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2011-2012 Faculty News Items
Stephen Phillips received Special Mention in the 2011 Bruno Zevi Prize International Competition for his Grey Room article on Kiesler - Toward Research Practice: Fredrick Kiesler's Design-Connection Laboratory.
Stephen Phillips' article "Architecture Industry: The LA Ten" was commissioned and is being published by the Getty Research Institute in their exhibition catalogue LA Architecture1940 to 1990, edited by Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander, forthcoming in early 2013.
At the Boston 2012 ACSA Annual Meeting (March 1-3, 2012), Thomas Fowler was elected the Secretary to the College of Distinguished Professors. This is a total four year commitment that starts with secretary for one term (in July 2012) and succeeds to one terms for vice chancellor, the chancellor and the past chancellor.
Jonathan Reich's "Studio Consilio - Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Architecture Department" Hanging Bench received a 2012 Special Design Award in the American Wood Products Council's Woodworks For Non-Residential Construction design award program. Students: Cécile Bleux, Jessie Blote, Anna Bultema, Milena Charlemagne, Bryan Colosky, Kristen Fowler, Oscar Gutierrez, Julio Hernandez, Nhu Hoang, Avery Kant, Carlos Regis, Michael Shadle, Tyler Stark, Shanna Sullivan, Garrett Sweeden, Ian Tomitch, Megan Walker, Angelika Weissheim, and Alex Zimmerman
Robert Arens was an invited juror for the 2012 Design Awards Program of the San Joaquin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Robert presented the jury's comments and awards at the Fresno Art Museum on Friday, January 27, 2012.
Robert Arens' abstract, "Versioning: The Potential Role of Full-Scale Prototyping in Studio Courses," was accepted for presentation at the 28th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. The conference is themed "End in/of the Beginning: Realizing the Sustainable Imagination," and is schedule to be held at penn State University on March 29-31, 2012
In a recent awards ceremony, US Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded Laura Joines, AIA, of DOMU Architects, and Besant Hill School, Ojai, CA, a Green Schools Sustainable Design Award for 2011.
Laura Joines, AIA, received a stipend and Artist-in-Residency Award to work in the ceramic studio of the late Beatrice Wood at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA. The December 2011 award provided a three-day residency, including all meals and lodging, in order to allow maximum time to be spent in the pottery studio. A picture of the resulting work is here.
Michael Lucas will present a paper 'Between the Marfa Lights and the Food Shark: Judd’s Ego-Centrism and Eco-Centrism, Marfa, 2011' at the American Popular Culture Association in Albuquerque, February 10, 2012. The paper discusses the impact of place on Donald Judd's work, his turn toward more site-specific installation as he transitioned from New York to remote West Texas, and the reciprocal changes to the town of Marfa itself as place in the last twenty years.
Michael Lucas will present a paper 'Representing Presence: Interrogating the Real in Beginning Design' at the 14th Annual International Society for Phenomenology and Media Conference in San Diego, February 16, 2012. The paper explores the challenges of re-embodiment of new designers and teaching architecture as a visceral art in an age of digital/visual immersion.
Eric Thomas Nulman (B.Arch 1999) has been awarded the 2011-12 ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award
Juror Comments: Eric’s work foregrounds the as yet unanswered question of what the aesthetic embodiment could be for the field’s growing interest in sustainability. He does this by offering studio courses that explore the affective potentials for design in a range of materials (from the artificial to the natural).
For additional information, go to ACSA/Awards 2011-12
The Material Innovations Lab (MIL) was recently awarded a Professional Learning Community grant from the Center for Teaching and Learning. The PLC supports the development of a team of teacher-scholars from Architecture and other disciplines focusing on the design and fabrication of ecological building system components at full scale. The multidisciplinary team with expertise in the areas of sustainability, materials, building technology and high-tech fabrication methods will further their collective research interests and develop courses for interdisciplinary teaching. The PLC is facilitated by professors Carmen Trudell and Clare Olsen, who are currently joined by the members of the Material Innovations Lab: Mark Cabrinha, Jim Doerfler, and Jeff Ponitz. Additional members are welcome and encouraged to join the PLC. If you are interested please email ctrudell@calpoly.edu or clolsen@calpoly.edu.
For further information on the Material Innovations Lab Learning Community click here
Robert Arens received a $53,378 grant from the California Central Coast Research Partnership for the project “Rapidly Assembled Emergency Shelters, Phase 2”. The project focuses on the development and testing of lightweight, reusable shelter prototypes for disaster and refugee relief situations. Co-investigator for the project is Associate Professor Ed Saliklis of Cal Poly’s Architectural Engineering Department.
Robert Arens’s abstract, “Versioning: Interdisciplinary Design of a Flat Pack Emergency Shelter” was accepted for presentation at the Second International Conference on the Constructed Environment. The conference will be held in Chicago from 29-30 October 2011.
Robert Arens was invited to participate in the exhibit “RE-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet” to be held November 2011 through April 2012 in Rome. Robert will contribute “Skin Deep: Detroit’s Tradition of Reinvigorating Its Urban Surfaces,” a photodocumentary on the use of appropriation and found objects to breathe new life into spaces resulting from dramatically increased vacancy. Curated by Pippo Ciorra, the exhibit will be held at Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo. Known as MAXXI, the museum opened in 2010 and was designed by Zaha Hadid whose scheme was selected through an international design competition.
Jim Doerfler was chosen as President-elect of the Building Technology Educators Society (BTES). The BTES is an organization of architectural educators, passionate about teaching 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.
Thomas Fowler was included in this year's DesignIntelligence 25 Most Admired Educators of 2012. "Fowler's teaching responsibilities include third-year design and building technology courses. He also directs the computer laboratory he started in 1997 -the Collaborative Integrative Digital-Design Studio- which gives students access to the latest digital technology. Fowler has receiv3ed a number of awards in r4econgition of this teaching and research. His practice experience includes working for Davis Brody Architects in New York City and Harman Cox in Washington, D.C.
The Ojai Valley Green Home and Building Tour featured the work of Laura Joines, AIA of DOMU Architects on the campus of Besant hill School in Ojai, California. The Beato Atelier Art Classroom and the Prefabricated Music Practice Rooms were featured buildings on the tour, as well as the sustainable strategic planning for the school and its energy saving features.
Michael Lucas has been named an Editorial Board Member of MEGARON, the peer-reviewed journal of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul. The journal includes original articles, research briefs, book reviews and viewpoints on planning, architecture, design and construction for publication.
Robert Arens will present at the AIA New Mexico State Conference (September 23-24, 2011) "Ground Zero Sum Game: The WTC Redevelopment Ten Years Later."
2010-2011 Faculty News Items
M:OME (Tom di Santo and Laura Joines) with Garcia Architecture + Design won this year's 2011 AIA CCC Merit Award in the category Built Work for their project " Hale Residence.
Mark Cabrinha was awarded a 2011-12 PDCI grant for the project tilted "Greenwall Greenhouse at Chumash Farms project."
Tom di Santo received Cal Poly's 2011 coveted Distinguished Teaching Award.
Tom di Santo's recently completed caffe got rated "Best new coffeehouse in San Francisco" by the SF weekly.
Robert Arens was selected to receive the 2011-2012 Verla and Paul Neel Faculty Scholarship which will assist Robert to attend the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Conference and Design Exposition in Washington, DC, on May 17-19, 2012.
Tom di Santo principal of M:OME, will be presenting his art work at the recently completed Contraband Caffé Gallery (by M:oME) Saturday, April 9th, 2011. Reception takes place on Saturday at 6pm. The paintings will be up until Saturday 7 May, 2011. The exhibit will include 31 framed and unframed architectural watercolour sketches and seasonal abstracts. For additional information, go to Press Release.
Michael Lucas presented a paper titled "The Write Stuff: Stealth Theory for Beginners" at the 2011 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), University of Nebraska, College of Architecture April 1st, 2011. Title of the Conference is "Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable [re]starting." Paper may be viewed under ResearchAY2010-2100.
Brian Kelly, Brent Freeby, and Michael Lucas presented a paper titled "Power[tools]: paraSITE's Progress" at the 2011 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), University of Nebraska, College of Architecture April 1st, 2011. Title of the Conference is"Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable [re]starting." Paper may be viewed under ResearchAY2010-2100.
Jim Bagnall, Brent Freeby, Michael Lucas, JoAnn Moore, Bryan Ridley, and Keith Wiley presented a paper titled "Triple Grounding" at the 2011 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), University of Nebraska, College of Architecture April 1st, 2011. Title of the Conference is"Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable [re]starting." Paper may be viewed under ResearchAY2010-2011.
Doug Jackson recently presented the paper "Trans-Form: An Alternative to Formal Perfection in Architecture" at the 99th ACSA Annual Meeting held in Montreal, Canada from March 3-6, 2011. This paper has also been published in the conference proceedings titled Where Do You Stand, edited by Alberto Peréz-Goméz, Anne Cormier, and Annie Pedret.
Doug Jackson co-curated the SOUPERgreen exhibition at the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles, and his work is also featured in the exhibition. The SOUPERgreen exhibition features work that offers a critical alternative to the architectural discipline's prevailing approaches to the environmental crisis, focusing instead on the expressive use of green technology to promote a more engaged, conscious, and ecological relationship between humanity and the environment. This exhibition is on display from February 12 through April 14, 2011.
Doug Jackson will also be a featured panelist in a panel discussion occasioned by the exhibition, and which will be held at the Architecture + Design Museum on April 7, 2011 from 6-9pm.
Doug Jackson's recent project the Blink House has been published in GA Houses 120, and is on display at the GA Gallery in Tokyo, Japan from March 19 through May 22, 2011. This conceptual project features a wind- and solar-energy harvesting skin that inverts technology's typically narrow framing of the environment as simply a resource to serve humanity, and instead promotes a more conscious and ecological awareness of the environment through a spatial experience that compels its occupants to participate in a continually re-negotiated environmental equilibrium.
Chistopher Yip presented a paper titled "Traditional Chinese and Indian Architecture Compared: Black and White or Shades of Gray?" at the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities this past January 2011. Paper may be viewed under ResearchAY2010-2011.
Marc J Neveu and Saundra Weddle (Drury University) are editors of the most recent issue of the Journal of Architectural Education entitled Beyond Precedent. The themed issue explored the relationships between architectural history/theory/criticism and studio.
Marc J Neveu and Saundra Weddle’s (Drury University) interview with Alberto Pèrez-Gòmez, “The Role of History: An Interview with Alberto Pèrez-Gòmez” appeared in Vol. 1 of Arkitektur-N, The Norwegian Review of Architecture. The issue kicks off the year in Architecture in Norway. An expanded version of the interview also appears in the most recent JAE (64:2).
Marc J Neveu chaired the JAE Special Focus Session at the 99th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Montreal, PQ. The panel consisted of Martin Bressani, Mark Jarzombek, Alberto Pèrez-Gòmez and discussed the relationship between history/theory/criticism and studio.
Marc J Neveu’s essay “Indole – a Question of Form” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Arkitektur-N, The Norwegian Review of Architecture. The essay discusses the nature of architectural performance.
Tom Fowler - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has recognized Professor Tom Fowler with the 2010-2011 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.
Robert Arens’s poster, “FlatPack Shelter,” was accepted for presentation at the 2011 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s Annual Meeting scheduled for March 24-27, 2011 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Robert Arens was invited to give the presentation “Paragon or Paradox: the WTC Redevelopment Nine Years Later” to the San Joaquin Chapter of the AIA on October 21, 2010. The presentation was a critical assessment of the redevelopment efforts at the WTC site in Lower Manhattan.
Robert Arens presented the paper “Interdisciplinary Form-Finding in the Development of a Sustainable Emergency Shelter” at the 2010 International Conference on Structures and Architecture held in Guimaraes, Portugal. The paper discussed the working relationship adopted by the interdisciplinary team and the process used to develop a rapidly deployed emergency shelter for use in global disaster-relief situations. This paper was co-authored with Ed Saliklis, Associate Professor in Cal Poly’s Department of Architectural Engineering.
Robert Arens presented the two papers at the 2010 ConnectED Conference on Design Education held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. “White Space: Taking Beginning Design Students from the Abstract to the Architectural” discussed a related series of projects which draw from sources such as modern art and are designed to reinforce lessons on abstract design learned in first-year design while foregrounding more complex themes of everyday objects, site, space and program, and technology. “Versioning: Interdisciplinary Design of a Flat Pack Emergency Shelter” discussed the prototyping process used to develop a rapidly deployed emergency shelter for use in global disaster-relief situations. “Versioning” was co-authored with Ed Saliklis, Associate Professor in Cal Poly’s Department of Architectural Engineering.
Mark Cabrinha was elected Spring 2010 as West Regional Director of the ACSA and began this three-year position in July.
Mark Cabrinha presented "Craft and Culture: the F-Stop Student Lounge" and "Material Assembly: the Moveable Feast" at the Input Output: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments Symposium held at Temple University on October 8th, 2010. The Moveable Feast was also featured in the companion exhibit to the symposium.
Mark Cabrinha presented "Parametric Sensibility: Cultivating the Material Imagination in Digital Culture" at this year's international ACADIA conference, Life:inFormation, held at the Cooper Union in New York City from October 21-24, 2010.
Thomas Fowler is chairing early December 2010 an International accreditation visit -called a "Substantial Equivalency," to architecture programs in Alexandria, Egypt.
Michael Lucas presented Spanning Realms: Architecture as Existential Prosthetic at the Experiential Psychology Section of British Psychological Society Annual Conference 'Nature and Human Nature: Consciousness and Experiential Psychology' at St. Anne’s College, Oxford in September 2010. The presentation outlined a possible broad spectrum of conscious, pre-conscious [phenomenal] and sub-conscious [tacit] aspects encountered by the designer within a design process.
Michael Lucas presented [Teaching] An Embodied Architecture at the 8th International Qualitative Research Conference, Center for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, in September 2010. The presentation outlines conceptual pedagogical approaches embedded within the new Beginning Design curriculum for architecture and architectural engineering students at Cal Poly.
Michael Lucas's paper Revisiting the Transcendental: Design and Matter as Constitutive Categories in Architecture will be published in Analecta Husserliana: 2010 Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, ed. Dr. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka [in publication]. The paper takes a look at possible implications of Edmund Husserl's epoche concept relative to design conceptualization and methodology.
Stephen Phillips will be participating in an LA event scheduled at the MAK for 10/28/10. For additonal information, go to MAK.
Stephen Phillip's article Toward a Research Practice: Frederick Kiesler's Design-Correlation was published in Grey Room (MIT Press), Winter 2010, No. 38, pp. 90-120. To read the article, go to Stephen Phillips.
Marc J. Neveu was named in July 2010 to the Journal of Architectural Education Editorial Board. He will serve a three-year term.
Marc J Neveu’s translation of and essays introducing a selection of apologues by Carlo Lodoli was recently published in the Journal of Architectural Education (64:1).
Marc J Neveu’s review of David Leatherbarrow’s text Architecture oriented Otherwise (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) was recently published in the Journal of Architectural Education (64:1).
Ed Saliklis (ARCE) presented a paper that he and Prof. Marc J Neveu co-wrote at the 1st International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA 2010), University of Minho in Guimarães, Portugal, July 21-23, 2010. The paper entitled, “Myron Goldsmith: the development of the diagonally braced tube” documents the remarkable confluence of events that lead to a breakthrough in tall building design, namely the development of the diagonally braced tube.
Jonathan Reich has been awarded a United States Fulbright Scholar grant and a sabbatical to teach and conduct research at the University of Camerino's Architecture program in Ascoli Piceno, Italy in Spring 2011. He will be teaching both a course on "Sustainable Environments," and a studio with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and collecting information on Toraldo's 30 year work with CSU's program in Florence for a future publication.
To read the press Release, go to Fulbright.