About
Faculty & Staff

We have dedicated full-time teaching faculty of 28, many with interdisciplinary teaching experience across Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation. Thirty-five practicing architects, artists, and preservation professionals enrich the School as adjunct faculty.

Faculty include 4 Fulbright Scholars, and many with national and international practice experience and publications. Collective faculty teaching experience includes MIT, Harvard, Princeton, California/Berkeley, Columbia, Virginia, Wellesley, Connecticut College, Hobart and William Smith, Cornell, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Washington University, Yale, Rice, Syracuse, Iowa State, RISD, Savannah College of Art and Design, St. Olaf, Minnesota, Buenos Aires, Middle East Technical University, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, BAC, Boston University

Faculty and their Areas of Teaching

Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation

  • Hasan-uddin Khan, Diploma (AA, London), design, history and philosophy of historic preservation, international conservation, thesis, Florence Program

Professors

  • Andrew Cohen, B.Arch. (Cornell), M.Arch. (Harvard), design, foundations, thesis, Prague Program
  • Ulker Copur, B.Arch. (METU/Ankara), M.S. (Oregon), Ph.D. (Cornell); design, modern architecture, modernism in the non-western world, sustainable paradigms
  • Roseann B. Evans, B.A., M.Arch. (Pennsylvania); design, advanced computer applications, foundations
  • Gail Fenske, B.Arch. (Arizona State), S.M.Arch.S., Ph.D. (MIT); design, modern architecture, American architecture, theoretical origins of modernism, skyscrapers
  • Philip Cryan Marshall, B.A., (Brown), M.S. (Vermont); architectural conservation, documentation, conservation of materials, preservation studio, internship, thesis
  • William L. McQueen, B.Arch. (Illinois); design, construction materials and assemblies, Dutch modernism
  • Eleftherios Pavlides, B.A. (Brandeis), M.Arch. (Yale), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania); design, social aspects, regionalism
  • Jeffrey Staats, B.Arch. (BAC), M.C.P. (Harvard); design, acoustics and lighting, elec/mech equipment
  • Mete Turan, B.S. (Robert), M.S. (WPI), M.S., Ph.D., (Columbia), design, architectural technology
  • Okan Ustunkok, B.Arch., M.Arch. Ph.D., (METU, Ankara), Diploma in Conservation, (London); art and architectural history, design, historic preservation, thesis
  • Stephen White, B.A., M.Arch., M.A. (Washington-St. Louis); design, foundations, thesis

Associate Professors

  • Edgar G. Adams, Jr., B.Arch., M.Arch. in Urban Design (Cornell) design, urban design theory, thesis, Prague Program
  • Julian Bonder, Diploma (Buenos Aires), M.S. (Harvard). design, foundations, thesis
  • Luis Carranza, B.Arch. (USC), Ph.D. (Harvard); design, theory, art and architectural history, modern architecture, modernism in the non-western world
  • Charles Hagenah, B.A. (Colgate), M.Arch, (Yale), design, site + environment, construction materials + assemblies
  • Jeffrey Silverthorne, B.F.A., M.F.A., M.A. in Teaching (RISD); photography, aesthetics
  • Nermin Kura, B.A. M.A., D.E.A (Paris-Sorbonne), Ph.D. (Bilkent, Turkey), MFA (RISD); art and architectural history, aesthetics, sculpture, islamic art and architecture
  • Michael Rich, B.F.A. (RISD), M.F.A. (Savannah College of Art and Design); drawing, painting, issues in contemporary art

Assistant Professors

  • Sara Butler, B.A. (Wake Forest, UNC-Charlotte), M.S.T (New Hampshire), M.Arch. H. (Virginia), Ph.D. (Virginia), art and architectural history, pre-industrial America, industrial America, aesthetics
  • Robert Dermody, B.S. (UMass), M.Arch. (University of Illinois) design, architectural technology
  • Elizabeth Duffy, B.A. (Rutgers College), M.F.A. (CUNY Brooklyn); drawing, sculpture, aesthetics
  • Patrick Charles, B.Arch. (Ecoile d'Architecture de Nancy, France), M.S. (MIT), design, construction materials and assemblies
  • Ron Henderson, B.Arch. (Notre Dame), M.Arch., M.L.A. (Pennsylvania); design, site +environment, landscape theory
  • John Hendrix, B.F.A. (Art Institute of Chicago), M.A. (RISD), M.Arch. (Illinois), Ph.D. (Cornell), art and architectural history, renaissance architecture, theory, aesthetics
  • Helen Deborah Walberg, B.A. (Tennessee), M.A. , Ph.D. (Princeton); art and architectural history, renaissance art, aesthetics
  • Anne Tait, B.A. (Bowling Green), B.F.A. (RISD), M.F.A. (American); drawing, painting, aesthetics
  • Andrew Thurlow, B.Arch. (Syracuse), M.Arch. (Columbia); design, computer application, digital manufacturing
  • Randall van Schepen, B.A. (Trinity Christian), M.A. (SUNY Stony Brook), Ph.D. (Minnesota); art and architectural history, modern art, aesthetics
  • Tara Zanardi, B.A. (Delaware), M.A., Ph.D. (Virginia); art and architectural history, renaissance art, aesthetics

University Core Faculty
Butler, Duffy, Kura, Silverthorne, Tait, van Schepen, Walberg, Zanardi

International Visiting Faculty
The International Visiting Faculty program was established in Summer 1999 to bring recognized architecture faculty from abroad for extended periods of time. Faculty to date have included

  • 1999 Miroslav Base, Czech Technical University, Prague Michal Hlavacek; Hlavacek + Associates, Prague
  • 2000 Anuraag Chowfla, Meena Mani: Mani Chowfla Architects, New Delhi
  • 2001 Querkraft Architects, Vienna
  • 2002 Anuraag Chowfla, Meena Mani; Mani Chowfla Architects, New Delhi
  • 2003 Michal Hlavacek, Prague
  • 2004 Querkraft Architects, Vienna
  • 2005 Marius Reynolds, Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc., London
  • 2006 Arun Rewal, Architect; New Delhi  

 

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