March 15-17, 2018 | Denver, Colorado

106th ACSA Annual Meeting

THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE

Schedule

April 2017

Call for Papers/Projects announced

October 4, 2017

Paper/project submission deadline

November 2017

Notifications sent to authors

January 2018

Conference registration deadline for presenters

Event Schedule

Following is the conference schedule, which is subject to change. Please check back for the most up-to-date information.

Wednesday, March 14

9:00am-6:00pm	Workshop Housing & Community Development Workshop

Thursday, March 15

9:00am-2:00pm	Workshop Defining Your Research Workshop
9:00pm-12:00pm	Workshop – Accreditation Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm	Paper Sessions – A Question of Leadership I – The First Hundred Days – Open – Pedagogy
	Project Session – Building Behaviors
	Special Focus Session – Beginning Design – Resiliency & Architectural Education
3:30pm-4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm	Award Presentation – Creative Achievement Award
	Paper Sessions – A Question of Leadership II – Drawing in the Post-Digital Era – The Ethics of Neo-Orientalist Architectural Production
	Project Session – Housing
	Special Focus Sessions – JAE, “Preserve” – Technology Matters (BTES)
	Meeting – College of Distinguished Professors (DPACSA – Private)
6:00pm	Opening Keynote: Odile Decq
7:00pm	Opening Reception

Friday, March 16

9:00am-10:30am	Award Presentation Design-Build Award
	Paper Sessions: – States of Disrepair / Acts of Repair – A Discipline Adrift? – Open – Ethics
	Project Session: – Media Investigations
	Special Focus Sessions: – International Engagement Best Practices and Opportunities – Technology \| Architecture + Design Journal Session – ProPrac – Unite! (NCARB & ACSA)
10:30am-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Award Presentation – Housing Design Education Award
	Paper Sessions: – States of Disrepair / Acts of Repair – Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) I – Open \| Technology
	Project Session: – Architecture in an Expanded Field, from Interiors to Landscapes
	Special Focus Sessions: Technology in the Academy (Autodesk) Special Focus Session: Design Build eXchange (dbX)
	Workshop: – New Faculty Workshop
12:30pm-2:00pm	Lunch: on your own
	Open House: – University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning
2:00pm-3:30pm	Award Presentation: – Distinguished Professor Award
	Paper Sessions: – On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Instrumentality for Architecture – Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) II – Ethics, Development and Donald Trump
	Project Sessions: – History/Theory – Architecture in an Expanded Field, from Interiors to Landscapes
	Special Focus Session: – Moving Towards an Equitable Future – The Plan Journal
3:30pm-4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm	Regional Caucuses: – Northeast, Mid Atlantic, Gulf, East Central, West Central, West, Canada
5:30pm-6:30pm	ACSA Business Meeting
6:30pm-7:30pm	Awards Reception
7:30pm	Topaz Keynote: Jorge Silvetti
8:00pm	DPACSA Dinner (Private)

Saturday, March 17

8:00am-9:00am	Tau Sigma Delta Breakfast & Annual Meeting
9:00am-10:30am	Award Presentation: – Faculty Design Award
	Paper Sessions: – Architecture of the other 99%? – Ecological Ethics (and the Role of the Architect) III – History and Theory as Methods of Ethical Engagement?
	Project Session: – Materials
	Special Focus Session: – Urbanism and Urban Design in Architectural Education
10:30am-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm	Award Presentation: – New Faculty Teaching Award
	Paper Sessions: – Neither Form Nor Place: The Case for Space I – Disciplinary Hybrids: Landscape as Architecture. Architecture as Landscape – Open – History/Theory
	Project Session: – Open
	Special Focus Sessions: – NAAB 101: Digital Accreditation – JAE, “The Project of Projecting” – Advancing Design-Build Pedagogy+Research: Lessons from Rural Studio & Co. Building Workshop
12:30pm-2:30pm	Lunch: on your own
	Open House: – University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning
2:30pm-4:00pm	Award Presentation: – Collaborative Practice Award
	Paper Sessions: – Neither Form Nor Place: The Case for Space II – The Next Digital Turn: Identifying Inequalities – Product / Process: Balancing the Deliverables in Academic Design/Build
	Project Session: – Urbanism
	Special Focus Session: – Academia & Practice: Point – Counterpoint
	Film Screening: – The Intimate Realities of Water @ University of Colorado Denver, College of Architecture and Planning
4:00pm-4:30pm	Coffee Break
4:30pm-6:00pm	Award Presentation: – Practice + Leadership Award
	Paper Sessions: – By Any Means Necessary – Open \| Urbanism – Educating for Hubris or Humility?
	Project Sessions: – Design Research in the Studio Context
	Special Focus Session: – Architectures Approach to STEM
6:30pm-7:30pm	TSD Gold Medal & Closing Keynote: Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
7:30pm	University of Colorado Denver – Closing Party

Questions

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ACSA, Programs Manager
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