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Vellum_5 (2009)
Vellum_5 is a wonderful compilation of the past five years of the Annual Vellum/CAED Furniture Competition.
The publication is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press (AeDPress) and will be available for purchase.
Architecture+Design+Discourse 9 (2009)
ADD: Architecture + Design + Discourse 9 is the second annual student run publication of the Architecture Department of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. It documents student and faculty work.
The publication is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press and can be purchased at the ADD9Lulu.com web page for $31.30 (134 pages, color, paperback).
Architecture+Design+Discourse 8 (2008)
ADD: Architecture + Design + Discourse 8 is the first annual student run publication of the Architecture Department of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. It documents student and faculty work.
The publication is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press and can be purchased at the ADD8Lulu.com web page for $43.47 (170 pages, color, paperback).
Rise and Run: Thesis Pamphlet 2009
Compilation of Cal Poly Architecture students thesis topics conducted during the AY 2009-2009. Each student presented their thesis at the Chumash Auditorium, May 22.25, 2009.
"Architectural schools have always been a vibrant place for innovative ideas and radical change. Today, in a world where contemporary modes of thinking are challenging the idea of change itself, architectural educators are discerning the outline of another architect's mind: one similar to ours, yet profoundly different and not yet clearly defined.
This year's graduating students of the Architecture Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo express their ease in confronting this changing landscape..."
This publication will be available shortly at the Lulu.com web page.
(140 pages, b&w, paperback)
Unleashed: Thesis Pamphlet 2008
Compilation of Cal Poly Architecture students thesis topics conducted during the AY 2007-2008. Each student presented their thesis at the Chumash Auditorium, May 23-25, 2008.
"It is no wonder that the title of the 2008 Chumash Show is Unleashed. Even at first glance the projects suggest self-assurance through their allegiance to a contemporary language of architectural production: brash, provocative, and exuberant in the confidence of the students to create projects that are innovative and original. A second glance confirms that the first assessment of this burst of energy and imagination was correct. Yet upon closer scrutiny..."
The publication may be purchased at the UnleashedLulu.com web page for $16.70 (61 pages, full-color, paperback).
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Small Servings: Thesis Pamphlet 2007
Compilation of Cal Poly Architecture students thesis topics conducted during the AY 2006-2007. Each student presented their thesis at the Chumash Auditorium, May 25-27, 2007.
"Small Servings, and its accompanying iconography, speaks metaphorically to a world of culinary experience: one of elegance, distinction, accompanied by a twist of both familiarity and exotic delight. The little origami vessel prominently featured in the foreground of the composition, appears to be the instructional wrapper of a set of iconic and cultural eating utensils. Chopsticks as we well know, serve to bridge Small Servings through the intervals of time and space. Case in point we are in the presence of key architectural ingredients: to serve, to structure, and to coordinate space and place..."
The publication may be purchased at the Small ServingsLulu.com web page for $11.70 (36 pages, b&w, paperback
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Design Studio Work
One + TWO: TEN x NINE: studio 206 | 2007-2008
This book contains architecture projects by several students in Professor and architect Kent Macdonald's fifth-year thesis studios during the 2007-2008 academic year.
This particular studio was an experimental one, seeking to strenghten the students' awareness of buildign systems integration within the yearlong thesis curriculum. It did so by introducitng a stand-alone "Integrative Studio" project in fall quarter to precede the students' independent thesis work in winter and spring. (In the usual sequence, the thesis itself is three-quarter long.)
The publication is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press and can be purchased at the ONE+TWO:TENxNINELulu.com web page for $19.30 (73 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in .pdf for $5.00.
ARCH 453: RNT Professional Studio, Spring 2008 Carlsbad High School
The publication is an account of Cal Poly Architecture Department’s Fourth Year Professional Studio conducted in San Diego at the office architect and professor Ralph Roesling, principal of RNT Architects.
The New Carlsbad High School project, in the north county of San Diego with a proposed campus of 1,500 students, was under design at RNT’s San Diego office. A team of four Cal Poly students were asked to design the same project utilizing a broad based research approach understanding region, culture, climate, and project program. They took a Socratic approach probing fundamental questions about what a high school should be within this kind of regional context. The students developed a project narrative that addressed this broad based approach to immediate site specifics, regional issues, existing development patterns, and their interpretation of the School District’s criteria for an environmentally focused high school. They were encouraged to forge their own direction for this project and not be influenced by the direction of the design in the office.
The publication is part of the Architectural Environemental Design Press and can be purchased at the CarlsbadHighSchoolLulu.com web page for $18.30 (69 pages, color, paperback).
Faculty Scholarship
Architecture: 2007-2008 Faculty Scholarship (2008)
This is second pamphlet showcasing the scholarship and accomplishments of our faculty. The papers are a reflection of the diversity of approaches and depth of research; one that continues to nurture many of our faculty's interest to expand critically the field of architecture. We hope that you will enjoy the papers and report of faculty achievements accomplished during the 2007-08 academic year .
The publication is part of the Architectural Environement Design Press and can be purchased at the 2007-2008FacultyScholarshipLulu.com web page for $35.00 (146 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in PDF format for $0.69.
Architecture: 2006-2007 Faculty Scholarship (2007)
This is the first of an ongoing series of publications intended to make visible the scholarship and accomplichments of our faculty. The academic environment is one where the boundaries of teaching and research are being successfully broadened, blurred and redefined beyond the conventional markers. We hope that you will enjoy the papers and report of faculty achievements accomplished during the 2006-07 academic year .
The publication is part of the Architectural Environement Design Press and can be purchased at the 2006-2007FacultyScholarshipLulu.com web page for $31.00 (126 pages, full-color, paperback) or downloaded in PDF format for $0.69.
Glossary of Architectural Terms, Concepts and Expressions (2000)
"The language of architecture consists of materials, elements and products associated with building construction. Therefore by definition, architecture is a non-verbal language. Mastering this non-verbal language, learning its background, and establishing the context for its practice is a common task for learning and discipline. This is essential if one is to have a comprehensive and effective grasp of a discipline's associated activities, processes and its products."
Professor and architect Joseph Amanzio's Student's Companion can be purchased at the GlossaryofAchitecturalTermsAmazon.com.
Past Papers: National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (2009)
"The Louisiana Sate University School of Architecture is proud of its long tradition of leadership in beginning design education. The School has the distinction of hosting the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student three times over the past twenty five years and is proud that three of the School's faculty have been conference chairs, including one of the conference founders, Nicholas Markovich. The School is particularly honored to host the 25th commemorative conference this year and to accompany the occasion with the publication of Batture: Past papers of the National Conference on the Beginning Student."
Professor William Benedict's essay titled Parti: New Paint for an Old Lady is featured in this publication.
Shrinking Cities: Volume 1 (2006)
"From Great Britain, Belgium, Finland and Italy to Russia, Kazakhstan and China, cities are shrinking--while urban-planning debates focus on the growth of the megalopolis, many of the world's existing population centers are watching their citizens walk away. Between globalization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, the transition to post-Socialism, high unemployment and, in some cases, wider national population losses, the phenomenon is growing. Shrinking Cities Volume 1: International Research, a publication of the Germany-based Shrinking Cities initiative, examines this phenomenon's causes and dynamics on an international level for the first time, exploring examples including Manchester and Liverpool, Detroit, Russia's Ivanovo, and Germany's Halle and Leipzig."
Professor and Architect Robert Aren's essay titled The Heidelberg Projectis featured in this publication and can be purchased at ShrinkingCitiesAmazon.com web page.
Stalking Detroit (2001)
"Detroit is the most thoroughly modern city in the world. Built to service the single-minded imperatives of automobile production, Detroit has come to represent the temporary nature of urbanism in the context of increasingly mobile capital. In the first half of the 20th century Detroit served as an international model for industrial urbanism arranged to maximize profits from the investment of speculative capital. In the second half of the century, the city lost much of its population in the face of increasingly global capital markets and decentralized production methods. Stalking Detroit is an anthology of essays, photographs, and projects, each offering an intellectual purchase from the urban millieu of Detroit at the end of the century, and attempting to document the residue of its material history. Edited by Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim, and Jason Young."
Professor and Architect Robert Aren's essay titled The Heidelberg Project is featured in this publication and can be purchased at StalkingDetroitAmazon.com web page.
Curriculum for Aerospace Architecture: With Emphasis on Lunar Base and Habitat Studies (2004)
"The curriculum for aerospace architecture is for a year-long study for fifh0year undergraduate students of architecture ore masters of architecture. It is proposed as one option for students to choose as their capstone experience. Aerospace architecture is a topic within which graduating students can develop and enhance their architectural skills. The field has highly technical aspects that will develop in students a capacity to design in a highly regulated environment. Students will practice the rigors necessary to apply codes, specifications, and technological innovations to terrestrial architecture as well as to aerospace environments. The precision required in the discipline of designing for space will strengthen the abilities of architecture students to design to the less stringent requirements of "ordinary" architecture."
Professor and architect Donna Duerk's Student's Companion can be purchased by emailing Prof. Donna Duerk.
Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design (1993)
"Although there are few other books about pre-design programming, none of them is as open, accessible, and malleable as this one. Even so, this one is rigorous and thoughtful, a true "how-to" book, useful for doing your first pre-design program and many after that. What makes it particularly useful is the approach of issue-based programming where issues are concerns that demand a design response and thus become the units for analysis in the programming process."
Professor and architect Donna Duerk's book can be purchase at ArchitecturalProgrammingAmazon.com.
Becoming an Architect (2006)
"Here is the completely up-to-date guide to today's careers in architecture—a clear and concise survey of the architecture field and advice for navigating a successful career. Filled with interviews and advice from leading architects, it covers everything from educational requirements and design specialties to registration requirements and the many directions in which a career in architecture can go."
Professor and architect Thomas Fowler's essay titled A Teacher's View is included in this publication and can be purchase at Becomingan ArchitectatAmazon.com.
Architect's Professional Practice Manual (2000)
"The time-saving professional secrets, the management skills, and the marketing savvy that have made Jim Franklin's American Institute of Architects seminars famous—this book gives you them all, and more. In an appealingly easy-access, illustrated format, Jim Franklin lays out tools to make your working easier, more fun, and more profitable."
Professor emeritus and architect James Franklin's book can be purchase at Architect'sProfessionalPracticManualAmazon.com.
San Luis Obispo Architecture: A Brief Architectural History of San Luis Obispo County (2008)
"This book should give us all a much better sense of how our built environment connects us to both the natural environement and the cycles of human culture."
Professor emeriti and architect Kenneth Haggard's publication (with the assistance from Erin Scholl - B.Arch 2005 Cal Poly, SLOl) may be purchased at SanLuisObispoArchitectureBarnesandNoble.
Fractal Architecture (2006)
"This book should be required reading for all passengers and crew for Spaceship Earth. It brings together much of the pioneering work of San Luis Sustainability Group, one of the preeminent practitioners of green architecture in the United States."
Professors emeriti and architects Kenneth Haggard and Polly Cooper's publication may be purchased at the FractalArchitectureAmazon.comweb page.
La Conchita mon amour (2006)
"La Conchita is a tiny beach community in north Ventura County, about one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. On January 10, 2005, a devastating mudslide took ten lives and left a huge mass of fallen mountain in the middle of the town and buried 10 men, women, and children."
La Conchita mon amour (2005-2006) is a site study by artist Christina McPhee and resulted in an exhibition of her art work at Sara Tecchia Roma New York, NYC in October 2006. Book was designed by faculty emeritus Terry Hargrave and can be purchased at the LaConchitamon amourLulu.com web page for $34.96 (100 pages, full-cover, paperback) or downloaded in .pdf for $7.50.
Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (2002)
"Desiging the Centennial is an important first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come—in future world's fairs, museums, department stores and in the nature of display itself."
Professor and architect Bruno Giberti's publication may be purchased at the DesigningtheCentennialAmazon.com web page.
GA Houses Project 2009 (2009)
"They wanted a house in which both space and time could be manipulated. They wanted to move activities into and out of adjacency with each other, to change the relationships of spaces relative to one another, to create spaces where none had existed before, and to invest these spaces with varying activities and a varying temporality."
Professor and architect Doug Jackon's Wormhole House is featured in GA Houses Project 2009, issue 109. This book can be purchased at the GAHousesProject109WilliamStout.com web page.
GA Houses Project 2008 (2008)
"Today content takes precedence over form. The DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery responds to this paradigm shift by offering a flexible space-dividing membrane as a kind of editable wiki that extends to the occupant a degree of authorial control by allowing for the nuanced reformulation of the interior space."
Professor and architect Doug Jackson's DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery is featured in GA Houses Project 2008, issue 103. This book can be purchased at the the GAHousesProject103WilliamStout.com web page.
The Universal Traveler: a Soft-Systems guide to: creativity, problem-solving and the process of reaching goals (reprinted in 2003)
"The goal of THE UNIVERSAL TRAVELER is to provide a simplifying format for problem-solving. We believe that all problems, no matter what size they may be, can benefit form the same logical and orderly procedures now employed in the highly specialized, computer assisted statistical, disciplines which address themselves to complex world problems. In principle our everyday and occasionally more important personal problems are no different than those larger issues. The process remains constant. It is only the methods which need to be changed, and then, often in appearance alone."
Professor and architect Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall's publication may be purchased at the The UniversalTraveleratAmazon web page.
London: Architecture and Place (2009)
"The course was a new one written specifically for the London Study Summer 09 program. This pamphlet showcases the students' research on place during their stay in the United Kingdom."
Professor and architect Michael Lucas's publication may be purchased at the Lulu.com's web page under London: Architecture and Place.
Natural Light and the Italian Piazza (1992)
"Lakeman's genuine passion for her subject is apparent in every aspect of this work. That excitement and fascination radiates from the pages in a form that everyone should make an effort to be exposed to... the photographs offer a stunning perspective and profound insight that is accessible to all... a philosophical and technical treatise on Light, Architecture, and Urban Planning."
Professor Emerita and architect Sandra Lakeman's book can be purchased at the NaturalLightandtheItalianPiazza Amazon.com web page.
Polemical Drawings (2009)
" Polemical Drawings gives legitimacy to architect and professor John Lange’s quest in setting in place a vision for an architecture of the future; one that finds resonance in the 18th century visionary architects who believed that drawing and the act of drawing, was Architecture in its own right.
The experiences and experiments of Boullee, Ledoux, and Piranesi established Architecture as a three-dimensional manifestation of a social structure; one that was coined Architecture Parlante.
John Lange’s work is firmly anchored in this tradition and while he has devoted his life as a teacher, an academician, theoretician, and educator, this book partakes in his search for an authentic plastic expression of ideas through structure and space. The work is explicitly recorded in the form of overcalled drawings."
Professor John Lange's book is part of the Architectural Environmental Design Press and can be purchased at PolemicalDrawingsLulu.com web page for $35.90 (152 pages, full-cover, paperback)
The Executive Architect: Transforming Designers into Leaders (1996)
"This book helps bridge the gap between the artist and the executive. It demonstrates that unlimited opportunities await the architect who looks beyond the everyday aspects of professional practice and learns as much as possible about the client's world.
The authors promote the premise that competitive success in architecture today requires new strategic thinking, marketing sophistication, innovative professional services and effective client relations skills. Features superlative advice and project examples from more than a dozen outstanding design professionals including Arthur Gensler (creator of the world's foremost practice in interior architecture), Charles Luckman (architect of major building such as the NASA complex) and Judy Rowe (responsible for architectural quality control for the Kaiser Foundation hospital facilities). Chapters cover key concepts, practices and techniques. Case studies, based on the Harvard Business School model, present the reader with successful decision-making examples."
Co-authored with architect John E. Harrigan, Dean Emeritus Paul Neel's book can be purchased at the The ExecutiveArchitectAmazon.com web page.
Getty Research Journal Number 1 • 2009
"The Getty Research Journal is a refereed journal that showcases work by scholars and staff associated with the Getty Research Institute and the other programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Essays focus on an object or aspect of the Getty's extensive archival, rare book, and artistic holdings or bear upon the anuual resarch themes of the Research Institute of the Getty Villa. The journal also presents a selction of texts about new acquisitations, scholarly activities, and ongoing research projects at the Getty."
Professor Marc Neveu's essay titled The Indole of Education: the Apologues of Carlo Lodoli is included in this publication and can be puchased at the GettyResearchJournalGetty web page.
The Emergence of Building Science; Historical Roots, Concepts, and Application (2007)
"The design of buildings and the broader field of environmental design are often described as an art and a science. Design is an art because of both the complexity of the problem solving and decision making process involved and the innate desire of the designer to produce a solution that is unique and at the same time pleasing to our human senses. In the first instance, the complexity of the design process itself is not necessarily due to the complexity of any single issue or facts that must be considered, although some of these certainly demand in-depth subject matter knowledge, but rather the many interrelationships among those factors."
Professor and architect Jens Pohl's publication may be purchased on the The EmergenceofBuildingSciendeAmazon.com web page.
The Green Braid: Towards an architecture of ecology, economy, and equity (2007)
"Providing a primer on sustainability, The Green Braid places sustainability at the center of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy, and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices, and therefore their architectural production, in a sustainable manner."
Professor and architect Jonathan Reich's essay titled Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, architect, and the develoment of engineeered lumber is included in this publication and can be purchased at the TheGreenBraidACSAPublications web page.
Architecture Department Newsletter
Newsletter (2009)
"This past year has been memorable in many ways as we marked a milestone in the department's history: namely the celebration of 45 years of sustained excellence of your alma mater. Granted, we are still very young at what we do, but youth comes with unconditional optimism and limitless ambition for the impossible. For architects, this translates into being visionaries, informed risk takers, and community activists. Generation after generation, alumni, faculty and students have defined San Luis Obispo as a unique place in the world of architectural education. The 2008--09 newsletter recognizes this engagement and reflects on our collective accomplishments over this past academic year."
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Selected Alumni Scholarship
Lorcan O'Herlihy (2008)
"An excellent insight to one of the most outstanding Architects from California. It's refreshing to see a body of work so well presented."
Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy's (B.Arch 1985 Cal Poly SLO) monograph can be purchased a the LorcanO'HerlilyAmazon. com web page.
Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction (2008)
"Praised as "modernist savants" by the New York Times, Marmor Radziner + Associates has redefined the indoor-outdoor California lifestyle made famous by legendary mid-century modernists such as Richard Neutra and Albert Frey. Their multifaceted projects include not only residential, commercial, and institutional buildings but also mid-century modern restorations, furniture, and prefab home manufacturing. Whether a Hollywood hideaway that floats ethereally over a lush garden or a chid-care center for LAX airport employees, each project embodies the philosophy of the firm by integrating finely crafted details with technically inventive modern spaces."
Architects Leo Marmol (B.Arch 1987 Cal Poly SLO) and Ron Radziner's (B.S College of Engineering) monograph can be purchased at the MarmolRadziner+AssociatesAmazon.com web page.
The Passive Solar Primer: Sustainable Architecture (2008)
"Architect David Wright (B.Arch 1964 Cal Poly, SLO) helped pioneer the concept of passive solar architecture, and his thoughts and experiments have helped shape the evolution of solar design throughout the world. His years of exploration are distilled in this comprehensive book, which provides simple graphics and language to illuminate concepts including greenhouse effect, heat storage, surface-to-volume ratio, ventilation, and cooling. Tips, rules-of-thumb, regional characteristics, and many other considerations are presented to help readers, from initial site selection to visionary design. Written for architects, designers, and others who seek to tap the free resources offered by earth and sun, this invaluable tool will help reduce dependence on outside energy sources. You will be inspired."
Architect David Wright's (B.Arch 1964, Cal Poly, SLO) book can be purchased at the ThePassiveSolar PrimerAmazon.com web page.