Ian Caine and Rahman Azari Co-Recipients of CACP Outstanding Teaching Award

Ian Caine, RA, SMArchS

Rahman Azari, PhD

Dean John Murphy named Assistant Professors Ian Caine and Rahman Azari as co-winners of the College of Architecture Construction and Planning’s Outstanding Teaching Award. The award, presented at the CACP Scholarship Banquet, recognizes exceptional contributions to architectural pedagogy in the college. Caine and Azari co-taught an undergraduate design studio that produced a national COTE Top Ten Award for Students, was selected for a national pilot curriculum project by Architecture 2030, and named by Metropolis Magazine as one of “the 7 best sustainable design courses in America.”

Caine and Azari’s COTE Studio embraced the goals and methods of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, which commits that all new buildings and major renovations will be carbon-neutral by 2030. The two studio instructors—one with expertise in building performance and the other in architectural design—initiated a critical feedback loop, creating dialogue between issues of analysis and design, performance and form. The larger goal of the studio was to explore the oft-misunderstood relationship between architectural sustainability and aesthetics.

UTSA students receive National AIA COTE Top Ten Award

Image: Isaias Garcia Coronado and Daniel Rodriguez Suarez

Isaias Garcia Coronado. Image: UTSA

Daniel Rodriguez Suarez. Image: UTSA

The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) awarded UTSA undergraduates Isaias Garcia Coronado and Daniel Rodriguez Suarez a national COTE Top Ten for Award for their proposal Banding for Knowledge.

The competition jury, composed of national sustainability experts, considered hundreds of projects submitted from across the United States and Canada, selecting ten for recognition. The winning projects will be on display at next year’s AIA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pa and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan.

Coronado and Rodriguez developed the winning architectural proposal last fall in a joint design studio led by UTSA assistant professors Ian Caine and Rahman Azari. Congratulations to Isaias and Daniel!

Caine receives President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence

Image: Mark McClendon, UTSA

Assistant Professor of Architecture Ian Caine has received the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence. The annual award—given to a single tenure-track faculty across all disciplines in the university—recognizes faculty whose command of their respective disciplines, teaching methodologies, communication skills and commitment to learning translate into a superior learning experience for students.