Education
Academic Appointments
7123 Coronado Ave.
Dallas, TX 75214
a.kronk.tx@gmail.com
Master of Architecture [First-Professional], Concentration in Landscape Architecture 2013 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Austin, TX
Mike Hogg Travel Fellowship Recipient, London, UK
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Minor in Architectural History 2010 University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA
Lecturer, School of Architecture, Arlington, TX 2023 - current College of Architecture, Planning & Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington
Interim Director, David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, UTA, Arlington, TX
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Arlington, TX
Professional Experience
Licensure & Certification
- 2023
- 2023 College of Architecture, Planning & Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington
Research Assistantship, UT Austin, UTSOA + CSD [PI: Matt Fajkus], Austin, TX
NEA Art Works Design Grant [Austin Mobile Community Design Hub] - $20,000 Funding
Teaching Assistantships, UT Austin [Professor: Larry Speck], Austin, TX
Creative Problem Solving [UGS 303] + Architecture and Society [ARC 308]
Project Architect, WELCH|HALL architects, Dallas, TX
Project Designer, SWA, Dallas, TX
Intern Architect, Lake|Flato Architects, San Antonio, TX
Intern Architect, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis, New York, NY
Registered Architect, State of Texas #27328
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Certificate #92336
American Institute of Architects, Member
U.S. Green Building Council, LEED AP® BD+C Accredited Professional
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- 2013
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- 2017
- 2011
Fellowships & Research Grants
- current
- current
- current
- 2020
PI, Ephemeral Geographies Research & Exhibition, Dillon Center for Texas Architecture 2023
Ephemeral Geographies: Re-imagining the Alaska Atlas - $5,000 Funding
PI and Project Coordinator, Downtown Dallas Parks Analysis (PfDD) 2022 Social Systems Analysis in Five Downtown Dallas Parks - $8,130 Funding
PI and Project Coordinator, Parks for Downtown Dallas (PfDD) Park Study 2022 Green Infrastructure Benefit Analysis in Five Downtown Dallas Parks - $21,000 Funding
Recipient, Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant, AIA NY & Center for Architecture 2018 - 2019
Fragile Fields of the Arctic Circle Periphery - $10,000 Funding
Research Fellow, Landscape Architecture Foundation Case Study Investigation 2018 - 2019 PI: Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, TX [SWA] - $10,000 Funding
Sponsored Projects
Awards
Research Fellow, Landscape Architecture Foundation Case Study Investigation 2018 - 2019 PI: Yanaguana Gardens, San Antonio, TX [MIG, Inc.] - $10,000 Funding
CoPI, A Comprehensive Study on the State of Transportation Equity in Dallas 2017 Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) equity analysis - $49,714 Funding
Research Fellow, SWA 2014 Patrick Curran Fellowship 2014 - 2015 Wildlife Infrastructure: Shifting the Paradigm for Urban Landscapes - $10,000 Funding
Project Partner, Fairview Mapping/Anchorage Design Week 2025, Anchorage Museum 2025 forthcoming Mapping the Culture & Ecology of Northern Migrations - $5,000 Student Funding
Project Partner, ALT Symposium/Anchorage Design Week 2023, Anchorage Museum 2023 Ephemeral Geographies: Re-imagining the Alaska Atlas - $5,000 Student Funding
Honor Award (Team Member), Texas ASLA, Research 2024 Learning from Disaster: What Two Hurricanes Reveal About Ways to Design Public Space as Flood Infrastructure
Best Project Award (Author), ACSA College of Distinguished Professors, 2022 ACSA110 2022 An Atlas of Ephemeral Geographies: Identity in the Alaskan Arctic
Honorable Mention (Author), North American Cartographic Information Society, Atlas of Design 2022 Dependent Territories: Fishing System in Kivalina
Merit Award (Author), Texas ASLA, Research 2015 Wildlife Infrastructure: Shifting the Paradigm for Urban Landscapes
Merit Award (Team Member), Texas ASLA, Unbuilt Design 2015 Nanjing Vanke Lishui Riverfront Park Master Plan
Conference Presentations
“Reimagining the Alaska Atlas” 2024
ACSA 112th Annual Meeting: Disruptors on the Edge, Vancouver, Canada Pedagogy: Design Collaboration and Partnership Research Session, March 15
“Downtown Dallas Parks Network: Environmental Impact Assessment” 2023 EarthX2023 Expo & Conference, Dallas, TX Green Stage: PfDD-UTA Partnership, April 21
“Ephemeral Geographies: Reimagining the Alaska Atlas” 2023 Anchorage Design Week: Alaska Long Trail Symposium, Anchorage, AK Workshop Session: Studio Research, February 24
“Mapping Freedman Stories” 2022 2022 Imagining America National Gathering, New Orleans, LA Workshop Session: Freedman Stories, October 15
“An Atlas of Ephemeral Geographies: Identity in the Alaskan Arctic” 2022 ACSA 110th Annual Meeting: Empower Conference, Los Angeles, CA Ecology: Located Geographies Research Session, May 20
“Wildlife Infrastructure” 2015
International Urban Wildlife Conference, Chicago, IL Contributed Talks: Design, Roads, and Landscapes, May
Presentations & Invited Lectures
Exhibitions & Workshops
Mapping Migrations: Memory in the Racial Landscapes of Dallas 2023
Women in Architecture, AIA Dallas, Dallas, TX
Don’t Sell the Land: Community, Housing, & Design Justice 2022 2022 Dillon Center Symposium & Community Workshop, Coordinator, Dallas, TX
Ephemeral Geographies: Migration of Design, Identity & Senses of Place 2022 Anchorage Museum Anchorage Design Week 2022, Anchorage, AK
Architecture of the Arctic Circle Periphery 2020
AIA NY & Center for Architecture, Webinar & CE Talk
Natural Systems Design 2020
AIA Small Firms Roundtable, Dallas, TX
Design Grit: Past, Present & Future 2019
AIA Small Firms Roundtable, Dallas, TX
Wildlife Infrastructure: Shifting the Paradigm for Urban Landscapes 2015 ULI Sustainable Development Committee Meeting, Houston, TX
Design Issues in the Racial Landscapes of the U.S. Presentation & Workshop 2023
Housing & Artificial Intelligence Undergraduate Studio, Arlington, TX
Mapping Migrations Workshop: Mapping Methodologies 2023 Women in Architecture, AIA Dallas, Dallas, TX
Ephemeral Geographies: Re-imagining the Alaska Atlas 2023 Alaska Long Trail Symposium, Exhibition & Symposium Partnership, Anchorage, AK
Tradition Transformed: Sally Dillon Retrospective Exhibition 2022 Ten Years of the Dillon Symposium, Exhibition Design & Install, Arlington, TX
Fragile Fields of the Arctic Circle Periphery Travel Grant Virtual Exhibition 2021
AIA NY & Center for Architecture, Virtual Exhibition, New York, NY
Mapping, Design Processes & Digital Platform Workshop 2019 Water Ecologies Graduate Studio, Arlington, TX
Global Atlas of Fragile Fields, ARCH 3554 Student Exhibition 2019 Architecture and Design Exchange [AD EX], Exhibition, Dallas, TX
Publications & Conference Proceedings
Journal Articles
Aman, Amanda. “Narrative Mapping: A Storytelling Device.” Columns, XX May 2024, 2024 forthcoming https://www.aiadallas.org/columns/
Aman, Amanda. The Bowhead Hunt and Bird Migrations as an Inupiaq Calendar 2024 forthcoming System 2023. The Atlas of Design, Vol. 7, North American Cartographic Information Society, 2024, p. X.
Aman, Amanda. 2024. “Reimagining the Alaska Atlas.” In Robert Gonzalez, Milton 2024 forthcoming Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon (Eds.), 112th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Disruptors on the Edge (p. XXX-XXX). ACSA Press. https://doi.org/xxxxxx
Holliday, Kathryn, and Amanda Aman. “Case Studies: Freedman’s Towns on the 2024 forthcoming Trinity River.” In Reclaiming Black Settlements: A Design Playbook for Historic Communities in the Shadow of Sprawl. Edited by Kathryn Holliday, Diane Jones Allen, and Austin Allen. Chicago: Island Press. Manuscript in Production
Aman, Amanda. 2022. “An Atlas of Ephemeral Geographies: Identity in the 2022 Alaskan Arctic.” In Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon (Eds.), 110th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Empower (p. 272-284) ACSA Press. https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.38
Aman, Amanda, and Yalcin Yildirim. “Buffalo Bayou Park Methods.” Landscape 2019 Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31353/cs1581.
Aman, Amanda, and Yalcin Yildirim. “Yanaguana Garden Methods.” Landscape 2019 Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31353/cs1571.
Aman, Amanda R. “Fragile Fields: A Design Platform for Global Issues.” Web 2018 blog post. NARRATIVES. The Architect’s Project.
Kronk, Amanda R. “Wildlife Infrastructure.” Web blog post. Landscape 2015 Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation.
Aman, Amanda. “Ephemeral Fields in the Alaska Atlas.” You Are Here: Journal of 2024 forthcoming Creative Geography, no. 25, 2024, pp. X-X.
Yildirim, Yalcin, Golnaz Keshavarzi & Amanda Aman. “Does play-based experience 2022 provide for inclusiveness? A case study of multi-dimensional indicators.” Child Ind Res, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-022-09951-3
Yildirim, Yalcin, Golnaz Keshavarzi & Amanda Aman. 2021 “Can Urban Parks Help with Disaster Risk Reduction Through Educational Awareness? A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102377.
Yalcin Yildirim, Golnaz Keshavarzi & Amanda Aman 2021 “Sustainable Responses of an Urban Park for Disaster Resilience: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey “ International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2020.1870249.
Works Published
Lewis, Paul, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: 2013 Intensities. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2013. Print.
Water Proving Ground, Rising Currents: Projects for NY’s Waterfront Contributing designer for published projects
Oppenheimer, Michael and Barry Bergdoll. Rising Currents: Projects for NY’s 2011 Waterfront. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Print. Contributing designer for published projects
Publication
Peer Reviewer Service
Academic Service
Courses Taught
Peer Reviewer, ACSA112 Annual Meeting: Disruptors on the Edge 2023
Primary Session Topics: Ecology & Pedagogy | Paper & Project Peer Reviews
Peer Reviewer, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening Journal 2023
Primary Topics: Blue-Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity | Paper Peer Reviews
Committee Member, School of Architecture MARCH Admissions Committee 2023 Admissions process, criteria & scholarship/assistantship review process
Committee Member, School of Architecture Director Evaluation Committee 2022
SOA Faculty and Staff Survey Analysis & Committee Report
College of Architecture, Planning & Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington
Design Studio Architecture III [ARCH 4556 Fall 2024], Instructor, 2024
Architectural Graphics [ARCH 3343 Fall 2024], Instructor 2024
Design Studio Architecture IV [ARCH 4557 Spring 2024], Instructor 2024
Architectural Graphics II [ARCH 5343 Spring 2024], Instructor 2024
Design Studio Architecture III [ARCH 4556 Fall 2023], Instructor, 2023
Architectural Graphics [ARCH 3343 Fall 2023], Instructor 2023
Design Studio Architecture IV [ARCH 4557 Spring 2023], Instructor 2023
Design Studio Architecture III [ARCH 4556 Fall 2022], Instructor 2022
Design Studio Architecture IV [ARCH 4557 Spring 2022], Instructor 2022
Design Studio Architecture I [ARCH 3553 Fall 2021], Instructor 2021
Basic Design & Drawing II [ARCH 2552 Spring 2021], Instructor 2021
Graduate Advanced Design Studio [ARCH 5670 Fall 2020], Instructor 2020
Design Studio Architecture I [ARCH 3553 Fall 2019], Instructor 2019
Design Studio Architecture II [ARCH 3554 Spring 2019], Instructor 2019
Design Studio Architecture I [ARCH 3553 Fall 2018], Instructor 2018
Design Studio Architecture II [ARCH 3554 Spring 2018], Instructor 2018
Basic Design & Drawing I [ARCH 2551 Fall 2017], Instructor 2017
School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Creative Problem Solving [UGS 303 Spring 2013], Lead Teaching Assistant 2013
Architecture and Society [ARC 308 Fall 2012], Teaching Assistant 2012
Architecture and Society [ARC 308 Spring 2012], Teaching Assistant 2012