Architecture Faculty
William Morrish dean, School of Constructed Environments; architect; urban planner; architectural historian. Scholarly focus: sustainable urban infrastructure and an interdisciplinary approach to the design of cultural ecologies; new housing models; global urbanization and climate change. Projects: Phoenix Public Art Works program, team THINK’s proposal for rebuilding the World Trade Center, design assistance on plans for rebuilding New Orleans, and a comprehensive review of the United Nations Habitat for Human Settlements Program’s global work plan. Publications include Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas; Building for the Arts: A Guidebook for the Planning and Design of Cultural Facilities (co-author); Planning To Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood (co-author); Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model (co-author); and “After the Storm: Rebuilding Cities upon Reflexive Infrastructure,” Social Research. BArch, University of California, Berkeley; MArch (Urban Design), Harvard Graduate School of Design. Joanna Merwood director of academic affairs, School of Constructed Environments. Architectural historian. Published: “Western Architecture: The Inland Architect, Race, Class and Architectural Identity,” “Chicago Is History,” “The Mechanization of Cladding: The Reliance Building and Narratives of Modern Architecture.” BArch, Victoria University of Wellington; MArch, McGill; MA and PhD, Princeton. David Leven director, MArch program; partner, Leven Betts. Awards: Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, Architype Review, IES Lumen, four AIA NYC Awards, I.D. Annual Design Review, Architectural League of NY’s Young Architects Forum. Lectures and exhibitions: Architectural League of NY, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Syracuse University, Center for Architecture, University of Kansas, Chicago Institute of Art. Published: Architectural Record, Young Americans, Ultimate New York Design, New Minimalist House, Dwell. BA, Colgate; MArch, Yale; coursework, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Kimberly Ackert principal, Ackert Architects. Awards: Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize in Architecture. Published: 40 Under 40, New York Times Magazine, Green Architecture USA, Interiors, Architectural Review, Architecture Australia, House & Garden. Projects: Monier Design Commission, Villa Almonte Sea Ranch, Faith Assembly Church. BArch, California Polytechnic State University. Matthew Baird principal, Matthew Baird Design. Publications: GA Houses, New York Times, New York magazine. Projects: Museum of American Folk Art (with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects). BA, Princeton; MArch, Columbia.
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Sunil Bald partner, studioSUMO. Awards: Young Architects, ACSA, Fulbright, AIA. Published: Architecture, Architectural Record, Frame, GA Houses, Wallpaper, Domus, Oculus. Lectures and exhibitions: Project Row Houses, Houston; GA Gallery, Tokyo; Young Architects Forum at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; Urban Center, New York; University of Texas, Austin; Cornell. BA, University of California at Santa Cruz; MArch, Columbia. Stella Betts partner, Leven Betts Studio. Awards: AIA Design Award (2003 and 2004), I.D. Annual Design Review, Metropolis Next Generation Prize, Architectural League Young Architects, IES Lumen Award. Published: Dwell, Architectural Record, I.D., Surface, Interior Design, House & Garden. Lectures and exhibitions: Architectural League, Center for Architecture, BAC, MacDowell Colony, Colgate University. BA, Connecticut College; MArch, Harvard. Laura Briggs partner, BriggsKnowles Architecture+Design. Projects include speculative work on the city and research into the integration of photovoltaic and interactive energy technologies into building surfaces. Published in: A+D, Metropolis, New York Times, Dwell, Dwell-TV, Domus. Lectures and exhibitions: Cornell, Columbia, RISD, University of Michigan, Kent State, International Solar Energy Society, American Solar Energy Society, Storefront for Architecture, Van Alen Institute. BFA and BArch, RISD; MArch, Columbia. Eric Bunge principal, nARCHITECTS. Awards: Architectural League Emerging Voices, Canadian Rome Prize, Architectural Record Design Vanguard, MoMA/P.S.1. Young Architects, NYFA grant. Published in: New York Times, Earth Buildings, City Limits: Young Architects 3, Metropolis, Architectural Record, L’architecture d’aujourd’hui. Exhibitions: Economy of the Earth, ArchiLab, Orléans, France; New Hotels for Global Nomads, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. BArch, McGill; MArch, Harvard. Dilip da Cunha principal, Mathur/da Cunha, a landscape, planning, and architecture firm. Research focus: landscape as a shifting, culturally layered condition. Awards: Young Architects Award. Books: Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape; Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain. BArch, Bangalore University; MHousing, SPA, New Delhi; MCP, MIT; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Natalie Fizer principal, Fizer/Forley Design. Exhibitions: Artificial Memory, a survey history of memory devices; The Democratic Monument in America 1900–2000, a traveling exhibit on the monuments and trails of the 20th-century American landscape; Opening the Oval, a timeline history of the interior of the White House. Grants: New York State Council on the Arts, NYFA. Published: Interior Design, New York Times, Paper, New York magazine. BA, Rutgers; BArch, Cooper Union; MArch, Princeton.