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Architecture
Wyly Brown (2006-07)
Wyly received a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in June 2006. Between 2006 - 2007, as a German Chancellor Fellow, he worked on designs for rapidly deployable disaster relief structures at the Technical Universität München and at the Universität Stuttgart. He is now employed at Behnisch Architekten in Munich, and is using the parametric design techniques developed through his research to build innovative roof structures. (12/8/09)
Lukas Kronawitter (2007-08)
Lukas graduated from Drexel University in 2006 with a BA in architecture. Working with several firms in the Philadelphia area Lukas developed a particular interest in the adaptive reuse and recycling of aging industrial buildings. Lukas traveled to Germany as a German Chancellor Fellow to investigate waste reduction in architecture at the Technical University of Munich Department for Building Construction and Building Materials Science. Research included contemporary practices for building materials recycling, life cycle analysis, and waste mapping. A particularly important goal was the development construction systems for closed-loop reuse. These systems, primarily applicable to multiple family housing, utilize 100 percent reusable building materials while allowing for complete deconstruction and dissassembly of construction components. Undamaged materials can therefore be isolated during renovations or dissasmbly for reuse. Lukas is currently a practicing Architect in Philadelphia, Pennsyvannia. (Write to info@americanfriends-of-avh.org for email address.) (6/26/09)
John Maciuika (1998-99)
John specializes in 19th and 20th-century modern architectural history and theory, with a focus on Germany and Central Europe. His research emphasizes issues of cultural identity in architecture, urbanism, and the applied arts, and concentrates particularly on Germany, Austria, the former Soviet Union, and the Baltic States. John studies such issues as the changing definitions of “modern” architecture over time, the cultural politics of architecture in particular national settings, and the impact that broader social, economic, and cultural processes have on design. John is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History at the City University of New York, Baruch College, in Manhattan's Gramercy Park area. He also teaches in the Ph.D. program in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. His book, Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890-1920, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2005, and was the focus of his research in Berlin during his time as a German Chancellor Fellow and later as a Humboldt Research Fellow. John is the principal investigator for architecture and urbanism for the large, UCLA-based research website "Hypermedia Berlin", and is working on two new publishing projects: a book titled The Berlin Palimpsest: Architecture as History in Germany's Capital, and an edited collection of essays titled Local Modernities: Modern Architecture in Cultural Context. (6/26/09)
Alan Organschi (1992-93)
Alan Organschi is the design principal and a partner at Gray Organschi Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a member of the faculty of the Yale School of Architecture where he coordinates Yale's first year graduate housing studio which culminates each spring with the student design and construction of an affordable house in New Haven. He also lectures on building technology in architectural design. From 2005-2007 he served as the Area Coordinator for the Material and Production curriculum at the graduate school. As a consulting expert and an active member of the Advisory Board for The Seedlings Teacher Collaborative, Mr. Organschi works closely with New Haven private and public school teachers to bring project-based education to the city’s schools. In 2009, he was one of the first recipients of a research grant from The Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architectural Design for his work on high density, high performance wood housing in the United States. Mr. Organschi received a Bachelor's degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture where he was awarded the William Wirt Winchester Travelling Fellowship for academic and design excellence. He has also studied at both the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design. After completing his graduate work in architecture, he edited the 27th edition of PERSPECTA: the Yale Architectural Journal. In 1992, he was awarded a German Chancellor's Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During the following year and a half he conducted research on the post-unification redevelopment of East Berlin. From 1994-96, he was the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University. He has lectured on the subjects of architecture, technology, and urban renewal at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies and at the Roger Williams University School of Architecture and has served as a guest critic at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. (6/19/09)
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