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TIFFANY XU is the 2024/25 Banham Fellow in the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Rice she is a licensed architect who worked in practice in San Francisco before taking up her appointment at the University at Buffalo.

ANDRERW BERMAN is the UB Distinguished Visiting Critic for the Fall semester at the University at Buffalo. A notable architect working in practice in New York City, he is the designer of a series of award-winning projects. Andrew Berman is working with UB M.Arch students in New York City and Buffalo.

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ACSA News – November 2019.

Professor Korydon Smith, Chair of Architecture, received a 2019 Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) for the top book. Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural Enquires and Prospects for a Developing African City (University of Arkansas Press), was co-authored with Toma Berlanda. The book explores complex challenges of planning, design, and construction in informal settlements. With one billion people living in organic cities worldwide and the city of Kigali projected to triple in size within a generation, the book offers place-based research and strategies to scholars and practitioners across disciplines throughout the Global South.

Professor Mark Shepard was awarded a 2019 McDowell Fellowship. One of five architects to be selected from 676 applicants Professor Shepard is using the Fellowship to advance his research in digital design and simulation.

The IDEA Center (Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access) recently launched innovative solutions for Universal Design (isUD tm). The advanced on-line tool provides organizations with a path for building inclusive environments. isUD contains guidelines to address design for usability, wellness and social relations and can be used for design guidance, self-assessment or audited certification. Adapters include Procter & Gamble, Price Waterhouse Coopers, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Uniland Development and Temple Beth Tzedek. To learn more, visit www.thisisud.com.

The IDEA Center partnered with Touch Graphics Inc. to install and evaluate a Touch Responsive Model in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. The model – a 3D representation of buildings and plans of the National Mall – provides information about resources on the Mall, the Smithsonian buildings and directions to all facilities in multiple sensory modes. A kiosk version, that provides specific building information, was also installed at the National American History Museum.

Professor Brian Carter gave a keynote address entitled ‘Books + Buildings’ at the 2019 WNY Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Assistant Professor Charles Davis delivered a lecture at Penn Design. The talk discussed his creative work, entitled ‘Building Black Utopias”, which uses architectural drawings and models to translate the modernist principles of African American literature of the 1960’s and 70’s. His lecture was followed by a panel discussion on the writings of June Jordan, an African American poet who collaborated with Buckminster Fuller in 1965 to design the project “High-rise for Harlem”.

Emily Kutil was appointed 2019/20 Banham Fellow. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati she received an M. Arch and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Prior to her appointment Emily worked in practice in California and with M1DTW in Detroit. A founding member of ‘We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective’ she also taught design and visualization at the University of Detroit Mercy. Her research at UB is focused on the history and future of water, land and power in the Great Lakes Watershed.

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ACSA news – October 2019.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik and design partner Coryn Kempster represented Buffalo with the project ‘Aldo: a Social Infrastructure’ in the 2019 exhibition ‘Cities’ at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in South Korea.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik received an Independent Projects Grant in the Architecture + Design Program through the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) for the project “Growing up Modern”. The Architectural League of New York was the fiscal sponsor for the application.

With support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the University at Buffalo Resilient Buildings Laboratory, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Nicholas Rajkovich, recently completed a multiyear research project to help architects, builders, facility managers, and policymakers in New York State to address the impact of climate change on the building stock. The research reports, one-page fact sheets, and educational videos are posted at http://ap.buffalo/adapting-buildings.

Assistant Professor Charles Davis was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians. In this capacity he is collaborating with a sub=committee within SAH to create the first ‘Race in Architectural History’ affiliation group of the organization. The group will serve the membership by planning thematic roundtables on race, ethnicity and identity at future annual conferences and organizing publication workshops for new book projects on race and architecture.

Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to the book ‘Canadian Modern Architecture’ that was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Stephanie Cramer, recently appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture at UB, was curator of the exhibition ‘Affordable Housing Initiatives’ which opened in Hayes Hall Gallery in September 2019.

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Assistant Professor Erkin Ozay was an invited panelist for the symposium ‘Minding the Gap’ held in Washington DC in January 2019. The event, organized by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee, brought together educators, researchers and practitioners to discuss the future of urban design education in the USA.

Associate Professor Joyce Hwang was selected as one of five designers and artists invited to develop a proposal and prototypes to transform exterior spaces at Matadero, a contemporary arts center in Madrid. The “Mutant Cyborg Garden” is being coordinated and directed by the architecture office ‘elii’ and Matadero Madrid. Professor Hwang recently conducted workshops with design students in Madrid and that work culminated in an exhibition at Matadero for the 2019 Madrid Design Week. She is working in collaboration with the architect Nerea Feliz.

Professor Brian Carter was a contributor to ‘Twisted”. The book was recently published by Actar Publications, New York & Barcelona. The chapter written by Professor Carter is entitled ‘Textiles, Machines, Flow and Factories’.

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Professor Edward Steinfeld was a keynote speaker at the 2018 Universal Design and Higher Education in Transformation Conference in Dublin, Ireland in October/November. He also directed a workshop on a certification program for universal design.

Associate Professor Joyce Hwang was an invited speaker at the 2018 AICAD Symposium ‘Artists/Designers/Citizens’. The symposium was hosted by the School of Art Institute of Chicago and the presentation was part of a  panel organized by Joseph Altshuler and Julia Sedlock entitled ‘The Creaturely Citizen’.  Other panelists included Stewart Hicks and Fred Scharmen. http://www.saic.edu/special -events/aicad-2018-symposium.

Associate Professor Joyce Hwang’s projects ‘Bat Tower’ and ‘Bat Cloud’ were published in the book Pet-tecture: Design for Animals. The book was edited by Tom Wainwright and published by Phaidon Press, London, England. https://www.phaidon.com/store/design/pet-tecture-design -for-pets-9780714876672/. ‘Bat Tower’ was also published in the Architectural Review: issue 1450 in the article ‘Typology: Building for Animals’ authored by Tom Wilkinson. Her project ‘Bower’, created in partnership with Ellen Driscoll, and in collaboration with Matt Hume, was published in Sculpture Magazine, October 2018.

‘Pest Architecture’ – an essay written by Associate Professor Joyce Hwang – was featured in World Architecture magazine: issue 201807 published by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 

Professor Brian Carter was the editor of the book ‘Temple Beth Zion’. The book was published in November as part of the Buffalo Architecture Mid-Century Modern series.

The SMART Fabrication Factory – a new prototyping facility whose mission focuses on developing collaborative research with industry – opened in the School of Architecture & Planning at the University at Buffalo in November 2018.

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Assistant Prof. Jin Young Song.presented ‘Flutter Fin’ at the international conference Advance Buildng Skins in Bern,Switzerland n October 2018. His proposal for a façade prototype has been designed to harness electrical energy from the building envelope and shares insights on the potential of elastic instability in the building industry. The Conference contributed to multi-disciplinary design and integrated planning approaches to reducing the energy consumption of buildings and brought together architects, engineers, scientists, and fabricators from around the world.

Professor Edward Steinfeld, Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Utah AIA in Salt Lake City on September 21. His lecture was entitled ‘Beyond the ADA: Practicing Universal Design’. He was also a guest speaker at the School of Architecture at Hasselt University in Belgium where he presented ‘Increasing Adoption of Universal Design’

The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access at UB has been approved for a five year cycle for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation. The prime grantee of the $5million grant is the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. The Center’s work will include research on accessibility of automated vehicles in partnership with major automobile manufacturers and SAE mobility companies. . 

Assistant Professor Erkin Ozay organized the symposium ‘Strategies of Empowerment: A survey of Emerging Urban Practices in Weak Market Cities’ at UB in October. The panelists included Daniel D’Oca (Harvard, GSD), Jennifer Goold (Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore), Patty Heyda (Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts), and Marc Norman (University of Michigan, Taubman College).

Assistant Professors. Erkin Ozay and Nic Rajkovich directed a team of graduate students from UB’s Urban Design Graduate Research Group in the Mid-West Urban Design Charrette in Toledo, Ohio from October 5-7. The team of faculty and students worked with peers to develop proposals for the revitalization of the Junction Neighborhood.

Assistant Professor  Julia Jamrozik’s “Growing up Modern – Oral History as Architectural Preservation’ was published in JAE Vol.72 alongside photographs by Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempster.

Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik, Adjunct Assistant Professor Coryn Kempsterand Adjunct Instructor Virginia Melnyck were selected designers of installations for PLAY/GROUND – the transformation of a former school in Medina, NY..

Associate Professor Joyce Hwang gave the lecture ‘Architect as Advocate: Living among Pests’ at the Daniels School, University of Toronto. http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/2018/10/03/architect-advocate-living-among-pests-joyce-hwang.

Professor Bran Carter was an invited speaker in the Toronto Public Library Culture & Arts Program on October 18. The title of his lecture was ‘Ancient + Modern – I.M.Pei’. 

UB NOMAS Chapter was awarded first prize in the 2018 NOMAS Design Competition in Chicago in October. The Chapter, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, developed a proposal entitled ‘Roots’ that advanced ideas for urban agriculture in Woodlawn. This was their third consecutive award in this national design competition that is held annually.

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ACSA News – September 2018

Assistant Prof. Erkin Ozay presented a lecture entitled ‘Cities and Schools in America, 1896-2015’ at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo on September 14, 2018. 

Associate Prof. Joyce Hwang was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAR) for a three year term staring in 2018. She has also been appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto where she is teaching a graduate studio entitled ‘Zoological Cities’ in Fall 2018.

‘Pest Architecture’ – written by Associate Prof. Joyce Hwang – was published in World Architecture, July 2018. The journal also featured two projects designed by Prof. Hwang – the Bat Tower and Bat Cloud. Her work was also featured in ‘Designing a City that Makes Room for Nature’ published as part of the “Urban Ark Los Angeles’ series – an environment storytelling partnership between KCET and UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies.(http://www.kcet.org/shows/earth-focus/designing-a-city-that-makes-room -for nature) 

Adjunct Assistant Prof. Coryn Kempster was awarded the League Prize from the Architecture League of New York for work done in collaboration with Assistant Prof. Julia Jamrozik. A group exhibit of the winners was recently shown at Parson School of Design (https://archleague.org/competition /league-prize-2018-objective/)   

The film ‘See It Through Buffalo’ is currently on view in Venice, Italy. Directed by Clinical Assistant Prof. Greg Delaney and produced by Paget Films in association with the School of Architecture and Planning of the University at Buffalo the film is showing at Time Space Existence – an exhibition organized by the Global Art Affairs Foundation and hosted by the European Cultural Centre alongside the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Assoc. Prof.Joyce Hwang, Clinicla Asst. Prof. Greg Delaney, Assist. Profs. Nick Rajkovich, Julia Jamrozik and Erkin Ozay, Clinical Assoc. Prof. Kerry Traynor, and Camden Miller presented ‘Unstately: Bottom –Up and Middle-Out Practices’ at the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The panel discussion focused on the work of faculty in Buffalo and was coordinated with the curatorial theme ‘Dimensions of Citizenship’ (http://dimensionsof citizenship.org/events/unstately-bottom-up-and-middle-out-practices) 

Prof. Korydon Smith and Associate Professor Joyce Hwang were appointed ChaIr and Associate Chair of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo in July 2018.

Prof. Hadas Steiner jointly organized the first conference on the subject of queer space at the Society of Architectural Historians 2018 Conference with Dirk van den Heuvel. Prof. Steiner’s article “A Bird in the Hand’ was published by MIT in ‘Thresholds’, no.46, Summer 2018. Pp. 36-43. Prof. Steiner gave a lecture entitled ‘The Accidental Visitant’ at the Stuckeman School of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2018.

Prof. Brian Carter served as a professional advisor to the GSA Design Excellence program in Boston in August, 2018.

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The book, Battersby Howat, edited by Brian Carter, was recognized with a COUPE International Award in the ‘Complete Book Design’ category.

Jin Young Song’s architectural practice, Dioinno Architecture has won Second Award in Residential Building Concept Category in the Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards 2014. Jury Members include Nader Tehrani from MIT and Scott Duncan from SOM: http://www.re-thinkingthefuture.org/portfolio/p-a-r-t-dioinno-architecture-pllc/. His other project, ZEAF,  was selected by NYSCA to be one of Independent Projects funded in the State of New York with the Architectural League as non-profit sponsor: http://archleague.org/2014/12/2015-new-york-state-council-on-the-arts-league-sponsored-independent-projects-grantees/

Miguel Guitart has published the article “Reshaping Robert Adams’ Landscape” in ZARCH Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism Vol.2 (Rethinking, Remaking). The peer-reviewed journal is the official publication of the Department of Architecture at the University of Zaragoza. Guitart’s article explores Adams’ vision on the transforming landscape of the American West in the 1960’s due to the disurbanization of American cities during the Cold War years.

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Banham Fellow Jordan Carver’s review of the September 11 museum, “Selfie of a Nation,” was published in the Avery Review: http://www.averyreview.com/issues/2/selfie-of-a-nation. He also had an exhibition opening at the Istanbul Design Biennial as part of Who Builds Your Architecture? The exhibit highlights migrant labor issues in the architecture profession by connecting architects and construction workers through the design process. http://2tb.iksv.org/proje.asp?id=51

In August, Associate Professor Despina Stratigakos presented a paper, “Architectural Propaganda and the Nazis as Colonial Builders in Norway” at the Art in Battle conference held at the KODE Art Museum in Bergen, Norway.  She also participated in the Feminist Futures symposium organized by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In October, Stratigakos and Kelly Hayes McAlonie presented “Architect Barbie: The Debate and Discussion 3 Years Later” at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C.

Jin Young Song in partnership with MINIMAX Architects, the partner firm in South Korea, has been awarded a research grant for the master plan/housing innovation research from the government of Yangpyeong, S. Korea. Prof. Song will conduct an intensive research/design studio in Spring 2015. This studio is funded by the city, including a 5 day studio research trip to Korea.

In October, Nicholas B. Rajkovich presented a paper entitled “A Bicycle-Based Field Measurement System for the Study of the Urban Canopy Layer in Cuyahoga County, Ohio” at the 20th International Congress of Biometeorology in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference was sponsored by the International Society of Biometeorology, a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration among meteorologists, health professionals, biologists, climatologists, ecologists, and other scientists.

Clinical Assistant Professor Dennis Maher was an invited speaker at the 2014 Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium at Cornell University. The symposium explored the ancient phenomenon of spolia and its relevance to our present need for more sustainable and resilient human patterns of habitation. http://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/spolia-histories-spaces-and-processes-adaptive-reuse

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has also acquired the first edition of his “House Anamnesis,” a suite of seven graphic works on canvas. Works in the suite propose the walls, floors, and ceilings of Maher’s ever-evolving Fargo House as agents of hallucinatory self-reflection.

Paul Battaglia has been appointed to the Underwriters Laboratories Standards Technical Panel for review of UL 1479 “Fire Tests of Penetration Firestops.” He also presented a paper, “Achieving acoustical comfort in restaurants,” to the Acoustical Society of America at their fall conference in Indianapolis on October 29. The data for the study was derived from student projects in the Aural Architecture seminar from spring term 2014.

Stephanie Davidson co-wrote an article with her sister, Tonya Davidson, a sociology professor at Ryerson University, entitled “Building by Design: A Critique of DIY Architecture.” The article is published in the current issue (volume 5, issue 2) of curb magazine, published by the University of Alberta (http://crsc.ualberta.ca/CurbMagazine.aspx).

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The Buffalo School is pleased to welcome four new architecture faculty members with the start of the 2014-15 academic year. With experience in the practice and academic realms of architecture, urban design and urban planning, these new faculty members come with a shared eagerness to engage Buffalo’s regional context in their design inquiry. See more at: http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/newfaculty_2014-15.html

Shannon Bassett is an architectural and urban designer. She holds an MArch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a BArch from Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research, teaching, writing and practice operate at the intersection of architecture, urban design and ecological systems.

Julia Jamrozik holds architecture and art degrees from the University of Toronto and an MArch from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests focus on public space, public buildings and the role of both playfulness and play in shaping these environments.

Erkin Özay is a registered architect and an urbanist whose research focuses on urban asset distribution practices and their spatial impacts on the city. An Aga Khan Fellow (2011-13) at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, he has also explored the issues of urban conservation, territorial expansion and transportation infrastructure in the city of Istanbul. Ozay received his B.Arch degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara and his M.Arch II degree from Harvard GSD.

Nicholas Rajkovich, PhD, AIA, focuses his research investigations on the intersection of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and adaptation to climate change. He holds a PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of Michigan, a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

Western New York’s new economic development plan, the product of a major community-based planning effort led by the WNY Regional Economic Development Council (WNYREDC) and Empire State Development in partnership with the UB Regional Institute, has been recognized by the International Economic Development Council with a 2014 Excellence in Economic Development Silver Award. The work also recently received a 2014 Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice from the Upstate New York chapter of the American Planning Association. A “Strategy for Prosperity in Western New York” (the Plan) is a five-year roadmap for the region that responds to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s restructured, bottom-up approach to state economic development. The Plan, which emphasizes smart growth, workforce development, entrepreneurship and the region’s strategic industry clusters, won the state’s “Best Plan” award in 2011. To date, over 8,600 citizens have engaged in the planning process, which includes annual progress reports to monitor and adapt the Plan. In 2012, as a result of this work, Gov. Cuomo pledged to invest $1 billion in WNY over 10 years to leverage private investment. In response, WNYREDC, with the Brookings Institution, McKinsey & Company and the UB Regional Institute, developed the “Buffalo Billion Investment Development Plan,” a market analysis and investment strategy based on the Plan’s framework. View these plans: http://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/content/western-new-york

Edward H. Steinfeld, ArchD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Architecture, will receive one of his field’s most significant honors: the James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in Architectural Research. Presented by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), the award recognizes individuals who have “made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields.” A pioneer and leading scholar in the field of inclusive design, Steinfeld’s research centers on designing products and built environments that are more accessible, safe and friendly for all people, including those who are often marginalized. His research on design for disability is the foundation for accessibility codes and regulations in the U.S., including the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines. That work is widely cited by other researchers and helped establish UB as a leader in rehabilitation research. Under Steinfeld’s leadership, the IDeA Center (Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access) has become an internationally renowned, multidisciplinary research initiative. Steinfeld is the third architect with Buffalo School ties to receive the honor. Previous winners are Dean Robert G. Shibley and John Eberhard, the school’s founding dean. Read more: http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/steinfeld_haecker_award.html

The IDeA Center will be collaborating with the Erie County Department of Senior Services, New York State Office for the Aging, and the County Executive Office to make Erie County more welcoming, friendly, and livable for all ages by joining the World Health Organization and AARP’s Network of Age Friendly Communities. Dr. Ed Steinfeld, the director of the IDeA Center, was joined on Monday, September 22, 2014, by Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President of Social Impact at AARP, Corinda Crossdale, Director of the New York State Office for the Aging, and Erie County Executive, Mark Poloncarz, who announced Erie County’s sign-on to the Age Friendly Community initiative at a press conference in downtown Buffalo. The IDeA Center is excited to spearhead the initiative in Erie County by connecting the ongoing local organizations and groups who already contribute to the goals of the Age Friendly Community vision. Here are two stories on the press conference: http://news.wbfo.org/post/erie-county-joins-initiative-focused-older-adults, http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/erie-county/county-joins-aarp-network-of-age-friendly-communities-20140922

Beth Tauke, associate professor of architecture and associate dean for academic affairs, received the University at Buffalo’s 2014 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring in recognition of her dedicated and inspired service to students over the past three decades. The distinction, UB’s highest award for undergraduate teaching and mentoring, sets the bar for faculty excellence in advancing student potential as young scholars and future leaders. See more at: http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/tauke_meyersonaward.html#sthash.OYZYnwpT.dpuf.

She also published a book chapter entitled “House of Sense Memory,” in Lost in Space, edited by Ekhard Feddersen and Insa Ludtke and published by Birkhauser in fall of 2014. The book is about ways that architecture and urban planning can more thoroughly respond to people with dementia, especially to their sense of orientation and ability to perceive space. In addition, she gave a keynote lecture entitled “Visual Sway: Gender Identity and Color Coercion in Toy Packaging” at The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender’s 2014 Symposium: Gender and Color. She discussed the gender coding in toy packaging and possible effects on gender identity throughout life.

Mark Shepard presented at the City By Numbers: Big Data and the Urban Future symposium, organized by Pratt Institute and Places Journal. Symposium participants included Laura Kurgan, Associate Professor at Columbia University GSAPP and Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab, Shannon Mattern, Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York, Malcolm McCullough, Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Michigan, and Anthony Townsend, Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, among others.

Joyce Hwang and Chris Romano, together with alumni Courtney Creenan-Chorley (M.Arch ’12, MUP ’12), and Peter Schmidt (M.Arch ’14), presented a seminar at the AIA New York State Conference: “New Practice, New Design,” in Saratoga Springs, NY. Their talk, “Cross-Profession Practices: Mixing-up the Academy with Industry,” centered on models of research and practice that have emerged from collaborative work between the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, Rigidized Metals, and Boston Valley Terra Cotta. Joyce also participated as the representative for B/a+p on the “NYS Schools of Architecture Roundtable,” together with Lance Jay Brown (CCNY), Dennis Andrejko (RIT), Frank Mruk (NYIT), and Mark Mistur (RPI). More information here: http://www.aianys.org/main/convention_conferences.shtml. Associate Professor Hwang, Sean Burkholder, Chris Romano, and Nick Bruscia also presented their work as part of the Worldwide Storefront Circus for Construction event at Silo City in Buffalo. Trenton Van Epps (B.S. Arch ’14) was also involved in organizing this event, as the Circus for Construction’s Buffalo liason. See here for more information: http://www.circusforconstruction.com/, http://storefrontnews.org/programming/events?preview=true&e=620. Photos of the event are here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1483192755298906.1073741832.1453617868256395&type=1.

Georg Rafailidis was selected to participate as part of the “Affordable Living” group in the Slovenian Design Biennale, which opened on September 18th, at the Museum for Architecture and Design MAO in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The project, “Continual House,” by Davidson Rafailidis, earned a favorable mention in Louise Schouwenberg’s review on Dezeen:http://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/09/louise-schouwenberg-opinion-bio-50-social-future-design-fairs/. Rafailidis and his partner Stephanie Davidson were commissioned to develop a piece for the current exhibition at the Harbourfront Architecture Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, which opened on September 26th. The exhibition theme is “Suburbia,” and Davidson Rafailidis was recruited based on their 2011 competition win, “Free Zoning,” which developed a proposal for regeneration on the site of Buffalo’s Central Park Plaza Strip Mall. http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts/2014/architecture-exhibition-fall-2014/

Rafailidis will also present a paper on “Space and Structure” at the ACSA Fall conference, “WORKING OUT: thinking while building” at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, on October 18th.

Construction for the new Gimeno Guitart’s Santa Maria Church and Parish Center started in Tarragona, Spain, in September. The project consists of two buildings and amounts to almost a total 30,000 sf. Construction is scheduled to finish in about 12 months. The building will eventually become a social and urban landmark within this area of the city, near Barcelona. More info. http://gimenoguitart.com/en/projects/santa-maria-parish-center/. Miguel Guitart also had his research text “The Failed Utopia of a Modern Vernacular: Hassan Fathy in New Gourna” selected for publication at the Journal of Architectural Education JAE 68:2, entitled Building Modern Africa, with David Rifkin, Florida International University, and Itohan Osayimwese, Brown University, as Theme Editors.

Jin Young Song is selected as a speaker for the Design Like You Give a Damn : LIVE! , as a part of 5th Annual Humanitarian Conference by Architecture for Humanity at Dwell Design on NY. Design Open Mic at the conference presentation features emerging and established designers and architects presenting their humanitarian projects.

http://architectureforhumanity.org/content/dlygad-design-open-mic-2014

Shannon Bassett’s design research “Speculative Surfaces for the Chinese Eco-City” exhibited at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2011-2012) which recently featured in the ensuing book publication, “Learning from Tri-ciprocal Cities” The Time, the Place, the People 2011-2012″ which was published in Spring 2014 by ORO Editions, Edited by Gene Kwang-Yu King and Anderson Lee. Bassett was also faculty advisor to the competition scheme “The Wall”, which recently received an honorable mention in the recent International Beijing Cityvision Competition 2014. This was judged by an international jury which had as president Ai Weiwei, along with Greg Lynn, Sou Fujimoto, Eric de Broches des Combes and Andrea Bartoli.

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