Jassen Callender

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
• Sustainable urban development. 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

• Sustainability versus urbanism: A fear-formed impasse. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. Volume 120, Pages 25-32. 2009

Trade Journal/Magazine

• From Shopping Mall to Village: retrofitting the built environment for the 21st century. World 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
• "Monuments: Past, Power, Progress." 2021 SESAH Annual Conference, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, Natchez, MS. 2021
• "Haunted into Being: Barns in a Mythic Landscape." 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 State 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 State, 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 State 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 State 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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