Dennis L. Law, FASLAProfessor and Dean

2004 - 2005 NEWSLETTER

Law Bridges Practiceand Education

Dean Dennis Law has been selected for inclusion in an elite ranking of architectural educators.

The Greenway Group ranked Law ninth in its survey of the most respected educators in the United States who are notable in bridging the practice of architecture with higher education. Greenway’s Counsel House Research surveyed leading practitioners throughout the United States during summer and fall 2004 to come up with nominees for its rankings. Greenway editors selected the 30 role models included on the list.

Other educators from Big 12 schools included on the list are John Gaunt of the University of Kansas at 14th and Larry Speck of the University of Texas at Austin at 18th. Earning the top spot on the list was Robert A.M. Stern of the Yale School of Architecture.

The Greenway Group is the publisher of Design Intelligence and the Almanac of Architecture and Design.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUESachs Named Architecture Head 2

New Faculty 2

Four Programs Ranked in Top 10 in Nation 3

Centennial Celebration 3

Students Complete Design Build Project 4

Donor Acknowledgement 6

LA Winning Tradition 7

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A Message from the DeanLegends and Legacies

I find it difficult to believe that during the 2004-2005 academic year, I am celebrating my 30th year at Kansas State University. It is equally difficult for me to realize that I have spent nearly one-third of that time serving as this college’s dean.

Serving my tenth year as dean has caused me to take stock of the wonderful things that have blessed the mission we attempt to accomplish on a daily basis. I have also come to appreciate more and more what an honor it has been to work here with the greatest staff anyone could ever ask for as we address the needs of our students and faculty.

This tenth year is also fulfilling my hope that it be a period of continued progress and achievement on several fronts. It seems to me that we are in the business of building legends and leaving legacies.

The 2004-2005 academic year began with a new provost. As the chief academic officer for K-State, the person in that role is pivotal to the success of any academic unit. Throughout my career as dean, we have been blessed with a great provost, Dr. James Coffman, who has been very supportive of our college. Dr. Coffman has moved back to the veterinary medicine faculty on a phased retirement track, and we wish him well.

Dr. M. Duane Nellis is our new provost. A geographer with an understanding of the types of work we do, Dr. Nellis has served the last seven years as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia after a long tenure as a faculty member, department head and associate dean here at K-State. We welcome him back to our campus and know that he’ll lead us in a positive direction.

Our 2004-2005 freshman class is the most talented in the history of this college. These students come to us from all over the nation. Thirty-four percent of these 160 freshmen are from outside the State of Kansas. Their high school median grade point average (GPA) is 3.786 (on a 4.0 scale) in a college preparatory curriculum. Most have a score of 25 or higher on their ACT college entrance exam. Nearly half of the class is female. After their first semester of study in our demanding curriculum, 18 of this group had a 4.0 (straight A) GPA; 112 had a GPA of 3.00 or above! This elite group of young men and women was selected for entrance to our college out of a huge pool of 647 students who applied for the privilege of studying here.

Yet, this is not a class suddenly out of the ordinary. In fact, over the past five to six years our entry standards have steadily risen. Concurrently, our attrition has diminished as these talented students come to us with greater work habits and commitment to earn their way into the ranks of design professionals upon graduation. Our task as faculty and staff, quite frankly, is to create a set of legends from these remarkable young people.

Many of our alumni have become legends within our professional community. I am amazed at the degree of leadership in the practice community that has emerged from within the ranks of our graduates, often within a short period of time. I know that the K-State tradition will continue as our graduates display their intellect, ingenuity and creativity along with a keen work ethic in their practice. My years as dean have allowed me to become acquainted with many of these legends throughout the country. To sense the influence our alumni are having on the design and planning of the built environment gives those of us in Seaton Hall a great sense of pride.

Among the legends who need additional recognition are the hard-working faculty in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design. This unique set of individuals has dedicated their lives to teaching and research. I am concerned that we will lose many of these legends to retirement in the next few years. Half of our current faculty members are more than 55 years old; one quarter of them are over 60. We are developing a strategy to ensure that our legacy of teaching, which has dominated all other aspects of our college over the decades of its existence, will continue in the future.

On behalf of our students, faculty and staff, I want to thank all of our alumni and friends who have left us another kind of legacy—a legacy in the form of a financial contribution to our mission—as well as gifts of countless time and endless energy toward our operation. It is this tradition of selfless giving that has built this college into the legend it has become among comprehensive design colleges in the country.

And on a personal note, some of our readers will have heard that I was diagnosed with prostate cancer last summer. I underwent surgery at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston early in the fall and am pleased to report that the tests showed the cancer had not spread nor is further treatment currently necessary. I have regained my strength and normal pace, and I feel great. Your thoughts, prayers, cards and other messages of care and support were much appreciated as I and my family went through a very trying time last year.

We wish all of you the very best.

Dennis L. Law, FASLA

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On the recommendation of the faculty, Professor David Sachs, AIA, has been appointed head of the Department of Architecture by Dean Dennis Law. Professor Sachs succeeds Professor James Jones who resigned his administrative duties in December 2004 due to health reasons. Professor Jones returns to teaching status after serving as department head for five years.

Professor Sachs was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in economics from Stetson University in Florida, a professional Master of Architecture degree from Rice University in Texas and a Doctor of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan.

Before coming to K-State in the fall of 1988, Professor Sachs practiced architecture for approximately 10 years with various firms in the South and Midwest, including the office of the late Samuel Mockbee. He also taught at Mississippi State University, the University of Michigan and Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Sachs Named Architecture HeadSince coming to K-State, Professor Sachs has taught in various capacities including at all levels of design studio, building construction and project programming, and has led seminars on modern architecture, Kansas City architecture, the history of urban space and architecture since 1945. He has served on or chaired many committees and task forces within the department, the college and the university. For seven years, Professor Sachs was coordinator of the Kansas City Academic Program; he currently serves on K-State’s Faculty Senate. For the last four years, he has served as associate head of the Department of Architecture.

Professor Sachs has also served the architectural profession as board member for local and state chapters of the American Institute of Architects in both Kansas and Missouri. He has been active in scholarly groups, currently serving as secretary to the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. An active scholar, he recently published a book on the Louisiana architect A. Hays Town. He also co-authored, with George Ehrlich, the University of Kansas Press Guide to Kansas Architecture.

Professor Ken Brooks accepted an invitation from Arizona State University to become the associate dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design in Tempe. He assumed his new duties in July 2004.

Promoted to professor in 1988, Professor Brooks came to K-State in 1982 as an associate professor of landscape architecture following a five-year teaching career at Washington State University in Pullman.

Brooks Departs During his tenure at K-State, Professor Brooks served in various departmental, college and university leadership roles including coordinator of the landscape architecture graduate program, chair of our college computing committee and faculty senator.

We extend our sincere appreciation to Professor Brooks for his 22 years of service, and our best wishes to both him and his family.

New FacultyProfessor Larry Bowne joined the architecture faculty in the fall of 2003. After earning a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA and a Master of Architecture from Harvard, Professor Bowne served his internship in Boston and New York City. In 1997, he opened a small practice in New York City with two Harvard classmates. The firm, B&R Projects, prepared designs for projects in New York City, the U.S. and abroad, including commissions in Buenos Aires, Zurich and Kosovo. While the firm worked primarily on residential

projects—mostly New York City apartments—they also designed retail, commercial and public spaces. Since 2003, Professor Bowne has served as principal of Larry Bowne Architecture, formerly of New York City and now located in Manhattan, Kansas. Professor Bowne teaches architectural studio, building construction and seminars in architectural theory. His research interests include urban housing, civic infrastructure and tectonic innovation.

Professor R. Todd Gabbard joined the architecture faculty in the fall of 2004 to teach architectural studio and environmental systems. Professor Gabbard comes to us from the University of Florida where he received a Bachelor of Design and a Master of Architecture. He interned under several architects in Florida between his degrees, working in institutional, commercial, religious and residential design. Professor Gabbard is in the process of rebuilding our environmental systems curriculum.

He plans to expand environmental awareness and application through more hands-on learning models in required classes, new seminar choices and an initiative to make K- State a USGBC affiliate, allowing faculty and students to sit for LEED certification. Professor Gabbard currently serves as editor-in-chief of Crit, the national journal of the American Institute of Architecture Students. He also sits on the steering committee of the ArchVoices Essay Competition, a juried writing contest for interns.

In MemoryProfessor Emeritus G. Alden Krider, 95, died Sunday, October 10, 2004, in Manhattan.

Professor Krider taught in the Department of Architecture from 1949 to 1977. His personal slide collection, amassed with his wife Margaret during their travels around the world, became the nucleus of our audio visual center. His vision for the center was to build a collection of imagery in slides and film to expose students to a wide-ranging, diverse design vocabulary.

The college’s Krider Visual Resource and Learning Center was dedicated in 1990 in Professor Krider ’s honor.

A consummate artist and architect, always the teacher with a dash of entertainer, Professor Krider is fondly remembered by legions of students.

Survivors include his daughter Janet Duncan and her husband Pat of Manhattan, six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Krider Visual Resource and Learning Center, 218 Seaton Hall, College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506 or to the Children’s Division of the Manhattan Public Library, 629 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan KS 66502.

We encourage you to regularly visit our website, full of constantly changing news about our activities and achievements. Through the website, we seek to provide our alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents and prospective students with accurate, timely, easily retrievable information. More and more, websites replace printed materials which ever-increasing printing and postage costs, as well as decreased budgets, diminish our ability to produce.

A brand new college website was recently launched, and the first thing you should notice is the new address (www.capd.ksu.edu). Please update your bookmarks with our new address. Also, note that if you go to the old address (www.arch.ksu.edu), you will be directed to the new site. Because of the infusion of funds from the student technology fee implemented last year, we have been able to hire dedicated staff for our website. Brent O’Connor has worked as our half-time web

CAPD Launches New Websitemanager for just over a year. The many hours of hard work, planning and design that have gone into the project thus far have resulted in a website possessing new features, clear organization, minimalist design and a framework for future growth and development.

One significant feature of the new website is its structure. The main topic categories have been reorganized, plus sections added for our three main audiences (prospective students, current students and alumni) so that information can be tailored to each. The site also has a new search function as well as a site map to assist those needing help to navigate and find the information they seek. Lastly, the website was built in compliance with required government and K-State web accessibility standards.

Please visit the website often because we will continue to introduce more new and exciting features and content.

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Four Programs Ranked in Top 10 in NationK-State’s bachelor of interior architecture/design and bachelor of landscape architecture programs ranked third, its bachelor of architecture program ranked sixth and its master of landscape architecture program ranked eighth in the 2005 nation-wide survey of leading firms across the United States.

In fact, K-State was one of only two schools with rankings in the top 10 in four of the five surveyed categories. No school had rankings in all five surveyed categories. Three other schools were ranked in the top 15 in three programs, with the balance of the schools ranked in the top 15 in just one or two programs. Only two other Big 12 schools were ranked.

Each year, Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council conduct the study, in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design, to determine the best colleges and universities for architecture and interior architecture/design in the United States. Principals of over 1,000 leading U.S. firms are asked to indicate which accredited programs in the past five years produced graduates most prepared for real-world practice.

K-State’s interior architecture/design program has been in the Top 15 during all six years in which the study has been conducted. This is the fourth time K-State’s architecture program has been ranked in the top 10. To complement its annual rankings of interior architecture/design and architecture schools, the 2005 rankings were expanded to include landscape architecture schools. Both K-State’s bachelor ’s and master ’s programs in landscape architecture were ranked in the top 10 in this first-ever ranking of those programs.

There are 114 accredited interior architecture/interior design programs, 111 accredited architecture programs, and 45 accredited undergraduate and 30 accredited graduate landscape architecture programs in the U.S.

Although K-State offers separate programs in interior architecture, through the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, and in interior design, through the College of Human Ecology, both programs are combined for survey purposes. Entering students in both K-State programs share first-year courses in design fundamentals.

Dennis Law, Dean of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design, believes there are a number of factors contributing to the consistently high rankings the college’s programs have achieved.

“Our college is one of the most unique design schools in the nation,” Law says, “because the disciplines of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture and planning are ‘under one roof.’ This serves design professionals very well, as it is the type of setting in which our alumni practice.” He goes on to say, “We also actively recruit the best and brightest students, and we are a better bargain than many other top-ranked schools. Another reason is the reputation and work ethic of our highly talented faculty. Finally, our students possess a strong work ethic, something we feel they have an obligation to continue as they graduate and enter the work place.”

Dr. Jon Wefald, president of Kansas State University, was also pleased with the outcome of the recent rankings. Wefald said, “I have known for a long time that our College of Architecture, Planning and Design had some of the best and most prestigious academic programs in the entire nation, but I was delighted to see that this kind of national recognition is continuing.”

According to its sponsors, this survey is the only such study of its kind for the design disciplines and can be used, along with other considerations, to help current and future students plan their educational paths.

Centennial CelebrationThe centennial of architectural education at Kansas State University has been celebrated during the past year in a variety of ways.

During the fall 2003, a symposium was held which featured speakers and panelists from around the U.S. who addressed architectural education at K-State from regional and national perspectives. The symposium, coordinated by Professor Madlen Simon, featured Wayne Michael Charney, K-State architecture professor and expert on Frank Lloyd Wright; Saralyn Reece Hardy of the Salina Arts Center; Cynthia Weese, dean at Washington University; Marvin Malecha, dean at North Carolina State University; and Denis Hector, associate dean at the University of Miami.

Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara was selected as the college’s inaugural Victor L. Regnier Chair in Architecture, and his September 2004 lectures in Manhattan and Kansas City were the next events in the centennial celebration. One of Japan’s most prominent and internationally renowned architects, Hara has been responsible for the designs of many of the most significant and largest projects in his country, including major urban complexes such as the Iida City Museum, the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, the Miyagi Prefectural Library in Sendai, the Kyoto Station Complex and the recently completed Sapporo Dome.

Hara is spending several periods in residence at K-State during the 2004-2005 academic year to teach in the fifth-year architecture studio of Professor Robert Arens. The students and Professor Arens also traveled to Japan to view Hara’s work.

The Victor L. Regnier Chair in Architecture was established in 2003 through the extraordinary generosity of his children, Victor A. Regnier, Robert D. Regnier and Catherine M. Regnier, through the Victor and Helen Regnier Family Foundation of Mission, Kansas. The purpose of the Victor L. Regnier Chair is to recruit and retain the highest quality faculty, as well as to enrich the educational experience of students by engaging architects with national and international reputations to teach annually in the Department of Architecture. Victor A. Regnier,a 1971 K-State graduate with degrees in architecture andarchitectural engineering, is a former dean of architecture at the

University of Southern California who has served our college in numerous capacities.

In the fall 2004, the faculty and the entire student body of the Department of Architecture traveled to Kansas City and Wichita as part of the centennial celebration. Wearing black and white centennial logo t-shirts designed by the K-State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students, the group joined alumni at the AIA Kansas Conference. They also toured new architecture in Kansas City and took part in “First Friday” festivities in the Crossroads Arts District as well as a special reception and dance. In Wichita, the group took part in a charette addressing revitalization of 21st Street.

The roots of the K-State architecture program can be traced to former professor John D. Walters. In 1903, Walters was granted permission by the Kansas Board of Regents to organize an architecture curriculum. It was first known as the Department of Architecture and Drawing. In 1922, the name changed to the Department of Architecture and Allied Arts to reflect increasing course work in the arts.

Shortly thereafter, John F. Helm joined the department and served for many years as department head. He encouraged K-State to begin a collection of art by Midwest artists that evolved into K-State’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

During the headship of Paul Weigel, the professional curriculum in architecture at K-State was one of the first in the nation to become accredited.

Under the College of Engineering in the 1950s, the department included a curriculum in architectural engineering. With the leadership of Emil Fischer, architecture separated from engineering and a new College of Architecture and Design was formed, with Fischer as dean, to include the professions responsible for the design of the physical environment. Today, the College of Architecture, Planning and Design includes the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Product Design, and Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning.

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CAPD GalaA Gala reception will celebrate our generous donors, friends and alumni; our new design-build space; our student scholarship recipients; our highest-ever rankings; and our students, faculty and staff. The reception will be held from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2005, in conjunction with K-State Open House on

Saturday, April 9. K-State’s Open House begins at 9:00 a.m. and runs until 3:00 p.m.

These events should provide a wonderful opportunity to visit Seaton Hall and the College of Architecture, Planning and Design!

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Thanks to some hard-working architecture students, Kansas State University ’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design started the spring 2005 semester with some much needed new classrooms and educational space.

About 10,000 square feet of space the college has in the east wing of Seaton Hall has been turned into two rooms with four studios that will serve 150 first-year students, a reception area, gallery space, and an expanded Pierce Commons area that now features risers with theater-type seating for presentations and activities.

Designers and builders of the project were students in fifth-year architecture studios taught by Vladimir Krstic, professor of architecture, and Chris Spaw, instructor of architecture, in the 2003-2004 school year and the fall 2004 semester.

When the need to turn the ground-level space into classrooms and other usable areas conflicted with the funds available to pay for it, the students got the job. Krstic and Spaw turned the project into an opportunity to teach their students about the design-build concept.

“Design-build takes students through the entire process of designing and building a project,” Krstic said. “We have recognized how important this is as a method for delivering architecture education. Through this project, students were able to successfully find a true resolution between idea and material.”

Krstic said the more than 40 students involved contributed more than 12,000 hours of volunteer labor to make the project a reality.

“Students were responsible for just about every aspect of the project,” he said. “About the only thing students didn’t do involved duct work for the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and some of the electrical work.”

As the designers and the builders of the project, students were able to add some high-quality custom touches that are both functional and aesthetic, Krstic said. Students designed and built special walls with lights to address lighting issues in the classrooms and adjacent hallway. The walls have glass and shelving at the top for display purposes or storage. Tiered seating and a stairway were added to the college’s Pierce Commons. The Commons now also has a custom hinged wall that can be swung out to a 90-degree angle and used as a projection screen. A reception area with concrete bench seating along one wall and a gallery space suitable for showing off both large and small student projects also were added.

“Green architecture,” or the use of recycled materials, was a key component of the project, Krstic said. “We probably used about $10,000 in materials recycled from other K-State buildings. For example, the slate floor, wall and hinged door in the Commons are made from old chalkboards taken from Denison Hall before it was razed last summer. Students also made doors for the studio classrooms using old doors from Denison. If we would have custom ordered them, it would have cost us at least $1,000 per door.”

Area merchants and several manufacturers also contributed materials to the project. Major contributors, as well as the names of the students and faculty involved with the project, will be listed on special plaques to be installed in the new gallery area.

Actual construction of the project started in the spring 2004 semester. Jesse Miller, a fifth-year student in architecture, Eagan, Minnesota, was among the students who helped wrap up the project in the fall 2004 semester. He said it ’s been a valuable learning experience.

“Not only did I learn a lot about the use of power tools, I learned a lot about construction procedures and sequences, and how delays can pop up,” Miller said. “Our class really came together to solve problems. We also learned how to deal with subcontractors.”

Miller also said the project gave him a new understanding of what will be required of him as an architect. “We design things, but it ’s also important to understand how things are going to be built,” he said. “This experience has given me a greater understanding of challenges that can be involved with a design-build project.”

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Krstic said the students’ work is earning approval from their soon-to-be peers. “Design professionals from Kansas City have reviewed the new space and have praised the level of detail and finish. They said it exceeds the standard of quality one would expect with such a project, especially with all of the custom touches the students were able to accomplish.”

Lynn Ewanow, associate dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, said the work accomplished by the older students will serve as an inspiration to the classes to come.

“Our fourth- and fifth-year architecture students have left a wonderful legacy for our first-year students,” Ewanow said. “This will provide a wonderful learning opportunity for them.”

Students who worked on the design-build project during the fall 2004 semester include: Grant Alexander, Thom Allen, Amber Basgall, Jason Bervert, Jordan Collins, Ryan Deveney, Jerad Foster, Erin Galloway, Adam Grunzinger, Joel Hermann, Tom Marschner, Michelle Meyer, Jesse Miller, Matt Oswald, Christian Rockelman, John Rowland, Nathan Swearingen, Cassandra Temme, Erica Thorne-Keziah, Bethany Tiesmeyer and Ryan Westhoff.

Student participants during the 2003-2004 academic year were: Linda Brown, Aaron Bunse, Jose Ferreira, Zac Fredrickson, Melinda Gann, Michael Hargens, Justin Helmbrecht, Kyle Heltne, Kevin Koch, Joel Koster, John Lucht, Michelle Meyer, Kevin Nelson, Meghan Ortego, Jacob Palan, Hana Petrikova, Idamys Roman, Frantisek Roztocil, Christina Shelton, Leslie Shoemaker, Geoffrey Snow, Brad Stegemann, Jana Stopkova, Jean Stoverink, Erin Wegner and Todd Woolsoncroft.

Among those who provided support for the project were Dragoslav Simic, professsor of architecture (structural engineering), and Matthew Benfer, architecture graduate student (shop supervision).

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NEW FUNDS ESTABLISHED :: Architecture Centennial Fund, Amos I. T. Chang Scholarship in Architecture, Dennis McKee Memorial Fund, Eugene Kremer Lecture, Eugene T.McGraw Scholarship, Jeff Weaver Memorial

Scholarship in Architecture, Kansas Architectural Foundation Scholarship, Prairie Gateway Landscape Architecture Scholarship, RGS Associates Scholarship in Landscape Architecture, Scholarship for Mexican National Students,

Walter and Martha Toben Architecture and Design Scholarship. INDIVIDUAL GIFTS $1,000 AND ABOVE :: Andy Anderson, Franklin and Velma Appl, Benjamin Barnert, Betty Barton, Max and Sue Bayer, Leland Blackledge,

Bill Boice, Brent Bowman and Lorie Doolittle Bowman, David Carr, Casey and Barbara Cassias, Henry Chu, Robert Coffey and Julia Palmer, Gregory Coussens, Brian and Margo Czerw, James Dullea, Ruth Durst, Robert

Ealy, Richard and Jeanne Earle, William and Lisa Farris, Thomas and Anne Gale, Kirk Gastinger FAIA, Barry Greenberg, Dave and Diane Grubbs, David and Vicki Heyne, Gary and Jane Hibbs, Thomas and Lydia Hoelle,

Samuel Hogue, Cleve Humbert, Edward Jenkins, James Jones and Judith Major, Larry King, Theodore Knapp, Mike and Gloria Konold, Alan and Cheryl Lauck, Dennis and Linda Law, Sean and Jenny McClenaghan,

Don and Laurel McKahan, Carroll Morgenson, John and Kristin Norris, Inez Owens, Kyle Phillips, Larry and Mary Pollack, Ken Puncerelli, Cathy Regnier, Bob and Ann Regnier, Victor Regnier and Judith Gonda, Gary and

Sherry Schmitz, Bill Schreiber, Kipp and Patricia Shrack, Keith Springer, Elizabeth Stieg, Michael and Michele Traeger, Tom Tyler, Larry and Sarah Walling, David and Elizabeth Weigel, James and Thomasina Wigfall, Leon

Yawitz, Lillian Yoos, Paul Zumwalt. INDIVIDUAL GIFTS $500 - $999 :: Christie Carl, Su Lin Carr, Stan Cowan, Bradd Crowley, Chris Dring, David Esau, Michael Garner, Merrill Gordon III, Owen Hackett Jr, Rodney Harms and

Stephanie Rolley, Leon Hartman AIA, Larry and Brenda Johnson, Jerry and Lisa Jones, Sherman Karcher, Jon and Lila Levin, Julia Lund, Randy Mardis, Michael Mayo, Patty Mayo, David McConnell II, Thomas McCormick,

Pauline McElwee, Paul and Sherry Novick, George Pomeroy and Catherine Bell-Pomeroy, Robert Radley Jr, William Rallis, Tony Rangel, David Roesler, David and Eileen Simmons, Ted Spaid, Loren and Donna Steel, Mike

Tay, Thomas Toben, Michelle Wempe. INDIVIDUAL GIFTS $100 - $499 :: Yuni Aaron, Del and Peggy Acker, Louis Alley, Steven and Suzanne Allison, David Altenhofen and Mariette Buchman, David Argo, Ronald and

Lois Arioli, Linda Arnold, Robert and Marilyn Arnone, Renee Baade, Roger Baalman, Jim and Jo Anne Balderson, Angela Balmer, Mark Baltis, Otho Barnes Jr, Richard Becker, Thomas and Jana Beery, Randall and Helen

Bennett, Eileen Bergt, Larry Berlin, Ron Berra, Scott Bickford, Fritz Biederman, Scott Bingham, Michael Black, Mitch and Misti Black, Ivan Blitz, Kay Boehr, David and Martha Boes, Vicky Borchers, Steven Boyd, Dean Bradley,

Terrence Brennan, Thomas Briggs, Tom Brooks-Pilling RA, Pat and Jo Ann Brown, David Brown, Merle Brown, Robert and Martha Buford, Thomas and Nancy Bunker, Tom Burdett, Matt and Gerie Byrum, Jim and Margaret

Calcara, Patrick Caldwell, Richard and Lynette Campbell, John and Nancy Cannon, Donald Carlson, Kent Carmichael, Cary Carpenter, Dave Casselman and Mary Jecha Casselman, Burnie and Charlotte Cavender

AICP, Charles Chambers, Kay and Nancy Cleavinger, Sandy Cohn AIA, Charles and Louise Coon Jr, Kenton and Gloria Cox, Christopher Crabtree, Carol Crane, Frankie Crowl, Dana Cunningham, Jeffrey Cutberth, Rich

Dale, Bryan Darrah, Richard Davidson, Steven Davidson and Jane Faubion, David and Karen Davis, Donald Davis Jr, Evan Davis, Steven Daylor, Chris DeGuentz, Bruce Dell, Mike and Debbie Dempsey, Douglas Denny,

Ronald Denton, Laura Derrick, John and Janice Devaney, Brian Diederich, Bruce Dimmig, Dan Dokken, Dale Doller, Cale and Jacque Doornbos, Dennis Douglas, Mimi Doukas, Dale and Jane Dronberger, Dennis Drumm,

John Dungan, David Dussair, Lloyd and Georgia Eberhart, Jim Edson, Bill Edwards and Faye Premer, Michael and Janice Elmore, Dave and Marsha Emig, Marieste Emura, Chuck Englund, Gene Ernst, Seth Evans, Philip

Ewald, David Exline, Catherine Fairlie, Dan and Chris Fankhauser, Todd Faris, Jim and Cheri Favier AIA, Don Ferguson, Jim Fetterman, Michael and Mary Lou Fickel, Ronald Fiegenschuh, Christopher Filla, Michael Florell,

Douglas and Darline Foelsch, Kent and Kathy Foster, Kent and Judy Francis, Sam and Barbara Frey, Jacob Friesen, Robin Frye, Donald Gadbery, Tom Garland, Anthony Garrett, Gerald Gasparich, Brant Gaul, William

Gilmore, Michael Goldschmidt AIA, Tom and Diane Gossen, Michael and Vicki Graft, Reed Graves, Arthur Greenfield, Craig Grosser, Julie Grove, Robert Gustafson, Robert Habiger and Lynn Doxon, Eric Hackman, Mark

and CJ Hager, Harvey Hahn, Linda Hall, Stanley Hansen, Sammy Harding, Art Harris, Lawrence Hart, Bob Hartnett, John Haselbauer, Timothy Hauschild, Ward Haylett Jr, William Haymaker, Palmer and Lydia Haynes, Jeff

Head, Tim Herndon, Don and Carol Herold, Keith Herrman, Ralph Hibler, Ray Hill, Kenneth and Lydia Himes, George Hlavenka, Murlin Hodgell, Linda Hoffmann, Don Holmes, Curtis Holtzen, Ken Howell Jr, Gerald Humes,

Dan Hurford, Ray Hutchins, Bruce Jacks and Adrienne Downey-Jacks, David Jann, Jon Jenkins, Matthew and Amy Jennings, Maxwell and Ruth Jewell II, Addie Johnson, Eric and Carole Johnson, Michael Johnson, Ron

Johnson, Renee Johnsson, Jack and Margaret Jones, Russell and Jackie Jones, Susan Jones, Chris Juergens, Sarah Kawaoka, David Kehm, Al Keithley, Steve Kelly, Daniel and Shanalyn Kemme, Bradley Kemp, Bryan

Keys, Kevin Khung, Lance and Melanie Klein, Jonathan Knight and Judi Bauer, Michael Koppenhafer, Carl Korfmacher, Rick Kramer III, Ken Krause, Jeff and Betty Krehbiel, Wilbur Kruse, John Laffoon, Marc Lahr, Dawn

Landholm, Michael Lane, Randall Larsen, Roger and Irene Larson, Ray and Virginia Leiker, Dean and Michelle LeManske, Travis Lenkner, Gary and Rita Lewis, Charles Linn, Terry and Cathy Little, David and Peggy Livingood,

Bill and Sandie Livingston, Gregory Luebbers, Steven Lull, Rich and Linda Lytle, Allen Maier, Sean and Sherri Malone, Owen Mamura, Carl Manka, James Marshall Jr, Paul Marti Jr, Rick and Renay Martin, Matt and Rhonda

Masilionis, Art Matia, David and Rachelle Matthews, William McCarthy, Lisa McCoid, Matthew McCord, Clark McDonald, Ann McGlone, Kent McLaughlin, Bruce McMillan, Douglas McQuillan, Kelly and Laura Miller, Murray

Miller, Scott Milne, James and Sarah Moore, Morres and Verda Morgensen, Jeremy Morse, Lanelle Morse, Paul and Joyce Mosiman, Roger and Jo Ann Mulanax, Victor Munoz, Hideo Murakami, Dan Musser, Brad Nelsen,

Maurice Nespor, James Nicolay, Kim Nigro, Mohammed Nuru, Paul and Mary Oberlin, Jerry and Valorie Ogburn, Darrin and Karen Orndorff, John and Althea Ostermann, Brick Owens III, Masumi Ozawa, Russel Pacala

Jr, Ann Palmer, Michael Parker, George Paul, Cynthia Pauls, Bobbi Pearson, John Peterkord, James Peterson, Natalie Petzoldt, John Pine, Sidney Platt, Mike and Heidi Pollmann, David and DeAnne Post, Kraig Post, Paul

Prosser, Homer Puderbaugh, Karl Puljak, James and Jana Putnam, Dwight Quiring, Donald Randall, Art and Betsy Ratner, Bruce and Meg Rau, Kerry and Susan Reeds, James Reeves, James Reittinger and Stephanie Scott,

DONORS

The following is a list, taken from KSU Foundation records from July 1, 2003-December 31, 2004, of contributors to the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design.

Available space unfortunately does not allow us to list the names of approximately 700 additional donors who contributed less than $100 during this period.

Our sincere thanks is extended to all current and past donors.

Dennis Reynolds, Stephen Rhoades, Kirke Rice, Sharon Richards, John Riggenbach, Steven Rodie, Fred Roman, Dwayne Rumsey, Eric Rush,

David Sachs, Desiree Salmon Stevenson, Christine Scharrer, Barbara Schilling, Dennis and Donna Schmidt, Richard Schuetz, Craig Schultz and

Kathy Troutfetter, Alvin Seefeldt, David Shatz, Larry Shaw, William and Marsha Sheahan III, Stanton and Cynthia Shelden, Michael Shelor, Ralph

Sherman Jr and Gayle White-Sherman, Keith Showell, Kenneth Sidorowicz, Richard and June Sizemore, Pat Slaven, William and Kathryn Small,

Dennis and Jenell Smith, Don Snethen, Marvin and Emelie Snyder, Robert and Kathleen Stevens, Ricky and Sandra Stewart, Steven Stock, Mark

and Sheila Stogsdill, John Stone Jr, Mel and Marsha Stout, Glen Strait, Howard Stucky, Bobb and Sally Swanson, Gary and Deborah Sweet, Leonard

Szopinski, Rebecca Taub, Keith Taylor, Michael Tchoukaleff, Minoru Terada, Jim Thomson, Mick Toben, Roger Tointon, Barbara Tubbs, Kenny

and Miranda Turner, Lyonell Unruh, Anthony and Fran Visco Jr, Gary Vogt, Duane Waldo, Grace Wallace, James Walsh, Ignatius Wang, Amy

Wartick, David and Melinda Weaver, Margaret Webb, Kang-Cheng Wei, Steve and Marilyn Weidner, Hal Welch, Ward Wells, Eugene and Shirley

Wendt, Steve West, Janet Westberg, Mary White, Dan Whitney, Jack and Karen Whittier, Keith Whittle, Allen and Sandra Wiechert, Dewey and

Cindy Williams, Homer and Mary Williams, Jill Williams, John Williams Jr, Sheldon and Barbara Williams, Douglas and Stacie Wilson, Kay Wilson,

Larry Wilson, Mike Wilson, Steve and Leann Winslow, Chip and Karen Winslow III, John Wisniewski, Joseph and Beverly Wood, Richard Wood,

Terry Worcester, Xiaodong Xu and Lewen Shen, Bruce and Vicki Yarnell, Alvin and Sandra Yoshimori, Robert and Cheryl Young, Victor Yue, Staci

Zarkoskie, Sean and Jana Zaudke, Steven Zilkie, Kenneth Zimmerman, William Zoeller, Larry and Helen Zuercher ASLA. CORPORATE GIFTS $1,000

AND ABOVE :: 360 Architecture, Architectural Design Guild, Arcturis, Bayer Stone Inc, Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Arc, Boice

Raidl Rhea Architects Inc, Bowman Bowman Novick Inc, Delray Lighting Inc, DHM Design Corp, Endicott Clay Products Co, Eugene T McGraw

Irrevocable Trust, HOK Inc, Kansas Architectural Foundation, Klover Architects Inc, Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design Inc, Land Architects Inc, Mary

K Jarvis Estate, Prairie Gateway Chapter of ASLA, RGS Associates, The Environments Group Inc, The Norris Dullea Company. CORPORATE GIFTS

$100 - $999 :: Adobe Systems Inc, Arthur L Ratner AIA Architect, Blitz Architectural Group PC, BP, Bruce McMillan AIA Architects PA, Bryan Keys

& Associates PC, Callison Architecture Inc, CEG Design, Claco Supply, Dennis C Eckold & Assoc LLC, Design Group Architects Inc, Donovan

Feola Balderson & Asssociates Inc, Dwayne Rumsey AIA Architects, E Crichton Singleton FAIA Inc, El Dorado Inc, Emig and Associates Architects,

THANK YOU

Endacott Lighting Inc, Faris Planning & Design LLC, Frye Associates, Gibson Mancini Carmichael & Nelson PA, Gordon & Assoc Architects PA, Gossen Livingston Assoc Inc, Gould Evans Affiliates, Green Expectations

Landscaping Co Inc, Grubbs & Associates, Harris Architecture & Design, Humes Enterprises LLC, Hurford Architects Inc, Jacob L Friesen & Assoc, Jeff Krehbiel Associates, John Wulfmeyer Architect, Kent Francis

Herefords, Krause Interests Inc, Laffoon Associates, Landscape Technologies, Manhattan Medical Supply, Nicolay Design Inc, PBA Architects PA, Philip Ewald Architects Inc, Platt Adams Bradley & Associates, Putnam

Architecture LLC, R S Bickford & Company, Radley Architects, Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey & Associates, SD Atelier Architecture LLC, Spaid Associates, Strait Associates Architects, Studio Northwest Inc, Studio T2 Design

Inc, Sunshine Landscape, The Law Company Inc, The Rolley Foundation, University Book Store, William Sheahan Associates, Yarnell Associates, Young and Dring Landscape Architecture LLC, ZZ Design Build LLC.

1,702 Books to Weigel Library of Architecture and Design :: Charles Linn.

From the Development OfficeK-Staters are a very loyal group of people. Did you know that K-State ranks first in the Big XII regarding percentage of alumni who give back to their colleges? Unfortunately, this great statistic is based on the NUMBER of people who donate, not the AMOUNT they donate. While we’re so grateful for any contribution our alumni can make, there’s some additional information that we’d like to share with you to encourage you to increase the amount that you donate to the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (CAPD) on an annual basis.

For the 2004-2005 academic year, the CAPD had 214 student applicants qualified to receive scholarships. There are 18 first-year students with a 4.0 GPA! Much to our dismay, we were only able to award scholarships to 84 of those 214 students. Imagine being a student with a GPA of 3.5 or better and not receiving a scholarship! In addition, over the past three years, tuition has risen 76 percent. This is in response to the fact that prior to 2003, K-State’s resident tuition ranked in the bottom quartile of the nation’s land-grant universities. So, K-State embarked on an ambitious five-year plan to increase tuition to provide more funding for academics. We’re not gaining much ground, though, since the State of Kansas has decreased funding for higher education from 42 percent of required budget in 1988 to 27 percent for 2004!

This information is not given to bore you with statistics, but rather to let you know the immediacy of our needs. Some of the 84 students who were awarded scholarships this year received only $500 to $1,000. While this may seem like a significant amount to those of you who attended school here many years ago, consider for a moment that the average cost of books and supplies for students in our college is $1,300 and in-state tuition is now averaging approximately $1,900 per SEMESTER!

The College of Architecture, Planning and Design, as you can see, and its students need your help more than ever. Please consider increasing your financial support for the upcoming year through donations to Telefund, the Fall Mailer campaign or by simply sending in an additional check. And, if you’d like to do more, we’d be happy to visit with you on an individual basis.

As this newsletter goes to press, we have learned that Nancy DeWeese has accepted the position as Director of Donor Relations with the KSU Foundation. Nancy has served as our Director of Development for the past two years. We wish her the very best in her new endeavor.

A search for Nancy’s replacement is already underway. Until a new Director of Development has been hired, contact the KSU Foundation at 1.800.432.1578 for assistance.

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The Chang Gallery was recently refurbished, thanks to generous donations by an alumnus and a new-found friend of the college.

Established in 1987 to honor Professor Amos Chang upon his retirement, the gallery still had its original carpet. Near continual use for a variety of installations viewed by hundreds of students, faculty and the public over the years had resulted in a surface that was badly worn and stained.

Christie Carl, IIDA, CFM, AIA, BIA 1977 and who practices architecture in Abilene, Kansas, became aware of the college’s need. She wrote to several sales representatives with whom she was acquainted. Nearly immediately, she received a positive response from Greg Coussens, Territory Manager of Karastan Contract Carpet and an IIDA Industry Member, located in Overland Park. Karastan and Greg arranged for 80 square yards of commercial grade woven carpet on attached

Chang Gallery Refurbishedcushion to be donated, delivered to Manhattan and installed. Christie and Greg also partnered to pay the cost of the carpet installation.

In addition, the walls received a new coat of paint to freshen and brighten the room’s appearance. The painting was done by fifth-year interior architecture and product design students Sarah Puchosic, McPherson, and Heidi Aschenbrenner, Fenton, Missouri. Sarah and Heidi also met with Christie and Greg on the day of the carpet installation to accept the donation on behalf of the college’s students and faculty.

The Chang Gallery is located in Seaton Hall and generally open to the public without charge weekdays during normal business hours. It is the site of a lively array of touring exhibits organized by museums and art agencies. Also displayed is work by outstanding professional practitioners, alumni, faculty and students.

Landscape Architecture Winning Tradition ContinuesKatie (Eatinger) Paquette, a May 2004 BLA graduate, is the most recent recipient of a top award in the annual American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Student Design Competition.

Paquette, originally from Manhattan, received a first-place award in the undergraduate individual design category for her project entitled “Strip Mine Reclamation.”

The reclamation of a 5,700 acre former strip mine located in southern Texas was the subject of Paquette’s project, which provided her an opportunity to learn more about the process of destroying and then recreating a natural, self-sustaining environment. The project included the study of existing conditions, as well as methods of reconstructing topography, hydrology, vegetation and wildlife habitats. In addition, the site also provided the opportunity to implement a welcome center and a coastal plains sanctuary so that visitors can learn to appreciate the need for and benefits of reclaiming damaged lands.

Upon learning of her award, Paquette said, “It was a great honor to receive this award in recognition of the work I did on my reclamation project. Land reclamation is a relatively new area in landscape architecture, and I hope to bring more attention to its importance through this and future work.” She went on to say, “I also feel that the award is a testament to the quality of the landscape architecture curriculum and faculty at Kansas State University.”

Paquette is employed as a designer and project manager with Coleman and Associates, Environmental Contractors, located in Austin, Texas. Major professors for the project, completed as the capstone of the fifth and final year of study in landscape architecture, were Professors Tim Keane, Dennis Law and Robert Page.

K-State landscape architecture students have now won 48 ASLA National Student Design Competition awards, more than twice as many as students from any other school.

Continuing EducationPracticing professionals are welcome to attend college-sponsored lectures. A certificate of attendance is available at all lectures to facilitate reporting participation to the appropriate board or agency for fulfillment of continuing education requirements.

View the college’s lecture schedule at www.capd.ksu.edu/events.asp, then choose the lecture category.

For more information about College of Architecture, Planning and Design lectures or to be added to a lecture notification email list, contact Diane Potts.

The K-State Division of Continuing Education also offers professional development programs. Call 785.532.2567 or go to www.dce.ksu.edu/architecture for more information.

College PrideHas it been awhile since you’ve been back to Seaton Hall? Seen or spoken with your classmates? Thought about K-State? We’re happy to provide assistance to CAPD alumni who wish to locate each other and/or to have reunions on campus.

We also frequently need alumni willing to host alumni gatherings and prospective student events. Contact Diane Potts to volunteer your firm for either of these purposes.

A wide array of college merchandise is available for sale, including four brand new colors of short-sleeve t-shirts. Our merchandise is not available anywhere else and includes: short-sleeve t-shirts in two styles and six colors, long-sleeve t-shirts in three colors, purple polo shirts, blue denim and purple twill long-sleeve shirts, sweater vests, caps, visors, bags, folios, window stickers, mouse pads, grid paper pads and post it notes. Photos and order information are available at www.capd.ksu.edu/merchandise.asp or by contacting Diane Potts.

We’d like to remind alumni of the importance of continually providing us with current home and work address information so that we are readily able to share with you news about our college. Current email addresses are of increasing importance; we want to be able to take advantage of improvements in technology because of ever increasing costs of printing and postage in times of diminished budget support.

Alumni may update contact information at any time by:-using our web site at www.capd.ksu.edu/update_ contact_info.asp,-using the K-State Alumni Association web site at www.k-state.com/ Membership/UpdateYourself/ or-contacting Diane Potts.

Thank you very much for your cooperation and support!

Alumni, Update Yourselves

Editor’s NoteLook for our next newsletter during summer/fall of 2005! It will focus on the activities and achievements of our students and faculty. We’re also always glad to receive your ideas and interests for future newsletter and web site content.

Contact the Editor :: Diane Potts, Assistant to the Dean 785.532.1090, potts@ksu.eduCollege of Architecture, Planning, and Design, 213 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506Kansas State University

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OZThe theme of OZ, Volume 27, is process. The edition will investigate the process of discovering space.

Conceptions of space, before realization, originate in the mind. Existing between one’s reason and one’s intuition are a collection of memories, images and data. Process enables these conceptions to transcend materiality and define meaning, thus altering perceptions of space and their translation into the physical environment.

OZ is our college’s student produced journal, dedicated to the exploration of ideas in design. It is underwritten through gifts and grants as well as through K-State’s Student Fine Arts Fee.

For more information and to obtain Volume 27 or past issues, visit www.ozjournal.org

Hire A CAPD StudentIf your firm would like to hire current students and/or recent graduates, or would like to be included in the mailing list for our college’s annual DesignExpo career fair, contact Diane Potts.

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EVENT CALENDAR 2005

February 7 DesignExpo

February 18 Lectures by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor

February 20-21 Te le f und

February 26 - March 2 Architecture (NAAB) Accreditation Visit

February 28 - March 1 Alumni Fellow Visit,

Martin “Tony” Rangel, BArch 1987

February 28 - March 2 MRCP (PAB) Accreditation Visit

March 2 Ekdahl Lecture by Alberto Campo Baeza

March 9 Ekdahl Lecture by Tim Reedy

March 13-15 IAPD (NASAD) Accreditation Visit

April 4-15 CAPD Faculty Show

April 6 Lecture by Brian McKay-Lyons

April 8 CAPD Gala

April 9 KSU Open House

April 18-29 CAPD Student Delineation Competition and Exhibit

April 22 Lecture by Grant Hildebrand

May 14 Commencement

For more information, visit www.capd.ksu.edu/events.asp

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Diane Potts, B. S. 1976Assistant to the Dean785.532.1090potts@ksu.edu

Corey Schneider, B. Arch. 2007cms7878@ksu.edu

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