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Who We Are...... 3 Curriculum...... 4

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San Francisco...... 6

Graduate Student Work...... 10

Undergraduate Student Work...... 20

Social Engagement...... 32

NAAB Accreditation...... 34

Studio Culture...... 35

Faculty...... 36

Faculty Work...... 42

Facilities...... 52

Special Programs...... 54

Study Abroad Option 1...... 56

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Alumni...... 66

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Kawinthra Chongsuksantikul M.Arch PURSUE A CAREER AS: Architectural Designer Project Architect Project Manager Design Principal Partner in a firm We Educate Architects Our Profile: The School of Architecture is a progressive design laboratory of highly passionate students and a distinguished faculty of practicing architects, • Our urban campus takes advantage of our location in San Francisco’s innovation hub. who work together to explore the boundaries of one of the most compelling professions you can enter today. • Our programs pair conceptual design rigor with technical excellence. We are dedicated to advancing the field of architecture by offering academic • We embrace and address contemporary culture and societal developments. programs that foster critical thinking, artistic vision, and responsible leadership. We offer an excellent design education by developing each student’s capacity to • We actively participate in an international up-to-date architectural discourse. synthesize critical thought, architectural vision and technical comprehension. • Our fabrication labs and shop facilities are outstanding. Dedicated to the relationship between theory, up to date technical • We are at the pulse of contemporary research, production, and building design. developments, advanced architectural design, and the practice of making and building, the program has an exceptional profile. With a distinguished faculty • We create a supportive environment recognizing the diversity of our student body. of practicing architects, diverse collaboration teams, emerging technologies, fabrication labs, and sensitivity to sustainable methods – together we will • Our students have the opportunity to engage in real world community projects. participate in shaping our physical world. • Our School of Architecture offers two Study Abroad Programs in Europe. Our international and exceptionally diverse community enables us to propagate • Our B.Lab initiative offers design-build studio opportunities. a unique culture from which we address relevant questions on the future of our global built environment. • Our faculty and students represent an international and highly diverse community.

• We collaborate within a large art university engaging with other creative experts.

• Our Graduates enter the profession well prepared as responsible leaders in their field.

• We offer the only fully Online NAAB Accredited M.Arch and B.Arch Programs in the US.

• We are the only higher arts education institution in the U.S. to have an

NCAA athletics program.

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Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) Bachelor of Arts in Our Architectural Design (BA) Unit requirements Unit requirements Core 36 units Core 36 units Major 69 units Major 45 units Humanities 12 units Humanities 6 units Liberal Arts 45 units Liberal Arts 45 units Curriculum TOTAL 162 units TOTAL 132 units

Through our programs, we enable our students to become Offered as a first professional degree, The Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design responsible leaders in their field, who have the skills to envision, the Bachelor of Architecture program is grounded in environmental design, provides an intense design education by providing a relevant and engaging studio- design and construct a desirable and viable future. developing each student’s capacity to based and portfolio-driven undergraduate analyze, synthesize, and develop intelligent education. Students will develop their architectural designs. The B.Arch allows an abilities and understanding in architectural undergraduate student to most efficiently design, art, architectural history and theory, Architectural Tectonic pursue an architecture license and fundamentals of sustainability and building Explorations Understanding successfully enter the profession with a tectonics, as well as advanced design comprehensive portfolio. representation tools. Architecture graduates are critical thinkers and problem solvers that develop a diverse range of skills and qualities during their studies. Supported by the insight of Graduate Degrees practicing faculty, we strive First year studios teach fundamental design Students develop a high level of competence Master of Architecture (M.Arch) Master of Art of Advanced skills from which students can pursue in the technical aspects of architectural Architectural Design (MA.ARH) to educate future architects their architectural interests. Projects are design through thoughtful integration of that are able to bridge geared to improve the students’ ability to structure, building, and envelope systems, as Unit requirements Track I Unit requirements Track I conceptualize, develop, and communicate well as sustainability and future technologies. Major 48 units Major 24 units artistic vision with technical spatial ideas. Electives 9 units Major Elective 6 units comprehension. Directed Study 6 units Elective 6 units TOTAL 63 units TOTAL 36 units Conceptual Independent Unit requirements Track II Unit requirements Track II Design Thinking Investigations Major 66 units Major 42 units Electives 15 units Major Elective 6 units Directed Study 6 units Elective 12 units TOTAL 87 units TOTAL 60 units

The NAAB accredited Master of Architecture The WSCUC accredited Master of Arts in (M.Arch) is a holistic professional program Advanced Architectural Design (MA-ARH offered in two tracks. Dedicated to the I and MA-ARH II) post professional degree relationship of theory, up to date technical programs allow students to specialize in Through an analysis and understanding of In their final project students formulate a developments, contemporary architectural a particular area of interest. Dedicated to type, program, and site, students will explore research topic, and investigate concept, design and the practice of making and advanced architectural design investigations the synthesis of an architectural concept context and typology such as physical building. The program bridges the latest immersed inside a large and vibrant art from its early design schematics towards site characteristics, environmental and design methods in architecture with and design university, the program has its final physical manifestation. We foster programmatic factors as well as cultural and integrated technical competence. The an exceptional profile. Students develop critical design thinking skills and teach up societal developments that influence their professional M.Arch degree offers an their own design interests covering diverse to date, effective, and contemporary design architectural design. internationally recognized credential and is fields that mediate between contemporary processes so our students are capable to be the first step towards professional licensure architectural developments, advanced confident and successful once they enter the in the US as well as in many other countries design theory and techniques, and emerging profession. around the globe. technology. 4 5 San Francisco

Our home since 1929. We are located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, a global hub for forward thinking ideas. Cultural tolerance, open mindedness, and ethnic diversity, continue to define this city.T he international arts and cultural scene and the leading technical innovation that originates here is changing and shaping our world like no other region.

We are utilizing this exceptional location and our urban campus as a laboratory for our architectural explorations that project far into the future of what architecture has to offer, what it can be, or might become.

In addition to this, the Bay Area has an array of exceptional architecture from recognized masters like Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and Pier-Luigi Nervi to international contemporary practices like Snøhetta, Foster and Partners, and Herzog de Meuron among many others. In addition to this, many new and exciting buildings are currenly projected by world renown firms like OMA, Jeanne Gang, Heatherwick Studio, Bjarke Ingels Group, and many others.

San Francisco is truly among one of the most exciting places in the world to study architecture.

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Student in one of the courtyards of the spectacular De Young Museum by Herzog & de Meuron Academy of Science THEATRES & VENUES MUSEUMS Major Works of Renzo Piano The Fillmore / Bill Graham Civic Auditorium / Asian Art Museum / Contemporary Jewish Architecture The Warfield / The Shoreline Amphitheater / Museum / de Young Museum / California Marin Civic Center - Frank Lloyd Wright / World renowned architect Renzo Great American Music Hall / The Fox Theatre Academy of Sciences / Legion of Honor / De Young Museum - Herzog and de Meuron Piano’s vision for the new California / SHN Orpheum Theater / The American Yerba Buena Center for the Arts / The Beat / California Academy of Sciences - Renzo Conservatory Theater / The Castro Theatre Museum / The Berkeley Museum / Cable Academy of Sciences creates an Piano / Transamerica Pyramid - William L. / SFJAZZ / SF Conservatory of Music / San Car Museum / Palace of Fine Arts Theatre / outstanding model for sustainable Pereira & Associates / Federal Building - Francisco Opera / SF Symphony / SF Ballet Exploratorium / Walt Disney Family Museum Morphosis / University Art Museum Berkeley design at an unprecedented scale, / Museum of Performance & Design / - Mario J. Ciampi / SF Art Institute - Paffard the building is among the largest Museum of Craft & Design / Museum of the Keating Clay / Yerba Buena Lofts - Stanley PARKS AND URBAN SPACES African Diaspora / Museo Italo Americano / museums of natural history in the Saitowitz & Natoma Architects / Music Golden Gate Park / Embacadero / Union Oakland Museum of California / Museum of world with roughly about 1.5 million Library at UC Berkeley - Mack Scogin Merrill Square / Yerba Buena Gardens / Levi Plaza Modern Art (MOMA) / Cartoon Art Museum Elam Architects / Russell House - Erich visitors annually. / Presidio of San Francisco / Crissy Field / / Academy of Art University Automobile Mendelson / One Maritime Plaza - SOM / Marina Green / South Park /Ocean Beach/ Museum Jewish Contemporary Museum - Daniel Land’s End / Marin Headlands Libeskind / Hyatt Regency / John Portman AAU GALLERIES & Associates / Saint Mary’s Cathedral - Pier Luigi Nervi / Congregation Beth Sholom - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Atelier / 625 Gallery / The Cannery Stanley Saitowitz / Hallidie Building - Willis Photo by: Peter Kaminski [CC BY-SA 4.0 - image is cropped]* MUNI / AC Transit / BART (Bay Area Rapid / 688 Gallery / Spring Show Transit) / Cal Train / Golden Gate Transit / Polk / SF Jazz - Mark Cavagnero Associates SamTrans / Plan Your Trip with 511.org / V.C. Morris Gift Shop - Frank Lloyd Wright / De Young Museum NEWS 1234 Howard Street & 1028 Natoma Street - Stanley Saitowitz & Natoma Architects SFGate / SF Bay Guardian / The San Herzog De Meuron / Crown-Zellerbach Building One Bush Francisco Chronicle / The SF Weekly Designed by the internationally Plaza - SOM /Mission Bay Block 27 Parking renowned Swiss firm of Herzog Structure - WRNS Studio / Golden Gate & de Meuron, winners of the Bridge - Joseph B. Strauss / The Cathedral of Christ the Light - SOM / Dominus Winery - 2001 Pritzker Prize, the de Young Herzog and de Meuron / Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is among the best new museum buildings in the world. The elegant, twisting tower rising above the tree line, provides visitors with dramatic views.

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V. C. Morris Gift Shop Frank Lloyd Wright The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 as a proof of concept and physical prototype for the circulation ramp at the seminal Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2007 the store was listed among the 150 Photo of SF Skyline by: Dllu [CC BY-SA 4.0 - image is cropped and darkened]* favorite buildings in America by the American Institute of Architects. These are just three examples of DISCOUNTS the world-class architecture San Francisco and the Bay Area has Our partnerships get our students further with discounts to offer. See a selected list on the that let them enjoy the San Francisco life to the fullest. right for more and come here to For a list of where our students can get some great deals visit: experience it for yourself. www.academyart.edu/students/city-life 8 9 Our Graduate Students Throughout the studio centric program, our graduate students become top designers, who share a deeper understanding of architecture. We provide them with the knowledge and abilities necessary to investigate their ideas and transform their architectural visions into built reality. We strongly believe in our students’ potential to shape the future of the our environment as critical leaders in their field.

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Nojan Adami M.Arch Mehul Patel M.Arch Design Studio This design for a Hybrid Tower in the vibrant SOMA district employs an intelligent steel structure that utilizes the resulting tectonic freedom in order to extract surprising spatial qualities for the interior of the building.

Luna Yue Deng Alireza Arabshahi y U B O S h en M.Arch Thesis M.Arch Thesis M.Arch Design Studio This proposal tackles the question The project connects The tectonics of a roof of anthropogenic climate change San Francisco to Silicon Valley by assembly for an underground as it relates to the architectural creating an aggregation of spatial structure led to multiple abstract environment of an urban farming pixels acting as a virtual technology models exploring various dome center in the northern part of the museum. The concept results in a shapes that are closely related city of Beijing. The architectural three-dimensional display or to the spatial program and response of the project follows habitable screen. The proposal acts programmatic requirements, as from a close investigation of as a device that will allow people to well as the structural properties resilience through climatic explore past, present, and future of the larger architectural design adaptation. technology in an entirely new way. project.

Fang Huizhong M.Arch Design Studio This design for a museum Zulhumar TurghUN complex in San Francisco’s M.Arch Design Studio Presidio Park explores The design for a new library conceptual building design in typology in Lincoln Park, San relation to typology, site, and Francisco, proposes an innovative context. With their distorted tensile roof assembly that is reflections, the curved glass based on cloud like information walls of the public areas create a aggregation in this library concept. mysterious atmosphere, which The tectonic assembly engages in mediates between the art and an interesting dialectic relationship the natural experiences in the with the more conceptual aspects museum design. of this particular design approach.

12 13 Nojan Adami, M.Arch Yang hU M.Arch Thesis M.Arch Introductory Following current political Design Studio developments on a global ”Soft Exchange” architectural scale, this thesis is based on infiltration of transient populations the factual observation of the and their commuter patterns at societal phenomenon of political San Francisco’s Powell Station. “numbness” which does not prevail as much in societies that possess and support a more dexterous street culture. The subsequent proposal of the ”Political Bazaar” is an underground market and an Hannah MOON above-ground open plaza design, which has the ability to serve as M.Arch Thesis an architectural paradigm for The project is a vertical activating and further urbanizing exploration tower within a river in American city centers. Rovaniemi, Finland. The building harvests energy for itself and the building programs. It accesses and stores power from the nearby river. The building seeks to be an icon, a celebration of immersion into the Lapland region and its natural resources while concurrently embracing technological advancement and sustainability.

Tara Abedini M.Arch Design Studio The design for an urban natatorium in San Francisco’s SOMA district applies a spatial phenomenology that is pushing the limits of the experiential qualities of bathing and the boundary between public and private through this considerate approach to the typology. Jiale Ma - M.Arch Thesis The proposal “Soul Keeper: Center for Intangible Culture“ concerns Xi’an, a UNESCO World heritage site, where new construction mimics and replaces historic buildings. The intangible historical culture in cities like Xi‘an is often evident through a specific vernacular resultuing from cultural traditions that create a certain local identity. The proposed center mediates this craft of intangible cultural practices and stimulates interaction with local inhabitants. The architecture bridges traditional and contemporary building methods to create a realm of authenticity that is deeply rooted in its locality. 14 15 Tsz Wai Leung M.Arch Thesis “LiSC” or “Living in Shared Community” is an innovative housing proposal that utilizes the concept of shared economy to address the chronic housing challenges that face cities worldwide. The project introduces a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable community that is founded on the opportunities of sharing across all these sectors in response to the lack of affordable housing in urban areas. The projects generates an affordability for lower and middle- income urban populations, as well as social and cultural amenities Ying Wang through an increase in the M.Arch Studio communal activities that take place in the public spaces throughout the The proposal explores human project. (See this project also on the experiences and cultural cover of this book). idiosyncrasies as a programmatic basis to develop a sequence of experiences. A progression of site mapping analysis drawings were instrumental in the development of a scheme for the projected architecture. The student then implemented her abstract concept into a distinct program that deals with specific architectural phenomena. Ben Xuhan Shi M.Arch Thesis This thesis project attempts to link architecture and education through the design of a kindergarten that acts as a 3-dimensional text book. By researching children‘s brain development stages and different types of intelligence, as well as materials, methods of construction and spatial qualities, the goal is to design a new space for learning.

16 17 Alexander Siegfried M.Arch Design Studio The striking design for a new modern art museum in the Presidio Park in San Francisco incorporates an elegant, innovative, as well as smart tectonic approach. The resulting light roof rises out of the natural topography and spans over open spaces creating an engaging dichotomy with the art that is housed under it. The design carefully bridges the relationship of the beautiful landscape with a similar beautiful building.

Digital Morphology Digital Fabrication Research by design Research by Design The generation of minimal surface The group project above and Kawinthra structures was investigated through below investigates properties of tensile experiments that train an concrete casts applying a time Chongsuksantikul artificial intelligence to predict based oscillating formwork through M.Arch Design Studio optimized emerging forms. robotic technology. The design for a public library in downtown San Francisco, reinvents the given typology of library buildings in the digital age and carefully integrates itself into the compelling urban fabric.

ROBOTIC Assembly Research by design Wood structure assembly test applying robotic technology in the construction of simple wood structures and joinery systems.

Our research by design is geared to the latest developments in building construction, in order to prepare our students to an ever changing future. 18 19 Our Undergraduate Students Building on the foundation of fundamental design, ethical awareness, and liberal arts, we offer intermediate and advanced design studios that help the students to unfold their creative potential. Our undergraduate students enter the profession well prepared, as we educate them to become critical thinkers and visionary designers with skills and experiences to carry them into their architectural careers.

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Meng Fan B.Arch Kenta OyeB Oscar Lopez B.Arch 2nd year B.Arch second year Design Studio media CLASS This studio asks students to A series or architectural drawings balance the design of a homeless were collaged to produce a novel shelter that gives dignity to those interpretation of the building. This experiencing homelessness digital media course questions while embracing the community how drawings and models can be in a meaningful way. Kenta’s descriptive and exploratory. homeless shelter for musicians uses reflections (therapeutic and acoustic) as the guiding principle.

M eng F an Malak Bellajdel, Nhat Huynh, B.Arch 1st year Hussein Saleh d E S i gn S t u d i o B.Arch 2nd year Design Studio This project is based on a study of This experimental design project launched a series of spatial transformations with an investigation of how the mutation of that are then combined and abnormal cells in the body mutate.The result is further developed to become a proposal for a fashion laboratory where the a “passageway” in which the program takes advantage of the transformations experience of a path is enhanced of structure, space and form. Students work r O y P a r k & i N t uon S a i c h ua by shifting architectural planes at the scale of the body and then the scale of a B.Arch 1st year Design Studio creating unique solid and building in this studio to explore the possibilities The construction of a Case Study model of a house by void patterns. offered by the study of non-architectural and San Francisco architect, Ann Fougeron allows students Oscar Frick natural processes. to analyze the strong design logic utilized in the realization of a built project. B.Arch second year media class This drawing explodes the design for a pavilion to demonstrate how the different pieces interact. By pulling them apart, this reveals the relationship between part and whole.

22 23 MAURITS DE GANS B.ARCH FOURTH YEAR STUDIO A series of public urban rooms are vertically organized and connected via circulation axes in a tall building. Intertwined with the public urban rooms are private urban rooms that sometimes overlap where programmatically appropriate to encourage discovery of shared interests that lead to new opportunities for interactions. SAL ALAJMI, B.ARCH THESIS STUDIO JUSTIN As a counterpoint to the GUNAWAN industrialization of the American B.Arch food production, the project integrates urban farms, small-scale Thesis food processing facilities, farmers’ STUDIO markets, and a food museum for “Brownfield to consumers to reduce the gap Biodiversity“ between people and food in order A bee apiary to educate upcoming generations promotes for nutritious living. biodiversity on the site, and public recreational paths provide visitors a range of active and passive experiences. This is achieved through the bridging of the park’s layers while reactivating them through an array of pavilions that incorporate and promote its unique conditions.

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24 25 Seung Kee Kim B.Arch THESIS Studio “Aqua Healing Center” - The concrete channel of the LA River creates an opportunity to address the need for a rehabilitation center where mutual symbiosis between marine and human life may occur through therapeutic interaction and allow biologists and the public to access the river.

Sikharin Chayaratana B.Arch DESIGN Studio ”Porous Barrier” - Instead of being expressed as a divider, the wall can be a porous connector of two separate and contrasting sides. The purpose of the wall in this project is to reveal what is being concealed by our own perception: the phenomenal barrier.

FAISAL ALANGARI B.Arch FOURTH YEAR Studio The Vertical Promenade in a tall building creates new program relationships and unique spatial experiences. The procession along the Vertical Promenade offers a constantly changing experience of the city. A continuous stair that begins at the street level winds through the tower culminating at the highest floor in a Public Space with a 360 degree panoramic view, which includes views of the city hall. 26 27 Cory SkiLLMAN Saeed Al Neyadi B.Arch THESIS Studio B.Arch Thesis Studio ”LEARN Pods” - The advent of ”Urban Follies” - The design newer and quicker technologies exaggerates sensual perception and has, ironically, begun to slow the everyday issues we typically architecture down. By designing ignore in order to create a series environments that are quickly of experiences through which one fabricated, assembled, and encounters unseen sensations. deployed, architecture can be more This happens by stretching the respondent to its community of unseen and mapping its unnoticed users as it adapts to their ever- movement through formal studies changing needs. of shadows across time. In-between spaces emerge when splitting and stretching the site. These spaces do not participate in the visible world, yet they happen precisely in that location and moment where anything can occur. The follies express such moments in a way that it makes everyone aware of the unseen.

José Melara & Mohammad Talakey B.Arch 4th year Housing Design Studio ”Embrace” - Transitional Housing designed for the Lower East Side of Manhattan promotes community spaces within an urban courtyard. The project was submitted to the Timber in the City student architectural competition encourages the innovative uses of wood as both structural and finish material in a multi-story project.

28 29 Rebecca Migan, B.ARCH Thesis ”Hydro-kinetic Promenade” A hypothetical water treatment plant in middle of the LA River creates an opportunity to educate the public by designing a hydrology institution that provides research labs, exhibition, demonstration spaces and recreational areas for the public to interact with students and scientists. Ahmad Jabassini B.Arch Design Studio John Castaneda A new Visitor’s Center at Mt. Diablo State Park gives this student the B.ARCH Thesis opportunity to respond to a natural “The Institution Behind Homes” site with a sensitive and compelling Harnessing the open/shared proposal. The design harnesses space potential of an existing the use of daylight, changing parking garage in Los Angeles and views, materials, and structure in breaking down the corridor/site a subtle building that orchestrates into smaller scales, using natural an elongated path through the light and color, and eliminating northern California landscape. dead-ends, the thesis provides a home rather than a conventional memory-care institution.

STEFAN ULTSCH B.Arch THESIS Studio “Challenging the Museum” The traditional museum typology is challenged by the careful weaving of public and private while exploring the site as the medium of integration. At times a secluded and private process, the artists reveal their practice to the public while the architecture allows for their protection, while encouraging visual and personal interaction.

30 31 I’ve been in this community “all my life. Hunters Point is a great place, alot of great family, great community. I would love to see this Social model become life in this community. The residents would really benefit from having something to sit on, for kids to play on, a place to hang out as a family and enjoy Engagement the nice scenery we have here. I think it would be great! You Many of our students are change makers and leaders, who are able to advocate for social guys are doing a wonderful equity. Engagement with issues that confront our contemporary society, particularly job. I hope and pray we get in the public urban context, is intertwined with the architecture curriculum supporting enough money to build what students with a passion to build for good. we need in order to make this community better!

- M Latrice Manuel ” Resident Services Coordinator, SFHDC, Hunters Point East

B.Lab Design Build STUDIO Guerrilla Coffee Unit B.Lab is the Building Lab design/ The Design Build Studio takes A student-built mobile coffee cart build program in the School of the mission of B.Lab into the designed to serve people who are Architecture with a mission to curriculum inviting 4th and 5th year experiencing homelessness in San cultivate and foster a spirit of B.Arch and BA students to engage Francisco, creates a new safe space diversity, equity and advocacy real clients and users, investigate to converse, listen and tell stories, for future public practice among real sites and propose and build by giving someone on the street students through community- real solutions that harness all of the a literal place to sit, a warm cup focused projects working with real skills learned in the architecture of coffee, and someone to clients and users. program. converse with.

32 33 NAAB Studio Accreditation Culture Our B.Arch (162 units) and M.Arch (63 and 87 units) degrees are In architecture education the studio encompasses the learning accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) environment, the students, the faculty and the ideas that are These accredited degrees pave the way to licensure. The accredited promoted within each project. It is a culture that supports curiosity, degree represents a high educational standard and is valued within the investigation and production. All our onsite students have their own US and beyond. workspace in a studio that they share with their peers during their studies. The National Architectural THE STUDIO ENVIRONMENT Accrediting Board Both online and onsite studio environments in the architecture In the United States, most registration boards require a degree from an programs encourage public and transparent dialogue between students accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. and faculty. Onsite students see quickly that the environment is one of open The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole studio “classrooms” and presentation spaces in our amazing building at agency authorized to accredit professional degree programs in architecture 601 Brannan in San Francisco’s trendy SoMA district. Online, students are offered by institutions with U.S. regional accreditation, recognizes three engaged in discussion and activities through the online platform as well as types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, social media and real time streaming of our events. and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted an eight-year, Beyond the architecture of our building and the connectivity of our three-year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its technology, we strive to create a positive and diverse overall academic conformance with established educational standards. climate, supportive of group and individual discovery and learning. We Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degree programs promote the ideals critical to achieving a successful studio collaboration: may require a preprofessional undergraduate degree in architecture for optimism, respect, sharing, engagement, innovation, and the worth of time. admission. However, the preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized The inherent value of all individuals from all backgrounds is recognized as an accredited degree. and respected.

The Academy of Art University, School of Architecture, offers the following NAAB-accredited degree programs:

B. Arch (162 undergraduate credits) Next accreditation visit 2018

M. Arch (preprofessional degree + 63 graduate credits) M. Arch (non-preprofessional degree + 87 graduate credits) Next accreditation visit 2021

34 35 mimi sullivan Executive Director Mimi Sullivan, AIA, is a licensed architect in California and a principal of Saida + Sullivan Design Partners ( www.saidasullivan.com ). She came to Our the Academy of Art in 1999 as the founding Director launching the School of Architecture. She has taught architecture at the university level in the United States and in Japan. Ms. Sullivan’s 25 years of diverse experience includes extensive work in award winning multi-family/mixed use housing as well as commercial, retail, civic building and custom single family homes. Mimi received her Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from Rice University and her Master of Architecture and Master of Arts in International Studies Faculty from the University of Oregon. Our distinguished faculty of practicing architects is working closely with our students to investigate, Mark Mueckenheim explore, and advance the field of architecture and open Graduate Director up a world of knowledge, imagination, and exciting Mark Mueckenheim is a licensed architect in Germany and the EU, the principal of MCKNHM Architects ( www. MCKNHM.com ) and the possibilities. co-author of the book “Inspiration — contemporary design methods in architecture“. He received his Master of Architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York, and his Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His experience ranges from concept to realization on various projects of internationally recognized design excellence. His award winning work has been featured in various international exhibitions, books and journal publications. Mark Mueckenheim has taught and lectured internationally. He joined the Academy in 2013.

Jennifer Asselstine Undergraduate Director Jennifer Asselstine AIA has 30 years of experience in architecture and design and runs a design office in San Anselmo. She joined the Academy of Art University in 2004 and has been the Director of the Undergraduate program since 2012. Leading the first graduates through this program has been one of her most rewarding experiences. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Minnesota, where she received an award from the American Institute of Architects. She studied at London’s Architectural Association and worked in the U.S., London, Malaysia and Australia on projects ranging from hotels and senior housing to an IMAX theater. She won a design award from the American Society of Interior Designers for the Red Cross Headquarters and Blood Processing Center.

Eric Lum Online Director Eric Lum, AIA, Ph.D., LEED BD+C, is a licensed architect in the state of California and NCARB certified. He has taught at the Academy since 2008, and has been Online Director since 2011. He believes that online education develops critical architectural skills, as working within a networked environment increasingly becomes an integral part of professional practice. He has worked for several internationally known firms, and is a principal in his own firm. He studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gained his doctorate in architectural history.

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Faculty and students are gathered in the atrium during a lecture Yim Gloria Jew Maria Paz De Moura Castro Graduate Assistant Director Graduate Thesis Coordinator Yim Gloria Jew AIA, EDAC is a licensed architect in the state of Texas. Maria Paz is a founding partner of Rizoma Arquitetura (www.rizoma.arq. She has been teaching since her graduate studies at the Harvard Graduate br). Her office has worked on award winning buildings and projects, which School of Design. She has held academic appointments and professorships are widely recognized through numerous international publications, among at the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Tufts University, UNLV and CCA. them, Wallpaper, Azul Magazine, AU, Vogue Brazil, Designboom, Arch Yim was Design Director at Gensler and developed the firm’s hospitality Daily, L’architecture D’aujourdhui France, and the Financial Times, London and retail portfolio. At HDR, Inc she was Design Principal for the project England. Her work is exhibited internationally. Recent venues include the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, using her expertise in healthcare, hospital and Brazilian Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Carnegie hospitality design. At both firms she has garnered AIA awards for their Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the German Architecture Museum. projects and the highly coveted Estidama Sustainability Award for the Paz lectured internationally in South America, Europe and the US. Her many Cleveland Clinic Hospital. She has collaborated with performance artists Eth awards include a nomination for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Noh Tec, and Anne Carson.

KAREN SEONG PETER SUEN Undergraduate Assistant Director Graduate Emerging Technologies Coordinator Karen Seong is a licensed architect in California and New York, a LEED Peter Suen received a Masters of Architecture from U.C. Berkeley, where he accredited professional, and NCARB certified. She developed her was an Eisner Prize and Henry Adams AIA Medal recipient. As a Research professional expertise while with Skidmore Owings and Merrill in New York Specialist, he worked on advanced facades including self-regulating and in San Francisco. She held leadership positions working collaboratively membranes and microlens arrays for greywater disinfection. Before with large international teams on awardwinning projects ranging from architecture, Peter worked both as an intellectual property attorney and high-rise to institutional buildings in the US and in the Middle East. Karen as a software developer. He received a JD from Stanford Law School in has previously taught at UC Berkeley and has been a guest critic at various 2002 and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon institutions in the US and in Korea. She received a Bachelor of Arts in University in 2004. Working as an architect in San Francisco, he has had the Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Columbia opportunity to work on a wide range of projects from tiny micro-apartment University with distinction. lofts to large winery developments.

NICOLE LAMBROU Dora Epstein Jones Graduate Midpoint Coordinator Graduate History Theory Coordinator Nicole Lambrou is a registered architect in the state of New York. She Dora Epstein Jones, Ph.D., is an architectural theorist, historian and curator received a Masters of Architecture from Yale University in 2006. She has whose work advocates for the central role of building in architecture. She worked in Germany with Behnisch Architekten, and collaborated on a has published widely on the history of the architectural discipline, including rotating exhibition with Transsolar representing human impact on the planet works for Log, ArcCA, Art Papers, multiple anthologies, and on behalf of throughout history. Before founding her own practice, Nicole was engaged the Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture. She is the former in collaborative partnership with AE Design where she completed several Coordinator of History and Theory, and the former Coordinator of General houses at Sea Ranch, CA. Nicole received various accolades throughout her Studies at SCI-Arc, and the Executive Director of the A+D Architecture and design career among them the second place for the design of a public library Design Museum in Los Angeles. She is a Fellow of the American Council of in Gevgelija, Macedonia in an international competition sponsored by the UN Learned Societies, and a regular guest critic at the Ohio State University, and the Yale School of Architecture Drawing Prize. USC, UC Berkeley and Harvard.

DAVID GILL DORON SERBAN Graduate Architecture Advisor Undergraduate Emerging Technology Coordinator David Gill is a licensed architect with over 20 years of practice. He received a Doron Serban is a full-time faculty member and the undergraduate emerging Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction from California College of Arts and technologies coordinator. Besides teaching, Doron Serban is a designer Crafts (now CCA). He went on to work for Kuth / Ranieri and Mark Horton working in the Bay Area. Through Doron Serban Design, his professional / Architecture, before founding his own practice. Besides being a faculty work navigates building design, design competitions, photography, member at the graduate school of architecture at Academy of Art University, cinematography, motion design, branding, and architectural visualization. teaching advanced design studios, thesis development and refinement, He received his graduate degree in architecture from Syracuse University’s and materials and methods. He has also taught graduate design studios at School of Architecture and his undergraduate degree in music from the CCA, and has been a guest critic at University of San Francisco, University of University of California, Riverside. California at Berkeley,Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Stanford.

38 39 Alberto Bertoli Sameena Sitabkhan Chair Emeritus Community Outreach Coordinator Mr. Bertoli has vast experience in different areas of the architectural As a licensed architect, Sameena has designed and managed a range of building profession. His work ranges from the planning of shuttle facilities for the typologies over the past 15 years. Her practice pinkTank (www.pinktank.xyz) and space program to the designing of a performing arts center. He most research looks at the intersection of architecture and conflict, and she’s been an recently designed the InterContinental San Francisco hotel. His work has artist and curator in residence in Mexico, Decolonizing Architecture in the West also been recognized by multiple AIA Chapters, the Architectural Association Bank, and most recently as a fellow at the YBCA. Formerly an Associate at David of France, and at numerous international competitions. Mr. Bertoli started Baker Architects, designing and managing affordable housing projects, Sameena his formal education at the University of Buenos Aires, and continued at is currently studio faculty and the B.Lab Coordinator. She is focused on creating Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He has his professional license through the State opportunities for student engagement in community based projects, including of California. Before joining the Academy he was a lecturer at Cal Poly SLO, making with an emphasis on advocacy. Sameena has an undergraduate degree in UCLA Graduate School of Architecture, and taught for more than 20 years at Urban Planning from the University of California, San Diego, and a Masters Degree SCIARC. in Architecture from SCIArc in Los Angeles.

Braden Engel Eva Chiu Undergraduate Architecture History & Theory Undergraduate First Year Studio Coordinator Coordinator Eva Chiu was born and raised in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Braden Engel is a full-time faculty member and undergraduate history Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of theory coordinator. He has taught internationally – at the Architectural Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design where she was Association, London, the University of Greenwich, London, and he was a granted the Alpha Rho Chi award. Eva’s academic achievements included a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Architecture at California College of the Arts, Lecturer in Award followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Hong Kong, PRC. She worked previously Architecture at UC Santa Cruz and at the University of California Berkeley at Richard Meier & Partners in New York, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill in before joining Academy of Art University. Braden received an M.A. in San Francisco before starting her own firm, Clad Studio (www.cladstudio.com) with Histories & Theories of Architecture from the Architectural Association, her partner, Antonio Lau, in Oakland, California. Before joining the first year design London, and an M.Arch. and a B.S. in Philosophy from North Dakota State studio faculty at the Academy of Art University, Eva taught at University of California University. His written work has been published in the United States Berkeley and was a guest lecturer and reviewer at other institutions in the US and abroad. and abroad.

Alex Neyman Undergraduate Collaboration, Communication & ARH 210 Coordinator Additional Adjunct Faculty: Alexandra Neyman holds both a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan. She also attended School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, as well as Center School of Architecture Faculty Roster 2016-2018: for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, and Schusev’s School of Art and Design Paul Adamson, Jesse W. Agosta, Vivek Annand, Jason Austin, Lise Barriere, in Russia. Alex’s academic interests and experimental research aim to integrate theoretical morphological studies, actively utilizing data from a Simon Battisti, Janek Bielski, Alvaro Bonfiglio Bardier, Laura Brugger, Carol Buhrmann, wide range of sources, her work aims to generate new principles for design Abraham Burickson, David Campbell, Blaise Cannon, Mini Chu, Benjamin Corotis, and invent new spatial logics and organizations that have an influence on physiologies of form. Mark Cruz, Mallory Cusenbery, Benjamin Damron, Jaime Daroca, Stephanie Davidson, Chris Kelton Dissel, Shruti Dixit, Mark Donahue, Lionel Eid, Cesar Escalante, Goetz Frank, Peter Gang, Miranda Gardiner, Alexa Getting, Geoffrey Gibson, Stewart Green,J ulia Vahid Sattary Grinkrug, Steve Gross, Kevin Hackett, Bo Han, Madeline Hartzell, Alexander Hathaway, Undergraduate Structures Coordinator Drake Hawthorne, Paul Haydu, Michael Heacock, Paul Jamtgaard, J. Hulett Jones, Dr. Vahid Sattary is a California Registered Structural and Civil Engineer and the principal of Sattary Structural and Earthquake Engineering. He has over Peter Kimelman, Joseph King, Stamatina Kousidi, Antonio Lao, Amy Leedham, 25 years experience in structural engineering and seismic design including Mei Kuen Liu, Michaela MacLeod, Sepideh Majidi, James Mallery, Katy Martin, the state-of-the-art design of seismic protective systems, base isolation and energy dissipation application in buildings. He has been the structural José Mayoral Moratilla, Jeffrey McLane,Z achary Meade, Shaum Mehra, Joel Millar, engineer for many projects including new building designs, seismic retrofit of Clifford Minnick, Mark Myers,J onathan Odom, Nathan Ogle, Patrick Ojeda, Francesca historic buildings, and structural evaluation studies. Vahid Sattary received Oliveira, John Onken, Edward Pertcheck, Sara Peschel, Christopher Pizzi, Keith Plymale, his BS in Civil Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and his MS in Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he Philip Ra, Eric Reeder, Benjamin Rice, Joseph Paul Rivers, Hans Sagan, David Schragger, later also obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. José Ramón Sierra y Gómez de León, Peter Strzebniok, Carlo Sturken, Fumio Suda, Susan Sutton, Sannihita Takkallapalli, Elizabeth Tippin, Vasilena Vassilev, Carl Wilford, Archibald Woo, Ethen Wood, Bill Worthen, Vince Yueh. 40 41 Faculty Work Our faculty accumulates a wealth of experience in the design and execution of outstanding buildings across the globe. The following pages only show a very small selection of recently completed buildings and designs by our faculty members.

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Maria Paz De Moura Castro [Rizoma Arquitetura] Galeria Lygia Pape - Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG / Brasil Mimi Sullivan Michaela Mcleod Saida + Sullivan Polymetis Design Partners HotBox - The Beaches Park, Executive director Toronto, Ontario, Canada school of (with partner Nicholas Croft www. polymetis.net).HotBox mimics a Architecture typology and heightens the contrast Saida + Sullivan’s mission is to between inside and outside, allowing achieve a “sense of place” through visitors to experience warmth in a the craft of architecture. The firm variety of associative means, while is well known in the Bay Area and acting as a catalyst for interaction beyond for high quality housing during Toronto’s Winterstations projects with an emphasis on social Festival. The installation Pink Punch housing, The firm is certified by attracts visitors by its striking color, the San Francisco Human Rights off the beaten path, and into the Commission. forest.

“HotBox” - The Beaches Park. Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter Strzebniok no t t oscale The Rondolino residence is a prefabricated, modular housing prototype. Due to its remote location, the home is completely independent from traditional public amenities and services, integrating sustainable building systems, ALTEZZA - Oakland, CA - Photo: Rien Van Rijthoven Mission Bay Block 11 - San Francisco, CA - Photo: Eric Rorer design materials, and alternative “Pink Punch” Installation at Jardin de Métis - Grand-Métis - Québec, Canada David Gill - Graduate renewable energy sources. Architecture Advisor and Full-Time Faculty David Gill is a licensed architect with over 20 years of practice. He has many years of experience in firms like Kuth / Ranieri, Mark Horton / Architecture, before founding his own practice. He now directs an interdisciplinary and collaborative design studio committed to developing the process of making things. He is currently involved in multiple projects in Oakland and Berkeley.

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“House of Air” - David Gill with Mark Horton / Architecture [as Project Architect] StewarT Green Simon Battisti Microsoft Campus Simon Battisti, Leah Whitman- PROJECT ARCHITECT Salkin, and design collective Åbäke WRNS StudiO represented Albania at the 15th International Biennale in Venice, The expansion of the campus Italy in 2016, with their project plan emphasizes sustainable entitled, “I Have Left You the solutions, collaboration and Mountain,” which seeks to “evoke health and wellness. A creekside places and loss through polyphonic environment, green roofs singing, or multi part lyric,” and to and new opportunities for display a theme of displacement sport, exercise and fitness are and migration, prevalent in Albanian integrated into this complex history, and recent European events. modernization of the corporate “I have left you the Mountain” Installation view - Venice Biennale 2016 - Photo: špela volčič property in Silicone Valley. Stewart brings his expertise in Stephanie Davidson large integrated projects into the Davidson Rafailidis 4th year design studio where he Stephanie Davidson’s and Georg skillfully guides the student work. Rafailidis’ studio is focused on Microsoft’s New Silicon Valley Headquarters - Rendering: WRNS Studio designing tight projects with equally tight budgets. They have G oe t z F r an k won competitions and awards, L ea d P r o j ec t A r c h i t ec t and have been published in SF-Jazz Center Mark books, journals and magazines Cavagnero Associates internationally. The SFJAZZ Center is the first Cafe Fargo - Buffalo, NY - Photo: Florian Holzherr freestanding venue in the US designed specifically for the performance, appreciation and enjoyment of jazz. The Center, which opened in January 2013, establishes a hub of music, culture, and community.

SF Jazz - Mark Cavagnero Associates - San Francisco, CA - Photo: Kyle Jeffers

SF Jazz - Mark Cavagnero Associates - San Francisco, CA - Photo: Tim Griffith He, She & It - Buffalo, NY - Photo: Florian Holzherr 46 47 Jennifer Asselstine Jennifer’s thirty years of practice have spanned all scales, many typologies and most continents. Recent work has been focused on the deep commitment to collaboration and community- focused projects. In partnership with clients, users, makers, designers and builders there exists an opportunity for design-thinking and communication to enhance the value of architecture in the service of the inhabitants.

International Antarctic Center - Competition - Punta Arenas, Chile

PRÁCTICA Jaime Daroca Guerrero, José Mayoral Moratilla, and José Ramón Sierra Gómez de León are PRÁCTICA. The partners met at the GSD and run their successful office in Spain and Chile, they are all teaching at the School of Architecture. Jaime Daroca Daroca Arquitectos

Stone and Wood House - Knolls, CA Project Architect at Daroca PAAU Design Built - San Anselmo, CA - With School of Architecture with Antje Paiz Arqitectos Employment Building, Training and Employment Building -Granada, Spain - Daroca Arquitectos - Photo: Fernando Alda Baza, Spain. Jason Austin SuralArk - Socrates Sculpture Park, Jonathan Odom Jonathan is a designer maker, and Queens, NY artist. After studying architecture, Austin+Mergold LLC curiosity and a dedication to making SuralArk is an American vernacular has led him to explore a diverse interpretation of the original range of disciplines including film, Noah’s vessel. It has its formal special effects, animatronics, roots as a (discarded) upturned custom homes, interactive museum ship cast ashore. Jason utilizes exhibits, furniture, parklets, and his dual degrees in Architecture industrial design. Besides being and Landscape Architecture in a dedicated teacher, Jonathan the development of his practice is a full-time member of the Austin+Mergold and in the design Instructables Design Studio at studio with his students. Autodesk where he experiments with CAD design and digital fabrication. Jonathan-Odom--XYZen-Garden 48 49

SuralArk - Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY - Jason Timberlake Austin and Aleksandr Mergold Phillip rA Mark Mueckenheim CJ O N LY O N E R & D Ct r MCKNHM Architekten SEOUL, KOREA MCKNHM is an award winning Lead Designer architecture and design firm. Yazdani Studio The work focuses on architectural and urban planning projects CannonDesiGN that cover a diverse range of Philip’s research and passion for typologies, scales and locations. both experimental design and The collaborative and analytical technology was fostered at USC process, follows a research and and Harvard GSD, and remains concept driven design approach evident in his design leadership as well as a comprehensive design today across many project types. strategy. Mark Mueckenheim’s His passion for both architecture work has been featured in various and digital technology has lead him CJ Blossom Park - Gyeonggi-do, South Korea international book and journal to be an absolute innovator. Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign and Heerim Architects publications and has also gained reputation through a number of international exhibitions.

M20 Museum - Competition - Berlin, Germany CMYK House - Moers, Germany - Photo: Julien Lanoo

benJamin damron Wayne Morse Federal Restaurante Oiticica - Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG / Brasil Courthouse Maria Paz De Head designer for M ou r a C as t r o morphosis Rizoma Arquitetura architects Maria Paz’s office Rizoma bases As a senior designer at Morphosis, its work method on the idea of a Ben designed award-winning rhizome, a botanical root system. projects. Since then he has engaged Unlike the root of the vertically his design skills and focused growing tree, the rhizome has no interest in material use and the hierarchical structure, it functions impact on experiential space across as a network. Her office therefore all scales – designing large towers operates in a constant form of for SOM and most recently at the knowledge exchange, where the award-winning design firm, Aidlin objectives are mutant and the Darling Design. Wayne Lyman Morse Courthouse - Morphosis - Eugene, Oregon, USA Galeria Tunga - Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG / Brasil premises negotiable. Photo: Visitor7 [CC BY-SA 3.0 - image cropped]** 50 51 Our Facilities

Experience physical building design with our fully equiped professional wood shop, emerging digital fabrication tools, and design studio spaces that closely replicate the culture of contemporary architectural profession. Robotics Lab WOOD SHOP METAL SHOP Our robotics lab is exploring Our fully equipped wood-shop The metal shop expands students’ emerging methods of facilities include a full array of hand opportunities to realize their representation and fabrication tools, table saws, drill presses, projects and explore the potentials within architecture and design. and a host of other tools. The of different material expression As robot technology is rapidly shop is staffed by qualified shop and technique. Students have the advancing within architecture technicians that support students opportunity to learn a variety of practice, we conduct hands-on in realizing a wide array of projects: metal fabrication processes. research by design tied to the from an intricate architectural profession and potential building model, to a custom furniture piece, applications which innovate or even larger installations. the field.

FABRICATION LABS Advanced digital fabrication equipment including laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC routers among many others are deeply embedded into our curriculum. Students learn to use these tools and apply them into their design process.

The School of Architecture is committed to continuously updating the physical production facilities of the school to accomodate and address the advancing field of architecture and the built environment.

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Shop Technician monitoring a computer driven 3axis CNC router for a student project Special Programs Experience architecture through our intensive and exciting special programs that are designed to introduce or deepen the understanding of the built environment and how we as architects shape this experience. Photo by: Petar Miloševic´ [CC BY-SA 4.0 License - image cropped]*

Contemporary Art and Architecture Pre-College Architecture OF THE RENAISSANCE program

Study abroad The AAU seven week residency Academy of Art University offers This seven week class focuses summer abroad program in a scholarship based Pre-College on contemporary built works Florence, Italy invites architecture program available to all current of architecture culminating in students to experience the art and High School students proficient in an intensive two week travel architecture of the Renaissance in English. Scholarships cover tuition throughout central Europe. Italy. Students will share fine art and costs of up to 2 classes for Fall/ The comprehension of these history courses with students from Spring and up to 4 classes for seminal buildings will be supported other schools within the Academy of Summer semester. through discussions, guided tours, Art University. and lectures on site.

It was helpful to see “material fabrication and assembly on an actual construction site. It is one thing to talk about building construction in the class room but another to see it in

person on site. New York field trip.

- Kenta Oye - B.Arch ”

54 55 Walking through “the wheat field you hear the buzz of the insects around you ... it was idyllic. Then you take a turn Contemporary and you see there are people from all Architecture over the world who have come to see It was an mind- this teeny tiny little opening experience. chapel, and you “ Study Although I’ve done walk in and you have in-depth research goosebumps. about the buildings Taking the study before we went, I abroad was a - Michelee Alvarez - M.Arch” “ was still shocked, Abroad transformative the moment I experience. I gained Field trips are an important component of any stood in front of architectural architectural education. Our Contemporary them: the visual knowledge that Architecture Study Abroad Course is a one-of-a-kind impact, the touch would have taken multi-city field trip inJ uly and August that investigates of the materials, years to acquire many outstanding contemporary buildings, urban centers, the effect of light, and it was a giant and spaces. We also incorporate office visits the movement of leap forward for my of world renown architects in Europe. people, and even reading of spaces smells sometimes, The Foreign Study focuses on contemporary built works of and functions of were all out of my outstanding architecture, landscape architecture, interior buildings. expectation. and urban design, and art, the conceptual meaning of these Then we went into examples and their role in recent architectural discourse. - Daniel Toledano - ”M.Arch Online “the Rotterdam The course cumulates in an intensive site visit, throughout - Ying Wang - M.Arch ” Market Hall and it a particular region in Europe. The comprehension of the was just ... the hair architectural precedents that we will be visiting, will be Architecture stands up on your supported through discussions, guided tours, walking tours “(Buildings) Culture, arm. It was amazing, and lectures on site. Every other year, we also visit the Venice Food, we had so like a party, there Architecture Biennale to see this most important exhibition of much to say to each were people meeting architecture in the world. other. for dinner and people tasting food. ... it is so hard to - Chi Li - M.Arch” It was so much “truly understand different than what a building without we had assumed. visiting it in person. - Michelee Alvarez - M.Arch ” - Ying Wang - M.Arch ” 56 57

Display at the Tate Modern, London, UK - Herzog & de Meuron [Study Abroad 2017] UP TO date The course continuously features buildings and issues that are currently being discussed in architectural media and that are front and center of contemporary architectural discourse. As a student you can expect to be able to participate in understanding these issues through your first hand experience of buildings. Most buildings we will visit are completed in the last 10-20 years. Some might be older and a few are just completed months or even weeks The Mountain - Bjarke Ingels Group before we visit them.

Bjarke Ingels Office Visit

Office Visits In the last years we were able to visit offices of world famous De Rotterdam - OMA Rem Koolhaas Thermal Baths, Vals, Switzerland - Peter Zumthor Venice Architecture Biennale visit 2016 architects and experienced their work methods and philosophies Outstanding Work first hand. Offices that we visited from world renowned included: Bjarke Ingels Group [BIG] offices in Copenhagen, Denmark (above The Contemporary Study Abroad and left); Herzog and De Meuron in visits buildings of world renown Basel (below center), Switzerland; architects. You can expect to see David Chipperfield in Berlin (below), the best of the best of architectural Germany; Zaha Hadid in London, examples in the world. Recent England (below left). trips have included works by Bjarke Ingels Office Visit Peter Zumthor, Bjarke Ingels, Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, SANAA, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron, David Chipperfield and many others. Additionally, you will be able to experience buildings of young architects who are considered up and coming during the next decades. Zaha Hadid’s Office in London Herzog and De Meuron - Basel David Chipperfield - Berlin Office Design School Zollverein [usually inaccessible] - SANAA 58 59 Art & Architecture of the Renaissance in Florence Study Abroad Residency Program This immersion study-abroad course based in Florence, Italy each summer introduces students to the primary works of Renaissance art and architecture. Visits to key buildings, collections and museums, as well as lectures, sketching assignments, and written essays, will expose students In Florence, I started to the rich history and influence of Florence’s Renaissance past. “to really experience buildings. Now, I cannot go anywhere without looking up, looking around and analysing the buildings that surround me. It got me out of the places I know and into a new environment with new people and friends.

- Juliana Bento” - B.Arch

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Students sketching in the city of Florence Florence Duomo from Michelangelo hill - Photo by: Petar Miloševic´ [CC BY-SA 4.0 License - image darkened and cropped]* Public Events Our culture is enriched through the events that take place outside of the architecture studio and classrooms connecting us to prominent practitioners and the current design dialogue. Ethics and Leadership Panel Discussion

Workshops And PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND Lecture Series Special Events DESIGN CHARRETTES Our international lecture series We hosted the Architectural Design Charrettes with brings a diverse mix of highly Association’s Summer School distinguished guest architects distinguished guests and interesting program where our students built a that lead student collaborative young practices to our school to large interactive cloud (see below). teams (above) and the bi-annual engage with faculty and students Our students supported the Market Ethics and Leadership Panel (top and to talk about their work. Recent Street prototyping festival in the image) introduce students to design speakers include: Frank Barkow fabrication of a public climbing wall issues in our city that rely on our (Barkow Leibinger - Berlin) /Michael installation (above). vision. Bell (Bell Seong Architecture - New York) / Peter Busby (Perkins and Will - San Francisco) / Sir Peter Cook (Crab Studio - London) / Neil Denari (NMDA) / Sascha Glasl (spaceandmatter - Amsterdam) Andés Jacques (Andés Jacques Architects - Madrid) / Wes Jones (Jones Partners) / Stephanie Davisdon and Georg Rafailidis (Davidson Rafailidis) / among many others.

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Architectural Association Summer School Sir Peter Cook Lecture Galleries and

688 and 625 SUTTER Annual Spring SHoW Exhibitions Located along downtown San The annual Spring Show at the end of every Spring Semester is a major Francisco’s Sutter Street gallery event. The accomplished work of selected Academy of Art University Experience emerging artists at one of our galleries across San Francisco. row, 688 Gallery and nearby 625 students is in the spotlight at the annual Spring Show Student Showcase. Featuring the work of students, alumni, and faculty from Academy of Art Gallery form a mini-destination for The show features all departments and schools of the Academy and is University. Each gallery is designed to promote the work of our community and art enthusiasts. therefore held in a giant warehouse to encompass all the exciting work that promote the arts in the Bay Area. The School of Architecture has two annual is on view. The opening night attracts literally thousands of visitors. The exhibits, where students have the opportunity to show their work to the public, as CANNERY GALLERY School of Architecture invites architects from all over the world to come to well as a selected audience of architects from all over the world. this exciting event and students have the chance to show their work and Located on 2801 Leavenworth engage with them on opening day. This show is truly a great exposure for St. and adjacent to the Golden our students. Past invitees were architects from offices like David Adjaye Gate Bridge this gallery is a prime Associates, David Chipperfield, Bjarke Ingels Group, and many more. location also frequented by many tourists. Architecture students can submit work for inclusion in a gallery show. AIA Architecture + the City festival

School of Architecture Gallery SHow at the Atelier Atelier 79 New Montgomery St.

Every Fall Semester in September the School of Architecture participates in the AIA Architecture and the City Festival that is running annually since 2003, by organizing a themed exhibition that contributes to this major event promoting architecture all over the city of San Francisco.

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Student work at the Atelier Architecture school has not “only given me a career, it has changed the way I approach every single situation in my life. ” - Ricardo Moreno, Architectural Designer Our Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects Alumni With over 25,000 Academy of Art University alumni across the world and all AAU departments, we strive to keep our artist communities engaged and supported in their professional lives. The School of Architecture mentors students to step into the profession. Our successful alumni take the leap into rewarding careers Ricardo Moreno M.Arch Alumnus and stay connected to the School of Architecture community.

RICARDO MORENO specializes in cultural architecture knowledge about architecture.” Architectural Designer at and has been heralded for its Mark Cavagnero Associates innovative work on the SFJAZZ Although he works long hours, Architects Center, the Terrace at California Ricardo finds time to cycle around Academy of Sciences and several San Francisco taking photos for As a child, Ricardo Moreno spent a arts and recreation centers. his portfolio of urban photography. lot of time sketching and thinking He’s also a triathlete. When asked about the way things work. The cultural aspect of architecture – about his future goals, he replied, as well as a building’s effects on the “I wouldn’t mind being at Mark “I realized that architecture was people who inhabit it – is foremost Cavagnero for the next 10 years. what really balanced everything out, on Ricardo’s mind. “Architecture They’re that good.” very systematic and very engineer- is misinterpreted to be about how oriented, but also very artistic.” pretty or how ugly a building is,” he Ricardo believes that modern After doing some research, he said. “I think architecture is more architects need to evaluate the chose the Master of Architecture about how people interact with economical aspects, political (M. Arch) program at Academy of each other, how they operate within aspects and cultural aspects of Art University, which offered him certain parameters that you as an the projects they work on. “As an an intensive curriculum as well as architect are envisioning.” architect, I would like to impact the surroundings that inspired him. world by understanding it, and by He continues to stay in touch with understanding it making it more Less than a year after graduating, some of the faculty at the Academy, livable,” he said. Ricardo joined Mark Cavagnero which he said, “challenged me in all Associates Architects, a the good ways.” “The scale of the high-profile group of architects school is really good. It’s still small currently working on the Moscone and you have a lot of one-on-one Expansion Project, designed to experience with your professors. improve San Francisco’s downtown The faculty is very devoted to convention center. The firm passing along information and 66 67

Ricardo Moreno - M.Arch Thesis Project My classmates “ and I have felt that our education Featured has proven to be invaluable as we step into the Alumni profession. The program prepared Samantha Buckley is one of the first graduates of our B.Arch program, her outstanding leadership skills were us for a seamless apparent early in her development. Now, apart from transition between working as an architect she is also an architectural journalist, writing for Archdaily.com my education and career. I am so thankful for the support from my faculty in and outside the classroom.

Samantha Buckley Designer/Technical at Gensler - Samantha Buckley, B.Arch* Alumnus” During her studies Samantha Designer/Technical at Gensler was the Co-President of the AIAS AAU Chapter. “As president, I organized office tours, lectures, workshops, and networking events for the AAU AIAS members, and local chapters. Now I am the Site Director for the AIAS FORUM held Samantha Buckley and Giovanni Ribo B.Arch in San Francisco in December 2015 hosting architecture students from after interning when she was a and preservation projects within all over the US. I am planning tours student with Michael Heacock the Bay Area. Samantha is most and helping with other site specific Architects, an architecture and interested in a work place that logistics.” LEED sustainability consultancy. cultivates creative thinking, while applying sustainable strategies. Samantha’s professional career is Now, she plans to work full time underway and gaining momentum. while obtaining her license. She is She is working at Gensler in San particularly interested in restoration Francisco as a technical designer 68 69

Samantha Buckley B.Arch Alumna I am so grateful there“ was the online The School of “Architecture online program, this made program allowed the impossible, Online me to follow my dream while possible. I got a supporting my great education family - if I had to which is a view Education do it all over again, I wouldn’t change a shared by my Design studio critiques are central to the success of any thing. architecture student. We keep this tradition by using husband who web conferencing to interact with students, and bringing ” M.Arch Alumnus Ryan Boone runs a 48 person online guest reviewers and critics to participate in the Valedictorian Class of 2017 design process. AIA Henry Adams Medal recipient 2017 architecture firm. ONLINE INCLUDES Since 2002, Academy of Art University has helped thousands of online students from all over the world realize ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS WITH YOUR DIRECTOR ON-DEMAND DEMONSTRATION VIDEOS - Judy Roessner” their professional and creative ambitions. Our revolutionary Graduate School of Architecture Alumna DIRECTOR Q&A Sixthriver Architects / www.sixthriver.com online courses provide the same rigorous education that we TOWN HALL MEETINGS offer on campus with greater flexibility. Study on your own VIP GUEST SPEAKERS time, at your own pace. Take full or part-time classes. Let LIVE STREAMED EVENTS & PRESENTATIONS nothing stand in your way of pursuing your creative goals. CAREER ADVICE & WORKSHOPS DIGITAL PORTFOLIO SHOWCASE

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CREATE YOUR OWN SUBMIT YOUR WORK & ENGAGE CLASS SCHEDULE GET FEEDBACK YOUR PEERS When you take online courses at the We have developed our own custom You may work and study independently, but Academy, you are free to manage your Learning Management System (LMS) to that does not mean you cannot call on the Astireh Baradari Bob Herzog Maren Longhurst own time; there are no set class schedules specifically teach art and design.T he LMS is support of your online classmates. Each B.Arch Student School of Architecture M.Arch Alumnus School of Architecture M.Arch Alumna School of Architecture that require you to be online at specific a centralized web tool that lets students and course offers a class discussion area where times of the day. Course content is faculty easily interact and exchange digital students and instructors can freely exchange “I switched from being an onsite student, “As a full time professional I found the on-line “The Master of Architecture program at divided evenly across 15 modules spread assets. The LMS whiteboard feature allows thoughts, post work, and provide or receive to online because my life circumstances program at Academy Art University to be AAU is rich and diverse, with a global reach out during a semester. Each module’s instructors to mark up your work and provide creative feedback. The discussion area’s changed. I can save time commuting, while an excellent fit for me to pursue my Master that fosters learning and collaboration with coursework—instructional videos, audio- detailed feedback, even audio commentary. sole purpose is to give you and your peers receiving the same quality of instruction as of Architecture degree. At the time of my architecture students and faculty around the enhanced slideshows, digital documentation, The LMS also serves as your central hub for the opportunity to support one another’s the onsite classes. I have more discussion enrollment, there were only 2 universities in world on challenging design problems in the interviews, and more— is made available at class news and updates, grade information, development as artists. time with instructors, and have access to all the United States offering a fully accredited context of contemporary architecture. The the start of each module period. ESL support, scheduling one-on-one tutoring the lectures, with the ability to review them completely on-line NAAB program. After online curriculum made it possible for me to sessions, and a host of other features tailored throughout the semester. The online system researching the degree programs and staff at earn my degree while supporting my family to make your online education as rich as is designed to be very user friendly, and my both universities, I selected AAU. I am very and working in the field of architecture.” possible. professors are very approachable.” confident I made the right choice.”

To find out more contact an admissions representative or go online: www.academyart.edu/online-education 70 71 Career Paths Licensing As one of the top art schools in the country, Academy of Art University Our NAAB accredited B.Arch (162 units) and M.Arch (63 and 87 units) Architecture graduates have a range of opportunities to choose from as degrees pave the path to licensure in the US. Obtaining a license as an they take the next step into a multi-faceted design profession. architect includes meeting multiple requirements that are outlined below.

Self employed Project Designer Sustainable Design Architect Licensure Requirements Architect collaborating on large or complex Consultant The California Architects Board (the Board) oversees consumer protection (Design Firm Principal) architectural projects, project specializeing in sustainability- and the regulation of licensed architects in the state of California. According operating as a sole practitioner, designers are members of a design driven design projects sustainability to the Board, the following requirements must be met for licensure in firm principals run small to team. consultants may be architects or California: mid-sized offices sometimes in other design professionals. partnership with other principals. Design Consultant • Provide verification of five years of education equivalents and three years City and Urban planner Firm principals are responsible for applying a broad range of design of architectural training (work) experience for a total of eight years of signing and stamping construction skills that may be used in a variety master planning environmental experience as evaluated by the Board; documentation sets, and must of diverse design activities. design decisions at the scale of be licensed in the state in which a Graduates from an architectural a neighborhood, district, city, or • This includes a minimum of one year of work experience must be under project is being built. school are qualified outside of region, architects can be part of an the direct supervision of an architect licensed in a US jurisdiction or two architectural practice, to consult urban or design team improving years of experience under the direct supervision of an architect registered Project Architect across disciplines; from building urban environments. in a Canadian province; leading a team in a medium to large envelope design, historical • Successful completion of the Architect Registration architectural design firm, tasked preservation, industrial design, Construction Manager Examination (ARE) with the development od a complex furniture design, color, branding, managing and coordinating the architectural design, project business and product consulting, design delivery of an architectural • Completion of the Architectural Experience Program (AXP) architects work with other members among many other possibilities. building project, from conception of the architectural staff in a firm to final closeout. Architects • Successful completion of the California Supplemental to coordinate and lead design can contribute their specific Examination (CSE) decisions. design knowledge within diverse Candidates may meet these requirements in multiple ways. construction teams as construction managers. For more information about becoming a licensed architect in the state of California, please visit the Board’s website at: A SMALL SELECTION OF FIRMS WHERE SOME OF OUR ALUMNI WORK: http://www.cab.ca.gov/.

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Academy of Art University takes steps to determine whether prospective students may not be eligible to become licensed professionals prior to enrollment in programs that may lead to licensure. When a student is found to be ineligible for licensure based on California law, he/she must sign an affidavit as part of the enrollment process to confirm understanding of his/her ineligibility and to state objectives other than licensure. A copy of the signed affidavit will be provided to the student, and the original will be maintained in the student’s file

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