november 2009 volume 39

number 3 ACSANEWS

in this issue:

publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2 President’s Message

4 Designing Diversity

5 aISc Student Design competition

6 aaSl column

7 aIaS column

9 Journal of architectural education: call for Submissions

2010 administrators conference

10 99th acSa annual Meeting: Montréal

12 98th acSa annual Meeting: new Orleans

15 acSa Teachers Seminar

16 reGIOnal newS

37 acSa calendar OPPOrTUnITIeS

Designing Diversity Read the third installment in the series on page 4

ACSANEWSPascale vonier, Editor

Editorial offi ces1735 New York Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20006, USATel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448Website: www.acsa-arch.org

aCSa Board of Directors, 2009–2010Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, PresidentDaniel S. Friedman, PhD, FAIA, Vice PresidentMarleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Past PresidentMitra Kanaani, AIA, SecretaryNathaniel Quincy Belcher, AIA, TreasurerPatricia Kucker, East Central DirectorBrian Kelly, AIA, Northeast DirectorPhoebe Crisman, Southeast DirectorUrsula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Southwest DirectorStephen Meder, West DirectorGregory Palermo, FAIA, West Central DirectorMichael Jemtrud, Canadian DirectorBrett Roeth, Student DirectorJudith Welch Wegner, Public 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 fi ve 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 classifi ed 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

from the president

ouR poNZi sChEmE With thE plANEt by thomas fisher

In an essay in The Chronicle Review on September 4th, David Barash, a professor of psychology at the University of Wash-ington, argues that “in our fundamental relationship to the natural world – which is, after all, the fundamental relationship for everyone – we are all Madoffs.”1 He claims that we are all involved in a giant Ponzi scheme with the planet, in which the richest countries exploit and eventu-ally exhaust the resources on which other people, other species, and future genera-tions depend.

As Barash points out, such “pyramid schemes are not sustainable. Eventu-ally they fail. It isn’t possible to keep recruiting a never-ending supply of suck-ers.” The metaphor is apt, since Madoff showed that the larger the Ponzi scheme, the longer it can last and, paradoxically, the more diffi cult it is to accept once so many people have become dependent on it. At the same time, once revealed, such frauds become impossible to maintain and the pyramid scheme comes crashing down. Barash ends his piece with this question: “Madoff eventually got 150 years in the slammer and worldwide deri-sion. What’s in store for the rest of us?”

Barash’s essay prompted considerable commentary on the Chronicle website, both supportive and dismissive, and I suspect the same divided reactions will

arise among our ranks. It’s certainly understandable that we might want to reject this whole argument. As we saw with the investors and regulators who dismissed those who voiced concern about Madoff’s operation, the sheer scale of such a hoax and its potential damage makes it hard to acknowledge.

We would be better off, however, fol-lowing Pascal’s wager here. If Barash is wrong, there is no harm in our trying to live in more sustainable and equitable ways, but if he is right, and we ignore his warning and continue exhausting fi -nite resources at record rates, the con-sequences could be catastrophic. The wealthiest populations in the world, most invested in this Ponzi scheme, would like-ly suffer the most, as happened with the collapse of Madoff’s enterprise. Dismissing arguments like Barash’s and doing nothing is really not an option. In-stead, we should see the possibility that we have been unknowing accomplices in a planetary Ponzi scheme as an opportu-nity for our discipline. The commentary in the Chronicle shows how other fi elds re-spond to this idea with ideology or gen-eralities, offering very little specifi c guid-ance as to what we might do differently.

Missing from the Chronicle discussion was anything about the physical environment, which has such an enormous impact on our energy and water use and our pollution and waste generation. Rather than argue about population levels or private property rights, as some of Barash’s commentators did, we can ask more immediately useful questions like: how can we stop exhaust-ing fi nite resources and create a built world that the planet can sustain?

Helping people answer such questions is something the design disciplines are par-ticularly well suited to do. The greatest value we offer involves imagining what doesn’t yet exist, which becomes particu-larly important when, as in this case, we

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have to rethink almost everything we have designed over the last century and a half.

Design studios can play a key role here. The studios in some schools have already begun to envision post-Ponzi scenarios for the planet, imagining what the world would be like were we to use no fossil fuels, emit no greenhouse gases, and create no waste, while also trying to enhance the quality of life and create a healthy habitat for other species as well as for ourselves?

We need to go beyond the design of buildings and cities, however. The systems and policies that have allowed the Ponzi scheme to continue also need redesign, and our best ideas will never have the impact they deserve until we change the unsustainable structures within which we all live and work. How can our design decisions increase the resilience of our infrastructure, the flexibility of our systems, and the redundancy of our networks?

Other parts of our curriculums can help us understand how this pyramid scheme got started and how we might avoid another one in the future. The historians among us might ask at what point in our past did buildings and cities cease to depend largely on local, renewable resources and start to draw down finite energy reserves and take advantage of inexpensive foreign labor and materials? How did we justify such a change in our relationship to the rest of the world and who, if anyone, raised questions about it?

The best time to stop a Ponzi scheme occurs at its start, before so many have become so invested in it that they don’t want it to end, even after red flags start to appear. But the best way to avoid it in the future is to recognize the means and methods by which such schemes gain momentum. How have our actions, as architects, inadvertently aided in this exploitation of the planet?

Theory can help us see how we evolved a set of ideas and assumptions that, like the beliefs of Madoff’s investors, have made the returns on this Ponzi scheme seem normal. How did we come to validate what we now see as a completely unsustainable and inequitable activity? And why did we neglect non-western and post-colonial viewpoints that could have offered another perspec-tive on the exploitative practices of the west?

Likewise, practice and technology can help us understand the mechanisms of this exploitation. Why has our profession focused on the needs of a tiny percentage of people at the very top of the pyramid, and largely ignored everyone else upon whom those at the top depend? And how has architectural technology enabled us to exploit resources more efficiently, while rendering obsolete the materials and methods that local cultures had evolved in response to local climates and conditions?

We need to ask such questions not in an accusatory way. While it would be easier to have someone like Madoff to blame, the scheme that Barash describes has a much more diffuse agent: our modern, industrialized, consumer society. Nor should we claim, as Barash does, that we are “all Madoffs,” since most of the participants in Ponzi schemes don’t start them, aren’t aware of the fraud, and almost always end up being their victims.

But we do need to ask these questions to understand how this happened, how to prevent it from happening again, and how we will pick up the pieces once the collapse occurs. That collapse may not happen right away, although as we have seen with the precipitous fall of our banks and housing market, catastrophic failures don’t give much warning and tend to happen faster than we might imagine. But collapse is inevitable in Ponzi schemes, and the sooner we accept that, the sooner we can get to work readying ourselves for what will follow.

There may be, as some commentators to Barash’s piece argued, something in humans that makes us susceptible to pyramid schemes. But we also know that humans have lived for most of our his-tory without pimping the planet, and we can learn to live that way again, with enough imagina-tion and a bit more humility than we have seen from the mad Madoffs among us. 1 http://chronicle.com/article/We-Are-All-Madoffs/48182/

NCARB to AdjustEduCAtioN stANdARds

Effective January 1, 2010, the National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB) will change certain requirements in its Edu-cation Standards. These standards outline the requirements for applicants who do not hold a degree from a NAAB- or CACB-accredited program and are required to satisfy as an alternative to the education requirement for NCARB certification. The revisions affect minimum hours for General Education Re-quirements and add requirements to fulfill the new sustainability Student Performance Crite-ria. Revision of the definition of the require-ments of several subject areas in the NCARB Education Standard was necessary to make it consistent with the current requirements for professional degree programs. Issues of sus-tainability were incorporated into the subject area of Environment in the History, Human Behavior, and Environment Requirement; the subject area of Environmental Control Sys-tems in the Technical Systems Requirement; and Level IV of the Design Requirement.

Visit ncarb.org for more information.

CAll foR mEmoRiAl tRiButEs

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

(Note: previously published pieces will need to have permission for inclusion in the newsletter and website from the copyright holder.)

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CommuNity CollEgEs ANd BRANCh CAmpusEs; AltERNAtivE modEls by geraldine forbes isais, director, architecture program, university of new mexico

Diversity is still a loaded word for many while increasingly becoming a desirable if not sought after condition by others. When the New York Times Magazine has advertising supplements touting the merits of diversity in corporate America (Sunday, September 6, 2009), we should assume a societal shift. Still within the academy many are quick to point out that at their institutions they aren’t just seeking diversity in their ranks rather, they are designing “diversity and excellence”, “demographic and intellectual diversity” or “critical diversity”. These concepts are all great, however, the fact remains our profession is not diverse and neither are the majority of our programs. So where is everybody? The answer is the community college.

Community colleges have done an amazing job of welcoming all the high school graduates who are not quite ready for university, of re-training older workers, of allowing students to enroll in a wide range of courses until they identify their major or find their path. In other words, they are flexible, while most of our university programs are rather inflexible. Community colleges are inexpensive. For example, my local community college still charges $41.00 per credit for general education courses and $3.00 per credit for technical (architecture) courses. A student can complete an associates degree for a few thousand dollars, and workforce training courses are often free. Additionally, many of the community colleges long ago recognized that if they were truly going to reflect and promote the demographic of their community, their faculty needed to learn how to interact with and teach students who are culturally and economically diverse.

It is important, however, to address the elephant in the living room: most architecture-type programs at community colleges have evolved from the community college’s original missions to train a workforce. It is because of this that our kindred community college programs were and sometimes still are skills based and thus called “drafting programs”. Many of the original faculty within these programs were draftsmen or practicing architects who

developed courses designed to train their students to move directly to the local offices and upon occasion to a university architecture program. This profile has changed, however, unfortunately the perception of the quality of architectural education that students receive at the community college has by and large not.

Let me digress and explain how the accredited architecture program at Woodbury University in Burbank, California partnered with the community colleges in San Diego, California to model a dynamic, diverse, public-private partnership. Twenty years ago Woodbury University’s program in Burbank was populated primarily with entering freshman. Over the next five years, the program was approached by various community college faculty who were interested in exploring facilitating student transfers from their programs to Woodbury’s. It became immediately clear to the Woodbury faculty, I among them, that the community college programs varied widely in their student preparation. Depending on the faculty in place, sometimes the students had excellent skills but knew nothing about design, in other cases, the students were very well prepared. We all, however, were impressed by the diversity in the student populations at the community colleges and decided that it was desirable to mix in different student profiles. This decision led us to convene bi-annual meetings of community college faculty to discuss curricula, articulation, etc. We realized that there were natural synergies with some programs and not with others, however, in all cases we built mutual respect and understanding of our institutional missions.

It was in those meetings that the Woodbury faculty also met community college faculty from San Diego who had strong ties to the professional community. At the time there was not an accredited architecture program in San Diego and these faculty and professionals requested that Woodbury consider establishing a program there. Working in a very close partnership with Mesa Community College, Woodbury, a private university, designed a 2+3 articulated program that allowed and

encouraged students to save thousands of dollars by enrolling in all their lower division courses at Mesa and then transferring these credits into a 5-year professional program.

Perhaps this all seems easy and obvious, but there are still very few programs that not only transfer students into their programs, but transfer them into third year. More importantly, this requires that the senior university faculty work side-by-side with the community college faculty to ensure quality and parity in their vision and teaching. In this case both the Woodbury University and Mesa Community College administrations agreed to allow their students to enroll in studio courses that were held in the same studio building, thus blurring the identities of the community college and senior university faculty and students. This simple act of “bridging” enhanced student performance, enabling the community college students to easily transition into Woodbury University’s professional degree program.

The previous anecdote describes one of many ways to develop a diverse student body; there are many paths. For example my current institution, the University of New Mexico (UNM), has built branch campuses in the various quadrants of the state. These campuses are designed to reach rural populations of Native-Americans, Hispanic, African-American and economically challenged students to again allow them to receive two years of their university education in place, before they relocate to the main urban campus. Upon being admitted to UNM’s Architecture Program they encounter studio and lecture courses that often engage their communities and cultural ways; thus facilitating the student’s reflection between their culture and that embedded in the academic traditions of architecture.

In order for Architecture Programs to succeed at diversity they will have to identify why they have failed, as well as which schools and programs have succeeded and why. My suggestion, visit your local community college.

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2009-2010 ACSA/AISCRE-LIGARE INSTITUTE: RECONNECTING MIND AND BODY

INTRODUCTIONThe Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the tenth annual steel design student competition for the 2009-2010 academic year. Administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by the 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 2009-2010 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories.

CATEGORY I RE-LIGARE INSTITUTE: RECONNECTING MIND AND BODY (re-ligare: re “again” + ligare “to connect”)challenges architecture students to design a public urban center dedicated to reconnecting people with their authentic selves, others, and nature. This new institution aims at stopping the enslaving cycles of unchecked production and consumption dominating our lives, by turning the attention and practice to “being” in its entirety and in all its rich dimensionalities. The project will encourage students to consider ethic, aesthetic, and critical issues facing contemporary civilization, vis-à-vis novel programmatic, technological, environmental, spatial, and phenomenological issues. Steel construction offers students great benefi ts in this endeavor, as it is ideal for multi-story buildings, quick delivery and assembly in congested urban environments, covering long spans without sacrifi cing fl exibility and aesthetic lightness.

CATEGORY II OPEN with limited restrictions. This open submission design option will permit the greatest amount of fl exibility.

SCHEDULE February 9, 2010 Registration Deadline (there is no fee for registration)May 2010 Submission Deadline May 2010 Prize winners chosen by the design jurySummer 2010 Competition Summary Publication

FOR MORE INFORMATIONProgram updates, including information on jury members as they are confi rmed, may be found on the ACSA web site at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

SPONSOR American Insitute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profi t 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: specifi cation and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certifi cation, 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.

AWARDSWinning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000. The design jury will meet in May 2010 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notifi ed of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa-arch.org and the AISC web site at www.aisc.org.

STEEL DESIGN STUDENT COMPETITION

ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

View entire competit ion program at www.acsa-arch.org/competit ions.

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sCholARs’ BANK yiElds A gREAt REtuRN oN iNvEstmENt by jean von bargen, university of oregon

Institutional repositories are becoming an important point of discussion on many university and college campuses. Academic libraries can be integral to collecting and preserving locally produced work. AASL is proud to offer this faculty perspective on how the library can play an important role in the institutional repository.

Jean E. von Bargen is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon and an Associate with Michael Willis Architects in Portland, Oregon. Jean is a member of the AIA, NCARB and LEED A.P.

Barbara Opar, column editor

Research is central to my Architectural Programming course at the University of Oregon’s College of Architecture and Allied Arts in Portland, Oregon. Every student I instruct is on a path to graduate with a professional degree in Architecture, intending to practice either in a traditional office or in a parallel field. My course prepares them to conduct real-time research that will make them invaluable to a design office. Their research is not limited to typical student book and periodical research and requires a different kind of support from our library. The University of Oregon Libraries’ digital repository, called Scholars’ Bank, has improved students’ living research by providing an information resource, a repository and a publication venue.

Scholars¹ Bank is an institutional repository for intellectual work of faculty, students and staff at the University of Oregon. The initial intent of the Scholars’ Bank was to provide additional access to faculty publications but it was soon expanded for broader applications. The flexibility of DSpace, the Scholars’ Bank software, proved perfect for my class and allowed a place to publish research results.

My students produce architectural program reports that comprise very diverse products: essays, poetry, maps, diagrams, movies, audio recordings, plans, photos, charts and

calculations. They conduct interviews, measure sites, visit facilities, call product vendors and try their hand at ‘back of envelope’ pro-formas. Using Scholars’ Bank, our ‘clients’ gain access to students’ final programs while allowing the class submissions to be paperless, supporting a more sustainable classroom model. A beneficial side effect is that students gain access to one another’s information, are able to promote their work to future employers and experience the intricacies of publishing modern, scholarly work.

SubmittingThe innovation and genius of Scholars’ Bank is that students submit their own work. They print their work to a Portable Document Format (PDF) and email it to the University Scholars’ Bank Librarian including the title they wish the work to be published under and a brief abstract. This simplifies the issue of publication in several ways.

First, by self-submitting work for publication, their consent is implicit. Prior, this has been a complex, paper-intensive process requiring reliable filing and information management systems.

Second, Scholars’ Bank is free. There is no cost to submitting work or downloading information from this repository. Published information on Scholars’ Bank is accessible to anyone on earth with access to the World Wide Web.

Third, it differentiates itself in that articles are searchable. Traditional printed and bound theses are less user-friendly. A characteristic of the PDF product is that content is searchable – interdisciplinary searches are fully supported and automatic.

New DirectionInstitutional repositories fill the data gap. Traditional publishing is expensive which acts as a barrier to its availability – only information deemed to be popular enough for a wide audience merits publication. This leaves an enormous gap in local and small audience research. Architectural students almost exclusively use this type of information

to build their design arguments. Site data, site history, local architects, micro-climate charts, local building materials and techniques are basic and requisite data searches conducted by architectural students. It is also the type of information that is most inaccessible via standard research tools. While students studying architectural history, theory or statics continue to rely on books and periodicals, they are now supplemented with materials in a number of different formats. One mainstay of student inspiration, the monograph, is quickly being replaced in popularity by increasingly informational and sophisticated architectural firm websites.

ResultsInstructors may find themselves pleasantly surprised at the results of incorporating an institutional repository into their curriculum. Students’ research tends to be more intense and well-documented. In my experience, knowing that their research will be published induces students to write at a higher level than if the writing were limited to an individual course environment.

Another consequence is that some students refuse to publish their work. Reasons students have voiced for not publishing include intellectual property concerns, personal privacy, and discomfort with publishing their ‘Architectural Programs’ as finished products (program documents are considered living documents which means that information may change as the project moves forward).

Some of the students’ concerns may be allayed by including publishing requirements up front in the syllabus and by announcing them on the first day of class. Privacy issues can be mitigated by allowing anonymous publication. Concerns over unfinished work have been mitigated by altering the syllabus to ensure that no final Architectural Program is used to advance a project from within the University. When published, these Programs become a snapshot of a student’s work that term rather than being viewed as a final product of their scholarly efforts.

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By the time you read this column, many of you – and your students – will most likely be fo-cused on Thanksgiving Break, otherwise known as that short breath of air before entering the deep waters of finals week. November is a month when administrators, faculty, and stu-dents are consumed by “near-final” reviews, plans for the next semester or quarter, and dreams of the winter holiday.

In the throes of a studio design project, it is easy for students to forget why we enjoy ar-chitecture. Passion for design wanes as the midnight oil burns. At the end of a long night, as rays of sun begin to eclipse the distant hori-zon, a single thought lingers in the mind of the weary-eyed and emotionally trodden student: “Why do I do this to myself?”

By now, we are all familiar with the horror sto-ries that are consequences of the current stu-dio ethic – the senseless deaths, the countless involuntary amputations, and too many burns, cuts, and scrapes to document. In spite of these facts, traditions remain strong, and faculty and students perpetuate an unhealthy and inappro-priate educational system. The student stands with pride in front of the blood-stained model; smiles excitedly while showing deep gashes to friends, slowly peeling back the gauze to add an element of suspense to the story; counts stitches as notches on a bedpost, markers of unhealthy behavior twisted into badges of honor.

Since when is masochism considered a healthy and necessary trait of a successful and engaged architectural professional?

As we enter one of the toughest periods of the academic cycle, I urge you to consider the topic of Studio Culture. The Studio Culture dialogue has been prevalent for nearly a decade now, but has the culture of design education changed, or have we simply talked about change?

Studio culture is:• a part of the positive transformation of

the discipline of architecture.• a method of engendering a sense of mu-

tual respect among instructors and stu-dents.

• a proactive questioning of the status quo.• a reason to be passionate and optimistic

about architecture and education.• an important initiative that reinforces the

relevance of our education, our profes-sion, and our position in society.

Studio culture is not• a bunch of students complaining.• an attack on instructors, professors, or

their institutions.• just about studio.• just about students.

Studio Culture concerns much more than an examination of healthy work habits. The Stu-dio Culture dialogue questions the very nature of our discipline. It is no longer appropriate to learn within the silo of the design studio. The contemporary nature the profession requires that we collaborate with other disciplines, en-gage with citizens and communities, and think beyond the walls of glass, brick, steel, and stone.

When students are defeated by an unhealthy learning dynamic and question why they chose to study architecture, we risk losing another group of individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and talents to design and build sustain-able, valuable, and awe-inspiring spaces and places. We risk losing a group of future design educators who continually inspire students. And ultimately, we risk losing of the relevance of architecture to society.

Studio is not a prison that students must sur-vive in order to escape to the professional world. It is a place where students can learn skills, encounter and share new ideas, collabo-rate with other learners, and develop inventive proposals that will transform our profession, our environment, and our lives.

AIAS has designated November as “Studio Cul-ture” month. I urge you to do the same.

dANgERous NovEmBERby brett roeth, aias vice president

american institute of architecture students

Next Steps: Collaboration/IntegrationWorking in the ‘real world’ mandates collaboration. In my course, students are required to develop their program documents in groups that mimic an architectural firm’s studio environment. These groups differ from a real working studio environment in that they do not typically have access to other key team member fields such as: mechanical engineering, structural engineering, landscape architects, civil engineering and electrical engineering. It is evolving that future students will use institutional repositories to gain instant access to information that could lead to remote collaboration supported at all development levels by institutional repositories.

Information posted on Scholars’ Bank is at the discretion of the instructor, which can lead to unevenness in depth. It could become a more reliable and efficient resource if the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) stepped up to the growing urgency of the sustainability challenge. Paperless accreditation! The University of Oregon can direct the team to the Scholars’ Bank website to review any student project at leisure. Furthermore, it provides the potential of limitless outreach opportunities to connect with donors, employers and alumni.

Institutional repositories are simple, invaluable tools for integrated multi-disciplinary student, faculty and staff promotion. Educators and students need this resource to expand their access to locally produced information. Each year the institutional repository will become richer with the breadth and depth of information students submit, thus strengthening the data available for future research and teaching.

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WhAt mAKEs youR CommuNity livABlE?

As the National Building Museum’s (NBM) yearlong “Green Communities” exhibit comes to an end, the museum continues to engage the public about the health of people, communities, and the planet.

NBM recently launched a video competition, titled Great Green Places, asking people to highlight their sustainable communities. The purpose of the competition is to develop a repository of mini-documentaries that, over time, could be used as a “decoder ring” to reveal the characteristics of places people consider sustainable. The museum has published a set of “green criteria” to evaluate these places—streetscape, sense of place, landscape, transit options, and mixed use—but also encourages adding more,

Scott Kratz, Vice President for Education, says that he hopes the project will “eventually become a database of 100-200 fi lms for future students, researchers and city planners to use.”

The museum staff has already started the process and posted four of their own fi lms on popular Washington, DC, neighborhoods. They hope that architecture students, professionals, and the general public will document their own neighborhoods and upload them to the site. The videos could also be classroom assignments or used by students researching studio and other projects, Kratz said.

As an added incentive, the museum will feature the top videos—selected by museum staff and also based on video viewership—on its homepage for two weeks at a time. The top three videos will also be screened as part of the museum’s participation in the March, 2010 Environmental Film Festival.

To learn more about the National Building Museum’s Great Green Places video series visit go.nbm.org/greatgreenplaces.

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pRo BoNo pRogRAms gRoWiNg iN sChools

The Taproot Foundation, a leading provider of free professional services for nonprofi t organizations, recently released a white paper on pro bono programs in universities. The document examines case studies from ar-chitecture, law, business, and design schools and offers recommenda-tions on how to start, grow, and maintain valuable pro bono university programs. The foundation believes that pro bono work enriches stu-dents’ education by engaging them in practical, real-world experiences.

Since its inception in 2001, the Taproot Foundation has worked to trans-form the nascent fi eld of pro bono service into a national platform to leverage top talent in support of communities’ greatest needs.

Please visit taprootfoundation.org for more information on Taproot Foundation’s research.

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DESIGN IN THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION

ACSA Administrators Conference Chair: Craig Barton, University of Virginia

Washington, DC

November 4-6, 2010

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Beyond Precedent Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions Theme editors: Saundra Weddle, Drury University (sweddle@drury.edu)

Marc J. Neveu, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (mneveu@calpoly.edu)

Although the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) requires that students understand

historical traditions and global cultures, it does not mandate the method of instruction. Still,

many schools offer a suite of architectural history

lectures that are often perceived as distinct from studio topics. The relegation of history, theory

and criticism to a supporting role is furthered by the outdated notion that history courses serve

primarily to provide a buffet of precedent studies focusing on form and technique. Such an

approach, born of historical methods and pedagogies that emphasize stylistic and

typological diagnosis, fails to recognize the depth of historical inquiry, changes within the discipline

of history itself and increasingly diverse design pedagogies. Is it possible to propose more

complex relationships between history and design?

Indeed, many architecture faculty—historians and

designers alike—are engaged in the project of interrogating and reconceiving history’s

significance to design, and vice versa. Historians question the content, role and outcomes of their

courses and research, examining ways in which the discipline can serve as a nexus between

theory, criticism and practice, and investigating opportunities for deploying design pedagogies in

their classrooms. Design faculty consider ways historical methods and analysis can inform the

design process so that students understand how hi

history’s narratives are literally and figuratively constructed, and that they are not simply a

collection of objective truths to react to. As concerns about representation and fabrication

become central, critical engagement with histories

of architecture and allied disciplines can situate the design process and architecture itself in

broader and deeper contexts.

That the role of history in architecture curricula is a subject of debate is nothing new; and yet, the

shape of that debate appears to be shifting. This theme issue of the JAE focuses on neither the

discipline of history per se, nor the history of history education in architectural schools. Rather,

it takes as its premise the notion that the relationship between history and design should be

activated.

The journal invites text based (scholarship of design) and design based (design as scholarship)

submissions that propose and analyze progressive methods and goals for integrating architectural

history in the professional architecture curriculum and in practice. The submission deadline for all

manuscripts for this theme issue is August 16, 2010, 5 pm US Eastern Time Zone. Accepted

articles will be published in issue 64:2 (March 2011). For author instructions, please consult

http://www.jaeonline.org/submission_guidelines.

html.

Abelardo Morell, “Down the Rabbit Hole,” from Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,

(New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 1998)

design process so that students understand how hi

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CO-CHAIRSALBERTO PÉREZ-GÓMEZ

MCGILL UNIVERSITY

ANNE CORMIERUNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL

ANNIE PEDRETUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO

ACSA 2011 MONTRÉAL

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THEMEThe New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff has described Toyo Ito’s work as the “next step on the evo-lutionary chain,” calling out Ito’s belief that to create a human architecture it “must somehow embrace seemingly contradictory values .” Ourousoff sug-gests that “instead of a self-contained utopia, [Ito] offers us multiple worlds, driving in and out of focus like a dream,” embraces ambiguity, is interested in the realm of the “in between,” and “forces us to look at the world through a wider lens.” Ito, like many architects who came to prominence in the past de-cade, aims to expand possibilities and, in doing so, to make room for a wider range of human experience.

This demand for a wider agenda for modern architecture, introduced to the discipline in the 1950s and followed by Postmodernism’s demands for greater diversity, has left the discipline open—wide open—perhaps too open. Free from the universalist, utopian confines of Modernism, and working in an intel-lectual context that embraces a more complex conception of contemporary reality, architects are now not only free, but required to interpret and, indeed, choose their position relative to this ex-panded field. With such choice comes the responsibility to ask: Where Do You Stand?

The purpose of this conference is to provide a venue to articulate, develop, and question where you stand with re-spect to what you are thinking and do-ing in architecture.

CALL FOR SESSION TOPICS Deadline: January 6, 2010

Proposals for session topics related to the conference theme are requested, as are proposals related to the full range of subject areas within architecture, its related disciplines, and its allied pro-fessions. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused. In either case, each proposal should clearly identify its subject and its partic-ular approach to it: the premise, scope, and ambitions underlying the session should be clear to the reader. Authors of Session Topic Proposals submit a 500-word (maximum) description of the session, suitable for blind review, and a 2-page (maximum) curriculum vitae that demonstrates the author’s exper-tise in the proposal’s area of focus.

SESSION TOPIC SELECTION PROCESSEach Session Topic proposal is blind peer reviewed by a minimum of 2 ex-ternal reviewers. Co-chairs review the ratings and comments provided by the external reviewers, the proposals themselves, and the biography state-ment supplied by the proposal author.

The selection process takes into consid-eration the merits of the Session Topic proposals – the subject, premise, and scope of the proposed Session Topics should be clearly stated – the expertise of the Session Topic authors, as well as the importance of organizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting.

The authors of the Session Topics se-lected in the first stage will serve as Session Topic Chairs for their respec-tive sessions. Working in collaboration with the conference co-chairs, their responsibilities include: maintaining a blind-review process for all papers submitted during the entire review pro-cess; enlisting three blind reviewers for each of the papers submitted to their Session Topic; recommending final pa-pers for presentation; and moderating their respective sessions during the Annual Meeting.

ELIGIBILITYProspective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Session Topic proposal. If their proposal is accepted all topic chairs must become support-ing ACSA members by September 1 of the academic year during which the An-nual Meeting will occur.

CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: September 15, 2010

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 con-sideration 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 presentations, with time for dis-cussion.

All papers will be submitted through an online interface and must meet the general criteria identified in the call for papers and in the submission guide-lines. Each author will be limited to one sub-mission per Session Topic. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, stu-dents, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission.

In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule ac-cordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be required to register for the conference before the conference

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pubLic-interest Designacsa teachers seminar • june 3-6, 2010 • Detroit, mi

co-chairsjohn cary, Executive Director, Public Architecturesusan szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolismarvin malecha, Dean, North Carolina State University; AIA President

themepublic-interest Design is centered on the conviction that design can impact so-cial change, evidenced by contributions from the growing fields of humanitarian, community, pro bono, and universal de-sign. As these fields continue to gain rele-vance as legitimate and sought-after forms of practice, they cast new light on the role of designers in the world.

The 2010 ACSA Teachers Seminar will at-tract and unite educators, practitioners, foundation and nonprofit leaders, as well as clients and people served by public-interest design. Together, conference par-ticipants will reveal, test, and inspire new possibilities for the practice of public-inter-est design. Participants will address pub-lic-interest design as a field of practice, but also as a discipline and a potential profession modeled after the professions of public defense, public health, and pub-lic policy.

The conference will seek to establish a baseline understanding of past, current, and future models in the practice of public-interest design. What roles do schools, de-sign centers, and mainstream firms have to play? What are the opportunities for collaboration between these stakeholders and others? What, if anything, should our professional codes of ethics say about de-signing in the public interest? What will it take and mean for our current (or totally new) education and licensure systems to truly support public-interest design?

The key themes around which public-interest Design will be organized are as follows:

1. shared Values: What are the core values of public-inter-est design?

2. emerging models: Where is the field moving? What are the opportunities and challenges?

3. practice & project case studies: What lessons can be gleaned from cur-rent and evolving practices and proj-ects?

4. Detroit as a case study: How is and might a city like Detroit benefit from public-interest design?

5. crucial partnerships: What areas outside of the architecture and design fields might inform the way forward?

Attendees will stay at the inn on Ferry street, where four man-sions and two carriage houses built from 1886 through 1892 have been transformed into a delightful 40 room inn, located on a quiet residential street near the Detroit Institute of Arts. Owners worked diligently to restore the place to period grandeur, polishing Victo-rian turrets, grand fireplaces, and ornate staircase railings. The inn on Ferry street is a text book example of adaptive use of histor-ic houses. The Inn has contribut-ed both to the revitalization of the Ferry Street Historic District and to the enrichment of Detroit`s Cultur-al Center. In a city were preserva-tion is often considered an imped-iment to economic development, the Inn on Ferry Street is an excel-lent example of how preservation can facilitate economic develop-ment by creating an amenity that could simply never exist without the use of historic buildings.

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hOst schOOlTulane University

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

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What is the role of the building in architectural discourse today? As schools engage in cross-disciplinary dialogues that are essential to the expanded field of architectural practice, does the art and craft of building design remain central to our curricula? Sophisticated technologies now allow us to preview the ap-pearance 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 eco-logical, 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 infra-structure 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 aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.

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

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architecture in an expanded field, from inte-

riors to landscapeScholarship and design-based investigations situ-ated at the architectural scale often slip toward the space of the room or the expanse of the site. Indeed some of the most often studied projects of recent years operate within this larger fi eld of space making. This topic seeks to provide a home for work beyond the precise scale of the building.

Building BehaviorsSustainability has led to a renewed interest in the behaviors of buildings, particularly related to ener-gy usage. In addition, lighting, acoustical respon-siveness and structural stability are increasingly at the foreground of public interest.

design research in the studio contextThe studio is the traditional core of the architecture school. The 1996 Boyer Report on architectural ed-ucation described it as the “holy of holies” of archi-tectural education: “these studios scruffy though they may be are models for creative learning that others on campus might well think about.” Since the Boyer report was written design has become a hot trans-disciplinary phenomenon, putting the ar-chitecture studio in an enviable position relative to our peers in the academy. This topic might include research done on the design studio or research done in the design studio.

histor/theoryScholarship on historic architects, settings, pe-riods and themes occurs in a variety of research modalities. In addition ideas of design epistemol-ogy are often refl ected in essays falling under this broad rubric.

housingAs the planet’s population grows it becomes in-creasingly imperative that housing effectively provide appropriate shelter with reduced means. Housing research varies from historic and emerg-ing typologies to urban and social concerns to evolving family types, all set in a global arena of cultural confl uences. Research and design proj-ects in all these areas are encouraged.

MaterialsIn recent years the convergence of new manufac-turing processes and new materials has led to a proliferation of material studies with spatial, eco-nomic and societal implications. In addition, tra-ditional materials and their methods of fabrication continue to hold interest for researchers and offer new information to the construction industry.

Media investigationsTheories and practices of media and representa-tion, ranging from historic drawing techniques to contemporary digital modalities, are critical to the production of architectural ideas. Scholars and designers often focus their inquiries on this key link in the design process.

urbanismDesigners and scholars study and engage the dif-ferences between private and public, individual and societal spaces, incorporating buildings and public space in a variety of scales and densities within an increasingly global context. Two well-developed research trajectories are smart growth and new urbanism, and we solicit posters from our members working in these areas. In addition, we are seeking proposals that redefi ne architecture, urban design, city planning, and life in the cyber-age, in unexpected terms. We recognize that posi-tions taken today may be located on the periphery of the architectural discourse but are poised to make a signifi cant impact tomorrow.

re.BuildingThis session is meant to engage multiple themes associated with the changing art of building both as artifact and as process in architecture and re-lated disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional defi nitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and con-struction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.

Open sessionACSA encourages submissions that do not fi t into one of the above topicS.

c a l l fOr pOsters

Submissions Due: November 19, 2008Poster sessions are a fi xture at many scholarly meetings. They offer an informal setting for thinkers and scholars to share emerging research and speculators to explore new directions. From a number of general areas in which architectural scholars work we have identifi ed several that we hope embrace the research and creative work of a majority of our members. Because each of these areas utilizes distinct methods of inquiry, we encourage the submission of posters relying on textual, quantitative, graphic and/or spatial evidence. We recognize that research is often done in the context of studio teaching and such research is also encouraged.

s u B M i s s i O n r e Q u i r e M e n t sAuthors will submit a 500-word abstract and a PDF of the poster (not to exceed 20” x 30” portrait orientation). Abstracts need to be for-matted for blind peer review, as well as the posters.

Accepted poster authors will have a 20” x 30” (portrait orientation) space on a tack board on which to post materials. Authors must stand at their posters during presen-tation time to discuss them with other participants. Posters are not required to be mounted; a fl at tackable surface and tacks will be provided. Other ma-terials for presentation are the responsibility of the authors. Accepted authors will be notifi ed by Decem-ber 3, 2008 and must register for the confer-ence by January 14, 2009 in order to be in-cluded in the proceedings.

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November 19—Poster submission deadline

December 3—Accept/reject notifi cations sent to all authors with reviewer comments.

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Dec 16 Jan 20 Jan 20Paper Presenter $395 n/a n/aMember $395 $455 $515Student Member $75 $95 $115Non-Member $495 $555 $615Student Non-Member $130 $150 $170One Day Registration $250 $275 $315

Online Registration Now Openwww.acsa-arch.org

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Royal Sonesta Hotel300 Bourbon StreetNew Orleans, LA 70130800.SONESTA (U.S. & Canada) or 504.586.0300http://www.sonesta.com/ROYALNEWORLEANS/

Conference Rate: $175

richard caMpanellacenter for Bioenvironmental research, tulane university

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scOtt Bernharddirector of the tulane city center

BarrY BergdOllcheif curator of architecture and design, Museum of Mondern art

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university of pennsylvania and university of washington

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aleJandrO araVenaexecutive director of elemental s.a., santiago, chile

universidad catolica

MariOn weissweiss/Manfredi and university of pennsylvania

2010 tau sigma delta gold Medalist

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Michael Manfrediweiss/Manfredi and cornell university

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troy Malmstrom rejoins the faculty of the School of Architecture as an Acting Assistant Professor. He returns after completing appoint-ments at The Ohio State University and S.O.M. in Chicago. In addition to serving on the gradu-ate faculty, Malmstrom will direct the digital fabrication initiatives of the School.

Professor Guy W. Carwile will be presenting his latest research on the Hotel Palomar Courts in Shreveport, LA at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architec-tural Historians in Jackson, MS on October 28, 2009. He is also preparing a survey course on the Architecture of Louisiana to be offered on-line beginning November, 2009.

Professor Robert Fakelmann will present his ongoing pro bono work for the Sustainable Arts Foundation of Blue Ridge, GA to the Alliance of Artists Communities at their national con-ference in New Orleans, November 11-14. His project, “The Rain Catcher Studio” proposes six artists’ residences with individual studios and addresses a range of sustainable concepts. As-sociate Professor alexis Wreden has served as the project collaborator on issues of landscape and ecology.

Professor Robert Fakelmann with the assis-tance of Assistant Professor Michael Williams has received a Louisiana Board of Regents En-hancement Grant for $141K. This grant is the fourth such award with which the School of Architecture has expanded its digital lab ca-pabilities to include state-of the art laser scan-ning, and to upgrade its 3D printing and digital output capabilities.

The 5th Year Design/Build studio, under the di-rection of Associate Professor Kevin Stevens, completed its fourth home in cooperation with the North Central Louisiana chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The home, completed in May, was developed as a demonstration project for integrated, energy efficient, environmentally responsible design emphasizing social equity. The project is currently in the final stages of LEED certification and is expected to achieve a

Silver rating. This will be the sixth home in the Louisiana, and the first outside of New Orleans, to achieve LEED certification.

Assistant Professor Kevin Singh was selected to be one of three presenters for the Walter Wagner Forum at the 2009 AIA National Con-vention. The Walter Wagner Forum was created in 1986 by the AIA and Architectural Record as a tribute to the late Record Editor in Chief Wal-ter Wagner Jr., FAIA, who was particularly com-mitted to the education of young architects and the education of the public about architecture and architects. Singh participated in a podcast to discuss the theme of this year’s forum, “How Diversity is Preparing our Future Practitioners.”

Singh was also selected to be the AIA’s Young Architects Forum (YAF) Regional Liaison for the Gulf States region for a two year term (2009-10). The YAF is charged to address issues of con-cern and interest to young architects (licensed 10 years or fewer), with a primary mission of Leadership, Mentorship and Fellowship. Singh will represent the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.

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University of California, Berkeley graduate student “Amy” Hay Mew Hwang in Sou Fujimoto’s “House before House”. Part of the SUMIKA Project organized by Toyo Ito, in Utsunomiya, Japan. Photo by Jerome Tobias.

Sou Fujimoto explains his architecture; University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley graduate student Edu Pintos is in the back-

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Dr. Jorge vanegas, a professor of architecture who has served since 2006 as director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University, is the new dean of the uni-versity’s College of Architecture. Vanegas, who was appointed interim dean of the college in July 2008, was recommended for the dean’s post by Dr. Elsa Murano, president of Texas A&M, with the concurrence of Michael D. McKinney, system chancellor. His appointment was confirmed at the Board of Regents’ July 16-17 meeting. A tenured professor, Vanegas is holder of the Sandy and Bry-an Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair at the College of Architecture and is an expert in built environment sustainability and advanced project delivery strategies. “I look forward to working actively with everyone, both internally and ex-ternally, to make our college and our university fulfill their visions and accomplish their missions to the highest levels of excellence, relevance, sig-nificance and impact,” said Vanegas. “I am very honored to have been given this opportunity to lead and serve the college and the university, and by extension, the system and the state.”

Dr. Phillip tabb, AIA, will be involved in a com-munity charrette focusing on post occupancy issues for Serenbe Community near Atlanta, Georgia. The charrette is scheduled for the end of June. In addition, Dr. Tabb will be conducting his survey identifying the placemaking measures and their effects on creating a sense of commu-nity, sense of place and sustainable living pat-terns. The objectives of the upcoming charrette at Serenbe Community are: 1) to determine ways in which the community can approach change, communication and impowerment; and 2) to identify the physical planning measures that have most contributed to the amenity of healthy living. The community is unique in that it is one of the first demonstrations of Agriculture Urban-ism in the United States. Dr. Tabb is officially en-titled as the Masterplan Architect, and he has continuously been working on the project since 2001. Last October, the project received the inaugural sustainability award from ULI (Urban Land Institute). A road named “Tabb Way” was named for Dr. Tabb. The work this summer will be incredibly valuable as evidence-based feed-back for future development at Serenbe and for more generalized guidelines for the emerging Agricultural Urbanism.

Professor Robert Warden and Dr. Julie Rogers, Director and Associate Director of the Center for Heritage Conservation (CHC) at Texas A&M Uni-versity, and four graduate Architecture students, recently spent three weeks in Belize, Central America. The CHC team assisted archeologists affiliated with the Mayan Research Program at four ongoing excavations in the Blue Creek area of Northwestern Belize. Several laser scan-ners and photogrammetry were employed to generate three-dimensional models of sites and artifacts. The ongoing research efforts will test ef-fective and affordable equipment and techniques appropriate for the documentation of such sites. In addition, the team was granted permission by the government of Belize to scan the “Jaguar Temple” at Lamanai. The Center for Heritage Conservation has been asked to return next sum-mer to further documentation efforts at Lamanai.

A team consisting of Dr. Mark J. Clayton, Dr. Jeffrey S. Haberl, and Dr. Wei yan has been awarded a grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning En-gineers (ASHRAE) in the amount of $175,000. The researchers will develop a set of standard tests by which the accuracy of translation from a Building Information Model (BIM) to an en-ergy simulation model can be assessed. The tests are an important step in the development of automated energy simulation of building de-signs at the conceptual stage of design that will help designers to attain goals of green design.

Students in the fourth year design studio of Dr. logan Wagner will develop conceptual designs for a community center in the colonia communi-ty of Monte Alto in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Mark J. Clayton will assist through the Center for Housing and Urban Development as part of the Colonias Program that serves impoverished, unincorporated communities of south Texas. The community center is intended to be an exemplar of green building design and will draw upon the expertise of Dr. Wagner in building technologies of the indigenous populations and the expertise of Dr. Clayton in 21st century computer-aided design methods. The project is funded by Pre-cinct 1 of Hidalgo County.

Energy efficiency in counties, towns, and school districts has been the topic of 16 workshops of-fered across the state of Texas by experts from the Department of Architecture and the Energy

Systems Lab. Dr. Mark J. Clayton, Professor and Dean Dr. Jorge Vanegas, Dr. Charles Culp, and Associate Director Bahman yazdani prepared the workshops and presented them over the past year, reaching nearly 200 leaders in small communities in North East Texas, the Border Region, and East Texas. The workshops were funded by the State Energy Conservation Office.

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The University of Arkansas celebrated the naming of The Fay Jones School of Architecture with a series of events on April 3-5 to mark the occasion. The Fay Jones Symposium, Light Seeking Shade: The Architecture of Fay Jones, included presentations on Jones’ work by Robert McCarter, a noted scholar of Jones’ mentor Frank Lloyd Wright; Roy Reed, a former New York Times columnist who conducted an oral history with Jones; and Robert Ivy, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record and author of Jones’ monograph. Glenn Murcutt, the 2002 Pritzker Prize laureate and the 2009 AIA Gold Medal honoree, gave a lecture, his last ever in North America. Maurice Jennings, a former partner of Jones, lead a tour of Fay Jones’ local projects. Jones’ sketches, plans and models were on display in the Fay Jones Archives at the University of Arkansas Mullins Library. Finally Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones, a documentary by award-winning filmmakers and University of Arkansas faculty larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, premiered on campus.

The Department of Architecture announced several new faculty and leadership positions this academic year. Dr. Ethel Goodstein-Murphree was named Associate Dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Marlon Blackwell, FAIA was elected by the faculty to serve as Head of the Department of Architecture. His experience as a long-time educator and award-winning practitioner will guide the future for the undergraduate program which was recently ranked 20th in the nation in Design Intelligence’s 10th Annual Survey of America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools.

Wendell Burnette, AIA and Principal of Wendell Burnette Architects of Phoenix, holds the John Williams Visiting Chair in Architecture for 2009-10.

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He and University of Arkansas’ Pia Sarpeneva, will teach an upper-level design studio that will immerse students in the desert environment of Death Valley. David Buege has been chosen as the Fay Jones Chair in Architecture for 2009-11. He will teach design and elective courses in architecture and pursue ongoing research and writing projects. Jean Jaminet, most recently with Deborah Berke & Partners in NY, joins the faculty as a two-year visiting professor.

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Professor Robert McKinney and students re-ceived an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Pe-terson Prize for their Historic American Building Survey documentation of the Academy of the Sacred Heart Chapel, Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

The 2009 Solar Decathlon has provided a ve-hicle for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Architecture and Design to ascend to a new level. Over 200 architecture, interior de-sign, industrial design, engineering and business students have learned valuable lessons and ex-perienced rare, life-changing events because of the decathlon. These 200 students have logged over 200,000 hours working on this enormous project. As our plumber says, “the biggest, small project I’ve every worked on!”

Associate Professor Michael a. McClure, FAAR, with his partner Ursula Emery McClure, FAAR, AIA, LEED AP (LSU) gave a lecture and tour of the archaeological site Ostia Antica in Rome, Italy. The invited lecture was given in conjunction with an exhibit of her firm’s work at Ostia that was held at the American Academy of Rome in June. The firms’ practice was also part of an international exhibit for the Commune de Roma, “Academy Architects at the Acquario,” which was held at the Casa dell’Architettura in Rome, Italy this past June. The exhibit was comprised of architects from the numerous academies in Rome, including The British School, Real Academy of Spain, the Academy of Denmark, the Swiss Institute, etc. The firm’s project NoKAT was also featured in the Spring 2009 issue of Places: Recovering, Volume 21, Number 1 in the article titled “In-frastructural Optimism” by Linda Samuels.

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Following an international search, UTSA Presi-dent Ricardo Romo has named the new Dean of the College of Architecture: John D. Mur-phy Jr., Professor and Director of International Education of Auburn University’s McWhorter School of Building Science. “Dr. Murphy brings new dimensions to our College of Architecture and a rich experience in building sciences that will complement and extend our strengths in design. I am delighted to welcome someone with his talents and energy to the university as we continue to evolve into a national research university.” said Dr. John Frederick, UTSA Pro-vost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dean Murphy has nearly 20 years of teach-ing experience and began his career in 1990 at Texas A&M, where he served as a teaching assistant and lecturer. In 1992, he moved to Colorado State University, conducted signifi-cant research in architecture and was published in a variety of architecture and building pub-lications including the Journal of Construction Education, the Journal of Applied Fire Science, Building Research Journal, the American Insti-tute of Constructors Journal, Indoor Air Review and the Journal of Industrial Technology. He joined Auburn University in 2000 where he served as the head of the McWhorter School of Building Science and was later named its Di-rector of International Education. While there, he grew the international programs from less than a half dozen students annually to 35-40 students per year. Dean Murphy received his doctoral degree in architecture with an empha-sis in construction science and management in 1993, his master’s degree in construction management in 1983 and bachelor’s degree in building construction in 1982, all from Texas A&M University. His career also includes ten years industry experience in Texas, Pennsylva-nia and Colorado.

Dean Murphy replaces Professor Robert Bar-on, who has been serving as Interim Dean since 2007. Professor Baron, a 36 year veteran of ac-ademia, specializes in the study of great build-ings, urban complexes and architectural tradi-tions. He will continue on as Associate Dean. Additionally, Professor Baron teaches a gradu-ate course in architectural theory each fall and a three-week Italian urban culture course for the UTSA Honors College in Italy each summer.

Senior Lecturer Jose Jimenez announced his retirement after over twenty five years of teach-ing architecture. In addition to his many years of mentoring in all design studio levels, he is best remembered for his extraordinary efforts over the last ten years with the now famous Mexico Program. He took groups of UTSA students to Mexico to participate in studio with students at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) to share both culture and design ideas with one another. Traditionally, Jimenez took his students to Mexico City. But in the summer of 2008, in a bold move, he took them to San Miguel de Allende, a small historic town 170 miles northwest of Mexico City, in order to be closer to the project site and the clients. Students began the summer by working on an expansion for an orphanage in the town. The project, Santa Julia Girl’s Home, called for dorms for the girls, nuns and helpers, a laundry facility and a kitchen and dining cafeteria. Later in the summer he and the students, along with architecture students from UNAM, returned to UTSA to work on a proj-ect for a local farmer’s market in downtown San Antonio. He is returning to private practice and design consulting.

Graduate design students Andy Alarcon and Joel James were honored for their first place entry in the 2009 Natural Talent Design Competition, presented by the Emerging Green Builders Com-mittee of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Cen-tral Texas - Balcones Chapter at their monthly dinner. The competition was open to all stu-dents and young professionals in San Antonio, Austin and surrounding areas. The purpose of the design competition was to promote afford-able and sustainable housing as well as smart growth development in the City of San Antonio. The participating individuals and teams were challenged to design a development project that consisted of a minimum of eight sustainable and affordable housing units and a small gathering center using the LEED for Homes and LEED for New Construction as designing guidelines. The first place prize included $1000 and registration fees and travel funding to the 2009 Green Build International Conference being held November 11-13 in Phoenix Arizona. The Team’s winning design was developed in a summer Independent Studies course with Associate Professor Marc Giaccardo as mentor/advisor. Giaccardo will be retiring from teaching at the end of the fall 2009 semester. He previously taught at The Catholic

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More than 40 years after the legendary Case Study House program came to an end, the pub-lic’s interest is only increasing. In fact, with the recent publication of the two-volume Arts & Ar-chitecture set and release of the long-awaited Ju-lius Shulman documentary, the Case Study House program is finding an entirely new audience — one that’s sure to be interested in Constructions: Buildings in Arizona by alfred Newman Beadle.

Beadle’s Case Study #28 (later called Case Study Apartments #1) was one of the few multi-family dwellings included in the CSH program, and the only CSH project built outside of Cali-fornia. It’s one of 25 residential and commercial buildings showcased in Constructions, the only book to document the work of this important architect. Among the other projects included is Beadle House 11, named a “Record House” in 1965 by Architectural Record, as well as several other award-winners.

Alfred Newman Beadle V (1927–1998) designed and built a wide range of projects, mostly in and around Phoenix, Arizona, transforming the desert with a modern architecture carefully integrated into the desert landscape. In addition to dozens of residences, Beadle designed numerous banks, hotels, restaurants, and apartment buildings.

Constructions has been out of print for 15 years, but now, due to persistent demand, Gnosis, Ltd. has published a second edition, generously il-lustrated with 31 black-and-white photos and 25 drawings and a new foreword.

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Mark Cabrinha, Jim Doerfler, Kevin Dong (ARCE) and tom Fowler were awarded a $10,000 Autodesk sponsorship for the fourth year interdisciplinary design studio between ARCH and ARCE. This sponsorship will help to support the student projects in their fourth year interdisciplinary studio in 2010.

Jim Doerfler and Kevin Dong (ARCE) have been awarded the Autodesk BIM Experience Award 2009 for leading the College initiative to intro-duce BIM technology in various classes in both the Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Construction Management curricula. Other faculty leaders in this initiative include Robert arens, Tom Fowler, Margot McDonald, Sandy Stannard and umut toker (CRP).

Robert Arens, Jim Doerfler and Kevin Dong (ARCE) presented their research and teaching at the Building Technology Educators Society Con-ference in Albuquerque NM in August. Robert presented two papers, “Grounding: Developing a Material/Tectonic Awareness in Foundation Stu-dios” and “Laying Bare: The Potential of Mate-rials Collections.” Jim and Kevin presented “The Interdisciplinary Design Studio – Understanding Collaboration.” Kevin also presented “ Breaking Stuff,” with Thomas Leslie from Iowa State.

Donna Duerk presented a paper titled Architec-ture Student Designs to Suppor Micor-Hab Sortie Mission at the AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference & Exhibition in Pasadena on September 14, 2009.

Chris yip presented “Neo-Colonial Treaty Port Cities on the China Coast,” in The World Across the University: China in the 1930’s & 40’s Sympo-sium, May 30, 2009, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Marc J Neveu’s abstract, “Architectural Tech-nique and the Deformation of Discourse” was accepted for presentation in the forthcoming EAAE-ENHSA Workshop on Architectural Theory at the Western Switzerland University of applied sciences, Fribourg College of Engineering and Ar-chitecture, October 15-17th, 2009.

Marc J Neveu’s paper, “la finta pazza di Venexia: Masking, Performance and Identity in Seventeenth century Venice” was accepted for the Urban Performances of Identity in Venice and Its Colonies panel at the 2010 Renaissance Society of America meeting in Venice, Italy April 8-10, 2010.

Michael lucas presented a peer reviewed paper, “Revisiting the Transcendental: Design and Mat-ter as Constitutive Categories in Architecture”, concerning aspects of Husserl’s ideas of epoche and reduction paralleling intuition in design, at the Fifty-Ninth International Congress of Phe-nomenology at the University of Antwerp in July.

Michael Lucas taught at Cal Poly’s London Study Program in residence at the Foundation for In-ternational Education in the Kensington section of town June-July. The students studied “London: Architecture and Place” as a General Education humanities course.

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University of America and Texas Tech University. While at CUA from 1986-92, he was the found-ing director of the Computer Aided Design Lab Studio and was the Senior Editor for the 8th edition of Architectural Graphic Standards that had the first inclusion of the chapter on historic preservation. At Texas Tech from 1992-2004, he

was President of the Faculty Senate and principal design architect for the Junction Campus mas-ter plan proposal that emphasized sustainable design principles. At UTSA, he revamped the environmental systems courses and developed a junior level “competition” design studio all to focus on sustainable design and technology.

Then, he authored and negotiated the successful proposal for the new construction science and management degree program with department status. That program began in 2008. He is re-turning to private practice.

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The School of Architecture Welcomes Dr. Fatih Rifki as the new Director of The School of Archi-tecture. Dr. Rifki brings many years of experience in architecture leadership with a long tenure at North Caroline State University and his most re-cent position as Dean of the School of Architec-ture and Design, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Led by Associate Professor Michael Everts, the studio is working in concert with the Alex Lowe Foundation, Conrad and Ginny Ander and the technical development team of North Face. The Khumbu Climbing School (KCS) design/build studio has received final approval for the proj-ect design. The studio has been working with the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation since January 2008 on a 3,000 square foot Climb-ing School/Community Center/Library for the small rural Nepal village of Phortse (located approximately 3 days south of Mt. Everest). The KCS teaches technical climbing skills, English, and basic medical procedures to local Sherpas. The project is designed to be a sustainable prototype for safe seismic construction, 100% passive heating (currently, Yak dung is used as heating fuel, producing a noxiously unhealthful smoke), and culturally strengthening architec-ture. In November, Associate Professor Michael Everts will lead 6 students to Nepal and join lo-cal craftsman in the construction of the project. Completion is scheduled for Fall 2010.

Starting fall semester 2009, the MSU School of Architecture will begin an interdisciplin-ary and international research opportunity for those students interested in contributing to the improvement of living conditions in Africa’s largest slum – Nairobi’s Kibera. Led by As-sistant Professor David Fortin and Associate Professor Michael Everts and working closely with local architect Ronald Omyonga, we will study the existing context of Kibera and the various forces shaping its current state at both macro and micro scales. At the macro scale we will study existing and future economic influ-ences, business models, food/water supply, dis-tribution networks, and urban infrastructures while carefully considering evolving human factors (desire, autonomy, community, privacy, ownership, safety, connectivity, diversity, etc.) At the micro scale, students will examine rel-evant fabrication technologies and material-ity as well as the specific technical aptitudes and fabrication capacities of Kibera. Emerg-ing from extensive research at both of these scales; we will ultimately design prototypes of small-scale environmentally and economically sustainable housing with the goal of long-term implementation. During the summer of 2010, it is intended that students will travel to Nairobi where we will work with community members as an interdisciplinary team to build a housing prototype and establish networks for future collaborations and development.

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Gail Brager will be interim chair of the Depart-ment of Architecture in the 2009-2010 calendar year; Brager, a mechanical engineer, is one of only 12 ASHRAE Fellows who are female; only about one percent of ASHRAE’s 49,000 members are Fellows. As previously announced, our new Dean, Jennifer Wolch, started in July; Wolch is the ninth Dean in the College’s history and the first woman. In an important milestone, the college dean and the chairs of all three depart-ments of our college – architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning – are women; the college’s library and its archives are also headed by women. This year marks our fiftieth anniversary as a college, but women breaking barriers in the profession have always been a part of our history, including pioneers Ju-lia Morgan and Catherine Bauer Wurster.

The Department of Architecture is also excited about our newest faculty, the most senior of which is architectural historian Margaret Crawford. Crawford is widely respected for her innovative research on the uses, meanings, and evolution of urban space. Her current research includes a project on village urbanism in South China and a book on informal public spaces in Los Angeles. Crawford began her work in archi-tecture as an undergraduate at Berkeley. She is joined by her husband Marco Cenzatti, who

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The Venetian Walls of Nicosia, Cyprus 2005 Mark C. Childs, photographer.

 

Graduate thesis 2008-09 project by student Sarang Gokhale at the University of Illinois with advisor Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway

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will teach courses in both architecture and city planning. Cenzatti is also researching Chinese villages, along with urban and economic re-structuring and the production of social space.

In addition to Crawford, Greg Castillo joins us as an Associate Professor. Castillo’s research ex-plores the influence of the cold war on design discourses and practices in the first and second worlds. His forthcoming book, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury De-sign, examines domestic material culture as a theater of operations for superpower conflict and influence. Castillo, too, can be said to be coming home; he received a Masters of Architec-ture from Berkeley in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 2000.

Other new faculty include Stephen Cassell of Architecture Research Office, who is the Fried-man Professor, and Frederic Schwartz, who is the Esherick Professor; both will be teaching studios during the Fall semester.

In other faculty news, emeritus professor Chris-topher alexander has been named the Elev-enth Vincent Scully Prize Laureate by the Na-tional Building Museum; previous award win-ners include the Prince of Wales and the Aga Kahn, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and many others whose contribu-tions in the field are both original and highly influential. On Nov. 5, as a part of the awards ceremony in Washington D.C., Alexander will present a lecture, to be followed by a discus-sant panel led by critic Robert Campbell.

Professor yehuda Kalay and Daniel Michon of Claremont McKenna College, received a Na-tional Endowment for the Humanities grant to construct a web-accessible virtual environment representing the city of Taxila, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Pakistan. In addition, Professor Kalay, with others, received a 5-year, $3.58M grant from the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, to develop the Center for Ubiquitous Communi-cation by Light (UC-Light), which will explore the use of LEDs for illumination and communication.

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, by lisa Iwamoto, was released by Princeton Architectural Press in July. Iwamo-toScott, a partnership with California College of the Arts Professor Craig Scott, received an R + D Award from Architect Magazine for their Voussoir

Cloud; both Voussoir Cloud and another design by the partnership, HydroNet, have recently been included in publications in Switzerland, India, Ko-rea, The Netherlands, France, China, the U.K., and the U.S. IwamotoScott also participated in the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea during September and submitted sketches as part of the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition honoring the 50th anniversary of the building. Professor Iwamoto also spoke at Lawrence Tech in October.

In honor of emeritus Jean-Pierre Protzen’s 75th birthday, colleagues and former students (including Nezar alsayyad, Mary Comerio, Greig Crysler, Dana Cuff and Dell Upton) published a festschrift, presented in a surprise ceremony at the end of August. The book, Ar-chitecture – Design Methods – Inca Structures is available through Kassel University Press GmbH.

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Rob Pyatt has been appointed Instructor of Architecture. Rob received a BEnvd from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and MArch from the University of Colorado Denver, where he was Outstanding Graduate and received the Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal. His home renova-tion “Box House” won the AIA YAAG Architec-tural Project of the Year in 2006, and was se-lected as House of the Month by Architectural Record in June 2008. He has participated in the highly selective Glenn Murcutt Master Class and Brian MacKay-Lyons’ Ghost Architectural Laboratory. Rob is Principal Designer at Pyatt Studio LLC, and worked as an intern architect at Lake | Flato Architects in San Antonio and Architectural Harmonics in Boulder.

laura Malinin has been appointed Instructor of Architecture. Laura previously taught at Hous-ton Community College and the Art Institute of Houston, and taught architecture in a public high school. A registered architect in the State of Texas, she was Design Architect/ Project Manag-er with the Houston firms David Boggess Archi-tects and Mohle Sharp Architects, and has had her own practice, Malinin Design Studio, since 1990. Laura holds a MEd in Educational Tech-nology from the University of Texas, Brownsville, and BA in Architecture/ Art and Art History from Rice University. She is currently pursuing a joint PhD in our Design and Planning program and the Institute of Cognitive Science in Boulder.

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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ School of Architecture (SoA) is pleased to announce its new director, David Baird, AIA. The UNLV SoA serves over 600 students and houses Nevada’s premier programs in Architecture, Landscape Ar-chitecture and Planning and Interior Architecture. Professor Baird comes to UNLV from Louisiana State University where he taught for fourteen years - earning the rank of full professor. Baird is an accomplished artist and award winning prac-ticing architect. He brings to the school an inter-est and expertise in community design, design/construction and digital fabrication.

Deborah oakley, RA, PE, joined the faculty this fall at the rank of Associate Professor. Oakley has a research focus in integrated design and Build-ing Information Modeling and will be teaching courses in structures and building technology. She brings to the school an interdisciplinary ap-proach developed in her previous position at the University of Maryland. She is a founding mem-ber of the Building Technology Educators’ Soci-ety (BTES) and is serving as its second president for the 2009-10 academic year. The BTES held its second highly successful conference at the Uni-versity of New Mexico this past August.

Michael Corrente has been promoted to profes-sional status and will begin teaching in the Fall. He will also continue to oversee the SoA’s newly formed Simulation Lab- equipped with state of the art computer and fabrication equipment.

Janet White, PhD., will be co-hosting the annu-al conference for the American Society for 18th Century Studies, Western Region, on the UNLV Campus on February 12-13, 2010. She will also be serving as president of the organization.

The SoA’s Downtown Design Center, directed by Robert Dorgan, recently completed a project for Nellis Airforce Base and is currently complet-ing a redesign for UNLV’s Majorie Barrick Mu-seum. The DDC is also participating in the AIA’s Design Charrette entitled “Greening Las Vegas”.

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Matthew Cohen has been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Architecture,

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Professor tim de Noble has been named Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and De-sign effective July 1, 2009. He comes to us from the architecture department at the University of Arkansas. Professor Dennis law is stepping aside after a 15-year career as Dean to return to full-time teaching in landscape architecture/regional and community planning.

Newly appointed tenure-track faculty begin-ning with the 2008-2009 academic year are Professors Nathan Howe and ulf Meyer.

Student Adam Wagoner, McPherson, KS, re-ceived an honorable mention at the third annu-al American Institute of Architecture Students/Kawneer Competition. vladimir Krstic was major professor.

Professor Wendy ornelas was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and will serve as board president during 2010. She was also ap-pointed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius to the Kansas Board of Technical Professions.

Condia + Ornelas Architects received a Merit Award for Excellence in Interior Architecture during the fall 2008 annual design awards program of the American Institute of Architects Kansas. Firm principals are Professors Robert Condia and Wendy Ornelas.

Professor David Sachs presented a paper entitled “Learning to Work in China: RTKL/Shanghai 2003-08” at the Illinois Annual Conference of the Ameri-can Institute of Architects and at the Seventh An-nual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, where he also chaired a session.

Professor Nathan Howe presented “A Studio’s Multi-Exploration of the Prefabricated Dwell-ing” at the 2008 East Central Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference. The paper discussed the work of his fifth-year students who researched methods challeng-ing the homes and strategies used to fabricate these dwellings.

Professor Ulf Meyer has written a book entitled LX Architecture—In the Heart of Europe that has been published in three languages (Ger-man, English and French). He also made a pre-sentation of the book at the Royal Embassy of Luxembourg in Berlin, Germany.

Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates presented “Creating a Sense of the Sacred: The Palliative Care Unit at the University Hospital in Gottin-gen, Germany” at the inaugural Symposium

effective August 2009. In addition to teaching upper-level M.Arch design studios at WSU-Spo-kane, Prof. Cohen has three articles pertaining to late medieval and early Renaissance architectur-al design theory in press for fall 2009 in scholarly publications in Italy and Great Britain.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture todd Beyreuther, in conjunction with Michael Wol-cott, Professor in the WSU Composite Materials and Research Engineering Center, and Karl Ol-sen, Instructor of Civil and Environmental Engi-neering, have developed the innovative IDeX (In-tegrated Design Experience) Studio with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Weyerhaeuser Corporation. The studio extends design thinking into the fields of engineering and agriculture for the purpose of designing a “smart,” “sensored” organic farm in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. Graduate and undergraduate students from six different dis-ciplines will focus their design research on the environmental implications of building skin sys-tems, food production, and energy and water us-age. The project will culminate in the preparation

of construction documents, after which funding will be sought for implementation.

Professor Gregory Kessler, in conjunction with the Northwest and Pacific Region AIA and five of the regional schools of architecture, or-ganized and participated in the first NWPAIA leadership Institute during September 2009. Two to three students plus an emerging profes-sional from each school engaged in a two-day institute held in Anchorage in conjunction with the AIA regional meeting. Students, emerging professionals and mentors discussed issues of leadership in the profession. Each team of stu-dents and emerging professionals returned to their respective schools to spend the rest of the semester developing specific leadership proj-ects. Publications of results will follow in early 2010. The symposium was facilitated by James Oswald, Senior Associate with Gensler.

Associate Professor of Architecture Deborah ascher-Barnstone has published the article: “Modernism Reconsidered: The Kultur/Zivilisa-tion Dichotomy in the work of Adolf Rading,” in the New German Critique, Issue 108, Fall 2009. Prof. Ascher-Barnstone also taught a five-week

studio in The Netherlands, Germany, France, and Belgium in the summer of 2009 for un-dergraduate and graduate students. The studio examined the evolution and theoretical under-pinnings of Modernism in Europe over the last 100 years through visits (mostly by bicycle) to notable buildings, architects’ offices, museums, and cultural sites.

Associate Professor of Architecture ayad Rah-mani has completed his annual six-week sum-mer Seattle Studio. The objective of the course is to immerse students in the cultures of both practice and the city. Each year students are hosted by different architectural firms in the city, including: Weber Thompson (2009), NBBJ (2008), Miller Hull (2007) and ZGF (2006). Stu-dents complete assignments that blend lessons from both inside and outside the office; some at the micro level, which may include the design of a simple entry space; others at the macro scale, which may address the revision of an entire neighborhood. Practitioners from the office col-laborate in the teaching of the studio. This is the fourth year for this unique studio experience.

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on Architecture, Culture and Spirituality. She presented “Fighting Obesity with Patterns of Place-Making: The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the 47th International Making Cities Livable Conference and “Pattern Language Re-Visited: The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the Environ-mental Design Research Association Confer-ence. She also received a University Small Re-search Grant to conduct the study “Living Until Death: Perspectives on the Role of Architec-ture” at the Georg-August University Hospital in Gottingen, Germany.

Student Kelly Egdorf, Chaska, MN, received the 2009-2010 Tradewell Fellowship. Major profes-sor was Susanne Siepl-Coates.

Student Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO, received first prize in the 2009 Environmental Design Research Association Student Design Competition. Major professor was Susanne Siepl-Coates.

Professor James Jones is spending a sabbati-cal year in Roatan, Bay Island, Honduras, de-veloping a prototype for low-cost housing us-ing local materials and technology to create a more enduring and hurricane resistant building on the remote island.

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The collaboration between the University of Il-linois, School of Architecture and the Tokyo Insti-tute of Technology has allowed three UIUC stu-dents to continue in the Tokyo Institute’s Mas-ters Program for the AY 09-10. The program is a two-year course whose classes are solely offered in English. For its successful candidates, five seats are allocated for scholarship sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Japan, which is suf-ficient to live in Tokyo as a student. The program also has a privilege for the successful candidate to experience an internship in a world-famous architectural firm in Tokyo for about two months.

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign will celebrate its 40th consecutive year of the Versailles Study Abroad Program in the 2009-2010 academic year. The 40th anniversary will be celebrated along with the École Nationale Supérieure

d’Architecture de Versailles (ENSAV). The cel-ebration will include a design symposium as part of our end of the spring semester design reviews May 3-7, 2010. A Versailles Reunion kick-off event with 178 Versailles alumni was held on June 25, 2009, at the I space Gallery in Chicago, hosted by Director David Chasco, featuring work by alumnus David Woodhouse Architects. A special thank you goes to both Carol Ross Bar-ney and David Woodhouse who led a discussion of the Versailles Program impact on their lives.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp has been work-ing with colleagues in the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences (ACES) and the Building Research Council (BRC) to propose an environ-mental and historic rehabilitation of Mumford House into the new home for the University of Illinois Environmental Change Institute (ECI).

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has recognized through a press re-lease the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign for our efforts in Community Engagement. We are the only university in the State of Illinois to be recognized. Featured in the publication as an example of the effective means by which the campus engages with the public, is the School of Architecture’s Building Research Council and the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC).

The School of Architecture, in conjunction with the School of Landscape Architecture, announc-es the Fall 2009 Lecture Series. Some lectur-ers include: Kongjian Yu of Peking University; Carroll William Westfall as our Laing Lecturer; Carol Ross Bareny of Ross Barney Architects in Chicago; Julia Czerniak of Syracuse University; Sheila Kennedy of KVA Kennedy & Violich Ar-chitecture in Boston; Laurie Hawkinson of Smith Miller + Hawkinson in New York; Michael Pho-tiadis of Michael Photiadis Associate Architects in Greece; and Pierre Belanger. Professor Gaines Hall will have a Professional Practice lecture series, funded by alumnus Alden Orput. Guest lecturers include: Marvin Malecha; Helen Hatch; Craig Hartman; and Vincent Chang.

The School of Architecture will have two ex-hibits at the I-Space Gallery in Chicago this fall. “Beijing Architecture” by Erik Hemingway and Allison Warren, Oct. 16 – Nov. 14. “Flip-A-Strip” by Julie Larsen and Roger Hubeli, Nov. 20 – Dec. 15.

During the Spring 2009 term, Paul armstrong (Design) and Paul Kapp (Preservation) co-taught a graduate design studio that addressed the re-development of the Peoria, IL Warehouse District with PSA-Dewberry Architects and the City of Peoria. SynergiCity is the masterplan concept for the whole-sale reinvention of the post-in-dustrial city using sustainable design principles. The project outcome was presented publicly to PSA-Dewberry, the Mayor, urban planners, devel-opers, architects, and the local press. Professors Kapp and Armstrong are in the process of devel-oping a book that will address re-vitalization of the post-industrial city featuring SynergiCity as a case study example.

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After a visit by the NAAB team last spring, the School of Architecture has been re-accredited. At the July 2009 meeting of the National Architec-tural Accrediting Board, the directors reviewed the visiting team report and as a result, the school has been formally granted a six-year term of accreditation effective January 1, 2009.

This summer Professor tom Fisher (Dean, Col-lege of Design) completed the manuscript for a book entitled Ethics for Architects, to be pub-lished by the Princeton Architectural Press in 2010. He is also finalizing the manuscript for a book Salmela Architect II, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2010. In addi-tion, Dean Fisher began his term as President of the ACSA.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Steven Dwyer, AIA, was awarded one of AIA Minnesota’s 2009 Young Architect Awards in June.

School of Architecture graduate students Darin Duch, Peter Portilla, and Ben Delwiche have received an honorable mention in the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge. The trio’s project, “Modular Adaptability,” called for the design of a modular, portable classroom that is adaptable to a variety of educational requirements. “ The students’ advisor for the project was Assistant Professor, John Comazzi.

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two Design Camp for Educators, to be held in the Summer of 2010, working with elementary school students and educators to develop and implement design-based teaching modules as a catalyst for integrated learning.

Professor Comazzi has curated an exhibition entitled “Inflected Modernism: The Architecture Photography of Balthazar Korab” that will reex-amine canonical works of mid-century Modern architecture through the interpretive lens of Balthazar Korab. The exhibition will open at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in January 2010 and will include a public lecture that will examine Korab’s life, career and body of work. This exhibition will be partially funded by an Imagine Fund Grant for the Arts & Humanities and plans are in the works for additional venues.

In March 2009 Professor John Comazzi was a co-Topic Chair (with Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla) for a paper session at the 2009 ACSA National Conference in Portland, Oregon. The session was entitled “Indeterminacy: De-sign-Build as Reflection-in-Action,” in which the papers examined the demonstrated the unique role played by progressive design-build projects in design education.

Assistant Professor Ibarra-Sevilla, with Associ-ate Professor arthur Chen, took a group of stu-dents to Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa, to complete an inventory of buildings in the World Heritage designated portion of the city known as Stone Town. As part of the efforts of the Center for World Heritage Studies, the team has been invited back to continue their work later this year.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla conducted a ‘Freelab’ workshop for graduate students at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in July. Working with Professor Richard Kroeker (Dakhousie), students focused on Catalan vaulting systems, and designed and build a camera obscura shelter for a commu-nity park in western Nova Scotia. The prototype vault is made of 3/8” clay tiles, covering a span of 12 feet and is less than 2” thick. No struc-tural form work was used.

In June of 2009, Assistant Professor ozayr Sa-loojee delivered a paper (“Sacred and Political

Phenomenology: The Contested Landscape of Religious Architecture”) at the 2nd internation-al Architecture and Phenomenology Confer-ence at Kyoto-Seika University, in Kyoto, Japan. At the same conference, Professor Saloojee served as a session moderator.

Professor Saloojee will also be presenting a paper at the IAPS-CSBE conference (Revitalizing Build Environments: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses) in Istanbul this coming October. His pa-per is titled: “Architecture + Community:Identity, Context and Place in Istanbul’s Heritage Fabric, or, A Speculative Love Letter to ‘Stamboul”

Professor Saloojee’s article “Quietly There: The Spatial Dimension of Liturgy in Eliel Saarinen’s Christ Church Lutheran – Minneapolis, Minne-sota” will be published in the Fall 2009 issue of A2 magazine.

uNIvERSIty oF NEBRaSKa-lINColN

The College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska has been granted a six year term re-newal of NAAB accreditation. The six year Mas-ter of Architecture professional degree program is scheduled for its next accreditation visit in 2015.

Professor William Borner IFMA has retired after 37 years of exceptional teaching, research and service in architectural education at the Univer-sity of Nebraska.

In turn, our College welcomes Assistant Profes-sor Janghwan Cheon. Janghwan is a regis-tered architect of Massachusetts, a member of the New York chapter of the AIA, and a LEED ac-credited professional. Janghwan’s professional experience includes having led various projects as project architect in the offices of Asymptote, Hanrahan Meyers Architects, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, Stan Allen Architect and office dA. Janghwan’s areas of scholarly interest include digital design and computation-based math-ematical geometries.

Associate Professor Jeffrey l. Day recently trav-eled for a one week residency to the Doha, Qatar campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The school invited Jeff to give two lectures and to help lead a design-build workshop titled “Urban-ized Fabrics” with interior design students. This pilot program was the first in a series of forth-

coming design build workshops hosted by their campus. During his visit, the Qatar based maga-zine Abode published the interview “Q & A with Jeff Day” in their summer 2009 issue (No.51).

The practice of Jeff Day (Min | Day) has been se-lected as one of six “New Practices” by the AIA San Francisco. New Practices San Francisco, the West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition, is a plat-form for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Fran-cisco that have undertaken innovative strategies – both in projects and practice. Distinguishing this award from others given to new practices is the attention focused on how the winning firms are uniquely shaped to better facilitate the type of projects that they undertake. Their work has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture in New York between June 4 - September 19, 2009 and will be at the Center for Architecture + De-sign Gallery in San Francisco between November 12, 2009 - January 29, 2010.

Min | Day’s Okoboji House is featured as the Met Home of the Month in the May 2009 issue of Metropolitan Home magazine. This 6,000sf residence by a recreational lake in rural Iowa has also been published in the book Houses De-signSource from Harper Collins Publishers and was also a featured project in the Architectural Record Kitchen & Bath Portfolio in their Sep-tember 2009 issue.

Min | Day is one of twenty-four firms chosen for Hometta, a new web-based model for delivering high-quality modern house designs to a broad public demographic. The website will sell mod-ern home plans by these offices as well as offer a forum, blog and on-line magazine dedicated to modern housing. In addition to the current “Wide Open House” design, Min | Day will soon be posting three additional Hometta designs. The Hometta designs will be featured in a trav-eling exhibition in New York, Chicago, Houston, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Min | Day’s work has been featured in more than nine on-line magazine / blog stories since the end of the Spring 2009 semester. At least one of these discusses the algorithmic processes and digital fabrication techniques employed in the making of “FogScape,” a residential exhibition project completed in June 2009 for Metropolitan

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Home magazine. The magazine selected Min | Day to design three rooms in a showcase resi-dential project in San Francisco titled Modern By Design. The project has been open to the public since mid June 2009 and will be published in a fall 2009 issue of Metropolitan Home.

Beyond his teaching and practice, Jeff maintains a commitment of service to the AIA. Jeff has re-cently served on the AIA East Bay Unbuilt Design Awards jury, will be delivering the keynote lec-ture for the AIA South Dakota annual convention in October, and will be on a symposium panel at the 2009 AIA Central States Region convention in Des Moines IA.

uNIvERSIty oF oKlaHoMa

The College of Architecture is ranked by Design Intelligence magazine with distinction.

The Division of Construction Science is con-sidered by the Associate General Contractors of America, the country’s leading construction organization, as “one of the best in America.”

In 2008-09 all divisions in the college received regional or national awards in competitions.

In 2008-09 the College awarded four endowed professorships.

In 2008-09 the College prepared a strategic plan that is reportedly being used as a model for other colleges to follow.

In 2008-2009, the small faculty at the Univer-sity of Oklahoma College of Architecture faculty achieved more than $2 million in funded research, was awarded four endowed professorships and prepared a strategic plan that is being used as a model for other colleges at OU to follow.

In 2009-10, the college will become the first college of architecture to experiment with 21st-century, “super learning” furniture systems.

The University of Oklahoma Professor, Douglas Gransberg, and his international team’s pro-posal for integrated project management was recently passed, granting the team $1.2 mil-lion and giving OU’s students an opportunity to help research and possibly get international experience. The Strategic Highway Research

Program, SHRP 2 R10, was designed by a team of 11 members from across the world. The team is led by two members of Iowa State University and OU Construction Science professor, Douglas Gransberg. Gransberg hopes the outcome of the project will “make OU and ISU the leading US institutions for project management research.”

Architecture students Keith Holman, Bejamin Shullaw, Neal Birchum and Sean McDow re-ceived an honorable mention for their “Adjust-able” cardboard chair at the AIAS/ICPF Chair Affair Design Competition.

uNIvERSIty oF WISCoNSIN MIlWauKEE

alejandro aravena, Executive Director of El-emental S.A., Santiago, Chile, has been chosen as the 2009 recipient of the Marcus Prize for Architecture. The Marcus Prize for Architecture is a $100,000 prize funded by the Marcus Corporation Foun-dation and administered through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning to recognize emerging tal-ent in architecture worldwide. The Marcus Prize provides a $50,000 award to the winner and a further $50,000 to the school to run the compe-tition and bring Aravena to Milwaukee to lead a design studio. During the spring 2010 semester, Alejandro Aravena will make scheduled visits to the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Ar-chitecture & Urban Planning, focusing a gradu-ate studio on specific challenges in architecture that inspire enduring benefits to Milwaukee’s urban fabric. Aravena will also be invited to participate in public workshops and lectures. Arevena’s firm, a self-described “Do-Tank,” is affiliated with COPEC, a Chilean oil company and the Universidad Católica de Chile. The af-filiation has a social/political agenda and con-siders architecture a source for building social equity. His work includes the Mathematics Faculty, the Medical Faculty, the Siamese Tower and the Architecture School for the Univer-sidad Católica, dorm facilities for St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, new children work-shops and training facilities for Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Germany. From 2000-2005, Aravena was Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD. Currently, he

is professor at the Universidad Católica (since 1994) and Elemental COPEC Professor at the UC (since 2006). In 2009, Aravena was appoint-ed a member of the Pritzker Prize Jury. On May 26, 2009, a five-person jury convened in Milwaukee to select among the 40 international nominees drawn from 18 countries, the largest ever pool of nominees for the prize. The Jurors: Reed Kroloff, Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum (Michigan) and former edi-tor of Architecture Magazine (New York); Laurie Hawkinson, Principal of Smith-Miller + Hawkin-son Architects, and Director of the Advanced Studios at the GSAPP, Columbia University (New York); Michael Manser, CBE, founder of the Manser Practice Architects and Past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Robert Greenstreet, Dean, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Plan-ning (Wisconsin) and Steve Marcus, CEO, The Marcus Corporation Foundation (Wisconsin) re-viewed the portfolios, CVs and work statements of each nominee before unanimously selecting Aravena to receive the Marcus Prize. The nominees are all practicing architects who were nominated by one or more of a select in-ternational committee of nominators. Accord-ing to Robert Greenstreet “The jury labored long and hard with the outstanding pool of candidates drawn from across the world. After much careful consideration, they selected Ale-jandro Aravena because of his remarkable com-mitment to a socially driven agenda complied with an almost lyrical appreciation of archi-tectural craft and form. There was unanimous agreement that Alejandro is on a trajectory to greatness — exactly the kind of architect the Marcus Prize seeks to identify.” The first Marcus Prize (2005) was awarded to MVRDV, Rotterdam, and the second (2007) to Barkow + Leibinger Architects, Berlin. Work from the first Marcus Prize Studio, co-taught by UWM Associate Professor Grace la, has to date been published in the book Skycar City by Aktar, Barcelona and displayed at the 2008 Venice Biennale. Work from the second Marcus Prize, co-taught with UWM Associate Professor Kyle talbott, recently has won a design award for an environmental pavilion designed and built by UWM students in Milwaukee. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 26)

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The Marcus Corporation Foundation is the philanthropic arm of The Marcus Corpora-tion, a lodging and entertainment company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Marcus Prize is part of the Marcus family’s on-going commitment to support the growth and development of the practice of architecture in Milwaukee.

WaSHINGtoN uNIvERSIty IN St. louIS

Christof Jantzen joins the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts as the inaugural I-CARES Professor of Architecture (International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustain-ability). He worked for Frank Gehry before becoming Principal of Behnisch, Behnisch & Partners in Los Angeles. His recent projects include the Genzyme Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Mill Street Lofts in Los Angeles and the Cultural District Riverfront Development in Pittsburgh. He was educated at the Technical University Darmstadt in Ger-

many and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

Dorothee Imbert joins the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts as the inaugural Chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program and Professor of Landscape Archi-tecture. She comes to Washington University from Harvard, where she served as Associ-ate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master of Landscape Archi-tecture Degree Programs. Her books include Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes—Between the Garden and the City, The Modernist Garden in France, and Garrett Eck-bo: Modern Landscapes for Living. Imbert re-ceived her architectural degree from the Unité Pédagogique d’Architecture no. 1 in Paris, and both an MArch and MLA from the University of California at Berkeley.

New visiting faculty include Marcelo Spina with Los Angeles-based fi rm PATTERN; Paul lukez with Paul Lukez Architecture in Boston; Manuel Bailo and Rosa Rull from Barcelona;

adam yarinsky of ARO, New York City; and Ben Fehrmann with Twelve Metre of Kansas City. Christine yogiaman and Ken tracey joined the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts as Visiting Assistant Professors. They are both graduates of Columbia University and will contribute to the school’s digital fabrica-tion curriculum.

The Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design has launched a new study-abroad pro-gram in Korea. New faculty teaching in Seoul this fall are: Sang Jun lee, building technol-ogy, Professor, Department of Architecture Yonsei University; Jun Sung Kim, PhD, studio, Director of the Graduate School of Architec-ture, Konkuk University; Hyungmin Pai, PhD, history, Director, Department of Architecture, City University of Seoul; and Sak-Joon Roh, urban studies, President, Space Plus.

Eric Mumford, PhD, and Stephen leet were promoted to full professors, while Sung Ho Kim and zeuler lima, PhD, were promoted to associate professors with tenure.

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eaST cenTralBall StatE uNIvERSIty

With a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included a virtual cocktail reception and fi reworks, the Las Americas Virtual Design Studio opened the doors of its new facility in one of Ball State’s

Second Life islands. Professors Guillermo vasquez de velasco, antonieta angulo, and John Fillwalk worked with architecture and digital art students that designed and built the new facility. Following the ribbon-cutting event, the avatars of students who teleported from 10 different schools of architecture geo-graphically distributed across 7 countries in-habited the facility. The 150+ students were joined by faculty and professional consultants working in the design of a hotel/surge-hospital in the northwest corner of the city of Indianap-olis. After 10 years of non-stop operations, the Las Americas Virtual Design Studio is arguably the largest and oldest design studio of its kind. http://americas.iweb.bsu.edu/americas_vds08/

Associate Professor George Elvin, PhD, LEED AP, continues his work as chair of the Green Building Symposium at the Clean Technology Conference, the nation’s largest gathering of

its kind. Since founding the symposium in 2008, Professor Elvin has helped it grow to include over 30 presenters at this conference attended by over 5,000 professionals focus-ing on clean environmental technologies. He also continues his work as editor-in-chief of “Research for Practice: The American Institute of Architects Report on University Research.”

Associate Professor timothy Gray and Kurt West (B.Arch’05) received a Central Indi-ana AIA “Excellence in Architecture Citation Award” in May of 2009 for the Light Screen, a proposed public art installation that was pre-pared as one of fi ve fi nalists for the “Great Ideas Competition” sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Associate Professor Timothy Gray received the NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Prac-tice and Education in the Academy for his work

Timothy Gray and Kurt West receiving a Central Indiana AIA Award.

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on the Straw Bale Eco Center, a student designed and built environmental center completed in 2008. The award was announced at the ACSA National Conference in Portland, Oregon and included a $7,500 cash prize. The Ball State entry was one of fi ve award recipients nationally. The Straw Bale Eco Center was also recognized earli-er in the year with a State Chapter AIA “Citation Award for Excellence in Architectural Design”, one of four projects so recognized in 2008.

Associate Professor Timothy Gray moved his fi rm, Gray Architecture, to a new location on the near north side of Indianapolis in 2008. Current projects include a proposal for an af-fordable, modular sustainable housing proto-type being developed with project partners All American Homes and Greenway Supply. The team is targeting early 2010 to have a demon-stration home complete in Indianapolis.

Associate Professor Timothy Gray was appoint-ed in this year to serve on the State Advisory Board to the USGBC Board of Directors. He also served as chair of the program committee for the recent USGBC sponsored “Indiana Building Green Symposium” which was held at the In-dianapolis Museum of Art last March.

Director of Master of Architecture professional program, Professor Steve Kendall was invited to review student work and give lectures at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzer-land, and at the University of Florence, where he lectured and taught a three-day immersive learn-ing workshop on Open Building. In July, he was

invited to attend the AIA Academy of Architec-ture for Health Leadership conference in Chicago.

Associate Professor ana de Brea was invited to review student work and give a lecture at the Department of Architecture, Buenos Aires University, in Argentina. At the same university she also led a one-week design workshop on Fashion and Architecture, and developed an ex-hibit on the subject in downtown Buenos Aires including her own art pieces.

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Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP has received grants from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to conduct a community-based project/applied research on sustainable urban design and urban agricul-ture developments in Detroit. The project will be conducted at the Detroit Studio, which is directed by Professor Kim.

Assistant Professor James Stevens taught in the workshop ‘parametric” at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Lawrence Tech hosted the second part of this two part workshop that focused on digital fabrication. Students traveled from Tsing-hua University to LTU and fabricated many of the designs created in the Beijing workshop.

Professor Rochelle Martin, D.Arch, has been pro-moted to full professor. Two of her graduate stu-dents, Val Mancini and Jay McGuire, were selected along with twenty-six other artists for the InLight Richmond, Virginia Arts Festival. Their installation

“Light Diagrams: the Disembodied Body,” was part of their graduate thesis with. Dr. Martin.

Martin Schwartz, College Professor of Archi-tecture and Coordinator of the Graduate Con-centration in Architectural Design and Practice, has authored a series of essays and commen-taries on the architecture of Gunnar Birkerts, which has been published as the book, Gunnar Birkerts: Metaphoric Modernist by Edition Axel Menges (Stuttgart). The book surveys Birkerts’ career thematically with individual project de-scriptions illustrated by sketches, architectural drawings, and photos from the architect’s per-sonal collection. The volume also includes an introductory biographical essay by the archi-tect’s son, noted essayist, Sven Birkerts.

Students in the Sustainable Design Studio of Ad-junct Professor Celeste allen Novak, AIA, LEED AP, assisted the Presbyterian Villages of Michigan in visualizing a sustainable complex dedicated to senior care, ranging from nursing through inde-pendent living. They built a model for PVM to use in their continued development of this Brush Park site. In addition, the class developed concepts for an inter-modal transportation center which was presented to the University of Michigan facilities department as well as the City of Ann Arbor as part of a conceptualization for a future transit station which will be built in 2010. This year’s Lawrence Tech sustainable design graduate stu-dio is developing sustainable design guidelines and sketches for alternative facades for three grocery stores for the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation grocers and food initiative.

Novak authored over ten continuing education articles and webcasts for McGraw - Hill in 2009 on sustainable design practices and building materials, published online and in Green Source and Architectural Record magazines.

Adjunct Professor Connie Rizzolo Brown as-sisted with the approval and presentation of work by international designer Herbert Driesedtl as a member of the Ann Arbor Public Arts Commission.

rizzolo brown + novak architects projects this year included a GOLD Green New Mexico rat-ing for a home designed by Brown. Other proj-ects completed by the fi rm included greening the Ann Arbor Art Center.

Image of the Light Screen installation awarded by the Central Indiana AIA.

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lance Jay Brown, FAIA, of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design, was re-elected as Director for Programs & Strategic Planning of the AIA New York chapter.

Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston, col-laborating with Douglas Gauthier, was commis-sioned by MoMA to build BURST*008, a pre-fab house for the show titled “Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.” The house, which was widely published and reviewed, was exhibited from July-October 2008 at the Museum and a number of CCNY students were selected to help during the process.

Professor alan Feigenberg is involved in a ma-jor National Science Foundation grant to the Sal-vadori Center, in partnership with the New York City Housing Authority, to implement BRIDGES (Build, Research, Invent, Design, Grow, and Ex-plore through Science), a new, science-oriented, after-school program. Over the course of the 5-year grant cycle, 25 total community centers are expected to run BRIDGES programming. He is also invited to present his research paper and lead a workshop on “The City for Children: Criti-cal Learning through the Built Environment” at the Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Urban Childhoods in March 2009.

Adjunct Professor ali C. Hocek, principal of AC Hocek Architecture and Think OffSite, LLC, re-ceived a 2008 AIANY Merit Design Award for his firms’ Tristes Tropiques Houses in Nicaragua. The project is for sustainable prefabricated houses. Using micro-financing models, the design goes further to propose a self-build program forming communities with groups of five to 10 women.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Peter lynch was a finalist in the international “From the Ground Up” affordable green housing competition sponsored by Syracuse University this January: co-authored, with partner Gustavo Crembil, a paper presented at the 2008 ACSA West Cen-tral Conference at the University of Illinois Ur-bana-Champaign; and is co-author (with Gus-tavo Crembil) of the article “No Resistance” that will appear in the May 2009 issue of JAE.

Dean George Ranalli’s monograph, Saratoga, was published in the spring of 2009 and the Saratoga Community Center project was re-viewed by Ada Louise Huxtable in the Wall Street Journal and featured in the New York Times, as well as featured in the online journal ArchNewsNow and in the March issue of The Architect’s Newspaper. This fall his Lock-it lever handle was included in the permanent collec-tion of the Design Arts collection of the India-napolis Museum of Art.

NEW JERSEy INStItutE oF tECHNoloGy

The New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the hiring of two new tenure track faculty members in the College of Architecture and Design. Rhett Russo has been appointed Associate Professor of Archi-tecture in the New Jersey School of Architec-ture. Professor Russo received a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M Univer-sity and a Master of Architecture from Colum-bia University Graduate School of Architecture. Prior to joining CoAD, Rhett served as Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching de-sign studio and seminar, as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and as Undergraduate Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute and Cornell University School of Architecture where he taught design, drawing and media courses.

Professor Russo is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund in 2008-2009, the Young Architects Award of The Architectural League in New York in 2000, The Van Alen Institute Dinkeloo Prize from the Van Alen Institute in 1997, and the McKim Award for Excellence from Columbia University in 1995. He has lec-tured at Universitat Kassel, ACSA conferences, Pratt Institute, University of Pennsylvania, the ICA in Philadelphia, The Architectural League in New York, the University of New Mexico, and Cornell University. Rhett has published in such publications as Metropolis, Newsline, Diorama, and The Van Alen Report among others. He has studied modern Scandinavian architecture on an SOM Fellowship and modern Italian ar-chitecture at the Academy of Rome.

Professor Russo will be teaching design studio, and he will be coordinating the Graduate Archi-tecture Program.

The NJIT College of Architecture and Design has also appointed Douglas Gauthier as Assistant Professor of Interior Design in the School of Art & Design. Professor Gauthier holds degrees from Columbia University and Notre Dame. He has taught studios, seminars, and workshops in both the United States and in Europe at institu-tions including Parsons/The New School, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia Uni-versity, VSVUAcademy of Fine Arts and Design of Bratislava, and Leipzig Technical University.Professor Gauthier’s many honors include a Fulbright scholarship to the Slovak Republic, the Berlin Architekturpreis, The Architectural League’s Young Architect Award, a Graham Foundation grant, an NYSCA grant, TIME Mag-azine Innovator of the Year award, an Architec-ture Magazine Visionary Architecture Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

In 2008 Gauthier completed BURST*008, one of five full-scale houses commissioned by the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Mod-ern Dwelling for the Museum of Modern Art. He also presented in MoMA’s Department of Archi-tecture symposium, Home Made: Five Perspec-tives Prefabrication. Other symposiums include the Moderno Trascurato (Neglected Modernism) symposium in Pescara, Italy presenting research on “Parallel Modernism,” documenting a strain of Soviet-era architecture in Eastern Europe ex-isting parallel to the architecture of the Modern Movement found in Western Europe and the United States. Research, a lecture, and an article on prefabrication and environmental strategies entitled, “Tightening and Loosening,” were pre-sented for the ParaFab conference at the Uni-versity of British Columbia. Professor Gauthier recently contributed an article for the upcoming AD issue, “Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice. “

Professor Gauthier will be teaching interior de-sign. His research focus at the School will be the study of life cycle assessments, particularly in combination with BIM.

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Assistant Professor Jean-François Bédard was a Visiting Scholar at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris over the summer. His research project centered on the relationship between architectural prints and collecting in eighteenth-century Paris. While in Paris, he gave a lecture on his forthcoming book, Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742), to be published in the series Studies in Seven-teenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture at the University of Delaware Press in 2010.

Assistant Professor Michael Pelken’s ‘Beach Hopper’ design, an energydesignlab project, was recently exhibited at the Tullie House Art Museum in Carlisle, UK. Pelken’s work was the outcome of the international design competition, “Re-imagin-ing the Beach Hut for the 21st Century – Bathing Beauties,” sponsored by the Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, UK. Pelken had an article “Inte-grierte Wind-Technologien,” published in the Ger-man magazine‚ XIA Intelligente Architektur, July 9, 2009 issue. He also participated in a panel dis-cussion and presented his research on integrated energy-generating building components at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Energy, Logistics and the Environment, organized by the Global Commerce Forum, in Las Vegas, in October.

The work of Assistant Professor victor tzen is currently included in the 5th annual AIA “Arch Schools: Visions of the Future” exhibition, through December 12, 2009 at the Center for Ar-chitecture in New York City.

Assistant Professor Jon yoder moderated a session, “Representation and the Digital,” and presented a paper, “Some Questions Concerning Phenomenology,” at the Architecture + Phenom-enology Second International Conference at Kyo-to Seika University in June. He also published a multimedia review of new films by Murray Grigor in the June issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

uNIvERSIty oF MaRylaND

thomas l. Schumacher, professor of architec-ture at the University of Maryland and fellow of the American Academy in Rome died in the early morning hours of July 15, 2009 after a short

battle with brain cancer. Schumacher joined the Maryland faculty in 1984, taught architectural design studios, history and theory courses, and served on the University Senate faculty affairs committee. Schumacher also originated the School of Architecture, Planning and Preserva-tion’s Rome Program and published numerous books and articles on Italian modern architec-ture of the 1930’s, in particular on the architect Giuseppe Terragni. Schumacher’s studies of the Terragni built and unbuilt work focused upon the formal aspects of the work and its relationship to programmatic imperatives, often illustrating the historical foundations of the compositional and typological strategies inherent in the work. Schumacher also published a study of Terragni’s Danteum project, a building designed by the ar-chitect based upon an interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. His major work on Terragni enti-tled, Surface and Symbol: Giuseppe Terragni and the Architecture of Italian Rationalism was pub-lished by Princeton Architectural Press in 1991 and has enjoyed wide distribution and transla-tion into Italian and German editions. A regis-tered architect, Schumacher was also an author-ity on the architectural facade and pioneered ar-chitectural theory focused upon the composition of the vertical surface. To illustrate his theories and teach students about form, technique and program when designing the facade of a build-ing, he used studies based upon works by Re-naissance and Baroque architects as well as the Modern masters. His writings have appeared in Architectural Design, The Architectural Review, Oppositions, Journal of Architectural Education, Casabella, Parametro, The Cornell Journal of Ar-chitecture, Harvard Design Magazine, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Oz, and The Harvard Architecture Review.

In 1967 Schumacher was awarded the Rome Prize for architecture and spent 1967-69 at the American Academy in Rome. He has held academic appointments at Princeton University, the University of Virginia, the University IVAU of Venice (Italy), Catholic University, Syracuse University and lectured widely throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom. In 1992-93, Schumacher was named “Distinguished Professor” by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and in 1991 Schumacher returned to Rome as resident archi-tect at the American Academy.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia Sachs of Wash-ington, DC, a brother, Richard Schumacher of Los Angeles, CA, many cousins, nephews and nieces and generations of students and colleagues who learned so much from him.

Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) Launched The Architecture Program at the Univer-sity of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is proud to announce the estab-lishment of a new multidisciplinary research, de-sign, education and outreach center called Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices, or CUSP.

The Architecture Program at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has a nearly two decade-long histo-ry of success in developing models for integrated design, demonstrated through numerous teach-ing, academic, and professional awards and honors. In partnership with the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the Architecture Program further advanced this history of success most re-cently in the award-winning LEAFHouse entry to the 2007 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.

Building on the LEAFHouse experience, the Cen-ter for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) was formed. CUSP joins the National Center for Smart Growth as a sister center, in order to ex-plore research, design, education and outreach activities related to sustainable practices at the scale of the building, the community, and the city. As an inter-and multidisciplinary center for the design and research of sustainable practices for buildings, communities and cities the mis-sion of CUSP is centered on fostering integrated practice necessary for current and future practi-tioners who are charged with creating built envi-ronments and who must cross generational and academic - industry boundaries to do so. CUSP will extend the research and design advance-ments of LEAFHouse, bringing the principles of integrated and sustainable design developed in LEAFhouse to real projects in real communities. Associate Professor amy Gardner has played a major role in stewarding the development of this Center and will serve as Director.

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ship that will create a new two-year master’s degree program that combines the university’s strengths in architecture and public history with on-site training and courses utilizing the Vil-lage’s National Historic Landmark site.

Starting in Fall 2010, the new Master of Sci-ence in Design with a concentration in historic preservation will offer advanced study of tra-ditional building materials, preservation theory, and building systems utilizing the architecture, archives, collections, and library at Hancock Shaker Village. Students and professionals al-ready working in historic preservation and ar-chitectural conservation will earn the degree through the university’s Continuing and Profes-sional Education program. Students will study and conduct fieldwork side-by-side with Han-cock Shaker Village staff and visiting experts on topics such as building restoration, town plan-ning, and historic site administration. A unique highlight will be the special focus on Shaker ideals, building methods, and historic craft and trade knowledge as they apply to modern life.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick issued a statement about the partnership that was read at the program announcement The Governor noted that “Massachusetts’ long and storied history has left us with myriad artifacts and treasures in need of preservation and restoration. Through this pro-gram, students will learn cutting edge techniques and tools to conserve our most precious pieces of history for future generations. This is a wonderful program on the Commonwealth’s educational landscape, and it will surely continue the state’s unparalleled tradition of academic excellence.”

Ellen Spear, president and CEO of the non-profit historic Village, said, “We think it is important for Hancock Shaker Village to be a leader in training the next generation of preservationists. With our colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, we will offer a program unique to the region and become a regional center for preservation stud-ies. The educational opportunity for conservation professionals is so much more vivid through the use of the Village’s historic buildings and land-scapes, collections, and archives.”

Joel Martin, dean and distinguished professor, UMass Amherst College of Humanities & Fine

Arts, said, “This partnership will not only enrich our understanding of the American past, but the partnership itself is entirely cutting edge and innovative. It unites the strengths of a re-search university’s superb scholarly programs in architecture and public history with the unique riches of one of New England’s most important historic sites to forge an exceptional learning opportunity for people who value cultural heri-tage and historic preservation.”

Bill Vogt, chair of the Hancock Shaker Village board, said the program marks an important step forward in the Village’s long-range plan. The UMass Amherst partnership should also help the museum expand its direct and active education programs to become a center for preservation study.

Steven Bedford, an architectural historian for more than 20 years with special expertise in cul-tural resource investigations and management, will direct the new program and teach American Building and Preservation Theory courses. Over-all, the new degree program is expected to enroll 10 to 12 students in the first year, later expand-ing to 25 or 30.

“I’m enthusiastic about working and teaching in such a rich cultural landscape,” said Bedford. “I think it’s the first instance of a building pres-ervation program located within a National Historic Landmark. Excellent examples of late 18th through early 20th century architecture are right at hand.”

Bedford noted that in this era when designers, builders, and architects increasingly seek sustain-able and intelligent energy alternatives, Hancock Shaker Village and UMass Amherst will be redis-covering lessons from buildings handed down by “a culture whose principles and ethos were based completely on what we now call sustain-ability.” The new degree program should also help raise awareness of academic research and advanced restoration techniques in the tradition-al building community, he pointed out.

For more information about the UMass Amherst Hancock Shaker Village Graduate Degree in His-toric Preservation and Design, contact Steven Bedford at 413.443.0188 ext. 239 or sbedford@hancockshakervillage.org.

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Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins’ book To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans was translated into Chinese by Liu Daxin of Tianjin University Press. Professor Jenkins was a juror on the ACSA 2008-2009 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition in May 2009.

Professor Iris Miller, ASLA, was chosen by the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art and Historical Heritage as a “student” participant in the Japanese Garden Intensive Seminar, a 2-week English language course for interna-tional landscape professionals in Kyoto, Japan. Approximately 20-25 participants are selected through a competitive process. The December 2009 program, associated with Kyoto University of Art and Design, will focus on Japanese garden history, design, aesthetics, theory and practice, in addition to related cultural arts. Taught by some of Japan’s leading landscape architects, histori-ans and theoreticians, the course includes lec-tures, site tours, workshops and hands-on work in gardens. – integrating aspects of ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular, public and private, natural and urban culture. The ancient capital of Kyoto (Heian-ku) is a UNESCO World Heritage City, known for its many gardens, parks, forests, and its ancient city plan.

Urban Institute Studio, taught by Iris Miller, typi-cally 3rd or 4th year 1-semester urban design studio, received stipends for two projects involv-ing developing a master plan and book to docu-ment studio work: 1) Lower Georgetown – Fog-gy Bottom, D.C; and 2) River Road – Westbard, Bethesda, MD. A public-private process entailed frequent meetings with community members, government officials, WMATA, and visiting crit-ics. Students worked as a team in studio, taking individual design responsibility for a project area site, researching local precedents followed by study-travel to Paris or Chicago. Books, subse-quently prepared by Miller and students, details design, planning policy, and sustainable environ-mental concepts, and it guides current follow-up by communities and government agencies.

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Studio, received a $15,600 stipend from Foggy Bottom Association to produce a CD book docu-menting previously exhibited work of 2006 Urban Institute Studio, Arch 302, for Foggy Bottom and Lower Georgetown. Friends of Architecture re-ceived $750 from that stipend in appreciation of CUA’s work on behalf of the community. Gradu-ate student David Hathcock worked with Iris Mill-er to produce the document in “In Design” using students’ graphics saved on CDs and presentation boards. Text was largely written by Miller.

A community stipend supported Urban Institute Studio creation of a 153-acre master plan, com-prising a new community site plan, streetscape design with emphasis on traffic safety and aes-thetics, neighborhood parks including Capital Crescent Trail Park at River Road, stream remedia-tion and sustainable design aspects throughout. The stipend also covered a contribution for School of Architecture and Planning, CUA, and a CD book detailing community needs and goals for future development as Montgomery County prepares its area 2010 Sector Plan (an update of 1982 Sector Plan). Students working with Miller on the book were David Hathcock and Paola Moya. Now in Montgomery County permitting process, CUA’s Constance Stubbs UIS design for a new park at River Road North was approved by the Board of the Coalition for Capital Crescent Trail.

ClEMSoN uNIvERSIty The Architecture Program welcomes three new faculty members: Daniel Nevin Harding is an Associate Professor of Architecture Design+Build and the Director of the Community Research and Design Center. Dan received a Master of Architecture from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Architecture from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has worked in the of-fice of William P. Bruder in Phoenix, Arizona and other Design+Build studios in the Rocky Moun-tain west prior to opening his own studio over 10 years ago. Harding is the founding partner and Principal Design Director of Intrinsik Archi-tecture, a full service architecture, planning and Design+Build office based in Bozeman, Mon-tana. Intrinsik Architecture has been awarded numerous state and national AIA design award-sHarding has previously taught at Montana State University and lectured at other institutions across the country on his professional work and the nature of a Design+Build practice.

Dave lee is Assistant Professor with a focus on computational design methods relative to information translation (design) and modes of production (fabrication). To that end, his research attempts to define what it means to be ‘digital’ and integrate such a definition into the education of an architect. Emergent digital/computational visualization techniques as well as CAD/CAM fabrication tools play a critical role in such an environment. Lee has taught previously at UNC-Charlotte. Prior to teaching, he worked at NOX/Lars Spuybroek in Rotter-dam as an Associate Designer and SUBDV in New York City as a digital design consultant. He is the director of Quixotic, a multi-disciplinary design collective. armando Montilla is Assistant Professor of Architecture, History & Theory and Criticism. He received a Master of Architecture from Pratt Insti-tute in New York, a Bachelor of Architecture from Université de Montréal in Canada, and a Master of Urban Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. He has worked in Miami and Los Angeles, with firms such as Arquitectoni-ca, RTKL and The Jon Jerde Partnership, and with Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona.

Keith Evan Green, R.A., Ph.D., was promoted to Full Professor. Dr. Green, with doctoral student Henrique Houayek and Professor Ian Walker, published The Animated Work Environment: An Architectural-Robotic System for a Digital Society (Verlag, 2009), a monograph presenting their NSF-funded research (www.AWEproject.org <http://www.AWEproject.org <http://www.AWEproject.org> > >). NSF has most recently funded Dr. Green¹s workshop ³ARCHIBOTS: In-telligent and Adaptable Built Environments² (www.archibots.org <http://www.archibots.org <http://www.archibots.org> >), co-convened with Mark Gross of Carnegie Mellon University as part of Ubicomp 2009.

MISSISSIPPI StatE uNIvERSIty

Two faculty members from the School of Ar-chitecture won both of the annual Mississippi State University top honors for teaching. Asso-ciate Research Professor Christopher Monson received the 2009 John Grisham Master Teach-er Award. The award is the highest honor given for teaching excellence at MSU. The award prize was endowed in 2002 by Mississippi-

raised author John Grisham, who received an undergraduate degree in accounting from MSU before entering law school. Professor Rachel McCann PhD, received the 2009 Alumni As-sociation Faculty Recognition Award for Excel-lence in Undergraduate Teaching. The award is supported by the MSU Alumni Foundation, which has recognized outstanding classroom teaching for forty-four years. Professor McCann hosted an international conference entitled Flesh and Space: Intertwining Merleau-Ponty and Architecture, held on September 9, as an adjunct conference to the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, held at the MSU School of Architecture on Septem-ber 10-12. She also organized and led a work-shop entitled Flesh and Space, held at the Back to the Things Themselves! segment of the So-ciety for the Study of Existential and Phenom-enological Theory and Culture’s (EPTC) annual meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa, Ontario in May.

Michael a. Berk, F.L. Crane Professor, was ap-pointed Interim Director of the School in July of this past summer. He will continue with some of his teaching responsibilities and current ($55,000) funded research on GreenMobile® pre-fabricated ecological housing from the US Department of Energy.

David Perkes, Associate Professor and Direc-tor of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, received a Mississippi AIA Honor Citation for a LEED Certified house that was designed and built in collaboration with Penn State Univer-sity, Mississippi State University and the East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center. The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio was awarded a $650,000 grant from the Department of Home-land Security in partnership with Oak Ridge Na-tional Laboratory to research flood-proof com-mercial construction.

Associate Professor Caleb Crawford and As-sistant Professor annie Coggan won an AIA Mississippi Chapter merit award for the Little Building Cafe, a mixed-use green renovation of a cafe that serves local produce.

Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Heredia co-organized the Second International Architec-

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ture and Phenomenology Conference. Held in Kyoto, Japan from the 26th to the 29th of June, and co-sponsored by Mississippi State Univer-sity, the event gathered more than 150 present-ers and participants from around the world.

Assistant Professor Hans Herrmann is collabo-rating with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Carl Small Town Center to per-form a study of the Choctaw Transit System. The $25,000 research study will provide guidelines to help inform the systems expansion and bet-ter define its role as a civic construct. A com-ponent to the study includes the design and construction of a “market ready” bus shelter prototype, currently being developed in a verti-cal graduate/undergraduate design studio.

The school will have two new visiting faculty this academic year. Visiting Assistant Profes-sor Burak Erdim, a licensed architect and a Ph.D. Candidate in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, will be teaching his-tory and design studio courses at MSU. His re-search studies the role played by architectural and planning education at the frontline of the Cold War focusing on the establishment of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Visiting Assistant Professor Ernest Ng, received his Master of Architecture degree from University at Buffalo School of Architec-ture & Planning. Prior to his graduate studies, he spent three years in professional practice at Steven Holl Architects in New York City. Ernest received his B.A in Architecture from National University of Singapore and also spent a year of study abroad at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh as part of a M.Arch program from Singapore.

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Professor alexis Gregory, RA had a poster ac-cepted to the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Field/Work Conference at the University of Edinburgh. The poster is en-titled ““Urban Field/Studio Work: Designing a Mausoleum in Downtown Washington DC” and is based on a past studio about designing for the living and the dead. The conference will be held at the Edinburgh College of Art from No-vember 20-21, 2009.

uNIvERSIty oF FloRIDa

The University of Florida has been selected as one of two U.S. teams to compete in the first Solar Decathlon Europe to be held in Madrid, Spain in 2010. Twenty student teams from uni-versities around the world team will construct full-scale sustainable homes on a site in Ma-drid, where their performance will be measured and scored in ten categories.

Re-interpreting the regional vernacular archi-tecture of North Florida with new forms, mate-rials, and construction methodologies, the stu-dents refer to themselves as Team RE-FOCUS. They have been recognized by the UF Office of Sustainability with an Honorable Mention as one of the Most Active Student Groups on cam-pus. The interdisciplinary team is co-directed by Associate Professor Mark McGlothlin, Assis-tant Professor Bradley Walters, Assistant Pro-fessors of Building Construction Robert J. Ries and James G. Sullivan, and Associate Profes-sor of Interior Design Maruja torres.

Assistant Professor Ruth Ron participated in the Spot on Schools Exhibition, a part of the event ÇBeyond Media. in Florence, Italy. The exhibition team included: Hillary Hemstreet, Bruce Werner, Charles Gurrey, Chris Malcolm, Simon Barrow, Kyle Proefke, Justin Fong, and Megan Suau.

Associate Professor Donna Cohen has re-ceived a UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Award, which will support her research/design initiatives in Africa in collaboration with archi-tects from Finland.

Assistant Professor Hui zou has successfully achieved Doctoral Faculty Status.

The 2009 AIA Florida/Caribbean Honor & De-sign Awards recognized work by SoA students and faculty. Director Martin Gold and the Flor-ida Community Design Center received a Merit Award in the Unbuilt Category for ÇArcher Braid: Bicycle and Pedestrian Commuting & Recreation Corridor.. Associate Professor Donna Cohen and Armstrong & Cohen Architecture also received a Merit Award for their ÇTunaHAKi theater. proj-ect. Damien Blumetti (M.Arch ë09) received a Merit Award in the Theoretical & Research Cat-egory for his project ÇAn Investigation of Add-ing to Mid-Century Modern Housing.. Professor

Emeritus Karl thorne, FAIA received the Mc-Minn Educator Honor Award.

A student team led by doctoral candidate Iris Patten and Joseli Macedo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Plan-ning, received a $10,000 Phase I grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a part of the agencyís prestigious annual P3 ñ People, Prosperity and the Planet ñ Award competition. The competition provides key technical assis-tance in moving both the developed and devel-oping worlds toward sustainability. The project, ìWater Capture and Filtration System: A Replica-ble Design Concept for Arid Rural Communities,î proposes a design for a low-tech, low-cost sys-tem that improves upon a standard open-pool reservoir design to purify about 2 million gallons of stored rainfall year round in the rural West Af-rican village of Sissene. The village faces a lack of access to water that has led to hunger, poverty, high rates of child and maternal mortality and the spread of infectious diseases.

The student design, which relies solely on solar energy and gravity, eliminates most evapora-tion, installs a system to filter rain and col-lected water and distributes water for irrigation and household use. With these improvements, residents will no longer have to rely on the un-derground aquifer to meet their water needs, relieving a significant amount of pressure from the natural environment and providing access to water throughout the year. The team, in-cluding Christen Hutton, John November, Alex Sommer and Robert Weaver, participated in the 2009 National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington D.C.

Gustavo F. Araoz, the first American president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), was awarded the Univer-sity of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planningís 2009 Beinecke-Reeves Distin-guished Achievement Award. ICOMOS is the pre-eminent global historic preservation orga-nization for professionals and supporters of heritage conservation. The annual award rec-ognizes an individual who exemplifies the spirit of historic preservation and has demonstrated dedication to the field. The award is named in honor of the late Walter Beinecke Jr. and UF professor emeritus F. Blair Reeves, both of whom were recipients of the National Trust for

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Historic Preservation Crown in shield Award for their accomplishments in historic preservation.

uNIvERSIty oF MEMPHIS

Associate Professor of Architecture James Wil-liamson, FAIA and his colleagues at Williamson Pounders Architects are recipients of a 2009 Religious Art and Architecture Award sponsored by Faith & Form magazine and the AIA Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art & Architecture. William-son and his team were selected in the national design competition for their renovation and ad-ditions to Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, NY. The project will be published in an upcoming edition of Faith and Form, and formal presenta-tion of the award will be made at the 2010 Con-vention of the American Institute of Architects.

Three faculty members in the Department of Ar-chitecture received Strengthening Communities grants in the last round of funding. Architecture Program Assistant Professor tom Mason, PE, and Instructor tim Michael, AIA, were funded for the “Old Town Millington Vision Plan” proj-ect along with community partners City of Mil-lington, TN, Old Town Vision Plan Steering Com-mittee, and the Millington Community Court Services. In addition to the design elements, the Department team will work with Court Services to develop job training programs related to the revitalization. Fourth year Architecture honors student Holly Hendrix, LEED AP, is the student research associate on the project. Interior De-sign Associate Professor Randle Witherington, NCIDQ, received funding for the “Heritage Tour-ism Resident Training” project in partnership with the Victorian Village Community Develop-ment Corporation. This project seeks to build a new and vibrant residential/commercial com-munity around the 21 historic structures in the Victorian Village Historic District and will train low income housing residents, who live in the Victorian Village, to give brief tours and direct visitors to historic sites in Village. Assistant Pro-fessor Keri Brondo, Ph.D, from the Department of Anthropology in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy will also be involved adding to the multi-disciplinary nature of the team.

Michael Chisamore, RA, LEED AP, Assistant Pro-fessor of Architecture, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Design at the University of Mem-phis, received funding for the “TERRA Monitoring

Project” from the FedEx Institute of Technology. This project consists of monitoring the energy us-age and conducting a post-occupancy evaluation at the TERRA (Technologically + Environmentally Responsive Residential Architecture) sustainable demonstration house designed by students and faculty in the Department of Architecture and constructed in the Uptown Neighborhood in downtown Memphis. The team will also work with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity to monitor new “sustainable” Habitat houses constructed in Memphis. The project also in-volves exploring the interior architectural uses of bio-plastics in partnership with Habitat. M.Arch student Jenna Thompson, LEED AP, will bring her research in bio-plastics into the project. Inte-rior Design Assistant Professor Chere Doiron, NCIDQ, will also be involved as will architecture and interior design students in several studios.

Kate Bidwell, LEED AP, fourth year architecture honors student, received the national Special Accomplishment Award from the American Insti-tute of Architecture Students for her outstanding work with the Ordinary to Extraordinary: Learn-ing and Leading Green project and other “green” design projects. Ms. Bidwell is past-president of the University of Memphis AIAS chapter.

uNIvERSIty oF NoRtH CaRolINa CHaRlottE

Professor Christopher Jarrett has been named inaugural Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Since 2002, he was Associate Director of the Architecture Program at Georgia Tech where he had significant international teaching and pro-gram directorship experience. His research and teaching traverses a wide range of environ-mental design issues. He and three colleagues received the BP Solar Award for Innovation in the 2007 Solar Decathlon Competition, an AIA/Atlanta COTE Award, and the College’s Out-standing Interdisciplinary Research Award. He has secured and managed over $1,000,000 in grant and fundraising work. He is the author of over 30 articles and papers, has won numerous design awards, and has been published widely, including Japan Architect, Architecture, Pro-gressive Architecture and Interior Design.

Professor and Dean Ken lambla secured a three-year exchange agreement with Tongji University

following a five-week summer study abroad pro-gram in China led by Associate Professor Peter Wong and Assistant Professor zhongjie lin. Faculty and students traveled to Beijing, Xian, Yuanyang, Kunming, Lijiang, Shangri-La, Dali, Suzhou, and Hong Kong. The program included visits to Xian University, Kunming Technical Insti-tute, and Tsinghua University, as well as a 10-day workshop at Tongji University in Shanghai.

Professor David Walters, with colleagues from The Lawrence Group, received an Outstanding Planning Award by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association for The Mountain Landscapes Initiative, a community-funded planning and design effort to create environmentally responsible design and devel-opment practices across seven counties and sixteen municipalities in western North Carolina.

Professor Eric Sauda and Associate Professor Greg Snyder organized the exhibit “The Archi-tect of an Education” at the Hodges Taylor Gal-lery in Uptown Charlotte, featuring the work of three thesis projects from Spring 2009.

Associate Professor Deb Ryan is leading the civic engagement campaign for the San Jose Envision 2040 Plan. Using Wikiplanning, an on-line, self-created tool that incorporates Web 2.0 technology, the City’s goal is to engage 10,000 local residents in a community-wide conversa-tion. Wikiplanning is also being used to solicit input into the Carolina Thread Trail, a 15-county, 500-mile greenway effort surrounding Charlotte, and as a component of a Strategic Planning ef-fort that she is also leading in Bessemer City, NC.

Assistant Professor Jeff Balmer presented “A House Can Hurt: Cinematic Representations of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #22” at the 2009 ACSA Southeast Conference at SCAD.

Assistant Chris Beorkrem presented “Chang[e]ing Identities” at the 2009 ACSA Southwest Con-ference at the University of New Mexico. Work-ing in collaboration with School’s Digital Design Center, Beorkrem received a grant from EPA’s P3 (People, Prosperity, Planet) Awards program. Project WIM (Waste Information Modeling) fo-cuses on the use of digital manufacturing and parametric modeling to create building compo-nents from local industrial waste products. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 34)

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Both Balmer and Beorkrem are Co-Chairing the 26th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, 18-21 March 2010 (www.soa.uncc.edu). MADE: Design Education & the Art of Making seeks to appraise the role of making past, present & future, both in teaching design and in the design of teaching. Keynote speak-ers include David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) and Simon Unwin, author of Ana-lysing Architecture.

Instructor Jen Shields research on spatio-temporal thresholds of industrial artifacts was awarded a Bicentennial Swedish-American Ex-change Fund grant, sponsored by the Swedish Institute and the US State Department. Instruc-tor Michael Williams of Liquid Design won Charlotte Business Journal’s 2009 Green Mixed Use Project of the Year Award for “Celadon” and a Green Land Development Project of the Year Award for “The Element.”

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The College of Architecture and Design has named Scott Wall, the new director of the School of Architecture. Professor Wall, who is an alumnus of Davidson College, UT Knoxville, and Rice University, has taught in the college for 6 years. Prior to teaching at UT Knoxville, Wall taught at several institutions, including Rice Uni-versity, where he received his Master of Archi-tecture; Tulane University, where he taught for 14 years; and the Georgia Institute of Technol-ogy, where he was a visiting assistant professor. Wall’s experience in the practice of architecture includes work at firms base_arc and BarberMc-Murry, Inc. in Knoxville, the Architectural Coali-tion in New Orleans, Pope/Sherman Architects and Peter Waldman Architects in Houston. One of Wall’s most noteworthy accomplishments has been the Finland Summer Semester Program, which he started at Tulane and brought to UT Knoxville. Wall was named a Fulbright Fellow in 2003 and also was honored in 2007 for the urban design project NOLA 2020: City Districts on High Ground. The project was a re-design of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Associate Professor George Dodds has re-turned to the faculty after a year of sabbatical and leave. An ACSA Distinguished Professor

and a University of Tennessee James R. Cox Professor, during his leave he was the Mickel Visiting Lecturer at Clemson University’s School of Architecture (Spring 2009) where he devel-oped and taught their first graduate Research Studio. The theme editor for the Journal of Architectural Education’s (JAE) special issue “Criticism in Architecture,” (February 2009), he was a respondent/panelist in a paper session, based on the JAE theme issue, held at the ACSA 2009 national conference in Portland Oregon. The session was organized and moderated by the national conference co-chair Phoebe Crisman and included George Baird, Trevor Boddy, and Thomas Fisher. Professor Dodds’s “Ceci tuera cela: Digitalia and Its Unintended Consequences,” was one of several invited es-says on the future of digital publication in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. He was an invited plenary speaker at the 25th annual National Conference for the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) at Louisiana State University (March 2009) where he led a panel discussion of the history of the NCBDS. In addition to his ongo-ing book project, Landscape and Garden in the Work of Carlo Scarpa, Professor Dodds is cur-rently developing a Center for Conservation and Stewardship at the University of Tennessee.

Assistant Professor Gregor Kalas received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue research on the late an-tique display of statuary and monuments with-in Rome’s most important urban square. The project, entitled “Statues of the Late Antique Roman Forum: Historical Memory and Digital Reconstruction,” will produce an interactive digital reconstruction of statues on display dur-ing the fourth and fifth centuries CE. This will supplement the preexisting “Digital Roman Forum” produced at the Experiential Technolo-gies Center, a research institute at UCLA. The support for the residency was granted through the NEH’s Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers Program.

Assistant Professor archana Sharma was in-vited to participate in the capacity building seminar on “Rapid Urban Sector Profiling for Sustainability (RUSPS)” organized by the UN Habitat in Nairobi from 15th-19th December 2008; her participation was supported by a University of Tennessee grant.

The design of the College of Architecture and Design¹s Faculty Exhibit Catalogue, “Space + Technology+ Place” received honorable men-tion in How magazine¹s In-House Design An-nual. The exhibit catalogue was designed by Lecturer Diane Fox.

Professors J. Stanley Rabun, PhD, PE, RA and Professor Richard Kelso, PhD, PE, completed Building Evaluation for Adaptive Reuse and Preservation, published by Wiley, John & Sons. This professional guide to evaluating structural and material integrity of existing buildings covers foundation issues to decorative details, identifying the causes of building failures as well as techniques for repair. The book consid-ers building assessment issues for structures of different scales: midsize commercial, small commercial and residential buildings.

uNIvERSIty oF vIRGINIa

Kim tanzer, Respected Teacher, Researcher and Community Advocate, Appointed Dean of University of Virginia School of Architecture.

Kim Tanzer, a professor of architecture whose teaching and research encompass three key ar-eas – the relationship between the human body and the built environment; environmental de-sign and sustainability; and African-American neighborhoods and their role in social equity – became dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture on July 1.

Tanzer, a University of Florida architecture professor and practicing architect, succeeded Karen van lengen, who stepped down at the end of June after serving as dean for 10 years.

In making the announcement in May at a gathering of architecture faculty and staff, University President John T. Casteen III said, “Professor Tanzer brings with her a strong background in collaborative teaching, research and community outreach that will reinforce the future direction of the school and keep it on the path toward excellence. I see the School of Ar-chitecture as a unique treasure here, and I am confident that Professor Tanzer will be a good steward of this treasure.”

Tanzer, a highly regarded teacher and research-er at the University of Florida and a leader in

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national architecture circles, said looked for-ward to her new role at U.Va.

“The University of Virginia is one of the nation’s great universities, and its School of Architecture is among the best in the nation. Both are well-positioned to respond to pressing and emerging global challenges,” Tanzer said. “I am honored to have the opportunity to work on behalf of the school’s exceptional students, alumni and faculty, who are educating tomorrow’s envi-ronmental design leaders and providing critical and timely knowledge and design responses.”

Tanzer brings a broad range of leadership expe-riences, said Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., U.Va.’s execu-tive vice president and provost. “We have been fortunate to attract a new dean who possesses a blend of practical experience in the class-room, understanding of the academy and the need to be at the forefront in her field.”

Some of her recent leadership positions have included president of the Association of Col-legiate Schools of Architecture; chairwoman of UF’s faculty senate and faculty member of UF’s board of trustees; co-founder and founding di-rector of the Florida Community Design Center, Inc.; and special adviser to UF’s president on his universitywide sustainability initiatives.

She has received local and national awards for her community-based architecture practice and service, including for her extensive work in Fifth Avenue/Pleasant Street, a historically African-American neighborhood in Gainesville, Fla.

“Kim has communicated a commitment to the school and to an activist role in the position,” said Edward R. Ford, a University architecture professor who chaired the search committee. “She has made it clear that it is a task she would attack with passion, ability and intellect, broadening the school’s multidisciplinary na-ture while strengthening its foundations.”

“The Architecture School houses a diverse set of disciplines, from painters to furniture design-ers and city planners,” Ford added. “It is almost impossible to find a candidate who appeals to all. Out of hundreds of people considered, Kim demonstrated an ability to empathize and com-municate with all of those diverse constituen-cies – and gain their trust.”

Tanzer began her career at the University of Florida in 1988 as an assistant professor. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke Univer-sity in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree. In 1984, she received her master of architecture degree from North Carolina State University, along with a minor in landscape architecture.

In addition to many scholarly and popular ar-ticles, Tanzer recently co-edited with Rafael Longoria The Green Braid: Towards an Archi-tecture of Ecology, Economy, and Social Equity.

As dean, Tanzer is responsible for, among other things, the Architecture School’s educational af-fairs; the development of its academic programs; effective leadership with students, faculty, staff and alumni; and fund-raising initiatives to en-hance the school’s current and future aspirations.

Tanzer said she is enthusiastic about the chal-lenges of the next five years “I look forward to working with my new colleagues as together we continue the University of Virginia’s missionto create a fair, sustainable world.” vIRGINIa PolytECHNIC INStItutE & StatE uNIvERSIty

Associate Professor Joseph Wheeler, AIA, Pro-fessor Robert Dunay, AIA, Professor Robert Schubert, and Assistant Professor andrew McCoy from the Department of Building Con-struction are leading the School of Architecture + Design’s project for the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The new design is featured in an ex-hibition on sustainability at the National Build-ing Museum in Washington, DC. The project will move to the National Mall in October for the competition. Virginia Tech is one of two teams nationally selected to compete in the Solar De-cathlon Europe in Madrid in June 2010.

Associate Professor terry Surjan’s entry for Advertisement for Architecture will be exhib-ited in Australia in the coming months. The pro-posal, POST-fab, will also be featured in a cata-logue of the exhibition, which is sponsored by OpenHAUS (http://openhaus.org/exhibitions/aa2009/call_for_entries.php). Surjan has also launched a website in association with the pro-posal and the works of Chicago Studio 2009, www.post-fab.com.

Visiting Assistant Professor Marie zawistows-ki’s firm OnSite, LLC (Partners: Keith & Marie Zawistowski) have received a 2009 Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture for their transfor-mation of the 200-year old Arrit Farm House in Potts Creek, Virginia. The Arritt Farm House will be featured in an exhibition at the Virginia Center for Architecture as well as published in Inform magazine.

Professors Ronald W. Daniel, associate pro-vost for undergraduate education, Dennis J. Kilper, and Joseph C. Wang, have been con-ferred the “associate provost and professor emeritus” title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

The title of emeritus may be conferred on retired professors and associate professors, administrative officers, librarians, and exceptional staff members who are specially recommended to the board of visitors by Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger. Nominated individuals who are approved by the board of visitors receive an emeritus certificate from the university.

A member of the Virginia Tech community for 32 years, Daniel initiated and championed the uni-versity’s Common Book Project, inviting authors to campus and engaging faculty and students in

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university-wide discussion to strengthen a shared intellectual experience. Under his leadership, the Core Curriculum was reviewed and revitalized, resulting in the Curriculum for Liberal Education, a key element of undergraduate education at Vir-ginia Tech today.

Daniel also provided leadership to the Under-graduate Honor System which promotes the highest possible standard of intellectual and scholar conduct within the community. He took great interest in education abroad, accompany-ing students on European study tours, overseeing the Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva, Switzerland, for a period of time, and ad-vocating for international student experiences.

In the College of Architecture and Urban Stud-ies, he served as chair of the Foundation Archi-tecture Program for more than eight years, de-partment head for four years, and was a faculty leader in undergraduate curriculum matters.

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1975, Kilper provided strong leadership while serving as co-chairman of his college’s Under-graduate Architecture Program and chair of the Graduate Program in Architecture, instituting many significant academic initiatives, including specialized courses in building systems, com-puter simulations, and technical case study. He also made many contributions to the college’s Ph.D. program.

He also advanced to the teaching mission of the Architecture Studio at the Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva, Switzerland.

During his career, his work has been recognized with three honor awards and one merit award from the Virginia Society of the American Insti-tute of Architects. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, he held the T.A. Carter Professor of Architec-ture chair in the School of Architecture + Design.

A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1965, Wang has contributed to the advance-ment of scholarship in the field of Chinese culture and the design and development of Chinese gardens. His professional accomplish-ments have been recognized through his selec-tion as a Winterthur Fellow and grant recipient from the Graham Foundation for Advances

Studies in the Fine Arts. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Wang has also served as chairman of the Grad-uate Program in Architecture and as his col-lege’s assistant dean for academic affairs.

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ARCC Journal: An Academic Free Access Journal for Architecture May 2010 Volume 7 Issue 1

Guest Editors: John C. Stallmeyer, Lynne M. Dearborn The University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaign

The ARCC journal is an e-journal initiated in 2004 by the Board of ARCC as a source for informa-tion on research in architecture. The journal is a blind peer reviewed journal that invites submis-sions on a wide variety of topics in architecture, interior design, industrial design, planning and landscape architecture. Issues of the journal will occur twice a year with one issue focusing on specific themes of architectural research.

Effective design and planning for a sustainable urban future must respond to the interrelationship of cultural patterns, and new technologies for buildings, infrastructures, and ecosystems within specific urban contexts. By 2050, urban populations are expected to double to 6 billion accord-ing to the United Nations, with 93% of this growth coming in less developed cities and regions regardless of their location in a putative global north or global south. Architects have historically been engaged with the design of urban environments at multiple scales from the macro to the micro -- from the new town and its infrastructure to the park bench and its landscape -- while remaining focused on humans and their quality-of-life. This theme issue asks contributors to explore ways of rethinking the world’s rapidly growing urban environments. Papers may present empirical research that addresses the design of sustainable urban environments or explorations that examine theoretical frameworks for empirical work leading to new ideas about sustainable urban environments. Because the issues addressed are highly complex, interdisciplinary research is encouraged, as is an engagement with multiple scales of analysis.

We solicit research or evidence based articles related to but not limited to the following major themes:1. Case study investigations of exemplary environments. 2. Examinations of policies that promote sustainable urban environments using innovative

technological solutions. 3. Responses to historic or current cultural patterns to create more sustainable urban futures. 4. Use of new technologies that offer appropriate solutions for sustainable urban futures. 5. New urban development frameworks that address adequate and equitable standards of

living for all members of society while not exceeding global carrying capacity. 6. New research methods, tools and technologies that offer innovative avenues for evidence-

based design strategies leading to increased urban sustainability such as remote sensing, GIS, and carrying capacity analysis.

Schedule: December 1, 2009- Abstracts due December 21, 2009- Acceptance of abstracts notification February 1, 2010- Draft papers due February 26, 2010- Comments returned to authors March 22, 2010- Final draft due April 9, 2010 – Comments returned to authors April 26, 2010 – Final papers due

Contact: Jeremy voorhees, associate Editor: voorhj@temple.edu

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Call FoR PaPERS: DESIGN EDuCatIoN 2010The International Journal of Architectural Research (Archnet-IJAR) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Design Education 2010: Explorations and Prospects for a Better Built Environment. Co-edited by Professors Ashraf M. Salama and Michael J. Crosbie, this special is-sue of Archnet-IJAR is intended for publication in July 2010. The special issue of Archnet-IJAR will be structured around three categories of contributions that include Paradigms, Positions, and Practices with contributions that address transformations in philosophical foundations, approaches, program contents and structures,models of teaching, case studies and empirical findings. http://www.archnet.org

tHE RotCH tRavEllING StuDIoThe Rotch Travelling Studio annually awards a $20,000 travel grant to enable educators in archi-tecture schools to take students abroad for first-hand study of foreign architecture. The Committee will award a check in December to one lucky studio class. Faculty members in any U.S. NAAB-accredited schools are invited to submit proposals for travel anywhere outside the United States. Studios must be directed by the faculty applicant and should supplement a specific design studio at the school. Deadline for proposals is October 24. www.rotchscholarship.org/studio.

aSSoCIatIoN FoR PRaCtICal aNDPRoFESSIoNal EtHICSCall for Papers | Annual Meeting March 4-7, 2010The Association for Practical and Professional Eth-ics (APPE), an organization that encourages inter-disciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics, will host its Annual Meet-ing in Cincinnati, OH, from March 4-7, 2010. Both members and nonmembers of the association are encouraged to submit papers, panel topics, case study presentations, pedagogical demonstrations, and proposals for “Lunch with an Author” and “Au-thor Meets the Critic” sessions in all areas of practi-cal and professional ethics. Postmark deadlines for submissions to the APPE Annual Meeting: October 16, 2009: submission deadline for Formal Paper, Panel, Pedagogical Demonstration, Case Study Presentation and Discussion and Author Meets the Critic October 9, 2009: submission deadline for “Lunch with an Author” discussions.www.indiana.edu/~appe/annualmeeting.html

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announces the 2010 Education

Honor Awards Program.

We celebrate excellence in architecture education in all of its venues—from

classroom to studio, and from community work to other educational settings.

We acknowledge the achievements of the outstanding teachers who design

these innovative programs that prepare the next generation of architects.

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• address cross-disciplinary collaboration;

• contribute to the advancement of architecture education;

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• promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other

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JAE Volume 63:1 Now Available OnlineExecutive Editor: George Dodds

vernacular architecture in the age of Digital ReproductionTheme Editors: Michelangelo Sabatino and Bruce Webb

In this fi rst biannual issue, the JAE revisits the relation of local and regional specifi city to cultural and informational ubiquity. From the theme editors: “Professional interest in vernacular traditions comes and goes among architects; but as background or foreground it is always there, a reliable counterpoint to self-conscious professionalism. The subject, considered here by practicing architects and historians (all of whom teach), is especially important in light of the increasingly codifi ed and bureaucratized education and practice of architects around the globe.”

Theme contributors include:Caroline Maniaque BentonMarlon BlackwellDeborah FauschDonlyn LyndonJuhani PallasmaaScott Wheland Wall

Continuing our focus on the role of design in architectural education, one-third of the pages in this issue are de-voted to Design as Scholarship, most in color. In the “Translations | Transactions,” a section new to the JAE, Ulrike Altenmuller and Matthew Mindrup provide the fi rst English-language translation of Bruno Taut’s, The City Crown (1919). Also in this issue are reviews of “Adaptive Reuse in Paris,” exhibitions of the work of Louis Kahn, Le Cor-busier, and 11 books and documents.

The JAE is always interested in hearing from its readership and authors. Please contact George Dodds at: gdodds@utk.edu.

Please see page 9 for the Call for Submissions for the 64:2 issue.