January-June 2004

06/22/2004 2004 Corrugated Cardboard Chair Design Competition

Congratulations to Architecture graduate student Terry Chang (M Arch 2004) whose entry was awarded First Prize in the AIAS/ICPF Chair Affair competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students & the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.

05/20/2004 2004 Corrugated Cardboard Chair Design Competition

Architecture graduate student Terry Chang (M Arch 2004) is one of six finalists in the competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students & the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation. The second tier of judging will take place between June 10-12, 2004 at the 2004 AIA convention in Chicago where the finalists' chairs will be displayed and the final winner will be announced.

05/20/2004 Bruner - Lobe Forum on Transforming Community

Professor Robert Shibley was an invited participant in the Bruner - Lobe Forum on Transforming Community through the Arts held in Chattanooga, TN on April 23. The Forum represents a partnership between the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship Program. This was the fourth in a series of such events held in Cambridge, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Chattanooga over the past two years.

Pearce Visiting Critics

Evan Douglis and William Massie will be
in residence at the Department of Architecture from April 22 to April 25, 2004, as the Pearce Visiting Critics.

Evan Douglis is the principal of Evan Douglis + Associates, and is currently the Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture at Pratt Institute.

William E. Massie is the principal of Massie Architecture and an Associate Professor of Architecture at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.

Fellowships in Architecture

The Department of Architecture is soliciting applications for the 2004-05 Reyner Banham and John and Magda McHale Fellowship. The Fellowship jury is Bonnie Ott, Mehrdad Hadighi, Hadas Steiner, and Bernard Tschumi. Applications are due March 15, 2004. For more information, contact the Department.

Canadian Center for Architecture

Hadas A. Steiner, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, and Kent Kleinman, Chair, have been selected to be Visiting Scholars at the Study Center of the Canadian Centre for Architecture during the 2004-2005 academic year.

Graham Foundation Grant

Kent Kleinman received a Graham Foundation Grant and a New York State Council for the Arts Grant for a publication on the current exhibition entitled Mori on Wright: Designs for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Visitor Center.

Chichi Earthquake Memorial Competition

Associate Professor Bonnie Ott, along with Apisit Thanavuthiporn (M Arch 2004) and Associate Professors Shahin Vassigh and Gary Day, was selected as a finalist in the Chichi Earthquake Memorial Competition. The team’s proposal is to construct a fault-like tear in the project site. Visitors to the memorial walk down into and through the earth-walled fault.