ISSUE 04 I SUMMER 2017

HSANEWSDRURY ARCHITECTURE 2017

HIGHLIGHTS

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FACULTY NEWS

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STUDENT WORK

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ALUMNI UPDATES

DEAN'SGREETING

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Greetings HSA alumni and friends! We

hope you will enjoy this fifth appearance

of HSAnews. The extended size of

the issue reflects its importance in

connecting an alumni community that

now stretches from Springfield across

thirty-six US states and ten foreign

countries. Our current student body is also increasingly diverse in

its geographic origins, with thirteen states and sixteen countries

represented.

The HSA has always looked outward, and is still one of the only

US programs in which all graduates participate in a study-abroad

experience. This summer I was able to help celebrate that vibrant

tradition, as alumni, faculty, and administrators gathered in Aegina to

mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Drury Center in Greece, as well

as the twenty years that have passed since now-emeritus faculty

member Alkis Tsolakis led our first semester-long Greek experience

in Volos. Students have also spent semesters in Denmark, Spain,

and Italy, and countless shorter-term summer trips have also helped

open our eyes to the world.

We also enjoy increasing connections with Chinese schools and

businesses. Founding Director Jay Garrott began a relationship with

Tsinghua University in 2000, taking multiple groups of students to

teach in that school’s English Summer Program. He also spent the

spring 2012 semester at Tsinghua teaching and conducting research

on Beijing’s traditional hutong courtyard-based urban developments.

More recently, collaborations with Chinese practices ARTS Group

and Jianxue Architecture have supported internships and travel for

twenty-two students in four years. These connections have been

facilitated by HSA Architect-in-Residence Yong Huang, who also

teaches at China Academy of Art and leads his own design research

studio based in Hangzhou.

As always, our commitment to international experience is balanced

by intensive investigations of local and regional design challenges,

led by our Center for Community Studies, which has now served over

fifty communities throughout the region. This investment in our own

place is a product of our exposure to other places and cultures as

well as our foundation in the liberal arts and in applied critical and

creative thinking. You’ll see direct evidence of this among the many

exemplary student projects published here.

ROBERT WEDDLE

VIRTUAL REALITY RESEARCH PROJECT

Associate Professor David Beach, along

with HSA alumni Alaa AlRadwan ’15

(former Research Associate with the

MIT SENSEable City Lab) and Brian

Vanne ’16 (HSA Design Fabrication

Coordinator), and Dr. Jessica Snyder of

NASA, are working on a Virtual Reality

project designed to decrease pediatric

patients’ anxiety during hospitalization

for sickle cell pain crisis through the

digital construction of stimulus rich

virtual reality environments. The project

is being developed as a collaborative

effort between the research team

established by Alaa and Drury

University, with students and faculty

from HSA designing the immersive

experiences in VR. The goal of the

project is to assess the effectiveness of

virtual reality experiences as compared

to other activity options for the patient.

Virtual reality is offered as a tool to

complement the child’s therapy and

quantitatively assess its ability to

decrease anxiety using physiological

measurements captured using sensors

in real-time during the study.

DEAN’S VISIT TO CHINA

Professor and Dean Dr. Robert Weddle was invited to China

in early April to represent Drury’s architecture program at

the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, during an exhibition

and symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of the

CAA’s School of Architecture and of the school’s Xiangshang

campus, designed by CAA architecture Dean and Pritzker

Prize winner Wang Shu and his partner and wife Lu Wenyu.

Dean Weddle spoke in the symposium entitled “Return to

Reality: Architectural Education Leadership Forum,” sharing

Drury’s liberal-arts based model with assembled deans and

directors from around the world. Along with Drury, North

American schools represented were MIT, Penn, Cornell, and

RISD. The visit also included a critique of student work from

the studio of Drury Architect-in-Residence Yong Huang,

who was teaching at CAA during the spring. In addition to

the CAA events, Dean Weddle met in Beijing with leaders of

the Chinese architectural and engineering practice Jianxue,

who this year have hosted HSA interns in their Shanghai and

Hangzhou offices, and have generously sponsored our fifth-

year MARC 520 research studios.

SPACE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMPASSION

As part of the Global Studio course, HSA students studying with Adjunct Instructor

Eleni Katsoufi at the Drury Center in Greece during Spring 2017 critically engaged

the role of architecture and urban design in the improvement of public health.

Researching and working with sites in rapidly changing areas of central Athens,

the students proposed projects that addressed the improvement of urban public

space while introducing a Health Center to the area. The proposals were included

in the exhibition Space and the Architecture of Compassion that took place in the

Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation in Athens in June 2017. Other projects included in

the exhibition were realized by student teams from Coventry University, Neapolis

University, the University of Nicosia, and the Athens and Patras Schools of

Architecture, as well as by recent graduates from Schools of Architecture in Cyprus

and Greece, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Harvard GSD, the Politecnico

di Milano, and the University of Kent. The exhibition was organized and curated in

association with Compassion, a not-for profit volunteer association that undertakes

actions in Cyprus, Germany and Greece, attempting to define issues of health care

spaces, pain and disease in contexts of socio-urban crisis.

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LIFE INTERRUPTED: ART FOR

SOCIAL CHANGE

The art and work of Professor Nancy

Chikaraishi was the subject and inspi-

ration for “Life Interrupted: Art for So-

cial Change”, a week-long February 2017

multi-disciplinary project that brought

together the Arts, Architecture, Hu-

manities, History and Political Science

departments at Drury; local community

leaders; and the CORE Performance

Company of Atlanta and Houston. The

subject of “Life Interrupted”, the WWII

Japanese-American Internment Camps

in Arkansas, originally part of an earlier

project by Chikaraishi, was expanded,

re-worked, re-presented and debated.

The aim was to bring about awareness

and knowledge of the history of the

Camps, and discuss how similar issues

of racial prejudice, discrimination,

immigration, civil rights violations and

xenophobia are still present, with their

critical study as pertinent today as it

has ever been. Events included a dance

performance and workshop by the

CORE Performance Company at Drury’s

campus, roundtable and panel discus-

sions, and an interactive art installation

and exhibition by Chikaraishi at Drury’s

C-Street Gallery.

IM/PERMANENCE LECTURE SERIES

The 2016-17 HSA Lecture Series, organized by Professor Dr. Saundra Weddle,

explored the theme of permanence and impermanence in architecture, as described

in the series statement:

At least since Vitruvius identified firmitas as one of architecture’s essential qualities,

architects, historians, theorists, and critics have assessed buildings based, at least

in part, on their durability. Today, however, the value and significance of permanence

are contested. In a cultural context that increasingly favors mobility and flux, are

we witnessing the emergence of a paradigm that favors impermanence? How can

architecture and cities reflect and respond to this shift, while remaining meaningful

for generations to come?

Lecturers presenting their work under this theme included Felipe Vera from the

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago, Chile), Peter Kimelman of Flux Foundation

(San Francisco, CA), Frank Jacobus and Marc Manack of SILO AR+D (Fayetteville,

AR), David J. Lewis of LTL Architects (New York, NY), Niall Atkinson from the

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) and Gena Wirth of SCAPE (New York, NY). The

series’ final two speakers, part of the Librarium series of events and jurors of the

prizes (see p.10), were Josh Harrold of BNIM (Kansas City, MO) and Billie Faircloth of

KieranTimberlake (Philadelphia, PA).

NEW HSA STAFF

Casey Dye and Brian Vanne ’16

joined the HSA staff in the late fall

of 2016. Casey Dye is the School’s

Administrative Assistant, helping to

run the office and market the program.

Casey spent her high school years in

Gardner, Kansas before heading to

Lawrence to study at the University

of Kansas where she graduated

with a degree in Design (emphasis

in Illustration and Animation) and a

Business minor. Her design interests

revolve primarily around storytelling,

whether it’s through illustrating a

fictional story or developing a brand’s

character. Brian Vanne is the School’s

Design Fabrication Coordinator,

overseeing fabrication machinery

as well as software and related

processes involved with operation and

implementation. A Missouri native,

Brian grew up in Mountain Grove, and

graduated from Drury in 2016 with a

Master in Architecture and a Bachelor

of Arts in Fine Arts (Painting). His

professional interests currently focus

on the intersection of digital tools and

implementation, manifesting in work

related to CAD/CAM methodology,

VR technology, and small-scale art

installations.

THE DRURY CENTER IN GREECE @ 15

The Drury Center in Greece (DCG) celebrated its 15th anniversary in July. Alumni

initially joined HSA Professor Emeritus and founding DCG Director Alkis Tsolakis for

a week of site visits in Athens as well as in Volos, where the DCG was based from

2002 to 2011. For the main event on the island of Aegina, home of the DCG since

2011, Drury President Dr. Tim Cloyd and Mrs. Cloyd joined HSA Dean Dr. Robert

Weddle and other Drury faculty and members of the local Drury community in

celebrating the history and continued success of the program. On the sidelines of

the event, DCG Director Eleni Dellagrammaticas and HSA Associate Professor and

former DCG Director Dr. Panos Leventis led a steering committee meeting where

local instructors and current and former faculty and staff of the program had the

chance to discuss with the President the role of the DCG within the University, and

ponder opportunities and ideas for its growth. Since 2002, nearly 1000 students

have participated in semester and short-term programs at the DCG. The semester-

long studies program in Aegina remains a fixture of the HSA educational experience,

emphasizing cultural and community engagement through both curricular and co-

curricular programs and activities.

ARE WE WITNESSING THE EMER-GENCE OF A PARADIGM THAT FAVORS IMPERMANENCE?

D R U R Y A R C H I T E C T U R EBrollyflock!, FLUX Foundation 2011. Photo by Jess Hobbs.

Zoa, FLUX Foundation 2012. Photo by Sidney Erthal.

Poster Design by Frank Norton.

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Felipe VeraUniversidad Adolfo IbáñezSantiago, Chile

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Josh Harrold ’02BNIMKansas City, Missouri[4:00 P.M.]

Billie FairclothKieranTimberlakePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania[1:00 P.M.]

At least since Vitruvius identified firmitas as one of architecture’s essential qualities, architects, historians, theorists, and critics have assessed buildings based, at least in part, on their durability. Today, however, the value and significance of permanence are contested. In a cultural context that increasingly favors mobility and flux, are we witnessing the emergence of a paradigm that favors impermanence? How can architecture and cities reflect and respond to this shift, while remaining meaningful for generations to come?

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David J. LewisLTL ArchitectsNew York, New York

Niall AtkinsonUniversity of ChicagoChicago, Illinois

Gena WirthSCAPENew York, New York

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FACULTYNEWSFollowing a national search, the National Architectural

Accrediting Board (NAAB) has selected HSA Professor

Emeritus and former Director Michael J. Buono FAIA

to serve as an Evaluator for the Education Evaluation

Service for Architects (EESA). Evaluators complete an

independent, objective evaluation of an individual’s

education credentials against the NCARB Education

Standard in order to determine whether he/she meets

the education requirement for an NCARB Certificate

or registration in a U.S. Jurisdiction. Occasionally

evaluators are asked to recommend policy changes

for EESA, to contribute to the NCARB Education

Committee’s deliberations on matters related to

the NCARB education requirement, or to contribute

to the ongoing dialogue within the NAAB regarding

continuous improvement to EESA processes.

In fall 2016, Professor Dr. Saundra Weddle collaborated

with co-editor AnnMarie Brennan (Melbourne School

of Design) to produce a special issue of the Journal of

Architectural Education, a peer-reviewed publication of

the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

The published articles focused on topics related to

architecture as a key actor in creating social and

political change. This academic year also saw the

publication of two articles on Weddle’s research of

Venetian convent architecture: “Domus Humilis: The

Conversion of Venetian Convent Architecture and

Identity,” in Conversions: Gender and religious change

in early modern Europe (eds. Helen Smith and Simon

Ditchfield, University of Manchester Press), and “’Tis

Better to Give than to Receive: Client-Patronage

Exchange and its Architectural Implications at

Florentine Convents,” in Studies on Florence and the

Italian Renaissance in Honour of F. W. Kent (eds. Cecilia

Hewlett and Peter Howard, Brepols).

Associate Professor and Associate Dean Dr. Karen Spence published the book chapter “Presence and

Absence” in Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay

Jones and his Architecture, edited by Jeff Shannon

(University of Arkansas Press, 2017). “Presence and

Absence” offers a phenomenological interpretation of

Jones’ Thorncrown and Cooper Chapels: Heidegger’s

phenomenology describes a thing as “present”

because it creates a new insight, showing something

familiar in an unfamiliar way; simultaneously, a thing

is “absent” when it disappears into its utilitarian

role. Jones’ chapels demonstrate these qualities, as

their structures awaken associations to histories and

contexts while quietly attending to functions. Other

authors in Shadow Patterns include Robert Ivy, Robert

McCarter and Juhani Pallasmaa.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office

issued a second patent to Assistant Professor Gerard Nadeau (# US 9,546,478) on January 17th, 2017. The

new patent is a continuation of the previous one (# US

8,833,000) named “Continuous Tension, Discontinuous

Compression Systems and Methods.” Nadeau’s work

continues to focus on form-finding methodologies

in design, and especially on the development of

types of self-supporting lattice structures known

as “tensegrity” structures. The new patent includes

small changes to the language of the original one,

significantly enlarging the range of similar structures

covered by the joint patents.

MARSHALL ARNE

Associate Professor Marshall Arne

has been working on a design for

a neighborhood Bocce Ball court

behind the Cherry Picker cafe, on

the corner of Pickwick and Cherry

Streets in Springfield’s Rountree

neighborhood. Arne, along with HSA

Dean Dr. Robert Weddle and Drury

Professor Dr. Jeff Vandenberg, met

in early 2016 with Tom Billionis,

then the owner of Cherry Picker,

about creating the Bocce court.

When Billionis tragically passed

away in the summer of 2016, the

project became more of a memorial

for Billionis and his legacy of

urban rejuvenation. Working with

Josh Widner, Billionis’ partner

at Cherry Picker, and Michelle

Billionis, Arne completed the design

and construction documents.

It is planned for the court to be

inaugurated before the end of 2017.

BRUCE MOORE

Professor and former HSA Associate

Director Bruce Moore continues

to provide regular acoustic

consultation and forensic code and

standard consultation, working

with local and regional firms. Moore

has most recently been acoustical

consultant on two projects with

Dake Wells Architecture, Reeds

Spring Middle School and Carrie’s

Café in Pummill Hall at Missouri

State University. Moore is currently

on the design team for a major

redesign and sanctuary addition

to Northside Christian Church with

Hood Rich Architects.

KEITH HEDGES

Associate Professor Keith Hedges is the editor-in-chief of the new 688-page

student edition of Architectural Graphic Standards (12th Edition), published by

John Wiley in April 2017. The student edition of AGS condenses information from

the professional edition, which has sold over a million copies since its first release

in 1932, in order to provide students with a powerful learning resource. Covering

design and documentation for a variety of projects, AGS offers extensive visuals and

expert discussion to prepare students for work in a modern professional practice.

This updated edition provides the latest information on significant architectural

developments and movements, and offers detailed coverage of sustainability,

economy and technology, alongside current building standards and best practices.

The companion website includes instructional material such as sample curricula,

student exercises, and classroom projects which Hedges developed.

YONG HUANG

HSA Architect-in-Residence Yong Huang, along with design assistants Chenglang

Xia, Sunny Hu and Adam Brillhart, designed the Experience Mathematics Center

of Su Buqing, an interactive learning and exhibition center that celebrates the

research of a distinguished 20th century mathematician and educator. The building

is located in Su Buqing’s hometown in historic Pingyang County of Zhejiang

Province in southern China. In a crop field at the entrance to the town’s main

street, the building is surrounded by layers of mountains. Situated between the

edge of the town and the rural landscape, the building is designed as a cluster of

small houses, mediating the scales of the town and the mountains. The structural

form is generated by a series of parabolic and hyperbolic shapes, which manifest

Su Buqing’s main contribution to mathematics – the conic curves and affine

differential geometry. The goal is for the dynamic spatial experience of the building

to dramatically enhance visitor interaction with the exhibition, and promote the

culture of mathematics research and education.

PANOS LEVENTIS

Associate Professor and International

Studies Coordinator Dr. Panos Leventis

continued his work on contemporary

urban issues in the context of multiple

crises with two publications: For the

review titled “Learning from Athens:

Austerity and Crisis Urbanism(s)”

published in the Journal of

Architectural Education in August 2016,

Leventis reviewed three edited volumes

on the so-called financial crisis ripping

apart the social and urban fabric of not

only Athens but of a number of cities

around Europe and beyond. In January

2017, his chapter titled “Dead ends and

urban insignias: Writing street art (hi)-

stories along the U.N. buffer zone in

Nicosia”, dealing with an urban context

ravaged by war and governed by forced

spatial divisions, was published in the

volume Graffiti and Street Art: Reading,

Writing and Representing the City,

edited by Konstaninos Avramidis and

Myrto Tsilimpounidi and published by

Routledge.

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Professor and Director of the HSA Design-Build

Program Traci Sooter is now a regular contributor to

The Nature of Cities (TNOC), an online interdisciplinary

platform that aims to share diverse and transformative

ideas about cities as ecosystems of people, nature, and

infrastructure, working as/for “many voices, greener

cities, better cities.” Sooter’s latest contribution to

TNOC was titled “Response and Recovery After the

Deadliest United States Tornado in a Century” and

described the aftermath, organization, and design

response to the May 22nd, 2011 tornado catastrophe in

Joplin, Missouri.

In May 2017 Professor and Dean Dr. Robert Weddle

appeared on the Ozarks Public Television program

“Sense of Community,” participating in a round table

discussion on the importance of innovation for the

Springfield community and region. Dean Weddle

discussed the vital role of the HSA and the ways

architecture education can provide a model for

fostering and teaching innovation.

Associate Professor and International Studies

Coordinator Dr. Panos Leventis continued his research

on medieval and renaissance urbanism in Famagusta,

Cyprus, with a public lecture titled “Medieval and

Renaissance Famagusta: Place, Architecture and Urban

Experience” given at the Cultural Center of the Embassy

of Cyprus in Athens in October 2016, and a paper titled

“Revisiting Multiplicity: Famagusta and Late Medieval

Urban Models in the Eastern Mediterranean” given at

the conference “Melusine of Cyprus.” Studies in Honor

of Annemarie Weyl Carr in May 2017. Additionally, a

chapter titled “Fragmentation and Unity: Episodes in

the Urban Topography of Famagusta” is included in a

book on the medieval and renaissance history of the city

to be released by Brepols.

Professor, former HSA Director, and HSA Center for

Community Studies Director Jay Garrott gave the

case-study presentation “The Kitchen Inc. Campus

Redevelopment: A Public-Private Partnership in

Community Planning” at the 2017 joint conference

of the Community Development Society (CDS) and

the National Association of Community Development

Extension Professionals (NACDEP), which took place

from June 11-14 in Big Sky, Montana. The presentation

displayed the design process and results of the

Spring 2016 Community Studio project, undertaken

at the request of The Kitchen Inc., for the redesign

of a 3.5-acre site at the Commercial Street Historic

District of Springfield, MO, a property containing 8

historically diverse structures. The presentation was

co-authored by HSA Center for Community Studies

collaborator Jeff Barber.

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SAUNDRA WEDDLE

In spring 2017, Professor Dr. Saundra Weddle enjoyed a part-time appointment

as Visiting Professor in the Sam Fox School of Visual Arts & Design at

Washington University in Saint Louis. In collaboration with Daniel Bornstein,

Professor of History and Religious Studies and Stella K. Darrow, Professor

of Catholic Studies, she is the recipient of a grant from the Andrew Mellon

Foundation for a project entitled Technologies of Segregation in Italian

Renaissance Cities, in association with WUSTL’s Divided City Initiative. The

project focuses on the cities of Cortona and Venice, whose differences of

geography, history, and scale offer revealing test cases for how the natural and

built environment reflected and shaped social differentiation in pre-modern

Italian cities. For Venice, Weddle will demonstrate how legal and administrative

systems of social segregation responded to perceived threats to the desired

equilibrium and found expression in architectural and urban forms. Institutional

examples include the Jewish ghetto; dedicated living and storage spaces for

foreign merchants; the public brothel; hospices for laywomen; and hospitals.

These will inform a particular focus on the forced confinement of upper-class

women in convents, with attention on specific technologies of segregation:

patterns of convent foundation and development, conventions of building

form and function, patronage networks, and the influence exerted by civic and

religious authorities. The project will involve two symposia at WUSTL during

the 2017-18 academic year, bringing together American, Italian, and Canadian

scholars to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with emerging

technologies in relation to themes of identity and urban space.

MAURIZIO SABINI

Professor and former Director Dr. Maurizio Sabini is the editor of The Plan Journal

(TPJ), a new publication that intends to disseminate and promote innovative,

thought-provoking and relevant research, studies and criticism in architecture,

design and urbanism, with contributions selected on innovation, clarity of purpose

and method, and potential transformational impact on disciplinary fields or the

broader socio-cultural context. The ultimate purpose of the TPJ is to enrich the

dialog between research and professional fields, in order to encourage both

applicable new knowledge and intellectually driven modes of practice.

The first themed issue of the TPJ, “Design for Social Impact”, offers an opportunity

for reflection on what has already become a fundamental and integral aspect of

our practice and research. Sabini hopes that this issue of TPJ can help readers

appreciate how architectural and urban design intelligence, if properly stretched,

can still make a difference in the world.

ALKIS TSOLAKIS

Professor Emeritus Alkis Tsolakis, currently Dean of the College of Art and Design

at Louisiana State University, was selected for induction into the French Republic’s

prestigious Ordre des Palmes Academiques, an award that recognizes both

foreigners and French citizens living abroad who promote French education and

culture. The Order of the French Academic Palms was founded by Napoleon in 1808

to honor educators and is the oldest non-military decoration of the French Republic.

Awarded by the Prime Minister of France upon the recommendation of the Minister

of Education to outstanding members of the university community, induction in the

Order recognizes the significant contributions of teachers through their teaching,

scholarship and leadership over the course of their careers.

KAREN SPENCE

Associate Professor and Associate

Dean Dr. Karen Spence published the

book A Primer on Theory in Architecture

(Routledge, 2017). Spence believes that

many books on theory in architecture

assume a basic understanding of

the subject—yet this assumption

diminishes the power and use of theory

by both students and professionals.

A Primer on Theory in Architecture

addresses this by focusing on a

primary explanation of what theory

is and how it operates. By defining

theory and examining how it relates

to other subjects such as history,

design and criticism, these areas and

the connections between them gain

clarity. The book explores the influence

of different viewpoints, thus aiding in

developing a greater transparency of

these works. Examples from well-known

sources demonstrate the discussion,

allowing readers to understand how to

recognize the elements, characteristics

and views within the writings.

GERARD NADEAU

Assistant Professor Gerard Nadeau was a recipient of this year’s Creative

Achievement Award at the 2017 Conference of the Association of Collegiate

School of Architecture (ACSA) in Detroit, Michigan. Nadeau received this award

for the collaborative “Art of Space” project that he initiated and spearheaded

during his years at HSA. The ACSA Creative Achievement Award recognizes

“a specific creative achievement in teaching, design, scholarship, research or

service that advances architectural education”. The other two recipients of

2017 ACSA Creative Achievement Awards were Lydia Kallipoliti of Rensselaer

Polytechnic and Alexander Eisenschmidt of U. of Illinois Chicago.

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BRANDON ROELLIG Librarium Winner: Top Thesis Project

“Reclaiming Place: Architectural Translations of Identity” | Klaksvík, Faroe Islands

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521: Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017

Saundra Weddle, Seminar Instructor | Panos Leventis, Studio Instructor

STUDENTWORK

The HSA’s annual Librarium Exhibition

and Award event was first held at

the end of the 2003-2004 academic

year. Studio faculty nominate student

projects for an end-of-year exhibition

of exemplary student work. A jury

consisting of a distinguished HSA

alumna or alumnus, as well as a

celebrated outside professional or

academic, assesses the work over the

last two days of the spring semester.

Initially, one winning project was

selected from across the final three

years of the program and announced

following a public lecture on the

final day of the academic year. In

recent years, the Librarium awards

program has been expanded to include

recognitions for the most distinguished

5th-year Thesis Project, 4th-year

Comprehensive Studio Project, and

a third project drawn from a group of

at-large entries. Winning students

are awarded gift certificates from

William Stout Architectural Books in

San Francisco, evidencing the faculty’s

continuing belief in the importance

of professional libraries for students

and emerging practitioners. This year,

the Librarium events were held on May

4th and 5th, with the jury consisting

of Billie Faircloth of KieranTimberlake

(Philadelphia, PA) and Josh Harrold ’02

of BNIM (Kansas City, MO).

In an era of global homogenization, meaningful places of exchange that communicate history and daily

rituals must be established to maintain the relationship between culture, place, and geography. Wishing

to evidence that cultural identity is generated from the physical setting, activities, and meanings that

characterize place, this project proposes an interactive historical archive and performance space in the

seafront core of Klaksvík, with auxiliary docks for cultural activities along the urban waterfront.

GARRETT GRELLE Librarium Winner: Top At-Large Project

“Art Vessel” | Venice, Italy ARCH 418: Architectural Design VII

(Urban Context), Fall 2016

Robert Weddle, Studio Instructor

The longevity of buildings implies permanence,

and completed buildings are often understood and

experienced as immutable realities. The goal of

this project is to instead present the transience

of buildings by proposing a floating pavilion to

host installations for the Venice Biennale. The

pavilion moves from the apparently solid and

permanent to the unstable and temporary. It is

entered on floating trays of broken material, and is

constructed with an external frame of paper tubes

and a translucent paper skin.

COLE ROBERTS Librarium Winner: Top Comprehensive Studio Project

“Drury University Teaching Theater” | Springfield, Missouri

MARC 519: Architectural Design VIII (Comprehensive Studio), Spring 2017

Bruce Moore, Studio Instructor

This proposal arranges the programmatic requirements into three major components and organizes them on a linear circulation and composition that allows for

optimal campus accessibility and connectivity. The building seeks to provide functionality and ease for campus users during the day, while, during evening events

and productions, the visitors experience a multi-sensory interaction with form, light, texture and space.

LIBRARIUM AWARDS

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QUOC HUYNH

“Under the Shadow” | Berlin, Germany | Honorable Mention Archasm Competition “Schools Without Classrooms” | 2017 Team: Quoc Huynh, Huy Pham HSA student Quoc Huynh collaborated with a friend on Archasm’s “Schools

Without Classrooms” competition that run from April to June 2017.

Archasm is a website devoted to sponsoring and publishing the results

of international architectural competitions. The projects were to be sited

at Berlin’s Tempelhof Feld on an area of 9840 square meters, of which

a maximum 8000 square meters could be built. Entrants were asked to

ponder an age where learning was “not systemized, but optimized,” to

reconsider the type of schooling environments, and to more meaningfully

incorporate environment and landscape into this new type. Quoc’s entry,

centered on modular designs inspired by nature while using contemporary

science and technology, was awarded an Honorable Mention out of a total

of 406 international entries. Three projects were awarded top prizes and 10

were awarded honorable mentions.

ACCOLADES

ABIGAEL WELLER “Manifest: Community Organization” | Milwaukee,

Wisconsin

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521:

Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017

Saundra Weddle, Seminar Instructor | Panos

Leventis, Studio Instructor

This proposal serves as a design example of

organizational cycles within racially and socially

segregated cities. The program includes meeting

spaces, learning labs, galleries, green spaces

and a transit hub to provide opportunities

for both individuals and collectives to reflect,

research, recruit, act and react to sociopolitical

injustices. The main programmatic elements are

arranged along a meandering pedestrian corridor,

encouraging the public to engage with the social

and constructed context.

J.R. MCCLELLAND “Usono Tower” | Belleview, Washington | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 520: Architectural Design IX (Exploration), Fall 2016

Marshall Arne, Studio Instructor

The proposal for Usono Tower is an interpretation of a farming community vertically allocated to a single

building in a suburban neighborhood of Bellevue. The highrise building creates less of an impact on the

surrounding context by being an arrangement of residential units with adjacent hydroponic agriculture.

Units are vertically inter-connected via a network of retail and green spaces.

ETHAN KAPLAN “Philoxenia II: Refugee Housing at the Athens Central Train Station” | Athens, Greece |

Librarium-nominated project

ARCH 418: Architectural Design VII (Urban Context), Fall 2016

Panos Leventis, Studio Instructor

While accommodating close to 1,000 refugees, this proposal investigates a new form of urban

infrastructure in a hybrid, multi-use linear design. Rather than interfacing with the city at functional

points, the design offers an integrated model, one that includes rail depots and cargo storage. Further

investigating the idea of architecture as topography, the design ponders possibilities for configuring new

types of infrastructure in dense urban environments.

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BRANDON BISKUP “Remembrance Garden, Hazelwood Cemetery

Visioning Project” | Springfield, Missouri

ARCH 417: Architectural Design VI (Community

Studies), Spring 2017

Jay Garrott, Studio Instructor

Part of a comprehensive group study of

Springfield’s Hazelwood Cemetery, the proposed

Remembrance Garden removes the public-works

facilities currently located along the cemetery’s

western edge, replacing these disruptive

functions with dignified spaces dedicated to

tranquil reflection. The new area would house a

military memorial, scatter garden, columbarium,

and covered pavilion.

COLLIN TUCKER “Biennial Exhibition and Pedestrian Bridge" |

Chicago, Illinois | Librarium-nominated project

ARCH 315: Architectural Design V (Synthesis),

Fall 2016

Maurizio Sabini, Studio Instructor

A vertical expression of the programmatic

separation guides the design of this proposal,

which, rather than imposing on the site, extends

the topography over much of the building. The

exhibition spaces are organized at the upper level,

above ground, over slender supporting columns.

Two open courtyards allow secondary access,

give light to the lower/underground program, and

lead to the library and cafeteria. The pedestrian

bridge arches across the freeway and connects

the project to the city.

LI LI LIU “Exploring the Past to Envision the Future” |

Beijing, China

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521:

Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017

Maurizio Sabini, Seminar and Studio Instructor

This project approaches Chinese heritage and

interprets traditional architecture by offering

new definitions and possibilities to the concepts

of locality and preservation. A hybrid library

and cultural center is inserted in the fabric

of central Beijing. While the design approach

looks to the future of media and information

centers, typological and structural references

to the region’s cultural and built heritage are

emphasized and maintained.

BLAKE MOONEY “Flood-Resilient Housing” | multiple locations,

Louisiana | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521:

Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017

Maurizio Sabini, Seminar and Studio Instructor

This project proposes various designs and

typologies of flood-resilient housing for Louisiana

areas that are susceptible to flooding. As flat,

low-lying topographies riddled with waterways

are highly prone to flooding, and weather patterns

such as hurricanes and heavy rainfall intensify

flood phenomena, the proposals address needs

of varying size and specificities based on existing

local typologies and regional inhabitation

models.types of infrastructure in dense urban

environments.

MEAGAN LEY “School for Sculpture” | Chicago, Illinois | Librarium-nominated project

ARCH 315: Architectural Design V (Synthesis), Fall 2016

David Beach, Studio Instructor

Housing two educators, their art studio, and classrooms, School for Sculpture, at Lake Shore Park in Chicago, blends art with park.

Blade wall structural frames define the building’s and outdoor sculpture gallery’s spaces and functions. Translucent panels move

to diffuse direct sunlight and views in while ever-changing the façade’s profile, but when shading or privacy is nonessential, panels

can be arranged for one’s own architectural expression.types of infrastructure in dense urban environments.

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MICAELA LOPEZ “School for Sculpture” | Chicago, Illinois |

Librarium-nominated project

ARCH 315: Architectural Design V (Synthesis),

Fall 2016

David Beach, Studio Instructor

Located in Lake Shore Park, the sculpture school

and park culturally and recreationally enriches

this already active community hub. By emerging

from the land and connecting to the Lake Shore

Trail, the horizontal edge it creates contrasts

with the vertical urban landscape and becomes a

lakeshore landmark for both the area locally and

the Chicago urban region.

BRYAN WILLIAMS “Drury University Teaching Theater” | Springfield, Missouri | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 519: Architectural Design VIII (Comprehensive Studio), Spring 2017

Bruce Moore, Studio Instructor

A new performing arts center on a liberal arts campus warrants numerous opportunities. This design proposes new formal and visual identities for the Drury

community. Simultaneously, reaching beyond its primary functions via physical, volumetric and programmatic connections, the building serves the broader,

regional community with evening and weekend events.

COLTON CONNOR “Drury University Teaching Theater” | Springfield,

Missouri | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 519: Architectural Design VIII

(Comprehensive Studio), Spring 2017

Traci Sooter, Studio Instructor

Identifying various groups of users from both the

Drury community and the city, the building and

the site were designed as per the Vision 2020

plans to expand the Jordan River valley into and

though the southeast corner of campus. The

project thus connects to the expanded park,

while simultaneously maintaining direct access

to the university and Drury Lane. The indoor

formal theater, classrooms and support spaces,

and the proposed outdoor entertainment space,

thus become part of a unified academic/urban

narrative.

VICTORIA ZIEGLER “Occupy 2020: Support for Social Reform” |

Washington, DC | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521:

Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017

Saundra Weddle, Seminar Instructor | Maurizio

Sabini, Studio Instructor

This project proposes a hub for a number of

Occupy platforms. Acting as a support system

for present and future protest, the hub provides

necessary programmatic spaces for the

movements to better communicate their agenda,

to expand and to grow. Within today's socio-

politically charged atmosphere, the proposal

allows for users to better organize their struggle

and mobilize support for urban and social change.

SARAH WATTS “Detoxing the Machine: Bronx Transfer Station” | New York, New York | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 520: Architectural Design IX (Exploration), Fall 2016

Yong Huang, Studio Instructor

This proposal for the Bronx Metropolitan Transfer Station hopes to inspire an awareness of the

environmental and psychological toxins humans dwell in, including but not limited to chemical

alterations and exposure, contaminations, depression, emotional trauma and self-doubt. On an 80 x 100

foot site, the project houses and uses the process of phytomediation – a natural process of absorbing

toxic metals from contaminated soil into the leaves of a hyperaccumulator plant – to achieve its goals.

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ALUMNIUPDATESJason Dale Pierce ’00 accepted a new position as Architectural Discipline Director at Jacobs in St. Louis, following a 10-year tenure at HOK. Jay Reeves ’00 is now an Architect on the staff of St Louis based architecture and design firm SPACE, following his tenure as Director of Design at Bond Architects, also in St Louis. Ryan King ’01 is now Regional Director for the St Louis offices of BSA LifeStructures. Ryan has been with BSA LifeStructures since 2011, initially as Project Architect, and later as Director of Architecture. Jody Adoo ’03, along with his decade-long tenure at Ellerbe Becket (as of 2009 part of the AECOM group) in Washington DC, has also become the CEO of OSINI in his home country of Ghana. John D’Agostino ’03 is now Associate Principal at Davies Collaborative in the greater St Louis area. John has been part of Davies Collaborative since 2014. Daniel Madryga ’05 was Associate Editor of 2015 Competitions Annual, published in 2016 by The Competition Project. Sarah (Barb) Joos ’06 accepted a new position as Architect at CORE Construction. CORE maintains 14 regional offices in seven states, and Sarah is based in their Molton, Illinois office. Lalima Chemjong ’07 accepted a new position as Architectural Designer at CannonDesign in St Louis, Missouri. Craig Culbertson ’08 is now Base Operating Support Program Manager at Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Rohit Handa ’10 accepted a new position at Holo-Blok Architecture & Planning in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Kuleya Bruce ’11 is back in Springfield, working at Buddy Webb & Company. Daniel Renner ’11 accepted a new position as Architect with Olson Kundig in Seattle, Washington. Devon Sides ’12 is now Project Architect at Core States Group in Rogers, Arkansas. Chris Schupp ’13 is now designer at NSPJ Architects in Prairie Village, Kansas. Paden Chambers ’14 of nForm Architecture gave a lecture titled Bissman’s Springfield: A Study of Precedent and Place at the Springfield Art Museum, inaugurating the Bissman Homes Tour benefiting the restoration of the Maple Park Gazebo in Springfield. Alaa AlRadwan ’15 accepted a new position as Architect at Aghanim Industries in Kuwait City, Kuwait, following a two-year tenure as Research Fellow at MIT. Bader AlShawaf ’15 is now Architect at AGi Architects in Kuwait City, Kuwait, following an intership at BDP Design Partnership in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Mikhail (Misha) Digman ’15 accepted a new position at Trivers Associates in St Louis.

D E S I G N S T U D I O R E V I E W E R S

Many thanks to the following alumni, their employers, and other professionals who participated in design studio reviews and various educational activities at HSA during the 2016-17 academic year:

Bates & Associates (Springfield, MO)Rich Conyers ’15

Butler, Rosenbury & Partners (Springfield, MO)Laura Daughtry ’02Nate Hay ’13Layne Hunton ’12Chris Swan ’98

Buxton, Kubik and Dodd (Springfield, MO)John Luce ’95Jon Nuessle ’15

Casey (Springfield, MO)Ben Hall ’12

Dake Wells (Springfield, MO)Shane Algiere ’10Cara Collins ’12Kirk Dillon ’10Jason Hainline ’97Bethany Henry ’08Matt Thornton ’04Andrew Wells ’91Amy (Ehlers) Wiley ’09

[Freelance]Drew Kemp-Baird ’14

Hood Rich (Springfield, MO)Nick Beishir ’13Billy Kimmons ’99

Jacobs Engineering (St Louis, MO)Laura (Gaska) Vierrether ’11

Missouri State University – Planning, Design, and Construction (Springfield, MO)Mark Wheeler ’01

nForm (Springfield, MO)Paden Chambers ’14Danielle Clay ’12Stephanie Shadwick ’05Travis Tindall ’06

Paragon (Springfield, MO)Nathan Burkholder ’14Brad ErwinAlex Mosby ’12Josh Warren ’15Kirsten Whitehead ’14

Sapp Design (Springfield, MO)Kristi Beattie ’04Devon Burke ’13Julia Hartman ’16 (now with DRAW, Kansas City, MO)Brandon White ’16

SFS (Kansas City, MO)Shane Fowler ’07

Tarlton (St Louis, MO)Micah Gray ’12

V Three Studios (St Louis, MO)Luke Pulliam ’07

HSA’s biennial recognition of exemplary design work resulted in five winning projects out

of over twenty submitted. Projects were juried in March at the offices of Wheeler Kearns

Architects in Chicago. Head juror Dan Wheeler, FAIA was assisted by Patricia Saldaña Natke,

AIA (UrbanWorks, Ltd.) and Andrew Metter, FAIA (Andy Metter Studio).

2017 HSA ALUMNI DESIGN AWARDS

Merit Award “Hope Pavilion” (Wake Forest, North Carolina)

John Whitaker ’07, Design Team Member

Honor Award “Davis-Harrington Welcome Center” (Springfield,Missouri)

DAKE WELLS ARCHITECTURE Andrew Wells ’91, Lead Designer

Mark Wheeler ’01, Bethany (Kehlenbrink) Henry ’08, Cara Collins ’12, Design Team Members

Honor Award “Rudisill Multi-Use Development”

(Charlotte, North Carolina)

John Whitaker ’07, Matthew Kempf ’10, Design Team Members

Honor Award “North Transfer Station” (Seattle, Washington)

MAHLUM ARCHITECTS Luke Pulliam ’07, Lead Designer

Merit Award for Interiors “Pummill Hall” (Springfield, Missouri)

DAKE WELLS ARCHITECTURE Andrew Wells ’91, Lead Designer

Jason Hainline ’97, Amy (Ehlers) Wiley ’09, Monica Stegall ’08, Design Team Members

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BUTT JOINT GLAZIERS AND THE BJG SCHOLARSHIPBY JULIE SPENGLER ’94

In mid-August of 1989, the Nintendo Gameboy had just been

released, the Berlin Wall was about to be toppled, and a group of

60 or so college freshmen met for the first time in the basement

of the FSC Commons at Drury College. At that time, the basement

was known as the Rathskeller, and it was where first, second and

third year architecture students were given drafting desks to work

throughout the year. The fourth and fifth year students were in a

building called Harwood Hall, which was located where the Olin

Library now stands. The freshman class was a diverse group - some

were older, even married with children, some were from states and

countries far removed from the Midwest. But the bond that formed in

that musky basement - with its fireplace and conversation pit - was

oddly instantaneous. By the fall of 1990, the Hammons School of

Architecture was completed and ready for student occupation. The

bare concrete floors with ‘tombstone’ electrical outlets were a cold

change from the warm brick walls of the Rathskeller. On the first day

of classes, we found we had lost about half our number and were

down to a slim 32 students in second year studio. The professors told

us it would get even smaller.

They were right. By fourth year, the class of ’94 was down to a sparse

17. But as the class size got smaller, our group grew tighter. There

were barbecues on the roof, Wiffleball games in the auditorium, and

late night food runs to blow off steam. We would post inane topics

THE BJGS IN FLORENCE DURING THEIR STUDY

ABROAD TRAVELS (1992)

and lists on the class dry erase board, encouraging anyone to add

something funny or enlightening. Those who were stronger in design

concepts helped those who were lacking. Study groups were held

for Physics and Structures. We didn't compete with each other. We

encouraged each other. Arguments would arise now and again, but

some fresh air and a little time healed everything. We became more

like siblings than classmates. We ended up with a graduating class

of 16 students. The missing 4th year classmate was Garen Miller,

who had taken the year off to go to Washington DC and serve as

national president of the AIAS. We still claim him, even though he

graduated in 1995. While we parted ways in 1994, taking up jobs in

various cities and states, we never grew apart. The new technological

miracle of personal email enabled us to stay in touch with updates on

jobs, marriages and children. We still often travel individually to visit

each other, and try to have a group reunion every few years. Our last

reunion in 2014 was attended by 12 of the 17 of us. Plans are already

in motion for our 25th reunion in 2019.

The obvious absurdity of the name “Butt Joint Glaziers” comes from

serendipitous timing in the fall semester of our 5th year. We had a list

(on the dry erase board, of course) of possible nicknames for our class

as we found “5th Year” and “Class of 94” to be too pedestrian - we

deserved better. “Alkis and the Charrettes” was leading at the time,

with something to do with grout being a close second. We had a guest

lecturer with a topic that included indoor mall storefronts. The man

kept saying “butt joint glazing” over and over. Our nickname search

was done. We doubt that much else was learned from that lecture

other than that sophomoric term - a glazing method some of us have

actually used over the years with great success and good aesthetic

Around 1996, the idea of the scholarship was circulated in the group.

The response was enthusiastic and soon the paperwork was filed

with Drury bearing the name “BJG Scholarship” - as our actual class

name was, not surprisingly, seen as immature. We all gave what we

could during the first few years. We never pushed for donations. If one

couldn’t give for a year, or did not feel comfortable giving, somebody

else would help out. We always managed to provide something to give.

A few of us would travel to Springfield on the day of the Bug Boil and

formally present the award to the recipient. When we couldn’t make

the presentation, Bruce Moore stepped in to help - ensuring that

students were aware of the scholarship’s existence, and presenting

the award. The alumni office eventually contacted us to suggest that

we formalize the scholarship, as it seemed to have found a foothold.

They suggested we turn it into a general HSA alumni scholarship, for

all classes to donate towards. As always, The Glaziers discussed this

as a group. We felt that if Drury wanted a general HSA scholarship,

then Drury could create one on their own. There was no need to

change what we had built. This was our legacy.

During later years the scholarship was somewhat overshadowed by

other events in our lives, with donations becoming minimal as our

attentions focused on careers and families. In 2013 the alumni office

contacted us again, this time suggesting changing the scholarship to

an endowed type. As always, we discussed this as a group and agreed

to take the chance to make it endowed, understanding that this

change required significant financial commitment. We don’t know

the amounts that were individually donated to make this happen, but

it did happen, and that is what is important. Most likely some of us

donated larger amounts consistently, year after year. Certainly the

rest of us continued to donate as well, when we could. And just like

in our HSA years, we came together as a class and achieved this. We

are proud that this scholarship exists and still bears our name. It is a

living testament to the unique nature of The HSA Class of 1994 a.k.a.

The Butt Joint Glaziers.

THE BJGS DURING THEIR 15-YEAR REUNION (2009)

results. Alkis was our professor that semester and once he started

calling us “The Glaziers” - in that deep Greek tone - it was a done

deal. We officially became The Butt Joint Glaziers.

The Butt Joint Glaziers (BJG) Scholarship was started because so

many of us came from families of modest means. Studying abroad

was (and still is) a requirement in order to graduate from HSA.

We were surprised that, at that time, Drury did not have financial

assistance for a required study abroad. There were several grants for

students who elected to study abroad, but they were very specific

in nature and few, if any, applied to our needs. Many of us took out

loans and scraped money together to participate. A small group of us

discussed this issue as students, and decided that we did not want

those coming after us to have to undergo similar financial hardships

and lack of options. We agreed that once we graduated and got our

feet on the ground, we would start a scholarship dedicated solely

to HSA Study Abroad - knowing that even a marginal sum would be

helpful to future students.

THE BJGS IN THE HSA FIFTH-YEAR STUDIO (1993):

First Row L to R: Brad Place, Greg Meyer

Second Row L to R: Shelly (McDonough) Bear, Craig Aossey, Dana (Cloud) Gould

Third Row L to R: Alkis Tsolakis (sitting), Eric Shaver, Julie Spengler

Fourth Row L to R: Dave Horst (standing), Gopal Shrestha, Heather (Borgschulte)

Machicao, Jason Barnes (behind Heather Machicao), Kathy (McDonald) Shrestha

Fifth Row L to R (on the wall): Tom Carr, Jennifer (Hartwig) Hedrick, Dave

Machicao, Rod Lindsey.

*As previously noted, missing Garen Miller.

HSA CLASS OF 1994

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A DECADE OUT

SUSTAINABLE JOURNEY Since earning her Bachelor in Architecture from HSA and Drury, Amanda (Taylor) Snelson ’08 has been practicing architecture in Springfield and Los Angeles. She is a LEED BD+C Professional, and a licensed architect in Missouri and California. Amanda was initially an intern sustainability consultant for Jason Hainline at Environmental Market Solutions, and then worked at Dake Wells Architecture in Springfield for two years (2010-12), engaging in a number of projects from concept through construction. After moving to California in 2012, she worked with Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects for three and a half years. As Architect and Project Manager for a number of designs, Amanda saw projects all the way from programming to occupancy, completed her licensure and spearheaded in-house licensure support, and started a Green Team group to better steer the firm towards a bottom line of sustainability. The firm won the AIA Firm of the Year in 2015. As of June 2016, Amanda practices with ZGF Architects in Los Angeles, seeing interior architecture and expansion projects through completion, with an emphasis on building renovation, adaptive reuse and sustainable strategies. She is currently working on a Net Zero Energy classroom building for California State University Long Beach, further learning from knowledgeable colleagues about project

A PATH TO LEADERSHIP Shane Aaron ’07 joined Selser Schaefer Architects in Tulsa, Oklahoma immediately after graduating from HSA in May 2007. He became a Licensed Architect in 2012 and an Associate with the firm in 2013. In early 2017 he became the firm’s youngest Partner to date. Shane oversees the firm’s business and financial operations, and leads the teams that provide services for H-E-B Grocery Company, the largest grocer in Texas, and Treehouse, a sustainable home improvement company. Shane has won numerous awards for H-E-B projects, including the 2016 AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Designation for H-E-B Mueller. It was the first grocery store to receive an AIA COTE Award, with the top ten projects chosen from over 3,300 entries. In addition to his work for H-E-B and Treehouse, Shane has worked on a wide range of education, healthcare, religious and community projects. Among those are Tulsa’s Bishop Kelley High School Stadium, the GSI Ambulatory Surgery Center, the Southern Hills Baptist Church remodel, numerous projects for Church on the Move, and the Ice House adaptive reuse. He also worked on the Childers Middle School remodel in Broken Arrow, and the W.W. Hastings Urgent Care in Tahlequah. Shane has been involved in the local community as, among others, a Board Member for Tulsa’s Street School, an Emerging Professionals Committee Member for the AIA Central States Region, and the Associate Director and Chair of the Young Architects Forum for the AIA Eastern Oklahoma Chapter. Selser Schaefer Architects, formed in 1993 by Janet Selser and Robert Schaefer, is an award-winning architectural design firm, drawing upon years of experience and evidence-based best practices to design environments that support and create community. In early 2017, Selser and Schaefer sold the firm to Shane and four other employees, while remaining active as mentors to the new ownership team.

BALANCING RESEARCH, HISTORY AND PRACTICE After graduating from Drury with a double major in architecture and art history, Claire Ashbrook ’06 took a job with DeStefano and Partners in Chicago, where she worked on institutional projects for Northwestern University and College of DuPage, including COD-TEC, a new technology education center that received the AIA Chicago Chapter Distinguished Building Award and the AIA Illinois Chapter Mies van der Rohe Honor Award. Claire left Chicago in 2009 to pursue a graduate degree in architectural history at the University of Virginia. While in Charlottesville she worked, among others, for the Montpelier Foundation, working with the curatorial staff of the Montpelier Estate to help research and plan the restoration of the Estate to its original design, and for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, aiding the Monticello curatorial staff to prepare the premises for visitors. Her graduate work at UVA (2010-12) focused on post-colonial modern architecture in Southeast Asia, specifically on Cambodian

MUSEOLOGIES Jessi Mueller ’07 graduated from Drury in 2007 with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and passed the LEED exam soon thereafter. For the

performance, technical design and project management. Alongside being a member of the 2015-16 AIA LA Design Awards and the 2016-18 AIA California Council Professional Practice Advisory committees, and attending career fairs for Long Beach middle school students and upcoming graduates at UCLA and Woodbury University, Amanda has been busy participating in the 2017 Women Build with Habitat for Humanity, organizing a ZGF group to take part in the Great LA River Cleanup, running the LA Marathon to raise money for Every Mother Counts, backcountry camping, hiking, running, and exploring both city and wilderness.

architect Vann Molyvann. Through grants she was able to research in Phnom Penh, accessing the national archives and surveying Molyvann's work, a unique opus employing spatial and infrastructural design strategies, contemporary takes on traditional approaches to regional architecture. Since 2014 Claire works in Kansas City, Missouri as Project Architect at STRATA Architecture + Preservation, a firm of experts on historic materials and on understanding the technology and narratives of historic structures. She puts to practice the lessons learned throughout her educational and professional experiences, from working on historic structures being converted into contemporary hotels, to helping with the stabilization of a Christopher Wren Church. Claire’s parents recount that as a toddler she always chose “This Old House” over “Sesame Street”. No wonder.

next three years she was employed at Sam Winn & Associates in Springfield, working primarily on K-12 education projects. In 2010 she moved to St. Louis, completed her architectural license process, and started working at CASCO as project manager for a retail client. A summer 2012 encounter in the Amazon jungle with a Museum Studies professor from Tufts University introduced to Jessi the possibility of exhibition design as a career option. Thinking back to her experiences at Drury including a course with HSA’s Dr. Saundra Weddle on the History of Museums and Collecting, research on the architecture of museums for multiple classes, and a study abroad design project in Volos, Greece for a traveling exhibition of Greek artifacts, convinced Jessi to apply for a graduate degree in Museum Studies. While studying for her Masters Degree at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, she worked in the design department of the Saint Louis Art Museum as an assistant exhibition designer. Jessi graduated in 2015 with a Masters of Arts in History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, and was immediately hired by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as the Museum’s sole Exhibition Designer. At Crystal Bridges, Jessi is responsible for all special exhibitions, focus shows, permanent collection and outdoor installations that the Museum undertakes. Through the design process, Jessi generates and uses floor plans and elevations, three-dimensional computer models, and at times actual scale models of several galleries, and is also responsible for color, material and furniture design and selection, using the design skills she learned at HSA, thinking about how occupants, in this case visitors, approach, circulate, and synaesthetically experience a space.

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Shane Aaron ‘07 Selser Schaefer Architects, Tulsa OK Bruce Adib-Yazdi Vecino Group, Springfield MO Claire Ashbrook ’06 STRATA Architecture + Preservation, Kansas City MO Vincent Ebersoldt ’93 Ebersoldt + Associates, Saint Louis MO Ian Ford ’01 MSR Architecture, Minneapolis, MN Emily (Hudson) Harrold ’04 Gould Evans, Kansas City MO Christopher Johnson ’02 Enclosures Group, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York NY Billy Kimmons ’99 Hood-Rich Architecture, Springfield MO Jennie (Hill) LeNoue ‘07 KEPHART, Denver, CO John McNabb ’04 SAPP Design Associates Architects, Springfield MO (President, AIA Springfield) Russ Moffett Vecino Group, Springfield MO (Past-President, AIA Springfield) John Oke-Thomas ’90 Oke-Thomas + Associates, Springfield MO Jason Dale Pierce ’00 Jacobs, Saint Louis MO Jeff Price ’91 J. Price Architecture, Liberty MO Stephanie Shadwick ’05 nFORM Architecture, Springfield MO Julie Spengler ’94 The Lawrence Group, Saint Louis MO Tracy Steinhauser ’06 Christner / formwork architecture, Saint Louis, MO Andrew Wells ’91 Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield MO Jennifer Wilson nFORM Architecture, Springfield MO Gwynn Zivic ’99 Mackey Mitchell Associates, Saint Louis MO Charles Hill (emeritus) Gaskin Hill Norcross, Springfield MO Fred Powers (emeritus) Powers Bowersox Associates, Saint Louis MO

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FULL-TIME FACULTY Marshall Arne David Beach Nancy Chikaraishi Jay Garrott Keith Hedges Yong Huang Panos Leventis Bruce Moore Maurizio Sabini Traci Sooter Karen Spence Robert Weddle Saundra Weddle

IMAGE CREDITS

00: Casey Dye 01: Robert Weddle 02: David Beach 03: Eleni Katsoufi 04: Casey Dye 05: The Drury Center in Greece 06: Karen Spence 07: Marshall Arne 08: Gayle Babcock - Architectural Imageworks, LLC 09: John Wiley 10: Routledge 11: Yong Huang 12: Detail, Jacopo de’ Barbari, View of Venice, ca. 1500 13: The Plan Journal 14: Routledge 15: KieranTimberlake 16: BNIM 17: Matthew Kempf, John Whitaker 18: Gayle Babcock - Architectural Imageworks, LLC 19: John Whitaker 20,21: Integrated Design Engineers LLC 22: Gayle Babcock - Architectural Imageworks, LLC 23–25: The BJGs 26: Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects 27: Selser Schaefer Architects 28: STRATA Architecture + Preservation 29: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

EDITOR: Panos Leventis DESIGNER: Frank Norton

JONAS GASSMANN “In/Visible Settlement” | Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine | Librarium-nominated project

MARC 557: Senior Seminar, Fall 2016 | MARC 521: Architectural Design X (Thesis), Spring 2017 Saundra Weddle, Seminar Instructor | Panos Leventis, Studio Instructor Urban design can be a powerful tool in formulating ideological narratives. Within the contested landscape of East Jerusalem, government and planning practices often construct narratives that exclude the right to the city for Palestinian and other inhabitants. This project proposes viewing the inhabitation of contested barrier zones from multiple perspectives in order to question the homogenous and single-sided expression of urban environments, while simultaneously proposing new ways of experiencing layered historical sites.

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