UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY

From July 29 to August 8 the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture will host the first bi-annual  Volterra Interna-tional Design Workshop  in Volterra (Italy).  The workshop is a new addition to and an extension of the UDM SOA study abroad pro-gram in Volterra, which was first organized in 1987. Beautifully and conveniently located in the middle of Tuscany, equal distances from Florence, Pisa and Siena, Volterra offers the UDM SOA students and faculty a genuine immersion in Italian history and culture.  Since 2013 the program has been housed in the UDM School of Architecture’s pri-vate facility in the city: the Volterra Inter-national Residential College. The new home base in Volterra allows the UDM SOA and its academic partner, the Volterra-Detroit Foundation, which established and now manages the facility, to plan and orga-

nize a variety of academic and cultural programs in Volterra, including AIA Con-tinuing Education programs, collaborative academic programs with the University of Pisa (Italy) and-for the first time this summer-International Design Workshops.   This year, selected students from the UDM SOA, together with the Dean of the UDM School of Architecture Will Wittig, will re-main in Volterra for an additional ten days beyond the normal length of the program. During this time they will be joined by stu-dents and faculty from the University of Il-linois at Urbana–Champaign and the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology from Poland, as well as local academics and professionals from Volterra, Pisa in Italy. The workshop will be moder-ated by James Timberlake, FAIA, from Ki-eran Timberlake (Philadelphia, USA), an alumnus of the UDM School of Architecture. The purpose of the workshop is to create an international academic forum for shar-ing contemporary architectural ideas. Archi-tecture is becoming an increasingly global profession, which offers new and fascinating inspirations and opportunities international-ly. The workshop will give the students and faculty the opportunity to experience inter-national teamwork and collaboration. 

The theme of the workshop is “Society and Technology: Water, Food, Waste, and Energy”. In the words of Dean Will Wittig: “In every town, in every society, there is a daily, weekly, and yearly rhythm of arrivals and departures; oranges and milk, newspapers, workers, school children, water, coal, busses, sewage, and garbage. And the logic of logistics can be traced in these systems that anticipate the flow of water, food, energy, and waste. City form in turn is organized and orchestrated to establish the physical ecosystem of a so-ciety that enables social capital to flourish.” For additional information about the UDM School of Architecture and other programs in Volterra please visit http://www.volterra-detroit.org

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

2014 URSA Grants Awarded WUSTL’S Of-fice of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance grants, which provide one-year, $25,000 seed funding to full-time university fac-ulty members. Recipients include Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architec-ture, and  Arye Nehorai, PhD, the  Eugene & Martha Lohman Professor  in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, for re-search titled “Quantifying Benefits of Va-cant Land Utilization in Shrinking Cities.”  Zeuler Lima Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi   In this  opening lecture, associate profes-sor  Zeuler Lima, PhD, will discussed Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi, which he curated. The exhibition, produced with the cura-torial assistance of MArch students  Ma-rina Miers  and  Colby Perrine, pre-sented a chronological analysis of the Italian-Brazilian architect’s oeuvre through a collection of digital renderings and pho-tographs taken by Lima and  Nelson Kon. Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, deliv-ered a presentation titled Lina Bo Bardi House: Betwixt and Between as part of a symposium on modern Latin American design hosted by the Americas Society’s Visual Arts program.  Designing a Sustainable Future in a Di-vided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the lec-ture, Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis, as part of the 2015 MLA Saturday Lecture Series.  His talk raised awareness about what he calls the greatest challenge fac-ing the emergence of sustainable com-munities: social and environmental jus-tice, and the related economic inequities. - New Orleans Under Reconstruction Martin C. Pederson’s review of the book New

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Orleans Under Construction: The Crisis of Plan-ning for Architectural Record includes a quote from an essay by associate professor Derek Hoeferlin. Titled “Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Programs, Venues and Collabo-rations,” Hoeferlin’s chapter of the book includes student work from WUSTL architecture studios. Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery & Dialogue  The WUSTL community came together to ex-plore the important issues of race and ethnicity at this university-wide event. Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogue included a se-ries of panel conversations and open forums with scholars, students, and leaders, exploring chal-lenges that the university community is facing, particularly in light of recent events in the St. Louis region and across the country.

Panelists from the Sam Fox School included associate professor Bob Hansman (opening event) and associate professor Denise Ward-Brown  (The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity).  Public Lecture Series: Living Better Than Inhabiting 

Javier Maroto, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture, will deliver a talk titled Living Better Than Inhabiting to kick off the spring 2015 Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. Maroto and his partner, Alvaro Soto, co-founded the firms SOLID architecture and Maremoto Paisajes in 2001 to carry out projects of architecture, urbanism, and land-scape in an holistic manner. Maroto’s lecture will focus on the construction of a paradox be-tween living and inhabiting. The needs and the aspirations settled within the current frame of our lives should be squeezed and mingle to re-define a new contemporary space concept suit-able to a better and more conscious lifestyle.   LIMA featured in Journal of the Architecture Program at TUM, Germany The January issue of the Journal of the Architecture Program at the Technical University of Munich features an interview with associate professor  Zeuler Lima, in which he discusses his book Lina Bo Bardi and his collaboration on the centennial exhibition at the Munich Architecture Museum that celebrates the Italian-Brazilian architect. Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home    Centro Modern Furnishings presents an instal-lation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet. DFA Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Human-Cen-

tered Design  Design for America, a network of student-led studios creating local and social im-pact through interdisciplinary design, will bring together the following panel of academic and professional experts to explore what it means to design physical, virtual, and systematic solutions for the complex challenges facing individuals and communities:

Frank Bergh, BS08 Engineering, director of engineering operations, Socore Energy; co-founder, Engineers Without Borders at WUSTL

Heather Corcoran, director, College & Gradu-ate School of Art

Bruce Lindsey, dean, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

De Andrea Nichols, BFA10, MSW14, director of creative changemaking, Catalysts by De-sign; community engagement manager, Con-temporary Art Museum St. Louis

OneSTL Conference: Linking Research and Prac-tice: Equitable Economic Growth and Sustain-able Water Infrastructure

Equitable Economic & Community Development and Water Infrastructure are the main focus of this year’s OneSTL Conference. The topics were chosen based on a survey that asked local gov-ernment and non-profit representatives to iden-tify priority areas for sustainability and where research could support local decision-making. Speakers with WUSTL ties include: 

Assistant professor Patty Heyda and assistant professor Molly Metzger (Brown School), who are panelists for Workshop I: Equitable Economic Development

Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, who is a panelist for Workshop II: Water Infrastructure. Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home    Centro Modern Furnishings presents an instal-lation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet. Architecture Around the World Lecture Series: 79 Views of the Gateway Arch  Visiting assistant pro-fessor  Justin Scherma discussed 79 Views of the Gateway Arch, a photographic and histori-cal survey of the official neighborhoods of St. Louis as part of the Architecture Around the World Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by The Society of Architectural Historians St. Louis Chapter and Steedman Architectural Library. John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the

MUD program, delivered the presentation, De-signing Aging: Urban Design for Healthy Life-long & Age-Integrated Communities as part of the Conference on Older Adults in the Com-munity: Capacities and Engagement for Ag-ing-in-Place. WUSTL and the National Univer-sity of Singapore organized the conference as part of the launch of the Next Age Institute. A video profile of John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, and  Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor, is included in Nav-igating the Rivers: A Collection of Modern-Day Stories. Featured in conjunction with the exhi-bition Navigating the West: George Caleb Bing-ham & the River, this event offered a screening of five videos of St. Louisans whose lives are intertwined with the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, followed by an onstage conversation with many of those individuals.  As part of I-CARES-funded research, Hoal and Hoerferlin have fo-cused on the development of a Climate Adapta-tion Performance Model for fluvial zones along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers. Railway Exchange Studio Featured on HEC-TV Reporter Sharon Stevens highlighted the efforts of graduate architecture students to reimagine the Railway Exchange Building, working in partnership with Downtown STL, Inc., for HEC-TV›s all new Impact program. Students developed their ideas for the fall 2014 studio Metamorphic Cities: Sustainable Strategies for Adaptive Reuse, led by assistant professor  Catalina Freixas. Cloud Talk: Urbanism Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, delivered the  talkUrbanism  as part of IIT Architecture Chicago›s Cloud Studio. Sponsored by the PhD program, the studio brought together undergraduate and graduate students to work on projects related  to the city of Chicago. - Why Lina Bo [Bardi]? Zeuler R. Lima, PhD, associate professor and author of the biog-raphy Lina Bo Bardi, reflected on why the Italian-born architect was ignored for such a long time, and emerged 20 years after her death at the center of the discourse about contemporary architecture. The lecture ex-plored the genealogy of her work and life, and raised questions about the recovery of her memory, especially in her native country. SMALL BUILDINGS: built, unbuilt, unbuildable Juried by dean of architecture Bruce Lind-sey  and professor of art  Buzz Spector, this exhibition explores the craft of the ar-

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chitectural model, and includes work by several Sam Fox School faculty, students, and alumni.  On View March 13-May 10. Lina Bo Bardi: Visionary Architect-Part 1 Associate professor Zeuler Lima participated in the first part of two  panel discussions presented by AIA New York that will celebrate 100 years since the birth of architect Lina Bo Bardi. Lima presented his short documentary Lina Bo Bardi, curator, and also showed a timeline highlighting graphic productions that the Italian-Brazil-ian architect developed throughout her en-tire life, her thoughts about design, and the authenticity of her texts.

Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, de-livered a  presentation  about the  life and work of one of the most important archi-tects in Latin America, Lina Bo Bardi. Li-ma’s talk unveiled how considerations of ethics, politics, and social inclusiveness influenced the Italian-Brazilian architect’s intellectual engagement with modern ar-chitecture which resulted in her experimen-tal, ephemeral, and iconic works of design.

In addition, Lima discussed Bo Bardi’s paradigmatic project SESC Pompeia lei-sure center at  MoMA  as part of the retrospective exhibition  Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980. Activating Energy Capacity of Urban Vacant Land Assistant professor Natalie Yates delivered a  lecture  titled  Activating Energy Capac-ity of Urban Vacant Land  at this year›s Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture conference. The talk reflected work undertaken by Yates, assistant professor Patty Heyda, and former assistant professor Christine Yogiaman.

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Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture has been contracted to write two books during his spring 2014 sab-batical; Steven Holl (Phaidon Press) and Her-man Hertzberger (nai010), both of which will be published in 2015. In February 2014, McCarter gave a lecture in the SOM New York Professional Development Series, entitled; «Taking the Book to the Light: Louis Kahn›s Transformation of the Library in Three Designs,» and in March 2014 he gave a Dean›s Forum Lecture at the School

of Architecture, University of Virginia, entitled; «The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recompos-ing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Re-ality.”

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Abbas Aminmansour  was selected for the 2015 American Institute of Steel Construc-tion (AISC) Special Achievement Award.  Per AISC’s web site, “A Special Achievement Award provides special recognition to individuals who demonstrated notable singular or multiple achievements in structural steel design, con-struction, research or education. This award hon-ors living individuals who have made a positive and substantial impact on the structural steel design and construction industry.”  The award will be presented at the opening plenary ses-sion of the North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC) on Wednesday March 25, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee.   

Associate Professor Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED-AP received a UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award in late 2014; served on the 2015 American Institute of Ar-chitects National Technology in Architectural Practice Innovation Awards Jury in February; published a book review on BIM Design in The International Journal of Architecture, Engineer-ing and Construction (IJAEC) in February; will be giving a TEDx Talk, “Creating Career Control Joints,” in April; will be presenting a paper, Le-veraging Data in Academia and Practice: Ge-ometry, Human- and Building-Performance, at the Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) 2015 in Chicago in April; has an ar-ticle, Who Will Lead Our Industry’s Data-Driven Future?, in DesignIntelligence in May; will be delivering a talk, “AESOP: The Data-Centric Practice of the Future,” at KA Connect 2015 in San Francisco, CA in May; will be presenting Leveraging Data Across the Building Lifecycle on data-informed design at the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction (ICSDEC) in Chicago in May; wrote a new book, Data Driven Design and Con-struction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, to be published by Wiley in the Fall, foreword by James Timberlake FAIA of KieranTimberlake; has papers accepted and will be presenting at the Building Technol-ogy Educators Society (BTES) Conference, pre-senting in Salt Lake City, UT in June; developing an online course ARCH 164: Architecture as a Second Language; contributed to an article in

PHOTO:  La Cage aux Folles, a 17 foot bent steel tube structure by Warren Techentin, was previously on exhibition at

Materials & Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake from April 19th through September 2nd. Once built, La Cage actively

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Architect Magazine on Best Practices in BIM, integrated design and leadership.

Kevin Hinders will be giving a paper alongside Michael Loganbill at the upcoming AIA con-ference describing the Chicago Studio-its pedagogy and practice.

Paul Kapp has published his latest book:  The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Ala-bama, and Mississippi, has been released by the University Press of Mississippi. 

Joy Monice Malnar’s co-authored book, New Architecture on Indigenous Landsreceived excellent  reviews in a diverse range of publications from the  Canadian Archi-tect (November 2014, page 46), to the Jour-nal of Tourism and Cultural Change (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2014.932496) to the First American Art Magazine (No. 5, Winter 2014, page 68). She is currently teaching in the ISoA’s new Chicago Studio program established with the support of the Chicago architecture firm VOA.

Polygon Sculpture Studio, designed by Pro-fessor Jeffery Poss  and two recent ISoA graduates at Workus Studio, received 2014 Merit Award for Architectural Design from the American Institute of Architects Central Illinois Chapter.  The studio is perched at the top of a steep lakefront property overlooking Lake George in upstate New York.  

Faculty within the detail+FABRICATION Program of the Illinois School of Architec-ture are exploring the role of fabrication and making in an exhibit entitled “Speculative Visions of Pragmatic Architectures” at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign.  Rath-er than privileging finished products, ob-jects, or built work, these designers are placing an increased focus on the process of making as a means for surveying alterna-tive outcomes.  The exhibit is curated by detail+FABRICATION program chair Profes-sor Jeffery Poss, and features the work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, Fab-rication Coordinator  Hugh Swiatek, and Visiting Faculty  Brian Vesely and  Camden Greenlee.  The exhibit runs through the summer of 2015.

In recognition of his work in Haiti follow-ing the 2010 Haitian Earthquake,Assistant

Professor  Mark S Taylor  has been awarded a University of Illinois’ 2014-2015 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. In 2014, the Urban Communication Founda-tion selected Thérèse Tierney’s book, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society, as a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award.  Also that year, Tierney’s essay, “Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics & Implica-tions,” won Honorable Mention for “Best Fac-ulty Research in the Humanities” by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. More recently, she published on digital topics such as”Crowdsourcing Crisis Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience,”European Business Review (7/2014) and “Will 3D Printing Revolutionize Architecture?” BIF Design Educa-tion (2/6/2014). This April, Tierney is curating an exhibition, “Building the Future: Interaction Design” sponsored by [co][lab] in Urbana, Illinois.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

The School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame would like to invite you to attend our 2013-2014 Lecture Series. Attendees are eligible to receive AIA/CE credits. All lectures begin at 4:30 pm in 104 Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.

September 9th, 2013 Nancy Steinhardt Chinese Architecture & the Beaux-Arts September 16th, 2013 Joe Burns Designing Sustainable High Rise Architecture November 4th, 2013 Eduardo Luis Rodriguez Havana 1900: The City and its Architects November 20th, 2013 Thomas Beeby The Richard H. Driehaus Prize Lecture November 25th, 2013 John Ochsendorf On Vaulting February TBC Rob Krier TBC

March 3rd, 2013 Craig Hamilton Temples and Tombs March 31st, 2013 Ruan Yisan TBC

April 16th, 2013 Roger Scruton Order and Fluidity: Reflections on Post-Modern Architecture

VIRGINIA TECH

Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., Co-Director of the School of Architecture + Design’s Cen-ter for Design Research, principal investigator of the VT FutureHAUS initiative, has lead a team of researchers and students in exhibiting a prototype kitchen, the FutureHAUS Kitchen, at the Kitchen and Bath industry show in Las Vegas in Janaury 2016. In May, the kitchen and living room will be exhibited at the National AIA Convention Expo in Atlanta. The research investigates better utilization of industrialized processes to build architecture.  By delivering large, complex, house assemblies as “car-tridges,” a more sophisticated prefabricated product may be delivered to the job site or the assembly plant. This cross-disciplinary project engages students from Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Art, Computer Sci-ence, and Industrial and Systems Engineering.   Professor  Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A.,  has been invited to lecture  at the Colegio Arquitectos del Perú in Lima, Peru. The lecture was supported by the Institute of Peruvian Architects, the Embassy of Switzerland in Lima and with an International Travel Grant from the Virginia Tech-Office of the Vice President for Research.

Reclaim + Remake Symposium, April 11-13, 2013 “Waste is a Resource in the Wrong Place and Time”

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Professor Dr. Bert Rodriguez-Camilloni, Ph.D., served as a discussant in the session “Brutalism in the Americas: North-South Connections,” at the forthcoming 68th An-nual Conference of the Society of Architec-tural Historians (SAH) to be held between April 2015 in Chicago, IL. Professor Rodri-guez-Camilloni will also be recognized at a special reception sponsored by the president of the society for his 40 years of membership and service to the SAH.

ACSA Distinguished Professor, T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., Research Assistant Profes-sor David Clark of the Center for Design Research (CDR) conducted the workshop Design Robotics Summit, sponsored by the School of Architecture + Design. Over 60 students, faculty and staff from a number of colleges, universities, and industry col-laborators including University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon Col-lege, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Is-land School of Design, Autodesk,TM and The Living, participated in the workshop. The re-sults of the workshop will be presented at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City.

Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Director of the Cen-ter for Design Research (CDR), together with Cark Nexson, an award winning archi-tectural and engineering firm organized and hosted an exhibition showcasing experimen-tal digital fabrications. Students participat-ing in the exhibition include Laura Escobar, Ryan Hawkins, Brian Kato, David Kolodziej, Aaron Payne, Stephen Perry, Hannah Utter, and Dan Ventresca. David Clark and Negar Kalantar, PhD student, directed the CRD-(trans)LAB studio. Nathan King directed the robotics segment.

Assistant Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A., had four recent installation works exhibited in the solo show Ground to Sky: Triptychs in Three Scales at the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The show runs from Janu-ary 27 to May 30, 2015 and was accom-panied by Ishida’s lecture ‘Urban Light and Human Temporality’ on February 11.

Aki Ishida was also appointed by National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa as a panelist for the NEA’s Art Works grants, Presenting & Multidisci-plinary Works category, in June to July 2014.

Cloud, a public art installation designed by Aki Ishida and Associate Professor Ivica Ico Bukvic, School of Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Cinema, in collaboration with stu-dents of Virginia Tech, was installed at Wel-burn Square in Ballston, VA on October 2 and 3, 2014. Cloud was commissioned by the Ballston Business Improvement District and was also exhibited in the group show ‘Public Displays of Innovation’ at the Arti-sphere in Arlington, VA. November 26, 2014 to January 18, 2015

Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., lead a panel at the international conference for NCECA in March 2015. This panel was an extension of Nathan Kings’s research and teaching related to digital materials systems (Ceramics in this case) and Design Robotics.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

The symposium is proposed to bring to-gether the most innovative practices in education and research for current and future reuse and recycling of material re-sources in the built environment. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles J. Kibert, Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Con-struction and Environment at the Universi-ty of Florida, Gainesville, Mr. Jan Jongert, Founder 2012Architecten, Rotterdam,  Mr. Scott Boylston, Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Sustainable Design Pro-gram, Savannah College of Art and Design. Abstracts for presented papers and designs are welcome from designers, educators, re-searchers and advanced university students who are engaged in knowledge creation and dissemination for the responsible use and end-of-life management of building materi-al resources. Abstracts should be 300-500 words. A two-stage blind process will be used for abstract submittals and for full paper sub-mittals. Proceedings will be produced from accepted papers and presentations.  Ab-stracts Deadline: November 12, 2012. 

More information and submissions: http://architecture.cua.edu/reclaimremake

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Landformation Catalogue

Ground is both site and material for design intervention. Through a systematic manipu-lation of the landscape, humans account for the fastest geological transformation of the Earth’s surface in its 4.54 billion year history. Anthropogenic activity is responsible for the re-formation of more of the Earth’s surface than all other mechanisms combined. Agri-cultural and industrial practices such as min-ing, farming, grazing, and damming impact a majority of the Earth’s surface. Combined with formations and programs traditionally held within the domain of design practice-spaces of habitation, occupation, protection, and labor-humans have steadily increased the depth of the Earth’s anthropocentric event layer to span over 2,000 meters.  Human beings operate at the scale of geo-morphic agents, relocating 120 billion met-ric tons of earth annually, twice the volume of Mount Fuji. Directly reshaping the surface of the Earth to provide capacities not im-mediately or adequately available, extracting energy and materials, and affecting behav-iors and phenomena are results of human-driven interventions. This collection of oper-ations, technologies, and forms constitutes a catalogue of Earth’s re-formation potentials. 

The Landformation Catalogue examines the generative methodologies of landform ma-nipulation, revealing correlations between

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the histories, morphologies, assemblies, ma-terials, and affordances of landscape prac-tice. It analyzes the resulting spatial artifacts of humanity’s larger Earth transformation project. The exhibition was supported by the generosity of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), GSD Lectures and Exhibitions, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

YESTERMORROW DESIGN BUILD SCHOOL

Waitsfield, VT., August 29, 2013—Yestermorrow Design/Build School recently announced the hire of Eric Cook as its Semester Program Di-rector. Mr. Cook will lead the school’s Semester in Sustainable Design/Build, both as teaching faculty and program director. He recently moved to Waitsfield, VT from Salt Lake City, where he ran his own design/build firm, Eric Cook Design/Build, and was partner and project manager of the firm RenovateSALTLAKE.

A 2006 graduate of the University of Utah’s Mas-ter of Architecture program, Eric also holds a MA in Mathematics from the University of Utah and a BA in Mathematics and Russian from Colby College. In his former role as Project Coordina-tor for DesignBuildBLUFF, Mr. Cook supported graduate architecture students in designing and building sustainable homes on the Navajo reser-vation in Bluff, Utah.

In directing Yestermorrow’s Semester in Sus-tainable Design/Build for college students, Eric leads students as they translate theory into prac-tice, ultimately building an architecturally innova-tive high-performance shelter that they collab-oratively design. The Semester in Sustainable Design/Build is based in Montpelier, VT and is offered in partnership with UMass Amherst’s Architecture+Design program.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School was founded in 1980 on the belief that the best built environ-ment depends on the joint cooperation of de-signers, builders, and homeowners.  The school empowers people to express their values and lifestyle through an integrated design/build pro-cess, and to foster a self-awareness that recon-nects people to their communities, their natu-ral environment, and to each other.  Nationally recognized architects, builders, and craftspeo-ple teach Yestermorrow’s hands-on workshops, certificate programs, and semester programs. Classes are for people of all ages and experi-ence levels, from novice to professional.  Learn more at http://www.yestermorrow.org.

UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO

In March,  Despina Stratigakos  presented the Barbara Miller Lane Lecture at Bryn Mawr College on the theme of her forthcoming book, Hitler at Home. At the 2015 AASL Conference in Toronto she participated together with Annmarie Adams and Lori Brown on the panel, “Voices from the Field: Researching Women in Architecture.” Strati-gakos also published an introduction to the work of architectural critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, which in-augurated the new Future Archive series of Places Journal.

Annette LeCuyer was a juror with Wendell Burnette for the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) 2015 Design Competition at Penn State.

UB undergraduate students Rahul Ghera and Geo-rine Pierre were prizewinners in the 2015 UB/NOMAS Design Competition. 

‘Maritime Monument’ - a review of the new Halifax Public Library designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Fowler Bauld & Mitchell written by Brian Carter  - was published in ‘Canadian Architect’, February 2015.

Mark Shepard participated in a panel session at the Non Discrete Architectures symposium, organized by Penn Design, The University of Pennsylvania. The symposium aimed to catalogue and explore the implications, methods of understanding, research and production of the convergence of the digital and physical, and acknowledge its power in understanding architectural and spatial production.

Joyce Hwang delivered an invited lecture at the School of Art Institute of Chicago on April 2 as part of the Mitchell Lecture Series. Joyce also chaired a paper session titled ‘Beyond Patron-age’ at the 2015 ACSA Annual Meeting: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Cen-ter, held in Toronto. Additionally, a selection of Joyce’s creative work is currently exhibited at Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, as part of an initiative to showcase the work of outstanding Cornell alumni. The ex-hibition was curated and organized by Elizabeth Saleh, a Teaching Associate and an alum of UB’s B.S.Arch program (2011)

Jordan Geiger has published the edited volume, “Entr’acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture”, with Palgrave Macmillan. The book employs this term from theatre as a model for discussing emerging formations of publics and public space, in particular with the rapidly evolving proliferation of communications technologies. The book brings together authors at intersections of architecture, media study, urban studies and performance. It includes new texts from Paul Virilio, Jordan Geiger, Benjamin Bratton, Nashid Nabian, Ricardo Dominguez, Jonathan Massey, Brett Snyder, Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, Omar Khan, Elke Krasny, Brenda Laurel, Malcolm McCullough, Adrian Blackwell, Eduardo Aquino and Keller Easterling.

On March 21, Geiger chaired a panel discus-sion and book launch for “Entr’acte” to co-incide with the 2015 national ACSA confer-ence, at Toronto’s Onsite Gallery. Panelists included authors Jonathan Massey (CCA), Omar Khan (UB) and Adrian Blackwell (Uni-versity of Waterloo)

Geiger also served on the Steering Committee and as Chair of a Doctoral Panel for the 2015 MediaCities conference at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Jin Young Song, together with his partner firm in South Korea, received a $200,000 research grant from the Korean government to deliver sus-tainable urban planning solutions for the Korean city of Yangpyeong. Prof. Song and his studio of graduate and undergraduate students from UB’s architecture and urban planning programs recently presented their study, ‘Reshaping the pattern of urban sprawl’, to the city mayor in Korea. They also participated in workshops with local engineers and architects and Prof. Yeon-sook Lee of Yonsei University.

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Diane Ghirardo presented a paper on Idea and Authorship at the Renaissance Society of Amer-ica annual meeting in Berlin in March 2015; in April, she presented a paper at Yale University titled “Modernity in Renaissance Architecture and Ours. Her article, “The Blue of Aldo Rossi’s Sky,” appeared in AAFiles 70 (May 2015).

Rob Ley was recently awarded a commission to design a permanent outdoor pavilion for the Portland, Oregon City Zoo.

Jose Sanchez is finalising the ‘Blindspot Initiative’ Book, an edited volume looking at designers that challenge the competition model for architectural design by exploring the blurry boundaries of the design field. He is also finishing his video game Block’hood, an interactive city builder simulation that attempts to develop ideas of systemic think-ing and ecological urbanism engaging a large au-dience.

Professor James Steele was named an ACSA Distinguished Professor.

The Courtyard at La Brea, a 32 unit afford-able housing project for persons with Special Needs, designed by  Professor John V Mut-low, FAIA and Adjunct Professor Patrick Tighe, FAIA, received the ‘Best of Year-Apartment Building’ Design Award form INTERIOR DESIGN Design Magazine and was published in their Jan-uary 2015 issue. This project is also on the cover and featured in the current issue of DETAIL, an architectural magazine from South Korea. This affordable housing project was initially featured in September 2014 issue of ARCHITECT maga-zine.

Lisa Little was a recent lecturer in the Spring 2015 Lecture Series for the Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture Department. 

Scott Uriu  with partner Herwig Baymgartner will have a large sculptural installation on ex-hibit at the  Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at  4800 Hollywood Boulevard  in Barnsdall Park, from May 17 through June 28, 2015, with an opening reception on May 17, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.   The sculpture is a progression of their study of architectural space constructed of thin shell plastic with an emphasis on the examination of apertures interacting with video projections.

Karen M. Kensek  and  Douglas Noble  were invited speakers at the “Collaborative Creativity Symposium” organized by Murali Paranandi at Miami University. 

Ken Breisch  has published the article, “Rediscovering the Fachwerk House in America: Preservation, the Bechers and Modernism,” in Die Nobilitierte Hauslandschaft: Zur Architektur der von Bernd und Hilla Becherf fotografierten Fachwerkhäuser des Siegener Industriegebiets, ed. Karl Kiem. Dresden: Eckhardt Richter & Co. OHG, 2015, pp. 75-88.

Assistant Professor  Alexander Robinson  was selected to be a Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture for 2015-2016. This spring his machine for designing the Owens Lake Dust Control Project was exhibited at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions gallery as part of the show «After the Aqueduct». In May he and Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma will co-present at the Dumbarton Oaks conference, “River and Cities.”

Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma was recently awarded the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Prize by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) for her book, Wasteland: A History. The annual prize is awarded for the best scholarly book on an eighteenth-century subject. Di Palma and Wasteland: A History were also recognized by the PROSE Awards (The American Publish-ers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excel-lence) this year with an honorable mention in the architecture and urban planning category. In ad-dition, Wasteland was one of five books awarded the 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

This semester select landscape architecture students are enrolled in a unique studio: A New Waterfront for Old Istanbul / Rethinking the Em-inönü Waterfront. Taught by Adjuncts Takako Tajima and John Dutton. The studio reimagines the public infrastructure at the water’s edge of Eminönü, a neighborhood on Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula within walking distance to Istanbul’s most famous sites (i.e. Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, etc.). The work of the studio aims not only to develop ideas for a new urban space and waterfront edge but also to ad-dress how the new will connect to the old. The studio included a weeklong site visit to Istanbul during which time students had the opportunity to present their preliminary designs at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Architecture.

Professor and program director  Kelly Shan-non co-authored (with Bruno De Meulder) ‘To-wards a Resilient Hoog Kortrijk, Belgium: The conversion of a fragments, post-war development’ for  Topos 90: Resilient Cit-ies and Landscapes and penned ‘Preemptive design opportunities to mitigate disasters’ (the editorial) for the Journal of Landscape Architec-ture (theme issue Disaster: 2015-1) as well as the journal’s ‘Urbanization and Risk: In Conversation with Miho Mazereeuw’ and short book review of ‘Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Archi-tects Working After Disaster’. In July, she will be a keynote speaker at the Designing Inclusion: Co-Producing Ecological Urbanism for Inclusive Housing Transformations in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the International Summer School.

Professor Emeritus and former Landscape Ar-chitecture Director, Robert Harris, received the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award.  USC proudly praised his inspiring creativity, compas-sionate teaching and mentorship, and enduring contributions to the University and the School of Architecture

Associate Professor (Research) Dr. Travis Long-core, published research in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on the fea-sibility of configuring LED lamps to minimize in-sect attraction, with targeted application in the tropics to reduce transmission of insect-borne diseases.  The paper was part of a special issue on the impacts of artificial lighting on biological communities and received significant interna-tional media attention.  

Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented «City Choreography» at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the «Spatial Politics and the City» symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.

Associate Professor (Research)  Dr. Travis Longcore and Assistant Professor Rachel Ber-ney organized a multi-school talk and discussion on cities and climate change, headlined by USC¹s Director of Graduate Studies in Landscape Architecture, Kelly Shannon, with her talk on “Water Urbanism: Learning from Then and Now.” Visitors included the McKinley Futures joint MLA-MARCH studio from the University of Washington, Seattle, under the direction of Dave Miller and Ben Spencer, and faculty mem-ber Måns Tham from KTH in Stockholm, along with students from KTH¹s 5-year architecture program. Tham also gave a guest lecture and

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workshop on hybrid urban infrastructures in Longcores¹ Urban Nature class.

Assistant Professor Rachel Berney, Assistant Professor of Practice  Lauren Matchisonand Lecturer Lee Schneider have created a new course, called Visual Storytelling and Entrepre-neurship in Media. It will provide graduate stu-dents with much needed entrepreneurial exper-tise and literacy in online media to define and promote design-driven projects. Further, the course offers graduate students new methods of visual research.  It embraces an entrepre-neurial approach and addresses current trends in design, data, and research.

Dr. David Gerber has recently published the book ‹Paradigms in Computing› with eVolo Press. He has also published and presented his research at the Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design annual conference (SimAUD 2015). His work has also been accepted for publication at the CAADFutures 2015 bi-annual conference and will be included in the CAADFutures Book published by Springer.

Vinayak Bharne  was elected to the Board of Directors of Pasadena Heritage, one of Southern California oldest heritage non-profits. He was also one of seven invited presenters at the Urban Edge Prize 2015 Seminar-Resilience & Change-at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

John Dutton will be a featured speaker for two panels at the 2015 Dwell on Design Conference May 29th-31st at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  He will be presenting new ideas for urban housing for baby-boomers with architect Barbara Bestor as part of their Grey Gardens collaboration. At a second panel, he will pres-ent his vision for the transformation of Los An-geles freeways into new networks of greenways.

Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented «City Choreography» at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the «Spatial Politics and the City» symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.

Vittoria Di Palma’s book Wasteland, A History (Yale 2014) has recently been awarded three prizes: the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Book Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for

Landscape Studies, and a 2015 PROSE Awards Honorable Mention in the Architecture and Urban Planning category.

Assistant Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was invited to speak at the 2015 AIA National Convention on his ongoing research focused on daylight and health in buildings.

This year, Doris Sung was named a 2014 US Artist Fellow, joining an impressive list of past architects and artists. She also received an ACSA Faculty Design award for ³eXo» and a National AIA Small Projects Award for ³Bloom».

Aroussiak Gabrielian’s  research will be exhibited at the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the end of this month.  Additionally, she has been invited to present her work atAVANCA|CINEMA 2015: International Conference of Cinema, Art, Technology, and Communication  which will take place in Portugal in July, and at the International Vi-sual Methods Conference 2015, taking place in Brighton, UK in the Fall.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been named to Perspective Magazine’s 40 Under 40 2015, a selection of “40 creative stars under the age of 40 who will shape the de-sign world in the decades to come.” Huang will be giving a lecture on his recent work as part of the CalPoly SLO LA Metro Pro-gram spring lecture series in May and will be featured in a panel discussion about “3D Printing and the Future of Design” at the Dwell on Design Conference in June at the LA Convention Center.

The work of Patrick Tighe FAIA featured on the cover of the recent issue of Global Archi-tecture/GA Houses 140.

Professor  Joon-Ho Choi  recently attended the Architectural Research Centers Consortium Conference, held in Chicago, IL. As an ARCC New Investigator Award recipient, he gave a special lecture on «Human-Building Integration: Proactive Indoor Environmental Quality Control Approaches» at the conference. Dr. Choi also presented his recent research outcomes with his students, Spurthy Yogananda (Climate-Respon-sive Evidence-Based Green Roof Design Deci-sion Support for the U.S. Climate), Chao Yang (Methods for Estimating Energy Use Intensity Based on Building Façade Features), and Yiyu Chen (Building Performance Analysis Consid-

ering Climate Changes).  Dr. Choi was invested and gave a special talk on his research, titled “Comprehensive Post-Occupancy Evaluation” to the U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter.

Christopher Warren participated in the group exhibition, «Waiting for Guggenheim,» at the University of Southern California on April 8th, which highlighted faculty submissions to the competition.  He also participated in the panel discussion for the event, which examined the inherent complexities that exist in competitions of this grand scale.  His office, WORD, currently has two projects under construction for French fashion company A.P.C. (in collaboration with French design architect Laurent Deroo), as well as a cafe and new residence in the L.A. area

Hraztan Zeitlian, AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, is a Juror this year for the American Institute of Archi-tects California Council (AIACC) Design Awards.

Geoffrey von Oeyen’s  work for the 2014 Architectural League Prize will be featured in the book Young Architects 16 by Princeton Architectural Press, to be published in May. In June, Geoffrey will be curating an exhibition of graduate student work and moderating a panel discussion regarding his advanced design studio titled «Performative Composites: Sailing Archi-tecture.” The event will take place on June 16 at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, California, and is sponsored by the USC School of Architecture, The City of Santa Monica, and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park by DSH // architecture, the firm of Adjunct Associ-ate Professor Eric Haas, was published in the May 2015 issue of Dwell. Haas will present the project, a renovation of Welton Becket’s 1955 New York Life building for a charter middle- and high school, at Dwell on Design in June. DSH’s project Cat’s Cradle will be published in the forthcoming Nanotecture from Phaidon Press.

Laurel Consuelo Broughton  and her stu-dio WELCOMEPROJECTS’ diptych, The In Crowd  was published in  Offramp  #9, the SCI_arc architectural journal and the re-search project  Two-Face  is forthcoming in the Princeton School of Architecture’s journal, Pidgin#19. In April, Laurel gave the talk and workshop, Things Become Other Things  at Syracuse University School of Architecture. This past fall she was selected

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with Andrew Kovacs to be part of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s  Out There Doing It  event series where they discussed their own work as related to their collaborative project Gallery Attachment / As Builts. An outdoor installa-tion and companion drawing show, Gallery Attachment / As Builts was sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the John Chase Memorial Fund and shown at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles.  In November, she presented the talk, At Play, as part of the symposium Delightat Princeton University. 

Karen M. Kensek and Douglas Noble were selected to present at the 2015 AIA National Convention on the subject of professional licensing in architecture.

Gail Peter Borden was elected to the AIA College of Fellows as the youngest recipient in the history of California. He was honored with the 2015 USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Students, and was also awarded the USC Associates Award for Artistic Expression, the highest honor the University Faculty bestow on it members for significant Artistic Expression. His book Matter:  Material Processes in Architec-tural Production  has been commissioned with a follow-up compilation entitled Lineament: Material Geometry in Architec-tural Production forthcoming in 2016 and also by Routledge Press.

G. M. Morland, Architect. NCARB. ARCUK. Assoc Professor, curated an exhibit of his work called: A RETROSPECTIVE: 50+ YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES: 1963---2015. BC. (before computer).  The work exhibited presumed to be both educational and informative to students of architecture and design at USC today, and hopefully fueled the healthy discussion and debate regarding design description and presentation which now bridges from the soul of emotion with hand drawings, to the current wizardry of digital technology.   An exhibition of work, initiated at the Glasgow school of Art, Scotland, de-veloped at the U of I in Chicago, and realized at USC in Los Angeles, covering a 50+ year period, required the compilation, editing and formatting of hundreds of drawings, gener-ally classified in three categories, namely:

A. The “Sketchbook”.  Images of places and events visited.

B.  Drawings that describe “ Visions of Place”, architectural ideas & projects.

C. Drawings that inform the anatomy and material assembly of “Place,” the method and process of  “making and constructing.”  A catalogue of this ex-hibit will be forthcoming.

The latest built project of Lecturer Nefe-li Chatzimina has been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2015 and was featured as a cover for the EK Magazine. Nefeli lectured at the BNCA University of Pune, the  University of Mumbai and the Studio-X of Columbia University in Mumbai, India. Nefeli is organizing International Ad-vanced Architectural Workshops in Athens during the Summer. 

Also as founder of X|Atelier recently received a commission for the construction of an inte-rior law office space downtown Los Angeles. 

Lawrence Scarpa’s firm Brooks + Scarpa was selected from the shortlist of Snohetta, BIG, SHOP and NAADA to design the new $75 million mixed-use parking structures as part of the $2 billion MCCA Boston Convention Center expansion. Brooks + Scarpa has also been shortlisted to compete for the $370 million Seattle/Sound Transit E360 Metro line extension which includes two stations, a major transit center and pedestrian bridg-es connecting to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA also received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Archi-tects California Council.

UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Landscape Architecture as Necessity 3-Day Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Thursday-Saturday, 22-24 September 2016

As climate change rapidly takes its place at the forefront of contemporary global challenges, landscape architecture is becoming an urgent necessity.  Landscape architecture is uniquely able to synthesize ecological systems, scientific data, engineering methods, social practices, and cultural values, and integrate them into the de-sign of the built environment.  At the same time, its creative methods and visual vocabularies can help to shape questions and formulate novel ap-proaches in more traditionally scientific or data-

driven fields.  Expanding and sharing platforms and interests will activate greater comprehen-sion of the value of landscape-based strategies in environmental decision-making. Landscape Architecture as Necessity seeks to demonstrate, through international built work and ongoing design research, that the professions of the built environment, together with expertise from a wide range of relevant fields, are essential to moving beyond rhetoric to address the myriad challenges confronting urban and rural territories alike.  A call for papers will be coming shortly. For more information, confirmed speakers and updates, see the conference website:  arch.usc.edu/landscapeasnecessity -

The School of Architecture at the Univer-sity of Southern California has the luxury of being a large school in a major city.  There are several thousand architects living and working near our downtown location.  USC thanks our dedicated full-time and part-time faculty.  There were 128 faculty members teaching in our school for 2013-2014. The photo shows a small group at a faculty re-treat in November, 2013. 

Carlo Aiello,  Charles Anderson,  Gerdo Aqui-no,  Michael Arden,  Rosalio Arellanes, Valery Augustin,    Tigran Ayrapetyan,    Victoria Behner,    Leigh Ann Belloli,    Rachel Ber-ney,  Rob Berry,    Vinayak Bharne,    Biayna Bogosian,    Gail Peter Borden,    Ted Bos-ley,  Justin Brechtel,  Kenneth Breisch,  Laurel Broughton,  Wendell Burnette,  Anders Carl-son,  Nefeli Chatzimina,  Joon-Ho Choi,  Mina Chow,  Mark Cigolle,  Mario Cipresso,  Victoria Coaloa, Tony Cocea,  Kim Coleman,  Lauren Dandridge Gaines,  Vittoria Di Palma,  Mike Dolinski, Janek Dombrowa,  John Dutton,  Liz Falletta,    Miller Fong,    Russell Fortmey-er,  John Frane,  Aroussiak Gabrielian,  David Gerber,  Diane Ghirardo,  Jeff Guh,  Anthony Guida, Eric Haas,  Yo-ichiro Hakomori,  Peyton Hall,  Robert S. Harris,  Katherine Harvey,  Jerry Hastings,  Alison Hirsch,  Kathryn Horak,  Mi-chael Hricak,  Alvin Huang,  Ying-Yu Hung, Vic-tor Jones,  Karen Kensek,  Jason Kerwin,  Alice Kimm,    Norman Klein,    Tim Kohut,  Kyle Konis,  Andy Ku,  Tom Kundig,  Charles A. La-greco,  Neil Leach,  John Lesak,  Rob Ley,  An-drew Liang,  Edward Lifson,  Lisa Little,  Travis Longcore,  Erik Mar,  Esther Margulies,  David Martin,    Leonard Marvin,    Lauren Matchi-son,  Murray Milne, Scott Mitchell,  Graeme Morland,  Kristine Mun,  Amy Murphy,  John V.

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Mutlow,  Aaron Neubert, Douglas Noble,  Eric Nulman,  Lorcan O’Herlihy,  Lee Olvera,  Gary Paige,  Na Ra Park, Robert Perry,  Jay Platt,  Vic-tor Regnier,    Alexander Robinson,   Michele Saee,  Jose Sanchez,  Marcos Sánchez,  Kris Sandheinrich,  Trudi Sandmeier,  Larry Scar-pa,  G.G. (Goetz) Schierle,  Marc Schiler,  Lee Schneider,  F. Myles Sciotto,  Shannon Scov-ell, Susanna Seierup,  Colin Sieburgh,  Jennifer Siegal,  Peter Simmonds,  James Steele, Doris Sung,  Takako Tajima,  Warren Techentin,  Brian Tichenor,  Patrick Tighe,  Selwyn Ting,  Olivier Touraine,  James Tyler,  David Ulin,  John Uni-ack,  Scott Uriu,  Elizabeth Valmont,  Dimitry Vergun,  Geoffrey von Oeyen,  Roland Wahlroos-Ritter,  Jonathan Ward,  Christopher Warren,  Ed Woll,  Sandra Yum,  Hraztan Zeitlian.

Professor Graeme Morland was honored with a major exhibit this semester at the USC School of Architecture.  “A RETROSPEC-TIVE, 50+ YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES, 1963---2015. BC.” (before computer).  The work exhib-ited presumed to be both educational and informative to students of architecture and design at USC today, and hopefully fueled the healthy discussion and debate regarding design description and presentation which now bridges from the soul of emotion with hand drawings, to the current wizardry of digital technology.   An exhibition of work, initiated at the Glasgow school of Art, Scot-land, developed at the U of I in Chicago, and realized at USC in Los Angeles, covering a 5o+ year period, required the compilation, editing and formatting of hundreds of draw-ings, generally classified in three categories, namely, A) The “Sketchbook”.  Images of places and events visited, B) Drawings that describe “ Visions of Place”, architectural ideas & projects, and C) Drawings that in-form the anatomy and material assembly of “Place”,  the method and process of  “mak-ing and constructing.” A catalogue of this exhibit will be forthcoming.

Lisa Little will be a presenter at the Los An-geles AIA ‘Powerful’ symposium at the An-nenberg Space for Photography on February 27th. Her topic is entitled “A Diversity of Practice: Expanding Opportunities.”

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Ar-chitecture (ACSA) is hosting a recent sur-vey and report by Lauren Matchison on their website.  The survey, The Effect of Social Media on Architecture Graduate School Se-

lection, takes a close look at how prospective graduate students use social media as a tool to research architecture schools.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been named to Engineering Record News California’s “Top 20 under 40 2015” and annual award which honors the “cream of the crop in the de-sign and construction industry who have built extraordinary industry portfolios before the age of 40”. Huang recently gave a lecture on his recent work at the CalPoly Pomona Depart-ment of Architecture, and will also be lectures in March at Syracuse University School of Ar-chitecture and the CalPoly San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. 

The latest built project of Lecturer Nefeli Chatzimina has been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2015 and was featured as a cover for the EK Magazine. During February Nefeli lectured at the BNCA University of Pune, the University of Mumbai and the Studio-X of Columbia University in Mumbai, India.

Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was recently awarded $149,400 from the California En-ergy Commission (CEC) to support research and development of his project entitled the Occupant Mobile Gateway (O.M.G.), which received the highest ranking during technical peer-review among all proposals submitted statewide. The objective of the O.M.G. is to leverage mobile sensing as a platform to en-able design teams to validate and continually refine the performance of low-energy and environmentally responsive design strate-gies. The project is a continuation of a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Professor Konis and Professor Murali Annavaram in the Viterbi School of Engineering.

Vittoria Di Palma’s book, Wasteland, A His-tory (Yale University Press, 2014) has won two prizes.  It was awarded the 2015 J. B. Jackson Book Prize by The Foundation for Landscape Studies, and  was the runner-up in the Architecture and Urban Planning category for the 2015 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excel-lence (PROSE).

Hraztan Zeitlian was appointed to the Ameri-can Institute of Architects California Coun-cil’s prestigious Monterey Design Conference Committee (AIACC MDC), with other USC Faculty Larry Scarpa and Alice Kimm as well as Anne Fougeron, and David Meckel among

others. http://aiacc.org/mdc/about-mdc/

Professor Gail Borden was elected to the AIA College of Fellows as the youngest member in California. He was awarded the 2015 USC Associate Award for Artistic Expression, the highest honor the University faculty bestow on it members for significant artistic expression.  His solo exhibition “Faceted Line” opened late February at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas pre-senting his newest paintings which implement space, depth, and color to create shallow and abstract architectural environments. He was recently commissioned by Routledge to do a follow-up book entitled Lineament: Material and Geometry in Architectural Production to build on his best-selling book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production.

Associate Professor Charles Lagreco in collab-oration with Lecturer Gary Paige and Associ-ate Dean Gail Borden have submitted a grant proposal to USC Neighborhood Outreach for a partnership with the 32nd Street / USC Magnet Center K-12 school to work together on a School of Architecture Research + Design + Build Pro-gram to build a portable performance facility to support the school and the neighborhood around USC. The proposal which identifies a $150,000 budget target to design and build the project, is proposed to extend over three semesters in the 2015-16 academic year and is partially funded by the Marnell Endowment recently established to provide support for de-sign build studios in the School of Architecture curriculum.

At the request of the USC Career Center and intended for the entire university community, Professor Michael Hricak recently spoke on, and moderated a panel focused on, Careers in Design.

Lecturer Andy Ku and his firm OCDC have been selected for a public art commission in Down-town Los Angeles. The project takes on the idea of “traffic” as both a cultural mission and an urban contextual activity. The design depicts the signs of nature and culture in a single en-vironment, as a contemporary meditation on traditional Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e “drawings of the floating word”) 

Karen Kensek has two research papers for the upcoming Architecture Research Centers Con-sortium (ARCC) Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015. 

Hijazi, Mohammad, Karen Kensek, and Kyle

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Konis, “Bridging the gap: supporting data trans-parency of BIM to BEM” 

Chen, Yiyu, Karen Kensek, Joon-Ho Choi, and Marc Schiler, “Using modified weather files for predicting future building performance,” ac-cepted for the Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference

In January, Rob Ley won an invited design com-petition to develop and fabricate a permanent installation for the Portland Zoo in Oregon.  Also in January, Rob completed a permanent installation for the Kansas City Police Depart-ment.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS AN-GELES

UCLA A.UD ANNOUNCES 5 NEW POSITIONS AT IDEAS SATELLITE CAMPUS FOR EXPANDED SUPRASTUDIO / M.ARCH.II PROGRAM

Five years ago, the M.Arch. II, Post-Profes-sional Degree Program at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) was restructured into a research and development based SUPRASTUDIO format, reflecting a new model for Post-Professional architectural edu-cation. SUPRASTUDIO is a calendar yearlong integrated curriculum led by a senior member of the A.UD design faculty in collaboration with an industry partner. Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, and Greg Lynn have collaborated over the years with Disney Imagineering, Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts. In August 2012, University of Cali-fornia President Mark Yudof and the University of California Board of Regents announced the conversion of the M.Arch. II program to a self-supporting status. This conversion allows for the ambitious expansion of the program to con-duct three separate SUPRASTUDIOs per year at a new offsite facility with an unprecedented Advanced Technologies Laboratory to explore how the next generation will integrate technol-ogy into the built environment. 

SUPRASTUDIO is located at IDEAS, an off-site location south of UCLA that is a new platform in architectural education to advance cross-dis-cipline research and development with industry and outside partners to expand the future pa-rameters of architectural practice. It will also serve as home to multi-year research initiatives, an ongoing cross-discipline lecture series, and other public programs. 

UCLA A.UD seeks to appoint five new fac-ulty and staff for IDEAS and the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program. These positions should be filled before the start of the June 2013 SUPRASTUDIO, and include: 

• SUPRASTUDIO Program Director

• IDEAS Technology Director

• Critical Studies Lecturer

• Powerpack Studio Lecturer

• IDEAS Lab Supervisor (Staff Position)

SUPRASTUDIO Program Director 

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment of a Program Director for the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program and to oversee the activities at IDEAS. 

SUPRASTUDIO will have three studios led by three senior design faculty in partnership with three industry collaborators. The Program Di-rector will report to the Chair of the Department and will be responsible for coordination with the three studios, oversight and coordination of non-studio courses in the curriculum, maintaining ongoing and developing new relationships with industry partners, and teaching. 

The Program Director, with the studio assis-tants, will be responsible for teaching the sum-mer session Pre-Studio for all incoming M.Arch. II students. The Program Director will also coor-dinate and teach two quarters of a lecture series with invited industry guests in a seminar setting for students and faculty. Additionally, special projects within IDEAS and research and devel-opment projects that exceed the rhythm of the SUPRASTUDIO courses to become long-term research initiatives will fall under the purview of the Program Director. 

This position is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career professional that’s interested both in teaching and the administrative roles related to program building at the ground level of a dy-namic new initiative that will redefine Post-Pro-fessional research and teaching of architecture. The candidate must be able to work with senior faculty and world-class industry partners. This position will allow the candidate to integrate into an already established faculty, but with the au-tonomy of a new program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate vision and a commitment to

expanding the role of architectural design and innovation into culture and industry. 

The Program Director position provides full ben-efits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.

IDEAS Technology Director

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Technology Director for IDEAS, a newly established off-campus facility that houses the department’s expanded M.Arch.II/SUPRASTU-DIO program. The individual will be responsible for teaching, acquisitions, and research associ-ated with technology initiatives central to the mission of UCLA A.UD, IDEAS and the three SUPRASTUDIOs. 

The Technology Director will be responsible for the IDEAS facility as well as the research and development initiatives that take place within it. The Technology Director will be an active partner and liaison between the faculty, students, and industry partners. Teaching responsibilities will include two Technology Lecture courses during Summer session and two Technology Seminar courses taught to a combination of M. Arch. II and M. Arch I Graduate Students throughout the rest of the year. The Technology Director will report to the Chair of the Department. 

This position has teaching and program over-sight roles and is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career person with vision and expertise on the integration of technology into new environ-mental approaches and paradigms for research and education with senior faculty and industry partners at the highest level. Candidates must be able to initiate innovative research in ei-ther architecture or environments in the public sphere that engage robotics and sensing tech-nology. Some experience with digital fabrica-tion is expected but fabrication should not be the primary focus or expertise for applicants for this position. 

An advanced architecture degree is mandatory for this position. 

The IDEAS Technology Director position provides full benefits. The successful can-didate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.

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Critical Studies Lecturer

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment in Critical Studies of a Lecturer eager to contribute to the intel-lectual and creative culture of the school by teaching a variety of courses in both gradu-ate and undergraduate degree programs. The position offers the opportunity to par-ticipate in the launch of several new initia-tives, including SUPRASTUDIO at IDEAS, an off-site post professional degree program focusing on architecture and industrial cul-ture. The candidate should be able to teach courses on post-war theories of architecture, advanced formal analysis, architecture and visual culture, and the history of modern architecture. The appointment will also in-clude collaborative academic responsibilities in the Curatorial Project, a recently estab-lished center that will be developing exhibi-tions and publications with an international scope and ambition. 

The ideal candidate will have or be working towards a PhD, be able to demonstrate a commitment to advanced architectural ideas and innovative approaches to their dissemi-nation, a strong record of teaching and the promise of producing a scholarly body of work appropriate for a continuing appoint-ment at a top ranking university. The suc-cessful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.

Powerpack Studio Lecturer 

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design– in conjunction with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies-is seeking an exceptional can-didate to lead a research studio during the 2013 academic year. 

The POWERPACK studio will be lead by Frank Gehry and members of his architec-tural practice and technology company, in collaboration with UCLA faculty and indus-try partners. The studio’s mission will be to explore the potential for new, small scale, networked, and intelligent building technol-ogies to radically rethink the modern build-ing and city, at a multiplicity of scales from the micro device to the urban.

UCLA is seeking to fill a one-year lecturer appointment to coordinate this curriculum under the supervision of Gehry Partners and

Gehry Technologies to conduct the overall studio and workshop instruction. The ideal candidate will have a wide range of expe-rience in urban and building level design, strong experience as a studio instructor, and significant expertise in technology.

Minimum requirements include:

• An advanced degree (MArch or equiva-lent) in architectural or urban design.

• Substantial prior experience as a lead studio instructor or TA.

• Strong background in parametric mod-eling, scripting, BIM or related digital modeling software

• Additional experience desired includes the following:

• Urban design and related topics such as transportation

• Environmental design or building en-ergy systems engineering

• Robotics, or micro control systems de-sign and prototyping

• The position is a one-year Lecturer po-sition for the period July 2013-June 2014.  

IDEAS Lab Supervisor

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Lab Supervisor for IDEAS, a newly estab-lished off-campus facility that houses the de-partment’s expanded SUPRASTUDIO program.

The individual will be responsible for the physi-cal IDEAS facilities including classrooms, labo-ratories, studios, offices, exhibition spaces, and shop as well as training and assistance with the students and faculty. The Lab Supervisor must coordinate the technical and research relation-ships with industry partners as well as the robot-ic suppliers to the laboratory. The Lab Supervi-sor will also be responsible for daily operations of the lab and shop and its power equipment, tools, supplies, and student assistants.

There will be several unprecedented robotically controlled machines as well as a sensing labo-ratory that have never been in any architecture school before. The Lab Supervisor needs to ini-tiate and maintain relationships with the manu-facturers, users, and development teams for

these machines as well as training the faculty and students in their use. 

The Lab Supervisor will work with and report to the IDEAS Technology Director for the acquisi-tion and use of the machines in the labs. As well, they will develop the policies and training for the students and faculty. 

Familiarity and experience with industrial robotics, sensing technology and compos-ite construction is a benefit. The operations, maintenance, and safety of the lab are the responsibility of the Lab Supervisor. Several years experience with similar industrial fa-cilities or academic laboratories and shops with similar equipment is a requirement.

An associate degree or greater is mandatory for this position. 

This is a staff position with full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be pre-pared to make a three-year commitment to the program.

HOW TO APPLY 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Candidates to the four academic positions below are requested to furnish a letter of intent with a curriculum vitae, one or two examples of work, with a description of each project (non-returnable), and the names, phone numbers, mail and e-mail addresses of three references able to provide a knowl-edgeable evaluation of the applicant’s quali-fications. 

Examples of work should be submitted both digitally at the following links, and as hard copy portfolios to the address below:

SUPRASTUDIO Program Director IDEAS Technology Director Critical Studies Lecturer  Powerpack Studio Lecturer  UCLA Architecture & Urban Design Attn: “POSITION NAME” Search Committee 1317 Perloff Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095

STAFF POSITION Candidates for the IDEAS Lab Supervi-sor may apply starting late December at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/

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Application deadline for all positions is Feb-ruary 28, 2013. Review of applications will take place in early March with interviews scheduled later during that same month. 

Proof of U.S. Citizenship or eligibility for U.S. Employment will be required prior to employ-ment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986).  The University of California, Los Angeles, is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirma-tive Action Employer.   

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