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Study Abroad Proposal | 2015University of Arizona | CAPLA

SCANDINAVIAStockholm | Copenhagen | Oslo | Helsinki

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Brad Lang | AIA, NCARBUniversity of Arizona | College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape ArchitectureLecturer | School of Architecture

Brad Lang earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona and Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Brad has worked professionally in Los Angeles with the notable firms Marmol Radziner Architecture + Construction and Belzberg Architects. In 2005, Brad relocated to Phoenix where he spent the next eight years split between the national firms of Gould Evans Architecture and SmithGroupJJR. His professional work as project architect and lead designer has earned over a dozen design awards with his portfolio being recognized in 2013 with the American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Region Young Architect Award.

In 2013, after a series of adjunct assignments, Brad transitioned from practice to devote his efforts full-time to teaching. At the University of Arizona School of Architecture, Brad focuses on developing critical and theoretical design approaches within a comprehensive and applied studio setting.

Brad’s synthesis of architectural practice and academic knowledge complements the traditions and trajectory of modern and contemporary Scandinavian architecture. Leveraging this expertise will offer an expanded view from which the students will gain a greater understanding of how architecture can be actualized in service of social, cultural, spatial, and formal affects and effects.

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Shane Ida Smith | PhD, AIA, LEED APUniversity of Arizona | College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape ArchitectureAssistant Professor | School of Architecture

Shane Smith earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon, Master of Architecture in Design and Energy Conservation from the University of Arizona, and Doctorate in Architectural Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During her architectural practice in New York, as an Associate of Ismael Leyva Architects, she held primary roles for design and construction documentation on projects with architects such as Jean Nouvel, Nicholas Grimshaw, Charles Gwathmey, and Toshiko Mori. During her tenure as a PhD Candidate at the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology (CASE RPI/SOM) in New York, and as a multi-year recipient of the Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship, she conducted design research for emerging environmental building envelope technologies, with a recent feature in Metropolis magazine.

At the University of Arizona School of Architecture, Shane continues to focus on environmental building technology research, developing critical theory and methods for innovative design processes. She incorporates aspects of inventive material propositions with environmental performance criteria through iterative digital and physical feedback methods in the design process. She holds two patent disclosures, including Dynamic Design Framework for Mediated Bioresponsive Building Envelopes and Dynamic Regenerative Intelligent Polymeric Systems.

Shane seeks to deepen her knowledge with building envelope design and performance through contextual analyses of contemporary enclosure systems in the Scandinavian region. Her expertise will engage upon dialogue with students for comprehension of both Scandinavian environmental and socio-political influence on architectural design as well as the impact of climatic and regional resources on building envelope composition and physics.

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ARC 497B/597B | Special Projects in Architecture

Building Envelope: Performance, Material, Assembly, and Organizations [3-CU]

Whereas the usual design process proceeds from a guiding conceptual image down to the detail, this architecture develops from real experiential situations towards an architectural form. As drawings, in fact, these buildings might sometimes appear vague, fragmentary or incomplete, as the design aims solely at qualities arising in the lived experiential situation. This is an architecture of sensory realism in opposition to conceptual idealism.

Juhani Pallasma | Hapticity and Time

A deep examination of the internalities and externalities influencing building envelope design logics will be explored through a series of Scandinavian case study analyses and documentations. Performance, material, assembly, and organizations will be revealed as an emergence from influential contextual analyses, including climate conditions, regional material resources, environmental policies, and socio-political influence. In addition, students will gain familiarity with continuums of regional craftsmanship and manufacturing intelligence influencing the historic development of building envelope techniques and assemblies. The building enclosure will also be investigated as an interdependent, dynamic, and adaptive layer within the context of built and natural ecologies.

In reciprocity with The Diagram and the Precedent course, students may develop critical building envelope diagrams based on built works incorporating spatiotemporal, biophysical, and cartographic documentation of intrinsic and extrinsic factors informing the envelope system logics. Students will be encouraged to complement their research investigations with complementary theoretical readings, such as those of deep ecologist Pentti Linkola. Students will be required to develop creative building envelope documentation, including film, animation, narratives, or drawings suitable for an exhibit at CAPLA.

We should understand that beauty is not a mysterious veil thrown over a building but a logical result of having everything in the right place.

Erik Bryggman | rural Architecture

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Diagram Collage, by various Scandinavian Architects.

ARC 499/599 | Independent Study

The Diagram and the Precedent: Analyses, Techniques, Operations, and Translations [3-CU]

The diagram is an invisible matrix, a set of instructions, that underlies--and most importantly organizes--the expression of features in any material construct. The diagram is the reservoir of potential that lies at once active and stored within an object or an environment (or in every aggregate or section of these). It determines which features (or affects) are expressed and which are saved. It is, in short, the motor of matter, the modulus that controls what it does.

Sanford Kwinter | The Judo of Cold Combustion

Tracing the functionalist evolution of Scandinavian architecture to the “pragmatic utopian” architecture espoused by contemporary practitioners like Copenhagen’s BIG sees the diagram’s position emerge full force as the generator for novel material assemblies, spatial sequences, urban engagement and contextual responses. Through architectural precedent analysis and iterative explorations, this course aims to uncover illustrative techniques that reveal the underlying influences behind some of the most significant architecture of the last century. The goal will be to leave a strict analysis behind through abstract operative strategies and create a taxonomy of generative principles. Once in place, the architectural icons of modern and contemporary Scandinavian will be revisited and undergo a series of translations endeavoring to de(re)contextualize the work testing the relative robustness of their diagram(s). For example, the exercise might ask – determine the spatial and ordering diagram behind Aalto’s Finlandia Hall and explore how its application would affect the contextual diagram underlying Snohetta’s National Opera and Ballet. What novel relationships emerge? In this sense, if diagrams are reservoirs of potential, precedents are situated as reservoirs of diagrams.

The diagram is a possibility of fact --it is not the Fact itself.

Gilles Deleuze | Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

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n.CohortThe scope of the proposed travel program is intended for architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and BSSBE students. Course content, activities, and assignments may be modified to accommodate the strengths and interests of students in each discipline.

PrerequisitesUndergraduate students shall have successfully completed at least their second year in their respective program. Graduate students shall have successfully completed at least their first year in their respective program.

Travel Dates [30 days]

Proposed travel dates align with the University of Arizona 2015 First and Second Summer Sessions.June 8, 2015 – July 9, 2015 orJuly 13, 2015 – August 12, 2015

Program ScheduleThe program schedule is conceived for a 30-day intensive study-abroad curriculum. Formal activities, including classes, organized tours, office visits, and guest lectures, will be held five days each week. The Scandinavian study abroad students and faculty will curate an exhibit of the travel research to be installed at CAPLA in Fall 2015.

ItineraryThe capital cities of Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Helsinki will serve as sites for consecutive one-week explorations. In general, mornings and early afternoons will take students to significant historical and contemporary works for in situ lectures and analysis. Follow-up work will commence in the afternoons at significant cultural locations, for example, Stockholm Public Library by Gunnar Asplund, Royal Library – Black Diamond by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Aalto University Library, Otaniemi by Alvaro Aalto. Day trips and architectural office tours will also be incorporated as each locale affords, for instance, Malmo, Sweden is but a thirty minute car ride from Copenhagen or a morning spent at Snohetta’s Oslo office. Weekends will be spent engaging nature, exploring the city, seeing art, sketching, reading, eating and all other imaginable means of urban existence.

The faculty representatives are currently seeking discussions with contacts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Aalto University in Helsinki, Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Oslo, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm for potential institutional relationships, utilization of facilities and resources, and collaborations with local academic expertise.

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Google.Cost Per Person [USD] June 8 - July 9 | 30 days

International Travel Price Source

Tucson - Stockholm 1280 http://www.kayak.com/Tucson - Copenhagen 1240Tucson - Oslo 1220Tucson - Helsinki 1180

Tucson to Phoenix Airport Shuttle 39 http://arizonashuttle.com/

Phoenix - Stockholm 1160 http://www.kayak.com/Phoenix - Copenhagen 1190Phoenix - Oslo 1100Phoenix - Helsinki 1170

Subtotal 1000-1200

Stockholm - Copenhagen 80 https://www.flysas.com/en/us/Copenhagen - Oslo 100Oslo - Helsinki 100Helsinki - Stockholm 90

Subtotal 400

Housing

Apartment Stockholm 45/night 315/week https://www.airbnb.com/Copenhagen 45/night 315/weekOslo 50/night 350/week Helsinki 40/night 280/week

Subtotal 1200-1400HostelStockholm 30/night 210/week http://www.hostels.com/Copenhagen 35/night 245/weekOslo 40/night 280/weekHelsinki 30/night 210/week

Subtotal 900-1050

Food & Transportation

Stockholm 45/day 315/week http://www.nomadicmatt.com/Copenhagen 50/day 350/weekOslo 55/day 385/weekHelsinki 50/day 350/week

Subtotal 1300-1450

Attractions 10/day 300/monthSubtotal 300

Insurance & Fees

Travelers Insurance 1.30/day 50Department Fee 500 [up to]Study Abroad & Student Exchange Fee 600

Subtotal 1150

Total 5350-5900

Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, by Snøhetta,

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