Mike Christenson
TITLE/RANK.
Assistant Professor of Architecture.
LICENSURE.
Licensed Architect, State of Minnesota (#46420).
EDUCATION.
1997. Master of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Thesis: "The Minneapolis Milling District Archive."
1995. Bachelor of Environmental Design, with distinction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Minor: Mathematics.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY.
2006-present. Assistant Professor of Architecture. Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
2005-2006. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture.
Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN.
1997-2004. Lecturer. Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
RECOGNITION FOR TEACHING.
2008. AIAS-NDSU Faculty Award, 2008, presented by the NDSU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
2005. Recognition for Outstanding Commitment to International Education, presented by Provost C. E. Allen, University of Minnesota.
RECOGNITION FOR RESEARCH WORK.
2008. Recipient, Best Paper Award, 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association. (Paper titled "On the relevance of parameterization to architectural epistemology.")
2005. Selected as author from the 2005 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference, Jackson, Mississippi, for paper publication in a special issue of the ARCC Journal: v. 3, no. 2. (Paper titled "Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city.")
RECOGNITION FOR PROFESSIONAL WORK.
Note. The awards listed in this section are professional architectural design awards given to architectural firms in recognition of completed buildings. Mike Christenson was a contributing member of each design team along with other individuals listed below.
2005. AIA Minneapolis Merit Award. This award was given to Architectural Alliance, Minneapolis, MN, for design of the Cargill Building for Microbial & Plant Genomics, St. Paul, MN. Team members included Duane Blanchard, Tom DeAngelo, Mamie Harvey, Tom Hysell, Ken Sheehan, and Marcus Webb.
2002. Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Award. This award
was given to the design team led by Stageberg Beyer Sachs
Architects, Minneapolis, MN, for the design of the Walter
Digital Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN. Team members
included Bill Beyer, Drew Bjorklund, Tom Cain, Tom Findlay, Jim
Foran, Mike Henry, Karie Johnson, Donovan Nelson, Destin
Nygard, Dennis Sachs, Jim Scott, James Stageberg, Nicolle
VanWie, and Meredith Wu.
2002. AIA National Honor Award (single-family residence).
This award was given to Vincent James Associates, Minneapolis,
MN, for design of the Dayton Residence, Minneapolis, MN. Team
members included Vincent James, Nathan Knutson, and Paul
Yaggie.
1999. AIA Minnesota Design Honor Award. This award was given to Julie Snow Architects, Minneapolis, MN, for design of the Jerstad Center, Sioux Falls, SD. Team members included Ben Awes, Doug Coffler, Christian Dean, Mark Larson, and Julie Snow.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS.
2008.01. Christenson, Mike. "On dependencies between architecture and media: Considering the remote work." In ARCC Journal, v. 5, no. 1 ("Architecture as a Communicative Medium"), J. Brooke Harrington and Anijo Punnen Mathew, editors.
2008.02. Christenson, Mike. "Testing the relevance of parameterization to architectural epistemology." In Innovation, Inspiration, and Instruction: New Knowledge in the Architectural Sciences (Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia), Ning Gu, Leman Figen Gul, Michael J. Ostwald, and Anthony Williams, editors, pp. 1-7. (Recipient, Best Paper Award.)
2008.03. Christenson, Mike. "Questioning the primacy of visual simulation in an epistemology of digital models." In Architecture "in computro" (Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, September 17-19, 2008, Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, University College of Antwerp, Belgium), Marc Muylle, editor, pp. 889-895.
2008.04. Christenson, Mike and Mark Barnhouse. "Structure, memory, and visibility." In Material Matters: Making Architecture (2008 West Fall Conference Proceedings, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Regional Conference, October 2008, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California), Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, editors, pp. 50-57.
2007.01. Christenson, Mike. "Re-representation of urban imagery: Strategies for constructing knowledge." In Expanding Bodies: Art, Cities, Environment (Proceedings of the ACADIA 2007 Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 1-7, 2007), Brian Lilley and Philip Beesley, editors, pp. 212-219.
2007.02. Christenson, Mike. "Ownership and media: The architectural case study as an articulation of theoretical stance." In Flow, Filter, Function, Feeling, and Focus (Proceedings, Design Communication Association 20th Anniversary Conference, 12-15 September 2007, Ball State University), Michael A. Mounayar, German T. Cruz, and Cheryl Bove, editors, pp. 247-258.
2007.03. Christenson, Mike. "Memory, periphery, and globalization: The freeway and construction of knowledge." In Regional Architecture and Identity in the Age of Globalization (Proceedings of The Second International Conference of the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region), Volume III, Jamal Al-Qawasmi, Abdesselem Mahmoud, Ali Djerbi, editors, pp. 807-817.
2007.04. Christenson, Mike and Dr. Bakr Aly-Ahmed. "The good, bad, and ugly in architectural case studies." In Flux: Design education in a changing world (Proceedings of the 5th International DEFSA Conference, 3-5 October 2007, Cape Town, South Africa), CD-ROM.
2007.05. Christenson, Mike. "Architectural knowledge and iterative mediating artifacts." In Flux: Design education in a changing world (Proceedings of the 5th International DEFSA Conference, 3-5 October 2007, Cape Town, South Africa), CD-ROM.
2007.06. Christenson, Mike. "Stewardship and mediating artifacts: Forwarding the incomplete." In Assuming Responsibility: 2007 ACSA Southeast Conference Proceedings, October 11-13, 2007, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Luis Eduardo Boza and Michelle A. Rinehart, editors, pp. 213-217.
2007.07. Christenson, Mike. "The architecture school building structuring perception of the city." In City/Campus: Proceedings of the 2007 ACSA Central Fall Conference, October 19-21, 2007, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, Rick Haldenby and Jeff Lederer, editors, pp. 5.3-5.11.
2006.01. Christenson, Mike. "Capabilities and limitations of
Autodesk Revit in a construction technology course." In
Proceedings of the 2006 Building Technology Educators'
Symposium, August 3-5, 2006, University of Maryland, School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Deborah J.
Oakley and Ryan E. Smith, editors, pp. 55-62.
2006.02. Christenson, Mike. "Confidence in the presence of conflict: Digital and analog media in architectural representation." In Proceedings, Design Communications in Architecture Biannual Conference, 2005-2006, pp. 55-64.
2005.01. Christenson, Mike. "Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city." In The Reach of Research: Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research, Jackson, Mississippi, April 6-9, 2005, James L. West, David J. Perkes, and Anne H. Howell, editors, CD-ROM.
2005.02. Christenson, Mike. "Productive accident in student
analysis of urban form and space." In The Reach of
Research: Proceedings of the Architectural Research Centers
Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research,
Jackson, Mississippi, April 6-9, 2005, James L. West,
David J. Perkes, and Anne H. Howell, editors, CD-ROM.
2005.03. Christenson, Mike. "A proposal for a cross-disciplinary design pedagogy: Generative full-scale investigations." In Proceedings, DETM-2005 Conference, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, CD-ROM.
2005.04. Christenson, Mike. "Promoting conditions for
productive accident." In Encounters, Encuentros, Recontres
(Proceedings of the 2005 ACSA International Conference), Mexico
City, Mexico, pp. 279-283.
2005.05. Christenson, Mike. "Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city." In ARCC Journal, v. 3, no. 2 ("Selected Papers of the 2005 ARCC Research Conference"), J. Brooke Harrington and David J. Perkes, editors, pp. 9-14.
UNPUBLISHED PRESENTATIONS.
2008.05. Christenson, Mike. "Digitally cultivating the accident in urban analysis." Presented at ACSA West Central Regional Conference 2008 (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
2008.06. Christenson, Mike. "Spaces of photography: The
digital translatability of old ways of seeing." Presented at
ACSA West Central Regional Conference 2008 (Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture), University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana.
2008.07. Christenson, Mike. "Adding to the square spiral: Architectural interpretation through architectural extension." Presented at the 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
2008.08. Christenson, Mike and Stephen Wischer. "On the criticality of artifacts to architectural interpretation." Presented at the 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
GRANTS.
2007. $72,743.00 (unfunded). National Science Foundation
Grant (Creative IT). Grant title: "Learning Idioms of the
Information Medium: A Studio for Training Software Architects."
Co-Principal Investigators: J. Srivastava, J. Collins, T. Moore
(University of Minnesota).
2006. $11,000.00 (unfunded). Graham Foundation Grant. Grant title: "Flattened Space / Flattened Time." Co-Principal Investigator: Malini Srivastava.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS.
2006-present. Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).
2005-present. Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE).
1997-present. American Institute of Architects (AIA). Full member since 2009.
CO-CURRICULAR ADVISING.
2006-present. Faculty Advisor to the NDSU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
COMMITTEE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE.
2009-present. Member, Chair Search Committee, Department of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture, NDSU.
2007-present. NDSU Faculty Councilor to the West Central
Division, Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture.
2007-present. Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture, NDSU.
2007-2008. Faculty Coordinator, Second-year architectural design studio, NDSU.
2006-present. Member, Thesis Committee, Department of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture, NDSU.
2006-2007. Member, New Faculty Search Committee, Department
of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, NDSU.
2006-2007. Chair, Student Affairs & Scholarship Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, NDSU.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION.
2008. Elected by the membership of ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture) to a two-year term as a member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Architectural Computing.
2008. Service as an invited peer reviewer for the ACSA 97th Annual Meeting (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture). Sessions: "Indeterminacy: Design-Build As Reflection-In-Action" and "Teaching Technology As Design."
2008. Service as an invited peer reviewer for ANZASCA-2008 (Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association).
2008. Service as a session chair, ANZASCA-2008 (Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association). Session: "Design Computing and Cognition."
2007. Service as an invited peer reviewer for DEFSA-2007 (Design Educators' Forum of South Africa).
2006. Elected by the membership of ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture) to a two-year term as a Steering Committee member.
2006. Service as an invited peer reviewer for BTES-2006 (Building Technology Educators' Symposium), College Park, Maryland.
2005. Served as a session chair, ARCC-2005 Conference (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), Mississippi State University, Jackson, Mississippi.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY.
2008. Licensed Architect, State of Minnesota (#46420).
2001-2005. Intern Architect. Architectural Alliance, Minneapolis, MN.
1997-2001. Intern Architect. Stageberg Beyer Sachs, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
1997. Intern Architect. Julie Snow Architects, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
1996. Intern Architect. Vincent James Associates Architects, Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
PUBLICATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK.
Note. The following references are to publications/articles concerning work produced by professional architectural firms. Mike Christenson was a contributing member of each design team.
2005. Guthrie Theater on the River (with Architectural
Alliance). In Architecture, Mar. 2005.
2002. Walter Digital Technology Center (with Stageberg Beyer
Sachs). In Architecture Minnesota, Sept. - Oct.
2002.
1999. Jerstad Center (with Julie Snow Architects). In Architecture, Oct. 1999; Architecture Minnesota, Nov. - Dec. 1999.