ACSA News October 2008 by Pascale Vonier

october 2008 volume 38 number 2

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Board Initiates Year Long Focus to Increase Diversity in Schools Read the President’s message and ACSA’s resolution on page 2

2008-09 Student Design Competitions Read more about this year’s programs starting on page 4

in this issue: 2

President’s Message

ACSA Board of Directors Call for Nominations 2008-09 Student Design Competitions

Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

2009 Administrators Conference—Savannah

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

2008 ACSA Fall Conferences

2008-09 ACSA Awards Program

REGIONAL NEWS

AASL Column

ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

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Committing to Diversity in education by marleen kay davis

of the meeting, each of the signatories was asked how he or she would individually address diversity in their daily lives. I would like to extend that challenge to all ACSA faculty members.

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

In support of the AIA’s efforts to revisit issues of diversity, the ACSA Board of Directors would like to embark on an effort to address issues of diversity within our schools. The board passed a preliminary resolution in August, (see sidebar), as a first step in a sustained discussion of the increasing diversity within the profession.

Diversity has become a sensitive term in American discourse, with different layers of meaning. Nevertheless, respect for diversity, in all its forms, should be an underlying principle in our everyday lives; in our society, in our government, and in our educational system. The move toward a global economy, along with generational change, draws both the benefits and the tensions of a diverse culture into greater relief at the start of the 21st century. Within architecture, diversity has been an increasingly important issue as we try to illustrate in this issue of ACSA News. Last spring, the AIA invited ACSA to participate in a summit hosted by the AIA Committee for Diversity. The meeting, held in St. Louis, featured individuals who had addressed issues of diversity in the work place, in schools, or in other innovative programs. Of particular interest to me was learning about innovative efforts in education, such as high-school programs sponsored by ACE: Architects, Contractors, and Engineers, which pair firms with students in a mentoring relationship. As an outcome of the AIA meeting, sixty attendees signed the Gateway Commitment to Diversity (see sidebar), a set of principles for increasing diversity in the architectural profession. Toward the end

I was personally inspired by the AIA conference leading to the Gateway Commitment. A conversation about diversity in 2008 is very different than one such conversation in 1968 or in 1988. In spite of the many positive changes I have witnessed, real challenges still exist. We need a new conversation, because diversity in the 21st century has many more dimensions, nuances, and challenges. As a typical baby-boomer who has identified with both the positives and the negatives of my generation, I am fascinated to see today’s generational changes. At the AIA conference, articulate and thoughtful recent graduates outlined issues of diversity and generational expectations from the perspective of “generation Y.” We see these generational changes with our students who embrace technology, communicate differently, work differently, enjoy collaboration, want feedback, and are passionate about the environment. How do these students see the challenges of diversity? Today’s conversation about diversity has to include this perspective. As a female in a male-dominated profession, gender issues in education have also always intrigued me. It is hard for my female students to believe that I cannot recall having a single female university professor, in any subject, except lan-

Definitions of diversity and benchmark measures for diversity can be useful. However, they should not detract us from the key focus of a new conversation regarding diversity: what are the challenges in achieving a culture that values diversity and why do these challenges exist? How can we best mitigate these challenges? Conversations about diversity have taken place in the decades since my high school days, falling into a predictability and relative complacency. The AIA Conference for Diversity reignited different perspectives for me. It is time for a 21st century conversation that looks at a long-term challenge in new ways. How can each one of us make a difference and what role should our schools play? Moreover, our schools have various ways of making architectural education available to students from a broad range of backgrounds. Work-study programs and assistantships provide income to students, which helps keep program costs low, and schools increasingly rely on alumni, architecture firms, and others to provide a range of scholarships and grants. All of these efforts expand an understanding of diversity, yet we can still do more as we prepare the designers of the future. Finally, as educators, we are important role models for our students. Each of our students need diverse role models, and we should compose our faculty in that regard. We are not only role models for those students who look like us, but we are role models in so many different ways.

AIA launches new Diversity Recognition Program In July, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) issued a call for submissions for its newly created Diversity Recognition Program. The winning selections, which will be announced in December, will recognize architects for exemplary commitment and contributions to diversifying the profession of architecture, in an effort to mirror the society it serves. The program’s jury will honor up to 12 examples of diversity best practices annually. Information about the Diversity Recognition Program, as well as entry guidelines for 2009 and topics for submittals, can be found at www.aia.org.

We, the participants of the multiFORMity 2008 AIA Diversity Plenary, are committed to significantly improving the representation and management of diversity in architecture education and practice. We believe this requires a cultural shift in the Institute, in our workplaces, and in ourselves. We envision a continuing conversation to articulate a specific action agenda concerning: • Using our members’ expertise to expand our diversity with creative career mentoring opportunities from kindergarten to retirement. • Learning from other colleagues and related organizations that have successfully addressed diversity issues. • Focusing on a series of coordinated action items and ideas to promote diversity, with comprehensive oversight. • Asking our membership to initiate conversations and actions on the local level. • Sharing and celebrating best practices in promoting diversity. • Recruiting and retaining the best and brightest in our profession. • Employing the appropriate resources to implement these initiatives. • Our purpose in setting forth this commitment is to develop a profession that reflects the diversity of the communities, users, and the clients we serve.

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As educators, we know that schools play an important transformative role in changing future generations. Our 129 architecture schools take pride in a remarkable range of educational diversity. We have a “fast” five-year degree path for a 17-year old high school graduate. We have a shorter graduate degree path for the 35-year old who has decided on a career change. We have programs that accommodate full-time working students. We have faith-based schools. We have programs at historically black universities. We have for-profit schools, private schools, and affordable publicly subsidized schools. Within these varied schools, improving diversity hinges on factors such as access to education, composition of the student body, composition of the faculty, engagement in community issues, opportunities for diverse cultural experiences, providing a range of educational experiences, as well as providing a range of role models and mentors. We need a variation of the Boyer Report’s phrase “standards without standardization”. Each school should commit to improving diversity within their unique institutional mission.

AIA GATEWAY COMMITMENT to diversity

ACSA RESOLUTION ON DIVERSITY ACTIONS The ACSA Board of Directors resolves to make increasing diversity in ACSA member schools a visible and continuing set of conversations and actions in 2008-09. The issue of diversity in the academy and the profession encompasses a range of complex, interrelated issues, but the time for action to increase the inclusion of underrepresented groups is now. ACSA can support schools in their efforts to have a diverse student body and increase diversity among faculty who are able to effectively mentor all students to pursue varied careers in architecture. The following actions are proposed: Invite schools to submit their diversity plans and publish 1. a summary document, in addition to those plans, on the ACSA website. Create a forum on the website and at ACSA conferences 2. through which ACSA members can share practices in recruiting and retaining underrepresented students and faculty. Explore to strategies to understand categories of under3. representation and develop understanding of the evolving dimensions of diversity. Work with the NAAB to collect accurate data on faculty 4. and student demographics from 100% of accredited and candidate schools by encouraging schools to participate. Work with NAAB to assure that all ACSA schools submit 5. diversity data as part of the required annual statistical reports. Initiate a process to review 2007 NAAB statistical data, in6. cluded in the AIA Gateway Diversity Action Plan, as a baseline for measuring the progress of ACSA schools, and make this progress visibly accountable over a period of years.

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guage recitation sessions and a Russian literature seminar. However, I think that today’s female students face different, if not more complex, challenges. While statistics for female enrollment in our schools have increased significantly, a similar increase has not been manifest in the profession.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2010 board of directors The ACSA Nominations Committee invites nominations for three national officers positions on the 2009-2010 Board of Directors. The offices are President-elect, Treasurer, and Public Director. 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 public director serves a three-year term. The public director represents the inter-

ests of constituents outside of architectural education that are affected by the activities of the ACSA membership. The public director shall not be employed as an architect or person working in the design and construction professions nor an educator in architecture or the design and construction professions. The Nominations Committee is chaired by Kim Tanzer and consists of Andrew Chin, and Robert Gonzalez (outside member).

Nominations should be sent to: ACSA, Board Nominations, 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006. Electronic submissions are encouraged and can be sent to Eric Ellis at: eellis@acsa-arch.org. Nominations should include a CV, a letter of interest from the nomiÂnee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Friday, October 24, 2008.

student design competitions

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

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CONCRETE T H I N K I N G F O R A S U S TA I N A B L E W O R L D STUDENT DESIGN COmpETITION

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

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Life Cycle of a School STEEL design student competition

INTRODUCTION

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the ninth annual steel design student competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. Administered by ACSA and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

THE CHALLENGE

The ACSA/AISC 2008-2009 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories.

Category I – LIFE CYCLE OF A SCHOOL will challenge architecture students to design a school for the 21st century that critically

examines life cycle and proposes an innovative solution in steel. The problem of urban growth and decay is larger than an individual building. Therefore, architects should consider a total life cycle assessment approach to designing buildings so that they may be adaptable, flexible, and accommodate change. This project will allow students to explore many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for schools because it offers a high strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts, or prefabricated, to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Schools constructed in steel are more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of uses over the life of the facility.

Category II – OPEN with limited restrictions. This open submission design option will permit the greatest amount of flexibility. SCHEDULE December 5, 2008 February 9, 2009 May 6, 2009 May 2009 Summer 2009

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

Awards

Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000. The design jury will meet in May 2009 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa-arch.org and the AISC web site at www. aisc.org. American Insitute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.

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

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NEW ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

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

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COMPETITION SPONSORS Since 1857, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has represented the professional interests of America’s architects. As AIA members, over 74,000 licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners express their commitment to excellence in design and livability in our nation’s buildings and communities. Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K Architects) is an internationally-renowned firm that has distinguished itself by creating great places. McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. From project and product information to industry news, trends and forecasts, we provide industry players the tools and resources that help them save time, money, and energy. COMPETITION ORGANIZERS The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 to enhance the quality of architectural education. ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design. The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and planning. Essential to the profession for more than 110 years, Architectural Record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, news products and computer-aided practice.

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

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

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 Association (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

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

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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.

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journal of architectural education

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

Jori Erdman Clemson University (jerdman@clemson.edu)

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

General “Design as Scholarship” submissions (those not related to a particular theme call, such as the current call for “Alternative Architectures | Alternative Practice”) received by September 26, 2008 at 5 PM EST, will be juried by the JAE’s Design Committee in October. Premiated submissions (received by September 26 and juried in at our October meeting) will be eligible to be published during the 2008-09 academic year in the JAE’s Volume 62. Submission Deadline for inclusion in this volume year (62) is September 26, 2008, 5 PM EST. All submissions received after this deadline will be eligible for publication in Volume 63. Refer all inquiries to: Herbert Bayer Lonely Metropolitan, 1932. Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, London

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

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2009 ACSA Conference

Resourcing Research: a review and critique of the state of the art for a resource-efficient future

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April 24-25, 2009 Boston, MA

In recent years, the various professional, academic and governmental communities involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings have been increasingly influenced by a growing awareness of the critical need to address climate change and resource scarcities. The particular link between the extraction, production, and consumption of energy and the carbon content of the atmosphere have led to dire predictions of massive societal upheaval and escalating resource conflicts. As a result, a blizzard of initiatives, constructive and opportunistic, are addressing many aspects of the challenge of designing and operating buildings in ways that lessen our burden on the global environment.

ment. We seek to attract a diversity of recent and ongoing research projects and critical initiatives that address the many aspects of the emerging green built environment. Our intent is to establish a discourse that engages a multiplicity of disciplines while questioning the overwhelmingly technical grounds of work toward resource efficient architecture. Therefore, both technical and non-technical inquiries are of equal interest. Critical inquiries into the basis for technical solutions in addressing climate change and resource scarcities are of particular interest while serious technical research projects will form the foundation for understanding the scientific and technological state of the art.

Resourcing Research will highlight research initiatives that seek to provide pathways toward a more resource efficient built environ-

For Inquires contact: John E. Fernandez, MIT, fernande@mit.edu

Sponsored by: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology

call for abstracts announced November 2008

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in the curriculum in the university in the economy

November 6-8, 2008 Savannah, Georgia

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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.

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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: • • • •

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

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Inside/Out—Architecture and Interior Design Curricula II Moderator: 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 cochaired 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.

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900-500 pre-conference

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wednesday nov 5 New Administrators Workshop Moderators: Robert C. Greenstreet, University of WisconsinMilwaukee; 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

530-700 reception Welcome New Administrators Reception — all invited

1030-1200 800-1000 concurrent general

Thursday nov 6 The State of Design Moderator: Alan Plattus, Yale University

Interdisciplinary Degrees and Programs Moderator: Donna Robertson, Illinois Institute of Technology

Technological Practices in the Curriculum Moderator: Brenda Scheer, University of Utah co-organized with Autodesk Education Specialists

NAAB Annual Report Submission (ARS) and Training This session will provide an overview and demonstration of the newly launched NAAB Annual Report Submission (ARS), an entirely web-based process for architecture programs to complete by the deadline of November 30. As this is a new process, administrators are strongly encouraged to attend this demonstration.

1200-130 luncheon

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Design and National Identity Moderator: Peter MacKeith, Washington University in St. Louis

330-530 keynote

ARCC Luncheon

The power of Design in the Economy

Design and Diversity Moderator: Brian Kelly, University of Maryland; Ted Landsmark, Boston Architectural College

NAAB Visiting Team Member Training This session will provide an overview of the critical role Visiting Team Members play in accreditation. It will include the following: a review of the mission, objectives and role of the NAAB; an examination of NAAB Conditions and Procedures for accrediting architecture programs; clarify the roles and responsibilities of visiting team members, the compilation of visiting teams, elements of a site visit, the assemblage of a Visiting Team Report (VTR); and visit protocol. This session is open to all visiting team nominees and to individuals who are interested in the accreditation process.

George Kembel, Stanford d.school* 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 activities. 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.” 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

530-700 reception Welcome to Savannah

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1030-1200 800-1000 Concurrent General

friday nov 7 Design in the Economy Moderator: James Cramer, Design Intelligence

Community Design Moderator: Ken Schwartz, Tulane University

Recruiting and Retaining Women Faculty Moderators: Geraldine Forbes Isais, University of New Mexico; Judith Sheine, University of Southern California The Women’s Leadership Council has organized a panel discussion on topics of interest to all architecture school administrators who are trying to recruit and retain women faculty. Panelists will discuss both the challenges and opportunities inherent in a variety of topics, including mentoring, career development and discrimination.

1200-130 Luncheon 230-600 130-230 Tours General

AIA Knowledge Communities Luncheon ACSA Business Meeting

Historic Walking Tours 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

Greater Savannah Tour Visit cherished landmarks of colonial Savannah including: • The tabby ruins of Noble Jones’ fortified house • The remaining slave quarter of the Wormsloe Plantation • The grand freestanding library • The Isle of Hope, a popular summer destination • The Chapel of Our Lady of Good Hope • Sandfly, a community established by slaves freed from Wormsloe. • Other post-bellum communities of Pinpoint and Montgomery • The Varn Oyster Factory • The Turner-Hodge-Young Community Association Building • The historically black Savannah State University, originally Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth

630-800 reception Welcome to SCAD

1000-1130 800-930 Concurrent General

Campus Sustainability Moderator: Claudia Philips, Philadelphia University, CELA President A panel of experts in the fields of sustainable design principles, sustainable campus planning, experiential learning, and evolving technologies, will discuss principles of sustainable design and approaches for integrating these principles into campus planning and design. How can design education benefit from a “sustainable” campus and, conversely, how can “sustainable” design-based programs make for a more “sustainable” campus.

1200-130 General

saturday nov 8

Design Thinking and Leadership in the University

Interdisciplinary Studios/Design as Applied Research Moderator: Craig Barton, University of Virginia

WLC Planning Session Moderators: Geraldine Forbes Isais, University of New Mexico; Judith Sheine, California Polytechnic University, Pomona This session will be both an informal review and a discussion of the topics presented in the earlier session on recruiting and retaining women faculty. Additionally, it will be an open planning meeting for the Women’s Leadership Council (WLC) session that is scheduled for the ACSA Annual Meeting in spring, 2009 and will focus on faculty.

NAAB Team Room Preparation One of the keys to a successful site visit is a well-prepared team room. This session provides an introduction on how to best prepare a team room for a NAAB visiting team, including physical requirements of the room, required demonstrations of student work, course requirements, and equipment required. The important role the team room plays as part of Student Performance Criteria will also be discussed. Programs being visited in 2009 are strongly encouraged to attend this session.

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. 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.

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

portland, oregon

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97th acsa annual meeting

march 26-29, 2009 Host School University of Oregon

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

thematic overview

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

These are just a few of the questions we hope to investigate at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Portland is an excellent city in which to discuss the value of design. Architects there have worked in collaboration 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.

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

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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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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 position paper. 3. Select the Session Topic, On Fingerprints in the Act of Making.

4. Add additional authors for your position 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

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Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower 921 SW Sixth Avenue

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.

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 Portland’s 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. acsaNATIONAL

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

building

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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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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www.standardhotels.com Harvard Graduate School of Design 8:30-10:30 AM Paper Sessions Material Innovation: Fabrication, Technology and Making More Information: Material Precedent: Session 02 acsa-arch.org/conferences Material History: The Affect of Yesterday on Today Material Pedagogy: Session 02 11:00 -12:30 PM

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2008-2009 ACSA Awards Program Call for Nominations & Submissions

Please visit the ACSA website for full Awards Program descriptions, criteria, and submission information at www.acsa-arch.org/awards. AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education is awarded to an individual 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. Postmark Deadline: October 24, 2008 ACSA Distinguished Professor recognizes sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 ACSA Creative Achievement Award recognizes a specific creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service that advances architectural education. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 ACSA Faculty Design Award provides 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. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award honors the best practices in school-based community outreach programs. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award recognizes 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. Receipt Deadline: October 3, 2008

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Wes Piermarini, Connecticut River Boathouse, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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“Intensified Reflections,” a project designed and fabricated by Assistant Professor Joyce Hwang was selected to be part of “City of Dreams,” a 9-hole mini golf course and participatory art installation on Governors Island in New York City. “City of Dreams” is part of the FIGMENT 2008 arts festival and is made possible by the Arts Action League, The Pure Project, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. The installation will be open from June 27 to September 5, 2008. The project was developed and fabricated primarily in the UB School of Architecture and Planning Material and Methods Shop with the assistance of UB Architecture students, Dave Nardozzi ‘09, John Scherer ‘09, Mike Pudlewski ‘10, Nicole Marple ‘11, and Laura Schmitz ‘11. university of massachusetts amherst Simi Hoque has joined the UMass Building Materials and Wood Technology faculty as

Assistant Professor, with an affiliate position in Architecture+Design. She works at the sustainable engineering firm in Waltham and teaches sustainable design courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and green practice at the Boston Architectural College. She has a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

architecture at UMass. His undergraduate capstone project focussed—of course—on the design of a boathouse. Tracie Reed, a Master of Architecture student, has been elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She will represent the state of Maine. She was also elected an Obama elector, assuming a Democratic presidential victory in November.

Joseph Krupczynski, Tim Rohan, and Peggi Clouston have earned tenure and been promoted to Associate Professor. Wes Piermarini, UMass Master of Architecture student, and his partner Elliot Hovey have qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing that started on August 8. Piermarini will row in the men’s double sculls. In 2008 he and his sculling partner, Elliot Hovey, won trials, and came in fourth at the second national selection regatta. In 2006 he finished fifth in the single sculls at the Head of the Charles in Boston, and finished second at nationals in 2005. Piermarini also completed his undergraduate degree in

Tracie Reed, University of Massachusetts Amherst

dedicated to metalworking (including a forge), woodworking, modelmaking, concrete and plaster casting, and digital milling. The facility supports the continuing pedagogic emphasis of the department towards material exploration through hand-on acts of creative making and fabrication. The department also wishes to announce the addition of 3 new tenure-track faculty: Assistant Professors Jeff Schnabel and Margarette Leite, and Associate Professor Sergio Palleroni.

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university of california, berkeley Professor Raymond Lifchez, founder and chair of the Berkeley Prize, announces the recipients of the Tenth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence 2008, including the winners of the newly established Architectural Design Fellowships. Eighty-seven students from sixteen countries participated. Award winning proposals came from New South Wales, Kuwait, and Singapore and are now posted at www. berkeleyprize.org

Portland State University’s new architecture studios in the re-modeled Shattuck Hall

Photo credit: Clive Knights

west Portland State University Professor Clive Knights, Chair of the Department of Architecture, is very pleased to announce the addition of a 2-year Master of Architecture degree to PSU’s existing undergraduate Major in Architecture and now offers a fully integrated 4+2 educational experience. The new Master of Architecture was approved by the Oregon State Board of Higher

Education in June, and the program received Candidacy for professional accreditation from NAAB in July 2008. In preparation for incoming graduate students in Fall 2009 the department recently moved back into fully remodeled accommodation in Shattuck Hall on PSU’s downtown campus. Together with day-lit open-plan studio space, and a new digital lab, Shattuck Hall incorporates an extensive materials lab comprising workshops

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), widely recognized as one of the world’s leading architectural historians, taught his last course in the Spring of 1991 in the Architecture Department of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. The 26 lectures of his course “A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism” covering the period from the Florentine Renaissance to the post-modernism of the late 20th century (WEST continued on page 22)

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were video recorded and have recently been digitized and made available for public viewing. Kostof’s lectures were heralded for situating the architectural monument in a framework of vernacular buildings that imbue it with meaning. He was also known for exposing the relationships between architecture and the people and cultures that built it. Kostof was the author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), The City Shaped (1991), and The City Assembled (published posthumously in 1992). The 26 80-minute streaming lectures can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ MRC/kostof.html. This digitization project was the result of the collaboration of Gary Handman and Gisèle Herrmann of the Media Resources Center and Elizabeth Byrne and David Eifler of the Environmental Design Library at UC Berkeley. “Voussoir Cloud” by IwamotoScott Architecture

Emeritus Professor Marc Treib’s latest book is Appropriate: the Houses of Joseph Esherick, published by William K. Stout in San Francisco. It is part of the Environmental Design Archives book series. A critical essay on the work of Toyo Ito by Associate Professor Dana Buntrock is one of three in a monograph available this Fall from Phaidon. The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition recognized Emeritus Professor Daniel Solomon and alumnus David Baker (M. Arch ‘82) as its 2008 “Housing Heroes” for their commitment to creating, advocating and promoting housing solutions that encompass all San Franciscans.

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Interim Dean of the College, Sam Davis, in collaboration with Christiani/Johnson of San Francisco, designed University Village in Albany, housing for our campus. The 592-unit project won a “Gold Nugget Award of Merit” from the 2008 Pacific Coast Builders’ Conference in the Sustainable Communities Category. An essay by Assistant Professor Nicholas de Monchaux, on the contemporary architectural consequences of the 1960s space race, is planned for Log, vol. 13/14, a special issue on 1968 + 40 years. De Monchaux’s proposal “Spacesuit City: evolution, informality, and ur-

ban design” was commended for its innovative potential in the 2008-2009 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City Competition sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Associate Professor Lisa Iwamoto’s partnership IwamotoScott, working with Buro Happold, is exhibiting a site-specific work called “Voussoir Cloud” at the SCI-Arc Gallery through mid-September. Their Jellyfish House also continues to get attention, most recently published in an online article by CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/ TECH/08/04/future.houses/index.html Emeritus Professor Stanley Saitowitz’s recently completed Beth Sholom Synagogue was favorably reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle. The article can be seen at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/11/ BA9Q126FDN.DTL Professor Yehuda Kalay announces release of the Oakland Jazz & Blues virtual reconstruction project., which can be seen at: http://7thstreet. org/. Read more in a local publication available on-line: http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/August-2008/Games http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/August-2008/Games/.

The office of Associate Professor Susan Ubbelohde, Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates delivered sustainbility, energy and daylighting design and performance analysis on a number of projects which recently received awards: the Art Center College of Design South Campus in Pasadena, CA by Daly Genik Architects received an AIA Los Angeles Chapter 2008 Design Honor Award and Daly Genik’s design for the Art Center College of Design Student Housing received the AIA Los Angeles Chapter 2008 Next LA Honor Award. The New York Times Building in Manhattan, for which L+U developed shade control protocols and software with MechoShade, has received the AIA New York Chapter Sustainable Design 2008 Commercial Honor Award. Chartwell School in Seaside, California, by EHDD Architects received the 2007 Green Apple Award from the Collaborative for High Performance Schools, 2007. Ubbelohde was invited to present her professional daylighting work at the Lightfair Daylighting Institute, Lightfair International Conference in Las Vegas in May 2008 and served on the Design Panel for the “Meeting the Demand for Sustainable Buildings” roundtable at Stanford University in September 2008.

University of Colorado The University of Colorado’s Advanced Greenbuilding Studio, taught and developed by Fred Andreas, AIA, LEED AP, and TA’d by Julie Zacha-Brodsky, has essentially swept the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Natural Building Competition for the third year in a row, each year winning 4 of the top 5 slots including a National Honorable Mention in 2006. The multi-disciplinary Greenbuilding Studio, comprised of 8 teams of terminal year architectural and urban design students, placed 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th. The four teams split over $9500 in prize money with the 1st place team winning $6000 as well as being sent to Greenbuild 2008 in Boston for the National Competition judging. The USGBC Competition, run by the Emerging Green Builders component throughout the country, hosts a yearly competition seeking the greenest building solutions. This year 41 participants entered the Western Region USGBC Natural Design Competition. The competition focuses on unique high design solutions by developing innovative green architecture through specific and quantified emerging technology. This year’s project developed an innovative green architectural design for the Alliance Center at 1536 Wynkoop Street and the surrounding LoDo/Union Station neighborhood. This high profile project focused on cutting edge Zero Net Energy strategies for a 130,000 sq. ft. 8 story mid-rise building in historic LoDo. All projects featured 100% passive heating, cool-

ing and lighting designs integrated with renewable energy strategies. The project will be built utilizing many of the concepts developed in the studio to achieve a LEED Platinum rating, only the 2nd in the Western Region, approaching the 2030 Challenge of Zero Net Energy. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIa Rachel Berney received her Ph.D. from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley in May 2008. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, where she is developing a new class on research methods for designers and urban planners. Christoph Kapeller has been invited as the juror and keynote speaker at the David Azrieli Prize for extraordinary final thesis project in the schools of architecture in Israel this November by the Israeli Association of United Architects. John Enright and Karen M. Kensek have been appointed to tenure-track faculty positions. Associate Professor Amy Murphy has accepted a new position of Vice Dean for the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture working with Dean Qingyun Ma specifically on issues related to faculty development and a faculty’s academic success at a large research university.

Karen M. Kensek led the second Building Information Modeling + Sustainable Design Conference in July. New faculty this semester include Victoria Behner, Mary Chou, Mark Cigolle, Frank Clementi, Paul Comstock, Anthony Guida, Eric Haas, Ana Henton, Heather Hoeksema, Albert Huang, Shruti Kasarekar, Jeffrey Kim, Mark McVay, Linda Taalman, and Rennie Tang.

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New faculty member Ana Henton and partner Gregory Williams, AIA, of MASS Architecture and Design are the designers of the Intelligentsia coffee house in Venice, CA. Intelligentsia is know for it’s architectural design and high quality coffee. The USC School of Architecture has introduced an entirely transformed Master of Landscape Architecture program including both postprofessional and first-professional degrees, a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture Studies, and a dual degree MLA/MLP program with the School of Policy, Planning and Development. The program has received LAAB candidacy status towards accreditation. Robert S. Harris, FAIA, DP-ACSA, continues as Director for 2008-09. A search has been initiated for a new director to be appointed fall 2009. Information about this leadership position can be found at http://arch.usc.edu.

southWEST Assistant Professor Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture guest edited a theme issue of The Journal of Architecture (13:4, 2008) entitled “The Primitive in Modern Architecture and Urbanism”. Along with his introduction, Sabatino contributed an essay entitled “Arthur Erickson and essential tectonics.” In June, Sabatino presented a paper at the EAAE/ARCC Conference held in Copenhagen entitled

“Archives and Architectural History: Authenticity and Deceit in the Digital Age.” Geoffrey Brune, Associate Professor won a Texas Society of Architects Design Awards for the Burdette Keeland Design Exploration Center (at the University of Houston) and William Truitt, Assistant Professor, won a Texas Society of Architects Studio Awards for his Near Northside Inside Out Planning Study (for Houston). The two projects were among the 19 awarded projects selected by the jury from 354 entries.

university of texas at arlington A design by University of Texas at Arlington Architecture Professor Richard Ferrier has been chosen as a Texas Society of Architects Design Award winner. Professor Ferrier’s “University Research (Conceptual Watercolour Drawings)” was one of nineteen designs selected for the award, from a (SOUTHWEST continued on page 24)

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pool of 354 entries. 267 of these entries represented built projects, while the other eighty-seven were conceptual in nature. A diverse collection of designs were recognized by the awards, ranging from a tranquil lakeside residence to a concrete studio and two courthouses. The award winners were selected on June 27 by TSA’s 2008 Design Awards jury met in Austin, Texas. The jury consisted of Steven Ehrlich, FAIA; Billie Tsien, AIA; and arts writer Judith Dupré. The 2008 TSA Design Award-winning designs will be featured in the September/October issue of Texas Architect. The Awards will be presented during the TSA convention in Fort Worth, October 23-25. University of Texas at Arlington Architecture Professor Edward Baum, FAIA, has received a 2008 residential architect Design Award. His project, “Prototype Infill Housing: Throckmorton Site, Dallas”, received a Merit Award in the Multifamily category. The ninth annual RADA received more than 1,300 entries, from which just thirty-six were

chosen for recognition. Full coverage of the winning projects appeared in the May 2008 print and online issues of residential architect. In addition, Edward Baum, FAIA, has been selected as a 2008 Honor Award recipient by the Texas Society of Architects. The awards recognize significant contributions to the architectural profession and the quality of the built environment and will be presented during the 69th Annual TSA Convention, October 23-25 in Fort Worth, Texas. The Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions in Honor of Edward J. Romieniec, FAIA, will be presented to Professor Baum for his vibrant career as a great designer and educator. German publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. recently released Economic Value of Urban Design, by Taner R. Ozdil, Ph.D., ASLA. Dr. Ozdil is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture’s Landscape Architecture program.

Economic Value of Urban Design explores the complex relationship between urban design and economic activity, focusing on the Texas Main Street Program districts in an effort to determine if urban design generates economic

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value. The book details the type of changes in the built environment and assesses the implications of design on local economic activity in the framework of Main Street Program which assists cities revitalize their historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts by utilizing design, preservation and economic development strategies.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Professor Vincent L. Michael, PhD recently presented a keynote address at Heritage Conservation: an Indo-American Perspective in Ahmedabad, India with noted Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi. Vince continues to work on the Weishan Heritage Valley project in Yunnan, China with Columbia UniversityÕs Center for US-China Arts Exchange, Openlands Project, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Farr Associates. Vince is also featured in the current Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibit ÒDo We Dare Squander ChicagoÕs Great Architectural

Heritage.Ó In addition to being Chair of the Gaylord Building Site Council and Secretary of Landmarks Illinois, Vince is the only preservation educator on the Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He recently completed a book examining the role of community planning in the preservation of historic districts in the late 20th century and is working with the AIA Historic Resources Committee on their Education Initiative.

signed a prototype for a mobile architecture with an interactive and modular structure and skin. The first mock-up is under construction.

Assistant Professor Carl-Ray Miller returns from a year’s sabbatical. He has developed a number of unique products that will be going into production soon, and in addition, has de-

Associate Professor Ben Nicholson moderated in the UK and contributed to discussions locally. Recent writing and design projects include The Hidden Geometric Pavement in Michelangelo’s

Professor Anders Nereim, current program coordinator for the newly established graduate degrees, is researching how to embed increased intelligence into architectural systems and is in the process of testing a first prototype under various conditions.

Associate Professor Helen-Maria Nugent as co-owner of Haelo Design has won acclaim for universally accessible product design. During May she presented a visual tour of the highlights from the 2008 Milan Furniture Fair in Evanston as guest of Design Within Reach Assistant Professor Douglas Pancoast is a study leader for the Summer 2008 Japan trip. His interest in intelligent systems in very diverse contexts explores from robotic agricultural agents to the cosmic mapping and visualization work on the SkyZome. Associate Professor Hennie Reynder’s, current Department Head of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects, academic research focuses on uneven development in the urban field and is supported by a PhD fellowship at the University of Edinburgh as part of the research cluster on Design for the 21st Century. He served as board member on the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers who has recently joined forces with ICSID and ICOGRADA under the banner of the International Design Alliance (IDA) headquartered in Montreal. His academic work extends to South Africa where he teaches a graduate design course as extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria during July and August and remains professionally involved in a number of architectural and community orientated urban projects, as co-owner of Studio Alabaster Blue. Assistant Professor Bruce Tharp is currently writing a book, Discursive Design that deals with the substantive ideas that can be conveyed through designed objects. In addition, his anthropological work on material culture and consumption is being published in a book entitled Ascetical Value: Consumption and the Materiality of Spirituality among the Old Order Amish. On a professional level several products from his studio have been selected for mass production in 2008. We welcome Associate Professor Keelan Kaiser as full-time faculty member. Keelan will act as visiting professor for the 2008/09 academic year and is currently still tenured at Judson

University. He is principal in Kaiser Architects and received his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Nebraska. His primary practice and teaching revolve around the design studio, professional practice, and with a keen interest and knowledge of the natural systems and flows that intersect with the built environment. A second full-time architecture faculty member will also join our team in the fall and is currently concluding his contractual negotiations. Jim Termeer has been appointed as visiting designer in the AIADO Designed Objects program for 2008 and is making a very valuable contribution that we hope will translate into a long term involvement. New design historians will soon join Assistant Professor Kai Mai and contribute towards the integration of design history and theory as it become embedded in our curricular structure. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture welcomes our new faculty members this fall 2008: Gaines Hall, Professor in Practice; Paul Kapp, Associate Professor in Preservation; Kevin Erickson, Assistant Professor in Design; Stewart Hicks, Assistant Professor in Design; Roger Hubeli, Assistant Professor in Design; Julie Larsen, Assistant Professor in Design; and Mark Taylor, Assistant Professor in Building Technology. The UIUC School of Architecture will host the 2008 ACSA West Central Fall Conference from October 23-26, 2008. The conference will focus on four components including Art, Design, Fabrication, and Pedagogy. The conference cochairs are Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, and Allison Warren. Visit https://www. acsa-arch.org/conferences/08WCFallConf.aspx for more information. The School of Architecture announces the fall 2008 Lecture Series: Nader Tehrani (Sept. 29); Kengo Kuma (Oct. 9); Ned Cramer (Oct. 13); ACSA Regional Conference Keynote Speakers, Ken Kaplan/Ted Krueger (Oct. 24) and William Massie (Oct. 25); and Joseph Rosa (Nov. 10). Assistant Professor Lynne M. Dearborn was recently honored with New Researcher Award by the Architectural Research Centers Consor-

tium for her work titled, “Financing, Foreclosure and the Residential Environment: Identifying and Remediating Housing Deficits for Low-income Homeowners.” 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. This is a self-published book. He also served on the 2008 Schiff Awards Jury for the Art Institute of Chicago, which was organized by Joe Rosa. The jury also included Philip Berger, Tom Jacobs, and Florencia Pita who awarded $25,000 for a student design project.

David M. Chasco, Professor and Director of the School of Architecture, was a Design Award juror for the ACSA / U.S. Department of Homeland Security International Student Design Competition, “New visions of Security: Re-Life of a Dallas Fort Worth Airport Terminal.” Professor Chasco has also been invited to serve on the AIA Illinois State Board in the coming year. Assistant Professor Panayiota Pyla received the JAE Best Scholarship of Design Article Award for her article which looked at the period of collaboration between Hassan Fathy and Doxiadis. Allison Warren, Lecturer, presented a paper entitled “Digital Photography: The New Alternative to Drawing in Basic Architectural Design Development” at the ARCC International Conference on New Paradigms in Architectural Research in Copenhagen, Denmark in June. Warren has also been commissioned by Stone Quarry Hill Park in upstate New York to create an environmental, text-based installation entitled “Un-Silent Spring”, which examines the multi-faceted relationships between ecology and nature. The project will be on view May – November 2008. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 26)

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Laurentian Library, a book that muses over the nature of number, geometry and the structure of knowledge, and The World Who Wants It?

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Congratulations to graduate students Omar Munante, Martha Maria Henkle, Nick Jaworsky, and Hector Hernandez for their Honorable Mention in the 2007-08 AIAS/AARP House of Freedom Competition. The jury took place on April 29, 2008, at the AARP Building in Washington, DC. Associate Professor Mohamed Boubekri has been selected as a Fulbright research scholar to conduct an environmental and economic study of several green buildings in the United Arab Emirates in spring 2009. Prof. Boubekri also has a new book being released by the Architectural Press on September 22, 2008, titled Daylighting, Architecture and Health: Building Design Strategies. This is the first book to examine the specific impact on human health of levels of natural light in buildings, bringing together a range of findings in the field into one accessible publication. Washington University in st. louis

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New York architect Nikole Renee Bouchard has won Washington University’s 2008 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition.

The biennial competition — sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design — is open to young architects from around the world and carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States. Acclaimed architect Kathryn Dean, founding partner of Dean/Wolf Architects in New York City, has been appointed director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She previously served on the faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. Dean’s appointment — which is effective this fall — was announced today by Bruce Lindsey, the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and dean of architecture in the Sam Fox School. The appointment follows from the work of an advisory committee chaired by Stephen P. Leet, associate professor of architecture.

east central Lawrence Technological University Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., chaired a session on “The Baby Boom Suburban Landscape Beyond the Home,” at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, and published an article entitled, “The Heart of the University: A History of the Library as an Architectural Symbol of American Higher Education,” in the Summer/Autumn volume of Winterthur Portfolio. An interactive installation entitled “Message Board,” created by Associate Professor Rochelle Martin and College of Architecture and Design graduate students Val Mancini and Jay McGuire, was selected for the show “Cryptic Providence” in Providence, Rhode Island. Three senior students from the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University have placed third in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 2008 Student Design Competition. Eric Gale, Zachary Rusu, Jason Netzel designed a sustainable community recreational center for this international competition. The three students were mentored by Associate Professor Dan Faoro in the class “Sustainability Studio” and by Assistant Professor Janice K Means, in the class “Passive Solar Design Strategies” and are student members of the Lawrence Technological University Student Chapter of ASHRAE. This is the fifth consecutive year for which students in this college have placed in this competition, having taken three first places, one second place and now one third place. Assistant Professor Janice K. Means, PE, contributed to the revision of a chapter on “Solar Energy Equipment” of the ASHRAE 2008 HVAC Systems and Equipment Handbook. This publication is one of the four handbook volumes which are revised every four years by technical committees of the ASHRAE. The Handbooks are considered the foremost reference for the field of heating, refrigerating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration.

Architecture as instrument for enlightenment. A large multifunction hall on the building’s southern side could accommodate markets, lectures, exhibitions and film screenings. Image courtesy of Nikole Renee Bouchard. Washington U. in St. Louis.

University of Cincinnati The College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning (DAAP) has appointed Robert Probst to be Dean of the College. Nicholas Sillies, 4th year BSArch student received the Cooperative Education Student Achievement Award. The award was presented by the Cooperative Education and Internships Association at the Gala Awards Banquet during the 2008 National Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC. His Professional Practice faculty advisor is Professor Vasso Apostolides. Assistant Professor Terry Boling was faculty advisor for students Sean Cottengim, Shadi Saleh, and Marco Downs who received second place in the ACSA Student Design Concrete Competition in the building element category. Their submission was based on work from a prior studio led by guest critics from the University of Michigan, Craig Borum and Karl Daubman of PLY architecture.

Professor Jay Chatterjee was recently recognized with the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center 2008 Visionary Award for his impact on the history-making architecture at the University of Cincinnati and in the Greater Cincinnati community. Professor Dennis Mann is retiring from the school in June 2009 after a 42-year career at University of Cincinnati. Visiting Associate Professor, Dr. Adrian Parr, has published a new book through the Edinburgh Press titled: Delueze and Memorial Culture. She has another volume, forthcoming from MIT Press, titled Hijacking Sustainability. Elizabeth Riorden has been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Associate Professor Virginia Russell is meeting with the Mayor Mark Mallory of Cincinnati to disseminate research from her Green Roofs Seminar.

The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (John Hopkins University Press), co-authored by Associate Professor Patrick Snadon and Michael Fazio, won the Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. The annual award for “the most distinguished book on design/architectural history by a North American scholar” will be announced and presented at the SAH Annual Conference in April.

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Assistant Professor Karl Wallick received the 2008 DAAP Outstanding Teaching Award. Assistant Professor Rebecca Williamson was awarded the Pogue Wheeler Award to assist in preparing a publication about the Swiss practice of Durisch and Nolli. In June, she led an interdisciplinary group of 17 Honors students on a one week visit to Paris that was the culmination of a course entitled Paris: Reading the City. Currently Professor Williamson is teaching a course on the History of the Italian City in Turin, Italy, in a program administered by the University Studies Abroad Consortium in partnership with the University of Turin.

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The conference, held at the Greenbrier Resort, June 19-20, was designed to investigate the role of research in architecture and discuss the research being conducted at Virginia’s three accredited architecture programs. Williams was the only student included on a program that was packed with deans and prominent AIA officers. She presented a thesis project that recently garnered Hampton University’s “Best Thesis” award in architecture, titled Cultural DNA: The Revival of Historical Districts After Disasters. She (SOUTHEAST continued on page 28)

Shannon Chance and Chela Williams pose with state AIA president Brian Frickie, who organized the conference and has worked to promote architectural research. Hampton University.

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Hampton University’s Chela Williams (student researcher) and Shannon Chance, AIA (faculty advisor) recently attended the 2008 AIA Practice-Academy Summit organized by the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) to present Williams’ thesis research.

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also served on a panel about research in education moderated by the incoming national AIA president, Marvin Malecha. Williams received a Master of Architecture degree, with Honors, from Hampton University in May 2008. “Chela developed a remarkable idea using well-established research methods,” explained associate professor Shannon Chance. “Her presentation was a resounding success, and we’re both hoping that one day Chela will be able to apply her Cultural DNA methodology to architectural and urban design in other places.” North Carolina State University NCSU welcomes new Visiting Assistant Professor Patrick Rhodes who is our Teaching Fellow as well as a new Associate Professor of Architecture, Patricia Morgado. Rhodes served as Sojourner Truth Visiting Professor during Spring 2008 at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He received his master of architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture and his bachelor of design from the University of Florida. The Teaching Fellow position is for one year. Rhodes will teach an architectural design environmental studio and a biomimicry and

Left to right: Chancellor James L. Oblinger, Roger Clark, Provost Larry Nielsen. North Carolina State University.

architecture 500-level class this fall. Morgado comes to NC State from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the Universidad de Sevilla - Spain and is an expert in Latin American architecture. Morgado will teach architectural drawing this fall. Professor of Architecture Roger Clark was selected by the college and university to re-

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PLAGIARISM PRODUCES PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIP by helen powell, architecture & planning librarian, dalhousie university

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Define and articulate the need for information Effectively access information Evaluate and incorporate information Use information effectively to support an argument Use information ethically and legally, and document sources appropriately

My colleague wanted to know “What’s in this for faculty?” I replied that instruction in information research is integrated with the curriculum, but taught by librarians—freeing faculty from preparation and lecturing. Faculty, I added, could expect assignments that were better researched, organized, and documented. He accepted my offer and the collaboration began. We first identified classes which would accomodate information literacy workshops, choosing five cumpulsory courses with heavy information components. We then established major themes, based on the ACRL competency model, to produce a progressive series of sessions while eliminating duplication of content. Finally, we consulted with the class instructors to discuss assignments and information requirements, and to determine the workshop schedule. Once this was accomplished, we implemented the program for Industrial Engineering.

I then turned my attention to the School of Architecture. Again I chose required classes, mostly from the humanities stream of the program, and all with significant information research components. I assigned topics to the workshops and arranged them incrementally so that each session would build on the one previous. The resulting schedule looked like this:

Gervits, Susan Lewis, Alan Michelson, Barbara Opar, and Jennifer Parker have created a detailed document: Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines. This compilation presents three levels of competencies (basic, intermediate, and advanced) for students in ten fields of study (design, architecture, architecture history, landscape architec-

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and Build on the foundation from first session; determine what kind of information is needed; how to effectively access information; research strategies for resources pertinent, and sometimes unique, to architecture

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and Consolidate the skills learned to date; advanced search strategies; evaluation of information; how to incorporate information into student research documents.

Fall 2009

History and Theory of Cities

Scholarly research process, role of invisible colleges, peer review; the deep web; organizing work for a major paper: note taking strategies, writing, drafting

The workshop series I have described is based on a generic model, grounded in the ACRL information literacy competencies, and may be customized for any discipline or program using the same incremental structure. Customization should be based on close collaboration with participating faculty to determine the information issues most relevent to the specific courses and assignments. Another incremental approach to promoting information literacy in architecture schools comes from Jeanne Brown, Head of the Architecture Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She and colleagues Jane Carlin, Thomas Caswell, Edith Crowe, Maya

ture, art history, studio arts, planning, fashion, interior design, and museum studies.). The Arts Libraries Society of North America makes it freely available at:http://www.arlisna.org/ resources/onlinepubs/informationcomp.pdf I recommend this helpful resource for faculty members who wish to learn more about information competencies. Then, it is just a matter of starting a discussion with your subject specialist or instruction librarian. Working together, we can produce literate graduate architects who can function effectively and responsibly in our complex information environment.

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Once, while I was teaching a technical communications course at Dalhousie University, the Industrial Engineering department head commented to me that his fourth-year students were plagiarizing in their research reports. He asked if I, as the Architecture and Planning Librarian, would come to his class and lead a session on the ethical use of information. I immediately accepted, and inquired if he might be interested in collaborating on a series of workshops to integrate information literacy competencies with the Industrial Engineering curriculum. I described in broad terms the concepts that encompass the information literacy competency standards for higher education, as compiled by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL):

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

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events of note Conferences / Lectures 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

5 Critical Converation Proposals Due 97th ACSA Annual Meeting

5-8 ACSA Administrators Conference and Preconference Workshops in Savannah, Georgia

19 Submission Deadline 97th Annual Meeting Call for Posters

DECember 3 Final Accepted Papers Due 97th ACSA Annual Meeting

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Call for Abstracts - ARCC 2009: LEADERSHIP IN ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH: BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND THE PROFESSION The 2009 spring research conference of the Architectural Research Centers’ Consortium (ARCC) will be hosted by the College of Architecture, the University of Texas at San Antonio from 15-18 of April, 2009. This year’s conference theme invites an exploration of existing and future trends in leadership in architectural research, the impact of these trends on research subjects and methodologies, and how this leadership can foster an integrated design research culture. In this context, the conference will explore a variety of topics in which architectural research is used to enhance design quality, expand the knowledge base, and systematically analyze and address central design challenges, while at the same time responding to regional and local influences. The conference invites papers by architectural researchers in both academia and the profession, which address issues architectural research leadership and the fostering of an integrated research culture. Abstracts submission deadline: October 17, 2008 http://www.utsa.edu/architecture/arcc2009

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

Competitions / Awards 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

2008 ARCC NEW RESEARCHER AWARD The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) New Researcher Award celebrates the activities, accomplishments and promise of scholars in the early stages of their research careers. One nomination per year is invited from each ARCC member institution. Nominations Due: October 31, 2008 Criteria and Info: www.arccweb.org

2008 ARCC Incentive Fund Award The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) announces the next round of funding for the ARCC Incentive Fund. ARCC makes up to two awards annually in support of research dissemination. All ARCC member institutions are encouraged to apply. Awards are as follows: first place $2,400.00 and second place $1,200.00. Proposals Due: October 31, 2008 www.arccweb.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 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 aca-

demic, 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

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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

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