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Deirdre Hardy
dhardy@fau.edu
Director and Professor
M.Arch., University of Florida
B. Des., University of Florida
B.A., (With Honors) Tulane University
A registered architect since 1984, Deirdre Hardy has worked in both large (140 person) and small firms on projects that range similarly from multi-story large office buildings to passive solar houses. Her academic life also ranges the full scale of university sizes from a large state university to an art and design school. She has taught courses ranging from beginning design to chairing a graduate thesis, and from construction detailing to history. She is also experienced in administration and was the Director of the Division of Architecture and Interior Design before she came back to Florida and FAU. Although she grew up in Australia and still speaks that language best, she has grown to love Florida having lived in six different parts of the state. Her research interest just now focuses on the design techniques used by the early modernists in this region. She hopes to share her enthusiasm for their work and help students to learn from them. Their buildings demonstrate an understanding of this magnificent tropical climate and how to design for living with it harmoniously. |
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aabbate@fau.edu
Associate Provost for Broward Campuses
M.Arch., Washington University
B.Arch., Catholic University
Anthony Abbate, AIA, NCARB, joined the faculty in 1996. He is the Associate Provost for the Broward Campuses at FAU as well as a member of the university graduate faculty. He served as director of the Broward Community Design Collaborative from 2006 to 2011 and was the US Chair of the 3rd International Subtropical Cities Conference. He teaches materials and methods of construction courses and architectural design. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he received a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from The Catholic University of America.
His research examines historical and contemporary sustainable design and construction practices in the hot-humid climate zones of the tropics and subtropics at two scales: the macro/urban and the micro/detail. In connection with this line of inquiry, and in the context of the built environment of the contemporary city, the deeper unresolved tensions between globalization and regionalism are explored as they relate to sense of place and sustainability.
He has traveled extensively, participating at conferences and lecturing at universities in Australia, Mexico, and Colombia. He has contributed to various proceedings of the Centre for Subtropical Design, the International Network for Tropical Architecture, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He was featured in Smart City with Carol Coletta on National Public Radio and on Australia Talks Back with Paul Barclay on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National, and is on the editorial board of the Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical in San Jose, Costa Rica.
A registered architect and practicing professional in Florida and New York, he is accredited by the US Green Building Council in Leadership In Energy and Environmental Design, and has received 20 awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architects for architectural and urban design. He has consulted on projects in Florida, New York, the Caribbean and Colombia. He has published Subtropical Sustainable, a monograph of the architectural and urban design work of graduate level students; and the Broward County County-wide Community Design Guidebook.
He is serving an appointment to the City of Fort Lauderdale Sustainability Board and the Downtown Council. He is past chair of the Broward Cultural Council, the area’s central coordinating agency for the arts. Abbate also served as Vice-Chairman for State of Florida Department of Education Building Construction Advisory Committee, and is a past-president of the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He has also served on the Board of Adjustment for the City of Fort Lauderdale and is a member of the board of directors of the Downtown Fort Lauderdale Rotary. |
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Carol Buhrmann
carol@volume21.com
Visiting Assistant Professor
Carol Buhrmann has joined the faculty at the Florida Atlantic School of Architecture as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She has many years of experience teaching architecture, most recently at U.C. Berkeley and California College of the Arts. Her research explores the connection between architecture and film and has advanced a theory of Time Diagrams, which uses film analysis as a methodology for site analysis. She has an M.S. Architecture degree from Columbia University and a B-Arch from Cornell University. She was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1996 at the Urals Academy of Architecture in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and returned to Ekaterinburg in subsequent years to conduct funded research. She is also studying early Soviet architecture in Ekaterinburg and Uralmash, 1925 -1932, its connections to the OSA (Union of Contemporary Architects) in Moscow and its varied success in advancing a Soviet socialist ideal. |
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jcaldie1@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
PhD Engineering, Lab of Architectural Design Tohoku University, Japan
M.Arch., Ecole D’Architecture de Grenoble, France
Architect, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela.
Dr. Jean Martin Caldieron joined the faculty in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Tohoku University in Japan. His dissertation was on the self-improvement of unauthorized settlements. He previously studied Earth Architecture at the Ecole D’Architecture de Grenoble (France), where he specialized in sustainable construction using raw earth as a building material. He received his Architect Diploma at Simon Bolivar University (Caracas, Venezuela) and worked in several firms prior to establishing his own practice in Venezuela where he designed residential and urban projects.
He also practiced for three years as an architect in Japan, and he has been involved in several projects around the world. He previously taught and conducted research at the Simon Bolivar University, Tohoku University, and St. Petersburg College.
His research interests are: integration of structures with architectural design education, up-grading of self-built urban settlements, shanty town dynamics, and open buildings structures. Dr. Caldieron is fluent in six languages. He is a passionate traveller who has been researching, lecturing, and travelling in more than 100 countries. One of his goals is to pass on this passion to his students. |
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Philippe d'Anjou
pdanjou@fau.edu
Associate Professor
B.Arch., Laval University, Quebec, Canada
M.Arch., Laval University , Quebec, Canada
Philippe d’Anjou teaches in the areas of design, theory, philosophy, and ethics. His research focuses on the philosophical aspects of architecture and design from an ethics perspective. He develops a theoretical understanding of architecture and design as an ethically engaged and responsible action. His research has been published in recognized scholarly venues, including, among others, the edited book Design Philosophy Papers Collection Four and journals such as Design Issues, Design Studies, and Journal of Architectural Education. Philippe d’Anjou’s research work has been presented in national and international conferences and universities. |
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hhaupt1@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Postgraduate: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, USA
Diploma in Architecture: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
First Diploma in Architecture: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Henning Haupt, who joined the faculty in 2008, teaches architectural design. Haupt gained his teaching experience during the last 6 years at the Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany, where he is currently finishing his PhD in the field of design methods: ‘Experiments in Colour - Integration of painted colour spaces in an architectural design process’. As a postgraduate experience Henning joined the Architecture program at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan and as a graduate exchange the program at SUNY Buffalo. He received a Diploma of Architecture from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany and a first Diploma from TU Braunschweig. After working as a practitioner in Berlin he became a licensed Architect in 1998. |
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Ralph Johnson
rbjohnso@fau.edu
Professor
M.Arch., Yale University
B.Arch., Howard University
Ralph Johnson is a Professor in the School of Architecture and currently the Director of the Center for the Conservation of Architectural and Cultural Heritage (CCACH), in the College for Design and Social Inquiry at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). He is a long standing participant in the field of historic preservation as an educator, advocate, and consultant. Professor Johnson has served several terms, almost nine years, as a member of the Board of Trustees, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and holds the honor of Trustee Emeritus. He was formally President of the Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Board and a member of the Board of Directors, Dade Heritage Trust in Miami. Since coming to Fort Lauderdale he was appointed to the Historic Preservation Board of Fort Lauderdale and is now a member of the Board of Directors of the historic Bonnet House. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for 1000 Friends of Florida, Inc, which promotes healthy urban and natural places by wise management of growth and change. |
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Vladimir Kulić
vkulic@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Master of science in architecture, University of Belgrade
Diploma in architecture, University of Belgrade
Vladimir Kulić joined the faculty in 2008 and teaches courses in architectural history and theory. After having spent five years teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Vladimir returned to graduate school in 2001 and currently finishes his doctoral dissertation in architectural history at the University of Texas at Austin. Vladimir’s research focuses on modern architecture after World War II and its dissemination in different political and cultural contexts. His forthcoming dissertation explores the political meanings that modernism acquired in socialist Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Francis E. Lyn
flyn1@fau.edu
Associate Professor
M.Arch., Princeton University
B. Arch., University of Miami
Francis Elliot Lyn received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami. He has taught at various Florida institutions in the areas of design, drawing, and architectural theory. His architectural work has received national recognition and has been included in national and international exhibitions. Premiated projects include a new courthouse for Williamsburg Virginia, (in collaboration with Jorge L. Hernandez), as well as the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Graphisoft Conference Center Competitions (in collaboration with Dr. Peter Magyar and Aron Temkin), both of which received recognition from the AIA. His current research deals with Scandinavian modernism, with a particular focus on the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund. His research also focuses on the importance of both analog and digital methods of representation in the production of architecture. He has presented papers on his research at numerous conferences, both nationally and internationally. Most recently his research has been included as an invited chapter in a text, and has also been published in several scholarly journals. Currently, Professor Lyn is the Junior Phase coordinator for the FAU School of Architecture. |
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John Sandell
jsandel1@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Professional Licensure: State of Italy, European Union
M. Arch., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
M. Arch., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
B.S. Arch., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
John Sandell coordinates the senior level design program and teaches in the areas of design and theory. Prior to joining the School of Architecture, he drafted for renowned architects and designers including Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Milan), Charles Pfister, (San Francisco), Robert Obrist (St. Moritz), and Aldo Rossi (Milan). The above work environments introduced him to diverse design philosophies, project types, and a range of project scales, from industrial design, furniture and interiors, to mixed-use, institutional, and transportation centers for European cities.
In 1994 he opened a studio in Italy where he continued his professional collaborations and began a design-based research initiative. His research examines the interaction of natural, human and technological domains, and aims at bonding spatial, temporal, and material experiences into coherent and evocative episodes. Particular emphasis is given to understanding historical, cultural and environmental phenomena; phenomena that help tailor organizational patterns in relation to functionality and site specific situations. Currently, he studies the function of metaphor in domain interaction: metaphor's ability to create conceptual shifts that draw out hidden properties and shape emergent meanings in the visual realm.
Projects and built works range from furniture and residences to pedestrian streets and urban spaces. He has collaborated on many prize-winning mixed-use, institutional, and urban design projects in Switzerland and Italy, and completed single-family residential projects in Italy, Texas, Florida, and Oregon. He has exhibited and published nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennial, and has recently won several State design awards from the American Institute of Architects. His current projects range from interior and residential work to the development of environmentally responsive urban topographies in southern Florida.
He has taught at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Portland State University, Department of Architecture, the University of Oregon, Graduate School of Design in Portland, and at California State University, Florence, Italy. In summers, he heads the school's study program in Venice, Italy. |
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Peter Shimpeno
shimpeno@fau.edu
Coordinator Computer Applications
Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Florida Atlantic University - 2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, University of North Florida - 2002
Apple Certified System Administrator
Apple Certified Specialist - Mac OS X Directory Services
Apple Certified Specialist - Mac OS X Security and Mobility
Apple Certified Specialist - Mac OS X Deployment
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
Apple Certified Support Professional
Peter studied graphic design and multimedia at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. While attending UNF, Peter worked as a Help Desk Specialist in the Information Technology Services department at UNF. After completing his studies at UNF in 2002, Peter returned to South Florida and was hired at the FAU Davie Campus as Computer Lab Technician at Broward Computing Services/Information Resource Management. The administration quickly recognized his abilities and promoted him to the position of Davie Campus Computer Lab and Audio Visual Services Manager in 2003. In this position, Peter was responsible for daily student computer lab activities (both Mac and PC). Peter was responsible for maintaing and imaging approximately 300 PC’s and 150 Apple computers. Peter developed training systems for lab attendants and A/V staff to ensure on time delivery of equipment and services to the FAU community. He was responsible for hiring, training and scheduling employees. Other duties include budget management, lab and system design, on call support, printing systems, policy development, department web master and systems administration. In 2006, he was admitted into the MFA program at the FAU College of Arts and Letters. Peter joined the FAU School of Architecture in the role of Coordinator, Computer Applications in 2008. Some of his responsibilities at the school include server administration and system imaging for both Apple and PC, large format printing, operation of laser cutting and CNC Routing. Peter works with BCS/IRM to ensure the students, staff and faculty have the technology required to achieve the academic mission of the school. Peter was recently awarded the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2010 and is a Apple Certified System Administrator. |
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Mate Thitisawat
mthitisa@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
M.S., , Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA B.Arch., Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Professor Mate Thitisawat graduated from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) with a professional degree (B.Arch) before receiving his Master’s degree (M.S.) from Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Building Technology Program at the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include building simulation and control, energy efficient building design, daylighting, optimization, building control systems, building product modeling, and knowledge-based systems. His dissertation topic is “Techno-Economic Optimization of Smart Double-Skin Façade (SDSF) Systems.” This work deals with a collaborative design process through a configuration optimization of the systems by using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA) based on Pareto optimality. He has published his work on the SDSF systems and daylighting with his advisor (Professor Godfried Augenbroe) and colleagues in conferences and journals.
As a team leader, he has won awards for a funding proposal and an international design competition. He has received the first place of 2008 ARCC Incentive Fund Award from Architectural Research Centers Consortium to conduct a research project titled “Designing for Outdoor Comfort in a Subtropical Environment: Assessment and Criteria for Outdoor Comfort”. In addition, he won fourth place in the first and second round of Bahamas Design Challenge. |
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Emmanouil Vermisso
evermiss@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
M.Arch. II, Syracuse University
Dipl.Arch., University of Westminster, UK
Emmanouil Vermisso joined the faculty of Architecture in 2008. A registered architect in Greece, prior to coming to FAU, he practiced architecture in London, at the firms of Foster+Partners, AHMM and Porphyrios Associates, where he worked on residential and mixed-use projects. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from the University of Westminster (London) and a post-professional Master of Architecture from Syracuse University (NY), where he conducted research on the implications of examining Classical Architecture within a digital framework. His interest within design lies at the intersection of digital design theory and fabrication, as well as Classical architectural theory and Architectural Organicism. His research focuses on the evolving use of Nature as a design strategy and the Biological analogy in architecture from a performance and pedagogical perspective. He is increasingly interested in the collaborative efforts between design-related fields such as Architecture and Engineering, to enhance the understanding of space and form through performance analysis. He currently teaches Architectural Design and seminars on Digital Documentation, Digital Fabrication and Biomorphic Design, combining CNC manufacturing techniques to produce kinetic prototypes. His work has been presented in several national and international conferences including ACADIA, SiGRADi and eCAADe. |
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