trace SPRING 2008 IN THIS ISSUE: • 11th Annual Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award - Recognizing Mark Nickita, Detroit Architect 11th Annual Distinguished • Scholarships & Competitions - AEE Foundation Scholarship Architecture Alumni Award - Chichen Itza Design Competition Presented to Mark Nickita • Graduate Work Study Scholarship Written by: Eric Pope - Work Study Scholarship Recipients Edited by: Morgan McDonald • NAAB & CIDA Accreditation Site Visits • WilliamsonWilliamson We are pleased to an- - Summer 2007 Master Class Practitioner nounce the 11th year • Detroit Studio News of the Distinguished Architecture Alumni - Inkster Project for TIFA District Achievement Award • BFA Imaging Thesis Exhibit which was presented • New Innovative Art & Design Program to Mark Nickita, presi- - Bachelor of Science in Transportation Design dent of Archive Design • Future Events Studio (D.S.) in De- - Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future troit. Nickita graduated - 6th Annual Dinner and Cigar Night from Lawrence Tech in - Affl eck House Wine Tasting & Tours 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. example is a 1,200-acre urban design plan for De- In 1989, he returned to LTU to obtain his profes- troit’s far east side that included a vision for nine sional architecture degree before receiving his neighborhoods and more than 8,000 properties. Master’s Degree in 2000. Archive D.S. was invited to join an international In 1991, he co-founded the multi-disciplinary team of urban designers to establish a design vi- design fi rm Archive D.S., which has incorporated sion for the abandoned Port Lands waterfront in the multiple disciplines of architecture, urban Toronto and was also invited to provide design design and graphic design in many innovative and direction for the Hurricane Katrina-devastated award-winning design solutions. The fi rm has ex- coastline of Mississippi as part of the Governor’s pertise in the development, enhancement and the Commission for Renewal. regeneration of existing, pedestrian-oriented urban environments. The fi rm has designed institutional and mixed-use buildings within the urban context. These include The fi rm has experience uncovering the potential adaptive reuse, historic rehabilitation and new in- of urban areas challenged by decay and abandon- fi ll buildings in a variety of cities. These projects ment within the greater built environment. One continued on top of page 2 21000 W. Ten Mile Rd. • Southfi eld, MI 48075 • www.ltu.edu • 248-204-2805 • [email protected] 75 www.ltu.edu • 248-204-2805 • [email protected] Page 1 t r a c e continued from page 1 include educational facilities, loft housing Distinguished Architecture Alumni Award and offi ce retail projects, typically with chal- Past Recipients & Award Committee lenging urban site situations that require unique James P. Ryan, AIA, ArE’66-1997 design solutions. Victor Saroki, FAIA, BAr’80, BSAr’79-1998 Benedetto Tiseo, AIA, BSAr’78-1999 Nickita is president-elect of the Detroit chapter Alan H. Cobb, FAIA, BSAr’76-’00 of the American Institute of Architects. He is a Thomas F. O’Connor, FAIA, ArE’64-’01 member of the Birmingham Planning Board and Harvey J. Ferrero, ArE’55-’02 the Main Street Oakland County Selection Com- Frederick F. Butters, Esq, FAIA, BAr’84, mittee. BSAr’83-’03 Michael L. Medici, AIA, BAr’80, BSAr’79-’04 The 12th Annual Distinguished Architecture Arthur F. Smith, FAIA, BAr’81, BSAr’78-’05 Alumni Award event will take place on Septem- Constantine George Pappas, FAIA, BAr’78, ber 11, 2008. Additional information regarding BSAr’77-’06 the exact time, location and presentation format Mark Nickita, AIA, BSAr’87, BAr’89, MAr’00-’07 will be announced soon. Thank you for being an important part of this annual recognition of outstanding Architecture Alumni. Scholarships & Competitions AEE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP The East Michigan Chapter is looking for nominees for the foundation Scholarship: Check out the following link for more information: http://www.aeecenter.org/foundation/body.htm All Student Applications for Scholarships along with corresponding Chapter Recommendations for Scholarship Nominees must be submitted, as indicated on the application, to the East Michigan Chapter Scholarship Committee Chair (David Everest, Ph.D.) no later than April 1, 2008. CHICHENL A N D S C A P E C ITZA O M P E T 2008 I T I O N L O D G E M U S E U M I N Y U C A T A N, M E X I C O CONGRATULATIONS STEVEN NIELSEN! Steven took 3rd place in the 2008 International Chichen Itza Design Competition (Lodge Museum in Yucatan, Mexico) - http://www.arquitectum.com/index.php This is the second major International competition in 6 months that LTU has taken! Congratulations Steven! Lawrence Technological University • 21000 W. Ten Mile Rd. • Southfi eld, MI • 48075 Page 2 t r a c e 2007-2008 Graduate Work Study Scholarship Recipients Written by: Virginia North, D. Arch. Edited by: Morgan McDonald Under the leadership of Dean Glen LeRoy, LTU’s Master’s in Architecture program began a unique Work Study Scholarship program in Fall 2007 that included a tuition scholarship of $12,500 per stu- dent plus part-time employment with a leading architecture fi rm. Students must maintain a 3.00 GPA an submit an application and portfolio for review. Five Detroit area fi rms participated in this fi rst year of the program and six graduate students have re- ceived part time jobs and tuition scholarships from the fi rms. The following is a list of the fi rms pro- viding the award and the student who received it: • Harley Ellis Devereaux...........................Emily Piontek • Victor Saroki and Associates.................Trevor Dybenko • JPRA........................................................Tamara Bannan • Albert Kahn Associates..........................John Kaslander and Jessica Slomka • DSA Architects........................................Christopher King If you would like more information on the LTU Graduate Work Study Scholarship program, please contact Virginia North, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies - [email protected] NAAB and CIDA Accreditation Site Visits The College of Architecture and Design hosted site visit teams for two accreditations this semester. On March 22 through March 26 a team from the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) examined the architecture program, and March 28 through April a team from the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) will examine the interior architecture program. These teams will meet with students, faculty, administrators and alumni as well as review student work. Faculty, students and administrators prepared written self-study documents earlier in the year, and everyone has contributed Council to the exhibits of student and faculty work that are for reviewed by the teams. The teams will present their preliminary opinions of the programs prior to leav- Interior Design ing campus and will later submit a detailed written Accreditation report of their fi ndings during the site visits. www.ltu.edu • 248-204-2805 • [email protected] Page 3 t r a c e 2007 Master Class with WilliamsonWilliamson Written by: Philip Plowright, Master Class Coordinator Master Class of last summer was headed by the outside practitioners of WilliamsonWil- liamson, a critcal design fi rm from Toronto, Canada. WilliamsonWilliamson were fi nalists in the Pentagon Memorial Design Competition and the Burmham Prize Competition. They have been published in Architecture, Archi- tectural Record, Competitions, I.D., On Site, Thresholds and Praxis. Their work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Can- ada. During the 10 week charette style studio of Summer 2007, the Williamsons introduced a sequential design methodology which culmi- nated in the Arquitectum Design Competition ‘New York Tower Museum 2007’. Three of the twenty-two projects from the studio were chosen to be submitted by the College of Architecture and Design as offi cial entries to the competition. Congratula- tions to the student team of Laura Roberts, Brian Leung and Nicholas Shango in placing as an honorable mention in this prestigious international and professional competition. The Summer 2008 Master Class will be led by Work Architecture Company of New York. WORKac, lead by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, have received much recognition in the past year including be- ing featured as the cover story in the July/August edition of Metropolis Magazine, the cover story of Architecture Magazine in March of this year, and a article in Men’s Vogue, March 2008 edition. Dan and Amale were also selected as an Emerging Voices lecture by the Architectural League of New York and lectured in the British Architecture Foundation’s Winter Nights lecture series this past fall. WORKac are also the 2008 winners of the PS1 Courtyard summer design competition, one of the most prestigious Young Architects awards. The College of Architecture and Design Graduate Program is excited and hon- ored to host WORKac which continues a tradition of exciting and critical practitioners leading Master Class. continued on page 5 Lawrence Technological University • 21000 W. Ten Mile Rd. • Southfi eld, MI • 48075 Page 4 t r a c e continued from page 4 tower - museum extrusion - sequence The Tower-Museum extends culturally diverse Manhat- tan through the axis of the edge of the WWII Memorial toward the icon of Freedom and Opportunity - Liberty Island. The human is the immigrant, bringing expecta- tions and hopes of the journey. The sequence explores the spacial quality of mass and void with dynamic ramps and the spaces that extrude from them, providing ele- ments of surprise and destination. www.ltu.edu • 248-204-2805 • [email protected] Page 5 t r a c e The Detroit Studio - Inkster Project Written by: Professor Joongsub Kim Edited by: Dean Glen LeRoy During the Fall of 2007, architecture graduate Increment Finance Authority, collaborated on a students in Urban Studio 1 at the Detroit Studio project focusing on Michigan Avenue from Beech collaborated with the City of Inkster to develop a Daly to Inkster Road.