2006-07 ACSA Annual Meeting

MI S S ION

To advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty and students. This support involves:  serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of the discipline and related disciplines;  facilitating teaching, research, scholarly, and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity;  articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education; and  fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance.

S TAT E ME N T

This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with col-

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE

19% Annual Programs

lateral organizations, dissemination of information, and response to the needs of the member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society.

5% Investment Income 1% Contributions 10% Grants & Contracts

2006-07 ACSA Faculty Design Award Michael Hughes & Selma Catovic-Hughes, University of Arkansas, Moreland Residence

11% Publications

54% Membership TOTAL REVENUE $1,831,244

ASSETS

Current Assets

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Accounts Receivable

Accrued Interest Receivable

Prepaid Expenses

Total Current Assets Investments Property and Equipment Cash—Permanently Restricted

Total Assets

15% Publications 9% Private Contracts and Grants

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

16% NAAB Support 12% Membership Services Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20006 tel 202.785.2324 | fax 202.628.0448 | www.acsa-arch.org

TOTAL EXPENSES $1,563,704

Net Assets

Unrestricted

Unrestricted—Board Designated

Permanently Restricted

Total Net Assets

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

$857,085 $79,983 $30,000 $1,480,017

$37,703 $14,585 $74,799 $127,087

$36,368 $1,286,562 $30,000 $1,352,930 $1,480,017

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13% National Office

Current Liabilities

Accounts Payable

Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue

Total Current Liabilities

$352,759 $118,650 $12,620 $28,920 $512,949

R E P O R T

20% Annual Programs

Jury selection for Preservation as Provocation:Rethinking Saarinen’s Cranbrook Academy of Art, International Competition. Tod Williams, Martin Finio, Jorge Otero-Pailos & Marja-Ritta Norri

A N N U A L

2006-07 ACSA Faculty Design Award Matthew Lutz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Smokehouse

PUBLICATIONS Routledge Series ACSA partnered with Routledge/Taylor & Francis to create the “Architectural Education Series,” a thematic anthology of papers presented at ACSA conferences and intended as supplemental readers for lecture and studio courses. The first volume in the series, The Green Braid, addressed sustainability in architecture and was published in March 2007. | Journal of Architectural Education In 2007, the Journal of Architectural Education marked 60 years of publication and announced the appointment of George Dodds, ACSA Distinguished Professor and Cox Professor at the University of

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Tennessee, as the new executive editor. Dodds began his term at the helm of the premier peer-reviewed architecture journal, which had been led by Barbara Allen since 1998.

including a 48-hour charrette at the 95th Annual Meeting, sponsored by the Brick Industry Association (BIA), which challenged

ME S S A GE

12 teams to complete a design featuring the innovative and flexibile use of brick. | The Portland Cement Association (PCA) organized their competition around innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives,

diverse group of specific subjects and interests that nonetheless found their grounding in the multidimensional discussions that

in both a structure and a component category. This marked the second year for the “Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World”

emerged from specific sessions and carried over into others. | Cranbrook 2007 Co-chaired by Daniel S. Friedman,

competition. | The 7th annual ACSA/American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) competition devoted its main program to

Joyce M. Noe, and Norman H. Strong, the joint ACSA Teachers Seminar at Cranbrook Academy of Art was held in conjunction

design of a “Museum of Steel” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Students looked at the varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel

with the AIA Summer Practice Institute. The theme, “Integrated Practice and the Twenty-First Century Curriculum,” engaged

as a building material, this time exploring the reclamation of an underdeveloped waterfront as a prime opportunity for creating a city focal point. | The “Preservation as Provocation: Re-thinking Saarinen’s Cranbrook Academy of Art” competition, sponsored Training, was the first to address the emerging field of preservation design. The program challenged students to discover how the preservation of extraordinary buildings can provoke a profound rethinking of our current design conventions. | The 2006-07 year was a big year for ACSA partnerships and grants. In October 2006, ACSA was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for “Architectural Solutions to Security in the Design and Construction of Airports.” The three-year grant supports a student design competition, research grants for ACSA member programs, and work with partners in architectural practice to promote the contributions that architects can make to solving security and safety issues through good design. The grant follows on the 2005-06 Airport.Security.Circulation student design competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Autodesk and the American Chemistry Council also engaged ACSA to develop innovative teaching resources.

Both projects are slated for use in the 2008-09 school year.

CONFERENCES In 2006-07, ACSA held three major meetings in North America, plus a wonderful series of academic fall conferences—in Quebec City, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles—where faculty presented cutting-edge research and students were active participants in learning about faculty work at a variety of schools. | 2006 ACSA/Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Administrators Conference: Synthetic Partnerships/ Natural Alliances The Arizona State University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture welcomed over 180 deans, directors, and chairs to a beautifully refurbished Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale for what was one of ACSA’s most successful Administrators Conferences. The conference theme—[Synthetic Partnerships] Natural Alliances—was supported by a daily focus on challenges that underpin the goals of schools of architecture and landscape architecture across the country. Taliesin West, with Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Dean Victor Sidy and Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation CEO Phil Allsopp, welcomed ACSA members for a sunset reception followed by an engaging keynote speech by Dr. George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State. | 95th Annual Meeting: Fresh Air Over 500 educators, students, and practitioners gathered in Philadelphia in early March for the 95th ACSA Annual Meeting, co-hosted by Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania. It was the highest number of attendees in the last 10 years. The meeting attracted great publicity, particularly because of the keynote lecture by 2007 Pritzker Prize winner Richard Rogers. The PSFS Building, Howe and Lescaze’s modernist skyscraper and National Historic Landmark, was an ideal setting for the stimulating discussions sparked by the theme, Fresh Air. For the first time, the meeting’s paper topics were selected from a competitive open call to the membership. The result was a

2006-07 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award John Quale, University of Virginia, ecoMOD

participants to ask what needs to change in architectural curricula given the major changes occurring in the design and construction industries today. Participants heard challenges from a wide range of distinguished panelists, and worked together in 11 teams to create alternative pedagogies, curricular infrastructures, and program formats. The result will be a graphically and conceptually engaging proceedings.

AWARDS Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community

DIR E C T OR S

COMPETITIONS/GRANTS/NEW PROGRAMS In 2006-07, ACSA held four student design competitions,

by The American Institute of Architects (AIA), DOCOMOMO, and National Center for Technology and Preservation and Technology

2006-07 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition – Category II, Open – 1st Place | Students: Matthew Beasoliel & Noel Moreno | Faculty Sponsor: Gerard Smulevich | Woodbury University | Divert City: United States-Mexico Border

B O A R D

P R E S IDE N T ’S

In 2006-07, ACSA expanded its reach and strengthened our support of architectural programs and faculty. | We connected more than ever with our diverse membership and linked beyond our borders to architectural educators around the world. During my year as ACSA president, I visited over 60 of 127 accredited architecture programs and attended meetings from Baja to Prague, with stops in Quebec City, Milwaukee, Tuskegee, San Antonio, Eugene, Washington, Crete, Minneapolis, New York, Vancouver, and elsewhere. Throughout those travels I found the work done at ACSA schools to be vigorous, committed to excellence, and highly focused on architecture as a professional practice. | During the past year, the organization also helped produce several victories for architectural education. We regained support from the U.S. accrediting organization for the establishment of new B.Arch programs, helped to change the model law recommending when architecture graduates can take licensing exams, and worked to increase financial support for accreditation so that the architecture’s professional organizations directly support accreditation on an equal basis with schools. | ACSA participated in efforts to improve the architectural internship and hlep some struggling programs reorganize and renew themsleves by bringing practicing architects and schools closer together. | The ACSA Board of Directors strengthened its governance structure with a new conflict of interest policy, and several other task forces looking at regional representation and our peer review policies. | ACSA’s conferences brought some of the highest attendance in recent years. If you went to Philadelphia or Scottsdale or Cranbrook, you were treated to addresses by a soon-to-be-announced Pritzker Prize winner (Lord Richard Rogers), the mayor of Phoenix, and president of Arizona State University. You also engaged in closely argued discussions of why architectural curricula must change in light of integrated practice and imperatives to build carbonneutral buildings. | ACSA deeply appreciates all the support and participation we have received this past year, from schools from San Diego to Quebec City and with enrollments of a few dozen students to over a thousand. We also benefited from a dedicated, hard-working and creative staff of seven in the national office. | Theodore C. Landsmark

PRESIDENT Theodore C. Landsmark , M.Ev.D., JD, DFA (hon.), PhD Boston Architectural College

CANADIAN DIRECTOR George Baird University of Toronto

VICE PRESIDENT Kim Tanzer, RA University of Florida

NORTHEAST DIRECTOR Stephen White, AIA Roger Williams University

PAST PRESIDENT Stephen Schreiber, FAIA University of Massachusetts Amherst

EAST CENTRAL DIRECTOR Lisa Tilder, RA Ohio State University

TREASURER Sabir Khan, RA Georgia Institute of Technology

WEST DIRECTOR Loraine D. Fowlow University of Calgary

SECRETARY Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle , D.Arch, RA Hampton University

SOUTHWEST DIRECTOR Russell Rudzinski University of Arkansas

SOUTH EAST REGIONAL DIRECTOR Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA University of Virginia

STUDENT DIRECTOR Catherine McNeel American Institute of Architecture Students

WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR Keelan Kaiser, AIA Judson University

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michael Monti, PhD Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

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 2006-07 ACSA/ AIA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education was awarded to Lance J. Brown, City College of New York. Brown’s achievements draw from a lifelong commitment to strengthening the relationships between academia, the profession, and the public. Other awards were given for ACSA Distinguished Professor, the highly competitive Faculty Design, Collaborative Practice, ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching, and the Best Article and Best Design Article in the Journal of Architectural Education. This year also saw the creation of a full-color joint ACSA/AIA Architectural Education Awards publication.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS Important governance task groups convened during the 2006-07 year. ACSA adopted a board and volunteer conflict of interest policy to address a number of difficult-to-resolve issues. The board also created an independent Audit Committee to further strengthen our financial management systems. | ACSA got started early on preparations for the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s (NAAB) 2008 Accreditation Review Conference (ARC). The board of directors created topic-focused task groups to identify and prepare position papers on key issues for the ARC. This conference, involving the key organizations shaping the future of architecture curricula, will confront the vast changes now occurring within design education and the professions. The results will affect graduates through 2015. | ACSA reestablished a working relationship with the European Association for Architectural Education, with two meetings in Europe and plans for a one-day meeting at the November 2007 Administrators Conference in Minneapolis. Together, the organizations continue to explore ways of better assessing learning outcomes for architecture students in an increasingly technological and globalized environment. | ACSA participated in a multiorganization strategic planning process for the NAAB. Together the leadership of ACSA, NAAB, AIA, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), renewed their commitment to equally supporting an accrediting body with a clearly defined mission of serving U.S. architectural education programs, collecting core data on architectural education, and participating in international accreditation activities. The result of the planning process was a new funding agreement in which the professional practice organizations increased their direct support of NAAB and matched the support of ACSA and its accredited and in-candidacy programs.

2006-07 ACSA/PCA Student Competition – Component Category – 1st Place | Students: Henry Louis Miller | Faculty Sponsor: David Howard Bell | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Clean-up: Dirt Built/Cement Made