The spirited sophomores, spurred on by a spunky mother, demonstrate their style.
If you are not at Judson for the Holidays, you are missing out
Posted By Keelan KaiserOn December 3, 2010
All architects are trained early in their career that architecture is a social art. We create spaces and places for people to dwell in, to provide shelter, and to engage the imagination. When possible, we have opportunities to get involved in great projects for affluent patrons. When that happens, we have the privilege of realizing in built form…poetry. At the completely opposite end of the spectrum, far from the poetics of space, witness the current work of Katie Guttormson. Katie is working with Engineering Ministries International (eMi) serving as a design intern in India for her year-long M.Arch. internship. Designing a World of Hope for the physically and spiritually poor; this is the eMi vision. Dig through Katie’s blog to see what she is doing to educate herself to the needs of the others. Serving others with design talents developed in professional architecture education at Judson, especially those in need while sharing the truth of the gospel, is a natural outcome of a Christian architecture program. We are proud of Katie as she demonstrates the unique focus that distinguishes architecture graduates of Judson University from all others.
Katie with students in India
Students and Parents…The economy is tough for the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Do you wonder which schools are delivering an education that translates into job prospects? Consider Judson University, the only professional M.Arch. degree program in the country in the context of evangelical Christian community. Through extensive experiential learning opportunities, Judson students are academically prepared to lead the future of architectural practice. Within the past two weeks four recent graduates have secured full time employment in architecture offices around the country; one of the four working for a community development organization improving local community. Consider Judson for architecture education in a faith-based program and context; and one that delivers an education that is unrivaled for career development.
Join us this fall for the 2010-2011 School of Art, Design and Architecture Lecture and Gallery Series. Speakers bring their national scope of experience in the built environment to Judson University, expanding our vision and imagination as designers and architects. All lectures are held in the Herrick Chapel in the center of the Judson University campus.
FALL TERM
Friday, 10 September 2010 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Steve MOUZON
Architect & Author : Miami
Steve is an architect, urbanist, author and photographer. He has led and contributed to many advances in sustainable place-making and building design. He founded the New Urban Guild, which is a group of architects, designers, and other New Urbanists dedicated to sustainable buildings and places native to and inspired by the regions in which they are built. Steve newest book, the Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability, frames sustainability in common-sense, plain-spoken terms [www.mouzon.com].
Friday, 1 October 2010 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Paul PREISSNER
Architect : Chicago
Paul is the founding partner of Paul Preissner Architects, and he is an assistant professor at the UIC School of Architecture. His architectural work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Venice Biennale, the Rotterdam Biennale, and the Shenzhen Biennale. Part of Paul’s work recognizes the notion that the drawing in architecture is being superseded by the animation, or the rendered image. His interest is to find a new role for drawing within architecture as a medium to communicate the architectural effect of the project, instead of just its plan [www.paulpreissner.com].
Friday, 8 October 2010 | 6p [GALLERY TALK]
Michelle WESTMARK
Curator & Photographer : St. Paul
Michelle is a photographer and curator whose work explores themes of identity, perception, and interconnection in an increasingly globalized digital world. She directs the Bethel University Galleries in St. Paul, Minnesota. Michelle curated and organized A Reasonable Facsimile and will discuss the work and ideas behind the exhibition [michellewestmark.com].
Friday, 5 November 2010 | 6p [GALLERY TALK]
Dayton CASTLEMAN
Sculptor : Chicago
Dayton’s exhibition Star-cross’d features the tragic romance between two gorgeous flying creatures not meant to fall in love. He is a sculptor and conceptual artist who uses everyday materials in thought-provoking ways to create metaphors for our existence. Dayton teaches sculpture at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois [daytoncastleman.com].
Friday, 19 November 2010 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Richard COOK
Architect : New York
Rick is a principal at Cook+Fox Architects, a young firm committed to a transformative vision: beautiful design shaped by a strong connection to place, serious standards of sustainability, and a commitment to excellence in process and collaboration. Rick is a frequent contributor to building design forums and symposia for his design approach to site and place, research, context and an integral environmental response [www.cookplusfox.com].
SPRING TERM
Friday, 21 January 2011 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Vinayak BHARNE
Urban Designer & Planner : Los Angeles
Vinayak is a lead urban designer at Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, as well as a faculty lecturer in urban theory and design at the University of Southern California, where he focuses on comparative urban forms and types, trans-national urbanism, smart-growth and contemporary methods of urban design practice. Vinayak’s projects include Civano, one of the first New Urbanist new towns with an advanced environmental protocol, in Arizona, and the Arabian Canal neighborhood in Dubai.
Friday, 4 February 2011 | 6p [GALLERY TALK]
Adam Benjamin FUNG
Painter : Chicago
Adam is a painter and traveler whose work explores the broad themes of nature, destruction, landscape, space and infinity. He exhibits locally with the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery and is a recent participant of the Vermont Studio Center Residency program. Adam will discuss the work in his exhibition. [adamfung.blogspot.com]
Friday, 18 February 2011 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
John HENDRIX
Illustrator : St. Louis
John is an award-winning illustrator and educator whose work has appeared in such publications as Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. He has also drawn book jackets for Random House, Harper Collins, Greenwillow Books, Penguin, and St. Martin’s Press. John serves as a member of the Communication Design faculty at the Sam Fox School at Washington University. [www.johnhendrix.com]
Friday, 18 March 2011 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Martin FELSEN
Architect : Chicago
Martin is a partner at UrbanLab, and he teaches architecture studios at IIT on future-thinking design, smart urban growth, and environmental planning. His work and expertise in resourceful building and urban design has been highlighted in numerous publications, and he has received numerous honors for his work. Martin is also the Director of Archeworks, a design-based think tank in Chicago. [www.urbanlab.com]
Friday, 8 April 2011 | 4:30p [LECTURE]
Brigitte SHIM
Architect : Toronto
Brigitte Shim is a principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and an Associate Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. She is also the fall 2010 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor in Architectural Design at Yale University’s School of Architecture. Shim-Sutcliffe’s built works have received eleven national Governor General’s Medals for Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institution of Canada for small- and medium-scaled projects. [www.shim-sutcliffe.com]
Professor and Department Chair, Keelan Kaiser, visited schools in Germany and China during the summer 2010 promoting international exchanges of students and faculty. First visiting Anhalt University, where the Architecture Program already has an exchange program in place, Kaiser toured new facilities, exceptional faculty and students, and a great atmosphere to study abroad. Anhalt University is on the site of the old Bauhaus program, historically famous for multi-disciplinary studies in design. Today, the program boasts a strong emphasis in sustainable practice, something Germany was developing long before the current “green craze” in the USA. Truly we have a lot to learn from our German counterparts and Judson is excited about growing this exchange program and relationship.
The Anhalt University Dessau campus recently received significant funding to renovate and restore its beautiful campus. The historic Bauhaus is in the background of this photograph.
Dessau train station, a 10 minute walk from the Anhalt University campus, allows travel to Berlin within an hour.
Professor Kaiser visited Beijing University discussing possible future relationships between Judson University and their architecture program. The program is exemplary, training traditional construction technique and also contemporary urban design and building design. The faculty and administration are eager to explore ways which we might cooperate in the future. Kaiser also observed the rapid explosion of construction and development in China firsthand and is excited about connecting Judson students and faculty with the growing influence and marketplaces in China and the east.
Faculty and Administrators from Beijing University tour student exhibits with Dr. Cain and Professor Kaiser
Examples of student work on exhibit at Beijing University
Once again, Judson graduates strong classes of undergraduate and graduate architecture students. The past two weeks of final critiques, papers, and exams have come and gone, culminating in a graduation awards ceremony on Friday and commencement on Saturday. The elevating members of the sophomore class are preparing to enter the professional years (3 and 4) of the program this fall. The junior class is preparing to go to Rome in a week for a month-long study abroad; taking them to Italy and later to Spain. The senior graduating class is preparing for a year-long internship as a requirement for earning the M.Arch. And the graduate class is embarking on the next chapter of their architecture training, NCARB IDP.
The graduation awards program and open house was a great evening of exhibiting works, a round-the-world appetizer banquet, and great fellowship with family and friends. The department of architecture conferred 19 different awards and recognitions including:
1. Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Bronze Medal: Hanna Weber
2. Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal: Katherine Guttormson
3. ARCC King Medal: Thomas Sharp
4. ALA Scholastic Achievement Award: JoAnna Landers
5. ALA Illinois Student Award: Ryan Dale VenHuizen
6. Chairs Award for Professional Promise Undergrad: Danny Nelson
7. Chairs Award for Professional Promise Graduate: Tyler Hughes
8. Outstanding Performance in Fourth Year Design: Justin Bashaw, Hanna Weber, Danny Nelson, Nathaniel Dunn, Carina Cook, Jason Norris
9. Kern Fellows Recognition (09-10): Thomas Sharp, Benjamin Scarbro, Joseph Juhl
10. Graduate Scholarship Recognition (09-10): Thomas Sharp, JoAnna Landers, Joseph Juhl
Some remarkable projects from this past semester follow.
Third year studio work by Kyle Faulkner - Dundee Library
Third year studio work by Andrew Gander - Dundee Library
Graduate Thesis student Thomas Sharp and advisor Prof. Ian Hoffman
Del Rey Loven, Artist, Professor and Director of Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, Architecture Advisory Council Member and Original Visionary for the Architecture program at JU, attends Thomas Sharps Thesis Jury.
Gary Wang, Architect and Senior Designer at Machado Silvetti Architects in Boston, Architecture Advisory Council Member and former JU architecture professor, visits with Thomas Sharp about his Thesis, as trustee Mrs. Karen Gustafson looks on in the background.
Graduate studio work by Samuel Lima, begins a post-professional graduate program at Notre Dame in traditional design in the fall.
Graduate studio work by Ryan Venhuizen, who is entering private practice this summer.
Graduate studio work by Joseph Juhl, who is entering private practice this summer.
The Classicist no.8 (212pp.) has been published and includes a number of entries from JU students. This is the premier journal of the classical and traditional architecture community comprising practice and academic studio work. JU was also included in the previous issue no. 7. Included in issue no. 8 are 23 pages entitled “From the Academies:” with 4 pages for Notre Dame, 2 for Yale, 3 for Judson, 1 for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, 2 for the U. Miami, and 3 for the Institute for Classical Architecture. Judson shares a place at the table of schools exploring the role of traditional design methodology in contemporary architecture education. Please join us in congratulating Brian Mork, Aaron Holverson, Nathaniel Brooks, and Kevin Svensen. A special thanks to Landscape Architect Craig Farnsworth for his substantial mentoring role in the studio watercolor instruction. Selected works are reproduced below:
The graduate students will present their work on Monday, April 19th in the Draewell Gallery at Judson University. A range of entries is expected from creative traditional architecture and urbanism solutions to sustainable design and technology investigations. The sustainable design work is on display during the morning, and the traditional architecture and urbanism work is on display in the afternoon. A special graduate thesis review will take place from 12-2pm in HWAC 321 featuring the work of Thomas Sharp. Finally, the best work from both studios will be left on display in the Draewell Gallery through Thursday, April 22nd.
Browse the front page of the evolo architecture and design journal today and you will see yet another Judson architecture student publication. Architecture graduates and current seniors Ryan Browne, Nathanael Dunn, Daniel Nelson, Benjamin Scholten recently completed a design for a tall building competition. Jackie Chan meets Robert Redford in this smack down, wild west, screamer. Oh, yeah, they knocked it out during winter break for something to pass the time between semesters. WAY TO GO boys.
Dr. Christopher C. Miller will present a paper at the Congress for the New Urbanism 18, New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places in Atlanta, May 2010. The abstract of his paper follows:
Visualizing Morphological Conditions for Pedestrian Connectivity
A study of Elgin, Illinois, has produced a data visualization picturing the urban morphology as a condition for potential pedestrian connections comparing twentieth-century development to its earlier development pattern. The data visualization shows how few potential pedestrian connections are contributed from the buildings of the last 40 years. First, there are relatively few potential pedestrian connections within the 400 foot range. Second, these institutions have relatively few open hours: open only during business hours and numerous holidays. Third, these two factors are exacerbated by the enclaving of these institutions together on a civic campus.
As a tool, the data visualization can be used in a number of ways: to quantify the pedestrian network potential for a particular urban fabric, whether close- or broad-grained; to demonstrate the impact of new development in relation to an existing fabric; or, to compare the network potential in neighborhoods having different morphologies.
More information: http://www.cnuatlanta.org/cnu18.htm
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