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Illinois Institute of Technology

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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/

Lawrence Technological University

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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

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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.org/exhibitions/2012-bridges-conference/krawczyk

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/notes01/gallery02.html

Lawrence Technological University

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Students from the Master of Urban Design (m.U.D.) program at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University have won the Outstanding Student Project Award from the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP/APA Michigan) for the “Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines” they developed for the City of Southfield, Michigan.

The award was presented on Oct. 17 at the MAP annual conference in Traverse City. Winning the award were one LTU graduate student and two graduates of the m.U.D. program, Carolina Ferrero and Michael Mason. LTU graduate student Matthew Galbraith, CoAD student representative to MAP, acted as the nominator.  In order to complete the design guidelines, the LTU students extended the internship they took for a course, Principals and Practices of Urban Design, taught by m.U.D. coordinator and Assistant Professor Constance Bodurow. Working as interns in the planning department under Planning Director Terry Croad, the students documented three districts/neighborhoods and dozens of buildings built in the Mid-Century Modern style from the 1950s to the early 1970s that are important to the architectural heritage of Southfield, which grew rapidly after World War II as a first-ring suburb of Detroit.

One of the most significant buildings in Southfield is the former Reynolds Metals Regional Sales Office designed by Minoru Yamasaki, a Troy-based architect best known for the World Trade Center in New York.

The design guidelines provide the Southfield Planning Department with an essential tool to keep significant structures and districts intact. The guidelines not only define the style and identify significant structures, but also provide recommendations for enhancements through the use of case studies.

The student authors gathered input from local historians, architects, and academics in order to comprehensively identify, document, and inventory the city’s significant resources. The recommendations made by the students were considered and applied, resulting in the adoption of Low Impact Design Guidelines for the City of Southfield.

“The Mid-Century Modern Design Guidelines is a valuable asset for the Planning Department in our understanding and review of redevelopment of existing Mid-Century Modern buildings and sites,” said Terry Croad, Southfield’s director of planning who worked with the student interns.

The MAP award recognizes the high-quality design guidelines and detailed direction exhibited throughout the manual.

Southern Illinois University

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Professor Jon Davey PhD, AIA, and  Assistant Professor Shannon Sanders McDonald AIA completed an eight day design charrette providing design assistance and consultation to families who lost their homes or were partially destroyed during the recent tornado that struck Harrisburg Illinois.  With the approval of the Mayor Eric Gregg faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students and March Alumni set up an atelier (studio) in the Harrisburg Public Library.  A total of two faculty, nine students and one alumnus provided design assistance to over 23 families completing 20 new home designs and 3 structural consultations.  The Design Atelier (studio) was structured as a typical office with each student taking on one or more projects, interviewing the families and designing their new homes.   

Shannon Sanders McDonald, an assistant architecture professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale has authored a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Science and Technology edited by Robert A Meyers titled: Personal Rapid Transit and its Development.  It is a peer-reviewed coverage of sustainability science and technology from nearly 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists and engineers, who write on more than 600 separate topics in 42 sections. ESST establishes a foundation for the many sustainability and policy evaluations being performed in institutions worldwide. 

Assistant Professor Norm Lach AIA, Professor Jon Davey PhD, AIA, Assistant Professor Shannon Sanders McDonald AIA and two students participated in the AIA Leadership Institute this summer in Chicago, Il.  This bi-annual leadership workshop assists individuals with formalizing and developing broad visions for our profession and communities. 

Assistant Professor Norm Lach AIA, FALA Director of the Architectural Studies Program completed a one year term as Chairman of the Illinois Architectural Licensing Board and is also serving on the Illinois AIA Board of Directors.

Miami University

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The Department of Architecture and Interior Design is pleased to announce Mary Ben Bonham and John Humphries have been promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor.

Associate Professors Mary Ben Bonham and Scott Johnston won the 2013 Interior Design Educators Council Media Award. “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum, “ a multi-disciplinary, multi-university approach to lighting education initiated by a group of educators and funded by the $50,000 Twentieth Anniversary Grant awarded by the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. The Nuckolls Fund awarded a total of more than $695, 000 to institutions and individuals to support and encourage lighting education in the US and Canada. Bonham and Johnston collaborated with the following colleagues nationally: Katherine S. Ankerson (project lead) and Neal Hubbell of Kansas State University; Betsy Gabb, Lindsey Ellsworth-Bahe, Timothy Hemsath, Clarence Waters and Nate Krug, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Nancy Kwallek, University of Texas at Austin.  “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum” supports lighting as critical to all aspects of design, and especially promotes early engagement of lighting issues in student design education. The program is comprised of seven interactive modules (applicable to architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture as well as to architectural engineering), content, examples, definitions, and educator resources are provided, supplemented with animations, audio, and other interactive features. ACSA colleagues are invited to start using the site, accessible at http://tedore.net/Nuckolls/about/

Department Chair John Weigand was invited to join the AIA Ohio Board of Directors as representative of the four accredited Ohio schools. In this role, Weigand will be asked to keep the board apprised of activities within the schools and to help to better connect the profession with education. Professor Weigand’s article ““Rethinking Professional Identity in Interior Design.” is published in Meanings of Designed Spaces, edited by Tiiu Vaikla-Poldma. New York: Fairchild Books, 2013. 

John Blake, DesignBuild Studio Coordinator for the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, was quoted in the January 2013 issue of AIArchitect. The feature article, “Urban Reinvestment and Development Efforts” refers to several of the department design build initiatives in the Over-the-Rhine community. The DesignBuild studio has a semester long residency program and recently received accolades in the national competition for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award.

 
The Department of Architecture and Interior Design was recognized with a “Presidential Citation in Recognition of Exceptional Service to the Profession and Society” at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Ohio awards conference in Cleveland. The department received the award for the Ghana Design-Build Studio created by Associate Professor Emerita Gail Della Piana, and currently facilitated by J. E. Elliott.

Alumni Chuck Armstrong, Director of Design for Corgan, and Mike Hemme, BA ‘04, of the Corgan Mission Critical studio hosted a weeklong design workshop in Dallas, TX for the second year graduate studio.  As part of the Traveling Studio experience facilitated by Graduate Director Craig Hinrichs, the studio designed a series of buildings for retail, residential and office use on a 2-acre site in the West End Historic District of Dallas.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Professors George Dodds, Ph.D., and David Matthews have been named associate deans of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  

In his role as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research, Dodds will administer curricular development, research activities, study abroad programs, student professional and academic organizations, and admissions and enrollment activities of the college.

Dodds, a UT faculty member for nearly twelve years, has served in numerous leadership roles and been recipient to several awards. In addition to this position, Dodds was recently named Chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and received one of UT’s most prestigious awards, the Chancellor’s Honor for Excellence in Advising. In late April, UT also appointed Dodds the Alvin and Sally Beaman Professorship, a distinguished service award which honors only the very best teacher-scholars of the university.

Matthews came to UT in 2010 when appointed Chair of the Interior Design Program. He has nearly twenty years of teaching experience in interior design and architecture. Prior to coming to the College of Architecture and Design, Matthews, in addition to his faculty position, was the Director of Academic Technologies at Ohio University.

As the Associate Dean of Communications and Facilities, Matthews will oversee technology issues related to faculty research, teaching and creative activities, facility operations, renovations and equipment, and communication initiatives and efforts. 

Ball State University

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Associate Professor George Elvin gave plenary speeches at Buildgreen Argentina in Buenos Aires and  Arc-LA: The Forum for Latin America’s Leading Architects in San Jose, Costa Rica. Elvin’s article, “Principles of Integrated Practice in Architecture,” was published in the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 

Associate Professor Pam Harwood’s tot spot, an interactive play space, has just opened at the Muncie Children’s’ Museum, a two year student design build project.

Professor Edward W. Wolner has published Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago:  Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

The second edition of The Green Studio Handbook (by Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik) has been recently published by Architectural Press (now an imprint of Taylor and Francis). The first edition has been translated and published in both traditional and simplified Chinese.

Professor Joe Bilello will serve as Director of Ball State’s Australia Centre  in Lennox Head, New South Wales during the spring term.

Graduate students Michela Cupello and Wes Stabbs won the USGBC Multifamily Midrise Design Competition sponsored by AUTODESK. Professor Robert Koester served as their critic/advisor as they developmed their entry.

Ohio State University

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Professor Michael Cadwell’s Small Buildings was republished in Pamphlet Architecture 11-20, the second volume of collected work in the acclaimed Pamphlet Architecture series.

Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture faculty are joint researchers on the $865,000 HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) Community Challenge grant received by MOPRC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission) for an urban agriculture overlay and food-based economic development in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus. Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones (architecture) is the lead PI with Assistant Professors Jacob Boswell and Katherine Bennett (Landscape Architecture) and Assistant Professor Charisma Acey (City & Regional Planning). The design team will advise on schematic proposals for the 3.5 acre site through March 2013. Jones has leveraged a second year of the $50,000 grant from the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative to support research activities, faculty, and students. The design team recently published Urban Farmscapes: for Communities Markets and New Ecologies, that documents 72 urban agriculture case studies.

Associate Professor Kay Bea Jones curated the symposium asking, “What does Design have to do with Poverty,” at the Knowlton School of Architecture on October 28, 2010, moderated by Jones and funded by the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative. Presentations included Susan Melsop, Assistant Professor of Design/OSU, E.J. Thomas, Habitat for Humanity, Charisma Acey, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning/OSU, and Matt Persinger, Yale University, Design/Build Program.

Professor Jeffrey Kipnis gave the Dean’s Lecture at Staedelschule, Frankfurt Germany, and was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Calgary University. Kipnis participated in panel discussions at IIT, Tokyo University, The Architectural Association of London, TU- Berlin, Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennale, Harvard GSD, and the University of Michigan. He also organized the conference “A Better Future through Architecture” at Georgia Tech where he gave the keynote address. 

Assistant Professor Karen Lewis and students were recognized in the Van Alen Institute’s “Life at the Speed of Rail” competition. “Switch Space,” by Emma Cucurrean-Zapan and Christine Yankel, was developed as part of her winter studio on Ohio’s high speed rail system, was recognized as a winning project. Professor Lewis’s own project, “Health Corridor,” was awarded an Honorable Mention. Karen Lewis’s collaborative project “Harbor Port” was noted with an honorable mention in the One Prize Competition. Harborport was developed with Jason Kentner, Sean Burkholder, and Matthew Banton.  Lewis is currently writing a book, “Graphic Design for Architects” that will be published by Routledge Press February 2013.

Professor Robert S. Livesey, who co-taught with the late Architect James Stirling at Yale University, was cited in the exhibition “An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale” and interviewed for the accompanying James Stirling documentary.   Livesey authored a review of the exhibition for Constructs, the bi-annual news magazine highlighting activities and events at the Yale School of Architecture.  Associate Professor Jane Murphy’s and Michael Cadwell’s work, produced as students of Stirling and Livesey, was included in the exhibition.  Murphy was also interviewed for the Stirling documentary.   

Professor Jose Oubrerie’s diagrams and photographs of Firminy Church were published in “Les 20 ans de Nemausus” December 2010 by Edition de l’Esperou and School of Architecture of Montpellier France.  He was selected as the Baird Distinguished Professor at Cornell University for 2011. He was also a panelist at a symposium at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and gave public lectures at City College of New York, Bowling Green University, University of Kentucky School of Architecture and Design, and AIA Kentucky.  Professor Oubrerie also presented the lecture, “Architecture in a Time of Uncertainty,” at Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Associate Professors Lisa Tilder and Stephen Turk were awarded the 2010-2011 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award and ACSA Collaborative Practice Honorable Mention.  Tilder and Turk’s “Pod Home” was published in NANO HOUSE: Innovations for Small Dwellings, ed. Phyllis Richardson (UK: Thames & Hudson) and was featured in NANO HOUSE reviews by the Los Angeles Times, Irish Times and others. 

Associate Professor Lisa Tilder published “The Lost Decade?” in field journal: issue 4, Ecology (Sheffield, UK) and was a contributing author to Vitamin Green, ed. Joshua Bolchover (UK: Phaidon Press).  Tilder gave the keynote address, “Media Ecologies” at the University Bauhaus Weimar.  Tilder served as a juror for the ACSA ARCHIVE “Being Resourceful” competition.

Associate Professor Stephen Turk published “Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project” in Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography, edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth, (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag).  This publication stems from his lecture presented at the Tanzkongress 2009 at the Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany.  Associate Professor Turk’s exhibition design/installation in collaboration with Norah Zuniga Shaw, “Synchronous Objects, Reproduced” for the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, was published in ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Stefan Riekeles and Andreas Broeckmann (Kehrer Verlag: Heidelberg – Berlin).

School News

Professor Ann Pendleton-Jullian completed her term as Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture and has returned to the full-time faculty to pursue research.  Professor and Section Head of Architecture Mike Cadwell has been appointed Interim-Director of the KSA.   Associate Professor S. Beth Blostein has assumed the role of Architecture Section Head.  Professor Robert S. Livesey has been appointed Head of the KSA’s Landscape Architecture Section, with an international search for Landscape Architecture Section Head underway.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Professor Harry Mallgrave will be awarded an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council.  The twelve fellowships announced on September 27 reward individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including the worlds of education, sustainability, engineering, property development, journalism, politics and the wider built environment industry.  The 2013 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have made a particular contribution to architecture in its broadest sense. This includes its promotion, administration and outreach, and its role in building more sustainable communities and in the education of future generations.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architect, scholar, editor, and professor of history and theory at Illinois Institute of Technology.   After several years in architectural practice, he took his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 under the supervision of Stanford Anderson.  His dissertation topic -The Idea of Style: Gottfried Semper in London -presaged his focus on German theory in his early career.  This phase of his work culminated in the intellectual biography Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, which won the prestigious Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the American Society of Architectural Historians.

He has written numerous books and articles on the history and theory of architecture including: Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present.  In recent years Mallgrave’s interests have broadened, as indicated by his book The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture.  He has more recently followed up on this study with Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design, to be published in 2013.  It appeals to the emotional process of embodied simulation, rejects overly conceptualized approaches to theory and the objectification of design (viewing buildings as objects), and argues for a return to the focus of design to where it formerly resided -the human experience of inhabiting the world.

Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Williams will be featured in the new Dreams in Jay-Z Minor exhibition at the Blanc Gallery as part of a series of exhibitions for Chicago Artists Month. Williams and fellow Chicago artist Krista Franklin drew on a series of mutually recurring dreams as inspiration for their work.

The exhibit explores notions around dream states, hyper-reality, upward mobility, hopes and aspirations of African Diasporic peoples, black opulence, black excellence, and excess.

Using a variety of mediums, from paintings, handmade paper, print, altered books and collage, Dreams in Jay-Z Minor is a visual metaphorical play of installation, 2D, and 3D works.

Master of Architecture alumna Diane Hoffer-Schurecht has received the AIA Chicago‘s 2012 Chicago Award for Architecture. Select area architecture schools are invited to participate in this annual award and each are allowed to nominate five students to compete. Competition entries are school studio projects that are submitted at the end of the spring semester. As the first place winner, Hoffer-Schurecht will receive the Benn-Johnck Student Award of $500.

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