2010-11 ACSA Annual Report

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2010-11

ACSA Annual Report

ACSA Faculty Design Award “The Krogmann Headquarters” Martin Despang, University of Arizona

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

ACSA MISSION

ABOUT ACSA

• Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline; • Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity; • Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education; • Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ACSA Faculty Design Award “The Aurora Project” Jason Kelly Johnson & Nataly Gattegno California College of the Arts & University of California Berkeley

President Daniel S. Friedman U of Washington

East Central Director Gregory A. Luhan U of Kentucky

West Central Director Gregory Palermo Iowa State U

Vice President Judith Kinnard Tulane U

Northeast Director Brian Kelly U of Maryland

Canadian Director Michael Jemtrud McGill U

Past President Thomas Fisher U of Minnesota

Southeast Director Phoebe Crisman U of Virginia

Secretary Patricia Kucker U of Cincinnati

Southwest Director Ursula Emery McClure Louisiana State U

Student Director Danielle McDonough American Institute of Architecture Students

Treasurer Nathaniel Q. Belcher Pennsylvania State U

West Director Mark Cabrinha California Polytechnic State U, SLO

Public Director Judith Welch Wegner U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Executive Director Michael J. Monti

FROM THE PRESIDENT

BEYOND THE RESET Daniel S. Friedman, University of Washington

ACSA’s 99th year witnessed continuing shifts in the conditions and requirements for education and practice, dominated again by the economy. Industry analysts estimate the payroll in U.S. architecture offices declined 25 to 30 percent from its peak in 2008. Extrapolate this estimate among the 104,000 registered architects practicing in the United States, and the implications for traditional practice are severe. Questions of central concern to the ACSA membership include how we best sustain 28,000 students and 5,600 full- and part-time teachers as we await some recovery. To this end ACSA launched the Atlas Project, a data collection and visualization effort that seeks to equip members with integrative data useful in the management of continuing fiscal ambiguity. The pilot study explored two questions about the future—enrollment, employment—asking more specifically where will architecture graduates in the class of 2020 go, and where will 2020’s new architecture students come from. The results were a set of infographics that debuted at the 99th Annual Meeting and are available on ACSA’s website. The Atlas Project will continue, and new data are forthcoming.

Other significant issues emerged over the course of the year. The prospect for revisions to the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s Conditions for Accreditation started a wave of planning, as well as collaboration, for the ACSA and other national architectural organizations. We look forward in the coming year to sheafs of reports on higher education, architectural practice, student finances, and more as the profession and its leaders adjust regulations and requirements to new economic and professional realities.

In the meantime, ACSA also began cultivating long-term areas of development for education and research. Emerging alliances between architecture and public health were featured at the Administrators Conference in Washington, DC, as part of a program that gave visibility to the profession’s efforts to bring evidence-based

ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award “The Pod Home” Lisa Tilder & Stephen Turk, Ohio State University

ACSA/AISC 11th Steel Student Design Competition Homeless Assistance Center: “Resource Tent” Student: Iroha Ito / Faculty Sponsor: Robert Fakelmann Louisiana Tech University

practice to the foreground of architectural practice. The importance of research to architecture and other programs with which it is embedded in the university is central to the ACSA’s ongoing efforts to establish a National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED). Efforts to secure long-term funding and administrative support for NAED remain among the board’s continuing priorities. The NAED seeks to elevate the disciplinary status of architecture and related professions among traditional federal funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, among others. As a coalition of all the professional and educational organizations in environmental design, the NAED continues to create a network of organizations and experts that can advise policymaker on matters related to national urban and environmental policy. In the spirit of this initiative, ACSA, NAED, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) held a series of meetings last fall to explore the part of public health that belongs to design, including and especially the role of design in promoting physical activity, which is a proven defense against obesity and related lifestyle diseases, such as hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.

Papers and panels at the 99th Annual Meeting in Montreal testify to the intellectual breadth and vitality of our professoriate and to the healthy migration of topics and projects across diverse disciplines, scales of intervention, and problem fields.

No less evident was our determination to ensure equity and opportunity among our ranks. Among many distinguished honorees in Montreal, ACSA celebrated the career achievements of Professor Larry Speck, University of Texas at Austin, recipient of the 2011 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.

ACSA’s 99th year is also noteworthy as a prelude to the 2012 centennial year, where three years of planning and execution by staff, board, and scores of volunteers will culminate in memorable activities that our incoming president, Judith Kinnard, will address in this space one year from year. That said, allow me to thank Judith for her superb leadership and also single out centennial planners Brian Kelly and Marleen Kay Davis with appropriate gratitude and congratulations. Thanks also to our 2011–12 officers and board members listed in this report.

Last spring ACSA ended the print version of the ACSA News, shifting to an all digital format on a redesigned platform. The new website is part of a new communications program led by executive director Michael Monti, along with communications director Pascale Vonier. In addition to Mike and Pascale, we owe a fruitful 99th year to operations director Eric Ellis, development manager Mary Lou Baily, conferences manager Jonathan Halpin, advertising coordinator Kevin Mitchell, and membership coordinator Danielle Washington. Our success as an association flows from their continuing service and goodwill.

Most importantly, please allow me to thank you, the membership, both for the privilege of joining you in such a worthy undertaking, and for your many outstanding contributions to the community of schools. I look forward to future conversations.

Daniel S. Friedman, President

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

ANNUAL PROGRAMS

The 2010 ACSA Administrators Conference: Design, Leadership & the Public Imagination welcomed deans, directors, and chairs to Washington, DC to engage in conversations with government leaders, sharpen the debate about the civic efficacy of professional education and practice, and to explore new ways in which the profession can engage and inspire the public. The 99th Annual Meeting: Where Do You Stand, held in Montreal, Canada and hosted by McGill University and Université de Montréal, provides a venue to articulate, develop, and question where architects stand with respect to thinking and doing in architecture. University of Hartford and Universty of Illinois at Chicago each hosted an ACSA Fall Conference.

ANNUAL DESIGN COMPETITIONS ANNUAL DESIGN COMPETITIONS In 2010-11, ACSA held two student design competitions. The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) organized their 11th steel student design competition program around innovative designs for Homeless Assistance Centers that incorporated sustainable steel design objectives, in both a set and an open category. ACSA partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Howard University’s School of Architecture and Design to host the first stage of the Haiti Ideas Challenge.

The challenge asked students and emerging professionals in the design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, among others, to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods and structures affected by the 2010 earthquake.

ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AWARDS ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AWARDS Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector. The 2010-11 ACSA/AIA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education was awarded to 2011 Lawrence W. Speck, FAIA, University of Texas at Austin.

Other awards were given for ACSA Distinguished Professor, Faculty Design, Collaborative Practice, ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching, Best Article and Best Design Article from the Journal of Architectural Education, and a newly added Diversity Achievement Award.

ACSA Creative Achievement Award: “ecoMOD” John Quale, University of Virginia

2010-11 FINANCIAL STATUS

REVENUE $1,849,813 MEMBERSHIP

65%

EXPENSES $1,835,441 23%

19%

NAAB

PUBLICATIONS

BALANCE SHEET ASSETS Current Assets

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Accounts Receivable, Net

Promises to Give

Accrued Interest Receivable

Prepaid Expenses

Total Current Assets

$484,451 86,024 17,950 12,022 105,190

Investments

1,195,972

Property and Equipment, Net

88,789

Cash—Permanently Restricted

30,000

Total Assets 16%

15%

ANNUAL PROGRAMS

ANNUAL PROGRAMS

14%

14%

PUBLICATIONS

MEMBER SERVICES

SUPPORT/OTHER

OTHER

5%

GRANTS

4%

CONTRIBUTIONS

3%

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Current Liabilities

Accounts Payable

Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue

Total Current Liabilities Net Assets

Unrestricted

Unrestricted - Board Designated

Temporarily Restricted

Permanently Restricted

Total Net Assets Total Liabilities and Net Assets

10%

8%

GRANTS

5%

100TH

705,637

$2,020,398

$59,163 68,881 350,236 478,280 36,371 1,442,797 32,950 30,000 1,542,118 $2,020,398