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For more information about the Hillsborough Street renewal project updates visit: http://hillsboroughstreet.wordpress.com and for downloadable design plans and detailed information visit: http://www.hillsboroughstreet.org/project_pages/8_downloads.htm

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/story/322810.html - Article about Dean Malecha’s role as consulting architect for new Chancellor’s residence.

http://goodnightraleigh.com/2010/02/the-passing-of-a-legend-an-opportunity-lost/ Article on the late Eduardo Catalano.

World-renowned Architect Eduardo Catalano passed away last week in Massachusetts. He was 92.

Catalano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to the United States on scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Catalano taught at the Architectural Association in London until 1951 before relocating back to the United States in Raleigh, NC. Dean Emeritus Henry Kamphoefner recruited Catalano as a Professor of Architecture at the then School of Design during the 1950’s.

Photo Credit: Professor of Architecture Roger Clark, FAIA

During his five-year tenure at NC State Catalano designed and constructed his revolutionary house built off Ridge Road on the west side of Raleigh in 1954. Frank Lloyd Wright praised the house and House and Home magazine would later name his home the “House of the Decade.” Life magazine would feature it prominently in a special 1957 issue devoted to the marvels of design and technology that would shape the world of tomorrow.

After leaving Raleigh in 1956, Catalano taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1956 to 1977 and ran a private practice until retiring in 1995. Notable works of Catalano’s architecture in the United States and abroad include the Student Center at MIT, United States embassies in Buenos Aires and Pretoria, South Africa, the Governmental Center in Greensboro, NC, the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, in collaboration with Pietro Belluschi, and forty institutional buildings. Catalano was a corresponding member of the Academy of Science of Buenos Aires and of the National Academy of Fine Arts (Argentina). He is the author of six books on architecture and has received four first prizes in national architectural competitions.

In 2002, Catalano came out of retirement to design the “Floralis Generica” sculpture in Buenos Aires, a gigantic metal flower with six motorized 20-meter-high petals that open and close.

Catalano still has an impact on students studying architecture at the College of Design today. After the untimely death of NC State College of Design Professor Robert Burns, Catalano’s former student and employee, Catalano established The Robert P. Burns Lectures and Seminars on Structural Innovations Endowment, which brings in a visiting expert to lecture and conduct a seminar on structural innovations in architecture. Catalano made a second gift — the largest outright gift at the time it was given in 2007 — to establish the Eduardo Catalano Lecture/Seminar on Contemporary Architecture Endowment to provide a special lecture/seminar each year from a visiting professional on contemporary architecture.

Catalano was awarded an honorary doctorate by NC State University in 2007.

Architecture Alumna, Elizabeth Bobbitt Lee, FAIA, 81, of Lumberton, passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Lee was the first woman to graduate from the NC State University School of Design in 1952. She was the second woman to be licensed from the North Carolina Board of Architecture.

Lee served as president of the NC chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was a fellow in the AIA. She also served on the Board of Trustees of NC State University. She is survived by her niece Betty Bobbitt Byrne and her husband, David, of Montgomery, Ala., her nephew, Thomas Day Lee and his wife, Katie of Charlotte; and sister-in-law, Betsy Lee of Lumberton. A memorial was held on Thursday, February 4, 2010, at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Lumberton. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the NC State Foundation / Elizabeth Lee Scholarship, College of Design External Relations Office, Campus Box 7701, Raleigh, NC 27695 or to a charity of your choice.

AIA Triangle/College of Design Joint Architecture Lecture Series featuring Dana Buntrock on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall beginning at 7 p.m.

Buntrock will be presenting a lecture titled, “Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today.” Temples and teahouses, shrines and sliding shoji screens, cascading cherry blossoms and solitary stones; Tokyoites carrying the tiniest, technologically-sophisticated telephones insist they are unaware of tradition, yet all around them vestiges remain. Visitors from abroad board high-speed trains traveling 200 kilometers an hour, but bound for Kyoto’s gardens and shrines.

Japan nurtures two distinctly different poles of architectural practice. Innovative and up-to-date structures underscore modernity and a new social fabric, an international architecture with a purist bent: spare, state-of-the art structures, smooth and swooping, scholarly and scientific, skinned in sparkling aluminum, steel, and glass. Others allude to an older Asia, to Japan’s religious roots or residential realms. These architects accept ruin and idealize age, offering up an approach that is raw and robust, raffish and ragtag, rambunctious and reckless, rough and rudimentary, risky and risqué, and regionally responsive. It is about being rooted and having a roof.

Other Upcoming Architecture & Landscape Architecture Lectures Include:

• Frank Harmon, FAIA, Harwell Hamilton Harris Lecture on February 15, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall
• Landscape Architecture Lecture: Juanita Shearer-Swink on February 22, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall

Art + Design Lecture Visiting Artist Presentation: Stephanie Liner
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Leazar Hall room 316.

Stephanie Liner is an alumni of the Art + Design and has received her MFA at the University of Madison in Wisconsin. Liner’s current work explores the “Relationship between domestic space, furniture, and sexuality… ” . Liner currently lives in New York and is exhibiting her work nationally.

Everyone is welcome!

Architecture alumnus Curtis Fentress, FAIA was one of three recipients of the AIA 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award for Private-sector architects.

Fentress, founder of Denver-based Fentress Architects, is recognized for his deep expertise in nearly all types of public buildings. His portfolio is filled with well-received courthouses, museums, memorials, and other cultural facilities. He’s left an indelible mark on the civic life of Denver, as he’s designed the tent-like, tensile fabric roof of the Denver International Airport Main Passenger Terminal, and the city’s glass curtain walled convention center. Throughout his work, Fentress has demonstrated a contextual and inventive material sensibility, and a focus on sustainability.

Fentress graduated from North Carolina State University in 1972, and before he established his own firm he worked for I.M. Pei, FAIA, and KPF in New York. Currently, Fentress Architects has 100 employees, making it the largest architecture practice in the region, with four offices and projects across the world. Fentress regularly serves as a General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence peer professional, and was named the 2001 Executive of the Year in Architecture by the Denver Business Journal. His projects have won 78 AIA awards. Other major projects by Fentress include the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyo., and the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va.

http://www.aia.org/press/releases/AIAB082148?dvid=&recspec=AIAB082148

Danny Stillion, 1992 Master of Graphic Design, is the recipient of the College of Design 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. Stillion was honored at a ceremony sponsored by the NC State Alumni Association on Friday, January 28, 2010, for his career achievements at IDEO and for his impact on design and design thinking. Prior to the event, Stillion spent the morning with graphic design students at the College of Design followed by an afternoon lecture in Burns Auditorium.

Stillion is a Design Director and associate partner at IDEO, an international design firm helping companies innovate through the design of products, services, environments, and experiences. With a background in fine art, graphic design and product design, Stillion was drawn to the field of interaction design through his early interests in communication design, time-based media and in how we physically interact with products and services.

Since joining IDEO in 1996, Stillion has worked with numerous interdisciplinary teams in areas including transportation, telecommunications, medical and consumer products, computer-supported group work environments, online application design, and service innovation. Today he continues to mentor and learn from other design colleagues in the context of active projects.

Prior to joining IDEO, Stillion was an Assistant Professor teaching interaction design and digital media courses at the School of Art at East Carolina University. While teaching, he remained active as an interaction design consultant creating interfaces for interactive titles and medical devices capable of evaluating human physical performance.

Stillion has lectured internationally about interaction design and design thinking. He has been awarded numerous patents and his work has been featured in The Museum of Modern Art (New York), I.D. Magazine, BusinessWeek, ACM Interactions, the IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards and the Macworld exposition.

The Fish Market presents Grids and Structures, Friday, February 5, 2010 at 133 Fayetteville St. Mall Raleigh, NC.

The Fish Market is also implementing new submission guidelines. In order to make the submission process a bit more convenient and secure, the Fish Market has created special Fish Market submission boxes for each studio area in the College of Design. Each box will have information on the current show, future shows, and information on how to submit. This is where you’ll place your submissions, unless you want to set up a separate arrangement with the directors. In addition to the submissions boxes, you can submit online at www.ncsufishmarket.com Just make an account and follow the clearly defined steps.

“Come on Baby, Light My Color Wall“, revival of Joe Cox’s color wall in the NC State Newsletter.

January 2010 Home of the Month in The News & Observer.

Eduardo Catalano, Architect at NCSU in The News & Observer.

Art + Design Alumna Holly Aiken in Raleigh Downtowner Magazine.

ART REVIEW: Crossing cultural boundaries to find out similarities article on Assistant Professor of Art + Design Jan-Ru Wan on ReadingEagle.com

Spring Interview Days is an excellent opportunity for College of Design undergraduates and graduate students seeking full-time, part-time and internship positions in the art+design, graphic design, industrial design, landscape architecture and architecture fields.

2010 Spring Interview Day Details

• Spring Interview Day will be held on February 11 & 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the College of Design.

• Interviews will begin at 10 a.m. Interviews will last 30 minutes sessions with 15-minute breaks between each interview.

New Feature

• Employer/Alumni panel: Thursday, February 11th at 6:30p.m., employers and alumni are invited to participate in a panel for current design students on tips for entering a design profession.

Master of Industrial Design student Sean Coleman won the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas (SEMA) Urban Concept Car Competition sponsored by Autodesk and the Shell Oil Company. Design and engineering students from around the world were challenged to design an eco-friendly car for the 2010 SEMA Urban Concept Car Competition. The competition required that participants integrate engineering design into their overall car styling process in order to meet manufacturing specifications in the event that their design concept was produced by Shell. Under the guidance of Adjunct Professor Spencer Barnes, Coleman participated in the competition as his ID 415 final project during the Fall 2010 semester. Coleman’s car mixes current car design trends with elegance and practicality. His winning design will be built and displayed trackside at the 2010 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas (SEMA) event in March.

More information about the SEMA event can be found at: http://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/americas/

A chapter by Professor of Architecture Thomas Barrie entitled The Basilica of La Madeleine, Vézelay: Spatial and Symbolic Narratives in the Medieval Western Christian Church has been published in Pilgrimages – Sacred Landscapes and Self-Organized Complexity. Edited by John Malville and Baidyanath Saraswati, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, 2009.

Barrie was also an invited panelist at a symposium entitled Responsibility for Non-Materialist Values in Public Spaces: Why, Where and By Whom? conducted at the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden, November, 2009.

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend is included in a national group show “Gesture at Large” at the Hopkins Gallery, College of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus OH. opening February 5, 2010.

Townsend will also be presenting to the College of Art hosted by the Design Department at the end of February.

Assistant Professor of Architecture David Hill has won the Vernon F. Shogren award. Hill received his Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Environmental Design degrees from NC State University. Hill is also the director of graduate programs for the School of Architecture.

The Vernon F. Shogren award honors the memory of Vernon Shogren (1927-1995) professor of Architecture at the College of Design from 1953-55 and 1961-92. Awards are available for students, faculty and alumni to encourage exploration of alternative directions in design and architecture and to promote unique study and scholarship. An external Awards Committee makes an annual Request for Proposals, reviews the application submissions and makes the awards.

The Landscape Architecture 502 Description Studio, taught by Teaching Assistant Professor Carla Radoslovich Delcambre and Adjunct Professor Evan Miller participated in the Fred J Carnage GT Magnet Middle School Career Day on Wednesday, February 3, 2010. It was an opportunity for our students to interface with 6th, 7th and 8th graders and introduce them to the design profession.

Professor of Architecture Patrick Rand was the keynote speaker at the Quality Masonry Conferences in Kearney and Omaha Nebraska on January 28 and 29. His presentation “Sustainable Masonry Design; A Life Cycle Perspective” was attended by over 100 architects, as well as builders, owners and students. The conference was sponsored by the Nebraska Concrete Masonry Association and the Nebraska Masonry Institute.

Show Us Your Envirovision

University Housing invites all NC State Students to show us what sustainability means to you.

Use a digital video camera to film a 30-second public service announcement on the topic of sustainability and submit your masterpiece. Be creative, be passionate, and most important… have fun!

The top five finalists will get to see their work in front of a live audience at the Campus Cinema during Earth Week festivities (April 19-23), and the winner will receive a special gift certificate, coverage on the housing website…and cinematic glory, of course!

Submission deadline is April 7, 2010.

For contest details and information, check out the entry form and guidelines.

You can also contact Scott Braswell at scott_braswell@ncsu.edu, or by phone at 919.515.4338.

Anni Albers Scholar and Art + Design student Veronica Tibbits was featured in the January/February 2010 issue of Fiberarts Magazine in an article entitled, “Veronica Tibbits: An American Legacy.”

Art + Design alumna Natalie Chanin had a feature article in the same issue of Fiberarts Magazine entitled, “Coming Home to Success“ and a co-written article in the Creative Process section teaching Chanin’s signature technique of Reverse Appliqué.

http://www.fiberarts.com/back_issues/January-February-2010/contents.asp

To learn more about the change and implementation visit: http://www.ncsu.edu/bulletin/archive/2010/01/01-21/special-delivery.php and http://google.ncsu.edu/

Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture alumnus Chris Downey was featured in the LA Times for his use of tactile, acoustic and smelling details in his approach of architecture and his quest to use architecture to help people lead a better life.  http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/12/local/la-me-blind-architect12-2010jan12

The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is requesting the applications for its 2010-2011 Study Abroad grant program. Both members of Phi Kappa Phi, as well as non-members are eligible to apply. Phi Kappa Phi is a national honor society establishedin 1897 to recognize and promote academic excellence in all disciplines of higher education. Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest, largest, and most selective of all such honor societies. The NC State chapter was established in 1923.

Phi Kappa Phi will award 45 study abroad grants of $1000 each. Eligible undergraduates are those who have at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA. By February 24, 2010, applicants must: 1) have earned at least 30 credit hours, but no more than 90 credit hours; 2) be accepted into a study abroad program; and 3) have at least two semesters (or equivalent) remaining in residence at their home institution after completing the study abroad experience. The study abroad program must be taken between May 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Applications should be submitted directly by the student to Phi Kappa Phi headquarters and must ARRIVE by February 24, 2010. Additional eligibility requirements, as well as application forms, are available at:

http://www.phikappaphi.org/Web/Awards/Study_Abroad.html.

For questions, please contact Phi Kappa Phi National Headquarters at studyabroad@phikappaphi.org or at 800.804.9880, Extension 35.