University of Texas at San Antonio.
Armando Araiza,ย Lecturer, led his undergraduate students in the design, fabrication, and mounting of a public art installation mounted on the faรงade of the Houston Street Parking Garage in downtown San Antonio, TX. The installation was composed of 128 individual aluminum modules clustered to create 16 unique tiles. The tiles were designed to evoke handmade Mexican “talavera” tiles, and composed to recall a map of San Antonio.ย
Ed Burian, Professor, had his essay on Mexico Cityโs geography, environmental challenges, and recent proposals for regenerative landscapes published as a chapter in Renรฉ Davids, ed.,ย Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America, University Press of Florida, (2016). He also recently lectured on, โThe Reinterpretation of Mayan Architecture in Mexico and the US,โย atย a symposiumย forย a traveling national exhibition,ย Maya:ย Hidden Worlds Revealed,ย that featuredย Mayan artifacts and interpretative exhibits at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX.
Ian Caine, Assistant Professor, recently published an article inย Log,ย andย has work in progress forย MONU, Scenario,ย andย Lunch.ย He is alsoย guest editing aย special issue ofย Sustainabilityย with Dr. Rebecca Walter that examines the prospects to achieve sustainable growth in suburbia. He continues his work as a researcher at theย Spatial History Projectย at Stanford University, where he is leading an effort to create an interactive chronology that examines the suburban expansion of San Antonio, Texas. Caine also received theย 2016-2017 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, given to three architectural faculty nationwide for excellence in early career teaching. Additionally,ย Architecture 2030ย included a studio curriculum that he developed with Dr. Rahman Azari in theย 2016 Pilot Curriculum Project, acknowledging it as one of seven nationwide that โtransform the culture of sustainable design education.โ Students from this same studio have won national awards in the AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition in each of the last two years.
Antonio Petrov,ย Assistant Professor, had his exhibit,ย 1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future,ย featured at theย UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. The exhibit features a 50-foot-long model of Broadway, a street that has the potential to become San Antonioโs great urban avenue. He also recently organized a symposium,ย Puro- On the Edge of Futureย on how the term “puro” reflects layers of San Antonio’s history, culture, economy, philosophies and how it also influences the physical environment, especially with the city’s growth.
Shelley Roff, Associate Professor, is completing a forthcoming book,ย Treasure of the City: Public Construction in Late Medieval Barcelona, that illustrates the transformative role the construction of public works, monuments and urban spaces played in the crystallization of municipal power in late medieval Barcelona.ย The textย is an urban and architectural history that grounds its theses in the cityโs social, political and economic history. Her investigation of the historical development of Barcelona also includes a virtual reconstruction of the medieval city.
Candid Rogers, Lecturer, received awards for the design of โHouse 117โ as a Special Mention in theย Architzerย 2017 A+Awardsย program in the โArchitecture + Stoneโ category, aย 2016 AIAย Honor Detail Award, andย anย AIA Citationย Design Award 2016ย for the Barrera House. He alsoย had one of his students win the 2016ย ACSAย Farnsworth House Competition.
Stephen Temple, Associate Professor, is editing and writing a book under contract with Routledge for publication in 2018 entitled,ย Promoting Creative Thinking in Beginning Design Studios, which will reveal myriad under-regarded issues in introducing creative thinking in beginning design studio courses, how learning and creative thinking happens, and how it transforms student design thinking.ย He also published two papers, “Developing Abstraction through Experience in Architectural Pedagogies: Making is Connecting” inย The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, and “Learning to Draw Through Digital Modeling” inย Design and Technology Education: An International Journal.
Jae Yong Suk,ย Assistant Professor, had his research paper co-authored with Professor Marc Schiler and Karen Kensek of the USC School of Architecture, โIs Exterior Glare Problematic?: Investigation on Visual Discomfort Caused by Reflected Sunlight on Specular Building Facades,โ win the Best Paper Award at theย 32nd International Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conferenceย recently held in Los Angeles, CA.
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