where do you stand - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

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where do you stand - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
WHERE DO YOU STAND
99TH ACSA ANNUAL MEETING
MARCH 3-6, 2011 | MONTRÉAL, CANADA
CONTENTS
SPONSORS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
2
ACSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
3
INTRODUCTION
4
ANNUAL TOPIC CHAIRS
5
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
6
TOURS
7
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
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POSTER PRESENTERS
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REVIEWERS
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EXHIBITORS
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COMPETITION DISPLAYS
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HOTEL FLOOR PLAN
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SPONSORS
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is grateful for
the support and assistance of the following sponsors:
HOST SCHOOLS
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Tau Sigma Delta
GENERAL INFORMATION
Continuing Education
Selected CES Sessions will be available at the 99th ACSA Annual
Meeting. CES forms are located in your registration packet. CES forms
should be signed and turned in at the registration desk before leaving
the conference.
Badges
You must wear your badge throughout the conference to be admitted
into sessions. Please return your badge cover at the close of the meeting
to the registration desk for recycling. A $15 fee will be charged for
replacement badges.
Americans with Disabilities Act Statement
ACSA wishes to take those steps required to ensure no individual with
a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated, or otherwise
treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of
auxiliary aids or services. If you need any of the auxiliary aids or services
identified in the Americans With Disabilities Act in order to participate
in the conference, please communicate your needs to a member of the
ACSA staff.
Online Evaluation Form
You will be sent a link to complete an online evaluation survey after the
conference. Your opinions and program suggestions will help us plan for
future conferences. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey.
We greatly appreciate your feedback.
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ACSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
2010 - 2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Daniel Friedman, PhD, FAIA, University of Washington
VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT
Judith Kinnard, FAIA, Tulane University
PAST PRESIDENT
Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, University of Minnesota
TREASURER
Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, AIA, Florida International University
SECRETARY
Patricia Kucker, University of Cincinnati
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Phoebe Crisman, University of Virginia
WEST CENTRAL DIRECTOR
Gregory Palermo, FAIA, Iowa State University
NORTHEAST DIRECTOR
Brian Kelly, AIA, University of Maryland
EAST CENTRAL DIRECTOR
Gregory Luhan, AIA, University of Kentucky
WEST DIRECTOR
Mark Cabrinha, PhD, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
SOUTHWEST DIRECTOR
Ursula Emery McClure, AIA, LEED AP, Louisiana State University
CANADIAN DIRECTOR
Michael Jemtrud, McGill University
STUDENT DIRECTOR
Danielle McDonough, American Institute of Architecture Students
PUBLIC DIRECTOR
Judith Welch Wegner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Michael Monti, PhD, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
ACSA STAFF
Michael Monti, PhD, Executive Director
Eric Ellis, Project Manager
Jonathan Halpin, Conferences Manager
Pascale Vonier, Communications Manager
Mary Lou Baily, Development Manager
Kevin Mitchell, Administrative Assistant, Advertising Coordinator
Danielle Washington, Membership Coordinator
Where Do You Stand
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INTRODUCTION
WHERE DO YOU STAND
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Anne Cormier, Université de Montréal
Annie Pedret, University of Illinois at Chicago
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University
CONFERENCE THEME
The New York Times architecture critic, Nicolai Ourousoff has described Toyo Ito’s work as being the “next step on the evolutionary
chain,” calling out Ito’s belief that to create a human architecture it
“must somehow embrace seemingly contradictory values.” Ourousoff suggests that “instead of a self-contained utopia, [Ito] offers us
multiple worlds, driving in and out of focus like a dream,” embraces
ambiguity, is interested in the realm of the “in between,” and “forces
us to look at the world through a wider lens.” Ito, like many architects
who came to prominence in the past decade, aims to expand possibilities and, in doing so, to make room for a wider range of human
experience.
This demand for a wider agenda for modern architecture, introduced
to the discipline in the 1950s and followed by Postmodernism’s
demands for greater diversity, has left the discipline open—wide
open—perhaps too open. Free from the universalist, utopian confines
of Modernism, and working in an intellectual context that embraces
a more complex conception of contemporary reality, architects are
now not only free, but required to interpret and, indeed, choose their
position relative to this expanded field. With such choice comes the
responsibility to ask: Where Do You Stand?
The purpose of this conference is to provide a venue to articulate,
develop, and question where you stand with respect to your thinking
and doing in architecture.
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
This advancement shall be implemented through five primary means:
advocacy, annual program activities, liaison with collateral organiztions,
dissemination of information and response to the needs of member
schools in order to enhance the quality of life in a global society.
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PAPER SESSION TOPIC CHAIRS
After Text: Post-Linguistic Paradigms for Architecture
Jon Yoder, Syracuse University
Architecture as a Performing Art
Marcia Feuerstein, Virginia Tech
Gray Read, Florida International University
Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty
Benjamin Flowers, Georgia Institute of Technology
Architecture’s Expanded Territories
Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
Mason White, University of Toronto
Architecture’s Responsive Extensions
Kathy Velikov, University of Michigan
Back in the Box: Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death
Donald Kunze, Pennsylvania State University
Charles David Bertolini, Louisiana State University
Below the Radar: Informal Settlements and Disciplinary Reversals
Fernando Lara, University of Texas at Austin
The City is Dead - Long Live the City: Developing Future Models of the City
Udo Greinacher, University of Cincinnati
Critical Contextualism or, Others?
Georges Adamczyk, Université de Montréal
Critical Infrastructuralism: Design/Theory/Practice
Clare Lyster, University of Illinois at Chicago
Critical Pedagogies: Architectural Education after 1968
Colin Ripley, Ryerson University
Marco Polo, Ryerson University
Defending Abstraction: Experimental Cinema
and the Architectural Project
Thomas Forget, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Energy as a Spatial Project
Rania Ghosn, Harvard University
From Aristotle to Skateboarders: Roles of Hermeneutics in
Architecture
Rumiko Handa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hybridized Practices: Both the Analog and the Digital
Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University
Ron Dulaney, Jr., West Virginia University
Open Session
Deborah Fausch, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Cowherd, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Ornament, Identity and Memory
S. Faisal Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Quest for Perfection: Real, Super-Real, or Surreal?
Illya Azaroff, City University of New York
Gregory Marinic, Universidad de Monterrey
Subverting Methods of Digital Design
Christopher Beorkrem, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Technology and Human Desire
Bradley Horn, City College of New York
Jason Oliver Vollen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Textiles Reconstructed
Magdalena Garmaz, Auburn University
Water
Colin Ripley, Ryerson University
Where Do You Stand? What if I am on the Move?
Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
OPENING KEYNOTE
NASRINE SERAJI
ATELIER SERAJI ARCHITECTES & ASSOCIÉS
Nasrine Seraji founded Atelier Seraji in 1990. Formed by her early experience at London’s Architectural Association, she subsequently worked
in large architectural offices in England and the United States before
coming to France. Over the years, Seraji has pursued a path constantly
enriched by her simultaneous engagement in architectural practice,
teaching, and research. She directs the Institute of Art and Architecture
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as the École Nationale
Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Paris - Malaquais. Seraji has lectured
and exhibited widely in Europe, the United States, and Asia. In addition
to having written numerous essays and catalogues on architecture and
urbanism, she has been awarded the Médaille d’Argent de la Formation
by the French Academy of Architecture, and named Chevalier de l’Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in
France.
SATURDAY KEYNOTE
MASON WHITE
LATERAL ARCHITECTURE
Mason White has a B.Arch from Virginia Tech and an M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design. White
founded Lateral Office in 2002 in partnership with Lola Sheppard, and
is a founding Director of InfraNet Lab, an exploratory initiative launched
in 2008. He is the 2008-09 Arthur W Wheelwright Fellow from Harvard
Graduate School of Design for design research on Arctic occupation. In
2010, Lateral Office was selected for Emerging Voices Award from the
Architectural League of New York. He is an editor of the new journal
“Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture” published by Actar, and a co-author of “Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling” published
by Princeton Architectural Press, both in 2010.
TOPAZ KEYNOTE
LAWRENCE SPECK
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Lawrence Speck is professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been on the faculty since 1975. He
was dean of the School of Architecture from 1992-2001. Professor Speck
received all three of his degrees from M.I.T., where he was on the faculty from 1972-75. As an academic, Professor Speck has won numerous
awards, including both the Amoco Award and the Blunk Professorship,
both for outstanding undergraduate teaching. He has been a Fulbright
Senior Scholar and has written 40+ articles in professional journals and
other publications on art, architecture, engineering and design. Professor Speck also has a distinguished career as a practicing architect. His
buildings have garnered 28 design awards and have been published in
60+ articles in the U.S., Germany, England, Italy, Japan and Brazil. His
completed buildings include the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Austin
Convention Center. He is currently working on the Barbara Jordan Terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the Robert E. Johnson
Legislative Office Building and an extension to the Austin Convention
Center. In 1995 Professor Speck was elected a Fellow in the American
Institute of Architects.
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TOURS
All tours meet at hotel entrance. All tours are ticketed; see registration
desk for availability.
THURSDAY TOUR:
2:00PM-4:00PM
OLD PORT / OLD MONTRÉAL
One of Montréal’s most successful urban projects, the Old Port is linear
park, cultural venue and Montréalers’ window on the river.
FRIDAY TOURS:
10:00AM-12:00PM
QUARTIER INTERNATIONAL DE MONTRÉAL*
A ‘made-to-measure’ quartier, this neighborhood developed by area
property owners in partnership with government has repaired a hole in
the urban fabric and set new standards for coherent design.
2:00PM-4:00PM
QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES
A cultural district of public festival spaces linking perfomance venues is
under construction - a look at the project so far.
SATURDAY TOURS:
10:00AM-12:00PM
DOWNTOWN MONTRÉAL IN THE 1960S*
A visit to Montréal’s ‘ville intérieure’ that evolved from the the 1960s
mega-projects and today connects much of the downtown core.
2:00PM-4:00PM
LES MUSÉES: POINTE-À-CALLIÈRE
TO MONTRÉAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Montréal is a city of museums. From the archeological museum in Old
Montréal to the newest addition to the Museum of Fine Arts.
SUNDAY TOUR:
10:00AM-12:00PM
MONTRÉAL IN THE 1960S: HABITAT 67
TO WESTMOUNT SQUARE
Two of the quintessential 1960s projects on everybody’s list of must-see
buildings in Montréal.
*indicates walking tour. Don’t forget your warm clothes for these tours!
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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011
THURSDAY SESSIONS
TOUR
12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
ACSA REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
Promenade
2:00 PM - 04:00 PM
OLD PORT / OLD MONTRÉAL
05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
OPENING KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION* Université de Montréal
Faculté de l’aménagement
2940, chemin de la Côte Ste-Catherine
Room 1120
Keynote: Nasrine Seraji, Atelier Seraji Architects and Associés
*Please note that transportation will not be provided to Université
de Montréal. Attendees are encouraged to take Line 2-Orange in the
direction of Côte-Vertu to Station Snowdon. Transfer to Line 5-Blue in
the direction of Saint-Michel and exit at Station Université de Montréal
ACSA100 UPDATES
JAE 65:2 ACSA100 THEME VOLUME
BEGINNING DESIGN
EDITORS
MICHELANGELO SABATINO, UNIV. OF HOUSTON
BLAINE BROWNELL, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA
ELLEN GRIMES, SCHL OF THE ART INST. OF CHICAGO
SUBMISSION DEADLINE AUGUST 1, 2011
Beginnings produce a discontinuity with the past and the
present, and a contingent authority that limits and enables.
This call for papers, for the second issue of the JAE
ACSA100 volume, seeks scholarship that considers the
fraught optimism of the start up, in the broadest sense of
the term. We invite authors to submit scholarship of design
and design as scholarship manuscripts that engage the
notion of the beginning, and welcome work from a broad
range of perspectives, including historiography, criticism,
education, representation, fabrication, technology, and
design practice. For author instructions, please consult:
http://www.jaeonline.org/submission_guidelines.html.
READ MORE AT ACSA100.ORG/JAE
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
FRIDAY SESSIONS
07:00 AM - 06:00 PM
ACSA REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
Promenade
1:00 PM - 06:00 PM
ACSA EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
Fontaine Exhibition Hall
See page 34 for a listing of this years exhibitors
08:00 AM - 5:30 PM
ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
Fontaine E
The Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) will again
hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Conference. The Architecture Library of the Future will address the changing nature of architectural information services and resources. For
more information, visit the AASL website, architecturelibrarians.org.
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM
REGIONAL CAUCUS BREAKFAST
Southeast, Phoebe Crisman, U. of Virginia
Lasalle
West Central, Gregory Palermo, Iowa State U.
Côte-St-Luc
Northeast, Brian Kelly, U. of Maryland
Mont-Royal
East Central, Gregory Luhan, U. of Kentucky
Lachine
West, Mark Cabrinha, California Polytechnic State U. SLO
Verdun
Southwest, Ursula Emery McClure, Louisiana State U.
Hampstead
All attendees are invited to meet with your ACSA Regional Director to discuss
issues facing your school and raise issues for the ACSA Board of Directors.
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
ACSA BUSINESS MEETING Westmount Open to all attendees, this is the official business meeting for the ACSA.
Agenda items will include a report on ACSA’s finances, upcoming conferences, ACSA’s 100th anniversary, and other initiatives. ACSA members
also have the opportunity to raise new and other business. Faculty Councilors, please arrive 30 minutes early to register to vote for your school.
TOUR
08:30 AM - 12:30 PM
JAE GENERAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING (Private)
Portage
10:00 AM -12:00 PM
QUARTIER INTERNATIONAL DE MONTRÉAL
11:00 AM -11:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Fontaine Exhibit Hall
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
ARCHITECTURE’S RESPONSIVE EXTENSIONS
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
Moderator: Kathy Velikov, University of Michigan
In the 1960s a growing consciousness of the extended ecological interrelationships between media, humans, and buildings was being
explored by a various thinkers: Marshall McLuhan was exploring the
psychic and social consequences of human beings’ technological extensions – from the spoken word, to print media, clothing, vehicles,
and houses; the London-based cybernetitian, Gordon Pask was consulting on Price’s “Fun Palace” and developing ideas and prototypes
for how humans, devices, and their shared environments might be
able to coexist in mutually constructive relationships; Reyner Banham and Henri Lefebvre were both describing ideas of the house,
imaginarily stripped of its material solidity to reveal itself as a nexus
of streams of energy, services, information and environmental mediation apparatus.
“URBAN NERVE CENTRE” AND INFORMATION AS ACTIVITY: CEDRIC PRICE’S OXFORD CORNER HOUSE FEASIBILITY STUDY (1966)
Molly Steenson, Princeton University
SKIN DEEP: MAKING BUILDING SKINS BREATHE WITH SMART THERMOBIMETALS
Doris Kim Sung, University of Southern California
AFTER SEAM STRESS: PATTERNS OF PERFORMANCE
Matt Burgermaster, New Jersey Institute of Technology
THE ASCLEPIUS MACHINE: SPONTANEOUS GENETIC MUTATION
Robert Adams, University of Michigan
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES: ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AFTER 1968
Paper Session
Côte-St-Luc
Moderators: Colin Ripley, Ryerson University
Marco Louis Polo, Ryerson University
There is extensive literature devoted to the political dimension of the
upheavals of 1968, but there is a limited and fragmentary record of
their impact on architectural education, although they have profoundly
influenced subsequent attitudes toward architecture and urban planning that are still felt today. The papers in this session explore some
of the educational reforms emerging in the aftermath of the events of
1968 in an effort to better understand their implications for contemporary architectural education and praxis.
A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS
Lucie Fontein, Carleton University
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Anthony Schuman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
GIANCARLO DE CARLO AND THE QUESTION OF WHY
Lawrence Cheng, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
SAPERE AUDE!
Mireille Roddier, University of Michigan
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
DEFENDING ABSTRACTION: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA AND THE
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderator: Thomas Forget, University of North Carolina Charlotte
The papers in this session address cinema as a mode of inquiry into
critical issues of architectural and urban design. David Bertolini analyzes the work of Chris Marker and Stan Brakage in order to examine
the roles of movement and time in architectural space. Stephanie
Pilat considers representations of Italian Fascist architecture, in
particular through the experimental work of Kevin van Braak and
Rossella Biscotti. Jonathan Bell recounts his recent experiments on
incorporating cinema into a design studio pedagogy.
FLICKER: SPECULATIONS ON SPACE AND CINEMA
Jonathan Bell, Roger Williams University
OCCUPYING HISTORY: FILM, FASCISM, AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORK OF KEVIN VAN BRAAK AND ROSSELLA BISCOTTI
Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma
PROBABILISTIC SPACE IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE AVANT GARDE FILMS OF CHRIS MARKER AND STAN
BRAKHAGE
Charles Bertolini, Louisiana State University
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2010 NAAB REPORT ON ACCREDITATION IN
ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION
Lachine
Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director
During this workshop, the NAAB will present the results of its annual
analysis of the data submitted by architecture programs into the Annual Report Submission (ARS) System in the fall of 2010. In addition,
the NAAB will review the results of all accreditation decisions made
for the 2010 visit cycle and other significant activities during the year.
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR URBAN DESIGN
Verdun
Moderator: Mark Childs, University of New Mexico
Brief presentations by invited panel members of urban design students
learning objectives to prime a discussion. Attendees are encouraged to
bring a handout of student learning objectives that they use and a brief
outline of the theory/ approach/ goals behind them (e.g. a “catholic
approach” to urban design, or providing design skills to planners).
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: LEADERSHIP AND MENTORING
Special Focus Session
Lasalle
The ACSA Women’s Leadership Council will gather to discuss women’s
contributions to leadership in academic and professional settings, and
share approaches for mentoring current and future female faculty
members. The session will include conversation with a distinguished
leader who will contribute her or his perspective. Graduate students,
junior faculty, and colleagues who care about furthering opportunities
for women and supporting their success are especially encouraged
to attend. The meeting will conclude with some break out time for
impromptu mentoring.
TOUR
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION AWARDS LUNCH
Westmount
Please join us in celebrating your peers’ achievements and distinguished work, including a 20x20 presentation from the Faculty
Design and Collaborative Practice Award winners.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
THE IDP EDUCATOR COORDINATOR: A ROLE IN STUDENTS’ LIVES
Special Focus Session
Verdun
Moderator: Harry Falconer, Jr, NCARB Director
The role of an IDP Educator Coordinator is now a requirement of the
NAAB Conditions for Accreditation. What are the responsibilities of
this person? What does he or she need to know? What are available
resources? Who are the best faculty for this position? During this
presentation, participants will explore this position as well as bring
everyone up to date on changes to the IDP that impact your students
now and in the near future. As educators, you are developing the future
architects of the profession. Participation in this session will ensure
you have the knowledge to help them understand their opportunities
during and after campus life.
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
ARCHITECTURE AS A PERFORMING ART (1)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderator: Gray Read, Florida International University
Marcia Feuerstein, Virginia Tech
Urban life has long been compared to performance, as an on-going
drama. Theatre offers a creative window into the humanity of architectural design - the interaction of people and place. This panel considers
how performance can give voice to architecture, revealing its role in
the city through stories and spatial movement. Papers describe
performances that comment on architecture as well as collaborations
between students of architecture and theatre that open new territory
for creative experimentation in the space between design and action.
STAGING: SYNTHESIZING THE HUMAN CONTRIBUTION
Peter Goche, Iowa State University
SALVAGED LAYERS; A COLLABORATIVE SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
Timothy Gray, Ball State University
Melli Hoppe, Butler University
PERFORMING THEORIA FOR THE GOOD OF THE POLIS: AN ARCHITECTURAL ACT
Lisa Landrum, University of Manitoba
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
WRITING THE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM REPORT: A PRIMER
Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director
Lachine
Panelists: Cornelius DuBois, NAAB President
Keelan Kaiser, NAAB President-elect
This workshop is for anyone responsible for writing an Architecture
Program Report for a 2012 or 2013 NAAB visit. This session will cover
the basic outline of the APR, dates and deadlines for submitting it, top
tips for writing and formatting the APR, and a review of the NAAB’s
new web-based system for managing the submission, review, and
transmission of APRs.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
WATER
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
Moderator: Colin Ripley, Ryerson University
Water, in all its forms, has continually been a dominant factor in the
development of human inhabitations. However, if climate change
predictions are realized, the coming decades will see abrupt
changes to long-stable water systems. In one nightmare scenario,
melting glaciers will both raise sea-water levels, inundating cities, while simultaneously eliminating potable water sources for
millions of people. This session investigates architecture’s role in
coming to terms with, opposing, or simply identifying and documenting changes to our water systems.
HOME SPUN: WATER HARVESTING PREFAB URBAN HOUSING
Laura Garofalo, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Omar Khan, University at Buffalo, SUNY
URBAN WATER RE-INTRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE WATER CYCLES THROUGH URBAN AGRICULTURE
Gundula Proksch, University of Washington
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Jen Maigret, University of Michigan
Maria Arquero de Alarcon, University of Michigan
WHEN THE FAKE REPLACES THE REAL: HOW A MODEL CHANGED A RIVER
Kristi Dykema Cheramie, Louisiana State University
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
INTEGRATED METHODOLOGIES IN PRACTICE - WHAT EDUCATORS
SHOULD KNOW
Lasalle
Moderator: Daniel Friedman, University of Washington
Participants: Phillip Bernstein, Yale University
Renee Cheng, University of Minnesota
Carrie Sturts Dossick, University of Washington
For nearly a decade the profession has engaged problems related to
the emergence of information and virtual construction technologies
that effectively transform the dynamics of the production and performance of buildings. The best use of these tools and technologies
remains the subject of continuing debate and speculation; notwithstanding, the AEC industry is adopting them apace, with increasingly
newsworthy results. This session will explore the educational implications of integrated methodologies—design, practice, and project
delivery—including and especially the use of tools that foster greater
convergence and collaboration among the primary agents of building
production earlier in the design process. Panelists will report from
diverse perspectives on emerging digital technologies, industry trends,
and collaborative paradigms for architectural pedagogy.
SAVE THE DATE
Hollywood, CA 11/9-11/2011 • ACSA Administrators Conference
OLD SCHOOL/NEW
OL/NEW SCHOOL
Co-chairs: Norman Millar, Woodbury U
Margaret Crawford, U of California, Berkeley
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
WHERE DO YOU STAND? WHAT IF I AM ON THE MOVE? (1)
Paper Session
Côte-St-Luc
Moderator: Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Much of the scholarship dealing with the production and experience
of the built environment refers to the “sense of place.” Place-making
conceived of in this way is tethered to a particular location and its
grounded qualities. Place posits architecture as a site of human
activities and imagination. The term suggests that because a sense
of place is rooted in particular geography, culture, and lives, “places”
are unique. Yet much of our contemporary world is on the move.
People, goods, money and ideas flow incessantly across and between
geographies and cultures. This movement of bodies, things and capital
destabilizes our relationship to place.
Travel –bodies on the move – changes how we perceive the physical
world. Contemporary social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai
describes instability generated by this kind of mobility by perceiving a
world made of scapes or flows of people, money, images, technologies,
and ideas. This session examines how mobility informs and transforms
ways by which we map, remember and organize places.
“‘UNROOTING’ THE AMERICAN DREAM: EXILING THE ETHNOSPACE IN THE URBAN FRACTALITY OF MIAMI ”
Armando Montilla, Clemson University
EAST, BUT NOT TOO FAR EAST: ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICAL TRAVEL IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
Andreea Mihalache, Virginia Tech
INFRASTRUCTURAL CARTOGRAPHY: DRAWING THE SPACE OF FLOWS
Clare Lyster, University of Illinois at Chicago
SHARJAH: SEASCAPE URBANISM IN A KHALIJI PORT CITY
Samia Rab, American University of Sharjah
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
COLLEGE OF DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS ANNUAL MEETING (Private) Fundy
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK
Fontaine Exhibit Hall
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
ARCHITECTURE AS A PERFORMING ART (2)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderators: Gray Read, Florida International University
Marcia Feuerstein, Virginia Tech
Urban life has long been compared to performance, as an on-going
drama that is human, vulnerable and fleeting. This panel demonstrates how architecture defines urban events that recast the city
and its citizens as dramatic narratives. Papers describe buildings
that define positions for seeing and for being seen, inviting people to
participate in spontaneous dramas that suddenly turn to reflect on
themselves. Architectural moments of self-awareness reveal the
collusion between art and life, performance and the city.
‘OTHER BODIES’: TRANSLATING MEYERHOLD THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
Hazem Ziada, Southern Polytechnic State University
TURNED TABLES: THE PUBLIC AS PERFORMER
Beth Weinstein, University of Arizona
THE THEATER IN THE CITY—AN ARCHITECTURAL MIRROR GAME IN SABBIONETA
Ann Marie Borys, University of Washington
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
ASK THE NAAB
Lachine
Moderator: Andrea Rutledge, NAAB Executive Director
Panelists: Cornelius DuBois, NAAB President
Keelan Kaiser, NAAB, President-elect
This will be an open, scheduled time for program administrators,
individual interested in serving on visiting teams, and others to visit
with NAAB leaders and to ask specific questions about NAAB visits,
team preparation, report writing, the ARS, plans for the next accreditation review conference, or general operations. The session will be
free-flowing and interactive. All are welcome.
Where Do You Stand
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
ARCHITECTURE’S EXPANDED TERRITORIES
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
Moderators: Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
Mason White, University of Toronto
In Rosalind Krauss’s 1979 essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,”
Krauss observed that the practice of sculpture had been obscured
and could only qualify itself in opposition to architecture and landscape. Krauss identifies three additional practices of sculpture that
sculpture had previously been burdened with and names them “siteconstruction,” marked sites,” and “axiomatic structures.” Taking up
a similar cause in 2004, Anthony Vidler offered emergent practices
for “Architectures Expanded Field,” by arguing that “underlying the
new architectural experimentation is a serious attempt to reconstrue
the foundations of the discipline, not so much in singular terms, but
in broader concepts that acknowledge an expanded field, while seeking to overcome the problematic dualisms that have plagued architecture for over a century: form and function, historicism and abstraction, utopia and reality, structure and enclosure.”
LA DEFENSE: FROM AXIAL HIERARCHY TO OPEN SYSTEM
Nicholas Roberts, Woodbury University
ON VS. ABOUT
Neyran Turan, Rice University
SOFT SITES, FOUR CASE STUDIES ON THE MIDDLE BRANCH
Fred Scharmen, Morgan State University
Eric Leshinsky, Morgan State University
SPHERES, DOMES, LIMITS, INTERFACES: THE TRANSGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE OF BIOSPHERE 2
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
WHERE DO YOU STAND? WHAT IF I AM ON THE MOVE? (2)
Paper Session
Côte-St-Luc
Moderators: Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Manu Sobti, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Much of the scholarship dealing with the production and experience
of the built environment refers to the “sense of place.” Place-making
conceived of in this way is tethered to a particular location and its
grounded qualities. Place posits architecture as a site of human
activities and imagination. The term suggests that because a sense
of place is rooted in particular geography, culture, and lives, “places”
are unique. Yet much of our contemporary world is on the move.
People, goods, money and ideas flow incessantly across and between
geographies and cultures. This movement of bodies, things and capital
destabilizes our relationship to place.
Travel –bodies on the move – changes how we perceive the physical
world. Human geographer, Tim Cresswell theorizes that material,
human and capital forms of mobility influence cultural values and
practices. This session examines how mobility impacts the way we
build homes and locate ourselves in this world.
ARCHITECTURE ON THE MOVE: TOWARDS A THEORY OF REPLACING
Jennifer Johung, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
FORCED NOMADISM AND “FROZEN TRANSIENCE”: ROMA MOBILITIES IN ROME TODAY
Karen Bermann, Iowa State University
MOVEMENT HAS STANCES TOO; OR THE TERRIBLY TRUE TALE OF AN EMIGRE, A MOBILE HOME AND HOW (THE) MOVEMENT GOT FIXED
Dora Epstein Jones, SCI-Arc
THE BP DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER: ZOMBIE HOUSING FOR NOMADS
Stephen Verderber, Clemson University
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99th ACSA Annual Meeting
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
TEACHING TEACHERS TO TEACH: COLLABORATIVE PLAYBOOKS Special Focus Session Lasalle
Participants: Frances Bronet, University of Oregon
Robert Dunay, Virginia Tech
Thomas Fowler, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, Hampton University
This session will focus on sharing collaborative playbooks that work,
and ones that fail. The panel will describe their personal experiences
with teachable moments in the classroom, and how they adjust their
teaching strategies or approaches to providing content to the students’ changing needs [to students]. The panel will [also] engage the
audience in a discussion on how to develop, maintain, and, sometimes, shift focus in the classroom to deal with opportunities or problems that come up in the learning environment.
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
BEGIN AGAIN: SELECTED PAPERS FROM 2010 NCBDS
Verdun
Special Focus Session
Moderator: Jeffrey Balmer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Presentation of selected papers from the 2010 National Conference
on the Beginning Design Student.
THE COST OF MAKING IT
Michael Zebrowski, Morgan State University
THINK/MAKE & MAKE/THINK
Matthew Brehm, University of Idaho
THE RESURRECTION OF NIGHT
Brian Ambroziak, University of Tennessee Andrew McLellan, University of Tennessee
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
ACSA AWARDS PLENARY: TOPAZ PRESENTATION AND NOMINATED
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Westmount
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All are invited to attend this Keynote Presentation by the 2011 ACSA/AIA
Topaz Laureate along with presentations by this year’s Distinguished
Professors and the New Faculty Teaching Awardees.
07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
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SATURDAY SESSIONS
09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
ACSA REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
Promenade
10:30 AM - 06:30 PM
ACSA EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
Fontaine Exhibition Hall
See page 34 for a listing of this years exhibitors
07:30 AM - 09:00 AM
DESIGN FUTURES COUNCIL INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATE BREAKFAST
Lasalle
08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
Fontaine E
The Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) will again
hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the ACSA Annual Conference. The Architecture Library of the Future will address the changing
nature of architectural information services and resources. For more
information visit architecturelibrarians.org.
08:30 AM - 12:30 PM
JAE DESIGN COMMITTEE MEETING (Private)
Portage
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
ENERGY AS A SPATIAL PROJECT
Mont-Royal
Moderator: Rania Ghosn, Boston University
The creation of value in energy regimes has long internalized benefits
to urban centers and externalized costs to the periphery and invisible.
Whether from a historical, contemporary, or speculative perspective,
the papers examine the spatial conditions of energy systems in an
attempt to locate design’s agency in relation to debates on technology, politics, nature, organization, and scale. The panel addresses the
question: What potentialities do practices of architecture, urbanism,
and landscape carry in embodying “alternative” energy spatialities?
ARCHITECTS’ PRECIPITATE CLAIM OF EMISSIONS INFLUENCE
Nathan Richardson, Oklahoma State University
DIGITAL MACHINES TEACH BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BALANCE IN ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN
Justin Taylor, Mississippi State University
SHIFTING INFRASTRUCTURES
Marianna de Cola, University of Waterloo
Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
TOMORROW’S HOUSE: SOLAR ENERGY AND THE SUBURBAN TERRITORIAL PROJECT, 1938-1947
Daniel Barber, Harvard University
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN DESIRE (1)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderators: Bradley Horn, City College of New York
Jason Vollen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
While architects are infamous abusers of the term crisis, there can
be little doubt we are in one today. Despite the fact that our ecological predicament has inspired designers to focus more attention
on the social good, it has also produced a seemingly inescapable
strain of pragmatism within the profession. Add to that the collapse of the financial system and what you have is a recipe for either blatant instrumentality on one hand, or unbridled escapism on
the other. Under these circumstances technology is either blamed
for the damage wrought upon the environment or touted as a cureall for it. From this polarizing position there is little ground for
productive exchange regarding the relationship between technology and human agency. Computational architects are rarely seen
kibitzing at the water cooler with those who teach the history of the
Renaissance. Yet this conversation seems increasingly necessary
if we are to reformulate the ethical implications of architecture in
the twenty first century.
DISCREET MACHINES OF DESIRE: FROM EDWARD BERNAYS TO ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
David Gersten, Cooper Union
EMPTY FIGURES
Michael Silver, Mike Silver, Architects
ENACTING TRANSCENDENCE: DESIGN THEN AND NOW
Kristina Luce, University of Michigan
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99th ACSA Annual Meeting
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
ARCHITECTURE IN AN EXPANDED FIELD
Lachine
Moderator: Annie Pedret, University of Illinois at Chicago
Participants: Daniel Friedman, University of Washington
Sarah Dunn, University of Illinois at Chicago
Clare Lyster, University of Illinois at Chicago
Paula Palombo, Extension Gallery, Chicago
Elva Rubio, University of Illinois at Chicago
This panel is a report from the discipline of architecture of practices
that knead, stretch, twist, disrupt, or rupture the field as we know it,
creating what Roslind Krauss described as the “expanded field” in her
essay about postmodern sculpture in 1985. In particular, this session
examines practices that create new sets of possibilities while remaining rooted in the conditions and “given logical spaces” of the very
field they are restructuring. This panel cuts curatorial, pedagogical,
professional, discursive, and institutional sections through the field
of architecture to examine the differently structured possibilities that
may be emerging at this periphery. Panelists will make short introductory statements about the intentions, methods, and motivations of
their practices, and state the possibilities they perceive to be unfolding
within this expanded field from their very particular, but expansively
engaged vantage points.
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATORS’ SOCIETY
Verdun
Special Focus Session
Moderator: Ryan Smith, University of Utah
The Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) is an organization
of architectural educators, passionate about the technology of building
design and construction. The mission of the BTES is to promote and
publish the best pedagogic practices, relevant research, scholarship,
and other creative activity to facilitate student learning, advance innovation, and enhance the status of our disciplines in the profession
at large. This special session will offer new members an introduction
to the organization, its benefits, and information on the upcoming
conference in Toronto summer of 2011. The session will then offer
interactive panel discussions on building technology and building science research and teaching methods (strategies and tactics).
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
OPEN (1)
Côte-St-Luc
Paper Session
Moderator: Deborah Fausch, University of Illinois at Chicago
BUILT ENVIRONMENTS LABORATORY: PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIO TEACHING
Gundula Proksch, University of Washington
Ken Yocom, University of Washington
THE ALEATORIC STUDIO: EMBRACING CHANCE AND RISK IN FIRST-YEAR DESIGN
Fran Leadon, City College of New York
TOUR
WHAT’S NEXT FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY? SUSTAINABILITY
AND THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY SURVEY
Vandana Baweja, University of Florida
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DOWNTOWN MONTRÉAL IN THE 1960s
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Fontaine Exhibit Hall
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
OPEN (2)
Côte-St-Luc
Paper Session
Moderator: Deborah Fausch, University of Illinois at Chicago
AN ARCHITECT’S EMBRACE: RENOVATING THE SACRED HOUSE THROUGH RHETORIC
Gul Kale, McGill University
MISPRISION OF PRECEDENT: DESIGN AS CREATIVE MISREADING
David Rifkind, Florida International University
“CHANGE OVER TIME: THE IRWIN MILLER HOUSE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BALTHAZAR KORAB”
John Comazzi, University of Minnesota
Where Do You Stand
17
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
JUDGING ARCHITECTURE AFTER ARCHITECTURAL JUDGEMENT
Special Focus Session
Lachine
Moderator: Anne Cormier, Université de Montréal
Participants : Jean-Pierre Chupin, Université de Montréal
Louis Martin, Université du Québec à Montréal
Denis Bilodeau, Université de Montréal
Jacques Lachapelle, Université de Montréal
Can we judge by design? What is judging in the context of heritage
conservation? How do we judge by precedents in the studio? Is theorizing judging? This panel discussion offers an opportunity to evaluate
the role of judgment in architectural practice, pedagogy and criticism.
Short presentations of current research work conducted by four
scholars, all members of the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (L.E.A.P) at the Université de Montréal will initiate an informal
conversation on the legacy of late Peter Collins’seminal work on “Architectural Judgement”(1971) which, in spite of its specific viewpoint,
has been barely challenged in contemporary architectural discourse.
As the L.E.A.P lab is one of the rare research teams specialized on
the study of architectural competitions, the discussion will inevitably
raise significant issues related to improving the jury’s deliberation
process within a context of the architectural competition, as well as
the need to archive and digitalize what can be termed the “potential
architecture” of non-built projects. Both these issues take a special
significance in our current virtual-oriented cultures.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
This session invites papers proposing divergent directions for architecture in light of the present economic instability. Papers that thoughtfully critique the professional and disciplinary conditions nurtured in
the past twenty years of illusory and lopsided prosperity and suggest
new directions for the field are also welcome. The crumbling of gilded
ages in the past afforded architecture a moment of self-reflection; this
panel seeks answers to the question of just what architecture could
be like in this present age of uncertainty.
FASTER BETTER CHEAPER: ASPIRING ARCHITECTS TAKE A STAB AT THE MODULAR BUILDING INDUSTRY
Margarette Leite, Portland State University
MARGINS REINVIGORATING THE CORE
Brook Muller, University of Oregon
MONEY-TECTURE…OR HOW ARCHITECTURE IS EXPLOITED BY CAPITALISM
William Mangold, IV, Pratt / City University of New York
ON ENTERPRISING ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDST OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY
Nathan Richardson, Oklahoma State University
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN DESIRE (2)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderators: Bradley Horn, The City College of New York
Jason Vollen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
While architects are infamous abusers of the term crisis, there
can be little doubt we are in one today. Despite the fact that our
ecological predicament has inspired designers to focus more attention on the social good, it has also produced a seemingly inescapable strain of pragmatism within the profession. Add to that
the collapse of the financial system and what you have is a recipe
for either blatant instrumentality on one hand, or unbridled escapism on the other. Under these circumstances technology is
either blamed for the damage wrought upon the environment or
touted as a cure-all for it. From this polarizing position there is
little ground for productive exchange regarding the relationship
between technology and human agency. Computational architects are rarely seen kibitzing at the water cooler with those who
teach the history of the Renaissance. Yet this conversation seems
increasingly necessary if we are to reformulate the ethical implications of architecture in the twenty first century.
COMPUTING THE PARANOID CRITICAL
Antonio Furgiuele, City College of New York + Pratt Institute
IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY ALWAYS
Susan Molesky, Dalhousie University
PERSPECTIVE SHIFT
Cathrine Veikos, University of Pennsylvania
BECAUSE TECHNIQUE IS OURSLEVES
Kiel Moe, Northeastern University
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99th ACSA Annual Meeting
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
POSTER SESSION LUNCH
Fontaine Exhibit Hall
Take time to view accepted posters and have one-on-one discussions
with the authors. See page 31 for a list of authors.
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
FIELD ROTATIONS
Lasalle
Moderator: Robert Somol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Participants: Monica Ponce de Leon, University of Michigan
Michael Speaks, University of Kentucky
Sarah Whiting, Rice University
Three recently appointed deans extend their discussions at the
2010 West Central Fall Conference about surprising practices in
design education and how-to advice on counter-intuition and design
intelligence.
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
AFTER TEXT: POST-LINGUISTIC PARADIGMS FOR ARCHITECTURE
Paper Session
Mont-Royal
Moderator: Jon Yoder, Syracuse University
As architecture emerges from the Postmodern period in which
linguistic models and analogies infamously dominated design and
theory, other cultural forces are asserting themselves. Indeed, contemporary architectural culture is composed of diverse agendas that
posit potentially productive alternatives to the linguistic paradigms
of the past decades. This session specifically explores the implications of disruptive ecologies, critical realism, projective materialities, and hegemonic scientism for the field of architecture after
textuality and in the welcome presence of multiple paradigms. As
architecture emerges from the Postmodern period in which linguistic models and analogies infamously dominated design and theory,
other cultural forces are asserting themselves. Indeed, contemporary architectural culture is composed of diverse agendas that posit
potentially productive alternatives to the linguistic paradigms of the
past decades. This session specifically explores the implications of
disruptive ecologies, critical realism, projective materialities, and
hegemonic scientism for the field of architecture after textuality and
in the welcome presence of multiple paradigms.
ARCHITECTURES OF BENEFICIAL DISTURBANCE
Brook Muller, University of Oregon
REALISM UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Maria Gonzalez-Pendas, Columbia University
THE PRODUCTIVE FORCE OF MATERIALITY: THREE VIEWS OF A GENERATIVE DEVICE
Mark Weston, University of South Florida
Shannon Bassett, University of South Florida
Levent Kara, University of South Florida
SCIENTISM: THE BREEDING GROUND FOR CURRENT
ARCHITECTURAL TRENDS - OR - TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURAL MONOCULTURE
Amy Kulper, University of Michigan
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
OPEN (3)
Côte-St-Luc
Paper Session
Moderator: Robert Cowherd, Wentworth Institute of Technology
ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD RISK SOCIETY
Kiel Moe, Northeastern University
BODY BUILDING: PAUL PFEIFFER’S VITRUVIAN FIGURE
Nora Wendl, Portland State University
FOLLOWING THE BERLIN WALL
Elizabeth Golden, University of Washington
MODERNITY WITHOUT MODERNITY
Brendan Moran, Syracuse University
Where Do You Stand
19
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
HYBRIDIZED PRACTICES: BOTH THE ANALOG AND THE DIGITAL
Paper Session
Hampstead
Moderators: Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University
Ron Dulaney Jr., West Virginia University
Nearly thirty years after the introduction of computational technologies into architectural production, the roles that hand drawing
and digital media should have in practice and education are still
contentiously debated. Enabled by digital media, architects are developing new design paradigms after centuries of disciplinary tradition and inertia founded in methods of hand drawing – especially
those associated with orthographic projection. Yet hand drawing
persists. Sketching continues to be valued by both academics and
practitioners, and hand drafting continues to be practiced regularly in the academy. With the possibility of hindsight and a developed facility of both media, perhaps now is an opportune moment
to assess how these media affect and define architecture’s unique
disciplinarity. Can suppositions about media be validated or discredited? Does hand drawing better enable ambiguity, a condition
often viewed as a necessary during the process of design? How
does the discipline respond to the diversity of media available to it?
How does this diversity of media affect the work produced and the
way architecture is practiced?
ARCHITECTURAL FRACTURES: COMPUTATION AND FORM IN THE WORK OF LE CORBUSIER AND JOHN HEJDUK
Zachary Porter, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
DRAWING TOWARDS A MORE CREATIVE ARCHITECTURE, MEDIATING BETWEEN THE DIGITAL AND THE ANALOG
Jacob Brillhart, University of Miami
STRESS-CRAFTING: INTERWEAVING DIGITAL DEXTERITY AND MANUAL INTELLIGENCE
Robert Corser, University of Washington
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
ORNAMENT, IDENTITY AND MEMORY
Verdun
Paper Session
Moderator: S. Faisal Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Just as neither Rome nor cathedrals were built in a day, personal
edification—the pedagogical practice of ornamenting one’s mind—
was considered incremental and deliberate, occupying the span
of one’s life. As a result, traditional meanings (or more precisely,
the uses) of ornamental “style” in personal manners and design
may appear unfamiliar to our backward glance. Renaissance humanists of the late fifteenth century believed personal habits to
influence social relations and, by extension, the urbane fabric of
buildings and the city. Ornamental style was not evaluated by such
historicizing categories as baroque, modernist, or postmodern;
rather, architectural ornament offered provisions for thought, supplying the imagination with rhetorical figures of expression. While
ancient Greeks were mindful of kairos (occasion), Romans were
keenly aware of decorum, by which the figures and ornaments of
an oration were tuned to a specific audience in a selected setting
for a particular occasion. If thoughts are birds, as Socrates and
many others have held, where would they perch?
ARCHITECTURE AND SEXUALITY: DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTIONS
Nicholas Pettit, Miami University
EXCAVATING MINUTIA: IDENTITY, MEMORY AND INTERSTITIAL SPACE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Tanu Sankalia, University of San Francisco
MAPPING, MEMORY AND FRAGMENTED REPRESENTATION
Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
TOUR
ORNAMENTAL EXCESS: RHYTHMIC MEMORY AND THE DIGITAL NOUVEAU
Eric Goldemberg, Florida International University
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
LES MUSÉES: POINTE-À-CALLIÈRE TO MONTRÉAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
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SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
JAE BEYONE PRECEDENT
Verdun
Special Focus Session
Moderator: Saundra Weddle, Drury University
Respondent: Marc Neveu, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Participants: Martin Bressani, McGill University
Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alberto Peréz-Gómez, McGill University
“Beyond Precedent,” the issue 64:2 (March 2011) of the Journal of
Architectural Education, is dedicated to the subject of interrogating and
re-conceiving the relationship between history and design. The issue’s
co-editors called for papers that proposed and analyzed progressive
methods and goals for the integration of architectural history in the
professional architecture curriculum and practice. Looming large
in many of the submissions was the debate between Bruno Zevi and
Manfredo Tafuri, between operative history and criticism and a notion of history as an autonomous discipline. This panel will discuss
the question of how designers and historians can cultivate a more
meaningful connection to the past in order to move beyond it.
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
Fontaine Exhibit Hall
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
BACK IN THE BOX: DIASTOLIC ARCHITECTURE OF DECLINE,
DYSTOPIA, AND DEATH
Verdun
Paper Session
Moderators: Charles Bertolini, Louisiana State University
Donald Kunze, Pennsylvania State University
World capitalist economies alternate between expansion and contraction. Architecture, traditionally “systolic,” also fantasizes about its own
collapse. Contraction, (dis)embodied in “marginal” projects as well
as the rhetoric of survival and sustainability, re-enact architecture’s
primitive relations to death and sacrifice. This session explores the
historic, contemporary, subjective and objective aspects of architecture, when it’s time to put architecture “back in the box.”
IMMURED: THE UNCANNY SOLIDITY OF SECTION
Paul Emmons, Virginia Tech
MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND ASCETICISM
Didem Ekici, University of Nottingham
ON THE BATTLE FOR THE AFTERLIVES OF POST-MORTEM ARCHITECTURE
Dennis Maher, University at Buffalo, SUNY
POSTMORTEM: BUILDING DESTRUCTION
Kazi Ashraf, University of Hawaii at Manoa
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
FROM ARISTOTLE TO SKATEBOARDERS: ROLES OF HERMENEUTICS
IN ARCHITECTURE
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
Moderator: Rumiko Handa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
For some time now architects have operated with the notion that the
building is finished when the construction is complete. Similarly, architectural criticism often focuses on the architect’s intention and
how it has been met by design and execution, while architectural
history explains a building through the sociocultural context of the
original construction. With sustainable design we now seem willing to examine our work based on its performance. We may also be
ready to conceive architecture from the viewpoint of participatory interpretation, in which architecture is a way for the viewers and inhabitants to gain an understanding of the world and the self. Four papers
represent the wide range of possibilities in epistemology, pedagogy
and design practice, and demonstrate transdisciplinary approaches
incorporating philosophy, liberal arts and cultural geography.
DOUBLE OPERATIVE
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Pratt Institute
OSCILLATING BETWEEN ART AND EQUIPMENT:
A HERMENEUTICS OF SUSTAINABILITY
Karen Cordes Spence, Drury University
PUTTING THE “HERMES” BACK IN HERMENEUTICS: DESIGNING WITH THE HELP OF HEIDEGGER’S GODS.
Randall Teal, University of Idaho
TOWARD PARTICIPATORY INTERPRETATION: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES OF ARCHITECTURE
Angela Person, University of Oklahoma
Where Do You Stand
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SCHEDULE BY THEME
TH
FR
5:00-7:30 OPENING KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION
8:00-11:00 REGIONAL CAUCUSES AND BUSINESS MEETING
11:30-1:00
ENERGY
DRAMA
INSTRUCTION
PS |
ARCHITECTURE’S
RESPONSIVE
EXTENSIONS
PS | DEFENDING
ABSTRACTION
PS | CRITICAL
PEDAGOGIES
1:00-2:30 ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION AWARDS LUNCH
2:30-4:00
4:30-6:00
PS | WATER
PS |
ARCHITECTURE
AS A PERFORMING
ART (1)
PS | WHERE DO
YOU STAND? WH
IF I AM ON THE
MOVE? (1)
PS |
ARCHITECTURE’S
EXPANDED
TERRITORIES
PS |
ARCHITECTURE
AS A PERFORMING
ART (2)
PS | WHERE DO
YOU STAND? WH
IF I AM ON THE
MOVE? (2)
6:00-7:30 ACSA AWARDS PLENARY: TOPAZ PRESENTATION A
8:30-10:00 COLLEGE OF DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS DINNER
SA
CIRCUITRY
9:00-10:30
11:00-12:30
PS | ENERGY
AS SPATIAL
PROJECT
PS | TECHNOLOGY
AND HUMAN
DESIRE (1)
PS | OPEN (1)
PS |
ARCHITECTURE
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THE
ACSA100 UPDATES
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
THREE CENTURIES OF
EDUCATING ARCHITECTS IN
NORTH AMERICA
EDITORS
JOAN OCKMAN WITH REBECCA WILLIAMSON
PUBLISHER
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LEXICON EXCERPTS
AVAILABLE IN THE ACSA NEWS AND ONLINE
HISTORICAL CHAPTER 1:
Architectural Education before 1860, Dell Upton
...Addressing the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects in the early 1880s, president Thomas U.
Walter complained that “a large portion of the field is occupied by uneducated, unskilled, and immature practitioners,
whose only passport to the patronage of the Public is the
assumption of the appellation Architect.” Walter called on
Institute members “to prevent, as far as practicable, empiricism in Architecture, by a wide diffusion of the principles
which constitute it a fine art, and by awakening an interest
in the sciences which underlie it. . . . He who attempts to
practice architecture without a general knowledge of the
elements of nature, and of the sciences which develop their
properties, and their purposes, and who has never had a
special training, in the office of an experienced practitioner
of the art, is not prepared to discharge the onerous duties of
an Architect whatever may be his scholastic acquirements,
or his mechanical skill.”
Walter recommended that aspiring architects prepare “by
First pursuing a course of Architectural training in a Technical college, embracing Mathematics, line drawing, to scale,
mechanical drawings, and linear perspective. – A foundation
thus laid, if well laid would be a proper preparation for entering an architect’s office as a student of the profession; he
would there find ample sources of information in art; ample
opportunities to practice in drawing, and incentives for devoting himself to the acquirement of an Architectural education, which, if thoroughly attained would eventually put
him in the front rank of the Profession.” Although nearly two
decades had passed since the first university-based architectural school had opened, Walter, a passionate advocate
of professionalization, offered a model of education similar
to his own nearly sixty years earlier, an education that had
enabled him, a bricklayer, to assume “the appellation Architect.”
Architectural education – or more precisely, architectural knowledge – was plentiful, varied, and widely available
before the establishment of the first collegiate schools of
architecture in the United States. This knowledge was disseminated in a limited number of ways that were accessible to everyone involved in building, whether they called
themselves builders or architects. Nevertheless, before 1860
architectural education was inseparable from evolving conceptions of architecture and the nature of design. The very
definition of the architect was in play...
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SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
TAU SIGMA DELTA HONOR SOCIETY MEMBER MEETING
Fundy
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
TEXTILES RECONSTRUCTED
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderator: Magdalena Garmaz, Auburn University
The advances in architectural technology and material research in
the past decade, have given us an opportunity to re-examine Gottfried Semper’s belief that textiles were first architecture. While
Semper’s premise remains difficult to prove, it is clear that today,
textiles are playing significant role in our understanding of architecture as a complex material, structural and aesthetical system. Textiles are defined by their softness, pliability, warmth, layering, flexibility and adaptability; they suggest proximity to body, and necessity
for interaction– a dynamic, rather than static condition. Weaving
has been the most common production process associated with
textiles, and its adaptability to the digital technology is remarkable
-but felting, lace-making, and quilting are also finding their way into
the architectural application as well. The notion of craft embedded
into these processes highlights number of important questions for
contemporary designers –the ones of skill, individuality, machine/
hand relationship, values, and economy, to name just a few.
NEGLECTED VALUES: TEACHING TEXTILE TECTONICS WITH NON-WESTERN DESIGN PRECEDENTS
Suzanne Frasier, Morgan State University
RE-ENVISIONING THE KNOT
Bruce Wrightsman, Montana State University
RESPONDING WITH THE DRAPE: EFFICIENCY AND EXUBERANCE IN ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE FABRIC REINFORCED COMPOSITE PANELS
Laura Garofalo, University at Buffalo, SUNY
David Hill, North Carolina State University
SOFT FABRIC(ATION)S: BETWEEN THE DIGITAL AND THE MATERIAL
Igor Siddiqui, University of Texas at Austin
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
THE CITY IS DEAD - LONG LIVE THE CITY: DEVELOPING FUTURE
MODELS OF THE CITY
Côte-St-Luc
Paper Session
Moderator: Udo Greinacher, University of Cincinnati
According to Marc Angélil “The traditional City has come to an end.”
In Europe, the opposition of town and country that has defined the city
since its emergence four thousand years ago was challenged when
the razing of walls eroded the distinction between the space of culture and the space of nature. In the United States, sprawling polycentric and web-like settlement patterns have replaced the traditional
notion of the city as a historical and institutional core surrounded
first by suburbs and then by open countryside. In a time when infrastructures are becoming more important than structures, and the
flow of materials and information is becoming more significant than
static political and spatial boundaries, traditional planning methods
are unlikely to succeed. As the emphasis shifts away from the design
of enclosed objects, the design and manipulation of larger surfaces
will move to the forefront. What will replace the typical hierarchical
parameters of urban design: control, optimization, predictability, and
comprehensibility? Will urban space no longer be structured according to predefined rules but be treated as an evolving product catering
to diverse interest groups? Will new parameters such as adaptability, capacity for development, resistance, boundlessness, and novelty
become the new design mantra?
A MODEL TO UNDERSTAND URBAN RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: STRUCTURAL INERTIA
George Hallowell, III, North Carolina State University
SUPER”SEEDING” A TERRESTRIAL ROOM
John Folan, Carnegie Mellon University
THE URBAN QUANTA:LOCALITY AND MARGINALITY IN THE CITY
Lora Dikova, Miami University
TOWN AND COUNTRY; SPECULATIONS ON A HYBRID
Michael McClure, University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Ursula Emery McClure, Louisiana State University
Where Do You Stand
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SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
BRIDGING THE GAP: ARCHITECTURAL INTERNSHIPS IN PUBLIC
SERVICE
Lachine
Special Focus Session
Moderator: Georgia Bizios, North Carolina State University
Panelists: Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota
Davis Perkes, Mississippi State University
John Quale, University of Virginia
Katie Wakeford, North Carolina State University
The architectural profession has a proud tradition of public service.
Unfortunately, the current levels of outreach and advocacy are insufficient in the face of problems such as the shortage of affordable housing,
destruction by natural disasters, and the environmental toll of our built
environment. There have been increased efforts at the university level
to prepare future architects for public engagement. Private firms are
also reinvesting themselves in public service. Yet while students participate in community-oriented studios or professionals provide service
to non-profits, there is a scarcity of internship opportunities outside
of traditional practice modes. This gap between the academy and the
profession leaves civic-minded intern architects without the jobs they
would most desire. At the same time, the profession is shortchanged a
potential vehicle for outreach and our communities miss a rich source
of design expertise and productivity. The topic of this session is the
subject of an upcoming essay collection of the same title supported by
a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
THE ROGUE KING: NEW COMPUTATIONAL LANDSCAPES AND THE MODEL
Special Focus Session
Lachine
Moderator: Torben Berns, McGill University
Participants: Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University
Antoine Picon, Harvard University
Arguably the architectural mode of knowledge is in fact building virtual
models for reconciling different if not mutually exclusive experiences,
Within the contemporary practice of architecture, are the arguments
of the last 30 years—the model as a 1:1 construction, the model as
concept, the model as process, the model as 1:x—sufficient means for
understanding what we in fact do as architects? How do we understand
and further what we do as both professionals and as citizens in the
new computational landscape, a landscape where the model is both
king and rogue?
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
EVENING PRESENTATION AND KEYNOTE
SHAPING A BETTER WORLD
Presenter: Hassan Ally, ARUP
Westmount
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Keynote: Mason White, Lateral Architecture
07:30 PM - 8:30 PM
SATURDAY RECEPTION Portage
ACSA TEACHERS SEMINAR
PERFORMAT/ VE
PRACT/CES
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SUMMER 2011
Talk 20 Presentation
In this peer-reviewed session, faculty in architecture, engineering,
construction, and other disciplines have the opportunity to present
practices and projects related to the conference theme. The presentations will be fast-paced and dense. The aim is to survey the
best of per formative practices today. The conference organizers and
session chair invites visually rich submissions from designers, engineers and architects that demonstrate compelling examples of per
formative practices. The submissions should be a one-page, 300
word abstract and a set of twenty images of the project/practice and
its performances submitted as a single PDF.
SUBMIT ONLINE AT WWW.ACSA-ARCH.ORG
SUNDAY SESSIONS
08:00 AM - 12:30 PM
ACSA REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
Promenade
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURALISM: DESIGN/THEORY/PRACTICE
Paper Session
Côte-St-Luc
Moderator: Clare Lyster, University of Illinois at Chicago
The emergence of infrastructure as a lens to address urbanism is
a double opportunity. First, to move beyond the legacy of the New
Deal era to re-position architecture’s role in the design and execution of public work and second to present the infrastructural project
as more than an issue-based practice that solves the city’s problems. The session seeks to find a more critical relationship between
architecture and infrastructure delivered through 3 papers that define “Critical Infrastructuralism” in architectural Design, Theory and
Practice.
ARCHITECTURE OF INFRASTRUCTURES: METHODOLOGIES FOR EXPANDING A DISCIPLINE
AnnaLisa Meyboom, University of British Columbia
LIRR LONG ISLAND RADICALLY REZONED - A REGENERATIVE VISION FOR A LIVING ISLAND
Tobias Holler, New York Institute of Technology
POLYVALENT INFRASTRUCTURES
Matthew Johnson, University of Houston
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
SUBVERTING METHODS OF DIGITAL DESIGN (1)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderator: Christopher Beorkrem, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Making and Craft- As BIM, fabrication, and parametric modeling have
become mainstream tools, we must question the standards established for their evaluation. This session asks the questions: How do
we take ownership of the digital tools used in service of process and
invention? To what extent are we willing to claim our designs are defined by these tools? How do these technologies fundamentally change
our design expectations? This session will question our understanding
of conventional construction processes to better understand the use
of digital manufacturing equipment.
MATERIAL RESISTANCE / PROCEDURAL RESISTANCE
Jeremy Ficca, Carnegie Mellon University
PARAMETRIC ARMATURES FOR HANDWORK
Robert Corser, University of Washington
MAKING AS A FORM OF EXPLORATION
Anselmo Canfora, University of Virginia
Jeff Ponitz, University of Virginia
David Malda, University of Virginia
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
ACADIA @ ACSA
Lachine
Special Focus Session
Moderator: Mark Cabrinha, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Paper session selected from ACADIA 2010 conference in NYC.
DIGITAL TRACERY: FABRICATING TRAITS
Lawrence Blough, Pratt Institute
[MAKE]SHIFT: INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WORKFLOWS
Nathan Miller, University of South Carolina
LOCAL CODE: THE CRITICAL USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PARAMETRIC URBAN DESIGN
Nicholas de Monchaux, University of California, Berkeley
Where Do You Stand
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SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
WEST CENTRAL FALL CONFERENCE
Mont-Royal
Paper Session
Moderator: Penelope Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago
BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE: NORTHWEST ARKANSAS’ DIFFUSE METROPOLIS
Jesse LeCavalier, University of Michigan
UP IN THE AIR
Ed Mitchell, Yale University
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION: REAL, SUPER-REAL, OR SURREAL?
Paper Session
Verdun
Moderators: Gregory Marinic, Universidad de Monterrey
Illya Azaroff, CUNY, New York City College of Technology
In our technologically-enhanced world, digital images of built
projects can be indistinguishable from virtual representations.
Advanced imaging technologies have made it increasingly difficult
to distinguish between the physical world and lifelike virtual representation. Real projects have become surreal; virtual projects
have become super-real. Dialing in further, one must look carefully
for imperfection.Regardless of the technique employed, recording
architecture has historically been linked to a quest for perfection.
Variables such as quality of light, time of year, choice of photographer, lens type, film speed, and retouching offered the ability to
subtly or significantly adjust the reading of a project. Historically,
these techniques were both money-intensive and time-conscious.
Today they are less so. Thus, a disquieting amount of built work
presented in publications, portfolios, and for marketing purposes
is, in fact, super-enhanced. Architectural visualization has become
hyper-refined – partly real and partially idealized. In an architecture that blurs reality, where do you stand?
AN ARCHITECTURE OF HUMILITY: THE NEED FOR HAPTIC SPACES IN AN AGE OF SIMULATION
Melanie Buelow, Miami University
S/ERIALURREAL (RE)PRESENTATION, OR, A ŽIŽEKIAN ‘SUSTAINABILITY’ FOR ARCHITECTS
Robert Svetz, Syracuse University
TOUR
TRANS-FORM: AN ALTERNATIVE TO FORMAL PERFECTION IN ARCHITECTURE
Doug Jackson, California Polytechnic State University
10:00am-12:00pm
MONTRÉAL IN THE 1960S: HABITAT 67 TO WESTMOUNT SQUARE
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
COFFEE BREAK
Promenade
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
ARCC SPECIAL RESEARCH FOCUS SESSION
Lachine
Special Focus Group
Moderator: Keith Diaz Moore, University of Kansas
Participants: Sherry Ahrentzen, Arizona State University
Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota
Alberto Perez-Gomez, McGill University
The perspectives that shape architectural inquiry are informed by
the underlying ethical positions of those engaged in the inquiry. In so
doing, these ethical postures inform fundamental questions such as:
What is the purpose of the inquiry?; How does one define concepts
such as validity?; Why is the resulting understanding worthwhile?
The context within which research is conducted applies potential
pressures upon certain ethical positions, and those pressures may at
times conflict and at others facilitate. Three distinguished panelists,
all of whom have discussed extensively issues of architecture and
ethics, will share their thoughts on the relationship between ethics
and architectural research, creating a foundation upon which session attendees will build their discussion. The session is designed
to stimulate dialogue and reflection amongst all those attending.
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99th ACSA Annual Meeting
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
BELOW THE RADAR: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND DISCIPLINARY
REVERSALS
Côte-St-Luc
Paper Session
Moderator: Fernando Lara, University of Texas at Austin
Approximately 2 billion people—30% of the world’s population—live in
substandard housing. Being so much different from the systematized
processes of planning in the developed world, informal settlements
are often demonized by some who look only at the numbers or romanticized by those who look only at photographs. This session asks
what can we learn from the favelas of the world? What could be the
design contribution of a process in which the materials arrive at the
construction site before any spatial abstraction has been conceived?
ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT (MALE) ARCHITECTS: FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN RURAL BANGLADESH
Adnan Morshed, Catholic University of America
INFORMAL EDUCATION: HAITI 2010
Nadia Anderson, Iowa State University
MULTISCALAR SPATIAL STRATEGY
Bethan Llewellyn Yen, Catholic University of America
POVERTY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR ACTION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS”
Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
CRITICAL CONTEXTUALISM OR, OTHERS?
Verdun
Paper Session
Moderator: Georges Adamczyk, Université de Montréal
“The landscape is as a palimpsest on to which each generation inscribes its own impressions and removes some of the marks of earlier generations. Construction of one age are often overlain, modified
or erased by the work of another.” - Michael Aston and Trevor Rowley, Landscape Archeology, 1974. In the last quarter of the last century questions of site, region, city, urban architecture, ‘’Pièce urbaine’’,
to mention a few, have emerged as grounded counter-propositions
to the postwar wave II of mediocre functionalist autonomous buildings. The idea of context, while sometimes reduced to poor imitation
of form, was much of the time taken as a critical approach of the
geography, history and cultural meaning of a specific place. It was
certainly an important question for the definition of the architect’s
position in the field of the discipline.Today, a predilection for engineering considerations pertaining to sustainability and for branding,
are out-distancing context as the ethical issue of choice by architects
and the academy alike. What happened to Critical Contextualism in
Architecture? Can Indifference be critical? Are there other positions?
Where do you stand?
ACCRETIVE ARCHITECTURE: SUPERUSE + BEYOND
Hans Herrmann, Mississippi State University
IN PLACE & TIME
Federica Goffi, Carleton University
TRADITIONAL TRANSLATIONS: THE UNIVERSAL OPTIMIZING THE HANDCRAFTED
Elizabeth Golden, University of Washington
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Where Do You Stand
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SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011
NORTHEAST FALL CONFERENCE
Paper Session
Moderator: Dariel Cobb, University of Hartford
Mont-Royal
SUBURBANIA: MONTERREY, URBAN/SUBURBAN
DICHOTOMIES IN NORTHEASTERN MEXICO
Gregory Marinic, University of Monterrey
Ziad Qureshi, University of Monterrey
INSIDE FORD’S GARDEN CITY: SOCIAL AND SPATIAL LOGICS OF A HYBRID SUBURBANITY
Michael McCulloch, University of Michigan
LET IT DIE. WHO REALLY GIVES A DAMN ANYWAY?
Onezieme Mouton, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SUBVERTING METHODS OF DIGITAL DESIGN (2)
Hampstead
Paper Session
Moderator: Christopher Beorkrem, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Process- As BIM, fabrication, and parametric modeling have become
mainstream tools, we must question the standards established for
their evaluation. This session asks the questions: How do we take
ownership of the digital tools used in service of process and invention? To what extent are we willing to claim our designs are defined
by these tools? How do these technologies fundamentally change our
design expectations? This session will examine how computational
tools from inside and outside our profession are used to alter design
methodologies.
DECON | RECON: DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR REPURPOSING MATERIALS
Timothy Hemsath, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lindsey Ellsworth, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
DESIGN GAMES: RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SOFTWARE
Aaron Westre, University of Minnesota
UNUSUAL ENCOUNTERS: THE USE OF SPECIAL EFFECTS TOOLS AS DESIGN GENERATORS
Andrzej Zarzycki, New Jersey Institute of Technology
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE CENTER
2010-2011 ACSA/AISC STEEL DESIGN STUDENT COMPETITION
CATEGORY I HOMELESS ASSISTANCE CENTER
CATEGORY II OPEN
acsa-arch.org/competitions
HAITI
IDEAS CHALLENGE
ACSA, USAID & HOWARD UNIVERSITY
In response to the tremendous need in Haiti, ACSA is holding a
two-stage Ideas Challenge, focusing on providing permanent solutions to the rebuilding of infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods
and structures for residents of Haiti affected by the recent catastrophic earthquake.
POSTER PRESENTERS
ARCHITECTURE IN AN EXPANDED FIELD,
FROM INTERIORS TO LANDSCAPE
In Search of Traditional Sustainable Green Built Environment
Khosrow Bozorgi, University of Oklahoma
Solar Picnic Table Design & Architecture
Soolyeon Cho, Catholic University of America
Lindsey Dickes, Catholic University of America
All for One | One for All
Hans Herrmann, Mississippi State University
Chicago Institute for Land Generation
Stewart Hicks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Defining Contemporary Space
Aileen Iverson, New York Institute of Technology
Rethinking Urban Landscapes
Victor Jones, University of Southern California
Scottsdale Sustainability Atlas
Ken McCown, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Chicago Institute for Land Generation
Allison Newmeyer, University of Illinois
Engaging Field-work: Skeletons in the Desert
Glenn Nowak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Garrett Sullivan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Experience Landscape
Colin Ripley, Ryerson University
Geoffrey Thun, University of Michigan
Kathy Velikov, University of Michigan
Building Blocks
Bryan Shields, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer Shields, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rethinking Urban Landscapes
Thaddeus Zarse, Tulane University
BUILDING BEHAVIORS
Design for Environmentally Responsive Building Envelopes
Mohamed El Sheikh, University of Southern California
Karen Kensek, University of Southern California
Jeffrey Vaglio, University of Southern California
Hollygrove Growers Market
Cordula Roser-Gray, Tulane University
Zero Energy House Learning Center
Stanley Russell, University of South Florida
Mark Weston, University of South Florida
Carbon Accounting for Building Structures
Kathrina Simonen, University of Washington
Design Research in the Studio Context Asylum / Refuge /
Sanctuary - Building as Cure
Elizabeth Danze, University of Texas at Austin
Energy
Donna Kacmar, University of Houston
Urban Connections_International Perspective
Gregory Marinic, Universidad de Monterrey
Future-Use Architecture: Designing Adaptability
Peter Wiederspahn, Northeastern University
Merging Architect and Acoustician
Josh Moser, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Liquid Mass/ Solid Void
Ernest Ng, Mississippi State University
Merging Architect and Acoustician
Glenn Nowak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
In Present Tense: Complex Membrane Systems
Roberto Quevedo, Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Urban Connections_International Perspective
Ziad Qureshi, University of Monterrey
Where Do You Stand
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POSTER PRESENTERS
HISTORY/THEORY
Looking for Mr. Wright, ...and Finding Him on Facebook
Wayne Charney, Kansas State University
Image Manipulation: The Portrayal of Women Architects by the
Media. Puerto Rico 1945-1980
Norma Figueroa, University of Texas at Arlington
ACTIVATING HISTORY_A Comparative Compilation
Gregory Marinic, Universidad de Monterrey
Ziad Qureshi, University of Monterrey
HOUSING
Cultural reConsideration: Senior Cohousing
Jeanne Homer, Oklahoma State University
Awilda Rodriguez, Oklahoma State University
Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading Methods: Building Information Modeling as an Integrated Tool
Duygu Yenerim, Texas A&M University
MATERIALS
Harvesting Information
Emanuel Jannasch, Dalhousie University
Natural Construction
Wu Peng, China Academy of Art
Fei Wang, China Academy of Art
MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS
Augmented Reality in Architecture
Aaron Brakke, University Piloto of Colombia
Informational Discontinuities: Topology, Geometry, Construction
Documents and the Subject
Skender Luarasi, University of Massachusetts
Temporal Matrices
Roberto Rovira, Florida International University
Placemaking: Collage as a Tool for Phenomenological Analysis
Jennifer Shields, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Light Inside
Fei Wang, China Academy of Art
Anamorphic Xiangshan
Fei Wang, China Academy of Art
OPEN
Information as Digital Architecture
Matthew Battin, Urban Density Lab
Urban Chicken Coops
Carey Clouse, Tulane University
Zachary Lamb, Tulane University
Dissecting the Programmed Landscape
Frank Jacobus, University of Idaho
Doctoral Education in Architecture
Karen Kensek, University of Southern California
Douglas Noble, University of Southern California
BIM BOP and BIM CON!FAB : Professional Symposia
Karen Kensek, University of Southern California
Shih-Hsin Eve Lin, University of Southern California
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Concept - Form - Assembly
Jeremy Lindsey, Judson University
Wall - Prophylactic
Marc Roehrle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mo Zell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teaching Computational Thinking with Processing
Nicholas Senske, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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99th ACSA Annual Meeting
POSTER PRESENTERS
URBANISM
Global Disaster Immigration: The Future Form of Detroit
Constance Bodurow, Lawrence Technological University
Jordan Martin, Lawrence Technological University
Aaron Olko
The Food that Food-carts Feed
Jonathan Chesley, University of Oregon
Form and Design: Lessons from Urban Culture
Suzanne Frasier, Morgan State University
Dionne Hines, Morgan State University
Mr. Sanjit Roy, Morgan State University
LIRR Long Island Radically Rezoned - a Regenerative Vision for
a Living Island
Tobias Holler, New York Institute of Technology
Katelyn Mulry, New York Institute of Technology
Sven Peters, Atelier Sven Peters
Ana Serra, Buro Happold
The Role of Urban Agriculture in the Design and Planning of
Cities and Communities
Joongsub Kim, Lawrence Technological University
“New Productionism” at Rivera Crossing: Suburban Retrofitting
for a New Economy
Anne Vaterlaus, City College of New York
June Williamson, City College of New York
WHERE DO YOU STAND
Wasted Space: Building Boards and Agri-Medians
Edwin Akins II, Southern Polytechnic State University
Flatpack Emergency Shelter
Robert Arens, California Polytechnic State University
The Stand for _______ Initiative
Michael Carroll, Southern Polytechnic State University
Productive Landscapes: Looking at Urban Agricultural Infill Solutions in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
Carey Clouse, Tulane University
Embracing Flux for Multiple Agendas
Patty Heyda, Washington University
Jennifer Michaliszyn, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Architectural Tooling
Roland Hudson, Dalhousie University
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REVIEWERS
The ACSA Annual Meeting would not be possible without the support
and dedication of its members. Thank you to all who participated as a
peer-reviewer this year.
Georges Adamczyk
Université de Montréal
Nicholas Adams
Vassar College
Alan Brake
Martin Bressani
McGill University
Silva Ajemian
Lance Jay Brown
City College of New York
Zeynep Celik Alexander
University of Toronto
Marshall Brown
Illinois Institute of Technology
Matthias Altwicker
New York Institute of Technology
James Brown
Queen’s University Belfast
Jonathon Anderson
University of North Carolina,
Greensboro
Hilary Bryon
Virginia Tech
Alfredo Andia
Florida International University
Matt Burgermaster
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Joseph Aranha
Texas Tech University
Mark Cabrinha
California Polytechnic State
University
Carmen Aroztegui
Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil
Gabriela Campagnol
Texas A&M University
Illya Azaroff
CUNY, New York City College of
Technology
Nandini Bagchee
City College of New York
Jeffrey Balmer
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Thomas Barrie
North Carolina State University
Roann Barris
Radford University
Paul Battaglia
North Carolina State University
Jean-Francois Bedard
Syracuse University
Lorena Bello
Christopher Beorkrem
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Maria Berman
Charles Bertolini
Louisiana State University
Neeraj Bhatia
Rice University
Eve Blau
Harvard University
Frederick Bohrer
Hood College
Sarah Bonnemaison
Dalhousie University
Mallika Bose
Pennsylvania State University
Caitlin Boyle
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Karen Bradley
University of Maryland
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Cameron Campbell
Iowa State University
Anselmo Canfora
University of Virginia
Rocco Ceo III
University of Miami
Jason Chandler
Florida International University
Don Choi
California Polytechnic State
University
John Cirka
Ryerson University
Curtis Clay
Howard University
McLain Clutter
University of Michigan
Angela Co
University of Kentucky
Alan R. Cook
Auburn University
Mark Cottle
Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert Cowherd
Wentworth Institute of Technology
David Cronrath
University of Maryland
Kenny Cupers
Tom Daniell
Kyoto Seika University
Jeffrey Day
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Judith De Jong
University of Illinois at Chicago
Aslihan Demirtas
Alexander D’Hooghe
Massachusetts Institute of
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Yi-Luen Ellen Do
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tomás Dorta
Université De Montréal
Michael Coleman Duddy
Ron Dulaney Jr.
West Virginia University
Ross Elfline
Carleton College
Jefferson Ellinger
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eugenia Victoria Ellis
Drexel University
Joshua Emig
Auburn University
Paul Emmons
Virginia Tech
Alexis Gregory
Savannah College of Art and
Design
Udo Greinacher
University of Cincinnati
Yasemin Guney
University of Michigan
Dale Gyure
Lawrence Technological University
Sharon Haar
University of Illinois at Chicago
Thomas Han
University of California, Berkeley
Rumiko Handa
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Adam Hardy
Cardiff University
Yael Erel
Pratt Institute
S. Faisal Hassan
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Deborah Fausch
Patrick Haughey
Northeastern University
Jennifer Ferng
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Henning Haupt
Florida Atlantic University
Marcia Feuerstein
Virginia Tech
Ulrike Heine
Clemson University
Julie Flohr
University of Illinois at Chicago
David Hill
North Carolina State University
Benjamin Flowers
Georgia Institute of Technology
Max Hirsh
Harvard University
Philip Follent
Bond University Australia
Bradley Horn
City College of New York
Thomas Forget
University of North Carolina
Charlotte
Jeff Hou
University of Washington
Russell Fortmeyer
Arup
Roger Hubeli
University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign
David Foxe
Boston Architectural College
Michael Hughes
American University of Sharjah
Anda French
Syracuse University
Colleen M. Humer
Illinois Institute of Technology
Todd Gannon
Southern California Institute of
Architecture
Aarati Kanekar
University of Cincinnati
Magdalena Garmaz
Auburn University
Rania Ghosn
Boston University
Marc Giaccardo
University of Texas At San Antonio
Pamela Karimi
University of Arizona
Mick Kennedy
University of Michigan
Ted Kesik
University of Toronto
Marina Giammattei
Carla Keyvanian
Auburn University
Amy Gilley
Virginia Tech
Joy Knoblauch
Princeton University
Matthew Gines
University of New Mexico
June Komisar
Ryerson University
François Giraldeau
Stephan Kowal
Université de Montréal
Judy O’Buck Gordon
Georgia Institute of Technology
Where Do You Stand
Seng Kuan
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REVIEWERS
Patricia Kucker
University of Cincinnati
Thomas Mical
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Amy Kulper
University of Michigan
Justin Miller
Auburn University
Donald Kunze
Pennsylvania State University
Meredith Miller
University of Michigan
Jacques Lachapelle
Université de Montréal
Mark Mistur
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chee Kien Lai
National University of Singapore
Lisa M Moffitt
University of Edinburgh
Sean Lally
David Monteyne
University of Calgary
Fernando L. Lara
University of Texas at Austin
Rejean Legault
Ana Maria Leon
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Kevin Moore
Auburn University
Karen Mulder
Cathlyn Newell
University of Michigan
Jurij Leshchyshyn
Ryerson University
Ted Ngai
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marie-Alice L’Heureux
University of Kansas
Peter Olshavsky
David Lieberman
University of Toronto
Mark Linder
Syracuse University
M Victoria Liptak
Woodbury University
Grace Ong-Yan
Alexander Ortenberg
California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona
Steve Pantazis
Christie Pearson
Brian Lonsway
Syracuse University
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Yale University
Jenny Lovell
Washington University, St. Louis
Nihal Perera
Ball State University
Kristina Luce
Mark Poddubiuk
École de design, UQAM
Andreas Luescher
Bowling Green State University
Francis Lyn
Florida Atlantic University
Clare Lyster
University of Illinois at Chicago
Kai Mah
School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
Jen Maigret
University of Michigan
Yeoryia Manolopoulou
University College London
Andrew Manson
University of Kentucky
Igor Marjanovic
Washington University
Rochelle Martin
Lawrence Technological University
Jonathan Massey
Syracuse University
Marco Polo
Ryerson University
Jorge Eduardo Prado
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Jenni Pace Presnell
University of British Columbia
Michaele Lea Pride
University of Cincinnati
Maya Przybylski
University of Waterloo
Ziad Qureshi
University of Monterrey
Enrique Gualberto Ramirez III
Princeton University
Michel Max Raynaud
Université de Montréal
Gray Read
Florida International University
Elizabeth Riorden
University of Cincinnati
John May
Colin Ripley
Ryerson University
Michael McClure
University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Nicholas Roberts
Woodbury University
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Mireille Roddier
University of Michigan
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REVIEWERS
Karen Rogers
Auburn University
Jeremy Roh
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Molly Steenson
Princeton University
Kristine Stiphany
University of Texas at Austin
Despina Stratigakos
Juan Rois
University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Svetz
Syracuse University
Nicholas Roquet
Université de Montréal
Linda Taalman
Woodbury University
Brent Ryan
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Jonathan Tate
Tulane University
David Salomon
University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Salvas
Auburn University
Chris Taylor
Texas Tech University
Ryan Brooke Thomas
Syracuse University
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz
Geoffrey Thun
University of Michigan
Eric Sauda
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Menelaos Triantafillou
University of CIncinnati
David Scheer
University of Utah
Mary-Jo Schlachter
CUNY-New York City College of
Technology
Franca Trubiano
University of Pennsylvania
Henry Urbach
Kathy Velikov
University of Michigan
Peter Schneider
University of Colorado
Emmanouil Vermisso
Florida Atlantic University
Sheri Schumacher
Auburn University
Sandra Vivanco
California College of the Arts
Catherine Seavitt-Nordenson
Princeton University
Jesse Vogler
Illinois Institute of Technology
Arijit Sen
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jason Vollen
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nicholas Senske
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Tijana Vujosevic
University of Virginia
Marcus Shaffer
Pennsylvania State University
Lola Sheppard
University of Waterloo
Sujata Shetty
University of Toledo
Madlen Simon
University of Maryland
Martha L. Skinner
Clemson University
Kendra Schank Smith
Ryerson University
Albert Smith III
Ryerson University
Manu Sobti
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Peter Soland
Urban Soland : paysages urbains
Emily Waugh
Beth Weinstein
University of Arizona
Mark Weston
University of South Florida
Jeremy White
University of California - Santa
Barbara
Mason White
University of Toronto
Craig Wilkins
University of Michigan
Tracey Eve Winton
University of Waterloo
Rafael Yee
Jon Yoder
Syracuse University
Scott Sorli
University of Waterloo
Robert Sproull Jr.
Auburn University
Pete Stam
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EXHIBITORS AND SPONSORS
ACTARBIRKHÄUSER
ActarBirkhäuser is a leading publisher of architecture books in the world,
with two imprints: on one hand, Actar, based in Barcelona and New York,
and a leading publisher of books on architecture, graphic design and
contemporary art; and on the other hand, Birkhäuser, based in Basel
and Berlin, and Europe’s oldest publisher in the architecture and design
sector, and a brand that enjoys great distinction all over the world.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
The AIAS is an independent, 501c3 non-profit and student-run organization that is more than just a club. This grassroots association is
a cooperative between thousands of students in North America (of
all ages and academic degrees) committed to helping each other. It
provides a sense of community and a forum to share differing views.
The AIAS is also a professional organization that is the official voice of
architecture students.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION
A not-for-profit 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 service to the steel construction industry providing timely
and reliable information.
ARUP
Many of Arup’s projects leave a legacy to subsequent generations: a
legacy that outlasts any one individual. With 10,000 projects going on at
any one time, Arup is doing the best possible job for current and future
generations. Putting sustainability at the heart of its work is one of the
ways in which Arup exerts a positive influence on the wider world. Put
simply, Arup people are driven to find a better way. Arup’s independent
ownership structure gives conviction a place in its decision-making,
alongside the needs of clients and commercial imperatives. The result is
clear-sighted, thoughtful decisions about its priorities as a business and
as a member of society. Arup influences many people’s lives through its
projects. Shaping a sustainable future – particularly through the urban
environment – will be one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century.
Arup is rising to the challenge: investing in research, innovating and
creating better solutions for its clients and the wider world.
CANADIAN CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE BOOKSTORE
We specialize in current titles on contemporary architectural practice,
architectural history and theory, city planning, landscape and garden
history, photography, historical preservation, museum studies, and
design from around the world with books ranging from scholarly and
professional works to publications of general interest.
ECHELLE-1 INTERNATIONAL
Le Corbusier Plans: Our high-definition 16-volume digital archive and
hard-covered reference collection encompasses the most complete
store of Le Corbusier’s lifetime of architectural designs, based on 35,000
notes, diagrams and drawings painstakingly collected and cataloged
by Fondation Le Corbusier. Echelle-1 spent seven laborious years to
digitize Le Corbusier’s architectural lifework and added photographs
and commentaries to create this superb reference set, which you can
view at our exhibition table during the ACSA Annual Meeting.
JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
As one of the leading English-language journals on the built environment,
each issue of JSAH offers three to four scholarly articles on American
and International topics, reviews of recently-published books, reviews
of architecture exhibitions, and a variety of editorials designed to place
the discipline of architectural history within a larger intellectual context.
MIT PRESS
The only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. This does not mean that science and engineering
are all we publish, but it does mean that we are committed to the edges
and frontiers of the world—to exploring new fields and new modes of
inquiry. We publish about 200 new books a year and over 30 journals.
We are a major publishing presence in fields as diverse as architecture,
social theory, economics, cognitive science, and computational science,
and we have a long-term commitment to both design excellence and
the efficient and creative use of new technologies. Our goal is to create
books and journals that are challenging, creative, attractive, and yet
affordable to individual readers.
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION BOARDS
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards protects the
public health, safety, and welfare by leading the regulation of the practice
of architecture through the development and application of standards
for licensure and credentialing of architects.
ROUTLEDGE & TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
A global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in
the humanities and social sciences.Founded in 1836, we have published
many of greatest thinkers and scholars of the last hundred years, including Adorno, Einstein, Russell, Popper, Wittgenstein, Jung, Bohm, Hayek,
McLuhan, Marcuse and Sartre.Today we publish some 600 journals
and around 2,000 new books each year, from offices all over the world.
Our current publishing program encompasses the liveliest texts, and
the best in research. Our books backlist has over 35,000 titles in print.
We take pride in the range and strength of the backlist and we use the
latest technology to promote it using a wide range of formats, both in
print and online.
STYLUS PUBLISHING
Our mission is twofold: To publish books for teachers, administrators,
and policymakers in higher education. We are interested in practical
books, the exchange of ideas, and theory and research that promote
effective practice. To market effectively to all appropriate constituencies
on behalf of our authors and our client publishers. We sell through all
channels: bookstores, libraries, and wholesalers; direct mail and exhibits
at professional conferences reaching professional and academic audiences; online booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble; and also
through relationships with book clubs, specialist outlets, and the media.
TAU SIGMA DELTA
Tau Sigma Delta was organized in 1913 at the University of Michigan at
the suggestion and guidance of the faculty in Architecture and Landscape
Design who selected the first group of senior honor students to be the
founding members. After three years of trial, the system of elections was
extended to other universities. Tau Sigma Delta has developed from a
senior honor society in Architecture and Landscape Architecture to become inclusive of both juniors and seniors in Architecture, Architectural
Engineering, Architectural Design, Landscape Architecture, Painting,
Sculpturing, Planning, Decorative Design, Interior Decoration, and all the
arts allied with Architecture. With that development, it became necessary
to establish the rule that each chapter shall have its origin in a School
of Architecture and be administered by that school
TUNS PRESS
The publishing division of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University and produces a range of documents on architecture
and planning. Our books are available from design bookstores in Canada
and the United States, and may be ordered internationally through many
internet booksellers.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known as
the publisher of groundbreaking work in social and cultural thought,
critical theory, race and ethnic studies, urbanism, feminist criticism,
and media studies. The Press is among the most active publishers of
translations of significant works of European and Latin American thought
and scholarship. Minnesota also publishes a diverse list of works on the
cultural and natural heritage of the state and the upper Midwest region.
VINYL INSTITUTE
The Vinyl Institute, founded in 1982, is a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, vinyl chloride monomer,
vinyl additives and modifiers, and vinyl packaging materials. Vinyl is the
global plastic of choice for infrastructure and diverse applications. VI’s
Mission is to advocate the responsible: manufacture of vinyl resins,life
cycle management of vinyl products, and promotion of the value of vinyl
to society
WILEY-BLACKWELL
Wiley-Blackwell, created in February 2007 by merging Blackwell Publishing with Wiley’s Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business, is now
one of the world’s foremost academic and professional publishers and
the largest society publisher. With a combined list of more than 1,400
scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books
with global appeal, this new business sets the standard for publishing in
the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering,
humanities and social sciences.
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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
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COMPETITIONS
2009-10 STUDENT COMPETITIONS
Take a moment to view the winning projects from the 2009-2010 ACSA
Student Design Competition. Check out this year’s competition and take
advantage of the new online competition submissions system at www.
acsa-arch.org/competitions
10th Annual ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition
CATEGORY I — RE-LIGARE INSTITUTE RECONNECTING MIND AND BODY
1st Place: “Subconscious Suspension”
Students: Will Allport, Nick Barrett & Jason Butz
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Harding, Clemson University
2nd Place: “The Vertical Landscape”
Students: Stephen Bonamy & Michael Fontana
Faculty Sponsors: Steven Schneemann & Constance Bodurow
Lawrence Technological University
Honorable Mention: “Reacting to Moments”
Student: Woojin Kim
Faculty Sponsor: Karla Sierralta, Illinois Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention: “Spinal Tap”
Student: Zach Crocker
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Cabrinha, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Honorable Mention: “Meditative Infrastructure”
Students: Daniel Ramos & Jonathan D. Reyes
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Hinders, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Honorable Mention: “IN[tro]VERSION”
Students: Daniel Merritt & Kyle Post
Faculty Sponsors: Steven Schneemann & Constance Bodurow
Lawrence Technological University
Honorable Mention: “Reconnecting Mind & Body”
Students: Maria Bninski, Alexandre Garrison & John Kupstas
Faculty Sponsor: William Sherman, University of Virginia
CATEGORY II - OPEN
1st Place
“Carapace: Enclosing UWM’s Schoolof Freshwater Science”
Student: Daniel Cesarz
Faculty Sponsors: Gil Snyder & James G Dicker, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2nd Place
“RE.COVER//”
Students: Cody Glen, Salvador Cabezon & Maria A. Sanchez Casella
Faculty Sponsor: Marcelo Pedemonte, Jorge Stekar, Carlos Olmos,
Karina Mellace & Gerard Smulevich, Woodbury University / University of Buenos Aires
3rd Place
“Exoskeleton: Reconfigurable Shipping”
Student: Dion Dekker
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Fowler IV, California Polytechnic State
University, SLO
Honorable Mention: “Filtro I-Land: Island for Water Rejuvenation”
Students: Karen Avanesian, Armen Tutundzhyan, Silvina Mandarano & Romina Giorno
Faculty Sponsors: Marcelo Pedemonte, Jorge Stekar, Carlos Olmos, Karina Mellace & Gerard Smulevich, Woodbury University / Univer-
sity of Buenos Aires
Honorable Mention: “project IRIS”
Student: Cody Williams
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Fowler IV, California Polytechnic State
University, SLO
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Columbia University in the City of New York
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The first reader provides a primer on sustainability, placing
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