ARCH 5117: Wolf Point Mixed-Use, Chicago. Matt Eccleston, Carrie Foster, Simon Manning, Devard Hanna, Steven Raynor, and Chase Winkel.

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NEWSLETTER

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Jack and Carol Corgan.

Giving Made Easy! 1. Send a check made out to the “OSU Foundation” to: Oklahoma State University School of Architecture 101 Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building Stillwater, OK 74078 In the memo area or in an attached letter please designate what fund you wish to support or leave blank for general purpose. 2. Go to http://arch-ceat.okstate.edu/content/giving for links for giving online and information on planned gifts, stock, or real estate gifts. MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD

Dear Friends, I am pleased to report that the School of Architecture is thriving, with an outstanding faculty and talented students! This past year has been a busy and productive one, and I hope this newsletter provides you with some of the details of our accomplishments and future plans. The profession is changing and we are strategically evolving with these changes while keeping the lasting core values and traditions that have defined our school. I urge you to keep in touch with the School and support us in our endeavors as we support you by educating the professionals of the future. Best,

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FUNDRAISING Thanks to the generous gifts of many friends and alumni, the School of Architecture has made significant strides in growing our endowments and annual enrichment support over the past several years. These endowments help the School keep pace with the expanding needs of architectural and architectural engineering education and allow us to provide new opportunities for education and growth. Our priorities for the future include increasing the Endowment for Excellence, continuing to grow endowments for student scholarships, new focused endowments and annual gifts supporting the European Study Program, and new endowments supporting faculty and student enrichment. We need your continuing financial support! Thank you!

DONALD W REYNOLDS ARCHITECTURE BUILDING MAINTENANCE ENDOWMENT COMMITMENT FULFILLED In April, the School of Architecture fulfilled its commitment to the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation by completing the Donald W. Reynolds Architecture Building Maintenance Endowment at approximately $3.25 million. This endowment will provide annual funds to keep the Donald W. Reynolds Architecture Building in state of the art condition into the future! Thank you to all who supported the School in this effort through your gifts! ALUMNI ESTABLISH ENDOWMENTS TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE An endowment is a wonderful way of providing permanent financial support to the School of Architecture. This year several alumni and friends gave support in this way by either pledging a new endowment, significantly adding to their existing endowment, or establishing a new endowment. Jack and Carol Corgan established a new endowment which will provide significant

financial support to an outstanding fifth year student each year. Jack is currently serving as the CEAT Capital Campaign Committee Chair. Previously Jack and Carol gave generously to the Donald W. Reynolds Building Maintenance Endowment and the Jack and Carol Corgan Auditorium is named in their honor. Jim (BArch ‘62) and Pam Knight have established “The Knight Family Faculty Development Fellowship” endowment in memory of Jim’s son, the late Robert L. Knight. This new endowment will provide annual funds to support faculty development and enrichment. Chuck Knight (BArch ‘86) is one of the administrator’s of the endowment. Sterling Little (MArch ‘85) established a new endowment supporting the Cunningham Architecture Library. Mike (BArch ‘73) and Sharon Damore, who have been making significant annual gifts for some time in support of scholarships for the European Studies Program students, pledged to establish a permanent endowment which will continue to provide permanent scholarship support for this program.

PROFESSOR SUZANNE BILBEISI NAMED FIRST SOA CENTENNIAL PROFESSOR Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi has been named the first Centennial Professor in the School of Architecture. The Centennial Professorship Endowment was established through the gifts of nearly thirty individuals and corporations, and is intended to provide enrichment support to School of Architecture faculty members. The Professorship was established to both recognize and provide resources to the recipient to further their career goals as well as that of the

this prestigious Professorship. Professor Bilbeisi has been a faculty member at the School of Architecture since 1993, and as her position on the faculty has evolved, she has become a cornerstone of the Beginning Design curriculum for the program. Her role as academic adviser for Architecture students in 2nd-5th years affords her a close relationship with the student body. She is currently developing plans for the Professorship funds, placing a priority on strategies that enhance connections between students and the profession.

members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching during the formative years of their architectural teaching career. This year, three awards were made, with nominations from ACSA member schools across North America. Nathan joins Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi and Associate Professor Jeanne Homer as OSU School of Architecture faculty members who received this recognition early in their careers. Earlier in the year, Richardson received the 2012 OSU Riata Entrepreneurial Faculty of the Year Award.

Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi.

Assistant Professor Nathan Richardson

Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi.

program. It is a four year appointment, and includes funds that may be used for developing instructional programs, the purchase of teaching materials, the support of guest lecturers and student assistantships, and for travel and professional development.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NATHAN RICHARDSON RECEIVES THE ACSA/AIAS NEW FACULTY TEACHING AWARD

PROFESSOR MOH’D BILBEISI SERVING AS NATIONAL DCA PRESIDENT

Suzanne’s work with undergraduate students, particularly in their formative years with the School, and her dedication to facilitating student success were the motivating factors in selecting her for

Assistant Professor Nathan Richardson received the ACSA/ AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award at the ACSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco last spring. This international award, sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architecture Students, is given to outstanding young architecture faculty

architecture, interior design, graphic design, and industrial design. The DCA encourages its members to maintain a productive and beneficial dialogue concerning creative and effective alternatives for teaching and promoting the skills of design and design communication. It also encourages design and design communication educators to keep an active role within academia to teach these essential skills to students and offers them the opportunity to present and publish the results of their teaching and research in a public academic forum. As president of the DCA, Bilbeisi is working closely with his officers to collect all the academic papers that were authored since the inception of the DCA in the early 1980s. This initiative would archive the papers and make them available online and searchable for topic and interest. Because many of the papers were not authored digitally the process is arduous yet should provide a great resource. Faculty members and design professionals are strongly encouraged to join the DCA. For more information, please visit the DCA website: http:// www.designcommunicationassociation. org or contact Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi at [email protected].

Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi will serve as national president of the Design Communication Association this year. The Design Communication Association [DCA] is an international organization that is composed of design and design communication educators and professionals from architecture, landscape architecture, interior

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SCHOOL HOSTS 2012 DESIGN COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Assistant Professor Awilda Rodríguez with the school’s new 3-axis CNC machine.

During the Fall of 2012, Oklahoma State University School of Architecture and in association with the Design Communication Association, hosted the 2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association. This international event marked the School’s first academic conference to be held at the newly renovated Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building in Stillwater. Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi served as conference chair.

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The theme for the 2012 DCA conference was “Graphic Quest: the Search for Perfection in Design Communication”. It aimed to generate meaningful dialogue, disseminate new knowledge, and share pedagogy among the conference attendees and participants. This international conference brought together more than 80 world class national and international academics, practitioners, and experts in the fields of design and design communication. The conference lasted for four days with conference participants, faculty members, and students participating in academic and enrichment activities. The scheduled conference activities included presentations by Jim Leggitt, David Hanser, and Friedrich St. Florian as keynote speakers. Jim Leggitt, Nathan Richardson, Henry Sorenson, and John Womack offered diverse and effective graphic workshops about sketching, watercolors, and mixed media. The conference also included juried paper sessions and presentations, a juried drawing/ visual communication competition exhibit, and other activities.

DIGITAL FABRICATION LAB ESTABLISHED Using a one-time allocation of student technology fee funds, the School of Architecture is establishing a new digital fabrication lab in the Donald W. Reynolds Architecture Building. Several key pieces of equipment have been purchased including a 4’x8’ 3-axis CNC machine, three 3d printers, and a largebed laser cutter. This new equipment will help the School expand its digital design and fabrication capabilities. For the past several years students have been introduced to digital fabrication approaches and technologies in various computer and design studio courses and have used the School’s existing laser cutter and college-operated CNC machine to explore some potential in this area. The new equipment, which will be ready for use in the fall, will greatly expand the potential for this exciting new area of architectural exploration and will link directly with student use of Rhino and Revit software. More news to come!

DESIGN/BUILD IN THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Design/build projects offer a process in which fabrication is inseparable from the conception of design. This process allows for hands-on learning and experimentation and encourages students to work on collaborative teams in which they resolve conflicts, manage budgets, and develop communication skills. Over the last several years, the design/ build component of the School of Architecture’s curriculum has grown in scope and focus including, for the last four years, a required design/build experience in the ARCH 3216 studio. While students must self-fund most of these projects, some have enjoyed substantial outside funding and have included working with a real client (i.e. exhibits for the Oklahoma Wondertorium in 2011). Approaches each semester have varied from multiple smaller projects to a singular, larger in scope, class-wide project. There has consistently been a tremendous and valuable learning curve for both the faculty and the students.

In the spring of 2013 in ARCH 3216, students were organized into small teams of 2-3 persons and a project was designed which maximized emphasis on issues of material and craft while minimizing class-wide coordination issues and funding needs. Stan Carroll (MArch ‘83) joined the faculty team for the design/build project. Stan is the owner and founder (1988) of Beyond Metal in OKC. Beyond Metal is an awardwinning hands-on design and fabrication workshop which takes on architecture, furniture, metals design and fabrication, and sculpture projects. Students were first asked to explore the shop environments and various materials that would be emphasized. They used the woodworking and metalworking shops at the CEAT DML (Design Manufactoring Laboratory), including their CNC table, the shop at Beyond Metal, and the School of Architecture shop facilities and laser cutter to fabricate their projects. Four teams of students focused on each of the four different assigned materials ̶ panelized woods, sheet metals, acrylic

Stan Carroll (MArch ‘83) helps students with fabrication at his Beyond Metal shop in OKC.

ARCH 3216 design/build, Bryan Broaddrick, Curtis Freeman, and Sean O’Brien.

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS Four student organizations serve the School of Architecture. AIAS is an organization for architecture students which serves the school, community, and students in many ways including organizing an annual Career Fair, Beaux Arts Ball, and Architecture Week Activities. Carrie Foster and Bethany Enerson served as Presidents and Assistant Professor Jerry Stivers is the faculty advisor.

sheet materials, and fiber-reinforced plastic. Students were asked to research their assigned material, present this research to the entire class, and identify a limited-scope ($100 max) design problem that could be solved by a designed fabrication using that material. They were then required to manage their budget, order materials, experiment with fabrication techniques, develop mock-ups as part of the design process, and finally, build a final product that solved their identified problem. The students thoroughly enjoyed their experience and learned a tremendous amount as they fabricated a wide variety of solutions including a display system, an end table, a coat rack, a wine rack, a chair, an outdoor fire pit, a bike rack, numerous lamps, and various types of shelving. Students showcased their projects in the OSU Creativity Festival and were recognized with 2nd Prize.

CUNNINGHAM ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY NEWS

his memory. The Elliott Evans Memorial Collection now numbers over 80 items.

Sterling Little, (MArch’85), a long-time donor to the Architecture Library, decided to increase and formalize his giving this year by establishing a $25,000 endowment specifically supporting the Cunningham Architecture Library. In addition, Mr. Little provided support to allow the Architecture Library to license Archivision, a database of 60,000 images to enhance the study and teaching of architecture and landscape architecture, as well as subscribe to the Building Green Suite, three integrated databases of authoritative information on sustainable design.

Thanks also go to several individuals who donated books this year: Dr. Michael Rabens, Professor Moh Bilbeisi, Sam Carson (BArch ’58) and Ray Luley (BArch, BAE ’58), who donated some early papers written by the late Professor Ray Means, OAMC (1930-1963).

In the past, Mr. Little provided financial support for two digitization projects of local content: the Architecture Master’s Reports and the Caudill Fellowship Portfolios (http://www.library.okstate. edu/digital/index.htm). For the tenth consecutive year, family and friends of Elliott Evans (BArch ’99) continue to donate books and materials in

Don Hutchins, (BArch ‘64), presented the library with an unusual gift – five early watercolors by John Rex Cunningham, the beloved professor of architecture at OAMC (1926 – 1967) for whom the architecture library is named. Mr. Hutchins, who was a student of Professor Cunningham, presented the artworks in honor of his aunt, Thamazin Hutchins. Taken along with the $50,000 endowment established by Professor Emeritus A. Richard Williams, FAIA, several years ago, the Cunningham Architecture Library is well-positioned to meet its educational mission for the benefit of generations of students now and in the future.

AEI is an organization for architectural engineering students. Students from AEI attended the national conference in the spring at Penn State. Chris Maxwell served this last year as national AEI Vice President and chapter President. Assistant Professor Carisa Ramming is the faculty advisor. CSI is an organization that combines architecture, architectural engineering, and construction management students. CSI sponsors various building site visits to help students gain access to buildings under construction. Nick Prather served as President. Professor Khaled Mansy is the faculty advisor. The ASTEK (Architecture Students Teaching Elementary Kids) program completed another successful year with a year-end show of student work. Over 40 School of Architecture students teach units on architecture in fifth grade classes in Stillwater. Elizabeth Hinkle served as ASTEK coordinator and Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi served as the faculty advisor.

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EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM 2012 EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM

EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM MOVING BASE FROM VERSAILLES TO ROME

Special thanks for the financial support provided to this program through the following endowments and annual gifts: the Eason Leonard Endowment, the Endowment for Excellence, Provost Study Abroad Scholarships, CEAT Dean’s Study Abroad Scholarships, Humphries Study Abroad Scholarships, the George and Shari Schoenleber Endowment, the Allen Porter Endowment, the Burke Endowment, the family of the late Elliott Evans, and Mike and Sharon Damore.

After thirty-two years of enjoying Versailles as a “home base”, the School of Architecture is moving its European Studies program to Rome in 2014. The program has had administrative facilities and access to housing in Versailles through a long-standing relationship with the University of Illinois. Dr. Hanser founded the OSU European Study Program in 1982 and directed it for much of its existence. Recently the University of Illinois decided to move their program from Versailles, which precipitated a change for OSU. The summer of 2013 was the last in which the facilities and housing were available in Versailles. The School of Architecture has consistently been visiting Rome for a week to ten days for many years as part of the program and this change to having a longer time period in Rome will be a wonderful opportunity to take better advantage of the Eternal City. The School will enjoy similar arrangements to administrative space and housing through the Pantheon Institute in Rome. The administrative space is just off the Piazza della Rotunda adjacent to the Pantheon and the housing is in a building on the Tiber River in Trastevere, near the Forum.

2012 European Studies Program students (left to right): Josh Clough, Colby Williams, Craig Borkenhagen, Craig Poor, Evan Neal, Jacob Gann, Sara Williams, and Carrie Foster. 2012 European Studies Program faculty Jeff Williams (left) and Jerry Stivers (far right) with Professor Emeritus and program founder David Hanser (center).

Professor Jeff Williams directed the 2012 program and was assisted by Assistant Professor Jerry Stivers in France and Associate Professor Paolo Sanza in Rome. In addition to their 4 weeks in Paris/ Versailles, students and faculty traveled to Normandy, Bruges, Belgium, and Rome before students departed on one and one half weeks of independent travel.

The program will continue its emphasis on observation, analysis, and communication through drawing, journaling, and selected projects.

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2013 EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM Twenty-one students spent 4 weeks in France, 10 days in Rome, and 9 days in Spain before embarking on a week and one half of free travel on the 2013 European Studies Program. Associate Professor Jeanne Homer directed the program and was assisted by Professor Randy Seitsinger (France and Rome), and Associate Professor Paolo Sanza (Rome). Professors Moh’d and Suzanne Bilbeisi led students for travel in Spain. Scholarships were provided through the following endowments and annual gifts: the Eason Leonard Endowment, the Endowment for Excellence, Provost Study Abroad Scholarships, CEAT Dean’s Study Abroad Scholarships, Humphries Study Abroad Scholarships, the George and Shari Schoenleber Endowment, the Allen Porter Endowment, the Burke Endowment, the family of the late Elliott Evans, and Mike and Sharon Damore.

Faculty and students at Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Italy. Left to right: Steve Koehler, Callan Bregenzer, Kevin Oyler, Philip Briggs, Andy Cline, Paolo Sanza, Randy Seitsinger, Andrew Schluterman, Drew Phillips, Blake Mitchell, Bailey Brown, Bailey Topper, Sarah Turner, Lauren Snow, Hana Avey, Margaret Cunningham, Sean Miller, Nick Prather, Josh Westerman, Katie Shemanske, Brett Meek, Ryan Shafer, Anthony Chau, and Jeanne Homer.

Paris sketches, let’s see what you have!

For the fourth consecutive year, Joe (BAE ‘74) and Connie Mitchell hosted European Studies Program students and faculty at their ranch in Glen Rose, Texas just before students and faculty departed for Europe to help “tune-up” sketching skills..

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Professor Bilbeisi giving sketch crits in Seville.

Meier’s Jubilee Church in Rome.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, & AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS HUDGINS FELLOWSHIPS: Chris Haverkamp and Hope Hall BEN R. BALL SCHOLARSHIP: Bailey Topper DRYDEN SCHOLARSHIPS: Jeff Cassel and Maria Prado KESTER SCHOLARSHIPS: Annie Best and Morgan Brun

ARCH 4216 faculty treat students to a charette brunch. Professor Stivers serves up a pancake!

Acme Brick Prize Acme Brick has sponsored the Acme Brick Prize for the past 22 years. The prize is awarded for outstanding architectural achievement and innovative use of brick in an ARCH 3116 design studio project. First Place: Michael Malone Second Place: Sean Miller Third Place: Matt Huddleston US Stone Prize US Stone sponsored a studio project for the fifth consecutive year. The US Stone Prize was awarded to students in Arch 3116 for outstanding overall excellence in design and in the creative use of stone in a studio project. First Place: Blake Mitchell Second Place: Bailey Brown Honorable Mentions: Ryan Shafer & Evan McQuillen

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Pella Prize The Pella Prize is awarded to students in Arch 4216 for outstanding overall

excellence in the design and development of a single semester-long project. This long-standing prize is jointly sponsored by the Pella Company and the Womble Company from Oklahoma City. First Place – Margaret Cunningham Second Place – Evan Murta Third Place – Sara Williams Fourth Place - Aaron Klossner Honorable Mentions: Craig Poor, Chris Maxwell & Katie Shemanske IES Lighting Award Awarded to a student in ARCH 4216 and sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, Central Oklahoma Section, this prize rewards outstanding lighting design. First Place: Hannah Grammon Second Place: Nathan Harshman & Callan Bregenzer

NYE SCHOLARSHIPS: Aaron Klossner and Juan Rosales LOCKE SCHOLARSHIPS: Margaret Cottingham and Nathan Harshman HARRILL SCHOLARSHIP: Clarissa Hoskison JOSEPH R. REEVES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS: Hannah Grammon, Emily Henning, and Cameron Patterson CRAMER SCHOLARSHIPS: Jennifer Lane, Bailey Brown, and Callan Bregenzer MEANS SCHOLARSHIPS: Rachel Funkhouser, Nick Prather, Ryan Shafer, Chris Maxwell, Kylee Caesar, Jared Boyles, and Chris Harlan ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS: Hana Avey, Trevin Bender, Callan Bregenzer, Bailey Brown, Anthony Chau, Andrew Cline, Margaret Cottingham, Brett Meek, Sean Miller, Blake Mitchell, Kevin Oyler, Drew Phillips, Nick Prather, Andrew Schluterman, Ryan Shafer, Katie Shemanske, Lauren Snow, Bailey Topper, Sarah Turner, and Josh Westerman ELLIOTT EVANS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: Hana Avey

THOMAS AND WINIFRED PORTER SCHOLARSHIP: Nick Prather EASON LEONARD FELLOWSHIPS: Andrew Cline, Sean Miller, Kevin Oyler, Katie Shemanske, Bailey Topper, and Josh Westerman MIKE & SHARON DAMORE SCHOLARSHIPS: Callan Bregenzer, Bailey Brown, Margaret Cottingham, Brett Meek, Blake Mitchell, Andrew Schluterman, and Lauren Snow BURCH TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP: Sarah Turner BOND AND BOND SCHOLARSHIPS Austin Mitchell, Mercedes Harris GEORGE AND SHARI SCHOENLEBER SCHOLARSHIP: Brett Meek TESONE SCHOLARSHIPS: Emily Ashbaugh, Shayna Borgfeld, Laura Fox, Cole Griffin, Drew Harbour, Mercedes Harris, Christopher Healy, Benjamin Schwarz, Chad Sebring, Amanda Siegersma, Sarah Thomas, Caitlin Whitley, Sara Williams, Karlyn Willis, and Courtney Wolf AIA OKLAHOMA SCHOLARSHIPS: Colby Williams and Zac Mowery OKC FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTURE SCHOLARSHIP: Bailey Brown AWARDS CHI EPSILON: Emily Ashbaugh, Jeff Cassel, Ryan Baskin, Rachel Funkhouser, Hope Hall, Chris Harlan, Nick Prather, Ryan Shafer, and Spencer Wilson

ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE ALUMNI BOOK AWARDS FIRST YEAR DESIGN: Emily Henning, Eric Fleet, Cameron Patterson, and Veronica Vest Honorable Mentions: John Dunn, Anthony Simerson, and Karlyn Willis SECOND YEAR DESIGN: Austin Mitchell, Jennifer Lane, and Chris Healy Honorable Mentions: Morgan Brun, James McMahon, and Sarah Thomas THIRD YEAR DESIGN: Blake Mitchell Honorable Mentions: Bailey Brown and Maria Prado FOURTH YEAR DESIGN: Callan Bregenzer Honorable Mentions –Margaret Cottingham, Brett Kirk, Craig Poor, and Sara Williams FIFTH YEAR DESIGN: Carrie Foster Honorable Mentions: Matt Eccleston and Chase Winkel EUROPE: Sara Williams THIRD YEAR AE: Jeff Cassel Honorable Mention: Tim Fitzgerald FOURTH YEAR AE: Rachel Funkhouser FIFTH YEAR AE: Chris Maxwell Honorable Mention: Matt Horning OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSISTANTS: Elizabeth Hinkle, Trevor LaBrosse, Sean Miller, Ryan Rankin, and Colby Williams ALPHA RHO CHI MEDAL: Carrie Foster HENRY ADAMS/ AIA SCHOOL MEDAL: Josh Clough

Fifth year Architecture class. Left to right: Carrie Foster, Matt Eccleston, Chase Winkel.

HENRY ADAMS/ AIA CERTIFICATE: Carrie Foster CAUDILL FELLOWSHIP: Chase Winkel Finalists: Matt Eccleston and Carrie Foster 2012/2013 School of Architecture graduates: Architecture (BArch) Ben Clayton, Josh Clough, Mark Davis, Matt Eccleston, Bethany Enerson, Nick Forthman, Carrie Foster, Jacob Gann, Laurissa Gibson, Jordan Gill, Aaron Guthridge, Devard Hanna, Katy Harlow,

Elizabeth Hinkle, Chris Huber, Nick Hudacko, Min Woo Kim, Trevor LaBrosse, Jerry Lavarnway, Simon Manning, Zac Mowery, Evan Neal, Ryan Rankin, Steven Raynor, Samuel Stropes, Connor Tapscott, Kelsey Trepka, Allison White, Joe Willhoite, Colby Williams, Spencer Williams, and Chase Winkel Architectural Engineering (BArch Eng) Ryan Baskin, Jared Boyles, Kylee Caesar, Erica Castillo, Chris Harlan, Matt Horning, David Kazibwe, and Chris Maxwell

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Will it work? Professor Bilbeisi gives advice.

DISCOVER ARCHITECTURE The Discover Architecture workshop is a week-long career exploration program specifically designed for high school students. This summer, in its ninth offering, faculty in Construction Management and Landscape Architecture were involved to provide a curriculum that more fully addressed the comprehensive nature of Architecture. Twenty-five high school students representing seven states attended the workshop this year, and not only worked with OSU faculty but also met current students in our degree programs as well as practicing professionals from sponsoring firms.

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Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi served as director of the workshop, managing recruiting, budgeting, and the dayto-day scheduling. Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi led the portions dealing with sketching, architectural problem solving, and digital application. Architectural engineering design was led by Professor Steven O’Hara, who introduced the truss

problem and then tested the results using the Structural Stress Analyzer.

2012-2013 LECTURE SERIES Chair: Paolo Sanza

Participants visited the construction site of the new Will Rogers Elementary School in Stillwater, led on this tour by Bob Shaefer, AIA and Dan Alaback, ASLA. Assistant Professor Nick Nelson of the LA program developed the Landscape Architecture design installation project with the OSU Botanic Gardens serving as the backdrop. Associate Professor Heather Yates took the students to the Construction Lab to create concrete cylinders that were then tested for strength.

Fall 2012 lectures: Randy Seitsinger, Professor and Head, OSU Joong C. Lee, Weidlinger Associates, New York David Hanser, Professor Emeritus, OSU Friedrich St. Florian, Providence, RI Jim Leggitt, Denver, CO Brad Bell, TEX-FAB, Assistant Professor UT Arlington, TX Craig Hodgetts + Husinming Fung, LA, CA Stephanie Pilut, Assistant Professor, OU Elena Manferdini , atelier manferdini, Venice, CA

Professional firms sponsoring the program this year were The Architect’s Collective, SelserSchaefer Architects, F+S+B, Studio Architecture, Wallace Engineering, Snowden Engineering, the OSU Construction Management Professional Advisory Board, and the Office of James Burnett. If you would like to be a firm sponsor next year, please contact Suzanne Bilbeisi at suzanne. [email protected].

Professor O’Hara helps with a truss design.

University. Among the participants this year were two parents of School of Architecture alumni: Mr. Darrel Fry, father of Tracy Fry (BArch ’94), and Dr. Ronald Welsh, father of Austin Welsh (BArch ’07), both attended with a grandchild. If you would like more information about Grandparent University, please call the Alumni Association.

GRANDPARENT UNIVERSITY

Spring 2013 lectures: Bill Chilton, Pickard Chilton, New Haven Mark Clayton, Professor, Texas A&M Romolo Martemucci, Director Pantheon Institute, Rome, Italy Keith Yancey, LAM partners, Cambridge, MA Stanley Saitowitz, San Francisco, CA Robert Matthew Noblett, Behnisch Architekten, Boston, MA Stefania Manna, Rome, Italy Wake up and Dream Lecture Series Daniel Greenberg, MA Dr. Nancy Gift, Berea College, Kentucky Bill Reed, Integrative Design Group, Boston/ Santa Fe Tom Kopf, DTJ Design, Boulder, CO Tony Layne, Perkins + Will, Minneapolis, MN

The 12th annual OSU Alumni Association “Grandparent University” took place this June on the Stillwater campus. Professors Suzanne Bilbeisi, Steven O’Hara, and Jerry Stivers provided the ‘Architecture’ major to twenty-seven students, 8 to 78 years old. Activities included structural demonstrations, drawing, and a city masterplanning exercise for ‘Petesburgh’. Each participant designed and constructed a model of a building for this new city, which was displayed proudly at the graduation ceremony for this installment of Grandparent Professor Bilbeisi with students.

Gallery Exhibits: Randy Seitsinger Paintings Oklahoma Art Educator’s Association Conference Member Art Show DCA Juried Exhibition Pickard Chilton: Designing Relationships

B EGIN NI NG DE S I G N - A R C H 1 2 1 6 _ Sp r in g ‘1 3 & A R C H 2116_Fall ‘12 In ARCH 1216 and ARCH 2116 students develop beginning design abilities. Of note is the fact that for the first time in School history the ARCH 1216 course had equal numbers of males and females! ARCH 1216 faculty: Suzanne Bilbeisi (coordinator), Moh’d Bilbeisi, Jana Phillips, and Sarah Ra. ARCH 2116 faculty: Jeanne Homer (coordinator), Suzanne Bilbeisi, and Nathan Richardson. ARCH 2116, Chris Healy. ARCH 2116 students pouring plaster. ARCH 2116, Austin Mitchell. ARCH 1216, Stephanie Onuaja.

ARCH 1216, Molly Delp.

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ARCH 2116, Jonathan Hall.

SEC OND Y E AR DE S I G N - A R C H 2 2 1 6 _ S p r in g 2 013 ARCH 2216 faculty Nathan Richardson (coordinator), John Womack, Awilda Rodríguez, and Seung Ra helped students continue developing their architectural design abilities.

Site, Austin Mitchell.

Pin-up.

Site, Nick Freese, Minwoo Hahm, Jennifer Lane.

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Structure, Jennifer Lane.

T H IRD YE AR DE S I G N - A R C H 3 11 6 _ F a ll 2 0 1 2 ARCH 3116 faculty Moh’d Bilbeisi (coordinator), Paolo Sanza, and Seung Ra worked with students to continue the development of their creative problem-solving abilities while introducing the computer as part of the design process.

Morpheus Sketch Problem, left, Rachel Funkhouser, right, Jared Hedinger.

St. Thomas Catholic Church, Stillwater, OK, Michael Malone.

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materiality Materials speak, they breathe, they exude feelings. Selected are materials that speak in an architectural language corresponding to the previous conceptual development. They add life through their inherent characteristics and imbue the architecture with meaning that cannot be achieved through form alone. sanctuary perspective

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Stone provides a connection to the human that few materials can boast. Its solid and powerful nature is evocative of the Almighty.

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Traditionally the church form has been one derived from Roman precepts. The pagan morphologies have been integral in church design over the past millennia and continue to be a prevalent inspiration. In searching for the ideal iteration of the church typology I have bypassed these notions yet maintained the integral and fond idea; adapting symbolism.

The monolithic nature of the form allows the main building to stand out among the landscape. Pedestrian paths intersect and navigate among the structure following the dynamic form's footprint. The architecture is raised from the land adding to it's esoteric and enigmatic nature.

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T H IRD YE AR DE S I G N - A R C H 3 2 1 6 _ Sp r in g 2 0 1 3 ARCH 3216 faculty and co-coordinators Paolo Sanza and Jeff Williams worked with students on two major projects during the semester. The first was a design-build project in which teams of students explored material properties of steel, wood, fiber reinforced plastic, and acrylic resulting in a built prototype by each team. Stan Carroll worked with the faculty and students on this project. The second project was a mixed-use housing competition project in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn featuring wood as a structural high rise material. HOOVERVILLE IN RED HOOK

CONTAINER PORT IN RED HOOK

MAPPING THE SITE

MAIN ENTRY ROCKY SULLIVANS TO HELP ENCOURAGE GROWTH IN THIS AREA THE BIKE SHOP IS PLACED IN THE NORTH CORNER

THE MAIN ENTRY IS PLACED ON THE NE SIDE BECAUSE IT IS MORE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AND THERE ARE MORE JOBS IN THAT DIRECTION.

PARK

MODULAR

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RED HOOK BROOKLYN NEW YORK

A DEVELOPMENT THAT RISES FROM HISTORICAL ELEMENTS FROM HISTORICAL ELEMENTS TO CREATE ORDER WITHIN CHAOS. AN EVENT THAT EVOLVED FROM A BROKEN FOUNDATION... WITHIN RED HOOK. THE RESEARCH REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF RED HOOKS HISTORY, WHICH LEAD US TO A PHOTOGRAPH OF A HOOVERVILLE IN RED HOOK THAT INSPIRES DEEPLY. THE PHOTOGRAPH DEPICTS THE CHAOTIC NATURE OF THE HOOVERVILLE WHICH INFLUENCED THE ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE ENTIRE PROJECT

the story:

IKEA

THE BUILDING TYPE OF IKEA INFLUENCED THE PLACEMENT OF THE MANUFACTURING

AS THE FUTURE ARISES UPON RED HOOK, MANY BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE ARE STRIVING TO BETTER THE COMMUNITY. THE RECENT ADDITION OF THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY GARDEN DEMONSTRATES THE WILLINGNESS TO COME TOGETHER TO BETTER THE AREA. THE DESIGN PROPOSAL HELPS ILLUSTRATE WHERE PEOPLE OF RED HOOK ONCE WERE, SO THAT THE HISTORY IS NEVER FORGOTTEN.

urban habitat Timber in The CiTy

THE ENTRY ON THE SW SIDE WAS INFLUENCED BY IKEA AND THE PARK BY ITS DOCK FOR EASY ACCESS FOR THE RESIDENCE

COMMUNITY GARDEN THE RECREATION CENTER IS ON THE SIDE OF THE COMMUNITY GARDEN BECAUSE THE VISUAL RELATIONSHIP WILL ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY

Location: Red Hook presents an interesting dichotomy where a rich industrial history interplays a deep and aesthetic urban environ. To explore an appropriate solution for the urban habitat one must take in this unique context. Throug hout the design process we let the cultural and contextual factors present themselves clearly. No where else is this expressed more evidently than the morphology of the architecture. Change: Brooklyn is a city defined by bridges. Bridges overcome obstacles. They reach from the tangible present to a abstract and hope filled future. Our development acts as a bridge not only in form but as a connection between the rich and poor,city and sea,present and future.

RED HOOK BROOKLYN NEW YORK

morphology

Community: As a an educational and teaching center our facility would act as a catalyst reigniting the stagnate industry of Redhook. Employing the traditional work/ live combination workers at the manufacturing lab would live near the homes. This relationshi p allows communities to develop naturally.

ORDERLY CHAOS

EACH FLOOR HAS TWO MODULES. ONE TURNED 20 DEGREES AND THE OTHER 10 DEGREES. EACH PAIR IS THEN TURNED DEGREES AS IT GETS HIGHER. THIS CREATES AN ORDER TO THE CHAOS.

SITE CENTRAL CORE

THE LANDINGS FOR EACH PAIRED MODULE RESPONDS TO THE MODULES ABOVE.

concept sketch

site plan with proposed site development

CIRCULATION

FROM THE LANDINGS THERE ARE BRIDGES THAT BRANCH OFF TO THE PAIRED MODULES

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SW SIDE OF THE SITE

Mixed Use Housing in Brooklyn, Tony Hammontree, Curtis Freeman, and Chad Sebring.

Mixed-Use Housing in Brooklyn, Blake Mitchell and Maria Prado.

view from ikea

F OU RTH Y E AR DE S I GN - A R C H 4 11 6 _ F a ll 2 0 1 2 ARCH 4116 faculty Randy Seitsinger (coordinator) and Awilda Rodríguez and landscape architecture Assistant Professor Nick Nelson designed a collaborative studio experience joining architecture and landscape architecture students in the third floor studio with projects focusing on masterplanning, integration of architecture and landscape, architectural development, and design development issues utilizing projects in OKC and Versailles.

Dell Innovation Center, OKC, Yufan Zhou.

Versailles Welcome Center, Lauren Snow.

Versailles Welcome Center, DD Model, Callan Bregenzer.

OKC

DELL

Community Co o at Riverplace

The role of the Dell complex is to promote economic growth on the site and in the surrounding area. It will be an economic center point to the city. Its image of success will spread over on the site and its neighboring communities. This image will revitalize the surrounding industrial development by including modernity and sustainability. The dell complex houses many employees daily, and using its relationshi p to the retail, will encourage interaction economically and socially. This interatction will be positive for each district.

REGIONAL :: RIVER :: IMMEDIATE

Oklahomas plan for future development looks toward creating an urban environment that provides a river place that serves as an amenity to the community When researching the existing communities three main categories became apparent: the immediate surrounding community, the river community, and the greater regional community of Oklahoma City. The goals of each community are related to the goals of the city and the needs of the surrounding areas. For the immediate community it was important to create an environment that creates a connections and ownershi p for visitors and surrounding neighborhoods. For the River community, the goals are to promote future development of the area as well as the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. The sites existing amenity, Oklahoma river, will be improved to create stronger connections to the greater okc area and to reinforce the preservation of natural environments and native Oklahoma landscapes. The Regional goals are more focused on incorporating urban planning and fostering education of the people of OKC. Incorporating urban planning into the site created four „districts‰ that met all the needs for the levels of community: natural, community, retail/residential, dell. When moving through the site, visitors are also moving through these four districts transitioning from Natural to Industrial. Using aspects of urban planning to organize the site created layers that promotes the goals of the community. Following the natural shape of the site and moving around the bend of the river the circulation was formed to connect both sides of the site as well as connect the site to the River. Points of interest, or nodes, were then created by the crossing and concentration of the circulation paths. The nodes encourage move people though the site by visual hierarchy and provide destinations for visitors of all the districts. Each node also incorporates water in a sequence to relate to the district relationshi p to the River. The nodes then become the central focus point of areas of building and natural density of each district to promote urban development. CIRCULATION

NODES

VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS SKYBRIDGE AND DELL CENTER FROM RIVER

SECTION 1/32‰= 1

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DENSITY SEQUENCE OF VIEWS APPROACHING AND EXPERIENCING RETAIL

Cloud Research & Development Center

PARKING Retail: 0-12,000 = 60 12,001-39000 = 120 180 parking spaces total

MASTER PLAN 1/64‰= 1

Amphitheater

IP Development Building Reflection Plaza

Office: 0-8,000 = 40 8,001-12,000 = 16 12,001-48,000 = 120 48,000-78,600 = 88 264 parking spaces total

Ecological Restoration Area Water Taxi Station Community Garden

Community Center - boathouse

Passive Recreation

Community Center - multi purpose Sculpture Plaza

VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS PARK CENTRAL NODE FROM ENTRY PLAZA

Retail & Residential MIxed Use

IT Architecture & Engineering Building

Community Center/Residential: 50,000 = 166 166 parking spaces total

Passive Oklahoma Native Landscape

610 parking spaces [total]

Community Center - aquarium Active Recreation Entry Plaza

VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS COMMUNITY CENTER FROM RIVER Run-off Mitigation

The Natural District utilizes different sections of space to educate visitors on the natural Oklahoma landscape to promote preservation and restoration. The subsections include Constructed wetlands, natural prairie grass, regional wildflowers, xeriscape, ri parian ecosystem, and lawn areas. The Natural district also leads into the community district by incorporating community gardens to give the surrounding people a sense of ownershi p by interacting with the site.

NATURA

Market Pavilion

The Retail district includes retail, restaurants, second and third floor residential area as well as the Dell Center. Utilizing density from urban planning creates a functional community that incorporates the resident, visitor and worker. Density of buildings in specific areas frame views to the river and the surrounding districts as well as form gathering spaces, to promote interaction. Attached to the district, a market pavilion connects the retail and residents using an urban idea of a structured plaza to form a residential amenity that is visible from the street and the river, strengthening the relationshi p of the retail community.

The community district provides direct amenities to each community to create a destination for visitors as well as a sustainable educational facility. The main community building in a multi purpose space containing: a main ballroom, smaller gathering rooms, a library, cafeé, daycare, multimedia room and a gallery. The other two community buildings serve as a River welcome center and an education center that contains an aquarium and childrens museum. The community center is also connected to the sculpture garden, which will highlight local artists, and the river docks to encourage direct interaction with the river and the natural district.

RETAIL/RESIDENTIAL

COMMUNITY SECTION 1/32‰= 1

SECTION 1/32‰= 1

SECTION 1/32‰= 1

OKC River PLACE at Portland Masterplan, Sara Williams, Taylor Dearinger, Maite van Lierde, and Cameron Rouze.

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F OU RTH Y E AR DE S I GN - C o m p r e h e n s iv e Stu d io_S pr ing 2013 Faculty: Jeanne Homer (coordinator), Tom Spector, Jerry Stivers, Khaled Mansy, and John Phillips. Students designed a theater for CityREP on one of three sites on Bicentennial Plaza in Oklahoma City. The project entailed schematic design and design development phases along with an introduction to the construction document phase. The class worked with clients from CityREP, and the faculty involved professionals more fully than in previous semesters in several ways. In addition to the two traditional professional juries, architecture and engineering professionals were invited to do individual critiques of students’ wall sections, and both students and professionals enjoyed this interaction. Keith Yancey (MAE ‘84) from LAM Partners in Cambridge came to Stillwater and gave a school-wide lecture and then was joined by Doyle Magnus (MAE ‘84) of SAIC for individual student critiques of their lighting designs, and the OKC Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America supplied funds to promote a short lighting workshop. Lights were loaned to the studio by Bob Smith Lighting in Oklahoma City. Lastly, Revit was integrated more fully into the studio. Andre Baros, a practicing architect in Denver and Revit expert, met with students twice during the semester, building on the Revit foundation students obtained from Professor Awilda Rodriguez’s computer course. Andre presented the idea that Revit can be used early in schematic design, eliminating repetitive modeling that often happens throughout the design process. While Revit can have a steep learning curve, students were able to embrace it early and use it both for design and presentation renderings. Students’ use of a rendering cloud made it possible for them to do a quick rendering, analyze it, and rework it.

Jurors Architects: Andre Baros Kenny Dennis Randy Floyd Jana Phillips Randy Seitsinger Shannon West Jeff Williams George Winters AEs: Ron Jantz Kenna Chapin Carrie Johnson Steve O’Hara Paul Tikalsky MEP: Jim Stewart Fred Richardson Allen Jones Electrical: George Droescher Les Harness Doyle Magnus Keith Yancey Code officials: Yuen Ho Evona Garner Paul Enix CityREP clients: Don Jordan Michael Jones

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16 City Rep Theatre, OKC, Evan Murta.

City Rep Theatre, OKC, Sara Williams.

F I FTH YE AR DE S I G N_ A R C H 5 11 7 _ F a ll 2 0 1 2 Faculty: Jeff Williams (coordinator) and Jerry Stivers.

Professor Emeritus David Hanser taught for 5 weeks in the second year design studio during the fall and also critted fifth year students (shown here with Aaron Guthridge) in the ARCH 5117 design studio.

Students worked on two mixed-use buildings in Chicago. The studio included a five-day field trip to Chicago.

Wolf Point Mixed-Use, Chicago. Matt Eccleston, Carrie Foster, Simon Manning, Devard Hanna, Steven Raynor, and Chase Winkel.

Density of activity.

Activity level draws people to the interior. Density of striations relate to the intensity of the street edge. This fosters an opportunity for a nexus of activity as a reaction to city forces.

Chaos.

The chaos of many lives as seen from without belies a latent harmony in human interaction, which this project captures in a dichotomy of ordered and deconstructivist morphology.

Matt Eccleston | Carrie Foster | Elizabeth Hinkle

*Chicago

City Density.

Tears in the urban fabric were caused by unsympathetic zoning regulations, which the project aims to rectify through restoration of the pedestrian environment.

Massing

1. Acknowledge the pedestrian environment with retail base supported by residential mass. 2. Building opens to engage views, light, and context massing. 3. Alleyway transects the grid, enhancing site permeability. 4. The train provides 1 unique opportunity for kinetic interaction with the site.

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*Retail *Offices *Building Support *Vertical Circulation *Pedestrian Alleyway *Elevated Pedestrian Paths

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A deconstructed morphology has the ability to become intertwined with the existing city. It can create a new and exciting form that with intuitional programming caters to unique needs of the community rather than being a sculptural stand-alone object. The elevated train line runs diagonally through the site and provides opportunities for the building to respond to the train and for people to enter and interact with the site and train. A curtain wall canopy envelopes the track and acts as both weather canopy for pedestrians arriving from the third-floor station across the street to the south and and advertising media mesh. Video media are seen on the screen from the street and the train. As trains go by, they digitally pick up moving ads that stay with them for the duration of the trip with the canopy. The canopy ties the building to the

surrounding community. Seen from neighboring

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buildings, the canopy is a glowing ribbon of light promoting the retail and entertainment environment.

Wolf Point Mixed-Use, Chicago. Ben Clayton, Nick Forthman, Katy Harlow, Elizabeth Hinkle, Chris Huber, Min Kim, and Evan Neal.

Chicago Transit Mixed-Use, Matt Eccleston, Carrie Foster, and Elizabeth Hinkle.

The plaza is left open and unobstructed to host neighborhood functions such as farmer’s markets, concerts and public movies. Movable furniture allows for maximum flexibility of space. In-ground lights mark the path of the track and highlight the inspirational structure and provide clear wayfinding. The building has a three story podium of retail and customer services that emphasizes the street edge at the pedestrian level. Form codes accompany zoning codes to encourage small business owners to take pride in their stores and craft unique storefronts that contribute to a dynamic urban fabric. Interior walls tangent to the building service core are temporary partition walls so each space can grow and

change with the community.

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Architecture student Aaron Guthridge tests his team’s preliminary Wolf Point highrise design in the CEAT Wind Tunnel.

Wolf Point Mixed-Use, Chicago. Matt Eccleston, Carrie Foster, Simon Manning, Devard Hanna, Steven Raynor, and Chase Winkel.

18 Wolf Point Mixed-Use, Chicago. Spencer Williams, Mark Davis, Connor Tapscott, Jerry Lavarnway, Trevor LaBrosse, andNick Hudako.

ITALIAN JOB STUDIO

A R C H IT E CTU R A L E N GIN E E R IN G with Professor Carisa Ramming in ARCH 3233: Steel I where students designed an experiment with existing scaled structural shapes of varying cross sections and materials to predict bending behavior. The predictions were then compared to testing results. All of these endeavors are being used to help students design and construct experiments and to analyze and interpret results. This is one of the required ABET assessment criteria.

Architecture Without Borders, more commonly known as The Italian Job, is an elective fifth year architectural studio directed by Professor Paolo Sanza. The studio connects Associate Professor Sanza and a selected group of fifth-year architecture students with an emerging Italian architectural practice, Studio Associato FFWD Architettura, to jointly work on professional competitions within Italy. FFWD Architettura is based in Ivrea, a city well known in architecture and urban and industrial design circles for its association with Olivetti. For the spring 2013 semester, Professor Sanza also invited engineer and SOA alumnus Tom Wallace (MAE ‘75) of Tulsa’s Wallace Engineering to join the design team to further approximate life in the design studio with the one of professional practice.

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The Italian Job, by blending academia and practice, provides students the environment for actively working towards the possibility of transforming an architectural thesis to a built structure. It does so by taking the

students’ creative aptitude outside the physical and intellectual boundaries of the studio and superimposes it to the one of a professional environment, by immersing students in the complexity of Italian professional architecture competitions while simultaneously having them engaged in the life of professional practice in Italy, by rethinking the typical hierarchical structure of both the design and the professional studios, and by exploiting web-based technologies to dissolve the physical distance between the two design poles. Moreover, following an agreement between Antonio Cinotto, one of the founders of FFWD Architettura, and Professor Sanza, it offers, in case of first prize placement and successive work commission, the opportunity for students to intern in the Italian studio to continue working on the design development of the awarded project. OSU Students and Faculty (photo above, left to right: Simon Manning, Bethany Enerson, Allie White, Paolo Sanza, and Trevor LaBrosse) FFWD Architettura: Antonio Cinotto [principal], Mariangela Angelico [principal], Valeria Miatto, and Irene Torre. Consulting engineer: Tom Wallace (MAE ‘75)

Ryan Baskin checks the slump.

“HANDS-ON” EXPERIENCES ADD TO THE ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Over the past two years the Architectural Engineering faculty has been integrating a new Structural Stress Analyzer along with other analytical and destructive testing devices into the curriculum. In the fall of 2011 Ricardo Montoya (BAE ‘12) and Professor Steve O’Hara developed the new testing procedure for the Architectural Engineering Institute annual truss competition at OSU. The procedure was used in both the spring of 2012 and 2013 where 27 and 25 students competed respectively. In the fall of 2011 Bonnie Fentem (BAE ‘12) and O’Hara developed a concrete beam testing procedure which was used in ARCH 4123: Concrete I. O’Hara worked with Professor John Phillips in ARCH 3223: Timbers for both the spring of 2012 and 2013 having students design, analyze and test scale timber trusses. O’Hara is also working

In ENSC 2113: Statics, Ramming, with the help of the other AE faculty, is integrating PASCO experimental labs into the college curriculum. Last year, experiments in particle equilibrium, truss forces, and beam bending were performed by the Honors section of the class. The intent is to integrate these lab projects into the entire Statics CEAT student body of approximately 600 students per year. In ARCH 4444: Analysis II and ARCH 6543: Analysis III during the spring of 2013 O’Hara had the students construct scaled twenty-story braced building frames to be tested on a new EQ Shake Table. Isabella Velasco (BAE ‘12) and O’Hara developed a new testing procedure and criteria to be used as a possible student competition next fall. Finally, a few of these labs and others in the school were showcased in OSU’s 2013 National Lab Day. Representatives from the College of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology collaborated on the event, which brought 119 students and 17 teachers from 14 school districts from around the state to Stillwater. Professors Mansy, O’Hara, and Ramming all conducted labs involving the Daylight Lab, the Space Cowboys,

and Statics & Strength labs. O’Hara was the coordinator for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology for this event. In Dr. Mansy’s building science courses, in addition to continuing use of the School’s heliodon and state of the art Daylighting Lab, new equipment will be used next year to measure heat gain, acoustics, and lighting in existing buildings.

AE students ready for graduation! Left to Right: Ryan Baskin, Matt Horning, Kylee Caesar, Chris Harlan, Erica Castillo, and David Kazibwe.

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Assistant Professor Ramming working with Statics honors section students.

Sara Williams pours a concrete beam for testing.

I N TER DIS CI P L I NARY IN IT IAT IVE S faculty designed and constructed the habitat as part of NASA’s Academic Innovation Challenge at the Richmond Hills Research Complex. The Garriott Multipurpose Logistic Module contains the working part of the habitat with experimental stations, a growing station, hygiene facilities, fitness equipment, storage, and life support systems. The students also took field trips to the Strafford Air and Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma, the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA X-Hab Design/Build project. That’s Professor Steve O’Hara on the right in the blue flight suit and architecture student Aaron Guthridge on the bottom row left.

SPACE ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE Faculty and students in the School of Architecture were part of a multidisciplinary program in Space Engineering and Architecture over the past two semesters. The program was funded by the 2013 Provost Interdisciplinary Grant and the 2012-2013 NASA Exploration Habitat Challenge (X-Hab). Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi, Dr. Khaled Mansy and Professor Steven O’Hara were part of a nine-person faculty team that developed and taught a seminar course in the fall. The faculty team was led by Dr. Jamey Jacob of Aerospace Engineering and represented three colleges and six departments. The course consisted of 25 undergraduate and graduate students from nine different majors from three different colleges.

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The goal of the project was to develop a multi-disciplinary education and research program in Space Engineering

and Architecture (SEA) that focuses on humans living and working in space, including both space habitats and space apparel such as space suits and “shirt sleeve” (no special garment required) environments. The specific goal of the planning grant was to determine requirements to develop joint research and courses in space engineering and architecture related to human habitation in space and on other planets, building on past OSU NASA X-Hab projects. OSU has participated in all three years of the X-Hab Challenge. In the spring O’Hara and Jacob cocoordinated a design studio that constructed the earth analog of the Multipurpose Logistics Module for the Stafford Deep Space Habitat. The studio included students from Aerospace Engineering, Architecture, and Electrical Engineering; including Aaron Guthridge (BArch ‘13). Dr. Mansy assisted with the design of the mechanical and lighting systems in the habitat. Students and

Dr. Jacob and Prof. O’Hara have received funding to continue the construction of the Habitat in the 2013-2014 X-Hab Innovation Challenge. As part of the fall 2013 seminar course students will continue work on designs for the habitat and follow in the spring of 2014 with continued construction of the Stafford Deep Space Habitat by adding the Lucid living and sleeping quarters to a second module similar to the International Space Stations Node 1. ARCHITECTURE & PHILOSOPHY JOIN TO OFFER ELECTIVE COURSE Professor Tom Spector will be departing from his usual design ethics course by co-teaching a course in the fall of 2013 with Dr. Rebecca Bensen-Cain of the OSU Department of Philosophy. The course is entitled “The Philosophy of Art, Literature and Architecture”. The class will give a traditional aesthetics course a strong architectural slant. The course will help students better understand the place of art in Western society, develop a historical awareness of problems in the philosophy of art, and understand

the important differences between the various art forms. Tom and Rebecca hope that this course will become a regular biannual offering. CEAT SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS COLLABORATIVE Several School of Architecture faculty have been working with CEAT engineering faculty to establish a Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative. This initiative aims to join architecture, engineering, and technology faculty with practicing professionals for applied research on sustainable building systems. The group’s mission statement is to create an interdisciplinary forum within a flexible and connective infrastructure of intellectual and physical resources in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. These collaborations will benefit Oklahoma and its region and have a focus on sustainable strategies and technologies for buildings and their systems through applied research. The new group is gathering information and developing a website. As funding and research opportunities become available, interested faculty can form interdisciplinary teams to explore solutions. If you are interested in learning more or discussing a possible collaboration, please contact Associate Professor Jeanne Homer at jeanne. [email protected].

Entrepeneurship and Architecture gallery exhibit.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & ARCHITECTURE Two years ago, Assistant Professor Nathan Richardson and Entrepreneurship faculty member Dr. Ruben Pilay developed an interdisciplinary elective course entitled “Entrepreneurship and Architecture” in which students collaborate on design interventions in business and the built environment. In addition to lectures and case studies, student teams conduct research and develop products, services, and other ventures in order to implement their knowledge and experience in a creative endeavor. This spring, the course was offered for the second time, co-taught by Richardson, who is a Riata School of Entrepreneurship Fellow, Entrepreneurship faculty member Dr. Craig Watters and Entrepreneurial Ph.D. candidate Sohrab Soleimanof. Students from architecture, agriculture, construction management, journalism, and entrepreneurship came together to develop design interventions in the dynamic social, political, and environmental climate of South Africa.

They proposed projects and initiatives that explored opportunities to improve the lives of residents in the townships of Mthatha and Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape Province. In addition, these students prepared an exhibit reflecting the current state of their work. The gallery exhibit included a shack built of found materials, illustrating the living conditions of South African’s poorest. Students presented six social ventures addressing a range of critical issues in waste, housing, production, culture, crime, and disease. Their ideas for soil management, waste stream harvesting, and industrial upcycling allude to a promising future for broadly engaged architects and entrepreneurs.

ASCO Charette team room.

ASCO DESIGN CHARETTE ASCO, a Belgian aerospace company, after purchasing the former MerCruiser manufacturing facility in Stillwater, OK engaged the OSU School of Architecture to provide them with innovative ideas for creating a vibrant work environment for their new facility.

Fourth year architecture students and fifth year landscape architecture students collaborated on various projects in a joint semester studio in the fall. President Hargis visited the studio one afternoon and reviewed work presented by 4th year Architecture students Evan Murta and Kathryn Maxson and 5th year Landscape Architecture student Brandon Bulingame.

In the fall of 2012 OSU faculty and students from the Schools of Architecture (architecture and architectural engineering), Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design came together and worked in cross-disciplinary teams in an intense design effort. Fifty-five faculty and students were divided into four teams, each team charged with developing a range of conceptual ideas for several specific areas of the facility. Design ideas focused on creating an appropriate and vibrant image for ASCO in the Stillwater community and providing ASCO employees with a positive, productive, and exciting work environment. Teams were urged to provide a range of ideas from “practical”

to “inspirational” in nature. In addition, a special study was made on daylighting issues and potential for the facility utilizing the School of Architecture’s Daylighting Lab. Preliminary analysis of some aspects of the existing structure was also conducted. The event was intense, creative, and a lot of fun for the participants! A full brochure highlighting the charette and results can be viewed at http:// architecture.ceat.okstate.edu/sites/ default/files/asco.pdf.

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FACULTY pedagogical approach to BIM teaching along with touring the Texas A&M digital fabrication facility, and their new BIM CAVE immersive visualization facility. The exchange sparked future possible collaborations and resulted in an OSU lecture and workshop in the spring by Texas A&M faculty Dr. Mark Clayton. Stivers visited both the University of Kansas and Kansas State University and focused his exploration on how these programs are integrating BIM into the Comprehensive Design Studio pedagogy.

Left to right: Jeff Williams, Seung Ra, Suzanne Bilbeisi, Anne Presley, and Moh’d Bilbeisi.

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY AND STAFF RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE AT OSU’s FALL CONVOCATION

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Teaching excellence is a hallmark of the OSU School of Architecture and our current faculty continues this tradition. This past year Moh’d Bilbeisi was awarded the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award. Paolo Sanza received the Halliburton Excellent Teacher Award. Carisa Ramming received the Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award and the CEAT Outstanding Faculty Member by Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and the Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council (second time in three years!). Jeff Williams and Seung Ra received the Karin & Robert J. Sternberg Award for Excellence in Advancement of the LandGrant Mission of OSU for their work in the ARCH 3216 studio on the Oklahoma

Wondertorium project. Suzanne Bilbeisi received an OSU Award of Excellence for Advisement as the outstanding advisor in the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, and Anne Presley received the 2012 OSU Staff Advisory Distinguished Staff award as OSU’s outstanding staff member. FACULTY VISIT BIG 12 PROGRAMS The Big 12 Faculty Fellowship program offers faculty the opportunity to travel to Big 12 schools to exchange ideas about teaching and research. In the past two years, three School of Architecture faculty members have participated in the program and the School of Architecture has hosted one Big 12 Faculty Fellow from another institution. In 2011, Assistant Professor Seung Ra visited the University of Nebraska with the goal of seeing how

Nebraska integrates computers in their curriculum. Later that year, Nebraska reciprocated by sending Associate Professor Steve Hardy to OSU. This past year, Assistant Professors Awilda Rodríguez and Jerry Stivers continued the investigation of architectural education through the Big 12 Faculty Fellowship program.

The research obtained from the fellowship program has had a positive impact on the OSU School of Architecture as well as other BIG 12 schools by exposing faculty and students to a broader perspective of design process, design communication and design culture.

Rodríguez, who teaches the School’s advanced computer course, visited Texas A&M with the goal of seeing how they introduce students to Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodologies in their curriculum. She attended student presentations on a wide range of subjects on their inprogress research of digital methods in architecture and she participated in a round table discussion with Texas A&M faculty to discuss the current Paolo Sanza and Carisa Ramming.

FACULTY UPDATES Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi coordinated a third year design studio, taught in the first year design studio, taught an elective course on Islamic Architecture, and worked with students last summer on the Urban USA program. He is currently serving as national President of the Design Communication Association (DCA) and chaired the DCA conference hosted in Stillwater last fall. He conducted a series of journaling and watercolor workshops at the Judson University College of Architecture in Chicago and exhibited 29 watercolor paintings at the Malinda Berry Fischer Gallery in Stillwater. He is currently working on a book entitled “Color and Letters”. He also worked on the ASCO charette. Moh’d received the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. He worked with students during this summer’s European Studies Program in Spain. Professor Suzanne Bilbeisi taught second year studio and coordinated the first year studio as well as the introduction to architecture course this past year. She worked with the European Studies Program this summer for a one week tour of Spain including Barcelona, Seville, and Granada. Suzanne serves as academic advisor for all architecture students and directs the Discover Architecture program for high school students and co-coordinates the Architecture major for the Grandparent University Alumni Association program. She coordinated the 2012 Urban USA program in which 29 students visited Washington DC and NYC early last summer; included was an Alumni reception to mingle current students with alumni, hosted at the

offices of KPF in NYC. This past April, Suzanne presented a peer reviewed paper at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Philadelphia, PA. She was recently named the School’s first Centennial Professor. Suzanne also achieved the rank of 3rd degree black belt in Taekwando last fall! Associate Professor Jeanne Homer coordinated the second year design studio in the fall and fourth year comprehensive design studio in the spring. She also taught the Architecture and Society history/theory course in the fall and coordinated the comprehensive design seminar course in the spring and coordinated this summer’s European Studies Program. She reviewed papers for the Building Technology Educator’s Society (BTES) and presented a paper at the 2012 Design Communication biannual conference, a paper at the BTES Conference in Rhode Island, and has begun preliminary work on a new book with Tom Spector on building envelopes. She participated in the ASCO design charette in the fall. Jeanne will be on sabbatical next fall working on the book project and traveling to sustainability laboratories at several universities around the US in an effort to help initiate the new College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative. She is active on the OSU Study Abroad Committee. Professor Nigel Jones continues full-time in his role as University Architect with the OSU office of Long Range Facilities Planning. Professor Khaled Mansy taught in the comprehensive design studio, the two required architectural science courses,

and an elective on sustainable design. In the summer he served as an external examiner with the pre-accreditation visit for the RIBA1 and RIBA2 accreditation of the Department of Architecture, the Arab Academy of Science and Technology (AAST), Cairo, Egypt. He provided peer review for journals (Energy & Buildings, and Construction & Building Materials by El-Sevier) and conferences (DCA 2012 held at OSU and AASHE 2012). Khaled worked on the ASCO charette, helped in the interdisciplinary course on Space Engineering & Architecture (SEA) that was funded by the OSU Provost Office and NASA, and and is a member of the newly organized Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative. . Khaled was also involved with the OSU Wake-Up & Dream Team in their efforts to initiate the OSU Eco-Village project. As part of ARCH 4233, his students prepared some preliminary studies of an OSU Eco-Village. Professor Steven O’Hara taught AE computer applications, Concrete I and co-coordinated a new seminar, “Space Engineering and Architecture”, with Dr. Jamey Jacob in Aerospace Engineering. The seminar was taught by nine faculty from six departments at OSU and was supported by an OSU Provost Multidisciplinary grant. Twenty-five students from nine different majors took the seminar. He also participated in the ASCO Design Charette. In the spring he taught Steel II, Analysis II, Analysis III and co-coordinated a design studio with Dr. Jamey Jacob constructing the earth analog of the Multipurpose Logistics Module for the Stafford Deep Space Habitat. The studio contained students from Aerospace Engineering, Architecture and Electrical Engineering that designed and constructed the habitat as part of

NASA’s Exploration Habitat Challenge at the Richmond Hills Research Complex. The project was funded by NASA and the OSU Provost. In the spring “Civil Engineering and Architecture” by O’Hara, Phillips and Ramming was published by Delmar|Cengage Learning as a workbook to support the Project Lead the Way curriculum. Also in the spring he was elevated to Chapter Honor Member by Chi Epsilon. Steve co-coordinated the Architecture Grandparent University program and taught in the Discover Architecture program. Steve continues to be active at OSU in Academic Integrity Issues and outside the university through Project Lead the Way.

Seung and Sarah Ra’s First Glory Presbyterian Church in Seoul, Korea, construction photo.

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School of Architecture Tenured and Tenure-track Faculty and Staff. Note that Professor John Womack was on sabbatical when the photo was taken!

Delegate Elect to the National Council. She also oversees the Eastern Chapter’s Young Member Group. Carisa was awarded the CEAT Outstanding Faculty Member by the Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council and received the Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. Carisa has also become certified to teach indoor cycling!

Associate Professor John Phillips taught Analysis I and Concrete II last fall, taught in the Comprehensive Design Studio and Timbers in the spring, and co-taught Statics during the summer. The Project Lead the Way workbook for Civil Engineering and Architecture was published at the beginning of 2013, and currently a solutions manual for the workbook is being developed by the authors. John worked on the ASCO design charette in the fall and is a member of the newly organized Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative.

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Assistant Professor Seung Ra taught in the third year design studio in the fall and in the second year design studio in the spring. He also taught the first required computer course in the fall. Seung presented a paper at the ACSA International Conference in Barcelona,

Spain, served as a paper reviewer for two international conferences, and served as a juror on the 2011-2012 ACSA Steel Competition in Washington DC. Seung also entered two international design competitions in addition to providing design services (with Sarah Ra) on the First Glory Presbyterian Church in Seoul, Korea, which is under construction. He was interviewed and published in two Korean publications about this project. Associate Professor Michael Rabens taught five architectural history courses during the academic year, including courses focusing on Baroque Architecture, American Architecture, Modern Architecture, Skyscrapers, and a survey of the history of architecture. He attended the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference in Buffalo, New York, and he contributed a preface to a French–

language book on the architects of the Mansart family written by Dr. Philippe Cachau. Assistant Professor Carisa Ramming taught Statics, Steel and Foundations. She collaborated with John Phillips and Steven O’Hara on the Civil Engineering and Architecture workbook for Project Lead the Way that was published this spring. Carisa is participating in a NSF funded Virtual Mechanics Community and interacting with other mechanics professors across the country as they pursue advancements in teaching engineering mechanics. She completed a peer review for OSU Civil Engineering Professor Dr. Gary Oberlender’s book on Construction Estimating and co-authored the solution manual for the text. She is very active in the Oklahoma Structural Engineer’s Association as Oklahoma’s

Assistant Professor Nathan Richardson coordinated ARCH 2216 and co-taught ARCH 2116, Urban USA Field Study, and Entrepreneurship and Architecture. In the entrepreneurship course, Professor Richardson and Dr. Craig Watters (School of Entrepreneurship) worked with students in architecture, entrepreneurship, construction management and agriculture, developing venture proposals for townships in South Africa. Nathan presented his research and writing in Forward 212: Identity and at the AIA Oklahoma Annual Convention. He also presented a graphic workshop at the Design Communication Association Conference. Nathan was reappointed as a Riata Faculty Fellow in the School of Entrepreneurship and received an ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award at the organization’s annual meeting in San Francisco. He continues work on a number of local architectural design projects. Assistant Professor Awilda Rodríguez taught in the fourth year studio in the fall and in the second year design studio and a required computer course to third year students on Revit during the spring. In the fourth year design studio she helped coordinate a collaborative studio effort with OSU landscape architecture

students and faculty. She was awarded OSU’s 2012 Interdisciplinary Creative Grant for Augmented Reality Research along with faculty from electrical and industrial engineering. In addition, Awilda had a paper accepted at the 2013 ACSA annual meeting in San Francisco, as well as two other academic papers accepted in regional and international conferences. She visited Texas A&M in conjunction with the Big 12 Faculty Fellowship program and she conducted research for the first phase of SOA’s digital fabrication laboratory with the purpose to actively integrate the latest computer driven fabrication technology in all areas of study by visiting existing facilities, consulting with vendors, and polling other architecture schools. Awilda is also involved with the newly organized Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative. Associate Professor Paolo Sanza taught in the third year design studio in the fall, cocoordinated the third year design studio in the spring, and participated in the Rome portion of the European Studies program in both 2012 and 2013. In the spring semester he also offered his fifth year elective studio Architecture Without Borders, more commonly known as The Italian Job. Additionally, Paolo is currently working on a new elective course to be offered in the Fall 2013, Modern Architecture in Italy, which will also pioneer a distance teaching collaboration with the Architecture Department at the University of Oklahoma. During the 20122013 academic year, Paolo continued to coordinate the School’s lecture series and designed the lecture series posters. Paolo worked on the ASCO charette and he was awarded the CEAT Halliburton Excellent Teacher Award.

Professor and Head Randy Seitsinger continues service as Head of the School of Architecture. He coordinated the fall semester collaborative architecture/ landscape architecture design studio and he exhibited over 100 recent paintings in the School of Architecture gallery in the fall and continues to use painting and drawing as a way of exploring issues of design and communication. One of his drawings was awarded the William G. Hook Prize at the Design Communication Conference. Also in the fall, Randy organized the ASCO design charette and during the past year worked on a series of preliminary design studies for future CEAT facilities. In addition, Randy made a presentation at the 2012 ACSA Administrator’s conference in Austin. He worked with students this summer in France and Rome during the European Studies Program. Professor Tom Spector taught two required management courses, a course on architectural ethics, and in the comprehensive design studio. His book for Routledge Press, How Architects Write (with coauthor Rebecca Damron of the OSU English Department) was published this year. The book is intended to help architects and architecture students complete the various writing tasks required in practice. Tom was a session moderator and peer reviewer for the first ISPA (International Society for Philosophy in Architecture) conference in Newcastle, UK. He heads an editorial board for that organization seeking to produce a peer-reviewed journal for scholars who research and write across the disciplines of philosophy and architecture. Tom presented a paper entitled “Publicness” at the PhilArch conference in October at Boston University. He also presented

the paper “Kicking Through Alberti’s Window” at the DCA conference held in Stillwater in October. He gave a lecture in May at the Technical University of Athens, Greece entitled “Preserving Ideals: Some Dilemmas in Modern Preservation Theory.” Tom’s apartment building project in Oklahoma City is nearing completion. Assistant Professor Jerry Stivers taught in the fifth year urban design studio in the fall and the fourth year comprehensive studio and taught a building systems course during the spring. He is a member of the AIA Oklahoma Board of Directors. Jerry was named a Big 12 Faculty Fellow in 2012 and visited KSU and KU in the fall with a focus on how schools integrate BIM into their comprehensive design studios. This summer, he was involved with Grandparent University as well as continuing professional practice. He presented a paper on “Predesign Research” at the DCA bi-annual conference hosted by the OSU SOA and presented a poster at the BTES conference in Rhode Island. Jerry is a member of the newly organized Sustainable Building Systems Collaborative. Professor Jeff Williams coordinated the fifth year design studio in the fall and co-coordinated the third year studio in the spring. He also taught the Materials course in the fall. Jeff participated in the ASCO design charette and edited the 2012 Conference Proceedings for the Design Communication Association biannual conference. He has been working on various preliminary design studies for potential future facilities and facility upgrades for the OSU College of Engineering, Architecture,

Professor John Womack.

and Technology. In addition, he is working with Nathan Richardson on two professional projects in Stillwater. Professor John Womack was on sabbatical during the fall semester. He focused his sabbatical studies on travel and research on the historical use of construction materials in various vernacular and indigenous building types in the central southwest region of the United States. Travels included trips to the Texas Panhandle, central and northeast New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and central and southwest Kansas. He taught in the second year design studio in the spring. John is working on a book chapter essay, “Working with Fay”, for a new book to be published in 2013 by University of Arkansas Press on Architect Fay Jones. He also conducted a watercolor workshop at the 2012 Design Communication Association Biannual Conference.

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ALUMNI NEWS & UPDATES solutions manual for the workbook.

FACULTY PUBLISH TWO NEW BOOKS in 2012/2013 Professor Steve O’Hara, Associate Professor John Phillips, and Assistant Professor Carisa Ramming have completed the Civil Engineering & Architecture Workbook which complements a previously published textbook developed for the Project Lead the Way curriculum for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education programs. The workbook, published by Delmar Cengage Learning, will be utilized in curriculums within middle, junior high, and high school STEM programs in the United States. The workbook utilizes real world problems that allow the students hands-on experience in the fields of civil engineering and architecture. Continuation of this project will include the development and publication of a

Professor Tom Spector’s book, How Architects Write, co-written with OSU English Professor Rebecca Damron and published by Routledge Press in 2012, takes as its starting point that architects’ writing requires tremendous versatility. Not only do practicing architects need to move fluidly between the written word and graphic communications, but they must master four distinct types of knowledge relevant to the two distinctly different audiences they write for. They must understand the writing genres of their discipline, they must inculcate quite a bit of subject-specific knowledge, the rhetorical standards of the profession, and the process successful authors use. They must be able to use these different types of knowledge to communicate with external audiences of the public, building officials, contractors, clients, and the like, and they must be able to write at a more abstract level for an internal audience of their fellows. The book provides practical guidance for writing in journals, research papers, business communication, describing one’s own work, and even thesis writing and personal manifestos.

SOA GRADUATES ROBERT SCHAEFER AND RICK WEBB TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE CEAT HALL OF FAME IN THE FALL Robert (Bob) Schaefer (MArch ‘76) and Rick Webb (BArch Eng ‘77) will be inducted into the Oklahoma State University College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology Hall of Fame in the fall. Bob co-founded SelserSchaefer Architects with his wife Janet Selser in 1993. He leads his firm’s design efforts and he has been instrumental in growing and developing this architectural practice into one of the best in the state and region. Today, SelserSchaefer Architects is widely recognized as one of the region’s best architecture firms. Bob has a strong design philosophy; his high quality design has become a hallmark of his firm’s work. Bob believes “that when architecture is successful, it makes where you are a better place to be. Projects that exemplify good design help support and strengthen their neighborhoods and by creating projects that adapt to the character of their surroundings, we make a positive impact on the communities we serve”. This contextual approach to architecture design has served as an important model in Oklahoma and around the US. SelserSchaefer’s work has been recognized with over 50 design awards, but more importantly his projects have made very positive impacts on the people and communities who interact with them. Bob is a passionate supporter of architecture and good design. In addition to the outstanding work done under

27 Left to right, SOA alumni Rob Forslund (BArch ‘01), Andy McRae (BArch ‘02), and Marisa Smith (BArch ‘05) with Professor Tom Spector at the Denver AIA Convention.

Bob Schaefer (MArch ‘76) working with students in this summer’s Discover Architecture program.

Bob’s creative direction, Selser Schaefer has become an important training ground for future architects, and has especially enjoyed a strong relationship with OSU through hiring more than 65 graduates. Bob is passionate about sharing his knowledge of architecture with his employees and is an important mentor and teacher in the professional realm. His success as a mentor has been recognized with the 2010 Best Workplace for Young Professionals Economic Development Impact Award (Tulsa Business Journal), the 2010 Foundation Leadership Award (Tulsa Foundation for Architecture), and recognition by OKC Biz in 2006, 2007, and 2008 as a “Best Places to Work in Oklahoma”. Rick Webb graduated from the School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree in 1977 before going on to earn his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering at OSU. He is currently Senior Vice President of Global Business Processes with Walmart.

Eric currently co-directs patterhn, a design and research endeavor. In March of 2000, Eric joined Joan Soranno and John Cook’s award-winning studio within Minneapolis-based HGA. During his tenure, he collaborated on the extraordinary Walker Art Center expansion with the Pritzker Prizewinning office of Herzog & de Meuron. His contributions were immediate and extensive at all phases of design and construction. The opening of the Walker in April 2005 was met with great public enthusiasm and critical acclaim. Rod Garrett (MArch ‘85).

Bill Seider (BArch ‘74).

Eric Hoffman (BArch ‘99).

ROD GARRETT AND BILL SEIDER ELEVATED TO FELLOW BY AIA

the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

ERIC HOFFMAN RECEIVES 2013 AIA YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD

Two OSU School of Architecture graduates have been selected as AIA Fellows. Rod Garrett (MArch ‘85) is Managing Director of SOM’s Washington DC office. Bill Seider (BArch ‘74) is Principal with PIVOT Architecture in Eugene, Oregon. Garrett and Seider were bestowed this honor at the AIA National Convention in Denver in June. Rod Garrett has considerable experience with the public agency review and approval process and has lectured on the topics of sustainability, the designbuild delivery process and architectural design for federal agencies. Since joining SOM in 1986, he has been instrumental in the award-winning design of SOM Washington’s most important projects such as the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, MD; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Headquarters in Alexandria, VA; and the master plan and renovation of

Thoughtful and soft-spoken, Bill Seider’s easy confidence, insights, and experience inspire both PIVOT staff and clients. For thirty years, he’s set the pace and tone for the firm. Seider has been active in local, state, and national professional organizations since his college days. Bill is currently serving as an AIA Northwest Regional Director. He has been instrumental in numerous projects done by his firm over the years including The University of Oregon’s Moshofsky Center and multiple projects for Lane County’s health services, and state government buildings. Story information from: https://www.som.com/rod-garrett http://www.pivotarchitecture.com/ people.cfm?navindex=3,1,1&name=bill

School of Architecture alumnus Eric Hoffman (BArch Cum Laude ‘99), AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, received a 2013 Young Architect Award at the AIA Convention this summer in Denver. The Young Architects Award is given to individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their architectural career. Eric is the first OSU graduate to receive this recognition since the award was established in 1993. Eric is a Professor of Practice at Washington University in St. Louis. A leading practitioner and educator, Eric is passionately committed to innovation, realization, mentorship, and the environment. His versatile approach balances collaboration with signature architects, design competitions as tools for explorative research, and active involvement in architectural education.

To build on his formative education from Oklahoma State University, experiences gained in Minneapolis, and desire to deepen critical inquiry within the discipline, Eric pursued post-professional education at Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in 2004. He graduated with honors in 2005 and continues to serve the school as Professor of Practice. His recent role with HOK and David Chipperfield Architects on the Saint Louis Art Museum expansion (grand opening June 2013) illustrates Eric’s continued track record of successful collaboration at the highest levels of the profession. Paralleling these many experiences, he has received numerous distinctions including four AIA Saint Louis design awards, many academic honors, and placing in seven design competitions. Story information from: http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/portfolios/ faculty/eric_hoffman

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David Powell (BArch ‘91) is Principal and Director of Design at Hastings Architectural Associates, LLC in Nashville. His design for the “Bridge Building” project in Nashville received a 2013 Gulf State Region AIA Honor Award. The building had previously been awarded a LEED platinum rating of 99 points! Photo right.

a national juror for the 2013 AIA Honor Awards.

MITCH PRIDE NAMED AS A RISING DESIGN STAR IN RETAIL DESIGN Visual Merchandising and Store Design named Mitch Pride (BArch ‘08) one of 12 emerging design stars for 2013. The Designer Dozen, the best and the brightest young designers in the retail design industry, were chosen from around the country for their talent, drive and innovation. Mitch is an Associate with Callison in Seattle. OSU ALUMS CONTINUING WINNING TRADITIONS

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Many OSU School of Architecture alumni are involved each year with the design of award-winning buildings. Some alumni firms, like Jones Studio (Neal (BArch ‘77) and Eddie (BArch ‘73) Jones) in Phoenix and Elliott + Architects (Rand Elliott (BArch ‘73)) in OKC, are consistently recognized for multiple projects each year. Brian Fitzsimmons (BArch ‘96) (Fitzsimmons Architects, OKC) is an emerging national star, recently winning multiple awards at the state and regional level. This year he was asked to serve as

One project, the Vancouver Convention Centre West, by LMN in Seattle received its THIRD AIA Honor Award this year! Previously it had won awards in the “Regional and Urban Design” and “Interior Architecture” categories. This year it was recognized in the “Architecture” category. OSU alumni Jim Brown (BArch ‘90), John Chau (BArch ‘89), Chris Baxter (BArch ‘00) and Molly Simmons (BArch ‘07) all were important to its success. John Chau also reported that one of his recent projects at ZGF, the Federal Center Project, received a COTE Top 10 award this year. A. RICHARD WILLIAMS NAMED ONE OF MOST ADMIRED EDUCATORS A. Richard (Dick) Williams, who began his teaching career at Oklahoma A&M, was named by DesignIntelligence as one of the 30 most admired educators of 2013. Williams has maintained a close association with the OSU School of Architecture. He turns 99 in September.

Fitzsimmons Architects won three AIA Central States Regional Honor Awards in 2012. One of the awards went to the 18th Street Studios project in Oklahoma City, shown right, and another to the Guardian Parking structure in OKC, shown below. The third award-winning project, not shown, was the Ward Executive Office in OKC.

Joseph Mills Photography

This is just a small sampling of the achievements of OSU School of Architecture alumni. If you have news, please send it to us and we will post updates on our Facebook page. Joseph Mills Photography

In Memory St. Louis office for more than eight years, never relocating his family from their Edmond home. In 1991, he became the Chairman and CEO of the Benham Companies. During his time in leadership the company grew from 300 employees to over 750.

Donald Lee Wickens (1934 - 2013) Don Wickens and his identical twin brother Ron were born and grew up in Oklahoma City and they both attended Oklahoma A&M. Don received a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering and was a member of Chi Epsilon and Sigma Tau engineering honor fraternities. After graduation, Don married Sylvia Ann Knopp in 1957 and they had two daughters, Julie and Donna. Don served active duty in the U.S. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, and then as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. In 1960 he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal. After leaving the Air Force he returned to Oklahoma State University and earned his MS in Civil Engineering. He worked as an engineer for several years before joining Benham Engineering in 1965. Over the course of his career he managed the design of hundreds of buildings and bridges. He commuted to the company’s Houston office for two years and to the

In 1997, he was inducted into the OSU College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology Hall of Fame. He was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, served on the Board of Visitors for the OU College of Architecture and on the Professional Advisory Committee for the OSU School of Architecture. When he retired, Governor Frank Keating and Mayor Kirk Humphreys declared January 14, 2000 to be Donald L. Wickens Day. Don’s grandson, Andrew Mock, graduated from the School of Architecture in 2011 with a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree. Andrew received the School of Architecture’s Dean’s Award as the outstanding graduate. Andrew is completing his Master of Civil Engineering, with a focus on reinforced concrete, at the University of Illinois and will continue his education and research in the U of I Ph.D. program. Andrew has been awarded a fellowship to study in France for seven months next year at the Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan pursuing some related concrete research

Dr. Joseph J. McGraw (1926 - 2013) Dr. Joseph J. McGraw graduated from the School of Architecture at Oklahoma A&M and then went on to earn his Masters at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the University of Houston. He taught in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University in addition to serving as the Director of Planning for the College of Medicine at the University of Kuwait. Although he retired as Professor Emeritus, Joe continued to mentor and teach until 2011. An active member of many organizations, Joe was most proud of his service to the City of College Station as a councilman and member of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Along with his passion for radio-controlled airplanes, Joe was an avid sailor and boat craftsman, sailing the world and achieving skipper status.

He served on the Red Cross board, chaired the building committee and became board chair. Then he joined the Chemeketa Foundation board, became its treasurer and last year rose to be its president, an office he held at the time of his passing. Professors Suzanne and Mohammed Bilbeisi, classmates of Clayton, remember him as a kind and generous fellow student, always ready to laugh or extend a helping hand if needed. Clayton was the founder and coach of the class volleyball team, which enjoyed a record of no wins but was a good time for all. After leaving Oklahoma, he remained a true fan of all things OSU. Clayton is survived by his wife of 21 years, Claudia, and their daughter Lindsey.

Clayton Vorse (1964 - 2013) Clayton graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1988 and moved to Salem, Oregon, joining long time friend Alan Costic at Arbuckle Costic Architects and rose through hard work and dedication to become senior architect and vice president of the firm. Clayton's professional work is in evidence throughout the Salem area and beyond. He could point with pride at several projects, especially the Chemeketa Community College Center for Business and Industry in Salem, the Linus Pauling Middle School in Corvallis, Philomath High School in Philomath, and the Willamette Humane Society Center in Salem.

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