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AUGUST 2020

21 Tustin Street adaptive reuse project published on ArchDaily. Designed and constructed by professors GERARD DAMIANI GERARD DAMIANI and JOSÉ PERTIERRA-ARROJO JOSÉ PERTIERRA-ARROJO with drawings by ELLEN ZHU ELLEN ZHU (B.Arch '22), ANGELA CASTELLANO ANGELA CASTELLANO (B.Arch '23) and MEGHAN PISARCIK MEGHAN PISARCIK (B.Arch '23).

26 LAURA GARÓFALO LAURA GARÓFALO appointed associate professor in the CMU SoA.

SEPTEMBER

17 TAKUMI JORDAN DAVIS JORDAN DAVIS (B.Arch '21, MUD '22) named to the NOMA first class of Foundation Fellows. Davis is "motivated to become a practicing architect to bring to light issues faced by underrepresented peoples."

17 SoA professors WILLIAM BATES BATES and DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN helped write many of the initiatives in the AIAPA 2020-25 Strategic Plan, which presents new ideas to push diversity, health, equity, energy efficiency and sustainability in the profession. 27 ALUMNA MARGERY AL-CHALABI ALUMNA MARGERY AL-CHALABI (B.A. '61) presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.

OCTOBER

1 CMU senior David Perry's research explores form and motion possible in robotized garments. LEA ALBAUGH LEA ALBAUGH, a doctoral student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and SoA alum, oversaw Perry's work for a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

1 SoA alumna LOLA BEN-ALON (PhDAECM '20) named assistant professor at Columbia University GSAPP.

2 SoA faculty and alumni presented carbon management expertise at 2020 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. Professor DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN was co-chair,

Top: Tustin Street adaptive reuse project. Photo by Alexander Denmarsh. Left: THE CLOUD+ LABS by Leah Wulfman.

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and professors BILL BATES, VIVIAN LOFTNESS VIVIAN LOFTNESS, and JOSHUA LEE, with alumni LEILA SRINIVASAN LEILA SRINIVASAN and ZOE KAUFMAN ZOE KAUFMAN, presented.

5 SoA alum AMELIA (“AMY”) ROSEN ROSEN (B.Arch '17, MSSD '17) shared their story and participated in a group discussion on architecture and the LGBTQIA+ community on a recent episode of Practice Disrupted.

12 The SoA presented a remembrance of DAVID LEWIS DAVID LEWIS, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Urban Studies at Carnegie Mellon.

16 CHRISTINE MONDOR CHRISTINE MONDOR and NICO AZEL NICO AZEL published “Acting on the Invisible: Computational Tools and Community Action in the Landscapes of Air Quality” in IJAC on how designers can solve wicked problems like air quality with technology and computation. 16 The CMU NOMAS CMU NOMAS Chapter presented “How to Start a Revolution in Your Architecture School” at the National Organization of Minority Architects Conference. The SoA was a Gold Sponsor of the conference. (See page 009)

20 Professor BILL BATES BILL BATES featured in Pittsburgh Magazine for his efforts working to preserve historic buildings in Pittsburgh.

22 B.Arch alum LEAH WULFMAN LEAH WULFMAN (B.Arch '16) featured in Metropolis magazine article "Designers Are Exploring Ways to Introduce Users to a 'Mixed' Reality" describing a wave of artists, designers and academics who are blurring boundaries between virtual, augmented and physical reality.

22 DR. FRANCESCA TORELLO DR. FRANCESCA TORELLO spoke at the symposium “ARCH/ TECTURES ARCH/VES” about how shifts in digital interfaces can change our approach to archival material and bring new and more diverse narratives to light.

29 The CMU FREEDOM BY DESIGN DESIGN chapter presented their Weatherization Kit Project at the NOMA Conference. The project received a 2020 NOMA-NAACP-SEED Award for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Design. Check out the video now on our YouTube channel. (See page 388) 29 Professor STEFAN GRUBER delivered a keynote at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, where he discussed his research and curatorial practice on spaces of commoning with TAB founder Tinatin Gurgenidze.

NOVEMBER

6 CHRISTINA BROWN CHRISTINA BROWN presented "Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: Externalization Taxonomy as an Implementation Tool for Future Designers" at the Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (ASCEE 2020).

Happy Stripe by SomePeople studio, led by Kyriaki Goti. Photo by Graham Cullen. Courtesy Frederick News Post.

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19 JOSHUA BARD JOSHUA BARD has been promoted to Associate Professor and awarded indefinite tenure with the school, effective July 1, 2020. Bard is an architectural educator conducting applied research at the intersection of construction culture and robotic technology.

23 KYRIAKI GOTI KYRIAKI GOTI, visiting professor, installed a public art piece in Frederick, MD.

DECEMBER DECEMBER

14 After more than 30 years of service as architecture librarian and archivist for CMU, the SoA bid a fond farewell to MARTIN AURAND MARTIN AURAND upon his retirement. Thank you for everything, Martin!

16 Congrats to the SoA winners in the 2020 AIAPA Architectural Excellence Awards: Professor CHRISTINE MONDOR CHRISTINE MONDOR's practice evolveEA, alum NICKIE CHEUNG (B.Arch '18), Professor WILLIAM BATES WILLIAM BATES and CHRISTOPH ECKRICH (B.Arch '21).

23 Alumna ANDREA LOVE (B.Arch '02), principal and director of building science at Payette, featured in CMU's 2020 CFA Magazine. She works on the firm's cutting-edge sustainability work that earned the 2019 AIA National Architecture Firm Award. 23 Alumna MADELINE GANNON (PhD–CD '17) featured in the 2020 CMU College of Fine Arts Magazine. Gannon is the founder of ATONATON, a Pittsburgh-based, independent research studio inventing new ways for humans to communicate with machines.

JANUARY 2021

8 Professor DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN COCHRAN HAMEEN spoke about social justice, architectural education and anti-racism with Dr. Kewesi Daniels of Tuskegee University at the inaugural Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021.

10 Students at CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center developed an immersive new game honoring playwright August Wilson's legacy. The August Wilson House previously collaborated with the SoA's Urban Design Build Studio on the renovation of Wilson's childhood home into an arts center.

28 The SoA launched a CMU Crowdfunding campaign to help fund the David Lewis Community Engagement Design Scholarship, which supports SoA students working with diverse communities who are committed to social justice and community service.

28 Congrats to Professor KRISTEN KURLAND KRISTEN KURLAND, selected to serve a three-year term on the Mapping Science Committee of NASEM, which promotes the informed and responsible development and use of spatial data for the benefit of society.

FEBRUARY

8 PROFESSOR VIVIAN LOFTNESS awarded 2021 ARCC James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in Architectural Research by Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), recognizing outstanding contributions to growth of research in architecture.

19 Professor NIDA REHMAN published “Primary Materials: Reading Lahore's Disobedient Landscape” in Duke Press’ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East issue, “Architecture as a Form of Knowledge,” guest edited by Anooradha Siddiqi. She also co-edited the new book, "Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating: Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today," a collection of essays on crowdsourcing and mapping as tools for social, environmental and political change. 22 Professor STEFANI DANES STEFANI DANES has been elevated to The College of Fellows of AIA for her notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture.

26 Professors DANIEL CARDOSO LLACH LLACH and NIDA REHMAN NIDA REHMAN co-authored “Magical Modernism: Latin American Urbanisms and the Imaginary of Social Architecture” in DeArq on the coupling of architectural and nation-building projects amid the political and spatial landscapes of Colombia.

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26 Congratulations to VICTORIA ACEVEDO VICTORIA ACEVEDO (UDREAM 2014), Assoc. AIA, on becoming the President of NOMA Pgh for 2021–2022.

26 Alumnus MARK CHAMBERS MARK CHAMBERS (B.Arch '01) has been appointed Senior Director for Building Emissions for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Chambers led the charge to make NYC the world’s greenest and most equitable big city. "Fighting climate change and systemic inequality isn't about preserving our way of life. It's about changing the way we live," he says.

26 A team from CMU SoA, Tepper School of Business and Heinz College won honorable mention at ULI Hines Competition. Their project, “The KC Knot,” offer a vision of socioeconomic and racial diversity, sustainable transportation and equitable job growth for Kansas City’s East Village.

MARCH

4 Remaking Cities Institute director RAY GASTIL RAY GASTIL spoke with Christer Larsson, former city planning director of Malmo, Sweden and sustainable urbanism global thought leader, on the podcast Last Meter Talks episode “Cities, Planning and the New Service Economy."

12 Congrats to alumna PATRICIA CULLEY PATRICIA CULLEY, AIA (B.Arch '03) on receiving a 2021 AIA Young Architects Award recognizing exceptional leadership and significant contributions to the architecture profession early in her career.

13 The SoA held a remembrance in memory of ÖMER AKIN ÖMER AKIN, SoA Professor Emeritus, joined by members of his family, faculty, friends, students and colleagues to share memories of him and reflect on his legacy to the school and the profession.

13 Group exhibition "Human Scale Remeasured" at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin featured work of Professor STEFAN GRUBER’s Spring 2020 Cooperative Housing Studio.

12 The Artpark Idea series opened with two leading minds and practitioners in architecture and design—Florian Idenburg and OMAR KHAN.

15 Will workers return to reimagined offices post-pandemic? Professors VIVIAN LOFTNESS and DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN featured in PBS Newshour Weekend's look at what we can expect of the buildings and workspaces that workers will inhabit after the pandemic.

19 UDream hosted the first of a series of events to provide a foundation for establishing UDream in the broader context of DEI priorities, identifying blind spots and outlining solutions.

25 VIVIAN LOFTNESS VIVIAN LOFTNESS and CHRIS HENDRICKSON CHRIS HENDRICKSON (CEE) were central in the development of the National Academy of Sciences report that was released to the Biden Administration and leadership across the federal and state governments. APRIL APRIL

1 SoA-affiliated faculty from the CMU School of Engineering, BURCU AKINCI BURCU AKINCI and PINGBO TANG PINGBO TANG, were part of a team designing the future National Institute for AI in Construction, which will develop ways to integrate machine learning and AI into modern construction work.

3 In celebration of their 10th birthday, inter·punct released ten interviews in a special series.

3 Professor STEFAN GRUBER STEFAN GRUBER won two 2021 ACSA Awards in the Collaborative Practice category for his studio "An Atlas of Commoning" and an AIA / ACSA Housing Design Education award for the studio "Cooperative Housing for the 2000Watt Society.”

4 Professor DANIEL CARDOSO LLACH CARDOSO LLACH joined a panel of architectural scholars for the global Digital.Futures virtual conference, where he discussed recent Code Lab efforts to rethink architectural approaches to AI in design and creative practice.

14 The SoA announces four new Associate Heads, Professor MARY-LOU ARSCOTT MARY-LOU ARSCOTT, Design Fundamentals; Professor JOSHUA BARD, Design Research; Professor

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KAI GUTSCHOW KAI GUTSCHOW, Design Ethics; and Professor DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN, Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

14 The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) and Traffic21 faculty worked with communities in Allegheny County to address first mile/last mile and micromobility challenges that exist outside of the urban core.

16 Professor SAROSH ANKLESARIA co-authored an essay on the campaign to stop the demolition of dormitory buildings at IIMA designed by Louis Kahn, calling for an ethic of empathy, care and maintenance in the context of aging modernisms.

Above: IIMA-Ahmedabad dormitory under construction. Undated. Courtesy IMA Archives. Previous spread, top: A view of the Parque Biblioteca España, a public library in a comuna in Medellín, Colombia. From "Magical Modernism: Latin American Urbanisms and the Imaginary of Social Architecture" in DeArq. Left: SoA Professor Emeritus Ömer Akin.

17 STEPHEN QUICK STEPHEN QUICK, FAIA has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the International DarkSky Association. Steve has been researching light pollution’s health, environmental and equity issues with Diane Turnshek, CMU Physics and Astronomy, since 2018.

19 Congrats to NICKIE CHEUNG NICKIE CHEUNG, Associate AIA (B.Arch '18) of Rothschild Doyno Collaborative on being named to the Pittsburgh Business Times' 2021 Class of 30 Under 30 honorees for demonstrating outstanding professional successes and contributing to the Pittsburgh community.

22 Professor VIVIAN LOFTNESS was featured in the Earth Day edition of Metropolis magazine's DesignTV. Architects have a role to play not just in reducing carbon emissions, but also addressing equity, health and resilience.

MAY

7 Professor DR. ERICA COCHRAN HAMEEN COCHRAN HAMEEN featured in the April issue cover story of Private University magazine for her dedication to student mentorship and design justice. Erica was recently named the SoA's Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

7 The 2021 ASOS Thesis Show BOTH / AND embraced dizzying multiplicities, divergent interests and engaging ambiguity. This digital exhibition presents the work of B.Arch, M.Arch, MUD and MAAD students. Visit the exhibition at: https://thesis.soa.cmu.edu

7 Ahead of Pittsburgh’s mayoral primary race on May 18,

BOTH / AND, The 2021 ASOS Thesis Show, designed and facilitated by thesis students.

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alumnus BRUCE CHAN BRUCE CHAN (MUD 2015) and adjunct SARAH RAFSON SARAH RAFSON led the Mayoral Design Forum with Design for Pittsburgh and Point Line Projects to assess candidates’ approaches to creating a more equitable, well-designed city.

12 The Plaza at Hazelwood Green opened, featuring a set of swings on the eastern end of the plaza that were designed and built using a robotically steam-bent wood form by SoA faculty and students with the Manufacturing Futures Initiative.

12 RCI Director RAY GASTIL RAY GASTIL presented "Opening Up: Beyond the Porch," which argued that as we reopen and design for a new normal, places where the private realm opens up to the public are more important than ever.

13 The SoA is pleased to announce the 2021 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor, JACKIE JOSEPH PAUL MCFARLAND JACKIE JOSEPH PAUL MCFARLAND and the 2021 Ann Kalla Visiting Professor, TOMMY CHEEMOU YANG TOMMY CHEEMOU YANG. 27 Professor SAROSH ANKLESARIA ANKLESARIA's work on the architectural manifestations of new food movements combining decolonization and ecological remediation to advocate for cosmopolitan localism was featured in Venice Architecture Biennale's publication, Expansions.

JUNE JUNE

7 Fourteen of this year's graduating students have been awarded Carnegie Mellon Senior Leadership Recognition, which recognizes students who have made an unparalleled impact on the university community through their leadership, vision and initiative.