The document provides an overview of news from the High School of Architecture at Drury University. Key points include: - The Design 360 lecture series brought several renowned architects and designers to campus to discuss hybrid design practice. - A team from HSA and other Drury departments was selected to compete in the 2015 Solar Decathlon competition in California. - The HSA signed an exchange agreement with the prestigious ETSAB school in Barcelona, allowing student exchanges starting in 2014-2015. - Faculty were involved in various research, teaching, and community projects in locations including China, Mexico, Joplin, and Springfield. - The visiting professor program brought architects from Venice and Barcelona to lead

1. ISSUe 01 I SPRING 2014
HSANEWSDRURY ARCHITECTURE 2014
Highlights
Visiting Professors
of Practice
Faculty News
Student Work
Alumni News

2. DIRECTOR’S
GREETINGS
HIGHLIGHTS
Design 360 Lecture Series
The 2013–14 Lecture Series, titled
“Design 360,” explores the diversity
of hybridized design practice and
research. Series speakers include HSA
Visiting Professor of Practice Filippo
Caprioglio (Caprioglio Associati, Venice,
Italy), Scott Bishop (Stoss Landscape
Urbanism, Boston), Andrew Baccon
(Tietz-Baccon, New York), Paul Backett
(Evolve Collaborative, Portland, Oregon),
Carlo Ratti (Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin,
Italy and MIT SENSEable Cities Lab,
Boston), Gulla Jonsdottir (G+ Gulla
Jonsdottir Design, Los Angeles), and
Elena Manferdini (Atelier Manferdini,
Venice, California).
DRURY TEAM TO COMPETE
IN SOLAR DECATHLON
A team made up of students and faculty
from HSA,other Drury departments,and
Crowder College has been selected to
compete in the 2015 U.S.Department
of Energy Solar Decathlon competition.
The Drury-Crowder team is one of
twenty selected nationally,including
Stanford University,Yale University,
and Missouri University of Science and
Technology.Teams will design and build
solar-powered,energy-efficient houses
that will be re-assembled in fall 2015 in
Irvine,California.
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Dear Alumni, Colleagues and Friends of the HSA,
We proudly present you issue 01 of HSANEWS!
Our trial issue 00, published last June 2013, has
been very well received and appreciated as a
much needed vehicle of communication between
the school and its “extended family.” Such encouragement, as well as the
continuing great news about the success and the accomplishments of our
alumni, gave us the right stimulus to expand and improve our newsletter
even more.
In the past year (and in the forthcoming months) you have noticed (and will
notice) a clear effort by the school to become more and more “glocal”—
that is both global and local. Striving to engage the wider world and the
local community has always been in the DNA of “DruryArchitecture,” and
appropriately aligned with the core mission of Drury University. Now we
want to take that tradition to the next level.
You will read in the following pages of the new initiatives launched in China,
of the student exchange program for study abroad with the world-renowned
ETSAB in Barcelona, Spain, and of the new Visiting Professor of Practice
Program that brought and will bring to campus international, up-and-
coming and award-winning professionals.
You will also read about our on-going efforts with communities around
Missouri,through the Community Studies Center,with the community in
Joplin,through the Design/Build Program,and with the city of Springfield
itself,through the Art of Space program.You will read also about the
forthcoming “HSA and the City” initiative,which will see our school collaborate
closely in 2014–15 with the city of Springfield by focusing our student work on
issues,challenges,and potentials for the future of our community.
Being “glocal” is not meant to attach a fashionable cliché to the HSA. More
than for other programs, it is vital for us. An emphasis on being “global” would
disconnect the school from the surrounding community that we ultimately
serve, while an emphasis on being “local” would impose on ourselves a too-
limited scope of inquiry and action. Instead, maintaining a double-focus will
help keep us firmly aimed towards an ever-stronger future for the HSA.
Finally, I want to thank all the alumni, students, and faculty for the great
work and news provided. A special thank you goes to our graphic designer
Frank Norton, and particularly to our editor, Prof. Robert Weddle, for an
outstanding job in putting together the first issue of HSANEWS!
Maurizio Sabini
HSA Signs Exchange Agreement with Barcelona’s ETSAB
In January HSA Director Maurizio Sabini announced an agreement with the Escola
d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB).This prestigious school, over a century old, has
in recent decades led Barcelona’s resurgence as a design center and is recognized
as one of the top schools of architecture in the world.The agreement will allow the
exchange of up to two students per year beginning in the 2014–15 academic year.
HSA Leads Drury-wide Effort for Joplin
Associate Professors Traci Sooter and Nancy Chikaraishi led a Joplin Design-Build
Studio in response to that city’s devastating 2011 tornado.Their work is part of
the “Landscapes of Resilience” project funded by a major TKF Foundation Grant
investigating how planning and stewardship of open spaces can help communities
and individuals recover from tragedy. During the fall 2013 semester, the pair worked
with third-year architecture students to design and build the Joplin Butterfly Garden
and Overlook in historic Cunningham Park, with the help of the City of Joplin Parks
and Recreation Department, Springfield firm Great River Associates, and students
and faculty from Drury’s English and Communications departments.
The 11th
LIBRARIUM exhibition and awards
competition will be held on May 9 and 10, 2014.
WINKA DUBBLEDAM—principal of ARCHI-TECTONICS
in New York and chair of the architecture program at
the University of Pennsylvania—will be joined on the
jury by HSA alumnus and Librarium winner DANIEL
RENNER ‘11, a Project Designer at el dorado architects
in Kansas City.
Three HSA students were among only thirty-two
selected world-wide to participate in the 2013
International Design Summer School at TONGJI
UNIVERSITY in Shanghai. Current fifth-year students
Zolfar Hassib, Sam McBride, and Kevin Rogan
were members of teams preparing proposals for
Shanghai’s Sweet Love Street commercial area.
HSA is collaborating with AIA Springfield in planning
and hosting the 2014 AIA CENTRAL STATES REGION
CONFERENCE, which will be held for the first time in
Springfield October 23 and 24, 2014.
Students at the Drury Center in Aigina, Greece will
spend the spring semester doing design work in
central Athens associated with the REACTIVATE
ATHENS project—an initiative spearheaded by ETH
Zurich chairs Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert
Klumpner of URBAN THINK TANK.
The 2014–2015 academic year will see Drury
architecture students collaborating with Springfield
officials and citizens in the HSA AND THE CITY initiative,
which seeks to expand the role of design in optimizing
Springfield’s potential as an urban community.
Professor Jay Garrott and students from the HSA
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES community studios
continue their work assisting regional communities
through collaborative visioning processes. Since
2000 the CCS has completed fifty-seven regional
community-based projects, including recent work for
the cities of Carthage, Kimberling City, Independence,
and Webb City.
Alumni and friends have generously increased
scholarship support for HSA students. New
contributions have assured the annual assistance of
the BJ GLAZIER SCHOLARSHIP, sponsored by members
of the class of '94 in support of study-abroad
experiences, and the ALAN BATES SCHOLARSHIP,
established in honor of the founder of Springfield firm
Bates and Associates Architects.
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3. VISITING PROFESSORS
OF PRACTICE
Caprioglio Inaugural
Visiting Professor
of Practice
In December the HSA
said farewell and a
presto to 2013 Visiting Professor of
Practice Filippo Caprioglio, whose
talent, warmth, and generosity were
felt throughout the school during and
between his four week-long visits.
Principal of Caprioglio Associati
in Mestre (Venice), Italy, Filippo’s
work has been celebrated through
publications, awards, competition
successes, and major commissions.
Upon his return to Venice from
Springfield, he took part in the opening
Hector Mendoza and Mara Partida will
make both individual and joint visits
to campus, co-leading a fifth-year
studio and engaging with students,
faculty, and alumni. The MX-SI studio
is establishing itself as one of the most
exciting young international practices.
The studio’s 2005 competition-winning
design for the Federico Garcia Lorca
Cultural Center in Granada, Spain
launched a practice that has gone
on to win regional and international
recognition. In 2010 they won the AJAC
Prize for young architects from the
Catalunya region. In 2011 they won
the international competition for the
extension of the Serlachius Museum
Gösta in Mänttä, Finland—now under
construction (pictured). In 2013 they
were awarded the International
Spanish Architecture Prize for the
Serlachius Museum project.
Mendoza and Partida
Named Visiting Professors
of Practice for 2014
HSA Director Maurizio Sabini has
announced that two principals
and founders of Barcelona’s MX-SI
Architectural Studio will continue
the Visiting Professor of Practice
program during the fall 2014 semester.
of the IMG Candiani Multiplex Cinema
and Piazza, a major project from
the firm that helps to reorganize a
primary public space in his hometown
of Mestre. The cinema (pictured) is
inspired, according to Filippo, by “the
poetics and creative intuition of film:
to transform light, through light, into
images.” During his stay at HSA Filippo
lectured, gave informal crits, and sat
on reviews, but devoted most of his
time to directing a fifth-year studio—
co-taught with Assistant Professor
David Beach—investigating the re-
structuring of a former industrial area
just across the lagoon from Venice.
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The Visiting Professor of Practice Program has received to date the support
of Baron Design & Associates, Springfield; Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield;
and Ebersoldt + Associates Architecture, St. Louis.
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4. FACULTY
NEWS
HSA Associate Professor Marshall Arne delivered
a lecture on design methodology in June 2013 to the
Suzhou Industrial Park Design Research Institute in
Suzhou, China.
Assistant Professor David Beach ‘97 presented a
paper titled “Building Simulation Strategies to Push
Design Thinking” at the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA) fall conference at
Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale. At the
same conference he presented a poster illustrating his
project “Camino Nueva Vida—An educational center
for vocational skills” in Las Pintitas, Mexico.The project
is currently under construction and was designed
in collaboration with current HSA fifth-year student
San McBride. He also presented “Energy Analysis and
Design Thinking in a BIM Workspace—Introduction to
a Post Pre-Rendered World” at the Associated General
Contractors St. Louis Regional BIM Conference.
Professor Michael J. Buono is one of forty-three
architects from across the country selected to serve
on the National Council of Architectural Registration
Boards (NCARB) Test Specification Task Force. The task
force is charged with shaping the next version of the
Architectural Registration Exam.
Associate Professors NANCY CHIKARAISHI and TRACI
SOOTER, Assistant Professor KEITH HEDGES, and
Brandon Dake of Dake Wells Architecture co-presented
“Architects as Leaders: Best Practices For Engaging
Community After the Joplin Tornado” at the 2013 AIA
National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Jay Garrott, Professor and Director of the
HSA Center for Community Studies, presented
“Reassessing Professional Roles in Community
Development” at the 2013 International Community
Development Society Conference in Charleston, South
Carolina. At the same conference he co-presented
with Jeff Barber ‘91, of the University of Missouri
Extension,“A Model of Public-Private Educational
Collaboration for Community Development.”
Assistant Professor Keith Hedges presented two
papers at the 7th
International Structural Engineering
and Construction Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii
in June. Professor Hedges presented “Early onset
structural simulation strategies to inform architectural
design through building information modeling (BIM),”
co-authored with Assistant Professor David Beach,
and “Extreme service-learning: Engaging a university
design-build course with a broadcast network
television show in the aftermath of the Joplin tornado”
co-authored with Associate Professors Traci Sooter
and Nancy Chikaraishi.
Assistant Professor Gerard Nadeau will present
his paper “Space as Event as Oeuvre” in the session
“Realizing the Right to the City” at the ACSA national
conference in Miami in April.
In May 2013 HSA Director and Professor
Maurizio Sabini served as External Examiner
for the Department of Architecture and Building
Science at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. The
external examination is part of the Commonwealth
Association of Architects validation process for
schools of architecture in Commonwealth countries.
In September 2013, Director Sabini presented on
“Infrastructure and the Leisurely City” as an Invited
Speaker at an international conference in Durban,
South Africa, organized by the University of KwaZulu-
Natal. In January, he was invited by AIA St. Louis to be
a panelist for a round-table discussion on “Futures
of the Profession,” together with colleagues and
professionals from the St. Louis area. In December
2013 the newly launched on-line version of the Journal
of Architectural Education posted Dr. Sabini’s review of
Urban-Think Tank’s book Torre David (2013) and related
exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2012) and in Berlin
(2013), all of which were based on their award winning
project in Caracas, Venezuela.
Associate Professor and Assistant Director KAREN
SPENCE served as peer reviewer for the October 2013
issue of the Journal of Architectural Education.
Professor Saundra Weddle made a series of
paper presentations based on her work on Venetian
women’s convents and urban space. In June 2013 she
presented “Venetian Convents in Urban Contexts” in
the workshop “Italia Illustrata: Digital Mapping and
Techniques of Visualizing the Pre-Modern Italian
City” at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.
In October she spoke on “Unlikely Alliances:The
Spatial Implications of Resistance in Early Modern
Venetian Convents” at the Sixteenth-Century Studies
conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and in February
delivered her paper “Architecture as a Tool of
Resistance and Control in Sixteenth-Century Venetian
Convents” at the Midwest Art History Symposium,
hosted at Truman State University.
Assistant Professor Jayon You presented “Social
Organizing, Entrepreneurship & Programming
as Design” at the 44th
Urban Affairs Association
conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Panos Leventis
Associate Professor Panos Leventis
is part of a team that was recently
selected as the winner of a two-
stage design competition for the
rehabilitation of a large farm estate
near the city of Paphos in western
Cyprus. The competition was open
to all EU-registered architects,
and seven entering teams were
selected for the final phase of the
competition. The winning scheme
proposes transforming the site into
a botanical park accompanied by a
museum, restaurants, and gym and
spa facilities. Professor Leventis
was joined on the team by Maria
Angelaki, Dimitris Antoniou, Makis
Dimitroglou, and Eleni Katsoufis.
The project is currently awaiting
administrative and financial
approval from the local government.
Gerard Nadeau
Assistant Professor Gerard Nadeau helped obtain a $200,000 ArtPlace America
grant for the City of Springfield and the ideaXfactory—a formerly vacant city
building and adjacent open space on Boonville Avenue. The grant will support
the transformation of these sites into a contemporary art space that will sponsor
site-specific environmental art installations and other non-traditional art
projects to build connections between diverse populations of Springfield and
surrounding communities. Professor Nadeau is also faculty advisor for Drury
student organization Art of Space, which works with the ideaXfactory to develop
public participatory “space as event” installations advocating the “right to the city”
through the appropriation and activation of gaps in the urban fabric of Center City
Springfield. This winter, Art of Space installed the Woven Lignin / Pick-up Stick
Pavilion in the ideaXfactory. In the fall the group, supervised by Professor Nadeau
and Associate Professor of Art Blaine Whisenhunt, installed their Rhizomatic
Grotto, built from stacked and corbelled wood shipping pallets, on the Springfield
Art Museum’s grounds. This was the first large-scale work on the museum’s
grounds in thirty years.
Yong Huang
The work of Assistant Professor Yong
Huang was featured in September
in the “Best 50-Architecture Space
Art from China & the US” exhibition
in New York City. Professor Huang is
a design principal of Atelier HAY, an
interdisciplinary art and architectural
design studio founded in 2011 in New
York. Atelier HAY is organized in a way
that is “simultaneously globalized and
grassroots,” with members located
in Asia and the US. The dispersed
studio works collaboratively from their
various locations, bringing together
broad professional experience in
major international firms like Herzog
and de Meuron, Bjarke Ingels Group,
David Adjaye, Arup Associates, UN
Studio, and MVRDV. The studio has
recently completed competition entries
for the Shenmu Museum of Science
and Technology in Yulin City, China
(pictured) and the 2013 “Changing
the Face” competition for the Warsaw
Rotunda in Warsaw, Poland.
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STUDENT
WORK BADER ALSHAWAF
Furniture Design and Fabrication I MARC 530
Joseph Ryan Osborne, Course Instructor
JAMIE LU
Watercolor sketch of the Temple of Aphaia in Aigina, Greece I ARCH 426
Travel Journal: Mediterranean Cultures I Panos Leventis, Course Instructor
CARTHAGE CCS STUDIO
(Alaa Al-Radwan, Travis Bond, Tony Bruno, Jon Nuessle, Juan Zorrilla)
Comprehensive Plan for Carthage, Missouri I ARCH 417
Jay Garrott, Studio Instructor
JOPLIN STUDIO
(Eric Foster, Olivia Freese, Stacie Good, Michael Ligibel, Grace Lounsbury, Kanna Matsuo, Madison Miles,
Jacob Nentrup, Olivia Snell, Lauren Southard, Josh Storey, Brian Vanne, Trevor Wellman, Brandon White)
Joplin Butterfly Garden and Overlook I ARCH 315
Nancy Chikaraishi and Traci Sooter, Studio Instructors
SARAH WATTS
#9066: Japanese-American Internment Camp Museum I ARCH 213
Rufus Louderback, Studio Instructor
TONY YUE
Route 66 Museum I ARCH 315
Bruce Moore, Studio Instructor

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In October HSA was represented at the first AIA Central
States Region Student Design Charrette in Oklahoma
City by fifth-year students Paden Chambers,
Natalie Endejan, JON HAYS, and Emily McVey.
Fourth-year student ALAA AL-RADWAN has received
a 2014 Summer Research Internship from the
Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the
Environment. She will be working with the SENSEable
City Laboratory directed by Carlo Ratti.
Fourth-year student Billy Miller returned to
HSA after a one-year leave to work at Walt Disney
Imagineering in Orlando, Florida. Among the many
projects Billy worked on was the new Disney Springs
development at Orlando's Walt Disney World. He will
return to Disney this summer and following graduation,
fulfilling a dream he has held since childhood.
During summer 2013, fourth-year student Zehua
Jia was awarded the first SIPDRI-DRURY Internship,
facilitated by HSA's relationship with the Suzhou
Industrial Park Design and Research Institute in
Suzhou, China. Fifth-year students Paden Chambers,
Sam McBride, and Wil Toedtmann will spend the
2014 spring break in the Shanghai-Suzhou area, and
will present to SIPDRI planning studies for Suzhou
done in the MARC 520 studio taught by Associate
Professor Marshall Arne.
Fifth-year student Sam McBride was a summer intern
with Freecell Architecture in New York. While there,
he worked on Freecell’s winning entry in the PXSTL
competition for a site in the St. Louis Grand Center
cultural district.
Between August and January, fourth-year student
Eric Baldwin served as an editorial and social media
intern at ArchDaily—writing and posting over 50
articles on architecture, urbanism, and design.
EMILY McVEY
Suzhou, China Industrial Park Conversion I MARC 520
Marshall Arne, Studio Instructor
WIL TOEDTMANN
Suzhou, China Industrial Park Conversion I MARC 520
Marshall Arne, Studio Instructor
JON HAYS I Hotel Venezia I MARC 520
Filippo Caprioglio and David Beach, Studio Instructors
EMILY BIAGIONI-PAULETTE
Nuuk Data Center, Greenland I MARCH 520
Gerard Nadeau, Studio Instructor
Third-year student Grace Lounsbury—President
of the Drury chapter of the American Institute of
Architecture Students—was named National AIAS
Chapter President of the month for January, 2014.
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7. ALUMNI
NEWS
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Billy Kimmons ‘99 merged his firm BK Architects,
founded in 2008, with Springfield firm Hood-Rich
Architecture, where he is now a principal.
Bartlomiej Sapeta ‘99 is Associate Professor
of Architecture at Keene State College in Keene, New
Hampshire. He was recently recognized as one of New
Hampshire’s “40 under 40” professionals, and received
a Hoffman-Haas Fellowship from the New Hampshire
Center for Nonprofits.
Garrett Burtner ‘99 is a staff architect at
McCool Carlson Green in Anchorage, Alaska, and serves
as Treasurer and Trustee of the Alaska Design Forum.
Jason Dale Pierce ‘00 received the AIA Young
Architects Award for 2014, and was named a 2014
Fellow of the New Leaders Council Institute.
IAN FORD ‘01 is a Senior Architect at Ann Beha
Architects in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm has
recently been selected for a major renovation of
the Walter Gropius-designed U.S. Embassy in
Athens, Greece.
Ryan King ‘01 is serving until 2015 as President
of AIA Missouri. He is a Project Architect with BSA
LifeStructures in Saint Louis.
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON ‘02 joined the Enclosures
Group at Skidmore Owings & Merrill in New York NY.
DOUG JOHNSTON ‘02 continues to exhibit and sell
his designs for “ Density Baskets,”“Light Sculptures,”
and other projects. Doug’s work has been featured
over the past year in a wide range of venues including
the New York Times, Vogue, Interior Design, and the
websites Archinect and Sight Unseen.
Evelyn Lee ‘02 received the AIA Young Architects
Award for 2014. She is a Senior Strategist at MKThink,
in San Francisco, California, and received an M.Arch.
in 2003 from SCI-Arc and an MBA/MPA in Sustainable
Management from Presidio Graduate School in 2012.
Evelyn serves as Regent to the California Architectural
Foundation Board of Directors, as Public Relations
Director of the national AIA Young Architect Forum
Advisory Committee, and as AIA California Council
Regional Director the national AIA Board. She is the
youngest architect member to represent a regional
component on the national AIA Board.
Travis Willson ‘02 joined Clockwork Architecture
+ Design in Kansas City, and teaches as an adjunct
instructor at the Art Institute of Kansas City.
Darcia Thomas ‘03 joined the Denver Architects’
Collaborative in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. J. Jacob Jenkins ‘05 obtained his Ph.D. in
Communication from the University of South Florida
and is now Assistant Professor of Communication at
the California State University, Channel Islands.
Adam Shuler ‘05 joined Hollis + Miller Architects in
Overland Park, Kansas, where he is a Project Architect.
He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the
Art Institutes International in Kansas City.
Stephen Bent ‘04 completed his architectural
registration. Stephen is a project architect at Buddy
Webb and Company in Springfield.
Emily Harrold ‘04 left DSGN Associates in Dallas
to accept a position as Associate in the Kansas City
studio of Gould Evans, where she heads the Interior
Architecture studio.
Joe Page ‘04 joined Schaub + Srote Architects in
Saint Louis as an Intern Architect.
RODRIGO PANTOJA ‘04 is co-principal of evO(a)_lAb
in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, and Director of the
architecture program at Tecnológico de Monterrey in
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.
Tom Young ‘04, an Associate at Mackey Mitchell
Architects in Saint Louis, was invited to serve as a juror
for the 2013 Masonry Institute of Iowa Architectural
Design Awards.
Erich Harris ‘05 is Sustainability Division Manager
for the city of Lakewood, California.
Nathan Schuh ‘05 joined Inscape Studio in
Washington, D.C. as an Associate Architect.
TRACY STEINHAUSER ‘06 has joined the staff
of Shubin + Donaldson Architects in Santa Barbara,
California, where she is a Project Manager and
Project Architect.
Michael Hampton ‘08 completed his architectural
registration. Michael is a project architect at SAPP
Design Associates Architects in Springfield.
Carly Rickerson ‘08 joined Grimm + Parker
Architects in Calverton, Maryland, where she is an
Architectural Team Member.
Stay in touch: send news, transitions,
and accolades to archALUMNI@drury.edu
Juan C. Chavez ‘09 is working on his M.S. in
Technology with emphasis on construction at the
University of Central Missouri. Juan presented at the
2013 conference of the Association of Technology,
Management, and Applied Engineering, and in 2011–12
designed and built a mountain weekend cabin near
Puroagua, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Jacob Coburn ‘09 joined FOX Architects in Saint
Louis as an Architectural Intern and Project Manager.
Andrew Mattson ‘09 completed his M.Arch. at
Washington University and joined KAI Design & Build in
Saint Louis, where he is a Project Architect.
Kate Tickner ‘09 was promoted to the position of
Project Leader at Huckabee and Associates in Dallas-
Fort Worth, where she has worked since 2005.
Shane Algiere ‘10 joined the staff of Dake Wells
Architecture in Springfield.
Kuleya Bruce ‘11 received her MBA from Kaplan
University and has been named Executive Director of
Rebuilding Together Southwest Illinois.
Allison Rudnicki ‘11 joined Kieding Office
Architects in Glendale, Colorado as a Project Manager.
Sarah Page ‘12 joined Hefferlin + Kronenberg
Architects in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Roshelle Pfeifer ‘12 joined Erdy McHenry
Architecture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Brian Silva ‘12 joined HOK in Houston, Texas.
JACOB CORDONNIER ‘13 has joined the staff of
Slaggie Architects in Kansas City, where he is an
Intern Architect.
Lauren Schuyler ‘13 was selected by the
American Institute of Architects Historic Resources
Committee as their 2013 Research Scholarship
recipient. During the summer of 2013 Lauren
conducted research about AIA members’ use of the
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) collection,
housed in the Library of Congress. She is currently
working for Vode Lighting in Sonoma, California.
JASON HAINLINE NAMED LEED FELLOW
Jason Hainline ‘99, of Dake Wells
Architecture has been inducted
into the 2013 class of LEED
Fellows, an honor reserved,
according to the USGBC, for
“the most exceptional professionals in the
green building industry.” This remarkable
achievement recognizes Jason’s sixteen years
of experience with green building and his
extensive portfolio of award-winning work.
COLOP’S COMPETITION DESIGNS
Frisly Colop Morales ‘04 is a designer at 10 Design in Hong Kong, China. While
working on a variety of projects for the office, he has also been busy entering
competitions, including for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires,
Argentina (pictured) and the Chapultepeq Cultural Center in Mexico City, Mexico
(cover). Frisly obtained his M.Sci. in Architecture from the University of Applied
Arts in Vienna, Austria, and had work exhibited at the Austrian Pavilion in the 2013
Venice Architecture Biennale.
ZIVIC SERVES AS AIA CHICAGO
DESIGN AWARD JUROR
Saint Louis firm Mackey Mitchell
Associates has developed a strong
national reputation for its designs for
university housing and student centers,
along with a number of other building
types. HSA alumna Gwynn Zivic ‘99 has
worked at the firm since 2005, and now
holds the position of Senior Associate
and Design Architect. Her design talent
and leadership were recognized last
summer when she served as a juror
for AIA Chicago’s Design Excellence
Awards. In January the University of
Alabama in Huntsville opened Mackey
Mitchell’s Charger Union (pictured), a
new $20-million-dollar 90,000-square-
foot student center for which Gwynn
was lead designer.
Annual gifts from alumni, partners and friends offer crucial support for our
students, faculty and programs.
Please give to the Hammons School of Architecture and help us grow your program!
For more information about supporting the HSA and specific ways to donate, please contact:
Dianne S. Johnson, J.D., Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
at djohnson021@drury.edu or (417) 873-7303
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DESIGN AWARD FOR DAKE WELLS SPOKANE SCHOOLS ADDITION
Dake Wells Architecture has received a 2013 AIA Central States Merit Award for
its Spokane Schools addition. Andrew Wells, FAIA ‘91 led the design of the project,
along with Dake Wells staff members including Matthew Thornton ‘04, Tim PIlla ‘07,
and Kirk Dillon ‘10.
Marcus Farr
NANO NetZero
Micro-housing
project design to
help consumers
save money during
periods of peak
demand, and to
sell back additional
harvested power to
utility companies.
KENNEDY HOUSE FEATURED DURING
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK
The Christopher Kennedy Compound,
in Palm Springs, California, was the
Modernism Week Palm Springs Show
House for 2014. The home’s re-design
was spearheaded by Christopher
Kennedy ‘99, and it was toured by
more than 4,000 people over ten
days, with proceeds supporting Palm
Springs Modernism and other local
architectural preservation efforts.
FARR’S NANO NET-ZERO HOUSING PUBLISHED
It has been a busy year for Marcus Farr ‘09 of Denver-based Marcus Farr Projects.
In the fall he helped install a wall-and-ceiling assembly providing a built identity
for gourmet donut shop Strange Donuts in the Maplewood neighborhood of Saint
Louis. The design and construction were a collaboration between Marcus and
Gregory Cuddihee, principal of Colab Design Practicies in Saint Louis. In February
Marcus’s NANO NetZero Micro-housing project was published in the international
journal Future Arquitecturas. The project grew out of a competition organized by
Denver firm Roth Sheppard Architects and the Denver Architectural League, and
employs a range of active and passive strategies to help shed the energy load from
the grid, to help consumers save money during periods of peak demand, and to sell
back additional harvested power to utility companies.
HARROLD IN DALLAS 10 UNDER TEN EXHIBIT
In August 2013 Josh Harrold ‘02 founded Harrold Architects in Kansas City, and in
September he was invited to participate in the AIA Dallas 10 UNDER TEN juried
exhibit. The exhibit is intended to focus attention on Dallas-area architects who
are within ten years of licensure, and selects the ten exhibited designers from the
some 2,000 professionals and 300 firms represented by the Dallas AIA chapter—
the nation’s seventh largest. Among the projects Josh exhibited was his design for
Dallas Fire Station No. 6, which he worked on while at DSGN Associates.
TWO HSA ALUMNI
RECEIVE NATIONAL AIA
YOUNG ARCHITECTS AWARDS
Jason Dale Pierce ‘00 and Evelyn Lee
‘02 were both named recipients of
the AIA Young Architects Award for
2014. The prestigious national award
is given to professionals who have
been licensed fewer than 10 years,
and is given to “individuals who have
shown exceptional leadership and
made significant contributions to the
profession in an early stage of their
architectural career.”
ALSCHER CO-DESIGNS LEED PLATINUM HOUSE
In July 2013, artist and architect Marcia Alscher ‘88 and her husband John
Hancock completed a new 2,000-square-foot home in the Clifton neighborhood of
Cincinnati, Ohio. The house is designed using aging-in-place principles, as well as
with extensive energy-saving and environmental features that are expected to gain
it LEED Platinum status.
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9. Art and Architecture
Drury-Connect Advisory Council
Rob Baird
CEO, Conco Companies
Chris Ball
President, Jack Ball Architects
Rita Baron ‘99
Principal, Baron Design & Associates
Chris Cotten ‘92
Director, Parks and Recreation, Joplin MO
Jonathan Gano
Assistant Director of Public Works, City of Springfield
Mark Gardner
CEO, Gardner Capital
Michael Hamra
President and CEO, Hamra Enterprises
Stuart Murr ‘97
Smart Designs / Mother’s Brewing Company
Tim O’Reilly
CEO, O’Reilly Hospitality Management
Doug PItt
Philanthropist and Owner,
ServiceWorld Computer Center
Tim Rosenbury
Partner, Butler, Rosenbury, and Partners
Pam RuBert
RuBert Studios and President,
Springfield Regional Arts Council Board
Andrew Wells ‘91
Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield, MO
Rusty Worley ‘92 ‘94
Executive Director, Urban Districts Alliance,
Springfield MO
Full-time Faculty
Marshall Arne
David Beach
Michael Buono
Nancy Chikaraishi
Jay Garrott
Keith Hedges
Yong Huang
Panos Leventis
Bruce Moore
Gerard Nadeau
Maurizio Sabini
Traci Sooter
Karen Spence
Robert Weddle
Saundra Weddle
Jayon You
Staff
Emma Clardy
Jeff Hoener
Galina Meyle
Joseph Ryan Osborne
Drury University HAMMONS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
900 North Benton Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65802, USA
1.800.922.2274 drury@drury.edu
IMAGE CREDITS
01: Max Tomasinelli. 02, 03: Caprioglio Associati
Architects and Renzo Gambato. 04: Pam RuBert.
05:Tasha Symonds. 06: Convey Studios. 07: Bob
Gathany. 08:John E. Hancock. 09:Victoria Molinelli.
10: Michal Venera. 11: Shani Barel. 12: Gayle
Babcock, Architectural Imageworks. 13: courtesy
Drury University Marketing and Communications.
EDITOR: Robert Weddle DESIGNER: Frank Norton
Professional
Advisory Council
Kristi Beattie ‘04
SAPP Design Associates Architects, Springfield MO
Vincent Ebersoldt ‘93
Ebersoldt + Associates, Saint Louis MO
Charles Hill
Gaskin Hill Norcross, Springfield MO
Matthew Hufft
Hufft Projects, Kansas City MO
Christopher Johnson ‘02
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, New York NY
Christopher Kennedy ‘99
Christopher Kennedy Design, Palm Springs CA
Billy Kimmons ‘99
Hood-Rich Architecture, Springfield MO
John Oke-Thomas ‘90
Oke-Thomas + Associates, Springfield MO
Fred Powers
Powers Bowersox Associates, Saint Louis MO
Steven Seibert ‘88
The Williams Company, Pittsburgh PA
Stephanie Shadwick ‘05
nFORM Architecture, Springfield MO
Amy Slattery
Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City MO
Tracy Steinhauser ‘06
Shubin + Donaldson Architects, Santa Barbara CA
Matthew Thornton ‘04
Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield MO
Andrew Wells ‘91
Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield MO
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