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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY/ ARCHITECTURE
SPRING
2017
The RIPCHE.OR mock-up team is at work in a seminar room at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.
DIRECTOR’S MESSAG
SPRING 2017: EMBRACING AND PRIORITIZING MULTIPLE PATHS TO AND THROUGH ARCHITECTURE Developing leaders is front and center in the School of Architecture’s mission. “The School of Architecture aims to be a premier producer of transformational architectural leadership, shaping the environment of the 21st century for a better future.” One of the primary strategies for achieving this mission is to offer students as much choice as possible to design their own paths, allowing them to gain individual breadth and/or depth in their degree programs. Students in the undergraduate B.A. program chart their individual paths through their choice of minor, fluid studio options and off-campus study locations. In the graduate programs, some students seek to focus their studies in the highly respected Architecture + Health program. Others focus their interests in the Architecture + CommunityBUILD certificate program or Digital Ecologies certificate program. Some spend one or two semesters in Charleston, Barcelona or Genoa. Others pursue up to 12 credit hours of elective coursework (nearly one semester) outside of architecture in another discipline. The fluid studios — semesters four and five of the six-semester M.Arch. I — are elective on and off campus, and they are often vertical and multidisciplinary, engaging allied disciplines. This choice and variety enrich our pedagogy and research, and launch our graduates as critical thinkers with unique ambitions, experiences and expertise. This year the school has embraced even more paths, with the creation of the Clemson Design Center in Charleston, CDC.C. Until recently, the programs of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston and the Master of Science in historic preservation were housed in three locations across the Charleston peninsula. Renovated space in the Cigar Factory on East Bay Street brings them together, offering abundant new opportunities for collaboration and engagement. As part of the physical consolidation of programs, the Master of Science in historic preservation program, previously part of the Department of Planning, Development and Preservation, has become a program of the School of Architecture. This two-year graduate degree, jointly administered by Clemson and the College of Charleston, provides yet another path to and through architecture. The new CDC.C includes studio space, classrooms, seminar rooms, laboratories, a library, multipurpose space, shop spaces, and faculty and staff offices, with space for up to 100 students. The center includes an expansion of Clemson’s undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture and landscape architecture, including an expansion of the graduate program in Architecture + Health, an expansion of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (in conjunction with the Medical University of South Carolina) and a new 45-credit master’s degree program in resilient urban design, MRUD. We are accepting applications to the MRUD program for its first offering in the fall of 2017, while we are concurrently searching for a founding faculty director of this program. The CDC.C is also the nexus of Clemson’s NCARB Accepted Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) program, which has started taking applications. Back in Clemson, another path is being developed in collaboration with our colleagues in the Department of Construction Science and Management. Collaborating faculty from both departments have developed a four-course, 12-credit post-professional Integrated Project Delivery certificate program. The first of these courses will be piloted in the fall. Pending all necessary approvals, the program will be formally launched in the next academic year, available via online delivery for post-professionals and as another elective path for degreeseeking students. As we prepare for our next NAAB accreditation visit in April of 2017, we understand that this multiplicity of paths makes our story a little bit more complicated to tell and to understand. But, we are committed to our mission, and we are confident that by embracing and prioritizing multiple paths to and through architecture, we are producing transformational architectural leadership and thereby contributing to shaping the environment of the 21st century for a better future.
SPRING January 11 Classes began January 16 MLK Day of Service January 25 CAF Lecture Series: Michael Folonis, Folonis Architects, Santa Monica, California Lee Hall, Clemson January 27 CAF Board meeting, Charleston February 2 CAC.C and AIA Charleston Lecture Series: Rosa Cheng, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and the Equity Alliance, San Francisco, California CDC.C, Charleston February 15 CAF Lecture Series: A Conversation: Jim Barker, FAIA, president emeritus and professor, Clemson University, and Michael Fazio, Ph.D., professor emeritus, CAAD Mississippi State University Lee 2-111, Clemson February 22 Fluid Campus information session, Lee Hall, Clemson
2017 March 1 Career Expo 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Madren Center Ballroom, Clemson March 1 CAC.C and AIA Charleston lecture series: Jim Thomas, Thomas and Denzinger Architects, Charleston, South Carolina CDC.C, Charleston March 8 CAF Lecture Series: Dan Watch, FAIA, Perkins + Will, Atlanta, Georgia Lee 2-111, Clemson March 17 Graduate programs open house 10 a.m., Lee 3 March 20–24 Spring Break March 31–April 1 NAAB visiting team at CDC.C, Charleston
EVENTS April 20 CAF Board meeting, Clemson April 24–May 2 Final reviews, Clemson April 26 CAF Lecture Series: “On Practice: A Conversation” Mark Carroll, RPBW, Genoa, Italy, and Thomas Phifer, Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York, New York 6 p.m., Lee 2-111, Clemson April 27 CAF, School of Architecture alumni and AIASC reception, AIA National Convention 6-8 p.m., Plaza International Ballroom K, Hyatt Regency, Orlando, Florida May 1–5 Final exams May 12 Commencement, Clemson
April 5 CAC.C and AIA Charleston lecture series: Ted Flato, Lake Flato, San Antonio, Texas Lee 2-111, Clemson
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It is a very exciting time to be a Clemson Tiger! While this couldn’t be more true as the Tigers recently brought home the national championship in college football, it is also rings true for the Design + Building academic talent that we are able to support at Clemson University through the generosity of fellow alumni and friends to the Clemson Architectural Foundation (CAF). CAF, which comprises 38 volunteer trustees, has a primary focus to financially support students and faculty of the School of Architecture and related design disciplines in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. This year, we are on the mark to raise more than $130,000, most of which is appropriated for grant requests for research, awards, travel and advanced study.
Students gave presentations in Genoa.
Another primary focus is to oversee the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Studies and Urban Research in Genoa, Italy, which is owned by the CAF. The Daniel Center is a self-contained facility for living and learning that can accommodate up to 24 students per semester. This past March, President and Mrs. Clements had the opportunity to travel with a group of CAF trustees and friends to the Villa in Genoa to see this program firsthand. It was exciting to have them share in the experience that we have the ability to offer to students through this unique and enriching study-abroad opportunity. I would ask as a fellow alumnus and friend that you consider contributing to the CAF annually with unrestricted gifts and/or by establishing an endowment to support an area of architecture education that you are passionate about, whether it be scholarships, travel, study abroad, etc. I welcome and encourage you to get involved with CAF. With your help, we can continue to build the Clemson legacy by cultivating excellence in architecture education.
Clemson University/Architecture is published semiannually by the School of Architecture. For questions or comments, contact Kate Schwennsen, director and professor Clemson University School of Architecture Lee Hall Clemson, SC 29634-0503
Scott Garvin President, Garvin Design Group ’84, M.Arch. ’86 (Genoa ’85) President, Clemson Architectural Foundation
CAF Donors 2015-2016 Unrestricted donations to CAF FOUNDERS $10,000–$24,000 The Jean T. and Heyward G. Pelham Foundation
CLEMSON AMBASSADORS $2,500–$4,999 Joel Carter Harold Davis Garvin Design Group Eric C. Holmberg Stubbs/Muldrow/Herin Architects
Kate Schwennsen, FAIA Director + Professor
Clemson University/Architecture Volume VII, Number 1 Spring 2017
THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE IS FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM A BROAD RANGE OF GENEROUS ALUMNI AND FRIENDS. GIFTS TO THE CAF AND OTHER PROGRAMS, ENDOWMENTS AND GIFT ACCOUNTS IMMEASURABLY ENRICH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY. THE SCHOOL EXTENDS ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE GENEROUS SUPPORT IT RECEIVED IN FISCAL YEAR 16, (JULY 1, 2015– JUNE 30, 2016).
CLEMSON FELLOWS $5,000–$9,999 Mark and Silvia Carroll Bettye Cecil Sidney Stubbs Jocarno Fund
April 1–5 NAAB visit, Clemson
The CAF is at work in Genoa.
THANK YOU TO OUR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
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FACULTY AND STAFF
THE SCHOOL WELCOMED NEW FACULTY IN THE 2016–17 ACADEMIC YEAR.
PROFESSOR AND PRESIDENT EMERITUS JAMES BARKER, FAIA, WAS INDUCTED AS AN HONORARY MEMBER OF ASLA. THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE ON OCTOBER 20, 2016, IN NEW ORLEANS AT THE ASLA ANNUAL MEETING AND EXPO. THE ASLA MEETING PROGRAM INCLUDED THIS STATEMENT: “JAMES BARKER HAS ALWAYS VALUED A SENSE OF PLACE AND HAS CONTINUALLY PROMOTED AND VALUED THE PROFESSION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DUE TO HIS DECADES OF WORK AS AN ARCHITECT AND PRESIDENT OF CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FROM 1999 TO 2013. AS CLEMSON’S FORMER DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND HUMANITIES, BARKER LED THE CREATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S SOLE BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM WITH GRADUATES NOW SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. CLEMSON’S MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM ALSO BECAME ESTABLISHED DURING BARKER’S TENURE AS PRESIDENT.”
ANDREEA MIHALACHE, PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Andreea Mihalache teaches architectural design, history and theory. Before coming to Clemson, she taught at Mississippi State University, Virginia Tech, Cal Poly and The Catholic University of America. Her areas of interest as a scholar, designer and educator cover the history and theory of architecture, representation and visual culture in Western and Eastern European contexts from the second half of the 20th century to the present; matters of corporeality and embodiment in architecture and visual arts; collective and individual memory; domesticity and the everyday; and philosophy and aesthetics. She believes in conjectural and speculative thinking fully anchored in and supported by historical research. Her research has been published in edited volumes and journals and presented at national and international conferences. Mihalache’s current doctoral research examines architecture and visual arts in the United States during the middle decades of the 20th century from the perspective of boredom. Specifically, she unpacks three ways of understanding Robert Venturi’s motto “less is a bore” in relation to habitus, flatness and the interesting. She parallels Venturi and Scott Brown’s approach to architecture with the work of the architectartist Saul Steinberg. Mihalache is a registered architect in Bucharest, Romania, where she maintains a small architectural practice. HENRIQUE HOUAYEK, PH.D., LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE
Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, director
JOSEPH SCHOTT, LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE Joseph Schott has worked in the construction industry since 1987 and was conferred a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1992. Over a 30-year period, his experience has included a wide variety of building types including office buildings, medical facilities, multifamily residential projects, high-rise residential structures, banks, schools, retail stores, performing arts facilities, recreational facilities, parking structures, lodging and conference centers, and numerous private residential projects. While with VOA Associates Incorporated, Schott served as the lead designer for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) headquarters. The IDNR project received an award for excellence in design from the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In 2002 Schott established a design/build practice in Connecticut. Since 2002 he has designed, constructed and collaborated on over 100 residential, commercial and educational projects. For the 2016 spring term, Schott served as a lecturer at Clemson University’s School of Architecture. In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, Schott has served as the professor-inresidence at the Clemson University satellite campus in Genoa, Italy.
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Houayek served for two years as the professorin-residence for Clemson’s Genoa studyabroad program responsible for the program organization, architecture studio and classes in urban studies, and architecture representation. He will again serve in this role for the next two academic years, fall 2017 to spring 2019. Between 2012 to 2016, Houayek went back to his home country of Brazil to work professionally on the Rio 2016 Olympic master plan project and some of its venues. He was responsible for a series of Olympic projects as well as largescale projects in Brazil, the United States, Colombia and Japan. While in Brazil, Henrique also served as adjunct professor for PUC-RJ Architecture University. His work and teaching methodology explore compositional processes that bridge the gap between theory and practice in search of creative solutions for the built environment. Other research interests include new technologies, creativity, digital fabrication, graphic arts, hand drawing, and history and theory of architecture.
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Terim’s research in architecture focuses on representation. Her early studies centered on cosmological perspectives, particularly exploring the dichotomy between perception and decentralized point of view constructed by the intellect. Her dissertation work is focusing on anthropomorphism in architectural design through the role of metonymy. Her research is exploring this framework through the narrative of the 15th century Florentine architect Il Filarete’s treatise on architecture. Terim has presented her work at international conferences.
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School of Architecture, was the recipient of the 2016 Christian Petersen Design Award presented College of Design. Established in 1980, one award is given annually to alumni, staff and friends of the university for distinguished work that advances the design and art noted artist who was Iowa State’s sculptor-in-residence from 1934 to 1955. Schwennsen received a Bachelor of Arts in architecture and a Master of Architecture from Iowa State.
Joseph Choma’s forthcoming book Études for Architects is under contract with Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2017. Organized around a series of pedagogical exercises, the book provides a visual journey through a series of games architects can play as a means to design. Aimed specifically at beginning design students, learning objectives include computational thinking and making; introduction to design as an iterative, reflective and rigorous process; ideas of continuity and discontinuity; and understanding the bias and constraints of digital and analog tooling.
ROB SEEL, RA, LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE Through many years of designing and managing projects of various types Rob Seel has diverse experience in creative problem solving, visionary planning, technical resolution and conceiving beautiful things. An artist and craftsman, Seel’s responsibilities are comprehensive and inclusive, from project procurement to design, detailing, production and construction contract administration. He talents also include custom graphics, guest lecturing and creative writing. Seel is a proficient railroad model craftsman. He is president of RMS Architecture, LLC in Clemson. A recent project by RMS Architecture and The Berry Group, “Cape Cod Revisited/Riggs Renovation,” was cited as the Best in American Living Remodel of the Year for 2016 by the National Association of Home Builders. The project also received a Best in American Living Platinum Award for Remodel Over $250,000. To see more on this project, visit Seel’s website at rmsarch.com.
PAST AND PENDING HISTORIC PRESERVATION PRESENTATIONS • Amalia Leifeste and Carter Hudgins, National Center for Preservation Training and Technology, Sante Fe, New Mexico, June 2016. • Frances Ford, “Hybrid methodologies for mortar analysis, a digital view from the Carolina Lowcountry,” Historic Mortars Conference, Santorini, Greece, October 2016. • Brent Fortenberry, “Hybrid methodologies for mortar analysis, a digital view from the Carolina Lowcountry,” Historic Mortars Conference, Santorini, Greece, October 2016. • Carter Hudgins with Eric Klingelhofer, “Molana Abbey, County Waterford: An Elizabethan Manor and Georgian Folly,” Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, Hull, England, March 2017.
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Additionally, Choma is continuing to collaborate with Arup (Los Angeles, California) and Quarra Stone Company (Madison, Wisconson) on a mathematically defined, robotically carved, compression-only stone structure (12’ x 7’ x 6’) composed of six pieces that are connected through dry (stone on stone) friction fit (shear key) joints. Instead of following the canonical geometric principles of catenaries or arches, the parametric equation of a dome was systematically manipulated into a shell structure that has yet to be classified according to traditional structural frameworks. Unlike traditional masonry structures, structural stone does not need to be constrained to one repeating unit. With advancements in robotic fabrication, blocks of stone can be carved into thin doubly curved surfaces with intricate shear-key joints. Although stone is an ancient building material, designing robotically carved, compression-only stone structures is a new discourse.
Henrique Houayek is a practicing architect in his home country of Brazil with a Ph.D. in planning, design and the built environment from Clemson University. With theoretical and practical work knowledge in architecture design and theory, urban design and sustainability, Houayek’s doctoral thesis investigated the connections between architecture, robotics and human factor psychology. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, he explored possibilities for real-time interaction between people and their architecture environment. His doctoral thesis was later published as a book entitled The Animated Working Environment: A vision for working life in a digital society.
BERRIN TERIM, LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE Berrin Terim joined the Clemson faculty in spring 2016 and teaches history, theory and design. She is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech’s WashingtonAlexandria Architecture Center, where she has taught a graduate-level design studio and a course on topics in design methods. During her master’s program, she has assisted in teaching design courses and visual communication classes. In 2010, she received the College Creative Achievement Award from Penn State University. After completion of her bachelor’s degree, she practiced as an architect in Izmir, Turkey.
HENRIQUE HOUAYEK, PH.D., DESIGNED THE WALL OF CHAMPIONS FOR THE RIO OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES WHILE WORKING AT THE BRAZILIAN BRANCH OF AECOM. THE MONUMENT WAS INAUGURATED DECEMBER 23, 2016, AND WILL REMAIN AS AN OLYMPIC LEGACY FOR THE CITY OF RIO. ITS SHAPE DERIVES FROM THE CIRCLES OF THE OLYMPIC RINGS, WHICH ACQUIRE A MONUMENTAL SCALE IN A COMPOSITION OF VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL PLATES OF CORTEN STEEL. THE MEDALS HAVE THE NAMES OF THE COUNTRIES AND THEIR MEDALISTS FOR ALL THE COMPETITIONS, AND THE RESULT IS A CELEBRATION OF THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT OF UNION THROUGH SPORTS.
Above is the structural analysis of Joseph Choma’s design by Bruce Danziger and Allan Olson (Arup). The principal forces under self-weight (red = compression/green = tension).
ANDREEA MIHALACHE’S CHAPTER “SAUL STEINBERG’S STORIES OF DOR” WAS PUBLISHED IN CONFABULATIONS: STORYTELLING IN ARCHITECTURE (LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, 2016), EDITORS P. EMMONS, M. FEUERSTEIN AND C. DAYER.
A joint research project in structural innovation is being conducted by Michael Carlos Barrios Kleiss, Ph.D., in the School of Architecture and Brandon Ross, Ph.D., from the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, along with graduate students Vishnu Sreenath (architecture) and Sachin Sreedhara (civil engineering). This collaborative project is studying the influence of tessellations and patterns to improve structural resilience in buildings. Preliminary work done in the fall 2016 shows promising impact on building structural performance by the use of self-locking tessellated patterns. Laboratory experiments with scale samples will be tested in the materials lab universal testing machine in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, while computer modeling and rapid prototyping will be done in the School of Architecture digital fabrication facilities. Physical testing will serve to validate a theoretical model currently being constructed to perform computer numerical simulations. The project will continue during the spring and summer of 2017.
THE FIREMEN MUSEUM, FIRE PREVENTION CENTER IN BARCELONA, OPENED LAST NOVEMBER 11, 2016. DESIGNED BY BAC DIRECTOR MIGUEL ROLDAN, THE PROJECT WAS THE SUBJECT OF A COMPETITION FOR THE RENOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE OLD FIRE STATION USED DURING THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1929. ROLDAN WON THE COMPETITION IN 2013, AND THE NEW MUSEUM WAS COMPLETED DURING THE 2015–2016 ACADEMIC YEAR. IT’S A 1,500-M2 FACILITY THAT HOUSES THE EXHIBITION PROGRAM AND SPACES FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON RISKPREVENTION. THE PROPOSAL INVOLVED THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE OLD BUILDING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW NAVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BUILDING’S CENTRAL ATRIUM. THIS THREESTORIES-HIGH NAVE IS SUPPORTED BY A CURTAIN WALL OF STEEL PILLARS 8 X 12 CM EVERY 50 CM.
Ufuk Ersoy’s essay “Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper: Transfiguration through Glass or Vertical and Horizontal Transparencies” was published as a chapter of Companions to the History of Architecture Volume IV, edited by D. Leatherbarrow and A. Eisenschmidt (Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, Massachusetts: 2016). This essay focuses on Mies van der Rohe’s entry for the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Competition of 1921. The project Mies named the “Wabe” (honeycomb) construction, not only epitomized the polemics then current about the renovation of Berlin as a modern metropolis, but also represented a radical shift in the architect’s own viewpoint — his views of modern life, modern construction and modern materials, particularly glass.
FACILITIES AND ALLIED PROGRAMS: Beginning in the fall of 2016, “the new and old” finally came together as Clemson University’s architecture and historic preservation programs in Charleston were united under one roof in a new space at the Cigar Factory, 701 East Bay Street. The former cigar and textile manufacturing plant, built in 1881, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The programs in the newly renovated facility are known as the Clemson Design Center. Until recently, the two programs — architecture and historic preservation, the latter of which
THE CLEMSON DESIGN CENTER IN CHARLESTON
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is jointly run by Clemson and the College of Charleston — were housed in three separate locations. To better meet existing needs, anticipate planned growth and ensure that Clemson students in Charleston have all the resources they need, a larger, more functional facility was required. “The consolidation of our design-based programs at the Cigar Factory is a significant step for Clemson University,” said Richard E. Goodstein, dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. “Clemson’s students in architecture and historic preservation have distinguished themselves for more than 25 years as innovative and service-oriented members of the Charleston community. We are excited to occupy this beautiful space in the Cigar Factory in one of America’s great cities.”
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(From “Clemson Design Center officially opens its doors in Charleston,” by Bryce Donovan, Clemson University Newsstand, August 25, 2016) The Clemson Design Center in Charleston (CDC.C) now provides studio space, classrooms, seminar rooms, fabrication facilities, a laboratory, a library, multipurpose space, and faculty and staff offices for the Master of Science in historic preservation; the Master of Architecture; the Master of Architecture + Health and the B.A. in architecture studios (as part of the Fluid Campus); the Bachelor and Master of Landscape Architecture studios
Cigar Factory exterior. (Oswald Design Studio)
(programs otherwise based in Clemson); and the new Master of Resilient Urban Design. These disciplines, independently and in collaboration, are regularly and actively engaged in service-
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THE NEW FACILITY WAS CELEBRATED AT A RIBBONCUTTING THAT ATTRACTED MANY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS, FACULTY, ALUMNI AND CHARLESTON CITY OFFICIALS. MAYOR TECKLENBURG PROVIDED REMARKS, ALONG WITH PRESIDENT CLEMENTS, DEAN GOODSTEIN AND DIRECTOR SCHWENNSEN.
learning and research on local, “real world” issues, boosting strong relationships with local governments, other academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations and industry. The combination of urban design, architecture, historic preservation and landscape architecture in this location establishes Clemson University as a premier provider of allied academic and research offerings in design and preservation in the Southeast.
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1. Alumni, faculty, students and friends enjoyed the space and the company. 2. Administrators and guests gathered for the ribbon-cutting. 3. Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg welcomed guests and extoled the creation of the CDC.C. 4. Students greeted guests.
1. The Clemson Design Center in Charleston now provides expanded studio space. (Oswald Design Studio) 2. The CDC.C has seminar and studio spaces. (Oswald Design Studio) 3. Sparks fly in the CDC.C shop as student Daniel Taylor works. (Oswald Design Studio) 4. Historic preservation has a new microscopy laboratory. (Oswald Design Studio) 5. The historic preservation area has many artifacts in the new facility. (Oswald Design Studio)
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GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION In October 2016, the graduate program in historic preservation program moved from the Department of Planning, Development and Preservation to the School of Architecture. This move consolidates the allied programs located at the CDC.C into one administrative unit, providing organizational and administrative efficiencies. More importantly, it facilitates curricular and faculty integration in architecture and historic preservation, laying the groundwork for increasing programmatic enrichment and collaboration. The graduate program in historic preservation is a unique collaborative effort launched by Clemson University and the College of Charleston in 2005. The program, which is based in Charleston, South Carolina, offers a two-year course of study that leads to the Master of Science in historic preservation. The program is interdisciplinary in character and admits small and selective classes comprising a wide range of undergraduate student majors who are interested in building national careers in historic preservation. The mission of the collaborative Clemson University/College of Charleston graduate program in historic preservation is to educate future leaders in the documentation, evaluation, interpretation and conservation of historic structures, sites, objects and landscapes with the goal of developing appropriate preservation strategies for a sustainable future. Utilizing Charleston and the Lowcountry as a laboratory, students in this professional degree program acquire the diverse skills necessary for rewarding professional careers.
Measuring and documenting were completed on Quarter J.
NOW BEHIND US QUARTERS J. First-year students worked under the supervision of Professor Amalia Leifeste. Lecturers Frances Ford and Kris King completed the investigation and documentation of Quarters J, one of the officers’ residences slated for rehabilitation at the former Charleston Navy Base. Initially used as a school during World War I, Quarters J was enlarged and converted into an officer’s residence in the interwar years and enlarged again shortly after World War II. The space is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Officers’ Residential Historic District, and student observations about the history and condition of this one-story frame building were presented to the city of North Charleston to support planning for its rehabilitation.
EXPERTS IN RESIDENCE Second-year students attended a preservation workshop taught by architectural historian Ed Chappell at Drayton. This presented an amazing opportunity for students to learn from one of the leaders in the field.
THE MASTER OF RESILIENT URBAN DESIGN
ALMOST DONE KINGS MOUNTAIN Faculty and students of the MSHP program are nearing completion of a historic structures assessment of Civilian Conservation Corpsera (CCC) buildings, structures and landscape features constructed at Kings Mountain National Military Park and Kings Mountain State Park. The project was funded by a grant from the National Park Service, and students have compiled extensive documentation drawings, photographs and conditions assessment of facilities CCC work crews constructed at Kings Mountain between 1936 and 1942. Following construction of road systems that facilitated access to both the site of the Revolutionary War battle of Kings Mountain and recreational areas, CCC crews constructed buildings that housed National Park Service functions, two dams, two seasonal camps and a day-use recreational area, altogether an ensemble of 65 buildings. The historic structures report will guide future decisions concerning maintenance, repair and preservation.
NOW UNDERWAY ST. GEORGE’S, BERMUDA Brent Fortenberry, Ph.D., and six MSHP second-year students spent two weeks in Bermuda in December to complete field research for a course that initiates architectural documentation of historic 17th- to 19th-century buildings in St. George’s, a World Heritage historic town. The oldest continuously occupied town in English America, St. George’s has strong historical links to Charleston and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. During this first short field season in Bermuda, MSHP students completed hand measurement and photogrammetry of The Globe Hotel and Tucker House, two large 18th-century dwellings in the heart of the historic district. In addition to their fieldwork assignments, students participated in meetings of the World Heritage Management Committee. The students will compare lessons learned in these meetings with the administration of Charleston’s historic districts as part of their spring coursework.
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In spring 2016, Studio U was engaged by the Community Action Group for Empowerment (CAGE), an African-American community organization representing the historic Seven Mile community in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. CAGE is an organization dedicated to retention, preservation and education about the unique culture of the Seven Mile community — a traditional, sweetgrass basket-making community that dates back to the 1860s. As Mt. Pleasant continues to sprawl, communities are being absorbed into a mix of ex-urban patterns that is neither suburban nor urban. This transitional condition will play a role in the realization of design strategies for this important community project. Students conducted a series of community workshops to develop a program narrative and conceptual strategies. The outcome led to design of a community center to serve as a venue for community development programming, a large multipurpose space, museum and eventually a marketplace.
The Master of Resilient Urban Design degree (MRUD) is a post-professional degree for graduates and professionals who have prior design skills in architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, and other related disciplines. The MRUD prepares graduates to engage complex cultural, market and government policy forces through sustainable and resilient urban form. Sustainability is inclusive of cities’ abilities to help sustain diverse environments, cultures and economies locally and globally. Resiliency also implies the ability of a community to anticipate and recover from challenges. As such, the MRUD program seeks to envision not only humane and ennobling places now, but to ask “what-if” questions about the city and urban system as a whole. Urban design is about local place-making, and the historic city of Charleston is an extraordinary place for studying place and urban form. As one of America’s oldest cities with a unique and well-preserved historic core, it is a globally important example of walkable, preautomobile urbanism. At the same time, as a growing mid-sized city, Charleston faces a number of complex urban design challenges that must balance historic preservation, environmental sensitivity and fragility, transportation, economic development and investments in managing growth and change. With its unique combination of history, culture, tourism and an expanding economic base, metropolitan growth and a sensitive coastal location, Charleston is a world-class, living-learning urban laboratory for examining contemporary urban design issues through a comprehensive approach to historical, cultural, social, economic and environmental concerns. It is anticipated that graduates — coming to the program from the region, across the country and around the world — will be able to apply lessons learned in Charleston to other environmentally and historically sensitive places, including their hometowns and other cities around the globe.
During the fall 2016 semester, the work of Studio U involved redevelopment of a historic structure as creative living/working space. Charleston is rapidly transforming, changing in ways hardly imagined a generation ago. New prosperity, global recognition and desirability have made the city a “go to” destination. A natural consequence of such rapid growth and expansion of wealth is displacement of affordable creative workspaces. After 40 years, the city has a new administration committed to filling this void, Final community presentations and they see an opportunity in the former city garage. The mayor’s included the mayor of office asked the CAC.C to study the old city garage to determine Charleston. the feasibility of converting it to creative living/working space. Formerly a 1915 utility building, the facility lay dormant for years. More recently, a playground area and community garden were developed reactivating the site for community use. It is in that vein the city is pursuing development of the building as a creative hub in the heart of the neighborhood. The work was well received by the community and the mayor’s office, and is moving toward some level of implementation. David Pastre teaches Introduction To Craft (ITC), an architectural craft lab that is offered under different material specializations, all of which introduce students to design as informed by craft through a hands-on experience. Basic craft operations and material properties are introduced for the subject material (wood, steel, etc.). ITC seeks to instill a craftsman’s approach to construction and a corresponding reconsideration of design. This past fall, the course introduced students to the discipline of craft using woodworking as a medium.
Rayshad Dorsey and Daniell Drinkuth created this rendering of their project. Rebecca Wilson, Russell Buchanan, Jordan Kalasnik, Amelia Brackman, Kate Romanova and Benjamin Wofford were ITC fall 2016 students who worked in the CDC.C shop. THE 2016 SPRING STUDIO ALSO WORKED WITH A FORMER GRADE SCHOOL, CHICORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LOCATED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS STATISTICALLY THE MOST IMPOVERISHED URBAN COMMUNITY IN THE STATE. THE SCHOOL WAS CLOSED IN 2011 WHILE A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL IS BEING DEVELOPED. MANY IN THE COMMUNITY FELT THE SCHOOL COULD CONTINUE TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY IF SALVAGED AND REDEVELOPED APPROPRIATELY. METANOIA, A FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, WAS FORMED TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES IN REDEVELOPING THEIR RESOURCES AND ASSETS IN ORDER TO STABILIZE AND REGENERATE NEIGHBORHOODS. STUDIO U WAS ENGAGED BY METANOIA TO ASSIST IN EXAMINING STRATEGIES FOR REDEVELOPMENT BASED ON INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY DURING A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS. THE CAC.C’S COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY SERVICE ENDEAVORS IS INTEGRAL TO THE PROGRAM’S PEDAGOGY AND MAKES IT AN IDEAL PARTNER WITH THE NONPROFIT.
The Crop Stop (left) is the prototype from fall 2016.
Since 2015, students at the CAC.C have been building a solution to problems faced by small-scale farming communities. Their solution was a small process kitchen called the CROP STOP, which can be rented and operated at cost for processing and preserving food. After three years of research, the Crop Stop is now on its third prototype. The Crop Stop kitchen aims to increase supply chain activities between farm-to-school participants, provide a low-cost, easily assembled processing kitchen equipped to cook, can, freeze and process food for long-term preservation and usage while improving healthy economic development within the communities it serves. Professor Pastre worked with students Amelia Brackman, Russell Buchanan, David Herrero, Paul Mosher, Daniel Taylor and Rebecca Wilson.
During the spring 2016 semester, Studio V worked with Enough Pie, a nonprofit organization that focuses on inclusive and inspiring community engagement in the upper peninsula of Charleston. The Studio V collaboration involved a design/build initiative that is rooted in supporting the art, history, culture and science of indigo, a natural dye grown and historically used in Charleston. The VAT Shack the students designed and built is an off-the-grid, self-sustaining mobile structure to animate indigo and teach the use of indigo as an art form. Professor Pastre worked with students Courtney Ardis, Emily Ashworth, Antonio Bezerra, Matthew Bourean, Scurry Charles, Nicholas Debessonet and R.J. Wilson. Community Dye Day was held in the Vat Shack.
This program is conceptually organized in terms of urban scale, from the human scale of the block/street/building to the neighborhood/district/corridor scale to the ecological/regional/ metropolitan scale. Throughout the plan of study, coursework emphasizes the four-part City Resilience Framework (Arup 2015), which includes health and well-being, infrastructure and environment, economy and society, and leadership and strategy, as these influence urban design decision-making.
The Globe Hotel and Tucker House were a focus of student fieldwork in Bermuda. 5 EAST BAY An imposing presence near the south end of Charleston’s “High Battery,” 5 East Bay is now undergoing a thorough rehabilitation. MSHP first-year students enrolled in Frances Ford’s “Introduction to Conservation Science” laboratory course will assist in the architectural forensic investigation of the house. The students will determine the history of interior architectural finishes and compile evidence of repairs made to the house following Charleston’s 1886 earthquake that now require new attention. Adjunct faculty member Richard Marks is the contractor for the project and is coordinating the forensic investigation this class of 14 will undertake at the house.
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, PENDLETON Professor Amalia Leifeste will coordinate field investigation of St. Paul’s Church in Pendleton, South Carolina, that a spring semester class of advanced second-year students will use as the basis for a historic structures report of the church. Documentation drawings and assessment of current conditions will be woven into a report to be delivered to the congregation in April.
Student Katie Martin prepares to repoint brick at the site.
The tabby ruins site at Botany Bay.
Adjunct Professor Richard Marks gave a tour of 5 East Bay.
The Chicora workshop met in front of school. This rendering shows the Chicora proposal.
HISTORIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPE SURVEY (HALS) 2017 CHALLENGE MSHP first-year students will take up the Historic American Landscape Survey [HALS] 2017 Challenge to expand the documentary record of the nation’s town and city parks. During the spring semester, the students will work with Professor Carter Hudgins to investigate the history and evolution of a half dozen of Charleston’s iconic public spaces, among them White Point Gardens and Hampton Park, and then submit documentation packages for this annual competition. Finished reports are filed with the Library of Congress as a permanent record of the important expression of designed landscapes. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS PAST AND PENDING Second-year students Morgan Grander and Meg Olsen will present a poster at the Sixth International Architectural Paint Research Conference at Columbia University, March 15–17, 2017, entitled “How Paint Research and Analysis Aided in the Reconstruction of Missing Ornamentation: A Case Study of 43 Legare Street, Charleston, South Carolina.”
BOTANY BAY As part of the first-year Historic Preservation Studio, this year’s class will begin the spring semester honing documentation and conditions assessment skills at Botany Bay, a unit of the South Carolina State Parks on Edisto Island. The students will focus on a cluster of tabby ruins during three site visits. They will return to the park in April to participate in the repair and stabilization of the ruins.
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Applications are now being accepted for fall 2017 admission into this three-semester (two semesters and a summer), 45-credit, post-professional graduate program.
Second-year student Kimberly Mattern will present a paper based on her thesis “Outing the National Register: The Challenges of Including LGBTQ Sites on the National Register of Historic Places” at the conference “Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World,” to be held in Charleston in June 2017.
IMPROVING PATIENT CARE WITH HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN The RIPCHD.OR mock-up is shown here during simulation and evaluation.
The Clemson Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing is working with the Clemson Design Center in Charleston (CDC.C) to build and test new operating room designs and layouts at the facility. The RIPCHD.OR project (Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the OR) is funded by a fouryear grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that supports the development of a learning lab focused on designing a safer, more ergonomic operating room. The project uses an integrated systems approach to explore the OR physical environment, workflows, equipment, various systems and design. The multidisciplinary RIPCHD.OR team, led by Anjali Joseph, Ph.D., director of the Center for Heath Facilities Design + Testing, includes faculty and graduate students from across Clemson University, the Medical University of South Carolina and Health Sciences South Carolina. Many of the students involved with the project are enrolled in Clemson’s Architecture + Health graduate program. Various iterations of operating room mockups have already been constructed at the CDC.C. A high-fidelity OR mock-up is being planned. The mock-up and learning lab will provide the RIPCHD.OR researchers with an opportunity to develop, test, refine and implement innovative design ideas and strategies that improve OR safety and outcomes.
Many of the team members are pictured here in the mock-up.
IPAL THE CAC.C IS ACCEPTING ITS FIRST STUDENTS FOR THE INTEGRATED PATH TO ARCHITECTURAL LICENSURE PROGRAM (IPAL). IPAL BUILDS ON THE SCHOOL’S LONGRUNNING INTERNSHIP AND MENTORSHIPS PROGRAMS AT THE CAC.C TO INTEGRATE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND EXAMINATION AND REDUCE TIME TO LICENSURE.
P R O G R A M S THE KEY IDEA TO THE PREPROFESSIONAL UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE CURRICULUM AT CLEMSON IS ONE OF FLEXIBILITY AND FLUIDITY. THE IDEA OF FLUIDITY IS EVIDENT IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS IN WHICH ALL STUDENTS PURSUE A MINOR DEGREE, AS WELL AS STUDYING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. THE IDEA IS REINFORCED WITH THE SCHOOL’S FLUID CAMPUS AND THE UPPER-LEVEL FLUID STUDIOS. THE WIDE ARRAY OF CHOICES AFFORDED TO STUDENTS, BOTH IN TOPICS AND LOCATIONS, BROADENS THEIR EXPERIENCES AND ENCOURAGES THEM TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IN SHAPING THEIR OWN EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PATHS.
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY’S GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM ONCE AGAIN HAS BEEN NAMED AMONG THE NATION’S BEST IN AN ANNUAL RANKING OF ALL ACCREDITED PROGRAMS IN THE U.S. DESIGNINTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE RANKED CLEMSON NUMBER SEVEN AMONG PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND 19 OVERALL NATIONALLY IN THE ANNUAL PUBLICATION “AMERICA’S BEST ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN SCHOOLS.” CLEMSON HAS BEEN RANKED IN THIS HIGHEST TIER OF ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMS IN EIGHT OF THE MOST RECENT 10 YEARS.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
FIRST YEAR The freshman class in architecture at Clemson spent fall semester 2016 developing their analytical skills, drawing abilities and modeling techniques. The students began the semester by working on a figure/ground project in which they drew plan diagrams, learned about the axonometric drawing technique and built simple models of their patterns.
The students spent the second half of the semester working on an in-depth analysis of an elevation. Students were assigned buildings on campus, and they sketched the buildings and developed figure/ground analytical models of the elevations. Student Mary Margaret Stokes appreciated the opportunity to hone her skills. “The elevation analysis was my first introduction to the study of architecture,” she said. “It really gave me a sense of how to read and analyze a building.”
SECOND YEAR ARCH 2510: Architectural Foundations 01 introduces design as a rigorous, iterative and reflective process with a particular emphasis on tectonics. Throughout the semester, students learn and then radicalize historical crafts and methodologies for drawing and making. Students learn to think and work through drawing, making, modeling and fabricating. They work back and forth between analog and digital methods, as well as two and three dimensions. Constraints and rules are given to design within. Each exercise can be considered a game to be played or a design experiment to be explored. 1
THIRD YEAR ARCH 3500, fall 2016 junior-year studio, provided an introduction to urbanism, preparing students for their fluid and off-campus semesters to follow.
FIRST YEAR Students in their first year of the three-year M.Arch. I take an intense series of integrated courses. Design, communications, structures and history courses in both semesters provide a rapid and intense immersion into the discipline. In the fall 2016 studios, under the direction of professors Laurence and Mihalache, students were asked to design a chapel for Clemson’s campus.
IN THEIR SECOND SEMESTER OF THE M.ARCH. I PROGRAM, STUDENTS TAKE ON MUCH MORE CHALLENGING PROJECTS. LAST SPRING, THE FOCUS OF THE PROJECT WAS A MIXEDUSE HIGH-RISE IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
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THIS PAST FALL, THE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO SURVEYED WORLD CITIES USING FIGURE GROUND AS A TOOL TO SEE THE URBAN SOLID-TO-VOID RELATIONSHIP. USING METHODS OF FIELD AND FRAGMENT TO DOCUMENT THE URBAN FORM, DOMINIC BECKER AND ANDREW RAMSEY WORKED AS A TEAM TO DOCUMENT BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND PERRY HAMMOND AND MICHAEL KING WORKED AS A TEAM TO DOCUMENT TEHRAN, IRAN.
This collage highlights the students’ analytical building elevations.
1. Keith Sosebee aggregates folded plate structures to create a synclastic surface.
Atika Jain’s proposal is pictured here.
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This high-rise model was developed by Michelle Edwards.
2. McKenna Tiley explores boundaries with ruled surfaces. 3. William Marshall tailors columns to twist and rotate. 4. Sarah Nail carves shapes with shapes to design an inhabitable viewing apparatus. THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS BEGAN THE SPRING SEMESTER BY DRAWING AND REDRAWING A HANDHELD OBJECT. THIS EXERCISE ALLOWS THEM TO USE THEIR ABILITIES TO READ AND ANALYZE A DESIGNED OBJECT.
ABOVE IS AN INFILL RESTAURANT PROJECT DESIGNED BY PERRY HAMMOND FOR A SITE IN BERLIN, GERMANY. PERRY’S WORK FOCUSED ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE CITY FABRIC TO DEFINE BUILDING MASSING AND ALLOWED THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM TO GROW AND DEFINE THE PUBLIC GARDEN GATHERING SPACE.
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Tyler Rodgers proposed this pop-up restaurant in Queretaro, Mexico.
Fall 2016 ARCH 2510 students created a collection of inhabitable viewing apparatuses with guidance from professors Lee, Barker, Choma, Mendez and Silance. The apparatuses are on display in Lee Hall. FOURTH YEAR In their final year of the preprofessional B.A., students choose from various on- and off-campus Fluid Studios in the fall semester and then enjoy the rigors and rewards of the Synthesis Studio to complete their undergraduate education. In the spring of 2016, students were challenged to design a public library for Six Mile, South Carolina. At the end of the semester, a jury was assembled to determine the winners of the second annual Undergraduate Prize in Design. This prize recognizes and rewards the school’s highest performing graduating seniors in the undergraduate program. The prize, made possible by the generosity of Mark Gesen Carroll ’78, ’80, and his wife Silvia recognizes outstanding architectural design as demonstrated in the final design studio project of the undergraduate program. Award selections are made by an invited jury of architects. In 2016 the jury was chaired by Joeb Moore ’83, ’85, Joeb Moore & Partners Architects, Greenwich, Connecticut. Other members of the jury were Paul Mankins, Substance Architecture, Des Moines, Iowa; Patricia Natke, UrbanWorks Architecture, Chicago, Illinois; Catherine Smith, Catherine Smith Architect, Greenville, South Carolina; and David Moore, McMillan Pazdan Smith, Greenville, South Carolina.
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SECOND YEAR During the fall 2016 semester ARCH 8510 Design Studio III with professors Ersoy, Franco and Heine, students engaged in “Reconnecting Greenville with Itself: Sustainability as a Wider Urban Question.” Teams of students were asked to approach sustainability as neither an economical nor an ecological issue, but as a wider urban problem involving both. The AIA COTE Student Design Competition provided a framework for the projects, located on an important site in Greenville with the potential and responsibility to connect Main Street and Falls Park. Students were required to begin with programming for their building design, revealing the potential of the site. Proposals ranged from a new corporate headquarters and learning center (Cascade: Inverted Corporate Horizon), to a mixed-use water treatment facility (Saturating the City), to a culinary school and brewery (Agricultural Infusion: Bringing Production Back into the City) and many other innovative options.
ARCH 8100: Visualization and Representation 01 introduces a series of techniques and theoretical ideas within the discourse of architectural representation. More specifically, the primary exploration is digital modeling and drawing as an agency for design. Throughout the course, technical skills are taught through a series of conceptual (abstract) frameworks. Students generate ideas with digital tools and learn to design the recording (representation) of their investigative process. The course is multifaceted and includes a combination of lectures, readings and technical tutorials. Michael St. Marie explored ideas of continuity and topology while designing a shell structure.
“Cascade: Inverted Corporate Horizon” was developed by Chelsea Anderson and Yage Chen. Rachel Crane and Michelle Edwards proposed “Saturating the City: A Playful Social Catalyst.” Dancer and Grzibowski created “Agricultural Infusion: Bringing Production Back into the City.”
ARCH 8620 HISTORY AND THEORY III ENTAILED AN END-OF-THE-SEMESTER EXHIBITION DURING SPRING 2016. STUDENTS WERE ENCOURAGED TO THINK OF DRAWING AS A CRITICAL THINKING TOOL. FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE LEADING ARCHITECTS AND THEORETICIANS FROM THE CLASS CONTENT, STUDENTS ADAPTED THEIR TECHNIQUES TO CRITICALLY ASSESS THEIR OWN STUDIO WORK. USING BOTH RECTO AND VERSO OF THE DRAWING PAPER, THE MATERIAL QUALITY OF THE DRAWING PAPER TURNED OUT TO BE AN ARTIFACT. THE EXHIBITION, CURATED BY PROFESSOR TERIM, REMAINED UP OVER THE SUMMER.
This weather shed project was created by students Diego Bazzani, Eric Bell, Michael King, Maria Mesa, Serina Valdes and Derk Williams.
AFTER DELIBERATIONS, THE 2016 UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE IN DESIGN JURY SELECTED THE WORK OF THREE STUDENTS (LISTED HERE) FOR AWARDS. During spring 2017 semester, Architecture + Health (A+H) students in their final semester are designing their comprehensive projects, a long-term acute care hospital to be located on the Watauga Medical Center campus in Boone, North Carolina. Last year’s comprehensive project in Architecture + Health was for a pediatric ambulatory surgery center and clinic.
Diagrams from the proposal of Kemper Fagan (B.A ’16)
Site plan by Jonathan Leverett (B.A. ’16)
The first of four competition boards by Nicole Bronola (B.A. ’16)
The first-year graduate A+H students are researching and investigating healthy community planning examples, ultimately implementing these healthy community planning concepts and guidelines into comprehensive master plans and zoning proposals for the Watauga Wellness District in Boone, North Carolina. This is a public service project funded by the Appalachian Healthcare System and supported by both the health system and the town of Boone. Throughout the process, the students are gaining insight and feedback from professionals from Boone and the Watauga Medical Center, as well as from a larger community dialogue during the three public forums in which the students presented their analysis of existing conditions and zoning regulations, three proposed alternatives plans and a final comprehensive master plan based on that dialogue.
The first board of Sarah Wilson’s proposal is presented for review.
James Xiang’s proposal has a few boards displayed here.
This aerial view shows the Boone, North Carolina, site locations.
THIRD YEAR During the final semester of the M.Arch. program, the student cohort comes back together (after their “fluid experiences” off campus and/or in certificate-specific electives or other options) to complete the comprehensive studio. The focus of the spring 2016 studio was a new student center for South Carolina State University. The M.Arch. students built their ideas on the foundation of master planning proposals completed in the previous fall by landscape architecture students and faculty. THE PROPOSAL BY SARAH GLASS AND BETH KOEPPEL (M.ARCH. 2016) RECEIVED THE HARLAN E. MCCLURE AWARD, GIVEN ANNUALLY BY THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AS DEMONSTRATED IN A GRADUATE PROJECT OR THESIS.
A FLUID CAMPUS WITH ENDLESS LEARNING CLEMSON FLUID STUDIOS
DURING SEMESTERS SIX AND SEVEN OF THE EIGHT-SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE PROGRAM AND SEMESTERS FOUR AND FIVE OF THE SIX-SEMESTER M.ARCH. DEGREE PROGRAM, THE SCHOOL OFFERS STUDENTS A SELECTION OF ON- AND OFF-CAMPUS “FLUID (ELECTIVE) STUDIOS.” THESE STUDIOS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DEPTH AND DIVERSITY OF FACULTY EXPERTISE, ARE VERTICAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY, ALLOW UPPER-LEVEL STUDENTS TO DIRECT THEIR OWN EDUCATIONAL AREAS OF EMPHASIS AND ARE SITED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL’S GREAT RANGE OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS. STUDIO APPALACHIA During fall 2016, professors Dustin Albright (architecture) and Paul Russell (landscape architecture) and their students collaborated on two parallel studio explorations in “Studio Appalachia.” Both projects were selected to invoke a critical examination of contemporary design in the Foothills regions of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The studios partnered architecture and landscape architecture 1 students in careful master planning and design exercises for Camp Hope in Canton, North Carolina, and for the Clemson Equine Center in Clemson. The latter project also incorporated equine business students as special consultants and drew on the expert oversight of alumnus John Blackburn, who has dedicated much of his professional career to the art and science of equestrian training and planning. John Blackburn sponsored the studio. 2
In Dan Harding’s fall 2016 Fluid Studio “Re-visioning the Southern Crescent,” students explored the impact of the Southern Crescent rail line on the greater Clemson area. The students traveled via Amtrak to Charlottesville, Virginia. Through comparison, the studio prepared architectural strategies and specific design solutions (housing, transportation, commercial, retail, etc.) to the city of Clemson with critical information and visioning artifacts. Jason Boyd’s design inspiration for a high-speed train station came from considering the weft and warp of weaving. The primary load-bearing walls are the weft, and they act as a guide for the ribs. These ribs are the warp that help to construct the secondary structure.
STUDENTS IN THE 2016 FALL SEMESTER FLUID STUDIO OF ROBERT BRUHNS, “SMALL BUILDING ASSEMBLIES: DOMICILES, SHACKS AND SHANTIES,” STUDIED AND PRODUCED PROPOSALS FOR SMALL BUILDINGS, INFORMED THROUGH A CENTURY OF ROADSIDE ARCHITECTURE, PRE-ENGINEERED AND MODULAR STRUCTURES, PROTOTYPICAL EXHIBITION HOUSES AND MOBILE STRUCTURES. M.ARCH. STUDENT JAMES GILL’S PROPOSAL IS FOR “THE BUTCHER ON ADDISON LANE,” A REVIVAL OF THE SMALL-TOWN BUTCHER SHOP IN A COLLEGE TOWN.
THE CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER IN BARCELONA (CAC.B), SPAIN, IS PART OF A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE CENTER (BAC) IN WHICH CLEMSON STUDENTS SHARE A STUDIO WITH STUDENTS FROM TEXAS A&M AND ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITIES AND LIVE IN A NEARBY RESIDENCE HALL. STUDENTS ARE IMMERSED IN SPANISH ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, CONTEMPORARY DESIGN, URBAN PRACTICES AND CULTURE.
This view shows the interior of the BAC studio space.
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Chair and Professor Emeritus Jose Caban joined the fall BAC studio.
Under the direction of Miguel Roldan in the fall 2016 studio, M.Arch. students Nathan Huette and Kaylan Betten’s project “Las Terrazas” created a visual and physical extension of the Parc de la Ciutadella. The building’s form took shape by establishing pedestrian access through the site, matching the height of the old city through terracing towards the southwest façade and defining circulation through the building that helps create a connection among public, semiprivate and private spaces.
The BAC has a robust series of studio lectures and seminar visits.
Clemson fall 2016 students visited the Royal Palace during a field studies trip in Madrid.
A spring 2017 visit led BAC students to Arquitectura Viva magazine at their headquarters. Luis Fernandez-Galiano, director of one of the most prestigious European architecture magazines, received the students and shared the secrets of the magazine’s success.
1. Students reviewed a proposal in the Equine Center studio. 2. This final review shows the work from one of the teams in the Equine Center studio. 3. This photograph displays Trieu Dinh Vo’s model of his proposed arena. ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS GIVE PRESENTATIONS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Students from the Clemson PCI Fluid Studio “Precast Concrete Performative Morphologies” (during fall of 2016) traveled to Washington, D.C., on two occasions to conduct field work and present their final studio project to the architects of the U.S. Department of State. The fall 2016 edition of the PCI Foundation precast concrete studio under the direction of M. Carlos Barrios Kleiss, Ph.D., traveled to the nation’s capital for their studio project. In mid-October, 10 students traveled to Washington, D.C., to conduct a site visit and field work for their embassy studio project. They visited the offices of the Smith Group and KCCT, where they interacted with architects who specialized in design of diplomatic missions. At the office of KCCT, the team had the privilege of meeting two of the partners and the chief architect of the U.S. Department of State. After a fast-track studio project, the students returned to Washington to present their final designs to the architects at KCCT and representatives from the State Department. The Clemson students presented seven projects including designs for the new embassies of Australia and Greece, a diplomatic service building extension for the embassy of Brazil and the design of a diplomatic mission for refugees. Professor Kleiss was later invited to participate in the final studio review of the diplomacy lab conducted by the University of Virginia and the Overseas Building Office at the State Department. This visit led to a promising future collaboration between Clemson University and the Department of State.
The studio at Clemson’s Daniel Center in Genoa has a great view of the city.
In Joseph Schott’s spring Fluid Studio, students designed a library for New Canaan, Connecticut, on a challenging site. M.Arch. student Edgar Mozo investigated concrete formwork and ETFE assemblies for his proposal “Waterbox.”
James Boyd’s physical representation shows his concept of the architecture of leadership. Students in Jim Barker’s elective seminar “The Architecture of Leadership” were given an assignment to produce a physical representation of what the architecture of leadership means to each of them.
The work of the students was displayed in New Canaan after the conclusion of the semester.
In the “Additive Manufacturing + Incremental Housing” Fluid Studio, Professor Doug Hecker challenged his students to be both exploratory and pragmatic in assessing additive manufacturing technology and its implications on the built environment. The area adjacent to the reclaimed Los Angeles River was the site for design proposals for a new community. Joanna Nemetz’s proposal “Climbing Mountains – Building Landscape” met the challenge.
FOOD IDENTITY AND CULTURE A Creative Inquiry group led by Sallie Hambright-Belue and her colleague Travers Scott (communication studies) completed their work in fall 2016 with the Feed & Seed in Greenville. The class worked with the Feed & Seed, a new food hub nonprofit, and Spinx to design culturally appropriate community gardens and spaces in food deserts across Greenville. The work of the class helped ensure that a community garden would accompany Spinx’s new store at the corner of Pendleton Street and Highway 123. The class will also present their most recent work, a strategy to encourage engagement in the local food community, at the Continuums of Service Conference in Denver, Colorado. The strategy included digitally mapping farms, restaurants, markets and others that make up the local food system; developing brochures that promote and enable visitors and residents to visit these locations; and the planning of a mobile app that can do the same.
THE FIRST GROUP OF STUDENTS TOOK UP RESIDENCE AT THE CHARLES E. DANIEL CENTER FOR BUILDING RESEARCH AND URBAN STUDIES (THE VILLA) IN GENOA, ITALY, IN FALL 1973. THE PROGRAM BALANCES THE STUDIO EXPERIENCE WITH THE STUDY OF ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND URBAN PRACTICES. STUDENTS LIVE, EAT AND WORK TOGETHER IN THE VILLA OVERLOOKING THE CITY OF GENOA.
IN DAVID FRANCO’S SPRING FLUID STUDIO “OCCUPYING WALMART: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN BIG BOXES,” STUDENTS INVESTIGATED TURNING THE BIG BOX COMMERCIAL TYPOLOGY INTO A NEW FORM OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. AMY TRICK’S PROPOSAL TRANSFORMED A FORMER LOCAL WALMART INTO A MIXED-USE ARCHITECTURAL COMPLEX. Undergraduate senior Matthew Krider presented his design proposal for the U.S. Embassy.
PCI studio students presented their design work in Washington, D.C.
Henrique Houayek talked with undergraduate student Patrick Danahy about his proposal for the LA-based studio led by Doug Hecker.
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In spring 2016, Professor-in-Residence George Schafer and local faculty charged the students with the design of a library. The first of a series of projects asked students to complete an urban analysis of Genoa and a small urban intervention sketch problem in one of the eight piazzas. Gwen Petrasko examined both Piazza Banchi and Via Garibaldi.
Joseph Schott served as the professor-inresidence during the 2016-17 academic year. In the fall semester, the studio project was a public design competition based on a portion of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop plan for Genoa. The site of the competition was the Fiera Di Genova at the delta of the Bisagno River, which has two extant structures. The new structures to be added to the site are to house mixed uses and strengthen the connections to the urban fabric. Ritinha Fernandes (graduate student) and Tradd Horne (undergraduate) collaborated on an ambitious and comprehensive proposal.
Alumni and friends enjoyed a spring visit to Genoa with President and Mrs. Clements, Dean Goodstein and the CAF leadership. The group is pictured here on the steps of the Cattedrale di San Lorenzo in Genoa.
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ARCH 8600 HISTORY AND THEORY I COVERS THE TRANSITION FROM PRE-MODERN TO MODERN ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE LENS OF “LIGHT,” WHICH HAS UNFOLDED IN THE DISCUSSIONS OF TRUTH AND PERCEPTION BY RENAISSANCE THEORETICIANS. BERRIN TERIM TAUGHT THE COURSE, WHICH BUILT UPON THE DISCUSSIONS. STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE BY CREATING THEIR OWN VIEWING OR DRAWING MACHINE.
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ANJALI JOSEPH, PH.D., SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ENDOWED CHAIR IN ARCHITECTURE + HEALTH DESIGN AND DIRECTOR FOR HEALTH FACILITIES DESIGN AND TESTING, WAS HONORED AS THE PROFESSOR OF THE GAME AT THE N.C. STATE FOOTBALL GAME. SHE IS PICTURED HERE WITH HER FAMILY.
Chelsea Anderson photographed a collection of high-rise design proposals.
1. Meadors Inc., a North Charleston-based company, charged their summer interns with creating more low-cost housing in Charleston. Yage Chen, a Clemson M.Arch. student, spent the summer at Meadors researching and designing a housing facility for homeless people. He designed “Our House” for individuals, couples, families and roommates, up to six per unit. The units, shaped like shipping containers, would include built-in furniture and appliances.
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2. A project completed by Clemson architecture alumnus Hans C. Herrmann, AIA, NCARB, and his students in numerous courses at Mississippi State University was selected for exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum last fall. The SuperUse Pavilion (subject of the exhibition) is part of a larger renovation project at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum. 3. Patrick Danahy, senior B.A. architecture student, received Honorable Mention in the 2016 VModern Furniture Design Competition for his design of the Kytos Chair. The Kytos Chair creates a continuous hollow form that varies in material to fulfill structural needs. Utilizing additive manufacturing technology, this design pushes the boundaries of the machine to seamlessly transition from a standard PLA plastic filament to a flexible rubber substitute. This transition maintains the object’s continuity, while varying its function to support needs for both structure and comfort. As weight is applied to Kytos, the double curvature and open faces act as supports, allowing the chair to flex on its central axis while maintaining the rigid structure of its ends. (VModern.com)
DAVID ALLISON ASKED QUESTIONS DURING THE FINAL REVIEW OF THE M.ARCH. I FIRST-YEAR PROJECTS IN FALL 2016.
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4. Sophomores enjoy daylit Lee III during a studio review. 5. Clemson University architecture junior Chris Suttle-Ware helped decorate the White House for Christmas 2016. He volunteered for this opportunity after learning of it from an HGTV special. He was selected and then spent six days in Washington, D.C., over the Thanksgiving holiday.
This site view shows the Boone wellness district.
6. The school is pleased to publish Poche’, a publication of student work from the 2015–16 academic year. This publication cuts through required courses at Clemson University School of Architecture to provide a means to pause and reflect. Joseph Choma edited the publication. He observed, “Clemson University architecture positions itself as a school which instrumentalizes constraints as design opportunities. The program challenges and radicalizes the notion of the normative architectural practice by using conventional parameters (construction techniques, site, context, clients and community) as generative devices. Additionally, students analyze case studies as a means to create a larger dialogue to the historical discourse of architecture. Architecture is not made in a vacuum, but through conversations between people and concepts.”
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7. Clemson students in Barcelona celebrated Thanksgiving with their BAC faculty and their colleagues from Texas A&M and Roger Williams.
KATERYNA ROMANOVA, A FULBRIGHT STUDENT IN THE M.ARCH. PROGRAM, WAS SELECTED BY SOM AS PART OF THEIR CHICAGO WOMEN’S INITIATIVE SHADOWING PROGRAM. SHE WAS ONE OF EIGHT STUDENTS SELECTED NATIONALLY. OTHER STUDENTS SELECTED REPRESENT UNIVERSITIES SUCH AS HARVARD, MIT, KENTUCKY, STANFORD AND HARVARD’S GSD.
In September, students in the fall studio traveled to Chicago with professors George Schafer, Julie Wilkerson and Berrin Terim to conduct site research for a quick project to design a weather shed along the new 606 linear park.
THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE HAS LAUNCHED A NEW SERIES OF INFORMAL LUNCHTIME TALKS CALLED THE BROWN BAG CAFÉ. EACH MONDAY A FACULTY MEMBER, STUDENTS, OR GUEST SPEAKS ABOUT THEIR WORK AND INTERESTS WHETHER AT THE MICRO OR MACRO SCALE. ALL TALKS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Students took part in the comprehensive studio review.
THREE CLEMSON ALUMNI ELEVATED TO AIA’S COLLEGE OF FELLOWS Freshmen participate in the fall studio review.
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Michael Watson, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, ’73, ’78 Michael Watson is a founding principal of Watson Tate Savory with offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina. Prior to Watson Tate Savory, Watson was a senior associate with Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates (TVS) in Atlanta, gaining a strong background in project planning and design. While with TVS, Watson served as project architect on a number of large projects, including the award-winning 1315 Peachtree office/library in Atlanta and the 23-story Carillon office tower in Charlotte. Engaged in the community, Michael has been an active member and leader in the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Society of College and University Planning, among other organizations. Early in his career, he worked in London and later studied at Clemson’s Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy.
Second-year students prepare to begin the spring semester.
Joeb William Moore, FAIA ’83, ’85 Joeb Moore is principal of Joeb Moore & Partners, an architecture and design firm known for its intellect in design, craftsmanship, inventive formal and spatial systems, and details, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Moore’s work has received more than 50 national, regional and state architectural design awards. In 2010 Residential Architect magazine named him one of the “Top 50 Residential Architects in the U.S.” In 2016, Moore was inducted into the New England Home Hall of Fame. In 2015, The Bridge House was awarded the AIA National Housing Honor Award, and in 2014, Moore’s Spiral House was displayed at the International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires as part of “The City and the World” exhibition by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Center of Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. He lectures widely and has taught at Yale, Barnard/Columbia and Roger Williams universities. He is also a recipient of the Clemson Architecture Alumni Achievement Award. Reynolds Logan, FAIA ’80, ’82 Renny Logan is an associate partner at Richard Meier and Partners, where he has spent almost three decades collaborating with Richard Meier. Current projects include two residential towers: One Waterline Square in New York City and the Rothschild Tower located in the heart of Tel Aviv’s White City. Previous projects include the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Swissair North American Headquarters in Melville, New York; the Alfonse D’Amato Courthouse in Central Islip, New York; and Weill Hall at Cornell University, one of the first LEED Gold lab buildings in the country. After an internship at TVS Design in Atlanta, Logan began his New York career at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, where he was responsible for the Opel Residence, a 1988 Record House. His work has earned many AIA design awards, widespread publication and various exhibits. He has frequently been a guest lecturer, design juror and academic review critic.
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