Study Architecture 
ProPEL SCHEDULE: THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025
Below is the schedule for Thursday, March 20, 2025, featuring session descriptions. You can read the research abstracts by clicking HERE. The conference schedule is subject to change.
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) when applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit session attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES).
Conference Registration Hours:
Thursday, March 20 at 9:00am-6:00pm
ABSTRACT BOOK
PRE-CONFERENCE | THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025
9:00am-1:00pm
Ticketed Events
Tour Leaders: Emilie Taylor Welty & Byron Mouton, Tulane University
Description:
Tour of recent projects by Tulane’s two award winning design-build programs, URBANbuild and Small Center. This tour is a mixture of built projects, projects under construction, and a mini geography lesson on the crescent city. In the nearly 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, Tulane’s design build programs have built over 50 structures in the city. Tour stops include award winning affordable housing prototyping approaches from URBANbuild and community-engagement based efforts such as Grow Dat Youth Farm and Parisite Skatepark. These projects showcase a breadth of scale and scope that can be accomplished in university-based design build settings.
Workshop Leader: Bryan Lee Jr, Colloqate
Description:
Our values are validated through the spaces and places we design. The Design Justice training sessions explore the privilege and power structures that have defined injustice in the built environment from America’s inception. We will look at the history of the design justice movement and how the theory of practice continually advocates for the dismantling of power ecosystems that use architecture and design to create oppressive conditions throughout the built environment.
Workshop Leader: Corey Gracie-Griffin, Penn State University
Description:
This workshop will offer guidance on the entire grant writing process from finding funding opportunities to preparing your best proposal with an emphasis on all research fields within architecture. Led by Corey Gracie-Griffin, Professor of Architecture, former Associate Dean for Research, and recipient of over $2.5M in external funding, participants will receive feedback on concept papers and biosketches as well as understand the larger role of external grants in the promotion and tenure process. This workshop is unique as it will provide specific advice for architecture faculty members from a peer. Participants with no previous grant writing experience as well as those who have experience are welcome to attend.
9:00am-12:00pm
Workshop
Workshop Leader: Ann Boudinot, NAAB Director of Accreditation
Description:
This three-hour workshop is designed for programs who are in any stage of the process of writing their APR – just getting started or doing a last check before submission. The workshop includes a review of the 2020 Conditions and evidence requirements, introduces programs to the components of the APR, provides guidance for writing the APR from start to finish, and reviews the resources available to programs during the process. The workshop will include interactive exercises and discussions to help participants assess both their process and the effectiveness of their responses.
10:00am-12:00pm
Ticketed Event
Into the Streets: Walking with Queer and Antiracist Histories in New Orleans’ French Quarter
2 AIA/CES HSW
Tour Leaders: Kaede Polkinghorne, MIT & Chris Daemmrich, Collaborative School of Design
Description:
This walking tour will enrich participants’ understanding of queer and antiracist histories in the built environment, through a case study within the richly layered context of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Over two hours, participants will visit 10 sites significant to past and present political movements like Reconstruction, labor organizing, feminism and queer liberation. Each site is both specific to New Orleans and representative of typologies of site whose analogues can be found throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. At each stop, we will ask attendees to respond to key questions about how the themes of the site are applicable to their own experience and practice.
CONFERENCE | THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025
1:30pm-3:00pm
Research Sessions
Society + Community: Community Repair and Participatory Design
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
And All That I Knew Of Love: A Cenotaphic Surrogate For Identities Erased
A. Katherine Ambroziak, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
The Next Generation of World Changers
Sandy Stannard, California Polytechnic State University
Parks in Action – Community Climate Action Hubs
Victor Perez-Amado, Toronto Metropolitan University
Fadi Masoud, University of Toronto
Radical Middle Grounds: New Agendas for Medium-Density Housing
Martin Hättasch, University of Texas at Austin
Creative Achievement Award
Aging Together – Exploring the Housing Challenges of 2SLGBTQI+ Older Adults
Victor Perez-Amado & Sam Casola, Toronto Metropolitan University
Health: Healthy Infrastructure
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: TBD
Movement, Mobility, Accessibility & Architecture in Established Urban Environments – An Architecture & Physical Therapy Design Studio Collaboration
Stephanie Muth, David Kratzer & Louis Hunter, Thomas Jefferson University
Sick Architecture: The Influence of Disease on Yugoslav Modernist Health Infrastructure
Erona Bexheti University of Cincinnati
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (Ai) And Feminist Urban Design. A Methodology Approach For Informal And Peripheral Neighborhoods In South American Cities
Diana Mosquera & Francisco Gallegos, Diversa
Ana Medina, Universite de Montreal
Nueva Reforma – Healthcare Design in Rural Latin America
Madelene Dailey, University of Southern California
Building Science and Technology: Digital Technology and Modeling
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Mitigating Over-Exposure: Supporting Climate Justice in the Borderland through Radiation-Aware Design
Stephen Mueller, Texas Tech University
Impact of Climate-Responsive Shading System: Assessment of Energy Performance for the Future Adaptation of Houses in Louisiana
Soo Jeong Jo, Yilin Zheng, Angeline Asa & Victoria Lopez Serrano, Louisiana State University
Timber-based Retrofitting of Unreinforced Masonry
Philip Tidwell, University of California, Berkeley
Data Visualization for a Circular Economy: Designing a Web Application for Sustainable Housing
Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman & Ava Klein, McGill University
Mojtaba Parsaee, Indiana State University
TAD Award, Volume 7
New Faculty Teaching
Soo Jeong Jo, Louisiana State University
New Faculty Teaching Award
Pedagogy: Drawing as Pedagogy
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Argumentative Analytical Drawing: A Pedagogical Tool for Architectural Repair
Gonzalo Lopez Garrido, California Polytechnic State University
Making Kin: De-centering and Re-centering Architectural Representation
Adam Marcus, Tulane University
Old Drawings New Pedagogies: Archival Drawings as Generative Design Tools
Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University
New Faculty Teaching
Samantha Schuermann, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
New Faculty Teaching Award
Pedagogy: Decolonizing Design
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
From Decolonizing to Re-indigenizing: Shifting the Lens on Contemporary Housing Practices and Pedagogy
Jonathan Hanna, Lawrence Technological University
[This is] a Site: A Critical Pedagogy of Land and Repair
Jennifer Meakins, University of Kentucky
Dormant Stratum: Disentangling The Overlapping Layers Of Contamination And Waste That Shaped New Jersey’s Landscape, And Their Potential For Change
Laura del Pino, Kean University
Decoding Desert Cities: Teaching Computational Cartography to Reimagine Climate-Challenged Landscapes and Culturally-Contested Sites
Brendan Shea, University of Arizona
1:30pm-3:00pm
Special Focus Sessions
Meet the New Distinguished Professors
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Presenters:
Julian Bonder, Roger Williams University
Katsuhiko Muramoto, Pennsylvania State University
Douglas E. Noble, University of Southern California
Teresa Rosano, University of Arizona
Mitchell Squire, Iowa State University
Description:
In this session you will hear from the new members of the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors. The ACSA Distinguished Professor Award recognizes individuals that have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students over an extended period of time and/or teaching which inspired a generation of students who themselves have contributed to the advancement of architecture.
Campus, Race, and Architectural Legacies
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Organizers:
Leen Katrib, University of Kentucky
Andrew Herscher, University of Michigan
Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Tulane University History Project
Description:
Since the sixteenth century, the typology of the university campus has served as a nation-building instrument of modernity—from a settler colonial architecture that literally and figuratively concealed enslaved labor in the conception of the colonial college, to fictions of terra nullius that predicated on indigenous dispossession in the making of the land-grant university, to the unmaking of Black, Latinx, and immigrant neighborhoods in the postwar and ongoing expansion of the urban university. In this session, a cross-institutional group of panelists describe how they unpack the spatial and racial histories of higher education campuses across time and geographies in the United States while simultaneously grappling with complex architectural legacies. The session invites a much-needed discussion: as educator-practitioners, how do we confront the entanglement of the university campus with past and present practices of erasure that have been justified under the rhetoric of progress and educational inclusion?
3:00pm-3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm-5:00pm
Research Sessions
Society + Community: Spatial Practices and Cultures
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
I am Blooming
Akima Brackeen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Vincent Calabro, University of Illinois Chicago
Faculty Design Award – Honorable Mention
Soil in our Hands: Rammed-Earth Community Kitchen for a Deaf Immigrant Advocacy Farm
Christina Chi Zhang, Lehigh University
Hannibal Newsom, Syracuse University
Lauren Scott, Syracuse University
Collaborative Practice Award
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
Joseph Altshuler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Collaborative Practice Award
The Indian Delights Cookbook
Amina Kaskar, KU Leuven
JAE Design Essay Award
Practice: Practice & Repair
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Visualizing Post-tenure Pathways: The Make Space for Mentoring Salon
Caryn Brause & Carey Clouse, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Illegal” Architecture in He Sapa (Black Hills)
Jessica Garcia-Fritz, University of Minnesota
Efficient, Resilient, Affordable – New Modes of Practice in New Orleans
Emilie Taylor, Tulane University
Designing Design Business: Professional Practice as Studio Topic
Aaron Tobey, Rhode Island School of Design
The Practice Component: A Model for Practice-Integrated Design Education
Bethany Lundell Garver, Ashley Tannebaum , Maria Sardinas & Tina Maceri Bolden, Boston Architectural College
Practice + Leadership Award
Building Science and Technology: Ecology and Sustainability
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Housing Futures
Steven Beites Laurentian University
Wild Wood Gridshells: Mixed-Reality Construction of Nonstandard Wood
Tim Cousin, Latifa Alkhayat , Natalie Pearl , Christopher B. Dewart & Caitlin Mueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TAD Award – Volume 7
Energiesprong Alabama: Net-Zero Energy Retrofit Strategies for Alabama’s Public Housing
David Shanks, Auburn University
Sensing the Forest
John Folan & David Kennedy, University of Arkansas
Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS)
Design Build Award
Small Footprints: Lessons From Three Years Of Low-carbon Adu Design-build Projects
Naomi Darling, Robert Williams, Carl Fiocchi, Kent Hicks & Benjamin Leinfelder, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Pedagogy: Sustainable Construction
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Afterlife: Repair and Reuse as Design Drivers in Construction Education
Matan Mayer, IE Uiversity
Micro-interventions for Mainstreaming Rammed Earth Construction
Lisa Moffitt & Nadia Kriplani, Carleton University
Scaffold Thinking: Transformable Assemblages for a Housing Community in Flux
Radu Remus Macovei, ETH Zürich
Repetition and Difference: Collective Living, Biophilia, and Mass Timber on the Campus of IIT in Chicago
Ryan Roark & Michael Glynn, Illinois Institute of Technology
Housing Design Education
Pedagogy: Rethinking Theory and History
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: TBD
Alternate Teaching Structure and Concept for Architectural History/Theory Core Courses
Scott Bernhard & Iñaki Alday, Tulane University
Other No More: Navigating the Issue of Canon within the Architectural Theory Course
Alexander Webb, University of New Mexico
Biospherics as a Pedagogical Approach to the Anthropocene
Meredith Sattler, California Polytechnic State University
The Other Mies Archive: A Framework for Subversive Historiography
Leen Katrib, University of Kentucky
3:30pm-5:00pm
Special Sessions
Decarbonizing Curriculum: Now is the time Workshop
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Organizers:
Liz Martin-Malikian, NOW: Collaborative Built Futures
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon
Nea Maloo, Howard University
Byron Mouton, Tulane University
Description:
Calling All Beautiful Sustainable Minds. Decarbonizing the curriculum in higher education represents a critical step toward equipping students with the knowledge and skills to address the global climate crisis. Many, if not all faculty, bring issues of sustainability and/or climate change into their courses. However,implementing a decarbonized curriculum involves not only revising course content but also rethinking pedagogical approaches to encourage active problem-solving, systems thinking, and critical analysis. Educators and administrators face challenges, such as developing new teaching materials, training faculty, and securing institutional support. Additionally, collaboration with industry partners can provide practical insights, ensuring that students gain relevant skills to create a more nature-positive built environment and green economy.
5:00pm-5:30pm
Coffee Break
5:30pm-7:00pm
Plenary
OPENING Plenary
1.5 AIA/CES LU
2025 ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AWARDS CEREMONY
Please join us in celebrating your peers’ achievements and distinguished award winning work.
2025 AIA/ACSA TOPAZ MEDALLION
THOMAS FISHER
This Plenary includes a keynote by 2025 Topaz Laureate: Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota.
7:00pm
Networking
Opening Reception
Continuing Education Credits
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) where applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit sessions attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES). Register for the conference to gain access to all the AIA/CES credit sessions.
Conference Partners
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
