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I would welcome hearing from any of your students who might be interested in graduate studies in building science at the University of Southern California.  We are an expensive private University, but we have some scholarship funding to help partially offset tuition.  We are not as expensive as some people think!

We have an outstanding and growing faculty supporting building science (Schiler, Schierle, Carlson, Noble, Konis, Choi, Kensek, Gerber, Huang, Borden, Sung, and more).  Our two new faculty have settled in already (Kyle Konis and Joon-Ho Choi).

Prof. Marc Schiler has been promoted to Vice-Dean.

I am now the Director of the Building Science program (again) and still chair of the Ph.D. program in building science.

Please have interested students contact me by email: dnoble@usc.edu

Thank you.

Doug

Douglas E. Noble, FAIA, Ph.D.       
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Los Angeles, California  90089-0291  USA
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Professor Graeme Morland was honored with a major exhibit this semester at the USC School of Architecture.  “A RETROSPECTIVE, 50+ YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES, 1963—2015. BC. (before computer).  The work exhibited presumed to be both educational and informative to students of architecture and design at USC today, and hopefully fueled the healthy discussion and debate regarding design description and presentation which now bridges from the soul of emotion with hand drawings, to the current wizardry of digital technology.   An exhibition of work, initiated at the Glasgow school of Art, Scotland, developed at the U of I in Chicago, and realized at USC in Los Angeles, covering a 5o+ year period, required the compilation, editing and formatting of hundreds of drawings, generally classified in three categories, namely, A) The “Sketchbook”.  Images of places and events visited, B) Drawings that describe “ Visions of Place”, architectural  ideas & projects, and C) Drawings that inform the anatomy and material assembly of “Place”,  the method and process of  “making and constructing.” A catalogue of this exhibit will be forthcoming.

Lisa Little will be a presenter at the Los Angeles AIA ‘Powerful’ symposium at the Annenberg Space for Photography on February 27th. Her topic is entitled “A Diversity of Practice: Expanding Opportunities”. 

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is hosting a recent survey and report by Lauren Matchison on their website.  The survey, The Effect of Social Media on Architecture Graduate School Selection, takes a close look at how prospective graduate students use social media as a tool to research architecture schools.

Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been named to Engineering Record News California’s “Top 20 under 40 2015” and annual award which honors the “cream of the crop in the design and construction industry who have built extraordinary industry portfolios before the age of 40”. Huang recently gave a lecture on his recent work at the CalPoly Pomona Department of Architecture, and will also be lectures in March at Syracuse University School of Architecture and the CalPoly San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. 

The latest built project of Lecturer Nefeli Chatzimina has been nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2015 and was featured as a cover for the EK Magazine. During February Nefeli lectured at the BNCA University of Pune, the University of Mumbai and the Studio-X of Columbia University in Mumbai, India.

Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was recently awarded $149,400 from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to support research and development of his project entitled the Occupant Mobile Gateway (O.M.G.), which received the highest ranking during technical peer-review among all proposals submitted statewide. The objective of the O.M.G. is to leverage mobile sensing as a platform to enable design teams to validate and continually refine the performance of low-energy and environmentally responsive design strategies. The project is a continuation of a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Professor Konis and Professor Murali Annavaram in the Viterbi School of Engineering.

Vittoria Di Palma’s book, Wasteland, A History (Yale University Press, 2014) has won two prizes.  It was awarded the 2015 J. B. Jackson Book Prize by The Foundation for Landscape Studies, and was the runner-up in the Architecture and Urban Planning category for the 2015 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).

Hraztan Zeitlian was appointed to the American Institute of Architects California Council’s prestigious Monterey Design Conference Committee (AIACC MDC), with other USC Faculty Larry Scarpa and Alice Kimm as well as Anne Fougeron, and David Meckel among others. http://aiacc.org/mdc/about-mdc/

Professor Gail Borden was elected to the AIA College of Fellows as the youngest member in California. He was awarded the 2015 USC Associate Award for Artistic Expression, the highest honor the University faculty bestow on it members for significant artistic expression.  His solo exhibition “Faceted Line” opened late February at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas presenting his newest paintings which implement space, depth, and color to create shallow and abstract architectural environments. He was recently commissioned by Routledge to do a follow-up book entitled Lineament: Material and Geometry in Architectural Production to build on his best-selling book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production.

Associate Professor Charles Lagreco in collaboration with Lecturer Gary Paige and Associate Dean Gail Borden have submitted a grant proposal to USC Neighborhood Outreach for a partnership with the 32nd Street / USC Magnet Center K-12 school to work together on a School of Architecture Research + Design + Build Program to build a portable performance facility to support the school and the neighborhood around USC. The proposal which identifies a $150,000 budget target to design and build the project, is proposed to extend over three semesters in the 2015-16 academic year and is partially funded by the Marnell Endowment recently established to provide support for design build studios in the School of Architecture curriculum.

At the request of the USC Career Center and intended for the entire university community, Professor Michael Hricak recently spoke on, and moderated a panel focused on, Careers in Design.

Lecturer Andy Ku and his firm OCDC have been selected for a public art commission in Downtown Los Angeles. The project takes on the idea of “traffic” as both a cultural mission and an urban contextual activity. The design depicts the signs of nature and culture in a single environment, as a contemporary meditation on traditional Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e “drawings of the floating word”) 

Karen Kensek has two research papers for the upcoming Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference, Chicago, IL, 2015. 

Hijazi, Mohammad, Karen Kensek, and Kyle Konis, “Bridging the gap: supporting data transparency of BIM to BEM” 

Chen, Yiyu, Karen Kensek, Joon-Ho Choi, and Marc Schiler, “Using modified weather files for predicting future building performance,” accepted for the Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference

In January, Rob Ley won an invited design competition to develop and fabricate a permanent installation for the Portland Zoo in Oregon.  Also in January, Rob completed a permanent installation for the Kansas City Police Department.

Seeking Input: Information Seeking Habits of Architecture Faculty Survey

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Written by Lucy Campbell, Librarian, NewSchool of Architecture and Design
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors

What if architecture faculty could research five times faster? What if all their information needs were right at their fingertips, readily available from their academic libraries? That may seem like an unattainable dream for most architecture librarians, but if librarians and faculty communicate more openly about the research needs of faculty, and how best to meet them, we could get closer to realizing it.

To that end, I am surveying architecture faculty across the United States about their information seeking habits in order to help librarians be even more efficient and helpful than they already are now. Student needs are surveyed, scrutinized and analyzed repeatedly in our field. Studies abound that tell us how they search, where they search, and what they search. However faculty can have very different interests. Librarians can analyze library usage statistics and engage in one-on-one research consultations with faculty, but if they don’t ask faculty about their research habits as a group, they are missing a key part of the story.

Architectural research is a peculiar multi-headed beast. As a profession, and field of study encompassing the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities, architecture is all of these and yet none of them. Design encompasses an indefinable combination of disciplines which makes it both fascinating and frustrating. Because of this unique cross-disciplinary nature, I am especially interested in how information needs differ when applied to pedagogy, trends in the field, and personal inspiration.

This survey won’t provide all the answers, but I hope it will shed some light on the particular and unique aspects of how faculty engage with research on a daily basis. So I am asking architecture faculty to take the survey, and for AASL members to share my short survey with their faculty so we can gain some valuable insight. It will remain open through October 31st and results will be shared with all.

Librarians who send out the survey: please email me to let me know a rough number of recipients so I can keep tabs on response rates. Thanks in advance for your support.

Survey: Information Seeking Habits of Architecture Faculty
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/architectureinfo

Author email: lcampbell@newschoolarch.edu

ACSA Update 9.18.15

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September 18, 2015

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Online Registration Ends Next Week

Syracuse University School of Architecture is hosting this year’s ACSA Fall Conference, October 8-10. Register online by September 23, 2015.

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ACSA 104: Call for Papers

ACSA invites paper submissions under 23 thematic session topics plus an additional open category. Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. Deadline extended to September 25, 2015.

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2015-16 Architectural Education Awards

The deadline for submissions to the 2016 Architectural Education Awards has been extended to September 25, 2015. Learn about new award categories, eligibility, and how to apply at acsa-arch.org/awards.

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Where is Your #SMLXL?

The upcoming issue of JAE, edited by Alicia Imperiale and Enrique Ramirez, coincides with the 20th anniversary of Koolhaas/OMA’s _S,M,L,XL. With this in mind, we asked to see your copies. You have until September 30 to share yours. Take a look at the submissions so far.

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Design & Health Research Consortium Looks to Include Up to Six New Teams

The AIA Foundation, AIA, and ACSA invite member schools interested in joining the AIA Design & Health Research Consortium to submit qualifications by October 16, 2015. The consortium, in its second year, seeks to advance university-led research in the area of design and health. Download the RFQ here, which includes a link to the submission form.

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Two Architecture students, Lucanus Grady (Men’s Track & Field) and Marshay Ryan (Women’s Track & Field), have been named to the 2015 Spring SEC Honor Roll, and are among the 107 Auburn Athletes on the SEC Honor Roll. 

To be named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must meet is a grade point average of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. Read more here.

Three publications created by the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Communications and Marketing have won Certificates of Excellence in Graphic Design USA’s 2015 American Inhouse Design competition. From nearly 6,000 entries, only 15 percent were recognized with a Certificates of Excellence. For more, read here.

Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, has been appointed Program Chair and Graduate Provisional Officer of Landscape Architecture effective August 1. LeBleu joined the faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2004 and is an associate professor of landscape architecture. Her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on green building and water quality issues, especially issues related to low impact development design. Read more here.

Read the Summer Issue of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s newsletter here.

University of Detroit Mercy

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The Volterra International Design Workshop was organized jointly by the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and the Volterra-Detroit Foundation from July 29 to August 8, 2015 in Volterra, Italy. In addition to the host team from UDM SOA, students and faculty from three other academic institutions participated in the workshop: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (USA), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), and University of Pisa (Italy). Architect James Timberlake from Kieran Timberlake in Philadelphia attended as a special guest of the workshop to provide the intellectual leadership and connect the students with the most progressive ideas in the architectural profession.

The theme of the workshop was “Society and Technology: Water, Food, Waste, and Energy”. The workshop consisted of three interwoven components: pre-workshop research, a lecture series, and a design challenge. 

The focus of the school teams’ pre-workshop research was on their universities’ hometowns. Following the general theme of the workshop, the students studied the relationship between and mutual impact of the availability and distribution of fundamental resources (energy, water, food) and city development. 

The lecture series was designed to give students insight into the history and the contemporary problems of Volterra, as well as to present a modern vision of architectural research and practice. Beyond the general introduction and the historical tour of the city, the Volterra theme was further advanced in the presentations of the Director of the Pinacoteca in Volterra, archeologist Alessandro Furiesi (on water management in Volterra from antiquity to modern times), architect Andrea Bianchi (on the deterioration of the Tuscan landscape caused by the industrial use of land in Volterra territory) and the president of the social cooperative “La Torre” in Volterra Marco Bruchi (on the problems of garbage removal and recycling in the Comune of Volterra). 

A connection between the context and the goal of the workshop was provided in lectures by Dean Will Wittig and Professor Wladek Fuchs (University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture). Finally, James Timberlake gave two highly inspiring talks about “Making of an Architect”, as well as his firm’s design and research philosophy and most recent projects. 

At the core of the workshop was the unique opportunity for everybody to collaborate over an architectural design problem. The city of Volterra is a wonderful urban laboratory, presenting a great balance of the medieval city scale, form and tradition, contrasted with problems resulting from the needs of a living city organism. The site selected for the design challenge lies just outside of the city’s medieval walls, alongside the ruins of the Roman Theater, and it is bordered by one of the main streets bypassing the historic center. Currently used as a municipal parking lot, the site presents great potential for a much more significant role in the city’s urban fabric. The functional program of the project was branded as an “Ecological Forum”, a city district focused on the ecological values of urban living, and complementing the historical urban core of Volterra. 

During the workshop, the students and professors were divided into three mixed groups, to generate and test multiple concepts. An additional level of design insight and inspiration was offered to all groups during the project reviews by James Timberlake, Will Wittig and Giulio Pucci (University of Pisa). 

The workshop concluded with project presentations, a discussion, and a public exhibition at the Volterra International Residential College. The projects generated a significant amount of interest and discussion among the city officials and residents who came to the exhibition. The site and its current use is a matter of significant public interest in Volterra. The work presented at the exhibition has been clearly seen as a valuable voice in the discussion about potential directions for the city future development. 

Two primary notions permeated the final presentations and discussion among the workshop participants. The first was the importance of research in design, and the value of design as a form of research. The design outcomes of the workshop have clearly identified a direction for further studies at the scale of the entire city. This would involve the vehicular traffic pattern inside and around the city, and the potential for a green belt around the medieval center of Volterra – instead of the existing chain of parking lots. Thus the design ideas formulated this year have become the first step in research toward next year’s workshop.

The workshop was also an excellent experience in teamwork and design collaboration in an international context. Over the course of ten days, the students had the opportunity to share and confront their ideas and skills in the continuous dialogue with their colleagues and faculty mentors. Considering the nature and the character of the contemporary architectural practice, collaborative design work should be considered an essential part of professional education. After all, the most important quality in an architectural office environment, and one which can be built only through a genuine and continuous collaboration is – in the words of James Timberlake – “the collective intelligence”.

 

ACSA Update 9.11.15

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September 11, 2015

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ACSA 104: Call for Papers

Next year’s ACSA Annual Meeting will take place March 17-19, 2016 in Seattle, WA. ACSA invites paper submissions under 23 thematic session topics plus an additional open category. Authors may submit only one paper per session topic. The same paper may not be submitted to multiple topics. Submission Deadline: September 25, 2015.


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Submit to the 2015-16 Architectural Education Awards

Each year, the Architectural Education Awards honor educators for their exemplary work. This year, ACSA and the AIA are excited to announce a new award: Practice + Leadership, recognizing best practice examples of highly effective teaching, scholarship, and outreach in the areas of professional practice and leadership. Deadline for submissions is September 25, 2015. Learn more about eligibility and how to apply at acsa-arch.org/awards.


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Plan Your Fall Conference Schedule & Save $70

In the spirit of the debate-style format, moderators have determined motions for their ‘Debate Groups’ that will spur differences of opinion on the topics. Explore the preliminary conference schedule here. Early registration ends September 23, 2015.

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The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Thérèse F. Tierney was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Illinois Informatics Institute where her research focuses on networked urbanism. In July, Tierney served as an external PhD examiner for Maryam Fazel, University of Sheffield, UK; thesis title: “Locative Media: from transcendental technologies to socio-formative spheres (an examination of the interface between place, agent and locative media).” More recently, Tierney’s invited essay, “Point Clouds, Locative Media, and Digitizing the Image of the City” will be published this December 2015 in Now, There: Scenes from a Post-Geographic City (Mimi Zeiger, Editor).    

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Associate Professor Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED-AP, will have a new book to be published in October, Data-Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, 1st Edition (Wiley, 2015).  An additional new book, Convergence: An Integrated Framework for Architecture (AD, 2016).

He was a Keynote speaker at The Next Frontier: Mining and Leveraging Data in BIM, BIM Perspectives conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC, 2015.  He also gave/will give the following lectures:   Measuring the Immeasurable, Validating the Ineffable, New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, 2015;  Public Lecture: What Leveraging Data Meansfor You, Your Career, Firm and Profession, AIANY Technology Committee, Centerfor Architecture, NYC; Lecture: The Data on Data-Centric Practices, Knowledge Architecture, KA Connect 2015, knowledge management conference, San Francisco, CA; Lecture: National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) 2015 Symposium, 50 Shades of Leadership, Urbana, IL, 2015; Lecture: Architects Design By Manipulating Data, Not Form, AIA Northeast Illinois, 2015.

He also delivered two talks at Building Technology Educators’ Society 2015 International Conference: Educating the Technology-Inclined Design Architect; & Data Driven Design in Education and Practice.

He was featured in “Deep Data: How Greater Intelligence Can Lead To Better Buildings,” by C.C. Sullivan, in Building Design + Construction magazine, June 2015, pp.43-46.  He was interviewed on BIM in education, BIMThoughts podcast S2E12, 2015. 

Professor Deutsch also developed and delivered an online course on design thinking, Architecture as a Second Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts, 2015.

He was also invited as a Board Member, Advisor, UK-based Building Research Establishment (BRE) Advisory Board on BIM education in the US, 2015-16 and a Board Member, Virtual Builders, US BIM education, 2015-16.

During the summer Assistant Prof. Mark Taylor directed a summer design studio that worked in collaboration with Prosperity Gardens, a non-for profit organization who transforms vacant land into productive urban farm land.  Students investigated the adaptive re-use of a former police evidence building and produced designs for a wash, pack and storage facility to be located on a one acre site in downtown Champaign. Funding secured from ADM with allow the facility to be built in the coming year.

 


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Compiled and submitted by Edward R. Burian, Associate Professor, 1 Sept. 2015

Faculty News

Faculty in the Department of Architecture have recently published books, received design awards for built work, curated exhibitions, led innovative graduate design studios, and engaged in leadership roles in professional organizations.

Edward Burian, Associate Professor, has published his book, The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to Present, (University of Texas Press, 2015) that explores the undervalued architectural culture of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur from 1821 to the present; and is the first overview of the region during this time period in English or Spanish. His introductory essay was also recently published in English and Spanish in, Reforma 27/Alberto Kalach, (Arquine and Editorial RM, Mexico City, 2015). He recently wrote two chapters for, Arquitectura de Coahuila a través del tiempo, (Biblioteca Milenio de Historia, 2015), that explores the architecture in Coahuila from the colonial era to the present and will be published in Spanish in full color and is co-sponsored by the government of the state of Coahuila.  One chapter considers the representation of the public domain in terms of civic buildings, while the other discusses current and future directions for the architecture of Coahuila.

Ian Caine, Assistant Professor participated in the fall of 2014 in an exhibition titled To-Be-Destroyed (TBD) at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto, Ontario, CA. The museum featured his project titled Living Galleries alongside the work of dozens of artists and designers from around the world, including Gordon Matta-Clark (United States), Jeanne van Heeswijk (Rotterdam), and Jesse Harris (Toronto). The exhibition imagined new approaches and possible futures for the contemporary art gallery, emphasizing the potential of new museums to emerge as mutable — not fixed — entities. The Living Galleries proposal imagines the venue for the new museum as the city itself, with the first exhibition a history of suburban sprawl.  

Dr. Sedef Doganer, Assistant Professor is the graduate advisor of record and Associate Dept. Head in the Department of Architecture. She recently published a book chapter titled, “New Hotel Design,” that will appear in, Tourism and Recreational Buildings,” published by VITRA Contemporary Architecture Series, (2013) in both English and Turkish. Among other grants, she has been awarded an interdisciplinary grant by San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau to study “State of San Antonio Heritage Resources” for approximately $30,000 annually with Prof. Bill Dupont and Dr. David Bojanic (College of Business). 

Diane Hays, FAIA, Senior Lecturer and Interior Design Coordinator, received a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Honor Award for her two UTSA Dept. of Architecture design-build studio projects at Bexar County’s Raymond Russell Park in San Antonio, TX.
 

Dr. Angela Lombardi, Assistant Professor has co-edited Lima, The Historic Center: Analysis and Restoration/ Centro Histórico. Conocimiento y restauración / Centro storico. Conoscenza e restauro, (Peru: Patrizia / Rome: Gangemi editore, 2012), that identifies and evaluates the endangered architectural heritage of Lima, Peru and was published in English, Spanish, and Italian.
 

Andrew Kudless of MATSYS in Oakland, CA http://matsysdesign.com/ was the Dean’s Distinguished 2014 Visiting Critic, teaching a graduate studio focusing on digital fabrication in which the studio designed, fabricated, and constructed a wood lattice structure in a park here in San Antonio, TX.

Kevin McClellan, former Adjunct Professor, was featured in Texas Architect, (March/April 2014)  for his innovative work with TEX-FAB, http://www.tex-fab.net/, a nonprofit organization that connects professionals, students, and the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry to advance the discipline of architecture in its adoption of digital fabrication. He currently works as a Project Architect for Marmon Mok in San Antonio.

Taeg Nishimoto, Professor, has researched and explored materials as well as their applications for site specific installations as well as product designs for lighting fixtures. Installations using fabric and lighting were presented as a part of the city of San Antonio’s public art program to liven the downtown street by staging a nightly performance in the empty storefront spaces. Other lighting product designs using fabric, papercrete and resin impregnated mesh fabric were featured in numerous international design websites, including evolo (US), Designstreet (Italy), Arthitectural (England), and Morfae (Greece). His prototype design for play furniture using the concrete impregnated fabric called CCpf has received a design copyright.

Dr. Antonio Petrov, Assistant Professor has recently lectured and participated in panel discussions at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts in Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 67th Annual Conference in Austin, TX where he co-chaired a session on “Sacred Power: Religion, Politics and Architecture in the 20th Century.” His forthcoming book chapter, “Mediterranean Frontiers: Ontology of a Bounded Space in Crisis”, will appear in The Design of Frontiers: Control and Ambiguity published by Ashgate in July 2015. He has also published articles in journals and periodicals including, Arqa, ARRIS, Design Engine, Manifest, Mas Context and MONU. He is also currently working on an edited volume titled The City after the City to be published by Archeworks Papers, and a manuscript titled, Between Autonomy and Total Immersion in which he traces new forms of the secular in evangelical architecture in the United States. He was recently the Caudill Visiting Critic at Rice University, and the co-director of the Expander program, an interdisciplinary research think tank, at Archeworks in Chicago. 

Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies was one of four UTSA faculty to receive the 2014 UT System’s Regents Outstanding Teaching Award awarded for extraordinary classroom performance and dedication to innovation. He was also a member of an interdisciplinary team of UTSA researchers to receive a $40,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to study of the energy efficiency and cost effectiveness of radiant barrier retrofits of historic homes in hot, humid climates, and also part of another interdisciplinary team of architecture and engineering faculty who received $16,500 from Harland Clarke Company to study continuous improvement and sustainability of their facilities. Recently, he was elected Vice President of the Architectural Research Centers Association (ARCC), an international association of schools of architecture and research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture and a supporting infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines.
 

Candid Rogers, AIA, Adjunct Professor, recently had his residential project in Marfa, TX published in TX Architect. He also won a 2012 San Antonio AIA Design Award for his “Dos Diez” residential extension to an 1872 stone cottage in San Antonio, TX.

Javier Sánchez, design principal of the noted Mexico City architecture and development firm Jsa has a new book on the work of the firm, Urban Interlacing: Javier Sánchez, 2004-2013, (Arquine, 2014) published by the leading architectural press in Latin America. He was the initial Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Critic in the UTSA DOA for 2013, and his graduate studio at UTSA examined Colonia Atlampa, the last remaining parcel of underutilized urban land in the central core of Mexico City. The studio produced a group urban design proposal and individual mixed use infill projects.

A recent symposium and exhibit Walter Eugene George and the Cultural Legacy of the Rio Grande examined the work of retired UTSA faculty member Eugene George who passed away last year was held at the Institute for Texas Culture on Feb. 1st-28th 2014. George held the first San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professorship and during his career he generated some 500 drawings and 16,000 collected photographs focusing on the “Rio Grande Corridor” between Eagle Pass, TX and Brownsville, TX. 


 

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