2006_07_MSU_CAAD_HARRISON LECTURE SERIES

Fall 2006

Sep 1 – John Quale (TrimJoist Lecture) - web
University of Virginia - ecoMOD Project Director
John Quale is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. He is the project director for a new initiative by the school– ecoMOD - an interdisciplinary design/build project focused on ecologically based modular housing for low income families. His research interests are broadly focused on ecological and climate responsive design. His team also won the top design award for their Solar Decathlon project.

Sep 27 – AIA Awards
AIA Mississippi’s award winning architects for the year 2005-06; the architects will be asked to present their designs and interact with the students through a discussion session.

Oct 13 – Lance Davis
Architect, Sustainable Design Expert – US General Services Administration (GSA)
Lance Davis is a graduate of Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture and is currently an advocate of sustainable design strategies at General Services Administration (GSA) for the Public Buildings Service as well as an internal consultant and external source of world-class expertise.

Oct 20 – Roy Decker/Anne Marie Decker
Duvall-Decker Architects, PA
Duvall Decker Architects PA is an award winning architecture firm that is located at Jackson MS. Duvall Decker Architects was founded in 1998 by Roy T. Decker and Anne Marie Decker. Roy and Anne Marie and the firm’s projects include buildings, renovations, interiors and master plans. Roy Decker will be speaking on the Mississippi Library Commission Headquarters Building in Jackson, MS

Oct 27 – Alumni Fellow

Nov 10 – CAAD Research Symposium
Plenary Speaker: Michael Fazio (Professor Emeritus – Mississippi State University)
Michael Fazio is an architect and architectural historian and professor emeritus of the School of Architecture, Mississippi State University. He practices architecture in the southeast region, most often as a documentary and forensic architectural-preservation consultant. Dr. Fazio will be speaking about Benjamin Latrobe based on his new book The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (with co-author Patrick Snadon).

Nov 17 – Erik Benson
Erik Benson Studio – Artist – Brooklyn NY
Erik Benson received a B.F.A. from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, MN) and a M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). His work has been featured at the R.A.R.E Gallery (New York, NY), Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt, Germany) and most recently, Roebling Hall (Brooklyn, NY).

Spring 2007

Jan 19 – Michael Fazio
Professor Emeritus – Mississippi State University
Michael Fazio is an architect and architectural historian and professor emeritus of the School of Architecture, Mississippi State University. He practices architecture in the southeast region, most often as a documentary and forensic architectural-preservation consultant. He will be making a presentation from his in-process book Landscape of Transformations: The Architecture of Birmingham, Alabama - the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Jan 26 – Alumnus of the Year

Feb 2 – John Quale (TrimJoist Jury) - web
University of Virginia - ecoMOD Project Director
John Quale is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. He is the project director for a new initiative by the school– ecoMOD - an interdisciplinary design/build project focused on ecologically based modular housing for low income families. His research interests are broadly focused on ecological and climate responsive design. His team also won the top design award for their Solar Decathlon project. He returns to CAAD to judge the TrimJoist competition.

Feb 19 – SimpArch - web
Artist collaborative group – Chicago - Cincinnati
SimpArch is an artist collaborative group organized and maintained by Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett. Since 1996, SIMPARCH has been creating large-scale interactive artworks that examine building practices and site specificity. The ethos of SIMPARCH has been to create an armature for social interaction through experimentation with materials and design.

Mar 2 – Ivenue Love-Stanley (NOMAS Speaker) - web
Stanley Love-Stanley PC - Architect
In 1977 Ivenue Love-Stanley became the first African-American woman to graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture. She was also the first African-American woman to be registered as a licensed architect in the south. Together with her husband, Ms. Love-Stanley has built Stanley, Love-Stanley into a large, integrated practice, known for its excellent planning and design.

TBA – Crispin Sartwell - web
Philosopher
Crispin Sartwell got kicked out of the public school system in tenth grade for fomenting revolution, and attended the New Education Project, aka Bonzo Ragamuffin Prep, then U Maryland, Johns Hopkins, UVA. He currently Chair of Humanities and Sciences at Maryland Institute College of Art. He writes a weekly op-ed column, distributed by Creators Syndicate. He has also appeared in Harper's, the Washington Post, and on Weekend All Things Considered. He is the author and editor of a number of books, and he's taught philosophy and communications at Vanderbilt, the University of Alabama, and Penn State Harrisburg.

Apr 13 – Laurie Hawkinson
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects
Laurie Hawkinson received her Professional Degree in Architecture from the Cooper Union in 1983 after MFA’s from UCB and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NY Associate Professor of Architecture with tenure at Columbia University, Hawkinson has served as adjunct professor at SCI-Arc, Harvard University, Yale University, Parsons School of Design, and the University of Miami. She will be speaking about the work of her firm Smith-Miller+Hawkinson Architects.

Apr 18 – Jackson Lecture: Sean Godsell - web
Sean Godsell Architects
Sean Godsell is an award winning architect who graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1984 and received a Masters of Architecture from RMIT University in 1999. His work has won numerous awards – Carter/Tucer house won a commendation at the RAIA Robin Boyd national award and won Highly Commended for the AR+D awards in London; “Future Shack” modular house received a commendation at the 2001 RAIA awards. In July 2002 the influential English design magazine “wallpaper” listed him as one of ten people “destined to change the way we live”.