Architecture

Andrew Thurlow received a Bachelor in Architecture from Syracuse University (1994), where he received an award for Outstanding Thesis, and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University (1998), where he received the CAD Design Award. He co-founded the architectural firm Thurlow Small Architecture in 2001 and has lectured, exhibited and been published internationally. TSA's recent projects include a 480 hectare centralized park design for Yinzhou, China, a transit oriented development plan for Pawtucket RI and a 3000 sf interior design for a web marketing company, in Providence RI. TSA was also selected as a finalist for the National AIDS Memorial Competition, in San Francisco CA.

Professor Pavlides teaches architecture studios as well a Social Aspects of Architecture a course that requires students to conduct field work on people's experience of buildings and landscapes.

Over the last eight years professor Pavlides students' have collected information on wind turbines and their work led to funded research that proved that wind turbines are very popular in Rhode Island a fact that was confirmed with subsequent referenda in Bristol and Portsmouth. Over one hundred students have contributed to the development of the WINDPOWERRI presentation that can be downloaded here. This information was made available to the Rhode Island Economic Development Committee in October 2005 and presented on November 30 2005 at the join RI Senate and Legislature Energy Summit and helped set Rhode Island's goal to generate 15% of Rhode Island's electricity from wind in the near future. Professor Pavlides has received commendations from both the Legislature and the Governor of Rhode Island for this work.

Bill McQueen was invited to join the architecture faculty in 1984 to develop the thesis studio program by the Architecture Program’s founding Dean, Raj Saksena. He has taught throughout the Architecture Program: Architectural Design Studios at the Core, Advanced & Graduate Levels, Construction Materials & Assemblies I and a seminar: Dutch architecture – the enduring 20^th century legacy. He taught numerous architectural design studios & was a member of the Thesis Committee at the Boston Architectural Center: 1970-86. He has also been a guest critic and/or lecturer at MIT, Nova Scotia Technical College, Univ. of Illinois-Versailles Program, Harvard Graduate School of Design and New York Institute of Technology.  

He studied architecture at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, is a licensed architect in Massachusetts & Rhode Island, and holds a NCARB Certificate. He participated in historic structures conservation & building preservation programs at the Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, GB, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. 

For Nermin Kura, the question of the occurrence of life, and its embodiment is a matter of great wonder. How is it that the transformation of energy into animate matter always occurs within a membrane, a seed, or a vessel of some sort? Could life exist without being embodied? Just as fascinating for her in their similarity to biological receptacles, are art works, vessels of meaning that cultures create for themselves to hold the thoughts and feelings that help make sense of existence. Could cultures survive without them?

Professor Kura teaches art and architectural history courses in the School of Architecture Art and Historic Preservation as well as aesthetics in the Core Program of Roger Williams University. She is also a visual artist who shows internationally. In her photography and ceramics, Nermin Kura uses forms from the biosphere such as pods and eggshells as a metaphor for the abode of life. She explores concepts of embodiment, fullness, inner pressures and the mysteries of life sustaining enclosures.

I consider myself a modern nomad who believes in crossing boundaries – both geographic and disciplinary. I was born in India, grew up in Pakistan, studied architecture in England, worked and lived in several countries, and travelled all over the world.

I graduated as an architect from the Architectural Association, London, in 1972, in the era of the Beatles and the Vietnam War. I was lucky enough to study with and be influenced by Keith Critchlow, Elia Zenghelis, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Peter Cook and the Archigram group, John Turner and Paul Oliver. This gave me a wide perspective of views that has stayed with me. I worked in London for Payette Associates and then returned to Karachi, Pakistan, to my own architectural and planning firm UNIT 4, between 1974 and ’76.