Architecture Student Appointed AIAS Representative on AIA Institute Honor Awards Jury
Fifth-year architecture student David Cordaro, Urbandale, has been appointed the student representative for the American Institute of Architecture Students on the 2017 American Institute of Architects Institute Honor Awards for Architecture jury and 25-Year Award Jury. He will serve on the jury with eight architects and client representatives from Albuquerque, New Mexico; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; New York City; Pittsburgh; Seattle; and Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Ji’s Firm Wins International Architecture Competition
EUS+ Architects, the South Korean architecture firm co-founded by architecture Lecturer Jungwoo Ji, is part of a three-firm consortium (with Space Group and Idea Architects) that won first place out of 54 international entries in the Seoul Animation Center Design Competition. The 21,000-square-meter, mixed-use complex with exhibition and performance halls features three stories above ground and three stories below ground. The total construction budget is $40 million; the winning team will submit design development and construction documents in 2017.
Senske’s YouTube Channel Named Among Top 12 for Architects
ArchDaily has named architecture Assistant Professor Nick Senske‘s YouTube
Leslie, Paxson Honored with University Awards
Tom Leslie, Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture, has been named a Morrill Professor and Lynn Paxson, professor of architecture, has been named a University Professor
Bogdanovic Co-edits Book on Capital Cities’ Political Landscapes
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities, co-edited by Jelena Bogdanovic, assistant professor of architecture, has been published by the University of Colorado Press. The book investigates the transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities
Article by Bogdanovic Published in JSAH
“Evocations of Byzantium in Zenitist Avant-Garde Architecture,” an article by Jelena Bogdanovic, associate professor of architecture, was published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75, No. 3, September 2016. JSAH is a leading journal on the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. The cover page of this issue also featured a drawing of the Villa Zenit from Bogdanovic’s article. Her research on the references to Byzantium in the architecture and philosophy of Zenitism—an Eastern European avant-garde movement founded by Ljubomir Micic in 1921—was supported by a grant from the ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.
Senske’s Book Review Published in Journal of Architectural Education
An invited book review by Nick Senske, assistant professor of architecture, was published in the Journal of Architectural Education 70:2 October 2016. The book is A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press) by Tung-Hui Hu, a critical examination of digital infrastructure and its connections to physical and political space.