[Temporary website – updated September 2011]
FACADE T E C T O N I C S
SPONSORSHIP
FACADE T E C T O N I C S is a non-profit educational group supporting a broad range
of research and educational efforts on the topic of the building envelope. Sponsors and supporters help fund
publications, conferences, workshops, research and scholarships. All funding is used for direct expenses
such as printing, mailing, conference costs, and funding Ph.D. students. There are no payments to staff or
faculty. The organizationsÕ
leadership is entirely composed of volunteers. Everything we do is focused on advancing
the state of the art through research, student scholarships, and educational
events. Contributions have the tax
advantages of a non-profit educational 501c3 organization.
PUBLICATIONS
FACADE T E C T O N I C S
publishes a quarterly journal
and conference proceedings. The
journal does not accept advertising.
Sponsors provide funding to partially offset printing costs and the
costs of paying graduate students to assist with editing, layout, and
administration issues. We have
prepared a draft website, and are collecting and preparing white papers and
other research content for digital publication. Starting with the summer 2012
conference, we will also be preparing a printed conference
proceedings.
CONFERENCES
and WORKSHOPS
FACADE T E C T O N I C S
hosts two regular conferences
each year (summer and winter), plus two smaller workshops. Sponsors help to offset the costs of
conference organization (posters, mailings, etc.) plus paid hourly positions
for graduate students. Some
conference supporters choose to provide funding for meals or receptions for a
conference, and some organize the meals or receptions directly rather than
funding through the FACADE T E C T O N I C S
organization. Our recent conference supporters have
included.
AC MARTIN PARTNERS
ALTOON + PORTER
Architects LLP
ArchitectÕs
Newspaper
Arup
ENCLOS Corp. Inc.
GIROUX GLASS, Inc.
Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Building Technologies Department
Nabih Youssef
Associates
C.R.Laurence Co.,
Inc.
MITSUBISHI-ALPOLIC
Oldcastle Building
Envelope Los Angeles
PARAGON
PPG Architectural
Glass
Simpson Gumpertz
& Heger
SMG Stone Company
W & W Glass, LLC
Walters and Wolf
RESEARCH
FACADE T E C T O N I C S
seeks support in the form of
funded research for our faculty research scientists and our doctoral
students. Grants range from about
$5000 and up, and can be structured for short-term or long-term projects.
ENCLOS Corp. Inc.
Jeld-Wen
SCE
SCHOLARSHIPS
Certainly one of the most valuable things that a sponsor
can do is to choose to provide an endowed scholarship for a doctoral
student. The number of qualified
students applying for positions in the doctoral program far exceeds our ability
to provide scholarships, and many truly outstanding students from around the
country and around the world are turned away each year solely due to lack of
funding resources. We clearly
need much more investment in scholarly research in the field of building
envelopes. Scholarships can be in
the form of one-time gifts (usually in the range of about $2000) to named,
endowed scholarships that last into perpetuity (minimum amount for a permanent,
named and endowed scholarship is $25000, which can be gifted to the University
over a period of five years).
Endowed scholarships are given annually to our best students. These scholarships are recognized at all
of our conferences and in all publications.
The Cannon Design
Scholarship
Arthur C. Eckner
Scholarship
ENCLOS Corp. Inc.
The Fulbright
Foundation
The Donald Hocking
Doctoral Fellowship
Chase L. Leavitt
Endowment
McLarand Vasquez
Emseik
The Oakley
Fellowship
The Robert Allen
Rogaff Doctoral Fellowship in Honor of THOM MAYNE
The Robert Allen
Rogaff Doctoral Fellowship in Honor of FRANK O. GEHRY
CONTACT
Prof. Douglas E. Noble, FAIA, Ph.D.
Chair of the Ph.D. Program and Founder of the CLIPPER
Lab
School of Architecture
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0291 USA
213¥740¥4589
dnoble@usc.edu