Faculty Noteworthy

Mick Charney, associate professor of architecture, presented “The Day Frank Lloyd Wright Came to Town,” Community Christian Church (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), September 10, Kansas City, Missouri.

Ulf Meyer, assistant professor of architecture, was invited to deliver “Cities of the Pacific Century,” a lecture on Asian mega-cities, August 27, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

Steve Davidson, assistant professor of interior architecture and product design, was invited to be a juror at the 2009 BraunPrize Forum, an internationally renowned design competition for young industrial designers, Kronberg, Germany.

Melanie Klein, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning, received an honorable mention from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Excellence in Green Building Education Awards Program for contributions made by her seminar course in 2007 to Greensburg, Kansas.

Lee R. Skabelund, assistant professor of landscape architecture/regional and community planning, presented “Interweaving Ecosystem Restoration and Ecological Design,” at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects, September 18-21, Chicago, Illinois.

Michael McGlynn, assistant professor of architecture; Blake Belanger and Jon Hunt, assistant professors of landscape architecture/regional and community planning; exhibited photography in a juried exhibition at the Manhattan Arts Center from September 12-October 24. McGlynn was also awarded a third prize.

David Seamon, professor of architecture, presented “Entwining People and Place: Environmental Embodiment, Place Ballet and Space Syntax,” Flesh and Space: Intertwining Merleau-Ponty and Architecture, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, College of Architecture, Art and Design, Mississippi State University, September 9, Starkville, Mississippi.

Mick Charney, associate professor of architecture, presented “Every Book Should Contain Its Own Counterbook: Using Texts and Countertexts to Help Students Meet the Goals of General Education,” ninth annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, September 25, Traverse City, Michigan.

Ulf Meyer, assistant professor of architecture, presented “Why Should We Care? The Bauhaus Legacy of the Gesamtkunstwerk,” University of Queensland, September 16, Australia. He was also an invited symposium panelist at SEAM2009 sponsored by Critical Path, a choreographic research and development center in Sydney, September 7-20, New South Wales, Australia.