Stuckeman Gift Benefiting Architecture, Landscape Architecture in Many Ways
September 11, 2009
In September 2008, H. Campbell “Cal” Stuckeman (’37 B.S. Architecture) made a $20 million pledge to the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to encourage further cross-disciplinary learning opportunities for students in the two programs. When fully funded, the gift will be used to create endowments to support three broad purposes: 1) Create chairs and professorships for faculty and visiting professionals with a combination of design expertise, record of interdisciplinary collaboration and passion for teaching; 2) Create new or enhance existing interdisciplinary and international teaching and research initiatives; and 3) Strengthen the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing.
Since then, $125,184 has been distributed from the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing, with additional funds tentatively committed to the newly established Stuckeman Endowment for Collaborative Design Research.
The funds distributed to the Stuckeman Endowment for Design Computing were allocated as follows:
1. Three and four (time) dimensional information modeling: $25,084
2. geoSPATIAL DESIGN: GIS, relational databases: $27,310
3. 3-D Haptic feedback digital clay carver: $11,740
4. GigaPan/Epic 100 site documentation camera: $2,050
5. Multi-touch desk-scale surface computing for collaboration: $16,000
6. Digital fabrication enhancements: $10,000
7. Remodeling for digital fabrication: $33,000
Funds were tentatively committed to the Stuckeman Endowment for Collaborative Design Research in the following areas for 2009–10:
1. Symposium presented by Committee for Environmentally Conscious Architecture (October 2009)
2. Willard G. Rouse III Gallery standing budget for exhibits and related materials
3. Material ConneXion subscription (Material ConneXion is a global materials consultancy with a subscription-based library of innovative materials and processes)
4. Competitive research proposal competition (fall 2009)
5. Visitor/visiting faculty support (advisory committee to be established)
The H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (named in honor of Mr. Stuckeman and his late wife in October 2008) is under the leadership of director Brian Orland, who served as head of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 2000 to 2008. A search for a permanent director will take place during the 2009–10 academic year, with a goal to fill the position by fall 2010.
For more information on how Mr. Stuckeman’s recent pledge will benefit the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, contact Orland at boo1@psu.edu.
Contact: Amy Milgrub Marshall, alm157@psu.edu or 814.863.2104