ACSA News March 2009 by Pascale Vonier

march 2009 volume 38 number 7

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Teams Up For Research Project On Teamwork Read the Call for Proposals on page 4

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President’s Message

NAAB Board of Directors Call ACSA/CAPT Research Call for Proposals

Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

2009 Architecture Schools Advancement/ Development Forum

2008-09 Student Design Competitions

REGIONAL NEWS

OPPORTUNITIES ACSA Calendar

from the president

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

Regarding research and peer recognition by marleen kay davis

In a professional architecture program, “research” must be broadly defined to include creative activity, professional accomplishments, funded grants, and traditional scholarship. Peer recognition validates these efforts and may come in many forms, such as awards, exhibits, lectures, presentations, grants, design commissions, and publications. As a professional organization, ACSA strives to support faculty in this broadly defined range of research with resources and venues for significant peer recognition. In the same way scientists and engineers distinguish between “pure” and “applied” research, it is useful to think of design as a form of applied research. Design, both built and hypothetical, is a way to explore and apply emerging disciplinary ideas, in realms related to sustainability, theory, community design, building performance, materials, global culture, environmental psychology, and health. With all of the increasing, but disparate, traditional research related to environmental issues, “design” is the missing link in applying the results of pure research. Only through design can we effect transformative change that will address the global climate crisis. Our buildings, communities, and transportation systems need new designs (and useful re-designs of existing conditions) based on an emerging knowledge of principles of sustainability. The National Academy of Environmental Design is an exciting union of these “pure” and “applied” research efforts, devoted to better understanding and transforming our environment. Composed of many organizations (including ACSA), the National Academy of Environmental Design offers the opportunity to centralize a broadly defined range of research and design efforts within a structure similar to the National Academies. Architecture, as a discipline, and as a profession, has traditionally valued the teaching mission, and design studio teaching is a time intensive, core component of the creative activity of faculty. While the faculty is obligated to meet curricular goals in coursework, faculty members also have the ability to enrich the teaching mission with personal creative interests and research expertise. Most universities compartmentalize faculty efforts into three distinct missions regarding “teaching, research, and service”, although architecture faculty have the potential to blend these missions in overlapping activities centered on the potential of the design studio to be a site of applied research. In his landmark study entitled “Building Community”, Ernst Boyer notably highlighted how the design studio is a significant opportunity to meet the service mission of the university by engaging real-life challenges in the design studio projects. Unlike many other disciplines on campus, design teaching takes place in the public realm, primarily through the venue of the open reviews. In many ways, final reviews with invited peers and provocative discussion are a type of academic conference in which leading ideas in the discipline are exchanged and developed. Significant peer

Establishing a design practice with built work as a form of creative activity expected with a full time academic appointment is an enviable accomplishment that many talented architects aspire to, but few achieve. The obstacles for fledgling architecture practices are many. These practices must operate in a highly competitive arena to secure design commissions, they must gain the confidence of clients with pragmatic needs and conventional expectations, they must meet strict project budgets, and they must work within an increasingly restrictive range of code and liability regulations. An architectural practice is by nature collaborative, as the architect must lead a staff of designers, engineers, consultants, contractors, and fabricators for all aspects of a project. Administrative flexibility in release time can be one way to support faculty practice efforts. Architectural educators who have secured peer-recognition for their design work (research as creative activity) bring enhanced credibility to their teaching and are inevitably inspirational for the students. The peer recognition process within architecture is the best way to validate diverse contributions to the discipline in a broadly defined understanding of research, creative activity, and scholarship. ACSA provides a range of opportunities for traditional scholarly “blind peer review” in its awards programs, in its selection of conference papers or publications, and in the JAE/Journal of Architectural Education. Participation statistics demonstrate the selectivity and competitive nature of these programs. In addition, many non-blind forms of recognition can be equally competitive and significant, with invited publications, exhibits, presentations, or awards. ACSA has also

During my career, I have seen significantly increased expectations for tenure along with an increased emphasis on the role of research in the university environment. In this competitive university environment, architects will not succeed by simply imitating engineers or historians, nor by claiming we are somehow unique and different. While building on our core strengths as a professional design discipline, we can articulate our value (in teaching, research and service) to the university with a language understood by our university colleagues. Rather than isolating teaching, research, and service activities, we can advocate that design education offers the potential for applied research and/or community engagement. All of us, and especially our administrators, should be vigilant in using inclusive language when talking about the broad definition of research and creative activity. ACSA supports faculty with a range of peer recognition opportunities, and we hope that faculty and schools will reciprocally support these opportunities with active participation.

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encouraged other efforts for peer recognition, and we are grateful for AIA and NCARB’s support of faculty through competitive peer recognition for an increasing number of awards and grants.

As we mentor the next generation of design faculty, we must be mindful to embrace and encourage diverse accomplishments, not simply reinforce our own preconceptions from the past. I believe that our next generation of faculty faces an intimidating and exhilarating landscape of possibilities. Like designers who synthesize advice from their critics, the next generation of faculty should synthesize advice in charting their own path through this landscape, with its rich opportunities in research, design, and teaching. I hope that ACSA will be indispensable in providing networking, resources, and peer validation for career development of all faculty.

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recognition for design teaching may come through awards, jury invitations, exhibits or publication for student work. More than an acknowledgement of “teaching skills” or talented student projects, this type of peer recognition is a notable validation of the intellectual leadership, creative activity, and applied research expertise of the faculty involved.

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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.

call for participants

ACSA REPRESENTATIVE ON NAAB BOARD

acsa TEAMS up for Research project on teamwork

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.

What determines what makes up a good team? The answer is elusive, but the question is essential for success in the collaborative environment of modern architecture.

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.

4. 5. 6.

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.

deadline: april 20, 2009

ACSA is partnering with the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), a not-for-profit research organization, in a 2-year scientific study of factors affecting the performance of small teams (3-6 members) of architecture students. We are looking for interested schools, administrators, and instructors to collaborate in the research and collection of data.

The research will be independently funded, so the only cost to participating schools, instructors, and students will be a few hours of time. Benefits will include feedback (for all instructors and students) and coaching (for some student participants) on personality variables and team-related behaviors. ACSA will hold a meeting at the 97th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon on Friday, March 27, from 2–4 pm. This will be an opportunity to learn about the proposed research and provide feedback to guide its design and execution. A conference call will also be held in April for those not attending Portland. We hope you will be a part of this unique and exciting opportunity. For more details about the proposed research, please visit acsa-arch.org

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.

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November 4-7, 2009 St. Louis, Missouri

2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

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ECONOMIES:

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

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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97th acsa annual meeting

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

portland, oregon

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march 26-29, 2009 Host School University of Oregon Co-chairs

Full Schedule Information • • • •

Paper Session Authors Special Focus Session Workshops Allied Events

Abstract Book View over 100 paper abstracts and over 50 poster abstracts before arriving onsite.

Online Registration

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)

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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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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

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Program updates, including information on jury members as they are confirmed, can be found on the ACSA web site at www.acsa arch.org/competitions.s.

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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WEST UNIVERSITY of Oregon Professor Howard Davis was a keynote speaker at the bi-annual meeting of International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, in Oxford. He has received two awards: the University of Oregon’s Faculty Excellence Award and the Distinguished Professorship of the ACSA. Recognizing achievements in research, teaching, and international leadership, Professor G.Z. Brown received a Philip H. Knight Professorship. The Knight Professors were made possible by a $15 million donation from Phil and Penny Knight in 1996 that required matching funds from the University of Oregon’s schools and colleges. The appointments, starting in the fall, were made by the president and provost. Appointments are made for a five-year term and may be renewed. Alison Kwok was promoted to Professor. She received the school’s Van Evera Bailey Award ($20,000) for implementing research methods and tools for Zero Energy design within an advanced design studio.

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Assistant Professor Brook Muller is serving as the inaugural director of the newly established Certificate Program in Ecological Design within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. The Certificate is a design-based, interdisciplinary program focused on the development of a practical framework for the integration of the built environment with locale and region specific natural systems. It is available to all graduate students within the School. Muller’s essay, “Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity and Architectural Design” was published recently in the book Symbolic Landscapes (New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2009) edited by philosophers Gary Backhaus and John Murungi. Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi, Ph.D., FEIA has received a $36,500 grant from the Venture Development Fund and an additional $50,000 from the Oregon University Systems to further develop and test prototypes he designed for a self-tracking photovoltaic shading device and

light shelves for commercial buildings. The proposed BIPV active façade products would save energy while producing clean energy to operate buildings. The new systems will be monitored by Frank Vignola of the University of Oregon Solar Energy Monitoring Lab. The fund is a tax-incentive program created in 2007 by the Oregon Legislature to help state universities create commercially successful products. Elzeyadi, has also completed a funded research project by the AIA RFP University Research Program, among other professional organizations, to develop the Green Classroom Retrofit Toolbox (GCRT). The project developed evidencebased design guidelines for greening existing classrooms and retrofitting K-12 schools based on Carbon Neutrality metrics and to maximize students and teachers performance. A publication of the project will appear in the forthcoming AIA Report on University Research 2009. Professor Kevin Nute received the School’s Joel Yamauchi Faculty Award for his forthcoming design studio ‘Outside Inside,’ which highlights the predicament of Japanese Americans interned during WWII at Minidoka, Idaho, a recently declared National Historic Site. Together with Knight Professor of Architecture GZ Brown, Director of the U of O Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, MArch student Aaron Weiss, and Professor of Psychology, Richard Marrocco, Professor Nute also received a Translational Research Grant of $34,000 from the University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program for the testing and development of a wind-animated Water Light Shelf that in addition to reducing energy consumption in buildings also improves occupant well-being and performance. Professor Donald Corner is leading the University of Oregon’s fifth spring term in Macerata, Italy. Students study and live in a provincial capital of the Marche region. A studio project will focus on designs for a market building in the traditional market piazza, and students will take courses on Italian architectural history, the spatial structure of Italian hill towns and Italian language and culture.

University of utah Assistant Professor Mimi Locher is currently writing a book about elements of traditional Japanese architecture, which will be published in 2009 by Tuttle Publishing Company. Professor Julio Bermudez is editing a special edition of the Journal of Architectural Education, will present a paper at the Ecole Nationale Supériure d’Architecture de Grenoble in France, has a forthcoming publication in Faith & Form Magazine, and will be guest lecturing at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Associate Professor Bob Young’s essay Stewardship of the Built Environment: The Emerging Synergies from Sustainability and Historic Preservation was included in the book Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader. The Association for Preservation Technology released its new book Preservation Technology Primer for which Bob was the preservation theory section editor. Bob has also been invited to be a speaker at the Center for Historic Conservation’s 10th Annual Symposium that will be held in February at Texas A&M. University of washington Effective January 1, 2009 — as proposed by its faculty and approved by the Board of Regents — the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington changed its name to College of Built Environments. This new name better reflects the increasingly diverse composition of our academic community, better describes the increasingly interdisciplinary character of research and design inquiry, and better aligns our college identity with changing requirements and conditions for current and future practices among our allied professions. The Department of Architecture was awarded an NCARB Grant for the Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy. The grant will seed development of prototypes for highperformance modular classrooms. Associate Professor Rob Peña will direct the project through a series of seminars and design studios beginning fall 2009.

Professor Bob Mugerauer recently authored Heidegger and Homecoming (University of Toronto Press), which was supported in part by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He also co-authored Environmental Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making (Lexington Press) with colleague Lynne Manzo, UW Landscape Architecture. Professor Jeffrey K. Ochsner’s Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture was a finalist for the 2008 Washington State Book Award in the history/biography category. This book also won two Publishers Association West medals for design (overall and dust jacket). Professor Steve Badanes participated in Architectural Record’s October, 2008 roundtable

discussion on design/build education. His UW Neighborhood Design Build Studio was featured in “The Rise of the Citizen Architect,” Metropolis Magazine. Badanes also contributed “Building Consensus in Design Build Studios” in Expanding Architecture / Design As Activism. Badanes was the Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor at McGill in March 2008. Associate Professor Brian L. McLaren was awarded a Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC for summer 2009. McLaren has recently published essays in Modernism in the Middle East and the Journal of Architecture (August 2008). Assistant Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima’s recent work includes “Postulating the Potential of Prefab: The Case of Japan,” Home Delivery

(Museum of Modern Art) and “Dynamics of a Boundary Surface,” Hitoshi Abe: on-the-spot (University of Michigan Press). Oshima curated the exhibition SANAA: Beyond Borders (2007-8) at the UW Henry Art Gallery. He was a visiting professor at the Harvard GSD in Fall 2008.

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The Department welcomes two new visiting faculty. Visiting Assistant Professor Ann Huppert, PhD, from the University of Kansas is an architectural historian specializing in Italian Renaissance architecture. She is completing a book on the sixteenth-century painter and architect, Baldassarre Peruzzi. Visiting Associate Professor Ralph Stern from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas specializes in urbanism and representation, and landscape urbanism. He and UW Assistant Professor Nicole Huber recently published Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas (Berlin: Jovis Verlag).

southwest Favrot Chair Professor Coleman Coker‘s firm buildingstudio and Tulane City Center have teamed up to design and build a demonstration pavilion for City Park’s Botanical Garden. The pavilion is meant to give sustainable ideas and information to rebuilding homeowners. The project consists of a 12-ft. cube sheathed in aluminum screens (high-content, post-consumer) on three sides. The interior walls, floor and ceiling are clad in reclaimed lumber from homes demolished by the storm. The structure is framed in eco-friendly treated lumber with the west wall screen made of bamboo grown on site at the Botanical Garden. Members of the design|build team include Tulane faculty Coleman Coker, Dan Etheridge, Tom Holloman, Emilie Taylor, Jonathan Tate and students David Dieckhoff, Varuni Edussuriya, Zachary Lamb, Seth Welty.

Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini and his firm AEDS designed the exhibition Tramway for the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris France. The exhibition opened in December 2008. Professor Eloueini also designed the fourth space for Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake in Toulouse. The first space that Eloueini designed for Issey Miyake opened in Berlin in December 2004, followed by spaces in Perpignan 2005 and Paris in 2006. Ammar Eloueini work is presented at the exhibition The Face of Lace from 11 November 2008 until 1 March 2009. The Face of Lace features works of art, design ornaments and fashion concepts related to lace. Judith Kinnard, FAIA has joined the faculty at the Tulane School of Architecture as professor. She recently completed a mixed-income, mixeduse housing scheme for a non-profit developer in Charlottesville, Virginia in collaboration with Giovanna Galfione and Maurice Cox. With 8 units of affordable housing, 16 units of market

rate housing, 4,000 square feet of commercial use, and parking, this $7 million project recently won the top design award from the Virginia State AIA. Her Fine Arts Cafe for the UVA School of Architecture was also featured in a recent issue of Architecture magazine as one part of the rebuilding scheme led by Dean Karen Van Lengen. Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini, Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore with Frank Stevens and Adjunct Assistant Thaddeus Zarse with Clare Olsen have been part of Descours www.descours.us, an annual fiveday contemporary architecture and visual arts event that looks towards the future in showcasing cutting-edge new media and interactive installations while embracing New Orleans’ rich cultural heritage. During DesCours internationally recognized architects, artists and musicians transformed spaces within the French Quarter (SOUTHWEST continued on page 22)

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and downtown New Orleans into destination places for visitors and locals alike. Professor Eugene Cizek published a book called Destrehan: The man, the house, the legacy. Professor Cizek, Director of the Preservation Studies program Tulane University School of Architecture, traces the architectural history and historic renovation of the 1780s plantation, which he calls one of the most documented historic sites on the Mississippi River. Texas A&M University

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Faculty from Texas A&M’s College of Architecture debated aspects of architecture’s future Sept. 11, 2008 in the Dutch Pavilion at the 2008 Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Peter Lang, an assistant professor of architecture who teaches for the Texas A&M College of Architecture at the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, moderated a roundtable discussion titled “Beyond the Artifact: What we Make,” in which an international panel of architects debated “the product and outcome of architecture beyond building.” Also participating in the Dutch Pavilion discussions was Pliny Fisk, associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture. Fisk engaged four European architects in a roundtable discussion titled “Beyond the Sustainable: Challenging the Flow of Resources, Materials and People.” The panel mulled what “radical ecology impies for architecture?” Both sessions, and others can be viewed in their entirety in streaming video available on the Netherlands Architecture Institute website at www.facultiesforarchitecture.org.

ton area’s recovery from Hurricane Ike. Peacock, who also servers as interim executive associate dean for the college, said emergency responders and elected leaders in the Houston area managed the crisis and avoided major loss of life. A Weird Universe reader posted details Sept. 29, 2008 of research conducted in part by two Texas A&M College of Architecture professors and their colleagues showing that nature paintings reduce males’ stress levels in an office setting. The research was published by Lou Tassinary, professor of visualization and the college’s associate dean for research, Roger Ulrich, holder of the college’s Julie and Craig Beale ’71 Endowed Professorship in Health Facilities Design, and two associates. Dr. Glen Mills, a South African architect and former dean with an extensive academic and professional background, took the reins July 1 as head of the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the Texas A&M faculty, Dr. Mills was principal and sole proprietor of an architecture firm in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also served as executive dean for the Faculty of the Arts and as professor of architecture at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa in 1978 and a master’s and Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

Michael O’Brien, professor and associate head of the Department of Architecture at the Texas A&M College of Architecture, told CNNMoney. com that homes built by high-end market residential housing manufacturers often have advantages over housing built by local contractors.

As an architectural consultant and scholar, Dr. Mills has a particular interest in low-income communities, which, given how wealth is distributed in the world, makes him a student of most of the world’s built environment. In fact, he finds inspiration in the dilapidated housing of the so-called “shack dwellers” — the impoverished and marginalized do-it-yourself constructors of the world’s urban slums — and his work has focused on finding ways of regarding and improving that often-discounted environment.

Walter Gillis Peacock, director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M, recently shared details of his personal encounter with Hurricane Andrew in 1992 with the Houston Chronicle. He told Chronicle reporter Bradley Olson in a Sept. 19, 2008 story about the Hous-

Dr. Mills’ scholarship has focused on the debilitating poverty in parts of the less developed world — in particular “the pools of have-nots” in southern Africa — researching ways of making better human settlements. Dr. Mills has worked as a consultant with other architects,

engineers and planners, designing integrated housing for the low- and middle-income residents of South Africa’s urban areas. Dr. Jorge Vanegas was appointed by the President of Texas A&M, Dr. Elsa Murano, as the Interim Dean of the College of Architecture (effective 01Aug’08). Through this appointment, Dr. Vanegas is now the steward of four departments (Architecture – ARCH; Construction Science – COSC; Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning – LAUP; and Visualization Sciences – VIZ), six research centers (the Center for Housing and Urban Development; the Center for Hazard Reduction and Recovery; the Center for Advanced Health Systems and Design; the CRS Center for Leadership and Management in the Design and Construction Industry; the Center for Heritage Conservation; and the Center for Planning, Design and Construction Education), over 130 faculty from a diverse range of disciplines, over 1,800 students, and over 65 staff. In addition, Dr. Vanegas was also appointed as the recipient of the Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair (effective 01Sep’08). This appointment will provide funding to support his teaching, research, service and professional development, and a concurrent role as director of the Mitchell Initiative in charge of the coordination of activities of the Mitchell Studio, and professorships in construction science, real estate, and design. This extraordinary recognition will help him take the Center for Housing and Urban Development (for which he currently serves, and will continue to serve, as Director) to higher levels of excellence and performance, and also promote a higher level of interdisciplinary interaction within and outside the College. University of Texas at Arlington Donald Gatzke, Dean of The University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Architecture, was featured on KERA 90.1 public radio’s “Think”, hosted by Krys Boyd. Dean Gatzke and Karen Walz, Project Manager for Vision North Texas, spoke on the topic of “Community, Culture and Urban Design,” exploring the ways in which landscape architecture and urban design can create public spaces that meet the needs of a diverse population.

Northeast 2009 brings many changes and important new additions to the School of Architecture at Northeastern. Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Roy Kozlovsky join the tenure-track faculty, and Tiffany Lin joins the School as an academic specialist among the growing full time faculty. This brings the full-time faculty to 10 as the part-time faculty grows to 35. Lawrence, who received her Ph.D from Harvard University in 2007, is co-editor of Praxis, a critical journal focusing on design culture. She joins the studio faculty with a particular interest in the modernism of British architect James Stirling. Kozlovsky, an historian from Princeton, works in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on the evolution of grade-school design in the modern era. Tiffany Lin, one of Boston’s leading young architects, oversaw projects and worked as a senior designer for the internationally recognized Boston firm, Machado and Silvetti Associates, and is now a senior architect for Leers Weinzapfel Associates. These new faculty join the School at a very important time. After a period of meteoric growth (total enrollments rose from 110 in 2001, to nearly 450 in 2008), the School is now focusing on sharpening its already innovative curriculum, and further engaging the real problems of the contemporary city. Northeastern is well known for its housing studio, which challenges students to innovate in the realm of multi-family housing in real market conditions, in cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. So far it has taken on difficult sites in Salem, Malden, Somerville, and several Boston neighborhoods, including Fort Point Channel, South Boston, and Dorchester. This year the studio is focusing on New Bedford, Massachusetts. New Bedford is also the subject of a new studio course, provocatively titled 1960s Urbanism, in which students take on the difficult legacy of the utopian, concrete urban renewal projects of the 1960s. The intention is to help students (and city and state planning leaders) better understand when to accommodate or when

to replace some of these projects as part of a larger urban plan. Both the City of New Bedford and Mass Development have been involved in the studio. Tiffany Lin, Tim Love, Peter Wiederspahn and Tom Chung have led these efforts at the School. But these are not the only important curricular developments in our program. Both the beginning and the end of a student’s experience at the School have been completely revamped in the past two years. The freshman foundation year is now a careful balance of both manual and digital methods, focusing on both design and technique. The former freshman studios, Manual Representation and Digital Representation, have been replaced with Fundamental Representation and Fundamental Design. This project has involved many people, including Peter Wiederspahn, Tim Love, Kiel Moe, Chris Grimley, Chris Genter, and Ryan Sullivan. The biggest change, without question, is at the graduate level. The School has challenged the idea of the “thesis” in architecture, and replaced it with a pair of more focused courses: Masters Research Studio and Masters Degree Project. Students no longer use the final year of their architectural studies to pursue a “dream” project of their own creation, without limit, as is the case at most schools. Instead, students spend the first semester mastering the rationale for, and design details of, the standard building types that make up the modern city: office buildings; lab/ research buildings; parking garages; retail space; hotels; etc. They then produce detailed books (all available for purchase online, eg. Hotels @ < http://www.lulu.com/content/5439014>, Parking Structures @ <http://www.lulu.com/ content/5180549>, Office Buildings @http:// www.lulu.com/content/4965800) in which the forces that shape these buildings are laid out in detail. Then, in the second semester, armed with this detailed knowledge of type, students embark on their own individual attempts to create prototypical solutions to contemporary problems of mixed-use interaction, economic efficiency, urbanism, and transportation. This shift from the unique, one-of-a-kind object as

the result of graduate design work toward a result that is more scalable and that can effect change on a much larger scale is a significant shift from the traditional architecture school curriculum. This transformation of the graduate program has involved the entire school, but has been led by George Thrush, Peter Wiederspahn, Tim Love, Tiffany Lin, Amanda Lawrence, Joel Lamere, and Matthew Littell. In conjunction with these graduate studios are the case studies seminars and the new Spring seminars in landscape urbanism, sustainability techniques, and real estate development, with Daniel Hewett, Matthew Gordy, Kiel Moe, and Mark Baranski.

Finally, the School of Architecture is also working on significant funded research into the public design approvals process. George Thrush, along with NU research associate JieEun Hwang, is working on a new tool called the Urban Gauge < http://www.northeastern. edu/urbangauge/> , which can help cities and towns to reconcile the often difficult choices between local neighborhood concerns, state or regional concerns, and the financial viability of a given privately financed large-scale development project. 2008-09 saw the Rome Program grow to about 40 students per semester, studying in the heart of Rome under the direction of Northeastern lecturer Scott Schlimgen. The School is working on identifying a permanent space on the banks of the Tiber River across from the city center for the fall of 2009. Kiel Moe published his first book, Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture with Princeton Architectural Press in 2008, and is working on his next, Thermally Active Surfaces. Lawrence published the 10th issue of Praxis, “Urban Matters.” Several other faculty members have books in progress, including Lucy Maulsby, Mardges Bacon, Elizabeth Cromley, George Thrush, Roy Kozlvsky, and Amanda Lawrence. The School was ranked 12th in the United States in faculty research < http:// www.archsoc.com/kcas/researchschool4.html> (NORTHEAST continued on page 24)

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University at Buffalo Mark Shepard, assistant professor of architecture and media study, authored Situated Technologies Pamphlet 1: Urban Computing and its Discontents, along with Adam Greenfield. This is the first in a series of nine issues that will be published by the Architectural League of New York and co-edited by Shepard, Omar Kahn, Trebor Scholz. Urban Computing and its Discontents is a conversation between the authors providing an overview of the key issues, historical precedents, and contemporary approaches to designing situated technologies and inhabiting cities populated by them. According to Dwell magazine, Shepard and Greenfield address “all things urban and electronic. How will cities change, they ask, once ‘everyday objects and space are linked through networked computing?’ The ensuing discussion is not to be missed.” A new research center devoted to improving public transportation for people with disabilities is being funded by a multi-million grant awarded jointly to Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute with a sub-award to the IDEA Center at the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo. The $4.7 million, five year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research will support a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation. Aaron Steinfeld, Systems Scientist at the Robotics Institute, and his father, Edward Steinfeld, Professor of Architecture and Director of the IDEA Center, will serve as Co-Directors of the center. The goal is to conduct research and development activities to improve accessible transportation equipment, information services and physical environments by adoption of universal design concepts. Educational and dissemination activities are also planned. The project will include the development of accessible systems for conducting “citizen science” in transportation, human factors research on boarding and disembarking methods, the development of new technologies for wayfinding and information services related to transportation and design of a demonstration bus and bus shelter.

Omar Khan has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. Professor Khan co-directs the Center for Virtual Architecture; his research and teaching focuses align with the Situated Technologies Graduate Research Group. He also co-founded an independent studio, Liminal Projects, with Laura Garófalo. Professor Khan completed his post-professional studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his professional studies at Cornell University. Laura Garofalo, Assistant Professor in Architecture, along with David Hill of NCSU received the 2008-09 ACSA Faculty Design Award for her “Threading Water” project. The award is given in recognition of exemplary built and unbuilt work that reflects upon practice and research, advancing the general understanding of the discipline of architecture. Assistant Professor Garófalo has joined the UB Department of Architecture as a tenuretrack assistant professor this fall. Garófalo’s work focuses on the conjunction of natural and architectural systems. She maintains an independent studio, Liminal Projects (cofounded with O. Khan). The aim of the studio is to explore the overlapping boundaries of literary, artistic and architectural production, and giving form to the “in-between.” Works include building design, urban planning, furniture, gallery installations, and collaborations with filmmakers and artists. Garófalo received her M.Arch from Yale University and most recently worked as an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Maqsood Ahmed was the winner of the Industrial Fabrics Association International 2008 International Achievement Awards and received an Outstanding Achievement for his Toronto Pearson International Airport, Covered Walkway entry. There were professionals from 16 countries that entered 408 projects in 28 categories. Introversions¸ a project by Professor Shadi Nazarian, a researcher in the Situated Technologies Graduate Research Group, opened in the Lightwell Gallery at the Center for the Arts. A sculptural installation that intersects art, architecture and emergent technology, Introversions creates an interactive spatial, tactile and ocular experience for viewers. The audience is lured toward a bright EL-light framed by an object hovering above

the ground. The view of the lure is denied when the viewer gets too close, encouraging the viewer to become aware of the cognitive processes we undergo as we navigate through the environments in which we live. According to Timothy Murray, “Introversions delights its viewers not merely as an architectural object to be passively seen and desired from afar, but as an artistic event that actively elicits ocular surprise while soliciting interactive experience from within.” James Lowder, the 2008-09 McHale Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, is a graduate of Princeton University. James has worked in practice with Daniel Libeskind, Eisenman Architects, Reiser + Umemoto and Coop Himmelblau. He has been succesful in a number of significant design proposals for projects in Europe and in Asia and has also taught both in North America and Australia. Michael Kubo will be the 2008-09 Banham Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning. A graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Michael has worked with the Office of Metropolitan Architecture/AMO in Rotterdam, taught at the GSD and Pratt Institute in New York, and has been actively involved with a wide range of architectural publications. The founder and editorial director of Actar Publishers Inc. in New York, he has authored and edited numerous books including The Function of Ornament with Farshid Moussavi. He also curated and designed the exhibition, “Learning from Cities,” which was shown at the 10th Annual International Architecture Biennale in Venice.

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UWM Associate Professor Grace La’s studio work, entitled ‘Skycar City’, in conjunction with the 2006 Marcus Prize winner, MVRDV, was featured as a video installation this past fall at the Venice Biennale.

Dean Bob Greenstreet was awarded a Citation for Distinguished Service to the profession of architecture by the Board of Directors of AIA Wisconsin. This Citation is awarded in recognition and appreciation of his significant contributions and dedicated service in his dual roles as Dean of the UWM School of Architecture & Urban Planning and as Director of Planning and Design for the City of Milwaukee. Thanks to his vision and leadership, he has effectively demonstrated the power of town/gown collaboration and, at the same time, the value of architecture in improving the quality of like in our communities. His passion is inspiring and contagious. Fortunately, Milwaukee and Wisconsin will continue to benefit from his leadership as he tackles new responsibilities as the Chair of City Development at UWM. Professor Kevin Forseth began the semester as the new chair of the School of Architecture. He is an Associate Professor in the Architecture Department at UWM and has been a member of the faculty for twenty-eight years. During that time, Professor Forseth has coordinated undergraduate design studios and has written three books on architectural graphics and representation. He is currently interested in digital media. In the area of computer programming, he has authored a 3d modeling software program

called “alt3D.” He recently taught the school’s first online undergraduate digital design studio. Lately, he’s been working on digital teaching modules and exploring the possibilities of generative scripting.

exhibit is entitled “Fabricated Landscapes,” and is accompanied by a lecture to be delivered at the opening in February. Their lecture is sponsored by U of T’s Robert Church Memorial Lecture Series.

Assistant Professor Mo Zell, collaborating with bauenstudio design partner and adjunct professor Marc Roehrle, will present two ‘design as research’ posters in the National ACSA Conference in Portland. The posters are a product of preliminary research on big box retail parking lots titled “New Parking Paradigm” and ongoing research into the redevelopment of the public realm in 1950’s suburban developments titled “New Suburban Prototype”. Zell and Roehrle also exhibited their BSA Honor Award winning project, the ‘Northeastern University Veterans Memorial’, at the Honor Award Exhibition at Build Boston. In addition, they exhibited the design work of their firm, bauenstudio, titled 100’ of work in a solo exhibition in the SARUP gallery in Milwaukee. Professor Zell will also be presenting a paper on her book The Architectural Drawing Course at the National Beginning Design Conference hosted by LSU in March.

Grace La and James Dallman will also deliver a lecture in the Guest Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. LA DALLMAN will exhibit at the SARUP Gallery in April. The exhibitions are accompanied by a publication containing theoretical texts on the work of LA DALLMAN.

Associate Professor Grace La and James Dallman’s practice, LA DALLMAN, were invited by the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to exhibit their design work this spring. LA DALLMAN’s

Prof. La will serve as an invited juror for the national Bruner Award for Urban Excellence held in Boston and Providence this spring. A new interpretive exhibit designed by LA DALLMAN entitled “The City of Freshwater” has broken ground at Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. LA DALLMAN’s earlier, permanent exhibit of the Great Lakes at Discovery World is recently included in 1000x Architecture of the Americas (Berlin: Verlagshaus, 2008), a book that “features 1000 outstanding and creative projects built... in the Western Hemisphere by acclaimed and emerging architects...”

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Building on an animation studio run in collaboration with HOK of St. Louis, Associate Professor Joe Stagg is coordinating a spring semester animation studio that will forego the traditional sit-down jury and will engage in the virtual jury with collaboration facilitated through a special interactive studio homepage. Outside professionals, professors, and others will be invited to visit the home page and give direct critiques to

student projects. Called the virtual critique, the aim is to improve the quality of the critique and feedback to each student, while eliminating the drawbacks of the sit-down jury. Prof. Stagg’s studio will focus on architectural animation, fast becoming the main tool in the professional office and in many schools of architecture for both design and presentation. When done correctly, the animation of a design project far outperforms static drawings, renderings, and models in helping both the client and the architect

experience the design. The fastest growing use of architectural animation is virtual programming, a process whereby goals and design theories are built into programmatic models and then immediately tested through animation. Once tested, a full model and animation can be built to experience, explain, and support these goals and theories. These projects will then be imported into a BIM program and finalized in great detail.

Lawrence Tech architecture students Andrew Aulerich and Christine Raymo were co-winners of the Robert T. Hobson Memorial Scholarship Competition in May 2008. The competition for specification writing is open to LTU students in the Building Systems 2 course and is sponsored by the CSI’s Detroit chapter.

Will Wittig, and Dan Pittera, in November 2008 at the School of Architecture, University of Detroit, Mercy. He also published three pieces in The Great and Small Gazette: an article, “Path” (February 2008); a photograph, “Semantics Open” (May 2008); and a graphic design, “The Ten Plagues” (September 2008).

Adjunct Professors Connie Rizzolo Brown and Celeste Allen Novak placed in the top ten for the National Greenhouse Competition in Philadelphia through their firm rizzolobrown + novak architects. Brown also presented lectures and papers on “Old Buildings, New Ideas” at the Creative Cities Conference in Detroit; “Re-Energizing Michigan” at the Michigan State Economic Development Authority; and “Brokering Green Buildings” at the Michigan Business Brokers Association; and participated in the ICONUS08: International Conference Urban Sustainability in Hong Kong, the “Rebuild Michigan” conference on behalf of the AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team, The Committee on the Environment in Michigan conference of the Emerging Professionals chapter of the AIA, and the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit. Novak was named to the Build Up Detroit Advisory Council and published four continuing education articles on sustainable building materials in the Architectural Record and Green Source Magazine.

Cityscape Architects, Inc., (Adjunct Professor Tony Dellicolli, RA, principal) won an award as one of the best businesses in Detroit by Corp! Magazine.

east central Lawrence Technological University Assistant Professor Jim Stevens was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Metal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture from North Carolina State University in May 2008 and presented a lecture, “Architecture as Graffiti,” to AIA Huron Valley chapter during the “20x20 Best Design” lectures in October.

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Assistant Professor Ashraf Ragheb received his second consecutive “Academic Cooperation Award” in 2008 from the Detroit chapter of the Construction and Specifications Institute (CSI). Professor Ragheb and Dan Jacobs, principal of A3C Architects, received one of only four Richard Upjohn Research Grants for applied research from the AIA for their proposal, “Cradle to Grave: Case Studies of Buildings’ Environmental Footprint.” Ragheb and Jacobs will use the $25,000 award to study multiple buildings throughout their life span, which will allow a whole-building approach to estimating the environmental impact of buildings from their materials, systems, and component interactions. The study will calculate emissions to air, water, and land, and look at structure, enclosure, roofing, walls and partitions, and finishes to show the total impact of a building to the environment. The result will be a document to inform architects on the environmental impact of their design decisions, including alternatives shown to reduce the environmental impact of buildings.

College Professor Martin Schwartz took part in a panel discussion on Research and Architectural Practice with James Timberlake,

university of michigan The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has awarded Craig Wilkins, lecturer in architecture, the 200809 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for his project Studio: Detroit HS. Office dA has been awarded a Wallpaper.com’s 2009 Design Award for Best New Restaurant. Office dA is Dean Monica Ponce de Leon’s private firm in Boston, MA. Associate Professor Will Glover won the 2008 AIPS Junior Book Prize presented by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies for his latest book Making Lahore Modern. The AIPS Executive Committee describes the book as a “tour de force that blends cultural history, urban studies, architectural history, colonial history, and the study of modernity.” Making Lahore Modern was published by University of Minnesota Press.

southeast Henning Haupt, Visiting Instructor, has successfully completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His dissertation is a praxis-based research on the relationship between painting and architecture. The title of the dissertation is ‘Experiments in Color - Integration of Painted Color Spaces in an Architectural Design Process’. This research is the basis for his class ‘Color Material Space,’ which started this spring semester. The Broward Community Design Collaborative has published the work of the graduate level design studios in Subtropical Sustainable, edited by Associate Professor Anthony Abbate. Three sections of Design 9, taught by Abbate, Professor Deirdre Hardy, and Adjunct Instructor Carolina Weibe, examined redevelopment linked to the introduction of mass transit on two corridors in Broward County, Florida. A digital version of the publication is available at Broward county’s website at http://www. broward.org/planningservices/thor_meet_info. htm

Two Colonial Cities – A World Apart?; Francis Lyn: Tradition, Symbol and Surface; John Sandell: Domain Interaction and the Permeability of Boundaries; Philippe d’Anjou: The PROJECT of the Project in Architecture. The fall semester 2008 featured two exhibitions at the new ‘Second Avenue Studio’ of FAU, located on the downtown Fort Lauderdale Campus on Las Olas Boulevard. The first show presented the best work of our students, covering the full range: from first-year design to thesis projects. The two-dimensional presentations as well as models and furniture demonstrated a variety of strong ideas and a high level of architectural skills. The student show was followed by a ‘New Faculty’ exhibit, titled ‘Color Space’ by Henning Haupt [www.henninghaupt. de], who joined the faculty of the School of Architecture at FAU in the Fall 2008. In this show at the ‘Second Avenue Studio’ he presented a series of large paintings and projections of three-dimensional objects. The work is part of his praxis-based research on the integration of color space in an architectural design process. University of Florida

This year, Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture established a series of bi-weekly lectures featuring its international group of faculty. A broad range of backgrounds and expertise marks the diversity between the members of this group. Their shared position is that a critical evaluation of the influences on design through the mindset of the maker is responsible for the result of the architectural project. In regard to this, the 2008-09 lecture series ‘Introspection’ focuses on the design processes employed in the work of these scholars and reflects on the outcome of their research and teaching methods. This years lectures are as follows: Anthony Abbate: The Sustainable Subtropical City: From Conversation to Conservation; Henning Haupt: Color in Architectural Design; Emmanouil Vermisso: Nature within Architecture; Aron Temkin: Boiling Water; Vladimir Kulic: Made in Yugoslavia; Ralph Johnson: Preserving Architectural and Cultural Heritage; Mate Thitisawat: Form Follows Performance(s); Jean Martin Caldieron: Architecture without Architects: Shanty Towns Dynamics; Deirdre Hardy:

Two University of Florida student teams received grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop sustainability projects at opposite ends of the Earth: improving a reservoir that purifies stored rainfall for the village of Sissene, Burkina Faso, in Western Africa and measuring cellulosic ethanol production made from Florida pine forests. Students Iris Patten, Christen Hutton, John November, Alex Sommer and Robert Weaver are working with Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Joseli Macedo. Assistant Professor of Interior Design Marty Hylton presented a paper and poster at the 10th International Docomomo Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Hylton’s paper and poster, entitled “Design Advocacy through Service-Learning: Saving Riverview High School, Sarasota, Florida,” focused on the need to educate students about preserving modern architecture and interiors and to encourage them to become life-long advocates.

Professor Hylton also attended a celebration for the restoration of a house in Bay St. Louis, Miss., nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The house is owned by 79-year-old Dorothy Phillips, who survived the storm despite the severe damage to her house. Following Katrina, Hylton worked with students from UF and the School of Visual Arts in New York City to research, document and plan the restoration of the house.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Mary G. Padua reviewed Marc Treib’s Representing Landscape Architecture, published in the September issue of Landscape Architecture, the journal for the American Society of Landscape Architects. Professor Padua also authored the foreword in Dustin Shum’s recently published Themeless Parks. Virginia Tech Mehdi Setareh, professor of architecture, is the principal investigator of a recently funded, four-year National Science Foundation project, “Integrating Web-Based Visualization with Structural Systems Understanding to Improve the Technical Education of Architects.” The project budget is $499,833. The project consists of the development of a design knowledgebase focusing on building structures, in addition to the state-of-the art virtual environment system for building design. As part of the project, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies will establish the Center for Advanced Digital Media and a large portable display using rear-projection screen will be procured for the College of Architecture Virtual Environment Lab. The project co-principal investigators at Virginia Tech are Nicholas Polys, IT Management; Brett Jones, Department of Education; and Michael Ermann, School of Architecture + Design. In addition, two external project partners, Ralph Hammann, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Shannon Chance and Beth Brand, Hampton University, will implement and test the material to be developed by the investigators. Dan Abrams, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign; Robert Darvas, Darvas and Associates; and Dan Tully, Tully International, are the project reviewers.

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events of note Conferences / Lectures 3/16/09 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Journal of Architectural Education Vernacular Architectures in an Age of Globalization 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. Accepted articles will be published inthe first bi-annual issue of the JAE, 63:1 (October 2009).For more information regarding submission themes, procedures, and address, please contact either Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston (msabatino@ uh.edu) or Bruce C. Webb, University of Houston (bwebb@uh.edu) 3/23/09 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2009 ADGD Conference: THE MULTIPLE FACES OF IDENTITY IN THE DESIGNED ENVIRONMENT International Conference Nottingham Trent University, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment Following from the 2007 ADGD Symposium (Architectural Design and Global Difference), the 2009 Conference expands on the theme of identity within the designed environment. As the world has entered the new millennium, traditional global phenomena and relationships have been redefined. The traditional notions of identity, characterised by geographic location and socio-cultural specificity, have speedily evolved into new forms of plurality and spatiality. For more information regarding submission

themes, procedures, and address, please visit: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/adgd/ 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

3/31/09 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FIELD/WORK -- 6th Annual AHRA International Conference University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art We initially invite 500 word abstracts from researchers, educators, practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture and related disciplines for papers which reflect on and explore the theme from a range of standpoints (historical, theoretical, experiential, ethical, political, pedagogical, other). Inventories, case studies, innovative methodologies which enrich or elucidate Field/work are welcome. The conference aims to address the conventions of praxis-action and field-work across media, scales, cultures, to articulate current discourses on the topic and to identify critical dilemmas and opportunities for future practices of design and research. Selected papers will be published as an edited book as part of the AHRA series. For more information, please visit: http://www.ahra-architecture.org/ Events_2009_edinburgh.php 3/31/09 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ARCHITECTURE AND JUSTICE CONFERENCE University of Lincoln, 18 – 20 November 2009 This conference examines relationships between architecture and justice. We seek papers that use

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the links between architecture and justice not only to explore ways in which justice is manifested architecturally, but also to investigate slippages between the authority that is necessary to justice and force or violence, or to question claims to a universality or standard of justice.For more information regarding submission themes, procedures, and address, please contact: Renée Tobe (rtobe@lincoln.ac.uk)

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4/3/09 and 9/18/2009 Exoticizing Vesuvius? Formations of Naples c.1500-present Workshops at the Universities of York and Cambridge, 3 April and 18 September 2009 Workshops, funded by the AHRC, are to be held on the following themes: • 3 April 2009 (York) : Topography and Piety: Naples Afflicted • 18 September 2009 (Cambridge): Objects of Collecting in Naples and Naples as Object of Collecting, 1708-2008 The Workshops have four overarching and inter-related aims: to draw together Neapolitanists from across UK, USA and Europe, for whom no institutional focus yet exists, in order to facilitate lively intellectual and interdisciplinary interaction; to examine the principal historiographical currents that have operated and that continue to operate within scholarship on Naples, particularly in relation to visual and literary representations of Naples from c.1500 to the present; to encourage the rethinking of Neapolitan history across chronological and disciplinary divides; to resist reinscribing Neapolitan cultural history into the familiar and over-worn paradigms of modernity and nationhood (the failure of the south), the Grand Tour (as seen from northern Europe, especially Britain), periodization that serves to draw an apparently unbridgeable gulf between ‘the early modern’ and the nineteenth century; to generate discussion and academic papers to form the basis for a special issue of an academic journal devoted to Neapolitan cultural history. Contact: Dr M Calaresu: mtc12@cam.ac.uk or Prof Helen Hills: hh508@york.ac.uk 5/27/09 SYMPOSIUM ON CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Kansas City, Missouri, USA This full-day symposium presents on-going research, teaching, and design drawing on Alex-

ander’s work. Participants include: Tom Kubala (Kubala Washatko Architects, Cedarburg, WI); Jesus Lara (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH); Michael Mehaffy (President, Structura Naturalis Inc., Lake Oswego, OR); Kyriakos Pontikis(California State University, Northridge, CA), Jenny Quillien(New Mexico University of Highlands, Santa Fe, NM), Yodan Rofè (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boqer Campus, Israel); and Ameilia Rosenberg Weinreb (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boqer Campus, Israel). For further information, contact co-organizer David Seamon at triad@ksu. edu. For more information on the EDRA conference, go to: www.edra.org. 5/27/09 DESIGN COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, 3/25-28/2009 Southern Polytechnic State University is proud to host the 2009 bi-annual Design Communication Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will feature hands-on design workshops by well known educators and practitioners such as Francis D. K. Ching, Michael Doyle, Edward Tim White and Henry Sorenson. In addition to workshops and paper sessions, the conference will feature a juried drawing competition and open presentations. For complete details on how to participate including registration deadlines visit www.designcomm.org. 6/30/09 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS THE BLITZ AND ITS LEGACY University of Westminster, London; September 3-4, 2010. September 2010 marks the seventieth anniversary of the Blitz on London, and the beginning of mass aerial bombardment which devastated many areas of both the capital and other large cities in Britain. The Blitz and its legacy conference aims to be a total history of a total war phenomenon, focusing upon the experience of aerial attack through film, images, written texts and oral testimony. It will also explore the reconstruction of the devastated areas, and aim to provide an historical audit of successes and failures in reconstruction by 1970.For more information regarding submission themes, procedures, and address, please contact either Dr. Mark Clapson at the University of Westminster: m.clapson@westminster. ac.uk or Professor Peter Larkham at Birmingham City University: Peter.Larkham@bcu.ac.uk

Competitions 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.

Exhibits 3/28/09 CHANGING IDEALS: RETHINKING THE HOUSE, Exhibition at NAI Maastricht 4 November 2008 – 28 March 2009 Jacob van Campen, Winka Dubbeldam, Peter Eisenman, Aldo van Eyck, Studio Makkink & Bey, Gerrit Rietveld, Alison and Peter Smithson, Sir John Soane, Big Brother, Ikea A congress will take place in Spring 2009 in the context of the exhibition in collaboration with the VROM-council, TU Delft and Vesteda. 3/9/2009 UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN Fuzzy Boundaries Lecture Series: PETER EBNER, 6:30 PM, DECAFE Only if there is an intellectual plan can structural engineering become architecture. Seen from this perspective, Peter Ebner’s externally rather heterogeneous projects reveal a strong inner coherence. Ebner’s designs are not dominated by stylistic whim or by the market-conscious development of a signature, but by the mental image he conceives for the given occasion. The work neither pursues a merely pragmatic performance of duty, nor an artificial mania for orginality. www.aud.ucla.edu