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Lawrence Technological University

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Lawrence Technological University; new  faculty appointments.

Scott Shall, AIA, has been appointed Chair and Associate Professor. Scott earned his MArch from Tulane University and his BArch at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Founder, Director, and President of the International Design Clinic (http://internationaldesignclinic.org/), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to realizing much-needed creative work with communities in need around the world.  Scott joins us from Temple University.

Doug Skidmore, AIA, LEED, has recently been named College Professor. Doug received his MArch from Cranbrook and his BArch from the University of Oregon. He is a Principal at Beebe Skidmore Architects and has won many awards for his design work (http://beebeskidmore.com/).

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Assistant Professor Thérèse F Tierney’s new book The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of a Networked Society (Routledge Research Series 2013) will be released in June.  In addition, a number of her essays will be published this spring:  “Disentangling Public Space: social media and internet activism” in Thresholds Journal 41 (MIT Press 2013); and “Synthetic Digital Ecologies” a detailed examination of new parametric software strategies and digital fabrication will be published in TRACE/SF.  Prof. Tierney will be presenting a paper entitled “A Manual of Networked Possibilities: Forward Thinking Interventions for Intelligent Cities” at the upcoming ACSA 101 conference in San Francisco in March. It is part of a panel organized by Jason Johnson of CCA and Carlo Ratti, MIT media lab, titled “Exchange Terminals + Interactive Technologies.”

The winning competition entry under the professional category of the 2009 Hong Kong Biennial [Bring Your Own Booth],face[GUARD], by Associate Professor Erik M Hemingway and Lecturer Allison Warren was published in the first journal of d3, “dialogue:>ASSEMBLE”, International Journal of Architecture + Design, edited by Gregory Marinic & Mary-Jo Schlachter. The 320 pages in full color publication debut was at the Beijing International Book Fair and Frankfurt International Book Fair in Fall 2012.  face[GUARD] was also published in the book Instant Culture, which includes writings and contributions by Shigeru Ban, Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten and many more.  It catalogues the exhibitions and the events including educational tours and forum highlights that took place during the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture located at the future West Kowloon Cultural District.

Associate Professor Hemingway was an invited author to the first issue of “autonomous identities”; International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design edited by Meg Jackson & Jonathon Anderson. The contents of his submission, mies[UPGRADE] are the design specifications for recent hemingway+a/studio flat pack cnc design/fabrication residential work. He has been engaged in the upgrade of a 1957 Mies van der Rohe space in Chicago in a series of self-deployable and sustainable strategies in unconventional outcomes.  mies[UPGRADE] was also selected along with his International Competition for Helsinki Waterfront, harbor re[FIN]ery both for inclusion to the “101_1 Waste(lands) + Material Economies” topic during the Research + Design Project Session/ Exhibition at the 101st ACSA Annual Meeting, March 21-24, 2013, in San Francisco, CA.

Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D.has signed a contract with J. Wiley and Sons for the next edition of Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design to be published in the spring of 2014.  In addition, Waldrep recently presented at the AIA Illinois Conference and will lecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin and the AIA St. Louis Chapter during the spring on the topic of Architecture and Beyond: Opportunities and Beyond.

Botond Bognar, Professor and Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture has completed three publications, the Post-Bubble Era Japanese Architecture: Its Limitations and Possibilities, which appeared as the entire 2012 No.3 issue of the international architectural magazine Le Carré Bleu; then The Japanese Order of Things, as the booklet accompanying the DVD entitled KOCHUU — Japanese Architecture: Influences and Origins, published as the arquiq/documental 23 in Barcelona (in Spanish) in 2012; and finally the Architectural Guide JAPAN, which just appeared in 2013 as a major book from DOM Publishers in Berlin.

The small studio, an ongoing series of teaching and research projects that focus on detail and tectonics at the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received the 2012 Honor Award for Sustainable Design from the Central Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Studio Critic Professor Jeffery S. Poss, FAIA received the award on behalf of his spring 2012 graduate architecture design studio and summer 2012 research team for their projects with the Sustainable Student Farm on the Urbana_Champaign campus. The jury praised the project for “its holistic approach, lightly treading on the Earth, use of experimentation, and student and community involvement,” and considered it “an excellent example of a farm to market concept.” Thus far the small studio team has completed: 1) graphics and master plan concepts for the farm, 2) a pair of Portable Deployable Farm Stands to transport and display produce and, 3) the first phase of the Wash/Pack Pavilion, a multi_use structure for preparing produce for market, and as a location for the Fresh Press crop waste papermaking startup.

A team of students from Assistant Professor Kevin Erickson’s Fall Graduate Studio received 2nd place in the ‘Water _Works’ international design competition. An exhibition of their work will be on display in New York City later in the year. 

Lawrence Technological University

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Adjunct Instructor Ralph Nunez, RLA, CLARB, ASLA, GRP, received the distinguished PASHA (Panel Advisory Service Honorary Association) silver pin from the Urban Land Institute last month in Tampa, Florida. This recognition is given to ULI members who have participated in ten advisory service panels as an expert in landscape architecture, design, or land planning.  The ULI advisory services panels provide strategic advice to sponsors on various land use and real estate development issues.

Renovations by the architectural firm of Adjunct Instructor Michael Wolk to a 1968 house in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, originally designed by Gunnar Birkerts, were featured as part of the recent Detroit AIA House Tour.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) welcomes 3 new faculty to the Department of Architecture: Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds and Filip Tejchman. Benyamin and Reynolds join as Assistant Professors while Tejchman was awarded the inaugural Fellowship in the area of Innovation in Design.

 

Assistant Professor Benyamin’s interdisciplinary research focuses on architectural manifestations in contemporary art practice and popular culture. Benyamin’s doctoral dissertation addresses ongoing debates regarding the origins of the Modern Movement, by examining one moment in the much-contested relationship between architecture and photography. Her study aims to carve out a critical space of inquiry within which architectural and photographic practices collide with increased velocity at the turn of the twentieth century, thus expanding the framework from which re-evaluations of modernism are now.

 

Benyamin has presented her research at several national conferences including the Society of Architectural Historians and ACSA. A recipient of numerous awards including an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, a Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) collection research grant, as well DAAD and Fulbright fellowships for her research in Germany, she is also the editor and translator of several books on architecture, including recently published monographs on Bernard Tschumi and Jean Tschumi. An essay on the work of artist Lara Almarcegui is forthcoming.

 

Benyamin’s paper entitled “Leftovers: Residual and Risk in “Our Digital Present,” which was presented last Spring as part of the ACSA 100 National Conference  was recently published in its proceedings. Her essay “Architecture Future Perfect: Lara Almarcegui and the Ghost of Content,” is forthcoming in Nora Wendl and Isabelle Wallace eds., Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility. (Ashgate). In addition, a paper entitled “Towards a New Objectivity: Hermann Muthesius, Photography and the English House in Word and Image” will be presented in the upcoming Society of Architectural Historians annual conference to be held in Buffalo, New York in Spring 2013.

 

Assistant Professor Kyle Reynolds (BSAS 2003) is a co-founder of is-office, a design firm located in Chicago, IL. Reynolds was previously the Willard A. Oberdick Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and an Adjunct Assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. He received a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a Certificate of Urban Planning, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Reynolds was awarded the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) Foundation Traveling Fellowship in 2003. He investigated how cultural variables and limitations on available space provoke architectural innovation in the increasingly static fabric of Japanese cities. His work has been published in On Farming: Bracket 1, The SANAA Studios 2006-2008: Learning From Japan: Single Story Urbanism, Pidgin Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, Calibrations, and Licensed Architect. Reynolds work has been exhibited at The University of Michigan, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago History Museum, Princeton University, Daley Plaza in Chicago, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

 

Visiting Professor Filip Tejchman is the 2012-2013 SARUP research fellow in the area of ‘Innovation in Design’. He is also the Principal of Untitled Office, a multi-disciplinary design firm based in Brooklyn, NY. His design research and teaching will involve the relationship between energy and capital viewed through building mechanical systems. His work interweaves contemporary history/theory concerns with technical and tectonic exploration in an effort to reconceive and instrumentalize waste as a spatial project. He has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios at MIT and Pratt, where he was awarded a Development Grant for his contributions to the Language/Making program, a trans-disciplinary initiative between Architecture and the Humanities. Tejchman has also lectured on his research at RISD. His professional experience includes design and project management at Joel Sanders Architects, where he was involved in the design of several award-winning and internationally recognized projects, and at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, as a member of the Lincoln Center and Juilliard re-development design teams.

 

Also an active writer, Tejchman has served as a project editor for the Praxis Journal of Writing and Building and MUSEO. He has contributed essays to several monographs and exhibition catalogs. Most recently, his writing appeared in the Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum, NY and the Storefront for Art+Architecture. Tejchman graduated with a MSAAD from Columbia University and a B.Arch, from Cal Poly San Luis Opisbo. Tejchman’s guest lecture at SARUP will take place in the spring 2013.

 

One-year fellowships are awarded annually in the areas of design instruction and architectural research. The fellowships are geared toward focusing and expanding design research, energizing the architectural curriculum with current discourse, as well as confirming an academic career path for candidates in the formative stage of their professional lives. Innovative and emerging designers, practitioners, and scholars are encouraged to conduct design research and to participate in the SARUP community through the teaching of studios and seminars.

 

SARUP has appointed a new associate dean, beginning in Summer 2012. Associate Professor Mo Zell has been named as Associate Dean of Recruitment, Retention and Reputation. Zell teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios and a specialized seminar titled ‘Constructed Site’. She is co-founding principal of bauenstudio, a design and research firm located in Milwaukee, WI. Zell received degrees from Yale University and the University of Virginia.  She is the author of The Architectural Drawing Course published by Barron’s in the US and by Thames and Hudson in the UK. She has been awarded numerous grants that have been instrumental in her current research into the redevelopment of big box retail parking lots. Zell is a registered architect in Massachusetts. As Associate Dean, Zell will coordinate the new public relations material for the school; manage recruiting efforts for new students and faculty; and strengthen efforts to expand enrollments.

Lawrence Technological University

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The College of Architecture and Design granted Professor Joonsub Kim, Ph.D. a promotion to Full Professor, Scott Shall, Associate Professor/Architecture Department Chair was granted tenure, and Professors James Stevens (Arch) and Peter Beaugard (Art and Design) were granted promotions to the rank of Associate Professors with tenure.

Lawrence Technological University

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Ayodh Kamath has accepted our offer as an assistant professor, specializing in Digital Design and Production Technologies.

We are pleased to announce the composition of CoAD’s academic administrative team for fall 2013:

Glen LeRoy, Dean
Amy Deines, Associate Dean
Scott Shall, Chair of Architecture
Peter Beaugard, Chair of Art and Design
Martin Schwartz, Associate Chair of Architecture

Lawrence Technological University

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Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D., has been promoted to Professor of Architecture. During the summer, Dr. Gyure participated in a symposium in London, sponsored by the University of Melbourne, entitled “School is Another Place: The Making and Meaning of the School Environment in the Twentieth Century.” Dr. Gyure’s paper focused on mid-century “casual” school buildings and their relationship to child-centered culture. He also presented a lecture, “Serenity and Delight: The Architectural Humanism of Minoru Yamasaki,” as part of the Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America symposium at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. And Dr. Gyure’s article, “A Lost Opportunity: Wright’s Ill-Fated Music Building for Florida Southern College,” was published in the spring edition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly.

Deirdre L. C. Hennebury has joined the LTU faculty as Assistant Professor of History and Theory.  An interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton, Harvard and the University of Michigan, Deirdre’s research focuses on the use of cultural institutions, such as museums and libraries, to create signature landmarks that act as catalysts for economic growth and social improvement. Other research interests include how architecture, history and place are leveraged for educational and financial purposes.

Ayodh Kamath, Assistant Professor of Digital Design and Production Technologies.  He received his Master of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute Technology.  He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Sushant School of Art and Architecture, in India.  Professor Kamath is a Partner Architect at Kamath Design Studio, in New Dehli, India.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Professor Robert J. Krawczyk was an invited speaker at the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics and Architecture Conference, ISAMA 2012, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2012. Krawczyk’s speech was entitled “Exploring Digital Fabrication.”

Living Room Realty’s new exhibit, Objects in Space, will feature work by Studio Associate Professor Paul Pettigrew. The show, open June 22 – August 3, displays living spaces in a storefront gallery, and highlights locally sourced and produced furniture, textiles, and accessories. Pettigrew’s iCharnley, an iPod stereo system, will be included in the exhibit. The stereo was built into and around a single piece of quartersawn white oak fumigated in ammonium to match the patina of the Charnley House interior woodwork. The white oak came from Chicago’s urban forest via Horigan Urban Forest Products.  For more information, visit: www.livingroomrealty.com

Chicago Architecture Foundation’s new exhibit premiering June 22nd features College of Architecture undergraduate and graduate studio work. Unseen City: Designs for a Future Chicago tackles the question, “What might this neighborhood and city become?” Designs include a 19th century boulevard transformed for the 21st, a horizontal deconstructed Willis Tower, an industrial district as creative hub, and a skyscraper that scrubs the air.

IIT exhibits: 

Hi-Rise, Lo-Carb
Studio Associate Professor Antony Wood, Spring 2012 undergraduate studio Collaboration with Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Garfield Boulevard:  Completely Stripped Naked, Dirty, and Wet
Assistant Professor Marshall Brown, Fall 2011 graduate studio

For more information, visit the Chicago Architecture Foundation website: www.architecture.org

The July/August 2012 issue of Chicago Architect magazine includes an article on Associate Professor Frank Flury’s recent undergraduate design/build studio project. IIT students adopted the local vernacular—the round barn—for their design of a visitor support facility at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. Read the article at: http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=116280

University of Kentucky

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Professor Richard S. Levine has recently retired from teaching after 46 years at the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. From early in his architectural career, Prof. Levine has been a pioneer and advocate for sustainability-oriented architecture. He has over 200 publications on solar energy and sustainable cities and has done sustainable city research and projects in Italy, Austria, China, the Middle East as well as in Kentucky.

He is now devoting his energies to his architectural and urban design practice at the Center for Sustainable Cities Design Studio (CSC Design Studio). Dick Levine’s practice in design has encompassed such areas as structural systems, hospitals, design process, solar oriented architecture and sustainable cities. In the mid ‘70’s his widely published Raven Run Solar Home was the first to incorporate active and passive solar, super insulation, earth tubes, composting toilets, attached greenhouse, and many other integrated features in a single project. The patented active air collectors developed in that project are part of one of the most efficient and least expensive solar collection and storage systems ever devised.

The Hooker Building in Niagara Falls, NY (1978) for which Levine was energy and design consultant, was projected to consume 88% less energy than that of a conventional office building and received the Owens-Corning Energy Conservation Award. Thirteen years later, Norman Foster reproduced Hooker’s double glass wall with its computer operated aluminum louvers in an office building in Duisburg, Germany, sparking a transformation in Europe of energy efficient commercial buildings whose design strategies are now being emulated in the US.

In the mid 1980’s, Prof. Levine, along with his colleague Ernest J. Yanarella, started the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) at the University of Kentucky, to advance the theory and practice of sustainability. In 1994 Levine became the principal author of the European Charter of Cities and Towns Towards Sustainability (the Aalborg Charter), the main vehicle in Europe for carrying out the Local Agenda 21 provisions of the Rio Earth Charter (1992). He also gave the keynote address at the Charter ratification conference.

Partnering with Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, director of Oikodrom: the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, the CSC focused on the city-region as the appropriate scale at which homeostatic relationships between social, environmental and economic issues could be realistically pursued to become the exemplar for the proliferation of sustainability throughout the globe. This was a pivotal determination that would lead to the formulation of the first Operational Definition of Sustainability. In the early 1990’s, the CSC and Oikodrom partnered to work on a series of three commissioned designs for a Sustainable City-as-a-Hill to be built over the Westbahnhof rail-yard in Vienna, Austria. Using Levine’s patented Coupled-Pan Space-Frame (CPSF) structural system as the city’s underlying structural framework a rich, diverse and sustainability driven urban fabric was developed.  Late in his life Lou Kahn had visited an early test of the CPSF and commented, “You should build a museum around it.” The City-as-a-Hill urban form, the Sustainable Urban Implantation, the Partnerland Principle, the Sustainable Area Budget, the Operational Definition of Sustainability, the Multiple, Participatory, Alternative Scenario-Building Process and other sustainable urban design principles were elaborated and integrated in the Westbahnhof project and continue to be studied and expanded upon today.

From 2002-2005, Prof. Levine worked on the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS project which developed sustainable future scenarios for rural villages in six Chinese provinces. This was followed by two successive EC projects focused on the renewal of the Islamic bath house (Hammam) tradition in six Mediterranean countries with the intention of developing and enhancing empowered, sustainable, civil society processes. In 2005, the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS) was formed as an extension of the CSC and Prof. Levine’s private architectural practice. In 2007, the CSCDS, headed by Prof. Levine, organized a system-dynamics modeling seminar in Fez, Morocco. This was part of the ongoing development of the “Sustainable City Game™”, the Sustainability Engine™, and the SCIM (Sustainable City Information Modeling) process.

As a recognition of his leadership and lifetime of work, in 2010 the American Solar Energy Society awarded Dick Levine its “Passive Solar Pioneer” award.  Levine is currently engaged in the design and construction of a number of low cost, zero net energy houses using the passive house standard.  His research and publications continue including his just published book with Ernest J. Yanarella titled, “The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability,” (Anthem Press, 2011). His web site is: www.centerforsustainablecities.com.

 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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City, Nature, People

Summer 2013 Field School in Buildings, Landscapes and Cultures

Website: www.blcfieldschool.blogspot.com

Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, School of Architecture and Urban Planning;
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Class Dates: June 10 – July 13, 2013
Preparatory Workshop (attendance required), June 3, 2013, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Room 191, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UWM

Course Numbers: The Field School will satisfy an elective requirement for the ecological and preservation concentrations. You may choose 6 credit hours from the following course numbers.
ARCH 534: Field Study–3 cr.; ARCH 561: Measured Drawing for Architects. –3 cr.; ARCH 562: Preservation Technology Laboratory. –3 cr.; Arch 390: Independent studies for undergraduate students. –3 cr.  We will be accepting a maximum of 20 students. 
 
This course provides students an immersion experience in the field recording of the built environment and cultural landscapes and an opportunity to learn how to write history literally “from the ground up.” This year, we will focus on the ethics of ecological stewardship and historic preservation practiced in the Historic Water Tower Neighborhood (HWTN) of Milwaukee. The neighborhood’s history dates back to the days when the City expanded northwards along the lake. The area has many historic and designated buildings, a number of residential historic districts, an extensive park system, bluffs of Lake Michigan and one business historical district. The National Register of Historic Places has created five separate districts within HWTN’s boundaries and named several notable buildings separately.

The five-week course calendar covers a broad array of academic skills. Workshops during Week 1 will focus on photography, measured drawings, documentation and technical drawings; no prior experience is necessary. Week 2 will include workshops on oral history interviewing and digital ethnography. Week 3 is centered on mapping and archival research. Week 4 and 5 will be devoted to producing final reports and documentaries. Students will learn how to “read” buildings within their urban material, social, ecological and cultural contexts, create reports on historic buildings and cultural landscapes and produce multimedia documentaries. Nationally recognized faculty directing portions of this school include Jeffrey E. Klee, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Anna Andrzejewski, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael H. Frisch, Professor and Senior Research Scholar, University at Buffalo, Jasmine Alinder, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Michael Gordon, Associate Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Matthew Jarosz, Associate Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Documentary equipment and supplies will be provided, but students must be able to fund their own meals and modest lodging accommodations. For more information please contact Prof. Arijit Sen at senA@uwm.edu.

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This field school is sponsored by Historic Water Tower Neighborhood, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of History, School of Letters and Sciences, UWM.

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