Faculty research
Key words related to faculty research, scholarship and creative activities
Grant Alford: Architectural representation, drawing, new media, diagrams, craft
Barabara Anderson: Historic preservation, sustainable design, systems thinking, design thinking, design for health and wellbeing, academic leadership
Scott Barton: Holistic architectural design, design thinking, design education, adult education, learning design & technology, workplace learning, storytelling, experiential design, visual communication, generative art
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
Jessica Canfield: Landscape performance, aesthetics, post occupancy evaluation, case studies, design build, materials and fabrication, contemporary design, professional practice, conceptual design/process, representation, design competitions, streetscapes, parks and gardens, public art
Robert Condia: Metaphysics of architecture, creativity, intuition, creative act, teaching expertise, coaching design studio, signature pedagogies, intuition stands to reason, 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
Michael Dudek: Interior design professional identity & 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 & architecture of cities, ephemeral architecture, post-crisis shelter & housing, temporary housing, precarious environments, mobile homes, place & place-making, environments and products that empower people, design evaluation methodologies, visual & qualitative methods of research
Huston Gibson: Community development, land-use, infrastructure, local and regional economics, housing, schools, and redevelopment policies and planning
Hernan Gregorio: Industrial design, multidisciplinary design, design education, technology, visual communication, product semantics, digital fabrication, furniture, entrepreneurship
Michael Grogan: Architecture, design process, adaptive reuse, preservation, architectural theory, history of modernism, history of urban settlement patterns
Kutay Güler: exhibition design, visitor behavior, online design learning, design process, housing design, materiality, AR, VR, computer vision
Sara Hadavi: Translational design of urban spaces, nearby nature and wellbeing, residential neighborhoods, neighborhood satisfaction, urban vacancy and quality of life, urban greening and crime, walkability, spatial analysis, restorative environments, environment-behavior studies, supportive environments for effectiveness, Attention Restoration Theory (ART), social research methods
Howard Hahn: Visual assessment, visual simulation, aesthetics, floor area ratio, FAR, parking garage, planning, site planning, site development coverage, LEED-ND, green infrastructure, digital landscape modeling, synthetic landscapes, computer graphics, landscape modeling, wetlands, meadows, conservation development, best management practices
Peggy Honey: Design education and pedagogy, beginning design education, integrated history of architecture, interiors and furnishings, interior textiles, design theory/environment & behavior theory
Nathan Howe: Architectural design, digital fabrication, algorithmic modeling, parametricism, associative design, material intelligence, prefabrication
Neal Hubbell: Architectural design, design process, design thinking/creativity, furniture design
Jon Hunt: Creative Thinking and Behaviors (Flow, Intuition, Grit, Resistance, Frustration Intolerance, Anxiety, Premature Closure, Procrastination), Reflective Learning, Environmental and Public Art, Digital and Analog Media, and 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; environment & behavior; human-centered design; 21st century workplace, education, and healthcare design; impact of mindfulness on health and wellbeing; design for peace and mental health; intersection of neuroscience and architecture
Kristianna Johnson: Environmental building systems, human-centric design, early care environments, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, design for rural communities
Shakil Kashem: Urban social vulnerability, housing policy, community resilience and adaptation, geospatial Analysis and planning, applications of Big Data for disaster risk management, critical GIS and geoweb, urban growth modeling
Migette Kaup: Environmental gerontology, environmental assessment, post-occupancy evaluation, environment & behavior, evidence-based design, human-centered design, universal design, neurocognitive design
Hyungchan Kim: Multi-cultural design competencies in interior design curriculum, sustainable design through BIM technology, evidence-based design
Hyung Jin Kim: Smart and connected communities, social networks and the built environment, public realm in cities, design for urban resilience, healthy community design, food environment, school environment and space for children, quantifying urban form and human behavior, evidence-based design
Katie Kingery-Page: Landscape and art, landscape as a cultural product, native grassland plants, streets as primary urban infrastructure and public space, community dialogue and participation, lived experience of place, learning landscapes
Kendra Kirchmer: Intersection of the built environment and population health, interdisciplinary collaboration, design activism, furniture design, human-centered design, transfer of tacit knowledge, craft
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
Michael McGlynn: Architectural technology and design integration, design diagramming, sustainable architecture
Susmita Rishi: Urbanization and planning, global South, southern theory, social justice, equity, value and space, housing, informal settlements, slums, informality, decolonization, postcolonial theory, qualitative methods, indigenous methodologies, critical ethnography, textual and visual analysis
Chad Schwartz: Architectural tectonics, the architecture of the southwest United States, Architectural teaching pedagogy especially focused on practices of making, design/build, architectural diagrams, Precedent as a learning tool
Lee Skabelund: Low-impact design and development, watershed-sensitive planning/design, landscape ecology, ecological restoration, stormwater management, ecological green roofs, rain-garden and bio-retention planning, design and management, environmental impact assessment, park planning/design, planting design, sustainable communities
Richard Thompson: Fabrication, digital fabrication, augmented reality in the design and fabrication processes, community engaged design, furniture design
Michelle Wempe: Architectural design & interior design, particularly from a modern/contemporary perspective; art; furniture design; fabrication & materiality; design leadership & organizational strategy; current topics around diversity & inclusion, social justice, responsible stewardship, and political discourse in the public realm
La Barbara Wigfall: Community identity, cultural landscape documentation, community engagement and community development, consensus imagination, photo-language/ photo-voice, intercultural learning, and social justice
Leslie Wren: Ethics in practice with respect to landscape laborer safety, inclusion of field operations’ knowledge in the design process, architectural design as a lens for evolving secondary STEM education, leveraging technology to evolve landscape architecture plant classes, exploration of landscape architecture’s relationship to stolen lands