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8/31 - Martin Fischer: T. Gordon Little Lecture; reception to follow celebrating 50 Years of Building Construction

9/25 - GT Family Weekend

The College of Architecture in partnership with the Georgia Tech Library and Archives is pleased to announce its fall COA Research Forum which begins on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Alan Balfour, Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture, will discuss his recently completed Temple Mount, a study of the constructive and destructive power of faith played out in the myths and realities of one place, Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The College of Architecture’s COA Research Forums provide an informal setting for the community to learn about research within the College of Architecture. Forums are free and open to the public and participants are invited to explore ideas and identify opportunities for collaboration.

All talks are held in the Architecture Library, West Architecture Building from 11:00AM to 12:00PM on the last Thursday of August through April. Talks are 30 to 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion.

Fall 2009: COA Research Forum Speakers:

8/27 - "Jerusalem" / Alan Balfour, Dean and Professor

9/24 - "Urban Design and People"  / Michael Dobbins, Professor of Practice

10/29 - "Building Simulation and Beyond" / Fried Augenbroe, Associate Professor

11/19 - “Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play - Toward a Smart Living Environment” / Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Associate Professor

Briefs /
Building Construction professor Kathy O. Roper, CFM, LEED AP, co-authored The Facility Management Handbook. Roper also gave a keynote address at the first Green Building Focus Conference and Expo.

Assistant Professor of Music Jason Freeman’s recent work Piano Etudes was a jury selection for the 36th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Electronic Art Competition.

Donald Allen, Assistant Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands was appointed the Intercollegiate Band Coordinator for the Southern Division of the College Band Directors National Association.

Industrial Design instructor Raja Schaar (ID 2001) is the new Director of Operations for the Museum of Design Atlanta.

Center for Geographic Information Systems researcher Tony Giarrusso was recognized by the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute for his work to create a Web-based tool for the location and transportation of biomass resources. Read more about the BRIARS project>

Alumni /
Anthony Jason Dooley, AIA (BS Arch 1999; M Arch 2007), became a principal at Fouse Architecture & Interiors, PC in June.

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In Memoriam /
Ski Hilenski. former director of development and public relations at the College of Architecture, on July 29. Read the full announcement>>


Martin Fischer of Stanford’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering kicks off the College of Architecture T. Gordon Little Lecture Series on August 31, 6PM. A reception will follow to mark 50 years of Building Construction at Georgia Tech.
The T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination was established in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little (1915-2004). The series will celebrate Little’s unwavering pursuit of imaginative design and his remarkable generosity of spirit. Free and open to public, thanks to a generous grant from the T. Gordon Little Foundation. AIA Continuing Education Credits available. Parking at Technology Square Parking Deck on Spring Street just south of Fifth Street.  More information at www.coa.gatech.edu or 404-894-3880.

Steering Committee to Oversee Changes to Undergraduate Education
The College of Architecture announced it will appoint a steering committee to oversee incremental changes to the undergraduate curriculum. The group will be made up of professionals from the industrial design, architecture and construction industries, and will provide key insight as ideas and research are brought to the table.

Together with Dean Alan Balfour, the steering committee will be tasked with:

  • conducting market research including job placement statistics and alumni focus groups;
  • assessing and preserving core disciplinary skills;
  • and assessing options, including an integrated curriculum that is complementary to current academic paths.
Associate dean for undergraduate education, Sabir Khan, will consult with the steering committee as he and the College of Architecture faculty draft a curriculum.

“Reactions to our plans to consider an integrated undergraduate curriculum have run the gamut--”some enthusiastic, some opposed and some just puzzled,” said Dean Alan Balfour. “I want to clarify there are no plans at this time to eliminate any degrees, and that no significant changes will be made to the undergraduate curriculum this year.”

“Our collective ambition is to make our undergraduates and graduates in ID, BC and Architecture the strongest, most talented leaders in their fields,” he stated. “And as is appropriate to Georgia Tech’s role as a leading research university, graduate programs in these fields deal with issues of advanced practice and research.”

The College of Architecture has experienced unprecedented growth in the last decade and is well positioned for these innovations. Its academic and research programs address the designed and built environment across a range of scales, drawing from Georgia Tech’s unmatched resources to engage the sciences, engineering and the humanities. The nine-year-old graduate program in Building Construction is now the largest graduate program in the College, and the graduate program in Industrial Design has also reached capacity.

At the undergraduate level, the College has invested nine years of ongoing experimentation and application through the Common First Year. Other schools of architecture, construction and design have experimented with innovations in ‘integrative,’ collaborative or cross-disciplinary design, at the scale of individual courses and the entire curriculum. They have found that each of the disciplines benefits from closer collaboration.

An internal re-organization has been put in place to address budget and space constraints, and to maintain the highest quality of student support at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Further announcements will follow in the College of Architecture e-news. Please provide us with your feedback at alumni@coa.gatech.edu.

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