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The Galley House, a design submission developed by Architecture and Interior Architecture students Mary Win McCarthy, Ashley Clark and Peter McInish, was selected from a pool of over 100 submissions for one of five top prizes in the 2011-2012 The Sustainable Home / Habitat for Humanity Student Design Competition.  The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) student team was co-sponsored by APLA Architecture Professors Justin Miller and Robert Sproull, Jr. In addition to receiving a $1500 cash prize for the “Best use of Vinyl” award, the team will have their design exhibited the ACSA 101st Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, in March 2013, and at the American Institute of Architects’ National Convention in Denver, CO, in June 2013. The competition was administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Vinyl Institute.

Courtney Brett, a 2007 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was named the AIA’s youngest active member by the American Institute of Architects this year.  Beginning her college career at Auburn when she was just 16, Brett was recruited by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York out of college.  Currently Brett is involved with her own firm, Casburn Brett Architecture, in Daphne, Alabama.

Brandon Block, a May 2012 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was one of two top winners in the “Live.Work.Learn” student architecture contest announced at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, DC. Sponsored by Boral Bricks, the contest was planned in collaboration with the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and required students to design a live/work building using brick for 70 percent of the exterior siding. Entries were judged on their excellence in live/work design and creative use of bricks by a panel representing industry leadership in the architecture, brick, and building industries. Block’s winning design was part of his undergraduate comprehensive thesis project developed under the direction of Professor Behzad Nakhjavan.

 

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Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) continues to be ranked among the nation’s best. In the annual DesignIntelligence survey, “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools 2014,” APLA’s undergraduate program in Architecture is ranked 8th in its fields nationally. Survey respondents rated Auburn students as among the nations strongest in several skill areas, including Construction Models & Materials (2nd), Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork (2nd), and Sustainable Design Practices & Principles (3rd). These rankings are based on annual surveys of leading practitioners in these fields.

October 25 marked the 25th anniversary of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s (CADC) annual Pumpkin Carve. Daylong student pumpkin carving yielded up to 400 pumpkins that were displayed and lit for public enjoyment as the sun sets. The often intricate designs were judged on creativity, appearance and craftsmanship, and the winning pumpkins were auctioned off to raise money for the Auburn University chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS).

A cross disciplinary team consisting of Kevin Laferriere (Architecture), Kevin Hill (Building Science), William Holcomb (Building Science), and Jared Taylor (Building Science) from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and from the McWhorter School of Building Science placed second in the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) 2013 Student Competition. The Auburn team, Tiger Building Company, won the Southeast regional competition out of an original field of forty teams from twenty-seven universities. The team was coached by Ben Farrow, Paul Holley and Mike Thompson.

A student exhibition of work from the course ”Architecture in Watercolor” was on display in the Dudley Gallery at Dudley Commons in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) in October. The class was taught by instructor Iain Stewart (BArch ’00), an architectural illustrator who has made a name for himself working for firms throughout the US and Europe for over sixteen years. Stewart will be back on campus teaching watercolors in the spring of 2014.

The 2013 lecture series of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, entitled “Renegades + Outlaws:  Design Thinking at the Edge” continued over the month of October with lectures from Michael Murphy, the Chief Executive Officer of MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture firm based in Boston, MA; Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the two principals of the award-winning Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects in Atlanta, Georgia; Riccardo d’Acquino of Riccardo d’Aquino & Partners in Rome, Italy, a firm recognized for works in Architecture, Monument Restoration and Urban Design; and Professor Kathryn Moore, Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute, and the UK representative of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

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Jane Frederick, APLA ’82, was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows in Washington D.C. this past May.  Ms. Frederick is a principal in the firm of Frederick + Frederick Architects in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Design Initiative, led by partner and APLA alum Marshall Anderson (’97), was the recipient of a 2012 Birmingham AIA Honor Award for the design of Professor Cheryl Morgan’s (Director of the Urban Studio) Morgan Street Loft in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. 

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Assistant Professor Kevin Moore won Best Creative Scholarship for his submission to the IDEC (Interior Design Educators Council) South Regional Conference 2013. Moore presented Beyond the Groundwork, a collaborative alumni exhibit designed and installed by Moore and Amanda (Herron) Loper (BArch 2005). The exhibit was organized by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and held at the Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, Alabama in February 2011.

Professor Joceyln Zanzot’s collaborative video was recently published in the inaugural issue of PUBLIC, the on-line, peer-reviewed journal of Imagining America. Zanzot’s piece, called Common Ground in Alabama, explores four years of emerging pedagogy and methodology for community-based art and design practice through the Mobile Studio. The filmic essay features three key projects that cross scales from the state to the county to the schoolyard, exemplifying principles and practices of the studio. To view the short film, please visit:  http://public.imaginingamerica.org/blog/article/common-ground-in-alabama/

Professor Robert Sproull’s winning entry in an international design competition held by the city of Quito, Ecuador in 2008, is currently featured as part of an exhibit called, “Airport Landscape Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sproull’s entry, designed in collaboration with Ernesto Bilbao, develops the Parque Bicentenario (formerly known as Parque del Lago) in a planning strategy for converting a local international airport into an urban green space on the same scale as New York City’s Central Park. The exhibit is open through December 19, 2013.

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Two APLA proposals have been awarded Daniel F. Breeden Endowment Grants by the AU Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning: Dr. Jay Mittal received a Breeden Grant to support GIS teaching in the Community Planning Program.  Dr. Carla Bell & Dr. Becki Retzlaff received a Breeden Grant to support the development of a documentary film:  “DIVA Against all Odds: Documenting Invisible Voices.”  This project will be connected to the seminar on race and gender Bell & Retzlaff will teach this fall.

Professor Josh Emig, Co-Director of the Master of Integrated Design & Construction program, has been appointed to a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Architecture.  Josh has prior experience as Director of the Applied Technology Group, an interdisciplinary group of technical specialists at SHoP in New York, as well as experience as a façade consultant at Front Inc.   

Professor Ryan Salvas has been appointed to a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Architecture, and also joins APLA after experience at Shop Architects’ Applied Technology Group in New York City.  Professor Salvas is also a founding member of HeliOptix, a collaborative company composed of academics, inventors, designer and builders whose team dynamic and field expertise allow them to produce innovations in building integrated products.  Professor Salvas is teaching architectural design studios, materials and methods classes, and a sustainability theory and construction seminar.

Professor Kevin Moore has been appointed to a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Architecture/Interior Architecture.  Joining APLA after 10 years of professional experience in New Orleans and Chicago, and prior teaching experience at the University of Texas at Austin, Professor Moore teaches in the Interior Architecture program where he focuses on experiential effect. 

Professor Jocelyn Zanzot was the lead landscape architect for Aditazz, one of two  winning teams in the “Small Hospital Big Ideas Competition” sponsored by the non-profit health plan and care provider Kaiser Permanente.

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Brian Bell, AIA, and David Yocum, AIA of the Atlanta, Georgia firm, bldgs have been appointed APLA’s 2012 Paul Rudolph Fellows and will be joining fourth year architecture students Spring Semester 2012. 

Third Year architecture students, directed by Professor Sheri Schumacher, worked with the community of Gees Bend, Alabama to investigate innovative and sustainable design initiatives and activities aimed at improving the social, economic and cultural conditions of the community. Gee’s Bend is a small community of about 700 residents, located on a peninsula in a bend of the Alabama River in southwest Alabama. The community has gained widespread attention for the work of its quilters, recognized most recently through a nation wide exhibition of 70 Gee’s Bend quilts launched in 2002 that transformed the art world.  The remarkable quilt making tradition in Gee’s Bend has made it a destination point for visitors from around the world..

 Schumacher’s students developed design solutions for local projects including a Gee’s Bend Learning Center for the study of quilting, as well as Visitor Housing and Community Regeneration opportunities located in the existing vacant Boykin School building  and the Gee’s Bend Park. The students’ design proposals aimed to communicate the compelling cultural and social history of the community for future educational travel groups visiting Gee’s Bend,  by encouraging economic development and increasing the benefits of local assets.

AL Innovation Engine (Engine, alabamaengine.org/about/) is a new initiative jointly funded by Auburn University and The University of Alabama that is working to create large-scale, positive change and encourage economic development in rural communities throughout Alabama. Engine’s objective is to support communities within Alabama as they work together to realize the potential of their best assets: residents, local leaders, natural resources, and their rich history.

Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture, Professor Rod Barnett is involved in a partnership with the Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Regional Commission to re-design a district of vacant and abandoned properties along Valley Creek, one of the main sources of water in Birmingham.  The design efforts strive to transform the properties into a network of useful and imaginative design interventions that contribute to both the social and the physical rehabilitation of neighborhoods affected by urban blight.

Professor David Hill, AIA, ASLA, LEED AP, received a Merit Award from the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the AIA for 274 Bragg Avenue. Hill transformed this 3,390 square foot circa 1920’s warehouse near downtown Auburn, Alabama into a residence for the designer and his family.

Russell Harrington, a dual-degree Master’s of Landscape Architecture-Community Planning student, has just won the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association Outstanding Planning Student Award for his work with Professor Charlene LeBleu on a grant entitled “Taking Measures Across the Old Federal Road.”  Russell will receive his award and at the 2012 Awards Program to be held at the AL APA Annual Meeting, February 16, 2012, in Mobile, Alabama.

Professor Charlene LeBleu has been elected the Vice President of the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association for 2012-2014.

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