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atemkin@fau.edu
Director and Associate Professor
M.Arch., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
B.Arch., Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Aron Temkin came to FAU in 1999 and has been the Director of the School since 2005. Professor Temkin’s scholarly work examines the integration of digital media in the design process, pursuing methods for improved design quality and visual communication. He is also interested in the pedagogue of design foundation, developing coursework and research in support of beginning students.
In practice since 1992, Prof. Temkin worked for several award winning design firms - studio d'ARC, Urban Design Associates, and L.P. Perfido Associates - before pursuing independent practice. His professional work includes graphic design, master planning, and architecture with an emphasis on sustainable place making. Through his built work he aspires to reconnect people to the variable conditions of their surroundings.
His work has been included in several group exhibitions in Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan including an award for "Best of Show" in the Pittsburgh Young Architects Exhibition in 1998. Since coming to FAU Professor Temkin has initiated the school's digital design culture and helped to refine the design curriculum. During the spring and fall he teaches Dynamic Design Methods 1 and 2 (2D and 3D digital media). During the summers he is a visiting scholar at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, directing the High School Residency program in Architecture. |
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aabbate@fau.edu
Associate Professor
M.Arch., Washington University
B.Arch., Catholic University
Anthony Abbate joined the faculty in 1996. He is currently a member of the university graduate faculty and director of the Broward Community Design Collaborative. He teaches materials and technology 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, 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 is serving an appointment to the Broward Cultural Council, the area’s central coordinating agency for the arts, serving as liaison between cultural organizations, government agencies and the private sector. He 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 Fort Lauderdale Downtown Rotary. |
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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'Anjoupdanjou@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
B.Arch., Laval University, Quebec, Canada
M.Arch., Laval University , Quebec, Canada
Assistant Professor Philippe d’Anjou has graduated from Laval University in Canada with both a professional degree (B.Arch.) and a post-professional degree (M.Arch.) in architecture. His teaching and research field are in architecture theory. It focuses on the philosophical aspects of design from an ethics perspective and develops a theoretical understanding of design as an ethically engaged action. Professor d’Anjou has taught at different universities in Mexico, Costa Rica, and United States where he has taught during five years at North Dakota State University’s Department of Architecture/LA before joining the School of Architecture at FAU in 2004. He has also conducted design workshops with an ethical and humanitarian emphasis in Asia, South-America, and the Caribbean. He has lectured internationally on the topic of design philosophy and ethics. |
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Deirdre Hardydhardy@fau.edu
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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hhaupt1@fau.edu
Instructor
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 Johnsonrbjohnso@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 of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs 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 Kulićvkulic@fau.edu
Instructor
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
Assistant Professor
M.Arch., Princeton University
B. Arch., University of Miami
Francis Elliot Lyn received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 1995 and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1990. Since 1995 he has taught at various Florida institutions in the areas of design, drawing, and architectural theory. At FAU, he is currently the Lower Division Coordinator for the School of Architecture and serves as the ACSA Faculty Counselor. 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, which was commissioned and executed after an international competition (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. He has presented papers on his research at various conferences including the 2003 ACSA International Conference in Helsinki, Finland and the 2004 Mediterranean Studies Association Conference in Barcelona, Spain. A selection from his research is scheduled to be published in the near future. |
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John Sandelljsandel1@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Diploma in architecture, 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 is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches architectural design and theory courses. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked as a visiting professor at California State University, in Florence, Italy. At California State, he collaborated with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Gianni Pettina, each of whom contributed to his formation of a comprehensive approach to design pedagogy correlating politics, aesthetic principles and ecology. Currently, he is investigating the function of metaphor in design pedagogy focusing on domain interaction among temporal, spatial, and epistemic relationships that defines metaphor’s creative role. His interest in metaphor theory stems from his own visually based work and parallels his professional history.
In particular, he collaborated with renowned architects and designers that influenced his creative thinking including Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Milan), Charles Pfister and Pamela Babey (San Francisco), Robert Obrist (St. Moritz), and Aldo Rossi (Milan).
In his own architectural practice in Italy he has completed projects ranging from furniture and residential buildings to mixed-use urban interventions. His work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States. His most recent works include single-family residential projects in Italy, Mexico, Texas, Florida, and Oregon. Since moving to Florida in 2004, he has won several State awards from the American Institute of Architects.
In the community, he serves as a Design Arts panel member for the Broward County Cultural Division and he has also served on design competition juries. In the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs, he represents the College for the University’s Career Guidance Center, he is a member of the College’s Graduate Curriculum Committee, he is a co-chair the School of Architecture’s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, and is the coordinator for the School’s senior level design courses.
Professor Sandell 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. During summers, he returns to Italy where he leads the FAU School of Architecture’s summer study abroad program. |
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Peter Shimpenoshimpeno@fau.edu
Coordinator Computer Applications
Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Florida Atlantic University - in progress
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, University of North Florida
Peter Shimpeno join the school in 2008. He has several years of technical experience and fully understands the inner workings and fluid environment of both the technical and design fields. His formal training in graphic design,
multimedia and fine arts has given him a strong background in aesthetics. |
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Mate Thitisawatmthitisa@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. |
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