ACSA News February 2009 by Pascale Vonier

february 2009 volume 38 number 6

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Membership to Elect First Public Board Member Read all candidate statements for the 2009 election starting on page 4

in this issue: 2

President’s Message

NAAB Board of Directors Call

2009 ACSA Board Elections

Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

2008-09 Student Design Competitions

2009 ACSA Fall Conferences 2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

REGIONAL NEWS

OPPORTUNITIES ACSA Calendar

2008-09 Collaborative Practice Award Winner Ted Shelton, University of Tennessee SEED: Designing for Tennessee’s State Parks

from the president

a world of change by marleen kay davis

acsaNews Pascale Vonier, Editor Editorial Offices 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006, USA Tel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448 Website: www.acsa-arch.org ACSA Board of Directors, 2008–2009 Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, President Thomas Fisher, Vice President Kim Tanzer, AIA, Past President Mitra Kanaani, AIA, D.Arch, Secretary Graham Livesey, Treasurer Patricia Kucker, East Central Director Brian Kelly, AIA, Northeast Director Andrew D. Chin, Southeast Director Ursula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Southwest Director Stephen Meder, West Director Keelan Kaiser, AIA, West Central Director George Baird, FRAIC, AIA, Canadian Director Deana Moore, Student Director Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director ACSA Mission Statement 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 discipline; • Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity; • Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education • Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society. The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0448. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

Like so many others around the country, and in spite of the uncertain economy, I welcome the changes to come with the Obama administration. Nationwide, a desire to tackle environmental issues coincides with the new President’s agenda for “change.” Obama’s commitment to the environment as well as his pledge to “invest in infrastructure” are opportunities for the architectural profession to provide guidance, expertise, advice, and ideas. The AIA has unveiled an amazingly focused “Rebuild and Renew” advocacy center, intended to influence government policy for the investment in infrastructure. Their web site includes a variety of research and resources, identifying the “problem” and the “solution”: http://www.aia.org/rebuildandrenew. Furthermore, this site directs user comments to government officials and the Obama Team. Rather than sitting on the sidelines, AIA has enabled designers to spearhead community rebuilding efforts. I encourage faculty around the country to visit this website and take action. Since 2007, ACSA has led the formation of a “National Academy of Environmental Design”, which will be similar to the existing National Academies in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies bring together leading experts in their fields, known as fellows, who focus their expertise on answering important policy questions through research and symposia. Fellowship in a National Academy is a prestigious lifetime achievement for our colleagues in engineering, medicine, or science. The National Academy of Environmental Design would centralize the currently dispersed research efforts in environmental issues, such as air quality, energy use, materials, transportation systems, and health risks. Furthermore, and most importantly, design is a form of applied research that can effect change: innovative design of buildings and communities will be critical for environmental transformation. Because buildings consume 70% of electrical power and are responsible for 40% of carbon gases emitted in the United States, architecture must be a key component of environmental research. Based on research that develops principles for best practices, designers can implement environmental change, while providing a sense of community and improving healthy lifestyles. http://www.naedonline.org/ As Congress considers carbon-cap-and-trade legislation, extensive funding will become available for research in environmental issues. We hope that the National Academy of Environmental Design will be a focal point for that funding, keeping in mind that design is a transformative implementation of applied research. Centralizing research efforts will not in any way undermine existing research throughout the country, instead the National Academy of Environmental Design can provide synergy in linking the efforts of research universities, national labs, design centers, research centers and other existing entities dedicated to understanding, exploring, and implementing environmental transformation.

ACSA REPRESENTATIVE ON NAAB BOARD deadline: march 10, 2009

Established by a congressional charter under President Abraham Lincoln, the existing National Academies are considered a national resource, connecting research expertise and public policy. Given the global environmental crisis, now is the time to create a new National Academy dedicated to environmental policy. In its present formative state, the National Academy of Environmental Design is self-funded by the participating organizations. Ultimately, we would like to see the congressional charter extended to include this new Academy, with a funding and organizational structure similar to the National Academy of Science.

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

By enhancing the visibility of architecture as an integral component of environmental change and research, the creation of a National Academy of Environmental Design helps all schools of architecture, not just those in large research universities. This National Academy outlines a broad definition of research, in which design is understood as applied research, similar to the distinction often made between the pure research of scientists and the applied research of engineers. University administrators, who have long recognized the significance of the other National Academies, will better understand the role of architecture in its overlapping teaching, research, and service missions.

The appointment is for a three-year term (Oct. 2009 – Oct. 2012) and calls for a person willing and able to make a commitment to NAAB. The final appointment will be made by the sitting NAAB board itself through selection from a pool of names established by this call for nominations. While previous experience as an ACSA board member or administrator is helpful, it is not essential for nomination. Some experience on NAAB visiting teams should be considered necessary; otherwise the nominee might be unfamiliar with the highly complex series of deliberations involved with this position. Faculty and administrators are asked to nominate faculty from an ACSA member school with any or all the following qualifications: 1. 2. 3.

With best wishes, 4. 5. Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA

the naed mission “The National Academy of Environmental Design serves the public by promoting the flourishing of individuals, communities, and the natural world through the sustainable design and stewardship of human and natural environments.” For more information visit naedonline.org

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

For consideration, please submit a concise letter of nomination along with a CV indicating experience under the above headings, and a letter indicating willingness to serve from the nominee, to: ACSA (NAAB Representative) / Eric Ellis 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20006 E-mail nomination preferred to eellis@acsa-arch.org.

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Expectations are high for President Obama and the challenges are great. I hope our architecture students, faculty, and colleagues in the profession can provide leadership and ideas as we address environmental change and infrastructure improvements. As a key venue for peer recognition and input, ACSA would like to help advance our many efforts, through our website, our conferences, our awards, our publications, and the establishment of the National Academy of Environmental Design.

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call for nominations

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CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT

Daniel S. Friedman, FAIA, University of Washington

Candidate Statement In Achieving Our Country, the late American philosopher Richard Rorty offers a useful distinction between spectatorship and agency. On the one hand, Rorty’s academic spectator operates within a universe of skeptical disengagement, contemptuous of political activity but content to criticize it from a safe distance. In contrast, Rorty’s agent is someone who thinks of academic citizenship as an “opportunity for action,” someone who dreads stasis or “any condition in which we might take for granted that our purpose has been accomplished.” Agents are activists who directly engage society and its institutions, “restless within established norms,” who “look forward rather than upward,” who give “full play” to human imagination mindful that “no [past] achievement can give us a template on which to model our future.” Rorty’s distinction between spectatorship and agency seems uniquely appropriate to questions currently driving architectural education. Despite much progress, he exhorts us to remember that our country is still in formation, also arguably our profession. Yet even as we absorb the outcome of last October’s Accreditation Review Conference and further mediate its diverse perspectives, few among us would disagree about the underlying aim of our curriculum: greater knowledge, better design, truer craft; expanded research, increased competence, improved communication; broader collaboration, deeper public engagement, greater influence in the widening effort to realize social equity and a sustainable future. Today’s grand challenges intersect the heart of our vocabularies and offer us expanding contexts for action. Architecture matters in new ways; we’re steadily and positively externalizing and broadening our discourse, whose compass increasingly includes the requisites of ecological integrity. The ACSA-led National Academy of Environmental Design promises to remedy a longstanding blind spot in the scientific community and deserves vigorous development. Still, as we gauge our emerging responsibilities in view of these century-shaping problems—climate change, urbanization, global economic recovery—our professional repertoire comes up short. How education in architecture addresses its internal priorities, research agendas, and engagements with adjacent disciplines is therefore paramount, especially given the way studio uniquely structures the quality of our encounters with vocabularies different from our own, arguably the wellspring of hybrid methodology. Our association enjoys significant momentum in its aim to take on these issues, thanks to the wisdom and leadership of many dedicated colleagues, including ACSA board members and officers, past and present. What greater honor or privilege than joining them and you in the work of achieving our profession.

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2009-10 ACSA Board Election Timeline January 21, 2009 Ballots mailed to all Full-member Schools February 20, 2009 Deadline for receipt of ballots in ACSA office March 28, 2009 Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Portland The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. For candidate statements and curricula vitae, please visit acsa-arch.org.

CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT

Graham Livesey, B.Arch, M.Arch, Associate AAA, University of Calgary

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Candidate Statement …all education is environmental education. David Orr, “What is Education For?”

The world at large has been plunged in to an economic crisis that has already had dramatic impact upon the lives of many architectural educators, students, and practitioners in North America. We can hope that out of this emerges an economy and a profession that are more equitable and sustainable. The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a vehicle for disseminating the values of contemporary architectural education; the organization has been successful in recent years because of leadership that has provided vision, collaboration, and experience. This has meant that decisions have struck the right balance between innovation and fiscal restraint, and have included a general striving for excellence and inclusiveness. The ACSA has also been proactive by addressing broad issues that face both architectural education and society at large. One example of this is the spearheading of the National Academy of Environmental Design initiative under the leadership of Kim Tanzer, Marleen Davis, Tom Fisher, and Michael Monti. Driven by another crisis, that of global warming and environmental degradation, the ACSA has brought together a broad group of representatives from the design disciplines to create a powerful and unified coalition that can tackle pressing environmental design issues, and advocate for the powerful role of design in society. Other examples of effective collaboration include the work on the accreditation review process over the last two years, and the recent agreement to develop a cross-collateral Education Analysis. This last initiative will systematically study the spectrum of education from architecture school, through internship, to practice. It is one my hopes that through this mechanism that some of the complicated issues facing architectural internship can be addressed.

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to make the ACSA as inclusive as possible for all members including building science educators, historians, and active practitioners to provide support to member Schools during difficult economic times to help make architectural internship as effective as possible for recent graduates to maintain the many vital initiatives currently under way, including the National Academy of Environmental Design, the ACSA centenary initiatives, and the Education Analysis to preserve the fiscal health of the ACSA and continue to continue to look to ways to streamline the ACSA’s operations

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As a Canadian architectural educator I bring a slightly different perspective on many of the issues that we collectively face. I have for many years appreciated the vital role of the ACSA as an academic organization, I have participated directly as the Canadian Director on the ACSA Board (2003-2006), and as the current ACSA Treasurer. I have worked with a remarkable group of educators and staff over the last six years, a group that has transformed the organization, and I believe made it very effective. I have been involved in many initiatives, directly and indirectly; my particular contributions have addressed fiscal prudence, improving academic quality, and broadening the range of member services. Beyond my work with the ACSA, I have been an architectural educator since 1991. During that time I was a principal of an architectural practice (1995-2004), the Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Calgary (2000-2006), and have been broadly involved in teaching, scholarship, and service. I am very familiar with the many issues facing architectural education, internship, and the profession in the US and Canada. I am seeking election as the President-Elect because I strongly support in the mandate of the ACSA, and believe that I have the requisite experience and commitment. My personal priorities are:

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CANDIDATE FOR treasurer

Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, Florida International University

Candidate Statement With appreciation for the nomination, I am pleased to submit this letter of introduction concerning the Treasurer Position of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. I am excited about the prospect of joining the ACSA Board of Directors and I appreciate the opportunity to present my qualifications and interest in the position. I have always considered the ACSA a vital contributor to my teaching, research and academic networking since my initial appointment at an ACSA member school in 1992 as an Assistant Professor. Over the last 17 years I have presented / reviewed papers, juried teaching prizes, moderated sessions and attended/ participated in regional, national, international as well as administrative conferences. I have also had various committee appointments with several collateral organizations at both the regional and national levels. I have taught at three member schools; The Ohio State University, Tulane University and Florida International University in Miami Florida. Over the past 6 years I have also worked in academic administration, first as the I Assistant Dean and eventually the Director of the FIU School of Architecture. In my position as Director of the Florida International University (FIU) School of Architecture (SOA) I worked to create an interdisciplinary confederation of strong design disciplines dedicated to the education of expressive, innovative, critical and diverse designers in the disciplines of architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. During that time, I participated in the re-accreditation of our Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture Programs as well as the initial accreditation of our Bachelor of Interior Design Program. We have also added a professional bachelor of landscape architecture and a professional Master of Interior Design Program, both or which are in candidacy status. During this period, I have helped guide the school through two major administrative reorganizations and the successful completion, occupation and management of a new facility.

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The position of Treasurer of the ACSA is a key role because of its focus on the budget and financial reporting of the organization as well as the chairmanship of the financial committee. The Treasurer, working closely with the board and the finance committee, which includes the Vice president, has a strategic communication role. I believe my recent experiences with strategic planning processes, administrative reorganizations, and perennial budget cuts have prepared me for the challenges of the ACSA treasurer position. I have witnessed the measured growth and increased fiscal stability of the ACSA and feel it currently enjoys strong effective dedicated leadership. I relish the opportunity to join such an accomplished group. I hope this brief letter of introduction will serve to assist as you decide whom to support. I would appreciate the opportunity to work with you and represent you as the ACSA Treasurer.

CANDIDATE FOR treasurer

Keith Diaz Moore, The University of Kansas

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Candidate Statement I seek to serve ACSA as treasurer because of my enthusiasm for the emerging direction of the organization and the important challenges that our profession and education face, including environmental degradation and social justice. I am currently in my third year as Chair of the architecture program at the University of Kansas. In this role, I have had the great pleasure of working with a visionary Dean and an enlightened faculty in carefully considering the changing nature of architecture given these challenges. Prior to this, I taught at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at Washington State University where I learned the great value of interdisciplinary dialogue and its critical importance to the thoughtful consideration of these issues.

In order for ACSA to be effective in continuing these worthwhile initiatives, it is imperative that the organization have strong financial stewardship. It is quite clear that our country is facing difficult economic times, with many of our member schools facing difficult financial periods including discussion of freezes and rescissions. Certainly here at Kansas we have already been affected and know what looms on the horizon. It is during these periods of difficulty that a clear sense of prioritization and vision is essential and those priorities should stem from a solid value position. ACSA will not be immune from these difficulties but simply must not shy away from the important directions on which it has embarked. The stakes are too great and the outcome too important for the organization to lose focus on what is truly critical at this time and place in the history of architectural education and our society at large. If elected Treasurer, my perspective will be to have the budget viewed as our organizational values expressed in dollar terms. Our values and priorities must be held with conviction and must lead budget discussions. I look forward to working collaboratively with the board at this critical time.

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I have personally been impressed with the strong ethical positions taken by ACSA over the past few years regarding climate change, knowledge discovery and diversity. I am an ardent believer that the issues of environmental degradation and climate change need to be fundamental drivers in shaping new paradigms for architectural discourse and practice. These issues are of such magnitude and of such urgency, that the need for an Academy of Environmental Design seems self-evident. I am proud that ACSA has taken a leadership role in developing a more robust effort at design-based knowledge development. I see these same issues as also highlighting the criticality of diversity within our field. In a recent visit to our school, Larry Scarpa emphasized the need for diverse talents and abilities to collaborate to effectively tackle these enormous problems. I wholeheartedly agree that our immediate present and future require a greater range of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences and that teams must develop the ability to transcend traditional boundaries. Similarly, we must become more culturally literate and culturally responsive in our designing thinking and making. The socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability are often overlooked, but absolutely essential as our field moves forward.

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CANDIDATE FOR public director

James H Carr, National Community Reinvestment Coalition

Candidate Statement The current foreclosure crisis sweeping America is undermining one of the most valued goals and treasured accomplishments for the typical American family— namely, the dream of homeownership. In addition, the millions of foreclosures are destabilizing families and communities, threatening the solvency of the financial system, and pushing the economy toward a long and protracted recession. Although the end of the foreclosure crisis remains far into the future, it will one day end. When it does, many communities across the nation that have been disproportionately affected by this crisis will require substantial attention and investment to recover. The recovery and rebuilding of many of the nation’s most vulnerable communities, in particular, will demand substantial investment, combined with thoughtful and innovative planning and physical design consideration. While a dispiriting period for America, this is also a time of great opportunity to revisit the physical structure of communities across the nation and work toward a physical and social rebirth in ways unimaginable only a year ago. This opportunity is particularly promising given substantial potential for hundreds of billions of dollars to be invested in the nation’s long-neglected infrastructure. From my earliest professional years of practice, I have consistently maintained a strong view that the built environment strongly influences the perceived and real quality of community life. Much of my interest in the physical design and functionality of cities and their communities is based on my formal training as an architect. And that interest can be seen in many projects I have initiated and managed. In the late 1990s, for example, I directed a major community reinvestment initiative, in my capacity at the Fannie Mae Foundation. That effort, which supported more than $1 million in planning, architectural, and related fees, brought to life a comprehensive rebirth of one of the District’s most distressed areas, the Howard University-Le Droit Park Community. Within five years of the launch of that effort, the Howard-Le Droit community was transformed from one of the most struggling housing markets in Washington, DC, to the fastest appreciating community in the City. A key aspect of this plan was the inclusion of a large mix of affordable housing units. Sorg and Associates, the lead architectural firm selected for the project, eventually received a national community design award from the American Institute of Architects.

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In the spring of 2000, I worked with many of the nation’s foremost urban designers to share with and market to dozens of communities across the country, photoreimaging technology and its potential as a powerful planning tool to help community residents, planners and policy makers understand the potential of investing in distressed communities. That effort was highly successful and I codified my thinking about our accomplishments with this technology in an article titled “Reimaging Distressed Communities: A Strategy to Reverse Decline and Attract Investors.” Many of my prior partnerships and initiatives hold great promise for future endeavors. I enthusiastically look forward to building stronger and lasting bridges to professionals within the ACSA community to maximize the extraordinary potential of exceptional urban design and leading-edge community investment techniques.

CANDIDATE FOR public director

Judith Welch Wegner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Candidate Statement ACSA provides a clear focus: spanning the discipline’s diverse areas, encouraging intra/interdisciplinary work, articulating critical issues within the context of architectural education, and fostering public awareness. ACSA also provides clear avenues of action: advocacy, annual programming, linkage with related organizations, dissemination of information, and response to schools as a means of enhancing the quality of life in a global society. It would be a real privilege to assist in this important work.

Background and Experience in Legal Education and Universities Experience as Leader of the Association of American Law Schools. I served as the Association of American Law Schools’ President in 1995, after several years of service on its accreditation (now “membership review”) and executive committees. The AALS’s mission is quite similar to that of the ACSA. My work with AALS would help me appreciate and contribute to the work of the ACSA. Experience as a Law Dean and Legal Educator. I was dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law from 1989-1999. During this period I was able to contribute to curriculum innovation, broaden cross-disciplinary initiatives (including with other professional schools), expand faculty diversity, improve student support, broaden international connections, encourage faculty scholarship, develop expanded placement and pro bono programs for students, and broaden outreach efforts. I also worked with other campus leaders to address budget challenges, engage in long range planning, information technology needs, foster greater public engagement, and provide greater support for junior faculty, women, and faculty of color. Broader Perspectives on Professional Education. From 1999-2001, I was a senior scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, serving as principal investigator for their study of legal education. During that period I learned a great deal about engineering, teacher education, doctorial education, and assisted in developing perspectives incorporated into the Foundation’s cross-professions studies and related work. Since that time I have worked with schools and faculty colleagues around the country to encourage needed reform. Broader University Experience. I served as Chair of the Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2003-06 and during that period worked actively with faculty, students, staff, and university leaders drawn from many disciplines. I am currently chair of the University of North Carolina System’s Faculty Assembly (composed of elected faculty delegates from 17 campuses with diverse missions), and have been involved in ongoing work on assessment, student access, non-tenure track faculty, public engagement and more.

Desire to Serve Architects must be effective collaborators with those in other disciplines, and must bridge short-term interests and the longer view (for example, by attending to issues of sustainability). I look forward to learning more about the architecture’s accreditation process and how it has helped educators build capacities such as these. I believe that great insight can come from comparative work involving diverse disciplines and institutions. My work with the Carnegie Foundation has confirmed the value of cross-professions pollination, and I hope I could both learn and contribute to architectural education at this important time. Architecture has made important strides in thinking about assessment of professional competencies and encouraging excellence in educational programs. I believe that legal education must learn and embrace some similar strategies and look forward to learning more about the path the Board and architectural programs have followed to date. I enjoy working with members of the legal profession as well as legal educators. We have much to learn about how to build effective bridges between the academy and profession and look forward to working with the architects approach related challenges.

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Interest in Architecture Although I am not a trained architect, I have a strong interest in this area. Experience with Architects and Architecture. While I served as dean of the University of North Carolina, I secured public funding for a major law school addition and renovation. I had the chance to work closely with an outstanding architect in shaping a collaborative design process, and monitoring all the ups and downs of construction. I have also served on a local town council, a county planning board, and a continuing care and retirement community board, all of which have had reasons to engage with architects and design. I believe this experience provides me with a good understanding of what the public expects and needs from architects and architectural education. Architectural Education. City and Regional Planning. I have an adjunct appointment with the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, have taught both undergraduate and graduate students with interests in urban planning and design, and serve as adviser to students seeking joint urban planning and law degrees. My experience as a teacher of property and land use law has also led me to understand issues that arise in the context of development and construction, and hope that an appreciation for that arena would also be useful to you.

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call for nominations

ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster deadline: march 10, 2009

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

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

Nominating Procedure 1. Members of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on visiting teams for a term of four years. 2. Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via ACSA News. Proposals must include complete curriculum vitae. 3. The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters.

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

Nominee Qualifications • The candidate should demonstrate: • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience; • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work; • Administrative experience; and • An association with several different schools. Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.) ACSA Nominee Selection Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively, are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteristics exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service.

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

A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB, AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if: • The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated with a rival institution; • The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution; • The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to evaluate the program. NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S. Department of Education guidelines. Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting. Nominations Deadline and Calendar The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a curriculum vitae, is Monday, March 10, 2009. Send nomination materials to: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ACSA (NAAB Visiting Team) / Eric Ellis 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20006 eellis@acsa-arch.org E-mail nomination preferred; please send all nomination information to eellis@acsa-arch.org. Nominations must be received by March 10, 2009. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2009. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team Nomination form. NAAB will issue the roster of faculty members selected for 2009-2010 team visits in November 2009.

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O P E N C A L L fo r D e s i g n S u b m i s s i o n s Journal of Architectural Education Design Editor:

Jori Erdman Louisiana State University

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

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General “Design as Scholarship” submissions (those not related to a particular theme call) received by March 12, 2009 at 5 PM EST, will be juried by the JAE’s Design Committee in March 2009. Premiated submissions (received by March 12 and juried in at our March meeting) will be eligible to be published during the 2009-10 academic year in the JAE’s Volume 63. Submission Deadline for inclusion in the Fall issue of Volume 63 is March 12, 2009, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in a later issue. Refer all inquiries to:

George Dodds, PhD JAE Executive Editor gdodds@utk.edu

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

Vernacular Architectures in an Age of Globalization Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions Theme editors: Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston (msabatino@uh.edu) Bruce C. Webb, University of Houston (bwebb@uh.edu)

A parallel interest in the industrial vernacular as a product of “anonymous” and rational engineering was advanced by socially-minded architects, urbanists, and historians such as Walter Gropius, Ernst May, Le Corbusier, and Siegfried Giedion. These and others variously advocated a manner of building largely based on efficiency and optimal performance, informed by a vernacular and in opposition to bourgeoisie aesthetics. During the 1960s and 70s American architects such as

Robert Venturi - Denise Scott Brown and Charles W. Moore exploited the exuberant commercial vernacular of American highways as a foil to a received modernism mired in sterile uniformity.

US Eastern Time Zone. Accepted articles will be published in the first bi-annual issue of the JAE, 63:1 (October 2009).

Viewed in terms of the oppositional role they have historically played in cultural-political contestation, what role is there for vernaculars in contemporary practice? Do methods and processes drawn from “outsider” (i.e. non- professional) sources affect contemporary design and discourse, or have they been supplanted by formulaic attitudes of architectural practice and production? Do vital contemporary vernaculars continue to inform and challenge contemporary architectural ideas, practice, and education? This issue of the JAE invites text based (scholarship of design) and design based (design as scholarship) submissions that explore the impact of vernaculars in modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The submission deadline for all manuscripts for this theme issue is Monday, March 16, 5pm

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

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Since the eighteenth century, the vernacular has served to dialectically challenge mainstream architectural establishments. Based in the linguistic distinction between Latin and locally spoken languages of the “people,“ vernacular was borrowed from discourse on linguistics and culture to architecture as a way to recognize the empirical genius and vitality of indigenous architecture distinct from classical architecture and its codes. Throughout the twentieth century, rural building traditions inspired anti-academic, anti-historicist architecture – from Adolf Loos to José Luis Sert and Marcel Breuer.

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NEW ONLIN E SU BMIS SION S

CONCRETE

thinking for a sustainable world

international student design competition

Opportunity

This fourth annual Concrete Thinking For A Sustainable World competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility. Category I TransiT Hub Design an environmentally responsible Public Transportation Center focusing on architectural innovations to preserve tomorrow’s resources. Category II building ElEmEnT Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.

Execution

Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” digital submission boards and a design essay uploaded through the ACSA website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or Image (JPEG) Files - www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

Payoff

Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive prizes totaling nearly $50,000.

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registration begins registration deadline submission deadline results

dec 05 2008 Feb 09 2009 Jun 03 2009 Jun 2009

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Program updates, including information on jury members, as they are confirmed, may be found on the ACSA website at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

sponsors

Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) and administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

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

Re-thinking Kahn’s Salk Institute, 2008-09 International Student Design Competition

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Preservation as Provocation

INTRODUCTION Jonas Salk commissioned the renowned Philadelphia architect Louis I Kahn to design his new Institute for Biological Studies in 1959. Together they collaborated and designed a facility uniquely suited to scientific research. This competition invites architecture students to imagine the next chapter in the life of one of America’s architectural treasures, which was designated a Historic Landmark in 1991. This challenge asks designers how the preservation of these extraordinary buildings can provoke a profound rethinking of our current conventions about composition, construction, and building performance. The aim is to envision a new type of facility that would be unimaginable without the existing structures.

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THE CHALLENGE The Salk Institute has been a highly successful research facility, but the changing landscape of science requires an evolution of the campus; along with respect of the architectural and historic integrity of the site. According to the Salk Institute’s Master Plan, “Our successful recruitment efforts are dependent on having state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment, as well as ancillary support systems that allows our scientists to focus on their work.” Embrace the design scheme and intent of the original master plan. SCHEDULE

December 05, 2008

Registration Begins, online

February 09, 2009 June 17, 2009 June 2009 Summer 2009

Registrations Deadline Submission Deadline Prize winners chosen by the design jury Competition Summary Publication

(registration is free)

AwARDS

Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $10,000. The design jury will meet in June 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa arch.org/competitions.

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Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions.

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2008-2009 acsa/aisc

Life Cycle of a School STEEL design student competition

INTRODUCTION The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the ninth annual steel design student competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. Administered by ACSA and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. THE CHALLENGE The ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories: Category I – LIFE CYCLE OF A SCHOOL will challenge architecture students to design a school for the 21st century that critically examines life cycle and proposes an innovative solution in steel. The problem of urban growth and decay is larger than an individual building. Therefore, architects should consider a total life cycle assessment approach to designing buildings so that they may be adaptable, flexible, and accommodate change. This project will allow students to explore many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for schools because it offers a high strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts, or prefabricated, to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over the life of the facility. Category II – OPEN with limited restrictions. This open submission design option will permit the greatest amount of flexibility. SCHEDULE December 5, 2008 February 9, 2009 May 6, 2009 May 2009 Summer 2009

Registration Opens online (registration is free) Registration Deadline Submission Deadline Prize winners chosen by the design jury Competition Summary Publication

Awards Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000. The design jury will meet in May 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at acsa-arch.org and the AISC web site at aisc.org.

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SPONSOR American Insitute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and marketbuilding activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.

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

NEW ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

How can we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings

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INTRODUCTION The 2008-2009 GREEN COMMUNITY Competition is oriented to challenge students to rethink their communities. From major cities to college campuses, designers, planners, policy makers, and citizens are rethinking their own towns and cities’ relationship to the environment, from where the energy originates, to where the waste ends up. The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition will expand on themes from the National Building Museum’s sustainable exhibits Green Community (2008-2009), Big and Green (2003), and The Green House (2006–2007). The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition will focus entirely on the issues of sustainable development—how can individuals plan, design, and construct the world between the buildings. The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition will encourage students to consider environmental sustainability dependant upon collective, community-scale efforts. The competition will also examine ways of reducing the impact of our built environments on the Earth. The competition will explore sustainable planning strategies such as brownfield/grayfield redevelopment, transit-oriented communities, natural resource management, and land conservation. THE CHALLENGE The GREEN COMMUNITY Competition offers students the opportunity to think critically about their communities, looking ahead to a sustainable future. Locate a site in your local community or region, identify the barriers and strengths to living sustainably, and develop a proposal to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. December 5, 2008 Registration opens online (registration is free) February 9, 2009 Registration Deadline May 20, 2009 Submission Deadline June 2009 Prize winners chosen by the design jury Summer 2009 Competition Summary Publication Awards Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $7,000. The design jury will meet June 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org/ competitions). Competition finalists will present their concepts at the National Building Museum with travel costs covered by the competition sponsors. Prize winning submissions will be exhibited at the National Building Museum, highlighted in Architectural Record, displayed at the 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting and at the 2010 AIA National Convention, and will be published in the competition summary publication.

COMPETITION ORGANIZERS The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 to enhance the quality of architectural education. ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design. The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and planning. Essential to the profession for more than 110 years, Architectural Record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.

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

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COMPETITION SPONSORS Since 1857, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has represented the professional interests of America’s architects. As AIA members, over 74,000 licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners express their commitment to excellence in design and livability in our nation’s buildings and communities. Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K Architects) is an internationally-renowned firm that has distinguished itself by creating great places. McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. From project and product information to industry news, trends and forecasts, we provide industry players the tools and resources that help them save time, money, and energy.

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Southeast Fall Conference architecture is a thing of art Co-chairs: Matthew R. Dudzik and Alexis D. Gregory Savannah College of Art and Design October 8-10, 2009 “ARCHITECTURE is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.” Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture Architecture continually struggles with the duality of episteme and techne as expressed through the requirements of reliability and inspiration. These are all ensconced in the three principles laid out in the Vitruvian Triad of firmness, commodity and delight; but how do we, as architects and educators, instill all of these equally into our students? The ever consistent dialogue between the profession and academe raises the question of how to balance the art and the technical in architectural education. The goal is to create a dialogue for the sharing of thoughts and ideas that address the questions raised by the theme of Architecture is a Thing of Art that will focus on the areas of knowledge, craft, art and pedagogy.

SouthWest Fall Conference Chang[e]ing identities: Design, Culture + Technology

Co-chairs: Tim Castillo, Phillip Gallegos, Kristina H. Yu, and Don Gatzke University of New Mexico University of Texas at Arlington (co-sponsor) October 15-17, 2009 Understanding the value of “place” and cultural specificity bring a unique design, technical, and economic responses that challenges traditional canons of practice and pedagogy. The contemporary world is undergoing a major shift in cultural process, global culture is a ubiquitous condition that is a product of media and emerging networks defined by new technologies. As designers we are asked to respond and shape the future utilizing new tools to create designs that will respond to fluid transformation of built environment. As we begin to understand the future of design as a convergence of disciplines, culture and technology, a new paradigm for creating space can emerge. As schools of design begin to recalibrate, the profession continues to explore the interdisciplinary collaboration as a means of execution.

November 4-7, 2009 St. Louis, Missouri

2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

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ART+ARCHITECTURE Establishing new directions for creative leadership, education and practice The first joint conference for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA) Host School: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis

the value of design design is at the core of what we teach and practice

portland, oregon march 26-29, 2009 Host School

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University of Oregon Co-chairs Mark Gillem, U. of Oregon Phoebe Crisman, U. of Virginia

thematic overview

By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more significant within society. o What social value does design have for individual inhabitants and clients, for the broader public, and for society as a whole? o What urban and environmental value does design have beyond the building? o What economic value does design have beyond the pro forma? o What aesthetic value does design have for the places and objects of daily life? o What material and technical value does design bring to the physical environment? o What pedagogical value does design education offer to other disciplines? o What are the ways in which design education can promote creative insight and foster the ability to make visions real?

These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Portland is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Architects there have worked collaboratively with other professions to transform Portland into a vibrant, diverse, and livable city that highlights the multiple benefits of design. They have worked with transportation engineers to develop a comprehensive public transit system that focuses development in a predictable way. They have collaborated with landscape architects to ensure that public open space is a priority in the heart of the city and at its edges. They have teamed with urban designers, interior designers, and developers to create memorable settings and buildings that capture the spirit of the place. Within this intellectual and physical context, we ask conference participants to consider the multiple values of design for our discipline, our profession, and our society.

acsa-arch.org/conferences Full Schedule Information including: Paper Session Authors Special Focus Session, Workshop, and Critical Conversation descriptions Digital Abstract Book coming mid-January Online Registration

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

Michael Pyatok

David Miller

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Miller|Hull Partnership University of Washington

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

Topaz Luncheon

Adèle Naudé Santos massachusetts institute of technology

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2009 ACSA/AIA Topaz Winner In addition to her academic work, Santos is principal architect in the San Francisco-based firm, Santos Prescott and Associates. Santos takes a holistic approach to architecture. Her belief that architecture transcends accommodation of programmatic requirements to also satisfy the human spirit has resulted in buildings that are characterized by abundant natural light, connections to nature, and innovative spatial arrangements. She pays close attention to the people affected by her design, whether it be community groups on the development of housing, faculty or administrative committees on institutional projects, or collaborations with artists and administrators on arts-related spaces. Her commitment to design extends beyond practice and academia to embrace civic dimensions. She advises institutions ranging from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Children’s Museum in San Diego, and serves on the peer review committee of the U.S. General Services Administration. “During my entire career, I have combined teaching and practice,” Santos says. “There has always been a cross-fertilization between the two, and, at their best, both teaching and practice have been a form of research. The balance between the two has been an important stimulus to my creativity as a teacher and to my professional work and role as an administrator. Even now, as dean at MIT, I have a small practice, which I find an essential creative outlet, and I continue to teach.”

David E. Miller is a co-founder, with Robert Hull of the Miller/Hull Partnership, a leading Pacific Northwest firm, an architecture professor at the University of Washington, and, since January 2007, has been Chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. Miller/Hull has established its self a reputation for buildings that are Modern, but which draw upon the heritage of Pacific Northwest architecture. The firm is particularly successful in winning commissions for public and institutional buildings as well as designing single-family residences. Their work has garnered numerous local, regional and national design awards. Miller’s book, Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest (2005) offers the theoretical background for his approach to design. Miller became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1994. Miller/Hull was selected as the AIA Firm of the Year in 2003. David Miller and Robert Hull were co-recipients of the Washington State University Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2007.

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patkau architects university of british columbia 2009 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Reciepient Patricia Patkau shares design direction in Patkau Architects with her partner John Patkau. She has a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and is currently a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Since its founding, Patkau Architects has received numerous national and international design awards for a wide variety of building types, including ten Governor General’s Medals, four Progressive Architecture Awards, twelve Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, and an RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence. The firm has also won a number of national and international design competitions for: a major addition and renovation to the Central Winnipeg Public Library, the Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Facility for the University of Texas, Houston, College Housing for the University of Pennsylvania, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario and the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, a new central library for the province of Québec. The work of Patkau Architects has been published and exhibited widely. Over 200 articles in books and professional journals and three books dedicated exclusively to the firm’s work have been published. The work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including 20 solo exhibitions, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 1996, Patkau Architects was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale. Sponsored by: Tau Sigma Delta

Schedule by Theme The 97th ACSA Annual Meeting schedule has been organized into themes that are meant to be broad in scope. This is a tentative schedule and subject to change. Please refer to acsa-arch.org/conferences for the most up-to-date schedule.

Thursday

Technology

1:00-3:00

3:30-5:30

Pedagogy

partner

Partner

SFS | Building Technology Educators Society PS | Teaching Technology as Design (1)

PS | Urban by Design? (1)

PS | The “Social” Value of Design (1)

PS | The Future of the Thesis

SFS | IDP/NCARB

WS | Construction Specifications Institute

PS | Emerging Tech: The Ethics of Digital Design

PS | Open Session on Urbanism

PS | Sustenance in Architecture (1)

PS | Open Session on Pedagogy

Women’s Lead Council

WS | Rhino

Opening Keynote Panel and Welcome Reception

Environment

Awards

8:00-10:00

PS | Teaching Technology as Design (2)

PS | Urban by Design? (2)

SFS | Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

PS | Architectural History and the Design Studio

SFS | Architectural Research Centers Consortium

CC | The Accessible City: Sustainability’s Next Move

Faculty Design 1

10:30-12:30

CC | Structures and Sustainability

SFS | The Instant City: Dubai’s Overnight Urbanity

SFS | Designing for Diversity

PS | Design Curriculum Design

WS | Writing Workshop (JAE)

PS | How Long Can You Tread Water?

Faculty Design 2

12:30-2:00

Poster Sessions

2:00-4:00

PS | Design Abstraction and Building Construction

CC | Living Above Mixed Use and the Urban Environment

PS | Architecture as a Vessel for Values

PS | Pedagogies of Study Abroad

WS | ACSA Distinguished Professor (TTTT)

SFS | Environment & Agency

Collaborative Practice

4:30-6:30

SFS | Contemptible Details

SFS | Design for All

PS | The “Social” Value of Design (2)

SFS | Beginning Design

SFS | Journal of Architectural Education

PS | Sustenance in Architecture (2)

ACSA/AIA Housing

Methodology

Research

Aesthetics

Fall Conf’s

Partner

SFS | Architectural Implications of Global Capitalism

CC | On Fingerprints and the Act of Making

PS | Open Session on History/Theory

PS | Modeling And The Architectural Imagination

PS | Without a Hitch

NAAB APR Preparation

SFS | The Developer’s Dilemma: Design or Dollars?

PS | What is Design Thinking?

CC | Exchanging Change

PS | Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture

PS | Material Matters: Making Architecture

PS | More Out of Less

PS | Group Effort: Successful Collaborative Design

SFS | The Competition: Design as Research

SFS | Aesthetic Experience vs. Performative Action

PS | Architecture in the Age of Digital Reproduction

7:00-8:00 8:00-10:00

ACSA Awards Ceremony University of Oregon host Party

Material 7:30-8:30

Saturday

Society

10:30-12:30

6:00-9:00

Friday

Urbanism

8:30-10:00

ACSA regional Caucuses ACSA Business Meeting

10:30-12:30

PS | Material and the Making of Architecture

12:30-2:00

Topaz Lunch

2:00-4:00

Economy

SFS | Magic of the Real/Challenge of the Virtual

4:30-6:30 PS | Indeter-minancy: Design-build as Reflection-in-Action 7:00-8:00

Closing Keynote

8:00-9:30

Portland State University Closing Party

PS | Paper Session

SFS | Special Focus Session

CC | Critical Conversation

Tau Sigma Delta Member Meeting

WS | Workshop

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Tours Thursday Full Day Tour

Saturday Morning Tour

Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Mount Hood “Loop” Tour Visit many of Oregon’s most famous scenic attractions in one day: Multnomah Falls, the Columbia River and Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood! Tumbling waterfalls, incredible scenic overlooks, orchard-filled valleys, majestic mountains, and the Oregon Trail await you on this tour that climbs from sea level to over 6000 feet in one scenic loop.

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

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

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

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

Sunday Full Day Tour Northern Oregon Coast Tour Journey along Oregon’s breathtaking coastline stopping for viewing wildlife, pristine beaches and rocky cliff headlands. Learn about natural, Native American and regional history.

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

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

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ACSA offers exhibit tables at a special rate for schools at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. The rates include one full conference registration (valued at $395) and one “exhibit hall only” registration, so you can send one representative from the school to attend the full conference, one representative to staff the exhibit booth, and get the price of the table at a generous discount!

Exhibit table/registration $600.00–ACSA member schools Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Your exhibit table space includes: • 6’ table, drapes, for 3 ½ days • School name listed in the on-site program • One full complimentary meeting registration per table and one “exhibit hall only” registration For more information Please contact: Kathryn Swiatek, Membership/ Marketing Manager, kswiatek@acsaarch.org Tel: 202.785.2324 ext 6, Fax: 202.628.0448

Special Services Additional carpeting, lighting, electric, internet etc. are not included and must be purchased separately by the Exhibitor with prior written approval from ACSA and must comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Cancellation Policy In the event that a school must cancel their Exhibit Space, ACSA must receive a written notice no later than Monday, February 15, 2008 to qualify for a full refund. Any cancellations after this date wil result in a $100 cancellation fee and the individual’s full registration will be canceled.

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Host School Tulane University

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Bruce Goodwin, Tulane University Judith Kinnard, Tulane University

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Overview 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 appearance and predict the performance of proposed buildings. Our traditional conception of design is challenged as decision-making can be automated and building parts can be cut, routed or printed to exact tolerances. Yet the ecological, economic and cultural contingencies that surround each project are increasingly complex. Recent events have exposed the fragility of buildings as objects in the face of natural and man-made forces and the critical role of infrastructure has been made increasingly apparent. The 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting will engage multiple themes associated with the changing art of building both as artifact and as process in architecture and related disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional definitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.

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SOUTHeast TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY In October, the Department of Architecture held the official opening of its newly renovated facilities. The $3.65 million Willcox A renovation includes studios equipped with digital projection systems, a new 18-station computer lab and a computer output facility with several large-format plotters and a laser cutter. Designed by pioneer African American architects Albert I. Cassell and William A. Hazel the building opened originally in ca: 1925 and housed the Architecture & Mechanical Drawing program; Photography Studios and teaching lab, and Trades Administration Offices. Legendary African American Architect, Robert R. Taylor’s offices as director of Mechanical Industries were in this building. Among other historic architects who have worked in this building are; Louis E. Fry Sr (1935- 1940), Donald White (1934 – 1941). Edward C. Miller (1935 – 1944) and Dean Welch (1940 – 1968) for the architectural drawing department, one of the earliest architecture programs in a Black institution. Programming and design for the renovation included student and faculty involvement and the project architect, Charles Raines, is an alumnus and former head of the program. The Architecture Program recently hosted a visit from a team from the National Architectural Accrediting Board chaired by Professor Patricia O’Leary, University of Colorado. The Program anticipates receiving the Visiting Team Report by January. A new faculty member, Edouard Din, Ph.D. recently joined the Department at the rank of associate professor. Dr. Din has extensive qualifications in computer applications in architecture including BIM and digital fabrication. Dr. Din will coordinate the Department’s new information technology resources.

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University of Florida The School of Architecture announces the creation of the Alfred Browning Parker Architecture Archives Endowment named for the legendary South Florida architect. The endowment will support and strengthen the Architecture Archives, a partnership between

the School of Architecture in the College of Design, Construction and Planning and the George A. Smathers Libraries to hold thousands of drawings, blueprints, photographs and related records that document architecture and design from the late 19th century to the present. Since its establishment in 2004, the archives has become a leading repository for historical records pertaining to the architecture and architects of Florida, including Parker, Kenneth Treister, Rufus Nims, Darrell Fleeger, the Carrère & Hastings firm and the UF historic buildings drawings. Several other leading Florida architects, including Gene Leedy, William Morgan, Robert Broward, Peter Jefferson, Don Singer and Hershel Sheppard, have pledged the donation of their architectural archives to UF, with more in development. Parker, a UF distinguished alumnus, is famed for his modernist style using local materials that work with the climate and embrace their environment. He designed more than 6,400 projects during his lifetime, mostly in the greater Miami area, ranging from residences to major projects like the Miami Marina. In 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright recommended Parker as an American Institute of Architects Fellow. Associate Professor Donna Cohen and Visiting Professor Claude Armstrong have received a 2008 Holcim Awards Acknowledgement Prize for their work on the TunaHAKI Integrated Theater and Orphanage in Moshi, Tanzania. The project was a collaboration with Saija Hollmén, Jenni Reuter, and Helena Sandman. Cohen and Armstrong’s project was one of 11 projects in the region awarded for applying sustainable construction approaches to the built environment across public and private architecture, urban planning and environmental remediation. Architectural graduate students Glenn Darling and Rachel Stoudt assisted. We welcome Marlon Blackwell and Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects PC as Ivan Smith Visiting Professors. They are directing studios in the Graduate School of Architecture. Diebedo Francis Kere, Architect of Burkina Faso/Germany and Shigeru Ban are the Ivan Smith Visiting Critics.

Associate Professor and Interim Director Martin Gold received two design awards from AIA Gainesville for his work with the Florida Community Design Collaborative. Associate Professors Nancy Sanders, Robert Macleod and Visiting Professor Albertus Wang of SWiMcau also received an award. Assistant Professor of Architecture Bradley Walters, AIA has been appointed to the faculty of the UF Graduate School. The Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, Texas, completed by Professor Walters with RMJM, was recognized with a Merit Award from AIA New Jersey. Assistant Professor Charlie Hailey has joined the editorial board of Environment, Space, Place, the bi-annual journal of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place (IASESP). In December, he presented “From Sleeping Porch to Sleeping Machine: Inverting Traditions of Fresh Air in North America” at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) 2008 Conference in Oxford, England. The paper will also be published in IASTE’s Working Paper Series. Professor of Architecture Gary W. Siebein, FASA, AIA is completing revisions on his chapter Recent Innovations in Acoustical Design and Research along with co-author Professor Emeritus Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., in William Cavanaugh’s Architectural Acoustics book due for a second edition printing in 2009. University of Tennessee-Knoxville T.K. Davis was named a Fellow of the AIA in the 2008 class, based on his urban design expertise and work with the Nashville Civic Design Center. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at CHARLOTTE José L.S. Gámez (Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design) authored two essays in recently published books--the Introduction (co-authored with Susan Rogers

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Virginia Tech students Dan Gussman and Brandon Lingenfelser’s Habitat for Humanity House. Rendering by Dan Gussman and Brandon Lingenfelser

Assistant professor Zhongjie Lin, Ph.D., received a Faculty Research Grant for his ongoing book project entitled Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan. The book will be published by Routledge in 2010. Professor David Walters helped lead design charrettes for master plans in Boone, NC, and Beaufort, SC during October and Novmber 2008 in conjunction with The Lawrence Group, Architects and Town Planners. Walters has also been appointed Program Coordinator for the School of Architecture’s new Master of Urban Design program, which will admit its first class in Fall 2009.

University of Virginia Karen Van Lengen will complete a decade of leadership as Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia in July, 2009. During her tenure, Van Lengen has significantly raised the School’s profile, founded innovative academic programs and publications, built a substantial research culture among her faculty and directed a successful capital campaign as well as remaking the school’s home at Campbell Hall. “It has been a privilege to lead the School of Architecture to a position of prominence and to have shaped its physical setting to reflect its overall mission,” Van Lengen said. “I look forward to the next period in my professional life with enthusiasm and a profound sense of achievement.”

Van Lengen is an award-wining architect who began her career as a Design Associate for I. M. Pei & Partners, New York City. After completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Rome, she established her own practice and gained international recognition with several award winning competitions and projects. From 1995-99 she chaired the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she founded the renowned Design Build Workshop before being appointed Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1999. As an academic leader, Van Lengen championed cross-disciplinary opportunities both within her school and across the University to address the complex environmental and cultural challenges that she dubbed The Architecture of Urgent Matters. She championed the school’s influence (SOUTHEAST continued on page 26)

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in the post-Katrina reconstruction initiatives, supported the development of emergency and sustainable housing programs and encouraged a constructive dialogue between ethics and aesthetics. In support of this overall agenda, Van Lengen created the new Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and oversaw the establishment of the new doctoral program in the Art History and the Architectural History Departments. Van Lengen also developed a strong relationship between the School and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, which has deeply influenced the growth of innovative technology in the School’s curriculum. Perhaps Van Lengen’s most visible contribution to the School and the University has been her vision to transform Campbell Hall and its surrounding landscape by tapping the talents of her own faculty, students and alumni. “I speak for the architects of all these projects when expressing my profound gratitude and honor in working with Dean Van Lengen to help realize her vision and amazing accomplishment,” said W.G. Clark, Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture and the architect of the Victor and Sono Elmaleh Wing at Campbell Hall. Under Van Lengen’s leadership, the School of Architecture has tripled its endowment and as of November 2008, has raised more than 70-percent of the $25 million campaign goal, placing the School of Architecture’s performance above the University average. In 2004, Van Lengen worked with her Advisory Board to establish the School of Architecture Foundation Board, and

together these organizations have built successful outreach and development programs. Stuart Siegel, Chair of the Architecture School Foundation Board, said, “Karen’s leadership, strong vision and active participation in all Board activities have directly insured that the historically unmatched professional, financial and alumni support for the School will remain as one of her greatest legacies for years to come.” As Van Lengen looks forward to new opportunities she celebrates her final year with the many constituencies she has influenced. Fitz-Gibbons Professor of Architecture, Robin Dripps, said, “She brought to the School and the larger University a commanding vision of architecture that engages the large and immediate problems facing the world. Always an advocate for the faculty and the School, Dean Van Lengen’s tenure is marked by her work to provide the resources and inspiration for each one of us to do the best possible work.” Virginia Tech

Two recent architecture graduates Dan Gussman, of Williamsburg, Va., and Brandon Lingenfelser, of Blacksburg, Va., have worked with faculty to design and build an innovative house for Habitat for Humanity that takes advantage of the prefabricated housing process while providing all the attributes of a custom-designed home. The house is part of the students’ undergraduate thesis project with faculty advisors Joseph Wheeler, AIA, associate professor of architecture, and Robert Dunay, AIA, T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture. The house was installed in the nearby town of Christiansburg in December. Career Day 2009 scheduled for Monday, February 23, 2009. Career Day will be held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. Registration can be made by sending your company’s contact information, including names of individuals who will be participating, and a check for $550 for a table, $650 for a table with wall space and $750 for a booth, payable to Treasurer, Virginia Tech to: Trudy Epperly, Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design, 201 Cowgill Hall 0205, Blacksburg, VA 24061.

Jack Davis, FAIA, LEED AP, Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and Reynolds Metals Endowed Professor of Architecture, and Robert Dunay, AIA, IDSA, Director of the Center for Design Research and T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture, have been named two of 26 nationally Most Admired Educators of 2009 by Design Intelligence.

The Ferrari Symposium III: Territories of Opportunity will be held March 19 and 20, 2009. The symposium includes a keynote address by Bruce Mau, a lecture on design research, and a discussion of research projects underway in the school.

Scott Poole, AIA, School of Architecture + Design Director, will serve as Vice President of the Virginia Society AIA in 2009, heading the Professional Excellence Commission.

Mehdi Setareh, PhD, professor, received a grant from the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, for undergraduate architecture students to work with him on a research project for the period of one year.

with the American Institute of Architects, National Park Service and the Library of Congress. As it was stated in the tripartite agreement that formed HABS, “A comprehensive and continuous national survey is the logical concern of the Federal Government.” As a national survey, the HABS collection is intended to represent “a complete resume of the builder’s art.” Thus, the

building selection ranges in type and style from the monumental and architect-designed to the utilitarian and vernacular, including a sampling of our nation’s vast array of regionally and ethnically derived building traditions. The AIA-HABS Coordinating Committee works closely with the partner organizations to ensure the relevance of this important work. The Committee plays

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Ball State University Jonathan C. Spodek, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture has been elected as the 2009 chair of the AIA-Historic American Buildings Survey Coordinating Committee. This subcommittee of AIA National’s Historic Resources Committee supports the long-standing tripartite agreement

the following major roles: to support he NPS in all aspects of the HABS mission; to support and encourage the Charles E. Peterson Prize, based on student HABS drawings; to encourages and facilitates, as needed, liaison between the AIA, National Park Service, and Library of Congress; and to assist in defining and developing the mission, membership, and activities of the HABS Foundation to support all aspects of the mission of Heritage Documentation Programs.

Professor Michele Chiuini co-chaired the Digital Media Applications in Cultural Heritage (DMACH 2008) Conference at Petra University, Amman, Jordan last November. The Conference Scientific Committee received over two hundred papers and about forty were selected for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. The Proceedings were edited by Jamal Al-Qawasmi, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, Sabry El-Hakim of the National Research Council of Canada and by Michele Chiuini. The Conference was supported

Dean and Professor Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Associate Professor Tim Gray and the three students recognized with an Indiana Chapter AIA design Award for the Straw Bale project

by the BSU Institute for Digital Fabrication and Ball State University’s name was prominent on the conference announcements and signage. Last November, associate professor Kevin Klinger delivered two lectures entitled “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture” at the University of Brasilia (Brasilia, Brazil) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, Brazil). Additionally, Klinger and instructor Joshua Vermillion presented a peer-reviewed conference paper at the Design Management in the Architectural Engineering and Construction Sector Conference at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). The paper was titled “Managing the Design-Fabrication Feedback Loop: Visualizing Collaborative Digital Exchanges between Industry and the Academy”. For 34 years, the KROB Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition has celebrated the best in delineation in architecture (architectural drawing). Open to architecture students, professionals and architectural illustrators who are working in the United States, Canada or Mexico, KRob accepts both hand and digital delineation and is the longest-running architectural delineation competition currently in operation anywhere in

the world. Mishayla Binkerd is a third year architecture student and was an active participant and illustrator for CBP charrettes in Lebanon and Logansport, Indiana; Binkerd was selected finalist in the Annual KROB competition. Lawrence Technological University The City of Detroit, lead by current Mayor and former City Council President Ken Cockrel, Jr., has mounted a recent “green” initiative. The City Council and the city are seeking cutting-edge solutions to the usage of the city’s vast tracts of vacant land, including the potential of developing eco-villages—environmentally friendly and affordable prototypes of urban housing. Last Spring, they decided to sponsor a student design competition to launch the effort. The Lawrence Technological University College of Architecture and Design, along with University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, was asked to sponsor and participate in an invited student design competition during January-May 2008. The City of Detroit, the WARM Training Center, the Woodbridge Community Development Corporation, (EAST CENTRAL continued on page 28)

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The Straw Bale Eco Center, a student designed and constructed demonstration project led by faculty advisor Associate Professor of Architecture Timothy Gray, was recently recognized with an Indiana Chapter AIA design Award. The Eco Center respects local climate conditions and resource flows and is the first carbon neutral public facility in the region as well as the first load bearing straw structure. The project has been designed and constructed with students in three separate three-unit electives, over the course of three semesters. The project was initiated with a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and has also received support from the Indiana Department of Energy and Defense, which funded the alternative energy systems, as well as a variety of gifts from private doners and material suppliers. In addition to the AIA award, the project has been recognized with an award from the Green Building Initiative at the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington D.C. in 2007. The facility is intended for use as a classroom and research center as well as a demonstration project. Tours of the facility have begun this semester and include area professionals and grade school students as well as University students. Data is currently being gathered and posted to the project website monitoring the performance of the alternative energy systems as well as the moisture content of the straw bale. For additional info visit http://ecocenter.iweb.bsu.edu/.

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and UDM’s Master of Community Development Program also helped sponsor the competition. The competition challenged students to design an alternate system of sustainable urban living on an 11-acre site in Detroit’s Woodbridge Neighborhood. It was intended to both promote green design in Detroit and to make students more aware of sustainable design principles and standards. The USGBC’s Pilot LEED for Neighborhood Development criteria were

used as the basis for the development of ecovillage schemes. The jury team, led by Architect Teddy Cruz, awarded four winning prizes, two of which went to Lawrence Tech students. “Experience Connections,” a project by The Lawrence Tech team of Graham Spittal and Jason Pillon, was one of the four winners. Jordan Martin, another Lawrence Tech student, received an honorable mention for his project, “Bridging Boundaries.” The award ceremony and reception was held at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID).

The winning students are from the junior-year Detroit Studio led by Associate Professor Anirban Adhya and College Professor Constance Bodurow. The Integrated Design Studio, based from the community outreach arm of the college in Detroit, focused on “sustainable urbanism” as the framework for the competition. The winning entries, along with all other entries from the three universities, will be showcased at the Lawrence Technological University in the Eco-village Detroit exhibition and symposium planned for January 2009.

northeast New Jersey Institute of Technology Glenn Goldman, Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey School of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, has been named founding Director of the newly formed School of Art + Design. In that capacity, Professor Goldman oversees the three existing programs in Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Digital Design and is developing a new Fine Arts program to be launched in 2009. He will bring to bear his considerable strengths as a teacher, an innovator, an expert in digital technology, and an administrator to the School of Art + Design.

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Goldman received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from Columbia University and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2007. Since joining the New Jersey School of Architecture in September 1982, Goldman was one of two individuals spearheading the drive to introduce digital media into the curriculum and continues to serve as Director of NJIT’s Imaging Laboratory. He has served, at different times, as the first, second and third year coordinator for fifteen years and has taught at every level in the School – from first year through pre-comprehensive and comprehensive studios.

Professor Goldman was implementation coordinator for the team that received the Autodesk Revit BIM Experience Award presented to the School in 2007. In 2005 he was cited by Campus Technology magazine as one of the top 13 innovators in the use of technology in higher education. A past co-recipient of a Citation in Applied Research in the P/A Awards program, he was also twice awarded Honorable Mention in the AIA Education Honors Awards program (1989 and 2004). Widely published and active in a variety of professional organizations, Goldman served as the sixteenth president of ACADIA (the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture). The New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the hiring of two new faculty members. Matt Burgermaster has been appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture in the New Jersey School of Architecture at the College of Architecture and Design. Professor Burgermaster received a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning + Preservation. Prior to joining NJSoA, Matt served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Architecture and as Assistant Professor at Syracuse University where he taught studio and seminar courses both here and abroad.

Professor Burgermaster is Principal of MABU Design, LLC in New York City. He is the recipient of numerous design awards including Architectural Record Unbuilt Houses in 2006 for the Hardman Residence, a BSA/AIA Honor Award, an AIA New York Honor Award, and an AIA Texas Design Award, all in 2006, for the Wesner Residence, an AIA Connecticut Design Award in 2005 for the Fowler Residence, and the AIA National Honor Award in 2005 for the Gannett/USA Today Headquarters. Matt has been published in Residential Architect, Architectural Digest, and Architectural Record. Professor Burgermaster will initially be teaching Building Systems II, dealing with materials and methods of construction, as well as design studio. His focus at the School will be the integration of building systems with design using Building Information Modeling (BIM). Andrzej Zarzycki has also been appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture in the New Jersey School of Architecture at the College of Architecture and Design. Professor Zarzycki received a Master of Science in Architecture Studies at M.I.T with a concentration in the Architecture and Urbanism Program. His thesis, conducted under the guidance of Dean William Mitchell and Professor Michael Dennis, and titled Architecture and the City, a Study of Interdependency of Forms, is a computer simulated study of an historical, urban environment and

Professor Zarzycki has been active in private practice in Belmont, Massachusetts and served as senior designer with Tsoi/Kobus & Associates in Cambridge. He is the recipient of several honors and awards including the recent PTFA Professional Development Grant for Interactive Spaces /Sensory Environments, a merit award in 2006 for the Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum Design Competition in Korea, and an EDCO Research Grant through the Boston Architectural Center in 2004 for Defining Authenticity in Architecture; Visual Essay on Time, Sense of Place, and Unavoidable…Change. Andrzej has been published repeatedly in both in Form Z Journal, and by Siggraph in the Electronic Art and Animation Catalog. Professor Zarzycki will initially be teaching courses in building systems as well as design studio. He will also have a role as coordinator of technical courses. His focus at the School will be the application of BIM as a common platform for both studio and non-studio courses. Pennsylvania State University The Department of Architecture has established a Committee for Environmentally Conscious Architecture (CECA). It will serve as a contact partner within our College of Arts and Architecture and for all departments and sustainability groups at Penn State and other national and international Universities. CECA is looking forward to intensively discussing the contents of sustainable curricula in the undergraduate and graduate programs of architecture and related fields. Please send to CECA your comments, questions, or suggestions concerning the teaching of environmentally conscious architecture. Contact CECA: Ute Poerschke (uxp10@psu. edu), Lisa Iulo (ldi1@psu.edu), Malcolm Woollen (msw12@psu.edu)

Syracuse University Internationally acclaimed architect and visiting critic Stanley Saitowitz (Principal, Saitowitz / Natoma Architects, Inc., San Francisco) taught “Urban Generator” in fall 2008 at Syracuse, one of three Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Visiting Critic Studios at the School. The studio proposed a multi-centered evolution of the San Francisco peninsula through expansion of the BART underground that would result in service to other areas of the peninsula and vitalize six new points on the map. Students explored what types of buildings could serve as urban generators, provoke future development, and act to transform the area into a hub that is both new, and characteristic of San Francisco. In fall 2008, Professor Jonathan Massey lectured on Buckminster Fuller and the roots of sustainable design at Colgate University and the University of Virginia. He also presented at Princeton University on an interdisciplinary panel, titled “Queer by Design,” that examined the relations between space and sexuality. Assistant Professor Michael Pelken’s urbanenergy project, originally part of a ‘99K’ housing competition for a sustainable low-cost building proposal, was included in an exhibition at the Austin Center of Architecture in December, 2008. Pelken also participated in an exhibition of recent research on integrated wind technologies into the built environment in conjunction with the Syracuse Center of Excellence Symposium 2008. In October, he presented a paper on his research at the Alternative Energy Symposium 2008 at the Center for Alternative Energy, American Science and Technology in Chicago. University at buffalo

Beyond Archigram: the Structure of Circulation by Hadas Steiner, associate professor of architecture, has been published by Routledge. According to the publisher: “Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram,the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture. The wired environments first advertised on its

pages formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time as complex systems were becoming commercially available. Through archival, theoretical and visual analysis, Hadas Steiner explores the process through which this model was envisaged and disseminated within an international network of practitioners and shows how the assimilation of Archigram imagery set the course for the visual output of what are now commonplace tools in architectural practice. This book will provide a foundation for further inquiry into the integration of digital technology at every level of design.”

A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City, by Despina Stratigakos, assistant professor of architecture, will be published this month by the University of Minnesota Press. According to the publisher: “Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and architecturally. Women located their lives and made their presence felt in the streets and institutions of this dynamic metropolis. From residences to restaurants, schools to exhibition halls, a visible network of women’s spaces arose to accommodate changing patterns of life and work…A Women’s Berlin retraces this largely forgotten city, which came into being in the years between German unification in 1871 and the demise of the monarchy in 1918 and laid the foundation for a novel experience of urban modernity. Although the phenomenon of women taking control of urban space was widespread in this period, Despina Stratigakos shows how Berlin’s concentration of women’s building projects produced a more fully realized vision of an alternative metropolis. Female clients called on female design professionals to help them define and articulate their architectural needs. Many of the projects analyzed in A Women’s Berlin represent a collaborative effort uniting female patrons, architects, and designers to explore the nature of female aesthetics and spaces….At the same time that women were transforming the built environment, they were remaking Berlin in words and images. Female journalists, artists, political activists, and (NORTHEAST continued on page 30)

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the way it evolved. Andrzej received a Master of Architecture with a concentration in Design of Public Buildings from the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland. His thesis, entitled Functional Aspect of Form, is a study in form, function, and meaning in architecture and art, involving an adaptation of a post-industrial facility into a contemporary residence.

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social reformers portrayed women as influential actors on the urban scene and encouraged female audiences to view their relationship to the city in a radically different light. Stratigakos reveals how women’s remapping of Berlin connected the imaginary to the physical, merged dreams and asphalt, and inextricably linked the creation of the modern woman with that of the modern city. “

ETFE – Technology and Design, by Annette LeCuyer, professor of architecture, was pub-

lished by Birkhauser Verlag AG in 2008 (English and German editions). ETFE foil has recently become an important material for the cladding of technologically sophisticated and innovative buildings. Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene is very thin and lightweight thermoplastic and, when used in air-filled cushion assemblies, has enormous strength and a range of adaptive environmental attributes. ETFE cushion enclosures became known primarily through the Eden Project in the UK by Grimshaw Architects, the largest plant enclosure in the world, and the Allianz Arena in Germany by Herzog & de Meuron. Most recently, it has been used for the envelope of

the spectacular National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where the cladding is inspired by the geometry of a continuous array of soap bubbles. This book provides an indepth introduction to the characteristics of ETFE and its applications in building construction. In the context of the recent history of pneumatic buildings and featuring recently completed buildings around the world with ETFE cushion envelopes, the book explores in detail the specific characteristics of ETFE building skins in the areas of structural behavior, light transmission, insulation, acoustics, fire engineering and environmental modification.

Professor Judith Majors presented The Landscape Critic and the Motorcar, at the Designing the Parks. Conference co-sponsored by the University of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the Cultural Landscape Foundation.

designed the curriculum and wrote the majority text for the publication. Skycar City design work is reviewed in numerous journals and is recently launched as a website, www.uwm. edu/SARUP/gallery/skycar/index.html.

The U.S. Green Building Council has certified as LEED Platinum the 5.4.7 Arts Center for Greensburg, Kansas, that was conceived and constructed under the direction of Professor Dan Rockhill. It is the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas.

Five students from the architecture design studio of Professor Thomas Hubka recently returned from a one week trip to Lviv, Ukraine where they worked with Ukrainian students to produce designs for a cultural museum and historic building restoration center. The UWM students were joined in Lviv by students from Hubka’s spring quarter design studio from the University of Oregon. In Lviv the American students were teamed with Ukrainian students from the Department of Restoration and Reconstruction of Architectural Monuments, National University Lviv Polytechnic, under the direction of Professor Mykola Bevz, Department Head.

weST CENTRAL University of Kansas Professor Shannon Criss was awarded the 2008 Educator of the Year award from the AIA Kansas City Chapter. She also presented Idea and Form, about the work of the architect Sean Godsell at The International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) conference in Melbourne. Two architecture students in Professor Barry Newton’s studio at the University of Kansas received commendations in the Portland Courtyard Housing Competition sponsored by the city of Portland, Ore. Hoi Wang Chan, a senior from Hong Kong, and Matthew Clapper, a senior from Grafton, WI.. 4th year student, Clinton J. Armstrong, under the direction of Professor Richard Farnan, received an honorable mention in the ACSA Student MCAsponsored Maritime Museum Competition.

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Professor Peter Pran presented, Realizations, as the Jerrold and Ruth Loebl Lecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in November 2008. Professor William Carswell moderated the Colloquium panel on New Visual Culture at the Kendall Colloquium on Art and Design, in October 2008.

Professors Mahbub Rashid and Kapila Silva have joined the School of Architecture Faculty as assistant professors this fall. Steven Padget is on sabbatical and is working at BNIM Architects investigating the use of BIM (Revit) in practice. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor Kevin Forseth has been elected to serve as the new chair for the Department of Architecture starting January 2009. The Ravine House, designed by Associate Professor Grace La and her partner, James Dallman, was awarded an ACSA Faculty Design Award. Associate Professor Grace La’s studio work in conjunction with the 2006 Marcus Prize winner, MVRDV, is featured this fall at the Venice Biennale. Entitled Skycar City, Grace La

The design project was developed in planning discussions with the directors of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life; a regional folk architecture museum near downtown Lviv. The project is intended to revitalize the museum’s exhibits by developing a new smalltown focus of interpretation. Students prepared designs for a wooden building restoration center that is intended to reconstruct destroyed examples of Ukraine’s monumental religious structures. A component of this Fulbright spon-

sored design program was to address the difficult issue of historic multi-culturalism and interreligious dialogue among the major ethnic and religious communities of Ukraine—principally Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. Lviv and western Ukraine have a historic tradition of multi-cultural community coexistence that was largely destroyed in World War II. The reconstruction of major religious monuments was thus seen as a positive way of interpreting the multi-cultural heritage of Lviv and Ukraine.

The project was jointly sponsored by the Fulbright Program in Ukraine, Kiev; the Department of Restoration and Reconstruction of Architectural Monuments, National University Lviv Polytechnic; the Center for Urban History, Lviv; and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In Ukraine the project was coordinated by Myron Stachiw, Director, Fulbright Program in Ukraine, Kiev. After the students returned to Milwaukee, Professor Hubka traveled to Kiev where he gave a lecture sponsored by Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar program entitled, “Jewish Art and Architecture in Ukrainian Context: An Integrated Perspective.” Before leaving, Professor Hubka returned to Lviv to attend a conference, “Urban Jewish Heritage and History in East Central Europe, sponsored by the Center for Urban History, Lviv, October 29-31, where he gave a paper, “The Wall-Paintings from the 18th Century Ukrainian Wooden Synagogues: Jewish Multi-Cultural Art and Architecture.”

UWM Architecture students visiting the Ukrainian Orthodox church located at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life, Lviv, Ukraine. Photo by Tom Hubka.

Professor Mo Zell coordinated the inaugural SUPERJURY event at UWM in December. The SUPERJURY was an all day review dedicated to examining the best studio projects from eleven different vertical undergraduate and graduate level studios and discussing issues pertinent to architecture and architectural education. Invited jurors included Peter Waldman from UVA, Lori Brown from Syracuse University, Filip Tejchman from Pratt Institute and Larry Kearns from Wheeler Kearns in Chicago. The event was meant to foster a merit-based competition in the school that raises the overall level of the students’ work and provides an opportunity for the best students to be exposed to the larger architectural community in a very intimate way. A lively discussion about architecture pedagogy, roles of representation and site and cultural context persisted during the event. Diverse topics in the studios included historic preservation, public space in Puerto Rico, an indoor public natatorium, graduate level beginning design, a library for the 21st century, small town planning in Ukraine, a carbon neutral studio, auditorium design, and the use of BIM to design a Fresh Water Institute. washington university in st. louis A post-Katrina design studio led by Derek Hoeferlin, lecturer in architecture, worked

with two community non-profit clients in New Orleans. For the urban farm God’s Vineyard, students pre-fabricated chicken and goose coops, which were published in the September issue of Metropolis. For the Good Work Network, a small-business assistance organization, students devised adaptive re-use plans for the historic Franz Building. The design, with correlating business plan by two MIT graduate students, won first place in the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition, with the $25,000 cash prize going to provide seed money for the Franz Building renovation. Donald N. Koster III, visiting assistant professor of architecture, presented “Greening the Ville: A Community Collaboration,” a talk detailing his Ville Community Marketplace Project, at the Growing Hope and Change Educational Session during the 2008 USGBC Regional Conference in June 2008. He also presented a talk on “Urban Agriculture / Redevelopment and the Rebirth of a Community Marketplace” at the FAC-BCC Higher Education Complex at Florida Atlantic University in March 2008. His work on the Ville Marketplace community project also was displayed at the inaugural symposium of the Washington University in St. Louis Institute for Public Health: Community Health Poster Session in September 2008.

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The highlight of the regional tour was the visit to town of Zhovkva, a historic regional center with a late 16th century masonry synagogue and several Orthodox and Catholic churches. Lectures were given on Ukrainian architecture and cultural topics by Professors Hubka and Bevz, local historians, and faculty from the Lviv Polytechnic. Final design presentations were given by combined teams of American and Ukrainian students to the Lviv faculty, architectural professionals, and representatives of the Folk Architecture Museum. Upon returning to Milwaukee, students from Hubka’s studio continued to develop their designs which will be shown in an exhibit of the combined student work in January.

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weST University of California Berkeley Professor René Davids and graduate student Taylor Medlin’s winning entry among 733 entries, “Plug-in Pavilion” of the 43rd Central Glass Competition judged by Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto among others was published in 2008 November issue of “SHINKENCHIKU” vol. 72 issue of THE JAPAN ARCHITECT. The competition entry will also be exhibited from January to May of 2009 in the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California at Berkeley. An article on development topography and identity by professor Davids was published in PLACES 20.3 in the Fall issue of 2008. University of Colorado Longtime faculty member John Prosser, AIA, retired from the Department of Architecture at the end of Spring Semester 2008. Professor Prosser taught at the University of Colorado for 44 years. During those years, he also served as Director of the Undergraduate Program, Director of the Master of Urban Design Program, Assistant Dean, Interim Dean, and Dean. He was a member of the Urban Land Institute and served as President of AIA Denver in 1984. His research interests encompassed Environmental Impact Assessments, Transportation and TOD’s, Sustainability, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Prosser also maintained a professional practice since 1969, through which he was involved with developments in Colorado, Kansas, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. He served on numerous federal, state, municipal and corporate design

review boards, and was an urban design consultant to various companies and professional firms, including William McDonough + Partners. During the last few years, Prof. Prosser taught the final interdisciplinary research studio and seminar in the College’s Master of Urban Design program. He alternated this with stints as Visiting Fellow at the Urban Institute Ireland, Visiting Scholar at University College, Dublin, and Visiting Professor of Urban Design at Oxford Brooks. Prosser earned his BScArch from the University of Kansas in 1955, and his MArch from Carnegie Mellon University in 1961. He served in the air force from 1956-59 as a Strategic Air Command Pilot. In 1985 he was the creator and narrator of a 30’ national PBS documentary “Cities Are for Kids Too”. Professor Osman Attmann’s studio has participated in the 2008 MCA International Student Design competition, and two students from the same studio, Lee Parmenter and Ryan Jensen, have won the first and third place awards. The competition has received more than 140 entries from 23 colleges and universities throughout the United States, Greece, Japan, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and Czech Republic. The winning entries have been posted on the competition website: http:// www.metalconstruction.org/about_mca/index. cfm?pg=08studentawards.htm Professor Osman Attmann presented his research project, Green Systems in Architecture, at the Colorado Energy Initiative Research Symposium as part of the Colorado Renew-

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able Energy Collaboratory on November 17. The Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory is a research partnership among the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Colorado’s premier research universities: Colorado State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Colorado School of Mines. University of Oregon The Department of Architecture is excited to welcome new faculty members Assistant Professor Erin Moore, Assistant Professor Kyu-Ho Ahn, and Associate Professor Kiersten Muenchinger. In her first year at the University of Oregon, Moore is teaching design studios as well as advanced media electives. Ahn teaches in the Interior Architecture program in the department, and Muenchinger is the director of the new Product Design program. Assistant Professor Kyu-Ho Ahn’s paper submission, “Idiosyncratic differences between the Eames House and the Vanna Venturi House: A Case Study,” has been accepted for presentation at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Ahn received the Hanyang University Faculty Exchange Award for project titled “Cultural Contexts of Traditional Housing and Historic Preservation” to support Ahn and Interior Architecture graduate students travel to South Korea. Associate Professor ChristineTheodoropoulos was elected to be the first president of the Building Technology Educator’s Society (BTES).

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events of note Conferences / Lectures 2/15/09 The 13th National Conference on Planning History Call for Papers The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH);Oakland, CA, October 15-18, 2009. Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. Particularly welcome are papers or complete sessions addressing architecture, planning, and landscape design in the Bay area and the West; environmental sustainability, nature and the metropolis; historic preservation; real estate; regions; public art; and studies that consider race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in planning and the shaping of urban form. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to Program Committee Co-Chairs Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University: isenberg@history.rutgers.edu; and Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Columbia University: gutfreund@ columbia.edu. Deadline: February 15, 2009 3/27/09 ASSEMBLING ARCHITECTURE B/T/E/S 2009 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. August 6-8, 2009. In keeping with the BTES Mission, this year’s conference will assemble architectural educators, researchers & practitioners “who are passionate about teaching the technology of building design and construction” to engage in lively discussion and debate. Assembling Architecture hopes to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical, providing participants the opportunity to explore advancements in technology at the intersection of design, theory, and practice. http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/btes2/Index.htm

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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: GREAT PLACES AWARDS Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis

magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design. For more information regarding the awards and jurors, please visit www.edra.org and www.placesjournal.org

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IFLA Student Design Competition Sponsored by the International Federation of Landscape Architects and directed by the Brazilian Society of Landscape Architects Organization Committee (ABAP), the objective of the competition is to recognize superior environmental design achievements made by students in Landscape Architecture programs. The theme of the competition is: “Green infrastructure: landscape, infrastructure and people for tomorrow”. Participants are invited to select a site that challenges the concept of sustainability and to develop designs which investigate, interrogate, challenge and propose sustainable options to the site conditions. Contact Saide Kahtouni at kahtouni@uol.com Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2009 8/15/09 INDUSTRIAL FABRICS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL (IFAI) 2010 ARCHITECT STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP This scholarship award provides tuition expenses at an accredited college, university or technical school. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic achievement, community service, financial need and interest in a future career in the specialty fabrics industry. To qualify for the Architect Student Scholarship award, applicants must be studying to pursue a career in lightweight fabric structures. Applications for the 2010 student architect scholarship award will be available in June 2010. Deadline for all applications is August 15, 2009. Recipients will be announced at the IFAI Expo 2009 in San Diego, CA. For more information on our scholarship programs, please contact the IFF at 651 225 6545 or blhungiville@indfabfnd.com.

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