School of Architecture Faculty Areas of Expertise

The School of Architecture's precedent-setting faculty have a wide array of research and practice areas of expertise.

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Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean

Associate Professor of Architecture, Sustainable Built Environments and Marketing
Faculty Advisor, Master of Science in Architecture Sustainable Market Transformation Concentration
CUES Distinguished Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Building science and market transformation
  • Home and Homebuilding
  • Social Science
  • Taste and consumer culture theory
David Brubaker

David Brubaker

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture and design
  • Building science incorporating sustainable design
  • Energy modeling integration into design concepts
  • Innovation in healthy environments
Laura Carr

Laura Carr

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Culturally specific design
  • Integrated design
  • Performative design
  • Sustainable design
Nader Chalfoun

Nader Chalfoun

Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Environmental Sciences
Areas of Expertise
  • Building simulation and design
  • Energy code and compliance
  • Net-Zero environmental design
  • Outdoor thermal comfort
  • Urban heat island mitigation design
Zach Colbert

Zach Colbert

Lecturer in Architecture
Pronouns:
he, him, his
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture
  • Climate futures
  • Equitable housing
  • Urban design
Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

Affiliated Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities
Areas of Expertise
  • Cultural policy
  • Participation
  • Placemaking
  • Urban design
Courtney Crosson

Courtney Crosson

Associate Professor of Architecture
Director, The Drachman Institute
MS.Arch Faculty Advisor, Urban Design Concentration
Areas of Expertise
  • Decentralized water and energy systems
  • Net zero, net positive and sustainable resource design and evaluation
  • Urban design
  • Urban infrastructure modeling and optimization
Noémie Despland-Lichtert

Noémie Despland-Lichtert

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture
Emerging Faculty Fellow
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Areas of Expertise
  • Curating
  • Public history
  • Critical theory
  • Archival research
Susannah Dickinson

Susannah Dickinson

Associate Professor of Architecture
Faculty Advisor, MS Arch Urban Design and Independent Concentrations
Biosphere 2 Faculty Innovative Teaching Fellow
Chair, Council of Faculty Members
Areas of Expertise
  • Contemporary architectural theory
  • Design studio
  • Digital design methodologies
  • Multiscalar biomimetics and complexity
Christopher Domin

Christopher Domin

Associate Professor of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • (Meta)Physics of light
  • Critical practices in architecture
  • Environmentally adaptive systems
  • Regional architectural technology

Dennis Doxtater

Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Cultural landscapes
  • History of ritual
  • Landscape patterns
  • Mapping
Altaf Engineer

Altaf Engineer

Associate Professor of Architecture
Chair, Master of Science in Architecture Program
Areas of Expertise
  • Daylighting
  • Health and wellbeing in the built environment
  • Indoor air quality
  • Occupant comfort
  • Social and behavioral issues
Maria Teresa Flores

Maria Teresa Flores

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architectural lighting design
  • Architecture
  • Graphic representation in architecture and design
  • Interior design
Eduardo Guerrero

Eduardo Guerrero

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing
  • Architecture
  • Neighborhood redevelopment and planning
  • Urban design
Mary Hardin

Mary Hardin

University Distinguished Professor of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing design and delivery
  • Design-build pedagogy
  • Energy conservation strategies for affordable housing
  • Rammed earth construction
Laura Hollengreen

Laura Hollengreen

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Associate Director, School of Architecture
Associate Professor of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Ancient and medieval architecture
  • History of ritual
  • History of urbanism
  • Theories of the visual

R. Brooks Jeffery

Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Heritage conservation
  • History of built environments in Tucson and Southwest
  • Traditional earthen materials and construction systems
  • Vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes
Claudia Kappl-Joy

Claudia Kappl-Joy

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Applied science and advanced technology
  • Architectural lighting and interior design
  • Integrated design and coordination
  • Performance and wellbeing in the built environment
Michael Kothke

Michael Kothke

Professor of Practice in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture and design
  • Creative process
  • Digital and analog tools and representation
  • Environmentally adaptive systems
  • Innovations in architectural pedagogy
Valerie Name

Valerie A. Lane

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architectural structures and building technologies
  • Commercial and residential renovation
  • Health and the built environment
  • Multi-unit housing and mixed-use design
  • Urban infill development
Damon Leverett

Damon Leverett

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion in the design arts
  • Healthcare facilities design and architecture
  • Higher education facilities design and architecture
  • Industrial and manufacturing facilities design and architecture
Oscar Lopez

Oscar Lopez

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Light and shadow
  • Materiality
  • Narrative-based design
  • Phenomenology

Wendy Lotze

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Pedestrian transportation
  • Recreational trails planning, design and construction
  • Sonoran region landscape connections
Bill Mackey

Bill Mackey

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • 19th and 20th century housing
  • Design methodologies
  • Public space
  • Social and political construction of space
Savannah McDonald

Savannah McDonald

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architectural design
  • BIM
  • Practice management
  • Site planning
Joel D. Mesik

Joel D. Mesik

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Building codes
Robert Miller

Robert Miller

Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Academic administration
  • Architectural theory
  • Design-build
  • Urban design
Morgan Oster

Morgan Oster

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Design and graphic communication
Myles Peña

Myles Peña

Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Conceptual planning and application
  • Design communication
  • Construction and coordination
  • Professional practice
Robert Perkins

Robert Perkins

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Building technology
  • Construction documents
  • Parametric design methodologies
  • Sustainability
Clare Robinson

Clare Robinson

Associate Professor of Architecture
MS Arch Faculty Advisor, Heritage Conservation Concentration
Inclusive Leadership Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Architectural design
  • Campus architecture
  • Heritage conservation
  • History and theory of modern architecture and urbanism
  • Urban design
Jesus Robles

Jesús Edmundo Robles Jr

Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Craftsmanship of matter and space
  • Phenomenology, place and existential space
  • Professional design-build delivery
  • Sustainable material development (focus on earthen and concrete)
Teresa Rosano

Teresa Rosano

Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Alternative building systems
  • Architectural practice management
  • Site planning
Lisa Schrenk

Lisa Schrenk

Professor of Architectural History
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture of Chicago
  • Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Design of international expositions
  • World architecture and heritage
Ryan E. Smith

Ryan E. Smith

Director, School of Architecture
Professor of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable housing
  • Housing production
  • Knowledge management
  • Offsite construction
Shawn Swisher

Shawn Swisher

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture and design
  • Digital fabrication
  • Methods of representation

Robert Vint

Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Affordable infill housing design and development
  • Alternative low-carbon materials design and construction
  • Arid region urban design
  • Historic preservation and adaptive reuse
Sheehan Wachter

Sheehan Wachter

Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Architectural representation
  • Computational design
  • Material, making and fabrication
Trevor

Trevor Watson

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Design communication
  • Fabrication
  • Material research
Eric D. Weber

Eric D. Weber

Associate Professor of Architecture
Areas of Expertise
  • Design-build pedagogy
  • Materials/tectonics as generators of architectural meaning
  • Phenomenology and architecture
  • Regionally responsive design
Beth Weinstein

Beth Weinstein

Associate Professor of Architecture
Program Chair, Object and Spatial Design emphasis areas, BA Design Arts & Practices (BA DAP)
University of Arizona Inclusive Leadership Fellow
Areas of Expertise
  • Architecture and design
  • Critical spatial practices
  • Performance and Choreography in/of Space
  • Public space
  • Sites of Internment
  • Spatial Politics
Omar Youssef

Omar Youssef

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Sustainable Built Environments
MS Arch Faculty Advisor, Design and Energy Conservation Concentration
Areas of Expertise
  • Climate analysis
  • Design and energy conservation
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Technology integration (drones, VR, wearable devices)