Awards

The University of Minnesota School of Architecture is among the winners of Google's Build Your Campus in 3-D competition, which challenged colleges to create three-dimensional computer renditions of campus buildings and landmarks.

ELSE/WHERE MAPPING--New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, edited by the Design Institute's Jan Abrams and Peter Hall, has won a design distinction in the graphics category of I. D. Magazine's 53rd Annual Design Review, published in August 2007. Deb Littlejohn, former Design Institute fellow, designed the book.

Elizabeth Bye (Clothing Design), Karen LaBat (Clothing Design), Ellen McKinney (PhD, DHA, '07), and Dong-Eun Kim (research assistant) received the Lectra Innovation award for faculty research for their paper, "Optimized Pattern Grading." The research was conducted in the college's Human Dimensioning Lab.

Tim Larsen

Ralph Rapson, retired head of the School of Architecture, has been named one of the Metro 100, "people, places and things that make the [Twin Cities] extraordinary," by Metro Magazine.

Marc Swackhamer (Arch) and partner Blair Satterfield (Rice University) received the best-of category award in the environments category of I. D. Magazine's 53rd Annual Design Review for their project, "Drape Wall + House." The winning entry can be seen in the August 2007 issue of I. D. Magazine.

Appointments

The college elected Marilyn Bruin (Housing Studies) to the University faculty senate for a three-year term. Other College of Design faculty senators are

• Wendy Friedmeyer (P&A), term expires in June 2009
• Kristine Miller, term expires in June 2009
• Stephen Weeks, term expires in June 2008

The Goldstein Museum of Design was selected as one of 111 museums to participate in the national Museum Assessment Program in 2007-08. The institutional assessment will include a general survey of the museum's operations.

Nancy Miller has been appointed associate director of the Center for World Heritage Studies (CWHS). Miller is an architectural historian with an MArch from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She brings to the position her experience in historic preservation research and advocacy; teaching architectural history and urban design in the School of Architecture; and research, outreach, and curriculum and Web development for the Design Center for American Urban Landscape (now the Metropolitan Design Center).

Laura Musacchio (Landscape Arch) has been invited to be a member of the editorial board of Landscape and Urban Planning, a leading international scientific journal.

Lin Nelson-Mayson (Goldstein Museum of Design) was invited to join the nominating committee for the Ninth Annual Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. The awards comprise six design categories: architecture, communications, fashion, interiors, landscape, and product design.

Grants

The Goldstein Museum of Design received a $30,000 McKnight special events grant for the exhibition "Here by Design III: Process and Prototype" (see page 8.)

The Goldstein Museum of Design also received a $1,200 grant from the University's Summer Cultural Program for a poster and announcement for the "Products of our Time" exhibition. The exhibition, curated by Daniel Jasper (graphic design), ran from July 21 through September 30, 2007.

Greening the College of Design won one of 10 Service and Process Improvement Fund grants from the University's Office of Service and Continuous Improvement. The long-term impacts of the College of Design's initiative include researching sustainable design; developing a model that can help other University units achieve economic savings; involving students, staff, and faculty in service improvement; collaborating with Facilities Management staff; and achieving substantial cost reductions while simultaneously helping the environment.

Virajita Singh (Center for Sustainable Building Research) and Ozayr Saloojee (Arch) received $15,000 from the Graham Foundation to fund a spring 2008 symposium on sacred sites. (See page 4.)

The Minnesota Extension Service has presented William Angell (Housing Studies/Midwest Universities Radon Consortium) with a dean's award as a distinguished extension campus-based faculty member. Angell received the award from Dean Bev Durgan for his exemplary work in the field of indoor air quality.

"Bill's distinguished work in the field of indoor air quality personifies Extension's mission to connect community needs with University resources. During the past 17 years, he has delivered more than 750 courses to over 10,000 participants in 22 states and eight Indian nations while creating a consortium of four institutions of higher education that provide interdisciplinary training on ways to measure and mitigate radon--a health risk in households that kills approximately 22,000 Americans each year."

Publications

Sauman Chu (Graphic Design) had a chapter entitled "Digital game-based learning in higher education" accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (forthcoming, IGI Global).

Jeff Crump (Housing Studies) published "Subprime Lending and Foreclosure in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties" in the summer 2007 issue of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs CURA Reporter. Crump's research finds a more than 100 percent increase in Minneapolis foreclosures since 2006, with more than 50 percent of those foreclosures located in North Minneapolis.

Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) and Jeong-Ju Yoo (PhD, DHA '05) coauthored "Effects of Appearance-Related Teasing on Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Girls" in Adolescence.

Phillip Koski (Arch) published "Curators, Critics, and Historians. Oh My!" in the July-August 2007 edition of Architecture Minnesota.

Karen LaBat (Clothing Design and Human Dimensioning Lab) published "Sizing Standardization" in a book edited by Susan Ashdown (PhD, DHA '91), entitled Sizing in Clothing: Developing Effective Sizing Systems for Ready-to-Wear Clothing (Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2007). Ashdown completed her DHA doctoral studies with Marilyn DeLong as her adviser and is currently a professor at Cornell University.

Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) was featured in an article in Page, a German design and media culture magazine. The article, "My Home is Your Castle," reproduced 10 images from McCarthy's commercial rhetoric art project.

Lance Neckar (Landscape Arch) published "Plant Life" in the July-August 2007 edition of Architecture Minnesota.

Exhibitions and presentations

The College of Design and its Center for Sustainable Building Research cohosted--along with the University and the Consulate General of Canada, Minneapolis--"Green Building North: Developments in Sustainable Building." The October 25 all-day workshop featured the introduction of the Eco Calculator and a discussion of wood in sustainable building.

The College of Design hosted a symposium and gallery reception September 28 in conjunction with the exhibition, "School Buildings--The State of Affairs: A New Architecture for a New Education," which was on display in the HGA Gallery in Rapson Hall until October 8, 2007. The exhibition was organized and designed by AIA New York Chapter Committee on Architecture for Education and ETH Zurich/Center for Cultural Studies in Architecture (CSSA). Speakers were Mark Ziegler, portfolio manager for schools at IMMO, city of Zurich; Edith Ackerman, professor of developmental psychology, University of Aix-Marseille 1, France, and currently visiting scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture; and Elizabeth Hebert, author, school design consultant, and former principal, Crow Island School, Winnetka, Illinois. John Comazzi (Arch) curated the series of events.

The College of Design participated in the annual conference of the National Trust for Historical Preservation held in St. Paul October 2-6, 2007. Arthur Chen (Center for World Heritage Studies [CWHS], Arch), Bob Sykes (Landscape Arch) and Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Arch, CWHS) presented the educational session, "A Global View of Preservation," discussing conservation issues and practices in the world heritage sites of Baku, Azerbaijan; Venice, Italy; and Oaxaca, Mexico. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Kate Solomoson moderated the session. Laura Weber (Communications) led a field session tour, "Stewarding the Architectural Legacy of the University of Minnesota."

James Boyd-Brent's (Graphic Design) one-person exhibition, "World enough, and time..." was on display at the New York Studio Gallery (New York City) from November 1-24.

An art installation designed by Jonee Kulman Brigham (Center for Sustainable Building Research) was one of 15 exhibits in the "Art to A-Maze Walk" summer juried exhibition at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. The installation, titled "Children's Nest Egg," explored the evolving relationship of humans with the earth using poetry and changing perceptions of scale in a room-sized nest made of salvaged branches.

Arthur Chen (CWHS, Arch) and Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Arch, CWHS) recently returned from a trip to the Philippines, where they advised the state party on the development of a world heritage site nomination. The Philippines hopes to have the Batanes province--a sparsely populated, 10-island archipelago of historic significance and natural beauty--added to UNESCO's list of world heritage sites as a cultural landscape. After the Philippine state party's nomination failed to be inscribed in 2007, UNESCO asked the Center for World Heritage Studies to consult on the revision of the nomination dossier, to be resubmitted in 2008.

On October 1, 2007, the Institute on the Environment presented the first of its Environment Roundtable series, featuring University-wide conversations on pressing environmental issues. "Saving the Planet ... One Campus at a Time: Pathways to Environmental Sustainability" took on the topic of campus sustainability. Jacqueline Johnson, chancellor of the University of Minnesota, Morris, and Tom Fisher, dean, discussed the role academia should play and what challenges exist with regard to greening a campus.

Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (Interior Design) presented "Conceptual design--A pedagogy for developing and communicating complex ideas in a complex world" at the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Midwest regional conference in Chicago, October 11-13. Marit Zosel, an interior design undergraduate student, copresented, sharing the design of culturally sensitive housing for the Ojibwe people.

Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) presented "Presenting our own [his]tories," a storytelling workshop for participants at the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation (ECCIX) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hokanson also presented results of his research, entitled "Measuring Creativity: Two Studies." Hokanson's session was cited in Borsen, a Danish newspaper.

"Dialogue on the Wall," a gallery installation by Jay H. Isenberg (Arch) and Lynda Monick-Isenberg (MA, Home Ec '80) explored the issues and competing narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibit took place at the Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis August 16-September 15, 2007.

Daniel Jasper (Graphic Design) curated the Goldstein Museum of Design summer exhibit, "Products of Our Time," which explored the interstices of design, art, and cultural commentary highlighting consumer-inspired, designed objects as a bellwether of our times.

Laura Musacchio (Landscape Arch) was a member of an international scientific panel at the closing plenary session of the 2007 World Congress of Landscape Ecology in Wageningen, the Netherlands, in July. She identified three emerging trends: the importance of translational research as a model for collaboration; the emerging importance of urban ecology at the international level; and the need to investigate the scientific basis of design and landscape sustainability. In addition, Musacchio co-organized a symposium at the World Congress, "The Scientific Basis for the Design of Landscape Sustainability," which will be published as a special issue of Landscape Ecology.

Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) presented a paper entitled, "The University of Minnesota's College of Design: Identity Through Emergent Studio Production," at the ConnectED 2007 conference, Sydney Australia, in July.

Students

The Torske Klubben of Minneapolis has awarded a fellowship to Leif Eikevik (Arch). The award supports outstanding graduate students enrolled in any field in the University of Minnesota Graduate School. Eikevik's research proposal posits that Scandinavian modern architecture offers valuable opportunities for redefining Minnesota's architectural values, especially within the areas of ecological design and social housing. Dewey Thorbeck (Center for Rural Design) and Tom Fisher (dean) are Eikevik's fellowship advisers.

Finalists for the Design Democracy fellowship--MArch students Josh Ehr, Malea Jochim, Amanda Olson, Derek Peterson, Nate Steuerwald, and Shengyin Xu--made public presentations in October 2007. Jochim and Xu received $5,000 awards. The fellowship supports professional-degree architecture students and promotes the values of design democracy: good design, every day, for everyone. Jurors for the presentations were Dean Thomas Fisher, Janet Abrams (Design Institute), and practitioners Scott Berry (BArch '67) and Rich Varda (MArch '77).

Contributors to the Design Democracy fellowship include Ericksen Roed and Associates, Mulvanny G2 Architecture, Michaud Cooley Erickson and Assoc., MBH Architects Inc., RSP Architects, Pickard Chilton Architects, Inc., Ryan Companies US, Target Corporation, Scott Berry, Dennis Mulvey, and Rich Varda.

Ashley Lademann (BS Retail Merchandising '06) received the International Textile and Apparel Association award for outstanding undergraduate research. Lademann presented her research at the association's fall meeting in Los Angeles.

Architecture students Amanda Olson, Emily Winkels, Aaron Westre, and Aaron Squadroni gave a presentation at the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians second annual student symposium on the built environment, September 15, 2007.

Clothing design students Maria Thor, Linda Thao, and Choua Yang were among five young Hmong-American fashion designers profiled in the July 24, 2007, Star Tribune for blending Hmong traditional dress with Western designs.

Clothing design student Brittany Wahlin will present her honors research in a paper at the International Textile and Apparel Association's meeting this fall.

Interior design student Amanda Zanski won the spring semester Architecture and Design Award while studying abroad at the Danish International Study Program in Copenhagen.

Senior interior design students from the design studios of Caren Martin and Michael English have created an ongoing exhibition about the lives and work of notable interior designers. The exhibition will run through fall semester 2007 on the fourth floor of McNeal Hall.

Alumni

Kim Bukoskey (BS Retail Merchandising '03) has been promoted to senior Internet merchandising specialist at ShopNBC.

Bob Close (BLA '76), Close Associates, was inducted into the 2007 Class of Fellows at the American Society of Landscape Architects conference in San Francisco October 6, 2007. He was elected in the category of service to the profession.

Gary Fishbeck (BLA '80) of HGA Architects created the concept for the University of Minnesota Wall of Discovery, which won an honor award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), an international nonprofit educational foundation, in the highly competitive SEGD Design Awards Program. The Wall of Discovery on the Scholars Walk celebrates alumni and faculty discoveries, inventions, and creations that have brought significant changes to the world.

Santosh George (MLA '01) is working as a senior project manager in a retail/mixed use/urban design studio of MESA Design Group, based in Dallas, Texas.

Marvin Malecha (BArch '73), dean of the College of Design at North Carolina State University, has been voted president-elect of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for 2007-08.

Keith Diaz Moore (MArch '92) was named chair of the architecture program at the University of Kansas. He had previously been an assistant professor and doctoral program coordinator at Washington State University.

Donald Olsen (BArch '42) designed modern houses in the Bay Area that appear in a new book NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism.

Tom Oslund, FASLA, FAAR (BLA '80) received an American Society of Landscape Architects 2007 Professional Award in the general design category for the Swenson Science Building at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Alicia Paulsen (BS Retail Merchandising '01) joined Apex Analytix as a retail engagement consultant. She serves as an external contractor working with internal audits for clients, including SuperValu.

McGough Companies' Ken Potts (MArch '89), AIA, LEED AP, has been elected to serve on the United States Green Building Council's LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee. This group of design and development experts establishes and reviews the standards for the creation, evolution, operation, and maintenance of sustainable neighborhoods.

Bret Wieseler (MLA '07) won the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) student design honor award in the general design category. His faculty advisers for the project, titled "(In)Security: Access and Anxiety in the Wall Street Financial District," were Dean Abbott, Rebecca Krinke, Lance Neckar, and Richard Hansen.

Deaths

Natalja Hurley Klingel (BS Home Economics '39), 91, passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 29, 2007. Klingel studied in the College of Home Economics under Harriet and Vetta Goldstein. In the 1970s, she conceived a plan to dedicate space in the new home economics building to the Goldstein Gallery, which today houses the Goldsteins' personal art collection of fabrics, ceramics, prints, and folk art from all over the world. Klingel designed wall hangings, some of which are displayed in the Craft Museum in New York City. She also designed and hand printed curtains for the Mayo Clinic. Early in her career, she won several national magazine awards for her designs.