Faculty News

In June 2017, Professor Botond Bognar gave the keynote address “Architecture in the Global World” at the World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Urban Planning Symposium in Prague, the Czech Republic. The symposium was attended by more than 500 participants from five continents.

Associate Professor Scott Murray has been appointed to the editorial board for Technology | Architecture + Design, a new peer-reviewed journal for building technology researchers who seek to articulate the value and relevancy of technology for architecture and design. Read the announcement.

Alumnus Altaf Engineer and Professor Kathryn Anthony recently published Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions: Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences.

Randy Deutsch will be speaking for the second time at the AEC Technology Symposium and Hackathon.

Randy Deutsch signed a contract for Superusers: An Architect’s Guide to Design Technology with Taylor and Francis, his fourth book contract in eight years.

Assistant Professor Yun Kyu Yi and Associate Professor Scott Murray announce the Responsive Architecture Lab.

Gunnar Birkerts, as the first Plym Distinguished Professor, quickly set the standard for all Plym Professors who followed.

William Worn has been selected by Healthcare Design Magazine for an HCD 10 award. Read more about his accomplishments.

Doctoral student Nastaran Shishegar and Professor Mohamed Boubekri published a paper in the journal Energy and Buildings titled “Quantifying Electrical Energy Savings in Offices through Installing Daylight Responsive Control Systems in Hot Climates.” Access the article.

Associate Professor Kevin Erickson’s exhibit 5x5 Participatory Provocations has been reviewed in Metropolis. Read the review.

Mohamed Boubekri (Co-P.I.) and Kristen Bub (P.I.) from the Department of Educational Psychology were awarded an NIH grant to study the role of daylight exposure in classroom environments on children and teachers’ health, educational functioning, and well-being.

Lynne Dearborn has contributed two chapters to Health and Well-Being for Interior Architecture, published by Taylor and Francis.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s project mies[UPGRADE] in a Mies van der Rohe space in Chicago was recently featured in Blur, a thematic volume of the international architecture and design journal d3:dialog.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch will speak at the AEC Tech Symposium and Hackathon 2017, which is being held in New York City October 19-22 and is hosted by CORE studio, Thornton Tomasetti’s firm-wide incubator of ideas.

T.F. Tierney has two September speaking engagements in California.

Randy Deutsch will deliver the keynote address at “Re-shaping the Construction Industry,” the international conference of the Italian Society of Science, Technology, and Engineering of Architecture, in Florence, Italy, in September 2017.

Architect Magazine featured Randy Deutsch’s latest book, Convergence, in an article titled “What Architects Should Know about ‘Convergence.’”

Co-curated by Associate Professor Kevin Erickson, 5x5 Participatory Provocations opened July 11 at the Center for Architecture in New York City and will be on view until October 31, 2017.

Assistant Professor Yun Kyu Yi’s article “Universal Visible Sky Factor: A Method for Calculating the Three-Dimensional Visible Sky Ratio” will be published in the October 2017 issue of Building and Environment.

Professor Emerita Joy Malnar’s article “The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial: The State of Sensory Design” was published in Sensory Arts and Design.