Hsu + Land Lecture, "Generalities & Specificities" |
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Join us on February 20th, 2023, for the sixth event of our 2022-2023 lecture series, "RESILIENCE!"
Our next lecture, titled "GENERALITIES AND SPECIFICITIES,” will be led by MICHAEL HSU, FAIA, IIDA, and MICAH LAND.
Michael Hsu, FAIA, IIDA, is the founder and principal of Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. Hsu is the Texas Society of Architects Austin Chapter Director, and a member of the UT School of Architecture's Advisory Council. Micah Land is a partner at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. He oversees the firm's facilities and technology strategies. Land is a graduate of Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture.
AIA LU/HSW credits for this lecture are pending. If you would like to receive credit - if approved - please email rachel.roe@ttu.edu for more information.
This event will be held in the Gallery on the ground floor of the college. Hsu and Land’s lecture will begin at 3:00 PM CST, and we encourage all students, faculty, and staff to attend!
Zoom information will be provided prior to the event.
Please contact Event Coordinator Rachel Roe at rachel.roe@ttu.edu with any additional questions.
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Associate Professors Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller were selected by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture as winners of the 2023 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. They received the national, prestigious award for their class Over-Exposed: Ultraviole(n)t Shade in the Borderland. The course focuses on El Paso-Ciudad Juárez metroplex and the impact of ultraviolet radiation exposure in the area, even within shaded public spaces. The course is based on Professors Kripa and Mueller’s ongoing investigative research has detailed the inequitable and asymmetric distribution of public shade amenities, ultraviolet radiation, and negative health impacts in the region. Leveraging their development of custom computational toolsets to visualize and mitigate areas of “irradiated shade” in the borderland, this vertical architectural design studio will work to propose new strategies and design methodologies for safe public shade. This program is managed by Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architectureand the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The program recognizes courses offering methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting — asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society in the midst of a global pandemic as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate. Their course proposal will be presented at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, March 30th through April 1st, 2023.
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Assistant Professor Asma Mehan was recently awarded Texas Tech University’s Open Access Publication Initiative. Awards from this fund are intended to help authors with the costs associated with open access publication fees and helps to accelerate the distribution of research findings. Current Texas Tech faculty, full-time instructors, and research professors are welcome to apply for the initiative.
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Assistant Professor Asma Mehan and co-writers Mahziar Mehan and Pouria Jahanshad published the article “How not to build a tourism city” as part of Monash University’s 360info’s special report on “Cities after colonialism.” The article explores the recent urban development on Hormuz Island, Iran, and the actions and interactions between the local government, residents, and tourists.
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Assistant Professor Asma Mehan published the article “Gio Ponti and Villa Namazee: (De)listed Modern Heritage” in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Heritage. Her article focuses on the Italian architect Gio Ponti’s Villa Namazee in Tehran, Iran, and argues for the reevaluation of our understanding of heritage and the importance of preserving modern architectural masterpieces. The article is open-access and can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/6/2/43.
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Assistant Professor Zahra Safaverdi was recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with an honorable mention in the 2023 AIAS/ACSA New Faculty Teaching, Award. Jointly sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), the New Faculty teaching Award is one of ASCA’s annual Architectural Education Awards of national prestige. They represent one of the largest honors that a new architectural faculty can receive in recognition of their demonstrated excellence and innovation in teaching performance during the formative years of their teaching career. The award recognizes faculty who “inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector.” The award program particularly recognizes faculty who effectively address ideas of cultural, social, economic, or environmental sustainability in their teaching, use innovative pedagogical approaches, and demonstrate a positive impact on students and/or an architectural curriculum. Assistant Professor Safaverdi and her fellow awardees will be celebrated at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, March 30th through April 1st, 2023.
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Assistant Professor Zahra Safaverdi recently completed a fellowship for her ongoing research as residency in the McDowell Foundation in New York City. MacDowell is one of the nation’s leading artist residency programs and of national prestige. The MacDowell foundation nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment. The foundation’s highly competitive fellowships are offered in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
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