1. May 2008Issue 8
Department of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture Newsletter
On March 15th, the third year students of Pro-
fessor Regin Schwaen‟s Structures class partici-
pated in the 5th Annual Celtic Festival. The
event was put on at the Hjemkomst Center in
Moorhead, Minn, hosted by the Fargo Park Dis-
trict and Moorhead Parks. The event was ex-
pected to have comparable numbers as its pre-
ceding year, reaching over 2000 spectators.
Participants took in Celtic foods as well as in-
formation, arts and craft booths.
Professor Schwaen‟s class participated by
creating „modern‟ interpretations of ancient
castles by building towers. The 52 students
made Celtic towers out of wood-popsicle sticks
to be exact. The towers had to be „medieval‟ in
technology, meaning no glue was allowed. Also,
the towers were to be as tall as the individual
who designed it. A total of 48 structures were
built, exposing the students to a different culture
and life. Professor Schwaen expressed that he is
continually surprised by the learning experiences
and the motivation displayed by his students.
Photos by Regin Schwaen
Students Exhibit Popsicle Stick Structures
Leaving the cold for a different learning experience.
in sights students experience by
visiting San Francisco. In contrast
to North Dakota‟s “flat prairies
covered with a sea of agricultural
crops” San Francisco offers the
fourth-year students “hills… giving
the city an identifiable image”.
Students worked in teams of two
to design a skyscraper for the
South of Market district in Down-
town San Francisco. In the city
they spent their time taking pho-
tos, sketching and taking notes to
apply towards an informed design
decision for their skyscraper pro-
ject. Serena Calhoun, an NDSU
alumnus, gave the students a his-
tory lesson and some hints about
the hot spots in San Francisco.
Serena is employed by host firm
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
Professor Faulkner noted that
each year the skyscrapers get bet-
ter, and he is continually im-
pressed by the designs created by
the students.
The fourth year studio students
embarked on their annual journey
to San Francisco this fall. While
their fellow Architecture and
Landscape Architecture peers
were enjoying the cold, they were
enjoying 60 degree temperatures!
The trip, as described by Tim
Bungert, marks the beginning of
the High Rise Design portion of
their curriculum. Don Faulkner,
one of the faculty members to
accompany the students, ex-
pressed the need for the diversity
Inside this Issue:
AIA Students Encourage
Recycling 2
Structures I: Brick Structures
2
ALA in The Spectrum:
Competition encourages
playing with your food.
3
Stephen Wischer‟s: Hybrid
Vigor: In the Shadow of a
„Doubt‟ 3
NDSU Graduate, Katherine
Kiefer designs Northwest
Colorado residential project
3X Lucky Ranch illustrates
graduate‟s talents. 4
‟81 NDSU Architecture
Alumni, Michael Schrock, re-
membered.
4
Seventh Annual Design Expo
Attracts 29 firms
5
Donors Establish Lecture
Series and Library Funds 5
Moving Forward... 5
Donations 6
Invitation for Boston
7

2. The American Institute of Architec-
ture Students, AIAS, put together a
design competition for the creation
of practical and meaningful recycling
receptacles to be placed throughout
main campus and the downtown
buildings. Two members:, Brian
Glueckert, communications coordina-
tor, and Casey Feltz, secretary, or-
ganized the advertising and promo-
tion of the project. The competition
was open to all students at NDSU,
regardless of major. In the end, the
students who did compete met with
judges and had their designs cri-
tiqued. The receptacles placed em-
phasis on adaptively reuse of materi-
als, withstand the elements and last
for years to come. Entries were put
on display in the Memorial Union
during Earth Week to let on-lookers
know of the project and what is to
come. The deadline for final con-
struction of the projects is the begin-
ning of the fall semester. These re-
ceptacles will help create an identity
for the campus and show the stu-
dents and the community that we are
paving the way to a more sustainable
way of life here at NDSU.
Article information provided by
Casey Feltz. Photo by Tim Bungert .
Students Assemble Brick Structures Downtown
fifth floor of the downtown art and
architecture building. Professor
Schwaen stated, “I am very sur-
prised about the quality of work the
students did, so I think I have to ex-
tend the 'play' they can do in struc-
ture and space” as well as his appre-
ciation during the talks with the stu-
dents on their feedback and reflec-
tions of the exercise.
Photos by Regin Schwaen
February 13, 3008: Instructor
Regan Schwaen encouraged his stu-
dents to build bricks. Build bricks of
different types. Make them of clay,
wood, steel, wax, foam. Make bricks!
That, his students of Structures I did,
making approximately 1000 bricks.
As a teaching method to provide his
students the skills to feel and experi-
ence the space and structure around
them, Schwaen gave the assignment
to use these student-created bricks
in the foyer of the Downtown archi-
tecture building to erect a meander-
ing wall and buttresses. Being given
the task to be creative with the
space, the class erected the struc-
ture. Upon asking what the students
thought of this project, Micah Deitz
said “[it‟s] great because we are able
to use our hands and the materials
we would as architects.” The foyer
was full of chatter, smiles and intense
critical thinking as on-lookers mean-
dered through and witnessed a peda-
gogy aimed at creating hands-on ex-
periences in a meaningful manner.
Following the creations in the foyer
came an open discussion in the lobby
between the students, Professor
Schwaen and Professor Mike Chris-
tenson. In the weeks to follow, the
students studied the structure of
buildings made of “brick, wood, steel,
concrete, structural glass, stone and
so on.” Professor Schwaen hopes to
use the bricks to create a wall on the
AIAs Students promote competition to encourage recycling.
NDSU Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Newsletter Page 2

3. By Carmen Schatz
Reprinted with permission from the
NDSU The Spectrum:
“The Sweet Jesus” won for best fantasti-
cal land or object. The team was made
up of Ali Celley, Tawnya Iglehart, Ca-
lysta Swor, and Brad Wehrman - Andrea
Johnson/The Spectrum.
Smells of baked goods and rotting meat
wafted through the lobby of the NDSU
Downtown building last Thursday and
Friday.
NDSU visual arts, architecture and land-
scape architecture students competed
with culinary students from Minnesota
State Community and Technical College
in an edible structure contest titled
“Food for Thought” held in the NDSU
Downtown building March 13 and 14.
Faculty and staff were also able to com-
pete in a different division.
Groups of three or four students began
putting their structures together at noon
Thursday and finished by 2 p.m. Judging
began at 3 p.m. Thursday and continued
until Friday afternoon. Approximately
thirty groups competed in the contest.
The creations had to be entirely edible,
although Stevie Famulari, “Food for
Thought” coordinator and NDSU assistant
professor of landscape architecture said,
“Edible is quite a loose word. It doesn’t
mean it must taste good, unless it is in the
tasting category.”
In addition to being completely edible, the
structures had to fit through the entrance of
the building and on the table provided and
stay in the lobby throughout the contest.
The possibilities for the components and
visions for the structures were virtually
endless. The entries varied from a model
for the new 35W bridge made of Rice
Krispies Treats, complete with gummy
cars, created by NDSU architecture stu-
dents Amanda Kohn, Hannah Eslinger,
Branden Kalstad and Stephanie Louis to a
stallion’s head carved from a 50 lb. block
of solid shortening by MSCTC Culinary
Arts faculty member Colleen Kraft.
Judging categories included best meal, most
structurally daring, taster’s choice and juror’s
choice, among others. Judges for the competi-
tion were landscape architect Mike Allmend-
inger, American Institute of Architects’ Jim
Simpson, food critic and Fargo Forum colum-
nist Andrea Halgrimson and Nichole’s Fine
Pastry owner Nichole Hensen.
Competitors were required to include a title for
their structure, an ingredient list, and also an
artistic statement explaining their ingredient
choices and inspiration.
Winners of each category were announced dur-
ing a Friday afternoon reception and award
ceremony.
Photo by
Tim
Bungert
Competition encourages playing with your food.
words, “attempts to breed artis-
tic impulse and architectural
interpretation to eventually cre-
ate a non-reductive Phenome-
nological Expressionism or
„opening‟ for an architecture
born from the gesture, process,
and poetic translation of artistic
creations.” Wischer attempts
to inspire a new way of thinking
to those viewing his works by
constantly involving and amplify-
ing “bodily presence”, captured
in the gesture and fleshy nature
of his work. In a brief inter-
view, Wischer stated that
“architecture is about life, it is
about movement…a series of
bodily movements…what better
catalyst for its design.”
Stephen Wischer, teacher and
advisor in the department of
architecture and landscape ar-
chitecture, presented to the
NDSU architecture and land-
scape architecture students,
faculty, and surrounding area
supporters his Hybrid Vigor: In
the Shadow of Doubt on Thurs-
day January 31st in the Down-
town Gallery. With help from
students (providing numerous
phonebooks) and by recycling
old romance novels, models, art
and ideas, he was then able to
create a mixed-media installa-
tion according to Wischer,
“that, demonstrates the inter-
disciplinary possibilities of an
architecture born form art”.
The installation itself was in-
tended to become architectural
by interacting with the existing
gallery space and the audience
of the show. His main intention
is to eventually create a new
type of architecture that, in his
Closing Reception and Gallery talk of Stephen Wischer’s Hybrid Vigor: In the Shadow of ‘Doubt’.
Photos by Tim Bungert
NDSU Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Newsletter Page 3

4. NDSU Graduate Katherine Kiefer designs Northwest Colorado residential
SteamboatSprings,CO: Katherine
Kiefer, an NDSU graduate, with
Bachelor Degrees in Architec-
ture (‟83) and Arts (‟82), is a co-
founder of West Elevation
Architects, Inc. of Steamboat
Springs, Colorado. Recently,
after collaboration with architec-
ture firm Morningstar Architec-
ture & Development, Kiefer and
colleagues have used “talents to
artfully blend styles, materials,
and environmental surroundings
into a distinctive one-of-a-kind
residence, 3X Lucky Ranch. It
took the team two years to plan,
design, and another two years to
construct, done by Gillaspie
Construction of Steamboat
Springs, Colorado. West Elevation
provided for 3X Lucky Ranch
“comprehensive interior design
services, including furniture and
lighting design…and incorporates
purposeful design and selects
unique building materials to create
structures reflective of the environ-
ment and the client‟s vision.” 3X
Lucky Ranch was featured in an
October 2007 article of Architectural
Digest. More information on West
Elevation Architects, Inc. and the
3X Lucky Ranch can be found at
www.westelev.com.
Information provided by:
Cathy Wiedemer
First Pitch Communications
the "Stone to Stainless" run, the
final event of Architecture Week.
He was a regular participant on
many AIA Minneapolis and AIA
Minnesota Committees. His en-
thusiasm for his profession, his
colleagues and all those he worked
with resulted in significant contri-
butions to AIA Minnesota and to
AIA Minneapolis.
Mike Schrock and Michael DeVet-
ter practiced together as Schrock
DeVetter Architects from 1997
until 2007. In 2007 Mike Schrock
joined with James Lasher to form
Lasher Schrock and Associates,
Inc. (LSA, Design, Inc.).
Born in Casselton, North Dakota,
on May 25, 1954, Schrock earned
a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Goshen College in Goshen, Indi-
ana, and then a Bachelor of Archi-
tecture from North Dakota State
University in 1981.
His wife, Erin Geiser, and two
sons, Atlee and Haven, survive
him.
Mike's creative energy and gentle
manner will be greatly missed.
Information provided by AIA
Minnesota.
Michael L. Schrock (1954-2008)
The sudden death of NDSU Archi-
tecture alumnus Michael L.
Schrock saddens the architecture
community. He was tragically hit
and killed by a pickup truck on
Monday, February 25, 2008 in
Fargo. while preparing, with family,
for his father's funeral.
Mike was actively involved with
AIA Minneapolis as president in
2000 and served continuously on
the Merit Awards Committee
since its inception. He helped cre-
ate and launch the "Building Minne-
sota" radio program on KFAI radio
and co-chaired the AIA Minnesota
Public Awareness Committee in
2005 and 2006. In celebration of
the AIA150 last year, Mike chaired
the Run Committee that organized
’81 NDSU Architecture Alumnus, Michael Schrock, remembered.
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5. Alumni donors have established two
new contribution funds to support continu-
ing excellence in the NDSU architecture
and landscape architecture programs. Over
a year ago, Harlyn Thompson (B.Arch.
1956) made an initial contribution to estab-
lish a Visiting Lecture Series fund (Fund
no. 30170). As you may know, bringing
visiting lecturers to NDSU is a requirement
for accreditation in architecture and land-
scape architecture in order to broaden the
experience of students with new work and
practitioners. Several alumni have also
begun a fund to support the Architec-
ture and Landscape Architecture Li-
brary (Fund no. 30263). The library
continues to serve an essential role in
our students’ education even as more
information becomes available digi-
tally. Digital library holdings largely
supplement, but do not replace, the
need for books and journals.
As always, we greatly appreciate
contributions and gifts from our
alumni and friends. Your support is
instrumental in our continuing quest
Donors Establish Lecture Series and Library Funds
Architecture and landscape architec-
ture firms from ten Western states inter-
viewed 154 students at the 2008 Design
Expo held on the 5th
floor of NDSU
Downtown in February.
The NDSU Career Center sponsored
the first Design Expo in 2002, with the
intent to put potential employers in di-
rect contact with students in architecture
and landscape architecture. That year
eight firms participated, meeting with 49
architecture and landscape architecture
students. By 2008 the number had
grown to 29 firms meeting with 154 stu-
dents.
Given the emerging national status of
NDSU’s architecture program, one Ore-
gon firm has decided to focus their re-
cruiting efforts on two architecture
schools nationwide, one of which being
NDSU. Many firm representatives
were our own alumni who were sent
back to NDSU to recruit more students
from our program. Jill Wilkey, Direc-
tor of the NDSU Career Center, who
organizes the event each year, said,
“This event has become a premier re-
source for firms wanting to connect
with NDSU students for summer jobs
and full-time work after graduation.
The Design Expo attracts firms from
across the country - a fact that illustrates
the competency and attractiveness of
NDSU's students and graduates.”
The 2009 Design Expo will take place
on Thursday, March 5th
. If your firm
wishes to participate, please contact
Jill.Wilkey@ndsu.edu.
for the next level. In addition to the long-
standing Friends of Architecture and
Friends of Landscape Architecture ac-
counts, these two new funds will support
excellence in specific areas of our cur-
riculum. Should you wish to make a con-
tribution to one of the new funds, the fund
numbers given above will assure that your
contribution is directed to the correct
fund.
Moving Forward… Paul Gleye, Department Chair,Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Discovering that our architecture program
is ranked 18th
in the nation by Design Intel-
ligence (see separate article) has caused
quite a stir around here. We have never
shown up on the “Top 20” list before, and
we are there for reasons that we value –
work ethic; solid professional education;
and a balance of design, technology, and
research.
Discovering that our architecture program is
ranked 18th
in the nation by Design Intelli-
gence (see separate article) has caused quite
a stir around here. We have never shown up
on the “Top 20” list before, and we are there
for reasons that we value – work ethic; solid
professional education; and a balance of
design, technology, and research.
Also in celebration we will be hosting
our first annual Architecture Alumni
Reunion in Boston on May 15th. You
should have received an invitation in
the mail; and it is also included else-
where in this newsletter. Further, eve-
ryone is also invited to the dedication
of Klai Hall, the new architecture and
landscape architecture building in
downtown Fargo, to be held at 2 pm
on Friday, October 3, in conjunction
with NDSU Homecoming. We’re
planning a party after that as well.
We also want to begin an annual reun-
ion of Landscape Architecture gradu-
ates at the annual ASLA convention.
As it turns out, out of 366 days in
2008, the alumni reunions at the
ASLA convention in Philadelphia and
the Klai Hall dedication in Fargo are
scheduled for the very same afternoon.
Unfortunately we’ll have to miss Phila-
delphia, but all landscape architecture
graduates should mark your calendars
for September 18, 2009, in Chicago for
the next ASLA convention. We’ll be
there. And we’ll be in San Francisco
at the end of April 2009 for the next AIA
convention as well.
If you are receiving a paper copy of this
newsletter and would prefer to receive a
digital copy instead, please email me.
The less we pay in postage, the more
food we can buy at our next celebration,
and I’ll hope to see you there.
NDSUs architecture program ranked 18th in the nation among 120 architecture
schools
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