Study Architecture 
ProPEL Jan. 9 – 11, 2025 | Austin, TX
2025 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference:
NEW HOUSING PARADIGMS
Fall Conference
SCHEDULE: Friday, JANUARY 10, 2025
Below is the schedule for Friday, January 10, 2025, featuring session descriptions. The conference schedule is subject to change.
Conference Location:
The Westin Austin Downtown
Conference Registration Hours:
8:30am-6:00pm
Friday, JANUARY 10, 2025
9:00am-10:30am
Concurrent Sessions
Equitable Communities: Local Cultures
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Ceara O’Leary, AIA HCD / University of Detroit Mercy
Emerging Design-Build Technologies for Resilient Housing in Navajo Nation: Research and Pedagogical Outlook
Asma Mehan, Sina Mostafavi & Ali Nejat, Texas Tech University
What We Learned in Bethlehem Alleys: Reimagining Local Housing Types Through Community Coalition Building
Wesley Hiatt, Lehigh University
Re-Imagining Re-Pairing Re-Building: Sustainable and Equitable Development In Historic Inner-City Neighborhood
Pamela Harwood, Ball State University
Made in Iowa: 3D Printing Rural Affordable Housing
Shelby Doyle, Iowa State University
Pedagogy: Data Tools for Research & Learning
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Danelle Briscoe, University of Texas at Austin
Circular Housing: Transforming the Housing Life Cycle through Digitalization
Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman, Daniel Rondinel-Oviedo & Chinmay Satbhai, McGill University
Mojtaba Parsaee, Indiana State University
An AI Analysis of the Evolution of Housing Design Issues
Kutay Guler, Kansas State University
Additive Architecture: Redefining Construction Practices and Materials with 3D Concrete Printing
Sara Codarin & Karl Daubmann, Lawrence Technological University
Pedro Guillen, Centrepolis Accelerator
Appreciating Value: Reassessing the Potential of Manufactured Housing
Reese Greenlee, Kansas State University
Emma Silverblatt, Cornell University
Advocating for the Missing Middles
Special Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
The issues of unattainable housing nationally are felt especially strongly in Austin, where policy and institution failures create multiple “missing middles.” We are not just missing certain typologies but middles between subsidies and excessive wealth, forms of ownership and agency, and more. This session will explore the efforts of AIA Austin’s Housing Advocacy Committee to push beyond merely increasing supply to enable more options and agency within a more diverse housing landscape that is more inclusive of moderately scaled, moderately priced typologies. We will share insights from recent local initiatives and place them in the context of national reform efforts.
Presenters:
Chris Gannon, Shams Gannon Architecture
Jason John Paul Haskins, Hatch + Ulland Owen Architects
Lucy Begg, Thoughtbarn
10:30am-11:00am
Networking
Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Concurrent Sessions
Equitable Communities: Housing Obstacles
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Karen Kubey, AIA HCD & University of Toronto
Permanent Temporalities: Place and Belonging in Refugee Housing
Rana Abudayyeh, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Mi Casa, Mi Futuro: Reimagining Housing Models to Addressing Immigrant Needs
Laura Wainer, City College of New York
The Kind of a Problem a House is
Rusty Smith & Mackenzie Stagg, Auburn University
Pedagogy: Collaborative Methods
Research Session – 1.5 LU Credits
Moderator: Rubén García Rubio, Tulane University
Teaching Ethics and Empathy: Housing Design for the Unhoused
Alexis Gregory, Mississippi State University
Non-Human Housing: Radical Empathy as Design Pedagogy
Benjamin Akhavan, Morgan State University
A Taxonomy of Housing Design Studio Responses
Ting Chin & Claudia Hernandez-Feiks, New York City College of Technology
Radical Solutions: Construction & Deconstruction
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Dean Almy III, University of Texas at Austin
Mid-Century Divide: Contextualizing Twentieth-Century Red River Métis “Housing” and “Home”
Sarah Hourie, University of Manitoba
Hemp-Lime ADUs: A Pathway to Carbon-Smart Housing Through Design for Disassembly
Arta Yazdanseta, Lonn Combs & James Richardson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Mass Plywood Flatpack Home: Prototyping Advanced Manufacturing with New Wood Products to Rethink Housing
Mark Fretz, Judith Sheine, Jason Stenson & Dale Northcutt, University of Oregon
Housing and Climate Justice: Case Studies from the AIA Climate Justice Framework Initiative
Special Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Housing is widely recognized as a social determinant of health. Housing quality and location can mean the difference between residents experiencing environmental and social harms or access to health-promoting amenities. Housing is also a major contributor to climate change. It is a major driver of electricity use and car travel – which, combined, are responsible for 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This panel will present four housing projects from the inaugural American Institute of Architects Climate Justice case study cohort that exemplify the power of centering both climate action and climate justice in a single design.
Presenters:
Adele Houghton, Biositu, LLC & Harvard U.
Michele Russo, AIA
How Forma & Outcome-Based BIM help tackle the Housing Crisis
Autodesk Workshop Lunch – 1 LU Credit
This session will explore how Autodesk Forma and Outcome Based BIM can help address current housing challenges, combining sustainability and pedagogy.
Discover Autodesk’s AEC Industry Cloud Vision and how Forma leverages AI as a co-creator to enhance traditional BIM workflows. This new, Outcome-Based approach enables AECO professionals and the next generation/talent to integrate competing priorities such as sustainability, cost efficiency, and deadlines. Autodesk AI automates tasks, analyzes data, and provides actionable insights to drive innovative and sustainable housing designs. Learn how Dan Stine, Director of Design Technology, integrates Forma at Lake|Flate Architects as well, as with his North Dakota State University graduate architecture students, and how Outcome-Based BIM supports housing as pedagogy to reshape the industry.
Nicolas Mangon, Autodesk, Inc. | Daniel Stine, Lake Flato Architects |
2:30pm-4:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Equitable Communities: Systems & Policies
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Tommy Burns, AIA HCD & MassHousing
A Gentrification Tax: How to Fund Good-quality, Deeply Affordable Housing
Adrian Blackwell University of Waterloo
Ali Shamas Qadeer, Ontario College of Art and Design University
Ending Homelessness: A Systemic Approach
John Dwyer, Thomas Jefferson University
Finding a Middle Ground: A Case Study in Incentivizing Equitable Housing
Sharon Haar, Ellie Abrons, Meredith Miller & Lan Deng, University of Michigan
Research-Based Affordable Housing Design Praxis
Nadia Anderson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Pedagogy: Urban Models
Research Session – 1.5 LU Credit
Moderator: Jake Wegmann, University of Texas at Austin
At the Urban Fringe: Housing Innovation in Loosely Regulated Peripheries
Jaehun Woo, California Polytechnic State University
Common Ground: Reimagining Residential Block for Collective Living
Leyuan Li, University of Colorado Denver
Simulating Effects of Florida’s SB102 Live Local Act
Stephen Bender, University of Florida
Investigative Design Methodologies for Affordable Housing: Urban Complexity in the UAE’s Industrial Zones
Jason Carlow, American University of Sharjah
Radical Solutions: Radical Re-Use
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: John Clark, AIA HCD & Florida Atlantic University
‘Good Bones’ and Changing Skins: Converting Post-war Towers into Accessible, Inclusive and Adaptable Housing
Madeleine Lachance, McGill University
A Taxonomy of Vacancy: Assessing the Capacity of Underutilized Commercial Strips to Absorb Infill Housing
Ian Caine, Wei Zhai & Esteban López Ochoa, University of Texas at San Antonio
Rudy Niño, City of San Antonio
Chris Quattro, Appalachian State University
Living Systems: An Ecological Approach to Adaptive Urban Interventions
Clay Odom, University of Texas at Austin
FAU – Adaptive Re-use
Jeffrey Huber, Florida Atlantic University & Brooks & Scarpa
Centering People in Housing Design: Voices from Practice
Special Session – 1.5 LU Credit
At the forefront of the practice of housing are creative methods for centering people in the design process. These methods share in common a casting of the architect as an advocate, forging connections with partners, residents, community groups, city agencies and political actors to influence the design of housing at multiple scales, from city policies to spatial organizations to material assemblies. Implemented successfully, they result in housing projects that have a powerful imprint on both residents and the larger communities in which they are situated. In turn, they expand the opportunities and influence we have as designers.
Presenters:
Chelsea Johnson, David Baker Architects
Kate Mazade, FTWtoday
Emily Roush-Elliott, Delta Design Build Workshop
Lucy Begg, Thoughtbarn
4:00pm-4:30pm
Networking
Coffee Break
4:30pm-6:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Equitable Communities: Collective Typologies
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Elizabeth Mueller, University of Texas at Austin
Open-Air Care: Two Models for Collective Living in Los Angeles
Jeffrey Liu, California Polytechnic State University
Houston-Variations: Reimagining the Drive-In Apartment
Daniel Jacobs, University of Houston
Brittany Utting, Rice University
Workforce Housing Townhouse: Parking and Affordability
Jason Chandler, Florida International University
Party Wall Common
Petra Kempf, Washington University in St. Louis
Well-being + Health: Rethinking Standards
Research Session – 1.5 HSW Credit
Moderator: Chana Haouzi, University of Chicago & Architecture for Public Benefit
Defining and Redefining Affordable Housing Design Standards Through A Wellness Lens
Camille Sherrod, Florencia Jouan, Daniela León, Joelle Guay & Thomas Wensing, Kean University
Regenerative Sustainability as a Catalyst for Community Salutogenic Health
Lisa Platt, University of Florida
Thinking Inside the Box: Radically Rethinking Graduate Student Housing
Ahmed Ali, Texas A&M University
Rohit Kumar, Piloo Mody College of Architecture
Patricia Kio, University of Florida
6:30pm-7:30pm
Networking
1 LU Credit
Plenary
Affordable Housing: Design Matters
As a firm Brooks + Scarpa has long championed the notion that design excellence is fundamental to creating successful affordable housing, after all design should be for everyone and within every budget. With over 10,000 units completed, the firm demonstrates that thoughtful design is not a luxury but a necessity in fostering livable, sustainable, and socially cohesive communities. The intersection of design innovation and affordability is where Brooks + Scarpa work thrives, challenging the preconceived notions that affordable housing must compromise on quality or aesthetics.
In this plenary, we will highlight lessons learned from our extensive experience in affordable housing design and discuss how innovative design strategies can overcome the challenges typically associated with affordable housing. This initiates the role of critical practitioners, showing how architects can create spaces that are both affordable and aspirational. As a firm, we also teach full-time with a focus on housing design education. We will explore the role of the academy in advancing thought leadership and design research related to affordable housing, proving that design matters. Through this lens, we emphasize the importance of design in decision-making processes for developing affordable housing that uplifts individuals and communities.
Jeffrey Huber | Lawrence Scarpa |
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
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). Register for the conference today to gain access to all the AIA/CES credit sessions.
Conference Partners
Michelle Sturges
ACSA
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric Wayne Ellis
ACSA
Sr. Dir. of Operations & Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
Michele A. Russo
AIA
Vice President, Research
202-626-9045
research@aia.org
