The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is hosting the first joint conference for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the National Council of Art Administrators (NCAA) from November 4-7, 2009. The conference, titled "Economies: Art+Architecture," will focus on establishing new directions for creative leadership, education, and practice.

Below is the tentative schedule of events for November 5. For the most up-to-date information about the entire conference, visit the main page for the ACSA/NCAA Conference.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

7am–5pm       Conference Registration
                      Chase Park Plaza Hotel

7am               Continental breakfast

8:30am          CONFERENCE WELCOME
                     Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University

9am               LECTURE I
                     Rick Lowe, Founder, Project Row Houses
                     Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art + Architecture
                     
10am             Coffee Break
                 
10:15am        PANEL DISCUSSIONS
                     
                     "Art + Architecture: New Structures/New Degrees"
                     Moderator: Carmon Colangelo, Dean, Sam Fox School
                     Panelists:
                      Stephen Beal, President, California College of the Arts, MBA Design
                      Strategy
                      Wellington Reiter, President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
                     Katerina Ruedi Ray, Director, School of Art, Bowling Green State
                     University
                     Ruth Weisberg, Dean, USC Roski School of Fine Arts

                     "Art + Architecture = Environment: Creativity and Sustainability"
                     Moderator: Peter MacKeith, Associate Dean, Sam Fox School
                     Panelists:
                      Mary Ann Lazarus, Senior Vice President, Sustainable Design Director,
                      HOK Architects
                      Emily Blumenfeld, Partner, Via Partnership, LLP
                      John Bielenberg, Founder, Project M
                      Kim Tanzer, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

11:45am        ACSA Lunch on your own

12-2pm          NCAA Lunch/Board Meeting

1:30pm          PANEL DISCUSSIONS
                    
                     "Beyond the Studio: The New Landscape of Social and Situated
                      Practices"
                     Moderator: Patricia Olynyk, Director, Graduate School of Art, Sam Fox
                     School                   
                     Panelists:
                     Thomas A. Dutton, Professor, Director, Miami University Center for
                     Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
                     Michael Mercil, Associate Professor, College of the Arts, Ohio State
                     University
                     Saul Ostrow, Chair, Visual Art and Technology, The Cleveland
                     Institute of Art
                     Anna Rubbo, Associate Professor of Architecture, Design and Planning,
                     The University of Sydney, Australia

                     "Bauhaus to BIM: Craft, Technology and Foundation Education"
                     Moderator: Bruce Lindsey, Dean, College of Architecture/Graduate
                     School of Architecture & Urban Design, Sam Fox School
                     Panelists:
                     Adam Kallish, Instructor, Architecture, Interior Architecture, and
                     Designed Objects, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
                     Mehrdad Hadighi, Associate Professor, Chair, School of Architecture
                     and Planning, University at Buffalo
                     Mary Stewart, Professor, Director of Foundations, Department of Art,
                     Florida State University

3:15pm          ACSA/NCAA Buses depart Chase Park Plaza Hotel for Washington
                     University Campus (Sam Fox School complex)

4pm               SAM FOX SCHOOL STUDIO TOURS
                      Sam Fox School student ambassadors will lead tours of Art &
                      Architecture studios; docents will lead tours of the Kemper Art
                      Museum

6:30pm          LECTURES II & III
                     Anna Rubbo, Founder, Global Studio
                     John Bielenberg, Founder, Project M                  
                     Skandalaris Awards for Entrepreneurship in Design & Visual Arts
                     Etta Eiseman Steinberg Auditorium, Washington University

7:45pm          ACSA/NCAA Buses depart Washington University for Chase Park Plaza
                     Hotel