Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik and design partner Coryn Kempster represented Buffalo with the project ‘Aldo: a Social Infrastructure’ in the 2019 exhibition ‘Cities’ at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in South Korea.
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik received an Independent Projects Grant in the Architecture + Design Program through the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) for the project “Growing up Modern”. The Architectural League of New York was the fiscal sponsor for the application.
With support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the University at Buffalo Resilient Buildings Laboratory, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Nicholas Rajkovich, recently completed a multiyear research project to help architects, builders, facility managers, and policymakers in New York State to address the impact of climate change on the building stock. The research reports, one-page fact sheets, and educational videos are posted at http://ap.buffalo/adapting-buildings.
Assistant Professor Charles Davis was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians. In this capacity he is collaborating with a sub=committee within SAH to create the first ‘Race in Architectural History’ affiliation group of the organization. The group will serve the membership by planning thematic roundtables on race, ethnicity and identity at future annual conferences and organizing publication workshops for new book projects on race and architecture.
Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to the book ‘Canadian Modern Architecture’ that was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Stephanie Cramer, recently appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture at UB, was curator of the exhibition ‘Affordable Housing Initiatives’ which opened in Hayes Hall Gallery in September 2019.
Architecture faculty exhibit work at world famous museum
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Yasmine Abbas and DK Osseo-Asare, assistant professors of architecture and engineering design at Penn State, are among the invited artists whose works are on display in the “Africas in Production” exhibition at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The exhibit is part of the Digital Imaginaries project, which began in spring 2018 with events in Senegal and South Africa before heading to Germany. Throughout the year partners including Kër Thiossane, an independent art and multimedia center in Dakar (Senegal), the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival and Wits Arts Museum, both in Johannesburg (South Africa), collaborated on a series of distinct but connected programs, including workshops, seminars, talks, performances and exhibitions. These activities were designed to “bring together artists, architects, makers, hackers and researchers to question and reimagine how globalized technologies shape and shift African futures.
Penn State’s submission to the exhibit stems from the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), founded by Abbas and Osseo-Asare in Ghana. AMP is a youth-driven community-based project that couples the practical know-how of makers in the informal sector with the technical knowledge of students and young professionals in the science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) fields to amplify inclusive innovation.
Abbas and Osseo-Asare’s AMP project has received international attention, winning the Rockefeller Foundation’s Centennial Innovation Challenge Award, being named the Africa 4 Tech Digital Champion for Educational Technology (EdTech) and the Design Corps Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Award for Public Interest Design. Most recently, the duo received seed funding via a Penn State College of Arts and Architecture faculty research grant to advance their “spacecraft” research around community-enabled materials design research, which is currently ongoing with a number of graduate and undergraduate students at the University Park campus.
The pair traveled to Germany in November to install their third-generation AMP Spacecraft, which featured a “building performance” wherein graduate students and faculty from the Karslruhe Institute of Technology participated in an experimental test build to provide feedback on Penn State students’ design work to date. AMP Spacecraft is small-scale, incremental, low-cost and open-source, operating simultaneously as a set of tools and equipment to “craft space,” and empowering makers with limited means to both navigate and terraform their environment. Made in Ghana by grassroots makers and shipped from the first AMP maker hub in Accra’s Agbogbloshie scrapyard, the AMP Spacecraft prototypes a smart canopy device – or “Scanopy” – that collects air quality data and explores opportunities to amplify environmental sensing in data-scarce regions.
While in Germany, Abbas and Osseo-Asare presented the AMP project along with their on-going design research around maker ecosystems in African spaces during a “Tangana” panel at the “Open Codes: The World as a Field of Data” installation at ZKM. Panelists included makers from Ghana and Germany that discussed common trends in open-source maker and technology culture, as well as opportunities for bottom-up (democratic) innovation by leveraging citizen science initiatives and/or models of open science.
ZKM | Karlsruhe is the fourth-highest ranking museum in the world by ArtsFacts.net and houses both spatial arts, such as painting, photography and sculpture, and time-based arts, such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater and performance. The “Africas in Production” exhibit is now open and will remain on display until March 31, 2019.
Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo.
Assistant Prof. Jin Young Song.presented ‘Flutter Fin’ at the international conference Advance Buildng Skins in Bern,Switzerland n October 2018. His proposal for a façade prototype has been designed to harness electrical energy from the building envelope and shares insights on the potential of elastic instability in the building industry. The Conference contributed to multi-disciplinary design and integrated planning approaches to reducing the energy consumption of buildings and brought together architects, engineers, scientists, and fabricators from around the world.
Professor Edward Steinfeld, Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Utah AIA in Salt Lake City on September 21. His lecture was entitled ‘Beyond the ADA: Practicing Universal Design’. He was also a guest speaker at the School of Architecture at Hasselt University in Belgium where he presented ‘Increasing Adoption of Universal Design’
The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access at UB has been approved for a five year cycle for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation. The prime grantee of the $5million grant is the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. The Center’s work will include research on accessibility of automated vehicles in partnership with major automobile manufacturers and SAE mobility companies. .
Assistant Professor Erkin Ozay organized the symposium ‘Strategies of Empowerment: A survey of Emerging Urban Practices in Weak Market Cities’ at UB in October. The panelists included Daniel D’Oca (Harvard, GSD), Jennifer Goold (Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore), Patty Heyda (Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts), and Marc Norman (University of Michigan, Taubman College).
Assistant Professors. Erkin Ozay and Nic Rajkovich directed a team of graduate students from UB’s Urban Design Graduate Research Group in the Mid-West Urban Design Charrette in Toledo, Ohio from October 5-7. The team of faculty and students worked with peers to develop proposals for the revitalization of the Junction Neighborhood.
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik’s “Growing up Modern – Oral History as Architectural Preservation’ was published in JAE Vol.72 alongside photographs by Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempster.
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik, Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempsterand Adjunct InstructorVirginia Melnyck were selected designers of installations for PLAY/GROUND – the transformation of a former school in Medina, NY..
Professor Bran Carter was an invited speaker in the Toronto Public Library Culture & Arts Program on October 18. The title of his lecture was ‘Ancient + Modern – I.M.Pei’.
UB NOMAS Chapter was awarded first prize in the 2018 NOMAS Design Competition in Chicago in October. The Chapter, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, developed a proposal entitled ‘Roots’ that advanced ideas for urban agriculture in Woodlawn. This was their third consecutive award in this national design competition that is held annually.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) has been given the privilege of starting a New Online Graduate Program, IPAL (Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure).
IPAL is NCARB approved and SIUC is the only school in the State of Illinois that has this graduate architecture program.The new IPAL Master’s Program will begin its first semester in Fall 2018.
The online IPAL program is designed so that the very best students will be able
to finish their AXP hours, receive their Master’s Degree and Architectural Registration
If you know of anyone that qualifies for this program and is interested, please steer him or her towards SIUC. The IPAL program begins Fall 2018; we are looking nationwide for students.
Introduction: David Diamond–NYIT School of Architecture and Design
Speakers: Kenneth Frampton–Columbia University James H. Rubin–SBU ART, SUNY at Stonybrook Carlos Jullian de la Fuente–Architect DPLG and Urbanist Mary McLeod–Columbia Unversity Hasan-Uddin Khan–Roger William University Bernard Bauchet–Architect Ahmet Gülgönen–L’Ecole d’Architecture Paris Belleville Jon Michael Schwarting–NYIT School of Architecture and Design
Reception will follow. R.S.V.P. to archevents@nyit.edu Space is limited.
Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett presented the paper, “New Architectural Trajectories: Operating at the Intersection(s) of Rupture(s): Recovering Architectural, Cultural and Ecological Landscapes through Design Acupunctures” in the “New Trajectories in Academia Indeterminate Urbanisms” session at the 2016 ACSA International Conference in Chile. This work was based on her design research and teaching in China.
Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett’s professional work, entitled “(Re) Stitch Tampa, designing the post war Coastal City with Ecologies” was selected to be shown at the BUGAIK International Architecture Exhibition organized by the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam Chapter of the Architectural Institute of Korea from November 25-29, 2016. This work will be published by ACTAR.
Assistant Professor Martha Bohm, Director of the Grow House – a project designed by UB and a winner in the 2016 International Solar Decathlon – received an AIAWNY 2016 Design Award for the project on behalf of the design and construction team of UB students and faculty.
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik and Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempster completed the public installation project ‘Full Circle’ in Buffalo in October and the opening was celebrated with a public event on October 25, 2016.The project was commissioned by CEPA Gallery and C.S.I Curatorial Projects for CEPA’s West Side Lofts Project and selected by design competition. (More info http://www.ck-jj.con/fullcircle2016)
Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik was a contributor to ‘African Modernism’. The book received the 2016 DAM Book Award.
Assistant Professor Nicholas Rajkovich chaired the symposium ‘From Sandy to Snowvember’held in Buffalo in November. The series of presentations and discussions, which focused on climate change and its impact on building design across New York State, brought together a multi-disciplinary group that included representatives from NYSERDA, UB research and professionals from practice.
College of Architecture Students Work with UNMC and MMI on Facility Design Concepts
Nothing is more exciting to a design student than the possibility of their designs actually being used in real-world situations. The work of UNL interior design and architecture students this past semester has set the groundwork for a new facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
When College of Architecture Instructor Sheila Elijah-Barnwell had heard that UNMC was considering a new facility for Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI), a healthcare facility that focuses on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, she jumped at the opportunity. She approached Dr. Wayne Stuberg, Professor and Interim Director of MMI, and Ron Schaefer, Interim Executive Director, Facilities Planning & Construction, with a proposal to involve her students in selecting a site and developing design concepts.
MMI welcomed the idea; in fact, a new facility had been on their radar for several years as part of their strategic campus plan and the idea of involving College of Architecture students in their strategic campus plan seemed like a great idea.
“Since we are part of the training institution of Nebraska, this was an ideal way to have UNMC collaborate with UNL on a project that would benefit the students as well as the families we serve,” said Dr. Stuberg.
“The facility is quite outdated, having first been built in the 50s and having been added on to twice,” commented Dr. Stuberg.
The College of Architecture and its students were equally excited, but they had their work cut out for them. This wasn’t just a weeklong project for these students. They spent a great portion of their semester researching multiple subjects related to this project even before developing design proposals.
In the beginning the students got to know MMI, who MMI was, what services they provided and who their clients were.
Next, students worked on site selection. They analyzed the UNMC campus and presented site proposals to the MMI administrators. Feedback from the MMI team was crucial to the students as they developed their preliminary designs further.
“Since we are multi-faceted in what we do, it was important for the students to understand how we should best be position within the new building,” Dr. Stuberg commented. “From these conversations, the students gained an understanding regarding the relationships between the departments and how to strategically locate those areas that shared clients or education and research interests.”
MMI met with the students again to go over their preliminary plans. “We had some key requirements to be carried through for all conceptual plans such as a central reception area,” Dr. Stuberg said.
A centralized location would allow for multi-disciplinary evaluations and reduce the need for the client to move from one departmental area to the next.
The culmination of the entire process came at last in early December when the twelve teams presented their final proposals to the MMI administrators and directors. MMI representatives were impressed by the teams’ creativity and said they had come a long way during this process.
“They needed to understand the needs of a complex population including the clinicians, staff members, researchers, students, clients and client families,” Elijah-Barnwell explained. “They did a great job of processing all those needs and client requirements and created some -thoughtful design proposals.”
“We hit the ground running with our research,” explained Luke Abkes, fifth-year master of architecture student. Abkes said even before he put pen to paper, he did hours of research on the client and the Institution.
MMI was the ideal partner according to the faculty and students.
“MMI was great with communicating their ideas and giving us feedback; they were very generous with their time,” Abkes added. “MMI was as invested in this project as we were which created a mutual excitement for everything that was going on.”
The students appreciated input from outside of the classroom for a different perspective and experience. “We were excited to finally have a real client and a real building that we were working on and they were excited because they were getting all of these brand new ideas from students who were thinking outside of the box, where as an architect, that they hire in the future, might be a little more bound by budget,” Abkes added.
Interior Design Instructor Stacy Spale thought having a real “client” pushed the students to excel. “The students did great with the client experience. I think the students always care more when it’s a real client, and it has real potential. In five or six years, some of the ideas our students presented might end up in the real new Munroe-Meyer Institute. That’s really exciting and inspiring. It gave them a since of purpose and direction. It’s not just an academic exercise, it has the potential to really change things.”
The average visitor might not understand the level of planning that goes into designing a building and all the considerations that are taken into account. However, these student teams thought of everything down to every material they chose and the reason for it. For example, they chose clear glass in areas where light can inspire people and open up a space and translucent or opaque glass in other areas where privacy was important.
Ashley Wojtalewicz, fourth-year interior design student and Luke Abkes’ interdisciplinary project partner, said the interior design students were assigned to detail out the recreational therapy area and the main lobby space. Both the architectural and the interior design students placed a great amount of consideration into the needs of MMI’s disabled patient population.
“With our material choices, the concept doesn’t really feel clinical at all but yet it still supports clinical activities, and that’s what we were going for as a team, we didn’t want the clients to feel like they were in an institution,” Wojtalewicz added.
Material choices were important to Wojtalewicz for user comfort. For example, many interior designers chose carpet in appropriate spaces not only for comfort but also the acoustics in the room.
Interior design finish materiality was also useful to guide the user through the facility in an intuitive, seamless way, also known as “wayfinding,” which was a common theme woven into many of the student proposals.
“Using materiality, there are different ways that we can give visual cues to the patient; so if they can’t read, they still know where to go,” commented Wojtalewicz. Wayfinding is spatial problem-solving using landmarks or visual cues. The interior design students used their material selections to intuitively lead patients through the building. In one proposal, all blue lines on the floor lead to the front desk and all red lines lead to physical therapy, etc. In another proposal, all the levels of the building have different wall colors to assist the visitor with wayfinding.
Both Wojtalewicz and Abkes, said their instructors were key contributors to the project’s success.
“My instructor, Stacy Spale, has given us really great feedback as we moved through the process,” commented Wojtalewicz. “She has a great deal of background in healthcare design.”
Abkes concurred and added, “My instructor Sheila is actually an adjunct professor who also works at HDR. She’s very well connected with a lot of the healthcare industry around Omaha. She was able to bring in real-world experience.”
From MMI’s standpoint, “It’s a win-win situation,” Dr. Stuberg said.
The students presented themselves and their ideas well and were very professional through the whole project. Dr. Stuberg admitted at times, the students would bring up ideas that MMI hadn’t even thought of yet. Dr. Stuberg said he can see components of the student designs being incorporated into the final facility. He added that their designs and research will definitely be part of the foundational document they give the contracted architectural firm.
When asked if he would partner with the College of Architecture again given a similar opportunity, Dr. Stuberg responded, “I would do this again in a heartbeat!”
University of Oklahoma Division of Architecture: October 2014
DesignIntelligence (DI) Magazine has named Director and Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA and Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Dr. Stephanie Pilat as two of DesignIntelligence’s 30 Most Admired Educators for 2015.
In association with the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture, Assistant Professor Dr.Catherine Barrett, AIA chaired the 2014 Creating_Making Forum, November 5-7. Sessions, keynote speakers, and student workshops built upon discourse introduced at the inaugural 2010 Creating_Making Forum. Featured speakers included E.B. Min, principal at Min|Day, and Kristen Murray, principal at Olson Kundig Architects. Both Min and Murray collaborated with select students in 1-1/2 day workshops that generated ideas for art installations within downtown Norman’s Main Street.
Associate Professor David Boeck, AIA is leading a 4th year studio class to New Orleans this semester to explore the Claiborne Avenue site related to the 2015 NOMA Student Competition. The project allows Architecture and Interior Design students to collaborate with OU’s NOMAS chapter. The 3rd year Interior Design students are designing a restaurant within the complex.
Professor and Director of The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi recently returned from a sabbatical in the Middle East where he visited, surveyed, and documented 27 architectural sites of various historical nature and size particular to Iranian desert architecture. He is currently working with professional filmmakers in Oklahoma City and New York to assemble and edit hundreds of hours of video into three documentaries focused on courtyard architecture, historical wind catchers, and ancient technology to bring subterranean water to remote locations. For more information about CMEAC, vist: http://www.ou.edu/content/architecture/centers/CMEAC.html
Professor and Director Hans Butzer, AIA, through his practice Butzer Gardner Architects, recently received an Honor Award from AIA Central States Region and an Honor Award AIA Central Oklahoma chapter for the “SLIVR” Building.
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Student Development Marjorie P. Callahan, AIA recently authored Teaching Leadership Skills: “Practice” Coursework in Architecture Education Program in theJournal of Social Sciences Collection. Marjorie was also an invited Conference Facilitator on Leadership Issues at the recent State of Oklahoma Women in Higher Education Conference. She also collaborated with Professor Debra Reisweber on the 2014 published book Sooner State of Mind: Forging Leadership Legacies North of the Red River.
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Curriculum Development Anthony Cricchio, RA and Associate Professor Lee Fithian, AIA helped lead OU’s 2nd annual C5 Capstone Collaborative Competition. Ten interdisciplinary teams, consisting of senior Architecture, Interior Design, and CNS students partnered with JE Dunn Construction and architectural firm ADG. The two-week competition focused on an urban infill rehabilitation scenario in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown. Through the use of BIM and other collaborative technologies, students presented comprehensive and interior concepts along with cost estimates and schedules for the client group.
Director of Small Town Studios Associate Professor and Director of Small Town Studios Ron Frantz, AIA collaborated with the CoA’s Division of Regional and City Planning to host the recent American Planning Association (APA) Oklahoma Chapter Conference. Ron was also a guest speaker in OU’s recent inaugural Placemaking Academy.
Long time DivA supporter and award winning architect John Ward, AIA, principal at TAP Architecture in Oklahoma City, recently joined the faculty as a Professor of Practice.
Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA has been working with Hornbeek Blatt Architects on the 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City. New York-based Deborah Berke & Partners are the design architects. The project is an adaptive reuse project transforming the historic Fred Jones building into a boutique hotel that will showcase permanent and rotating artwork.
Additional news includes:
Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape students are collaborating on a design competition to re-imagine a section of historic Route 66 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Design teams are challenged to change perceptions of the stretch of road by redesigning the streetscape and cultural experience. Teams are also developing new ideas for signage along Route 66 which draw from the legacy of the legendary road’s neon signs. Led by Director of Urban Design Shawn Schaefer and Director of Regional and City Planning Dr. Dawn Jourdan, the faculty team includes Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Pilat, Assistant Professor Scott Williams, and Associate Professor Jay Yowell, AIA. The project has been supported by a $10,000 grant from the Signage Foundation, Inc. Each student on the winning team will be awarded a travel grant to support a Spring 2015 trip to Chicago.
Jerri Hodges Bonebrake, Bruce Goff’s long-time assistant, sadly passed away late 2014. The CoA’s Jerri Hodges Bonebrake award will continue to recognize outstanding staff. A newly developed student scholarship in her name is being developed to reward outstanding creative students.
CU Denver offers undergraduate architecture degree in Colorado
DENVER (January 26, 2015) The University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce the creation of the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program. The new degree is the only program in Colorado to offer architecture specific coursework to undergraduates.
CU Denver received approval from the Board of Regents to initiate a four year BS in Architecture degree program in October 2012. The new program has now completed four semesters and has grown from 32 students in the first semester to 213 in the Fall 2013 semester. The program has also attracted over 35 international students, including a cohort of 23 students from Brazil in an agreement with the Brazilian government, and numerous community colleges and out of state transfers.
As a pre-professional program, the BS in Architecture program prepares graduates to enter accredited professional Master of Architecture (MArch) programs at CU Denver and across the country. Students who complete the BS in Architecture degree and enroll in the MArch program at CU Denver have the advantage of completing the MArch degree in two years instead of the usual three and a half years to complete a Master’s program. _ The MArch degree is the NAAB accredited professional program.
“The CU Denver undergraduate and graduate Architecture programs offer citizens in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain region, and beyond, a clear path to the practice of architecture,” said Program Director Phillip Gallegos. “Students in our BSArch program benefit and learn from close contact with graduate students, practicing architects and other design, construction and real estate professionals working in the field.”
The University of Colorado Denver provides a quality academic experience through engagement with gifted faculty members, exposure to original research and real-world learning. Located in the heart of downtown, CU Denver offers its 14,000 students unparalleled internship, career and networking opportunities. Part of the fabric of the city, CU Denver has evolved into a leading urban public university boasting eight schools and colleges, and offering bachelor through doctoral degrees. CU Denver is a community where students learn with purpose and benefit from a range of opportunities that enhance their lives and careers.
For more information please contact:
Phillip Gallegos, Arch D
Associate Professor
Director, Bachelor of Science in Architecture Program
QUT Creative Industries Faculty PhD Scholarships for 2015 Entry
Applicants with excellent academic track records (equal to an Australian Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours) or equivalent professional research experience may be eligible for competitive PhD scholarships to undertake study in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. The Faculty is also offering a number of top-ups to these scholarships for highly ranked students whose projects align with our areas of strength.
The Creative Industries Faculty’s world class, industry-connected researchers undertake innovative applied and theoretical research in the media, creative arts and design, and QUT is home to some of the world’s best researchers in digital media, communication and culture, given the highest possible rating of 5 in both the 2010 and 2012 ERA rankings.
Researchers in Architecture at QUT cover a range of different areas, from history and theory of architecture to daylighting; from subtropical urbanism to people-place interaction; from design education to sustainability. Our work is grounded in real world research projects aimed to provide a service to the general community as well as advance knowledge in strategic areas. An overview of our researchers and their expertise is provided in the included poster.
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