School of Architecture

Awards and Honors

14th Annual International Reford Garden Competition

TOPOCAST named a finalist in the competition out of 290 submitted entries in 31 countries by more than 725 designers

Research Merit Award

Professional Award for “Transit Oriented Development Research”. 

Exhibitions

TOPOCAST: Creative Work

SXSW Eco. October 7th-9th. Makerspace Exhibition. Austin Texas. Invited

TOPOCAST: Mirabeau B. Tiles

2013 International ACADIA conference. Group exhibition of creative work. University of Waterloo, 7 Melville St. South 
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. October 22^st to November 1^st, 2013. 

Popular Press Articles

“Fabric and Wall Covering” Interior Design, Volume 84, Number 13, Spring Market May (2013) P 90. Creative work featured.

Scott Marble, "Workflows," Texas Architect September/October (2013). pp 95-97. Written about TEX-FAB

Presentations

'Tools of the Next Generation Series: Parametric Modeling and Digital Fabrication'

 AOT: Architecture on TAP AIA Dallas May 16^th,2013 with Matt Conklin and Jon Bailey.

"The Emergence of Information Designers"

Digital Manufacturing Symposia The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) September 27^th 10am to 4pm. 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S. Fort Worth, TX 76118. 

'Prevailing Theories in Architecture School: New Ideas, No Buildings'

Dallas Architecture Forum  Panel April 16^th, 2013. Moderated by Russell Buchanan with Matt Fajkus.

'Research, Compete, Fabricate: TEX-FAB- A new organizational framework for collaborative innovation.'

2013 TxA Interactive Conference  Texas Society of Architects Annual Convention and Design Expo as part of TxA Interactive. Fort Worth Convention Center, November 9^th 2013.  Speaker

Exhibitions

University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition.

Juried exhibition at the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, UD. Participated with a two dimensional wall piece titled: A River Runs Through It. 

"A River Runs Through It", wall panel, University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition, juried exhibition, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, UD.

Presentations

AAUP 2013 Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education.

“Seeking Distinction: Gender and Masculinity in the Making of an Architect.” Presented at the annual conference of the American Association of University Professors, June 2013, Washington DC.

Popular Press Articles

Ten Things That Will Change Architectural Education in the Next Ten Years,  Donald Gatzke, Kathy Church, Kenneth James,  Columns magazine, Fall 2013 AIA Dallas, Dallas TX, 

Encyclopedia Entries

"Historiography of Southern Architecture" and "Resort Architecture," in New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol 21. Judith Bonner and Estill Pennington, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Essays

The Architecture of Telecommunication: Verizon Building (Barclay-Vesey Building for the New York Telephone Company).  Review essay. Journal of Architectural Education 67:1 (Spring 2013): 156-58.

Presentations

Building an Urban Giant: AT&T Long Lines in New York (June 3, 2013). Talk for Open House New York event at 32 Avenue of the Americas.

DFW Piece by Piece: Using Maps to See the City Grow (28 September 2013). Texas Map Society Fall Meeting, De Golyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Making Connections: The Networked City (April 18-19, 2013). Symposium coordinator and speaker, Second Annual David Dillon Symposium, Nasher Sculpture Center.

Manhattan Calling: The Telephone, Marketing, and Modern Architecture in New York(April 12, 2013). Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Buffalo, New York.

Mid-Century Modern in Dallas (26 October 2013). Preservation Dallas Fall Home Tour Symposium, Kalita Humphreys Theater.

Public Space, Materiality, and Experience in the Fort Worth Art Museums (23 September 2013). Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Ralph Walker: Art Deco and Collaboration (March 16, 2013). 12th Art Deco World Congress, Havana, Cuba.

Texas Architecture, Texas Towns: Telling the Story of Place (2013). Texas Municipal League, Schieffer School of Journalism, TCU.

The AIA and the Settings for Architecture Education, 1857 and 1957(February 9, 2013). "Architecture Education Goes Outside Itself: Crossing Borders, Breaking Barriers," PennDesign Conference, University of Pennsylvania,

Understanding Museum Architecture: Then & Now (13 November 2013). Design Talk, Fort Worth Center for Architecture, AIA Fort Worth.

Writing About Architecture (8 November 2013). With Mark Lamster. Texas Society of Architects annual convention, Fort Worth Convention Center.

Conference Papers

Vegetative Roof Plant Establishment in the South Central Plains: Findings, Challenges, and Lessons Learned. Peer reviewed panel presentation for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture annual meeting in Austin, Texas. (April, 2013) with Dr. Reid Coffman (Kent State University) and Dr. Bruce Dvorak (Texas A&M University)

Other Creative Activities

Commissions

Master plan and prairie management and restoration plan for new Blackland Prairie Park in Arlington, Texas with DFL Group,2013 New landscape master plan and planting design for Residence in Roanoke, TX. 2013Planting design for 10,000 sf. green roof at Forrest Park Medical Center with David C. Baldwin, Inc. Landscape Architects. 2011-2013

Presentations

Science and the Poetics of Nature in North Texas

Technical Reports

Arlington Blackland Prairie Park Master Plan (With DFL Group)

Research specialist for research report: Environmental and Related Impacts of Shale Gas Development; Case Study of the Barnett Shale sponsored by The Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Taner Ozdil and Dr. Pat Taylor Co-principle investigators. Report focuses on role of landscape architecture as it relates to: Ecological Impacts Land Disturbance and Reclamation; Site Restoration Long-term Well Pad Design and Management Aesthetics Compatibility with Regional Planning Activities Land-use Compatibility Issues Air Emissions and Monitoring Noise Impacts Traffic Flow Impacts Waste Disposal Health Effects Highway and Street Impacts (construction, maintenance) Including Heavy Equipment

Book Chapters

Klahr, Douglas. "The Elusive Challenge of Photographing Urban Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Berlin as Exemplar." Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World: Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs, edited by Micheline Nilsen.  London: Ashgate Press (August 2013), 155-171.

Journal Articles

“Stereoscopic Photography Encounters the Staircase: Traversing Thresholds, Borders and Passages,” Archimaera 5 “Grenzwertig” Issue, July 2013), 89-97.

“The Radically Subversive Narrative of Stereoscopic Photography,” Kunsttexte.de Bild/Wissen/Technik  “Die Grenzen der Narration im Bild” Issue (April 2013).

Presentations

The Stereoscopic Photo Album as Nazi Propaganda: Ephemerality of Image in Vienna, The Pearl of the Reich

In a panel entitled "The City in Photographic Albums", the 1941 Nazi book Vienna, The Pearl of the Reich, was analyzed as an ambiguous work of propaganda due to the distinctive visual medium of stereoscopic photography that it utilized. 

Awards and Honors

Alpha Rho Chi Award for Teaching Excellence

Award for Distinguished Service to the School of Architecture

President's Recognition for Teaching Excellence

Conference Proceedings

McDermott, John, and Mitch Stepanovich.  Lessons Learned.  In The Visibility of Research: Proceedings of the 2013 ARCC Spring Research Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 27-30, 2013, by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, 735.  UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, 2013.

Presentations

McDermott, John, and Mitch Stepanovich. 'Lessons Learned: Using an Electronic Drop Box to Rapidly Disseminate Student Originated Research.'

Invited presentation for Poster Discussion at the 2013 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Spring Research Conference, The Visibility of Research. 

Stepanovich, Mitch, and John McDermott. 'Unanticipated Impacts of Architectural Studio Culture on Available Technology.'

Invited selected special topics presentation on using drop box technology as one means for the communication and rapid distribution of contemporaneous original student research outcomes among classmates while simulataneously engaging a larger community of invited faculty and library staff to support student research aimed at developing site specific criteria for evaluating the aerodynamic impact and solar performance of their architectural studio design projects. Presented at the annual national conference of the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL).

Books

Madan Mehta and Jim Johnson: Architectural Acoustics—Principles and Design

Mehta, Scarborough and Armpriest. Building Construction: Principles, Materials and Systems. Pearson. Work on the third edition of this book is in progress. The update will focus on major changes occurring in this field due to code changes, focus on sustainability, and on-going innovations by product and construction system manufacturers. Additionally, the publisher (Pearson) wants the new edition to be geared toward a digital format to include construction videos and animations embeeded in the publication. 

Conference Proceedings

Design of Non-Ballasted Low-Slope Roof Assemblies for Wind Resistance—The Current Situation and Recommendations for the Future

Monographs

Stephen Patterson and Madan Mehta: Wind Loads on Low-Slope Roofs— a150-page(8-1/2 x 11) monograph sponsored by Roof Consultant Institute Foundation (RCIF) Inc.. The monograph conforms to the American Society of Civil Engineers Standard 7-2010: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. As per the Roof consultants Institute, the monograph is its best-selling publication. It is for the use of practicing structural engineers, forensic engineers and roof consultants.[Refereed/Juried] - Jul 2013 [Refereed/Juried]

Textbooks

Madan Mehta and Diane Armpriest: Homework and Classroom Assignment Manual, a 140-page (8-1/2 x 11) publication to Accompany Building Construction: Principles, Materials and Systems (Second Edition) by Mehta, Scarborough and Armpriest. 

Other Creative Activities

Commissions

A new, four story, 63,342 square foot, Holiday Inn Express hotel. The new facility utilizes numerous sustainable design and building techniques including an active solar water heating system and an HVAC system designed to provide 100 percent, fresh make-up air to the public spaces for enhanced indoor air quality. The system employees a rooftop, packaged unit with an energy recovery wheel, return air and building exhaust are directed through the wheel transferring its heating or cooling capacity to the incoming stream of fresh, make-up air. The system also uses R-410A refrigerant.  A commisioning agent was employed, providing guidence and oversight through the HVAC system design, construction and final delivery of the completed building. Total Contract: $6,800,000.00 Civil Engineer: LJA Engineering, Austin, Texas Structural Engineer: DCI Engineers, Austin, Texas MEP Engineers: TTG Goetting, Austin, Texas Commissioning Agent: The Delphi Group, Austin, Texas Interiors: Belterra Design, Austin, Texas Contractor, EBCO Construction, Cameron, Texas

Awards and Honors

2013 Texas American Society of Landscape Architecture Professional Research Merit Award

Merit Award – 2013 Texas American Society of Landscape Architecture Professional Research Award for “Transit Oriented Development Research”. Ozdil’s Role: Principle Investigator, Project Manager, and Research Team Leader.

CSI Research Fellow, 2013

Fellow - Ozdil, Taner R. (PI) Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Case Study Investigation (CSI) Fellow, 2013, (9 fellows are selected over 20 application nationwide)

Conference Proceedings

Holmes, C. & Ozdil, T. R., & Jaber, F. (March 2013). Design and implementation processes of low impact development in North Texas. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Abstract is in the proceedings. 

Manandhar, Nhasala & Ozdil, Taner R. (March 2013). Naturalness in Stream Restoration Projects: Learning from Johnson Creek. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas.

Mang, Hong & Ozdil, Taner R. (March 2013). Stakeholders' Perception on the Design and Feasibility of Fused Grid Street Network Pattern. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Abstract is in the proceedings.

McDermott,J.& Ozdil, Taner R., & Stepanocvich, M. (October 2013). Combining Old and New Tools for Visualizing Environmental Factors: Heliodon and Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence. The 4^th Biennial Subtropical Cities Conference. Braving New World: Design Interventions for Changing Climates. ACSA.  Fort Lauderdale. Abstract is in the proceedings.

Mooney, P., & Ellis, C., & Li, M., & Ozdil, T., & Pitt, D., & Taylor, P.(March 2013).State of CELA Research Initiatives. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Panel. Abstract is in the proceedings.

Niazi, Zoha & Ozdil, Taner R., (March 2013). The "Pedestrian Realm" as a Genesis of Commerce: Bazaars of the East and Mixed-Use Centers of the West. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Full paper is in the proceedings (only poster abstract is refereed). Poster Presentation

Ozdil, T. R., Jaber, F., Tidwell, J., & Holmes, C. (May 2013). Low Impact Development (LID) in North Texas: Practice, Research, Education, and Outreach”.  ASLA Texas Chapter Conference, Austin. Panel. Accepted, Austin, Texas. Abstract is in the program.

Ozdil, Taner & Wolf, M. & Li, J. & Richards, J. (January, 2013). “Transit Oriented Development Research and Practice for North Texas”. Focus North Central Texas: Planning Symposium. North Central Texas Section of American Planning Association (NTX APA).

Phillips, R. Jack & Ozdil, T. R., (March 2013). Master Planning for the Arts: Identifying the Skills and Roles for Landscape Architects. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Abstract will be in proceedings.

Pradhananga, A., & Taylor, P., & Ozdil, T. R. (March 2013). Study of Landscape Fragmentation as an Impact of Natural Gas Drilling in North Texas. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA-2013). Austin, Texas. Abstract is in the proceedings.

Taylor, P. & Ozdil, Taner R. & Cooke, C. & Pradhananga, A., (September, 2013). Landscape Fragmentation as an Impact of Natural Gas Drilling in North Texas. International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR-2013). 1st CIGR Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges – Bari (Italy), Poster Presentation.

Lectures/Speeches

Michael Buckley, Director CfMD; Taner Ozdil, UTA; Kevin Sloan, Sloan Studio; Tary Arterburn, Studio Outside; Don Raines, WRT Design, (February 04, 2013). “Urban Landscape: The Fusion of Large Scale Landscape Concepts with High Density Development” Sponsored by AIA Dallas and CFMD. Panel.

Newsletters

Ozdil, Taner R. (June 2013). Urban Landscape Research. Center for Metropolitan Density (CfMD) Research Journal. UT Arlington, Volume 2: pg. 18-19. https://texasarchitects.org/media/uploads/resourceDocs/cc_98_recent_research_and_urba.pdf

Other Creative Activities

Competition

Invited Competition Lead Jury (August-December, 2013). Greater Dallas Planning Council (GDPC) 2013 Urban Design Awards.

Technical Reports

Ozdil, Taner R., & Modi, S., & Stewart, D. (December, 2013). “Case Study Investigation 2013: Klyde Warren Park”. OJB. Landscape Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C. Online Publication.http://www.lafoundation.org/research/landscape-performance-series/case-studies/case-study/612/

Ozdil, Taner R., & Modi, S., & Stewart, D. (October, 2013). “Case Study Investigation 2013: University of Texas at Dallas Campus Identity and Landscape Framework Plan”. PWP Landscape. Landscape Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C.Online Publication. http://www.lafoundation.org/research/landscape-performance-series/case-studies/case-study/624/

Ozdil, Taner R., & Modi, S., & Stewart, D. (September, 2013). “Case Study Investigation 2013: Buffalo Bayou Promenade”. SWA Group. Landscape Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C. Online Publication.  http://www.lafoundation.org/research/landscape-performance-series/case-studies/case-study/623/

Presentations

"The Cubist Process: Transformative Investigations in Cubist-Purist Analogies"

This paper presented current design work from the basic design studios ARCH 2551 and ARCH 2552. See attached abstract submission and full content of the presented paper. The powerpoint presentation is also included.

Awards and Honors

Professor of the Year Award

Books

Book:  Richards, James.  Freehand Drawing and Discovery:  Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers, John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Includes 90 minutes of instructional videos.  Book is in second printing, has been adopted by six universities to date, translated into Chinese (orthodox and simplified), and adopted by the Philippines Department of Education.

Conference Proceedings

Paper Published in Proceedings:  Richards, James.  Freehand Renaissance: Concept Sketching for a Digital Age.  Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).  Austin, Texas.  April 2013.

Exhibitions

Sketch Boston

“Sketch Boston.”  National conference field session for on-location sketching for 30 participants in downtown Boston led by Richards, followed by exhibition of sketches in "Sketch Boston" Exhibition in Boston Convention Center for the duration of the National ASLA Conference, Boston, MA.  2013.

Sketch Crawl CELA 2013 Austin.

“Sketch Crawl CELA 2013.”  Creation of series of on-location sketches followed by Invited art exhibit, sponsored by Moleskine and Austin Alliance for the Arts. Austin, TX. 2013.

Other Creative Activities

Selected Planning and Design Commissions

Concept design consultant to Schrickel Rollins Associates and the City of Arlington to lead 1-day design charrette and produce overall development concept and preliminary plan for redevelopment of Richard Greene Linear Park, adjacent to the Ballpark in Arlington, as a nationally-recognized sculpture park.

Selected Planning and Design Commissions

Develop plan for "surplus" airport land holdings into mixed-use town center development.  Urban design subconsultant to Halff Associates, responsible for project approach, site analysis, overall development concept, street network design, land use, design character, concept sketches and illustrations.

Popular Press Articles

Richards, James.  (2013, December 16-22).  City’s Architectural Legacy Grows with Kimbell Expansion.  Fort Worth Business Press, p. 22-23.

Richards, James.  (2013, November 11-17).  Sundance Square Shines.  Fort Worth Business Press, p. 1, 10-11.

Presentations

9th Biennial Design Drawing Workshop and Big Ten Charrette

Featured instructor for two-day design drawing workshop for 60 students at Michigan State University, followed by 24-hour design charrette.

Design Talk: Freehand Renaissance

Lecture for cross-disciplinary audience on the role of rapid freehand sketching as a catalyst for creativity, sponsored by Fort Worth AIA.

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Harmonious Whole

Lecture in association with exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home" at the Arlington Museum of Art

Freehand Drawing in the Digital Age.

PowerPoint lecture on freehand rapid visualization techniques suitable for digital studio workflow.  Other presenters included architects Tom Holifield and Larry Boerder.

Freehand Visions: Mind to Sketch to Screen

1-hour PowerPoint lecture and live digital sketching demonstration (followed by book signing) for 350 attendees in Baton Rouge, LA.

Freehand Visions: Sketchbook to Screen

1.5 hour PowerPoint lecture and live digital sketching demonstration for audience of 400 session attendees at National ASLA Conference in Boston, MA.  Session ranked second overall by conference attendees. 

Life Between Buildings: Capturing the Energy

Instructor for three on-location sketching workshops, 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.  Instructors selected through peer-reviewed process.

Pecha Kucha: Thinking/Drawing/Digital

Pecha Kucha presention (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) on global urban sketching phenomenon; one of 10 presenters.  In association with Texas Society of Architects conference.

Places to Flourish: Placemaking for Ideas, Creativity and Commerce

PowerPoint lecture for regional planning and building professionals on planning and design strategies as economic development

Sketching and Creativity in a Digital Age

1-hour PowerPoint lecture and live digital sketching demonstration for 300 attendees for Central States ASLA Conference.

Tablet Sketching: Freehand Visions for a Digital Age.

PowerPoint lecture and live digital sketching demonstration with co-presenter Robert Chipman, ASLA

Transit Oriented Development Research and Practice for North Texas

Panelist for session exploring planning and design issues surrounding transit oriented development; Richards presented research findings and a number of case studies from his urban design practice.