Web-ACSANewsOct09 by Pascale Vonier

october 2009 volume 39 number 2

acsaNews publication of the association of collegiate schools of architecture

ACSA Awards Submissions and Nominations Read more starting on page 10

in this issue: 2

President’s Message

From the Executive Director

Designing Diversity

AASL Column

AIAS Column

Call for Nominations to 2010 ACSA Board

ACSA Awards Program

ACSA 2010 Teachers Seminar

2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

98th ACSA Annual Meeting: New Orleans

99th ACSA Annual Meeting: Montréal

ACSA Fall Conferences

REGIONAL NEWS

ACSA Calendar OPPORTUNITIES

from the president

expanding our field by thomas fisher

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, 2009–2010 Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, President Daniel S. Friedman, PhD, FAIA, Vice President Marleen Kay Davis, FAIA, Past President Mitra Kanaani, AIA, Secretary Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, AIA, Treasurer Patricia Kucker, East Central Director Brian Kelly, AIA, Northeast Director Phoebe Crisman, Southeast Director Ursula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Southwest Director Stephen Meder, West Director Gregory Palermo, FAIA, West Central Director Michael Jemtrud, Canadian Director Brett Roeth, Student Director Judith Welch Wegner, Public Director Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director ACSA Mission Statement To advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty, and students. This support involves: • Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline; • Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary activity; • Articulating the critical issues forming the context of architectural education • Fostering public awareness of architectural education and issues of importance This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means: advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs of member schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society. The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy. Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News items and advertisements should be submitted via fax, email, or mail. The submission deadline is six weeks prior to publication. Submission of images is requested. The fee for classified advertising is $16/line (42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page advertisements are available for $1,090 and smaller ads are also available. Please contact ACSA more information. Send inquires and submission via email to: news@acsa-arch.org; by mail to Editor at: ACSA News,1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006; or via fax to 202/628 0448. For membership or publications information call ACSA at: 202/785 2324. ISSN 0149-2446

As many architects wait in their offices for projects put on hold to start up again, or wait at their homes for firms who have laid them off to start hiring again, I wonder what we, in the architectural academy, can learn from the financial fiasco that has befallen our field. We can all find plenty of others to blame for what has happened: the dysfunctional banks that encouraged too many risky subprime loans, the overleveraged clients who convinced themselves that property values would only go up, or the asleepat-the-wheel regulators who believed that the marketplace would police itself. But in blaming others for the economic problems architects face, we miss the opportunity that this situation has provided us to rethink what, how, and why we do what we do as a discipline. Take the very idea of architects waiting for a call from former clients or employers. The architectural culture largely operates on the notion that we serve at the behest of others, solving problems that clients, communities, or contractors set for us. There are obvious reasons for that, given the size and expense of buildings. Rarely can architects self-initiate a project the way painters or authors can. But even within the constraints of our medium, we have a tradition of being overly obedient to other’s agendas, a passivity that begins in school.

However much our studio system encourages exploration and experimentation, instructors still largely expect our students to address the problems we give them. While entirely justified, that normal academic procedure, part of our prerogative as professors, may have the unintended consequence of instilling in our graduates a degree of compliancy to the wishes of others. That may not matter during boom times, when the demand for architectural services meets or exceeds the supply, but in times like these, when demand has fallen off dramatically, patiently waiting for commissions from others is a prescription for fiscal disaster. There are reasons, other than economic, to ask why architects – and architecture students – should design only what others ask of them. We have seen, especially in recent years, how much architects end up solving – sometimes brilliantly or beautifully – the wrong problems. Look at the myriad condos for which there is no market or the high-end homes worth a fraction of their original cost, the big box stores that now stand empty or the office buildings that remain half vacant, all plugged into a sprawling infrastructure that is falling apart and unsustainable in almost every way. We have a landscape littered with the well-intentioned work of architects doing what they were commissioned to do by clients tempted by easy credit, fast money, and fantasies of quick profits. Never has so much talent gone into so much wasted effort. The academy, of course, has been critical of such practices for a long time. Schools have had decades of studios looking at alternatives to these development patterns and, as such, we have graduated a couple of generations of students eager for change. What we, as educators, haven’t done nearly so well is prepare our students to implement these ideas. Ours remains a resolutely idealistic culture in which we often act as if it is enough to

To prepare our students – and ourselves – for this opportunity, we need to do some things differently. First, as some among us already do, we could do more to teach our students to seek problems as much as solve them. With curriculum goals in mind, for example, we might encourage students to define what they think would best address the set of issues we place before them, whether it be a building or some other sort of spatial, temporal, or material configuration. While that poses some obvious pedagogical challenges, it would instill in students the habit of challenging, in a constructive and creative way, a project’s program, which is often exactly what’s needed. Second, we might spend more time on the design of the systems within which architecture occurs. That should include physical infrastructure, as is happening in many schools right now, but it should also encompass the laws, codes, and regulations; the networks, paths, and flows; and the financial, material, and human resources that go into the creation of

Such an extension of what we do and how we do it may seem threatening to those of us educated in the old way of architecture. But we need, instead, to see an expansion of our field as the way to implement ideas that have been brewing in the schools for too long. If we can relax the often-unquestioned equation of architects as building designers, we would increase our ability to change the conditions within which we practice, grow the job opportunities of students having a very hard time finding work, and enable our discipline to be valued for the thinking we do as much as for the products we produce.

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In this “Great Recession,” we have a chance to change things as never before. It seems odd to say this amidst high unemployment in the profession and with deep allocation cuts in the academy; it may seem, instead, like a time to hunker down and wait things out. But we have hunkered down for far too long as it is, waiting for others to see the wisdom of our designs, without much effect. The time has come to seize the day, since the very people who would have dismissed alternatives to conventional practice a couple of years ago – the developers, bankers, regulators, and profiteers – have begun to realize that the old ways of doing things may no longer be fundable, affordable, sustainable, or acceptable. Rarely has there been such an openness to and readiness for new ideas.

the built environment. By not addressing these broader issues, we will remain victims, along with everyone else, of often very poor system design, full of unintended consequences and vulnerable to unexpected collapse, as we have seen with the recent banking failures. The sub-prime mortgage debacle stemmed from financial products so badly designed that even investment bankers didn’t understand them and couldn’t avoid being harmed by them. Might the financial industry benefit from what we know about how to create safe products and environments?

This recession will force architects to become more entrepreneurial and enterprising and the skills our graduates will need in order to thrive in such a context must start in school. The more we can teach our students to think laterally across whole systems, and vertically to address real problems, the more we can help ensure that the best designs get implemented. As the client of a well-know architect once told me: “The problem with architects is that you get a building from them whether you need one or not. Would you go to a doctor if you knew you were going to get an operation, whether you needed one or not?” Such comments show why our field needs to change. Our responsibility as academics is to help figure out how.

Did you know that ACSA’s website has a section on its homepage dedicated to bringing you stories affecting architectural from around the internet? Every day new stories are added to the “In Other News” feed. The ACSA homepage also houses archives of the weekly email newsletter “ACSA Update.” So be sure to visit if you have not been recently. If you have links that you think would be of interest to ACSA members, please email Pascale Vonier at pvonier@acsa-arch.org.

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present new ideas, without thinking about what must change and how we might change it in order to bring those ideas to fruition. We have been too tender minded, as William James would say, in a tough-minded world.

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from the executive director

k-12 programs on the rise in schools by michael j. monti

Programs to engage high school and middle school students are becoming increasingly prevalent in architecture schools. Whether as a way of extending a school’s presence in the local community, promoting the architecture profession, preparing the next generation of clients, or recruiting future students, K–12 programs are becoming a logical next area of focus—beyond college-level recruitment—to strengthen the profession. Following a request from the National Endowment for the Arts, which, according to Design Director Maurice Cox, noticed a marked increase in requests for support for K-12 design education projects, ACSA asked our member programs last spring to tell us about their K¬– 12 initiatives. In response, only a few schools said they did not have such initiatives. Instead, we received a widely varied picture of new and longstanding programs that happen both during the year and the summer. Nationally, there is a network of educators and practitioners working through the Architecture + Design Educators Network, or A+DEN, to promote innovative architecture and design education for K–12 teachers and students. Initiated by the American Architectural Foundation and the Chicago Architecture Foundation, A+DEN (adenweb.org) is holding a conference in Chicago November 5–7. See the website for information on the speakers and sessions.

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Another national presence of note is Next. cc, an “eco web” site with content that can be used with 3rd through 12th graders to introduce them to ethical and ecological issues related to the built environment at a range of scales: nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region, and world. At the university level, summer programs appeared to be the most frequently reported programs, ranging from multi-day camps to shorter “exploration” events. A list of respondents is below. Other schools reported individual relationships with local high schools, providing, for example, service opportunities for architecture students to introduce younger students to careers in design and architecture.

A third category of respondents described partnerships with local AIA chapters or the ACE mentoring program. ACE (acementor.org) is another national program that raises the awareness of high school students to career opportunities in the architecture, construction, and engineering industries. Their mentoring and scholarship programs work on a local or regional level, pairing teams of 15-25 students with industry mentors to work on a mock design project. The teams work weekly for about 15 weeks. A total of nearly 40 schools responded with information about their programs. Student ambassadorships (Prairie View A&M), programs for at-risk students (UMass, Amherst; Southern Illinois), programs focusing on sustainable design (Washington University), scholarship programs (Boston Architectural College), weekend studios (Mass College of Art) are among those many programs. ACSA is developing a K–12 education page on our website, which will include a list of summer programs and information on other member activities for pre-college students. The following list of universities with summer programs is likely not complete, if your school should be listed here, please email Pascale Vonier, pvonier@acsa-arch.org, so we can update our Web page. Summer Programs: Arizona State University California Polytechnic SLO Catholic University of America Drexel University Massachusetts College of Art North Carolina State University Pennsylvania State University Southern Illinois University Université de Montréal University of California, Los Angeles, University of Cincinnati University of Houston University of Idaho University of Illinois at Chicago University of Memphis University of Texas at Austin University of Utah

Guide to Arch schools Free searchable online database of all professional architecture programs in the United States and Canada Find tuition and admissions information, related degrees and specializations The 2009 print edition is now available

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Inclusive Excellence: Achieving Diversity at MIT School of Architecture and Planning

by dr. robbin n. chapman, manager of diversity recruitment, mit school of architecture and planning

When Dean Adèle Naudé Santos shares her vision for the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), she emphasizes diversity as a critical element in maintaining excellence in the field of architecture, both in practice and the academy. At SA+P, we recognize the value of including diverse perspectives, approaches, and backgrounds in our work as architects and designers. While our school is diverse in academic domains and research styles, we lack diversity within our student and faculty body. However, such equitable representation is crucial if we are to remain competitive and innovative. First, let us define what we mean by diversity. Diversity is a characteristic of a group or aggregate. More specifically, it is a measure of the variance along dimensions of that group. For our purposes, these dimensions include but are not limited to race and gender. Unfortunately, achieving such diversity is often viewed as compromising quality, lowering standards, and sacrificing meritocracy. This view is prevalent in academia, including schools of architecture, and often carries over into the profession, as well. At SA+P, we equate diversity with inclusive excellence. Inclusive speaks to the equitable representation of all the varying perspectives, approaches, and peoples within our school. Excellence speaks to the extraordinary talents of all members of our community and to the abandonment of archaic, demeaning views of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and peoples. Designing Inclusive Excellence The work of increasing diversity and inclusive excellence is challenging for very human reasons; old and trusted habits die hard. Then, how are we to increase the numbers of underrepresented architecture students and faculty, and subsequently, diversity within the profession? At SA+P, our approach involves enculturation of inclusive excellence practices and values as part of our diversity recruitment efforts. Our ongoing diversity initiative is organized around five core principles: diversity brand development, student engagement/recruitment, faculty engagement/recruit-

ment, inclusion/retention, and leadership/coordination. These core principles provide a framework for supporting a shared vision of inclusive excellence, the enculturation of inclusive recruitment and retention practices, and accountability mechanisms for diversity recruitment. (For detailed information about SA+P diversity programs or the five core principles, please contact the author). The following is a sampling of activities associated with each of the core principles: •

Diversity brand development is an important part of creating a shared vision of diversity within SA+P. Our goal is to be seen and experienced, internally and externally, as actively moving toward inclusive excellence. Some activities include establishing an active presence at affinity conferences, on social and professional networking web sites, and within underrepresented communities.

• Student Recruitment/Engagement involves engaging with underrepresented talent by attending recruitment events and working with affinity student groups, both at MIT and nationally. We partner with affinity organizations and schools to identify talent early on. We establish relationships with students, from grade school and upward, and introduce them to design and architecture. We provide opportunities for prospective student to engage with our faculty, students, and staff. • Faculty Recruitment/Engagement includes brokering connections between underrepresented talent and our faculty, and supporting search committees in their evaluation of diverse talent from unfamiliar schools and programs. Faculty leadership opportunities include faculty using personal and professional networks to identify talent and learning about best practices for minimizing unconscious bias during the search process. •

Inclusion/Retention activities are opportunities for our community to increase education, awareness, and dialogue around important diversity issues. SA+P community members participate in diversity dialogues and learn core skills (i.e., cross-cultural communication) for working within a diverse community. Our diversity snapshots, an ongoing public slideshow with images and voices of community

members, prompt reflection on how we perceive others and challenge us to reexamine our misconceptions. Our goal is to gain fluency in recognizing and addressing those policies and practices that create barriers to the successful recruitment and retention of underrepresented talent. •

Leadership/Coordination activities take place along several fronts. At the MIT level, we work with established MIT summer programs that bring in high school and undergraduate students for enrichment activities. These programs give us the opportunity to identify talent, introduce them to architecture and design, and strengthen our diversity brand at those students’ home institutions. Within SA+P, we are refining accountability mechanisms that support reporting on diversity activities, establishing direct links between diversity committee efforts and departmental diversity agendas, and identifying context-specific solutions and strategies for improved recruitment and inclusion practices.

Moving Forward At SA+P, we understand that our work towards inclusive excellence cannot be separate from our leadership. We also understand that this leadership is required of everyone: our students, professors, staff, and our dean. As the designers of our community, responsibility for its success or failure falls to each and every one of us. Our commitment is personal and continues. Since 2007, we have enjoyed some increases in recruitment and retention of underrepresented talent. We understand better the unique challenges of this work and continue to refine our strategies, learn from our disappointments, and build on our successes. We have established the Robert R. Taylor graduate student fellowship to support talented students. We are expanding our network of individuals, institutions, and programs that connect us to underrepresented talent. There is much more to be done. Through our shared understanding of inclusive excellence @ SA+P we will continue to learn, listen, and act to realize our vision of a diverse student and faculty body. Additional information about SA+P diversity programs may be found at: http://sap.mit.edu/about/ diversity. rchapman@mit.edu.

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A unifying thread common to all disciplines in our school - a belief in the power of design. As architects, we know our designs are strengthened and improved when considered from multiple perspectives. Adèle Naudé Santos

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association of architecture school librarians

Creative Commons Licensing

by catherine essinger, william r. jenkins architecture and art library coordinator, university of houston

In 1790 the United States Congress implemented the nation’s first copyright provisions, which granted authors and inventors the exclusive right to their work for fourteen years. If the creator cared to, he or she could renew the copyright for an additional 14 years once the first term expired. The law was intended to protect a reasonable profit, while encouraging creativity and progress in the new nation. It incentivized creativity and production by giving artists, authors, and inventors sole control over their work for a limited time. Creators needed to register their works in order to reap the law’s benefits. Everything not registered entered into the “public domain.” This aspect of copyright law was just as important as ownership at the law’s inception, as it encouraged creativity through the dissemination of and improvement upon ideas and works. The law has since been expanded six times, twice in the first 186 years and four times in the past 33, and its focus has shifted toward the rights of ownership and away from the public domain.

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In 2001 a group of interested people and groups (legal scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, and the Center for Public Domain among them) established the non-profit Creative Commons. It was inspired by the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License, which facilitates software development by removing restrictions on copying and modification. The Creative Commons team believed copyright law often served as an impediment to progress in several ways, including:

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It no longer encourages creativity because it prevents the easy dissemination of ideas and creative works and discourages others from building upon those ideas and works.

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It does not adequately accommodate collaborative conditions of mashups, interactive media, and other technical media.

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It prevents users from being able to legally engage in some forms of online communication and collaboration.

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In 1976, the law was expanded so that works need not be registered in order to be covered. This means that a world of information is now unintentionally protected by copyright law, including text messages, email, student work, and online course notes. Much of this information is intentionally uploaded to the web or given to archives, so that others may freely see and use it. Should someone wish to do that, however, they must now first clear it with the owner. The 1976 expansion has resulted in a huge number of “orphaned” works, which cannot be reprinted because one cannot locate an owner that may grant or sell the right to use it. The goal of Creative Commons is to give artists, authors, and inventors alternatives to both copyright (by which they retain all rights of ownership) and public domain (by which they retain no rights). Creative Commons crafted six unique licenses that allow copyright holders to customize their own rights of ownership. For example, the owner may elect to allow others to copy, distribute, and display a work for non-commercial purposes only. They may also allow others to create derivative works from their licensed material. These licenses follow the spirit of the 1790 law, but are also more amorphous and take into account the mutability of Web 2.0 technologies. Creators still hold the copyright to their work, which a Creative Commons license supplements. Creators can license their work at creativecommons.org where they may select conditions appropriate for their work, which are presented in clear and common language:

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identical to the license that governs your work.

It even covers unregistered works, most of which were never meant to be covered.

Attribution – You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but only if they give credit the way you request. Share alike – You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license

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Noncommercial – You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but for noncommercial purposes only.

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No derivative works – You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Depending on which of these conditions a creator selects, he or she will be assigned one of six licenses that encompass those conditions: Attribution, Attribution Share Alike, Attribution Noncommercial, Attribution No Derivatives, Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike, or Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives. When the work is entered into the Creative Commons database the creator will receive the license in three formats: machine readable (which will allow harvesters like Google to identify the license requirements), human readable (a coy name for a succinct summary of rights), and lawyer readable (a lengthy and legally-binding deed). The big difference between Creative Commons and the GNU GPL or U.S. Copyright Law is the insistence on attribution. Giving credit for foundational work is a focus of the licensing. The implications for an image-dependent field of study like architecture are very exciting. Nearly every professor of architecture seems to have their own database of self-photographed architectural images. If those were licensed and placed online, any number of professors could share their visual resources while maintaining ownership of the content. Those files could even be reused in interesting ways and the image could be altered to accentuate a feature. Architecture students and faculty members may also search for images and other material that is licensed by Creative Commons and, depending on the license, may be used freely in their work. (Both students and faculty members

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“Architect”

by brett roeth, aias vice president

There are still great barriers to more open scholarly communication, not the least of which is the uncontrolled cataloging on all these sites which results in messy and incomplete searching typical of online research. While the searching capability is not elegant, it is no different that a regular Google or Yahoo! search. In order to maximize the potential of Creative Commons licensing all creators in our discipline (be they student, librarian, or faculty member) should consider licensing and sharing their work, so that others may have a wider field of information and design from which to draw.

global mindset, and as the naivety of my rural upbringing wore away, I began to wonder if Howard Roark was an appropriate role model. I started to think about the purpose, power, and potential of an architect, and the ways in which an architect interacts with society. I began to realize that Howard Roark, my fictional hero, was just that – fiction. Finally, after four years of institutionalized education, I am left searching for an answer to a central question: What is an architect?

The twilight had washed off the details of the buildings. They rose in thin shafts of a soft, porcelain blue, a color not of real things, but of evening and distance. They rose in bare outlines, like empty molds waiting to be filled. The distance had flattened the city. The single shafts stood immeasurably tall, out of scale with the rest of the earth. They were of their own world, and they held up to they sky the statement of what man had conceived and made possible. They were empty molds. But man had come so far; he could go farther. The city on the edge of the sky held a question – and a promise. So says Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead. This image – this enthralling myth – is what originally attracted me to architecture. The romanticism of skyscrapers and cities captivated me, drew me in, consumed me; the thought of creating something that touched the sky and stood against time as a symbol of power and purpose fueled my passion. I read Rand’s masterpiece of fiction after the first year of my undergraduate education. I was in a new place, with fresh faces and fresh ideas, and Howard Roark became my inspiration. But as I continued to develop as an engaged student with an increasingly socially-oriented and

The legal definition of “architect” is rather specific. But I think we can define an architect much more broadly. An architect can be a builder of society, not just buildings. An architect does not merely respond to sociocultural patterns – an architect can affect positive change in communities, cities, and regions. An architect recognizes that the world in which we live is increasingly diverse, technological, and global. An architect can be a valued member of society; a person respected by others for his or her level of civic engagement, attention to a wide scope of issues, and invaluable skills and services. What can be appreciated, then, is the “Fountainhead spirit”: the force within each one of us that can only be unleashed – or quieted – by ourselves. The ambition and determination of Howard Roark can act as a model for approaching the difficult issues that a complacent society ignores. The challenges are daunting: our populace faces continual environmental destruction, financial meltdowns, and civic apathy. Yet architects are equipped with unique skills and knowledge that to face these challenges head-on. We should not look to others – politicians, financiers, biologists, engineers, developers, and the like – to solve these problems. Architects don’t wait Architects create it.

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often misunderstand the parameters of Fair Use. Copyright violations for educational use are common in universities and schools.) The Creative Commons website allows users to search their large and international database using Flickr and Google for still images, BlipTV for video, OWL for music, and SpinXpress, Yahoo!, and Google for media files and text. You may also search these sites directly. For example, they may directly visit www.flickr. com/creativecommons/. Users may also limit Google searches to certain usage rights by using the Advanced Search page. There are a number of other sites that allow users to search for licensed information, of which the Connexions Repository is a notable example. Someone may search for a building by name and find photographs of the building, models of the building photographed and uploaded by architecture students, essays on the building and other information, depending on which search engine one uses. The same thing would happen with a simple Google search, but the searcher would not know the legal ramifications of using resources from that search.

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call for nominations

2010 ACSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2010 ACSA REGIONAL DIRECTOR EAST CENTRAL AND WEST

The ACSA Nominations Committee invites nominations for two national officers positions on the 2010 Board of Directors. The offices are President-elect and Secretary.

East Central Region—The East Central Region of ACSA is now accepting nominations for the position of Regional Director for the 2010–2013 term of service.

The president-elect will serve a three-year term; one year each as vice president, president, and past president; presiding at meetings of the Association and is responsible for calling meetings of the Board of Directors, preparing an agenda for such meetings, and presiding at such meetings.

West Region—The West Region of ACSA is now accepting nominations for the position of Regional Director for the 2010–2013 term of service.

deadline: october 15, 2009

The president coordinates activities of the board, Association committees, and liaison representatives, provides liaison with the officers of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and the American Institute of Architecture Students, and serves as representative to the Five Presidents’ Council. The president also prepares a brief report of activities of the Association and the Board of Directors during the term of office for dissemination to the constituent associations. The secretary serves for a two-year term, and keeps minutes of all meetings and distributes copies of the minutes to all members of the board. The secretary maintains the bylaws of the association as well as all other documents required by corporate law, incorporating revisions and additions as required by action of the Association and Board of Directors. The Nominations Committee is chaired by Marleen Davis additional members include Stephen Meder, ACSA West Regional Director; Phoebe Crisman, ACSA Southeast Regional Director; & Donna Robertson, Illinois Institute of Technology (outside member). Nominations should include a CV, a letter of interest from the nominee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is October 15, 2009.

Qualifications Each Regional Director shall be a full-time and/or tenured or tenure-track faculty member of a full member school and shall be on the faculty of a school in the region represented. Terms and Duties The term of office shall be three years beginning July 1, 2010, and extending through June 30, 2013. Regional Directors serve the ACSA in at least three ways – as members of the Board of Directors, on a variety of national committees, and as executive officers of their regional constituent associations. In this latter role, the Regional Director sets the agenda and chairs meetings of his or her regional council. He or she maintains a file of regional records, correspondence, and minutes of regional meetings. The director is responsible for the fiscal affairs of the constituent association and is accountable to his or her regional council for these funds. He or she provides assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. The Director prepares annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s annual report and provides updates to the constituency on both regional and national matters of note. He or she administers the nomination and election of the subsequent Regional Director and performs such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Regional Directors are required to attend three Board meetings a year: a fall meeting which typically occurs after the Administrator’s Conference, a spring meeting which typically occurs after the ACSA Annual Meeting, and a summer meeting. The Nominations Committee will review applications received and develop a slate of not less than two nor more than three candidates. Ballots will be mailed to all full member schools in the appropriate region by mid-January, 2010. The results of this election will be announced at the ACSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 2010. Candidates will be notified of the results in mid-February.

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Interested parties, for the position of East Central or West Regional Director 2010-2013, should submit their CV and a brief statement of interest –or– letter of nomination, including qualifications by October 15, 2009.

Nominations should be sent to: ACSA, Board Nominations 1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 Email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

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2009-2010 ACSA Awards Program Call for Nominations & Submissions NEW ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

2008-09 Faculty Design Award Recipient, Kiel Moe, Northeastern University, Project: TUBEHOUSE

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Each year the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the professionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector. Please visit the ACSA website for more information. www.acsa-arch.org/awards

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John Cary, Executive Director, Public Architecture Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis Marvin Malecha, Dean, North Carolina State University; AIA President

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Public-Interest Design is centered on the conviction that design can impact social change, evidenced by contributions from the growing fields of humanitarian, community, pro bono, and universal design. As these fields continue to gain relevance as legitimate and sought-after forms of practice, they cast new light on the role of designers in the world. The 2010 ACSA Teachers Seminar will attract and unite educators, practitioners, foundation and nonprofit leaders, as well as clients and people served by publicinterest design. Together, conference participants will reveal, test, and inspire new possibilities for the practice of public-interest design. Participants will address public-interest design as a field of practice, but also as a discipline and a potential profession modeled after the professions of public defense, public health, and public policy. The conference will seek to establish a baseline understanding of past, current, and future models in the practice of publicinterest design. What roles do schools, design centers, and mainstream firms have to play? What are the opportunities for collaboration between these stakeholders and others? What, if anything, should our professional codes of ethics say about designing in the public interest? What will it take and mean for our current (or totally new) education and licensure systems to truly support public-interest design?

Location The key themes around which PublicInterest Design will be organized are as follows: 1. Shared Values: What are the core values of public-interest design? 2. Emerging Models: Where is the field moving? What are the opportunities and challenges? 3. Practice & Project Case Studies: What lessons can be gleaned from current and evolving practices and projects? 4. Detroit as a Case Study: How is and might a city like Detroit benefit from public-interest design? 5. Crucial Partnerships: What areas outside of the architecture and design fields might inform the way forward?

Attendees will stay at the Inn on Ferry Street, where four mansions and two carriage houses built from 1886 through 1892 have been transformed into a delightful 40 room inn, located on a quiet residential street near the Detroit Institute of Arts. Owners worked diligently to restore the place to period grandeur, polishing Victorian turrets, grand fireplaces, and ornate staircase railings. The Inn on Ferry Street is a text book example of adaptive use of historic houses. The Inn has contributed both to the revitalization of the Ferry Street Historic District and to the enrichment of Detroit`s Cultural Center. In a city were preservation is often considered an impediment to economic development, the Inn on Ferry Street is an excellent example of how preservation can facilitate economic development by creating an amenity that could simply never exist without the use of historic buildings.

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2009 ACSA/NCAA Administrators Conference

ECONOMIES:

ART+ARCHITECTURE Establishing new directions for creative leadership, education and practice The first joint conference for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA)

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Host School: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Peter MacKeith + Carmon Colangelo Chase park Plaza Hotel 212 N. kingshighway Blvd. St. Louis, Missouri 63108 Rate $165

The first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Council of Arts Administrators (NCAA). Economies allows for expansive and inclusive interpretation – promoting rich dialogue between both groups about current issues facing leaders in the fields of art, architecture and design education. This timely theme will serve as a catalyst in the discussion of broad areas such as strategic planning, entrepreneurship, faculty and career issues, finances, new structures and degrees, environment and sustainability, art and social practice, craft and technology.

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The ACSA provides a forum for ideas on the leading edge of architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in the future are being examined today in ACSA member schools. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations. The NCAA is an organization of academic professionals dedicated to creating and maintaining a vital network of arts administrators. An affiliate of the College Art Association, it promotes communication among institutions and provides meaningful collaborative opportunities for arts administrators within academia as well as with leaders in related arts organizations. This year’s conference will be relevant, engaging and enjoyable — promoting camaraderie and collaborations while showcasing the vibrant cultural richness of St. Louis to an influential group of art and architecture leaders including university presidents, deans, chairs and faculty from across the United States and Canada.

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Keynote

Skandalaris Award for

Excellence in Art + Architecture

Skandalaris Awards for

Entrepreneurship in Design & Visual Arts

John Maeda, Rhode Island School of Design Named in 2008 as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine, John Maeda is an award-winning artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. Before assuming the presidency at RISD in June 2008, he taught media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 12 years and served as associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab. Throughout his career, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation. Rick Lowe, Founder, Project Row Houses Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant Northern Third Ward of Houston, TX, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH is founded on the principle that art- and the community it creates- can be the foundation for revitalizing depressed inner-city neighborhoods. In addition, Mr. Lowe is part of Transforma Projects, a collective of artists and creative professionals formed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The initiative explores how art making can intersect with other sectors such as education, health, environment and community development.

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Host School: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis

Anna Rubbo, Founder, Global Studio Rubbo is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney and is being recognized for her leadership of Global Studio, an innovative, interdisciplinary program, established in 2005, that engages design students in participatory action research, community development and design. The program develops skills of importance in meeting the challenges of global poverty and social exclusion in cities. A member of the UN Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Dr. Rubbo went on to develop global Studio as a response to the need for new modes of education and practice for design and planning professions in relation to sustainable urbanization. John Bielenberg, Founder, Studio M Bielenberg is a partner and co-founder of the San Francisco-based design firm C2, has built his practice around a creative exercise that challenges our brain’s synaptic connections. Called “Think Wrong,” the process encourages participants to cast off embedded assumptions and approach design with a fresh perspective. In 2003, Bielenberg, founded Project M, an intensive immersion program meant to inspire designers, writers, filmmakers and photographers to use their work for impacting communities. He seeks to bridge the gap between design for design’s sake and its ability to change lives. ProjectM-ers have left their marks in East Baltimore; Belfast, ME; New Orleans; Costa Rica; and Ghana. Together they have worked to transform urban parks, preserve rainforests, promote micro financing, and help Gulf Coast designers displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Team Training/Orientation ARS Review Team Room Prep Special breakfast session for program administrators with visits in 2011 and 2012 to review the 2009 Conditions and preliminary draft of the 2010 Procedures. This session is designed to orient those program administrators that will be the first to be visited under the new Conditions. The session is open to everyone.

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Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Luncheon will include a presentation highlighting recent initiatives and award programs, including the upcoming ARCC and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) joint 2010 Research Conference, June 2326, 2010 in Washington DC. The conference shall serve as an international forum for the dissemination and discussion of research issues, concerns, findings, approaches, philosophies, and potentials. Business meeting is an opportunity for all conference participants to discover the important work ARCC engages in support of architectural education and research. All conference participants are welcome. For more information about ARCC please go to WWW.arccweb.org

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sCHEDULE Wednesday, November 4, 2009

1:30pm ADMINISTRATORS WORKSHOPS • STRATEGIC PLANNING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP • FACULTY 3:00pm ADMINISTRATORS WORKSHOPS • FINANCES • CAREERS 5:30pm OPENING LECTURE “Creative Leadership” John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design Graham Chapel, Washington University 7:30pm OPENING RECEPTION

Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:30am CONFERENCE WELCOME

9:00am LECTURE I Rick Lowe, Founder, Project Row Houses Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art + Architecture 10:15am PANEL DISCUSSIONS • NEW STRUCTURES / NEW DEGREES • STAINABILITY • ARCC Business Meeting 11:45am ARCC Luncheon 1:30pm PANEL DISCUSSIONS • BEYOND THE STUDIO: THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF SOCIAL AND SITUATED • BAUHAUS TO BIM: CRAFT, TECHNOLOGY AND FOUNDATION EDUCATION • NAAB Team Room Prep 4:00pm SAM FOX SCHOOL STUDIO TOURS 6:30pm LECTURES II & III Anna Rubbo, Founder, Global Studio John Bielenberg, Founder, Project M Skandalaris Awards for Entrepreneurship in Design & Visual Arts

Friday, November 6, 2009 8:00am NAAB Breakfast

8:30am Womens Leadership Council Meeting 9:30am ACSA Business Meeting Administrators Meet With Regional Directors 11:00am PLENARY SESSION The Future of Internship 12:30pm ACSA Townhall LUNCHEON 2:00pm PANEL DISCUSSIONS • RESEARCH ECONOMIES • PRACTICE ECONOMIES • NAAB Team Training 4:00pm ACSA/NCAA TOURS/VISITS: • Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Exhibition: Gordon Matta-Clark • Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis Exhibition: For the Blind Man (Group Show)

Saturday, November 7,2009

8:30am PANEL DISCUSSIONS • PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS • COMMUNITY DESIGN • NAAB ARS Rewview 10:30am Optional Tours

Lodging The Chase Park Plaza Hotel 212-232 N. Kingshighway Blvd St. Louis, Missouri 63108 ACSA Group Rate: $165.00 Online Reservations: You may reserve your room online for a $10 service fee. Phone Reservations: You may call the hotel directly to make your reservations at no additional fee. 877.587.2427 or 314.633.3000 Monday - Friday 8:00am - 9:00pm (Central Time) Saturday - Sunday 8:00am - 4:00pm (Central Time)

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Special Assistance ACSA will take steps to ensure that no individual who is physically challenged is excluded, denied services, segregated, or otherwise treated differently because of an absence of auxiliary aids and services identified in the American with Disabilities Act. If any such services are necessary to enable you to participate fully in these meetings, please contact Mary Lou Baily, 202/785 2324 ext 2; mlbaily@acsa-arch.org. Cancellation Policy Cancellations must be received in writing, no later than October 2, 2009 to qualify for a refund, less a processing fee of $50. This fee also applies to PayPal purchases. Unpaid purchase orders will be billed at the full rate specified in the order unless cancelled before the deadline; Standard cancellation fees will apply. Tour refunds do not apply. Contact For questions regarding registrations for the conference, contact Kevin Mitchell at 202/785 2324 ext 5; kmitchell@acsa-arch.org. For all other conference questions, contact Mary Lou Baily at 202/785 2324 ext 2, mlbaily@acsa-arch.org Payment ACSA accepts cash (on-site only), checks, money orders, Visa, and Mastercard. All payments must be in US dollars. Checks or international money orders should be made payable to ACSA and drawn on a bank located in the United States or Canada. Advance payments must be received at the ACSA national office by October 21, 2009. After that date, proof of purchase order, check requisition or on-site payment will be required upon conference check-in.

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9 8 th aCSA Annual Meeting Theme What is the role of the building in architectural discourse today? As schools engage in crossdisciplinary dialogues that are essential to the expanded field of architectural practice, does the art and craft of building design remain central to our curricula? Sophisticated technologies now allow us to preview the appearance and predict the performance of proposed buildings. Our traditional conception of design is challenged as decision-making can be automated and building parts can be cut, routed or printed to exact tolerances. Yet the ecological, economic and cultural contingencies that surround each project are increasingly complex. Recent events have exposed the fragility of buildings as objects in the face of natural and man-made forces and the critical role of infrastructure has been made increasingly apparent. The 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting will engage multiple themes associated with the changing art of building both as artifact and as process in architecture and related disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional definitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking. These debates will be informed by the city of New Orleans. More than 3 years after Hurricane Katrina the process and results of the rebuilding efforts at work in this most vibrant and unique of American cities will be an important point of reference and topic for discussion.

March 4-7, 2010 Co-chairs

Bruce Goodwin, Tulane University Judith Kinnard, Tulane University

Opening

Barry Bergdoll

Cheif Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Mondern Art Art History and Archaeology, Columbia Univeristy

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James Timberlake KieranTimberlake Associates University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington

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Alejandro Aravena Executive Director of Elemental S.A., Santiago, Chile Universidad Catolica

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Richard Campanella Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University

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Scott Bernhard Director of the Tulane City Center

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Marion Weiss

Weiss/Manfredi and University of Pennsylvania 2010 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medalist

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

Architecture in an Expanded Field, From Interiors to Landscape

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

Building Behaviors

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

Design Research in the Studio Context

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

Histor/Theory

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

Housing

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

Materials

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

Media Investigations

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

Submission Requirements

Authors will submit a 500-word abstract and a PDF of the poster (not to exceed 20” x 30” portrait orientation). Abstracts need to be formatted for blind peer review, as well as the posters. Accepted poster authors will have a 20” x 30” (portrait orientation) space on a tack board on which to post materials. Authors must stand at their posters during presen-tation time to discuss them with other participants. Posters are not required to be mounted; a flat tackable surface and tacks will be provided. Other materials for presentation are the responsibility of the authors.

T i m e l i n e November 19—Poster submission deadline December 3—Accept/reject notifications sent to all authors with reviewer comments. January 14—Poster presenter registration deadline

Re.Building

Royal Sonesta 300 Bourbon St New Orleans, LA 70130 (800) 766-3782 www.sonesta.com

This session is meant to engage multiple themes associated with the changing art of building both as artifact and as process in architecture and related disciplines. The theme encourages debate on how we might balance traditional definitions of aesthetics, urbanism, preservation and construction with innovative practices that shatter the boundaries of architectural thinking.

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

Urbanism

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

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Where Do You Stand ACSA 2011 Montréal 99th Annual Meeting

co-chairs

Alberto Pérez-GÓmez McGill University

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Université de Montréal

Annie Pedret

University of Illinois Chicago

Proposals for session topics related to the conference theme are requested, as are proposals related to the full range of subject areas within architecture, its related disciplines, and its allied professions. Session Topic proposals may be broad in reach or sharply focused. In either case, each proposal should clearly identify its subject and its particular approach to it: the premise, scope, and ambitions underlying the session should be clear to the reader. Authors of Session Topic Proposals submit a 500-word (maximum) description of the session, suitable for blind review, and a 2-page (maximum) curriculum vitae that demonstrates the author’s expertise in the proposal’s area of focus. Session Topic Selection Process Each Session Topic proposal is blind peer reviewed by a minimum of 2 external reviewers. Co-chairs review the ratings and comments provided by the external reviewers, the proposals themselves, and the 2-page curriculum vitae supplied by the proposal author.

Call for Papers Deadline: September 15, 2010 The Call for Papers will list the final Session Topics and will be announced in the April 2008 ACSANews as well as on the ACSA website. All papers will undergo a blind peer review process. Session Topic Chairs will take into consideration each paper’s relevance to the topic and the evaluation furnished by the three peer reviewers. Typically, each session will be composed of three or four presentations, with time for discussion. All papers will be submitted through an online interface and must meet the general criteria identified in the call for papers and in the submission guidelines. Each author will be limited to one submission per Session Topic. All authors submitting papers must be faculty, students, or staff at ACSA member schools or become Supporting ACSA members at the time of paper submission.

The selection process takes into consideration the merits of the Session Topic proposals – the subject, premise, and scope of the proposed Session Topics should be clearly stated – the expertise of the Session Topic authors, as well as the importance of organizing a diverse set of sessions for the Annual Meeting. The authors of the Session Topics selected in the first stage will serve as Session Topic Chairs for their respective sessions. Working in collaboration with the conference co-chairs, their responsibilities include: maintaining a blindreview process for all papers submitted during the entire review process; enlisting three blind reviewers for each of the papers submitted to their Session Topic; recommending final papers for presentation; and moderating their respective sessions during the Annual Meeting.

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

Call for Session Topics Deadline: January 6, 2010

Eligibility Prospective Session Topic Chairs are not required to be members of ACSA when submitting their Session Topic proposal. If their proposal is accepted all topic chairs must become supporting ACSA members by September 1 of the academic year during which the Annual Meeting will occur.

In the event of insufficient participation regarding a particular session topic, the conference co-chairs reserve the right to revise the conference schedule accordingly. Authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation will be required to register for the conference before the conference

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October 15-17, 2009 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Host School: University of New Mexico & University of Texas Arlington Co-chairs: Tim Castillo, Phillip Gallegos, Kristina H. Yu, University of New Mexico | Brad Bell, Kathryn Holliday, Wanda Dye, University of Texas at Arlington

Conference Theme

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Understanding the value of “place” and cultural specificity bring a unique design, technical, and economic responses that challenges traditional canons of practice and pedagogy.

Thursday October 15, 2009 Keynote Speaker: UNM Sponsored Opening Reception

The contemporary world is undergoing a major shift in cultural process, global culture is a ubiquitous condition that is a product of media and emerging networks defined by new technologies. As designers we are asked to respond and shape the future utilizing new tools to create designs that will respond to fluid transformation of built environment. As we begin to understand the future of design as a convergence of disciplines, culture and technology, a new paradigm for creating space can emerge. As schools of design begin to recalibrate, the profession continues to explore the interdisciplinary collaboration as a means of execution. Shifting design identity intends to explore this new paradigm influenced by culture, context, sustainability and technology while exploring these transformations occurring in pedagogy and practice in the global environment. Within the context of practice and pedagogy of design, the conference title Shifting Design Identity will seek to address international and regional southwest responses to key questions:

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• Design Identity: Design roles are in a tumultuous world of collaboration, competition, and collegiality with many disciplines. A principal question to explore is the definition of “design” and “role” where professions have lost much of their force for change to global pressures in the Southwest. • Economic: The global economy is shifting its priorities to address depleting resources and environmental conditions. Designers today are faced with emerging challenges to develop new models for practice and pedagogy that address the needs of our global environment. • Cultural: The Southwest, in particular, and the North American-Latin-Indigenous community, in general, characterize a region of parallel worldviews, cultures, history, contemporary agendas, and contradictions. Can the inconstancy of land, cultural territories, and technologies form meaningful relationships thru design? • Technologies: Given that design is not stable by nature, cans the range of realities: virtual to the real, and the tools that help create it, reconcile shifting sense of space and place?

Friday, October 16, 2009 Culture and Inhabiting the Everyday Landscape 8:30 – 10:00 Session 1: Kristina Yu, UNM 10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Wanda Dye, UTA Lunch Emerging Technologies 1:30 – 3:00 Session 3: Tim Castillo, UNM 3:30 – 5:00 Session 4: Bradley Bell, UTA Keynote Speaker: UTA Sponsored Saturday, October 17, 2009 Community Engagement 8:30- 10:00 Session 5: Kathryn Holliday, UTA 10:30- 12:00 Session 6: Phillip Gallegos, UNM Lunch Afternoon Tours: Los Alamos & Acoma

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2009 ACSA SOUTHEAST FALL CONFERENCE OCTOBER 8–10, 2009 SAVANNAH, GA

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Dennis Oppenheim, keynote speaker

Terence Riley, closing speaker

Dennis Oppenheim earned a B.F.A. from the School of Arts and

Terence Riley was the Philip Johnson chief curator of architecture

Crafts in Oakland, Calif., and an M.F.A. from Stanford University.

and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, before joining

The artistic trajectory of Dennis Oppenheim has always been

the Miami Art Museum as its director in March 2006. Riley is a

characterized by its incorrigible discontinuity, motivated then

founding partner in the architecture practice K/R (Keenen/Riley).

as today by an intensely adventurous curiosity.

He studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame and

Auldbrass Plantation tour

Columbia University.

Auldbrass, a plantation in Yemassee, S.C., is the only plantation

Presentation and panel discussion on Oren Safdie’s

“Private Jokes, Public Places”

off and on, for more than 20 years. This tour of the buildings, since

Capturing the full character of architectural discourse, “Private

restored after falling into disrepair, features the main house, play-

Jokes, Public Places” offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse

room, caretaker’s house, pool, stables and one of the guest cabins.

inside the contemporary world of architecture.

Additional tours Savannah tours SCAD tours School of Building Arts tours

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regional news

WEST arizona state University Arizona State University Assistant Professor Jason Griffiths in collaboration with senior year Integral Studio students have won the AA|FAB 2009 award (exterior category) for their structure “Political Ply”. The project is to be exhibited at the AA|FAB conference during London Design Festival and at the ASU Art Museum from October to November 2009. Associate Professor Ryc Loope was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals, and also re-appointed as a NAIOP Distinguished Research Fellow (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties) University of Colorado Congratulations to the Department of Architecture on achieving a six-year term of accreditation from the National Architectural Accrediting Board! Special kudos go to Hans Morgenthaler, the Chair of Architecture during the reaccreditation process, and his colleagues in the architecture department.

University of California, Berkeley graduate student “Amy” Hay Mew Hwang in Sou Fujimoto’s “House before House”. Part of the SUMIKA Project organized by Toyo Ito, in Utsunomiya, Japan. Photo by Jerome Tobias.

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Taisto Mäkelä, Associate Professor of Architecture, has been named Chair of the Department of Architecture. Taisto has PhD and MA degrees in Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism from Princeton University, a B.Arch from the University of Oregon, and Dipl. in Building Technology from British Columbia Institute of Technology. His research includes aesthetic theory and the modern movement, the legacy of classicism, the art museum, the history of the city, and the vernacular. Hans Morgenthaler, Associate Professor has been appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs-Boulder. Hans, who has taught in the College since 1989, previously served as Associate Chair of Architecture. Hans has PhD and MA degrees from Stanford University, and Lic. Phil. I from the University of Zurich. With research interests primarily in 20th-century European architecture and the architecture of Colorado, his most recent book is The Architect’s History of Architecture (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2007).

Sou Fujimoto explains his architecture; University of California, Berkeley graduate student Edu Pintos is in the background. Photo by Jerome Tobias.

Willem van Vliet, Professor of Planning and Design, has been appointed to the new position of Director of the Environmental Design (ENVD) Division in Boulder. He is the founder and Director of the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design and lead editor of the Children Youth and Environments Journal. Wil-

lem, who has taught in CAP since 1986, previously served twice as Director of ENVD, and for ten years as Director of the PhD Program. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto and doctorandus degree ad summos honores in sociology and planning from the Free University of Amsterdam.

university of Utah The University of Utah will launch the Mountain West Planning and Design Academy this fall — a series of intensive noncredit professional workshops taught by national experts in city planning, demographics, economics, finance and architectural design and technology. Designed to keep professional architects and planners up-to-date on cutting-edge technologies and strategies, the Academy will focus on sustainability of the built and natural environments and the interactions between them. “We believe in planning, designing and building sustainable communities that adapt with great sensitivity to local conditions,” said Brenda Case Scheer, Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning, in describing the mission of the new program. “We believe in creating healthy buildings and cities that conserve resources, enhance their surroundings and uplift those who dwell in them.”

This new collaboration between the U of U department of Continuing Education and the College of Architecture and Planning will offer five courses during fall 2009, including Accessibility by Design, Technology in Planning, and Designing for Total Building Life-Cycle Sustainability. Participants will receive highly specialized continuing education credits, and gain direct access to the latest knowledge and research. “These courses will help our city planners and architects be better armed to meet the daunting challenges that lie ahead,” said Anne O’Brien, Director of Professional Education at the U. “Academy classes will not only provide a focused approach to vital problems, but also promote spirited discussion and innovation within the classroom as design experts come together to share their professional experiences.” Between now and 2040, the population of the United States will increase by more than 100 million people. In addition to 60 million new and rebuilt homes and a third more nonresidential buildings such as offices and stores than exist

now, nearly all the nonresidential buildings will be replaced. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) estimates that buildings already account for 12 percent of water use, 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, 65 percent of waste output and 70 percent of electricity consumption in the U.S. “Staying current with new technologies is vital to creating the most efficient, environmentallyresponsible structures — and ultimately the most livable future — that we can,” added Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, Director of the Metropolitan Research Center at the U. “The West is developing incredibly rapidly, and we need to be as strategic and educated as possible in shaping how it will be built.”

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The Mountain West Planning and Design Academy at The University of Utah kicked off on Sept. 24 with Technology in Planning. Professionals may enroll in as many or as few classes as they see fit. To register, or for more information, call (801) 585-1780 or visit proed. utah.edu/mwplanning.

SOUTHweST Seth McDowell was appointed the Nadine Carter Russell endowed Chair in the School of Architecture for AY 2009-2010. McDowell recently completed his Master’s in Architecture at Columbia, where his research and interests centered on emerging technologies associated with communications, energy and fuel. He believes that the combination can aid in the reinvention of infrastructure so that the built environment supports a healthier condition of life. Given that Louisiana and the entire Mississippi River Basin are in extremely fragile ecological conditions, McDowell believes LSU is in a prime position to aid in the development of sustainable yet inventive solutions. Assistant Professor C. David Bertolini, was recently promoted to Associate Professor whose area of interest includes the interdisciplinary

field of research comprised of anti-representational, non-temporal, and non-spatial theories of architecture and film. Associate Professor Michael Desmond, has completed the historic preservation study for LSU sponsored by the Getty Foundation’s Campus Heritage Grants program. This work produced a comprehensive inventory of external conditions of the LSU campus’ original buildings designed by St. Louis architect Theodore C. Link, and a historical analysis of the design of the campus and its buildings as conceived by Link and the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline Massachusetts. LSU Press will publish the study in 2010, the university’s 150th anniversary year. Culminating events include a traveling exhibit hosted by the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office, and public lecture for the Foundation for Historical Louisiana at the Old Louisiana Governors Mansion.

Professor Frank Bosworth recently completed the research, facilitation, and report for the Context Sensitive Solutions Statewide Implementation Plan sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Transportation. Associate Professor Ursula Emery McClure returns to LSU after a yearlong fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She and her husband, Michael McClure, Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, were awarded the Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize last April for their research proposal, Terra Viscus: Hybrid Tectonic Precedent. Associate Professor Jim Sullivan, Director of the Office of Novice Design Education, LSU College of Art + Design, recently launched the National Conference on Beginning Design Student (SOUTHWEST continued on page 24)

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(NCBDS) website and archive, www.begininningdesign.org. For over 25 years, the NCBDS has provided a forum for design educators to present papers and projects and hold discussions related to introductory design issues. Professor Jason C. Shih, Director of the Office of Building Research, served as a keynote speakers at the Alternative Energy and Building Efficiency Conference 2009 in Boston “Green Building Design and Energy Conservation.” Marsha Cuddeback, Director of the Office of Community Design and Development, received the 2009 LSU Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award for her exceptional and long-standing commitment to integrating quality service-learning activities into her architecture classes and for dissemination of related scholarship. Cuddeback and AIA Louisiana were awarded an AIA Component Excellence Award in Outreach/Communications for their “IDP Forum 2008,” which enabled the voices of emerging professionals to engage in dialogue about meeting the needs of the next generation. Texas A&M University

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Texas A&M architecture professor Dr. Roger Ulrich, recently addressed the benefits of evidence-based design for the health care industry in a distinguished panel discussion, “Healthy Hospitals,” held as part of the National Building Museum’s “For the Greener Good” lecture series. The entire discussion examining why a green hospital is a healthier one can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/3921798. Professor Ward V. Wells, professor of architecture at Texas A&M University and director of the university’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, was recently elected to the National Board of Tau Sigma Delta, the national honor society of architecture and allied arts. The he will serve the first two years of his six year term as vice president/president elect. Established in 1913, Tau Sigma Delta is open to students of all U.S. colleges and universities that have accredited programs in architecture, landscape architecture or allied arts. The organization celebrates excellence in scholarship and stimulates intellectual achievement.

Dr. Peter Lang, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, is one of three curators of an exhibit recreating a landmark 1972 show originally exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “Environments and Counter Environments, Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972” assembles, for the first time since 1972, original documents and multimedia projections featured in the historic show curated by Emilio Ambasz. The exhibition, open to the public April 19 - May 8 at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in Columbia University’s Buell Hall, focuses on the 1972 show’s Environments section that featured a series of fullscale experimental domestic modules designed for the exhibition and installed in the MoMA galleries. Dr. Phill Tabb has been appointed to the Executive Board of Architecture, Culture and Spirituality. The group recently sponsored a symposium at Mt. Angel Abbey in St. Benedick, Oregon. The Forum for The Venetian Walls of Nicosia, Cyprus 2005

Architecture, Culture and Spirituality is an international scholarly environment established in 2007 to support architectural and interdisciplinary scholarship, research, practice, and education on the significance, experience and meaning of the built environment. Its activities include web-based information resources, networking and discussion groups, conferences and symposia, and publications. Dr. Sarah Deyong, Assistant Professor, has been awarded a Graham Foundation Grant to support archival research. This research will lead to articles for publication, based on chapters from her dissertation at Princeton

University on the “Megastructure and the Creative Simulacrum in Architecture, 1953-1976.” The work offers a critical reassessment of the Megastructure’s legacy by focusing on the problem of urban growth and form as it relates

to a dynamic and creative concept of the city and to parallel discussions at the time in philosophy, biology and computer science.

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Professor Brian Dougan’s work in shown at the Forsyth Gallery at the Memorial Student Center on Texas A&M University campus. This show is a regional juried art exhibition with 41 pieces accepted from 141 entries from 8 states. Professor Dougan’s entry is a sculptural wall piece that combines architectonic details and a small Iranian woven rug. Professor Brian Dougan’s pottery studio design is highlighted in Texas Architect Magazine, issue May/June 2009. This studio is designed and constructed by Professor Dougan. It is a singleroom building protected from elements by an interior veneer of corrugated acrylic panels

while the exterior is clad by a horizontal array of rough-sawn, treated pine. As Professor Dougan calls it, an inside-out studio. Dr. Anat Geva, associate professor at the department of architecture at Texas A&M University presented a paper in the Third International Congress of the Construction History Society that was held in Cottbus, Germany last May. Her presentation of the paper entitled: “The Utility of Computerized Energy Simulations in the Study of Religious Identity” was televised by The Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg TV. This TV broadcast also included an interview with Dr. Geva about her work on historic Wendish churches that were built in Germany, Texas, and South Australia. Professor David G. Woodcock, FAIA, FSA, FAPT led discussions on the role of documentation in Heritage Preservation Engineering Education at in invited international colloquium organized

by the University of Vermont (UVM) School of Engineering and sponsored by the NCPTT on 22-23 June. The recommendations of the 22person colloquium group will be published by UVM towards the end of the summer and are expected to lead to an innovative collaboration between the engineering graduate programs and the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at UVM. The report will provide guidance for increasing the number of much-needed engineers with special knowledge needed to work on existing and heritage buildings. In addition, Professor Woodcock served as a member of the jury for the 2009 “Preservation as Provocation” Student Design Competition that called for additions to Louis Kahn’s famed Salk Institute. The jury met in Washington, DC on 10-11 July. University of Houston

Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture hosted the University of Houston Green Building Components Exhibit. The GBC exhibition will showcased the work of 8 research teams whose projects focused on the design, development, and market production of sustainable green building components and represented the potential to affect the built environment through sustainably designed components that will have a broad impact across the architecture, engineering, and construction industries.

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Susan Rogers and Matt Johnson have joined the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor. Eun Sook Kwon has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Patrick Peters has been promoted to Professor.

From September 8th-18th, with an opening reception September 10th, the University of

WEST central The King Pavilion, a $6.6 million addition that will provide instructional studio space for Architecture and other departments in the College of Design, is Iowa State’s first new green structure. The 23,735-gross-square-foot facility was designed under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines to meet the highest green building and performance measurements. “The King Pavilion is about walking the talk,” said Luis Rico-Gutierrez, dean of design. “As we talk to our design students about the complexities of sustainability, we will be able to point to this facility and use it as an example of how it is done.” Located on the north side of the College of Design, the King Pavilion features a central, two-story “forum” surrounded by instructional

studios, previously housed across the street in the 75-year-old Armory Building. The new facility will be home to freshmen in the college’s Core Design program as well as upperclassmen in professional degree programs. It was Dean Emeritus Mark Engelbrecht’s dream that students from all design programs be integrated in the same work area, creating opportunities for interaction and collaboration. This fall, 16 sections of 23 freshmen each will use the Core Design classrooms on the ground floor. The ground floor also will have a general critique area and three studios for upper-level students. Seven studios for upper-level students will be located on the top floor. Designed by RDG Planning & Design, Des Moines, the construction of the King Pavilion began in April 2008 and was completed in June 2009. Kevin Nordmeyer was lead designer.

The facility showcases several green and energy-saving techniques: a green roof, stormwater management, water conservation, natural ventilation, daylighting, and recycled, local materials. The green practices applied in the King Pavilion are already influencing other campus projects. Two buildings under construction--the Biorenewables Research Laboratory and the new chemistry facility--are incorporating onsite cistern retention for rainwater recycling. As a result, Iowa State is leading the state of Iowa in setting new standards for using reclaimed water in buildings. The King Pavilion was dedicated Aug. 24. The addition is named for Steve King and his late wife, Barb, who made a commitment of $1.5 million for the facility. The Kings graduated from Iowa State in 1968 and founded Landscape Structures Inc., an innovative children’s play equipment company that is an industry leader in safe, sustainable design practices. (WEST CENTRAL continued on page 26)

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The College of Design raised $3.6 million in private support for the project. A total of 2,022 individual donors contributed. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The School of Architecture was formally notified in July that it has received a full six year accreditation term. The School underwent its NAAB Accreditation review in the spring of 2009. The School of Architecture is pleased to announce the promotion of Assistant Professor Vidar Lerum to Associate Professor with tenure; Associate Professor Alejandro Lapunzina to Full Professor; and Associate Professor Jeffery Poss to Full Professor.

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The Director of the School of Architecture, David Chasco, underwent a five-year review during the 08-09 AY and has been reappointed Director of the School of Architecture by the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and by the Provost. Associate Professor Mike McCulley will serve as Interim Assistant Director for the School’s Graduate Studies Program, effectively replacing Robert Selby who retired May 2009. The School will conduct a search in the spring of 2010 for a permanent replacement. Dr. Lee Waldrep will be joining the School of Architecture this fall as the new Administrator of Student Services, effectively replacing Professor Art Kaha. His appointment is effective August 1, 2009. Dr. Waldrep has 15 years’ experience in higher education with an emphasis on student services and program management, most recently as associate dean in the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, he served in a similar role in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career he was a national vice president of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and a project coordinator for The American Institute of Architects (AIA). Dr. Waldrep earned his Ph.D. in counseling and development from The American University; he also holds an M. Arch. from Arizona State University and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Becom-

An exhibition of the graphic work of the University of Illinois lecture series from 09_2006 to 12_2008 under Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway on view at the west wing gallery. photo by Erik M Hemingway

ing an Architect published by J. Wiley and Sons, and the original author of ARCHCareers.org, a website dedicated to assisting individuals learn about the process of becoming an architect, now jointly managed by AIAS and the AIA. We welcome him to his new role. The School of Architecture has two new faculty hires. Assistant Professor Therese Tierney who will be teaching in the Design Program; and Assistant Professor Marci Uihlein who will be teaching in the Structures Program.

William B. Rose, research architect in the School of Architecture, received the 2009 Excellence in Historic Preservation award from the Preservation League of New York state on May 13, 2009. The award recognizes Rose (for his work as moisture consultant on the project) and others who contributed to the recent restoration of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Professor Mir Ali has been named Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Fel-

low for 2009 for his contribution to the Council over an extended period of time. Recognition will be made during the 2009 CTBUH Awards Dinner to be held on October 22 at the Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson received an Arnold O. Beckman Research Award in the amount of $16,792 for his project titled, “Instrumentally Digital”. The work is an investigation exploring the role digital instruments play in shaping our physical environment framed through relationships of culture, artifact and technology, and innovation. Outcomes generated through full-scale prototypes will respond to the question of how we cover, clad, and perceive architecture as aesthetic impulse or technological imperative, or perhaps both. Chair of the School of Architecture’s Building Research Council, Donald Fournier, has been selected to serve on Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative on the Climate Positive’s Technical Resource Group. The Clinton Climate Initiative’s Climate Positive Development Program was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) that supports the development of large-scale urban projects that demonstrate cities can grow in ways that are “climate positive”. Sixteen founding projects on six continents, supported by local governments and property developers, will demonstrate Climate Positive strategies, setting a compelling environmental and economic example for cities to follow. The Climate Positive Program’s Technical Resource Group consists of leading world experts in urban design systems, emissions sources, ecological restoration, and much more.

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Graduate thesis 2008-09 project by student Sarang Gokhale at the University of Illinois with advisor Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway

University of Michigan The Fellowships in Architecture Program celebrated its 25th anniversary year in March. The program enables architecture and urban planning practitioners and scholars to be in resi-

dence at Taubman College during an academic year and engage in research. The program was the first to grant fellowships in architecture, and has served as the platform to launch academic and professional careers for the more than 60 participants.

The 2009-2010 Architecture Fellows include: Thomas Moran, Muschenheim Fellow; Cathlyn Newell, Oberdick Fellow; and Taubman Fellows Meredith Miller, Rosalyne Shieh, and Ellie Abrons.

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northeast City College of New York Distingished Professor Jerrilynn Dodds’ newest book, The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, appeared this fall, written in collaboration with Prof. Maria Rosa Menocal of Yale University, and with Abigale Krasner. The book tells the compelling story of Iberia’s plural medieval cities - Cordoba, Seville and above all Toledo, through architecture, urban life, and literary culture. Professor Dodds has also given lectures this year in Copenhagen, Aalborg, and Seville; at NYU, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, she offered two lectures series at the Metropolitan Museum. Peter Gisolfi, Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Chair, received five design awards in 2008 including two awards for the Student Center at Manhattanville College, and an award for The Center at Maple Grove Cemetery. He also presented six lectures at libraries, clubs and universities, and published an article on “Sustainable Buildings for Learning.” His new book Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape was published by Images Publishing in April 2008.

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Associate Professor Marta Gutman published “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City,” in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She presented “Condition and Consciousness: Childhood in a California Orphanage” at the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University, in February at the conference “Home, School, Play, Work: The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children,” co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. Master of Architecture Program Director Brad Horn authored the essay “The Autopoetics of Education” in the book Autogenic Structures (Taylor and Francis Press, 2008), exploring the pedagogical investigations of architect and educator Evan Douglis. Char No. 4, a new restaurant designed by Master of Architecture Program Director Brad Horn and Adjunct Instructor Maria Berman, was published in The Architect’s Newspaper in November 2008

Associate Professor Elisabetta Terragni published the article “A Burst of Ideas,” featuring the MoMA exhibition house designed by Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier in the February 2009 issue of Domus. Two of her buildings, Greenhouse on Lake Como and the Elementary School at Altavilla Vicentina in Vicenza, Italy, are included in The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture (2008). The U.S. Library of Congress will exhibit her virtual project for the transformation of two abandoned highway tunnels in Trento, Italy. The project was directed by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and realized by FilmWorks of Trento.

York Prize Fellow at the Van Alen Institute in New York, working on CITY SINK, a planning and design proposal for urban carbon sink infrastructure in New York City. David Sokol wrote about her project Relief Organism in “INBOX, Record invites designers to redefine the refugee experience,” Architectural Record, October 2008, and recognized elsewhere. She published the article “Slum Tectonics” in the Slum Lab Grotao newspaper in November 2008, and was an advisor to Gans Studio’s “Roll Out House” exhibit in the U.S. Pavilion for the 2008 Venice Biennale.

Adjunct Professor Robert Twombly has just published Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts with W. W. Norton & Co. He is now working on Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts.

Assistant Professor Kiel Moe has been named the recipient of the 2009-10 ROME PRIZE, awarded by the American Academy in Rome each year to one or two architects in the United States. Professor Moe will be a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, throughout the coming academic year, where he will continue his work on energy systems in buildings and sustainable design practices and measures. This is an extremely prestigious award, and the School of Architecture is immensely proud of Kiel Moe for his consistently superb design work, innovation, teaching, and scholarship.

Associate Professor June Williamson co-authored, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, the book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2009), a case study guide to the tremendous physical transformations taking place in suburbia through redevelopment. Her essay “Habraken and Koolhaas: Two Dutchmen flying over Bijlmermeer” was published in the anthology Writing Urbanism (Routledge, 2008), and she will present the paper “Retrofitting Suburbia: A Pedagogical Perspective” at the 97th ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The faculty continues to be well represented in awards, honors, and exhibitions. Associate Professor Jacob Alspector’s designbuild competition winning Utah Valley University Library, completed last September, has garnered four awards: The “2008 Best Project, Public Sector Building Over $15 Million’’ from the Design-Build Institute of America/Rocky Mountain Region, the “2008 Building Project of the Year (Public) $25+ Million” from the AGC of Utah and from Intermountain Construction Magazine’s Best of 2008 Awards, the “Green Building Project” and the “Higher Education Project” Merit Awards. Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Denise Hoffman Brandt is currently a New

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The new ranking for faculty research in American architecture schools has just been released, and The School of Architecture at Northeastern University remains very highly ranked. Though the School has slipped two places from 12 to 14 since the last ranking in 2007, it remains in the very top tier of the 107 accredited schools of architecture in the Unites States, see http://www. archsoc.com/kcas/researchschool4.html The School of Architecture is very happy to announce that Ivan Rupnik will be joining the full-time faculty in the fall of 2009. A graduate of Louisiana State University and Harvard University, Rupnik will bring an expertise in studio teaching, urban design, campus planning, and engaging historic cities in contemporary development. Rupnik’s book Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice (with Eve Blau, published by ACTAR in Barcelona, 2007) calls Zagreb a city that is “dynamic but coherent.” The addition of Ivan Rupnik to the faculty

adds another key player in the School’s attention to the discourse around changing cities. As the scale of contemporary development runs into historic character, and as the environmental efficiency of denser living collides with concerns about congestion, many major cities around the world are encountering challenges that defy resolution by traditional methods. The School of Architecture at Northeastern is intent on expanding architectural discourse to include these critical issues, and the addition of Ivan Rupnik is an excellent step in that direction.

The School of Architecture will also convene a major national conference, Infrastructure and the Future: Assessing the Architect’s Role, November 20 & 21, 2009. The conference, coordinated by Assistant Professors Amanda Lawrence and Roy Kozlovsky, will bring together leading national voices on the past and future of infrastructure planning, and how the renewed attention to public spending might serve to best re-energize the country’s economic future and the quality of its built environment. Pennsylvania State University Assistant Professor of Architecture Jin Baek’s book, Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space, was published by Routledge in June. His book illuminates the cultural significance of Tadao Ando’s churches, particularly his world-renowned Church of the Light (1989) which embodies a distinctive spatial emptiness and a cross of light, by referring to the legacy of nothingness expounded by Kitaro Nishida, the father of the Kyoto philosophical school, and its theory of perception and shintai, or the Japanese term for body. The interview text with

“Hovering Nodes,” Syracuse University iSchool Windows Project installation, designed by Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Clare Olsen, 2009.

Ando found in the book elucidates his conception and embodiment of sacred space as it pertains to nothingness, the relationship between his residential architecture and Christian architecture, and his design approach to the Museum of Kitaro Nishida’s Philosophy (2002). Jin Baek was also an organizer of the Second Architecture and Phenomenology Conference held in June in Kyoto, Japan. In the conference, he delivered a talk on the East Asian phenomenological legacy and its architectural significance. Syracuse University Associate Professor Ted Brown and Professor Anne Munly (Munly Brown Studio) are currently working on a 34-unit residential development in Syracuse, NY, “Green City Homes.” Recently, Munly Brown Studio was design consultant to Syracuse-based Ashley McGraw Architects’ Advanced Building Studio in the design of the Liberty Central School District’s new Media Center addition in Liberty, New York, one of the state’s first net zero energy school district buildings. Other recent work includes “The Savvy Wine Cellar,” a wine shop located in Camillus, New

York ,and a completed research report, “Design Intelligence for Energy Optimization in a SingleFamily Home,” (ted brown PI) supported, in part, by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Assistant Professor Clare Olsen is one of six winners of the Syracuse University iSchool Windows Project design competition. In summer 2009, Olsen’s Hovering Nodes design was installed in a window well on the ground floor of Hinds Hall, home of the iSchool on Syracuse University main campus. A panel of judges from the iSchool, College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Everson Museum in Syracuse selected winning designs based on the following criteria: quality of the idea presented, including originality, impact, scale, and connections made to its context; suitability to the proposed site; feasibility; and durability and maintenance requirements. Visiting Critic Marc Tsurumaki of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) is teaching a 6-hour design studio to advanced-level B.Arch and M.Arch (NORTHEAST continued on page 30)

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students this semester at Syracuse Architecture NYC. Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects will be a Syracuse Architecture visiting critic in spring 2010 and teach the NYC design studio course during that time. University at Buffalo Professor Annette LeCuyer chaired a plenary session and presented a paper entitled “Concept + Construct” at the 2009 national conference of the Building Technology Educators Society, which was held in August in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Chinese edition of her book, Steel and Beyond – New Strategies for Metals in Architecture (Birkhauser, 2003) has recently been published by the China Architecture & Building Press. The IDEA Center received the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Universal Design Leadership award for an 18-month initiative at the nation’s seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) with accredited architectural departments. Each year, the NEA enters into a Cooperative Agreement with an organization for a project to increase understanding, acceptance, and practice of universal design (UD) within the design profession, by design educators, and by the American public. The $65,000 award will be used to improve UD curricula at HBCU, sponsor speaker exchange, develop a state-of-the-art report, and assess the inclusiveness of HBCU communities to increase public awareness of the importance of UD in African American communities which have the highest disability rates in the country. The IDEA Center assisted Mercy Care for the Adirondacks (MCA), a faith-based service organiza-

tion headquartered in Lake Placid, New York, in obtaining a $25,000 planning grant for Aging in Place from the New York State Office for Aging. The IDEA Center will provide in-kind assistance for a year-long community-based planning initiative to improve services and programs for aging in place in three remote rural communities, resulting in three community plans and composite regional plan to improve quality of life, reduce the impact of disability, and increase residential independence for older adults. Professors Robert Shibley and Lynda Schneekloth traveled to South Korea August 1-15 where Professor Shibley gave a keynote speech on August 6 at the International Conference on Urban Regeneration sponsored by the Korean Urban Renaissance Center. The conference was held as part of the opening for the The Incheon 2009 Global Fair and Festival. As part of the trip Professor Shibley also gave a keynote address at a planning seminar on the campus of Yonsei University as part of an extensive effort to reframe government standards related to the emerging “Apartment Culture” throughout Korea. Following the conference and seminar Professors Schneekloth and Shibley led a three day lecture and discussion tour with thirty scholars and students offering a “Western Perspective on the Hanok” the traditional housing of Korea. The lectures and tour were arranged by Professor Pil Wan Han of the Hannam University School of Architecture. Professor Han, a former research scholar at the School of Architecture and Planning at UB, has been translating Professor Schneekloth’s book Ordering Space: types in architecture and design for publication into Korean and arranged the tour as an intense investigation into traditional Korean housing typology. A research team directed by Dr. Gary Scott Dan-

ford at SUNY/Buffalo’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) is currently conducting a federally funded research study of universal designs’ effectiveness in the built environment. This study is being conducted through the Center’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD) with funding provided by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).The online Design Effectiveness Surveys offer participants the opportunity to evaluate how effective various designs are in resolving previously identified problematic activities in public buildings, on public streets and in residential environments. As of August 2009, more than 500 people with varying functional and sensory abilities have participated in the surveys. Anyone who is interested (including individuals with no impairments) is welcome to go to the Built Environment Research Study’s homepage located at http://udeworld.com/surveys/built-environment.html and follow the instructions. Any questions or comments may be directed to Michael Grimble, Project Coordinator, at mgrimble@buffalo.edu. Nick Bruscia, Adjunct Faculty, was runner up in the interior section - AA FAB (Architectural Association) competition and is one of 6 to be presenting in a conference in September as part of London Design Week. His work will also be exhibited during that same week (http://67.15.245.8/ ~aafab/?p=395). He also received a special mention for the sustainable product category in D3 Natural Systems. This project will be exhibited in a show in New York in the Fall (http://www. d3space.org/competitions/ under ‘awards’). Joshua Gardner and Albert Chao won Eleanor Allwork merit awards this year, given by the Center for Architecture Foundation. And Adam Pyse

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Southeast Auburn University The Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction welcomes Joshua Emig to the School of Architecture faculty.

Emig teaches Design-Construction Studio and Executive Issues in the newly-redeveloped Master of Design-Build program. He previously served as director of the Applied Technology Group at SHoP New York. He has also worked at façade consultant Front Inc. on the technical

design of complex façade systems for projects by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, REX, Jean Nouvel and others. He received his Master of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Professor Julie Rogers Varland will be presenting at the 2009 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Mobile, Alabama from October 21-24, 2009. Professor Rogers Varland’s proposal was accepted for the Liminality Panel, and she will present her research titled, “Engawa and More: Japanese Concepts and Architectural Behaviors of Liminal Space”. Professor Rogers Varland’s travel to Japan in the summer of 2008 to conduct research was partially supported by the Savannah College of Art and Design Presidential Fellowship program. Professor Alexis Gregory, RA had two paper proposals accepted to the 2009 SECAC. The first paper proposal was accepted as part of the “Small Town, Big Design: Methods and Processes for Design Research” session and was entitled “Complexity In Situ: Architecture Studio Design in Smaller Cities and Towns.” The second paper proposal accepted was entitled “The Mausoleum: How Can Architecture Be Used to Help Deal with Death?” for the session “The Infinite Finite: Depictions of Death in Western Art”. She presented this paper during the SECAC meeting in Mobile, Alabama from October 21-24, 2009. Professor Gregory also presented a paper entitled “The Parking Garage Studio: Challenging the Language of Everyday Car Culture” at the 2009 ACSA Southwest Fall Conference held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 15-17, 2009 and recently completed a book review for the NASPA Journal on The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men. The review can be accessed at http://publications.naspa.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=604 5&context=naspajournal. Professor Julia Granacher also had a proposal accepted at the 2009 SECAC. Professor Granacher’s proposal was accepted for the session “Thinking Outside the Box.” Her proposal “The Inherent Potential of the Drawn Line” is a critique of the growing predominance of computer imagery and craft in academia as a result of the same turn in the architecture profession. The paper seeks to demonstrate the detrimental effects of subverting hand drawing skills and handicraft as a means of developmental thought and attempts to provide various strategies for developing a balance between the analog and digi-

tal in the contemporary academy. In addition, Professor Granacher participated in the Virginia Center for Architecture (VCA) Architecture Week in March 2009. The VCA offers a week-long intensive study of architecture to select groups of students from varying backgrounds across the state of Virginia. Professor Granacher was selected to initiate discussion and develop skills in a workshop related to architectural graphics. Techniques studied included architectural sketching, watercolor basic technique and simple rendering, and the value of varying materials to experiment conceptually with architecture and design. While at the VCA Architecture Week Professor Granacher also conducted critical reviews of student portfolio work and offered suggestions for work related to architecture, painting, photography, and sculpture.

fessor Mark McGlothlin, Assistant Professor Bradley Walters, Assistant Professors of Building Construction Robert J. Ries and James G. Sullivan, and Associate Professor of Interior Design Maruja Torres.

WHAT: The opening exhibition of competition winners and selected entries and a panel discussion of competition jurors represent the final phase of an international design competition for a Miami Beach Pier Museum located at the end of Fifth Street in South Beach. The Miami Beach Pier Museum would stand as a “horizontal monument” to all the immigrants who have arrived on these shores in search of a better future. The designs for this structure house a museum in which personal effects, souvenirs, and photos belonging to the new generation of immigrants would be exhibited – those who came to the South Florida shores from the 1950s to the 1980s. This event is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor Hui Zou has successfully achieved Doctoral Faculty Status.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA The University of Florida has been selected as one of two U.S. teams to compete in the first Solar Decathlon Europe to be held in Madrid, Spain in 2010. Twenty student teams from universities around the world team will construct full-scale sustainable homes on a site in Madrid, where their performance will be measured and scored in ten categories. Re-interpreting the regional vernacular architecture of North Florida with new forms, materials, and construction methodologies, the students refer to themselves as Team RE-FOCUS. They have been recognized by the UF Office of Sustainability with an Honorable Mention as one of the Most Active Student Groups on campus. The interdisciplinary team is co-directed by Associate Pro-

Assistant Professor Ruth Ron participated in the Spot on Schools Exhibition, a part of the event ‚Beyond Media. in Florence, Italy. The exhibition team included: Hillary Hemstreet, Bruce Werner, Charles Gurrey, Chris Malcolm, Simon Barrow, Kyle Proefke, Justin Fong, and Megan Suau.

Associate Professor Donna Cohen has received a UF Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Award, which will support her research/design initiatives in Africa in collaboration with architects from Finland.

The 2009 AIA Florida/Caribbean Honor & Design Awards recognized work by SoA students and faculty. Director Martin Gold and the Florida Community Design Center received a Merit Award in the Unbuilt Category for ‚Archer Braid: Bicycle and Pedestrian Commuting & Recreation Corridor.. Associate Professor Donna Cohen and Armstrong & Cohen Architecture also received a Merit Award for their ‚TunaHAKi theater. project. Damien Blumetti (M.Arch ‘09) received a Merit Award in the Theoretical & Research Category for his project‚ An Investigation of Adding to Mid-Century Modern Housing.. Professor Emeritus Karl Thorne, FAIA received the McMinn Educator Honor Award. George “Dustin” Pasteur (M.Arch ’08) received an AIA Tampa Bay Honor Award for his Masters Research Project “Modern, Manufactured… Modular: A Regionalist of Industrialized Housing in Florida.” Each element of design for the houses is drawn from the specific environmental cues present in the chosen site for the home. Using a new system of modular prefabrication techniques for construction allows for a variously customizable and highly efficient manner of cost effectively building modern responsive homes for the general public. His project was developed with Professor Alfonso Perez-Mendez and Associate Professor Michael Kuenstle, AIA. (SOUTHEAST continued on page 32)

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Professor Martha Kohen will inaugurate a new position as the Coordinator of the Architecture Archive at the George A. Smathers Libraries. This position, and the collaborative relationship between the School of Architecture and the Special Collections at the Libraries, is the result of her tireless efforts to establish the University of Florida as the preeminent leader in the scholarly documentation, preservation and dissemination of Florida’s Architectural heritage. As the Coordinator of the Architecture Archive at the George A. Smathers Libraries, Professor Kohen will act on behalf of the School of Architecture to collaborate with the Special Collections administration; provide knowledge, expertise and guidance with relation of Florida Architecture, inclusive of the academic and practitioners view points toward the management of collections; coordinate SoA educational efforts involving the collection; lead activities of identification of future collections; act as SoA liaison in collaboration with Special Collections and the UF Foundation for the acquisition of collections and to develop relationships with current and potential donors; conduct outreach activities to raise public awareness such as, write publications, conduct exhibitions and develop newsletters; and enhance links with collateral institutions, universities, architecture archives and historical societies at regional, national and international levels. Bahar Armaghani, LEED Faculty, Assistant Director & Project Manager, UF Facilities Planning and Construction attained LEED Platinum certification for the University of Florida SW Stadium Expansion Project. This is the first LEED Platinum building in the state of Florida, one of only 130 LEED Platinum buildings worldwide, and the first Platinum building in the State of Florida.

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University of Miami In September, The University of Miami School of Architecture hosted the final phase of an international design competition with an exhibition and panel discussion of jurors for the Miami Beach Pier Museum located at the end of Fifth Street in South Beach. The Miami Beach Pier Museum would stand as a “horizontal monument” to all the immigrants who have arrived on these shores in search of a better future. The designs

for this structure house a museum in which personal effects, souvenirs, and photos belonging to the new generation of immigrants would be exhibited – those who came to the South Florida shores from the 1950s to the 1980s. Competition jurors included Jean-Francois Lejeune, director of graduate studies, University of Miami School of Architecture; Rocco Ceo, director of undergraduate studies, University of Miami School of Architecture; Rene Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez Architect, Miami; Zeuler Lima, architect and faculty member, Washington University, St. Louis; and Chad Oppenheim, Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Miami. Winners included: • First Prize, Italy, Mario Cottone and Gregorio Indelicato. • Second Prize, United States, Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael. • Third Prize, United Kingdom, Abre Ette, Arman Bahram, Donnie Duncanson, Brian Tobin and James White. The competition, which drew 417 project submissions from around the world, was organized by Arquitectum, the international architectural competition firm based in Lima, Peru. Arquitectum is dedicated to promoting excellence in design and architectural creativity. The Miami Beach Pier Museum would not only function as an architectural landmark, but would also serve as a space commemorating the new urban dynamic of the city and the global multiculturalism which defines the beginning of the 21st century. For more information, visit www.arc.miami.edu and www.arquitectum.com Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Dr. Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, Ph.D., professor of architecture and director of the Henry H. Wiss Center for Theory and History of Art and Architecture, chaired a session on “Restoration and Conservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Americas” and presented a paper on “The Restoration of the Main Cloister of San Francisco, Lima” at the 53rd International Congress of Americanists recently held in Mexico City, Mexico, D.F. In addition, Professor Rodrí-

guez-Camilloni presented “Rethinking Bamboo Architecture as a Sustainable Alternative for Developing Countries: Juvenal Baracco and Simón Vélez” in May at the Third International Congress on Construction History, Brandenburg University of Technology, in Cottbus, Germany. Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D., R.A., associate professor of architecture, is spear-heading the organization of an international symposium titled “Constructing Imagination: Word, Image, and the Material of Architectural Scholarship” to be conducted at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center as part Virginia Tech’s Ph.D. program “Architecture and Design Research” during fall of 2009. Dr. Emmons is leading the Ph.D. program’s stream focusing on architectural theory. Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to give a lecture on “Contemporary Swiss Architecture” at Tongji Universiy’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China, in March 2009.

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october 7 Early Bird Registration Deadline 2009 ACSA Administrators Meeting

8-10 ACSA SE Fall Conference at Savannah College of Art and Design

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15-17 ACSA SW Fall Conference at University of New Mexico

21 Regular Registration Deadline 2009 ACSA Administrators Meeting

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20 Poster Submission Deadline 98th ACSA Annual Meeting

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Competitions / Grants 10/23/09

The Rotch Travelling Studio The Rotch Travelling Studio annually awards a $20,000 travel grant that enables architectureschool educators to take students abroad to study foreign architecture firsthand. Proposals are invited from faculty members in all NAAB-accredited U.S. schools of architecture for travel anywhere in the world during the following calendar year. Studios are to be directed by the faculty applicant and are intended to supplement a specific design studio at the school. rotchscholarship.org/studio. 10/30/2009

2009 Beyond Green™ High-Performance Building Awards Call for Entries This unique program recognizes the initiatives that shape, inform and catalyze the high-performance building market, as well as the real-world application of high-performance design and construction practices. To learn more about the 2009 Beyond Green™ High-Performance Building Awards, please dowload the Call for Entries at http://sbicouncil.org/associations/8388/files/ 2009%20Beyond%20Green%20Awards%20Call%20for%20 Entries.pdf. Vist the SBIC Web site (http://sbicouncil.org/) frequently for program updates. 11/17/09 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 2011 SOLAR DECATHLON RFP DATES ANNOUNCED The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the following dates for the 2011 Solar Decathlon Request for Proposals (RFP): Issue date: On or before August 18, 2009; Issue location: Solar Decathlon Web site, www.solardecathlon. org; Due date: November 17, 2009; Notification date: December 18, 2009. Colleges, universities, and other post-secondary educational institutions worldwide are welcome to submit proposals, which determine entry into the biennial Solar Decathlon design competition. All proposals are reviewed, scored, and ranked. Subject to the quantity and quality of proposals, a limited number of teams will be selected for entry. Institutions considering the submission of

a proposal are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the 2009 Rules, which are posted at www.solardecathlon.org/rules_regs.html. Please note that changes to the Rules are typical from one competition to the next. Please submit questions regarding the RFP process to Jeffrey. Soltesz@nrel.gov.

12/2/09 BERKELEY PRIZE 12th annual competition cycle Each year the PRIZE, whose primary goal is to foster a larger awareness and understanding of the social art of architecture, sponsors an Essay Competition, a Travel Fellowship Competition, and an Architectural Design Fellowship Competition. All are open to undergraduates studying architecture throughout the world. A total of $9500 in prize money is awarded to the Essay Competition winners with a guaranteed $4000 first place prize. The Travel Fellow(s) is given round-trip air-fare and a stipend to attend a significant architectural event in the Summer of 2009. The Architectural Design Fellow(s) is given a $2500 honorarium and money to fund prizes for a local design competition. Students are asked to submit a 500-word Essay Proposal in response to a posted Question. The 2010 PRIZE Question revolves around the topic of Historic Preservation/Heritage Conservation. The Proposals are due on November 1, 2009. Approximately 25 student semifinalists are invited to expand their proposal into a 2500-word essay due in mid-February, 2010. From this pool, 5-7 Finalist essays are forwarded to the 2008 BERKELEY PRIZE Essay jury, who will select First, Second, and Third place winners. The entire operations of the Prize, including all submittals and judging are done on-line. The full agenda and history of the BERKELEY PRIZE are best explained by visiting the website: www.berkeleyprize.org

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