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Jassen Callender

 Jassen Callender

Title:

  • Professor and Jackson Center Director

Contacts:

jcallender@caad.msstate.edu
Office: (601) 354-6480
509 East Capitol Street, Jackson, MS

Overview

Summary:

Jassen Callender is a professor and director of the School of Architecture Jackson Center. Architect, painter, writer, and member of the Society of Architectural Historians as well as the American Institute of Architects, Callender’s educational background ranges from undergraduate training in architecture and philosophy to graduate work in art and art history.

Education:

  • Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Art, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2001
  • Bachelor of Architecture (BARC), Architecture, Mississippi Â鶹´«Ã½ University, 1994

Research interests:

Sustainable urbanism and, more broadly, the ways meaning is constructed and shared through the built environment.

Publications

Book

  • Building Cities to LAST: a practical guide to sustainable urbanism: Building Cities to LAST: a practical guide to sustainable urbanism. New York, NY: Routledge. 2021
  • Architecture history and theory in reverse: From an information age to eras of meaning: Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning. 2017

Book, Chapter

  • Facing Up to the Realities. Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy. Ed. Theodore Ammon. New York, NY: Open Court. 2017
  • . International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. 129-133. 2012
  • Continu(c)ity. The Self-Sufficient City. Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. 2010

Conference Proceeding

  • Thresholds of Piazzas.  International Making Cities Livable Council. Volume 120. 2018
  • Making Cities LAST.  International Making Cities Livable Council. Volume 86. 2015
  • The Place of Perception in the Sustainable City.  International Making Cities Livable Council. Volume 57. 2010
  • From Barrier to Threshold: bridging contested spaces.  Environmental Design Research Association. Volume 37, Page 230. 2006
  • Constructing Passages: accommodations for diverse learners in architectural education.  University of Texas San Antonio. Pages 46-53. 2005

Journal Article

  • .ÌýWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. Volume 120, Pages 25-32. 2009

Trade Journal/Magazine

  • .ÌýWorld Health Design. Pages 64-69. 2013

Presentations

Abstract

  • "Architecture as a Form of Fiction." Eleventh International Conference on the Constructed Environment, Conference on the Constructed Environment, University of Calgary. 2021
  • "(This Space Intentionally Left Blank.) ." 5th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices , Design Principles and Practices, Rome, IT. 2011
  • "From Surface to Space: Design as the Mediation of Either/Or Thinking." Intersections: 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Ames, IA. 2006

Lecture

  • "Building Cities to LAST." History is Lunch, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS. 2022

Oral Presentation

  • "Going Green for a Cool, Healthy Jackson." C40 Masterclass: RWJF Climate, Health and Equity, C40 and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. 2023
  • "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." The Death and Life of Great American Cities, School of Architecture Book of the Semester Panel, School of Architecture, online. 2021
  • 2021 SESAH Annual Conference, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, Natchez, MS. 2021
  • 2020 SESAH Annual Conference, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, Natchez, MS. 2020
  • "The climate for change is now." Paris to Pittsburgh, City of Jackson, Jackson, MS. 2019
  • "David Dowell and Hesse McGraw of el dorado, and Erin Sterling Lewis and Matthew Griffith of in situ studio." Mississippi Celebrates Architecture, AIA Mississippi, Jackson, MS. 2018
  • "IPAL Panel." Educators & Practitioners Conference, Southern Conference of NCARB, Region 3, Orlando, FL. 2018
  • "The Sustainability Delusion: Design Professionals and the Need for Negative Growth." Stir: exploring collaborative ways to approach big issues, Ohio Â鶹´«Ã½ University, Columbus, OH. 2011
  • "Plenary Discussion." Intelligent Cities Forum, Intelligent Cities Initiative, National Building Museum, Washington, DC. 2011
  • "Liquid Space of Matrixial Flesh: Reading Merleau-Ponty and Bracha L. Ettinger Poolside, Randall Johnson." The Experience and Expression of Space: 34th Annual International Merleau-Ponty Circle meeting, International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Mississippi Â鶹´«Ã½, MS. 2009
  • "The Intersection of Sustainability and Urban Form." Revitalization and Re-growth: MASLA and APAM 2008 Fall Conference, MASLA and APAM, Jackson, MS. 2008

Paper

  • "Architecture as Fiction." Critical Practice in an Age of Complexity – an Interdisciplinary Critique of the Built Environment, AMPS (Architecture_Media_Politics_Society), University of Arizona. 2018
  • "Thresholds of Piazzas." 54th International Making Cities Livable Conference on Public Place for Community, Democratic Dialogue, Health, and Equity, IMCL, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2017
  • "Immigration: From the Unknown to the Known through the Incertitude of the Void." Spaces & Flows: Third International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Spaces and Flows, Wayne Â鶹´«Ã½ University. 2012
  • "Wallpaper and the Ether." 4th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Design Principles and Practices, Chicago, IL. 2010
  • "Among Time’s Images." Flesh and Space: Intertwining Merleau-Ponty and Architecture , International Merleau-Ponty Circle , Mississippi Â鶹´«Ã½ University School of Architecture. 2009
  • "Primacy of Perception in the Making of a Sustainable City." Second Annual Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Architecture and Phenomenology, Kyoto, Japan. 2009
  • "Double Vision: Architecture and the Striated Art of Seeing." Double Edges: Rhetorics – Rhizomes – Regions, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, London, England. 2009
  • "Seeing in the Sustainable City." Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities, Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland, OR. 2009
  • "Quixotic Practicality, Thinking Globally/Building Locally: Close Encounter with the Architecture of Sean Godsell." 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, AU. 2008
  • "From Spaces to Barriers: How Spatial Inhabitation Enlarges and Contracts Intercultural Ambitions." 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. 2006

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Interior Design

(662) 325-0530

Dean's Office

(662) 325-5150