ABOUT BRYAN BELL

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Bryan Bell has focused on research, scholarship, and engagement in the emerging practice of Public Interest Design, a field that is using professional skills and collaboration to address community and global challenges. Bell has co-written and co-edited five publications on this field.

With the goal to share the benefits of design with the greater public, Bell founded the non-profit design service and advocacy organization Design Corps in 1991 with the mission: “Design for the 98% without architects” and has served as the Executive Director since the founding. Bell co-founded the SEED Network in 2005 and is now on the Founding Steering Committee for the global network of networks known as Design for the Common Good which showcases projects around the world. He has collaboratively organized seventeen international “Structures for Inclusion” conferences funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for the Arts, thirty-three Public Interest Design Institutes, and seven international SEED Design award competitions. Bell has been an invited speaker at thirty-two universities nationally and at international conferences in England, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and India. 

Bell’s work has been supported through a Harvard Loeb Fellowship, the Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Latrobe Prize and six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum which was reviewed in Newsweek: “The attitude you don’t see much is non-ironic social concern: Bryan Bell’s clean, safe, attractive manufactured housing for migrant workers is a rarity among all the hyper-postmodern froufrous.” An article in the New York Times described him as follows: “Mr. Bell’s convictions that design can improve lives is unshaken. “It started as a search” he said. “Now I know it’s the truth: designers are needed to address social issues.”” Design Intelligence Journal called Bell one of the “early luminaries” of public interest design. Metropolis Magazine called him “the Noam Chomsky of architecture, barnstorming around the country in the name of social justice.” Since joining the NC State College of Design faculty in 2015, Bell helped start a new NCSU Graduate School Certificate in Public Interest Design. He has Created a new permanent 3-credit course, ARC 563, The Public Interest Design Seminar: Case Studies and Current Issues which is the requisite course for the certificate. He has taught 6-credit studios, ARC 503, titled Public Interest Design Incubators that have served the community and addressed multiple local issues: design for the blind with Governor Morehead School, recycling and reuse with the Scrap Exchange, the design for re-use of St. Agnes Hospital with St. Augustine’s College, and access to rural health care with Pender County Memorial Hospital which was funded and in collaboration with LS3P Architects. To find these community partners in an equitable and transparent process, Bell created an on-line “Request for Collaboration” application process between the public and the School of Architecture.

To outline his accomplishments, Bell has completed the following over the last five years:

  • Co-Edited with Farhana Ferdous, All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards a Future of Social Change, scheduled to be published by Routledge in 2021.
  • Principle Investigator, Triangle Modern Architecture, Ballard Bell, Victoria, ORO, 9/2020
  • Team submitted two grants to the National Endowment for the Arts and two to the Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts, 2020
  • Team submitted $1.2 million grant through ECU to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding for Farmworker Housing, 2020
  • Received 2018 Outstanding Extension Service Award.
  • Received membership into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension, NCSU, 2018.
  • Created new NCSU Graduate School Certificate in Public Interest Design – the second to be offered in the world.
  • Served on the committee to formulate a new Masters of Advanced Architectural Studies Degree with a Public Interest Design Focus Area.
  • Created an on-line collaboration application process between the public and the School of Architecture.
  • Co-Authored and Co-Edited, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, Routledge, 2018.
  • Co-Authored and Co-Edited, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, Routledge, 2015.
  • Created a new permanent 3-credit course, ARC 563, The Public Interest Design Seminar: Case Studies and Current Issues.
  • Created new version of 6-credit ARC 503, the Public Interest Design Incubator Studio.
  • Acted as Principal Organizer and Peer Reviewer, 2016, 2017, 2018 Annual SEED. SEED / Social Economic Environmental Design® International Awards.
  • Received five-year Dallas Foundation Commitment to Design Corps, $50,000/year, 2016-2021.
  • Co-founded the Design for the Common Good – Network of Networks, and member of Steering Committee, designforcommongood.net/.
  • Acted as Principal Investigator for Triangle Modern Architecture, to be published by Oro Press in 2020.

Founder and Executive Director, Design Corps 501-c-3
Co-Founder and Administrator, Social Economic Environmental (SEED) Network
Associate Professor, School of Architecture College of Design, NC State University
Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member, Design for the Common Good (DCG) Network

Education
  • Harvard University, Loeb Fellowship, 2010-2011
    Research focus: Public Interest Design, Instructors: Howard Gardner, Marshal Ganz
  • Yale University, School of Architecture, Master of Architecture, 1984-1988
  • Harvard University, Summer Program in Architecture, 1983
  • Princeton University, Bachelor of the Arts, Department of Art and Archeology, 1979-1983
    Thesis: The Undecorated Shed. Advisor: Eileen Guggenheim
Academic Experience
  • School of Architecture, College of Design, NC State University
    Professor, Tenured, Fall, 2015 – Present
    Courses: Public Interest Design Seminar, Public Interest Design Incubator Studio, Triangle Modern Architecture
  • School of Architecture, College of Design, NC State University
    Professor of Practice, 2010-2014, Courses: Public Interest Design Studio
  • University of South Florida, Urban Design Studio
    Visiting Studio Co-chair, Spring 2013
  • University of Virginia, School of Architecture
    Chaired Professor, Harry Shure Professorship in Architecture, 2008-2009
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum Summer Design Institute
    Instructor, 2009
  • Penn State University, Community Design/Build
    Instructor, Biloxi, MS, June-July, 2007
  • Universitat Internacional de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
    Visiting Teacher, Fall 2005 & Fall 2006
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities
    Visiting Artist, Fall, 2005
  • School of Architecture, College of Design, NC State University
    Adjunct Faculty, 2001-2004
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
    Visiting Studio Instructor, Spring Semester, 2002
  • Auburn University Rural Studio, Auburn, AL
    Visiting Professor, 12/1998 – 5/2000, Rural Studio
  • Auburn University Rural Studio, Auburn, AL
    Instructor: Auburn Outreach Studio, 6-8/2000
  • Auburn University Rural Studio, Auburn, AL
    Instructor, School of Architecture, Fall, 1998
  • Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
    Teaching Assistant, Vincent Scully, Modern Architecture, Fall, 1987
Professional Practice Experience
  • Design Corps, Raleigh, NC
    Founder and Executive Director, 1991 – Present, Incorporated as 501-c-3 in 12/1996
    Projects:
    • SEED Network, Co-Founder, Manager and Principal Investigator, 2015 – present
    • Forums organized at Cambridge, MA, New Orleans, LA, Baltimore, MD, Austin, TX, and Dallas, TX
    • SEED Field Manual and Evaluator Certification Tool, Co-Author
    • Funded by The Loeb Fellowship, Driehaus Foundation, Burt’s Bees Foundation, Rose Foundation
    • Community Design/Build Bus Shelter, New Orleans, LA, 6-7/2008
    • Make a Difference in 48 Hours, Community design/build challenge, Hosted by Architectural League of New York, 1/14-16, 2008
    • Modular Migrant Housing, Historyland Nursery, Warsaw, VA, 2007
    • Pioneer Village Cultural Park, Hayesville, NC, 2007
    • Cultural Arts Center Renovation, Andrews, NC, 2007
    • Elementary School Pavilion and “Trail of Tears” Landmark, Andrews, NC, 2007
    • Florida Modular “on-frame modular” Housing with Florida Migrant Legal Services, 2006
    • North Carolina “on-site off-site” Modular Migrant Housing with NC Housing Finance Agency and Housing Development Coalition, 2006
    • Migrant Community Garden and Market with Wake Forrest School of Public Health and Episcopal Farmworker Ministries, 2003
    • Community Design/Build Summer Studio, Asheville, NC, 7-8/2005 & 7-8/2006
    • Twenty-Year Plan for Seaboard: Intern designed projects for small rural town, 2002
    • Rose Fellowship Sponsor, Marion Child Care and Job Training Center, Marion, AL, 2001-2004
    • Project Director: Virginia Migrant Housing, 2002-3
    • Chester County Migrant Housing, 2003
    • Designer: Out of the Box, Design research funded by NEA, 2003
    • Planner and Co-designer: Migrant Housing in South Carolina
    • Program Director: Initiated Self-Help Home-ownership Program, Individualized designs for self-construction by twelve families in Adams County, PA
    • Planner: Adams County Housing Authority, Twenty units of single family and “empty-nester” housing, McSherrystown, PA, 2004
    • Researcher/Designer: Farmworker Housing for Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and New Jersey
    • Draftsman and Photographer: Measured documentation of farmworker housing, 1999
    • Designer: Adams County Housing Authority, Office Expansion & ADA modifications, Gettysburg Historic Architectural Review Board Award 1996
  • Rural Opportunities, Camp Hill, PA
    Housing Designer and Planner, 2/1990 – 3/1994
    Projects:
    • Row-houses, Gettysburg, PA 
      Twelve affordable houses for ownership, 1991-1993
    • Housing Planner: Gettysburg Scattered Site Apartments
      Rental rehabilitation and new construction, 1990-1993
    • Program Director: Fruit-grower-owned Labor Housing
      Specification writing and construction observation, 1990-1993
    • Employee of the Year, 1991 and 1993
  • Steven Holl Architects, New York, NY
    Architectural Intern, 8/1988 – 8/1989
    Projects:
    • Design Team: Design of Price Residence, “Stretto House,” Dallas, TX
    • Design Team: Fukuoka Housing, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Design Team: American Library, West Berlin, Germany
    • Competition First Place, Progressive Architecture Award, 1990
    • Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    • Design Team: Addition to the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota
    • Progressive Architecture Award, 1990
    • Presentation Team: Edge of the City, Museum of Modern Art
      Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Graham Foundation
    • Dan Scully Architects, Peterborough, NH
    • Architectural Intern, 6-8/1986
    • Design and Construction Documents, Pelkey Residence, Peterborough, NH
    • Mockbee-Coker-Howorth, Jackson, MS
    • Project Director, 6-8/1986
    • Design of three affordable houses for Madison County, Mississippi, 1987
    • Richard Rogers and Partners, London, England
    • Architectural Intern, 6-12, 1985, Green Private Art Gallery
Awards & Honors

NCSU Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension. Admitted 2018

NCSU Outstanding Extension Service Award, 2018

Award Nomination, NCSU School of Architecture, AIAS Outstanding Faculty Award, 2015-16

AIAS National Award for Freedom by Design project, 2016

Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards, Finalist in Architecture, 10/2010

AIA National Honor for Collaborative Practice: San Antonio, TX, 5/3/2007

Metropolitan Home Design 100, 5-6/2004

I.D. Magazine Fifty Designers, “Corps Values,” 1-2/2004

Dwell Magazine’s Nice Modernist Award, 09/2003

Archeworks Honorary Degree, Chicago, IL, 5/5/2002

South Carolina Housing Finance Agency Housing Achievement Award, 2001 A

IA/AAF Accent for Architecture, 2000

Pillars of the Community Award, Federal Home Loan Bank, 2000

Competition First Place, Progressive Architecture Award, 1990 Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY American Library, West Berlin, Germany

Steven Holl Architects, Design Team

FAIA Latrobe Research Prize, Feldman, Palleroni, Perkes and Bell, 2010-11 (Cross-listed with Grants)

Progressive Architecture Award, 1990, Addition to the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Steven Holl Architects, Design Team

Progressive Architecture Award, 1987 Mockbee, Coker, Howorth, Project Director: Design of three affordable houses for Madison County, Mississippi

Publications

Farhana Ferdous and Bryan Bell, Co-Editors, All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change, (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1/2021)

Abendroth, L.M., and Bell, Bryan, Co-editors. Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Ferdous, F. and Bell, Bryan, Co-editors. All In: All Inclusive Engagement in Architecture

(Proposal submitted to Routledge, 5/2018. Under peer review).

Abendroth, L.M., and Bell, Bryan, Co-editors. Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)

Bell, Bryan, and Wakeford, Katie, Co-editors. Expanding Architecture: Design As Activism (New York: Metropolis Books, 2008)

Bell, Bryan, Editor. Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture

(New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004)

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

Peer Reviewed

Contributor, Conference Proceedings: Design as Common Good / Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values, Swiss Design Network Symposium, 2021 

Contributor, Briefing Book: “The Critical Conversations Project” Co-editors Tom Barrie and Julio Bermudez, conducted by the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum, 2021 

Contributor, Publication, Co-editors: Elizabeth Golden and Joshua Vermillion, Community Connection: Inclusive Strategies for Urban Infrastructure, ACSA Proceedings Index, BRIK, 10/2020

Chapter Author, What Kind of Architect are You? Greinacher, Udo, ORO Editions, 3/2021

Editor and Lead Author, “Access to Rural Health Care,” Sponsored Studio and Publication, Graphic design by Rachel Haas, 2020-2021

Abendroth L.M., and Bell, Bryan. “Introduction”, “The SEED Process for Academia”, “SEED Academic Case Studies”, “Learning Objective Index”, “Program Consideration Index.” in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Abrams, Robin, Bressler, G., Bell, Bryan, “A Comprehensive Public Interest Design Curriculum: College of Design, North Carolina State University.” in Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Abendroth L.M., and Bell, Bryan. “Understanding Public Interest Design”, “Practicing Public Interest Design: SEED Methodology”, “Documenting the Value of Public Interest Design: Case Studies and Issues Index”, “The Issues Index: Expanded Opportunity through an Issues Approach”, “Case Studies and Issues Index”, “Issue Index Cross- Reference Guide”, “Locator Atlas”, in Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies and Critical Issues, (New York: Routledge, 2015).

Bell, Bryan, “The State of Public Interest Design,” in Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies and Critical Issues. (New York: Routledge, 2015). 

Bell, Bryan, Arcury, Thomas A., Gabbard, Susan. Casanova V., Flocks, Joan D., Swanberg, Jennifer E, Wiggins, Melinda F. “Collecting Comparative Data on Farmworker Housing and Health: Recommendations for Collecting Housing and Health Data across Places and Time.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2015.

Bell, Bryan. “Putting the Public in Public Interest Design.” Humanitarian Architecture: 15 stories of architects working after disaster, ed. Charlesworth, Esther (London: Routledge, 2014).

Bell, Bryan. “Public Interest Design” in The AIA Architects Handbook of Professional Practice, 15th Edition, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013).

Geier, Nathan; Lam, Sandy; and Cary, John. “Towards a Cultural Value of Design and Democracy” in Oz, University of Kansas Journal, Volume 25 (Manhattan, KS, New Prairie Press, 2013).

Gutman, Robert, Cuff, Dana, and Wriedt, J. “Pre-form and Post-form Design Activism” in Architecture from the Outside In (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012).

Bell, Bryan. “Preface, Expanding Design towards Greater Relevance” in Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism (New York: Metropolis Books, 2008).

Bell, Bryan. “The Bat Signal: Exploring the Relationship between Justice and Design” Oz, the Journal of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University. (Manhattan, KS, New Prairie Press, 2006).

Palleroni, Sergio and Merkelbach, Christina. “Introduction” Author. in Studio at large: Architecture in service of global communities. (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2004).

Grenader, Nonya, Scardino, Barrie, Bell, Bryan, “The 99K House and SEED” in 99K House Competition Publication. (Houston: Rice University Design Alliance, 2008).

Bell, Bryan, “Foreword: Designing for the 98% without Architects,” in Good Deeds, Good Design, Community Service through Architecture. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).

Bell, Bryan, “Architecture as Artifact,” in Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press 2003).

Not Peer Reviewed

Bell, Bryan. “The Avant Garde, Renewing a Concept and Renewing a Role,” in Flux, the Student Publication of NCSU College of Design, by Pelfrey, Ashley & Smith, Rachel, 2017.

Bizios, Georgia and Wakeford, Katie. “Integrating Form and Content: Training Public

Interest Interns.” in Bridging the Gap: Public-interest Architectural Internships. (Raleigh, NC: Lulu Press, 2011).

Feldman, Roberta, Bell, Bryan, Palleroni, Sergio and Perkes, David. “Wisdom from the Field: Public Interest Architecture in Practice” AIA On-line (February, 2013).

Bell, Bryan, “Designing for the 98% without Architects” in An Architektur Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Umwelt (March 2005).

Bell, Bryan, Essay in Out of the Box Exhibit Publication. (Chicago, Field Museum: UIC, 2005).

Chapters by Others About/Referencing Bell’s Work

Building Green Spotlight Report, “Equity in Design and Construction: Seven Case Studies” by Paula Milton, Building Green, 12/14/2020

Wilson, Barbara Brown, Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design, “A Short History of Community-Driven Design,” Island Press, 10/2018

Researcher with ARC 590 students, 12 citations, Bell, Victoria Ballard, Triangle Modern Architecture, ORO Press,10/2020 

Hammett, Jerilou & Wrigley, Maggie. “Self Help Housing.” The architecture of change: Building a better world. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 2013).

Cary, John. The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories About Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients (New York: Distributed Art, 2011).

Moore, Steven A. and Brown, Barbara Wilson. Questioning Architectural Judgement: the Problem of Codes in the United States. (Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2007).

Jacobs, Karrie. The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home (New York: Penguin Books, 2006).

Lepik, Andres. Small scale, big change: New architectures of social engagement: Exhibition, Museum of modern art, New York, October 3, 2010-January 3, 2011. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010).

Sinclair, Cameron. Design Like You Give a Damn (New York, NY: Abrams, 2006).

Lupton, Ellen, Albrecht, Donald, Yelavich, Susan, Mitchell, Owens. Inside Design Now, Smithsonian Design Triennial. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).

Journal Articles by Others About/Referencing Bell’s Work

Moore, Steven A. “Knowledge, Education, Power and Production: Public Interest Design

in North America,” Journal of Architectural Education, 2017 71(1), 46-55.

Shall, Scott. “Book Review of Design like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises – Architecture for Humanity and Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism – Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford,” Journal of Architectural Education, Volume 62:4, 132-134.

Publication and References in the Popular Press

Citation, ABC News, Via televised local news and website, Freedom by Design, 6/2022

Citation, NCSU Online News, Office of Global Engagement, “Global Alumni Spotlight: Urmica Yelavarthy, Designing Our Future,” by AY King, 6/2022

Citation, Walter Magazine, “Wide Open Spaces: Architect Phil Szostak’s Wide Open Spaces” by Michael Welton, 9/2020

Citations, Contributing Researcher, 12 citations, Triangle Modern Architecture, Ballard Bell, Victoria, ORO, 9/2020

Subject of article, AD Magazine by Karen Kubey, Issue: “Social Value in Architecture,” Article: “Design for Impact: Measuring Architecture’s Social Value in the United States,” 04/2020

Metropolis Magazine, Katie Okamoto, “If You Are Serious About Sustainability, Social Equity Can’t Be Just Another Add-On. Social impact was supposed to be central to sustainability from the start. What happened?” 1/6/2020 

Building Green News, Paula Melton, “Spotlight Report: Equity in Design and Construction, Seven Case Studies.” 2/2/2020

Irene Figueroa-Ortiz and Dolores Huerta, “Picketing and Pruning,” Harvard Design Magazine, No. 46 –Project image and citation, page 145, Fall/Winter, 2018

Welton, Michael. “Wilmington Reimagined,” Salt Magazine, December 2017.

Welton, Michael. “NC State wants to show design can energize a community – and be a tool for democracy,” News and Observer (Raleigh), September 29, 2017.

Hutchins, Shelley D. “Reinvention 2012: Design for the 15 Percent,” Residential Architect, A Journal of the AIA, November 6, 2012.

Fisher, Sunny. “Funding the Built Environment,” Real Estate Review, Winter, 2012.

O’Connell, Kim. “AIA Voices,” Architect Magazine, Journal of the AIA, June 2011.

LaBarre, Suzanne. “The Rise of the Citizen Architect, Truth in Numbers, Public Interest Architecture,” Metropolis Magazine, October 2008.

Liao, Janet. “Design Philanthropy,” Perspective, Magazine of the International Interior Design Association, Spring, 2007.

Weber, Cheryl. “Practice: Citizen Architect,” Residential Architecture, November 2006, 45.

Matthews, Jaman. “Good Deeds Good Design Biook Review,” WorldArk, the Magazine of Heiffer International, 9/2006, 37.

Wallace, Nicole. “Architects and Charities Make Good Partners,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 2006, 20.

Pearson, Jason. “A Larger Context for Design,” Icon, the Magazine of the ASID, Summer 2006, 33-36

O’Donnell, Paul. “Heart of Design: Build for Good,” House and Garden, December 2005, 24.

Ivy, Robert. “Editorial: It’s in the Air,” Architectural Record, May 2005.

Jacobs, Karrie. “Bush to Cities: Drop Dead,” Metropolis Magazine, April 2005, pp. 58-62.

“Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing,” Dwell Magazine, May/June 2005, 42.

Hosey, Lance. “The Ethics of Brick,” Metropolis Magazine, April 2005, 128.

McNichol, Beth. “A Healing Place,” NC State University Magazine, Summer 2004, 10-19.

Beazley, Michael. “Book Reviews: Good Deeds Good Design: Community Service through Architecture.” Azure Magazine, November 2004. 95

Bernstein, Fred. “Design 100,” Metropolitan Home Magazine, May-June 2004.

“Architecture in the Public Interest,” Architecture Magazine, February 2004.

Szenasy, Susan. “Civic Duties, Public Spaces,” Metropolis Magazine, February, 2004.

Twemlow, Alice. “The ID Fifty, Corps Values,” I.D. Magazine, January-February, 2004, 84.

Devereux, Julien. “Do Good Design, Q&A Interview.” Metropolis Magazine, February 2004, 28.

Rios, Joy. “Book Review, Good Deeds, Good Design,” Readymade Magazine, January 2004, 18.

Cash, Stephanie. “The Old Becomes New Again,” Art in America Magazine, Cooper Hewitt Triennial Exhibit Review, January 2003, 62-67.

Devereux, Julien. “Design Corps’ Humane Housing for Migrant Workers,” Metropolis Magazine, December 6, 2003.

Holstein, Amara. “It Was A Very Nice Year,” Dwell Magazine, November/December 2003, 64.

Kolleeny, Jane. “Giving Versus Getting: Altruism is Alive and Well in Architecture,” Architectural Record, September 2003, 87-94.

Holstein, Amara. “Nice Modernist Award, Bell’s Mission,” Dwell Magazine, September 2003, 58.

Jacobs, Karrie. “Review of Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.” Metropolis Magazine, August/September 2003, 134-41.

Pushkar, Katherine, “Design, the Next Generation,” Readymade Magazine, Summer 2003, 17.

Barberich, Christine. “Less Is More,” City Magazine, May/June 2003, 38.

Mandell, Julia. “Views: Exhibition,” Architecture Magazine, June 2003, 89.

“Design: Next Generation,” Readymade Magazine, Summer, 2003.

Plagens, Peter. “Contemporary American Designers Strut Their Stuff,” Newsweek Magazine, April 28, 2003, 62.

Hales, Linda. “A Comforting Trend,” The Washington Post, April 27, 2003.

Lyman, Guy. “Building a Vision,” Hope Magazine, January 2002.

Weber, Cheryl. “Corps Values,” Residential Architect, October 2001, 16.

Van Vliet, Willem. “Design Matters Internet Catalogue: Best Practices in Affordable Housing,” International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment, October 2001.

Peterson, Linda. “Shelter from the Storm.” Biography Magazine, May 2001, 65.

Iovine, Julie. “Not Just a Roof but Roots for a Season,” The New York Times, October, 26, 2000.

Hammett, Jerilou. “Serving the Unserved,” Designer/ Builder Magazine, August, 2000, 12-13.

Berg, Jessica. “Community + Design + Build.” Crit, Journal of the American Institute of Architectural Students, Fall 1998, 23-25.

Hammett, Jerilou. “Self Help Housing,” Designer/ Builder Magazine, June 1998, 18-22.

Lyman, Guy. “Anatomy of a Start-Up,” Who Cares Magazine. Summer 1998, 18-19.

Bussel, Abby. “Migrant and Proud,” Architecture Magazine, March 1996, 147.

Holl, Steven. Stretto House, Dallas, Texas: Steven Holl Architects. (New York: Monacelli Press, 1996).

Stubbs, Stephanie. “Where do Your Draw the Line?” AIA Newsletter, September 1,1993, 8-9.

Fegley, Chris. “Alternatives in Architecture,” Crit. Journal of the American Institute of Architectural Students, Spring 1992, 52-53.

Ranalli, George. “Descriptive Geometry Drawings,” Avant Garde, Journal of School Architecture, University of Colorado, 1991.

Berman, Andrew. “Planetarium for Flushing Meadows, NY,” Japan Architect Magazine, Issue 8, 1989.

Grants

PI, LS3P Associates Ltd., ARC 503: Design Solutions for Rural Healthcare in North Carolina, $18,800, 08/16/2019 through 01/15/2022

PI, National Endowment for the Arts, To Support the Creation and Implementation of Tactile Wayfinding Tools for People with Vision Disabilities, $40,000, 01/2021

PI, NC Outdoor Heritage Advisory Council, Tactile Map and Sidewalk for Governor Morehead School, $15,000, 03/2021

PI, NC Outdoor Heritage Advisory Council, Mobility and Learning Zones for Governor Morehead $15,000, 03/01/2021 through 08/2022

Advisor, AIAS Freedom by Design, multiple sources, Go-Fund-Me campaign, grants from: the AIAS, the Governor Morehead Foundation, $37,000, 2022

Co-applicant/Consultant, SEED Network, Bryan Bell partner in Design for Common Good, team submission though Metropolitan State for, Design Arts Program grant of the National Endowment for the Arts. To fund “Structures for Inclusion 2020” conference and “Design for the Common Good Exhibition,” $40,000, 2021, 

NCSU Provost’s Office, Course Innovation Funds. To create twelve documentary interviews of architects currently practicing in Triangle area for Triangle Modern Architecture course. $8,000. 2016

Co-PI: NC State Agromedicine Extension, SECU Foundation Proposal, “Transforming agricultural housing for farmworkers,” Four-year project with a total cost requested of $859,000; College of Design request: $90,000, Submitted 4/2022, Pending

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Program, Design Corps, 2013, $40,000. To support “Structures for Inclusion,” a national conference on public service architecture and community design.

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Program, Design Corps, 2012, $40,000, To support training in community-driven design through the Public Interest Design Institute’s Social Economic Environmental Design process.

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Program, Design Corps, 2010, $25,000. To support the Hollygrove New Orleans Design Initiative, in consortium with the AARP Foundation.

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Program, Design Corps, 2009, $17,000. To support the Structures for Inclusion X conference, in consortium with Howard University in Washington, DC.

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Program, Design Corps, 2005. $35,000, To support the development of architectural designs for the rural community of Seaboard, North Carolina. Results of the project will be disseminated by a national publication.

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Program, Design Corps, 2003. $35,000, To support conferences and a publication focused on providing quality design services to those not traditionally served by architects.

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Program, Design Corps, 2003. $40,000, To support the completion of a community-based design project for a job training and day care center in Perry County, Alabama.

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Program, Design Corps, 2002. $34,000, To support conferences and a publication that focus on providing quality design services to those not traditionally served by architects.

Driehaus Foundation, $60,000, Design Corps. To fund the Public Interest Design Institute program, 2012

Surdna Foundation, Design Corps, Thriving Cultures Program, $240,000, 2011 – 2013

FAIA Latrobe Research Prize, Feldman, Palleroni, Perkes and Bell, $100,000, 2010-2011, 

Fetzer Institute, Contract Funding for PID Institutes for Paris and Mexico City and Film Documentaries by Vid Tiger

Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts, 2 times US Department of Housing and Urban Development, 3 times

USDA 523 Mutual Self Help Housing Program, Initiated Self-Help Home-ownership Program, Individualized designs for self-construction by twelve families in Adams County, PA

Florida Modular “on-frame modular” Housing with Florida Migrant Legal Services, $10,000, 2006

Migrant Community Garden and Market with Wake Forrest School of Public Health and Episcopal Farmworker Ministries and funded by the US Department of Agriculture, 9/2005-2010

USDA RD 523 Mutual Self Help Program, Self-Help Home-ownership Program, Adams County, PA, $300,000, 2002 (Cross listed in collaboration section)

Foundation of Western North Carolina, 7-8/2005 & 7-8/2006, $20,000

Enterprise Foundation Rose Fellowship — Host, Marion Child Care and Job Training Center, $120,000, 2002-2005

Federal, State and County sources including LIHTC, Historic Tax Credits, HUD HOME and PA Department of Community Affairs, Row-houses, Gettysburg, PA, 1992-1994

Federal, State and County sources including LIHTC, HUD HOME and PA Department of Community Affairs, Rural Opportunities Inc., Twelve affordable houses for ownership, 1991- 1993

PA Department of Community Affairs, Rural Opportunities Inc., Migrant Housing Units, 1991- 1993

American Institute of Architecture and American Architecture Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Scholarship for Post-graduate Advanced Research, $2,500, 1990

Participation in Centers, Consortia, Institutes, Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Activities

Lead Organizer, Moderator, Public Interest Design Institutes (5 sessions)

JEDI Case Study Webinars, SEED Network with NOMA, NAACP, by Zoom

  • JEDI Case Study 1: 7933 Tree Lane Affordable Housing, 5/28/2021 
  • JEDI Case Study 2: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, 6/25/2021 
  • JEDI Case Study 3: Chicago Mobile Makerspace, 7/30/2021 
  • JEDI Case Study 4: Pathways to Equity, 8/27/2021 
  • JEDI Case Study 5: Freedom by Design – Weatherization Kits, 9/24/2021

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by Design Corps, the SEED Network, The College of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Lab for Urban and Social Innovation at Jefferson and Philadelphia University, 10/13-14/2017. Speakers: Kim Douglas, Sarah Endriss, Deborah Gans, Keir Johnston, Beth Miller, Philip Szostak. Susan Thering, Howard Ways, III.

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by Design Corps, the SEED Network, the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, 10/6-7/2017. Speakers: Pacia Anderson, Rod Barnett, Mark Cross, John Cruz, Amanda Colon-Smith, Joel Fuoss, Jeremy Knoll, Elaine Moralez, Esther Shin, Susan Thering, Rebecca Weaver and Steve Zwolak.

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by Design Corps, the SEED Network, and the New Orleans AIA, 9/29-30/2017. Speakers: William Bradshaw, Nick Jenisch, Jeremy Knoll, Greg Kearley, Wes Michaels, Sue Mobley, Andreanecia M. Morris, Jenga Mwendo, Paula Peer, David Perkes, Joel Pominville, Amanda Rivera, Susan Thering.

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by Design Corps, The Shade Institute, and the East-West Center, 7/2017. Speakers: Susie Chun Oakland, Jeffrey Hou, Harrison Rue, Dean Sakamoto, Mary Pat Waterhouse, Susan Thering.

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by AIA Portland and Portland State University, Portland, OR, 3/24-25/2017, Speakers: Bryan Bell, Jane Anderson, Peter Fattinger, Ursula Hartig, Matthew Jelacic, DK Osseo-Asare, Sergio Palleroni, Nina Pawlicki, Bryan Pittman, Susan Thering

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by AIA National Office and Catholic University, Washington, DC, 3/24-25/2017, Speakers: Bryan Bell, Carlton Eley, Bradley Guy, Greg Kearley, Sheila Lewis, Nadine Maleh, Joel Mills, Rachel Minnery, Rayya Newman, Suman Sorg, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Philip Szostak, Susan Thering, Chapman Todd

External Advisory Group: Association of Architectural Educators Sesquiannual International Conference, “Connected: pedagogical strategies for design that engage Academia and Society.” Submitted by Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, 2017

Co-organizer, Public Interest Design Institute, hosted by Design Corps, SEED

Network, buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, University of North Texas, University of Texas Arlington, and AIA Dallas, in Dallas, Texas 9/25-26, 2015.Speakers: Bryan Bell, Catherine Baker, Greta Buehrie, Ingrid Haftel, Andy Moon, Bill Hall, Brian Keith, Laura Eder, Jonathan Rollins, Michael Westfall, Grady (Buddy) Jordan, Jr., Pat Bywaters, Daron Babcock

Public Interest Design Institutes: 2012 – 2015, Twenty-eight two-day sessions organized with professional associations, community partners and university partners as hosts.

Principal Investigator, Public Interest Design Institute, Hosted by École Spéciale d’Architecture,

Paris, France, Funded by Fetzer Institute (Cross listed in grants section)

Principal Investigator Public Interest Design Institute, Host: National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Funded by Fetzer Institute (Cross listed in grants section)

Conferences and Panel Presentations

Panelist: “Community design, public interest design, Civic Engagement in American Climate Policy: Collaborative Models.” Organized by CivicGreen. Sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, Kettering Foundation and the Center for Communities by Design of the American Institute of Architects, 5/13-14/2022

Speaker and Moderator, NCSU Equity Research Symposium Planning Lightning Round Panel, 2/8/2022

Co-Organizer/Speaker, Structures for Inclusion 2022 Conference, In-person and Online, In-person Speakers:  Lisa Abendroth, Sergio Palleroni, Peter Fattinger, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, Scott Moore Y Medina, Ursula Hartig, Chad Kraus, Amy Bell, Leann Andrews, Jeff Hou; Hosts: Design Corps and Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, 2/19-20/2022

Co-Founding Member, Steering Committee Representative for SEED, Network on Design for the Common Good — Network of Networks; SEED Nework, Live Projects Network (UK), DesignbuildXchange (Germany), Pacific Rim Network, (Singapore). 

Researched and update on-line map of global PID projects, Design for the Common Good, Network of Networks, with four global networks. 

Grow support for shared knowledge through a public database / discussion forum. Funded by Curry Stone Foundation 

SEED representative for curation of Design for Common Good Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 1-2/2022

Co-presenter and Panelist: Places, “Communities and Collaboration” Panel, Swiss Design Network Symposium: Design as Common Good, Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values, Juried paper presentation: Expanding the Common Good, Paper: Lisa M. Abendroth, Jane Anderson, Bryan Bell, Simon Colwill, Peter Fattinger, Ursula Hartig, Jeffrey Hou, Sergio Palleroni, Nina Pawlicki, Colin Priest, 3/25/2021

Workshop Co-Leader: Building Structures For (Ex-)Change Workshop, Swiss Design Network Symposium: Design as Common Good, Framing: Design through Pluralism and Social Values, with Sergio Palleroni, Mike McKeever, Bryan Bell, Colin Priest, Jeffrey Hou, Nina Pawlicki, 3/26/2021

Co-presenter and Panelist: “Structuring Interaction: Four Viewpoints on Design Methods in Communities,” Design as Common Good, Swiss Design Network Symposium: Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values, Juried Panel Paper: Greater Good and Good Difference Bryan Bell, Lisa M. Abendroth, Sergio Palleroni, 3/26/2021

Panelist, “Justice & Participation,” Roundtable Discussion: The Critical Conversations Project, The Princeton Sessions,” Conducted by the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum in partnership with the Center of Theological Inquiry, 12/9 – 11/2021 

Panel Presenter and Moderator, “Bottom-Up Social Change: Materials, Buildings, Community,” AIA/ACSA Intersection Symposium, Joint Conference on Architecture, Symposium, Convened by Elizabeth Golden and Joshua Vermillion, 6/8/2019

Co-Organizer for Structures for Inclusion International Conference Steering Committee with Pacific Rim Network to host Structures for Inclusion 18: “Emerging Civic Urbanisms / Designing for Social Impact” hosted by the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore, 12/14-16/2018

Co-Organizer, Structures for Inclusion Annual International Conference 17, “Building on the Common Ground,” Portland, OR, with Portland State University, Live Projects Network of the UK and designbuildXchange Network of Germany. Cost: $23,000, Attendance: 215, Speakers: Yasmine Abbas, Priyanka Bista, Rory Dickens, David Dowell, DK Osseo-Asare, Rosamund Palmer, Sean Slattery, Julie Stevens, Jake Stodola, Yuki Takemura, Kayla Volkmer, Cristina Zubillaga. 4/7-8/2017

Panelist, Impact Design Summit, National Design Museum, Hosted by VA Tech and Autodesk, National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 10/28/17

EDRA, Organizing Committee, Intensive Workshop, NCSU, 5/18/2016

Principal Organizer, Structures for Inclusion Conference 16: “Structural Changes: Mission, Profession, Education,” Raleigh, NC, with NCSU College of Design. Cost: $21,000. Attendance: 170, Speakers:John Folan, Steve Schuster, Joy Meek AIA, Gregory A. Kearley, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Jeffery L. Davis, David Hill, Elaine Morales, Emilie Taylor Welty, Betsy MacLean, Brad Guy, Kyle Corkum, Roberta Fox, Duarte B. Morais, Omar Hakeem, Jose Leandro Barrera IV, Lisa M. Abendroth, James Wheeler, Randy Lanou, Jose Gamez, Mary Hardin, Michael Zaretsky, Tom Barrie, Briana Outlaw, Brice Aarrestad, John Folan, Ellen Cassilly, David Hill, Katie Wakeford, Erin Sterling Lewis, Terry Oden, Marc Turkel, Kate Bedford, Beau Frail, Kofi Boone, Andrew Brose, Henry Sanoff, Donghwan Moon. 2/19-20/2016.

Panelist: Harvard Igniting Innovation Conference, Harvard University, 11/14/2015

Poster Presentation: A Public/Private Migrant Housing Program, Quality Housing and Health, A Trans-disciplinary Conference, Legal Services Inc, Washington, DC, 11/11/2014

Panelist: Public Interest Design Fellowship Convening, hosted by the AIA Architectural Foundation at AIA National Office, Washington, DC, 8/25/2014

Panelist: Designing for All through Public Interest Design, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, LA, 10/23/2014

Panelist: Affordable Homes & Sustainable Communities Summit, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, LA, 10/21/2014

Poster Presentation: “SEED as the IRB for Architecture,” by Dasha Orthenberg, Shannon Criss, John Folan, Steven Moore, Bryan Bell, ACSA, Miami, FL, 4/2014

Moderator: Public Interest Design Panel, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, 2/2014

Panelist: Community Engagement and Environmental Design, Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design, UNC Greensboro, Center for Community-Engaged Design, Interior Architecture, 4/2013

Panelist: Virginia State AIA Conference, 11/05/2009

Panelist: Expanding Architecture; Discussion Series, Metropolis Magazine, New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; Santa Monica, CA; Chicago, IL; 1-3/2008

Panelist: ACSA Annual Conference, The Value of Design, Portland, OR, 3/28/2009

Panelist: Texas Society of Architects Annual Convention, “Designing for the 98%,” Austin, TX, 10/20/07

Panelist: American Institute of Graphic Artists Annual Design Conference, Denver, CO, 10/14/2007

Panelist: Architectural League, “The Yale Building Project: The First Forty Years,” 10/07/2007

Panelist: Imagining America, Artists and Scholars in Public Life, Imagining Urban Transformation through Community Design Panel, Syracuse, NY, 9/8/2007

Panelist, Social Justice and Sustainability Panel, American Institute of Architects National Convention San Antonio, TX, 5/3/2007

Panelist: University of California at Santa Barbara, State of the Arts conference, 5/20/2006

Panelist: “Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing,” Field Museum, Chicago Illinois, 4/16/2005

Panelist: Serving the Community through Architecture: Celebrating Samuel Mockbee, National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2/2004

Panelist: Build Boston Conference, Boston, MA, 1/2/2003

Panelist: Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs: “Successful Solutions to

Farmworker Housing Needs,” Washington, DC, 9/2003

Panelist: National Endowment for the Arts, “Envisioning Universal Design,” Washington, DC, 9/2003

Panelist: ArchVoices National Summit on Architectural Internships, University of Oklahoma, OK, 10/04 – 6/2002

Panelist: National Council on the Arts of the NEA, Washington, DC, 7/12/2002

Panelist: Planning Matters Conference, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, 3/8/2002

Lead Organizer: Structures for Inclusion Annual Conferences, 1 through 15, 2000 through 2015. Partner Hosts: Princeton University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Virginia and Community Housing Resource Center, City College, Public Architecture/Urban Ecology, UNC- Charlotte, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Building Communities Workshop, Howard University, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, Parsons The New School of Design, NC State University, Portland State University, (National University of Singapore, upcoming 12/14- 15/2018) Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts 2001, 2009, 2010, Graham Foundation 2000 & 2001

Panelist: “Architects and Social Responsibility” with Moshe Safdie and Denise Scott-Brown, American Institute of Architects National Convention, Chicago, 5/1993

Panelist: Yale Conference on Housing, Yale University, 1/1993

Invited Academic Juries and Peer Reviews

Guest Reviewer and Invited Class Presenter

Reviewer, Urban Design Build Studio, “Reconciling OUTside withIN/INside without,” Taught by John Folan, University of Arkansas, Final Review, 12/3/2021

Lecturer, Seminar, Taught by Ana Maria Duran, “Architectures of the Collective.” Yale School of Architecture, 10/6/2021

Reviewer, Metropolitan State University Denver, Seminar “Identity and System Design Class, Design for the Common Good Exhibition, Branding Presentations,” 5/3/2021

Interviewee, by The Global Studio Collaboration 2021, Assistant Professor Kelly Murdoch-Kitt, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan; Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru, India; and National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, Zoom, 2/17/2021

Reviewer, Urban Design Build Studio, CARB COMPLEX : BIG PICTURE STUDIO REVIEW, UDBS CARB Complex 05: Realizing Potential – Taught by David Kennedy, John Folan, and Kimberley Furlong at the University of Arkansas, John Folan, Mid-Review and Final Review, 4/28/2020 and 10/10/2020

Reviewer: Drexel University Graduate School of Interior and Design, Fall Thesis Presentations, Zoom, 6/6/2020

Juror, University of Southern California, Jennifer Siegal Architecture Studio, USC School of Architecture, ARCH 402: Topic Studio, Mid-review, 10/2/2020 and Final Review, 11/19/2020

Juror, Ed Orlowski, Activist Studio, Lawrence Tech University, Final Review, Zoom, 12/7/2020

Juror, Ed Orlowski, Activist Studio, Lawrence Tech University, Zoom, 12/12/2019

Principal Organizer and Juror, 2017 Annual SEED Awards Juried international competition. SEED Network, Pacific Rim Network. Awards winners to “recognize excellence in public interest design. Three winners were selected from each of the two networks to represent their public interest design principles and selection criteria” to be presented at Structures for Inclusion Annual International Conference 18, National University of Singapore (NUS), Deadline 7/15/2018

Jury:

Daniel Abramson, University of Washington, USA 

Isami Kinoshita, Chiba University, Japan

Shenglin Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Farhana Ferdous, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Priyanka Bista, KTK-BELT studio, Kathmandu, Nepal

Pedro Damián Pacheco Vásquez, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico

John Folan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Jota Sampar, Mobility/Movilidad, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

Peer Review Principal Investigator, Call for Chapters, All Inclusive Engagement in Architecture, 62 case study submissions, proposal submitted to Routledge for review, 5/2018

Peer Review Co-Principal Investigator, Call for Chapters, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook, 80 chapter submissions, Routledge Press, 2018

Peer Reviewer, Association of Architectural Educators Conference, Call for Presentations,

“Architect Connects” Conference, Brooks College, Oxford University, 2018

Paper Peer Reviewer, Action Research Journal, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017

Juror, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Great Places Award, 3/2018

Co-Organizer and Juror, 2017 Annual SEED Awards Juried international competition. Design Corps, the SEED Network, the Live Project Network of Brooks College, Oxford, UK, and DesignBuildXchange Europe of UT Berlin, in collaboration with the Center for Public Interest Design, selected and presented the 2017 Awards winners to “recognize excellence in public interest design. Two winners were selected from each of the three networks to represent their public interest design principles and selection criteria.” Presented at Portland State University, 4/8-9/2017

Jury:

Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder of the BaSiC Initiative and Director, Center for Public Interest, Portland State University

Bryan Bell, Executive Director, Design Corps, and Associate Professor, NC State University

Sue Thering, Programs Director, Design Corps

Ursula Hartig, Director of CoCoon-Studio and Co-founder ofthedbXchange network, Technische Universität Berlin

Peter Fattinger, Director of design.build and Co-founder thedbXchange network, Technische Universität Wien

Jane Anderson, Co-founder of the Live Projects Network, Oxford Brookes University Colin Priest, Co-founder of the Live Projects Network, Chelsea College of Arts

Juror for “Dencity,” International Competition, organized by Shelter Global, 6/2017

Juror, UNC-C “School of Architecture’s s Best Graduate Diploma Project,” 5/2017

Principal Organizer and Juror, 2016 Annual SEED Awards Juried international competition. “The SEED Award Review and Selection Criteria are based on a fulfillment of the SEED mission and principles coupled with demonstrated engagement with the community in project development, design and implementation.” Presented at SFI 16 at NCSU CoD, 3/19-20/2016

Winning Projects:

Rapid Disaster Recovery Housing Pilot Program, Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy Counties, Texas, USA

Marwen, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Ilima Primary School, Ilima, Democratic Republic of the Congo Maya Community Project, Kilifi, Kenya

Barrio Collaboration, Tucson, Arizona, USA Parisite Skatepark, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Jury:

Gail Vittori, Co-Director, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

John Quale, Director of the architecture program, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico

Brad Guy, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Building Stewardship, The Catholic University of America

Juror: Tiny Homes for the Homeless. Activate 14 and AIANC, Raleigh, NC, 09/2015

Annual international juried SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design, 2000 – 2015

Advisor, Charrette for Serve Denton Assistance Center, University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design 4/2014

Evaluator, Advisory Committee Member, Fetzer Institute, Recommended recipients for funding Juror, 99K House Competition Publication, Rice University Design Alliance, 2008

Peer Reviewer, US Housing and Urban Development, Community Outreach Partnership Centers Futures Grant, Washington, DC, 8/2003

Peer Reviewer, Architecture for Social Justice Awards, Partnerships in Teaching, National Endowment for the Arts Adaptive Environments Program, Washington, DC, 8/2003

Invited Lectures

Moderator/Panelist, NCSU Equity Research Symposium, 2/4/2022 

Lecturer: NCSU COD AIA Triangle Joint Fall Lecture Series, 1/24/2022

Presenter, NCSU Lightning Talks for the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative, 9/22/2021

Speaker, Building Material Reuse Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/30/2020 

Presenter, Coleman Coker, Gulf Coast Design Lab Studio, Zoom, 6/22/2020

Honors Workshop, “Public Interest Design,” University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, 2/18/2020 

Speaker, University of Arkansas, School of Architecture Lecture Series, 2/19/2020 

Speaker, AIA Southwest VA: Cancelled COVID-19 

Lecturer, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 8/2019 

Lecturer, Visiting Architecture Leadership Endowment, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 3/14/2019 

Speaker (via Skype), Outcomes Based Education Conference, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Structures for Inclusion 18, Singapore, 12/2018

Speaker and Panelist, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, US Green Building Council, “Social Equity In Design: Seeking SEED and LEED Integration,” SEED pilot credit for Social Equity Within the Community, Chicago, IL, 12/2018

Speaker. Hampton Roads AIA, Lecture Series, Hampton Roads, VA, 11/1/2018 

Lecturer, Architecture and Design Department, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, 10/19/2018 

Lecturer, Bowling Green State University, School of Art, Bowling Green, OH 10/3/2018 

Speaker. Bowling Green State University, Architecture School Lecture Series, Bowling Green, OH, 10/4/2018

Speaker. Alfred State University, Architecture Department Lecture Series, Alfred, NY, 10/18/2018 

Speaker. Hampton Roads AIA, Lecture Series, Hampton Roads, VA, 11/1/2018

Speaker, Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Speaker and Panelist, Structured Workshop, Chicago, IL, 12/2018

Speaker, Structures for Inclusion 18, Singapore, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, US Green Building Council, “Social Equity In Design: Seeking SEED and LEED Integration,” SEED pilot credit for Social Equity Within the Community Chicago, IL, 12/14/2018

Speaker (via Skype), Outcomes Based Education Conference, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Harvard Social Innovation Conference, Panel: Creativity and Design Thinking in Urban Planning and Development, 11/14/2016

Speaker: Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico, 9/5/2016

Speaker, MIT Department of Urban Planning, City Design and Development Forum, 2/24/16

Speaker & Moderator Hands On Conference, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 6/1-3/2016

Speaker, Chicago Illinois Humanities, Designing-the-social-good-from-blueprint-to-building, 10/30/15

Speaker, Alfred State University of New York College of Technology, School of Architecture Lecture Series, 11/2015

Speaker, Michigan State University, Interior Design Department, 4/23/2015 Keynote: AIA New England Conference, Newport, Rhode Island 9/27/14

Keynote: AIA Indiana & Missouri Conference, 10/02/2014

Speaker: Making a Difference by Design Class, Chair Sheila Denko, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NM, 11/14/2014

Speaker: University of Knoxville, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Knoxville, TN, 3/7/2014

Speaker: University of Wisconsin Madison, School of Architecture and Urban Planning Lecture Series, 3/31/2014

Keynote: Humanitarian Design Seminar & Workshop, University of New Mexico Taos, NM, 8/6/2014

Speaker: University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Lecture Series,4/2014 

Speaker: Dalhousie University, School of Architecture, Halifax, NS, 2/2014

Speaker: IIDEX, Canada’s National Design and Architecture Exposition & Conference, 9/2013 Speaker: Ontario Association of Architects, Toronto, 5/2013

Speaker: Perkins and Will, Atlanta, GA, 7/2013

Speaker: AIA National Conference, Public Interest Practices in Architecture, Washington DC, 6/2013

Speaker: University of South Florida, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Tampa, FL, 4/2013 

Speaker: Norwich University, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Norwich, VT, 4/2013 

Speaker: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MX, 4/2013

Speaker: Kansas State University, Lecture Series, Manhattan, KS,4/2013 

Speaker: AIA South Atlantic Region Conference, 10/04/2009

Speaker: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Lecture Series, 4/23/2009 

Speaker: University of Lethbridge, Canada, 3/28/2009

Speaker: “Converge: Exchange Conference,” Chicago, IL, 3/18-19/2009

Speaker: University of Virginia, School Lecture, Charlottesville, VA, 2/13/2009

Keynote Speaker: Activism Through Design, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 12/1/2008 

Speaker: Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 11/16/2008

Speaker, University of Virginia, School of Architecture Lecture Series,11/6/2008 

Speaker: Cooper Hewitt Summer Design Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 8/1/2008 

Speaker: Norwich University, NH, 4/2008

Speaker: AIA Midwest Regional Convention, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 9/15/2007

Keynote Speaker: Cooper-Hewitt Museum Summer Design Institute, New York, NY, 7/19/2007

Keynote Speaker: South Carolina AIA Design Summit, Clemson, SC, 4/23/2007

Keynote Speaker: Interior Design Educators Council, “Design and Social Justice,” Austin, TX, 3/6/2007

Speaker: Kansas State University, Architecture Lecture Series, 4/5/2006 

Speaker: University of Colorado, Architecture Lecture Series, 2/13/2005

Speaker: University of California at Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Lecture Series, 12/5/2005

Keynote Speaker: Home Magazine Shelter Awards, New York City, 11/7/2005

Speaker: University of Oklahoma, Brice Goff Chaired Lecture Series, Stillwater, OK, 10/2005 

Speaker: University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series, Austin, TX, 9/2005

Speaker: Tri-State Conference of the SC, GA, and NC Chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Asheville, NC, 4/22/2005

Speaker: University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, Architecture Lecture Series, 4/9/2005 

Speaker: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11/08/2004

Speaker: Good Intentions: University of Arizona Lecture Series, Phoenix, AZ, 10/18/2004

Keynote Speaker: University of Massachusetts Lecture Series, Western Massachusetts AIA, Agency and Action, Architecture and Art in the Public Realm, 9/22/2004

Keynote Speaker: AIA North Dakota State Conference, 9/14/2004 

Speaker: University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND, 9/13/2004

Speaker: University of Virginia Lecture Series. Michael Owen Jones Lecture for Emerging Architect, 9/3/2004

Speaker: Good Deeds, Good Design, Book Talk, AIA Center, New York, NY, 7/27/2004 

Speaker: Universitat Internacional de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 6/28/2004

Speaker: Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Berlin Germany, 6/25/2004

Speaker: “Give Me Shelter: Building for Communities in Need” Symposium, Cascieri Lectureship, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA, 3/12/2004

Speaker: The Rural Studio, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, 4/26/2004

Speaker: American Institute of Architecture Students Forum National Conference, Austin, Texas, 12/31/2003

Speaker: American Institute of Architects, Atlanta Chapter, 4/22/2003 Speaker: University of Washington, School of Architecture, 4/15/2003

Speaker: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Special Focus Session: Frameworks of Social Justice in Design Education, Louisville, KY, 3/15/2003

Speaker: Architecture League of New York, New York, NY, 2/20/2003

Speaker: Univer-City, Ball State University, Indianapolis, IN, 9/24/02

Speaker: Tulane University School of Architecture, Lecture Series, 3/18/2002 

Speaker: University of Illinois Chicago, Lecture Series, 1/28/2002

Speaker: Washington University, St. Louis, Lecture Series, 11/05/2002

Speaker: Design Matters Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, 10/2001 

Speaker: Yale School of Architecture, Fall Lecture Series, 2001

Invited Lectures

Moderator/Panelist, NCSU Equity Research Symposium, 2/4/2022 

Lecturer: NCSU COD AIA Triangle Joint Fall Lecture Series, 1/24/2022

Presenter, NCSU Lightning Talks for the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative, 9/22/2021

Speaker, Building Material Reuse Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/30/2020 

Presenter, Coleman Coker, Gulf Coast Design Lab Studio, Zoom, 6/22/2020

Honors Workshop, “Public Interest Design,” University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, 2/18/2020 

Speaker, University of Arkansas, School of Architecture Lecture Series, 2/19/2020 

Speaker, AIA Southwest VA: Cancelled COVID-19 

Lecturer, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 8/2019 

Lecturer, Visiting Architecture Leadership Endowment, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 3/14/2019 

Speaker (via Skype), Outcomes Based Education Conference, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Structures for Inclusion 18, Singapore, 12/2018

Speaker and Panelist, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, US Green Building Council, “Social Equity In Design: Seeking SEED and LEED Integration,” SEED pilot credit for Social Equity Within the Community, Chicago, IL, 12/2018

Speaker. Hampton Roads AIA, Lecture Series, Hampton Roads, VA, 11/1/2018 

Lecturer, Architecture and Design Department, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, 10/19/2018 

Lecturer, Bowling Green State University, School of Art, Bowling Green, OH 10/3/2018 

Speaker. Bowling Green State University, Architecture School Lecture Series, Bowling Green, OH, 10/4/2018

Speaker. Alfred State University, Architecture Department Lecture Series, Alfred, NY, 10/18/2018 

Speaker. Hampton Roads AIA, Lecture Series, Hampton Roads, VA, 11/1/2018

Speaker, Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Speaker and Panelist, Structured Workshop, Chicago, IL, 12/2018

Speaker, Structures for Inclusion 18, Singapore, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Greenbuild International Conference and Exhibition, US Green Building Council, “Social Equity In Design: Seeking SEED and LEED Integration,” SEED pilot credit for Social Equity Within the Community Chicago, IL, 12/14/2018

Speaker (via Skype), Outcomes Based Education Conference, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India, 12/14/2018

Speaker, Harvard Social Innovation Conference, Panel: Creativity and Design Thinking in Urban Planning and Development, 11/14/2016

Speaker: Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico, 9/5/2016

Speaker, MIT Department of Urban Planning, City Design and Development Forum, 2/24/16

Speaker & Moderator Hands On Conference, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 6/1-3/2016

Speaker, Chicago Illinois Humanities, Designing-the-social-good-from-blueprint-to-building, 10/30/15

Speaker, Alfred State University of New York College of Technology, School of Architecture Lecture Series, 11/2015

Speaker, Michigan State University, Interior Design Department, 4/23/2015 Keynote: AIA New England Conference, Newport, Rhode Island 9/27/14

Keynote: AIA Indiana & Missouri Conference, 10/02/2014

Speaker: Making a Difference by Design Class, Chair Sheila Denko, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NM, 11/14/2014

Speaker: University of Knoxville, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Knoxville, TN, 3/7/2014

Speaker: University of Wisconsin Madison, School of Architecture and Urban Planning Lecture Series, 3/31/2014

Keynote: Humanitarian Design Seminar & Workshop, University of New Mexico Taos, NM, 8/6/2014

Speaker: University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design Lecture Series,4/2014 

Speaker: Dalhousie University, School of Architecture, Halifax, NS, 2/2014

Speaker: IIDEX, Canada’s National Design and Architecture Exposition & Conference, 9/2013 Speaker: Ontario Association of Architects, Toronto, 5/2013

Speaker: Perkins and Will, Atlanta, GA, 7/2013

Speaker: AIA National Conference, Public Interest Practices in Architecture, Washington DC, 6/2013

Speaker: University of South Florida, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Tampa, FL, 4/2013 

Speaker: Norwich University, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Norwich, VT, 4/2013 

Speaker: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MX, 4/2013

Speaker: Kansas State University, Lecture Series, Manhattan, KS,4/2013 

Speaker: AIA South Atlantic Region Conference, 10/04/2009

Speaker: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Lecture Series, 4/23/2009 

Speaker: University of Lethbridge, Canada, 3/28/2009

Speaker: “Converge: Exchange Conference,” Chicago, IL, 3/18-19/2009

Speaker: University of Virginia, School Lecture, Charlottesville, VA, 2/13/2009

Keynote Speaker: Activism Through Design, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 12/1/2008 

Speaker: Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 11/16/2008

Speaker, University of Virginia, School of Architecture Lecture Series,11/6/2008 

Speaker: Cooper Hewitt Summer Design Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 8/1/2008 

Speaker: Norwich University, NH, 4/2008

Speaker: AIA Midwest Regional Convention, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 9/15/2007

Keynote Speaker: Cooper-Hewitt Museum Summer Design Institute, New York, NY, 7/19/2007

Keynote Speaker: South Carolina AIA Design Summit, Clemson, SC, 4/23/2007

Keynote Speaker: Interior Design Educators Council, “Design and Social Justice,” Austin, TX, 3/6/2007

Speaker: Kansas State University, Architecture Lecture Series, 4/5/2006 

Speaker: University of Colorado, Architecture Lecture Series, 2/13/2005

Speaker: University of California at Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Lecture Series, 12/5/2005

Keynote Speaker: Home Magazine Shelter Awards, New York City, 11/7/2005

Speaker: University of Oklahoma, Brice Goff Chaired Lecture Series, Stillwater, OK, 10/2005 

Speaker: University of Texas School of Architecture Lecture Series, Austin, TX, 9/2005

Speaker: Tri-State Conference of the SC, GA, and NC Chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Asheville, NC, 4/22/2005

Speaker: University of Arkansas, School of Architecture, Architecture Lecture Series, 4/9/2005 

Speaker: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11/08/2004

Speaker: Good Intentions: University of Arizona Lecture Series, Phoenix, AZ, 10/18/2004

Keynote Speaker: University of Massachusetts Lecture Series, Western Massachusetts AIA, Agency and Action, Architecture and Art in the Public Realm, 9/22/2004

Keynote Speaker: AIA North Dakota State Conference, 9/14/2004 

Speaker: University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND, 9/13/2004

Speaker: University of Virginia Lecture Series. Michael Owen Jones Lecture for Emerging Architect, 9/3/2004

Speaker: Good Deeds, Good Design, Book Talk, AIA Center, New York, NY, 7/27/2004 

Speaker: Universitat Internacional de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 6/28/2004

Speaker: Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Berlin Germany, 6/25/2004

Speaker: “Give Me Shelter: Building for Communities in Need” Symposium, Cascieri Lectureship, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA, 3/12/2004

Speaker: The Rural Studio, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, 4/26/2004

Speaker: American Institute of Architecture Students Forum National Conference, Austin, Texas, 12/31/2003

Speaker: American Institute of Architects, Atlanta Chapter, 4/22/2003 Speaker: University of Washington, School of Architecture, 4/15/2003

Speaker: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Special Focus Session: Frameworks of Social Justice in Design Education, Louisville, KY, 3/15/2003

Speaker: Architecture League of New York, New York, NY, 2/20/2003

Speaker: Univer-City, Ball State University, Indianapolis, IN, 9/24/02

Speaker: Tulane University School of Architecture, Lecture Series, 3/18/2002 

Speaker: University of Illinois Chicago, Lecture Series, 1/28/2002

Speaker: Washington University, St. Louis, Lecture Series, 11/05/2002

Speaker: Design Matters Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, 10/2001 

Speaker: Yale School of Architecture, Fall Lecture Series, 2001

Exhibitions

Curation Team, Representative for SEED Network, Lisa Abendroth, Lead Curator, Center for Visual Arts, “Design for the Common Good” Exhibition, Denver, CO, 2022

Exhibit of ARC Studio work, “Envision St. Agnes,” with St. Augustine University, Block Gallery, Raleigh City Hall, 10//2017

Exhibit of ARC 503 Studio Work, Durham Scrap Exchange, “Unpacking the Past, Designing the Future, Opening,” 12/2016

University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, SEED Award Winners, Linear Gallery, Spring, 2014

Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion: Four projects representing design from the United States, 9/2008 Substance, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 10/2007

Out of the Box, UIC, Natural History Museum, Chicago, IL, 2005

National Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, 4/03 – 1/2004

New Blue, Recent Works of Graduates of Yale School of Architecture, 9/2001

Exhibitions

Curation Team, Representative for SEED Network, Lisa Abendroth, Lead Curator, Center for Visual Arts, “Design for the Common Good” Exhibition, Denver, CO, 2022

Exhibit of ARC Studio work, “Envision St. Agnes,” with St. Augustine University, Block Gallery, Raleigh City Hall, 10//2017

Exhibit of ARC 503 Studio Work, Durham Scrap Exchange, “Unpacking the Past, Designing the Future, Opening,” 12/2016

University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, SEED Award Winners, Linear Gallery, Spring, 2014

Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion: Four projects representing design from the United States, 9/2008 Substance, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 10/2007

Out of the Box, UIC, Natural History Museum, Chicago, IL, 2005

National Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, 4/03 – 1/2004

New Blue, Recent Works of Graduates of Yale School of Architecture, 9/2001

Websites

Team member, Design for the Common Good Network of Networks, www.designforcommongood.net, 2017, (Cross listed in Collaboration with Outside Partners section)

Program and Website Manager, Public Interest Design Institutes, www.publicinterestdesign.com, 2012 – present, (Cross listed in Collaboration with Outside Partners section)

Principal Investigator and Website Manager, SEED Network and SEED Evaluator, www.seednetwork.org, 2006 – present, (Cross listed in Collaboration with Outside Partners section)

Founder and Executive Director, Design Corps, www.designcorps.org, Raleigh, NC, 1991 – Present, Incorporated as 501-c-3 in 12/1996, (Cross listed in Collaboration with Outside Partners section)

Public Engagements

Speaker: USAID Infrastructure Workshop, Washington, DC, 12/14/2017

Guest Interviewee, Kojo Nnamdi Show, “Architecture for the Rest of Us,” WAMU/NPR. 2/14/2013 Guest Interviewee, WCOM Radio Station, Carrboro, NC, 4/27/2009

Speaker, Opening of Substance Exhibit, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 10/13/2007

Speaker, Rice Design Alliance Lecture Series, “Agents of Change,” Houston Museum of Fine

Arts, Houston, TX, 9/19/07

Speaker: Mayor’s Workforce and Affordable Housing Summit, Clarksville, TN, 8/8/2006

Speaker: Governor’s Commission on Food and Agriculture Annual Board Meeting, Del Rey, CA, 4/26/2006

Speaker, Syracuse University, “Brown Bag Lunch,” 9/8/2007

Guest Interviewee, Station KERA, The Talk Show, Dallas, TX, 5/11/2006 

Speaker, Community Design Workshop, Dallas, TX, 5/10/2006

Speaker, 12TH Annual Gold Star Grower Luncheon, Raleigh, NC, 2/23/2006 

Speaker, 11TH Annual Gold Star Grower Luncheon, Raleigh, NC, 2/15/2005

Speaker, Florida Migrant Housing Hurricane Crisis Task Force, Arcadia, FLA, 10/7/2004 

Speaker: Northeast Organic Farmers Association, NJ, 1/25/2003

Speaker: Architects and Planners for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA, 7/16/2002 

Speaker, Innovations in Affordable Housing Design Conference, Nashville, TN, 6/26/2002 

Speaker: Virginia Governor’s Commission on Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, 10/2001

Speaker: Pennsylvania Farmworker Coordinating Committee, 5/2001

Speaker, Alabama Governor’s Conference on Housing, 9/2000 and 9/2001

Service/Membership in Professional Organizations

Editorial Committee, Civic Green, Tisch College, Tufts University, 2020 – Present 

Co-Founding Member, Design for Common Good Network, 2018 – Present

Co-Founder, Lead PI, and Member, SEED: Social Economic Environmental Design Network, ,Funded by The Loeb Fellowship, Driehaus Foundation, Burt’s Bees Foundation, Rose Foundation, 2005 – Present,

Co-Founder, Member, Social Economic Environmental Design Network, 2005 – Present

Founder and Executive Director, Design Corps, 1991 – Present

Advisor, “Building Environmental Justice” online tool, Beta test, by Autocase and AIA Large Firm Roundtable, 3/2022 – ongoing

Co-founder, Steering Committee, Design for the Common Good, coalition of networks committed to design practice, education and research that improves environmental, economic and socially sustainable design-for-all. Established in 2017 by three international networks, SEED (Raleigh, US), Designbuild Xchange (Berlin. Germany) and Live Projects Network (Oxford, UK). (Cross listed in website section) 2017 – ongoing

Advisor, Focus Group, AIA Equity in Architectural Education supplemental guide, 2021

Consultant, AIA EDI+J Educational Supplement Focus Group, 7/2021- ongoing

Consultant, 2020 & 2021 AIA National Strategic Council, Rural/Suburban Issues Agenda Work Group, Final Recommendations, 7-10/2021

Member Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2015 present

Member, Advisory Board, Design Futures Public Interest Design Student Leadership Forum, 2013, 2014, 2015

Scholarship Selection Committee Member, Steele Foundation, Harrisburg, PA, 1994 – 1999

Professional Service on Campus 

Service within North Carolina State University

Equity Research Symposium Planning Committee, 2022 

Committee Member, NCSU Equity Research Symposium Planning Committee, 12/2021 – 2/2022

Member, NC State Equity Scholarship Committee, 2021

NCSU Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension, 2017 – present College of Design Appointments

CoD Strategic Planning Tasks Forces: Faculty and Staff Success; Local and Global Engagement, Spring 2017

Service within College of Design

CoD Faculty Senate, Chair 2020 – Present, Secretary 2019 – 20, Member 2017- 2019

Committee Member, CoD Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, 8/2020 – 9/2021

CoD Strategic Planning Tasks Forces (2), Spring 2017, Spring 2021 – Present

Member, College of Design PhD Faculty, 2021 – Present

Co-Curator, College of Design Alumni and Faculty Exhibit, NAAB Accreditation,NCSU, Raleigh, NC, 2/2018

Manage Public Interest Design Certificate Program, Certificate approved by SoA faculty, CoD Chairs, CoD CCC, CoD Dean, and University Advisory Council, PID Certificate awarded to eleven SoA students as of 8/2018

Member, School of Architecture, Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee, 2017-18 Managed on-line “Request for Collaboration” public application process for School of Architecture on CoD website, 9/2018 – present

Advised AIAS Freedom by Design, 2015 – present. Community Non-profit Partners: Living with Autism and Life Experiences. Received $7,500 grant from NCARB Recipient of AIAS Freedom by Design Award, 2017 and recipient of $7,500 award grant. Nominated by SoA AIAS Chapter for AIAS Faculty of the Year Award, 2016

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2016-2017

Advised Summer Design/Build program Professors of Practice Randy Lanou and Ellen Cassilly on program learning objectives and helped create their new post-occupancy evaluation process. Included program in new on-line “Request for Collaboration” process

SoA Lecture Series: “Design Excellence,” Fall 2016

Speakers: Sergio Palleroni, Frank Harmon, Josh Shelton, Peter McMahon

Chair, Friday Forum, NCSU College of Design, Fall 2016, Speakers: Ellen Cassilly, Randy Lanou, Tom Barrie, Erin Sterling-Lewis

Chair, SoA Lecture Series: “Design Excellence,” Fall, 2016

Member, Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2015-2016

Service within School of Architecture

Co-creator and Coordinator, Public Interest Design Certificate Program, 2017 – Present

Coordinator, Master of Advanced Architectural Studies, Public Interest Design Focus Area, 2021 – Present 

Coordinator, “Request for Collaboration” on CoD website, 2018 – Present

Faculty Adviser, AIAS Freedom by Design, 2015 – Present

Activities include:

  • Student Advising and Coordination
  • Funding raised and grant administration: $56,024 
  • State Historic Review of the Governor Morehead SchoolSite Survey contracted
  • Management of construction Documents
  • Coordination of construction

Faculty Adviser, National Organization for Minority Architecture Students, 2018 – 19, 2019 – 20, 2020 – 2021

Member, AIA College of Design, Lecture Committee, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21

Co-Curator, College of Design Alumni and Faculty Exhibit, NAAB Accreditation, 2/2018

Member, School of Architecture, Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee, 2017-18

Member, SoA Graduate Admissions Committee, 2016-17

Chair, SoA Lecture Series, “Design Excellence,” Fall 2016

Member, SoA Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2015-16

Chair, Friday Forum, NCSU College of Design, Fall, 2015

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