University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Architecture

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Congratulations again to Karla Sierralta, Brian Strawn, and their entire team for receiving a 2022 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for the Future of Hawaii’s Housing research project. Incredibly happy to see them receive this well-deserved recognition in-person at the ACSA annual meeting and awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

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Career Fair at School of Architecture Courtyard -4pm today! Stop by to meet and learn about the architecture firms here today!

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We are so fortunate that our Hawaii climate ☀️🌴 allows us to interact comfortably outdoors in the winter!
This semester’s ARCH 743 urban design studio “Nature-based Climate Adaptation Design for Waikiki”, which brings grad students in architecture and landscape architecture together, kicked things off in the courtyard on Monday—before migrating to Zoom until the Omicron situation improves. Fingers crossed this spike will subside quickly and we can move to in-person studio instruction soon! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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As the year comes to an end, please join us in taking a look back at one of our online exhibitions: Crossing Boundaries: Spatial Overlap in Far Eastern Art and American Architecture. This exhibit also features an interview series with several notable architects, artists, historians, and their notions about crossing boundaries.

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https://uhsoashengallery.com/Crossing-Boundaries

We would like to give a heartfelt congratulations to our 2021 Bachelor of Environmental Design and Doctor of Architecture Graduates!

Students in our special topics ARCH 490 course taught by Bundit Kanisthakhon presented their proposals for a revitalized Palama Settlement located in the Kalihi-Palama area.

The projects aimed to integrate the community with existing site programs while also providing accessible areas for gathering, play, and socialization.

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Impressions from our second-year ARCH 761 Ecology, Community, and Design studio presentations: “Kapi'olani Park: Towards a Plural Picturesque.”

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Some initial Zoom screenshot impressions from Monday’s final presentation in ARCH 651 Fundamentals of Landscape Design taught by , which started our studio review week. Students in this first-semester MLA I course have explored conceptual site design opportunities for the open space surrounding the Ossipoff Cabin in Pālehua.

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Zoom screenshots from this afternoon’s ARCH 763 studio presentation. In their project, and Camilla B. studied opportunities to introduce green stormwater infrastructure elements along the UH Manoa campus’ central east-west axis while simultaneously addressing circulation and placemaking considerations.

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‼️Calling all UHM Architecture Students‼️

We will be hosting a tutorial for Photoshop and Indesign run by Kris Jugueta! .jugueta

Event is Dec, 7 @ 6pm

Please come and attend!

Zoom link was sent via email.

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If interested in learning more about our degrees and Fall 2022 admissions, please SAVE THE DATE and plan to join us for our December 3, 2021 Virtual Open House. The event will start at 3:00 PM HST. Feel free to DM for the Zoom meeting registration link. 😊🌱
 

Congratulations to alumnus on his 2021 HI ASLA Student Honor Award! Mahalo, and chapter members.

Student: Matthew Higa, MLA ’21

Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 764 Capstone Studio: Research & Design

Capstone committee: Judith Stilgenbauer (chair) ; Phoebe White ; Priyam Das

Traditional Native Hawaiian land management practices developed deceptively simple, naturalized biocultural technologies. This project investigates the terraforming system known as loʻi wai (stormwater redistribution system.) The loʻi wai irrigated loʻi kalo (taro pond fields), which supported large-scale food forests, enhanced watershed performance, created synanthropic ecosystems, and connected people to each other and their local natural resources.

Kuauna, earthen embankments, facilitated the organization and dispersal of stormwater, wai, throughout the loʻi wai system. Additionally, kuauna provided crop windbreaks, expanded growing areas, and connected communities.

Today, ca. 90% of Hawaiʻi’s consumable goods are imported and only approx. 400 acres of loʻi kalo systems remain statewide. Climate change is projected to increase severe stormwater events and native habitat degradation. Hawaiʻiʻs urbanization decreases opportunities for groundwater recharge. This applied design research project investigates the multifaceted ways in which loʻi wai and kuauna can be interpreted to improve Hawaiʻiʻs climate change resilience.

This project was inspired by and a beneficiary of the stewardship and ʻike kūpuna of Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi, a non-profit organization that manages 405 acres of wetland in Heʻeia, Oʻahu.