Directors
Richard S. Levine
CSC Design Studio Principal Architect
5675 Kiddville Lane Lexington, KY, USA 40515-9596 CSCDS Office and Fax: (001) 859-272-6444 CSCDS Email: rslevine@cscdesignstudio.com |
University of Kentucky 117 Pence Hall Lexington, KY, USA 40506-0041 UK Office: (001) 859-257-1437 UK Fax: (001) 859-323-1990 UK E-mail: rlevine@uky.edu |
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From early in his architectural career, Prof. Richard S. Levine has been a pioneer and advocate for sustainability-oriented architecture in the United States. He has over 200 publications on solar energy and sustainability research and projects. He has conducted sustainable city research and projects in Italy, Austria, China, the Middle East as well as in Kentucky.
In the mid 1980’s, Prof. Levine, along with his colleague Ernest J. Yanarella, started the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) at the University of Kentucky, to study and advance the theory of sustainability. Partnering with Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, director of Oikodrom: the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, the CSC pinpointed the scale of the city or city-region as the scale at which homeostatic relationships between social, environmental and economic issues could reach a necessary critical mass, a pivotal discovery which lead to the eventual formation of the Operational Definition of Sustainability. In the early 1990’s, the CSC and Oikodrom partnered up again to work on a series of three commissioned design studies for a neighborhood-as-a-hill to be built over the
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Westbahnhof rail-yard using a coupled-pan space-frame system patented by Prof. Levine. The City-as-a-Hill urban form, the Sustainable Urban Implantation, the Partnerland Principle, the Sustainable Area Budget, the Operation Definition of Sustainability, and many other sustainable urban design principles were bolstered by the Westbahnhof project and continue to be studied and expanded upon today.
From 2002-2005, Prof. Levine was the sole American researcher in the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS project which studied rural villages in six Chinese provinces from a sustainability perspective. In 2005, the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS) was formed as an extension of the CSC and Prof. Levine’s private architectural practice. In 2007, the CSCDS, headed by Prof. Levine, organized a system-dynamics modeling seminar in Fez, Morocco, as one of the concluding meetings for the recently completed European Commission sponsored HAMMAM project (2005-2007) that studied traditional Islamic bath houses in five Mediterranean countries. |
Ernest J. Yanarella
University of Kentucky1659 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY, USA
40506
Office: 859-257-2989
Email: ejyana@uky.edu
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Design/Research Associates
Casey Ryan Mather, AIA Assoc.
5675 Kiddville LaneLexington, KY, USA
40515-9596
CSCDS Office and Fax: (001) 859-272-6444
Mobile: (001) 270-304-6687
CSCDS Email: crmather@cscdesignstudio.com
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Casey Ryan Mather joined the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) as an undergraduate student in architecture under the tutelage of Prof. Richard S. Levine in 2003, and was later brought in as a design and research associate at the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS). For his undergraduate thesis, in conjunction with the CSCDS, Mr. Mather co-designed several sustainability-oriented urban design scenarios for the relocation of downtown Martin, Kentucky. For his master’s thesis, also in conjunction with the CSCDS, Mr. Mather was one of the head designers for the “Sustainable-Public Administration Town-as-a-Hill.” This project was entered into an international urban design competition for a new administrative city in South Korea,
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and earned him his M. ARCH degree in 2007. Mr. Mather later joined in further elaborating upon the City-as-a-Hill study, entitled “Sustainable Reclamation: An Urban Model for Coal Country,” designed to be built over an un-reclaimed coal strip-mining site in Whitesburg, Kentucky. This project received accolades as a finalist in the RIBA-USA International Design Competition, Building a Sustainable World: Life in the Balance in 2007. With his associates in the CSCDS, Mr. Mather has co-authored over sixteen published papers and articles, aided in the system-dynamics modeling for the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS and HAMMAM projects, and presented his research in the US and China.
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Michael T. Hughes, LEED AP, Assoc. AIA
5675 Kiddville LaneLexington, KY, USA
40515-9596
CSCDS Office and Fax: (001) 859-272-6444
Mobile: (001) 859-420-5746
CSCDS Email: mthughes@cscdesignstudio.com
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Michael T. Hughes joined the Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) as an undergraduate student in architecture under the tutelage of Prof. Richard S. Levine in 2003, and was later brought in as a design and research associate at the CSC Design Studio (CSCDS). For his master’s thesis, in conjunction with the CSCDS, Mr. Hughes’ coordinated a series of sustainability-oriented urban design scenarios for the city of Martin, Kentucky, which earned him his M. ARCH degree in 2005. Mr. Hughes’ undergraduate thesis for a City-as-a-Hill, entitled “Sustainable Reclamation: An Urban Model for Coal Country,” was designed to be built over an un-reclaimed coal strip-mining site in Whitesburg, Kentucky. His study was later picked
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up by the CSCDS and received accolades as a finalist in the RIBA-USA International Design Competition, Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance in 2007. Mr. Hughes was one of the head designers for the “Sustainable-Public Administration Town-as-a-Hill” which was entered into an international urban design competition in for a new administrative city in South Korea. With the CSCDS, Mr. Hughes has co-authored over sixteen published papers and articles, aided in the system-dynamics modeling for the European Commission sponsored SUCCESS and HAMMAM projects, and presented his research in the US and Turkey.
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Laura Alex Frye-Levine, Director of Research
5675 Kiddville LaneLexington, KY, USA
40515-9596
CSCDS Office and Fax: (001) 859-272-6444
CSCDS Email: Laura@cscdesignstudio.com
Website: www.lauraalex.com
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Laura Alex Frye-Levine is a sustainability scientist with a background in social ecology and sustainable development. Inspired by her work in community environmental development, she returned to her native Kentucky in 2009 to join the CSC. She is currently co-authoring a book with Richard S. Levine: Cities and Sustainability: Integration for the 21st Century, to be published in 2010. Cities and Sustainability examines regional scale synergies between ecological stewardship and city design. Working from decades of research in urban sustainability at the CSC, the book offers proposal for a new urban design process at the ecological scale of the city-region.
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Laura Alex holds degrees from Smith College and Yale University, where she completed a Masters of Sustainability Science in 2008. At Yale, she worked with Gus Speth in sustainable economics and wrote a thesis in international community development. Laura Alex has a keen interest in bringing an awareness of complex environmental issues to a wide audience. Her 2008 film, Export, has screened at international environmental conferences in Boston, Beijing, and Nairobi. Export chronicles the struggles for survival faced by a Honduran mountain community in the face of an increasingly commodified landscape. The film is supported by academic and environmental media grants and is searching for a distributor.
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Associates
Heidi Dumreicher Ph.D
Oikidrom: The Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability Stutterheimstrasse 16-18/Stiege 3
A-1150 Wien, Austria, Europe
Phone: (043) 1 984 23 51
Fax: -2
Email: office@oikodrom.org
Website: www.oikodrom.org
Taqi Radmard
TAJEER ARCHITECTS & URBANISTS64 RAZI St, ENQELAB Ave
TEHRAN 11337, IRAN
Phone: (098) 21 66702288
Fax: (098) 21 66717345
E-mail: tadradmard@yahoo.com
Website: www.tajeerarch.com
Bill Fleming
Shelter Technology Inc.15 Glenn Bridge Rd. #D
Arden NC 28704
Phone: (001) 828-651-8206
Fax: (001) 828-687-8756
E-mail: Billf@sheltertech.com
Website: www.sheltertech.com
Pongsak Chaisuparasmikul Ph.D
College of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology
3140 South Michigan Avenue, #604
Chicago, IL 60616-3807 U.S.A.
Phone: (001) 312-225-4610
Fax: (001) 775 368 3267
E-mail: pongsak_archenergy@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.pongsak-chaisuparasmikul.com
Printable Curriculum Vitae
Hassan Radoine
Professional Architect/Planner
ADER-Fès (Agence de Dedensification et de Rehabilitation
de la Medina de Fes) in Morocco and University of Pennsylvania
You can read about Hassan Radoine's work in the Medina of Fez entitled
"Conservation-Based Cultural, Environmental, and Economic Development:
The Case of the Walled City of Fez"
ADER-Fès (Agence de Dedensification et de Rehabilitation
de la Medina de Fes) in Morocco and University of Pennsylvania
You can read about Hassan Radoine's work in the Medina of Fez entitled
"Conservation-Based Cultural, Environmental, and Economic Development:
The Case of the Walled City of Fez"
