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Two Architecture students, Lucanus Grady (Men’s Track & Field) and Marshay Ryan (Women’s Track & Field), have been named to the 2015 Spring SEC Honor Roll, and are among the 107 Auburn Athletes on the SEC Honor Roll. 

To be named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must meet is a grade point average of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. Read more here.

Three publications created by the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Communications and Marketing have won Certificates of Excellence in Graphic Design USA’s 2015 American Inhouse Design competition. From nearly 6,000 entries, only 15 percent were recognized with a Certificates of Excellence. For more, read here.

Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, has been appointed Program Chair and Graduate Provisional Officer of Landscape Architecture effective August 1. LeBleu joined the faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2004 and is an associate professor of landscape architecture. Her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on green building and water quality issues, especially issues related to low impact development design. Read more here.

Read the Summer Issue of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s newsletter here.

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Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture has released the most recent issue of its newsletter, StudioAPLA. The Summer Issue features events, student work, faculty and alumni news. 

Sheri Schumacher, Interior Architecture Program Chair in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was one of the twenty-three artists receiving awards at the 41st Montgomery Art Build Museum Exhibition on Friday, June 12. She was awarded the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Fund Award for her mixed media textile, “Margins.” Ninety-seven artworks were selected for exhibition from 427 entered by 127 artists. All the winning pieces will be on display at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts through August 9. The Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition is a partnership between the museum and the Montgomery Art Guild. For more, go to this link.

Timothy Fuerst, a rising fifth-year architecture/interior architecture student in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, received First Prize in the Auburn University Outstanding ePortfolio competition at the second annual ePortfolio Award Luncheon in May.  The exceptional work of thirteen finalists was honored, five from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction. The ePortfolios were judged on effective communication, critical thinking through reflection, technical competency, and visual literacy. Finalists were nominated by faculty or peers, and their ePortfolios were reviewed by a committee made of faculty and students. For more, read here

Samuel Thomas Hurst IV, Dean of the Auburn College of Architecture, Design and Construction from 1958-1961, died on April 10 in Montecito, California. A Georgia Tech graduate, Hurst served in the Navy during World War II. He studied with Walter Gropius at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and Gropius remained a mentor and lifelong friend who influenced Hurst to devote himself to education with the spirit of the Bauhaus.  For more, click here.

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Professor Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, has been appointed Interim Program Chair and Interim Graduate Provisional Officer of Landscape Architecture effective August 1 until July 2015.  National Vice President of Research for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on green building and water quality issues, especially issues related to low impact development design.  

LeBleu replaces Rod Barnett, PhD, who has been appointed chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

On Auburn’s campus, Professor LeBleu has recently been involved in the restoration Parkerson Mill Creek, a campus project that has incorporated experts in engineering, horticulture, soil science, environmental sciences, landscape architecture and urban planning. Watch a video about the Parkerson Mill Creek restoration here.

The August issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects, features the work that Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, and her students have done on a marine spatial plan for Dauphin Island Penninsula. “The Whole Shore,” in LAM’s Foreground NOW section, has an interview with LeBleu, APLA’s interim program chair of Landscape Architecture, beginning on page 22. For more, click here.

The Executive Committee of the Birmingham chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently named architect and Auburn alumni Joel Blackstock, of Williams Blackstock Architects, as its 2014 recipient of the “Birmingham Accolade Award.”  The Award is the highest honor the Chapter can bestow on one of its members, and indicates peer recognition of an exemplary achievement or service to the Chapter, profession or society.

“Through the years of working on projects that have forever changed the City and surrounding areas, Joel Blackstock has earned a reputation for being a visionary for the City, a great listener to his clients’ needs, dreams and desires….a small measure of proof of his passion and influence on revitalizing, restoring and preserving Birmingham can be seen on more than 30 blocks throughout the downtown area.”

Professor Magdalena Garmaz has been named chair of Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design Program (BSEV) in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction. Garmaz, who holds the Ann and Batey Gresham professorship, joined the CADC faculty in 1990 in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA). Her research and teaching has focused on the relationship of architecture and textiles, exploring different textile techniques and their application in the architecture making process. With work featured in Metropolis magazine and in the book Exploring Materials by E. Lupton and I. Alesina (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), Garmaz has won grants from the Alabama Arts Fellowship and the Graham Foundation and been a visiting artist as the American Academy in Rome, Italy. For more, click here

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David Hill, assistant professor of landscape architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and principal at D.I.R.T. studio, was a Resource Team member in the 59th National Session of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design (MICD), June 4-6, 2014, in Louisville, KY. MICD, a National Endowment for the Arts Leadership Initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United State Conference of Mayors, organizes two-and-a-half-day sessions in which mayors engage leading design experts in case-study problems to find solutions to the most critical design challenges facing their cities. For more, click here. 

David Hill’s award-winning repurposing and renovation of a warehouse into his stunning home on Bragg Avenue is profiled in the July/August 2014 issue of Dwell. Read “Family-Friendly Renovation of a Brick Warehouse in Alabama by clicking here.

Cheryl Morgan, Auburn architecture alumna, professor and director of the Urban Studio, was inducted into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows at an Investiture Ceremony at the 2014 National AIA Convention in Chicago on June 27.    Prof. Morgan was nominated for the College of Fellows by the Birmingham Chapter of the AIA, in recognition of her innovative approaches to instruction and outreach and the impact of her work in these arenas on the careers of her students and in the lives of small towns and communities across the state, region and nation. Morgan’s non-traditional approach to teaching has evolved through her thirty years of studio teaching and through her work with under-served people and places in Alabama. For more, read here.

Professor and Chair of Architecture Behzad Nakhjavan recently participated in the Washington University architecture alumni exhibition titled ”Drawing.”   The intent of the exhibit was to show a range of interpretations of what drawing means today from sketches and conceptual drawings to construction and fabrication drawings.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s summer edition of the newsletter has been released. To catch up on our amazing alumni, diverse faculty, and hard-working students, please visit StudioAPLA.

Rural Studio projects and alumni have been featured  in different publications recently: The Lions Park Scout Hut in Architectural Record: the 20K House project is featured in GreenBuildingAdvisor: and Rural Studio Alum Daniel Splaingard reflects on his time at the Rural Studio.

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Alex Krumdieck, a principal in the Birmingham-based architecture and interior design firm Krumdieck A + I, has been hired as Interim Director of APLA’s acclaimed Urban Studio program based in Birmingham, Alabama. Alex will lead the APLA’s teaching team in Birmingham, focusing on the Fifth Year architecture students who choose the Urban Studio as the venue for their final year of study. Alex follows Cheryl Morgan, long-time Urban Studio Director, who retired last December. In addition to his teaching role, Alex will coordinate the outreach and community-based design activities of the Urban Studio and serve as a liaison to the other APLA and CADC faculty engaged in learning and outreach activities in Birmingham.

Phillip Ewing, BArch/ BIArch ’12, and MIT’s first recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Fellowship, has been lead architect for the CityHome project developed through MIT’s Changing Places Research Group. The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization, and Phillip was responsible for the overall design of the unit, from concept to construction drawing and fabrication. Working with the other lead engineering researchers on integrating their disparate mechanisms into one cohesive package, the team still works to maintain “plug-and-play” add-ons as the project continues to develop. The development of this micro-unit apartment was a demonstration platform for Phillip’s MIT thesis research, and you can watch a demo here.

Meagan Winchester, a senior in Environmental Design from Tampa, Florida, won first place for her poster presentation in the Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities category in Research Week’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Symposium. Her poster, The Issues of Desertification and Food Production, presented her research on the topic of desertification and its effects throughout the world and the product that she designed to help repair land that was not previously desert but had become so because of human activities. Posters presentations were judged on quality of content, conclusions, visual material, presentation, originality, and significant to discipline. For more, read here .

Rural Studio Director Andrew Freear and Professor Elena Barthel, with Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and photographer Timothy Hursley,  published Rural Studio at Twenty by Princeton Architectural Press. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, co-founded by visionary Samuel Mockbee and his friend and colleague D.K. Ruth, and now directed by their equally dedicated and forward-thinking successor Andrew Freear. In addition to showcasing an impressive portfolio of projects, stunningly captured by photographer Timothy Hursley, this book provides an in-depth look at how Rural Studio has thrived through challenges and triumphs, missteps and lessons learned.

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The Rural Studio is part of an exhibition currently on view in Paris at the Cite_ de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. The exhibition, ‘Re-Enchanting the World,’ was designed in collaboration with winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Rural Studio’s own Elena Barthel worked on Rural Studio’s contribution to the exhibition, which will run through October 6, 2014.

On May 14 the City of Austin, Texas announced that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, a product of a two-year collaboration between artists/architects Lucy Begg and Robert Gay of Thoughtbarn.  Begg and Gay, both Rural Studio alumni, were commissioned in 2012 to oversee the design and implementation of the community garden at the North Austin Community Recreation Center. The project’s aim was to blend artistic innovation with the necessary functionality and sustainability needed to run such a garden in cooperation with the community, Begg and Gay collaborated with the community throughout the design process and established the Garden Leadership Group to develop a governing structure for the garden as well as bylaws, membership fees and rules; the Group will be lead by community volunteers. As the garden gains membership, it will expand to fill a 20,000 square foot area of the park.

From May 25-August 3, 2014, The Museum of Design in Atlanta, Georgia, will be showing Design for Social Impact, an exhibition which offers a look at how designers, engineers, students, professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from the Southeastern United States are using design to solve the problems of the 21st century.

The exhibition includes projects by Georgia Tech Students, Plywood People, Stanford’s d-School, MIT’s D-Lab, Stryker, Michael Graves, Interface, Steelcase, Mad Housers, Auburn University and many others.

Ryan Stephenson, BArch ’08, and the Stephenson Design Collective  were featured in the  Seattle Times in a piece about a modern house they designed for a client.  For more, read here.

Professor and former Director of the Urban Studio, Cheryl Morgan was included, along with the Urban Studio, in a Wall Street Journal article featuring projects where commercial properties were converted into residences.  For more, read here.

APLA Alum and architect Bruce Lanier (Arch ’99) in a partnership with artist Heather Spencer Holmes, created a headquarters for Birmingham, Alabama’s collaborative community called MAKEbhm.  With a passion for creativity and community, MAKEbhm rents its space to anyone with creative ideas  about business, organizations, etc. and a desire to collaborate.  Read more here.

 

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Nearly 40 creative research projects by CADC faculty, graduate and undergraduate students were exhibited in the Auburn University Research Week 2014 Creative Scholarship Showcase at the Auburn and Dixon Conference Center, April 15_16. Every school was represented, and projects ranged from the collaboration by interior architecture professor Sheri Schumacher and graphic designer professor Robert Finkel that created the Alabama Workshop[s] Brochure/Poster; industrial design student Ben Travis’s portable coffee press; graphic design student Avenley Horner’s Form Magazine; to landscape architecture professor David Hill’s Phenology project. “The depth, breadth and beauty of CADC creative research is, as Karen Rogers, CADC Associate Dean for Research, describes it, “absolutely stunning.”

Professor Emeritus Steffen R. Doerstling, PhD, passed away on Saturday, April 19. He was 86. Doerstling joined Auburn Architecture faculty in 1966 and retired in 1995. He is survived by his wife Ingrid, his son, Mark, his daughter-in-law and grandchildren. 

The Auburn University Office of Sustainability announced its 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award winners on Tuesday, April 22.  Judd Langham, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, a 2007 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, was one of the alumni recipients and Alexis Harrison, a senior in Environmental Design who will earn a minor in Sustainability, received a student award.  They were selected as “representatives of the larger passion and commitment to sustainability that exists within the Auburn community.”

Several faculty members and graduate students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) were involved in technical sessions at Advance in Atlanta, the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 26-29. 

Lauren Waldroop, a senior in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s Environmental Design (CADC) program, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research and study in Germany in the coming academic year. Lauren, who has dual degrees in Environmental Design and German with a double minor in International Business and Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, will study with Professor Jan Pieper in the Department of Architectural History at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University in Aachen, Germany. She will be part of a team of faculty and students conducting a comparative study of Northern Renaissance and Southern Renaissance architecture in theaters.

Graduate Students in the Master of Integrated Design & Construction program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction won several awards in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Challenge Home Student Design Competition to develop cost-effective zero energy ready homes for mainstream builders. Working under the direction of Professors Christian Dagg and Mike Thompson, the students designed two prototypes for a 1,600 square foot house that costs $110 square foot to build. The students competed against 28 schools from across the U.S. and Canada. The MIDC Orange Team won “Best Design Solution, and MIDC Blue team  won “Best Presentation “ and special recognition for “Subject Area Award: Design Goals” and  “Subject Area Award: Net Zero Design Integration.”The Auburn University Master of Integrated Design & Construction (MIDC) program is one of the only degree-granting programs in the United States that is jointly housed between construction management and architecture programs—Auburn University’s McWhorter School of Building Science and the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

On May 16 former Auburn University Urban Studio director Cheryl Morgan  presented a retrospective of Urban Studio work for the AIA Northwest Florida at the Museum of Commerce in Pensacola, Florida.

APLA congratulates alumnus Heather Brantley Stallworth (BArch / BIntArch ’00) and Catalyst Architects, LLC on being presented with the Robert Mills Design Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the design of ‘Seahorse: A Beach House.’  Amanda Herron Loper (BArch / BIntArch ’05) recently received an AIA San Francisco Merit Award for Interior Architecture  for the St. Frank Coffee shop.

APLA alumni–founded Epicenter recently announced that the Union Pacific Foundation will be contributing a sixth year of support.  The Foundation was Epicenter’s very first supporter in 2008 and is honored to be one of the Foundation’s forty-one grantees to which they awarded over two million dollars this year.

 

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Students in the Bachelor of Interior Architecture (ARIA) program held an exhibition of their work in the Dudley Gallery on March 6 in memory of Auburn University professor and alumnus Michael Hubbs. Hubbs, who died last year at age 63, was an interior architecture adjunct professor at Auburn University for nine years and a 1974 graduate of the interior design program. A group of alumni raised $2,070 dollars for a one-time scholarship in memory of Hubbs; the scholarship will be awarded at the end of spring semester to a rising fifth year thesis student in interior architecture.

Designer, urbanist and social innovator Liz Ogbu presented the final lecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s spring 2014 lecture series, “Renegades + Outlaws: Design Thinking at the Edge.” Ogbu runs her own multidisciplinary design and consulting practice, is a faculty member at UC Berkeley and Stanford’s d school and is an IDEO.org fellow. Her lecture, “Creative Disruption: Designing Opportunities for Impact,” was on Wednesday, April 9.

The Environmental Design Program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) hosted Open Ground: Conversations about Communities, Design Thinking + Social Entrepreneurship, on Thursday, April 10. The forum, open to anyone interested in design thinking and socially conscious entrepreneurship, involved presentations and dialogue with thought leaders Liz Ogbu, an IDEO.org fellow from Oakland, CA, who is also on the faculty at Berkeley and the Stanford d school; Blake Canterbury from Dime Creative in Atlanta, GA; and Sara Williamson and Grant Brigham from Jones Valley Teaching Farm in Birmingham, AL.

On April 24 an exhibit of work from the NCARB Award “Urban Healthcare” studio, which will include the Alagasco winners and finalists, will open at the AIA Center for Architecture in Birmingham. Alagasco is sponsoring the opening reception and the exhibit will be up until May 3. To read more about the 52nd annual Alagasco Competition, please visit StudioAPLA.

Congratulations to School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Rural Studio alumni Robert Gay and Lucy Begg on the inclusion of three of their projects, Santa Anna, Escaped Infrastructure, and Chromatic Confluence, in the 2014 AIA Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition. (thoughtbarn.com)

Assistant Professor of Community Planning, Dr. Jay Mittal, spoke at the seventh session of the World Urban Forum in Medellín, Columbia on April 7. A technical forum developed by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), the Forum occurs every two years to examine issues facing global human settlements.

 

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One of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s (CADC) strongest supporters has been inducted into the 2014 Alabama Construction Industry Hall of Fame. Patrick B. Davis Jr., FAIA, NCARB, is a Vietnam veteran once active in the design of Vietnam Memorial. Davis generously created the Patrick and Judy Davis Endowed Scholarship for CADC, which gives consideration to U.S. military active duty servicemen or military veterans. Currently Vice president of Healthcare Services at CMH Architects, Inc., in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis joins the following CADC alumni in the Alabama Construction Hall of Fame: Nicholas H. Holmes Jr. (2001); Bill Caton Sr. (2007); William W. Herrin (2008); D. Riley Stuart (2009); Richard Saliba (2010); Jim Anthony and Daniel Bennett (2011); Richard E. Barrow (2012); and Jamie Aycock and William A. Hunt (2013).

The spring 2014 edition of the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning’s (APLA) newsletter, StudioAPLA, has been published. The theme for the current newsletter is “Field Studies” and features several stories relating to student, faculty, and alumni experiences with travel and its importance in the academic and professional world.

On February 8, a team of Auburn College of Architecture, Design and Construction graduate students (Integrated Design and Construction and Building Construction) placed third in a design-build competition hosted by the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) in Reno, Nevada. Auburn students have placed in the top three for the last four out of five years in this competition. To read more, please go to the Auburn University CADC website.

Recently the exhibit, “Robert L Faust:  A Retrospective,” opened at the Alabama Center for Architecture in Birmingham, Alabama. The exhibit was curated by Prof. Christian Dagg, Chair of the Auburn Master of Integrated Design & Construction Program, who taught alongside Faust for several years and developed an interest in documenting Faust’s work.

Matt Mueller (BArch 2008) began his career in China in 2009 with the new Beijing office of the architecture branch of Atkins Global. Today Mueller is a senior manager of INCLUDED.design at INCLUDED, a non-profit organization that does, in their words, “essential work in difficult places, particularly the slums where migrants are crowded into the margins of big cities.” (http://included.org/) Recently Mueller was Architect in Charge for a mobile container project in Shanghai – a community center for the marginalized migrants in Shanghai that can be moved with the community if they are forced to change locations. For a complete description of the project, including drawings and images, please visit Arch Daily.

Auburn University students at the Rome Studio now have the opportunity to study at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy due to the generosity of 1987 Auburn architecture alumnus Keith Summerour, of Summerour Architects in Atlanta, Georgia. As part of a week-long workshop, thirty-five students and APLA professor Scott Finn will attend figure drawing classes each morning with art history studies and walking tours in the afternoon.

In the final months of the year-long celebration of Rural Studio’s 20th anniversary, the Studio aims to complete eight 20K Houses and five community projects. For more information about Rural Studio 20th anniversary (RS20) special lectures and events, visit the website.

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McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors were selected to be among the AD100, Architectural Digest magazine’s biennial list of the top talents in architecture and interior design. The new list was announced November 2013. McAlpine Tankersley Architecture was founded in Montgomery in 1983 and is the partnership of Alabama natives and Auburn School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) graduates Bobby McAlpine (’81), Greg Tankersley (’85), John Sease (’92) and Chris Tippett (’92).

Matthew Leavell, Project Director at Alabama Innovation Engine, was recently recognized in Birmingham magazine’s Groundbreaker’s series for his work with Engine on the Cahaba Blueway. Labeled by the Smithsonian as one of the top biologically diverse ecologies in the United States, Leavell, advocates that the Cahaba River is far more than a blue line that runs through the state, but has the potential to be a dynamic resource that can initiate economic development throughout the state in rural and urban communities.

APLA faculty (Professors Justin Miller, Robert Sproull and David Hinson) and the Alabama Association of Habitat Affiliates (AAHA) have been awarded second year funding of external grant which will support continued improvement in the quality of affordable housing in the state and affiliate training in best practices related to whole building performance. The state affiliates participating in the grant program, Green Home Alabama, will construct 16 Energy Star certified homes this upcoming spring and summer. The DESIGNhabitat program will be involved in the design of the two HERS 24 index homes, commonly referred to as a net zero ready home. Professors Miller and Sproull will lead this initiative, working with a team of undergraduate students this spring to design these net zero ready demonstration homes in close collaboration with the partner affiliates and future homeowners.

Rural Studio’s Newbern Town Hall was voted the 2014 Building of the Year in the category of Public Architecture by ArchDaily readers. From over 3,500 projects from around the world, its readership chose the best architecture in 14 categories. The Auburn student design team of Brett Bowers, David Frazier, Mallory Garrett and Zane Morgan worked with the Town of Newbern and its civic leaders to develop a formal gathering place for community functions. The Newbern Town Hall was completed in 2013 and, along with the Newbern Volunteer Fire Department (a 2005 Rural Studio Project), creates a civic space in Newbern, Alabama.

The Safe House Museum in Greensboro, Alabama was the Third Place winner in the public voting of World-architects eMagazine Building of the Year American-Architects 2013. The student team of Chris Currie, Cassandra Kellogg, and Candace Rimes restored the museum’s two existing shotgun houses and linked the buildings together. They also added a new gallery space for African-American art. The Safe House Museum is of great historical significance to the Civil Rights movement in Hale County, where once the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan.

The 2013–2014 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is entitled Renegades + Outlaws: Design Thinking at the Edge.” The series is conceived as a way to consider perceptual outliers within the design profession and includes the following visiting lecturers:  Richard Weller – Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, University of Pennsylvania; Gina Reichert – Founding Principal, Design 99; William O’Brien, Jr. – Founding Principal, WOJR; Jon Coddington – Professor and Head, Department of Architecture + Interiors, Drexel University; Liz Ogbu – Designer, Urbanist, Researcher, Social Innovation Strategist. For more information, please visit:  http://cadc.auburn.edu/architecture/special-programs/lecture-series

Charlene M. LeBleu, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, has been elected Vice President for Research of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) for 2014_2016. As Vice President for Research, LeBleu will guide a national research agenda of developing areas of knowledge in landscape architecture including collaborating with related organizations in establishing research priorities. LeBleu will serve a two-year term from March 2014_March 2016.

Rod Barnett, Chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, gave the Olmsted Lecture at the Harvard GSD in November 2013. His presentation, called Nonlinear Encounters, focused on aspects of his recent book Emergence in Landscape Architecture, which the publisher Routledge says is selling “brilliantly.” To view the lecture, please visit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=820vwFYR2lU

Maria Hines, a recent graduate of the Environmental Design program, and student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Auburn, had an article accepted in the Spring 2014 issue of AUJUS (The Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Design). 

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In the fall of 2010, the Elmore County Economic Development Authority approached the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture for help envisioning design options for a new interpretive center at the site of a five-mile wide meteor impact crater in Wetumpka, Alabama.  Today the remains of this crater create one of the only accessible ocean impact craters in the world, and the ECEDA hopes the facility will one day become part of a “trail” of science and space related attractions that would begin the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Sixty second-year architecture students, under the direction of Professors Justin Miller, Ryan Salvas, Bob Faust, and Robert Sproull developed design proposals for the facility as part of an annual competition sponsored by the Alabama Forestry Association and the City of Wetumpka.  The students’ designs were judged by a panel of architects and special guests from Elmore County who included Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis.  The winning model, belonging to student Ryan Zimmerman, was unveiled at a press conference and reception at the City of Wetumpka Administration Building on August 23.

The City of Wetumpka and ECEDA are currently working with Auburn University Montgomery’s Center for Government to complete various grant applications for the project and hope to break ground on the crater center by January 1, 2015.

_Andrew Freear, Wiatt Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Rural Studio, was included in the Oxford American’s ”The Most Creative Teachers in the South” (August 2011, Issue 74).

One of thirteen educators chosen from throughout the region, Freear was included among “Influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classroom, and in some cases, whose assignments become homes.”

Professor Christian Dagg, Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Interior Architecture program, has been named Acting Head of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture while Professor David Hinson completes a sabbatical leave.

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