acsa news april 2009

2008-09 ACSA Faculty Design Winner “Tram Stations” by Martin Despang, University of Nebraska

april 2009 volume 38

number 8 acsaNews

in this issue:

publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2 President’s Message 3 NAAB Board of Directors Elections

4 Editorial and Opinions

5 Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

6 2008-09 ACSA Award Winners

7 2009 ACSA Development Forum

8 2008-09 Student Design Competitions

12 2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

13 2009 ACSA Southwest Fall Conference

14 98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

18 REGIONAL NEWS

26 OPPORTUNITIES ACSA Calendar

ACSAAnnounces2008-09ArchitecturalEducationAwardsDiscover the winners on page 6

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, 2008–2009Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, President Thomas Fisher, Vice PresidentKim Tanzer, AIA, Past PresidentMitra Kanaani, AIA, D.Arch, SecretaryGraham Livesey, TreasurerPatricia Kucker, East Central DirectorBrian Kelly, AIA, Northeast DirectorAndrew D. Chin, Southeast DirectorUrsula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Southwest Director Stephen Meder, West DirectorKeelan Kaiser, AIA, West Central DirectorGeorge Baird, FRAIC, AIA, Canadian DirectorDeana Moore, 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: [email protected]; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0448. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

from the president

RegaRding ReseaRch and wpeeR Recognitionby marleen kay davis

As a profession, architecture is tied to the economy. The last 15 years have been good to the profession in the Unit-ed States: firms have expanded, recent graduates feel welcomed into practice with challenging roles, and salaries have risen, as has the perceived value of an architect.

Today, we are now in a “great recession.“ Our schools are facing serious budget cuts for next year, while our graduates are facing uncertain career prospects in an unstable economy. This isn’t yet the great depression nor is it as fleeting as the dot com bubble. No one is sure how long or how deep this recession will be: all of this is unpredictable.

What do we as architectural educators say to this generation of graduating stu-dents? In January, this issue came up at an NCARB Board meeting involving the current Presidents of AIA, AIAS, NAAB, and ACSA. Here at the University of Ten-nessee, I recently moderated a panel dis-cussion for our own graduating architec-ture students. From both a national per-spective and from working with my own students, I thought I might share some concrete ideas.

First, we should emphasize that no one who is unemployed should take this per-

sonally: not finding a job is not a reflec-tion of one’s abilities. With significantly fewer jobs to find, graduating students will be competing with an even larger pool of recently laid-off experienced workers. It will be difficult, and the jobs that do exist may be less-than-ideal. This as a temporary set back, beyond the con-trol of the student.

A student question revealed the innate demoralization a student tends to feel, “If I can’t get a job this year, why would anyone want to hire me in 3 years?” I as-sured the student that employers did not think this way, and that when the econ-omy improves, employers will value our students and what they can offer.

Students who cannot find a job should not take this personally and should not permanently leave the profession. The economic problems shall pass, and future opportunities lie ahead. Students should make the best of a short-term economic recession by retaining their long-term commitment to the profession.

Secondly, I advised students to “Develop a Plan B.” Rather than being frustrated by the inability to find a job, they can use this interlude in creative ways. Many op-tions exist for a “Plan B”. Most of us in universities expect a dramatic increase in post-professional graduate program ap-plications. However, full-time graduate school is only one of many viable Plan B options.

Graduating students are now eligible to take some parts of the NCARB Architect Registration Exam. There is no better time to take the structures components than immediately after graduation, when the recent coursework is the most fresh. In fact, I predict that the number of exam takers will increase significantly, as previ-ously over-worked interns will now have the time to schedule the exams.

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Seeking LEED accreditation is another way that recent graduates can stay con-nected to the profession and build up their professional expertise.

I also encouraged all graduates to enroll with NCARB, whether or not they were employed. This way, they will be part of a national network, receiving up-to-date information.

While many architectural firms are not hiring, there may be opportunities in related areas, such as business develop-ment, public policy, real estate, construc-tion, or engineering. I ended up starting my career with a structural engineering office. Interestingly, it was a great in-troduction to the profession since we worked on so many different building types with different firms and different philosophies.

Even if students find employment out-side of normative architectural firms, they can use their newly found free time to enhance their understanding of the profession and their skills. Community college courses can be small, high-qual-ity ways to build up business knowledge or languages. Expanding software skills, especially in building information model-ing, would be a constructive use of time, either in classes or self-guided tutorials.

Architecture competitions are a natural outlet for talented graduates to continue to develop intellectually: I reminded stu-dents that many of the ACSA Competi-tions have an “Open” category that can be broadly interpreted for school design work from the last 1-2 years. As funding for built projects becomes suspended, we might see an increase in design com-petitions for ideas or hypothetical work: such opportunities can be ideal for recent graduates as a way to feel connected with the profession.

Finally, all sorts of volunteer projects and organizations could benefit from our students’ energy and expertise. As an outcome of a research and design proj-ect for a school, and because of the slow economy, one of my former students has applied to “Teach for America.” Another student has three buildings that are now under construction in Africa as part of a church mission.

This is an idealistic generation: I hope we can capture that idealism in the short term, so that this generation of graduat-ing students will stay committed to mak-ing contributions in the long term.

If our graduating students need to de-velop a viable and creative “Plan B”, the same can be said for our schools, which are facing increasingly grim futures in this great recession. This is a deeper challenge, and we will need to preserve design education in the face of signifi-cant educational cut-backs. (“Budget correction” was the latest euphemism I heard.) Architects will need to protect core strengths in studio-based learning and design thinking, while imagining creative solutions for providing student opportunities, streamlining curriculum, leveraging expertise, insuring faculty development, outsourcing course com-ponents, forming creative partnerships, generating income and cutting costs.

As a professional organization, ACSA can help its member schools and faculty by a sharing of ideas and best practices.

Public DirectorJudith Welch Wegner

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TreasurerNathaniel Belcher

Florida International University

West Central DirectorGregory Palermo

Iowa State University

Student DirectorBrett Roeth

AIAS Vice President

PresidentDaniel S. Friedman

University of Washington

Canadian DirectorMichael JemtrudMcGill University

Southeast DirectorPhoebe Crisman

University of Virginia

All new ACSA board members will officially take office in July 2009.

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For the past six months I have had the privilege of serving on our ACSA Board of Directors. As someone who is particularly concerned about the larger purpose, as well as challenges of ar-chitectural education, this is an invaluable op-portunity to make contributions while gaining personal enrichment.

Subsequent to last November’s Administrators Conference in Savannah, ACSA held its board meetings. The two and a half days were filled with discussions and debates, each of them crit-ically relevant to the status of architectural edu-cation and to the priorities of the profession.

Spending long hours in the hotel’s Harbor View room, overlooking the Savannah harbor, my colleagues and I shared ideas, aspirations, satis-factions, and frustrations. Occasionally, I found myself chasing my wandering mind due to the spatial effects of the meeting room’s transpar-ent enclosure and the spectacular panoramic view of the blurred Savannah horizon. The ex-perience offered insight into what we teach to our students about processing visual sensations into perception of the world around us. It also reminded me of Peter Eisenman remarks on spatial influence: “Architecture can provide affect—a form of articulation that appeals to both the somatic and the articulate: to the body, the mind, and the eye at the same time. This is something that other media do not do.”1 None-

theless, I was not able to hide the fact that I was psychologically affected by the space, as well as the debates over the possibilities, shortcomings and the outpouring of views related to the cur-rent direction of architecture education.

I have been involved with ACSA for over a de-cade, but it is through my current appointment on the board of directors that I have developed a different perspective on the vital role this organization plays in influencing architectural education in North America and beyond. It is re-freshing to see that, through strong leadership and a structured internal management, ACSA has now more than ever assumed greater stat-ure, dignity, and credibility.

A review of the current status of ACSA com-pared to a decade ago reveals a high level of effectiveness and instrumentality in develop-ing stronger ties of fellowship and solidarity amongst the member schools. Obviously, unity of thought is unfulfilled if it is not translated into unity of action. Acting in unison does not mean that we all should do the same thing. On the contrary, when an organization devises a plan of unified action, it is the most opportune time for the diverse talents of every member to be used and implemented to the fullest. The power of collective thoughts, decisions and actions and their effect on the future of our member schools should not be underestimated. As we proceed toward our centennial celebration, we will honor and cherish this spirit and celebrate and enhance our diversity, as it is a natural part of the humanity.

The role and mission of ACSA in architectural education, and its relationship with member schools once again reminds me of Eisenman and the way he compares “design” and “archi-tecture.” In his article, “Zones of Undecidability: Destabilizing Tropes,” he quotes architect Harry Cobb: “There is a difference between design and architecture. Design is about giving satis-faction, and architecture is about subversion.” Eisenman goes on to say, ”however, the differ-ence between satisfaction and subversion may

not be as great as it initially seems, for subver-sion is also a form of satisfaction.”2

In my mind, there is a degree of similarity be-tween this analogy and the relationship of ACSA with its member schools, which in this case the individual schools are design, and ACSA is ar-chitecture. According to Eisenman, in the con-text of architecture, the possibility of subversion of our preconceived ideas with respect to the reality of time and place is an anticipated factor, and the idea of subversion in a political sense is an inherent part of its context. However, in the context of architectural education there are var-ious possibilities that seem to be repressed by the existing climate and the unique conditions of the individual institutions. Accordingly, the position of ACSA is not and should not always be about giving immediate satisfaction, and in many cases is about subversion for gaining fu-ture satisfaction.

With respect to one of the current matters of architectural education, any requirement for resolving the unmet issue of internship, and schools’ collaboration with the profession in preparing more competent and skilled gradu-ates might be considered subversion by certain institutions; however in the long run it will be a cause for satisfaction to both the institutions and the profession. Certain architectural institu-tions in the US and other parts of the world, by implementing various methodologies have suc-cessfully arrived at meaningful collaborations. There are various models around the globe to study and learn from. The world’s social context is evolving at a very fast pace and along with that the profession of architecture. Architects and architecture educators play a major role in the process of this evolution and the future of architecture. The impact of our decisions and actions might be felt and seen in our own life-time.

Throughout the years, ACSA has developed and maintained a broad mission in supporting its member schools. Member schools should not underestimate the vital role of the ACSA in sup-

the context of aRchitectuRe and acsamitra kanaani

editorial and opinion

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The recent outpouring of various and extraordinary design practices in Asia has driven home the point that the architecture of Asia today is inconceivable without an account of its historical and theoretical positions. The recent spectacular performances of architecture for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 represent just one among several attempts of countries in Asia to register their presence on the world stage today. As architecture increasingly lays claim on Asia’s imagination and creativity, it has also played an indispensible role in defining the Asian experiences and discourses of modernity, nationalism and globalization. These undertakings, however also raise critical concerns about the actual and potential impacts of architecture and urban design on social, political and environmental change.

The goal of this special issue is to explore theories, histories, pedagogies and practices that have emerged from the rapidly changing realities of architectural representation in Asia today.

Thematically, the special issue has its trio focus: Exploring the production, reception and strategies of architecture and urban design as they are crystallized in the particular context of rapid and traumatic urbanization.Examine the role of transnational design ideologies and practices which involved Western collaborators (architects and architectural schools and professional associations) in the production and representation of architecture in Asia.Examining architecture as the material site for the formation of political identities and public memories within the historical context of Asian situation.

This issue invites both rich empirical materials and new theoretical frameworks to gain a critical understanding of the design methods, the transnational institutional frameworks and socio-cultural and historical conditions in which architecture in Asia is produced, received and perceived.How have the designed environments (as the sites of Asian modernity, of political ideas and practices, of the exchanges of neoliberal capital and desire), given shape to national, transnational and regional identity formations? How have they addressed issues of urbanization and the displacement of the rural? How have they contributed to the formation of professional identities and new political subjectivities; the invention of neo-tradition and heritage, and the establishment of the disciplinary state?

What roles are played by discourses of architecture and national branding in the region, and what is new and different about them in Asia? What theoretical, cultural or political shift does this imply? Lastly, what do the current waves of “Asian architecture” mean for people and various social groups in the region today? At the center of this thematic issue lies the need to expand the theoretical and historical contexts of architecture to study critically the new knowledge and perceptions of Asia. The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and Design-based (Design as Scholarship) for inquiries into the rapidly changing realities (and thus our understandings) of Asia today. We particularly encourage submission dealing with the region of Southeast Asia.

All submissions must be received Monday, August 17, 2009, 5pm US Eastern Time Zone. Premiated design and text-based submissions will be published in Volume 63, Number 2, in the March 2010 issue of the JAE. Please consult the JAE website for submission guidelines and other useful information at (www.jaeonline.org) or visit (faculty.arch.utah.edu/jae).

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emeRging asia: Visions, tensionsand tRansfoRmationsjournal of architectural education call for submissions

Theme Editors: Marco Cenzatti, Harvard University ([email protected])Lisa Findley,California College of the Arts ([email protected])Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia ([email protected])

porting their institutional goals and objectives. In recent years, ACSA has been making strides on two of its Mission Statement:• Encouraging dialogue among the diverse ar-eas of discipline,• Facilitating teaching, research, and scholarly and creative work through interdisciplinary activi-ties.Thus, assisting the enrichment of architecture education in our society.

ACSA has also begun addressing the following mission in selected areas:• Articulating the critical issues forming the con-text of architecture education, by surfacing critical issues such as: Diversity, Environmental degrada-tion, women in academia, and their subtle and somehow undetectable discriminatory status in some of the male dominated faculty environ-ments.

However, ACSA still has major steps to take to-ward fostering public awareness of architectural education and its own mission. Many local AIA chapters are still unaware of ACSA’s existence. ACSA’s Centennial celebration is an opportunity to elevate public awareness about architecture education, its values and contributions to the so-ciety, as well as the role and mission of ACSA.

As societies are increasingly being pressured to shift their norms toward more collaborative social processes, the paradigm of architecture profes-sion is inevitably finding itself facing the same challenges. Architecture education is consequent-ly not exempt from these pressures. However, the bright aspect of this circumstance is the opportu-nity that is provided to clarify, more than ever, the benefits of architecture to the public.

Let’s not underestimate this opportunity.

1 Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998, Monacelli; illus-trated edition edition (June 2, 2003), 62 Ibid, 286

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AssociAtion of collegiAte schools

2009-2010 AcsA Awards Programcall for nominations & submissions

new online submissions

AcsA faculty Design Awards

Kiel moe, northeastern university Project: tubehouse

grace e. la & James Dallman, university of wisconsin-milwaukee/la Dallman Architects Project: Ravine house - wisconsin usA

laura garofalo & David hill, university at buffalo & north carolina state university Project: threading water

martin Despang, university of nebraskaProject: tram stations

fD cPAcsA collaborative Practice Awards

inge Roecker, university of british columbia Project: lu’s social enterprise Pharmacy and heath center

ted shelton, university of tennesseeProject: seeD: Designing for tennessee’s state Parks

Peter schneider, michael hughes, willem Van Vliet, & bruce wrightsman, university of colorado Project: Design outreach: the trailer wrap Project

craig l. wilkins, university of michigan Project: studio: Detroit hs

tmAcsA/AiA topaz medallion

Adèle naudé santos, fAiAmassachusetts institute of technology

AcsA Distinguished Professor Awards

howard Davisuniversity of oregon

Rafael longoriauniversity of houston

Judith sheinecalifornia state Polytechnic university, Pomona

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of ARchitectuRe AwARD ReciPients

Each year the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector. New online submissions will begin in Summer 2009. Please visit the ACSA website for more information. www.acsa-arch.org/awards

Journal of Architectural education best ArticlesJAePhoebe crisman, university of Virginia“working on the elizabeth River”

JAe best Design as scholarship Article

Kiel moe, northeastern university “extraordinary Performances at the salk insitute for bio-logical studies”

JAe best scholarship of Design Article

AcsA/AiAs new faculty teaching Awards

Karen lewisuniversity of Kentucky

stephen J. Phillipscalifornia Polytechnic state university, san luis obispo

thomas J. mortonArizona state university

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AcsA/AiA housing Design education Awards

tricia stuthuniversity of tennessee

stephen luoni, Aaron gabriel, Katie breshears, & cade Jacobsuniversity of Arkansas, community Design center

hDecAAcsA creative Achievement Awards

Ryan e. smithuniversity of utah

Robert millerclemson Architecture center in charelston

mitchell squireiowa state university

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This fourth annual Concrete Thinking For A Sustainable World competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility.

Category I TransiT HubDesign an environmentally responsible Public Transportation Center focusing on architectural innovations 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” digital submission boards and a design essay uploaded through the ACSA website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or Image (JPEG) Files - www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

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

registration begins dec 05 2008registration deadline Feb 09 2009submission deadline Jun 03 2009results Jun 2009

Program updates, including information on jury members, as they are confirmed, may be found on the ACSA website at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

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thinking for a sustainable worldinternational student design competition

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Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) and administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

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For complete information go to www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

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Preservation as ProvocationRe-thinking Kahn’s Salk Institute, 2008-09 International Student Design Competition

INTRODUCTIONJonas Salk commissioned the renowned Philadelphia architect Louis I Kahn to design his new Institute for Biological Studies in 1959. Together they collaborated and designed a facility uniquely suited to scientific research. This competition invites architecture students to imagine the next chapter in the life of one of America’s architectural treasures, which was designated a Historic Landmark in 1991. This challenge asks designers how the preservation of these extraordinary buildings can provoke a profound rethinking of our current conventions about composition, construction, and building performance. The aim is to envision a new type of facility that would be unimaginable without the existing structures.

THE CHALLENGEThe Salk Institute has been a highly successful research facility, but the changing landscape of science requires an evolution of the campus; along with respect of the architectural and historic integrity of the site. According to the Salk Institute’s Master Plan, “Our successful recruitment efforts are dependent on having state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment, as well as ancillary support systems that allows our scientists to focus on their work.” Embrace the design scheme and intent of the original master plan.

AwARDSWinning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $10,000. The design jury will meet in June 2009 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 web site at www.acsa arch.org/competitions.

SCHEDULE December 05, 2008 Registration Begins, online (registration is free) February 09, 2009 Registrations Deadline June 17, 2009 Submission Deadline June 2009 Prize winners chosen by the design jury Summer 2009 Competition Summary Publication

FOR MORE INFORMATIONProgram updates, including information on jury members as they are confirmed, can be found on the ACSA web site at www.acsa arch.org/competitions.s.

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INTRODUCTIONThe Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the ninth annual steel design student competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. Administered by ACSA and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

THE CHALLENGEThe ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories:

Category I – LIFE CYCLE OF A SCHOOL will challenge architecture students to design a school for the 21st century that critically examines life cycle and proposes an innovative solution in steel. The problem of urban growth and decay is larger than an individual building. Therefore, architects should consider a total life cycle assessment approach to designing buildings so that they may be adaptable, flexible, and accommodate change. This project will allow students to explore many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for schools because it offers a high 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. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over the life of the facility.

Category II – OPEN with limited restrictions. This open submission design option will permit the greatest amount of flexibility.

SCHEDULE December 5, 2008 Registration Opens online (registration is free)February 9, 2009 Registration DeadlineMay 6, 2009 Submission Deadline May 2009 Prize winners chosen by the design jurySummer 2009 Competition Summary Publication

SPONSOR American Insitute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry 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, standardization, 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.


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AwARDSWinning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000. The design jury will meet in May 2009 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 web site at acsa-arch.org and the AISC web site at aisc.org.

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December 5, 2008 registration opens online (registration is Free)February 9, 2009 registration DeaDline may 20, 2009 submission DeaDline June 2009 prize winners chosen by the Design Jurysummer 2009 competition summary publication

awarDswinning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $7,000. the design jury will meet June 2009 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/competitions). competition finalists will present their concepts at the national building museum with travel costs covered by the competition sponsors. prize winning submissions will be exhibited at the national building museum, highlighted in architectural record, displayed at the 2010 acsa annual meeting and at the 2010 aia national convention, and will be published in the competition summary publication.

competition sponsorssince 1857, the american institute of architects (aia) has represented the professional interests of america’s architects. as aia members, over 74,000 licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners express their commitment to excellence in design and livability in our nation’s buildings and communities. ehrenkrantz eckstut & Kuhn architects (ee&K architects) is an internationally-renowned firm that has distinguished itself by creating great places.mcgraw-hill construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. From project and product information to industry news, trends and forecasts, we provide industry players the tools and resources that help them save time, money, and energy.

competition organizersthe association of collegiate schools of architecture (acsa) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 to enhance the quality of architectural education. acsa is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.the national building museum is america’s leading cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and planning.essential to the profession for more than 110 years, architectural record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.

introDuctionthe 2008-2009 green community competition is oriented to challenge students to rethink their communities. From major cities to college campuses, designers, planners, policy makers, and citizens are rethinking their own towns and cities’ relationship to the environment, from where the energy originates, to where the waste ends up. the green community competition will expand on themes from the national building museum’s sustainable exhibits green community (2008-2009), big and green (2003), and the green house (2006–2007). the green community competition will focus entirely on the issues of sustainable development—how can individuals plan, design, and construct the world between the buildings.

the green community competition will encourage students to consider environmental sustainability dependant upon collective, community-scale efforts. the competition will also examine ways of reducing the impact of our built environments on the earth. the competition will explore sustainable planning strategies such as brownfield/grayfield redevelopment, transit-oriented communities, natural resource management, and land conservation.

the challengethe green community competition offers students the opportunity to think critically about their communities, looking ahead to a sustainable future. locate a site in your local community or region, identify the barriers and strengths to living sustainably, and develop a proposal to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.

2008-2009 international stuDent Design competitionhow can we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings



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2009 Architecture Schools Advancement/Development Forum

2009 Development Directors ForumApril 29, 2009 | AIA National Convention | San Fransisco, California | Moscone CenterAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | American Institute of Architects

2009 Architecture Schools Advancement/Development Forum

This forum will feature panel discussions and roundtables on issues facing university development officers. Objective of the Forum is to examine core fund-raising strategies; exchange ideas of best practices; evaluate particular challenges of architecture programs; and to develop new approaches to fundraising and development opportunities. The Forum will be a wonderful opportunity to network with your peers. Bring questions and ideas to share with your development colleagues.

The Forum will take place durring the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2009 National Convention held in San Fransisco, CA. It will be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 from 8:30 am - 5:00 pm. Registration for the Forum will include the all the days activities, breakfast, lunch, and reception.

DatesAIA National Convention April 30 - May 2, 2009Development Directors Forum Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm

Registration for the 2009 Development Directors Forum will open February 3, 2009

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November 4-7, 2009St. Louis, Missouri

The first joint conference for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA)

2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

ART+ARCHITECTUREECONOMIES:Establishing new directions for creative leadership, education and practice

Host School: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis

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theme The first joint Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and National Council of Art Administrators (ACSA/NCAA) administrators’ conference, ECoNomiES: ArT + ArChiTECTurE, is being planned for expansive and inclusive interpretation – promoting rich dialogue between both groups of leaders about current issues in the fields of art, architecture, and design education.

This timely theme will serve as a catalyst in the discussion of broad areas such as efficiency, ecology, sustainability, technology, entrepeneurship, ethics, public art, urbanism, the new economy, and the market.

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host sChool Washington University in st. loUis

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October 15-17, 2009 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Host School: University of New Mexico & University of Texas ArlingtonCo-chairs: Tim Castillo, Phillip Gallegos, Kristina H. Yu, University of New Mexico | Brad Bell, Wanda Dye, Kathryn Holliday, University of Texas at Arlington

Understanding the value of “place” and cultural specificity bring a unique design, technical, and eco-nomic responses that challenges traditional canons of practice and pedagogy.

The contemporary world is undergoing a major shift in cultural process, global culture is a ubiquitous condition that is a product of media and emerging networks defined by new technologies. As designers we are asked to respond and shape the future utiliz-ing new tools to create designs that will respond to fluid transformation of built environment.

As we begin to understand the future of design as a convergence of disciplines, culture and technology, a new paradigm for creating space can emerge. As schools of design begin to recalibrate, the profession continues to explore the interdisciplinary collabora-tion as a means of execution.

Shifting design identity intends to explore this new paradigm influenced by culture, context, sustain-ability and technology while exploring these transfor-mations occurring in pedagogy and practice in the global environment.

Within the context of practice and pedagogy of de-sign, the conference title Shifting Design Identity will seek to address international and regional southwest responses to key questions:

Design Identity: Design roles are in a tumultuous world of collaboration, competition, and collegiality with many disciplines. A principal question to ex-plore is the definition of “design” and “role” where professions have lost much of their force for change to global pressures in the Southwest.Economic: The global economy is shifting its pri-orities to address depleting resources and environ-mental conditions. Designers today are faced with emerging challenges to develop new models for practice and pedagogy that address the needs of our global environment. Cultural: The Southwest, in particular, and the North American-Latin-Indigenous community, in general, characterize a region of parallel world-views, cultures, history, contemporary agendas, and contradictions. Can the inconstancy of land, cultural territories, and technologies form mean-ingful relationships thru design?Technologies: Given that design is not stable by na-ture, cans the range of realities: virtual to the real, and the tools that help create it, reconcile shifting sense of space and place?

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CULtUrEANdINhABItINgthEEvErydAyLANdSCApEOur daily experiences – working, shopping, driving, living in our homes -- are made up of encounters with ubiquitous, non-specific design. “One size fits all” structures and spaces are the status quo in our progressively complex, globalized world. We find our-selves drawn into an unavoidable relationship with the built environment. Paul Groth writes: “Landscape denotes the interaction of people and place, a social group and its spaces, particularly to the space the group belongs and from which its members derive some part of their identity and meaning.” (p.1, Un-derstanding Ordinary Landscapes) The identities of inhabitants are impacted by these spaces and slowly, everyday activities in everyday landscapes can accu-mulate gradually into cultural space.

EMErgINgtEChNOLOgIESThe evolution and application of digital technol-ogy has reconfigured the design profession. As new technologies continue to emerge, integration and exploration have redefined the way think about the architectural design process. Designers are now pre-sented with a broad spectrum of cross-disciplinary opportunities to enhance and expand current design methodologies. As these new innovative strategies continue to emerge, avenues for social and cultural application are providing a dynamic new direction for how we practice and teach design.

COMMUNItyENgAgEMENtArchitecture in the modern era is engaged in critical thinking about complex societal systems. A tremen-dous pressure for change challenges historical myths about the design professions. From the utopianism of the modernist movement to the hands-on engage-ment of the deign-build ethos, architects have devel-oped multiple strategies for creating an architecture that serves a broad sense of external community. Architecture and design education has come under increasing pressure to consider multiple layers of dis-ciplines, technologies, and cultural systems across regions, countries and peoples.

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submission deadlines Abstracts Due: May, 4, 2009 | Accepted/Decline Response: June 1, 2009

Final Papers Due: September 15, 2009

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thursdayOctober15,2009Keynote Speaker: UNM SponsoredOpening Reception

Friday,October16,2009Culture and Inhabiting the Everyday Landscape8:30 – 10:00 Session 1: Kristina Yu, UNM10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Wanda Dye, UTALunchEmerging Technologies1:30 – 3:00 Session 3: Tim Castillo, UNM3:30 – 5:00 Session 4: Bradley Bell, UTAKeynote Speaker: UTA Sponsored

Saturday,October17,2009Community Engagement8:30- 10:00 Session 5: Kathryn Holliday, UTA10:30- 12:00 Session 6: Phillip Gallegos, UNMLunchAfternoon Tours: Los Alamos & Acoma

2009 ACSA Southwest Fall ConferenceChang[e]ing Identities; Design, Culture + Technology

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New OrleaNs | March 4-7, 2010

hOst schOOl Tulane University

cO-chairsBruce Goodwin, Tulane University Judith Kinnard, Tulane University

t h e M e OverviewWhat is the role of the building in architectural discourse today? As schools engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues that are essential to the expanded field of architectural practice, does the art and craft of building design remain central to our curricula? Sophisticated technologies now allow us to preview the appearance and predict the performance of proposed buildings. Our traditional con-ception of design is challenged as decision-making can be automated and building parts can be cut, routed or printed to exact tolerances. Yet the ecological, economic and cultural contingencies that surround each project are increasingly complex. Recent events have exposed the fragility of buildings as objects in the face of natural and man-made forces and the critical role of infrastruc-ture has been made increasingly apparent.

The 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting will engage multiple themes associated with the changing art of building both as artifact and as process in architecture and related dis-ciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional definitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.

These debates will be informed by the city of New Or-leans. More than 3 years after Hurricane Katrina the process and results of the re-building efforts at work in this most vibrant and unique of American cities will be an important point of reference and topic for discussion.

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Submissions Due: September 30, 2009

The following call for submissions is the result of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed process. Full topic descriptions are available at:

www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

Bridging the Gap Between Qualities and

Quantities in Design PracticeFranca Trubiano, Georgia Institute of Technology

Despite conditions of need and crisis, many false and unproductive characterizations continue to shape the teaching of design in schools of architecture. Most ev-ident is the divide that separates qualitative and quan-titative descriptions, and measurements of space and matter. This session encourages the presentation and discussion of architectural projects, student or other-wise, theoretical or built, conceived and executed us-ing analytical processes predicated on the evaluation of specified data-scapes. The adoption of verifiable processes, whether in service to structural design, environmental sustainability, energy measurements or systems management, can contribute to the defi-nition of a building’s performance and as such begin to bridge the present divide. Papers are sought which make evident the use of analytical processes in the re-conceptualization of architectural design.

Constructs and Concepts: Building in the

Design StudioScott Murray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In recent decades, architectural practice has tradi-tionally been marked by a pervasive and perhaps nec-essary, though one might say unnatural, separation of the process of design from the act of building. This di-vergence is codified in the terminology of practice: the transition from the design development phase to con-struction documents technically marks a clean break at the end of a project’s design and the beginning of its construction. The rise of construction management, as a profession outside of architecture, has further en-trenched the architect’s disassociation with building. These distinctions are perhaps just as evident in ar-chitecture schools, where design studios do not typi-cally address the issues and challenges arising from construction, ideas more often tackled in technology courses which may or may not be related to studio work. This session invites papers and projects that explore diverse strategies for integrating the physical act of making into a broader definition of design.

Detail Question(ed)Alexandder Ortenberg and Axel Schmitzberger, Califor-nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona

The term “detail” itself has undergone many chang-es in meaning and identity and is in need of special attention. Architecture schools do not teach how to develop building details—even though the ma-jority of offices will charge entry level employees with precisely this type of architectural produc-tion. We seem to agree that once young archi-tects have acquired problem solving skills they will be able to master the specifics of detail on their own. This question, however, has not been adequately discussed as a theoretical subject. The proposed session attempts to reinvigorate the discourse of the detail as part of architectural edu-cation, as a practical issue and as an ethical and philosophical quest.

Disaster as Design Moment in New Orleans

and BeyondJacob A. Wagner, University of Missouri-Kansas City

This session seeks papers that address the con-cept of a “design moment” in the wake of disas-ters, including Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The idea of a “design moment” suggests an un-common opportunity to create significant interven-tions in the basic urban form of a particular city. In contrast to the incremental growth of a city, design moments are characterized by dramatic al-terations of urban form in a short period of time that may accelerate existing trends or radically trans-form building practice. Design moments provide a critical juncture in the life of a particular city that reveal both continuity and conflict with the urban past. Beyond the impacts to the physical city, a de-sign moment can alter the social structure, act as a catalyst for new approaches to design education, or foster new schools of thought that influence the design professions for several decades.

energy and environmental simulation in the

Design studioUte Poerschke, Lisa D. Iulo, and Loukas N. Kalisperis, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe most important decisions related to energy are made in the early design stage, for example the building’s siting and orientation, its main material-ity and construction. Since this stage is rarely ac-companied by consultants for reasons of cost and time, architects increasingly perform energy and environmental simulation in order to receive alter-native input for the idea generation process. The session seeks papers that discuss the role of en-ergy and environmental simulation in the architec-ture and urban design curricula. The main intent of this session is to collect, exchange, and compare teaching experiences of implementing energy and environmental simulation in architectural under-graduate and graduate courses in order to further enhance integrated strategies and inspire curricu-lum refinements.

Flood architectureEduard Epp, University of ManitobaFlood Architecture addresses cultural settlement ideals and practices in geographic regions tem-porally affected by extreme hydrological/climatic cycles, primarily in river basins. It is constituted and determined by geophysical, technological, and socio-cultural systems working inter-dependently in time, space, and formal constitution. Flood Archi-tecture recognizes and addresses the [potential] leadership role of the design disciplines [architects, industrial designers, landscape architects, urban designers] as ‘agents of positive change’ together with other allied disciplines including politicians, civic administrators, engineers, community activ-ists, and so on. The opportunity arises for leading academics, practitioners and students to address Flood Architecture in relation to these sub-themes through both poetic and purposeful design propos-als and works and to provide evidence through a very significant academic setting.

Flow and contemporary architecture PracticeNana Last, Rice UniversityOne of the prevailing constructs of contemporary architecture practice is that of flow. Appearing in and around various discussions from smooth space, to systems theory, material logics, emer-gence and temporality, the construct of flow is nearly as ubiquitous as it is broad. This makes the intersections between flow and architecture at once obvious and ill-defined, potentially potent and transformative yet too frequently associated solely with specific types of formal manipulations. The construct of flow, however, is positioned to serve as more than a design tool for architecture: it is situated in a position to open up issues of deep concern to architecture’s own definition, function-ing and practical limits. This panel seeks papers that examine models, constructs and phenomena of flow in modern and contemporary architecture, landscape and urban practices. Papers on all as-pects of this topic that examine how flow contrib-utes to or reimagines the discipline and practice of architecture.

honorable Mention: losing to the competitionMichael A. McClure, University of Louisiana at LafayetteThis session aims to interrogate the value of com-petition entries that did not make the cut, and the role of competitions in design practice and education. Specific ‘losing’ entries are important examples of the working practices of particular emerging and established designers. The schemes of academic design competitions that did not win or place nonetheless hold great value for the stu-dents, the school, and the larger academy.The ses-sion welcomes debate regarding their role within larger contexts; social, practical, historical, peda-gogical; it welcomes pedagogical approaches, historical and contemporary practices, multi-disci-plinary comparisons that engage competitions as an active agent in the work

s u B M i s s i O N r e Q u i r e M e N t s

All papers will undergo a blind peer review pro-cess. Session Topic Chairs will take into consid-eration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by 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 Annual Meeting as pri-mary author or co-author. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools or become supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission.

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

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The deadline for submitting a paper to a session for the Annual Meeting is September 30, 2009. Au-thors will submit papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your paper, you will be guided with the Web interface, through the fol-lowing steps.

1. Log in with your ACSA username and pass-word.

2. Enter the title of your paper.

3. Select the Session Topic for your submission.

4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any.

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 maintain an anonymous review process.

* Do not include an abstract in the file.

* Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included.

* No more than five images may be used in the paper. Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper.

7. Click Submit to finalize your submission. Note: Your paper is not submitted unless you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

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integrating sustainability into architectural

education: are we there Yet?John B. Hertz, University of Texas at San AntonioSustainability is now a key issue in the ethical and technical concerns of practicing professionals. This session will measure the progress of the in-tegration of these same concerns into the broader architectural curriculum. This session will ask par-ticipants to take part in a discussion about the ped-agogical changes that are integrating sustainabil-ity into the broader curriculum, including technical areas as well as studio, history/theory, and others. While case studies are important as a snapshot of where we are, papers should also reflect on how individual course experiences relate holistically to other academic offerings and to the curriculum as a whole. It is also open to more encompassing viewpoints regarding the greening of architectural education, including the role of external forces, such as accreditation criteria or calls by the AIA for greater responsibility in the preparation of fu-ture professionals.

intersecting infrastructures: Public works

and the Public realm Katherine W. Rinne, California College of the Arts

Infrastructure is the foundation of every community and it is the quality and extent of that infrastructure that determines in large part the economic and so-cial health of towns and cities. Clean water, good schools, affordable housing, and reliable public transportation are all essential components of city building and for the creation of a stimulating and open public realm. This session will focus on archi-tectural, landscape, and urban research, practice, and teaching that promotes deeper understandings of the connections between the construction of civic infrastructures and the construction of a pub-lic realm in cities and towns, and the creation of social equity. Papers that address how infrastruc-tures can be used as generator of design thinking (rather than as afterthoughts left to engineers) are especially welcome as are those that address the rebuilding and restoration of existing or failed in-frastructures as opportunities to create a more just environment.

is architecture critical?Marc J. Neveu, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Within the context of natural, designed, economic, environmental, and other disasters, the justification of architecture has been understandably put into question. What guides the making of architecture? Is it an immediate response to a crisis; the desire for long-term social well-being; the effect of build-ing on natural resources; or is it simply an econom-ic opportunity? What role does theory, if any, still play? This session asks the question: Can architec-ture still be critical? This session seeks papers that argue for, or against, demonstrate, reveal, or casti-gate architecture as a critical project. Papers may relate to projects that are historical, contemporary, future oriented, academic or professional.

Making sense of the architectural Production

of ‘Others’Sabir Khan, Georgia TechFor a number of well-intentioned, if under-reflect-ed, reasons - globalization of practice, cross-cul-tural awareness, NAAB criteria, curricular breadth - there is general agreement that courses on the architecture of people, periods, and places out-side the Greco-Roman diffusion stream ought to be included in the curricula of US architecture schools. This session proposes to give these cours-es - and the theoretical and pedagogical questions that their presence in architectural curricula raises - the comprehensive appraisal they rarely get. This session invites papers that unpack courses on ar-chitectural production in the ‘non-West’ in order to engage and map underlying epistemological and methodological questions. The larger goal of this session is to sponsor a clear-headed conversation about the relationship of such courses to architec-tural curricula and to architectural practice today.

Material Making: the Process of Precedent Gail Peter Borden, University of Southern California

Making is a fundamental process of architecture. Material is essential to the activity of design as well as the resultant of the process. The role of making and the dialogue of a design with material is the fo-cus of this session. The session will illuminate the potential of new materials, provide a re-interpreta-tion of common “everyday” materials, and embrace the process of making as a generative mechanism of form. Papers should look at the particular the role of materials in architecture and their influence on precedents [both contemporary and historical] of design process, fabrication methodology, con-struction procedures and legibility and influence on built work. As in any case study method, pa-pers should look for the deeper didactic lessons of the precedent. The lessons may be practical and technical in nature, or may address qualitative and aesthetic realms. Papers for this session should be founded in materials with the desire to identify les-sons from their innate qualities and the process of their use through design precedents.

Public-interest architectureElizabeth Martin, Southern Polytechnic State University

Architects and all design professionals are under-going a major transformation that is both proac-tive (searching for roles with greater relevance) and reactive (responsing to the humanitarian and environmental crisis facing the world). The col-laborative projects or research studies explored in this session takes the point-of-view that an archi-tecture of public-interest might emerge in partner-ship with practice, ie, public health, environmental advocacy groups, or design/build clients. This ses-sion will demonstrate the modest, yet we believe productive ways to prepare architecture students to serve as stewards for our communities.

re-Building Mobility: Mobile architecture and the effects on Design, culture, society and the environment John Enright, University of Southern CaliforniaThis topic addresses mobility and prefabrication in architecture and seeks proposals that examine new models and research that further the discussion of how mobility and prefabrication are affecting design and education. It has been fifty years since a group of Airstreams caravaned through Africa. Since that time, the notion of mobility in architecture has had a rich history, from Fuller’s early work involving mobility and pre-fabrication to today’s preoccupa-tion with digital technologies. The recent Hurricane Katrina disaster produced the “FEMA trailer,” as provisional housing that remained for months as urban reminders of the tragedy. This topic asks for contributions that address the breadth of mobility and prefabrication in architecture from high-end prefab techniques and strategies, to possibilities involving efficient alternatives for disaster relief, to new paradigms in design technology and education.

re-generating Form: New and Old Methods of conceiving, Finding, generating, compos-ing, and iterating Forms in architectureWilliam T Willoughby, Louisiana Tech UniversityAs we rebuild architecture today, each era of de-signers must generate forms that best reflect their times’ available technology. Today, generative scripting for 3-D modeling application and tools al-low designers to parametrically adjust, transform dynamically, and evolve forms that improve perfor-mance based on environmental or programmatic demands. The transparency of tracing paper al-lowed past generations of designers to overlay, de-liberate over change, and explore subtle iterations of design. Computational equivalents now allow architects to explore, analyze, and generate varia-tions in building form dynamically. In an attempt to critically assess new and old methods of form finding and responses to building performance issues, this session seeks current scholarship on form generation as well as historical examples of iterative design methods.

shrinking cities syndrome: agendas for re-

Building Andreas Luescher, Bowling Green State UniversitySujata Shetty, University of ToledoCites all over the world are facing the prospect of declining populations, collectively becoming part of a global shrinking city phenomenon. While much of the discussion of shrinking cities has fo-cused on Europe, the challenge is acute in the U.S., where, following suburbanization, many cities now present a classic ‘doughnut’ form – a sparse core surrounded by rings of smaller cities. Cities in the U.S. industrial mid-west are facing the additional consequences of the decline of the manufacturing industry and the housing foreclosure crisis. The session takes advantage of the conference themes to reflect on the challenge of preserving and reus-ing urban fabric with architectural and cultural in-terest within shrinking cities.

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surveying architectural history and theoryMarc J. Neveu and Don Choi, California Polytechnic State University

Almost every school of architecture offers a suite of courses in architectural history and theory. But what purposes do these classes serve? After all, the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) requires not that such history courses be taught but simply that students learn about West-ern, non-Western, and national/regional traditions. At a time when architectural technology, peda-gogical approaches, and historical methodology are changing rapidly, how might history and theory coursework be reconceived? This session aims to examine strategies by which architectural history and theory courses can address contemporary de-velopments in architectural history, practice and pedagogy. This session invites papers that ques-tion the content, role, and goals of courses in ar-chitectural history and theory.

teaching architecture - Perfecting Pedagogy Robert J. Dermody, Roger Williams University

Every day, professors of architecture strive to teach, inspire and engage their students in various subjects from history and studio, to technology and theory. They explain, share, convey, and impart knowledge using a wide variety of formats and methods. They do this as both accrediting bodies and the profession require increased knowledge and skills from graduates of architecture programs. This session seeks papers that share best practices of teaching all courses in architecture degree pro-grams in today’s more technically demanding envi-ronment. As schools attempt to satisfy increasing NAAB requirements, and accommodate students’ desire for more technology teaching methods must evolve. Presentations in this session will offer an opportunity for faculty members of all levels to engage in a dialogue about the craft of teaching architecture.

the common Benefit Of common good De-

sign-BuildAnselmo G. Canfora, University of VirginiaIn more recent times, architecture schools across the US have contributed substantially to humanitar-ian efforts to mend or improve the built environment for populations in dire need. Building on the activism and the hands-on teaching of the late Samuel Mock-bee, many design-build programs have focused a lot of energy, effort, and resources on helping residents of underserved communities regain a sense of dig-nity by helping design and build housing, schools, and community facilities. A number of notable or-ganizations like Architects Without Frontiers, Archi-tecture for Humanity, Design Corps, and Habit for Humanity have formed collaborative partnerships with schools of architecture on the frontline of this massive and complex effort to assist those in need. This session seeks papers and presentations exam-ining design-build programs and projects that effec-tively integrate humanitarian directives and compre-hensive pedagogical frameworks. While raising the level of understanding, consciousness and ethics of the architectural academic community.

Open sessionACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into one of the above topics.

Pa P e r P r e s e N tat i O N All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the session topic chairs. Selection is based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the discipline of architecture, 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 complete 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, normally the topic chair. Session moderators will notify au-thors in advance of session guidelines as well as the general expectations for the session. Modera-tors 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 request 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 regard-ing a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the confer-ence schedule accordingly. Session topics must receive a minimum of 6 reviewable submissions in order for the session to continue in the review process. If a session receives fewer than 6 sub-missions, the session will be canceled, the papers referred to the Open Session topic and grouped with other open papers on similar subjects for standard review. Chairs of canceled sessions will be invited to chair an Open Session and continue overseeing the peer review process and make decisions on papers.

Accepted papers will be published in a digital proceddings avialable for free download from the ACSA website and a printed version on the pro-ceeddings will be availbale for purchse after the meeting.

Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings are required to register for the Annual Meeting.

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April—Call for Papers announced

July 15—Paper submission site opens

September 30—Paper submission deadline

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

November 20—Final revised papers and copy-right forms due

December 16—Paper presenter registration deadline

Contact Mary Lou Baily, ACSA Conferences Manager, with questions about paper submissions ([email protected], 202.785.2324 x2)

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regional news

BOSTOn ArChITECTUrAl COllEgE

The Boston Architectural College is pleased to announce the appointment of President Ted landsmark to two design foundations: The Board of Trustees of the ASID Foundation (an affiliate of the American Society of Interior Designers) and to the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation (an affiliate of the American Institute of Architects). Landsmark states, “Diverse design fields are changing rapidly. I am very excited about contributing to these foundations’ efforts to support innovative design education, collaborative research, and public service.”

Following a rigorous and comprehensive na-tional search, President Theodore C. Landsmark is pleased to announce the appointment of Ju-lia halevy as Provost of the Boston Architec-tural College.

Julia Halevy was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at Lesley University between 2004 and 2009, after serving Antioch University at its graduate campus in Keene, New Hampshire for twenty-one years.

Dr. Landsmark states, “Julia brings extensive experience as a professional schools educator, collaborative planner and higher education manager. She is an educator whose passion and skill shaping graduate and online professional education will be invaluable as the BAC continues to lead the transformation of practice based design education.” Julia will begin work on March 1, 2009.

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In the fall of 2008, Dr. Ulrike Altenmüller joined the Department of Architecture & Interiors at Drexel University as Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of the Architecture Program. She earned both her professional degree and doctorate from the School of Architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany, and her dissertation was on innovative architectural design in Finland’s elementary and secondary schools. She has published frequently, worked at architectural design firms in Germany, NYC and Washington, and has taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, and for the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center affiliated with Virginia Tech. She is a registered architect in Germany, and has most recently worked as an Associate at RTKL Inc. in Washington, D.C., where she was the project architect for the first green 40-story high-rise to be built in Miami.

lauren Karwoski Magee joined the Department of Architecture & Interiors in 2007 as Director of the Architecture Program’s Instruction in Representation. She teaches digital and traditional drawing courses and design studios. Before joining the faculty at Drexel, Lauren was an Instructor at Illinois Institute of Technology in the 5-year Bachelor of Architecture program, and developed courses in woodworking, welding, furniture design and architectural acoustics at Southern California Institute of Architecture. She worked in architecture firms in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia prior to starting her own firm, The Drafted Line, specializing in architecture, graphic design and custom furniture design and construction. Lauren received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and her Master of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture.

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The School of Architecture is working on significant funded research into the public design approvals process. george Thrush, along with NU research associate Jie-Eun Hwang, is working

on a new tool called the Urban Gauge < http://www.northeastern.edu/urbangauge/> , which can help cities and towns to reconcile the often difficult choices between local neighborhood concerns, state or regional concerns, and the financial viability of a given privately financed large-scale development project.

2008-09 saw the Rome Program grow to about 40 students per semester, studying in the heart of Rome under the direction of Northeastern lecturer Scott Schlimgen. The School is working on identifying a permanent space on the banks of the Tiber River across from the city center for the fall of 2009.

Kiel Moe published his first book, Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture with Princeton Architectural Press in 2008, and is working on his next, Thermally Active Surfaces. Lawrence published the 10th issue of Praxis, “Urban Matters.” Several other faculty members have books in progress, including lucy Maulsby, Mardges Bacon, Elizabeth Cromley, George Thrush, roy Kozlvsky, and Amanda lawrence.

The School was ranked 12th in the United States in faculty research in 2007, and is working hard to rise further.

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Associate Professors of Architecture robert holland and Ute Poerschke along with Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering John Messner, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Madis Pihlak, are offering a prototype interdisciplinary Building Information Modeling Studio during Spring Semester 2009. This studio explores collaborative design for an elementary school using Building Information Modeling techniques. Eighteen students form three teams of six students (one each from architecture, landscape architecture and the four architectural engineering options – construction management, structural engineering, mechanical systems engineering and lighting design / electrical engineering). This course offering is funded by the Raymond

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A. Bowers Program for Excellence in Design and Construction of the Built Environment which is an endowment established at Penn State to promote interdisciplinary study and research.

The Penn State Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Professor Emeritus Dan Jones’ firm was awarded the development of construction drawings for Cameron Park in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. The project was awarded from an RFP based on the conceptual design study generated in Assistant Professor Caru Bowns’ Spring Semester 2008 community design studio. This successful collaboration between the class and the community translated into consensus that resulted in successful conceptual design process and savings for the community.

Penn State’s Fall 2009 Fourth-year urban design studio, lead by Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Madis Pihlak and Assistant Professor of Architecture lisa Iulo will conduct an international virtual urban design studio with the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide, Australia dealing with the Toronto Waterfront. The site will be redeveloped as a low ecological footprint urban community for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), one of the fifth fastest growing areas in North America. Penn State students will work along side with Australian students for a week on the site and over a six-week period with Internet video conferencing technology. This studio builds upon a long-standing relationship that Associate Professor Pihlak has developed in the City of Toronto.

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Assistant Professor Jean-François Bédard delivered a lecture at the College Art Association 97th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on February 27, 2009. His talk, entitled “Oppenord in Italy,” focused on the ambiguous reaction of the French to the Italian Baroque, as made evident by works of French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742).

Professor Bruce Coleman recently submitted an entry to the Woburn Public Library Expansion

Ideas Competition. The Woburn Massachusetts Library was designed by H. H. Richardson in 1880 and is one of his finest buildings. The competition sought ideas for an addition that would double the size of the library. Students Michael Nartey and Elizabeth Newcomb assisted.

Professor randall Korman, currently on leave from Syracuse, has been awarded the Batza Professorship in Art and Art History at Colgate University for the Spring 2009 semester.

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Maqsood Ahmed was the winner of the Industrial Fabrics Association International 2008 International Achievement Awards and received an Outstanding Achievement for his Toronto Pearson International Airport, Covered Walkway entry. There were professionals from 16 countries that entered 408 projects in 28 categories.

Introversions¸ a project by Professor Shadi nazarian, a researcher in the Situated Technologies Graduate Research Group, opened in the Lightwell Gallery at the Center for the Arts. A sculptural installation that intersects art, architecture and emergent technology, Introversions creates an interactive spatial, tactile and ocular experience for viewers. The audience is lured toward a bright EL-light framed by an object hovering above the ground. The view of the lure is denied when the viewer gets too close, encouraging the viewer to become aware of the cognitive processes we undergo as we navigate through the environments in which we live. According to Timothy Murray, “Introversions delights its viewers not merely as an architectural object to be passively seen and desired from afar, but as an artistic event that actively elicits ocular surprise while soliciting interactive experience from within.”

James lowder, the 2008-09 McHale Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, is a graduate of Princeton University. James has worked in practice with Daniel Libeskind, Eisenman Architects, Reiser + Umemoto and Coop Himmelblau. He has been succesful in a number of significant design proposals for

projects in Europe and in Asia and has also taught both in North America and Australia.

Michael Kubo will be the 2008-09 Banham Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning. A graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Michael has worked with the Office of Metropolitan Architecture/AMO in Rotterdam, taught at the GSD and Pratt Institute in New York, and has been actively involved with a wide range of architectural publications. The founder and editorial director of Actar Publishers Inc. in New York, he has authored and edited numerous books including The Function of Ornament with Farshid Moussavi. He also curated and designed the exhibition, “Learning from Cities,” which was shown at the 10th Annual International Architecture Biennale in Venice.

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Associate Professor Carol Burns, FAIA, joined the faculty in spring 2009. She received March and BA degrees from Yale University. Burns has taught at schools in including Yale, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching have focused on buildings and the spaces between them, including American housing as well as campus design and student housing. Her most recent book, Site Matters, released by Routledge in 2005, reconsiders the meaning of site from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Burns is a principal of Boston-based Taylor & Burns Architects, which concentrates on design for institutions and community, with a specialty in design of assembly spaces. She has engaged for years in fulltime practice, and her firm was recognized for design in 2008 with Honor Awards from the Boston Society of Architects and from AIA New England for the new Bennington College Student Center and also with a BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence for the Recital Hall at Salem State College.

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Institute at the Kennedy School of Government, and serves on the Design Review Board for Ohio State University. In 2004 Burns helped found the BSA Research Awards program which, together with the new AIA awards programs initiated since then, has granted more than $800,000 in funding for research. Associate Professors robert Cowherd and Manuel Delgado organized the international symposium ³Designing For Life: Medellín | Cara-cas” bringing the leaders most responsible for the remarkable transformation of those two Lat-in American cities. On September 22, panelists Alejandro Echeverri and Jorge Perez Jaramillo of Medellin; María Isabel Peña and Oscar Tenreiro of Caracas; and Carlos Brillembourg of New York discussed the transformative role design can play when married to progressive public policy and visionary leadership. The highlight of the event was an inspired keynote address by Dr. Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, former Mayor of Medellín and Colombian presidential candidate. During the month of September, Wentworth Architec-ture Department also hosted three exhibitions: “Caracas Cenital | Aerial Caracas”, “Transform-ing Medellín: 10 Projects,” and “ Bitácora: Braid-ed Histories” with sponsorship from Econoinvest and Caracas Foundation for Urban Culture.

For those of us preparing the next generation of leaders to overcome the challenges of an

increasingly urban world, this event presented the opportunity to engage in a rich exchange of ideas with the leaders most responsible for the remarkable successes of Medellin and Caracas. This historic exchange brought together students, academics, industry professionals, and government officials to develop our capacity as a society to envision and implement changes that improve the quality of life for our citizens.Professor Delgado organized the third consecutive joint design studio between Wentworth Architecture Department and the Universidad Central de Venezuela. This program has been sponsored by Wentworth Architecture Department and the office of Community and Learning Partnerships. In previous years, students from both universities have worked closely with organizations from Roslindale and East Boston in developing urban design guidelines to help the communities in their respective master planning processes. Last summer, Prof. Delgado, Prof. María Peña and Prof. rafael Urbina, with a group of 12 students from the UCV’s School of Architecture and Urbanism, began the preliminary research and urban design proposals for Lower Roxbury. In the spring semester, Wentworth Architecture, 4th.-Year Housing/Community Design Studio, with the technical support of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, will continued the plan, developing urban design guidelines and mixed-use projects for the vacant lots in the crossing of Washington Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard, adjacent to Dudley Square.

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Associate Professor robert Arens, Assistant Professor Mark Cabrinha, Assistant Professor Tom di Santo, Associate Professor Jim Doerfler, Assistant Professor Doug Jackson, and Assistant Professor Marc neveu, will be presenting papers at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, March 26-27, 2009.

Assistant Professor Tom di Santo received a grant from the Wisconsin Preservation Trust and Reinhart Boerner Van Dueren to execute a three day workshop and lecture on design-build fabrication, the design-build process and installation work in the public realm, as part of the Urban Edge Studio at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Professor Thomas Fowler and Lecturer Barry Williams were awarded a National AIA Education Honor Award for their collaborative work in integrating Arch 352 Design Studio & Arch 307 Environmental Controls Systems Activity Courses for over a four year period. Award will be presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting, and their winning presentations boards will be displayed at the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, April 30-May 2, 2009.

Lecturer ralph roesling’s office Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects received two AIA awards from the Ventura County Chapter for a new branch library and the reconstruction of the Development Services Center building both in the City of Oxnard The jury awarded the top Honor Award to the Development Services Center project for the understated architectural expression of the new expansions and fro the overall innovative sustainability solutions.

Associate Professor Sandy Stannard will be chairing the How Long Can You Tread Water? session at the ACSA Annual Meeting.

Lecturer Keith Wiley will be presenting a paper at the 25th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at the College of Art and Design, LSU, in Baton Rouge, LA, March 12-14, 2009.

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Montana State University School of Architecture is offering a summer 2009 study abroad oppor-tunity to faculty, practitioners and students in Zawiya Ahansal, a remote region of Morocco’s Central High Atlas Mountains. The project con-sists of the hands on renovation of a 300 year old igherm (granary) into a regional library and community center. The region’s mountain cul-ture offers a unique immersion into the history, architecture, landscape and native society. Par-ticipants will spend 3 to 6 weeks in May and June living and working side by side with locals on project documentation, programming, and stabilization of the structure. The multi year proj-ect is being supported by The Igherm Restora-tion and Library Project - a U.S. based nonprofit organization. In addition to the renovation work this unique study abroad program will immerse the participants into the village, the culture and a subsistence way of life that is unparalleled. For more information on the program, contact Bill Rea at [email protected].

Associate Professor Maire O’neill had two sets of composite drawings accepted for the Design Communication Association (DCA) Juried Draw-ing Exhibition. The measured field drawings are

part of an extended research project recording and analyzing the historic rural building stock of the region surrounding Bozeman, Montana. The project has served as a teaching/learning tool engaging both graduate and undergradu-ate students in the process of field work and documentation. The exhibit will be featured at the March 2009 DCA Conference at Southern Polytechnic University, Marietta, Georgia.

Assistant Professor Zuzanna Karczewska’s re-search concerned with “Sketch and Analytical Drawing in the Design Process of the Chapel at Ronchamp” will be presented and published at the LeCorbusier Symposium at the Southern Polytechnic in Atlanta.

The Kohala Center, located in Waimea on the is-land of Hawaii, invited six graduate students and Professor John C. Brittingham back to the is-land to present the outcome of the fall semester studio titled Sustaining Kukai’au Ranch: reading and rendering the ethic of the landscape. The project presented the opportunity to develop a culturally, and environmentally, specific sustain-able planning and design project for the Kukai‘au Ranch - a 10,000 acre ranch located on the Ha-makua Coast of Hawai‘i Island. The proposal

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serves as a counterpoint to current widespread tourism and development strategies in the Ha-waiian Islands. The strategy is particularly poi-gnant when thinking of the area’s geographical isolation and its almost complete dependence on importing energy, manufactured goods and food. An understanding of the ancient Hawaiian concept of the ahupua’a underscores the project and seeks to recover in a contemporary form the cultural and land-use practices of this once self-sustaining community. The Kukai’au ahuppua’a inspires others to reconsider how they manage the land and its resources. The proposal is char-acterized by an integrated, sustainable and di-versified approach. It included a business analy-sis of ranching, agriculture, reforestation, natural energy resources (rain, wind, water, and sun), conservation easements, a non-profit institute for research, education and outreach, historic preservation, Hawaiian homelands agriculture and housing, and more. The proposal is currently under review for implementation.

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The University of Arizona School of Architecture has been ranked 12th by Design Intelligence in its 10th annual ranking of Bachelor of Architecture programs. Design Intelligence determines the rankings based upon input from practitioners, deans and chairs, campus environment and stu-dent evaluations and accreditation standings.

Professor nader Chalfoun, Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Design and Energy Con-servation, received two major grants from the National Park Service to conduct energy assess-ments of the Petrified National Forest National Park in Northern Arizona. The first project is to engage his “House Energy Doctor” gradu-ate program to conduct on-site state-of-the-art “Energy Audits” for the whole park, emphasiz-ing a global approach to achieve sustainability through energy conservation and promoting the use of natural energy sources. The study will continue with the development of a com-prehensive Energy Plan that will be implement-ed in a multi-year project to drastically reduce energy consumption in the Park and to develop sustainable energy strategies compatible with the overall vision of the park. These sustain-ability measures will be targeted towards

achieving a LEED certification for some one of the buildings on the park campus. A documen-tation of the findings and results from the proj-ect will be compiled in education materials for publication and distribution to visitors and Park staff and Directors. Dr. Chalfoun is collaborat-ing on the project with Janice Cervelli, Profes-sor of Landscape Architecture and Dean of the College, and Professor Brooks Jeffery.

A project of the college’s Drachman Institute, Drachman Design-Build Coalition, Inc., School of Architecture, and the City of Tucson Commu-nity Services Department, received a first-place award in the National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition (NUPIC). The award, in the cat-egory of “affordable and sustainable housing”, includes a $20,000 prize. The team proposed to research sustainability lessons from an innova-tive, high-end market-rate housing develop-ment project at the edge of the City of Tucson (known as the Community of Civano) earlier planned to demonstrate cutting-edge energy- and water-conservation design and to apply those sustainable design lessons to center-city, affordable housing development.

Research on energy- and water-conservation strategies led to guidelines informing the design of four and construction of two Project Model homes to exemplify such conservation strate-gies for affordable housing development. This work will be followed by the post-construction monitoring of energy- and water-use in order to reevaluate the guidelines and ultimately dis-seminate the guidelines and model plan docu-ments to non-profit developers and builders of affordable housing in Southwest Arizona. The Project Model homes were constructed with the efforts of the School of Architecture students for design-build studio coursework credit.

The project is revealing both for the potential implications of substantial resource conserva-tion and increased affordability through op-erational long-term cost-savings. The project has also revealed the necessity for advocating the conservation technologies into policy on at multiple levels. The results of this work will be proposed for incorporation into the State of Ari-zona Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Qualified Allocation Plan as incentives for en-ergy conservation measures in affordable hous-ing development statewide. The team has been

asked to present at the National Urban Policy Initiative Conference on September 19th at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.Senior Lecturer John Messina recently saw his book, Álamos, Sonora: Architecture and Urbanism in the Dry Tropics, published by the University of Arizona Press. The book is a history and interpretive description of an intact Spanish colonial-era town within a day’s drive from the U.S. – Mexico border. Messina examines the early town planning, the vernacular construction technology, as well as issues of preservation and restoration. Concurrently, the lessons of Álamos are posited as an adaptable model for compact urban development in the arid American Southwest.

Associate Professor John Folan is continuing visiting appointment in the T. David Fitzgibbon Endowed Chair at Carnegie Mellon.

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Joe Colistra, Senior Instructor of Architecture, has been selected as AIA Colorado 2008 Young Architect of the Year.

UnIVErSITy OF SOUThErn CAlIFOrnIA Marc Schiler and Karen Kensek were joined by three Master of Building Science recent graduate students (Laura Haymond, Shraddha Marathe, and Eve Lin) at the SBSE (Society of Building Science Educators) Annual Retreat at the end of July in New Forest, England, in a show of USC strength and excellence in the field of performative architecture. Karen Kensek coordinated the 2008 BIM Confer-ence: BIM BOP: The Second Annual Symposium on Building Information Modeling and Sustain-able Design (July 10 and 11th). There were over 200 attendees, including over a dozen speakers. The USC School of Architecture was awarded the second ever Autodesk Revit Building Information Modeling (BIM) Experience Award given to a uni-versity. Karen Kensek spearheaded this effort. Mark Bittoni was commissioned to design the new Bread of Life Christian Church in Taipei, Taiwan. The church will seat 6,000 people and when finished will be the largest church/perfor-mance space in Taiwan. The entire project will be approx. 30,000 square meters.

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The USC School of Architecture has introduced an entirely transformed Master of Landscape Architecture program including both post-professional and first-professional degrees, a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture Studies, and a dual degree MLA/MLP program with the School of Policy, Planning and Development. The program has received LAAB candidacy status towards accreditation. robert S. harris, FAIA, DP-ACSA, continues as Director for 2008-09. A search has been initiated for a new director to be appointed fall 2009. Information about this leadership position can be found at “http://arch.usc.edu”.

gail Peter Borden received two grants for his research project: “Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics” from the USC Arts and Humanities Initiative and the USC Undergradute Research Program. His work was included in the new book The Things They’ve Done by William Cannady and his Enclosure House will soon launch on the new Hometta website [a digital site offering modern affordable home plans]. He will also co-host the Fall ACSA conference Material Matters at USC in October.” he has additionally be commissioned by the USC School of Architecture to design the DATASHOP facility for digital teaching, output and fabrication. Also have a project featured in the new book Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism by Metropolis Books with an expected release in mid October and edited by Bryan Bell. Gail Peter Borden received the prestigious Borchard Fellowship which will provide him with the Chateau de Bretesch and $30,000 to study the material implications of Ledoux and the tectonic implications of architecture parlant.

Ed Woll with his office (Tomko Woll Group Architects Inc) is about to begin construction of “Young Burlington Apartments” -- a new 21-unit apartment building on Burlington Street targeted for emancipated youth. The office is about to complete construction for the Headquarters Offices and Teaching Clinic for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (adaptive reuse of an industrial building near USC.) Both of these projects combine architectural and societal intentions and it’s very gratifying to be in a position to deal with that combination. Both projects were undertaken in collaboration with Ena Dubnoff Architects and the Planned Parenthood project has an additional collaborator: Fernando Vazquez Studio. Prof. Diane ghirardo’s new book Dopo il Sogno. Architettura e città nell’America di oggi, has just been published in Italian by Umberto Allemandi. Prof. goetz Schierle’s new book Structure and Design is now available in hard-cover. Denise Zacky-Popoch, Principal; and Lauren Matchison, Designer; of dmz_architecture have recently completed the design and documents for an artist studio addition to a single family residence in Los Angeles County. The thrust of the project focused on resolving the interaction and juxtaposition of the existing Tudor-style residence with the linear geometry of the pro-posed artist studio. Construction is expected to begin January 2009. UnIVErSITy OF UTAh

Dean Brenda Case Scheer has been named to the Executive Committee of the Board of Envision Utah. She recently completed service

as a board member of the Utah Chapter of the APA and has been elected a director of the Utah AIA Chapter. Professor Peter goss, who has taught at the University of Utah since 1970 will be retiring at the conclusion of spring semester.

Professor Tony Serrato-Combe recently chaired a session at the European Asssocia-tion of Computer Aided Design international meeting in Antwerp Belgium, and presented two papers: “Architectural Toolkits” was co-au-thored with Professor Joerg rugemer, while the other, “Sadness, Anger, Fear, Despair, Emo-tion,” dealt with conveying emotion in digital architectural design presentations.

Assistant Professor Mimi locher is currently writing a book about elements of traditional Japanese architecture, which will be published in 2009 by Tuttle Publishing Company. Profes-sor Julio Bermudez is editing a special edition of the Journal of Architectural Education, will present a paper at the Ecole Nationale Supéri-ure d’Architecture de Grenoble in France, has a forthcoming publication in Faith & Form Maga-zine, and will be guest lecturing at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Associate Professor Bob young’s essay Steward-ship of the Built Environment: The Emerging Syn-ergies from Sustainability and Historic Preserva-tion was included in the book Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader. The Association for Preserva-tion Technology released its new book Preserva-tion Technology Primer for which Bob was the preservation theory section editor. Bob has also been invited to be a speaker at the Center for Historic Conservation’s 10th Annual Symposium that will be held in February at Texas A&M.

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Building on an animation studio run in collaboration with HOK of St. Louis, Associate Professor Joe Stagg is coordinating a spring semester animation studio that will forego the

traditional sit-down jury and will engage in the virtual jury with collaboration facilitated through a special interactive studio homepage. Outside professionals, professors, and others will be invited to visit the home page and give direct critiques to student projects. Called the virtual

critique, the aim is to improve the quality of the critique and feedback to each student, while eliminating the drawbacks of the sit-down jury. Prof. Stagg’s studio will focus on architectural animation, fast becoming the main tool in the

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professional office and in many schools of architecture for both design and presentation. When done correctly, the animation of a design project far outperforms static drawings, renderings, and models in helping both the client and the architect experience the design. The fastest growing use of architectural animation is virtual programming, a process whereby goals and design theories are built into programmatic models and then immediately tested through animation. Once tested, a full model and animation can be built to experience, explain, and support these goals and theories. These projects will then be imported into a BIM program and finalized in great detail.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2nd Urban Edge Award, a biannual award recognizing emerging talent who bring fresh, innovative and positive change to the public realm. Those nominated were required to demonstrate a proven, excep-tional practice indicating a strong relationship to the urban environment.

The jury reviewed the portfolios, CVs and work statements of several nominees and after deliberation chose Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The Urban Edge Award, which is sponsored by the Wisconsin Preservation Trust and Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Attorneys, provides a $25,000 award to the winner, and an additional $25,000 earmarked to bring Ms. Diller to Milwaukee to run an undergraduate studio focusing on temporary installations on post-industrial sites in the city. During the spring 2009, Ms. Diller will make scheduled visits to the University of Milwaukee’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning. The studio output will include temporary constructions on sites across the city and are meant to be a catalyst for new development within the city.

Among the cutting edge projects Diller Scofi-dio + Renfro has worked on are the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, the Blur Building, an exposition pavilion for the Swiss Expo, and the High Line, a redevelopment of the abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan.

Assistant Professor Mo Zell, SARUP faculty member and partner in the architecture firm Bauenstudio, will be the UWM faculty leading

the design studio, the results of which will be published later this year. In conjunction with the Urban Edge studio, Professor Zell is hosting 3 installation and design/build workshops with invited guests Lori Brown from Syracuse Univer-sity, Robert Miller from Clemson University and Tom di Santo from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

This is the second Urban Edge awarded by the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. The first was awarded to D.I.R.T. of Charlottesville, Virginia in 2006 and resulted in the practice un-dertaking sustainable design work on the Pabst Brewery renovation project.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee also of-fers the Marcus Prize, a $100,000 international prize offered to a young architect ‘on a trajec-tory to greatness….’ The first Marcus Prize was awarded to MVRDV of Rotterdam in 2005. The results of their Milwaukee-based studio were published in Skycar City (Actar Publishing) and exhibited at the 2008 Venice Biennale. In 2007, the Berlin practice of Barkow Leibinger were awarded the second Marcus Prize which re-sulted in the design and construction by UWM Architecture students of an environmental pa-vilion in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley.

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In September and October, Associate Professor of Architecture Wes Janz made presentations in the Department of Fine Arts at Central Michigan University and the Departments of Family and Consumer Sciences, Women’s Studies, and Social Work at Ball State University. Selected as one of the five finalists for the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize, his work (done with local, national, and international collaborators) was featured at the Venice Biennale and he made a presentation at Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. In Febru-ary, Janz was invited to lecture at Philadelphia University and discussed onesmallproject with graduate students and faculty at Temple Univer-sity and the University of Kentucky. (onesmall-project is available on-line as integrated web, del.icio.us, wiki, flickr, and blog sites)

Last January the “High Performance School De-sign Workshop” took place at the Ball State In-dianapolis Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, involving professors Bob Koester and Walter grondzik, and associate professors Andrea Swartz and Pam harwood. The workshop leaders presented proven methods and strategies for achieving high-performance, resource-efficient sustainable school design. To know more about the event visit http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CenterandInstitutes/In-dianapolisCenterProfessionalDevelopment

Principles of Building Commissioning, authored by professor Walter grondzik, has just been released by John Wiley & Sons. The book out-lines and explains the core characteristics of the commissioning process and the documents and procedures associated with a successful commissioning effort.

Faculty and Graduate Assistants from the Light-ing Laboratory at the Center for Energy Re-search/Education/Service (CERES) at Ball State University recently completed Day lighting as-sessments on two school buildings: Belmont High School and Residence Park PK-8, designed by Levin Porter Associates, Inc of Dayton, OH. These studies evaluated the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) day light-ing credit compliance. The designers requested analysis of the instructional spaces of the pro-posed facilities with regard to their compliance with LEED daylighting criteria under the Indoor Environmental Quality section EQ 8.1 of LEED for Schools (LFS), Version 2007. Both, “Com-pliance Methodology Option 1: Glazing Factor Method” and “Compliance Methodology Op-tion 2: Simulation”, were used.

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Professor David g. Woodcock, FAIA, has as-sumed the chairmanship of the national AIA Committee on Historic Resources (AIA HRC) for 2009. He has served on the Advisory Group of the Institute’s oldest standing committee for the last four years. The committee’s programs for 2009 include a one-day Workshop on Sus-tainability and Preservation at the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, a two-day sympo-sium “Capturing the Past for Future Use: Inte-grating Documentation with Repair, Design and Construction Practice in Historic Building Reha-bilitation,” developed in conjunction with the Association for Preservation Technology Inter-national conference to be held in Los Angeles in November. The Peterson Prize awards for docu-menting historic structures will be awarded in Los Angeles, with special funding for winning student and faculty teams to participate in the symposium. The AIA HRC has also collaborated with ACSA for a second design competition fo-cused on a unique historic context. The spring 2009 competition is for an expansion of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute. (see ACSA Website)

A paper by Assistant Professor Susan rodiek, Ph.D., was selected as the best paper of the year by the Seniors Housing and Care Journal, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Na-tional Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry (NIC). Titled “A New Tool for Evaluating Senior Living Environments,” the pa-

per describes how research findings can be used to assess residential environments, by analyzing the environmental ‘affordances’ available to res-idents. The award was accompanied by $5,000 cash, which was donated to the Design for Aging Scholarship Fund at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Anat geva was re-elected for an additional term as the Secretary of the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) at their annual meeting held in Tulsa, OK this last October.

Dr. Anat Geva, Associate Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University was elected as Vice Chair of the Construction History Society of America (CHSA) at the inaugural annual meeting of the society held in Atlanta, GA, November 2008.

The inaugural volume of Preservation Education & Research, the journal of the National Council for Preservation Education edited by professors Anat Geva and nancy Volkman is out. The peer review volume includes six articles and three book reviews, which cover a diverse spectrum of topics pertinent to preservation education and research. For subscription and guidelines for submission please visit http://www.ncpe.us

Shima B. Mohajeri, Dr. Frances Downing and Dr. Peter lang authored the paper “Alternate Mode of Spatial Representation: Postmodern West Meets Persianate Visual Culture” accept-ed for publication by IASTE. This paper presents a comparative analysis among two alternative

domains of Postmodern West and Persian East spatial thinking and visual culture through the study of philosophy and art, in order to provide communicative spatial language among them.

Dr. Phillip Tabb, AIA is the master-planner for Serenbe Community near Atlanta. The project recently won the inaugural award for sustain-ability by the Urban Land Institute.

Associate Professor Kirk hamilton and co-au-thor David Watkins have published Evidence-Based Design for Multiple Building Types with Wiley & Sons (2009). The book guides the read-er through the process of gathering, evaluating, and applying current best evidence from re-search and practice in several market segments. They offer guidance for practitioners interested in developing firm-based applied research. The authors make the case that practitioners of research informed design may benefit from a competitive advantage.

Michael O’Brien joined Texas A&M architecture department as the associate head on August 15.

Professor O’Brien is looking forward to working with Dr. Glen Mills to expand the areas of ex-cellence within the department of architecture and across the research centers of the college. He will collaborate with faculty in the College of Architecture on developing a pedagogical foundation for collaborative practices in the design and construction professions.

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Each year, the ACSA pays tribute to the faculty who have passed away at its Annual Meeting by reading tributes. This year, we would like to collect the tributes in writing, for publication in the ACSA News and for a Memorial location on our website. In addition, we would like to collect tributes for all faculty who have passed away in the last 20 years. This will be an important part of our website, and in many ways, is an important effort in scholarship and the documentation of our discipline. Please send original contributions to [email protected].

(Note: submitters of previously published pieces will need to secure permission to include in the newsletter and website from the copyright holder.)

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4/8/09MAx lEVy, DAllAS ArChITECT UT Arlington School of Architecture; 4:00 pm, Architecture 204Map: www.uta.edu/maps/map?id=ARCH

5/27/09SyMPOSIUM On ChrISTOPhEr AlExAnDEr Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Kansas City, Missouri, USAThis full-day symposium presents on-going research, teaching, and design drawing on Alexander’s work. Participants include: Tom Kubala (Kubala Washatko Architects, Cedarburg, WI); Jesus Lara (Ohio State University, Colum-bus, OH); Michael Mehaffy (President, Struc-tura Naturalis Inc., Lake Oswego, OR); Kyriakos Pontikis(California State University, Northridge, CA), Jenny Quillien(New Mexico University of Highlands, Santa Fe, NM), Yodan Rofè (Ben-Gu-rion University of the Negev, Sde-Boqer Campus, Israel); and Ameilia Rosenberg Weinreb (Ben-Gu-rion University of the Negev, Sde-Boqer Campus, Israel). For further information, contact co-orga-nizer David Seamon at [email protected] or visit: www.edra.org.

5/27/09DESIgn COMMUnICATIOn ASSOCIATIOn COnFErEnCE, 3/25-28/2009Southern Polytechnic State University is proud to host the 2009 bi-annual Design Communication Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will feature hands-on design work-shops by well known educators and practitio-ners such as Francis D. K. Ching, Michael Doyle, Edward Tim White and Henry Sorenson. In addi-tion to workshops and paper sessions, the con-ference will feature a juried drawing competition and open presentations. For complete details on how to participate including registration dead-lines visit www.designcomm.org.

6/30/09CAll FOr ABSTrACTSThE BlITZ AnD ITS lEgACyUniversity of Westminster, London; September 3-4, 2010. September 2010 marks the seventi-

eth anniversary of the Blitz on London, and the beginning of mass aerial bombardment which devastated many areas of both the capital and other large cities in Britain. The Blitz and its legacy conference aims to be a total history of a total war phenomenon, focusing upon the expe-rience of aerial attack through film, images, writ-ten texts and oral testimony. It will also explore the reconstruction of the devastated areas, and aim to provide an historical audit of successes and failures in reconstruction by 1970.For more information regarding submission themes, pro-cedures, and address, please contact either Dr. Mark Clapson at the University of Westminster: [email protected] or Professor Peter Larkham at Birmingham City University: [email protected]

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6/22/09WATErFrOnT CEnTEr AnnUAl AWArDSThe Waterfront Center Annual Awards Program is a juried competition to recognize: top-qual-ity urban waterfront projects; comprehensive waterfront plans; outstanding citizen efforts; and, student waterfront work. Winners receive international recognition through a major media release announcing and describing the selected entries and a special display on our web site fea-turing each winner including a web link to the winner’s website. Award winners are invited to attend a special awards ceremony, reception and dinner during the Center’s annual conference.http://www.waterfrontcenter.org/

8/15/09InDUSTrIAl FABrICS ASSOCIATIOn InTErnATIOnAl (IFAI)2010 ArChITECT STUDEnT SChOlArShIPThis scholarship award provides tuition expenses at an accredited college, university or technical school. To qualify for the Architect Student Scholarship award, applicants must be studying to pursue a career in lightweight fabric structures. Recipients will be announced at the IFAI Expo 2009 in San Diego, CA. For more information on our scholarship programs, please contact the IFF at 651 225 6545 or [email protected].

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The American Institute of Architects has issued a request for pro-posals for its Practice Academy Initiative. The initiative supports the development of mutually beneficial programs that prepare students for architectural practice and professional advancement through partnerships between the academy and firms. Grants of up to $10,000 are awarded for one-year periods to support new initiatives and/or for special initiatives that are part of an existing program.

Since 2006, when the initiative began, three programs have re-ceived grants of $10,000 annually—for a total of $30,000 awarded to each program. The Boston Architectural College has used grant funding to develop a Practice Academy project devoted to under-standing and teaching current developments in Building Informa-tion Modeling (BIM). Iowa State University implemented a program in which practitioners, students, and faculty all contribute to design projects in the local community. The University of Cincinnati offers students a practitioner-led workshop series called “Jump Start.” The common thread running through each program is a desire to assist students as they make the transition from academic institu-tions to architectural practice.

Architecture firms or schools may submit proposals for the Prac-tice Academy Initiative. Programs may begin in Fall 2009 or Spring 2010, with planning undertaken in the preceding semester. Propos-als are due April 20, 2009.

Information about the Practice Academy initiative, including sub-mission requirements and evaluation criteria, are available as a downloadable .pdf document:

http://info.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/rFP_PracticeAcademy_2009.pdf.

Questions about the program should be directed to Catherine Roussel, Director, Education at the American Institute of Architects, [email protected].

2009 aia pRactice academY request for proposals

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, in partnership with the Skandalaris Center, is pleased to announce the Skandalaris Awards honoring outstanding achievement in design and the visual arts.

Three awards will be presented at the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate School of Architects (ACSA) and National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA), November 4-7, 2009, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Nominations are sought for the following awards:

Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art + Architecture This award will honor an artist, architect or designer whose individual or collaborative works, innovative projects and creative research have inspired new ideas and made a profound and lasting impact on society, culture, or the environment on a local, national or international level.

The award of $20,000 will be presented at the conference where the recipient must present their work in the form of a lecture.

Selection Committee:A committee comprised of national leaders in the fields of art, design, and architecture will be asked to nominated candidates for this award. Leaders of the Sam Fox School and the St. Louis design community will select the recipient.

Skandalaris Awards for Entrepreneurship in Design & Visual Arts (2)For individuals who have demonstrated entrepreneurship in the fields of Art + Design + Architecture on a local, national or international level by promoting or establishing innovative understandings of “economy,” particularly through community-based and/or sustainable practices.

Two awards of $20,000 will be awarded. The funds can be used to help support new or ongoing projects and/or creative research that will contribute to the social, cultural and environmental welfare of a commu-nity. The award winners will be announced at the first joint conference and will be asked to present their work in the form of a short lecture.

Selection Committee: The selection committee will be comprised of national leaders in the fields of art, design and architecture. Nominations: To be considered for the Skandalaris awards, the selection committee must receive a letter of nomination identifying the work and highlighting the accomplishments, research or creative activities of each nominee. This must be accompanied by adequate digital documentation in the form of a CD, DVD or relevant web site links. Nominations are due April 15, 2009.

Winners will be announced by August 1, 2009.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Washington University in St. LouisThe Sam Fox School is a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration linking professional studio programs in architecture, art and design education with a university art museum in the context of a leading research university.

Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial StudiesThe campus-wide Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies serves Washington University and the community through programs that offer students opportunities to learn many facets of entrepreneur-ship both from academic and experiential perspectives.

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The Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) is an organization of archi-tectural educators, passionate about teaching the technology of building design and construction. The mission of the BTES is to promote and publish the best pedagogic practices that facilitate student learning and enhance the status of our disciplines in the profession at large.

Co-hosted by:School of Architecture & Planning, University of New MexicoCollege of Art and Architecture, University of Idaho

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Rene DavidsUC Berkeley & Davids Killory Architects

PLENARY PANELS

“Concept + Construct”Annette LeCuyer, SUNY Buffalo

“Local Complexities: Integrating Technology and Ecology”Jason Oliver Vollen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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and are driving design practice. At the same time, one of the emerging challenges in architectural education, research and practice is to promote integrative design. Despite this call to action, many architectural programs remain fractured

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Assembling Architecture

2009 BTES ConferenceUniversity of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

August 6 - 8, 2009

www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/btes2/

Conference organizers invite papers, abstract deadline, March 27, 2009.

Visit the web site for submission requirements:

ContentsACSA publishes, free of charge, brief announcements. ACSA faculty councilors and faculty in general are encouraged to submit announce-ments. One paragraph announcements (preferably 100 words or less) must be submitted to ACSA. Please send via email and not via fax. Due to space limitations, announcements are normally published on a first-come, first-served basis.

AdvertisingComplete advertising information is in the ACSA News Advertis-ing Rate Card online at www.acsa-arch.org. Also available via fax upon request from the ACSA office by calling Kathryn Swiatek at 202.785.2324 ext. 6.

2007 Advertising rates:• Full-page - $1,090• Half-page - $660• Quarter-page - $440• One column - $440• Half-column - $280• Online listing - additional $50** per month• Classified format - $16/line (38-45 characters per line)

**Please note that advertisers CANNOT list positions exclusively online but MUST also list positions in that month’s corresponding ACSA News.

Deadline & Submission InformationThe deadline for all submissions is the fifteenth of the month, six weeks prior to the month of publication (July 15 for September, Au-gust 15 for October, etc.) Electronic submission is to be mailed to: [email protected]. The submission of images for consideration is encouraged. Please send as .TIFF or .JPEG files with captions.

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Please submit your images to: Pascale Vonier at [email protected]

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