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CyBorg Sessions exhibition to feature drawings, paintings created with robots

http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/cyborg-sessions/

ISU College of Design Dean Luis Rico-Gutierrez named a Design Futures Council Senior Fellow

https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/12/luis-rico-gutierrez-dfc-senior-fellow/?c=news

Declines in population don’t always reflect quality of life, according to ISU sociologist

https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2017/11/21/shrinksmart#new_tab?c=news

Senske’s YouTube channel one of 10 best for landscape architecture students

https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/08/nick-senske-lan-10-best/?c=news

‘Where Is Here?’ exhibition opens Oct. 13 at ISU Design on Main Gallery

http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/where-is-here-exhibition/

Correa’s public sculpture to be dedicated Nov. 18 at Lowe Park in Marion

https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/11/correa-sculpture-dedication-lowe-park/

Iowa State architecture professor on international team of scholars working to conserve Rome’s Flaminio Stadium   

http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/05/leslie-nervi

ISU architecture students win National Concrete Masonry Association competition

http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/10/ncma-competition-win/

ISU architecture professor Ulrike Passe honored with AIA Iowa Educator Award

https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/12/ulrike-passe-aia-iowa-educator-award/

ISU architecture lecturer designs homage to the prairie for Marion’s Lowe Park

http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2017/06/reinaldo-correa-prairie-revival/

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Interview with Chan Published

“Data Operation, Digital Architecture and the Phenomenon of Design Thinking,” an interview of architecture Professor Chiu-Shui Chan by alumnus Yu-Ngok Lo (BArch 2004 Architecture), AIA, was published in the Connection, the Architecture and Design Journal of the Young Architects Forum. [Download this issue] 

Articles by Goché Published in International Journals

“Black Contemporary: Field Notes and Other Peculiar Posts,” an article by architecture Assistant Professor Peter Goché (BArch 1991 / MArch 2005 Architecture), was published in Blur: d3:dialog international journal of architecture + design, vol. II. Another article titled “Black Contemporary” has been published in “Material Vocabularies,” the International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design, Vol. 4. An exhibition of artwork by Goché, Chiaroscuro: Material Modalities and Immaterial Harmonics, was exhibited Sept. 1-8 at the University of Florida School of Architecture Gallery.

Article by Goché Published in Architecture and Culture Journal

“Chiaroscuro: A Theoretical Valence,” an article by architecture Assistant Professor Peter Goché, has been published in Architecture and Culture, Volume 4, 2016, Issue 3: This Thing Called Theory.

Goché to Exhibit Work in MACAA Juried Exhibition

Peter Goché, assistant professor of architecture, exhibited several production works – a video (Oscillation), and a print (Pallet Print) and a three dimensional paper work (98.6 lbs) in “Better than Art,” a juried show by Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) that featured the work of artists from across the country. The show ran Oct. 27-Nov. 30.

Passe Coauthors Book Chapter on Passive Solar Design Strategies

A chapter on Iowa State’s entry in the 2009 US DOE Solar Decathlon and passive solar design strategies coauthored by Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, and Tim Lentz (BS 2008 / MS 2010 Mechanical Engineering), who was the mechanical engineering student lead on the Interlock House project, is part of the book Low Energy Low Carbon Architecture: Recent Advances and Future Directions (CRC Press, 2016) by Khaled Al-Sallal. Chapter 4: “Designing Passive Solar-Heated Spaces” focuses on reducing energy use through passive heating of building spaces.

Book Co-authored by Ji Published in South Korea

Architecture Lecturer Jungwoo Ji is one of six co-authors of Play Changes Children, a book published in South Korea. He wrote about “An Architect’s View of Making a Playground,” which includes mention of his DES 340: Design for Kids studio at Iowa State and work by his firm, EUS architects.

Work by Hur part of Seoul Exhibition

“Beyond the Boundary,” a project by Bosuk Hur (BArch 2005 / MArch 2006 Architecture), lecturer in architecture, and Youngsu Lee (BArch 2006 Architecture), both of folio architecture, was part of the “NY Contemporary 8 @ Seoul” exhibition Nov. 2 through Dec. 12 at Superior Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.

Work by Squire Part of Des Moines Art Center Exhibition

“Gladiators” (lithograph, 2013) by architecture Professor Mitchell Squire (BArch 1994 / MArch 2001 Architecture) was part of the Heavy Heavy Hangs Over Thy Headexhibition at the Des Moines Art Center. The show features 38 works by artists from the 16th century to the present that depict firearms, shooters or victims of gun violence.

Squire to Deliver 2 Public Lectures

Mitchell Squire, professor of architecture, delivered two public lectures in October. He presented “Talk to the Wood” Oct. 25 at Woodbury School of Architecture in Los Angeles, California. For the Durades Dialogue at Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Oct. 27, Squire gave a visual presentation of his work and discussed the issues that drive him with James Garrett Jr., AIA followed by a Q&A session.

Squire Helps Bring ‘Truth Booth’ to Des Moines

Architecture Professor Mitchell Squire co-sponsored “The Truth Booth” with the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Cowles Commons and Thursday, Sept. 29, in Western Gateway Park in Des Moines. This inflatable, interactive artwork in the shape of a giant speech bubble captured two-minute-long video segments of anyone willing to share their thoughts and opinions as they complete the statement “The truth is…” The booth’s video is compiled, edited and presented in public exhibitions at select art institutions as well as online platforms.

Article Highlights Design Communication Class Projects in Manning

“Art into Life: ISU students’ designs to be incorporated in Manning,” an article by reporter Rebecca McKinsey, was published recently in the Carroll Daily Times Herald. The story highlights projects for the city of Manning proposed by students in architecture Lecturer Reinaldo Correa’s DSN S 232: Design Communication class this fall. The class of nearly 30 students included a wide range of majors from across campus.

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Architecture Student Appointed AIAS Representative on AIA Institute Honor Awards Jury

Fifth-year architecture student David Cordaro, Urbandale, has been appointed the student representative for the American Institute of Architecture Students on the 2017 American Institute of Architects Institute Honor Awards for Architecture jury and 25-Year Award Jury. He will serve on the jury with eight architects and client representatives from Albuquerque, New Mexico; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; New York City; Pittsburgh; Seattle; and Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Ji’s Firm Wins International Architecture Competition

EUS+ Architects, the South Korean architecture firm co-founded by architecture Lecturer Jungwoo Ji, is part of a three-firm consortium (with Space Group and Idea Architects) that won first place out of 54 international entries in the Seoul Animation Center Design Competition. The 21,000-square-meter, mixed-use complex with exhibition and performance halls features three stories above ground and three stories below ground. The total construction budget is $40 million; the winning team will submit design development and construction documents in 2017.

Senske’s YouTube Channel Named Among Top 12 for Architects

ArchDaily has named architecture Assistant Professor Nick Senske‘s YouTube channelone of the Top 12 Architecture Channels on YouTube. Two tutorials Senske created specifically for ARCH 230: Design Communications I at Iowa State University were cited as among his best. He uses the video tutorials for “flipped classroom” teaching in the recently revised version of this required course for architecture majors. Senske’s channel has passed 1 million viewers and 15,000 subscribers.

Leslie, Paxson Honored with University Awards

Tom Leslie, Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture, has been named a Morrill Professor and Lynn Paxson, professor of architecture, has been named a University Professor by Iowa State University. Both were recognized at the University Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony Monday, Sept. 26, at the Iowa State Memorial Union. The Morrill Professorship recognizes faculty members whose professional work has demonstrated outstanding success in teaching and learning in undergraduate, graduate and/or Extension/outreach programs which is reflected by a national or international reputation in the nominee’s discipline. A University Professor must above all else have acted as a change agent by having made significant contributions that have improved the university. This professional work must go beyond excellence in teaching or research. In addition to the area of these contributions, a University Professor must have demonstrated outstanding performance in at least one other area of faculty responsibility: (1) research and/or creative activities, (2) teaching and advising, or (3) extension/professional practice.

Bogdanovic Co-edits Book on Capital Cities’ Political Landscapes

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities, co-edited by Jelena Bogdanovic, assistant professor of architecture, has been published by the University of Colorado Press. The book investigates the transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities 

Article by Bogdanovic Published in JSAH

“Evocations of Byzantium in Zenitist Avant-Garde Architecture,” an article by Jelena Bogdanovic, associate professor of architecture, was published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75, No. 3, September 2016. JSAH is a leading journal on the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. The cover page of this issue also featured a drawing of the Villa Zenit from Bogdanovic’s article. Her research on the references to Byzantium in the architecture and philosophy of Zenitism—an Eastern European avant-garde movement founded by Ljubomir Micic in 1921—was supported by a grant from the ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.

Senske’s Book Review Published in Journal of Architectural Education

An invited book review by Nick Senske, assistant professor of architecture, was published in the Journal of Architectural Education 70:2 October 2016. The book is A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press) by Tung-Hui Hu, a critical examination of digital infrastructure and its connections to physical and political space.

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Architecture student team wins honorable mention in international ideas competition
http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2016/12/site-landmark-competition/

Iowa State University and city of Des Moines partner on big data research project
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/10/26/bigdata-passe

National rankings place ISU’s landscape architecture 10th and architecture 18th
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/09/29/design-rankings

ISU architecture student team wins ACSA international student design competition
http://archive.design.iastate.edu/news/9/28/2016/collecting_pieces

ISU interdisciplinary student team takes top-three finish in international urban design competition
http://archive.design.iastate.edu/news/9/14/2016/kenya_competition

Student work created in Rome on display Aug. 30 – Sept. 10 in ISU College of Design’s Gallery 181
http://archive.design.iastate.edu/news/8/30/2016/wallwalk_exhibition

Iowa State architecture students design and build new shelter for Urbandale’s Dunlap Park and Arboretum
http://archive.design.iastate.edu/news/8/16/2016/bishop_shelter

80/35 festival will feature visual-interaction pavilion created by Iowa State students
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/07/06/80-35pavilion

Doyle named first Daniel J. Huberty Fellow in Architecture at ISU
http://archive.design.iastate.edu/news/6/9/2016/huberty_fellow

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Iowa State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Hauptmann as Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture. Only recently arrived at ISU, Professor Hauptmann was previously Director of the Delft School of Design at the TU Delft, The Netherlands. Hauptmann practiced Architecture in Switzerland, Spain and America; her research draws on a trans-disciplinary approach to architecture, including disciplines of art, philosophy, cultural & media studies, social science and neuroscience as exemplified in her edited volume Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noopolitics.

We are also pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Andrea Wheeler as Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, where she teaches courses in technical building systems and comprehensive design. Wheeler has degrees in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering from Oxford Brookes University as well as a PhD from the University of Nottingham. In 2007 she was awarded a prestigious three-year ESRC/EPSRC fellowship award to examine sustainable schools and subsequently worked as a research fellow for a central UK government research unit. She has recently been awarded $12,000 in seed funding to continue this research with a project entitled Iowa’s New School Buildings: A Future Invested in Sustainability.

In addition to these new appointments, Ulrike Passe has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Passe has been a faculty member at Iowa State since 2006, where she teaches architectural design and environmental forces and control systems and serves as director of the Center for Building Energy Research and plank leader of the Iowa NSF EPSCoR Building Science plank. Her research focuses on the relationship of spatial composition and fluid dynamics of air-flow as an approach to energy efficient building design and the evaluation of building integrated passive and renewable energy systems. She received her Diplom-Ingenieur in Architecture from the Technical University in Berlin and is a licensed architect in Germany.

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Thomas Leslie, an internationally recognized expert on the history of technology and architecture, has been named the first holder of the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture in the Iowa State University College of Design.

Leslie, professor of architecture, is an award-winning teacher and author, and previously an architect with one of the world’s leading design firms.

Iowa State alumni Jon Pickard and William D. Chilton — the founding partners of Pickard Chilton, a collaborative global architectural practice headquartered in New Haven, Conn. — created the endowed professorship to support the recruitment and retention of Iowa State faculty who are leaders in the advancement of progressive architectural education. Both Pickard and Chilton received Bachelor of Arts degrees in architecture from ISU in 1976.

“Professor Leslie brings together significant practice experience and an exemplary teaching record with a clear scholarly research program,” said Professor Gregory Palermo, director of the ISU architecture program.

“The Pickard Chilton Professorship will allow him to build upon prior scholarship to delve even more thoroughly into issues of construction technology, building design and cultural change, and to share this knowledge with students, colleagues and peers in the profession.”

During his initial three-year  (renewable) term as the Pickard Chilton Professor, Leslie intends to research and produce two publications—a series of essays on the relationship between technology and aesthetics in the buildings of Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, and a comprehensive history of the roles building science and technology have played in influencing architectural design, based on his nationally recognized elective seminar, “Physics and Form.”

He also plans an effort to revive the interdisciplinary pilot Design Science course he offered with other College of Design faculty as part of the college’s first-year Core Design Program in 2006. The new course would be targeted toward advanced undergraduate and graduate students and emphasize design as not only a creative activity, but a practice based in experiential problem solving.

Leslie teaches the fifth-year comprehensive design studios and advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in architectural science and technology. He has received numerous awards for teaching and creative achievement from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, among others.

Leslie is the author of “Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science” (George Braziller, 2005) and “Country Comes to Town: The Iowa State Fair” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). He co-authored “Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects” (Architectural Press, 2006) with colleague Jason Alread, ISU associate professor of architecture. He is completing work on “The Technical Evolution of the Chicago Skyscraper,” to be published by University of Illinois Press in 2012.

Prior to joining the Iowa State faculty in 2000, Leslie was an architect for Foster and Partners, London and San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Science in architectural studies with high honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for the last 10 years of research and teaching, and for the potential to expand it through the Pickard Chilton Professorship,” Leslie said. “This award will support deeper, more extensive research into technically fluent and expressive buildings that I have wanted to explore, and these will all be important case studies in the classroom. By learning from examples, students understand things better, since they’re seeing how other architects and designers have approached similar issues.”

Leslie observed that his research is in tune with Pickard Chilton’s philosophy of “wanting to do things beautifully, but also to do them right,” he said.

“It is appropriate that Pickard Chilton produces work that is large-scale and very complex, but also quite rich and expressive. My research deals with how architects and engineers take these sorts of complicated problems and elevate them to enriching architectural experiences.”

Leslie will be recognized in a campus ceremony Friday, Sept. 9.

The Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture is one of 85 named positions created during Campaign Iowa State: With Pride and Purpose, the university’s recently completed fundraising effort, which resulted in more than $867 million in gifts and future commitments for facilities and student, faculty and programmatic support.

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The Wrigley Building … the Chicago Tribune Tower … the Merchandise Mart … the Rookery. These are among the landmark Chicago skyscrapers that defined the city and inspired a nation during an era of prosperity and progress.

In the years between Chicago’s Great Fire of 1871 and the country’s Great Depression, Chicago was an epicenter for architecture’s modernization and urbanization. And it was a political hotbed of corruption, muckraking, unions and reform.

Those worlds intersect in a new book by Thomas Leslie, Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University. “Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934” weaves together the daily struggles, technical breakthroughs and negotiations that produced Chicago’s magnificent buildings. The book will be published June 20 by University of Illinois Press and available from online booksellers.

An architectural gumshoe

For Leslie, researching the book over a 10-year period was akin to unraveling a whodunit.

He inspected old engineering journals and technical publications. He pored over original construction drawings of 19th century buildings. He examined manufactured parts like cast- and wrought-iron panels and shop drawings for terra cotta panels in the Chicago History Museum archives. He shadowed architects and builders through newspaper stories and photographs. He deciphered the building codes of the day.

“When you see all that, you get such a better understanding of how all these pieces fit together,” Leslie said.

“I’ve tried to look at these buildings as a really complex set of negotiations between economics, technology, politics and codes, which all came together to create a city,” Leslie said.

“And it turned out there were amazing stories,” he added.

Materials of style or economy?

For example, the Chicago Style was distinguished by the use of steel and plate glass. Steel was used for its ability to help buildings resist wind.  But it was also popular, Leslie said, because it shut out strike-prone bricklayers from much of a building’s construction. The bricklayers’ unions eventually struck back, using their political power to manipulate the city’s building code in their favor.

Leslie also uncovered a new motivation for the popularity of plate glass, which was manufactured in Pittsburgh at the time.

“During Chicago’s post-fire reconstruction boom, entrepreneurs moved the plate glass industry to central Indiana,” said Leslie, who visited the ruins of the factory and researched it in the local library. “For 10 years, the world center of plate glass production was in Kokomo where it fed Chicago directly.”

Because Chicago’s plate glass windows were the prototype for the modern skyscraper’s glass curtain wall, historians have maintained that the Chicago architects used plate glass intentionally as an expression of the modern.

“In reality, it was just that the glass was cheap because it was manufactured nearby. And, it was the easiest way to light the interiors of these buildings,” he said.

The Methodists versus the Chicago Tribune

Leslie also relates the story of a fight between a Methodist congregation and the Chicago Tribune that occurred during a mayoral election and changed the city’s building code.

The Tribune and the Methodists were both constructing buildings downtown in 1921. The congregation’s building was significantly higher than the code’s height limit. The Methodists argued they could do so because ‘we’re a church and the building has a spire. 

“But actually, the building has a sanctuary topped by 20 floors of commercial space and a spire,” Leslie said. “The Chicago Tribune looked across the river and cried foul, saying ‘that’s not a church, it’s a commercial tower.'”

The clash became a big controversy. The mayor — who was running for re-election at the time — courted the Methodist vote and “let some things slide.” The city’s 30-year-old building-height restriction was removed. And Chicago’s buildings grew taller.

“All because there was one savvy congregation that realized they could make a lot of money from their site. It was a very calculating, political and economic game,” Leslie said.

“The Chicago skyscraper story has been told by lots of people, but what’s amazing is how much hasn’t been fully understood,” Leslie said. “I feel like I ‘ve uncovered some new things.”

Leslie is also the author of Country Comes to Town: The Iowa State Fair (2007), Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects (with Jason Alread, 2006) and Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science (2005). Prior to joining Iowa State’s faculty in 2000, he was an architect with Sir Norman Foster and Partners, London and San Francisco.

In April, the American Academy in Rome named Leslie recipient of the 2012-14 Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation. He will spend six months at the academy researching and visiting the buildings of postwar Italian architect and engineer Pier Nervi, the subject of his next book.