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This is the first in a series of free web seminars sponsored by the AIA Residential Knowledge Community that will explore the ways that architects use research to enhance the health, safety, social, economic and environmental performance of buildings as well as the experiences of housing residents.
A panel of experts in architectural and environmental research will explore various approaches to research and strategies for the application of scientific and non-scientific research to architectural practice. The latest trends in evidence-based design will be discussed as will the current status of housing research at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. A case study of assisted-living facilities commissioned by the architect and conducted by a leading researcher will be described and analyzed. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn to identify various types and methods of research.
- Participants will learn about current trends in evidence-based design.
- Participants will gain an understanding of various strategies for applying research to their own practices.
- Participants will gain an understanding of ways in which housing research is being conducted in the field and in the academy.
Speakers
Jamie Horwitz, PhD, is associate professor at Iowa State University where she teaches design research courses in Architecture and Industrial Design. Her new work focuses on "Innovations in Products, Practices and Parks". She worked on a design assistance team that helped move a small town devastated by the floods of 1993 upland and into a national model of sustainable design, and continues to visit and write about the afterlife of the ghost town. Her latest book, about architecture and food, was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Horowitz has a doctorate from the City University of New York, an Ed M from Harvard University and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking research, teaching and writing.
Michael J. Monti, PhD, is executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He is project director for “64 Ways to Home: Four Designs, Four Critics, Four Symposia on Innovative Design Strategies for Affordable Housing,” NEA Grant 08-802916, awarded in November 2008, as well as “Building Communities,” NEA Grant 09-093630), awarded November 2009. He was a principal investigator for ACSA's 2006 forum "Affordable Design: Convening the Conversation," sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation, and was principal investigator for a Federal Aviation Administration grant titled “Architectural Solutions to Security in the Design and Construction of Airports.” Monti is also co-editor, with Kathleen Dorgan (Dorgan Architecture & Planning) and Kinnard D. Wright (U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development), of a special July 2008 issue of the HUD journal Cityscape focused on university participation in redevelopment efforts in the Gulf region. Monti has a doctorate from the Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture program at Binghamton University, where his dissertation focused on environmental philosophy and ethics.
Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, LEED-AP, is principal of the widely recognized firm Dorgan Architecture & Planning in Storrs CT. She trained as both an architect (BS and B.Arch. Rensselaer) and an urban planner (MS Pratt). Past president of the Association for Community Design, she is a member of the adjunct faculty at Roger Williams University. She was a 2002 Loeb Fellowship, a HUD Community Builder Fellow and Executive Director of the Capitol Hill Improvement Corporation in Albany NY. Ms. Dorgan is active in local and national volunteer groups and is a frequent speaker, university instructor and writer on issues of design and community renewal. She is a member of the Design School at Harvard’s Alumni Council and the UMASS Architecture + Design Advisory Council.