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Professor Jeffrey Ochsner Wins 2012 Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor Award
Department
of Architecture Professor Jeffrey Karl Ochsner is a recipient of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ACSA) 2012 Distinguished
Professor Award. The Distinguished Professor Awards recognize professors who “…
inspire and challenge students, contribute
to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of
academy into practice and the public sector.” Professor Ochsner will receive
his award at the ACSA’s 100th
Annual Meeting in Boston (March 1-4, 2012). Click here
to read juror comments and for more details…
Insurgent Public Space and Contemporary
Urbanism: Series of Talks by Professor Jeff Hou

Jeff Hou, Associate Professor and
Chair of Landscape Architecture, has been delivering a series of talks on the
topic of insurgent public space and contemporary urbanism since last fall. In September
2011, he was the inaugural speaker for the City Series at the New School in New
York. While at the New School, he was also a panelist at a symposium titled
“Making Cities, Whither Design?” In November, Hou lectured at the Department of
City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and spoke at the “Opening
Spaces, Nurturing Cities” Symposium in Taipei. In March 2012, he will be the
keynote speaker at the SHIFT! 2012 Conference at Dalhousie University (Nova
Scotia, Canada), and will also participate at the “Urban Axioms” Symposium in
Stockholm in March.
Last December, Professor Hou authored the statement by ADPSR
(Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility), supporting the
right to peaceful protests and freedom of assembly in the context of the Occupy
Movement. He will also be on a panel titled “Freedom of Assembly: Public Space
Today Redux,” at the Center for Architecture in New York in early February. Professor
Hou’s latest writing appears in Service-Learning
in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundary, edited by Tom Angotti,
Cheryl Doble and Paula Horrigan (New Village Press 2011). He is also
contributing a chapter to The Emerging
Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms, edited by Vinayak Bharne
(Routledge 2013).
Professor Fritz Wagner Co-edits New
Book on Livable Communities
Fritz Wagner, Research Professor in the Department
of Urban Design and Planning, and Managing Director of the NW Center for
Livable Communities, and Professor Roger Caves, San Diego State University,
co-edited a book titled, Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to
Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities.
The book explores what is meant by the term “livable communities” through the
examination of case studies in selected cities throughout the United States,
Brazil, and England.
UDP's Chuck Wolfe Sustains a Broad Web Presence
Chuck Wolfe,
Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning
and a practicing attorney specializing in land use, environmental law and
permitting, is bringing his professional expertise to several notable on-line
news and information sites: The
Atlantic; Grist; Huffington Post; and Crosscut. Chuck writes on the complexity of issues facing today’s
cities and neighborhoods, as well as spotlighting the impact of innovative
ideas and new trends in the increasingly urbanized world.
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