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CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Design Guild The Design Guild is an association of alumni, Angelo Abbate Lope Max Díaz Jack Lancaster Bob Reed friends, design professionals and industry CONTENTS PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN TECHNICIAN, MATERIALS LABORATORY ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, ARCHITECTURE leaders established in 1996 to promote design Carla Abramczyk Ed Driggers Catherine Lazorko Arthur C. Rice education at the NC State University College DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, OFFICE ASSISTANT, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE of Design through private contributions and EXTERNAL RELATIONS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE EXTERNAL RELATIONS Tonya Richardson gifts. The publication of the news is fully Matthew Arion Kim Duckett Glenn E. Lewis PROGRAM ASSISTANT, supported by Design Guild funds. See page 5 COMPUTING CONSULTANT, LIBRARY FELLOW, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT for a list of current contributors. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY Jennifer Hall Lewis Dr. Fatih Rifki Delsey Avery Richard Duncan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE; ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, 6,000 copies of this public document were AZORKO ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, DEAN’S OFFICE UNIVERSAL DESIGN TRAINING SPECIALIST, STUDENT SERVICES ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMS L ACULTY & STAFF & STAFF ACULTY printed at a cost of $4,650 or 77 cents per piece. F Kermit Bailey OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT Jean Marie Livaudais Michael Rodrigues THERINE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Cheryl Eatmon DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS, BUDGET MANAGER A Catherine Lazorko CONTENTS C Dr. Donald A. Barnes ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, EXTERNAL RELATIONS Henry Sanoff INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND GRAPHIC DESIGN editor PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ARCHITECTURE Austin Lowrey PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Cristianne McKenna Fellowes PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Kristen Schaffer Craig McDuffie (BGD 1983) DEAN’S MESSAGE Thomas Barrie LIBRARY ASSISTANT, Fernando Magallanes ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE designer PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY 2A Center of Influence, DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Martha Scotford Jeremy Ficca OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Passion for Design Peter Batchelor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN We welcome your submission of alumni news Marvin J. Malecha PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Achva Benzinberg Stein items in addition to your comments about this Patrick FitzGerald DEAN Bill Bayley PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN publication. To receive our electronic newsletter, OUR COMMUNITY DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Joe McCoy CHAIR, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT Vincent M. Foote DESIGNlife, please send us your e-mail address. LABORATORY COORDINATOR OF NETWORK AND David Stein PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN HARDWARE SERVICES, 5 Design Guild Membership Georgia Bizios PLANNING SPECIALIST, [email protected] INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY 6 Design Guild honors Myrick Howard PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Sally Haile OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT or address correspondence to: Clinton Miller 7 Distinguished Alumnus Philip Freelon COORDINATOR OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN Dr. Robert E. Stipe NC State University Gail Peter Borden INFORMATION, COMPUTING CONSULTANT, 7 Design in the Family PROFESSOR EMERITUS College of Design ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Campus Box 7701 8 The Social Side of Design Susan Brandeis Frank Harmon Robin C. Moore Molly Story Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 8Professional Relations Update PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN RESEARCH, 9 Looking Back DIRECTOR, NATURAL LEARNING INITIATIVE Tony Brock Dottie Haynes OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT 919 /515-8313 9 Franklin Bost Supports Indutrial Design ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN ASSISTANT DEAN FOR ADMINISTRATION Marva Motley Wayne Taylor ASSISTANT DEAN FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS Robert P. Burns Gloria Hinton PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ART + DESIGN Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, Mary E. Myers Dr. John O. Tector dean FEATURES INTERIM DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ART + DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE; In observance of 55 years, the College invites alumni OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Pamela Christie-Tabron Michael Holmes ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Carla Abramczyk to a reunion March 21-23. Please see the enclosed director of development ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Katherine Oury Dr. Paul Tesar Celebration Schedule of Events. GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT COMMUNITY DESIGN SPECIALIST, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT Jean Marie Livaudais Roger H. Clark Percy Hooper James D. Tomlinson 12 New Chair for Graphic Design Dr. Michael Pause director of professional relations PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ASSISTANT DEAN FOR RESEARCH COLLEGE LIFE 13 New Director for Architecture PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN; Armand V. Cooke Bong-Il Jin DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM Susan Toplikar 14 First PhD in Design PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 20 Dean receives Topaz Medallion Dr. J. Wayne Place ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN COVER 15 Grassroots Design Nilda Cosco 21 Fish Market sells COD Chris Jordan PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Scott Townsend WELCOME invites you home to the College of 16 Anniversary Celebration Schedule EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST, 21 Registration for LABASH DIRECTOR, MATERIALS LABORATORY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Design for the 55th Anniversary this spring. The 18 College Casts Wider Net NATURAL LEARNING INITIATIVE Vita Plume 21 THEEGG has hatched Charles Joyner ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN Hazel Tudor piece by Nader Husseini (BGD 2001) is an 11 x Chandra Cox 21 Architecture Lectures PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN REGISTRAR 17 poster created to direct visitors to a senior ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN; J. Patrick Rand 21 The Art of Architecture Dennis Kempel Katie Walston graphic design portfolio review. In October 2002, CHAIR, ART + DESIGN DEPARTMENT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE 22 Commencement Address For 30 years, the LABORATORY AND FACILITIES MANAGER, ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN Husseini was featured on the cover of novum Lynn Crisp LEAZAR HALL Dr. Cymbre Raub Community LIBRARY ASSISTANT, Dr. Nancy White magazine, which featured much of his student Haig Khachatoorian ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN Development Group HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY SPECIALIST, work. As a student, Husseini won first prize in NOTES touched communities PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Dr. Shishir Raval OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT Denise Gonzales Crisp the AIGA BOOM! competition of the American across North Carolina. Rachel Kuhn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Richard R. Wilkinson ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN; OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Institute of Graphic Arts for his four-part multi- 26 Alumni and Friends A reunion will bring CHAIR, GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT VISUAL RESOURCES LIBRARIAN, PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE media project “Kepulauan” that was thereafter 28 Faculty HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY Dana Raymond together the talented Meredith Davis Leslie Young shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art. 30 In Memoriam people involved in this Bryan Laffitte ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART + DESIGN PROFESSOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN UNIVERSAL DESIGN TRAINING SPECIALIST, Husseini works at Rethink All Media in Dallas. 32 Students far-reaching extention ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN; Wendy Redfield OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT Karen E. DeWitt CHAIR, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE See more of his work at www.folio01.com 33 Calendar effort. See page 15. HEAD, HARRYE B. LYONS DESIGN LIBRARY On the occasion of the 55th Anniversary Reunion A Center esign education in the United States to normal. The foundation of the School of passion for design fires students and faculty. disparate body of information. New tech- A CULTURE OF of Influence, D has a rich history, bringing French and Design in 1948 was clearly affected by this It is the essence of the learning community, nologies provoke the evolution of new skills Excellence German traditions together with the instru- complex legacy even as the Bauhaus curricu- the driving force of faculty who pursue schol- to complement or replace traditional com- Student and A Passion mentalism of the American legacy. It has lum was the prevailing model. Most notably arship and practice, and the binding element petencies. Also, the conduct of the design faculty perfor- DEAN’S MESSAGE for Design embraced the studio system of the Ecole des influences such as the strong community between students and alumni. The identity of professions within such a transforming mance must be Beaux Arts, with its emphasis on the charrette orientation of a land grant institution such as the college community has been and will be context requires the vigilance of an ethical accountable to by Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, Dean and the esquisse. However, the projects and NC State University and the free expressions founded on the processes of critical thought standard that must evolve from educational expectations commensurate with a major philosophy of the American design school of Black Mountain College can be read into that define design. This is not an investment experiences. university culture as well as meet the have derived their greatest influence from the founding curricular influences. in an aesthetic movement; rather, it is a expectations of alumni and professional Bauhaus, with its insistence on modern solu- commitment to intellectual agility. This spirit, A NEW PARADIGM OF Engagement groups. If the college is to lead it must be tions to contemporary problems. Our intro- Dean Kamphoefner brought to the program in the words of Matthew Nowicki, will push The design program no longer has the option open to assessment. While the processes of ductory fundamentals studio was organized individuals such as Lewis Mumford and the college "to point the way of the coming to remain disengaged from the needs of assessment are regularly carried out through on the essential elements of the Bauhaus cur- Matthew Nowicki along with dignitaries such age." This spirit is the guiding force that society or from the particular mission of the accreditation procedures and university riculum and was developed to test an essen- as Walter Gropius, Buckminster Fuller, and provides the clarity of purpose necessary university. Engagement begins as a process program review practices, a culture of tial understanding of design. The willingness Mies van der Rohe. Matthew Nowicki’s to a center of influence. of relationship building. It leads to entirely excellence evolves from within the spirit of AZORKO

L of the Bauhaus community to address the articulation of the curriculum in the 1950 new forms of practice and education expe- a place. This is the culture that the college potential of industrial processes was certainly Bulletin clearly balances the influences with To achieve this aspiration the college com- riences. The College of Design must become must seek to nurture. THERINE A

C sympathetic to the American desire to use a passion for innovation and exploration. It munity must address a rapidly changing more deeply acquainted with university design for the betterment of society. is a forceful case for design education. The context for the study and practice of design, needs, participating in issues as diverse as AN AGGRESSIVE COURSE OF Action study of design demanded by this program have a greater expectation for the college campus planning and the development of The college community has implemented a Lewis Mumford’s admonition that preparation continues to influence the life of students to engage in the issues before society, and service course offerings for general educa- major reconfiguration of the academic and OLLEGE ENVIRONS BY

C for responsible citizenship is a founding ten- and faculty. The result of this combination of demonstrate a willingness to measure tion. Engagement implies a full involvement, administrative organization that expands ant of the School certainly underscores this individuals and circumstances had no less progress within a culture of excellence. through research and extension activities, curricular interests and increases the aspiration. The American land grant tradition, an effect than to establish the School of with the needs of the people of North importance of design on campus. Over the deeply felt on the NC State University cam- Design at its very founding as a leader among A Changing CONTEXT Carolina and teaching design as an act of past three years the administrative organiza- pus, tempers the inclination of design pro- design schools. The school, among the The changing context of design education good citizenship. Engagement requires tion of the college has expanded research grams to become isolated and inward driven leaders of the modern movement in design demands greater attention to the integration improved means of communication with a and extension efforts. An office of external by the demand for participation in the agri- in America, became a center of influence. of work necessary to successfully navigate broad constituency. This further implies that relations has been organized to improve cultural and manufacturing culture of the the expectations of client and user groups the college community will actively reach communication efforts, including the web state. Students came to the program expect- LOOKING Forward that have become a part of the design out with programs intended to serve the site, email news, and the news. Further ing to be readied for design careers. This The College of Design community remains process. This is a time of greater diversity needs for life-long learning within the design efforts are under way to strengthen liaison aspiration was amplified by individuals dedicated to leadership in design education. within a global culture. It is a time to employ professions. And, finally, the college must with professional organizations. A joint studio returning from military duty who were seeking A rich legacy of values remains at the core an entrepreneurial spirit that can make continue to expand on the international and campus committee has been estab- the necessary credentials to return their lives of the evolution of the College of Design. A connections, with intellectual agility, from a programs already under way. lished to improve campus design initiatives.

2 news 3 SPRING 2003 is an association

DESIGN GUILD Our Community of alumni, friends, design professionals investment toward the enrichment of ideas design education, can only evolve from the and industry leaders established in 1996 to promote design education at the NC within the community. strengths of the college. These strengths can Design Guild BOARD OF DIRECTORS State University College of Design H. Clymer Cease Jr. AIA, Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, President be articulated as the teaching of design as through private contributions and gifts. Charles Boney Jr. AIA, Boney Architects Research, community engagement and critical thought, an interdisciplinary approach Michael S. Cole ASLA, ColeJenest & Stone For information on how to join the Design sponsored project activity is growing and to design, engagement with the community, Turan Duda AIA, Duda/Paine Architects, LLP Guild, please contact the Office of Philip G. Freelon AIA, The Freelon Group Inc. encourages an entrepreneurial spirit among the study of the design professions directed External Relations at 919/515-8313. Frank D. Thompson, AV Metro the faculty. These activities further encourage by a practicing faculty, and a diversity of Frank J. Werner, Adams Products Co. joint academic programs conducted among people and ideas. Innovative curricular efforts have led to the diverse creative disciplines. Projects within establishment of a Ph.D. program and the the research, extension and engagement No matter how aggressive the college initiation of the Anni Albers program, which area may vary in scale from a streetscape to community becomes on any one of the offers a joint degree with the College of a water quality study. The extension mission initiatives identified as critical to maintain- DEANS’S CIRCLE CORPORATE ASSOCIATE INDIVIDUAL Richard A. Curtis, USA TODAY Carla M. Abramczyk Bill Bayley Textiles. The college is also working to estab- of the College is growing, encompassing ing a position of influence, it is the design BCWH, Doug Westmoreland Douglas M. Bennett lish a Master of Art and Design program and Natural Learning and Universal Design process itself that is the fundamental aspect BENEFACTOR Gantt Huberman Architects, Jeffrey A. Huberman L. Franklin Bost a new degree program in Design Studies. commitments. Each of these objectives of college leadership. It is the passion for Adams Products Co., Frank J. Werner* Isaacs & Horne Architects, Polly R. Hawkins Other discussions include an advanced provides a structure for design education design as an interdisciplinary endeavor, Maurice C. Sardi Kathryn Lauria Horne / Mary Stuckey Isaacs Harry Ellenzweig Mariani & Associates, Reginald H. Cude Charles A. Flink degree in Architecture and a research ori- that is firmly rooted in a philosophy of thriving on a diversity of ideas related to the PARTNER Charles A. Musser Jr Dorothy M. Haynes ented master’s degree for the college. And design excellence with a conscience. needs of society, that will propel the college AV Metro, Frank D. Thompson Perkins & Will, Kevin B. Utsey William B. Hood discussions are in progress with the Colleges to leadership even as it focuses its effort BMS Architects, Herbert P. McKim Sr.* Revit Technology Corporation, Cathi Hayes Ham Alexander M. Isley Boney Architects, Charles Boney Jr.* Martha Scotford Nathan C. Isley of Natural Resources, Humanities and Social Within this diverse and aggressive environ- on the learning experience of the particular Brick Assocition of the Carolinas, Pete Cieslak* Bill and Rita Sears Barrett L. Kays, Landis Inc. Sciences, and Engineering for the develop- ment of change, the commitment to a student. It is the passion for design that Brockwell Associates, Samuel W. Brockwell Site Solutions, Derek C. Williams Jean Marie Livaudais ment of joint curricular opportunities. These teaching approach that is student centered, propels curiosity, learning and scholarship. Carolinas Concrete Masonry Association, Fred M. Taylor John H. Martin Paul LaVene efforts underline the necessity to adjust to balancing professional preparation and edu- It is the passion for design that fuels inves- Constantine and Bessie Vrettos, A. Craig McDuffie* ColeJenest & Stone, Michael Cole One on One Design* Linda J. Noble* a rapidly transforming design community. cation, remains solid. The studio teaching tigation into related disciplines, thereby David Allen Company, Robert Roberson* K. H. Webb Architects, Kyle H. Webb William L. O’Brien Jr. model remains at the heart of the college broadening rather than narrowing the Duda/Paine Architects, Turan Duda Alwyn H. Phillips III The college is committed to providing instructional method. This model maximizes interest of the designer. The Freelon Group, Philip G. Freelon O. Earl Pope Jr. Hanscomb Inc., Jim Lewis K. C. Ramsay* opportunity for a diverse student population. the relationship between student and teacher Holcim Inc., Jim Barnes Renee C. Rice This is reflected in an effort funded by a while also demanding of the student a THE College of Design AS A Lee Nichols Clark Patterson, Donald R. Lee Harriet H. Sayre special grant to improve recruitment efforts, demonstration of capability necessary for Center of Influence BEGINS Marvin J. and Cindy Malecha* William M. Singer Eugene R. Montezinos Michael Tribble* resulting in an entering class that is more entry into the design professions. WITH a Passion for Design NC Masonry Contractors Association, Lynn Nash* Barbara Wiedemann diverse than at any other time in the history As the college community assembles to O’Brien Atkins Associates, John L. Atkins III* of the college at a time when the admissions THE College AS A Center of celebrate the 55th anniversary with a reunion Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, H. Clymer Cease Jr. standards have never been more rigorous. Influence of friends and teachers, a commitment to Small Kane Architects, G. Milton Small III Patricia Tector Student diversity is crucial to the college The aspiration to lead, to maintain a role as the future accompanies our celebration and Michael A. Weeks not only as a matter of numbers but as an a center of influence within the context of memories of past accomplishment. Williams/OBrien Associates Inc., James W. O’Brien *Denotes Design Guild members who also support scholarships.

4 news 5 SPRING 2003 PHILIP FREELON: OUR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

“Preservation is not just about one building here and one building there; it is really about the fabric of our lives. The College of Design selected Philip Freelon of Durham as a Distinguished Alumnus. Freelon is the founding principal It really is disturbing to me that we are building a future that in many cases will be very hard to use – the sprawl. and president of The Freelon Group, an architecture firm responsible for numerous buildings of note, including several We are building cities that are completely dependent on the car, and that means you can’t do anything without on the NC State University campus. In 2001, The Freelon Group was awarded the North Carolina Chapter of the American AZORKO L getting in a car, shutting the door on the rest of the world and driving. That separates communities. That’s the Institute of Architect's Firm Award, the highest honor presented to an architectural practice by the state chapter. "Phil is a practitioner of exceptional merit," said Dean Marvin J. Malecha. "His model of practice as a collaborative

opposite of community.” – Myrick Howard THERINE endeavor has resulted in a number of distinguished projects recognized with design awards." A C The Freelon Group designs structures that recognize both function and human spirit. And it manages this accom- Our Community Myrick Howard to receive Design Guild Award plishment even with public sector work for which there are often limited budgets and utilitarian concerns. Freelon transformed a simple park- ing deck commission at the Raleigh-Durham Airport into an aesthetic experience for travelers. The Lord Corporation World Headquarters build- Life comes full circle. Myrick Howard Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received ing in Cary, N.C., on the other extreme, is an $8 million showcase. Both won AIA design awards. The notion of architecture as art is deeply ingrained in Freelon, who grew up in Philadelphia in a family that valued the arts. He was highly remembers well a day back in the late ‘80s his Master's degree in city planning and a influenced by his grandfather, the late Allan Freelon Sr., a noted painter and educator from the Harlem Renaissance period who taught at when he spoke with former Dean Henry law degree. Temple University and led the administration of art education programs in Philadelphia public schools. Kamphoefner during a walking tour of his Howard said that modernist architecture Freelon came to NC State University as a transfer student from Hampton University in Virginia, entering the College of Design as a third house. The subject of making the modernist is increasingly targeted for historic status. year architecture student. After his first semester, he was enrolled in graduate level studios, and he was later recognized with the AIA Book structure a preservation easement was raised. Buildings at age 50 tend to be most threat- Award. Freelon graduated with honors and went on to MIT where he earned his Master of Architecture degree in 1977. Freelon worked in And promptly dropped. ened because they're often too old to be in Boston and Houston, returning to the Triangle area in 1982 to accept a position with O’Brien/Atkins Associates. He formed The Freelon Group "Kamphoefner didn’t like to think of his fashion and too new to be considered by the in 1990. Today the 52-person firm works nationally and has offices in the Research Triangle Park and Charlotte, N.C. Freelon's professional accomplishments have been matched by his commitment to public service. For more than eight years, The Freelon Group house as historic," said Howard, president public as truly historic. Yet the modernism The Kamphoefner House at 3060 Granville Drive in has mentored high school students from Durham and Wake counties. Freelon has served as a director of the Greater Durham Chamber of Raleigh is one of several examples of modernist archi- of Preservation North Carolina. "Yet without movement made a big impression in Raleigh, Commerce, and as a member of the Durham Historic Properties, NC Capital Preservation Commission, and the I-40 Land Use Advisory Commission. tecture now protected with national historic status. this protection (the nephew of the late mostly due to Kamphoefner’s ability to attract In addition to teaching, Freelon has donated many hours to NC State University through service as a member of the Design Guild Board, Kamphoefner, the first dean of the school, designed the Kamphoefner later secured the easement) – some of the great names in modern archi- including a term as board president. He is a member of the Board of Visitors, the African American Community Advisory Committee and the building with George Matsumoto, a faculty member. it would be gone by now." tecture to the School of Design. Other Raleigh Chancellor's Circle. He will deliver the keynote address at the College of Design commencement ceremony on May 17. Professor Robert Burns will lead a modernist archi- tecture bus tour of Raleigh as a special offering of The Kamphoefner House, built in 1950, modernist structures, designed by faculty of the 55th Anniversary Celebration. Among the stops has been added to the National Register of the school, include the Matsumoto House will be the Kamphoefner House, the restoration of Historic Places. It is but one example of (George Matsumoto), Paschal House (James Here at the College of Design, we’ve noticed that first graduating class of the School of Design in 1950 which has been directed by Professor Burns. Howard’s influence across the state through Fitzgibbon), Fadum House (Fitzgibbon), design is often the tie that binds families together. with a Bachelor of Architecture. Keeping it all in the his role since 1978 as president of Ritcher House (Matsumoto), Small House Parents and children, siblings and cousins together – family, William’s son Paul (BEDA 1977) and Charles’s Preservation North Carolina, the state's only (G. Milton Small), and G. Milton Small & or generations apart – experience education at the sons Charles Jr. (BEDA 1978) and Christopher (BEDA JOIN US statewide private nonprofit preservation Associates office building. College of Design. 1994) also graduated from the College and joined the Please find your invitation to the March organization. The Design Guild Award also honors The Boney family in Wilmington has one of the most family firm (which has expanded considerably, now 22nd Design Guild Award Dinner included For his commitment to the built community, Preservation North Carolina, one of the remarkable records of related Design alumni. Leslie counting 48 people, including 13 registered architects, in the 55th Anniversary Celebration and the Design Guild has selected Howard to nation's largest and most prestigious statewide Boney Sr. graduated from NC State College in 1903 in three offices). Alumni Reunion events schedule, which is receive the 2003 Design Guild Award. The preservation organizations. Its endangered Is it nature or nurture? Charles Boney Jr. says design enclosed in this news issue. Tickets are award, which will be presented on March 22, properties program, the first of its kind in DOES DESIGN RUN IN YOUR FAMILY? is simply “a way of life” in his family. Do design genes $95 per person. If you are interested in recognizes his contributions toward raising the nation, is regarded as one of the best. run in your family? Let us know. We welcome family sponsoring a table or tickets for students, awareness of the importance of design – and Since 1977 the investment of more than and started his own firm in 1913. Following in his groups to participate in the College’s 55th Anniversary please call the College of Design External the practice of design as a sign of good citi- $100 million in private funds by the program footsteps, two of his sons, Leslie Jr. (1940) and William Celebration (see page 14), and we want to hear about Relations Office at 919/515-8313 or zenship. A Durham native, Howard attended has protected more than 450 historic prop- Sr. (1947) earned Architectural Engineering degrees, your family design ties for a future article in the news. email [email protected]. Brown University and the University of North erties in 60 counties. while a third son, Charles Sr., became a member of the Write to us at: [email protected], or call 919/515-8320.

6 news 7 SPRING 2003 The Social Side of Design

The design community welcomed the new director of the Professional Relations Update School of Architecture, Thomas Barrie (pictured here with The college’s new professional relations wife Lisa), with a reception in August. See a profile article OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIVING office is here to serve you with continuing about him on page 13. The gathering was hosted by education, networking, and volunteer Milton Small (B. Arch. 1966) and Kerry Kane (M.Arch. opportunities. An alumnus from the class of 1968 who went on to 1975) of Small Kane Architects. Alumni rejoined in achieve success in the medical equipment and October to meet the new chair of graphic design, Many thanks to those who responded to Our Community the professional relations survey inserted in Denise Gonzales Crisp, who is featured on page 12. design profession has generously supported a new the last news and on the college web site. The graphic design reception was hosted by Stephanie Overall, you showed a high interest in fellowship for industrial design graduate students. Garrison (BED-GD 1995) and Bryant Cole (BED-GD, BED-ID 1995) of Fuel Design Inc. lectures, especially geared toward design and technical issues, a listing of alumni Franklin Bost and his wife, Janet, have pledged to endow a partial experts, alumni receptions, and job post- After the tour of the newly designed spa at the Grove Park Inn and the American Institute of ings. Those in the Triangle additionally fellowship for the department of industrial design. The L. Franklin Bost Architects North Carolina awards banquet – the largest draw at the Summer Design Conference expressed interest in a recruitment recep- Industrial Design Fellowship will provide opportunities for aspiring was the alumni reception hosted by the College tion, jury and mentoring opportunities, and of Design. Most of the award winners (see page college seminars while not surprisingly, industrial design graduate students. The fellowship is a testament to 26) were here. Held in Asheville, N.C., last August, those of you farther afield more highly Bost’s dedication to the profession of product design and to the education the conference attracted longtime college sup- ranked alumni receptions, reunions, and meeting with prospective students. Fresh of industrial design students. porters like Herb McKim (B.Arch. 1950), who out of school alumni want volunteer and was presented with a Design cap and jacket for networking opportunities, and those of his generosity in establishing the The Catherine you who have been out the longest rate Bost serves the College of Design as a member of the campaign leader- S. and Herbert P. McKim Diversity Scholarship continuing education as most important. ship committee and as a member of the NC State University Graduate Endowment for Architecture. For the reception, LOOKING BACK School Advisory Board. He is president of POREX Surgical Products McKim changed into more formal attire. If you haven’t yet responded to the survey, it’s not too late to give us your opinion on the Pictured from left to right are Cindy Malecha, McKim, Lloyd Walter Jr. (B.Arch. 1960), Gwen Group in Atlanta, an operating subsidiary of POREX Corporation, which college web site www.design.ncsu.edu. Go This review from decades past took Walter and Catherine McKim. to alumni and friends, then to professional place in Kamphoefner Courtyard, specializes in cutting edge sterile surgical products – including bio- relations, then to the survey. Or simply send which will be the gathering location material implants and synthetic bone graft particulates for hospitals, In November, scholarship donors met the students an email with your suggestions to Jean Marie Livaudais at [email protected]. for alumni arriving on Friday evening clinics and private practices. who are receiving the benefit of their generosity and care for education. The gathering began in Responding to your interests, several for the 55th Anniversary Celebration. Private support significantly bolsters the College of Design’s capacity to the Brooks Hall Rotunda with a Reception for projects are in the works. The college is If you have information to share Scholarship Donors and concluded with students offering seminars on outdoor childcare about this Looking Back photograph, attract the best and brightest students, to retain a faculty of the highest leading tours of their studios. Pictured here, from design, golf course design, and entrepre- caliber, to enhance programs, and equip our studios and labs. Gifts from neurship this spring. ARE study workshops please write us at the address below. left to right, are Michael W. Zattner of Cline Design and a full-fledged, multi-disciplinary con- alumni and friends are essential to assure that we have the means to Associates PA, representing the ASLA, with land- ference are also being planned. The 55th meet urgent needs, capitalize on promising opportunities, and continue scape architecture students Lauralyn Pryor, Alisa Anniversary will give all alums the chance SHARE your photos, sketches and Wilson and Amy Ryan. to reconnect while interview days will be to thrive. To find out more about opportunities for giving, contact Carla memories: Write to NC State University preceded with a student/employer recep- Abramczyk, development director for the College of Design, at tion to aid in recruitment. Please check College of Design, news magazine, You Shine, Rita! We wish all the best for Rita Sears, administrative secretary for the College of the professional relations web site in order 919/515-8313 or [email protected]. Campus Box 7701, Raleigh, NC 27695 Design's Office of External Relations. Since she retired last October we have missed her radiance to sign up for volunteer, networking and and grace. job post opportunities. or [email protected].

8 news 9 SPRING 2003 Robert Paschal Burns, known to most as Bob, is a professor of architecture and a 1957 graduate of the of the school. Environmental, urban, and adopted compact plan offers glimpses NC State University institute in Prague is School of Design. For more than 37 years he was a full-time faculty member, which included three terms social crises became focal issues for grad- into an ambitious agenda for the future. already being seriously explored with sev- as head and/or director of the architecture department. He has recently entered into a three-year period uate study in design. The visual arts, an eral Czech major design institutions. of phased retirement, an appointment which involves half-time duties in teaching, research and service. integral feature of the school's curricula Critical to its success is the need to address Additionally, the college is considering He serves as chair of a student-faculty committee to revive the college's long-dormant student publica- from the first, were given additional the existing space shortage. The student attractive proposals for off-campus design emphasis and eventually became a population of all degree programs has now centers in several North Carolina cities. tion, and he plans to complete and publish a book on the Kamphoefner era, a history of the school's Features degree-granting program in 1991. reached 760, up by more than 200 since first 25 years. His courses include Architectural Conservation and Frank Lloyd Wright: Design Principles. the college last acquired additional space. A number of other initiatives likely to be felt He is the designer of a recently completed addition and renovations to the Henry Kamphoefner House. More recently, major shifts in society and in Dean Malecha has commissioned a far- in the near future include the development the design professions have created critical reaching physical master plan that would of continuing education programs for design new challenges for the school. The electronic yield renovated space in Leazar Hall and a practitioners, new graduate programs in A Life in Design revolution has dramatically changed how we substantial new building linked to the Brooks architecture and art and design, enhance- teach and how students learn, which has Hall complex. Even more remarkably, he ment of the public lectures and exhibitions For 55 years, the College transformed the studio environment. New has secured university acceptance of the programs, improved communications and of Design has helped form s we approach the 55th anniversary of the and competitions; and publication of a unique, space and technological resources have plan though funding is currently available services to alumni and the professional students into creative Afounding of the School, now College, of widely read student journal propelled the school provided the infrastructure for interdisci- only for the Leazar Hall renovations. constituencies, and greater involvement in leaders and responsible Design, it is natural to cast our thoughts both into the first rank of centers of design education. plinary project and research endeavors. the life of the larger community. citizens forward and backward to measure the institution's For more than two decades the vibrant reputation Administrative restructuring of the school The revival of the Student Publication, progress and to consider its future potential. The of the new school in Raleigh spread across the into college status and the initiation of the dormant for more than two decades, is Ultimately, the approaching anniversary can early days were heady indeed, the atmosphere country and around the world. Ph.D. program, both accomplished since imminent. The first new issue, a retro- serve as a point from which the college, no electric, as the new faculty and student body the 50th anniversary, are indications of spective of the 29 volume series, will be longer young but still young in spirit, can In recognition of his many years brought together by Dean Henry Kamphoefner in As the school matured, graduate study and new the continuing growth and health of the published in 2003, and all-new volumes reaffirm its commitment to the principles of service to the College of 1948 set out to create the most innovative and curricula augmented these early assets. At the institution. Research and sponsored service will be produced annually thereafter. For on which it was founded: that while the Design, Professor Robert Burns will be presented an extraordi- dynamic school of design since the formation of urging of Bucky Fuller, product design was estab- efforts are expanding rapidly with contracts many older alumni, this revival is eagerly context and the methods of inquiry are of a nary Design Guild Award during the Bauhaus at the end of the first world war. lished as an autonomous program in 1958, join- budgeted in the millions of dollars. The anticipated as it reconnects the college's new century, the College of Design remains its gala dinner on March 22. Many knowing observers believe they succeeded. ing the original departments of architecture and quality of students applying to the college's future with its illustrious past. committed to the broad development of the The brilliance of the designs flowing from the landscape architecture, and it soon spawned an programs is unequalled within the university. individual student who seeks fulfillment in desks of faculty and students; a youthful, accom- independent visual design program. At the dawn- Faculty members continue to win important In recognition of the growing internation- a life in design and who will assume a for- plished faculty that included such compelling ing of the 1970's, each of these four departments national recognitions for their creative and alization of design practice, expansion of mative role as a creative leader and figures as Nowicki, Matsumoto, Stuart, Fitzgibbon were reorganized into bachelor's and master's academic achievements. opportunities for foreign study is a certainty. responsible citizen. and Catalano; a "dream team" of visiting faculty degree curricula, and began to attract an Student exchange and summer study and lecturers – Fuller, Mumford, Nervi, Wright, increasingly diverse cadre of students: women, Where do we go from here, and what new abroad programs are already in place, and Mies, Gropius, Eames, and Halprin, to name a minorities, foreign-born, and older individuals accomplishments will we look back on in the demand increases each year. The 2000 – School becomes College of 2003 – few; the capturing of many prestigious prizes were drawn to the academically rich environment another decade? The college's recently possibility of establishing a permanent Design. Art and College Design given 2001 – of Design departmental Design celebrates designation. Research 55th The College of Design 1948 – School of Design opens with departments 1950 – First 1958 – Product 1979 – Visual 1999 – Architecture Extension anniversary of architecture and landscape design. graduating Design (now Design (now Ph.D. given school and March celebrates 55 years Henry Kamphoefner serves as dean until 1973. class. Industrial Design) Graphic Design) Program designation. Engagement 21-23.

10 news 11 SPRING 2003 NEW DIRECTOR LEADS aroque. Complicated. Puzzling. Biting. Playful and serious. Engineered. of her innovation are a poster that also serves as wallpaper so that traveling counselors SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BDescribing the work of Denise Gonzales Crisp, the new chair of the Graphic can paper their booth with it. Another poster performed double duty by trimming out to Thomas Barrie, the new director of Design Department, frees the clues to her personality. Her work demands playful inter- 32 different promotional postcards with information imprinted on the reverse mailing the School of Architecture, brings a ordering systems, another volumetric relationships action, whether you’re turning a printed piece upside down or viewing it as through side. One of her college catalogs is stitched in the center to create a circular structure commitment to scholarship, research, and light. A Studio for Two Artists in Massachusetts,

Features a kaleidoscope. All the while, her question seems to be, "What do you SEE?" with no "back of the book." In 1998, she commissioned the typeface Cholla for exclu- teaching and practice. And that puts the winner of an AIA Detroit Honor Award 2000, "I didn’t walk in with an agenda," says Gonzales Crisp, a former senior designer at sive use by the college. Émigré now distributes the type family, in use world wide. him right at home at the College of emphasized elemental relationships and confronted the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. "I walked in with a set of values. As a teacher, Gonzales Crisp acts as a mentor and aims to ignite passion for Design. the broader context of its rural-suburban setting; an I’m finding where my interests fit with the faculty and students here. What my process. For the department, she hopes to encourage additional collaboration among "This is a place that has always built things, and Amtrak Passenger Shelter in Michigan, the winner disciplines and to connect more with the design community. A spring I like that," Barrie said. "Also, its commitment to of a design competition, explored components, lecture program titled "Practitioner’s Pulpits" is planned, as well as a NEW CHAIR TAKES HELM community outreach and practice are consistent assembly and tectonics. His experience also Virtual Visiting Faculty Program, to bring designers like Max Bruinsma OF GRAPHIC DESIGN with my own background." includes multidisciplinary-alternative architectural in Amsterdam, former editor of the English design magazine "Eye," and Before joining NC State University in July 2002, practice. He was co-director of Oasis Studio, an sensibilities add. How we can create synergy." David Karam in San Francisco, co-founder of the innovative studio Post Tool to the Barrie was a professor at Lawrence Technological architecture-arts collaborative active in Boston Gonzales Crisp observes that College of Design students are college. Research and experimentation will be University in Michigan and coordinator of The known for its site-specific installations. intelligent, dedicated, and the younger ones, freshmen and cultivated, as well as international connections. Detroit Studio. He holds a master of philosophy In 1997, Barrie was awarded the sophomores, arriving with a higher level of computer sophistica- "All that is being done already is very degree in architectural history-theory from the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching tion. "It’s interesting to teach students who at 18 or 19 have good, and the groundwork is here," she said. University of Manchester in England, a master's Award. Says Barrie, "I am a commit- already decided that a career in graphic design is what they "The coming year I will raise many questions. degree in architecture from Virginia Polytechnic ted teacher and I plan on teaching want." She readily offers that her own path to design was more roundabout. An The responses will help us determine where illustrator and painter who found herself working at a print shop ("I lied my way the field is moving, will influence how we Institute and State University, and a bachelor's every semester." While at Lawrence into a job as a bookkeeper"), Gonzales Crisp discovered the production end. And adjust curriculum, and establish the areas in degree in English from the University of North Tech, he founded The Detroit loved it. She returned to design school to focus on typography. By the time she which we will lead. Bottom line is I will be Carolina at Greensboro. Studio to provide students with focused on graphic design study, she already was employed as an art director and asking more of alumni, of faculty, of students, His research focus is on architecture as a cultur- enriched education experiences producing educational and advertising materials. and of myself." al artifact with a focus on the symbolism and ritual through community-based projects. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in graphic design from the California Institute use of religious architecture. He is the author of The Collaborative Design Studio was of the Arts in Valencia, Calif., and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Center Spiritual Path, Sacred Place: Myth, Ritual and another of his initiatives for graduate College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. In 2000, she was invited to be one of Meaning in Architecture published by Shambhala students to engage in urban Publications (1996) which was a finalist in the 1997 design and community five core graduate faculty in the newly formed Media Design Program at Art The Architect’s Studio in Royal Oak, Center College of Design. She participated in revising California Institute of Small Press Book Awards. His second book is titled planning for cities in south- Mich., was designed as a personal the Arts' graphic design curriculum while an adjunct faculty member there. Between Heaven and Earth: the Mediating Role of eastern Michigan. While studio for Thomas Barrie, who received a 2002 Honor Award from Gonzales Crisp directed and designed collateral and recruitment materials Sacred Architecture, and is currently under pub- serving on the ACSA Board AIA-Detroit for its design. Barrie has for Art Center College of Design from 1997 to 2001. For two years running (2000 lisher review. Its research was supported in part of Directors from 1998 to maintained private practice in Boston and 2001) she received a Grand Gold Medal from the Council for Advancement through a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2001, he chaired the and Michigan. Spiritual Path, Sacred Place by Barrie offers an in-depth and Support of Education (CASE) for best overall publications. Some examples 2001. He presented his research at the Graham Architects in Society survey or religious buildings and Foundation in fall 2001. Committee and initiated the sacred sites around the world–from The work of Denise Gonzales Crisp was exhibited in Paris as part of the "Graphic Artists Around the The focus of Barrie’s architectural commissions publication of the ACSA Source Book of Community Japanese Zen gardens to the World" show during November 2002. Examples of her pieces include a kaleidoscope image for Germany's Stonehenge-like structures of England, has typically been thematic: one project addressed Design Programs at Schools of Architecture in FORM magazine (top), Art Center posters (middle), and postcards from Art Center's "carrot campaign." from ancient Egyptian temples to She also designed the 55th Anniversary schedule and Design Guild invitiation enclosed in this magazine. the implications of "the wall," another structure and North America. contemporary religious structures.

12 news 13 SPRING 2003 PH.D. IN DESIGN CELEBRATES FIRST GRADUATE Since forming in 1999, the Ph.D. in Design Program heard its first dissertation defense in Architecture Professor Community Development Group, work with stu- January 2003. Jianxi Hu (affectionately known has Hu, pronounced Hugh) researched strategies Henry Sanoff came to the dents emphasizes both design skills and skills to utilize natural lighting in office environments. College of Design in 1966 for ensuring community participation in the Dr. Fatih Rifki, associate dean for graduate studies at the College of Design, says the Ph.D. is from the University of design process. This "grass roots" approach to unique for its interdisciplinary approach, design-research foundation, independent positioning California, Berkeley. A design suggests a paradigm shift from the tradi- within a design college; and collaborations, which include relationships with other colleges at Ph.D. in Design Program Features member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, tional role of the designer to a more facilitative NC State University such as Natural Resources, Enginering and Humanities; and the UNC City Year Established: 1999. First Ph.D. granted in spring 2003. and Regional Planning Department. The program also is open to new concentrations in addi- Concentrations: Community and Environmental Design, and Information Design Sanoff is honored with numerous distinctions, approach. This in no way abrogates the tradi- tion to existing focuses on community and environmental design, and information design. Enrollment: 6 yearly including Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor tional responsibilities of the designer, rather it and the Holladay Medal for Excellence. He teaches requires a more collaborative approach to design- courses related to community participation, social decision making process, and requires the Design and Assessment of Advanced Daylighting Systems Integrated with Typical Interior Layouts architecture, design research, design methodology, knowledge of a variety of participatory strategies. in Multistory Office Buildings Although electric lighting has now assumed the role of being the primary means of illumination for many buildings, people and design programming. In 1969 he created the Students are required to document each generally express a strong preference for natural light in their work environment. There also has been an interest in daylighting Community Development Group at the School of project in a By Jianxin Hu, Candidate for the Ph.D. as a means of reducing nonrenewable energy use. In the present study, two sidelighting solutions – a light shelf system and an optical louver Design and engaged students in the statewide book used pri- system (FISCH) are assessed and compared in terms of lighting quantity and quality in multi-story office buildings. The systems are integrated GRASSROOTS DESIGN with various interior layouts typical of modern office environments, and developed in the context of an optimized structural system to achieve high effort. Sanoff has authored a new book on the CDG marily for fund ceilings. Experiments are conducted in six phases addressing the following issues: 1. Light Shelf Top Surfaces; 2. Partition Materials; 3. Placement titled Three Decades of Design and Community. raising by the by Henry Sanoff of Partitions parallel to window wall; 4. Placement of Partitions perpendicular to window wall; 5. Ceiling Height; 6. Comparisons of the Light client group. This documentation also pro- Shelf & the FISCH system. The data for clear sky and overcast sky conditions are collected, and analyzed. Lighting quantity is evaluated by using Coefficient of Utilization (CU) as an indicator, and lighting quality is evaluated by examining the luminance ratios on major interior surfaces and or the past three decades, the Community vides a fund of knowledge that serves as a An explicit goal of community-based design by studying the size and duration of direct sunbeams admitted through the daylight glazing and view glazing. The study results indicate that: FDevelopment Group has implemented a valuable resource for future projects. Students research is to contribute in some way to • Specular and semi-specular reflectors on the top of light shelves give better light quantity deep in the building than do glossy white or flat new paradigm for professional practice. A generally work in two or three member teams white surfaces; improving the lives of those living in the model of design assistance was developed on a variety of projects receiving academic • Compared to specular reflectors, semi-specular reflectors tend to give better luminance distributions and tend to cover some geometric community. Students work with one another that not only satisfies community needs, but credit for their efforts. Most projects provide defects in the reflector surface, which are readily apparent in the light pattern that specular reflectors produce on the ceiling; and with community partners to design • Compared to opaque partitions, translucent partitions give superior illuminance levels deep inside the building and they also produce enables architecture and landscape architec- for students' out-of pocket expenses. In some projects that arise out of real community superior light quality in the form of less extreme luminance ratios in the space; ture students to directly confront community instances, larger funded projects provide for •In the partitions, it is highly desirable to use fairly high transmittance glazing and to use clear glazing (rather than translucent glazing) needs. Because their community partners are above the level required for visual privacy (e.g., from the top of the door up to the ceiling). problems, such as housing and community student's assistantships. Students may work in likely to be very different from themselves, Jianxi Hu works outside a test • In the partitions, it is desirable to minimize the number and width of mullion elements, to allow as much light as possible through the partition. facilities for the poor, aging, and single parents, the CDG design studio for one or more students must develop empathy with their cell, where he conducted day- early childhood and educational facilities, semesters. community partners so they are able to see lighting experiments for his adaptive use of vacant buildings, and small Since the Community Development group the world through their eyes. research toward a Ph.D. in RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM OFFERED THIS SPRING Design. Hu holds B.Arch. and town revitalization. Most often, communities was founded as an integral part of the graduate M.Arch. degrees from Tianjin The College of Design will offer its second annual Design Research Symposium requesting design assistance cannot afford, or program, over 200 community-based projects from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 23, during the 55th Anniversary Celebration. University, China. Following do not have access to professionals for assis- were conducted. Numerous local, state and graduation this spring, he will Reunion attendees are invited to hear faculty and graduate student presentations tance. This sometimes makes them powerless federal grants were provided for design and practice at Odell Associates from all disciplines, including ongoing extension efforts of the Office of Research, in Charlotte. Extension and Engagement. in responding to issues that do not represent for research particularly related to low income their best interests. communities. And, the Community Development The college’s research unit comprises the Design Research and Extension Program A special reunion for past (2001), Center for Universal Design (1989) and Natural Learning Initiative (2000). Research, Extension and Engagement Office Clients consist of non-profit community received several awards including three CDG designers will be held These unique teams are called upon for expertise in land use planning, watershed Year Established: 2001 groups, planning departments, and other local Progressive Architecture design awards, and during the 55th Anniversary planning, environmental design, design of public spaces, universal design, chil- Faculty and Staff: (L-R top) Robin Moore, Kat Oury, David Stein, Jay Tomlinson Celebration and Reunion. (associate dean for research); (L-R bottom) Richard Duncan, Sally Haile, Nilda Cosco, and state agencies. They are selected on the the program award from the Association of dren's outdoor play environments and computer modeling technology, as well as See the Schedule of Events Dr. Nancy White and Michael Holmes. Not pictured are Leslie Young and Molly Story. basis of their willingness to open the design Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the tremendous resource at its disposal: the energetic network of design faculty Grants and Contracts: $5 million for more details or visit and students. process to all citizen and user groups. At the the Fannie Mae Foundation in 2000. www.design.ncsu.edu

14 news 15 SPRING 2003 55th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion 55th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion Schedule of Events Schedule of Events

Friday, March 21, 2003 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Year Established: 1948 with opening of School of Design. The study of architecture at NC State University began as architectural engineering in the early part of the 4:30 pm Registration begins www.design.ncsu.edu 20th century. Features 5 - 6:30 pm TGIF in courtyard Students: 160 undergraduate, 88 graduate 6:30 pm Studio Crawl – Sponsored by Design Council REGISTRATION Degrees: B.Arch., BEDA, M.Arch. 7:30 pm Dinner on your own or with your class or special interest group. Landscape architecture graduates are invited to a Studio Dinner (additional fee of $15). The cost to attend the 55th Anniversary Faculty: (L-R top) Peter Batchelor, Patrick Rand (associate director), Kristen Schaffer, Celebration and Reunion is $55 for registration Thomas Barrie (director), Roger Clark, Wendy Redfield, Wayne Place; (L-R bottom) ARCHITECTUREDr. Fatih Rifki (associate dean for graduate studies), Georgia Bizios, Jeremy Ficca, Saturday, March 22, 2003 received by 3/14/03 and $75 after this date. Frank Harmon and Gail Borden. Not pictured are Paul Tesar, Henry Sanoff, Dr. John 8:30 am Registration begins This fee covers all events except the Landscape Tector and Marvin J. Malecha. 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Silent Auction by Art and Design Department Architecture Studio Dinner, the Modern 9:30 - 10 am Welcome/Opening Address - Dean Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA Architecture Bus Tour, the Design Guild Dinner Year Established: 2000 (in years prior this area was Design Fundamentals, Design Department, and Design and Technology Department). In 2001, Anni Albers Scholars 10 am - noon Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Panel: "Where is the Future of Design?" Moderated by Dr. Fatih Rifki, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Community Development Group Brunch. Program is created, offering dual degree with Textile Technology. In 2003, a Master Noon – 1 pm Box Lunch Find complete information enclosed in this issue of Art and Design degree is being planned. Students: 113 undergraduate 1 – 4 pm School + Department Events of the news. Please fill out forms and return Degrees: BAD (years past included BEDN) Architecture by mail as soon as possible. ART + DESIGNFaculty: (L-R top) Kathleen Rieder, Dr. Michael Pause (fundamentals director), Vita 1 - 2 pm "Airport Adventures," a discussion of airport design by leading alumni architects.* Plume, Chandra Cox (chair), Susan Toplikar, Dana Raymond, Lope Max Diaz, (L-R 2 – 4 pm (select one) Modernist Architecture in Raleigh*, a bus tour guided by Professor Robert Burns (special fee of $20) OR ALUMNI SHOW seated) Charles Joyner and Susan Brandeis. "History of Community Development Group," a talk by Professor Henry Sanoff We plan to have a continuous presentation of Art + Design alumni work on display in Brooks Hall. If you Year Established: 1979, within Department of Product and Visual Design. Renamed Graphic Design Department in 1991. Informal discussion among students, faculty and alumni would like your work included, please email Students: 115 undergraduate, 16 graduate Graphic Design up to three digital images and one image Degrees: BGD, MGD (years past included BED-GD, BPDV) Presentation of student work and panel discussion on "Contemporary Design Issues" moderated by Chair Denise Gonzales Crisp identifying yourself or your firm. These may be GRAPHIC DESIGNFaculty: (L-R) Scott Townsend (Cheryl Eatmon, administrative secretary is distant Industrial Design emailed to [email protected]. figure), Ned Irvine (visiting), Tony Brock (that's Denise Gonzales Crisp behind him), Kermit Bailey, Meredith Davis, Gonzales Crisp (chair), Martha Scotford and (L-R Presentation of student work led by Professor Vincent Foote and discussion of "Curriculum and Accreditation" led by Chair Bryan Laffitte bottom) 12 amazingly busy feet. (Photo montage by T. Brock) Landscape Architecture QUESTIONS? For more information about the 55th Presentation of student and faculty work by Chair Achva Benzinberg Stein and panel discussion, "Future of Landscape Architecture Year Established: 1958, as Department of Product Design. Name changes to Education," moderated by Rodney Swink, president of ASLA and alumnus* Anniversary Celebration and Reunion, please Department of Product and Visual Design in 1979. Becomes Department of Industrial Design in 1991. *Contact External Relations (919-515-8320 or [email protected]) for information about professional continuing education credits. visit www.design.ncsu.edu or contact External Relations at 919/515-8313 or Students: 100 undergraduate, 26 graduate Degrees: BID, MID (years past included BEDI, BEDP) 3:30 pm Silent Auction bids close and bid winners announced. [email protected] or NC State University, INDUSTRIAL Faculty:DESIGN(L-R, top) Vince Foote, Bong-Il Jin, Haig Khachatoorian; (L-R, bottom) 4:30 – 6:30 pm Reception at the Fish Market, an independent student gallery in downtown Raleigh (133 Fayetteville Street Mall) College of Design, Office of External Relations, Percy Hooper, Tim Buie, Glenn Lewis, Bryan Laffitte (chair) and Chris Jordan. 6:30 – 10 pm Design Guild Award Dinner at Exploris in downtown Raleigh (201 E. Hargett Street) Campus Box 7701, Raleigh, NC 27695. Table sponsorship is available for firms and affinity groups. Please see page 6 and the attached invitation. Year Established: 1948. The study of landscape architecture at NC State University SUGGESTIONS? began within the agriculture program in 1927. Sunday, March 23, 2003 We welcome your input and involvement. Students: 41 undergraduate, 54 graduate 10 am Class or special interest group brunch Volunteer to be a class coordinator. Send Degrees: BLA, MLA (years past included BEDL) 10 am Reunion Brunch for Community Development Group – Professor Henry Sanoff (additional fee of $15) photographs and memories of your student Faculty: (L-R) Achva Benzinberg Stein (chair), Fernando Magallanes, Art Rice and Angelo Abbate. Not pictured are Shishir Raval, Mary Myers and Robin Moore. 1 - 5 pm Design Research Symposium led by James Tomlinson, assistant dean for Research, Extension and Engagement days. And register early! LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

16 news 17 SPRING 2003 Features COLLEGE CASTS WIDER NET Design Camp for high school stu- dents continues to serve as a major by Marva C. Motley, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs recruitment effort of the college.

s the College of of future role models and the potential Students are discovering design as to improving diversity relations in the the rigors of our popular, long-running ADesign at NC State for designers of color to have impact on a possible career option through mass College of Design. In 2001-2002 Residential Camp. The addition of approaches 55 years of the diverse society in which we live. Yet mailings, classroom presentations, the college matched a $35,000 grant the Day Camp and a number of producing the finest the good news is that our senior class alumni outreach efforts, summer that was awarded by the Provost’s community-sponsored scholarships graduates in the nation, photographs are changing. design camps, community programs, Office to enhance diversity initiatives increased minority enrollment by 25 a deliberate and long Approximately five years ago, the college tours, and a well-advertised and each academic unit participated. percent. Plans are under way for overdue change is occur- College of Design established an aggres- college Open House. Outreach efforts For example, Art and Design offered other K-12 recruitment programs ring. Not so long ago, the sive recruitment program with the intent have included ongoing dialogue with a series of art workshops to inner city that will embrace younger students, "School of Architecture" of improving diversity in the college and a network of diversity proponents that teens in Durham in conjunction with allowing exposure to design at an senior class photograph ultimately the design professions across has proved to be a much needed link See Saw Studios. Industrial Design earlier age. With all these efforts, consisted of only white all disciplines. Despite recent changes in to a community of talented and aca- faculty began development of the internal assessments and diversity males. Over the last 55 affirmative action policies and virtually no demically gifted students. Exposure "NetNoir Website," designed to high- awareness is recognized and crucial years women designers scholarship funds for targeted recruit- to the design profession combined light African Americans and other to developing future plans. Currently Today, women make up 50 percent of the have joined the ranks of this prestigious ment, diversity across all disciplines has with a welcoming and supportive minorities in design. When fully a college wide diversity survey is entering class enrollment. Pictured above, second from right, is Jalaeh Steverson, a profession as colleagues and competitors increased. The college adopted a "casting environment have been deemed the developed, this website will provide being conducted, and a series of landscape architecture sophomore who in record numbers. In fact, today women a wider net" posture in 1997, and our key ingredients to attracting and valuable resource information on awareness forums are planned for serves as a regular college tour guide. constitute 50 percent of the entering efforts now reach the far corners of retaining students of color. minority contributions to design and the coming year for faculty, students class enrollment in the College of Design, North Carolina and surrounding states. While the College of Design places will hopefully increase interest in the and staff. which is consistent with college and Even where art classes and Advanced emphasis on diversity within the faculty discipline. As we embrace the 21st century, we university enrollment across the country. Placement credits may not exist and and staff, special emphasis focuses Other college efforts include the must be vigilant in keeping diversity in Simply put, women have discovered where "design" may not be an over-dinner on student diversity. The Office of addition of a one-week summer design among our top priorities. The design and the doors are open. As conversation, students of color are hear- Student Affairs spearheads a number Design Day Camp for rising high College of Design stands behind this exciting as this sounds, the College of ing about industrial design, art and of recruitment and retention efforts, school students. Day Camp was goal and through continued support Design still faces challenges in attracting design, landscape architecture, graphic and over the last three years has created in response to prospective and teamwork, diversity in design students of color, which limits the promise design and architecture. continued a multifaceted approach students who may not be ready for can and will be reality.

18 news 19 SPRING 2003 COLLEGE LIFE Dean MalechareceivesprestigiousTopaz Medallion A college life ing thestudents); andJamesChaffers, the AIA);LawrenceJ.Fabbroni (represent- G James A. bers Chair DavidWatkins, FAIA, andjurymem- National ConventioninSanDiego,Calif. on March15,andMay8attheAIA ACSA annualmeetinginLouisville,Ky., me minds ofthosewhowillshapeourenviron- a broadrangeofstudentsandshapedthe years, andwhoseteachinghasinfluenced to architectureeducationforatleast10 who hasmadeoutstandingcontributions Collegiate SchoolsofArchitecture(ACSA). Institute ofArchitectsandtheAssociation Architectural EducationbytheAmerican the Topaz MedallionforExcellencein Design, wasnamedthe2003recipientof In selectinghimfortheaward, Jury The Topaz Medallionhonorsanindividual nt. Malecha, FAIA, deanoftheCollege rchitect andeducatorMarvinJ. The awardwillbepresentedatthe ersich, AIA(representing AI faculty, hisleadership inadministration, refers tohismentoringofjunior andsenior he isdescribedasa‘Dean’s Dean.’This deans, faculty, andACSABoardmembers, that is,inmanyways,heroic. Among writes, "MarvinMalechahasapresence tecture, A and hasdisplayedvisioninthatregard." the intrinsicvalueofinternationalstudies bridging isnoteworthy. Heunderstands education inperspective,andhisglobal Marvin managestokeepallareasof has bridgedacademiawithpractice. instruction, practice of ture schooldeans.Hechampionedthe are and hisefforts has gained ing ACSA), ward, FrancesBronet,professorofarchi- A, In supportingMalechafortheTopaz

a nd Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, Melvin Mitchell,FAIA (represent- commented, "MarvinMalecha using drawingasamethodof significant peerrecognition, and hiscase-studiesapproach supported byarchitec- 20

TONY BROCK American Task ForceforDiversity. Initiative Task ForceandtheAfrican i service. AsafellowoftheAIA, hewas teaching, designscholarship, research, or me nizes creativeachievementintheadvance- ACSA, anationaldistinctionthatrecog- asadistinguished nized Research. Thisyear, Malechawasrecog- AIA/ACSA CouncilonArchitectural Education, aswellvicechairedthe led theCaliforniaCouncilofArchitectural European architecturaleducators.He the ACSAandforgednewtieswith Polytechnic University, Pomona. Environmental DesignatCaliforniaState Malecha servedasdeanoftheCollege beads inthechainthatmakehimatrue chairing ofNAABvisitteamsarejust Accrediting Board(NAAB)visits,andhis of ASCA,his25NationalArchitectural architecture education.Hispresidency at theforefrontofnationalleadershipin and hisinsatiabledesiretohelpbe nstrumental inestablishingthe Woman’s Malecha hasservedaspresidentof nt of architectureeducationthrough tenure atNCStateUniversity, tion." leader inarchitectureeduca- For 12yearspriortohis professor by Design websiteat tr and graphicdesigners.Moreinformation andonlineregis- from architectsandecologiststoengineers, landspecialists LABASH 2003is"FieldsofVision." Invitedspeakersrange come togetherandcelebratetheprofession. Thethemeof for landscapearchitecturestudentsandprofessionalsto dition thatbeganintheearly‘70s,LABASHisanopportunity host the33rdannualLABASHtobeheldMarch13-16.Atra- Landscape architecturestudentsoftheCollegeDesignwill REGISTRATION OPENFORLABASH available onthereserveshelfinDesignLibraryunder"Lecture Videos/Architecture." tape attheDesignLibrary. AIAmembersmayborrowthetapesforovernightcheckout.Theyare precede eachlectureat5:30p.m.Followingpresentations, tapesaremadeavailableonVHS on April21.AlllectureswilltakeplaceinKamphoefnerAuditorium at6p.m.Amodestreceptionwill Arquitectos, basedinMexicoCityandNewYork, willbethefeaturedHarwell HamiltonHarrislecturer sponsored byAIATriangle andtheSchoolofArchitecture. Inaddition,EnriqueNortonofTEN of Architecture.PresentationsbySteveChristeronMarch3andPeterBohlin24arejointly A seriesofoutstandingpresentationsinteresttoarchitectswilltakeplacethisspringattheSchool ARCHITECTURE LECTURESFORSPRING m to dents avenue the stronger connectionbetweenthecommunityand a our collegecultivates.Thisinitiativewillencourage thetalent themselves andtheirwork,showcasing for thestudentsofCollege mission istoprovideaplace sell theirwork.Our to serveasanoutletforstudentsexhibitand propose theestablishmentofaspacedesignated on behalfofthestudentsCollegeDesign, organization, theDesignCouncil,whichputforth: The FishMarketisstudentrun,ledandcontrolledthroughthe of theCollegeDesign,fromfurnituretotechnicaldrawingspaintings. by students,whilefacultyandalumnimayalsoparticipate.Thepiecesreflectalldisciplines Located indowntownRaleighat133FayettevilleStreetMall,thegalleryfeaturesworkforsale named whenthecollegeadministrationannounceditsaversiontoacronymssuchasCOD. Students oftheCollegeDesignhaveagallerytheirown.It’s calledtheFishMarket,cleverly FISH MARKETSELLSCOD ati on college, increasestudentmorale,andallowstu- is offeredfromtheLABASHlinkon College of www.design.ncsu.edu arket thefruitsoftheirlabor." of Designtopromote . "We thestudents news 21 of the SPRING 2003 Design Council, House inOrangeCounty, N.C.,byPhilip SzostakAssociates. [email protected]. faculty member, hasorganizedtheshow. Information: Philip Szostak(BEDA1975),aChapelHill architectandvisiting former studentsoftheNCStateUniversity SchoolofArchitecture. architecture focus.Muchoftheworkshown isthatoffacultyand in NorthCarolinatoillustratethestate’s roleintoday’s modern 18 acollectionofworkspastandcurrentpracticingarchitects The DukeUniversityMuseumofArtwillexhibitfromFeb.20toMay THE ARTOFARCHITECTURE [email protected] advisor forthepublication.Information: Professor GailBordenactedasfaculty Design inSeptember2002.Assistant a visitinglecturerattheCollegeof with NYCarchitectBillieTsien, whowas Ryan, Brakenbury, andaconversation Culley, AshleyHenkel,NoahMorris, from JasonBuerkle,Che’Clark,Tonya and AdamBrakenburywithcontributions publication iseditedbyThomasRyan (sub)urban landscape.The25-page addressing contemporarypostmodern Prototype withessaysandprojects THEEGG completed thefirstpublicationof Architecture graduatestudentshave THEEGG Pictured atleftisamodeloftheMetro , thethemeofwhichisPlace/ HAS HATCHED . The second experience took place in what was then the School NEOTENIC is being childlike ("not childish"), with an open of Design. I had just started teaching here and I wished to show response to the world. my colleagues what a wonderful teacher I was. I had invited all Not too long ago, I came across a test used to measure ones’ neo- the "Heavies" (Professors Baermann, Eichenberger, Stuart, J. Cox, tenic level that I enjoyed taking so much I would now like to admin- Bireline, and many others) to the crit. I went home at 4:30 the ister it to you. The test was developed by Dr. Ashley Montagu, a morning of the crit knowing that I had done a wonderful job. The noted British anthropologist and Dr. Edwin Kiester Jr. You are not Industrial Design Professor Vincent Foote, FIDSA, has advised more than 3,000 product was a kitchen food-processing center. It was beautiful required to write your answers, just keep a running tally. You will need design students during his 36 years at the College of Design. His profound influence in its use of chrome, porcelain and walnut. One could never go to evaluate the following statements to determine how neotenic you on students and colleagues was recognized when honored with the 2002 Award for wrong with that combination of materials. The crit was scheduled are. Answer with "strongly agree," "neutral," or "strongly disagree." COLLEGE LIFE Excellence in Teaching from the Board of Governors of the 16-campus University of for 9 a.m. in the jury room, now referred to as the rotunda. When •I am very intuitive and often know what others are thinking North Carolina. Foote is an NC State University Distinguished Alumni Professor. the jurors and I arrived for the crit, the students had already set up or feeling. a table with the product in the middle covered with a red velour •I cry easily. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TO THE cloth. The students, dressed in suits and ties, were sitting on one •I laugh easily and often. side of the table and had set up chairs for the jurors on the other. •I have a good sense of humor. COLLEGE OF DESIGN AT NC STATE They welcomed the jurors and thanked them for coming. They •I have at least one close friend or family member with whom UNIVERSITY, DECEMBER 18, 2002 explained why they had selected and designed this particular prod- I can share my dreams and fears. uct, and then they removed the red velour cloth. There was an urn • People enjoy being with me. filled with ashes. The students had cremated the project after I had •I like people, especially those who are different from me. Albert Einstein once said "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other gone home to change clothes. My jaw (and other body parts) •I love all living things. people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in same measure as I have received and am still receiving." bounced off the floor. The students then explained their action. •I enjoy singing and dancing. The learning experience for them had stopped and they were just •I participate in sports or exercise primarily for fun. Dean, Colleagues, Parents and friends of the graduates, and I said to myself, "Look at all those foreigners." Suddenly all the polishing and polishing and polishing the prototype. In the "polish- •I enjoy solving problems. now PEERS: bells and whistles in my head went off. I was the foreigner, not ing and polishing phase" it had become my product not theirs. •I am always thinking of new and better ways of doing things. I would like to share experiences and knowledge concerned them. All the people who I had ignored because of stupid value Up until that moment, it had been a great learning experience • I’m curious about what causes things and what makes with the kind of giving and receiving that Einstein meant. These systems that I had blindly bought into passed through my mind. for them. They were now ready to talk about the experience and things work. have had a profound effect on me personally and on my pro- I had missed out on their humor, their knowledge, experiences, what they had learned. A fantastic discussion about process and •I enjoy the challenge of new ideas, especially those that fessional career: and their friendship. I had accepted someone else’s values as design philosophy followed. From that moment on individual stu- challenge my own. First, two anecdotes. During high school I belonged to an out- mine. I had used their filter to evaluate who I should talk to, dents became my number one priority; they became the "product." •I am interested in many different subjects. lawed fraternity. All the members combed their hair in ducktails, experience, debate, and learn from. From that moment on I • I’m stimulated by change and enjoy taking risks. if you can believe that. We wore pegged pants, sport coats without have tried to correct that mistake by living by the following rules: "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner •I consider my chosen profession interesting, fun, challenging collars, and white buck shoes. No one was allowed to join if you •Seek first to understand. and outer life are based on the labors of other people … " and meaningful. were not the "perfect fit." Thus we didn’t have overweight people, • Become a better listener. •I regard my work as play. skinny people, people with acne, people who thought differently • Develop respect for self. Now, there are two words that I would like for you to become •I have a means of expressing myself creatively. than us, etc. Fifty years ago today, as a 19 year old and a mem- • Develop respect for others. familiar with: "NEOTENY" and "NEOTENIC." •I have an active fantasy life and enjoy daydreaming. ber of another "fraternity," I was in Japan for five days of R&R. • Accept responsibility for all actions. Neoteny is the scientific term for carrying over into adulthood •I know how to have fun. In that country when people were on strike they paraded to •Take immediate steps to correct mistakes. the qualities that marked us as children – curiosity, openness, •I expect great things to happen and look forward to the future. demonstrate their concerns. While watching one of these parades • Practice humility. friendliness, spontaneity, joyfulness, and flexibility. • I’m generally happy and enjoy my life.

22 news 23 SPRING 2003 And now, let’s see how you did. According to Drs. Montague Play comes naturally to the younger set, but we, as adults, • Be honest and fair in serving the public, your clients, employers, and Kiester, "If you strongly agreed with these statements you often need to be reminded. Surround yourself, your home and peers, employees and students regardless of gender, race, have retained many life-enhancing and often life-sustaining office with stress reducing, life-enhancing objects that can lower creed, ethnic origin, age, disability or sexual orientation. neotenic qualities. You are most likely open, optimistic and warm, blood pressure, slow heart rate, and help you have a more cre- • Use your knowledge and skill for the enrichment of human even eccentric, gregarious and creative. Your enthusiasm is ative and fun-filled life. By recapturing childlike qualities we may well being, present and future. contagious, and others enjoy your presence. These qualities not have lost, we just might be able to powerfully boost our immune • Support equality of rights under the law and oppose any only help your creative abilities, but studies show that they boost systems and live longer, more creative, fruitful and happier lives." denial or abridgement of equal rights by any individual, client, your immune system and prevent disease, and aid recovery Poet Samuel Ullman also encourages neoteny. He wrote: "Youth corporation, or government. from injuries and illnesses. You will probably look younger longer is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will; • Compete fairly with your colleagues by building your than most people your age, and certainly think younger. a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions. Youth means professional reputation on the quality of your work. If your answers were mostly "neutral," Montague and Kiester a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the • When you realize you have made a mistake, take immediate say that you have sacrificed some of your childlike qualities on appetite for adventure over a life of ease. You are as young as steps to correct it. Vincent Foote headed the Department of Product Design, now Industrial Design, for 18 years. the road to maturity. They hate to say this, but you are an your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, • Be responsible to design education as one of your He now teaches industrial design and furniture design studios. "average adult." It is not so much a matter of not knowing how to as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your fundamental concerns. enjoy life, as it is finding the time, energy or motivation to do so. despair. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; And now a few words about me; At the risk of sounding like a desk calendar (365 rules to live Responsibilities and life stresses have diminished your capacity people grow old by deserting their quest and ideals. Years may My own personal philosophy is a collection of ideas and by) I have another list of Vince Foote commandments that I for joy, which may seem frivolous next to more serious concerns. wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. beliefs surrounding the human spirit’s quest for self-excellence. believe in so strongly I must share them. You’re more prone to stress-related systems like headaches, The following five principles have helped me in my quest: • Family First, then profession. backaches, sleep disturbances and frequent illnesses. But you . . . I must exert myself in order to give in same measure as First. Courtesy. Respect others and their right to be different • Spend quality time with your mate. can increase your creativity, pleasure and improve your health by I have received and am still receiving." while maintaining the right to disagree, to debate, to test ideas • Spend quality time with your children. rediscovering and following your natural inclinations toward joy. and self against others. Be a good listener. • Spend some time alone every day. The key: immediate gratification. Don’t postpone your happiness Next, I would like to offer a few thoughts on ETHICS. Second. Integrity. Be honest to yourself and to your quest. • Learn the rules so you know how to break them. by waiting for problems to be solved, savings to accumulate, etc. As professionals you must recognize the fact that designers Develop an understanding of your own personal integrity and • When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Today is the perfect day to start living a happy, healthy, long have a profound effect on the quality of human life and the moral code of ethics. • Open your mind and heart to change but don’t let go of your and creative life. natural environment, and that responsible, ethical decision Third. Perseverance. Develop goals and maintain a course values. If your answers were mostly "strongly disagree," it’s time to making requires conviction and courage in today’s competitive of action in spite of obstacles and detours. The true rewards of • Share your knowledge. reevaluate your life, and rediscover and nurture the child within and chaotic world. Today, I challenge each of you to uphold perseverance become clear when we make advances, no matter • Be gentle with the earth. yourself. and advance the integrity of your chosen profession. how large or small, in our knowledge and abilities. There is an inscription on the southeast quadrant of the Foster neotenic qualities like creativity, exploration, enthusiasm, • Strive to support and defend one another in achieving the Fourth. Self-control. We must be able to control our actions, Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. which reads, "Few will experimentation and openness to new ideas by: Learning to goal of maintaining high professional standards and levels our feelings, and ourselves. When we are capable of the virtue have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can love life. Learning to play as children do. Having a pet. Laughing of competence. of self-control, we become good listeners with every sense. We work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of and crying freely. Reaching out to the world. Seeking new • Honor commitments you make to others. not only look, but also actually see. We not only listen, but also those acts will be written the history of this (your) generation." acquaintances and cherishing the old. Using your imagination. • Know that you are responsible to the public for their safety. actually hear. We not only touch, but also actually feel. Dancing. Filling your office with toys … Their economic and general well being is your foremost Fifth. Indomitable spirit. We must be individuals who cannot I wish you PEACE, LOVE, SUCCESS and a great and honorable Above all, don’t worry about "looking childish." For your health’s professional concern. be subdued or overcome. We must develop a spirit full of pride NEOTENIC life in your personal QUEST for self-excellence. sake, don’t act your age, in the traditional stuffed shirt, stiff- • Participate only in projects that are ethically sound and in and the courage of our convictions in order to persevere. It is backbone sense. Loosen up, relax, become childlike again. conformance with pertinent legal regulations. not enough to just survive. Thank you.

24 news 25 SPRING 2003 Roy Abernathy, AIA, IDSA (BEDA BOLT, which is led by design principal Monty Mara E. Murdoch (M.Arch. 1995), a project Steve Schuster (BEDA 1973), principal of 1990, M.Arch. 1992) is a principal and Montague (BEDPD 1984), opened an office in architect at Cho Benn Holback & Associates in Clearscapes architectural firm in Raleigh was fea- the EVP/COO of Jova/Daniels/Busby, New York City in August 2002. Baltimore, worked on several award-winning pro- tured as the Tar Heel of the Week in Raleigh’s The where he is responsible for executive jects, including the Eubie Blake Jazz Museum and News & Observer of Oct. 27, 2002. Schuster received and design leadership for the pro- William H. Griffin Jr. (BAD 2000), received the Cultural Center, which won a Baltimore AIA 2002 the 13th Sir Walter Raleigh Award. He also received

NOTES gressive 37-year old firm. Before, Summer 2001 Penland School of Crafts Scholarship Design Award; and the Annie E. Casey Foundation a lifetime achievement award for helping to revitalize Abernathy served as facilities director to study photography. expansion and renovation project, which won a downtown Raleigh. Schuster has guided rehab & friends alumni at Accenture, where he was responsible for the day-to- Baltimore Building Congress & Exchange 2002 projects across Eastern North Carolina and designed day operations of the firm's Atlanta office. Susan Hatchell, FASLA (M.LA. Craftsman Award. new projects, such as Exploris museum and the 1982), was elected trustee for adjacent IMAX theater. Alumni architects honored by AIA NC Ian Butcher (BEDA 1995), an associate with E. Cobb the North Carolina Chapter of the William G. Monroe III, AIA (B.Arch. 1975, M.Arch. College of Design alumni and faculty were recognized for excellence and contributions to Architects of Seattle, was hired as a part-time instructor American Society of Landscape 1978), chaired the AIA-NC Urban Design Assistance Scott Wolf, AIA (BEDA 1984), design by the American Institute of Architects-North Carolina. The organization’s awards at Cornish College of the Arts. He is teaching third and Architects. Her three-year term Team that updated the Fayetteville, N.C., Visions and Amy DeDominicis (M.Arch. fourth year interior design studios. to the national position began in Plan. The team prepared the updated master plan 1995), are principal and associ- ceremony was held in August 2002 during the Summer Design Conference in Asheville. October 2002. Hatchell is president of Hatchell with a focus on revitalization of the downtown. ate respectively at the Seattle Honor Award winners are Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, PA (Irvin Pearce, B.Arch. 1968; Charles Boney Jr. (BEDA 1978), director of the Landscape Architecture & Park Design in Raleigh. Monroe is principal of the firm WGM Design Inc., of firm of Miller/Hull Douglas Brinkley, BEDA 1974; H. Clymer Cease, BEDA 1974; Jeffrey Lee, BEDA 1975) for Wilmington office of Boney Architects, was appointed She is a visiting lecturer for the Landscape Charlotte. Team members are as follows: William G. Partnership, which won the the Fletcher Opera Theater and Meymandi Concert Hall at the BTI Center for The Performing to the North Carolina Board of Architecture this year. Architecture Department at the College of Design Monroe, III, AIA, chairman; Robert Barnhill, AIA; 2003 AIA-Washington Arts; Frank Harmon (College of Design architecture faculty) for Outdoor Classroom; Dixon and serves on the NC State University Landscape Chris Brasier (BEDA 1983, B.Arch. 1984), AIA; John Architecture Firm Award. Weinstein Architects (Ellen Weinstein, M.Arch. 1986; Dale Dixon, visiting faculty) for Hayes Paul Boney (BEDA 1977), FAIA, chief executive officer Architecture Advisory Board. Felton, AIA; Eric Lindstrom, AIA; Steve Lineberger, This is the highest award Cucchiara Residence; The Freelon Group Inc. (Philip G. Freelon, B.Arch. 1975) for Lord of Boney Architects, was recently reappointed to a second AIA; Wayne McGary, AIA; Sal Musarra, ASLA; Michael the AIA bestows on an term on the Planning Commission of Wilmington, N.C. Lisa L. Helms (BVD 1990), president and CEO of O’Brien, AIA; Chris Ogunrinde, AIA; and Anne Saint- architecture firm. Corporation World Headquarters; Gomes + Staub PLLC (Dabney Staub, BEDA 1988; Cisco Digiblink Inc. Advertising, Multimedia and Design, Aignan, AIA. The Urban Design Assistance Program Gomes, visiting faculty) for Scott + Stringfellow Office Fitup; and Clearscapes PA (Steve Curt Fentress (B.Arch. 1972) of has moved the business to Myrtle Beach, S.C. is administered through the College of Design and is Schuster, BEDA 1973) for Helios Coffee/Carson Medlin Building. Fentress Bradburn Architects of Digiblink provides advertising services for local directed by Peter Batchelor, FAIA, FAICP, a professor Alumni firms that won Merit Awards are Little & Associates (William Little, B.Arch. 1959) Denver will lead the make-over of the stores, entertainment venues and hotels. of architecture. The Fayetteville UDAT project was for Biltmore Estate Winery Addition; Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA for RDU Entrance old American Airlines hub at Raleigh- funded through the College of Design. Markers; Vincent Petrarca (BEDA 1994, B.Arch. 1999) for The Honeymoon Cottage; Cherry Durham International Airport, which Michael McMahon (BEDLA 1989), a landscape will nearly triple the size of the termi- architect with the National Park Services in the Katherine N. Peele (B.Arch. 1988), chief operat- Huffman Architects (Louis Cherry, M.Arch. 1983) for United Church of Chapel Hill; and nal and add 10 new gates. Fentress will collaborate National Capital Region of Washington, D.C., volun- ing officer and director of the Raleigh office of The Freelon Group Inc. for The Hill Center. with other alumni on the project: John L. Atkins III teered his time and expertise for the site selection Boney Architects, was appointed to North Carolina The Detroit chapter of the AIA awarded Thomas Barrie, the new director of the School (B.Arch. 1966) of O’Brien/ Atkins Associates and Phil and design of a memorial grove in Fairfax County, Citizens for Business and Industry. As project of Architecture, an Honor Award for the Architect’s Studio in Royal Oak, Mich. Freelon (B.Arch. 1975) of The Freelon Group. Va., to honor those who perished as a result of the architect for over 40 school projects throughout Construction could begin by late 2003, with completion Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. North Carolina, she has established her expertise in late 2007. Fentress designed the Passenger Terminal in educational facility design. Alumni firm bestowed high honor (built on a man-made land bridge between two islands Boney Architects, a 50-person planning, design in the Yellow Sea) at Incheon International Airport in and construction administration firm with offices in Seoul, South Korea, the Passenger Terminal Complex Wilmington, Raleigh and Charlotte, received the (white roof line mimics the peaks and valleys of the DESIGN SOLUTIONS SKETCH DIARY 2002 North Carolina Chapter of the American Rockies) at Denver International Airport, and Central David Cameron (BPD 1970, MPD 1972) recently recalled the urging of late faculty member Don Masterson to "Topkapi Villa overlooking the Little Sound, Bermuda" (above) Institute of Architects Firm Award. This honor is Terminal (features central civic hall that houses art discover design through "permutation and combination." He was assisting with "The Massacre at Shelton Laurel," is a page from Geoffrey Hoffman’s travel sketch journal. and interactive educational experiences) at Seattle- the highest presented to an architectural firm by a graduate thesis film project of his nephew, Cameron Pearce, another NC State alum. The Civil War story was Hoffman (BEDA 1977) has been practicing architecture in Tacoma International Airport. the Lake Norman area north of Charlotte for 10 years. He the state chapter. The Boney family has a remark- shot last summer at David Cameron’s homestead, his 1850s house on 110 acres in western North Carolina. Cameron put his design skills to new uses – for the "jail scene" he fashioned shackles from sections of a van recently was named associate principal of Grad Associates able record of related design alumni (see page 7). Phil Freelon (B.Arch. 1975) was selected as the 2002 muffler and prison bars from quarter-round molding. These were among eight props created in a mere six hours. of Newark, N.J., heading its North Carolina operations. He Founded in 1922 by Leslie N. Boney, the firm’s design influence is evidenced through- Distinguished Alumnus from the College of Design. serves as a Park Scholarship Review Committee member To accommodate 25 overnight guests (actors and set workers), he says: "We installed the septic system, two out the state having completed projects in 74 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. In the early See page 7 for the full story. for NC State University and was accepted into the Harvard 1900’s, the firm established itself as a pioneer in educational facility design, playing a leading toilets, a kitchen sink, one shower (galvanized tub and hoola hoop) and the necessary plumbing, including the Graduate School of Design’s Advanced Management role in consolidating many of the state’s one-room schoolhouses. Many of the firm’s early Mark Gildersleeve (BEDI 1992), has become director of water heater. I erected the permanent stud walls around the toilets, covered them with temporary sheathing, Development Program in July 2002. environmental design for BOLT of Charlotte. Gildersleeve school buildings are now listed on the National Historic Register. As the firm grew, Boney and made temporary doors out of rigid foam sheets. From friends and the attic, we managed to assemble 17 worked for BOLT several years ago and left to work as Share your travel sketches with fellow alumni. Send them Architects continued to design many of North Carolina’s educational facilities including the foam or air sleeping palettes, each with a cardboard box side table." creative director of Paramount Parks Design and to the news magazine, NC State University College of Walter Royal Davis Library at UNC Chapel Hill, the original campus master plan for UNC Entertainment. At Paramount he worked on King’s Island Send us examples of your creative solutions to everyday problems. Design, Office of External Relations, Campus Box 7701, Wilmington and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ Governors’ Village educational campus. in Cincinnati and Star Trek, the Experience in Las Vegas. Raleigh, NC 27695.

26 news 27 SPRING 2003 Glenn Lewis, industrial design, Dr. John Tector, academic NOTES served in December as a juror affairs and architecture, was faculty & staff for the International Housewares honored in October 2002 by Competition in Chicago. The the Association for Computer judges were comprised of 10 Aided Design in Architecture designers, including two design (ACADIA) at its national con- Gail Borden, architecture, and his Rubber- Chandra Cox, art and design, will exhibit her faculty members and eight practitioners. ference held at California State Polytechnic banded House was featured in the December work through Feb. 23 at the Mint Museum of University in Pomona. Tector received the 2002 Architectural Record’s portfolio of unbuilt Art in Charlotte as part of "Celebrating the Marvin J. Malecha was named the 2003 2002 ACADIA Award of Excellence in Service, projects. Borden’s design, which features inter- Legacy of Romare Bearden." The juried show is recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence the highest award that can be achieved by a locking horizontal and vertical "courtyards" and a salute to the artists of the Carolinas and an in Architectural Education by the American university faculty member in the field of interior walls made from rubber bands. The exciting revival of the museum's tradition of Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association architectural computing. Tector is a founding house won the architecture category of the 100% juried exhibitions. of Collegiate Schools of Dana Raymond,art and design, conceived the member of association, which formed in 1981. Rubber competition, sponsored by Dalsouple Architecture (ACSA). installation "QATARI BOTTLESCAPE," which Rubber. Borden presented "Reproduction Jeremy Ficca and Kristen Schaffer joined the See page 20 for the full was installed and presented in Doha, Qatar, Dr. Nancy White, research and landscape and the Like" at the New Cities New Media permanent faculty ranks of the School of story. Malecha also during the month of Ramadan from Nov. 6 to architecture, has been accepted as a member conference at the University of Southern Architecture in fall 2002. authored the book, Dec. 6, 2002. The actual fabrication of the of the NC State University Marine Sciences California School of Architecture Jan. 17-19. Reconfiguration in the piece was accomplished in collaboration with faculty. She will continue to serve as a research Frank Harmon, architecture, Study and Practice of Karl Burkheimer (BEDA 1988) and Sally associate professor at the College of Design. Susan Brandeis, art and design, participated was featured in the October Design and Architecture, VanGorder, two U.S. artists currently teaching White is currently engaged in an effort to in "Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on 2002 issue of Architectural published in 2002 by at the Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar develop a new laboratory to test a DNA tracking the Cutting Edge," an exhibition of the Textile Record for his design of the William Stout Publishers, College of Design Arts in Doha, Qatar, and a method at the Center for Marine Sciences and Museum in Washington, D.C., which came Iron Studio at the Penland San Francisco. class of their students. The installation con- Technology on the campus of the Carteret to the Gallery of Art & Design at NC State School of Crafts in the Blue sisted of 648 water bottles filled to variable Community College in Morehead City, N.C. University during fall semester 2002. Artists Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The design Robin Moore, landscape architecture and heights with rice, lentils, salt, water and oil. featured all use new textile technologies to project involved eight graduate students from Natural Learning Initiative, is associate editor Leslie Young, research and create their work. She also has been award- the College of Design. Harmon, with associ- for both a special issue and section of the David Stein, research and extension, presented ed a North Carolina Arts Council Artist ates Vincent Petrarca (BEDA 1994, B.Arch. American Journal of Health Promotion, "Health extension, has surveyed resi- “Universal Design in Housing” Fellowship for 2002-2003 in the amount of 1999) and Charles Holden (BEDA 1995), Promoting Community Design." The focus is the dents of Manteo and Roanoke and moderated a session at $8,000. transformed the students’ ideas, along with issue of declining levels of physical activity and Island as the first step toward the International Universal their own, into a buildable plan. The result is how this negative trend can be reversed through preparing an updated 20-year Design Conference in Meredith Davis, graphic design, has been an open, steel-framed loft space with work- community design. Moore gave a presentation plan. An earlier plan, which Yokohama, Japan, last December. In Japan, named a fellow of the American Institute of stations with workstations and a high roof. about environmental design for active living by was completed in 1982 also by the College of the most rapidly aging country in the world, Graphic Arts. Davis was one of only nine The studio is 6,312 square feet. children at the symposium marking the open- Design, included such aspirations as Roanoke seniors account for about 18 percent of the designers nationally to receive the honor in ing of the "Active Living by Design" program, Island Festival Park and the Elizabeth II. population. In 2014 this figure is expected to 2002. Davis teaches doctoral and master's Charles Joyner, art and design, exhibited School of Public Health, UNC. Achva Benzinberg Stein, landscape architecture, top 25 percent. courses in the areas of cognition and culture his silkscreen prints and mixed-media will direct a team of landscape architecture as they relate to design objects. At the under- compositions in fall 2002 at North Carolina Mary Myers, landscape architecture, wrote graduate students as they explore issues with graduate level, she teaches studio and graphic Central University Art Museum. His piece, "One View from the Road," published in the citizens, gather extensive data and propose design theory. Her research includes work in "Kumasi Streetscape" was featured in the October 2002 issue of Landscape Architecture design solutions. K-12 education. Nov. 29, 2002, issue of The Chronicle of magazine. Myers discusses the need for land- Higher Education. scape architects to assist state transportation departments with public planning, inventory and design processes.

28 news 29 SPRING 2003 NOTES in memoriam George Bireline (1923-2002) Born in Peoria, Ill., in 1923, George Bireline, Gallery in New York City, a gallery known for its New York Color Colin Treiber, a junior in industrial design, died on Sept. 7, Designer Samuel Scherr, 79, of professor emeritus of art and design, became a School artists. In 1964 Bireline had a sold out exhibition at 2002, as the result of a rock climbing accident. He was an Raleigh, died on Dec. 28, 2002, central-and beloved-figure among North Carolina's Emmerich. The New York exposure captured the attention of outstanding and generous individual, held in high regard by following a long illness. artists and arts appreciators. Though he rose to the noted 20th century art critic Clement Greenberg, who wrote his faculty and fellow students. Treiber had been employed national prominence with his color-field paintings about Bireline in The New York Times. In recent years Bireline as a design intern at Henredon Furniture, where he was in Scherr was the 1998 recipient of the Design Guild Award, in the 1960s, Bireline chose to remain in his had been showing his work in Raleigh at Lee Hansley, Gallery. the process of developing a line of furniture. According to which he won with his wife, Mary Ann Scherr. Central to his adopted state, teaching at the College of Design Bireline twice won the top prize in the North Carolina Artist Industrial Design Department Chair Bryan Laffitte, his pres- work in design was a respect for human need. His dedication from the late 1960s to 1986 and creating a varied body of work Exhibition and in 1967 was awarded the prestigious John Simon ence and bearing in the college did much to affirm the to excellence through design provided a better space in which during a lengthy and influential career. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 1968 he won the Southeast standards and ideals we aspire to. He loved his work and all of us may live. He will be greatly missed. Over the decades Bireline moved from style to style – from Artist Award of the National Council on the Arts. was good at it. Abstract Expressionism to color-field painting, from trompe l'oeil His works are in the collections of the Hirschhorn Museum Following his distinguished service in the U.S. Army as a to social commentary to more personal, figurative works – always and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Arkadi Salamacha (MLA 1991) died on June 27, 2002, in WWII cinematographer, Scherr opened the industrial, product with an admirable coherence and facility. Throughout, Bireline Fine Arts in Richmond, Los Angeles. Upon graduating, Salamacha moved to and graphic design firm of Scherr & McDermott: International. teased viewers by using and confusing representation and Everson Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he was employed by the National After 29 years the firm grew to having offices in Ohio; New abstraction, reality and illusion. Syracuse, N.Y., North Trust for Historic Preservation, Main Street Program and York City; Seoul, Korea; Peru, Columbia, and Ecuador, South Bireline served in the U.S. Army in the European Theater Carolina Museum of Art, Study Tours. In 2000, Salamacha moved to Los Angeles America. In 2000 he was awarded the Father of Industrial Operation from 1942 to 1946. He studied painting at Bradley Ackland Art Museum in where he worked for the Getty Museum. and Product Design in Korea. His firm was responsible for University where he earned a BFA in 1949. He did post graduate Chapel Hill, Mint Museum innovative designs such as the Hippity Hop Ball, Tappen work at the University of North Carolina in 1952 and earned of Art in Charlotte, Gallery Jonathan William McComas (BEDA 1989), died Feb. 28, Eye Level Range, original GE-DA, the Hoover Suitcase his MFA in painting at the University of North Carolina in 1963. of Art and Design at NC 2002, in a crane accident that occurred while he was Vacuum (in the Louvre's collection as one of the 100 best He taught art at the Cherokee Indian Reservation in 1953 and State University, Duke working as a project manager for an I-85 exit ramp con- product designs of the 20th century), countless business worked as a set technician at the outdoor drama "Unto These University Museum of Art struction job in northeast Georgia. logos, toys, homeware and business products, automobiles, Hills" in 1954, the year he moved to Raleigh to work for Geodesics and others. The College and architectural interiors. Fortune Magazine recognized Inc. In 1955 he served as technical director of Raleigh Little of Design is fortunate to Scherr & McDermott as one of the 10 most successful Theatre prior to his being hired as a painting instructor at the own two of his works. design firms in the United States.

School of Design in 1956. He was visiting professor in the art George Bireline died An exhibition of paintings by the late George Bireline department at UNC in 1966. He retired from teaching in 1986. Aug. 20, 2002, at his will be exhibited through August 2004 at the North The Scherrs moved to New York City when he was named Raleigh home. He was Carolina Museum of Art. The exhibition will include president of the American Crafts Council and the American Bireline had a distinguished career as a painter and at one Innocent (pictured above), 1990 (acrylic and oil on point in his career was represented by the Andre Emmerich 79. canvas, lent by Graham Auman). Craft Museum.

30 news 31 SPRING 2003 CALENDAR April 13-27 Ph.D. Program Exhibition of April 21 Enrique Norten, Harris Lecture Harwell Hamilton April 28-May 5 Graphic Design Senior Exhibition May 6-17 Graduation Exhibition May 9 Alumni and Friends Reception Diego AIA National Convention, San May 17 Graduation June 16-20 Design Camp July 21-25 Design Day Camp June 5-7 Outdoor Child Care Design Seminar October 29-November 1 Sculptors Conference SECAC/Tri-State www.furman.edu/secac 2003 NC STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY STATE 2003 NC CALENDAR OF DESIGN COLLEGE January 26-February 15 Mural Exhibition Art and Design February 5 Reception Architecture Recruitment February 9 Creative Spirit" "Entrepreneurship and the Issues A Design Seminar at Emerging February 16- March 8 ID Exhibition February 18- 20 Architecture Interview Days March 3 Lecture featuring Steve Christer, Studio Granda Architects March 9-22 Landscape Architecture Exhibition March 13-16 LABASH conference March 21-23 Dinner Design Guild Award and 55th Anniversary Celebration March 23 Research Symposium March 23-April 12 Architecture Exhibition March 24 Architecture lecture featuring Peter Bohlin College of Design lectures and exhibitions are are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery. are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery. concerning architecture, which are co-sponsored are encouraged to verify time and location of events, LECTURES will be held by the American Institute of Architects-Triangle, at 6 p.m. in Kamphoefner Auditorium at NC State University. at the Receptions precede the lectures. Design Guild members Office at Partner level may contact the External Relations 919/515-8313 for reserve seats. EXHIBITIONS VISITORS call which are subject to change. For more information, at 919/515-8313 or sign up for DESIGNlife, an e-newsletter (link to “news”). www.design.ncsu.edu OUR THANKS Circle and Benefactor sponsored in part by Design Guild Dean’s members. Kiernan Tim won a com- , industrial design, won (MLA. 2002), won a com- Alisa Wilson and to accompany "Cultural Journeys: to accompany "Cultural Ernest Spangler a second place international design award for his design project titled H2 concept is a jet ski- GO Kart. Spangler’s based racing boat that he calls "a go- The College of Design kart for the water." Amy Ryan , I. Joanna Massey Carson Mataxis graders. The Canadian educational video titled "On y va!" graders. The Canadian of art as a way of presenting lan- focuses on the subject studying French as a second guage lessons for students video was created by language. The original and featuring the work of Plume exhibition of woven works," The students graduated last and Ramona Sakiestewa. Design Department. spring from the Art and Stacy Ludlum category of the Design mendation in the Graduate Team (ASLA) 2002 American Society of Landscape Architecture for the entry, Student Design Competition. The team won was displayed "Wildland Firefighters Memorial." The entry last month during the organization's annual meeting held in San Jose. mendation in the organization’s Graduate Individual mendation in the organization’s "Landscape Design in Research category for her entry, Capecoast, Ghana." Resource team recognized by the 2002 Marine Design Assistant Alliance Boat Design Scholarship were Spangler, Professor Bong-Il Jin and Associate Professor Bryan Laffitte, chair of the Industrial Design Department. won 32 Brian Erickson inches – mobile device and , graphic design, won the 2002 scholarship , graphic design, won the Blair Richardson

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anessa DeJongh Sally Coghill of Design Annual Report, which won the 2001-2002 College first place recognition Grand Award, a 2003 CASE Region III for CASE is the Council in the annual report category. of Education. Coghill received a Advancement and Support and is employed at Forma Design MGD in December 2002 in Raleigh. V from the American Institute of Graphic Arts-Raleigh. Graphic from the American Institute design seniors first place in the AIGA's Student T-Shirt Design Contest. first place in the AIGA's Student T-Shirt and senior Richardson also took third place in the contest, Sean Farres submission. Bryant Griffin industrial design, won second prize in Design the Business Printer of the Future contest sponsored by Lexmark International, and was award- ed $7,500 and a Lexmark laser His design, named printer. the "Mini," is a small – 3.5 by 4.5 features a that prints, faxes, and scans documents, and standard unique telescoping mechanism that holds a sheet of paper for scanning or printing. Segments from a student-produced video documenting the weaving techniques of Assistant Professor Vita Plume will be featured in a Pearson Education video for eighth

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students NOTES Jana Kay Mears graduate from the Anni Albers Scholars Program, which offers students two degrees in five years. The first program of its kind in the country leads to a Bachelor of Science degree in textile technology from the College and a Bachelor of of Textiles Art and Design degree from the College of Design.