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 Students provide innovative designs...
 New home and theater provide hope...
 Protecting our homes and busin...
 Crime mapping
 Affording to live where you...
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 Service learning
 Small town, big opportunities
 Students work in nation's oldest...
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 College's new senior administrative...
 DCP students place in national...
 College hosts the Spring 2007 and...
 Faculty retirements
 College news
 Alumni and development
 2007 Witters Competition
 Shimberg leaves his legacy in affordable...
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 Honor roll of donors
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Table of Contents
    Front Cover
        Front Cover
    Table of Contents
        Table of Contents
    Dean's message
        Page 1
    Community development on campus
        Page 2
    Collaborating across campus
        Page 3
    Building community in studio
        Page 4
    Urban studio emphasizes stronger collaboration with community stakeholders
        Page 5 (MULTIPLE)
    35 years of preserving community
        Page 6
    Students provide innovative designs for Jacksonville convention center
        Page 7
    New home and theater provide hope for Tanzanian orphans
        Page 8
    Protecting our homes and businesses
        Page 9
    Crime mapping
        Page 10
    Affording to live where you work
        Page 11
    Faculty books
        Page 12
    Reaching out
        Page 13
    Students in action
        Page 14
        Page 15
    Service learning
        Page 16
    Small town, big opportunities
        Page 17
    Students work in nation's oldest city
        Page 17
    Building communities worldwide
        Page 18
        Page 19
    College's new senior administrative team
        Page 20
    DCP students place in national competition
        Page 20
    College hosts the Spring 2007 and Spring 2008 commencements
        Page 21
    Faculty retirements
        Page 22
        Page 23
    College news
        Page 24
        Page 25
    Alumni and development
        Page 26
    2007 Witters Competition
        Page 27
    Shimberg leaves his legacy in affordable housing
        Page 28
    Shimberg leaves his legacy in affordable housing
        Page 29
    Honor roll of donors
        Page 30
        Page 31
        Page 32
        Page 33
        Page 34
    Friends we'll miss
        Page 35
    Student spotlight
        Page 36
    Back Matter
        Page 37
    Back Cover
        Page 38
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Building Expertise in Community Building


Community development the process of
designing, planning, building and conserving
the places where we live forms the essence
of what we teach and preach through our
professional programs. And, of course, it is
at the heart of what many of our alumni do in
their practices.
We build the expertise of our students
in community development in many ways,
whether it is through an applied project like
the urban studio focusing on the Waldo
Road Corridor here in Gainesville or our
recent preservation studio in the Abbott
Tract neighborhood of nearby St. Augustine.
Through community projects like these,
students have the opportunity to apply
their newly acquired professional skills.
In structured and less formal settings, we
provide our students the opportunity to
engage in applied research on community
development topics, which adds to how
effectively we teach innovative practices.
For an increasing number of our students,
the chance to explore community development
in other parts of the country and throughout
the world is a unique dimension of the
University of Florida experience. Through
the preservation programs in Nantucket and
New Lebanon, N.Y., and through our overseas
programs in Brazil, Italy, France, Hong
Kong, Australia, Germany and Indonesia,
students acquire invaluable exposure to
different dimensions of community building
that expand and challenge their professional
horizons.
Through service learning, faculty guide
students on collaborating with communities
to address local concerns. Students learn the
complexities of working with a client and of
addressing the desires of community leaders
and stakeholders.


To support and to expand our service
learning and international engagements,
we have added the talents of a senior School
of Architecture faculty member, Bill Tilson,
to the Dean's Office administrative team.
In addition, new curricular initiatives that
underscore DCP's commitment to make
"sustainability" a core principle of our
professional education are being advanced
under the leadership of another new Dean's
Office administrator 1,1 11 i I .... 1111 r face to
our Landscape Architecture alums) Peggy
Carr. Regarding research, our effort to expand
the opportunities for DCP faculty, and to
enlarge graduate enrollment in our program,
is the principal charge of our third new team
member, Paul Zwick. Much of DCP's research
activity comes through our research centers
(as discussed throughout this magazine) and
deals -. 1i.1 1 .r ii 11 ; of community
development.
This past September, we launched publicly
the University of Florida "Florida Tomorrow"
capital campaign in support of our efforts to
realize a bold vision for the future. For the
College of Design, Construction and 1Pl; 1ii iiig.
this vision has three components. One critical
component is to provide new technologies in
the studio and the classroom to prepare our
professionals to advance the state -of the- art.
A complement to that is to enhance
current programs in sustainable community
development both on campus and in off
campus facilities, and to support research
centers to facilitate community changes.
Finally, our complete vision is to solidify
our well-earned reputation as one of the top
colleges in the world where the faculty teach
and research, and where the next generation
of professionals learns the art and the science
of building better communities. We welcome
your partnership to realize this lofty but
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During the weekend celebration of
Preservation Institute: Nantucket's
35th anniversary, Dean Silver worked
with DCP staff and PI:N alumni to
renovate e the institute's cabins. On
page 6, read about the impact PI:N
has made during its 35 years.
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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA ICollege ofDesign, Construction & Planning


Community Development on Campus: UF as a Client


"Hopefully, our proposals
and research on 'green'
living communities will spur
a new focus for UF living
communities, as well."


Community is not a new concept at the
University of Florida College of Design,
Construction and Planning. From the first
dean of the college, Rudolph Weaver, who
served as university architect, to current
students taking part in various service-
learning projects, the college has worked
with the campus community to help explore
solutions to challenges UF has faced as the
number of students, faculty and staff has
grown and as needs have changed.
Throughout the years, college faculty
have partnered with various units across
campus to incorporate current UF projects
into the studio or classroom. The students
gain experience from working for a client,
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develop a relationship."
The project explored options for converting
this existing student village into a community
integrating academic learning and community
living around an academic theme or approach-
in this case, sustainable living. The students
worked under the direction of Torres, interior
design professor M. Jo Hasell, interior design
assistant professor Nam-Kyu Park, landscape
architecture associate professor Kay Williams,
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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning






Building Community IN STUDIO


"The studio was definitely

my home and I miss it"























Architecture graduate student and Preservation Institute:
Nantucket program assistant Gareth Morgan answers
student Veronica Tasker's questions while working in
the institute's studio.


If you've ever participated in a design studio,
you certainly remember the long hours
throughout the semester and lack of sleep
when a project was due. But you also may
remember the sense of community you shared
with the students around you. As you spent
long nights working together, you learned
about each other and discussed your opinions
on school, the latest news and other hot topics
of the day. Sometimes, your studio felt like
your home.
In this respect, today's studio culture is no
different. Students work on projects into the
wee hours of the morning. They collaborate
and bounce ideas around. They socialize, but
they also work hard.
"The studio v ,i .. i, ii. I. .... home and
I miss it," says Lauren Mitchell (ARC 2003,
MSAS 2007), adjunct professor at ( I. ... ....
University. "There was a social atmosphere
in studio. It's incredible to have the ability
to socialize while having beautiful and
i I.... i i .-- 1i.-1. i ; to look at all around. As
a working professional, I wonder how I might
find that kind of environment."
When asked to explain studio culture,
University of Florida architecture graduate
student Kelly Ard says it's hard to define. "It's
just the way you exist. You eat here; you are
productive here; you waste time here. The
people you meet in studio become your closest
friends."
"It's a public way of learning," says UF
architecture graduate student Everald Colas.
"You get comfortable sharing ideas, and you
become interested in seeing everything else
that is being worked on. For your future
career, you learn to express your ideas clearly.
You have constant practice conveying your
ideas."
While the culture of studio as a community
has been around for a long time, there have
been many changes in studio culture to
encourage open communication between
faculty and students in a nurturing
environment.
In 2002, the American Institute of
Architecture Students advanced the national
dialogue of studio culture by releasing its
report, "The Redesign of Studio Culture."
This was followed by the Studio Culture
Summit in 2004. Also that year, the National
Architectural Accrediting Board created a
13th Condition for Accreditation, requiring
schools to have a written policy regarding the
culture in their studio environments.


At UF, architecture associate professor
Nina Hofer brought the discussion to her
Teaching Methods class. "When we discussed
the studio model with the students, we were
surprised by their intense response. They felt
strongly that the students owned the studio
culture, and that it was a critical component of
their education as architects."
UF architecture graduate student Jennifer
Daniels agrees. "The studio encourages the
most dynamic and educational experience
in the field, and arguably the profession, of
design. It generates il. .- 1111 i 11 and outside
the scheduled class, making the students
responsible for the success of each level of the
program. We have to protect and preserve the
infrastructure of studio culture." Along with
Ard and Colas, Daniels has taken part in the
studio culture initiatives at UF through her
concentration in architectural pedagogy.
"Being involved in studio culture teaches
students to understand their discipline and
how to interact with their colleagues and
professors, a crucial skill when bridging into
professional practice," Daniels says.
In addition, through the School of
Architecture's mentored teaching program,
students have the opportunity to learn from
each other.
"The vertical engagement allows students
from third year through post professional
studies to interact with each other and with
faculty while teaching the first year studio,"
says Hofer. "This creates a studio culture
greater than that found within any given
studio, as it reaches across years and between
studios."
For some, like Mitchell, the absence of the
studio environment is a difficult transition as
they graduate and begin their careers.
"The lack of the studio atmosphere in my
life now is actually very hard for me to fill
because it is so unique. There was always a
roar of music and laughter, followed by the
pure still silence of hard work and focus.
The work actually gets done after a silly
celebration of what is to come that night," says
Mitchell.
"You get really close to your classmates
when you work in studio. A subtle look from
my friend while the professor assessed the
night's work is all it took for me to know
exactly what she was thinking, and we fought
the urge to giggle.
"I miss studio culture. It makes me wonder
how students in.. 1. i,1. ,1 ., live without it." I]






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Urban Studio Emphasizes Stronger

Collaboration With Community Stakeholders


This fall, the College of Design, Construction
and Planning moved off campus. Or at
least one studio did. While the college has
several semester-long, off campus programs
in places such as Vicenza, Italy and Paris,
France, this was different. The students
didn't travel out of the state or out of the
country, but rather, they traveled across
Gainesville to the Commerce Building in the
city's downtown.
While the students didn't travel far, it was
a 1 i. 111. i 1 )ve. They were removed from
the known environment of the Architecture
Building and brought into the heart of the
city, where they would be able to interact
with community leaders, stakeholders and
citizens while working on projects for the
City of Gainesville, Alachua County and
other municipalities in the state.
The Urban Studio led by architecture
associate professor Martin Gold allows the
students to see first hand and engage in the
process of public debate. Gold designed the
studio so students would collaborate not only
with each other, but also with community
members.
"The students were exposed to the
elasticity in terms of ownership, scheduling,
phasing and budgeting of future projects
while advancing a positive community
vision. Their projects included a focus on the
integration of architecture with civic space
and the transportation network,"
Gold explains.
The Urban Studio engages experts
from the various disciplines related to
urban infrastructure to define needs
and opportunities for design. Design


methodologies layer seemingly
contradictory requirements, and
expectations to find added value
and amenity.
The recent Waldo Corridor project
on the east side of Gainesville relied
on a team of experts including
urban and regional planning
professors Joseli Macedo and Ruth
Steiner, landscape architecture
professor Tina Gurucharri,
architecture professor Kim Tanzer,
experts from Gainesville Regional
Utilities, North Central Florida
Regional Planning Council, Florida
Department of Transportation
and Stephen Luoni, urban design
consultant from the University of Arkansas
Community Design Center.
Rather than make a case for a specific
design solution or strategy, the students
worked to visualize options and alternatives
for the future, looking five, 10 and even 35
years out. The goal was to put forth design
alternatives for remaking the character and
quality of the corridor.
Students prepared urban design proposals
for nodal districts along the corridor
that would eventually support a light
rail infrastructure. Schemes integrated
sustainable site strategies and i. .. ,I I. for
sustainable architecture that range in scale
from big box to medium density residential.
At the time of this writing, a small team of
students from the Urban Studio is preparing
final recommendations and presentations for
community leaders. [I


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning


35 Years of PRESERVING COMMUNITY


PI:N alumna Christy Everett helps
renovate the institute's cabins.


Bottom left:
PI:N alumna Kathi Auerbach reviews professional
preservation projects with students participating
in PIN's summer 2007 program.

Bottom right:
PI:N board members pictured at Sherburne Hall
(I to r): Roy Hunt, Mary Nell Reeves, Blair Reeves,
Patricia Jacobs, Barbara Spitler and Buddy Jacobs.


Randolph C. Marks remembers the sum-
mer of 1973 vividly. Marks, like the more
than 500 students after him, traveled 1,200
miles to study historic preservation on the
island of Nantucket as part of the University
of Florida College of Design, Construction
and Planning's Preservation Institute:
Nantucket, or PI:N. According to Marks,
his last minute decision to take part in the
program shaped his entire architectural
career. And today, after 35 years of success-
ful summer programs, PI:N still continues
to provide an exceptional educational ex
perience to all program participants.
Co-founded by UF professor emeritus
F. Blair Reeves and Nantucket develop-
er Walter Beinecke, Jr. in 1972, PI:N is a
cooperative effort between UF and the com-
munity of Nantucket, Mass., educating
students in a broad range of historic pres-
ervation issues, while helping to research
and document the history of the island.
While on the island, students are im-
mersed in the community of Nantucket
and participate in project oriented course-
work involving real problems on the island.
Students' complete immersion creates a
unique learning experience. They are not
just learning, they are becoming part of and
contributing to the Nantucket community.
"Every student got to learn the real life-
style of living on Nantucket," Marks said.
"We would walk out of our studio and
into a living lab that was right outside our
door. We were seen by the people of Nan-
tucket, recognized as contributing and
above all, we were making a difference.
The aura of being part of that island is not
something any outsider can describe."
The students didn't only became part of
the Nantucket community though. As word of
the program's popularity and prestige spread,
students came from all over the country to
participate. Today, the community of PI:N
program alumni is more than 500 strong


and represents more than 100 universities.
"The cross section of attendees is just
i. 1. .Il.i. Marks said. "We came from ev-
erywhere: Chicago, California, everywhere.
Most people were not associated with UF
beforehand but after PI:N, they were."
Members of the PI:N alumni commu-
nity gathered in Nantucket this summer
to mark the 35th anniversary of the pro-
gram. Program alumni gathered at PI:N's
headquarters, -.1I. ,I .,1, .- Hall, to share
memories and honor the creation of the F
Blair Reeves Fund in Historic Preservation.
"It's incredible to think it's been 35
years already," said Peter Prugh, director
of PI:N. "When the University of Florida
started on Nantucket, we were one of the
first schools in the nation to do something
like PI:N. In that way, UFwas one of the
developers of the preservation movement
and our students have been an integral part
of historic preservation development."
As students from universities all over the
country and from a wide variety of disci-
plines continue to participate in the historic
preservation program year after year, not
only will they be added to the Nantucket
community, but also to the UF community
and the historic preservation community.
Susan Tate, who recently retired from
the Department of Interior Design and was
director of P:IN for a decade said, "Even
though the historic preservation program at
UF now is one of the most visible and pro-
gressive in the country, the Nantucket work
remains the 'crown jewel' of the educational
experiences." Tate herself was a product
of training at P:IN. Other current college
faculty that attended include associate pro-
fessor Diana Bitz, assistant professor Kristin
Larsen and visiting professor Gail Naylor.
"The students all leave footprints there,"
Prugh said. "The things they do leave a
ripple effect. They just didn't have a class
in Nantucket, they were Nantucket." HI


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Students Provide Innovative Designs for Jacksonville Convention Center


design by: April-Ann Creech


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Last spring, University of Florida
architecture graduate students participated
in a major project in Jacksonville to help
develop building design proposals for the
city's new convention center. The initiative
was led by associate professor of architecture
Michael Kuenstle, AIA, in collaboration with
members of the local American Institute
I. of Architects (AIA) Jacksonville Chapter
through the support of the Mellen C. Greeley
AIA Foundation, Inc.
A primary goal for the building design
project was to weave the three principle
functions of a major civic building the
aesthetic/symbolic relationship to the
I cultural context, the relationship to the
immediate site and the programmatic
experience into an integrated and layered
spatial unity guided by a clear architectural
concept.
"The learning through service model of
teaching made possible with the UF/AIA
Jacksonville studio provides the framework
for a unique educational experience that
facilitates building a stronger relationship
between the university, the profession and
the communities in which we work," Kuenstle
says. "A key component of our initiative is to
help grow and nourish a culture of design
that .... 1,1 everyone."
In turn, the students also provide a
valuable service to Jacksonville and the
community.
"This gives them a look into the real world,"


stakeholders. They can't get this kind of
exposure in the classroom, so this educational
experience helps teach them about working
within the community."
The studio was especially unique because
it was incorporated into the "AIA Jacksonville
150" initiative, a year-long event celebrating
the 150th anniversary of the American
Institute of Architects.
The studio also had three generations of
UF alumni involvement. Melody Bishop
(BDes 1979, MAARC 1981) and Thomas
Reynolds (BArch 1971) served as the AIA
Jacksonville liaison committee to the School
S of Architecture and both have a rich and
h productive history of developing academic
projects with the university and the city.
Glenn Dasher (MArch 1987), 2007 president
of AIA Jacksonville, organized the student
activities in Jacksonville and Eugene
Damaso (BDes 2002, MArch 2004) brought
a fresh perspective to the student work as
a representative of the AIA Jacksonville
emerging professionals group. I1


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New home and theater provide hope for Tanzanian orphans


Watching Tanzanian orphans perform
acrobatics at the TunaHAKI Centre in Moshi,
architecture associate professor Donna Cohen
knew the design project before her was much
more than a building; it was an opportunity
to give the children a space to learn their craft
and become part of their community.
"It was inspiring to watch the children
perform," Cohen said. "I also directed them
during a workshop and was moved by their
enthusiasm and spirit."
TunaHAKI Centre is a home for orphans,
started by Tanzanian artist David Ryatula
and his wife Mary. The orphans are taken
off the streets and given food, shelter, medical
care and a complete education, as well as a
chance to participate in arts like acrobatics
and drama. While the center has rescued
more than 100 children from the streets of
Moshi since 1998, the orphans currently live
in a rental home without running water, a
proper kitchen or adequate drainage.
Cohen and her partner, research associate
for historic preservation Claude Armstrong,
first learned of the opportunity to design
a sustainable home and cultural center for
the orphanage through Architecture for
Humanity. The non-profit organization
seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian
crises, and brings design services to
communities like Moshi.
Armstrong + Cohen was chosen from
more than 40 firms who applied to design the


theater and cultural center. The Finnish firm
Hollmen Reuter Sandman Architects will
design the children's residence.
"Our sustainability curriculum is
strengthened by projects like this, as faculty
incorporate their research into their courses.
Students have the opportunity to gain a global
perspective on sustainability and the built
environment," said Dean Christopher Silver.
The college provided a research grant for the
team's first trip to Tanzania this summer.
"This international collaboration allows
us the opportunity to work on contemporary
architecture in a culturally significant site,"
said Cohen, emphasizing that the partnership
is successful because everyone agrees the
most fundamental design principle is the
necessity of acting locally.
The design team will focus on local
production techniques and materials in
an effort to support the local economy. The
project also will provide opportunities for job
training for older children at the center. The
hope is that the techniques used in the design
of the home and theater will serve as a model
for other orphanages in Tanzania.
"It's important that we are not simply
importing our ideas and technology. For
the project to be sustainable to live on and
be replicated it has to integrate with local
production and processes, and at the same
time, embody aspirations for the future,"
said Cohen. 11l


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Center's Research Focuses on

Protecting Our Homes and Businesses


Sept. 11, 2001 and the hurricanes of 2004-
05 have driven home the importance of
preparing as much as possible for catastrophic
events, but are the buildings and communities
in our state and nation really ready? That's
the question that the Center for Collective
Protection in the Built Environment, a
research organization within the M.E. Rinker,
Sr. School of Building Construction, is trying
to answer.
"The aim of the center is to conduct
research in areas of mitigating natural
and human-caused hazards in the built
environment," explains the center's director,
Kevin Grosskopf. "We try to work on
things that address multiple hazards, from
hurricanes and tornadoes to events caused
by humans, such as ,,11i,11,. 11 l. industrial
accidents and acts of terrorism.
"There is a lot of overlap," Grosskopf
adds. "Some of the technologies that protect
buildings against hurricanes and tornadoes,
for example, also protect from explosives."
With the help of a $150,000 gift from
University of Florida alumnus Edward
Proefke, Sr., in 2007, the center is more
involved than ever before in making sure
Floridians and all Americans are safe.
Among the center's efforts that are of
particular importance in Florida are a few
hurricane -related projects. One involves using
software to simulate the effects of a hurricane
in a particular community to evaluate its
preparedness.
"In Alachua County, for example, we can
plug either U.S. Census or property appraiser
data into the software, and we can create a
scenario to show us what would happen if


a Hurricane Katrina- strength storm came
across Cedar Key to Alachua County,"
Grosskopf explains. "What would its intensity
be? What type of debris and destruction
would occur? We're working with the NWS
(National Weather Service) in developing
realistic inland and coastal hurricane
scenarios."
This software, which comes from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
is being used to assess the vulnerability of
several communities to a major hurricane,
and could be used to help coordinate potential
emergency response to an approaching storm.
"If we have a hurricane coming, it could
help predict the community's turnaround
time," Grosskopf says. "NWS can tell us the
probability of a storm hitting, so they'd have
things like forward speed and radius. We
can plug that into a model and it would tell us
whether it coincides with a high tide, which
would make flooding worse. It would give
us a realistic estimate of damages, shelter
requirements, downed trees, structural
damage and even how many police stations
and fire stations could sustain damage. And
it will even tell you based on rainfall and
flooding which escape routes will be shut off."
The center also is preparing for future
hurricanes by evaluating building codes
and low-cost ways to fortify new buildings
against high winds. One project, for example,
involved students looking at manufactured
housing before and after a HUD building
code changed in 1994. ("After Hurricane
Charlie, there were areas where homes built
after 1994 were relatively untouched and
those built before 1994 were destroyed, which


is pretty compelling," Grosskopf notes.)
Grosskopf and his team also are evaluating
an elastomer that can be sprayed into the
shell of a manufactured housing unit during
production, i-.ii... ilI. improving wind-
load resistance.
"This material provides tremendous tensile
strength and can stand up to windborne
debris too," he says. "Here you have something
that we can actually put in everyday housing
that is affordable."
Another hurricane-related project the
center is involved in with the Fluor Center
for Construction Safety is providing safety
training to low-literacy and non-English
speaking workers, who are often the ones to
come in after destructive storms to assist in
cleanup and reconstruction efforts.
The center also is involved in a number of
other research projects, such as looking into
"sick building syndrome." The center, along
with the Associated General Contractors
of America and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, has developed a computer
program to help builders avoid conditions
during construction (and post storm
reconstruction) that would promote mold
growth in homes and buildings. More than
33,000 general contractors nationwide now
are able to access this program.
"We're living in an environment where we
have to protect our populations, workforce
and economy from a multitude of hazards,"
Grosskopf says. "We need to do things in a
way that is practical and cost-effective.
Safety shouldn't be just for those who can
afford it." I






UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College of Design, Construction & Planning






Crime Mapping: Helping Law Enforcement Keep Our Communities Safe


A lot has been said about the College of
Design, Construction and Planning helping to
build up communities, but thanks to Richard
Schneider, a professor of urban and regional
planning, the college is helping citizens and
law enforcement officials fight crime in those
communities too. In fact, some of the projects
Schneider and his team are working on sound
like they could have been ripped straight from
an episode of CSI or Law & Order.
For the last two years, along with associate
professor Ilir Bejleri, department assistant
Stanley Latimer, and graduate student Eric
Kramer, Schneider has been working with
the Alachua County Sheriff's Office on a
project to electronically map crime in their
jurisdiction. Schneider and his team also have
been involved in doing crime-prevention and
crime-analysis programs with the Gainesville
and Palatka Police Departments.
"The general overall intent is to combine
computer technologies we already have with
the data police gather normally so that we
are able to quickly identify where crimes
are taking place," Schneider says. "So it's
a crime prevention tool but also a police
administration tool, because police can
allocate officers to specific areas based on
crime activity."


"We hope that as a result

of all this, crime rates

and opportunities will be

diminished"


Before the advent of crime mapping
technologies, police officers would record
incident locations, and oftentimes, these
locations would be plotted on a pin map,
which authorities would use to help them
determine where crimes were taking place.
Si11 ,, i ; have been used for over a
hundred years to track crime epidemics,
housing conditions anything that has a
relationship to the surface of the earth,"
Schneider explains. "But the problem is
they're static. It's harder to understand
patterns and analyze them. With computers,
we can do this very rapidly and ask lots of
questions. In which parking lots did the
car burglaries take place, for example? Are
assaults occurring around bus stations or
certain nightclubs? If so, are there local
natural and built environmental conditions
that make it easier to commit these crimes in
these locations? Knowing the answers help
planners and police respond appropriately.
Crime mapping isn't unique to this area;
many communities around the country
are using this technology to help identify
crime patterns and allocate police officers
appropriately. But Schneider, whose recent
book on crime prevention and urban planning
contains a chapter on the technology, is paving
the way for even more useful applications of
the tool.
"The key is that you have to have a very
good base map first," Schneider explains.
"Once an officer records an address, the
address is transferred using a mapping
program to that base map electronically,
so then you have a point on the map which
shows where the crime ostensibly took place.
This allows us to capture these points and
put them in a computer database, and then
we can quickly do statistical and comparative
analyses tl i 1 i,11 ,. i. i I F. i il ..- before.
"Supplemented by police reports, you can
more readily document the m.o. (method of
operation) of various crimes," he adds. "You
can look at how crime moves in response to
police patrols and can more easily identify
hot spots and crime sprees. Crime mapping


and analysis helps cops know pretty quickly
if it's one person knocking off a bunch of
convenience stores, for instance."
Schneider and his team also are helping
law enforcement agencies use crime-mapping
tools to evaluate the success of the programs
they implement. For example, the U.S.
Department of Justice provided money for a
"Weed and Seed" program in Palatka, where
violent offenders were "weeded" out, and
community development programs such as
youth after-school programs and GED prep
courses were" .. in the community.
Schneider and his graduate students used
crime mapping technology to help evaluate
the success of these efforts.
"We just gave the report to the community,
in fact," he says. "We've also participated in
Weed and Seed in Gainesville. It's a great
collaboration between the university and
police, because the cops have the data and
the experience, and we have the technology,
graduate students and research capability.
"We hope that as a result of all this, crime
rates and opportunities will be diminished,"
he adds. "No one knows for sure how much
these systems have helped, but we're tracking
crime better. II ,11 1...111. i. about improving the
quality of life for citizens. And our expectation
is that crime mapping will help cities and
counties save money and make law enforcement
coordination easier in the long run."
It's all part of UF serving the community,
and in turn, getting their students valuable
experience in the real world.
"We live here; this is our hometown, so it's a
civic responsibility," Schneider says. "It's also
a great opportunity to get students out of their
comfort zone. Most of my students are middle
class kids who have lived in the suburbs and
who have had all the i. 1,1 of life. As part
of crime-mapping research and related crime
prevention planning courses, I take these
kids to housing projects and to distressed
neighborhoods, and acquaint them with some
harsh realities, and it gives them a greater
understanding of daily quality of life issues
that people face. They grow as professionals
and people, and the community ... ii. 1 r]


Crime maps of Alachua County, Fla.












Affording to Live Where You Work


Tourism is one of the biggest industries in
Florida, but without adequate housing for
the employees that keep the industry going,
it could all fall apart. That's where the
University of Florida's -.ii, 111.. i Center for
Affordable Housing comes in.
"We have in Florida, as well as other
portions of the nation, a lack of housing
affordability for people who clean hotel rooms,
work in food service and other people in the
tourism industry," says Anne Williamson,
the associate director of the center, which
is housed in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School
of Building Construction. "This is very
important. If housing needs are not met in a
community, it means that people who provide
essential services in a community can't live in
the community they work in.
"And it's not just people who work in
tourism," she adds. "Everyone from a childcare
worker to a school bus driver to a healthcare
aid to police officers:,,, .I Iii. 91. I are very
essential to our communities and need to be
able to live where they work."
But that's not the only housing issue
confronting Floridians. Many people have
found homes to live in but are spending more
on housing costs than they can afford, leaving
little money leftover for other essentials.
Still others are living in homes that might
be hazardous in a hurricane, tornado or
other disaster.
ii i. ,11. important that we pay attention
to getting safe homes and apartments built at
the right price that people can afford," says the
center's director, Robert Stroh.
To this end, the -.111,. 1 1 Center for
Affordable Housing, which was established in
1988 in response to a mandate from the state


legislature, is divided into three main areas.
Professor Bill O'Dell runs the center's
Florida Housing Data ( I. ,i, 11ii....1 a huge,
county-by-county database that tracks housing
inventory and pricing data. It's accessible to
the public at < ufl.edu where users can pull up an area and
see how many homes are available, what the
median prices are for home sales and rentals,
and how many people living in the area are
living in homes beyond their means.
"It has come to be known as an authoritative
source for this type of data," Stroh notes. The
center's database has been used by numerous
local governments to study housing issues in
their communities.
Stroh leads the center's efforts and research
into building technology and hurricane
resistant housing. "It's a question of how you
protect windows and hold roofs on and keep
hurricanes from destroying your home," he
says. (The Center for Collective Protection in
the Built Environment, another center within
the college, also is doing hurricane-resistance
research work. See page 9.)
Williamson is in charge of the center's third
arm, which examines housing policies and
programs across the state.
"We typically respond to requests for
assistance," Williamson explains. "We
regularly give a great deal of technical
assistance in terms of data for planning and
assessing affordability needs."
For example, Williamson and her team
-. 11 I 1, 1 h. I evaluating a revitalized
public housing area in Tampa. The area
included public housing units that had been
torn down:,l, .I i, I ,,,ii 11, Ithe help of a Hope
VI grant from the U.S. Department of Housing


and Urban Development. "We were able to
verify a dramatic reduction in crime and a
dramatic increase in the quality of living
conditions," Williamson says.
Nearby, Williamson and her team are
helping to document efforts to decrease crime
rates in a depressed area near the University
of South Florida by building up community
programs and community involvement.
"We've done everything from help evaluate
the success of the efforts, to a detailed housing
study, to this year, we're creating a more
sustainable community," she says.
The -.1iii,.. i Center may soon be involved
in a major international housing project too,
taking the college's international influence to a
new level.
"We've been asked by the largest real
estate development company in China to work
with them on policies and policy solutions in
terms of moving from a socialist state to a free
market economy," says V. 1111 ,..11 "We're
in the beginning phases of that. Many of their
challenges are similar to those we've dealt with
here in the United States; we all have basic
human needs. As China grows more and more
into a free market economy, they are suffering
the growing pains we've had in the past in
United States."
But despite its growing worldwide scope,
the center is, first and foremost, a resource for
Floridians, who are facing some of the biggest
housing challenges in the nation.
"A center like this is necessary because a
large percentage of people can't afford homes
nowadays," Stroh says. "The information
we maintain is a very useful tool for a lot of
people." I]


The Shimberg Center recently evaluated The Oaks at Riverview,
the result of the redevelopment of Tampa's severely distressed
public housing complexes Riverview Terrace and Tom Dyer
Homes. It is located in the popular Seminole Heights area
and has contributed to the revitalization of the neighborhood.
The evaluation helped the community and policymakers
better understand how the redevelopment has contributed to
reductions in crime, rising property values and other aspects of
neighborhood improvement.


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faculty


"The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape
Architecture" by landscape architecture professor
Mary Padua and Kongjian Yu of China.

This book is a compen-
dium of essays that
h A4tV OfSu1 SI cover the trends in
landscape architecture
at the end of the 20th
century in China. The
book chronicles projects
carried about by
Turenscape and Peking
University's Graduate
School of Landscape Architecture under the leadership of
China's pioneering landscape architect, Kongjian Yu.


"Education Facility Security Handbook"
by architecture professor Michael Kuenstle and Don
Philpott of Reuters and the Homeland Defense Journal
was published by Government Institutes, Scarecrow
Press Inc. in October 2007.

This handbook provides
design guidance for
architects, engineers,
facilities planners and
school administra-
tors with a twofold
approach to creating
a safe environment for
e ses schools. The first part
of the book addresses how to design and build a safe
school and includes a section on safe school building
design research with contributions by architecture
professor Nancy Clark and urban and regional planning
professor Richard Schneider, Ph.D., AICP. The second
part of the book shifts from physical infrastructure to
inhabitants with a discussion of various policies and
practices implemented to reduce crime and violence in
schools.





"Las casas del Pedregal, 1947-1968" by architec-
ture professor Alfonso Pdrez-Mdndez and Alejandro
Aptilon was published in Spanish in August 2007.

The book is part of
the efforts of UF's
School of Architecture
bPreservation Institute:
Caribbean to document
1950's Latin American
modern architecture.
It covers an important
monographic event
in Mexican architectural history, the creation of 1,500
modern houses in a small suburb of Mexico City. In
the era, Esther McCoy, the historian of the Case Study
Houses, wrote that it was the only experience comparable
to the famous Los Angeles experiment in modern single
family houses.


"Crime Prevention and the Built Environment"
by urban and regional planning professor Richard
Schneider and Ted Kitchen of Sheffield Hallam
University in the United Kingdom was published in March
2007 by Routledge Press.

In seeking to advance
the field of crime
prevention planning,
this book builds upon
established theory and
incorporates original re-
search on the evolving
relationships between
planning systems,
police and citizens.
Surveying classical
place-based crime
prevention as well as
concepts such as space
syntax and new urbanism, it provides an international
perspective on these issues and takes a look at the ways
in which terrorism and technology affect place-based
crime prevention. It also seeks to investigate the con-
nection between crime prevention and development
planning at a policy level.


"LARE Review, Mastering Section C:
Site Design" by landscape architecture professor Glenn
Acomb was published by Professional Publications Inc.
in June 2007.

This book, the first to
address the guid-
ing principles in site
design for the licensure
examination, offers
the most complete and
comprehensive coverage
available for Section C of
the Landscape Architect
Registration Examination.
The book shows how to
approach site planning
vignettes analytically through three basic tasks: analyzing
the site and requirements; understanding the relation-
ships between the land and the uses of the land; and
creating optimal plans and design solutions. In addition,
each chapter offers a wide variety of sample vignettes to
provide exposure to a range of project types.






"Concorde: Hatel de Talleyrand & George C.
Marshall Center" by the University of Florida Publica-
tions Office with lead author Susan Tate, interior design
professor, was published by StorterChilds in 2007.

This book marks the
60th anniversary of
the Harvard University
w address of George C.
Marshall in which the
U.S. Secretaryof State
proposed a program
of European recovery.
It commemorates the
architecture, interiors, history and restoration of the
Hotel de Talleyrand, particularly those rooms which
constituted the European offices of the American
administration of the program known around the
world as the Marshall Plan.


"Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth
Century" by Dean Christopher Silver was published
in 2007 byTaylor & Francis Inc.

This book, the first on
the planning history of
Jakarta, describes how
planning has shaped
.inMem in urban development in
3 U Southeast Asia, and
S. in particular how its
largest city, Jakarta,
Indonesia, was trans-
b o formed from a colonial
capital of approximately
150,000 in 1900 to
a megacity of 12-13
million inhabitants in 2000. The book places the city's
planning history within local, national and international
contexts, exploring not only the formal planning actions,
but how planning was shaped by broader political,
economic, social and cultural factors in Indonesia's
development.



"Sustainable Construction: Green Building
Design and Delivery," second edition, by building
construction professor Charles Kibert, director of
Powell Center for Construction & Environment, was
published by Wiley in October 2007.

The green building
movement has come
a long way in a short
time. Responding to
this exponential growth,
with its attendant
technological as well as
aesthetic develop-
ments, this book guides
construction and design
professionals through
the process of develop-
ing commercial and
institutional high-performance green buildings in today's
marketplace. This revised edition delivers a detailed and
passionate overview of the entire process of green build-
ing, covering the theory, history and state of the industry
and of best practices in green building.




"The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of
Ecology, Economy and Equity" by architecture
professor Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria, an
architecture professor at the University of Houston, was
published in March 2007 by Routledge Press.

Drawn from over 15
years of peer-reviewed
essays and national de-
sign awards published
by the Association of
Collegiate Schools
of Architecture, this
volume presents the
discipline's best think-
ing on sustainability
in written, drawn and
built form. Providing a
primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students
alike, the selected essays address a broad range of
issues. Combined with design projects that highlight
issues holistically, they promote an understanding of the
principles of sustainability and further the integration of
sustainable methods into architectural projects.






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REACHING OUT: CENTER HELPS FLORIDA COMMUNITIES


The Center for Building Better Communi-
ties is one of the units within the college that
w('i i. .111. ii. I- 111, local communities to
help them plan for the future. Established in
2002, the center does hands-on research into
areas that impact cities and regions, such as
urbanization and economic revitalization.
"We provide continuing education, tech-
nical assistance and applied research to
local governments," says the center's direc-
tor, Gene Boles, who took over the center
in Fall 2006. "We ,11 ,ii. do planning
projects with local and state governments,
usually associated with comprehensive
planning and growth management."
For example, the center is heavily in-
volved with the issue of providing adequate
facilities for public school students within
the state. In 2005, the state legislature passed
legislation requiring school districts to be-
gin setting up programs to get kids out of
portable classrooms and into real school
buildings, a hot issue with Florida's popula-
tion expected to grow 30 percent by 2020.
"This basically says that if you propose
a new housing development, you have to
have school capacity concurrent with the
level of development," explains urban and
regional planning associate professor Ruth
Steiner, who works with the center. "So
the developer may have to contribute their
fair share of providing for that new build-





"Planning and Decentralization: Contested
Spaces for Public Action in the Global South"
by Dean Christopher Silver and co-authors Victoria
Beard and Faranak Miraftab will be published in
2008 by Routledge.

One of the most perva-
sive development trends
of the current global era
is the decentralization
of governmental respon-
sibilities from strong
central governments to
localities. Yet, despite
the global dimensions
of the decentralization
movement, there is a
limited understanding
of its rather dramatic
impacts on the planning
process, governance
structures, civil society organizations and communi-
ties around the world. This book addresses this gap
through original, case study research drawn from diverse
national contexts in the global south. The book examines
the intersection of planning and decentralization from
three perspectives: the central state, local government,
and civil society and the community.


ing. Concurrency has been required for
20 years for water and sewers and such,
but they are just starting to require it for
schools. School districts need to know how
to implement this, so that's something the
center has spent a lot of time looking at."
The center also is involved in help-
ing communities throughout the state
come up with their official comprehensive
plans, which are government documents
that set the context for future growth and
development within the community.
"Each community within the state is
required to have one," Boles says. "We're
helping with that in several communities.
We're also doing some work on land devel-
opment codes and zoning regulations."
Boles also runs a two-day training
program for planning officials, local commis-
sioners and elected officials throughout the
state who will have some involvement in mak
ing land-use decisions. The intensive course
familiarizes them with urban planning issues
and decision-making. Boles currently teaches
the course five times a year, but with the help
of the center, and of the university's IFAS
extension offices in all 67 Florida counties,
he hopes to double the frequency and reach
more people involved with urban planning.
Finally, the center is available for com-
munities throughout the state to call on when
they're in need of urban planning advice.





"Smart Land Use Analysis" by landscape architec-
ture professor Margaret Carr and urban and regional
planning professor Paul Zwick was published by ESRI
Press in March 2007.

This book presents
the land-use conflict
identification strat-
egy (LUCIS), a proven
method for using
geographic informa-
Stion system technology
to analyze land-use
suitability, stakeholder
preferences, and
conflicts between
competing land interests. In the hands of a knowledge-
able analyst, LUCIS can provide a reliable projection
as to which lands will remain in their current use
and which lands will likely change in the future. With
this information, various land-use scenarios can be
considered by planners.


"We basically provide professional plan-
ning services," Boles says. "We try to stay
at the forefront of some of the major issues,
so we don't look at projects that consul-
tants would routinely do. We look at areas
where our applied research can be con-
verted into best practices. For example,
we worked recently with the state Depart
ment of Community Affairs to develop
transportation practices for small cities."
For communities who call on the center
for help, the ..i. ii are multiple, Boles says.
"There are some cost advantages, to
begin with," he says. "Also, when they
come to the university, they contract with
the university directly, and there are ad-
vantages in the resources and people
we can draw upon to contribute to our
work. It's usually a little bit broader."
In turn, the work .. i ii the graduate
students who work with the center too. Dur-
ing the Fall 2007 semester, there were 12
graduate students working on ** i. i ,, 11,
the center; in Spring 2008, there are eight.
"This is the kind of work the students
will be doing in the future," Boles says. "I
believe that giving our students that link
now is especially critical for their future as
urban planners because that is what they
are training to do. To engage them in that
process now is i....l. il. beneficial." El






"Campsite: Architectures of Duration and
Place" by architecture professor Charlie Hailey,
will be published in June 2008 by Louisiana State
University Press.

This book investigates
the cultural signifl-
.. chance and inherently
paradoxical nature of
*q camps and camping
in contemporary
SAmerican society.
Offering a new
understanding of the
complex relationship
between place, time
and architecture
Sin our increasingly
S '. ,: ---_ mobile culture, the
author explores campsites as places that necessitate
a unique combination of contrasting qualities, such as
locality and foreignness, temporality and permanence,
and public domesticity. And camping practices
themselves ultimately reflect how our places, our built
environments, our homes are constantly being made
and always becoming.


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Featured on this page is graduate student
Will Zajac's proposal for a new venue for
the annual Nantucket Film Festival. Zajac
created his proposal while participating
in the design studio offered through the
Preservation Institute: Nantucket.


1. An interior design student presents her
work during senior crits.
o UF Provost Janie Fouke takes time to look
over a building construction student's
work during a UF Board of Trustees visit
to the college.
UF architecture students in Vicenza, Italy.
J A second-year architecture student
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5. Urban and regional planning students
attend the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning's annual awards
ceremony.
6. An architecture student leans down for
a closer look at work on display in the
Architecture Gallery.
7. A group of student participants huddle
over their competition rule book during
the 2007 Witters Competition.
8. (2 photos) Landscape architecture
students participate in a design charrette
at the UF Levin College of Law.
9. A building construction student carefully
applies mortar to brick during the first
demonstration in the Charles R. Perry
Construction Yard.
10.A student works at Sherburne Hall
while participating in the Preservation
Institute: Nantucket Summer Program.





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SERVICE LEARNING: Gaining Knowledge & Experience First-Hand


(Top) On their way to a national conference in Louisiana,
landscape architecture students made a detour to New
Orleans, donating their time to work on improvements
to the Gentilly neighborhood.

(Bottom) Students learn the craft of preserving buildings
while participating in Preservation Institute: New York in
Mount Lebanon.


"Service learning

is I l / I ,;., with the

CORE MISSION of the

design, construction &

planning disciplines."


Last fall, Christopher Silver, the dean of the
College of Design, Construction and P1l;a liiiig..
created a new position within the college to
oversee the college's increasing emphasis on
service learning.
"Service learning is an essential component
of all of our professional programs, and it has
been long before the idea of service learning
gained the growing interest that it has on
campus today," Silver says. "Our students
will go out as professionals to work with
communities to solve problems. To prepare
them for that effectively, we have always
built into our programs opportunities to
learn by doing."
Now that longtime architecture professor
Bill Tilson has been hired into this new
position as the assistant dean of international
studies and service learning, the college's
commitment to the community is clearer
than ever.
"We created the position to provide
assistance and greater coordination to the
wide-ranging activities of our programs in
both internationally-focused education -
which often involves getting students
outside the Gainesville classrooms and
service learning," Silver explains. "It was
also intended to make it even more evident
to the campus community how much
service learning is integral to what we do
in the College of Design, Construction and
Planning."
As Silver notes, the college's curriculum
has long emphasized reaching beyond the
walls of the university and allowing students
to learn in real-world settings -in a way that
" ... iii the community around them too.
A good example of this is the Florida
Community Design Center, which engages
student participation to help communities
cope with rapid growth, sprawling
development and transportation congestion.
"The center can provide design visioning
and community design. ...... ii i, and can
host workshops, exhibits and educational
or informational events," says the center's
executive director and architecture associate
professor Martin Gold. "These efforts
promote both innovative and best practices
for a community to move toward more
sustainable growth infrastructure and to
focus community resources effectively.
"As design professionals, our careers
are in effect a continual service learning
exercise," Gold adds. "We provide temporary
solutions to an ever-changing set of facilities
and difficulties. As a faculty, if we are not
engaged in the needs of our time, how can we
provide new knowledge, and subsequently
serve the need?"
Kay Williams, an associate professor of
landscape architecture, is another faculty


member who is active in getting students out
in the real world to learn outside the walls of
the classroom.
"We seek real-world projects that fit with
the curriculum of each particular course,"
Williams explains. "Once they finish school,
our graduates are expected to be able to solve
problems based upon the knowledge, skills
and abilities they obtained here. Rote learning
has little to do with what they will be doing in
their careers. So it makes sense to give them
basics like land-use planning codes, theories
for developing therapeutic environments,
technical parameters of landform grading and
stormwater management, etc. then make
them apply those in a real physical situation.
"We could just make up a project and
program, but there are so many good
opportunities out there," she continues. "It is
hard to manufacture the depth and breadth
that we often find in service projects. Plus,
working with real clients means that students
have to learn to balance their personal ideas
with those of the client, often educating the
client as to new directions and at the same
time, often educating students that they need
to take into consideration all the myriad
concerns and issues and desires. All this
teaches students far better than professors'
war stories and instructions."
Plus, says Williams, exposing students
to real clients in the real world is fun. "The
richness of the projects, the wonderful people
we get to meet and the satisfaction of doing
something that really may help someone go
a long way," she says.
Tilson says that service learning is a
vital part of what makes the college such an
integral part of the university community -
and indeed a part of the worldwide
community too.
"Service learning is ........ ....... i,
the core mission of the design, construction
and planning disciplines." says Tilson.
"Our teaching and research methods are
predominately action oriented which demands
that we develop and maintain a consistent
interaction with communities locally and
globally. Currently, more than 75 percent
of the students in our college participate in
international and service initiatives. Our goal
is to make that 100 percent."
Silver says he's proud that his college
participates in service learning programs to
such a degree.
"We encourage our students to make
contributions to their community beyond the
classroom requirements," he says. "It is part
of the ethical and value foundations of the
professions we represent. Yet what we want to
emphasize as well is that service learning is
not about just being a good Samaritan, but is
a skill and value set that is fundamental to our
professional training." I13













Small Town, Big Opportunities


The University of Florida's College of Design,
Construction and Planning involvement
with communities has resonated with towns
throughout Florida for many years. One
example of the college's work impacting a
community is the small town of ( iii, .
which is about 45 minutes inland from
Panama City in the Panhandle.
Under the direction of associate professor
of architecture Peter Prugh, UF became
involved with Chipley in the 1980s when the
city needed to revitalize its failing economy.
Now, under the guidance of associate
professor of architecture Martin Gold, the
college will once again work with the city to
address its new and changing needs this year.
"Chipley is a small town located along the
railroad; in fact, their main street downtown
is the railroad," Prugh says. "Numerous towns
evolved in the 19th century along the railroad
because they were stops for trains. Then, US-
90 used to run right next to the downtown, so
they were able to lure people in, but once 1-10
was built, the economy began to fade. Now, the
town is bypassed by 1-10, and the railroad is
no longer a major element. The economy was
just gone."
Chipley city leaders approached UF in
1984, and in the next three years, Prugh,
urban and regional planning professor
William Weismantel and several classes
of students came in and helped the flailing
community revitalize itself.
"We looked at what was going on
economically in the town and the region,
what businesses they had and needed,"
Prugh recalls. "We also got together with
some architecture students and went over the
state's rules and regulations for setting up
redevelopment districts that qualify for aid."
Back in the 1980s, heritage tourism was
just beginning to catch on, so the UF team
decided to play up ( idii;<. ,many historic
buildings. Instead of w.-.. ii. i i ii,. i. .


down their downtown and rebuild, the team
suggested downtown streetscapes, complete
with ample parking, old-fashioned street
lamps and park benches. They helped found a
farmer's market and helped create a plan that
supported local merchants coming into the
downtown area and opening up businesses in
historic buildings. And they helped the town
secure state and national grants to pave the
way for redevelopment.
"This was actual real world experience
for the students," Prugh says. "They were
working with communities and seeing the
nuts and bolts of how finance and funding go
together. You can have all the creative ideas
in the world, but if the community doesn't
have the resources, they're just creative ideas
with nowhere to go. This gave students an
opportunity to see an integrated approach that
looked at economics and design."
So successful was UF's involvement in
the 1980s that Chipley came calling again.
This time, Gold, the executive director of the
Florida Community Design Center, a not-for-
profit organization in partnership with the
College of Design, Construction and Pl;a iiiiiig.
answered the call.
"The economic development board in
Chipley recognized that growth from those
fleeing the coast and those retiring to Florida
will put a lot of development pressure on
the area," he explains. "They hope to direct
this resource to revitalizing the downtown
in a manner that adds residential density
and economic vitality for local business and
enhances the character of the town. We will
look primarily at a variety of housing and
mixed-use typologies that would support
mixed demographic groups and development
phasing alternatives that might best capture
market opportunities."
The partnership between the college and
the design center enabled the project team
to leverage seed funding from the town of


Chipley to secure additional funding from
the Federal Department of Commerce. Total
project funding is $67,000. The funding
will provide travel money and research
assistantships for students who will stay on
over the summer to complete the project.
So far, Gold and his team have met with
a development group in Chipley and have
drafted a work plan to develop housing
strategies for the future. Students have started
conducting case studies on a variety of urban
and sustainable housing types and initiating
analysis of the urban core. As with the 1980s
project, the team will provide visioning
studies, assist in prioritizing the allocation
of future resources and help Chipley
seek additional grants to provide needed
infrastructure.
Prugh is happy to see the university involved
again with the historic town. He will be
working. i 11i the current project team
to evaluate and advance relevant strategies that
were proposed in the 1980's study.
"This is what we're here for," Prugh says.
"We're a land grant university, and that's part
of the notion of the land grant system. It's part
of the very core of the University of Florida,
and this is one of the many ways our college
does that." 0I

Martin Gold


Students working in Chipley, Fla.


Students work in nation's oldest city


This fall, DCP graduate students had the
opportunity to research the Abbott Tract
neighborhood in St. Augustine, Fla., and
provide preservation and design solutions in
neighborhood conservation and revitalization.
The project was the focus of a new seminar led
by Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA, director of the
DCP Historic Preservation Programs.
"Much like the Legal Aid Society's of the
1960's, I envisioned this seminar as a way
to provide preservation aid to areas and
neighborhoods that have been identified by
historical societies and preservation agencies,"
said Graham. "This is an example of the kind


of resources that the University of Florida can
provide to St. Augustine once we establish a
presence there in the 32 historic buildings that
the state legislature is providing the academic
programs."
The students presented their research to
the residents of Abbott Tract in December.
They recommended the neighborhood seek
designation as a Neighborhood Conservation
District, which would preserve the look
and feel of the neighborhood, without the
regulations associated with local historic
districts. About 150 townspeople crowded the
Government House for the presentation. rI


...- .


Julie Frey













Small Town, Big Opportunities


The University of Florida's College of Design,
Construction and Planning involvement
with communities has resonated with towns
throughout Florida for many years. One
example of the college's work impacting a
community is the small town of ( iii, .
which is about 45 minutes inland from
Panama City in the Panhandle.
Under the direction of associate professor
of architecture Peter Prugh, UF became
involved with Chipley in the 1980s when the
city needed to revitalize its failing economy.
Now, under the guidance of associate
professor of architecture Martin Gold, the
college will once again work with the city to
address its new and changing needs this year.
"Chipley is a small town located along the
railroad; in fact, their main street downtown
is the railroad," Prugh says. "Numerous towns
evolved in the 19th century along the railroad
because they were stops for trains. Then, US-
90 used to run right next to the downtown, so
they were able to lure people in, but once 1-10
was built, the economy began to fade. Now, the
town is bypassed by 1-10, and the railroad is
no longer a major element. The economy was
just gone."
Chipley city leaders approached UF in
1984, and in the next three years, Prugh,
urban and regional planning professor
William Weismantel and several classes
of students came in and helped the flailing
community revitalize itself.
"We looked at what was going on
economically in the town and the region,
what businesses they had and needed,"
Prugh recalls. "We also got together with
some architecture students and went over the
state's rules and regulations for setting up
redevelopment districts that qualify for aid."
Back in the 1980s, heritage tourism was
just beginning to catch on, so the UF team
decided to play up ( idii;<. ,many historic
buildings. Instead of w.-.. ii. i i ii,. i. .


down their downtown and rebuild, the team
suggested downtown streetscapes, complete
with ample parking, old-fashioned street
lamps and park benches. They helped found a
farmer's market and helped create a plan that
supported local merchants coming into the
downtown area and opening up businesses in
historic buildings. And they helped the town
secure state and national grants to pave the
way for redevelopment.
"This was actual real world experience
for the students," Prugh says. "They were
working with communities and seeing the
nuts and bolts of how finance and funding go
together. You can have all the creative ideas
in the world, but if the community doesn't
have the resources, they're just creative ideas
with nowhere to go. This gave students an
opportunity to see an integrated approach that
looked at economics and design."
So successful was UF's involvement in
the 1980s that Chipley came calling again.
This time, Gold, the executive director of the
Florida Community Design Center, a not-for-
profit organization in partnership with the
College of Design, Construction and Pl;a iiiiiig.
answered the call.
"The economic development board in
Chipley recognized that growth from those
fleeing the coast and those retiring to Florida
will put a lot of development pressure on
the area," he explains. "They hope to direct
this resource to revitalizing the downtown
in a manner that adds residential density
and economic vitality for local business and
enhances the character of the town. We will
look primarily at a variety of housing and
mixed-use typologies that would support
mixed demographic groups and development
phasing alternatives that might best capture
market opportunities."
The partnership between the college and
the design center enabled the project team
to leverage seed funding from the town of


Chipley to secure additional funding from
the Federal Department of Commerce. Total
project funding is $67,000. The funding
will provide travel money and research
assistantships for students who will stay on
over the summer to complete the project.
So far, Gold and his team have met with
a development group in Chipley and have
drafted a work plan to develop housing
strategies for the future. Students have started
conducting case studies on a variety of urban
and sustainable housing types and initiating
analysis of the urban core. As with the 1980s
project, the team will provide visioning
studies, assist in prioritizing the allocation
of future resources and help Chipley
seek additional grants to provide needed
infrastructure.
Prugh is happy to see the university involved
again with the historic town. He will be
working. i 11i the current project team
to evaluate and advance relevant strategies that
were proposed in the 1980's study.
"This is what we're here for," Prugh says.
"We're a land grant university, and that's part
of the notion of the land grant system. It's part
of the very core of the University of Florida,
and this is one of the many ways our college
does that." 0I

Martin Gold


Students working in Chipley, Fla.


Students work in nation's oldest city


This fall, DCP graduate students had the
opportunity to research the Abbott Tract
neighborhood in St. Augustine, Fla., and
provide preservation and design solutions in
neighborhood conservation and revitalization.
The project was the focus of a new seminar led
by Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA, director of the
DCP Historic Preservation Programs.
"Much like the Legal Aid Society's of the
1960's, I envisioned this seminar as a way
to provide preservation aid to areas and
neighborhoods that have been identified by
historical societies and preservation agencies,"
said Graham. "This is an example of the kind


of resources that the University of Florida can
provide to St. Augustine once we establish a
presence there in the 32 historic buildings that
the state legislature is providing the academic
programs."
The students presented their research to
the residents of Abbott Tract in December.
They recommended the neighborhood seek
designation as a Neighborhood Conservation
District, which would preserve the look
and feel of the neighborhood, without the
regulations associated with local historic
districts. About 150 townspeople crowded the
Government House for the presentation. rI


...- .


Julie Frey






UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning






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Construction & Planning
has a long history of working with
communities throughout Florida
and across the United States and
the world. Our faculty and students
have collaborated with community
leaders and stakeholders in countries
as they've studied and conducted
research on local issues to explore
creative solutions. Our students ... Ii
from this outreach as they learn how
each community is unique and how to
respect and incorporate local culture
into the possible solutions.


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PARIS: Landscape architecture
students pose at the Louvre in
Paris, France. The students traveled
to France as part of the Department
of Landscape Architecture's study
abroad program at the University of
Florida Paris Research Center. Led
by landscape architecture professor
R. Terry Schnadelbach, the program
features contemporary design theory
and real Paris projects.


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SARASOTA, USA: Senior interior
design students help develop design
solutions for rehabilitating and
adaptively reusing the original 1958
Riverview High School complex near
Siesta Key in Sarasota, Fla. A seminal
post-World War II school design by
renowned U.S. architect Paul Rudolph
(1918-1997), Riverview High was
scheduled for demolition. Following
outcry from the architecture and
design community, the Sarasota
Architectural Foundation collaborated
with UF students on the Riverview
High School Adaptive Reuse project
to save the building. Advocates for
the restoration hope their campaign
will serve as a benchmark for the
preservation of Modern architecture.


BRAZIL: Dr. Fibio Mariz Gongalves,
a professor at Sao Paulo University
(USP), explains to students the
process of re-urbanization of an
informal settlement implemented by
the housing and urban development
authorityfor the State of Sao Paulo.
The students were visiting the
settlement as part of the UF Brazil
Study Abroad program, directed
byJoseli Macedo, a faculty
member in the Department of Urban
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CHINA: University of Florida
architecture students visit the Xi'an
University School of Architecture
and Technology in Xi'an, China. Led
by architecture professors Nancy
Sanders, Robert MacLeod, Hui Zou
and Albertus S.L. Wang, the UF
students participated in a design
workshop/charrette with the Xi'an
University students and faculty as
part of the UF School of Architecture's
Hong Kong-China Summer Program.










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VICENZA, ITALY: Architecture
students work in their studio at the
Vicenza Institute of Architecture,
a satellite learning program of
the School of Architecture. The
institute is based in an area with
an abundant architectural heritage.
The program focuses on evaluating
and understanding the historical,
social, cultural and physical aspects
of this particularly rich urban
context through design, research and
documentation.


SRI LANKA: A member of Unawatuna,
a tsunami-affected coastal village
in Sri Lanka, reviews materials at
a village stakeholder meeting held
by building construction assistant
professor Robert Ries and doctoral
student Lanka Thabrew. The goal
of the meeting was to understand
the current state of Unawatuna and
to introduce life-cycle thinking, a
way to understand and visualize the
broader consequences of development
planning and implementation.


BALI: In the foothill regions of
Bali, change is underfoot. Shifting
economies compel changes in land
uses that threaten to undermine the
significance of important cultural
landscapes. On the ground with
a small contingent of landscape
architecture students, assistant
professor Kevin Thompson helps
produce Community Landscape
Documentaries: films that express
a community's deep connection to
the land. These films serve as new
cultural documents, giving voice to
the softly spoken and seldom heard.


2007/08 I PERSPECTIVE


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning


College's New Senior Administrative Team


Pictured (I to r): Paul Zwick, Margaret Carr and William Tilson


This year, the College of Design, Construction and
Planning announced the appointment of associate and
assistant deans Margaret Carr, Paul Zwick and William
Tilson. Carr and Tilson join Zwick in the Dean's Office after
internal searches to fulfill the positions during the 2006-
07 academic year.
"We are extremely fortunate that three of our
distinguished senior faculty were willing to step forward
to provide administrative leadership," Dean Christopher
Silver said.
Margaret Carr, professor of landscape architecture,
was appointed as the associate dean for undergraduate
student and academic affairs. Carr joined the Department
of Landscape Architecture in 1988 and has been very active
with the department serving as interim chairperson and
co-director of the GeoPlan Center. She recently co-published
a book, "Smart Land Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model," and
continues to teach studios in site planning, environmental
planning and design and environmental policy. Carr will be
responsible for undergraduate student affairs.
William Tilson, professor of architecture, was appointed
to the newly created assistant dean for international
studies and service learning. Tilson started with the School
of Architecture in 1980 and will remain active in design


studio and architectural history and theory teaching.
He currently serves as director of Preservation Institute:
Caribbean. In his appointment, Tilson will work with all
units within the college to assist in the coordination of
international and service learning programs and initiatives
and monitor progress of these activities. He also will
represent the college across campus in international and
service learning discussions and initiatives.
Carr and Tilson join Paul Zwick, professor of urban
and regional planning, who will continue as associate
dean for research and graduate affairs. Zwick received
his Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning and
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Studies from UF and
currently teaches graduate level quantitative methods
courses, environmental planning studio and geographic
information systems. Zwick will be responsible for
master's and doctoral programs, and external research
and education programs.
"The College of Design, Construction and Planning is
engaged in top flight professional education in the building
and design fields, our research leads the campus initiatives
in sustainability, and we do so within the context of global
challenges. Our three new deans will help to ensure that we
effectively serve that mission," Silver said. I]


DCP Students Place in National Competitions


ARCHITECTURE
The University of Florida Chapter of
the National Organization of Minority
Architecture Students placed second in the
2007 Student Design Competition, sponsored
by the National Organization of Minority
Architects. The competition focused on the
design of a neighborhood-sensitive urban
school in Parramore, Fla. The following
students participated in the competition:
John Taylor Bachman, Justin Bienvenu, Kyla
Booher, Will Choi, Matt DeLoatche, Shelby
Downs, Tahir Edwards, Danny Fisher,
Justin Fong, Daniel Greenspan, Daniel
Harper, Jessica Kuo, Jourdona LaFate, Victor
Lorenzo, Naomi Maki, Marek Mroz, Angel
Nieves, Eduardo Ponce, Tim Ruscello, Phat
Tran, Ryan Wicks, Alexander Yoon.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
The Rinker School of Building Construction's
Construction Management Team took home
first place in F i ... iI,- second place in
Project Management and second overall
in the national construction management
student competition, hosted by the Associated
Builders and Contractors and held in
the spring of 2007. Coached by building
construction lecturer Michael Cook, the team
members included: Christine Fernandez,
Eric Weiss, David Smith, Jordan Keen, Scott
Dennis and Kevin Chupp.


The Rinker School teams excelled
once again at the Associated Schools of
Construction and Associated General
Contractors Region 2 Competition in
Jacksonville in the fall of 2007. The Design-
Build Team ranked 1st, the Management
Team ranked 2nd, and the Heavy/Civil Team
ranked 3rd. Congratulations to the faculty
coaches, building construction lecturer Doug
Lucas of the Design-Build Team, building
construction lecturer Michael Cook of the
Management Team and building construction
associate professor Ed Minchin of the Heavy/
Civil Team, and team members for their
outstanding performance.
The Design-Build Team, comprised of four
building construction and two architecture
students, will represent the Southeast region
in the national competition that will take place
in March 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Interior design students Belle Murphy, Haley
Russell and Catherine Siemon placed second
in the national Interior Design Education
Council's competition for their design of a 2,688
ft. prototypical shelter for women and children
:1.. -,, ,1 .1.... Ii, violence. In addition, interior
design doctoral student Marlo Ransdall
received Best Poster Session recognition at the
IDEC conference for "The Online Learning
Community in Interior Design Education."
Ransdall also received the prestigious Carol
Shannis Graduate Scholarship.


Interior design master's student Anne
Baumstarck was chosen as the recipient of
the 2007 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship.
Her work was selected from more than 100
project submissions from 50 top interior
design programs across the country invited
to participate in the commercial design
competition. Baumstarck received the
award for her design of a retail store and cafe
using a footprint from a historic building
in downtown Gainesville. The Gensler
Brinkmann Scholarship Fund, established
in 1999, awards talented interior design
students in memory of Donald G. Brinkmann,
a former partner at Gensler. The award also
is sponsored by Contract magazine, a design
industry publication.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Landscape architecture student Kimberly
S. Heiss received an Honor Award as part
of the 2007 Student Awards presented
by the American Society of Landscape
Architects. She won the award in the Research
Category for her project, "Visual Preference
for Stormwater Pond Edge Treatments."
Her project studied Gainesville residents'
preferences for ii i 11 I II11. .' 1 moderate
or naturalized edges of ponds. The national
competition represents the top student honors
in the profession. Heiss's faculty advisors
were landscape architecture professors Lester
Linscott and Gary Purdum.


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning


College's New Senior Administrative Team


Pictured (I to r): Paul Zwick, Margaret Carr and William Tilson


This year, the College of Design, Construction and
Planning announced the appointment of associate and
assistant deans Margaret Carr, Paul Zwick and William
Tilson. Carr and Tilson join Zwick in the Dean's Office after
internal searches to fulfill the positions during the 2006-
07 academic year.
"We are extremely fortunate that three of our
distinguished senior faculty were willing to step forward
to provide administrative leadership," Dean Christopher
Silver said.
Margaret Carr, professor of landscape architecture,
was appointed as the associate dean for undergraduate
student and academic affairs. Carr joined the Department
of Landscape Architecture in 1988 and has been very active
with the department serving as interim chairperson and
co-director of the GeoPlan Center. She recently co-published
a book, "Smart Land Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model," and
continues to teach studios in site planning, environmental
planning and design and environmental policy. Carr will be
responsible for undergraduate student affairs.
William Tilson, professor of architecture, was appointed
to the newly created assistant dean for international
studies and service learning. Tilson started with the School
of Architecture in 1980 and will remain active in design


studio and architectural history and theory teaching.
He currently serves as director of Preservation Institute:
Caribbean. In his appointment, Tilson will work with all
units within the college to assist in the coordination of
international and service learning programs and initiatives
and monitor progress of these activities. He also will
represent the college across campus in international and
service learning discussions and initiatives.
Carr and Tilson join Paul Zwick, professor of urban
and regional planning, who will continue as associate
dean for research and graduate affairs. Zwick received
his Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning and
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Studies from UF and
currently teaches graduate level quantitative methods
courses, environmental planning studio and geographic
information systems. Zwick will be responsible for
master's and doctoral programs, and external research
and education programs.
"The College of Design, Construction and Planning is
engaged in top flight professional education in the building
and design fields, our research leads the campus initiatives
in sustainability, and we do so within the context of global
challenges. Our three new deans will help to ensure that we
effectively serve that mission," Silver said. I]


DCP Students Place in National Competitions


ARCHITECTURE
The University of Florida Chapter of
the National Organization of Minority
Architecture Students placed second in the
2007 Student Design Competition, sponsored
by the National Organization of Minority
Architects. The competition focused on the
design of a neighborhood-sensitive urban
school in Parramore, Fla. The following
students participated in the competition:
John Taylor Bachman, Justin Bienvenu, Kyla
Booher, Will Choi, Matt DeLoatche, Shelby
Downs, Tahir Edwards, Danny Fisher,
Justin Fong, Daniel Greenspan, Daniel
Harper, Jessica Kuo, Jourdona LaFate, Victor
Lorenzo, Naomi Maki, Marek Mroz, Angel
Nieves, Eduardo Ponce, Tim Ruscello, Phat
Tran, Ryan Wicks, Alexander Yoon.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
The Rinker School of Building Construction's
Construction Management Team took home
first place in F i ... iI,- second place in
Project Management and second overall
in the national construction management
student competition, hosted by the Associated
Builders and Contractors and held in
the spring of 2007. Coached by building
construction lecturer Michael Cook, the team
members included: Christine Fernandez,
Eric Weiss, David Smith, Jordan Keen, Scott
Dennis and Kevin Chupp.


The Rinker School teams excelled
once again at the Associated Schools of
Construction and Associated General
Contractors Region 2 Competition in
Jacksonville in the fall of 2007. The Design-
Build Team ranked 1st, the Management
Team ranked 2nd, and the Heavy/Civil Team
ranked 3rd. Congratulations to the faculty
coaches, building construction lecturer Doug
Lucas of the Design-Build Team, building
construction lecturer Michael Cook of the
Management Team and building construction
associate professor Ed Minchin of the Heavy/
Civil Team, and team members for their
outstanding performance.
The Design-Build Team, comprised of four
building construction and two architecture
students, will represent the Southeast region
in the national competition that will take place
in March 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Interior design students Belle Murphy, Haley
Russell and Catherine Siemon placed second
in the national Interior Design Education
Council's competition for their design of a 2,688
ft. prototypical shelter for women and children
:1.. -,, ,1 .1.... Ii, violence. In addition, interior
design doctoral student Marlo Ransdall
received Best Poster Session recognition at the
IDEC conference for "The Online Learning
Community in Interior Design Education."
Ransdall also received the prestigious Carol
Shannis Graduate Scholarship.


Interior design master's student Anne
Baumstarck was chosen as the recipient of
the 2007 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship.
Her work was selected from more than 100
project submissions from 50 top interior
design programs across the country invited
to participate in the commercial design
competition. Baumstarck received the
award for her design of a retail store and cafe
using a footprint from a historic building
in downtown Gainesville. The Gensler
Brinkmann Scholarship Fund, established
in 1999, awards talented interior design
students in memory of Donald G. Brinkmann,
a former partner at Gensler. The award also
is sponsored by Contract magazine, a design
industry publication.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Landscape architecture student Kimberly
S. Heiss received an Honor Award as part
of the 2007 Student Awards presented
by the American Society of Landscape
Architects. She won the award in the Research
Category for her project, "Visual Preference
for Stormwater Pond Edge Treatments."
Her project studied Gainesville residents'
preferences for ii i 11 I II11. .' 1 moderate
or naturalized edges of ponds. The national
competition represents the top student honors
in the profession. Heiss's faculty advisors
were landscape architecture professors Lester
Linscott and Gary Purdum.


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College Hosts the Spring 2007
and Spring 2008 Commencements


In the past year, more than 600 students
graduated from the University of Florida
College of Design, Construction and
Planning during the Spring 2007 and
Spring 2008 commencements. Dean
Christopher Silver presided over both
ceremonies, wishing the students the best
as they begin the next chapter of their lives.
At the college's Spring 2007 Commence-
ment, Stephen Smith, executive director
of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy,
served as keynote speaker at the ceremony.
During his address, Smith discussed
the challenge the current and future
generations face regarding global climate
change and asked students to consider
their role. "How we build in the natural
environment will make a dramatic impact
on the world of the future," Smith said. "Go
forth and be part of the solution and make
the world a better place."
Janice Tuchman, editor-in-chief of the
Engineering News-Record, served as the
keynote speaker during the Spring 2008
Commencement.


Each year, the college recognizes two
students by awarding the Undergraduate
Student Academic Achievement Award and
the Student Leadership and Service Award.
The recipients of the academic achievement
award were interior design students Andrea
Ryan (for 2007) and Catherine Siemon (for
2008). The recipients of the leadership and
service award were landscape architecture
student Leah Mader (for 2007) and building
construction master's student Dereck
Winning (for 2008).
Additional presentations for each ceremony:
> For Spring 2007, the college presented a
diploma posthumously to Jerry and Martha
Marlar, parents ofJeremy Marlar, a building
construction student who lost his battle with
cancer. Through the efforts of Jeremy's family
and friends, the university conferred his
bachelor's degree in building construction.
> For Spring 2008, the University of Florida
Alumni Association recognized building
construction student Ryan Hammond as an
Outstanding Four Year Scholar. HI


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INTERNATIONALIZING THE CURRICULUM AWARDS


2007: Hui Zou
for Architectural History 1 for Majors
2006: Nancy M. Clark
for Materials and Methods
of Construction 2
2005: Roy Eugene Graham,
Claude E. Armstrong, Donna L. Cohen,
Bob Stroh (along with Brijesh Thapha
and Steven Brandt) for New Study
Abroad Program focused on the
Horn of Africa
2004: Nancy Margaret Sanders
for Architectural Design 8


As part of the continuing effort to meet UF's
strategic goal of internationalizing the campus
and curriculum, the UF International Center also
grants awards to UF faculty for proposals that add
international components to an existing course or
create new courses with substantial international
content. The additional grants are provided by the
UF Transnational and Global Studies Center and
UF Research and Graduate Programs. This year's
recipients from the College of Design, Construction
and Planning, along with past college recipients,
are listed to the right. I]


INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD


SENIOR FACULTY
2007: Alfonso Pdrez-Mdndez,
Professor of Architecture
2006: R. Terry Schnadelbach,
Professor of Landscape Architecture
2005: William Tilson,
Professor of Architecture
2004: Robert S. McCarter,
Professor of Architecture
JUNIOR FACULTY
2007: Joseli Macedo,
Assistant Professor
of Urban and Regional Planning
2005: Nancy Sanders,
Associate Professor of Architecture


In 2004, the University of Florida International
Center created the International Educator of the
Year Award to recognize outstanding international
endeavors by UF faculty. Winners are selected
at the college level, and then, nominated for the
university's overall award. This year's recipients of
the College of Design, Construction and Planning's
International Educator of the Year Award are listed
at the right, along with the previous recipients. El


2007 TOP AWARD RECIPIENTS

During ,., .'- /. /.. )O07semester, til 'I lig's
schools and departments each held award
ceremonies to honor donors and to recognize faculty,
students and alumni. Many honors were bestowed,
including the top faculty and alumni awards (listed
below). For more information on the 2008 award
ceremonies, please contact the school or department
or you may contact .. ,, ... .. (352) 392- 4836or
perspective@dcp.ufl.edu.

2006-07 Teacher of the Year
Richard Smailes
Lecturer of Building Construction
2006-07 Adviser of the Year
Sallie Schattner
Admissions and Registrar Officer
M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction
2007 Dean's Faculty Service Award
Kristin Larsen
Assistant Professor of Urban
and Regional Planning
2007 UF Research Foundation Professorship
Richard Schneider
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Distinguished Architecture Alumnus
Cathy Roche, Class of 1994
Schenkel Shultz
Orlando, Fla.
Distinguished Building Construction Alumnus
Sidney J. Jordan, Class of 1981
Clark Construction Group
Tampa, Fla.

Distinguished Interior Design Alumnus
Phyllis Taylor, Class of 1976
Taylor&Taylor Partnership
Miami Beach, Fla.
Distinguished Landscape Architecture Alumnus
Stephen J. Steward, Class of 1982
ARCADIS US, Inc.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Distinguished Urban &
Regional Planning Alumnus
Lois Bush, Class of 1992
Florida Department of Transportation
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Construction Hall of Fame Award
William R. Derrer
James A. Cummings, Inc.
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
William G. Lassiter
W.G. Lassiter Properties, Inc.
Palm Beach, Fla.

See the 2008 Top Award Recipients
on our web site: <>


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning



faculty RETIREMENTS


> Those who know Tony Dasta, know
that his students, the Gators, his beloved
C Chicago "Cubbies" and his love for
architecture were major tenets in his
professional life. A professor, a dean and,
most of all, a beloved teacher, Dasta
rarely could been seen in his office, and
was usually found walking around the
Architecture Building looking for some
improvement that could be made, or talking
with various students.
"He liked to get up, wander around and
check things out," said Dean Christopher
Silver. "He always wanted to be in the
middle of what was going on around the
building."
At the time of his retirement, Dasta
served as associate dean for curriculum
and student services, a position he held
tony DASTA since 1997. Dasta came to the University
of Florida and DCP 40 years ago when
he joined the faculty of the School of


Architecture. In 1988, he joined the college
administration as director of computer
facilities and was appointed assistant dean
for student services in 1991.
Dasta's title of student services couldn't
have been more appropriate. A running
joke throughout his time at DCP was that
Dasta didn't own a single book; this joke
is a testament to his love of being in the
classroom and working with students.
"Tony was a teacher above all," said
Silver. "While I am sure he owned some
books- well, maybe- his heart and place
definitely was with the students." According
to Silver, Dasta even made the "Structures"
course, historically not the most popular of
subjects, an interesting and fun time.
In 2005, Dasta stepped into the role of
interim dean for the college and kept the
college moving forward until Dean Silver
joined the college one year later. "He was so
active in his time as dean, and it seemed


like what he needed to do was just stored
in his head," Silver said. "When he left we
literally had to look around and say 'Well,
how do we do this?'"
Overall, Dasta's lasting legacy is his
integral part of developing DCP into what it
is today, an outstanding and well respected
college and program, not only across UF's
campus, but across the country. "He was
very much a part of the fabric and extremely
visible in advocating the college across the
campus, in committees, anywhere," Silver
said. "He was the rock of stability and
continuity from his years as associate dean
and complete dedication to the college."
Dasta has since moved to the mountains
of North Carolina with his wife Judy, and is
enjoying fly fishing, skeet shooting as well
as the fresh mountain air. As an avid Gators
fan, Dasta surely will continue to follow UF
sports teams and come back to visit for
years to come. El


> Architecture professor Gary Ridgdill has
roots to the School of Architecture that go
back to 1960. Ridgdill attended University
of Florida as an undergraduate in 1960 and
has taught at the school since 1972, for
nearly four decades.
After completing his degree in 1964,
Ridgdill went on to receive his master's
degree at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He then spent time in Chicago,
Ill., and Cambridge, Great Britain, working
as a professional architect, until he
decided to return to Florida and establish
himself in Gainesville, both as an academic
and professional.
Ridgdill reached the rank of professor
in 1984. His signature course, "Connec-
tions," which he taught for more than
20 years, tackles the key issue of how
the nature of assembly of materials is so
intimately linked to the success of making
buildings work.
He has won various prestigious awards
for his work and has taught generation
after generation of our most renowned
professionals from throughout the state


of Florida. "Alumni from all corners of the
state continue to ask for Gary," said School
of Architecture Director Martha Kohen.
Ridgdill also acted as interim chair of
the School of Architecture for two periods,
first in 1987-1988 and then in 2001-2003
and was trusted by all faculty. Soft spoken
and with a permanent smile, he was a
graduate advisor for 25 years, dealing
with the multiple options of architecture
graduates, and advising returning
professionals as much as young graduates.
"His door was always open for advice to
the faculty and I, along with the rest of
the school, feel that with his retirement,
we have a lost one of our fathers the
stabilizing force of a deeply knowledgeable
and acute thinker," Kohen said.
In his retirement, his professional,
life-long commitment to designing
houses will take the lead along with the
fishing expeditions from his other base
in Suwannee. As emeritus professor, it is
the school's hope that he will continue to
enlighten student juries and crits for many
years ahead. rI


Right: Architecture professor Gary Ridgdill
and Lourdes Neugart, MArch 1976, look over
her design for a UF visitor's information and
welcome center during a 1974 presentation
in the Tigert Hall conference room. Lourdes
created the project as part of Ridgdill's
working drawings fourth-year architecture
class. "This class was very informative and
important as part of a portfolio for locating a
job after graduation," she wrote in a note sent
to Perspective. Neugart sent in the photo after
reading Ridgdills retirement announcement in
the magazine's last issue. She wrote that she
wishes all the retiring architecture professors
the best of luck.


gary RIDGDILL


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ira WINARSKY


> Most students, faculty and staff
at the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of
Building Construction know Dr. Leon
Wetherington as "Doc" or by his
signature tobacco pipe. Wetherington
could be called an institution himself
at the college, especially since he
received his bachelor's, master's and
Ph.D. all from the University of Florida.
Wetherington received his bachelor's in
building construction from UF in 1968,
and went on to receive his master's in
building construction and his Ph.D. in
construction management.
He became a professor in 1991
and has taught courses ranging from
construction drawing, construction
mechanics, construction techniques,


> Ira Winarsky joined the School of Ar-
chitecture in 1972 as assistant professor,
coming from Oklahoma and Virginia and
became a full professor in 1983. During the
past 35 years, Winarsky conducted a triple
career as a practicing architect, a professor
and an artist.
Winarsky is best known as an inde-
fatigable preacher for the environment and
environmental design. Possessing a rare and
talented interdisciplinary mind, Winarsky
developed his acclaimed course "Energy
Ecology and Architecture" to influence not
only his students, but also his colleagues, to
focus on the impact architecture has on the
natural world around us.
"His passion for ecology and architecture


methods lab and estimating.
Wetherington has been the faculty
advisor to Sigma Lambda Chi (SLX), the
national honorary society of building
construction for more than nine years,
and has been the lower division adviser
for building construction since 1992. In
both positions, his high level of spirit has
helped him reach out to more than 200
students a year. He also served as the
coordinator of the Charles R. Perry Crafts
Awareness Program.
According to Rinker School of Building
Construction Director Abdol Chini,
Wetherington's most noteworthy service
to the school was the introduction of
a community service requirement for
BCN students in 1999. He supervises


made him a champion for the development
of the certificates in Sustainable Design
and in Sustainable Architecture that are
a fine legacy for the future of our college
disciplines," School of Architecture Director
Martha Kohen said.
Early on Winarsky was an ardent de-
fender of what we now call sustainability,
providing the School of Architecture a
direct link between the modern Florida
masters, the environmentally minded and
the continuing advances in sustainability
consciousness. Winarsky also was associ-
ated with other units on campus, including
the Florida Center for Wetlands and Water
Resources, where he was responsible for
cornerstone publications on our Florida


and directs groups of students usually
making repairs to owner occupied
homes of elderly, low income citizens
and has received immense support for
the program from local businesses and
the Neighborhood Housing Development
Corporation.
"Doc has been a perfect role model
to show building construction students
that commitment to social responsibility
is a large part of the University's history
and tradition," Chini said. "Doc's goal
has been to encourage students to accept
the challenge to experience some kind of
outreach work during their time here at
the Rinker School."
Wetherington will remain with the
school as an adjunct professor, but when


conditions for settlement.
As an architect, he has been active in
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Florida.
With his own hands, he built the marvel-
ous house he inhabits over a lake south of
Gainesville. His house is dwarfed by a much
bigger structure nearby, his ceramic studio,
the alchemist retreat, where, with a lifetime
of patience and passion, he produces
exquisite pieces of contemporary abstract
art in iridescent ceramic pieces. Winarsky
has exhibited individually in Florida and his
works are published in nationally acclaimed
magazines. In his spare time, Kohen be-
lieves Winarsky's full dedication will be to
the alchemist part of his personality, where
immense success is assured. El


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f .
4rt
'Ms0


he finally does fully retire, he will be
missed. In his spare time, Wetherington
said he looks forward to spending time
fishing with his new Gator fishing pole
and hunting. El


susan TATE n> Since 1972, Susan Tate has been a part
of the community of faculty in the Depart-
ment of Interior Design at the College of
Design, Construction and Planning. During
her 35-year tenure, Tate was the second
woman in the history of the college to
achieve the rank of full professor.
From 1988-1993, Tate served as director
of the Preservation Institute: Nantucket and
during her time, made significant strides
positively impacting the property and the ad-
vancement of student scholarships. Tate was
responsible for the selection of student par-
ticipants from a national and international
pool, course and lecture series development
and cultivating pro bono support from a
cadre of directors and preservationists from
distinguished programs and offices.
Since 1976, Tate has been active on the
university's Committee for the Preservation


of Historic Buildings and Sites where she
has been a tireless advocate for preserva-
tion efforts across campus. Notably, Tate
received a $150,000 grant award in 2003
from the Getty Foundation to create a
campus historical preservation master
plan with dissemination activities. Susan's
scholarship not only centered on campus
heritage but took her to France during the
past several years. For this scholarship,
Susan conducted archival research with
DCP doctoral student Linda Stevenson
that in April culminated in a book entitled,
"Concorde: Hotel Talleyrand and George C.
Marshall Center." Her richly illustrated book
documents social-political milestones in an
architecturally significant property owned by
the U.S. State Department.
According to Department of Interior
Design Chair Margaret Portillo, Tate is


particularly known for her "wicked sense of
humor and panache."
"Her independence and tenacity sustained
her most recent scholarship endeavors, often
surmounting seemingly impossible barriers
and deadlines to 'get the work done,"' said
Portillio. "Her deep commitment to preserv-
ing UF's rich architectural heritage leaves a
lasting legacy on campus and her important
documentation and sharing of the process
of establishing guidelines creates a heritage
that not only impacts the present, but will
impact future generations of those learning,
as well as those who research and teach on
this campus."
Tate will be spending her time after UF
with her husband James, restoring their yacht
and sailing all across the Gulf of Mexico, as
well as working on various consulting projects
across the state of Florida. El


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning



l o The ( eiy of Design, Construction andi'. i- uI l like to
M eet vur New iacut welcome eight new f.'. iM ", d. ,"..j .I. .-the this year.


Ruth Ron joined the School of Architecture as an
assistant professor. A former visiting professor at UF,
Ron received a master's degree in advanced archi-
tectural design from Columbia University, a master's
degree in interactive telecommunication from New
York University and a bachelor's degree in architecture
from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, Israel. Prior to coming to UF, Ron was a clinical
assistant professor at Arizona State University.
Ron's work focuses on the extension and de-forma-
tion of real space by using virtual assets. She explores
the borders between architecture and technology, form
and media.

The M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction
added two new faculty this year, associate professor
Edward Minchin and assistant professor Robert J. Ries.
Minchin earned a Ph.D. from Iowa State University
and master's degree in construction engineering
from UF. He also received a bachelor's degree in civil
engineering from UF. Minchin has taught undergradu-
ate construction curriculum at both Pennsylvania
State University and Iowa State University, and has
served in the U.S. Naval Reserve as a Civil Engineer
Corps officer and with the Florida Department of
Transportation as Chief Area Construction Engineer.
His areas of expertise and research interest include
automated, real-time construction quality control
as well as construction contract administration and
project control.
Ries received his Ph.D. in architecture (building
performance and diagnostics) from Carnegie Mellon
University, a master's in architecture from Carnegie
Mellon University, and a bachelor's in architecture
from the Pratt Institute. Ries came to UF from the
University of Pittsburgh where he taught at the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering






* Ilir Beljeri recently was promoted to associate
professor of urban and regional planning with tenure
and Nancy Sanders was promoted to associate
professor of architecture with tenure.

* Building construction associate professor lan Flood
was appointed coordinator of the Ph.D. program
for the Rinker School of Building Construction. In
addition, building construction lecturer Chuck Smeby
was appointed coordinator of the school's Fire and
Emergency Services program.

* Dean Christopher Silver was awarded the Laurence
C. Gerckens Prize in October at the biennial Society
for American City and Regional Planning History
(SACRPH) conference in Portland, Maine. The prize is


edward MINCHIN and robertJ. RIES


nam-kvu PARK and morris HYLTON III


awarded once every two years to a scholar-teacher
who has demonstrated sustained excellence in
the teaching of planning history. SACRPH is an
interdisciplinary society of scholars and planning
practitioners who are engaged in the advancement of
teaching and research in the field of planning history.

* Building construction assistant professor Kevin
Grosskopf received the 2007 National Teaching
Award at the Associated Schools of Construction
43rd International Conference in Flagstaff, Ariz. ASC
is the professional association for the development
and advancement of construction education through
excellence in teaching, research and service. Each
year, ASC selects member faculty for the National
Teaching Award on the basis of teaching philosophy,
performance and innovation.


and was director of the Green Construction
Sustainable Development Program since 2001.
Additionally, Ries practiced architecture in New York
for 11 years. Ries has performed extensive research in
the areas of life cycle assessment for the built envi-
ronment and green building design, construction and
performance. He has attracted more than $1 million in
funded research as principal investigator throughout
the past six years, has published more than 50 papers
and has made close to 30 national and international
presentations.

The Department of Interior Design also added two
new faculty this year, assistant professors Morris
Hylton III and Nam-Kyu Park.
Hylton received a master's degree in historic pres-
ervation from Columbia University and a bachelor's
degree in architecture and art history from the
University of Kentucky. Immediately prior to coming
to UF, Hylton was an initiatives manager for the World
Monuments Fund (WMF) a New York City-based
nonprofit dedicated to conserving endangered cultural
heritage sites internationally. While at WMF, he helped
identify, develop and fund programs to conserve
more than 60 sites in nearly 30 countries, including
Indonesia, India, Turkey, Egypt and Brazil. Hylton also
served as an adjunct professor in the interior design
department of the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Hylton's research interests explore issues impacting
the preservation of the United States Modern architec-
tural heritage by focusing on post-World War II school
design, specifically the buildings of Walter Gropius and
The Architects Collaborative.
Park received a Ph.D. in environmental design and
a master's degree in interior design from Oklahoma
State University, and a bachelor's degree in hous-
ing and interior design from Kon-Kuk University in






* Urban and regional planning associate professor
Ruth Steiner was the recipient of the Kermit Sigmon
Award for Citizen Participation, which is given by
the Gainesville Metropolitan Transportation Planning
Organization for outstanding contributions to the
community's transportation planning process.

* Architecture associate professor Michael W.
Kuenstle, AIA, has been elected to serve a third term
on the Board of Directors to the Florida Association
of the American Institute of Architects. As a state
director Kuenstle's service, in combination with his
teaching and research-based practice in Florida,
provides for a strong link between the school and the
profession within the state. Kuenstle also serves as a
Chapter Director for AIA Gainesville. I]


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Seoul, South Korea. Park comes to UF from the Interior
Design Program at the School of Planning Design and
Construction at Michigan State University. She also
is a LEED Accredited Professional and holds member-
ships in the Interior Design Educators Council, the
Environmental Design Research Association and the
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
Park's research interests focus on how traditional
and energy-efficient interior lighting technologies
affect and are affected by psychological, social and
cultural factors that inform and relate to peoples'
perception, and therefore, acceptance. She also will
continue to emphasize a global, multicultural and
multi-ethnic approach to design and sustainability in
her teaching, research and scholarly activities.

Mary G. Padua and Kevin Thompson joined the
Department of Landscape Architecture as associate
professor and assistant professor, respectively.
Padua currently is completing her Ph.D. at Edinburgh
College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, received
a master's degree in architecture and urban design
from the University of California Los Angeles and a
bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the
University of California Berkeley.
She is a licensed landscape architect with more
than 20 years of professional experience and also is
an exhibiting fine arts photographer. Padua has been
a full-time educator in urban design and landscape
architecture and an active researcher since 2001.
Her research interests are focused on the design
of contemporary public open space in modernizing
Asian cities and vernacular open space or undesigned
landscapes in cities.
Thompson received master's and bachelor's degrees
in landscape architecture at Pennsylvania State
University. Most recently, he served as a visiting


professor at Washington State University. Drawing on
more than a decade of international private practice,
Thompson's research is focused on exploring methods
that enable young designers to recognize and com-
prehend the subtle and often elusive characteristics
of place in landscapes outside of their own cultural
familiarity. He also is helping to produce community
landscape documentaries. Thompson has battled the
flies of the Australian Outback and has been plunged
into the treacherous mountain ravines of the central
Indonesian highlands while producing these narra-
tives that express a community's deep connections to
the land.

Dawn Jourdan joined the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning as an assistant professor, through
a joint appointment with the UF Fredric G. Levin
College of Law.
Jourdan received a Ph.D. in urban planning from
Florida State University, a joint degree in urban
planning and law from the University of Kansas and
a bachelor's degree in urban affairs and theater arts
from Bradley University in Peoria, III. Jourdan came
to UF from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M
University and was a faculty fellow at the Center for
Heritage Conservation. Prior to her work at Texas
A&M, Jourdan worked as an advocate for growth
management in Florida on behalf of the 1000 Friends
of Florida and as an associate with the Chicago office
of Holland & Knight, LLP, where she assisted with the
legal representation of numerous municipal clients in
the Chicago area.
Jourdan's research interests include youth partici-
pation in planning processes, historic preservation
and the ways in which U.S. legal structure affect
planning policy and those governed by it. rI


Zhong-Ren Peng Appointed Chair of Urban and Regional Planning


Zhong-Ren Peng joins the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning as chair
and professor. Peng is considered by his
colleagues and peers as one of the most
productive planning scholars in the nation.
He has a distinguished record of scholarly
accomplishments and a research portfolio
of projects funded by some of the most
prominent sources in the world.
His overall research interest is in planning
for sustainability from the perspective of
transportation and land use planning in the
context of globalization and technological
innovation. His most current research
focuses on issues relative to developing
good planning and design principles and
planning information technologies to address
global warming, fossil fuel depletion, auto
dependency and poverty. In the past seven


years, Peng has secured $3.5 million in
research grants, published a book that has
been regarded as a definitive work in the field
of Internet geographic information systems
and authored numerous peer-reviewed
journal articles.
Peng earned a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and
a master's degree in economics from Portland
State University, Portland, Ore. He also holds
a master's degree in Geography from the
Graduate School of the U1 ',,. i .11 of Science
and Technology of China, Beijing, PRC.
Peng comes to UF from the School of
Architecture and Urban Planning at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where
he was a full tenured professor and founding
director of the Center for Advanced Spatial
Information Research. 1I


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning


The Promise of Tomorrow


* At the College of Design, Construction and
FPl;ii iiiig. we are proud of the rich tradition of
educational excellence offered throughout the
past century. We are equally invigorated by
the opportunity to create the next generation
of professionals to lead Florida and the nation
in achieving better and more sustainable
communities.
The mission of the college is to offer
exceptional professional education programs
addressing design, development, construction
and preservation of the built and natural
environments. Through basic and applied
research, DCP faculty and students assess
.. the ongoing processes of change in human
settlements. Students engage in projects
intended to guide these processes and bring
new strategies and approaches.
Our graduates are leaders in designing,
building and planning communities. Their
remarkable accomplishments, coupled with
the academic and professional outputs of
DCP faculty, have propelled our college to


achieve a well-deserved national reputation
for excellence. Our challenge is to sustain
excellence by recruiting and retaining the
best new faculty; updating and upgrading
our educational facilities; supporting our
vast educational offerings that provide
students engagement beyond the classroom;
enhancing our research capabilities; and
ensuring we continue to attract the best
students for both primary and advanced
professional preparation.
On Sept. 28, the University of Florida
kicked off the Florida Tomorrow capital
campaign with the goal to raise more than
$1 billion. At DCP, our goal is to raise $31
million to support faculty, students and our
programs and research centers, as well as
to provide top-notch facilities and cutting
edge technology. Gifts received through the
Florida Tomorrow capital campaign will
support these goals and will help continue
our tradition of leadership in educating those
who envision and create great places. El


Florida Tomorrow is a place where... educators, students

and professionals are working to envision, design, create

and preserve renewable and affordable communities.




Building Construction, Pediatrics Receive $2 Million Gift


A $2 million gift made to the College
of Medicine and the College of Design,
Construction and Planning at the University
of Florida will help mend buildings, construct
hearts and reduce pediatric diabetes.
William G. Lassiter, Jr. (BCN 1951) and
his wife Aneice of West Palm Beach, Fla.
have given $1 million to UF's M.E. Rinker
Sr., School of Building Construction and
$1 million to UF's College of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics.
"I wanted to put back something into the
university that would help a lot of young
people in building construction," said William
Lassiter, director of W.G. Lassiter Properties,
Inc., a major real estate development company
in Palm Beach, Fla. "My wife wanted to do
something for kids, so we also decided to give
to the Department of Pediatrics."


Lassiter is also the president of Palm
Beach Development Corp. and Legal Leasing
Corporation and director of Gardens Park
Plaza, Inc. and the Beltub Park Property
Owners Association, Inc.
The gift to the Rinker School of Building
Construction in the College of Design,
Construction and Planning will endow the
William G. Lassiter, Jr. and Aneice R. Lassiter
Professorship in Building Construction. The
funds will provide spendable income to be
used to support a professorship in the school.
"The resources generated by Lassiter's
endowed professorship will be used to bring
outstanding construction professionals
into the classroom to share their knowledge
with our students and give them a broader
exposure to the real world of construction,"
said Abdol Chini, school director.


The Lassiters also gave $600,000 to endow
the William G. Lassiter, Jr. and Aneice R.
Lassiter Professorship in the Department of
Pediatrics to support a professorship with an
emphasis on congenital heart disease, and
$400,000 to endow the William G. Lassiter,
Jr. and Aneice R. Lassiter Pediatric Diabetes
Research Fund.
The gift is eligible to receive state matching
funds from the State of Florida Trust Fund
for Major Gifts and it will be recognized as
part of President Machen's Faculty Challenge
Initiative.
"We want young men and women to
further their education, graduate and go on
to make good careers," said Lassiter. "We also
wish that our gift will help provide funds
for someone to discover a cure for congenital
heart disease or take pediatric diabetes
research to another level." I]


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2007 Hitters Competition FOCUSES ON ARCHITECTURE BUILDING


Since its start in 1993, the Witters Competition
has looked at various structures around
Gainesville, but this year, students
participating in the competition were asked
to look in their very own backyard the
Architecture Building.
Sponsored by Col. Arthur G. and Beverley
A. Witters of Orlando, the annual Witters
Competition fosters cooperation between
designers, builders and planners through a
problem-solving exercise involving multi-
disciplinary student teams from the college.
Six student teams participated in the 44-hour
competition in March 2007, which focused
on adding nearly 94,000 square feet of extra
space to the Architecture Building.
The annual event, coordinated this year by
architecture assistant professor John Maze,
pits teams of students in the college against
each other in an interdisciplinary design-
build competition with a winner-takes-all
prize of $3,500. Each team consisted of five
members from a minimum of four of the DCP
academic units. Members of the winning team
were: John Begeman, Erik Bellin, Cuyler
Hendricks, Christen Hutton and Michelle
O'Carroll.
According to Maze, it has long been known
that the Architecture Building is running out
of space. National Architecture Accreditation
Board teams have noted since 1991 that the
existing space is inadequate for the number of
students. To put it into perspective, DCP has
46,905 sq. ft. being shared by 1,500 students,
while Ohio State University has 165,000 sq. ft.
being shared by 600 students.
"Space is a hugely critical issue at UF,"
Maze said. "It continues to amaze me the
quality of the teaching and curriculum here
with so few resources and so little space for
students to work and learn. In my 13 years of


teaching design, attending conferences,
lecturing, and visiting schools, I have
never seen such cramped conditions.
But as I said, the student work is truly
exemplary despite it."
Students were tasked with adding a
large amount of studio space, a bigger
gallery, an auditorium, faculty and staff
offices and even a cafeteria to the existing
building. Since students were asked
to modify the existing structure, they
expanded any way they could, including
up, out and even underground.
i ...... ..- -. .1 the roof," M aze
said. "Whether it was a green roof or solar
panels or building an extra floor, many of the
students decided to go up. The other area all
teams addressed was the atrium space under
the fourth-floor graduate studios."
One of the most interesting designs called
for a partially underground auditorium,
starting at the Atrium and expanding out
toward the north, where a large grassy
null currently exists. Instead of losing the
popular outdoor recreation area, students
added an elaborate green roof so the outdoor
space is not lost.
Col. Arthur and Beverley Witters
traveled to Gainesville to see the competition
presentations and were very impressed with
the results.
"We started this competition so all
disciplines in the college could talk and work
with one another," Col. Witters said to teams
after the winning team was announced. "Your
hard work this weekend made it possible and
we are very proud of all of you."
The Witters are not the only people
impressed with the work; the UF Board
of Trustees and the UF Provost's Office
responded .. i.1 I. i the ideas as well.


Melissa FiliDkowski


Since the competition, Maze, School of
Architecture Director Martha Kohen and Dean
Christopher Silver have talked with campus
architects and facilities planning to start the
process of turning the ideas into reality.
"This was an initial gesture towards a
much more involved planning and feasibility
study necessary before considering any
additions to the existing DCP structures,"
Maze said. "I do hope, however, that the
energy generated by the students was
convincing enough for administration,
faculty and alumni to see the needs and the
possibilities, and work together to seize the
opportunity to do something."
The subsequent creation of the aptly
named Space Committee to identify ways and
means to expand and enhance the spaces for
the college's programs was a direct outcome
of this exercise. And moreover, in the end,
the Witters Competition achieved its real
objective to engage students from DCP
disciplines in an exercise comparable to
conditions in the real world. []

To see the projects from the 2008 Witters
Competition, visit our web site at:
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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning



Shimberg Leaves His Legacy in Affordable Housing


JIM SHIMBERG, a noted developer whose gener-
ous grant more than a decade ago supported
the University of Florida -.,1 ...I .. 1.; Center for
Affordable Housing, passed away in June.
"He was a very wonderful person," says
the center's director, Robert Stroh. "His entire
family is so oriented toward the community.
I don't know of any other family like that.
Jim, his wife, Amy, and their five children
have a tendency to be very oriented in com-
munity service and outreach to people.
They're a great family."
The center was created in 1988 after a man-
date from the state legislature, but because the
mandate was unfunded, the center didn't re-

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ally take off until -.I, il,,. .. stepped forward
in 1991 with a $1 million endowment, which
was matched by state funds.
"He played a key role in keeping the center
alive and well," Stroh says. "There were an
awful lot of people who used to look at the
budget in the state, and they just saw us as a
line item. One year, we went through it almost
being zeroed out. But with Jim's gift, and also
his acknowledged leadership in the world of
housing, he kept us alive and well."
-.111111I ,1 was officially honored by the
university a decade ago with a distinguished
achievement award for his dedication to pro-
viding safe, decent and affordable housing for
Floridians.
The original developer of Town 'n' Country
(a community just northwest of Tampa), the
84-year-old -.-hi.yi,.. i also was honored in
early 2007 as Tampa's Outstanding Citizen
of the Year. In addition to being a developer,
he held a law degree and was a member of the
Florida bar for nearly 50 years. He served
terms as the president of the Tampa Bay
Builders Association and the Florida Home






MASTER'S
Thomas Hester, MArch 1993, has been working with the
City of Tampa's Contract Administration Department as a
project architect since after Labor Day 2006.
John Dehart, MArch 1995, is a founding partner
with thoughtSPACE architecture and construction in
Lexington, Ky.
Jason Faulkner, MArch 1996, ARC 1994, has joined Rink
Design in Jacksonville as project manager.
Michael Halflants, MArch 1998, received the Young
Architect Award from the UF School of Architecture. The
award is given to Florida alumni who graduated within the
previous 20 years and who have made significant design
contributions in the architecture profession. Michael is a
partner with John Pichette in the firm Halflants + Pichette/
Studio for Modern Architecture in Sarasota. He has worked
for the Polshek Partnership in New York and is a professor
of architecture at the University of South Florida.
Marc Schaut, MArch 1998, ARC 1993, is an adjunct
assistant professor in school of architecture at Pratt
Institute.
Adam Carnow, MAURP 1999, is the vice president and
corporate GIS manager for WilsonMiller Inc., a multi-
disciplinary consulting firm with offices across Florida.
He is working in the Tampa office as one of the corporate
leaders behind the firm's award-winning rural land
stewardship growth management strategy. He is married
to Lara Ratliff Carnow, MAURP 1996, who is a full-time
mother to their two children, 5-year-old Grace and 1-
year-old Addison.


Builders Association and was the former
vice president of the National Association of
Home Builders.
Says the center's associate director Anne
Williamson, "He endowed us with a million
dollars during a recession, and we are always
thankful for that."
Despite his massive professional suc-
cess, -.111111h. I was perhaps best known for
his generosity and community spirit, which
will live on through his endowment to the
-.1111 1i.. .. Center for Affordable Housing, an
organization that continues to perpetuate the
ideals he stood for.
"He was very unassuming and he was also
very generous and very brilliant," says his
longtime friend Phil Emmer, the chairman
of the Emmer Group, a company that has
.,,i I ,, ..i. than 8,000 homes and apartments
in more than 100 communities all over the
state of Florida. "Affordable housing was
very important to both of us, which is why he
established the center. He was very proud of
the center and of its accomplishments. He'd be
proud to see this continue." [11






Albert Dambrose, MArch 2001, recently became a
licensed architect in Florida. He has his own firm, Studio
A.D.-Architect, and is practicing architecture in both
commercial and residential markets. He also will begin
another company called Studio A.D.-Homes.
Judi Shade, MArch 2001, will be assisting Richard Meier in
the instruction of an advanced studio at Yale University in
the spring of 2008.
Christopher Stoll, MAURP 2002, has been working with
EDAW Inc. in Seattle for three years and was named an
associate in the fall of 2007. The company has recently
merged with AECOM, a larger architecture and engineering
firm. Christopher works on GIS and planning projects
across the U.S. that strive to integrate new technologies
and provide innovative approaches to tackling large scale
planning and design. One of his projects has been the
master planning of the West Bench of Salt Lake City, which
will add more than 70,000 acres of mining lands and
accommodate over 250,000 new homes over the next 50
years.
Jennifer Logun, MArch 2003, accepted a full-time position
as assistant chair for the interior design department at
Pratt Institute. She will teach junior-year studio and also
act as the curriculum coordinator.
James Blythe, MArch 2004, earned the U.S. Green Building
Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Accredited Professional status in September 2006 and
moved to Athens, Ga., in January 2007. He is currently
testing for his license.


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College Receives $500,000 Gift from Wachovia Foundation to Research Affordable Housing


As housing costs have skyrocketed, the
availability of affordable housing has
declined. The issue has become critical
throughout Florida as communities try to
ensure that people of all income levels have
access to affordable housing.
A $500,000 gift from the Wachovia
Foundation to the University of Florida
College of Design, Construction and Planning
will allow researchers to address the state's
affordable housing issues by identifying and
assessing the suitability of sites for affordable
housing development and preservation.
"Wachovia is extremely proud to partner
with and support the University of Florida
in this innovative research. We believe that
everyone deserves a safe, stable place to live,
which is why we have made community
development one of our top priorities," said
Robert Helms, Florida CEO for Wachovia.
The three-year grant will support an
interdisciplinary research project in the
college between the Department of Urban and


Regional Planning and the -., ,, I .. i Center
for Affordable Housing, located in the Rinker
School of Building Construction.
"Wachovia's funding of this project
allows us to bring together the expertise
of the -., 1 1, 1.. i Center, the research and
knowledge of the Department of Urban
and Regional Planning and the cutting-
edge spatial analysis available through the
department's GeoPlan Center," said William
O'Dell, associate director and manager of the
Florida Housing Data ( I. i ,,....... -in the
-.1iiiii., i Center.
O'Dell will work with urban and regional
planning professors Kristin Larsen and Ilir
Bejleri and college researcher Eric Kramer
to create a model that will assist Florida
communities in evaluating and ranking the
areas identified as suitable for affordable
housing. The software and mapping tool
they create will be unique in that it will
incorporate the local values and vision of the
communities with which they work. A critical


component of the process is seeking and
receiving community input through public
hearings and meetings.
"We plan to work with three case study
communities. We are already beginning
to work with Jacksonville, and we hope to
identify two other communities who are
interested in working with us," Larsen said.
"The community-based solutions that will
result from this model represent an exciting
potential breakthrough in the Florida
affordable housing market. Wachovia is
delighted to be a part of this evolution and
to be a catalyst for community development
in Florida," said Michelle Braun, Florida
Community Relations Executive for
Wachovia. rI


Veronica Hofheinz, MBC 2004, IND 2002, is currently working
as a designer for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York
City. Her projects include the NATO headquarters in Brussels,
Belgium and JP Morgan Chase in New York. She resides in
Brooklyn and, despite the cold, is having a great time.
Jeffrey Huber, MArch 2004, married Julie M. Ciembronowicz
on November 5, 2005.
Tzveta Panayotova, MArch 2004, is working for HOK in
New York City. She is enjoying the city and the culture it
has to offer.
Kelly Wieczorek, MArch 2005, has earned the U.S. Green
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design Accredited Professional status. She is a designer
in DAG Architects' Pensacola office and is a member of the
organizing group for the new northern gulf coast chapter of
the U.S. Green Building Council. Kelly joined DAG Architects
in September 2006.
Sarah Dexheimer, MArch 2007, has joined Street Dixon
Rick Architecture, PLC, as a project designer.

BACHELOR'S
Kalvin Platt, ARC 1953, is the chairman of the SWA
Group, a 50-year-old Sausalito, Calif.-based international
landscape architecture and urban planning firm that
has been at the forefront in creating projects that are in
harmony with natural systems. Although he retired in 1996
after an almost 40-year career, he is still working at SWA
as a consultant. He has had a hand in many high-profile
projects, including the master plan for the Marin portion of
the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.


Albert Will, LAE 1960, retired from teaching at Broward
Community College. He is now a landscape consultant and
runs a business called Arbor Grow. < www.arborgrow.com ,>
Jeffrey A. Huberman, ARC 1964, was elected second
vice president of the National Council of Architectural
Registration Boards in June 2007.
Roger Bass, BCN 1969, was recently inducted into the
Alabama Road Builders Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame
was created by the Alabama Road Builders Association's
Board of Directors "to honor, preserve and perpetuate
the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of
individuals and companies that have brought significant
recognition to the state of Alabama in the field of
transportation construction." Roger retired as chairman
of Dunn Construction in 2003. He remains active in the
Alabama highway construction industry as a minority
partner in Mobile Asphalt Company and as the owner
of Strada Materials, LLC, which markets construction
aggregate in Alabama.
Julius Gribou, ARC 1971, was appointed interim provost
and vice president for academic affairs at the University
of Texas at San Antonio. He has served as the founding
dean of the College of Architecture at UTSA since 2002.
Julius also is the Roland K. Blumberg endowed professor of
architecture.
Randolph C. Henning, ARC 1976, has relocated his
architectural practice to Lewisville, NC, after almost 15
years in nearby Winston-Salem. Licensed in the Carolinas
and Florida, he specializes in the general practice of
architecture. He also is working on a monograph for


publication on the creative life work of architect and current
DCP visiting distinguished professor Alfred Browning
Parker, FAIA. For more information, visit
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Alice Macfarlane, ARC 1977, has joined Ziegler Cooper
Architects of Houston as senior project manager in their
Work Place Studio. For the past 10 years, she served
as project manager for Texas A&M University Facilities
Planning and Construction. She was previously CEO and
partner in her own firm, Williamson Macfarlane Architects,
where she oversaw architecture, interior design, historic
preservation and renovation services for government, retail,
educational and medical facilities.
Darrall Henderson, BCN 1981, recently retired after serving
26 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel
Henderson's last position in the Army was as an academy
professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at
West Point. Prior to that he was the lead analyst and deputy
chief of strategy for the multinational force in Iraq and
served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Darrall accepted
a position as a principal consultant with Hromadka and
Associates, a forensic engineering firm specializing in
hydrological, earth, and atmospheric sciences.
John P. Wiseman, BCN 1987, is the president of CORE
Construction Florida. The company recently celebrated
its 25th anniversary and is currently involved in the
construction of several independent living, assisted living
and skilled nursing facilities across Florida. In 2006,
John was named president of the Florida Home Builders
Association.


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A2 Group, Inc.
AIA Treasure Coast
Alex Roush Architects, Inc.
American Institute of Architects
American Iron & Steel Institute
American Society of Landscape
Architects, Florida Chapter
Anderson-Moore Construction Corp.
Robert P Angle
Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc.
Associated Builders and Contractors
Associated General Contractors,
South Florida Chapter
Thomas W. Atkins
Steven W. Auld
Balfour Beatty Construction
Beta Theta Pi Gamma Xi
Brasfield & Gorrie LLC
Kathryn Brown
BSB Corporate, Inc.
Builders Assn. of N. Central FL, Inc.
Burkhardt Construction, Inc.
Butler Construction Co., Inc.
Robert W. Caldwell III
Canerday, Belfsky & Arroyo
Catlin Interiors, Inc.
CB Constructors, Inc.
Charles Perry Construction LLC
Charles S. Whiteside, Inc.
The Clark Construction Group, Inc.
Coastal Construction Co.
Community Foundation of Broward
Continental Florida Materials, Inc.
Corporate Systems International, Inc.
Robert D. & JoAnn Crebbin
Cross Creek Initiative, Inc.
Curtis G. Culver
D&D Quality Constructors, Inc.
Douglas F Davis
RobertJ. & Kate Dean
Deerbrook, Inc.
Pamela L. Driscoll
Jeffrey Falkanger
Fabio M. Fasanelli
Marsha L. Faulkner
Barbara W. Fearney (d)
Florida Assn. of Realtors
Lance S. & Susie Frankham
Michael A. Gilkey, Inc.
GMV Contractors, Inc.
James A. Greene
Gresham, Smith & Partners
Robert R. Grist & Sara K. Williams


Allen C. & Sandra G. Hamilton
Hardrives, Incorporated
Hartford Insurance Group
The Haskell Co.
Hedrick Brothers Construction Co., Inc.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Heritage 76 Corp.
Mrs. Delilah J. Hill
Holder Construction Group LLC
Holmes, Hepner & Associates
Architects
Hunt Construction Group, Inc.
Prof. E. L. Roy Hunt
Invista
J. Raymond Construction Corp.
Kaufman Lynn, Inc.
Keene Construction Co. of Central FL
Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc.
KVC Constructors, Inc.
Hugh L. Latta
Loss Prevention Research Council LLC
David K. Maltby (d)
Maschmeyer Concrete Company of FL, Inc.
Mathews Construction of Tampa, Inc.
A. Lamar & Janet S. Matthews
Mikell A. McElroy
Mellen C. Greeley A1A
Foundation, Inc.
Mercedes Homes, Inc.
Moore Construction Co.
Moss & Associates
NDC Construction Co.
David Nelson Construction Co.
James C. Nicholas
Brian K. O'Brien
Angel & Frances M. Oliva
Nicholas A. Pappas
M.M. Parrish Construction Co., Inc.
PCEAA, Inc.
Guy W. Peterson
PPI Construction Management
James P & Pamela J. Raab
Rain Bird Corporation
Ramski & Co., Inc.
Ranon & Partners, Inc., Architects
Mary Nell G. & Prof. F Blair Reeves
William D. Richardi
Rinker Materials Corp.
David E. Rogers
Sarasota Convention
and Visitors Bureau
Scherer Constr. & Eng. of Central FL LLC
David J. & Rena L. Schmit
Prof. R. Terry & Maxine L. Schnadelbach
Darrell L. Smith


Robert F Smith
Spring Valley Construction Company LP
STA Architectural Group
R.C. Stevens Construction Co.
Stephen J. & Kimberly L. Stewart
Stiles Corp.
Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.
Frank R. & Colleen Trabold
Kenneth & Mrs. Helyne B. Treister
United Forming, Inc.
US GBC FL. Gulf Coast Chapter, Inc.
Paul L. Verlander
The Villagers, Inc.
Charles E. Warren
WCI Communities, Inc.
The Weitz Co., Inc.
West Construction, Inc.
Zoller Family Foundation


$500 to $999
R. Scott Akins
Maria C. Ankersen
Walter Bajsel
Baycrest Corp.
BBI Construction Management
Richard E. Berry
The Bonita Bay Group
Lauren L. Boylston
Dennis A. Brammeier
David 0. & Mary M. Charland
Clancy & Theys Construction Co.
The Clark Construction Group, Inc.
Edson E. Dailey, Jr.
Daniels, Kashtan, Downs, et al.
Diaz Fritz Isabel General Contractors
David E. Emmons
ExxonMobil Foundation
Falkanger & Snyder
Falkanger Properties, Inc.
Falkanger, Snyder, Martineau & Yates
Florida Consulting Company LLC
Sarina E. Forbes
Brett B. Gelbert
Gen-X Construction, Inc.
Louis C. George, Sr.
Gerdau Ameristeel
H & J Contracting, Inc.
Neil L. Hammack
Henkelman Construction, Inc.
Herman Miller, Inc.
Hughes Benefit Services, Inc.
Hugins Construction Corp.
A. Ronald Johnson
W. H. Keister Group, Inc.


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Allan A. Kozich & Associates
Ellen Loyd & Barry E. Chapnick
Patrick W. McClane
McCrory Construction Co., Inc.
D. F McKnight Construction Co., Inc.
Miller Construction Co.
W.G. Mills, Inc.
Miranda Architects
Jon R. Molloy
Nantucket Housefitters, Inc.
Roberto Padron
Robert B. Porter, Jr.
RCC Associates, Inc.
Robins & Morton
Rodgers Builders
Rychris Contracting Co., Inc.
Sands Construction Co., Inc.
Schlesinger Construction, Inc.
Timothy J. Sergenian
Beverly E. Shaw
Leon R. & Betty L. Sikes
W. Douglas Snyder
Springer-Peterson Roofing
& Sheet Metal
Suncoast Insurance Associates, Inc.
Trans Coastal Construction Co.
Trigram LLC
Tritt & Franson, PA.
Turner Construction & Development, Inc.
Vanderbilt Bay Construction, Inc.
Vercon Construction Management, Inc.
R. Lance Walker
A. Michael & Kimberly B. Weigel
Lauren B. & Jefferson S. Zimmerman


$100 TO $499
Abney & Abney
Construction, Incorporated
Harry P Ackerman
John G. Albers
Alan M. Albert
Henry C. & Karen L. Alexander
Allegiance Contracting, Inc.
Allen-Batchelor Construction, Inc.
A. Vernon Allen Builder, Inc.
Allen B. Amsler
Ronald E. Anderson
Angle & Schmid, Inc.
Kenneth L. Anson, Jr.
Elmer S. Atkins, Jr.
George H. Austin
Michael D. & Susie Dianne Barnello
Agustin J. Barrera
JoyA. Bartholomew
&William B. Haile, Jr.


Basham & Lucas Design Group, Inc.
Roger L. Bass
William C. & Wanda P. Bauer
Randall F Baukney
Bechtel Foundation
David W. Beebe, Jr.
Richard A. Bell
Cdr. Charles L. & Alice Benjamin
John F Bennett
Jim Bentley
Michael Jason Bier
David L. Bittermann
Richard S. Black
Boyce H. Blackmon, Inc.
Charlene R. Blackwood
Steven P & Paige D. Blashfield
Peter Blitstein
Kent M. Blocher
Leonard J. Boda
Todd W. Bonnett
Matthew C. Boone
Jonathan E. & Ellen E. Bortz
Stephen L. Boruff
Bryan S. Botic
Kirby J. Bourgeois
Tayler M. Boyd, Jr.
Brandon Construction Co.
Brasfield & Gorrie LLC
John R. Brasgalla
Robert N. Bridger (d)
Jerry Brim
J. Ernesto Brito
William A. Browne, Jr.
Robert E. Broxton
Charles W. Bryson
Troy D. Buhs
Robert H. & Teresa A. Burke
Richard J. & Catherine Burket
Mitch Burley
Richard R. Burris
Jeanne F Butler
J. Matthew Butler
Richard R. Butler
Ludwig R. Byak II
William P Byrne
Richard C. Carbone
Matthew L. Carlton
Toby J. Carson
Jeffrey V. Caruso
Patricia M. Castellano
Claude P Caviness
Charland Construction, Inc.
Charland Rurey Construction, Inc.
Jeffrey E. Charlotte


Kristen K. Cheyne
Jesse W. Children, Sr.
Abdol R. Chini
Bruce J. Cianci
Robert D. Clark
William R. Clark, Jr.
Robert L. Claudy, Jr.
Jennifer N. Clement
Luis A. Colon Rodriguez
James M. Colson
Commercial Design Services
Charles A. Congdon, Jr.
Donald H. Conkling III
Connelly & Wicker, Inc.
Michael J. Cook
Joshua R. Cooper
Kenneth B. Cox
William M. Coyne
David W. & Stephanie L. Crawley
William M. Crews, Jr.
Richard C. Crisson
Jesus Cruz
Steven W. Csutoros
Cuhaci & Peterson
James A. Cummings, Inc.
Scott D. & Wendy E Cummings
Mark C. Curenton
Kion C. Darkshani
Paul R. Dawkins
Kenneth B. Dennis
Clifton J. Derrick II
Loretta A. Deziel-Gallagher
Thomas DiMarino
Charlotte C. Dison
Dix.Lathrop & Associates, Inc.
Robert C. & Carol J. Dornblaser
Doubletake Design, Inc.
Douglas S. Dresie
David B. Dunnavant
Janice M. Eaton
William P Ebert
Jorge Echarte, Jr.
Robert B. Edwards
Engel & Associates, Inc.
Joseph M. Esposito
The Evans Group, Inc.
Gregory Fant, Sr.
John E. Farrar, Jr.
Shilah K. Felder
J. C. Felix
Steven Feller
Gregory A. Ferrone
L. Scott Fetterhoff
Michael A. Finn


William G. Fischer
TimothyJ. Flanagan &
Roberta L. Gastmeyer
Robert S. & Janis K. Fleet
Jeffrey E. Fleis
Florida Handling Systems, Inc.
Florida Rock Industries Foundation, Inc.
Autha W. Forehand
Foster, Conant & Associates, Inc.
J. G. Foster
Reda T. Freiha
James T. & Julie S. Frey
Joseph R. Frisco, Jr.
Bruce A. Frost
Herbert G. Fung
Christine Galanopoulos
Robert & Cynthia Gallardo
Cecil Garvin
Gator Residential LLC
W. W. Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc.
Gensler
Gentile, Holloway, O'Mahoney, et al.
Gerhardt D. Gerard
Leonard A. Geronemus
Daniel W. Getson
Robert 0. Ghiotto
Michael A. Gibson
James S. Gilman
Paul C. Gips
Glatting, Jackson, Kercher, et al.
Wayne B. Goff
Jose A. Gonzalez
Timothy A. Good
Paul S. Goodwin
Bruce T. & Carolyn L. Gora
Amy M. & B. J. Gordon
Ward B. Grafton
Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA
Mike E. Grandey
Danny Grant, Jr.
Stuart M. Grant
Lt. Col. David F Gray, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
William W. Green
R.J. Griffin & Co.
Scott P Groomes
Bruce A. Gude
Gulfstream Pump & Equipment, Inc.
Craig E. Hagedorn
J. Thomas Hamm, Jr.
Allen L. Hand
Christine D. Hanley
Paul R. Hardaker
Hardeman Kempton & Associates, Inc.
Hardin Construction Co. LLC


Scott M. Harris
Christopher B. Hartman
Christopher L. Hawkins
Steven M. Heiser
Robert S. Hemstad, Jr.
Col. Darrall R. Henderson
James A. & Mary E. Henderson
Hennessy Construction Services
Randolph C. Henning
Patricia L. Herndon
Gerald L. & Barbara B. Hester
Molly Hester
Valerie L. & Richard M. Hickman
Highway Technology
Mary P Hines
Harvey S. Hoffenberg
F J. Hoffman, Jr.
D. Craig Holliday
Willard R. Hollingsworth, Jr.
Gary E. Holton
Honeywell International Foundation
Robert E. Horn
Brian D. Hotchkiss
Houston Cuozzo Group, Inc.
Kristen E. Howard
Robert G. Howard
Tod R. Hudson
Kelly M. Hughes
Christopher D. Hunt
Thomas R. & Rebecca R. Hurley
Ralph E. Hurst
IBM Corp.
Anthony W. Ingrassia
Irwin Contracting, Inc.
Itasca Construction Associates, Inc.
Allen D. Jablonski
Tom Jannetides
Laurie L. Jaworski
Patricia J. Jernigan
Howard E. & Susanne C. Jessen
John Carlo, Inc.
Alexandra 0. Johnson
Richard P. & Denise M. Johnson
Timothy L. Johnson
Bill & Patricia G. Johnston
Stephanie S. Johnston
Susan R. Jones
Kalemeris Construction, Inc.
John W. Kearns III
Keith & Schnars, PA.
Asa C. &Ann M. Kelley
Richard G. Kerstner
Bahman Khosrowzadeh
Lionel Kier


(d) = deceased







Ronald E. Kirchman II
John Kish, Jr.
Gary I. Kline
Esther Kappy Kling
C. Frasuer Knight, A.I.A.
Paul W. Kohler
Koleos, Rosenberg & Doyle, PA.
Richard P. Komosky
Scott R. Koons
Thomas W. Koulouris
Maureen A. Kowall
Allan A. Kozich
Eric L. Kreher
Krent Wieland Design, Inc.
Tamara L. Kretzschmar
Larry C. Krietemeyer
Jonathan B. Kurtis
Allen T. Kusano
LandDesign, Inc.
Mark S. Landsberg
James T. Lang, Jr.
Jennifer A. Langford
LaSalle Hotel Properties
Richard B. Laughlin
Robert Troy Lauramoore
Murray D. Laurie
Luis R. Lavergne
Scott R. Layman
Conrad J. Lazo
Lori L. Lazo
Learning Enhancement Corp.
Richard S. Lentz
Dennis E. Lewis
J. Roland Lieber PLLC
Robert E. Lifton
Reed Lloyd
Stephanie L. Lobner
Michael F Lollis
Robert D. Londeree
Ryan A. Lovelady
Lucido & Associates
Bobby R. Lyons
M. J. Harris, Inc.
Robyn D. MacKay
Michael E. Madariaga
Michael P. Madsen
Louis J. Magill
Lori A. Maglieri
Ganapathy Mahalingam
Cheryl G. Mahan
Michael D. Maira
Heather G. Mandel
Cedric L. Mar
Marion Construction, Inc.
Kurt G. Marion
David W. Marks
Katherine & William E. Martin, Jr.
Thomas 0. Martin


Laura C. Martinez
Mathur & Gerdes, Inc.
Scott L. McCarthy
Mrs. Jean E. & James A. McClung
Charles E McClure
Roy D. McGee
James D. McGinley
Mrs. Tacy R. McGinty
George W. McGonagill
Richard R. McLaughlin
John M. McMahon
Tony A. McMahon
Kevin G. McMichael
John A. McPhaul
Andrew M. McPherson
Merit Professional Coatings, Inc.
John X. Michelena
Scott R. Milke, Jr.
Miller, Legg & Associates, Inc.
Barry R. Miller
Walter T. Miros, Jr.
Thomas H. Mitchell III
Morgan Electric Lakeland
Sara E. Morris
James A. Moses
Penny L. & Garry J. Moyer
William J. Murtagh
Myers Schmalenberger, Inc.
Carroll M. Nail, Jr.
John M. Neel
Lisa R. Nelson
James B. Nicoloff
Stephanie L. Norris
William A. Northsea
Lawrence S. Northup
Marcia O'Donovan Bourdon
Kimberly R. Ogren
Darin M. Olsen
Jill O'Mahony Stewart
Robert T. Ossi
Eric H. Palmer
Stephen R. Palmer
Gerald C. Parsons, Jr.
Ray C. Parsons
Wayne D. Parsons
Curtis W. Peart
Jeffrey G. Pedersen
Pedonti-Webb Studio
Miguel A. Perez
Daniel E Perez-Zarraga
Patrick M. Pillot
Allan W. Pither
Terrell H. Plaag
Pooley Contracting, Inc.
William R. Pooley III
Gregory Allen Pope, Jr.
Stephan Porten
Margaret B. Portillo


Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan, Inc.
William G. Poulin
Powell Design Group, Inc.
Pro-Crete Systems, Inc.
Product Innovations International, Inc.
Proefke Construction Co.
Prosser Hallock, Inc.
Wende K. & Terry L. Pruden
Joan C. Randolph
Louis E Ray III
Walter R. Reddick, Jr.
Deanna C. Rennebaum
Reynolds, Smith & Hills, Inc.
A. McKinley Reynolds III
RG Associates of N. Florida, Inc.
Conrad L. Rhoades III
Vinson P Richter
E. Vaughan Rivers
William L. Rivers
The RMPK Group, Inc.
Donald W. Roberts, Jr.
Carlos 0. Rojas, Jr.
Robert A. Romeo
Sheli A. Romer
Nelson Romero
Rowland, Inc.
Mark J. Rubinstein
Cynthia B. Ruffner
T.R. Rushing Construction, Inc.
Gary A. Russo
Robert G. Sample
Bryan M. Sanetz
Michael S. & Anne C. Santarone
Debra J. Sappington
Jose I. Sarasua
Richard A. Sasser
Donald L. Savage
Jeffrey E. Schaefer
David Schick
John W. Schneid
James E Schroeder
SDG Landscape Architects, Inc.
Donnie G. Seale
Bradford J. Sedito
John T. Sewell, Jr.
Michael D. Sharon
Thomas H. Shaughnessy
Cardiff J. Shea
Gregory H. Siefker
Debra K. & James R. Siegel
Stephen G. Siegel
Paul J. Sierra Construction, Inc.
Brian R. Silas
Simmons Management Services, Inc.
Brad Smith Associates, Inc.
David T. Smith
E. Tyson Smith
Robert C. Smith


John R. Sofarelli, Sr.
Sprinkle Consulting Engineers, Inc.
William H. Squires
Lisa J. Stacholy
Gerald H. Stanley
Roger Stark
Earl M. Starnes, Ph.D.
Richard G. Stebbins
Harold A. Steimer III
Ruth L. Steiner
Steven Feller, PE., Inc.
Stewart Communications Ltd.
William L. Stewart
Jane G. Stimson
Roger H. Stitt, Jr.
Edward D. Stone, Jr. & Associates, Inc.
A. Ernest Straughn III
Edwin I. Strayer
Dennis M. Suarez
Sucsy, Fischer & Company
Thomas M. Sullivan
Tappouni Mechanical, Inc.
Mark A. Tarmey
Kimberly K. Taylor
William J. Taylor
TCAC, Inc.
Leslie S. Terkiel
James P Thayer, Jr.
Dean A. Thomas
Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc.
Randall E. Thron
Zeljko M. Torbica
Jon E. Tori
Allen G. S. Troshinsky
Richard E. Turk
Susan M. Turner
Matthew J. Tuthill
Randy S. Tyo
UBS Foundation USA
J. Matthew Ulch
L. Scott Ulm
United Rentals
Urban Associates, Inc.
Urban Design Studio
URS Corp.
Travis L. Van Buren
Gregory A. Vann
Scott A. Varga
Robert W. Verner
Robert L. & Karen B. Vickers
David E Votaw, Jr.
David E. Wagner
Michael J. Wagner
Benjamin L. Walbert III
Janice M. Ward
Kelly M. Ward
Daniel J. Waters
Doss K. Watson, Jr.


Andrew T. Weaver
Karl E. Weis
The Weitz Co., Inc.
Bart C. Wells
Charles M. Wells
Melvin C. Wetherington
Ronald J. Whalen, Jr.
Robert J. Whitcomb
Daniel E. Whiteman
Timothy R. Wiggins
James F Wilder, Jr.
Martha L. Williams
Craig E. Wilson
WilsonMiller, Inc.
E Louis Wolff
Wolfson & Associates PA.
Working Capital Consultants, Inc.
Carol C. Worsham
Worth Builders of Palm Beach, Inc.
Gretchen E. Yahn
Michael J. Yepes
Richard E. Yester
Zahn Luxury Homes, Inc.
Michael M. Zajkowski
Stephanie R. &
Douglas P. Zaragoza
Herbert A. Zelikoff
Donald E Zimmer
Zterk LLC
Zurich American Insurance Co.
John C. Zwick




























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the accuracy of this listing. If an
error has been made, we apologize
and ask that you contact the DCP
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Matthews and Rivas-Camp Receive Beinecke-Reeves Award


Each year, the University of Florida College of Design,
Construction and Planning awards the Beinecke-Reeves
Distinguished Achievement Award to an individual who
exemplifies the spirit of historic preservation in Florida.
The award is given to an individual or group having
a connection to the state and demonstrated dedication
to historic preservation. It is named in honor of the late
Walter Beinecke Jr. and UF professor emeritus F. Blair
Reeves, both of whom were recipients of the National Trust
for Historic Preservation Crowninshield Award for their
accomplishments in historic preservation.

2007 Recipient: Janet Snyder Matthews, Ph.D.
As Associate Director of Cultural Resources for the Na-
tional Park Service, Matthews manages the nation's most
important historic preservation and cultural resource
stewardship programs. These programs affect thousands
of communities nationwide and all of the nearly 390 na-
tional parks in the United States. They include the National
Register of Historic Places and the National Historic Land-
marks Program, among others.


"Janet Matthews has spent over 30 years in research,
writing, publishing and interpreting diverse cultural re-
sources in private and public sectors," said Roy Eugene
Graham, FAIA, director of the college's Historic Preserva-
tion Programs. "Her leadership in the field is attested by
her dedicated service as the State Historic Preservation
Officer, and her being recruited by the United States
Department of the Interior to be the associate director of
cultural resources for the National Park Service."

2008 Recipient: Rolando Rivas-Camp
As Director for the Center for Historic Buildings at the U.S.
General Services Administration, Rivas-Camp, a UF alum-
nus, oversees preservation activities within GSA's national
office and 11 regional preservation programs. He received
the award in recognition of his innovation in identifying
methods, policies and programs to preserve and reuse
prominent U.S. government buildings from the 1950s to
the 1970s. With his guidance, a December 2000 industry
conference identified nine important GSA buildings in
Florida, including the 1961 and 1964 federal buildings in
Ocala and Gainesville respectively.


"For Rolando's efforts to expand the vision of GSA to in-
clude this vast inventory of historic buildings, he has been
internationally recognized as one of the leaders in historic
preservation," Graham said. I]


Left to Right: UF Provost Janie Fouke, 2007 Beinecke-Reeves
Award recipient Janet Snyder Matthews, Ph.D., Director of
DCP Historic Preservation Programs Roy Eugene Graham,
FAIA, Dean Christopher Silver, Professor Emeritus Blair
Reeves and Mary Nell Reeves.


ENDOWMENTS:

The Perpetual Gift

Our college is proud to oversee more than 70 endowed
funds of $28 million. The forward-thinking donors who
have given endowed.-11 .. i.... -. .... supportofa
sustainable nature. The on-going interest generated by these
invested funds helps to support DCP students, faculty and
research with steady income beyond state budgets.
For more information on endowments or other giving
opportunities, please contact the ,, .... .. -, '-392-4836.


EMINENT
SCHOLAR CHAIRS
Dick and Joan P. Holland
Construction Education
Advancement Fund
Ida Rogero Childre Eminent
Scholar Chair in Affordable
Housing
M.E. Rinker, Sr. Foundation
Eminent Scholar Chair #1
M.E. Rinker, Sr. Foundation
Eminent Scholar Chair #2
Ivan H. Smith Eminent Scholar
Chair in Architechture

FACULTY SUPPORT
*BCN 70th Anniversary
Faculty Support Fund
Florida Roofing, Sheet Metal
and Air Conditioning/Earl Blank
Faculty Fellowship

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
& ASSISTANTSHIPS
Carl Feiss Urban and
Environmental Design Award
Florida North Chapter-AlA
Scholarship


G.W. Robinson Endowment
in Building Construction
*Rinker Scholar Endowment
Howard Sebold/Herrick Smith
Fellowship in Landscape
Architecture
Ida Rogero Childre Fellowship
and Assistantship Fund in
Affordable Housing
James Gamble Rogers/RLF, Inc.
Memorial Fellowship
*JeremyJ. Hill Memorial Fund
Sheila K. Rydell Scholarship
WRS Infrastructure &
Environment, Inc. Award in
Memoriam of Mario Ripol

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
A.J. and Lynne Land Fund in
Historic Preservation
*Charles R. Perry Craft
Awareness Endowment
Edward A Proefke AGC
Convention Fund
Frank E Kinsey, Jr. Excellence
Fund in Historic Preservation


*Helman Hurley Charvat Peacock
Architects, Inc. Excellence in
Design Education Endowment
Osceloa Foundation Historic
Preservation Fund
Preservation Institute:
Nantucket Operational
Endowment

Witters Competition Endowment

PROFESSORSHIPS
*Charles R. Perry Endowed
Professorship

CSR America Companies
Foundation/Rinker Materials
Professorship

J.H. Shimberg Distinguished
Professorship Fund

Ted Fearney Endowed
Professorship in Architecture

*William G. Lassiter Jr. and
Aneice R. Lassiter Professorship
in Building Construction

RESEARCH
CENTER SUPPORT
Charles R. Perry Program for
Crafts Awareness

*Edward and Betty Proefke
Endowment for Research in
Collective Protection

Powell Center for Construction
and Environment

Shimberg Discretionary Fund
SCHOLARSHIPS
AIA Gainesville/Sanford Goin
Scholarship
Arthur Blenn Anderson
Scholarship Endowment


*Balfour Beatty Construction
Scholarship Endowment
Barbara A. and John M. Cirino
Scholarship
C. H. Denny, III Endowed
Scholarship in Building
Construction
Central Florida Builders'
Exchange Frank W. Reed
Scholarship Fund
Clark Construction Group Fund
*Daugherty Family Endowed
Scholarship in Building
Construction
Frank J. Sindelar Scholarship
*Fluor NAWIC Student Chapter
Scholarship Fund
*Greg Jones Endowed Scholarship
Guy C. Fulton Endowed
Scholarship
in Architecture
Harvard Jolly Architects
Scholarship Fund
H. H. Block Construction
Education Fund
James A. Cummings, Inc.
Scholarship Fund
James F McLean, Jr. Memorial
Scholarship Fund
James McFarlane Endowed
Scholarship
*Jerry L. Nielson Scholarship Fund

*Jerry Rumsey Endowed
Scholarship
John W. Stovall Memorial
Scholarship
*Jonathan and Elizabeth
Seymour Scholarship


*Joshua W. Lepp Memorial
Travel Endowment Fund
Laborers' International Union of
North America Arthur A. Coia &
R. P. Vinall Scholarship
Louis C. Holloway, Jr. Scholarship
Margaret E. Raynal Memorial Fund
Martin Gundersen, Sr. Scholarship
*Matthew Remsen Memorial Fund
Otis A. Skinner Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Peter J. Kanavos, Sr.
Memorial Award
Professor Anthony Section
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Robert and Diane Miller
Scholarship Fund
Robert F. Smith
Scholarship Endowment
Ronald Vincent Tadrowski
Scholarship
Steven C. Crebbin Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Vasant P. and Carol Carswell
Bhide Scholarship in Architecture
UNRESTRICTED FOR
COLLEGE SUPPORT
Andrew J. Fernedino Endowment
Jack S. McCandless
Excellence Fund

'Establishedsince July 1, 2005.


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UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA College ofDesign, Construction & Planning


DCP dean, director inducted
into AICP College of Fellows

The American Institute of Certified Planners
inducted Dean Christopher Silver and Claude
E. "Gene" Boles Jr., director of the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning's Center for
Building Better Communities, into the elite
membership of AICP's College of Fellows at
the American Planning Association's national
conference this spring.
For more than 80 years, AICP, the
professional institute of the APA, has
promoted professional excellence in the field
of planning by setting high standards for
competence, education, experience and ethical
conduct. Election to the Fellowship may be
granted to planners who have been longtime
members of AICP and have demonstrated
excellence in professional practice, teaching
and mentoring, research, community service,
leadership and communication. [I


ALUMNI NEWS CONTINUED >
Robert Alfert, Jr, ARC 1988, was invited by FTI Consulting
to speak at the 2nd Annual Best Practices in Building
University/City Relations Conference June 7 to 10 in
Gainesville. He specializes in the practice areas of
construction law and litigation and commercial litigation
as an Orlando partner in the statewide law firm Broad and
Cassel. He also is a construction arbitrator for the American
Arbitration Association. Robert's experience and knowledge
of construction earned him a spot as one of Florida's "Legal
Elite" in Florida Trend Magazine, in addition to being listed
in the Orlando Business Journal's "Best of the Bar," and
Woodward & White's 2007 "The Best Lawyers in America."
He will participate on a panel discussion on procurement,
contracting and dispute resolution issues surrounding the
city of Gainesville and UF's capital improvement projects.
Jay M. Bargeron, Jr, BCN 1989, is a lieutenant colonel
in the U.S. Marine Corps. He recently assumed command
of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine
Division. He previously served as the regimental executive
officer for 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, in
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Dan Kirby, ARC 1989, has earned the U.S. Green Building
Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Accredited Professional status. Dan is the director of
development services for Boyken International Inc. in
Orlando.
Merrill Romanik, ARC 1989, is a principal architect at
CubellislSGR. In July 2006, Synalovaki Gutierrez Romanik
Architects Inc. in Fort Lauderdale merged with Cubellis
Associates in Boston to become this new firm that now has
26 design professionals in South Florida and 340 nationally.
Martha Skinner, ARC 1989, reports that she and husband
Douglas Hecker, ARC 1989, were runners up in the 2007
Next Generation Design Competition. The competition
looks for bright ideas that focus on energy, its uses,
reduction, consumption, efficiencies, and alternatives.
Their project, the superABSORBER, is a proposal for a


UF Alumni Receive 2007-08 ACSA Awai

Each year the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ACSA) honors excellence and distinguished
achievement in architectural education, in recognition
of those who embody these qualities and have advanced
the art and science of the field. These award-winning
professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the
profession's knowledge base, and extend their work beyond
the borders of academia into practice and the public sector.

Congratulations to ouralumni winners!
We are pleased to announce our alumni among
the 2007-08 ACSA Award Winners:

Sarah Gamble, ARC 2002 and Patrick Rhodes,
ARC 1996, at Tulane University
ACSA Collaborative Practice Award:
To recognize programs that demonstrate how
faculty, students, and community/civic clients
work to realize common objectives.

Aaron Gabriel, ARC 1997, at the University of
Arkansas's Community Design Center
ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award:


new kind of highway wall barrier system that, in addition
to mitigating light and noise pollution, also absorbs
airborne pollution. The project will be featured in an
upcoming Metropolis Magazine issue and will be exhibited
at various venues including the ICFF in May and the 2007
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in November.
The superABSORBER also was recently selected as
Transmaterial Product of the Week and will be published in
Transmaterial 2 by Blaine Brownell later this year. Martha
and Doug also recently traveled to Florence, Italy, for Beyond
Media 05, where Martha presented the lecture "A Section
Dissection of Time/Space: The Study of One City" and Doug
presented the work of his thesis studio, "Southern Cities."
Martha and Doug are both professors at Clemson University
and partners in a practice called fieldoffice.
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Ron Foster, Jr., BCN 1990, is the CEO of Stellar, a contractor
in Jacksonville that was recently ranked 13th in the top
50 green contractors in the country by Engineering News-
Record. EN-R ranked the firms based on contracting
revenue from registered sustainable projects. Stellar
had $154 million of such revenue, mostly from work in
the industrial market. The green projects are based on
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a system
designed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Grant Rimbey, ARC 1990, earned a MArch at the University
of Texas at Austin in 1995 and worked for eight years
for renowned architect Charles Moore, FAIA, in Austin.
He moved back to Florida in 2001 and has designed a
number of buildings in the new urban communities in
the panhandle. He now lives in his hometown of Temple
Terrace, where he has been assisting in the downtown
redevelopment of the 80-year-old city. Grant just received a
regional award for these efforts.
Allen Troshinsky, BCN 1990, is a construction executive
with M. A. Mortenson Company. Having relocated to
Minneapolis in 1994, Allen has since led Mortenson
project teams on several notable projects, including the


Given jointly by ACSA and the American
Institute of Architecture Students. This award
recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching
performance during the formative years of an
architectural teaching career.

Jason Alread, ARC 1988, at Iowa State
University. ACSA Creative Achievement
Award: To recognize a specific creative
achievement in teaching, design, scholarship,
research, or service that advances architectural
education.

Aaron Gabriel, ARC 1997 and Jeffrey Huber,
MArch 2004, at the University of Arkansas's
Community Design Center ACSA/AIA
Housing Design Education Award:
Granted jointly by ACSA and the American
Institute of Architects, Housing & Custom
Residential Knowledge Committee to recognize
the importance of good education in housing
design to produce architects ready for practice
in a wide range of areas and able to be capable
leaders and contributors to their communities.


RiverCentre (Saint Paul convention center), Xcel Energy
Center (home of the NHLs Minnesota Wild), and FedExForum
(home of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies). Currently, he resides
in Kansas City and managed construction of the recently
completed Sprint Center, a $250 million multi-purpose
facility. Allen, his wife, Stacey (UF 1992), and their three
children will soon be relocating to Louisville in preparation
for the construction of the Cardinal's new 22,000-seat
basketball arena.
Patricia (McGee) St. Lawrence, IND 1991, and the St.
Lawrence family welcomed their new child and baby Gator,
Megan Mary, on Oct. 6, 2006.
Michael Foley, Jr, BCN 1992, purchased assets of RoyalAire
Mechanical Inc. in September of 2006. He is president of
the new RoyalAire Mechanical Services Inc., which is a
full-service commercial mechanical contracting and service
business in the Tampa Bay area.
Christopher Benninger, ARC 1996, was awarded the
Golden Architect for Life Time Achievement by the Spectrum
Foundation in India. He taught at the Graduate School
of Design and then moved to India to found the School
of Planning at Ahmedabad in 1972. In 1994 he started
a professional practice, which won the 2000 American
Institute of Architect's/Architectural Record/Business Week
Award for the design of the United World College of India.
Christopher's designs have been widely published and have
won numerous awards. He has studios in Pune, India and
in Thimphu, Bhutan where he is designing the new Capitol
Complex.
Sean Meehan, ARC 1998, is currently working in California
at Perkowitz+Ruth Architects as an associate project
manager.
Carrie (Finlay) Shores, ARC 1998, was recently selected as
one of nine emerging architects in New England by Design
New England Magazine. She has been running her firm, In
House Architecture, in Maine for the last four years and has
just moved back to California to expand her business. Her


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FRIENDS we'll miss.

DCP lostsome dear friends this past year.
The UF community remembers the professors
and alumni who are no longer with us.

Dr. Ernest R. Bartley,
Urban,, .... ..' Pliming Professor Emeritus
Dr. Bartley, 88, helped form the UF
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
in 1975. "Bart was the state's foremost authority
on zoning and growth management issues,"
said Richard H. Schneider, urban and regional
planning professor. "We were fortunate
to have him as a constructive colleague,
outstanding teacher and loyal friend at the
University of Florida for six decades and at the
Department of Urban Regional Planning for
more than 30 of those years. We will miss him
very much and honor his memory." Dr. Bartley
passed away Jan. 22.
Dr. Bill Gordon Eppes,
i:u ili iig Construction Professor Emeritus
Dr. Eppes, 76, taught for three decades at
the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building
Construction as one of its ], .,I *. i- iil.


professors. In addition to his numerous
teaching honors, he received awards for his
design of Holy Faith church and the Campus
USA Credit Union in ( ii .. II. "Bill was
a great architect and a superb professor, and
he added greatly to the school while he was
with us. He was a great friend," said Brisbane
Brown, building construction professor
emeritus. Dr. Eppes passed away June 11, 2007.
Franklin S. Bunch, ARC 1934
Franklin, 95, was a founding member of KBJ
Architects Inc. and helped create Jacksonville's
modern skyline. In 1961, he was the second
Jacksonville architect to be elected a Fellow of
the American Institute of Architects. He passed
away Jan. 22.
Maurice Weintraub, ARC 1947
Maurice, 87, was a major in the Corps of
Military Police during WWII. After his service,
he designed many prominent private luxury
residences and commercial properties in the
Miami area. He passed away Aug. 8,2007.
Jerry Garrison, BCN1950
Jerry, 86, was an Air Force captain during
WWII and, after his service, designed


and built Florida houses, several of which
were featured in Southern Interiors, Good
Housekeeping and Palm Beach Life magazines.
He passed away July 31, 2007.

James Mitchell Hartley II, ARC 1950
James, 84, helped shape the look of the city
of Hollywood, Fla., from the 1950s to 1990s,
designing numerous churches, hospitals,
banks, county buildings, and schools,
including Nova University. He passed away
June 12, 2007.
Noel R. Lake, LAE 1950
Noel, 81, was instrumental in designing UF's
landscape during his years as superintendent
of grounds. He also invented the "bike hitch,"
the U-shaped racks that cyclists use to lock up
their bicycles. Noel passed away Nov. 4, 2007.
EdSea. ii.i 1961
Ed, 69, was a renowned golf course architect.
He designed hundreds of courses worldwide,
including many PGA Tour and( I ,, 1 1 ".1 .
Tour courses. He passed away Aug. 14, 2007.


new firm, Larson Shores Architects Inc., will continue to run
the New England office as well as its new Berkeley, Calif.
location.
Athena (Constantakos) Kosier, IND 1999, announces that
she and her husband, Tom Kosier, BCN 2002, welcomed
their third child, Jacinda Brodie, on Jan. 5, 2007.
James Frey, ARC 2001, has earned the U.S. Green Building
Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Accredited Professional status.
Brian Murphy, BCN 2001, is currently working as a project
engineer for Ajax Building Corporation.
Eric Bellin, ARC 2005, will be traveling to Naples, Italy in
February to study under the guidance of Professor Agostino
Bossi. He will be there for six months, working as a teaching
assistant and publishing research based on the concepts of
the joints of architecture.
Sara Mikkelsen, ARC 2007, was one of six finalists in
the 2007 Chair Affair competition, sponsored by the
International Corrugated Packaging Foundation and
managed by the American Institute of Architectural
Students. Entrants were challenged to design a chair with
corrugated cardboard and glue. This year, a record 176
entries were submitted by either teams or individuals from
56 universities or colleges. The winners can be viewed on
the competition Web site at <>
Adam Pollock, ARC 2007, is currently working as a junior
designer in Nantucket, Mass.

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Is This You?


Last year, we added this feature, enlisting
your help to identify people in candid pho-
tos from the college archives. Last issue
we ran this photo (top right), and here's
what we found out.
The photo was taken in the late 80's
during the Design Exploration Program,
a concentrated summer design program
at UF for high school students. On the
left is Jeffery Gross, ARC 1972. He was
the president of the Fort Lauderdale AIA
chapter, which sponsored a student who
won a spot in the program through a local
architectural design contest. Today, Jef
fery is the founder and managing partner
at Jeffery Gross Associates Architects P.A.
in Hollywood, Fla.
On the right is Michael Alpert, a high
school student in the summer program.
He was identified by childhood friend
Gregg E. Hutt, ARC 1991, who is now a
lawyer with Trenam Kemker in Tampa.
Michael went to the University of Miami
and is now a city planner for the City
of Miramar.
Thank you to everyone who responded!
Now, here's another photo (bottom right).
If you recognize someone in the photo,
please e-mail us at perspective@dcp.ufl.
edu or write to the college to let us know.
Please include an update of what you've
been doing. Then, we will report what we
find in the next issue of the magazine. ]I


Pictured at left: Jeffrey Gross. Pictured at right: Michael Alpert.


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"How does urban planning help create sustainable communities? In theory,

it is through understanding the process and potential implications of solving

problems. I agree, but I believe urban planning is about more. Urban planning

is an opportunity. Urban planning is one of the few professions that emphasize

the power of relationships in solving problems, especially between members of

diverse communities. Urban planning is an opportunity to create change in the

community, on the landscape and for the world."


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PERSPECTIVE 2007-2008

Editor: Julie Frey

Contributors: Melissa Filipkowski, Kristin Harmel,
Maria Martinez and Kaitlin O'Farrill

DCP Public Relations Committee:
Kevin Grosskopf, Tina Gurucharri, Joseli Macedo,
Nam-Kyu Park, Kim Tanzer

Special thanks to: Barbara Cleveland

Perspective is published annually by the University of
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