ACSA's 105th Annual Meeting - Brooklyn says, "Move to Detroit"
Register/Submit Deadline: Wednesday, Jan 25, 20175 PMEDT
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Join us in Detroit for the 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Over 400 architecture faculty and students join us each year to participate in discussions about urbanism, housing, building materials, and architectural pedagogy.
1. Health + Design
2. The Stadium: Architecture, Urban Regeneration, and Politics
3. The Movement to Service: Reflecting on the Evolution of Service in Architecture Education and Practice
4. The Fertility of Urban Ruins: Obsolete Industrial Cities as Ecosystem Holders
5. Living Laboratory or Laughing Stock?
6. Architectural Intelligence
7. In Practice: History as Research and Design Strategy
8. Disruption: Copyleft and Open-Source Design
9. Addressability
10. The City after Freddie Gray: From Acquiescent to Heady Urbanism
11. Is Another Architecture Possible? Exploring Counter-Hegemonic Architectural Practices
12. The Design of Practice: Between Authorial Agency and Institutional Pressures
14. Whither Public Space? Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion
15. Branding the Underdog: Imagining Detroit's Rebirth
16. Design for Performance: Bridging the Gap Between the Poetics and the Pragmatics
17. Open
- Architecture in an Expanded Field, from Interiors to Landscapes | Scholarship and design-based investigations situated at the architectural scale often slip toward the space of the room or the expanse of the site. Indeed some of the most often studied projects of recent years operate within this larger field of space making. This topic seeks to provide a home for work beyond the precise scale of the building.
- Building Behaviors Climate change has led to an elevated interest in the sustainability and behaviors of buildings, particularly related to energy usage. In addition, lighting, acoustical responsiveness and structural stability are increasingly at the foreground of public interest.
- Design Research in the Studio Context The studio is the traditional core of the architecture school. The 1996 Boyer Report on architectural education described it as the “holy of holies” of architectural education: “these studios scruffy though they may be are models for creative learning that others on campus might well think about.” Since the Boyer report was written design has become a hot trans-disciplinary phenomenon, putting the architecture studio in an enviable position relative to our peers in the academy. This topic might include research done on the design studio or research done in the design studio.
- History/Theory Scholarship on historic architects, settings, periods and themes occurs in a variety of research modalities. In addition ideas of design epistemology are often reflected in essays falling under this broad rubric.
- Housing As the planet’s population grows it becomes increasingly imperative that housing effectively provide appropriate shelter with reduced means. Housing research varies from historic and emerging typologies to urban and social concerns to evolving family types, all set in a global arena of cultural confluences. Research and design projects in all these areas are encouraged.
- Materials In recent years the convergence of new manufacturing processes and new materials has led to a proliferation of material studies with spatial, economic and societal implications. In addition, traditional materials and their methods of fabrication continue to hold interest for researchers and offer new information to the construction industry.
- Media Investigations Theories and practices of media and representation, ranging from historic drawing techniques to contemporary digital modalities, are critical to the production of architectural ideas. Scholars and designers often focus their inquiries on this key link in the design process.
- Urbanism Designers and scholars study and engage the differences between private and public, individual and societal spaces, incorporating buildings and public space in a variety of scales and densities within an increasingly global context. Two well-developed research trajectories are smart growth and new urbanism, and we solicit posters from our members working in these areas. In addition, we are seeking proposals that redefine architecture, urban design, city planning, and life in the cyber-age, in unexpected terms. We recognize that positions taken today may be located on the periphery of the architectural discourse but are poised to make a significant impact tomorrow.
- Open Submission will accommodate promising research posters that do not fall into any of above areas.
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