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DARTMOUTH UMass Dartmouth's Claire T. Carney Library architects were recently presented with a series of awards at design ceremonies for their work on the three-year, $48 million renovation project.
DesignLAB architects were winners in the education category at the 34th Annual Interior Awards, hosted by Contract Magazine. At the BSA Design awards, designLAB took home two awards: the Citation for Transformative Addition to an Existing Building and, with Austin Architects, received the Hobson award, which is the highest level of overall award given.
The revamped library refocuses on a broader understanding of the needs of students and the library itself - keeping the books and periodicals, but also including new computers and technology, as well as places to study, meet, and relax.
The renovation and addition has been recognized in prominent architecture and design publications, including American Libraries, Contract Magazine, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and American Architects Building of the Week.
Paul Rudolph, the original architect of the campus, was one of the leading architects in America in the 1950s and 60s. He designed UMass Dartmouth with a library at the very center of campus, which was in line with his overall vision of creating an academic utopia. The campus design was considered ground-breaking in its day and its spirit lives on in the reimagined Claire T. Carney Library.
The library houses computer labs, study spaces, lecture halls, conference rooms, the Congressman Barney Frank Collection, a student veterans reading room, the Grand Reading Room, and the very popular Living Room, which, like many spaces within the library, serves as an academic and social gathering place.
The renovation of the Claire T. Carney Library is part of a series of recent investments aimed at expanding opportunity for UMass Dartmouth students and faculty. Completed projects include the new and revamped Fitness Center, the Hall-Hildreth IDEAStudio, and the College of Nursing's Elisabeth A. Pennington Simulation Laboratory.
The Massachusetts Accelerator for Biomanufacturing is scheduled to open in the coming weeks. In October of this year, Governor Deval Patrick announced funding for a new academic building at UMass Dartmouth that will support the campus's growing enrollment. In addition, there are plans for expansion of the Charlton College of Business and the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST).
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Architect Evelyn Darcy with Transition Year students from St Josephs Secondary School Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Architecture has quietly been introduced to some secondary schools in Ireland as architects leave their design studios and building sites to work on short-term projects with students .
The impetus for such excursions comes from the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) which launched an education programme four years ago with A Space for Learning, a design competition to challenge current thinking on school design. More than 1,500 students worked with 120 architects in 90 schools on that project which resulted in a touring exhibition in 2010/2011.
The latest IAF initiative, the National Architects in Schools programme, sees architects working with Transition-Year students in 25 schools in Cork, Donegal, North Dublin, Galway and Wexford. The programme is funded by the Arts Council, the Department of Education and Skills, and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
We realised there was a need to provide students with real access to architects to interpret their environment, explains Rachel McAree, IAF education curator. Design journals were published as an optional resource for architects, teachers and students.
Many of the architects in the initiative discovered TY students often dont know much about the role and impact of architecture in their lives but once they engage with the subject, they have plenty of ideas, especially about how their school environment could be improved.
The students in the all-girls secondary school, St Josephs in Stoneybatter, Dublin developed clever new ideas on how to bring more light and space into their dark, crowded stairways and corridors. I really enjoyed working with other students and learning about peoples different perspectives, as well as being able to see how we can make a practical change in our school, says Monika Janas, one of the TY students in St Josephs.
The Architects in Schools module was a compulsory rather than an elective module for many of the participants. Some study art, others do construction studies. As part of their introduction to light, shape and symmetry, the groups looked at unusual and inspiring buildings, including Dublins Custom House, the Sydney Opera House, an underwater hotel in Dubai, spherical tree houses in Canada and an innovative interior of a Copenhagen school. Their tasks include drawing their favourite room, looking at how their classrooms work, mapping out their school and looking at ways it could be improved. Each group made 3D models of their re-imagined spaces.
We divided students into three groups to see ways the corridor, classroom and canteen could be improved with different wall colours, adding plants, changing furniture or floor covering and adding things like a roof garden, explains architect Evelyn Darcy, who worked with the TY students at St Josephs.
Eamonn Greville, senior architect at the Department of Education and Skills says these students are tapping into more contemporary school design ideas that are already on the agenda for architects of school buildings. We now see corridors as a transitional space which can function as a vibrant social space to sit down, chat, look at something and as spaces where you can bring students together, he says.
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World-renowned architects, planners, artists and designers will feature in the up-coming Communiqu lecture series at the University of Auckland.
Hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning and supported by Transforming Cities, this years theme is 'A place to live with many speakers focusing on housing in Auckland, a topic of increasing concern to many people.
Communiqu lectures target issues relevant to architecture and planning, but intentionally seek to present an expansive view of these subjects. The aim is to foster critical discussion and debate. Among this years outstanding speakers are award-winning international architects Brigitte Shim, Esa Laaksonen, David Howell and Alejandro Haiek Coll.
- Brigitte Shim, and her partner Howard Sutcliffe of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, are recipients of a 2014 University of Auckland Distinguished Visitors Award. In their work Shim-Sutcliffe seek to intertwine light, water and landscape in exploratory and innovative ways while reflecting a shared interest and passion for the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape and furniture. In her lecture Shim will link early work and recent work and the shifting scales within each project. Shim-Sutcliffe are the recipients of twelve Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Governor Generals Medals and Awards for Architecture and last year they were both awarded the Order of Canada.
- Helsinki architect Esa Laaksonen will focus on archetypal architect and particularly Alvar Aaltos French masterpiece Maison Carr. The house, completed in 1959 for the wealthy art dealer Louis Carr, is considered a work of art with Finnish design and craftsmanship. The interiors were constructed to accommodate Carrs extensive collection of Modern art and remain exceptional within the Aalto oeuvre.
- New Zealand-born, New York-based David Howell has a 25-year background as an architect and designer. He established his first solo architecture practice in Auckland in 1990 before relocating to New York and founding DHD Architecture & Design. His work is distinguished by the pairing of distinct philosophies from two hemispheres, where the towering history of New York and Americas architectural traditions merge with the indoor-outdoor living, modern idioms, and relaxed environmental design common to New Zealand. He has produced a wide range of award-winning buildings in the United States and beyond, including commercial, residential, retail, and hospitality projects. He will be presenting a selection of his recent works.
- Alejandro Haiek Colls projects in South America, focused on abandoned urban sites as spaces for regeneration, have a strong social component. Recently awarded the International Award for Public Art for the Tiuna el Fuerte Cultural Park project in Caracas, Venezuela, Haeik Coll uses art, applied sciences and local intelligence to explore the role of public art and architecture in place-making. His lecture Public machinery will focus on the aspects of his practice that generate architecture as an outcome of engagement within local communities. He describes his practice as one of slow architecture because of its process of engagement.
- Geographer Ngarimu Blair has 15 years experience in advancing a range of iwi issues in Auckland. His lecture From Maungakiekie Pa to Kupe Street discusses Ngati Whatua Orakeis plans to assist its people into home ownership. Overcoming significant socio-economic, planning and financing barriers they hope to create a modern pa at Orakei, one of Aucklands most affluent suburbs. Blair is a Treaty settlement negotiator for Ngati Whatua. He is heavily involved in Ngati Whatuas innovative tribal housing projects. He is also a trustee on the Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust, a Director on Waterfront Auckland, Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd and Nga Tira Ltd.
- Ann Dupuis and Penny Lysnars lecture Housing choice: The human dimension looks at housing choices and constraints. The notion of greater housing choice is firmly embedded in urban intensification planning and policies. In Auckland it is claimed that apartment buildings and terrace houses offer greater housing choice. However, what is often overlooked in this rendition of housing choice are the people who are making choices to live in intensive environments and the extent to which their choices are exercised within sets of constraints. Dupuis and Lysnar will discuss the human dimension of choice making, and explore the constraints and trade-offs that lie behind housing decisions. Ann Dupuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of People, Environment and Planning, and Regional Director at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Massey University. Dr Penny Lysnar is Business Liaison and Research Development Manager in the Transforming Cities team at the University of Auckland.
- Scott Figenshows lecture Achieving 20 percent by 2020: How is it going to happen? explores the reform of social and affordable housing in New Zealand. The Government has set the goal for 20 percent of the countrys social and affordable housing to be delivered by community housing organisations by 2020. This is a great goal but how are we going to get there? What are the policy levers we need to pull? Where will the finance come from? How will social and community housing achieve the kind of long-term stability that currently exists in the health, education, and superannuation systems? Figenshow will address these questions and offer some possible answers. Scott Figenshow is Director of Community Housing Aotearoa and has extensive experience in the field of community housing across non-profit, government and the private sector.
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