ARCHITECTURE AND
URBAN DESIGN
Several faculty members are winners of 2006 AIA LA Awards. Professor CRAIG HODGETTS and HSIN-MING FUNG '80, principals of Hodgetts + Fung Design, were awarded the Gold Medal for their commitment to creating a better Los Angeles. Honor Awards went to Johnston Marklee & Associates, the firm of assistant professor MARK LEE, for Hill House, a residence in Pacific Palisades; NMDA, Inc., the firm of professor in residence NEIL DENARI, for the Endeavor Talent Agency screening room, Beverly Hills; and Gnuform, the firm of lecturers JASON PAYNE and HEATHER ROBERGE, for No Good Television Bar and Film Set, Beverly Hills. Morphosis, the firm of professor THOM MAYNE, won a Decade Award for Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona.
PropX, Inventing the Next Los Angeles, organized by professor DANA CUFF, is a competition for students and graduates from schools in Los Angeles and beyond to reinvent the rules to create more affordable housing in the city. The project is part of the department's cityLAB, co-directed by Cuff and faculty member ROGER SHERMAN.
Greg Lynn FORM, the firm of professor GREG LYNN, will participate in National Design Triennial: Design Life Now at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York. The exhibition opens December 8 and runs through July of next year.
Professor THOM MAYNE and his firm, Morphosis, are creating plans for a 20-acre park in New Orleans that will include a new National Jazz Center, as well as the renovation and expansion of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. |
John Baldessari,
photo by Andrew Downes, courtesy of Burren College of Art
ART
The National University of
Ireland's Burren College of Art
awarded an honorary doctorate
of fine arts to professor JOHN
BALDESSARI in April. It was the
first award of its kind ever
conferred by the University in
County Clare.
The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,
an exhibition by professor MARY
KELLY, was on view last summer
at Espacio AV, Murcia, Spain. An
original score for the exhibition
was composed by Michael Nyman.
Still Points of the Turning World at
the Sixth International Biennial at Site Santa Fe, included the work
of professor CATHERINE OPIE.
The exhibition opened in July
and runs through January 2007.
Big Pleasure Point, professor
emeritus NANCY RUBINS' first
outdoor sculpture in New York
City, was on view last summer
at Lincoln Center.
A solo exhibition of work by professor JAMES WELLING opened
in November at Galerie Nelson,
Paris. Agricultural Works¸ in collaboration with his musician.
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brother Will, was on view last
summer at the Hudson River
Museum, Yonkers, New York.
DEAN'S OFFICE
KAVIN BUCK, director of enrollment management and outreach
for , was elected president of the Western Association
for College Admission Counselors,
2006-2009. The association
presented LAURA YOUNG '02,
assistant director, with the
Emery Walker New College
Counselor Award.
DESIGN | MEDIA ARTS
The One Show, the international
design competition organized by
The One Club, New York, has
presented professor REBECA
MENDEZ with an award for her
environmental installation work
created for architect and UCLA
professor THOM MAYNE for the
University of Cincinnati.
News Readers, a permanent art
work by professor CHRISTIAN
MOELLER, has been installed
along the perimeter fencing of
the Atlantic Central Base bus
operations facility near downtown Seattle. The project was
sponsored by the King County
Department of Transportation. |
Professor JENNIFER STEINKAMP created a permanent 50-foot long panorama video installation for the Denver Museum's new building designed by Daniel Liebskind. The building opened this fall.
Mood Swings, an exhibition by chair and professor VICTORIA VESNA, was shown at Cyberfem, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellón, Spain from July to mid-September.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Associate professor CHERYL K. KEYES debuted as flutist-pianist and musical arranger with the Woman's Jazz Orchestra of Los Angeles at the 28th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in June.
Last fall, visiting associate professor AMY CAITLIN
JAIRAZBHOY made a presentation at the Society of Ethnomusicology conference in Atlanta.
Professor emeritus LORRAINE SAKATA received a 2-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work with the Radio Afghanistan Archives in Kabul.
Last May, visiting assistant professor TZVETANKA VARIMEZOVA and the UCLA Balkan Woman's Choir performed at the Kodak Theater, Hollywood. |
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Christian Moeller, Grandma Blue,
from News Readers (2006), white
plastic discs on chain link fence |