Study Architecture 
ProPEL SCHEDULE: Friday, MARCH 21, 2025
Below is the schedule for Friday, March 21, 2025, featuring session descriptions. You can read the research abstracts by clicking HERE. The conference schedule is subject to change.
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) when applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit session attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES).
Conference Registration Hours:
Friday, March 21 at 8:30am-1:00pm
Board Office Hours:
8:00am – 9:00am
ABSTRACT BOOK
CONFERENCE | FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025
9:00am-1:00pm
Ticketed Event
Tour Leaders:
Karen Kubey, University of Toronto; Ann Yoachim, Tulane University; Ceara O’Leary, University of Detroit Mercy; & Nicholas Jenisch, Tulane University
Description:
Critical housing issues in New Orleans make it difficult for residents to find accessible homes that they can afford. These pressures include the threat of short-term rentals, increasing insurance prices and planning for climate preparedness. In partnership with the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community, this tour and discussion will connect academia with practice, highlighting inclusive housing options for New Orleanians at a range of scales. We will visit AIA award-winning veterans housing; small-scale, faith-based infill initiatives; and mixed-use, health-centered senior housing. Examples and discussions will focus on opportunities to repair the damaged housing market through the intentional marriage of policy and design.
9:00am-10:30am
Research Sessions
Society + Community: Trust and Repair
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Ali Moazzeni Khorasgani, South Dakota State University
Circle of Embrace: A Community Repairing Through Green Development
Angeliki Sioli, Aleksandar Staničić & Pierre Jennen, Delft University of Technology
The Texas Teacher Housing (TXTH) Research and Design Studio: Critical Reflections on Three Years of Engaged Pedagogy
Andrew Tripp, Texas A&M University
Architecture + Advocacy: Building Agency Within Communities Through Community-Led Design Builds
Abriannah Aiken, Columbia University
Madelene Dailey, University of Southern California
Society + Community: Housing and Community Engagement
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Karla Sierralta, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The Architecture Of A Decent Home: Resident Owned Communities In A Time Of Climate Breakdown
Ryan Ludwig, Roger Williams University
The Native Peoples Design Coalition (NPDC)
Laura Carr, University of Arizona
Practice + Leadership Award
Constructing Hope: Ukraine
Ashley Bigham, The Ohio State University
Sasha Topolnytska, The City College of New York
Fixing Housing Property – Utopian Thinking For Repairing And Innovating Property Towards Non-speculative Housing
Sascha Delz, University of Southern California
History, Theory, Criticism: Material Memory
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Max Underwood, Arizona State University
Looking Over the Wall: A (Her)Story of the Sistan Borderland
Samira Sarabandikachyani, University of Cincinnati
The Patio as a Response. TPA Housing project in Maracaibo, Venezuela
Daniel Belandria, Universidad de Montevideo
Andrea Castro, Universidad ORT Uruguay
Pedagogy: Foundations of Design
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Suzanne Lettieri, Cornell University
Concurrent Constructions: Analog and Digital Craft
Trace Gainey, Kennesaw State University
Inside-Out to Outside-In: Unifying Difference in Beginning Design Education
Radu Remus Macovei, ETH Zürich
Building a Culture of Wellness and Empathy in First Year Studio: Approaches and Outcomes of a Mental Health-Informed Design Curriculum
Rosa McDonald, Sara Queen, Claire Craven & Allison Grubbs, North Carolina State University
Fostering Inclusive Excellence: the Florida High School Dual Enrollment Program in Architecture
David Rifkind, University of Florida
Hernan Guerrero Applewhite, University of Florida
Diversity Achievement Award
Urbanism: Urban Design, Planning, + Infrastructure
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Fabio Capra Ribeiro, Louisiana State University
Too Small to Succeed: Assessing the Spatial Impacts of Zoning Ordinances on ADU Development in the Northeast
Robert Williams & Ray Mann, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cultivated Imaginaries: Notes on the Idea of the Superblock
Liang Wang, University of Texas at Austin
The New Orleans Public Space Project: An Ongoing Research Studio Projecting Urban Reform in New Orleans, LA
Sean Fowler & Iñaki Alday, Tulane University
9:00am-10:30am
Special Sessions
Teaching and Designing in Real Time: Disaster Resilience and Repair
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Organizers:
Yasushi Ishida, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Ann Yoachim, Tulane University
Illya Azaroff, New York City College of Technology
Description:
This session will explore the role of architectural education in addressing disaster resilience and recovery. Speakers from various regions and disciplines will introduce diverse approaches to integrating disaster preparedness into design education and practice, share case studies, and engage the audience in discussions on enhancing resilience through design. Join us to explore how architectural educators can contribute to mitigating the impacts of natural disasters and foster more resilient communities.
Demystifying the Peer-Review Process: TAD Journal
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderators:
Patricia Kio, University Florida
Winifred E. Newman, Clemson University
David Newton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Presenters:
A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong
Kachun Alex Wong, University of Toronto
Agritecture: A Transcalar Organic Coding Framework for Soil as a Biomaterial
DK Osseo-Asare, Penn State
Collage in the Age of Generative A
Kory Bieg, University of Texas-Austin
Mass Timber Cultures: Developing Welded-Wood Nail Laminated Timber (wNLT) as an Accessible and Local Building Material in North America
Jana VanderGoot, University of Maryland
Description:
This special focus session features presentations by four peer-reviewed authors selected from recent issues of the TAD Journal: Coding and Generative. In addition to a brief introduction presenting a summary of the authors’ research, emphasis will be placed on the process behind manuscript preparation, including its response to the call for papers, conception, submission, editorial development, and publication. These author-panelists will share insights from their recent experience within the TAD double-blind peer-review and editing process. This session aims to increase exposure to TAD as an ACSA peer-review journal and increase the visibility of its respective editorial operations.
More than Competent: Redefining a Common Ground for Architectural Education
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Organizers:
Jori Erdman, James Madison University
Joshua A. Foster, East Los Angeles College
Dahlia Nduom, Howard University
June Williamson, City College of New York
Description:
This interactive workshop invites participants to explore and co-create a definition of architectural education that reflects the diverse identities, goals, and trajectories of architectural programs including but not limited to traditional pathways to licensure. By examining the core values, pedagogies, and structures that shape architectural curricula, the session will foster a collaborative dialogue on how education can address varied professional, cultural, and societal aspirations.
Leadership
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Organizers:
Marilys Nepomechie, Florida International University
Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota
Renee Cheng, Arizona State University
Marleen Davis, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Description:
Focusing on faculty at mid-career, this interactive session will offer insights, perspectives, and guidance opportunities for those who may be interested in exploring a move to leadership positions –within and in areas peripheral to– the academy. Presenters/ facilitators will share experiences, address definitions and structures of academic leadership, and consider strategies for engagement in leadership roles and initiatives across a range of institutions.
10:30am-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Research Sessions
Society + Community: Design Visions and Design Processes
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Suzanne Lettieri, Cornell University
Materials of Abolition, Structures of Repair
Emilie Taylor, Tulane University
Educating Architects to Serve Forcibly Displaced People: Design of Process
Earl Mark, University of Virginia
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon
Joseph Ashmore, Nuno Nunes & Daud Shad, International Organization for Migration
Restoring the Mission of Guild House: Combining Community Partnership and Technical Analysis to Design for Social Benefit
Fleet Hower, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Society + Community: Design and Human Health
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Altaf Engineer, University of Arizona
Institutional Repair at the Public Pool: Reconciling Trauma and Joy in the Design Process
Jade Yang & Trace Gainey, Kennesaw State University
Mapping the Path to Recovery: Analyzing Temporary Housing Projects for Lahaina Fire Survivors
Yasushi Ishida, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Akhil Singh, Tulane University
Red Architecture: Climate Disaster Response
Adeniyi Onanuga, Drexel University
AIAS CRIT Scholar
History, Theory, Criticism: Neglected Narratives
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Noah Resnick, University of Detroit Mercy
Voices to Inception: A short Documentary Film Process
Jori Erdman, James Madison University
Becky Beamer, OsloMet University
Regional Identity: Cultural Practices of Philippine Architecture
Florencio IV Tameta, Toronto Metropolitan University
_Mpathic Design: Brookes (Revisited)
Elgin Cleckley University of Virginia
Faculty Design Award
Pedagogy: Innovations in Pedagogy
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, University of Arkansas
Towards a New Robotics Training Model: Improving Access and Representation for Minority Architecture Students
Eric Peterson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Shahin Vassigh, Florida International University
Biayna Bogosian, Arizona State University
AI in the Architectural History Course
Aaron White, Mississippi State University
Pattern Frequency | Bold Departure: An Analysis of 40 Years of Design Pedagogy
Megan Jackson, University of Houston
Liane Hancock, University of New Mexico
Sarah Young, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
Memes, Mash-ups And Ai, Oh My: How To Build Our Students’ Criticality Through Pop Culture … And Why We Must
Scott Shall & Stephen Mallory, Lawrence Technological University
Ecology: Ecology, Repair and Resilience
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Sara Carr, Northeastern University
Intertidal Objects: Interrogating The Object In Its Territories
Marcus Carter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Riprap Ram Jam
Jonathan Scelsa & Kyriaki Goti, Pratt Institute
Y3K: On Distant Keys
Sandy Litchfield, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Blind
Jason Griffiths, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Design Build Award
11:00am-12:30pm
Special Sessions
Accreditation Futures
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Presenters:
Renée Cheng, Arizona State University
Bethany Lundell Garver, Boston Architectural College
Description:
This session continues ACSA members’ work to think into the future about accreditation, validation, and other processes related to student and educational program outcomes. All attendees are invited to a working session to discuss (a) NCARB’s new 16 competencies tied to licensure and (b) the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on both curricula and validating competency as part of a modular, stackable system.
Connecting Education to an Ethical Professional Practice of Repair
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Presenters:
Casius Pealer, Tulane University
Z Smith, Eskew Dumez Ripple
Description:
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has been undergoing a sea of change in how it views both professional ethics and design excellence. This has expanded the conversation of ethics from the “how” of practice to the “what” and the “who”— what problems we should be focusing on, and who we should take care to involve in the design conversation. How can architectural education prepare students for professional practice in which most of the work and value is not shiny new buildings? How can we equip students to ask the right questions and grapple with the messy realities of the world and produce better answers? This session will focus on efforts to help students explore the issues raised by the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (2024) and the AIA Framework for Design Excellence, with its focus on advancing Equitable Communities, Health, and Climate Action.
11:00am-12:30pm
Special Sessions
Timber Pedagogy
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator:
John Folan, University of Arkansas
Presenters:
Design from Tree to Timber: Building Non-Planar Futures
Kyle Schumann, University of Virginia
Forest – Fiber – Frame
Philip Tidwell, University of California, Berkeley
Exploring the X, Y, and Z Wood Connection
Nicholas Wickersham, North Dakota State University
A Holistic Approach to Timber Construction in a Regenerative Design Framework
Veronica Madonna, Athabasca University
Mass Timber as Naked Material
Jordan Kanter & Ray Mann, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Description:
The Softwood Lumber Board and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) highlight the winners of the 2024 Timber Education Prize. These innovative courses will be taught at architecture schools across North America in the coming years. These courses seek to recognize effective and innovative curricula that create a stimulating and evidence-based environment for learning about timber. The use of wood as a building material can achieve multiple design, construction, and performance objectives. Therefore, these courses equip students with the knowledge and design skills to achieve green building goals in a range of project types
12:30pm-2:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
2:00pm-4:00pm
Plenary
A Facilitated Discussion
TRAVEL TO TULANE
5:30pm-6:30pm
Plenary
Please join us for this evening’s keynote and reception on the campus of Tulane University.
Anna Dyson
Keynote
Bryan C. Lee, Jr
Panel
Steve Dumez
Panel
Iñaki Alday
Moderator
6:30pm
Networking
Tulane Reception
TRAVEL TO INTERCONTINENTAL
Continuing Education Credits
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) where applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit sessions attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES). Register for the conference to gain access to all the AIA/CES credit sessions.
Conference Partners
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
