ACSA News February 2008 by Pascale Vonier

february 2008 volume 37 number 6

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

2008 ACSA Board Elections Read the candidate statements starting on page 4

ACSA Board Proposes New Public Member See page 8 for details

in this issue: 2

President’s Column

ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools

ACSA Board Candidate Statements

News from the National Office

Call for NAAB Visiting Team Representative

Call for Submissions: Journal of Architectural Education

96th ACSA Annual Meeting—Houston

2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar

97th ACSA Annual Meeting—Portland

ACSA Student Design Competitions

REGIONAL NEWS

ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

Call for 2008-09 NAAB Intern Austin House by 2007-08 Distiguished Professor Winner David Heymann.

from the president

design is the new black. by kim tanzer

acsaNews Pascale Vonier, Editor Editorial Offices 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006, USA Tel: 202/785 2324; fax: 202/628 0448 Website: www.acsa-arch.org ACSA Board of Directors, 2007–2008 Kim Tanzer, RA, President Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Vice President Theodore C. Landsmark, M.Ev.D., JD, PhD, Past President Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, D.Arch, RA, Secretary Graham Livesey, Treasurer Patricia Kucker, EC Director Stephen White, AIA, NE Director Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA, SE Director Russell Rudzinski, SW Director Loraine D. Fowlow, W Director Keelan Kaiser, AIA, WC Director George Baird, Canadian Director Tony Vanky, Associate AIA, Student Director Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director ACSA Mission Statement To advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty, and students. This support involves: • Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline; • Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity; • Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education • Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society. The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0048. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

In my first President’s Column I made this assertion, then followed with this challenge: Design is the foundation of our method of inquiry—we must understand it better, improve it, and disseminate it effectively to our students, within the academy, and throughout society. Since that time, both my enthusiasm and my anxiety about our discipline’s privileged understanding of design have increased. I have seen many circumstances align to position our discipline well within our universities and to society. A few examples will illustrate my point: When RK Stewart, president of the AIA, Mike Monti, ACSA’s executive director, Andrea Rutledge, then an AIA staff member, and I met in July with Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering, we wanted to speak about architecture and sustainability. He, on the other hand, wanted to discuss design. He was aware, as are most academic engineers, that design is the creative mode through which engineers take basic research and turn it toward human purpose. Recently, in part through the advocacy of movie star Brad Pitt and talk show host Larry King, the Lower Ninth Ward has become more than a site of well-intentioned rebuilding efforts. When Pitt organized the design of 13 houses by world-renown architects, the Lower Ninth Ward became the virtual site of a new kind of biennale, celebrating good design in conjunction with, to quote Bryan Bell, “good deeds.” (It is important to note that many of our colleagues arrived first and prepared the ground for this degree of public exposure, and that they, too, are doing good deeds through good design.) Next week, at my university, our college of fine arts will host Sir Ken Robinson, author of the widely read book Out of Our Minds. Learning to Be Creative. His visit will be hosted by our president and pro-

vost. The invitation quotes distinguished professors of business at the University of Southern California and Harvard who, with their business school colleagues, promote design enthusiastically. Just now, I received an email inviting faculty to a presentation on “teaching problem-and case-based learning strategies for undergraduate science education.” Isn’t this a description of the design studio? In short, science, engineering, business, fine arts, and the popular media have recently, and very publically, embraced design. How is the discipline of architecture participating in this cognitive realignment? Most of us would agree that design is the center of our schools’ cultures, and that we have been teaching and practicing design, as currently understood, for decades if not centuries. But, speaking for a moment of individual institutions, is yours promoting your expertise to colleagues across campus and within your community? Does this larger community know what you do? Do they solicit your help to design your campus, to learn how to teach studios, or to participate in grants? The Boyer Report, written in 1996, stated that schools of architecture were too often misunderstood or simply invisible within their own institutions. Is your school different? Have you changed the discourse and made our design knowledge central to the increasingly interdisciplinary 21st century university? If so, I suspect your school is in the minority and others would like to learn your strategy. The ACSA can provide a vehicle for such an exchange. As one example, the ACSA Fall Conference hosted by the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, was devoted to various forms of community engage-

The Journal of Architectural Education has refocused its editorial direction toward design. Submittals are now requested under one of two headings: “Scholarship of Design” or “Design as Scholarship.” Editor George Dodds and his editorial board believe a renewed emphasis on the centrality of design will make the JAE more useful for its readership and more appealing to potential authors. See www.jaeonline.org for more. This summer’s ACSA Teachers Seminar at Cranbrook Academy of Art , co-chaired by Max Underwood of Arizona State, with James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran of KieranTimberlake Associates, will address the thorny question of the relationship between design and research, particularly in the studio setting. The four day seminar is titled “Deep Matters: The Path to Meaningful and Provocative Architectural Research.” They are soliciting work done in this area through an open call to the ACSA membership and beyond, and will incorporate blind reviewed presentations in addition to the traditional invited presentations. See www.acsaarch.org/conference for the call. Finally, ACSA President-Elect Marleen Davis is devoting both of next year’s major ACSA conferences to the topic of design. The Administrators Conference, to be held in Savannah in November, is entitled “Design…in the curriculum…in the university…in the economy.” The 97th ACSA Annual Meeting, to be held in Portland in March 2009, is titled “The Value of Design” and underscores this with the very direct “design is at the core of what we teach and practice.” It is worth noting that the call for session topics for this meeting provoked a much larger response than previous calls for topics, which we attribute to the cherished place design holds in our minds and in our hearts. See the ACSA website, mentioned above for details. As I’ve described, the ACSA, and probably many of our schools, has renewed its focus on the importance of design. But I offer an historic caution as well: We know that design as a mode of inquiry works. But we have not

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Looking back, and recalling that this was the waning of the first phase of design methods research, I wonder if the black box wasn’t a form of collective projection. Did we know then, or do we know now, how design works? What makes design processes effective at considering and responding to vast amounts of nonparallel information? What proportional roles aesthetics, efficiencies, or elegance play in the success of a project? What the value of considering multiple proposals rather than zeroing in on one best solution might be? By what criteria design should be judged a success? What difference it makes if different audiences value designs using different standards?

There are two different Guide interfaces, one for the head administrators to manage their listings, and one for prospective students and the general public to search them. The public site allows users to easily and efficiently search for architecture schools based on their preferred criteria (e.g., university setting, financial info, specializations etc.) ACSA is also planning a printed 8th Edition, to reflect the updated information from the website.

Since the first wave of design research, other disciplines have developed tools that might prove helpful to us. Neural scientists doing digital mapping, psychologists developing concepts to understand cognitive processes, epidemiologists studying populations, media researches studying preferences—all might contribute tools as we press forward to understand how the design process works and why it is important. We will need to understand the mechanics of design thinking well, and communicate them clearly, to capitalize on the fortuitous position in which we find ourselves. To end on a provocative note, I suggest that if members of our discipline remain content to enjoy this powerful mode of action individually, and to share it only with our disciplinary peers, we will miss a once in a lifetime opportunity to place architecture and design at the center of society’s concerns. I look forward to witnessing and reading many attempts over the next year by colleagues who are attempting to crack open the black box. As always, I welcome your comments.

how to edit your school’s listing The ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools is going online! On February 15th, ACSA will launch the “searchable” edition to the general public at www.archschools.org. Access to the site will be completely free, requiring only that the user log in (existing ACSA members can use their current login information).

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In addition, the ACSA has a number of current initiatives targeted toward developing a richer understanding of design.

been very good at explaining this powerful, but tacitly understood, system of cognition to each other, or to the larger world. When I started architecture school, there were discussions of the “black box,” referring to the computer and to the fact that we understood its input and its output, but not how it processed information. The black box served as a visual metaphor for the magical but invisible process of turning information into zeros and ones and returning them in a different form.

“A free, searchable online version of the ACSA Guide will greatly help our members’ visibility to prospective students and the profession alike,” says ACSA executive director Michael Monti. “Schools can update content as often as they wish, so users will always have access to the latest information.” As of right now, ACSA member schools are already able to prepare their listing for the site’s public launch mid month. Head administrators will have full access to their school’s listing through the Guide interface and be able to edit it as they see fit. To access your school’s listing, log on to acsaarch.org as you normally would (using your exisiting login information), and look under My Profile for the Guide Info link. From this page you will see the editable criteria displayed across the top in eight tabs: Academic Sessions, Degree Programs, Financial Info, Demographics, Narratives, Specializations, Images, and the Home tab. Log on now and start managing your data for the online ACSA Guide to Architecture Schools!

Schools may change the staff person in charge of managing their listing, by contacting Kathryn Swiatek at kswiatek@acsa-arch.org, or by calling 202/ 785 2324 x6.

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ment. Several scholarly paper sessions focused on design work done on campuses and in local communities across North America.

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2008 acsa board elections

candidate for president-elect thomas barrie, aia, north carolina state university

I am honored to be considered for President Elect of the ACSA, the only organization dedicated to supporting and advancing architectural education. I would bring to the ACSA a passion for design education, a track record of leadership, a commitment to architecture as a social art, and scholarly interests in the meaning and cultural significance of the built environment. Contemporary architectural education is challenged to skillfully respond to environmental, technological, academic, global and cultural imperatives, and to find new perspectives, models, methods and partnerships. I believe that the ACSA leadership needs to engage faculty, students and collateral organizations in productive conversations about the critical issues facing architectural education, and to further the ACSA’s mission of promoting diverse dialogues, supporting teaching and scholarship, articulating critical issues and fostering public awareness. The following are some of the issues that I believe need to be thoughtfully, cogently and collaboratively addressed by the ACSA. Comprehensive Approaches to Creating a Sustainable Future. The ACSA needs to provide consistent leadership regarding architectural education’s role in creating a sustainable future. I endorse the creation of a National Academy of Environmental Design, which has the potential to comprehensively address the critical issues of our time. Public education efforts that articulate the essential roles the design professions play regarding issues as diverse as global climate change, affordable communities, inclusive urbanism and cultural sustainability can be part of these efforts. Anticipating Future Trends in the Profession. New digital and material technologies are changing the way we practice architecture and educate our students. Globalization and integrated practice models demand thoughtful considerations of the interrelationship of design, technology and the global culture of which we are a part. Redefined models of scholarship may be needed to expand our knowledge base, broaden funding opportuni-

ties, and clarify rigorous design, scientific, interpretive and practice models. Envisioning the Future of Architectural Education. The ACSA Board, which has effectively prepared for the Accreditation Review Conference, will need to make sustained efforts to guide the future of architectural education. Considerations of new models of internship, and curricular and research agendas that respond to the social and environmental challenges we face, need broad-based faculty and student participation. We need renewed efforts regarding the diversity and accessibility of architectural education and should recommit to the recognition of best practices in diversity efforts at schools of architecture. I have been involved in the ACSA since my first tenure-track appointment – as a Faculty Counselor, East Central Regional Director, Chair of the Affordable Housing Education Task Force, Conference Session Chair and, most recently, Co-Editor of a forthcoming theme issue of the Journal of Architectural Education. During my term on the Board of Directors I was inspired by the ACSA’s ability to articulate issues, support faculty and students, and advocate for the academy. I led efforts to strengthen the faculty counselor network (including producing an updated Faculty Counselor Handbook), and chaired the Architecture in Society Committee, (which resulted in the ACSA Sourcebook of Community Design Programs at Schools of Architecture in North America, by John Cary Jr.). As President I will work collaboratively with the ACSA board and staff, faculty, collateral organizations and new partners to create leading-edge opportunities to advance our annual programs, advocacy, and dissemination of resources and information. I will maintain a focus on member services and fiscal health, and build upon the legacy of preceding boards in service of concluding current initiatives. I would be honored to contribute to advancing architectural education in service of creating a more beautiful, accessible, sustainable and meaningful future for our students.

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candidate for president-elect thomas fisher, university of minnesota

Architectural education stands at a crossroad, with forces pulling it in at least four, seemingly opposite directions. Integrated practice demands that we teach across disciplines in ways that our curricula rarely allow, sustainability requires that we reduce the built environment’s ecological footprint to levels far beyond what we have so far attempted, social justice calls on us to address the shelter needs of billions of people to an extent far greater than most of us are prepared to do, while global competition urges us to apply our creative skills to problems that may have little to do with the design of one-off buildings. Our schools have largely reacted to these forces, when at all, in a fragmented way, adding a BIM studio here, a sustainability course there. What we need to do, instead, is see these forces as related, as all part of a cultural shift away from segregation and domination toward more interconnected and diverse responses to the problems we face. This is why the 2008 NAAB accreditation review conference is so important, for it will give us a chance to revisit how, what, where, when, with and for whom we teach, and to explore more fluid, nimble, and flexible forms of education than we have now. At the same time, the proposal to establish a new national academy, spearheaded by the current ACSA president, Kim Tanzer, and introduced at the recent administrator’s conference, will enable us to play a larger part in the research going on in the other national academies, especially

in the areas of sustainability and global health. And the emphasis that next year’s president, Marleen Davis, has put on design will position us well in defining the value we bring to a much wider range of issues that our discipline has encountered before. Perhaps the closest we have come to the challenges that now confront us occurred exactly one hundred years ago. In 1907, the Deutscher Werkbund arose out of a perceived need to redesign everything from “sofa cushions to city building” as their motto put it, in response to the demands of mass production and the potential of machine technology. Today, everything, once again, needs redesigning, but for very different reasons. Faced with escalating greenhouse gases, scarce water supplies, increasingly expensive oil, and the huge unmet needs of an exponentially growing human population, we can no longer justify a built environment that has contributed to these problems through its spatial segregation of people and its material domination of nature. Clients, communities, and entire countries will soon be demanding that buildings and cities have dramatically reduced ecological footprints, carbon emissions, and water demands, along with much greater affordability, accessibility, and durability. We need to be ready to respond creatively to such demands, and helping us figure out how to do so would be the central task of my presidency of the ACSA, were you to give me that honor.

January 21, 2008 Ballots mailed to all Full Member Schools February 21, 2008 Deadline for receipt of ballots in ACSA office March 28, 2008 Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Houston, TX The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA Full Member school is the voting representative. For candidate statements and curricula vitae, please visit the ACSA website—www.acsa-arch.org.

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candidate for secretary

mitra kanaani, d.arch, aia, newschool of architecture and design

Throughout the past decade and a half as an administrator and professor of design and building science, I have deeply appreciated and valued the unique role of the ACSA in advancing architectural education from diverse and learned viewpoints and facets. The support that ACSA provides for the member schools’ faculty and students, by facilitating research, scholarship and creative work is invaluable. In close participation, I have also learned more about the inestimable value of ACSA as our architecture educators’ association, along with our collective responsibilities as members to promote and support the association as a wellspring of social, scholastic and professional idealism. My appreciation of ACSA’s goals and intentions for advocacy, offering program activities, dissemination of information and collaboration with the collaterals: AIA, AIAS, NAAB, & NCARB, has definitely been a major contributor to my enrichment as an educator and practitioner. For the past decade, I have actively been a participant and supportive of ACSA’s initiatives for enhancement of architecture education, through serving on various committees and task forces, such as nomination committees and ACSA by-laws and conflict of interests, as well as the Task Force for ACSA Accreditation Review Topic Groups. I have also participated as a judge on national competitions, and cochaired an ACSA national conference. For the past three years I have actively been involved with EESA-NCARB, administered by NAAB as an international evaluator for assisting interested applicants for NCARB certification or registration, and working toward the same mission of upholding the standard of professional architecture education for those wishing to practice architecture in the US. My involvement with EESA has given me more insight about the possibilities for various architecture education models, as well as existing challenges, priorities, and nuances of the styles of pedagogy of architecture education around the globe. I take pride in the accomplishment of our nationwide diversified architecture programs,

and the efforts of their passionate and dedicated faculty to do more and better in their different unique circumstances. The official duties of the ACSA’s secretary as a board member is record keeping, documentation, and acting as a custodian of the by-laws, as well as other additional required tasks arising out of the action of the association’s board of directors. Particularly at this juncture, I consider it an honor and a privilege to serve in the capacity of the secretary of the ACSA Board. I will work diligently towards the goals and objectives of the schools and association, and in promoting and elevating the stature of architecture education and practice. In the capacity of the ACSA board secretary, I will try to sustain and carry on my predecessors’ visions, ideals and plans. I will also work with elected officers towards an enriched mission of renewals based on traditions and innovations to further the mission of ACSA in embracing and facilitating the changes and challenges that education and practice is inevitably encountering. If I am elected, I will be supportive of promoting communication between the schools, and ACSA with other collaterals, broader participation in ACSA by all member schools, as well as issues related to embracing globalization while maintaining our own unique sense of identity. Also, being abreast with various on-going concerns of this juncture, I will focus on promoting the relationship between the academy and the profession, resolving the stresses on the scholarly lives of faculty and students, and the paucity of women and minorities in both academia and the profession in addition to the still unmet challenges of internship. I will also support diversities of missions and promote the architecture program’s distinctive personas, specialty, and consequential priorities. I will be extremely privileged to contribute to the cause of architecture education through serving ACSA towards the higher purpose of architecture, which is honoring and transcending basic human values.

norman millar, aia, woodbury university

After over twenty years as an architectural educator in Southern California, and nearly ten years heading the architecture program at Woodbury University in Los Angeles and San Diego, it would be my honor to serve at the national level on the ACSA Board as secretary. We are challenged to produce enough competent architecture grads to meet increasing demands in the building industries, regionally and globally. The more we embrace diversity by acknowledging the value of the wide array of program offerings -- from B.Arch to M.Arch and D.Arch, from public to private, from rural and urban, from north, south, east and west -- the better we will succeed in educating a wider and more inclusive array of students in our profession. As collegiate schools of architecture we must work together to foresee the changing face of architectural practice as influenced by new materials and technologies, economic flux, climate change, and politics; we must embrace the trend towards transdisciplinarity in education and anticipate alternative forms of practice for our students. ACSA needs to continue our advocacy and leadership of the other collaterals that comprise the NAAB as we approach the upcoming Accreditation Review Process and shape the next step in the future of architectural education in North America. Increasing participation in ACSA by a broader spectrum of schools, including the missing schools from the US, should also be a top priority of the board. As secretary, I would energetically work towards these ends.

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ACSA Board Sends Bylaws Proposals to Membership The ACSA Board of Directors voted in November to send a proposal to add a new Public Director to its membership. Schools will be asked to vote by mail ballot in November to amend the Bylaws based on this proposal, along with a second proposal to allow more flexibility in selection of the chair of the board’s Publications Committee. The Public Director would be a new three-year position on the board, with full voting privileges and a seat on the Audit Committee. The director would be someone who is interested in architecture, education, and improving the built environment, but the person would not be employed in the design and construction professions or be an architectural or design educator. “A Public Director would greatly enhance the board’s deliberations by adding outside perspective,” ACSA President Kim Tanzer said. “Our strategic plan emphasizes that architectural education has an obligation to address the significant social, environmental, political, and economic problems that confront us. We believe that adding a Public Director would help emphasize this aspect of the organization.” If approved by the membership in February, the board would proceed with a call for nominees and seat the new member at its August 2008 board meeting. The second proposal to amend the Bylaws addresses the chair of the board’s Publications Committee. Currently the Bylaws specify the ACSA vice president as chair of the committee, which is responsible for all ACSA publications, including the Journal of Architectural Education, ACSA News, and website. The proposed Bylaws change would remove the language specifying the vice president as chair, thereby allowing the board flexibility in appointing a committee chair and developing leadership within the committee over one or more years. According to ACSA’s Bylaws and internal rules, the vice president currently begins the three-year term on the board as chair of the Scholarly Meetings and Planning Committees, in addition to the Publications Committee. Members are invited to send any questions regarding the bylaws change to Kim Tanzer, tanzer@ufl.edu, or Michael Monti, mmonti@acsa-arch.org.

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The much-discussed 2008 NAAB Accreditation Review Conference is not just an event scheduled for next October. It’s happening right now online and through other various channels. During October and November ACSA shared the reports of 9 topic groups working on issues related to the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s Conditions and Procedures. We are asking for your feedback through our ACSAccred blog at ACSAccred.blogspot.com. Read more at acsa-arch.org/about/naabhome.aspx and share your views on how to improve accreditation of schools as well as outcomes for students.

Craig Barton, University of Virginia (Photo: Dan Addison)

craig Barton nominated as NAAB Representative At its November meeting, the ACSA Board of Directors approved the nomination of Craig Barton for the next ACSA representative to the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Barton, who is chair of the University of Virginia Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, is nominated for a three-year term, beginning in 2009. ACSA Southeast Director Kenneth Schwartz, University of Virginia, recused himself from discussion and voting of the nomination. Barton will join Wendy Ornelas, Kansas State University, and Thomas Fowler IV, California Polytechic State University, San Luis Obispo, as NAAB representatives beginning in 2009. Christine Theodoropoulos, University of Oregon, is in the final year of her term on the NAAB. The ACSA board decided to make the NAAB representative appointment early in order to include the nominee in the organization’s preparations for the NAAB Accreditation Review Conference. Barton has joined regular conference calls with ACSA’s executive committee and NAAB representatives. These calls will continue throughout the spring in order to facilitate communication between organizations. To learn more about Craig Barton visit www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=2575

Deadline March 10, 2008 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. 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. NOMINEE QUALIFICATIONS • The candidate should demonstrate: • Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience; • A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work; • Administrative experience; and • An association with several different schools. Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.) ACSA NOMINEE SELECTION Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively, are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteristics exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by NAAB for service. 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.

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. 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.

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, 2008. Send nomination materials to: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ACSA (NAAB Visiting Team) 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 Electronic submissions, including the candidate’s CV, should be sent to nominations@acsa-arch.org. ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB by May 2008. 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 2008-09 team visits in November 2008.

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journal of architectural education

IMMATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE Journal of Architectural Education Call for Submissions

Theme Editors: Julio Bermudez, University of Utah (bermudez@arch.utah.edu) Thomas Barrie, North Carolina State University (tom_barrie@ncsu.edu) New materials, building systems, construction techniques, global practices, in addition to digitally generated designs, representations, and fabrication technologies, have gained privileged positions of late in architectural theory, pedagogy, and practice. The focus has shifted towards the quantitative and measurable, away from more intangible albeit fundamental aspects of architectural production. The resulting bifurcation of the material and the immaterial calls for a reconsideration of the qualitative, ineffable, numinous, and immeasurable in architectural production. This theme issue provides opportunities for educators, researchers, and practitioners to broaden the scope of contemporary discourse, confront current academic and professional presumptions, and contribute to alternative histories, theories, critiques, and practices of our nuanced discipline. Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representational methods have their own histories of examining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experi-

mental, comparative, and analytical tools to interpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity for contributors to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories. What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can today’s representational media emulate the ineffable? How can we distinguish between the numinous and the merely luminous? Will new developments in the sciences, psychology, and philosophy bring new insights to the question of the immaterial in our increasingly material culture? The editors seek critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly immaterial. The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) inquiries of historical and contemporary issues regarding immateriality. All submissions must be received Monday, May 12, 2008 at 5 pm U.S. Eastern Time. Premiated design and text-based submissions will be published in Volume 62, Number 2, in the November 2008 issue of the JAE. Please consult the JAE website for submission guidelines and other useful information at (www.jaeonline.org/) or visit (faculty.arch.utah.edu/jae/).

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

Jori Erdman, Clemson University (jerdman@clemson.edu)

Beginning with the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education, the JAE established the publishing of architectural design (research, scholarship, and critical inquiry) as central to the journal’s mission. In addition to publishing juried “design articles,” the JAE’ expanded Reviews Section now includes reviews of buildings, projects, installations, exhibitions, and competitions, in addition to various documents.

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In this Open Call we invite 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 in relation to 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. These General Design Submissions (those not related to a particular theme call) received, before March 7, 2008, will be juried by the JAE’s Design Committee at ACSA’s National Meeting in Houston. Premiated submissions from this Open Call will be published as design articles in Volume 62 (2008-09). Deadline for Submission: March 07, 2008 Inquiries: George Dodds, Executive Editor, at gdodds@utk.edu

Image courtesy of Peter Schneider [Oxygen House, Design Study/Disegno. ª 2007, Estate Douglas Darden.]

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University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture

Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown

co-chairs Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the margins of mind and space. Cities and civilization have been inextricably linked throughout history, and the architecture of the city has been an expression of civilizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest collective achievements. But in recent decades cities have become hollow: Shifting social and economic pressures are challenging traditional urban forms and rituals, while new communications technologies have changed the nature of the social and physical network within which people dwell. A global and generic megalopolis is the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. The city exists at a collision of forces of power. Globalization has given rise to a search for identity in a world of blurred boundaries. Spatially, this teeming agglomeration of people densely accommodated does not follow conventional planning methods; the ubiquity of electronic communications replaces face to face contact, and the non-place realm grows with an energy that eludes control. Corporations see the city as a commodity and aggressively deploy their brands everywhere, draining away diversity while defending their profits at all cost. Meanwhile, classes of citizens struggle to find their place in the economic and social milieu of the metropolis, challenging globalizing forces with grassroots, community-based efforts. Architects and planners play only marginal roles of corrective interventions. How can we understand the emerging city and mitigate cultural, economic and spatial conflict in the fluid and pluralistic society? What roles can architecture and architects play? What visions will emerge from the margins to nurture sustainable dwelling places and promote diversity of people, of ideas, and of possibilities?

Dietmar Froehlich University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Michaele Pride University of Cincinnati School of Architecture & Interior Design

KeyNote Speakers Richard Sennett London School of Economics Saskia Sassen Columbia University Elizabeth Diller Diller Scofidio + Renfro 2008 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Recipient Charles Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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Stanley Tigerman Tigerman McCurry Architects 2008 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion Recipient

Preconference:

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PAN AMERICAN REUNION OF SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE*

REUNION PANAMERICANA DE ESCUELAS DE ARQUITECTURA*

March 25, 2008—1:00pm to 6:30pm March 26, 2008—8:00am to 6:30pm

25 de Marzo, 2008—13h00 to 18h30 26 de Marzo, 2008—8h00 a 18h30

Following on the success of the Deans of the Americas conferences in Miami and Panama City, ACSA invites all deans, directors, and architectural educators to participate in a Pan American Reunion of Schools of Architecture to take place in Houston, Texas prior to the start of the 96th ACSA Annual Meeting.

Siguiendo el éxito de las conferencias de Decanos de las Américas en Miami y Panamá, la ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) convoca a educadores de la arquitectura a participar en una Reunion Panamericana de Escuelas de Arquitectura que se llevará a cabo en Houston previo al comienzo de la Nonagésima Sexta Junta Annual del ACSA.

Topics of discussion will include the future of architectural education, hemispheric cooperation, accreditation mechanisms, and professional reciprocity.

Temas a díscutir incluirán el futuro de la educación arquitectónica, la cooperación hemisférica, mecanismos de acreditación, y reprocidad profesional.

The scheduled events will begin the evening of Tuesday, 25 March 2008, and continue all day on Wednesday, 26 March 2008. Participants are then encouraged to attend the 96th ACSA Annual Meeting which will take place 27-30 March 2008. A special fee for Deans of the Americans participants will cover both events without additional cost.

Los eventos comenzarán la noche del martes 25 de Marzo, y continuarán durante todo el miércoles 26 de Marzo. Todos los asistentes estan cordialmente invitados a participar en la Nonagésima Sexta Junta Annual del ACSA del 27 al 30 de Marzo en la misma ciudad sin costo adicional.

Chairs: José Luis Cortés, Universidad Iberoamericana; Geraldine Forbes, University of New Mexico; and Rafael Longoria, University of Houston

Coordinadores: José Luis Cortés, Universidad Iberoamericana; Geraldine Forbes, University of New Mexico; and Rafael Longoria, University of Houston

For more information please visit: www.acsa-arch.org

Para información favor de visitar: www.acsa-arch.org

*Separate registration required

* la matrícula separada requirió

Practice + Education Saturday’s sessions offer content for architects who teach, particularly part-time. Attend workshops on pedagogy, writing, internship, and more. Saturday will also feature the first ACSA Poster Sessions hosted by Universtiy of Houston. Poster sessions are a fixture at many scholarly meetings. They offer an informal setting for thinkers and scholars to share emerging research in direct one-on-one dialogue. Following the poster sessions is the Keynote Lecture by Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medalist Elizabeth Diller and her partner Charles Renfro, from the internationally recognized firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

hotel Doubletree Houston Downtown 400 Dallas Street, Houston, Texas 77002 Tel: 713.759.0202 | www.doubletree.com Rate: Single/Double – US $145 Book your hotel rooms by FEBRUARY 23, 2008 to receive the special conference rate, mention ACSA Annual Meeting when making your reservation.

Film, Theater, And Art • Beyond Blade Runner Fiction and Reality: Visions of Urbanity in Popular Arts - Film, TV, Comics • Branding and the Built Environment • Cities, Public Spaces, and Social Imaginary • City and Nature • Emerging Pedagogy: New Approaches to

Accreditation Review Conference AIA 150 Blueprint for America: Town and Gown Collaborations 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the modern American Institute of Architects. In celebration thereof, the Institute set about three initiatives, including the Blueprint for America, whose aim is to demonstrate the value of design and professional service for the benefit of local communities. To date, over 100 AIA components have engaged in community-driven planning and improvement projects across the nation. Many of these projects feature collaborations between AIA chapters and schools of architecture. The projects presented in this session represent the best of these, as they fulfill the promise of both town-gown cooperation and the AIA 150 BFA Program.

Architecture and Design Education • GIS and the Design Disciplines • Localization: Particularity in the Face of Globalization • Magical Urbanism • Mobility and Architecture: From Walking City to the Unwalkable City • Networked Urbanism: Place and Placemaking Without Propinquity • New Modes of Architectural Conceptualization and Production • On Drawing • Place and the Non-Place Realm • Rapid Shelter: Prototypes and Experiments

Affordable Housing Education

The ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award is granted jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects, Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Committee (AIA, HCR KC) to recognize the importance of good education in housing design to produce architects ready for practice in a wide range of areas and able to be capable leaders and contributors to their communities. The award will be granted for the first time in fall 2007. This session will include presentations from award-winners in two categories—Excellence in Housing Design Curriculum, and Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity—as well as a summary of the results of the ACSA Affordable Housing Education Survey.

Architectural Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Three topics will be discusses, (1) Interaction between the Academy and Practice; (2) The role and Impact of Research on Architectural Education; and (3) The Interface between the Academy and the Public Realm.

Past, Present, Future • Sustainability - On the Urban Scale • Sustainable Design and Beyond • The Design of MAKING • The End of Architectural History and Reports of Its Demise • The Politics of Space • Visionary Education for Tomorrow

for a list of Paper authors, Panelists, Moderators and Continued Schedule Updates visit www.acsa-arch.org/ conferences

Architectural Excellence through Diversity

“Decisions are made by those who show up.” So goes the well-known phrase, equally applicable in formal and informal political circumstances. But volunteering to participate is only the first step, especially in academic contexts. Along the way many thresholds—admissions to schools, firms’ hiring patterns, schools’ tenure and promotion habits, informal invitations made through collegial networks—have tended to discourage or exclude some members of our highly diverse community. This panel, comprised of academic gatekeepers, will discuss ways to promote architectural excellence through diversity.

Architectural Research Centers Consortium: Is the Academy Ready?

This session focuses on the pedagogical and academic dimensions of “Integrated Practice”. This intriguing national curricular issue will be discussed through the framework of the following questions: What are the innovative coursemodels that are successfully meeting the challenge of “Integrated Practice”? How should schools introduce this new subject matter and related practice-based design tools and technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM)? What are the research dimensions of integrated practice? Are there inherent sustainability efficiencies and advantages built into the understanding of this process? A distinguished panel of educators and practitioners will discuss these questions and present their insights and experiences. Best practices among schools and architectural firms pioneering this concept will be explored.

Constructing Houston: Culture and the Built Environment Founded by land speculators in 1836, immediately after Texas was separated from Mexico, Houston is now the fourth largest city in the United States. This panel will provide a variety of perspectives on the culture and built environment of this elusive city that straddles the border between the old South and the new West.

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• Architecture in the Humanities: Literature,

From Canvas to Communities

This session will discuss the role of artists and architects in community development and preservation, as exemplified by ongoing initiatives in three Houston communities—Freedman’s Town, the Fifth Ward, and Project Row Houses—all of whom are caught in a redevelopment struggle with development and gentrification. Are artists and architects merely unwitting agents of unwanted change? How/can design and the creative spirit really make a difference?

Journal of Architectural Education (JAE): Alternative Practices

Presentation topics and a panel discussion will range from architecture as activism to material-based explorations. Submissions prompted by the session will be published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Pathogenesis and the Urban Laboratory

What if we were to listen to Reyner Banham’s alternative manifesto that the city is very much a scrambled egg, or the situationists critique that the city has collapsed into streams of images sanctioned by business and bureaucracy, or Paul Virilio’s assessment that speed, ubiquity, instantaneousness dissolve the city and displace it in time, or that Houston is really a high stakes Monopoly board game as Reyner Banham suggested, or Baudrillard’s assertion that the technological city is little more than a gigantic circulating, ventilating and ephemeral connecting space where the scene and the mirror have given way to the screen and the network?

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• Architecture Among Disaster

special focus sessions

The End of Architecture Revisited

Speculating about the end of something is almost as common as dreaming up new beginnings. Nothing lasts forever: One thing gives way to another, or disappears like a creature lost to natural selection, or becomes so radically altered that it is no longer recognizable by its old name and definition. What then is left? Politicians, technocrats, developers, bankers, and builders are in control. Reactionary trends grow more popular; architecture has distanced itself from the real problems of a world culture and the mega- urban environment. Except for a cadre of “Starchitects,” rock star like luminaries of the profession, architecture is retreating from public consciousness. And the proliferation of entertainment culture and the virtual world has nudged architecture further into the background. This panel will explore the mission and definition of the architecture profession in the future.

translation: from understanding to misreading and back again

Teaching requires one to translate their experiences into models and lessons for their students. This is particularly true for beginning design students, for whom broad concepts and complex methods must be translated into more simple terms to ease understanding and acquisition. Though a selection of papers presented at the 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this session will explore aspects of translation related to curriculum, pedagogy, and process in the teaching of beginning design.

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Additional Events Thursday NCARB from IDP to Certification KEYNOTE LECTURE Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen Opening Reception Rice University Friday ACSA Regional Caucus Breakfast

This year the ACSA is hosting a Regional Causus Breakfast, a perfect chance to meet with your Regional Director to discuss issues facing your school and bring up any questions or concerns you have which will then be passd on to the ACSA Board of Directors. These conversations will continue in the ACSA Business Meeting to follow. Faculty Councilors and all attendees are invited.

ACSA Business Meeting

All are encouraged to attend the ACSA Business Meeting. Find out what the ACSA Board of Directors and Committees are working towards in shaping architecture education.

Establishing and Maintaining a Tau Sigma Delta Chapter Workshop

Tau Sigma Delta advisors, students, and representatives from programs wishing to estabilish new chapters will meet to discuss news from the past year and upcoming events and issues facing the society.

Tau Sigma Delta Members Meeting

Saturday Association of Architecture School Librarians

The AASL will hold its Annual Meeting in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Meeting. AASL meeting sessions will address aspects of architecture librarianship including instruction and special collections.

PRACTICE ACADEMY

The practice academy is a new partnership among the AIA, the architectural academy, and architecture firms to provide a framework for a rigorous internship for students and architectural interns. The Boston Architectural College, University of Cincinnati and Iowa State University will demonstrate successful ways that firms and schools can join forces in supporting emerging professionals and will highlight challenges they have learned from in the first two years of the pilot program.

Collaborative Practice Award

The ACSA Collaborative Practice Award recognizes programs that demonstrate how faculty, students, and community / civic clients work to realize common objectives.

Poster Sessions KEYNOTE LECTURE Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro sponsored by Tau Sigma Delta Host School Reception University of Houston

Faculty Design AwardS

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Sunday TEACHING IDP IN YOUR PRO PRACTICE CLASS: CURRICULUM THAT WORKS

The introduction to the IDP students get from their Pro Practice class is the foundation from which they spring forward to pursue licensure after graduation. In this session, attendees will learn how to set up comprehensive IDP curriculum for their pro practice classes; see how their current curriculum matches up to that of other schools; and be introduced to best practices in teaching about IDP. Attendees will leave with a plan for how to effectively teach IDP in their own Pro Practice classes.

Women’s Leadership Council

This organizational session will discuss issues of leadership and mentorship and plans to hold a half-day workshop at the 2008 ACSA Administrator’s Meeting in Savannah. All who are interested in these issues for women in architecture and architectural education are encouraged to attend.

Sponsors ACSA is grateful for the support and assistance from the following sponsors:

The ACSA Faculty Design Award recognizes exemplary built and unbuilt work that advances the general understanding of the discipline of architecture.

Host School

tours THURSDAY HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL & HARBOR

This half day tour will explore the diversified complex of publich and private facilities that have been instrumental in Houston’s development as a center of international trade.

This tour will examine the history and challenges the university faces as it implements a new master plan, transforming it from a communter school to a residential campus.

GALVESTON, TEXAS

This full day tour wil travel to this small romantic island that is tucked deep within the heart of south Texas, that posses all the charm of a small southern town with its soft snady beaches to the famous 19th century architecture.

FRIDAY MENIL COLLECTION & CY TWOMBLY GALLERY

These museums design by Renzo Piano located in themuseum distric and are the centerpieces of the neighborhood.

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SATURDAY UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

RICE UNIVERSITY

Explore buildings by, Cram & Ferguson, Howard Barnstone, Eugen Aubry, Jamas Stirling & Michael Wilford, Cesar Pelli, Robert A. M. Stern, and Michael Graves.

ART DECO LIGHTRAIL

reception Rice University

Self guided walking tour

DOWNTOWN HOUSTON

The headquarters of many prominent companies, major performingart facilities, the Historical District, and a diverse collection of high-rises are all located here.

ROTHKO CHAPEL, BYZANTINE FRESCO CHAPEL, AND THE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

Rothko Chapel is designed by Phillip Johnson. Byzantine Fresco chapel is designed by Fancois de Menil, holds the only intact frescoes in the western hemisphere. The Quaker Meeting House was the conception of James Turrell and designed by Leslie Elkins.

Keynote Lecture Tau Sigma Delta

The 96th ACSA Annual Meeting schedule has been outlined using a framework of five general tracks. These tracks, Technology & Sustainability, Urbanism, The Discipline, Pedagogy, and Partners, are meant to be broad in scope and an organizational method. This is a tentative schedule and subject to change. Please refer to acsa-arch.org/conferences for the most up-to-date schedule.

thursday

12:00-2:00

2:30-4:30

The Discipline

Pedagogy

PS: New Modes of Architectural Conceptualization & Production

PS: Cities, Public Space, & Social Imaginary

PS: Architecture Among Disaster

PS: Architectural Curricula for the Flatworld

PS: GIS & the Design Disciplines

SFS: Constructing Houston

PS: Architecture in the Humanities: Session 1

PS: Localization: Face of Globalization

sENNETT/sASSEN lECTURE

7:30-10:30

Regional Caucus Breakfast & ACSA Business Meeting

2:30-4:30

PS: The Design of Making

PS: Building Skins: Session 1

PS: Mobility & Architecture

Faculty Design

PS: The Politics of Space: Formations of Democracy

PS: City & Nature

SFS: The End of Architecture Revisited

Partners

SFS: ARCC NCARB from IDP to Certification

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Session 1

5:30-7:30

11:00-1:00

friday

Urbanism

SFS: AIA 150

SFS: Architectural Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Tau Sigma Delta Workshop

PS: Emerging Pedagogy: Session 2

SFS: JAE Alternative Practices SFS: Accreditation Review Conference

5:30-7:30 8:00-10:00

ACSA Awards Ceremony PS: Building Skins: Session 2

SFS Affordable Housing Education

Collaborative Practice

PS: On Drawing

PS: Rapid Shelter

PS: Visionary Education for Tomorrow

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saturday

PS: Southeast Regional 10:30-12:30

PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: Session 1

PS: The Design of Making: Session 2 / Magical Urbanism

Writing Workshop

PS: Central Regional

2:00-4:00

PS: Sustainability-On the Urban Scale: Session 2

SFS: Pathogenesis & the Urban Laboratory

PS: Architecture in the Humanities: Session 2

Teaching Teachers to Teach Workshop

Practice Academy

PS: Southwest Regional 5:00-8:30 PS: Sustainable Design & Beyond

PS: Networked Urbanism

PS: The Politics of Space: Building & Meanings

PS: The End of Architectural History

Teaching IDP in your Pro Practice Class

SFS: From Canvas to Communities 10:30-12:30

SFS: Technology

PS: Place & the Non Place Realm

PS: Beyond Blade Runner Fiction & Reality PS: Branding & the Built Environment SFS: Architectural Excellence through Diversity

SFS: translation: from understanding to misreading & back again PS: Paper Session SFS: Special Focus Session

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ACSA offers exhibit tables at a special rate for schools at the 2008 ACSA Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. The rates include one full conference registration (valued at $395) and one “exhibit hall only” registration, so you can send one representative from the school to attend the full conference, one representative to staff the exhibit booth, and get the price of the table at a generous discount! Exhibit table/registration $600.00–ACSA member schools Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Your exhibit table space includes: • 6’ table, drapes, for 3 ½ days

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ify for a full refund. Any cancellations after this date wil result in a $100 cancellation fee and the individual’s full registration will be canceled. For more information, please contact: Kathryn Swiatek, Membership/Marketing Manager, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006, kswiatek@acsa-arch.org Tel: 202.785.2324 ext 6, Fax: 202.628.0448

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Deep Matters The path to meaningful and provocative architectural research

2008 ACSA/AIA teachers seminar June 19-22, 2008 Cranbrook Academy of Art Co-Chairs Stephen Kieran KieranTimberlake Associates James Timberlake KieranTimberlake Associates Max Underwood Arizona State University

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Architects tend to see most acts of design as unique – a flywheel of initial input uninformed by past results marginally informed by performative information. Site and program together give rise to circumstance. Circumstance inspires intention. Design organizes intention into instruction. Builders construct from what we instruct. And we all move on to the next set of circumstances and program, none the wiser. Architecture exists in a world where all we ever do is design and build prototypes, with little real reflection and informed improvement from one act of design to the next. The flywheel begins anew with different information, leading to different results but little change. As educators of architects, we focus nearly all our efforts on the planning side of this flywheel. The bulk of our curriculum remains embedded in the nineteenth century design studio where we plan, and then we plan again, with little real growth in the quality and productivity of what we do, either artistically or technically. While an ever increasing number of schools have included the second part of the flywheel – constructing – in the curriculum, few schools of architecture teach research skills and fewer yet insist upon critical reflection and learning based upon research findings. And even fewer define, expect, furnish and share deep results from architectural research. This affects our students as they become practitioners into a rapidly changing professional world, where cross-

disciplinary collaboration, deep inquiry, integration, visualization and reflective making are the new norm. Design innovation has become the Holy Grail in architecture: but how do we define innovation? How do we define research that supports innovation? What are the characteristics of innovation and what deep knowledge and information informs it? In modifying the flywheel, how do we embed reflection and learning into the process of making our architecture? How do we learn to ask the right questions and collect the measurable data that can improve our architecture? How do we provide architectural researchers with the deep skill set necessary to support performative architecture? What is that deep skill set? How do we make the leap from research in the academy to research in our professional offices? What is the economic model for affording deep architectural research in professional practice? How do we go about funding such research in the academy and in practice? Deep Matters intends to delve deeply into this topic with the intention of developing research approaches, research models that the academy will begin to frame education around. Presentations of papers will inform breakout sessions of workshops to help develop a blueprint for deeply embedding research into our everyday lives as teachers and practitioners.

The themes around which Deep Matters will be organized are as follows: 1. Defining Architectural Research in the Academy and Practice. What is interesting and why? 2. The Emerging Methods of Research Innovation. What are the networks, collaborations, visualization opportunities, strategies and tactics? 3. Case Studies of Bleeding Edge and Innovative Applied Research. What are the acknowledged in depth current case studies of projects or groups which are redefining the integration of research into practice and education? 4. Open Submissions. What areas of research innovation outside of architecture might inform the way forward? What arenas within architecture might the first three categories not capture?

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Call for Papers

Paper Submissions Due: March 5, 2008

Note: Submissions should not exceed 4,000 words, excluding endnotes. Include illustrations you intend to use during the presentation at the 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar. All references, research, and information should be attributed properly. The deadline for submission is March 5, 2008. Authors will submit papers through an online interface found on the ACSA website, www.acsa-arch.org/conferences. Authors need not be ACSA members but will require an account on the ACSA website. Submissions will undergo a blind peerreviewed process, and authors of accepted papers will be notified at the beginning of April 2008. All submissions will be reviewed carefully by at least three reviewers. Official acceptance is made by the conference co-chairs. Accepted authors agree to present the paper at the 2008 ACSA/AIA Teachers Seminar, and must register for the conference.

Submission Requirements Authors may submit only one paper per theme category. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple categories. When submitting your paper, prepare to follow these steps, which you will be guided through using the online interface.

Timeline Jan 14: Online paper submission site open Mar 5: Paper submission deadline April: Authors notified June 19- 22: 2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar

1. Log in to the ACSA website with your username and password. 2. Enter the title of your paper. 3. Type or paste in a biographical state ment for all authors (5,000 character limit) 4. Add additional authors for your paper, if any 5. Upload a complete final version of your paper in MS Word or RTF format. Format the paper according to these guidelines: • Omit all author names, affiliations, or any other identifying information from the paper to maintain an anonymous review process. • Use endnotes or a reference list in the paper. Footnotes should NOT be included. • Images (low resolution) and captions should be embedded in the paper. 6. Upload image files separately. Images must be in TIF or JPG format and 300 dpi. 7. Download and review the copyright form. 8. Click Complete this Submission to final ize your submission. Note: your paper is not submitted unless you click the Complete this Submission button and receive an email confirmation.

Contact Mary Lou Baily, mlbaily@acsa-arch.org If you do not have a username or password please send a request via email to membership@acsa-arch.org. In the subject line put “2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar Username/Password Request”, in the body include the primary authors full name, affiliation (school and/or company), mailing address, email address, and phone number.

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Submission Process Students, educators, and practitioners are invited to submit papers to the 2008 ACSA Teachers Seminar, Deep Matters: The path to a provocative architectural research. All papers must be scholarly in content and format, and must be written in English. Papers submissions should clearly address the theme within which the submission is focused and within which it would be considered as topically appropriate. The organizers of Deep Matters will craft an interactive program around accepted papers, invited speakers, and workshops.

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Call for Papers coming in April 2008!

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

thematic overview

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

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

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

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In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students are challenged to investigate innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives. The competition offers two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility. Category I – Recycling Center Design an environmentally responsible recycling center focused on reusing today’s materials to preserve tomorrow’s resources. Category II – Building Element Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.

Execution

Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” submission boards and a design essay.

Payoff

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

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Registration Begins Registration Deadline Submission Deadline Results

Dec 05 2007 Feb 08 2008 May 14 2008 Jun 2008

For additional competition information, visit www.acsa-arch.org. For a complete guide to concrete solutions for sustainable design, visit www..ConcreteThinker. com. Sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) & administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

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INTRODUCTION The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the seventh annual steel design student competition for the 2007‑2008 academic year. Administered by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. CATEGORY I Assembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing because it offers the greatest strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time. CATEGORY II Open. The ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a greatest amount of flexibility with the context.

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SCHEDULE Registration Begins December 5, 2007 Registration Deadline February 8, 2008 Submission Deadline May 28, 2008 Winners Announced June 2008 Publication of Summary Book Summer 2008

Awards Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2008, to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org) and the AISC website (www.aisc.org). SPONSOR The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a nonprofit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel–related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information. INFORMATION Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should be addressed to: Eric W. Ellis AISC Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) fax: 202.628.0448 email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

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NEW VISIONS OF SECURIT Y: RE-LIFE OF A DF W AIRPORT TERMINAL 2007-08 ACSA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security Student Design Competition

INTRODUCTION Air travel is undergoing unprecedented change due to evolving security imperatives, technological developments, and sharply increasing demand. In recognition of the formidable challenge of securing the nation’s aviation facilities against deliberate attack, the architectural community should anticipate the permanent requirement to design airports (if not all transportation facilities) with security in mind. Major changes to airline operations, passenger expectations, and aviation security over the past 30 years, along with the aging terminal buildings, make it necessary for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to explore designs for a major terminal re-life.

SCHEDULE Registration Mid-project Review Questions Deadline Answers Posted Submission Deadline Winners Announced Summary Book

September 2007 to February 8, 2008 December 7, 2007 March 1, 2008 March 15, 2008 June 4, 2008 June 2008 Summer 2008

AWARDS A total of $70,000 will be awarded for the competition, distributed as follows:

Designs for the re-life of DFW Terminal A should focus on: • Accommodating current and emerging security requirements • Converting its 1970’s architecture into 21st century statements • Incorporating sustainable design • Incorporating the airport’s new train system, SkyLink • Optimizing operational efficiencies • Including space for concessions

Mid-Project Review: 5 awards of $2,000 ($1,500 for student/team, $500 for faculty sponsor)

DFW Airport opened in 1975 as a regional airport. Today, DFW is a major international gateway serving over 55 million passengers annually, with 70% of passengers connecting. DFW is a major hub for the nation’s largest airline, American Airlines.

Second Place Student/Team $10,000 Faculty Sponsor $4,000

This competition will focus on DFW Airport Terminal A. Originally built in 1975, DFW Terminal A has 1,000,000 square feet, and serves domestic flights on two stories, with a two level roadway system, 30 gates, and offices for American Airlines’ domestic operations. SPONSORS Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate–Transportation Security Laboratory Supporting Sponsors: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) / American Airlines (AA) / Corgan Associates, Inc. Administrator: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

Final Prize: First Place Student/Team $20,000 Faculty Sponsor $8,000

Third Place Student/Team $6,000 Faculty Sponsor $2,000 Honorable Mention: $10,000 total, made at jury’s discretion. INFORMATION Direct questions about the program and submissions to: Eric W. Ellis / DFW Competition Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006 tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline) email: competitions@acsa-arch.org

Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Registration is online.

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west central illinois institute of technology Associate Professor Robert Krawczyk was interviewed about his artwork in a piece called “Digital Art Redefined,” posted in Art, 3D Art, New Media, Sculpture, 2D Art, Artist Profile, Architecture, Conceptual Art, Digital Art and Laser. His work specializes in “new media art” with a focus on algorithms. He uses custom-designed software for the creation of the work, which can be seen on his website at http://home.netcom.com/~bitart/.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Riley was among the winners of the 2007 AIAS Excellence in Architectural Education Award, as selected by architecture students in the state of Illinois. AIA Illinois recognizes the commitment of these dedicated professionals by awarding them with a free AIA membership for the 2008 membership year. The 2007 Dubin Family Young Architect Award, which recognizes excellence in ability and exceptional contributions by Chicago-area architects between ages 25 and 39, was presented to Studio Associate Professor Martine Felsen of UrbanLab and his partner Sarah Dunn. The award recognizes accomplishments in such areas as design, management and technology.

arch 571 Hemingway UIUC Graduate Studio laser cut basswood assembly 24” x 36” x 12” wall section 1:1 sample. This was one of 4 team projects submitted to the 2g international competition and ran under the premise of the venice[UPGRADE] studio. Photo courtesy of hemingway+a/studio.

Architecture Undergraduate Grahm Balkany presented his award-winning design at the 2007 Greenbuild Conference & Expo Architecture, “Green Concrete,” at Greenbuild, the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building in Chicago. Balkany’s Green Concrete design, a concept for a building situated along the Chicago riverfront used post-tensioned concrete with recycled glass cullet as aggregate, won second place in the structure category of “Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World,” in the 2006-07 International Student Design Competition from the ACSA and Portland Cement Association.

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UNIVERSITY of wisconsin-milwaukee The School of Architecture and Urban Planning announces Barkow Leibinger Architects the winner of the 2008 Marcus Prize. The firm competed against twentysix international nominees. Their practice, which opened its Berlin office in 1993, is informed by the continuous interaction of rigorous practice, research, and teaching. Projects range from cultural to industrial. According to the Marcus Prize selection jury, “Barkow Leibinger Architects’ ability to seamlessly combine the beauty of craft, environmental excellence, and technological invention

During the spring 2008 semester, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger will lead a studio at SARUP dealing with specific challenges in architecture that will have enduring benefits to Milwaukee’s urban fabric. They will also participate in public workshops and lectures. Associate Professor Kyle Talbott will coordinate and co-teach the Marcus Prize Studio. The biennial $100,000 Marcus Prize is awarded to dynamic younger architectural firms and represents an ongoing commitment from the Marcus Corporation to fund advanced studies in architectural pedagogy and practice. The first Marcus Prize recipient was the Rotterdam-based firm of MVRDV. Another cutting-edge pedagogy was tested in fall 2007 in the BIM Studio: Studies in Computation and Craft. According to Associate Professors Gil Snyder and James Dicker who co-taught it, the studio was “dedicated to investigating how early and effectively Revit Architecture 2008 can be utilized in the design process.” Noting that “Building Information Modeling (BIM) is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for building design, construction, and facility management,” Professors Snyder and Dicker created the studio to explore the interrelation of design and BIM-based integrative practice. The initial idea for the studio, as well as substantial financial support and expertise, were generously provided by Eppstein Uhen Architects. Associate Professor James Wasley, former president of the Society of Building Science Educators, is leading a North American initiative to codify best practices in the teaching of “carbon neutrality” in architectural design studios. This proposed $250,000 project will bring together faculty, researchers, and leading design professionals in summer 2008 to critique student work from thirty-one participating design studios being offered across North America during the academic year 2007-2008. The deliverables of the project will include a richly developed web-site and a teacher’s manual/ workbook on the topic of teaching carbon neutral design. The project is currently moving forward on a volunteer basis, with thirty-one faculty at twenty-eight institutions sharing

resources and strategies. Partnering organizations include Architecture 2030, the ACSA, AIA, AIA COTE, USGBC and BuildingGreen.com. This Carbon Neutral Studio Project represents the first phase of the SBSE Carbon Neutral Design Education Initiative. Congratulations to Professor Thomas Hubka on receiving the 2007 UWM Foundation and Graduate School Award for Research. The award recognizes career-spanning achievement in research endeavors. Professor Hubka has written extensively on vernacular architecture and his award-winning publication Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-century Polish Community has won international praise and recognition. SARUP also congratulates Associate Professor Grace La on receiving a 2007-2008 ACSA Faculty Design Award for her project Great Lakes Future, permanent exhibit, Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. Professor La’s project was developed in collaboration with her partner James Dallman (La Dallman Architects). We look forward to celebrating with her at the ACSA national meeting in Houston. Professor La also will be attending the annual NOMAS Conference in February 2008 where she has been invited to deliver the keynote address. Undergraduates Elliot Debraal and Adam Netsch were finalists in the JAD International Design Competition, while Jimmy Keller won third place and Jonathan Rynish received a merit award in construction at the 2007 AIAS/ Vinyl Competition. washington University in st. louis Robert McCarter’s essay “Louis I. Kahn and the Nature of Concrete” will be published in the anthology Masters of Concrete, edited by Dennis Sharp. He also gave a lecture, “The Fabric of Experience: Toshiko Mori’s Visitor Center for the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo,” at the 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference in Chicago. In addition, McCarter’s essay “The Thought of Construction” will be published in a book, tentatively titled Willing Paradise, about Brian MacKay-Lyons’ first nine Ghost Laboratory projects. The volume is forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press. His essay “Common Place: Towards an Architecture both Practical and Poetic” will

be published in a monograph about the work of architect Brian Healy titled Common Places. McCarter’s review of Juhani Pallasmaa’s Encounters: Architectural Essays will be published in the Winter 2007 issue of the journal Senses and Society. He also will serve as a juror for the 2008 Annual Bruno Zevi Prize. Paul J. Donnelly, FAIA, PE, LEED AP, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, received an ACSA Distinguished Professor Award at the 2007 ACSA Annual Meeting. Donnelly also received a 2007 NCARB Prize for his program titled “Practice-Based Research in the Academy” and, in July 2007, was featured in the Who’s Who in Technology Edition of the St. Louis Business Journal. In addition, Donnelly has been awarded a Global Energy and Environment Partnership Grant of $32,500 from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University. The grant was based on a research proposal titled “PCM Membranes in Contemporary Architectural Enclosures.” The National Building Research Institute at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, will serve as research partner.

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three 2007-08 ACSA Creative Achievement Awards, which honor creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research or service that advances architectural education. A presentation will take place at the 96th ACSA Annual Meeting, to be held in Houston March 27-30, 2008. In addition, MacKeith’s Spring 2007 seminar — titled “Alvar Aalto: Critical Studies” — has resulted in a set of measured drawings as well as a detailed model of the Alvar Aalto Studio in Helsinki, Finland. Commissioned by the Aalto Academy, the materials will be displayed in Helsinki in Spring 2008. MacKeith also has been selected to serve on the ACSA roster for the National Architectural Accrediting Board visiting team membership for the coming year, and as a nominator for the National Design Awards for 2007-08. Adrian Luchini, the Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture, received a St. Louis AIA Honor Award for the Allard residence. The chair of the jury was Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner of Santa Monica, CA. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 26)

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rina City, co-authored with Katerina Ruedi Ray.

also in history and contemporary theory.

Associate professor Stephen Leet and Susan Bower won a St. Louis AIA Interior Merit Award for their renovation of the Stinson House.

Assistant professor Jane Wolff’s essay “Redefining Landscape” was published by Princeton Architectural Press in Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion, an anthology of essays edited by Tim Culvahouse.

Associate Professor of Building Technology John Ochsendorf won a 2007-08 Rome Prize, the first engineer ever to win in the 113-year history of the Rome Prize Competition sponsored by the American Academy in Rome. Associate Professor of Architecture J. Meejin Yoon has won an ACSA Faculty Design Award, a 25K RISD/Target Emerging Designer Athena Award, and a $50K Wade Award from MIT for outstanding teaching, design, and leadership. As Howeler + Yoon, Yoon and her partner Lecturer Eric Howeler received two Honor Awards from the Boston Society of Architects and their work is included in Architectural Record’s 2007 Design Vanguard. Professor and Department Head Yung Ho Chang through his firm Atelier FCJZ has completed the masterplan for the research and development campus of Novartis in Shanghai and is now designing one of the laboratory buildings. Assistant Professor of Building Technology Marilyne Andersen is consulting with Chang on daylighting and solar energy for this project.

Assistant professor Zeuler Lima, Ph.D., won the 2007 Bruno Zevi Prize for his essay “Toward a Simple Architecture,” which examines correspondence between Zevi and the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. The award includes the publishing of the essay in Quaderni and a month-long research visit to the Bruno Zevi Foundation in Rome. Both Lima and Marjanovic were also recipients of the Sam Fox School’s first annual Faculty Creative Activity Research Grants. A total of five tenure and tenure-track faculty received the $5,000 grants, which are designed to support professional activities in both art and architecture. Lima’s award will fund the use of new digital media as an analytic tool for studying significant built and un-built works by Lina Bo Bardi. Marjanovic’s award will support his research for the forthcoming book Bertrand Goldberg’s Ma-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Mark Jarzombek has been named Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning to focus on arts and diversity programs, working in particular with Dr. Robbin Chapman who has joined the School as Manager of Diversity Recruiting. We warmly welcome new faculty members Associate Professor (with tenure) Rahul Mehrotra, recognized world-wide for his work in India; Associate Professor (with tenure) Nader Tehrani, co-founder with Monica Ponce de Leon of Office dA and recently named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow; and Assistant Professor Ana Miljacki, who brings a background in design and

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Michael Lucas presented a paper last August titled “Safeguarding suspected urban archeological sites” at the 2007 Pecos Conference on Southwest Archeology, Pecos National Historic Park, New Mexico. Marc Neveu’s essay entitled “Prato della Valle, Reconfigured” will be published in the next CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. Vol. 6. edited Alberto Pèrez-Gòmez and Stephen Parcell, Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Marc was co-editor, along with Negin Djavaherian, of the Exhibition catalogue for Seventy Architects on Ethics and Poetics. L’Université du Québec à Montréal. He was also co-editor, along with Thomas Mical and Susan Molesky (CalPoly Alum), of AI: Architecture and Ideas: Spatial Material. Vol. 6, No. 1. Ottawa: School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton

University. Furthermore, Marc’s abstract for the upcoming annual meeting American Society of Eighteenth Century Historians in Portland Oregon was accepted. The paper entitled “Textual Origins of the professional Architect” was accepted for the panel on “Eighteenth Century Professions.” Marc recently completed an article on Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion in Venice, Italy entitled “Architecture and Narrative Identity: a model for architecture in five acts” to be published in the the Norwegian Review of Architecture in January 2008. Montana State University The 2008 spring semester lecture series will include Janine Benyus & Dana Baumeister / Bio- Mimicry Guild, Teddy Cruz / Teddy Cruz Studio, Anderson and Anderson Architecture, Dan Rockhill and Associates / Studio 804, William Massie / Massie Architecture and Coleman Coker / buildingstudio. The lecture series

is constructed around two overarching trends in the profession of architecture are visualization and stewardship. By giving greater focus and definition to these continually emergent themes the school prepares its students for parallel and tangential career opportunities in a more diversified work place of specificity. Spring studios, at all levels of the curriculum, will question the ethical and ecological dilemma of the 21st century. How can accelerated development be accommodated within an overarching framework of stewardship? How can we leave a place better than how we found it? The School seeks to find the balance between material progress and stewardship and to prepare its students to engage these issues in their academic studies and professional careers. Assistant Professor Bruce Wrightsman presented a paper on lightweight building systems including the full-scale bridge assembly project

for Structures 1 at the Tectonic 2007 Conference hosted by the University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in December. Jason Heard, 2004 MSU graduate received one of three jurors awards at the 2007 Design Communication Association Juried Drawing Exhibition hosted by Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Jason’s digital rendering “Wave Room” was produced as part of his graduate thesis titled “Melos.” Work by other MSU students, faculty and graduates were also selected for this juried exhibition and included: • Dawn Carlton (graduate student) “Motorcycle Sidecar,” • Shea Stewart (2007 graduate) “Bird Blind,” • Phil Ballard (fourth year student)“Warm Cool,” • Stephen Flink (fourth year student) “Warm Cool,” • Lance Hayes (2006 graduate) “Personal Retreat,” • Becky Patton (fourth year student) “Campus Explorations.”

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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture Fred Andreas, AIA, LEED AP, received the President’s Award for 2007 from AIA Colorado for his work with the state legislature, writing, testifying and helping to get passed the recent green legislation, SB051: High Performance Buildings. He has been named Special Consultant to the Office of the State Architect and the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) establishing the operations, rules and regulations for the new legislation and is helping to author the working document for all state agencies, specifying green building standards and defining how they will work under the state’s new HPCP (High Performance Certification Program). Fred has also been appointed to the City of Denver ’s Task Force reviewing city-wide green building standards, establishing new green codes for all buildings within the City of Denver. Fred was recently elected Vice President of AIA Denver, a position that focuses on political action on behalf of the organization’s Committee on the Environment (COTE).

Professor Michael Pyatok, FAIA, returns after a three year sabbatical from teaching. Professor Pyatok spent the last 3 years as founding director of the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family at ASU, a ‘do-tank’ dedicated to providing design and research assistance to developers, property managers, government agencies, advocates and elected officials to promote more affordable housing that is culturally and environmentally more appropriate to Arizona. The Center’s staff includes Professor Sherry Ahrentzen and architect Daniel Glenn who will continue the work.

David Leatherbarrow, Marco Frascari, and Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez; an exhibition entitled 70 Architects at the Centre de design, Université du Québec à Montréal; tours of exhibitions and facilities at the CCA and McGill; a reception co-sponsored by the Embassy of Finland; and a closing banquet in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill.

Montréal. In the overall standings, Team Montreal came in eighth.

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Professor Jeffrey K. Ochsner, FAIA, has a new book, Lionel H. Pries: Architect, Artist and Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture (UW Press). Lionel “Spike” Pries (1897-1968), was one of the most influential teachers of architecture at the University of Washington.

northeast Associate Professor Michael Jemtrud has been appointed as the Director of the School of Architecture, effective August 1, 2007. He obtained his Master of Architecture at McGill in 2000 after having obtained a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, a Bachelor of Architecture (Professional) and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, all in 1993 from the Pennsylvania State University. His research focus is digital media, collaborative design processes and technology development. His research covers high performance visualization, broadband technologies and collaborative work environments. The History and Theory of Architecture Program, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), organized an interdisciplinary conference held 13-15 September 2007 in Montreal. Highlights of the conference included presentations by Juhani Pallasmaa, Lily Chi,

The Solar Decathlon in October on the National Mall in Washington, DC gathered together 20 college and university teams in a competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house. Team Montreal, the only Canadian team in this year’s edition of the Solar Decathlon, was a consortium of some 40 bilingual students - 15 women and 25 men - from three universities in Montreal: Engineering students from the École de technologie supérieure and Architecture students from McGill University and Université de

Professor Avi Friedman’s 7th book, Sustainable Residential Development: Planning and Design for Green Neighbourhoods, has been published by McGraw-Hill. The book presents a much needed guideline for creating communities that balance social, environmental and economical needs. It is filled with plans, vignettes, and elevations that give a head start in planning, designing, constructing and operating sustainable dwellings and neighbourhoods. On October 20, Emeritus Professor Radoslav Zuk received a Shevchenko Medal during the XXII Triennial Ukrainian Canadian Congress held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Shevchenko Medal is the highest form of recognition that can be granted by the Ukrainian Canadian Con(NORTHEAST continued on page 28)

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gress, and has been awarded to Prof. Zuk in recognition of his significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian culture in Canada and especially for his outstanding contribution to Ukrainian and Canadian architecture. Earlier in the summer, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kyiv awarded Professor Zuk, who has served at the Academy as Head of the State Examination Commission for the granting of degrees in architecture in 2005, 2006 and 2007, a special diploma of appreciation. The document recognizes Prof. Zuk’s “significant individual contribution to the development of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.” The Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture for 2008 will be Steve Badanes, a founding member of the Jersey Devil design/build practice. He will take part in the professional Master’s studio during the winter term, where he will organize a design/build project in the School. Previous Sheff professors have been John Shnier (Toronto, 2007) and Dan Hanganu (Montreal, 2006). Princeton university Robert Gutman, an influential professor and critic of architecture, died unexpectedly by heart attack on November 23 in Princeton, N.J. He was 81. Although trained as a sociologist, Robert Gutman’s greatest influence was in the field of architecture, the focus of his research since the 1960s. With great intellectual curiosity, he explored the relationships among public policy, architects, buildings and their users. Whatever the fashions or trends within architectural practice, he always viewed architecture within its broader social and political context. He also had an enduring appreciation for the aesthetic qualities of architecture and studied the impacts of the aesthetics of the built environment, both positive and negative, on the people who occupy buildings.

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many foreign countries in the 1990s. A collection of essays from throughout his academic career is forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press.

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Robert Gutman was the key figure in American academics to bring social science into the heart of architectural education and practice. His background ranged from demography to psychoanalysis; his objects of study stretched from controversial buildings to housing policies.

Robert Gutman was a generous scholar, collaborator, and mentor. Perhaps his greatest influence was, however, on his students at Princeton and Rutgers and other universities. They span multiple generations, from deans now nearing retirement to mid-career professionals and those at the beginning their careers; thanks to Gutman’s teaching and writing, they think about how their designs influence and are influenced by wider societal forces. Gutman was deeply admired by students and colleagues for his intelligence, wit, and enduring humanity, as well as for his commitment to studying architecture in relationship to politics and social concerns. Université Laval Rober Gutman. Photo courtesy of Princeton University

His research was disseminated through the frequent articles in leading architectural and scholarly journals, including Architecture, Progressive Architecture and Architectural Record. He also summarized and focused his research in several books published during his lifetime. The viewpoints in the collections of essays he edited, Neighborhood, City, and Metropolis with David Popenoe of Rutgers University, (Random House, 1970) and People and Buildings (Basic Books, 1972), explored the melding of sociology and architecture in the wake of the failures of modern architecture and planning, especially public housing, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s. People and Buildings quickly became a classic work in the field.

The Design of American Housing (Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1985) continued his concern with domestic architecture, looking at housing in its widest context, including architecturally undistinguished housing developments whose form was determined more by market forces than by architectural intent. A primary focus of the later part of Robert Gutman’s career was the study of the architectural profession. This research was summarized in the book, Architectural Practice: A Critical View (Princeton Architectural Press, 1988), the standard book on the subject in architectural schools throughout the United States and in

A group of professors including André Casault, Pierre Côté, Tania Martin and Geneviève Vachon and graduate student research assistants, Jesse Barrette, Philippe Beaulieu, Sylvain Lagacé and Émilie Pinard are working with representatives of the Innu community of Uashat mak Mali-Utenam and the technical resource group Conseil Tribal Mamuitun to produce a renovation guide for the members of the First Nations community. The project is financed by the provincial Ministry of Education, Recreation, and Sports. Professor André Casault, along with colleagues Denise Piché, Louise Lachapelle (professor at Collège Maisonneuve, and the graduate students in his design studio are working with the Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine on a project that examines the integration of urban agricultural practices to the architecture and urban design of impoverished quarters of the city of Dakar, Sénégal. The participative design charrette is jointly funded by the Centre de recherché en développement internationale (CRDI), the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage, Université Laval, and the Québec Ministry of international relations. Four other students under Casault’s supervision, Caroline Bérubé, Élise Lapierre, Jean Naud, and Jean Turmel, participated on an international internship at the Shenzhen Graduate School, China.

southeast The ecological, factory-built GreenMobile™ housing unit designed by Michael A. Berk, F.L. Crane Endowed Professor, won the EPA/AIA Life Cycle Building Challenge National competition in the Professional Un-built Category; the award was announced in September at the West Coast Green Conference in San Francisco. In October 2007, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency granted Professor Berk an additional $49,000 to consult and advise on transforming the principles of the GreenMobile™ into the Mississippi Eco-Cottage for Gulf Coast disaster-relief housing; (This new grant is in support of a previous award of $5.9 million from FEMA’s 2006 Alternative Housing Pilot Program to build 100 units of GreenMobile™ housing on the Mississippi coast). Caleb Crawford is the new Director of the School of Architecture. He comes from New York where he was Assistant Chair of the undergraduate architecture program at Pratt Institute. He is a registered architect in New York and New Jersey, and a LEED AP. His practice and research embrace the extremes of poetry and politics, attempting to creatively integrate aesthetic preoccupations with the imperatives of sustainability. Juan Heredia is a new Assistant Professor teaching history and architectural design. He graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and made graduate studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), institutions both at which he taught from1994 to 1999. He holds an MS from the University of Pennsylvania, being currently a doctoral candidate from the same institution. Miguel Lasala is a new Visiting Assistant Professor. Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, he has worked for designers and architects in Lafayette, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and New York. Before returning to Lafayette to earn his Master of Architecture from UL in 2006, he spent a winter working as an intern photographer for the English language newspaper The Tico Times in San José, Costa Rica. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at UL Lafayette’s Department of Architecture.

Michael Zebrowski joins the school as Assistant Professor. He earned his MArch from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and comes from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he was a Clinical Assistant Professor immersed in the first year foundation design studio. His solo design-build practice focuses on re-thinking and re-inhabiting the typical single-family home of the early and mid twentieth century. He will continue his investigation into the practices of foundational education and further develop his own practice and research through a continuing body of full-scale architectural interventions. Francesco Bedeschi is the new Visiting Assistant Professor at the 5th year program in Jackson. Between 2002 and 2003 he was Assistant Professor at the Facoltà di Architettura di Roma “Vallegiulia”. Since the spring of 2003 he has been working at the University of Arkansas Rome Center with Professor Davide Vitali. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin “San Gemini” Preservation Program, and at the University of Philadelphia Rome Program. He is a registered architect in Italy were he runs a small firm. His main field of interest is computer graphics applied to architectural design and restoration. Southern Polytechnic State University Professor William Carpenter FAIA PhD has been selected by Dwell magazine and Wiley publications to write a book titled “The Modern House.” His firm Lightroom has won three major awards recently: An AIA South Atlantic Region design award for Lightroom Studio, A Print Magazine Award of Excellence for the Food Loop Campaign and Website and he was part of a team of filmmakers who won the International Best Picture for the 48 hour film festival for short film title “Moved.” The film competed with over 1,000 film makers worldwide. Jay A. Waronker was awarded a grant through the Koret Foundation of San Francisco as part of his effort as co-founder of India’s first Jewish museum in Chendamangalam, Kerala, INDIA. He will also be awarded a grant through the American Philosophical Society to continue

his research on Jewish architecture in subSaharan Africa. Ithaca College of New York exhibited his renderings of India’s thirty-three synagogues at its Handwerker Gallery and produced a color catalog of its contents. The Swiss journal TACHLES recently published an article on Waronker’s ongoing research on Cochin synagogues in India. During the summer of 2007, Waronker served as guest professor at Duksung University’s School of Design in Seoul, KOREA.

Tuskegee University In August 2007, Dr. Richard K. Dozier, AIA, was appointed as the Robert R. Taylor Endowed Chair for the Tuskegee University Department of Architecture and Construction Science and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences. Under their new leadership, Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture has been granted candidacy for accreditation. The APR will be submitted in the Spring ‘08 and the NAAB Visiting Team will visit in the Fall ‘09. The Department is emphasizing a focus on historic preservation and community outreach. Asst. Professor Margôt Stephenson-Threatt has expanded the Department’s introductory class on historic preservation to include a variety of practicums. One very interesting and unique offering was led by Instructor Kwesi Daniels who organized a hands-on semesterlong workshop on a window restoration project for the Shiloh Rosenwald School in Notasulga, Alabama. The school was designed by Robert R. Taylor, the plan for the grounds was specified by George Washington Carver and, in 1913, the building was built by the local resident community. This school became one of six prototypes for a rural school building program funded by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. Associate Professor Donald Armstrong’s efforts contributed towards Tuskegee University’s receipt of a Getty Grant to document and plan for the future management of its historic campus core. Consistent with the department’s theme for this year, “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are”, the 4th year students, with guidance from Assistant Professors Rod Fluker and Margôt (SOUTHEAST continued on page 30)

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units have worked together to produce. Students and faculty are working together across departments to create an integrated show of realtime digital effects, controlled by the actors voices, movements and interactions. Additionally, the College is producing a highly articulated set of “costumes” which are glowing, dynamic containers for the actors, made of fiberglass rods, rubber gaskets, and polypropolene. There will be three performances Jan 31, Feb. 1 and Feb. 2.

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Stephenson-Threatt, planned and organized a 1-day urban design charette on the redevelopment of the principal corridor in the City of Tuskegee. The charette was well attended by community residents and business stakeholders who provided useful information that helped the students to develop a viable project scope and program. The Fall 2007 issue of Blue Prints, the magazine of the National Building Museum features a transcribed interview of Associate Dean Dr. Richard Dozier titled, “African Threads in the American Fabric”.

University of Tennessee The School of Architecture welcomes Associate Professor Hansjörg Göritz as a tenure-track faculty member. Other new faculty at the School of Architecture are adjunct faculty members Matt Hall and Jennifer Akerman.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Christine Abbott has been hired into a two year Foundations Teaching Position. She will be teaching 1st year studios in addition to graduate and undergraduate seminars.

Assistant Professor Ted Shelton received the 2007 AIA Board of Knowledge Committee Research Award for his research proposal “Greening North Knoxville: Visualizing Sustainabilty in Urban Conditions.”

The College of Architecture is coordinating with the Department of Music in the production of the Opera “Les Art Florissants”. This is the second such interdisciplinary production the two

In October, Professor Max A. Robinson received

the AIA East Tennessee Gold Medal Award. The Gold Medal is the highest honor bestowed upon professionals by the local chapter of the American Institute for Architects. Only one award is presented annually and it is not always given. Robinson, who recently stepped down as the Director of the School of Architecture, is a registered architect with a career that includes both professional and academic experience. Following a three-year tenure at the University of Kansas, he came to Knoxville in 1967 and held an appointment in the School of Architecture for five years. He then practiced with two different offices where he was responsible for the design of a number of buildings within the East Tennessee region, including several on the University of Tennessee campus. He returned to the college in 1983 and became Director of the School of Architecture in 1997. Assistant Professor Brian Ambroziak received the AIA East Tennessee Presidential Award for his tireless effort and contribution in support of the Chapter. Assistant Professors Tricia Stuth and Ted Shelton received an Award of Merit for their project, “The Ghost Houses,” submitted to the Design Awards program.

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maximum), including the following: title;

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models; and other novel concepts or

tion and practice; interior architecture;

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Sustainability (e.g., the consequences

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of global demand for resources,

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New Orleans and the Design Moment

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The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) invites submissions for The Future of Design, a competition and digital exhibition highlighting the innovative work of young designers. Selected works will be displayed as a continuous digital slide and video show during the BSA’s Residential Design and Construction convention and tradeshow in April, the AIA National Convention in May, and the BSA’s Build Boston convention and tradeshow in November. The jurors will select up to 100 projects for inclusion in this program. Each submission must be a slide show or video clip that is 30 seconds or less in length.

Urban planning and design are practices that suggest we can imagine and build a future different from - and better than, the present. These visions of the future city are most necessary when the present is fraught with an urban crisis - such as the violent, unnatural disaster of the levee failure following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Undergraduate and graduate students currently studying architecture, urban design, landscape architecture or interior design anywhere in North America, as well as individuals who have earned their design degree within the last five years (after 2002) are invited to submit their work for consideration. Projects produced by individuals or teams of young designers are eligible. Submissions will be evaluated on creativity, design excellence, and for work that goes beyond the current trends of form and image-making. Three-dimensional models and fly-through video are encouraged. Those projects deemed most remarkable by the jury will be eligible for cash awards. The entry fee is $20, and the deadline for submissions is February 25, 2008. All submissions must be delivered or mailed directly to the BSA. Complete submission criteria may be found at www.architects.org/futureofdesign. For more information on the program, write Eric White at ewhite@architects.org.

The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is a nonprofit, public membership organization of architects and citizens interested in the built and natural environments. Now in its 135th year, the BSA is the nation’s largest branch of the American Institute of Architects. The BSA seeks to enhance the practice of architecture and the public and professional understanding of design. For more information on BSA programs and membership, which are open to everyone, call 617-951-1433 x221 or visit www.architects.org.

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Following the disaster in New Orleans, numerous scholars, practitioners and students have focused countless hours rethinking the future of this unique city. Design critics, politicians and citizens have also offered their views on the future of the city with widely ranging and contradictory visions. This response to the disaster in New Orleans can be described as a “design moment” in which a crisis created a “terrible opportunity” to rethink and redesign a city. In New Orleans, the design moment created by the disaster revealed that professional design practice is deeply influenced by modernist desires for a “clean slate” despite the shift to post-positivist modes of thinking and scholarship in the academy. On the ground in the city, diverse voices have resisted the clean slate thinking and responded to the disaster as a humanitarian project, as a “watershed” moment for ecological design, or even as an opportunity to simply repair the torn fabric of a deeply historic city. Together these contradictory trends suggest the full spectrum of planning and design thinking at a critical moment in one city’s history. For this special issue of the Journal of Urban Design, the guest editors seek contributions that analyze the design moment in New Orleans following the disaster of August 29, 2005. We are interested in papers that take an analytical approach to the major themes evident in the design moment, including but not limited to: the ecological design challenge, historic preservation and urban conservation, housing and the urban social fabric, urban form as cultural/world heritage, and engineering as urban design. We are also interested in comparative case studies as long as they include New Orleans as a case. We are not interested in question “Should New Orleans be rebuilt?” That question is irrelevant. Submissions are due on April 1, 2008. For more information, visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13574809.asp

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3/15/08 NCARB Seeks Authors The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards seeks authors for two new monographs: Building Commissioning and Natural Hazards – Flooding. Also for mini-monographs on topics that fulfill health, safety, and welfare continuing education requirements. Interested authors should submit a letter indicating their experience with the subject matter, a resume, references, an outline and an unedited writing sample. Deadline: March 15, 2008. www.ncarb.org/continuinged Murphy: Journal of Architectural History and Theory Murphy is an academic journal of architectural history and theory published once or twice a year in Portuguese and English by the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra and Coimbra University Press. In particular, Murphy is interested in texts that contribute to the cross-referencing of architectural and urban history and theory with art history, the history of science, the history of culture, anthropology, geography, gender studies, philosophy and visual studies. www1.ci.uc.pt/murphy/murphy

Conferences / Lectures 2/15/08 “INTERROGATING TRADITION: Epistemologies, Fundamentalisms, Regeneration, and Practices”. eleventh conference of the international association for the study of traditional environments Call for abstracts: As in past IASTE conferences, scholars and practitioners from architecture, architectural history, art history, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, geography, history, planning, sociology, urban studies, and related disciplines are invited to submit papers that address one of the following three tracks: Epistemologies of Tradition, Fundamentalism and Tradition, and Regeneration and the Practices of Tradition. Deadline: February 15, 2008. www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste

2/25/2008 THE FUTURE OF DESIGN The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) invites submissions for a competition and digital exhibition highlighting the innovative work of young designers. Selected works will be displayed as a continuous digital slide and video show during the BSA’s Residential Design and Construction convention and tradeshow in April, the AIA National Convention in May, and the BSA’s Build Boston convention and tradeshow in November. The jurors will select up to 100 projects for inclusion in this program. The entry fee is $20, and the All submissions must be delivered or mailed directly to the BSA. For more information on the program, write Eric White at ewhite@architects.org. Deadline: February 25, 2008. www.architects.org/futureofdesign 5/28-31/08 IASS-IACM 2008 Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures “Spanning Nano to Mega” will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. To address a broad interpretation of “Shell and Spatial Structures” the Sixth Conference will include presentations regarding computation for any long-span, lightweight, fabric, or thin-walled structures: (1) at a variety of scales -- spanning nano to mega, (2) in a diversity of application fields, and (3) in both technology and nature. iassiacm2008.us 3/13-16/08 24th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Georgia Institute of Technology. In the spirit of Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, his seminal rethinking of the founding distinctions of modernity, this conference puts forward for debate the ways in which disciplines operate within beginning design education: not only at the level of pedagogies and curricula but in the very constitution of beginning design education itself. The conference is organized into four sections, with each section taking a different approach to the beginnings/disciplinarity problematic. www.coa.gatech.edu/beginningdesign08

4/1/2008 EDUCATION FOR AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE This is a forum for environmental design educators, students, and practitioners from around the world concerned for the future of architectural education. Hosted by the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, USA, it is an initiative of the CIB Commission: Open Building Implementation. The forum’s theme - the design of open-ended yet sustainable physical environments – will be engaged through paper sessions, exhibits of student and professional work focused on the conference theme, and selected real-time DESIGN EXERCISES. Deadline: April 1, 2008. www.bsu.edu/bfi/openarchitectureconference

Competitions / Grants 2/8/08 AIA NEW YORK DESIGN AWARDS The AIA New York Chapter’s annual Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in architectural design by New York City architects and in New York City projects. The program’s purpose is to increase awareness of outstanding architecture and to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to improve the built environment. The Design Awards program includes the juried competition, a Design Awards Luncheon, Symposium, related lectures by category winners, and an Exhibition at the Center for Architecture. Deadline: February 8, 2008. www.aiany.org/designawards/2008 the ]present[ ARCHITECTURE’S CHALLENGE International, 2-stage, anonymous, student, ideas Location: Bucharest, Romania. The projects can be either individual or designed by a student team coordinated by a faculty member. Awards: Prize I: 6,000 Euro; Prize II: 4,000 Euro; Prize III: 3,000 Euro; Mentions: 1,000 Euro each. Deadline: March 31, 2008. www.iaim.ro/en/aeea2008

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ARCHITECTURAL FREEHAND DRAWING A part-time, longer-term senior faculty position at the level of Adjunct Professor is available for a person qualified to offer graduate-level instruction in architectural drawing, starting in the fall of 2008 or later. The person holding this position will be responsible for teaching a required workshop course that emphasizes line drawing as a means to articulate and communicate architectural concepts. Candidates should be qualified to demonstrate techniques for translating freehand perspectives into two- and three-dimensional orthographic sketches and to teach students to draw accurately and succinctly using the lineaments of buildings, architectural details, spaces, and landscapes as a basis for drawing from memory and imagination. Preference will be given to candidates showing demonstrated achievement in the teaching and practice of the aforementioned techniques. The teaching obligations, in the fall term, would be for one four-hour class per week. This position may also include teaching in core studio, if the successful candidate is qualified to do so. Weekly airfare and housing allowances are avialable for out-of-town candidates.

Please send a curriculum vitae and letter of interest to: Office of Faculty Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Fax to: (617) 496-5310; or e-mail to: mmcgrath@gsd.harvard.edu. Candidates should submit a resume, a letter of interest, contact information for 4-5 references, and a maximum of four 8.5â&#x20AC;? x 11â&#x20AC;? pages of sample drawings, preferably by February 29, 2008. Harvard University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minority and women candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

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