CONNECTIONTHE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM SCHOLARSHIP Exploring how architecture leads to a career of lifelong learning. December 2016 VOL 14 ISSUE 06 EDIFICATION CONNECTIONTHE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM CONNECTION EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Editor-In-Chief Jeff Pastva, AIA Senior Editor, Content Yu-Ngok Lo, AIA Senior Editor, Content AJ Sustaita, AIA Senior Editor, News Beth Mosenthal, AIA Graphic Editor Nicholas Banks, AIA Assistant Editor Phillip Anzalone, AIA Contributing Journalist Ian Merker, AIA 2016 YAF ADVISORY COMMITTEE Chair Joshua Flowers, AIA Vice Chair Evelyn Lee, AIA Past Chair Virginia E. 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This issue of YAF CONNECTION is sponsored through the generous support of The AIA Trust – a free risk management resource for AIA Members offering vital practice resources and benefits. Check out www.TheAIATrust.com for all AIA Trust practice resources and benefit plans. ON THE COVER: Image by Nicholas Banks, AIA EDITOR’S NOTE by Jeff Pastva, AIA 06 REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT AND RESOURCES by Jeff Pastva, AIA 08 ARCHx by Sharon Turek, AIAS 10 MENTORSHIP by Tom Lowing, AIA and Neo Lehoko, MArch 11 LIFELONG LEARNING by Tiffany Melançon, SIA, Int’l Assoc. AIA 12 OVERSEAS EDUCATION an interview with Nasrine Seraji by Yu-Ngok Lo, AIA 13 INTERN TITLING by Erin Nunes Cooper, AIA 14 (EXTRA)CURRICULAR an interview of Beth Lundell Garver, AIA, and Dina El-Zenfaly, AIA, by Gabriela Baierle-Atwood, AIA 16 EDUCATION UNLEASED by Alex Alaimo, AIA 18 THE EXPECTATIONS GAP an interview of Branko Kolarevic by Phillip Anzalone, AIA 20 CREATING A CONNECTED CURRICULUM by Erin Carraher, AIA 22 THE POWER OF LIFELONG LEARNING by Ann Thompson 24 TERREFORM ONE'S CRICKET SHELTER AND FARM an interview with Mitchell Joachim by Phillip Anzalone, AIA 28 RESEARCH IN ACADEMIA AND PRACTICE an interview with Anna Dyson and Josh Draper by Phillip Anzalone, AIA 32 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT an interview with Joel Pominville, Assoc. AIA by AJ Sustaita, AIA 36 #YAFchat by Lora Teagarden, AIA 38 LEADERSHIP PROFILE JENNIFER WORKMAN, AIA 40 an interview by AJ Sustaita, AIA December 2016 VOL 14 ISSUE 06 EDIFICATION v STATE OF PRACTICE CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTING EDITORS JEFF PASTVA, AIA BETH MOSENTHAL, AIA LEED AP BD+C is the 2015-2016 Communications Director of the has worked as an architect in Shanghai, New York, Young Architects National Advisory Committee of Chicago, and currently in Denver with the AIA, the Editor-in-Chief of YAF CONNECTION AndersonMasonDale Architects. She serves as a and a Project Architect with JDavis in Philadelphia. Senior Editor of YAF CONNECTION, Senior Edi- tor/ Writer for the AIA Colorado Emerging Profes- sionals Blog, and as a columnist for the Colorado Real Estate Journal’s Building Dialogue Magazine. AJ SUSTAITA, AIA IAN MERKER, AIA is a project manager for the education studio of Corgan in is an architect at Rainforth Grau Architects in Sacra- Houston. He is currently serving a three year term on the mento, CA, specializing in the education sector. He is Board of Directors for the Houston Chapter of the AIA. As Film Curator for AIA Central Valley and a former YAF part of his involvement with the Young Architects Forum Regional Director. he represents several local components by serving as the Young Architect Regional Director for Texas. YU-NGOK LO, AIA PHILLIP ANZALONE, AIA is the principal of YNL Architects. He is an Advi- is a Partner of the Brooklyn based form Atelier Architecture 64, and a Professor of Architectural Technology at the New York sory Group member of the AIA CCA Knowledge City College of Technology, where his research is on build- Community. He is also a member of the AIA Cali- ing envelope, automation in construction and novel materi- als and systems. Phillip is serving as the New York Regional fornia Council Committee On the Environment, Director of the Young Architects Forum for 2015 and 2016, Advocacy Advisory Committee, and the recipient and has focused his endeavors on the connection between education and practice. Prior appointments include directing of the 2015 AIACC Young Architect Award. the building science and technology sequence at Columbia University’s GSAPP, facade consultant at R.A. Heintges and Associates and architectural designer at Greg Lynn Form. CONTRIBUTORS NASRINE SERAJI, AA DIPL RIBA JOEL POMINVILLE, ASSOC. AIA After studying at the Architectural Association and practising in London, Seraji joined AIA New Orleans from the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). As moved to Paris in 1989 to establish her studio where architecture is treated as Executive Director of AIA New Orleans and the New Orleans Architecture Foundation (NOAF), both a cultural debate and a practice. Pursuing a simultaneous engagement in the organization focused on enhancing public appreciation of architecture and design as architectural practice, teaching, and research. She has lectured and exhibited her work widely in Europe and North America, as well as China and South East vital community assets that enrich the quality of life in New Orleans, Joel is responsible for Asia. She was Dean Of ENSAPM in Paris 2006-2016, Professor and Chair of organizational support of Board initiatives, programs and activities related to their respective the Department of Architecture at Cornell University from 2001 to 2005 and missions. He brings a wide array of experience and innovation within the organizational has taught at Columbia University, the Architectural Association and Princeton structure of architectural education, practice and regulation. His past positions include National University. She was the Professor of Ecology, Sustainability and Conservation Vice President of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), Student Director on at the Academy of Fine Arts In Vienna where she headed the department for the Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), AIAS Representative 11 years. Architect of the award-winning Temporary American Centre in Paris, Seraji has since, completed many notable projects and is currently finishing a on the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards’ (NCARB) Internship Advisory mixed use building complex for the Paris Transportation Authority she is the Committee, AIAS Liaison on the AIA National Associates Committee and Student Team Member chief urban planner in the French cities of le Rheu, and Pau. A recent housing on two Substantial Equivalency visits for the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) project brought the prestigious prize of Équerre d’Argent to her practice in 2014. in Bahrain and Cyprus. BETH LUNDELL GARVER, AIA, NCARB BRANKO KOLAREVIC is an architect and Director of Foundation Instruction is a Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, where he co-founded the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID) and is a co-director of the multi- in Practice at The Boston Architectural College. Prior disciplinary Computational Media Design (CMD) program. He has taught architecture at to her move to Boston, Beth worked with Rafael several universities in North America and Asia and has lectured worldwide on the use Viñoly Architects in New York and San Francisco of digital technologies in design and production. He has authored, edited or co-edited several books, including “Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change” (with leading projects from design through construction. Vera Parlac), “Manufacturing Material Effects” (with Kevin Klinger), “Performative Archi- She received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design tecture” (with Ali Malkawi) and “Architecture in the Digital Age.” He is a past president of (with distinction) from Harvard University. Additionally, the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), past president of the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB), and was recently elected future she holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). He is a recipi- of Interior Architecture (both magna cum laude) from ent of the ACADIA Award for Innovative Research in 2007 and ACADIA Society Award Auburn University where she studied under the late of Excellence in 2015. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in design from Harvard University and a diploma engineer in architecture degree from the University of Belgrade. Samuel Mockbee at the Rural Studio. ERIN CARRAHER, AIA JENNIFER WORKMAN, AIA is a licensed architect and an assistant professor at the