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A team of NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students earned the top award at the prestigious Cal Poly Design Village 2013 competition April 19–21, beating out teams from 14 other California schools. The NSAD student team won the “Best Overall” category for demonstrating the best application of the design competition’s themes, “Make. Move. Play.”  The winning team included NSAD students Joshua Nunnally, Sebastian Beingolea, Anina Varghese, Barrak Darweesh and Matthew Padilla. This team was among 34 involved in the competition, including four other student teams from NSAD. All the NSAD student teams developed their entries as part of a design studio course taught by NSAD instructor Hussein Munaim. The annual Cal Poly Design Village competition challenges students to develop structures that are not only unique but also portable and habitable.

The Construction Management Association of America’s (CMAA) San Diego chapter has selected NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) as a “2013 Friend of the Industry.” The award recognizes a collaborative partner that has supported CMAA chapter activities and the construction management profession. The award was presented at the chapter’s Annual Awards Banquet April 25, 2013, along with scholarships to four NSAD Construction Management students that ranged from $500 to $5,000. The four NSAD Construction Management students who received scholarships from CMAA for their academic excellence were: Jake Jaenicke, Joseph Kovac Jr., Vincent Macias and German Morales, who are all students in NSAD’s Bachelor of Science in Construction Management campus-based program at NSAD and actively involved in the NSAD CMAA Student Chapter. At the awards banquet, several other NSAD Construction Management graduate and undergraduate students were also acknowledged for attaining the status of Construction Manager in Training (CMIT).

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A team of NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students earned the top award at the prestigious Cal Poly Design Village 2013 competition April 19–21, beating out teams from 14 other California schools. The NSAD student team won the “Best Overall” category for demonstrating the best application of the design competition’s themes, “Make. Move. Play.”

The winning team included NSAD students Joshua Nunnally, Sebastian Beingolea, Anina Varghese, Barrak Darweesh and Matthew Padilla. This team was among 34 involved in the competition, including four other student teams from NSAD. All the NSAD student teams developed their entries as part of a design studio course taught by NSAD instructor Hussein Munaim. The annual Cal Poly Design Village competition challenges students to develop structures that are not only unique but also portable and habitable—a task requiring a mastery of form and function that is emphasized throughout the NSAD curriculum. The winning project by the NSAD team was made of aluminum pipe and tubes, PVC pipes, and steel cable tensions, according to Munaim. The project also incorporated canvas and a hand-made hammock of cotton rope.

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The late Petar Perisic, community activist, architect, art critic, professor, and kind mentor initiated the PERI_scope project for art + architecture in 2004 as a public offering. The project was founded as “a means of reconciliation between global humanitarian concerns and fractured interests through transnational dialogues and cross-cultural exchanges.

Today the PERI_scope project exists as a 501(c)(3) cooperative activating a nexus of art, architecture and urbanism toward pedagogy, advocacy, cultural amenities and interventionist projects. It is a collaborative between many colleagues, most importantly, James Enos and Molly Enos but also Chuck Miller, Keith Muller, Andera Ngan, and Nate Hudson of FormGrey Studio. It is intended for art, architecture, fellowship, and community exchange in the form of work, project, and common space.

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Alumni and students from NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) received top awards from the Balboa Park Centennial Gateway Competition, including the People’s Choice Award, for their design proposals that provide new visions for San Diego’s iconic park. The competition, sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, attracted a total of 44 submissions from both students and architects from respected firms.

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A team of NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students earned the top award at the prestigious Cal Poly Design Village 2013 competition April 19–21, beating out teams from 14 other California schools. The NSAD student team won the “Best Overall” category for demonstrating the best application of the design competition’s themes, “Make. Move. Play.”

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Undergraduate architecture student Holly Horton won the 2018 Alumni Scholarship Award from the ACE Mentor Program.

A team of NewSchool of Architecture & Design students won first place in the category of Virtual Design and Construction at the Associated Schools of Construction (Regions 6 and 7) 2013 Student Competition near Reno, Nevada, February 5–8, 2013. NewSchool competed against student teams from 11 other schools around the country. The school’s winning team was composed of six students from the architecture and construction management programs.

This was NewSchool’s first time participating in the competition, making the win particularly significant for the school’s relatively new construction management department, which introduced a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management program in 2010.

NewSchool student team members included Jake Jaenicke, Vincent Macias, and Joe Kovac, who are all enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Construction Management program, and Steven Hansen, Antonio Barragan and Athena Dadiz, who are all in the Bachelor of Architecture program. Other NewSchool students involved in the competition were German Morales, who served as a team alternate, and Charles Marion, who served as student coach. Both are enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Construction Management program. The team’s faculty coach was George Welch, who is the chair of NewSchool’s construction management department.

Former Construction Management Chair Linda Thomas-Mobley and Construction Management Advisory Board members also provided support to Welch and the students. Specialists with Balfour Beatty Construction — including Brad Hardin, national vice president–technology, and Elizabeth Angel, BIM manager — assisted the students in preparing for the competition.

A NewSchool of Architecture & Design student received the first place Eco Innovators Award of Excellence during the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s annual ECO Innovators Showcase on May 1, 2014. The organization gave high marks to the design by NewSchool student Nick Wilson, and also noted the school’s “innovative teaching philosophy that inspires… students to develop sustainable environmental solutions.”

The competition, part of the Metropolitan’s annual Spring Green Expo, attracted projects from 20 universities and community colleges throughout Southern California in individual and team categories. Wilson’s project, which was one of three NewSchool entries, featured examples of single-family sustainable “Eco Houses” for desert climates such as Phoenix, Ariz. The project incorporates wind flow patterns and a pond and fountain element to encourage the flow of cool air through the homes, resulting in greater energy efficiency. The concept was developed by Wilson, who is in the Bachelor of Architecture program, under the guidance of NewSchool instructor Don Mirkovich.

The other NewSchool entries included a project by student James Darby that was also guided by Don Mirkovich, and a submission by student Joshua Nunnally that was guided by NewSchool instructor Victor Navarro.

A panel of judges from Metropolitan’s Engineering, Water Resource Management, and External Affairs groups scored the entries for the ECO Innovators Showcase competition, resulting in a tie for top individual honors in the Eco Innovators Award of Excellence category that Wilson received. The event and competition serve to bring awareness to topics related to water conservation and sustainability and includes exhibitions highlighting related technology, products, services, and programs.

Four NewSchool of Architecture & Design students were selected to the finals at the 2014 Red Bull Creation Competition, a 72-hour innovation competition which challenges the nation’s best and brightest makers, hackers, and inventors to innovate around a secret topic.

The project, which was developed in a fourth year Urban Issues class with Luisa Shultz, an instructor at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, was selected as one of six finalists from across the country to compete against five well-established organizations. Competing under the name Tactical Urbanists, this was the only student group selected to compete. Julio A. Media, David Harrison, Anastasia Podolskaya, and Boyd Wheeler traveled to Detroit to participate in the competition. “Our theme is to activate space through problem-solving derived from our urban background mixed with the challenges which will be faced from the competition and the location. With our architectural background, we have attained the ability to look at problems through a different lens than most. One of our greatest strengths is our ability to see hidden potentials in areas which most people would not recognize. Architectural studies have provided us with a diverse background of experience, which allows us to make connections across various topics,” said David Harrison, Co-Founder/Designer.