Architecture News
01.30.12 Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis Win First Prize in the International Architectural competition “Strip Appeal”
Strip Appeal, an ideas design competition initiated by the City-Region Studies Centre (CRSC) at the University of Alberta, drew over 100 entries from 11 countries to design proposals for the adaptive reuse of small-scale strip malls. Davidson’s and Rafailidis’ Free Zoning explores their research on the increasingly complex relationship between inhabitation and built form. The project was noted for its innovative approach to reusing the strip mall (they used a quarry site for building materials) and its transferability to strip malls across the U.S., 11 percent of which are derelict. As a result of the first-place award, the University of Alberta will send Free Zoning on a travelling exhibition across Canada and the U.S., while the project will be published in a book on the competition and featured in Curb magazine.
Read more at the Strip Appeal website
Edmonton Journal News coverage
01.19.12 Brian Carter Discusses Gordon Bunshaft’s 1962 Knox Building for 50th Anniversary Celebration
On January 19, Professor Brian Carter presented an informal talk on this historic addition to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The talk was part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the dedication of this landmark designed by Gordon Bunshaft. Carter’s talk also addressed mid-century architecture throughout Buffalo. Carter has written a forthcoming book on the building that is part of the UB School of Architecture’s series Buffalo Architecture Mid-Century Modern.
01.14.12 Beth Tauke and Jean La Marche Win Top 50+ NHBA Award and the 2011 Golden Key Award
Professors Beth Tauke and Jean La Marche worked on a team that won the 2011 a top National Home Builders Association 50+ Award and a Golden Key Award by the Greater Chicago Home Builders Association for their work on the LIFEhouse™, a house that is built on universal design principles. The project was a collaboration between the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access and New American Homes.
01.14.12 Georg Rafialidis and Stephanie Davidson Published in German Architectural Journal
Georg Rafialidis and Stephanie Davidson have published their built project "Selective Insulation" as the cover story for the German architectural journal, Metamorphose, issue 05/11, with the theme "Low Budget." Metamorphose is a journal with an emphasis on building preservation and adaptive reuse. The project was also featured as a full-page spread on the cover.
01.12.12 Architecture + Education Program
Under the direction of Prof. Beth Tauke, the Architecture + Education program paired an architecture student and an architect with a school teacher in the Buffalo schools to infuse architecture into the curriculum throughout the fall semester.
The full story is available at http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2012_01_12/arch_ed
01.4.12 Fluid Culture to Feature Work of Several B/a+p Faculty this Winter
B/a+p faculty are among 20 local artists and designers whose work is being featured by Fluid Culture, a lecture, arts and media series of the UB Humanities Institute for 2011-2012. The series focuses on water, globalization and culture and aims to better understand the fluid world in which we live. Exhibited this winter will be Joyce Hwang’s “Bat Cloud” and Sergio Lopez-Piniero’s “Snow Lot,” a snow garden resulting from the transformation of a parking lot into a temporary landscape through snow plowing techniques. Seth Amman’s (M.Arch, ‘05) “Cargill Grain Animator,” featured last fall, presents a stop-frame interpretation of these monolithic structures along the Buffalo River.
07.25.11 Olmsted Homage
The School of Architecture and Planning's Urban Design Project has published "Olmsted in Buffalo and Niagara," the first history and guidebook written about the visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in Western New York. http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/8WNZY9
07.18.11 Faculty Present at Int'l Architecture Conference
Georg Rafailidis, assistant professor of architecture, and Stephanie Davidson, clinical assistant professor of architecture, in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, were among a select group of professionals invited to participate in the festival, presenting "Selective Insulation," a project in which they culled intimate and comfortable microclimates from the vast, cold rooms of a 162-year-old building in Hexham, England. They presented a unique solution to the uncomfortably chilly temperatures of an old stone building in England as part of the sixth annual International Architecture Festival, Eme3, held July 1-3 in Barcelona. Full article available at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/12712
06.20.11 M.Arch. Student Wins AIA Award
MJ Carroll, a 3.5-year MArch student, has been honored with the 2011 AIA New York State Student Award. The Student Award Program serves as a way of engaging and recognizing students in focused design inquiry, allowing them to share ideas on design concepts which improve upon natural and built environments, while positioning them to assist in advancing both the profession and community at large. The theme for this year’s award program is universal design. For more information, please visit http://www.aianys.org/
03.31.11 Before and Beyond: Architecure and the User
“Before and Beyond” is a two-day international symposium, to be held on April 6 and 7, that investigates how the user has been a critical source of architectural invention over the past century, prompting us to reconfigure the processes and premises of design. The symposium is organized by Kenny Cupers, 2010-2011 Banham Fellow. More information, including the speakers and schedule, can be found at http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kennycup/user/
03.31.11 Clarkson Chair in Architecture
The 2011 Clarkson Chair in Architecture lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on UB's South Campus. The lecture will be given by Teddy Cruz, an architect and educator.
In 2000, Cruz established the research-based practice Estudio Teddy Cruz, building out of trans-border urban dynamics between between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. This practice has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. Cruz is recipient of the Rome Prize and the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize. Cruz was selected to represent the U. S. in the Venice Architecture Biennial in 2008. More information about the Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair can be found at http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/people/clarkson.asp
1.3.11 New Architecture Chair Named
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Omar Khan has been appointed as chair of the Department of Architecture. Professor Khan is an architect, educator, and researcher whose work spans the disciplines of architecture, installation/performance art, and digital media. He is active in the situated technologies graduate research group where his projects and teaching explore the intersection of architecture and pervasive computing for designing responsive architecture and environments. Professor Khan serves as co-director of the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and as co-principal with Laura Garófalo of Liminal Projects, an architectural design office. Professor Khan, a graduate of Cornell and MIT, joined the School of Architecture and Planning in 2002.
10.26.10 New Dean Appointed
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announced that Professor Robert Shibley has been named Dean of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning effective January 1, 2011. The full announcement may be found at the following link: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2010_10_28/shibley_dean
06.07.10 Faculty Exhibits Work in NYC
"Hyperculture," byProfessor Jordan Geiger, has been chosen for an exhibition at Exit Art gallery in New York next month. "Hyperculture" is a proposal for modifying information technologies that are currently in use by big agriculture, in order to promote greater crop diversity, reduce the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and to promote public awareness of and engagement with food production.
We observe how GPS and satellite networks drive tractors to cultivate the earth and photograph the earth for visualization software and media like Google Earth. In our study, the two processes are joined - "writing" and "reading" landscape - enabling a vast diversity of patterned crops and a means by which land use can be queried online, related to nutritional data, urban development and other aspects of planning the built environment.
The project is part of the exhibition "Consume", which showcases creative responses to Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma. This is part of Exit Art's series SEA: Social Environmental Aesthetics.
04.15.10 Yve-Alain Bois Named 2010 Clarkson Chair in Architecture
Yve-Alain Bois was appointed the 2010 Clarkson Chair in Architecture and was in residence at the school during the first week of April, working with students and faculty and presenting a public lecture.
04.01.10 O’Donnell and Tuomey are 2010 Martell Distinguished Visiting Critics
The notable Irish architects Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey were the 2010 Martell Distinguished Visiting Critics; they participated in graduate studios during the spring semester and give the annual Martell Lecture.
03.31.10 Joyce Hwang Publishes in MONU #12 and Receives Research Grant
Joyce Hwang’s article, "The New York Value Exchange," was published in MONU #12, Real Urbanism. She also received a research grant from the UB Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy for a project called "Re-zoning Buffalo: Visualizing Potential Effects of Urban Agriculture."
03.25.10 Edward Steinfeld Awarded the UB’s Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence
Edward Steinfeld, Arch.D., AIA will be awarded the University at Buffalo’s 2010 Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence. The award honors a faculty member who has the most distinguished record of teaching, mentorship, research, and public service. The university honors only one faculty member per year with this award.
02.01.10 Despina Stratigakos Presents Paper at MoMA
In January, Professor Despina Stratigakos presented a paper at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the education and early career of Lilly Reich in association with the exhibition “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity.”
01.15.10 IDEA Center Receives NEA Award
The IDEA Center, directed by Edward Steinfeld, Arch. D., received the National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Universal Design Leadership Award to develop a program on universal design that engages minority architecture students. Howard, Hampton and Florida A&M University, three Historic Black Colleges and Universities with architecture departments, have agreed to participate and efforts are currently underway to expand the current initiative beyond HBCUs due to interest from numerous practitioners and professors.
12.01.09 Mark Shepard Delivers Keynote Lecture at IABR in Rotterdam
Assistant Professor Mark Shepard delivered a keynote lecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, entitled ‘The Open City and Connectivity’ at the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR) in November. He also conducted a workshop in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of his work at the Biennial. In October he delivered a paper on Hertzian Space and Urban Architecture at ACADIA 09: reForm() at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
11.15.09 Geiger Participates in the Visiting Teachers’ Programme at the AA
Assistant Professor Jordan Geiger was a participant in the 2009 Visiting Teachers’ Programme at the Architectural Association in London. The programme invites a small group of architecture faculty from institutions around the world to discuss emergent methods of architectural pedagogy, and to contribute to reviews and oversight of this seminal institution's evolving models of study and experimentation.
11.15.09 UB Receives Bronze Telly Award
The University at Buffalo (UB) has received a 2009 Bronze Telly Award recognizing the Center for the Arts for their "Building UB, Growing Community: The Draft Plan" video which was produced as part of a comprehensive campus plan program led by Professor Robert Shibley. This 30th annual award program involved 11,000 entries from all 50 states and around the world.
10.15.09 Faculty Receives Award for Book
Assistant Professor Despina Stratigakos has received the 2009 DAAD Book Prize for her book, A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008). The biennial prize is bestowed by the German Studies Association, an international organization of scholars in all fields of German Studies, and recognizes the best book in German history, political science, and other social sciences. The official notice of the award can be seen at: http://www.thegsa.org/indexDetail.asp?DocID=30
10.02.09 Faculty Search Announcement
The Department of Architecture invites applicants for the tenure-track positions in the areas of Material Culture and Sustainable Urban and Natural Environments. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2009.
