Lisa Gray, FAIA and Alan Organschi return to the School in Fall 2012 as a Teaching Firm in Residence, teaching Arch 613 Graduate Thesis Design Studio along with Professors Andrew Cohen and Julian Bonder. Gray and Organschi have had an eventful year in 2012, with Lisa Gray being noted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), their firm being recognized with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship, and Organschi lecturing at the 12th Annual International Alvar Aalto Symposium in Jyvaskyla, Finland in August. Alan Organschi is also teaching at Yale University in Fall 2012, offering a seminar Arch 2227A Research Seminar: Timber and High Performance Wood Technology, which explores recent innovations in forest management and timber construction technology and considers their implications for architectural technique and building morphology.