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Assistant Professor Joseph Choma of SP_ARC is awarded 2013 Emerging Voices by Young Architects Forum Atlanta The Young Architects Forum Atlanta [YAF Atlanta], a program of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has selected Joseph Choma, Assistant Professor at Southern Polytechnic State University, as this year’s awardee of the 2013 Emerging Voices Citation for his research and experimentation in architecture.

Professor Choma's exhibition Object to Atmosphere at the Barbara Archer Gallery in Inman Park opened on January 17th and closes on March 9th. Particularly fascinating is a 16' x 20' inhabitable optical illusion drawing that Professor Choma created using mathematical equations that directed

a computer numerical control machine (SP_ARC Fabrication Lab's Five Axis CNC machine) to scratch tens of thousands of faint lines into sheets of glossy, medium density fiberboard (MDF) creating a work that investigates ideas of boundaries, thickness, texture, optical illusion and the transformation of an object state to that of an atmosphere.

Currently, Professor Choma is writing the first design guide to mathematical transformations to be published by Laurence King Publishing in February 2014. Choma completed his graduate studies in design and computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a professional degree in architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

SP_ARC NEWS Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Architecture Spring 2013


SP_ARC Assistant Professor Bronne Dytoc, has been named one of the country’s 30 Most Admired Educators by the Design Futures Council, an interdisciplinary network of design, product and construction leaders focused on innovations in and the future of architecture.

The 30 education role models were selected by thousands of surveyed design professionals, academic department heads and students. Educators and administrators from the disciplines of architecture, industrial design, interior design and landscape architecture were considered for inclusion

According to the organization’s bi-monthly journal, DesignIntelligence, “Prof. Dytoc loves what he does, and it overflows from him as he teaches. He is a brilliant person who approaches life with a willingness to help, and he does so with humility. He is an enduring legacy at this Georgia university."

Prof. Dytoc received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of the Philippines, and a Masters in Building Science and Architecture from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

Professor Dytoc Recognized as Top 30 Educator by Design Futures Council

SP_ARC Professor William Carpenter, received the Bernard B. Rothschild Award from AIA Georgia in December 2012. This is the highest award given by AIA Georgia, and it recognizes the most distinguished service to the profession of architecture in the state of Georgia by an architect who exemplifies the principles of the profession.

A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited professional (LEED AP), Dr. Carpenter has spent 25 years in the field and is the founder and president of Lightroom, a nationally recognized design firm in Decatur, Ga.

He has been teaching architectural design, design-build, and theory and criticism at SPSU for 20 years. He is also a past president of AIA Georgia and currently serves on the AIA’s National Board of Directors. Dr. Carpenter is also a past Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Educator of the Year.

Professor Carpenter Receives Bernard B. Rothschild Award from AIA Georgia


Congratulations to Stephanie Baker (SP_ARC Class of 2012) and John Valentine (SP_ARC Class of 2013) on placing first in the 2013 YAF 48 Hours Design Competition. Their design entitled The String Forest was part of an exhibition of works at Barbara Archer Gallery in Inman Park, Atlanta that opened on January 17th, 2013.

Baker and Valentine Place First in 2013 YAF 48 Hours Design Competition

The M.S. in Architecture is a post-professional graduate degree in architecture. The program advocates an independent study model, which is inter and cross-disciplinary at its core for stimulating design, research practice and forefront technologies. It is directed to advance a wide variety of investigative studies through design and research in areas of advanced building and digital technologies, urbanism, spatial morphologies, ecologies and ecosystems of varied urban and non-urban habitats, housing forms and systems. For further information please see: http://www.spsu.edu/architecture.

Master of Science in Architecture at SP_ARC is scheduled to launch in Fall 2013


Congratulations to Dr. Pegah Zamani, Architecture Department and her students, Carlos Castillo, Joseph Keomaka, Julia Cassidy, Matt Rosenberg, Fiorella Dimiceli, and Hakim Hasan for their installation at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Their exhibit is featured in the Wieland Lobby through February 26, and is titled: "A Living Machine," La Casa_Estudio de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo: A Dissection of the Bridge in the Home_Studio of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

The series of interpretive models interrogates the spatial dimension of feeling anddwelling in Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo’s House-Studio, an 'Artistic Heritage of theNation’ built in 1931 by architect Juan O’Gorman in San Angel, Mexico City. Therationalist building, inspired by Le Corbusier, has been characterized as a factory, aMachine for Living for its exposed industrialized, mechanical and electrical systems.The house is composed of two concrete blocks -one for Diego and one for Frida -

independent of one another, but tied by a narrow bridge joining the rooftops. Thebridge, as an indirect path and an ‘in-between’ space, operates as an element ofconnection as well as separation.The design dissects the spatial reading of lives of the house-studio inhabitants bycataloging five scenarios: inspiring moments of creation and happiness; longing momentsof desire and affection; struggling moments of tension and pain; constrained moments ofisolation, limitation and reflection; and broken moments of separation, destruction anddistance. Beyond a machine, each interpretive model deconstructs the shell of the house-studio to map, analyze and reconstruct the invisible structure of the occupants’ livingplots and events. Each machine, as an apparatus, consists of interrelated parts and amechanism to transmit its inhabitants’ motions and emotions. In essence, the assembly ofeach machine embodies the rhythm of the two artists’ complex relation, and echoes thehouse-studio inhabitants’ narrative.

Professor Zamani and Her Students Exhibit at the Atlanta High Museum of Art

La Máquina Para Habitar


Frank Ching lectured on February 6th in the Design II Auditorium to a full house of SP_ARC students and faculty. This was the seventh lecture in the Fall 2012/ Spring 2013 SP_ARC lecture series. The final lecture for Spring 2013 is scheduled for March 18th when Atlanta based architects Bryan Russell and Staffan Svenson will present recent work of their firm Density.

Frank Ching part of SP_ARC Lecture Series, Spring 2013


Focus Studio [Fall 2012] exhibition opens at SP_ARC Gallery Focus Studio, Fall 2012 opened on January 14th in SP_ARC Gallery. The exhibition featured work from Fifth-Year Studios directed by Atlanta based architects: Aaron Wilner, Jeffery Collins, Jonathan Denton and Professor Michael Carroll.

Wilner's studio with its theme of ecological urbanism focused on the sustainable development of a brownfield site adjacent to the BeltLine in South Atlanta. Jeffery Collin's students investigated biomimicry and its impact on architectural design. Materiality and material misuse were central themes in the Carroll studio, with students investigating the architectural potential of wood and polymers in a range of experiments, culminating in the design of a pavilion on the Great Lawn of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Jonathan Denton's students investigated hospital design with a final project for a children's hospital in Ghana.

On another note, Southern Polytechnic State University, Department of Architecture is currently seeking proposals up to four (4) Fifth-Year Focus Studios for the fall of 2013. The Fifth-Year Focus Studios are intended to introduce the student to design research and its application, while adhering to creativity, critical thinking, processes of making, and constructability. The annual Focus Studio is an intrinsic part of the professional core of the Architecture Program and is designed to foster a strong relationship between the program, our students, and the profession as a whole. All qualified fifth year students have the option to select a studio critic who will broaden their area of interest in a subject-based studio.

For further info please refer to: http://www.spsu.edu/architecture/curriculum/focus_studio.htm


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