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www.coa.gatech.edu Collegenewsletter of Architecture e summer/fallc2005h r i 5 c a t6 7 ARCHITECTURE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY/MUSIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING CONTINUING EDUCATION INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PH.D. PROGRAM 8 9 Q Q E 10 Q E q e Letter from the Dean These include the addition of outstanding new Yet, there is more to be accomplished in the com- faculty members recruited through searches begun ing year. In addition to the ongoing programs last fall; the amazing, full-scale installations and operations of the College, we have set as resulting from the College’s initial exploration into major objectives for the coming year the design and digital manufacturing, a collaboration following initiatives: involving our Architecture and Industrial Design • Begin planning for the next Georgia Tech capital Programs with the Advanced Wood Products campaign, including an effort to raise $7.5 mil- Laboratory (AWPL); the many awards and lion for the renovation of the Architecture East accomplishments earned by our students; the new and West Buildings and of the Hinman e initiative of the College’s Alumni Committee on Building, recently added to the facilities of student mentoring; and the significant accom- the College; plishments of our programs and centers. Moreover, • The review of the recently developed master’s As we began the fall 2005 semester, we did so this year begins with the most positive budgetary degree in Music Technology; with deep concern for our fellow citizens and col- picture the College has experienced over the last • The finalization of the updates of the strategic leagues who were stranded and then evacuated three to four years, years of successive budget plans for the Architecture, Industrial Design, from New Orleans andu the several cities in the reductions. In addition to support for growing and Ph.D. Programs; Gulf Region because of Hurricane Katrina. enrollments,e special allocations were also forth- • The reaccreditation review of the Building Through the leadership of President Clough, coming from the Georgia legislature for the opera- Construction Program and the finalization of its Georgia Tech was able to assist 275 Tulane tions of the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory, new Distance Learning Graduate Program, the cUniversity studentst who were stranded in Jackson, as well as for the City and Regional Planning first such program in the College; and Mississippi, and then continued this effort by Program and the work the legislature would like • The initiation of the new AEC opening the Coliseum as a temporary shelter that the Program, the Center for Geographic Integration/Building Information Modeling provided help to 300 of the hardest-hit evacuees. Information Systems, and the Center for Quality Laboratory through the collaboration of the Approximately 50 Tulane students have enrolled Growth and Regional Development to undertake Ph.D. Program with the Construction for this semester at Georgia Tech and Emory rfor the northern sector of Fulton County. This past Resources Center. University, with approximately 10 students year the College awarded 136 baccalaureate enrolled in the College of Architecture. There is degrees, 115 master’s degrees, and seven Ph.D. The interest, advice, and continuing support of the more that Georgia Tech and the College will be degrees and maintained its sponsored funding alumni and friends of the College in these initia- doing to assist this region and our sister universi- level in excess of $8 million per year. Finally, our tives, as well as in our efforts to lend support to ties in the months and years ahead. international programs grew significantly: the the rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast, will con- Architecture Program in Paris is now in its thirty- tinue to be absolutely central to our success. At the same time, however, the semester began on first year; last year the City and Regional the extraordinary momentum gained by the Planning Program participated in the inaugural College last year, as suggested in the many stories super cities workshop in Madrid; and we have in this issue of the newsletter. expanded our summer programs to include the inaugural Building Construction Program in Paris, Thomas D. Galloway, Ph.D. the Modern Architecture/Modern City Program Dean and Professor in Europe, and the Asia Design Forum in Kuala Lampur. ✁ annual alumni reception dean and mrs. thomas d. galloway and the college of architecture alumni committee invite you to the annual alumni homecoming reception on friday, october 28, 2005 homecoming 2005 reception time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. location: the heffernan house, 166 fifth street rsvp by october 21, 2005 404.894.3880 You can find a selection of our past newsletters online at 2 College of Architecture Newsletter 2005 www.coa.gatech.edu/news/coanewslet.htm College News Abir Mullick, New ID Director New Faculty print and broadcast media. His most recent book is Credit to the Community: Community Reinvest- The Georgia Tech Industrial The College of Architecture welcomes the following ment and Fair Lending Policy in the U.S., which was Design Program has a new new faculty: published by M. E. Sharpe in 2004. Immergluck has director. Abir Mullick joins testified before the U.S. Congress, Board of the College this fall from Benjamin Flowers joined Governors of the Federal Reserve System, federal State University of New the faculty as an assistant agencies, and state and local legislative bodies. York at Buffalo, where he professor in the Immergluck comes to Georgia Tech most recently taught in the department of Architecture Program at the from Grand Valley State University in Grand architecture. Mullick holds beginning of fall semester. Rapids, Michigan. He was previously senior vice master’s degrees in indus- He is teaching courses in president of the Woodstock Institute, a policy trial design and city and urban and architectural his- research organization based in Chicago that works regional planning from The Ohio State University. tory and cultural studies. on community and economic development issues. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Flowers received his Ph.D. He has a master’s degree in Public Policy from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. in American Studies with a University of Michigan and received his Ph.D. in “We are delighted to have Abir Mullick as our focus on architectural history from the University of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of new director of Industrial Design,” said College of Minnesota in 2003. His research and teaching Illinois at Chicago. Architecture Dean Thomas Galloway. “Abir is a per- interests center on the intersections between mod- fect fit for the Industrial Design Program. He brings ern architecture, urbanism, politics, and culture. Brian Stone has joined the a combination of interdisciplinary collaborations Prior to Georgia Tech, Flowers served as a City and Regional Planning along with his experience in universal design that research specialist at the Library of Congress and faculty as an assistant pro- will enhance both the Center for Assistive taught at the University of Minnesota and the State fessor. He is teaching envi- Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) as University of New York College at Cortland. He has ronmental management well as the academic programs within the College published entries in the Encyclopedia of Twentieth and integrated land use as of Architecture.” Century Architecture and the Encyclopedia of well as transportation Mullick says he is excited to be at Georgia Tech American Studies and is finishing his book, planning. and, after consulting with faculty, staff, and stu- Constructing the Modern Skyscraper: The Politics Stone comes to Georgia dents, hopes to create a new vision for the and Power of Building New York City in the 20th Tech from the University of Industrial Design Program. Century, which will be published by the University Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught in the “I would like to see Industrial Design move in of Pennsylvania Press as part of the series “The Arts Department of Urban and Regional Planning and a collaborative way,” said Mullick. “I’d like to see and Intellectual Life in America.” He currently is the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. A us expand the department and create bridges conducting research for a project on the architec- 2001 graduate of the College’s doctoral program, across campus.” ture of football (soccer) stadiums. Stone’s research and teaching is focused on the Much of Mullick’s research has been in the uni- influence of land use and transportation planning versal design area. One of his more recent projects Jason Freeman has joined on urban environmental problems, with an empha- was the universal bathroom, sponsored by the the College’s Music sis on air pollution control and climate change National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Department as a visiting management. Most recently, Stone has received Research. During the course of his research, assistant professor. funding from the Environmental Protection Agency Mullick designed two adjustable bathrooms. In Freeman’s music breaks to explore the potential for “smart growth” plan- these bathrooms two fixtures, the sink and shower, down conventional barriers ning strategies and hybrid vehicle technologies to move around the bathroom wall and adjust. between composers, per- mitigate ozone and particulate air pollution Through fixture movement, the bathrooms reorgan- formers, and listeners. He throughout the upper Midwestern United States. ize and open up spaces for independent and has received commissions Other recent work has measured the impact of dependent use, and for care-providing situations. from the American alternative land development practices on The fixtures also adjust in height to accommodate Composers Orchestra, Rhizome, Turbulence, and storm water runoff generation and urban heat variations in stature including standing users, sitting Speculum Musicae; grants from Meet the Composer, island formation.