IMPORTANT DATES
Call for papers: August 2008
Abstracts due 10/22/2008
Acceptance notification 11/14/2008
Full paper due 1/9/2009
Acceptance notification 2/9/2009
Early registration deadline 2/23/2009
Final paper due 3/1/2009
Registration deadline 3/30/2009
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Organizing Committee
Hazem Rashed Ali, Ph.D
Shelley Roff, Ph.D.
Department of Architecture
The University of Texas at San Antonio
501 W. Durango Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78207
hazem.rashedali@utsa.edu
shelley.roff@utsa.edu
Leadership in Architectural Research, between academia and the profession
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY II: THURSDAY 4/16/2009
| 8:00 - 9:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | SESSION 4A: Towards a More Sustainable Built Environment |
| - Towards a Civic Environmental Design | |
| Vince Canizaro, The University of Texas at San Antonio | |
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- Historic Preservation & Sustainability: The Case for
‘Realistic’ Evidence-Based Design |
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| Christopher Koziol, University of Colorado Denver | |
| -
Retro_Fitt: Rethinking Educational Facilities for Carbon
Neutrality and Students’ Performance |
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| Ihab Elzeyadi, University of Oregon | |
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- Glass in Daylighting Design, an Experimental Investigation of
the Impact of Different Glass Types on the Design of Daylighting Systems |
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| Khaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | SESSION 4B: Collaboration in Architectural Research |
| - Mediating spaces acting for the collaboration in the future school | |
| Helena Teräväinen, Helsinki University of Technology | |
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- The Collaborative Research Sampler Plate for Informed Design
and Enhanced BOK |
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| Jane Nichols, Western Carolina University | |
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- Citizen’s Words are not Just Idle Talk. Collecting Stories for
Giving Ground to the Project |
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Nicolas TIXIER, École Nationale Supérieure
d'Architecture de Grenoble and Jean-Michel ROUX, Institut d'Urbanisme de Grenoble |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | SESSION 5A: Case Studies - High Performance Buildings |
| -
Weber Center Post Occupancy Evaluation for Building Performance
at Year One |
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| Keelan Kaiser, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
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- Building Learning: Making a Carbon-Neutral Campus in McCall
Idaho |
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| Frank Jacobus, University of Idaho | |
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- Zero Energy Houses for China: Prefabricated Sustainable Housing
for Disaster Relief in Sichuan Province |
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| Edgar Stach, University of Tennessee Knoxville | |
| - The BLOOMhouse: A Modular Approach to Sustainable Design | |
| Michael Garrison, The University of Texas at Austin | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | SESSION 5B: Evidence-Based Design |
| - Benchmarking the Effectiveness of Universal Design | |
| Gary Danford, State University of New York at Buffalo | |
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- New Methods of Researching Healthcare Facility Users: the
Nursing Workspace |
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| Karen Keddy, Ball State University | |
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- Design Standards for Muslim Prayer Facilities within Public
Buildings |
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| Ahmed Mokhtar, American University of Sharjah | |
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- Topological Configuration in Wayfinding and Spatial Cognition:
An Investigation with Comparable Real and Virtual Buildings for Design Relevance |
|
| Saif Haq, Texas Tech University | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | LUNCH |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | SESSION 6A: Architectural Research in PhD Programs |
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- Water + Identity: A case for urban densification along the Los
Angeles River's Rio Hondo Confluence |
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| Jeffrey Vaglio, University of Southern California | |
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- A Film Studies Approach in Architectural Research: The Image of
Power in Urban Public Space in three Iranian Films |
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| Sara Khorshidifard, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | |
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- From Academic Research on Museum Buildings to Practice-Based
Research for Institutional and Commercial Projects |
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| Ipek Kaynar-Rohloff, University of Michigan Ann Arbor | |
| - Harmonizing the client’s processes with space planning decisions | |
| Zhengwei Li, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | SESSION 6B: Architecture design & the Historic Landscape |
|
- The Architects’ Small House Service Bureau and the American
Institute of Architects in the Early Twentieth Century |
|
| Lisa Tucker, Virginia Tech University | |
|
- Between Politics and Expertise: The Role of Architectural
Scholarship in the Debate of Beijing Renovation and Extension Plan during the Early Communist Era |
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| Xiao Hu, University of Idaho | |
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- On the Question of Leadership: The Post WWII Department of
Education and Research at the AIA |
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| Avigail Sachs, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | SESSION 7A: Digital Approaches to Architectural Research |
|
- Ice as a Modeling Material in Architecture: The Architecture of
Phase Change |
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| Pieter Sijpkes, McGill University | |
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- Representing Ideas by Digital Models in Architectural
Competitions: a Research between Academia and Profession |
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| Massimiliano Lo Turco, Politecnico di Torino | |
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- Digital Fabrication and Environmental Technology Course
Potentials |
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| Glenn Sweitzer, Sweitzer LLP | |
| - Observational Research and Digital Social Media | |
| Kate Wingert-Playdon, Temple University | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | SESSION 7B: Architectural Research & the Human Context |
| - What Comes First
in Sheltering Needs? Patterns of Colonias Housing Production |
|
| Azza Kamal, Morgan State University | |
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- Built Leadership:
Women Administrators in Architectural |
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| Margaret Woosnam, Texas A&M University | |
| - The Catholic View Of Mapping | |
| John Bass, University of British Columbia | |
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- Representations of Architecture in Children’s Art: A Study of
the Art of Jordanian Children |
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| Rima Al Ajlouni, Texas Tech University | |
| 6:00 - 7:30 | KEYNOTE SPEECH: |
| John McRae, University of Tennessee Knoxville | |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | DINNER |
