The faculty and students of FIU Architecture were recognized with numerous honors and awards this past Saturday at the 55th Design Awards Gala Event held by AIAMiami, the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Graduate students Madeline Gannon (M.Arch ’10) and Mario Menendez (M.Arch ’10) received an AIA Excellence in Student Design Award for their “New Havana Waterfront Project”. Graduate Student Isis Fumero (M.Arch ’11) received the AIA Student of the Year Award. NC-Office, the architecture firm of professors Cristina Canton, Elizabeth Cardona and Nikolay Nedev recieved the AIA Excellence in Interior Design Award. Finally, Professor Marilys Nepomechie received the AIA Sustainable Design Educator Award and Professor and Department Chair Adam Drisin received the AIA Education Leadership Award.
Professor Elite Kedan, along with co-editors Craig Mutter and Jonathan Dreyfous, recently completed Provisional - Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2009). The book profiles nine innovative architecture firms -- through interviews, essays and a selection of work organized by process -- illustrating the defining elements of contemporary architectural thinking and making in America.
Professors Marilys Nepomechie and Marta Canaves are winners of the 2009 American Architecture Award, conferred by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in conjunction with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies/Dublin, Ireland. Juried in Stuttgart, Germany, their project for Smoketown, Kentucky will form part of a traveling exhibition that open in Athens, Greece in February, 2010.
Landscape architecture student Brennan Baxley has reason to celebrate after receiving an Award of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects Florida Chapter for his project "Ephemeral Boundaries", completed as part of Assistant Professor Roberto Rovira’s Landscape Architecture Design05 studio, and recognized at the 2009 Annual Design Awards Jury held in Orlando, FL, in May. This year the Florida Chapter received 70 award submittals from professionals and students around the state, and Brennan’s submission was the sole winner in the Conceptual category and only one of two student projects recognized. The project proposed the ecological integration of natural and built systems at the Miami-Everglades boundary. http://www.flasla.org/awards/2009/2009%20DAC%20Florida%20Awards%20release.pdf.
FIU Architecture congratulates Ileana Rodriguez, M.Arch 2010 who will be joining the U.S. Paralympics Swimming Team Resident Program at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center in January 2010. This is an important step towards representing the US at the 2012 Paralympics which will be held in London. The Resident Program has been created to enable swimmers who have demonstrated the capacity to medal at the Paralympic Games the opportunity to increase the chances of realizing that potential through participation in a comprehensive, full-time training program. Ileana is currently ranked 9th in the world for the 100 meter breaststroke, 20th in the world for the 50 meter free-style and 15th in the world for the 200 meter Individual medley. The faculty, staff and students at FIU Architecture look forward to cheering Ileana on as she works towards her goal of going to London!
The Architecture Department is pleased to announce that our colleague Elizabeth Cardona has been selected to receive Florida International University's Adjunct Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements. Professor Cardona has been teaching with the department for six years. She is a partner in the award winning architectural firm NC Office and holds degrees in architecture from Harvard University and the University of Miami.
Congratulations to David de Cespedes BAA 2008 for having received honorable mention in the Imagining Recovery international competition sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. http://www.archdaily.com/23247/imagining-recovery-announces-winners/
FIU’s Top Scholars were honored by FIU President and Provost FIU Top Scholar Roberto Rovira, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, was named Landscape Architect of the Year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Miami chapter. The competition, part of AIA’s annual Design Awards, recognizes practitioners in the field of landscape architecture who have demonstrated outstanding performance and professionalism in the discipline.
FIU Top Scholar John Stuart, professor of Architecture, was awarded Florida Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Florida Nonfiction for co-editing The New Deal in South Florida. The book, a collection of studies and essays, examines the impact of a wide variety of New Deal projects in the region through letters, photographs, public murals, housing, parks and architecture.
The Department of Architecture extends a warm welcome to our entering freshman class. The academic accomplishments of this class are already quite impressive; the average high school GPA is 3.98 and they were selected from over 1000 applicants. The faculty, staff and students all look forward to meeting you and your families this fall!
The SOA would like to congratulate the class of 2009. The faculty and staff of the school extend our best wishes to those graduating students who will be leaving Miami this fall to attend graduate and PhD programs across the nation and at programs abroad. We look forward to hearing of all your successes.
Sara Aguirre Pratt Institute Ray Bourraine Parsons The New School of Design Francis Waltersdorfer University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Columbia University, Architecture Association Cyntia Navarro Columbia University, Architecture Association Adrian von der Osten Pratt Institute Adrian Heid Princeton University, Yale University, SCIARC, Pratt Institute Mario Menendez Pratt Institute Manny Dorticos Pratt Institute George Valdes Columbia University, Pratt Institute, SCIARC Ailyn Mendoza Internship at Sasaki Walter and Associates Jovanna Suarez Parsons The New School of Design Glen Santayana Harvard University, Columbia University, Pratt Institute Michael Bennett Georgia Tech Hai Zhang, Rafael Viñoly Architects 2009 Grant for Research in Architecture.
FIU MArch Alumnus wins Rafael Viñoly Architects 2009 Grant for Research in Architecture. Hai Zhang, a member of the research group focused on "Housing in China, Exploring Steps Toward a Solution", graduated with his MArch from the FIU SOA around 2002.
The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building 1933-1940 (University Press of Florida) by John A. Stuart, professor of architecture, and John F. Stack, Jr., director of the School of International Studies and Public Affairs has won the 2008 Silver Medal from the Florida Book Awards for Non Fiction. More than 130 books entered the competition, most from major publishing houses including HarperCollins, Ballantine, WW Norton, Houghton Mifflin and Putnam & Sons.
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