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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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This spring Kevin Erickson was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

The urban design work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway was a Selected Featured Project for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Open Professional Category International Competition.  Hemingway’s residential design work was 1 of 54 International projects selected for the publication Global Architecture Houses Project 2014 A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo.  His project was also featured in the exhibition at Global Architecture Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Erik Hemingway’s creative design work on four Modernist Residences [3 built and 1 un built] located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Urbana; will be featured from January 30 through May 2015 in a solo exhibition at the Light Court in the Krannert Art Museum adjacent to the Galley of the traveling exhibit MetaModern.  As a digital Multi Media Exhibition of these spectacular renovated Mid Century Modernist Residences first designed by A. Quincy Jones; Robert Anshen; Mies van der Rohe, and John Replinger, this exhibit of Erik’s preservation and rehabilitation work to the general public will be instrumental in raising the value and potentially saving lesser known modernist homes and the history of their design importance.

Professor and dF Chair Jeffery Poss, and Visiting Instructor David Emmons won two national awards for the Folding Farm II produce transport vehicle and a deployable farm stand. It received First Prize in ‘Services: Personal Transportation’ in the 2013 Green Dot Awards™, which strive to reward and promote forward-thinking businesses that create environmentally friendly products or services, and to reward revolutionary green proposals. The jury selected winners from thousands of entries from over 25 countries. 

Folding Farm II also received an Honorable Mention in the AIA 2014 Pop Up Project Design Competition.  The design jury commented that Folding Farm II was…”Very cool looking and a truly local producer. Could be a mobile suite for a larger farmer. Sellable and familiar, but for a boutique seller. Beautiful story or hyper local vendor.” The digital Fabrication Laboratory, “dF LAB,” received grants from the University Provost, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Illinois School of Architecture for state-of-the-art equipment to expand digital fabrication capabilities.

Joy Monice Malnar, AIA was invited by the Scent Marketing Institute (an international organization of perfumers) to present in June a keynote address on scent and architecture at their New York ScentWorld 2014 conference. In May, Malnar presented “New Housing on Indigenous Lands,” at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. She presented “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands: Cultural & Environmental Sustainability in Tribal Communities,” at the June AIA 2014 National Convention and Design Exposition in Chicago, for 1.5 Health Safety and Welfare Learning Units. And in August, she presented “Architectural Museum Design for Living Artifacts,” to museum curators at The Inclusive Museum 7th Annual Conference, Los Angeles. Her article co-authored with Frank Vodvarka “Architectural Design for Living Artifacts” was published in Multi-sensory Museum: A Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, edited by Dr. Nina Levent, former executive director of Art Beyond Sight and Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of The Senses & Society journal.

Chicago Studio – Growing from outreach efforts with the City of Chicago Mayor’s office and Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development, the Urbanism Program Area has launched the Illinois School of Architecture’s inaugural Chicago Studio this Fall, 2014. The Chicago Studio is located at 224 South Michigan Avenue, collaborating with VOA Associates Inc., and offering graduate students the opportunity to study, live and work for one semester in Chicago’s loop. These graduate students take studio, seminars and a professional development course. The studio is focused on an urban design project determined in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development.  The professional development course engages Chicago’s architectural offices to understand each firm’s ideology and their methods of delivery for both clients and the general public. The Chicago Studio’s goal is to immerse students as fully as possible in Chicago’s architectural offerings. To facilitate this goal, each firm supplies one or more professional mentors to enable each graduate student to have a mentoring relationship for the semester with a Chicago professional. The students are also linked to the Chicago Architecture Foundation where they volunteer several times during the semester. Participants engage with the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University (current ISoA faculty involved: Kevin Hinders, Coordinator and Brian Hammersley). 

Over the summer, Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D. moderated the session: Architects and Beyond: Career Opportunities Abound at the AIA Convention in Chicago.  As well, the third edition of his book, Becoming an Architect was published by Wiley; in all, the book through its first two editions has sold more than 20,000 copies.  Waldrep also served as the author of the chapter – The Career Paths of an Architect, for the AIA Handbook of Professional Practice. 

Associate Professor Abbas Aminmansour has been elected for a two year term as the Vice Chair of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings. 

 

Texas A&M University

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Dr. Valerian Miranda, head of the College of Architecture’s CRS Center for Leadership & Management in the Design & Construction Industry, architecture and environmental design students conducted a programming effort for the design of the new Veterinary Medicine Education Complex at Texas A&M University. The project’s architectural program includes the general direction the design of a building should take by first learning what the client’s goals and needs are. The new Veterinary Medicine Education Complex will be of 300,000 square-feet and cost $120 million USD. “Now we will have a building that truly matches the excellence of our faculty and students,” said Eleanor Green, dean of veterinary medicine, during the April 29, 2014 groundbreaking at the site of the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Education Complex, which is scheduled for completion in 2016.

Texas A&M University

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Professors Xuemei Zhu, Kevin Glowacki, Gabriel Esquival, and Sarah Deyong, have been promoted to Associate Professors with Tenure at A&M University.

Dr. Xuemei Zhu teaches in the Department of Architecture. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University. Her scholarship investigates the impacts of built environment on public health, environmental sustainability, and social equity, with a specific focus on healthy community and healthcare design. She received 13 competitive research grants ($1,006,285 in total) as a PI or Co-PI, from organizations such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She also produced 19 journal articles, two book chapters, six conference papers, and 25 conference presentations. Her teaching centers on the theme of environment-behavior relationships, and strengthens the link between environment-behavior research and design practice.

Dr. Kevin Glowacki teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in art and architectural history. He received his Ph.D in Classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College in 1991. His research investigates domestic architecture, household activities, and urban development on the island of Crete. His publications include STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete (American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Princeton 2011) and Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery (INSTAP Academic Press: Philadelphia 2012). He is currently a member of an international team excavating the ancient Minoan city of Gournia in eastern Crete.  At Texas A&M, Dr. Glowacki is also a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Heritage Conservation. He is the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Archaeological Institute of America.

Professor Esquivel Gabriel joined Texas A&M University in 2008. He investigates the benefits and vehicles of a heterogeneous model that integrates both design technology and architecture’s proprietary devices. Specifically, Professor Esquivel examines digital geometry and the emergence of new material logics. He also examines the integration of digital techniques and analogue conventions to exchange architectural information. His research oscillates between fabrication techniques, performance and parametric investigations directly linked to the fabricated pieces, as well as the theoretical background behind these fabricated objects. These projects have been discussed on papers from SMI and Acadia from the parametric point of view as well as theory-based publications like Thresholds from MIT. He is a promoter of new ideas in architecture. has produced and organized conferences in Mexico City, such as Azul Rey, Elegantech, Ab Intra and Blurring Limits.

Dr. Sarah Deyong joined Texas A&M University in 2007 and received her doctorate at Princeton University in 2008.  She teaches history & theory and design studio, and her research focuses on postwar and contemporary theories and practices. Her papers on topics such as Sigfried Giedion, Team X, High Tech, Colin Rowe and Urban Think-Tank have been published in the JAE, the JSAH, Praxis, Flip Your Field (ACSA), Theory By Design (University of Antwerp), the Journal of Architecture, A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture and The Changing of the Avant-Garde (MoMA). She was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation and a fellowship from the Glasscock Center of Humanities Research. Her current book project is titled The Reinvention of Modern Architecture at Mid-Century.

Catholic University of America

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Associate Professor Eric J. Jenkins‘ sketch “Drawing Light from Darkness” was awarded Runner Up amongst registered architects in Architectural Record’s 2014 Napkin Sketch Contest.

Associate Professor Adnan Morshed will present talks based on his forthcoming book, Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder (University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2014), at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum in September 2014 and the Birkbeck, University of London, in October 2014 – http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/impossible-heights. He will be a panel discussant at the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments in Kuala Lumpur in December 2014.

North Dakota State University

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Mike Christenson, Associate Professor of Architecture at North Dakota State University, received an American Institute of Architects (North Dakota) Honor Award for the architectural design of the Horizon House (private residence) in Moorhead, MN. Christenson designed the house with Malini Srivastava. This is the first project to receive an Honor Award under ND-AIA’s new Residential Design category.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Jason Young has been named the new director of the School of Architecture of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He becomes acting director on August 1.

Young, a researcher specializing in contemporary conditions of American urbanism, brings over twenty years of teaching experience to the College of Architecture and Design. He comes to Knoxville from the University of Michigan, where he was an associate professor in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

“We are very excited by the appointment of Jason Young,” said Scott Poole, dean of the College of Architecture and Design. “He has a strong national reputation, and brings a breadth of experience from one of the top architecture programs in the country.”

In addition to teaching at Michigan, where he was named the Helmet F. Stern Professor by its Institute for Humanities, Young was, in fall 2013, the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Associate Professor of Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Schwerpunkt Holz in Murau, Austria, and Catholic University of America.

“I am excited for the opportunity to lead the School of Architecture into the future, taking the strong foundation established by dedicated students, faculty, and administrators as a starting point for advancement,” said Young. “In relationship to the larger context of the university and state, I look forward to making contributions to the intellectual environment at the university and advocating for architecture and design excellence in Tennessee.”

The UT School of Architecture is home to professionally-accredited undergraduate and graduate architecture programs. It is frequently cited as one of the best schools for architecture in the South, achieving national acclaim and research funding for such projects as its Living Light Solar House, Appalachia Project, Green Oak Project, and New Norris House, winner of numerous national awards including the prestigious ‘Top 10 Green Project’ from the American Institute of Architects Committee for the Environment in 2013.

“Director Young comes to our college at an exciting time in its history,” said Poole. “We recently established an unprecedented partnership between industry, research, and academia – the Governor’s Chair in Energy and Urbanism – with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and SOM, one of the largest and most respected design firms in the world. We also are kicking off the new year with $2M in facilities upgrades, including a new fabrication laboratory in the heart of downtown Knoxville.”

As a licensed builder in Michigan, Young is the founder of YARD, a design and build practice with “a nice collection of built work with close attention to detail,” said Young. Before founding YARD, Young was co-founder and partner of WETSU, a design and build practice in Ann Arbor. WETSU received an Honorable Mention in Interior Design Magazine’s Design Review in 2001, was recognized by Wallpaper* magazine as one of twenty-five notable emerging practices worldwide in 2003, and received an Honor Award from Contract Magazine in 2005.

Young earned his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990, and Master of Architecture from Rice University in 1992.

To learn more about Director Jason Young and the UT School of Architecture, please visit http://archdesign.utk.edu/.

Mark DeKay was promoted to Full Professor of the School of Architecture. 

Katherine Ambroziak was promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture by the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees.

Lisa Mullikin was named the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research of the College of Architecture and Design. 

 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students will host the largest architecture student conference of the year in Nashville this winter.

Architecture students from around the country will attend workshops and seminars led by professionals, lectures by world-renowned guests and networking events that will help them better prepare for the profession. AIAS is an independent nonprofit student-run organization dedicated to providing programs, information and resources on issues critical to architectural education. It has been in existence for six decades.

This is the first time the forum is being held in Tennessee.

“This year, AIAS Forum will put the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the city of Nashville in the spotlight,” said Breanna Weaver, forum conference chair and former UT AIAS chapter president. “I think it’s hard for us to mask our pride and enthusiasm as we prepare to present our school and the region to the rest of the architecture community. We’re making our mark on a tradition that has spanned almost 60 years.”

The 2014 theme is Reverb, a play on the spirit of the Music City. Selection to host the forum was competitive. It required a formal bid, a vote by AIAS members; financial backing from the home university; and a presentation to the AIAS’s National Board of Directors, the Council of Presidents and the AIAS general body at the 2012 forum.

The AIAS Forum will showcase the architectural side of Nashville and Tennessee through city walks, architecture firm visits and museum tours. It also will feature a New Year’s Eve Beaux Arts ball.

“UT students have been working on this for over two years, so we are more than ready to get people registered and let the fun begin,” Weaver said.

The conference also will mark the 10th anniversary of AIAS’s philanthropy, Freedom by Design, which provides accessibility solutions for community members with disabilities. All projects are completely designed, planned and constructed by AIAS members. The UT Freedom by Design chapter is one of the most widely regarded programs in the country and just completed its third major project this past spring.

More information about the AIAS Forum is available through at http://www.aiasforum2014.com or on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by searching for “AIASForum2014.”

UT Architecture and Design Improving Facilities with $2.5M Dedicated to Updated Labs, New Building

 

The College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is improving its facilities over the next year through renovations and upgrades to the Art and Architecture Building and its newly acquired facility in downtown Knoxville.

A total of $2.5 million is being dedicated to mechanical upgrades, design lab equipment and state-of-the-art digital fabrication tools to create new collaborative environments throughout the Art and Architecture Building. It will feature study areas for students, lighting upgrades, updated restrooms, a redesigned Student Services Center, upgraded student breakout labs and state-of-the-art digital panel displays for group projects, as well as two new kitchenettes designed by students.

Advanced design laboratories, or studios, will feature 400 new student work stations to replace decades-old equipment. Each student will have a work space with a new desk, chair, storage system, lighting and computer monitors for design projects.

“Through our exceptional faculty and their nationally recognized work, our college is emerging as a leader in the areas of sustainability and urbanization,” said Scott Poole, dean of the college. “Our goal is to create the best teaching and learning environments for our students and faculty through new spaces and equipment on par with contemporary design practice. We want our students to be excited, inspired and proud of our facilities.”

The College of Architecture and Design is home to three disciplines—architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. This fall, the college will welcome its most diverse incoming class in recent years with students hailing from 12 states and five countries.

As part of the renovations, $250,000 of the total sum will go toward a new design laboratory for the incoming Governor’s Chair—a research team led by Phil Enquist from internationally recognized architecture, engineering and design firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP. Over five years, the team will investigate regenerative energy strategies and urban density through a joint appointment between UT and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Governor’s Chair work will occur in the college’s recently acquired 20,000 square-foot fabrication facility and design studio at 525 N. Gay St., referred to as the Fab Lab. The facility will have more than $600,000 in new equipment, including computer-aided design and manufacturing machinery such as computer numerically controlled mills, laser cutters, 3D printers and robotics. High-performance metal fabrication materials including digital lathes and mills will complement the college’s existing wood shop equipment in the Art and Architecture Building.

“Our new facilities provide us with the capacity to realize projects that were beyond our reach in the past,” Poole said. “I am excited by the possibilities. We are convinced that our new facilities will enable our faculty and students to achieve new levels of excellence.”

The improvements are part of the changes that have occurred under the college’s new administration, which has been reshaped since 2011. Over the last three years, they have created an office for student services and advising, acquired new furniture and workspaces for students, improved staff work areas, created new spaces for the growing leadership and faculty, removed graffiti in the building and refurbished the building’s primary auditorium.

The college also has helped bring about a research partnership with furnisher Herman-Miller to create an advanced design studio lab for students and established a new gallery with storefront exhibits at the college’s 500 S. Gay Street Downtown Studio.

 

University of Southern California

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Assistant Professor Rachel Berney and Visiting AC Martin Chair Oliver Schulze are guiding students through an investigation of the Mobile City of LA in our current studio course, ARCH 642 “The Mobile City – People, Transport, & Public Life.”  While we tend to link the city of Los Angeles with the automobile (think: Missing Person’s “Nobody Walks in LA”), the reality of transportation in LA is far more complex. The city pioneered large streetcar systems in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The last incarnation of those systems – the red line – was collapsed in favor of embracing freeway construction in the mid 20th century. Since the 1970s, however, public transportation networks and services have grown rapidly in LA. The city now has the largest bus system in the United States and there has been more transit building in the last decade in LA than in any other city in the United States. LA also hosts the most-traveled urban commute rail line in the country – the Blue Line – with 80,000 trips per weekday. The next iteration of Los Angeles is that of THE MOBILE CITY, one connected and networked via public transit options with higher density housing at nodes and with opportunities to reweave the urban fabric of the city to incorporate visible and legible natural systems and public space. It is a crucial time for reinvention and change in the city’s life. The challenge is great. The possibilities for design greater.

Laurel Consuelo Broughton was named one of the fifteen 2014 Racked.com Young Guns of Fashion for her collection, WELCOMECOMPANIONS an offshoot from her design studio WELCOMEPROJECTS. Her residential project Shed House is now under construction in Malibu, CA and slated for completion January 2015. In July she gave the talk Soft Abstraction as part of UCLA Jumpstart’s Series, Endlessly Worthwhile Dilemmas. Her project Retrospective City is on view at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles until August 31, 2014. Gallery Attachment, a collaborative project with Andrew Kovacs, was selected to participate in the Storefront For Art and Architecture’s exhibition program WorldWide StoreFront, forthcoming fall 2014. 

Patrick Tighe, FAIA (Professor Adjunct) USC School of Architecture received the IDEAS 2 Award for Excellence in Steel Frame Building Design from the American Institute of Steel Construction for an affordable housing project in West Hollywood. The Sierra Bonita Affordable Housing project for people living with disabilities also won an Award of Merit for Structural Engineering from the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEOSC).

Chu+Gooding Architects (Annie Chu and Rick Gooding) has recently completed design and drawings for a 110,000 sf Collection Storage, Conservation and Research Facility for the new Autry Resource Center in Burbank. A 110,000 sf Collection Storage, Conservation and Research Facility which is scheduled to start construction in January.  Chu+Gooding Architects is also in the design phase for the 100-Room Tiverton House Renovation at UCLA. Rick Gooding’s Subterranea drawing exhibit in the Napa Gallery at Cal State University Channel Islands from November 13 to December 5 and will include about a dozen of the USC Student 3rd Year Models from this past Spring Semester.

Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Haas’s firm, DSH // architecture, was the recipient of Honorable Mentions for both the Para Los Niños Family Center and the Villa Tangente in the Re-Thinking the Future 2014 Awards. 

Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch received the James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Grant to develop her next book, Landscape as Thick Description. She conducted a new MLA research studio titled “The Geography of the LA Riots: Designing the Public Realm in the Insurgent Spaces of the City.”  

Lauren Matchison, NCARB, will serve as Interim Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program for the remainder of 2014.

Professor G. Goetz Schierle is preparing a book on fabric structures.

Ed Woll is enjoying a re-organized practice focusing more completely than before on design of affordable housing.  The re-organized firm — TWG Architects Inc — is a troika/collective with three equal principals and is currently in production on two substantial projects: one in LA (Eagle Rock neighborhood — 46 units at 4 stories over parking) and one in the Bronx (120 units at 13 stories with no parking!).  Both projects are for special needs clients and incorporate extensive social service provisions; both feature site development that includes some urban farming. 

Sofia Borges, Lecturer, released two new books in August. Hide and Seek:The Architecture of Cabins and Hide-Outs and Building Better: Sustainable Architecture for Family Homes are now available on Amazon and bookstores worldwide.

 

University of Texas at Austin

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The UT Austin Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Allan W. Shearer will be joining Dr. Richard L. Corsi as co-director staring this fall.

The August 2014 Architectural Digest cover story, “Texas Triumph,” highlights Laura and George W. Bush‘s residence in Crawford, Texas, designed by Professor David Heymann and completed in 2001, just after Mr. Bush became president.

Senior Lecturer Fran Gale participated in the 39th Annual California Preservation Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, this past spring.

Drs. Barbara Brown Wilson and Steven A. Moore have been awarded the esteemed 2014 Great Places Award in the place research category for their ongoing work at the Green Alley Demonstration Project in east Austin.

Associate Professor Fernando Lara contributed an Op-Ed, titled “Don’t Wait for Mega-events to Build Public Projects,” in the June 10, 2014, edition of the Houston Chronicle.

Assistant Professor Clay Odom‘s bike-powered farm stand project for the HOPE Farmers Market was highlighted in the May 9, 2014, edition of the Austin Chronicle.

“Drawing Lines,” a community-based art project by Lecturer Sarah Gamble [M.Arch. ’05] and community and regional planning Ph.D. student Lynn Osgood was selected by the City of Austin Economic Development Department to receive one of two grants from ArtPlace America.

University of Houston

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The University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Participates in the Venice Biennale

The much anticipated Time Space Existence collateral event at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale brought together a diverse group of 100 architects from six continents in an “extraordinary combination.” …. The 32 rooms in Palazzo Bembo mainly highlight solo-presentations, by architects such as Ricardo Bofill, AHMM, and White arkitekter, or research projects such as that of the University of Houston.

100 Architects From 6 Continents Discuss “Time Space Existence” at the 2014 Venice Biennale

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