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ProPEL SCHEDULE: SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026
Below is the schedule for Saturday, March 28, 2026, featuring session titles & descriptions. The conference schedule is subject to change.
You can read the peer reviewed abstracts in the Abstract Book, check out the 2026 Award Winners, and the AIAS CRIT Scholars abstracts.
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Conference Registration Hours:
Friday, March 27 at 8:30am-12:30pm
Exhibit Hall Hours:
Friday, March 27 at 8:30am-12:30pm
ABSTRACT BOOK
CONFERENCE | SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026
9:00am-10:30am
Research Sessions
Inclusive Interdisciplinary Pedagogies
Pedagogy Topic
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Lucas Brown, Indiana University
Fieldwork as Pedagogy: Cultivating Socio-Spatial Literacy in Architectural Education
Samar Halloum, American University of Sharjah
Converging on Divergence: Learning from Design the Future and Legitimation Code Theory to Advance Interdisciplinary Architectural Education
Jonathan Bean, University of Arizona
Robin Puttock, Kennesaw State University
From Studio to Society: Transforming Architecture through Community-Engaged and Co-Produced Learning
Cristina Dreifuss, Universidad Privada del Norte
New Faculty Teaching
Andrew Gipe-Lazarou, Virginia Tech
New Faculty Teaching Award – Full Time
The Listening Deck: Ecological Diplomacy and Participatory Planning in Carapé
Ignacio Cardona, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Material and Making as Social Co-Design
Society+Community Topic
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Christina Bollo, University of Oregon
Programmable Knitted Actuators for Social and Interactive Micro-Spaces and Spatial Agency
Ghassan Alserayhi, University of Michigan & Virginia Tech
Vishal Rohira & Chavi Gupta, University of Michigan
Bagasseries: Hyper-local Community-driven Circular Design From Sugarcane Waste
Yi Yang, Chun Zhou, Tianqi Han, Yuanyi Cen & Laia Mogas-Soldevil, University of Pennsylvania
Community Design & Action Capstone Studio: Tucson Hope Factory Micro Shelter Village
Teresa Rosano & Greg Veitch, University of Arizona
Collaborative Practice Award
Co-creating Neuroinclusive Spaces
Lindsay Harkema, The Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department
Urban Scale
History, Theory, Criticism Topic
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Stewart Hicks, University of Illinois at Chicago
Grossform and Block Form: Bigness Reconsidered
Edgar Adams, Roger Williams University
Learning from Hong Kong: the Wilderness of Jars and New Forms of Appearance
Jeremy Leonard, North Carolina State University
Blight, Demolition, Rehabilitation: 300 W. 105th St. and Chicago’s Urban Homestead Program
Julia Hedges, Auburn University
The Wait(er) on the Wall: Situating the “Neo-” of the 1960s Kosova
Edmond Drenogllava, University of Cincinnati
Design Processes & Pedagogy
Short Papers
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Josh Foster, Long Beach City College
Grounds For Play: Toward a Pedagogy of Play in Architectural Education
Petra Kempf, Washington University in St. Louis
Designing Learning: Architectural Pedagogy as a Catalyst for Interdisciplinary Education Design as Method and Framework of Inquiry
Pantea Eslami, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Marriage of Autonomy and Heteronomy: Translation as a Pedagogical Tool
Leonie Bunte, University of Idaho
On Display: Designing Exhibition as Spatialized Representation
Xinyu Chen, University College London
Come to the Fire: Converging Dialogue on Tribal Sovereignty and Indigenous Futurisms
Bailey Brown, Oklahoma State University
Making Futures
Design Topic
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Elizabeth Martin-Malikian, Miami University
The Work of Architecture in the Age of Computational Labor: A Robot Primitive
Matthew Gillis, Woodbury University
Post-Nuclear Blooms: Design Fictions for the Future of the Oak Ridge Reservation
Mark Stanley, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
It All Started with Water: Revitalizing the Cambridge Farmers’ Market
Audrey Chen & Michael Salib, University of Waterloo
Suffused Blossom #8: A Full-Scale Installation Bridging Design and Neuroscience
Na Wei, Temple University
Public Void: A Model for Point-Access Housing
Zhan Chen, Kansas State University
Greenhouses and Collective Living
Ecology Topic
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Liane Hancock, University of New Mexico
Horticulture, Housing, Hybrids: Greenhouses as Mediators of Climate and Community
Stamatina Kousidi, Politecnico di Milano
The Second Life: From Waste to Oasis I Sankofa Bamboo Green house
Vicky Achnani, Carnegie Mellon University
Your Greenhouse Is Your Kitchen Is Your Living Room
Leyuan Li, University of Colorado Denver
Faculty Design Award
Urban Learning Greenhouse
Ken Marold & Bryan Bloom, University of Oklahoma
Design Build Award
9:00am-10:30am
Special Focus Sessions
DPACSA – Meet the New ACSA Distinguished Professors
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Thomas Fisher, University of Minnesota
Presenters: Carla Jackson Bell, Tuskegee University
Phillip Bernstein, Yale University
Botond Bognar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Caryn Brause, University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Hughes, Kent State University
Richard Mohler, University of Washington
Eric P. Mumford, Washington University in St. Louis
Alan J. Plattus, Yale University
Description:
In this session you will meet and hear from the newest members of the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors. The ACSA Distinguished Professor Award recognizes individuals who have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students over an extended period of time and/or have engaged in teaching which inspired a generation of students who themselves have contributed to the advancement of architecture.
Hard to Be What You Don’t See! Addressing The Lack of Black Students and Faculty in Architecture
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: L. David Stewart, National Organization of Minority Architects
Presenters: Bryan C. Lee, National Organization of Minority Architects
Tiffany Brown, National Organization of Minority Architects
Kwesi Daniels, Tuskegee University
Description: This discussion will cover the historically low numbers of Black students in architecture and even lower numbers of Black faculty in architecture. Dr. L. David Stewart will discuss with the panelists what can be done and strategies to improve the numbers in those areas within the next five years. Also covered will be strategies done currently that working that can be studied for larger development to aid in increasing those numbers.
10:30am-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Research Sessions
Pedagogical Languages
Pedagogy Topic
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Mona El Khafif, University of Virginia
The Role of Design Competitions in Architectural Education
Stephen Schreiber, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcel Erminy, Texas A & M
W. Lee Shoemaker & Jon-Paul Cardin, Metal Building Manufacturers Association
ZoomSEs: Prototyping a Consultancy Design Studio Model for Advanced Structural Integration in Architecture
Thomas Fowler IV, California Polytechnic State University
AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award
Intricacies: Rediscovering a Yoruba Southwest Nigerian Architectural Identity
Oluwapelumi Adefarakan, Norwich University
AIAS Crit Scholar
Within and Beyond the Profession
Pedagogy Topic
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Beth Lundell Garver, Boston Architectural College
Research of the Now: Exploratory Pedagogies for Design-Research in Architecture
Mark Stanley, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Entrepreneurship Is Leadership: Redefining Professional Practice
Nea Maloo, Howard University
AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award – Honorable Mention
Video Essays and Their Public Dissemination
Stewart Hicks, University of Illinois at Chicago
Creative Achievement Award
Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of a Puerto Rican Decolonial Pedagogy
Yazmín M Crespo Claudio, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Omayra Rivera Crespo, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Irmaris Santiago Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina
Diversity Achievement Award – Honorable Mention
Material, Media, and Meaning
History, Theory, Criticism Topic
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Katie MacDonald, University of Virginia
Revisiting Decorated Sheds and Ducks for Sustainable Building
Jonathan Ochshorn, Cornell University
The Marquee as Radical Expression of Cultural Freedom in the Last Colonial Frontier of American Expansion
Jared Macken, Oklahoma State University
Material (Non)Fictions: Drawing the Planetary through Matter and Media
William Doss, Louisiana Tech University
New Faculty Teaching
May Khalife, Miami University
New Faculty Teaching Award – Full Time
Healthy Buildings, Places & Systems
Short Papers
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Bailey Brown, Oklahoma State University
Designing & Evaluating Restorative Spaces: A Proposed Study for Examining the Psychological Impact of Architectural Interventions on Attention Restoration and Mood
Katie Stranix, University of Virginia
One Health Design: A Holistic Approach to Health in Architecture Education
Athina Papadopoulou, New York Institute of Technology
Engaging Disability: Allied Practices Of Inclusive Design Teaching
Andrew Gipe-Lazarou, Virginia Tech
Skyspaces in Double-Skin Facades: Opportunities for Natural Ventilation and Enhanced Occupant Experience in High-Rise Office Buildings
Yohan Kim, University of Florida
Design & Community
Design Topic
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: George Epolito, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Bird Blind Wildlife Observatory
Patrick Peters, Jason Logan & Joseph Colaco, University of Houston
Design Build Award
CLT2: Phoenix House
Chad Kraus, University of Kansas
Design Build Award
Convergence/Divergence: Designing Futures through ReCall & Response
Coleman Jordan, Morgan State University
Reverse Design Innovation – Countering Extractive Practices Through City Design, Adaptive P/re-use, And Non-speculative Models
Sascha Delz & Julia Sulzer, University of Southern California
Leah; Lands End Adaptable Home
Jori Erdman & Lemara Morrell, James Madison University
11:00am-12:30pm
Special Focus Sessions
University-Based Community Design Round Table: Navigating Change in a Shifting Landscape
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Presenters: Matthew Bernstine, Washington University in St. Louis
Michaele Pride, University of New Mexico
Ann Yoachim, Tulane University
Jordan Zignego, Montana State University
Description:
What does it mean to teach and practice community design in a moment of political and institutional instability? Community Design Centers, rooted in local partnerships, play a critical role in sustaining trust and connection between institutions and communities. Yet, amid polarization, the erosion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the urgent but underfunded demands of climate change, the field faces profound pressures (and terminated grants). With restrictive policies and shrinking resources, how can we remain nimble, resilient, and equity-driven? This session brings together educators and practitioners to share strategies for sustaining impactful community design centers amid rapid national and local changes.
Convergent Futures: Leveraging Professional Experiences for Student Impact
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Presenters: Joshua Foster, Long Beach City College
Lauren Dandridge, University of Southern California
Demar Matthews, Woodbury University
Description:
This workshop explores how faculty can leverage their professional experiences and networks to create transformative educational experiences. Led by adjunct professors, representing perspectives from community colleges and universities, that also lead successful design and consulting practices, this session demonstrates how the convergence of academic theory and professional practice creates divergent pathways for student learning and community engagement. We will share proven strategies for integrating real-world projects, building industry partnerships, and fostering community connections within architectural curricula. Participants will develop actionable plans for creating dynamic, relevant learning opportunities that prepare students for the complexities of contemporary practice while strengthening community ties.
Partner Organization Meet and Greet
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: José Gámez, ACSA President
Presenters: Tiffany Brown, National Organization of Minority Architects
Roberto Cavallo, European Association for Architectural Education
Bryan C. Lee, Jr., National Organization of Minority Architects
Trevin Thompson, American Institute of Architecture Students
Carole Wedge, American Institute of Architects
Description: Join us for an open conversation with the presidents and CEOs of some of the major architecture organizations in the United States and Europe. You will hear from each organization about their current priorities and activities. ACSA’s president will moderate a Q&A and open discussion.
12:30pm-2:30pm
Lunch (on your own)
12:30pm-5:15pm
Ticketed Event
Description:
Exploring the roles that community development and well-designed, decommodified housing play in the lives of residents of Chicago’s West Side, our bus tour will feature guided visits of recently completed housing and community development projects. We will visit Canopy’s Encuentro Square, a 100% affordable mixed-use development by the Bloomington (606) Trail that is conceived as an anti-gentrification project, and LBBA Architects’ Foglia Residences. We will end the afternoon at The National Public Housing Museum, also designed by LBBA Architects, located in the Jane Addams Homes in Chicago’s Near West Side. The Museum serves to “preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to … a place to call home.” We will have a private tour of three recreated historic apartments, showcasing different families’ experiences at pivotal moments in public housing history between 1938 and 1975, as well as other museum exhibits..
Tour Leaders: Christina Bollo, University of Oregon & Karen Kubey, University of Toronto
1:00pm-3:30pm
First Come
Description:
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) invites you to join this free luncheon and group discussion exploring the many shared interests and partnership opportunities that link public-facing architecture organizations and schools of architecture. Education providers like CAC can be valuable resources for spotting and engaging high school talent, as well as platforms for undergraduate, graduate, and early career professionals to reach public audiences. More recently, CAC has begun looking at issues of high school student wellness and readiness to succeed in higher education settings, as well as new ways to support the countless collegiate programs that make study trips to Chicago. What can we learn from one another?
Prior to lunch, there will be a brief gallery talk for the Princeton/Chicago Architecture Center Fellowship, a competitive fellowship for early career architects and designers. Space is limited and attendance will be based on a first come, first served basis.
Chicago Skyline Photo: Marshall Brown
2:00pm-4:00pm
Ticketed Event
Description:
The Tribune Tower is one of Chicago’s most treasured historic landmarks. Originally constructed in 1925 and designed by Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells. In 2022, SCB completed the conversion of the tower and its surrounding buildings into luxury condominiums. Hear from the architect, Jennifer Kleckner, about the conversion, including the building’s history as well as structural adjustments that made the renovation possible. The IBM Building in Chicago, is a landmark, bronze-tinted glass and steel structure known as one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s final masterpieces before his death. The 52-story International Style skyscraper was completed in 1972 and is now known as AMA Plaza, it houses offices and The Langham Hotel.
Tour Leaders: Jeanne Homer, AISC
5:30pm-6:30pm
Plenary
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell (Andrea Avezzu/Venice Biennale)
The duo, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 following their graduation from University College Dublin in 1974. The Dublin-based architecture studio has completed projects across Europe, South America, and North America, with notable projects including the London School of Economics, the University Campus at UTEC Lima, the Anthony Timberlands Center in Arkansas, and the Urban Institute of Ireland in Dublin.
6:30pm
Networking
CLOSING RECEPTION
Conference Partners
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Sr. Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
