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Karen Kensek and I are seeking graphic material for the cover and margins of the ACADIA Quarterly. The Quarterly is the journal of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture.
The material should be black and white or gray-scale. Each graphic should be identified by the author and purpose, and we would appreciate a paragraph describing what the graphic is and why it is important or interesting.
Student work, research, or just explorations on the computer are welcome. Submission and publication of material is free of charge. Submissions cannot be returned unless submitted with postage paid return envelope. Please include a short note granting ACADIA the right to publish the material and stating that the graphic belongs to you. Copyright remains with the original author of the work.
Douglas NobleSchool of Architecture 204 Watt Hall University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291
We have reopened the search for a new Dean for the School of Architecture. If anyone is interested in further particulars, please contact me. I will send an e-mail note.
Douglas Noblednoble@usc.edu School of Architecture 204 Watt Hall University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291
We are in the intermediate stages of preparing a lecture series on Computers in Architecture to be given at the University of Southern California. The series will involve 7-10 lectures to be held one per week throughout the semester. The topics are to be fairly broad in scope and should appeal to students, faculty, and the architecture profession.
Interested speakers, sponsors, and other participants are invited to contact the Lecture Series committee at the address below or reply by e-mail. Speakers will be selected primarily upon the perceived likelihood of drawing a broad audience and stirring a lively debate. We are particularly interested in professional impacts of architectural computing. The audiences for lectures at USC are predominately practicing architects. We also attract students and faculty from UCLA, Cal Poly, SciArc and Art Center College in Pasadena.
Sponsorships for the development of announcements, posters, invitations for speakers, and for publications are welcome.
This series coincides with a major campaign to improve the architectural computing environment at the School of Architecture at USC. We are now involved with dramatic curricular, facilities, and equipment improvements. A study is being made regarding the introduction of a doctoral program in conjunction with the School of Cinema and the Department of Computer Science (The USC School of Cinema is considered one of the finest in the country, and is supported by funding from Carson, Lucas, and Spielberg). We are pursuing professionally-oriented architectural computing in its broadest sense, and hope that ties to these other Schools will strengthen our relationship to the profession.
The faculty, dean, provost and president of the School and university are firmly committed to developing a program in architectural computing that provides a mark of distinction to USC (as long as it doesn't cost too much).
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Douglas Noble USC Computers in Architecture Lecture Series 204 Watt Hall School of Architecture University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291
dnoble@usc.edu (213) 740-4589 (213) 740-8884 FAX (213) 745-2896 Home
The ARACHNET Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture shall be created and published by ARACHNET. Virtual culture is computer- mediated human experience/behavior/action/interaction, such as electronic mail, conferences, and journals; information distribution/retrieval; the construction and visualization of images/representations/models of reality and/or worlds; and global connectivity. The purpose of the refereed journal is to faster, encourage, advance, and communicate scholarly thought, (including analysis, evaluation, and research) in multiple disciplines about virtual culture.
Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief. Diane Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor. A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University, Consulting Editor.
The Journal will be issued monthly commencing with the first issue on March 15, 1993.
Each issue of the Journal well be less than 100 typewritten pages in length in the first year.
The official language of the Journal will be English. Translations into other languages for limited issues may be approved by special arrangement.
Deadlines for the submission of manuscripts will be the first of the month preceding the next issue. The deadline for the submission of manuscripts for the first issue is February 1, 1993.
Articles will be 5-20 typewritten pages in APA form and style and in ASCII format.
All manuscripts will be given at least two blind reviews by a jury of referees.
Authors will be notified within twenty days after receiving their manuscript of the disposition of the manuscript, except notification about submissions for the first issue will be distributed by March 1, 1993.
All submissions and communication about manuscripts will be by electronic mail sent to: dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu or dkovacs@kentvm.
No subscription fee for the Journal is contemplated.