UTSA faculty Ian Caine recently sat down with representatives of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to discuss architectural pedagogy. The interview took place in Detroit, Michigan at the ACSA Architectural Education Awards. This year the ACSA recognized Caine with their prestigious New Faculty Teaching Award.
Dr. Bernard Arulanandam, Interim Vice President for Research, Economic Development and Knowledge Enterprise presented Monica with her award. Image: UTSA.edu
A panel of UTSA faculty recognized undergraduate Monica Martinez as 1 of 31 Winners in the 2017 Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Showcase, an event sponsored by the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR). Martinez worked with Assistant Professor Ian Caine to complete a project titled “Municipal Annexation as a Mechanism for Suburban Expansion in San Antonio, Texas 1939-2014.” OUR Director Dr. Thomas Coyle reflected on the event, saying “[t]he Showcase featured outstanding examples of undergraduate research from all disciplines: Science, Social Science, Humanities, Business, and the Arts – you name it. The large faculty presence signaled strong support for undergraduate research.” Congrats to Monica and thank you to the OUR office for their ongoing support for undergraduate research!
The winning proposal, titled “Housing a Million.” Image: Estefania Barajas and Jorden Gomez
Estefania Barajas. Image: UTSA CACP
Jorden Gomez. Image: UTSA CACP
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded UTSA undergraduates Estefania Barajas and Jorden Gomez a national COTE Top Ten for Award for their proposal Housing a Million.
The competition jury, composed of national sustainability experts, considered hundreds of projects submitted from 38 schools in the United States and Canada, recognizing just ten. The winning projects will be on display at the 2017 AIA Annual Convention in Orlando, FL and the 2018 ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
Barajas and Gomez developed the “Housing a Million” proposal last fall in a joint design studio led by UTSA assistant professors Ian Caine and Rahman Azari. This is the second year in a row that ACSA COTE has honored a student project from Caine and Azari’s studio with a national award. Congratulations to Stephanie and Jorden!
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The UTSA Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) has recognized Ian Caine as one of four exceptional faculty mentors for undergraduate research at UTSA. According to the OUR press release: “These faculty members have outstanding records of enabling scholarly and creative activities with undergraduates. All of them have demonstrated a sustained commitment to undergraduate research and to their students, who have produced significant scholarly and creative works (e.g., publications, presentations, and exhibits), have been accepted into graduate schools, and remain engaged in research after graduation.”
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2017 New Faculty Teaching Award Winners. Image: ASCA
Ian Caine is one of three recipients of the 2016-17 New Faculty Teaching Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). The award recognizes “demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.” ACSA awards a maximum of three architectural faculty nationally each year.
“I am deeply gratified to accept the 2016-17 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award,” said Caine. “As an educator, my highest aspiration is that the students will positively impact the trajectory of the megaregion’s growth, bending it towards a more spatially inspiring, ecologically viable, and socially just result.” Ian Caine, Aki Ishida (Virginia Tech), and Lance Walters (University of Hawaii at Manoa) will receive their awards on March 24 at the ACSA National Meeting in Detroit, Michigan.
Image: Woodbury University via Metropolis
Metropolis Magazine has recognized a UTSA design studio led by Ian Caine and Rahman Azari as one of the “…7 best sustainable design courses in America.” The national magazine highlighted the UTSA COTE (Committee on Technology and the Environment) Studio, which emphasizes the critical relationship between building performance and formal development. Architecture 2030 recently selected Caine and Azari’s course for their national Pilot Curriculum Project.
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Architecture 2030 has recognized a UTSA design curriculum as 1 of 7 that “serves as instructional models for transforming the culture of design education in architecture and planning programs nationwide.” The undergraduate studio, led by CACP faculty Ian Caine and Rahman Azari, will participate in Architecture 2030’s 2016-2017 Pilot Curriculum Project. In the coming academic year, Architecture 2030 will provide participating faculty with access to Architecture 2030’s professional network, feedback on curricula from Arch 2030 experts, and the chance to help expand the 2030 Palette. They will also publish the curricula, making the material available to an international audience for free.
Ian Caine, RA, SMArchS
Rahman Azari, PhD
Dean John Murphy named Assistant Professors Ian Caine and Rahman Azari as co-winners of the College of Architecture Construction and Planning’s Outstanding Teaching Award. The award, presented at the CACP Scholarship Banquet, recognizes exceptional contributions to architectural pedagogy in the college. Caine and Azari co-taught an undergraduate design studio that produced a national COTE Top Ten Award for Students, was selected for a national pilot curriculum project by Architecture 2030, and named by Metropolis Magazine as one of “the 7 best sustainable design courses in America.”
Caine and Azari’s COTE Studio embraced the goals and methods of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, which commits that all new buildings and major renovations will be carbon-neutral by 2030. The two studio instructors—one with expertise in building performance and the other in architectural design—initiated a critical feedback loop, creating dialogue between issues of analysis and design, performance and form. The larger goal of the studio was to explore the oft-misunderstood relationship between architectural sustainability and aesthetics.
Image: Isaias Garcia Coronado and Daniel Rodriguez Suarez
Isaias Garcia Coronado. Image: UTSA
Daniel Rodriguez Suarez. Image: UTSA
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded UTSA undergraduates Isaias Garcia Coronado and Daniel Rodriguez Suarez a national COTE Top Ten for Award for their proposal Banding for Knowledge.
The competition jury, composed of national sustainability experts, considered hundreds of projects submitted from across the United States and Canada, selecting ten for recognition. The winning projects will be on display at next year’s AIA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pa and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan.
Coronado and Rodriguez developed the winning architectural proposal last fall in a joint design studio led by UTSA assistant professors Ian Caine and Rahman Azari. Congratulations to Isaias and Daniel!
Image: Mark McClendon, UTSA
Assistant Professor of Architecture Ian Caine has received the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence. The annual award—given to a single tenure-track faculty across all disciplines in the university—recognizes faculty whose command of their respective disciplines, teaching methodologies, communication skills and commitment to learning translate into a superior learning experience for students.
