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The gathering on the unfinished 12th floor at the Hayden Ferry Lakeside complex, courtesy Steve Betts and SunCor, were perched above a view envisioned by the man they had come to celebrate—James Elmore. Over 200 people came to share memories about a man, known to the ASU community as the founding dean of the College of Architecture in 1964, was known and admired by many people from across the Valley and Arizona for his leadership in creating and championing the idea of the Rio Salado project, which became the Tempe Town Lake.
The evening began by a welcome and introduction by current ASU College of Design Dean Wellington Reiter, who introduced Elmore's family and thanked cosponsors of the event—AIA Arizona, Rio Salado Architecture Foundation, and Valley Forward.
Reiter reviewed Elmore's tenure and accomplishments with ASU, including:
- Elmore was founding dean of the College of Architecture and served from 1964 to 1974, taught until 1986 when he retired.
- Elmore came to Arizona State College in 1949, accepting a position offered by then president Grady Gammage.
- For the next 15 years, he built the program from a few technical courses in the Industrial Arts Dept. to a Bachelor of Architecture in 1957 and an independent School of Architecture in 1959 to full accreditation in 1961 and the stand alone College of Architecture in 1964.
- He hired distinguished faculty—Cal Straub, George Christensen, John Yellott, Jack Peterson, and James Rapp to set the college on its course of excellence.
- Also started the college on its own legacy of service to the community—a history of working with community leaders to improve the built and natural environments.
Sponsors Mark Patterson of AIA Arizona, John Williams of Rio Salado Architecture Foundation, and Diane Brossert of Valley Forward each shared why Elmore was a valuable asset to these professional and business organizations and to the Valley.
The formal section of the celebration included James Garrison, Arizona State Historic Preservation Officer, who shared the history of the Rio Salado design studios that took place during the 1960s; Steve Nielsen, ASU University Real Estate Development Office, who was the project leader for the Town Lake for the city of Tempe for 12 years; and finally, Emeritus Professor Robert Oliver, who was a faculty member during Elmore's tenure but more than that was Elmore's close friend during the last years of his life.
These formal presentations were punctuated by additional speakers Rick Naimark, representing the City of Phoenix; Paul Winslow, former student of Elmore's and principal of The Orcutt/Winslow Partnership; Bill Meek, Arizona Utility Investors Association; Ned Sawyer, architect, former student and participant in the original Rio Salado studio, and family friend; and Will Bruder, architect, who proposed renaming Tempe Town Lake to honor Jim Elmore—Lake Elmore.
Finally, Jim Elmore established the J W Elmore Lectureship Endowment with the College of Design several years ago. Former students and friends of James Elmore have the opportunity to add to this endowment to support the annual Design Excellence Dinner, which raises money for college programs and student scholarships. For more information on contributing to the endowment, please contact Trista Dunagan at trista.dunagan@asu.edu or 480.727.8998.
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James W. Elmore passed away peacefully at his home in Phoenix at age 89 on April 19, 2007. Born in Nebraska, he received his B.A. from the University of Nebraska. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the European Theater of World War II. After earning a Master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University, he moved to Phoenix in 1948, where he began to practice architecture and to teach at Arizona State College at Tempe.
For the next quarter century, Professor Elmore was instrumental in the development of the College of Architecture at ASU, becoming its founding Dean. His concerns and enthusiasms extended beyond the university. He served as a director on many local boards, including the Heard Museum, the Valley Forward Association, the Central Arizona Historical Society, and the Central Arizona chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In 1966, he was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. He also served for many years in the U.S. Army Reserve, attaining the rank of colonel.
A source of great pride for him was seeing the realization of the Rio Salado project, a concept arising from design proposals in the College of Architecture. Town Lake in Tempe is an embodiment of this dream for reclaiming the channel of the Salt River in the Valley. In recent years, he sought solutions for transportation and other issues affecting sustainable growth in the Valley. He was a steadfast advocate for solar energy applicatons.
Dean Elmore was predeceased in 2006 by his beloved wife of 59 years, Ann D. Elmore. He is survived by his daughter, Kay Elmore, of Portland, OR, his son, James D. Elmore, of Bangor, ME, and grandchildren, Adam Elmore of Pittsburgh, PA, and Aurora Elmore of New Brunswick, NJ, and their mother, Kal Elmore of Old Town, ME.
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Department of Visual Communication Design Wins AIGA Arizona 2007 Prisma Award for Vizual Voices
The Prisma Award Show, which takes place every other year, recognizes excellence in graphic design work throughout Arizona. Entry categories, which include corporate identity, direct mail, packaging, advertising, photography, illustration, environmental design, and interactive design, are reviewed and judged by an esteemed panel of design professionals from around the country. In 2005 the competition garnered more than 275 entries and recognized 50 total winners, including approximately a dozen winners of the prestigious Prisma Award. AIGA is the professional association for design. For more information on the Arizona AIGA, see the website here.
Mookesh Patel, Chair of the Department of Visual Communication Design, submitted the Vizual Voices newsletter on behalf of the students and faculty who created, wrote, and published the newsletter. Vizual Voices is in its second issue and was published in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.
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Congratulations Prasad Boradkar!
Boradkar Receives Inaugural Faculty Achievement Award in Design Imperatives
Prasad Boradkar, InnovationSpace Codirector and Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Design, was named as the inaugural awardee of the Faculty Achievement Award in Design Imperatives by Elizabeth Capaldi, Executive Vice President and Provost. The awards were conceived of to annually celebrate the top intellectual contributions at ASU, and a ceremony to recognize awardees will take place at an event on April 24 at the ASU Art Museum.
Boradkar was chosen for his leadership and excellence in academic contributions toward supporting President Crow's Design Imperatives for a New American University, which includes hallmark characteristics of the InnovationSpace program—Use-Inspired Research, Social Embeddedness, Societal Transformation, Knowledge Entreprenuer, and Intellectual Fusion, while embracing the tenants of sustainability and excellence in student learning.
In his nomination, Dean Reiter noted Boradkar as a "gifted teacher, canny program manager, detail-oriented administrator, savvy fundraiser, and expansive researcher—all with the desire to create what he calls a 'community of learners.'"
Congratulations Prasad—well-deserved recognition for the leadership role that he has so successfully taken on.
For a complete list of all ASU faculty award winners, go to http://www.asu.edu/provost/awards.
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Visual Communications Awards Kenneth L. White Scholarships
On Friday, March 23, the Department of Visual Communication Design hosted the Kenneth L White scholarship program judging. Thanks to the effort and active participation of Visual Communication faculty, faculty associates, and friends of the program in the selection process, it was a rewarding, stimulating event.
This year’s Kenneth L White Scholarship awarded to the deserving third-year students:
Jacqueline Gouin
Grant Walker
This year’s Kenneth L White Scholarship, in memory of Rob Roy Kelly, awarded to the deserving incoming third-year students:
Cassandra A Minopoli,
Annie Ka Wai Choy
In the history of the program, this year’s event will be written as the record number of students that participated in the selection process with passion and commitment—thirty-eight in all. As a class, they all decided to compete—full heartedly, and the students showed real sensitivity to the subject. It was even more significant as the entire White family was present for the award selection and presentation. Hats off to benefactor Jo Ann White’s spirit and commitment to the program!
Kenneth White Jr. participated for the first time in the selection process. He was certainly delighted to see the student work and said that (paraphrased) his Dad is happy and smiling to view the progress of the program. Wendy White-Ring was also delighted and excited to be present and participate and said she wished she had more time to review every project displayed. She certainly enjoyed all the animation projects and did not stop talking about them. Congratulations go to professor Al Sanft’s excellent instruction in his class.
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Faculty Focus
Harvey Bryan—2006 ARCC James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award of Architectural Research
March 7, 2007
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) named School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture Professor Harvey Bryan as their 2006 ARCC James Haecker Distinguished Leadership Award of Architectural Research.
This award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields. The award was announced at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Conference in Philadelphia this month and will be awarded in a formal ceremony April 16 at the ARCC Annual Conference on Architectural Research at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Bryan will give the keynote speech at the awards reception.
Harvey Bryan is a specialist in building technology who has written over eighty papers and articles, many of which focus on the interface between technology and the design of ecologically-responsible environments. He has served on the design faculties of MIT, Harvard, and UCLA, where his research received support from numerous public and private sponsors. He was a member of teams that received three Progressive Architecture Awards, was chairman of the 1986 International Daylighting Conference, and was Associate Editor of the international journal Building and Environment. Dr. Bryan is active in several professional and technical societies: he has served on the ASHRAE committee responsible for developing the 90.1 National Energy Standard, is presently serving on ASHRAE TC 2.8, which is concerned with Buildings Environmental Impact and Sustainability, the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment, as well as Chair of the Solar Buildings Division of the American Solar Energy Society. He represents ASU on the U.S. Green Building Council, served on the Board of Directors of the USGBC’s Arizona Chapter, and is certified in both BREEAM (an environmental rating system widely used in Europe and Canada) as well as LEED. Dr. Bryan is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects as well as a Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society.
Congratulations to Harvey on this recognition of your work!
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Innovation Expert Tom Kelley Speaks at College of Design Dinner
Few people have Tom Kelley’s depth of experience managing innovation and design. Kelley is the General Manager of IDEO, ranked by global business leaders as one of the world’s most innovative companies. IDEO is the design and development firm that brought us the Apple mouse, Polaroid’s I- Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting edge products. Kelley is the featured speaker at one of ASU’s premiere events, the 2007 Design Excellence Dinner presented by the College of Design and its board of advisors, the Council for Design Excellence. The dinner will take place Thursday, April 19, 2007, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale. The College of Design has been hosting this dinner for more than 10 years as a fundraiser for student scholarships and college programs. Last year’s dinner featured former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and drew more than 500 people.
The college is expecting another large audience for Tom Kelley’s appearance. Kelley’s newest book, The Ten Faces of Innovation, reveals ten unique strategies for making sure that good ideas make it to the market. His previous book, The Art of Innovation, describes IDEO’s “deep dive” approach to successful product creation, focusing on brainstorming and teamwork as invaluable tools. IDEO uses design thinking to help clients innovate and grow by identifying new opportunities for growth, designing new products and services, and enabling organizations to transform and build the capabilities required to innovate routinely. One of IDEO’s most successful recent ideas is Bank of America’s “Keep the Change,” promotion where a debit card purchase amount is rounded up to the nearest dollar and the difference automatically deposited in the consumer’s savings accounts. Ninety-nine percent of its initial subscribers has chosen to keep the service—along with their change.
Continuous innovation is a skill required by members of the college’s Council for Design Excellence, many of which are in the architecture, design, and real estate development industries. “The most important thing that our members, for the most part, sell is ideas—whether it is for products, buildings, or developments—they must stay ahead of the market in innovative ideas,” says College of Design Dean Wellington Reiter. “We wanted to bring Tom Kelley to our audience to help them stay at the leading edge of the marketplace.”
Proceeds from the dinner help the College of Design stay at the leading edge of its mission to provide a transdisciplinary design education to its students and prepare them to be successful future designers, while strengthening links to the professional and university communities. Comprised of a dynamic grouping of disciplines—architecture, design studies, housing and urban development, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, planning, real estate development, and visual communication design—the College of Design is at the forefront of the global, regional, economic, and environmental design questions that are shaping the twenty-first century. The college is supported in its research efforts by the Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL), InnovationSpace, and the Herberger Center for Design Research.
For more information about table sponsorship or attending the 2007 Design Excellence Dinner, visit the dinner website at design.asu.edu/college/DesignExcellenceDinner.shtm or contact Sharon Haugen at 480.965.6384 or Sharon.Haugen@asu.edu.
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Buzz is a PBS pilot featuring Dean Wellington Reiter's vision of Sky Harbor Airport from the New American City exhibiton. Watch it here!
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College and InnovationSpace Featured in BusinessWeek
The College of Design and InnovationSpace are featured in BusinessWeek on a special report of Top Innovation and Design Schools.
The ASU College of Design is the first school that you see at the top of the D-School: The Global List—The top design programs according to BusinessWeek's expert panel. The College of Design is listed as one of 60 top global schools of design, a list that includes 33 U.S. and 27 foreign design schools and includes only 16 institutions that also have Industrial Design programs within their schools.
InnovationSpace is featured in the article, The Talent Hunt, about how companies are turning to design schools for nimble, creative thinkers. The specific example under "Translators Needed" that BusinessWeek cites is Intel Corp.'s sponsorship of InnovationSpace. For more information on this business/university partnership, see the press release annoucement.
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The ASU Academic Bowl is pitting 16 teams of undergraduate students in an intellectural competition for scholarship prizes and the President’s Cup trophy.
The opening round for the first group of colleges is October 12 in the Memorial Union. The College of Design is in the second group of colleges slated to compete October 19 in the Pima Room of the Memorial Union against the W.P. Carey School of Business.
Make sure you come to cheer on your team of creative, problem-solving students from the College of Design!
Your Academic Bowl Team for 2006
Michael Avila is a senior in the Industrial Design program. His hometown is Mesa, Arizona. Michael is a DJ in his spare time and also enjoys photography and music. His favorite designer is Victor Papanek, who Michael says was realistic, but a dreamer. Michael would like a career “that never feels like a job.”(top photo)
Jeremy Mudd is a freshman in the Urban Planning program. He hails from Phoenix, Arizona. In his spare time, Jeremy plays the piano, surfs, and travels. His favorite designers are Charles and Ray Eames. He appreciates their ability to work within the constraints of a project without compromising their vision and passion. His career goal is to help make Phoenix a more sustainable and vibrant city. (second photo)
Lauren Romero is an Architectural Studies major. This is her first year at ASU. Lauren’s hometown is Denver, Colorado. Her hobbies include watching Jeopardy!, playing darts with her roommates, and horseback riding. Lauren was a contestant on Jeopardy! Teen Tournament in 2006. She is also a member of the Athena Living and Learning Community. (third photo)
Doreen Zhao calls Chandler, Arizona home. She is a freshman studying Architecture and is also in the Barrett Honors College. In her spare time Doreen enjoys sports, drawing, and watching Lost. Her favorite designer is I.M. Pei, as he brings originality to his modern designs. (fourth photo)
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The MRED program was launched August 17 at a gathering of students, faculty, ASU collaborators from the four colleges or schools—College of Design, Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law, Del E. Webb School of Construction, and W. P. Carey School of Business—and members of the business community who have supported the idea of a degree that will train the future "quarterbacks" of the real estate industry.
This universitywide, transdisciplinary degree is unlike any other program in the nation. The 30-week full-immersion program focuses on curriculum presented in a fast-paced topic sequence reflective of the real estate development process—from dirt to deal, finance to façade—and includes industry case studies presented by leading local and national developers, synthesis projects, classroom and collaborative team assignments, research, site visits, mentor presentations, and distinguished visitor lectures.
The thirty, highly qualified students were chosen from a group of 170 applicants and come from fields as diverse as the program itself. Almost 75 percent of the students are mid-career professionals, taking time from their jobs with the blessing and sometimes with the financial support of their employers.
Students will be exposed to the complexities of the real estate development process for an industry-relevant learning experience. Upon completion of studies, students will enter the real estate development field with knowledge, perspective, and understanding of industry-relevent issues in law, economics, finance, market analysis, negotiation, design, urban policy, planning, business ethics, environmental regulations, brownfield reclamations, energy conservation analysis (LEEDS), sustainability, and project management.
The MRED program has also linked with the MIT Center for Real Estate to share information and exchange visits—MRED students and faculty will visit Cambridge in the fall 2006, and MIT students and faculty will visit ASU in spring 2007.
For more information about the MRED program, visit the website at mred.asu.edu.
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The College of Design is seeking team members to participate in the first ever Academic Bowl at ASU. This academic quiz show is patterned after the GE Bowl series from years ago.
Undergraduate students only may participate. We need four team members and four alternates. Selections will be made after a brief qualifying exam is given sometime in early September. The contest begins in October with two rounds, followed by quarter final and semifinal rounds. Finals will air on KAET/Eight at a date and time to be announced.
If you are interested in "trying out" for the team, contact Martha Carter at martha.carter@asu.edu. Details will be provided to you soon.
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Congratulations to Dosun Shin and Don Herring who have won a prestigious Bronze IDEA award for the Nutty Buddy® in the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards. The IDEA Awards are sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers of America (IDSA).
The patent is owned by the inventor, a retired Milwaukee Brewers baseball player and coach. The product is a new, improved, and more correct "protector" for boys and men while playing baseball. Don provided Human Factors research and preliminary concept proofing and prototyping. When Dosun joined the project, he added computer aided visualization, rapid prototyping, proof of concept, and test models. Both contributed a great deal of design talent to the complex design development. This was a highly successful collaboration and demonstrates the value design research, human factors research, and rapid visualization and prototyping bring to entrepreneurial endeavors in the valley. Several Human Factors MSD students also were involved.
The IDEA jury awarded 27 Golds, 38 Silvers, and 41 Bronzes, for a total of 108 awards, down from 148 awarded last year—so this is rare company indeed! These were selected from more than 1,494 entries. This award represents very high design achievement in Industrial Design academic and professional practice circles.
See the BusinessWeek website for a full listing of the IDEA awards and to see the kind of great designs that also won awards. The Nutty Buddy® is #53 out of the 108 awards listed.
See also the IDSA website, which lists more information on the Nutty Buddy.
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College of Design launches a new Master of Real Estate Development degree
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New BA in Design Studies Launching in Fall 2006
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Dean Reiter speaks at 2005 Economic Forecast Luncheon. (Registration at Knowledge@WPCarey is required)
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Industrial Design Alum Rebecca Finell Frog Pod to be available in Target stores on Monday, Oct 17.
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ASU works to house Tulane students
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