June 16-17th, 2011
Thursday-Friday, 9am-5pm
CES/AIA LU (HSW) 14 units
American schools are in crisis. Scores on U.S. and international examinations and the country’s appalling school dropout rate clearly indicate that our schools are failing significant numbers of our children. The problem is exacerbated by the high-stakes arena of global competition and rising expectations for achievement and advanced technology, problem-solving, and communication skills at the very time that school finances are dwindling across the country. In the eye of this perfect storm are opportunities to rethink the education system—new ways to teach, engage, and inspire our students and the facilities to support that effort.
This program uses the lenses of past, present, and future to confront the issues and possibilities in schooling and, specifically, their implications for the design of learning spaces from K-12 to higher education to professional schools. There is an emerging awareness of the obvious: the design of space can make a difference in schools and educational outcomes.
This program is open to and encourages all critical contributors to educational facilities to participate.
Coordinators:
Nick Seierup FAIA joined Perkins + Will in 2000 and for the past 11 years has been a Principal and Director of Design for the practice headquartered in downtown Los Angeles. Nick is involved in every aspect of the firm’s strategic and tactical decision making and oversees design conceptualization and planning for the California practices’ health care, science and technology, education and corporate/commercial/civic markets. He travels extensively throughout the world, and seeks solutions rooted in expressions of community, context and culture. His portfolio of built work has been recognized with over 70 design awards at the local, state and national levels, and includes educational facilities located throughout the US, Korea, India and Saudi Arabia.
Nick was educated at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC – BArch 1979), and Orange Coast College (AArts 1972).Thirty one years as a practicing architect have included eight years as an Associate Architect with Eric Owen Moss, FAIA, and six years as a Principal with Steven Ehrlich Architects. Nick has taught at SCI-ARC, UCLA, Woodbury University and the University of Southern California and serves regularly on academic and design awards juries.
Nick has served on the California Council AIA Board of Directors and on the Los Angeles Chapter AIA Board of Directors, including as President in 2001. Nick has been active on the Board of Trustees of SCI-Arc since 1998, as well as on boards of the LA Architecture + Design Museum, the USC Architectural Guild, and the “Powers of Ten/New Blood” exhibits and symposia. Select honors include SCI-Arc Distinguished Alumnus 2004, California Council/AIA Emerging Talent Recipient1999, and elevation to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2006.
David Dwyer, Ph.D, Research Professor & Katzman-Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation, Rossier School of Education, USC. David C. Dwyer is currently leading an effort at the Rossier School of Education to develop and open the USC Hybrid High School, an innovative program in the school’s neighborhood aimed at increasing the graduation rate and success of high-need urban students in college and careers.
As an educator, Dwyer taught middle and high-school science and directed alternative programs for 11 years. He taught a variety of science methods courses at Webster University, Maryville University and Washington University in St. Louis.
As a researcher, he directed a study of the role of school principals in instructional management at Far West Laboratory (now WestEd). At Apple Computer, as Distinguished Scientist in the company’s research arm, he directed the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow project (ACOT), a 10-year study of teachers and students in high-access to technology environments.
Since that time, he served as Vice President for Advanced Technologies at Computer Curriculum Corporation, a division of Simon and Schuster and as Chief Academic Officer at Apex Learning, he designed and produced a complete portfolio of media-rich online high school courses. He was co-founder and CEO of Edpoint, an Internet startup whose goal was to prepare parents to plan more effectively for their children’s education futures and to provide affordable online tutoring for students. He was also co-founder and COO of KD Learning, another startup that produced ZooKazoo.com, a safe gaming and social-networking environment for young children. Currently he holds the Visionary Board Seat for the New Media Consortium and also serves on the board of the High Tech LA charter high school. He holds a Ph.D. in education change and innovation from Washington University in St. Louis.
Charles Lagreco, AIA, MacDonald and Diane Rusling Becket Professor of Community Design, School of Architecture, USC Professor Lagreco, a senior faculty member, has taught at the USC School of Architecture in design methodology, professional practice and design and thesis studios in undergraduate and the graduate Masters of Architecture professional programs. He taught first as an Adjunct Professor and then as a full time tenured faculty member since 1980. He served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of the School of Architecture from 1997 through 2007. He has worked with the Community Redevelopment Agency on downtown revitalization activities in the Broadway Historic Theater District and in educational facilities design and research with an emphasis on new urban educational prototypes and their potential to support community-based urban development. He co-chaired the Lesson’s Learned –Schools Symposium at the Getty Museum. He has BA and MFA Architecture degrees from Princeton University and a Diploma in Architecture Cert. from Cambridge University and spent a year in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship. Since 1999 he has held the MacDonald and Diane Becket Professorship in Community Design.
He is currently working with Dr. David Dwyer, Research Professor and holder of the Katzman-Ernst Chair for Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation at USC’s Rossier School of Education on the USC/Hybrid High School initiative providing input on programming and site selection and strategies for the proposed school in the USC surrounding neighborhood.
He is the founding principal of Architectural Collective, and has been practicing architecture with that firm after a stint with CRS ( now HOK) as a lead designer, and has won numerous local state and national design awards including a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the Sunset Boulevard multi-use building in West Hollywood that is a prototype for much of the multi-use live work projects currently being built in Los Angeles.
Speakers:
Harvard-educated, she has been a teacher, principal, adjunct professor, community relations director, school district administrator. Victoria also served as a director of educational partnerships at Talaris Research Institute where she worked with fellow researchers and educators to conduct, integrate, and interpret the world’s leading brain research.
For the past decade Victoria has built bridges between the worlds of education and architecture as a design strategist, featured speaker, and Chief Dreamer for clients in the US and abroad. One of many accolades, her Marysville-Getchell Campus recently won the National School Boards Association’s 2011 Grand Prize for School Design.
In addition to her service on the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International Foundation & Charitable Trust Board of Trustees, Victoria is a founding board member for Construction for Change and a founding advisory board member for the Dingshi Network Technology Company. A cogent writer and analyst, she has co-authored a book (Architecture for Achievement), produced videos, conducted research, and written several articles on school design.
With a heart for equity and achievement, Victoria helps communities realize their hopes and dreams for their children. Providing high-level consulting expertise, she encourages others to think creatively about design solutions that foster synergies between program and building, community and school.
Before joining USC, Joseph consulted with KPMG for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As Engagement Manager and Lead Consultant, he designed and documented the information technology strategy for this landmark undertaking; the largest university project in the 21st century (Cost $8 billon). Upon opening in September 2009, KAUST became the second largest endowed university in the world ($20 Billion) and is targeted to be amongst the top five universities for science and technology in five to ten years.
From 2005-2009, Dr. Cevetello was Senior Director of Information Technology and Director of Academic Technology at Loyola Marymount University. In this role he provided strategic leadership and vision in support of online learning infrastructure, policy and faculty integration of technology in their teaching and research.
Prior to joining LMU, Joseph was a consultant to a number of higher-education institutions and organizations including the University of Chicago, Harvard University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Austrian National Bank, and the World Bank.
Dr. Cevetello received his masters and his doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests encompass how online learning technologies affect adult learner and teacher interaction/collaboration, how media influence student and faculty perspectives of learning and their roles, and how the use of technology impacts organizational effectiveness, communication, and change. At Harvard and MIT he instructed courses on Adult Development, Educational Philosophy, Education for Social Change, and the History of Education Technology.
Prior to founding Studio Shift, Mario worked with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne at Morphosis Architects where he acted as construction administrator/project architect for the Science Center School at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. A unique collaborative effort drawing on the dynamic relationship between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the California Science Center, the Science Center School strives to be a model for 21st Century education through the innovative use of science, mathematics and technology as the foundation for a rigorous and exciting multidisciplinary learning experience for kindergarten through 5th grade students.
Born and raised in Chicago, Mario received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mario currently holds architectural licenses in California, Illinois and Colorado and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is married and has a young son.
While at New Visions Foundation, he has been the primary Founder of New Roads School, a co-founder of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the creator of CEO (Center for Educational Opportunity) which places foster children in independent schools, and the Founder of FHF (Families Helping Families), which redirects low income families into life-changing new directions. In addition, New Visions Foundation has instituted an after-school program at Camp Gonzales (a probationary incarceration school) to redirect and relocate juvenile students.
His publications include For Mortal Stakes: Solutions for Schools and Society, published in 1998 by Peter Lang Publishing and Bramble Books, and Keeping Watch: Reflections On American Culture, Education and Politics was published by Firstbooks Library in 2002. Proceed With Passion: Engaging Students in Meaningful Education was published in April of 2004 by Red Hen Press.
He serves on the board of trustees of the New Roads School, P.S. Arts, American Poetry Review, The Gabriela Axelrod Foundation, The Sam Francis Foundation, EXED, The Center for Innovative Education, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and the Los Angeles Academy for Arts and Enterprise. He and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Santa Monica, California. They have four daughters.
Kevin is the Design Principal in Charge for all of the office projects including the award-wining Valley Center House, the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the Slot Box House and the new Art Center College of Design South Campus Building. Current projects include new offices for BMW/Designworks USA, the UCLA Music Facilities Study, and the Harvard University Art Museums Art Center.
The work has been honored by regional and national organizations with numerous awards for design excellence, including the 1992 Topanga Canyon House PA award and the 2003 Camino Nuevo Charter Academy gold medal from the Brunner Foundation for Urban Excellence. In 1999 Kevin Daly and Chris Genik were selected as one of eight Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York and featured on the cover of Metropolis. In 2005 the office was one of five American design firms featured in 10 x 10_2 by Phaidon.
Kevin has taught at UCLA, SCI-Arc, ASU, UCSD and USC and is a member of the advisory board of the University of Southern California Center for Sustainable Cities.
The results span from pre-schools to graduate schools, and are recognized internationally as student-centered, healthy, and effective learning environments. They are real-world examples of the benefits of stakeholder involvement, integrated project delivery and participatory decision-making. Projects under Christopher’s leadership have earned regional and national design awards, and are located across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Many have also earned sustainability certifications from the US Green Building Council, Collaborative for High Performance Schools, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Christopher is a licensed architect in California and Arizona, and he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arizona, where he studied both Architecture and Philosophy. He is also a certified Project Management Professional and LEED Accredited Professional, and frequently lectures at universities and conferences on sustainability, project management, and the design of learning environments.
Prior to joining Green Dot, Marco founded r3 school solutions, an organization that provided management and administrative services to charter management organizations. Prior to founding r3 school solutions, he was a Partner at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm. Marco has fifteen years of consulting experience working with top management of major international groups in corporate and product-market strategy, channel management, pricing strategy, commercial organization, operations, R&D management and supply chain management assignments, in the USA, South America, and Europe. Prior to joining Bain & Company, Marco also worked at McKinsey & Co. and for Enichem Americas, a petrochemical trading company based in New York. Marco earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Columbia University, where he also earned an M.B.A. He has extensive international experience, having lived in six different countries, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Marco, an active community member, is married and has two children, both attending public schools. He is also the Venice chapter president of the Parent Revolution, a parent advocacy organization he helped found.
Selwyn Ting is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at USC’s School of Architecture, where he has taught since 2001. He was the Director of the school’s Foreign Studies Program in France, from 2004-2009. His professional experience includes tenures with Morphosis Architects, Hodgetts and Fung Design Associates, and KMJR (now AECOM). In his role as project architect, he has led design teams for a wide range of building types such as the Hewlett Packard Regional Headquarters Building in Atlanta, E! Productions Broadcast Studio Building for MCA, Orlando, and the design for “Art and Film”, a featured exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
An avid reader and strategic thinker about the evolving nature of our global society and economy, he often assists schools navigate change to create agile, responsive, and forward-facing learning environments; helping to prepare students for success now and in the future.
Mr. Turckes firmly believes in a strong collaborative process and his work exhibits an ability to successfully translate client goals into innovative and thoughtful school environments that are uniquely suited to each school’s specific needs. Mr. Turckes’ experience and understanding of the key issues surrounding K-12 facilities have led to numerous presentations at regional and national educational conferences on a broad range of topics from planning 21st century schools to safety and security to green architecture and its use in school facilities. His projects have been recognized with numerous awards and honors from both the architectural and educational communities.
