Michael McClure, FAAR, AIA
Dean & Professor
Office of the Dean
2132 Regnier Hall
920C N. Martin King Jr. Drive
Manhattan, KS 66506
T: (785) 532-5950
Michael A. McClure, FAAR, AIA, is Dean and Professor in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas State University and partner of emerymcclure architecture. His career spans more than two decades of academic leadership, interdisciplinary design education, and award-winning design research practice.
McClure holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining Kansas State University in 2023, he spent more than twenty years at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he was named Distinguished Professor and served as Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the College of the Arts. Early in his career he also taught at Louisiana State University, Tulane University, and Pratt Institute.
At Kansas State University, McClure leads APDesign—an interdisciplinary college of roughly 1,000 students and 90 faculty and staff offering accredited degrees in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Landscape Architecture, Community and Regional Planning and Real Estate and Community Development. Under his leadership, the college advances a collaborative model of design education grounded in research, community engagement, and a commitment to addressing social and environmental challenges across Kansas and beyond.
Registered as an architect since 1996, McClure co-founded emerymcclure architecture with Ursula Emery McClure. Their work has earned national and international recognition, including exhibitions at the Venice Biennale in 2006, 2010, and 2021; the 2013 d3 Unbuilt Visions Grand Prize; and inclusion in “The South Forty.” In 2008–09, the American Academy in Rome awarded the firm the Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture. Most recently, the practice was named one of Forbes’ Top 100 Residential Architects in 2025.
Their writings have appeared in ACSA Press, Routledge, and peer-reviewed venues. with contributions to Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, the Interior Architecture Theory Reader, and ACSA conference proceedings.
He has an extensive record of service to discipline, and service on municipal, state, and national boards. Recent appointments include the AIA National Committee on Continuing Education, the Kansas State Building Advisory Commission,
Across his academic, professional, and service roles, McClure is committed to advancing architectural education, strengthening collaborative design culture, and expanding the public impact of the built environment.