[ArchitectureMajors] PSU SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENT BULLETIN WEEK 6
Current Architecture Majors
STUDENT BULLETIN | FALL 2013 | WEEK 6 | NOV. 8, 2013 Reminder: PSU is closed for Veterans Day on Monday, November 11. No classes will be in session, and the digital and materials lab will both be closed.
School of Architecture Events:
Fridays@4: Lecture by Aaron Whelton, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Friday, November 8, 4pm
It’s time for another Fridays@4! This week, Aaron Whelton, Assistant Professor of Architecture here at Portland State University will discuss his professional architecture work. At Fridays@4, you can socialize with your fellow architecture students, and enjoy refreshments served by a different studio class each week and talks by visiting professors, professionals and fellow students.
Upcoming talks include the following:
November 15: Yoonhee Choi and Jonathan Bolch, adjunct Architecture faculty, will talk about drawing and creating art
November 22: Burgeoning Polemics: Thesis students introduce their emerging design research topics
Where: Shattuck Hall Annex, SW Broadway & Hall Street
“Public Space Now” Exhibition
Now till November 27, 2013
Discussion: Design in the Public Realm: Tuesday, November 12, 6pm
As the line between private and public space becomes less clear, what does it mean to design the public sphere? To explore this question, urbanLAB:PDX, a research collaborative at the PSU School of Architecture, presents a global survey of more than 30 contemporary design projects in the public realm. These include reclaimed waterfronts, active streetscapes, parks, communal rituals, and neighborhood spaces, all amid the diverse demands placed by democratic use today. The exhibition illustrates more than thirty designs, ranging from New York City’s Highline to Paris’s temporary riverfront beaches to Ballast Park on former brownfields in Sidney to Waterfire in Providence. Check out the explorations of PSU architecture students on their Facebook page below https://www.facebook.com/pages/Portland-Public-Spaces-PSU-Architecture/232907110207113.
The exhibition is being hosted by the Center for Architecture, and runs from November 7 to 27. An open gallery discussion of design in the public realm will be held on November 12, 6pm.
Where: Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Events Around Town:
If Not for Kidnap: Nora Wendl
Friday, November 8, 7:30pm
Tonight, Assistant Professor Nora Wendl will be reading her original work, pieces exploring the concept of space and Edith Farnsworth’s writings about living in Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, in this event organized by the If Not For Kidnap poetry concern. She will be reading alongside accomplished poets Danniel Schoonebeek and Russ Woods, who have traveled from New York and Chicago, respectively.
Where: Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
AIA Emerging Professionals Kick-off Party
Wednesday, November 13, 5:30pm
The AIA Emerging Professionals Committee (EPC) is throwing a 2013-2014 kick-off party this coming Wednesday to inform the community about the committee and various opportunities. Topics include the A.R.E. exam, intern-friendly firms in Portland, mentorship programs, the Intern Development Program, networking opportunities, and valuable resources available through the AIA. Free pizza will be offered, as well as a chance to meet other emerging professionals in the area. Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/AIAPortlandEPC/ for more info.
Where: Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Opportunities
Internships
Design Internship Opportunity
Architects, designers, and graduate students with two to four years of residential design experience and production work are eligible to apply for an internship position at Wright Design Office in downtown Portland. Program skills preferred include Sketchup, hand sketching, Autocad, and Adobe CS. The intern will be asked to work part-time and complete construction detailings and administration, observations, and documentations. To apply, send a CV and work examples to John Wright at jo...@wrightdesignoffice.com.
Mother’s Cabin Student Internship Opportunity
The Robert Newell House Museum and Arciform LLC are seeking interns to help with the disassembly, reassembly, and documentation process of the historic Mother’s Cabin located along the Willamette. The cabin will be moved to the Robert Newell House Museum, where it will be rebuilt with reused materials. If interested in this unique opportunity, contact Judy Van Atta at newellho...@centurytel.net.
Awards and Scholarships
Mark O. Hatfield Architectural Award: Call for Applications
Architecture Foundation of Oregon is seeking applications for its 2014 Senator Mark O. Hatfield Architectural Award. The $2,000 scholarship for Design Excellence and Community Service is open to students currently enrolled in the University of Oregon or Portland State University architecture programs, legal residents of the United States with demonstrated ability for quality architectural design, academic achievement and a commitment to community service. Students can apply by submitting a design portfolio, two letters of recommendation, a one page essay, and a current transcript. Applications are due Friday, January 10, 2014. Submittal information is available at https://af-oregon.org/programs/hatfield-architectural-award.
Truman Scholarship
This national scholarship opportunity targets current college juniors with exceptional leadership potential. Students may be awarded up to 30,000 for assistance in graduate school, as well as opportunities to become involved in leadership development activities, internships, and employment with the federal government. To be considered, a PSU student must be nominated by the Fellowship Liaison/University Honors adviser. For more information and the application, visit http://www.truman.gov/ or contact Leena Shrestha at fello...@pdx.edu.
Competitions and Calls for Proposals
IMOA Atacama 2014 Architecture Competition
The International Museum of Astronomy presents IMOA Atacama 2014, an international architecture and design student competition to design the International Museum of Astronomy in Atacama, Chile, is a destination for travelers who are interested in astronomy, with several research stations open to the public. The object of the competition is to design a “centre for lovers of Astronomical Tourism to learn and observe the sky,” The top prize includes a monetary award, magazine subscriptions, and publications of work in WA Wettbewerbe Aktuell and Ottagono magazines and Plataforma Arquitectura. Registration for the competition is open until January 16, 2014. Visit http://www.arquideas.net/competition/international-museum-astronomy for more info.
“The Present Is Articulate” Call for Proposals
Project Cityscope is calling all artists, makers, thinkers and performers to submit a proposal for the “urban intervention” series titled “The Present is Articulate.” Proposals are to investigate new definitions for infrastructure and space, while identifying and opening space for play. Questions one should ask before creating proposals are: “How can live, time-based art in an urban space affect renewal to what has become habitual and mundane?” “What possibilities are created from installing
flux in the use/play with(-in) urban spaces?” Proposals must be a self contained sustained project that can be assembled, executed, and disassembled in one day. Submit proposals and any questions to in...@projectcityscope.org before 1/31/2014 for this round of project considerations. Please fill out the application form at http://tiny.cc/xzdo5w and submit it when you are sending your project proposals.
Volunteer Positions
Volunteer Opportunity: Community Garden for Harrison Park School
At Harrison Park School, plans are underway to create a public garden for this low-income community, which is facing serious hunger issues, in addition to low education levels and language barriers. The school’s existing food donation program meets only 10% of the community’s needs during the school year and families are forced to look elsewhere for food assistance during the summer months. A community garden would enable neighbors and families to grow their own food and increase their access to sufficient nutrition year-round. Design meetings are currently being held with the community, and the project planners are seeking help from PSU Architecture students to create CAD drawings of the designs, so that the school volunteers can use these professional plans to work from when they are constructing the garden. Student volunteers would most likely be asked to visit the site, attend design meetings and utilize the ideas generated and decided upon during the meetings to create professional drawings. To volunteer for this project or to get more information, please contact Ralph Leftwich at rwle...@gmail.com.
Classes and Workshops
Welding Workshops
Welding Workshops are back!Sign up for a workshop now to claim a spot in the last weekend course offered this term, which is open only to architecture students and takes place November 15 - 16. Each class is 1 credit for undergraduates, and 0 credits for graduates. To register, see Karen in the School of Architecture office by 4:30pm on Friday, November 15 to enroll with a Special Registration form, or go online to the PSU course registration web site to sign up.
ADX Portland Workshop Classes
ADX Portland, a membership-based DIY design and prototyping facility dedicated to the practice of craft and fabrication, is a place where designers and makers can come to create anything they desire. In addition to their thriving open workshop, they offer weekly classes for anyone who wants to learn about fabrication in a variety of media. Classes include woodworking, metalworking, Revit fundamentals, upholstering, and much more. Check out their event calendar at http://adxportland.silkstart.com/events to view upcoming classes.
Toshi Woudenberg will be teaching the course on Revit, an architectural software at ADX Portland on Saturday November 9 at 11am. Register at http://adxportland.silkstart.com/events/revit-fundamentals.
Other Opportunities
New Job Opportunities
The bulletin boards in the North hallway on the 3rd and 2nd floors of Shattuck Hall will be updated with Job opportunities as they come in. Be sure to check up on the bulletin boards often to take advantage of these unique opportunities.
Student Blog
The Student Council’s Tumblr site, http://riserun.tumblr.com/, was started last school year and features work created by our students! You can submit work to your studio rep that you would like posted on the upcoming student blog. Send in images of your work along with project descriptions throughout the year and they will be uploaded for the public to view. These images and projects can depict studio life, studio work, or outside work. Send your submissions to ARCHstu...@pdx.edu. For more information, please contact Rachel Browne at rbr...@pdx.edu.
Lecture Videos on Vimeo
The School of Architecture Vimeo page features numerous lectures presented by the School throughout the last two years. Check out our Vimeo page at http://vimeo.com/psuarchitecture for lectures you missed or for new weekly uploads, which will be added soon.
Reminders:
Don’t Forget to Apply For Graduation!
Undergraduates! If your intended term of graduation is Spring 2014, be sure to submit your application for graduation by the deadline, which is January 17, 2014. The application, other documents, and instructions to graduate can be found on the PSU website at http://www.pdx.edu/registration/graduation.
Policy Re: Use of Spray and Power Tools
Please remember that it is NEVER acceptable to use any kind of spray in or around Shattuck Hall or any other building. This includes spray paint, spray fixative, spray adhesive, spray lacquer, aerosol hair spray… if it’s aerosol and disperses any fumes or particles into the air, it’s NOT OKAY, even if you are outside the building. Please use materials for your projects that do not require spraying. If you absolutely must use spray, you may use the spray booth in the Art building, but this requires planning ahead and contacting the School of Art in advance in order to make arrangements. Students who use spray in or around the building will be charged $50. If spray chemicals are found in the studio or anywhere in the building, they will be removed by the School of Architecture office.
Power tools are never allowed in studio or anywhere in Shattuck Hall except for in the shop during its business hours. If you need to use power tools, go to Shattuck Hall 130 and use the facilities there.
Student Lounge Cleaning Update
Studies estimate that 40 to 50% of all food in the United States goes to waste. Please help us lower that number while keeping the fridge clean! Toward that end, we will begin a new refrigerator cleaning/clearing schedule intended to help start the week with a clean slate and keep the fridge free of moldy, wasted food. Every Monday at 12:30 the studio assigned to cleaning that week will go to the lounge and clear out all of the contents of the fridge, throwing away anything that is in the fridge. Make sure to remove your food for the half hour between 12:30 and 1 on Mondays, or just eat it! Please consider only bringing the amount of food that you can actually eat that day, so that food does not go to waste. The studio in charge will not remind people, so make sure to keep on top of removing your own food. This may be a tough transition, but anyone who forgets and gets good food thrown away will surely remember the following week! Questions? Contact rbr...@pdx.edu. Thanks.
Fridays@4 Refreshment Schedule
Want to know when your class is serving snacks at Fridays@4? Here is the refreshment schedule for this term:
Week 6, Nov. 8: ARCH 280 J. Cooney
Week 7, Nov. 15: ARCH 280 Wendl & Heredia
Week 8, Nov. 22: ARCH 480 Wortham-Galvin & Kekez/Villarreal
Week 9, Nov. 25 - Nov. 27 (THANKSGIVING): No Friday-at-Four
Kitchen Cleaning Schedule
We know it’s no fun, but that third-floor studio kitchen won’t clean itself! Here are the kitchen cleaning assignments for the term:
Week 6, Nov. 4 - Nov. 8: ARCH 280 Cooney
Week 7, Nov. 12 - Nov. 15: ARCH 280 Wendl & Heredia
Week 8, Nov. 18 - Nov. 22: ARCH 480 Wortham-Galvin & Kekez/Villarreal
Week 9, Nov. 25 - Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving week): ARCH 580 Schnabel & Whelton
Week 10, Dec. 2 - Dec. 6: ARCH 586 Griffin & 121 Kogut
Week 11, Dec. 9 - Dec. 13: ARCH 480 Barton
Check with Rachel Browne (rbr...@pdx.edu) with any questions related to refreshments and kitchen cleanup.
Digital Lab & Wood/Metal Shop Hours
Here are the hours for the Shattuck Hall Digital Lab and Wood/Metal Shop this term:
Digital Lab:
Monday - Thursday 8:30am-9:00pm *
Friday 8:30am-7:00pm
Saturday - Sunday 10:00am-7:00pm
Wood/Metal Shop:
Monday - Friday 10:00am-9:00pm*
Saturday - Sunday 1:00pm-6:00pm
*Closed Monday, November 11, for Veterans Day.
School of Architecture Studio Representative Meetings
Our Student Body Liaison Rachel Browne will begin holding Studio Representative Council meetings on Mondays at 12 noon at the large conference table in Shattuck Hall Room 235. If you are a representative for your studio, or if you would like to volunteer to fill that role in your studio, please show up promptly at 12 noon on Monday in the office, or contact Rachel at rbr...@pdx.edu.
Changes to ARCH Curriculum
A reminder to undergraduate architecture students: Beginning this term, the requirement for 8 credits of upper division architecture electives must include 4 credits in the Humanities knowledge area (the classes numbered ARCH 43x). In addition to that, ARCH 367u will no longer be open to architecture majors and will not count toward upper division architecture elective credit (unless taken previously). Please contact the School of Architecture office with any questions or concerns.
Drop-In Tutoring & eTutoring Availability
eTutoring offerings have been increased this term to include math, statistics, accounting, economics, biology, chemistry, physics & spanish. Drop-in tutoring, found in Millar Library on PSU campus is open Monday-Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-4pm, and Sunday 2pm-8pm. For full information on Drop-in tutoring and eTutoring, visit the Learning Center website at http://www.pdx.edu/tutoring/.
Fire Safety Requirements
Please note the following fire safety precautions required throughout Shattuck Hall by the fire marshal: Extension cords and space heaters are not allowed. Power strips are allowed, but they must never be plugged into another power strip. Every power strip must be directly plugged into a wall outlet. Avoid stretching electrical cords across walkways and in between desks. If doing so is unavoidable, check with Karen in the School office to request walk-over cord covers, a limited number of which are available in the office. Thank you for helping to keep our studio spaces safe and compliant with fire marshal requirements.
Need Help?
If you are having trouble with your third floor studio access badge, are having difficulty registering for a class, need to schedule an advising appointment with a faculty member, need to report a janitorial or facilities issue, or need other assistance, please come down and see Communications & Student Services Coordinator Karen Stein in the School of Architecture office, or contact her at ko...@pdx.edu or 503-725-8422.
Print codes are available in the Digital Lab in Shattuck Hall 107. Just ask the lab attendant.
If you haven’t taken time to read the School of Architecture Student Handbook, please do so today. A digital copy of the handbook is available on the department web site, and you will find hard copies pinned to the wall in each studio and in the Shattuck Hall third floor kitchen.
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If you would like to submit news, events or announcements to the weekly newsletter, please forward your contribution by Thursday at 9am to Rachel at rbr...@pdx.edu or Karen at ko...@pdx.edu.
If you would like to be added to our student email list, or to add a different email address to our email list, send your request to Karen at ko...@pdx.edu.
Also, if you are no longer enrolled in the PSU Architecture program and would like to unsubscribe from the listserv, follow the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email you receive from the listserv.
Karen O'Donnell Stein
Communications & Student Services Coordinator
School of Architecture
Portland State University
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503.725.8318 fax
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