University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Re:View School of Architecture 2011 Re:View, 2011 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. School of Architecture Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/fjsarv Citation University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. School of Architecture. (2011). Re:View, 2011. Re:View. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/fjsarv/9 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Architecture at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Re:View by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZatiON U.S. POstage PAID FAYETTEVILLE, AR 72701 PERMIT NO. 278 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED 120 Vol Walker Hall Fayetteville, AR 72701 http://architecture.uark.edu re:2011 • FAY JONES SchOOVl OF ARchitEIEWctuRE • uNiVERSitY OF ARkANSAS Re:View magazine • Editor: Michelle Parks • Designer: Laura E. Bennett • Contact: [email protected] p. 479/575-4704 f. 479/575-7429 • Contributing Writer: Danielle Strickland • Photography: Agrostis Inc., Bob Callans, Corgan Associates Inc., Russell Cothren, Chad Greer, Beth Hall Photography, Timothy Hursley, Darla J. Kelsay, Bob Kohler, Sara Milford, Page Duke Landscape Architects, Michelle Parks, Santiago R. Perez, Shields-Marley Photography, Albert Skiles, SWT Design, Thiel and Thiel Inc., Michael Wilson, Paul Warchol I CALENDAR I Exhibits The Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, Mapungubwe National Park, Contact Chuck Rotolo at 479/575-4903 or Pia Sarpaneva at in Limpopo, South Africa. Photo courtesy of Peter Rich Architects. 479/575-6498 for information regarding the schedule and location of rotating exhibits of student, faculty and guest work for this coming year. For information on the University Fall Lectures of Arkansas Student Gallery (known as sUgAR) in Bentonville, September 12 contact Laura Terry at 479/575-6779. Michelangelo Sabatino Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Save the Date Houston, Houston, Texas New sponsor: The Kappa Sigma Man of the Year Lecture, October 30-November 2 sponsored by the Xi Educational Foundation of Arkansas ASLA Annual Meeting San Diego September 26 Contact: ASLA Kathryn Dean 202-216-2328 Dean/Wolf Architects, New York City, New York; Graduate www.asla.org School of Architecture and Urban Design, Sam Fox School of Architecture, St. Louis September 29-30 Lewis Architects and Engineers Lecture Advisory Board Meeting Contact: Linda George October 3 479-575-2702 Noah Billig [email protected] Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey September 16-17 October 10 AIA Arkansas Convention Don Munro Hot Springs, Ark. Munro + Whitten Landscape Architects, Leicester, United Contact: AIA Arkansas Kingdom 501-661-1111 [email protected] October 24 D. James Carry and Connie Jackson November 4 Wilson Associates, Dallas, Texas Dean’s Circle Meeting Contact: Terry Bumgardner October 31 479-575-7384 Esa Laaksonen [email protected] Friman Laaksonen Architects, Helsinki, Finland; Alvar Aalto Academy, Finland Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects: Mort Karp Memorial Lecture Top: Marlon Blackwell, of Marlon Blackwell Architect, donated this basswood model of the Steven L. Anderson Design Center addition November 14 to Vol Walker Hall, valued at $25,000, to the school. Here, Michael Pope (B.Arch. ’10), with Blackwell’s firm, assembles the model prior Peter Rich to Blackwell’s presentation to school faculty and staff. Peter Rich Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa Above left: In early February, the University of Arkansas campus was (A second lecture will be Nov. 15 at the Arkansas Arts closed for six full days over two weeks due to blizzard-like conditions Center in Little Rock.) and serious amounts of snowfall across northwest Arkansas. Though partially encased in snow and ice, water flows over the Fulbright November 14 & 16 Peace Fountain in front of Vol Walker Hall on Feb. 4. * Humberto Ricalde Above right: Architecture students spent the week before May grad- National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) School uation clearing personal and school items from their desks in the sec- of Architecture ond floor studio in Vol Walker Hall. The entire building was vacated by summer so preconstruction work could begin on the renovation of Vol Walker Hall and the addition of the Steven L. Anderson Design All lectures take place at 5:30 p.m. in Hembree Auditorium Center (see pp 26-31). (Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E). * The Nov. 14 and 16 Ricalde lectures take place at 1:30 Right: First-year landscape architecture students were treated to a Little Rock field trip tour last fall, guided by Bob Callans, a land- p.m. in Boyer Hall at the Arkansas Alumni House. scape architect there, and to a tour, guided by Bob Byers, of Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs. Colby Clark, Brittany Brown and Andrew Dingler are shown here on the balcony of Heifer Internation- Dickens Heath Village Centre, in Solihull, England. Photo courtesy For additional lecture information, please visit of Munro + Whitten Landscape Architects. al headquarters, with the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and http://architecture.uark.edu/374.php. new wetlands in the background. I CONTENTS I 4 14 34 2 Letter from Ethel Goodstein-Murphree Associate Dean, Fay Jones School of Architecture 3 School News 10 UACDC 12 Garvan Woodland Gardens 14 Pin Up 32 Development News 26 34 Alumni Design Awards Modifying a Landmark Historic library building reshaped with new 43 Faculty-Staff News design center addition, new vision for 46 architecture school... Student News 48 Lecture Notes: Kathryn Dean On the cover: Nathan Morton created this context perspective for the fifth-year studio taught by Marlon Blackwell and Fall 2011 I re:VIEW I 1 Tahar Messadi in spring 2011. I LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEAN I I SCHOOL NEWS I A quick glance at the last few is- sues of Re:View reveals a recurring theme, the Vol Walker Hall renovation and addi- tion. As we begin the 2011-12 academic year, chain-link fencing surrounds our venerated Santiago R. Perez operates the computer on this custom-made The Studio Mode partners and students created this sculpture from machine that does computer numerically controlled plasma cutting hundreds of pieces of polypropylene, a commonly recycled plastic. building; its studios awash in eerie silence, and five-axis milling. the much-anticipated construction process is about to begin. Exhibit Shows Computational Design, Fabrication With administrative offices relocated to temporary quarters on the Fayetteville Square, architecture studios convening A “Fabcraft” exhibit, featuring pieces created through load test the resulting pieces in cantilever fashion. in a renovated Field House, and faculty computational design and fabrication methods, was held “The cantilever was an attempt at bringing a cellular scrambling to remote spots on campus for at the University of Arkansas Student Gallery – known logic, in which you connect many components together all those “other classes,” never before has as sUgAR – in Bentonville. “Fabcraft” connotes an effort and they gain strength by virtue of their connections,” Per- the truism “location, location, location” to explore and promulgate the value that digital fabrica- ez said. “It involved structural performance and complex meant so much to the Fay Jones School of tion technologies might have for the built environment. geometric patterning that was derived computationally.” Architecture community. Nevertheless, Vol In the past, digital fabrication initiatives have involved Jerry Wall, professor of architecture, assisted students with Walker remains a touchstone for symboliz- creating complicated forms without a sense of directed structural concepts and evaluation of their work. ing our aspirations for the school, and, most Associate Dean Ethel Goodstein-Murphree purpose, simply “geometric experimentation,” said San- Building strength from a combination of materials is a importantly, for our students. tiago R. Perez, an assistant professor of architecture, who technique that has been used by Japanese architect Shige- Be assured, however, that both our time-tied east front holds the 21st Century Chair in Integrated Practice and ru Ban, whose work Perez wrote about in the introduction As an architectural historian, I cannot resist speculat- and our sleek new western entrance will remain portals organized the exhibit. to the book Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now. ing about the stories that a renewed and expanded Vol to a larger realm that encompasses interdisciplinary “Fabcraft brings together advanced fabrication and Additional exhibited pieces resulted from work pro- Walker will tell – not merely tales of style and space, but learning, teaching and research across campus, global more traditional craft-based methods and practices,” duced during the Celento/Perez Steelcraft and Paramet- also of community, legacy and learning. Careful restora- perspectives from our international centers in Rome and Perez said. These methods and practices gather people ric Craft workshops in February. These workshops and tion of our neo-classical landmark building coupled with Mexico City, and civic engagement throughout the state, in fields as diverse as craft, design, math and robotics. the culminating exhibit serve to inaugurate the opening the addition of the forward-looking Steven L. Anderson especially in central Arkansas. Displayed pieces included a Masonite and plywood of the school’s