2008-2009 In Review

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2009 Commencement/End-of-Year Scholarships/Awards/Prizes

Department of Architecture - The Heintzelman Prize is given for excellence in design during the final semester of study:  Trent Gareis, Sterling, CO; Brett Milkovich, Kansas City, MO; Mark Neibling, Derby, KS; Andrew Rutenbeck, Wichita, KS; and Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO. Heintzelman nominees:  Meghan Bogener, St. Charles, MO; Heather Martin, Chapman, KS; Adam Pfeifer, Hays, KS; T. J. Siemons, Kansas City, MO; Nathaniel Smith, Lake St. Louis, MO. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Henry Adams Medal goes to the student with the highest grade point average: Rebekah Udall, Colorado Springs, CO. The AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Excellence goes to the student with the second highest grade point average:  Kevin Wade, Independence, MO. The Alpha Rho Chi Medal is awarded to a student who has shown ability in leadership, performed willing service, and shows promise of professional merit through attitude and personality:  Rebekah Udall. The AIA Kansas Student Honor Award goes to the student who possesses an outstanding academic record and has been an active participant in the local student chapter of the AIA:  Kelly Egdorf, Chaska, MN.  The Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Bronze Medal goes to the student, as judged by his/her peers, whose work and attitude best exemplify the honor society’s motto, “craftsman, skilled and trained:”  Kelly Egdorf.  The John Helm Award is given to the post-baccalaureate degree recipient who has the most outstanding graduate thesis:  Lance Klein, Manhattan, KS.

Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design - The Eugene McGraw Scholastic Award is presented to the student with the highest grade point average:  Heather Wise, Bucyrus, KS; Kathryn Steib, St. Louis, MO. The James Dubois Outstanding Graduating Student Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers:  Kathryn Steib.  The Student Leadership Award is presented for outstanding contributions performed for the betterment of the department:  Tim Sherman, McPherson, KS.  The Outstanding Furniture Design Award is presented for the outstanding project and overall performance in furniture design: Abby Mann, Ellisville, MO.  The Outstanding Product Design Award is presented for the outstanding project and overall performance in product design: Jill Nichols, Blair, NE. The Jack C. Durgan Interior Architecture Award is presented to the outstanding overall designer who best demonstrates understanding of the synthesis of specializations within the design curriculum by his/her standard of excellence and innovation in design solutions:  Heather Wise.

Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning - The Master of Landscape Architecture Outstanding Graduate Award is given for academic performance and contributions to the college, program and peers:  Anthony Fox, St. Charles, MO; John Perry, Mitchell, SD. The Master of Landscape Architecture Quinlan Award is given in recognition of academic advancement in the study of landscape architecture:  Scott Capps, Liberty, MO; Sarah Morrow, Overland Park, KS. The Dr. Robert P. Ealy Award recognizes academic excellence based upon scholarly endeavors:  Robin Banks, Liberty, MO; Julianne Rader, Leawood, KS; Ian Scherling, Goodland, KS; Andrew Meessmann, Ames, IA.  The award for leadership and service as president of the K-State Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA):  Kelsey Kern, Omaha, NE. The Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholarship identifies, recognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are willing to engage current and critical issues through the use of ideas, influence, communication, service and leadership, thus advancing sustainable planning and design and fostering human and societal benefits:  Jeremy Anterola, Liberty, MO. The ASLA Competition Award is given to students demonstrating the highest level of academic scholarship and accomplishments in skills related to the art and technology of landscape architecture:  Honor Awards, Anthony Fox and John Perry; Merit Awards, Jeremy Anterola and Julianne Rader. The American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award in regional and community planning is given for academic performance, contribution of leadership, participation in planning activities and professional promise:  Steven Munroe, New Market, NH. The Leland R. Edmonds Outstanding Research Award is awarded to a graduate student in planning based on a student’s proposal for his/her master’s report or thesis:  Ashley Williams, St. Charles, MO.

Student Accomplishments

A multi-disciplinary team of students finished second in a nationwide student urban design competition. Four landscape architecture/regional and community planning students—John Perry, Mitchell, SD; Anthony Fox, St. Charles, MO; Christopher Morton, Englewood, CO; and Bryan Zundal, St. Louis, MO—and business administration student Junbin Feng, China, joined teams from Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Miami as finalists in the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. More than 90 student teams composed of nearly 500 students and representing 42 universities in the U.S. and Canada submitted proposals. The K-State team received a cash prize of $10,000. Professor Blake Belanger served as the team’s faculty advisor. Professor Stephanie Rolley and alumnus Dan Musser provided assistance. This project also received a Merit Award in the 2009 Central States American Society of Landscape Architects Student Design Competition.

Kelly Egdorf, Chaska, MN, received the 2009-2010 Tradewell Fellowship. Major professor was Susanne Siepl-Coates.

Lara Fackrell, Garden City, MO, won an Innovative Electronic Thesis and Dissertations award from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations for her master of landscape architecture thesis. Stephanie Rolley was major professor.

Ali Johnson, Topeka, KS, received a citation for presentation for her entry in the Robert Bruce Thompson Charitable Trust 2009 Student Light Fixture Design Competition. Major professors were Cliff Shin and Neal Hubbell.

Adam Wagoner, McPherson, KS, received an honorable mention at the third annual American Institute of Architecture Students/Kawneer Competition. Vladimir Krstic was major professor.

Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO, received first prize in the 2009 Environmental Design Research Association Student Design Competition.  Major professor was Susanne Siepl-Coates.

David Vogel, Topeka, KS, was one of five national finalists in the 2008 Olmsted Scholars Program.

Katie Gall, Independence, MO, and Heather Wise, Bucyrus, KS, received an award of recognition in the 2009 Cooper Lighting SOURCE Awards Competition. Major professors were Neal Hubbell and Fayez Husseini.

Kelsey Kern, Omaha, NE, received a Merit Award in the 2009 Central States American Society of Landscape Architects Student Design Competition. Major professor was Melanie Klein.

LeCretia Morrison, Kansas City, MO, received a Multicultural Leadership Award from the K-State Alumni Association.

Heather Lagergren, Colorado Springs, CO, received second prize; Kayla Sorensen, Muscatine, IA, received third prize; and Sarah Masalskis, Ballwin, MO, received honorable mention in the 2008 Innovative Clothesline Design Competition.

Dan Gensch, Wichita, KS, received the 2008 John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship.

Heather Wise, Bucyrus, KS, received a 2008-2009 Kansas City Architectural Foundation Scholarship, the Charles D. Mayo Scholarship from the International Furnishings and Design Association and a scholarship from the National Association for Women in Construction, She is also a finalist in the 2009 Fresh Wood Student Competition sponsored by the Association of Woodworking and Furnishings Suppliers.

Mark Long, El Dorado, KS; Dan Gensch, Wichita, KS; and Andrew Bryant, Haysville, KS, received 2008-2009 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Kansas Scholarships. Bryant also received the AIA Wichita Scholarship, and Long also received the Gastinger Walker Harden Architects Scholarship.

Dustin Clare, Dodge City, KS, received honorable mention; Katie Gall, Independence, MO, received third place; and Christie Ann Samples, Kansas City, MO, received honorable mention in the 2009 K-State Friends of International Programs International Photo Contest.

Emily Weber, Olathe, KS, achieved LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional).

Their classmates selected Kevin Wade, Independence, MO; Ashley Giroux, Topeka, KS; Julianne Rader, Leawood, KS; and Stephanie Dikeman-Watts, Topeka, KS, as student speakers at the May 2009 commencement ceremony. 

May 2009 Degree Candidates and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Members - Trent Gareis, Sterling, CO; Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO; Rebekah Udall, Colorado Springs, CO; Kevin Wade, Independence, MO; Mariann Wright, Kennett, MO. Phi Kappa Phi Initiates and Members - Kirby Barrett, Winona, KS; Annamarie Bliss, Warrensburg, MO; Scott Davis, El Dorado, KS; Paul Folger, Derby, KS; Heidi Hyland, Saginaw, MI; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; Victoria McKennan, Ft. Collins, CO; Christie Murman, Hastings, NE; Adriana Perrone, St. Charles, MO; Dylan Powell, Ashland, MO; Brooke Swercinski, Overland Park, KS; Erin Switzer, Alpharetta, GA. Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society dedicated to the unity and democracy of education; membership is open to students from all disciplines who are in the top 10 percent of their class.

May 2009 Degree Candidates and Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and the Allied Arts Members - Jeremy Anterola, Liberty, MO; Margaret Blair, Lenexa, KS; Alice Christner, Rochester, MN; Amanda Eckes, Olathe, KS; Anthony Fox, St. Charles, MO; Katie Gall, Independence, MO; Trent Gareis, Sterling, CO; Peter Hystead, Duluth, MN; Jerald Kohrs, Kansas City, KS; Abby Mann, Ellisville, MO; Molly Page, Wichita, KS; Julianne Rader, Leawood, KS; Christie Samples, Kansas City, MO; Joseph Schlag, Bridgeton, MO; Kyle Sherwood, Tulsa, OK; Kathryn Steib, St. Louis, MO; Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO; Rebekah Udall, Colorado Springs, CO; Kevin Wade, Independence, MO; Ashley Williams, St. Charles, MO; Heather Wise, Bucyrus, KS; Mariann Wright, Kennett, MO; Philip Zevenbergen, Arvada, CO. Tau Sigma Delta Initiates and Members - Mary Burgess, Arcadia, MO; Christopher Curtis, Great Bend, KS; Maria Deters, Topeka, KS; Rachel Duncan, O’Fallon, MO; Sara Ege, Kingwood, TX; Allison Gould, Hutchinson, KS; Stacy Griffin, Stilwell, KS; Eric Heany, Shawnee, KS; Laura Herron, Hesston, KS; Kaitlin Holle, Lebanon, IL; Heidi Hyland, Saginaw, MI; Paul Jarvis, Manchester, MO; Stephen Lachky, Leawood, KS; Samantha Lang, Manchester, MO; Megan McFarland, Paola, KS; Victoria McKennan, Ft. Collins, CO; Christie Murman, Hastings, NE; Amanda Phelps, Sandy, UT; Stephanie Pile, Centennial, CO; Dylan Powell, Ashland, MO; Jason Ragan, Wichita, KS; Kyle Rogler, Olathe, KS; Shannon Williams, Olathe, KS; Meghan Wilson, Swansea, IL.

May 2009 Degree Candidates and Sigma Lambda Alpha International Landscape Architecture Honor Society Members - Scott Capps, Liberty, MO; Anthony Fox, St. Charles, MO; Jeremy Merrill, Pendleton, OR; Sarah Morrow, Overland Park, KS; Ian Scherling, Goodland, KS; David Vogel, Topeka, KS.

2009 Kansas City Architects, Designers, Dealers and Representatives Regional Student Design Competition - Large Furniture, First Place, Abby Mann, Ellisville, MO; Second Place, Derek Case, McPherson, KS; Third Place, Meghan Wilson, Swansea, IL; Fourth Place, Matthew Johnson, Shawnee, KS. Small Furniture, First Place, Alexandra Miller, Overland Park, KS; Second Place, Sierra Withers, Erie, KS; Third Place, Kaitlin Holle, Lebanon, IL.

2008-2009 U.S. Stone Competition - First Place, Lucas Bergstrom, Lawrence, KS; Second Place, Lee Watson, Columbia, MO; Third Place, Sara Dews, Columbia, MO; Honorable Mention, Luke Brohmer, Colorado Springs, CO; Vanessa Liu, the Philippines.

2008-2009 Bowman Design Forum Awards - First Place, Heidi Hyland, Saginaw, MI; Finalists, Joshua Hartman, Altamont, KS; Jill Maurer, Topeka, KS; Ian Orlando, St. Louis, MO; Jason Ragan, Wichita, KS.

2008-2009 CAPD Student Rendering Competition - Mixed Media, First Place, Elvis Achelpohl, Kansas City, MO; Second Place, Adam Wagoner, McPherson, KS. Freehand Black and White, First Place, Kirk Chonis, Parkville, MO; Second Place, Vanessa Liu, the Philippines; Third Place, Nathaniel Smith, St. Louis, MO; Honorable Mention, Matthew Griswold, Overland Park, KS; Omar Herrera, Emporia, KS; Kelsey Kern, Omaha, NE.  Computer, First Place, Christopher Morton, Centennial, CO; Second Place, Adam Pfeifer, Hays, KS; Third Place, Jill Eckloff, Kearney, NE; Honorable Mention, Matthew Griswold.  Freehand Color, First Place, Pat Kost, Blue Springs, MO; Second Place, John Perry, Sioux Falls, SD; Third Place, Karina Perez-Fajardo, Topeka, KS; Nicholas Turner, Jefferson City, MO; Honorable Mention, Joseph Binter, Wichita, KS; Stephanie Pile, Centennial, CO.

Alyssa Breese, Centennial, CO, was a finalist in Photography Forum’s 29th Annual College Photography Contest.

2008-2009 CAPD Student Photography Competition - Black and White, First Place, Michael Meihaus, St. Louis, MO; Second Place, Steve Seng, Overland Park, KS; Third Place, Omar Herrera, Emporia, KS; Honorable Mention, Rachel Elise Allen, Overland Park, KS. Creative and Other Subject Matter, First Place, Dustin Clare, Dodge City, KS; Second Place, Kristin Van Dusen, Wichita, KS; Third Place, Jill Nichols, Blair, NE; Honorable Mention, Margaret Blair, Lenexa, KS. Exterior Architecture, First Place, Margaret Blair; Second Place, John Wolf, Milwaukee, WI; Third Place, Dustin Clare; Honorable Mention, Paul Jarvis, St. Louis, MO; Honorable Mention, Patrick Ptomey, Euless, TX. Interiors and Architectural Details, First Place, Nathaniel Smith, St. Louis, MO; Second Place, Kyle Rogler, Olathe, KS; Third Place, Mariann Wright, Kennett, MO. Landscape, First Place, Forrest Smith, Houston, TX; Second Place, Christa Bowman, Minneapolis, MN; Third Place, Nathaniel Smith.

Editors of the 2008-2009 edition of OZ are Elvis Achelpohl, Kansas City, MO, and Shawn Morris, Logan, KS. Faculty advisors are Professors Ray Streeter and Todd Gabbard.

Student participants during the 2008-2009 academic year in the Kansas City Design Center (KCDC) were Cole Giesler, Ste. Genevieve, MO; Jerald Kohrs, Kansas City, KS; Rachel Koster,Tescott, KS; Andrea Pardo, Kansas City, KS; Shandelle Renyer, Topeka, KS; Kyle Sherwood, Tulsa, OK; and Giannina Zapattini, Paraguay. The KCDC is an interdisciplinary, inter-university urban design/research studio whose mission is to be the agent of public discourse in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Architecture students from the University of Kansas also participate.

Christopher Chamberlin published “Thinking and Building in a More Originary Way” in the spring 2009 issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology. He wrote the article in Professor David Seamon’s Theories of Place seminar.

Whitley Fields, Plano, TX, and Lydia Palma, Topeka, KS, were inducted into the K-State Multicultural Student Honor Society.

Rachel Duncan, O’Fallon, MO, received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) St. Louis Wischmeyer Scholarship and an AIA St. Louis Scholarship. Nicole Hoffarth, Fenton, MO, received an AIA St. Louis Scholarship.

Lindsey Richardson, Snohomish, WA, travelled to Dallas, TX to help construct a fairy tale playhouse at the Dallas Arboretum. She helped design the structure in a competition for Dallas architecture firms while serving her student internship last year at Dallas firm TBG.

Ideas were developed in a summer 2008 studio for the on-going development of greater downtown Kansas City, MO. Named KC11 because of 11 distinct neighborhoods in the greater downtown Kansas City area, the studio brought together 19 landscape architecture graduate students with community leaders from those neighborhoods and the City of Kansas City’s planning consulting team. Studio faculty were Stephanie Rolley and Blake Belanger.

Furniture designed and built by fifth-year interior architecture and product design students was displayed in the Kemper Gallery of the K-State Student Union.

Students in architecture, engineering and construction science collaborated with volunteer groups to build a concrete entryway for a park in Chapman, KS. The entryway honors the courage and hope Chapman residents showed after a June 2008 tornado went through their community.

A group of fifth-year architecture students took on the challenge of designing sturdy, sustainable homes for tornado-devastated Greensburg, KS. The students had to come up with designs that accommodated existing lot sizes, as well as the goals of designing affordable, efficient homes that could meet much of their own energy needs in varying weather. Studio faculty for “Greening Greensburg” was Gary Coates.

Student members of our National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) chapter have played an important role in the development of the Coretta Scott King Gardens of Engagement to be located on the K-State campus.

Faculty Achievements and Awards

Professor Tim de Noble has been named Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design effective July 1, 2009. He comes to us from the architecture department at the University of Arkansas. Professor Dennis Law is stepping aside after a 15-year career as Dean to return to full-time teaching in landscape architecture/regional and community planning.

Professor Stephanie Rolley has been named Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning effective June 14, 2009. Professor Dan Donelin, who served as Head since 1995, is retiring.

Retiring during or at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year were Professors Lyn Norris-Baker and John Selfridge, architecture; Gary Haycock, interior architecture and product design; and Rick Forsyth, landscape architecture/regional and community planning.

Newly appointed tenure-track faculty beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year are Professors Nathan Howe and Ulf Meyer, architecture; Sung-Soo (Cliff) Shin, interior architecture and product design; and Jason Brody, Howard Hahn, Jon Hunt and Katie Kingery-Page, landscape architecture/regional and community planning.

Professor Stephanie Rolley was named Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture.

Professor Gary Coates is the Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair in the Department of Architecture.

Professor Katie Kingery-Page received the 2009 McElwee Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.

Professor Wendy Ornelas was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and will serve as board president during 2010. She was also appointed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius to the Kansas Board of Technical Professions.

Condia + Ornelas Architects received a Merit Award for Excellence in Interior Architecture during the fall 2008 annual design awards program of the American Institute of Architects Kansas. Firm principals are Professors Robert Condia and Wendy Ornelas.

Professor Donna Fullmer was selected as Professor of the Year by K-State Housing and Dining Services.

Professor Emeritus Dennis Day is the 2009 recipient of the Jot D. Carpenter teaching medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Professor David Sachs presented a paper entitled “Learning to Work in China:  RTKL/Shanghai 2003-08” at the Illinois Annual Conference of the American Institute of Architects and at the Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, where he also chaired a session.

Professor Katrina Lewis will teach during the 2009-2010 academic year at a new university in Bangladesh. She presented “Drawing Out Tradition” at the Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.

Professor Nathan Howe presented “A Studio’s Multi-Exploration of the Prefabricated Dwelling” at the 2008 East Central Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference. The paper discussed the work of his fifth-year students who researched methods challenging the homes and strategies used to fabricate these dwellings.

Professor Emeritus Jack Durgan passed away in April 2009. He founded our interior architecture program.

Professor Ulf Meyer has written a book entitled LX Architecture—In the Heart of Europe that has been published in three languages (German, English and French). He also made a presentation of the book at the Royal Embassy of Luxembourg in Berlin, Germany.

Professor Larry Lawhon authored “The Neighborhood Unit:  Physical Design or Physical Determinism” which was published in the Journal of Planning History. He has also written “Housing and the Public Sector Planner.”

Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates presented “Creating a Sense of the Sacred:  The Palliative Care Unit at the University Hospital in Gottingen, Germany” at the inaugural Symposium on Architecture, Culture and Spirituality. She presented “Fighting Obesity with Patterns of Place-Making:  The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the 47th International Making Cities Livable Conference and “Pattern Language Re-Visited:  The SLIM DOWNtown Project in Manhattan, Kansas” at the Environmental Design Research Association Conference. She also received a University Small Research Grant to conduct the study “Living Until Death:  Perspectives on the Role of Architecture” at the Georg-August University Hospital in Gottingen, Germany.

Professor Jason Brody presented “Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit Concept:  Organizing the Production of Space in Twentieth Century America” at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

Professor James Jones is spending a sabbatical year in Roatan, Bay Island, Honduras, developing a prototype for low-cost housing using local materials and technology to create a more enduring and hurricane resistent building on the remote island. He also displayed his watercolor paintings in a number of locales in Manhattan.

Professor Lee Skabelund received a 2008 Award of Excellence from the Prairie Gateway Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for his work on the K-State International Student Center’s raingarden. He also received a 2008 Award of Merit in the built-design category for the raingarden from the Central States Conference of the ASLA. He also designed and built a raingarden at the Manhattan City Zoo.

Professors Lee Skabelund and Todd Gabbard are building an approximately 300 square foot experimental green roof on the west wing of Seaton Hall. The project includes removal of the existing roof membrane and flashing; installation of a new roof membrane and flashing; installation of green roof materials including a root barrier, drainage mat, filter fabric, lightwweight grow media and plants; and installation and utilization of monitoring equipment.

Professor David Seamon published, with geography doctoral student Jacob Sowers, “Place and Placelessness:  Edward Relph” in Key Texts in Human Geography. Seamon’s article, “Place, Placelessness, Insideness and Outsideness in Filmmaker John Sayles’ Sunshine State,” was published in the June issue of Aether, an on-line, peer-reviewed journal focusing on media and the environment. He also organized sessions and presented papers at the annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference and the International Human Sciences Research Conference. At the International Human Science Research Conference, he delivered a paper on the heuristic value of the architectural phenomenologies of architect Thomas Thiis-Evensen and architectural educator George Trevelyan. He organized a session on environmental and architectural phenomenology and delivered a paper on the topic at the annual meeting of the International Association of Environmental Philosophy. With architect Kyriakos Pontikis, California State University-Northridge, Seamon co-organized a full-day intensive on the ideas and work of Christopher Alexander for the annual meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association.

Professor Melanie Klein presented “Communicating Innovative Ecologic, Economic and Social Sustainability for the Damaged Landscape” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Professor Gary Coates presented “Evoking a Sense of the Sacred:  Memory, Imagination and Meaning in Carl Nyren’s Vitlycke Museum” at the inaugural Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Symposium. He presented “Ecological and Sustainable Community:  A Study of Kronsberg (Hannover), Germany” at the spring lecture series of the College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University. Coates presented “The City as Garden: A Study of the Sustainable Urban District of Kronsberg (Hannover), Germany” at the 47th International Making Cities Livable Conference. He gave the invited lecture, “Principles of Organic Functionalism in the Architecture of Erik Asmussen,” at the Alvar Aalto Forum in Helsinki, Finland. “The Greening of Greensburg:  Designing Affordable and Sustainable Homes” was presented at the AIAS Midwest Quad Conference and “Greening Greensburg:  Affordable and Sustainable Home Designs” at the K-State Sustainability Conference. He was an invited panelist for “Art Talk,” a panel associated with the exhibition, “Transcendental Realism: The Art of Adi Da Samraj—Recent Works,” at the Los Angeles Contemporary Gallery.  A paper on “Kronsberg, Germany:  A Study in Sustainable Urbanism” was given at the Environmental Design Research Association Conference. The screened back porch and porch canopies over the front and back doors which Coates designed for his home received a 2009 Historic Preservation Building Award from the Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance.

Professor Tim Keane (with graduate student Christopher Sass) presented “Historical Inventory and Analysis of the Riparian Vegetation Corridors in the Black Vermillion Watershed, Kansas” and “Geomorphic Stream Stability Assessment, Prediction and Validation” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Professor Mick Charney conducted the workshop “Call Me Ishmael: What Our College-Age Students Don’t Know About Religion … but Should (and Why?)” at the Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. He published a book review of On and By Frank Lloyd Wright:  A Primer of Architectural Principles. Charney also published a book review of The Fellowship:  The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship.  He presented “Text, Countertext(*):  Helping First-Year Students Meet the Goals of General Education [(*) with Apologies to texting and hypertexts}” at the National Annual Meeting of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Conference.

Professor Katie Kingery-Page presented “Kabul University Gateway:  Learning from Anthropology in Design Education” and “Re-founding Space:  Planting Design as a Minimalist Strategy” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Professor Michael McGlynn presented a poster entitled “The Logistics of Sustainability Re-envisioned:  Implications for Architectural Teaching and Research” at The Oxford Conference at Oxford University, Oxford, England. He made an oral presentation on the same topic at the Society of Building Science Educators Retreat in Ashurst, England.

Professor Richard Gnat presented the paper “The Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building:  A Type/Variant Analysis” at the American Institute of Architects Illinois Annual Meeting and Academic Symposium on Breaking New Ground. He exhibited the poster “The Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building:  Looking Backward in Order to Move Forward” at the K-State Sustainability Conference. He also led a group of students from his Multi-Family Housing Seminar on a field trip of Chicago’s residential neighborhoods. The group looked at housing types that had developed before local building codes were developed and later examples developed in response to tenement house reform and modern building codes. In addition, the group toured several neighborhood parks designed before the turn of the last century as amenities for urban dwellers.

Professor Lee Skabelund is the lead author of “Successful Ecological Restoration:  A Framework for Planning/Design Professionals” to be published in the Landscape Architecture Technical Information Series of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Professors Carol Martin Watts and Donald Watts participated in a Symposium on Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Tuff Towns sponsored by the World Monuments Fund held in Pitigliano, Civita di Bagnoregio and Orvieto, Italy.

Professor Blake Belanger presented “Operative Terrain: An Armature for Design Studio and Seminar Integration Focused on Contemporary Theories of Landscape and Urbanism” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. He presented “Deciphering, Framing, Scripting, Stewardship:  Landscape Architecture Praxis in a Complex Nonlinear World” at X-L Arch III, Landscape—Great Deal in Vienna, Austria. He presented “Complexity and the Global Landscape” at the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools 2008 Conference in Alnarp, Sweden; the paper is being published in the conference proceedings. He presented a poster entitled “Landscape, City, Carbon:  Landscape Architectural Strategies for Progressing Toward Carbon-Neutral Environments” at the K-State Sustainability Conference.  He also participated in an invited academic panel presentation at the American Society of Landscape Architects Central States Annual Conference.

Professor Stephanie Rolley (with graduate student Hillary Noonan) presented “Critical Practice, Case Application to Urban Design” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. At that conference, she also presented (with graduate student Desmond Poirer) “Guidelines for Landscape Architects Collaborating with Skatepark Design/Build Companies.” She also presented a series of papers related to design communication through diagrams, literature maps and other means of visualizing concepts and process, and was an invited panel member in a discussion of the future growth of the landscape architecture profession and the role of universities in meeting projected demand.

Professor Larry Bowne was invited to present “Making Vision Matter” at an American Institute of Architects Wichita chapter meeting. He gave an invited lecture, “The City,” and was a study tour guide for a Purdue University freshman honors seminar, leading the students on a two-day study tour of Chicago, IL, with a particular emphasis on urban infrastructure’s role in the rise of modernity. He was an invited lecturer and roundtable panelist on “Greensburg Cubed” at the American Institute of Architecture Students Fall 2008 Midwest Quad Conference. “What Goes on Inside,” a two-part lecture, was delivered at the MacDowell Colony. He also gave “What Goes on Inside” at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas-Austin. “No Ideas But In Things” was presented at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas. “The House of Dance and Feathers” was exhibited in “Design for the Other 90%” at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The project was invited to the exhibition, which chronicled design innovations geared to humanitarian and community-service needs. The exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, NY. “Greensburg Cubed” was featured in “Tornado Inspires Change” by the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s University News. “Greensburg Cubed” was also featured in a section on eco-friendly emergency modules in “Student Radicals,” an article highlighting innovative designs by students nationwide in Popular Science. Text and photographs of Bowne’s work was included in “Architecture and Autonomy,” an article in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, NH. “Greensburg Cubed” was featured in the Record News section of Architectural Record. “Helping Greensburg Go GREEN” and “Greensburg Cubed—Architecture Students are Helping Kansas Town Rebuild” were featured in Kansas Country Living. A practicing architect, Bowne also received design commissions on Hodges House for site work, an addition and renovations to a 100-year-old farmhouse on Long Island, and for Spot & Co. of New York, a renovation and restoration of a 14,000-square-foot abandoned banking hall into offices for a Broadway-oriented advertising and graphics firm.

Professors Jon Hunt and Blake Belanger collaborated with Davis Partnership Architects, LLC, in a sponsored studio entitled
“Denver Metropolitan Studio.” Third-year landscape architecture students participated in a four-day field trip to Denver and several opportunities to interact with professionals. A booklet documenting the students’ efforts will be published.

Professor Eric Bernard has been appointed by Governor Mark Parkinson to serve on the Kansas Geographical Information Systems Policy Board through 2012. He (with graduate student David Kersey) presented “Improving Landscape Architectural Problem Solving:  Integrating GISciences and Technology Educational Objectives in Landscape Architecture Curricula” at the annual national conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. “Kansas Climate Changes:  Desired Future?” was presented at the 26th Water and Future of Kansas Conference.

Professor Miriam Neet received a K-State Tilford Grant for Course Development for the seminar “Merging of Old and New:  Sustainable Architecture for the 21st Century.” “Brick Weave House” in Chicago was named one of Architectural Record’s “Record Houses 2009.” Neet was senior project architect/designer on this project prior to coming to K-State to teach. She was also the senior project architect/designer on “SOS Children’s Village Lavezzorio Community Center” in Chicago which received a Citation of Merit in the American Institute of Architects Chicago 2008 Design Excellence Awards for Distinguished Building and Devine Detail category, as well as a Special High Commendation at the Barcelona World Architecture Festival.

Professor Cliff Shin helped develop a new line of modernistic washers for appliance manufacturer LG. He has also designed concept LCD monitors and vacuum cleaners, as well as small housewares with his product design and industrial design background.

Professors Lorn Clement and Lynn Ewanow have made a commitment through the Kansas State University Foundation to establish the Clement and Ewanow Study Abroad Scholarship.

Drawings by Professor Dennis Law were exhibited at TK Architects in Kansas City as well as in the Weigel Library of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

Faculty who participated in the 2009 annual CAPD faculty show were Professors Larry Bowne, Tony Chelz, Donna Fullmer, Richard Gnat, Nathan Howe, Jon Hunt, Fayez Husseini, Katie Kingery-Page, Matthew Knox, Ulf Meyer, Miriam Neet and Cliff Shin, as well as emeritus faculty Gene Ernst and Emil Fischer.

Afghanistan

The 2008-2009 year marked the second of participation by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (CAPD) in the Kansas State University – Kabul University Engineering Partnership. During the summer of 2008, Professors Carol Martin Watts, Katrina Lewis and Donald Watts taught classes alongside their Afghan faculty colleagues in the Department of Architecture of Kabul University. Besides teaching, the K-State faculty members advised the Afghan architecture faculty on numerous pedagogical and administrative issues. Over 80 professional books that were shipped in 2007 from K-State, courtesy of the U.S. Army at nearby Fort Riley, were fully catalogued and installed in their Faculty of Engineering Library. A collection of rare publications on Afghan architecture was given to the Afghanistan Research Center on the Kabul University campus where the materials will be fully scanned, catalogued and made accessible to scholars.

An important second phase of the partnership began this year when Afghan faculty members began arriving at K-State to begin their masters studies. Four Afghan architecture faculty members are now in our Master of Science in Architecture program. The Afghan graduate students are concentrating their graduate studies upon different aspects of their newly revised Kabul University architecture curriculum. As a result, an increasing number of K-State CAPD faculty and staff have each, in their own way, begun contributing to the academic progress of the Afghan students.

In January 2009, a 10-day administrative workshop was held at K-State. In attendance was the Chancellor of Kabul University, the Dean of Engineering and all of the Afghan engineering and architecture department heads. They were joined by the Afghan faculty now in residence at K-State. This workshop involved the K-State Engineering and Architecture team and K-State deans. The focus of the workshop was to illustrate the academic organization of teaching, research and administration. The last days of the workshop coincided with the beginning days of the spring semester and provided a first-hand opportunity for the Afghan faculty and administrators to observe this process.

The upcoming semesters will see the K-State Afghan graduate students begin to focus their masters studies towards subjects of particular importance for the new Afghan architecture curriculum.

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Our bachelor of interior architecture/design programs ranked first, master of interior architecture and product design  and bachelor of landscape architecture programs ranked second, master of landscape architecture program ranked eighth and master of architecture program ranked eleventh in the 2009 version of an annual survey of leading firms in the U.S. The survey is conducted by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council, with the Almanac of Architecture and Design, and asks firms to name the accredited schools that have produced graduates most prepared for professional practice.

The Master of Regional and Community Planning program has been granted reaccreditation for seven years (through 2015), the maximum allowed, by the Planning Accreditation Board.

Students seeking careers in the design disciplines get the chance to meet with prospective employers at the college’s career fair. For the first time, both fall and spring sessions were held during 2008-2009, with nearly 90 booths filled during the two sessions. Previous sessions had been only in the spring. Participating employers offer full-time employment as well as summer and other internship opportunities. They also visit with students who wish to learn more about the design disciplines. This was the ninth consecutive year of this highly successful event.

Our students can also prepare for employment through participation in a series of portfolio and resume workshops and information sessions.

Students in our degree-granting programs can participate for course credit in paid internships with professional offices across the U.S. and around the world, as well as in study abroad opportunities in a number of countries. An academic internship exhibit and a study abroad exhibit that showcase projects done by participating students during their time away from campus are held in Seaton Hall every fall semester.

Internationally renowned German architect and educator Alfred Jacoby was the Victor L. Regnier Visiting Chair in the
Department of Architecture during the 2008-2009 academic year. The 2009-2010 Chair will be Alan Dunlop. Past Chairs are Hiroshi Hara, Alberto Campo Baeza, Mikko Heikkinen and Miguel Angel Roca.

The K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) presented its 2008 Community Service Award to Bill Dorsett of Manhattan, KS.

The College of Architecture, Planning and Design maintains membership in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).  The nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from the building industry, the USGBC works to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.

The college purchases memberships to the K-State Alumni Association for our graduates.

Heather Tourney was selected as our college’s Classified Employee of the Year.

Professors Katie Kingery-Page and Jon Hunt have played a major role in the design, development and construction of a Learning Garden at Northview Elementary School in Manhattan.

Professor Fayez Husseini and his fifth-year interior architecture and product design students worked with Manhattan’s Cornerstone Family Counseling Center on ideas for the renovation and expansion of its facilities.

The K-State Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (SCASLA) hosted K-State PARK(ing) Day in four parking spaces on a campus parking lot. PARK(ing) Day is a global event during which artists, activists and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking places into temporary public parks. The K-State PARK(ing) Day also celebrated Earth Day.

Students in Professor Howard Hahn’s Landscape Construction 3 course created proposals for the campus site planning and design implementation of K-State’s Olathe Innovation campus.

Professors Katie Kingery-Page and Lorn Clement have been working with students on concepts for open space enhancements at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan.

The K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) has an active group of participants in Freedom by Design, a community service initiative. Activities include designing and constructing wheelchair ramps and widening doorways in residences occupied by disabled, low-income individuals.

Recent alumni Collin Curry, Kimberly Kolkovich, Sarah Godfrey and Brian Murch each had a project that received top honors in the 2008 Monsters of Design competition for young Kansas City area architects and designers.