UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

COMMENCEMENT

Saturday, jun e 11 , 1994 Frederic/~ Mann Court Architecture Building

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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

University of Minnesota Regents' Seal

The antique lamp on the seal represents the metaphys ical

sciences; the telesco pe, the phys ical sc iences; the plow, the industri al arts; and the palette with brushes, the fine arts .

The La tin motto, omnibus artibus commw1e vinculu111 , means "a co mmon bo nd for all the arts ."

Academic Costume

Academi c dress identifies the weare r's discipline, alma mater, and academic rank. Undergradua tes wear a s imple black

gown , while s tudents and faculty with advanced degrees wear hoods that drape around the nec k and clown the bac k

of the gow n. College of Architec ture and Landscape Architec ture graduates wea r a traditional

mortarboard hat with a lilac tasse l.

Order of Exercises

Processional

St. Anthony Brass Quintet

Welcome

Nils Hasselmo , President

Award Presentations

Frede riel? Mann Award for Disciplina~y Service

Roger Clemence

Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching

j. Stephen Weeks

CALA Alumni Achievement Award

Curtis Green, '46

CALA Outstanding Service Award

j ames P Cramer

Commencement Address

j ames P Cramer

Greeting to the Graduates

Anne Hopkins Vice President for Arts, Sciences , and Engineering

Presentation of the Graduates

Roger Clemence, Associate Dean joan Nassauer, Head

Department of Landscape Architecture Garth Rockcastle, Head

Department of Architec ture

Conferring of Degrees

Honorable William E. Hogan III

Univers ity of Minnesota Board of Regents

Concluding Remarks

Harrison Fraker, Dean

Recessional

St. Anthony Brass Quintet

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Roger Clemence Frederic1? Mann Award for Disciplinmy Service

Roger Clemence understands the importance of bui lding connec tive tissue in a community. And he knows that the con­nective tissue-in its physical manifes tation- underpins and reinforces the fund amental qualities of life that define "commu­nity. "

"In deed and in personal conviction , Roger exemplifies the credo upon which the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was founded ," says landscape architecture professor Lance Neckar. That credo declared that the inquiry of the coll ege would focus on "the meaning and experience of peoples' physi­cal se ttings: their landscapes, cities, and buildings."

Educated in the libera l arts and as both an architect and a landscape architect, Clemence has taught at the university level for 32 years. He joined the University of Minneso ta as a member of the architec ture faculty in 1966 and has taught courses in both architecture and landscape architec ture. He was named a full professor in 1973.

Throughout his career, Clemence has promoted learning that crosses d isciplines and connec ts learning to the community. He has served on mas ters and doctoral co mmittees in twelve disci­plines. His course, "The Meanings of Place," taught an nually with geography professor judith Martin , is avail able on telev ision or video as well as in the traditional classroom se tting, where it attracts students from a wide range of disc iplines.

Clemence is a facilitator who, in his own words , thrives on "helping orchestrate opportunities for students and community members to learn from one another; always trying to build on cooperation and shared learning rather than on the delivery of so-called immutable truths. "

His most recent effort to extend the knowledge base of th e college into the community is through his new role as co llegiate program leader for the college with the Minneso ta Extension Service, where during winter 1994 he worked with landscape architec ture students and faculty from a variety of disciplines to fac ilitate a study of gathering places for the community of Waconia, Minn.

From 1978-85 Clemence was director of graduate studies in architecture. Since 1989 he has served as CALA's associate dea n, where he coordinates the college's s tudy abroad program and manages faculty promotion and tenure activities .

Clemence served on the Minneso ta Designer Selection Board from 1980-85, chairing it in 1984. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and has received the University's Horace T. Morse-Minneso ta Alumni Association Award for his teaching and the Public Service Award from the Minnesota chapter of ASLA.

J. Stephen Weeks Ralplz Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaclzing

Architecture professor]. Stephen Weeks heads the fi rst-year design stud io, is official adviser to all architecture undergradu­ates, and develops and teaches the department's building tech­nology courses .

Since 1985 Weeks has been responsible for leading and directing the first year series of courses called architectura l design-the intense, 12-hours-a-week studio setting that forms the core of architectural education . About that first year experi­ence one student says: "I was fortunate enough to have Steve as a design studio critic for all of first year. It was a time of rapid learn ing, but Steve always seemed to carefully craft each experi­ence as part of a great whole that we had ye t to know. We looked at familiar things in new ways, imagined things we cou ld not see, and then struggled to articulate all of these things .... His dedi­cation even extended to Saturday mornings vvhen he would often stop by to chat. "

Architec ture professor Leon Satkowski cites Weeks as a "tireless champion" for the building technology co mponent of the curriculum . \,Yee ks not only teaches the courses in building systems and constru ction methods but continually seeks ways that help s tuden ts unders tand the relationship between design and the cons truction process . He envisons a materials and con­struction lab to give students hands-on experience with building products and processes. And recently he documented , through videotape and computer simulation , the actual construction process of the University's new Weisman Art Museum for use in the classroom.

Beyond the class room, Weeks spends countless hours advis­ing students and helping develop the curriculum . He has played a major role in shaping the department's transition to new degree programs, especially the new emphasis on the bachelor of arts with a major in architecture degree . According to one s tudent, Steve has been "instrumental in developing a curruiculum that is fo cused on the needs of the s tudents and on providing the flex i­bility that allows students to develop as individuals as well as architects. "

Weeks received an AB from Colby College and a BArch wi th high distinction from the University of Minnesota. This spring he won the University's Gordon L. Starr Award, which recognizes outstanding service to students.

In his advising and teaching roles Weeks "has affected the academic life of every student in architecture," says Professor Satkowski. "No other colleague merits that claim. "

Curtis Green CALA Alumni Achievement Award

CALA alumnus Curtis Green is a founder and senior princi­pa l of the Minneapolis arch itectural firm Hammel Green and Abrahamson (HGA).

Green received a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and a masters in architecture in 1948 from MIT After working brieOy in Milwaukee, he moved back to Minnesota , where he practiced and also taught part-time (grade two design with Harlan McClure and Walter Vivrett) at the School of Architecture.

Green and Richard Hammel started a firm in 1953 and were joined in 1954 by Bruce Abrahamson. Taking advantage of the post-war baby boom, the partners initially specialized in schools and college buildings.

HGA grew to beco me one of the country's largest firms. It has won national honors from the American Institute of Architects for three religious architecture projects: the Colon ial Church in Edina, Minn .; St. Bede's Priory in Eau Claire, Wis.; and the renovation of a 110-year-old Trapp ist monas tery in Dubuque, Iowa known as New Melleray Abbey.

HGA became the co untry's leading architectural firm in the highly specialized field of space theaters, including the McKnight Omnithea ter in St. Paul. The firm worked with Honeywell to

design its corporate headquarters campus in Minneapolis , and on a variety of medica l projects, including the Harold W. Siebens Medical Education Building for the Mayo Clinic.

Green became a fellow of the American Ins titute of Architects in 1981. The Ted Mann Concert Hall a t the University of Minnesota was Green's last project before his retirement from HGA in March of 1994. He is currently consulting on mas ter plan implementation for Earlham College in Indiana.

Green has served on the CALA Advisory Board since 1986, and for the pas t year he has chaired that group . As a board mem­ber, Green has made countless personal calls on legislators to explain how architec ts-as purchasing agents fo r the construc­tion industry-are cr itical to the state's $4-billion-a-year con­struction industry

Green and his wife Marjorie have been generous supporters of CALA ac tivities . In addition to contributing annually, the Greens have established-as a future gift-the Curtis and Marjorie Green Scholarship Endowment Fund to benefit CALA architec ture students. "With my interes t in assisting young archi­tects, setting up a scholarship fund was a way to provide oppor­tunity while returning something to the co llege," says Green.

james P. Cramer CALA Distinguished Service Award

Although j ames P Cramer does not practice arc hitecture or hold a degree in architecture , architec ts praise him as "possibly the outstanding architectural presence in the country" today.

"The CALA Distinguished Service Award is given to an indi­vidual who has advanced the overall mission of the college in the various disciplines ," says Dean Harriso n Fraker. "jim's leadership role as ch ief executive of the American Institute of Archi tects has been visionary in building the importance and value of the des ign professions in society. "

Cramer earned a bac helor's degree in ed ucation from Northern State Univers ity in 1969 and also has don e graduate work at the University of Minneso ta, the Univers ity of St. Thomas (MA), and the Wharton Schoo l of Business (University of Pennsylvania) . The AlA Minnesota named Cramer executive vice president in 1978, which included the responsibility for publishing Arcl1itecture Minn esota.

Cramer joined the national office of the AlA in 1982 as pub­lisher of ArchiteelLire magazine, the AlAS national publication. He became the AlA's chief exec utive offi cer in 1988, lead ing an orga­nization wi th more than 57,000 members , a staff of 240, and chapters in each of the 50 sta tes and several foreign countries Through his efforts, the AlA's information mission , which includes online services and book publishing as well as Architecture magazine, has Oourished.

Norman Koonce, president of the American Architectural Foundation in Washington, D. C., says: "jim has brought about greater awareness of architects and architecture. He's a great spokesperson for the value of design and for embracing change and dealing with trends in architec ture."

Cramer serves on numerous boards, including the American Design Council , the Na tional Building Museum, and the Society of Architectural Historians; and is art and architecture editor of the Thornwillow Press of Prague and New York. He maintains strong ties with institutions of higher education , lec turing widely ~n this country and abroad. He has contributed to the University m a variety of ways, including teaching adult education and serv­ing on the adviso ry board for CALA's precursor, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Although Cramer has been selected for another term as head of the AlA, he is stepping down to pursue other projects in design advocacy. "My cause is to raise the level of awareness about the value of good design ," he says. He is now s trategic adv1ser to designers and cl ients and is currently working with the Salk Insti tute in La jolla, Ca., the Ame rican Institute of Architec ts, and the Na tional Park Foundation. He was recently ~amed distinguished fellow of the Design-Management Inst itute 111 Boston. His book, Design +Enterprise: Seeh ing tlze Competiti ve Advantage through Des ign, will be published in September.

1993-94 Graduates

Department of Architecture Facul ty Representative: Professo r Ga rth Rockcas tle, Head

Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Thomas ]. Betti David Ea rl Bower johnjoseph Burke Paul James Ca rr

with di stin ction Paul Thomas DeVetter Michael Paul Ehrli ch Robert Feyereisen Lani J anelle Fischer Garrett]. Fuerniss Wendy Heltzel

with di stin cti on David Bruce Hyde Dania! Thomas Kritta Kathl een Louise Kubesh john Andrew Larson Sa lly A. Layde Denita Dawn Lemmon Deanna Linn Patrickjohn Mackey Adam Keith Mead Thomas Donald Ososki Chris tine Eli zabeth Paul Paul Raymond Pavlak Brad Alan Pressman Andrew R. Ruggles Sarah Well es Ruplin Karla Kristine See landt jill Renee Senechal j ohn Donald Seppanen Mitch Alan Steinho ff Todd Michael Thelen Kerrik Brian Wesse l Steven j eremy Wolf

Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture (BED) Rosemary Dawn Dolata Lani Janell e Fischer Ronald Craig Hase lius

with distin ction Dean Russell johnson Denita Dawn Lemmon Damien john Lindquist

with di stinction Patri ckjohn Mac key Donald Anthony Myers Marni e Ann Potempa

will! distin cti on j ames Thomas Powell , j r.

with di stin ction Thomas Toby Rapson

with di stin ction

Andrew R. Ruggles Wendy Diane Se ifert john Donald Seppane n Robe rt C.Turinske

with distincti on

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Architecture (BA) Stacey Ann Barnett Lynn Su Dai Chri stiane Frank Robertjon Ga nse r Karin Eli zabeth Gus tafso n-Kennedy Raed Abdulkarcem Karas neh Ann Louise Koonce Ma rissa May Maniqui z jill Renee Senechal Robert David Staq' Kimberly ]. Stellmaker

Master of Architecture , First Professional Degree (MArch I) Eric Amel j ohn Freeman Bergford Susan Mary Braun Mary Eli zabeth deLaittre Vaughn Benjamin Dierks Deborah Ri chmond Duncan Eric Arlen Erdahl Brian j oseph F itzgerald Hea ther Ann F legel Debra j ean Go ndeck-Becker Edwa rd Ronald Gratz Eri c Wes ley Hanson Robert Christopher Horst Nathan Frederi ck Knutson Kyungwookj eon Gayla Jean Lindt Daniel]. Mat-e ke! Olaf Andrew Medhus Sco tt Ian Mykl ebust Les M. Rowland Ma rtin Sven Thompson Timothy J ohn Thurik Laurel Donaldson Ulland

Master of Architecture, Post­Profess ional Degree (MArch II) Simon Beeson Alan Ka rl D'Souza Malini Srivas tava Wen Zhao

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Department of Landscape Architecture Faculty Represe ntative: Professor joan Nassauer, Head

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) john Brya n Pacyga

with di stin cti on

Bachelor of Environmenta l Des ign in Landscape Architecture (BED) Na than Ca rl Anderson Robert H. Day

with distin ction Christopher Friedrich Michae l Geo rge Horne r Annette L. Odren

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture/Master of Landscape Architecture (BLAftviLA) Cra ig Ne lson

with di stin ction Vera Ce leste Wes trum

with distinction

Degrees

t\•lastcr of Landscape Archi tectu re (MLA) Ve ronica A. Anderson j ed All en Becher Na ncy j ean Benj amin Colston C. Burrell Robert H. Day W illiam Lewis Delaney j oni Lynn Giese Barbara Luella Hanson Ty Sco tt Hullinge r Diana Ruth Lobien Grego ry j o hn Ness William j ay Ohl and Larissa Alexandra Po llac k Luke Walter Sydow No rman Lee Vork Ma rk Alawn Webster

This program contains the na mes o f Co llege of Architec ture and Landscape Arc hitec ture (CALA) s tudents w ho have applied to gradua te from fall q uarter 1993 through sum mer sessio n 1994 .

The BArch , BLA , and the BED d egrees a re gran ted by CALA. The BA degree w ith a major in arc hitec ture is granted by the College o f Libera l Arts (CLA) . Mas te rs degrees are granted by the Graduate School.

The BLA/N!LA is a combined d egree program th a t provides s tu ­den ts who have an ea rn ed bacca laurea te degree with both an acc redited profess iona l d egree in la ndscape a rchitec ture ( the BLA) and a scholarly graduate d egree ( the MLA) .

Honors

CALA awa rds deg rees with dis tinc ti on and with high dis tinc tion to undergraduate s tudents with grad e po int averages o f 3.5 and 3 .8 o r above, respective ly. Ho no rs are ca lcula ted based on th e las t 90 credits completed and the m os t c urrent grad e information available. Add itional studen ts may earn dis tinc ti o n or high dis tinc tion after com­ple ting their spring 1994 and!or s umm er 1994 fin al quarter courses. Honors are noted on s tudents' transc ripts and diplom as.

Fo r s tudents ea rning a BA with a major in a rchitec ture through CLA, the cum laude , magna cu m laude, and summa cum laude d egrees are awarded upon appli cat ion to students who m ee t certain grad e po int average requirements and who co m ple te spec ia l work within th e majo r.

TIJ is is not an official Un iversity of Jvfinn esota graduation list. Degrees are granted when all graduati on requirements have been 111 et.

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Harrison Fraker, Dea n Roger Clemence, Associate Dean

William R. Morrish , Director Des ign Center f or American Urba n Landscape

joan Nassauer, Head Department of Landscape Architecture

Garth Rockcastle, Head Department of Architecture

Faculty Ralph Nelson Continuing Christine Albertsson Lance Neckar Education and Lee Anderson Peter Olin Extension Faculty julie Bargmann Tom Oslund Craig Churchward William Blanski Aaron Parker Rodney Eri ckson Warren Byrd Lars Peterssen Juli e Luers Chris Calott Andrzej Piotrowski Robert Mack Raveevarn Dav id Pitt Lawrence Seiberlich

Choksombatchai Timothy Quigley Dav id Stoval Roger Clemence j ohn Rauma Paul Damon Todd Rhoades Professional and Thomas DeAngelo Dennis Sun Rhodes Administrative Staff Gunter Dittmar julia Robinson Suzanne Bardouche Paul Emmons Garth Rockcastle Regina Bonsignore Tim Fuller Leon Satkowski Catherine Brown Harrison Fraker Jeffrey Scherer Susan Danielson Susan Galatowitsch Juli e VandenBerg David Grimsrud Dennis Grebner Snow Tom Hammerberg Robert Gunderson Katherine Craig johnson Mary Guzowski Solomonson Mary Vogel Kerry Haglund j ames Stagebe rg Todd Hanson Robert Sykes Civil Service Staff Peter Herzog Milo Thompson Stephen Amey Clint Hewitt Duane Thorbeck Rita Anderson Vince j ames Lee Tollefson Andrea Baysoy Cynthia jara J. Stephen Weeks Paul Bernstein Deborah Karasov Sara Rothholtz David Bowers janis Ladouceur 'vVeiner Warren Bruland Lance LaVine Mark Wentzell Debra Buchholtz Shan Lee Becky Drasin David Lime Emeriti Faculty Paula Elliott Kay Lockhart Carl Graffu nder Mary Ellis Roger Martin Valerius Michelson Norma Essex Thomas Meyer Leonard Parker Betsy Levet'l y Paul Mi ller Ra lph Rapson joon Mornes Wi lliam Morrish Richard Schunn Dale Mulfinger Constance Severson Richard Murphy, jr. Carol Stafford joan Nassauer Carol Swenson

Marcia Tenney Gerry Warner

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Award Recipients

CALAAlumni Achievement Award

1990 W illiam E. Pedersen, Jr ., BArch '6 1

1991 Lawrence B. Anderson , BArch '27

1992 Leonard Parker, BArch '48

1993 j ack Dangennoncl, MArch '67

CALA Outstanding Service Award

1990 Wi lliam L. Hall , Jr. 1991 Mild red Friedman 1992 Sandra Hale 1993 David Michae l and

Penny Rand Winton

Frederick Mann Award for Discplinary Service

1990 Roger B. Martin 1991 Charles Hui zenga 1993 Dale Mu lfinge r

Roy jones A ward for Outstanding Research

1990 joan I. Nassauer 1992 Lee Anderson 1993 Leon Sa tkowski

Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching

1990 Thomas A. Meyer 1991 j ames Stageberg 1992 Lance Neckar 1993 Michael Rob inson

The CALA Medal

The CALA medal , Turtle Island: The No rth American Continent, was commissioned by the dean and faculty to celebrate the for­mation of the new Coll ege of Architec ture and Landscape

Architecture in 1989. The medal, cas t in bronze in the form of a turtle, was inspired by a Native American creation legend. The mythic American landscape is on the turtle's back, divided

between earth and sky. Within this landscape, elements of nature

and of human se lllement appear: cities, rive rs, bridges, fores ts, roads, p lains, farms , and mountains. All the axes meet at the cen­ter, which is a sacred and symbolic place, with earth and sky

connected by a thin thread. A seal symbolizing crea tive aspira­~ion is on the turt le's underside, and is surrounded by the

mscription College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Uni versity of Minnesota .

The medal , designed by Nico la Moss, is awarded on a ribbon held in place by a pin that passes through the turtle's mouth. The turtle becomes a hand-held medal when the pin is removed.

History of the Study of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the

University of Minnesota

1877 Firs t pro fessional degree in architec ture awa rded to Walter Stone Pardee

1913 Freder ick Ma nn becomes head of the fi rs t o ffi cial department o f architec ture

1937 Roy j ones named second head of the de partment of architecture

1954 Ralph Rapso n becomes the third head of the newly named Schoo l o f Architecture

1961 Thorshov and Ce rny design a new building for the school

1966 Roger Martin named chair of a nevv program in land­scape architec ture in the renamed School of Architec ture and Landscape Architec ture (SALA)

1971 Firs t p ro fessional degree in landsca pe a rchitecture awa rded to j ames Robin

1984 Harrison Fraker named head of SALA

1986 Design Center for American Urban Landscape es tab­lished with fund s from the Dayton Hudson Foundati on and the Permanent University Fund

1989 By ac tion of the Board of Regents, SALA becomes an independent pro fessional college, the Co llege of Architec ture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)

1990 CALAS fi rs t graduating class honored in ceremonies in the architecture building's Frederick Mann co urt

1993 CALA architecture and landscape architec ture depart­ments begin to phase out undergraduate professional degrees and implement graduate- leve l pro fessional degree programs