The College or Architecture and Design is pleased to announce the promotion of Dale A. Gyure, Ph.D to Full Professor, and granted tenure and promotion to rank of Associate Professor to Constance C. Bodurow, Assoc. AIA, AICP.
Associate Professor Brian Schermer, Sherry Ahrentzen (University of Florida), and Carole Deprés (Université Laval) are pleased to announce the publication of their co-edited book: Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries: The Milwaukee School in Environment-Behavior Studies. With 12 chapters authored by UWM graduates and other contributions, this book celebrates the nature, history and ongoing contributions of UW-Milwaukee’s PhD Program in Architecture. It also celebrates the program’s values —namely an understanding of architecture and built and natural settings as the locus of human endeavor and the conviction that research and design application can enhance the quality of people’s lives. View the book at Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3873453
Professor Mark Keane, President of www.NEXT.cc, and Prof. Linda Keane, SAIC, Director of www.NEXT.cc, are organizing a special session on K-12 design education at the upcoming ACSA National Conference in San Francisco. Please come to engage the panel of invited national organizations including the Vitruvius Program, Association of Architectural Organizations, Ace Mentor, San Francisco Builds, Kid MOB, and AIAS for discourse on STEM to STEAM, digital outreach to national high schools, marketing design fields to the next generation, project based learning, and design education as a means to integrate the traditional silos of K-12 education. Session TH 3/21 3:30. Contact keane@uwm.edu
Assistant professor Karl Wallick recently won an AIA Cincinnati merit award for his County Line Barn project. This April, Prof. Wallick will be coordinating the symposium, Evolutionary Infrastructure, with Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi as part of the 2013 Urban Edge Award. The symposium will include a multidisciplinary panel of innovators in the fields of architecture, infrastructure, art, landscape, ecology, and urban design. The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning introduced the biennial Urban Edge Award in 2006 to recognize excellence in urban design and the ability of individuals to create major, positive change within the public realm.
Associate Professor Chris Cornelius received the Richard B. Ferrier Prize for Best Physical Submission in the 2012 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition. The Ken Roberts Memorial delineation competition is the oldest architectural drawing competition in the world. Cornelius also had a second submission selected as a finalist in the Physical Submission category. Both drawings will be a part of an exhibit of all of the 2012 winners sponsored by AIA Dallas.
Associate Professor Manu Sobti’s photo exhibit titled “Silk Road Travels 1” is a collation of select images from his extensive travels across the vast expanses of Central Asia and China. While his images capture the silence, solitude, resonance of these landscapes, Sobti also views architecture and its urban/rural settings as the rich background that plays out complex human choreographies and everyday stories. He examines the multiplicity of times and traditions within his deliberate framing of the background, foreground and middle ground in each rendition, connected to his special way of telling his stories. The exhibition runs from January 23 – March 3rd at the Studio Lounge in Milwaukee.
Associate Professor Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP, has been named as one of the six recipients of the 2011 NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) Grant Award for the Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy. Prof. Kim received a $13,800 grant award to support his proposal entitled “Public Interest Design Practices and Research Workshop.” This workshop aims to expand the discipline of architecture by challenging the traditional definition and boundaries of the profession of architecture, and by exploring alternative design practices.
Rochelle Martin, Ph.D., passed away on October 8, 2011. Dr. Martin had been with Lawrence Tech since 1986 and was a Professor in the College of Architecture and Design at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Martin received a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Architecture from Lawrence Tech, a Master of Arts in History and Bachelor of Science in Education from Wayne State University. Prior to working at Lawrence Tech, Rochelle was an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan.
In her years at Lawrence Tech, she served on numerous university and college committees, along with founding the university’s Tau Sigma Delta chapter. A published author, she served on many thesis juries and enjoyed researching the impact of film media on architecture.
Rochelle was highly respected and will be greatly missed. She is survived by her daughter Marilee.
Living Light, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s solar-powered house, stood on the National Mall as an exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which concluded earlier this month.
The ten-day event coincided with the 150th anniversaries of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Morrill Act, which created land-grant universities. The house was one of only seventeen projects selected to represent the nation’s land-grant universities at the Smithsonian festival.
An estimated one million people saw the home and nearly 16,000 toured it during the festival. Since its completion in September 2011, more than 50,000 people have toured the house.
The zero-energy home demonstrated the merits of solar-powered living when a large storm struck the nation’s capital on June 29, leaving thousands of residents without power and forcing the festival to close for a day. Living Light maintained full-power during this time, producing twice the energy the house needed for all its normal day-to-day functions, such as powering its air conditioning, television, kitchen appliances, and lighting. Throughout its entire stay at the festival, the house was completely removed from the electrical grid and self-sustaining in all of its energy production.
Living Light began with students and faculty in the UT College of Architecture and Design and was led by faculty members Stach, Richard Kelso, James Rose, and Barbara Klinkhammer of the college, along with Deb Shmerler in the School of Art, Leon Tolbert in electrical engineering, and Stan Johnson and Bill Miller in mechanical engineering.
More than 200 UT students and faculty across nine academic disciplines designed the house for the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, an international competition among collegiate teams. UT placed eighth overall in the decathlon and claimed high-standing marks in several categories, including first in energy production, third in engineering, third in hot-water production, third in energy-efficient appliances, and fifth in architecture.
After the decathlon, Living Light began the Tennessee Tour. The tour is a joint effort of UT’s colleges of Architecture and Design and Engineering, and UT Extension, the outreach office of the UT Institute of Agriculture.
For more information about the house and its next stop on the Tennessee Tour—Chattanooga—visit livinglight.utk.edu/.
The School of Architecture at Southern Illinois University has been awarded a 100,500.00 sub-grant to support its upcoming partnership with community resource center The Delta Center in Cairo, IL.
This sub-grant, coordinated by Assistant Professors Shannon McDonald, Laura Morthland, and Chad Schwartz, along with core project founder Professor Emeritus Robert Swenson, is part of a larger 727,500.00 grant awarded to the Delta Center by the United States Department of Labor to initiate a YouthBuild program in Cairo and surrounding Alexander County.
YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program that provides classroom instruction geared towards obtaining high school diplomas or GEDs along with occupational skills training in the construction industry for at-risk individuals ages 16-24.
Amongst other responsibilities, the School of Architecture will provide the YouthBuild program with permitted construction documents for small single family residences generated by SIU architecture and interior design students while studying in a pair of building technology courses being tailored to this partnership.
A third course, offered in the summer, will give these students an opportunity to spend four weeks in Cairo working side-by-side with the YouthBuild students during the construction process. In addition, the faculty involved will be providing services to the program that include mentorship for women in the profession and LEED accreditation expertise.
Associate Professor Edward M. Orlowski has been named to the Board of Directors of the Association for Community Design.
IIT College of Architecture celebrated Mies van der Rohe’s 127th birthday, his influence on Chicago, and the investiture of Wiel Arets on March 13, 2013. Seventy-five years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe arrived in the United States to lead the College of Architecture and profoundly influence the world’s taste and built environment. Now the college begins another era of influence as it celebrates the investiture of Wiel Arets as the Rowe Family College of Architecture Dean Endowed Chair.
IIT College of Architecture Professor Harry Francis Mallgrave was inducted as an Honorary Fellow into the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on February 6, 2013, at a black tie dinner and awards ceremony in London. The ceremony honored Mallgrave and eleven other new fellows, chosen from around the world for their lifetime contributions to the field of architecture.
British architect Niall McLaughlin cited Mallgrave’s translation and critical introduction of Gottfried Semper’s Style as having popularized one of the most significant works of architectural theory of the nineteenth century.
“Professor Mallgrave’s thinking on architectural history as well as contemporary theory is pointing us away from looking at buildings as objects and toward an experience of architecture,” said McLaughlin. See his full introduction and Mallgrave’s acceptance speech here.
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was also given the RIBA Gold Medal at the prestigious affair.
Mary Pat Mattson, Studio Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at IIT, was selected as a 2013 Research Fellow with the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington DC. LAF Fellows oversee case-study research on high-performing constructed landscape architecture projects. Professor Mattson selected Rachel Guinn, IIT Master of Landscape Architecture student (2013) as her research assistant, and will collaborate with three Chicago landscape architecture firms.
Landscape Architecture Studio “Urban Water” won 1st place in the National EPA Campus Rainworks Competition. The competition was aimed at generating innovative campus design interventions to address urban stormwater. The studio, taught by Professor Mary Pat Mattson, was comprised of landscape architecture and architecture students, and collaborated with students from civil and environmental engineering, guided by Dr. Paul Anderson, to develop the submission. The team used the competition to test design and engineering ideas for managing storm water as a key sustainability goal for the campus. First prize winners will receive a $2,500 cash award and $11,000 for faculty research on green infrastructure. Learn more: www.epa.gov/campusrainworks/winners.
Undergraduate architecture student Jingyu Lee has been awarded a $10,000 Thornton Tomasetti Foundation National Scholarship. The scholarship review committee commended Lee “for his exceptional academic success and demonstrated interest in the integration of engineering and architecture” as pursued through his rigorous work as a dual major in architecture and civil and environmental engineering.
The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation funds fellowships, scholarships and internships for undergraduate students planning to pursue graduate studies in building engineering, design, or technology. For more information, visit: http://www.thorntontomasettifoundation.org/
Adjunct Instructor Peter Lichomski had a number of watercolor paintings accepted into juried exhibitions recently, including the 2011 Michigan Fine Art Competition (sponsored by the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center), the Birmingham Community House “Our Town” art show, the Northville Art House “Outside In,” exhibit, and 1st Annual Donna A. Vogelheim Memorial “Healing Power of Art” exhibition.
Adjunct Instructors Christopher Schanck and Aaron Blendowski were featured in the show, “Cranbrook Design: Into the Network,” at Studio Couture in Detroit, September 24 -October 24, 2011. Cranbrook Design was conceived as a laboratory for design exploration and experiment for current students and recent alumni of Cranbrook’s Design and Architecture programs to contextualize their work as a product of the ‘the network society.’
Assistant Professor Steven Coy’s work as the “Hygienic Dress League” was featured in a photo exhibition at the Hamtramck, Michigan Public Pool gallery in October. Coy and his wife Dorota created the League – a faux company that exists as a real corporation – as a commentary on corporate advertising and branding.
Associate Professor Dale Allen Gyure presented a paper entitled “The crowning feature of our system”: Nineteenth-Century High Schools and American Middle Class Aspirations and Anxieties,” at the History of Education Society Annual Conference in Chicago. He also presented a public lecture, “Nature, Light, and Beauty: Minoru Yamasaki’s Design for the North Shore Congregation Israel” in Yamasaki’s sanctuary at North Shore in Glencoe, Illinois.
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) announced the appointment of Wiel Arets as the new dean of the IIT College of Architecture. Born in the Netherlands, Arets, an internationally acclaimed architect, educator, industrial designer, theorist, and urbanist, is known for his academic progressive research and hybrid design solutions. He is currently the professor of building planning and design at the Berlin University of the Arts. His architecture and design practice, Wiel Arets Architects, has multiple studios throughout Europe and its work has been nominated for the European Union’s celebrated ‘Mies van der Rohe Award’ on numerous occasions.
Arets, who was dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 1995-2002, will join IIT this fall and will lead an academic program originally shaped by the vision and work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Considered by many to be one of the founders of modern architecture and design, Mies chaired the IIT architecture program from 1938-1958 and designed the IIT Main Campus, home to many of his iconic structures including S.R. Crown Hall.
Arets currently has projects under construction throughout Europe and Japan, including the Allianz Headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland, Amsterdam Centraal Station’s IJhal, the Schwäbischer Verlag in Ravensburg, Germany and the A’ House in Tokyo. His many distinguished projects include the library on the Uithof campus of Utrecht University, the Academy of Art & Architecture in Maastricht, the Euroborg Stadium in Groningen, and the Hedge House in Wijlre, the Netherlands.
“The College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology has a global reputation and attracted outstanding candidates for dean from leading programs worldwide. It is indicative of the position of the IIT College of Architecture that we have found such an accomplished architect to lead the school in a new direction,” said IIT Provost Alan Cramb.
Arets has been a guest professor at many of the world’s preeminent architectural universities, including the AA London, Columbia University and Cooper Union—and served on the Advisory Council of Princeton University from 2003-2012. He graduated from the Technical University of Eindhoven in 1983, where he obtained his Master of Science in Architecture.
Professor Robert J. Krawczyk presented the paper “Exploring the Visualization of Music” at the Bridges 2012 Conference, Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science at Towson University in Baltimore July 25-29, 2012. His digital image titled “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star CII” was also selected for the preconference exhibition at the College of Fine Arts Gallery at Towson University. Image at: http://gallery.bridgesmathart.
A series of Professor Krawczyk’s lasercut fabrications of Indonesian music are also being presented at the exhibition titled “The Arts Converge: Contemporary Art and Asian Musical Traditions” at the Jack Olsen Art Gallery, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois from September 4 through October 12, 2012. Images can be found at: http://bitartworks.com/
Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our membership includes all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together ACSA schools represent some 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.
Enter your name and email below, and we’ll send you the latest ACSA news and events.
© Copyright 2025 ACSA
Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
