Faculty research

Grant Alford

Architectural representation, drawing, new media, diagrams, craft

Caleb Amundson

Holistic approach to implementing conceptual solutions across branding, spatial, and organizational scales

Barbara Anderson

Historic preservation, sustainable design, systems thinking, design thinking, design for health and well-being, academic leadership

Anne Beamish

Urban landscape history, design of sidewalks, streets, and parks, 18th–19th century pleasure gardens, memory and commemoration, nighttime and nightlife, street lighting, cultural life of trees, evolution of public space and urban infrastructure, public art

Blake Belanger

Landscape architecture, urban design, urban resilience, placemaking, eidetic photomontage, mapping, diagramming, design process, creativity and imaginative thinking

Scott Barton

Holistic architectural design, design thinking, design education, adult education, learning design and technology, workplace learning, storytelling, experiential design, visual communication, generative art

Jessica Canfield

Landscape performance, aesthetics, post-occupancy evaluation, case studies, design-build, materials and fabrication, contemporary design, professional practice, conceptual design, representation, design competitions, streetscapes, parks and gardens, public art

Zhan Chen

Urban housing typologies, high-density living, socially and environmentally innovative housing strategies

Robert Condia

Metaphysics of architecture, creativity, intuition, creative act, teaching expertise, coaching design studio, signature pedagogies, architectural internship

Tim de Noble

Architectural design, architectural analysis, architectural typology, urban analysis, small-town morphology, design pedagogy, architecture curricula, structural systems, enclosure systems, design leadership

David Dowell

Contemporary architecture, culture, education, public well-being, design-make

Michael Dudek

Interior design professional identity and social compact, interior lighting, creative problem solving, conceptualization, beginning design education

Mekin Elçioğlu

Industrial design, product semantics, industry-academia collaborations, transportation design, micromobility, design education, design pedagogies

Mariana Garcia Junqueira

Interior design, design thinking, design pedagogy, innovation in higher education, lighting design, people-environment transactions, cultural aspects of design, history and architecture of cities, ephemeral architecture, post-crisis shelter and housing, temporary housing, precarious environments, mobile homes, placemaking, design evaluation methodologies, visual and qualitative research methods

Huston Gibson

Community development, land-use planning, infrastructure, local and regional economics, housing, schools, redevelopment policies and planning

Hernan Gregorio

Industrial design, multidisciplinary design, design education, technology, visual communication, product semantics, digital fabrication, furniture design, entrepreneurship

Michael Grogan

Architecture, design process, adaptive reuse, preservation, architectural theory, history of modernism, history of urban settlement patterns

Reese Greenlee

Architectural and structural design, agricultural technologies, spatial innovation, civic infrastructure, manufactured housing landscapes

Kutay Güler

Exhibition design, visitor behavior, online design learning, design process, housing design, materiality, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), computer vision

Howard Hahn

Visual assessment, visual simulation, aesthetics, floor area ratio (FAR), planning, site planning, green infrastructure, LEED-ND, digital landscape modeling, computer graphics, landscape modeling, wetlands, meadows, conservation development, best management practices

Frank Hammond

Intersection of art, science, and cultural identity in public space

Richard Hoag

Environment and behavior in architecture

Peggy Honey

Design education, beginning design education, integrated history of architecture, interiors and furnishings, interior textiles, design theory, environment and behavior theory

Nathan Howe

Architectural design, digital fabrication, algorithmic modeling, parametric design, associative design, material intelligence, prefabrication

Neal Hubbell

Architectural design, design process, design thinking, creativity, furniture design

Jon Hunt

Creative thinking, flow, intuition, grit, reflective learning, environmental and public art, digital and analog media, visual thinking

Vibhavari Jani

Sustainability, green design, technology, non-Western architecture, interior design, culture, vernacular architecture, community service, service learning, community-engaged design, design research, evidence-based design, human-centered design, workplace design, educational environments, healthcare design, mindfulness and well-being, neuroscience and architecture, design for peace

Kristianna Johnson

Environmental building systems, human-centered design, early care environments, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, building documentation, healthy environments, rural community design

Shakil Kashem

Urban social vulnerability, housing policy, community resilience, geospatial analysis, Big Data, disaster risk management, critical GIS, urban growth modeling

Migette Kaup

Environmental gerontology, environmental assessment, post-occupancy evaluation, environment and behavior, evidence-based design, human-centered design, universal design, neurocognitive design

Hyung Chan Kim

Computer design applications, multicultural design

Hyung Jin Kim

Smart and connected communities, social networks and the built environment, public realm, urban resilience, healthy community design, food environments, school environments, urban form and human behavior, evidence-based design

Katie Kingery-Page

Landscape and art, cultural landscapes, native grassland plants, streets as infrastructure, public space, community dialogue, community participation, lived experience of place, learning landscapes

Kendra Kirchmer

Built environment and population health, interdisciplinary collaboration, design activism, furniture design, human-centered design, transfer of tacit knowledge, craft

Tim Keane

Watershed-scale design and planning, stream restoration, natural systems, cowboy poetry

Matt Knox

Architectural visualization, digital visual effects, architectural film, architectural animation, architectural perception, architectural cinematography

Katrina Lewis

Beginning design education, social justice, cross-cultural contexts, photography, travel

Brian Lee

Material-based design limits, fabrication workflows, teaching and learning, introductory fabrication exercises

Michael McClure

Water, critical regionalism, history, theory and culture, dwelling, design-build

Michael McGlynn

Architectural technology, design integration, design diagramming, sustainable architecture

Clemens Pilgrim

Urban analytics, real estate, sustainable transportation systems, data science applications in urban planning

Matthew “Quint” Redmond

Food systems, health, agriculture, real estate, technology, geo-spatial design, sustainable and economically viable environments

Susmita Rishi

Urbanization and planning, Global South, southern theory, social justice, equity, housing, informal settlements, informality, decolonization, postcolonial theory, qualitative methods, indigenous methodologies, critical ethnography, textual and visual analysis

Stephanie Rolley

Leadership in landscape architecture, teaching and learning in planning and landscape architecture

Chad Schwartz

Architectural tectonics, architecture of the American Southwest, design pedagogy, making, design-build, architectural diagrams, precedent studies

David Seamon

Phenomenology in architecture and environmental design

Lee Skabelund

Low-impact development, watershed-sensitive planning and design, landscape ecology, ecological restoration, stormwater management, green roofs, rain gardens, bio-retention planning, environmental impact assessment, park planning and design, planting design, sustainable communities

Richard Thompson

Fabrication, digital fabrication, augmented reality, design-to-fabrication processes, community-engaged design, furniture design

La Barbara Wigfall

Community identity, cultural landscape documentation, community engagement, community development, consensus imagination, photo-voice, intercultural learning, social justice

ElDante Winston

History, theory, and criticism of architecture, Renaissance studies, global architectural innovation, cross-cultural exchanges

William “Chip” Winslow

Design and implementation, urban forests, remote sensing, planting design