2007-08 ACSA/AISC Category I—Assembling Housing Honorable Mention Project: Monrovia Rehab by Kyle Miller & Marcin Szef of University of California

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publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2 Accreditation Review Conference 4 NAAB Board of Directors Call

4 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team Roster Call

6 Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

7 2009 Walter Wagner Forum Call

9 2008-09 Student Design Competitions

13 2009 ACSA Summer Conference 2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

14 97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

18 98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

20 REGIONAL NEWS

35 OPPORTUNITIES

36 ACSA Calendar

64 Architectural Education Series

CollateralsDiscussChangestoNAABConditionsatAccreditationReviewConferenceRead ACSA’s response to NAAB on page 3

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: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0448. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

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Developing Creative programs emerges among shareD interests

For two days in October, representatives from the five collateral organizations in archi-tecture found large areas of agreement on trends affecting the architecture profession and higher education. Nearly 50 invited participants traveled to Tucson for the National Architecture Accrediting Board’s (NAAB) Accreditation Review Conference to develop shared perspectives and identify points of disagreement over changes to NAAB’s Condi-tions for Accreditation.

Participants largely galvanized over a shared commitment to “standards without stan-dardization,” a phrase drawn from the ground-breaking 1996 book Building Commu-nity: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice. This commitment translated into several common themes that emerged around maintaining a strong outcomes focus to the accreditation process giving programs both the flexibility and the obligation to demonstrate how they are meeting NAAB Conditions and Student Performance Crite-ria. “We wanted to make the point that all ACSA programs seek to exceed NAAB’s mini-mum standards through curricula that respond to the needs of practice,” said Marleen Kay Davis, ACSA President. “By the end of the meeting we felt that educators, students, and practitioners alike supported NAAB in evolving the Conditions in a way that keeps minimum standards high but allows programs to develop according to their own mis-sions.”

ACSA, as well as AIA, NCARB, and AIAS, each sent six representatives to participate in the ARC. A key difference between this ARC and previous ones devoted to updating NAAB Conditions, is that NAAB has presented the ARC as a design process rather than a single event, a change evidenced in almost two years of work by all collaterals in providing input to the conference.

This work has led to several opportunities for exchanging ideas among collaterals. All agree that in the past 5 years, since the NAAB Conditions were last updated, the archi-tecture profession has faced significant changes in areas such as sustainability and inte-grated project delivery. More recently, collaterals have turned their focus to diversifying the profession through inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities.

Addressing these changing needs has been in the minds of collaterals, according to President Davis, but as discussions have progressed, most participants agree that changes to the Conditions should allow architecture education programs the flexibility to respond to the changes we’ve already witnessed, and those that will happen in the next 5 years and beyond.

Such discussions have led to several areas of disagreement among collaterals, such as the extent to which skills needed by licensed architects should be taught in school, rather than developed in internship, as well as requirements for faculty credentials and enrollment in the Intern Development Program.

At its November 10-11 meeting, the ACSA Board of Directors developed a letter of re-sponse to the NAAB board (shown at right). The letter continues to engage NAAB in both the areas of agreement and disagreement.

ACSA representatives appointed by the ACSA board: President Davis; Kim Tanzer, 07-08 president; Ted Landsmark, 06-08 president; Thomas Fisher, VP/president-elect; Keelan

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November 12, 2008 Bruce Blackmer, FAIA, President National Architectural Accrediting Board, Inc.

Dear Bruce and Members of the NAAB Board of Directors:

The ACSA has appreciated our ability to participate in the “design process” for the creation of revised Conditions for Accreditation. The six ACSA representatives who attended the Accreditation Review Conference discussed the many issues with the entire ACSA Board of Directors, and we would like to give you our unanimous recommendations for the next steps in this process.

Regarding the overall approach:We appreciated the commitment for “standards without standardization” that we sensed from participants at the ARC meeting. Avoiding over-prescription will give schools the flexibility to create programs that respond to contemporary practice issues in innovative ways.

The proposed two-part format in the APR is understandable, although we recommend that “Institutional Support” should be Part One; otherwise, the SPC are addressed apart from any institutional context. There is also some concern about how the “perspectives” are embedded in the report, and we encourage you to capture the spirit of the perspectives, without allowing them to seem overly related to each of the collateral organiza-tions.

Regarding faculty development and credentials:During the ACSA Administrators Conference, over 60 deans and administrators of NAAB-accredited programs expressed strong opposition to quotas for faculty licensure and credentials, and the ACSA board concurs. Instead, the ACSA has concluded that accreditation standards should require appropriately qualified faculty for the courses in which they are teaching. In addition, the ACSA believes that a strong focus on faculty development, not credentials, would have maximum direct impact on improving programs.

ACSA does not support mandatory faculty credentials related to licensure because no evidence demonstrates this would improve student out-comes. Such quotas will inevitably constrain goals to increase the interdisciplinary experiences of the students, related to the increasing interdisci-plinary nature of integrated practice. Furthermore, most universities have stringent faculty requirements related to qualification and education.

Regarding IDP:The ACSA strongly supports the language presented during the ARC in the “Fusion II” draft. Any type of mandatory IDP, even if free, would be a hardship for many schools and students. Regarding the “clustering” of SPC:After much discussion in Tucson and with the ACSA board, we conclude that the Student Performance Criteria remain most effective as a simple list, rather than be grouped in a fixed “cluster” approach. Because the clustering exercise at the ARC produced such diverse results, we have concluded that individual schools preparing their APR, rather than NAAB, are best suited to “cluster” the SPC, should they choose. We believe it best that schools have the opportunity to outline their curricular goals, philosophies, and structure, and therefore, any clustering of SPCs should be optional rather than mandatory.

Regarding the SPC in general:We strongly advocate that the wording in SPC should include expressions like “such as” rather than “including” when referring to numerous ele-ments within a criterion. This will prevent prescription, will give guidance to schools and teams, and will allow teams to make a holistic judgment for each SPC. This will also minimize inconsistencies in team judgments.

We do not endorse adding measures of outcomes to the SPC, but rather encourage the continued format of a narrative description for each.

Regarding an Education Analysis:We strongly support developing an Education Analysis, along the lines of NCARB’s Practice Analysis, with participation by the collaterals. How-ever, we believe that delaying changes to the Conditions for Accreditation until the completion of such a study would not be in the best interest

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of any of the collaterals or the schools. As we move forward, we advocate a process that begins in 2010, with ACSA leading the development of this important cross-collateral effort. Ideally, a nonbinding Education Analysis (as outlined in the Conceptual Plan of October 2008) will better inform the next cycles of accreditation and internship requirements.

Regarding specific SPCs:We encourage NAAB to further reduce and refine the SPCs, in the spirit of the discussions in Tucson. We specifically oppose the subdivision of Graphic Skills into three separate SPCs and the creation of separate SPC in Building Design, Urban Design and Interior Design.

The entire Accreditation Review Process has been an intense evaluation of architectural education, with broad participation. We appreciate the many cycles for input and comment throughout the process. As was noted at the conclusion of the Tucson conference, the broad input into this cycle of ac-creditation review creates an important moment in the long history of ar-chitectural education.

With best wishes in your tasks ahead,

Marleen Kay Davis, FAIAPresident

aCsa representative on naaB BoarD of DireCtors deadline: march 10, 2009

The 2009-2010 National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) will comprise thirteen members: three representing ACSA, three representing AIA, three representing NCARB, two representing AIAS, and two public members. Currently Thomas Fowler of Cal Poly State University; Wendy Ornelas of Kansas State University; and Craig Barton of University of Vir-ginia represent ACSA on the NAAB Board. With the expiration of Thomas Fowler’s term in October 2009, the ACSA Board of Directors is considering candidates for his successor at its meeting this March in Portland, OR.

The appointment is for a three-year term (Oct. 2009 – Oct. 2012) and calls for a person willing and able to make a commitment to NAAB. The final appointment will be made by the sitting NAAB board itself through selection from a pool of names established by this call for nominations. While previous experience as an ACSA board member or administrator is helpful, it is not essential for nomination. Some experience on NAAB visiting teams should be considered necessary; otherwise the nominee might be unfamiliar with the highly complex series of deliberations in-volved with this position. Faculty and administrators are asked to nomi-nate faculty from an ACSA member school with any or all the following qualifications:

Tenured faculty status at an ACSA full member school; Significant experience with and knowledge of the accreditation pro-cess; Significant acquaintance with and knowledge of ACSA, its history, policy programs, and administrative structure; Personal acquaintance with the range of school and program types across North America. Willingness to represent the constituency of ACSA on accreditation-related issues. Ability to work with the NAAB board and ACSA representatives to build consensus on accreditation related issues.

For consideration, please submit a concise letter of nomination along with a CV indicating experience under the above headings, and a letter indicat-ing willingness to serve from the nominee, to:ACSA (NAAB Representative) / Eric Ellis1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20006

E-mail nomination preferred to eellis@acsa-arch.org.

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The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) made several adjustments to the Intern Development Program at its annual conference in June. More recently, on October 31, 2008, NCARB gath-ered experts for a one-day hearing to comment on the specific influences and considerations of the IPD process and the BIM technology. NCARB envisions IDP as a “responsible control” by professionals over the ever changing methods of project design and delivery, with the advent of com-puterized design.

According to NCARB President, Gordon E. Mills, FAIA, “NCARB is taking a leadership role to ensure that the public is protected by any impact IPD and BIM may have on the profession.” NCARB believes that the advent of computerized design has significantly changed the practice by chang-ing the way projects are envisioned, designed, constructed, and delivered. Invited speakers addressed how architects and other design professionals can maintain what NCARB calls “responsible control” as required by the Model Law as these new technologies become more prevalent. The task force will use the information gained from the hearing to determine if changes are needed to the current Model Law.

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The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for ACSA representatives on National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty mem-bers participating in the accrediting process will be made by NAAB.

Nominating ProcedureMembers of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on visiting teams for a term of four years.Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via ACSA News. Proposals must include complete curriculum vitae.The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters.

Nominee QualificationsThe candidate should demonstrate:Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience;A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work;Administrative experience; andAn association with several different schools.

Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.)

ACSA Nominee SelectionCandidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geo-graphic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively, are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteris-tics exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service.

Description of Team and VisitPending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is in-tended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.

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The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process. The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications.

Team SelectionThe visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by providing resumes of prospective team members.

A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discre-tion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if:

The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated with a rival institution;The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution;The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to evaluate the program.

NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines.

Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations Deadline and CalendarThe deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a curriculum vitae, is Monday, March 10, 2009. Send nomination materials to:

Association of Collegiate Schools of ArchitectureACSA (NAAB Visiting Team) / Eric Ellis1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20006eellis@acsa-arch.org

E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to eellis@acsa-arch.org. Nominations must be received by March 10, 2009.

ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2009. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2009-2010 team visits in November 2009.

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT www.aCsa-arCh.org

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Design Editor: Jori Erdman Louisiana State University

This is a reminder that the JAE is continuously accepting the submission of previ-ously unpublished design work for blind peer-review. This work may be the product of an academic studio, or created directly by the submitting author(s). Work will be judged primarily on how it extends architectural inquiry, particularly the critical rela-tion of image and text. Submission requirements and the review process are outlined on the JAE website at http://jaeonline.org/ under the category, Design as Scholar-ship.

General “Design as Scholarship” submissions (those not related to a particular theme call) received by March 12, 2009 at 5 PM EST, will be juried by the JAE’s Design Committee in March 2009. Premiated submissions (received by March 12 and juried in at our March meeting) will be eligible to be published during the 2009-10 aca-demic year in the JAE’s Volume 63.

Submission Deadline for inclusion in the Fall issue of Volume 63 is March 12, 2009, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in a later issue.

Refer all inquiries to: George Dodds, PhD JAE Executive Editor gdodds@utk.edu

OPEN CALL for Des ign Submiss ionsJournal of Architectural Education

Herbert Bayer Lonely Metropolitan, 1932. Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, London

Common Ground | Vernaculars in the Age of Digital ReproductionJournal of Architectural Education Call for SubmissionsTheme editors:Michelangelo Sabatino, Assistant Professor, University of Houston (msabatino@uh.edu)Bruce C. Webb, Professor, University of Houston (bwebb@uh.edu)

Since the 18th century the vernacular has served to dialectically challenge mainstream architectural establishments. Based in the linguistic distinction between Latin and locally spoken languages of the "people," vernacular was transferred from discourse on linguistics and culture to architecture as a way to recognize the empirical genius and vitality of indigenous architecture as distinguished from classical architecture and rules that regulated it. Throughout the 20th century, rural building traditions inspired anti-academic, anti-historicist architecture from Adolf Loos to José Luis Sert and Marcel Breuer.

In parallel, interest in the industrial vernacular as a product of anonymous and rational engineering was advanced by socially-minded architects and urbanists such as Walter Gropius and Ernst May. These and others advocated an unselfconscious way of building based on efficiency and optimal performance in opposition to bourgeoisie aesthetics. During the 1960s and 70s American architects such as Robert Venturi -Denise Scott Brown and Charles W. Moore deployed the exuberant commercial

vernacular of American roadways as a foil to a modernism that had become mired in sterile uniformity.

Viewed in terms of the oppositional role they have historically played in cultural-political contestation, what role is there for vernaculars in contemporary practice with its emphasis on digital design generation and production? Do methods and processes drawn from "outsider" (i.e. non- professional) sources affect contemporary design or rather have they been co-opted and neutralized in a digitally manifolded formula of pattern languages? What evidence and examples are present that a vital contemporary vernacular continues to flourish as a source of non-conventional, non-doctrinaire ideas and attitudes? Do vernaculars continue to challenge and influence contemporary architectural ideas, practice, and education?

This issue of the JAE invites text-based (scholarship of design) and design-based (design as scholarship) submissions that explore the impact of vernaculars in modern

and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The submission deadline for all

manuscripts for this theme issue is Monday, March 16, 5pm, US Eastern Time Zone. Accepted articles will be

published in the first bi-annual issue of the JAE, 63:1 (October 01, 2009).

Zui Ng, Shotgun Chameleon - International Competition for New Housing Prototype in New Orleans (Spring 2006, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, Professors Rafael Longoria & Fernando Brave).

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San Francisco | AIA National Convention | April 30 - May 2, 2009Co-sponsors: The American Institute of Architects, Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), & American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)

Abstract Submissions Due: December 12, 2008Full abstract submission details are online at www.acsa-arch.org How are architecture schools addressing the diverse world today’s and to-morrow’s students will be practicing in? How are they developing designers, practitioners, and facilitators able to address the changes occurring in our ever “flattening” world?

In accordance with the convention theme “The Power of Diversity: Practice in a Complex World,” we invite teams that include educators and educator/practitioners and students, to submit papers that demonstrate how their professional programs realize one or more of the convention sub-themes: The Global Perspective and the Regional Context, New Models of Education, Knowledge and Research Based Design Practices, and The Role of Technology.

Submission, Review Process, and PresentationStudents, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for the Walter Wagner Forum. Three separate submission categories will be accepted but all submissions should include the student perspective: Abstracts from Students, Abstracts from Educators, & Abstracts from Practitioners. Abstract

submissions should focus on how diversity is preparing our future practi-tioners and on how architecture schools are addressing the diverse world today’s and tomorrow’s students will be practicing in. Abstracts should be no longer the 500 words and must be written in English. Only one submission per category, per author will be accepted. Only currents members of either AIA, ACSA, or AIAS may submit an abstract.

Three abstracts will be chosen through a blind peer-reviewed process, and authors of accepted abstracts will be notified at mid January 2009. One ab-stract in each category (Student, Educator, and Practitioner) will be accepted. Selected abstract authors will have six weeks to develop their full paper and presentation, by March 15. Accepted authors and a student who can provide their perspective on the program will be invited to present the paper at the Walter Wagner Forum, a continuing education session at the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, CA. The paper authors will receive complimen-tary registration to the AIA National Convention and a $500.00 stipend (one registration and one stipend per paper).

TimelineSept –Dec 2008 Call for AbstractsOctober 12, 2008 Abstract submission site opensDecember 12, 2008 Abstract submission deadlineJanuary 2009 Accept/reject email notifications with commentsApril 30 – May 2, 2009 AIA National Convention, San Francisco

Visit www.acsa-arch.org for the full Call for Abstracts

Call for aBstraCts: 2009 walter wagner forum ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN A COMPLEX WORLD: HOW DIVERSITY IS PREPARING OUR FUTURE PRACTITIONERS

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architecture and plasticdefining, thinking and constructing with plastic

ACSAASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE

www.acsa-arch.org/plastic

Defining, thinking and making with plastic – a material which is really thousands of materials – is inherently difficult. PMMA, PIR, PUR, PE are sanctioned acronyms obscuring long chemical names of performance driven materials which are everywhere in the architectural project, at every scale, varied in hardness, softness, form and performance.

From the ubiquitous polyethylene (PE) to the emerging ethylene-tetra-fluro-ethylene (ETFE) this seven chaptered website seeks to decode the relationship between architecture and plastic. Its resources, surrounded by technical fact, historical fact, and design concept, provide faculty and students of architecture a starting point for plastic deployment, interrogation and experimentation.

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Kingsdale School by Architects De Rujke, Marsh, Morgan (dRMM) of London

Chameleon House by Anderson Anderson Architects of Seattle/ San Francisco

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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.

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

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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

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

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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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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

ResouRcing ReseaRch: a review and critique of the state of the art for a resource-efficient future

In recent years, the various professional, academic and governmental communities involved in the design, construction, and op-eration of buildings have been increasingly influenced by a growing awareness of the critical need to address climate change and re-source scarcities. The particular link between the extraction, production, and consumption of energy and the carbon content of the at-mosphere have led to dire predictions of mas-sive societal upheaval and escalating resource conflicts. As a result, a blizzard of initiatives, constructive and opportunistic, are address-ing many aspects of the challenge of designing and operating buildings in ways that lessen our burden on the global environment.

Resourcing Research will highlight research initiatives that seek to provide pathways to-ward a more resource efficient built environ-

ment. We seek to attract a diversity of recent and ongoing research projects and critical initiatives that address the many aspects of the emerging green built environment. Our intent is to establish a discourse that engages a multiplicity of disciplines while question-ing the overwhelmingly technical grounds of work toward resource efficient architecture. Therefore, both technical and non-technical inquiries are of equal interest. Critical in-quiries into the basis for technical solutions in addressing climate change and resource scarcities are of particular interest while seri-ous technical research projects will form the foundation for understanding the scientific and technological state of the art.

For Inquires contact: John E. Fernandez, MIT, fernande@mit.edu

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host schoolUniversity of oregon

co-chairsmark gillem, U. of oregon Phoebe crisman, U. of virginia

design is at the core of what we teach and practice

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

By questioning the broader value of de-sign, the role of architecture can become more significant within society.

o What social value does design have for individual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have beyond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What material and technical value does design bring to the physical environ-ment?

o What pedagogical value does design education offer to other disciplines?o What are the ways in which design edu-cation can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?

These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA An-nual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Port-land is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Architects there have worked collaboratively with other profes-sions to transform Portland into a vibrant, diverse, and livable city that highlights the multiple benefits of design. They have worked with transportation engineers to develop a comprehensive public transit system that focuses development in a pre-dictable way. They have collaborated with landscape architects to ensure that public open space is a priority in the heart of the city and at its edges. They have teamed with urban designers, interior designers, and developers to create memorable set-tings and buildings that capture the spirit of the place.

Within this intellectual and physical con-text, we ask conference participants to consider the multiple values of design for our discipline, our profession, and our so-ciety.

thematic overview

In addition to the numerous paper sessions that will take place at the Annual Meeting, the conference co-chairs have organized the following 14 sessions.

AESTHETIC ExPERIENCE VS. PERFORMATIVE ACTION

ARCHITECTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

BEYOND SERVICE: THE ROLE OF THE DESIGN

ARCHITECT CONCEPTIONS OF DETAIL

THE ACCESSIBLE CITY: SUSTAINABILITY’S NExT MOVE

ENVIRONMENT & ENGAGED DESIGN

LIVING ABOVE: MIxED USE BUILDINGS AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

MAGIC OF THE REAL/CHALLENGE OF THE VIRTUAL

PRAxIS: THE ROLE OF THEORY IN MAKING

SPHERES OF URBANISTIC ACTION

STRUCTURES AND SUSTAINABILITY

THE COMPETITION: DESIGN AS RESEARCH

THE DEVELOPER’S DILEMMA: DESIGN OR DOLLARS?

THE INSTANT CITY: DUBAI’S OVERNIGHT URBANITY

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WRITING FOR PUBLICATIONOrganized by the Journal of Architectural Education

TEACHING TEACHERS TO TEACH Organized by the ACSA Distinguished Professors

WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

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michael pyatokpyatok architects

Michael Pyatok, FAIA has 40 years of experience as a nationally recognized architect, advocate and professor, establishing Pyatok Architects in 1984. Mike has designed over 30,000 units of affordable housing for low-income families and been a leader in the development of participatory community design methods. In addition to actively participating with the firm’s urban design projects, Mike is a Professor of Architectural Design and recently served for three years as the founding Director of Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Mike has served the American Institute of Architects on its National Affordable Housing Task Group. The National Endowment for the Arts sponsored Mike to facilitate housing design workshops in many U.S. and awarded him a grant to write a book about how to design higher density affordable housing called “Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing.” In 2002, Pyatok Architects was chosen as Architecture Firm of the Year by “Residential Architect Magazine”, and “Professional Builder Magazine” identified Mike as one of the 12 thought leaders in the field of development. In 2007, Mike was identified by “Builder Magazine” as one of the 50 most influential people in the development industry.

DaviD millermiller|hull partnershipuniversity of washington

David E. Miller is a co-founder of the Miller|Hull Partnership, a leading Pacific Northwest firm, an architecture professor at the University of Washington, and since January 2007, has been Chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. Miller received a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University, then worked in Brasilia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He received his Master of Architecture at the University of Illinois. After graduation, Miller worked for Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. He moved to Seattle in 1977 to open a branch office of Rhone & Iredale. In 1980, Miller and Robert Hull took over the office and renamed it the Miller/Hull Partnership. Miller|Hull established a reputation for buildings that are modern, but which drew upon the heritage of Pacific Northwest architecture. The firm was particularly successful in winning commissions for public and institutional buildings as well as designing single-family residences. Their work has garnered numerous local, regional and national design awards. Miller’s book, Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest offers the theoretical background for his approach to design. Miller became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1994. Miller|Hull was selected as the AIA Firm of the Year in 2003. David Miller and Robert Hull were co-recipients of the Washington State University Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2007

keynote speakers closing keynote

patricia patkaupatkau architectsuniversity of british columbia

2009 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Reciepient

Patricia Patkau shares design direction in Patkau Architects with her partner John Patkau. She has a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and is currently a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Since its founding, Patkau Archi-tects has received numerous national and international design awards for a wide variety of building types, including ten Governor General’s Medals, four Progressive Architecture Awards, twelve Canadian Ar-chitect Awards of Excellence, and an RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence.

The firm has also won a number of national and international design competitions for: a major addition and renovation to the Central Winnipeg Public Library, the Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Facility for the University of Texas, Houston, College Housing for the University of Pennsylvania, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario and the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, a new central library for the province of Québec. The work of Patkau Architects has been published and exhibited widely. Over 200 articles in books and professional journals and three books dedicated exclusively to the firm’s work have been published. The work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including 20 solo exhibitions, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 1996, Patkau Architects was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale.

paper sessionsThe schedule for paper session

presentations will be announced before the end of December.

Check the ACSA website for continued updates

and for detailed schedule information.

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hotel information

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower921 SW Sixth AvenuePortland, Oregon 97204tel: 503-226-1611fax: 503-220-2565web: www.hilton.comrate: $159 (main building) $179 (executive tower) Hilton Portland & Executive Tower is the largest Green Seal Certified hotel on the West Coast. To earn this prestigious certification, they must adhere to rigorous environmental leadership standards and participate in sustainability programs such as recycling, waste minimization, reduced energy use and green purchasing.

green meetingsACSA has joined with Carbonfund.org to become a Carbon Free event. Portland is a great city to implement these initiatives and we encourage you to do your part. If you would like to learn more about this initiative please visit carbonfund.org.

max light railThe MAx Light Rail system is only a block away from the hotel providing ac-cess to many of Portland’s main attractions. The MAx Light Rail system provides transportation to and from the Portland International Airport in just 30 minutes as well as other surrounding cities. The closest Light Rail stop to the Hilton Hotel is Pioneer Square South. www.TriMet.org

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friDay tour 1The Downtown Park: Investing in the Public Realm

Portland’s urban plazas, connected park blocks, riverfront promenades, and small pocket parks will be highlighted on this tour. These public spaces help make density livable and are in large measure responsible for the character and quality of Portland’s downtown. They attract infill development and provide a place for public events of all sizes. But how can an investment in such places be justified amidst concerns over crime, underdevelopment, and increasing maintenance costs? This is just one of many questions about the role of public space in urban development that we will address on this tour.

friDay tour 2The Pearl District: A Case Study in Urban Redevelopment

Until the early 1990s, abandoned warehouses, vacant lots, and deteriorat-ing infrastructure were the norm in what is now a national case study in urban redevelopment. The housing boom of the 1990s, demolition of an elevated roadway, and the eventual construction of a streetcar spurred numerous renovation projects and the construction of many new buildings throughout this old industrial area. Brownfield sites have been converted into brewpubs, urban housing, and shopping streets. With the collapse of the housing bubble and growing concerns about gentrification, what will the future be for the Pearl?

saturDay tour 3Trains, Towers, and Townhomes: Portland’s Recipe for Urban Infill

In an innovative partnership, government agencies and local developers have funded a unique streetcar system that seamlessly connects to the regional light rail network. The streetcar has been the catalyst for dozens of urban infill projects that have significantly increased the amount of hous-ing in Portland’s downtown core. In this tour, we will use the streetcar to access several notable projects and hear from developers and designers involved in the remaking of downtown.

saturDay tour 4The South Waterfront: A City Under Construction

With the success of the Pearl District in north Portland, planners and de-velopers were anxious to find a new area to redevelop. In 2004, their focus turned to the South Waterfront, a former brownfield site now connected to downtown by Portland’s streetcar. The ambitious plans call for a mix of offices, retail shops, and urban housing. The first phase, totaling nearly $2 billion in construction, is nearly complete and includes seven towers and the home of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Center for Health and Healing, which is connected by an aerial tram to the main OHSU hilltop campus. In this tour, we will look at ways developers and the city linked land-uses, transportation systems, open spaces, and building typologies through comprehensive urban design.

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CONTACTFor questions regarding registra-tions for the conference, contact Kevin Mitchell at 202/785 2324 ext 5; kmitchell@acsa-arch.org. For all other conference ques-tions, contact Mary Lou Baily at 202/785 2324 ext 2, mlbaily@acsa-arch.org

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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 dis-course today? As schools engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues that are essential to the expanded field of ar-chitectural 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 conception 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 infrastructure 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 disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional definitions of aes-thetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of ar-chitectural 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 discus-sion.

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The ACSA Annual Meeting serves as a forum for discussion and speculation related to the meeting theme, as well as the exploration of a broad scope of research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty members have the opportunity both to propose session topics and to submit papers related to a range of given topics.

Stage OneDeadline for Session Topic Proposals:

January 7, 2009

Proposals for session topics related to the conference theme are requested, as are pro-posals related to the full range of subject ar-eas within architecture, its related disciplines, and its allied professions.

Topic proposals may, for example, address questions relating to history, theory, criticism, design, digital media, technology, pedagogy, construction, materials, practice, society, and culture. Session Topic proposals may also cut across traditional categories or address emerging issues. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused.

Each proposal should clearly identify its sub-ject, premise, and scope of the proposed Ses-sion Topic.

sessiON tOpic selectiON prOcess

Session Topics are selected through a blind peer review process. In addition to the blind process, the conference co-chairs may iden-tify additional session topics and moderators. The selection process takes into consider-ation both the merits of the Session Topic proposals, as well as the importance of orga-nizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting.

The authors of the Session Topics selected in the first stage will serve as Session Topic Chairs for their respective sessions. Work-ing in collaboration with the conference co-chairs, their responsibilities include: main-taining a blind-review process for all papers submitted during the entire review process; enlisting three blind reviewers for each of the papers submitted to their Session Topic; rec-ommending final papers for presentation; and moderating their respective sessions during the Annual Meeting.

eligibility

All Session Topic Chairs must be faculty, stu-dents, or staff at ACSA member schools or become a Supporting ACSA Member by Sep-tember 1 of the academic year during which the Annual Meeting will occur. Prospective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Ses-sion Topic proposal. Please visit the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch.org, to obtain de-tailed instructions and template for submit-ting a topic. The deadline to submit a Session Topic is January 4, 2009.

Stage Two Deadline for Paper Proposals:

September 16, 2009

The Call for Papers will list the final Session Topics and will be announced in the April 2008 ACSANews as well as on the ACSA website. All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Typically, each session will be composed of three or four presenta-tions, with time for discussion.

All papers will be submitted through an online interface and must meet the general criteria identified in the call for papers and in the sub-mission guidelines.

Each author will be limited to one submission per Session Topic. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submis-sion. In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the con-ference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Au-thors whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be required to register for the conference before the conference Pro-ceedings go to press.

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BAll STATE UNIVERSITY

During the last summer the Lighting Labora-tory at Ball State University’s Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES, directed by professor Robert Koester) performed a collec-tion of lighting studies for the National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts. The studies were directed towards improvement of the lighting conditions within the team’s indoor practice facility. Using physical measurement, com-puter simulation techniques and High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and imaging, a team consisting of CERES staff and BSU Architecture program graduate students investigated a vari-ety of alternatives for both improving the elec-tric lighting system and introducing daylight into the facility.

Associate Professor Wes Janz lectured at the Universidad Catolica Santa Maria la Antigua USMA, in Panama. Janz was also invited to give his talk “Towards a Humane Architecture” at the Allegro Gallery, in downtown Panama City.

Associate Professor george Elvin gave the keynote address at the opening of the Biomax biofuel plant in Bogotá, Colombia. His talk on “Sustainability in Action” was attended by over 500 South American executives, dignitaries and members of the media.

A new book, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture,

co-edited by Kevin Klinger, Associate Profes-sor and Director of Institute for Digital Fabri-cation and Dr. Branko Kolarevic of University of Calgary, has been published by Routledge (ISBN 978-0-415-77574-8).

Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials is the new book by Assistant Professor Meg Calkins, pub-lished by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The book guides architects, engineers, contractors, and landscape architects in making the right choic-es to minimize their projects’ environmental and human health impacts –whether the right answer is a new, green material or a conven-tional, tried-and-true material used in green ways. This book provides detailed and current information on construction materials for sus-tainable sites, including: general environmental and human health impacts of the materials and products industry; tools, techniques, ideologies, and resources for evaluating, sourcing, and specifying sustainable site materials; as well as methods of specifying the nine basic types of conventional and emerging green site con-struction materials: concrete, earthen materials, brick masonry, asphalt pavement, aggregates and stone, wood, metals, plastics, and nonliving bio-based materials to minimize their impacts. (ISBN: 978-0-470-13455-9)

lAWRENCE TECHNOlOgICAl UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP was one of the keynote speakers at the

International Urban Design Workshop entitled “Marginal City Reciprocal City” held at Chungju University in Korea in spring 2008. He and his counterpart in Korea developed the workshop. Dr. Kim’s graduate students from the Detroit Stu-dio Community Outreach Program participated in this week-long workshop and toured several cities in Korea. Detroit Studio is directed by Dr. Kim and each of his students from the Studio led a team of foreign students at the workshop to develop urban design proposals for selected sites in Korea. As one of the positive outcomes of the workshop, Detroit Studio’s partnering stu-dents in Korea are working on sites in Detroit this fall and their proposals for the Museum of HIP will be exhibited at the Club Technology Bldg located in Detroit’s Hope District in 2009.

Lindhout Associates of Brighton, Michigan won a design competition sponsored by the City of Farmington Hills, Michigan to revitalize its city hall. Adjunct Instructor David Richardson, LEED, a partner at Lindhout Associates, will be the project manager. In addition to improved accessibility and work space quality the city has directed that the project be as green as pos-sible. Along with high efficiency and sustain-able design elements an additional goal is to provide clear and interactive examples to the community of how such steps save energy, help the environment, and make such a public facil-ity healthier for everyone. The design team also includes LTU senior Kevin Bouchey and alum-nus Frank Pierron. The construction manage-ment team will be led by LTU alum Jim Barnas of Contracting Resources.

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Side-by-side comparison of HDR photograph (left) and HDR computer simulation image (right) of the Indianapolis Colts indoor practice facility.

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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

New and Visiting Faculty to The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture for 2008-09 include Sarah Cowles, who is the 2008/09 Trott Visiting Professor. Sarah was a 2008 resident at the Center for Land Use Inter-pretation and a project designer at Tom Leader Studio. Sarah’s design practice engages ecol-ogy, social activism and modeling/fabrication technologies. Nick gelpi is the 2008/09 LeFe-vre Fellow. Nick has worked with Steven Holl on the Hudson Rail Yards competition, and has also collaborated with Holl on the Riddled Fur-niture Series for the Italian furniture company Horm. Nick was the recipient of ARCHITECT Magazine’s first annual R&D award in 2007. Kathryn gustafson is the Glimcher Distin-guished Visiting Professor. Founding principal of Gustafson Porter (London) and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), Kathryn is a leading voice in contemporary landscape architecture. Recently opened works include an installation at the Venice Biennale 2008 and the new court-yard at the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gal-lery, Washington, D.C. Dan Wood and Amale Andros, are 2008/09 Baumer Visiting Profess-sors. Principals of WORKac, Dan and Amale are this year’s winners of the PS 1 competition with the installation Public Farm 1. Other visiting Professors to the KSA include greg lynn, Prin-cipal of Greg Lynn FORM and Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; Aurel von Richthofen, Principal of KaRV Architecture and Design in New York; lisa Hsieh and Jr-gang Chi, Principals in the design firm ar-ch. Lisa is a 2003 recipient of the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League of New York, Jr-Gang Chi is a lecturer in Tunghai University’s Department of Architecture. Additional visiting Professors for 2008/09 include Marc Manack, Director of SILO, AR+D in Cleveland; Marc has taught at Kent State University and was the re-cent recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Interi-or Design. Alan Smart is Visiting Professor and the KSA Shop Coordinator, and has worked for Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. Alex Tsamis, Visiting Professor is com-pleting his PhD on the intersection of design and computation. He is the recent winner of the Arquitectum Competition: “London 2008”. Nina Peng Wang, Teaching Fellow, is com-pleting her PhD at Tongi University, Shanghai, Nina’s research focuses on environmental plan-

ning and the development of green networks. Tony Caicco, Visiting Professor, is a recent graduate of University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on design and computing.

Associate Professor Stephen Turk’s work is part of the exhibit, Re-Figurations: Projects by Stephen Turk (Bake’n Quake) and Michael Williams (Kneading Bodies), at the Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Autumn Quarter 08: Oct 13th - Dec 19th. Michael Williams is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University’s School of Architecture.

Associate Professor Stephen Turk published “Bake ‘n Quake: Objects, Surfaces and Identity Distortion in Id Software’s Quake III Arena” in On Objects 12.4, Performance Research, December 2007. Performance Research is an interdisciplinary journal that promotes dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance. Assoc. Prof. Turk also published a chapter in the book: Swan Quake: the user’s manual edited by Scott de Lahunta. Turk’s essay, “Quake ‘n Space” positions the computer game in a evolving history of avant-garde artistic practices challenging modes of visual and spatial representation with references to such artists Duchamp and Francis Bacon, drawing on several philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century. Swan Quake: the user’s manual is an edited collection of essays accompanying the release of the award-winning international media arts and performance group IGLOO.

Stephen Turk, Norah Zuniga Shaw and Maria Palazzi (Director of OSU’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design) are working with The Forsythe Company, MK2, Scott de Lahunta and the Forsythe Foundation on the creation of a new interactive DVD exploring the work of the world famous choreographer William Forsythe. Turk presented the lecture, “Space of Emergence” at Tanzplan Deutschland at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater Berlin in March, 2008 as part of the Biennale Tanzausbildung featuring a host of invited speakers discussing the relationship of contemporary dance to a broad range of disciplines.

Assoc. Prof. Stephen Turk exhibited The Katah-din Chair at The Portland Museum of Art show,

“Getting Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture”. The project was designed in a part-nership between the brothers John and Stephen Turk. John Turk has been a practicing Architect in Portland Maine for over two decades. The show featured furniture designed by Maine Ar-chitects and Designers sponsored by AIA Maine, Architalx & the Portland Society of Architects.

Professor Michael Cadwell’s book Strange Details (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007) is now in its second printing and was shortlisted for the RIBA Sir Robert McAlpine International Book Award for Construction and the 2008 RIBA In-ternational Book Awards, Architectural Practice category.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIgAN

Professor Douglas Kelbaugh, who stepped down as dean of Taubman College at the end of August, has accepted the position of Execu-tive Director of Building and Urban Design for Limitless, an international real estate develop-ment corporation headquartered in Dubai, UAE. The 500-person firm is developing sustainable towns and urban centers in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Its $100B portfolio of proj-ects is in various stages of planning, design and development in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sin-gapore, India, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Sen-egal, Russia, Poland, Italy, and England. Many of them are notable for their mixed-use, walkable, environmental urbanism that often includes transit. The projects are planned and designed by leading international urban planners, archi-tects, landscape architects, and engineers.

The position, which includes the selection and oversight of the project design teams, will al-low him to help plan and design communities around the world that combine many of the planning, urban design, and architecture prin-ciples and ideas that he has been writing, char-retting, and lecturing about for two decades. He will also be building the design and plan-ning staff at Limitless.

He starts the job in mid-November and has been granted a two year leave by the Universi-ty, after which he plans to return to the College faculty to continue teaching, research, service, and writing.

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

Klai Hall, the new downtown home of the NDSU Department of Architecture and Land-scape Architecture, was dedicated Oct. 3, 2008. The former Lincoln Mutual building in down-town Fargo, North Dakota, was remodeled to provide space for studios, shop space, offices, and the Architecture and Landscape Architec-ture Library. The building is named for NDSU alumnus John R. Klai II.

Associate Professor and Architecture Program Director ganapathy Mahalingam, and As-sistant Professor Mike Christenson were elected by the Association for Computer-Aid-ed Design in Architecture (ACADIA) to serve two-year terms on the editorial board of the International Journal of Architectural Comput-ing (IJAC), beginning in January 2009. IJAC is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to research in computer-aided architectural design. As a new member of the board, Mahalingam is in-terested in reopening a discourse on the core of design computing. He will focus on a critical examination of the computability of all kinds of design processes in the design and construction of the built environment. Christenson says the journal must continue to be a forum for archi-tectural educators and practitioners to ask fun-damental questions like “What is architectural about computing?” even as such questioning expands into new areas.

Assistant Professor David Crutchfield was recently nominated to Chair the second an-nual regional GreenExPO to occur during Earth Week. The expo will highlight the Green and Sustainable efforts of various local community, civic, and commercial entities. Crutchfield also recently facilitated a lunchtime design char-rette involving local citizens and architects, city officials, and NDSU students in the schematic development of a non-profit “International Marketplace” for Fargo.

UNIVERSITY OF IllINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIgN

Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway and Allison Warren were recognized by the UIUC

Research Board a total award of $23,830 for the support of a project entitled “beijing_archtec-ture”. The project is a traveling exhibit from Bei-jing to Chicago based on his “ready- made ar-chitecture” research in collaboration with Public Artist Allison M Warren. The Board agreed to make this award as Arnold O. Beckman Award. Dr. Arnold O. Beckman gave the University a ma-jor gift of an endowment for the Research Board, who then selects projects of special distinction, special promise, or special resource value to be named Arnold O. Beckman Awards.

Hemingway, principal of hemingway+a/studio, is building an installation entitled “1_2_3” to coincide with the conference [ARCHITECTURE] in the age of [DIGITAL] reproduction that he and Warren are Co-chairing that will be on view at Temple Buell Hall untill 2009.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Assistant Professor Ozayr Saloojee was awarded a McKnight Grant by the University of Minnesota’s McKnight Arts and Humanities endowment. The award will be used to develop an exhibition on Eliel Saarinen’s last built work, Christ Church Lutheran, in Minneapolis. The ex-hibition is being designed by the well known firm VJAA (Vincent James Associate Architects) and fabricated by Terry Chance of Site Assem-bly. The exhibit will feature the photography of noted photographer, Balthazar Korab, as well as the early photographs of George Miles Ryan and Pete Sieger, an architect at local firm Mey-er, Scherer & Rockcastle. The award will also assist in the co-funding of the retrospective of Eero Saarinen’s work, ‘Shaping the Future,’ cur-rently on display at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (until January 2009). Professor Saloojee’s exhibit will open at the conclusion of a symposium focused on the work of Eero Saarinen. Entitled ‘Eero Saarinen: Beyond the Measly ABC,’ the symposium fea-tures a number of noted academic and prac-titioners, including Donald Albrecht, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Beatriz Colomina and Timo Tuomi among others. The School of Architecture’s participation in the symposium includes Dean Thomas Fisher who will be speaking on Eero Saarinen’s legacy in contemporary architec-

ture, Professor Nancy Miller on Saarinen’s corporate campuses, Professor Ozayr Saloojee on Eliel Saarinen and Christ Church Lutheran, and Professor John Comazzi in conversation with Balthazar Korab. For more information, please visit www.design.umn.edu, http://cal-endar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4653, and http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=9&date=10%2F10%2F2008

As part of their third year M.Arch research studio last spring (a joint effort between the School of Architecture and Landscape Architec-ture), recently graduated architecture students Amanda Olson and Malea Jochim, along with Landscape Architecture colleague Laura Kamin-Lyndgaad, were awarded an honor award in the collaboration category in the American Society of Landscape Architects 2008 Student Awards. Their project, ‘Remediation as Catalyst: Trans-forming an Industrial Landscape,’ was devel-oped in a studio co-taught by lance Neckar, ASLA (Landscape Architecture) and the School of Architecture’s Professor John Comazzi.

The school of architecture is preparing for an accreditation visit set for the Spring of 2009.

Nikos Bakirtzis joins the School of Architecture as a Cass Gilbert visiting professor for the year. Bakirtzis recently graduated with his Ph.D. in Art History and Archeology from Princeton. He brings a wealth of expertise on the Mediaeval Mediterranean and Byzantine studies. He has experience both in the classrooms of Columbia University and on site at various archeological surveys in Greece and Cyprus.

Architecture undergraduate students Laura Schlifer and Daniel Carlson won the first 2008 Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship in celebration of the Berkeley Prize’s tenth an-niversary. Schlifer and Carlson won for their project, entitled “Baby Boomers: A New Take on the Old.” They were also finalists for the essay competition. The pair were awarded $1,250 each plus $3,500 to host a School of Architecture com-petition based on their entry. The Berkeley Prize educates undergraduate architecture students through essay writing and a travel fellowship that “the smallest act of building has global im-

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plications: that design can and does play a major role in the social, cultural, and psychological life of both the individual and society at large.”

John Comazzi (Architecture) participated in the design and planning of the Children in Nature event sponsored by the Chidren, Youth, and Family Consortium and the Minnesota Land-scape Arboretum. The conference takes place on Thursday, November 6, 2008, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Minneapolis Arboretum.

Dean Tom Fisher was a featured speaker at a symposium entitled “ The City, The River, the Bridge,” which offered a retrospective on the collapse of the I-35W Bridge, the aftermath and its reconstruction. The symposium was spon-sored by the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study.

On September 30, leslie Van Duzer’s (Architec-ture) exhibition, entitled “Adolf Loos: Works in the Czech Lands,” opened at the City of Prague Museum in Prague. The exhibition, co-curated with art historian Maria Szadkowska, presents research conducted while on a Fulbright Re-search Fellowship in 2003. Their co-authored book on the topic is forthcoming.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

Interior Design faculty Professor Kathy Anker-son and Architecture faculty Professor William Borner are currently teaching an inter-disciplin-ary vertical design studio with 4th, 5th and 6th year students. The curricular focus of this studio is healthcare design, and is the beginning of a teaching / research initiative that is supported with both funding and expert personnel by the international firm HDR Architecture, headquar-tered in Omaha Nebraska. This off-campus stu-dio is located in the City of Lincoln’s Haymarket district and shall be offered each semester for the next three calendar years.

Associate Professor Jeff Day and his firm Min-Day (www.minday.com) have received two 2008 AIA Nebraska awards. The first is an Honor award for a completed residence in West Lake Okabodji, Iowa and the second is an Honor award in the Details category for a CNC-milled cabinet for the same residence. Mr. Day has also served as the 2008 jury chair of the AIA Wichita awards program.

Martin Despang has been promoted to As-sociate Professor with tenure. Mr. Despang’s firm, Despang Architekten (www.despangarchi-tekten.de) with offices in both Hannover and Munich Germany, has been awarded an “En-gere Wahl” award by the Lower Saxony States awards program for its Post-Fossil Eco-Woodbox Kindergarten, also in Hannover. This project has already earned a 2007 Miami Bienal award in the category of a “Public building below 10,000 square feet.” The project is featured in two articles that Mr. Despang has published in the periodical Detail (Chinese version) titled “Gen-eration (P)ost-Fossil,” in the 2008 | 04 issue and “Heat Modified Architecture,” in the 2008 | 06 issue. This project shall also be featured in the forthcoming titles New Prefab by Loft Pub-lishing, and The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Phaidon Publishers.

Dean Wayne Drummond has announced the following distinguished professorships for the 2008 – 2010 term: Tim Hemsath has been awarded the Douglas Professorship in Health-care Design; Tom laging has been awarded the Killinger Professorship of Urban Design; Chris Ford and Peter Hind are individual recipients of Steward Professorships in Sustainable Design.

Assistant Professor Chris Ford (www.chrisfor-doffice.com) has been named a 2008 “Monster of Design” by the AIA Kansas City chapter. The Monster of Design competition is sponsored by its Young Architects Forum and placed in the “Architecture, Group Project” category. The proj-ect is TAIMEN, a single-family residence for To-kyo Japan, and was co-authored by Matt Golds-berry. The project is exhibited at both the Kansas City Design Center and as part of “The Design Flatfile” exhibit at the H&R Block Artspace.

Associate Professor Rumiko Handa (aith.unl.edu) presented a paper titled “Architectural Ru-ins and Literary Imagination” at the April 2008 “Architexture: Exploring Textual and Architec-ture Spaces” Conference, held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

In Oct 2008, Assistant Professor Peter Hind (www.studio951.net) served as co-chair of the largest AIA R/UDAT (Regional / Urban Design Assistance Team) project engaged to date. The area considered is a large portion of Staten Island, New York that includes the Fresh Kills

landfill. Locally, Mr. Hind is also actively work-ing with NeighborWorks Lincoln and UNL students in the design and construction for a 1800sf switchgrass bale residence that incor-porates renewable energy power supplies. For more information: www.archspace.info.

Professor Sharon Kuska (www.ecostoresne.org) has authored a paper titled “Developing and Sustaining Creative Cities: A Sustainability Tool for Designers, Planners, and Public Admin-istrators,” and has presented it at the Creative Cities 2008 Conference in Naples Italy in Sep-tember 2008. This paper was co-authored with former Dean Cecil Steward.

A White House Redux competition submission by visiting professor Erhard Schuetz is one of 123 entries selected for hardcopy publication and is also on exhibit at the renovated Store-front for Art and Architecture in New York.

UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN-MIlWAUKEE

SARUP announces its GALA 40th anniversary year with events highlighting award-winning work by faculty and students.

Students and faculty celebrated the completion of The Menomonee Valley Community Park Pa-vilion. The Pavilion aids the greenbelt develop-ment efforts of Menomonee Valley Partners by providing a secure location to store tools for landscaping. Additionally, it incorporates a cov-ered outdoor area for educational talks, picnics and other park activities. The project was de-signed and built in the Marcus Prize studio led by Associate Prof. Kyle Talbott and Frank Bar-kow of Barkow Leibinger from Berlin, Germany. The Marcus Prize studio is a bi-annual studio funded by the Marcus Corporation Foundation. The award recognizes emerging talent in the field of architecture.

Assistant Professor Arijit Sen has been named to a research residency for fall semester 2008 at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Uni-versity of Minnesota. This fellowship is part of the Quadrant Program funded by the Mellon Foundation to promote interdisciplinary publi-cation and research. As part of the Quadrant’s “Design and Architecture” collaborative, Sen will be working on his manuscript “Mobile

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Bodies, Transgressing Selves,” where he ex-plores the role of the built environment in im-migrant world making. Sen is also a recipient of the 2009 UWM Graduate School Research Award, which he will use to further his current research on immigrant cultural landscapes.

A design for a new 700-student residence hall designed by faculty Jim Shields AIA has been chosen in a developer/architect competition run by the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation. Neighborhood public hearings were held during this controversial competition, and Shield’s design received the only warm reception from local environmental activists among several competing teams. The courtyard design, located on a bluff above the Milwaukee river valley, features numerous green features intended to protect the water and view shed below, including step back green roofs, rain gardens and rain water collection tanks for all irrigation. A local environmental center is being engaged to develop a river-based environmen-tal stewardship program for student residents.

Associate Professor grace la’s practice, LA DALLMAN, is recently published in Praxis: the journal of building + writing as well as in the book, The Public Chance, published by Spain’s A+T. A case study of LA DALLMAN’s Marsupial Bridge is also featured in the Bruner Founda-tion’s award publication. LA DALLMAN’s Levy House was awarded the Gold Medal and House of the Year by Milwaukee Home Magazine. Their practice was the cover story recently featured in UWM TODAY. LA DALLMAN’s new project for The Joseph and Vera Zilber Building, the new home of the Hillel Student Center at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, has broken ground.

The NOMAS Chapter at UWM elected its first round of officers, with Associate Dean gil Snyder serving as faculty advisor. The newly formed group received a university grant to support planning and implementation of a two-day Symposium on architecture and urbanism for late Spring 2009.

Undergraduate student Josh Bowens-Rubin won first place in the Leading Edge Student De-sign Competition.

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NORWICH UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor Wendy Cox was awarded the Charles A. Dana Category I Grant. This grant is given to selected faculty demonstrating ex-cellence in three areas: Teaching, Research and University Service.

Norwich University School of Architecture and Art students, in an architectural design studio titled ‘gaming’, investigated the cultural impli-cations of the increasing prevalence of gaming and its potential impact on future architects growing up playing video games. Assistant Professor Wendy Cox led the students’ investi-gations through a series of exercises designed to broaden their understanding of the potential spatial implications of gaming. The research be-gan with a LAN party. From this, each student chose a game, in which to study, specifically, how the virtual designers articulated space. A freeze frame of each game was required and an analy-sis of that space was developed, including the patterning used, how textures were articulated, how the walls met the floors, ceiling, etc. The students then analyzed how this differs from the experience of non-virtual space. One significant observation was in how difficult the perception

of the ‘temperature’ of materials is to convey in virtual space. Only in the highly sophisticated games such as the World of Warcraft does one gain a sense for the visceral nature of a mate-rial. Another realization was that in a first-per-son shooter game, a gridded articulation of the floor helped to give visual clues orienting one-self within a virtual world. In a larger sense, the focus on experiencing space virtually, gave the students a greater appreciation and recognition of the phenomenological aspects of ‘real’ space. Other ideas concerned the dynamic aspects of video games. To translate these new ways of looking at space into architectural form, the stu-dents master planned and designed the new ar-chitectural periodical shelving area in Norwich University’s Kreitzberg Library. The dynamic idea of a video game and also visual sight lines were used as organizing ideas. The resulting design aligned a series of triangulated screens, creating view corridors highlighting important aspects in the library. The dynamism resulted in work-ing with the changing display of the monthly periodicals. The fronts of the screens were de-signed on the flocking principle of a school of fish, or birds in flight, with the magazines being suspended vertically on minimal brackets. This emphasized the graphic design of the magazine

Norwich students, Brian Kubeck, Missy Stark and Kate Beal install cold rolled steel plates onto maple fins to create architectural periodical shelving screens.

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covers and creating the appearance of the mag-azines floating in air. With the issues of the peri-odicals constantly changing, the overall ‘image’ of the shelving area also constantly changes. The backs of the screens, hold periodicals which are not monthly and do not circulate, and there-fore the students designed a more static display presentation. A storage place for the back is-sues was accomplished through the design of a ‘floating’ wooden box in which multicolored plexiglass dividers, cut on a evolving curved pattern and fabricated through a CNC milling process, were inserted. The box symbolized the aspect of games where one can see how many lives one has left, the amount of ammunition, etc. The materials were chosen for their appeal to an industrial aesthetic in combination with those from the existing context of the library, accomplishing a fine line between being an exciting, vibrant, area of the library, while fit-ting in with the existing language in which the shelving resides. The students were responsible for all aspects of the design process from pro-gramming and meeting with the client regularly, through to design, building and installing the periodical shelving.

PENNSYlVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Penn State School of Architecture and Land-scape (SALA) receives $20 million gift. Pursu-ing a longtime quest to foster academic col-

laboration in the education of architects and landscape architects, a Penn State alumnus has committed $20 million to encourage even more cross-disciplinary learning opportunities for students in the two programs.

H. Campbell “Cal” Stuckeman, of Pittsburgh, graduated from the University in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. His gift will create endowments to support three broad purposes:• Create chairs and professorships for faculty and visiting professionals who have a strong combination of design expertise, record of col-laborating with other disciplines, and a passion for teaching;• Create new or enhance existing interdisci-plinary and international teaching and research initiatives;• Strengthen the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing so that the architecture and landscape architecture curricula remain leaders among their peer institutions.

Penn State President graham B. Spanier will recommend to the Board of Trustees that the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture be named for the donor and his late wife.The School of Architecture and Landscape Ar-chitecture is housed in the Stuckeman Family Building, named in honor of Cal Stuckeman

and his late wife, who made a lead gift of $10 million toward the construction of the building, which opened in 2005. In 2006, the Stuckeman Family Building was awarded a Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leader-ship in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. It is one of the first buildings on any college campus to earn this certification, which distinguishes building projects that have demonstrated a commit-ment to sustainability by meeting the highest performance standards.

RHODE ISlAND SCHOOl OF DESIgN

An energy efficient solar house designed by Rhode Island School of Design architecture students under the guidance of Professor of Architecture Wilbur Yoder and Assistant Pro-fessor of Architecture Jonathan Knowles was opened at the Portsmouth Abbey School on Oc-tober 21. Built for the 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, the home was donated to the school to be used as faculty housing. Originally 800 square feet, the house was ex-panded to 1600 square feet and features two bedrooms, heliotropic louvers, variable lighting settings according to space function, solar sur-faces, a roof garden, and heating, cooling and ventilation systems.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor lori Brown has organized, curated and participated in a traveling exhibi-tion titled, feminist practices. The exhibition focuses on architects who use feminist meth-odologies in their research and design and cre-ate works to explore personally and regionally relevant problems pertaining to their environ-ment. Additional information is available at www.feministpractices.com.

Michael Pelken, Associate Professor and Cen-ter of Excellence Fellow, presented his current research on “Integrated Wind Technologies in the Built Environment” at the “Syracuse Cen-ter of Excellence Symposium 2008,” September 29-30. Pelken also lectured on sustainability practices and research during summer 2008 at: Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany; and Peter Behrens School of Architec-

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ture, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Assistant Professor Jon Yoder participated in a panel discussion, “Building Character: Modern-ist Architecture in Film,” with Edward Dimend-berg, Anne Friedberg, and Barbara Lamprecht, in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Mu-seum in Los Angeles on July 15. On September 27, Yoder taught a seminar, “John Lautner: Be-tween Architecture and Cinema,” co-sponsored by the Hammer Museum, the UCLA Dept. of Architecture + Urban Design, and UCLA Exten-sion in Los Angeles.

TEMPlE UNIVERSITY

Temple University is pleased to welcome Assis-tant Professors Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Eric Oskey to its full-time faculty. Professor Weiss is a founder and principal of Normal Ar-chitecture Office - NAO based in Philadelphia. His books Almost Architecture and Lost High-way Expedition Photobook, address architec-ture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes and both witness to rapid urbanization of Europe’s South East. Professor Oskey’s work fo-cuses on the integration of material technology,

fabrication techniques and computer software into the built environment. His recent investi-gations have explored the integration of com-puter scripting as a design tool, its direct effect on manufacturing techniques and the resulting potential for mass customization.

Assistant Professor Srdjan Weiss contributed to the books East Coast Europe published by Sternberg, Networked Cultures published by NAi Publishers, Turbo Urbanism: Pristhina is Every-where published by Archis, Urban Transforma-tion, Ruby Press and W for Warsaw published by Fundacja Bec Zmiana. Professor Weiss and NAO were selected by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei as one of 100 architects to build a villa in new city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. Professor Weiss’ proposal was exhibited at the Architecture League in New York from October 11 – November 2, 2008. He also exhibited at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel as part of “Balkanology” from October 4 – December 12.2008. In 2008 Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss was nominated for Chernikhov Award in Moscow.

Associate Professor Sally Harrison has been named Principal Investigator for “Digging Deep-er”, a participatory urban design project for the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Phila-delphia funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Assistant Professor Scott Shall has been awarded a research grant from the AIA to sup-port the installation of several experimental constructions in Mumbai, India. These tectonic explorations helped inform a 2008 study-abroad project that brought together students and professionals from two countries, eight universities and six disciplines to craft a new vi-sion for education for Mumbai Mobile Crèches – an Indian non-profit that provides education and health programs for children living on the construction sites of Mumbai. This work, made possible through a partnership between Temple University, the DY Patil School of Architecture in New Mumbai and the International Design Clinic, resulted in over a dozen proposals, rang-ing in scale from matters of curriculum and furniture to issues of urban design. Professor Shall, having received a second grant from the Temple University Provost’s Commission for the Arts, will mount an exhibition of this work in several abandoned buildings around Philadel-phia this spring.

Assistant Professors Sneha Patel and Rashida Ng were awarded a Product Innovation Grant by the Green Building Alliance for their project, ReD, a Responsive Daylighting Panel Integrating Phase Change Material. This project is also sup-ported by Advanced Cooling Technologies, a re-

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Atrium view of newly renovated Slocum Hall, home of Syracuse Architecture. Photo credit: Steve Sartori

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search and development company specializing in advanced thermal technology development. geeta Mehta, Associate Professor of Archi-tecture and Urban Studies at Temple Univer-sity Japan was elected the President Elect of the American Institute of Architects in Japan, and will serve as President from January 1, 2009. Professor Mehta also helped organize a participatory planning workshop in Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia, in March 2008. Sixty participants from around the world came to work along side local people on strategies to improve the community and to deal with pend-ing redevelopment. More details are available at www.dharavi.org. Professor Mehta will also be a visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York in Spring 2009, working with stu-dents on issues facing Dharavi. Professor Mehta co-authored the book Japan Living with Marcia Iwatate which was published by Tuttle Publish-ers in August of this year.

Adjunct Associate Professor Elizabeth Mas-ters will serve on the AIA Philadelphia Board for the next two years. Professor Masters is currently working on a certificate in Economic Development at the University of Pennsylvania at the Fels Institute of Government.

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFAlO Professor Robert Shibley, Director of The Ur-ban Design Project reports three new awards to the Center, one from the International Econom-ic Development Council giving an Honorable Mention to The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo, awarded at their national conference in Atlanta, October 19. Two other awards were given for “Planning Excellence for a Best Practice” for the Queen City Waterfront - Buffalo Waterfront Corridor Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements, one from the Upstate Chapter of the New York State American Planning Asso-ciation (October 9), and one from the Western New York Section of the Chapter (July 7).

The IDEA Center is happy to announce a major new collaboration on a Rehabilitation Engi-neering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT). The IDEA Center is already home to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD). Funded by the Na-

tional Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the RERC-APT is a partnership between the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mel-lon University and the IDEA Center. Co-directed by Aaron Steinfeld (RI) and Edward Steinfeld (IDEA Center), the RERC-APT will establish an ef-fective and sustainable process to address high priority transportation needs of people with dis-abilities using enabling technology and universal design. The Research and Development activities will provide new tools, research findings, guide-lines, and products that advance the field of ac-cessible public transportation through universal design. Training and Dissemination activities will increase understanding and build capacity for accessible public transportation for a wide range of stakeholders.

Together with the RERC on Technology Trans-fer, Edward Steinfeld presented a program called “From Proving Ground to Mainstream,” at the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America’s (RESNA) annual conference in Washington, DC, June 28-30. This program demonstrated how assistive technology can be used as a way to test new ideas and concepts for universal designs. Edward Steinfeld and Joe Lane were the presenters. Many examples of as-sistive technology applications that have been successfully introduced as universal designs for mainstream use were described including email, voice recognition and captioned television. Op-portunities for AT firms and experts to become involved in this emerging field were discussed.

Dr. Steinfeld made a second presentation at RESNA on the Anthropometry of Wheeled Mo-bility Project, a long range study that is collect-ing and analyzing data on the sizes and abili-ties of contemporary wheelchair and scooter users. New data collected in this study, which was originally funded by NIDRR and is now funded by the U.S. Access Board, is now being analyzed. Activities are underway to introduce the findings to standard making bodies to help improve accessibility codes.

Dr. Steinfeld and Jon Sanford of the Department of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Co-Director of the RERC on Work, organized a program on Evidence Based Practice in univer-sal design. This was a follow up to a similar but longer program at the International Conference on Aging, Disability, and Independence. In this

program, participants were introduced to the needs and barriers to evidence based practice in the field of universal design. Discussion fo-cused on how to overcome those barriers and how the rehabilitation science community can help to advance the field of universal design. In September, researchers from the RERC-UD held a special session of four paper presenta-tions titled “Moving from Accommodation to Universal Design” at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The goal of the session was to spark increased interest among human factors practitioners, us-ability testing specialists, designers and engi-neers about the importance of universal design for the improvement of built environment and products. It demonstrated how the HF/E profes-sion can contribute to the body of basic and applied research related to how environment and product design affects individuals with dis-abilities. Both empirical studies and theoretical positions were presented.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYlAND

Associate Professor Isabelle gournay co-ed-ited Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. which was recently published by the US Capi-tol Historical Society and Ohio University Press. Additionally, Professor Gournay’s survey of Modern Movement resources conducted with American Studies professor Mary Corbin Sies and sponsored by the Maryland Historical Trust, was completed. Professor Gournay was also recently elected to the council of the Interna-tional Planning History Society.

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SOUTHWESTTUlANE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor Elizabeth gamard has been appointed by Dean Kenneth Schwartz as Associate Dean of the school.

Associate Professor Scott Bernhard has been named the Saul A. Mintz Professor of Architec-ture and has been re-appointed Director of the Tulane City Center (www.tulanecitycenter.org).

Associate Professor Carol Reese has been named the Mary Louise Christovich Professor.

Favrot Professor of Architecture, Errol Barron is one of the twelve authors in Thinking through Drawing in an Electronic Age, a book published in October 2008. His chapter is entitled “Hand Drawing in the Digital Age.”

Professor Ronald C. Filson, FAIA has been made a Professor Emeritus following his retire-ment after 28 years on the faculty of the Tulane School of Architecture. Professor Filson served as the School’s Dean from 1980 to 1992 and currently directs the TSA Rome Program.

Adjunct Professor Milton Scheuermann has entered his 50th year of teaching at the Tulane School of Architecture.

Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini and his firm AEDS was awarded second place in the Flip a Strip competition (www.flipastrip.org) organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to re-think and newly envi-sion the potential of the Strip Mall. Professor Eloueini’s project will be part of an exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from October 5 through January 18, 2009. Also, Professor Eloueini exhibited his CoRefab chair during the Tokyo Design Week from 24 Octo-ber to 3 November 2008 in an Exhibition called CoReFab 21+1.

The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, un-der the Direction of Adjunct Associate Professor grover Mouton and Associate Nick Jenisch, hosted Preserve America Mayors’ Conference on Heritage Tourism held in November in the City of Natchez, MS. This is part of The Tulane

Regional Urban Design Center regional work, often through Mayors, identifying urban design and planning issues and offering academic and professional aid to these communities

Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore pre-sented a paper in October titled “Hybrids: digi-tal tools in design strategies” at the 2008 ACSA Fall Conference “[ARCHITECTURE] in the age of [DIGITAL] reproduction” at the University of Il-linois at Urbana Champaign.

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

Assistant Professor Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, of the Gerald D. Hines College of Archi-tecture published an article entitled “Ghosts and Barbarians: The Vernacular in Italian Mod-ern Architecture and Design,” in Gerry Beegan and Paul Atkinson, eds., “The Ghosts of the Profession: Amateur, Vernacular and Dilettante Practices and Modern Design,” The Journal of Design History 21:4 (Dec. 2008). Sabatino deliv-ered a three-part lecture series at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston entitled: “Andrea Palladio Five Hundred Years Later – From the Pastoral Ideal and Mc Mansions.”

UNIVERSITY OF TExAS AT SAN ANTONIO

The College of Architecture Colloquium kicked off its lecture series for the Spring 2008 se-mester with a lecture from Steven Moore, the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning and director of the graduate program in sustainable design at the University of Texas at Austin. Titled “Competing Visions of Sus-tainable Architecture: Can they all be right?” The lecture presented a critical evaluation of six competing logics of contemporary sustain-able architecture, their underlying concepts, and varying images of spaces and buildings. Moore was invited to the College and his lec-ture was sponsored by architecture students from Emerging Green Builders (EGB), the newly formed UTSA-CoA student organization initially organized and co-sponsored by Associate Pro-fessor Marc giaccardo and Assistant Profes-sor Hazem Rashed-Ali.

As part of the increased emphasis placed by the

College of Architecture on developing funded research activities, three CoA faculty members were recently awarded grants to conduct re-search in a variety of topics. Professor Richard Tangum was awarded $10,750 from the Wind-crest Economic Development Corporation to study development and revitalization options for the Walzem Road Corridor. The planning research team will examine land-use patterns, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and street improvement options. Associate Professor gayle Nicoll received a $5,000 grant from the New York City Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control to develop evidence-based active living guidelines. The guidelines will help en-courage everyday physical activities and provide input into the overall outline and focus of the NYC Department of Design and Construction Ac-tive Living Guidelines. Assistant Professor Hazem Rashed-Ali received a coveted UTSA Faculty Re-search Award of $5000 for his work on Carbon-Neutrality in Architectural Design Studios. His study examines the use of digital performance simulation software as design- decision-support tools, which can facilitate the design of high-per-formance and carbon-neutral buildings.

Associate Profesor Vincent Canizaro was awarded the UTSA Presidential Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Production in 2008. Dr. Canizaro and Lecturer III Dar-ryl Ohlenbusch also worked with the City of Boerne, Texas in preparation for their R/UDAT visit. The results, research and design projects, were documented in a book entitled Document on the City: Boerne, Texas, available from Lulu Press, 2008.

A team of School of Architecture Alumni was recognized at The University of Texas at Arling-ton’s 2008 Distinguished Alumni Gala, present-ed on October 11 at the campus’s Bluebonnet Ballroom.

Azroei Ahmad and Mohd. Zamberi Kusa re-ceived the Team Award in recognition of their contributions to architecture in their native country of Malaysia and worldwide as the driv-ing force behind Azarch Interiors. Azarch is a large professional practice with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, New Delhi and in Kazakhstan.

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Ahmad serves as chief executive officer and Kusa as chief operations officer. They represent more than forty-five Malaysian graduates of the School of Architecture from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s who studied architecture under the sponsorship of the Malaysian government.

It was an experiment that fulfilled its intent—to train young architects in the United States so they would return and contribute to the rapid development of Malaysia.

UT Arlington’s annual Distinguished Alumni

Gala recognizes outstanding alumni for their individual achievements, contributions to their industry or profession and service to The Uni-versity of Texas at Arlington. The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor given by the University and Alumni.

WESTCAlIFORNIA POlYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN lUIS OBISPO

Assistant Professor Robert Arens presented the paper “Material Libraries: Promoting Mate-riality and Interdisciplinary Collaboration” and the poster “Integrating Material Culture into Foundation Design Studios” at the Oxford Con-ference 2008 held July 22-23 at the University of Oxford, England. The conference theme was “Fifty Years On: Resetting the Agenda for Archi-tectural Education.”

Assistant Professor Robert Arens and Jim Do-erfler, received a $15,000 grant from Cal Poly’s Information Technology Services to research the pedagogy of architectural technology in lecture format courses. Research will lead to revisions in the Practice sequence of courses in the second and third-years of the Architecture curriculum.

Assistant Professor Mark Cabrinha joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall. He re-ceived his Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago and his undergraduate degree from Cal Poly. Mr. Cabrinha is a regis-tered architect in the state of Illinois, where he practiced as a designer and project architect for OWP/P Architects with focus in educational environments along with experience in mixed-use housing projects and assisted living facili-ties. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the University of Oregon, and was a re-search fellow at Ball State’s Institute for Digital Fabrication. A doctoral candidate at RPI, his re-search focus is on the impact of digital fabrica-tion on design culture through his dissertation (In)forming: Material Tactics and Digital Strate-gies in Design Education.

Professor De Hahn was appointed to the California Architectural Foundation, CAF. “The Foundation is the link between the profession and academia. By enhancing the standards of architectural education, training and practice through education and public awareness activities, the Foundation is making a positive difference in people’s lives and the built and natural environments that surround them.”

De Hahn will be serving on Cal Poly’s Branding Strategy Task Force which “involves a review of the University’s branding, marketing, and positioning activities, with an eye to develop-ing an integrated marketing strategy across the campus.”

Assistant Professor Tom di Santo and Professor laura Joines-Novotny, principals of M:OME, were invited to exhibit at RE:Design Your Mind II in Belgrade, Serbia this Fall (Sept-October, 2008). The focus of this current International Design Exhibition is on Ecologically Sensitive Product Design with exhibitors hailing from Serbia, London, New York and California.

Assistant Professor Doug Jackson joined the faculty with a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s Degree from Princeton University. He has taught graduate and undergraduate studios at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), among other institutions. A licensed architect, Mr. Jackson was a design principal with Jones, Partners: Architecture (J,P:A). Both his design work with J,P:A as well as his own independent design work has been widely exhibited and featured in national and international publications. The focus of his research and design is on developing the theories and techniques for an architecture that

is able to physically transform through human manipulation.

Assistant Professor Marc J. Neveu joined the faculty with a PhD in History and Theory of Ar-chitecture from McGill University in Montreal, where he also received his Masters Degree, as well as a BArch from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He practiced architecture in Boston with Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood Architects, Inc. where he worked on a variety of architectural projects such as museums, institu-tional and biotech. Prior to joining Cal Poly Marc taught at several institutions in the United States and Canada. His teaching and research interests include the history and theory of architectural pedagogy. A Fulbright Scholar in Italy, his disser-tation was titled Architectural Lessons of Carlo Lodoli: Indole of Material and of Self. Dr. Neveu is the author of several published journal articles.

UNIVERSITY OF CAlIFORNIA BERKElEY

Mark Anderson, Associate Professor of Architecture, with his brother Peter Anderson and their design firm, Anderson Anderson Architecture, recently won two design awards in the international Spark Design Awards competition, for their SpongeComb inflatable levee system, and for an energy-positive portable classroom prototype designed for the Hawaii Department of Education. The Autodesk Gallery at 1 Market designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture recently opened in San Francisco. This gallery for the display of digital design and fabrication is constructed as a media-saturated space of audio-visual projection and interactive display. Other CED faculty and alumni collaborating on the

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project included lecturer Mike McCall, of McCall Design Group, Senior Lecturer Charles Salter’s Acoustical and Audio-Visual design consulting firm, and UC architecture graduates Ken Moy and Yevgeniy Ossipov of the design team, and Jason Medal-Katz and Matthew Tierney, who serve as Autodesk project managers and design curators for the gallery. Three short film sequences on the Anderson Anderson work, including animations of their New Orleans housing project and the SpongComb inflatable levee system prepared for the Venice Biennale, and an animation for a sustainable, zero-energy housing tower in Wuhan, China, are currently on exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Assistant Professor Ron Rael has a new book Earth Architecture published by Princeton Architectural Press. The text provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other relevant techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet.

Dana Buntrock’s review of the exhibition “Toyo Ito: the New ‘Real’ in Architecture,” entitled “Build,” was published in Tokyo_from_Vancouver_2_ (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 2008), a volume edited by George Wagner. The essay was also published earlier in CAAReviews.com, the on-line refereed publication of the College Art Association.

Professor Ray lifchez is sponsoring the opening of The Eleventh Annual Berkeley Prize 2009 International Competition on November 1st. The competition is dedicated to the proposition that “architecture is a social art”. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Architecture/Traditional Wisdom. Awards include recognition for best writing and two Fellowships (one for travel and one for architectural design). For more information see: www.berkeleyprize.org

Lecturer Joseph Slusky is exhibiting his recent work Painted Metal Sculptures at the Art Foundry Gallery in Sacramento during October, 2008.

UNIVERSITY OF OREgON

Assistant Professor Nico larco has been awarded a $74,000 grant from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Con-sortium (OTREC) to continue his research on ’Fringe Urbanism’ and suburban multifamily housing. His project studies this overlooked ex-ample of density in suburbia and investigates changes in its design and development that can lead to more integrated environments. Profes-sor Larco has presented research developed with previous funding from OTREC and the National Multi Housing Council to conferences and cities throughout the country.

Assistant Professor Nico Larco and Adjunct As-sistant Professor Juli Brode have been awarded $27,000 through the Williams Fund to help develop designBridge and $20,000 from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) for transportation related design/build projects. designBridge is a multi-disciplinary, student based organization linking the University of Oregon with the surrounding community by offering design and design/build services. This is the second grant provided by the Williams Fund and it will be focused on imple-menting the ‘designBridge Year’ that integrates designBridge projects into the Architecture cur-riculum. Current designBridge projects include bicycle shelters at two local schools, a pavilion at a local child care facility, and a new entry area/shading strategy for a local HIV Alliance clinic.

In September, Professor Kevin Nute deliv-ered the keynote lecture at the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan’ symposium in Buffalo, NY. Professor Nute will present his current research on ‘Living Space: Sustaining Ourselves and the Planet with Sun-light, Air and Water,’ at the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment in December. He has just completed a paper on ‘The Architecture of the Individual’ for the forthcoming University of To-kyo publication, Papers in Honor of Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, and he will be back in Portland in the spring to give a presentation on ‘John Yeon and the Landscape Arts of China and Ja-pan,’ the result of research funded by the Uni-versity of Oregon Yeon Grant Program.

Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Director of the Portland Architecture Program at the University

of Oregon, delivered a keynote at the “Third International Conference of the Council for European Urbanism” (C.E.U.) in Oslo, Norway with the title: “Climate Change, Wholeness and Sustainability.” The conference took place Sep-tember 14-16 of 2008.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

In his new book, Historic Preservation Tech-nology, Robert Young, University of Utah as-sociate professor of architecture demonstrates that historic preservation and the rehabilitation of buildings is one of the most sophisticated means of materials recycling on the planet.

“Demolishing a building and replacing it with a completely new building of equal size and materials - with no recycled content - creates a significant material flow (new materials into a building and demolition debris removed from a jobsite) that is more than seven times greater than when simply rehabilitating or restoring the existing building,” says Young.

Recycling on this scale means considerable savings of materials and energy, with positive economic and environmental consequences. Not only does historic preservation or rehabili-tation save the energy first used to construct a building, but it prevents new energy from being spent on the extraction of raw materials and the construction of a new building.

New construction also continues to extend the built environment into rural and often pristine natural areas, which are lost once developed. This sprawling growth generates a vast array of new infrastructure costs, air pollution hazards, and social costs that have largely been ignored or dismissed.

“Before destroying a historic structure to make way for new construction, everyone with a stake in the project -- architects, engineers, de-signers, contractors, public officials, and home owners -- should consider preservation and re-habilitation,” says Professor Young.

“At a time when construction costs are soaring, when competition for resources is dramatically increasing, and when we are more conscious of our global environmental challenges than ever before, this book provides an important approach to consider when deciding how to

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build,” remarked Brenda Scheer, dean of the University’s college of architecture.

The book, however, is not an academic text, nor a step-by-step how-to. It is intended for a broad audience – from students to developers to citi-zen preservationists. Anyone with an interest in preservation can read and understand its con-cepts and principles. Says Professor Young, “It will completely change your mind about what preservation is and how it can aid in the quest for a healthier global environment.”

Historic Preservation Technology provides in-sights that help professionals and property owners who are unfamiliar with preservation technology develop a better understanding of preservation practices and therefore enhance the sensitive integration of design solutions into older and historic buildings.

“The book was also written to clear-up broad-based misperceptions by both the public and a number of professionals who were unfamiliar with historic preservation technology,” Young

continues, “Indeed, many buildings get de-stroyed simply because owners, architects, engi-neers, designers, contractors, and public officials do not fully understand how to successfully re-habilitate them. This combination of mispercep-tion and unfamiliarity frequently leads to design solutions that are insensitive to historic preser-vation and the sustainability aspects of reuse.”

SOUTHEASTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY

Architect Ray Gindroz – best known locally for master planning Norfolk’s urban revitalization over the past two decades – recently spent two weeks coaching Hampton University students studying urban design in Italy. He enlisted a host of his colleagues – including Robert Davis, the founder and developer of the town of Sea-side, Florida – to assist with teaching.

Seventeen Hampton University students head-ed off to Italy on May 28 to take the two-week urban travel course required as part of their third year architecture curriculum. The travel program was coordinated by Mr. Gindroz in col-laboration with Hampton University associate professor Shannon Chance.

“Mr. and Mrs. Gindroz have developed a num-ber of ways to support student learning – for example, they’ve recently established a founda-tion that provides student travel scholarships” stated Chance.

“The Gindrozes were so excited about the pho-tos I sent them of students sketching various sites in Rome and Tunis during last year’s trip,” she explained, “that they offered financial sup-port for this year’s program. Their most valuable contribution though, was the gift of their time in helping plan and conduct the program.”

Gindroz taught at Yale for over two decades according to Chance. “He’s an internationally recognized architect and urban designer. He co-founded and is currently the chair of the inter-national movement known as the Congress on the New Urbanism. He’s made incredible con-tributions to rebuilding the cities of Hampton Roads… and of Louisiana in Katrina’s after-math.”

At the start of the trip, the group spent a few days getting accustomed to Italy and sketching in Siena before heading to Parma to meet Ray and tour exemplary new urban projects by award winning architect Pier Carlo Bontempi. Then the group spent five days in and around Pienza, a medieval town that was renovated during the Renaissance and which reflects the ideals of Re-naissance proportioning and urban design.

Pienza is also the site of the annual “Seaside Pi-enza Institute” conducted by Gindroz and Davis. During their stay in Pienza, the group visited the villa known as “La Foce,” the site of War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944. The stu-dents met with Benedetta Origo, the daughter of the book’s author.

The group stayed at a former monastery outside of Pienza where the movie The English Patient was filmed for five nights. The monastery now operates as an agritourismo, giving the students

an appreciation for the importance of building densely in order to preserve valuable farmland. The group also met with important civic leaders and studied the site for which they are currently developing urban design proposals.

The trip culminated with five days in Rome that included lectures and tours lead by Gindroz (a former Fulbright Scholar to Rome), Davis (a for-mer fellow to the American Academy in Rome), historian and author George Sullivan, and Uni-versity of Notre Dame professor Samir Younis. The program included a visit to the American Academy in Rome.

The group also included a number of graduates from Hampton University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Notre Dame who served as role models and teaching assistants.

“Ray, Marilyn, and Robert have an incredible sense of calling, and a clear desire to pass their knowledge and gifts on to the next generation of designers and also to help foster diversity within this group,” Chance said. The students returned to Hampton University to develop urban design proposals for enhancing the Italian town of Pi-enza during July under the direction of Hampton University assistant professor Ron Kloster.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

Matthew Battin is a new Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture, Art and Design. He earned his MArch from The Universi-ty of Michigan and was most recently working on hurricane recovery as a consultant to FEMA in New Orleans. He has worked for firms in Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, Michigan deal-ing with residential, commercial and govern-ment projects at multiple scales. His research is currently focused on tactical approaches to architecture and suburban housing.

Hans Herrmann recently joined the MSU College of Architecture, Art and Design as an Assistant Professor teaching architectural design studios and seminars focusing on issues of Tectonics, Materiality and Building Science.

Mr. Herrmann has an interest in issues of adaptive reuse and renovation which he has explored through his private practice formerly centered in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State, where he is currently pursuing professional licensure. Hans earned both his M.Arch and B.S. in Design from the Clemson University School of Architecture; he also holds an A.A.S. in Architectural Technology from the State University of New York at, Delhi where he served as an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2008, prior to his move to Mississippi State.

Justin Taylor is a new Visiting Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art and Design. He received both his Bachelor’s degree and Masters of Science in Architecture from Mississippi State University. He has extensive training in fabrication and digital technology and is managing the CADCAM lab and teaching in

the college’s graduate program. He also does research in the Digital Research Informatics Laboratory in the areas of sustainable design, fabrication and manufacturing housing.

Associate Professor Christopher Monson has moved into directing the full-time research work on “Studio School,” a public school program of choice for students at-risk of academic failure and drop out. The Studio School project is developing studio-based learning (SBL) for use as a pedagogy in K-12 education. Collaborating with MSU’s College of Education and two Mississippi county public school districts, three middle school classrooms will open pilot projects in spring 2009 using SBL for science, math, and reading coursework. Monson also exhibited two oil paintings at the 23rd Tallahassee International Show at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University in September. Both paintings—“Untitled (Self-

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Students from Hampton University and the University of Notre Dame conduct urban analysis in Pienza, Italy during a June 2008 program organized by Shannon Chance, AIA and Ray Gindroz, FAIA. Photo by Shannon Chance.

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portrait as desk)” and “Untitled (Self-portrait as garden)”—received Honorable Mention awards in the exhibition competition.

UNIVERSITY OF FlORIDA

Associate Professor Martin A. gold, AIA, has been appointed Interim Director of the School of Architecture. He has appointed Associate Professor Nancy Clark to the position of As-sistant Director for Graduate Programs and As-sociate Professor John Maze to the position of Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs. The new leadership team will be developing the graduate curriculum through research-based design initiatives and engaging internationally recognized designers and architects in collabor-ative studios as part of the Ivan Smith Eminent Professor program. Please visit the Graduate School of Architecture website at http://gsoa.dcp.ufl.edu. We will initiate a national search for a new director in the fall of 2009.

John Maze was promoted with tenure to Asso-ciate Professor of Architecture. In Spring 2008, he co-authored with Assistant Professor Mark Mcglothlin and former graduate student Scott Holmes a book contribution titled Emperor’s New Clothes: Living Skins and the Reconsidera-tion of the Post-War Office Tower published by WIT Press in Eco-Architecture 2008, WIT Press, Southampton, UK. 2008.

Bradley Walters, AIA, NCARB, has joined the faculty of the School of Architecture as an As-sistant Professor. Professor Walters received his Master of Architecture degree from Princ-eton University and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture with Highest Honors from the University of Florida. He is a founding partner of AWAKE architecture. With RMJM Hillier, he co-directed the Special Projects Team, where his work included the Irving Convention Center, Becton Dickinson Campus Center, Abbe Science Center, Walker Hall Winery, House at Leeside Farm, and West Windsor Redevelopment Plan, amongst others. His work has been recognized by numerous AIA Honor and Merit Awards and it has been published by Architectural Record, Urbanism and Architecture, A+D, ARQ, Hinge, and Oculus. SLIP/SCAPE: BD Campus Center, completed with RMJM Hillier, was recognized with a 2008 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.

We welcome guy Peterson, FAIA, of Guy Pe-terson | OFA, as the Ivan Smith Eminent Profes-sor. He is leading an advanced graduate design studio this fall. In the Spring of 2008, Brendon Macfarlane of Jakob+Macfarlane was the Ivan Smith Eminent Professor and Peter Zelner of SCI-Arc was the Ivan Smith Visiting Critic. Will Zajac, M.Arch ‘08, was selected as the runner-up for the 2008 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design. He received a $20,000 travel fel-lowship.

Assistant Professor Charlie Hailey’s book Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place was published by LSU Press. His research on place-making in Gibsonton, Florida was re-leased in November as a chapter in Symbolic Landscapes, published by Springer-Verlag.

Assistant Professor Dr. Hui Zou published an article, “Jing: A Phenomenological Reflection on Chinese Landscape and Qing” in the Jour-nal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2008), USA. In July 2008, Dr. Zou and Visiting Professor Albertus Wang gave a joint lecture entitled ‚Cross-Cultural Poetical Architecture. at the Shenzhen Association of Interior Designers, Shenzhen, China.

Karl S. Thorne, RA, FAIA and Tony R. White were elected Emeritus Professors.

Professor of Architecture gary W. Siebein, FASA, AIA will work as one of the organizers, a faculty member and keynote speaker for the 2009 Concert Hall Research Group Institute at Tanglewood, Massachusetts that brings togeth-er University researchers, prominent acoustical consultants working in concert hall acoustics and architects who design performance halls for a week of instruction, seminars and listen-ing to performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Noted acoustical consultants Leo Beranek, Bill Cavanaugh, Chris Jaffe, Larry Ki-erkegard and Carl Rosenberg are among the distinguished faculty.

Professor Siebein presented a continuing edu-cation program for the Central Florida Con-struction Specifications Institute in Orlando entitled ‚Acoustical Issues Every Specification Writer Should be Aware of.

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Professor Charles C. Bohl is co-founder and co-editor with Professor Emily Talen of the Uni-versity of Arizona and Dr. Matthew Hardy, secre-tary of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), of the new Journal of Urbanism: International Re-search on Placemaking and Urban Sustainabil-ity. The publication is sponsored jointly by the University of Miami, the University of Arizona and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU).

Professor Tomas lopez-gottardi has stepped down as Director of Undergraduate Studies af-ter long, dedicated and productive service. Pro-fessor Rocco Ceo has been named to the posi-tion beginning in January. Ceo has also been appointed the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Deputy District Officer for Florida and Chief of The Historic American Landscapes Survey, established for the purpose of identify-ing and inventorying worthy sites of landscape significance.

Professor Teofilo Victoria will step down from the position of Director of Graduate Studies in June 2009. Professor Jean-François lejeune has been named to the position.

Professor Sonia Chao, Director of the School’s Center for Urban and Community Design, re-ceived a grant from the NEA to complete three projects on sustainability and green building.

In July, Dean Plater-Zyberk and Professor Jai-me Correa traveled at the invitation of HRH Princess Lolowah Al-Faisal and Dr. Haifa Reda Jamal Al-Lail to Effat College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to discuss the advancement and devel-opment of the first Saudi Arabian school of ar-chitecture for women.

Carmen guerrero, Professor and Director of the School’s Rome Program, was invited by the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome and Re-gione Lazio to participate in research and an exhibit on the work of Italian architect Luigi Moretti. She will teach a studio on Moretti this fall in collaboration with the Swiss research center Archivio del Moderno.

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Professor Jorge Hernandez has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for an initial three-year period.

Professors Jean-Francois Lejeune and Allan Shulman have participated in the founding of DOCOMOMO/Florida, a non-profit organization to promote and preserve the modern heritage of the State of Florida. Professors Lejeune and Shulman have curated the exhibition Interama: Miami and the American Dream at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida which will remain through January 2009. Professor Lejeune, along with Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture at MoMa in New York, and Marianne Lamonaca, Curator at the Wolfsonian-FIU, are meeting in Miami this fall to collaborate on the develop-ment of a future exhibition on Latin American modernity at MoMa. Guest speakers to the con-ference include Zeuler Lima, Washington Uni-versity; Jorge Liernur, Universidad Torcuato de Tella; Carlos Eduardo Comas, Universidad Fed-eral Porto Alegre; Silvia Arango, Colombia; Lou-ise Noelle, Mexico; Enrique Fernandez-Shaw, Universidad Central Venezuela; and Timothy Hyde, Harvard GSD.

Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk has been appointed to the Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. for a term of four years.

Allan Shulman was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

Professor Teofilo Victoria and his partner Maria de la Guardia and their firm De La Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists were among the ten 2008 winners of the seventh annual Palladio Awards competition, sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes. In addition, he and his firm won a Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, one of five awards in the “Block, Street, Building Scale” category. Both awards recognize the design of Almeria Row in Coral Gables.

Professor Catherine Wheeler traveled to London with a University of Miami General Research Support Award to research early twentieth century writings on the Renaissance.

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In the summer of 2008 the School of Archi-tecture conducted its first program abroad to the People’s Republic of China. 18 graduate and undergraduate students accompanied two professors for five weeks to tour architectural and cultural sites and to participate in a design charrette with students at Tongji University in Shanghai. The trip revealed an architecture and urbanism under dramatic socio-cultural transi-tion as witnessed in the country’s unprecedent-ed growth in recent years. Important for us as designers were the 2008 Olympic preparations in Beijing and the new architectural projects featuring international and local design talent.

This coming summer the School will return to China for a second program. This year’s five-week program will investigate both traditional built forms and contemporary designs, and trace the critical points of social transition as represented in the physical environment. Vari-ous forms of study will be undertaken as stu-dents travel to a number of cities/regions with distinct cultural identities. Especially, the new addition of destinations in the west, featur-ing vernacular towns, spectacular natural and productive landscapes, and minority cultures, will reveal the diversity of architectural tradi-tions and locality in China. A collaboration with Tongji University in Shanghai will also foster understanding of the nature of Chinese archi-tecture through academic exchanges.

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The School of Architecture + Design has de-veloped a new center, the Center for Design Research, to give identity to the manifold ac-tivities of the school that are or can be directed to further research. The goal is to exploit the untapped territories of opportunity that lie between disciplines. Presently, the vision is to build a center of collaboration where perfor-mance criteria commingle with cultural forces and societal precepts to produce works of use, surprise, and wonder.

A student design/research team led by Joseph Wheeler, AIA, associate professor; Robert Dunay, AIA, T. A. Carter Professor of Architec-ture; and Robert Schubert, associate dean of

research, has been accepted to participate in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar De-cathlon.

Two fifth-year architecture students Dan Guss-man and Brandon Lingenfelser have worked with faculty to design and build an innovative house that takes advantage of the prefabricat-ed housing process while providing all the at-tributes of a custom-designed home. The house is the students’ undergraduate thesis project with faculty advisors Joseph Wheeler, AIA, as-sociate professor, and Robert Dunay, AIA, the T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture. A major renovation of Cowgill Hall, headquar-ters for the School of Architecture + Design, is complete. The four-story, 68,000-gross-square-foot building was essentially gutted and its HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems were updated. The architect was MMM Design Group of Norfolk, Va., led by Vice-President and Chief of Design Stelios xystros.

Naef Spiele, Ltd., sponsored its first biannual competition for design of a wooden toy. First place was awarded to FERRA, designed by Kelly Harrigan, a second-year industrial design undergraduate. BOW, designed by Sean Mat-tio and Chelsea Lindsey, first-year architecture students, placed second. GABLE, designed by Andrew Linnestadt, a first-year architecture graduate student, placed third. Engler stated that Naef intends to manufacture several of the designs.

Virginia Tech’s Center for High Performance Learning Environments was awarded a grant in the amount of $6,400 from the Council for Educational Facility Planners International for the investigation of “Integration Patterns for Alternative Pedagogical Models and Learning Technologies.” The REHAU company provided $15,000 for the comparative analysis of alter-native radiant floor systems.

The International Archive of Women in Architec-ture exhibition Three Decades of Collecting and Preserving: The Work of Women in Architecture opened the 15th congress of the International Union of Women in Architecture at the Univer-sity of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania. IAWA Chair Donna Dunay’s address to the congress detailed highlights of the collection. The exhibit is now traveling through Romania.

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Dennis Jones, associate professor of architec-ture, was one of 12 finalists in the Technology Innovation category in the international MO-BILE RULES! Competition sponsored by Nokia and partners. Finalists were chosen from hun-dreds of entries over an eight-month. Finalists were invited to a ceremony at San Jose, Calif., City Hall and Jones was later invited to the Nokia Headquarters, in Helsinki, Finland, where he presented the Quantum Matrix to Nokia Ex-ecutives.

Robert Dunay, the T. A. Carter Professor of Ar-chitecture, and Joe Wheeler, associate profes-sor, exhibited the work of their students at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy. The exhibition, “Industrialized Furniture,” has also been invited to exhibit at International Furni-ture Fair in Cologne, Germany, in January 2009.

Terry Surjan, associate professor, organized two competition and exhibition studios in spring 2008. The first was for the History Chan-nel’s City of the Future competition, January 7 through January 15, when 17 undergradu-ate students, first through fifth year, projected 100 years into the future of Washington, D.C. The second exhibition studio, which Surjan or-ganized with the school and CUP (a collabora-tive of architects and academics), was for the London Festival of Architecture, June 20-July 20, 2008. Virginia Tech was the only U.S. school invited to participate in the festival. Surjan and his students’ exhibit, “Suitcase Pavilion,” was also invited to exhibit at WIRED magazine’s NextFest2008 in Millennium Park, Chicago, in September and October.

Mehdi Setareh, professor of architecture in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Ur-ban Studies, is the principal investigator of a recently funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project, “Integrating Web-Based Visual-ization with Structural Systems Understanding to Improve the Technical Education of Archi-tects.” The project consists of the development of a design knowledgebase focusing on build-ing structures, in addition to the state-of-the art virtual environment system for building design.

Call for entries Deadline: February 9, 2009 Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Re-search Association, in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award pro-grams, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

Awards recognizeDesign: Excellence in human environments, completed projects.Planning: Proposals for future design, use, or management of a place.Research: Projects investigating relationships between design, human behavior, cul-ture, and experience.Book: Recently published books advancing the critical understanding of place and design of exceptional environments. JurorsDavidLake, Lake/Flato ArchitectsElizabeth MacDonald, City and Regional Planning, University of California, BerkeleyRahul Mehrotra, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLawrence Speck, Page Sutherland PageWilliam Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign For information visitEnvironmental Design Research Association, www.edra.orgPlaces: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, www.places-journal.org

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Call for entries Deadline: December 12, 2008

The NEA has launched a call for proposals for the 2009 Your Town: The Citizens’ In-stitute on Rural Design workshops. Your Town is a leadership initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts that responds to the design needs of small towns and rural areas.

The call for proposals for producing a workshop is due December 12, 2008. This is an opportunity to bring design professionals to your community to help you tackle critical regional planning and design issues. Up to $22,000 will be available to a non-profit organization for each workshop.

Visit www.yourtowndesign.org for complete information.

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12/10/08CAll FOR PAPERS: lE CORBUSIER A utopian visionary, Le Corbusier was both inno-vative and influential in architecture, urbanism, art and theory. This symposium will explore the work, writings and legacy of this important and controversial modernist and their relationship to contemporary architecture, art and urbanism.Topics may include but are not limited to: His-tory/Theory—The Machine Aesthetic: High Tech and Beyond—The House as Type: Standardiza-tion and Mass Production—Tectonics: Con-struction and Materiality—The Role of Nature in Le Corbusier’s work, writing and legacy—Ar-chitecture and Urbanism—Architecture, Art and Photography. Authors should submit four copies of both a complete draft (3,000- 4,500 words) and a concise 250 word abstract. Submissions should be prepared for ‘blind’ jury review. All submissions must be accompanied by a sepa-rate cover sheet with the title and sub- theme category, author’s name, affiliation, postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and authors signature. Deadline Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008 architecture.spsu.edu\annualdeanssymposium

1/9/09SPATIAl IllITERACIESThe 4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium In conjunction with the Roth-Symonds lecture University of California, Berkeley & Centre de Soci-ologie Européenne, Paris; Yale School of Architec-ture; March 27-28, 2009; Call for PapersThe symposium, Spatial Illiteracies, engages the increasingly complex relationship between space and communication within the discipline of archi-tecture. While greater public access, upward social mobility and democratization—in short, expanded literacy—have been attributed to advancements in communication, the symposium recognizes that the interplay between space and communication can also produce new forms of illiteracy: miscom-munication; manipulation; and missed opportu-nities. Beyond identifying examples that exhibit degrees of illiteracy, the symposium seeks to in-troduce spatial strategies capable of overcoming these limitations, promoting progress and under-

standing. Contributions are sought from a wide range of disciplines. Spatial Illiteracies will bring together efforts from the fields of architecture, art history, sociology, law, history, human rights, media studies, international relations, and politi-cal science. Questions, comments and submission guidelines concerning the symposium can be di-rected to the symposium organizers at Iben.Fal-coner@yale.edu or Olga.Pantelidou@yale.edu.Deadline: January 9, 2009

3/27/09ASSEMBlINg ARCHITECTURE B/T/E/S 2009 CONFERENCE CAll FOR PAPERSUniv. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.August 6-8, 2009. In keeping with the BTES Mission, this year’s conference will assemble architectural educators, researchers & practitio-ners “who are passionate about teaching the technology of building design and construc-tion” to engage in lively discussion and debate. Assembling Architecture hopes to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical, providing participants the opportunity explore advancements in technology at the intersec-tion of design, theory, and practice. Significant developments in material science, design and manufacture of building components, innova-tive building systems, and dynamic structures, require specific knowledge and expertise and are driving design practice. However, one of the emerging challenges in architectural education, research and practice is to promote integra-tive design through interdisciplinary models of teaching, research and practice. Despite this call to action, many architectural programs remained fractured and collaborative work be-tween technologists, theorists, and designers is undervalued and underrepresented. At the same time, new models for teaching, research, and creative work are required to intersect these contrasting developments. uiweb.uidaho.edu/btes2/Index.htm

THE 13TH NATIONAl CONFERENCE ON PlANNINg HISTORY CAll FOR PAPERSThe Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH);Oakland, CA, Octo-ber 15-18, 2009. Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community

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planning history. Particularly welcome are pa-pers or complete sessions addressing architec-ture, planning, and landscape design in the Bay area and the West; environmental sustainability, nature and the metropolis; historic preservation; real estate; regions; public art; and studies that consider race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexu-ality in planning and the shaping of urban form. Papers presented at the conference will be con-sidered for the Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize (best paper in North American colonial planning history) and a Student Research Prize. Thursday afternoon sessions will be dedicated to the history and future of planning in the Bay area, and SACRPH wishes to extend a special welcome to practitioners based in (or interested in) the region. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to Program Committee Co-Chairs Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University: isenberg@history.rutgers.edu; and Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of His-tory and Urban Studies at Columbia University: gutfreund@columbia.edu.Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2009

grants / awards

1/2/09CRS ARCHIVE SCHOlAR OPPORTUNITY AT TExAS A&M UNIVERSITYResearchers (faculty, students) may be eligible for the CRS Archive Scholar program in the CRS Center at Texas A&M University. This program consists of an award that will reimburse expens-es up to $2,500 related to research that utilizes the business records, architectural programs, articles, slides, photographs, video, audio tapes and/or personal records of the former A/E/C firm Caudill Rowlett and Scott (CRS) currently housed in the Center. This award is intended to help offset living & travel expenses incurred in visit-ing the CRS Center, as well as other expenses related to the support of research, scholarship and publication that makes use of the archives. Successful applicants will be assigned a work space in the CRS Center and will be classified as a visiting scholar for the duration of their stay in the Center. Deadline: January 2, 2009crscenter.tamu.edu

1/9/09NCARB PRIZE PROgRAM & NCARB gRANT PROgRAMThe NCARB Prize and the NCARB Grant are two distinct annual NCARB award programs. Both programs encourage the integration of practice and education in the academy. Architecture programs are encouraged to study information about the NCARB Prize and the NCARB Grant including publication of NCARB Prize recipients on the NCARB web site. NCARB will confer a total of six cash awards; five awards of $7,500 and one Grand Prize award of $25,000.ncarb.org/prize

exhibits / tours

TOPlIgHT: ROOF TRANSPARENCIES FROM 1760 TO 1960 The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents the exhibition Toplight: Roof Trans-parencies from 1760 to 1960, on view from 23 October 2008 until 15 February 2009. The ex-hibition consists entirely of items drawn from the CCA Collection, and presents over 60 rare photographs, drawings, prints, and books that trace the origins of skylights and the aesthetic, technical, and socioeconomic factors that drove the 200-year design development in a range of building types.

THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAl HISTORI-ANS 2009 INTERNATIONAl STUDY TOURThe Three Cultures of Al-Andalus, led by D. Fairch-ild Ruggles announces that there are a few spaces available. The tour begins on February 13, 2009 in Madrid and ends on February 23 in Granada. We encourage you to register now before this exceptional experience is gone. As with all SAH tours the participants are afforded an opportunity to visit sites and meet with experts that are not available to the general public. These exclusive and behind the scenes visits are brought to you by the dedication of our tour leaders and the knowl-edge that they share with our valued members. For more details & to register online: www.sah.org

Call for entries Deadline January 13, 2009

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) invites submissions for the 2009 Education Honor Awards Program for excellence in teaching.

An independent jury, chaired by Randy Byers, AIA, of The Design Studio, Inc., Cheyenne, WY, will seek evidence of exceptional and innovative courses, initiatives, or programs that:

• deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community; • contribute to the advancement of architecture education; • have the potential to benefit and/or change practice; and/or • promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other educators.

A program of the Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN), primary objectives of the award are to discover and recognize the achievement of individuals who serve the profession as outstanding teachers, and to promote models of excellence for classroom, studio, community work and/or courses offered in various educational settings.

Winners will be notified in February 2009 and awards will be conferred during the 2009 AIA National Convention, April 20- May 2 in San Francisco, where award recipients are invited to present their work in a seminar on architecture education and display posters in the convention gallery. The awards will also be announced at the ACSA Annual Meeting and included in the ACSA/AIA 2008 Architectural Education Awards publication.

For submission guidelines, please go to: www.aia.org/ed_honorawards_2009

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