Julie Bargmann MLA ’87 and Stella Betts MArch ’94 Receive American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024 Architecture Awards
Among this year’s recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024 Architecture Awards, the practices of two GSD Alumni were honored.
Julie Bargmann MLA ’87 and Stella Betts MArch ’94, co-founder and principal of LevenBetts architecture firm, have been awarded 2024 Architecture Awards that “recognize American architects whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction.”
Read the full press release.
Follow Stella’s work with LevenBetts on Instagram.
Follow Julie’s work with D.I.R.T Studio.
posted April, 2024
Five Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2023
Five GSD alumni have been elevated by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and is based on their “works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service.” ASLA formally recognized its 2023 Class of Fellows during the annual conference in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 28th.
- Taewook Cha MLA ’98
- Kenneth Francis MLA ’05
- Kathryn Kennen MLA ’05
- Willett Moss MLA ’97
- Kirt A. Rieder MLA ’94
For the full list of 2023 Fellows, visit the ASLA website.
posted November, 2023
In Memoriam: Claude Cormier MDes ’94
The GSD remembers Claude Cormier MDes ’94 who passed away on September 15th, 2023 at the age of 63. Claude was known for his joyful and submersive designs, particularly in public spaces. Some of his most well-known designs include the fountain at Berczy Park in Toronto and Place d’Youville in Montréal.
GSD Chair of Department of Landscape Architecture, Gary Hilderbrand MLA ’85, shares a remembrance of Claude Cormier.
Here you can read more about Claude Cormier’s life and legacy.
posted October, 2023
Six GSD Alumni Elevated to AIA Fellows 2023
Six GSD alumni and faculty have been elevated by the 2023 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to its prestigious College of Fellows. The honor recognizes architects who have “achieved a standard of excellence in the profession and made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.”
The GSD congratulates:
- J. Richard Alsop MDes ’01
- Dan Brunn MArch ’05
- Jason R. Chandler MArch ’93
- Martin R. Primmer MArch ’93
- Robert V. Reis MArch ’82
- Angela Ward Hyatt MArch ’94
For the full list of 2023 Fellows, visit the AIA website.
posted March, 2023
Guy Nordenson Loeb Fellow ’94 Elected into The National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Guy Nordenson Loeb Fellow ’94 has been elected as a new member of The National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He currently serves as a professor of architecture and structural engineering, Princeton University.
Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.” Election of new NAE members is the culmination of a yearlong process. The ballot is set in December and the final vote for membership occurs during January.
Individuals in the newly elected class will be formally inducted during the NAE’s annual meeting on Oct. 2, 2022. A list of the new members and international members follows, with their primary affiliations at the time of election and a brief statement of their principal engineering accomplishments.
View the 2022 New Member list here.
posted February, 2022
Seven Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows – Class of 2021
Seven GSD alumni have been elevated by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and is based on their “works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service.” ASLA will formally recognize its 2021 Class of Fellows during the annual conference in Nashville on Sunday, November 21.
Congratulations to the GSD alumni in the 2021 Class of Fellows (pictured below left to right).
- Juan Antonio Bueno MLA ’86
- Claude Cormier MDes ’94
- Shauna Gillies-Smith MAUD ’95
- Eric F. Kramer MLA ’98
- Allan Webster Shearer MLA ’94
- Glenn LaRue Smith LF ’97
- Roderick R. Wyllie MLA ’98
For the full list of 2021 Fellows, click here.
posted July, 2021
Third Edition of “Professional Practice 101” by Andrew Pressman MDes ’94 Published
The third edition of Andrew Pressman’s MDes ’94 book, Professional Practice 101: A Compendium of Effective Business Strategies in Architecture, was published by Routledge in June 2021.
According to the publisher’s website: “With its unique focus on links between design thinking and practice, this third edition brings an inspiring and fresh perspective to the myriad issues involved in successful architectural practice. The process of providing architectural services in today’s constantly evolving practice environment must be just as creative, intellectually rigorous, and compelling as wrestling with design problems.” You can find more information here.
posted June, 2021
Kathryn Clarke Albright MDes ’94 Published “Exploring the Architecture of Place in America’s Farmers Markets”
Cincinnati University Press published “Exploring the Architecture of Place in America’s Farmers Markets” authored by Kathryn Clarke Albright MDes ’94. The book explores the elusive architectural space of beloved community-gathering places. Architect, teacher, and founder of the Friends of the Farmers Market, Kathryn Clarke Albright combines historically informed architectural observation with interview material and images drawn from conversations with farmers, vendors, market managers and shoppers. Albright presents in-depth case studies to demonstrate how architectural elements and spatial conditions foster social and economic exchange between vendors, shoppers, and the community at large. Albright looks ahead to an emerging typology—the mobile market—bringing local farmers and healthy foods to underserved neighborhoods. The impact farmers markets make on their local communities inspires place-making, improves the local economy, and preserves rural livelihoods. Developed organically and distinctively out of the space they occupy, these markets create and revitalize communities as rich as the produce they sell.
posted March, 2021
Firm of Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93, Craig Scott MArch ’94 wins Ivy Tech Columbus project
IwamotoScott Architecture, the San Francisco-based architecture and design firm founded by Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 and Craig Scott MArch ’94, has been selected as the winner of a competitive invited RFP process to design the new 80,000 sq foot main campus building for Ivy Tech in Columbus, Indiana. The College anticipates breaking ground in 2020 and taking occupancy in 2022. “It is a true honor to be able to add to Columbus’ modern architectural heritage,” Iwamoto and Scott said. “The team from IwamotoScott showed true vision for what the future of Ivy Tech in Columbus could look like,” said Ivy Tech Columbus Chancellor Steven Combs. “Their concepts of how to use available space for a modern and advanced campus were well received by our community and employees.”
The project is supported by The Cummins Foundation and aims to continue the design excellence and modern architectural legacy they’ve established in Columbus. Other finalists in the process included SO-IL, Marlon Blackwell, nArchitects, and Snow Kreilich.
To read more about the announcement, click here.
posted March, 2020
Jennifer Luce MDes ’94 Firm LUCE et Studio Architects Designes West Chelsea Residence
Jennifer Luce MDes ’94 Firm LUCE et Studio Architects have designed a West Chelsea Residence in New York. Steps from the cacophony of Manhattan’s High Line and traffic-clogged Tenth Avenue, Zaha Hadid’s bold residential complex on West 28th Street is an unlikely location for a California-style urban retreat. Yet on an upper floor of the 11-story structure’s west wing, a recently completed apartment designed by San Diego–based LUCE et Studio, for a couple from Del Mar, seems distant from the congestion below, a surprisingly tranquil escape that also exploits the city views around it.
The 3,000-square-foot unit was originally earmarked for Hadid to live in herself. The prospective owners contacted LUCE when it went on the market after the Pritzker laureate’s death in 2016, before the building was complete. They wanted their new pied-à-terre to evoke their comfortable West Coast home, where they could enjoy and rotate their collections. “It has been a long journey,” says architect Jennifer Luce, founder of the firm. “The project took two years to plan and a year to build.” Perhaps what most differentiates Luce’s scheme from the building’s original plan is its simplicity and straightforward flow. Surfaces are homogeneous throughout, and doors literally fade into the woodwork.
Click here to read more about the residence on Architectural Record
Photo Courtsey 0f Micahel Moran
posted September, 2019
Book Edited by Matthew Cohen MArch ’94 Reconsiders the Often-Misunderstood Subject of Architectural Proportional Systems
Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Reconsideration, a new book edited by Matthew Cohen MArch ’94 and Maarten Delbeke, explores diverse aspects of the important and often-misunderstood subject of architectural proportional systems. The collection of twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field of architectural history is a result of an international conference on this topic that Cohen organized in Leiden in 2011. It commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the last international conference on this topic, held in Milan in 1951 and organized by Rudolf Wittkower and featuring Le Corbusier. Among the contributors to this volume is James S. Ackerman (via a transcribed interview), at the time of publication the only living participant of both the 1951 Milan conference and the 2011 Leiden conference.
This new exploration of proportional systems is novel and sometimes controversial because it reconceives proportional systems as parts of the rhetorical rather than visual structures of architecture. Thus the editorial premise of the volume casts the widespread belief that proportional systems create beauty in architecture as no more than a centuries-old myth, and instead introduces the notion that proportional systems primarily contribute meaning to architecture, as a quality no less important than visual character in distinguishing architecture from mere building.
Cohen’s investigation of the topic began as part of his master’s thesis at the GSD, under the supervision of Profs. Howard Burns and Jorge Silvetti. He later pursued a Ph.D. in architectural history at Leiden University, where this research continued as his dissertation, which led to the Leiden conference, and ultimately to this volume. Cohen has pursued this research alongside his career as an architect, and more recently Professor of Architecture at Washington State University. His previous book, Beyond Beauty: Reexamining Architectural Proportion through the Basilicas of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito in Florence, won the James Ackerman Award in the History of Architecture in 2012.
Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture promises to open a new field of study within architectural history, separating the study of proportional systems from its often mystically-infused preconceptions, and setting it on a rigorous scholarly footing. It is published by Leiden University Press, with distribution by Chicago University Press. Browse the table of contents.
posted July, 2019
Firm of Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93, Craig Scott MArch ’94 Wins 2019 Cooper Hewitt Design Award for Interior Design
IwamotoScott Architecture, the San Francisco-based architecture and design firm founded by Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 and Craig Scott MArch ’94, is this year’s recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design. The annual program seeks to “honor and support excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement in American design.” Founded in 2000, IwamotoScott Architecture has worked on a range of projects, from techonology companies to arts organizations, educational insitutuions, and more. Clients include Pinterest, Google, Tishman Speyer, the Vitra Design Museum, MoMA/PS1, SFMOMA, and University of California Berkeley.
In addition to their practice, the couple also teaches: Iwamoto is professor in architecture at UC Berkeley and Scott is professor in architecture at California College of the Arts.
Learn more and browse recent work.
posted June, 2019
Book on Architectural Drawings by Nalina Moses MArch ’94 to be Published Fall 2019; April 24 Book Panel at BAC
Single-Handedly, a book by Nalina Moses MArch ’94 that takes a close look at architectural drawing, will be published by Princeton Architecture Press this fall, 2019. The book includes 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging architects and well-known designers, and investigates the continued importance of hand drawing in the digital age. “The powerful yet intimate drawings carry larger propositions about materials, space, and construction, and each one stands on its own as a work of art,” states the publisher.
Moses is an architect and writer living in New York City.
A book panel, featuring several of the contributing architects, will be held at the BAC on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.
posted January, 2019
Book by Andrew Pressman MDes ’94 Brings Design Thinking to the Masses: “Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone”
A new book by Andrew Pressman MDes ’94 offers a practical guide to using design thinking in everyday life, whether you work in a creative field or not. Published by Routledge, Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone seeks to “assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday. It renders accessible the creative problem-solving abilities that we all possess by providing a dynamic framework and practical tools for thinking imaginatively and critically. Every aspect of design thinking is explained and analyzed together with insights on navigating through the process.”
“Andrew Pressman’s exemplary new book is an accessible, readable, and eminently usable introduction to design thinking. The book encourages individual experimentation and flexibility, empowering readers to make the design thinking process their own,” says Marilys R. Nepomechie, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Florida International University.
Pressman is an architect, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland. He also leads his own award-winning architectural firm in Washington, DC.
posted January, 2019
Six Alumni Elevated to ASLA Council of Fellows
Six GSD alumni have been elevated by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and is based on their works, leadership and management, knowledge and service.
ASLA will formally recognize its 2018 Fellows at the ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting and EXPO, October 19–22, in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to:
Mary Anne Cassin MLA ’82
Walter R. Havener MLA ’86
Ying-Yu Hung MLA ’94
Edward C. Marshall MLA ’86
W. Scott Parker MLU ’86
David A. Rubin MLA ’90
For the full list of 2018 Fellows click here
posted May, 2018
Phil Walker MDes ’94 Inducted to AICP College of Fellows; Appointed Planning Accreditation Board Site Visitor
Phil Walker MDes ’94, principal of The Walker Collaborative, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) at the national planning conference in New Orleans in April (learn more and see other 2018 GSD alumni inductees). He was also appointed as a site visitor for the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) to evaluate collegiate city planning programs.
posted May, 2018
Five Alumni Elected to 2018 Class of the College of Fellows of AICP
Five GSD alumni have been elected to the 2018 Class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP). The highest honor bestowed upon members by AICP, Fellows are honored for achieving “excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, public and community service, and leadership.” Congratulations to:
John M. Dugan MCP ’71
Hazel R. Edwards MAUD ’89
William Klein LF ’91
Shafik I. Rifaat MArch ’65
Philip L. Walker MDes ’94
There will be an induction ceremony for the Class of 2018 during the National Planning Conference in New Orleans on Sunday, April 22, starting at 4:15 p.m. CT. Learn more.
Image courtesy of AICP.
posted March, 2018
Dr. Michelle Addington MDes ’94, DDes ’97 Appointed Dean of UT Austin School of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design alumna Dr. Michelle Addington MDes ’94, DDes ’97 has been selected as the next Dean of the UT Austin School of Architecture. The first woman to be appointed dean of architecture in the school’s 107-year history, Addington will begin her new role on July 1, 2017. She currently serves as the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, and holds a joint appointment with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Read the full UT announcement.
Image courtesy of Yale University.
posted March, 2017
Hani Asfour MArch ’94 to Speak at GSD MEdiNA Event on March 3, 2017
Hani Asfour MArch ’94 will speak at the GSD on Friday, March 3, 2017, on the work of his firm, Polypod. The event is sponsored by GSD MEdiNA and is open to the public. Details are below.
POLYPOD: A conversation with Hani Asfour MArch ’94
Friday, March 3
12:00 pm
Gund 124
Set in the rich urban culture of Hamra, Beirut, Polypod, a multidisciplinary firm is committed to raising design discourse in its community. Known for its collaborative and creative approach, Polypod works on projects that combine various fields of design including architecture, master planning, interior design, landscape design, branding, web design, graphics, and information design for local and international clients. Polypod’s studio is also home to Polypodium, a space where local and global luminaries are invited in order to bring people together to discuss design ideas and processes.
Hani Asfour is an MIT and Harvard-trained architect who applies design thinking methods as a creative strategic thought leader with over twenty years of experience. He combines a mix of design expertise with entrepreneurship skills, academic depth and hands-on experience. Hani is a founding partner of Polypod and is currently the President of the Beirut Creative Cluster and Adjunct Faculty at LAU, teaching in the departments of Architecture and Foundation Studies.
A GSD MEdiNA event.
posted February, 2017
Craig Scott MArch ’94 and Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 Firm Receives AIA Institute 2017 Honor Award; Featured in Architect, Curbed.
IwamotoScott Architecture, founded by Craig Scott MArch ’94 and Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93, recently received an AIA Institute 2017 Honor Award for its design of the new Pinterest Headquarters in San Francisco’s SOMA district, which was completed in collaboration with Brereton Architects. The award news was featured in Architect and Curbed.
Other recent awards and news features on the project include:
- American Architecture Prize 2016 Gold Medal, Workplaces category
- Featured in Fast Company, “Pinterest’s Subtle New Headquarters Are The Opposite of a Typical Tech Office“, as well as the FastCO.Design article “Office Design Grows Up“ as one the “coolest workspaces of 2016”
- Honorable Mention in The Architect’s Newspaper 2016 Best Of Design Awards, Interior Workplace category
- Interior Design 2016 Best of Year Honoree, XL Creative/Tech category
Other recent professional news from IwamotoScott Architecture includes:
- Miami City View garage also received an American Architecture Prize 2016 Gold Medal, Parking category
- Redpoint Ventures by IwamotoScott was also an Interior Design 2016 Best of Year Honoree, Office: Small category
- Bloomberg Tech Hub was a Finalist in the Fast Company 2016 Innovation By Design Awards, Branded Environments category
- Bloomberg Tech Hub was featured in a San Francisco Business Times article, “These 5 Bay Area offices have the coolest interior designs, experts say“
Image courtesy of IwamotoScott Architecture.
posted February, 2017
Mikyoung Kim MLA ’92 Featured in Wall Street Journal
Mikyoung Kim MLA ’92, principal of the Boston-based firm Mikyoung Kim Design, was recently featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal which profiled three landscape architects.
April 2014
posted December, 2016
Claude Cormier MDes ’94 Inducted into Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Claude Cormier MDes ’94 was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), an honorary organization that includes some 800 artists and designers in the visual arts. Members are nominated and elected by a jury of their peers from all regions of Canada. Since 1880, the RCA has come to represent many of Canada’s most distinguished visual artists and designers. The objectives of the RCA are to encourage, improve, promote, support and cultivate the visual arts through its many activities.
June 2015
posted December, 2016
Jennifer Luce MDes ’94 Firm to Design Mingei International Museum
Luce et Studio, lead by Jennifer Luce MDes ’94, has been tapped to “design and implement a comprehensive transformation” of the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California. The project will result in many changes–renovation of galleries, expanded space for programs, better integrate the cafe and museum store with the museum, as well as a redesign of the administrative, storage and research areas.
December 2015
posted December, 2016
Andrew Pressman MDes ’94 Publishes Third Book in “Designing” Trilogy
Andrew Pressman MDes ’94 just completed Designing Profits: Creative Business Strategies for Design Practices (Routledge, 2016) with coauthor Maury Nunes. This new book, together with the two others in the “Designing” trilogy (Designing Relationships: The Art of Collaboration in Architecture and Designing Architecture: The Elements of Process), needed to be written to convey the distinctive message that the whole package—doing great design, getting it built, and running a business—are all intensely creative endeavors.
February 2016
posted December, 2016
Jennifer Luce MDes ’94 Elevated to AIA College of Fellows
Jennifer Luce MDes ’94 has been elevated by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to its prestigious College of Fellows for 2016. “The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.” The 2016 Fellows will be honored during a ceremony at the 2016 National AIA Convention.
February 2016
posted December, 2016
Joseph R. Favour MLA ’94 to Head Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Minnesota.
Joseph R. Favour, ASLA, MLA ’94 was recently named Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. His official appointment begins June 13, 2016. According to Interim Dean Becky L. Yust, Ph.D, “As interim department head over the last year, Joe has done an exemplary job leading the department through successful faculty and staff searches, the yearly budgeting and student recruitment process, as well as working with LA faculty and staff on department priorities. Further, he has been an excellent colleague as a member of the college’s senior leadership group and has been a strong partner in helping move our college forward on a variety of issues.”
May 2016
posted December, 2016
Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 and Craig Scott MArch ’94 Firm Wins AIA, IIDA Awards; Featured in Architectural Record, ArchDaily
Professional news from IwamotoScott Architecture, the San Francisco-based award-winning architecture and design firm founded by Lisa Iwamoto MArch ’93 and Craig Scott MArch ’94:
- The new 100,100 sf Pinterest HQ workspace in San Francisco, (by IwamotoScott Architecture in collaboration with Brereton Architects) is featured in the August issue of Architectural Record
- The Pinterest HQ project won a AIA California 2016 Design Award this summer (one of only two awards this year given for Interior Architecture)
- IwamotoScott’s City View Garage in the Miami Design District was awarded ArchDaily’s Top 100 American Architecture Projects , cited by ArchDaily as follows: “Here we highlight the 100 most visited works of architecture in the US, turning them into case studies and references for millions of architects, students, and journalists that seek the most important, inspiring works of American architecture.”
- IwamotoScott’s Bloomberg Tech Hub won an AIA San Francisco 2016 Honor Award in Interior Architecture
- Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott recently gave a tour of the Bloomberg Tech Hub as one of the 2016 IIDA NC Honor Award winners
September 2016
posted December, 2016
