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The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling The Collaborative Spirit(S), Shannon Davis, Joel Minor

University Libraries Presentations

The James Merrill Digital Archive, comprised of Merrill’s poetry drafts, typescripts, and Ouija board session transcripts, is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive. - Shannon Davis, Digital Projects Librarian, and Joel Minor, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Expatriate Japanese Families As Unexpected Users Of Public Libraries: A Case Study In A College Town Community In The United States, Ryuta Komaki, Fukuji Imai, Yukinori Okabe

University Libraries Presentations

This study explores the use of local public libraries by expatriate Japanese families staying in a micro-urban, university-centered community in the United States, with a specific focus on their reading and information gathering practices. The data used for the study was collected through semi-structured interviews the authors conducted in 2013. The expatriate families in this study consist of those who temporarily live in the area with clear prospects of returning to Japan. All of the families the authors interviewed included a member who was either a corporate transferee (i.e. an employee of a transnational corporation assigned to work in a …

Integrating Cognitive Science With Innovative Teaching In Stem Disciplines, Mark A. Mcdaniel, Regina F. Frey, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Henry L. Roediger Iii

Books and Monographs

This volume collects the ideas and insights discussed at a novel conference, the Integrating Cognitive Science with Innovative Teaching in STEM Disciplines Conference, which was held September 27-28, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis. With funding from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the conference was hosted by Washington University’s Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE), a center established in 2011. Available for download as a PDF. Titles of individual chapters can be found at http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/circle_book/.

Amie Gross, Aia / Ab Architecture, 1975, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

575 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, Architect, April 2010.

575 Fifth Avenue is a 35,000 square foot supportive housing building, the first of its kind in the community of Park Slope, Brooklyn. This mixed-use, supportive housing development is comprised of offices, retail, and apartments for 48 individuals in need including the elderly, those who have been formerly homeless and young adults coming out of foster care. The client, The Fifth Avenue Committee, a local not-for-profit, runs a workforce training program in skilled woodworking that provided the cabinetwork including cabinets, counters and storage units fabricated in bamboo, designed by AGA.

The project …

Susi Marzuola, Aia, Leed Ap Bd+C / Bachelor Of Art, Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Portola Valley Town Center, Project Principal, 2008.

The Portola Valley Town Center, nestled at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains on the San Francisco Peninsula west of Stanford University, was designed to embody what mattered most to the people it serves – the natural environment, strong community, self governance and reliance. Our design goal was to complement and defer to the surrounding natural beauty in the most sustainable way possible while creating a place that was indigenous to site, culture and need. This mutual respect between the unbuilt and the built, the informal and the formal is central to …

Susi Marzuola, Aia, Leed Ap Bd+C / Bachelor Of Art, Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Yountville Town Center, Project Principal, 2009.

In 1998 the rural town of Yountville embarked on an extensive planning process for a new town center. The completed project, designed to achieve LEED Platinum, integrates new and existing buildings and shapes outdoor spaces—including a new town square—that accommodate large gatherings and simple neighborly exchanges. Located on 2.5-acres in the middle of town, the project references its rural surroundings and local vernacular architecture with simple massing, generous porches and familiar materials.

The challenge was to provide flexible spaces that accommodate an array of activities—meetings, events, afterschool programs, exercise classes. The new and renovated …

Joan Krevlin, Faia, Leed Ap Bd+C / Master Of Architecture, 1978, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center, Partner-in-Charge, Opened.

The Queens Botanical Garden is a nexus of botanical and cultural exploration for the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the United States – Flushing, Queens. The new Visitor & Administration Center is a built extension of the Garden’s mission: to demonstrate environmental stewardship while celebrating the cultural connections between people and plants. To that end, the Center is LEED® Platinum certified, a first for a public building in New York City. From the inception of the project, principles of sustainability led the design process. Water, a natural element significant to all …

Maggi Sedlis Goldstein, Aia / M.Arch, 1975, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Inpatient Healthcare, Project Manager, 2009. Charged with the management of the construction of a new patient floor on top of an existing active patient building at New York Presbyterian Hospital, was extremely challenging simply due to its location. Located on the 14th Floor of the Greenberg Pavilion Building (which spans over the FDR Drive), all services had to be extended, including elevators, water tanks, life safety and mechanical services. This 60,000 square foot project, now fully operational includes (48) patient beds, half of which are high end amenity rooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms and lounges.

Joan Krevlin, Faia, Leed Ap Bd+C / Master Of Architecture, 1978, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

New York Hall of Science Teaching Park, Partner-in-Charge. Phase I Kidpower! Playground Opened 1997. Phase II Garden of Science Opened 2007.

The 60,000 sf Teaching Park at the New York Hall of Science, the largest science playground in the United States, encourages young visitors to learn principles of physics through interactive exhibits and architectural elements. The 30,000 square foot “Kidpower!” Playground was created to augment the interior exhibits of the Hall of Science, and was constructed for school age children. The complimentary “Garden of Science” uses landscape as the organizing element, and is designed to engage the curiosity of pre-school …

Emily Parker Castle, Asid / Ba Architecture Washington University, 1978, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Rustic Contemporary Retreat, Interior Designer. 2011, First Place Residential Architecture over 4000sf AT HOME Magazine Design Awards with Laurent J. Torno, AIA. 2010, NKBA National Kitchen of the Year with brooksBerry & Associates. 2010.

After purchasing a two-story circa 1880 log cabin in rural Missouri, the couple decided to add a very substantial Y-shaped addition.

They brought in designer Emily Castle early, and she was able to ensure the interiors were functional and beautiful, and complemented the architect's exteriors. One of the major challenges in the project was to incorporate the many high-tech features that this extremely active, forever-entertaining couple …

Martha L. Hanlon, Aia / M.Arch, 1986, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

North Pole Physical Therapy Office, Architect, 2011.

Project scope was to design a 3,500 SF office/efficiency apartment for a physical therapy practice in North Pole, Alaska. The rural, 1-acre site is on the edge of a small town, populated by indistinguishable strip malls, fast-food establishments and log cabins. Design goal was for the building to create a strong, contemporary business image in a banal built landscape. The interior spaces needed to have an open, light feeling, and maintain a connection to the exterior while maximizing comfort for staff and clients. The building is composed of three simple sloping volumes that …

Risa Honig, Aia / Ba, 1982 / M.Arch, 1985, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Battery Park City Ferry Terminal | New York, NY, Senior Project Architect, 2009

As Senior Project Architect in the Engineering/Architecture Design Division of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ), Risa led an in-house team of architects and designers, along with a multi-disciplinary team of outside consultants. The design was completed in 2000, however, as a result of 9/11 the project was put on hold and the facility was completed in 2009. The gorals for the project were to create a terminal with a pavilion-like feel that served as an extension of the Battery Park City esplanade. …

Jen Stauber Francis, Leed Ap (Bd+C), Cprp / Master Of Architecture / Master Of Urban Design, 2006, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Topofeelia | Derived from Love of Place \ Photographer, Designer, Fabricator | Paper, Wood, Nails, Projection, 2013-2014

Topofeelia is a visual distillation of topophilia, defined by Yi-Fu Tuan as the affective bond between people and place or environmental setting (topos “place” and -philia, “love of”). This installation explores manifestations of love of place, sometimes unanticipated, in settings containing simultaneously miniscule and monumental encounters and considers reaction, pattern, connection, cycles, and becoming. The images represent place-gazing within North America, South America and Europe over the span of more than ten years (2003-2014). A non-traditional framing method minimizes barriers between the viewer …

Farzana H. Chohan, Leed Ap Bd+C, Dtm / Master Of Architecture And Urban Design, 1999, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Innovative Design of Life | Mosaic Designer | Project Leader Life Long……2014

“Outside of the box thinker”, is a presumption about an architect. And reality on ground restrains this creativity to work within the rigid confines of numerous internal and external factors associated with practicing of creativity in life. “Woman in Architecture” is a summation of creative life. As such this board reflects the creativity and diversity of WIA life. This is an illustration of the “Innovative Design of life”, my life, and a testimony of all other WIA.

Montage of my life has been a juxtaposition of conscious design …

Beth A. Niemi, B.A. Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

The Modern at Fort Lee, Project Sr. Designer, 2009-present

Our team at Elkus Manfredi Architects provided master planning, building design and interior design for the Modern at Fort Lee, a new mixed-use development at the portal of the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The project's two glass towers containing 900 luxury apartments rise from a podium above the Palisades cliffs and the Hudson River to make an iconic statement clearly identifiable from Manhattan and the west. When completed, the ground level will contain retail and restaurants, a community based theater and museum space all anchored by a …

Julie Morrison-Donovan, Lc, Ra, Leed Ap, Ncqlp / Bachelor Of Arts In Architecture, 1988, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Confidential Healthcare Client | Project Lighting Designer, 2011

This confidential healthcare client enhanced its brand through the use of architectural, campus-wide elements including a signature, molecular-shaped monument arch at the pedestrian entrance and a canopy at the entrance to the building. Many of these elements were illuminated to enhance the branding effort.

The canopy mimics the double helix DNA structure with a lighting pattern designed specifically to accentuate each intertwined DNA strand via direct view linear LED segments that accent the moving nature of the DNA strand. Ceramic metal halide step lights mounted low in the column provide functional light …

Julie Morrison-Donovan, Lc, Ra, Leed Ap, Ncqlp / Bachelor Of Arts In Architecture, 1988, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Humana Executive Offices | Senior Lighting Designer, 2014

Humana challenged HOK to design their executive offices to reflect their mission, to be transparent at every level of the organization. The end result, an open workspace design with offices centered in the interior of the building leaving the perimeter open for collaboration, communication and the crosspollination of ideas.

Supporting the company’s history was the addition of the timeline. Humana’s milestones were accentuated with light highlighting the importance of their history and supporting the overall “nautilus” design of the project.

Lighting is orthogonal throughout the space with one exception, the open collaboration …

S. Pearl Freeman, Aia / M.Arch, 1976, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

San Bernardino Justice Center | Owner: Judicial Council of California | Manager: Capital Program, S. Pearl Freeman, AIA | Architect: SOM, Managing Partner, Gene Schnair, FAIA, Manager Director, Steve Sobel, FAIA

Opened in May 2014, the San Bernardino Justice Center bridges the scales of downtown development to unify the urban fabric, creating a visible landmark for the city while engaging the public with vibrant open space. Situated at the intersection of San Bernardino’s County Government Center and the Downtown City Center, the Justice Center serves as the nexus for the city’s political and economic development and is the first high-rise …

Janet Hurwitz, Aia, Owner/Princiapl Jha-Architects / Ba72, M.Arch75, Msw75, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Private Art Gallery | JHA-Architects, Project Architect | Design through Construction Administration, Completed 2012

Located on a 50 acre property in New England, the Gallery was built to house the owners’ art collection. The design was informed by its context: a sloping wooded site overlooking a pond. The primary intent was that the building be secondary to its topography and landscape. Thus it follows the contours and is built into the slope, with only a low wall visible from the private road, and located along one of the many walking paths on the property. The building was also designed to …

Risa Honig, Aia / Ba, 1982 / M.Arch, 1985, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Remsen Hall Expansion | Queens College, Assistant Director | Department of Design, Construction & Management, The City University of New York (CUNY), 2010.

As Assistant Director for CUNY's Department of Design, Construction and Management, Risa ensured that design aspirations were uncompromised in the solution of a technically difficult problem. The results of her efforts provided the college with an award-winning 26,000 GSF addition designed by Mitchell | Guirgola Architects, LLP. This project delivered state-of-the-art code compliant and energy efficient laboratories, as well as an abundance of spaces, interior and exterior, to foster student collaboration and informal learning. The addition complements …

Laura Starr, Rla, Asla, Leed Ap / B.A. Architecture, 1979, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

The Bosque, The Battery Park, Partner-in-Charge, 2007.

Laura Starr modeled the design of the Bosque after the verdant marshes and towering forests that greeted Dutch explorers 400 years ago. The Bosque features a series of romantic garden "rooms," joined by meandering soft-surface paths, densely planted with tall native grasses and perennials, conceived by Dutch garden designer, Piet Oudolf. A granite at-grade fountain services as a sprinkler for children and a paved surface for events, elegantly incorporating air vents, utilities, and drainage, at times only one foot below the surface. Weisz+Yoes Architects crafted custom curved wooden benches and a horizontally slatted …

Kathleen English, Aia, Leed Ap Bd+C / Bachelor Of Arts In Architecture -- Cum Laude, 1982., Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Houston, TX. Type of Construction: Adaptive Reuse. Role: Architect, Prime Consultant. 81,000 SF, Completed in 2010.

Planned Parenthood cares passionately about helping women, men and young people lead healthy lives. Kathleen English shares that belief -- when people are truly cared for, they will make their lives, their families -- and even the world -- better and healthier. Kathleen took this sentiment to heart when working on the adaptive reuse of a former commercial office building into a full service medical facility. This project is a culmination of not only her personal beliefs in using architecture …

Lisa Kincaid, Associate Aia / Ba 1990 / M.Arch 1992, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

UMB Fund Services | Design Principal, June 2014

In expressing the spirit of UMB Fund Services, we are inspired by the many arches present at the existing Stockhouse Building and on the Schlitz Park campus in Milwaukee. From the front entrance to the curving vaults of the brick and wood structure within, the elegance of the arch is found throughout. We believe it is appropriate to honor the best built traditions of our past. We also believe that the arch can serve as one representation on of the integrity of UMB Fund Services: as a trusted client resource and as …

Jill M. Baltazar Deichmann, Aia, Ncarb / Master Of Architecture, 2002, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

North Grant Park - Maggie Daley Park | Chicago, IL | Architectural Design, Code Consulting, 06/2010-12/2014

Primera Engineers, Ltd. Is part of the consultant team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. of New York, selected by the Chicago Park District to design the major reconstruction of the 20-acre North Grant Park/Maggie Daley Park located near Chicago's lakefront and major tourism centers of Millennium and Grant Parks. This project consists of the reinvention of the park space with a change in topography, pathways and planting. the project also introduces a children's exploration center and play area, a rock climbing wall, …

Lila Irene Compadre, Asla / Lecturer, Wustl / Master Of Landscape Architecture, 2012 / B.A. Architecturer, 2008, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Throop Plaza | Project Designer, 2014

Throop Plaza is a landscape court for the new Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Approximately a half acre in size, Throop Plaza is a multi-seasonal, multifunctional prototype landscape for the University.

The plaza is defined geometrically by a series of paths laid out to provide clear and focused way-finding and the plaza’s landscape components are composed into inhabitable layers which filter views through the site.

Along Throop Plaza’s perimeter are rain garden s and a native flowering hillside which buffer the plaza from the street and visually reinforce the University’s …

Ursula Emery Mcclure, Aia, Faar, Leed Ap Bd+C / B.A., 1992, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Iota House, Iota, Louisiana | Architect, Summer 2008

In a small town in the rice country of Louisiana, the Iota House is both rehabilitation and a modernization. The resolution lies somewhere between what is and what will be. It consists of 2 outbuildings (an outhouse and carport) that become part of the original structure with the aid of a wrap-around porch. Like most of our projects, the porch is integral to the solution. It satisfies the client's goals, serving as a slip joint between the new and the old, and in the end, harmonizes the scheme both internally and externally.

Roberta Darby Curtis, Aia / Bachelor Of Science, Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Staten Island Zoo, Carl F. Kauffeld Hall of Reptiles, Exhibit Architect, 2007

The Reptile Wing went through a transformative expansion and renovation to its 1930’s WPA Exhibit Hall. As Exhibit Architect, Darby Curtis developed a design to de-mystify and educate the public about reptiles.

The design includes aquatic, desert, amphibian, invertebrate, and venomous and non-venomous snake exhibit areas, incorporating very specific – variously warm, hot, dry and wet – environments; successfully supporting three distinct user groups: the animals, the keepers, and public visitors. The exhibits emphasize bio-diversity, with interactive zones to learn about reptiles and their crucial role in our …

Melanie Francis / Master Of Architecture, 1980, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

ACTS Lifestyle, Singapore | Melanie Francis, MSIA, Director-in-charge Tow Francis Pte Ltd | Completed 2004

ACTS Lifestyle was conceived as a venue to reach out to the multi-cultural community in Singapore with the Gospel message. Located in the basement of a downtown shopping centre, the 10,000SF space comprises a book and music store, cafe, performance stage and seminar room. In plan, the various activities are organized along an ‘L’ shaped spine extending from the shopfront entrance to the stage and seminar room at the rear. A ribbon of vinyl flooring defines this path, winding its way through carpet tiled areas. …

Susan Shender, Ra / Ba, 1975, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Shabbat / Havdalah Set, Designer. Cast-Bronze Using the Lost-Wax Method, 2007.

The Shabbat, in its welcoming and in its departure, is a unity experience. We usher it in on Friday night, we gently mark its departure with Havdalah on Saturday night.

The Exile of the week is over on Shabbat. On Shabbat, that which is partial finds its whole, so too with human beings. On Shabbat, we receive what we are missing.

We make Havdalah on Saturday night to mark the separation between Shabbat holy time and weekly not-yet-holy time, but the emphasis is on unity, integration, not separation.

The …

Carol Rusche Bentel, Faia, Faar '94, Leed Ap / Liberal Arts, 1979, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

The Modern at MoMA. Project Architect with partners Dr. Paul Bentel FAIA + Peter Bentel AIA, 2004.

THE MODERN is a 330-seat ground floor restaurant with views to the MoMA sculpture garden. It includes the “Barr” room, named after MoMA’s first director, and a private dining room. The new facility is located within the original museum building by Edward Durell Stone and Philip Goodwin, the adjacent museum annex by Philip Johnson and in a portion of the new museum facility designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. At the intersection of these various buildings, the restaurant was conceived as a layered environment defined …