Events /
Tuesdays and Thursdays Beginning 10/28 - Good Urbanism 101 10/28 - Book Series: Dan Immergluck’s FORECLOSED 10/29 - Fried Augenbroe: COA Research Forum10/29 - Celebrating New Building Construction Technology Labs 11/2 - James Corner / Douglas C. Allen Lecture 11/3 - Modifying Homes for People with Disabilities 11/9 - plexus r+d: Graduate Program in Architecture Visiting Lecturer 11/11 - Elliott Sclar / World Town Planning Day 11/14 - Building Construction 50th Anniversary Gala 11/16 - Vince Voron: Coca-Cola Global Head of Industrial Design (6pm) 11/16 – Sonic Generator (8pm) 11/17 - Swiss Architect Valerio Olgiati: T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination 11/18 - Ben Ledbetter: Graduate Program in Architecture Visiting Lecturer
Around Town /
10/28 – “Remembering Marcel Breuer” / Central Public Library, Auditorium Through 1/16 - "Marcel Breuer: Design & Architecture" / Museum of Design Atlanta Through 4/18 – “John Portman: Art & Architecture” / High Museum of Art
Briefs /
Brian Leary (BS ARCH 1996, MCP 1998) was named president and CEO of the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. He worked for 12 years at Atlantic Station, a project conceived as a master’s thesis at Georgia Tech, helping develop the former steel mill into a national model of sustainable development and smart growth.
Christina M. Nguyen (BS Arch 2002), Associate AIA, LEED® AP recently became a licensed architect in North Carolina. Nguyen works at design services firm O’Brien/Atkins and serves on the NC Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
The 9th Symposium of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE9) is
accepting paper submissions online until January 1, 2010. UPE9, themed “Sustainable Planning Challenges: Rapid Urbanization, Global Recession and Climate Change” will be in Guangzhou City, China Aug. 3-6, 2010, and is jointly organized by Sun Yat-sen University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Urban Planning Society of China.
Drafting Culture: A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards (MIT Press, 2008), by Graduate Program in Architecture Director
George Johnston, received the 2009 Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Book Award. The award honors the most outstanding contribution to the field of architectural history on a topic pertaining to the South or by an author residing in the South.
The new
International Journal of Facility Management is now accepting paper submissions for its first issue. Co-founded and co-edited by Building Construction professor
Kathy Roper, it is an open source, Internet accessible journal devoted to the science, technology and practice of facility management.
Building Construction professor
Ionnis Brilakis has received the American Society of Civil Engineers Associate Editor Award for outstanding service and unique contribution to the
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
Introducing gray matter(s) 
Engineering Architecture: Acoustics and Design at Georgia Tech
