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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects Master of Architecture Master of Architecture with emphasis in Interior Architecture Another outcome of SAIC’s interest in connecting design and society is the suitability of its students to participate in research collaboratives with institutions outside of SAIC whose research agenda might not be specifically architectural, but have real ramifications for the design of the built world when addressed through an architectural perspective. Through contacts made via SAIC/AIADO hosting of the ACADIA 2009 conference, professors Tristan Sterk and Douglas Pancoast initiated an institutional collaboration between SAIC and Argonne National Laboratories—specifically with Argonne’s Theory and Computational Sciences Lab, presided over by Charlie Catlett. The interchange has recently yielded a successful grant application where funds from the Department of Energy will be used to support research into embedded sensing systems in architectural space and their potential to create responsive systems capable of creating a much more energy efficient built world. The three-year grant will support the cost of release time for 2.5 AIADO faculty and five paid student assistants working 30 hours per week. Over 45 SAIC students, including undergraduate, graduate, MFA and Art Education students working interdisciplinarily, contributed to NEXT.cc, a leading program in architecture education directed by SAIC Professor Linda Keane, via Eco Design and service learning: www.NEXT.cc, Inc. Eco Web Greening . On September 10, 2010 the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced the appointment of SAIC Associate Professor Ellen Dineen Grimes as the twentieth executive editor of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Professor Grimes will transition during the 2010-11 academic year with Executive Editor George Dodds, as JAE enters its 64th year of publication as the premier blind peer-reviewed journal in architecture. SAIC has provided a reduced teaching load for three years while receiving full salary and benefits to Grimes to allow her to pursue this professional opportunity. As stated in the press announcement: Ellen Grimes is an architectural designer, scholar, and educator in Chicago. She is an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches architectural design, technology and theory. Previously she has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology. An experienced author, Grimes’s work has appeared in a variety of books and journals, including aX, Log, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Contents (ed. R. Koolhaas). She was awarded the Van Alen Institute’s New York Prize for 2008 for Public Ecologies, a project at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. She holds an M.Arch from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MBA and BA from the University of Chicago. Her design practice, Available, provides planning services for a large Midwestern healthcare organization and works on nonprofit brownfield redevelopment in Chicago. In addition, she has worked with Bruce Mau Design, Garofalo Architects, and Greg Lynn Form on projects in Chicago, New York, Thailand, China, and Canada. For Spring 2011, SAIC Associate Professor Michael J. Golec has been identified as the 2010-11 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University. While pursuing the research and writing of his third book on design, Golec will teach one multidisciplinary seminar course for upper- division undergraduates. In addition to giving the course, each fellow delivers one public lecture to an audience drawn generally from faculty, graduate students, and interested members of the larger Princeton community. SAIC has arranged a modified contract for Golec to allow him to pursue this opportunity while retaining full-time status at the School during the year. Architecture Program Report | 26
I. Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement I. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT I.1. IDENTITY AND SELF ASSESSMENT I.1.4. LONG-RANGE PLANNING The departments of the School engage regularly in both departmental and school-wide strategic self-assessment and planning exercises. The MArch program’s department, AIADO, performs periodic self-reviews that consider faculty experience, student feedback and observations of the field of art and design in an ongoing effort to keep the curriculum responsive to educational goals and savvy within an innovative profession. Also, the School continually evaluates its effectiveness, undertaking major, multi- year plans such as the current Strategic Planning process. A) Departmental Planning To plan, secure approval of the Faculty Senate, and implement new programs in their department, the faculty of the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects have already made significant collective investments of time, energy, commitment, and focus. The full-time and adjunct members of the department have participated in eight intensive curricular retreats to date since 2001, during which the programmatic vision and structure has been articulated, core curriculum has been determined, and course descriptions have been discussed and drafted. In 2007 the AIADO department held a series of faculty meetings to determine how to increase the degree of technical architectural and building science competence in student work, in response to the exhibition mounted for the NAAB candidacy team’s visit. These plenary meetings have continued on a regular basis to further refine the programs as they are implemented. In September 2009 the department held an all-day retreat at the Dean of Faculty’s home to review current administrative structures and review curriculum. At that time the faculty asked to delay a search for a chief director while advocating for a transitional model that appointed three discrete directors—Douglas Pancoast as Director of Graduate Programs, Thomas Kong as Director of Undergraduate Programs, and Helen Maria Nugent as Director of Designed Objects. The curricular and financial impact of the new professional Masters degree programs has already been studied in depth through the due diligence exercises followed by the School as a whole in conjunction with its Board of Governors, its Design Advisory Committee, and the Faculty Senate, Curriculum Committee, Design Initiative Committee, and the AIADO Department. While the programs have been met with enthusiasm in their public debut, and the School is pleased with both the caliber and the quantity of applicants to each of the programs, it has been necessary to continue the refinement process as the program has been implemented, long-range plans for staffing have been executed, new full-time faculty members have been hired, new and remodeled facilities have been designed and delivered, and data on student satisfaction and outcomes are gathered from both NAAB and the student body. Formal student input is crucial as well. The Studio Culture Committee (now folded into a recognized AIAS chapter) met regularly and attempted to encompass undergraduate BFA and BIA students as well as MArch students, as they share many facilities. In 2007, undergraduate and graduate students from the department were asked to meet with and evaluate finalist candidates for Fall 2007 faculty hires in Architecture and Designed Objects, and their responses were critical in the final selection process. 1) Recent Planning Initiatives Departmental planning and assessment are intrinsically linked. Planning serves not only the development of procedures for the regular administration of the department, but also is the 27 | Spring 2011 SECTION I Institutional Support and Commitment to Continuous Improvement
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