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FACULTY & STAFF Meredith Davis L Denise Gonzales Crisp Chandra Cox Nilda Cosco Armand V. Cooke Roger H. Clark Laurie Churchman Pamela Christie-Tabron Robert P. Burns T Susan Brandeis Gail Peter Borden Georgia Bizios George Bireline Bill Bayley Peter Batchelor Thomas Barrie Dr. Donald A. Barnes Kermit Bailey Delsey Avery Matthew Arion Carla Abramczyk Angelo Abbate ynn Crisp ony Brock PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY LIBRARY ASSISTANT, CHAIR, GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN; CHAIR, ART + DESIGN DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN; NATURAL LEARNING INITIATIVE EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN GRADUATE STUDIES ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ART + DESIGN LABORATORY DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE; PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, DEAN’S OFFICE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY COMPUTING CONSULTANT, EXTERNAL RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Bryan Laffitte Rachel Kuhn Haig Khachatoorian Dennis Kempel Charles Joyner Chris Jordan Bong Il Jin Percy Hooper Michael Holmes Gloria Hinton Dottie Haynes Frank Harmon Sally Haile Vincent M. Foote Patrick FitzGerald Jeremy Ficca Cristianne Fellowes Cheryl Eatmon Richard Duncan Kim Duckett Ed Driggers Lope Max Díaz Karen E. DeWitt CHAIR, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN; HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY VISUAL RESOURCES LIBRARIAN, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN LEAZAR HALL LABORATORY AND FACILITIES MANAGER, PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN F DIRECTOR OF MATERIALS LABORATORY AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT DESIGN RESEARCH LABORATORY, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AND MANAGER OF ART + DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, ASSISTANT DEAN FOR ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE CENTER UNIVERSAL DESIGN COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY LIBRARY ASSISTANT, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND GRAPHIC ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, CENTER UNIVERSAL DESIGN COORDINATOR OF TRAINING, HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY LIBRARY FELLOW, OFFICE ASSISTANT, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN HEAD, HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY ACILITIES W Dana Raymond Shishir Raval Dr. Cymbre Raub J. Patrick Rand Vita Plume Dr. J. Wayne Place Dr. Michael Pause Katherine Oury Mary E. Myers Marva Motley Robin C. Moore Nikolas Mitchell Clinton Miller Joe McCoy Marvin J. Malecha Fernando Magallanes Austin Lowrey Jean Marie Livaudais Jennifer Lewis Glenn E. Lewis Catherine Lazorko Jack Lancaster ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN; RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN COMMUNITY DESIGN, OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSISTANT DEAN FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR, NATURAL LEARNING INITIATIVE PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY COMPUTING SUPPORT TECHNICIAN, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY COMPUTING CONSULTANT, LABORATORY SERVICES, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR OF NETWORK AND HARDWARE DEAN OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN EXTERNAL RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS, STUDENT AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EXTERNAL RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNICIAN, MATERIALS LABORATORY endy Redfield Leslie Young Richard R. Wilkinson Dr. Nancy White Katie Walston Hazel Tudor Scott Townsend Susan Toplikar James D. Tomlinson Dr. Paul Tesar Dr. John O. Tector W Molly Story Dr. Robert E. Stipe David Stein Achva Benzinberg Stein Rita Sears Martha Scotford Kristen Schaffer Henry Sanoff Michael Rodrigues Dr. Fatih Rifki T Arthur C. Rice Bob Reed onya Richardson CENTER UNIVERSAL DESIGN COORDINATOR OF DESIGN SERVICES, OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR EMERITUS RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT EXTENSION SPECIALIST IN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR; ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN REGISTRAR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT ASSISTANT DEAN, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE DEAN, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE; PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ART + DESIGN RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH IN UNIVERSAL DESIGN, OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR EMERITUS RESEARCH, EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT EXTENSION SPECIALIST IN PLANNING, CHAIR, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, EXTERNAL RELATIONS PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE BUDGET MANAGER ASSOCIATE DEAN, GRADUATE STUDIES ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE; ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, ARCHITECTURE ayne Taylor Design Guild The Design Guild is an association of alumni, friends, design professionals and industry CONTENTS leaders established in 1996 to promote design education at the NC State University College of Design through private contributions and gifts. 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for a list of current contributors. AUL P Catherine Lazorko editor RAGUE BY P Craig McDuffie (BGD 1983) designer

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We welcome your submission of alumni news DEAN’S MESSAGE items in addition to your comments about this publication. To receive our electronic newsletter, 2 The International Experience: DESIGNlife, please send us your e-mail address. A Journey of Design Thought [email protected] or address correspondence to: OUR COMMUNITY NC State University College of Design 4 Gathering for the Guild Campus Box 7701 5 Call for Nominations Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 5 May We Serve (Survey) You? 5 55th Anniversary Celebration 919 /515-8313 6 Diversity Endowment 6 Student Publication Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA 6 Another Way to Give Back dean 7 Going Up 7 Looking Back FEATURES Carla Abramczyk director of development 8 Design Abroad 9 Prague Jean Marie Livaudais NOTES 10 Ghana director of professional relations 16 Alumni and Friends 11 Venezuela 18 Faculty 12 Travel Endowment 20 Students 13 Finland 21 In Memoriam 14 India

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INSIDE COVER 22 Dorton Arena ORGAN Left to right, top: Intaglio printing 23 New Web Site M

studio in Prague; Martha Scotford DWIN

23 Architectural Plans for College E with baby elephant in Kaziranga 24 Commencement Address National Park, India. Left to right, (Richard Green) EUER BY middle: Landscape architecture R

students during ecotourism project OHN J in Venezuela; Student outside the SUPPORT Taj Mahal in India. Left to right, lower: Prague cityscape; Art and 28 Design Guild and Donors PHOTO OF Design Professor Charles Joyner with students at fall 2002 exhibition featuring student work from Ghana. he experience of travel is life transforming. exploded into clothing, automobiles, utensils, TIt is an experience that matures thought language, and hand gestures. The very idea by confronting the individual with the of what had been explained as the under- DEAN’S MESSAGE DEAN’S unknown. It is an experience that heightens lying principles of schools such as the the appreciation for other ways and means. Bauhaus and Cranbrook experience now It is an experience that brings to life the unfolded in real time before him. incredible wonder of the diversity of human accomplishment. The use of traveling is to regulate the imag- Not so very long ago a young architecture ination by reality, and instead of thinking student ventured on a travel study program how things may be to see them as they are. to Italy. It was his first experience outside the —Samuel Johnson, boundaries of the United States. It was his Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, 1786 first experience outside a small region within

“PRAGUE GATE” BY MARVIN MALECHA, JULY 2002 the United States. For this student the study Travel requires a disciplined and informed of design had consisted of intense studio approach if it is to be the meaningful expe- experience, a barrage of classes from history rience in an educational context. Lessons to design theory, a visit to Chicago to be from life and from the classroom merge in The international overwhelmed by the work of Frank Lloyd ways that inform each other. Just as a Wright, and a limited range of local projects. wandering mind is important even in the experience: But this was different. Landing in Rome to most demanding design exercise, so it is in catch a train to Florence sent a charge traveling. One often learns more by getting a journey of through this young man’s mind and body lost. But in both instances this wandering unlike anything he had experienced before. experience is only valuable against a body design thought The language was different, the sense of of information that informs the experience. time was different, even the sense of the city Freedom and order define both travel and was different. Books and slides just didn’t the design process. In the context of a capture the sights, sounds and spirit of life design education, a semester or a year away on every corner. At the moment of his from the structure of the formal curriculum arrival, he knew that his understanding of is often the best way to reinforce its most design and architecture would never again important values. Travel provides the oppor- be the same. Suddenly the Italian concept tunity to test what is known against the of “bella figura,” the beautiful shape, backdrop of the unfamiliar.

2 He who would bring home the wealth of the had, as part of their educational experience, For my part I travel not to go anywhere, but Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies a travel experience abroad. It has become to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great with him. So it is in traveling, a man must an essential aspect of a design education. affair is to move. carry knowledge with him if he would bring This reality is brought home to us by con- —Robert Louis Stevenson, home knowledge. sidering the likelihood that even those Travels with a Donkey, 1878 —Boswell, A life of Johnson, 1763 graduates who would otherwise not venture beyond the borders of North Carolina will We live in a time of considerable This is the spirit of a healthy travel either work for, work with, or work on a pro- uncertainty. It is a time when our most experience. It is well connected into a ject with international connections. A local treasured institutions are transforming even series of learning experiences. It is made firm recently related a story of a commission while institutions which were unimaginable available to those who have developed a for a project to be built in the Research only a few years ago have emerged as frame of reference to benefit from new Triangle. It required a member of the office leaders of our culture. We are again on a insights against the way of seeing that to travel to Japan to make the presentation leg of the human journey that will be the individual has adapted. The act of to the client. This is just one example that remembered for what is born and for what carrying knowledge is not the pattern of our world has grown smaller; we must be passes on. the casual tourist; it is the conscious act prepared to address the implications of this Not long after I arrived at NC State I of an individual who is experiencing and transformation. met with one of the founding faculty deducing in an act of continuing reflection. Returning to the story of the young members who told me that design educa- Travel hones the skills of observation and architecture student, I have returned to tion is about process, process, process. deduction. Only in this way is it directly Italy many times as tourist and with the His message was about the journey of transferable to design knowledge. opportunity to work on sponsored projects design thought. Through this process, he The wonderful diversity of the interna- in partnership with universities in Milan, said, we are in continual motion. The tional experiences of College of Design Trento, Rome, and Venice. This has great affair is to move. students, staff and faculty demonstrates allowed me to continue to foster a love of If we are to remain effective as a design this connection between travel and design the people and culture of a place that has community within a dynamic cultural evo- knowledge. The work of members of our so deeply affected my life path. But most lution, we must continue to celebrate our community in Berlin, Ghana and Prague of all it is the lesson of the path that I ability to move not only between places have allowed us to know ourselves better. have learned. but also between cultures and thought Those who leave return to enrich our per- The context of several thousand years processes. This is why we must commit spective. But even these more established of history and culture have provided the to an aggressive program of international experiences have been further enhanced Italians with a special perspective of their study and then celebrate its outcomes. by programs in Germany, India, Scotland, place on this earth. This kind of perspec- Now, especially now, as in perhaps more Spain, and Venezuela that have promoted tive connects people in time and place, than thirty years past, I remain the enthusi- faculty and student exchange. weaving a legacy of generations. It embod- astic traveler. Approximately forty percent of the stu- ies the continuum of life. Our journey is to dents who graduate from our College have carry and advance that continuum. —Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, Dean

news 3 FALL 2002 More than 100 people gathered last of the cathedral which is to convey spring to visit with dear friends, build something of the spirit, and enter the new connections, enjoy a reception realm where human meaning resides,” and dinner catered by Caffe Luna, view Sayre said. “Indeed is this not the goal student-produced animation films – and of the College of Design: to be larger celebrate the works of Thomas Sayre, than an aggregation of departments and recipient of the Design Guild Award. function in the realm of deep human

Our Community Our significance, in which all “Tribe” gathers to commune, honor sculptor truly great designs are grounded.” There are many reasons to participate “It has been my experience that in the Design Guild Dinner, which each good design is only underpinned with spring engages and strengthens the competency,” he said. “It becomes Design Community, referred to by Sayre good when it goes on to address some- as the “tribe.” Sayre spoke of growing thing of human importance. This is up in the shadow of the Washington what we as designers should aspire to, Cathedral where he was surrounded by and, as teachers, should insist upon.” architects, contractors and “makers” Sayre is a principal at Raleigh’s including stained glass window artists, Clearscapes, which he co-founded with carvers, wrought iron smiths and others. Steve Schuster (BEDA 1973) in 1980. The usual divisions between the disci- Working as a sculptor, Sayre has been plines was not apparent as all saw involved in the design and construction Raleigh sculptor Thomas Sayre (above, left) was presented the Design Guild Award while Gordon themselves and were seen as part of a of numerous projects ranging from Schenck (right) received recognition for contri- single tribe of “builders.” therapeutic environments for individuals butions to the College with the Wings on Wings Award. Schenck will exhibit his works of architec- “In combination the tribe might have with retardation, children’s museums, tural photography through Sept. 17 at the College a chance of attaining the ultimate goal medical facilities and historic renova- of Design. Friends and supporters of the College who attended the Design Guild Dinner include tions, as well as both public and private (right, left to right) Linda Duda, Mary Ann Scherr art commissions. and Turan Duda. Also sharing conversation (far right, left to right) were David Stein, extension specialist in planning; Achva Benzinberg Stein, chair of the Landscape Architecture Department; and L. Franklin Bost, president of Porex Surgical Products Group. Bost recently signed a multiyear pledge to endow a partial fellowship for the Industrial Design Department.

(PHOTOS BY CATHERINE LAZORKO AND BILL BAYLEY)

4 MAY WE SERVE (SURVEY) YOU? The College of Design has formed a new unit to better serve the needs of the design community. The College External Relations Office combines efforts of development and communications, and a new program, professional relations, which stimulates continuing education and networking opportunities for alumni and design professionals. Toward this aim, a survey is included in this issue of the news magazine to solicit feedback of alumni needs. Please take a moment to complete and return it in the enclosed envelope. For further information, specifically in this newest area, contact:

Development (fund raising, donor and alumni relations): Carla Abramczyk, 919/513-4310 or [email protected] Communications (publications, media relations and web site): Catherine Lazorko, 919/515-8311 or [email protected] Professional Relations (continuing education, networking): Jean Marie Livaudais, 919/515-8320 or [email protected]

External Relations is staffed by administrative secretary Rita Sears, 919/515-8313 or [email protected] 55 YEARS WENT JUST LIKE THAT

One enduring tribute to come from the College of Design’s 50th anni- versary celebration was the creation of the annual Design Guild event. NOMINATIONS ACCEPTED Every spring since its inception, FOR DESIGN GUILD AWARD the Design Guild has held a dinner to recognize excellence in design. The Design Guild, a volunteer organization associated with the College of Design at NC State The next Design Guild Dinner will University, is soliciting nominations for the 2003 Design Guild Award. The Design Guild Award be a distinctive experience as it recognizes a significant contribution of an individual or group to design in the Southeast. The will combine with activities for the award brings awareness to the importance of design in the community — and the practice of 55th Anniversary Celebration. good design as a sign of good citizenship. Award nominees must meet the following criteria: During one of the last weekends • Nominees must reside in the Southeast, either currently or at one time, or produce design or in March, the 55th Anniversary influences on design that have enhanced this region. The social context of the work, as well will attract alumni with exhibitions, as the public service of the recipient will be considered. speakers, and School/ Department • The nominee must be living and able to attend the Design Guild Award Dinner on March 23. events. Be on the lookout for more • Included are all categories of design, such as but not limited to architecture, arts, graphic information and plan to join the design, landscape architecture, art and design, and industrial design. College and your fellow alumni. • The recipient need not have attended the College of Design at NC State University. Submittals can be in any appropriate form to demonstrate qualifications. Nominations will be accepted until Oct. 31. For more information, contact Carla Abramczyk at 919/513-4310 or [email protected]. Send nominations to: Previous recipients: Design Guild Award George Matsumoto NC State University Duncan Stuart College of Design Harvey Gantt External Relations Office Mary Ann and Samuel Scherr

Campus Box 7701 Betty Ray McCain ORGAN Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 Thomas Sayre M DWIN E

news 5 FALL 2002 Aspiring students from under-represented for a search committee to hire a new dean, populations within the College of Design and mentor for graduates, Design Guild member, the design profession have an opportunity member of the 2000 architecture accredita- to receive educational support from a new tion committee, and an important advisor to endowment created by Herb and Catherine the College over the years. McKim. “The endowment created by the McKims The Catherine S. and Herbert P. McKim stands as a testament to their dedication to Diversity Scholarship Endowment for Archi- the profession of architecture and to the

Our Community Our tecture will provide opportunities for aspiring education of architecture students,” Dean minority students to study architecture. Marvin Malecha said. As a dedicated member NEW SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTS DIVERSITY of the architecture profes- sion, McKim has served “I’ve always been concerned about the as a member and president of the North need for diversity, meaning race, gender and Carolina Board of Architecture, he repre- geographic home,” said Herbert McKim. sented North Carolina on the National Another Way To Give Back: Stock Transfer “We’ve made significant strides in increas- Council of Architectural Registration Boards, ing the numbers of women entering the and served as a member of several archi- The NC State Foundation has changed stock transfer agents to maximize your profession, but there still exists a shortfall tectural accreditation visiting teams. He gift through lower sales commissions. in represented minority groups. served as a board member and president Lloyd Walter, FAIA (B.Arch. 1960), chose “Only by ensuring that the design pro- of the American Institute of Architects - stock transfer as a way to support the Student Publication Endowment. Walter fession is itself made up of a diverse com- North Carolina where he was concerned serves on the Publication Campaign munity can it best serve our community.” with the diversity of members in the organi- Committee. McKim graduated from the NC State zation and profession. If you are thinking about making a School of Design as a member of its first McKim has been recognized for his stock gift to the College of Design please call Carla Abramczyk, Design’s director of graduating class in 1950 and has remained distinguished career and extraordinary development, at 919/515-4310 or Wendy close to the College ever since. He has accomplishments as an architect and as Brown, university gift administrator, at offered his support as a Design Foundation the 2001 recipient of the North Carolina 919/515-9089 to receive your new transfer instructions. board member, campaign volunteer, chair AIA F. Carter Williams Gold Medal.

Why Make a Gift With Appreciated Stock -You will totally avoid capital gains tax on the shares transferred – a great way to Thanks to the outstanding leadership of the Student get those low basis shares out of your Publication Campaign account at no tax cost Publication Campaign committee co-chairs Steve -Your charitable income tax deduction Schuster, AIA (BEDA 1973), and David Ramseur, AIA (B.Arch. 1968), we have raised more than will be based on the high/low average $173,000 toward the goal of $250,000. Many alumni and friends have responded positively to price on the date of your gift not on our solicitations. Thank you for your generosity. The committee would like to raise the remaining what you paid for the stock - Using stock does not use any of your $77,000 by the end of this year. The College is already in the planning stages for the first issue available cash, leaving that available to to be published during the 2002-2003 academic year. For more information on the Publication repurchase the stock or for other uses. Campaign, contact Carla Abramczyk at 919/513-4310 or [email protected].

6 LOOKING BACK Going Up to the 3rd, 13th and 20th floors Thanks to all alumni who responded to name came nearly last alphabetically, it It was a sultry May night in the Reclining Designers photo published was an easy matter for us to make the Charlotte, but no one seemed to mind riding the elevators in our last issue. Pictured were Clark Ford switch.” If any of you listed above would at the Tyron Building. They in the foreground and Mike Doty (BPD like to get in touch with each other, let us were renewing friendships, sipping wine and making 1970), who wrote: “In 1968 we were know at the Office of External Relations: connections at the American given the assignment by instructor Don 919/515-8313 or [email protected] Institute of Architects’ national conference. More than 100 Masterton to design versatile, alumni and friends mingled multi-use, inexpensive, at alumni architectural firm informal and discardable offices of ColeJenest & Stone (Michael Cole BEDL 1979, furniture, using heavy Brian Jenest BEDL 1979 and weight cardboard. The Dudley Stone), Jenkins-Peer Architects (Tyke Jenkins market was to be B.Arch. 1967 and Joddy Peer ‘America’s young mobile B.Arch. 1967) and WGM Design (Bill Monroe BEDA population.’” James 1975, M.Arch. 1978). The Faydock wrote that he was in receptions also received sponsorship from Adams the same class, along with Products Company/Oldcastle Jerry Keith, Danny Truette, Mike Willet, AND FORWARD (Frank Werner, David Stan Coe, Steve Mullineix, Doug Scott, McQueen and Bob Lattanzi). During the event, Dean James “Bo” Moon, Dave Cameron and Malecha presented Nan Can you recognize any of your former Lou Venturello. At graduation, Faydock Davis Van Every with a professors in this 1968 faculty photo? Lifetime Giving Certificate. recalls, Dean Kamphoefner required Several of them are still here, still appropriate dress: “… that led to a few of teaching, still learning. We’ll identify Hold the Date: the ties being passed around so that as them all in the September issue of Please join us on Nov. 6 we each went up to shake his hand and for a reception to celebrate receive our diplomas, we were correctly DESIGNlife, our e-newsletter. Sign up scholarship donors and stu- at www.design.ncsu.edu — link to news dent recipients. Donors will attired. Since my friend Lou Venturello’s have an opportunity to tour and events, then subscribe to e-news. studios and discuss student projects. Information: 919/515-8313.

A Fond Memory It was 3:30 in the morning and, except for a short supper break, we had been working SHARE your photos, sketches in the shop for thirteen and a half hours. I had been trying unsuccessfully for half an hour to solder several and memories: Write to overlapping wires on the geodesic dome over an automated cotton mill. Bucky, who never seemed to NC State College of Design, sleep, stopped by my workbench and offered to help. He picked up a screwdriver and pressed down on news magazine, Campus Box the joint to close the space between wires. I heated the wires and, just as solder filled the joint, Bucky’s 7701, Raleigh, NC 27695 screwdriver slipped and a molten blob flipped onto his hand. Without a word about his burned hand, or [email protected] Bucky apologized and reapplied the screwdriver so we could try again. —Ralph Knowles (B.Arch. 1954)

news 7 FALL 2002 esign students travel abroad more than have stayed the same, possibly even rising Dany other students at NC State University. some,” Schmidt said. “People are responding By the time they graduate, 37.5 percent of all in a wonderful way, with many students Design undergraduates have participated in expressing greater interest in understanding an official study abroad program, according other cultures. The idea that something pos- Features to 2000-2001 data from the University Study itive has come from such a horrible tragedy Abroad Program Office. is uplifting.” AINES

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A the number is high, considering that the NC include Germany, Czech Republic, Ghana and Venezuela. In recent Tradition of study abroad advances in new millennium years, faculty mem- bers have led trips State University average is about 13 percent to more regions of the globe, including Italy, and the national average for public colleges Austria, England, Cyprus, India, Russia and and universities is about 9 percent. And this others. And plans are always forming for new data reflects only official registrants, not stu- opportunities; for example, a graphic design dents who travel independently or in unofficial studio is being planned for England next year. College excursions. Figures are calculated by “These are faculty-driven programs,” comparing the number of participants in study remarked Dr. Fatih Rifki, associate dean for abroad with the number of undergraduate graduate studies, who has led foreign studios degree recipients in same year. in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean Sea “We anticipated numbers (of students travel- south of Turkey. “The logistics and organization ers) to drop dramatically after 9-11, but they of making travel arrangements and arranging

From Eastern Europe to the rainforests of Venezuela, College of Design students travel the globe. At right, residents of Chauo discuss their needs in an ecotourism studio led by Art Rice, a landscape architecture professor visible in frame at top right. What’s gained through Study Abroad?

During a Berlin studio, students visited -greater facility in information gathering Sir Norman Foster's new dome for the - awareness of a wider range of possibilities Reichstag, pictured above. for problem solving - critical thinking in a challenging context - increased comfort level with change and ambiguity ITZGERALD

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8 studio experiences in foreign countries can be quite difficult.” Prague Long before a formal University office was created to support study Now in its 12th year, the abroad, the harbingers of internationalization at the College were its first Summer Program in Prague, faculty members, including founding dean Henry Kamphoefner from Czech Republic, is the longest lasting study abroad program Germany; John Reuer, also from Germany; Mathew Nowicki from Poland; at the College of Design. Dana and George Matsumoto, an American with strong ties to Japan. Bartelt (BLA 1980, MPD 1988), an associate professor of graphic “Study abroad began with Kamphoefner in the ‘60s,” said Architecture design at Loyola University in Professor Henry Sanoff. “The majority of students hadn’t studied abroad; New Orleans, co-directs the pro- gram with Architecture Professor in fact many had never left North Carolina. Kamphoefner had the view Dr. Paul Tesar. that they should. That was the beginning.” The seven-week studio and Vienna was one of the first study abroad programs, launched informally seminar based at the Academy in the 1970s by Architecture Professor Dr. Paul Tesar, who was still teach- of Fine Arts in Prague, with many field trips through Bohemia, ing during summers in his native Vienna while a young faculty member at focuses on architecture, land- Design. “For seven years, our students were going there, and they were scape and urban design, art and design, and animation. Students coming here,” Tesar recalled. “There was no administrative structure, just learn from master printers the personal contacts. Students swapped apartments so there was as little traditional techniques of intaglio printing and lithography, as well cost as possible.” as Czech poster design. The historic heart of Europe and once the capital of the Holy Design Study Abroad Programs Roman Empire, Prague features 11 centuries of - Germany architecture. - Ghana - India “It opened my eyes to different design and - Italy architecture that we don’t have in the United - Czech Republic States,” said Andrew Payne (BEDA 2001), who -Venezuela participated in the 2000 Prague studio. “They - England (in planning) have such a substantial history to pull from; it’s - Spain incomparable to anything I’d ever seen before.”

Design faculty members have led This summer’s studio ended shortly before educational studios across the globe Czech officials declared a state of emergency in places such as Greece, Cyprus due to the worst flooding in over a century. and Russia. Design students in 2001- 2002 registered through the NC State University Study Abroad Office for travels to Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, In Prague, students explore ancient streets (at left) and traditional India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malta, techniques of intaglio printing (above) in a graphic workshop ESAR Mexico, Peru, Spain, Sweden, the T led by printmaker Jan Hísek, master printer Vladimír Bujárek AUL

United Kingdom and Venezuela. P and assistant Tomás Horny´.

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The College of Design is the only U.S. college to Considering the relevance this region holds for “Engaging in a new culture destroys myths,” host a studio art experience in one of Africa’s Americans, especially African Americans, and Joyner said. “Visitors become impressed with greatest cultural centers: Ghana. The West Africa knowing its rich tradition of artifact making, the Ghanaians’ extraordinary connection to program attracts students from the College of Joyner launched the program in 1997. their heritage, respect for the elderly and par- Design and universities across the country. ticipation in community.” Participating students study at the College of Art and Design Professor Charles Joyner initiated Art at the University of Science and TechnologySketchbooks are filled to the edges with patterns, textures and the foreign studio when he saw that few students located in the center of Kumasi. Design students impressions of Ghana. From left to right are journal excerpts regarded Africa as a study abroad destination. also visit villages to observe the crafting of terra from students Joanna Massey and Mollie Earls, who notes on “There’s a very good chance that my cotta, bronze, Kente cloth, tie- one page, “our arrival marked with drums, singing and dancing, own ancestors came from West Africa dying, batik, wood carvings, praying.” She writes that “men due to the fact that this was the princi- beading and more. Seeing are the weavers,” and the word pal source of slaves for the new world,” bronze made from recycled for loom is “ag-bah.” Joyner said. “This automobile parts and beads makes a strong con- shaped from shards of a soda nection for me, and bottles, students are impressed many others share with a people’s resourcefulness this.” and desire to create.

The College of (graduate studies), Cyprus; Haig Design’s programs Khachatoorian (industrial design), are exceptional due Germany; Robin Moore (landscape to this commitment from faculty. Schmidt architecture), England; Shishir Raval said the high student participation from (landscape architecture), India; Bong-Il Several sites are under consideration, Design probably stems from College Jin (industrial design), South Korea; Vita while a Prague institute is farthest leadership – and a long tradition of Plume (art and design), Canada; Peter along. Prague is the College’s longest- friendships abroad and foreign visitors. Batchelor (architecture), England; and running study abroad program, having In fact, with so many international faculty David Stein (research and extension), completed its 12th year this August. members, students unable to travel an American who grew up in India. A unique aspect of study abroad abroad may still gain a worldview, Many more in the College community programs organized by the College of acquired from teachers who offer an have long-term experiences abroad, Design is their aim to broaden student international perspective. A few of those including Dean Marvin Malecha in Italy, horizons beyond Europe. It is important with birthplaces outside the United Martha Scotford in India, and Charles to note that the commitment remains States are Paul Tesar (architecture), Joyner in Ghana. strong to form studios in other parts of Austria; Achva Benzinberg Stein (land- The College is undertaking a long- the globe. The College of Design is the scape architecture), Israel; Georgia term review of an international design only U.S. college to host a studio art Bizios (architecture), Greece; Fatih Rifki center to host a year abroad program. experience in one of Africa’s greatest

10 cultural centers: Ghana. The West Africa case studies work session. program attracts students from NC State Through the foreign and universities across the country. exchange program, interna- The success of studios in foreign tional students also become countries depends largely on personal part of the fabric of the relationships and long-term connections College. The School of abroad. The College relies on its friends Architecture has a formal in faraway places for collaboration, and exchange program with faculty members often play the role of Robert Gordon University hosts. The College regularly engages in Aberdeen, Scotland; the international scholars. For example, University of the Basque College of Design students arrived in the village of Chauo in Dr. Taro Ochiai, a Fulbright Scholar from Country in San Sebastian, Spain; Venezuela after dark and awoke the next morning to enjoy a Japan, arrived in August to collaborate Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee serenade by Howler monkeys. with faculty. Last year we saw IKEA in Germany; Technical University of product developers from Sweden dis- Stuttgart in Germany; and Istanbul Venezuela cussing children’s play environments, Technical University in Turkey. These planning officials from Italy gathering exchanges are outgrowths of faculty For the past six years, Landscape Architecture Professor Art Rice has led a spring break tour information about participatory design, connections to the regions. For example, to Venezuela. It’s an action-packed 10 days. and architects from Turkey attending a Fernando Magallanes, landscape archi- The students spend the first five days in Caracas, a city of more than five million, tecture associate professor, ven- meeting with professional designers Fernando tured to Spain with students in the Tabora and John Stoddart, and visiting their projects. summers of 1992 through 1996 to study examples of Islamic and The second half of the trip is spent on an ecotourism project in Chauo. To get to the Medieval European influences on remote village nestled in the rainforest, the the Spanish landscape. students travel in fishermen’s boats from Porto Columbia up the coast and wade Travel outside the United States ashore. They then hike through the jungle has been deemed so necessary to reach the village, home of the best cacao in the world. Here they adopt the role of that one department, Landscape “dumb tourists” and brainstorm ideas that will attract tourism.

The art and design program in Ghana offers an “We all assume we know more than we do,” empirical experience by requiring students (like Rice said. “If you take students to a physical Mollie Earls, pictured) to investigate the motifs, and cultural environment different from your symbols and markings of a foreign country. own, you have to question all your assump- OYNER J Students collect data by means of drawing, tions. The first thing you learn as a traveler painting, photography, collecting artifacts, and is – to listen.” HARLES

C oral and written documentation.

news 11 FALL 2002 Architecture, now requires its TRAVEL ENDOWMENT INITIATED undergraduates to take an inter- IN MEMORY OF JOHN REUER (1931 – 2002) national studio course. As the discipline becomes discovered “For designers, Berlin exemplifies the critically needed essentials for lively culture, art and beyond the United States, all design: provocation and confrontation of mutually challenging ideas and ideologies. Open Features and unrestricted tensions between antagonistic forces are fertile grounds for all creative graduates are expected to become efforts in the city’s public life. Berlin is a European Jerusalem, harboring Christian, Jewish ambassadors for their field, and Islamic beliefs on one side and equally extreme national and humanistic convictions on the other.” —Professor John Reuer engaging in foreign experiences as professionals. While the University When beloved professor and alumnus, Dr. John Phillip Reuer, passed away in January, his former students settled on a fitting tribute – a scholarship to encourage design study in requires that undergraduates enroll Germany. in one year of foreign language Charles Boney Jr. (BEDA 1978), Greg Cranford (BEDA 1976), Karen Hobson (BEDA 1976) study, landscape architecture and Carol A. Wilson (BEDA 1976, M.Arch. 1978), comprise a committee that seeks dona- students must take an additional tions to establish the John Reuer Memorial Travel Endowment. The endowment eventually will give travel awards to undergraduate students to travel and study in Reuer’s native city, semester of language beyond that. Berlin, or in Stuttgart. Alumni and friends are encouraged to support the endowment, which As globalization becomes a way requires a minimum of $25,000. of life in the new millennium, the The scholarships will support a valuable international experience and continue a College benefits of the international experi- tradition. Since the summer of 1987 more than 100 design students participated in Berlin excursions led by Reuer. The architecture professor, a native of Berlin, knew the city before, ence may be seen more as critical during and after its destruction in World War II. He was appointed director of urban develop- tools in our interdependent future. ment for West Berlin in 1974. His contacts there led to a proposal for a permanent College facility in Berlin in the early 1990s. But the value of this human exchange, long recognized by “John shared with us the perspectives of the architect, the humanist, the student of history, and the boy growing up in wartime Europe,” said Anne Raines (B.Arch. 2001), who traveled the College of Design, remains as a student with Reuer to Berlin in 1999. “We learned to appreciate the cultural significance that travel broadens students in of anything from Potsdamer Platz to the expansive fish counter at the KaDeWe.” life-forming ways. Journeys TO SUPPORT THE become the midwives of thought. ENDOWMENT Make donations payable Americans, so accustomed to to the NCSU Foundation/ the dominance that comes with John Reuer Memorial Travel Endowment. An material wealth, discover new mea- envelope is provided in sures of “success.” At times they this magazine. For more information, contact encounter their own culture more Carla Abramczyk at fully. Professor Art Rice offers: 919/513-4310 or carla_abramczyk “One reason we offer international @ncsu.edu. programs is so students develop an appropriate level of humility.”

12 rtist Jérémie Michael McGowan (BAD 2001) was a 2001-2002 Fulbright Fellow with the Artist searches AGiellagas Institute for Sámi Studies at the University of Oulu. “Arctic Archetypes,” an exhi- bition of his artworks, is on display at the Fulbright Center in Helsinki, Finland, through Oct. 4. McGowan will spend 2002-2003 in Tampere, Finland, teaching art and music. He was selected for truth at edge as the Artist in Residence of Lapland by the Arts Council of Lapland, and will live in Koppelo village, near Ivalo, Finland, during January and February 2004. Throughout these experiences, of world he is continuing travels on the path he started walking in childhood — namely, adventures in the mythological north through physical journeys and inward explorations.

21 September 2001: I have been traveling in 23 April 2002: I have been traveling the the far north of Norway and Finland for a week entire month of April. Today is my last day now. It is a harsh beauty here, among the on Kökar Island, a part of the Åland archipel- jagged coastlines and treeless fells rising from ago spanning the waters between southern the icy stillness of the arctic fjords. Solitude is Sweden and Finland. Wildflowers are begin- my companion as I experience the northern ning to bloom, in stark contrast to the cold reaches, a place full of mystery and myth — and snowy north I left only a few weeks ago. the end of the world in more ways than one. Earlier this month I spent my days upon a This is ruska time in the arctic, when the frozen ocean off the coast of Oulu, Finland. leaves burn bright with color. Snow is in the Spring will be moving northwards with me, air — waiting now, but it will soon come. This I believe! I have been visiting iron-age burial is the land of the Sámi, the indigenous, tradi- mounds, and have walked through old stone tionally nomadic reindeer herding people of labyrinths. I have been living in the north for circumpolar Norway, Sweden, Finland, and almost eight months now. These adventures Russia. I have slept in the lávvu, or Sámi tent, begin to feel less like travels in a place away traversed sacred mountaintops, and visited from home, and more like journeys home- ancient worship stones, or sieidi. As I wander ward. through this northern landscape, knowing I am miles from home, I also have the feeling that 24 June 2002: Yesterday I was among the in some ways, this is not so unfamiliar. prehistoric rock carvings at Hjemmeluft, near Alta, in Norway. A perfect place, I think, to 02 December 2001: It is kaamos time in the spend the days surrounding the summer towns of Inari and Utsjoki, Finland, where I will solstice! The sun remains above the horizon be spending some time this winter. Kaamos twenty-four hours a day, but the surrounding describes the dark times, or polar nights, when mountains are still partly covered in snow. “The journey to the north has meant a the sun never rises above the horizon, and high Tomorrow I will leave for Mortensnes, on the journey into the self: in order to discover noon is replaced by an eerie, yet wonderful, shores of Varangerfjord, to visit ancient Sámi the self, it was thought, one needs to go purple-blue illumination. I walk a white desert, sacrificial sites and a standing stone monu- to places where living conditions are alone for hours on the frozen, snow covered ment, most likely erected by traveling Vikings. harsh and ways of life different… the expanse of lake Inarijärvi. This is also the Basse Soon fall will come again, and I will have best way to find out what we are is to go Aske, or sacred moon, time for the Sámi, when been in the north for a year. The noaidi, or places that we believe are at the edge of the light of the full moon reflects off the snow- Sámi shaman, as well as the Norsemen have the world. Faced with communities that covered fells, and I am amazed that I can see many myths about the north, and I realize call into question our everyday assump- for miles. It is not surprising that this time of that I have my own stories now as well. For tions and prejudices, we can appreciate descending darkness, quickly approaching the some the north has posed a challenge, a the importance of other people and winter solstice, is marked by legends of spirits place to discover new lands or the self; and, discover the truth about ourselves.” and tales of magic, as awe inspiring as the for others, like the nomads, it has always dancing blaze of northern lights in the intense been home. I came here as a traveler, —Juha Pentikäinen, after Hugh Brody cold of the arctic sky. Every day, I become more searching for myths. Yet I realize that my (1988), in Sami Folkloristics, Nordic in tune with life here, and it will be interesting to wanderings constructed a space for me — Network of Folklore, Åbo-Turku, visit my “home” when I return to North Carolina in other words, a lifestyle and a place — Finland. 2000. in a few weeks’ time. that I may call home.

news 13 FALL 2002 Graphic Design Professor Martha Scotford in a few days and thus began the oppor- was so enchanted by India during her tunity to enlarge my experience of India participation in “Vision Vishwamitri,” led beyond the original plan. by Dr. Shishir Raval, that she returned to I ended up spending 3-4 weeks at the country on a Fulbright. She spent four very different institutions: NID in

Features 2001 teaching at four Indian universities Ahmedabad is public and the best known and surviving a 7.8 earthquake. school for design (founded following the Eames Report of 1958) with primarily MERGING WITH ABOUNDING undergraduate programs in film/animation, HUMANITY IN INDIA industrial design, communication design, textiles, ceramics, exhibition design. Shristi Sometimes there are benefits to School of Art, Design and Technology in earthquakes, though this is obviously Bangalore (south in Karnataka) is private a minority view and I must clarify my and only four years old with undergraduate enthusiasm immediately. Supported graphic design, industrial design, textiles, by a Fulbright lecturer grant early in fashion design. The Industrial Design Center 2001, I spent five months teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology- and traveling widely in the sub- Bombay, a public technical, research insti- continent. I was assigned to teach at tution, has a graduate program in commu- two institutions, one a design college nication design and industrial design. And and one a research university with a finally, the newest IIT at Guwahati in Assam design program. Three weeks into (in the far east south of Bhutan and the my visit and living in Ahmedabad, Himalayas) was a department of commu- the 7.8 Richter scale quake hit in nication design and industrial design. Gujarat state with the epicenter only At each of these schools I taught a

Martha Scotford’s type project students, 250 miles away. I hasten to state that there typography project that was adaptable to second year graphic design students at was devastation and horrible loss of life in the level of student, the time allowed me, IIT-Guwahati, Assam. The background that area, deaths and destruction in the and the local languages. The project buildings are the temporary classrooms (to become hospital and school later) city of Ahmedabad and some damage to used the text of a simple Indian recipe while the campus is under construction. the National Institute of Design where I and we primarily worked in English with was teaching. The school needed to close the Roman alphabet. All higher education for what turned out to be five weeks for in India is conducted officially in English repairs and I was “homeless.” Here is the and all my students were completely benefit I alluded to; of necessity I had to proficient. In addition, they all spoke Hindi move and a colleague knew of another (the other official language) as well as a school in the south with a fledgling pro- few regional languages gram needing teacher. I was on my way (which ones depended

14 on their family history and residential patterns). I was very interested to learn India is the cradle of the human race, the Vadodara, and began the studio project, more about Hindi and other languages, birthplace of human speech, the mother "Vision Vishwamitri." River Vishwamitri is most of which have their own alphabets, of history, the grandmother of legend and a small river passing through the city of the great grandmother of tradition. Vadodara. This is a highly polluted river and the second part of the project –Mark Twain with eroded banks and dump sites along allowed me to learn while the students the banks. As it winds through worked on the same text, but now in the city it passes through a VISION VISHWAMITRI park, a university campus and another alphabet. a commercial area. These three In addition to the teaching responsibili- The College of Design’s first Study Abroad sites became our focus. The student ties, which were relatively short and Program in India was held for seven weeks teams proposed design solutions that in June and July 1998. This program ranged from park design, urban land- intense, I was also living in and exploring was organized and led by Dr. Shishir R. scape design, campus design, graphic each of these cities. I ate and stayed at Raval, associate professor of landscape and industrial design. It was a great col- architecture. laborative effort with professional reviewers each institution’s guesthouse on the cam- and local government officials coming to pus, except in Bangalore, where I was put After settling down and doing some quick review the work. The final presentation up at a hotel. It is the Indian tradition that shopping during the first few days of the was a much hyped event where the local program, we set off for our trip within the royal family member, the mayor, the vice all faculty and staff and students reside on state of Gujarat by air-conditioned bus. chancellor of the university and many the campus of the institution. This creates We went to see historic and contemporary other officials and professionals partici- buildings and landscapes in Ahmedabad, pated. It was very well received. The work a small community, a pleasant enclave, Gir National Park, Somnath, Junagadh, was then organized in a very impressive a respite, very welcome to the foreign Palitana, Pavagarh, Champaner and, of report that was distributed to the local visitor, from the almost overwhelming ‘life’ course, Vadodara. Then after a couple of officials for future action. The program days of break we went on another longer and the work were also publicized in the of the Indian city. But the noise and bus- field trip. This time, an overnight train local newspapers. tle of the city are just over the wall, and took us to New Delhi become part of the daily experience when and from there on we were in another (yes, one wants some fresh fruit, bottled water, air-conditioned) bus. design supplies and the excuse to interact We went to see New and old Delhi, Agra (the Taj), with auto-rickshaw drivers, shopkeepers, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, museum guards, tour guides and the Bikaner, Jaisalmer, usual throng of humanity. Jodhpur, Ranakpur, Udaypur, Ajmer, Pushkar As you might surmise, I had a wonderful and back to Jaipur from five months and would return in an instant. where we took an over- The Fulbright program is an excellent way night train back to Vadodara. for teachers to have entrée into other cul- tures and a structure from which to work, We met with the stu- dents from Majaraja travel and increase their knowledge of Sayajrao University in and contacts with the world outside the USA — necessary knowledge, as we have recently seen.

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Hoyt Bangs (MLA 1988), a landscape and & Design, 2-Dimensional Design, and Digital Matthew Griffith (M.Arch. 2002) has accepted lighting designer, has launched the new column Design. She says: “When the students complain a visiting professor of architecture position at “Landscapes” in the Raleigh News & Observer. about the load of homework, I often mention the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Readers are invited to submit landscape design to them that when I studied at NC State, four questions to Bangs, who teaches landscape hours of sleep per day was normal.” R. Gordon Halfacre (M.Arch. 1973), an Alumni design for the homeowner at Wake Technical Distinguished Professor at Clemson University, Community College. Sylvia Cobb (BEDL 1984) was promoted to is serving as the first university ombudsman. senior project landscape architect within the He provides confidential counseling and Leslie Boney Jr., FAIA (BARE 1940), received a Education/Religion Team at ColeJenest & Stone, mediations for faculty and graduate students. Presidential Citation in July from Gordon Chong, P.A. Cobb, a 1984 summa cum laude graduate He is the author of Landscape Plants of the president of the American Institute of Architects, of the College of Design, has been with the Southeast, now in its fifth edition, and three for his outstanding service to the profession and company for four years. other textbooks, including one in Spanish, to the community. It is the highest honor an AIA with McGraw Hill Publishing Co. president can bestow at his own initiative. The ColeJenest & Stone, P.A. received an Honor AIA College of Fellows also established a Spirit Award presented by the Tri-State Chapter of Elizabeth Hesler (MLA 1995) and a colleague at of Fellowship Award that bears Boney’s name. the American Society of Landscape Architects Torti Gallas and Partners of Silver Spring, Md., In addition, Boney and his wife, Lillian, were the (ASLA) for the 2000 University of North Carolina were awarded in May the American Institute of 2002 recipients of the Ruth Coltrane Cannon at Charlotte Master Plan. The firm’s managing Architect’s Honor Award for Excellence in Urban Cup for historic preservation. This is the highest principals are Michael Cole (BEDL 1979), Design. She produced a growth management award given by Preservation North Carolina. Brian Jenest (BEDL 1979) and Dudley Stone. plan for Albemarle County, Va., home to Thomas Jefferson, the city of Charlottesville, Two alumni of the College of Dr. Samuel Dennis (MLA 1991), assistant Monticello and the University of Virginia. Design were named fellows professor of landscape architecture at Penn of the American Institute of State University, received the 2002 Outstanding Marshall Mauney (B.Arch. 1965) was a mem- Architects at its national con- Teaching Award from the College of Arts and ber of a team that received an Environmental ference held in Charlotte May Architecture in May. He teaches the under- Sustainability Recognition Award from the 8-11. They are Roger Cannon graduate landscape architecture design studio Secretary of the NC Department of Administration (M.Arch. 1979) of Cannon Architects in Raleigh sequence, writing-intensive courses and for a pilot initiative that developed an innovative and Jay Peterson (B.Arch. 1959), who founded graduate studios. purchasing process to evaluate manufacturers Peterson Associates in Charlotte and now offers of carpet. The aim is to select carpet that is consulting services from Wilmington (photo). Chris Eselgroth (BED 1989) of Durham, N.C., environmentally preferable, while also meeting Architects inducted into the AIA College of served as the graphic designer for the latest criteria for performance, quality and cost. Fellows are considered to have made contribu- album from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Bedlam tions of national significance to the profession. Ballroom,” which was nominated for a Grammy James E. McComas Jr. Nationally, AIA maintains a membership of Award in the Best Recording Package category. (B.Arch. 1971), a senior 66,500; of these, fewer than 2,300 are distin- Eselgroth runs his own graphic design and architect with Wilson guished with the honor of fellowship. photography business, Foureyes Studios. Associated Architects Inc. in Boston, heads a design team Victoria K. Chi (MPD 1989) has taught at Christopher Ford (M.Arch. 1998) left the New for the new Science Complex Parsons School of Design in Paris since York office of Richard Meier & Partners in June at the University of North Carolina at Chapel September 2000. Her courses include Color for a position with Rick Joy Architects in Tucson. Hill. He recently completed new labs for

16 MacArthur Award winning Harvard physicist with cultural institutions and intend to continue Dr. Lene Hau and Vanderbilt University Biomed focusing on books, websites, identity systems Research Center. and exhibitions.

Marica McKeel (BEDA 1999), an intern Chris Rea (M.Arch. 2000), architect at RBK Architects of Tampa, has a project coordinator with designed eight floor plans for warehouses that Gresham Smith and Partners will become Channelside 212 lofts, Tampa’s in Richmond, Va., received a first urban neighborhood. Adama Development Merit Award in July from the of Tampa, a $4.8 million project, is a result of James River Chapter of the McKeel’s vision. “I had been driving past the American Institute of Architects for a project area every day on my way to work and got to that he designed and built, a 160-square-foot thinking, these empty warehouses need to be storage shed. used,” she said. Crystal L. Soyars (BEDA 2000), an intern BOLT, an integrated product and brand devel- architect at Dixon Weinstein Architects in opment firm in Charlotte, N.C., with principal Chapel Hill, has been accepted to the Master Monty Montague (BEDP 1980), participated in of Architecture program for fall 2002 at the Mood River exhibition at the Wexner Center Harvard University. for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. The spring 2002 exhibition incorporated thousands of objects Eric Smith (BEDA, BEDI from everyday life. BOLT was invited to include 1995) of San Francisco the East3 ThoughtCaster™ system that uses produced his first nationally interactive video games and brainwaves to broadcast 3D animation that teach children concentration skills. BOLT was included in the PBS designed the ThoughtCaster, which won a 2001 documentary “Empty Oceans, Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award. Empty Nets” about commercial fishing’s impacts on fish populations. Smith is principal Jenifer Padilla (BAD 1996) drew the highest at 3iD Megamedia, a 3D design and animation winning bid for “Evinrude,” a work submitted house. 3iD has just released Texturama, a in the Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble auction of tileable texture CD that has been two years in 48 designed wolf sculptures. The Raleigh Arts the making. SKETCH DIARY Commission receives a share of the proceeds Ever since Dean Malecha issued the call, for future public art projects while the remainder Madeline Sutter (M.Arch. 1999) received the we have received from traveling alumni goes to charities. The ramble was Raleigh’s North Carolina Award from the North Carolina a tantalizing array of sketches, including first public art project since the mid-1990s. Urban Forest Council for outstanding contri- Foro Romano (above) by Thomas Spain butions to the state. (B.Arch. 1966), an architecture professor Bree Pappas (BGD 1999) was hired at BOLT at the University of Miami School of as a graphic designer in June. She will be Emily Williamson (BEDA 2001) has been Architecture. Spain’s sketch is one of responsible for brand development and identity accepted into the Energy Conservation of many featured his book Drawings of design for BOLT’s fashion clients. Pappas pre- Architecture program at Sydney University in Rome: 1991-2001, a spirited visual viously worked as a graphic designer with Sydney, Australia. repast of breathtaking Rome in ink, Calvin Klein Inc. and Frankfurt Balkind pencil and pastels. In response to our last Partners, both in New York City. issue featuring artistic creations spurred from the 9-11 tragedy, Abie Harris Matthew Peterson (BGD Send us your news (B.Arch. 1957) of Raleigh sent us his 1998) and Roy Brooks (BGD It’s easy to drop us a line. Visit www.design.ncsu.edu and 1997 sketch of the World Trade Center 1997) relocated to Chicago link to “news and events” or mail your alumni update to: (far left). Indeed, images like these and together started a design NC State University College of Design become our more meaningful journal studio, Field Study Corporation. Campus Box 7701 entries, reflecting a true engagement They both worked previously Raleigh, NC 27695 with the world around.

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COLLEGE ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP Peter Batchelor, as director of the American Institute of Architects’ North Carolina Urban Several new leaders have been appointed Design Assistance Program worked with the in the College community. Dr. Fatih Rifki, following Urban Design Assistance Teams: formerly director of Graduate Studies, has Fayetteville, N.C.; North Blount Street in become associate dean for Graduate Studies Raleigh; Dundalk, Md.; and Wilmington, N.C. and director of the Ph.D. Program. James Tomlinson, formerly director of Research, Susan Brandeis, art and design, completed Extension and Engagement, is now an two pieces that were added to the permanent assistant dean for this area. Thomas Barrie, collection of the Smithsonian American’s formerly the coordinator of the Detroit Studio Renwick Gallery. at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, was appointed director of the Tony Brock, graphic design, collaborated with School of Architecture in July. During a long- Gail Borden, architecture, on Suburban, a book term search, the School of Architecture was of essays edited by Boren and designed by previously headed by Dr. Rifki and then Brock. Brock designed all materials for the Professor Robert Burns. Denise Gonzales Laying the Groundwork Symposium organized by the Department of Landscape Architecture. Crisp, a former senior designer at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., Robert Burns is architect Vincent Foote, industrial design, has won began in July as new chair of the Graphic of record for an addition an Award for Excellence in Teaching from Design Department. In the Art and Design and renovations of the the Board of Governors of the 16-campus Department, Associate Professor Chandra Kamphoefner house in University of North Carolina. Foote was Cox became department chair in January, Raleigh for a new owner. noted for his outstanding professional allowing Professor Charles Joyner time for achievement and his influence on students other creative pursuits. A similar transition and colleagues. He has advised more than Roger Clark, architecture, was named an occurred in the Industrial Design Department 3,000 industrial design students during his Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor for as Professor Haig Khachatoorian completed 36 years at NC State University. Foote 2001-2002 by NC State University. leads the Industrial Design Department’s a long and successful service period, and accreditation process, which is expected Associate Professor Bryan Laffitte assumed Chandra Cox, art and design, completed four to be completed in fall 2002. the chair responsibilities in July. The Office of paintings that will become part of the perma- External Relations (a new unit; for more infor- nent collection of the Raleigh Arts Commission. mation see page 5) welcomed in May a new director of Development, Carla Abramczyk, Lope Max Diaz, art and design, was named an formerly of the NC State University Engineering Alumni Distinguished Professor for 2001-2002 Foundation. Jean Marie Livaudais, formerly by NC State University. He exhibited 10 paint- director of Advancement, has become director ings at Galeria Botello in San Juan, Puerto of Professional Relations while Catherine Rico, from Oct. 18 to Nov. 18, 2001. The show Lazorko continues to head Communications. was a remembrance exhibit to his father.

18 Frank Harmon, architecture, designed the Dr. Michael Pause, fundamentals and art and Scott Townsend, graphic design, was an Taylor House in the Bahamas, which was design, was named an NC State University artist-in-residence at the Foundation for proclaimed House of the Year by Residential Outstanding Teacher for 2001-2002. Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic. Architect magazine. During the residency, he delivered a paper at Vita Plume, art and design, presented “A Textile the Academy of Fine Arts and installed a one- Percy Hooper, industrial Identity” in March 2002 at the Women’s Studies man show at the Center for Contemporary Art design, served as a head Conference in Valdosta, Ga. She exhibited her titled “Borderline Stories.” He also completed judge of the 2001 work in spring 2002 in Brooks Hall. a video installation at Lightwork Gallery in International Achievement Syracuse, N.Y., and is scheduled for an inter- Award/Industrial Fabric Patrick Rand, architecture, was elected to active installation at Latitude 53 in Edmonton, Association International. national office as president of the Masonry Alberta, Canada, in September 2002. Society, an international educational society. Fernando Magallanes, landscape architecture, Dr. Nancy White, design research, extension has published two entries in the three-volume Wendy Redfield, architecture, and engagement, was a featured speaker at set of the Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia became a partner in the firm Earth Day 2002 events at UNC-Chapel Hill. of Gardens published by Fitzroy Dearborn Clark and Redfield Architects. She chaired the USDA 406 Water Quality Publishers. His essays discuss Mexican archi- Proposal Review Panel in July 2001 and was tect and landscape architect Luis Barragan Art Rice, landscape archi- an invited panelist on the USDA 406 Water and on Parque Guell, designed by Spanish tecture, led a spring 2002 Quality Program Review Panel in May 2002. architect Antonio Gaudi. mini-course in Venezuela.

Marvin Malecha, FAIA, and Martha Scotford, graphic Hunt McKinnon were selected design, continued work for the to receive a 2002 National Carolina Wrenn Press and Faculty and staff members were honored for excellence by Council of Architectural engaged her students in the NC State University at a College luncheon held last semes- Registration Boards’ Prize for design of book covers for the ter. They are (pictured below, from left to right) Lope Max creative integration of practice company. She also organized Diaz, art and design professor (Alumni Distinguished and education in the Academy. the Durham Arts Council’s First Poetry Open. Undergraduate Professor); Pamela Christie-Tabron, administrative assistant for Graduate Studies (SPA Award Robin Moore, landscape architecture, and Achva Benzinberg Stein, landscape architec- of Excellence); Roger Clark, architecture professor (Alumni Nilda Cosco, Natural Learning Initiative, won ture, organized the Laying the Groundwork Distinguished Graduate Professor); Dr. Michael Pause, a 2002 Honor Award from the Ohio Chapter of Symposium at the College of Design in April director of Design Fundamentals (Outstanding Teacher); the American Society of Landscape Architects 2002. She was a keynote speaker at the Chris Jordan, director of the Materials Laboratory (EPA for their work on the Orchard School Community Sustainable Landscape conference at Utah Award of Excellence); and Vincent Foote, industrial design Park in Cleveland, Ohio. The Natural Learning State University in Logan, Utah, on April 11-12. professor (Board of Governor's Award). Initiative worked on the project as consultant designers. They also won a 2002 EDRA Award for Place Research, recognizing their research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, exploring the rela- tionship among the urban environment, chil- dren’s play, and the development of culture.

Mary Myers, landscape archi- tecture, published articles in Landscape Architecture, Public Roads, Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design and International Think Tank on Education for Sustainability.

news 19 FALL 2002 NOTES students

Rachelle Ornan, an Architecture to tell the story of “CROWSFIELD” at the NC industrial design gradu- graduate stu- Museum of Art. ate student, has won a dents designed $24,000 grant to help and constructed Greg Lindquist, NASA design a commer- a traveling exhi- art and design, cial space hotel. bition pavilion received an NC titled “The State University Ornan will help envision the architecture Nature of Summer Enrich- and ergonomics involved in an orbiting Architecture” ment Award for hotel. She envisions (see concepts below, that will tour the state. Commissioned by the $3,600 for his pro- exterior and interior) a hotel made of light- American Institute of Architects-North Carolina, posal “Journey in Memory and Memorialization.” weight materials that can be reconfigured the display educates the public about the to accommodate family vacations, honey- profession of architecture. Students involved Loop, an online journal of interaction design moons and business retreats. Her grant are Tasia Agrafiotis, Che Clark, Chad Everhart, education published by the American may be renewed for two more years. Jessica Johnson, Matthew Szymanski, Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), featured Thomas Ryan and Mark Wilson. graphic design graduate student work from a spring 2001 College seminar, “New Design students installed the public art project Information Environments,” led by Rob Wittig “CROWSFIELD” on April 21 at the NC Museum of Chicago. of Art in celebration of Earth Day and Mother’s Day. The project featured 3,000 wooden stakes NC State University College of Design stu- There are no firm plans to build a hotel, planted in the ground, each wrapped with hay dents swept the Imagi-Nations University but NASA began exploring the idea after bale twine threaded through 3,000 used foil pie Design Competition last month in Glendale, U.S. financier Dennis Tito became the first pans painted or decorated with inspiration from Calif., winning in the national contest’s two space tourist last year, paying a reported Mother Nature. Students who conceived and categories. Jackson Floyd Brown III, art and $20 million to ride a Russian rocket to the implemented the project are Shawn Hatley, design, won in the individual category, while internation- David Reckford and Jesse Turner, all land- Nick Hobson, architecture; and Gabriela al space scape architecture; Emmet Byrne, graphic Ferro, industrial design, won in the team station. design; and Tim Kiernan, art and design. category. They each will receive $2,000 toward their education, and an opportunity NASA Patricia Ann Dunn, industrial design, won a for an internship at Imagineering and The officials, Bronze Award in the 2002 Universal Design Walt Disney Company. Imagineers are according Competition of the American Society of Aging. responsible for the creation and expansion to a news of all elements at the Disney theme parks. release Tim Kiernan, art and design, from U.S. Sen. John Edwards, say it would presented five short films Landscape architecture graduate students take at least 20 years to build a space on March 22 at Witherspoon under the direction of Professor Shishir Raval hotel. One model is a large cylinder-shaped Student Center. Kiernan also presented design and land use alternatives to space station that would require a two-day, won a John Hope Franklin residents of the Idlewild/College Park neigh- 200,000-mile shuttle trip. Student Documentary Award borhood in Raleigh at a May public meeting.

20 Andrew Michael O’Neill, computer science from the American Associ- Chris Williams, industrial design, and the and design, has won an NC State University ation of University Women team of Summer Hill, industrial design, and Undergraduate Research Award for the spring Educational Foundation. She Carson Mataxis, art and design, created 2002 semester. With art and design faculty is among 58 women selected public art in the form of wolves as part of a sponsor Dr. Cymbre Raub, the student will from 1,131 eligible applicants project sponsored by the City of Raleigh’s Art develop an interactive web-based timeline. to receive the award. Commission and NC State University.

Jonathan Kelaine Vargas, landscape architecture, was “Scenes: An Exploration in Fashion,” the first Shearin awarded a Fulbright grant to study at the annual fashion show of the College of Design, and Technical University of Berlin in Germany was held on May 3 in the lower courtyard of Stephanie during the 2002-2003 academic year. Kamphoefner Hall. The show featured the work Liner, art of eight designers from the Art and Design and design, Emilie Williams, industrial Department. The works, all handcrafted and created design, won a third place designed originals, were featured on more than works that award and $1,000 in the 60 models, including Courtney Hill, pictured, were Digital Talking-Book Player who is wearing a piece con- accepted Competition sponsored by structed of pantyhose and in the Students of Sculpture the Industrial designed by Kate Crawford. 2002 Competition. Shearin’s Designers Society The garment is inspired by sculpture, “Untitled #3,” of America (IDSA) The Nutcracker's Dance (left) was one of four in cooperation with of the Mirlitons. Other selected from to receive a cash award. Shearin the National Library works featured original also received the Penland School of Crafts Service for the weavings, hand-dyed and Partners Scholarship, which included a two- Blind and Physically silk-screened fabrics, week workshop in steel fabrication. Handicapped beadings and other origi- (NLS). Judges nal creations. More than Kristin Thorleifsdottir, Ph.D. candidate, was evaluated 146 entries from 28 design schools 200 people attended the awarded a 2002-2003 International Fellowship across the country. show. in memoriam NOTES Sandra Lee Gully Lowrance (MPD 1985) of Bruce G. Sanders (BEDA 1972, M.Arch. 1974), The design community observed the passing of Memphis, graphic design associate professor 53, died on April 23, in Greensboro, N.C. Since Duncan Robert Stuart (1919-2001), co-founder at the University of Memphis, died May 26. 1987 he was president of Bruce G. Sanders of the School of Design, with a memorial service Architecture P.C. last December. The College continues to distribute Lawrence Michael Wodehouse, who taught Stuart’s original sketches, polyhedral drawings architecture at the School of Design from 1964 Robert “Bob” Graham Webster (BEDA 1973, measuring 17.5 by 23 inches. These limited ren- to 1969, died at his home in Norwich, England, M.Arch.1975) of Raleigh died in March. He derings are mailed to those interested in donating on May 27. He was 68. Wodehouse later taught worked for several architectural firms in Raleigh, $100 or more to the Duncan Stuart Scholarship at Pratt Institute, the University of Dundee and and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Fund. For information, call the College External the University of Tennessee. the North Carolina Department of Correction. Relations Office at 919/515-8313.

news 21 FALL 2002 COLLEGE LIFE Dorton Arena receives national recognition college life CD-ROM, write to Communications. To receive a copy of the Davis, and Catherine Lazorko in faculty members Tony Brock and Meredith T Bagerski, Patrick Burt, Tammy Baird and designed the piece are now alumni: Adam which received 31 entries. Students who Interactive Multimedia Programs category, organization's international competition in the a Silver Medal in July. The CD won in the of Support Education awarded the project ment CD-ROM produced by the College for recruit- design studio evolved into the first interactive What began as a student project in graphic CD-ROM awarded yler Walters. Students were assisted by purposes. The Council for Advancement [email protected] . American civil engineering landmark by the r William Muirhead Construction Co. Severud-Elstad-Kruegar and contractor with structural engineer Fred Severud of Dietrick of Raleigh, finished the building arena’s architect. His friend, William Henley shortly after being commissioned as the Historic Monument. 1972, Dorton Arena was named a National day of the North Carolina State Fair. In award will be unveiled Oct. 18, opening A plaque commemorating the engineering shaped roof. The arena was built in 1952. with wire cables that support the saddle- slender columns around its perimeter secting parabolic arches supported by at the College of Design. while head of the architecture department late Matthew Nowicki designed the arena D o system, has been named a national oof Nowicki was killed in a plane accident The structure includes a pair of inter- permanent use of a cable-supported orton Arena, which boasts the first Society of Civil Engineers. The 22 headquarters of the United Nations. was a member of the design team for and Museum building (not built). Nowicki Raleigh and consulted on a State Archives the interiors of Carolina Country Club in artist Stanislowa Sandeck. He designed Polytechnic of Warsaw (1925-1926). Mehofer-Cracow (1927), and the W (1922), the School of Design Gerson- He studied at the Chicago Art Institute North Carolina State College (1948-1950). head of the architecture department at of architecture and acting arsaw (1925-1926), the School of Nowicki was born in Poland and married Nowicki was a professor Camp in Design for teens, which was held July. intensive, overnight camp has led to the creation of a Day across North Carolina and five other states. Success of this Design Camp in June engaged 80 students from 37 counties NEW WEBSITE GOES ONLINE UNIVERSAL DESIGN SEEKS DIRECTOR The Center for Universal Design announces The Design community is invited to look for the new College website at www.design.ncsu.edu, which an opening for the position of director. went online in August 2002. The Center for Universal Design, a national design, research, training and technical assis- Visitors will find a redesigned site with features designed to create a stronger sense of community and give users quicker access to information. Some of the features include student galleries, alumni profiles, tance center, is part of the College of Design’s news and calendar info, and official publications. The homepage gallery by graphic design students Research and Engagement Office. refreshes with new images each time a user revisits the site. Over the next several months, the College Funded since 1989 primarily by grants will add more reasons to visit online, including animation videos by students, resources for faculty, and from the National Institute on Disability and opportunities for alumni to network and stay connected. Rehabilitation Research, the Center for Universal Design’s mission is to improve the usability of The website was developed by David Burney (BEDV 1979), principal of Burney Design in Raleigh, with the built environment and associated products Lead Programmer Scott Reston, Designer Alison Charles and Project Manager Bob Steelman. A College of for people of all ages and abilities. The work of Design web committee worked closely on the project by contributing graphics, photography and overall content. the Center has become known nationally and The committee, headed by Communications Director internationally, as universal design has gained Catherine Lazorko, involved Associate Dean for attention and momentum worldwide. Following Academic Affairs John Tector, Graphic Design Professor the vision of its late founder Ronald L. Mace, Meredith Davis, Graphic Design Assistant Professor FAIA, the Center conducts design research, Tony Brock, Art and Design Assistant Professor Pat development and training, produces a range FitzGerald and IT Coordinator Joe McCoy. of publications, and disseminates information on universal design and the built environment. The website is alive, but it is not a finished work. As a dynamic tool for communicating, it must evolve, take A description of the position is available at: shape with refinement, and improve its functionality http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/position.html to meet your needs. Your input is valuable to us: [email protected]

COLLEGE ENDEAVORS TO design students have 40 to 60 square feet of studio space. In the report more common space defi- INCREASE STUDIO SPACE ciencies were described, including: overcrowded studio space, limited review space, lack of storage, A Space Planning Study for the College of lack of conference rooms, lack of auditorium Design was completed in May 2002 by Roger space and ventilation problems in studio spaces. Cannon (BEDA 1978) and Susan Cannon While space issues are reviewed, the College (M.Arch. 1979), who reviewed projected growth continues to make progress with facility improve- needs through the year 2010. Studio enrollment ments. In the past year, the following projects were is expected to increase 11 percent during this accomplished: new circulation desk in the Design period. Library, carpeting in Kamphoefner Hall, power The architects were able to illustrate graphically distribution in the Matsumoto Wing, lighting in to NC State University leaders the culture of the Kamphoefner Hall and the entrance rotunda of Are you cracked? Students in ARCH 140/ College and its needs for studio space, particularly Brooks Hall, flooring and track lighting in Brooks Experiencing Architecture designed and flexibility within spaces. Most significant among Hall, railings in the Brooks Hall breezeway, and constructed packages intended to protect their findings was that a minimum of 100 square roof and air conditioning for Leazar Hall. In addi- eggs in a three-story fall. More than 200 feet of studio space is required per student, and tion, the College acquired computer-assisted looms students participated in the final project, this number was approved and supported by a and moved the letterpress into a space of its own which involved dropping eggs from University review committee. Currently, individual to improve accessibility for students. Kamphoefner Hall into the pit.

news 23 FALL 2002 Richard Green, FAIA (B.Arch. 1968), is chairman and president of The Stubbins Associates Inc., a design firm in COLLEGE LIFE COLLEGE Cambridge, Mass., that serves clients internationally. Green was recognized as the NC State University Distinguished Alumnus from the College of Design for 2001.

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TO THE COLLEGE OF DESIGN AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, MAY 18, 2002

“The Connection” Thank you. For those seated behind me who are graduating today, I have two comments you may find interesting: First: I will be brief. Second: Yes, we are hiring. Seriously, I am truly honored to be here today to share this very special day with you. I am currently involved in the design of two buildings on the campus here. When I was in Raleigh three weeks ago to make a presentation, someone asked me if when I graduated I ever thought I’d have the opportunity to design a project, let alone two projects for the University. I replied that I never anticipated the some- what daunting task of doing so and of having professors from the College of Design serve as part of the client group. As challenging as these assignments are, however, they pale in comparison to the challenge of addressing you here today. I am honored to share in your success and in the excitement of your special day.

24 Charles Eames, the exceptionally talented graphic designer/ after the designer has earned a high level of trust and confi- architect/ filmmaker/ furniture designer was asked once to dence. Establishing and maintaining this trust is absolutely define design. His thoughtful and wonderfully succinct critical. response was, “Design is the connection, the connection, the Once the aspirations have been articulated, I believe it is connection.” Let me repeat this, “Design is the connection, helpful, and at times essential, to then develop a generative the connection, the connection.” metaphor to inform all aspects of design. This makes the I would like to explore this simple yet provocative definition connection to the aspirations of the client. In our firm, one of design with you and offer a few thoughts and observations of my partners often talks about design being the “mutual from my practice as an architect during the thirty-four years exploration of evolving meaning.” We frequently find that almost to the day since I sat where those of you who are references to projects such as a “one room schoolhouse” graduating sit today. for a very large biological sciences teaching and research First, I believe design must connect to human emotions, laboratory at the University of Chicago or “your grandmother’s must lift the spirit, and elicit the “unmeasurable” qualities living room” for a new facility to accommodate the Indiana the great architect Louis Kahn spoke of so eloquently. This Historical Society are exceedingly powerful metaphors for is absolutely central to our mission. Next, design is the connection to the client and to the Graduates study the commencement program, designed and hand-printed on the letterpress by graphic design students Amme Maguire and Geoff Halber. process that gives voice to his or her unique aspirations. The older and more experienced I become, the more I realize that although as an architect I deal with stone, glass, concrete and steel, at its very core architecture is involved with people and their hopes, joys, emotions and aspirations. I commented to someone recently that although our creative talents focus on very different issues, architecture and design indeed border on being theological enterprises albeit by fulfilling different aspirations with different results than AZORKO PHOTOS

traditional theology. L Often the aspirations of the client are defined in off- THERINE A hand comments, but invariably they come to light only C

news 25 FALL 2002 Dean Marvin Malecha addresses graduates: “Never fail to see the light in all things.”

our design efforts. They connect us to the aspirations of China. I understand how connected I am to humanity the client. throughout the world. I’ve gained respect and admiration for Next, I would offer that design is the connection to people everywhere through travel and through the process community at several different scales including: of sensitizing myself as a designer to very different places …the community of our professional colleagues in whatever in order to design meaningful projects. design discipline we engage. About a year and a half ago, I traveled to Tunisia to …the connection to the physical and emotional communities meet with a potential client who was enamored with one in which we live and work. of our hotel projects and wanted to build something similar …..the connection to our society which is changing rapidly in Tunis. I visited the ruins of the ancient City of Carthage today and confronting a host of new issues including the one day and within twenty-four hours was in Rome again, aging of our population, the globalization of our economy, appreciating the culture of the people who destroyed and the need to fully integrate all multi-cultural groups into Carthage and supposedly salted the earth so nothing would our society. ever grow there. My most vivid memory of this trip is that …the connection to the larger community of people around one day after visiting a number of new hotel projects in a the world and to the wonderful experience of designing in resort town in the south, we sped back to Tunis in our foreign countries where the culture, climate, physical and client’s BMW to join his family for a dinner during the emotional contexts are so radically different from our own. Muslim holy month of Ramadan. After a marvelous meal, We are forced to leave our cultural baggage behind and see we retired to his living room as the family watched an things through fresh eyes. I treasure my design journeys in Arabic-speaking comedian on TV. Although I spoke no Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Chile, Singapore and Arabic and only a little French, I was helping our client’s

26 six-year-old daughter with her English lessons from school optimists” in all that you do. when the nine-year-old son buzzed through the house on In conclusion, I would like to acknowledge our collective his brand new razor scooter. At that moment, I felt totally good fortune to be connected to the College of Design at connected to this family and I was taken by the commonality North Carolina State University and to have begun — and of this experience in a place that is so very different from I emphasize only begun — our education in this place with our own. I often reflect on other events I’ve experienced the commitment of an exceptional faculty including Brian while walking through the villages of India and the bustling Shawcroft, Bob Burns, Henry Sanoff and Peter Batchelor cities of Asia. I know that although the history, tradition, to name four who were here thirty-four years ago when I culture and religion of these places may be vastly different graduated. Important others are Roger Clark and Vince from our own, we are at our core connected as one people Foote who came shortly after, along with the extraordinary with common hopes and desires. leadership of Dean Marvin Malecha. You are now embarking on the wonderful journey of This senior faculty represents a truly unique collection design during very difficult and demanding times. Events of talents and abilities. The individual and collective dedi- of the past eight months and prospects for the future could cation of this group to the education of young architects result in a lack of inspiration and lead to a cynical view of and designers is truly a gift for which we are grateful. life. My sincere hope is that the creative power of design — Thank you and congratulations to each of you and to and the role we play as the connection between the reality your families on this very special day. of the past and the promise of the future — will positively engage your talents and energies. In the words of the great Mexican architect Riccardo Legoretta, become “passionate —Richard Green, FAIA

news 27 FALL 2002 T R O P P U S Design Guild BOARD OF DIRECTORS $25,000 AND MORE H. Clymer Cease Jr. AIA, Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, President Junior League of Raleigh Inc. Philip G. Freelon AIA, The Freelon Group Inc. Herb and Catherine McKim Charles Boney Jr. AIA, Boney Architects Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Michael S. Cole ASLA, ColeJenest & Stone Turan Duda AIA, Duda/Paine Architects, LLP $10,000-24,999 Frank D. Thompson, AV Metro Joel Clancy Frank J. Werner, Adams Products Co. NC Architectural Foundation Inc. Nan Davis Van Every

THANK YOU The College of Design relies on the support of $5,000-9,999 Adams Products Co. individuals, firms, companies and foundations to benefit a variety of The Dobkin Family Foundation college activities. The following is a list of donors to the NC State HagerSmith Design PA University College of Design from July 1, 2001, through June 30, Jenkins Peer Architects PA 2002. While space limitations only allow listing those donors who NC Masonry Contractors Association contributed $100 or more, we appreciate the generous support of Robert and Marian Rothstein all of the College’s alumni and friends. Please accept our deepest University of NC Greensboro apologies for any errors or omissions. Philip L. Van Every Foundation Lloyd G. Walter Jr. Sherwood Lee Webb

$2,500-4,999 William K. Andersen The Design Guild is an association of Brick Association of the Carolinas alumni, friends, design professionals Steve Schuster AIA, Clearscapes PA and industry leaders established in Richard A. Curtis 1996 to promote design education at Harry Ellenzweig the NC State University College of Design Flad & Associates through private contributions and gifts. FreemanWhite Architects Inc. Georgia/Carolinas PCI If you would like to join this important Henry W. Johnston supporting group of the College, please O’Brien/Atkins Associates PA send your donation in the enclosed Perkins & Will envelope provided in this report. Maurice C. Sardi

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28 Benchmark Architectural System Isaacs & Horne Architects Inc. Linda J. Noble

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news 29 FALL 2002 John A. Daughtridge Jr. Riley C. Lawhorn Jr. Edith S. Shepherd David J. Davenport Elizabeth B. Lee Shuttle Buggy Transportation System

T James F. Dean G. Thomas Lee Sigmon Landscape Architecture PA

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U Terry Byrd Eason Edward Lui James M. Stevenson

S Eugene S. Edwards III Lysaght & Associates PA A. Wayne Stogner

DEAN’S MESSAGE DEAN’S Scott W. Eichlin Daniel J. Martin Daryl W. Suther Bertram Ellentuck George Matsumoto David T. Swanson William R. Eppes Paul H. McArthur Jr. Rodney L. Swink John D. Everette John H. McBrayer H. Clay Taylor III Douglas Falls Robert S. McCarter Horace D. Taylor Jr. William L. Flournoy Jr. Robert W. McDaniel Priscilla S. Taylor Jason D. Forney Claude E. McKinney Technical Designs Incorporated Donna W. Francis Margaret S. McLaurin John O. Tector Stephanie C. Garner D. Max McLeod Terri L. Thomas G. Warren Ginn W. G. Medlin Elizabeth C. Throop William T. Goodwin Jr. Linda Perry Meeks David W. Tobias Junius S. Grimes IV Gregory R. Melrath Trout & Riggs Construction Co David M. Hale Mertz Architects PC Thomas A. Trowbridge Robert V. Hamlin M. Eleanora Miller Zenobia S. Uribe W. Easley Hamner Robert G. Miller Christopher C. Voso Tomoko Ohta Harada W. G. Monroe III Ruth L. Webb Keith M. Hargrove Edgar B. Montague III Murray Whisnant Architects B. H. Harrell Jr. Michael Moorefield Jan W. White Harris Foundation Denise Nason White Oak Properties Inc. John W. Harvey Michael A. Nieminen C. David Wilson Dorothy M. Haynes James R. Oates John Ferman Wilson IV Bruce W. Hendricks Chester A. Parker Barney P. Woodard Jr. The Historic Preservation Foundation of Matilda McDonald Parker Harry E. Wyatt Jr. NC Inc. G. Anderson Pearson G. Bonson Hobson Jr. J. J. Peterson Gordon Horne Robert S. Peterson A. F. Hothorn Phillips Architecture PA Evelyn Franklin Hoyt William F. Pritchard Steven A. Hurr Steven T. Pulling Industrial Designers Society of America Steven R. Raike Robert C. Ingram John E. Ramsay Jr. David N. James Richard Rice Architects Jilla Montenegro Architect Jacquelyn Saltzman Clyde B. Johnston Mark A. Sangiolo Julian Bryan & Associates Inc. Linda M. Satterfield Rebecca A. Kalsbeek John Sawyer Architects John G. Karpick Edward M. Schweitzer Jr. Nan Davis Van Every received a Joyce Watkins King Scott Sand & Stone Lifetime Giving Certificate during Donald E. Kunze Jr. Richard F. Seggel a May reception in Charlotte.

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August 28 Art and Design Mural Exhibition featuring D

Exhibition reception and lecture by the work of painter Robert L. Barnum A

architectural photographer Gordon Schenck R February 16 – March 8 September 15 – 28 Industrial Design Exhibition Exhibition of Residential Design by Georgia Bizios March 9 – 22 Landscape Architecture Exhibition September 16 Greensboro Governmental Center Architecture lecture featuring Billie Tsien March 13 – 16 (Architect Eduardo Catalano) of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, New York LABASH conference

September 21 March 21 – 23 Open House Design Guild Award Dinner and 55th Anniversary Celebration September 29 – October 15 Graphic Design Exhibition March 23 – April 12 Architecture Exhibition October 4 Graphic Design Lecture featuring April 13 – 27 Maud Lavin Exhibition of Ph.D. Program

October 16 – November 2 April 25 Art and Design Exhibition of Japanese Lifetime Giving Event Digital Photography featuring the work of Masaru Nakamoto April 28 – May 5 Graphic Design Senior Exhibition October 28 Architecture lecture featuring Brigitte May 6 – 17 LECTURES concerning architecture, which are Shim of Shim/Sutcliffe, Toronto (tentative) Graduation Exhibition co-sponsored by the American Institute of Architects- Triangle, will be held at 6 p.m. in Kamphoefner November 3 – 23 Auditorium at NC State University. Receptions Student Publication Exhibition precede the lectures. Design Guild members at the Partner level may contact the External Relations November 6 Office at 919/515-8313 for reserve seats. Reception for scholarship donors and student recipients EXHIBITIONS are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery. November 11 VISITORS are encouraged to verify time and location Architecture lecture featuring James of events, which are subject to change. For more Carpenter of James Carpenter Design, information, call 919/515-8313 or sign up for New York DESIGNlife, an e-newsletter at www.design.ncsu.edu (link to “news”). November 24 – December 11 New Faculty Exhibition OUR THANKS College of Design lectures and exhibitions are sponsored in part by Design Guild December 15 – 18 Dean’s Circle and Benefactor members. Graduation Exhibition NC State University NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION COLLEGE OF DESIGN U.S. POSTAGE PAID RALEIGH, NC news PERMIT NO. 2353

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