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University of Minnesota

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Thomas Fisher, Dean: After nearly two-decades as Dean at the University of Minnesota, Thomas Fisher has announced that he will step down from that position in the summer of 2015. After leaving the deanship this summer, he will assume the positions of Dayton Hudson Land Grant Chair in Urban Design and director of the University’s Metropolitan Design Center. In that capacity, he will continue his research and teaching in conjunction with metro-area partners and grant makers. Professor Fisher also finished the manuscript for his next book, Some Possible Futures, as well as two introductions to books on the work of Pugh + Scarpa and Fernau & Hartman, and two chapters on books dealing with architecture labor and public-interest design. He continues to write for the last page of Architect magazine every other month and for a variety of other publications. Professor Renee Cheng, who served as Head of the School of Architecture from 2004-2014, and stepped down from that position on July 1 to assume a new leadership role as Associate Dean for Research and Outreach at the College of Design. During her tenure Professor Cheng established the nation’s first and only Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDA), and more recently the Master of Science in Research Practice (MS-RP), which aims at halving the amount of time from high school to licensure for architects–from an average of 14.5 years to 7. Associate professor of architecture Marc Swackhamer has been named head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. He has served as the director of the University’s Master of Architecture program since 2012 and is the co-founder of HouMinn Practice, which focuses on full-scale prototyping of lightweight, responsive, and digitally pre-fabricated construction systems. “The discipline of architecture is undergoing tremendous change,” says Swackhamer. “Schools must quickly and nimbly adjust to those changes, yet remain clear and stable with regards to the disciplinary core of the profession. I envision a program that will lead the discipline through a dynamically changing landscape, while simultaneously clarifying and stabilizing the long-held skills that distinguish architecture from other fields of study.” Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee (Architecture) was awarded the University of Minnesota Imagine Chair in the Arts, Design and Humanities for 2014-2016. He will work on a collaborative project over a two year cycle of programming that includes an exhibition, symposia and coursework with faculty from across the University (in the Twin Cities and in Duluth campuses of the University of Minnesota). Additionally, Professor Saloojee and a collaborative team (including James Wheeler-Architecture, Vince deBritto-Landscape Architecture, and Jamuna Golden-Landscape Architecture) from the University of Minnesota were awarded a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant for a two year cycle of work in partnership with the St. Louis River Alliance and Duluth-LISC (Duluth). This group will work in and with communities, stakeholders, public, private, local and state partners in Duluth to help imagine and develop a resilient and sustainable urban future for the St. Louis River Corridor. Associate Professor Blaine Brownell is the new Director of the Master of Architecture program and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. He is also the 2014 Materials and Products Chair for Hanley Wood’s Vision 2020 program, and presented “Visible Green: New Material Opportunities in Sustainable Design” at the Vision 2020 symposium at Greenbuild in October. He published an article of the same title in EcoBuilding Review (Winter 2014), as well as “Material Resilience in Two Dimensions” in the Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences (April 2014) and the essay “Manipulating the Material Code” in Materials Experience (Elsevier, 2013). He continues to contribute regularly to the Mind & Matter column in Architect magazine. Associate Professor John Comazzi delivered a lecture on the life and career of the architecture photographer Balthazar Korab in Columbus, IN (November 20). Korab is the subject of Comazzi’s book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Comazzi was also a panelist at the recent AIA-MN Convention on the subject of Design-Build in the academy. He was joined by Marc Swackhamer, Head of the Architecture Department at UMN to discuss the opportunities for collaboration with practitioners, community organizations, and industry on design-build projects.

University of Colorado Denver

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CU Denver offers undergraduate architecture degree in Colorado

DENVER (January 26, 2015) The University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce the creation of the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program. The new degree is the only program in Colorado to offer architecture specific coursework to undergraduates.

CU Denver received approval from the Board of Regents to initiate a four year BS in Architecture degree program in October 2012. The new program has now completed four semesters and has grown from 32 students in the first semester to 213 in the Fall 2013 semester.  The program has also attracted over 35 international students, including a cohort of 23 students from Brazil in an agreement with the Brazilian government, and numerous community colleges and out of state transfers.

As a pre-professional program, the BS in Architecture program prepares graduates to enter accredited professional Master of Architecture (MArch) programs at CU Denver and across the country. Students who complete the BS in Architecture degree and enroll in the MArch program at CU Denver have the advantage of completing the MArch degree in two years instead of the usual three and a half years to complete a Master’s program. _ The MArch degree is the NAAB accredited professional program.

“The CU Denver undergraduate and graduate Architecture programs offer citizens in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain region, and beyond, a clear path to the practice of architecture,” said Program Director Phillip Gallegos. “Students in our BSArch program benefit and learn from close contact with graduate students, practicing architects and other design, construction and real estate professionals working in the field.”

The University of Colorado Denver provides a quality academic experience through engagement with gifted faculty members, exposure to original research and real-world learning. Located in the heart of downtown, CU Denver offers its 14,000 students unparalleled internship, career and networking opportunities. Part of the fabric of the city, CU Denver has evolved into a leading urban public university boasting eight schools and colleges, and offering bachelor through doctoral degrees. CU Denver is a community where students learn with purpose and benefit from a range of opportunities that enhance their lives and careers.

For more information please contact:

Phillip Gallegos, Arch D

Associate Professor

Director, Bachelor of Science in Architecture Program

Phillip.gallegos@ucdenver.edu

Ekaterini Vlahos, Professor

Chair, Department of Architecture

Kat.vlahos@ucdenver.edu

Washington University in St. Louis

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IN THE NEWS

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association is the first public museum exhibition of drawings from the private collection of Boyarsky, arguably one of the most influential figures in 20th-century design education and the longtime chair of the Architectural Association in London. It also explores Boyarsky’s role as a collector of drawings and, metaphorically speaking, of the ideas and people that have come to define a key moment in architectural history. The exhibition is co-organized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum). It is curated by Igor Marjanovi_, associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School, and Jan Howard, curator of prints, drawings and photographs and curatorial chair at the RISD Museum. Marjanovic participated in numerous programs related to the exhibition, including gallery talks and a panel discussion with Chris Bardt, Jan Howard, and Lesley Lokko.

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Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin and associate professor John Hoal presented a MISI-ZIIBI workshop studying climate change issues in Brisbane, Australia, during the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference. Hoeferlin and  Hoal, were both instrumental in the redesign of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the two faculty took a ride down the Mississippi River with KPLR’s Patrick Clark in an effort to encourage St. Louis residents to look towards the future. Work for MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers was also featured in an exhibit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference. Their exhibit, funded in part by a WUSTL I-CARES grant, will display multidisciplinary research that deploys a workshop framework methodology and climate adaptation performance model for climate change scenario planning for multiuse “fluvial zones” along the Mississippi River basins and abroad. Lecturer Jonathan Stitelman produced the exhibit design.
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Associate professors Sung Ho Kim and Heather Woofter, co-founders of Axi:Ome, discussed ways urban spaces can connect through art at the CEL Center for Architecture + Design, as part of St. Louis Design Week.

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Associate professor Zeuler R. Lima, PhD, delivered the opening lecture for the exhibition 3 Sites, Lina Bo Bardi, organized in collaboration with the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich. He we also deliver a lecture on his book “Lina Bo Bardi” at the 4th Symposium of Museum Architecture at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In addition, Lima traveled to Germany to help set up a video he produced for the exhibition Lina Bo Bardi, 100, on view November 13-February 22 at the Architekturmuseum at the Technische Universität München. Lima also delivered a November 14 lecture at the symposium that accompanied the launch of the exhibition catalogue. On December 11, Lima delivered a lecture in Paris on his book and presented “Lina Bo Bardi, curator,” the short pedagogical film he wrote and produced about the architect’s museological experience and thought-provoking proposals. Last, the curators of the Museum of Modern Architecture at MAXXI, Rome, recently interviewed associate professor Lima about “Lina Bo Bardi,” his biographic book on the Italian-Brazilian architect. The interview will be included in the museum’s exhibition about Bo Bardi’s Italian experience, along with a video documentary Lima prepared for the show, which is on view December 18-March 15.
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Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor, discussed his new book on the work of Alvar Aalto in a lecture at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The Finnish architect and designer was one of the 20th-century’s most popular and accessible Modernist masters. A book signing will follow the lecture.
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Kelley Van Dyck Murphy and Lavender Tessmer, both lecturers in architecture, were among the winners of Sukkah City STL 2014: Between Absence and Presence. Presented by St. Louis Hillel and the Sam Fox School, the contemporary design competition challenged participants to reimagine the traditional Jewish sukkah through the lens of contemporary art and architecture. Ten cutting-edge sukkahs by architects and designers from around the nation were installed on campus.

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Senior lecturer in architecture Pablo Moyano Fernández presented the abstract Self-sufficient Housing in St. Louis at the Housing Education Research Association conference. The abstract speculates about why and how the city of St. Louis lost an alarming part of its population and suggests possibilities for the future. The presentation showcases a selection of design studio projects that address emergent challenges for future generations of designers.  

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Associate professor John Hoal, a founding partner of H3 Studio, is leading a team of local, national, and internationally known experts as finalists in a global design competition to improve river management and the rebuilding of the lower Mississippi River Delta. Titled Changing Course: Navigating the Future of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, the competition aims to halt land loss and restore the delta ecosystem while improving navigation and strengthening the resilience of local communities and industry. In addition to Hoal, WUSTL is represented with assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, and several alumni serving on the H3 Studio design team, including project manager Matthew Bernstine (MUD14), as well as Laura Lyon (MArch00), Bryan Robinson (MArch04), Tim Breihan (MArch/MUD08), Courtney Cushard (MUD11), Colleen Xi Qiu (MArch/MUD12, MSAS13), and Junru Zheng (MLA14). In addition, Hoal sat down with a diverse panel of water experts and offered an important thought on “How we can reconstruct our neighborhoods, our cities, and our region to actually be water responsive, water-based cities” as part of Nine Network’s Stay Tuned.

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Visiting assistant professors Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller collaborated with artist Wendy Mark on an installation that is featured in Mark’s exhibition Beginning with Square One. Cloudspace is a custom-fabricated spatial and optical device that interprets and expands Mark’s work. Kripa and Mueller designed, fabricated, and installed the project; their project team included MArch students Yu Xin and Bin Feng, who assisted with the digital design and production files. Other students assisted in the prototyping process in the School’s fabrication lab.

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HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes, a project led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas and senior lecturer Pablo Moyano, has been awarded a Neighbors Naturescaping grant. Their project aims to increase biodiversity in Old North St. Louis through the implementation of a rain garden and a nectaring garden. These small planting areas will allow the HUB team to register the project as part of the Milkweeds for Monarchs Initiative and help St. Louis reach its target of 200 new monarch gardens in 2014.
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The West End Neighborhood Sustainability Plan, produced by Master of Urban Design students, is the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Student Project Award from the Missouri Chapter of the American Planning Association. The plan was produced for the spring 2014 course Contemporary Practices of Sustainable Urbanism, taught by associate professor John Hoal, with Colleen Xi Qiu (MArch/MUD12, MSAS13) serving as a teaching assistant.

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Over the past two decades, the rise of “material studies” has energized various disciplines by proposing objects as the very object of study, thereby opening up new and vital questions about many well-trodden topics. This two-day symposium explored how material culture and artistic production have helped generate political change from antiquity to the present. Several members of the Sam Fox School discussed their papers: Jesse Vogler, visiting assistant professor, Monika Weiss, associate professor, Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and chief curator. In addition, Anna Vallye, postdoctoral research associate, moderated comments and discussion as the discussant for the panel on Spatialization.

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In 1974, more than 450 students, scholars, and practitioners from across the country came to Washington University to have courageous conversations about the status of women in architecture and allied fields. On November 7-9, the Sam Fox School marked the symposium’s 40th anniversary with Women in Architecture 1974 | 2014, a three-day event that celebrates the achievements of the last four decades but also underscores the need for continuing conversation–and action.

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Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures explored the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine, and neuroscience with the human brain as a central focus. Participants included the Sam Fox School’s Sung Ho Kim (associate professor of architecture), Ron Leax (Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art), and Patricia Olynyk (director of the Graduate School of Art); WUSTL Arts & Sciences professors Rebecca Messbarger, Kathy Miller, and Larry Snyder; and Mark Cohen and Jim Gimzewski, and was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Art | Sci Center and Lab, the Sam Fox School, and WUSTL’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

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The O’Fallon Neighborhood Community Development and Design Program is one of 10 recipients of this year’s Outstanding Local Government Achievement Awards, presented by the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. The program is a collaboration between the Brown School’s Alliance for Building Capacity, Lou Colombo, the City of St. Louis, the O’Fallon Community Development Organization, and the North Newstead Association. As part of a fall 2012 course, visiting assistant professor Justin Scherma and Colombo led a team of students from both the Sam Fox School and the Brown School–including Alfredo Zertuche (MArch14), Binqi Luo (MArch15), Dustin Garness (BA11/MSW13)–in working with the community on housing and commercial center plans for the project. Neighborhood residents provided long-term vision statements, described desired outcomes, and prioritized strategies. The plans will be submitted for adoption by the City of St. Louis and provide a model for university-enabled neighborhood planning that is designed to give voice to disadvantaged citizens interested in working to improve their neighborhood.

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This fall, Downtown STL, Inc. and the Sam Fox School partnered to explore adaptive reuse possibilities for the Railway Exchange Building, working in cooperation with the owners of the iconic structure. At a December 10 reception and exhibition, students from Metamorphic Cities: Sustainable Strategies for Adaptive Reuse, a graduate architecture studio led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas, presented their responses to a call for innovative design ideas to reimagine the 21-story high-rise building, reinvigorate the surrounding area, and contribute to the continuing transformation of downtown St. Louis.

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Eric Mumford was appointed the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and a Faculty Scholar, Institute for Public Health, at Washington University in St. Louis. He also recently published two peer-reviewed articles: Eric Mumford, “The Changing Forms of Metropolitan North America,” in Evelien van Es, et al. eds., CIAM 4 and comparative analysis (Bussum, the Netherlands: Thoth, 2014) and Eric Mumford, “Alvar Aalto’s Urban Planning and CIAM Urbanism,” Alvar Aalto-Second Nature (Weil-am-Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum, 2014).

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The curators of the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Argentina awarded the Montessori Children’s School project submitted by Raymond E. Maritz Professor Adrian Luchini “Distinguished” honors (the equivalent of second prize) in the Landscape and City category. The project, which features an addition to an existing facility in St. Louis, sought to “operate within those aesthetic canons that normally define the lack of concrete identity in all suburbia in the U.S., while trying to radically change the existing image of a building from the ’60s.”

 

 

 

Washington University in St. Louis

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The curators of the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Argentina awarded the Montessori Children’s School project submitted by Raymond E. Maritz Professor Adrian Luchini “Distinguished” honors (the equivalent of second prize) in the Landscape and City category. The project, which features an addition to an existing facility in St. Louis, sought to “operate within those aesthetic canons that normally define the lack of concrete identity in all suburbia in the U.S., while trying to radically change the existing image of a building from the ’60s.” 

University of Texas at Austin

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Faculty News January 2015

The School of Architecture received news of a $1 million grant from the Still Water Foundation, an Austin-based foundation that supports the arts and other causes.  The award is to support the renovation of the school’s Battle Hall (Cass Gilbert 1910), the West Mall Office Building, and to build the John S. Chase addition to the School of Architecture.

Associate Professor Emeritus Owen Cappleman passed away in Austin, Texas, on September 25, 2014, at the age of 76.

The T3 Parking Structure, designed by Associate Dean Elizabeth Danze and Senior Lecturer John Blood, Danze Blood Architects, has won the American Architecture Award for 2014 from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press. 

Two UTSOA faculty members have received 2014 University Co-op Research Awards.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla was awarded a $5,000 Creative Research Award for “Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry: 16th Century Ribbed Vaults in Mixteca, Mexico,” an exhibit that showcases three cathedral vaults using a 3-D laser point scanner and printer. Senior Lecturer Rachael Rawlins was awarded the $5,000 Best Research Paper Award for “Planning for Fracking on the Barnett Shale: Urban Air Pollution, Improving Health Based Regulation, and the Role of Local Governments,” Virginia Environmental Law Journal. The article undertakes the most comprehensive review and analysis of air quality monitoring, regulation, and health effects assessment on the Barnett Shale. 

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe  presented the Guadalupe Garage Green Wall project research at the ACADIA 2014 Conference.

 

What is Old Becomes New

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Written by Barbara Opar
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors

Internet giant, Google, reports that the impact of older journal articles is growing. This impact is being measured by citations.

Google Inc. researchers state that the impact of older articles is growing rather than decreasing. In 2013, 36 percent of citations referred to articles that were at least 10 years old, up 28 percent since 1990. Google staff determined nine broad areas of research and 261 specific subject categories when beginning their work. The subject categories were taken from the 2014 edition of Scholar Metrics.

Scholar Metrics is Google Scholar’s tool to measure the visibility and influence of scholarly articles in a specific field. Scholar Metrics lists the twenty top publications in each subject category,  generally  limiting them to English language publications.  The Scholar Metrics inclusion criteria requires a minimum of 100 articles published, at least one article from the journal between the years 2009 and 2013 to be cited, as well as adherence to Google Scholar’s  indexing guidelines.  Architecture is included as a subdivision of the social sciences. See the results at: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=soc_architecture.

According to Google, the impact of older articles has grown in seven of the nine subject categories and 231 of the 261 subject divisions. To quote the article:

“In the introduction, we mentioned two broad trends that have the potential to influence the fraction of older citations. First, finding and reading relevant older articles is now about as easy as finding and reading recently published articles. This has made it easier for researchers to cite the most relevant articles for their work regardless of the age of the articles. Second, there has been a dramatic growth in the number of articles published per-year. This has significantly increased the number of recent articles that researchers need to situate their work in relation to by citing.

Our results suggest that of the two trends, the ease of finding and reading the most relevant articles, irrespective of their age, has had the larger impact. For most fields, retrospective digitization as well as inclusion in a broad-based search service with relevance ranking occurred in the second half of the period of study. As mentioned earlier, this is also the period that saw a larger growth in the fraction of older citations.”

Perhaps not surprisingly the highest growth has been in the category of Humanities, Literature & Arts where 51 percent of the citations for 2013 were to older articles. The Social Sciences saw a 43 percent rise in the use of older citations.  Business, Economics and Management also saw significant change. Chemical, Material Science and Engineering, though, have seen a drop in the number of older citations used.

With respect to architecture, the journals included as well as the articles cited may be somewhat surprising to those in the education field. Certainly there is an emphasis on the technical, be it digital fabrication or sustainability. One would presume given this predilection that the user would be looking for the newest articles on the topic of daylighting.  However, coinciding with Google’s findings, the articles consulted in the included journal titles are on average at least four years old, many in the realm of the “older” distinction of ten years.

As the full article notes, there have been other and earlier impact studies, some with different results. But Google contends that online availability does not result in use only of recent materials, but rather makes for ease of use of all articles, thus allowing the scholar to find the best and most appropriate body of knowledge to support the research. Online repositories and other means of scholarly communication as well as groups like Hathi Trust have helped make this happen. Thus older articles are now being cited with far greater frequency.

To read the full article, go to:
http://arxiv-web3.library..edu/pdf/1411.0275v1.pdf

2015 ACSA Board Candidates

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Online Voting
Below is information on the 2015 ACSA election, including candidate information. Official ballots were emailed to all full-member ACSA schools’ Faculty Councilors, who are the the voting representatives. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2015.

2015 ACSA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
The President-Elect will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015, with the first year served as Vice President, the second year served as President, and the third year served as Past President. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.


Bruce Lindsey, AIA, Washington University in St. Louis


Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, Clemson University

 


2015 ACSA TREASURER CANDIDATES
The Treasurer serves for a two-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.


Christopher Jarrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


Rashida Ng, Temple University

 


2015 ACSA Regional Director Candidates
The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.

 

2015 GULF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES


Elizabeth Martin-Malikian, Southern Polytechnic State University


Scott L. Ruff, Tulane University


2015 WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR CANDIDATES


Nadia M. Anderson, Iowa State University


Daniel Butko, University of Oklahoma

 


ACSA Election Process
ACSA Bylaws, Article IX, Section 3: Election Process: “Elections shall be held in accordance with the Rules of the Board of Directors. Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors”.

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2015.

 

2015 ACSA Board Election Timeline

January 9, 2015
Ballots emailed to all Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
February 10, 2015
Deadline for receipt of ballots in ACSA office
March 2015
Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Toronto

 

The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, February 10, 2015.


Contact
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
phone: 202.785.2324
email: eellis@acsa-arch.org

 

University at Buffalo

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The book, Battersby Howat, edited by Brian Carter, was recognized with a COUPE International Award in the ‘Complete Book Design’ category.

Jin Young Song’s architectural practice, Dioinno Architecture has won Second Award in Residential Building Concept Category in the Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards 2014. Jury Members include Nader Tehrani from MIT and Scott Duncan from SOM: http://www.re-thinkingthefuture.org/portfolio/p-a-r-t-dioinno-architecture-pllc/. His other project, ZEAF,  was selected by NYSCA to be one of Independent Projects funded in the State of New York with the Architectural League as non-profit sponsor: http://archleague.org/2014/12/2015-new-york-state-council-on-the-arts-league-sponsored-independent-projects-grantees/

Miguel Guitart has published the article “Reshaping Robert Adams’ Landscape” in ZARCH Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism Vol.2 (Rethinking, Remaking). The peer-reviewed journal is the official publication of the Department of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza. Guitart’s article explores Adams’ vision on the transforming landscape of the American West in the 1960’s due to the disurbanization of American cities during the Cold War years.

Southern Polytechnic State University

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Currently on research leave from SPSU, Liz Martin-Malikian is conducting fieldwork exploring postwar reconstruction in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the University of Edinburgh postgraduate program. While there, Liz also curating a Pop-up Studio-X Beirut for Columbia University’s global networking program creating an educational forum to explore the future of the city. Made-up of local practitioners, academic scholars and neighborhood activists, the forum works as a global network for sharing ideas and projects about the built environment in postwar Beirut. 

Mississippi State University

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Save The Date:

Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program, in cooperation with the Architecture and Construction Alliance (A+CA) announce the Integrated Project Delivery Theater. This interactive symposium is designed to introduce the exciting but complex world of Integrated Practice.

The two-day symposium features the project team responsible for the commission, design, and construction of the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center, a LEED Gold building. Featured presenters include Jose Alvarez, AIA, LEED AP, Project Architect and Principle with the 2014 AIA Firm of the Year Eskew+Dumez+Ripple; Kevin N. Overton, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Project Manager for Turner Construction Company; and Brian Bozeman, LEED AP, Executive Director ADAMS, (client’s representative) for the New Orleans Bio Innovation Center. Coupled with this dynamic project team, integrated practice educators Assistant Professor Michele M. Herrmann, Esq.; Assistant Professor Emily M. McGlohn, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP; and Associate Professor Hans C. Herrmann, AIA, NCARB, LEED Green Assoc. will offer an exceptional educational opportunity. The unique interactive theater-like presentation includes problem-based learning activities and illustrative visual and verbal presentations designed to generate synthetic comprehension of IPD. The A+CA, through its generous sponsorship, has enabled the MSU faculty to develop this special event. As a critical component to the symposium’s success, the A+CA and MSU School of Architecture and Building Construction Science Program invite students and faculty members from all programs of study engaged in Integrated Project Delivery to attend. The symposium will be held in Giles Hall on the MSU campus in charming Starkville, MS.

For more information on the participating practitioners and MSU faculty presenters please visit: http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/ipdtheater2015/

Symposium Date: January 29–30, 2015
Location: School of Architecture
Giles Hall, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
Local Accommodations: Hotel Chester, Downtown Starkville, MS

 

 

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