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ProPEL ACSA Update 5.1.15
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University of Detroit Mercy
From July 29 to August 8 the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture will host the first bi-annual Volterra International Design Workshop in Volterra (Italy).
The workshop is a new addition to and an extension of the UDM SOA study abroad program in Volterra, which was first organized in 1987. Beautifully and conveniently located in the middle of Tuscany, equal distances from Florence, Pisa and Siena, Volterra offers the UDM SOA students and faculty a genuine immersion in Italian history and culture.
Since 2013 the program has been housed in the UDM School of Architecture’s private facility in the city: the Volterra International Residential College. The new home base in Volterra allows the UDM SOA and its academic partner, the Volterra-Detroit Foundation, which established and now manages the facility, to plan and organize a variety of academic and cultural programs in Volterra, including AIA Continuing Education programs, collaborative academic programs with the University of Pisa (Italy) and – for the first time this summer – International Design Workshops.
This year, selected students from the UDM SOA, together with the Dean of the UDM School of Architecture Will Wittig, will remain in Volterra for an additional ten days beyond the normal length of the program. During this time they will be joined by students and faculty from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology from Poland, as well as local academics and professionals from Volterra, Pisa in Italy. The workshop will be moderated by James Timberlake, FAIA, from Kieran Timberlake (Philadelphia, USA), an alumnus of the UDM School of Architecture.
The purpose of the workshop is to create an international academic forum for sharing contemporary architectural ideas. Architecture is becoming an increasingly global profession, which offers new and fascinating inspirations and opportunities internationally. The workshop will give the students and faculty the opportunity to experience international teamwork and collaboration.
The theme of the workshop is “Society and Technology: Water, Food, Waste, and Energy”. In the words of Dean Will Wittig: “In every town, in every society, there is a daily, weekly, and yearly rhythm of arrivals and departures; oranges and milk, newspapers, workers, school children, water, coal, busses, sewage, and garbage. And the logic of logistics can be traced in these systems that anticipate the flow of water, food, energy, and waste. City form in turn is organized and orchestrated to establish the physical ecosystem of a society that enables social capital to flourish.”
For additional information about the UDM School of Architecture and other programs in Volterra please visit http://www.volterra-detroit.org
Harvard University
Landformation Catalogue
Ground is both site and material for design intervention.
Through a systematic manipulation of the landscape, humans account for the fastest geological transformation of the Earth’s surface in its 4.54 billion year history. Anthropogenic activity is responsible for the re-formation of more of the Earth’s surface than all other mechanisms combined. Agricultural and industrial practices such as mining, farming, grazing, and damming impact a majority of the Earth’s surface. Combined with formations and programs traditionally held within the domain of design practice – spaces of habitation, occupation, protection, and labor – humans have steadily increased the depth of the Earth’s anthropocentric event layer to span over 2,000 meters.
Human beings operate at the scale of geomorphic agents, relocating 120 billion metric tons of earth annually, twice the volume of Mount Fuji. Directly reshaping the surface of the Earth to provide capacities not immediately or adequately available, extracting energy and materials, and affecting behaviors and phenomena are results of human-driven interventions. This collection of operations, technologies, and forms constitutes a catalogue of Earth’s re-formation potentials.
The Landformation Catalogue examines the generative methodologies of landform manipulation, revealing correlations between the histories, morphologies, assemblies, materials, and affordances of landscape practice. It analyzes the resulting spatial artifacts of humanity’s larger Earth transformation project. The exhibition was supported by the generosity of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), GSD Lectures and Exhibitions, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
University of Southern California
Diane Ghirardo presented a paper on Idea and Authorship at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Berlin in March 2015; in April, she presented a paper at Yale University titled “Modernity in Renaissance Architecture and Ours. Her article, “The Blue of Aldo Rossi’s Sky,” appeared in AAFiles 70 (May 2015).
Rob Ley was recently awarded a commission to design a permanent outdoor pavilion for the Portland, Oregon City Zoo.
Jose Sanchez is finalising the ‘Blindspot Initiative’ Book, an edited volume looking at designers that challenge the competition model for architectural design by exploring the blurry boundaries of the design field. He is also finishing his video game Block’hood, an interactive city builder simulation that attempts to develop ideas of systemic thinking and ecological urbanism engaging a large audience
Prof. James Steele was named an ACSA Distinguished Professor.
The Courtyard at La Brea, a 32 unit affordable housing project for persons with Special Needs, designed by Professor John V Mutlow FAIA and Adjunct Professor Patrick Tighe, FAIA, received the ‘Best of Year-Apartment Building’ Design Award form INTERIOR DESIGN Design Magazine and was published in their January 2015 issue. This project is also on the cover and featured in the current issue of DETAIL, an architectural magazine from South Korea. This affordable housing project was initially featured in September 2014 issue of ARCHITECT magazine.
Lisa Little was a recent lecturer in the Spring 2015 Lecture Series for the Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture Department.
Scott Uriu with partner Herwig Baymgartner will have a large sculptural installation on exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard in Barnsdall Park, from May 17 through June 28, 2015, with an opening reception on May 17, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The sculpture is a progression of their study of architectural space constructed of thin shell plastic with an emphasis on the examination of apertures interacting with video projections.
Karen M. Kensek and Douglas Noble were invited speakers at the “Collaborative Creativity Symposium” organized by Murali Paranandi at Miami University.
Ken Breisch has published the article, “Rediscovering the Fachwerk House in America: Preservation, the Bechers and Modernism,” in Die Nobilitierte Hauslandschaft: Zur Architektur der von Bernd und Hilla Becherf fotografierten Fachwerkhäuser des Siegener Industriegebiets, ed. Karl Kiem. Dresden: Eckhardt Richter & Co. OHG, 2015, pp. 75-88.
Virginia Tech
Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., Co-Director of the School of Architecture + Design’s Center for Design Research, principal investigator of the VT FutureHAUS initiative, has lead a team of researchers and students in exhibiting a prototype kitchen, the FutureHAUS Kitchen, at the Kitchen and Bath industry show in Las Vegas in Janaury 2016. In May, the kitchen and living room will be exhibited at the National AIA Convention Expo in Atlanta. The research investigates better utilization of industrialized processes to build architecture. By delivering large, complex, house assemblies as “cartridges,” a more sophisticated prefabricated product may be delivered to the job site or the assembly plant. This cross-disciplinary project engages students from Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Art, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., has been invited to lecture at the Colegio Arquitectos del Perú in Lima, Peru. The lecture was supported by the Institute of Peruvian Architects, the Embassy of Switzerland in Lima and with an International Travel Grant from the Virginia Tech – Office of the Vice President for Research.
University of Southern California
PHOTO: La Cage aux Folles, a 17 foot bent steel tube structure by Warren Techentin, was previously on exhibition at Materials & Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake from April 19th through September 2nd. Once built, La Cage actively engaged the community by opening the sidewalk as a pocket park and through curated performances
Assistant Professor Alexander Robinson was selected to be a Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture for 2015-2016. This spring his machine for designing the Owens Lake Dust Control Project was exhibited at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions gallery as part of the show “After the Aqueduct”. In May he and Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma will co-present at the Dumbarton Oaks conference, “River and Cities”.
Associate Professor Vittoria Di Palma was recently awarded the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Prize by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) for her book, Wasteland: A History. The annual prize is awarded for the best scholarly book on an eighteenth-century subject. Di Palma and Wasteland: A History were also recognized by the PROSE Awards (The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) this year with an honorable mention in the architecture and urban planning category. In addition, Wasteland was one of five books awarded the 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
This semester select landscape architecture students are enrolled in a unique studio: A New Waterfront for Old Istanbul / Rethinking the Eminönü Waterfront. Taught by Adjuncts Takako Tajima and John Dutton. The studio reimagines the public infrastructure at the water’s edge of Eminönü, a neighborhood on Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula within walking distance to Istanbul’s most famous sites (i.e. Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, etc.). The work of the studio aims not only to develop ideas for a new urban space and waterfront edge but also to address how the new will connect to the old. The studio included a weeklong site visit to Istanbul during which time students had the opportunity to present their preliminary designs at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Architecture.
Professor and program director Kelly Shannon co-authored (with Bruno De Meulder) ‘Towards a Resilient Hoog Kortrijk, Belgium: The conversion of a fragments, post-war development’ for Topos 90: Resilient Cities and Landscapes and penned ‘Preemptive design opportunities to mitigate disasters’ (the editorial) for the Journal of Landscape Architecture (theme issue Disaster: 2015-1) as well as the journal’s ‘Urbanization and Risk: In Conversation with Miho Mazereeuw’ and short book review of ‘Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disaster’. In July, she will be a keynote speaker at the Designing Inclusion: Co-Producing Ecological Urbanism for Inclusive Housing Transformations in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the International Summer School.
Professor Emeritus and former Landscape Architecture Director, Robert Harris, received the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award. USC proudly praised his inspiring creativity, compassionate teaching and mentorship, and enduring contributions to the University and the School of Architecture
Associate Professor (Research) Dr. Travis Longcore, published research in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on the feasibility of configuring LED lamps to minimize insect attraction, with targeted application in the tropics to reduce transmission of insect-borne diseases. The paper was part of a special issue on the impacts of artificial lighting on biological communities and received significant international media attention.
Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented “City Choreography” at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the “Spatial Politics and the City” symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.
Associate Professor (Research) Dr. Travis Longcore and Assistant Professor Rachel Berney organized a multi-school talk and discussion on cities and climate change, headlined by USC¹s Director of Graduate Studies in Landscape Architecture, Kelly Shannon, with her talk on “Water Urbanism: Learning from Then and Now.” Visitors included the McKinley Futures joint MLA-MARCH studio from the University of Washington, Seattle, under the direction of Dave Miller and Ben Spencer, and faculty member Måns Tham from KTH in Stockholm, along with students from KTH¹s 5-year architecture program. Tham also gave a guest lecture and workshop on hybrid urban infrastructures in Longcores¹ Urban Nature class.
Assistant Professor Rachel Berney, Assistant Professor of Practice Lauren Matchison and Lecturer Lee Schneider have created a new course, called Visual Storytelling and Entrepreneurship in Media. It will provide graduate students with much needed entrepreneurial expertise and literacy in online media to define and promote design-driven projects. Further, the course offers graduate students new methods of visual research. It embraces an entrepreneurial approach and addresses current trends in design, data, and research.
Dr. David Gerber has recently published the book ‘Paradigms in Computing’ with eVolo Press. He has also published and presented his research at the Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design annual conference (SimAUD 2015). His work has also been accepted for publication at the CAADFutures 2015 bi-annual conference and will be included in the CAADFutures Book published by Springer.
Vinayak Bharne was elected to the Board of Directors of Pasadena Heritage, one of Southern California oldest heritage non-profits. He was also one of seven invited presenters at the Urban Edge Prize 2015 Seminar – Resilience & Change – at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
John Dutton will be a featured speaker for two panels at the 2015 Dwell on Design Conference May 29th -31st at the Los Angeles Convention Center. He will be presenting new ideas for urban housing for baby-boomers with architect Barbara Bestor as part of their Grey Gardens collaboration. At a second panel, he will present his vision for the transformation of Los Angeles freeways into new networks of greenways.
Assistant Professor Alison B. Hirsch presented “City Choreography” at Portland State University as part of their annual lecture series. In late March, she was an invited speaker in the “Spatial Politics and the City” symposium at the Belkin Gallery of University of British Columbia.
Vittoria Di Palma’s book Wasteland, A History (Yale 2014) has recently been awarded three prizes: the 2015 Louis Gottschalk Book Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and a 2015 PROSE Awards Honorable Mention in the Architecture and Urban Planning category.
Assistant Professor Kyle Konis, Ph.D, AIA was invited to speak at the 2015 AIA National Convention on his ongoing research focused on daylight and health in buildings.
This year, Doris Sung was named a 2014 US Artist Fellow, joining an impressive list of past architects and artists. She also received an ACSA Faculty Design award for ³eXo” and a National AIA Small Projects Award for ³Bloom”.
Aroussiak Gabrielian’s research will be exhibited at the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the end of this month. Additionally, she has been invited to present her work at AVANCA|CINEMA 2015: International Conference of Cinema, Art, Technology, and Communication which will take place in Portugal in July, and at the International Visual Methods Conference 2015, taking place in Brighton, UK in the Fall.
Assistant Professor Alvin Huang has been named to Perspective Magazine’s 40 Under 40 2015, a selection of “40 creative stars under the age of 40 who will shape the design world in the decades to come.” Huang will be giving a lecture on his recent work as part of the CalPoly SLO LA Metro Program spring lecture series in May and will be featured in a panel discussion about “3D Printing and the Future of Design” at the Dwell on Design Conference in June at the LA Convention Center.
The work of Patrick Tighe FAIA featured on the cover of the recent issue of Global Architecture / GA Houses 140.
Professor Joon-Ho Choi recently attended the Architectural Research Centers Consortium Conference, held in Chicago, IL. As an ARCC New Investigator Award recipient, he gave a special lecture on “Human-Building Integration: Proactive Indoor Environmental Quality Control Approaches” at the conference. Dr. Choi also presented his recent research outcomes with his students, Spurthy Yogananda (Climate-Responsive Evidence-Based Green Roof Design Decision Support for the U.S. Climate), Chao Yang (Methods for Estimating Energy Use Intensity Based on Building Façade Features), and Yiyu Chen (Building Performance Analysis Considering Climate Changes). Dr. Choi was invested and gave a special talk on his research, titled “Comprehensive Post-Occupancy Evaluation” to the U.S. Green Building Council – Los Angeles Chapter.
Christopher Warren participated in the group exhibition, “Waiting for Guggenheim,” at the University of Southern California on April 8th, which highlighted faculty submissions to the competition. He also participated in the panel discussion for the event, which examined the inherent complexities that exist in competitions of this grand scale. His office, WORD, currently has two projects under construction for French fashion company A.P.C. (in collaboration with French design architect Laurent Deroo), as well as a cafe and new residence in the L.A. area
Hraztan Zeitlian, AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, is a Juror this year for the American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) Design Awards.
Geoffrey von Oeyen’s work for the 2014 Architectural League Prize will be featured in the book Young Architects 16 by Princeton Architectural Press, to be published in May. In June, Geoffrey will be curating an exhibition of graduate student work and moderating a panel discussion regarding his advanced design studio titled “Performative Composites: Sailing Architecture.” The event will take place on June 16 at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, California, and is sponsored by the USC School of Architecture, The City of Santa Monica, and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park by DSH // architecture, the firm of Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Haas, was published in the May 2015 issue of Dwell. Haas will present the project, a renovation of Welton Becket’s 1955 New York Life building for a charter middle- and high school, at Dwell on Design in June. DSH’s project Cat’s Cradle will be published in the forthcoming Nanotecture from Phaidon Press.
Laurel Consuelo Broughton and her studio WELCOMEPROJECTS’ diptych, The In Crowd was published in Offramp #9, the SCI_arc architectural journal and the research project Two-Face is forthcoming in the Princeton School of Architecture’s journal, Pidgin #19. In April, Laurel gave the talk and workshop, Things Become Other Things at Syracuse University School of Architecture. This past fall she was selected with Andrew Kovacs to be part of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Out There Doing It event series where they discussed their own work as related to their collaborative project Gallery Attachment / As Builts. An outdoor installation and companion drawing show, Gallery Attachment / As Builts was sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the John Chase Memorial Fund and shown at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles. In November, she presented the talk, At Play, as part of the symposium Delight at Princeton University.
Karen M. Kensek and Douglas Noble were selected to present at the 2015 AIA National Convention on the subject of professional licensing in architecture.
Gail Peter Borden was elected to the AIA College of Fellows as the youngest recipient in the history of California. He was honored with the 2015 USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Students, and was also awarded the USC Associates Award for Artistic Expression, the highest honor the University Faculty bestow on it members for significant Artistic Expression. His book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production has been commissioned with a follow-up compilation entitled Lineament: Material Geometry in Architectural Production forthcoming in 2016 and also by Routledge Press.
G. M. Morland, Architect. NCARB. ARCUK. Assoc Professor, curated an exhibit of his work called: 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 50+ 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.
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.
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. Nefeli lectured at the BNCA University of Pune, the University of Mumbai and the Studio-X of Columbia University in Mumbai, India. Nefeli is organizing International Advanced Architectural Workshops in Athens during the Summer.
Also as founder of X|Atelier recently received a commission for the construction of an interior law office space downtown Los Angeles.
Lawrence Scarpa’s firm Brooks + Scarpa was selected from the shortlist of Snohetta, BIG, SHOP and NAADA to design the new $75 mil. mixed-use parking structures as part of the $2 billion MCCA Boston Convention Center expansion. Brooks + Scarpa has also been shortlisted to compete for the $370 million Seattle/Sound Transit E360 Metro line extension which includes two stations, a major transit center and pedestrian bridges connecting to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA also received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects California Council.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE:
Landscape Architecture as Necessity
3-Day Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Thursday – Saturday, 22-24 September 2016
As climate change rapidly takes its place at the forefront of contemporary global challenges, landscape architecture is becoming an urgent necessity. Landscape architecture is uniquely able to synthesize ecological systems, scientific data, engineering methods, social practices, and cultural values, and integrate them into the design of the built environment. At the same time, its creative methods and visual vocabularies can help to shape questions and formulate novel approaches in more traditionally scientific or data-driven fields. Expanding and sharing platforms and interests will activate greater comprehension of the value of landscape-based strategies in environmental decision-making. Landscape Architecture as Necessity seeks to demonstrate, through international built work and ongoing design research, that the professions of the built environment, together with expertise from a wide range of relevant fields, are essential to moving beyond rhetoric to address the myriad challenges confronting urban and rural territories alike. A call for papers will be coming shortly. For more information, confirmed speakers and updates, see the conference website: arch.usc.edu/landscapeasnecessity
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Virginia Tech
ACSA Faculty News – Virginia Tech
Professor Dr. Bert Rodriguez-Camilloni, Ph.D., served as a discussant in the session “Brutalism in the Americas: North-South Connections,” at the forthcoming 68th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to be held between April 2015 in Chicago, IL. Professor Rodriguez-Camilloni will also be recognized at a special reception sponsored by the president of the society for his 40 years of membership and service to the SAH.
ACSA Distinguished Professor, T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., Research Assistant Professor David Clark of the Center for Design Research (CDR) conducted the workshop Design Robotics Summit, sponsored by the School of Architecture + Design. Over 60 students, faculty and staff from a number of colleges, universities, and industry collaborators including University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, AutodeskTM, and The Living, participated in the workshop. The results of the workshop will be presented at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City.
Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Director of the Center for Design Research (CDR), together with Cark Nexson, an award winning architectural and engineering firm organized and hosted an exhibition showcasing experimental digital fabrications. Students participating in the exhibition include Laura Escobar, Ryan Hawkins, Brian Kato, David Kolodziej, Aaron Payne, Stephen Perry, Hannah Utter, and Dan Ventresca. David Clark and Negar Kalantar, PhD student, directed the CRD – (trans)LAB studio. Nathan King directed the robotics segment.
Assistant Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A., had four recent installation works exhibited in the solo show Ground to Sky: Triptychs in Three Scales at the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The show runs from January 27 to May 30, 2015 and was accompanied by Ishida’s lecture ‘Urban Light and Human Temporality’ on February 11.
Aki Ishida was also appointed by National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa as a panelist for the NEA’s Art Works grants, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category, in June to July 2014.
Cloud, a public art installation designed by Aki Ishida and Associate Professor Ivica Ico Bukvic, School of Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Cinema, in collaboration with students of Virginia Tech, was installed at Welburn Square in Ballston, VA on October 2 and 3, 2014. Cloud was commissioned by the Ballston Business Improvement District and was also exhibited in the group show ‘Public Displays of Innovation’ at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA. November 26, 2014 to January 18, 2015.
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Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., lead a panel at the international conference for NCECA in March 2015. This panel was an extension of Nathan Kings’s research and teaching related to digital materials systems (Ceramics in this case) and Design Robotics. |
University of Buffalo
In March, Despina Stratigakos presented the Barbara Miller Lane Lecture at Bryn Mawr College on the theme of her forthcoming book, Hitler at Home. At the 2015 AASL Conference in Toronto she participated together with Annmarie Adams and Lori Brown on the panel, “Voices from the Field: Researching Women in Architecture.” Stratigakos also published an introduction to the work of architectural critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, which inaugurated the new Future Archive series of Places Journal.
Annette LeCuyer was a juror with Wendell Burnette for the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) 2015 Design Competition at Penn State.
UB undergraduate students Rahul Ghera and Georine Pierre were prizewinners in the 2015 UB/NOMAS Design Competition.
‘Maritime Monument’ – a review of the new Halifax Public Library designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Fowler Bauld & Mitchell written by Brian Carter – was published in ‘Canadian Architect’, February 2015.
Mark Shepard participated in a panel session at the Non Discrete Architectures symposium, organized by Penn Design, The University of Pennsylvania. The symposium aimed to catalogue and explore the implications, methods of understanding, research and production of the convergence of the digital and physical, and acknowledge its power in understanding architectural and spatial production.
Joyce Hwang delivered an invited lecture at the School of Art Institute of Chicago on April 2 as part of the Mitchell Lecture Series. Joyce also chaired a paper session titled ‘Beyond Patronage’ at the 2015 ACSA Annual Meeting: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, held in Toronto. Additionally, a selection of Joyce’s creative work is currently exhibited at Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, as part of an initiative to showcase the work of outstanding Cornell alumni. The exhibition was curated and organized by Elizabeth Saleh, a Teaching Associate and an alum of UB’s B.S.Arch program (2011)
Jordan Geiger has published the edited volume, “Entr’acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture”, with Palgrave Macmillan. The book employs this term from theatre as a model for discussing emerging formations of publics and public space, in particular with the rapidly evolving proliferation of communications technologies. The book brings together authors at intersections of architecture, media study, urban studies and performance. It includes new texts from Paul Virilio, Jordan Geiger, Benjamin Bratton, Nashid Nabian, Ricardo Dominguez, Jonathan Massey, Brett Snyder, Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, Omar Khan, Elke Krasny, Brenda Laurel, Malcolm McCullough, Adrian Blackwell, Eduardo Aquino and Keller Easterling.
On March 21, Geiger chaired a panel discussion and book launch for “Entr’acte” to coincide with the 2015 national ACSA conference, at Toronto’s Onsite Gallery. Panelists included authors Jonathan Massey (CCA), Omar Khan (UB) and Adrian Blackwell (University of Waterloo)
Geiger also served on the Steering Committee and as Chair of a Doctoral Panel for the 2015 MediaCities conference at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Jin Young Song, together with his partner firm in South Korea, received a $200,000 research grant from the Korean government to deliver sustainable urban planning solutions for the Korean city of Yangpyeong. Prof. Song and his studio of graduate and undergraduate students from UB’s architecture and urban planning programs recently presented their study, ‘Reshaping the pattern of urban sprawl’, to the city mayor in Korea. They also participated in workshops with local engineers and architects and Prof. Yeonsook Lee of Yonsei University.
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