ACSA News December 2008 by Pascale Vonier

december 2008 volume 38 number 4

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

Collaterals Discuss Changes to NAAB Conditions at Accreditation Review Conference Read ACSA’s response to NAAB on page 3

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Accreditation Review Conference

NAAB Board of Directors Call

ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team Roster Call

Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

2009 Walter Wagner Forum Call

2008-09 Student Design Competitions

2009 ACSA Summer Conference 2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

98th ACSA Annual Meeting—New Orleans

REGIONAL NEWS

OPPORTUNITIES

ACSA Calendar

64 Architectural Education Series

2007-08 ACSA/AISC Category I—Assembling Housing Honorable Mention Project: Monrovia Rehab by Kyle Miller & Marcin Szef of University of California

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Developing Creative Programs Emerges Among Shared Interests For two days in October, representatives from the five collateral organizations in architecture found large areas of agreement on trends affecting the architecture profession and higher education. Nearly 50 invited participants traveled to Tucson for the National Architecture Accrediting Board’s (NAAB) Accreditation Review Conference to develop shared perspectives and identify points of disagreement over changes to NAAB’s Conditions for Accreditation.

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

Participants largely galvanized over a shared commitment to “standards without standardization,” a phrase drawn from the ground-breaking 1996 book Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice. This commitment translated into several common themes that emerged around maintaining a strong outcomes focus to the accreditation process giving programs both the flexibility and the obligation to demonstrate how they are meeting NAAB Conditions and Student Performance Criteria.

ACSA Mission Statement To advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty, and students. This support involves:

ACSA, as well as AIA, NCARB, and AIAS, each sent six representatives to participate in the ARC. A key difference between this ARC and previous ones devoted to updating NAAB Conditions, is that NAAB has presented the ARC as a design process rather than a single event, a change evidenced in almost two years of work by all collaterals in providing input to the conference.

• 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

“We wanted to make the point that all ACSA programs seek to exceed NAAB’s minimum standards through curricula that respond to the needs of practice,” said Marleen Kay Davis, ACSA President. “By the end of the meeting we felt that educators, students, and practitioners alike supported NAAB in evolving the Conditions in a way that keeps minimum standards high but allows programs to develop according to their own missions.”

This work has led to several opportunities for exchanging ideas among collaterals. All agree that in the past 5 years, since the NAAB Conditions were last updated, the architecture profession has faced significant changes in areas such as sustainability and integrated project delivery. More recently, collaterals have turned their focus to diversifying the profession through inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities. Addressing these changing needs has been in the minds of collaterals, according to President Davis, but as discussions have progressed, most participants agree that changes to the Conditions should allow architecture education programs the flexibility to respond to the changes we’ve already witnessed, and those that will happen in the next 5 years and beyond. Such discussions have led to several areas of disagreement among collaterals, such as the extent to which skills needed by licensed architects should be taught in school, rather than developed in internship, as well as requirements for faculty credentials and enrollment in the Intern Development Program. At its November 10-11 meeting, the ACSA Board of Directors developed a letter of response to the NAAB board (shown at right). The letter continues to engage NAAB in both the areas of agreement and disagreement. ACSA representatives appointed by the ACSA board: President Davis; Kim Tanzer, 07-08 president; Ted Landsmark, 06-08 president; Thomas Fisher, VP/president-elect; Keelan

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Bruce Blackmer, FAIA, President National Architectural Accrediting Board, Inc.

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acsa response to accreditation review conference

Dear Bruce and Members of the NAAB Board of Directors: The ACSA has appreciated our ability to participate in the “design process” for the creation of revised Conditions for Accreditation. The six ACSA representatives who attended the Accreditation Review Conference discussed the many issues with the entire ACSA Board of Directors, and we would like to give you our unanimous recommendations for the next steps in this process.

Regarding the overall approach: We appreciated the commitment for “standards without standardization” that we sensed from participants at the ARC meeting. Avoiding overprescription will give schools the flexibility to create programs that respond to contemporary practice issues in innovative ways. The proposed two-part format in the APR is understandable, although we recommend that “Institutional Support” should be Part One; otherwise, the SPC are addressed apart from any institutional context. There is also some concern about how the “perspectives” are embedded in the report, and we encourage you to capture the spirit of the perspectives, without allowing them to seem overly related to each of the collateral organizations. Regarding faculty development and credentials: During the ACSA Administrators Conference, over 60 deans and administrators of NAAB-accredited programs expressed strong opposition to quotas for faculty licensure and credentials, and the ACSA board concurs. Instead, the ACSA has concluded that accreditation standards should require appropriately qualified faculty for the courses in which they are teaching. In addition, the ACSA believes that a strong focus on faculty development, not credentials, would have maximum direct impact on improving programs. ACSA does not support mandatory faculty credentials related to licensure because no evidence demonstrates this would improve student outcomes. Such quotas will inevitably constrain goals to increase the interdisciplinary experiences of the students, related to the increasing interdisciplinary nature of integrated practice. Furthermore, most universities have stringent faculty requirements related to qualification and education. Regarding IDP: The ACSA strongly supports the language presented during the ARC in the “Fusion II” draft. Any type of mandatory IDP, even if free, would be a hardship for many schools and students. Regarding the “clustering” of SPC: After much discussion in Tucson and with the ACSA board, we conclude that the Student Performance Criteria remain most effective as a simple list, rather than be grouped in a fixed “cluster” approach. Because the clustering exercise at the ARC produced such diverse results, we have concluded that individual schools preparing their APR, rather than NAAB, are best suited to “cluster” the SPC, should they choose. We believe it best that schools have the opportunity to outline their curricular goals, philosophies, and structure, and therefore, any clustering of SPCs should be optional rather than mandatory. Regarding the SPC in general: We strongly advocate that the wording in SPC should include expressions like “such as” rather than “including” when referring to numerous elements within a criterion. This will prevent prescription, will give guidance to schools and teams, and will allow teams to make a holistic judgment for each SPC. This will also minimize inconsistencies in team judgments.

Regarding an Education Analysis: We strongly support developing an Education Analysis, along the lines of NCARB’s Practice Analysis, with participation by the collaterals. However, we believe that delaying changes to the Conditions for Accreditation until the completion of such a study would not be in the best interest (NAAB LETTER continued on page 4)

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We do not endorse adding measures of outcomes to the SPC, but rather encourage the continued format of a narrative description for each.

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of any of the collaterals or the schools. As we move forward, we advocate a process that begins in 2010, with ACSA leading the development of this important cross-collateral effort. Ideally, a nonbinding Education Analysis (as outlined in the Conceptual Plan of October 2008) will better inform the next cycles of accreditation and internship requirements. Regarding specific SPCs: We encourage NAAB to further reduce and refine the SPCs, in the spirit of the discussions in Tucson. We specifically oppose the subdivision of Graphic Skills into three separate SPCs and the creation of separate SPC in Building Design, Urban Design and Interior Design. The entire Accreditation Review Process has been an intense evaluation of architectural education, with broad participation. We appreciate the many cycles for input and comment throughout the process. As was noted at the conclusion of the Tucson conference, the broad input into this cycle of accreditation review creates an important moment in the long history of architectural education. With best wishes in your tasks ahead,

IDP Changes ahead ncarb holds hearing on integrated project delivery

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) made several adjustments to the Intern Development Program at its annual conference in June. More recently, on October 31, 2008, NCARB gathered experts for a one-day hearing to comment on the specific influences and considerations of the IPD process and the BIM technology. NCARB envisions IDP as a “responsible control” by professionals over the ever changing methods of project design and delivery, with the advent of computerized design. According to NCARB President, Gordon E. Mills, FAIA, “NCARB is taking a leadership role to ensure that the public is protected by any impact IPD and BIM may have on the profession.” NCARB believes that the advent of computerized design has significantly changed the practice by changing the way projects are envisioned, designed, constructed, and delivered. Invited speakers addressed how architects and other design professionals can maintain what NCARB calls “responsible control” as required by the Model Law as these new technologies become more prevalent. The task force will use the information gained from the hearing to determine if changes are needed to the current Model Law.

Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA President

call for nominations

ACSA REPRESENTATIVE ON NAAB BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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deadline: march 10, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.) ACSA Nominee Selection Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively, are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteristics exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service. Description of Team and Visit Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs, and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.

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

For additional information visit www.acsa-arch.org

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Nominee Qualifications • The candidate should demonstrate: • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience; • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work; • Administrative experience; and • An association with several different schools.

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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 Louisiana State University

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

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

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

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Common Ground | Vernaculars in the Age of Digital Reproduction Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions Theme editors: Michelangelo Sabatino, Assistant Professor, University of Houston (msabatino@uh.edu) Bruce C. Webb, Professor, University of Houston (bwebb@uh.edu)

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Since the 18th century the vernacular has served to dialectically challenge mainstream architectural establishments. Based in the linguistic distinction between Latin and locally spoken languages of the "people," vernacular was transferred from discourse on linguistics and culture to architecture as a way to recognize the empirical genius and vitality of indigenous architecture as distinguished from classical architecture and rules that regulated it. Throughout the 20th century, rural building traditions inspired anti-academic, anti-historicist architecture from Adolf Loos to José Luis Sert and Marcel Breuer. In parallel, interest in the industrial vernacular as a product of anonymous and rational engineering was advanced by socially-minded architects and urbanists such as Walter Gropius and Ernst May. These and others advocated an unselfconscious way of building based on efficiency and optimal performance in opposition to bourgeoisie aesthetics. During the 1960s and 70s American architects such as Robert Venturi Denise Scott Brown and Charles W. Moore deployed the exuberant commercial

vernacular of American roadways as a foil to a modernism that had become mired in sterile uniformity. Viewed in terms of the oppositional role they have historically played in culturalpolitical contestation, what role is there for vernaculars in contemporary practice with its emphasis on digital design generation and production? Do methods and processes drawn from "outsider" (i.e. non- professional) sources affect contemporary design or rather have they been co-opted and neutralized in a digitally manifolded formula of pattern languages? What evidence and examples are present that a vital contemporary vernacular continues to flourish as a source of nonconventional, non-doctrinaire ideas and attitudes? Do vernaculars continue to challenge and influence contemporary architectural ideas, practice, and education? This issue of the JAE invites text-based (scholarship of design) and design-based (design as scholarship) submissions that explore the impact of vernaculars in modern

and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The submission deadline for all manuscripts for this theme issue is Monday, March 16, 5pm, US Eastern Time Zone. Accepted articles will be published in the first bi-annual issue of the JAE, 63:1 (October 01, 2009).

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call for submissions

Call for Abstracts: 2009 Walter Wagner Forum ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN A COMPLEX WORLD: HOW DIVERSITY IS PREPARING OUR FUTURE PRACTITIONERS

Abstract Submissions Due: December 12, 2008 Full abstract submission details are online at www.acsa-arch.org How are architecture schools addressing the diverse world today’s and tomorrow’s students will be practicing in? How are they developing designers, practitioners, and facilitators able to address the changes occurring in our ever “flattening” world? In accordance with the convention theme “The Power of Diversity: Practice in a Complex World,” we invite teams that include educators and educator/ practitioners and students, to submit papers that demonstrate how their professional programs realize one or more of the convention subthemes: The Global Perspective and the Regional Context, New Models of Education, Knowledge and Research Based Design Practices, and The Role of Technology. Submission, Review Process, and Presentation Students, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for the Walter Wagner Forum. Three separate submission categories will be accepted but all submissions should include the student perspective: Abstracts from Students, Abstracts from Educators, & Abstracts from Practitioners. Abstract

submissions should focus on how diversity is preparing our future practitioners and on how architecture schools are addressing the diverse world today’s and tomorrow’s students will be practicing in. Abstracts should be no longer the 500 words and must be written in English. Only one submission per category, per author will be accepted. Only currents members of either AIA, ACSA, or AIAS may submit an abstract. Three abstracts will be chosen through a blind peer-reviewed process, and authors of accepted abstracts will be notified at mid January 2009. One abstract in each category (Student, Educator, and Practitioner) will be accepted. Selected abstract authors will have six weeks to develop their full paper and presentation, by March 15. Accepted authors and a student who can provide their perspective on the program will be invited to present the paper at the Walter Wagner Forum, a continuing education session at the AIA National Convention in San Francisco, CA. The paper authors will receive complimentary registration to the AIA National Convention and a $500.00 stipend (one registration and one stipend per paper). Timeline Sept –Dec 2008 October 12, 2008 December 12, 2008 January 2009 April 30 – May 2, 2009

Call for Abstracts Abstract submission site opens Abstract submission deadline Accept/reject email notifications with comments AIA National Convention, San Francisco

Visit www.acsa-arch.org for the full Call for Abstracts

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San Francisco | AIA National Convention | April 30 - May 2, 2009 Co-sponsors: The American Institute of Architects, Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), & American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)

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Defining, thinking and making with plastic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a material which is really thousands of materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is inherently difficult. PMMA, PIR, PUR, PE are sanctioned acronyms obscuring long chemical names of performance driven materials which are everywhere in the architectural project, at every scale, varied in hardness, softness, form and performance. From the ubiquitous polyethylene (PE) to the emerging ethylene-tetra-fluro-ethylene (ETFE) this seven chaptered website seeks to decode the relationship between architecture and plastic. Its resources, surrounded by technical fact, historical fact, and design concept, provide faculty and students of architecture a starting point for plastic deployment, interrogation and experimentation.

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9 8 th aCSA Annual Meeting

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 field of architectural practice, does the art and craft of building design remain central to our curricula? Sophisticated technologies now allow us to preview the appearance and predict the performance of proposed buildings. Our traditional conception of design is challenged as decision-making can be automated and building parts can be cut, routed or printed to exact tolerances. Yet the ecological, economic and cultural contingencies that surround each project are increasingly complex. Recent events have exposed the fragility of buildings as objects in the face of natural and man-made forces and the critical role of infrastructure has been made increasingly apparent.

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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 definitions 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. Eligibility

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

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Stage Two Deadline for Paper Proposals: September 16, 2009

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

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

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Side-by-side comparison of HDR photograph (left) and HDR computer simulation image (right) of the Indianapolis Colts indoor practice facility.

EaST CENTRAL ball state university During the last summer the Lighting Laboratory at Ball State University’s Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES, directed by professor Robert Koester) performed a collection of lighting studies for the National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts. The studies were directed towards improvement of the lighting conditions within the team’s indoor practice facility. Using physical measurement, computer simulation techniques and High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and imaging, a team consisting of CERES staff and BSU Architecture program graduate students investigated a variety of alternatives for both improving the electric lighting system and introducing daylight into the facility.

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Associate Professor Wes Janz lectured at the Universidad Catolica Santa Maria la Antigua USMA, in Panama. Janz was also invited to give his talk “Towards a Humane Architecture” at the Allegro Gallery, in downtown Panama City. Associate Professor George Elvin gave the keynote address at the opening of the Biomax biofuel plant in Bogotá, Colombia. His talk on “Sustainability in Action” was attended by over 500 South American executives, dignitaries and members of the media. A new book, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture,

co-edited by Kevin Klinger, Associate Professor and Director of Institute for Digital Fabrication and Dr. Branko Kolarevic of University of Calgary, has been published by Routledge (ISBN 978-0-415-77574-8).

Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials is the new book by Assistant Professor Meg Calkins, published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The book guides architects, engineers, contractors, and landscape architects in making the right choices to minimize their projects’ environmental and human health impacts –whether the right answer is a new, green material or a conventional, tried-and-true material used in green ways. This book provides detailed and current information on construction materials for sustainable sites, including: general environmental and human health impacts of the materials and products industry; tools, techniques, ideologies, and resources for evaluating, sourcing, and specifying sustainable site materials; as well as methods of specifying the nine basic types of conventional and emerging green site construction materials: concrete, earthen materials, brick masonry, asphalt pavement, aggregates and stone, wood, metals, plastics, and nonliving bio-based materials to minimize their impacts. (ISBN: 978-0-470-13455-9) lawrence technological University Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP was one of the keynote speakers at the

International Urban Design Workshop entitled “Marginal City Reciprocal City” held at Chungju University in Korea in spring 2008. He and his counterpart in Korea developed the workshop. Dr. Kim’s graduate students from the Detroit Studio Community Outreach Program participated in this week-long workshop and toured several cities in Korea. Detroit Studio is directed by Dr. Kim and each of his students from the Studio led a team of foreign students at the workshop to develop urban design proposals for selected sites in Korea. As one of the positive outcomes of the workshop, Detroit Studio’s partnering students in Korea are working on sites in Detroit this fall and their proposals for the Museum of HIP will be exhibited at the Club Technology Bldg located in Detroit’s Hope District in 2009. Lindhout Associates of Brighton, Michigan won a design competition sponsored by the City of Farmington Hills, Michigan to revitalize its city hall. Adjunct Instructor David Richardson, LEED, a partner at Lindhout Associates, will be the project manager. In addition to improved accessibility and work space quality the city has directed that the project be as green as possible. Along with high efficiency and sustainable design elements an additional goal is to provide clear and interactive examples to the community of how such steps save energy, help the environment, and make such a public facility healthier for everyone. The design team also includes LTU senior Kevin Bouchey and alumnus Frank Pierron. The construction management team will be led by LTU alum Jim Barnas of Contracting Resources.

New and Visiting Faculty to The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture for 2008-09 include Sarah Cowles, who is the 2008/09 Trott Visiting Professor. Sarah was a 2008 resident at the Center for Land Use Interpretation and a project designer at Tom Leader Studio. Sarah’s design practice engages ecology, social activism and modeling/fabrication technologies. Nick Gelpi is the 2008/09 LeFevre Fellow. Nick has worked with Steven Holl on the Hudson Rail Yards competition, and has also collaborated with Holl on the Riddled Furniture Series for the Italian furniture company Horm. Nick was the recipient of ARCHITECT Magazine’s first annual R&D award in 2007. Kathryn Gustafson is the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor. Founding principal of Gustafson Porter (London) and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), Kathryn is a leading voice in contemporary landscape architecture. Recently opened works include an installation at the Venice Biennale 2008 and the new courtyard at the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Dan Wood and Amale Andros, are 2008/09 Baumer Visiting Professsors. Principals of WORKac, Dan and Amale are this year’s winners of the PS 1 competition with the installation Public Farm 1. Other visiting Professors to the KSA include Greg Lynn, Principal of Greg Lynn FORM and Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; Aurel von Richthofen, Principal of KaRV Architecture and Design in New York; Lisa Hsieh and Jr-Gang Chi, Principals in the design firm ar-ch. Lisa is a 2003 recipient of the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League of New York, JrGang Chi is a lecturer in Tunghai University’s Department of Architecture. Additional visiting Professors for 2008/09 include Marc Manack, Director of SILO, AR+D in Cleveland; Marc has taught at Kent State University and was the recent recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Interior Design. Alan Smart is Visiting Professor and the KSA Shop Coordinator, and has worked for Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. Alex Tsamis, Visiting Professor is completing his PhD on the intersection of design and computation. He is the recent winner of the Arquitectum Competition: “London 2008”. Nina Peng Wang, Teaching Fellow, is completing her PhD at Tongi University, Shanghai, Nina’s research focuses on environmental plan-

ning and the development of green networks. Tony Caicco, Visiting Professor, is a recent graduate of University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on design and computing. Associate Professor Stephen Turk’s work is part of the exhibit, Re-Figurations: Projects by Stephen Turk (Bake’n Quake) and Michael Williams (Kneading Bodies), at the Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Autumn Quarter 08: Oct 13th - Dec 19th. Michael Williams is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University’s School of Architecture. Associate Professor Stephen Turk published “Bake ‘n Quake: Objects, Surfaces and Identity Distortion in Id Software’s Quake III Arena” in On Objects 12.4, Performance Research, December 2007. Performance Research is an interdisciplinary journal that promotes dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance. Assoc. Prof. Turk also published a chapter in the book: Swan Quake: the user’s manual edited by Scott de Lahunta. Turk’s essay, “Quake ‘n Space” positions the computer game in a evolving history of avant-garde artistic practices challenging modes of visual and spatial representation with references to such artists Duchamp and Francis Bacon, drawing on several philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century. Swan Quake: the user’s manual is an edited collection of essays accompanying the release of the award-winning international media arts and performance group IGLOO. Stephen Turk, Norah Zuniga Shaw and Maria Palazzi (Director of OSU’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design) are working with The Forsythe Company, MK2, Scott de Lahunta and the Forsythe Foundation on the creation of a new interactive DVD exploring the work of the world famous choreographer William Forsythe. Turk presented the lecture, “Space of Emergence” at Tanzplan Deutschland at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater Berlin in March, 2008 as part of the Biennale Tanzausbildung featuring a host of invited speakers discussing the relationship of contemporary dance to a broad range of disciplines. Assoc. Prof. Stephen Turk exhibited The Katahdin Chair at The Portland Museum of Art show,

“Getting Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture”. The project was designed in a partnership between the brothers John and Stephen Turk. John Turk has been a practicing Architect in Portland Maine for over two decades. The show featured furniture designed by Maine Architects and Designers sponsored by AIA Maine, Architalx & the Portland Society of Architects. Professor Michael Cadwell’s book Strange Details (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007) is now in its second printing and was shortlisted for the RIBA Sir Robert McAlpine International Book Award for Construction and the 2008 RIBA International Book Awards, Architectural Practice category.

UNIVERSITY OF michigan Professor Douglas Kelbaugh, who stepped down as dean of Taubman College at the end of August, has accepted the position of Executive Director of Building and Urban Design for Limitless, an international real estate development corporation headquartered in Dubai, UAE. The 500-person firm is developing sustainable towns and urban centers in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Its $100B portfolio of projects is in various stages of planning, design and development in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Senegal, Russia, Poland, Italy, and England. Many of them are notable for their mixed-use, walkable, environmental urbanism that often includes transit. The projects are planned and designed by leading international urban planners, architects, landscape architects, and engineers. The position, which includes the selection and oversight of the project design teams, will allow him to help plan and design communities around the world that combine many of the planning, urban design, and architecture principles and ideas that he has been writing, charretting, and lecturing about for two decades. He will also be building the design and planning staff at Limitless. He starts the job in mid-November and has been granted a two year leave by the University, after which he plans to return to the College faculty to continue teaching, research, service, and writing.

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weST CENTRAL University of Nebraska Klai Hall, the new downtown home of the NDSU Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was dedicated Oct. 3, 2008. The former Lincoln Mutual building in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, was remodeled to provide space for studios, shop space, offices, and the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library. The building is named for NDSU alumnus John R. Klai II. Associate Professor and Architecture Program Director Ganapathy Mahalingam, and Assistant Professor Mike Christenson were elected by the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) to serve two-year terms on the editorial board of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), beginning in January 2009. IJAC is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to research in computer-aided architectural design. As a new member of the board, Mahalingam is interested in reopening a discourse on the core of design computing. He will focus on a critical examination of the computability of all kinds of design processes in the design and construction of the built environment. Christenson says the journal must continue to be a forum for architectural educators and practitioners to ask fundamental questions like “What is architectural about computing?” even as such questioning expands into new areas.

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Assistant Professor David Crutchfield was recently nominated to Chair the second annual regional GreenEXPO to occur during Earth Week. The expo will highlight the Green and Sustainable efforts of various local community, civic, and commercial entities. Crutchfield also recently facilitated a lunchtime design charrette involving local citizens and architects, city officials, and NDSU students in the schematic development of a non-profit “International Marketplace” for Fargo. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway and Allison Warren were recognized by the UIUC

Research Board a total award of $23,830 for the support of a project entitled “beijing_archtecture”. The project is a traveling exhibit from Beijing to Chicago based on his “ready- made architecture” research in collaboration with Public Artist Allison M Warren. The Board agreed to make this award as Arnold O. Beckman Award. Dr. Arnold O. Beckman gave the University a major gift of an endowment for the Research Board, who then selects projects of special distinction, special promise, or special resource value to be named Arnold O. Beckman Awards. Hemingway, principal of hemingway+a/studio, is building an installation entitled “1_2_3” to coincide with the conference [ARCHITECTURE] in the age of [DIGITAL] reproduction that he and Warren are Co-chairing that will be on view at Temple Buell Hall untill 2009. University of minnesota Assistant Professor Ozayr Saloojee was awarded a McKnight Grant by the University of Minnesota’s McKnight Arts and Humanities endowment. The award will be used to develop an exhibition on Eliel Saarinen’s last built work, Christ Church Lutheran, in Minneapolis. The exhibition is being designed by the well known firm VJAA (Vincent James Associate Architects) and fabricated by Terry Chance of Site Assembly. The exhibit will feature the photography of noted photographer, Balthazar Korab, as well as the early photographs of George Miles Ryan and Pete Sieger, an architect at local firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle. The award will also assist in the co-funding of the retrospective of Eero Saarinen’s work, ‘Shaping the Future,’ currently on display at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (until January 2009). Professor Saloojee’s exhibit will open at the conclusion of a symposium focused on the work of Eero Saarinen. Entitled ‘Eero Saarinen: Beyond the Measly ABC,’ the symposium features a number of noted academic and practitioners, including Donald Albrecht, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Beatriz Colomina and Timo Tuomi among others. The School of Architecture’s participation in the symposium includes Dean Thomas Fisher who will be speaking on Eero Saarinen’s legacy in contemporary architec-

ture, Professor Nancy Miller on Saarinen’s corporate campuses, Professor Ozayr Saloojee on Eliel Saarinen and Christ Church Lutheran, and Professor John Comazzi in conversation with Balthazar Korab. For more information, please visit www.design.umn.edu, http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4653, and http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_ id=9&date=10%2F10%2F2008 As part of their third year M.Arch research studio last spring (a joint effort between the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), recently graduated architecture students Amanda Olson and Malea Jochim, along with Landscape Architecture colleague Laura KaminLyndgaad, were awarded an honor award in the collaboration category in the American Society of Landscape Architects 2008 Student Awards. Their project, ‘Remediation as Catalyst: Transforming an Industrial Landscape,’ was developed in a studio co-taught by Lance Neckar, ASLA (Landscape Architecture) and the School of Architecture’s Professor John Comazzi. The school of architecture is preparing for an accreditation visit set for the Spring of 2009. Nikos Bakirtzis joins the School of Architecture as a Cass Gilbert visiting professor for the year. Bakirtzis recently graduated with his Ph.D. in Art History and Archeology from Princeton. He brings a wealth of expertise on the Mediaeval Mediterranean and Byzantine studies. He has experience both in the classrooms of Columbia University and on site at various archeological surveys in Greece and Cyprus. Architecture undergraduate students Laura Schlifer and Daniel Carlson won the first 2008 Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship in celebration of the Berkeley Prize’s tenth anniversary. Schlifer and Carlson won for their project, entitled “Baby Boomers: A New Take on the Old.” They were also finalists for the essay competition. The pair were awarded $1,250 each plus $3,500 to host a School of Architecture competition based on their entry. The Berkeley Prize educates undergraduate architecture students through essay writing and a travel fellowship that “the smallest act of building has global im-

On September 30, Leslie Van Duzer’s (Architecture) exhibition, entitled “Adolf Loos: Works in the Czech Lands,” opened at the City of Prague Museum in Prague. The exhibition, co-curated with art historian Maria Szadkowska, presents research conducted while on a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2003. Their co-authored book on the topic is forthcoming.

Dean Wayne Drummond has announced the following distinguished professorships for the 2008 – 2010 term: Tim Hemsath has been awarded the Douglas Professorship in Healthcare Design; Tom Laging has been awarded the Killinger Professorship of Urban Design; Chris Ford and Peter Hind are individual recipients of Steward Professorships in Sustainable Design.

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Assistant Professor Chris Ford (www.chrisfordoffice.com) has been named a 2008 “Monster of Design” by the AIA Kansas City chapter. The Monster of Design competition is sponsored by its Young Architects Forum and placed in the “Architecture, Group Project” category. The project is TAIMEN, a single-family residence for Tokyo Japan, and was co-authored by Matt Goldsberry. The project is exhibited at both the Kansas City Design Center and as part of “The Design Flatfile” exhibit at the H&R Block Artspace.

John Comazzi (Architecture) participated in the design and planning of the Children in Nature event sponsored by the Chidren, Youth, and Family Consortium and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The conference takes place on Thursday, November 6, 2008, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Minneapolis Arboretum.

Interior Design faculty Professor Kathy Ankerson and Architecture faculty Professor William Borner are currently teaching an inter-disciplinary vertical design studio with 4th, 5th and 6th year students. The curricular focus of this studio is healthcare design, and is the beginning of a teaching / research initiative that is supported with both funding and expert personnel by the international firm HDR Architecture, headquartered in Omaha Nebraska. This off-campus studio is located in the City of Lincoln’s Haymarket district and shall be offered each semester for the next three calendar years. Associate Professor Jeff Day and his firm Min-Day (www.minday.com) have received two 2008 AIA Nebraska awards. The first is an Honor award for a completed residence in West Lake Okabodji, Iowa and the second is an Honor award in the Details category for a CNCmilled cabinet for the same residence. Mr. Day has also served as the 2008 jury chair of the AIA Wichita awards program.

Associate Professor Rumiko Handa (aith.unl. edu) presented a paper titled “Architectural Ruins and Literary Imagination” at the April 2008 “Architexture: Exploring Textual and Architecture Spaces” Conference, held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. In Oct 2008, Assistant Professor Peter Hind (www.studio951.net) served as co-chair of the largest AIA R/UDAT (Regional / Urban Design Assistance Team) project engaged to date. The area considered is a large portion of Staten Island, New York that includes the Fresh Kills

landfill. Locally, Mr. Hind is also actively working with NeighborWorks Lincoln and UNL students in the design and construction for a 1800sf switchgrass bale residence that incorporates renewable energy power supplies. For more information: www.archspace.info. Professor Sharon Kuska (www.ecostoresne. org) has authored a paper titled “Developing and Sustaining Creative Cities: A Sustainability Tool for Designers, Planners, and Public Administrators,” and has presented it at the Creative Cities 2008 Conference in Naples Italy in September 2008. This paper was co-authored with former Dean Cecil Steward.

A White House Redux competition submission by visiting professor Erhard Schuetz is one of 123 entries selected for hardcopy publication and is also on exhibit at the renovated Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. University Wisconsin-Milwaukee SARUP announces its GALA 40th anniversary year with events highlighting award-winning work by faculty and students. Students and faculty celebrated the completion of The Menomonee Valley Community Park Pavilion. The Pavilion aids the greenbelt development efforts of Menomonee Valley Partners by providing a secure location to store tools for landscaping. Additionally, it incorporates a covered outdoor area for educational talks, picnics and other park activities. The project was designed and built in the Marcus Prize studio led by Associate Prof. Kyle Talbott and Frank Barkow of Barkow Leibinger from Berlin, Germany. The Marcus Prize studio is a bi-annual studio funded by the Marcus Corporation Foundation. The award recognizes emerging talent in the field of architecture. Assistant Professor Arijit Sen has been named to a research residency for fall semester 2008 at the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Minnesota. This fellowship is part of the Quadrant Program funded by the Mellon Foundation to promote interdisciplinary publication and research. As part of the Quadrant’s “Design and Architecture” collaborative, Sen will be working on his manuscript “Mobile (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 24)

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Dean Tom Fisher was a featured speaker at a symposium entitled “ The City, The River, the Bridge,” which offered a retrospective on the collapse of the I-35W Bridge, the aftermath and its reconstruction. The symposium was sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study.

Martin Despang has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Mr. Despang’s firm, Despang Architekten (www.despangarchitekten.de) with offices in both Hannover and Munich Germany, has been awarded an “Engere Wahl” award by the Lower Saxony States awards program for its Post-Fossil Eco-Woodbox Kindergarten, also in Hannover. This project has already earned a 2007 Miami Bienal award in the category of a “Public building below 10,000 square feet.” The project is featured in two articles that Mr. Despang has published in the periodical Detail (Chinese version) titled “Generation (P)ost-Fossil,” in the 2008 | 04 issue and “Heat Modified Architecture,” in the 2008 | 06 issue. This project shall also be featured in the forthcoming titles New Prefab by Loft Publishing, and The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Phaidon Publishers.

plications: that design can and does play a major role in the social, cultural, and psychological life of both the individual and society at large.”

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Bodies, Transgressing Selves,” where he explores the role of the built environment in immigrant world making. Sen is also a recipient of the 2009 UWM Graduate School Research Award, which he will use to further his current research on immigrant cultural landscapes. A design for a new 700-student residence hall designed by faculty Jim Shields AIA has been chosen in a developer/architect competition run by the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation. Neighborhood public hearings were held during this controversial competition, and Shield’s design received the only warm reception from local environmental activists among several competing teams. The courtyard design, located on a bluff above the Milwaukee river valley, features numerous green features intended to protect the water and view shed below, including step back green roofs, rain gardens and rain water collection tanks for all irrigation. A local environmental center is being engaged to develop a river-based environmental stewardship program for student residents. Associate Professor Grace La’s practice, LA DALLMAN, is recently published in Praxis: the journal of building + writing as well as in the book, The Public Chance, published by Spain’s A+T. A case study of LA DALLMAN’s Marsupial Bridge is also featured in the Bruner Foundation’s award publication. LA DALLMAN’s Levy House was awarded the Gold Medal and House of the Year by Milwaukee Home Magazine. Their practice was the cover story recently featured in UWM TODAY. LA DALLMAN’s new project for The Joseph and Vera Zilber Building, the new home of the Hillel Student Center at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, has broken ground.

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The NOMAS Chapter at UWM elected its first round of officers, with Associate Dean Gil Snyder serving as faculty advisor. The newly formed group received a university grant to support planning and implementation of a twoday Symposium on architecture and urbanism for late Spring 2009. Undergraduate student Josh Bowens-Rubin won first place in the Leading Edge Student Design Competition.

Norwich students, Brian Kubeck, Missy Stark and Kate Beal install cold rolled steel plates onto maple fins to create architectural periodical shelving screens.

NORTHEAST Norwich University Assistant Professor Wendy Cox was awarded the Charles A. Dana Category I Grant. This grant is given to selected faculty demonstrating excellence in three areas: Teaching, Research and University Service. Norwich University School of Architecture and Art students, in an architectural design studio titled ‘gaming’, investigated the cultural implications of the increasing prevalence of gaming and its potential impact on future architects growing up playing video games. Assistant Professor Wendy Cox led the students’ investigations through a series of exercises designed to broaden their understanding of the potential spatial implications of gaming. The research began with a LAN party. From this, each student chose a game, in which to study, specifically, how the virtual designers articulated space. A freeze frame of each game was required and an analysis of that space was developed, including the patterning used, how textures were articulated, how the walls met the floors, ceiling, etc. The students then analyzed how this differs from the experience of non-virtual space. One significant observation was in how difficult the perception

of the ‘temperature’ of materials is to convey in virtual space. Only in the highly sophisticated games such as the World of Warcraft does one gain a sense for the visceral nature of a material. Another realization was that in a first-person shooter game, a gridded articulation of the floor helped to give visual clues orienting oneself within a virtual world. In a larger sense, the focus on experiencing space virtually, gave the students a greater appreciation and recognition of the phenomenological aspects of ‘real’ space. Other ideas concerned the dynamic aspects of video games. To translate these new ways of looking at space into architectural form, the students master planned and designed the new architectural periodical shelving area in Norwich University’s Kreitzberg Library. The dynamic idea of a video game and also visual sight lines were used as organizing ideas. The resulting design aligned a series of triangulated screens, creating view corridors highlighting important aspects in the library. The dynamism resulted in working with the changing display of the monthly periodicals. The fronts of the screens were designed on the flocking principle of a school of fish, or birds in flight, with the magazines being suspended vertically on minimal brackets. This emphasized the graphic design of the magazine

and his late wife, who made a lead gift of $10 million toward the construction of the building, which opened in 2005. In 2006, the Stuckeman Family Building was awarded a Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. It is one of the first buildings on any college campus to earn this certification, which distinguishes building projects that have demonstrated a commitment to sustainability by meeting the highest performance standards.

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covers and creating the appearance of the magazines floating in air. With the issues of the periodicals constantly changing, the overall ‘image’ of the shelving area also constantly changes. The backs of the screens, hold periodicals which are not monthly and do not circulate, and therefore the students designed a more static display presentation. A storage place for the back issues was accomplished through the design of a ‘floating’ wooden box in which multicolored plexiglass dividers, cut on a evolving curved pattern and fabricated through a CNC milling process, were inserted. The box symbolized the aspect of games where one can see how many lives one has left, the amount of ammunition, etc. The materials were chosen for their appeal to an industrial aesthetic in combination with those from the existing context of the library, accomplishing a fine line between being an exciting, vibrant, area of the library, while fitting in with the existing language in which the shelving resides. The students were responsible for all aspects of the design process from programming and meeting with the client regularly, through to design, building and installing the periodical shelving. Pennsylvania State University Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape (SALA) receives $20 million gift. Pursuing a longtime quest to foster academic col-

laboration in the education of architects and landscape architects, a Penn State alumnus has committed $20 million to encourage even more cross-disciplinary learning opportunities for students in the two programs. H. Campbell “Cal” Stuckeman, of Pittsburgh, graduated from the University in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. His gift will create endowments to support three broad purposes: • Create chairs and professorships for faculty and visiting professionals who have a strong combination of design expertise, record of collaborating with other disciplines, and a passion for teaching; • Create new or enhance existing interdisciplinary and international teaching and research initiatives; • Strengthen the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing so that the architecture and landscape architecture curricula remain leaders among their peer institutions. Penn State President Graham B. Spanier will recommend to the Board of Trustees that the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture be named for the donor and his late wife. The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture is housed in the Stuckeman Family Building, named in honor of Cal Stuckeman

Syracuse University Associate Professor Lori Brown has organized, curated and participated in a traveling exhibition titled, feminist practices. The exhibition focuses on architects who use feminist methodologies in their research and design and create works to explore personally and regionally relevant problems pertaining to their environment. Additional information is available at www.feministpractices.com. Michael Pelken, Associate Professor and Center of Excellence Fellow, presented his current research on “Integrated Wind Technologies in the Built Environment” at the “Syracuse Center of Excellence Symposium 2008,” September 29-30. Pelken also lectured on sustainability practices and research during summer 2008 at: Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany; and Peter Behrens School of Architec(NORTHEAST continued on page 26)

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Completed architectural periodical shelving showing non-circulating periodicals. Norwich University.

An energy efficient solar house designed by Rhode Island School of Design architecture students under the guidance of Professor of Architecture Wilbur Yoder and Assistant Professor of Architecture Jonathan Knowles was opened at the Portsmouth Abbey School on October 21. Built for the 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, the home was donated to the school to be used as faculty housing. Originally 800 square feet, the house was expanded to 1600 square feet and features two bedrooms, heliotropic louvers, variable lighting settings according to space function, solar surfaces, a roof garden, and heating, cooling and ventilation systems.

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ture, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany. Assistant Professor Jon Yoder participated in a panel discussion, “Building Character: Modernist Architecture in Film,” with Edward Dimendberg, Anne Friedberg, and Barbara Lamprecht, in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on July 15. On September 27, Yoder taught a seminar, “John Lautner: Between Architecture and Cinema,” co-sponsored by the Hammer Museum, the UCLA Dept. of Architecture + Urban Design, and UCLA Extension in Los Angeles.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Temple University is pleased to welcome Assistant Professors Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Eric Oskey to its full-time faculty. Professor Weiss is a founder and principal of Normal Architecture Office - NAO based in Philadelphia. His books Almost Architecture and Lost Highway Expedition Photobook, address architecture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes and both witness to rapid urbanization of Europe’s South East. Professor Oskey’s work focuses on the integration of material technology,

fabrication techniques and computer software into the built environment. His recent investigations have explored the integration of computer scripting as a design tool, its direct effect on manufacturing techniques and the resulting potential for mass customization. Assistant Professor Srdjan Weiss contributed to the books East Coast Europe published by Sternberg, Networked Cultures published by NAi Publishers, Turbo Urbanism: Pristhina is Everywhere published by Archis, Urban Transformation, Ruby Press and W for Warsaw published by Fundacja Bec Zmiana. Professor Weiss and NAO were selected by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei as one of 100 architects to build a villa in new city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. Professor Weiss’ proposal was exhibited at the Architecture League in New York from October 11 – November 2, 2008. He also exhibited at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel as part of “Balkanology” from October 4 – December 12.2008. In 2008 Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss was nominated for Chernikhov Award in Moscow. Associate Professor Sally Harrison has been named Principal Investigator for “Digging Deeper”, a participatory urban design project for the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Atrium view of newly renovated Slocum Hall, home of Syracuse Architecture. Photo credit: Steve Sartori

Assistant Professor Scott Shall has been awarded a research grant from the AIA to support the installation of several experimental constructions in Mumbai, India. These tectonic explorations helped inform a 2008 studyabroad project that brought together students and professionals from two countries, eight universities and six disciplines to craft a new vision for education for Mumbai Mobile Crèches – an Indian non-profit that provides education and health programs for children living on the construction sites of Mumbai. This work, made possible through a partnership between Temple University, the DY Patil School of Architecture in New Mumbai and the International Design Clinic, resulted in over a dozen proposals, ranging in scale from matters of curriculum and furniture to issues of urban design. Professor Shall, having received a second grant from the Temple University Provost’s Commission for the Arts, will mount an exhibition of this work in several abandoned buildings around Philadelphia this spring. Assistant Professors Sneha Patel and Rashida Ng were awarded a Product Innovation Grant by the Green Building Alliance for their project, ReD, a Responsive Daylighting Panel Integrating Phase Change Material. This project is also supported by Advanced Cooling Technologies, a re-

Adjunct Associate Professor Elizabeth Masters will serve on the AIA Philadelphia Board for the next two years. Professor Masters is currently working on a certificate in Economic Development at the University of Pennsylvania at the Fels Institute of Government. University at Buffalo Professor Robert Shibley, Director of The Urban Design Project reports three new awards to the Center, one from the International Economic Development Council giving an Honorable Mention to The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo, awarded at their national conference in Atlanta, October 19. Two other awards were given for “Planning Excellence for a Best Practice” for the Queen City Waterfront - Buffalo Waterfront Corridor Initiative: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Improvements, one from the Upstate Chapter of the New York State American Planning Association (October 9), and one from the Western New York Section of the Chapter (July 7). The IDEA Center is happy to announce a major new collaboration on a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT). The IDEA Center is already home to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD). Funded by the Na-

tional Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the RERC-APT is a partnership between the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the IDEA Center. Co-directed by Aaron Steinfeld (RI) and Edward Steinfeld (IDEA Center), the RERC-APT will establish an effective and sustainable process to address high priority transportation needs of people with disabilities using enabling technology and universal design. The Research and Development activities will provide new tools, research findings, guidelines, and products that advance the field of accessible public transportation through universal design. Training and Dissemination activities will increase understanding and build capacity for accessible public transportation for a wide range of stakeholders. Together with the RERC on Technology Transfer, Edward Steinfeld presented a program called “From Proving Ground to Mainstream,” at the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America’s (RESNA) annual conference in Washington, DC, June 28-30. This program demonstrated how assistive technology can be used as a way to test new ideas and concepts for universal designs. Edward Steinfeld and Joe Lane were the presenters. Many examples of assistive technology applications that have been successfully introduced as universal designs for mainstream use were described including email, voice recognition and captioned television. Opportunities for AT firms and experts to become involved in this emerging field were discussed. Dr. Steinfeld made a second presentation at RESNA on the Anthropometry of Wheeled Mobility Project, a long range study that is collecting and analyzing data on the sizes and abilities of contemporary wheelchair and scooter users. New data collected in this study, which was originally funded by NIDRR and is now funded by the U.S. Access Board, is now being analyzed. Activities are underway to introduce the findings to standard making bodies to help improve accessibility codes. Dr. Steinfeld and Jon Sanford of the Department of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Co-Director of the RERC on Work, organized a program on Evidence Based Practice in universal design. This was a follow up to a similar but longer program at the International Conference on Aging, Disability, and Independence. In this

program, participants were introduced to the needs and barriers to evidence based practice in the field of universal design. Discussion focused on how to overcome those barriers and how the rehabilitation science community can help to advance the field of universal design. In September, researchers from the RERC-UD held a special session of four paper presentations titled “Moving from Accommodation to Universal Design” at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The goal of the session was to spark increased interest among human factors practitioners, usability testing specialists, designers and engineers about the importance of universal design for the improvement of built environment and products. It demonstrated how the HF/E profession can contribute to the body of basic and applied research related to how environment and product design affects individuals with disabilities. Both empirical studies and theoretical positions were presented.

University of Maryland Associate Professor Isabelle Gournay co-edited Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. which was recently published by the US Capitol Historical Society and Ohio University Press. Additionally, Professor Gournay’s survey of Modern Movement resources conducted with American Studies professor Mary Corbin Sies and sponsored by the Maryland Historical Trust, was completed. Professor Gournay was also recently elected to the council of the International Planning History Society.

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search and development company specializing in advanced thermal technology development. Geeta Mehta, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Temple University Japan was elected the President Elect of the American Institute of Architects in Japan, and will serve as President from January 1, 2009. Professor Mehta also helped organize a participatory planning workshop in Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia, in March 2008. Sixty participants from around the world came to work along side local people on strategies to improve the community and to deal with pending redevelopment. More details are available at www.dharavi.org. Professor Mehta will also be a visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York in Spring 2009, working with students on issues facing Dharavi. Professor Mehta co-authored the book Japan Living with Marcia Iwatate which was published by Tuttle Publishers in August of this year.

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SOUTHWEST Tulane University Associate Professor Elizabeth Gamard has been appointed by Dean Kenneth Schwartz as Associate Dean of the school.

Associate Professor Scott Bernhard has been named the Saul A. Mintz Professor of Architecture and has been re-appointed Director of the Tulane City Center (www.tulanecitycenter.org). Associate Professor Carol Reese has been named the Mary Louise Christovich Professor. Favrot Professor of Architecture, Errol Barron is one of the twelve authors in Thinking through Drawing in an Electronic Age, a book published in October 2008. His chapter is entitled “Hand Drawing in the Digital Age.” Professor Ronald C. Filson, FAIA has been made a Professor Emeritus following his retirement after 28 years on the faculty of the Tulane School of Architecture. Professor Filson served as the School’s Dean from 1980 to 1992 and currently directs the TSA Rome Program. Adjunct Professor Milton Scheuermann has entered his 50th year of teaching at the Tulane School of Architecture.

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Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini and his firm AEDS was awarded second place in the Flip a Strip competition (www.flipastrip. org) organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to re-think and newly envision the potential of the Strip Mall. Professor Eloueini’s project will be part of an exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from October 5 through January 18, 2009. Also, Professor Eloueini exhibited his CoRefab chair during the Tokyo Design Week from 24 October to 3 November 2008 in an Exhibition called CoReFab 21+1. The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, under the Direction of Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton and Associate Nick Jenisch, hosted Preserve America Mayors’ Conference on Heritage Tourism held in November in the City of Natchez, MS. This is part of The Tulane

Regional Urban Design Center regional work, often through Mayors, identifying urban design and planning issues and offering academic and professional aid to these communities Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore presented a paper in October titled “Hybrids: digital tools in design strategies” at the 2008 ACSA Fall Conference “[ARCHITECTURE] in the age of [DIGITAL] reproduction” at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. University of Houston Assistant Professor Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture published an article entitled “Ghosts and Barbarians: The Vernacular in Italian Modern Architecture and Design,” in Gerry Beegan and Paul Atkinson, eds., “The Ghosts of the Profession: Amateur, Vernacular and Dilettante Practices and Modern Design,” The Journal of Design History 21:4 (Dec. 2008). Sabatino delivered a three-part lecture series at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston entitled: “Andrea Palladio Five Hundred Years Later – From the Pastoral Ideal and Mc Mansions.” University of Texas at San Antonio The College of Architecture Colloquium kicked off its lecture series for the Spring 2008 semester with a lecture from Steven Moore, the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning and director of the graduate program in sustainable design at the University of Texas at Austin. Titled “Competing Visions of Sustainable Architecture: Can they all be right?” The lecture presented a critical evaluation of six competing logics of contemporary sustainable architecture, their underlying concepts, and varying images of spaces and buildings. Moore was invited to the College and his lecture was sponsored by architecture students from Emerging Green Builders (EGB), the newly formed UTSA-CoA student organization initially organized and co-sponsored by Associate Professor Marc Giaccardo and Assistant Professor Hazem Rashed-Ali. As part of the increased emphasis placed by the

College of Architecture on developing funded research activities, three CoA faculty members were recently awarded grants to conduct research in a variety of topics. Professor Richard Tangum was awarded $10,750 from the Windcrest Economic Development Corporation to study development and revitalization options for the Walzem Road Corridor. The planning research team will examine land-use patterns, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and street improvement options. Associate Professor Gayle Nicoll received a $5,000 grant from the New York City Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control to develop evidence-based active living guidelines. The guidelines will help encourage everyday physical activities and provide input into the overall outline and focus of the NYC Department of Design and Construction Active Living Guidelines. Assistant Professor Hazem Rashed-Ali received a coveted UTSA Faculty Research Award of $5000 for his work on CarbonNeutrality in Architectural Design Studios. His study examines the use of digital performance simulation software as design- decision-support tools, which can facilitate the design of high-performance and carbon-neutral buildings. Associate Profesor Vincent Canizaro was awarded the UTSA Presidential Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Production in 2008. Dr. Canizaro and Lecturer III Darryl Ohlenbusch also worked with the City of Boerne, Texas in preparation for their R/UDAT visit. The results, research and design projects, were documented in a book entitled Document on the City: Boerne, Texas, available from Lulu Press, 2008. A team of School of Architecture Alumni was recognized at The University of Texas at Arlington’s 2008 Distinguished Alumni Gala, presented on October 11 at the campus’s Bluebonnet Ballroom. Azroei Ahmad and Mohd. Zamberi Kusa received the Team Award in recognition of their contributions to architecture in their native country of Malaysia and worldwide as the driving force behind Azarch Interiors. Azarch is a large professional practice with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, New Delhi and in Kazakhstan.

Ahmad serves as chief executive officer and Kusa as chief operations officer. They represent more than forty-five Malaysian graduates of the School of Architecture from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s who studied architecture under the sponsorship of the Malaysian government.

It was an experiment that fulfilled its intent— to train young architects in the United States so they would return and contribute to the rapid development of Malaysia. UT Arlington’s annual Distinguished Alumni

Gala recognizes outstanding alumni for their individual achievements, contributions to their industry or profession and service to The University of Texas at Arlington. The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor given by the University and Alumni.

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Assistant Professor Robert Arens presented the paper “Material Libraries: Promoting Materiality and Interdisciplinary Collaboration” and the poster “Integrating Material Culture into Foundation Design Studios” at the Oxford Conference 2008 held July 22-23 at the University of Oxford, England. The conference theme was “Fifty Years On: Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education.” Assistant Professor Robert Arens and Jim Doerfler, received a $15,000 grant from Cal Poly’s Information Technology Services to research the pedagogy of architectural technology in lecture format courses. Research will lead to revisions in the Practice sequence of courses in the second and third-years of the Architecture curriculum. Assistant Professor Mark Cabrinha joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall. He received his Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago and his undergraduate degree from Cal Poly. Mr. Cabrinha is a registered architect in the state of Illinois, where he practiced as a designer and project architect for OWP/P Architects with focus in educational environments along with experience in mixeduse housing projects and assisted living facilities. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the University of Oregon, and was a research fellow at Ball State’s Institute for Digital Fabrication. A doctoral candidate at RPI, his research focus is on the impact of digital fabrication on design culture through his dissertation (In)forming: Material Tactics and Digital Strategies in Design Education.

Professor De Hahn was appointed to the California Architectural Foundation, CAF. “The Foundation is the link between the profession and academia. By enhancing the standards of architectural education, training and practice through education and public awareness activities, the Foundation is making a positive difference in people’s lives and the built and natural environments that surround them.” De Hahn will be serving on Cal Poly’s Branding Strategy Task Force which “involves a review of the University’s branding, marketing, and positioning activities, with an eye to developing an integrated marketing strategy across the campus.” Assistant Professor Tom di Santo and Professor Laura Joines-Novotny, principals of M:OME, were invited to exhibit at RE:Design Your Mind II in Belgrade, Serbia this Fall (Sept-October, 2008). The focus of this current International Design Exhibition is on Ecologically Sensitive Product Design with exhibitors hailing from Serbia, London, New York and California. Assistant Professor Doug Jackson joined the faculty with a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s Degree from Princeton University. He has taught graduate and undergraduate studios at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), among other institutions. A licensed architect, Mr. Jackson was a design principal with Jones, Partners: Architecture (J,P:A). Both his design work with J,P:A as well as his own independent design work has been widely exhibited and featured in national and international publications. The focus of his research and design is on developing the theories and techniques for an architecture that

is able to physically transform through human manipulation. Assistant Professor Marc J. Neveu joined the faculty with a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University in Montreal, where he also received his Masters Degree, as well as a BArch from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He practiced architecture in Boston with Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood Architects, Inc. where he worked on a variety of architectural projects such as museums, institutional and biotech. Prior to joining Cal Poly Marc taught at several institutions in the United States and Canada. His teaching and research interests include the history and theory of architectural pedagogy. A Fulbright Scholar in Italy, his dissertation was titled Architectural Lessons of Carlo Lodoli: Indole of Material and of Self. Dr. Neveu is the author of several published journal articles. University of California Berkeley Mark Anderson, Associate Professor of Architecture, with his brother Peter Anderson and their design firm,Anderson Anderson Architecture, recently won two design awards in the international Spark Design Awards competition, for their SpongeComb inflatable levee system, and for an energy-positive portable classroom prototype designed for the Hawaii Department of Education. The Autodesk Gallery at 1 Market designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture recently opened in San Francisco. This gallery for the display of digital design and fabrication is constructed as a media-saturated space of audiovisual projection and interactive display. Other CED faculty and alumni collaborating on the

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project included lecturer Mike McCall, of McCall Design Group, Senior Lecturer Charles Salter’s Acoustical and Audio-Visual design consulting firm, and UC architecture graduates Ken Moy and Yevgeniy Ossipov of the design team, and Jason Medal-Katz and Matthew Tierney, who serve as Autodesk project managers and design curators for the gallery. Three short film sequences on the Anderson Anderson work, including animations of their New Orleans housing project and the SpongComb inflatable levee system prepared for the Venice Biennale, and an animation for a sustainable, zero-energy housing tower in Wuhan, China, are currently on exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Assistant Professor Nico Larco has been awarded a $74,000 grant from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) to continue his research on ’Fringe Urbanism’ and suburban multifamily housing. His project studies this overlooked example of density in suburbia and investigates changes in its design and development that can lead to more integrated environments. Professor Larco has presented research developed with previous funding from OTREC and the National Multi Housing Council to conferences and cities throughout the country.

Assistant Professor Ron Rael has a new book Earth Architecture published by Princeton Architectural Press. The text provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other relevant techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet.

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Dana Buntrock’s review of the exhibition “Toyo Ito: the New ‘Real’ in Architecture,” entitled “Build,” was published in Tokyo_ from_Vancouver_2_ (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 2008), a volume edited by George Wagner. The essay was also published earlier in CAAReviews.com, the on-line refereed publication of the College Art Association. Professor Ray Lifchez is sponsoring the opening of The Eleventh Annual Berkeley Prize 2009 International Competition on November 1st. The competition is dedicated to the proposition that “architecture is a social art”. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Architecture/Traditional Wisdom. Awards include recognition for best writing and two Fellowships (one for travel and one for architectural design). For more information see: www.berkeleyprize.org Lecturer Joseph Slusky is exhibiting his recent work Painted Metal Sculptures at the Art Foundry Gallery in Sacramento during October, 2008.

Assistant Professor Nico Larco and Adjunct Assistant Professor Juli Brode have been awarded $27,000 through the Williams Fund to help develop designBridge and $20,000 from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) for transportation related design/build projects. designBridge is a multidisciplinary, student based organization linking the University of Oregon with the surrounding community by offering design and design/build services. This is the second grant provided by the Williams Fund and it will be focused on implementing the ‘designBridge Year’ that integrates designBridge projects into the Architecture curriculum. Current designBridge projects include bicycle shelters at two local schools, a pavilion at a local child care facility, and a new entry area/ shading strategy for a local HIV Alliance clinic. In September, Professor Kevin Nute delivered the keynote lecture at the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan’ symposium in Buffalo, NY. Professor Nute will present his current research on ‘Living Space: Sustaining Ourselves and the Planet with Sunlight, Air and Water,’ at the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment in December. He has just completed a paper on ‘The Architecture of the Individual’ for the forthcoming University of Tokyo publication, Papers in Honor of Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, and he will be back in Portland in the spring to give a presentation on ‘John Yeon and the Landscape Arts of China and Japan,’ the result of research funded by the University of Oregon Yeon Grant Program. Associate Professor Hajo Neis, Director of the Portland Architecture Program at the University

of Oregon, delivered a keynote at the “Third International Conference of the Council for European Urbanism” (C.E.U.) in Oslo, Norway with the title: “Climate Change, Wholeness and Sustainability.” The conference took place September 14-16 of 2008. University of Utah In his new book, Historic Preservation Technology, Robert Young, University of Utah associate professor of architecture demonstrates that historic preservation and the rehabilitation of buildings is one of the most sophisticated means of materials recycling on the planet. “Demolishing a building and replacing it with a completely new building of equal size and materials - with no recycled content - creates a significant material flow (new materials into a building and demolition debris removed from a jobsite) that is more than seven times greater than when simply rehabilitating or restoring the existing building,” says Young. Recycling on this scale means considerable savings of materials and energy, with positive economic and environmental consequences. Not only does historic preservation or rehabilitation save the energy first used to construct a building, but it prevents new energy from being spent on the extraction of raw materials and the construction of a new building. New construction also continues to extend the built environment into rural and often pristine natural areas, which are lost once developed. This sprawling growth generates a vast array of new infrastructure costs, air pollution hazards, and social costs that have largely been ignored or dismissed. “Before destroying a historic structure to make way for new construction, everyone with a stake in the project -- architects, engineers, designers, contractors, public officials, and home owners -- should consider preservation and rehabilitation,” says Professor Young. “At a time when construction costs are soaring, when competition for resources is dramatically increasing, and when we are more conscious of our global environmental challenges than ever before, this book provides an important approach to consider when deciding how to

build,” remarked Brenda Scheer, dean of the University’s college of architecture. The book, however, is not an academic text, nor a step-by-step how-to. It is intended for a broad audience – from students to developers to citizen preservationists. Anyone with an interest in preservation can read and understand its concepts and principles. Says Professor Young, “It will completely change your mind about what preservation is and how it can aid in the quest for a healthier global environment.”

Historic Preservation Technology provides insights that help professionals and property owners who are unfamiliar with preservation technology develop a better understanding of preservation practices and therefore enhance the sensitive integration of design solutions into older and historic buildings.

continues, “Indeed, many buildings get destroyed simply because owners, architects, engineers, designers, contractors, and public officials do not fully understand how to successfully rehabilitate them. This combination of misperception and unfamiliarity frequently leads to design solutions that are insensitive to historic preservation and the sustainability aspects of reuse.”

“The book was also written to clear-up broadbased misperceptions by both the public and a number of professionals who were unfamiliar with historic preservation technology,” Young

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southeast Architect Ray Gindroz – best known locally for master planning Norfolk’s urban revitalization over the past two decades – recently spent two weeks coaching Hampton University students studying urban design in Italy. He enlisted a host of his colleagues – including Robert Davis, the founder and developer of the town of Seaside, Florida – to assist with teaching. Seventeen Hampton University students headed off to Italy on May 28 to take the two-week urban travel course required as part of their third year architecture curriculum. The travel program was coordinated by Mr. Gindroz in collaboration with Hampton University associate professor Shannon Chance. “Mr. and Mrs. Gindroz have developed a number of ways to support student learning – for example, they’ve recently established a foundation that provides student travel scholarships” stated Chance. “The Gindrozes were so excited about the photos I sent them of students sketching various sites in Rome and Tunis during last year’s trip,” she explained, “that they offered financial support for this year’s program. Their most valuable contribution though, was the gift of their time in helping plan and conduct the program.”

Gindroz taught at Yale for over two decades according to Chance. “He’s an internationally recognized architect and urban designer. He cofounded and is currently the chair of the international movement known as the Congress on the New Urbanism. He’s made incredible contributions to rebuilding the cities of Hampton Roads… and of Louisiana in Katrina’s aftermath.” At the start of the trip, the group spent a few days getting accustomed to Italy and sketching in Siena before heading to Parma to meet Ray and tour exemplary new urban projects by award winning architect Pier Carlo Bontempi. Then the group spent five days in and around Pienza, a medieval town that was renovated during the Renaissance and which reflects the ideals of Renaissance proportioning and urban design. Pienza is also the site of the annual “Seaside Pienza Institute” conducted by Gindroz and Davis. During their stay in Pienza, the group visited the villa known as “La Foce,” the site of War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944. The students met with Benedetta Origo, the daughter of the book’s author. The group stayed at a former monastery outside of Pienza where the movie The English Patient was filmed for five nights. The monastery now operates as an agritourismo, giving the students

an appreciation for the importance of building densely in order to preserve valuable farmland. The group also met with important civic leaders and studied the site for which they are currently developing urban design proposals. The trip culminated with five days in Rome that included lectures and tours lead by Gindroz (a former Fulbright Scholar to Rome), Davis (a former fellow to the American Academy in Rome), historian and author George Sullivan, and University of Notre Dame professor Samir Younis. The program included a visit to the American Academy in Rome. The group also included a number of graduates from Hampton University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Notre Dame who served as role models and teaching assistants. “Ray, Marilyn, and Robert have an incredible sense of calling, and a clear desire to pass their knowledge and gifts on to the next generation of designers and also to help foster diversity within this group,” Chance said. The students returned to Hampton University to develop urban design proposals for enhancing the Italian town of Pienza during July under the direction of Hampton University assistant professor Ron Kloster.

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Students from Hampton University and the University of Notre Dame conduct urban analysis in Pienza, Italy during a June 2008 program organized by Shannon Chance, AIA and Ray Gindroz, FAIA. Photo by Shannon Chance.

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Matthew Battin is a new Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture, Art and Design. He earned his MArch from The University of Michigan and was most recently working on hurricane recovery as a consultant to FEMA in New Orleans. He has worked for firms in Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, Michigan dealing with residential, commercial and government projects at multiple scales. His research is currently focused on tactical approaches to architecture and suburban housing. Hans Herrmann recently joined the MSU College of Architecture, Art and Design as an Assistant Professor teaching architectural design studios and seminars focusing on issues of Tectonics, Materiality and Building Science.

Mr. Herrmann has an interest in issues of adaptive reuse and renovation which he has explored through his private practice formerly centered in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State, where he is currently pursuing professional licensure. Hans earned both his M.Arch and B.S. in Design from the Clemson University School of Architecture; he also holds an A.A.S. in Architectural Technology from the State University of New York at, Delhi where he served as an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2008, prior to his move to Mississippi State. Justin Taylor is a new Visiting Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art and Design. He received both his Bachelor’s degree and Masters of Science in Architecture from Mississippi State University. He has extensive training in fabrication and digital technology and is managing the CADCAM lab and teaching in

the college’s graduate program. He also does research in the Digital Research Informatics Laboratory in the areas of sustainable design, fabrication and manufacturing housing. Associate Professor Christopher Monson has moved into directing the full-time research work on “Studio School,” a public school program of choice for students at-risk of academic failure and drop out. The Studio School project is developing studio-based learning (SBL) for use as a pedagogy in K-12 education. Collaborating with MSU’s College of Education and two Mississippi county public school districts, three middle school classrooms will open pilot projects in spring 2009 using SBL for science, math, and reading coursework. Monson also exhibited two oil paintings at the 23rd Tallahassee International Show at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University in September. Both paintings—“Untitled (Self-

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Associate Professor Martin A. Gold, AIA, has been appointed Interim Director of the School of Architecture. He has appointed Associate Professor Nancy Clark to the position of Assistant Director for Graduate Programs and Associate Professor John Maze to the position of Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs. The new leadership team will be developing the graduate curriculum through research-based design initiatives and engaging internationally recognized designers and architects in collaborative studios as part of the Ivan Smith Eminent Professor program. Please visit the Graduate School of Architecture website at http://gsoa. dcp.ufl.edu. We will initiate a national search for a new director in the fall of 2009. John Maze was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor of Architecture. In Spring 2008, he co-authored with Assistant Professor Mark McGlothlin and former graduate student Scott Holmes a book contribution titled Emperor’s New Clothes: Living Skins and the Reconsideration of the Post-War Office Tower published by WIT Press in Eco-Architecture 2008, WIT Press, Southampton, UK. 2008. Bradley Walters, AIA, NCARB, has joined the faculty of the School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor. Professor Walters received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture with Highest Honors from the University of Florida. He is a founding partner of AWAKE architecture. With RMJM Hillier, he co-directed the Special Projects Team, where his work included the Irving Convention Center, Becton Dickinson Campus Center, Abbe Science Center, Walker Hall Winery, House at Leeside Farm, and West Windsor Redevelopment Plan, amongst others. His work has been recognized by numerous AIA Honor and Merit Awards and it has been published by Architectural Record, Urbanism and Architecture, A+D, ARQ, Hinge, and Oculus. SLIP/SCAPE: BD Campus Center, completed with RMJM Hillier, was recognized with a 2008 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.

We welcome Guy Peterson, FAIA, of Guy Peterson | OFA, as the Ivan Smith Eminent Professor. He is leading an advanced graduate design studio this fall. In the Spring of 2008, Brendon Macfarlane of Jakob+Macfarlane was the Ivan Smith Eminent Professor and Peter Zelner of SCI-Arc was the Ivan Smith Visiting Critic. Will Zajac, M.Arch ‘08, was selected as the runnerup for the 2008 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design. He received a $20,000 travel fellowship. Assistant Professor Charlie Hailey’s book Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place was published by LSU Press. His research on place-making in Gibsonton, Florida was released in November as a chapter in Symbolic Landscapes, published by Springer-Verlag. Assistant Professor Dr. Hui Zou published an article, “Jing: A Phenomenological Reflection on Chinese Landscape and Qing” in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2008), USA. In July 2008, Dr. Zou and Visiting Professor Albertus Wang gave a joint lecture entitled ‚Cross-Cultural Poetical Architecture. at the Shenzhen Association of Interior Designers, Shenzhen, China. Karl S. Thorne, RA, FAIA and Tony R. White were elected Emeritus Professors. Professor of Architecture Gary W. Siebein, FASA, AIA will work as one of the organizers, a faculty member and keynote speaker for the 2009 Concert Hall Research Group Institute at Tanglewood, Massachusetts that brings together University researchers, prominent acoustical consultants working in concert hall acoustics and architects who design performance halls for a week of instruction, seminars and listening to performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Noted acoustical consultants Leo Beranek, Bill Cavanaugh, Chris Jaffe, Larry Kierkegard and Carl Rosenberg are among the distinguished faculty. Professor Siebein presented a continuing education program for the Central Florida Construction Specifications Institute in Orlando entitled ‚Acoustical Issues Every Specification Writer Should be Aware of.

University of Miami Professor Charles C. Bohl is co-founder and co-editor with Professor Emily Talen of the University of Arizona and Dr. Matthew Hardy, secretary of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), of the new Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. The publication is sponsored jointly by the University of Miami, the University of Arizona and the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU).

Professor Tomas Lopez-Gottardi has stepped down as Director of Undergraduate Studies after long, dedicated and productive service. Professor Rocco Ceo has been named to the position beginning in January. Ceo has also been appointed the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Deputy District Officer for Florida and Chief of The Historic American Landscapes Survey, established for the purpose of identifying and inventorying worthy sites of landscape significance. Professor Teofilo Victoria will step down from the position of Director of Graduate Studies in June 2009. Professor Jean-François Lejeune has been named to the position. Professor Sonia Chao, Director of the School’s Center for Urban and Community Design, received a grant from the NEA to complete three projects on sustainability and green building. In July, Dean Plater-Zyberk and Professor Jaime Correa traveled at the invitation of HRH Princess Lolowah Al-Faisal and Dr. Haifa Reda Jamal Al-Lail to Effat College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to discuss the advancement and development of the first Saudi Arabian school of architecture for women. Carmen Guerrero, Professor and Director of the School’s Rome Program, was invited by the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome and Regione Lazio to participate in research and an exhibit on the work of Italian architect Luigi Moretti. She will teach a studio on Moretti this fall in collaboration with the Swiss research center Archivio del Moderno. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 34)

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Professor Jorge Hernandez has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for an initial three-year period. Professors Jean-Francois Lejeune and Allan Shulman have participated in the founding of DOCOMOMO/Florida, a non-profit organization to promote and preserve the modern heritage of the State of Florida. Professors Lejeune and Shulman have curated the exhibition Interama: Miami and the American Dream at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida which will remain through January 2009. Professor Lejeune, along with Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture at MoMa in New York, and Marianne Lamonaca, Curator at the Wolfsonian-FIU, are meeting in Miami this fall to collaborate on the development of a future exhibition on Latin American modernity at MoMa. Guest speakers to the conference include Zeuler Lima, Washington University; Jorge Liernur, Universidad Torcuato de Tella; Carlos Eduardo Comas, Universidad Federal Porto Alegre; Silvia Arango, Colombia; Louise Noelle, Mexico; Enrique Fernandez-Shaw, Universidad Central Venezuela; and Timothy Hyde, Harvard GSD. Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk has been appointed to the Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. for a term of four years.

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Allan Shulman was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at CHARLOTTE In the summer of 2008 the School of Architecture conducted its first program abroad to the People’s Republic of China. 18 graduate and undergraduate students accompanied two professors for five weeks to tour architectural and cultural sites and to participate in a design charrette with students at Tongji University in Shanghai. The trip revealed an architecture and urbanism under dramatic socio-cultural transition as witnessed in the country’s unprecedented growth in recent years. Important for us as designers were the 2008 Olympic preparations in Beijing and the new architectural projects featuring international and local design talent. This coming summer the School will return to China for a second program. This year’s fiveweek program will investigate both traditional built forms and contemporary designs, and trace the critical points of social transition as represented in the physical environment. Various forms of study will be undertaken as students travel to a number of cities/regions with distinct cultural identities. Especially, the new addition of destinations in the west, featuring vernacular towns, spectacular natural and productive landscapes, and minority cultures, will reveal the diversity of architectural traditions and locality in China. A collaboration with Tongji University in Shanghai will also foster understanding of the nature of Chinese architecture through academic exchanges. Virginia Polytechnic University

Professor Teofilo Victoria and his partner Maria de la Guardia and their firm De La Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists were among the ten 2008 winners of the seventh annual Palladio Awards competition, sponsored by Traditional Building and Period Homes. In addition, he and his firm won a Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, one of five awards in the “Block, Street, Building Scale” category. Both awards recognize the design of Almeria Row in Coral Gables.

The School of Architecture + Design has developed a new center, the Center for Design Research, to give identity to the manifold activities of the school that are or can be directed to further research. The goal is to exploit the untapped territories of opportunity that lie between disciplines. Presently, the vision is to build a center of collaboration where performance criteria commingle with cultural forces and societal precepts to produce works of use, surprise, and wonder.

Professor Catherine Wheeler traveled to London with a University of Miami General Research Support Award to research early twentieth century writings on the Renaissance.

A student design/research team led by Joseph Wheeler, AIA, associate professor; Robert Dunay, AIA, T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture; and Robert Schubert, associate dean of

research, has been accepted to participate in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Two fifth-year architecture students Dan Gussman and Brandon Lingenfelser have worked with faculty to design and build an innovative house that takes advantage of the prefabricated housing process while providing all the attributes of a custom-designed home. The house is the students’ undergraduate thesis project with faculty advisors Joseph Wheeler, AIA, associate professor, and Robert Dunay, AIA, the T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture. A major renovation of Cowgill Hall, headquarters for the School of Architecture + Design, is complete. The four-story, 68,000-gross-squarefoot building was essentially gutted and its HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems were updated. The architect was MMM Design Group of Norfolk, Va., led by Vice-President and Chief of Design Stelios Xystros. Naef Spiele, Ltd., sponsored its first biannual competition for design of a wooden toy. First place was awarded to FERRA, designed by Kelly Harrigan, a second-year industrial design undergraduate. BOW, designed by Sean Mattio and Chelsea Lindsey, first-year architecture students, placed second. GABLE, designed by Andrew Linnestadt, a first-year architecture graduate student, placed third. Engler stated that Naef intends to manufacture several of the designs. Virginia Tech’s Center for High Performance Learning Environments was awarded a grant in the amount of $6,400 from the Council for Educational Facility Planners International for the investigation of “Integration Patterns for Alternative Pedagogical Models and Learning Technologies.” The REHAU company provided $15,000 for the comparative analysis of alternative radiant floor systems. The International Archive of Women in Architecture exhibition Three Decades of Collecting and Preserving: The Work of Women in Architecture opened the 15th congress of the International Union of Women in Architecture at the University of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania. IAWA Chair Donna Dunay’s address to the congress detailed highlights of the collection. The exhibit is now traveling through Romania.

Robert Dunay, the T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture, and Joe Wheeler, associate professor, exhibited the work of their students at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy. The exhibition, “Industrialized Furniture,” has also been invited to exhibit at International Furniture Fair in Cologne, Germany, in January 2009. Terry Surjan, associate professor, organized two competition and exhibition studios in spring 2008. The first was for the History Channel’s City of the Future competition, January 7 through January 15, when 17 undergraduate students, first through fifth year, projected 100 years into the future of Washington, D.C. The second exhibition studio, which Surjan organized with the school and CUP (a collaborative of architects and academics), was for the London Festival of Architecture, June 20-July 20, 2008. Virginia Tech was the only U.S. school invited to participate in the festival. Surjan and his students’ exhibit, “Suitcase Pavilion,” was also invited to exhibit at WIRED magazine’s NextFest2008 in Millennium Park, Chicago, in September and October. Mehdi Setareh, professor of architecture in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies, is the principal investigator of a recently funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project, “Integrating Web-Based Visualization with Structural Systems Understanding to Improve the Technical Education of Architects.” The project consists of the development of a design knowledgebase focusing on building structures, in addition to the state-of-the art virtual environment system for building design.

Environmental design research association: GREAT PLACES AWARDS Call for entries

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Dennis Jones, associate professor of architecture, was one of 12 finalists in the Technology Innovation category in the international MOBILE RULES! Competition sponsored by Nokia and partners. Finalists were chosen from hundreds of entries over an eight-month. Finalists were invited to a ceremony at San Jose, Calif., City Hall and Jones was later invited to the Nokia Headquarters, in Helsinki, Finland, where he presented the Quantum Matrix to Nokia Executives.

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Deadline: February 9, 2009 Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

Awards recognize Design: Excellence in human environments, completed projects. Planning: Proposals for future design, use, or management of a place. Research: Projects investigating relationships between design, human behavior, culture, and experience. Book: Recently published books advancing the critical understanding of place and design of exceptional environments. Jurors DavidLake, Lake/Flato Architects Elizabeth MacDonald, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley Rahul Mehrotra, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lawrence Speck, Page Sutherland Page William Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign For information visit Environmental Design Research Association, www.edra.org Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, www.places-journal.org

National Endowment for the Arts seeks proposals for Your Town Call for entries Deadline: December 12, 2008 The NEA has launched a call for proposals for the 2009 Your Town: The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design workshops. Your Town is a leadership initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts that responds to the design needs of small towns and rural areas. The call for proposals for producing a workshop is due December 12, 2008. This is an opportunity to bring design professionals to your community to help you tackle critical regional planning and design issues. Up to $22,000 will be available to a non-profit organization for each workshop. Visit www.yourtowndesign.org for complete information.

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ACSA CALENDAR DECEMBER 3 Final Accepted Papers Due 97th ACSA Annual Meeting

5 Registration Begins ACSA Student Competition Online

15 Submission Deadline 98th ACSA Annual Meeting Session Topic Proposals

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events of note Conferences / Lectures 12/10/08 Call for Papers: LE CORBUSIER A utopian visionary, Le Corbusier was both innovative and influential in architecture, urbanism, art and theory. This symposium will explore the work, writings and legacy of this important and controversial modernist and their relationship to contemporary architecture, art and urbanism. Topics may include but are not limited to: History/Theory—The Machine Aesthetic: High Tech and Beyond—The House as Type: Standardization and Mass Production—Tectonics: Construction and Materiality—The Role of Nature in Le Corbusier’s work, writing and legacy—Architecture and Urbanism—Architecture, Art and Photography. Authors should submit four copies of both a complete draft (3,000- 4,500 words) and a concise 250 word abstract. Submissions should be prepared for ‘blind’ jury review. All submissions must be accompanied by a separate cover sheet with the title and sub- theme category, author’s name, affiliation, postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and authors signature. Deadline Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008 architecture.spsu.edu\annualdeanssymposium 1/9/09 SPATIAL ILLITERACIES The 4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium In conjunction with the Roth-Symonds lecture University of California, Berkeley & Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris; Yale School of Architecture; March 27-28, 2009; Call for Papers The symposium, Spatial Illiteracies, engages the increasingly complex relationship between space and communication within the discipline of architecture. While greater public access, upward social mobility and democratization—in short, expanded literacy—have been attributed to advancements in communication, the symposium recognizes that the interplay between space and communication can also produce new forms of illiteracy: miscommunication; manipulation; and missed opportunities. Beyond identifying examples that exhibit degrees of illiteracy, the symposium seeks to introduce spatial strategies capable of overcoming these limitations, promoting progress and under-

standing. Contributions are sought from a wide range of disciplines. Spatial Illiteracies will bring together efforts from the fields of architecture, art history, sociology, law, history, human rights, media studies, international relations, and political science. Questions, comments and submission guidelines concerning the symposium can be directed to the symposium organizers at Iben.Falconer@yale.edu or Olga.Pantelidou@yale.edu. Deadline: January 9, 2009 3/27/09 ASSEMBLING ARCHITECTURE B/T/E/S 2009 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. August 6-8, 2009. In keeping with the BTES Mission, this year’s conference will assemble architectural educators, researchers & practitioners “who are passionate about teaching the technology of building design and construction” to engage in lively discussion and debate. Assembling Architecture hopes to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical, providing participants the opportunity explore advancements in technology at the intersection of design, theory, and practice. Significant developments in material science, design and manufacture of building components, innovative building systems, and dynamic structures, require specific knowledge and expertise and are driving design practice. However, one of the emerging challenges in architectural education, research and practice is to promote integrative design through interdisciplinary models of teaching, research and practice. Despite this call to action, many architectural programs remained fractured and collaborative work between technologists, theorists, and designers is undervalued and underrepresented. At the same time, new models for teaching, research, and creative work are required to intersect these contrasting developments. uiweb.uidaho.edu/btes2/Index.htm The 13th National Conference on Planning History Call for Papers The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH);Oakland, CA, October 15-18, 2009. Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community

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Grants / Awards 1/2/09 CRS ARCHIVE SCHOLAR OPPORTUNITY AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Researchers (faculty, students) may be eligible for the CRS Archive Scholar program in the CRS Center at Texas A&M University. This program consists of an award that will reimburse expenses up to $2,500 related to research that utilizes the business records, architectural programs, articles, slides, photographs, video, audio tapes and/or personal records of the former A/E/C firm Caudill Rowlett and Scott (CRS) currently housed in the Center. This award is intended to help offset living & travel expenses incurred in visiting the CRS Center, as well as other expenses related to the support of research, scholarship and publication that makes use of the archives. Successful applicants will be assigned a work space in the CRS Center and will be classified as a visiting scholar for the duration of their stay in the Center. Deadline: January 2, 2009 crscenter.tamu.edu

1/9/09 NCARB PRIZE PROGRAM & NCARB GRANT PROGRAM The NCARB Prize and the NCARB Grant are two distinct annual NCARB award programs. Both programs encourage the integration of practice and education in the academy. Architecture programs are encouraged to study information about the NCARB Prize and the NCARB Grant including publication of NCARB Prize recipients on the NCARB web site. NCARB will confer a total of six cash awards; five awards of $7,500 and one Grand Prize award of $25,000. ncarb.org/prize

Exhibits / Tours TOPLIGHT: ROOF TRANSPARENCIES FROM 1760 TO 1960 The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents the exhibition Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960, on view from 23 October 2008 until 15 February 2009. The exhibition consists entirely of items drawn from the CCA Collection, and presents over 60 rare photographs, drawings, prints, and books that trace the origins of skylights and the aesthetic, technical, and socioeconomic factors that drove the 200-year design development in a range of building types. THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 2009 INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR The Three Cultures of Al-Andalus, led by D. Fairchild Ruggles announces that there are a few spaces available. The tour begins on February 13, 2009 in Madrid and ends on February 23 in Granada. We encourage you to register now before this exceptional experience is gone. As with all SAH tours the participants are afforded an opportunity to visit sites and meet with experts that are not available to the general public. These exclusive and behind the scenes visits are brought to you by the dedication of our tour leaders and the knowledge that they share with our valued members. For more details & to register online: www.sah.org

Call for entries Deadline January 13, 2009 The American Institute of Architects (AIA) invites submissions for the 2009 Education Honor Awards Program for excellence in teaching.

An independent jury, chaired by Randy Byers, AIA, of The Design Studio, Inc., Cheyenne, WY, will seek evidence of exceptional and innovative courses, initiatives, or programs that: • deal with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary collaboration and/or within the broader community; • contribute to the advancement of architecture education; • have the potential to benefit and/or change practice; and/or • promote models of excellence that can be appropriated by other educators. A program of the Educator/Practitioner Network (EPN), primary objectives of the award are to discover and recognize the achievement of individuals who serve the profession as outstanding teachers, and to promote models of excellence for classroom, studio, community work and/ or courses offered in various educational settings. Winners will be notified in February 2009 and awards will be conferred during the 2009 AIA National Convention, April 20May 2 in San Francisco, where award recipients are invited to present their work in a seminar on architecture education and display posters in the convention gallery. The awards will also be announced at the ACSA Annual Meeting and included in the ACSA/AIA 2008 Architectural Education Awards publication. For submission guidelines, please go to: www.aia.org/ed_honorawards_2009

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planning history. Particularly welcome are papers or complete sessions addressing architecture, planning, and landscape design in the Bay area and the West; environmental sustainability, nature and the metropolis; historic preservation; real estate; regions; public art; and studies that consider race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in planning and the shaping of urban form. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for the Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize (best paper in North American colonial planning history) and a Student Research Prize. Thursday afternoon sessions will be dedicated to the history and future of planning in the Bay area, and SACRPH wishes to extend a special welcome to practitioners based in (or interested in) the region. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to Program Committee Co-Chairs Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University: isenberg@history.rutgers.edu; and Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Columbia University: gutfreund@columbia.edu. Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2009

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