113th Annual Meeting

Moderator: TBD

Flattened American Landscapes. On the Loss of Material Memory and Landscape Identity
Miguel Guitart, University at Buffalo, SUNY

“Inhuman Agency”: Tending to Asbestos
Irene Cheng, California College of the Arts

Man Made: DuPont and Desert Development in Iran
Gabrielle Printz, Yale University
JAE Essay Award

Looking Over the Wall: A (Her)Story of the Sistan Borderland
Samira Sarabandikachyani, University of Cincinnati

The Patio as a Response. TPA Housing project in Maracaibo, Venezuela
Daniel Belandria, Universidad de Montevideo
Andrea Castro, Universidad ORT Uruguay

Moderator: TBD

Too Small to Succeed: Assessing the Spatial Impacts of Zoning Ordinances on ADU Development in the Northeast
Robert Williams & Ray Mann, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Beneath the Rubble: Intrastate-Craft and the Spatial Politics of Housing Dispossession
Jonathan Hanna, Lawrence Technological University

Cultivated Imaginaries: Notes on the Idea of the Superblock
Liang Wang, University of Texas at Austin

Toward a Meaningful National Commemoration: Philadelphia’s Grassroots Plans for the Bicentennial, 1972–1976
May Khalife, Miami University

The New Orleans Public Space Project: An Ongoing Research Studio Projecting Urban Reform in New Orleans, LA
Sean Fowler & Iñaki Alday, Tulane University

Organizers:
Yasushi Ishida, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Janette Kim, California College of the Arts
Ann Yoachim, Tulane University

Description:
This session will explore the role of architectural education in addressing disaster resilience and recovery. Speakers from various regions and disciplines will introduce diverse approaches to integrating disaster preparedness into design education and practice, share case studies, and engage the audience in discussions on enhancing resilience through design. Join us to explore how architectural educators can contribute to mitigating the impacts of natural disasters and foster more resilient communities.

Organizers:
Jori Erdman, James Madison University
Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis, Drexel University
Bailey Brown, Oklahoma State University
Joshua A. Foster, East Los Angeles College
Dahlia Nduom, Howard University
June Williamson, City College of New York

Description:
This interactive workshop invites participants to explore and co-create a definition of architectural education that reflects the diverse identities, goals, and trajectories of architectural programs including but not limited to traditional pathways to licensure. By examining the core values, pedagogies, and structures that shape architectural curricula, the session will foster a collaborative dialogue on how education can address varied professional, cultural, and societal aspirations.

Organizers:
Andrew Hart, Thomas Jefferson University
Tya Winn, Community Design Collaborative
Rob Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Kean University

Description:
This session will explore the role of architectural education in addressing disaster resilience and recovery. Speakers from various regions and disciplines will introduce diverse approaches to integrating disaster preparedness into design education and practice, share case studies, and engage the audience in discussions on enhancing resilience through design. Join us to explore how architectural educators can contribute to mitigating the impacts of natural disasters and foster more resilient communities.

Moderator: TBD

Materials of Abolition, Structures of Repair
Emilie Taylor, Tulane University

Educating Architects to Serve Forcibly Displaced People: Design of Process
Earl Mark University of Virginia
Nancy Cheng University of Oregon
Joseph Ashmore, Nuno Nunes  & Daud Shad, International Organization for Migration

Made Together/Apart
Leighton Beaman, Cornell University

“Post-Gay”: Reclaiming Queer Spaces through Adaptive Reuse
Adam Thibodeaux University at Buffalo, SUNY

Restoring the Mission of Guild House: Combining Community Partnership and Technical Analysis to Design for Social Benefit
Fleet Hower, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Moderator: TBD

Voices to Inception: A short Documentary Film Process
Jori Erdman, James Madison University
Becky Beamer, OsloMet University

Practice Houses: Architectures of Care Work and Quiet Liberation in Home Economics
Samantha Schuermann, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Autonomous Aesthetics: The Impact of Neo-Constructivism on Kosovar Architecture
Edmond Drenogllava, University of Cincinnati

Regional Identity: Cultural Practices of Philippine Architecture
Florencio IV Tameta, Toronto Metropolitan University

_Mpathic Design: Brookes (Revisited)
Elgin Cleckley University of Virginia
Faculty Design Award

Moderator: TBD

Aberrant Ecologies: Approaching Urban Inequalities Between Nature and Architecture
Miguel Guitart, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Intertidal Objects: Interrogating The Object In Its Territories
Marcus Carter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Riprap Ram Jam
Jonathan Scelsa & Kyriaki Goti, Pratt Institute

Y3K: On Distant Keys
Sandy Litchfield, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Blind
Jason Griffiths, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Design Build Award

Moderator:
Sharon Egretta Sutton, Parsons School of Design

Organizers:
LaVerne Wells-Bowie ,Florida A&M University
Diane Jones Allen, University of Texas at Arlington
Akima Brackeen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dahlia Nduom, Howard University
Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle, Hampton University

Description:
This interactive focus group draws from Toni Morrison’s and Alice Walker’s theories of womanism to center the frameworks of feminist educators and practitioners. The group includes women of color who span generations and work in diverse locales and design fields. The session narrates their cultural and environmental histories and sensibilities, focusing upon both personal and collective professional engagements within their cultures and communities of origin. It encompasses feminist perspectives on history, culturally informed design pedagogy and practice, and collective memories of place. Panelists pose a sequence of questions to engage the audience in a discussion of diverse methodologies for educational and professional performance. The lessons and tools panelists provide indicate both tenacity and flexibility in maintaining their cultured voices amidst dictates to rethink and reform their ways of being. They reflect their analytical empowerment, liberty, and strength in owning their place in the world.

Presenters:
Design from Tree to Timber: Building Non-Planar Futures
Kyle Schumann, University of Virginia

Forest – Fiber – Frame
Philip Tidwell, University of California, Berkeley

Exploring the X, Y, and Z Wood Connection
Nicholas Wickersham, North Dakota State University

A Holistic Approach to Timber Construction in a Regenerative Design Framework
Veronica Madonna, Athabasca University

Mass Timber as Naked Material
Jordan Kanter  & Ray K. Mann, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Description:
The Softwood Lumber Board and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) highlight the winners of the 2024 Timber Education Prize. These innovative courses will be taught at architecture schools across North America in the coming years. These courses seek to recognize effective and innovative curricula that create a stimulating and evidence-based environment for learning about timber. The use of wood as a building material can achieve multiple design, construction, and performance objectives. Therefore, these courses equip students with the knowledge and design skills to achieve green building goals in a range of project types

Moderators:
Liz Camuti & Adam Marcus, Tulane University

Presenters:
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan
Juan Jose Castellon, Gonzalez Rice University
Halina Steiner, Ohio State University
Kentaro Tsubaki, Tulane University

Description:
This panel explores innovative fabrication techniques and material explorations to more effectively manage stormwater in urban environments. Designers from diverse institutions and contexts will discuss their research and fabrication projects that collectively utilize buildings facade, streetscape, and roof structure prototypes to delay, store, and slowly drain excess rainwater during major storm events. Attendees will gain insights into this paradigmatic shift in architectural design that seeks to actively engage water as well as an understanding of the potential for these innovations to alleviate the burden on municipal stormwater systems and reduce the reliance on energy-intensive mechanical pumping systems.