The University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning [Re] Engaged Architecture Symposium, Celebrating 20 years of Studio 804
The (Re)Engaged Architecture Symposium welcomes speakers of international stature to discuss their projects and processes, and to reflect upon the body of work created by Studio 804, headed by Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill over the past twenty years. Studio 804 is an internationally recognized design/build program that engages design, craft, practice, and community to build healthy communities through the power of design.
Invited Speakers:
Brian MacKay-Lyons_[MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects] Frank Harmon [Frank Harmon Associates] Andrew Freear [Rural Studio] Ted Flato [Lake | Flato] Brigitte Shim [Shim-Sutcliffe Architects] Marlon Blackwell [Marlon Blackwell Architects] + remarks by Susan Szenasy [Metropolis magazine]
The symposium will take place Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design and Planning, at our East Hills Construction Innovation Laboratory in Lawrence, KS.
In a happy coincidence, the JAE unveiled two exciting projects here in Toronto. First, the new JAEOnline.org, an expanded digital platform, which was the result of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Work on the site’s design began last fall in collaboration with Berlin-based design firm HenkelHiedl. The goal was to give the JAE’s online presence a more immersive format for its expanding content, ranging from design projects, reviews of books, exhibits, and buildings, in addition to traditional scholarship.
And second, the March issue of JAE, “Crisis,” edited by Timothy Hyde, MIT has been circulating around the conference. Look for it in your mailbox or explore the table of contents at JAEOnline.org.
Looking Ahead
At the Annual Business Meeting today, Vice-President Marilys Nepomechie invited the chairs of the upcoming ACSA conferences to take the stage and talk about their programs. Roger Hubeli and Julie Larsen of Syracuse University encouraged members to submit abstracts to the ‘debate-style’ Fall Conference before April 1. You can also submit your paper topics to the 2016 Annual Meeting in Seattle, by the same date. New this year is the ability to include visuals with your abstract submissions. Visit acsa-arch.org/conferences for more information.
New Atlas Graphics
At her session, ACSA Data: Research Goals, Methods, and Projects, ACSA Director of Research and Information Lian Chang unveiled the 2015 set of Atlas graphics. These fourteen charts and maps cover salaries, firm hiring, race and ethnicity, gender, and more. Visit acsa-arch.org/atlas to see the full set.
Connecting With Future Architecture Students
Executive Director Michael Monti, shared insights from Edwards Co., the marketing and communications firm retained by ACSA to conduct the research phase of the communications campaign. In some ways, the results confirmed what we already know—that architecture students are diligent people who want to make a difference in the world. But we also learned some things that can help schools connect more effectively with prospective students, such as the realization that architecture schools can do a better job of helping students understand their options—whether that’s all of the possible careers one can pursue with an architecture degree, or what their earning potential is across a whole career. The ACSA plans to publish a more in-depth report for our full and candidate member schools in the next month.
Moving forward, we will share out what we hope will be a useful set of resources that you can use at your schools. Simultaneously, ACSA will develop a digital communications campaign to reach high school and college students, anchored around the hashtag: #IMadeThat. I Made That will be the basis for building awareness, and student and parent recruitment, and ultimately connecting them back to your schools, to your websites, and to your admissions information. Watch out for our website launching the coming months and help us build awareness, with your students and your alumni first, but then beyond.
ACSA PROGRAMS
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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On behalf of the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL), 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). Listed below, you’ll find times slots and titles of the AASL Annual Conference events to which you are invited. More detailed descriptions—including a map indicating the room where they will be held—are available on our conference Program & Registration page.
Wednesday, March 18, 11:30am-12:30pm: Lightning Round Presentations facilitated by Sonny Banerjee, Ryerson University
The Divided City: Supporting an Urban Humanities Initiative presented by Jennifer Akins from Washington University
On the Lookout for “Likes”: Expanding Social Media in Architecture and Design Libraries presented by Lucy Campbell from NewSchool of Architecture and Design
Optimizing Library Space for Evolving Users’ Needs presented by Dr. Maya Gervits from New Jersey Institute of Technology
Things I Wish I Had Known: Keeping Drift at Bay in a Contract Position presented by Effie Patelos from University of Waterloo
Materials Collections: Recent Progress presented by Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design
On-site Reference: Location, Location, Location presented by Rebecca Price from The University of Michigan
Promoting Library Services Using a Targeted Approach presented by Amy Trendler, Ball State University
Thursday, March 19, 8:30am-9:45am:Measuring the Impact of Research: Altmetrics and the Assessment of Scholarly Documentation. Presenters: Rose Orcutt and Korydon Smith from the University at Buffalo and Patrick Tomlin from Virginia Tech. Moderated by Barret Havens, Woodbury University.
Thursday, March 19, 10am-11:30am:Voices From the Field: Researching Women in Architecture presented by Dr. Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Lori Brown, Syracuse University, and Dr. Despina Stratigakos, University at Buffalo. Moderator: Janine Henri, UCLA.
Michael J. Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
The path to architectural licensure in the United States has advanced from requirements developed and implemented by each individual jurisdiction, to a series of regionally-accepted alliances, to national standards cultivated and facilitated by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). Over the course of the past 100 years, the three components of initial licensure—education, experience, and examination—have matured into a set of structured standards accepted by all 54 U.S. registration boards.
NCARB, along with its collateral organizations, is continuously reviewing, evaluating, and updating the requirements for licensure based on changes in the profession. We are honored to have convened a diverse group known as the NCARB Licensure Task Force—composed of interns, recently licensed architects, practitioners, academics, licensing board members and executives, and leaders of the ACSA, AIA, AIAS, and NAAB—to explore how the components of the path to licensure could be further integrated, and thus accelerated, within the timeframe of receiving a degree from an accredited architecture program.
Based on several years of programmatic and proposed regulatory changes initiated by NCARB, the licensure path has evolved from a strictly sequential one to a path that allows overlap at both ends: simultaneous pursuit of education and experience, and simultaneous pursuit of experience and examination. The feasibility of a complete overlap has been a topic of speculation for many years. Our unprecedented look at new opportunities to realign the licensure path is built upon decades of informal discussion, and upon a growing desire to support students whose focus and maturity would create interest in a concentrated model encompassing all current criteria for licensure.
The decision of NCARB to endorse this exploration is significant, signaling that its mission of creating tools to protect the public does not need to be rigidly focused on how the tools are arranged in the toolbox. Through this initiative, NCARB seeks to frame the approach and incorporate pre-graduation access to the ARE through the partnership and cooperation of interested accredited programs, the jurisdictional licensing boards, and the profession. These new and enhanced partnerships will require several elements to maximize success: closer ties between the academy and jurisdictional licensing boards; the assistance of advocates within the academy and profession to address potential legislative impediments; and a new dialogue between the academy and practitioners in support of student internships.
We recognize that a program that provides participation in an integrated path to licensure is not for every school or every student. And as in every new concept, there will be early adopters and those that require additional time. The Council anticipates that participation will be an open-ended prospect, renewing annually as adjustments are made to the program and institutions take whatever time they need to develop an approach or become comfortable with the concept.
This is not about replacing the existing multiple paths to licensure, nor NCARB controlling the curriculum, nor mandating participation. Our hope is to further enhance the path to licensure and uphold the ideals of the profession by creating new opportunities and offering new alternatives.
NCARB welcomes your engagement, respects your comments, and seeks to maintain an ongoing dialogue with all who support the Council’s strategic goal of facilitating licensure.
On Thursday, March 19, 2015, NCARB will host a workshop at the 103rd ACSA Annual Meeting for faculty and administrators at architecture programs considering this integrated path to licensure.
Barbara Opar and Barret Havens, column editors Column written by Jamie Rogers, Assistant Director of Digital Collections at Florida International University and John Nemmers, Associate Chair, Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida Smathers Libraries
During the last two decades digitization initiatives in libraries, museums, and archives worldwide have sprung up en masse. Today, as new digital collections are created, and older collections mature, questions about discovery and use become increasingly important. It is no longer enough to merely create digital archives as passive databases of content. The stewards of these digital archives are now looking at new ways for patrons to find and interact with collections. Trends in federal funding for digital projects also point to this paradigm shift.
Starting in 2012, the University of Florida (UF) and Florida International University (FIU) launched two very similar initiatives to provide new modes of access to existing collections, including spatial and temporal searching capabilities. Both of these projects, UF’s Unearthing St. Augustine’s Colonial Heritage, and FIU’s Coral Gables – Virtual History, were built upon existing local partnerships and a common software platform with the intent of engaging the local communities and serving a broad audience with cross-discipline content.
Coral Gables – Virtual Historyis a suite of digital library tools that allow patrons to discover the city through a collection of thousands of digital artifacts and virtual tours. Patrons may use a Google Maps interface to navigate to any point in the city at a selected time period (e.g. the Biltmore Hotel from the 1920s to 1940s), and experience the city as it was, through a wide variety of cultural and historical materials. The collection currently hosts over 10,000 digitized and rectified maps, architectural drawings, property parcels, photographs, documents, books, and ephemera. These materials have been spatially registered to their relevant locations and time. A series of historic maps have also been digitized and may be overlaid on a Google Maps interface. The transparency of the maps can be adjusted to see the changes in landscape that have taken place over time (http://maps.fiu.edu/cgm/cgmCollections.htm).
Coral Gables Virtual History – Users may search and browse with facets on the left side of the screen. On the right, a map displays points associated with the digitized materials. As users select a point on the map, the list on the left updates to display materials related to that location.
Coral Gables Virtual History – On the right side of the screen, users may select from a list of historic maps to overlay on the Google Map interface. Users may also adjust the transparency of the overlaid maps.
The second part of this project is a system that allows patrons to explore the landmarks of the city through a virtual tour, which includes an audio narration and 3D simulations providing the façade of historic buildings and landscape (http://maps.fiu.edu/cgm/cgmTour.html).
Coral Gables Virtual History – The virtual tour provides images and information about each landmark on the left side of the screen. Landmarks may be added to a queue to generate a tour of the city. When the tour is activated, an audio narration will play at each landmark while the tour route is traced on the map and 3D images of the landmarks are displayed in Google Earth.
Currently, Coral Gables – Virtual History is beginning the second round of funding and Phase II of a six-year cycle funded by the City of Coral Gables. During this phase, the team plans to expand system functionality to include bicycle and pedestrian routes for the virtual tour and crowdsourcing capabilities. Phase II will also include an animated 3D display of development of the city over time and the incorporation of property records and drawings in the collection. All of the new tools will be created with a responsive, mobile friendly design, with the exception of the 3D display.
This project was made possible through a number of partnerships including the FIU Digital Collections Center, FIU Geographic Information Systems Department, FIU Department of Landscape Architecture, the UF Digital Collections and an Advisory Board consisting of museum professionals, archivists, library professionals, GIS experts, architects, and city officials.
The Unearthing St. Augustine’s Colonial Heritage (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/usach) project at UF is a 3-year project (2012-15) to create an interactive digital collection of over 10,000 architectural drawings, photographs, maps and documents relating to colonial St. Augustine. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project will be completed in summer 2015 coinciding with the 450th anniversary of the founding of the city. As the oldest continually inhabited colonial settlement in the continental U.S., St. Augustine includes dozens of buildings and sites dating from the colonial era.
For several years, UF has been scanning its numerous holdings relating to the city’s architectural heritage and making these resources available in the UF Digital Collections (http://ufdc.ufl.edu). The current project brings together primary resources in history, architecture, historic preservation, archaeology, anthropology and geography, dating from the 16th century to the present. In addition to the UF George A. Smathers Libraries, partners include the City of St. Augustine Archaeology program, the St. Augustine Historical Society and FIU, which is providing programming and systems support for the project. The project advisory board includes archivists, historians, librarians, GIS experts, architects, archaeologists and city officials.
As with the Coral Gables project, the St. Augustine website will provide searching and browsing functionality in a Google Maps interface, with the ability to select a specific structure and view all associated digital objects. The site also will allow users to limit search results to specific time periods (e.g., Spanish or British Colonial). Historic maps will be overlaid on the Google map, and by adjusting the transparency researchers will be able to compare features over time.
Future activities will focus on St. Augustine’s non-colonial periods (e.g., Gilded Age development), using crowdsourcing to generate descriptive content or geospatial metadata, and historical tour features. Both UF and FIU will continue to advance these digital projects and explore improved ways for researchers to discover and interact with resources. These projects can serve as models for other cities or regions interested in access systems with geographical and/or temporal technologies.
University of Oklahoma Division of Architecture: October 2014
DesignIntelligence (DI) Magazine has named Director and Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA and Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Dr. Stephanie Pilat as two of DesignIntelligence’s 30 Most Admired Educators for 2015.
In association with the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture, Assistant Professor Dr.Catherine Barrett, AIA chaired the 2014 Creating_Making Forum, November 5-7. Sessions, keynote speakers, and student workshops built upon discourse introduced at the inaugural 2010 Creating_Making Forum. Featured speakers included E.B. Min, principal at Min|Day, and Kristen Murray, principal at Olson Kundig Architects. Both Min and Murray collaborated with select students in 1-1/2 day workshops that generated ideas for art installations within downtown Norman’s Main Street.
Associate Professor David Boeck, AIA is leading a 4th year studio class to New Orleans this semester to explore the Claiborne Avenue site related to the 2015 NOMA Student Competition. The project allows Architecture and Interior Design students to collaborate with OU’s NOMAS chapter. The 3rd year Interior Design students are designing a restaurant within the complex.
Professor and Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi recently returned from a sabbatical in the Middle East where he visited, surveyed, and documented 27 architectural sites of various historical nature and size particular to Iranian desert architecture. He is currently working with professional filmmakers in Oklahoma City and New York to assemble and edit hundreds of hours of video into three documentaries focused on courtyard architecture, historical wind catchers, and ancient technology to bring subterranean water to remote locations. For more information about CMEAC, vist: http://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/centers/CMEAC.html
Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA, through his practice Butzer Gardner Architects, recently received an Honor Award from AIA Central States Region and an Honor Award AIA Central Oklahoma chapter for the “SLIVR” Building.
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Marjorie P. Callahan, AIA recently authored Teaching Leadership Skills: “Practice” Coursework in Architecture Education Program in theJournal of Social Sciences Collection. Marjorie was also an invited Conference Facilitator on Leadership Issues at the recent State of Oklahoma Women in Higher Education Conference. She also collaborated with Professor Debra Reisweber on the 2014 published book Sooner State of Mind: Forging Leadership Legacies North of the Red River.
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Curriculum Development Anthony Cricchio, RA and Associate Professor Lee Fithian, AIA helped lead OU’s 2nd annual C5 Capstone Collaborative Competition. Ten interdisciplinary teams, consisting of senior Architecture, Interior Design, and CNS students partnered with JE Dunn Construction and architectural firm ADG. The two-week competition focused on an urban infill rehabilitation scenario in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown. Through the use of BIM and other collaborative technologies, students presented comprehensive and interior concepts along with cost estimates and schedules for the client group.
Director of Small Town Studios Associate Professor and Director of Small Town Studios Ron Frantz, AIA collaborated with the CoA’s Division of Regional and City Planning to host the recent American Planning Association (APA) Oklahoma Chapter Conference. Ron was also a guest speaker in OU’s recent inaugural Placemaking Academy.
Long time DivA supporter and award winning architect John Ward, AIA, principal at TAP Architecture in Oklahoma City, recently joined the faculty as a Professor of Practice.
Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA has been working with Hornbeek Blatt Architects on the 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City. New York-based Deborah Berke & Partners are the design architects. The project is an adaptive reuse project transforming the historic Fred Jones building into a boutique hotel that will showcase permanent and rotating artwork.
Additional news includes:
Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape students are collaborating on a design competition to re-imagine a section of historic Route 66 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Design teams are challenged to change perceptions of the stretch of road by redesigning the streetscape and cultural experience. Teams are also developing new ideas for signage along Route 66 which draw from the legacy of the legendary road’s neon signs. Led by Director of Urban Design Shawn Schaefer and Director of Regional and City Planning Dr. Dawn Jourdan, the faculty team includes Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Pilat, Assistant Professor Scott Williams, and Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA. The project has been supported by a $10,000 grant from the Signage Foundation, Inc. Each student on the winning team will be awarded a travel grant to support a Spring 2015 trip to Chicago.
Jerri Hodges Bonebrake, Bruce Goff’s long-time assistant, sadly passed away late 2014. The CoA’s Jerri Hodges Bonebrake award will continue to recognize outstanding staff. A newly developed student scholarship in her name is being developed to reward outstanding creative students.
Renowned landscape architect and planner Drew Wensley has been appointed a visiting professor of practice in the University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design.
Wensley is chief executive officer of Canada-based Moriyama & Teshima, a globally recognized planning and landscape architecture firm. He will visit the College of Architecture and Design numerous times a semester, and work remotely with faculty and students on various projects.
“Drew is a great addition to the Landscape Architecture Program for several reasons, not the least of which is his firm’s global reach,” said Gale Fulton, chair of the UT Landscape Architecture program. “His wide range of professional experiences, including large-scale planning projects and exquisitely detailed built works from South America to the Middle East, will add a new dimension to the local and regional work in which our faculty and students are currently engaged.”
UT professor of practice positions are set up so faculty can provide detailed hands-on education in specific areas. There are about twelve such positions across various UT colleges. Wensley will relay his experiences and his professional practice activities through topics taught in the Landscape Architecture Program’s design studios.
Wensley has contributed to some of the largest and most significant city building and environmental restoration initiatives in the Middle East, Asia, and North America. In 2001, he started the vision and implementation of the Wadi Hanifah Comprehensive Development Plan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a bio-renewal effort producing a 120-kilometer-long oasis with forty-two kilometers of recreational trails, three lakes, six parks, and nearly 40,000 trees.
The project marked a shift in how environmental systems and natural resources are treated and preserved and their importance in building strong sustainable cities in the future. As a result, Wensley presented the plan to the Council for Sustainable Development and Delegates at the United Nations in New York as a leading example of sustainable urban renewal.
Wensley’s consulting work with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM), a leading urban planning, architecture, and engineering firm, on urban planning initiatives around the world led to his involvement with Philip Enquist, the UT Governor’s Chair for High Performance Energy Practices in Urban Environments. Wensley is a contributing partner in the Governor’s Chair’s collaboration between SOM, UT, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to research and create solutions for resilient cities.
“Developing more resilient cities requires this highly integrated partnership among numerous disciplines, and I am excited that UT is becoming a hub for this type of research and practice,” Fulton said. “Graduates of our program will benefit greatly in their future careers as a result of these opportunities and experiences.”
As a leader at Moriyama & Teshima, Wensley has contributed to more than $1.2 billion of construction internationally. Projects include the new campus plan for Kuwait University, a new home for 40,000 students, and the Comprehensive Environmental Plan for the city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia. In Canada, projects include Calgary’s East Village Riverwalk, the Lakehead University Campus Plan, the Havergal College Campus Plan, the Canadian War Museum, and ongoing work with His Highness the Aga Khan in Toronto and Ottawa.
Wensley is a graduate of Ryerson University in Canada. His design drawings are housed at the Ontario Archives in Toronto and were recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information about Wensley, visit the faculty profile pageof the UT Landscape Architecture Program website.
DATES: March 26-27, 2015 LOCATION: Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre, Fargo, North Dakota
March 26th, 1pm to 5:30pm: Greg Lynn, FORM, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design Garth Rockcastle, MSR Design Alice Twemlow, D-Crit and co-founder SVA MFA Design Criticism program
March 27th, 7:30am to 12pm: Mahesh Daas, chair of the Department of Architecture and ACSA Distinguished Professor, Ball State University, College of Architecture and Planning Tom Fisher, Professor and Dean of the College of Design, University of Minnesota Kristine Jensen, landscape architect, Arkitekt Kristine Jensen, Denmark
To expand critical dialogue on design education, engaging the public, academia, and practice, the NDSU Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will host a symposium addressing “the future of design education,” featuring panel discussions and open forums between diverse participants of strong national, regional, and local reputation in design fields.
The symposium is proposed to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Department, and in this context, will provide an opportunity for participants to critically reflect on the trajectory of design education over a considerable time period, even as they speculate about future directions.
Through the venue of panel discussions and open forums scheduled over a two-day period, invited speakers will address aspirations, challenges, and anticipated goals for design education from their unique perspectives. By bringing a diverse roster of speakers together, the symposium also seeks to build collaboration and catalyze future inquiry.
In the five years since a massive earthquake rocked the island nation of Haiti, UT faculty and students have helped the country’s rebuilding efforts by designing a secondary school, housing, and a clinic that are now in various stages of construction.
Next up: the design of preschools to address the education needs of the country’s youngest citizens.
“Since 2010, UT’s Haiti projects have given students hands-on experience in creating designs for real spaces and real people that bring about change,” said Ali Alsaleh, a fifth-year architecture major who took part in a fall 2014 Haiti studio class. Today marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake.
“In architecture and design studios, our clients are usually hypothetical,” said Alsaleh, who helped design one of the preschools that will be built.
He traveled to Haiti in the fall with a UT team to learn more about the country and its needs.
“Our involvement in Haiti has actually had real outcomes. We got to speak to the actual people who will be using our buildings. It made me realize that architecture can help rebuild a community and refocused my passion for architecture as a humanitarian field.”
The UT Haiti Project, led by the College of Architecture and Design and a collaboration between various UT programs, has made students more sensitive to cross-cultural differences, how to respond to the needs of others, and how to work well across disciplines, said Architecture Professor John McRae, who helped launch the project.
“That’s important in their overall professional development,” he said.
UT has partnered with the Haiti Development Fund and its executive director, Jean Thomas, on all its projects. The organization pays for the construction of the buildings, and members of the UT Haiti Project provide some oversight, McRae said.
Knoxville nonprofit HaitiServe helped defray the cost of travel for UT faculty and students.
A look at the UT-designed Haiti projects and their status:
L’Exode Secondary School: UT faculty and students in spring 2011 designed a three-phase school master plan, which will serve students in grades seven to twelve. The first phase of construction— five first-story classrooms, restrooms, and the cafeteria-meeting hall—was completed in 2012, and the school welcomed its first students that fall. The school is in Fond-des-Blancs, seventy miles outside the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
This month, construction begins on the second phase of the school—an outdoor athletic stadium. The school will eventually include more classrooms, a library and dormitories. It currently has 100 students and will eventually serve up to 500 children.
Housing: In spring 2012, the UT Haiti Project designed fourteen houses for the Fond-des-Blancs community. So far, one has been constructed. The home currently houses participants of the Caleb Fellows Program, which trains young men and then sends them out into the community to provide leadership and be catalysts for change.
Medical clinic: In spring 2013, the College of Architecture and Design, in partnership with the College of Nursing, US organization Friends of Fort Liberte, and Knoxville architect Chris King, designed an addition and the complete overhaul of a medical clinic in Fort Liberte, a community about eleven miles from the Dominican Republic border. Funds are currently being raised for the work.
New gate: In spring 2014, the Haiti Project designed a new steel gate for the L’Exode Secondary School. Local artist Preston Farabow built it, and he and McRae will go to Haiti in May to install it.
LIFEHouse guidebook: UT created the book to address the urgent need for adequate building standards in the country and emphasize the lesser-known relationship between housing design and disease prevention. The book will be translated into French, English, and Creole, and will showcase how Haitians can build secure and healthy homes using local materials and methods.
Preschools: In fall 2014, the Haiti studio designed a preschool for Fond-des-Blancs that will serve up to 450 youngsters. A group of architecture students and faculty, along with Robyn Brookshire, director of the UT Early Learning Center, traveled to Haiti to learn more about the country’s early childhood education system to help them come up with the design. Based on the work done in the fall 2014 studio, students in a fall 2015 studio course will design more preschools for rural Haitian communities.
Haiti disaster response master’s thesis: A master’s thesis project by Mallory Barga proposed new direction for rebuilding and transitional housing in the country. Barga’s project, which won the College of Architecture and Design’s top award in spring 2014, provided input for the work done in the Haiti studio in fall 2014. A copy was sent to the Haiti Development Fund.
“We’ve tried to capture the vision of what everyone hopes is a new Haiti,” McRae said.
Learn more about the Haiti Project on its website.
ACSA is pleased to announce the 2014-2015 Architectural Education Award Winners. Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for their work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. Award winners 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 award winners! Read about the winning submissions on our website, and be sure to join us in celebrating the winners in Toronto at the 103rd ACSA Annual Meeting.
ACSA 103: Register today to save $130!
ACSA will be in Toronto for this year’s Annual Meeting. We have a fantastic set of keynote speakers, tours, and sessions lined up. Be sure the check out the schedule of events on our website. Advanced registration ends February 4th. Register today and save $130.
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.
Submit Your Abstracts to the ACSA Fall Conference
Syracuse University School of Architecture will host this year’s ACSA Fall Conference, October 8-10. The goal of the conference is to use a debate-style, cross-examination to find the potential of a new architectural object that can be informed by the tension between opposing views and changing realities that offer new, dynamic conditions. Abstracts are due April 1, 2015.
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.
The Architecture Library Today: Results of a Recent Survey
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. The Association of Architecture School Librarians recently conducted a survey on the topic of branch libraries for architecture.
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