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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Several architectural students from the University of Nebraska’s College of Architecture were among the honorees at this year’s AIA Nebraska/Central States Region Design Excellence Awards Celebration held October 5th in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mallory Lane and Ben Kunz won the Emerging Architects Excellence in Unbuilt Architecture | Honor Award from AIA Nebraska for their project “Interstitial Hope”. Their design focuses on a multi-sensory experience for a funeral chapel, specifically addressing the grieving process.

The jurors were intrigued by the team’s use of light, “The relationship between earth and darkness, as well as between air and light, define the poetic nature of this proposal. The project is earnest and stands out because of its thoroughness in conceptual research and design execution. The building would offer a compelling reinvention of the cultural paradigm and process of mourning.”

In addition to the AIA Nebraska award, “Interstitial Hope” was the winner of the spring 2017 SGH/Dri-Design competition and selected for a SARA-National Award.

Additionally, architectural students Tyler Howell and Kylie Miller’s project “Triune”, a design concept for a Lutheran Church, earned the Emerging Architects Unbuilt People’s Choice award.

Miller says theology played a huge role in influencing every aspect of their design. “Our Material selection was accomplished by looking at three main parts: pure, haptic and comfort, all of which come together to highlight the relationship humanity has with its creator; symbolizing God’s immortality, human morality and God’s protection.”

The AIA Nebraska/Central States Region Design Excellence Awards Celebration is an annual event that recognizes outstanding regional architecture from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The AIA Design Excellence Awards have been developed to encourage and recognize excellence in architecture, to elevate public awareness and to recognize the architects, consultants, contractors and owners whose efforts enhance the built environment.

Entries were judged based on a variety of features, including unique design, originality, extended use attributes, sustainability and use of environmental surroundings.

More information about the awards can be found at http://aiane.org/aia_design_awards/2017_excellence_in_design_awards_ne/index.htmlffor the AIA Nebraska winners.

Film and Architecture: Foregrounding the Profession in the 21st Century

Lucy Campbell and Barbara Opar, column editors
Column by Lucy Campbell

In July of 2017 a question from Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning & Visual Resources Librarian at the University of Michigan, initiated a lively debate amongst AASL members. Can you name some movies that in some way foreground architecture? The connection between film and architecture is well documented. Architect Juhani Pallasmaa has discussed how the great directors use architectural imagery to create emotional states,[1] and publications such as Dietrich Neumann’s Film Architecture remind us that set design is in fact a form of architecture.[2] Colleagues immediately began looking beyond the obvious choices (The Fountainhead) to suggest both fun and factual titles with overt tones of the discipline. The movies listed here represent twenty-first century titles and are only a fraction of those suggested. For film buffs interested in the intersection of these two artistic pursuits, these ten may be a good start.

Documentaries

My Architect: A Son’s Journey (2003). In this academy award nominated documentary Louis Kahn’s son Nathaniel explores his father’s legacy.

24 City (2008). This Cannes Festival Palme d’Or submission follows the transition of a Chinese state-owned factory to a modern apartment complex.

My Playground (2010). Blends together the worlds of architecture and parkour to provide a fresh perspective on urban space and how we use it.

Fictional Portrayal of an Architect

The Architect (2016). This comedy follows a couple’s quest to build their dream home while battling against their stereotypically egotistical, uncompromising, modernist architect.

High-Rise (2015). Based on JG Ballard’s dystopian novel, High-Rise details the descent into chaos of a luxury tower block designed to meet every human need. Meanwhile the project’s architect observes from his penthouse suite.

Architectural Setting

Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Building on the 1982 original, this sequel depicts a dystopian world of vertical mega-structures and architectural ruins.

Russian Ark (2002). Filmed entirely in St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, a single 96 minute Steadicam shot follows a ghostly narrator as he wanders the elegant hallways.

The International (2009). The climactic shoot out scene takes place in Frank Lloyd Wright’s exquisite Guggenheim Museum. A unique way to experience this New York building.

Short Film

Architecture Should be More Like Minecraft (2015). Starchitect Bjarke Ingels uses his skills as a cartoonist to argue architects should imitate players in the bestselling videogame Minecraft and use imagination to build our world.

Mumbai: Maximum City Under Pressure (2014). Using Mumbai as a case study, this film explores the informal city and examines critical issues impacting urban spaces while asking what architects can do to help.

Since 1995 AASL has maintained a list of Core Periodicals inArchitecture. This discussion prompted interest among some members in building a similar list for film and architecture. Although in early stages, we may continue this initiative by addressing additional topics in future columns, for example black and white movies, or the silent era. If you have an interest in this area, or recommendation for AASL please email Lucy Campbell at lcampbell@newschoolarch.edu.

[1] Pallasmaa, J. (2007). The architecture of image: existential space in cinema. Helsinki: Rakennustieto.

[2] Neumann, D., Albrecht, D. and Seebohm, A. (1999). Film architecture. Munich: Prestel.

University at Buffalo School of Architecture & Planning

November 13, 2017/in School News Northeast Region /by Matrix Admin

Department of Architecture – ACSA news report for November 2017

UB’s Chapter of the National Organisation of Minority Architecture Students was recognized for the second consecutive year in NOMAS National Design Competition. Their 2017 proposal for a new John Chase Architecture & Design Campus at Sunnyside in Houston was highlighted for its integrative design approach and received third prize. The team of undergraduate and graduate students, coordinated by M.Arch student Arisha Shahid, developed ideas based on UB’s graduate research groups in sustainable design, accessibility, architecture & urbanism, materials and digital design.

Sarah Gunawan, UB’s 20116/17 Banham Fellow, received a 2017 Lafarge Holcim Award. Her project was awarded third place in the ‘Next Generation’ category for North America. The Banham Fellowship, which recognizes Reyner Banham who taught in Buffalo, is awarded annually to an emerging designer.

Frank C. Kraemer and Jelani A. Lowe, two graduate students in UB’s M. Arch. Program – received global recognition with an Honorable Mention for their submission ‘Bloom’ in the 2017 International Design Competition MICROHOUSE initiated by the Future House Organisation.

ACSA Announces 2018 Election Slate; Petition Period Open

November 10, 2017/in ACSA News Board of Directors /by Matrix Admin

November 10, 2017

The ACSA Board of Directors approved a preliminary slate of candidates for the 2018 Election to the board at its November 4-5 meeting. The candidates came from an open call for nominations and self-nominations reviewed by the board’s Nominations Committee.

For the first time following the organization’s governance changes, ACSA members have the opportunity to petition for the addition of candidates to the slate, following procedures outlined below. The petition period closes on December 13, 2017, at 5 pm Pacific time. The final slate of candidates and election materials are scheduled for release on January 8, 2018. All ACSA Full members are eligible to vote on all positions. The results of this election will be announced publicly online soon after the February 9, 2018, ballot deadline, and introduced at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver in March.

Second Vice President
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg, Auburn University
Lynne Dearborn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
At-Large Director
Ahmed K. Ali, Texas A&M University
June Williamson, City College of New York
At-Large Director (Canadian)
Anne Bordeleau, University of Waterloo
Diogo Burnay, Dalhousie University

Petition Procedures
Any faculty member of an ACSA Full or Candidate member school may submit a petition nominating another eligible candidate for the above open board positions. Each petition must include a letter of nomination outlining the candidate’s qualifications and interest in the position and the names and email addresses of at least 10 faculty members from 10 different ACSA Full or Candidate member schools who attest to supporting the candidate’s nomination. (In total, there must be at least 10 faculty from 10 schools total who sign the petition, and the petition must be delivered as a single package.) The petition shall also include a statement of interest from the nominee and curriculum vitae or biographical statement. The Nominations Committee shall review all qualified petitions and prepare a report to the Board of Directors confirming eligibility of the petitioners.

Timeline

December 13, 2017		Deadline for submission of petitions to add candidates to the slate
January 8, 2018		Final slate of candidates and ballot materials published and sent to ACSA Full Member schools
February 9, 2018		Deadline for ballot submissions

Nominations by petition:

Email (preferred): eellis@acsa-arch.org
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
ACSA Nominations, 1735 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006

2019 ACSA Fall Conference: Request for Proposals

November 10, 2017/in ACSA News Conferences /by Matrix Admin

Deadline: February 28, 2018

The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2019 ACSA Fall Conference. This ACSA Fall Conference will be thematic in focus and feature scholarly presentations, based on peer-reviewed abstracts, and a digital proceedings that will be available in ACSA’s permanent online archive.

The Fall Conference is an opportunity for the host school to bring educators from across North America and beyond to their campus. The thematic focus can highlight a school’s strengths and demonstrate educational excellence to upper administration. Other goals for the new format include strengthening social opportunities for participants with common scholarly interests and bringing concentrated visibility to the work being done in the topic area.

Attendance at the Fall Conference is anticipated to be 100-200 people, with host schools using campus facilities or other appropriate venues (including a local hotel or conference center) for conference sessions. Joint proposals from neighboring schools and partnerships with other groups (such as those formed around the thematic area) are welcome.

Final proposals will be reviewed and selected through the ACSA Board of Directors, Research & Scholarship Committee.

Proposals should be 3 pages or less, excluding supporting documents, and should include:

1) A title and paragraph-length description of the conference that clearly identifies the theme.

Further explanation for the theme is encouraged. However, a separate brief description of the conference is required.

2) Proposed dates for the conference.

The Fall Conference should occur in late September or October, typically a Thursday–Saturday.

3) The name of the conference chair or co-chairs, as well as any other relevant organizers.

Identify one or more faculty members to act as chair and whose area of expertise relates to the proposed theme. The chair(s) will be responsible for the academic portion of the conference and will work with ACSA staff on logistical details, communication with partners, and other planning and promotion duties.

4) A description of other potential conference features: partnerships, sponsors, keynote speakers, tours, etc. that would enhance the conference.

5) Clear expression of interest by school.

Show evidence of support from the school’s dean, provost, or other appropriate university representatives through letters and/or supporting documents.

6) A description of other resources available for the conference.

This includes potential venues for conference sessions, keynote lectures, and receptions; potential tour sites; or other local connections to enhance the conference.
Fall Conferences are normally funded by income from registration fees and sponsorship. This income pays for expenses related to meeting space, audio-visual equipment, invited speaker travel and honoraria, and food and beverage.
ACSA will provide the following support: international promotion of the conference, from the call for papers through the proceedings publication; an online system (including staff support) for submission, review, and upload of scholarly material; publishing services for conference programs and proceedings; and other planning services, such as negotiation and coordination of meeting facilities.
In-kind support from the school is requested for invited speaker costs, a/v equipment, meeting space, student volunteers, etc. Schools providing in-kind support will be recognized for their contribution in promotional materials, and participation of students and faculty in the conference will be invited.

ACSA Fall Conferences from the last few years:

2017 ACSA Fall Conference | Crossing Between the Proximate and Remote
Location: Marfa, TX
Host School: Texas Tech University
Co-chairs: Urs Peter Flueckiger, Texas Tech University & Victoria McReynolds, Texas Tech University
2016 ACSA Fall Conference | Building for Health & Well-Being
Location: Honolulu, HI
Host School: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Co-chairs: Sara Jensen Carr, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Billie Faircloth, KieranTimberlake & Howard Frumkin, University of Washington
2015 ACSA Fall Conference | Between the Autonomous & Contingent Object
Location: Syracuse, NY
Host Schools: Syracuse University
Co-chairs: Roger Hubeli & Julie Larsen, Syracuse University
2014 Fall Conference | WORKING OUT: thinking while building
Location: Halifax, NS
Host School: Dalhousie University
Co-chairs: Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University; Ursula Hartig, Technical University of Berlin & Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University
2013 ACSA Fall Conference: SUBTROPICAL CITIES
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Host School: Florida Atlantic University
Co-chairs: Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University; Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University; Rosemary Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology
2012 ACSA Fall Conference: OFFSITE / Modular Building Institute
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Host Schools: Temple University
Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, University of Utah; John Quale, University of Virginia; & Rashida Ng, Temple University
2011 ACSA Fall Conference: Local Identities / Global Challenges
Location: Houston, TX
Host Schools: Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University
Co-chairs: Ikhlas Sabouni, Prairie View A&M University & Jorge Vanegas, Texas A&M University

Schools interested in hosting are encouraged to contact the ACSA to discuss potential arrangements prior to making a proposal.

SUBMISSION AND INFORMATION
Please submit your proposal, by February 28, 2018, and questions to:
    Eric Wayne Ellis
    Director of Operations and Programs
    email: eellis@acsa-arch.org
    phone: 202.785.2324

Auburn University

November 8, 2017/in School News Gulf Region /by Matrix Admin

A team of students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) won second place in the 2017 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition at the National Organization of Minority Architects’ Annual Conference October 11_14 in Houston, Texas. The design competition challenged teams from across the U.S. to design an Academy of Architectural Design and Sustainability for 8th-12th graders. Named for the pioneering African-American architect John S. Chase, the proposed academy will provide students and residents of Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood with access to a secondary education as well as opportunities for adult educational programs and community events. Auburn’s entry, “Sunnyside Seams,” was awarded second place among 19 schools competing.

In January 2017, Auburn’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s inclusion and diversity efforts were recognized by Metropolis Magazine in “Diversity Champions: 8 Schools that aren’t just Paying Lip Service to Diversity.“ The NOMA student design competition is one piece of this effort. For more information about NOMA, please go read here; to learn more about the 2017 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition, read here.

Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction programs continue to be ranked among the nation’s best by DesignIntelligence Quarterly in its annual “American Best Architecture and Design Schools 2017-2018.” The rankings are based on annual surveys of leading practitioners in these fields. CADC’s undergraduate program in architecture is ranked eleventh, and its graduate program in landscape architecture is ranked twentieth. Read more here.

The APLA Fall Lecture Series concludes with Jennifer Feltman Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Department of Art and Art History. She will present Monday, November 13, at 3:30 pm, Dudley B6 auditorium.

Visit the Lecture Series page for 2018 Spring Series lectures.

The Architecture Internship Fair will be on February 21, 2018; contact Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) Career Services Specialist Crystal Jalil to reserve your place.

Call for Nominations: 2018 ACSA Board of Directors

November 8, 2017/in ACSA News Board of Directors /by Matrix Admin

2018 ACSA Board of Directors

Deadline: October 11, 2017

With the ACSA membership approval of the 2017 Bylaws amendments, the Board of Directors is launching a revamped nominations process for 2018. With this call for nominations, ACSA begins a process that aims to assemble a diverse Board of Directors based on a range of competencies, backgrounds, and demographic characteristics (see below).

The ACSA invites nominations and self-nominations for positions on the Board of Directors. Please review the following background information (see below), which is intended to describe the organization’s direction in coming years. Eligibility requirements and a timeline for the new nominations process follows.

Open Board Positions: Second Vice President, Two At-Large Directors, Public Director

The ACSA Nominations Committee invites nominations for the above referenced open positions for the 2018-19 Board of Directors. Eligible nominees for all Board positions must meet the following requirements:

Second Vice President. Candidates shall be full-time, tenured, tenure-track, or fixed-term faculty members of a full-member school at the time of nomination and throughout the four-year term of office.
At-Large Directors. The ACSA Bylaws permit no more than one At-Large Director to come from a school that is not a full-member, so, this year, the Nominations Committee may consider a candidate from a Candidate or Affiliate Member school that has been a member of ACSA for at least two full years. Nominations of candidates from full-member schools continue to be encouraged for At-Large Director positions.
Canadian Director. The current Canadian Director will complete his term at the end of 2017-18, and the Nominations Committee is obligated to nominate at least two candidates for a director’s position from a Canadian full-member school. The preference is for a Canadian director to serve as an At-Large Director, but nomination of a candidate for Second Vice President from a Canadian full-member school is also welcome. Note that ACSA will solicit nominations from the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture, which has indicated a preference for a head of a Canadian program to serve in that role.
Public Director. The Public Director shall not be employed as an architect or person working in the design and construction professions, nor an educator in architecture, or the design and construction professions.

Position Descriptions
Terms for directors begin on July 1, 2018 with terms of service noted below. All directors are expected to attend three board meetings a year: a fall meeting, which typically occurs in conjunction with the Administrator’s Conference, a spring meeting, which typically occurs in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Meeting, and a summer meeting. Additional board members serve on committees, which may entail travel to a meeting one time per year and conference calls one to two times per month.

The Second Vice President serves a four-year term. The elected person serves for one year, respectively as Second Vice President, First Vice President/President-Elect, President, and Past President. As President, the elected individual presides at ACSA meetings and is responsible for calling meetings of the Board of Directors, preparing an agenda, and presiding at such meetings. The President coordinates activities of the board, ACSA committees, and liaison representatives. The President serves as ACSA liaison with the officers of the American Institute of Architects, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and the American Institute of Architecture Students; and serves as ACSA representative to the Five Presidents Council. During the term of office, the President also prepares a brief report of activities of the organization and the Board of Directors, for dissemination to the constituent associations. As First Vice President, the person will chair the Planning Committee, and, as Past President, the person will serve as chair of the Nominations Committee.
The At-Large Directors serve a three-year term as voting members of the Board. In addition, they serve as liaison to member schools, including participating in organized business meetings; maintaining contact with Faculty Councilors and others associated with member schools; assisting member schools upon request; advising candidate or affiliated schools; and advising the Board of issues and concerns raised by members. At-Large Directors contribute to the work of the Board through actively serving on Board committees, contributing to collective deliberations, and performing other duties as provided by the Rules of the Board of Directors or as requested by the Board.
The Public Director serves as a voting member of the board and is expected to serve as a member of the Finance Committee. Public Directors bring an outside perspective to the board, based on their particular background and expertise.

2017-2018 Nominations Committee

Bruce Lindsey, Past President, Washington University in St. Louis (chair)
Martin Bressani, Canadian Director, McGill University
Nichole Wiedemann, Secretary/Treasurer, University of Texas at Austin
Kristina Yu, University of New Mexico
Lisa Findley, California College of the Arts

Timeline
As part of the recent governance change, ACSA will now publish a preliminary slate of board-approved candidates in November 2017, followed by a period during which members may petition for the inclusion of additional candidates to the slate. A final slate of candidates, including candidates by petition, will then be published in early January, when the online balloting process will open. Candidates will be notified of the results in mid-February. The results of this election will be announced publically online and at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO in March 2018.

As part of the recent governance change, ACSA will now publish a preliminary slate of board-approved candidates in November 2017, followed by a period during which members may petition for the inclusion of additional candidates to the slate. A final slate of candidates, including candidates by petition, will then be published in early January, when the online balloting process will open. Candidates will be notified of the results in mid-February. The results of this election will be announced publically online and at the ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO in March 2018.

	October 11, 2017	Deadline for nominations
	November 10, 2017	Preliminary slate of candidate names announced
	December 13, 2017	Deadline for submission of petitions to add candidates to the slate
	January 8, 2018	Final slate of candidates and ballot materials published and sent to ACSA Full Member schools
	February 9, 2018	Deadline for ballot submissions

Nomination Requirements
Nominations for all ACSA Board positions should include a CV, a letter of interest from the nominee indicating a willingness to serve, and a candidate statement. The deadline for receipt of nominations is October 11, 2017.

Nominations should be sent to:
Email (preferred): eellis@acsa-arch.org
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
ACSA Nominations, 1735 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006

DESIRED COMPETENCIES AND BACKGROUNDS FOR NOMINEES
ACSA actively seeks equitable and representative involvement by a broad range of people on its board and other volunteer bodies. The Board of Directors should represent a diversity of background, experience, expertise, and geography. This shall also include racial, ethnic, and gender diversity.

Prospective candidates and nominators are encouraged to review the strategic initiatives and priority objectives, included below, to understand future directions for ACSA board activities. Although the desired competencies of board members should not be narrowly stated, the areas described below include experience producing scholarship and/or funded research, understanding processes for recruiting and retaining students from a variety of backgrounds, and experience with communicating the value of architecture, whether in a disciplinary or professional context.

Regional and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity is also important to the ACSA. The outgoing regional directors come from schools in the Canadian, Gulf, and West Central regions. Ensuring regional diversity, therefore, is among the board’s priorities.

Strategic Initiatives: 2017 to 2020
The organization published a new strategic plan at the beginning of the 2016-17 academic year, following a yearlong process of assessing the organization’s strengths and priorities. The strategic plan is available on ACSA’s website.

The plan is broad in scope, and, each year, the board of directors assesses priority objectives to be achieved through a number of strategies. Development and execution of many of these strategies are left to ACSA’s three Program Committees, which are appointed annually by the board and charged with specific deliverables.

Among the priority objectives for the organization over the next three years are the following:

Diversity & Equity. The organization desires to identify and recommend best practices to help schools increase demographic diversity at ACSA member programs. This includes identifying systemic barriers to these forms of diversity
Community Colleges. In support of ACSA’s goal of advancing an inclusive, diverse discipline and profession, the Board of Directors has identified community colleges as a way to bring more highly qualified students into the design professions. Similarly, engagement with community college faculty and administrators is important to expanding the conversation about the future of architectural pedagogy.
Enabling Faculty Advancement Through Knowledge Development. The organization sees support of architectural scholarship and research as vital to the support of faculty and the development of the discipline and profession. Creation of a white paper on tenure and promotion in 2016-17 was the beginning of this initiative. Additional opportunities for strengthening research are being pursued in the context of STEM and of the opportunities for innovation in design and technology. With the established importance of STEM disciplines to funded research in the academy and to evolving modes of professional endeavor, architecture is challenged to assert itself as relevant, providing an opportunity for ACSA member schools.
Increasing Student Enrollment and Wider Understanding of the Value of Architectural Education. Counteracting trends of declining enrollments has been a priority for the organization in recent years, and will continue through StudyArchitecture.com and other external outreach initiatives. This focus is being pursued through engagement of prospective students in the United States and Canada, but it will also rely on a new level of international engagement with both prospective students and with faculty at architecture schools around the world.

Members are also encouraged to review the strategic plan’s objectives to understand opportunities for service on the ACSA Board of Directors. Among the priority objectives for the organization over the next three years are the following.

Goal 2. Advocacy and Impact. ACSA will advance an inclusive, diverse discipline and profession. As the link among the academy, practice, and the collateral organizations, ACSA will be at the center of evolving discourses on education, research, practice and civic engagement in the designed environment.
2.1 Increase understanding of the specific systemic barriers to achieving gender and racial diversity in architectural education and the profession.
2.2 Enhance understanding among college and university leaders of the unique characteristics and needs of architectural education.
Goal 3. Partnership and Convening. ACSA will be a leader in partnership with constituent organizations and stakeholders.
3.1 Increase the effectiveness of collateral partnerships.
3.2 Expand the conversation about the future of design, education, and practice.
Goal 4. Member Engagement and Support. ACSA will be a progressive leader and trusted resource in architectural education and research. ACSA will increase its relevance to faculty and schools around the world by affording opportunities for disciplinary innovation and career advancement.
4.1 Increase the number of peer-reviewed publication opportunities.
4.2 Enhance the connection of researchers with funding sources.
4.3 Improve the data that ACSA provides to member schools.
Goal 5. Organizational Effectiveness and Sustainability. ACSA will have the organizational structure, governance, practices, and funding to ensure its sustainability and growth and achieve its mission.
5.1 Enhance and monitor the alignment of staffing, volunteer structure, and funding with the strategic plan.
5.2 Increase committees’ capacity and motivation to support and implement the strategic plan.
5.4 Enhance non-dues revenues, using strengths in research, design, competition and event management and building on connections in the academy, the building industry, and the profession.

+ Download the 2018 Call for ACSA Board Nominations

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Bestows Distinguished Service Award on R. Wayne Drummond

November 4, 2017/in ACSA News Awards /by Matrix Admin

Albuquerque, NM—November 3, 2017—At the 2017 ACSA Administrators Conference, the Board of Directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) recognized R. Wayne Drummond with a special Distinguished Service Award.

Drummond’s career in architecture spans nearly fifty years. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University in 1968, followed by a fellowship to Rice University for a Master of Architecture degree that produced an award-winning thesis on “Architecture and Urbanism 1984-1968.” This study of social justice and the impact of architecture on environmental conditions started a career-long commitment to understanding how architects and the design of cities can ameliorate suffering and promote social justice.

Drummond began his career in academia at the University of Kansas in 1969 while also working at Kiene and Bradley Partnership Architects. He then taught at Clemson University before moving back to practice at Henningson, Durham and Richardson International from 1977 to 1979. During that time, he was design director for the $1.3 billion dollar Health Sciences Center for the King Abdelaziz University project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Drummond has continued his engagement in the Middle East throughout his career, serving as an educational consultant to King Faisal University in the 1980s, forging relationships with Kuwait University in the early 2000s. His engagement spans the globe, working with faculty and schools in Malaysia, Ecuador, China, Qatar, and many others.

Drummond’s career has been guided by ethical principles that guide the profession’s best: helping the vulnerable; exploring, understanding and affirming cultural difference; sustaining the natural environment; and committing to make technological innovation serve the ends of humanity. His values guide him as an academic leader as well. He served for eight years as department head at Auburn University, from 1979 to 1987, and then for more than 20 years as dean of colleges of architecture around the country: Texas Tech from 1987 to 1990, the University of Florida from 1990 to 1999, and then the University of Nebraska, Lincoln from 2000 to 2011, where he is now dean emeritus.

“During his career in academia, Wayne has helped hundreds of faculty find their way into tenured positions and positions of leadership across the spectrum of architecture schools, while guiding thousands of architecture students through school and into their futures,” said Francisco J. Rodriguez, ACSA president and professor of architecture at the Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Drummond served on the Board of Directors for ACSA including as president in 1998-99. He served on the the National Architectural Accrediting Board, including as president in 2007 and as president of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society from 1994 to 1996.

About ACSA

The mission of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is to lead architectural education and research.

Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association of over 200 member schools in several 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 300 supporting members composed of architecture firms, product associations and individuals add to the breadth of interest and support of ACSA goals.

ACSA, unique in its representative role for schools of architecture, provides a forum for ideas on the leading edge of architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in the future are being examined today in ACSA members schools.

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

Université de Québec Montréal (UQAM)

October 30, 2017/in School News Canadian Region /by Matrix Admin

Exhibition: Montréal et le rêve géodésique / Montreal’s Geodesic Dreams
Centre de design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, September 21-December 10, 2017.

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the most famous geodesic dome in the world: the US Pavilion at Expo 67, designed by R. Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao. The exhibition Montreal’s Geodesic Dreams returns to the “geodesic moment,” revealing the much earlier role of the city in the development of this innovative structural system that captured the 20^th-century architectural imagination. The core of the exhibition focuses on the pioneering work of the Montreal designer Jeffrey Lindsay (1924-84), founder and director of the Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division. Working in Montreal between 1949 and 1956, Lindsay designed and built several domes, among them the 49’ “Weatherbreak” (1949-50), the first large self-supporting geodesic dome built according to Fuller’s concepts, and a 100’ exhibition pavilion commissioned by the Canadian government in 1956. The exhibition also explores the diffusion of the geodesic dome in Quebec in the 1960s, ranging from a polar bear enclosure at the Granby Zoo (Paul O. Trépanier and Victor Prus; 1962-63) to the dome of the US Pavilion at Expo 67, and in the 1970s, when the geodesic dome became an icon of counter-culture.

An accompanying bilingual book published by Dalhousie Architectural Press will be available in November.

Centre de design, 1440, rue Sanguinet, Montréal. Metro Berri-UQAM
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6. Free admission.

Further information: http://www.centrededesign.com/
Contact: Cammie McAtee (reve.geo.dream@gmail.com)

ACSA Announces Change to Student_ _Design Competition

October 30, 2017/in ACSA News /by Matrix Admin

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is canceling its planned Category 1: Humanitarian Refugee (Detention) Center student design competition, and will replace the program with a new building category for the spring semester.

The competition program has received justified_ criticism, and while the organization is committed to engaging important issues in our society, we _regret our decision to publish the category.

“Our partnership with AISC over the last 18 years has sought to encourage as many students as possible to work with steel,” said Michael Monti, ACSA Executive Director. “Our programs aim to be challenging and topical to offer important educational experiences for students to develop their design skills within the scope of our core values.”_ _

The competition also includes an Open category, which will continue. A new building category will be announced in coming weeks for the spring semester.

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