{"588417":{"#nid":"588417","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Charles Eastman Receives 2 New Honors in Early 2017","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe honors continue to roll in for Professor Charles Eastman, who has joint appointments in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEastman, founder and former director of the Digital Building Lab, is considered a pioneer in computer-aided design and is one of the originators of building information modeling (BIM).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn January, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arcc-arch.org\/2017-haecker-award\/\u0022\u003EArchitectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC\u003C\/a\u003E) selected Eastman as the 2016-17 recipient of its highest honor, the ARCC James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in Architectural Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn its website, the organization said \u0026ldquo;this award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn that same month, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.asce.org\/digital-building-laboratory-founder-honored-for-extraordinary-leadership\/?_ga=1.252827785.1297740685.1487695528\u0022\u003EAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE\u003C\/a\u003E) honored Eastman with its \u0026ldquo;2017 Computing in Civil Engineering Award for his extraordinary leadership in the advancement of computing in civil engineering through academic research, project application, and Society service.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the fall of 2016, Eastman received the 2016 Society Award of Excellence presented by the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAccording to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/2016.acadia.org\/awards.html\u0022\u003EACADIA\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026ldquo;This award honors Professor Eastman\u0026rsquo;s seminal role in founding and leading ACADIA in its earliest years, his pioneering work in the area of Building Information Modeling, Parametric Design, Collaborative Design, Visualization and Fabrication, and many other achievements. His influence in the field of digital design is second to none.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more about the honors:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arcc-arch.org\/2017-haecker-award\/\u0022\u003EARCC\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.asce.org\/digital-building-laboratory-founder-honored-for-extraordinary-leadership\/?_ga=1.252827785.1297740685.1487695528\u0022\u003EASCE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/583017\u0022\u003EACADIA\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArchitecture and engineering organizations honor Professor Charles Eastman for his contributions and leadership in these fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Architecture and engineering organizations honor Professor Charles Eastman for his contributions and leadership in these fields."}],"uid":"32550","created_gmt":"2017-03-07 19:54:12","changed_gmt":"2017-03-09 15:03:22","author":"Malrey Head","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588419":{"id":"588419","type":"image","title":"Charles Eastman","body":null,"created":"1488916838","gmt_created":"2017-03-07 20:00:38","changed":"1488916939","gmt_changed":"2017-03-07 20:02:19","alt":"Charles Eastman","file":{"fid":"224231","name":"Eastman.awards.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Eastman.awards.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Eastman.awards.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62004,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Eastman.awards.jpg?itok=DHB7cygd"}}},"media_ids":["588419"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"60379","name":"DBL - Digital Building Lab"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMalrey Head\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmalrey.head@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}