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ACSA Launches Redesigned Website

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ACSA Launches Redesigned Website


Last week, we launched the newly redesigned ACSA website as part of our effort to refresh our brand and aesthetic. While we know many of you loved our old look and feel (we did too!), the user experience could be improved. So, for the past year, the ACSA staff has worked diligently to design the website with you in mind. Today, we’d like to formally introduce you to the key features of the new acsa-arch.org. 

  • New Overall Design
  • Optimized Search Functionality
  • Searchable Proceedings Index
  • New Bookstore Design

New Overall Design

The main goal of the redesign is to allow you to navigate to the content you need easily and efficiently on all devices. We hope you find that the new website will be more clear, user-friendly, and accessible. Check out the Dates + Deadlines section to stay up-to-date on our events and opportunities. 

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Optimized Search Functionality

We have worked diligently to improved the overall site-wide search. Whether you are searching for a specific paper from our Annual Meeting proceedings or all related content on specific topics like “steel,” we hope that you find this experience to be easier and more user-friendly. 

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Searchable Proceedings Index

Researching specific topics has become much easier with our new searchable index of conference proceedings. Find papers or projects dating back to 1995. Make sure you sign in to be able to download PDFs to your computer. 

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New and Improved Bookstore

Interested in purchasing conference proceedings, Architectural Education Awards winners booklets, or the Steel Design Student Competition summary books? Visit our newly designed bookstore and purchase through our vendor, Lulu Press. We are currently working on updating recent conference proceedings and will have those online very soon! 

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We hope that these changes allow you to engage with the content in a new and exciting way. If you have feedback on how we can continue to improve, contact us at info@acsa-arch.org. 

University of Oregon

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Four fellows from around the world have arrived at the UO College of Design’s School of Architecture & Environment for the groundbreaking Design for Spatial Justice Initiative, a fellowship program established in 2019 to support visiting faculty who will engage communities and whose scholarship at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, and economic inequality is enriched by their lived experience.

The fellows include Menna Agha from Egypt, Priyanka Bista from Nepal/Canada, Zannah Mae Matson from Canada, and Karen Kubey from the U.S.

Read the full story: https://design.uoregon.edu/design-spatial-justice-faculty-fellows-join-school-architecture-environment

Pennsylvania State University

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Internationally recognized architecture firm to visit Stuckeman School

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Yolande Daniels, co-principal of Studio SUMO – an award-winning architecture firm known for its thoughtful approach to design both in the United States and Japan, will speak on Oct. 30 as part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. Hosted by the Department of Architecture, the “Building and Unbuilding” lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space.

The firm’s name – “SUMO” – is a blend of co-principal Sunil Bald’s first name and Daniels’ nickname in graduate school (Momo) at Columbia University, which is where the two met. Founded in 1997, the SUMO name became even more fitting when the firm began designing buildings for Josai University in Japan in 2000. The pair was commissioned for an array of buildings for the private university’s campuses including a museum, dormitory and school of management.

That same year, Bald and Daniels were asked to design the Architectural League of New York’s exhibition and were invited to design a temporary new home for the Museum for African Art in Queens, New York. A year later, SUMO’s design was built and several years after that, the firm was invited to design the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art in Brooklyn, which was completed in 2006.

SUMO, which is based in New York, has been featured as one of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices. In 2015, the firm was awarded the Annual Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and also received a Young Architects award from the Architectural League. A finalist in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, SUMO has also received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

The firm’s work, which ranges from installations to institutional buildings to apartment buildings, has been exhibited in the National Building Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, the Field Museum, the GA Gallery and the Urban Center.

Daniels is currently an assistant professor at the University of South California School of Architecture. Previously, she was a visiting professor at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught graduate-level courses at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Pratt Institute and the City College of New York, and also served as the interim director of the Master of Architecture program at Parsons School of Constructed Environments.

Daniels holds a master of architecture from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the City University of New York.

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Open Access and Architectural Content

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AASL Column, October 2019
Lucy Campbell and Barbara Opar, column editors
Column by Barbara Opar

Open Access and Architectural Content

Are you interested in seeing thesis or capstone works from other architecture schools? Have you wanted to read the new work of colleagues who share your interests? Then you may be able to find that content in an institutional repository.

The trend toward Open Access is growing.  The 12th annual International Open Access Week this year is October 21st to the 27th.   Members of this audience are hopefully all aware of this concept. Perhaps your institutions even have mandates for open access publishing. But to recap the words of Peter Suber: “Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm)

Open content is expanding to new forms like textbooks. One of the richest areas of open content though is the institutional repository where the institution manages and disseminates the digital scholarship of its faculty, staff, and students. The institution – and more recently often the library- preserves and distributes the scholarly, professional, scientific and creative output of its community. Generally, the output is full-text and may be multi-media. Often included are dissertations, master’s theses, capstone papers, and honors theses. Many institutions have found that adding this type of content enhances the reputation of the institution. Faculty work may include periodical articles (generally pre or post-print), book chapters, conference presentations or exhibition material. The content of the repository is usually searchable by department, author, and keyword. For faculty, benefits include quick and easy dissemination, discoverability, more usage, and improved impact.

So please explore the rich content the Open Access initiative provides by checking out the list of Open Access Repositories in North America as provided:

Andrews University

Arizona State University

Auburn University

Ball State University

Boston Architectural College 1 – Boston Architectural College 2

California Polytechnic State University

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Carnegie Mellon University

Clemson University 1- Clemson University 2 – Clemson University 3 – Clemson University 4

Columbia University 1 – Columbia University 2

Cornell University

Florida Atlantic University

Florida International University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Illinois Institute of Technology

Kent State University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McGill University

Mississippi State University

Montana State University – Bozeman

New Jersey Institute of Technology

North Carolina State University

North Dakota State University

Ohio State University

Princeton University

Rhode Island School of Design

Roger Williams University

Syracuse University

Washington University in St. Louis

University of Arizona

University of Arkansas

University at Buffalo –(Dissertations and Theses Only)

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley 1 – University of California, Berkeley 2

University of California, Los Angeles 1 – University of California, Los Angeles 2

University of Colorado

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Idaho

University of Illinois

University of Kansas

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Memphis

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska – Lincoln

University of New Mexico

University of Notre Dame

University of Oklahoma – Arch Open Access Started

University of Southern California 1 – University of Southern California 2

University of South Florida

University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Austin

This is a preliminary list of open access institutional repositories in North America with architectural content. Please send additions or corrections to Barbara Opar at baopar@syr.edu.

Pennsylvania State University

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Stuckeman School participates in Textile Intersections conference in London

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – As part of a project developed for an architecture elective course on responsive fiber composites, two recent landscape architecture graduates and their instructor traveled to London in September to display their work at the Textile Intersections conference.

Julian Huang and Jimi Demi-Ajayi, who both graduated in the fall of 2018, along with Felecia Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture who also directs the SOFTLAB in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, installed their “Phototropic Origami Fiber Composite Structure” project at the two-day event. Hosted by the Textile Design Research Group at Loughborough University, the conference was designed to explore collaborations in textile design research.

The project was sponsored by the American Composite Manufacturers Association, which lent the group its expertise and project materials. Students from both the Stuckeman School and Carnegie Mellon attended a workshop for the project that was held at Penn State in February 2018. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce students and faculty to the architectural applications and case studies using fiber composites. Fabrication techniques for fiber composites were demonstrated in the Penn State Stuckeman Family Building Shop.

According to Davis, her team’s project was inspired by “Chakrasana,” an accordion art pavilion that was developed by Joe Choma, assistant professor of architecture at Clemson University. Davis and her architecture and landscape architecture students developed a responsive fiber composite foldable structure by embedding conductive and resistive yarns into a fiberglass knit fabric.

“We used origami as a method to make folds in the fabric allowing the structure to collapse and be flat,” Davis said. “We hoped to make a lightweight portable structure that could take on different shapes when clipped and positioned. This could be used as a shelter in a landscape setting or as a portable structure.”

Davis explained that they embedded a conductive thread that carries an electric current up a length of fiberglass knit that could then carry an electronic signal to a series of LED lights, which are sewn on to the front side of their origami project.

“These LEDs are connected to a photocell that turns the LEDs on and off according to the level of light,” Davis said. “In bright daylight, the LEDs are off and as evening arrives the LEDs are on.”

Demi-Ajayi said that one of the goals of the conference was to integrate cross-disciplinary collaborative research efforts beyond their current work.

“We set up our interactive origami pavilion structure at the conference and exchanged ideas with distinguished guests,” he said. “Overall the event was extremely informative and a lot was learned from the different demonstrations and lectures we attended at the conference.”

When asked about the importance of the conference to other students in architecture, landscape architecture or engineering, Huang added that some of the research that was presented at the conference has great potential for real-world applications.

“There was a chemist who spoke about his research on some interesting aspects of fabric including the development of a suit that could detect low heart rate and other health issues,” Huang said. “Sensors are embedded into the chemical level of the suit material so it would show you when your blood sugar or cholesterol level are high based on sweat. I think people need to know about this invention and be more informed of the potential of the textile industry.”

Pennsylvania State University

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Design by architecture, engineering professor featured in Architect magazine

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The design of mobile low-carbon structures by DK Osseo-Asare, assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State, has been featured by Architect magazine, the journal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Titled “Fufuzela,” the experimental bamboo structures are designed to function at the intersection of architecture and furniture while integrating biology with environmental design and engineering.

As a finalist in the 2019 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1 Young Architects Program, Osseo-Asare, who is also co-founder/principal of the Austin, Texas and Ghana-based architecture and integrated design firm Low Design Office, was commissioned to develop a proposal for the MoMA PS1 museum courtyard in the form of a series of images and a large-scale architectural model. The Fufuzela model and one of the renderings was exhibited over the summer at MoMA PS1, one of the oldest and largest contemporary art institutions in the United States, in Queens, New York. The model will next be on public view as part of an exhibition of architectural models in Austin, Texas, organized by the AIA.

The Stuckeman School provided production support for the development of the project. Architecture students in Osseo-Asare’s Humanitarian Materials Lab helped develop the project concept and build the final model. Danielle Vickers, an undergraduate architecture student, created concept images as part of the presentation delivered to MoMA’s design jury, while Sam Rubenstein, a master of architecture student, conducted bamboo research and created digital 3D models for computer-assisted machining. Rubenstein’s digital model was then used to fabricate all of the component pieces of the site model using a computer numerical control router. Jamie Heilman and Dani Spewak, staff members in the Stuckeman School’s Digital Fabrication Lab, provided instrumental support for iterative design development and production of the final model for MoMA PS1.

“We foresee a future wherein architecture is alive and mobile,” explained Osseo-Asare. “Our research is part of an anticipatory project toward that re-formation of spatial experience wherein architecture can sense and interact with people and its environment.”

The entire model, which measures more than 9 square feet, was packed flat in the Stuckeman Family Building and snapped together upon arrival in New York City, without the use of glue or fasteners. The individual architectural units were built out of laser-cut acrylic modules in the scale model. At full-scale, these architectural elements are a structural scaffolding for a variety of biomaterial systems, which architecture faculty continue to research at Penn State.

Yasmine Abbas, an assistant teaching professor of architecture and engineering design, was also involved in the project by providing materials research and specifying certain configurations to create specific ambiances within the courtyard setting by modulating lighting, humidity and proximity of people to the structures.

True to Osseo-Asare’s research interests in rethinking waste, the site model that was exhibited was constructed entirely out of the packaging crates from a large-format 3D printer. The printer, which was funded by the College of Engineering ‘s School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, will be used to support interdisciplinary collaborative research around humanitarian materials through additive manufacturing by connecting architecture and engineering students through hands-on materials research.

University at Buffalo

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Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo

ACSA news – October 2019.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik and design partner Coryn Kempster represented Buffalo with the project ‘Aldo: a Social Infrastructure’ in the 2019 exhibition ‘Cities’ at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in South Korea.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik received an Independent Projects Grant in the Architecture + Design Program through the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) for the project “Growing up Modern”. The Architectural League of New York was the fiscal sponsor for the application.

With support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the University at Buffalo Resilient Buildings Laboratory, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Nicholas Rajkovich, recently completed a multiyear research project to help architects, builders, facility managers, and policymakers in New York State to address the impact of climate change on the building stock. The research reports, one-page fact sheets, and educational videos are posted at http://ap.buffalo/adapting-buildings.

Assistant Professor Charles Davis was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians. In this capacity he is collaborating with a sub=committee within SAH to create the first ‘Race in Architectural History’ affiliation group of the organization. The group will serve the membership by planning thematic roundtables on race, ethnicity and identity at future annual conferences and organizing publication workshops for new book projects on race and architecture.

Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to the book ‘Canadian Modern Architecture’ that was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Stephanie Cramer, recently appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture at UB, was curator of the exhibition ‘Affordable Housing Initiatives’ which opened in Hayes Hall Gallery in September 2019.

Pennsylvania State University

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Stuckeman School research and design on display in Oslo Architecture Triennale

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The interdisciplinary research and design of a project by several Stuckeman School faculty members and a recent alumna is currently on display at the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT) in Norway through November 24.

“Scorched Earth” is a proposal by Miranda Esposito, a 2018 alumna of the architecture program at Penn State; Marc Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture; Laia Celma, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture; and Pep Avilés, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and the Stuckeman Career Development Professor in Design that pays tribute to the once-thriving Pennsylvania mining town of Centralia, which has been burning underground since a coal mine fire erupted there in 1962.

Once home to more than 2,000 residents, by 2018 the population of Centralia had dwindled to just seven. The proposal, which began as Esposito’s thesis project, is a memorial to all that was lost in the evacuation and abandonment of the city in the months and years after the fire, which is anticipated to burn for another 50 to 200 years.

Funding for Scorched Earth was provided by the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman Fund for Collaborative Design Research at Penn State. Additional funding came from the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture of Acción Cultural Española and the Museum of Architecture in Oslo.

The Penn State team traveled to Oslo for the installation and opening of the exhibit on Sept. 26 and was one of just three teams from U.S. universities invited to exhibit its work.

Held every third autumn at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design over a period of approximately ten weeks, OAT attracts citizens and users of the city, decision makers, professionals and international guests. It is known as one of the world’s prominent arenas for dissemination and discussion of architectural and urban challenges. The theme of this year’s event is “Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth.”

Tulane University

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Title: Students Selected for AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibit

A project by four Tulane School of Architecture students is featured in the recent 2019 Emerging Professionals Exhibit by AIA. The theme for this year’s AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibit is “Designing for Equity,” and it’s based on the Guides for Equitable Practice and the AIA value “We believe in the power of design.” The 15 digitally exhibited projects are a representation of best practices for a more just and equitable profession. The Tulane project team includes students and alumni from the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program Keristen Edwards, Lina Alfieri Stern, Muhanad Alfardan, and Veronika Suarez.

Their proposed project, Hotel Inspire, is an accommodation for travelers centering the experiences and needs of people experiencing disabilities.

The vision for this hotel project was inspired by the experiences and vision of all avid travelers, no matter their physical circumstances. Every hotel operation is unique but one aspect shared by all hotels – if they are to operate profitably – is to retain the loyalty of existing satisfied customers and to attract new ones. If this is true, there is a market of 26 million people traveling with disabilities in the U.S. every year that like any other traveler, would simply wish traveling to be accessible and memorable. Not all hotel guests are the same or have the same abilities, at Hotel Inspire, upon arrival to the in-room experience the guest is given ownership to accommodate their environment according to their needs and preferences while also providing the expected practicalities. Guest rooms offer ample space to move freely, shower and sleep safely and feel luxurious and comforted no matter their support needs. The highlight feature of this hotel is the ramp, no longer should guests fear to wait at the top of the stair in the event of an emergency. Hotel Inspire is a place where there are no barriers but more options for enjoyment, safety, and comfort.

For more images of this project and more information about the 2019 AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibit, click here.

Tulane University

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Title: School of Architecture Geographer and Author Wins Louisiana Writer Award

Sep 26, 2019

Tulane University geography professor Richard Campanella, author of 11 books on the geography, history, architecture and culture of Louisiana, is the recipient of the 2019 Louisiana Writer Award. The award is presented annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book of the State Library of Louisiana.

Campanella will receive the award Nov. 2 at the opening ceremony of the Louisiana Book Festival at the State Capitol in recognition of his outstanding contribution to documenting Louisiana’s history, culture and people.

“The historical geography of New Orleans and Louisiana is really the story of millions of people creating cityscapes and landscapes over hundreds of years,” said Campanella, a senior professor of practice in the Tulane School of Architecture. “I am humbled by the task of trying to understand all this complex place-making, and I feel deeply honored to be recognized by the state for the effort.”

Campanella’s works includes “Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans,” described by the New York Review of Books as the “single best history of the city…masterful.” He is also the author of “Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm” (University of Louisiana Press, 2006), which came out just after Hurricane Katrina. That book also won rave reviews, with The Times-Picayune calling it “a powerful (and) dazzling book, unparalleled in its scope, precision, clarity and detail.”

His book “Bourbon Street: A History,” was declared by the New York Review of Books as “absorbing…persuasive…gleefully subversive. There may be no one better qualified to write such a history than Campanella.”

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Campanella is the only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award. He has also won the Louisiana Literary Award, the Williams Prize, the Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Public Scholarship and the Tulane Honors Professor of the Year. In 2016, the Government of France named Campanella as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Campanella lives with his wife Marina and their son Jason in uptown New Orleans. His next book, “The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography,” will be released by Louisiana State University Press in 2020.

To read the full story from Tulane University, click here.

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