The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded its first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD) seal of recognition to Howard University for its master of architecture program with an equitable high-performance energy design concentration.
Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University architecture alumna, professor and former chair of the Department of Architecture Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B.Arch. ’86) was an invited speaker at a local, independently organized TED event, the TEDxPearlStreet event Mavericks & Moonshots, this past summer.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom recently received a 2022 Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts Grant for her archival research of the architectural morphology of tourist and non-tourist spaces in Jamaica. Her research is titled, “Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image.”
Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture
Howard University first-year architecture students collaborated with Temple X Schools on a class project for ARCH 208: Design Thinking + Making. Incorporated into course curriculum by course coordinator and architecture lecturer Martin Paddack, the project "Learning through Experimentation and Exploration: The Concept Toy/Tool" involved students designing and building conceptual toys or tools for preschool and elementary school students. Architecture adjunct lecturers Robert Klosowski and Jahlik Parkes assisted in leading the class of 44 students and bringing the educational and philanthropical project to fruition.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., recently received the 2022 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) New Researcher Award. The ARCC New Researcher Award celebrates the activities, accomplishments and promise of scholars in the early stages of their research careers.
Architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. According to NEH, NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research and rigorous analysis and provide support to recipients to conduct research or to produce books or other quality digital materials.
Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo has been appointed as consumer member of the board of the Maryland Real Estate Commission by the Senate Executive Nominations Committee and the Senate of Maryland. Maloo will serve as a commissioner for a term of four years beginning June 1, 2022, as well as for the remainder of the 2018 term.
Category: Architecture
The Howard University team of engineering and architecture seniors, Howard’s Gateway, won the Director’s Award for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge. The recipient of the Director’s Award is selected by the Solar Decathlon director to recognize a team who exhibited outstanding performance during the competition event and demonstrated passionate enthusiasm for affecting change through their participation in Solar Decathlon.
Category: Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Jason Pugh, AIA, AICP, NOMA, LEED AP, (B. Arch. 2005) was named principal at Gensler, the world’s largest design and architecture firm, according to Architectural Record. Founded in San Francisco, California in 1965, Gensler generated $1.2 billion in revenue in 2021, the most of any architecture firm in the U.S. Gensler operates offices in forty-nine cities in sixteen countries worldwide, working for clients in over one hundred countries.
Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo, AIA, was recently announced as the winner of the 2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Course Development Prize issued in collaboration with Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. The competitive prize recognizes exemplary course proposals on the designated theme of “architecture, climate change and society.”
Architecture alumnus Alonzo Robinson (B.Arch. ’51) was recently honored with the renaming of the Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building, which he designed. The building now stands as the Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building. Robinson was the first African-American architect to be registered in the state of Wisconsin.
This Black History Month, we honor our building namesakes and pioneers in engineering and architecture education, Lewis King Downing (BSCE 1921) and Howard Hamilton Mackey.
Category: Alumni, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture
Architecture Educator Nea Maloo was selected as a 2021 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Scholar. A total of fifteen professional practice professors from architecture programs throughout the country were selected to participate in the third annual NCARB Scholars in Professional Practice training event.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous was recently awarded the HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship for her course, "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape." The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. The "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape" course provides students with a framework to assess different urban and built environments from health and wellbeing viewpoints.
Architecture seniors Christine Griffith and Kyle Martin received an honorable mention for their project titled “The Howard University Center for Inclusive Design” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2021 Steel Competition. Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., Howard University assistant professor of architecture, served as faculty advisor. The design was recognized for its detail to accessibility and integrated approach for an urban site, taking into consideration the need for ample light and air, as well as sensitivity to human scale.
Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom’s research work on the intersection of history, culture and traditional building practices in contemporary Ghanaian architecture was selected and is on display at the ArchiAfrika Pavilion in the New Blood 2021 Exhibition in conjunction with the European Cultural Centre’s Time Space Existence exhibition, a collateral exhibition at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy.
Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., recently received a Graham Foundation Grant for a new research project that takes an in-depth look at the history of racial disparities and environmental epidemics and how this has impacted minority health through history.
Howard University Department of Architecture Chair Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP will be appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Joseph Biden. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) was established by Congress in 1910 as a permanent body to advise the federal government on matters pertaining to the arts and national symbols, and to guide the architectural development of Washington, D.C. The seven-member body is appointed by the President to serve four-year terms; new appointees are not subject to Senate review.
Architecture Assistant Professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D. co-edited a recent Routledge publication, All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change. The publication is a compilation of the works and scholarly ideas of fifty-eight thought leaders from the United States, Mexico, Canada, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Architecture is shown through these works and ideas to be a platform for social change that navigates through a range of the global politics of issues such as poverty, charity, health, technology, and neoliberal urbanism. The exclusionary basis of the discipline is also brought to light in the book’s comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of all-inclusive engagement in public interest design.
This Women’s History Month we honor and share the stories of two alumnae who are dedicated College of Engineering and Architecture leaders, Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. and Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. Department of Architecture Chair Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B. Arch. ‘86) made history when she became the first female architecture department chair at Howard University (HU) in 2016. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Kimberly L. Jones, Ph.D. (BSCE ‘90) is in our spotlight as an alumna who serves and leads her alma mater in various leadership roles. Dr. Jones also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for the College of Engineering and Architecture.
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant recently received the 2021 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor Award. According to the ASCA website, the ASCA Distinguished Professor Award honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service.
Architecture Alumnus James E. Silcott (B.Arch. ‘57) has been elevated to the 2020 College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). Silcott was selected for his notable contributions to the advancement of architecture education and the profession through his philanthropy and as a role model and leader in public service.
We celebrate the life of Architecture Professor Emeritus and Alumnus Victor C. W. Dzidzienyo (B.Arch. '67; MCP '69). We deeply appreciate his dedicated service and extend our condolences to family and friends.
Architecture Alumnus Julian Arrington (‘15) of SmithGroup, an international architecture, engineering and planning firm, served as one of two lead designers for Society’s Cage, an art installation that makes “a statement on the forces of systemic racism” (SmithGroup).
Category: Alumni, Architecture
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant has been named the first Instagram artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery “seeks to collaborate with artists both within and outside the Smithsonian to create dynamic public outreach, engage diverse national and international audiences, and explore the infinite richness and complexity of American history through the art of portraiture and biography to advance the Smithsonian’s fundamental mission to increase and diffuse knowledge”.
The Howard University Department of Architecture faculty and students are part of a seven-university team funded by a $15 million NASA grant. The grant establishes the Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) Space Technology Research Institute for Deep Space Habitat Design, one of two space technology research institutes selected by NASA in 2019.
Category: Architecture, Research
Architecture Professor and Department Chair Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., has been invited to serve on the Docomomo US 2020 Modernism in America Awards jury. Docomomo US was founded in the United States in 1995, to “share its members’ knowledge of and enthusiasm for modern architecture and design”.
The Department of Architecture and the Howard University National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) hosted the 2019 DC Hip Hop Architecture Camp Music Video Premiere.
Architecture Professor Bradford Grant is one of five recipients of the 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change and Society for his course proposal titled Public Issues, Climate Justice, and Architecture. The Association for the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (Buell Center) invited course proposals from universities around the globe to compete for the prize.
Architecture Alumnus Charles David Moody (C. D. Moody) (B.Arch. ‘81) will be the first African American to serve as president of the Associated General Contractors of Georgia. Moody will serve as 2020 President. His firm C. D. Moody Construction is “a recognized leader in the construction industry” and “has been delivering quality products since 1988”, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
