SUMMARY Disrupt/Displace Iowa State University College of Design Biennale Sessions 2016 Disrupt/Displace is a response to Venice Biennale curator, Alejandro Aravena’s request to ‘Report from the Front’: it is simultaneously a critique, performance, and proposal in four parts: PART 1 Searching for the Front (Ames, Iowa) PART 2 Constructing the […]
Fifth-year architecture student Dianyu Yang and recent graduates Rongchuan Zhang (BArch 2016) and Fang Zhou (MLA 2016) are part of a team that placed in the top three entries in the International Design Collaboration for Kenya competition sponsored by UN-Habitat and Kenya’s Ministry of Transport, Housing and Urban Development. They […]
“Evocations of Byzantium in Zenitist Avant-Garde Architecture,” an article by Jelena Bogdanovic, associate professor of architecture, has been published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75, No. 3, September 2016. JSAH is a leading journal on the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. The cover page of […]
A video of Simone Capra’s lecture, recorded live on Wednesday, 7 September, 2016, is now available via our youTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWCqDx5pe9I
Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the Center for Building Energy Research just won a Presidential Research Initiative Award for data-driven decision making for sustainable cities: this is a three-year, $375,000 project. Researchers will use data about living in urban areas to develop new methods to help […]
Videos of lectures presented at the What is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior CEAH Symposium that took place at Iowa State University 4-5 April, 2016, are now available online. Below is the description taken from whatistheurban.org: The urban, long a popular topic of inquiry, has become an unavoidable […]
Iowa State architecture alumnus Dan Huberty, left, and Huberty Faculty Fellowship recipient Shelby Doyle. Photo by Alison Weidemann. AMES, Iowa — Shelby Doyle, an Iowa State University assistant professor of architecture, is the inaugural recipient of the Daniel J. Huberty Faculty Fellowship in the ISU Department of Architecture. Iowa State […]
An investigation into the history of the bathroom by architecture graduate students Ali Brunn and Sinisha Daljevic who were students in Professor Andrea Wheeler’s Graduate Technology course Arch 642 at Iowa State University’s Department of Architecture during the spring semester of 2016. The Graduate Sci-Tech course takes place in the […]
Registration remains open for the CEAH Symposium: “What is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior,” which will take place Monday and Tuesday, April 4-5, in Benton Auditorium at the Scheman Center. This symposium opens with a simple yet perplexing question: “What is the urban?” It brings together a range […]
ISU ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS’ DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT TRANSFORMS COLLEGE OF DESIGN ATRIUM AMES, Iowa — A full-scale student design-build project will transform the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum of the Iowa State University College of Design Feb. 17 through March 11. Seventy-seven second-year architecture students in five sections of the ARCH 202: Architectural […]
“Considering how morphological traits of urban fabric create affordances for complex adaptation and emergence,” an article by Sharon Wohl, assistant professor of architecture, will be published in the February issue of Progress in Human Geography, a highly ranked journal in geography. The article stems from Wohl’s PhD research work in urban design and […]
Statement of Research Goals Iowa State University Department of Architecture – Graduate Program Our mission as a land grant university informs and inspires our individual and collective quests for knowledge. We pursue varied interests ranging from urban theory to historic religious architecture, but this wide array of individual pursuits shares a […]
News Item from: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2013/04/22/rome-prize AMES, Iowa — Thomas Leslie, Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University, has won a 2013 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Leslie joins a 120-year lineage of Rome Prize Fellows that represents America’s nobility in the humanities and arts. They include composer […]
Assistant Professor Jelena Bogdanovic just published a book as a co-editor with Lilien Filipovitch Robinson (George Washington University) and Igor Marjanovic (Washington University in St. Louis) through Leuven University Press in Leuven, Belgium. The book On the Very Edge is about modernism and modernity in architecture and arts of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941). It […]
Associate Professor Ulrike Passe just published a co-authored book with Francine Battaglia. In the Routledge book Passe and Battaglia argue that buildings can breathe naturally, without the use of mechanical systems, if you design the spaces properly. This accessible and thorough guide shows you how in more than 260 color diagrams […]
Ulrike Passe is Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, USA teaching architectural design and environmental technologies and serving as the Director of the Center for Building Energy Research. Ulrike Passe’s multidisciplinary research projects study space as environmental technology. In 2009 she served as faculty advisor to the ISU Solar Decathlon […]
