Awards

William Angell (Housing Studies) was presented with a dean's award from the Minnesota Extension Service as a distinguished extension campus-based faculty member. Angell received the award for his exemplary work in the field of indoor air quality.

The Center for Changing Landscapes has received the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (MASLA) award of excellence for the center's work on the Minnesota River State Trail. The award of excellence is the highest award given. It was presented at the MASLA annual awards dinner April 18, 2008, at the Como Park Zoo Visitors Center.

Denise A. Guerin (Interior Design ) has been awarded the 2007 American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Distinguished Educator Award. Guerin's award is for her significant contribution to defining and documenting the interior design profession's body of knowledge, her coordination of the only searchable database of research on design and human behavior (InformeDesign), her work with legal regulation of interior design practice, and her research on sustainable design.

Caren Martin (Interior Design) has received the Interior Design Educators Council Presidential Award for her significant contributions to the interior design profession. The award was presented at the council's international conference in Montreal on March 8, 2008. Martin's Rebuttal to the Institute for Justice's "Designing Cartels: How Industry Insiders Cut Out Competition" was cited in the nomination and will be published by the Journal of Interior Design, May 2008 (Vol. 33, Issue 3).

Appointments

Lucy Dunne will join the faculty as an assistant professor in clothing design/wearable technology fall semester 2008. Dunne has a PhD in computer science from University College Dublin and an MA in apparel design from Cornell University. (See profile, page 13.)

Jean McElvain (BS costume design '94, MArch '02 ) has been appointed assistant curator for the Goldstein Museum of Design. McElvain is a PhD candidate with an apparel emphasis and has an MArch and a BS in costume design, both from the U of M. She has five years of professional experience with Twin Cities architects and experience as a Goldstein Museum graduate assistant. McElvain will be responsible for developing learning opportunities with the museum's collection, working with faculty and scholars to research and develop a comprehensive collections plan, working with guest curators on exhibition development, and enriching the museum's community outreach.

Eunice Haugen has been appointed to the new position of registrar and materials library coordinator for the Goldstein Museum of Design. Haugen served as registrar and exhibition coordinator for the Minnesota Museum of American Art for 17 years. Haugen will be responsible for managing collections storage and the database, coordinating exhibition installations in McNeal Hall, and developing the foundation for a future college materials library.

Hye-Young Kim will join the faculty of the retail merchandising program fall semester 2008. Kim is currently an assistant professor at Washington State University. She received her PhD in retail and consumer sciences with a minor in statistics from the University of Tennessee.

Laura Musacchio (Landscape Arch) has been invited to join the editorial board of the international scientific journal Landscape Ecology, where she will serve as a coordinating editor for manuscript reviews.

Kate Solomonson (Arch) will lead the design and architecture collaborative portion of Quadrant, a program formed under a $672,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award to the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study. "Interdisciplinarity has become intensely important in higher education in general," Solomonson told The Chronicle of Higher Education. "I look at the Quadrant project as an opportunity to think about what it actually means."

Juanjuan Wu will join the faculty of the retail merchandising program fall semester 2008. Wu is an assistant professor at State University of New York-Oneonta. Her PhD is from the University of Minnesota (2005), and her master's is from China Textile University.

Grants

Jonee Brigham (Center for Sustainable Building Research--CSBR), was awarded a grant by the Green Institute to provide guideline review and tool development for the Minnesota Green New Homes Program.

John Carmody (CSBR) received funding from St. Paul to help make the city's development policies more environmentally friendly.

Bill Angell (Housing Studies) received funding from the Minnesota Department of Health to offer state training programs to help mitigate radon risks.

Marilyn Bruin (Housing Studies) received two awards from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency. The first provides funding to continue the RentWise tenant training program, and the second provides outreach to Latino households in south central and southeast Minnesota.

The Metropolitan Design Center received a grant from the McKnight Foundation to apply architectural and landscape architectural perspectives to metropolitan and community programs and projects.

Virajita Singh (CSBR) received a grant from the Yackel Foundation for a seminar titled "Village Ecology: Constructing the Sacred in Vrindavan India."

Richard Strong (CSBR) received funding from Concordia College, Moorhead, to develop a campus sustainability plan for the college.

Mary Vogel (Center for Changing Landscapes) has received a grant from the McKnight Foundation to provide designs for the city's circulator buses that transport youth to after-school programs in the west side and east side St. Paul neighborhoods. She also has received a grant from Marshall to develop a citywide pedestrian and bikeway plan.

Publications

Jeff Crump (Housing Studies) chaired the state legislature's foreclosure data committee. The final committee report is now available.

Tom Fisher (dean) shared an excerpt of his forthcoming book, Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival, in the January-February '08 issue of Architecture Minnesota. The book will be published in May 2008 by Elsevier/The Architectural Press. Fisher has several other recent publications. He listed his top architecture picks for the Twin Cities in Minneapolis.org's "Insider guide: Tom Fisher." In an op-ed piece for the Hartford Courant, Fisher draws parallels between a modern outlet mall--Wrentham Village outside of Boston, which Fisher refers to as a village-in-a-vacuum--and fashion trends. Finally, in The Chronicle Review, Fisher discusses a new book he coedited, Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture (Fairchild Books, 2007). He writes that many architecture students learn the best practices of their discipline in some of the worst buildings on their campuses.

Tom Fisher (dean) and Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) each had articles in the November-December 2007 issue of Architecture Minnesota. In "A Tale of Two Bridges," Fisher writes about how "the I-35W bridge and the Guthrie Theater's 'endless bridge' reveal a shift in how we invest in our urban public spaces." Miller, in an article entitled "On the Right Track," profiles a studio course led by William Conway (Arch) that examines the impact a light-rail line would have on northwest Arkansas.

Brad Hokanson (Graphic Design) has written an article on his creativity research entitled "By Measure: Creativity in Design." It was published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Industry and Higher Education. Hokanson also has published "The Virtue of Paper: Drawing as a Means to Innovation in Instructional Design," a chapter in a book entitled The Handbook of Visual Languages for Instructional Design: Theories and Practices (Hershey: IGI-Global, 2007). Finally, Hokanson and MFA graduate Bert Fraher have published "Narrative Structure, Myth, and Cognition in Instructional Design" in the January 2008 issue of Educational Technology.

Kim Johnson (Retail Merchandising) has coauthored two journal articles published in Clothing and Textiles Research Journal: "The U.S. Apparel Industry: Futuring with Undergraduate Apparel Majors," October 2007, and "Dress and Human Behavior: A Review and Critique," Jan. 2008.

Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) profiles his Commercial Rhetoric Art Project in the winter 2008 issue of AIGA Issues in an article entitled "Killing Me Softly with Great Graphic Design: the Commercial Rhetoric Art Project."

Caren Martin (Interior Design) is the author of Interior Design from Practice to Profession: A History of the Profession (2007). Published by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), the 56-page booklet covers the definition of interior design today, a historical view of the development of interior design as a profession, and interior design in the 21st century.

The University of Minnesota Press has published Kristine F. Miller's (Landscape Arch) Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces. In the book, Miller examines how design influences six of New York's most important public spaces, including Times Square, Trump Tower, the IBM Atrium, and Federal Plaza.

Nancy Miller (Center for World Heritage Studies) has a four-part package of articles in the January/February 2008 issue of Architecture Minnesota. The package, entitled "Hallowed Ground," focuses on the architecture of St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. In the same issue, Miller's "Material Matters" examines the use of concrete to create rich textures and visually compelling surfaces.

Exhibitions and presentations

The College of Design partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council, Mississippi Headwaters Chapter, to present a forum on local green initiatives. The forum was held on November 27, 2007.

Three College of Design posters were accepted for the University of Minnesota's Quality Fair, which showcases quality improvement connected to the University's Strategic Positioning Action Strategies. They are "CDesK: The design, engineering, manufacture, and marketing of a unique furnishing solution" by Kevin Groenke (W. L. Hall Workshop), "The Digital Content Library" by Jodie Walz (Digital Collections + Archives), and "Greening the College of Design--2007-08," by Virajita Singh (CSBR). Additionally, the Quality Fair accepted a best practices written summary by Janet Abrams (Design Institute) titled "Digifab: A guide to digital fabrication processes and facilities."

Retail merchandising students teamed up with the Uptown Business Association to decorate store windows for the month of February, a collaborative project with the American Heart Association's (AHA) "Go Red for Women" heart health awareness campaign. Under the direction of instructor Jaeha Lee, the students used one red dress per window combined with the store's own merchandise to attract customers and work toward AHA's goal of wiping out heart disease--the number one killer of women.

"Three Faculty Art Exhibition" March 10-April 25 at the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library in Rapson Hall featured ceramic works by Janet Abrams (Design Institute), drawings by Ozayr Saloojee (Arch), and stereotomy studies by Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla (Arch).

John Carmody (CSBR) discusses research proving that awnings reduce home energy use in media footage available through the Professional Awning Manufacturers Association (PAMA).

Jeff Crump (Housing Studies) was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio's "Midmorning" show February 14, 2008. The topics were foreclosures and subprime lending, plus current federal and state initiatives to address the housing crisis.

Gertrude Esteros (head, Department of Design, 1949-79) is featured in Minnesota's Greatest Generation, a film series sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and local libraries.

Tom Fisher (dean) lectured at the University of New Mexico on January 25, 2008, as part of its School of Architecture and Planning spring lecture series. Fisher's topic was "Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival." Fisher was also a featured speaker at "Good Design Makes a Difference" on March 25, 2008, an event that kicked off the sixth season of the American Institute of Architects Minnesota and StarTribune Home of the Month program.

Tom Fisher (dean) and John Koepke (Landscape Arch) served as cochairs of the administrators conference, "Preparing for the Inconvenient Truth," of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Will Steger, polar explorer, and J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh Energy, were keynote speakers for this event, which took place on November 1, 2007, in Minneapolis. Speakers included Kyle Brown (Landscape Arch); Renee Cheng (Arch), John Carmody (CSBR), John Dwyer (Arch), Fisher, Mary Guzowski (Arch), Koepke, Laura Musacchio (Landscape Arch), Ozayr Saloojee (Arch), Marc Swackhamer (Arch), and Robert Sykes (Landscape Arch).

Steven McCarthy (Graphic Design) gave an illustrated presentation on works from the Goldstein Museum of Design graphic design collection. Centered around the concept of design authorship--in which designers' roles are expanded from professional service providers to socially, culturally, and politically engaged communication initiators--the collection spans 70 years of innovation.

Lance Neckar (Landscape Arch) discussed his research and new methods in urban planning at the Wells Event Center in Ramsey in February 2008. Neckar's address was part of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's yearlong, statewide speakers tour.

Lance Neckar (Landscape Arch) and John Carmody (CSBR) participated in a Conversations on Sustainability seminar on November 29, 2007, at Coffman Union. The seminar investigated the consequences of urban living on our environment and what role cities and citizens have in achieving broader sustainability.

Students

The fall 2007 senior graphic design exhibition took place on December 15, 2007, at the Ivy Arts Building in Minneapolis's Seward neighborhood. Seniors showing work included Christina Adams, Nicholas Andreoli, Sheila Bruggeman, Kit Casey, John Dahl, Freda Duong, Christina DiMeo, Dave Hagen, Ashley Hay, Elizabeth Homer, Christine Lavarda, Jessica Lee Moore, Laura Lewis, Yao Lin, Trinh Mai, Lisa Poola, Kari Sivula, Sergey Trubetskoy, Meagan VanBurkleo, and James Walz.

Clothing design students Gregory Clark, Abby McDonough, and Kevin Kolodziej received second place for their project "Chef-X" in the 2007 Safety Products Student Design Challenge, sponsored by the Safety and Protective Products Division of the Industrial Fabrics Association International. The project appeared in the High Tech Fashion Show Welcome Reception on October 3, 2007.

Clothing design student Wesley Martin, student chair for this year's senior fashion show, was interviewed February 2, 2008, on a segment of FM107''s "Shopgirls" program.

Final-year graduate students of Lance Neckar's (Landscape Arch) and John Comazzi's (Arch) studios showcased their design ideas for Ford's St. Paul assembly plant on December 12, 2007. The designs featured options such as alternative energy and fuels research and development, environmental education facilities, transit infrastructure, urban farming, and cultural and leisure landscapes.

Two housing studies graduate students presented their research at the second annual housing studies alumni gala on November 9, 2007. Kim Skobba discussed housing careers of low income individuals in urban communities and how receiving housing assistance influences their housing career paths; Marilou Cheple discussed external panel-exterior thermal and moisture management systems as a way to build energy efficient housing for low income families. The event was sponsored by the Housing Organization of University Students (H.O.U.S.) and the CDes Alumni Office.

Architecture student Sarah Wolbert received a President's Student Leadership and Service Award. The award was presented at the President's Award Banquet on May 5, 2008, in Coffman Union.

The University's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) offers financial awards each semester to full-time undergraduates for research, scholarly, or creative projects undertaken in partnership with a faculty member outside of their regular course work. The spring 2008 UROP recipients are

Daniel Carlson, Architecture BDA "To Whom Does It Concern" Faculty sponsor: Leslie Van Duzer

Andrea Erickson, Graphic Design "A Synergy of Design and Video" Faculty sponsor: Brad Hokanson

Michael Janicki, Architecture BS "A Case Study on Sustainable Suburban Infill Development" Faculty sponsor: Lance Neckar

Alicia Liebel, Architecture BA "Affordable Housing Initiatives: How Cultural Considerations Can Inform Design Innovation" Faculty sponsor: Tasoulla Hadjiyanni

Shannon Meza, Housing Studies "Affordable Housing and Development and Employer Involvement Survey" Faculty sponsor: Ann Ziebarth

Micheal Michalak, Architecture BDA "Photorealistic Imagery for Enhanced Perception in Virtual Reality" Faculty sponsor: Lee Anderson

Melissa Norton, Architecture BDA "Using Virtual Reality to Simulate Building Construction" Faculty sponsor: Lee Anderson

Dane Steinlicht, Architecture BDA "The Ice Museum: Built to Last" Faculty sponsor: William Weber

Alumni

C. Colston Burrell's (MLA '95) book Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Books, 1999) has been issued in paperback. Burrell is a garden designer, writer, photographer, and the owner of Native Landscape Design and Restoration, located near Charlottesville, Virginia.

John Carlson (BS Housing Studies '07) recently accepted a position with Opus North Corporation. A member of the Opus Group, Opus North is a full-service design-build development firm headquartered in Chicago, serving the north central United States with an emphasis on office, industrial, retail, multifamily, government, and institutional projects.

Amy Michielle Freeman (BS Retail Merchandising '98) recently celebrated her fifth year in business as founder and lead designer for Soho Exchange, Inc., which offers apparel and costume design, wardrobe styling, and an online marketplace. Freeman's S.H.E. line uses recycled materials like billboard vinyl and fur to create custom boots, rain hats, coats, and bags.

Trenton Frick (BArch '97, MArch '02) has taken a position with RNL, an international architecture, interiors, landscape, planning, and engineering firm in Denver, Colorado.

Joel Goodman (BArch '66) presented his article "Architectural Active Solar Energy Reflector Collector Studies" at the Solar 2008 ASES Conference in San Diego, California, in May 2008.

Karie Johnson (BArch '94), director of virtual construction for Adolfson & Peterson Construction, was selected as one of 40 "architectural/engineering/construction-industry superstars" in Building Design + Construction's third annual "40 Under 40" recognition program. She and 39 other young professionals from across the United States were chosen from 275 entrants and are featured in the January 2008 issue of the magazine.

Cynthia Kemper (BA Interior Design '75) was named the director of strategic development for Davis Partnership Architects, the oldest and one of the largest architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning firms in Colorado.

Architectural writer and historian Jane King Hession (MArch '95) has coauthored Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, examining the period from 1954 to 1959. In 1999, King Hession coauthored Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design.

Kevin Knudson (BS Interior Design'86) accepted a position as workplace and communication strategist for Perkins+Will, Minneapolis. Knudson has served as a consultant or employee at Perkins+Will for 20 years.

Scott Myller's (BArch '93) residential project on 80 acres in Northwest Colorado was featured in the October 2007 issue of Architectural Digest. Myller is the founding partner of West Elevation Architects, Inc., in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Patricia Olson (BArch '83) has recently taken a position as a senior architect at Arizona State University.

Patrick Redmond (DHA MA '90) served as a member of AIGA Minnesota's 30th Anniversary Celebration Committee, an event that took place November 9, 2007, in Minneapolis.

Oliver Smith (BS Housing Studies '06) has accepted a position as a neighborhood preservation specialist in the Code Enforcement and Public Health Division for Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Boston's art and architecture are explored in the AIA Guide to Boston: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, and Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods by Michael Southworth (BArch '65) and Susan Southworth. The book was published by Globe Pequot Press in March 2008.

Mark Swenson (BED '71, MArch '73) has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

Kevin Knudson (B.S. Interior Design '86) accepted a position as workplace and communication strategist for Perkins+Will, Minneapolis. Knudson has served as a consultant or employee to Perkins+Will for 20 years.

Deaths

Felix A. Ampah, part-time instructor in the graphic design program, died on February 26, 2008. Ampah taught drawing classes for more than 10 years. He also owned an illustration and design studio, Alto Ampah, as well as Ampah Gallery.

Sebastian Isola Kola-Bankole (BArch '58) of Lagos, Nigeria, died January 5, 2007. After graduation, Kola-Bankole settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he worked for Stanley Engineering. He returned to Nigeria in October 1960, where he worked for the Federal Ministry of Works and Ekwueme & Associates, both in Lagos. From 1970 to 1989, he was principal partner of Kola-Bankole & Associates. Some of his primary works include the Stanley Engineering-Presidential Executive Mansion (Monrovia, Republic of Liberia), the Johnson Wax offices and factory (1978-82), and the Commerce House (Lagos, 1983). Kola-Bankole was part of the first generation of Nigerian architects and played an active role in his profession. He was named a fellow by the Nigerian Institute of Architects, served as a founding member of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, and received the Aga Khan for Architecture Award from the Kingdom of Jordan in 1980.

Eleanor Kron (BS '39 CHE-Related Art) died in January 2008, just short of her 90th birthday. She was a supporter of the Goldstein Museum of Design.

Brian F. Schroder died on January 6, 2008. Schroder studied architecture at the University from 1974 to 1981. He had a lifelong passion for architecture and design, most recently reflected through his employment at the BKV Group.