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ProPEL ACSA Update 10.30.15
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How Can I Retain Copyright...
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
October column prepared by Amy Vanderlyke Dygert, Esq., Director of Copyright Services, Cornell University
How can I retain the copyright in my publication?
This is an issue, which should be of prime importance to new as well as seasoned authors, including architecture faculty. However, many faculty, feeling tenure and promotion pressure, are willing to give up certain rights in order to have their work published.
But federal copyright law grants authors six exclusive rights relative to their work, including the rights to make and distribute copies of their work and to make derivative works based on their original scholarship. This exclusivity means that only the creator of the work is entitled to engage in those activities. Unfortunately, that exclusivity is often lost when authors, eager for publication, sign publishing agreements that unilaterally transfer copyright to the publisher. Many authors simply skim the boilerplate contracts without the specificity required to catch the copyright transfer.
Such consequences can be significant. At a minimum, authors may not be able to distribute copies of their work to students, colleagues, in course packs, or on their own websites. They may not be permitted to creative derivative works based on their original research and scholarship. Publishers can repackage or repurpose the scholarly works without attribution to the original author because they now legally own all rights in the work.
To prevent the loss of their scholarly work, authors should read all publishing agreements carefully before signing. Upon discovery of a copyright transfer or assignment clause, authors should negotiate with the publisher to retain their copyrights. Ideally, authors should explicitly retain all copyright ownership of their work. Publishers may pressure authors to transfer some rights, such as the right to reproduce and distribute, which are necessary to publish and distribute the journal and authors’ content therein. However, authors need not transfer these or any of their exclusive rights outright to achieve publication. They can instead grant an exclusive or non–exclusive license to the publisher. Granting such a license gives the publisher the right to engage in some of the authors’ exclusive copyrights, while simultaneously allowing the author to retain ultimate control over his or her work.
At present, a number of groups, including The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), are engaged in helping authors to understand and retain rights over their publications. SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. For more information about negotiating publishing agreements, as well as sample documents to convey particular rights, see The Author Addendum at http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum.
How to Retain Copyright...
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
October column prepared by Amy Vanderlyke Dygert, Esq., Director of Copyright Services, Cornell University
How can I retain the copyright in my publication?
This is an issue, which should be of prime importance to new as well as seasoned authors, including architecture faculty. However, many faculty, feeling tenure and promotion pressure, are willing to give up certain rights in order to have their work published.
But federal copyright law grants authors six exclusive rights relative to their work, including the rights to make and distribute copies of their work and to make derivative works based on their original scholarship. This exclusivity means that only the creator of the work is entitled to engage in those activities. Unfortunately, that exclusivity is often lost when authors, eager for publication, sign publishing agreements that unilaterally transfer copyright to the publisher. Many authors simply skim the boilerplate contracts without the specificity required to catch the copyright transfer.
Such consequences can be significant. At a minimum, authors may not be able to distribute copies of their work to students, colleagues, in course packs, or on their own websites. They may not be permitted to creative derivative works based on their original research and scholarship. Publishers can repackage or repurpose the scholarly works without attribution to the original author because they now legally own all rights in the work.
To prevent the loss of their scholarly work, authors should read all publishing agreements carefully before signing. Upon discovery of a copyright transfer or assignment clause, authors should negotiate with the publisher to retain their copyrights. Ideally, authors should explicitly retain all copyright ownership of their work. Publishers may pressure authors to transfer some rights, such as the right to reproduce and distribute, which are necessary to publish and distribute the journal and authors’ content therein. However, authors need not transfer these or any of their exclusive rights outright to achieve publication. They can instead grant an exclusive or non–exclusive license to the publisher. Granting such a license gives the publisher the right to engage in some of the authors’ exclusive copyrights, while simultaneously allowing the author to retain ultimate control over his or her work.
At present, a number of groups, including The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), are engaged in helping authors to understand and retain rights over their publications. SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. For more information about negotiating publishing agreements, as well as sample documents to convey particular rights, see The Author Addendum at http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum.
Call for Nominations: 2016 ACSA Representative on NAAB Board of Directors
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ACSA Representative on NAAB Board of Directors
Deadline: December 7, 2015
The 2016-2017 National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) will comprise thirteen members: three representing ACSA, three representing AIA, three representing NCARB, two representing AIAS, and two public members. Currently Brian Kelly of University of Maryland; Judith Kinnard, Tulane University; & Jori Erdman, Louisiana State University represent ACSA on the NAAB Board. With the expiration of Brian Kelly’s term in October 2016, the ACSA Board of Directors is considering candidates for his successor.
The appointment is for a three-year term (Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2019) and calls for a person willing and able to make a commitment to NAAB. While previous experience as an ACSA board member or administrator is helpful, it is not essential for nomination. Some experience on NAAB visiting teams should be considered necessary; otherwise the nominee might be unfamiliar with the highly complex series of deliberations involved with this position. Faculty and administrators are asked to nominate faculty from an ACSA member school with any or all the following qualifications:
- Tenured faculty status at an ACSA full member school;
- Significant experience with and knowledge of the accreditation process;
- Significant acquaintance with and knowledge of ACSA, its history, policy programs, and administrative structure;
- Personal acquaintance with the range of school and program types across North America.
- Willingness to represent the constituency of ACSA on accreditation related issues.
- Ability to work with the NAAB board and ACSA representatives to build consensus on accreditation related issues.
For consideration, please submit a concise letter of nomination along with a one-page CV indicating experience under the above headings, and a letter indicating willingness to serve from the nominee, by December 7, 2015.
Nominations should be sent to:
Email (preferred): eellis@acsa-arch.org
Eric Ellis, ACSA Director of Operations and Programs
ACSA, Board Nominations
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Hey, US architecture graduate: Why donÕt you get a job (in Europe)?
Thomas Vonier FAIA, 2016 President-Elect, American Institute of Architects
As part of my ongoing commitment to secure new opportunities for US architects, I have been working on jobs overseas for recent graduates. In contrast to what seems to be a common perception, US graduates who wish to work or to complete internships outside of the United States have great opportunities to do so.
Such stints can offer unparalleled enrichment, of course, even if they are relatively short-term, and a track record abroad can be a great calling card for onward employment. The experience of a young US architecture graduate, now working in France, is a case in point.
“France has visas available for young professionals, ages 18-35, who wish to obtain new skills they cannot acquire in their home countries,” he found. “I had an interview with [a French architecture firm] in April 2014, before I graduated. They offered me a position in May, and I found a visa program through Cultural Vistas (http://culturalvistas.org/) in the US.”
The French firm, which has links to an office in the US, was required to complete several forms and return them to the applicant, along with a description of the work he would be doing. The applicant then completed his portion of the forms, and returned the complete application to the firm for final validation.
The firm filed the forms with the French immigration authority in early July, along with a 72€ fee, and the applicant received authorization to work a month later. “This allowed me to apply for my visa at a French consulate in the US,” he says. “Then I had an interview at the consulate in Atlanta, at the end of August, received my visa one week later, and left for France at the beginning of September.”
The advantage of this type of visa over a full-blown work visa—at least in France—is that it doesn’t entail much cost or legal procedure on the part of the employer, or the applicant. On the other hand, one usually qualifies for this type of visa only once, and then only for a fixed, short term. The steps for obtaining a “young professional” visa in France are here:
http://www.immigration-
professionnelle.gouv.fr/proc%C3%A9dures/fiche/jeunes-professionnels
Foreign language ability is always an advantage, of course, but it is not an absolute necessity. Says the graduate in France: “I now have a BS degree in architecture, and I had studied in France while I was in school, but I didn’t have a very advanced level of French by the time I started working.” His level of French has naturally advanced on the job.
In addition to the Cultural Vistas organization, a number of other groups can help explore opportunities abroad:
http://culturalvistas.org/programs-for-students-and-professionals http://www.iaesteunitedstates.org/intl.html
http://www.iaesteunitedstates.org/intl.html
Working outside of the US is not for everyone, but architecture is an increasingly “global” profession, and visa programs of this type offer an effective way for recent graduates and students to engage with the world.
ACSA Update 10.23.15
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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE – BUILDING TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND REPRESENTATION
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American University of Sharjah
The Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates is pleased to announce the following faculty appointments commencing Fall 2015.
Daniel Chavez has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. With over eleven years in the architectural profession working with RMKM Architecture and at the office of Antoine Predock Architect he has completed many built projects in New Mexico as well as contributing to international projects in Winnipeg, Shanghai and Chengdu. He also worked with Gensler Architecture on the Virgin Galactic Space Port competition team and with Gould-Evens Architecture on CNM Westside Phase III. A passionate furniture designer and maker, Chavez strives for simplicity in his work believing inherent qualities of a material inform design. His courses in material fabrication employ traditional wood working techniques to exhibit structural and architectural principals. Previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at AUS, in spring 2015 Chavez introduced full-scale, project-based learning to the Interior Design program at AUS. His efforts in leading the Senior Project design/build initiative will continue indefinitely.
Marcus Farr has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. Farr has 10 years of experience working in architecture, urban design & site specific landscape architecture throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia. This includes collaborations with the offices of James Burnett, SOM, Gensler, Carlos Jimenez Studio, HOK, Robert A.M. Stern, PDR and HKS. Relative publications include Landscape Architecture Magazine, Texas Architect, Architectural Record, Architect, Cite Magazine, The New York Times, and World Architecture Magazine. Marcus received a post-professional M.Arch from Rice University, as well as a Professional Degree in Architecture (B.Arch) and a B.A. in Studio Art from Drury University with further studies at the AA. His teaching will focus on performative & sustainable building methods, professional practice & digital design/fabrication.
Gregory Thomas Spaw has been appointed as an Assistant Professor. He is an educator, designer, scholar and entrepreneur. Concurrent with his academic engagement, Spaw is a principal of SHO, a design collaborative that straddles the territories of teaching, research and practice. He has previous held the Ann Kalla Assistant Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, served as a visiting professor at the Cracow University of Technology, and taught undergraduate and graduate studios, seminars, and electives at the University of Tennessee. His previous professional experience includes work with the award winning offices of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Preston Scott Cohen Inc., and Asymptote. He also contributed toward Independent Architecture’s entry for the PS1 Young Architects Program Competition in Queens, New York and worked on location in Seoul, Athens, and Brussels with LASSA on a series of diverse projects. Gregory holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and a Master in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Igor Peraza has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Peraza holds a BSc of Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, received a scholarship to do his Master of Architecture at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, and obtained his Ph.D at the University of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. Professionally, he worked for five years at the Atelier of Arata Isozaki and led the Domus (Museum of Mankind) project on-site in La Coruña, Spain. In 2000 he relocated to Barcelona to work with Miralles Tagliabue as Director of the Santa Caterina Market project. Peraza went on to serve as Director of EMBT’s Shanghai office were he led numerous projects including the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, the New Campus of Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Museum for the Chinese painter Zhang Daqian. He has previously taught at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the European Institute of Design, Tongji University, and served as a visiting professor at the Lebanese American University from 2013 to 2015.
Matthew A. Trimble has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Trimble founded Radlab in 2008. He has a diverse range of experience working and consulting in the field of architecture for firms that include Neil M. Denari Architects, Behnisch Behnisch and Partner, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, and dECOi Architects. Trimble has taught seminars, workshops, and studios internationally for both graduate and undergraduate students at the Boston Architectural College, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Trimble studied architecture at The University of Memphis (BFA), where he received the Frances F. Austin Scholarship, and holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Avalon Travel Fellowship.
ACSA Update 10.16.16
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University of Southern California
Assistant Professor David Gerber has been invited to return to give a keynote lecture to Brazil’s SindusCON an event that combines the leading Architecture, Engineering, and Construction communities on the Future of BIM and Design Technology. He has also been invited to co-organize a special session at the upcoming ACSA conference in Seattle on Data and Architecture. Dr. Gerber has been re-appointed to the Board of Directors for the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Gail Peter Borden was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows. He was also recognized with the USC Associates Award for Artistic expression (the highest honor the University bestows for creative achievement) as well as being awarded the USC Mellon Mentoring Award.
Dr. Joon-Ho Choi organized and ran a seminar, entitled “Human-Building Integration: Thermal Comfort Control for an Individual Setting”, during the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Summer Conference held in Atlanta, GA. He also presented one of his research themes, “Human-Building Integration As a Proactive Environmental Control Strategy “. In July he was a speaker at the Healthy Building 2015 Conference, “Development of an Automatic Thermal Control System Using Human Facial Skin Temperature.” Dr. Choi has been recently invited as a scientific committee to the 2016 PLEA Conference the 2016 International Conference on Indoor Air Quality Ventilation & Energy Conservation In Building.
Alexander Robinson was selected to present a paper at the UNESCO Conference: Water, Megacities, and Global Change in Paris this December, alongside the international UN Climate Conference. He is also presenting this work in the University of Leuven Landscape Architecture Lecture Series in Belgium.
Prof. G. Goetz Schierle updated his computer program SDG: Structure Design Graph to design diverse structures for gravity and lateral wind and seismic loads
http://uscarch.com/structures/SDG/SDG%20tutorial-p.pdf
http://uscarch.com/structures/Arch499/index.html
Dr. Travis Longcore (Landscape Architecture Program) was an invited instructor for the National Park Service at their Sustainable Outdoor Lighting Training Workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado in August. He published a book chapter on lessons learned from 20 years of butterfly conservation work in California, titled “Butterflies are not grizzly bears: Lepidoptera conservation in practice” (in Butterfly conservation in North America: Efforts to help save our charismatic microfauna, Springer). Dr. Longcore has also recently been certified as a licensed Geographic Information Science Professional (GISP) by the GIS Certification Institute.
Victor Regnier has a book contract with Wiley to look at housing design and service solutions for the oldest-old–that is–people in the 85+ and 100+ age cohorts. These age groups are the faster growing ones in the US population. Regnier will also keynote the Canadian Seniors Housing Summit in Toronto on November 4th.
Geoffrey von Oeyen was recently featured in the August 2015 issue of Architect Magazine. In “Next Progressives: Geoffrey von Oeyen Design,” Architect published a firm profile and images of von Oeyen’s current professional work, as well as a photograph of his Sailing Architecture exhibition at the USC School of Architecture. The piece concluded that by “looking at the way naval design leverages environmental forces like wind and water to deal with external forces– human occupation, space, and mechanical systems– while also creating elegant structures that are smarter, lighter, and stronger, von Oeyen is able to create innovative designs that have the potential to steer architecture through uncharted waters.”
USC will co-host the Passive and Low Energy Architecture conference in Los Angeles from July 11-13. Professor Marc Schiler is the Scientific (Review) Committee Chair. PLEA2015 was held in Bologna, Italy, with representation from 42 countries. This will be the first time that PLEA has been held in the USA, since its founding in 1981. It has been hosted in 30 cities across the globe. The conference will deal wit Regenerative Environments at the scale of Cities, Buildings, People. See PLEA2016.org.
Alice Kimm presented a TEDx talk entitled “What Architecture Can Do For You (if you take the time to ask),” at The Broad stage in Santa Monica, CA. Alice is also Chair of the upcoming 2015 Monterey Design Conference, to take place in Monterey, CA over the weekend of October 16-18. Her firm, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, was awarded a 2015 AIACC Residential Design Honor Award for its Field House, as well as an AIACC Design Merit Award for its Resnick Sustainability Institute / Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech.
Vinayak Bharne was appointed as the urban design and planning adviser to the Government of Karnataka Directorate of Urban Land Transport, India, to help craft strategic mobility plans for four cities in the state. He was nominated to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism in London. He was invited as one of seven international architects and planners to the “Chandigarh Rethink” symposium in India, to opine on planning directions for the future of the city of Chandigarh, originally designed by Le Corbusier in the 1950s. He was recently interviewed by Monocle 24 Radio, UK, in the program, The Globalist. The interview focused on the City of Los Angeles’ Mobility Plan 2035, that lays the policy foundations for making Los Angeles a multi-modal, bicycle-friendly city.
The LA River Public Art Project, co-founded by Esther Margulies ASLA, will hold the inaugural 10 FEET event in Frogtown on the LA River on October 10th. The event is a temporary installation of site specific pieces calling attention to the value of curated arts and culture along the river, and the newly created 10 foot wide river friendly zone along the 32 miles in the City of LA.
Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been selected as one of four “Emerging Voices” to speak at the upcoming 2015 Monterey Design Conference hosted by the AIA California Council in Asilomar, California. Additionally, he recently lectured on his design research as part of the Forum Lecture Series for Ottawa Architecture Week in Ottawa, Canada hosted by the Azrieli School of Architecture at Carleton University.
Michael Ellars was an exhibitor for DLR Group at the TASA/TASB Conference in Austin, Texas, on October 2nd and 3rd. DLR Group’s K-12 Sector sponsored the “Student Innovation Challenge” at the conference, which brought teams from three high schools and two middle schools across the state to Austin for the weekend with the challenge to develop solutions to significant problems, including how to eliminate the national debt. Ellars crewed the exhibit hall booth to demonstrate the use of Virtual Reality technology for architectural visualization of projects at various stages of design, which is an on-going result of my DLR Group “Personal Development Grant” that he was awarded in January.
ACSA Update 10.9.15
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| TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TWO ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE POSITIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN DEAN, FACULTY OF DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING
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