Rosa T. Sheng

Architect Rosa T. Sheng FAIA, a principal at acclaimed architecture + engineering firm SmithGroupJJR and a leading advocate for equitable practices in architecture, will address the Syracuse University School of Architecture graduating class of 2018 at their convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 9 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Dean Michael Speaks will preside.

As a licensed architect with 24 years of experience in architecture and design, Sheng has led a variety of award-winning and internationally acclaimed projects from the highly technical development of the glass structures for Apple¡¯s original high-profile retail stores to the innovative and sustainable LEED NC Gold¨Ccertified Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Sheng received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in 1994. She recently earned Fellow (FAIA) designation by the American Institute of Architects and is a LEED-accredited professional in building design and construction (LEED AP BD+C).

Sheng is the founding chair of Equity by Design, a national movement created by the American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter as a call to action for both women and men to help realize the goal of equitable practices¡ªto retain talent, advance the profession, and communicate the value of design to society. She is an ¡°active champion¡± for issues that reflect her passion for justice and equity within the architecture profession. Media coverage of her work with Equity by Design includes Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TEDxPhiladelphia and KQED/NPR.

¡°It¡¯s an honor to have Rosa as our convocation speaker,¡± says Dean Speaks. ¡°She has become a national figure in our field and beyond, not only for her architectural design work but particularly for her incredible efforts raising awareness and inspiring equitable change within the architecture workplace. I expect our students will be inspired by her passion and promise for the future.¡±

¡°I¡¯m deeply honored to address the graduating class this year,¡± says Sheng. ¡°There is profound responsibility in shaping the future of architecture and its impact on society at large. Inspired by the response to challenging current events, I have great faith in this next generation to become the leaders who will change our world for the better.¡±

About Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings and an?undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic , with a global footprint, and?, Syracuse University offers a quintessential college experience. The scope of Syracuse University is a testament to its strengths: a pioneering history dating back to 1870; a choice of more than 200 majors and 100 minors offered through 13 schools and colleges; nearly 15,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students; more than a quarter of a million alumni in 160 countries; and a student population from all 50 U.S. states and 123 countries. For more information, please visit .

Chao Wei gives his final M.S. thesis presentation in December 2017.

Rotating bricks could usher a new wave of dynamic masonry design, allowing building facades to move and adapt to meet real-time conditions and sustainability needs.? and how rotating bricks could usher in a new wave of dynamic masonry design, allowing building facades to move and adapt to meet real-time conditions and sustainability needs.

Wei explores this concept with an alterable wall made of custom-shaped bricks. The units, cast from a CNC-fabricated mold, are designed to both interlock and pivot, creating vents that can be opened and closed to allow air and light to enter. In doing so, the project uses passive design strategies that can improve interior conditions while saving energy.

Wei will receive a prize of $5,000, as will the School of Architecture graduate program. Wei¡¯s submission to the committee was his capstone research project, ¡°Alterable Wall: Speculate the Future of Brick Wall System,¡± presented at Syracuse Architecture at the conclusion of the fall 2017 semester. Assistant Professor Daekwon Park was Chao Wei¡¯s advisor in the M.S. program.

¡°Very few design competitions invite participants to focus on building materials and components,¡± says Wei. ¡°Pursuing innovation led me away from existing brick systems to create something new and unconventional. It really was a surprise to win. I¡¯d like to thank Dr. Daekwon Park and the faculty at the Syracuse Architecture graduate program.¡±

In his project statement, Wei explains, ¡°The ?simplicity of the system makes it cheap and feasible. Meanwhile, the high thermal capacity of the bricks makes this system suitable for buildings in a dry, hot climate. Other applications include places where adjustable light and ventilation is needed.¡±

¡°This submission really caught my imagination,¡± says DeSimone. ¡°It¡¯s a living wall. The texture is so compelling that if you had it at street level, people could run their hands across it and it would change every day. It¡¯s dynamic, and people don¡¯t always think of masonry in that way.¡±

The idea of ¡°living buildings¡± that allow occupants to react to their environment is a cornerstone of dynamic design.

Today¡¯s design industry is interested in pushing the limits of kinetic walls and movable building facades, but they often use metal, glass or steel components. Wei¡¯s project offers the opportunity to design kinetically with masonry, responding to designers¡¯ and owners¡¯ need for green, dynamic building solutions.

¡°Architects are so fascinated with mobility and movement,¡± says Jim¨¦nez. ¡°When you consider innovation as a technique or material, the kinetic quality of this is so impressive, creating an unexpected application where masonry moves.¡±

Overall, three transformative proposals were selected as winners of the masonry competition,sponsored by the International Masonry Institute, including entries submitted by architects, engineers, students, academics and firms across the U.S. and Canada.

¡°The word ¡®innovation¡¯ is so powerful, and we see that with our winners,¡± said Carlos Jim¨¦nez, principal and lead designer, Carlos Jim¨¦nez Studio, and juror for the competition. ¡°We have architects dreaming about colonizing Mars, academics innovating to improve a historical architectural form and a student using his imagination in a lab to make movable bricks.¡±

Along with Jim¨¦nez, the competition jury was comprised of renowned architects and leaders in the masonry industry: Stephen T. Ayers, architect of the Capitol; James Boland, president of IUBAC & IMI co-chair; Stephen V. DeSimone, president/chief executive of DeSimone Consulting Engineers; Alan Feltoon, senior director of business development at Michael Graves Architecture & Design; and Michael Schmerbeck, president of Back Brook Masonry & IMI co-chair.

Winners were announced on March 6 at an awards ceremony hosted by IMI and the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers in Miami.

About Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings and an?undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic , with a global footprint, and?, Syracuse University offers a quintessential college experience. The scope of Syracuse University is a testament to its strengths: a pioneering history dating back to 1870; a choice of more than 200 majors and 100 minors offered through 13 schools and colleges; nearly 15,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students; more than a quarter of a million alumni in 160 countries; and a student population from all 50 U.S. states and 123 countries. For more information, please visit .

An underpass of Interstate 81

¡°Future Infrastructures¡± will focus on the choices for renovating or re-routing the I-81 elevated highway in Syracuse from both an urban design and public policy perspective. What separates this forum from many others is the coming together of nationally recognized urban design and planning experts in conversation with voices from public policy and political contingents.

Says Syracuse Architecture Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair Lawrence Davis, one of the event organizers, ¡°Our hope is to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that reaches beyond the university that will inform both the design of the project and policy behind it in ways that consider as many constituencies as possible. We intend to frame our discussion in a way that takes a broader view by, among other things, looking at other cities that have similar challenges with their automotive infrastructure as we have in Syracuse.¡±

Panelists for the event include: economist , senior research associate and associate fellow from the Brookings Institution¡¯s Metropolitan Policy Program; , professor in practice of Urban Design at Harvard University¡¯s Graduate School of Design; , a social geographer and assistant professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; and , mayor of the City of Syracuse. , director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School, will moderate the discussion.

This event is free and open to the public. For special accessibility concerns, please contact Deb Witter-Gamba: dwitterg@syr.edu; 315.443.0790.

About Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings and an?undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic , with a global footprint, and?, Syracuse University offers a quintessential college experience. The scope of Syracuse University is a testament to its strengths: a pioneering history dating back to 1870; a choice of more than 200 majors and 100 minors offered through 13 schools and colleges; nearly 15,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students; more than a quarter of a million alumni in 160 countries; and a student population from all 50 U.S. states and 123 countries. For more information, please visit .

The Slocum Hall atrium will be transformed to create a festival-like atmosphere as architecture students take a break from the pressures of studio life to enjoy dumplings, tea and chocolate coins and activities such as calligraphy, a photo booth and paper cutting.

Says architecture student Fei Hu, ¡°I think we are planning this event well,?and I am excited about this! The?decorations and food we have will bring the original sense and taste of the Lunar New Year event to Slocum Hall for not only people from Asia but the whole school. I believe that everyone will enjoy it!¡±

Syracuse Architecture has a widely diverse population; faculty and students come from all around the globe, many from Asia. Events such as this offer international students the opportunity to share traditions of their homelands with classmates and build greater cultural understanding. The Lunar New Year party in particular brings a piece of home to Syracuse University for Asian students who typically miss out on family celebrations back home since the holiday takes place in mid-February.

¡°This will be my sixth time spending Lunar New Year in the U.S., away from home,¡° says Chengcheng (Tony) Li. ¡°My heart is warmed and greatly touched by the celebration event that will be hosted by the School of Architecture because it will be the first time in years that I can celebrate the most important festival in my culture in a proper way with my friends. I really appreciate how the School of Architecture embraces different cultures and cares about their international students.¡±

¡°I think it’s really nice to have such an event here,¡± says Le Yang. ¡°It will make Slocum Hall seem more like a home. The tradition of the Chinese is to go back to grandparents and all family members gather together to celebrate the New Year. However, because of the different schedules of U.S. and China, we haven’t been able to go back to celebrate the New Year for four years. In previous years, we tried to gather a few friends together to have the celebration. But this year we will have the event in Slocum. I’m proud of the school. It’s also a nice opportunity to let different cultures communicate. I hope there will be more events like this from all different cultures in the future.¡±

Says student Xingyao (Yao) Wang, “When I saw Lunar New Year posters hung on the wall in Slocum Hall and the words ¡®Come join us in Slocum Atrium!¡¯ posted online and retweeted everywhere within an hour, I felt Syracuse is so close to home.”

About Syracuse University

Founded?in 1870, Syracuse University is a private international research university?dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering student success through teaching?excellence,?rigorous scholarship and interdisciplinary research. Comprising 11?academic schools and colleges, the University has a long legacy of excellence?in the liberal arts, sciences and?professional disciplines that prepares?students for the complex challenges and emerging opportunities of a rapidly?changing world. Students enjoy the resources of a 270-acre main?campus and?extended campus venues in major national metropolitan hubs and across three?continents. Syracuse¡¯s student body is among the most diverse for an?institution of its?kind across multiple dimensions, and students typically represent?all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Syracuse also has a long legacy of?supporting veterans and is home to?the nationally recognized Institute for?Veterans and Military Families, the first university-based institute in the?U.S. focused on addressing the unique needs of veterans and their?families.

Randall Korman

Korman joined the Syracuse Architecture faculty in 1977, and, over the next?40 years, he became one of the school¡¯s most important and influential administrators and faculty members. Perhaps his greatest contribution, however, is the role he played and continues to play in shaping the educational experience of the several hundred architecture students fortunate enough to be in his studio courses and his thesis advisees.

¡°Professor Korman has been and continues to be the heart and soul of this great school,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°Every time we meet, whether in casual conversation or in a formal meeting, I learn something important about the school, about architecture, and most importantly, about life itself. And I know that every student and faculty member at the school has had this same experience. We will certainly miss seeing Randall in the school on a daily basis, but his influence will persist in the students, faculty and, indeed, in the school he helped shape and influence over these last?40 years.¡±

Korman will retire at the end of the spring 2018 semester, during which time he will teach a special studio on fa?ades and preside over a special lecture series also on fa?ades.?He has?invited six prominent architects and scholars¡ªwho have themselves focused their design and scholarly attention on the architectural fa?ade¡ªto lecture as part of the spring 2018 school lecture series.

Korman will open this special series on Tuesday, Jan. 30,?at 5:30 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium with a public lecture, ¡°Fa?ade: Missing in Action.¡± The fa?ade lecture series is sponsored by of Greenwich, Connecticut, helmed by Rich Granoff, a Syracuse Architecture Advisory Board member and former student of Korman’s.

Says Korman, ¡°The sequencing of the series was deliberate. In my presentation, I will try to set up some general issues, followed by the historian , who will speak to the significance of the great flowering of the fa?ade during the Renaissance. Professor , the noted scholar of modernism, will talk about the dramatic changes in the conception and production of the fa?ade during the early 20^th century. will make a presentation based on his seminal article entitled ¡®The Politics of the Envelope.¡¯ This will be followed by a lecture by of Ensamble Studio (Madrid), whose built work varies widely from buildings with very specific fa?ade treatments to buildings and sculptural works that are very much object oriented. The series will close with a lecture by the internationally renowned architect of Libeskind Studio (New York City). His work is known for its radical approach to the idea of fa?ade and its relationship to premodern buildings and traditional urban contexts.¡±

Professor Korman provides further context for the fa?ade lecture series and his upcoming presentation.

¡°Historically, the rhetoric of architecture has centered largely on the phenomenon of the fa?ade. As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization and representation, the facade carries the lion¡¯s share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world, often doing this across a very thin layer. As a result, the contemporary envelope can be one of the most complex and multidisciplinary of all components of a building.

“The fa?ade is the first surface one encounters when approaching a building, and the last when departing. It provides the representative image for all architecture and is how we typically recall a structure. It has the unique capacity to embody the idea of the building as a whole and is the principal instrument by which the architect shapes the observer¡¯s impression of it. Very simply, when we think of a building we usually first think of its fa?ade.

“And yet, the architectural fa?ade also has been the most neglected building component within the various discourses of the discipline. With the dramatic development of sophisticated systems of enclosure, significant advances in materials technology and the impact of parametric design, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of books and articles that deal with the technological and performative aspects of the building envelope. But, curiously, very few discuss the fa?ade as an instrument of the culture and principal engine of the building¡¯s rhetoric. This component of contemporary architectural discourse seems to be largely missing, begging the question: How is it that the most conspicuous part of any building is conspicuously absent from our considered reflection?

“For the past 25 years I have been addressing these matters through my research, teaching, writing and lecturing. My lead-off presentation will speak to some of the issues attending to the production of the modern fa?ade. Entitled ¡®Fa?ade: Missing in Action,¡¯ the principal thesis of my talk is that the profession¡¯s current preoccupation with parametricism, blob architecture and minimalism has resulted in a shift away from the historic traditions of creating ¡®face¡¯ and the defining urban space in place of creating iconic structures and exotic ¡®skins.¡¯ The result has been the privileging of the individual building¡¯s identity over the collective responsibility to create public space, begging the question: ¡®What is the future of urban space?¡¯

“The lecture series was conceived as a way of addressing this and other questions about the phenomenon of the architectural fa?ade.¡±

?Fa?ade lecture series

Jan. 30
Randall Korman,
Professor, Syracuse Architecture
¡°Fa?ade: Missing in Action¡±
Reception follows

Feb. 13
Charles Burroughs,
Emeritus Professor of Liberal Arts,
Case Western Reserve University
¡°Surface and Threshold: Antinomies of the Architectural Fa?ade¡±

Feb. 22
Kenneth Frampton,
Ware Professor of Architecture,
Columbia University GSAPP
¡°The Mask and the Face: Building vs Architecture¡±
L.C. Dillenback Lecture
Reception follows

March 20
Alejandro Zaera-Polo,
AZPML Architects, London,
NYC, Madrid / Professor
Princeton University School of Architecture
Werner Seligmann Lecture

April 3
Ant¨®n Garc¨ªa-Abril & D¨¦bora Mesa,
Ensamble Studio, Madrid

April 10
Daniel Libeskind,
Studio Libeskind, NYC
L.C. Dillenback Lecture
Reception follows

All lectures take place at 5:30 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium.

For accessibility concerns, please contact Deb Witter-Gamba at dwitterg@syr.edu; 315.443.0790.

An illustration of the urban village concept, which two of Syracuse Architecture’s studios design proposals deal with

When the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale opens on Dec. 15 in the Nantou Old Town village in Shenzhen, China, the work of the? will be on full display:

• Student design proposals from two of the school¡¯s studios will be on exhibit.
• will participate in an opening professional forum.

Architect (, Shenzhen/Beijing)¡ªa Syracuse Architecture visiting critic in spring 2017¡ª is one of the Biennale¡¯s three main venue ; Syracuse Architecture students Minglu Wei (B.Arch ¡¯19) and Nicolas Carmona Guzman (B.Arch ¡¯18) assisted Meng Yan with the venue¡¯s design.

The is the most prominent design exhibition in Asia, and widely considered one of the most significant in the world. Based on prior attendance, it is projected that 250,000 people will visit this year¡¯s event over a three-month period, through March 15, 2018.? This year¡¯s overarching theme is “City Symbiosis,” with the exhibition divided into three sub-groups:?World | South;?City | Village;?and?Art City.?The two Syracuse Architecture studio exhibits fall within the City | Village category:

• Imagining the Future of Urban Village in Shenzhen
  This exhibit displays the proposals from a Syracuse Architecture visiting critic design studio of undergraduate and graduate students, led by Meng Yan and Ying Yujun, assisted by Speaks and Professor The studio researched the urban village typology in Shenzhen and proposed alternative futures for its development.

• Post-Industrial Regeneration in Urban Village in Shenzhen
  This exhibition showcases the work of Syracuse Architecture students from Wang Fei¡¯s spring 2017 undergraduate fourth-year integrated studio seeking to redevelop an urban village site and aiming to uncover its latent cultural and economic potential through a variety of interventions¡ªfrom agricultural renovations to experimental residential and cultural event venues. Six projects interpret the social needs of the Nantou villagers and propose urban renewal schemes that integrate its existing industrial infrastructure.

¡°The Shenzhen Biennale is unique among the many global architecture biennales because it is always staged as a real world urban intervention,¡± says Speaks. ¡°The work our students will have on display represents the culmination of diligent research, analysis and out-of-the-box thinking as they propose real design solutions for the future of urban villages in Shenzhen. To receive this high level of visibility is a great testimony to the quality of their work and the mentorship they¡¯ve received from Wang Fei and Meng Yan in their studios.¡±

?Schedule of Syracuse Architecture-related events

Friday, Dec. 15, 5-8 p.m.
Shenzhen Architecture & Urbanism Biennale Opening
Nantou Ancient City, Shennan Ave, NanTou
Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Guangdong Sheng, China, 518052

Saturday, Dec. 16, 2-5?p.m.
Shenzhen Architecture & Urbanism Biennale Professional Forum, featuring Dean Michael Speaks
Nantou Ancient City, Shennan Avenue, NanTou
Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Guangdong Sheng, China, 518052

Sunday, Dec. 17, 6-8 p.m.
Syracuse Architecture Alumni/Friends Event
Shenzhen Institute of Building Research
#29, Meiao 3rd?Rd., Upper Meilin, Futian District
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Michael Speaks

The undergraduate bachelor of architecture professional degree program has consistently ranked in the top 10 every year since 2004. The graduate program repeats in the top 20, this year ranked at the No. 19 position.

The rankings are based on a professional practice survey completed by nearly 3,000 leading architecture and design firms, as well as 215 deans and academic chairs, on which schools ¡°best prepare students for a future in the profession and designing a sustainable future.¡±

Syracuse Architecture also received special ¡°top 10¡± accolades in six architecture design education focus areas deemed valuable by hiring professionals: communication and presentation skills; construction materials and methods; design technologies; interdisciplinary studies; project planning and management; and practice management.

¡°We¡¯re grateful for this honor,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°So much of what contributes to our success is the high level of dedication and diversity throughout the school. Our faculty are deeply engaged and committed to helping students gain the professional expertise and discipline needed to face contemporary?challenges on a global scale.¡±

Tarek Rakha, Jason Dedrick and Elizabeth Krietemeyer, from left, have just received a grant from the NSF to work on a smart energy grid.

The concept of community energy involves integrating small-scale solar power, demand management and energy storage at the community level to create economic, environmental and social value for individuals and communities while improving the reliability and resilience of the electric grid.

Says Krietemeyer, ¡°It¡¯s an honor for us to represent Syracuse University at the forefront of interdisciplinary research. Over the next year, our team will develop designs for community energy dashboards for the Mueller neighborhood in Austin, and we¡¯ll conduct field work through community workshops to enhance visualization and simulation of built environment energy performance.¡±

According to the NSF, ¡°Cities and communities in the U.S. and around the world are entering a new era of transformational change, in which their inhabitants and the surrounding built and natural environments are increasingly connected by smart technologies, leading to new opportunities for innovation, improved services and enhanced quality of life. The intent of this research effort is to support strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning.”

The S&CC grant complements another recently awarded to Krietemeyer, Rakha and Dedrick by the Syracuse CoE Faculty Fellows program for their project “Community Energy Dashboard: A Tool for a Community Energy Approach.”

Marcel Breuer, Grand Central Tower, 1968. Graphite, ink and gouache on illustration board with trace overlay, 42in x 30.5in. Courtesy Marcel Breuer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries

Buried somewhere in the universal archive of architectural projects lies a massive catalogue of unbuilt proposals: a treasure trove of ¡°what ifs¡± and visions of what could or might have been. Though seemingly inert and consigned to the past, these proposals have the potential to inspire those who contemplate and design for the present and the future.

In 2013, the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angles hosted “” an exhibition co-curated by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, based on the pair’s??of the same name. Goldin, an architecture critic, and Lubell, an architectural writer and editor, featured more than 100 proposed projects that never came to fruition, painting a dramatic picture of what might have been.

The speculation continues and moves to the east coast with “ curated by Goldin and Lubell, which opened this month at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows, New York City. Christian Wassmann is the exhibition designer. ¡°Never Built New York¡± runs through Feb. 18, 2018.

A selection of Marcel Breuer drawings from the at Syracuse University Bird Library has been sponsored by Syracuse Architecture and Bird Library, and is?included in the exhibition.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore ¡°the alternative paths New York City could have traveled¡± and ¡°encourages us to think beyond the present tense and push the boundaries of what the future of the metropolis holds.¡±

In conjunction with the exhibition, Goldin and Lubell are teaching a ¡°Never Built New York¡± course this fall to Syracuse Architecture students studying in the school¡¯s New York City studio program at the Fisher Center.

Marcel Breuer, Grand Central Tower, 1968. Pencil on transparent drafting paper, 41in x 45in. Courtesy Marcel Breuer Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries

¡°This is an exceptional opportunity for our students,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°Greg and Sam not only have incredible insight on New York City architectural history, but also the unique energy and challenges faced by the design community at the core of this urban center.¡±

In their book, Goldin and Lubell write ¡°On close scrutiny, the catalogue of unbuilt New York projects demonstrates just how hard it is, when a designer conceives of something new or outside the orthodoxy, to realize that innovation. In most other cities, this cold fact might be taken for granted; but in New York, where ceaseless creativity and aspiration are the norm, it is surprising how many potentially brilliant buildings are confined to the archives, and how many city plans have been erased, in some cases even before they were made public.¡±

The ¡°Never Built New York¡± exhibition promises to provide backward reflection and forward inspiration for designers and non-designers alike.

Francisco Sanin

On May 19, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, School of Architecture Professor Francisco Sanin will join a highly respected gathering of leading thinkers from around the globe as a panelist at the conference.

The high profile event is organized by the , in partnership with and Stakeholders from government and private sectors, the United Nations network, and other international organizations will engage in dialogue regarding the critical role of sustainable infrastructure and city portals in urban transformation.

Among the many notables participating in this event will be H.E. Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General; H.E. Peter Thomson, president, United Nations General Assembly; and Dr. Joan Clos, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat).

Professor Sanin will participate in a special case study session and provide expertise on the recent transformation of Medellin, Colombia. ¡°It¡¯s an honor to participate in this forum,¡± says Sanin. ¡°The conference will explore case studies from around the world that go beyond the more traditional view of infrastructure, i.e. bridges and roads. The case of Medellin represents a more comprehensive understanding, one that includes social and political elements¡ªschools, hospitals, markets, public spaces, etc.¡±

The City of Medellin recommended Sanin¡¯s selection as a panelist to represent ¡°their story¡± at this event. Sanin was born and educated in Medellin, receiving his architectural diploma from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Of much greater significance, however, is the impact Sanin has had on Medellin¡¯s dramatic transformation over the last few decades. Sanin has visited the city regularly to conduct workshops and seminars on urban design, led research on the city¡¯s urban strategies¡ªmany resulting in development and becoming a road map for future transformative efforts. He has worked closely with Sergio Fajardo¡ªcurrently governor of the state of Antioquia in Colombia, and former mayor of Medellin¡ªin developing projects at the city and state level.

It is worth remembering that, in the late 1980s and 90s, Medellin was considered one of the most, if not the most, dangerous cities in the world. In recent years, Medellin has become recognized internationally for its urban and social transformation. It has won several international urban design prizes. In 2016, in Singapore as the most innovative urban transformation in the world. In December 2016, ¡°60 Minutes ¡±on CBS aired a special feature, ,¡± including an interview with Fajardo and examples of how strategic, comprehensive changes to infrastructure brought the city back to life.

Says Sanin, ¡°Infrastructure can become a crucial tool of urban transformation. This conference represents a recognition of that and will be a forum to exchange the experience of Medellin with others from around the world.¡±

Professor Francisco Sanin is internationally known as an urban designer, noted for his extensive research in the history and theory of urban form. He is a practicing architect with work in several countries. He has received numerous awards in architectural competitions and has lectured, curated exhibitions, and published internationally. He was director of the Syracuse University Architecture program in London from 2014-2016, chair of the school¡¯s graduate program from 2010-2013, and director of the Syracuse Architecture Florence program from 2005-2008. He has previously taught at Princeton, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Kingston and Greenwich Universities in the UK, and the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. He has been a visiting professor in schools around the world, including the Korean National University of Arts, Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, UPB in Medellin, Colombia, and Miami University.

The prize is one of North America¡¯s most prestigious awards. Open to designers ten years or less out of bachelor’s or master’s degree programs, the competition draws entrants from throughout the continent. Assistant professors Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh (Architecture Office), Greg Corso and Molly Hunker (SPORTS) stand tall on the list of five firms chosen for this honor.

Architecture Office created Big Will and Friends, an installation and performance realized in Syracuse in 2016 and Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2017.

¡°Our entire school is thrilled by the news of this outstanding achievement,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°Not only do Jonathan, Nicole, Greg and Molly set a high bar for other young architects, they set an example for future architects¡ªour students¡ªthrough the manifestation of beautiful design that pushes the envelope.¡±

Established in 1981, the Architectural League Prize recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas. Each year, the Architectural League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee organize a portfolio competition. Individuals representing six winning practices are then invited to present their work in a variety of public fora, including lectures, an exhibition and on .

This year¡¯s theme for the portfolio competition, ¡°Support,¡± identified a present situation in which?precarious forms and precarious social arrangements exist side by side. Competitors were challenged to consider how one clarifies the modes of support in architecture today when the discipline¡¯s?role is obscured by a tangled network in which?exchanges between built form and various systems of framing, assistance, and reinforcement?are constantly in flux.

An exhibition of work by the winning firms will take place from June 28-Aug. 1, 2017, at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. John Design Center at the Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. In addition, the winners will give lectures at Parsons; , at 7 p.m.; , at 7 p.m. Lectures will take place in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.

About Architecture Office

and founded in 2015. ¡°Part practice and part observation,¡± the firm¡¯s projects attempt to ¡°support architecture¡¯s unique capacity to not be static and singular, but, to simultaneously engage and refresh the real-time value of the things around it.¡±

Architecture Office created , an installation and performance realized in Syracuse in 2016 and Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2017. ¡°Big Will¡± refers to an affectionately named shotgun house-style pavilion whose facades were fretted with a floral pattern mimicking Morris & Co.¡¯s thistle wallpaper, which was also applied to a nearby wall. The firm aimed to ¡°blur the point where representation ends and material matter begins.¡±

McIntosh and Louie enlisted modern dance troupes costumed with the matching pattern to perform alongside the installation resulting in an exploration of the relationships between static and moving things. The event and workshop Parti Wall (2014) contained nine individual installations erected by student and mentor teams inside a gridded floorplan partitioned into a grid. The exercise challenged participant designers to ¡°negotiate boundaries that define their respective spaces¡± while co-constructing the walls that define their neighbors¡¯ installation. The duo is currently working on House in House, a single-family home encased in an outer shell of an existing log cabin, which will begin construction in fall 2017 in Lake Walker, Washington.

Jonathan Louie obtained a master of architecture degree from UCLA, where he also received a 2¡Á8 Award sponsored by the AIA Los Angeles. Louie was awarded a fellowship residency at The MacDowell Colony, which he completed in fall 2015. Louie is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture.

Nicole McIntosh received both a bachelor of architecture degree and a master of architecture degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). She is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and has lectured at the University of Arizona¡¯s College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.?In 2014-15 she was a Teaching Fellow at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

About SPORTS

In 2016, the firm, SPORTS, won the fourth annual Ragdale Ring design-build competition, for which the architects realized an open-air theatre in Illinois.

Based in Syracuse, was founded by and in 2010. The studio ¡°approaches architecture in a playful way by balancing rigor and research with amusement and curiosity.¡± As a result, SPORTS trades on the familiarity of built environment only to destabilize and reimagine its ¡°latent assets¡± of space, material, and site.

In 2016, the firm won the fourth annual Ragdale Ring design-build competition, for which the architects realized an open-air theatre in Illinois. Their project, Rounds, was designed to adapt to different performance types and audience sizes.

In 2012, SPORTS designed and built a temporary installation titled Stay Down, Champion, Stay Down. The installation, located in a gallery along Hollywood¡¯s Walk of Fame, was comprised of a grid of undulating terra cotta floor tiles that swelled in two masses illuminated from below by colored light to reframe the ground plane as well as the iconic walkway just outside the gallery door. SPORTS won the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara¡¯s Pavilion Competition in 2017 with Runaway, which attempts to ¡°architecturalize the aesthetic quality of air in Santa Barbara.¡± Runaway is comprised of three forms made from colorful steel matrices that can act as seats, tables, and assorted functional surfaces and will appear at different sites throughout the city during its two-year lifespan.

In 2016, SPORTS was featured as a ¡°Firm to Watch¡± by Architectural Record and as one of Architect magazine¡¯s ¡°Next Progressives.¡± Corso and Hunker have presented their work in lectures at universities such as the University of Illinois, Chicago and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Rounds won a 2016 Architects Newspaper ¡°Best of Design¡± award for a Temporary Installation.

Greg Corso received a master of architecture and bachelor of arts degree in economics, both from UCLA. He is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and has previously taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Architecture and Woodbury University. He completed a fellowship residency with The MacDowell Colony in 2016

Molly Hunker has a bachelor of arts degree in urban geography and studio art from Dartmouth College and a master of architecture degree from UCLA. She has taught at Woodbury University, the University of Illinois and Chicago School of Architecture, and was a program coordinator and lecturer at UCLA. Hunker is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture. In 2013, she was awarded the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship at the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Architecture.

Linda Zhang

has selected architectural designer and educator Linda Zhang as the Harry der Boghosian Fellow for 2017-18. She will succeed Assistant Professor Maya Alam, the school¡¯s inaugural Boghosian Fellow. Zhang is currently a Fellow in Residence at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U) in Berlin¡ªa trans-disciplinary art/urban research community¡ªwhere she has been collaborating with Tyler Fox on the design research project ¡°Arch Archives.¡±

¡°We¡¯re very fortunate to have Linda Zhang join us as our next Boghosian Fellow,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°She brings with her an extraordinary portfolio and passion for teaching and research that will certainly live up to the high standards of the fellowship.¡±

The Boghosian Fellowship at Syracuse Architecture¡ªestablished in early 2015 in memory of Harry der Boghosian ¡¯54 by his sister Paula der Boghosian ¡¯64 (Education)¡ªmakes it possible for early career faculty to spend a year developing a body of design research based on an area of interest while teaching at the school. This fall, Zhang will give a public lecture on her research; in the spring, she and her students will prepare a public exhibition.

¡°I am humbled and honored to be awarded the Boghosian Fellowship,¡± says Zhang. ¡°As an emerging practitioner early in my career, this is a unique and invaluable opportunity to work with students, faculty and the Syracuse community to pursue my design research interest and propel it into unchartered territory.¡±

During the 2017-18 academic year, Zhang will teach a studio and an elective course at Syracuse Architecture. The area of focus will be critical memory and the architecture of loss. Addressing the intangible aspects of reality¡ªhistory, essence, value and meaning¡ªshe and her students will focus on explorations in time-based material processes. ¡°Together, we will build an unstable understanding of history,¡± says Zhang. ¡°We will construct a dynamic future and present moment through the exploration of contested memory, contradictory histories, and a non-linear understanding of temporality.¡±

Coursework will integrate technical tools of casting and mold-making, and students will develop new forms of critical memory as they explore how to translate conceptual applications to full-scale structures.

Says Zhang: ¡°Working simultaneously at both a theoretical and practical level, my work engages with material processes to indulge my pedagogical obsessions.?As such, thinking always translates into making and making into further ideas, both being constantly enriched in the process.?The fellowship will provide me with the ideal platform and opportunity for experimentation of precisely both those things.¡±

Previously, Zhang worked for Studio Olafur Eliasson / Studio Other Spaces (Berlin), Barkow Leibinger (Berlin), Christian Kerez (Z¨¹rich), WOJR (Boston) and Approach Architecture Studio (Beijing).

Her work has been published and exhibited internationally in Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United States.

She was a Dean¡¯s Merit Scholar at Harvard University¡¯s Graduate School of Design, where she received an M.Arch I AP with distinction, the AIA Henry Adams Certificate and the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize. She received a B.Sc.Arch with First-Class Honors from McGill University School of Architecture, where she was the recipient of the McGill Alumnae 75th Anniversary Scholarship, the Faculty of Engineering Scholarship, the Murdoch Laing Design Competition (third prize), the Philip J. Turner Prize and the Steel Structure Education Foundation Scholarship.

¡°I hope to continue to set the bar high, as Maya Alam has already done,¡± Zhang says. ¡°Most of all, I look forward to working with the outstanding student body at Syracuse Architecture.¡±

¡°~ISH: Stages Before the Real¡± represents the culmination of a yearlong design research effort conducted? by Assistant Professor Maya Alam, Harry der Boghosian Fellow, 2016-17, in collaboration with her architecture students.

¡°~ISH: Stages Before the Real¡± will be on exhibition from March 24 through April 7 in the Slocum Hall Marble Room. The exhibition represents the culmination of a yearlong design research effort conducted at the School of Architecture by Assistant Professor Maya Alam, Harry der Boghosian Fellow, 2016-17, in collaboration with her architecture students.

A public reception will take place on Friday, March 24, from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in Slocum Hall¡¯s first-floor atrium. From 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., will give a gallery talk.

Maya Alam

Alam is the school¡¯s inaugural Boghosian Fellow. Throughout the 2016-17 academic year she has taught an architecture studio and two elective courses in alignment with a research proposal supported by the fellowship. She and her students have explored new possibilities of identity and iconicity in architecture by reconsidering alternative connections between object, observer and context.

A Boghosian Fellowship symposium led by Alam, ¡°,¡± took place at the school in February. A panel of eight architects discussed a new public and private convergence within contemporary architecture and an increasing multi-layered digital presence. More than ever architects are confronted with a multiplicity of media platforms that challenge perception of their environment and their multivalent presence within it. The symposium provided new conversations on the theme of uncertainty, i.e. ¡°ishness.¡±

The upcoming exhibition is the final manifestation of work supported by the fellowship. “~ISH: Stages Before the Rea” begins with understanding of ~ish as a contemporary architectural concept.

¡°As architecture seeks absolutes,¡± says Alam, ¡°certainty is increasingly improbable. This exhibition puts forth the premise that the world we live in cannot be understood as an absolute, as a singular entity, and, so, the in-between is the true reality within which we must operate.¡±

¡°It¡¯s been exciting to witness the collaborative efforts of Maya and her students over this past year,” says Dean Michael Speaks. “We¡¯re very grateful for the unique, exceptional opportunity made possible through Paula der Boghosian¡¯s generosity in memory of her brother, Harry. We look forward to the efforts of future Boghosian Fellows.¡±

¡°I would like to thank Paula der Boghosian for establishing the ,¡± says Maya Alam. ¡°It has provided me with the rare opportunity to develop my own design research in collaboration with colleagues and students. This has truly been a remarkable year.¡±

The members of the student team are Paul J. Lee, Teriya Lee, Sol Yoon, Raymond Guo, Andy Kim, Tsu Yu Lee, Birani Nyanat, Kokeith Perry II, Sabrina Herbosa Reyes, Caroline Jeon, Hye Rim Shin, Katherine E. Truluck, Kamila Aim¨¦ Varela, Geraldine Vargas and Dabota Wilcox

The question strikes at the heart of challenging and polarizing issues Angelenos struggle with as their city faces the effects of rapid growth and rapid urban transformation. Perhaps no issue defines the challenges faced by Los Angles, and indeed cities across North America, more than housing: Should there be more or less public housing? More or less market rate development? What should be the mix of public and private housing? And should new housing, whether public or market rate, be more or less dense?

On Thursday, March 30, the undergraduate program at Syracuse University School of Architecture will host an interdisciplinary symposium, ¡°,¡± to explore some of the complex issues surrounding L.A.¡¯s urban density and growing housing crisis. The event, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium, will include talks by architecture critics and writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin¡ªco-authors of ¡°Never Built Los Angeles¡± (Metropolis Books, 2013)¡ªfollowed by a panel discussion offering interdisciplinary vantage points. Syracuse Architecture professor Francisco Sanin will moderate.

Aerial view of Downtown Los Angeles.

Panelists are urban economist Stuart Rosenthal, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research in the Maxwell School; urban geographer Jamie Winders, O’Hanley Faculty Scholar, professor and chair of the Geography Department in the Maxwell School; and Lemir Teron, an assistant professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry specializing in issues of urban renewal and resiliency.

¡°Do we change our center cities to meet these challenges by designing socially equitable and ecologically sensible urban density or do we adapt our very popular, already-existing, lower-density environments in ways that are more environmentally friendly, economically accessible, and culturally adaptable?¡± asks Lawrence Davis, Syracuse Architecture associate professor and undergraduate chair. ¡°Is there a hybrid middle ground? Our goal through this symposium is to add to this debate while providing future architects and policy makers perspectives to inform their future work.¡±

Issues of environmental sustainability, affordable housing, quality of life and demographic change have always put pressure on our built environments. In the case of Los Angeles, the last four decades have witnessed increased immigration and rapid change in the social and cultural makeup of a postwar, shared identity, built on Anglo-American, middle-class sprawl. A more recent influx of Hispanic and Asian populations to the exurban Los Angeles ?basin has brought changes in culturally grounded spatial practices. Independent of social background, the increased number of people living in the spread-out city has furthered ecological degradation and, because of the diffuse nature of development, exacerbated economic inequality among increasingly isolated resident groups

Sherman Oaks.

Over the past year, rallying cries such as ¡°Save our neighborhoods!¡± and ¡°Good jobs and affordable housing now!¡± defined the fault lines of the debate in L.A. as voters voiced opposing views over hotly contested ballot proposal Prop JJJ (a.k.a. Build Better L.A.)¡ªa proposal sponsored by a coalition of labor unions, transit advocates, affordable housing proponents and developers¡ªto change building and zone regulations allowing for increased urban density in hopes of more affordable, equitable living. The proposal spurred a loud clash of identity politics as many suburbanites voiced fears of eroding property values and decline of 20^th-century, low-rise suburban ¡°character.¡± For many, the cost of high-rise ¡°affordable¡± development is too high and erodes exactly what is desirable and distinct about their city. The proposal passed by a 2:1 margin last November but left behind seeds of resentment and frustration. Successful petitioning by grassroots group Coalition to Preserve LA resulted in the Neighborhood Integrity Act (Measure S) being put on another ballot, in hopes of reversing Prop JJJ regulations and curtailing large-scale hi-rise construction. On March 7, the measure was decisively rejected.

Now that the voters have spoken, the hard work lies ahead, but the debate will continue.

Says Davis, ¡°We encourage individuals across disciplines to join us for what promises to be a compelling discussion on one of the most pressing debates facing our cities today.¡±

The ¡°Density: Through Thick and Thin¡ªLos Angeles¡± symposium is sponsored by the Syracuse Architecture undergraduate program (Associate Professor Lawrence Davis, chair) and curated by Associate Professor Elizabeth Kamell and Assistant Professor Tarek Rakha.

About the participants

Greg Goldin was the architecture critic at Los Angeles Magazine from 1999-2011. In 2011, he was awarded a Getty Institute Research Grant, which led to his exhibition Windshield Perspective at the A + D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles (2013), a study of vernacular Los Angeles architecture. In summer 2013, he co-curated and co-authored ¡°Never Built Los Angeles.¡± In 2014, he was a contributing curator to the Getty Museum¡¯s ¡°No Further West,¡± an exhibition about the making of Los Angeles¡¯ Union Station. His latest book, co-authored with Sam Lubell, is ¡°Never Built New York¡± (Metropolis Books, 2016). His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Record, Architect¡¯s Newspaper and Zocalo, among many others.

Sam Lubell is a staff writer at Wired and a contributing editor at The Architect¡¯s Newspaper. He has written seven books about architecture for Monacelli Press, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books and Phaidon. He also writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Architect, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Wallpaper*, Contract and other publications. He co-curated the A+D Architecture and Design Museum exhibitions ¡°Never Built Los Angeles¡± and ¡°Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles.¡± His upcoming exhibition with Greg Goldin, ¡°Never Built New York,¡± will open at the Queens Museum this September.

Stuart Rosenthal is the Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research. Before joining Syracuse University in 1999, Rosenthal held positions in the economics department at Virginia Tech, the faculty of commerce and business administration at the University of British Columbia, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His research is in the area of urban economics, real estate finance and housing, and state and local public economics. This includes work on a wide range of housing and mortgage issues, the determinants of urban renewal and decay, the influence of agglomeration on productivity, and entrepreneurship.

Lamir Teron is on the environmental studies faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He currently works on municipal scale renewable energy projects. His research examines sustainability policy, urban development and environmental justice. Teron received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware¡¯s Center for Energy & Environmental Policy and completed a postdoc at the NOAA-affiliated Environmental Cooperative Science Center, where his work explored the human dimensions of challenges related to legacy pollution, climate change and coastal communities.

Jamie Winders is O¡¯Hanley Faculty Scholar, professor and chair of the Geography Department in the Maxwell School. Trained as an urban geographer, she studies the relationships between immigration and racial politics, especially in the context of American cities. Beyond her work on immigration, Winders has published on topics including new and social media, social reproduction, postcolonial theory, gender and class dynamics.

Assistant Professor Fei Wang¡¯s graduate students participate in a workshop led by visiting architect Na Wei earlier this month.

The undergraduate program has been ranked #3 in the nation and the graduate program #8 by DesignIntelligence, the bimonthly journal of the Design Futures Council, considered the leading source of school rankings within the design sector. In addition, Syracuse Architecture Dean was selected as one of ¡°25 Most Admired Educators for 2016-17.¡±

The undergraduate program has been ranked in the top 10 every year since 2004. After re-entering the top 20 in 2014 with a #16 ranking, and a #11 ranking in 2015, this year the graduate program broke into the top 10 for the first time in school history.

The rankings are based on a professional practice survey completed by nearly 3,000 leading architecture and design firms, as well as 145 deans and academic chairs, on which schools ¡°best prepare students for a future in the profession and designing a sustainable future.¡± This year¡¯s rankings made special note of Syracuse Architecture¡¯s strengths in areas of communication skills, construction methods and materials, cross-disciplinary teamwork, design and planning.

Michael Speaks

According to DesignIntelligence, ¡°Speaks is raising the repute of his college especially on issues of sustainability and research in urban planning, where he is raising the communications discord from theory into strategic intelligence. He has great knowledge on the potential action agenda for a profession in transition.¡±

¡°It¡¯s an honor to be recognized,¡± says Speaks. ¡°In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, Syracuse Architecture has not only maintained its high ranking and excellent reputation, but, thanks to our dedicated faculty and staff, we have moved up the last three years in the undergraduate rankings and have, for the first time in school history, broken into the top 10 in graduate rankings.

Speaks became dean in July 2013 after serving as dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky. Founded in 1873, Syracuse University School of Architecture is one of the oldest architecture schools in the United States. As a result of the professional accreditation review process that took place in April 2016, the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) has awarded the school full accreditation for the maximum term of eight years.

“Isla Rhizolith / Rhizolith Island” floats in the Port of Cartagena, Colombia earlier in September

Not only can concrete float, but it holds potential for shoreline revitalization.

Over recent years, portions of Colombian shorelines have become vulnerable. Urbanized areas have suffered from ongoing flooding brought on by devastating mangrove forest depletion. ¡°Isla Rhizolith / Rhizolith Island,¡± explores the potential of floating concrete as a means for curtailing the flooding and revitalizing the shoreline areas. It is an experimental ?project based on a concept and prototype designed and developed by Syracuse Architecture assistant professors Roger Hubeli and Julie Larsen (), in partnership with the (CRG, Switzerland). Each concrete ¡°island¡± includes mangrove tree seedlings that, over time, would grow and help to protect the shoreline area from flooding.

¡°Isla Rhizolith / Rhizolith Island¡± was seen floating in the , Colombia, from Sept. 21-23. The ¡°floating island¡± exhibition was part of (Reunion del Concreto), an international expo and academic conference on concrete. At the conference, Davide Zampini, head of CEMEX Research Group, made a lecture presentation on the team¡¯s work.

¡°We are super proud to have been a part of such a great team that made the construction of this come to life,¡± say and . ¡°Its amazing to design and draw something that someone down in Colombia just makes happen!¡± Matt Dinsmore B.Arch ¡¯17, and Nusrat Mim M.Arch ¡¯18, are working as interns with Hubeli and Larsen on the project.

Two site locations have been chosen for further development¡ªCienaga de la Virgen Lagoon and Isle Grande. Both reflect the long-term strategy of restoring the shoreline over time (five-10 years), using the concrete island as an incubator for the mangroves to grow and thrive. Eventually the roots of mangroves break through the concrete and take over to become a permanent, natural buffer to soak up water and reduce flooding during storms.

Julie Larsen and Roger Hubeli

Rhizoliths are root systems that have been encased in mineral matter and are created through the process of chemical weathering, decomposition and cementation. ¡°Rhizolith Island¡± is a system comprised of root-like concrete elements and planted mangroves that, together, act as an artificial and natural Rhizolith root system. Once aggregated and growing, the structure acts as a breakwater as well as a ¡°seed¡± for the revitalization and protection of substrate for new mangroves.

The Rhizolith Island is a fragment of a larger breakwater that can be deployed along the shoreline in an ¡°acupuncture¡± strategy in locations most affected by depleting mangroves and annual flooding. The system uses the porosity of the concrete, as well as its form, to dissipate the force of the water during a storm surge. During the first phase, the mangroves are planted and protected by split encasement tubes to stabilize the mangrove seedlings. The tubes are anchored into the substrate in the top of the concrete elements and designed with voids to allow the roots of the maturing mangrove to grow and spread beyond the elements. Simultaneously, the element fins serve as stabilizers and create pockets of space, with voids puncturing the surfaces to create inviting ecosystems, similar to leaf litter and decomposing debris, for flora and fauna to inhabit the structure.

In the second phase, the mangrove trees continue to grow on the floating elements, as well as on shore, as newly deposited sediment slowly accumulates; allowing for further growth of mangrove trees along the shoreline. In the final phase, the floating elements eventually moor into the seabed and further work as a type of Rhizolith breakwater system to reduce additional erosion of the sediment. This system establishes a local restoration and expansion of the mangrove forest.

Roger Sherman in his studio

brings a wealth of professional and teaching experience to the studio. Previously, he was founder of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design in Culver City, California. From 2006-2015 he was co-director, with Dana Cuff, of cityLAB, an urban design think tank at UCLA, where he is an adjunct professor. A graduate with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sherman has taught and lectured widely, including at New York¡¯s MoMA and TEDx. He was previously a visiting critic at Syracuse Architecture in spring 2008, working with architecture students on a warehouse renovation project in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood.

Sherman’s fall 2016 studio, ¡°O-Zonism: Piloting a Fifth Ecology for the Port of Los Angeles,¡± challenges students to propose a new type of urban community with experimental arrangements of uses, operations, material resources and imagery for a pilot zone at the port. The Port of Los Angeles¡ªincluding that of nearby Long Beach¡ªis the #1 ranked port in the U.S. in terms of tonnage. Ironically, it fails to register on the radar of most Angelenos, whose lives are dependent upon the goods that pass through it daily.

From Sept. 16-19, students traveled to Los Angeles to study the port site and gain valuable contextual perspectives.

¡°The trip was instrumental in not only giving students an opportunity to see the site, but more importantly to meet the key stakeholders involved in plans for its development¡ªtheir vision of what it can be,¡± says Sherman. ¡°Finally, though it sounds trite, there also is the intangible value of understanding the unique ethos of Los Angeles itself: the many lifestyles and subcultures of which it is comprised¡ªnot monolithic, but a mosaic of places, either imported or invented and exported from here through media, just like the flow of products through the port itself.¡±

Says architecture student Emily Greer ¡¯18, ¡°The trip was an exciting way to learn about the dynamics and logistics of both the Port of Los Angeles, where our site is located, and Los Angeles as one of the greatest American cities. We were also able to meet with several professionals in architecture and other areas of relative interest, such as marine biology.¡±

Sherman and Syracuse Architecture students visit a warehouse at the Port of Los Angeles.

¡°We are grateful to the Stelles for creating this special gift in honor of Richard Gluckman, a long-time volunteer leader for the School of Architecture. Through their generosity our students continue to benefit from incredible learning experiences that allow them to actively engage with the world of architecture,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks.

Fred Stelle heads located in Bridgehampton, New York, and has lectured at the school and taught visiting critic studios. Gluckman, a past chair of the Syracuse Architecture advisory board, is the founder and principal of , based in New York City. Projects include the Nancy Cantor Warehouse in Syracuse, Syracuse University School of Law¡¯s and the Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gluckman has been a visiting critic and lecturer at universities including Harvard, Columbia and Syracuse. His awards include the National Design Award, an AIA National Honor Award and the Arents Award from Syracuse University. A monograph, ¡°Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect,¡± was published by the Monacelli Press in 2000.

FAST: Syracuse’s Convention District includes downtown Syracuse. (Photo by Derek Shin)

Would visitors attending a convention at the Oncenter use ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft? Has the rise in residential living in downtown Syracuse grown to a level that would support car or bike sharing? These questions and more will be answered by a new study that will evaluate the potential of sustainable transportation alternatives to reduce greenhouse gases and improve the vitality of Syracuse and Central New York.

¡°Feasibility Assessment of Sustainable Transportation (FAST): Syracuse¡± is a yearlong study of alternatives to single-occupancy automobiles for mobility within the City of Syracuse. FAST: Syracuse will assess the feasibility of developing, implementing, growing and promoting three urban mobility systems: 1) human-powered mobility by enhancing ¡°walkability¡± and ¡°bikeability¡± infrastructure in targeted areas; 2) sharing economy in the form of shared bikes and electric vehicles (EVs); and 3) improved integration with existing regional public transportation services.

The first phase of the study is a survey of individuals who live and/or work in, and/or visit the city of Syracuse. Residents, workers, employers and visitors are encouraged to provide responses to a short online survey at .

FAST: Syracuse is being conducted by a team led by faculty members and students from the . The study is being done with funding provided by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the New York State Department of Transportation and project partners under the Integrated Mobility Solutions for Smarter Cities and Communities program. This program seeks to promote an integrated, multifaceted, energy-efficient and sustainable transportation system through the identification of innovative strategies, policies, emerging technologies and partnerships, and through useful demonstrations and system designs that validate underutilized commercial products in New York State.

The timing of this study is viewed as both strategic and historic. ¡°Our city really is at a tipping point to become a smart, sustainable metropolitan center that will exemplify a new generation of cities, making this exciting study a bellwether for future generations,¡± says , assistant professor of architecture and principal investigator of the study.

The study will consider mobility at three different scales: the ¡°Convention District¡± in downtown Syracuse, the City of Syracuse and the five-county Central New York region. The Convention District includes the Oncenter, the new Syracuse Marriott Downtown, the Centro Transit Hub and surrounding blocks; it is bounded by East Adams Street, South Salina Street, East Water Street and South State Street. The area has been identified by the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council as a potential ¡°innovation district¡± that includes a cluster of emerging technology innovators and entrepreneurs.

In other cities, innovation districts have attracted investment in transportation and infrastructure that foster collaboration to create economic development and job growth via partnerships with higher education institutions, businesses and governments.

Rakha and his research team intend to explore opportunities to leverage multiple recent developments, including:

• more than $80 million in recent investments in multimodal transportation infrastructure: the , the , the and a multimodal transportation hub at SyracuseCoE headquarters;
• a recently developed (2015) developed by the City of Syracuse;
• a rapidly growing residential community in downtown Syracuse;
• successful car-sharing programs serving three higher-education institutions;
• a $70 million renovation of the former Hotel Syracuse to create the Marriott Syracuse Downtown, which will serve as the primary hotel for Onondaga County¡¯s Convention Center; and
• the emergence of a nascent innovation district in the city, anchored by the .

Tarek Rakha, left, and co-principal investigator Ed Bogucz at the kickoff meeting for FAST: Syracuse (Photo by Derek Shin)

The FAST: Syracuse study will engage emerging technological approaches and commercially available technologies that are not yet widely adopted in New York. In particular, the project will use ¡ªan environmental modeling tool developed by the Sustainable Design Lab at MIT¡ªincluding Rakha¡ªfor use by architects and urban planners. UMI will be used to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort and its influence on neighborhood walkability within the Convention District; this will be a first-time use of this emerging urban modeling technology for a community in New York State.

The project will advance new mobility designs and evaluate the feasibility of solutions that will achieve benefits including: reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; improvement in public health and well-being (achieved via increases in walking and biking) and increased innovation and entrepreneurship within the Syracuse and CNY communities via increased interactions between collaborators at innovation nodes, achieved through implementation of improved sustainable transportation alternatives.

The study team includes faculty and students from the School of Architecture, faculty and staff from the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (), in partnership with Syracuse engineering and environmental planning firm Team experts from , , and help to round out this comprehensive effort.

Part of Syracuse Architecture’s display at the ¡°Rural-Urban Re-Inventions: Bridging the Gap Between China¡¯s Cities and Countryside¡± exhibition at Shenzhen Design Center

¡°Rural-Urban Re-Inventions: Bridging the Gap Between China¡¯s Cities and Countryside,¡± an exhibition of research by five design firms and 11 architecture schools from around the world, including Syracuse Architecture, will be on public display from July 29-Aug. 14 at the in Shenzhen, China. The exhibition will largely focus on how massive-scale migration and urbanization over the past 30 years have impacted quality of life in China¡¯s villages and towns that once served as the foundation of Chinese culture and now struggle for economic survival.

During the past 30 years, hundreds of millions of people have moved from China¡¯s rural areas to its cities. While much research has been done on the impact of the migration on the nation¡¯s metropolitan areas, little has focused on the villages and towns. This exhibition will examine some of the research now being done on rural and urban China, and explore some of the design ideas being proposed to develop a healthier relationship between booming cities and the declining countryside.

The Syracuse Architecture exhibition, ¡°From Guest to Host: Hakka Villages and the Pingdi Low Carbon City,¡± focuses on ways in which current efforts to transform Pingdi¡ªa subdistrict in northeastern Shenzhen¡ªinto a ¡°Low Carbon City¡± pilot zone builds on the knowledge and daily practices of traditional Hakka families. The Hakka people are Han Chinese whose ancestral homes are chiefly from the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou.

Under the leadership of , assistant professor and coordinator of the M.S. program, the research brings into question the relationship between sustainable development brought on by official modern interventions and the unique architectural typology and social structure of the past put in place by the Hakka people.

Says Wang, ¡°Our research and exhibit aims to combine new green technology with traditional low-carbon approaches for a future, better quality of urban life.¡±

Participation in this event is an extension of Syracuse Architecture’s involvement with green technology discussion and development within the Low Carbon City. In June, architecture students¡¯ low-carbon designs were on display at the International Low Carbon City Forum, also held in Shenzhen. Wang¡¯s students have previously attended that conference and Wang himself has been a presenter of ideas. In 2015, in Syracuse, Wang¡¯s studio students tackled a competition challenge put forth by to design the city¡¯s Future Low-Carbon Building and Community Innovation Experimental Center (Future Center) in the Pingdi district. Three of Wang¡¯s post-graduate students ¡ªplans moved forward for construction using their design, “WESPACE.”

The City of Shenzhen was established in 1979 by China¡¯s central government and the Guangdong provincial government as a new economic zone that would extend two hours beyond Hong Kong, along the opposite shore of the Pearl River. Since that time the city has grown from a fishing village with a population of 20,000 into a global hub for design and technology, with a population of 18 million. In 2012, the was created in the Pingdi sub-district¡ªthe most underdeveloped area of Shenzhen and typical of many cities undergoing industrialization¡ªas a flagship project of the EU-China Urbanization Partnership, with the intent of exploring explore sustainable improvements.

¡°Rounds,¡± the design by SPORTS principals Greg Corso and Molly Hunker that won the 2016 Ragdale Ring competition.

assistant professors and architects and , principals of the design collaborative , recently won the fourth annual Ragdale Ring competition for their ribbon-like ¡°Rounds¡± design, as well as a three-week residency at the creative community in Lake Forest, Ill.

, a nonprofit artist retreat located on architect Howard Van Doren Shaw¡¯s country estate in Lake Forest, is one of the largest interdisciplinary artist residencies in the country, hosting over 150 writers and artists each year.

In 2013, Ragdale launched an international competition to reinterpret Shaw¡¯s Ring as a temporary, experimental environment. The annual competition provides artists, architects and designers with the unique opportunity to devise and construct a performance venue and gathering place on the historic Ragdale campus. Shaw designed the original Ragdale Ring in 1912 as an open-air?theater for the work of his playwright wife, Frances.

This year, a jury of architects and artists selected ¡°Rounds,¡± designed by Corso and Hunker, as the winner for this performance season. ¡°Rounds¡± is a tribute to Shaw¡¯s 1912 Ragdale Ring that re-envisions it as a whimsical and inhabitable performance space. It has a ribbon-like surface that undulates along the landscape at several heights to form the architectural theater venue, offering performers and audiences a variety of ways to engage with one another in an atmosphere of fun and enjoyment.

Greg Corso and Molly Hunker

“We are absolutely thrilled?to be given the opportunity to build our project?at Ragdale, and share the experience with some of our students,¡± say Corso and Hunker. ¡°This is?an exciting moment in our careers, and we couldn’t imagine a better environment in which to work, or community to collaborate with. We’re looking forward to seeing it in action!”

Corso and Hunker were awarded the Adrian Smith Prize for the which includes a $15,000 production grant and a 10-person, design-build residency for up to three weeks at Ragdale. Construction on the temporary structure began May 23, with the public unveiling scheduled for June 9, featuring a garden party and open-air performance with musicians and actors in the Ring. An open studio to meet the architects and see the Ring as it rose took place on June 5.

Corso and Hunker founded SPORTS in 2010 to explore the border between the everyday experience and the extraordinary and unexpected. Their primary consideration is how ideas of material, craft and cultural tradition can both complement and provoke contemporary notions of aesthetics and atmosphere that deeply engage users.

The Adrian Smith Prize for the 2016 Ragdale Ring is sponsored by , a world-renowned firm headquartered in Chicago that is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable architecture on an international scale.

¡°We¡¯re extremely fortunate to have these three outstanding, committed educators as leaders of our academic programming,¡± says Speaks. ¡°Each brings unique perspective and a breadth of experience to not only support, but enrich the school¡¯s academic vision and future initiatives. I look forward to working closely with this team and am excited about what lies ahead for our faculty and students.¡±

Larry Davis

received a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master of architecture degree from Columbia University. He is a New York State-registered architect who maintains an active practice. He previously held the role of undergraduate chair at Syracuse Architecture, from 2003-2007. From 2007-2012, he served as coordinator of the school¡¯s noted study abroad program in Florence. The primary subject of inquiry for Davis in his practice, research and much of his teaching is the study of the exurban built environment. Davis follows Associate Professor Timothy Stenson in his role as chair.

Says Davis, “I am looking forward to working with the school and University community, as well as alums and others across the discipline, to make architectural education at Syracuse even more progressively responsive to the circumstances of our world in the mid-21st century.??”

Brian Lonsway

received a bachelor of arts in architecture from Washington University, St. Louis, and a master of architecture from Columbia University. He is an architectural theorist whose current research centers on exploring the inherent transdisciplinary of design, and the intersection of disciplinary and professional identities with alternative models of design. With Kathleen Brandt, Lonsway is co-creator and co-director of , an experimental media environment to foster alternative practices of transdisciplinary design inquiry at Syracuse University. Lonsway contributed significantly to the conceptualization and design of the graduate program¡¯s Einhorn 21^st Century Design Studio, launched in spring 2014. In his new role, Lonsway follows Associate Professor Jean-Fran?ois B¨¦dard, graduate chair since 2014.

¡°I feel fortunate to step into the role of graduate program chair at this time,¡± says Brian Lonsway. ¡°The first class of our new Design |Energy| Futures M.S. degree will be entering next year, and both the educational and professional landscapes of architecture are in the midst of exciting changes. ?I¡¯m really looking forward to working with everyone at the school to move us to the forefront of these changes, especially as we look towards preparing students for the increasingly complex and multidisciplinary project of architecture.¡±

Julia Czerniak

received a bachelor of science in landscape architecture from Penn State, a research master of architecture from Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and a master of architecture from Princeton University. At Syracuse Architecture, she teaches architectural studios as well as seminars on landscape theory and criticism.?Through her design practice, CLEAR, and previously as the inaugural director of UPSTATE, the School of Architecture¡¯s former Center for Design, Research and Real Estate, her research and practice draw on the intersection of these disciplines. In fall 2014, Czerniak directed the Mayors¡¯ Institute on City Design regional session, held in Syracuse.

¡°I am thrilled to be continuing as associate dean for another term,?working closely with Dean Speaks, the?faculty, staff and students,¡° says Czerniak. ¡°We are well poised as a school to move forward on a variety of exciting initiatives. I am particularly interested in focusing on programs and policies that support the development of junior faculty,?as well as taking a fresh look at our global programs.¡±

Students looking at the Jumeirah Beach Resort

In spring 2016, 10 students in Assistant Professor ¡°Sustainable Start Ups in the Desert¡± studio received a once-in-a-lifetime educational benefit, a nine-day trip to Dubai during spring break, thanks to the generosity of Saudi-based firm .

¡°The Dubai trip was an exhilarating learning medium for Syracuse Architecture students,¡± says Rakha, who is also a Center of Excellence faculty research fellow. ¡°Not only did they experience one of the built environment spectacles of the Middle East, but also they presented their projects for feedback from prominent practicing architects and engineers in the region, as well as academic leaders focusing on energy in buildings.¡±

¡°What made this trip so memorable for me,¡± says Rajwa Alseif ¡¯17, ¡°was seeing the students in the studio experience Arabic culture and architecture for the first time. Dubai is very intriguing, having contemporary architecture while also attempting to maintain the traditional beauty of the Arabic culture and history.¡±

Dubai is inarguably one of the world¡¯s most spectacular cities. The city¡¯s amenities often evoke descriptives such as ¡°world¡¯s largest,¡± an outgrowth of an affluent, oil-rich economy. But Dubai¡¯s sprawling development in the face of climatic conditions has created unique challenges and opportunities. Increasing knowledge and technologies in the area of sustainable design practices are paving the way for new thinking.

In his studio, Rakha¡¯s students have been developing speculative approaches to sustainable design of an entrepreneurial startup campus on a site located in the heart of Dubai. The studio project has been divided into three stages: urban campus design, start-up incubator building development and feasibility analysis of developed design, with a focus on energy and sustainability. During their trip, students benefited from a wide range of experiences to inform their projects.

Beginning with a visit to the , students attended a lecture that gave them background on early master planning and socioeconomic factors that influenced Dubai¡¯s development. ¡°A trip to ¡®Old¡¯ Dubai,¡± says Colin Hoover G¡¯17, ¡°gave insight into both cultural heritage as well as potential passive strategies that could be used to reduce energy in contemporary buildings.¡±

A visit to architecture firm gave students the opportunity for a guided tour of Dubai in addition to a critique on their midterm projects. Alice Gorodetsky ¡¯18 reports that a visit to Dubai¡¯s Design District (D3) included experience with an intricate model of the district¡¯s master plan. Steven Veligrinis of joined them to ¡°discuss his design decisions and confer with the group about relevant topics in practice such as undesirable ¡®green-washing.¡¯¡±

A day that included a visit to engineering firm focused largely on the theme of extreme experience in the built environment. With Buro Happold¡¯s John Sullivan as their guide, ¡°We explored the biggest mall in the world,¡± says Yen-Chun Liu MS ¡®16, ¡°and then took the world¡¯s fastest elevator to the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the word.¡± A follow-up tour of the firm ended with students presenting their projects for feedback by firm consultants.

¡°In Masdar City in Abu Dhabi,¡± reports Christian Martinez G¡®17, ¡°we had opportunity to use the famous and fully automated system to travel to the Masdar Institute.¡± Students delivered quick project presentations to the engineering team and learned about the institute¡¯s Abu Dhabi-based research.

Looking at the Burj Khalifa from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard

Additional outings throughout the city region¡ªincluding the Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque (UAE¡¯s largest)¡ªprovided students with additional insight, but there was also time for ¡°just fun¡± experiences including a desert safari, dune dashing and camel rides.

The studio is in its final phase of project development and preparing for a symposium, on Monday, April 25, from 9 a.m.-noon in the Slocum Hall first-floor atrium. Discussions and presentations will focus on the architecture and urbanism of the UAE, Dubai and the Gulf, and the value of sustainability in the desert. The symposium will also serve as the final review of student projects. Guest presenters with Gulf-based work expertise include: D. Rodman Henderer, senior vice president, RTKL, and chair, Syracuse Architecture Advisory Board; Christoph Reinhart, associate professor, MIT School of Architecture and Planning; and Nezar Alsayyad, Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History, College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley.

Says Alseif, the symposium student organizer, ¡°The studio is looking forward to participating in this culminating event, sharing their projects with other students and faculty, as well as learning from an interesting team of experts who will provide helpful insights on sustainability issues in the Gulf.¡±

Student reporters Austin Adams ¡¯18, Alice Gorodetsky ¡¯18, Colin Hoover G¡¯17, Victoria Hughes ¡¯18, Yen-Chun Liu MS ¡¯16, Seungah Sally Lee MS ¡¯16, Christian Martinez G¡¯17, Killian Miles G¡¯17 and Derek Dongmin Shin ’18 contributed to this story.

Maya Alam

Syracuse Architecture Assistant Professor Maya Alam has been selected as the first recipient of the Boghosian Fellowship, effective fall 2016.

The fellowship¡ªestablished in early 2015 in memory of Harry der Boghosian ¡¯54 by his sister Paula der Boghosian ¡¯64 (School of Education)¡ªmakes it possible for junior faculty to spend a year developing a body of design research based on an area of interest while teaching at the School of Architecture. The fellowship also allows for interdisciplinary collaboration within the University and its various centers. During her fellowship year, Alam will deliver a public lecture on her research and have the opportunity to exhibit her work at the school.

“The School of Architecture is thrilled that Maya Alam has been chosen as the inaugural Boghosian Fellow,” says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°Maya is a great talent and is respected by students and faculty alike; she epitomizes the spirit of the award. Much like Maya, Harry der Boghosian¡ªthe award’s namesake¡ªwas a renowned scholar and beloved professor. We are excited to have Maya continue his legacy of architecture scholarship through this award.”

¡°Being awarded the Boghosian Fellowship is an amazing opportunity for a young professional like me,¡± says Alam. ¡°It will allow me to seamlessly fuse pedagogical ambitions with my research and interests. I will do my best to start this series. I feel fortunate knowing that my Syracuse students will be invaluable in this process. I look forward to continue working with such an outstanding group.¡±

As Fellow, Maya Alam will explore new possibilities of identity and iconicity in architecture by reconsidering alternative connections between object, observer and context.

¡°I hope to explore with my students new categories of form and new architectural possibilities in engagement that fall outside the disciplinary conversation,¡± says Alam, ¡°thus replacing outdated concepts of iconicity with more intrinsic socio-political realities.¡±

Alam began her teaching career at Syracuse in fall 2014. She is a German-born architect and designer whose work focuses on issues of the incoherent figure and de-familiarization through principles of Gestalt.

Alam received a Dipl. Ing. of interior architecture from the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in D¨¹sseldorf and a master of architecture with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). At SCI-Arc she was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Certificate and received the Best Thesis award.

Previously, Alam taught at SCI-Arc and worked in Germany, India, Switzerland, China and Italy. She has worked with design studios P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, NMDA, UNStudio and Studio Fuksas.? In spring 2015, under Alam¡¯s leadership, a team of three Syracuse Architecture students won the opportunity to participate in the 10th anniversary exhibition of the Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) in Montpellier, France. , ¡°trans(inter)ference,¡± received the festival¡¯s special mention award.

Harry der Boghosian was an accomplished architect, teacher, world-traveling photographer and watercolor artist. He was also a U.S. Army veteran. Following his military service he worked at Syracuse firms Sargent, Webster, Crenshaw & Folley and King & King Architects. He became a tenured faculty member at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 1970.

All four of Harry¡¯s sisters graduated from Syracuse University. When Harry passed away, his surviving sister, Paula, decided the best way to use the funds from his estate would be to give a gift to the School of Architecture in his honor. Thanks to her generosity¡ªthe largest gift in the school¡¯s history made by a living donor¡ªthe BoghosianEndowed Fellowship was then established.

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(Sn?hetta) will lecture at Syracuse Architecture on Tuesday, March 22; (SHoP) on Thursday, March 31; and (Adjaye Associates) on Thursday, April 7. Lectures are free and open to the public. Each will begin at 6 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium and be followed by a reception in the Slocum Hall first-floor atrium. American Sign Language (ASL) and Communication Access Real Time (CART) interpretation will be provided.

The Dykers, Sharples and Adjaye lectures will focus on architectural viewpoints and a range of work from each firm; NVRC design proposals will not be presented or discussed at this time. In late April, each firm will return to Syracuse to make its presentation to the competition selection committee. The winner will be announced to the public in May.

¡°We¡¯re thrilled to host these three lectures at the school,¡± says . ¡°This is an incredible opportunity for our students and the greater Syracuse community to hear three world-class architects present their work. More importantly, one of these architects will be selected later this year to design the NVRC, a remarkable, one-of-a-kind national center for U.S. military veterans and the first building to result from the University Campus Framework plan.”

Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and has lived extensively in both Europe and North America. He co-founded architecture, landscape and interior design company in Oslo, Norway, in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. The firm¡¯s work is characterized as having a presence that resonates with its surrounding context. The firm has won numerous international awards and widespread recognition, including the Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the World Architecture Award for Best Cultural Building and the Aga Kahn Prize. Prominent projects include the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City, the Alexandria Library in Egypt and the Norwegian National Opera and ballet in Oslo. Dykers is currently leading the design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion and the Times Square reconstruction in New York City.

Since 1996, has modeled a new way forward with its unconventional approach to design. At the heart of the firm¡¯s method is a willingness to question accepted patterns of practice, coupled with the courage to expand, where necessary, beyond the architect¡¯s traditional roles. Founding partner Sharples has been at the center of this collaborative practice for 20 years, leading educational projects and technology initiatives across the studio. Sharples has served as lead partner on many of SHoP¡¯s most prominent projects, including the Botswana Innovation Hub, Google Headquarters Offices, the New Academic Building at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the award-winning Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn. Beyond the studio, Sharples is a powerful advocate for the role of contemporary technologies as tools to promote humanist values through design.

Adjaye is recognized as a leading architect of his generation. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, his influences range from contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities. In 1994, he set up his first office, where he became known as an architect with artistic sensibility and vision. Re-established in 2000 as with offices now in London, New York City and Accra, Ghana¡ªAdjaye has won several prestigious commissions, including the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Skolkovo Moscow School of Management and two public libraries in Washington, D.C. In 2009, a team led by Adjaye was selected to design the $360 million Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall.

The Dykers, Sharples and Adjaye architecture lectures will be videotaped and posted online at the School of Architecture website at , the and also on the National Veterans Resource Complex website at .

Bruce Abby

Abbey is retiring from the school following a long career of dedicated service. An opening reception for ¡°COMPOSITIONS¡± will take place on March 3 at 5 p.m. in the Slocum Hall first-floor atrium. Abbey will give a gallery talk in the Marble Room at 5:45 p.m. All events are open to the public.

¡°Grounded in a formalist tradition, with a bias towards seeing architecture as the interconnection of drawing and painting,¡± says Abbey, ¡°this exhibition is a sampling of 50 years of creative effort in a variety of mediums and situations. Recurring throughout is a sub-theme of drawing¡ªa necessary foundation to form making. Many of the projects have preparatory sketches or line drawings as a method of working and design thinking. Drawing remains, for me, a necessary means of research and discovery, integral to the creative act. ¡®COMPOSITIONS¡¯ reflects an attitude that all creative work demands a formal structure that organizes ideas and thoughts, while illustrating a problem to be recognized.”

Abbey attended the Liceo Classico ¡°Giulio Cesare¡± in Rome from 1960-1961. He received a bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University in 1966 and master of architecture degree from Princeton University in 1971. From 1966-1969 he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia, working as an architect for the Bureau of Public Works and the National Institute of Archeology. His professional experience includes projects with the offices of Dan Kiley, Michael Graves and Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham.

Abbey began his teaching career at the University of Virginia in 1974 and served as co-chair and chair of the Department of Architecture, as well as associate dean of the School of Architecture. In 1990, he accepted the position of professor and dean at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Abbey returned to full-time teaching at Syracuse in 2002 after serving as dean for 12 years.

Abbey¡¯s writings and architectural projects have appeared in Space Design, Modulus, The Princeton Journal, AIA Journal, Architecture, JAE, Dialogue and World Architecture. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Architectural Education, and World Architecture magazine, and on the advisory boards of the School of Architecture at Princeton and the Landscape Program at SUNY ESF. He is a registered architect and has been a GSA Peer Review advisor.

Reflecting on Abbey¡¯s tenure as dean, long-time Syracuse Architecture colleague Professor Randall Korman observes, ¡°Bruce brought to the job a combination of the quiet pragmatics of his Vermont upbringing and the southern gentility of his adopted Virginia. It was an ideal combination that served well during his 12 years as dean. His legacy includes numerous initiatives such as the creation of the Office of Career Development; the founding of the Community Design Center; the expansion of the visiting critic program; and the establishment of the Seligmann Lecture Series, to name just a few. Without question, when he stepped down in 1992, he left the school a much better place and those of us that were fortunate to have been at Syracuse during his tenure as dean are most grateful.¡±

¡°As professor and dean, Bruce Abbey made a profound impact on the quality of architecture education at Syracuse,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°We¡¯re grateful for his dedication to our program. He will be missed.¡±

The final rendering of Jee Yeon Han, Wen-Chieh Chang and Seungah Sally Lee’s WESPACE design proposal

Three architecture M.S. students in Assistant Professor fall 2015 ¡°Low-Carbon City¡± studio have won second-place¡ªand a $30,000 prize¡ªin the international competition sponsored by the for design of Shenzhen, China¡¯s Future Low-Carbon Building and Community Innovation Experimental Center (Future Center). IBR has also recently decided to use the team¡¯s WESPACE (WEAVING+SPACE) design proposal for actual construction of the new Future Center, and views this model as a bellwether for future low-carbon modernization in underdeveloped industrial sites in cities across China.

¡°At first I was shocked … but then, I wasn¡¯t. I really believed it was possible,¡± says Wang. He used the design challenges set forth by IBR as the foundation of his studio and encouraged his students not to feel intimidated by the high level of competition they¡¯d face from professional architects. ¡°I told my students that being in an academic setting gives them opportunity to explore with no boundaries. I wanted them to believe that they could achieve great things.¡±

In the end, Jee Yeon Han (B.Arch ¡¯15, MS ¡¯16), Wen-Chieh Chang (MS ¡¯16) and Seungah Sally Lee (B.Arch ¡¯15, MS ¡¯16) were the only architecture students among the competition jurors¡¯ short list of competition finalists. At the conclusion of an earlier phase of the competition, three of Wang’s students had won honorable mention, and the studio became more confident in its architectural design capabilities. The second-place final win that followed brought tremendous validation and satisfaction. ¡°I didn¡¯t expect the award at all,¡± says Lee. ¡°It means a lot since it was my first competition. I still cannot believe it.¡±

¡°It¡¯s very exciting,¡± says , ¡°and while this win is sure to open doors for the student designers, the efforts of the entire studio further the anticipation of possibilities put forth by the , officially launching in fall 2016.¡±

The city of Shenzhen was established in 1979 by China¡¯s central government and the Guangdong provincial government as a new economic zone that would extend two hours beyond Hong Kong, along the opposite shore of the Pearl River. Since that time the city has grown from a fishing village with a population of 20,000 to a global hub for design and technology, with a population of 18 million. In 2012, the was created in the Pingdi subdistrict¡ªthe most underdeveloped area of Shenzhen and typical of many cities undergoing industrialization¡ªas a flagship project of the EU-China Urbanization Partnership, with the intent of exploring explore sustainable improvements.

In summer 2015, IBR¡ªa national high tech and key cultural enterprise¡ªpurchased an 11,037-square-meter parcel of land as the site for the new Future Center. From that point it launched the international competition to solicit progressive proposals in areas of technology and design to inform its direction.

IBR decided to construct the Future Center using WESPACE because it presents architecture in a changeable and shareable form. The students¡¯ design proposes an economic scaleable modular approach, integrating a wide range of low-carbon features. In addition, it weaves together public and private spaces, allowing for flexible multiuse programming ranging from residential to business to recreational.

• Building units are modular in design, each 9¡¯ x 9¡¯ x 9¡¯, the most efficient system for living and working.
• Modular construction minimizes use of natural resources.
• The modules allow for maximum efficiency in mechanical systems.
• The proposal meets the >100 percent green ratio requirement by including plantings in vertical, rooftop and ground surfaces.
• The flexible design allows for greenery and microclimate zones within various modules.
• The design includes a variety of open spaces, helping air flow freely.
• The choice of soft material used for the building¡¯s fa?ade has a filtering quality to improve air quality and moisture control.
• The design is easily adaptable for projects at a full range of scales in density.

It is expected that IBR will continue to purchase parcels of land in Low Carbon City, and Wang hopes to continue to challenge his M.S. students with the possibilities of future development of these sites. Spurred by the program¡¯s recent success, students and faculty from the school will attend the 2016 International Low Carbon Conference in Shenzhen in June and remain engaged on a global scale in sustainability issues that affect cities.

“Dubai: Sustainable Startups in the Desert” is being taught by Assistant Professor Tarek Rakha.

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program taught by leading architects and scholars. This semester, students are engaging in a range of complex challenges facing many of today¡¯s cities, including aging infrastructure, urbanization, economic constraints, environmental impact and energy efficiency. The studios include:

• “Architecture and the City: East Orange, N.J., Studio,” taught by Professor , Syracuse Architecture; Munly Brown Studio
• “Studio|Next: Building the Post-Carbon City,” taught by Research Assistant Professor ; research fellow, Syracuse Center of Excellence
• “Dubai: Sustainable Startups in the Desert,” taught by Assistant Professor

Students are gaining exposure to contemporary and innovative advances in green technology, participating in site visits and interacting with emerging thinkers and professionals from public and private sectors to spur their own creative, well-grounded design solutions. Throughout their collaborative, hands-on studio experiences students will build practical and vital skills, from technical to communication, to secure a solid foundation for future work opportunities.

¡°Each of the studios this semester, while very different, presents students with a uniquely valuable opportunity to deal with real-life problems that typify challenges they¡¯ll likely face in their professional careers,¡± says . ¡°Plus, our students will greatly benefit from small-group settings and dedicated studio faculty with a wealth of knowledge and experience.¡±

Ted Brown

Brown¡¯s ¡°Architecture and the City¡± studio puts forth a challenge to students from of East Orange, N.J. Taylor first presented the challenges of ¡ªa large underdeveloped parcel (Parcel 863) in the heart of the NJ Transit Village District¡ªat the held in Syracuse in fall 2014. Using Parcel 863 as the foundation for design inquiry, Brown¡¯s studio will now develop a range of land use scenarios and prepare a set of documents that will help the City of East Orange recognize the potential of different design strategies and advance dialogue on the parcel¡¯s future. In addition to a visit to the site, students will meet with a diverse range of critics and consultants in areas of urban design, transportation planning, landscape architecture and real estate development to inform their design proposals.

Susan Dieterlen

The economic, political and ecological issues facing post-industrial cities lie at the center of Dieterlen¡¯s with particular focus on clean energy activity at federal, state and local levels. According to Dieterlen, the challenges of heat, neglect and data ¡°will define the next decades of careers in environmental design.¡± Her studio is divided into two segments, ¡°Infrastructure Crisis¡± followed by ¡°Energy in the Landscape.¡± Students will engage with tools of urban design as they develop a large master plan/urban site design project with clean energy generation elements for the Syracuse city center. Connecting with experts through participation in a poster session at the NY Power Dialog event in Albany, and meeting with the City of Syracuse Innovation Team will help students develop professional communication and presentation skills.

Tarek Rakha

The city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has emerged as one of the world¡¯s wealthiest and most active entrepreneurial global business hubs. Rakha challenges his students to question the sustainability of the region¡¯s startups and the real value of investing in energy efficiency in the desert. His studio will be divided into three stages that cover urban-scale sustainability, building-scale energy efficiency and a feasibility study specific to energy-conscious design in desert architecture. Students will have the unique opportunity to travel to Dubai over spring break and visit a wide range of urban desert sites. Additional experiences throughout the semester in the City of Syracuse, the Syracuse Center of Excellence and SUNY ESF, as well as participating in an entrepreneurship and sustainability workshop with students from the , will enhance understanding. Students will present their final project design solutions at a ¡°Start-Ups in the Desert¡± symposium scheduled for April 25 in Slocum Hall. El Seif Construction Company is sponsoring the studio and underwriting the cost of the trip and symposium.

Wallpaper by Jonathan Louie for the exhibit “Big Will”

From Jan. 21 through Feb. 18, the Rodger Mack Gallery in Building will feature the exhibition “,” investigating the optical effects, figural relationships and illusions found in , and ways in which these domestic images and decorations shape space and impact social relations. ¡°Big Will and Friends¡± is a collaboration by Assistant Professor Jonathan Louie and Professor Stephen Zaima. The opening will take place Jan. 21 at 5:15 p.m. and feature a series of dance performances choreographed by architecture student Stephanie White. ¡°Big Will¡± is free and open to the public

Structured as a series of three 7-foot-by-7-foot -type wallpapered rooms within the gallery¡¯s linear space, it is affectionately named ¡°Big Will¡± because it sits uncomfortably large in the space and takes up more space than it should. It will invite visitors to be part of, and alter, the perceptual and visual experience of the objects in the space. Through his work, Louie exploits the logics of wallpaper design to construct a habitable series of rooms, imprinted wearable suits and a series of wallpaper prints. Hung on the walls will be a series of architectural collages by artist Zaima.

Since its invention in the 18th century, wallpaper has been a popular medium for representing figures and historic symbols. It serves as an art form for altering architectural surfaces to perceptually alter the things people see. Says Louie, ¡°Through two- and three-dimensional projections, the ¡®Big Will¡¯ installation challenges the ways in which decoration and adornment affects our perception of space¡ªthe floors, walls and ceilings around us.¡±

In addition to teaching, is co-director of Architecture Office. He is one of four founding organizers for the , a platform for charging architectural experimentation outside of the mu?seum and institution. His graduate studies were done at the University of California Los Angeles, where he graduated with distinc?tion and is the recipient of the 2¡Á8 Award and University Fellowship. In the fall of 2016, he will take up residency in Peterborough, N.H., as a Fellow.

As associate dean in VPA, is currently active with various global initiatives, especially in New York City. He was coordinator of the University¡¯s studio arts program in London in 1987 and Florence in 1995-1996 and 1997-1998; more recently, he has taught in Berlin. Zaima received an M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis in 1971.

Dancers performing at the opening event are University students Stephanie White, Cameron Spera, Charlotte Brennan and Emily Pelletier.

The ¡°Big Will and Friends¡± exhibition is made possible by support from the School of Architecture and the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

DesignIntelligence is the bimonthly journal of the Design Futures Council. The annual rankings are based on a professional practice survey completed by leading architecture and design firms, as well as responses from architecture students regarding the quality of their education.

In a survey of 90 architecture deans and chairs, Syracuse Architecture was ranked fourth on the list of ¡°Most Admired Undergraduate Programs,¡± cited for ¡°its reputation for excellent faculty and great international opportunities.¡± Among students surveyed, 79 percent of Syracuse Architecture students ranked the B.Arch program as ¡°excellent;¡± 19 percent ranked it as ¡°above average.¡± One hundred percent of the students expressed confidence that they “will be well prepared for their profession upon graduation.¡±

¡°It¡¯s an honor to be recognized by our academic peers and the professional community in this national survey,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks. ¡°Our faculty are highly accomplished and diverse. But, even more, they work closely with their students and diligently strive to help them gain the professional skills and intellectual discipline needed to succeed.¡±

Design culture influenced by the humanities is a long-standing tradition at Syracuse. In that vein, its architecture study program in Florence is acclaimed as one of the world¡¯s best. Combined with the school¡¯s newer studio programs in London and New York City¡ªin addition to the Rubin Global Design Studio and an increasing range of short-term study programs¡ªarchitecture students at Syracuse have uniquely valuable opportunities to expand their preparedness within the dynamic international landscape.

Arthur McDonald

An opening reception for ¡°PLAN GAMES¡± will take place on Nov. 5 from 5:15-6:30 p.m. in the Slocum Hall first-floor atrium. On Thursday, Nov. 12, from 5:15-6 p.m., McDonald will give a gallery talk in the Marble Room. All events are open to the public. The exhibition will run through Dec. 11.

According to McDonald, ¡°PLAN GAMES¡± is suggestive of a mode of architectural design production that involves ¡°rules¡± and ¡°plays.¡± ¡°Disciplinary rules¡± refers to formal principles related to particular architectural organizational devises and typologies. Circumstantial ¡°plays¡± refers to the opportunities afforded by the particulars of program and site for invention within the “rules¡± of the plan type or ¡°game.¡± It is these inventive ¡°plays¡± that transform the generic type (the abstract) to the relative (the empirical). In this exhibit, the formal types consist of two simple means of spatial organization deploying an element and a device: the wall and the grid.

McDonald received a bachelor of architecture degree from Pratt Institute and a master of architecture degree (urban design) from Cornell University, where he received the Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship. After several years of professional practice as a registered architect in New York City, including a position as project architect with Ulrich Franzen & Associates, he joined the faculty of the School of Architecture in 1974. He served as head of the undergraduate program from 1982-1989, as chair of the graduate program from 1996-2002 and as interim dean of the school from 2002-2004.

McDonald¡¯s teaching and research interests lie in architectural and urban design, urban housing, the history and theory of urban planning, and the theoretical underpinnings of the modern movement. He has continued to practice architecture in Syracuse since 1979.

“Professor McDonald is among the most influential and revered professors to teach at Syracuse Architecture, among the most distinguished architecture faculty at any university in this or in any country. ?He will be missed,¡±?says Dean Michael Speaks.

¡°The significance of Art¡¯s contribution to the growth and transformation of the School of Architecture cannot be overstated,¡± says long-time colleague Professor Randall Korman. ¡°His dedicated service¡ªfirst as undergraduate chair under Dean Werner Seligmann, and later as graduate chair under Dean Bruce Abbey¡ªwas instrumental in securing the national reputations of both programs. For the past 40 years, his teaching consistently reflected his deeply held belief in the importance of an architectural education that is both professionally rigorous and culturally broad. As one of the few faculty members who maintained an active practice, his buildings are a testament to this credo.¡±

The three-semester, 30-credit-hour program will focus on energy and the built environment, with research and design projects ranging across many scales¡ªfrom urban design to high-performance buildings, from landscape urbanism to building material research and product design, and across a range of disciplinary and practice areas including adaptive re-use, real estate development and urban planning. Students may choose to spend one semester based in the school¡¯s New York City, Florence or London program locations.

The program is specially targeted to individuals holding a professional degree in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design or urban planning. Applicants with backgrounds in management, engineering, geography, environmental, graphic or product design may also be considered for admission.

A full range of resources and expertise available from six affiliated programs/centers in the U.S. and Asia are at the heart of the program:

• , Hoboken, N.J.
• MSc in Sustainable Building Design, Nanjing University School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing, China
• , Shenzhen, China
• Trans-disciplinary Innovation Shop, , Hsinchu, Taiwan Studios

¡°Students and professionals alike can engage with crucial issues that impact contemporary architectural practice,¡± says Dean Michael Speaks.

Studios and seminars taught by Syracuse Architecture faculty, as well as affiliated faculty¡ªShere Abbott, Syracuse University Vice President for Sustainability Initiatives and Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, Jianshun Zhang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the , and Todd W. Moss, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at the ¡ªare positioned to provide highly focused expertise paving the way for forward-thinking and sustainable development.

¡°The new master of architecture ¡®Design | Energy | Futures¡¯ concentration is intensive in focus,¡± says Associate Professor and Graduate Chair Jean-Fran?ois B¨¦dard. ¡°This program will provide our students with the tools necessary to address the present and future challenges of the built environment, from advanced building technologies to environmental stewardship.¡±

An international academic advisory board including leaders in humanities, engineering, design, energy research, climate change, environmental systems and future technologies will provide consultation to the program.

To learn more about the program, visit . This program does not meet the licensure requirements to become an architect in New York and is not considered licensure-qualifying in New York.

Michael Speaks

In response to the rapid growth in passenger volume of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and economic activities in East Asia, the Taiwanese government is seeking to have its airport become a large-scale hub through the construction of the new T3 terminal, targeted for completion in 2020.

The is international in scope. Jurors represent significant leadership in their fields and offer a wide range of viewpoints and professional experience from areas that include architecture, airport management, master planning, visual arts, engineering, technology and construction. Jurors will re-convene in Taipei from Oct. 28-30 to make a final determination among three teams of finalists: , United Kingdom; (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), United Kingdom; and Van Berkel and Bos , the Netherlands. The winner will be announced Friday, Oct. 30.

Taoyuan International Airport, formerly?known as Chiang Kai-shek International, is located 25 miles west of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. In 2014, it was the 11th busiest passenger airport in the world.

The T3 project aims to serve 4.5 million travelers annually and help cater to the 8.6 million passengers expected to utilize the airport by 2042. It is the largest and, at $2 billion, the most heavily funded construction venture in Taiwan. Multi-function buildings will link Terminal 3 and the existing Terminal 2 to form a mega-terminal. The over-arching design concepts for the project are ¡°Smart, Green and Culture.¡± With high-efficiency operating systems to provide high-quality passenger services and transportation function, the project will be developed as a sustainable and intelligent airport, with comprehensive facilities encompassing functions in tourism, shopping, culture and arts to create new traveling experiences.

To learn more about the design competition, visit

Tanvi Sanghvi

This year, honoree and alumnus David Rockwell ¡¯79 of the award-winning , designated his alma mater for a $1,000 scholarship in his name. Architecture student Tanvi Sanghvi has been selected by the school to receive this scholarship in Rockwell¡¯s name. Sanghvi will attend the gala event and receive her award during the? festivities. Dean Michael A. Speaks will accompany her.

¡°Tanvi is an exceptional individual and outstanding student with a very bright future,¡° says Professor and Undergraduate Chair Ted Brown. ¡°She is very deserving of this award.¡±

¡°I am extremely honored and humbled to receive this scholarship,¡± says Sanghvi. ¡°I look forward to meeting the renowned Syracuse University alum David Rockwell at the ball, along with other established architecture professionals.¡±

Sanghvi is from Butler, N.J., where she graduated from Kinnelon High School in June 2011. She will receive her bachelor of architecture degree in December 2015. In spring 2014, Sanghvi studied in the Florence Program and received a Piranesi Award. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. During the course of her studies, she received valuable professional experience as an intern at two New Jersey firms: Posen Architects LLC (West Orange, N.J.) during summer 2013 and 2014; and GSM Architects (Kinnelon, N.J.) in summer 2012.

She received a Crown Award for Capstone Research through the , allowing her to travel to Jaipur, India, as part of her thesis research. In December, Sanghvi will present her thesis, ¡°Sponge Logics,¡± challenging the distinction between mass and envelope in contemporary architecture¡ªbased on the thinking of architect and theorist . Her thesis proposes a sponge as a typological case study to identify the potential of a “porous building” that can contribute to the enrichment of an already multivalent and densely packed urban environment.

After graduation, Sanghvi says, ¡°I would like to work in?an integrated services firm because I am interested in how design projects are realized. For the next few years, I want to focus on getting licensed and potentially even?explore the option of working in another country.¡±? To learn more about Sanghvi’s work, review a portfolio of her work .

Architecture educators from across the globe will convene at the School of Architecture from Oct. 8 – 10 for ¡°Between the Autonomous & Contingent Object,¡± the fall 2015 conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Architecture educators from across the globe will convene at the from Oct. 8 – 10 for the fall 2015 conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Events will be held at the architecture school throughout Slocum Hall. Syracuse Architecture assistant professors and are co-chairs of the event.

Throughout the event, small groups of educators¡ªincluding several from Syracuse Architecture¡ªwill gather to debate for or against the argument that ¡°there is an ¡®in-between¡¯ to the autonomous and contingent object.¡±

Brett Steele (Photo credit Brotherton Lock)

Says Hubeli and Larsen, ¡°The ongoing debate on architecture¡¯s position between autonomous discipline and cultural product is rearing its head once again to decipher where ¡®architecture¡¯ is ¡®broken¡¯ and how it should be ¡®fixed.¡¯ This conference brings some of the most exciting architectural educators to Syracuse to debate these issues that proliferate the current discourse. As one of the leading architecture schools in the nation, Syracuse Architecture plays a key part in the forming of this debate.¡±

The two-day conference ¡°debate¡± will conclude on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the atrium of Slocum Hall with a round-table of ¡°spontaneous¡± discussion featuring deans from four of the most influential architectural schools: , director of the Architecture Association in London; , the new director at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles; and , the new dean at Columbia University GSAPP. Syracuse Architecture Dean will moderate.

Hernan Diaz Alonso

According to the ACSA, ¡°This culminating event will potentially spur a heated discussion of where we stand today, how we move forward and where the potential lies for the architecture discipline. What are we aspiring to and where do we go from here? We see this final debate as a means to define a new future, new possibilities and new trajectories for the discipline, for pedagogy, and for the profession of architecture.¡±

Amale Andraos (Photo credit Raymond Adams)

The debates will be accompanied by keynote lectures. Brett Steele will deliver a Syracuse Architecture Werner Seligmann Lecture open to the public on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium.

Hernan Diaz Alonso will deliver a lecture to conference attendees on Friday, Oct. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Slocum Auditorium; Amale Andraos¡¯s lecture will be Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m., also in the auditorium.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education.

The school membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 schools in several membership categories. These include full membership for all accredited programs in the United States.

Dean Michael Speaks

Its goal is to advance architectural education through support of member schools, their faculty and students. To learn more about the ACSA and for a detailed conference schedule, visit .

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Students can choose to study with a particular visiting critic in a studio course where innovative theoretical approaches and design methods are explored.

¡°We¡¯re very fortunate to have these five individuals leading studios this semester,¡± says . ¡°Coming from five countries on four continents, each brings a richly diverse and global perspective to architecture students that is uniquely valuable.¡±

, a registered architect in Argentina, received a M.Arch from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and a B.Arch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina. At BArqs he produces work that ranges from academic research to private commissions as well as national and international competitions. His studio this semester will engage students in the dynamic complexities toward building a new opera house and theater for Rosario, Argentina.

The professional work of focuses on public projects with a cultural, civic or not-for-profit basis. De Leon holds a master in architecture from Harvard University and a bachelor of arts in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. Students in his visiting critic design studio will investigate a distillery site in downtown Denver. They¡¯ll visit the area and explore issues involved in creating architecture within the urban context, considering social, political and cultural factors.

is an architect, researcher and educator. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Sup¨¦rieure d¡¯Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM) where she has taught since 2004. She received a master¡¯s degree in philosophy from Universit¨¦ de Lyon III, followed by a Ph.D. in architecture at the Paris la Villette ENSA, part of Universit¨¦ Paris 8. Each year in June, Nourrigat and her partner Jacques Brion organize the Festival of the Lively Architectures, inviting young architects to construct a project in the courtyards of mansions of the city of Montpellier; . Students in Nourrigat¡¯s visiting critic studio this semester will develop a ¡°Smart¡± site for the urban center of Montpellier, to be located near the airport and new train station. As they develop their design projects, students will work with two French companies involved in the development of modern news communication technology.

is the founder of the Amsterdam-based architectural think tank FAST. Her work explores the relationship between architecture, politics and human rights. Shoshan studied architecture at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and at the IUAV: the University of Venice. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology. Her dissertation explores the role architecture and planning can have in conflict areas, focusing on UN missions. Her students this semester will focus on the intersection between architecture, urban design, activism and human rights for the design of a UN peacekeeping base in sub-Saharan Africa.

is an architect, educator and critic interested in issues on representation, tectonics, copy culture and cross-culture in architecture and urbanism. He received a master of architecture in history of theory from McGill University, master of architecture from Virginia Tech and bachelor of architecture from Tongji University. He has taught at University of Hong Kong, Tongji University, University of Michigan, North Carolina State University, the Architectural Association and China Academy of Art. Fei¡¯s visiting critic studio, ¡°Sustainable Commune,¡± will focus on a ¡°low-carbon city¡± in Shenzhen, China, considering the complex challenges of the built environment, natural resources and quality of life in the modern era.

De Leon will lecture on Oct. 1 at 5:15 p.m.; Shoshan will deliver a public lecture on Oct. 13 at 5:15 p.m. Both will take place in Slocum Auditorium.

For more information, visit

The Shanghai skyline

On Oct. 31, will travel to Taipei to participate in a discussion, ¡°Contemporary Architecture Education,¡± with , professor of architecture and dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. The event will take place at the Mayor¡¯s Residence Arts Salon in Taipei City. This event will be open to the architecture community and to the general public; prospective Syracuse Architecture students are not only invited to attend the Deans Discussion, but visit informally with Dean Speaks regarding study in Syracuse.

On Oct. 16, 17 and 18, Professor and Undergraduate Chair , Assistant Professor and Visiting Critic (also founding partner of? ) and , director of undergraduate recruitment, will be in Shanghai to present a multi-faceted program about Syracuse Architecture. Brown will deliver an architecture lecture at . Then Brown, Wang and Buccina will visit the local plaza in Shanghai. Programming will include an academic presentation about Syracuse Architecture, portfolio reviews and a reception that will also be open to area alumni.

¡°Syracuse Architecture is committed to professional architecture education that is widely diverse and attuned to today¡¯s modern global marketplace,¡± says Speaks. ¡°We take pride in the diversity of every aspect of our school community. Our students, faculty, guest lecturers and visiting critics come from all around the world, representing a full range of viewpoints and cultural experiences. We are very excited to visit prospective students in their home cities and countries and discuss study opportunities at our school and at Syracuse University.¡±

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The Core77 Design Award celebrates the richness of the design profession and the brilliance of its practitioners. A selection of international design leaders, based in various cities around the world, served as jury captains. This year¡¯s Core77 Educational Initiatives jury team was based in Arhus, Denmark, and consisted of Simon Kavanagh (Kaospilots), Pernille Skov (Caki Center for Anvendt Kunstnerisk Innovation), Lasse Schuleit (Lynfabrikken) and Morten Nottelmann (Kaospilots).

Thinklab Design Laboratory was funded by the University Chancellor¡¯s Leadership Project Initiative via the Transdisciplinary Media Studio (TdMS). The funded projects support the University¡¯s mission of Scholarship in Action.

Thinklab has been home to research, design and educational projects that have leveraged its systems and technologies for applications that extend beyond the Thinklab environment. Most recently, its work is serving as a foundation for the Einhorn Next Generation Design Studio in the . The studio¡¯s development, sponsored by architecture alumnus Steve Einhorn, is a multi-year project to experimentally develop and deploy an innovative, technology-rich creative environment for design education.

¡°The Core 77 Design Award is a fitting acknowledgement of the cutting-edge work that Kathleen and Brian have been doing into interactive and collaborative learning environments. The experience they have gained from their work on Thinklab has been invaluable for the development of the Einhorn Next Generation Studio at the School of Architecture,” says Randall Korman, interim dean of the School of Architecture.

B¨¦dard is an architectural historian specializing in the theory and practice of French architecture during the 18th century. His teaching has focused on the social rituals and political values of court society in relation to architecture, decoration and ornament. He has investigated the parallels between rhetoric and architectural design, the invention of the modern architect and the interrelationship between architecture, ornament and fashion in the ¡°spectacular¡± politics of the Ancien Regime.

From 1991¨C1995, B¨¦dard was assistant curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

¡°I am very pleased that Professor B¨¦dard has accepted the school¡¯s invitation to serve as the next chair of the graduate program,¡± says interim dean Randall Korman. ¡°His distinction as a teacher and scholar will certainly come to bear as his vision for the growth and development of the graduate programs evolves. We are fortunate to have him serve in this new role.¡±

¡°I am grateful for this exceptional opportunity and for the trust interim dean Korman and incoming dean Speaks have placed in me¡± says B¨¦dard. ¡°I look forward to providing leadership to the program and continuing to foster the ideas inspired by my predecessors. Under Dean Speaks’ leadership, I hope to expand the reach and the breadth of our graduate programs. My goal is to equip future practitioners with the disciplinary skills, technological knowledge and broad world view required to practice architecture today.¡±

B¨¦dard received bachelor of architecture and master of architecture degrees from McGill University, Montreal. He completed doctoral studies in 2003 at Columbia University. His dissertation centered on the domestic work of the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742), a pre-eminent figure of the French Regency.

B¨¦dard has developed aspects of this research as a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities, a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and a visiting scholar at the Institut d’histoire de l’art in Paris.

His “Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord” (University of Delaware Press, 2011) traces the importance of noble rituals in the creative process of a court architect such as Oppenord.

B¨¦dard follows Francisco Sanin, chair of graduate programs, since fall 2010. Sanin played an instrumental role in expanding the scope of the program to include urban issues on a global scale through short-term travel studios, student participation in international design competitions and providing students opportunities to engage with such internationally renowned practitioners as Teddy Cruz, Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg (SO-IL), Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara (DOGMA), and Ana D?oki? and Marc Neelen (STEALTH).

A recent collaboration with UPSTATE: at Syracuse Architecture brought architects Axel Timm and Andreas Krauth of Raumlabor Berlin to Syracuse to design and build a mobile ¡°monster truck¡± multi-use structure for the community.

¡°Under Professor Sanin¡¯s three-year stewardship,¡± says Korman,¡± applications to the the M.Arch I program have increased dramatically, along with enrollments. The quality of the entering students has improved and the range of programming has widened to include workshops, symposia, exhibitions and special guest speakers enriching the academic and social life at Slocum.¡±

Sanin, who steps down this summer, will take a leave from the school to pursue a range of global projects. He will be lead designer for a series of urban design strategies in the towns of the state of Antioquia in Colombia (Sergio Fajardo, Governor).

Additionally, at the invitation of Jorge Perez Jaramillo, director of urban planning in Medellin, Sanin will document the city¡¯s intellectual history and urban transformation over 30 years. In Mexico, Sanin is the urban designer for the area surrounding the Universidad Tecnologico de Monterrey. Working in collaboration with Iroje Architects and Planners (Seoul, South Korea), Sanin is working on a master plan for the city of Pingdu, China. Sanin was also selected by Seung H Sang as consultant to a new urban development in Seoul, one of the last informal settlements in the city.

Developing a flexible and adaptive relationship to water is one of the greatest global challenges of our time, and our future as climate change is increasing the threat of both flooding and drought. In “Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch,” Metz describes the impact of water on Dutch culture, economy and landscape and explores 21st-century global water challenges and state-of-the-art solutions.

The landscape of the Netherlands is undergoing an ¡®extreme makeover¡¯ as the Dutch reinvent their relationship to water. Under pressure of the changing climate, the country that fashioned its landscape so distinctly in order to keep water out, is now adjusting its centuries-old strategy of self-defense: it is letting the water back in. The engineering of dikes and polders has created a landscape as a cultural and technological product on a scale unique in the world. Now integrated water infrastructure such as dikes, new river bypasses, floating structures and flexible planning processes is reshaping it. “Sweet & Salt” looks not only at the Netherlands, but also at other places in the world that are confronting similar challenges, such as New Orleans, New York, Hamburg, Vietnam and China.

Metz is an international correspondent for Architectural Record and an art editor with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. In 2006-07, she was awarded the mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Subsequently, she published a selection of her columns and essays on American planning and use of space, ¡°On The Ground: Observations from Harvard.¡± She also initiated a two-year collaboration between Harvard and the Dutch government on water and the climate. She is a visiting fellow at Harvard. In 2007-08, she was a member of the Delta Commission, appointed by the Dutch cabinet to advise the government on long-term water safety. Prior to this, she was a visiting researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research and a member of the Rural Area Council, the independent advisory board of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

AIAS is a nationally run student organization, acting as the official voice of architecture students in both the educational system and the profession. Each year, AIAS honors individuals and groups for their exemplary work in areas such as leadership, collaboration, scholarship and service. The AIAS Honor Awards were developed to publicly recognize outstanding achievements by students, educators and practitioners who have exhibited an exemplary commitment to the education and development of architecture students.

The Chapter Honor Award is bestowed upon an AIAS Chapter for its consistent growth and stability while providing outstanding educational and professional programs to its members and others. The Chapter President Honor Award is awarded each year to an AIAS chapter president for his/her outstanding leadership, dedication and commitment to the consistent growth and development of the AIAS chapter at his/her school.

¡°This group of students and the organization that they have nurtured and grown over the past few years has been a pleasure to watch and advise,¡± says Syracuse Architecture Associate Professor Brian Lonsway, AIAS faculty adviser.¡°In the past three years our local chapter has not only hosted important events such as the Fall 2010 Quad Conference ¡®Reclaiming Architecture,¡¯ but made significant contributions to student life at the school in smaller ways. The leaders and members initiated the establishment of the Syracuse-based Freedom by Design chapter to design and build small-scale projects for individuals at the local level faced with physical, mental and/or financial challenges, and nurtured ongoing public discourse about urban design issues through the establishment of the Storefront: Syracuse center downtown.¡±

¡°Chris DePalma was passionately dedicated to the success of the organization and promoted the visibility of the chapter in countless ways,” Lonsway says. ¡°His maturity in working with school administration and faculty demonstrated a professionalism that is not common among students. Chris worked tirelessly to bring visibility to an organization that had, until that point, but a modest impact on the everyday life of the school. He brought visibility at both the local and national levels.¡±

“I am honored to receive this award and very proud of AIAS Syracuse, whose many active team members foster provocative ideas and real-world change on a regular basis,¡± says DePalma. ¡°The growth over the past four years to now being recognized as the most active and progressive chapter in the nation is remarkable and only possible because of our incredible team of leaders. We advocate for design that has tangible meaning, and these awards serve as a milestone for the relevance of student architectural activism in our Syracuse community.”

In his new role, Solomon will work with the dean to develop and implement the mission of the school and help to define its strategic academic vision. In addition, he will develop new academic initiatives to achieve greater integration of research, teaching and global programs within the increasingly interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial milieu of the University, while sustaining the excellence and diversity of its programs, faculty and students.

¡°Jonathan¡¯s breadth of experience in the area of contemporary architecture on a global scale and his ability to negotiate between divergent constituencies will be a tremendous asset to the future of the school¡¯s program,” says Mark Robbins, dean of the School of Architecture.

An American architect based in Hong Kong, Solomon has been an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he led its department of architecture as acting head from 2009¨C2012. His research and creative work explores public space and the contemporary city from the scale of the individual building to the urban plan, including projects such as Ooi Botos Gallery–a converted Hong Kong shophouse–to publications such as “13 Projects for the Sheridan Expressway” and “306090 books,” a series he co-founded in 2001.?His new co-authored book, “Cities Without Ground,” explores the relationship between climate and public space in the unique three-dimensional urbanism of Hong Kong. Curatorial projects include “Workshopping” in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.?

Solomon has lectured and exhibited his work in North America, Europe and Asia, and has previously taught design at the City College of New York and at the University at Buffalo as a Barnham Fellow. Solomon received his bachelor of arts in urban studies from Columbia University, and his master of architecture and certificate in media and modernity from Princeton University.

¡°I look forward to playing an active role in the future of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University,¡± says Solomon. ¡°I¡¯ve long had respect for the initiatives fostered by Dean Mark Robbins and look forward to new challenges and opportunities within the school.¡±

Solomon follows Syracuse Architecture Professor Randall Korman, who has been associate dean since 2009. Korman will take on the role of acting dean on July 1.

UPSTATE initiates and implements projects that focus on the importance of design and innovation in reconceiving the city of Syracuse, the upstate New York region and the post-industrial city. The center engages a coalition of academic, foundation and municipal partners involving architecture, infrastructure design, real estate and planning, and has worked on a number of projects in the city, including the Syracuse Connective Corridor, the Near Westside Master Plan and affordable green homes built in the Near Westside neighborhood¡ªthe result of an international design competition sponsored by UPSTATE: along with the Syracuse Center of Excellence and Home HeadQuarters, Inc.

¡°We are very fortunate to have someone with Marc¡¯s experience and commitment to lead UPSTATE as a center for the new American city,¡± says Mark Robbins, dean of the . ¡°I am confident he will continue to build upon the coalitions within the University, in the city of Syracuse and elsewhere, transforming urban communities through built projects, design research and scholarship.¡±

UPSTATE also engages students and faculty through studios offered at the School of Architecture and hosts public events on the critical role of design and innovation as a catalyst in the revitalization of cities, including ¡°Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures,¡± a conference on the strategies for creating urbanity in weak-market cities.

¡°Since its inception, I have watched the reach and productivity of UPSTATE grow, so it is a privilege to be able to build off of the work of Mark Robbins, Julia Czerniak and others who have strengthened the role of good design and community development in the debate,¡± says Norman.

Norman is a vice president in the Community Development Finance Group at Deutsche Bank in New York City, where he provides loans and investments to organizations serving low-income communities throughout the?United States.?Before joining Deutsche Bank, Norman was a managing director at Duvernay + Brooks, a real estate development and finance consulting firm in New York City that specializes in helping governmental agencies and private developers execute mixed income and mixed use urban revitalization. Before moving to New York, he worked as a project manager for Skid Row Housing Trust, a community development corporation in Los Angeles. Norman serves on several boards, including CAMBA Housing Ventures and Citizens Union Foundation. He has familiarity with Syracuse, having taught real estate development in the School of Architecture and written for upstate publications. Norman holds a B.A. in political economics from University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in urban planning from UCLA.

Norman follows Julia Czerniak, UPSTATE¡¯s inaugural director and Syracuse Architecture professor.

From April 17-May 9, an exhibition by Tsao and McKown will be on display in Slocum Gallery. The pair will explore the myriad layers of contexts, collaborations and other considered complexities inherent in their approaches to eight projects ranging in scale from an urban plan in Chengdu, China, to the design of a lipstick case for the Japanese cosmetics master Shu Uemura. The exhibition will be open to the public Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. An opening reception and gallery talk will take place on April 17 at 5 p.m.

Tsao has a master¡¯s of architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor¡¯s of architecture from University of California at Berkeley. He has emerged as one of the most original voices in contemporary architecture, drawing from his own experience of diverse cultures and a lively engagement with a variety of art forms. He is president emeritus of the Architectural League of New York. As a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Tsao has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Union, and has served as guest critic and design juror at universities and institutes nationwide.

McKown has a master¡¯s of architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor¡¯s of general studies from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. He has been widely recognized for his innovations in the fields of urban design and architecture, interiors, furniture and product design. He serves on the board of directors of the Design Trust for Public Space, a not-for-profit dedicated to improving public space in New York City, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He helped to found nonprofit desigNYC to help reinvigorate local communities in need.

This semester at Syracuse Architecture, Tsao and McKown are teaching a studio in conjunction with urban and architectural designer John Jhee (also from Tsao and McKown Architects) to explore new models of urban habitation in China through the planning and design of a mixed-use residential development in the city of Dalian. During spring break, students are traveling to China for a site visit.

James Slade has a bachelor of arts from Cornell University and a masters of architecture from Columbia University, where he received an Honor Award for Excellence in Design upon graduation. Hayes Slade has bachelor of science and master of engineering degrees in civil/structural engineering from Cornell University, as well as?an M.B.A.?from the Wharton School of Business. They co-founded Slade Architecture in 2002, seeking to focus on architecture and design across different scales and program types. As architects and designers, they operate with intrinsic architectural interests: the relationship between the body and space, movement, scale, time, perception, materiality and its intersection with form. Layered on this foundation is an inventive investigation of the specific project context.

They have completed a diverse range of international and domestic projects. Their work has been recognized internationally with more than 200 publications, exhibits and awards. In 2010, they were recognized with an Award for Design Excellence in Public Architecture by the New York City Public Design Commission, a national AIA Small Project Award, a Best of the Year Awards from Interior Design Magazine and multiple Store-of-the-Year awards. Slade Architecture was also one of the Architectural League of New York¡¯s ¡°2010 Emerging Voices.¡± Their work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the National Building Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the German Architecture Museum and many other galleries and institutions in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Segantini is Syracuse Architecture professor of practice for the fall 2011 semester, a position that balances teaching with practice in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, and engages students in projects related to progressive and research-based design and construction.

C+S Associati offers a full range of architectural design services internationally, including masterplanning and interior design for private and public sectors. Working on the integration of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and ecology, the firm has developed an extensive catalogue of architectural and urbanistic strategies that aim to minimize the view of architecture as an object and expression of financial power. Rather, they follow a process of “melting” architecture into the landscape and “translating” into a more contemporary, sustainable design. In turn, the studio’s experimental work is complemented by a series of smaller-scale, realized projects that exhibit precision in detailing, formal restraint and spatial invention.

C+S has won many important international competitions for public and private buildings, including Cinema Festival Palace in Venice, Policlinic Hospital in Milan, and a housing complex in Japan. Their projects have been published in several international architectural publications: Abitare (Italy), AD (Great Britain), Area (Italy), A+U (Japan), Bauwelt (Germany), Casabella (Italy), D’Architettura (Italy), Detail (Germany), L’Architecture d’Aujord’hui (France), Loggia (Spain), and Spazio e Societa (Italy). Work has been exhibited widely, including in the Eighth Biennale of Architecture in Venice.

Upon recently being awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, Snow¡¯s work was characterized as ¡°invention within convention . . . elegance balanced by pragmatism.¡±? The diverse scale and type of work designed by Snow¡¯s design firm, Julie Snow Architects, is joined by a common exploration of material and detail. The studio’s interest in pragmatic and critical programmatic reflection results in innovative designs that expand understanding of architectural performance.

The practice has been recognized with numerous awards including an AIA Honor Award, Progressive Architecture Design Award, the Chicago Athenaeum¡¯s American and International Architecture Award, Architect Magazine Annual Design Review, the Design Distinction Award from I.D. magazine, and recognition from Business Week and Architectural Record. The studio¡¯s work has appeared in many professional journals, nationally and internationally, and was exhibited at the Chicago Architectural Foundation. In 2005, Princeton Architectural Press published the first monograph on the studio¡¯s work in its series on emerging designers from around the world.

Snow has held several visiting professor positions including the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, University of Arkansas, University of Maryland and Washington University, St. Louis. After teaching at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, she received the Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching.

To learn more about the work of Julie Snow Architects, visit .

With more than 20 years of experience, Schwitter is a leader in the engineering design of complex buildings and large-scale developments that include educational, performing arts, cultural, civic, stadia, transportation and master planning projects. Schwitter received his BSCE degree from The Johns Hopkins University, and his MSCE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1999, he founded the first North American office of Buro Happold Consulting Engineers. Under his leadership, the North America region offices have expanded to offer a full suite of engineering arts, including: structural, MEP, geotechnical and fa?ade engineering, lighting design, fire?and life safety, sustainability consulting and sustainable master planning services.

With a focus on integrated engineering and the use of appropriate technology, Schwitter has played a hands-on role in ensuring the high quality in Buro Happold¡¯s projects and breakthrough innovations on recent high profile engineering commissions with the firm. The firm¡¯s work in low-energy and high-performance buildings has been a key area of technology development that Buro Happold continues to pursue across its worldwide portfolio of projects. Under Schwitter¡¯s direction, the firm has developed the Adaptive Building Initiative and G. Works, both related industry efforts in North America that address today¡¯s critical low-carbon and high-performance building design issues.

Key projects in the?United States?include: the Smithsonian Historic Patent Office Roof Canopy (Washington, D.C.), the High Line (New York City), the World Trade Center Memorial Pavilion (New York), Fashion Institute of New York and Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.). International projects include: the Millennium Dome (UK), the King Abdullah Financial District (Riyadh, KSA), the Abu Dhabi Media Zone (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and Aerospace City Qatar (Doha, Qatar).

The firm has been awarded several honors for its built work. LA DALLMAN was named a ¡°2010 Emerging Voice¡± by the Architectural League of New York and was the first U.S. recipient of the international Rice Design Alliance Prize, recognizing ¡°exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career.¡± The firm has won six Design Awards for Excellence from the American Institute of Architects Wisconsin. Prizes for its entries in prestigious design competitions include Pittsburgh¡¯s 2006 International West End Pedestrian Bridge, Atlanta¡¯s 2005 International Andrew Young Park, Milwaukee¡¯s Kilbourn Tower and Pittsburgh’s 2007 Allegheny Square.

La and Dallman have lectured extensively and their design and research is widely published. Their work has been exhibited in various cities and universities, including at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the New Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. They¡¯ve taught design studios at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and their alma mater, Harvard University¡¯s Graduate School of Design.

This lecture is supported in part by the Joseph D. Patton, III Memorial Endowment for Visiting Critics.

Hood has worked in a variety of settings including architecture, urban design, community planning, environmental art and research.

The art of improvisation has driven the design process throughout Hood¡¯s work and unique approach to public art and urban landscapes. His research interests include the critical examination and development of specific urban landscape typologies for the American city.

Since 1992, his studio, Hood Design in Oakland, Calif., has been engaged in architectural commissions, urban design, art installations and research. Projects include the Powell Street Promenade in San Francisco, the Greenprint urban landscape vision for the Hill District in Pittsburgh, and the gardens and landscape for San Francisco¡¯s De Young Museum, with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron.

In 1997, Hood was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture. He has exhibited and lectured nationally and abroad.? His work was featured in the exhibition and publication, ¡°Open: New Designs for Public Spaces,¡± at Van Alen Institute, N.Y., and has also appeared in Metropolis, New York Times and Dwell. Monographs of his work, ¡°Urban Diaries and Blues¡± and ¡°Jazz Landscape Improvisations¡±? reflect his approach to the design of urban landscapes.

To learn more about the work of Hood Design, visit .

For more information on the School of Architecture’s? fall 2011 lecture series, visit ?(PDF).

Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects who combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humor. Recently, Bjarke was named as one of the ¡°100 most creative people in business¡± by Fast Company magazine.

Ingels started BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group in 2006 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. In 2004, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Stavanger Concert House, and the following year he received the Forum AID Award for the VM Houses of Copenhagen (shaped like a V and an M when viewed from above). Since its completion, The Mountain, a second generation of VM Houses, has received numerous awards, including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award, Forum Aid Award and the MIPIM Residential Development Award.

Ingels has also been active as a visiting professor at Rice University¡¯s School of Architecture and Columbia University¡¯s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Ingels was recently a visiting professor at Harvard University–where he taught a joint studio with the business school and the graduate school of design–and the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. This semester Ingels is a visiting professor at Yale University.

To learn more about the work of Ingels and the design work of BIG, visit .

Eisenman is principal of Peter Eisenman Architects in New York City. His award-winning, large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. The firm¡¯s University of Phoenix Stadium for the NFL Arizona Cardinals opened in August 2006, and hosted Super Bowl XLII in February 2008. Among Eisenman¡¯s many award-winning projects are the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio State University in Columbus, and the Koizumi Sangyo Corp. headquarters building in Tokyo, which received National Honor Awards for Design from the American Institute of Architects. The firm¡¯s Aronoff Center for Design and Art, the University of Phoenix Stadium and City of Culture of Galicia (in construction) have each been the subject of television documentaries.

Eisenman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2001, he received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Smithsonian Institution¡¯s 2001 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. Popular Science magazine named Eisenman one of the top five innovators of 2006 for the Arizona Cardinals stadium. In 2007, Yale University Press published Eisenman¡¯s ¡°Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004,¡± and in 2008 Rizzoli published his book ¡°Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950-2000,¡± which examines the work of 10 architects since 1950.

His extensive teaching experience includes Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, Ohio State and the Cooper Union. He is currently the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University.

Eisenman holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University, a master of science in architecture degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University (UK). He holds honorary doctorates of fine arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago; the Pratt Institute in New York; and SU. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in architecture by the Universit¨¤ La Sapienza in Rome.

To learn more about Eisenman¡¯s work, visit .

¡°Everyday objects have the capacity to affect our behavior, interactions and the fundamental ways in which we inhabit a place,¡± says assistant professor and co-curator Vasilena Vassilev. ¡°Through form, material and detail connections, the small-scale design territories of furniture and product design give us the opportunity to furnish our needs and the spaces we live in, while transforming the atmosphere of a space. ¡®Furnished¡¯ exhibits a collection of furniture and objects which illustrates these design potentials and material environments.¡±

Syracuse Architecture faculty exhibitors, in addition to Vassilev, are:

• Ramona Albert, assistant professor
• Sarosh Anklesaria and Lior Galili, assistant professors
• Larry Bowne, associate professor
• Sekou Cooke, assistant professor
• Jonathan Lott, assistant professor
• Ryan Ludwig, assistant professor
• P. Michael Pelken, associate professor and Architecture Fellow in Sustainable Technologies
• Brett Snyder, assistant professor
• Timothy Stenson, associate professor and undergraduate chair
• Robert Svetz, assistant professor

¡°Oppenheimer¡¯s work typically uses architectural interventions to examine how we perceive space. Her installations often create disorienting or puzzling illusions that lead the viewer to question what s/he thought they knew about their position or orientation within a building,¡± says Tyler Green, art critic for ARTINFO.

Oppenheimer received a B.A. from Brown University in 1995 and an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 1999. She joined the Yale faculty in 2003 and was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2005.

Recent projects include an installation at Baltimore Museum of Art¡ªher first permanent commission at a major American museum; ¡°MF-142¡± at Annely Juda, London; ¡°VP-41¡± at Art Unlimited, Basel; and ¡°Automatic Cities¡± at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Her work has also been at the Brown University Cognitive Science Building (permanent commission); Museum of Art and Design, New York City; The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm; Saint Louis Art Museum; and the Youkobo Art Space,Tokyo.

She is the recipient of a Rome Prize Fellowship 2010-11, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 2009, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2007, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art 2007, an NYFA fellowship (in the category of Architecture/Environmental Structures) 2006, and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship 2003.

To learn more about her work, visit sarahoppenheimer.com.

Whiting received her?bachelor’s degree?from Yale University, a master of architecture degree?from Princeton University?and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An expert in urban and architectural theory, Whiting?began at?Princeton in 2005, after six years at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Previously, she taught at the University of Kentucky, Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Florida.

Whiting lectures frequently throughout the United States?and abroad. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies and is currently completing a book, ¡°Superblock City: Chicago¡¯s Elastic Grid.¡± She is also the founding editor of a new architectural book series with Princeton University Press, “POINT: ESSAYS ON ARCHITECTURE”¡ªthree short books on contemporary architecture and design issues, written by leading critics, theorists, historians and practitioners.

Whiting co-founded WW Architecture with Ron Witte in 1999. The firm¡¯s design projects include the Golden House in Princeton, N.J.; the Museum of Art + Design at San Jose State University in California; renovations for the drama division at the Juilliard School, New York, and numerous other projects.

Prior to establishing WW, Whiting worked with OMA in the Netherlands, where she was a principal designer for the Euralille master plan. She has also worked with Peter Eisenman in New York and Michael Graves in Princeton.

A large, brightly colored, vinyl sign designed and installed by architecture students on a tree in each satellite location will encourage passersby to text, Tweet or email answers to one of these four questions (one question posted per location):

• What do you like about Syracuse?
• What do you want to be?
• What should we do with the abandoned houses?
• Why smoke?

The questions for the signs were created by seventh and eighth graders in the Say Yes to Education program at Roberts School during a workshop held in spring 2010, where SU students asked the children what issues were important to them regarding the city¡¯s future.

Signs will be posted at the following locations:

• The Armory Square plaza at South Franklin and Walton streets;
• The plaza at Washington and South Salina streets (White Memorial Building);
• The park at South Warren and East Fayette streets
• The park at Westcott and South Beech streets

During the evening of May 4, a compilation of the community¡¯s responses to the questions will be on display for the public via video projection on the Everson Museum exterior. Each individual who answers a question will receive an automatically generated response inviting him/her to view the massive video display at the Everson.

¡°This project challenges how the use of mobile media can make a collective impact on the way we use public spaces for exchange of ideas, and the creation of new communities around these exchanges,¡± says French.

¡°We¡¯re very interested in what young people are thinking about the future, ¡°says third-year architecture student Tiesha Shirrell McNeal. ¡°The use of social media as a tool for expression in this setting is ideal.¡±

This project is the result of an grant, and support from the Syracuse University School of Architecture, , and Urban Video Project (UVP).

dlandstudio is an award-winning multidisciplinary design firm that includes landscape architects, urban designers, sculptors, scientists and architects. Recent public projects include ¡°A New Urban Ground,¡± designed in collaboration with ARO for the Museum of Modern Art¡¯s Rising Currents: Projects for New York¡¯s Waterfront exhibition in 2010; the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, a public space designed to absorb and remediate urban storm water; and the Brooklyn Bridge Pop-up Park, a temporary waterfront open space that attracted almost 200,000 visitors over six weeks of operation in 2008. The studio¡¯s current international work includes the site master planning, storm water management and landscape design for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls outside of Lilongwe, Malawi, and the masterplan for a new 1,200-acre resort complex and public park in Abuja, Nigeria.

Drake received a bachelor’s degree?from Dartmouth College and M.Arch and MLA degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, the James Marston Fitch Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts for research on campus landscapes and large-scale urban infrastructure projects. She is trustee and past president of the New York American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA),?a board member of the Van Alen Institute, serves on the campus design advisory board at Dartmouth College, and is a former director of the Fine Arts Federation and a former member of the Directors Council of New Yorkers for Parks. In addition to her professional practice, she is an adjunct professor of design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at City College of New York. She is a registered landscape architect and a registered architect.

Founded in 1986, TEN Arquitectos is known for work in a broad range of scales and typologies, including furniture design; single-family houses; residential, cultural and institutional buildings; as well as landscape and master planning. Award-winning projects in Mexico City, including the Hotel HABITA, winner of the ¡°Latin American Building of the Year¡± World Architecture Awards/RIBA in 2002; and Televisa Mixed Used Building, winner of first prize for the ¡°Mies Van Der Rohe Pavilion¡± of Latin American Architecture in 1998, established the firm as a leader in contemporary architecture on an international scale. The firm has exhibited extensively worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico, the XI St. Petersburg World Economic Forum in Russia and the Venice Biennale. Current commissions include a new vision for Rutgers University¡¯s College Avenue and Livingston campuses. Construction is under way for the High Line Hotel in New York City and Acapulco¡¯s Government Center. Recently completed projects include One York Residential Building in New York City and the National Laboratory of Genomics, Irapuato, in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Norten, Hon. FAIA, was born in Mexico City, where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. He received a master of architecture degree from Cornell University in 1980. Norten¡¯s projects have received numerous awards, including a National Institute Honor Award in 2009 from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the Orange County Great Park, and the Excellence in Architecture and Design Award by PODER, Boston. The work of the firm has been published widely and has been the focus of several monographs. Norten has taught and lectured internationally and has held the Miller Chair at the University of Pennsylvania since 1998. He has also participated on international juries and award committees, such as the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York City and the Holcim Foundation Awards for Sustainable Construction. In 2006, he was appointed as a member of the Deutsche Bank¡¯s Board of Trustees.

Following the Ciorra lecture, a closing reception for the ¡°Marcel Breuer and Postwar America¡± exhibition will take place at 6:30 p.m.?in Slocum Gallery. Both events are free and open to the public.?

Ciorra is a full professor of design at the School of Architecture of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino. Since 1982 he has taught at several architecture schools in Italy and North America, including ¡°La Sapienza¡± in Rome, IUAV in Venice, Ohio State University and Cornell University. He is the coordinator of the Villard d¡¯Honnecourt international Ph.D program, and is adviser for the MVDR prize.?

Ciorra is a member of the CICA (Committee of International Critics of Architecture) and, since 1981, has been the architecture critic for ¡°Il Manifesto¡± and other Italian newspapers and radio stations. He has authored several books on architects, museums and urban issues including “Ludovivco Quaroni, Peter Eisenman;” “Young Italian Architects;” “Publi-city: Technics for the survival of public space;” and “New York: Unstable Sameness.” He has curated and designed many important exhibitions and installations in Italy and elsewhere, including the Biennale in Venice, the MAXXI museum and ¡°Palazzo delle Esposizioni¡± in Rome.? Building projects include the molecular biology laboratories at the University of Camerino, the addition to the Archeologic Museum of Ascoli Piceno, and a number of residential and office buildings in Italy.?

The ¡°Marcel Breuer and Postwar America¡± exhibition, running from Feb. 15 through March 29, was curated by Syracuse Architecture students as part of a seminar on the Bauhaus architect, taught by visiting professor Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, with Jonathan Massey, Syracuse Architecture associate professor and undergraduate department?chair. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.? It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs documenting 13 of Breuer¡¯s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer¡¯s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Cook is co-founder of Crab Studio in the U.K., founder of the avant-garde experimental group Archigram, and former director of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College in London (UCL). In addition, he has been director of Art Net in London and curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He continues to curate, organize and exhibit across the world in venues from Seoul to Los Angeles, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Design Museum in London, as well as within more ambiguous spaces that include decrepit castles, weird sheds and oily garages.

His achievements with Archigram have been the subject of numerous publications and public exhibitions. In 2004, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded the group its highest award, the Royal Gold Medal. In 2007, Cook was knighted by the Queen for his services to architecture, and in April 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden, for his ongoing contribution to architectural innovation.

Cook¡¯s diverse range of built projects spans the globe and includes social housing in Paris; the Port and Cruise Service Center in the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan; a public footbridge in Skopje, Macedonia; the Law Courts Building at the Ministry of Justice in Madrid; and the Zurich Elephant House for the Zurich Zoo. His continuing work as a highly renowned lecturer makes him a familiar voice on campuses and within cultural institutions around the world. Cook has published nine books, including his most recent, ¡°Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture¡± (Wiley, 2008).

Formed in 1998, IwamotoScott pursues architecture as a form of applied design research, with projects ranging in scale from installations to urban design. Recent projects include Edgar Street Towers, a speculative high-rise designed for the Greenwich South vision plan for Lower Manhattan; Voussoir Cloud, an installation in the SCIArc Gallery; and Jellyfish House, a theoretical house of the near future for the exhibition Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living.

IwamotoScott¡¯s work has been exhibited at the San Francisco MoMA, Guggenheim Museum and Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial. The firm has been widely published in books and journals internationally, and received numerous awards and honors including Best of the Year Award from Interior Design magazine, Emerging Voices and Young Architects awards from the Architectural League of New York, and numerous AIA design awards from the San Francisco, Boston and New Jersey AIA chapters.

Scott received a bachelor of architecture from SU and a master of architecture degree with distinction from Harvard University¡¯s Graduate School of Design. Outside of his practice, he has maintained an active teaching career. He is currently an associate professor in architecture at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and has also taught at the University of Michigan, SCIArc, Harvard University, Sydney University and Yale University. This semester he is teaching a visiting critic studio at Syracuse Architecture.