SAVANNAH, Georgia – The Savannah College of Art and Design announces Christian Sottile, AIA, as the new dean of the School of Building Arts. Sottile will oversee the undergraduate and graduate departments of architectural history, architecture, furniture design, historic preservation, interior design and urban design.

Alongside his Savannah-based urban design firm, which focuses on civic design and master planning, emphasizing historic research, urban analysis and community-wide engagement, Sottile has been a professor of architecture and urban design at SCAD since 1999. Most recently, Sottile led the design of the new SCAD Museum of Art, a provocative historic preservation project that revived the freight sheds of the Central of Georgia Railroad complex, a National Historic Landmark and the only extant antebellum railroad complex in the country.

“The museum project manifests what we do at SCAD’s School of Building Arts,” says Sottile. “It dissolves perceived boundaries between design disciplines – architecture, interior design, urban design – and expands the meaning of historic preservation, where the past isn’t necessarily sacred, but part of our future.”

On the future of building arts, Sottile says, “The future is the city, where all design disciplines come together, and where all design disciplines are needed at the same time. At SCAD, we are doing nothing less than preparing students in the School of Building Arts to be the designers of the new city.”

Sottile holds a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) from SCAD’s School of Building Arts, from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1997, as well as a Master of Architecture and Urban Design (M.Arch. II) from Syracuse University. In between graduate degrees, Sottile pursued extensive urban research in Italy.

Sottile has received numerous awards for his work, including an international Charter Award from the Congress for New Urbanism, awards from the American Planning Association and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, a National Honor Award for Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects as well as an Art Leadership and Artist Award from the National Council of Arts Administrators.

“At SCAD, we prepare our students for careers in art and design,” says Vice President for Academic Services Gokhan Ozaysin, “and having Christian at the helm of the School of Building Arts models the professional practice we desire for our students.”

“The New Urbanist movement is dramatically transforming the way that illustrations and renderings are incorporated into the dialog of community planning and placemaking. New Urbanism has provided a means of visual communication that enables citizens from all walks of life to become engaged in planning their neighborhoods and communities. Vivid and compelling artwork, communicative renderings, and beautiful illustrations are all part of The Art of the New Urbanism. Here is your chance to show your best work and to contribute your ideas to the ongoing conversation. CNU 20 will feature an art exhibition celebrating the aesthetic of the New Urbanism. If you are an artist and would like to participate in the exhibition, submit your piece today! View the guidelines for submissions at the Art of the New Urbanism webpage.” http://www.cnu20.org/content/art-new-urbanism-call-submissions

Submissions Guidelines

Stage 1 – Initial Image Submission Process

Click here to download the Stage 1 Submission Form (PDF)

Each artist may submit up to 8 images

Stage 1 image submissions must be received by November 30, 2011 to be considered for inclusion

Submissions must be sent via e-mail

Please attach the following to the email:

1. a completed digital copy of above-linked submission form

2. a digital file (1024 x 768 dpi max size jpg) of each submission image

Names of all emails, images, and submission form must begin with: artist’s last name, first name (ie. Doe, Jane) Email your submission(s) to: artofthenu@gmail.com

Artists whose images are selected:

1. will be emailed a Stage 2 – Submission Process form on January 11, 2012

2. will be charged a modest printing and framing fee (between $20 and $50 depending on reproduction sizes)

Stage 2 – Final Image Submission Process

Stage 2 image submissions must be received by January 31, 2012 to be considered for inclusion

Each image must be sent in a separate email ** Please attach the following to the email: 1. a completed digital copy of the Stage 2 submission form for each image 2. a digital file (300dpi tif) of the submission image ** Names of all emails, images, and submission forms must begin with: artist’s last name, first name and image number (ie. Doe, Jane image 01 – Aerial of Town Center) Email your submission(s) to: artofthenu@gmail.com ** Gmail accounts are able to send/receive files up to 25MB. If your file is larger than 25MB, please email us to discuss an alternate submission method.**

Join us in welcoming Don Safrit and Richard Collier, P.E. representing McKim&Creed, P.A. of Wilmington, N.C., as they present (Non-Traditional Sources of Water : Moving our Communities Towards More Sustainable Water Use, by Don Safrit) and (Green Stormwater Solutions : Moving Towards Sustainable Stormwater Design, by Richard Collier, P.E.).

Date and time: January 18, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Location: SCAD Student Center

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“A space becomes a place through a synthesis of the senses. This synthesis is the catalyst of experience and can only occur in an environment of incubation.”

The Incubation of Experience installation seeks to offer an experience created through a synthesis of the existing. The elements of a Savannah square entice all the senses, sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. Without a place to intake and understand these senses as a whole, one cannot fully understand this space. Through the combination and incubation of these elements a new element is created, one of understanding an experience. The installation is born cognitive of its place, and seeks to live in that place, grow in that place and die in that place, taking from it and giving to it.

David Hauser | dhause20@student.scad.edu | dhauser.design@gmail.com | Special thanks to Baxter Frost

Re-Blogged from Yanko Design

12.22.10 Chris Burns

“Love for a design for such a specific purpose, that’s what I’ve got here. Designer Bradley L. Bowers found himself intrigued by the idea of a desk/surface as an artifact that engages and enlivens its environment. Should all desks and tables and such seek to activate the space they sit in? That’s a big question. What Bowers decided to do here is create a desk that’d alter the space it’s in: perception, interaction, and interpretation. This is a desk for writing haiku. What a unique sort of assignment Bowers bestowed upon himself. A desk that collects elements from the room around it, integrating into the space, made specifically for writing a single type of poetry. Lovely.”

Designer: Bradley L. Bowers

http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/12/22/poetry-in-surface/

www.dezeen.com/2010/12/17/kaohsiung-port-terminal-by-reiser-umemoto#more-108431

OCU Founder, Chris Kinlaw