The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2016 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 Scholarly Meetings 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.
Location: Halifax, NS Host School: Dalhousie University Co-chairs: Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University; Ursula Hartig, Technical University of Berlin & Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University Conference Website
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 Conference Website
Location: Philadelphia, PA Host Schools: Temple University Co-chairs: Ryan E. Smith, University of Utah; John Quale, University of Virginia; & Rashida Ng, Temple University Conference Website
2014 URSA Grants Awarded WUSTL’S Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance grants, which provide one-year, $25,000 seed funding to full-time university faculty members. Recipients include Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, and Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene & Martha Lohman Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, for research titled “Quantifying Benefits of Vacant Land Utilization in Shrinking Cities.”
– Zeuler Lima Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi In this opening lecture, associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, will discussed Built Works: Lina Bo Bardi, which he curated. The exhibition, produced with the curatorial assistance of MArch students Marina Miers and Colby Perrine, presented a chronological analysis of the Italian-Brazilian architect’s oeuvre through a collection of digital renderings and photographs taken by Lima and Nelson Kon. – Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, delivered a presentation titled Lina Bo Bardi House: Betwixt and Between as part of a symposium on modern Latin American design hosted by the Americas Society’s Visual Arts program. – Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the lecture, Designing a Sustainable Future in a Divided City: Johannesburg and St. Louis, as part of the 2015 MLA Saturday Lecture Series. His talk raised awareness about what he calls the greatest challenge facing the emergence of sustainable communities: social and environmental justice, and the related economic inequities. – New Orleans Under Reconstruction Martin C. Pederson‘s review of the book New Orleans Under Construction: The Crisis of Planning for Architectural Record includes a quote from an essay by associate professor Derek Hoeferlin. Titled “Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Programs, Venues and Collaborations,” Hoeferlin’s chapter of the book includes student work from WUSTL architecture studios. – Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery & Dialogue The WUSTL community came together to explore the important issues of race and ethnicity at this university-wide event. Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogueincluded a series of panel conversations and open forums with scholars, students, and leaders, exploring challenges that the university community is facing, particularly in light of recent events in the St. Louis region and across the country.
Panelists from the Sam Fox School included associate professor Bob Hansman (opening event) and associate professor Denise Ward-Brown (The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity). – Public Lecture Series:Living Better Than Inhabiting Javier Maroto, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture, will deliver a talk titled Living Better Than Inhabiting to kick off the spring 2015 Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. Maroto and his partner, Alvaro Soto, co-founded the firms SOLID architecture and Maremoto Paisajes in 2001 to carry out projects of architecture, urbanism, and landscape in an holistic manner. Maroto’s lecture will focus on the construction of a paradox between living and inhabiting. The needs and the aspirations settled within the current frame of our lives should be squeezed and mingle to redefine a new contemporary space concept suitable to a better and more conscious lifestyle. – LIMA featured in Journal of the Architecture Program at TUM, Germany The January issue of the Journal of the Architecture Program at the Technical University of Munich features an interview with associate professor Zeuler Lima, in which he discusses his book Lina Bo Bardi and his collaboration on the centennial exhibition at the Munich Architecture Museum that celebrates the Italian-Brazilian architect. – Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet. – DFA Panel Discussion: The Ethics of Human-Centered Design Design for America, a network of student-led studios creating local and social impact through interdisciplinary design, will bring together the following panel of academic and professional experts to explore what it means to design physical, virtual, and systematic solutions for the complex challenges facing individuals and communities:
Frank Bergh, BS08 Engineering, director of engineering operations, Socore Energy; co-founder, Engineers Without Borders at WUSTL
Heather Corcoran, director, College & Graduate School of Art
Bruce Lindsey, dean, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
De Andrea Nichols, BFA10, MSW14, director of creative changemaking, Catalysts by Design; community engagement manager, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
– OneSTL Conference: Linking Research and Practice: Equitable Economic Growth and Sustainable Water Infrastructure
Equitable Economic & Community Development and Water Infrastructure are the main focus of this year’s OneSTL Conference. The topics were chosen based on a survey that asked local government and non-profit representatives to identify priority areas for sustainability and where research could support local decision-making. Speakers with WUSTL ties include:
Assistant professor Patty Heyda and assistant professor Molly Metzger (Brown School), who are are panelists for Workshop I: Equitable Economic Development
Assistant professor Derek Hoeferlin, who is a panelist for Workshop II: Water Infrastructure. – Assorted Holiday Paintings for the Modern Home Centro Modern Furnishings presents an installation of recent work by professor Stephen Leet. – Architecture Around the World Lecture Series: 79 Views of the Gateway Arch Visiting assistant professor Justin Scherma discussed 79 Views of the Gateway Arch, a photographic and historical survey of the official neighborhoods of St. Louis as part of the Architecture Around the World Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by The Society of Architectural Historians St. Louis Chapter and Steedman Architectural Library.
John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, delivered the presentation, Designing Aging: Urban Design for Healthy Lifelong & Age-Integrated Communities as part of the Conference on Older Adults in the Community: Capacities and Engagement for Aging-in-Place.WUSTL and the National University of Singapore organized the conference as part of the launchof the Next Age Institute. – A video profile of John Hoal, associate professor and chair of the MUD program, and Derek Hoeferlin, assistant professor, is included in Navigating the Rivers: A Collection of Modern-Day Stories. Featured in conjunction with the exhibition Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham & the River, this event offered a screening of five videos of St. Louisans whose lives are intertwined with the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, followed by an onstage conversation with many of those individuals. As part of I-CARES-funded research, Hoal and Hoerferlin have focused on the development of a Climate Adaptation Performance Model for fluvial zones along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers. – Railway Exchange Studio Featured on HEC-TV Reporter Sharon Stevens highlighted the efforts of graduate architecture students to reimagine the Railway Exchange Building, working in partnership with Downtown STL, Inc., for HEC-TV’s all new Impact program. Students developed their ideas for the fall 2014 studio Metamorphic Cities: Sustainable Strategies for Adaptive Reuse, led by assistant professor Catalina Freixas. – Cloud Talk: Urbanism Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, delivered the talkUrbanism as part of IIT Architecture Chicago’s Cloud Studio. Sponsored by the PhD program, the studio brought together undergraduate and graduate students to work on projects related to the city of Chicago. – Why Lina Bo [Bardi]? Zeuler R. Lima, PhD, associate professor and author of the biography Lina Bo Bardi, reflected on why the Italian-born architect was ignored for such a long time, and emerged 20 years after her death at the center of the discourse about contemporary architecture. The lecture explored the genealogy of her work and life, and raised questions about the recovery of her memory, especially in her native country. – SMALL BUILDINGS: built, unbuilt, unbuildable Juried by dean of architecture Bruce Lindsey and professor of art Buzz Spector, this exhibition explores the craft of the architectural model, and includes work by several Sam Fox School faculty, students, and alumni. On View March 13-May 10. – Lina Bo Bardi: Visionary Architect – Part 1 Associate professor Zeuler Lima participated in the first part of two panel discussions presented by AIA New York that will celebrate 100 years since the birth of architect Lina Bo Bardi. Lima presented his short documentary Lina Bo Bardi, curator, and also showed a timeline highlighting graphic productions that the Italian-Brazilian architect developed throughout her entire life, her thoughts about design, and the authenticity of her texts.
Associate professor Zeuler Lima, PhD, delivered a presentation about the life and work of one of the most important architects in Latin America, Lina Bo Bardi. Lima’s talk unveiled how considerations of ethics, politics, and social inclusiveness influenced the Italian-Brazilian architect’s intellectual engagement with modern architecture which resulted in her experimental, ephemeral, and iconic works of design. In addition, Lima discussed Bo Bardi’s paradigmatic project SESC Pompeia leisure center at MoMA as part of the retrospective exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980. – Activating Energy Capacity of Urban Vacant Land Assistant professor Natalie Yates delivered a lecture titled Activating Energy Capacity of Urban Vacant Land at this year’s Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture conference. The talk reflected work undertaken by Yates, assistant professor Patty Heyda, and former assistant professor Christine Yogiaman.
Abbas Aminmansour was selected for the 2015American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Special Achievement Award. Per AISC’s web site, “A Special Achievement Award provides special recognition to individuals who demonstrated notable singular or multiple achievements in structural steel design, construction, research or education. This award honors living individuals who have made a positive and substantial impact on the structural steel design and construction industry.” The award will be presented at the opening plenary session of the North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC) on Wednesday March 25, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Associate Professor Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED-AP received a UIUC College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award in late 2014; served on the 2015 American Institute of Architects National Technology in Architectural Practice Innovation Awards Jury in February; published a book review on BIM Design in The International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (IJAEC) in February; will be giving a TEDx Talk, “Creating Career Control Joints,” in April; will be presenting a paper, Leveraging Data in Academia and Practice: Geometry, Human- and Building-Performance, at the Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) 2015 in Chicago in April; has an article, Who Will Lead Our Industry’s Data-Driven Future?, in DesignIntelligence in May; will be delivering a talk, “AESOP: The Data-Centric Practice of the Future,” at KA Connect 2015 in San Francisco, CA in May; will be presenting Leveraging Data Across the Building Lifecycle on data-informed design at the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction (ICSDEC) in Chicago in May; wrote a new book, Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, to be published by Wiley in the Fall, foreword by James Timberlake FAIA of KieranTimberlake; has papers accepted and will be presenting at the Building Technology Educators Society (BTES) Conference, presenting in Salt Lake City, UT in June; developing an online course ARCH 164: Architecture as a Second Language; contributed to an article in Architect Magazine on Best Practices in BIM, integrated design and leadership.
Kevin Hinders will be giving a paper alongside Michael Loganbill at the upcoming AIA conference describing the Chicago Studio- its pedagogy and practice.
Paul Kapp has published his latest book:The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi, has been released by the University Press of Mississippi.
Joy Monice Malnar’s co-authored book, New Architecture on Indigenous Lands received excellent reviews in a diverse range of publications from the Canadian Architect (November 2014, page 46), to the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2014.932496) to the First American Art Magazine (No. 5, Winter 2014, page 68). She is currently teaching in the ISoA’s new Chicago Studio program established with the support of the Chicago architecture firm VOA.
Polygon Sculpture Studio, designed by Professor Jeffery Poss and two recent ISoA graduates at Workus Studio, received 2014 Merit Award for Architectural Design from the American Institute of Architects Central Illinois Chapter. The studio is perched at the top of a steep lakefront property overlooking Lake George in upstate New York.
Faculty within the detail+FABRICATION Program of the Illinois School of Architecture are exploring the role of fabrication and making in an exhibit entitled “Speculative Visions of Pragmatic Architectures” at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign. Rather than privileging finished products, objects, or built work, these designers are placing an increased focus on the process of making as a means for surveying alternative outcomes. The exhibit is curated by detail+FABRICATION program chair Professor Jeffery Poss, and features the work of Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, Fabrication Coordinator Hugh Swiatek, and Visiting Faculty Brian Vesely and Camden Greenlee. The exhibit runs through the summer of 2015.
In recognition of his work in Haiti following the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, Assistant Professor Mark S Taylor has been awarded a University of Illinois’ 2014-2015 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
In 2014, the Urban Communication Foundation selected Thérèse Tierney’s book, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society, as a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award.Also that year, Tierney’s essay, “Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics & Implications,” won Honorable Mention for“Best Faculty Research in the Humanities” by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. More recently, she published on digital topics such as “Crowdsourcing Crisis Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience,” European Business Review (7/2014) and “Will 3D Printing Revolutionize Architecture?” BIF Design Education (2/6/2014). This April, Tierney is curating an exhibition, “Building the Future: Interaction Design” sponsored by [co][lab] in Urbana, Illinois.
The initial Gulf Regional Director Election (January 2015) was disqualified due to an ineligible candidate. ACSA regrets this error and have taking steps with the Gulf Nominations Committee to conduct a new election. Following is the information and candidates for regional vote in the 2015 ACSA Gulf Regional Director (April/May 2015).
Online Voting Below is information on the 2015 ACSA Gulf Election, including candidate information. Official ballots were emailed to all full-member ACSA schools’ Faculty Councilors, who are the the voting representatives. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.
2015 ACSA Regional Director Candidates The Regional Director will serve on the Board for a three-year term, beginning on July 1, 2015. Regional Directors serve as leaders of their regional constituent associations and chair meetings of their respective regional councils. They maintain regional records and have responsibility for the fiscal affairs of the constituent associations, and are accountable to their regional council for these funds. They provide assistance to regional schools and organizations applying for institutional membership. They prepare annual reports of regional activities for publication in the Association’s Annual Report. They participate in the nomination and election of their respective succeeding regional directors; and perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board, Regional Directors also sit on the ACSA board and are required to attend up to three board meetings a year. The links below include campaign statements written by each candidate and short curriculum vitae.
ACSA Election Process ACSA Bylaws, Article IX, Section 3: Election Process: “Elections shall be held in accordance with the Rules of the Board of Directors. Faculty Councilors of member schools shall be responsible for encouraging colleagues to express their views regarding candidates for Association elections, and shall submit the vote of the member school they represent on behalf of all members of the faculty. The Association shall announce the results of elections and appointments as soon as feasible, consistent with the Rules of the Board of Directors”. The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative. Faculty Councilors must complete the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.
2015 ACSA Gulf Region Board Election Timeline
April 10, 2015
Online ballots emails to all Gulf Region Full-member Schools, Faculty Councilors
May 11, 2015
Deadline for receipt of online completed ballots
May 15, 2015
Gulf Regional Director (2015-2018) announced
The Faculty Councilor from each ACSA full-member school is the voting representative and must completed the online ballot by close of business, May 11, 2015.
The School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame would like to invite you to attend our 2013-2014 Lecture Series. Attendees are eligible to receive AIA/CE credits. All lectures begin at 4:30 pm in 104 Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
September 9th, 2013 Nancy Steinhardt Chinese Architecture & the Beaux-Arts
September 16th, 2013 Joe Burns Designing Sustainable High Rise Architecture
November 4th, 2013 Eduardo Luis Rodriguez Havana 1900: The City and its Architects
November 20th, 2013 Thomas Beeby The Richard H. Driehaus Prize Lecture
November 25th, 2013 John Ochsendorf On Vaulting
February TBC Rob Krier TBC
March 3rd, 2013 Craig Hamilton Temples and Tombs
March 31st, 2013 Ruan Yisan TBC
April 16th, 2013 Roger Scruton Order and Fluidity: Reflections on Post-Modern Architecture
UCLA A.UD ANNOUNCES 5 NEW POSITIONS AT IDEAS SATELLITE CAMPUS FOR EXPANDED SUPRASTUDIO / M.ARCH.II PROGRAM
Five years ago, the M.Arch. II, Post-Professional Degree Program at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) was restructured into a research and development based SUPRASTUDIO format, reflecting a new model for Post-Professional architectural education. SUPRASTUDIO is a calendar yearlong integrated curriculum led by a senior member of the A.UD design faculty in collaboration with an industry partner. Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, and Greg Lynn have collaborated over the years with Disney Imagineering, Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts. In August 2012, University of California President Mark Yudof and the University of California Board of Regents announced the conversion of the M.Arch. II program to a self-supporting status. This conversion allows for the ambitious expansion of the program to conduct three separate SUPRASTUDIOs per year at a new offsite facility with an unprecedented Advanced Technologies Laboratory to explore how the next generation will integrate technology into the built environment.
SUPRASTUDIO is located at IDEAS, an off-site location south of UCLA that is a new platform in architectural education to advance cross-discipline research and development with industry and outside partners to expand the future parameters of architectural practice. It will also serve as home to multi-year research initiatives, an ongoing cross-discipline lecture series, and other public programs.
UCLA A.UD seeks to appoint five new faculty and staff for IDEAS and the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program. These positions should be filled before the start of the June 2013 SUPRASTUDIO, and include:
•SUPRASTUDIO Program Director
•IDEAS Technology Director
•Critical Studies Lecturer
•Powerpack Studio Lecturer
•IDEAS Lab Supervisor (Staff Position)
SUPRASTUDIO Program Director
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment of a Program Director for the expanded SUPRASTUDIO program and to oversee the activities at IDEAS.
SUPRASTUDIO will have three studios led by three senior design faculty in partnership with three industry collaborators. The Program Director will report to the Chair of the Department and will be responsible for coordination with the three studios, oversight and coordination of non-studio courses in the curriculum, maintaining ongoing and developing new relationships with industry partners, and teaching.
The Program Director, with the studio assistants, will be responsible for teaching the summer session Pre-Studio for all incoming M.Arch. II students. The Program Director will also coordinate and teach two quarters of a lecture series with invited industry guests in a seminar setting for students and faculty. Additionally, special projects within IDEAS and research and development projects that exceed the rhythm of the SUPRASTUDIO courses to become long-term research initiatives will fall under the purview of the Program Director.
This position is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career professional that’s interested both in teaching and the administrative roles related to program building at the ground level of a dynamic new initiative that will redefine Post-Professional research and teaching of architecture. The candidate must be able to work with senior faculty and world-class industry partners. This position will allow the candidate to integrate into an already established faculty, but with the autonomy of a new program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate vision and a commitment to expanding the role of architectural design and innovation into culture and industry.
The Program Director position provides full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
IDEAS Technology Director
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Technology Director for IDEAS, a newly established off-campus facility that houses the department’s expanded M.Arch.II/SUPRASTUDIO program. The individual will be responsible for teaching, acquisitions, and research associated with technology initiatives central to the mission of UCLA A.UD, IDEAS and the three SUPRASTUDIOs.
The Technology Director will be responsible for the IDEAS facility as well as the research and development initiatives that take place within it. The Technology Director will be an active partner and liaison between the faculty, students, and industry partners. Teaching responsibilities will include two Technology Lecture courses during Summer session and two Technology Seminar courses taught to a combination of M. Arch. II and M. Arch I Graduate Students throughout the rest of the year. The Technology Director will report to the Chair of the Department.
This position has teaching and program oversight roles and is an ideal opportunity for a mid-career person with vision and expertise on the integration of technology into new environmental approaches and paradigms for research and education with senior faculty and industry partners at the highest level. Candidates must be able to initiate innovative research in either architecture or environments in the public sphere that engage robotics and sensing technology. Some experience with digital fabrication is expected but fabrication should not be the primary focus or expertise for applicants for this position.
An advanced architecture degree is mandatory for this position.
The IDEAS Technology Director position provides full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
Critical Studies Lecturer
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to make an appointment in Critical Studies of a Lecturer eager to contribute to the intellectual and creative culture of the school by teaching a variety of courses in both graduate and undergraduate degree programs. The position offers the opportunity to participate in the launch of several new initiatives, including SUPRASTUDIO at IDEAS, an off-site post professional degree program focusing on architecture and industrial culture. The candidate should be able to teach courses on post-war theories of architecture, advanced formal analysis, architecture and visual culture, and the history of modern architecture. The appointment will also include collaborative academic responsibilities in the Curatorial Project, a recently established center that will be developing exhibitions and publications with an international scope and ambition.
The ideal candidate will have or be working towards a PhD, be able to demonstrate a commitment to advanced architectural ideas and innovative approaches to their dissemination, a strong record of teaching and the promise of producing a scholarly body of work appropriate for a continuing appointment at a top ranking university. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
Powerpack Studio Lecturer
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design– in conjunction with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies – is seeking an exceptional candidate to lead a research studio during the 2013 academic year.
The POWERPACK studio will be lead by Frank Gehry and members of his architectural practice and technology company, in collaboration with UCLA faculty and industry partners. The studio’s mission will be to explore the potential for new, small scale, networked, and intelligent building technologies to radically rethink the modern building and city, at a multiplicity of scales from the micro device to the urban.
UCLA is seeking to fill a one-year lecturer appointment to coordinate this curriculum under the supervision of Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies to conduct the overall studio and workshop instruction. The ideal candidate will have a wide range of experience in urban and building level design, strong experience as a studio instructor, and significant expertise in technology.
Minimum requirements include:
An advanced degree (MArch or equivalent) in architectural or urban design.
Substantial prior experience as a lead studio instructor or TA.
Strong background in parametric modeling, scripting, BIM or related digital modeling software
Additional experience desired includes the following:
Urban design and related topics such as transportation
Environmental design or building energy systems engineering
Robotics, or micro control systems design and prototyping
The position is a one-year Lecturer position for the period July 2013-June 2014.
IDEAS Lab Supervisor
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design seeks to hire a Lab Supervisor for IDEAS, a newly established off-campus facility that houses the department’s expanded SUPRASTUDIO program.
The individual will be responsible for the physical IDEAS facilities including classrooms, laboratories, studios, offices, exhibition spaces, and shop as well as training and assistance with the students and faculty. The Lab Supervisor must coordinate the technical and research relationships with industry partners as well as the robotic suppliers to the laboratory. The Lab Supervisor will also be responsible for daily operations of the lab and shop and its power equipment, tools, supplies, and student assistants.
There will be several unprecedented robotically controlled machines as well as a sensing laboratory that have never been in any architecture school before. The Lab Supervisor needs to initiate and maintain relationships with the manufacturers, users, and development teams for these machines as well as training the faculty and students in their use.
The Lab Supervisor will work with and report to the IDEAS Technology Director for the acquisition and use of the machines in the labs. As well, they will develop the policies and training for the students and faculty.
Familiarity and experience with industrial robotics, sensing technology and composite construction is a benefit. The operations, maintenance, and safety of the lab are the responsibility of the Lab Supervisor. Several years experience with similar industrial facilities or academic laboratories and shops with similar equipment is a requirement.
An associate degree or greater is mandatory for this position.
This is a staff position with full benefits. The successful candidate will need to be prepared to make a three-year commitment to the program.
HOW TO APPLY
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Candidates to the four academic positions below are requested to furnish a letter of intent with a curriculum vitae, one or two examples of work, with a description of each project (non-returnable), and the names, phone numbers, mail and e-mail addresses of three references able to provide a knowledgeable evaluation of the applicant’s qualifications.
Examples of work should be submitted both digitally at the following links, and as hard copy portfolios to the address below:
UCLA Architecture & Urban Design Attn: “POSITION NAME” Search Committee 1317 Perloff Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095
STAFF POSITION Candidates for the IDEAS Lab Supervisor may apply starting late December at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/
Application deadline for all positions is February 28, 2013. Review of applications will take place in early March with interviews scheduled later during that same month.
Proof of U.S. Citizenship or eligibility for U.S. Em loyment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986). The University of California, Los angeles is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.
The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California has the luxury of being a large school in a major city. There are several thousand architects living and working near our downtown location. USC thanks our dedicated full-ntime and part-time faculty. There were 128 faculty members teaching in our school for 2013-2014. The photo shows a small group at a faculty retreat in November, 2013.
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Eric Cook Joins Yestermorrow as Semester Program Director
Waitsfield, VT., August 29, 2013—Yestermorrow Design/Build School recently announced the hire of Eric Cook as its Semester Program Director. Mr. Cook will lead the school’s Semester in Sustainable Design/Build, both as teaching faculty and program director. He recently moved to Waitsfield, VT from Salt Lake City, where he ran his own design/build firm, Eric Cook Design/Build, and was partner and project manager of the firm RenovateSALTLAKE.
A 2006 graduate of the University of Utah’s Master of Architecture program, Eric also holds a MA in Mathematics from the University of Utah and a BA in Mathematics and Russian from Colby College. In his former role as Project Coordinator for DesignBuildBLUFF, Mr. Cook supported graduate architecture students in designing and building sustainable homes on the Navajo reservation in Bluff, Utah.
In directing Yestermorrow’s Semester in Sustainable Design/Build for college students, Eric leads students as they translate theory into practice, ultimately building an architecturally innovative high-performance shelter that they collaboratively design. The Semester in Sustainable Design/Build is based in Montpelier, VT and is offered in partnership with UMass Amherst’s Architecture+Design program.
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Yestermorrow Design/Build School was founded in 1980 on the belief that the best built environment depends on the joint cooperation of designers, builders, and homeowners. The school empowers people to express their values and lifestyle through an integrated design/build process, and to foster a self-awareness that reconnects people to their communities, their natural environment, and to each other. Yestermorrow’s hands-on workshops, certificate programs, and semester programs are taught by nationally recognized architects, builders, and craftspeople. Classes are for people of all ages and experience levels, from novice to professional. Learn more at www.yestermorrow.org or call 888-496-5541.
Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture has been contracted to write two books during his spring 2014 sabbatical; Steven Holl (Phaidon Press) and Herman Hertzberger (nai010), both of which will be published in 2015. In February 2014, McCarter gave a lecture in the SOM New York Professional Development Series, entitled; “Taking the Book to the Light: Louis Kahn’s Transformation of the Library in Three Designs,” and in March 2014 he gave a Dean’s Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia, entitled; “The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality.”
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The School of Architecture at the University of Southern California has the luxury of being a large school in a major city. There are several thousand architects living and working near our downtown location. USC thanks our dedicated full-ntime and part-time faculty. There were 128 faculty members teaching in our school for 2013-2014. The photo shows a small group at a faculty retreat in November, 2013.
