ACSA News September 2008 by Pascale Vonier

september 2008 volume 38 number 1

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Goes to Savannah for the 2008 Administrators Conference Read more about ‘Design...’ starting on page 6

in this issue: 2

President’s Message

Forthcoming Issues: Journal of Architectural Education

NAAB Annual Report System

2009 Administrators Conference—Savannah

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

2008 ACSA Fall Conferences

2008-09 ACSA Awards Program

2008 College + Career Expo

2008-09 Student Design Competitions

REGIONAL NEWS

AASL Column

ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

from the president

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all for design and design FOR ALL by marleen kay davis

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

Design is a verb, a noun, and an adjective. As design educators, we understand the complexities of design, as both a process and a product with infinite possibilities. A design process, or design method, is never prescriptive and a good process does not necessarily esnsure a good product. While our colleagues who practice architecture focus on the final physical product, our great expertise as educators is in developing design thinking and design method(s) in the next generation of architects. Furthermore, design thinking is not only in the domain of the studio, but in synthesizing learning experiences across disciplines and in integrating areas of expertise such as history, theory, representation, practice, and technology. Comparing the scientific method with an understanding of the “design method” is useful. While the scientific method is a logical, linear step-by-step progression initiated by a hypothesis, the design method is a more iterative process of assessing the “whole” and the “parts” in a way that is simultaneously analytical and creative. Interestingly, leading developments in business are exploring “design thinking” as the basis for innovation and as a strategic means to unify divergent areas of specialization.

Design will be the focus of my year as president: how can we reinforce our expertise as design thinkers, while the business world is discovering the power of design and design thinking? In the context of an increasing emphasis on research within the university, how can we validate the important accomplishments of design educators through peer recognition? In the same way that science and engineers distinguish between pure science and applied science, how can we best articulate our own knowledge base in which design can be a form of applied research? As a network of schools and faculty, how can our organization provide the most meaningful resources for design educators? A few additional issues will also be priorities for the upcoming year: diversity, accreditation, issues related to global practice, planning for ACSA’s 100th Anniversary in 2012, and continuing the exciting interdisciplinary efforts for the establishment of a National Academy of Environmental Design. In April, I represented ACSA at an AIA Conference for Diversity, held in St. Louis. A broad range of individuals discussed issues of diversity in the work place, in the schools, or in innovative programs, such as the high school programs of ACE: Architects, Contractors, and Engineers. The fifty attendees signed “The Gateway Commitment to Diversity”, which is a set of principles related to increasing diversity. During the meeting, each of us was asked how we would individually pursue diversity goals in our daily lives. Like our colleagues in AIA, I would like to see ACSA engage the 21st century issues of diversity in a way that will be both inspirational and useful. It is a great honor to serve ACSA in my role as President. Creating the strongest possible organization that provides important resources and services to

architectural schools, faculty, and students alike is my goal. JAE, our conferences, our publications, our website, our competitions and our awards programs offer essential educational services for our faculty and students; we are indebted to the many individuals who ensure the success of these efforts. I follow in the footsteps of great colleagues, and I feel fortunate to have a first rate staff in our Washington D.C. office. I look forward to working with all of you, and I encourage every school and faculty member to participate in ACSA and to take advantage of our resources and opportunities.

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meet the new members of the 2008-09 board of directors

VICE PRESIDENT

PAST PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

Thomas Fisher

Kim Tanzer

Mitra Kanaani

With best wishes,

Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2009–2010 board of directors

TREASURER

EAST CENTRAL DIRECTOR Patricia Kucker

NORTHEAST DIRECTOR

Graham Livesey

The ACSA Nominations Committee invites nominations for two national officers positions on the 2009–10 Board of Directors. The offices are President-elect and Treasurer. The president-elect will serve a three-year term; one year each as vice president/president-elect, president, and past president. The treasurer will serve a two-year term. The Nominations Committee is chaired by Kim Tanzer and consists of Andrew Chin, and Robert Gonzalez.

SOUTHEAST DIRECTOR

SOUTHWEST DIRECTOR

WEST DIRECTOR

Ursula Emery McClure

Stephen Meder

WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR

CANADIAN DIRECTOR

STUDENT DIRECTOR

Andrew Chin

Brian Kelly

Submissions should include a cv, a letter of interest from the nominee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Friday, October 15, 2008.

Keelan Kaiser

George Baird

Deana Moore

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Nominees must be full-time faculty from an ACSA full-member school in good standing. Nominations should be sent to: ACSA, Board Nominations, 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 or via email to Eric Ellis at: eellis@acsa-arch.org.

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IMMATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Journal of Architectural Education (forthcoming Novermber 2008) Theme Editors: Thomas Barrie, North Carolina State University Julio Bermudez, University of Utah New materials, building systems, construction techniques, global practices, in addition to digitally generated designs, representations, and fabrication technologies, have gained privileged positions of late in architectural theory, pedagogy, and practice. The focus has shifted towards the quantitative and measurable, away from more intangible albeit fundamental aspects of architectural production. The resulting bifurcation of the material and the immaterial calls for a reconsideration of the qualitative, ineffable, numinous, and immeasurable in architectural production. This theme issue provides opportunities for educators, researchers, and practitioners to broaden the scope of contemporary discourse, confront current academic and professional presumptions, and contribute to alternative histories, theories, critiques, and practices of our nuanced discipline. What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representational media emulate the ineffable? How can we distinguish between the numinous and the merely luminous? Will developments in the sciences, psychology, and philosophy bring new insights to the question of the immaterial in our increasingly material culture?

Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representational methods have their own histories of examining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experimental, comparative, and analytical tools to interpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories. The ultimate goal is to pause and consider critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly immaterial.

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NAAB launches new online ANNUAL REPORT Submission (ARS) system by LEE W. WALDREP, NAAB ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

As outlined in the April 2008 issue of ACSA News, the process of Architecture Programs submitting their Annual Report will be submitted via the web, by the new deadline of November 30, 2008, in three parts: 1) Statistical Report - “Appendix H” 2) Responses to the most recent Visiting Team Report (VTR) and 3) Changes to the program. The launch of the new system is slated for November 1, 2008. The NAAB-Annual Report Submission Web-based questionnaire comprises four parts. Part I (Annual Statistical Report) captures statistical information on both the institution in which an architecture program is located and the program itself. There are seven sections within Part I: a) Institutional Characteristics, b) NAAB Accredited Architecture Programs, c) Tuitions, Fees, and Financial Support for Students, d) Student Characteristics, e) Degrees Awarded, f) Resources for Students and Learning, and g) Human Resources Summary.

Part III (Changes to the Program) includes a file transfer option for submitting a narrative describing significant changes to the program that may be of interest to NAAB or subsequent visiting teams. This part features a Yes/No option for programs to indicate whether or not they have anything to report. In addition, Part III is linked to other questions in Section I where a narrative may be required (e.g., “Does your institution have plans to discontinue any of its NAAB-accredited degree programs? Yes or No.” A “Yes” answer would then trigger a reminder to upload a narrative report for this item in Part III). Finally, in Part IV, users can review their submissions, correct errors, complete parts or sections inadvertently left blank, and submit the completed annual report to NAAB. The Web-based interface also provides help features and definitions. The dynamic interface triggers corresponding choices on student characteristics in response to the question about which degree(s) a program offers. For example, if an institution offers both a B. Arch. and an M. Arch., users will have to complete two grids for student characteristics. Likewise, if a program is located in a public college or university, users will have to provide information on in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees, whereas a private institution would only provide one set of tuition and fees.

For Part 1, the definitions are taken from the glossary of terms used by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS is the “core postsecondary data collection program” for the National Center for Education Statistics. Data are collected from all primary providers of postsecondary education in the U.S., in areas including enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty, staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid.” Much of the institutional information requested in Part I corresponds to reports submitted by institutions to IPEDS each fall.

After the November 30, 2008 deadline, NAAB-ARS will create reports and analysis based on consistent, comparable, rigorous, and verifiable information. Information can then be reported in the aggregate by region or by type of institution.

The information collected by NAAB in Part I is similar in type and scope to information ACSA collects from member institutions. NAAB and ACSA have agreed to collect each data point only once and to share the statistical and institutional data with each other. ACSA will use this information to prepare and publish its online Guide to Architecture Schools and NAAB will use the information to support accreditation activities and to provide relevant reports to other architectural collateral organizations such as The American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

The development and implementation of this new NAAB-ARS is a big step forward for NAAB and architectural education. NAAB believes that launching the system in 2008, as a companion to the work of the Accreditation Review Conference (ARC), represents a powerful opportunity to make deep, systemic, and significant change in the way information is collected, analyzed, and used. Eventually, it is hoped, that the information from the NAAB-ARS can be compared to information captured by the other collaterals. Together, these data sets will provide the profession and the academy with a more complete picture of the growth and development of the profession.

Part II (Responses to Most Recent Visiting Team Report) includes a file transfer option for submitting a narrative report. Programs are able to respond to concerns or unmet conditions and criteria cited in the most recent Visiting Team Report (VTR). If a program had zero “not mets” in their most recent VTR, or were “cleared of future reporting” in subsequent annual reports, no file transfer is required.

In preparation for submission to the NAAB-ARS, program administrators are encouraged to contact the individual who completes IPEDS Reports and begin collecting data, as in previous years, and the narrative parts of NAAB-ARS.

For more information on NAAB-ARS, please contact Lee W. Waldrep, NAAB Associate Executive Director (202) 783-2007 or lwaldrep@naab.org.

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The soon to be launched online NAAB-Annual Report Submission (NAABARS) will change everything about how accredited and candidate architecture programs, and those overseas programs designated as substantially equivalent, provide annual reports to the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).

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in the curriculum in the university in the economy

November 6-8, 2008 Savannah, Georgia Co-Chairs A l a n P l at t u s , Ya l e | C r ys ta l W e av e r , S c a d h o s t sc h o o l S ava nn a h C o l l e g e o f A r t a n d D e s i gn

Design educators and professionals have long argued that their disciplines are based on, and shaped by, a unique style of thinking or mode of discourse. Recently, however, a widening array of fields, both inside and out of the academy, have expressed interest in, or even laid claim to, design as a productive approach to their specific issues and agendas. These developments pose a challenge and an opportunity to traditional design-based disciplines and professions, to articulate the distinctive characteristics of design thinking and practice and demonstrate their potential as a contributor and convener of an increasingly global conversation. c o n f e r e nc e sp o ns o r s ACSA would like to thank the following sponsors for their support.

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Understanding that a concept as complex as “design” cannot be defined and discussed in purely theoretical isolation from its cultural and institutional setting, the 2008 Administrators Conference proposes a consideration of design across its multiple contexts and among its diverse practitioners. While perhaps not a new line of inquiry, we hope to renew and refresh the perennial and always slightly elusive activity at the core of what architectural educators do through a consideration of: •

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The local and global opportunities and responsibilities of design education and practice The impact of new technologies of production and representation on the way that design is taught, communicated, and delivered The role of design and designers in adding value to their multiple constituencies and communities The diversity of design programs emerging at universities

Inside/Out Architecture and Interior Design Curricula II Wednesday November 5, 2008 9am - 5pm Michaele Pride, University of Cincinnati Ted Landsmark, Boston Architectural College Design educators at schools with both architecture and interior design or interior architecture programs are invited to join a one-day curriculum discussion. Discussions on curricular overlaps and distinctions between these disciplines began in May at a symposium hosted at the University of Cincinnati and co-chaired by Director Michaele Pride and Boston Architectural College President Ted Landsmark. The dozen American and Canadian schools present there agreed to expand their highly productive curricular conversations in a day-long discussion in Savannah, and furthered at the spring Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) meeting in St. Louis. For further information, contact Ted Landsmark at ted. landsmark@the-bac.edu. This workshop is open to all design educators not just administrators.

Annual Report Training and Submission Thursday November 6, 2008 8am - 12pm Visiting Team Member Training Thursday November 6, 2008 1:30pm - 5:30pm Team Room Preparation Saturday November 8, 2008 8am - 12pm

Wednesday November 5, 2008 1pm - 5pm Robert C. Greenstreet, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Marvin J. Malecha, North Carolina State University Rodner Wright, Florida A&M University

The agenda for the workshop will faithfully follow the outline that has evolved over the past decade, including changes to accommodate new voices. Topics on the agenda include: Leadership and Leading: Citizenship in the Academic Community • Staff: where the service is • Faculty: where the power is • Students: where the action is • Engagement: where the love is • Cultivation: where the dreams are • Observations from the edge

Friday Tours Historic Walking Tours

Greater Savannah Tour

Walking tours of the historic city of Savannah will be led by professors from the Architectural History Department of the Savannah College of Art and Design. You will explore Savannah’s founding, history, architecture, and unique city plan through visits to several of the city’s beautiful squares, monuments, and key buildings. The tour will start and stop from Johnson Square. Please sign up for one time slot. 3:00pm—4:30pm or 5:00pm—6:30pm

The tour heads directly to one of the most cherished landmarks of colonial Savannah, the tabby ruins of Noble Jones’ fortified house of 1739 and 1745. A marsh-front walk leads to the remaining slave quarter of the Wormsloe Plantation established by Jones’ descendents, and then on to the grand freestanding library (1907) of further descendents, the DeRennes, and their massive house (1828, 1890s, 1930s). The tour then proceeds to a walk along the bluff at the Isle of Hope, a popular summer destination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a stop at the Chapel of Our Lady of Good Hope (1874) and then a visit to Sandfly, a community established by slaves freed from Wormsloe. Further visits include other post-bellum, largely AfricanAmerican communities of Pinpoint and Montgomery, with highlights such as the Varn Oyster Factory and the Turner-HodgeYoung Community Association Building. The tour then proceeds to Thunderbolt and the historically black Savannah State University, originally Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth (1891).

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Pre-conference

ACSA Registration Desk Open

7:00 - 5:00

9:00 - 5:00

Inside/Out — Architecture and Interior Design Curriculum II

8:00 - 10:00

1:00 - 5:00

New Administrators Workshop

10:30 - 12:00

5:00 - 6:30

Reception: Welcome to new administrators

7:00 - 5:00

ACSA Registration Desk Open

Thur

10:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 1:30

Opening Session: The State of Design Session I: Interdisciplinary Degrees and Programs Session II: Technological Practices in the Curriculum Luncheon: Sponsored by ARCC

2:00 - 3:30

Session I: Design and National Identity Session II: Design and Diversity

4:00 - 5:30

Opening Keynote: The Power of Design in the Economy

5:30 - 7:30

Opening Reception

12:00 - 1:30

ACSA Registration Desk Open Plenary Session: The Power of Design and Techtonic Change in Practice and Education Session I: Community Design Session II: Recruiting and Retaining Women Faculty Session III: New Design Paradigms with Building Information Modeling Luncheon: Sponsored by AIA Knowledge Committee

1:30 - 2:00

Maurice Cox, Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts

2:00 - 3:00

ACSA Business Meeting

3:00 - 6:00

Friday Afternoon Tours

7:00 - 8:30

Reception: Sponsored by SCAD

7:00 - 2:00

ACSA Registration Desk Open

8:00 - 9:30

General Session: Campus Sustainability

10:00 - 11:30

Sat

8:00 - 10:00

Fri

8:00am - 5:00

Wed

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For complete session descriptions, panelists and updated schedule information visit www.acsa-arch.org

12:00 - 1:30

Session I: Interdisciplinary Studios/Design as Applied Research Session II: Career Advancement: Professional Development verses Service Session III: ACSA Open Session: Follow up to Business Meeting Closing Workshop: Design Thinking and Leadership in the University

keynote speakers The power of Design in the Economy

Design Thinking and Leadership in the University

George Kembel, Stanford d.school*

Jeanne Liedtka, University of Virginia

The d.school is “a place for Stanford students and faculty in engineering, medicine, business, the humanities, and education to learn design thinking and work together to solve big problems in a human centered way”. The school has worked with hundreds of individuals and companies in its courses, programs and innovative activites. At the heart of the d.school is a core belief in the importance of design thinking in multidisciplinary collaboration. “Designers provide a methodology that all parties can embrace and a design environment conducive to innovation. In our experience, design thinking is the glue that holds these kinds of communities together and makes them successful.”

Jeanne Liedtka is a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Formerly the Executive Director of the School’s Batten Institute, a foundation established to develop thought leadership in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, Jeanne has also served as Chief Learning Officer for the United Technologies Corporation (UTC), headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the Associate Dean of the MBA Program at Darden. Jeanne’s current teaching responsibilities focus on strategic thinking in the MBA and Executive Education Programs at Darden. She also teaches an elective course in Strategy Consulting, as well as a course focused on Strategy as a design process, conducted in Barcelona, Spain.

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George Kembel has led the conceptualization, design, and development of new products and technologies for over ten years in both research and industry environments. He specializes in the design process, idea generation, concept development, and rapid prototyping. George Kembel is a co-founder and currently the Executive Director of the d.school. He has taught on subjects ranging from human values and innovation in design to creativity and visual thinking. He has also won national and industry awards for entrepreneurship and excellence in design. He most recently lead the three day “Design Thinking Bootcamp” for executives in July 2008. *invited

Jeanne’s current research interests focus on exploring how design thinking can be used to enrich our ability to create inclusive strategic conversations about organizational futures. She has consulted with a wide variety of organizations and their leaders, from museums to law firms to large corporations, on this topic. Jeanne received her DBA in Management Policy from Boston University and her MBA from the Harvard Business School. She has been involved in the corporate strategy field since beginning her career as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

2008 ACSA Administrators conference Ways to Register Mail this form and payment to: 2008 ACSA Administrators 1735 New York Avenue Washington DC, 20006

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Registration Fees (Circle all the apply) Early by oct 8

Regular by Oct 22

LATE/ON-SITE after Oct 22

Pre-Conference Inside/Out

$150

$165

$175

New Administrators Conference

$75

$90

$100

ACSA Member

$450

$515

$580

Student Member (VALID ID)

$80

$100

$120

Non-Member

$590

$660

$725

Student Non-Member (VALID ID)

$135

$155

$180

Historic Walking Tour (3:00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;4:30)

$15

$20

Historic Walking Tour (5:00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;6:30)

$15

$20

Greater Savannah Tour

$15

$20

[ ] Free (Limited availibility; first come, first served basis)

AIA Lunch (fri)

[ ] Free (Limited availibility; first come, first served basis)

Closing Lunch (sat)

[ ] Free (Limited availibility; first come, first served basis)

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Special Assistance ACSA will take steps to ensure that no individual who is physically challenged is excluded, denied services, segregated, or otherwise treated differently because of an absence of auxiliary aids and services identified in the American with Disabilities Act. If any such services are necessary to enable you to participate fully in these meetings, please contact Mary Lou Baily, 202/785 2324 ext 2; mlbaily@acsa-arch.org. Cancellation Policy Cancellations must be received in writing, no later than October 1, 2008 to qualify for a refund, less a processing fee of $50. This fee also applies to PayPal purchases. Unpaid purchase orders will be billed at the full rate specified in the order unless cancelled before the deadline; Standard cancellation fees will apply. Tour refunds do not apply.

ARCC Lunch (Thur)

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Contact For questions regarding registrations for the conference, contact Kevin Mitchell at 202/785 2324 ext 5; kmitchell@acsa-arch.org. For all other conference questions, contact Mary Lou Baily at 202/785 2324 ext 2, mlbaily@ acsa-arch.org Payment ACSA accepts cash (on-site only), checks, money orders, Visa, and Mastercard. All payments must be in US dollars. Checks or international money orders should be made payable to ACSA and drawn on a bank located in the United States or Canada. Advance payments must be received at the ACSA national office by October 15, 2007. After that date, proof of purchase order, check requisition or on-site payment will be required upon conference check-in.

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

Submissions Due: September 17, 2008 The following call for submissions is the result of the first stage of a two-stage, refereed process. The twenty-two topics below have been categorized into eight general topics that relate to the overall theme of the Annual Meeting. Full topic descriptions are available at: www.acsa-arch.org/conferences

portland, oregon march 26-29, 2009 Host School University of Oregon

Call for Papers

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

SOCIAL & ECONOMIC VALUE OF DESIGN

thematic overview 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.

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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.

The “Social” Value of Design Coleman A. Jordan, U. of Michigan What are the social values of design and what are the implications thereof? Social values of design address the power dynamics of our built environment, including “the social, political, and economic forces, embodied in the forms, processes, and manner in which buildings are used.” This session will include the milieu of praxis, theory, and academe and the “education of an architect.” Architecture as a Vessel for Values Karen Cordes Spence, Drury U. In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, it is of merit to revisit Roland Barthes’ 1964 essay “The Eiffel Tower” to examine the link between architecture and social and cultural values. Barthes notes that the Parisian landmark is at once both empty and everything, accepting various meanings assigned by a diversity of people over time. Looking not exclusively at the architecture or at its meanings, this session seeks out the play between: as architects, how do we understand the connection between built form and its significance? As studio critics, how do we discuss and teach this understanding? More out of Less: The Value of Resourcefulness in Design Jenny E. Young and John Rowell, U. of Oregon This session invites papers to reflect on the design for budget-challenged projects that have social significance and high community value. In projects for communities where resources are limited, what really matters? How do designers and teachers of design innovate where “less [can be] more?” How do they craft designs that are affordable? How do they use ingenuity and capability to make places of quality out of very little? How do they measure what elements in design have the most significant impact? Papers that address these themes and others that highlight exemplary projects that demonstrate the resourcefulness of designers are welcome.

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE OF DESIGN How Long Can You Tread Water? Sandy Stannard, Cal Poly State U. Ecological luminaries such as architect Ed Mazria have re-analyzed the statistics, revealing that architecture with all of its associated technologies and materials consume nearly 50% of the energy generated in the United States. Given this context, the aim of this session will be to explore how our creative work reflects upon, questions, and relates to the broader field of architecture in correspondence with the natural environment. Given the energy consumption embodied in the production and operation of buildings, how are design studios and other architectural courses responding to contemporary environmental challenges, to calls for carbon neutrality, and to the performance targets outlined by Architecture 2030? Papers are encouraged to report on student or other projects that address the junction between the ecological and built environments. Sustenance in Architecture: Making as Re-making Sheryl Boyle, Carleton U. Federica Goffi, Carleton U. In the contemporary western world there is a disjunction between ‘architecture’ and ‘conservation’. By redefining the meaning of sustainability as being derived from sustenance, we can reconsider our approach to this disjunction. The continuty of ideas embodied in exisitng building stock provides nourishment for architecture. Rather than setting a dialectic oposition of ‘new’ and ‘old’, architecture should be read as a palimpsest. This session aims to provoke speakers to reflect on the ‘sustenance’ of sustainability as a way of breaking the barrier between new and old, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.

Exchanging Change: How University Research Centers Change and Are Changed by the Profession to the Benefit of Both G.Z. Brown, U. of Oregon; Joel Loveland, U. of Washington; Judy Theodorson, Washington State U.; Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, U. of Idaho; Tom Wood, Montana State U. What are the benefits to knowledge development that result from linking academic research centers and professional offices. We welcome papers documenting: 1) case studies of building projects that have resulted in positive changes to methods used by the university or professionals; 2) facilities and administrative structures that are catalyst for linkage; 3) innovations that resulted from collaboration between university and professionals in which changes played an important role; 4) activities from the profession whose outcome resulted in linkage to and changes in the academic center and activities from the academy that resulted in changes in the profession. We encourage papers that are jointly authored by academics and practicing architects.

URBAN VALUE OF DESIGN Urban by Design? The Value of Design in Urban Reconnaissance & Repair José L.S. Gámez, U. North Carolina—Charlotte Susan Rogers, U. of Houston In 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in cities; by late 2007, that proportion had grown to over 50%. With this concentration, we have witnessed a flattening of the physical city with the simultaneous production of a radically uneven social and economic landscape. This has resulted in a “semi-urbanized” landscape shaped by global capital and lacking in experiential, tactile and visual qualities. This session seeks proposals that investigate emergent spatial practices, tactical occupations and/or appropriations that refocus our attention on the social value of space and provide new models for urban and suburban reinvention and repair. The Question of Design in Affordable Housing William Williams, U. of Virginia In affordable housing, there is little consideration given to design choices outside of economic concerns. Unfortunately, these choices are often limited to making housing more affordable without considering how to making affordable housing more livable. Prefabrication, material choices, and plan efficiencies have all been used as strategies to cut cost, but what are the strategies available to designers to create value beyond utility. This session will explore the role of design in affordable housing as it relates to challenging contemporary notions of aesthetic value.

Submission Requirements All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. An author can present no more than two papers at the Annual Meeting. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, or staff at ACSA member schools, faculty or staff at ACSA affiliate schools or become supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission.

Papers submissions (1) must report on recently completed work, (2) cannot have been previously published or presented in public except to a regional audience, and (3) must be written in English. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, excluding the abstract and endnotes.

Submission Process The deadline for submitting a paper to a session for the Annual Meeting is September 17, 2008. Authors will submit papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your paper, you will be guided with the Web interface, through the following steps. 1. Log in with your ACSA username and password. 2. Enter the title of your paper. 3. Select the Session Topic for your submission. 4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any. (Note all authors must be current members of ACSA.) 5. Upload your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines. * Omit all author names from the paper and any other identifying information to maintain an anonymous review process. * Do not include an abstract in the file. * Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included. * No more than five images may be used in the paper. Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper. 6. Click Submit to finalize your submission. Note: Your paper is not submitted unless you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

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The Future of the Thesis Thomas Mical; Carleton U. Nana Last, Rice U. We wish to speculate on how the architectural thesis performs, or could perform, if it were to transform into something it has only occasionally accomplished ... as speculative critique, trans-disciplinary research, a purer questioning, technological innovation, or the exposure of that which has been often been hidden, suppressed, or absent from recent architectural thought. This panel is intended to include a broad range of articulated individual positions, possibly supported by case studies, to raise the question of epistemology - specifically: Under what new or urgent conditions can architectural knowledge or insights still be produced in a thesis? What is it that the best theses reveal that only emerges through thesis, and how can this be taught?

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AESTHETIC & REPRESENTATIONAL VALUE OF DESIGN Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture Sanda Iliescu, U. of Virginia Collages kindle in us a sense of hope. Something that was simply garbage has been lifted out, repaired, and accorded new aesthetic value. This salvage speaks as a story of survival, a sign that things, and by analogy we ourselves, may withstand difficulties and be renewed. Not unlike a collage fragment, a building is an insertion into a pre-existing fabric. Global warming, poverty, and decay now threaten architecture’s pre-existing fabric. As our cities are filled with unsightly and dangerous junk, might the poetics of collage begin to bridge aesthetics and ethics—“good form” and form that contributes to the common good? This session invites papers that examine collage in architecture and/or art, whether theoretical, historical, or from an author’s own practice or teaching.

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The Architectural Model Between Material and Idea Matthew Mindrup, Carleton U. Paul Emmons, Virginia Tech Over the millennia, physical models continually serve as important tools for the architect to study and communicate a design in threedimensions. However, the historical experimentation with different modeling materials, methods, and interpretations has also shown their ability to play a role in design by instigating and demonstrating new architectural conceptions. As a counterbalance to naïve realism in modeling, this session invites papers that examine the value of physical models in both physical and virtual design practices as a generative tool to aid the imagination of new architectural ideas that synthesize the complexities of program, new building technologies and the sensory experiences of place. Emerging Technologies: The Ethics of Digital Design Jason Oliver Vollen, U. of Arizona Bradley Horn, City College of New York The current dialogues of scholars and practitioners seem to focus on computational design and fabrication as either a practical or an aesthetic concern. On one end of the spectrum new technologies are framed as the only means by which to solve the world’s ecological crisis; on the other they are celebrated as vehicles of formal expression. This panel begins with the premise that in order to find value in emerging digital practices we must consider the ethical. The goal for this session is to discuss the development of an ethic that will allow us to re-examine the complex relationship between digital design, material, and the world at large.

MATERIAL & TECHNICAL VALUE OF DESIGN Design Abstraction and Building Construction Jonathan Ochshorn, Cornell U. Examining the conceptualization and production of architecture from Vitruvius to the present time, one notices a qualitative shift in both the meaning and ramifications of abstraction in relation to functional elements that comprise works of architecture. This session intends to initiate an exploration of the relationships between design abstraction and building construction. Specific issues of interest include: [1] History and theory of abstraction in architectural design [2] Abstraction and the reality of construction: problem or opportunity? [3] Teaching design abstraction in relation to construction [4] Reducing building envelope failure through applications of reliability theory, BIM and other means.

Material and the Making of Architecture Gail Peter Borden, U. of Southern California Materials are the matter that makes architecture. It is the means of execution, a major force of resistance, and means of expression. The architectural discipline has begun to radically reorient itself towards a renewed relationship with materiality. This session focuses on material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. The discussion will focus on materiality and its associated design decisions. Confronting the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications and re-applying them to challenge emerging techniques, it considers materiality, its production/fabrication processes, and the process of synthesizing material and design methodology to generate a material architecture.

Teaching Technology as Design Ulrich Dangel, U. of Texas at Austin This session will look at the relationship between design and technology teaching from a pragmatic and creative perspective, with a particular focus on the social, cultural, educational, and curricular aspects that have to be considered by technology teachers in response to the current situation at our schools. By re-thinking present-day conventions, it will explore how new and innovative approaches can aid in the development of comprehensive educational strategies, the establishment of deeply integrated curricula, and ultimately the possible reshaping of the educational experience for future architects in the United States.

Indeterminacy: Design-build as Reflectionin-Action John Comazzi, U. of Minnesota This session seeks papers and presentations detailing the effective execution of design-build practices in promoting what Donald Schön refers to as reflection-in-action. Through design-build programs, many schools have produced shifts in their curricular structures while recalibrating conventional forms of student interaction within collaborative learning environments. Working across multiple disciplines while utilizing a range of fabrication methods, these programs have established new pedagogical imperatives that sponsor projective approaches to practice, industry and education. By embracing a broad range of exemplary work this session seeks to contextualize and problematize design-build practices in providing frameworks for the critique of their successes and shortcomings.

METHODOLOGICAL VALUE OF DESIGN What is Design Thinking? Thomas Fisher, U. of Minnesota For the design community to convey the value of what we do, we need to have a much clearer idea of what constitutes design thinking and how it differs from other modes of thought. Architecture, as a discipline, has tended to mystify the thought process of its major practitioners, viewing their thinking as something to imitate rather than analyze and critique apart from the designs they produce. This session seeks papers that explore this, evaluating the ways in which designers think, comparing it to other modes of inquiry, and/or defining what makes our mode of thinking, in fact, exceptional.

Group Effort - Successful Collaborative Design Jeff Schnabel, Portland State U. The academic studio frequently supports a culture of individual achievement through solitary investigations. Arguably this model fails to prepare students with many of the skills they will need to navigate a professional design process that from beginning to end requires working with others. This session seeks to review and reveal strategies for working collaboratively in the academic studio where design ideas emerge that are richer and more valuable than solutions created by individual effort. Papers are encouraged which illustrate processes and products from academic and professional settings which heighten solutions through a group design process.

The Doctor in the Studio: Ph.D.’s and Design Pedagogy Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Iowa State U. With the increased popularity of Ph.D. programs in architecture, it is more common for faculty to have a professional degree and a Ph.D. without a professional license. Yet as departments look to define themselves in relation to the profession, the licensing boards, and their students, these faculty can be pushed to the margins of discussions about design pedagogy and curriculum development. Conflicts can arise between educators who come to teaching from practice and those who stayed in academia. This panel invites papers which explore the challenges, questions, and rewards that result from the engagement of Ph.D.’s with studio curricula.

OPEN SESSION ACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into one of the above topics.

Architectural History and the Design Studio Vandana Baweja, U. of Michigan This panel addresses the question: What pedagogical value does design education offer to architectural history? Papers that present studio projects with an analysis of the discursive impact of studio education on architectural history are invited. The objective of the session is not just to present case studies, but also to draw metacognitive conclusions on how architectural history and the design studio can be imagined intertextually. We invite papers that focus on: bridging the disciplinary divide between architectural history and the design studio, cutting across the textual/visual production and consumption of knowledge, and research methods in the history oriented design studio. Design Curriculum Design Michael Peters, Texas Tech U. An examination of how design curriculums are structured can inform a discussion of the nature of architectural education in the coming decades. Primary concerns of any design curriculum include: 1) How we can better prepare students to visualize design and respond to the environment; 2) How are new and emerging technologies, such as digital design and representation, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrated into the curriculum; 3) How should design schools engage the profession, and; 4) How should a design education begin and how should it end. In short, this session examines how we will prepare students for the evolving field of architecture and the future of practice.

Paper Presentation All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the session topic chairs. Selection is based on innovation, clarity, contribution to the discipline of architecture, and relevance to the session topic. All authors will be notified of the status of their paper and will receive comments from their reviewers. Accepted authors will be required to complete a copyright transfer form and agree to present the paper at the Annual Meeting before it is published in the proceedings.

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Pedagogies of Study Abroad Heinrich Schnoedt, Virginia Tech Study abroad programs have been regarded as seminal to the complete education of an architect for centuries. To understand more clearly the importance and impact of such programs in today’s architecture curricula, this session challenges contributors to critically assess successful curricular models, their didactic approaches, and the modes by which success becomes evident. It further seeks to clarify the future role of study abroad programs and their possible contribution toward comprehending culture in local and global environments.

Each session will have a moderator, normally the topic chair. Session moderators will notify authors in advance of session guidelines as well as the general expectations for the session. Moderators reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines. Failure to comply with the conference deadlines or with a moderator’s request for materials in advance may result in an author being dropped from the program, even though his or her name may appear in the program book. In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation are required to register for the Annual Meeting.

Timeline April—Call for Papers announced July 16—Paper submission site opens September 17—Paper submission deadline October 27—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments. Accepted authors revise/prepare papers for publication December 3—Final revised papers and copyright forms due January 14—Paper presenter registration deadline

Contact Mary Lou Baily, conferences manager, with questions about paper submissions (mlbaily@acsa-arch.org, 202.785.2324 x2).

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PEDAGOGICAL VALUE OF DESIGN

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

ARCHITECTURE IN AN EXPANDED FIELD, FROM INTERIORS TO LANDSCAPE Scholarship and design-based investigations situated at the architectural scale often slip toward the space of the room or the expanse of the site. Indeed some of the most often studied projects of recent years operate within this larger field of space making. This topic seeks to provide a home for work beyond the precise scale of the building.

BUILDING BEHAVIORS Sustainability has led to a renewed interest in the behaviors of buildings, particularly related to energy usage. In addition, lighting, acoustical responsiveness and structural stability are increasingly at the foreground of public interest.

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

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Submission Requirements

HISTORY/THEORY

URBANISM

Scholarship on historic architects, settings, periods and themes occurs in a variety of research modalities. In addition ideas of design epistemology are often reflected in essays falling under this broad rubric.

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

HOUSING As the planet’s population grows it becomes increasingly imperative that housing effectively provide appropriate shelter with reduced means. Housing research varies from historic and emerging typologies to urban and social concerns to evolving family types, all set in a global arena of cultural confluences. Research and design projects in all these areas are encouraged.

MATERIALS In recent years the convergence of new manufacturing processes and new materials has led to a proliferation of material studies with spatial, economic and societal implications. In addition, traditional materials and their methods of fabrication continue to hold interest for researchers and offer new information to the construction industry.

MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS Theories and practices of media and representation, ranging from historic drawing techniques to contemporary digital modalities, are critical to the production of architectural ideas. Scholars and designers often focus their inquiries on this key link in the design process.

Authors will submit a 500-word abstract and a PDF of the poster (not to exceed 20” x 30” portrait orientation). Abstracts need to be formatted for blind peer review, as well as the posters.

tation time to discuss them with other participants. Posters are not required to be mounted; a flat tackable surface and tacks will be provided. Other materials for presentation are the responsibility of the authors.

Accepted poster authors will have a 20” x 30” (portrait orientation) space on a tack board on which to post materials. Authors must stand at their posters during presen-

Accepted authors will be notified by December 3, 2008 and must register for the conference by January 14, 2009 in order to be included in the proceedings.

THE VALUE OF DESIGN Recent cultural changes have places architects in a promising position to initiate positive change through design insight and proactive practice. 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. By questioning the broader value of design, the role of architecture can become more significant within society.

OPEN SESSION ACSA encourages submissions that do not fit into one of the above topicS.

Timeline July 15—Poster submission site opens November 19—Poster submission deadline December 3—Accept/reject notifications sent to all authors with reviewer comments. January 14—Poster presenter registration deadline

On Fingerprints in the Act of Making Participants are invited to ignite a critical debate over the origin and value of singular authorship in a democratic studio culture. The challenge for our imaginations has always been to transform nowhere into now here. In the disciplines of politics and science, fingerprints and DNA evidence the identities of citizens and strangers alike. We need both identities as catalysts in the fecundity of friction some call an architecture of democracy. In our contemporary rush to embrace the interface of systems, architectural education has difficulty with the aberrant, the intuitive conjecture, the blister and certainly the scar marked by our distinct spatial tales of origin. In our fascination with parallel scientific methodologies, we all too often dismiss the power of the curious meander, if not the magician’s stretch. Two crucial questions: “Where do you come from?” might just have a different response than “From where will we proceed?” Please join Surveyors, Nomads, & Lunatics in a feisty focused discussion on fingerprints in the act of making. - Peter D. Waldman

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Call To Participate in a Critical Conversation

Submission Information

Submission Process

Selected respondents will engage in a discussion with protagonist Peter Waldman, William R. Kenan Professor in Architecture at the University of Virginia. Studio faculty are invited to submit a position paper (max. 500 words) that states your ideas in relation to the issues and questions put forth in the protagonist’s statement. Also include a studio brief that reinforces your argument.

Materials must be received by November 5, 2008 and will be peer reviewed. Participants will be notified by late November 2008 of acceptance. Authors will submit position papers through the ACSA online interface. When submitting your position paper, you will be guided through the following steps. 1. Log in with your ACSA username and password. 2. Enter the title of your posistion paper. 3. Select the Session Topic, On Fingerprints in the Act of Making.

4. Add additional authors for your posistion paper, if any. 5. Type or Copy/Paste your position paper into the Abstract field. 6. Upload a PDF of your Studio Brief. 7. Click Submit to finalize your submission. Note: Your submission is not finalized unless you click the Submit button and receive an automatic email confirmation.

Travel scholarship Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Travel Scholarship will cover conference registration, travel, and lodging costs for attending the Annual Meeting for one individual whose accepted paper best addresses the contributions of women to architecture. The scholarship reflects the foundation’s mission of advancing the scholarly study and public recognition of contributions made by women architects, designers, urban planners, and architectural historians and critics, active in the United States during the middle years of the 20th century. The scholarship recipient may be at any career level and either male or female. Papers must first be accepted as part of the normal review process before they are evaluated for the travel scholarship. How to Apply Authors may apply for the scholarship through the online paper submission process by checking the appropriate box on the first tab of the submission process.

Local Information Hilton Portland & Executive Tower 921 SW Sixth Avenue

Portland, Oregon 97204 tel: 503-226-1611 fax: 503-220-2565 web: www.hilton.com Rate: $159 (main building) or: $179 (executive tower)

Max Light Rail The MAX Light Rail system is only a block away from the hotel (Pioneer Square South station) 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. Visit www.TriMet.org for more information. ACSA encourages all attendees to take advantage of the lightrail system and all of Portlands mass transit options for the duration of the conference.

Green Meetings Portland has long been known as a clean, green and friendly metropolis, and at ACSA we are doing our part to make our meetings more sustainable. We have already greatly reducing the quantity of printed programs, on-site materials and pre-conference mailers and use acsa-arch.org to keep our members informed. More recently 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.

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Thanks to support of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, one travel scholarship to the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting will be available.

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9 8 ACSA ANNUAL MEETING

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NEW ORLEANS | MARCH 4-7, 2010 HOST SCHOOL Tulane University

CO-CHAIRS

Bruce Goodwin, Tulane University Judith Kinnard, Tulane University

THEME

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 eld 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.

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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 de nitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking. These debates will be informed by the city of New Orleans. More than 3 years after Hurricane Katrina the process and results of the re-building efforts at work in this most vibrant and unique of American cities will be an important point of reference and topic for discussion.

The ACSA Annual Meeting serves as a forum for discussion and speculation related to the meeting theme, as well as the exploration of a broad scope of research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty members have the opportunity both to propose session topics and to submit papers related to a range of given topics.

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Stage One Deadline for Session Topic Proposals: January 7, 2009

Proposals for session topics related to the conference theme are requested, as are proposals related to the full range of subject areas within architecture, its related disciplines, and its allied professions. Topic proposals may, for example, address questions relating to history, theory, criticism, design, digital media, technology, pedagogy, construction, materials, practice, society, and culture. Session Topic proposals may also cut across traditional categories or address emerging issues. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused. Each proposal should clearly identify its subject, premise, and scope of the proposed Session Topic. sessiON tOpic selectiON prOcess

Session Topics are selected through a blind peer review process. In addition to the blind process, the conference co-chairs may identify additional session topics and moderators. The selection process takes into consideration both the merits of the Session Topic proposals, as well as the importance of organizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting.

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

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eligibility

All Session Topic Chairs must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become a Supporting ACSA Member by September 1 of the academic year during which the Annual Meeting will occur. Prospective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Session Topic proposal. Please visit the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch.org, to obtain detailed instructions and template for submitting a topic. The deadline to submit a Session Topic is January 4, 2009.

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Stage Two Deadline for Paper Proposals: September 16, 2009

The Call for Papers will list the final Session Topics and will be announced in the April 2008 ACSANews as well as on the ACSA website. All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Typically, each session will be composed of three or four presentations, with time for discussion. All papers will be submitted through an online interface and must meet the general criteria identified in the call for papers and in the submission guidelines.

Each author will be limited to one submission per Session Topic. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission. In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be required to register for the conference before the conference Proceedings go to press.

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Conference Schedule: Thursday, October 16 6:00-8:00 PM

Keynote - Nader Tehrani: Office dA

Friday, October 17 8:30-10:30 AM

Paper Sessions Material Detail: Piece and Connection Case Studies in Materials Pedagogy Material Sensations Material Precedent: Session 01

2008 ACSA Fall Conference October 16-19, 2008

The University of Southern California

11:00 -12:30 PM

Keynote - Marcelo Spina + Geogina Huljich: P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

1:30-3:30 PM

Paper Sessions Material History: The Affect of Yesterday on Today MATERIAL media Materials: Morphogenesis Material Ecology & Sustainability: Session 01

3:30-5:30 PM

Paper Sessions Material Art - Art Material Material Pedagogy: Session 01 Expressive Tectonics / Suppressive Tectonics Material Matters: Session 01

6:00-7:30 PM

Keynote - Lisa Iwamoto + Craig Scott: Iwamoto/Scott

Saturday, October 18 8:30-10:30 AM

Paper Sessions Material Innovation: Fabrication, Technology and Making Material Precedent: Session 02 Material History: The Affect of Yesterday on Today Material Pedagogy: Session 02

11:00 -12:30 PM

Keynote - Tom Wiscombe: EMERGENT

1:30-3:30 PM

Paper Sessions In/On/As: Material Consequences of Integrating Media Responsive Materials/Responsive Skins Material Use Material Ecology & Sustainability: Session 02

4:00-5:30 PM

Keynote - Ashley Schafer, Ohio State University

6:00-8:00 PM

Downtown Walking Tour: Coop Himmelblau - LA USD High School, Moneo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cathedral, Neutra - Hall of Records, Morphosis - Cal-Trans Building, & Isosaki - MOCA Reception: Gehry - Disney Concert Hall

Keynote Speakers Include:

Conference Location:

Registration:

Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott

University of Southern California

By September 15, 2008

Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco

Georgina Huljich & Marcello Spina

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, LA

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Ashley Schafer

School of Architecture

Watt Hall, Suite 204 Los Angeles, California 90089-0291 t. (213) 740-2723, f. (213) 740-8884

Participant/Presenter: $250.00 Moderator/Topic Chair/Faculty Councilor: $175.00 Student: $125.00

Suggested Conference Hotel:

Conference Co-Chairs:

The Standard Downtown LA

Gail Peter Borden, AIA

Nader Tehrani

550 South flower at Sixth street Los Angeles CA 90071 t. (213) 892-8080 www.standardhotels.com

Tom Wiscombe

More Information:

Ohio State University Office dA, Boston EMERGENT, LA

acsa-arch.org/conferences

University of Southern California

Michael Meredith

Harvard Graduate School of Design

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2008 ACSA Northeast Fall Conference September 25-27, 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst Light on the environment and cost effective, prefabricated construction is on the rise. Join us this September to discuss the art and science of contemporary prefabricated architecture. Keynote speakers will include: Stephen Kieran, Kieran Timberlake Associates Tedd Benson, Bensonwood Homes For program, registration, hotel and travel information, go to:

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Call for Nominations & Submissions

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2008-2009 ACSA Awards Program

p ACSA 2007-08 Faculty Design Award Recipient Gail Peter Borden, University of Southern California, Low Country Line House

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AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion Postmark Deadline: October 24, 2008 Description

The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education is awarded jointly by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to an individual, who must be living at the time of nomination who has spent at least a decade primarily involved in architectural education, and whose primary contribution to architectural education has been on the North American continent.

Criteria • • • • •

The candidate shall have evidenced great depth, having a cumulative effect on a long line of students. The candidate shall have evidenced great breadth, having influenced a wide range of students. The candidate shall be a person whose activities have consistently directed themselves toward the future as well as the past. The candidate shall have evidenced the ability to transcend specific areas of expertise or shall have made connections between areas, in the event that the candidate’s areas of focus might be considered circumscribed. The candidate shall be widely known by the quality of his or her products: by those who also taught, by those who practiced architecture, and by those who perhaps did neither.

Submissions

All exhibits must be submitted in an AIA uniform binder, obtained by contacting the AIA Honors and Awards Department at honorsawards@ aia.org. Each submission shall contain the following information: • A nomination letter by the sponsor not to exceed one page • A biography of the candidate not to exceed two pages • A statement of contributions not to exceed four pages • A roster of distinguished students • Supporting material (e.g., clippings, articles, etc.) relating to the purpose of the award not to exceed four pages • A maximum of 10 letters of support by those who know the quality of the nominee’s products—by those who also taught, by those who practiced architecture, and by those who perhaps did neither; letters should be explicit in their recommendation and contain specific reasons for support. Letters must not exceed one page.

Schedule

The completed nomination binder is submitted and postmarked no later than October 24, 2008: Honors and Awards Department AIA/ACSA Topaz Award The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006-5292

Selection & Presentation

A five-member committee consisting of two persons representing ACSA, two persons representing AIA, and a student representative from the AIAS shall make the selection from among the candidates nominated. The ACSA representatives shall be appointed by the ACSA Board of Directors for a one-year term. The recipient shall receive a Topaz Medallion and certificate to be presented at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting by the Presidents of ACSA and the AIA, and at the AIA National Convention and Expo.

Recent Topaz Medallion Recipients 2008 Stanley Tigerman, FAIA 2007 Lance Jay Brown, FAIA 2006 William G. McMinn, FAIA

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2005 Edward Allen, FAIA 2004 Stanford Anderson, AIA 2003 Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA

2002 Jerzy Soltan 2001 Lee G. Copeland, FAIA 2000 Alan H. Balfour

ACSA Distinguished Professor Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 Description

To recognize sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.

Criteria

Candidates in the area of teaching shall have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students over an extended period of time and/or teaching which inspired a generation of students who themselves have contributed to the advancement of architecture. Candidates in the areas of design, scholarship, or research shall have produced a body of work that provides significant insight into the understanding and advancement of architecture and architectural education. Candidates in the area of service shall have significant impact fostering and sustaining excellent teaching and a healthy environment for learning and/or instituted measures leading to an understanding and appreciation of architectural education in the community at large. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility

Full-time faculty members or persons whose activities have clearly been identified with architectural education in ACSA full-member schools for a minimum of 10 years are eligible. The achievements must have occurred during the period of appointment. No postmortem awards will be made. A candidate may be considered for this award and the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion simultaneously. In such cases, the nomination must be submitted for each award separately, according to the conditions of required documentation. Any faculty member, administrator, or student at an ACSA full-member school may nominate a candidate for the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.

Nomination Documentation

All items are to be submitted by the nominator in an 8 1/2” x 11” binder or portfolio, must not exceed 10 sleeves, for a total of 20 pages. The résumé and supporting letters do not count toward the 20 pages and should not be submitted in sleeves. All material must be received at the ACSA office by October 3, 2008. Each submission shall contain the following information: • Nomination form, completed legibly (available on the ACSA website); • A letter explaining the reasons for the nomination according to the established criteria, not to exceed one page; • A résumé summarizing the career and achievements of the candidate; • No more than three supporting letters from persons qualified to comment upon the significance of the specific achievements of the candidate; • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s achievements (10 sleeves, for a total of 20 pages) Provide five full copies including all nomination documentation (unbound).

Selection & Presentation

The ACSA Awards Committee shall recommend to the ACSA board for approval no more than five individuals for awards per year. The committee, in any year, may choose not to bestow the Distinguished Professor Award. A medallion and certificate shall be presented by the president at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009. The recipient may use the title “ACSA Distinguished Professor, DPACSA” in perpetuity.

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ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008

Description

To recognize demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.

Criteria

ACSA and AIAS are jointly sponsoring the award to recognize outstanding teaching abilities exhibited by faculty with a maximum of 10 academic semesters or 15 quarters of full-time teaching experience. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility

Faculty must teach at an ACSA full-member school, candidate school, affiliate school, or at an institution with an associated program. The candidate must also be a faculty member at an institution with an established AIAS or CASA chapter in good standing. Faculty members who have already received tenure are not eligible for this award. Any faculty member, administrator, AIAS or CASA member at an ACSA full-member school, candidate school, affiliate school, or at an institution with an associated program may nominate a candidate for the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award.

Nomination Documentation

Supporting material must be submitted on a CD, in PowerPoint format with up to 20 slides and a file size under 50 megabytes. All material must be received at the ACSA office by October 3, 2008. Previous recipients are ineligible for this award. Each submission shall contain the following information: • Nomination Form, completed legibly, available on the ACSA website (in PDF or Word document on submission CD); • A letter explaining the reasons for the nomination according to the established criteria, not to exceed one page (in PDF or Word document on submission CD); • A résumé of the candidate summarizing his or her career (in PDF or Word document on submission CD); • No more than three supporting letters (in addition to the letter of nomination) from colleagues and/or students commenting upon the significance of the specific achievements of the candidate (in PDF or Word document on submission CD); • A letter from the dean/chair of the nominee’s university, verifying the nominee has a maximum of 10 academic semesters or 15 quarters of full-time teaching experience (in PDF or Word document on submission CD); • Supporting material illustrating or describing the candidates achievements, which would include teaching evaluations, syllabi, or student work (on submission CD in PowerPoint). Provide a copy of submission CD with all nomination files.

Selection & Presentation

Applications will be assessed by a jury composed of two members of the AIAS national leadership and two members of the ACSA Board of Directors, none of who shall be associated with any of the nominations. A maximum of three nominees will receive this award. The jury, in any year, may choose not to bestow the New Faculty Teaching Award. Winners will be announced at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009. The ACSA president and AIAS vice-president will present winners with a certificate at the ACSA Annual Meeting.

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ACSA Creative Achievement Award Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008

Description

To recognize a specific creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service that advances architectural education.

Criteria

Candidates in the area of teaching shall have had a positive stimulating influence upon students through a full course, course project, or course module. Candidates in areas of design, scholarship, or research shall have created a work or a project that provides significant insight into the understanding and advancement of architecture and architectural education. Candidates in the area of service shall have significant impact fostering and creating a work or project that provides a healthy environment for learning led to an understanding and appreciation of architectural education in the community at large. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility

Full-time faculty or persons whose activities have clearly been identified with architectural education in ACSA full-member schools are eligible. The achievement must have been accomplished during the period of appointment. Any faculty member, administrator, or student at an ACSA full-member school may nominate a candidate for the ACSA Creative Achievement Award.

Nomination Documentation

Supporting material must be submitted on a CD, in PowerPoint format with up to 20 slides and a file size under 50 megabytes. All material must be received at the ACSA office by October 3, 2008. Each submission shall contain the following information: • Nomination form, completed legibly, available on the ACSA website (submitted via hard copy); • A letter explaining the reasons for the nomination according to the established criteria, not to exceed one page (submitted via hard copy; no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission); • A résumé for the candidate summarizing his or her career (submitted via hard copy; no names of entrants may appear on any part of the submission); • No more than three supporting letters from persons qualified to comment upon the significance of the specific achievements of the candidate (submitted via hard copy; no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission); • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s achievements (on submission CD in PowerPoint; no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission). Provide a copy of submission CD along with a hard copy of nomination documentation. Do not include nomination letter, résumé, and supporting letters on the submission CD. To maintain anonymity, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission, except on entry forms. Credits may be concealed by any simple means. Do not conceal identity and location of the project.

Selection & Presentation

The ACSA Awards Committee shall recommend to the ACSA board for approval no more than three individuals for this award per year. The committee, in any year, may choose not to bestow the Creative Achievement Award. The ACSA president shall present recipients with a certificate at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009.

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ACSA Faculty Design Award Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008

Description

To provide a venue for work that advances the reflective nature of practice and teaching by recognizing and encouraging outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor

Criteria

Submissions are invited that represent critical investigations advancing the general understanding of the discipline of architecture. This program will recognize built and unbuilt work and carefully consider critical efforts that reflect upon practice and research. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility

Persons in ACSA member schools who are primarily engaged in teaching may enter one or more submissions on different subject matters relevant to their educational activities. Prior publication does not affect eligibility. Projects must have been completed after January 1, 2004, to be eligible for consideration.

Submission Documentation

Entries must consist of high-quality digital graphic material and text, maximum of 1,000 words, on CD in PowerPoint with up to 20 slides and a file size under 50 megabytes or on self-starting DVD, no more than 5 minutes in length. No models, slides, or films will be accepted. All material must be received at the ACSA office by October 3, 2008. Each submissions shall contain the following information: • Submission form, completed legibly, available on the ACSA website (submitted via hard copy); • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s design (on submission CD or DVD). Provide a copy of submission CD or DVD along with a hard copy of submission form. Do not include submission form on the submission CD or DVD. To maintain anonymity, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission, except on entry forms. Credits may be concealed by any simple means. Do not conceal identity and location of project.

Selection & Presentation

One jury will review all submissions, selecting designs for presentation at the 97th Annual Meeting. Up to four submissions will receive an ACSA Faculty Design Award. The jury, in any year, may choose not to bestow the Faculty Design Award. Award recipients will present and display their projects as part of the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009. Winners must prepare one 20” x 20” board for display at the meeting. Projects not selected as award winners may be selected as presenters at a session for the meeting.

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ACSA Collaborative Practice Award Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008

Description

To honor the best practices in school-based community outreach programs

Criteria

This ACSA award recognizes programs that demonstrate how faculty, students, and community/civic clients work to realize common objectives. Participation by professional practitioners and colleagues from other academic disciplines is encouraged. •Architecture •Landscape •Interior •Planning •Industrial •Urban Collaborative projects and practice can encompass a variety of endeavors, including but not limited to: design/build, new construction, rehabilitation, open space planning, zoning and regulatory reform, and the development of new institutions or social processes. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Eligibility

Persons in ACSA member schools who are primarily engaged in teaching may enter one or more submissions relevant to their educational activities.

Submission Documentation

Submissions must explain the nature of the collaboration and demonstrate what students learned and how the community benefited. Entries must consist of high-quality digital graphic material and text, maximum of 1,000 words, on CD in PowerPoint with up to 20 slides and a file size under 50 megabytes or on self-starting DVD no more than 5 minutes in length. No models, slides, or films will be accepted. All material must be received at the ACSA office by October 3, 2008. Each submission shall contain the following: • Submission form, completed legibly, available on the ACSA website (submitted via hard copy); • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s design (on submission CD or DVD). Provide a copy of submission CD or DVD along with a hard copy of submission form. Do not include submission form on the submission CD or DVD. To maintain anonymity, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission, except on entry forms. Credits may be concealed by any simple means. Do not conceal identity and location of the project.

Selection & Presentation

The Architecture in Society Committee shall recommend to the ACSA board no more than four projects for this award per year. The Committee, in any year, may choose not to bestow the Collaborative Practice Award. Award recipients will present and display their projects as part of the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009.

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ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 Description

The ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award is granted jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects, Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Committee (AIA, HCR KC) to recognize the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities.

Categories

Submissions are invited for two award categories: 1. Excellence in Housing Design Curriculum — for an architecture program offering an exemplary program-wide Housing Design Curriculum that provides students with a comprehensive grounding in the theory and practice of housing design through a number of coordinated curricular activities, courses, topics, and programs. Generally, multiple faculty and administrative staff are involved in the implementation and coordination of such programs. 2. Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity — for an architecture program (such as a single studio or seminar course, research activity, or exhibition) that support housing design pedagogy.

Eligibility

Persons in ACSA member schools who are engaged in teaching may enter one or more submissions relevant to their educational activities. Previous winners in the Housing Design Curriculum Award category must wait two years and make substantial changes to reapply in this award category. Previous winners in the Housing Education Course or Activity Award category may apply each year with new program components.

Criteria

1. Judging Criteria for the Housing Design Curriculum Award will be evaluated on the basis of the comprehensiveness, thoughtfulness, and innovativeness of the curriculum approach to education in housing design theory and practice, including the range and quality of learning opportunities provided to students as represented in the submissions. It is anticipated that such a curriculum could address one or more of the following elements: History; Theory and studio pedagogy; Policy, including affordability issues; Community analysis; Site design and selection; Participatory techniques for working with communities and residents; Culturally responsive design; Finance – including proformas, subsidy, underwriting, and tax preference; Codes, zoning and regulatory frameworks; Site, unit, and shared space design; Housing as a component of comprehensive community design; Design for special populations; Social, environmental and economic impacts; Production methods; Building systems; Specifications; Cost estimating; Information resources for designers; Research, including action research; Sustainability; Universal design; Health design.

Submissions should not be limited to descriptions of the sequence of courses, but should document the program’s multiple learning opportunities, such as lecture series, service learning programs, community design centers, and certificate programs. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability. 2. Judging Criteria for the Housing Education Course or Activity Award will be evaluated on the basis of the positive impact of the course or activity on students, the university, or the community. This impact may be found in areas such as the creation of a stimulating environment for learning about housing issues or for stimulating positive outcomes related to housing issues between and among university and community members. Submissions should convey how they address ideas of cultural, social, economical, or environmental sustainability.

Selection & Presentation

Submission Documentation

1. Housing Design Curriculum Award — entries must be submitted on a CD and include a PDF document containing a one-page abstract and a maximum of fifteen 8.5 x 11 inch pages, including images and appendices, of detailed program description and evaluative material (such as community feedback, documented student outcomes, publicity, etc.). All material in this PDF file should remain anonymous (i.e., do not identify the school or any of the participants by name in the written and graphic program material). A separate PDF file should include a separate signed statement from the program’s administrative head verifying all identifying information. 2. Housing Education Course or Activity Award — entries should be submitted on a CD, in PowerPoint format with up to 20 slides, a one-page abstract, and a file size under 50 megabytes. All material in the entry should remain anonymous (i.e., do not identify the school or any of the participants by name in the written and graphic program material). All submissions shall contain the following information: • Submission form, completed legibly, available on the ACSA website (submitted via hard copy); • Supporting material or documents illustrating or describing the candidate’s pedagogy (on submission CD). Provide a copy of submission CD along with a hard copy of submission form. Do not include submission form on the submission CD. To maintain anonymity, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the submission, except on entry forms. Credits may be concealed by any simple means. Do not conceal identity and location of project.

Applications will be assessed by a jury composed of two individuals from AIA and two individuals from ACSA, none of who shall be associated with any of submissions. One program will be awarded the Excellence in Housing Design Curriculum and a maximum of three programs will receive the Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity. The jury, in any year, may choose not to bestow the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Award. Winners will be announced at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, March 26–29, 2009. 28 2008-2009 AWARDSPROGRAM

ACSA 2008-2009 Awards Program Nomination Form Awards AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion please see specific AIA instructions for this award nomination ACSA Distinguished Professor Award ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award ACSA Creative Achievement Award

[deadline: October 24, 2008]

[deadline: October 3, 2008] [deadline: October 3, 2008] [deadline: October 3, 2008]

Name of Candidate (s) Affiliation Mailing Address Email

Phone

Fax

Phone

Fax

Name of Nominator Affiliation Mailing Address Email

Letter of Nomination enclosed Letter of Nomination to follow under separate cover Name of other Nominators Mail to: ACSA Attention: 2008-09 [Name of Award] 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006

Contact Information: Eric W. Ellis, Project Manager t. 202.785.2324 ext. 3 f. 202.628.0448 eellis@acsa-arch.org

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All materials for nominations must be mailed in one complete package. Any incomplete documentation, or if sent in two parts, will not be accepted. In support of the American Institute of Architecture Students’ (AIAS) resolution on unpaid interns, ACSA does not allow partners of firms who do not pay their interns, in accordance with all applicable laws, to submit work for ACSA publications or to receive ACSA awards. (Intern refers to those individuals participating in IDP or equivalent required training and includes working students.) Nomination or submission to the ACSA Awards Program constitutes your understanding of this agreement. Current ACSA Board of Directors members may not submit nominating or supporting letters. Award winners are expected to register and attend the Awards Ceremony at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009. By submitting your project, you certify that you have granted ACSA permission to use all graphics included

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ACSA 2008-2009 Awards Program Sumbission Form Awards ACSA Faculty Design Award ACSA Collaborative Practice Award ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award Excellence in Housing Design Curriculum Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity

[deadline: October 3, 2008] [deadline: October 3, 2008] [deadline: October 3, 2008]

Name of Candidate (s) Affiliation Mailing Address Email

Phone

Fax

Title of Project/Program Mail to: ACSA Attention: 2008-09 [Name of Award] 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006

Contact: Information: Eric W. Ellis, Project Manager t. 202.785.2324 ext. 3 f. 202.628.0448 eellis@acsa-arch.org

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All materials for submissions must be mailed in one complete package. Any incomplete documentation, or if sent in two parts, will not be accepted. Winners or presenters agree to prepare a page layout for publication in the 97th Annual Meeting proceedings and one 20” x 20” display board for exhibition at the Annual Meeting. In support of the American Institute of Architecture Students’ (AIAS) resolution on unpaid interns, ACSA does not allow partners of firms who do not pay their interns, in accordance with all applicable laws, to submit work for ACSA publications or to receive ACSA awards. (Intern refers to those individuals participating in IDP or equivalent required training and includes working students.) Nomination or submission to the ACSA Awards Program constitutes your understanding of this agreement. Current ACSA Board of Directors members may not submit nominating or supporting letters. Award winners are expected to register and attend the Awards Ceremony at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portalnd, OR March 26–29, 2009. By submitting your project, you certify that you have granted ACSA permission to use all graphics included.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology

A great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate architecture programs to meet with potential students looking to start or continue their careers. Attend workshops, seminars, school exhibits and a special workshop: â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Techniques in Design Researchâ&#x20AC;?. Register today at www.acsa-arch.org/students/collegeexpo.aspx

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student design competitions

2008-09 Steel Design Student Competition

9th Annual ACSA/American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Competition Life Cycle of a School & Open Category

2008-09 Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World

4th Annual ACSA/Portland Cement Association (PCA) Student Design Competition Transportation Hub & Component Category

2008-09 Preservation as Provocation, Student Design Competition An ACSA/AIA, Historic Resources Committee Competition Re-thinking Iconic architecture 2008-09 Green community, Student Design Competition

An ACSA, National Building Museum, Architectural Record Competition

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2008 Student Design Competition, Using Metal in Construction Metal Construction Association

Design Challenge This unique metal in construction competition challenges the entrant to design a new Maritime Museum and Historical Center of Chicago. The facility will serve Chicago-area residents and visitors of all ages by providing interactive displays and programs, classrooms, a research library, and a restaurant. This facility will be a visitor center to Chicago’s beautiful lake shore park system and an education and research center. It will highlight the remarkable maritime history of Chicago and Lake Michigan and the adventure of seafaring on the Great Lakes. The center will include exhibits about small craft and displays for salvaged parts of large historic vessels. In addition, Lake Michigan’s geographical, anthropological, and economic history will be displayed. Finally, the center will include programs utilizing its location on Northerly Island as a resource for interactive research and teaching. The Site The project will be located on Northerly Island, a 91-acre peninsula along the Lake Michigan shoreline just south of downtown Chicago. The island has a unique history of its own. It was conceived by architect and planner Daniel H. Burnham, who imagined Northerly Island as one of a series of man-made island parks stretching from Grant Park on the north to Jackson Park on the south and providing breathtaking views of the lake and city skyline. Northerly Island was one of the sites of A Century of Progress, the 1933–1934 World’s Fair. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Northerly Island featured pathways, trees, grass, and a beach. In 1947, the park was converted to a small airport known as Meigs Field, which remained in use until 2003. Today, Burnham’s vision is being restored by a master plan to turn the northern half into an area for active use and the southern half into native landscape, restored shoreline, and woodland habitat. SPONSOR & Organizer Metal Construction Associtation (MCA)

Objectives This facility will allow visitors the opportunity to learn about and celebrate Chicago’s seafaring history by presenting its rich maritime heritage and connection with Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes. Chicago’s history is intimately tied to the lake. Its human history begins with the Native Americans who first inhabited the area, to the early settlers who shaped a city out of a swamp into an international center of commerce and industry. The museum will exhibit this maritime history through the display of artifacts ranging from Native American handicrafts to items from important vessels and famous shipwrecks. Hands-on programs will also teach visitors boat building and seamanship. Materials The project must utilize metal as a prominent, creative, and structural element in the design. It should underscore the flexibility, efficiency, and beauty of metal in responding to the unique requirements of this facility and the sustainable qualities of metal. This facility should utilize state-of-the-art sustainable building strategies as defined by the USGBC’s LEED building guidelines integrating site, water, and building initiatives into the design. Entries should carefully evaluate the opportunities offered by the site, the Chicago climate, and the building program in order to design an energy neutral facility. SCHEDULE Submission Deadline November 10, 2008 Juror Select Winners November 17, 2008 Awards Cash prizes totaling $8,600 will be awarded to the winning students, the faculty sponsors, and their schools. INFORMATION For more information, please visit the MCA website - www.metalconstruction.org

visit the competition webpage for additional information at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions

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regional news

SOUTHWEST Texas Tech University Bennett Neiman, Associate Professor will be exhibiting two relief models and 26 drawing/ collages from his Bepob Constructions project at the University of Arkansas, beginning January 15th. He will conclude the show with a lecture on January 28th. Scott Schellhase, Instructor, his firm, SLS Partnerships, Inc., received a Merit Award from AIA Lubbock’s 2007 Design Award Competition for the Lubbock Christian University Moody Auditorium. Nicholas Markovich, Associate Professor and Director of El Paso Program, acquired a building for the new El Paso program, working with administrators at El Paso Community College. Dr. Markovich also gave a talk to the EL Paso AIA on Texas Tech was an invited to speak to the El Paso Board of Realtors and Commercial Developers on the future of architecture in EL Paso and set up a “Media Day” in El Paso with all local television and radio outlets including those in Cd. Juarez.

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MaryAlice Torres-MacDonald, Associate Professor, completed a contract agreement with the Texas Engineering Extension Services for community design assistance was invited to lecture at the Texas Downtown Association Conference – Ft. Worth, Texas in October 2007 and worked with the administration on the development of a Houston Practicum + Studio Endowment. Jim White, professor, assisted Assistant Professor Kuhn Park in securing sites in the Habitat for Humanity subdivision for his researchbased rammed earth-type homes. Prof. White also attended the 20th year anniversary of the Masonry Professors Round Table Conference in Galveston. This conference started out as talking about token courses being taught in masonry construction, and has evolved into all of the major universities in the state now offering at least one course in masonry construction in both architecture and engineering. The conference is supported by the Southwest Brick Institute (now the Southwest Division of BIA) and Brick Industry Association.

University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture Dean Donald Gatzke, AIA (left) and 2007 AIA Fort Worth President Stephen Darrow, NCARB, AIA (right). Photo by Chad Davis, AIA.

Saif Haq, Associate Professor, was an invited speaker in EDRA 2007 Annual Conference in Sacramento. Presentation titled: The role of topology in special cognition: Results from experimentation in real and virtual environments. Dr. Haq also presented lecture The Role of Virtual Environments in Wayfinding Design: a Case Study jointly with Susan Torgrude of Boelter Design Group. published recently as a book by University of Bremen, Germany, the proceedings of Spatial Cognition ’06: Space Syntax and Spatial Cognition, contributed as a reviewer, and was elected this summer to be a mentor for architecture professors in Kabul University specializing in “Architecture, Culture and Behavior”. tulane university Kenneth Schwartz FAIA has been appointed as dean of the School of Architecture. Associate Professor, Scott Bernhard has returned to the faculty after a highly successful year as interim dean: He will continue in his role as Director of the Tulane City Center. Professor Elizabeth Burns Gamard will continue as associate dean. Assistant Professor, Robert Gonzalez will continue in his position as Director of Graduate Admissions and Advising. In addition, Robert Gonzalez contributed a chapter to the book titled, Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events. The book, focusing on public events and urban

transformations in Latin American cities is edited by Clara Irazabal and published by Routledge. Judith Kinnard will join the faculty as a tenured professor in January of 2009. Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton acting Director of The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC), recently assisted The City of Natchez, Mississippi in obtaining $500,000 from the Mississippi Development Authority to develop an interpretive center on the cityowned site of a 19th century slave market. Professor Mouton was assisted by TRUDC project coordinator Nick Jenisch, and design associate Robert Bracken. Professor Mouton and TRUDC are also currently administering a $40,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and promote the historic Dew Drop Jazz Hall & Benevolent Society in Mandeville, Mississippi. Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini’s new monograph of his work, entitled Digital Recall was published this last spring as part of the “Design Document Series”. It contains extensive and elegant documentation of more than two-dozen projects by his design firm AEDS. Professor of Practice Byron Mouton and Director URBANbuild, completed its third prototype in June with the participation of 14 architecture students. The house is 1200 S.F., located in New Orleans’ Central City Neighborhood. Assistant Professor Victor Jones in collaboration with the design firm Carbondale conducted a five-week Workshop entitled, EXTRUSION this past July in Paris, France. The

university of houston The following University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture faculty won AIA Houston Design Awards: Adjunct Faculty Joe Meppelink and Andrew Vrana for Round Pen; Professor Peter Jay Zweig for SKYBOX: living on the edge; Adjunct Faculty William Stern of Stern and Bucek Architects for Salazar House and the Southern Pacific Passenger Rail Depot; and Associate Professor Geoffry Brune of GBA Architecture for the Burdette Keeland Design Exploration Center. Adjunct Faculty Jeffrey Brown of Powers Brown Architecture won and On the Boards award for both the Arbor School and KISD High School. Adjunct Faculty William Truitt also won an On the Boards award with Morris Architects for the Heritage Plaza Parking Garage and Tunnel, Scheme One. university of texas at arlington University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture Dean Donald Gatzke, AIA was presented the President’s Award by the American Institute of Architecture’s Fort Worth Chapter. The award was given at the AIA Forth Worth’s Honors and Awards Dinner on January 22, 2008. Dean Gatzke was recognized by the organization for his work with AIA Fort Worth and AIA Dallas in partnering with UT Arlington, and strengthening the bond between the university community and professionals in the area. “He has truly reached out to the architecture community,” said outgoing 2007 AIA Fort Worth President Stephen Darrow, NCARB, AIA. “He has worked to get both the business and academic communities to realize the needs of the other, and to learn to respect those needs.”

In presenting the award, Darrow cited Dean Gatzke’s work with the AIA Fort Worth Student Design Awards Program, as well as his participation in Vision North Texas, the North Texas Council of Governments and the Urban Land Institute. Gatzke joined the AIA Fort Worth Executive Committee in 2007, where Darrow says “Don takes his board position seriously and is constantly looking for ways to further the relationship that we all feel is so important.” In addition, Dean Donald Gatzke was featured on Design Talk Radio, a live, hour-long talk show about the holistic world of design and architecture hosted by architect Joe Self and designer Tracy Self, both alumni of UT Arlington. Dean Gatzke discusses recent changes in design education, the special role of designers in our culture, the house he designed for himself and some of the projects that the School of Architecture at UTA are sponsoring. Dean Gatzke can be heard on Design Talk Radio #94, broadcast on May 5, 2008. Last summer, architecture Visiting Architecture Professor Brad Bell led fourteen students -seven from the University of Texas Arlington, along with seven students from two other U.S. universities –- to Helsinki, Finland. The students’ journal entries, photographs and drawings from the trip formed part of an exhibition at the Heikkenen and Komonen Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. this spring. The exhibition -a joint work of Professors Scott Wall, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Jari Jetsonen, Finnish architectural photographer; Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, Finnish architectural historian; and Professor Brad Bell -- was on display April 24 through June 8, 2008. The abroad program in Finland focused on the role of architecture within the Finnish national cultural identity. In order to learn about Finnish architecture, students spent a great deal of time examining Finnish culture, history and tradition. The summer coursework focused on developing an understanding of architecture through studies of Finnish culture and its impact on design culture, with particular emphasis on the work of two of the most celebrated architects of the early modern era in Finland – Erik Bryggmann and Alvar Aalto. Courses were conducted from the facilities on Alvar Aalto’s Otaniemi campus of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK).

Extended field trips to southwestern Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, and St. Petersburg, Russia, and related exercises exposed students to other areas and aspects of Finland and the Baltic region. Professor Scott Wall from the University of Tennessee Knoxville started the Finland abroad program as an associate professor at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2003. Professor Brad Bell joined the program as assistant director in 2004 and continues in that capacity through UT Arlington. The exhibition included work from students participating in the program from the past five years. Professor Bell and a group of seven UT Arlington students will return to Finland this summer.

university of texas at san antonio Congratulations to (former) Dean Julius Gribou for his appointment as Executive Vice Provost. He was formerly appointed as Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs in spring 2007, pending a successful search and appointment of a new provost this spring. One of his major undertakings in his new position will be the university’s globalization initiative. Interim Dean Robert Baron will continue to lead the college during this transition period. Among his many accomplishments, Julius led the college as it evolved, in less than seven years, from a “division” within the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, to an independent NAAB accredited School of Architecture, to the current status as a multi-department/program College – all combined with a major move from the main suburban/rural campus to become the first major academic unit to completely engage San Antonio and relocate to the Downtown Campus. Dr. John Alexander, Assistant Professor, has published From Renaissance to CounterReformation: The Architectural Patronage of Carlo Borromeo during the Reign of Pius IV (Rome: Bulzoni, 2007). The mature architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584), the reforming archbishop of Milan, is well known. However, the patronage of his early ecclesiastical career remained understudied. This book investigates that crucial period, focusing on Borromeo’s intellectual background and the formation of his program to utilize architecture in support of Church reform. Published with (SOUTHWEST continued on page 36)

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workshop, composed of Tulane and Paris Belleville architecture students, focused on issues of technique and craft in retail architecture. Professor Errol Barron Contributed a chapter in a new book released this summer entitled Drawing Thinking Thinking Drawing. Edited by Marc Treib the book is published by Routledge and focuses on drawing in the digital age.

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generous support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago, IL) and the Collegio Borromeo (Pavia, Italy) the book was presented at the Dies Academicus 2007, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, in Milan. Dr. Gayle Nicoll, Associate Professor, served as advisor to five students from the UTSA Department of Architecture as they participated in the 2007 Student Design Charrette sponsored by STERIS Corporation and the AIA Academy of Architecture and Health at the Healthcare Design 07 Conference held in November in Dallas, Texas. The UTSA student team members were Lucia Terrazas, Dean Wiederstein, Samira

Ahmadi, Rebekah Negrete and Miguel Saldana. The challenge of the 48-hour charrette was to conceptualize a healthcare setting that optimally impacts the health of individuals, community and ecosystem for a community primary care clinic for Parkland Health and Hospital Systems in Irving, Texas. Dr. Nicoll is currently developing a certificate program in health and wellness design for the college. In addition to being honored as the current elected president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Associate Professor Mahesh Senagala was responsible for UTSA College of Architecture being recently selected for the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Industrial Fab-

rics Association International (IFAI) for the advanced fabrics exhibition structure at the IFAI Expo 2005, designed and exhibited by Professor Senagala and his students. The college was granted final approval for the Bachelor of Science Degree program in Construction Science and Management by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The board also granted approval to form a new Department of Construction Science and Management as the program moves toward accreditation by the American Council for Construction Education over the next four years. Associate Professor Marc Giaccardo, who led the college effort, was named director of the new program. The first freshman cohort will start in fall 2008.

SOUTHEaST Louisiana State University LSU School of architecture welcomes Professor Jori Erdman, recently appointed as Director for the School of Architecture, beginning January 2009. She comes to LSU from Clemson University, where she held the position of Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), has authored two articles and several book reviews in the Journal, and is currently the Design Editor.

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Professor Kenneth Carpenter’s creative work, Postcards from Life,” was exhibited in the College of Art and Design last spring. The exhibit included photographic representations of Scottish fishing villages taken during his recent sabbatical. Associate Professor Ursula Emery-McClure and her husband, Michael McClure, Assistant Professor of architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, have jointly received a prestigious Rome Prize in architecture from the American Academy in Rome. The award includes a fellowship to study at the American Academy in Rome – which awards the highly

coveted fellowships each year to a handful of emerging designers, artists and scholars – for 11 months beginning fall 2008. The McClures have already received international recognition for creating a new way of thinking about building and designing in swampy, marshy south Louisiana. They call their paradigm terra viscus, and it’s an approach to building that applies the principles of a design style called critical regionalism -- which emphasizes fusing what worked in the past with the needs of the present -- to a landscape that is constantly vacillating between a solid and semi-liquid state. In their award-winning application to the Academy, the McClures proposed applying the principles of terra viscus to a study of Rome and its surrounding environs. Professor EmeryMcClure has also been recently elected as the ACSA Southwest Regional Director. Professor C. Barrett Kennedy, Director of LSU’s CADGIS Lab, will rejoin the faculty in the School of Architecture after serving as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Art and Design. Professor J. Michael Desmond has been invited to submit an article on the original LSU campus and Student Union for publication in,

Treasures of LSU (LSU Press), and has had a review essay published in the Journal of Urban History, “Buildings in the Making of Cities: Three Chicago Case Studies.” Professor Frank M. Bosworth, faculty member and Office of Community Design and Development Faculty Research Associate, has received a sponsored research grant from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to facilitate a Context Sensitive Solutions Plan statewide. Rupinder Singh, recent faculty member in the School of Architecture, published project research conducted with 5th year undergraduate students, CTRL + ALT + DELETE: DETROIT IN THE AGE OF OBSOLESCENCE. This publication features Detroit as a setting for exploring the various facets of obsolescence. Marsha R. Cuddeback, faculty member and Director of COMMUNITYWORKS, LSU’s Office of Community Development and the State Intern Development Program Coordinator facilitated the 2008 Louisiana IDP Forum at the College of Art and Design. The proceedings of this unprecedented event will be published in October 2008, and were, by invitation, presented at

In March 2008, fifth year architecture students who participated in OCDD’s PROJECT LEARN | BUILD in the Lower 9th Ward were invited to attend the Extreme Makeover Home Edition Hero’s Banquet in New Orleans, March 2008. Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore was selected to participate in the 2008 Architectural Association (AA) Visiting Teacher’s Programme. In December 2008, her installation, X-Fibra, was exhibited during the visual arts and architecture event, DeCours, presented by AIA New Orleans in partnership with kk projects. X-Fibra engages textile performances in spatial and lighting configurations. Professor Frank Bosworth and Marsha Cuddeback engaged students in their 4th year design studio to participate in the REVERBERATE: No Coal Competition sponsored by Metropolis Magazine, USGBC, AIAS, and Architecture 2030. One team was selected through public voting as finalists in the Face, Black & White category. Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology named Alan Balfour the fourth dean of its College of Architecture. He will join the Institute July 1, filling the position left by the late Thomas D. Galloway who died suddenly in March 2007. Most recently dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., Balfour was previously the director of the Architecture Program at Georgia Tech from 1977 to 1987. In 13 years at RPI, Balfour oversaw the growth of the Lighting Research Center, began a cross-disciplinary program with Shanghai’s Tongji University, established a doctoral degree in architectural sciences and helped spearhead the building of an Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. During his presentation to the faculty in April, Balfour discussed his vision, stressing collabo-

ration between the disciplines — music, industrial design, building construction, architecture and city planning — both within and outside the college. “The world city of the future is of enormous concern to me,” Balfour said. “This College has within its culture all the major fields of knowledge that can be applied to this problem.” Utilizing partnerships within the College, Balfour said the Institute and practitioners in the disciplines will help Tech’s graduates be ready for any challenge, whether local or global. Professor Douglas C. Allen has served as interim dean for the past year. “I have known Alan as a colleague and friend for 30 years, and have long held a deep admiration for his commitment to higher education in design, in architecture, in construction, planning and the arts,” he said. “He has both a broad vision for the role of our disciplines in the construction of sustainable futures as well as deep administrative experience both at Georgia Tech and at significant peer institutions. I look forward to his arrival and to a bright and exciting future building upon the strengths within the College and the Institute.” Provost Gary Schuster also cited Balfour’s ability to take the College to the next level. “We have high expectations for the College of Architecture over the next five years. Doug Allen, while serving as interim dean, has furthered Tom’s vision and focused on momentum and stability during the interim period. I am grateful for Doug’s strength in leading the College this past year and anticipate that Alan and Doug will form an especially effective team, working together to realize the aspirations Georgia Tech has set for the College of Architecture. “Graduates must have complete mastery of the tools of digital technology, they must be empowered to predict the impact of their designs — at the social level as well as the energy and resource level — and they must view their knowledge, creativity and skill as being relevant to global as well as local practice.” Among his administrative roles, Balfour has served as chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University in Houston.

Balfour received his education at the Edinburgh College of Art and Princeton University, and is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2000 he received the American Institute of Architects/Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (AIA/ACSA) Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the highest recognition given to a North American architecture educator. His World Cities series of books seeks to explore architecture and urbanism of cities around the world, including Shanghai (2002), New York (2001) and Berlin (1995), and in his Creating a Scottish Parliament (2005), Balfour links the building’s creation with the political structure for which it was constructed. For both Berlin and Berlin: The Politics of Order: 1737–1989 (1990) he received AIA International Book Awards.

The Georgia Tech College of Architecture is a leading producer of research in each of its disciplines, and among the top three in the area of architecture. It houses six interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, the Construction Resources Center, the Center for Geographic Information Systems, the Interactive Media Architecture Group in Education, the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory and the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development. Visit www.coa.gatech.edu for more information. Mississippi State University Professor Emeritus Michael Fazio and Patrick Snadon’s book The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) was this year’s winner of the Society of Architectural Historians’s Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award for the “most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.” This book is a previous recipient of a similar award from the Southeast Chapter of SAH. North Carolina State University Dr. Robin Abrams, AIA, ASLA, has been selected as the result of a nationwide search as the first female head of the School of Architecture in North Carolina State University’s College of Design. Her appointment becomes effective Aug. 1. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 38)

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the 2008 NCARB Annual Meeting. She currently serves on the Board of USGBC LA, Green School Curriculum Chair, and is developing SEED: Sustainable Environment Education Demonstration, a Louisiana curriculum for middle school students in East Baton Rouge Parish, with local community partners and students from the School of Architecture.

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Since 1994, Abrams has been an assistant and associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M University while maintaining a professional practice in urban design. Most recently she served as associate department head in the Department of Architecture. Previously she was chair of the Bachelor of Environmental Design program, the Master of Architecture program, and the Ph.D. program, as well as coordinator for the London Summer Study Abroad Program. In addition to her tenure at Texas A&M, Abrams served as Visiting Associate Professor in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at The University of Texas and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Landscape, Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, England. “We are pleased and excited to have Professor Robin Abrams join us in the position of Head of the School of Architecture,” says Marvin J. Malecha, dean of the College of Design. “She is an experienced academic as well as a tested practitioner. Her credentials in the practice of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design position her to make a substantial contribution to our community. As we prepare students to become agile design thinkers, she provides

them with a first-hand example of movement across the design disciplines.” Hernán Marchant has been selected as the result of a global search as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Support at the North Carolina State University College of Design. His appointment becomes effective Aug. 1. Since 1999, Marchant has been an administrator from the faculty of architecture and urbanism at the Unversidad de Chile. He brings 32 years of experience in professional practice in France and in Chile, 25 years of experience teaching and eight years of experience as an administrator. “His experience within the academic community in teaching and his research as well as his credentials bridging international interests in both France and Chile made a strong case for this decision as we are now ramping up our international opportunities for undergraduate students,” says Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design. This year, the Lyceum Fellowship in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Committee asked Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon

Architect PA of Raleigh, North Carolina, and adjunct professor of architecture at the North Carolina State University College of Design, to create the project by which the 2009 students will be judged. The project Harmon has developed echoes one of his own: a blacksmith’s studio for the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC (http://www.penland. org), where iron forges are the workplaces for a dozen students and teachers. Harmon designed an actual blacksmith’s studio for Penland in 2000 and subsequently received five design awards for it. The Lyceum Fellowship is open to selected design schools by invitation only. For more information, go to http://www.lyceumfellowship.org. For more information on Frank Harmon, visit http://www.frankharmon.com. In addition, Frank Harmon, FAIA, will give the keynote address, “Building Greener, Smarter, Sustainable Structures,” at the “How to Get Started with Fabric Structures” workshop whichwill be held Oct. 22, 2008, at the Charlotte Hilton Hotel, Charlotte, N.C. He plans to present examples of eco-friendly, sustainable structures that he has built over the past 20 years, that save money, energy and building materials. Harmon is the recipient of Residential Architect magazine’s 2005-2006 “Top Firm of the Year.”

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Professor Bruno Giberti has been appointed in April Special Assistant to the Provost. In this capacity, his major responsibility will be as Faculty Directory of the multi-year WASC process to re-affirm University accreditation. Lecturer Marc J Neveu’s paper entitled “Indole and Education: The Apologhi immaginati of Carlo Lodoli.” will be included in the inaugural edition of Insights: A Journal of the Getty Research Institute (current working title)—a new scholarly journal that will showcase research and scholarship at the Getty Research Institute. Publication is set for Spring 2009.

Professor Thomas Fowler IV, was featured in the 2008 April, Volume 15 of the AIArchitect DOER’S Profile under FACE of the AIA. Assistant Professor, Dr. Stephen Phillips successfully defended his dissertation titled “Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and His Research Practice--A Study of Continuity in The Age of Modern Production,” at Princeton University School of Architecture, April 2008. His article “Big, Vast, Powerful, and Contemporary: Picturing Education in LA,” was published in 34 Magazine, No. 11, alongside photos by wellknown Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens. His skyscraper competition for eVolo was published as one of the top designs of the 2006

to 2008 International Competition series in Skyscraper for The XXI Century, edited by Carlo Aiello, New York, May 2008. Phillips’ concept, design, and text for an Exo-Urban “Spacescraper” was formed in mutual collaboration with recent Cal Poly graduates and office design interns Chris Allen, Cameron Helland, and Richard Porter. He was invited to teach a graduate level M.Arch and PhD seminar in Architecture Theory and Criticism at the University of California, Los Angeles, back in Fall 2007. Cal Poly graduates Whitney Moon and Iain Gulin enrolled at UCLA participated in his course, which he had titled “Elastic Architecture”. He was also invited to participate in final M.Arch reviews at the University of California, Berkeley for Spring 2008.

Associate Professor Robert Arens was one of three recipients who received the Verla and Paul Neel Faculty Scholarship of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

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Professor Allen Cooper was presented with the 2008 American Institute of Architects, Central Coast Chapter (AIACCC) Award of Merit for the Cooper Residence located in Port Townsend, WA.

Professor Michael Lucas received the Cal Poly 2007-08 Distinguished Teachers Award. Nominations of this award “are made by students, and the winner chosen by faculty colleagues, makes such recognition even more significant.” Michael Lucas wrote a review of William A. Dodge’s Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place to be published in the Summer 2009 Edition of Western Historic Quarterly. Michael Lucas received promotion to the academic rank of Professor, effective September 15, 2008. Lecturer Ralph Roesling’s firm Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects of San Diego, CA was selected to include one of their project’s “art city” in an exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art. Associate Sandy Stannard received a 200809 Extramural Funding Initiative Award for her proposal “Carbon Neutral/Zero Energy Design Education: Preparing the Next Generation,” from the University. Sandy proposes to use this award to advance an ecological design education agenda at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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California College of the Arts “Torqued House,” designed by Mark Donohue (senior adjunct professor), was short-listed for the “House of the Year” award sponsored by World Architecture News and received the “Unbuilt Architecture Merit Award” from Residential Architect magazine. Mona El-Khafif (Associate professor) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Staged Urbanism: Urban Space for Art, Culture and Consumption in the Age of the Event Society” at the Institute for Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (TU Vienna). Thom Faulders was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Thom finished construction on “Airspace Tokyo,” a large, digitally fabricated enclosure for a multi-family dwelling in Tokyo. The project has recently been featured in Azure, Praxis, and Shinkenchiku, among other publications. This past year he lectured on his work at Cranbrook Academy of Art, The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, The University of Colorado, and Louisiana Tech University. He will participate in “A Home For Everyone” exhibition at the Fondazione La Triennale di Milano (May, 2008). Lisa Findley was promoted to Professor. She recently published the Introduction to Interiors: Collaborations and Technology (Edizioni) and “Once Again by the Pacific: Returning to Sea

Ranch” in Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (U. of Minnesota). This past year, Lisa lectured on her research at the University of New Mexico, University of Toronto, and Iowa State University. Jordan Geiger (Coordinator of undergraduate studios), is completing a digitally responsive, inflatable structure –“Day for Night”--, commissioned by the City of San Jose and featured in the Zero One Biennial. Geiger co-curated the exhibition “Vapor” (Southern Exposure Gallery) and a related symposium at CCA, both addressing creative practice, climate change and activism. Geiger also delivered a paper at the 24th National Conference of the Beginning Design Student at Georgia Tech. David Gissen (assistant professor) recently published essays for Log (anycorp); The Journal of Architecture; Models and Drawings (Routledge); Writing Urbanism (Routledge) and curated the exhibition Anxious Climate (MICA, Baltimore) – also reviewed in Metropolis. This past semester, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the University College London, and received CCA’s annual Chalsty Award for his forthcoming book, Minor Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009). Andrew Kudless (assistant professor) recently published his design work in the journal Praxis (WEST continued on page 40)

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Assistant Professor Tom Di Santo and Professor Laura Joines-Novotny of M:OME were presented with the 2008 American Institute of Architects, Central Coast Chapter (AIACCC) Award of Honor for the Teixera Addition located in San Luis Obispo. M:OME is pleased to share with their colleagues that it is their third AIA award received in the past four years

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and the book Digital Diagrams. He gave lectures at SciArc, Berkeley, Cal Poly, Pomona and presentations at conferences in Barcelona and Munich. In April, Andrew was invited to develop a special installation within the atrium of the Berkeley Art Museum to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Museum’s Matrix Gallery. Eric Olsen (Senior Lecturer) has won the Metropolis Next Generation Contest. His winning entry “solar water disinfecting tarpaulin” will be featured in the May issue of the Magazine. Katherine Rinne (Adjunct professor) has been awarded a Research Support Grant from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal for her book length project about Medieval Rome. Anne-Catrin Schultz (Senior lecturer) published her book Carlo Scarpa: Layers (edition Axel Menges), an exploration of metaphorical and symbolic layering in the Venetian architect’s work. Craig Scott (Associate professor) and his firm IwamotoScott Architecture are one of 100 firms selected to design villas for the new city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Scott recently gave lectures at the AIA Redwood Empire Chapter, the Alaska Design Forum and the University of Virginia alongside a gallery installation as part of the Michael Owen Jones Memorial Exhibition and Lecture. His firm’s work was exhibited in Open House (Warsaw and Copenhagen) and A Model Building (Palo Alto) and was published in Praxis. Raphael Sperry (Adjunct professor) is moderating a panel at the AIA National Convention on “Architecture and Human Rights.”

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University of Arizona The end of the 2007-8 school year brought many changes to the University of Arizona. Chuck Albanese, Interim Dean and forty-year member of the faculty, has retired. Albanese joined the faculty in 1967 after completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Illinois. Since joining the faculty, he has taught at every studio level, with a particular passion for teaching drawing at the freshman level and coordi-

nating the senior capstone design semester. He taught programming, housing systems, collaborative design studio with Landscape Architecture and Architecture, and interdisciplinary studies in behavioral applications to design. Chuck Albanese developed the Summer Program in Greece and Italy and, with his wife Claire, traveled in Europe with students during the summer for over fifteen years. He served as Associate Dean for his last three years on the faculty before retiring (the first time!) in 2002, and returned in 2005 specifically to serve as interim dean. During these last years, Albanese was instrumental in the completion of the college’s new building and of the new Ronald McDonald House that houses families outside of Tucson who have traveled with their seriously ill children for medical treatment. The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s new Dean, as of July first, is Janice Cervelli, formerly the Dean of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University in South Carolina. She is the first woman to lead the college and the first from the profession of Landscape Architecture. Prior to Clemson University, Cervelli taught at the University of Kentucky and is past president of the American Association of Landscape Architects. She received her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Purdue University and master’s degree from the University of Guelph in Ontario. This spring the school also saw the retirement of former-dean Richard A. Eribes and Professor William Stamm. Professor Richard (Dick) A. Eribes served the UA as Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture between 1997 and 2005. He came to the UA from the University of New Mexico where he was Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and previously he was Assistant Dean for Research and Professor of Architecture and Planning at Arizona State University. DIck has done extensive research on the pedagogy of architecture, urban design and environmental perception, housing, the California Modernist Movement, and public policy. He earned his doctorate in Urban Studies in 1977 from the University of Southern California, and also holds both a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture from USC. He has been a member of the UA Planning and Design Review Advisory Committee as well as Chair of the Comprehensive Campus Plan Update Steering Committee.

In retiring from the College, Dick will now hserve as the Assistant Vice President for Campus & Facilities Planning at the university of Arizona. William (Bill) Stamm joined the UA in 1971 and has been best known to students for his years as a design studio critic and professor of design communication. For most of his career, Bill taught with the late Kirby Lockard (who retired from the UA in 2001) and together they began the Design Communication Association (DCA) which recently celebrated its 20th year. Throughout those years, Bill and Kirby served as officers, contributors, and hosted six international conferences for the DCA. During the more than 30 years of his association with the UA, Stamm took numerous leaves, including a one-year period during which he practiced in New York City and a three-year period of teaching in Saudi Arabia. Parallel to his teaching, Bill has steadily maintained a small, active practice that continues today. His office has received numerous design awards for both residential and commercial projects. He is most recently known for the design of several award winning veterinary hospitals. Bill received his B.Arch. in 1965 from University of Michigan and M.Arch from the University of Minnesota. Dennis Doxtater was promoted this past spring to Full Professor. He has been on the faculty since 1980, and during this time has twice taught in Sweden— at the University of Lund in ’86 and Stockholm University in ‘94. Dennis received his Bachelor of Architecture (’65) and MA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology (’71) from the University of Washington and Doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1981). Dennis’ current research focuses on large scale ritual frameworks in prehistoric natural landscapes, and their relationship to the location and layout of built ceremonial sites. Hypothetically, in some cultures the first formal, geometric design patterns occurred in the landscape, into which religious architecture was eventually integrated. In addition to previous related work in the Native American Southwest and Crete, his sabbatical this past academic year concentrated on Scandinavia. In addition, John Folan was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure. John began teaching at the U of A in 2001, and the following year entered the tenure path, focusing on Building Technology and Critical Practice. He co-founded

Professor Ignacio San Martin was invited to present the keynote lecture address to the Mexican National Forum of Municipal Planning in Aguascalientes. He also visited and met with Dean and faculty of the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterey in Guadalajara were he gave a series of faculty seminars on the topic of urban design in arid regions in July 2008. Assistant Professor Beth Weinstein participated in the 14th Performance Studies International Conference held in Copenhagen where she presented “Reconfiguring Moses’ Space,” a paper on the “junk” space byproducts of Robert Moses’ infrastructural works, and their use and transformation through performance.

tecture. He is author of the forthcoming book, Earth Architecture (Princeton Architecture Press, 2008) and partner in the firm Rael San Fratello. He was previously co-director of Clemson University’s Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genova, Italy. Emeritus professor Marc Treib edited a forthcoming volume entitled Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age (Routledge: 2008).Professor Anthony Dubovsky and regular lecturer Katie Hawkinson participated in the 2006 University of California symposium, “Thinking/Drawing: Drawing in an Electronic Age,” which serves as a basis for this book and each contributed a chapter based on his talk. Prof. Nezar AlSayyad has received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008. He is one of four recipients this year. The award is among the highest honors bestowed by the campus, involving a rigorous evaluation process where the nominees’ classes are visited by multiple evaluators. We are particularly proud that Nezar is following in the footsteps of five previous department winners: Marc Treib (1987), Ray Lifchez (1977), Sam Davis (1973), Spiro Kostof (1971), and Richard Peters (1963). A brief statement on his teaching philosophy can be seen at http://teaching.berkeley.edu/ dta08/alsayyad.html.

Emeritus Professor Sam Davis will serve as Interim Dean of the College of Environmental Design starting July 2008. Harrison Fraker stepped down from this post after a twelve-year term and new candidates were interviewed in the Spring.

Son N. Nguyen (M. Arch 2007) received Grand Prize in the AIA sponsored “2x8:SKIN” Competition held in Los Angeles. His work, “Unnatural Selections,” developed the project under Prof. Raveevarn Choksombatchai. A project by Veronica De La Rosa (M.Arch 2008) from Visiting Esherick Professor Neil Denari and Lecturer Bob Shepherd’s studio was used as advertisement for the show.

Two new hires join our faculty this Fall, Paz Gutierrez and Ronald Rael, both as Assistant Professors. Co-founder of an interdisciplinary practice Gensler + Gutierrez, Gutierrez’s design addresses sensory and biological phenomena; she is currently working on applying emerging technologies for hydro-reactive envelopes permitting dehumidification strategies. Gutierrez taught previously at U. F. T. Chile, the University of Pennsylvania and Rensselaer Polytechnic. Rael’s work examines the convergence of digital, industrial, and non-industrial approaches to making archi-

Associate Professor Mark Anderson’s firm, Anderson Anderson Architecture, has recently won a number of design awards, including an honorable mention for the “Zumtobel Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment”, for the “SpongeComb” inflatable urban levee system. The firm’s monograph, Prefab Prototypes, Site-Specific Design for Off-Site Fabrication (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) was nominated for a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) book award. Their 1995 design for a prefabricated emergency community center

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for Kobe, Japan, is currently on exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art; competitionwinning housing and urban waterfront design for New Orleans, along with “SpongeComb”, a full-scale inflatable levee prototype, is currently on exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Architecture and Design, after earlier exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and venues in Panama City, Bangkok and New Orleans; and two of Mark’s award-winning and widelypublished student design-build, inflatable projects, “Hot White Orange” and “LifeBean”, are currently on exhibition at the Central Track Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas, after exhibition at The Los Angeles Museum of Architecture and Design.

IwamotoScott, Associate Professor Lisa Iwamoto and her partner Craig Scott, is one of 100 architecture firms selected to design a villa in Inner Mongolia for ORDOS100. They are also designing and building two installations: ‘Voussoir Cloud’ at the SciArc Gallery (August 1 September 14), and ‘Voussoir Shell’ for a group exhibition at Artists Space in New York curated by Marcello Spina and Georgina Huljich of PATTERNS, opening in September. IwamotoScott’s Jellyfish House was featured in an article in the March/April issue of SEED. Emeritus Professor Stanley Saitowitz left a few AIA-SF awards for others, but not many. His firm received an Excellence in Architecture, Honor Award for Bridge House in San Anselmo, C and an Excellence in Architecture, Merit Award for 1234 Howard in San Francisco, an Interior Architecture, Honor Award for his smash new restaurant, Conduit, and Interior Architecture, Merit Awards for the Mizu Spa and The Optical Centre. Joseph Slusky is in a Group Show at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, 2007 - 2009 while the new wing in under cronstruction and was in an exhibit at the Museo Del Pueblo De Guanajuato. This is a thirty-five year Retrospective titled “Antologia Escultorica” May 28 - July 15, 2008. Anthony Dubovsky, Professor of Architecture & Chair of Visual Studies at Berkeley, has several concurrent on-line exhibitions of work: the Analects -- an on-going series of day-by-day drawings, inspired in part by the writings of Confucius, and in part by the spontaneous imagery of the classical Chinese (WEST continued on page 42)

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and is a board member of the Drachman Design Build Coalition (DDBC), a non-profit, university affiliated corporation focused on development of energy efficient, site specific, sustainable housing prototypes. The first house completed by the DDBC, DDBC RESIDENCE ONE, was awarded Home of the Year from the Arizona Chapter of the AIA in 2007. For excellence in teaching John has been awarded the Robert C. Geibner Award six consecutive times and the University of Arizona Honors College Five Star Faculty Award. Currently John is working on the Civano Demonstration Project, a $234,000.00 grant awarded for the development of affordable housing prototypes in Tucson’s Empowerment Zone.

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scholar-painters (which can be viewed at www. anthonydubovsky2.blogspot.com or http:// www.anthonydubovsky2.blogspot.com/) and current paintings, Lugares Sueltos (viewable at www.anthonydubovsky7.blogspot.com) Other web-based explorations can be found under his profile on either of these sites. Professor Yehuda Kalay was featured on an NPR “All Things Considered” segment in March; it can still be heard at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87769207 Kalay’s more recent work, the virtual reconstruction of Sambor Prei Kuk is available for viewing at http://steel.ced.berkeley.edu/research/sambor/. It was been sponsored by the Pacific Rim Research Program. In July, Galen Cranz was a juror for the “One Good Chair” competition sponsored by Sustainable Furniture Council _Western Interiors and Design,_ and the World Markets Center. The 3 criteria were body-conscious, “green,” and visual. During the summer, she also taught a design theory course on “body-conscious design” at University of California Extension in San Francisco with visiting guest critic Jader Tolja, M.D. of Milan, Italy. University of Colorado

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Architect and Instructor Tamarah Long has been selected to show her sketches at The Winot in Niwot, Colorado. The mixed-media drawings will be displayed from August 15th through Sept 26th. “Architectural Landscapes: A Memoir of India” explores the origins of patterns in the built environment. Rob Pyatt, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP (B.Envd 2005, M.Arch 2007), has had his “Box House” selected as House of the Month for June by Architectural Record. Rob built his own house as an independent study project with Senior Instructor and Associate Chair of Architecture Rick Sommerfeld. The house also will be featured in the July/August “Growing Up Green” issue of Dwell. Meredith Banasiak, Instructor of Architecture, has received a 2008 AIA Research Grant from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Knowl-

edge Committee. She will be eligible to present the findings of her project, “From Benchtop to Bedside: Transferring research lessons learned in an undergraduate program,” at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. University of Nevada Las Vegas Associate Professor Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez was named one of the top ten most influential leaders for sustainable development in the Las Vegas Valley. This recognition was given by Architecture Las Vegas, the AIA Las Vegas official publication. He was also featured in the article “The 2030 Mission – What is Nevada’s Plan to Reach the Net-Zero Goal?” Associate Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez research on roofponds and green roofs was featured by the local CBS station in a special segment related to Earth Day. He was also appointed to the Integrated Building Water Management (IBWM) Committee of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities – North America. University of Oregon Associate Professor Ihab Elzeyadi, Ph.D., IES is the recipient of the AIA Board Knowledge Research Grant 2008 for his project “Green Classroom Toolbox.” A research project that develops evidence-based design guidelines and tools for retrofitting educational facilities for carbon neutrality and students’ performance. He will be presenting the findings of this project at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. Assistant Professor Nico Larco taught in Rosario, Argentina during the Spring term through the AHA Study Abroad program. His courses dealt with reading the built environment in Rosario and with understanding the effects of globalization on current and historic physical development in Argentina. While in Argentina, Professor Larco was invited to lecture at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario on his research regarding the effects of globalization in the development of the Southeast False Creek area of Vancouver, BC. Assistant Professor Brook Muller was the 2008 recipient of the Oregon Community Foundation Van Evera Bailey Faculty Award for Research and Studio Education ($20,000) for his propos-

al, “Architecture as Support for Functioning Urban Ecologies.” The award enables Josh Cerra, a professional ecologist based in Portland, to work with students in Professor Muller’s terminal level studio focusing on a Center of Urban Ecology in downtown Eugene. It also helped fund a studio field trip to the Bay Area to visit with Paul Kephart and Rana Creek Living Architecture, consultants for some of the largest green roof projects in the world, and a tour of Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences. Professor Muller’s essay, “Continuity of Singularities: Architecture, Ecology and the Aesthetics of Restorative Orders,” appeared in the journal Environmental Philosophy (Fall/Spring 2007), a special double issue devoted to environmental aesthetics and ecological restoration. Professor Kevin Nute received a University of Oregon summer research award for work on the natural animation of indoor spaces. The Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL), a student group working towards creating a sustainable living demonstration house at the University of Oregon, received $112,500 from the student government in order to begin construction. Students are in the final stages of preparing construction documents for the remodel and addition working with Associate Professors Rob Thallon and Ihab Elzeyadi. Construction will begin during the 2008-2009 school year. This place of sustainable residence will also provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities for students and surrounding communities through workshops and events. designBridge, a student based, community focused design/build program at the University of Oregon recently celebrated the ribbon cutting of a greenhouse at Northwest Youth Corps (NYC), a local non-profit focused on outdoor education and service. The greenhouse was the product of a yearlong collaboration between NYC and designBridge and is one of five projects being developed by designBridge this year. Project documentation can be found at www. designbridge.org. Assistant Professor Nico Larco and Juli Brode are the faculty advisors for designBridge. After 30 years of service in the Department of Architecture, Mike Clark retired at the end of March.

The Department of Architecture recently completed the National Architecture Accreditation visit and was awarded with accreditation status through 2013. The Department of Architecture has three new faculty members beginning in Autumn 2008. Assistant Professor Kimo Griggs will be teaching materials, furniture and making. He has previously taught at Yale University, Harvard Design School, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He received the 2002 Teacher of the Year Award at the Harvard Design School. Recently, Griggs co-authored a textbook entitled Digital Design and Manufacturing in Architecture published by Wiley. Assistant Professor Rob Corser has taught at the University of Kansas and Syracuse University in New York and Florence. Corser’s research and teaching explores the convergence of design and construction technologies and the impact of new tools and processes on this relationship. His work deals with historic, current and emerging manifestations of technology and design Professor Corser has degrees from both University of Virginia and Harvard. Assistant Professor Gundula Proksch is a principal in TAAN (transatlantic architectural network). She has experience working in the offices of Richard Meier, David Chipperfield and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and was awarded fellowships from the DAAD and the Studienstiftung. Proksch holds a Diplom Ingenieur Architektin from TU Braunschweig in Germany and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University. She recently has taught at Parsons New School in New York and Italy.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair Alex T. Anderson recently translated the first published book by Le Corbusier, A Study of the Decorative Art Movement in Germany, into English from the original French of 1912. The book is translated with commentary by Mateo Kries and Alex T. Anderson, and is published by the Vitra Design Museum. The Department of Architecture and the Green Futures Lab of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning is teaming with Gehl Architects of Copenhagen, Denmark to teach a master studio in the fall on urban sustainability. The studio coincides with the hiring of Gehl Architects by the City of Seattle in developing a strategy to create a more pedestrian and transit-friendly environment downtown Seattle. The studio is interdisciplinary within the college and will be taught by Associate Professor Nancy Rottle in the Department of Landscape Architecture and co-taught by Assistant Professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino in the Department of Architecture. The studio was made possible by a grant from the Scan|Design Foundation. The students will travel to Copenhagen for two weeks in September to study the city and visit the offices of Gehl Architects before the studio begins in October. Professor David Miller’s design for the South Lake Union Discovery Center in Seattle was honored with an AIA COTE Top Ten Award and a Boston Society of Architects Award for Sustainability in 2008. His design for the residential 156 West Superior Condominium project in Chicago won Residential Architect Award 2008 by Residential Architecture Magazine and the AISC/IDEAS2 Innovative Design in Engineering & Architecture with Structural Steel award. Miller is the Chair of the Department of Architecture and Principal of Miller|Hull Partnership in Seattle. Woodbury University

In addition, the Department announces the retirement of Senior Lecturer Barry Onouye, who taught structures in the department of architecture for over 20 years. He is the author of Statics and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building (with Kevin Kane, 2006), Statics and Strength of Materials: Foundations for Structural Design (2004). Onouye taught at the Department of Architecture for 39 years and was the recipient of the Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000.

In More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today, Princeton Architectural Press, November 2008, the follow-up to her groundbreaking 2002 book Mobile, Jennifer Siegal explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable structures as well as the working methods and finished work of the most exciting contemporary designers and presents today’s most dynamic, active mobile structures.

northeast Harvard University Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, announced today the appointment of Preston Scott Cohen as Chair of the Department of Architecture as of 1 July 2008. Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture, coordinator of the first year design studios, and he teaches the foundation course in projective and topological geometry, advanced studios, and design thesis.

“I am delighted that Scott has accepted this appointment,” said Dean Mostafavi. “The school will undoubtedly benefit from his deep intellectual commitment to the field of architecture and his passion as both an educator and an architect. I have no doubt that he will make a great contribution to the culture of collaboration that I hope will be a hallmark of the GSD. I also thank Professor Toshiko Mori for her support and leadership of the department of architecture during the past six years.” Cohen is recognized for his innovative geometric forms and his approach to integrating buildings with their environments. The work of his firm, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. in Cambridge, encompasses projects that range in scale from houses to educational and cultural institutions. Scott Cohen has produced numerous critically acclaimed projects and has won international competitions for important buildings, including the Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China (2007– 2010); the Robbins Elementary School, Trenton, NJ (2006–2010); and the Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003–2009), presently under construction. Other projects currently under construction include a Student Center for Nanjing University Xianlin Campus, Jiang Su (2007–2009); a public arcade in Battery Park City in New York (2005–2009); and the Ya Zhou Bay Science and Technology Center in Sanya, Hainan Island (2008–2010). Cohen is the author of Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture (NORTHEAST continued on page 44)

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(Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Progressive Architecture Awards, and The Visionary Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His work has been widely published and exhibited and is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cohen has held faculty positions at Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Ohio State University. He was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto in 2004 and the Perloff Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002.

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Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor Christine Gorby, with Faculty from the Penn State College of Liberal Arts, received a generous grant from the Institute of the Arts and Humanities at Penn State to examine interior architecture through a lecture and exhibition series. “Deviant Decoration: The Architectural Interior,” a two-year series of free public lectures and exhibitions, began on April 21 with lectures by Belgian architectural theory professor Hildegarde Heynen and Auburn professor Sheri Schumacher. The lectures by Heynen and Schumacher focused on the gendered domestic interior. The related exhibition, “Patchwork Project: A Quilt Studio”, also opened on April 21 and will be on display through August 15, 2008 in the Willard G. Rouse III Gallery on the Penn State campus. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Schumacher, examines evolving concepts of “home” in the historic and modern vernacular south. Special focus is on a recently built quilt studio, made collaboratively by Schumacher with architecture students, for Mozell Benson, a nationally recognized quilt artist. Forthcoming symposiums and exhibitions in fall 2008 will focus on ecological design and interior space, while spring 2009 events will center on disability studies in relation to the architectural interior. For more information on

future speakers and exhibitions visit www.arch. psu.edu. Professor Donald Kunze completed a Landscape Studio on the subject of Surrealist Gardens at Louisiana State University as the Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair for Spring 2008. The Russell Chair is intended to bring distinguished artists and designers to the College of Design and is shared among the college’s four disciplines - architecture, art, interior design and landscape architecture. Prof. Kunze’s article on Giambattista Vico’s influence on cultural geography will be published in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift for Elsevier Press. Professor James Wines and his firm SITE New York was awarded first place in an international design competition for New World Plaza in Beijing, China, sponsored by New World China Land Limited and D.I. Magazine. The winning team’s design – chosen from an international competition of 471 entries - is intended as a metaphor for a growing culture and proposal for environmental improvement in a rapidly burgeoning city. Overall, the New World Plaza is interpreted as an URBAN FOREST - vertically and horizontally, physically and symbolically, experientially and ecologically. In addition to the competition award, SITE will be completing the Fondazione Rossini Visitors Pavilion and sculpture park master plan for the organization’s property in Briosco, Italy and the Gwa Cheon Club Headquarters, Seoul’s most prestigious international business organization, at the end of next summer. This August SITE will complete a second SHAKE SHACK restaurant in New York City. James Wines received a Graham Foundation grant for the forthcoming book Post-green Architecture - Environmental Thinking in the 21st Century and is completing the concluding essay for a new anthology of critical writing on public space for Jacqueline Tatom’s publication entitled “Starting from the Middle Ground - Metropolitan Landscapes/ Metropolitan Urbanism.” Syracuse University Associate professor Lori Brown was a panelist in the symposium “Where are we now?” hosted by Women in Architecture at the Rhode Island

School of Design (RISD). In conjunction with the symposium, the exhibition “Feminist Practices” organized and curated by professor Brown was exhibited in the School of Architecture’s gallery at RISD from March 31 to April 11. Assistant professor Aaron Sprecher’s practice, Open Source Architecture, will curate, edit and design the forthcoming exhibition and catalog Performalism (together with architect Yasha Grobman) to open on June 25th at the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art. Professor Sprecher delivered a lecture entitled “N degrees of Architecture” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 18th. Associate professor Mark Linder spoke at a colloquium entitled “The Work of Theory at Penn State on March 20-21, 2008. Assistant professor Michael Pelken presented a lecture entitled “A matter of scale” at the “Massimpact” cities and climate change symposium at MIT on March 28th. Assistant Professor Jean-François Bédard presented a paper entitled ‘Rhetoric and Surprise in French Eighteenth-Century Interiors’ at the 39th annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in Portland, Oregon (27-30 March 2008). University at Buffalo The Urban Design Project (UDP) recently concluded two publications. The first is the Queen City Waterfront: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements. The plan was funded through the US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, the NewYork State Department ofTransportation, and the City of Buffalo. The total Waterfront Corridor Initiative involved seven volumes and a host of collaborations under the prime contract direction of Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers. The UDP had lead responsibility for four of the volumes including volume 1: the Queen City Waterfront which provides 107 pages of planning, urban design and policy direction for the redevelopment of the City of Buffalo’s Waterfront and the mitigation of transportation corridor impacts. Lead faculty and staff on the Queen City Waterfront include Professor Robert Shibley as the project

Associate Professor Beth Tauke was a featured speaker at a seminar entitled “Creating a Livable City for All Ages: The Role of Universal Design and Placemaking,” sponsored by the New York City Mayor’s Office on May 14, 2008. Professor Tauke spoke about the need to incorporate inclusive processes in the planning, design and construction of public buildings, environments and systems. In May, Assistant Professor Mark Shepard delivered a lecture at the Social Technologies Summit, part of this year’s Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas in Manchester, UK. The conference brought together opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art communities around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city. His talk focused on “propagative urbanism,” a way of thinking about shaping the experience of urban space in terms of a bottom-up, participatory approach to the evolution of cities. In June, he presented a paper in Copenhagen with Associate Professor Omar Khan on Situated Technologies at the EAAE / ARCC 2008 Conference: Changes of paradigms in the basic understanding of architectural research. Prof. Shepard was also a plenary speaker at Thinking Metropolis, a ten-year program organized by the Copen-

hagen International Theater and funded by the EU aimed at creating an international platform where artists, architects, city planners and theoreticians can meet a common challenge of how to create more living, fair, inspiring and cohesive cities. Prof. Shepard also received one of the eight UB 2020 Scholars Fund awards for his project, “The Sentient City Survival Kit.” The project consists of the design and fabrication of a collection of artifacts, spaces and media for “survival” in the near-future “sentient” city. Mehrdad Hadighi, Chair of the Department of Architecture, received the “Glass Award” from the Glass Association of North America in the residential category for his design, “Green Lantern,” a green glass tube that was inserted into a suburban residence through the roof and a guest bathroom. Assistant Professor Kenneth S. MacKay, AIA, presented a paper at “Change the World: Harnessing BIM Technology and Integrated Project Delivery for Sustainable Design,” an AIA pre-convention conference held in Boston, MA on May 13-14, 2008. The paper, entitled “Building Literacy: Integrated Building Systems and Sustainable Design,” explored the development of graphic tools to teach building systems integration and the relationship of integrated systems to sustainability by immersing students in a virtual environment that imitates the complexity of the real-world collaboration, decision-making, and material choices in design. Dennis Maher was a featured speaker at the National Cityscapes Conference in Cleveland, OH, held from March 27-29, 2008. The conference, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, focussed on the intersection of the arts, the humanities, and cities from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Maher presented a paper entitled, “Assembled City Fragments,” situating his work with urban debris within the larger context of the demolition industry in the rust-belt. Maher was also awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Architecture for 2008. During a month-long residency at the colony, he undertook a series of collages and assemblages of un-done city fragments.

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Adjunct Associate Professor Odile Compagnon is designing a permanent interactive children’s exhibit for the new Spertus museum overlooking Michigan Avenue and the lake. Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Exley together with partner Sharon Exley’s, Design For Kids, was published in 2007 by Images Publishing. Their firm architectureisfun is working on the design of new children’s museums in Saginaw, MI, Topeka, KS, an art museum for children in Ft Lauderdale, FL, and the new Ronald McDonald House in Oaklawn. Their Children’s Library and Teen Center at the Evanston Public Library opened in October 2007, and their Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo won the AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award. In addition, Exley is the Chicago host of Pecha Kucha Night, now heading into its fourth volume. Assistant Professor Ellen Grimes was awarded the prestigious Van Alen New York Prize for a project proposing a comprehensive plan for Midewin under the title Public Ecologies: An Experimental Infrastructure at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie. Grimes is also working in collaboration with Bruce Mau, UrbanLab and a group of SAIC students in developing a series of new infrastructure proposals for Chicago in commemoration of the centenary of the 1909 Burnham Plan of Chicago. The design, presentations and exhibition materials will be collected in a publication funded by the Van Alen Institute. In addition Grimes is editing a new journal of contemporary architecture that will be published in January of 2008. Adjunct Associate Professor May Hawfield received the 2008 SAIC Chairman’s Award of Excellence for her service as faculty member. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 46)

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director, Bradshaw Hovey, Ph. D. as the lead planner, Professor Lynda Schneekloth as lead Landscape Architect and Elizabeth Cheteny, the Director of Planning for the UDP and project manager. The plan was recently awarded the Western New York Section of the APA’s Award for Planning Practice. The second publication is The Olmsted City - The Buffalo Olmsted Park System: Plan for the 21st Century. The 180page book was edited by Professors Shibley and Schneekloth with Elizabeth Cheteny and Jajean Burney, Planning Associate at the UDP. The 428 million dollar restoration plan was commissioned and published by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy with a grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation. The UDP was the lead consultant working with Trowbridge and Wolf, PC Landscape Architects from Ithica, NY, Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers from Amherst NY and a wide variety of supporting contractors. Both publications are available for download at www.urbandesignproject.org.

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Professor Linda Keane, AIA, is concentrating her research on eco literacy projects involving a new green curriculum, a not for profit eco web learning community, and proposals for green initiatives in the Milwaukee-Chicago Corridor. Linda directs NEXT.cc’s art+design+environment eco web learning community being piloted by US Green Charter Schools, WI Charter Schools, and select Chicago Schools. Keane presented a paper, “The Aesthetics of Sustainability and The Ethical Imagination” at Assuming Responsibility: The Architecture of Stewardship, 2007 ACSA Southeast Fall Conference, at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Intuit Gallery. NEXT was nominated for a City of Chicago Green Design Award by Mayor Daley in the Spring of 2007. She directed the design of the City of Chicago Green Roof website and contributed to the curricular development of SUPAR, a new charter school of Urban Planning and Architecture in Milwaukee, WI supported in part by a Bill Gates Foundation grant. She and her partner are contributing environmental urban planners to the North East Side Milwaukee Plan working on the lake front, river corridor and several neighborhoods. She also served as jury member for the international 2007 Gensler Design Excellence Award.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway was a visiting critic and presented a lecture on the work of his firm, hemingway+a/studio at B.A.S.E. in Beijing, China founded by Robert Mangurian and Mary- Ann Ray. The lecture entitled “3 weeks or less [for more]” illustrated the design/ fabricate works completed in 21 days or less. It featured the [LIGHT]house, a component of this was on exhibition at i_space gallery in Chicago and is to travel to the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis for an exhibition in September. In addition, he received a $13,200 Research Board Grant to continue to fund these design/ fabricate exhibitions to follow up his book fringe_architecture that was published in June. Erik also served on the 2008 Schiff Awards Jury for the Art Institute of Chicago, organized by Joe Rosa. The jury included Philip Berger, Tom Jacobs, and Florencia Pita who awarded $25,000 for a student design project by Sung Suk Yoo nominated and submitted from the schools of Architecture in Chicago. Washington University in St. Louis

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looking the confluence of the Mississippi and Big Muddy rivers, just south of Murphysboro, Illinois.From Peter MacKeith’s 2007 “Lighthouse” studio.

from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The honor recognizes special achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research or service that advances architectural education. An awards ceremony was held March 28 during the 2008 ACSA National Conference in Houston, Texas.

Assistant Professor Thomas Kong is currently the project partner in the Crisis Design Network with Japanese architect Kenta Kishi. Sponsored by the Toyota Foundation’s Asian Neighbors Network program, this two-year trans-disciplinary project seeks to uncover, anticipate and address latent and diverse forms of crisis in Asian cities though the promotion of civic participation in design events, workshops and symposiums in Singapore and Yokohama. Associate Professor Lisa Norton is heavily invested in trans-disciplinary research for the creation of community programs designed to function as ethical inquiries on the contested realm of sustainable development, specifically in Post-colonial Asia. Under the banner of Systems for Slow(er) Structures, the program engages a long-term relationship with the community of Chongwu Township in China to develop a comprehensive environmental plan to ensure the preservation of material cultural resources.

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MacKeith received the award for the design studio “Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi,” which he led (with teaching assistant Aaron Senne) in the spring of 2007 as part of the College of Architecture’s senior undergraduate advanced studio sequence. Over the last 10 years MacKeith has taught a succession of “Lighthouse” studios — in the United States, Finland and Slovenia — all emphasizing issues such as the importance of site, the value of materials and tectonics, and the necessity of interdisciplinary thought and collaborative work. Peter MacKeith

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award

For the Mississippi studio, 15 undergraduates studied the history and culture of the river from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, environmental studies, political science, biology, art history and economics. Stu-

“If there is creative achievement in this design studio, it lies first and foremost with each of the individual students’ thought and work,” MacKeith says, “then with the collective character and productivity of the studio group as a whole.” MacKeith came to Washington University in 1999 as assistant dean of Architecture and was named associate dean of the Sam Fox School in 2004. In addition to organizing collaborative teaching and research, he currently oversees the Sam Fox School’s Whitaker Foundation Learning Lab, a new media center. He previously directed the International Masters Program in architecture at the Helsinki Institute of Technology; taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia; and worked in professional practices in both the United States and Finland. MacKeith has written and lectured extensively on contemporary Finnish architecture. He is author of The Finland Pavilions: Finland at the Universal Expositions 1900-1992 (1993) and editor of Encounters: Architectural Essays (2005), a selection of essays by Juhani Pallasmaa. His analytical drawings of Alvar Aalto’s buildings were included in the 1998 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 2005 his essay The Dissolving Corporation: Contemporary Architecture and Corporate Identity in Finland was published by the Finnish Institute for Business and Policy Studies (EVA). His most recent book is Archipelago: Essays on Architecture (2006). With Michael Repovich, lecturer in architecture, MacKeith recently received a one-year $15,000 Washington University I-CARES grant (International Center for Advanced Research in Energy and Sustainability) for research on “ZeroEnergy, High-Performance Building Standards,” a series of case studies in building design specifically directed at sustainable and net-zero energy campus building design. His essay “Designed Education,” about the new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts buildings by architect Fumihiko Maki, will appear in an April 2008 special issue of Japan Architect.

east central Lawrence Technological University The College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University has hired six new faculty members who will begin their teaching and administrative duties in the fall of 2008. Peter Beaugard, a recent MFA graduate of Cranbrook , will join the faculty of LTU’s Imaging program. Professor Beaugard has worked in the graphic design field in Baltimore, MD and Troy, MI. Constance Bodurow joins the architecture faculty after teaching and urban design work in both Detroit and Boston. Professor Bodurow has served on the AIA Regional and Urban Design Advisory Board, and has received a grant through the AIA’s RFP Research Program for her collaborative work entitled: “Value Densification Community Project (VDCp): Community Mapping in Southwest Detroit” . She is one of only seven recipients of this grant. Vance Hanna is the new Chair of the college’s Department of Art and Design. Professor Hanna holds a Master of Arts degree from Stanford University, and brings a wealth of industrial design experience to the college, both as a design consultant and as a member of large-industry design teams. Keith Nagara is the Director of the college’s new Transportation Design program, a position he co-held as an interim (with Professor Hanna) the past year. Professor Nagara has been an integral part of the design team at the Ford Motor company since 1998. James Stevens has joined the CoAD’s studio faculty. Professor Stevens specializes in design and digital fabrication, and holds degrees from Savannah College of Art and Design, and North Carolina State University. Martin Schwartz will coordinate the college’s graduate concentration in Architectural Design and Practice. A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Schwartz has been involved in architectural education and private practice, and has written extensively on the use of daylighting in the creation of architectural space. Associate Professor Daniel Faoro has been named Interim Chair of the Department of Architecture. Professor Faoro, a graduate of Harvard University, has been with LTU since 2000, and teaches both design studio and technical

courses for the college, coordinating the program’s structural design and analysis sequence. He replaces Associate Professor Edward Orlowski, who will be rejoining the faculty after fours years as Department Chair. University of Michigan The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning appointed Monica Ponce de Leon as its 9th dean, effective September 2008. She previously held the position of Professor of Architecture and Director of the Digital Lab at Harvard’s GSD, where she earned a MAUD. She has also taught at Georgia Tech, Northeastern and the University of Miami, where she received her B. Arch. Her firm Office dA has won many design honors, including ten PA Design Awards.

She follows Douglas Kelbaugh who completed his 10th year as dean this summer. Last Spring, the college hosted an event in his honor. Attended by 400 faculty, staff, students, alumni, family and friends, it included his address, toasts, roasts, reception and dinner. Selected highlights of the college’s accomplishments over the decade of his deanship include: • •

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appointing 40 tenure and tenure track faculty, a 75 percent turnover; increasing enrollment from approximately 500 to 575, while reducing the faculty/ student ratio from 12:1 to 9:1; starting programs in urban design and in real estate development, as well as several international programs and a community design center in Detroit; doubling female faculty from 18 to 36 percent and increasing undergrad minority enrollment from 21 to 31 per cent; increasing the endowment from $7M to $75M, most of which goes to student financial aid, as well as to a large program of distinguished visiting professors; and completing many facility upgrades, designed and, in many cases, built by faculty and students.

Doug will be on leave next year and plans to return to the college to teach in Fall 2009. (EAST CENTRAL continued on page 48)

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dents also explored the life of the River itself — its agricultural and industrial character, the communities situated adjacent to it — and eventually proposed designs for a series of observation pavilions at major sites between St. Louis and New Orleans.

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Nataly Gattegno has been appointed as the William Muschenheim Fellow for 2008-2009. She is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab, an interdisciplinary design and research collaborative that was recently awarded the prestigious Van Alen NY Prize. Additionally the collaborative earned second prize in the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts International Competition. G. Britt Eversole has been appointed as the Walter B. Sanders Fellow for 2008-2009. His research focuses on the history of Italian modern architecture prior to World War II, and explores the aesthetic and political trajectories of Italian art and architecture from the end of the 19th century to the fall of the Fascist government. His degrees include M.E.D. and M.Arch. from Yale and a bachelor of design from the University of Florida.

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Jason Johnson has been appointed as the Willard Oberdick Fellow for 2008-2009. He is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab LLC, an interdisciplinary research collaborative with design studios in the U.S. and Athens, Greece. In 2005 he became a research associate of the NSO (The Non-Linear Systems Organization) founded by Cecil Balmond and supported by the Arup Foundation and Penn Design. He has a master of architecture degree from Princeton University, and a bachelor of science from the University of Virginia. He previously worked at Polshek Partnership and Reiser+Umemoto Architects in New York City. Wesley McGee joined the college in September as a lecturer in the Architecture. He was formerly an instructor in architecture as well as the Coordinator of the Digital Lab in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He taught a course on digital manufacturing technologies in architecture, focusing specifically on multi-axis robotically-controlled equipment. His work was featured in the Furniture Society of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publication Convergence (2005) and exhibited in the Museum of Design Atlanta. McGee earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in industrial design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Staying Cutting-Edge with Google’s RSS Reader

by david eifler and matthew prutsman, environmental design library, university of california, berkeley

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In order to create this dynamic online feature, we first identified blogs (“web logs” that regularly update content) by pooling our library staff’s collective wisdom, searching http:// technorati.com/, and doing simple www. google.com and http://del.icio.us/ searches on the term “architecture blogs.” We identified additional blogs through casual conversations with students and faculty at our circulation and reference desks. We then needed an RSS (Really Simple Syndication – website links for frequently updated content) reader to pull in and summarize the content of the blogs we identified, and for this we chose Google Reader. Blogs contain some of the most frequently updated and immediate information on the internet, but it can be tedious checking multiple blogs for new posts. RSS readers, such as Google Reader, have become critical tools for sorting and assessing this large volume of information. Signing up for a Google Reader account is easy. In fact, if you have a Google account

you already have a Google Reader account. If you don’t have a Google account, or want to set one up for a specific purpose, visit http:// reader.google.com and click “Create an account.” You may want to give your account a name and profile that represents your course or professional website. In our case we set up a new account for the sole purpose of feeding blog articles to our library homepage and called it “Environmental Design Library.” Entering blogs into your reader is easy and can be accomplished inside Google Reader or from within most blogs. First, log in to your Google Reader account, click “Add subscription” on the left side, and enter the URL of the blog to which you wish to subscribe. To add an RSS subscription from within the blog simply go to the blog, look for an RSS link, and “Add to Google Reader.” Common links to look for on blogs are “Subscribe,” “RSS Feed,” or “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).” Now that you have added the feeds, Google Reader will automatically check the blogs to which you have subscribed and download any newly posted entries. Once your Google Reader account is set up, review it regularly and select items to “share.” Clicking the small “share” tag at the bottom of an individual item or hitting “Shift + S” while you are reading the item adds it to your list of shared items. To view all items you have shared, click “Shared items” under the “Your stuff” heading on the left navigation bar of Google Reader. From there you can click “at this web page” to be taken to the page of your shared items that Google Reader has au-

tomatically generated. Anyone can go to this website and subscribe to your feed of shared items by copying the URL into their reader. Of great value to libraries and faculty members is the fact that Google Reader generates code that can easily be inserted into your web page or personal blog so that your shared items automatically show up on the site. From the “shared items” view in Google Reader click on “add a clip,” which opens a new window with a list of settings, a preview, and a small box containing a few lines of JavaScript. Simply copy and paste this script into a table on your website and your shared items will be fed into the site, adding new information every time you share an item in Google Reader. For an example, please visit UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Library website at www.lib. berkeley.edu/ENVI where you can view our shared items toward the bottom of the page. After the initial setup, the RSS feed to your website requires little maintenance other than identifying new blogs to add to the feed and marking the items in your Google Reader that you wish to share. You no longer need to edit HTML, preview, check for typos, or upload in order to get up-to-the-minute information on your website. Since adding the feed of shared items to our library’s home page a few months ago, we began receiving positive feedback immediately. Visitors to our web site like knowing there is an easy place to find the latest architectural information, and library staff enjoys the ongoing challenge of identifying new, cutting-edge architectural blogs.

visit www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI and subscribe to the google reader feed

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Students often ask faculty and librarians to help them identify the latest architectural and planning trends. Although they appreciate our syllabi, research guides, and subscription databases, they also want to know about what’s new and cutting-edge. Using Google Reader, the University of California’s Environmental Design Library continually updates postings from a wide variety of architectural blogs and online news sources on our library’s homepage. Architecture faculty should find this timesaving tool useful for their course and professional web pages.

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opportunities

ACSA CALENDAR september 17 Submission Deadline 97th Annual Meeting Call for Papers

20 College + Career Expo at Illinois Institute of Technology

25-27 ACSA Northeast Fall Conference at University of Massachusetts Amherst

october 3 Submission Deadline 2008-09 ACSA Awards

16-19 ACSA West Fall Conference at University of Southern California

22-23 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference

23-26 ACSA West Central Fall Conference at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

november 6-8 ACSA Administrators Conference in Savannah, Georgia

19 Submission Deadline 97th Annual Meeting Call for Posters

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Join ACSA’s Listserv, a forum for quick communication among ACSA faculty members. To subscribe to the list, send an email to “listserv@arch.utah.edu” with the following message in the *body* of the email: Subscribe ACSA-list [Your Full_Name]

events of note Conferences / Lectures 10/4/2008 DOCOMOMO US celebrates 10 years! DOCOMOMO US will invite Americans to go out and experience their modern heritage by joining tours of Modern architecture in over 20 cities. The DOCOMOMO US Modern Architecture Tour Day is part of the organization’s yearlong celebration of its 10th anniversary. In the decade since the founding of the US working party, the group has become a recognized name for enthusiasts of Modern architecture who have formed chapters in all regions of the country, with campaigns for the preservation of TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport, Boston’s City Hall, and Seattle’s Monorail among others. info@docomomo-us.org 10/15/2008 Making Cities Livable Conference on “True Urbanism: Cities for Health & Well-Being” Portland, OR, May 10 – 14, 2009. International conference for city officials, practitioners and scholars in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, transportation planning, health policy and social sciences from many parts of the world to share ideas, and establish working relationships. Proposals should be prepared for blind peer review. State title of paper, name of author, affiliation, full contact information on cover email. Attach Word file with abstract (200 – 250 words). Please send to: Suzanne.Lennard@LivableCities.org Submission deadline: October 15th, 2008 www.LivableCities.org 10/22/08 How to Get Started with Fabric Structures Industrial Fabrics Association International Some of the architecture industry’s top experts will present a thought-provoking workshop on how fabric structures are becoming the next wave in building innovation in Charlotte, NC. Architects and architectural students can attend the workshop free and earn an estimated 2.5 AIA CES Learning Units for Architects. www.ifaiexpo.com

11/6-8/2008 LEARNING FROM DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION FAILURES The Construction History Society of America Georgia Tech in Atlanta The theme of this conference is: Learning from Design & Construction Failures. Peer Reviewed papers include topics such as: Concrete cooling tower collapse at Willow Island, WV (1978); Deathtrap: the other Ford’s Theater disaster (1893); Housing problems for new work forces in Alabama 1890–1920. www.constructionhistorysociety.org/ 11/14/08 Fourth international Forum on Architectural Education organized by MimED CALL FOR PAPERS MIMED (Association for Architectural Education) featuring the theme “Flexibility” is going to be held at Faculty of Architecture, Erciyes University in Kayseri, a major city in the prominent Capadocia region of Turkey in May 26-29, 2009. The forum is organized with the motive that scholars and practitioners from all over the world will come together in order to interrogate the current nature of architectural education. Deadline for abstracts and posters, suggestions for workshops and exhibitions: November 14, 2008 Acceptance of abstracts and suggestions for workshops and posters: December 19, 2008 (accommodation, events, fees) Deadline for full Papers, Posters submission: March 25, 2009 arched2009.erciyes.edu.tr 3/12-14/2009 “But Also, We Are a Discipline” 2009 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student College of Art and Design, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA But Also, We are a Discipline invites submissions that explore beginning design’s history, its body of knowledge and the particular educational challenges that arise in its context, as well as their attendant pedagogies, projects, and curricular strategies. Submissions are welcome from all. www.beginningdesign.org

HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING AWARDS The Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC) is now accepting applications from both the public and private sector for the 2008 Beyond GreenTM High-Performance Building Awards. The Awards recognize the initiatives that shape, inform and catalyze the market for high-performance buildings, as well as the realworld application of high-performance design and construction practices. Deadline: October 15, 2008 www.sbicouncil.org 9TH ANNUAL MILKA BLIZNAKOV PRIZE International Archive Of Women In Architecture Center The IAWA invites architects, scholars, and researchers to honor IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov through their research on women in architecture and related design fields. This research, in concert with the preservation efforts of the IAWA, will help fill the current void in historical knowledge about women’s professional achievements. The IAWA Board of Advisors presents this Prize of $1000 following a twostage process. Stage One applicants register their proposal to outline the research work they plan to complete within the coming year. Deadline November 1, 2008 spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/Bliznakov/Prize2008.html ROME PRIZE 2008-2009 One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the American Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years. Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. For further information contact the American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60 Street, New York, NY 100221001, Attn. Programs. T: (212) 751-7200, ext. 47; F: (212) 751-7220; E: info@aarome.org. Deadline: November 1, 2008 www.aarome.org

John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize The Foundation for Landscape Studies invites applications for the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for the year 2009 to be awarded to a book that has made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape studies. All awards of up to $1,500 are made by a jury of members of the board of directors of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and any non-board member they may wish to appoint to serve on the committee. Publishers must send books to each of the appointed jury members before December 1, 2008. A cover letter should include a complete mailing address, phone number, and email address of the author(s). To receive the mailing addresses for the jury or address inquiries, contact: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies, 7 West 81st Street, New York, NY 10024. rogerseb@aol.com

Scholarships / Grants BSA RESEARCH GRANTS IN ARCHITECTURE 2009 This program supports original research projects. We are interested in innovative, practice-based and practice-oriented research that expands the definition of research in the profession and the industry (e.g., research that is genuinely multi-disciplinary, not solely academic, etc.). We encourage proposals that bring together those in practice and in academia, either by including professionals and academics on the project team, providing opportunities to engage students through research studio projects, or by other means of joining research efforts across the field of architecture. Applicants must live in the U.S. to qualify for these grants. Deadline: September 18, 2008. www.architects.org/grants ROTCH TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP The Rotch Travelling Studio annually awards a $20,000 travel grant to enable educators in architecture schools to take students abroad for first-hand study of foreign architecture. The

Rotch Travelling Scholarship Committee will award a check in December to one lucky studio class. Faculty members in any U.S. school accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board are invited to submit proposals for travel anywhere outside the United States. Studios must be directed by the faculty applicant and should supplement a specific design studio at the school. Deadline: October 24 www.rotchscholarship.org/studio

The David R. Coffin Publication Grant The Foundation for Landscape Studies invites applications for the David R. Coffin Publication Grant, named in honor of the eminent scholar of landscape and garden history, for the purpose of research and publication of a book in the English language that advances scholarship in the field of garden history and landscape studies. It is awarded without restrictions to the period or subject treated, or to the nationality of the author. It will be selected by a jury comprising members of the foundation’s board of directors and any outside professionals they may wish to appoint. Applications must be sent to each of the three jury members by December 1, 2007. To receive the mailing addresses for the jury or address inquiries please contact: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies, 7 West 81st Street, New York, NY 10024. rogerseb@aol.com

Exhibits 9/19/2008-1/5/2009 Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. From painting and architecture to music, film, furniture and the graphic arts, 1950s Los Angeles was an epicenter of American modernism. www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu opportunities

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objective To provide base funds to be matched for applied research projects that advance professional knowledge and practice.

description The AIA seeks proposals for research projects to be completed in an 18-month period beginning December 1, 2008. The AIA will award up to four grants, between $15,000 and $30,000 each, for selected projects (awarded funds must be hard dollar matched; a maximum of 10 percent of funds may be used for overhead). This grant qualifies recipients to have their findings and outcomes published both electronically and in a nationally distributed publication. Preference will be given to proposals that have teams comprising of both academics and practitioners. Also preferable are long records of team collaboration and a budget using less than the 10 percent maximum for overhead (i.e., indirect costs).

aia upjohn research context Proposals that address building typology, practice issues, or materials RIchaRd Upjohn

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Design, and Building Performance. Proposals must be framed within one of

six broad research areas: Social, Technological, Environmental, Cultural, Organizational, or Design.

aia research priorities Sustainability (e.g., consequences of the global demand for resources, climate change mitigation, carbon-neutral buildings, regenerative/disassembly buildings); limitations of

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water availability on buildings, urbanization (e.g., the effects of aging infrastructure, opti-

September 1, 2008 Submissions are due to rhayes@aia.org.

well-being, energy consumption and better metrics for building performance (e.g., ben-

mizing conditions for human development); demographic measures for public health and efits of daylighting versus artificial light); ergonomics for users of particular facilities (e.g., movement patterns, next-generation flexible facilities); development of minimum design requirements for a facility type(s); relationship

October 1, 2008 Recipients contacted via e-mail

of buildings to community identity, heritage, and the broader eco-

October 30, 2008 Verification of matching funds due (recipients must sign an agreement to abide by the schedule below)

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logical function (e.g., urban form and wellness); integrated practice collaboration models; and other novel concepts or innovations.

Digital submissions only, sent by e-mail, as a PDF or MSWord document of three pages maximum. Information required: Project title; principal investigator(s); institutional affiliation; 250-word project abstract; budget; clients and constituencies (and/or knowledge communities served); 250-word summary of projected outcomes; and the names and contact information for three references. No

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November 1, 2008 Funds awarded December 1, 2009 Draft findings due May 1, 2010 Final report due

cover sheet is required. Images may be used, but file size should be kept to a minimum. Frequently asked questions are available at www.aia.org/research.

selection process A panel of seven professionals from the AIA Board Knowledge Committee and the AIA College of Fellows—which includes representatives of both the academic community and the profession—will evaluate each submission and select grant awardees.

contact for inquiries Richard Hayes, PhD, AIA, CAE, Managing Director, AIA Knowledge Resources, rhayes@aia.org