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Joyce Hwang‘s practice, Ants of the Prairie, was featured in the Architect’s Newspaper: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7224. She was also featured in Architect Magazine, as part of its ‘Next Progressive’ series: http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/ants-of-the-prairie-into-the-wild_o.aspx. This article will be printed in the May 2014 issue. “Bat Tower,” completed in 2010, was published in Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer, 4th Edition, by Brian Edwards, published by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). On March 13, Professor Hwang delivered a lecture in New York City as part of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award, organized by the Architectural League of New York (http://archleague.org/2014/03/emerging-voices-ants-of-the-prairie-and-rael-san-fratello/). She also gave invited lectures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 6, and at Syracuse University on April 1 as part of a symposium, “Transections: an interdisciplinary exploration of design between the sciences and the humanities” (http://soa.syr.edu/email/2014/transections.html).

Jin Young Song and his research team, Brian Ravinsky (March/MUP) and Yan Duan (MUP) has won the Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund from UB APEC Study Center. The research titled, Prefabricating the Vernacular, is exploring the vernacular architecture focusing on Façade in order to find an alternative way of designing urban housing in the Southeast Asia region under the critique of the distorted modernization in already developed Asian cities. Song will lead the research team for the next two semesters. Jin Young Song’s project Qube also won the Architizer A+ Jury Award in the Products +Living category.

Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” has been selected as the winner of three Architizer A+ Awards. Architecture and Fabrication Category: Popular Choice Winner and Jury Winner, Architecture + Fabrication Category: Jury Winner.  Info can be found at: https://awards.architizer.com/winners/list/?id=2#cat-44-special and http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/04/012.html.  More recent news regarding “project 3xLP” can be found on Bustler, http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winning_skin_installation_3xlp_to_begin_tour_this_fall_in_texas and Archinect, http://archinect.com/news/article/97192468/winning-skin-installation-3xlp-to-begin-tour-this-fall-in-texas.

Online Paging: Delivering Interdisciplinary Print Resources to a Diverse Scholarly Community

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
Column Written by David Eifler, Librarian, Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley

 

Librarians are committed to improving the user experience and often this involves behind the scenes work to improve public services.  A recent initiative at the University of California Berkeley demonstrates this.

The interdisciplinarity of research in all fields is growing (biomorphology in architecture, river restoration in landscape architecture, and planners who research an ever-increasing number of disciplines from public health to transportation to business). At the University of California, Berkeley it has been increasingly apparent that students and other scholars frequently do without print material, or elect electronic resources, rather than transverse our 23 large and subject-specific libraries to obtain the wide variety of materials they want. Actual and perceived barriers to accessing print material may make electronic resources seem more attractive.

One solution to eliminate the spatial barriers to access was to institute a paging service where a book from any library could be requested and sent to any other library to be picked up. Similar to public libraries with branches, books and other circulating items within Berkeley’s libraries can be requested online (through our library catalog), pulled from the stacks by library staff, and delivered to one of 23 circulation points around campus. In order for it to succeed in one location, it had to be implemented campus-wide. Such was born “online paging,” which we expect patrons will eventually refer to by the label of the button used to initiate a transfer: “request”.

At Berkeley, a Paging Task Force with librarians and staff members was formed in October 2013 with a clear mandate from library administration to explore effective ways to implement a paging system. We first solicited input from colleagues who had already implemented similar services at Ball State, Ohio State, Stanford, University of Oregon, and UT Austin, (many of whom were contacted via the Association of Architecture School Librarians listserv.)  After exploring paging implementations at these and other public and academic libraries, as well as past policies and practices at Berkeley, the task force’s report was issued in mid-December and our implementation timeline, which called for an intersession “soft rollout,” was subsequently approved.

The implementation team that met throughout the spring addressed a number of issues prior to making this service available, including whether to fine patrons who requested but didn’t pick up books (no), which libraries to involve (all using our integrated library catalog), and what to do if another patron pulled a requested book off the shelf before it could be retrieved by staff (give it to the patron with the item in hand), and whether patrons would be able to request books from the same library where they were intended to be picked up (yes). At Berkeley, implementing “online paging” happened in tandem with library-wide standardization of loan periods across disparate campus libraries. This made testing of the new online paging service more complex, but greater standardization of loan periods will ultimately lead to a more cohesive library experience (common loan periods) for patrons.

The result: any book that circulates for longer than 7 days can be requested online from any campus library and will be delivered to any campus library within three days. Scholars will no longer need to navigate the Library of Congress call number system in 23 different locations to obtain the wide variety of intellectual content needed to support their interdisciplinary research. Undergrads who may have succumbed to the tendency to rely solely on electronic sources will now have the option to request print. Faculty who bemoaned the amount of time they spent traveling among libraries will now be able to engage in more fruitful research.

As of this writing, UC Berkeley’s online paging has been available for just over a week and already 300 items have been requested. Since we have just begun publicizing the service and summer classes begin in a week, it is too soon to report about online paging’s success. However, initial conversations with faculty and students indicate that it will be a popular service and one that has long been anticipated by our patrons. By removing the impediment to accessing our collection caused by having to navigate 23 libraries, we are facilitating the enhanced flow of information embodied in physical texts across the campus. We now have a delivery system in place that will allow us to more accurately assess the ongoing importance of print in an increasingly electronic world.

 

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Professor Alison Kwok has been named Director of Graduate Studies in the Architecture Department.

Associate Professor Brook Muller is the author of Ecology and the Architectural Imagination (Routledge, 2014), on the architectural possibilities of ecology embedded from conceptual phases onward, how notions of function and structure of ecosystems can inspire ideas of architectural space making and order, and how the architect’s role and contribution can shift through this engagement. 

The 3rd edition of Sun, Wind, and Light by Mark KeKay and University of Oregon Professor G.Z. (Charlie) Brown is now available (Wiley, 2014). This fully updated edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. 

Associate Professor Nico Larco, Kristen Kelsey, and Amanda West just published Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods (Island Press, 2014). The book focuses on overlooked opportunities for walkability and is meant to be a guide for designers, planners, and developers.

Professor Kingston Heath, director of the Historic Preservation Program, has been awarded the 2014 Excellence Award for Directors of Graduate Studies by the University of Oregon Graduate School.

University of Oregon architecture student Cameron Huber received first place for the design of a green single-family house in the perFORM 2014: A House Design Competition. Huber won the $2,000 first place award for his entry, entitled HO[MIN]ID that the judges said showed restraint, purity of form, friendliness to neighborhood context and understanding of energy performance within a holistic approach to sustainability. 

University of Oregon interior architecture student Madeline Gorman won first place in the inaugural International Interior Design Association Oregon chapter design charrette in March at the Eastside Exchange Building in Portland, Oregon.

University of Oregon architecture student Grace Aaraj was an invited student speaker at the TEDx UOregon: Intersections: Diversity is Critical to Creativity. Her presentation was on the crossroads of language and creativity.

Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco presented a lecture at the National Conference of the American Planning Association in Atlanta and led a one day workshop at the University of Connecticut.  Both events focused on the SCYP model and how it can be adapted to different campuses throughout the country.

Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco lectured in Libreville, Gabon on the work of the Sustainable Cities Initiative and met with university faculty and officials from the Gabonese national government.  SCI is currently pursuing both research and educational partnerships with the University of Omar Bongo and with l’Agence Nationale des Grands Travaux (ANGT) through the Gabon Oregon Center.

Career Instructor Megan Haight gave a presentation entitled, “An Exercise in Public Engagement: Eugene YMCA Renewal,” at the 2014 Oregon Design Conference, May 1-3, 2014. Megan was joined by two UO students, Leslie Walker and Bob Nicholls; Dave Perez, the Executive Director of the Eugene Family YMCA; and Eric Gunderson, a partner at PIVOT design.

 Students from the University of Oregon are participating the Vicenza Architecture Program led by Professors Don Corner and Jenny Young.  After field studies in Roma and Firenze, they pursue a studio course in Vicenza for the spring term. This year’s trip includes a cross-cultural workshop with students from the Hochschule Darmstadt.

The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) hosted its third annual Sustainable City Year Conference in April.  The conference included faculty, administrators, and staff from colleges and universities around the globe that were interested in learning how to implement the SCYP model of broad-based collaborative engagement with local municipalities. It also included representatives from many of the thirteen programs

around the country that have adopted and adapted this model.  The model pairs as many as 35 courses from multiple disciplines within a single university with real-world projects from a single partner city. Associate Professor in Architecture and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco and Associate Professor in Planning and SCI Co-Director Marc Schlossberg helped organize and lead this year’s conference. 

Associate Professor and SCI-China Program Head Yizhao Yang and Associate Professor and SCI Co-Director Nico Larco will be leading a three day training workshop in Chengdu, China this summer.  This workshop will focus on Sustainable Urban Design and is run by the Sustainable Cities Initiative’s SCI-China Program.

 

 

 

University of Southern California

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The Platform is a collaborative design/build project by Assistant Professor Victor Jones for the Watts House Project (WHP), a non-profit neighborhood redevelopment organization located in South Central Los Angeles.  The Platform is part of a grassroots effort to transform three dilapidated shotgun houses on 107th Street to establish a cultural destination accommodating administrative offices, a community-run coffee shop, gardens, exhibition spaces and a meeting hall.  Assistant Professor Victor Jones united members from the community, an artist, two grant agencies, and five students from USC’s School of Architecture to realize the project.  Students worked alongside local residents to envision the insertion of a multi-purpose surface that redefines the entire site.  One continuous wall sheathes the front elevations of two existing structures and encloses the open space between them to create two new public spaces: a pocket park along the sidewalk and an internalized courtyard space.  The collaborative team identified existing forms of fence enclosure in the surrounding neighborhood to imagine how a ubiquitous residential element could be adopted to serve institutional and commercial needs.  The subtle manipulation of property enclosure allows the Platform to fit comfortably within its residential setting while adapting to specific performative needs.   

Washington University in St. Louis

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Internationally acclaimed landscape architect Rod Barnett has been appointed chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He will join the program Aug. 1.

A noted theorist and scholar, Barnett has designed landscapes in New Zealand, Australia, China, the Pacific Islands and the United States. He is the author of “Emergence in Landscape Architecture” (2013), which utilizes contemporary systems theory to explore how relatively simple interactions, filtered through continual processes of adaptation and evolution, create larger environments of dizzying complexity.

“Rod Barnett is one of the most interesting and original thinkers in landscape architecture today,” says Bruce Lindsey, dean of architecture and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration. “He is an innovative educator whose experiments with self-organization and nonlinear systems are grounded in a deep knowledge of art, history, philosophy, science, and design. We are delighted to welcome him to the faculty.”

“I am excited about the breadth and depth of experience Rod brings to the school,” says Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts. “During this important phase in our expansion of the landscape architecture program, his leadership will guide and strengthen our efforts in the areas of recruitment and program development, attracting the best students both nationally and internationally.” 

Barnett’s minimalist design for Lumley Plaza in Auckland City incorporates stone, water and evergreens — the essential elements of a Japanese stroll garden. The project won a Gold Award for commercial landscape design from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.  

Auburn University

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Alex Krumdieck, a principal in the Birmingham-based architecture and interior design firm Krumdieck A + I, has been hired as Interim Director of APLA’s acclaimed Urban Studio program based in Birmingham, Alabama. Alex will lead the APLA’s teaching team in Birmingham, focusing on the Fifth Year architecture students who choose the Urban Studio as the venue for their final year of study. Alex follows Cheryl Morgan, long-time Urban Studio Director, who retired last December. In addition to his teaching role, Alex will coordinate the outreach and community-based design activities of the Urban Studio and serve as a liaison to the other APLA and CADC faculty engaged in learning and outreach activities in Birmingham.

Phillip Ewing, BArch/ BIArch ’12, and MIT’s first recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Fellowship, has been lead architect for the CityHome project developed through MIT’s Changing Places Research Group. The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization, and Phillip was responsible for the overall design of the unit, from concept to construction drawing and fabrication. Working with the other lead engineering researchers on integrating their disparate mechanisms into one cohesive package, the team still works to maintain “plug-and-play” add-ons as the project continues to develop. The development of this micro-unit apartment was a demonstration platform for Phillip’s MIT thesis research, and you can watch a demo here.

Meagan Winchester, a senior in Environmental Design from Tampa, Florida, won first place for her poster presentation in the Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities category in Research Week’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium. Her poster, The Issues of Desertification and Food Production, presented her research on the topic of desertification and its effects throughout the world and the product that she designed to help repair land that was not previously desert but had become so because of human activities. Posters presentations were judged on quality of content, conclusions, visual material, presentation, originality, and significant to discipline. For more, read here .

Rural Studio Director Andrew Freear and Professor Elena Barthel, with Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and photographer Timothy Hursley,  published Rural Studio at Twenty by Princeton Architectural Press. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, co-founded by visionary Samuel Mockbee and his friend and colleague D.K. Ruth, and now directed by their equally dedicated and forward-thinking successor Andrew Freear. In addition to showcasing an impressive portfolio of projects, stunningly captured by photographer Timothy Hursley, this book provides an in-depth look at how Rural Studio has thrived through challenges and triumphs, missteps and lessons learned.

Purchase the book from this retailer to ensure that a portion of the proceeds go to the Rural Studio.

The Rural Studio is part of an exhibition currently on view in Paris at the Cite_ de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. The exhibition, ‘Re-Enchanting the World,’ was designed in collaboration with winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Rural Studio’s own Elena Barthel worked on Rural Studio’s contribution to the exhibition, which will run through October 6, 2014.

On May 14 the City of Austin, Texas announced that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, a product of a two-year collaboration between artists/architects Lucy Begg and Robert Gay of Thoughtbarn.  Begg and Gay, both Rural Studio alumni, were commissioned in 2012 to oversee the design and implementation of the community garden at the North Austin Community Recreation Center. The project’s aim was to blend artistic innovation with the necessary functionality and sustainability needed to run such a garden in cooperation with the community, Begg and Gay collaborated with the community throughout the design process and established the Garden Leadership Group to develop a governing structure for the garden as well as bylaws, membership fees and rules; the Group will be lead by community volunteers. As the garden gains membership, it will expand to fill a 20,000 square foot area of the park.

From May 25-August 3, 2014, The Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia, will be showing Design for Social Impact, an exhibition which offers a look at how designers, engineers, students, professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from the Southeastern United States are using design to solve the problems of the 21st century.

The exhibition includes projects by Georgia Tech Students, Plywood People, Stanford’s d-School, MIT’s D-Lab, Stryker, Michael Graves, Interface, Steelcase, Mad Housers, Auburn University and many others.

Ryan Stephenson, BArch ’08, and the Stephenson Design Collective  were featured in the  Seattle Times in a piece about a modern house they designed for a client.  For more, read here.

Professor and former Director of the Urban Studio, Cheryl Morgan was included, along with the Urban Studio, in a Wall Street Journal article featuring projects where commercial properties were converted into residences.  For more, read here.

APLA Alum and architect Bruce Lanier (Arch ’99) in a partnership with artist Heather Spencer Holmes, created a headquarters for Birmingham, Alabama’s collaborative community called MAKEbhm.  With a passion for creativity and community, MAKEbhm rents its space to anyone with creative ideas  about business, organizations, etc. and a desire to collaborate.  Read more here.

 

University of Waterloo

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View of Arctic Adaptations exhibition, Arctic Adaptations, 2014.
Image courtesy of Latreille Delage Photography.

Canada at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, Canada’s national exhibition at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition— la Biennale di Venezia, recently received a Special Mention Golden Lion Award for Canada and was ranked as one of the top 10 exhibitions by AZURE. The exhibition was organized and curated by Lateral Office, whose partners are Lola Sheppard, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and Mason White, Associate professor at the University of Toronto. Matthew Spremulli, adjunct professor the University of Waterloo, is a co-curator.

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 surveys a recent architectural past, a current urbanizing present, and a projective near future of adaptive architecture in Nunavut, Canada’s newest, largest, and most northerly territory, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2014. Today, there are almost 33,000 people living in 25 communities across two million square kilometres, making Nunavut one of the least densely populated regions in the world. These communities, located above the tree line and with no roads connecting them, range in population from 120 in the smallest hamlet to 7,000 in Nunavut’s capital city of Iqaluit. The climate, geography, and people of Nunavut, as well as the wider Canadian Arctic, challenge the viability of a universalizing modernity.

Modern architecture and urbanism encroached on this remote and vast region of Canada in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, or trade, among others. However, the indigenous Inuit people have inhabited the Canadian Arctic for millennia as a traditionally semi-nomadic people. Inuit relations with Canada have been fraught with acts of neglect, resistance, and negotiation. People have been re-located; trading posts, military infrastructure, and research stations have been built; and small settlements are now emerging as Arctic cities. Some have described this rapid confrontation with modernity as a transition “from igloos to internet” compressed into forty years. This abruptness has revealed powerful traits among its people—adaptation and resilience—qualities which modern architecture has often lacked.

Arctic Adaptations responds to the shared theme of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition: Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014. The exhibition documents modernism’s legacy in this remarkable but relatively unknown region of Canada, describes the contemporary realities of life in its communities, and examines a projected role for architecture moving forward. It argues that modern Inuit cultures continue to evolve and merge the traditional and the contemporary in unique and innovative ways, and questions whether architecture, which has largely failed this region—both technically and socially—can be equally innovative and adaptive.

The exhibition looks at the past 100 years through a series of carvings by Inuit artists of important buildings. It presents its current context through a series of bas relief models describing every community in Nunavut, paired with photographs taken by residents within each community. It projects forward 15 years, through a series of speculative architecture projects

Developed by five design teams. Each team is made up of a Canadian school of architecture, a Canadian architecture office with extensive northern experience, and a Nunavut-based organization. Each team’s proposal examines one theme – housing, health, education, arts, or recreation – and is rooted in Nunavut’s distinct land, climate and culture. A series of 15 ‘living models’ brought to life by time-based animations, hover in the exhibition space, describing proposals at three scales: the territorial, the community and the architectural scale.

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 will be at the Canada Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia from June 7 – November 23, 2014.

A catalogue, Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, as well as a broadly accessible publication, entitled Many Norths: Spatial Practices in a Shifting Territory, will accompany Arctic Adaptations. After the exhibition returns from Venice it will tour Canada in 2015-17.

Links to other media:

Azure Magazine:

http://www.azuremagazine.com/article/dispatch-venice-biennale/

 

Canadian Architect

http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/canadas-arctic-adaptations-nunavut-at-15-honoured-by-a-special-mention-at-the-14th-international/1003111917/

http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/arctic-adaptations-nunavut-at-15-to-represent-canada-at-the-14th-international-architecture/1003092884/

ACSA Update 6.13.14

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June 13, 2014

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Connect to the ACSA/AIK International Conference

To help you plan your OPEN CITIES experience, check out the mobile app. Features include a detailed schedule, speaker bios, maps and a documents guide including paper abstracts. You will also be able to share your own pictures of Seoul in the Gallery, or by using #opencities14 on Twitter. Downloading the OPEN CITIES app is quick and easy. You can get it for your iPhone, iPad, Android, or web browser.

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Bring a Guest to Monday Evening’s Toyo Ito Lecture

Guests are welcome to come see Toyo Ito deliver the keynote lecture Monday, June 23, 2014, 5:00-6:30pm at the Ewha Womans University.

 

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Read the Paper Abstracts and View the Research + Design Project Winners

We offer full PDF downloads of the paper abstracts and a gallery of the Research + Design Projects. The projects will also be on display at the Ewha Womans University.

 

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Download an at-a-glance Schedule

In Seoul, we will hand out a shortened version of the schedule for attendees, but you can also download it in advance! Check out the app to select the sesions you want to attend and add them to “My Schedule.”

 

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Architecture Students Travel to Haiti for Service Project

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Washington, D.C., June 6, 2014 – The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is partnering with Howard University, School of Architecture and Design with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture to lead a public-interest design education and service-learning project in Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes, Haiti. With support from the Fetzer Institute, the 2014 Haiti Summer Studio is the continuation of the “2011 Haiti Idea Challenge” where students were asked to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, and neighborhoods affected by the 2010 earthquake. The challenges include designing and building a media resource center in an area without running water or electricity and using designs that can be built by local residents themselves.

Ten students and six advisors from the U.S. will join Howard University’s partner, Mercy Outreach Ministry International, and Haiti’s University GOC on a design project that will help Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes residents develop the capacity to improve their daily lives through architectural design solutions. The group will spend two weeks in Haiti, where the students will practice the principles of compassionate and participatory design. The outcomes of the studio, including a documentary video chronicling the experience, will be published by the ACSA as a model for other schools to use service-learning to implement collaborative and participatory design processes that empower local citizens and foster community resilience.

The studio will be coordinated by Professor Lynne M. Dearborn of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), School of Architecture and the project led by the partnership of Professors Edward Dunson, Victor Dzidzienyo and Bradford Grant of Howard University (HU) School of Architecture and Design along with Michael Monti and Eric Ellis of the ACSA.

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About ACSA
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The school membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 schools in several membership categories. These include full membership for all accredited programs in the United States and government-sanctioned schools in Canada, candidate membership for schools seeking accreditation, and affiliate membership for schools for two-year and international programs. Through these schools, over 5,000 architecture faculty are represented. In addition, over 500 supporting members composed of architecture firms, product associations and individuals add to the breadth of interest and support of ACSA goals. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations. www.acsa-arch.org

ABOUT HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The School of Architecture and Design has a tradition of activist community service in design that advances collaborative scholarship, research, teaching and learning in the global context. Howard has produced more African American and Black architects than any other institution in the world. www.howard.edu

ABOUT THE ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Illinois School of Architecture is one of the oldest and largest schools of architecture in the country. Since the initiation of its architectural curriculum in 1867, the University of Illinois has consistently broken new ground in the education of architects in the United States. www.arch.uiuc.edu

ABOUT MERCY OUTREACH MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL, INC
MOM the international outreach mission of the Full Gospel Church of the Lord’s Missions International, Inc. It is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the transmission of appropriate technology for sustainable community and economic growth in developing countries. MOM has targeted the dispossessed and suffering in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It is listed among the poorest of all countries in the developing world. MOM is particularly dedicated to the rural communities that are isolated and without modern sanitation, food, water, and educational and medical facilities. www.mercyoutreachministry.org

ABOUT FETZER INSTITUTE
The Fetzer Institute is a nonprofit, private operating foundation based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Established by broadcast pioneer John E. Fetzer (1901-1991), the Institute uses its philanthropic resources to create programs that foster awareness of the power that love, forgiveness, and compassion can have in our world. Visit Fetzer Institutes Website at www.fetzer.org

 

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