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Reclaim + Remake Symposium, April 11-13, 2013 “Waste is a Resource in the Wrong Place and Time”

The symposium is proposed to bring together the most innovative practices in education and research for current and future reuse and recycling of material resources in the built environment. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles J. Kibert, Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Mr. Jan Jongert, Founder 2012Architecten, Rotterdam,  Mr. Scott Boylston, Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Sustainable Design Program, Savannah College of Art and Design.

Abstracts for presented papers and designs are welcome from designers, educators, researchers and advanced university students who are engaged in knowledge creation and dissemination for the responsible use and end-of-life management of building material resources. Abstracts should be 300-500 words. A two-stage blind process will be used for abstract submittals and for full paper submittals. Proceedings will be produced from accepted papers and presentations. Abstracts Deadline: November 12, 2012. 

More information and submissions: http://architecture.cua.edu/reclaimremake

NCARB Funds Study on Pace of Change in the Architectural Profession

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The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) released a request for research proposal to assist in determining future policies related to NCARB programs including the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®).

As the profession of architecture evolves, and to ensure continued validity of the licensure decision made by each jurisdictional licensing board, the Intern Development Program (IDP) and ARE must also evolve. Historically, NCARB completes a practice analysis of the profession every five to seven years with the most recent being completed in 2012. The data from this analysis is used to inform changes related to the IDP, ARE, and the NCARB Education Standard.

To better inform the timing of the next practice analysis and upcoming policy decisions around ARE 5.0, NCARB is funding a study on the rate of change within the architectural profession. The request for proposals from interested researchers has been issued with initial research results expected to be delivered by the end of the year. 
Parties interested in reviewing the request for proposal and submitting a proposal can contact Jared Zurn, Director of Examination, at jzurn@ncarb.org.

ACSA Update 2.20.15

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February 20, 2015

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Meet the New ACSA Board Members

ACSA is pleased to announce the winners of the election for the following positions:

 

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PRESIDENT-ELECT
Bruce Lindsey
Washington University in St. Louis

 

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TREASURER
Rashida Ng
Temple University

 

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2015 WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR
Nadia M. Anderson
Iowa State University

Due to an administrative error in the nominating process, the Gulf Regional Director election was disqualified and ACSA will conduct a new election by the end of this spring semester.

 

Sign Up for Tours in Toronto

Start planning now! The co-chairs have lined up a range of exciting topics and speakers, including Thom Mayne. ACSA is also offering walking tours of unique spots around Toronto. Be sure to reserve your room at the conference hotel before February 24, 2015 for the discounted rate.

 

Call for Nominations: 2016 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team Roster

The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2016 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. Nominations are due February 25, 2015.

 

Submission Site Now Open for 2014-15 Steel Student Design Competition

The 15th annual steel design competition is intended to challenge students to explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. This year, students are invited to design a library or to design a steel solution of their choice in the open category. Students must register by March 25, 2015.

 

Call for Proposals: Housing Research

The AIA Housing Knowledge Community seeks proposals for its Housing Research Webinar Series focused on practice in housing and community development. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and invited speakers will receive a $500 honorarium. Submit your proposal through the ACSA website. Deadline: March 31, 2015.

 

A Map Through Time: Virtual Historic Cities

The latest installment of the AASL column by Jamie Rogers and John Nemmers. This article revisits the projects they presented at last year’s AASL Conference in Miami along with Mark V. Sullivan (“Utilizing GIS to Explore Historic Areas and Architecture”) and provides an update on how the projects have progressed since then.

ACSA CAREERS

DIRECTOR, MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Miami

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE IN EL PASO
Texas Tech University

 

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The Architecture Library Today: Results of a Recent Survey

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Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors
Column prepared by Barbara Opar

Specialized library collections are often treated differently from more general academic collections. There is rarely a separate reference desk, subject floor or branch for humanities or social sciences resources. Yet it  is quite common to find a law library within the academic building and often operated by the actual law school. Adjacency and quick access to resources is crucial to that discipline. One often finds that art, music, engineering and architecture follow this same pattern.

The topic of branch libraries for architecture comes up frequently in discussions at conferences or on listservs. After some listserv discussion this past spring on both the Art Libraries Society of North America list as well as that of the Association of Architecture School Librarians, we decided to conduct a simple survey to gather the actual facts. The survey was done using SurveyMonkey  and sent to the AASL, ARLIS/NA and ARLIS/NA Upstate lists. 10 basic questions were asked and respondents could add comments as they wished. Here is a summary of the results:

As you can see, of the 75 respondents, over 69  percent indicate that there is a library facility within the building that houses their school of architecture.

A branch library can be defined as either a standalone building or a part of a building devoted to library resources. In addition to housing the collection, there are on site services like circulation and (in general professional) reference assistance. For many of those with a branch library, the collection often covers both art and architecture. But facilities devoted only to architecture are also prevalent. Certain schools maintain a core collection for quick access in house with the rest of the collection housed elsewhere, often in the main campus library.

When no branch library exists, most libraries have either an entire subject floor within the main library or a portion of the floor devoted to the arts (art, architecture and sometimes either visual resources and/or music) with a subject reference desk. Here the patron can access print and non-print resources and receive specialized reference help.

Whatever type of facility exists, it does tend to house the broadest range of materials in the discipline. Rare books often remain apart.

Architecture libraries still maintain most periodicals holdings on site.  For a number of libraries there is a date range of materials on site, ranging from 50 years to 5 years. Other libraries base on site collections on usage statistics.

Other questions in the survey focused on staffing levels including the educational background, number of staff as well as the responsibilities of the librarian(s). Many librarians responded that they cover more than one subject area. GIS services and related staffing have been added to certain facilities.

There is also no question that libraries are reviewing their organizations. But the majority of respondents indicate that a specialized facility is often conveniently located in or near the academic department.

View complete survey results.

ACSA Update 3.13.15

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March 13, 2015

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New Infographics on Graduates, Licensure, and More Coming to the ACSA Atlas

Recent graduates and interns are the most in-demand group for architecture and design firm hiring in 2015. Based on recent data from DesignIntelligence, this is just one of the data graphics to be released next week as part of our Atlas series. Stay tuned for more sneak previews as we count down to our ACSA 103 Annual Meeting next week in Toronto.

 

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Download the Annual Meeting Business Agenda

On Friday, March 20 at 12:00pm, ACSA will hold its Annual Business Meeting. The meeting, in the Dominion Ballroom room at the Sheraton Centre Downtown in Toronto, will be preceded by regional caucuses from 8:30 to 10:00am. Check the schedule to see what room your region will meet in. All ACSA members are invited to attend.

 

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An Integrated Path to Licensure

As NCARB continues to roll out its initiative to create a path to architectural licensure that integrates education, internship, and examination, NCARB CEO Michael Armstrong shares the overall goals of the program. Absent from these goals, he notes, are things like mandatory participation, replacing other pathways to licensure, or NCARB controlling schools’ curricula. Read more.


Invitation to Attend Association of Architecture School Librarians’ Annual Conference Programming While in Toronto

On behalf of the Association of Architecture School Librarians, the editors of this column would like to extend an invitation to attendees of the ACSA Annual Meeting 2015: you are welcome to attend any of the presentations or panel discussions taking place as part of the AASL Annual Conference which will be held the same week, in the very same hotel (Sheraton Centre Toronto, City Hall Room, 2nd Floor).

ACSA103 MOBILE APP

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The free mobile app includes everything you need to know about the conference including session descriptions, paper abstracts, roster of attendees, and speaker info. Download it now.

ACSA PROGRAMS

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ACSA invites your school to participate by hosting one of four sessions, or to become a supporting program. The deadline for sponsorship registration is Friday April 3, 2015.

 

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ACSA Update 3.27.15

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March 27, 2015

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2015 ACSA Architecture Schools Advancement Development Forum

This forum will feature panel discussions and sessions on issues facing university development. The objective of the forum is to examine core fundraising strategies, exchange ideas of best practices, evaluate challenges of architecture programs, and learn new approaches to fundraising and development opportunities. The forum will be an opportunity to network with your peers. Bring questions and ideas to share with your development colleagues. Registration is $135 and includes all the day’s activities: breakfast, lunch, and closing reception.

 

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ACSA 104: Call for Session Topics

Next year’s ACSA Annual Meeting will take place March 17-19, 2016 in Seattle, WA. The conference co-chairs seek session topics that explore particular ways in which the discipline of architecture produces new forms of knowledge and, in turn, how architecture is shaped by research and innovation outside the field. New submission site opens next week.

 

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Registration Deadline Extended to Register for the 2014-15 Steel Competition

The 15th annual steel design competition is intended to challenge students to explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. This year, students are invited to design a library or to design a steel solution of their choice in the open category. Students must register by April 1, 2015.

 

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Call for Proposals: Housing Research

The AIA Housing Knowledge Community seeks proposals for its Housing Research Webinar Series focused on practice in housing and community development. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and invited speakers will receive a $500 honorarium. Submit your proposal through the ACSA website. Deadline: March 31, 2015.

ACSA CAREERS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN RESEARCH (Tenure Track)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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ACSA invites your school to participate by hosting one of four sessions, or to become a supporting program. The deadline for sponsorship registration is Friday April 3, 2015.

 

 

 

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February 6, 2015

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Visualizing Archinect’s Architecture Salary Poll

Digging deeper into Archinect’s Architecture Salary Poll, three new pages of data graphics provide a close read on the connection between firm types, job titles, licensure, gender, experience, earnings, and satisfaction in architecture.

 

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Each year, ACSA welcomes new members to its national board of directors to help shape the direction of the organization. Visit the ACSA website to learn more about this year’s slate of candidates. Faculty Councilors must complete the ballot by 5pm PT, February 10, 2015.

 

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2015 Architectural Education Award Winners

ACSA has announced the 2014-2015 Architectural Education Award Winners. Each year ACSA honors architectural educators who inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector. Congratulations to all the winners!

 

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Host the 2016 ACSA Fall Conference

The ACSA invites proposals from member schools to host the 2016 ACSA Fall Conference.This is a great opportunity to bring educators from across North America and beyond to your campus for a themed conference. Please submit your proposal, by February 25, 2015.

 

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Call for Nominations: 2016 ACSA Representative on NAAB Visiting Team Roster

The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for 2016 ACSA representatives on the National Architectural Accrediting Board school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. Nominations are due February 25, 2015.

 

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Submit to JAE 69-2 S,M,L,XL

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the publication of Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s S,M,L,XL, this special issue of JAE will serve as a platform to revisit, expose, and otherwise reevaluate the book’s ineluctable influence(s) on the practice and writing of architecture. Submission deadline is March 1, 2015.

 

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2014-15 Steel Student Design Competition

The 15th annual design competition is intended to challenge students to explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. This year students are invited to design a library or to design a steel solution of their choice in the open category. Register by March 25, 2015.

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Associate Professor Graham Owen was an invited speaker in IIT’s “In the Loop” series.  He spoke on “The Shotgun of Selective Belonging” at the University of Hamburg, and led the Architecture and Globalization session at TU Delft’s Summer School on “Facing Moral Complexity”.  He also gave the closing keynote, on “Whatever Happened to Semi-Autonomy?”, at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture’s Summer 2014 conference, at TU Delft.

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ARCC Call for Articles

2015 Edition of Enquiry/the ARCC Journal of Architectural Research
Vol 12, No 1 (2015) November/December

www.arcc-journal.org

Submission deadline: July 1, 2015
Submission process: Online (authors must register with journal website)

Enquiry / The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research would like to extend a Call for Articles for the 2015 edition of the journal. Enquiry is indexed by the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Worldcat, OAIster, and Google Scholar. Enquiry is a member of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and archived by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and LOCKSS.

Call for Articles

Rather than limited to a single disciplinary concern or theme, editions of Enquiry are focused on modality of research in architecture and allied fields. These modalities encompass contributive, speculative and intensive areas of studies.

[producing a knowledge base] Contributive research is qualified by employing established protocols for data collection internal to the architectural discipline. Research methodologies, outcomes and instruments should be explicitly stated, as well as potential methodological alternatives, stressing the contribution and expansion on relevant existing research.

[how to work from a knowledge base] Speculative research leverages an existing knowledge base (history, economics, building sciences, sociology, etc.) to project its significance to current architectural design and education. Such work is required to identify the competing theoretical and historic frameworks and argue the validity of what is proposed compared to actual situations, either discursive of physical.

[how is a knowledge base constructed] Intensive research should identify particular mechanisms, institutions, and conditions that form contemporary architectural research. It is primarily the study of research structures including funding sources and values, dissemination venues, teaching and practice relationship and a sustained and critical inquiry on the apparatus that supports architectural research.

In all architectural research is qualified not just by the accuracy of its findings, but also the consequence of its findings. However, to speculate effectively, with conviction and evidence, requires a space where methodology, evidence, and speculation can be presented and discussed in a credible arena. Enquiry would like tooffer the academic community in architecture that arena.

Submission

Potential authors need to register at the Journal’s website in order to submit an article for consideration ( http://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/user/register ).

Articles should be written in English and be between 4000 and 9000 words. They should include an abstract and keywords located before the introduction. The authors’ names should not appear anywhere on the titlepage or manuscript as the journal is double-blind peered reviewed. Files should be in .doc, .docx or .rtf fomats. Total file size should not exceed 2mb in size. Images may be embedded in files submitted for review, but they should be at screen resolution. Otherwise, images may be uploaded as supplementary material if they are located for placement in the main text. Full submission guidelines can be found at http://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/information/authors.

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Patrick Tighe Architecture was awarded 2 Best of Year Awards by Interior Design Magazine. The work of Patrick Tighe Architecture was included in the top 10 list of the best residential projects by Azure Magazine. Patrick Tighe Architecture recently completed a hill side residence featured as cover story in Interior design magazine.

Nefeli Chatzimina recently completed a Flagship store for Orizon Insurance Company in Athens- which has been nominated to enter Phase 2 for the ‘Mies Van Der Rohe Awards 2015‘

The American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) has announced the Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, as the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service. This award is the most significant honor presented by the AIACC for service to the profession and is presented to an individual as recognition of outstanding contributions to the improvement of the built environment and contribution to the goals of the architectural profession. 

Mr. Scarpa’s record of accomplishments stretching some 30 years runs the gamut, from award-winning design, to outstanding firm leadership, to creative and innovative service.  His record of individual design awards is significant by itself, yet Mr. Scarpa has served on countless AIA National, AIACC and AIALA, boards, steering committees, editorial advisory boards, nominating committees, awards juries, etc., for nearly two decades.  He has also served on an equal number of significant advisory boards for the Federal, State and Local Governments and several other important and prominent national organizations.

Design Leadership – Having received more than 100 significant design awards including the 2014 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Award in Architecture, the 2010 National AIA and AIACC Architecture Firm Award, Interior Design Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 14 National AIA Institute Design Awards, 5 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Building Awards and a host of other significant national and international honors including several AIA Presidential Citations, Scarpa has been a internationally recognized leader on design.

Community Impact – A professor in architecture for more than two decades Scarpa is currently on the faculty at USC. He has pioneered new ways of delivering sustainable buildings and affordable housing. His work in this area has received international recognition. He has co-founded Livable Places, The Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute and The A+D Museum, non-profit organizations that have positively impacted the built environment.  He has served on several prominent community boards and advisory groups including the US General Services Administration, US Department of State, MacArthur Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners and The Mayor’s Institute on City Design.

Scarpa’s life’s work is exemplified by his commitment to the promotion of architecture and the profession through design excellence, as well as community and professional outreach and education.”    

 

 

 

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