Borys, A. M. (2021). American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion. University of Massachusetts Press.
Research Theme: Design & Building
Built environment scholarship at the scales of the interior space to the building
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Dannenberg, A. L., Frumkin, H., & Jackson, R. (Eds.). (2022). Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability (2nd ed.). Island Press.
Whose City?: Invitations and Imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative’s Example for Seattle
Berney, R. (2022). Whose City?: Invitations and Imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative’s Example for Seattle. In K. Goh, A. Loukaitou-Sideris, & V. Mukhija (Eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City. The MIT Press.
Building Community Capacity as Just Urban Design: Learning from Seattle’s Chinatown International District
Hou, J. (2022). Building Community Capacity as Just Urban Design: Learning from Seattle’s Chinatown International District. In K. Goh, A. Loukaitou-Sideris, & V. Mukhija (Eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City. The MIT Press.
Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi
Huppert, A. C. (2015). Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan
Oliver, H. Pike, & Stockstill, C. Michael. (2022). Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan. Routledge.
Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization
Cho, I. S., Križnik, B., & Hou, J. (Eds.). (2022). Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization. Amsterdam University Press.
Rachel Berney and Jeff Hou contribute to new book on social justice in urban design
“Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City” (MIT Press 2022) features a collection of chapters and case studies that apply a social justice lens to the design of urban environments. Sixteen contributors, including Rachel Berney of Urban Design & Planning and Jeff Hou of Landscape Architecture, examine topics ranging from single-family zoning and community capacity building to immigrant street vendors and the right to walk. The book is open-access and can be downloaded from MIT Press here.
Westlake
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. (2014). Westlake. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 112(2), 68-90.
AIA publishes “Equity in Architectural Education” co-authored by Dean Renée Cheng and Laura Osburn
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently published a supplement to the AIA Guides for Equitable Practice titled “Equity in Architectural Education.” Renée Cheng, dean of the College of Built Environments, served as the project lead for the research and writing team, which included Laura Osburn, research scientist in construction management. The supplement argues that organizational culture is critical to achieving goals of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and is intended to inspire discussion within individual institutions, and among thought leaders…