APDESIGN Announces Retiring Faculty

Five faculty members are retiring from the College of Architecture, Planning & Design this year. Here are their stories:

Associate Professor Robert Bullock
Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design

Robert Bullock is retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year after serving 29 years as a faculty member of the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University. Professor Bullock received his undergraduate degree and his master’s degree in Industrial Design from Michigan State University. Since 1982 he has served as Associate Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design. During his 29-year tenure at APDesign, Professor Bullock participated in nearly every Open House and taught a variety of subjects, from interior architecture design studios to landscape delineation to freehand black and white drawing. He also served as a member of the Manhattan Area Technical College’s (MATC) Drafting Program Advisory Committee, strengthening ties between APDesign and MATC. Professor Bullock was equally involved in the Manhattan community, frequently volunteering for the Canned Structure annual event that benefitted the community food network Flint Hills Breadbasket and providing planning and design services for the Living Word Church.

Associate Professor Anthony W. Chelz
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning

Anthony W. Chelz is retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year after serving 36 years as a faculty member for the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University. Professor Chelz received his undergraduate degree in Art Education from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. He served as a professor of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning, including three semesters in APDesign’s Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino. Examples of Professor Chelz’s work can be seen throughout the Manhattan community, including the Manhattan Town Center and many projects in conjunction with the Manhattan Parks and Recreation Department. Professor Chelz was instrumental in developing and instructing new elective courses in the College. He also served as the coordinator of the first-year Environmental Design Studies Program and actively participated in numerous committees at the Department, College and University levels.

Professor and Department Head Lorraine M. Cutler, IIDA, IFMA
Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design

Lorraine M. Cutler, IIDA, IFMA, is retiring from the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. Since 2007, Professor Cutler has served as the Department Head of Interior Architecture & Product Design. Professor Cutler received her undergraduate degrees from Arizona State University in Environmental Design and in English. She received her master’s degree in Management (specializing in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior) from the University of Phoenix.

Professor Cutler has 26 years of professional design experience in corporate interior design and 20 years of teaching experience. During her tenure at APDesign, she helped to develop and implement the new Master of Interior Architecture and Product Design (MIAPD) first professional graduate degree at APDesign. Professor Cutler was instrumental in obtaining accreditation for the MIAPD degree from both the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA). Professor Cutler also prepared the documentation for part of the upcoming review of the program by CIDA in 2012. Beyond the classroom, Professor Cutler’s research connects human behavior to the design of interior spaces for the aging population and for learning environments in institutions and corporations. Her funded research has focused on the considerations of different teaching methodologies and student learning styles within a high-technology biology learning laboratory. Professor Cutler is a Professional Interior Designer member of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and has held leadership positions at the local chapter and state levels with IIDA, as well as at the national level with CIDA. Professor Cutler has served as a CIDA site-visitor team leader for 13 years and as an Accreditation Commissioner for four years, and has participated in developing accrediting standards.

Professor Dennis L. Law, FASLA
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning

Dennis L. Law, FASLA, is retiring at the end of the summer of 2011 after teaching for 37 years in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University. Professor Law received his undergraduate degree in Park Administration from Texas Tech University and a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University in 1976. He has served as Professor and Department Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning and became Dean of the College in 1995. Among his many accomplishments as Dean, he stewarded the significant renovation of Seaton Hall, successfully advocated for and fostered limited enrollment to the College, and presided over the successful conversion of the professional programs offered in the College from baccalaureate to non-baccalaureate graduate programs. Professor Law has seen his landscape architecture designs come to life across the nation. His projects have included city parks, theme parks, residences, landscape development, and plazas. He has been an international speaker on global environmental issues, with more than 75 papers presented. In addition, he has written numerous books and other publications on planting design, reclamation of disturbed lands, environmental ethics, and landscape architecture education. Professor Law is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a registered landscape architect in Kansas, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Sigma Lambda Alpha National Landscape Architecture Honor Society, and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He has been recognized numerous times as one of America’s Most Admired Educators by Design Intelligence Magazine. Professor Law was honored in 1991 by the Blue Key National Honor Society and the Alpha Delta Pi sorority for outstanding teaching.

Professor Ray Weisenburger, AIA
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning

Ray Bradley Weisenburger, AIA, is retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year after serving 47 years as a faculty member and Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University. Professor Weisenburger received his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his master’s degree in Regional Planning from Cornell University. He is a registered architect and a registered landscape architect in Kansas. He served as Professor and Department Head of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning, becoming Associate Dean in 1995. Throughout his tenure, he served as a member on countless Landscape Architecture accreditation teams and was a visiting scholar at Tianjin Institute for Urban Construction in Tianjin, China, and Chongqing Jianzhu University in Chongqing, China. His innumerable contributions to APDesign are only surpassed by his enthusiasm for his profession. A member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association, Professor Weisenburger has served in leadership positions on many committees, including the Kansas Preservation Alliance, the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review, and the Manhattan Historic Resources Board, for which he served as Chairperson from 2009-2010. He also served as a member, chairperson, and commissioner for the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board, and in 1996 he was appointed by Kansas Governor Bill Graves to serve on the Kansas State Building Advisory Commission. In 2006 he was appointed by the mayor of Manhattan to the Core Redevelopment Committee for the City of Manhattan. For his commitment to furthering the cause of preservation in Kansas, he was awarded the 2010 Muriel Golobay Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kansas Preservation Alliance.