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The American Institute of Architects Announces the 2008 Recipients of Education Honor Awards
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For Immediate Release |
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Washington, D.C., March 5,
2008 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded the
recipients of the 2008 AIA Education Honor Awards for excellence in
course development and architectural teaching. The Education Honor
Awards program, created in 1988, recognizes collegiate faculty
achievements and contributions to education and the discipline of
architecture. The awards will be presented to the 2008 recipients
in May during the AIA National Convention in Boston.
The jury looked for evidence of exceptional and innovative courses
that dealt with broad issues, particularly in cross-disciplinary
collaboration and/or within the broader community, contributed to
the advancement of architecture education, had the potential to
benefit and/or change practice, and promoted models of excellence
that could be appropriated by other educators.
The jury for the 2008 Education Honor Awards include: Jury chair
Joyce Noe, FAIA, University of Hawaii School of Architecture;
Dennis A. Andrejko, AIA, University at Buffalo, the State
University of New York, Andrejko and Associates and AIA Board of
Directors; Robert A. Ivy Jr., FAIA, Architectural
Record/McGraw-Hill; Anne G. Mooney, University of Utah College of
Architecture + Planning and Sparano + Mooney Architecture Inc; and
Tony P. Vanky, Assoc. AIA, American Institute of Architecture
Students.
The 2008 AIA Education Honors Award
Recipients:
The Learning Barge Project: Students Engaging the
Community + Environment
Phoebe Crisman
School of Architecture, University of Virginia
In The Learning Barge Project, architecture, engineering,
landscape, education, and history students create a floating field
laboratory to teach visitors about renewable power generation,
rainwater collection systems, and related sustainable practices.
Not only are architecture students learning about ecological
systems, the barge will engage 19,000 people each year through
interactive K-12 school trips, teacher training, and public
workshops.
Support was received from the Virginia Environmental Endowment,
Lowe’s Educational & Charitable Foundation, US EPA, and
NCARB.
Design/habitat 2
David Hinson, FAIA and Stacy Norman, AIA
School of Architecture, Auburn University
The DESIGNhabitat 2 Initiative combines factory-based
prefabrication with traditional site-built construction to create a
model for disaster relief. “The resultant model is superior
design at low cost for Habitat for Humanity,” the jury said,
and has “allowed students to investigate different modes of
both processing design information and building
sequencing.”
Collaborative Integrative-Interdisciplinary Digital
Design Studio
Thomas Fowler
College of Architecture and Environmental Design, California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
The Collaborative Integrative-Interdisciplinary Digital-Design
Studio ties third- and fourth-year level design and building
technology courses to connect students, faculty, and professionals
in community design projects with real clients and budgets.
Students developed interpersonal skills and produced a variety of
constructed results through short-term projects that involved
multidisciplinary team collaboration.
Smart Structures—Experiments in Linking Digital and
Physical Strategies
Edgar Stach, Associate Professor;
College of Architecture and Design, the University of Tennessee
Knoxville
The Smart Structures—Experiments in Linking Digital and
Physical Design Strategies lab brings together students and faculty
from the U.S., the Netherlands, and Germany to focus on new ideas
in digital design and synthetic fabrication. The work clearly shows
the potential of global collaboration on a shared digital platform,
melding design and manufacturing.
Collaborating universities and professors:
University of Kassel, Germany
Professor Manfred Grohmann, Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Tessmann, Dr.-Ing.
Gregor Zimmermann, Dipl.-Des. Markus Schein
University of Delft, Netherlands
Professor Bige Tuncer, Professor Andrew Borgart, Dip.-Ing. Paul de
Ruiter
Design & Democracy
Peter Aeschbacher
Department of Architecture, the Pennsylvania State
University
In Design & Democracy, first-year students design, build, and
install temporary projects that will foster engagement with their
designs as commentaries on social issues. This is a great
introduction for first year students to consider the relationship
between societal and architectural realms, the jury noted.
An Incomplete Curriculum for
Transformation
Ritu Bhatt, Assistant Professor, Renee Cheng, AIA, Head of
School, Associate Professor, John Comazzi, Assistant Professor,
Ozayr Saloojee, Assistant Professor
Marc Swackhamer, Assistant Professor
School of Architecture, College of Design, University of
Minnesota
An Incomplete Curriculum for Transformation explores the
possibilities of an “evolving curricular structure” that
builds on tradition, embraces challenges, and expects change. The
jury cited the holistic goals of the program—collaboration
with professionals, coordinated design studios, infusion of
workshops, and focus on critical thinking—as worthy of
recognition. It is “ambitious and out of the box.”
About The American Institute of
Architects
For over 150 years, members of The American Institute of Architects
have worked with each other and their communities to create more
valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and
cityscapes. AIA members have access to the right people, knowledge,
and tools to create better design, and through such resources and
access, they help clients and communities make their visions real.
www.aia.org
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