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05/08/09 Four students selected as competition finalists
Join the School of Architecture in congratulating four Senior Architecture majors, Hunter McKenzie, Todd Davis, Sonal Patel, and Blake Hoffman. These students were selected as finalists in the "Design for the Children" competition, which was sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The competition focused on the design of a Children's Health Clinic Prototype for East Africa.
Their entries were chosen from amongst 300 entries from over 30 countries. Since this was an open competition, they competed with professional designer and architects. Their work will be on exhibit this weekend during a reception, at which the winners of the competition will be announced.
04/27/09 Graduate studio work exhibited at International Festival, Florence Italy
A three-member group, Nathan Asire, Jake DeMint, and Adam James, in the Master of Architecture studio led by Clemson University architecture Professor Martha Skinner comprises the PROXY team. Working from a series of texts and discussions on temporality, public space and representation, this group explored the temporal and ever-changing collective realm (physical and virtual) that we inhabit and interact within.
Professors Martha Skinner and Douglas Hecker were invited to participate in the Beyond Media 2009 - "Visions” International Festival in Florence - July 9-17, 2009. They will exhibit the work of their students and give public presentations as part of this international event during July 9 - 17, 2009. This is the third time Skinner and Hecker are invited to be part of this and the second time that Skinner takes the opportunity to involve her students in a full scale exploration of the issues discussed in her seminar and studio. For their second project in her studio this semester, the team designed an interactive installation and mapping of Florence specifically for occasion.
The PROXY team wants to include you in the exhibit.
If you have visited Florence, Italy before please join us in this collective collaboration.
We are collecting images and turning each one into a unique postcard. The cards will be used to create a dynamic, interactive installation. Please join with us and hundreds of collaborators. Images are coming in already but we need thousands more to make this concept a reality.
collaborate - donate $1 to sponsor your postcard, then upload and geotag an image of Florence, Italy Yes! I will help
continue - if you do not have photos of Florence pass this message on to friends and family and become a fan of our Facebook page
see the PROXY website for the full story
see the previous installation designed for BEYOND MEDIA - visit Motion Mappings.
01/20/09 Clemson architecture, landscape architecture ranked nationally
Clemson University programs in architecture and landscape architecture have been recognized as some of the best in the country by the Design Futures Council publication DesignIntelligence.
Clemson’s graduate program in architecture is ranked 11th nationally and the planning and landscape architecture program is 12th among undergraduate programs.
DesignIntelligence also ranked Clemson a “World Class School of Architecture with High Distinction.”
Clemson’s landscape architecture program is the youngest to be ranked in the top 15. The program was established in 1988 and was fully accredited for the first time in 1996. It had 115 undergraduate students in the 2006-2007 academic year, with the number of alumni reaching 162 this year.
“Entering the DesignIntelligence rankings for the first time at the 12th spot is a real accomplishment for our young program,” said Umit Yilmaz, director of landscape architecture. “I am proud of the achievement of our program and our students as we continue to pursue excellence in landscape architecture education.”
Landscape architecture students experience a wide variety of off-campus and study-abroad opportunities, international collaboration and studio projects. Clemson’s landscape architecture program is the only one of its kind in South Carolina.
Graduate students in the architecture program take advantage of Clemson’s “fluid campus” to develop a broad understanding of the discipline. In addition to the main campus at Clemson, students also pursue studies in permanent programs in Charleston; Barcelona, Spain; and Genoa, Italy.
“The rankings are generated through an extensive survey of architectural firms around the country that employ the graduates from all U.S. schools of architecture and, as such, they reflect the quality of graduates from all schools. Being ranked among public universities is a great position to be in and a testimony on the quality of our program,” said Jose Caban, professor and interim chairman of the Clemson University School of Architecture.
The Design Futures Council began its ranking of accredited architecture, landscape architecture and interior design programs in its journal, DesignIntellegence, a decade ago. This ranking has since become the established ranking system for design programs across the United States.
04/09/08 Clemson School of Architecture wins NCARB prize for 2008 for its Graduate Program in Architecture + Health
The NCARB Prize to Architecture + Health recognizes the overall program for innovation in applied learning in the area of health care environments. Three projects were submitted as examples of how the program embodies a systemic and comprehensive integration of the academy and the profession:
- A proposal for a Green Health Clinic for the Joseph P. Sullivan Center resulted from the interdisciplinary collaboration of architecture and landscape architecture students and faculty with professionals and clients. It linked programming, health administration, and studio courses on a service learning project.
- A Patient Room Prototype project brought together architecture, industrial design, and fine arts students and faculty with a wide variety of professionals, sponsors, and industry constituencies on a multi-year design-build-research initiative.
- A studio/seminar project, "Building in the City - Building as City: LSUHSC and DVA Replacement Campuses for post Katrina New Orleans," connected students and faculty with professionals through linked seminar and studio courses.
04/09/08 Professor's book translated into Japanese
Professor Keith Green's book, Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino (NY: Mellon Press) is being translated into Japanese by Kajima Press of Tokyo.
04/11/08 CAC.C publishes Johnsonville Town Plan and is exhibited at national AIA Headquarters.
As part of the American Institute of Architect’s 150th anniversary initiative, “Blueprint for America,†the CAC.C teamed up during 2007 with AIA-Charleston and the SC Mayors Institute for Community Design to produce a town plan for Johnsonville, SC. A rural community of 1500 people facing a difficult economic future, the Town Plan covered economic revitalization, history, public image and branding, way-finding, and proposed principles and strategies for restoring and invigorating the town. Over the course of the project, participation included three county offices with responsibilities for planning, parks, tourism, and economic development; a cultural non-profit; an economic and marketing consultant; a graphic designer; 10 architects from four firms; and over 100 citizens and 30 schools.
Of the many AIA-150 projects from across the country, seventeen were chosen to be exhibited at the National AIA headquarters in Washington, DC—including all six from South Carolina. The Blueprint for America Exhibition is open to the public at AIA Headquarters (1735 New York Ave, Washington DC) and will remain on display until 20 June 2008.
04/11/08 CAC.C wins NCARB Prize for its urban design study of Global Climate Change and the Charleston Peninsula.
The NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy supports excellence and innovation in applying concepts learned in the classroom to real-life projects. Submissions must represent unique efforts to integrate education and practice while allowing students to earn academic credit. The NCARB Prize jury is comprised of members of the Council's Practice Education Committee and six academic representatives (deans, heads, or chairs) from accredited schools of architecture. Twenty-two colleges and universities submitted thirty-one projects in 2008; the Clemson School of Architecture won two of them.
The NCARB Prize to the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CAC.C) recognizes its study of Global Climate Change and the Charleston Peninsula. Conducted in the spring of 2007, this study by a vertical studio of graduate and undergraduate students examines the local urban design impacts of global climate change on the historic peninsular city of Charleston. Based on the January 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007:WG1-AR4), with scientific consultation by Dr. Greg Carbone of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, the project examines the primary urban design impacts on the peninsula and envisions how the City might respond, at four levels of magnitude. This 2008 award is the CAC.C‘s third NCARB Prize.
05/08/09 New Clemson in Genova blog online now
The CLEMSON IN GENOVA BLOG is focused on architectural and landscape experiences and reflections in the context of Italian history, art and architecture as well as intercultural communication.
The Blog is accompanying our semester abroad with contributions on regular intervals - inspired with student's impressions of Genoa, Italy, it's people, history and culture, the semester seen through field sketches and studio work. And animated by the good vibes of the Villa Party.
Many thanks to Lindsey and Jonathan who have set it up and to our Genoa students for their contributions.