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Renée Cheng
Biography Renée Cheng is a graduate of Harvard’s GSD and Harvard College. A registered architect, her professional experience includes work for Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners and Richard Meier and Partners before founding Cheng-Olson Design. She taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona before joining the faculty University of Minnesota in January of 2002 where she is currently Head. She has been recognized for teaching excellence with numerous teaching awards. Her research involves documenting case studies of buildings that integrate design with emerging technologies. She is been tracking several large-scale projects by Frank Gehry and Associates as well as smaller scale CAD-CAM work done by firms such as SHoP Architects, A.R.O. and Tripyramid. She is interested in ways that design ideas are mediated as they become built reality. She recently edited a new chapter on Computing Technology for Architectural Graphic Standards based on some of this case study research due out in March 07. Professor Cheng has has written on the topic of architectural education in the context of emerging practices and technology. These writings have appeared in the 2006 AIA Report on Integrated Practice and the Education Summit at ACADIA in 2004. She is currently chair of the ACSA working group writing a white paper to advise on how Integrated Practice might change the NAAB accreditation process. She is also co-chairing an ACSA committee charged with developing a holistic data-gathering effort to allow prospective students more insight into character of architectural education in programs around the country.
2006 “Suggestions for an Integrated Practice” in AIA Report on Integrated Practice, ed. Norm Strong, Daniel Friedman, Mike Broshar, also excerpted in AECBytes, Viewpoint July 2006 2000 "Master Architect Redux: How Digital Progress Helped Restore the Role of the Master Architect, published" in Proceedings for ACSA National Meeting, Baltimore, MD 2000 "Blobs and Bytes: The Construction of the Experience Music Project", published in Proceedings for ACSA East Central Regional Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI 1998 "Wielding a Bigger Hammer: Scaling Up the Instruments of Construction", Proceedings for the ACSA National Meeting, Cleveland, OH 2000 "Frank O. Gehry Biography" and "Bilbao Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain" essays in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Fitzroy and Dearborn, Chicago. 1999 "Reichstag, Berlin Germany" and "Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" essays in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Fitzroy and Dearborn, Chicago.
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