hosted its 10th annual Design Charrette, focused on transit-oriented development (TOD) that concentrated compact, mixed-use development in walking distance of a proposed rail and bus transit station between

Birmingham’s walkabe downtown and Troy’s auto-oriented Big Beaver corridor. Over 50 graduate students worked for four days in four teams led by 15 visiting and local professionals and faculty.

And the Doctoral Program in Architecture is holding 3 symposiums this semester, with the visits of Werner Sobek from Stuttgart, Jonathan Hill from the Bartlett School in London and Re-inhold Martin from Columbia University, who will give a public lecture and hold a seminar with PhD and MSc students.

In addition, the faculty and students at the TCAUP are organizing an interdisciplinary grad-uate student conference on international met-ropolitan expansion, entitled “Global Suburbs,” to be held in Ann Arbor, March 7-8, 2008. It will bring together students and research scholars from various disciplines, both within and out-side of the University of Michigan, to share recent research and emerging perspectives on suburbanization the world over. More informa-tion at: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/globalsub-urbs/home.

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NDSU Architecture students Sarah Hooge and Nakina Wegman are the recipients of the first annual KKE Vision Award, presented in Octo-ber by the KKE Charitable Foundation and the NDSU Development Foundation. The 2007-08 award competition required students to build a one-meter-long model on an axis that evolved from solid to void.

Jenny Grasto, an NDSU architecture graduate, is the new Architecture/Landscape Architecture Library Associate.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

2 graduate student teams enrolled in Assistant Professor Marc Swackhamer’s Biomimet-

ics Seminar were each awarded an AIA COTE (Committee on the Environment Award) for their work in the course. Their projects will be on display around the country at a number of AIA conferences this year.

DRAPE Wall, a project by Marc Swackhamer and partner Blair Satterfield, was included in Blaine Brownell’s new book, Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, published by Princeton Architec-tural Press this year.

Marc Swackamer and Blair Satterfield present-ed a lecture on their design work (slvDESIGN) as part of Rice University’s School of Architec-ture 2008 Spring Lecture Series.

Assistant Professor Ozayr Saloojee is co-orga-nizing a symposium at entitled “Sacred Sights | Sacred Sites: Architecture, Ethics and Spiritual Geographies.” The symposium will be held from April 4th to April 6th, 2008 at the School of Architecture, and is paralleled with a pho-tographic and artistic exhibition exploring the local and global religious architecture. Con-firmed speakers include Professor Daniel Ber-trand-Monk (George R. and Myra T. Cooley Pro-fessor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colage University, and currently a Fellow at the Wood-row Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.) and Professor Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Senior Lecturer, Technion, Israel, and Visiting Fellow at the Frankel Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan).

Renee Cheng was one of three speakers at the Symposium on Integrated Practice and Architectural Education, hosted at Auburn in February. Other speakers were representatives from Mortenson Construction and Mophosis Architects.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUkEE

AIAS Forum 2007: Architecture in Motion was, by all accounts, hugely successful. Joey Law-ton, Assoc. AIA, and SARUP graduate, chaired the four-day event organized by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chapter of the Ameri-can Institute of Architecture Students. Approxi-mately 850 people attended the conference which offered educational programs, work-shops, job and school fairs, as well as numerous regional and city tours.

In tours of another kind and place, Assistant Professor Manu Sobti led undergraduate and graduate architecture students on a trip to In-dia where they visited, among other cites, New Delhi, Agra, and Ahmedabad. Under the rubric: Critical Mapping of the Built Environment, stu-dents collaborated on urban analysis projects of several Indian sites with their peers from the Ahmedabad School of Architecture. This trip was made in conjunction with a new design studio offered this spring by Professor Sobti titled: Studies in Urban and Community Design Theory: The Urban Artifact and Historical Layers.

Architecture Students in Motion, AIAS FORUM 2007, Milwaukee Courtesy of AIAS

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that UWM will be one of 20 universities selected from an international competition to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. SARUP Assistant Professor Greg Thomson, with Assistant Pro-fessor Chris Cornelius (Architecture), Assistant Professor Yaoyu Li (Mechanical Engineering), and Assistant Professor Abdolhosein Nasiri (Electrical Engineering) submitted the winning proposal and will head an interdisciplinary team that will design and build an 800 square foot house powered entirely by solar energy.

Professor Harry Van Oudenallen was awarded a Commendation for his Eco Board Walk entry for the Portland Courtyard Housing Competition, Eastern Portland Infill Category. The competition sought affordable, environmentally sustainable courtyard housing that created a pedestrian-friendly, family-oriented neighborhood.

Assistant Adjunct Professor Matt Jarosz’s Com-petition Studio has, once again, produced win-ning competition entries. Students in this studio have recently garnered awards in the 2007 AIAS/Kawneer Pediatric Rehabilitation Center Compe-tition and AIAS/vinyl Institute Competition. Now undergraduates Dan Makouske and Ryan Meng-he’s entry: “Adaptable Arts,” has been selected as one of three finalists in the United States In-stitute for Theatre and Technology Architectural Commission 2008 “Ideal Theatre” Student Com-petition. Makouske and Menghe will present their design at the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Houston on March 21 where a first place winner will be selected.

Associate Professor Grace La led an integrated practice studio this past fall entitled, “Audito-ria Redux: A Study in Material, Form, and Ex-perience.” The studio, which focused on the evolution of civic gathering spaces and their associated techonologies, was funded by the international furniture company, KI. Prof. La also delivered the keynote address to KI’s inter-national furniture meeting in February, entitled, “Architecture in an Era of Change.” The lecture illuminated the studio’s research, theorized about architecture trends and tools, and dis-seminated the work of La Dallman Architects as a mode of design research and praxis.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Dean Bruce Lindsey, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration, was the chair of the ACSA Faculty Design awards and will moderate a session at the upcoming ACSA Annual Meeting.

Associate professor Eric Mumford, PhD, published an article, “National Defense Migration and the transformations of American urbanism, 1940-1942” in the February issue of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Peter Mackeith, associate dean and associate professor of architecture, and Michael Repovich, lecturer in architecture, have received a one year, $15,000 Washington University I-CARES grant (International Center for Advanced Research in Energy and Sustainability) for research on “Zero-Energy, High-Performance Building Standards,” a series of case studies in building design specifically directed at sustainable and net-zero energy campus building design. MacKeith’s essay, “Designed Education,” on the new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts buildings designed by Fumihiko Maki, will appear in an April 2008 special issue of Japan Architect.

Assistant professor Igor Marjanovic coordi-nated a symposium “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness,” which took place on March 6, 2008. The symposium brought to-gether speakers whose creative and scholarly work intersects with race and identity, provid-ing an opportunity for critical reflection on the role that race plays in the creation and inter-pretation of art and architecture. The speakers included architects Craig Barton, Yolande Dan-iels, and Darell Fields; artists Willie Cole and Radcliffe Bailey; and, art historians Kymberly Pinder, Krista Thompson, and Hamza Walker.

Assistant professor Heather Woofter received a $10,000 research grant for her work on the Metabolic City, which will culminate with an exhibition at the Mildred Kemper Lane Art Museum at Washington University in St Louis in October 2009. The grant was awarded by The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St Louis.

Lecturer Ian Caine participated as a juror for the AIA Design Awards / Mid-Missouri Region in December 2007, selecting one honor and two merit awards for the region.

Lecturer Derek Hoeferlin serves on the CITYbuild Member Council. The CITYbuild Consortium of Schools was awarded the 2007-2008 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award.

Donald N. koster III, AIA, LEED AP, visiting assistant professor and Weese Fellow was awarded a $ 2,500.00 Faculty Innovation Grant for service learning by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis. The grant was written to support on-going community collaboration in the Ville Neighborhood of St. Louis through the course Community Development in the Ville: Community Supported Agriculture.

Lecturer Gay Lorberbaum received a $2,500 grant from the Gephardt Institute of Public Service at Washington University in St Louis for the “ALBERTI Program – Architecture for Young People.” The program is intended to introduce the inner city students to architecture and its opportunities.

Lecturer Jodi Polzin will present a paper “Reconsidering the Margin: Exploring Ways to Resituate Community-Based Academic Initiatives” at the “Erasing Boundaries – Supporting Communities” symposium in New York City in April. This service-learning symposium will include speakers from architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning,

Architecture professor Carl Safe curated an exhibition titled The Lens of Architecture-Ronchamp through Herve, which opened at the Sam Fox School Feb. 25, 2008. The exhibition features works by the Hungarian-born photographer Herve (Laszlo Elkan), who worked with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the architect’s death in 1965. The exhibition also marked the formal opening of a new student-built gallery/review room — developed as part of a recent design/build studio led by Safe — in the Sam Fox School’s Steinberg Hall.

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This spring’s visiting design critics include Michael Graves, Michael Graves & Associates, Princeton, New Jersey; Gustavo Luis Moré, G. L. Moré & Asociados, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and Enrique Larranaga, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela.

The School of Architecture American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) University of Miami Chapter hosted the annual Southeastern United States Quad Conference in Miami from February 29th through March 2nd. Students from around the country attended “Trends and Traditions,” which included lectures, workshops, tours and architectural firm visits.

Professor Jean-Francois Lejeune was the first recipient of the University of Miami Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where he worked on his research project “The Modernity of the Informal: The Rural Ideal in Italian Urbanism, 1900-1960.”

As part of the School’s Rome Program, faculty members Jean-Francois Lejeune, Jacob Brillhart, Carmen Guerrero and Tom Spain led a charrette with students and residents which focused on the renovation of public squares and the creation of an archeological park around the ancient aqueduct sites in the town of Castel Madama near Rome.

Professor Nicholas M. Patricios is one of 21 signatories to the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism Venice Declaration on the conservation of monuments and sites in the 21st Century.

The American Institute of Architects Miami Chapter presented several awards to students and faculty at their Annual Awards presentation: Student Mark Schreiber was named the School’s Student of the Year; Denis Hector received the Presidential Award for his ongoing support of AIA educational programs; Jaime Correa received the award for the best urban design architect; Max Strang received the Young Architect of the Year award; Carlos Casuscelli for Writing about Architecture; Maricarmen Martinez, Design Merit Award for a house on Miami Beach.

Professor Charles Bohl of the School’s Knight Program in Community Building served as a juror for the Fourth Annual Invitational Case Competition at the Center for Real Estate De-velopment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The School along with the Bass Museum of Art and DoCoMoMo Florida presented a day long conference “Preserving the Modern: Building and Landscape Preservation in Miami – A Contemporary Agenda” January 25 and 26. Speakers included Charles Gwathmey, FAIA, Principal, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York; Richard John, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture; Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA, Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Professor, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida; Marc Treib, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; Rocco Ceo, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami; Jean-Francois Lejeune, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami; Randy Mason, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine Lynn, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami.

Professor Carlos Casuscelli was one of the pub-lishers of the book Bienal Miami + Beach 2001-2005: A Retrospective (Ediciones TRAMA, 2007).

Director of Graduate Studies Teofilo Victoria and his firm De La Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists were among the ten 2008 winners of the seventh annual Palladio Awards compe-tition, sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes, recognizing outstanding work in traditional design for commercial, institutional, public and residential projects. University of Miami School of Architecture Dis-tinguished Professor and Dean Elizabeth Plat-er-Zyberk, FAIA and her partner and adjunct faculty member Andres Duany, FAIA have been named the 2008 Driehaus Laureates. The Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, which was founded in 2003, is the most significant rec-ognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment and is awarded annually to an out-standing architect or firm whose work applies the principles of classicism, including sensitivity

to the historic continuum, the fostering of com-munity, and the impact to the built and natural environment in contemporary contexts. The Prize is presented annually by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Plater-Zy-berk and Duany are founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and partners in the Miami firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE

Assistant Professor Zhongjie Lin, Ph.D., re-ceived a research grant from the Graham Foun-dation for his book project Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Mod-ern Japan, which is currently under contract with Routledge.

Partnering with New York City based real estate analysts HR&A, Associate Professor Deb Ryan has been selected to develop an Urban Design Redevelopment Plan for the Arts and Cultural District in Greensboro, North Carolina. She also recently edited and published What’s Right About Our Region: Authentic Urbanism in the Carolinas (available through Blurb.com) a com-pendium of case studies written to celebrate the Urban Open Space Leadership Institute and the work of its alumni. Professor Ryan has also been chosen by the Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council as a 2008 Woman of Distinction for her work on the Environment.

Professor David Walters in collaboration with former Associate Professor Chris Grech has recently edited a book entitled The Future Office, published by Routledge in Great Britain. The book examines the latest practices and influences in office design, ranging from information technology to urban design.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, kNOxVILLE

The College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has commit-ted to make its own building -- as well as all its studio projects -- more environmentally friendly. The college is one of only four design institutions in the nation to make such a commitment.

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By a unanimous vote of the faculty, the college has adopted a plan to achieve a carbon-neutral design community and include the elimination or reduction of the need for fossil fuel as a central tenet in its design education.

This plan is part of the 2010 Imperative, a challenge issued to colleges of design across the U.S. to incorporate environmental principles by 2010.

The goal of the 2010 Imperative is to create young architects who realize that the less energy used in construction and operation of a building, the less greenhouse gases will be produced, and that such design not only slows environmental degradation but creates meaningful and beautiful architecture.

With input from UT Facilities Services, the college is studying ways to increase the energy efficiency of the Art and Architecture Building, in which it is housed, and reduce its carbon footprint. Simple strategies involving waterless plumbing fixtures and occupancy sensors for lights already are being implemented. Future plans include the purchase of carbon offsets and potential LEED Existing Building certification.

“We want our plan to be a prototype for change for the university and design schools across the country,” said John McRae, dean of the College of Architecture and Design. “While many institutions are working toward becoming more environmentally friendly campuses, we’re going a step further and teaching our students how to put these principles into practice.”

All courses from history to technology will consider the interface between energy, building and the environment. Perhaps more ambitious, the imperative requests that member institutions achieve a carbon-neutral design school campus by 2010.

The 2010 Imperative challenge was issued by Architecture 2030, a nonprofit whose mission is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the building sector, with the goal that all new construction should be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Numerous national organizations are backing the 2010 Imperative, including the American

Institute of Architects, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Green Building Council, American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

By adopting the 2010 Imperative, the College of Architecture and Design seeks to positively impact the threat of global climate change and resource depletion.

“These changes will put us at the forefront of environmental efforts nationwide,” McRae said.

The college’s action builds on a number of major environmental steps taken by UT Knoxville as part of the Make Orange Green effort. The campus was recently recognized for its work on climate change in a report by the National Wildlife Federation, and was also the first university in the U.S. certified by the Green Seal organization for green cleaning practices.

For more information about UT Knoxville environmental efforts, visit http://environment.utk.edu. For more information regarding the 2010 Imperative, visit http://www.architecture2030.org.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Gro Harlem Brundtland, special envoy on climate change at the United Nations, former prime minister of Norway and a former director-general of the World Health Organization, will be awarded the 2008 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture at the University of Virginia Founder’s Day festivities in April.

Brundtland will give a public talk on Friday, April 11, at 3 p.m., in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium.

“In honoring Dr. Brundtland we celebrate her legendary leadership in global sustainability and the stewardship of our environment, values that we have championed and developed in our work at the School of Architecture. We are so pleased to share our school’s accomplishments with such a distinguished figure and we all look forward to her University address on April 11th,” said Archi-tecture School Dean karen Van Lengen.

A politician, physician, diplomat and activist, Brundtland gained international recognition in the 1980s for supporting and promoting sus-

tainable development as chair of the United Na-tions’ World Commission of Environment and Development, known as the Brundtland Com-mission. The commission’s report, “Our Com-mon Future,” outlined the broad political con-cept of sustainable development that takes into embraces multi-disciplinary considerations, in-cluding energy, industry, population and human resources, food security, species and ecosystems, international cooperation, decision-making sys-tems and international economic relations.

The commission’s recommendations led to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, at which representatives of 172 governments and 2,400 representatives of nongovernmental organizations concerned about the environment agreed on a Climate Change Convention that developed into the Kyoto Protocol.

Brundtland spent the first 10 years of her professional career as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system, where she championed children’s health issues and became increasingly aware that many of those health concerns are related to environmental issues. Her work in this area led to her appointment as Norway’s Minister of the Environment in 1971. In 1981, at age 41, she was appointed prime minister, the youngest person and first woman to hold that post.

It was during her 10 years as prime minister that she developed a growing concern for environmental issues of global significance and chaired the U.N.’s World Commission on Environment and Development. In 1998, after stepping down as prime minister, Brundtland became director-general of the World Health Organization, where she combined her skills as doctor, politician and activist to advocate and work for equitable and sustainable health systems in all countries.

Since 2007 Brundtland has served as a U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change.

Former recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, which was created in 1966 to recognize outstanding achievement in design or distinguished contributions in the field of architecture, include; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (the first recipient), Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Lewis Mumford, Vincent Scully, Dan Kiley, Jane Jacobs,

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Glenn Murcutt, James Turrell, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid.

The Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and its counterparts in law and civic leadership are the highest external honors bestowed by the University, which grants no honorary degrees. The awards recognize achievements of those

who embrace endeavors that the author of the Declaration of Independence, third U.S. presi-dent and founder of the University of Virginia, himself, excelled in and held in high regard.

Sponsored jointly by the University and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello,

the annual awards are conferred during the Founder’s Day celebrations surrounding Jefferson’s birthday, April 13. Awardees each deliver a public lecture at the University and engage in dialogue with students and faculty members. In addition to receiving a medal struck for the occasion, they will attend ceremonies in the Rotunda and a dinner at Monticello.

NORThEASTCARLETON UNIVERSITY

Dr. Marco Frascari, Director, is pleased to an-nounce that internationally renowned philan-thropist, developer, architect and Carleton grad-uate, Dr. David J. Azrieli, is donating $5.5 million to establish a permanent endowment for the newly named Azrieli School of Architecture. He reinvesting in his alma mater because he wants to ensure that the School maintains its stand-ing as “the best in Canada.” The endowment will provide the School with annual funding to introduce leading edge academic programs, in-cluding new undergraduate specializations and a new design-research Ph.D. program, the first of its kind in Canada. The endowment will also allow for an expansion of the School’s Directed Studies Abroad program, which supports over-seas work experience and exchanges. Proceeds from the endowment will also fund new pres-tige scholarships to be awarded to promising Azrieli Scholars, as well as continuing educa-tion opportunities and technological upgrades within the School.

Janine Debanné, Associate Professor, recently received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for Assistance to Practitioners, Critics and Curators of Architecture to write a book on modernist houses of the Ottawa region and their architects. Professor Debanné’ s project, entitled Research on Dwelling: Outaouais Mod-ernist Homes, will present a group of as-yet little known but significant works of residential architecture built in the Canadian National Cap-ital region in the postwar period. This project is in continuity with her research and writing on the reception of modernist environments, and on Lafayette Park, Detroit.

Federica Goffi has been appointed as a ten-ure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Architeture at Carleton University, currently teaching aural architecture, hybrid technolo-gies and design studios. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Interior Architecture Department of the Rhode Island School of De-sign, teaching adaptive reuse, time-architecture and architectural representation. She is a PhD candidate in Architectural Representation and Education, at the Washington-Alexandria Archi-tectural Center, Virginia Tech. She holds a ‘Dot-tore in Architettura’ from the University of Ge-noa, Italy. She is a licensed architect in her na-tive country, Italy. She recently completd a book chapter, “Architecture’s Twinned Body: Building and Body” in Frascari, Hale, and Starkey (eds.), From Models to Drawings: On Representation in Architecture (Routledge, 2007). In November 2007 she presented a paper on ‘Renaissance Visual Thinking: Architectural Representation as Medium to Contemplate True Form’ at ‘The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity’ at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Yvan Cazabon, Associate Professor and Asso-ciate Director (Undergraduate Studies), is con-tinuing his research-based teaching in architec-ture and theatre, and this year his students are working on a development and design proposal for the Arts Court District in downtown Ot-tawa. The existing and proposed facilities will house numerous arts groups including visual, video artists, dance groups, theatre groups and festival organizers. Their proposals examine multiple public and supporting spaces ranging from permanent galleries, temporary/traveling exhibit spaces, large and small black-box the-atres, dance performance studios, interstitial exhibition/performance spaces as well as pub-

lic/commercial spaces to support the financing of art groups. The student projects will be dis-played in an exhibition as part of the “The Cre-ative Construct: Building for Culture and Cre-ativity” CECC conference in April-May 2008.

Dr. Thomas Mical was awarded tenure. He is a recent recipient of the Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, which includes a $15,000 grant for the development of a internet-based course on the Introduction to Urban Mor-phology, with an emphasis on non-Western cities. He has also been awarded a $100,000 Social Sci-ence and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant for 2007-2010 for research and publication of book manuscripts on “The Optic of New Archi-tecture: From Transparency to Blurring.”

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

David Celento, Assistant Professor in the De-partment of Architecture at Penn State has re-ceived funding from Pittsburgh Corning to “Re-invent Glass Block”. Students will spend the Spring ‘08 semester working with Pittsburgh Corning, exploring design solutions in their di-giFAB class (497c). Final projects will involve digital fabrication studies and will be presented to the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Corning for production consideration.”

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

Edward Steinfeld, Professor of Architecture and Director of the IDEA Center joined James Leahy and Steven Bauer of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center on Technology Transfer, also based at UB, to give a presentation at the an-

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nual meeting of the Assistive Technology Indus-tries Association. They explored how assistive technology can be transformed into mass mar-keted products, using inventions like the tele-phone, email, optical character recognition and voice recognition, all of which were first applied to address needs of people with disabilities.

On November 20, 2007, Beth Tauke was a fea-tured speaker at the Universell Utforming Over Alt (Universal Design for All) Norwegian Con-ference held at Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway. The conference goal was to establish a strategy for new research in universal design in Norway. Universal design is increasingly be-ing used both in legislation and planning at all levels of Norwegian society. Tauke’s lecture focused on innovative research practices and highlighted the recent work of The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access,

which is considered to be “the premier research center on Universal Design in the built environ-ment in the U.S.” In addition, Tauke gave two other presentations and lead a panel discussion on the challenges of research, development, and practice in inclusive outdoor and urban environments.

kenneth S. Mackay, AIA, presented a paper at “The Future of Professional Practice: The Next Generation of Integrated Delivery, Emerging Technology, and Practice Management” AIA conference in Washington, DC December 2-4, 2007. His paper, entitled “Teaching Integrated Building Systems and Sustainable Design,” explored the development of graphic tools to teach building systems integration and the relationship of integrated systems to sustain-ability by immersing students in a virtual en-vironment that imitates the complexity of the real-world collaboration, decision-making, and material choices in design.

Joyce Hwang presented a paper titled “Cul-tivating Cities: Diagnostic and Projective Map-ping” at the International Housing and Planning World Congress, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in September 2007. In addition, “Enticing the Flood,” a project she produced in collaboration with seniors Kelly Zona and Joshua Gardner was selected as a Finalist in the 2G Venice La-goon Park Ideas Competition.

Hadas Steiner received a research grant from the Getty Foundation to complete her project on Reyner Banham and the visual methodology employed in A Concrete Atlantis to analyze the defunct forms of American industrial architecture that influenced the course of Modernism. “Banham in Buffalo” explores the approach as applied to the case of the grain elevator and daylight factory through a close study of the archeological use of historical photographs and the production of images to illustrate the argument of his text.

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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Arizona State University hired three new faculty this fall in architecture and landscape architecture.

Associate Professor ken McCown previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for four years in architecture and landscape architecture, and taught in the Col-lege of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Po-mona for five years. He was the Director and Fellow of the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Re-search House II for five years. His research in-terests grow from his background in landscape architecture and architecture including: inter-disciplinary design theory, water infrastructure and pollution ecologies, urban design competi-tions, regenerative design, digital representa-tion and Richard Neutra.

Assistant Professor Gabriel Diaz-Montemayor (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1975) is received a degree in architecture from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico and landscape architecture from Auburn University. He has prac-

ticed architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico since 1998. He is a partner of the firm LABOR (Landscape, Architecture, Border) in Chi-huahua, Mexico since 2002. Has taught at the Superior Institute of Architecture and Design -ISAD- (1998-2006) in Chihuahua, the New School of Architecture -ARQPOLI- of the Poly-technic University of Puerto Rico -PUPR- in San Juan (2002) and Auburn University (2006-2007). His research interests include the built realm within the border area between the US and Mexico, the opposition between formal and in-formal patterns of urbanization and architecture, and the exploration of innovative infrastructural/urban systems as landscape architecture.

Jason Griffiths gained his professional qualification at the Bartlett UK and is a partner of Gino Griffiths Architects in collaboration with Alex Gino. He began teaching in 1994 at the Bartlett (M.Arch.) and then went on to teach at Oxford Brookes and University of Westminster as a senior lecturer. Jason’s teaching career is paralleled with competition work winning prizes in eleven competitions including first

prize in both the Temple of Laughter and the Millenium Café competitions. Other competition prizes include Future Visions of Kyoto, Aomori Housing, Shinkenchiku Residential Design (three times) and the Oklahoma Memorial.

In 2003 Jason and Alex came to the US to conduct a sabbatical research/lecture tour of North American Suburbs. Prior to joining ASU he worked in Texas, Nebraska and Iowa. His teaching explores the design build studio as a vehicle for research interests in both digital fabrication and everyday aesthetics. Completed works in this field include Arts Pavilion for Iowa State and the Sioux City Bus Stops.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

Faculty members of California College of the Arts Architecture Program shared their visions of what San Francisco might look like 100 years from now in a nationwide “City of the Future” design competition, sponsored by the History Channel.CCA faculty were involved in 5 of the 8 San Francisco teams, including Craig Scott, Associate Professor and co-owner of Iwamo-

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toScott, the team which placed first. Pfau Archi-tecture, owned by CCA Adjunct Professor Peter Pfau, received the IBM Innovation and Technol-ogy award, as well as an honorable mention. Peter Anderson, CCA Adjunct Professor and partner of the firm Anderson Anderson Architec-ture, and Byron kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri of Kuth/Ranieri Architects were also selected teams competing in San Francisco. The submissions were exhibited at CCA in February and were presented by finalists at a conference organized by Ila Berman, CCA Chair of Architecture.

CCA will be partnering with Santa Clara Uni-versity to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon. CCA students and faculty will bring their archi-tecture and design skills to the interdisciplinary engineering team that placed third in the 2007 competition.

Mara Baum, adjunct professor, was a contrib-uting author to the USGBC’s recently released National Green Building Research Agenda. She also just received two grants, from the AIA Col-lege of Fellows Upjohn Initiative ($18,000) and the Boston Society of Architects ($14,000), for a new project, “Eco-Effective Design and Evi-dence-Based Design: Removing Barriers to Inte-gration.” She is co-principal investigator with Bill Rostenberg, Anshen+Allen and Mardelle Shepley, Texas A&M.

Schwartz and Architecture, the firm of Neal Schwartz, Associate Professor of Architecture, received the 2008 California Home & Design Award for residential architecture and was selected for the AIA SF 2007 Home Tours pro-gram. Schwartz also edited and wrote an essay for the book Vertical Places: The Tall Building in the World City as part of the CCA Architecture Series and authored and edited the Memorial Design Feasibility Study for the National AIDS Memorial. As a Board of Director of this organi-zation, he recently briefed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the progress of the memorial design. Recent projects by Schwarts and Archi-tecture have been published in Dwell, California Home & Design, Western Interiors, and Zyzzyva: the Journal of West Coast Writers and Artists.

katherine Rinne, adjunct professor of archi-tecture, published the essay “Between prec-edent and experiment: restoring the Acqua Vergine in Rome (1560-1570)”, in The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and invention from the late Re-

naissance to early industrialisation, edited by L. Roberts, S. Schaffer and P. Dear, (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam: December 2007). She is also one of two Americans to have been invited to speak at a conference: “La civilta` delle acque dal Medioevo al Rinascimento” at the Fondazione Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti in Mantova, Italy in October.

kate Simonen, Associate Professor of Archi-tecture, essay’s ‘Prefab NOW?’ was published in the Winter 2007 issue of ArcCA: the journal of the AIA California Council.

Bruce Tomb, adjunct professor of architecture, exhibited his project “The (de)Appropriation

Project Archive” (http://www.deappropriation-project.net) at the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco as well as a new prototype, titled “Console” in the exhibition “New West Coast Design” at the Museum of Craft and Design. This freestanding basin expands Tomb’s current “Infinite Fitting” line. In collaboration with Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier, Tomb has received a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts where they will be fabricating the new “Ant Farm Media Van V.8/Time Capsule.” The project is a fusion of Ant Farm’s “Media Van” (circa 1971) and the “Citizen’s Time Capsule,” (1975) In another collaboration with Chip Lord, Tomb is developing a temporary public art project called

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“Zocalito” for the City of San Jose’s program: “Who’s on 1st/What’s on 2nd,” scheduled for August of 2008. Finally, Bruce Tomb’s project for The Bath Pod / Hibbs-Gray Vertical Addi-tion is scheduled for construction in the Spring of 2008. As a part of a new Master Bedroom suite, the Bath Pod is a prefabricated fiberglass composite bathroom cantilevered over the glass turret of an existing 1950’s modern home lo-cated in San Francisco. The Bath Pod will set precedence as the first architectural load bear-ing use of composites in San Francisco. The bath pod was recently featured in Architecture of the

San Francisco Bay Area: A History and Guide by Mitchell Schwarzer (William Stout Publishers).

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATEUNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO

Professor Arthur Chapman and Jens Pohl (35 years of service), Prof. Margot McDonald (15 years of service), Media Production Specialist Josef kasperovich and Prof. Michael Lucas (10 years of service) received the 2008 Cal Poly Service Awards.

Lecturer Randoph C. Dettmer has been se-lected by LifeHOUSE Retirement Properties to

head up the development of all of their Cali-fornia properties in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. LifeHOUSE is based in Grand Rapids, MI and is expanding into the California market with the acquisition of nine properties from Chico to San Diego. Dettmer Architecture will be providing professional services includ-ing master planning, architectural design, preparation of construction documents, and construction administration for the rehabilita-tion of existing facilities and development of new projects. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare design throughout the western states, Randy is excited to be involved with LifeHOUSE, with their reputation for high qual-ity projects and excellence in the marketplace. He is also working on the projects with associ-ate Doug Faner, Assoc AIA (ARCH ’03).

Assistant Professor Tom di Santo just completed Construction Administration on the recently opened Housing Administration Building on the Cal Poly Campus. The new building was designed by the office of Rebecca L. Binder FAIA. For news on the building, refer to the latest Cal Poly Report dated 9 January, 2008.

Professor Chris YIp presented a paper titled “The Boundaries of a Trans-national Survey of Asian Architectural and Urban History,” at the 6th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 1-12-2008, Honolulu, HI.

Professor Donna Duerk became one of the founding members of the Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at its first meeting in Reno, Nevada, in January of 2008. Information about the SATC is available at www.spacearchitect.org. Duerk’s NASA Contractor Report of 2004, A Curriculum for Aerospace Architecture, complete with technical corrections, is available on the website as a PDF under publications.

FRANk LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Mary Grow, Ph.D., has been named Faculty and Curriculum Chair at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Dr. Grow joins core architectural faculty Dr. Sidney Robinson and Aris Georges, and building technology faculty Brian Maxwell, who were appointed in 2007.

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MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor Michael Everts received the 2008 Award for Excellence from the Montana State University Alumni Office and the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce in recognition for his exceptional student guidance and inspiration. The award is one of the highest honors at MSU. The student recipient, Sarah Berwald, selected Professor Everts as a mentor who most demonstrated a dedication and commitment to the excellence within students.

Assoc. Professor, Maire O’Neill has joined the Montana Board of Architects, the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) Board of Directors and is Chair of the VAF 2009 conference, to be held in Butte, MT in June ’09.

The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, founded by Jenni Lowe Anker, has awarded Professor Mi-chael Everts and the School of Architecture, in cooperation with Bob Mechels of Dowling Sand-holm Architects, the Khumbu Climbing School project in Phortse, Nepal. The Foundation es-tablished the climbing school as an active way to “increase the safety margin of Nepali climb-ers and high altitude workers by encouraging responsible climbing practices in a supportive and community-based program.” The school is dedicated to the memory of climber great Alex Lowe. Alex is Jenni’s late husband who died seven years ago in an avalanche on Mt. Everest. Currently, the climbing school does not have a dedicated facility to hold the hands-on classes taught by world-class climbers. In addition to indoor climbing walls, the facility will have a large auditorium for community gatherings. For the first phase, Professor Everts awarded archi-tecture student Heather Archer a 3-week travel-ing scholarship (18 January – 7 February 2008) to gather the initial on-site information with Conrad Anker and MSU alumni Marie Folgert of Dowling Sandholm. Over the course of the next semester, Professor Everts and Ms. Archer will organize the notes, sketches, photos, and videos from the trip into a project definition document to be used for fund raising. Subsequent studios will be offered for students to work with the Foundation and the community of Phortse to finalize the design. Construction is scheduled to begin in the Summer of 2009.

The Gallatin Valley Food Bank Addition received a 2007 AIA Montana Honor Award, the highest

award given by the AIA in Montana. Christo-pher Livingston AIA, Assistant professor in the School of architecture, and the students enrolled in the design/build studio completed the project during the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2006. This 2,700 sq. ft. addition to the Gallatin valley food bank provides additional storage space to accommodate the food bank’s vari-ous programs which serve the community. This project was a collaborative effort between the School of Architecture and the School of Engi-neering. Students performed all construction of the project including concrete foundations, radiant floor slabs, steel erection, wood fram-ing, structural insulated panel roof systems, and installation of glazing and finish packages.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERkELEY

Professor Rene Davids was advanced to Full Professor in 2007; he has more recently been elected to The College of Fellows of The Ameri-can Institute of Architects. The Jury of Fellows acknowledged his “notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architec-ture”. With partner’s Christine Killory, Davids is also expecting a second volume of the AsBuilt series to be published by Princeton Architec-tural Press this Spring.

Associate Professor Susan Ubbelohde’s firm Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates provided day-light consulting for three projects that recently received design and sustainability awards: The Apple Store Fifth Avenue in New York with Boh-lin Cywinski Jackson Architects received an AIA San Francisco Design Merit Award; The Chart-well School in Monterey, with EHDD Architects received an AIA San Francisco Honor Award for Energy + Sustainability and LEED Platinum Cer-tification; The Global Ecology Research Center in Stanford CA also with EHDD Architects was selected as of the AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Proj-ects 2007. The last building also also received a Livable Buildings Award from the University of California Center for the Built Environment and previously received an AIA San Francisco Excel-lence in Sustainability 2005 award.

Waverly Lowell, Curator of the Environmental Design Archives was recently honored with the 2006-2007 Distinguished Librarian Award by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley. The biannual award recognizes excellence in librarianship that

furthers teaching and research at UC Berkeley. In addition, her book Architectural Records: Managing Design & Construction Records, co-authored with Tawny R. Nelb and published by the Society of American Archivists won their Waldo Gifford Leland Award which rewards writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice.

Dr. Annmarie Adams, William C Macdonald Professor of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal Canada, is the first Arcus Endowment Scholar-in-Residence at the College of Environmental Design. The Arcus Endowment was established in 2000 with a generous gift from the Arcus Foundation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Endowment seeks to support a wide range of critical and creative activities that explore the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. Adams was appointed following a national nomination process. Her most recent book, Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press. During her residency in the Spring 2008 semester, she is undertaking research and writing for her next book, to be co-authored with Dr. Abigail Van Slyck of Connecticut College, entitled House/Plan: A History of Domestic Space in America, 1608-2008. She is also teaching an interdisciplinary graduate seminar entitled Sex and the Single Building. She will give the Arcus Endowment Lecture on March 5 as part of the Department of Architecture’s Spring Lecture Series. A symposium featuring Adams and past recipients of Arcus Endowment project funding will be held on April 4, 2008. For more information, contact: ArcusEndowment@gmail.com <mailto:ArcusEndowment@gmail.com>

Associate Professors Lisa Iwamoto, Jill Stoner and Mark Anderson led teams in the “Cities of the Future” challenge sponsored by the History Channel, presenting visions for San Francisco in the year 2018. Iwamoto’s partnership, Iwa-motoScott Architecture, received the $10,000 purse for top place in a regional competition from a jury that included professor of land-scape architecture at Berkeley, Walter Hood. John King, critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote in a Januray 29th article that the “jury was wowed by the all-encompassing audacity

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of [the Iwamoto/Scott] ...utopia...” The works of all teams were on display at the California College of the Arts. IwamotoScott will compete on-line against teams from Atlanta and Wash-ington, D.C.; to vote, go to <http://www.history.com/cityofthe future>. Alumna Anne Fougeron also received wide attention for her proposal. More can be seen in an article at <money.cnn.com> and at <sfgate.com>.

Joe Slusky’s sculptures were exhibited at the Smith Andersen Edition Gallery in Palo Alto in January. An cover article on the show for the Palo Alto on-line, an internet based news weekly, called Slusky’s sculptures “Visual Jazz” and quoted him as saying, “Welding is draw-ing in space.”

Dana Buntrock will lecture April 1 at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, in a talk co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and School of Design. Buntrock will also speak at Clemson University March 28, as part of a series on criti-cal practices in the discipline of architecture. Galen Cranz will lecture for for the Parks and Recreation Dept. in Portland, Oregon, May 13 .

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Associate Professor Christopher koziol will be an opening plenary speaker for the US In-ternational Congress of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) 11th International Symposium in Washington DC on May 29. Together with rep-resentatives of UNESCO and the World Bank, he will be addressing the theme of US partici-pation in the global preservation community.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA

The former Director of School of Architecture at Montana State University, Clark E. Llewellyn, AIA has been appointed as the Dean of School of Architecture, effective July 01, 2007. Llewellyn earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Washing-ton State University and Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He is making strong commitments toward digital technologies, de-sign communications, collaborative relation-ships, actively engaging the forces of globalism, and serving the unique peoples, place, and cul-tures of Hawaii, the Pacific, Asia and the world.

Associate Professor David Rockwood has been appointed as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture, effective July 2007. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Princeton Univer-sity in 1983 after having earned a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Oregon in 1978. He previously served as Assistant Dean for Aca-demic Affairs, and as Acting Chair, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Insti-tute. Rockwood also serves as the Director of the Construction Process Innovations Lab at the School.

Design Intelligence asked professional prac-tice firm presidents and managing directors to nominate their most admired and respected educators based on their recent experiences with colleges and universities. Among the top five reasons cited for nominations were: bal-ances practice, theory, and technology; innova-tive and visionary; and agents of change. Don-ald Goo FAIA, professor and director of the practicum studio at the School of Architecture is listed among the most admired educators of 2008. The practicum is the cornerstone of the first Architectural Doctorate degree in the nation approved by NAAB. The practicum stu-dio is a unique program that places students in major US and international design firms to learn from direct mentorship with the senior or managing principal of the office. In addition to gaining experience about professional ser-vices, the students learn about leadership from proven leaders, critical and independent think-ing and the influence of culture on design and decision making.

Professor Spencer Leineweber, FAIA was a chapter contributor to the recently published Hawaiian Modern, the Work of Vladimir Ossipoff, published by Yale University Press in cooperation with the Honolulu Academy of Arts. This book is the catalogue for a traveling exhibit, organized by Dean Sakamoto that opened in Honolulu in October, 2007 and will be at Yale University School of Architecture Gallery, September 2nd - October 24th, 2008. Primary authors are Dean Sakamoto and Karla Britton, both of Yale School of Architecture, with a forward by Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Don J. Hibbard, an architectural historian, based in Hawaii and Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture

at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote additional chapters.

Associate Professor kazi k. Ashraf joins the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education for the period 2007-2010. He guest-edited the January 2008 issue of Architectural Design “Made in India” featuring contempo-rary architecture in India. His essay, “Taking Place: Landscape in the Architecture of Louis Kahn” appeared in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education. Another essay, “The Buddha’s House,” is forthcoming in the spring 2008 issue of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. He is currently completing two book projects: Architecture and Asceticism, and The Idea of Hometown (with Jyoti Puri, sociol-ogy professor, Simmons College).

Associate Professor Pu Miao’s design for the Reception Center of Minhang Ecological Garden, Shanghai won a Far East Architectural Award on December 15, 2007. This award of US$15,000 was judged by an international panel includ-ing Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard GSD. The Chinese translation of Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities (Kluwer, 2001), a book edited and co-authored by Miao, was published by China Building and Architecture Press in 2007. Miao also saw two of his designs completed in 2007, a community center and a riverside café in Kunshan (near Shanghai), which experimented on new relationships between landscape and building.

Associate Professor and Director of Environ-mental Systems Laboratory Stephen Meder has been elected as ACSA Western Regional Director.

The School has two community design projects underway in American Samoa; (1) the updat-ing of a Master Plan for the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) and (2) the repair and restoration of the Leone’ Congregational Church, the oldest Christian church in American Samoa. Associate Professor Fred L. Creager, AIA, traveled to Pago Pago early March along with five students to research and program the needed work

Adjunct Assistant Professor kyle Hamada Assc. AIA, an associate at the Honolulu firm Urban Works, has been acknowledged by the

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Honolulu Chapter American Institute of Archi-tects for the following design awards: Award of Merit for the New Dental Office for Doctor Ted Sakamoto, and Unbuilt Award for the University of Hawaii Hilo Student Services Building.

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS

Associate Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was the recipient of the 2007 Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award.

Associate Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez produced in the Fall of 2007 the interactive DVD “The 2030 Challenge: Environmental Design in the Face of Climate Change.” A copy of this interactive DVD, which features contributions by Edward Mazria, Pliny Fisk III, John Reynolds, Susan Roaf, and Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez was mailed to the library of every NAAB accredited program in the United States. For further information please visit: http://www.unlv.edu/labs/neatl/2030/

Ralph Stern (UNLV) and Nicole Huber (University of Washington), Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2008) Essays and photo-documentation addressing the urbanization of the Mojave funded in part by the United States Embassy Berlin and the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) at the College of Design, Arizona State University. An exhibit with this title opened December 2007 in Berlin, continuing to ASU in March where it will be coupled with a symposium hosted by PURL. Thereafter the exhibit will travel to the University of Washington.

Glenn NP Nowak has joined the School of Ar-chitecture as Assistant Professor. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State University and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University. Glenn recently delivered the paper, “The Art of Architectural Civil War” at the Hawaii International Arts and Humanities Con-ference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2008.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Carefully tucked into a stand of pines on the Maryland shore, Loblolly House is a study in the pragmatic and the poetic.

Three sides are faced with bark-like strips of red cedar but the fourth opens to the water. Com-pletely. Translucent hangar doors retract and glass walls fold like accordions, opening the 2,200-square-foot house to Chesapeake Bay.

The house was built in six weeks using off-site fabricated parts locked into place by half a dozen workers. It can also be taken apart and the pieces recycled.

Designed for Philadelphia architect Stephen Kieran, the home was also a chance to test new, far more efficient and environmentally sensitive ways to build houses.

Pending approval by the Board of Regents, kieran and James Timberlake, partners at KieranTimberlake and fellows of the American Institute of Architects, will hold a University of Washington professorship in sustainability - one of the first such professorships in the U.S. As inaugural holders of the Mithun/Russell Family Foundation Professorship in Sustainabil-ity, Kieran and Timberlake will teach six related courses exploring designs and methods for re-ducing environmental impacts of construction.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, building and operating homes and other structures generates 40 to 50 percent of all greenhouse gases in the U.S. Additional studies suggest that more than half of leftover building materials wind up in landfills - and those numbers don’t include gas-fueled cars and trucks shuttling workers and materials.

Sustainability studies have thus become top priority at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. “Our communities urgently need critical, creative thinking in sustainable building design,” said Daniel S. Friedman, dean of the college and an AIA fellow. “Kieran and Timberlake are among the first to attack the problem systemically, through technology transfer and novel production.”

Funding for the professorship comes from Seattle-based Mithun, a national leader in sustainable design, and The Russell Family Foundation in Gig Harbor, Wash.

“The next opportunity for design innovation is to solve the challenges confronting global

systems,” said Bert Gregory, president and CEO of Mithun and an AIA fellow. “This new professorship will help bring science and design together for wholly integrated solutions.”

“We are eager to see the best ideas about sustainable design shared broadly,” said Nancy McKay, environmental sustainability manager for The Russell Family Foundation.

“The professorship clearly presents an opportunity for collaboration, a hybrid design lab that crosses disciplines - architecture, engineering, construction, landscaping - within one educational community,” Timberlake said.

In December, the AIA formally recognized Kie-ranTimberlake for sustainable design, choosing the 55-person group for its annual Firm Award. Also, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City recently chose KieranTimberlake to design and construct one of five full-scale houses for a 2008 exhibition on prefabricated building.

Kieran and Timberlake based much of their early thinking on ways the automotive, aircraft and shipbuilding industries are radically reinventing themselves. Instead of inefficient, part-by-part construction, they’ve switched to integrated units built on factory floors.

But forget one-design-fits-all. KieranTimberlake buildings include pre-wired mechanical systems plus custom elements appropriate for the client and building site - things like custom-designed sunshades that allow a building to recognize the sun as a primary source of energy.

KieranTimberlake is also recognized for bringing research to its practice. In 2003, the firm developed SmartWrap, a mass-customizable, high-performance building façade. For the University of Pennsylvania, the firm designed and installed the first actively ventilated curtainwall in North America. Other KieranTimberlake buildings have been recognized for their environmentally thoughtful design. The Sidwell Friends Middle School and the Sculpture Building and Gallery at Yale University, for example, have achieved LEED Platinum, the highest rating from the United States Green Building Council.

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4/18/08ANZASCA 2008Innovation, Inspiration and Instruction: New Knowledge in the Architectural Sciences AN-ZAScA 2008: the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association. Advances in architecture, engineering and construction are fundamen-tally reliant on developments in science and technology. Whether these advances are in the environmental sustainability of a building, in its design theory, or in the education of future re-searchers, science remains a critical component of the built environment. Dates: November 26-28, 2008. Host: University of Newcastle. Deadline: April 18, 2008.www.newcastle.edu.au/anzasca2008

4/30/2008INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION ON AGEINGHow can designers impact on the life of older people? Ageing Design Montréal (ADM), a non-government organization, is hosting the IFA’s 9th Global Conference on Ageing. The confer-ence Shaping Tomorrow Today speaks to the need to understand how the many facets of design impact on the Health, Participation and Security of older people. Students, educators, practitioners and designers from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, whole sessions and poster presenta-tions. Deadline: April 30, 2008. www.ageingdesignmontreal.ca

5/2/2008VIDEO kILLED THE RADIO STARThe aim of this symposium at the University of Sheffield is to investigate how the rules of scholarly endeavour might apply to continu-ally expanding and changing new media. How do conventions and concepts of literacy apply when the material to be read and interpreted shifts within a timescale of less than a genera-tion? In particular, whether and how designers can intelligently appropriate visual material in a way that can be subjected to rigorous and scholarly critique? This inter-disciplinary sym-posium seeks to explore issues of visual literacy

across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. Seeking to encour-age innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations. Deadline: May 2, 2008. E-Mail: s.k.clark@sheffield.ac.uk

5/16/2008THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL WORkSHOP ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE DESIGN (SID2008)Designing Socially Aware InteractionsSan Juan, Puerto Rico; December 3-5, 2008Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and under-stand the interactions between designing and social intelligence. The workshop’s theme this year on designing socially aware interactions acknowledges the essential need for designing tools, procedures, and techniques to improve the interactions by addressing socially related factors. Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition including design, workspaces, education, e-commerce, entertain-ment, digital democracy, and other fields are invited to participate.Deadline: May 16, 2008.cdr.uprrp.edu/SID2008/default.htm

competitions / Grants

3/7/2008CALL FOR 2008-2009 FELLOWSVan Alen Institute’s New York Prize Fellowship supports advanced research and experimental pratice in public architecture. Fellows are based at the Institute, where they generate projects on the most significant issues shaping public life and the built environment today. The Institute welcomes proposals for projects in public archi-tecture from emerging scholars and practitio-ners in the design and planning disciplines, and other fields in the arts, humanities and sciences. Fellowship awards include project support, work and gallery space at the Institute, publica-tion in Public Practice, stipend, and a range of project production, research, and programming resources. Deadline: March 7, 2008.www.vanalen.org/nyprize

events of note

14 Submission Deadline

PCA Student Design Competition

15-17 AIA National Convention

28 Submission Deadline

AISC Student Design Competition

4 Submission Deadline

DFW Student Design Competition

19-22 Teachers Seminar

15 Submission Deadline

2008-09 ACSA Awards

17 Submission Deadline

97th Annual Meeting Call for Papers

25-27 ACSA Northeast Fall Conference at

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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