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September 25-27, 2008

Without a Hitch: New Directions in Prefabrication

Conference date, September 25-27, 2008

2008 ACSA Northeast Fall Conference
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Light on the envirnment and cost effective, prefabricated
construction is on the rise. Join us this September to discuss the art and science of contemporary prefabricated architecture.

Keynote speakers will include:
Stephen Kieran, Kieran Timberlake Associates
Tedd Benson, Bensonwood Homes

For program, registration, hotel and travel information, go to:
www.woodstructuressymposium.com

Hosted by UMass Architecture + Design and Building Materials + Wood Technology

March 4, 2008

UMass Architecture+Design Alumnus wins 2008 Progressive Architecture Award

Patrick Tighe, a UMass BFA-Design alumnus has won a 2008 Progressive Architecture (P/A) award. Patrick was featured on the cover of Architect Magazine, the journal that administers the P/A awards program.

He won the award for the Nodul(ar) House, a spectulative project based on nodes that are manufactured in a factory and then brought to the site and installed on the foundation. Each is structured like an onion, in layers, with a central spine that contains all utilities, including plumbing, electrical, and HVAC. When the pods are stacked, the utilities can be run together, like the plumbing in upstairs and downstairs bathrooms in a conventional house.

See http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp? sectionID=1151&articleID=634412

Patrick founded Tighe Architecture in 2000 in Santa Monica, Calif. He gained recognition for projects that transform substandard conditions into functional spaces. Sustainable design is an important aspect of his work.

Tighe and his firm have won National AIA Honor Awards for his Los Angeles work: The Collins Gallery, a 1,400-square-foot combined art gallery and residence; The Jacobs Subterranean project, a 1,200-square-foot art gallery beneath an existing post-and-beam structure on a severe hillside; and, most recently, the Black Box house, built in the Scandinavian tradition of an earthy palette. He has also won two Los Angeles AIA awards: one for a proposed affordable housing project in Norwalk, Conn., and one for the 2300 Live Oak Studio building, which blends into the surrounding Los Angeles mountains. Tighe’s Trahan Ranch project, a 3,200-square-foot, 14-acre sloped site in Wimberly, Tex., also emphasizes sustainability and features native oaks, natural springs, and a panoramic view that spans 260-degrees. Additional work includes the 2,500- square-foot Peroni Studio, which is a writer’s retreat secluded from but central to all of Los Angeles with form that makes reference to the Pelli monolith; the Ocean Front walk residences in Venice Beach, Calif.; the Redondo Beach House; and the Ocean Park Hatch Shell in Santa Monica’s Clover Park. Tighe’s work has been publicized in LA Architect magazine. His firm has also won two American Architecture Awards.

Tighe earned his BFA in Design in 1989 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to establishing his practice, he was an associate at the Santa Monica architecture firm Morphosis. He taught at the University of Southern California and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

February 13, 2008

Professor Max Page Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Argentina AMHERST, Mass. –

Max Page, associate professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Argentina for the spring of 2009.

During his stay in Buenos Aires, Page will lecture about historic preservation in the United States and study the politics of preservation in Argentina for a book about the history and politics of historic preservation. He also will work to develop an exchange program between his department and El Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Contempor?nea at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where he will be based during his fellowship.

The fellowship is the second major award he has received in the past year. Last April, Page received a $25,000 fellowship from the Howard Foundation to support his book project titled “Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.” Intended as a comprehensive history of historic preservation in the United States, Page said the work will focus on fundamental issues that have shaped the debate over preservation for two centuries.

A member of the UMass Amherst faculty since 2001, Page teaches urban, architectural and public history. He is the author of “The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940” (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for the best book on architecture and urbanism.

He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He is also the co-editor, with Steven Conn, of “Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), as well as the co-editor, with Randall Mason, of “Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States” (Routledge, 2003). Page was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003

Five College Architecture +Design Lecture Spring 2008 Series

PDF Poster Lecture Series Spring 2008

UMass Master of Architecture Earns Initial Accreditation

July 30, 2007

The National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) has approved initial accreditation for the UMass Master of Architecture Program, 4+2 year track and 3 year track. The program is now New England's first and only public accredited architecture program.

http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/61956.php

Old News & Announcements (2006 & older):

NEW MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM APPROVED
[October 19, 2004]

NEW WEBSITE ONLINE
[September 21, 2005]

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