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ACSANEWS february 2007
february 2007
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number 6
95th ACSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
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President’s Message
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NAAB Board of Directors Call
NAAB 2008 Accreditation Review
Conference Preparation—Call for Participants
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ACSA Board Candidate Statements
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NAAB Visiting Team Representative Call
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96th Annual Meeting
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JAE Call for Submissions
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Historical Preservation Student Competition
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PCA Student Competition
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AISC Student Competition
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ACSA 2007 Fall Conferences
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Cranbrook 2007 Announcement
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OPPORTUNITIES
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National Office News
Winter Calendar
REGIONAL NEWS
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president’s message
IDP, Outsourcing, and 2008
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ACSA Board of Directors, 2006–2007
Theodore C. Landsmark, M.Ev.D, JD, PhD, President
Kim Tanzer, RA, Vice President
Stephen Schreiber, FAIA, Past President
Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, D.Arch, RA, Secretary
Sabir Khan, RA, Treasurer
Lisa Tilder, RA, EC Director
Stephen White, AIA, NE Director
Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA, SE Director
Russell Rudzinski, SW Director
Loraine D. Fowlow, W Director
Keelan Kaiser, AIA, WC Director
George Baird, Canadian Director
Catherine McNeel, Student Director
Michael J. Monti, PhD, Executive Director
ACSA Mission Statement
To advance architectural education through support
of member schools, their faculty, and students. This
support involves:
• Serving by encouraging dialogue among
the diverse areas of discipline;
• Facilitating teaching, research, scholarly
and creative works, through intra/interdisciplinary
activity;
• Articulating the critical issues forming the
context of architectural education
• Fostering public awareness of architectural
education and issues of importance
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This advancement shall be implemented through five
primary means: advocacy, annual program activities,
liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination
of information and response to the needs of member
schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a
global society.
The ACSA News is published monthly during the academic year, September through May. Back issues are available for $9.95 per copy.
Current issues are distributed without charge to ACSA members. News
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(42-48 characters/line.) Display ads may be purchased; full-page
advertisements are available for $1,050 and smaller ads are also
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PRESIDENT
Theodore C. Landsmark
Eleven hundred architecture students
convened in Boston over New Year’s
for the annual AIAS Forum. One lightly
attended presentation sparked considerable debate about the future of
the profession, as a global consulting
firm described how it is substituting its
contracted design and document production services in India for the work
customarily done by interns in American firms.
To be fair, that’s not precisely how
the Destination India–The Profession’s
New Practice Model presentation
was pitched. It was described as an
introduction to the professional services that have long been available to
American firms through international
outsourcing. The work is characterized
as “work-sharing.” This business model
for professional practice was described
as “a global one that is quickly evolving and will soon affect virtually every
firm in this country and around the
world,” with significant implications
for recent graduates. Some of these
firms abroad are said to employ up to
3000 well-trained employees, and the
AIAS presenter indicated that his firm
has contracts with at least 20 major
American architectural client firms.
The implications of outsourcing
were clear as a student leaving the
presentation asked NCARB officials,
“What does this mean for my ability to
complete my IDP requirements? If the
work I would ordinarily do is being sent
overnight to experienced Indian workers who can produce the same or better
work at one-fifth the cost, how will I be
able to get enough entry-level work to
become licensed?” Subsequent conversations revealed that these global outsourcing firms are now represented by
American lawyers, have worked quietly
with American design firms for at least
a decade, and are the bulwark of rural
practices where interns are not available to support sole practitioners. “It
used to be that when we attended major American conferences, our clients
would look the other way and act as
though we didn’t exist. But we’ve built
such trust over the years that we can
now talk openly about the high quality
of work we do,” said one of the firm
principals.
Issues about whether this work
meets the standards required for an
NCARB-licensed architect to approve
drawings appear on the way to resolution, and the emergence of integrated
practice and REVIT-based digital models has facilitated the growth of these
distant partners working closely with
their American counterparts.
As educators we need to discuss
openly how outsourcing may impact
on what our graduates will need to
know to complete IDP requirements.
How does this emerging model affect
what we teach; how shall we prepare
graduates for IDP; and how should we
address an array of questions about
globalized, digitized professional practice? We need to re-examine the structure and learning outcomes expected
of IDP.
With an accreditation review conference coming in the fall of 2008, we
need to discuss whether changes in the
structure of practice, with projections
of fewer internship opportunities for
our graduates, may necessitate some
changes in our curricula. There may be
a need for a greater emphasis on the
critical thinking and problem-solving
skills that will last a lifetime, and a lesser emphasis on teaching technical skills
that may be virtually obsolete by the
time our graduates are called upon to
use them. It’s 2007–2008’s accreditation conference is only a year away….
ACSA REPRESENTATIVE ON NAAB BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Deadline: February 14, 2007
The 2007–08 National Architectural Accrediting
Board (NAAB) will comprise thirteen members:
three representing ACSA, three representing
AIA, three representing NCARB, two representing AIAS, and two public members. Currently,
Wayne Drummond of the University of Nebraska, Christine Theadoropolous of the University
of Oregon, and Thomas Fowler of Cal Poly State
University, represent ACSA on the NAAB Board.
With the expiration of Wayne Drummond’s term
in October 2007, the ACSA Board of Directors is
considering candidates for his successor at its
meeting this March in Philadelphia, PA.
The appointment is for a three-year term (Oct.
2007 – Oct. 2010) and calls for a person willing and able to make a commitment to NAAB.
The final appointment will be made by the sitting NAAB board itself through selection from a
pool of names established by this call for nomi-
nations. While previous experience as an ACSA
board member or administrator is helpful, it is
not essential for nomination. Some experience
on NAAB visiting teams should be considered
necessary; otherwise the nominee might be
unfamiliar with the highly complex series of
deliberations involved with this position. Faculty and administrators are asked to nominate
faculty from an ACSA member school with any
or all the following qualifications:
1. Tenured faculty status at an ACSA full
member school;
2. Significant experience with and
knowledge of the accreditation process;
3. Significant acquaintance with and
knowledge of ACSA, its history, policy
programs, and administrative structure;
4. Personal acquaintance with the range
of school and program types across North
America.
5. Willingness to represent the constituency
of ACSA on accreditation-related issues.
6. Ability to work with the NAAB board and
ACSA representatives to build consensus on
accreditation related issues.
For consideration, please submit a concise letter of nomination along with a curriculum vitae
indicating experience under the above headings, and a letter indicating willingness to serve
from the nominee, to:
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call for nominations
ACSA (NAAB Representative)
1735 New York Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20006
or e-mail all submission information to nominations@acsa-arch.org. Nominations must be
received by February 14, 2007.
call for participants
2008 accreditation review conference Preparation
Deadline: February 14, 2007
To prepare ACSA’s positions for the ARC, the
ACSA board of directors has identified 10 topic
areas. Each group will have an invited leader
and a board liaison, who will work together to
guide the work of the topic groups.
Topic Groups
ACSA members are invited to participate
in these groups and to suggest other areas
of focus.
What to do: Go to www.acsa-arch.org/naab
and fill out the form to identify yourself or
suggest a new area.
Each group will be asked to identify, through
email and conference calls between December
1, 2006, and Feburary 1, 2007, key issues
related to the NAAB Conditions and Procedures
and other accreditation issues.
A brief report of these key issues and
preliminary recommendations on actions to be
• Architecture as a Discipline
• Community Responsibility & Society
• Global Change
• Integrated Practice/Comprehensive Design
• Interiors
taken should be provided to the ACSA board by
Feburary 14, 2007.
Following review of these 10 reports, the board
of directors will decide to invite groups to draft
white papers for use at the ARC. Not all groups
may be invited to draft a white paper, and
some groups may be asked to work together to
develop a single white paper.
These efforts will be coordinated through
the ACSA board’s Architectural Education
Committee, which will also undertake other
work (e.g., surveys of programs and visiting
team representatives) to prepare ACSA’s
positions.
• Internship
• Preservation & Adaptive Reuse
• Reaffirming Existing Values in Architectural Education
• Sustainability
• Urban Design
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The October 2008 NAAB Accreditation Review
Conference (ARC) is the profession’s opportunity
to revise and reaffirm the minimum standards
for professional education of architects. The
ARC will involve the revision and reaffirmation
of the NAAB Conditions and Procedures for
Accreditation documents through a deliberative
process involving the four collaterals that
directly support NAAB as well as other interest
groups.
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2007–2008 acsa board elections
candidates for president-elect
Harry Van Oudenallen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The challenge of the 21st century for
Architecture is to strengthen the practice. This
can be accomplished by appealing to a broader
constituency, more representative of all social,
racial, economic, and gender backgrounds.
This will in turn expand our capacity to;
• fortify our understanding of the emerging
trends of architectural developments;
• add new voices to our discourse and;
• become more global in our perspectives of
architectural education.
Architectural education is my passion
and is recognized by this year’s Distinguished
Professor Award from ACSA. However, passion
for teaching does not bring students from
all walks of life. Exposure and access to
architectural education is not what it should
be. ACSA leadership provides opportunities to
set agendas and encourage schools to more
aggressively conduct student and faculty
recruitment as more representative the larger
society. Students of color, women students,
students with disabilities, international
students and older students are still greatly
underrepresented and we lose innumerable
opportunities for collective learning when there
is a dearth of such diversity.
What are the successful measures of full
integration within our programs?
What is the critical mass threshold by
which a minority culture feels comfortable in
its learning environment?
The opportunity to make stronger cross
cultural and international connections lies
within the purview of ACSA leadership. As
the world becomes more connected so must
our education respond, focusing on the
larger picture while always practicing at the
always changing local level. Recognizing the
opportunities of working in different parts of
the world better prepares one for the practice
of architecture in one’s local context.
My leadership style was established
while working in the Peace Corps, followed
by my work at the University of Oregon as
Director of Planning (Oregon Experiment),
and in the manner which global fieldwork is
part of my studio teaching. My participatory
style is practical, engages all players, and is
aimed at maximizing the participation of all
constituents.
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Marleen Kay Davis, University of Tennessee
For all of us dedicated to architectural education, ACSA is our most important organization,
serving so many diverse schools and constituents. It would be an honor and a privilege for
me to serve in a leadership role within the
ACSA. Based on a genuine respect for design
education, I would bring great energy, enthusiasm, and organizational skills to this role.
I have actively participated in the ACSA
for the last ten years, and appreciate the many
challenges and changes confronting architectural education. More recently, I have served on
the NAAB Board. In reading over 60 accreditation reports, I have gained a profound respect
for the different identities, accomplishments,
and challenges of programs nationwide. I also
have new insight into how our colleagues from
AIA, NCARB, and AIAS perceive architectural
education and support our efforts.
Communication, advocacy of quality in
education, and respect for diverse identities in
our architectural programs would be the core
values I would bring to my role as an elected
ACSA officer. The recent improvements to the
ACSA web site are impressive, and I would
want to continue expanding digital resources
and communication options. I would like to
encourage broader participation in ACSA by all
member schools. I would also like to see ACSA
reach out to the many adjunct faculty, many of
whom practice actively or contemplate a fulltime career in education.
A large part of the ACSA President’s role
is behind the scenes, working with the ACSA
Board and staff in overseeing organizational
concerns, such as the JAE, our newsletters, and
our conventions. In addition, the ACSA president collaborates extensively with our “collateral” organizations: AIA, AIAS, NAAB, and
NCARB. The ACSA is often asked for “position
statements” and it is important to continue the
ACSA Board tradition of broad discussion and
task forces, so that our “position statement’
reflects the member schools’ views, not simply personal opinions. I understand the effort
involved in making a commitment to serve as
President.
Nationwide, so many dedicated architects
and educators bring passionate idealism to all
they do: we should all take pride in the accomplishments of our different programs and
schools, with hard-working faculty and students. In the last two years, the ACSA staff
has successfully improved communication and
organizational efforts. Our past ACSA directors
and elected officers have been selfless in their
efforts for the organization, and I am very appreciative of their work.
I would be very honored to contribute to
architectural education by serving at a national
level in the ACSA.
candidates for treasurer
Graham Livesey, University of Calgary
I have long appreciated the vital role of the
ACSA as an organization. I have been involved
with the ACSA as a Faculty Counselor, have
given papers at various ACSA conferences, and
I served as the Canadian Director on the ACSA
Board from 2003-06. I joined the Board during a difficult period in the organization’s history, and am proud to have served with a group
of extraordinarily dedicated Board and staff
members who made many changes in order to
improve the Association. While on the Board I
served on the Finance Committee, the Scholarly
Meetings Committee, the Planning Committee,
and the Regional Directors Committee; I was a
strong advocate for academic rigor, transparency, inclusiveness, and fiscal responsibility.
During the last several years the ACSA has
worked hard to replenish its operating reserve,
this has meant suspending some programs. As
the reserve nears replenishment there will be
the opportunity to reinstate programs and to
develop new ones. If elected Treasurer I would
continue the course established by the Board
during the last few years, however, I would also
advocate for looking at ways to reduce the cost
of attending ACSA events. In addition, the renewal of the organization means that the ACSA
is now able to take a stronger leadership position with its collateral organizations on many
important issues.
I have a diverse range of academic and
professional experience. These include being
the principal of a small architectural practice,
the Director of the Architecture Program at the
University of Calgary, and broad involvement in
teaching, practice, and scholarship. I am very
familiar with the many issues facing architectural education, internship, and the profession.
I am seeking election as the Treasurer because
I strongly support in the mandate of the ACSA,
and believe that I have the requisite skills, experience, and commitment for the position.
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2007–2008 acsa board elections
Crystal D. Weaver, Savannah College of Art and Design
The mission of ACSA is “to advance architectural education through support of member
schools, their faculty, and students.” To successfully accomplish this mission, the involvement and participation of all who are involved
in architectural education is necessary.
The world of architectural practice, and
thus architectural education, is changing at
an increasingly accelerated pace, creating new
directions, possibilities and challenges which
ACSA is, and will continue to be, called upon
to consider, interpret and implement within the
academy. Since my involvement with ACSA
began over six years ago, I have observed, listened, and participated. It is now time to en-
gage. To remain true to its mission, ACSA must
migrate from a position of responding to these
new directions, possibilities and challenges, to
the position of effecting such.
Utilizing the five primary means of advancing architectural education, as identified by
ACSA as “advocacy, annual program activities,
liaison with collateral organizations, dissemination of information and response to the needs
of member schools. . .”, it is our responsibility
to be the facilitators of change on behalf of the
member schools, faculty and students we represent.
January 20, 2007: Ballots mailed to all Full Member Schools
February 22, 2007: Deadline for receipt of ballots in ACSA office
March 11, 2007: Winners announced at ACSA Annual Business Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
For full candidate statements and CVs, please visit www.acsa-arch.org
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2006–07 acsa board elections Timeline
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call for nominations
ACSA Representatives on NAAB Visiting Team Roster
Deadline: February 14, 2007
The ACSA Board of Directors seeks nominees for ACSA representatives on
National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) school visitation team roster member for a term of four years. The final selection of faculty members
participating in the accrediting process will be made by NAAB.
The visit is not independent of the other parts of the accreditation process.
The visiting team submits a report to NAAB; NAAB then makes a decision
regarding accreditation based on the school’s documentation, the team report, and other communications.
Nominating Procedure
1. Members of ACSA schools shall be nominated annually by the ACSA
Board of Directors for inclusion on a roster of members available to serve on
visiting teams for a term of four years.
2. Proposals for nomination shall be solicited from the membership via
ACSA News. Proposals must include complete curriculum vitae.
3. The ACSA Nominations Committee shall examine dossiers submitted and
recommend to the board candidates for inclusion on visitation team rosters.
Team Selection
The visiting team consists of a chairperson and members selected from a
roster of candidates submitted to NAAB by NCARB, ACSA, the AIA, and
AIAS. Each of these organizations is invited to update its roster annually by
providing resumes of prospective team members.
Nominee Qualifications
The candidate should demonstrate:
• Reasonable length and breadth of full-time teaching experience;
• A record of acknowledged scholarship or professional work;
• Administrative experience; and
• An association with several different schools.
Each candidate will be assessed on personal merit, and may not answer
completely to all these criteria; however, a nominee must be a full-time faculty member in an accredited architectural program (including faculty on
sabbatical or on temporary leave of absence.)
Acsa Nominee Selection
Candidates for NAAB team members shall be selected to represent geographic distribution of ACSA regional groupings. In particular, the ACSA
Board of Directors strongly urges faculty from Canadian schools to apply
for nomination. The board will seek to nominate people who, collectively,
are representative of the broad range of backgrounds and characteristics
exhibited by our membership. The number of candidates submitted to NAAB
will be limited in order to increase the likelihood of their timely selection by
NAAB for service.
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Description of Team and Visit
Pending acceptance of the Architectural Program Report (APR), a team is
selected to visit the school. The site visit is intended to validate and supplement the school’s APR through direct observation. During the visit, the team
evaluates the school and its architecture programs through a process of
both structured and unstructured interactions. The visit is intended to allow
NAAB to develop an in-depth assessment of the school and its programs,
and to consider the tangible aspects of the school’s nature. It also identifies
concerns that were not effectively communicated in the APR.
A team generally consists of four members, one each from ACSA, NCARB,
AIA, and AIAS. NAAB selects the team and submits the list to the school to
be visited. The school may question the appointment of members where a
conflict of interest arises. The selection of the chairperson is at the discretion
of NAAB. The board will consider all challenges. For the purposes of a challenge, conflict of interest may be cited if:
• The nominee comes from the same geographic area and is affiliated
with a rival institution;
• The nominee has had a previous affiliation with the institution;
• The school can demonstrate that the nominee is not competent to
evaluate the program.
NAAB tends to rely on experienced team members in order to maintain
the quality level of its visits and reports, and to comply with COPA and U.S.
Department of Education guidelines.
Each team member shall have had previous visit experience, either as a
team member or observer, or shall be required to attend a training/briefing
session at the ACSA Administrators Conference or ACSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations Deadline and Calendar
The deadline for receipt of letters of nomination, including a curriculum vitae, is Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Send nomination materials to:
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
ACSA (NAAB Visiting Team)
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Electronic submissions, including the candidate’s CV, should be sent to nominations@acsa-arch.org.
ACSA will notify those nominees whose names will be forwarded to NAAB
by May 2007. ACSA nominees selected to participate on a visiting team
will be required to complete and submit a standard NAAB Visiting Team
Nomination form.
95th ACSA Annual Meeting
MARCH 8–11, 2007 - philadelph ia, pA
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f r e s h a i r. 2 0 0 7 a n n u a l m e e t i n g
www.acsa-arch.org/conferences
03.2007
Conference Co-chairs
Judith Bing,
Drexel University
Department of Architecture
Cathrine Veikos,
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Architecture
Change is in the air. This year’s Annual Meeting
reflects a new process that will sweep away
tired assumptions and invite new directions.
Last fall’s open call for session topics yielded
a rich portrait of membership interests and
concerns, and set in motion a refreshing process of questioning that is the theme of this
meeting. We gather in Philadelphia without
preconceptions, inviting transformation and
renewal – in our teaching above all.
While we celebrate new perspectives in sessions and papers, we also welcome an opportunity to examine our goals and priorities, for
blurring the boundaries that have traditionally defined (and often segmented) our curricula, and for investigating the complexity
that characterizes our world. Our purpose in
opening the meeting process is above all to
focus on our collective task: improving architectural education.
The challenges of architectural education
today must be confronted with vision and
creativity. Debates on doctoral degrees, accreditation criteria, and IDP procedures have
diverted energies from the critical issues
of teaching and learning, and the pressing
needs within our schools and communities.
The best practices in architecture are looking beyond our profession to develop the
knowledge to design for the future. Thus
the critical questions: How do we develop
this expanding knowledge base within our
schools? How effective is our studio-based
culture in preparing our students for the
futures that await them? How can we nurture tomorrow’s leaders for our profession and our communities? And how can
ACSA better support our expanding needs?
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Host SchoolS
Drexel University
University of Pennsylvania
keynote speakers
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Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects,
the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal in
1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal and the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture. Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991
and made a life peer in 1996. In 1995 he was the first
architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a
series entitled ‘Cities for a Small Planet’ and in 1998
was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair
the Government’s Urban Task Force. Most recently he
was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Mayor of London on Architecture and Urbanism and also serves as
Adviser to the Mayor of Barcelona’s Urban Strategies
Council. Richard Rogers has also served as Chairman
of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts
Council of Great Britain. He is currently a Trustee of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.
David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and
Chairman of the Ph.D. Program at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he has taught architectural design, history, and theory since 1984, and where he was
departmental chair between 1992 and 1998. Before
going to Penn he taught in England, at Cambridge
University and the Polytechnic of Central London. He
has also visited and taught at many universities in the
USA and abroad. David Leatherbarrow studied architecture at the University of Kentucky, where he earned
his Bachelor of Architecture degree, and he completed
research for his Ph.D. in Art at the University of Essex.
In his scholarly work he has published a number of
books, most recently Topographical Stories: studies in
landscape and architecture, and Surface Architecture, a
book written in collaboration with Mohsen Mostafavi,
which won the 2002 Bruno Zevi Prize from the International Congress of Architecture Critics. Earlier books
include Uncommon Ground: architecture, technology
and topography, The Roots of Architectural Invention:
site, enclosure and materials, and On Weathering: the
life of buildings in time, again with Mostafavi, which
won the 1995 International Book Award in architectural
theory from the American Institute of Architects. At
present he is working on a book that addresses the relationships between architecture and the city, arguing
for the primacy of topography in both areas of design.
In addition to these books he has published over sixty
scholarly articles in architectural journals, including AA
Files, Architectural Design, Center, Daidalos, Journal of
Garden History, Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians, Rassegna, Via, and others. His awards include a Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, the Cass Gilbert Distinguished
Professorship at the University of Minnesota, and a
Fulbright Hays Scholarship for study in Great Britain. In
the past, his research has focused on various topics in
the history and theory of architecture, gardens, and the
city; more recently his work has concentrated on the
impact of contemporary technology on architecture.
Lord Richard Rogers
Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal Recipient
Richard Rogers is best known for such pioneering
buildings as the Centre Pompidou, the HQ for Lloyd’s of
London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London. His practice, founded in 1977, has offices in London, Barcelona,
Madrid and Tokyo, and has designed two major airport
projects – Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport and
Barajas Airport, as well as high-rise office projects in
London, a new law court complex in Antwerp, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, and a hotel and
conference centre in Barcelona. The practice also has
a wealth of experience in urban masterplanning with
major schemes in London, Lisbon, Berlin, New York and
Seoul.
Portrait of Lord Richard Rogers by Dan Stevens
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David Leatherbarrow
University of Pennsylvania
Preprofessional Transfer Programs at Community
Colleges: a Rich Source of Diverse, Talented Students
Moderator: Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
Panelists: Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia;
Andrew Chandler, City College of San Francisco; Lyle Culver,
Miami Dade College; Kazim Dharsi, Harrisburg Area Community College
Architecture transfer programs at community colleges
have been largely overlooked as fertile feeder schools that
can increase diversity in professional programs. With the
number of African-American architects still shameful, hovering near 1% of registered architects, this rich source of
future architects could be a significant factor in propelling
the profession toward better reflecting the diverse society
we serve. Racially, ethnically, and economically, these students are substantially more diverse and reflective of American society than the professional school populations. Upon
completing a two-year transfer degree, these students are
a seasoned group, already committed to the field. They are
more prepared than their high school counterparts to withstand the rigors of architectural education, internship and
the registration exam. To capture their vitality, commitment
and creative intensity, these students need to be recognized
and supported, however.
Integrating Documentation into the Architecture
Curriculum
Moderator: David G, Woodcock, Texas A&M University
Panelists: Robert B. Warden, Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas A&M University; Elizabeth I. Louden, Texas Tech
University
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the
standard for recording buildings since its founding in 1933,
provides a unique opportunity for architecture students to
understand historic construction and design, to experience
genuine team work within the learning environment, and
to contribute to a deeper knowledge and interpretation for
the larger community. The workshop will review the HABS
history and process, and introduce ways to integrate recording into architectural pedagogy. The emphasis will be on the
connection between the HABS process and the development
of professional judgment in the development of architects,
and is designed to encourage participant interaction.
CHAD: A Model for Architecture in Secondary
Education
Moderator: Derek A. Ham
Panelists: Jennifer Baker, C.H.A.D.; Denise Scott Brown, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates; Don Matzkin, Drexel University; Ibitayo Ojomo, C.H.A.D.
The Charter High School for Architecture and Design
(C.H.A.D.) is in its eighth year as an educational facility. In a
society where African Americans make up less than two-percent of practicing architects, CHAD strives to change these
statistics. With a student body heavily populated by minorities and women, the school sets itself as a model for a profession that seeks to diversify itself. CHAD serves not only
as a model for design education specific, but its use of the
design process across the curriculum serves as a pedagogical model for education at large. A closer look at CHAD’S
curriculum and its infusion of studio culture can begin to reveal methods that enable students of all disciplines to think
and analyze problems critically. *Tour to follow.
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Preservation
building technology educators society NEW!
Facilitator: Deborah Oakley, University of Maryland
Representatives of the BTES Organizational Committee
will be reporting their recommendations based on research
conducted since the August 2006 Symposium. All current
and interested members of the BTES are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting and partake in the discussion to
follow. Other activities during the pre-conference block are
as yet to be determined.
intern development program NEW!
IDP Bootcamp
Moderator: Suzanna Wight, AIA, Emerging Professionals Director, The American Institute of Architects
From training settings to training units, this session is
a great way for both rookie and veteran IDP Coordinators
to learn all the ins and outs of today’s IDP. You will learn
all about Training Units, the proper way to fill out NCARB
forms, how to get the most out of supplementary education,
who to contact if you have questions, ideas on how to integrate IDP into firm and school programs, and much more!
IDP Educator Coordinators Meeting
Moderator: Suzanna Wight, AIA, Emerging Professionals Director, The American Institute of Architects
Join us for this session and learn more about changes to
the IDP Coordinators system as well as new resources and
training to be provided by the AIA. If you are unable to attend the 2007 IDP Coordinators Conference in Chicago, this
session is a must.
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preconference sessions
Preprofessional programs
thu, March 8
Architectural Research Centers Consortium: The Growing
Need for Research within Architectural Practice
Moderator: J. Brook Harrington, Temple University
Panelists: Richard Ashworth, KlingStubbins; Joseph Bridy, Bohlin
Cywinski Jackson; Christopher Macneal, KierranTimberlake Ass.
The focus of this session is to discuss current directions and
the growing need of research as part of the normal operations
within architectural practice. A panel of research & development individuals, from prominent architectural firms within
Philadelphia, will discuss the range of research that is becoming more prevalent. Each panelist will present examples of his
or her current projects and the critical elements that require
special investigations to assure that the building designs meet
the issues of systems compatibility, durability, availability and
the standards of energy conservation and safety required by
the profession and society. The panelists will also address the
need to have entering architectural interns aware of current
methods of product and systems analysis.
Fri, March 9
special focus sessions
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Integrating Architecture and the Liberal Arts Education
Moderator: Alexandra Schmidt-Ulrich
Panelists: Sanda Iliescu, U. of Virginia; Hector Lasala, U. of
Louisiana at Lafayette; Peter MacKeith, Washington U. in St.
Louis; William Tate, James Madison U. and Umbau School of
Architecture; Richard Wesley, U. of Pennsylvania
This session will explore architectural education in the context of a liberal arts education. The broad base of knowledge
and skills found in a liberal arts setting provides opportunities
for unique approaches to architectural design. The breadth of
subjects studied in a liberal arts education widens a students’
understanding of architecture as seen in the context of the
humanities. Developing the knowledge and skills of other areas of study in the liberal arts expands a student’s capacity for
research and creative work in the discipline of architecture.
JAE: Architectural Design as Research and Scholarship
Moderators: George Dodds, JAE Executive Editor-Elect; Jori Erdman, JAE Design Editor-Elect
Speakers: Lisa Iwamoto, U. of California, Berkeley; David Hinson,
Auburn University
Respondents: Lily Chi, Cornell U.; Don Kunze, Penn. State U.
To mark the 60 years that ACSA has been publishing the
Journal of architectural Education, this session will feature
papers selected from a special call on the question of design
as scholarship. Moderators and respondents will lead participants in a discussion of architectural design as a mode of
critical inquiry.
Leading the Curriculum
Moderators: Frances Bronet, U. of Oregon; Sabir Khan, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Panelists: Brook Muller, U. of Oregon; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology: Ted Krueger, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
The panelists will look at architectural education through
the lenses of their research and teaching. As faculty investigating the intersection of: built environment, philosophy and
science of ecology; cognition, interdisciplines and neuroengineering; the interface of digital environments and media; and
international practice, they will present platforms of design
education for the 21st century. Future pedagogy demands
that it offer a range of experiences that enable our students
to: collaborate on multi-disciplinary work; identify and structure problems from within cultural and environmental conditions; self-monitor, reflect on and improve working methods,
technologies, cultures and problem types; and communicate
effectively.
Academia, Civic Engagement and Practice: What is the
value of an Academically-based Practice?
Moderator: Chris Satullo, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Panelists: Harris Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania; Steve
Vogel, University of Detroit-Mercy
Drawing upon diverse academically-based practice models,
the session will showcase ways that architecture programs
are engaging the intellectual resources of their schools with
the needs of the greater community. Panelists will present
and discuss strategies for building successful design advocacy, including methods for the organizing charettes, planning
and design studies and task forces. Questions about how to
establish non-profits and develop academically-based partnerships with the profession and the media will be addressed.
Following the presentations, there will be a panel discussion
focusing on the value of civic engagement for the academy,
the profession and society-at-large.
Education for Urban Design
Moderator: Lance Jay Brown, City College of New York, CUNY
Panelists: Lindsay Bremner, Temple U.; Douglas Kelbaugh, U. of
Michigan; Frederick Steiner, U. of Texas at Austin
Global statistics documenting civilization’s move to the
cities are overwhelming and dramatic. Our cities and towns
expand and grow almost overnight. This trend, a result of
actions beginning with western industrialization, represents
great challenges and great opportunities. What new curriculum ideas and teaching methods are surfacing to deal with
the new issues we face? When should architecture students
be introduced to issues of urban design? How should educators work with students to insure the highest quality physical,
social, and economic environment? What priorities need to be
addressed and what methods are most appropriate to address
them? What represents best practices and how may they be
shared in the schools?
Accreditation Review Conference Preparation
Moderators: Ted Landsmark, ACSA President, Stephen White,
Chair, ACSA Board Architectural Education Committee
This session will feature a discussion of key issues related
to the National Architectural Accrediting Board’s “Conditions
and Procedures.” Brief reports from ACSA task groups working on accreditation issues will be presented, along with a
roundtable format to discuss these issues.
*Attention: Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty*
Saturday’s Special Focus Sessions and Paper Sessions have been
chosen especially for you. The workshop on Teaching Teachers
to Teach is being featured, as well as a session on Curriculum
Development. By registering you are invited to attend the
Keynote Lecture by Richard Rogers, followed by a reception.
$150 one-day rate is available for Saturday only.
9:00 am – 2 pm
11:00 – 12:30 pm
Thur, March 8
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12:30 – 2:00 pm
Fri, March 9
Office Tour: KieranTimberlake Associates $32*
Preservation Works in Progress: City Hall free
This tour offers a view of restoration work in progress at
Philadelphia’s City Hall. This tour has been organized by the
AIA Historic Resources Committee and AIA Philadelphia.
Colonial Philadelphia free
A walking tour of 18th-century Philadelphia centered on
Society Hill.
Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania free
The Architectural Archives preserves the works of more
than 400 designers from the 18th century to the present.
The Archives house the Louis I. Kahn Collection, as well as
drawings by Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Miles Day, Wilson
Eyre, Frank Furness, Mitchell/Giurgola, John Nolan and
Robert Venturi.
Campus Tour of the University of Pennsylvania free
This tour will highlight recent projects by Venturi Scott
Brown, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, and Kieran Timberlake as
well as Louis Kahn’s Richards Medical Building and the restored Fisher Fine Arts Library by Frank Furness.
Office Tour: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson free
Houses in Chestnut Hill Bus Tour $55*
Tour Guide: Bill Whittaker
This tour will include visits to Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House, and Louis Kahn’s Esherick House centered in
Philadelphia’s most famous commuter suburb.
* includes box lunch, transportation, and entry fees.
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12:30 – 2:00 pm
Office Tour: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates $25*
2:00 – 5:00pm
*Full SFS descriptions can be found at acsa-arch.org
Walking Tour to C.H.A.D. free
Tour Guide: Derek Ham
This visit to Philadelphia’s Charter High School for Architecture and Design follows the morning session on high school
architecture programs.
Preservation Works in Progress: Memorial Hall in
Fairmount Park $30*
This tour offers a view of restoration work in progress at
Memorial Hall, the centerpiece of the 1876 Centennial.
This tour has been organized by the AIA Historic Resources
Committee and AIA Philadelphia.
sat, March 10
Design Research
Moderator: Helene Furján, U. of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Winka Dubbeldam, U. of Pennsylvania; Sean Lally,
Rice U.; Eran Neuman, Technion; Jenny Sabin, U. of Pennsylvania; Aaron Sprecher, Syracuse University; Theo Spyropoulos,
Architectural Association
This session will examine the critical relationship between research and design in the design studio. Beginning
with the seminal research studio by Robert Venturi, Denise
Scott Brown and Izanour. Learning from Las Vegas, the notion that architectural experimentation requires a rigorous
feedback between design and research has been at play in
design pedagogy. Research, in these terms, allows the architectural object to escape the bounds of an autonomous
formalism, redefining space as an intelligent landscape of
interaction and immersion, and buildings as networked
organizations, coupling infrastructural, structural, circulatory, programmatic, environmental, informational systems
in tightly interconnected but distributed formations. In this
session, research and innovation will be understood as
complimentary, intertwined, modalities, as an experimental
logic.
Modern Masters in the Philadelphia Region $35*
Tour Guide: Bill Whittaker, Penn Archives
This tour will visit 20th-century landmarks in Philadelphia’s northern and western suburbs including Frank Lloyd
Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue and Suntop Homes, and
Louis Kahn’s Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr College.
Center City Walking Tour free
Tour Guide: Mark Brack
Significant late-19th-century and early-20th-century buildings near the hotel by Frank Furness, Daniel Burnham,
McKim Mead & White, and others will be visited on this
walking tour.
sun, March 11
Beginning Design Education: Intersections, Design
Education and Other Fields of Inquiry
Moderators: Igor Marjanovic, Washington U. in St Louis;
Clare Robinson, U. of California, Berkeley
Standing against the endless fragmentation of professions, disciplinary sub-specialization, autonomy, and economic rationalism, this session will embrace synthesis in
beginning design education. Through a selection of papers
presented at the 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this session will examine the multifaceted role of “beginnings” in the education of an architect.
Specifically, we will examine the pedagogical models that
bridge drawing, making and writing, while at the same
time engendering the discourse on architectural pedagogy
in general.
tours
sat, March 10
Visual Studies in Architecture
Moderator: Igor Siddiqui, Parsons School of Design
Panelists: Laura Kurgan, Columbia University; Ben Nicholson,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Cathrine Veikos, University of Pennsylvania
Although “Visual Studies” is and has been part of the
standard curriculum at many architectural schools, the inclusive character of the term has allowed courses under
this rubric to cover a diverse range of subjects. In different
programs, Visual Studies provides instruction in topics including design fundamentals, formal analysis, composition,
free-hand drawing, analytical construction, technologically-based image making, mapping, photography, video
and graphics. Some stress the importance of interpretation
and communication of visual images or the analysis of
representational techniques and their inherent ideologies.
Other offerings in Visual Studies cultivate the relationship
between art, science and architecture and encourage critical exploration of process in design. If there is a consensus,
it might be that Visual Studies is decidedly inter-disciplinary and that its study provides students with the technical
and analytical skills to practice architecture as a critical and
visionary practice.
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Workshops
Teaching Teachers to Teach: A Student-Centered
Constructivist Paradigm in Architectural Education
Facilitators: Alan Feigenberg, City College of New York, CUNY;
Tiffany Andersen, The Boston Architectural College; Tina Blythe, The
Boston Architectural College; Joanne Aitken, Drexel U.
Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm,
This workshop offers a dialogue-exchange-conversation on
constructivist pedagogy in architectural education focusing on
new faculty and, particularly on the unique and critical roles and
needs of adjunct faculty. Research indicates that the most successful teacher preparation and development activities are those
that are extended over time and encourage the development of
teachers’ learning communities for shared experiences and discourse about learning. This seminar-dialogue will reflect on these
critical issues along with more pragmatic needs for teacher-facilitator preparation such as seminars or workshops to acquaint
new faculty with the philosophies, operations, expectations, and
curriculum of their institution. Woven into this dialogue are the
particular issues facing our adjunct or part-time colleagues: what
is the role of adjunct faculty? what should it be? what are the
advantages, as well as disadvantages to the growing percentage
of adjunct faculty? what conditions do adjuncts encounter? how
does this need to be improved?
Graduate Recruitment: Role of Faculty and Administrators
Panel/Moderators: Michelle Rinehart, The Catholic University of
America; Lee W. Waldrep, University of Maryland
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm,
This program will explore the role of faculty and administrators in the recruitment of highly qualified graduate students.
Highlighting techniques being employed by architecture programs that involve faculty and administrators in recruitment,
including the new ACSA/AIAS Architecture + Career Expo. Interested attendees are encouraged to come and share what is done
at their respective programs.
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Collaterals
NAAB APR Training
Moderator: Sharon Matthews, AIA, NAAB Executive Director
Friday, March 9, 2007, 8:00 am – 10:00 pm,
Schools writing Architecture Program Reports (APR) due in
2007 for visits in 2008 are invited to participate in an APR-writing workshop. We will go over the Conditions and Procedures
for accreditation adopted in 2004 and 2006. Examples of APRs
from previous years will be available and we will look at how this
year’s reports will need to be different. Participants will be able to
meet with ACSA representatives to the NAAB, former board members and the executive director. Questions are always welcome.
Visiting Team Member Training
Moderator: Sharon Matthews, AIA, NAAB Executive Director
Friday, March 9, 2007, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm,
The ACSA annual meeting is a venue for all ACSA-nominated
potential visiting team members to discuss recent NAAB changes
and updates that affect the upcoming 2008 visits. We also go over
the basic outline of a visit for anyone who has not yet taken part
in a program evaluation. We welcome participants from schools
who are having visits and from ACSA members interested in the
process.
Student Charrette
Transforming Architecture: Designing with brick in
Philadelphia
Wednesday March 7, 2007–Saturday March 10, 2007
With sponsorship from the Brick Industry Association, ACSA will
hold a 48-hour student charrette for a project in Philadelphia, a
city rich with architectural destinations. Twelve teams of up to
three students each will complete a design featuring innovative
and flexibility of brick.
Luncheons
Charrette Jury Presentation Lunch
Sponsored by: Brick Industry Association
Friday, March 9, 2007, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm,
Jurors will critique selected finalists and award top prizes to participating students. Limited tickets, first come first serve.
ACSA Administrators Lunch
Sponsored by: The AIA Educator/Practitioner Network
Saturday March 10, 2007
Limited tickets available, first come first serve.
Receptions
Welcome reception to follow David Leatherbarrow lecture
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Reception to follow Awards Ceremony
Sponsored by the American Plastics Council
Friday, March 9, 2007, 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Reception to follow Richard Rogers lecture
Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects
Saturday, March 10, 2007, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Business
Faculty Councilors Breakfast
Sunday, March 11, 2007, 8:00am – 10:00am
The 2007 Faculty Councilors breakfast will focus on facilitating
dialogue within the ACSA regions. These conversations will continue in the regional caucuses following the breakfast. The breakfast will be complimentary to all Faculty Councilors in recognition
of their service to ACSA. Others are invited to purchase tickets to
attend the breakfast.
Regional Caucuses
Sunday, March 11, 2007, 10:00am – 12:00pm
ACSA Business Meeting
Sunday, March 11, 2007, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
American Association of School Librarians
March 8 – 10, 2007
Coordinator: Martin Aurand, Carnegie Mellon University
The Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) will
hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the ACSA Annual
Meeting. AASL meeting sessions will address aspects of architecture librarianship including library instruction and special collections. AASL members will visit the University of Pennsylvania
Architectural Archives, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, and other
libraries and collections.
SFS: JAE
Preprofessional Transfer
Programs at Community
Colleges: a Rich Source
of Diverse, Talented
Students
NAAB APR Training
Integrating
Documentation into the
Architecture Curriculum
IDP Coordinators
11:00 – 12:00
Tours: C.H.A.D
Center City Tour
Memorial Hall*
KieranTimberlake Ass.*
12:00 –2:00
SFS: Integrating
Architecture and the
Liberal Arts Education
ARCC: The Growing
Need for Research
within Architectural
Practice
Councilors Breakfast
Visual Studies in Architecture
Faculty Design
Paper Sessions
10:30 – 12:30
SFS: Academia, Civic
Engagement and
Practice: What is the
value of an Academicallybased Practice?
NAAB Team Member
Training
Workshop: Teaching
Teachers to Teach:
A Student-Centered
Constructivist Paradigm
in Architectural
Education: for adjunct/
part-time faculty
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Paper Sessions
Faculty Design
12:30 – 2:00
BTES
Paper Sessions
Paper Sessions
Charrette Jury
Presentation Lunch
ACSA Administrators
Lunch
Tours: City Hall
Tours: Campus Tour Univ.
of Pennsylvania
Colonial Philadelphia
Architectural Archives
ACSA Business
Meeting
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Venturi, Scott Brown and
Associates*
SFS: Education for Urban
Design
2:00 – 4:00
HABS
Tour: Modern Masters in the Philadelphia Region (9:00am – 2:00pm)
9:30 – 11:00
CHAD: A Model
for Architecture in
Secondary Education*
SFS: Beginning Design:
Intersections, Design
Education and Other
Fields of Inquiry
sun march 11
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
IDP Bootcamp
Preconference
sat march 10
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Preconference
8:00 – 10:00
8:00 – 9:30
fri march 9
BTES
Paper Sessions
Faculty Design
SFS: Design Research
Preservation
Tour: Houses in Chestnut
Hill Bus Tour*
(2:00 – 5:00pm)
Paper Sessions
Preservation
JAE Design Committee
Paper Sessions
4:00 – 4:30 Coffee Break
2:00 – 2:30 Coffee Break
SFS: Leading the
Curriculum
Collaborative Practice
Paper Sessions
Paper Sessions
Keynote: Richard Rogers
(5:00 – 7:00pm)
Reception
(7:00 – 9:00pm)
Faculty Design
Keynote: David
Leatherbarrow
Awards Ceremony
(6:30 – 8:00pm)
6:30 – 10:00
Opening Reception
(7:00 – 10:00pm)
Preparing for the
Accreditation Review
Conference
Reception
(8:00 – 10:00pm)
*Tour includes lunch, admission fees and transportation.
SFS: Special Focus Sessions
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Workshop: Graduate
Recruitment
4:30 – 6:30
2:30 –4:30
SFS: Affordable Housing
5:00 –10:00
schedule
thu march 8
sponsors
hotel information
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University of Pennsylvania
Drexel University
Reception Sponsors
Loews Philadelphia Hotel
1200 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel: 215.627.1200
Web: www.loewshotels.com/hotels/philadelphia
Conference room rates
Single: $175
Double: $200
When making your reservation, please mention the
ACSA Annual Meeting to receive the conference rates.
Rates will not be available after February 5, 2007.
Taxi Information
$26.50 (flat rate) from airport to
Center City Philadelphia
Located outside of baggage clam
Shuttle Service Information
Lady Liberty Shuttle
$8.00 per person one way
Reservations not required: 215.724.8888
Located outside of baggage claim
Regional Rail Information
Septa R1 train runs from the airport to Center City/
Market East stop. The stop is a block from the hotel. To
access maps and far schedules visit www.septa.com
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Host Schools
Train Information
The Philadelphia Amtrack station is located at 30th and
Market Streets. A taxi from the train station to the hotel
is $13.00 - $15.00.
Hotel Parking
Valet only
$32.00 per night, unlimited in and out availability
The American Institute of Architects,
Philadelphia
American Plastucs Council
Luncheon sponsors
The Brick Industry Association
AIA Educator/Practitioner Network
ACSA is offering exhibit tables at a special rate
for schools at the 2007 ACSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The rates include one
full conference registration (valued at $395)
and one “exhibit hall only” registration, so
you can send one representative from the
school to attend the full conference, one representative to staff the exhibit booth, and get
the price of the table at a generous discount!
Exhibit table/registration
$600.00–ACSA member schools
Space is available on a first come, first served
basis.
Your exhibit table space includes:
• 6’ table, drapes, for 3 ½ days
• School name listed in on-site program
• One full complimentary meeting
registration per table and one “exhibit
hall only” registration
2007 to qualify for a full refund. Any cancellations after this date wil result in a $100 cancellation fee and the individual’s full registration will
be canceled.
Special Services
Additional carpeting, lighting, electric, internet
etc. are not included and must be purchased
separately by the Exhibitor with prior written
approval from ACSA and must comply with all
applicable laws and regulations.
For more information, please contact: Kathryn
Swiatek, Membership/Marketing Manager,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1735 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006, kswiatek@acsa-arch.org
Tel: 202.785.2324 ext 6, Fax: 202.628.0448
Cancellation Policy
In the event that a school must cancel their Exhibit Space, a written notice must be received
by ACSA no later than Monday, February 12th,
Deadline for receipt of form at ACSA
office: February 1, 2007.
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Losses: ACSA shall bear no responsibility for damage to Exhibitor’s property or for lost shipments either arriving at or departing from the show, nor for moving costs.
Damage to such property is Exhibitor’s own responsibility. If an exhibit fails to arrive at the meeting, Exhibitor is responsible for the exhibit space rental fee. ACSA
advises Exhibitors to insure against these risks.
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$75
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SPECIAL ACTIVITIES (Circle all that apply)
Charrette Jury Lunch (friday)
sPONSORED BY THE brick industry association
ACSA Administrators Luncheon (saturday)
sPONSORED BY THE AIA Educator/Practitioner Network
Faculty Councilors Breakfast (sunday)
Special Assistance
ACSA will take steps to ensure that no
individual who is physically challenged
is excluded, denied services, segregated,
or otherwise treated differently because
of an absence of auxiliary aids and services identified in the American with
Disabilities Act. If any such services are
necessary to enable you to participate
fully in these meetings, please contact
Mary Lou Baily, 202.785.2324 ext 2;
mbaily@acsa-arch.org.
paper presenters
All paper presenters must pay a
non-refundable fee of $395 by January
15, 2007, in order for their paper to be
published in the proceedings. The fee also
covers a full conference registration.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing,
no later than February 26, 2007 to qualify
for a refund, less a processing fee of $50.
This fee also applies to PayPal purchases.
Unpaid purchase orders will be billed at
the full rate specified in the order unless
cancelled before the deadline; Standard
cancellation fees will apply.
Contact
For questions regarding registrations
for the 2006 ACSA/CELA Administrators
Conference, contact Kevin Mitchell at
202.785.2324 ext 5; kmitchell@acsa-arch.
org. For all other conference questions, contact Conferences Manager at 202.785.2324
ext 2, conferences@acsa-arch.org
no charge for faculty councilors only
Faculty Councilors Breakfast (sunday)
charge for non-faculty councilors only
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TOURS (Circle all that apply)
Modern Masters in Philadelphia (thursday) $35
Colonial Philadephia (friday) FREE
C.H.A.D. (thursday) free
Architectural Archives University of Pennsylvania (friday) FREE
Memorial Hall and Fairmount Park (thursday) $30
Scott Brown and Associates Office Tour (friday) $25
Center City Walking Tour (thursday) FREE
Campus Tour University of Pennsylvania (saturday) FREE
KieranTimberlake Office Tour (thursday) $32
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Office Tour (saturday) FREE
City Hall (friday) FREE
Houses in Chestnut Hill Bus Tour (sunday) $55
PROCEEDINGS
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school exhibits/ads
Use the form on page 24. For more information on school exhibits or contact Kathryn
Swiatek, 202.785.2324 ext. 6, kswiatek@
acsa-arch.org.
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96th annual meeting theme
2008 annual meeting - Houston, TX
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Seeking the City: Visionaries on the margins
Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the
margins of mind and space.
Cities and civilization have been inextricably linked throughout history,
and the architecture of the city has been an expression of civilization’s
highest collective achievements. But in recent decades cities have become
hollow: Shifting social and economic pressures are challenging traditional urban forms and rituals, while new communications technologies
have changed the nature of the social and physical network within which
people dwell.
A global and generic megalopolis is the city’s future.
The city exists at a collision of forces of power. Globalization has given
rise to a search for identity in a world of blurred boundaries. Spatially, this
teeming agglomeration of people densely accommodated does not follow
conventional planning methods; the ubiquity of electronic communications replaces face to face contact, and the non-place realm grows with
an energy that eludes control. Corporations see the city as a commodity
and aggressively deploy their brands everywhere, draining away diversity
while defending their profits at all cost. Meanwhile, classes of citizens
struggle to find their place in the economic and social milieu of the metropolis, challenging globalizing forces with grassroots, community-based
efforts. Architects and planners play only marginal roles of corrective interventions.
How can we understand the emerging city and mitigate cultural, economic and spatial conflict in the fluid and pluralistic society? What roles
can architecture and architects play? What visions will emerge from the
margins to nurture sustainable dwelling places and promote diversity of
people, of ideas, and of possibilities?
the call for papers for 2008 will be published in march. for more information visit www.acsa-arch.org.
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Host School: University of Houston
Co Chairs: Dietmar Froehlich,
University of Houston
Michaele Pride
University of Cincinnati
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call for submissions journal of architectural education volume 61
JAE 61:1 Theme Issue
Architectural Design as Research and Scholarship
Deadline: March 02, 2007
JAE 61:2 Theme Issue
Engaging the Recent Past
Deadline: March 02, 2007
Theme Editors
George Dodds, University of Tennessee, gdodds@utk.edu
Jori Erdman, Clemson University, jerdman@clemson.edu
Theme Editors
Lauren Weiss Bricker, lwbricker@csupomona.edu
Luis Hoyos. lghoyos@csupomona.edu
Judith Sheine, jesheine@csupomona.edu
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This first issue of Volume 61 raises the question of design as scholarly research, a concern that was raised in the first issue of the JAE, published
in 1947. While the manner in which the discussion was framed sixty years
ago differs from today, the issue remains largely unchanged. How does architecture as a discipline, located in a university or college wherein tenure
and promotion is largely based on the publication of peer-reviewed archivalbased research papers and books in academic presses, establish and promote design-as-scholarship at the institutional level? In many universities,
this problem has been ostensibly solved. Architectural design production is
often equated to that of “creative activities” modeled after long-standing
criteria developed in schools of the fine and performing arts. Yet, how does
this relate to questions of peer-review and the equally substantive concern
of how the design work promotes and creates new knowledge in the discipline?
Ancient cities of stone, stately mansions with neo-classical porticoes and
Main Streets lined with quaint brick facad es - ripe for repair and retail
- have undisputed value as cultural artifacts as well as for their ability to attract tax benefits and tourist dollars. Less established are the
theoretical underpinnings for the preservation of works dating from the
years 1945-1970 – usually referred to as the “Recent Past” by historic
preservation specialists.
How or ought one discriminate, for example, between traditional materials and methods-based research, and design practices that purposely blur
distinctions between “scholarly” and “design” research? The JAE has long
used these terms to distinguish between the two types of “blind reviewed”
articles we publish. The Executive Editor and two anonymous peer-reviewers routinely vet “Scholarly Articles,” “Design Work,” however, is reviewed
in a modified competition jury format. As a sign of an editorial shift at the
JAE, and to make the journal a more welcoming place for design faculty
to publish the products of their endeavors inside academe and beyond its
normative borders, we are now using the nomenclature of “Scholarship of
Design” and “Design as Scholarship” to distinguish these two forms of related inquiry.
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During Design Committee deliberations, the same questions often arise: how
does one value, for example, new software applications for visualization,
construction, and assembly against design projects that offer new insights
into dwelling, or redefining concepts of site? How is a particular design
submission demonstrably part of a larger “research project” that rethinks
established conventions or adds to our disciplinary knowledge base? If architecture is a discipline with discrete boundaries, can one reasonably and
productively distinguish between research and scholarship, particularly in
the context of design? When is design a scholarly activity and how do we
recognize it?
To mark the 60 years that the ACSA has been publishing the Journal of Architectural Education, the editors invite submissions of “Scholarship of Design”
and “Design as Scholarship” which explore these fundamental questions. All
submissions are digital – no hardcopy or disks required. Please consult the
JAE website for new submission guidelines and other useful information at
(www.jaeonline.ws/).
The scale of postwar architecture and designed landscapes has presented unique challenges to planners, architects and preservationists:
urban renewal projects, military bases measured in miles not acres, and
thousands of suburban housing tracts are among the places that may
be viewed as historic. These works and others in the United States and
abroad embodied a type of architectural modernism that frequently
merged with their landscapes; lacking an obvious front façade, their
significance has often gone unnoticed by preservationists accustomed
to dealing with traditional architecture, e.g., Oakland Museum (1969,
Roche & Dinkeloo & Assoc., architects; Dan Kiley, landscape architect).
At the same time, the postwar period is not without its detractors in this
post-colonial, post-Communist era. In light of shifting attitudes about
globalization, do works evidencing the impact of late colonial regimes
on local architecture merit preservation? These works, often incorporating mass-produced building materials and innovative technology, also
require very different conservation approaches than have been developed in association with traditional building materials.
However, the creative potential of adaptive reuse and additions to historic buildings have presented new opportunities for contemporary practitioners. Santiago Calatrava’s new wing for Eero Saarinen’s Milwaukee
Art Museum (1964) raises different questions than would an addition to
a neoclassical building. When iconic buildings are involved, a firestorm
of criticism can result, as was the case when Gwathmey Siegel (1992)
added to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Anshen
+ Allen built a new facility (1996) replacing the eucalyptus grove at
Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute (1965). On the other hand, some of the worst
products of urban renewal, for example, some of the 1960s superblocks
could be improved and humanized through the process of re-conceptualization.
The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based
(Design as Scholarship) research that illuminates the challenges and opportunities for the engagement of post-war architecture and designed
landscapes. Please consult the JAE website for new submission guidelines and other useful information at (www.jaeonline.ws/).
JAE 62:4 Theme Issue
PERFORMANCE / ARCHITECTURE
Deadline: September 01, 2007
Theme Editors
Adam Drisin, Florida International University, a.drisin@fiu.edu
W.E. Newman, Harvard School of Design, newman@fas.harvard.edu
Theme Editors
Omar Khan, University at Buffalo, State University of New York,
omarkhan@ap.buffalo.edu
Dorita Hannah, Massey University
“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion”
Mikhail A. Bakunin
Performance is primarily defined through notions of ‘embodiment’ and
‘event’ and in many ways stands in opposition to architecture. While the
latter has traditionally been perceived as fixed, grounded and enduring
the former has always been ephemeral, fleeting and illusive. However
recent perceptual and technological shifts have encouraged the disappearing acts of performance to cohere with the sedentary nature of
buildings, recognizing architecture as both embodied experience and
evolving time-based event.
Constructed environments are always primary targets in warfare. Yet, there
are other, equally critical objectives worth examining. Both war and architecture involve languages and practices of manipulation and control. Constructed environments have always been the objects of war - understood as
“battlefield” - and the subjects of war - understood as the confirmation and
geospatial manifestation of personal, cultural and political identities. War
is in part an architectural practice; the destruction of symbolic buildings is
a tactic for domination and the elimination of memory, history, and identity.
Contested territories and loss of life are the real and emblematic symbols of
conquest and defeat and the collateral damage of fulfilling military agendas.
The editors invite papers (design-based and text-based) that explore the creation, destruction, erasure, and reconstruction of armed conflict.
While warfare’s principal relationship to the constructed environment is
correctly understood as destructive, militarism and conflict alternatively engender massive construction works and infrastructural projects, monuments,
new technologies, re-territorializations and new spatial relations. Moreover,
many of the innovative technologies, tools, processes and materials central
to our discipline’s evolutionary leaps owe their putative foundations to the
military-industrial complex and are a result of technology transfers between
the military and the design disciplines. e.g., CATIA, composite & smart materials as well as new mapping and information technologies that are elements of both our discipline’s theories and practices.
“Design culture” has often had a complex relationship with the aesthetics,
techniques and tools of war. The contemporary aesthetics of disappearance,
stealth and new ways of visualizing space – what Paul Virilio refers to as
the “logistics of perception”- as well as the historical affiliation between
camouflage, dazzle paint and modern movements in design are a few of the
many ways that design and aesthetics have both been enabled by and have
enabled the material and aesthetic culture of war.
The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based (Design as Scholarship) research that illuminates the relationships between
armed conflict and the constructed environment. Please consult the JAE
website for new submission guidelines and other useful information at
(www.jaeonline.ws/).
Photo Credit: The New York Times Corporation
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Whilst some performance theorists maintain that only bodies can perform, insisting on “human agency”, we will consider architecture as the
object that performs itself. Akin to Deleuze’s ‘objectile’, the built environment becomes a performance of varying temporalities - a dynamic
organism that is both acted upon and acts on us.
This theme issue will explore the different ways performance engages
architecture. Taking performance as a lens into architecture opens it up
to a wide variety of practices where a purposeful exchange between
“actors” and “audience” occurs. Performance can be understood as an
event; a planned or improvisational script that people and objects enact
in space. It can also be defined as a value; a quantitative or qualitative
measurement of an object’s or person’s response to a specific condition.
This definition has become more prescient in light of real time analysis
made possible by digital tools. Finally performance also has found its way
to becoming an operative tool for learning. Performance based teaching,
where students learn by doing, has found new relevance in education to
bring theory/practice and the academy/profession closer together.
The editors invite text-based (Scholarship of Design) and design-based
(Design as Scholarship) research that interrogates performance in its
various guises within and through architecture. These include expositions on architectural spaces that organize both artistic and cultural performances, buildings and constructions that in themselves “perform”,
new tools and processes that reveal design performativity, embedded or
situated technologies that enable architectural and social performances
and performance-based teaching in the design studio. We encourage articles from other disciplines like performance studies, urbanism, geography and sociology where performance practices engage the design and
inhabitation of the built environment. We are particularly interested in
the role of new technologies in facilitating this performative turn. How
have or will digital technologies of mobility, networked information,
simulation and production contribute new performative criteria onto
architecture and architectural education?
Please consult the JAE website for new submission guidelines and other
useful information at (www.jaeonline.ws/).
Photo Credit: Yves Klein, Le saut dans le vide (Leap into the void), 1960.
Photograph by Harry Shunk.
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This issue of JAE explores the relationships among armed conflict and architecture, designed landscapes, and the city. Given that constructed environments are literal and figurative targets of warfare, the symmetry of that relationship is central to this topic. The epistemological ground of our discipline
has consistently bordered the discourse of warfare dating back to Vitruvius.
This theme issue explores how the political expression of armed conflict alters, destroys, erases, and ultimately re-constructs constructed environments.
Conversely, we are interested in the ways in which warfare has been enabled, resisted, and challenged through modes architectural production.
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JAE 62:3 Theme Issue
Collateral Damage: War & Architecture
Deadline: June 18, 2007
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historical preservation student design competition
Preservation as Provocation:
Re-thinking Saarinen’s
Cranbrook Academy of Art
INTRODUCTION
In 1942, Eliel Saarinen, the renowned Finnish-American Modern Architect,
designed the Library and Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art to be
the centerpiece of the campus, which is now a National Historic Landmark.
Considered to be one of the most technologically advanced and aesthetically daring Modernist building complexes at the time of its completion, its
expanding collections and growing numbers of visitors now require a major transformation of the original. This competition, the first to address the
emerging field of preservation design, invites architecture students to imagine this transformation. The challenge is not to adapt the buildings to fit
current trends in library and museum design. Rather more ambitiously, it is to
discover how the preservation of these extraordinary buildings can provoke
a profound rethinking of our current conventions about design. The aim is
to envision a new type of library and museum that would be unimaginable
without the existing structures.
AWARDS
The design jury will convene in June 2006 to select winning projects and
honorable mentions. Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools
will receive cash prizes totaling $10,000 Winners and their faculty sponsors
will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects
will be posted on the ACSA website www.acsa-arch.org.
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SCHEDULE
December 5, 2006 Registration begins (there is no fee for registration)
February 8, 2007 Registraion deadline
May 16, 2007 Submission deadline
June 2007 Winners announced
Summer 2007 Publication of summary book
JURORS
Tod Williams is an internationally renowned architect and partner of Tod
Williams Billie Tsien Architects / Jorge Otero-Pailos is a thought leader in
historic preservation and architecture, whose theories draw on his experience
as a practicing architect and historian / Marja-Ritta Norri, is one of Finland’s
leading contemporary architects. Her practice bridges from building design to
product design, and from curatorship to scholarship.
SPONSORS
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural
education. ACSA provides a major forum for ideas on the leading edge of
architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in
the future are being examined today in ACSA member schools.
Since 1857, the American Institute of Architects has represented the professional interests of America’s architects. The mission of the Historic Resources
Committee (HRC) is to identify, understand, and preserve architectural heritage, both nationally and internationally.
DOCOMOMO stands for DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings,
sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement. DOCOMOMO promotes
the study, interpretation and protection of the architecture, landscape and
urban design of the Modern Movement.
National Center for Technology and Preservation and Technology Training
(NCPTT) advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through
training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships.
INFORMATION
Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should
be addressed to:
Eric W. Ellis / Historical Preservation Competition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline)
fax: 202.628.0448
email: competitions@acsa-arch.org
Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Register online.
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portland cement association student design competition
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CONCRETE
THINKING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
Opportunity
The ACSA/Portland Cement Association 2006-2007 Student Design Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two
separate categories. Category I will challenge architecture students to
design a single element or section of a building. Category II will allow
students to create a comprehensive building design. The scope of the competition is for a portion of an academic term and not for an entire course
or thesis.
Execution
Show your solutions on up to two 20” x 30” submission boards and a
design essay.
Payoff
$10,000 in awards will be given for two entries in each category.
Each winning school will also receive pcaStructurePoint software, a
retail value of $9,745, which combines PCA’s suite of concrete design software with an array of structural engineering resources.
SCHEDULE
Registration Begins
Registration Deadline
Submission Deadline
Results
Dec 05 2006
Feb 08 2007
June 13 2007
Late June 2007
SPONSORS
Portland Cement Association
Administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Info
Competition program available November 2006 at www.acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis / Sustainable Concrete Competition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington DC 20006
tel: 202.785.2324 (Ext. #8, Competitions Hotline)
fax: 202.628.0448
competitions@acsa-arch.org
ACSA is committed to the principles of universal and sustainable design.
Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Register online.
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Challenge
Investigate an innovative use of portland cement-based material to
achieve sustainable design objectives.
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american institute of steel construction student design competition
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student design competition
2006–2007 acsa/aisc
museum of steel
INTRODUCTION
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased
to announce the seventh annual steel design student competition for the
2006‑2007 academic year. Administered by Association of Collegiate Schools
of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of design issues related to the use
of steel in design and construction.
Awards
Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes
totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2007, to select winning
projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will
be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will
be posted on the ACSA website (www.acsa-arch.org) and the AISC website
(www.aisc.org).
CATEGORY I
Museum of Steel. The 2006-2007 ACSA/AISC competition will challenge
architecture students to design a Museum of Steel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and
aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Students will be exploring
the ways in which the reclamation of an underdeveloped waterfront is a
prime opportunity for the designer to create a city focal point. The student
must keep in mind the current needs of the city, the compatibility of the
new structures with their historical neighbors, and the building’s ultimate
acceptability into the existing urban fabric.
SPONSOR
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a nonprofit technical institute and trade association established in
1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the
material of choice by being the leader in structural steel–related technical
and market-building activities, including specification and code development,
research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80
years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable
information.
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CATEGORY II
Open. For the third year the ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture
students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The program
must contain at least one space that will require a long span steel structure.
The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable
size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission
design option will permit a great amount of flexibility within the context.
SCHEDULE
Registration Begins December 5, 2006
Registration Deadline February 8, 2007
Submission Deadline May 30, 2007
Winners Announced June 2007
Publication of Summary Book Summer 2007
INFORMATION
Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should
be addressed to:
Eric W. Ellis
AISC Competition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline)
fax: 202.628.0448
email: competitions@acsa-arch.org
Download the competition program booklet at www.acsa-arch.org. Register online.
The Architecture of Stewardship
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ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY
The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning washington dc
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2007 ACSA Southeast Fall Conference
T h e c at h o l i c u n i v e r s i t y o f a m e r i c a
o c t o b e r 1 1 - 1 3 , 2 0 0 7 wa s h i n g t o n , d c
Notifications
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Final Papers Due
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Submission Requirements
Authors must submit abstracts through
an online interface that will be available
February 1, 2007. Abstracts may not exceed
500 words. All submissions must be
prepared for blind peer review. No identifying
information should appear on the abstract
or project submission.
All authors submitting papers must be faculty
or staff at ACSA members schools or become
Basic members at the time of submission.
Please see the submission guidelines at:
https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/
regionalmeetings.aspx
For more information, contact the conference
co-chairs: Michelle Rinehart (rinehart@cua.
edu) or Luis Boza (boza@cua.edu). Or, visit the
School’s website at http://architecture.cua.edu
Rooted in the principles of humanism, stewardship seeks to
improve life through the natural and built environment, for those
living now and for those who will follow us. We are stewards of
the earth, and each of us must assume personal responsibility for
the welfare of the world, taking it as our obligation to respect both
human life and the world in which we live. We must take
active roles: as laborers, shapers, healers, seekers, teachers or
counselors. For it is only through our creative and physical
actions that we might improve the quality of human life and the
world around us.
An holistic approach to stewardship requires that we think of
ourselves as existing within a larger system. This internality
requires an understanding that humanity is part of a larger and
interconnected system. With increasing specialization architects,
however, have been relegated to being stewards the physical
environment, leaving those in other fields to serve as stewards of
humanity, the economy, etc. Can and should architects adopt a
more holistic approach to stewardship?
The 2007 Southeast Fall Conference invites papers and projects
that address the idea of the architect/designer as steward. What
are the philosophical and spiritual foundations of stewardship?
How has architecture and urban design historically supported or
undermined these foundations? What role must we, as architects
and educators, play to fulfill our ethical obligations within a larger
system? How are we poised to be agents of the collaboration
necessary of successful stewards? Can environmental, economic
and social justice be mutually exclusive of one another? Do existing
and new technologies and innovative materials aid in fostering the
architecture of stewardship? Ultimately, should an Architecture
of Stewardship fundamentally change the way we practice and
teach? If so, how?
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Monday, April 2, 2007
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2007 ACSA Southwest Fall Conference
Date: October 4-6, 2007
Host: The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
Water's physical properties, symbolic meaning, and phenomenal characteristics shape the physical environment and the cultures that inhabit them. These processes— made manifest in ecological systems, social and
spiritual rituals, and economic and political policies— serve as activating agents that initiate change at the
level of landscape, architecture, or intimate details. In this manner, water's dual nature as a regenerative
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element or a potentially destructive force informs the engineering of infrastructure, the manipulation of
topography, the folding of surfaces, the shaping of roofs, or the curvature of a simple drinking glass.
The conference aims to examine water from both a pragmatic and a poetic perspective, with a particular
focus on its material and conceptual potential to move across scales of inhabitation. As an activating agent,
how might the properties of water influence new material assemblies or approaches to building? What role
might water take in the shaping of infrastructure and urbanization? With shifts in its degree of availability,
likelihood of its contamination, and potential for depletion, how will water be addressed as a vital cultural and
natural resource within social, economic, and political circles? How can water be employed in the making of
space, such that its transformative and metaphorical nature evokes restorative, violent, pure, or even limpid
characteristics or qualities?
Toward these ends, the 2007 Southwest Regional Conference invites papers and design projects that
address water’s praxis at all scales and across design disciplines. We likewise seek a range of submissions
that address water’s past and future trajectory. From an historical perspective, to practice, to speculation,
this conference hopes to assemble a coherent, but multi-faceted dialogue and discourse surrounding this
celebrated, debated and lamented element and resource.
Submission Requirements:
ABSTRACTS AND PROJECTS DUE: MONDAY APRIL 2, 2007
NOTIFICATIONS: MONDAY MAY 7, 2007
FINAL PAPERS DUE: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1, 2007
Authors of papers or design projects must submit abstracts online through the ACSA’s website. Authors
may include faculty, staff, or students of ACSA member schools. Abstracts may not exceed 500 words. All
submissions must be prepared for blind peer review. No identifying information should appear on the
abstract or project submission.
If you have trouble with the login process please contact:
membership@acsa-arch.org.
Additional submission guidelines and accommodation information for the 2007 ACSA Southwest Fall
Conference will be posted at: https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/regionalmeetings.aspx
Billie Faircloth
Jason Sowell
[bfaircloth@mail.utexas.edu], or
[jsowell@mail.utexas.edu], or
Nichole Wiedemann
[wiedemann@mail.utexas.edu]
Or, visit the host school’s website at http://www.soa.utexas.edu/
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For further information please contact the conference co-chairs:
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“Venice on Vine Pizzeria, designed and built by students from the University of Cincinnati and Miami University, provides job
training and employment readiness for low-income residents in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.
ball state university
Assistant Professor Olon Dotson and Associate Professor Wes Janz organized and developed the “Midwess Distress Tour,” a six-day
field trip in that visited devastated neighborho
ods in Detroit Flint, Michigan; Gary, Indiana;
Chicago and East St. Louis, Illinois, and Cincinnati, Ohio. The 12-person group met with
involved organizations, engaged individuals,
and local citizens during the 1,500-mile journey. This included: the Genesee County Land
Bank in Flint, Chicago Housing Authority, East
St. Louis Action Research Project, and Findlay
Market in Cincinnati; Dr. Craig Wilkins at the
University of Michigan Detroit Center, artist
Tyree Guyton, and architects Matt Miller and
Thomas Gardner in Detroit; and a third year
architecture student enrolled in Miami University’s Over-the-Rhine residency program.
“Symbols, Metaphors, Analogs: Seeding, Modeling and Achieving Sustainable Design,” by
Robert Koester, Professor of Architecture,
was presented at The New Forest, in England
as part of the First International Conference on
Harmonization Between Architecture and Nature; Eco-Architecture 2006. Wessex Institute of
Technology Press has additionally accepted the
manuscript for publication in a volume of WIT
Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN
1744-7151) entitled ECO Architecture.
professional practice, Brett Tippey has joined
the Architecture Department as full-time instructor in the First Year Program. His academic
interests include the fundamentals of spatial
design and the application of graphic representation in the design process. In addition to design studio and communication media courses,
he is teaching an introductory class to students
aspiring to study architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Tippey has recently
written an article published in the March 2006
issue of Docomomo Journal, which reviews
Max Page, and Randall Mason’s book Giving
Preservation a History. Tippey is an alumnus of
the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) where he
Since Fall 2006 and coming from five years of
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completed his Master of Architecture.
Ball State will be hosting the 2007 Design Communication Association, September 12-16. To
learn more details about this 20th Anniversary
Design Communication Association Conference
and about the call for papers visit www.dca07.
org
Timothy Gray, Assistant Professor, and John
Motloch, Professor of Landscape Architecture, were awarded an EPA P3 grant to begin
working on an environmental research center
planned for Muncie, Indiana. Tim Gray will be
working with a group of students this semester on the first built component of the facility, a
straw bale demonstration / education center.
Branko Kolarevic, Irving Distinguished Visiting Professor, was a featured speaker at the
“Game Set & Match II” conference at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands. His
spoke about the “Surface Effects: Ornament in
Contemporary Architecture.” He also delivered
a lecture on “Performative Architecture” in the
spring lecture series at the Technical University
in Graz, Austria.
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On the initiative of Associate Professor George
Elvin, PhD, Senior Research Associate and
Professor Stephen Kendall, PhD, Director,
the Building Futures Institute, are organizing
a special meeting for the Indiana Construction Roundtable on November 3 on Building
Information Modeling, with speakers from Flad
& Associates, the General Services Administration, and Eli Lilly.
What would buildings look like if they were
made from materials 250 times stronger than
steel, if sensors embedded in materials and
inhabitants created smart environments, and
walls and ceilings changed color based on user
preferences? These are some of the questions
answered by the nanoSTUDIO, a joint exploration by Ball State University (BSU) and Illinois
Institute of Technology (IIT). In the course, led
by Associate Professor George Elvin and Janet Woerner, students from BSU’s architecture
department and IIT’s IPRO program designed
homes based on nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the molecular level. By en-
abling engineering at the quantum scale, nanotechnology is making striking advances in fields
as diverse as electronics, medicine, energy, and
consumer products. In architecture, it has already led to self-cleaning windows, smog-eating concrete, and flexible solar panels. Students
collaborated to imagine what buildings based
on nanotechnology will be like 25 years from
now. Their palette of materials included nanomaterials already developed in laboratories that
are now working their way to market. These include transparent carbon nanotubes 250 times
stronger than steel, nanosensors small enough
to embed not only in building components but
their users as well, and quantum dot lighting
able to change the color and opacity of walls
and ceilings. But this was no mere “house-ofthe-future” fantasy. Students also addressed
the social and environmental concerns raised
by nanotechnology, from toxicity (nanoparticles are so tiny they can pass through cell
membranes) to privacy (who controls the data
gathered by embedded nanosensors?) To learn
more about how the science of the small is affecting architecture visit nanotechstudio.com.
ciples for building consumer-oriented and sustainable townhouses using open building principles. The method is also applicable to highrise urban housing projects (www.bsu.edu/bfi
- A Residential Infill Industry).
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Assistant Professor Kenneth Crutcher helped
organize a local chapter of The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), and
was elected to serve as the chapter’s Vice President for 2007.
Assistant Professor Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D.,
has been awarded a Graham Foundation grant
to support the publication of his book, “The
Chicago Schoolhouse, 1856-2006: High School
Architecture and Educational Reform.” Dr. Gyure had previously been awarded the Graham
Foundation’s Carter Manny Dissertation Award
for his doctoral dissertation on the evolution
of American high school architecture between
1880 and 1920.
miami university
Image from the nanoSTUDIO. Project by Adam Buente
and Elizabeth Boone.
Professor Stephen Kendall was invited to participate in the one-day Symposium on Change
– Ready Hospitals in Lisbon, Portugal. The symposium is sponsored by the Director – General
for Healthcare Installations and Equipment
Government of Portugal, responsible authority for the development of studies and projects,
and for providing technical support in regard to
contracts for the constructions of health care
facilities and for the acquisition of equipment
by hospitals and health institutions within the
Portuguese National Health Service.
Professor Stephen Kendall has published a
monograph Homeworks: A New American
Townhouse (Trafford, 2006) that lays out prin-
Professor Thomas A. Dutton, director of the
Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, served as a reviewer for the international Berkeley Prize for
Undergraduate Design Excellence for 2006.
Prize organizers highlighted Tom’s work, as
well as the work of other reviewers, in a special
Forum section of Places 18:2, Summer, 2006.
Tom and Assistant Professor Robert Bell and
students also won a Merit Design Award for
collaborative work from the Cincinnati chapter
of the American Institute of Architects for their
work on Venice on Vine (see University of Cincinnati).
Students in the Energy and Sustainable Design
Studio taught by associate professor Scott Johnston are working with artists from Ohio Valley
Creative Energy (OVCE) to design a green,
eco-friendly community art center. OVCE was
founded to provide a heat intensive facility,
powered by methane, for glass, clay, and metal
artists. The center will be built on an existing
landfill in Clark County Indiana, where the local
utility, Hoosier Energy, will capture landfill gas
for electric power generation.
university of cincinnati
A cooperative project between the University of Cincinnati and Miami University won
a Merit Design Award for collaborative work
from the Cincinnati chapter of the American
Institute of Architects. The project, a pizzeria
called Venice on Vine, is a program of Power
Inspires Progress (PIP), which provides job
training and employment readiness for low-
income residents through the operation of the
restaurant and a catering business. The project
involved community leaders, eight architects,
subcontractors, two architectural firms, and
more than forty students. UC Assistant Professor Frank Russell of the UC Community Design
Center-
Niehoff Urban Studio coordinated the
project. UC Interior design students led by Instructor Carrie Biedelman, provided concepts
for PIP and the building’s owner, ReSTOC, a
non-profit affordable housing developer. Miami Professor Thomas A. Dutton, director of
the Miami University Center for Community
Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, and Miami
Assistant Professor Robert Bell and students
designed and built interior walls and floors,
cabinets, work surfaces, artwork, and lighting in
the training room.
UC Assistant Professor Terry
Boling and students designed and built interior
finishes in the public areas of the restaurant.
decades. As we envision how environmental
and human design will be addressed in the 21st
Century, 955 Boylston Street will enable us to
better serve our students in architecture, interior design, landscape and design studies, and
the public. We’ll now engage a wider community in helping plan how our expanding campus
and programs can be resources for improving
design here, and around the world.”
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The Boston Architectural College (BAC) is
pleased to announce its acquisition of 955
Boylston Street, the former home of the Institute of Contemporary Art. A 25,423-square-foot
building adjacent to the college’s main campus
at 320 Newbury Street, 955 Boylston Street is
a renovated 19th Century civic building that
deftly complements the BAC’s well known 20th
Century Brutalist concrete home on fashionable
Newbury Street.
The purchase price for 955 Boylston Street was
$7.22 million. Proceeds from a $12,430,000
tax-exempt-bond issued by MassDevelopment
will support the BAC’s purchase of its new facility. Beginning in the spring of 2007, the college will embark on an extensive and inclusive
planning process to determine the building’s
best academic and research functions. This will
include obtaining recommendations from the
various participants in the BAC’s extended communities, including students, faculty, employers
of BAC students, alumni, design professionals
and those impacted by BAC programs. The BAC
will continue to work closely with the office of
Mayor Thomas Menino to develop plans that
benefit the college’s neighboring communities.
“This is a significant permanent addition to
our campus, which now includes two iconic
buidings,” states Boston Architectural College
President Ted Landsmark. “The 19th and 20th
Century Boston architects who designed these
buildings employed BAC students, 100 years
apart. Our planning process will be for the first
new design school facility in Boston in several
Designed in 1886 by City Architect Arthur H.
Vinal and built in Richardson Romanesque
Revival style, 955 Boylston Street was the first
combined fire and police station in Boston. The
fire station, located at 941 Boylston Street, is
still functioning today. In 1976, architect Graham Gund converted the police station into
art galleries. This site then became home to the
Institute of Contemporary Art, which relocated
in December 2006 to Boston’s waterfront.
“MassDevelopment is pleased to support the
Boston Architectural College as it creates new
educational opportunities through its campus
expansion project,” said Robert L. Culver,
MassDevelopment president/CEO. “This updated facility will not only make the school
more appealing to prospective students, it will
also add new resources and character to one
of Boston’s treasured neighborhoods. I’m glad
the BAC chose to preserve this historic architectural icon.”
A financial guaranty policy was issued by
ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation (“ACA”);
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”)
has issued financial strength and financial enhancement ratings of “A” for ACA, and ACA is
The Boston Architectural College Directors who
participated in the acquisition of this property
include: Chairman Charles Redmon FAIA; Lisa
Bonneville, FASID, Vice Chair; Christopher
L. Noble, Esq., Secretary; Lawrence R. Ladd,
Treasurer; Robert A. Brown AIA IIDA; Holly
Cratsley AIA; Zachary Craun; Elizabeth Ericson FAIA; Russel Feldman AIA; Maurice
N. Finegold FAIA; Bernard J. Goba AIA; Jane
Garland Lucas ASID IIDA; John D. Macomber; Julia Nugent AIA; David Perini, Commissioner; Jill Rothenberg; Jane Weinzapfel
FAIA; and Lynn Wolff FASLA. BAC Executive
Vice-President/Chief Operating Officer, James
Dunn, and BAC Provost Edmund Toomey also
participated.
The Boston Architectural College is New England’s largest independent, accredited college
of spatial design, founded in 1889. With over
1000 students, the BAC offers undergraduate
and graduate programs in architecture and
interior design, undergraduate programs in
landscape architecture, and design studies, and
Continuing Education and certificate programs.
The BAC stresses excellence in practice-based
professional education, and accessibility to the
design professions. The BAC’s central location
and its strong links with the design community
make it a strategic educational center for the
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discussion of design issues in Boston.
MassDevelopment, the state’s finance and development authority, works with businesses,
financial institutions and local officials to
stimulate economic growth across the Commonwealth. Since fiscal year 2004, MassDevelopment has financed or managed 586 projects
statewide representing an investment of more
than $4 billion in the Massachusetts economy.
These projects have also created 5,537 housing
units and more than 23,500 jobs.
syracuse university
Professor Anne Munly received a New York
Council for the Humanities grant in November
2006 in support of her interdisciplinary project,
“Mapping Stories,” involving interviews and
cognitive maps of citizens of Rome, New York.
She is working on the project with historical geographer Anne Mosher of Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School.
The Warehouse building, new home of the
school of architecture, was recently honored
by a New York Construction magazine as one
of the preeminent construction projects of
2006. New York City firm Gluckman Mayner
Architectes in partnership with VIP Structures
of Syracuse conducted the estimated $9 million
building renovation, which was selected as the
best higher education project in the tri-state
area earlier this year. SU, Gluckman Mayner
Architects and VIP Structures were honored for
their contribution to the Warehouse development at an annual awards ceremony in Manhattan.
Professor Martin Hogue’s exhibit “[Fake] Fake
Estates: Revisting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake
Estates,” will be presented until January 10th,
2007, at the Municipal Art Society in New York.
It is slated to be on display at Ohio State University from January 15th through March 2nd,
2007. Hogue’s site research was supported
with residencies at the MacDowell Colony in
2005 and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in 2006.
Professors Aaron Sprecher and Mark Linder
have contributed to the Gen[H]ome Project Exhibition presented at the MAK center in West
Hollywood from October 29th, 2006 through
February 18th, 2007. The exhibition explores the
merging of modern technological development,
natural sciences, specially genetics, and architecture. It includes some work from the first
year SU architecture graduate students from a
seminar jointly taught by Sprecher and Linder
in the Spring of 2006. Funded in part by the
Syracuse Center of Excellence, the Gen[H]ome
exhibition is curated by Open Source Architecture (OSA), of which Sprecher is a partner, and
MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer.
Dean Mark Robbins has participated to the
Biennal in Quito, Ecuador, with an installation entitled ORDER. Robbins’s piece, erected
briefly in front of the Franciscan Monastery
complex in early November, addressed the issues of Spanish colonialism, architecture, and
indigenous populations. His most recent publication, Households, featured portraits of people
and their homes as a visual commentary on the
complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. It was published
last summer by Monacelli Press.
New York architect Lindy Roy taught with Professor Ted Brown in the first Pioneer studio
sponsored by the Pioneer Companies Inc during the Fall. The studio focused on a proposed
development of a parcel adjacent to the new
downtown location of the school of architecture.
Professor Jonathan Massey has published an
article on the geodesic pavilion Buckminster
Fuller designed to represent the United States
at Expo 67 in Montreal in the December issue
of the Royal Institute of British Architects’s
Journal of Architecture.
Professor Julia Czerniak has contributed an
essay in the exhibition catalogue Fertilizers at
the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in which she discussed the collaboration
between architect Peter Eisenman and landscape architect Laurie Olin.
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The Faculty of the School of Architecture and
Planning regret to inform the architectural education community of the deaths of Professors
Joseph Miller, FAIA and Peter Blake, FAIA.
Professor Emeritus Joe Miller passed away on
September 26, 2006. An alumnus of Catholic
University--he graduated summa cum laude in
1938--Mr. Miller was actively involved in the
architecture program for more than fifty years
until his retirement in 1988. Only a stroke in
1997 reduced his active involvement in the
program. He was a professor, the Director of
the Urban Design program and Associate Dean.
He also played a pivotal role in creating The
School of Architecture and Planning and the
refurbishment the University’s gymnasium into
the School’s new home. He was made Professor
Emeritus in 1988. He worked for the Department of War until 1945 when he joined the
architectural firm of Eggers and Higgins. He
opened his own office in 1948. Mr. Miller served
with the D.C. Redevelopment Land Agency that
was largely responsible for Washington’s Southwest redevelopment-- one of the largest urban
revitalization projects in the United States. He
earned over forty design and teaching awards
including the 1997 Centennial Award from the
Washington Chapter of the AIA.
Professor Emeritus Peter Blake passed away
on December 5, 2006. Professor Blake’s early
teaching career began in 1949 and included
positions at such notable institutions as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Tulane, and Columbia. He
was Professor at the Boston Architectural Center from 1974 to 1979. In 1979, he joined the
faculty at CUA as an Ordinary Professor and
Chairman of the Department of Architecture
and Planning, and in 1980 was appointed as
florida international university
We are pleased to announce that one of the
School’s required courses, “Design Thinking:
The Classroom in the City”, taught by Associate
Professor Eric J. Jenkins, AIA, was featured in
a Washington Post column in November. The article discussed how and why students analyze
buildings, urban spaces and designed objects
throughout Washington DC by means of freehand analytical sketching. In December, The
Washington Post featured the Catholic University of America Design Collaborative (CUAdc)
and its renovation of the District of Columbia’s
Stuart-Hobson Middle School library on Capital
Hill.
To mark the publication of Ely Jacques Kahn,
Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New
York (Norton, 2006) and the opening of the accompanying Wallach Gallery exhibition, Associate Professor John A. Stuart, AIA co-author of
the volume and co-curator of the exhibition,
moderated a discussion at the Columbia University GSAPP. Entitled: “The Skyscraper Reconsidered: Ely Jacques Kahn and Beyond,” the
panel included Michael Sorkin, Carol Willis, Andrew Dolkart, and co-author/co-curator Jewel
Stern. Professor Stuart and Ms. Stern were also
invited lecturers on the subject of their publication at the Skyscraper Museum, New York.
CUAdc, lead by Luis Boza, Michelle Rinehart and David Shove-Brown, AIA and comprised of twenty-five students, worked with
the middle-school students and their parents
and faculty to create a new place of learning.
Starting with the metaphor of wind and water
shaped rock, the team designed shelving, desks
and work stations using birch plywood shaped
with in-house digital fabrication technologies.
The project earned an AIA-DC Chapter 2006
Pro Bono Publico Award. Professor Emeritus
Walter Ramberg, who retired this past summer, will continue his efforts at the School as
a member of the Dean’s Advisory Counsel and
roving thesis critic.
Recent accomplishments among School adjunct faculty are also substantial, and include
the following: Adjunct Professor Felipe Alespeiti was recognized by the Miami Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects with its
2006 Urban Design Award; Adjunct Professor
Malik Benjamin organized an architectural
design competition for affordable housing in
the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, through
a grant authored by School Director Nathaniel
Belcher. Adjunct Professors Elizabeth Cardona and Nicolay Nedev were among the
four First Place winners of the Boston Society
of Architects design competition entitled Edge
as Center. Their work forms part of a traveling exhibition. The furniture design of Adjunct
Assistant Professor Roberto Rovira, ASLA,
was awarded the Kauffman Professor’s Prize in
support of design development for his awardwinning Miami Sunspars project--a sustainable and iconic monument for the Miami skyline. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,
through the Pino Entrepreneurship Center at
Florida international University, sponsors the
Prize. Professor Rovira exhibited his work at
the 2006 Conference, “Green Buildings and
Sustainable Construction Technology: A Roadmap for the Future” sponsored by the Institute
for Technology Innovation at FIU and the Consulate General of Canada. In partner ship with
the Rinker Materials Corporation, Rovira led a
first-year graduate landscape studio entitled
“FEC Quarry Wildlife Lake Project.” The awardwinning work of the studio was awarded a Five
Star Grant by the Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
as well as Certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council.
Professor Andrew Sribyatta was recently featured in Time and Blueprint Magazines.
Adjunct Professor Gabriel Fuentes won two
awards from the Florida/Caribbean Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects: A 2006
Award of Honor in Unbuilt Design for his FIU
MArch thesis, and an Award of Merit in Unbuilt Design for a competition entry: A Lodge
in Chan Chan, Peru. Both projects were published in Florida/Caribbean ARCHITECT. Fuentes
was an invited panelist in a public discussion
of “Las Tres Habanas,” a lecture by Professor
Nicolas Quintana.
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School of Architecture students and recent
graduates have won a number of awards for
work completed as part of their studies at FIU:
Juan Pablo Cardozo and Gabriel Fuentes
each won 2006 Awards of Merit in Unbuilt
Design from AIA Miami for their MArch thesis projects. The first of these, sited in Miami,
Florida was directed by Associate Professor
Marilys Nepomechie. The second, sited in
La Habana, Cuba, was directed by Professor
Nicolas Quintana. For his service on the
Miami-Dade County school Board, and for his
extensive and long-term leadership in numerous civic organizations, FIU alumnus Agustin
Barrera won the 2006 AIA Miami Community
Leadership Award.
Among students currently enrolled at the
School, Anwar Morales, a student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, won an
AIA Miami Student Award for a project completed as part of a landscape design studio directed by Assistant Professor Roberto Rovira.
Two graduate students in the Interior Design
program won awards from IIDA Miami: Jennifer Benjamin and Julie Villacampa each received awards for academic excellence. Three
undergraduates: Marisa De Paula, Giovanna
Brin and Alejandra Stiefal each won awards
for leadership and academic excellence.
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Assistant Professor Brian Ambroziak will deliver papers entitled “Interstitial Readings: Visual Thinking in Time Based Digital Media” at
the 2006 ACSA Northeast Regional Conference,
Imag(in)ing Worlds to Come, and “Digital Landscapes” at the 2007 International Conference
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Associate Dean for Architecture in the School
of Engineering and Architecture. He served on
the faculty until his retirement in 1991 at which
time he was granted the status of Professor
Emeritus. Among his many achievements, the
American Institute of Architects elected him to
the College of Fellows in 1970 in recognition of
contributions made by the candidate to the advancement of the profession. He received the
Howard Myer Award for Architectural Journalism, the AIA Architecture Critic’s Medal in 1975,
a citation from American Institute of Architects
for the design of a U.S. Architecture exhibit for
display in Eastern Europe, and several awards in
architectural competitions in the United States.
Professor Blake was widely known throughout
the world as a leader in architectural criticism
and as a respected scholar. His major works
included: God’s Own Junkyard, the Master
Builders, Form Follows Fiasco, the editorship
of the prestigious architectural journal, The Architectural Forum, and the founding of his own
magazine, Architecture Plus.
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on Digital Applications in Cultural Heritage. He
was selected to moderate a session at the 2007
ACSA National Convention for his topic the Artistic Conscience. His practice Design Bureau is
currently working as part of a joint venture on
a design for a new facility for America’s Second
Harvest Food Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Earlier this year, Associate Professor Mark
DeKay and Mary Guzowski of the University
of Minnesota presented a paper entitled “A
Model for Integral Sustainable Design Explored
Through Daylighting” at the American Solar
Energy Society Conference in Denver. The paper briefly introduces the fundamentals of an
Integral Theory of Sustainable Design, based
on the writings of American philosopher Ken
Wilbur and concepts of multiple perspectives
and multiple levels of development complexity.
It explores the implications for an integral approach to sustainable design. Professor DeKay
also organized a meeting retreat for the Society
of Building Science Educators this summer at
Pingree Park. The retreat theme was based on
Ken Wilbur’s Integral Theory.
Katherine Ambroziak has been appointed to
the faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor
(tenure track). She has taught at the College
of Architecture and Design since January 2004,
and has been involved with two study abroad
programs, Rome Sketchbook: The Necessity for
Seeing and Swiss Sketchbook: The Necessity
for Seeing. In her research and creative work,
Professor Ambroziak has addressed issues
of collective memory and symbolism, spatial
cognition, the narrative, ritual, and procession.
Proceeding from the premise that the formal
and programmatic conventions of architecture
represent and transmit social values, her work
looks at the ability of the built environment to
communicate, to commemorate, and to heighten one’s awareness and engage the occupant
in a memorable way. Her current research on
cemetery design examines the relationship between architectural form and current ideology
that positions the feeling of the living towards
death and a cemetery’s ability to reveal the
emotional and spiritual values of a society.
Ann Christensen is new faculty member
teaching first- and second-year studios and a
seminar that explores the effects and potential
opportunities of interstate transportation infrastructure on Knoxville. She received a Masters
of Architecture from Tulane University. Prior to
arriving at UTK, she taught at Prairie View A&M
University after practicing architecture in New
York City and Houston.
Associate Professor T. K. Davis is beginning his
third year as Design Director at the Nashville
Civic Design Center. He is currently working on
an Urban Revitalization Study for the Wedgewood-Houston Neighborhood in Metro Nashville. Under his leadership, the Civic Design
Center delivers monthly Urban Design Forums,
Exhibitions, and an Architecture and Urbanism
Film/Discussion Series. He recently received a
grant from the Tennessee Foundation for the
Arts to host, with design critic Christine Kreyling, Metro Design Space, a monthly television
program devoted to issues in urban design.
He recently gave a keynote address in Bristol
TN/VA on “Downtown Bristol: What’s Next?”,
as well as a lecture entitled “Architecture, the
City and Film” in Memphis as part of the 2006
Architecture Month Lecture Series.
Professor Diane Fox had solo exhibits of her
work, UnNatural History, in both the Sarratt
Gallery, at Vanderbilt University and the Santa
Reparata Gallery in Florence, Italy. Her work
was selected for inclusion in the “Top 40” exhibit at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in
Los Angeles, CA and the Association for Visual
Artists Gallery Juried Photo Exhibit in Chattanooga, TN. Two images will be on view this
fall at the Parthenon in Nashville during the
SECAC/MOCA Members Exhibit.
Professor David Fox is involved in a sustainable design education program. This program
is an initiative of the University of Tennessee
College of Architecture and Design and the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.
The goal of the program is to develop professional opportunities for inner city youth.
Using sustainable design topics, Professor Fox
will work within the math and vocational curricula of Austin East High School to teach aspects
of sustainable design and will work with local
professional organizations and the chamber of
commerce to develop a cooperative work program that links the participating high school
students with local employers.
Associate Professor Barbara Klinkhammer
continues in the capacity of Acting Assistant
Dean and Graduate Program Coordinator this
year. In 2005, Professor Klinkhammer presented “Counterpoints and Fugues: Le Corbusier’s
Use of Colour for the Factory Claude and Duval
in St. Die” at the Ninth International Conference on Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture, Malta, which
was subsequently published in conference proceedings.
Ted Shelton has been appointed to the faculty
at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track).
Currently his fourth-year studio is working on
design proposals for an interpretive center at
Dunbar Cave State Natural Area in Clarksville.
Professor Shelton is also working with Professor Tricia Stuth on the design of an observation
platform at Panther Creek State Park in Morristown. Professor Bob French will oversee the
construction of the platform next semester in
his Construction Explorations class.
Last October Professor Richard Kelso presented a paper at the Clima 2005 conference
in Lausanne, Sui. The title was Uncertainty in
the Performance Validation of HVAC Systems;
co-authored with Richard Buswell. Currently,
he and Dr. Stan Rabun are working on a book
entitled Evaluation of Buildings for Adaptive
Re-use.
Associate Professor Edgar Stach published
an article in Textile Composites and Inflatable
Structures by Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2005.
He presented two papers about teaching with
technology this fall at the Building Technology Educators Symposium at the University of
Maryland.
Stach also presented “Kinetic Structures and
Sculptures” and “Some Principles of Design
and Engineering of Pneumatic Structures” with
A. Borgart, Technical University in Delft, at the
International Symposium on New Perspectives
for Shell and Spatial Structures in Beijing, China
this October.
A solo exhibition of paintings and projects by
Associate Professor C. A. Debelius is scheduled for June through September, 2007, at the
Knoxville Museum of Art.
university of virginia
Professor Michael Bednar will be giving
a lecture based on his recent book entitled
“L’Enfant’s Legacy: Public Open Spaces in
Washington, D. C.” at the National Building
Museum on January 9, 2006.
virginia tech
The University’s U.S. Department of Energy
Solar Decathlon team, led by faculty from the
School of Architecture + Design, has won a
2006 Honor Award from the Virginia Society of
the American Institute of Architects at the annual Visions for Architecture event. The team
was previously awarded an AIA Presidential
Award and an NCARB (National Council of
Architectural Registration Boards) Honorable
Mention for the Creative Integration of Practice
and Education in the Academy.
CALL FOR IMAGES
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News? Do you have any interesting images you would like to share with the
architecture community? ACSA News needs images for upcoming issues.
Images should be black and white, 300 dpi, and in jpeg or tiff format. All
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1735 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006
Email: pvonier@acsa-arch.org
southwest
University of Texas at Arlington student Diana
Kang has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Kimball Office Scholarship Fund.
The scholarship is sponsored by the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Foundation and was made possible with funding
from Kimball Office. The Kimball Office Scholarship fund was created to emphasize diversity at
the college/university level.
The three-year program annually awards
$5,000 to a senior year student pursuing a degree in interior design. The winning student, of
African, Asian, Latin or Native American heritage, is selected based upon excellence in both
academics and promising design talent.
Four schools with esteemed interior design programs were chosen for the final selection process. The review committee reviewed the work
of student finalists nominated by the Interior
Design Departments at Harrington College of
Design, Chicago, Illinois; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Woodbury University,
Burbank, California and University of Texas at
Arlington, Arlington, Texas.
In awarding the scholarship to Diana Kang, the
committee stated, “We were thoroughly impressed with Diana’s comprehension, execution
and strength in the interior design process. Her
skills and her quality are very advanced -- she
will be a great design professional.”
Diana Kang is a student at UT Arlington’s School
of Architecture. A resident of Plano, Texas, she is
a senior in the Interior Design program and will
graduate in May.
The IIDA Foundation is a not-for-profit, philanthropic organization whose primary mission is
to advance interior design through education,
research and knowledge to benefit IIDA and
the interior design profession. The IIDA works
to enhance quality of life through excellence in
interior design and to advance interior design
through knowledge, value and community.
texas tech university
For the second year in a row, students from the
Texas Tech College of Architecture have won a
form-Z joint study award of distinction for work
produced in design studios and digital media
seminars taught by Associate Professor Bennett Neiman.
The 2005-06 winners in the visualization and
illustration category were John Houser, Matt
Haynes, and Justin Kyle for their project the
Blender Box. The 2004-05 winner in the architecture category was Jeffrey Olgin for his project, an Institute for Jazz Studies at Fort Adams
Park, site of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island.
Professor Bennett Neiman, winner of the
2005-2006 ACSA Faculty Design Award, for Bebop Spaces, presented the project at the Architecture Music Acoustics international conference in Toronto, Canada, June 2006 and at the
Texas Society of Architects annual convention
in Dallas, November 2006.
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university of oregon, eugene
Sponsored by the University of Oregon’s Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment for
International Relations and Peace, Professor
Howard Davis (the Department of Architecture) has organized a two-year program of lectures, symposia, courses and design charrettes,
entitled “Cities in War, Struggle and Peace, the
Architecture of Memory and Life”. The theme
for year one is “Memorials and Museums of
Conflict and War” and will include lectures by
Edward Linenthal (historian, Indiana University), Kenneth Helphand (landscape architect,
University of Oregon) and David Luebke (historian, University of Oregon), Jo Noero (architect, Capetown), Michael Sorkin (architect and
architectural critic, New York), Moshe Safdie
(architect, Cambridge and Jerusalem) and
Ralph Appelbaum (exhibition designer, New
York). A seminar “The Architecture of Memory”
will explore museums that commemorate war,
from historical and contemporary perspectives.
A student design charrette, “Oregon and War”
will involve students in the design of a memorial or physical commemoration of war for the
University of Oregon campus.
Associate Professors Jenny Young and Donald
Corner are, for the third time, taking architecture students for a spring term in Macerata,
Italy. Coursework there includes a design stu-
dio project in the context of the historic center,
seminars on hill towns of the region, medieval/renaissance architectural history and Italian language and culture. Associate Professor
James Tice (Department of Architecture) and
Erik Steiner (InfoGraphics Lab, Department of
Geography) at the University of Oregon have
realized a three year project involving a facsimile publication of Giambattista Nolli’s 1748
Map of Rome. A high resolution, 43 X 52 inch,
digitally re-mastered, single sheet print is now
available to ACSA faculty and students through
Raven Maps at http://www.ravenmaps.com.
university of southern california
Internationall acclaimed architect and educator Qingyun Ma has been named Dean of the
School of Architecture. Prof. Marc Schiler was
elected to Fellowship in the American Solar Energy Society. Mark Gangi and Michael Lehrer completed the Museum of Water and Life,
a 23 acre, 6 building campus in Riverside, CA.
They are seeking a LEED platinum rating for this
project. Mark Gangi also served as Chair of the
AIA Pasadena/Foothill Design awards for 2006.
Janek Dombrowa, Charles Lagreco, Jade
Satterthwaite, Robert Harris and Ken
Breisch are completing the design of a new
75 room ocean front hotel re-using two historic
buildings in Santa Monica, CA. Prof. Robert
Harris has been named interim Director of the
graduate landscape architecture program.
university of utah
Julio Bermudez, an Associate Professor of
Architecture is the recipient of the ACADIA
2006 Award for Teaching Excellence. The award
acknowledges distinguished contributions
to pedagogy related to the digital practice of
architecture. Bermudez was particularly recognized for his innovations in architectural design
studio and foundation curricula, the integration of digital and analog media within design
methods, and the wide impact of this work nationally and internationally. The Award citation
considers “Bermudez’s trajectory and contributions of tremendous significance to a mature
architectural digital pedagogy”.
Matthew T. Hintze and Michael Dolan,
graduate students in the MArch program won
first and second place respectively in the Metal
Construction Association’s (MCA’s) ninth annual Student Design Competition. The MCA panel
reviewed 123 designs submitted by students
from 20 universities across North America for a
new beach house, waterfront amphitheatre, observation tower, and a restaurant to be located
at Montrose Harbor, about six miles north of
downtown Chicago. Both students were sponsored by Associate Dean for Architecture, Patrick Tripeny.
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The urban design/build studio of Assistant Professors Thomas Gentry and Eva Kultermann
has partnered with Chicago’s Department of
Housing and Genesis Housing Development
Corp., a non-profit developer, to create a model
green home that showcases Chicago’s commitment to “green” buildings. One of two homes
being built for the project, the student design
focuses on affordable approaches that can
readily be adopted by architects, developers
and contractors. Mayor Richard M. Daley said
the homes are an example of Chicago’s commitment to green technology, “as we strive to
make Chicago the greenest city in America.”
When completed, the homes will be open for
tours before they are sold as a way to educate
people about green building technology and
design. For additional information, go to www.
iit.edu/dbstudio.
Studio Associate Professor Martin Felsen’s UrbanLab won the Chicago competition for The
History Channel’s challenge to designers, architects and engineers from New York, Los Angeles
and Chicago to design The City of the Future.
UrbanLab’s project envisioned Chicago evolving into a model city for “growing clean water,”
recycling 100% of its own water, and, using a
series of new Eco-Boulevards, to connect and
enhance Chicago’s historic “Emerald Necklace”
of parks, boulevards and waterways.
The December 2006 issue of Metropolis magazine featured a story on Assistant Professor
John Ronan, the architect who designed Chicago’s new $30 million Gary Comer Youth Center. Author John Hockenberry called the building a “multitiered atrium of absolute magic,”
and said it was “an arresting, alluring mystery
by day…as modern as a contemporary art museum, it still manages to retain a casual human
scale.”
architectural events
September 12-16, 2007
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: February 15th, 2007
Go To: www.DCA07.org
for more information
International Conference on Sustainable
Urbanism
Call for Articles and Abstracts
“Squaring Off: A New Paradigm for Urban
Change”
Texas A&M University, 1-3 April, 2007
College of Architecture; Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Center
for Housing and Urban Development; Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program
You are invited to submit a paper for peer review presentation and publication in the conference proceedings, or an abstract for presentation only, to be presented at the 2007 International Conference on Sustainable Urbanism.
Topics include: Land; Energy; Water; Equity; Infrastructure; Globalization; Urban ecosystems;
Urban design; Technologies; Governance. Further instructions and information can be found
at: http://sustainableurbanism.tamu.edu or by
contacting Dr. Michael Neuman at neuman@
tamu.edu
Sustainable urbanists at Texas A&M are members of innovative learning and practitioner
communities that investigate and apply collaborative practices to design and plan sustainable
urban settlements that are livable, equitable,
energy efficient, ecologically sound, and prosperous.
Graham Foundation Announces the
Development of New Grant Guidelines
and Application Process
JANUARY 15, 2007 CYCLE SUSPENDED.
To increase the effectiveness of our grantmaking and our impact in architecture and allied
fields, the Graham Foundation is developing
new grant guidelines and an online application process. Each year the Foundation receives
hundreds of applications from individuals and
institutions throughout the world seeking project-based support.
The planned system upgrades will make the
application review process more efficient and
enable us to provide more support to funded
projects. In order to have sufficient time to implement these changes, we are suspending the
January 15, 2007 grant application deadline.
New guidelines will be announced in May 2007
in anticipation of a September 2007 application
deadline.
Time sensitive projects, defined as those that
will start and be completed between June and
December 2007, may be considered for out-ofcycle funding. If your project meets this criteria,
submit a letter of inquiry, maximum two pages,
that includes a project description, work plan,
and budget. The letter must be received by the
Foundation no later than January 31, 2007.
The Carter Manny Award program for doctoral
dissertations is not affected by this change and
the application deadline for the award remains
March 15, 2007.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Graham
Foundation with any questions at info@grahamfoundation.org or 312.787.4071.
NAAB Internship for Graduates 2007-2008
The National Architectural Accrediting Board,
Inc. (NAAB) is pleased to announce its 20072008 Internship for graduates interested in
careers in architecture and association service.
The NAAB is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture.
The Intern will report to the Associate Executive
Director with responsibilities to include general
office duties, maintenance of the self-perpetuating annual internship program, and special
projects. Applicants preferred to have a professional degree in architecture. The NAAB is of-
fering this internship as a salaried position with
an attractive benefits package including major
health and dental insurance and a stipend for
professional development. The internship is eligible for IDP credit in Category D, Training Area
16: Professional and Community Service. The
internship will begin on July 1, 2007, and last
for one year.
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For further information and the application,
visit the NAAB’s website at www.naab.org, or
contact Jennifer Kaltwasser at jkaltwasser@
naab.org. National Architectural Accrediting
Board, 1735 New York Ave, NW, Washington,
DC 20006. Tel: 202-783-2007. Fax: 202-7832822.
Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture
Rotterdam will be celebrating its architectural
culture in a grand way in 2007 under the title
Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture. This comprehensive festival will turn the spotlight onto
the city´s splendid architecture. Throughout the
year of 2007, Rotterdam will be a platform of
architectural interest in the form of exhibitions,
events, excursions and an audio tour of 40 architectural high-points.
In the Sites & Stories programme, 40 buildings
play star roles in a story of over one hundred
years of modern architecture. Sites & Stories
consists of an audio tour with original sounds
and stories from architects and users. The tour
around the 40 locations offers a new, surprising perspective on the city. Events ranging from
excursions to theatre productions will be organized in and around the individual buildings
The project Fire Limits commemorates the 1940
bombardment of Rotterdam. The entire city
centre was consumed in the bombing and the
firestorm that followed. The limits reached by
the conflagration correspond to the boundary
between old and new which is evident at many
places in the inner city. Hundreds of intense
beams of light will form a spectacular, dramatic
visualization of one of the most significant moments in the city’s history (14 May).
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POWER: Producing the Contemporary City is
the theme of the third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Curatorship of the Biennale is provided by the Berlage Institute. For
more than three months, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam will host exhibitions, lectures, debates
and conferences organized around this central
question: how and by whom is the contemporary city produced? (24 May to 2 September)
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) will
be organizing several exhibitions during Rotterdam 2007. In Luminous Buildings: Architecture
of the Night celebrates the architecture of light
(27 January to 6 May). Another production on
the NAI calendar is a major review exhibition
of Le Corbusier, which, besides his architectural
projects, will present furniture, paintings and
drawings by this influential architect (26 May
to 2 September).
AIR Foundation is organizing Keurmeester Revisited, a debate among guest specialists about
the state of play of architecture in Rotterdam.
In this updated version of the 1979 Keurmeester
project, three international architecture critics will express their opinions on over twenty
buildings and locations, which represent the
last thirty years of architecture and urban planning in Rotterdam (1 April to 31 October)
WiMBY! is a large-scale event dedicated to a
better, prettier and livelier future for the district of Hoogvliet. The opening of Heerlijkheid
Hoogvliet, a new leisure and recreational park,
will be a prominent feature of the festival (25
May to 1 June).
opportunities
Follydock Expo, an exhibition of architectural
follies, will take place in the dockland district
of Heijplaat. The selected fantastic structures
will appear between the harbour sheds, basins
and shipping containers, at locations scattered
around this urban peninsula (25 May to 30 August).
Annually recurring events such as Architecture
Day, Open Monuments Day, the Building Site
Festival, Rotterdam Builds and the new event
Skyscraper Week will take place within the context of the Year of Architecture in 2007.
A summary of the Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture programme can be found on www.
rotterdam2007.nl. The website also provides
practical information, image material and a link
to the Rotterdam 2007 newsletter.
SANCTIONING MODERNISM:
a symposium on post-WWII architecture
SANCTIONING MODERNISM will be a one-day
working symposium on modernism and identity in post-World War II architecture. A combination of doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, and
emerging or more established scholars, will
convene for three moderated panel discussions,
arranged by topic and working from papers circulated in advance. Dennis Doordan will present the keynote address, concluding the day’s
work and reflecting on themes pertinent to all
participants.
The World’s largest school of green
building
A revolution in green building education, see:
“Winter 2007 Classes and Workshops” at
www.sfia.net.
Ecological design is the fastest growing movement in the history of architecture and green
designers, consultants, and builders are needed
everywhere.
The San Francisco Institute of Architecture and
the new Berkeley Institute of Ecological Design
offer an extensive series of degree program
classes plus professional certification trainings.
Low-fee classes and workshops are open to
all and will now be offered continuously, yearround in Berkeley, California.
The three working sessions, addressing the appropriation of modernism in political, religious,
and domestic contexts, will take place at the UT
School of Architecture, Goldsmith Lecture Hall,
Goldsmith 3.120:
The program offers design, technical, and
hands-on training on EVERY aspect of architecture, green building, and ecological design
-- the most comprehensive program of its kind
in the world.
- Modernism and the State
- Making Religion Modern
- At Home with Modernism
Complete details on the first new courses are
at “Winter 2007 Classes and Workshops” at
www.sfia.net.
The Keynote Address will be held at the Harry
Ransom Center, in the Charles Nelson Prothro
Theater:
If you can’t get to Berkeley, see the Architecture
and Eco Design Distance Learning programs at
www.sfia.net.
Dennis Doordan
San Francisco Institute of Architecture
Berkeley Institute of Ecological Design
Information Office
Box 2590, Alameda, CA 94501
sfia@aol.com
sfiaBerkeleyEco@aol.com
1 800 634 7779
www.sfia.net
Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Art History and Design Professor, School of Architecture University of Notre Dame
The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition of complimentary architectural materials drawn from the collections of the Alexander
Architectural Archives. The exhibition will open
on 2 Mar, and will remain on view in the Architecture Library Reading Room, in Cass Gilbert’s
Battle Hall through April 2007.
For more information, see: http://soa.utexas.
edu/ sanctioningmodernism/
Questions? Write to the Graduate Students in
Architectural History office at the UT School of
Architecture: gsah@uts.cc.utexas.edu
The 12th National Conference on Planning
History
The Society for American City and Regional
Planning History (SACRPH) presents in cooperation with the Northern New England Chapter of
the American Planning Association (NNECAPA)
Portland, Maine Oct. 25-28, 2007
Jury: Brian Avery, Avery Associates; Yasmin
Sharrif, Dennis Sharp Associates; David Bonnett, David Bonnett Associates; Olga Popovic
Larsen, University of Sheffield; Steve Thompson,
Consultant Architect, Corus Construction Centre; Christopher Nash, Nicholas Grimshaw and
Partners; Ruth Slavid, Architects journal; Terry
Raggett, Robert Bird & Partners
The program committee welcomes proposals
for either individual papers or whole sessions
of two or three papers with comment. Submissions must include the following materials:
• a one-page abstract of each paper,
clearly marked with title and participant’s
name
• a one-page curriculum vitae for each
participant, including address, telephone,
and e-mail information
• (for individual papers) up to four key
words identifying the thematic emphases
of the work
Proposals must be sent by February 15,
2007 to sacrph@as.miami.edu with an attached file (preferably Word) that includes
the proposal and the c.v.s of all session
participants. Inquires may be directed
to Program Committee Co-Chairs Robin
Bachin at rbachin@miami.edu and Alison
Isenberg at aei@rci.rutgers.edu.
The Competition: The main purpose of this
competition is to give architectural students a
creative vehicle for learning about the use of
steel in buildings. By taking part you will have
the chance to explore the complex issues surrounding the theme of how to live with rising
water levels and the ever-present threat of
flood.
Corus Student Architects Competition
2006-7: H2Ouse
Sponsors: Steel Construction Institute (SCI),
the British Constructional Steelwork; Association Limited (BCSA) and The Architect’s Journal
Type: Open, European, student, ideas
Language: English
Timetable: 02 Feb 2007 - Inquiries deadline
23 Feb 2007 - Registration deadline
18 May 2007 - Submission deadline
27 Jun 2007 - Awards ceremony
Eligibility: The competition is open to all students registered in a school of architecture in
Europe that is recognised by the professional
body of that country. Both undergraduate
(equivalent to RIBA Part I) and postgraduate
(equivalent to RIBA PART II).
Awards: There will be a prize fund of £5000
for the winning schemes and an order of merit
will be indicated.
H2Ouse - living on the water: The challenge
is to design a housing type, utilising steel.
Whatever its form, H2Ouse will need to be accessible to a wide diversity of people of different ages and varying capabilities, that can happily co-exist with an unpredictable water level,
or is perhaps permanently on the water. You
may wish to consider that this type of dwelling could also be used for disaster relief, and
used anywhere in the world, so it might be easily demountable, or perhaps simply constructed
using local material and labour. In any respect
your design should not simply be a boat. The
community should have at least a zero impact
on the environment and, despite the ever-present threat of flood; water conservation should
also be a primary concern. But also consider
some of the romance of living on the water and
some of the freedoms from conventional forms,
which this affords.
Additional Information :
Ken Oliver
Corus Construction Centre / Swinden House
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
S60 3AR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1709 825584
ken.oliver@corusgroup.com
www.corusconstruction.com/csaa
Inventory of Design Resources for
Rebuilding The Gulf Coast
The Association for Community Design is currently working with the Pratt/NJIT/ACORN
Community Outreach Partnerships Centers to
explore ways in which our community design
network can effectively assist with, as well as
learn from, the rebuilding efforts in the Gulf
Coast, as well as to provide support to our
many of our members and affiliates within the
region.
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The collaborations will begin by sharing information. As many design centers use tools that
could meet or be modified to meet many of the
technical assistance and resource needs in the
Gulf Coast region. The survey is the first step in
facilitating information exchange, and will help
to identify the best resources for this and future
projects.
The survey is available online at:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.
zgi?p=WEB225PQSULQB4
$150K In Scholarships Available For
Hispanic Students To Study Abroad
A new program to provide $150,000 in study
abroad scholarships for Hispanic college students was announced today by William L. Gertz,
President and CEO of the American Institute For
Foreign Study (AIFS), and Dr. Antonio Flores,
President and CEO of the Hispanic Association
of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
The new AIFS-HACU program, announced at
HACU’s 20th Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, will provide scholarships of up to
50% of the full program fee to study at Richmond, the American International University in
London, England. The student will become part
of a special internship program where they will
be placed with an international company in
their field of interest to gain work experience.
The program is available during the summer
and both fall and spring semesters.
For additional information on the AIFS-HACU
scholarship program, visit www.aifsabroad.
com, e-mail college.info@aifs.com , or call
(800) 727-2437, ext. 5163
opportunities
Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history.
Particularly welcome are papers or complete
sessions addressing the planning of urban waterfronts; architecture, planning, and landscape
design in New England; historic preservation;
and studies that consider race, class, gender
and sexuality in planning. Papers presented at
the conference will be considered for the Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize (best paper in
North American colonial planning history) and
a Student Research Prize.
ACSANEWS february 2007
opportunities