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2009 Summer/Fall Faculty News Items
Troy Peters has been elected in November 2009 as the secretary/treasurer of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE).
Robert Arens's abstract "Give and Take: Multidisciplinary Tactics Used in the Design of Sustainable Emergency Shelters” was accepted for presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Guimaraes, Portugal. The paper will be co-authored with Prof. Edmond Saliklis (ARCE). The paper will discuss the design and prototyping processes used by faculty and students in the disciplines of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Materials Engineering used to develop a sustainable, rapidly-deployed emergency shelter.
For additional information, go to ICSA Conference.
Robert Arens was invited to give the Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture to the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The lecture will take place at New Jersey Institute of Technology on November 19, 2009 and is entitled "The WTC Redevelopment: Paragon or Paradox?".
Robert Arens was invited to present "Strangely Familiar: Small Buildings and Unbuildings" at Pecha Kucha 9 which will take place November 13, 2009 at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo. The presentation will discuss a series of small projects, all conducted with students, which range from installations to emergency shelter prototypes, and include a carefully conducted demolition of a condemned barn.
Marc J Neveu has been selected along with Dr. Saundra Weddle to co-edit an upcoming issue of the Journal of Architectural Education entitled "Beyond Precedent." The issue questions and explores the relationship between design and history, theory, and criticism within an architectural curriculum. A call for submissions is forthcoming.
Marc Neveu's paper “Slow time: Reading the work of Scarpa.” was accepted for presentation at the 2010 Narrative Space Conference, University of Leicester, England. The paper demonstrates that the way Carlo Scarpa designed museum spaces shares an uncanny similarity to various strategies of narrative time as described by Paul Ricoeur and Umberto Eco.
For additional information, go to Leicester Conference web page.
Marc Neveu's abstract "Between Pedagogy and Practice: the work of Myron Goldsmith.” was accepted for presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Guimaraes, Portugal. The paper will be co-authored with Prof. Edmond Saliklis (ARCE) and looks to the pedagogic relationships between both practice and academia as well as architecture and engineering in the work of Myron Goldsmith.
For additional information, go to ICSA Conference web page.
Laura Joines-Novotny, AIA [M:OME Architects] recently designed a tasting room for L"Aventure Winery in Paso Robles.
Laura Joines-Novotny, AIA had the opportunity to interview with the head of international design for IKEA in Sweden this summer, learning about IKEA corporate organization and global design visions.
Laura Joines-Novotny, AIA and Tom di Santo [M:OME Architects] recently completed a residence in Agua Dulce, CA that is passive solar and meets the high fireproofing standards for LA County.
Laura Joines-Novotny, AIA [M:OME Architects] have a new art classroom atelier in construction at Besant Hill School, Ojai.
Doug Jackson' essay titled Wiki-tecture: The DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery is presented in the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Volume 63, Issue 1 (October 2009).
To download the essay, click wiki-tecture (.pdf)
Doug Jackson was elected to be the ACSA Councilor for the next academic terms 2009-2011.
Chuck Crotser's third year design studio assignment was featured in The Tribune of San Luis Obispo dated Saturday, September 5, 2009. The article titled Building a shelter for SLO's neediest can be downloaded at The Tribune.
Doug Jackson will have an essay titled "Wiki-tecture: The DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery" published in the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Vol. 63, No. 1.
Doug Jackson will have an essay titled "Survival Form: Architecture's Disciplinary Tragedy" published in the Edinburgh Architecture Research, Vol. 32.
Mark Cabrinha, Jim Doerfler, Kevin Dong (ARCE) and Tom Fowler were awarded a $10,000 Autodesk sponsorship for the fourth year interdisciplinary design studio between ARCH and ARCE. This sponsorship will help to support the student projects in their fourth year interdisciplinary studio in 2010.
Jim Doerfler and Kevin Dong (ARCE) have been awarded the Autodesk BIM Experience Award 2009 for leading the College initiative to introduce BIM technology in various classes in both the Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Construction Management curricula. Other faculty leaders in this initiative include Robert Arens, Tom Fowler, Margot McDonald, Sandy Stannard and Umut Toker (CRP).
Robert Arens, Jim Doerfler and Kevin Dong (ARCE) presented their research and teaching at the Building Technology Educators Society Conference in Albuquerque NM in August. Robert presented two papers, “Grounding: Developing a Material/Tectonic Awareness in Foundation Studios” and “Laying Bare: The Potential of Materials Collections.” Jim and Kevin presented “The Interdisciplinary Design Studio – Understanding Collaboration.” Kevin also presented “ Breaking Stuff,” with Thomas Leslie from Iowa State.
Donna Duerk will present a paper titled Architecture Student Designs to Suppor Micor-Hab Sortie Mission at the AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference & Exhibition in Pasadena on September 14, 2009.
Chris Yip presented “Neo-Colonial Treaty Port Cities on the China Coast,” in The World Across the University: China in the 1930’s & 40’s Symposium, May 30, 2009, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Marc J Neveu’s poster, “The ‘Architecture Schools Wiki’ Project: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Foster Research Skills Development” was accepted for presentation at the 2009 MERLOT International Conference in San Jose to be held August 13-16. The project is in collaboration with Leanne Hindmarch, Architecture and Environmental Design Librarian.
Marc J Neveu’s abstract, “Architectural Technique and the Deformation of Discourse” was accepted for presentation in the forthcoming EAAE-ENHSA Workshop on Architectural Theory at the Western Switzerland University of applied sciences, Fribourg College of Engineering and Architecture, October 15-17th, 2009.
Marc J Neveu’s paper, “la finta pazza di Venexia: Masking, Performance and Identity in Seventeenth century Venice” was accepted for the Urban Performances of Identity in Venice and Its Colonies panel at the 2010 Renaissance Society of America meeting in Venice, Italy April 8-10, 2010.
Michael Lucas will present a peer reviewed paper, "Revisiting the Transcendental: Design and Matter as Constitutive Categories in Architecture", concerning aspects of Husserl's ideas of epoche and reduction paralleling intuition in design, at the Fifty-Ninth International Congress of Phenomenology at the University of Antwerp in July.
Michael Lucas was selected to teach in Cal Poly's London Study Program in residence at the Foundation for International Education in the Kensington section of town June-July. The students will study "London: Architecture and Place" as a General Education humanities course.