HEINRICH HERMANN, Associate Professor, Department of Interior Architecture

Rhode Island School of Design, T (978) 318-9230, F (978) 318-9231, [email protected]

Education PhD, History and Theory of Architecture, Harvard University, Grad. School of Arts & Sciences, 1995, Minor: comparative religion, philosophy, cultural anthropology. 1988-95, Dissertation title: “SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS IN 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE: A study of three paradigmatic works by Louis I. Kahn, Le Corbusier, and Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz” (on architectural strategies linked to the spiritual/poetic in modern architecture). Principal advisor: Prof. Eduard F. Sekler (GSD/GSAS); Committee Members: Professors Peter Rowe (GSD), and Diana Eck, Department of Religion (GSAS). Independent Studies, American Academy in Rome, on ‘timelessness versus contemporaneity’, 1986-87, in residence (while wife held Rome Prize). MArch, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, August 1982. Minor: landscape architecture, 1980-82, Graduate Studio of Architecture Prof. O. M. Ungers. MagArch, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, March 1979, with honors, 1973-79, Masterclass of Architecture Prof. W. Holzbauer. Diploma in Architecture, HTLuVA Villach, Austria (Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt, a five year program in architectural design and building technology), 1967-72, with distinction.

Academic Experience Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Associate Professor (term appointment), Department of Interior Architecture – 2008/09 and 2009/10: Spring ’10: theory seminar “Investigating Interiority” and “advanced studio”; Fall ’09: “core-studio” and (co-teaching) “DP Prep”; Summer ’09: co-designing and co-editing first issue of Int|AR Magazine, and other academic writing; Spring ’09: theory seminar “Investigating Interiority”, and (co-teaching) advanced studio “A Montessori School in North Cambridge” and “DP studio”; WS ’09: advising independent studies students (architecture) on “A master plan for a Korean Church in Kolkata, India”; Fall ’08: advanced studio “Structures of the Poetic” and (co-teaching) DP Prep, co-coordinating Interior Architecture Department Show in Woods Gerry Gallery, and advising independent studies students (IntAR) on ‘Dialogue Bauhaus’ Exhibition; Member, Admissions Committee, 2008/09. Visiting Design Critic, teaching advanced studios: Dept. of Interior Architecture – Spring 2008, "Metamorphosis – the architecture of sustainable change”; Fall 2003, "An Interfaith Chapel for RISD”; Dept. of Architecture - Fall 1999, "An Archive/Museum for Martha Graham in Washington, D.C."; Dept. of Landscape Architecture - Spring 1999, "A Landscape Masterplan for SUNY Potsdam" (a campus substantially designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in the 1960s). Northeastern University, School of Architecture, Boston, MA Adjunct Professor of Architecture – Case Studies Course (both Sections), Spring 2008 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, Bristol, RI Adjunct Professor of Architecture - Spring 2005 to Spring 2007; Spring 2006, Visiting Professor: Advanced Architectural Design Studio, "A Dance Performance Space for the Martha Graham Dance Company in Claremont, NH,” and “Theory of Architecture”; Fall 2005: Advanced Design Studio, “A new chamber music hall for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, MA”; Spring 2005: Advanced Comprehensive Design Studio, "Affordable prefabricated housing in a New England Setting,” for 317 units on a 212 acre site in Lebanon, NH. University of Minnesota, Department of Landscape Architecture, Minneapolis, MN H.W.S. Cleveland Professor, Fall 2002. Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT Outside Advisor and Thesis Advisor - 1999 to 2001. Student Cyrus Subawalla's research and later Master's thesis on perceptual qualities within Indian architecture. Boston Architectural Center, Department of Architecture, Boston, MA Thesis Advisor - Summer 1994 to Spring 1995. Student Sandra Vieira's BArch thesis "A Chapel and Burial for the Homeless at Boston's Fort Point Channel" (adjunct faculty appointment). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, MA Outside Thesis Advisor - Spring 1994. Student Jack DeBartolo III' SMArchS thesis "The Perception of Illumination: The Phenomenological Dimension of Light in the Making of an Urban Sanctuary."

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Academic Experience, continued Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Senior Teaching Fellow - 1991/92 and 1992/93. Sections in "Introduction to Architectural Theory" (K. Michael Hays) and in "Architectural History II: Buildings, Texts, Contexts from the Enlightenment through the Twentieth Century" (K. Michael Hays and Wilfried Wang); Visiting Design Critic - 1985/86. A second year Core Studio and Visual Studies section in fall; a second year Core Studio and directing the Visual Studies course in spring; and advising theses. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Department of Architecture, Bloomfield Hills, MI Visiting Artist - January 26-28, 1986. Three days of studio critiques and one evening lecture. Massachusetts College of Art, Department of Architecture, Boston, MA Visiting Faculty - Fall 1984. Three-dimensional design workshop course. Washington University, School of Architecture, St. Louis, MO Visiting Asst. Prof. - Spring and Summer 1984. Graduate design studios and a workshop course. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, College of Architecture, Blacksburg, VA Visiting Asst. Prof. - Fall 1983. Undergraduate/graduate design studio and a workshop course. Montana State University, School of Architecture, Bozeman, MT Visiting Assistant Professor - 1982/83. Design studios on all undergraduate levels, a graphic delineation course, and advising thesis students. Cornell University, Department of Architecture, Ithaca, NY. Teaching Assistant - 1980/81 (first year design studio) and 1981/82 (design principles).

Professional Experience Hermann Design Studio, Concord, MA Principal - Nov. 2002 to Present Harris Residence, Lexington, MA. New residence for a family of four, designed for good fit within the historic modernist Five Fields Community originally designed from the 1950s to 60s by The Architects Collaborative, in partnership with Reisen Design Associates, Fall 2009 - ; Private Residence, Ashland, MA. Transformation and expansion of an existing two story home for a music teacher and family. Fall 2006 to Spring 2007 (not realized due to personal issues of clients); Consolidated low rise prefabricated housing - prototype study of a courtyard housing type, initially for affordable housing in the Northeast. 2006 - 07; Private Residence, Westford, MA. Expansion, and landscape design for an existing two story home in the protected historic town center, for a five person family. Summer 2006 - ; Private Residence, Concord, MA. Expansion of 1950s residence for a gallery-owning couple and their extensive art and photography collections, Summer 2005 - (currently on hold due to health problems of owners); Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, MA. Two feasibility studies for moving the festival to new, permanent quarters in historic Rockport, MA, and issuance of an RFP to architects (with Prof. William Porter/MIT consulting on RFP portion), Summer and Fall 2005; Hermann Residence, Concord, MA. Designing three small expansions and a new galley kitchen on the main floor of a 1950s ranch house, converting the basement into a home office, and extensive landscape design and installation. Summer 2003 through Fall 2006, landscape changes ongoing; Private Residence, Newton, MA. Proposal for converting a 19th C barn. Put on hold until the couple adapts their three story Victorian main house to meet code. Summer 2003 onward; Wm A M Burden Residence, Northeast Harbor, ME. Recreation of a 6,500 SF fire-destroyed mid-20th Century Modern masterpiece by Wallace K Harrison and Isamu Noguchi (completed in Spring 2006, recreation of Noguchi-designed dining table completed in late 2006); Salem Hospital, Salem, MA. Redesign of existing Chapel to serve multi-denominational community. Not realized when the Partners Organization took over Hospital and, after a two year review, decided on raising funds for a new pediatrics tower that will serve as the Hospital’s new main entrance, with a new chapel on its ground floor. 1998 – 2004. Hanbury Evans Austin, Cambridge, MA Senior Designer - Dec. 1998 to Nov. 2002 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Foundation Building, (fundraising arm and alumni building) from conceptual through schematic design), 2001 - 2002;

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Professional Experience, continued Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Study, expansion proposal, 2002; Several large scale student housing studies, (for both the Cambridge and the new Allston Campus), 2001 - 2002; 96 Sumner Road (relocation of 19th Century lodging house, for faculty residences), 2002; Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, MacQuade Library Renovation and Adaptation (feasibility study and proposal, adopted by College for implementation), 2001 - 2002; Augustinian Garden Memorial, (proposal, approved for realization, pending funding), 2001; University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Dormitory Study, invited competition, 2001; Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, MA, Feasibility study for suitability of a site for a new permanent home, 2000 - 2001; Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, Design leader for 450 Seat Theater, Lobby, and Experimental Theater of Performing Arts Complex - adding to and adaptive reuse of an existing high school, (as consultant to Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company, Norfolk, VA, for design development phase), completed in 2004; Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA, Long Term Buddhist Retreat Center (competition entry, 2nd place), Summer 2000; Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, Freshmen Dormitory, schematic design (as consultants to Goode Van Slyke Architects, completed in 2003), 2001; Wm A M Burden Residence, Northeast Harbor, ME, Recreation of a fire-destroyed 1947 masterpiece by Wallace K Harrison with collaboration by Isamu Noguchi (a commission I had brought to the office and was asked by the clients to continue on my own, after leaving Hanbury Evans Austin in Nov. 2002), 2000 – 2002; City of Lowell, MA, Performing Arts Center Feasibility Study; YMCA, Cambridge, MA, Masterplan for renovation and expansion, 1999 - 2000; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Student Housing interventions in Clara Dickson Hall, and Performing Arts Space ‘Just About Music’, built in 2000, 1999; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, Residential Masterplan, (adopted by College for implementation), 1998 1999; Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, Florence Ellston Inn and Conference Center, and new campus gate house, completed in 2001. Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., Boston, MA Senior Designer/Project Architect - Nov. 1996 to Dec. 1998 Millennium Place - Ritz Carlton Towers, a 1,800,000 SF, $ 325 mill. multi-use complex bordering on the Boston Common, containing a five level below ground garage, two stories of retail, a 19 screen movie theater, a sports club with a daycare center, a 300+ room Ritz Carlton hotel, and luxury condominiums in two towers. I worked on it from inception through design development (CBT was associated with Gary Edward Handel & Associates, NY); Trinity Place at Copley Square, Boston, MA, a 200 ft. tall, $ 53 mill. luxury condominium tower next to the Boston Public Library. Robert Olson + Associates, Boston, MA Designer - Aug. 1995 to Oct. 1996 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Adaptation of Boylston Hall to form the Second Center of Harvard’s new Humanities Complex – winner in invited competition (completed in 1998); Restoration/renovation of William James Hall, Thirteenth, Ninth and Second Floors (including extensive millwork on each floor); Saint Sebastian's Day School, Weston, MA, renovation and expansion, including new dining/multi purpose hall; Franklin Park Maintenance Facility, Boston, MA, restoration/renovation of one storey brick Administration Building; University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA, restoration/renovation of sanctuary, and new homeless shelter in basement; Cramer Productions, Norwood, MA, new headquarters for this video production company. Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Boston, MA Designer - 1984 to 1988 Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, extensive restoration and adaptation of the McKim, Mead & White Building;

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Professional Experience, continued Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, a feasibility study for moving the Center for European Studies to Adolphus Busch Hall, the former Busch-Reisinger Museum; Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, the new Pediatric wing; Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, proposal for a new Pediatric wing (on leave in 1985/86 to teach at Harvard University, and in 1986/87 for independent research at the American Academy in Rome, when wife Elizabeth Dean Hermann held a Rome Prize Fellowship). Studio of Prof. Wilhelm Holzbauer, Vienna, Austria Designer - April 1979 to Aug. 1980 Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria, the new Natural Science Complex, from initial design proposal through approval process to beginning of contract documents (complex completed in 1985) – I left for advanced studies in the USA; Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a feasibility study and design proposal for turning three separate temporary buildings from the 1960s into a unified whole. The New Australian Parliament in Canberra, Australia, competition entry. Miscell. Offices in Vienna, Austria Summer Intern in offices Eckel, Poschacher, Hufnagl, and Mang - Summers 1974 to 1978, Austrian Telecommunications Company, Vienna, Austria, a new telecommunications complex and tower; large-scale public housing complex "Am Schöpfwerk", including a church, store and post office (design development phase) for the City of Vienna, Austria; several smaller housing projects; private residences; a bank branch office in Vienna. Hentrich Petschnigg & Partner, Düsseldorf, Germany Designer - 1972 to 1973 German Post and Telegraph Company, Cologne, Germany, a large scale telephone exchange complex and office tower (I worked on construction documents); several design competitions for large-scale university buildings (including Bochum University) and public administration buildings.

Private Practice, Competition Entries (prior to Hermann Design Studio) Salem Hospital Chapel Redesign, Salem, MA - summer 1998 on. Complete redesign of a nondescript 1980s interior of this nondenominational chapel to better accommodate services for several denominations and to render the space a palpably spiritual heart of the institution. Rollert House Additions, Concord, MA - completed in Spring 2000. A new family room with upper level studio and a new master bedroom wing added to the home for a family of four. Belge/Robbat House, Lincoln, MA - completed in June 1997. New 2,800 SF residence for a young professional couple with a home office for the husband and a tower-top meditation room for the wife (with William McIlroy and Nancy Shapero). Dean Residence Alteration, Norwich, VT - 1986-87. Unrealized project for the substantial internal and partial external reorganization of a single-family residence from the 1960s in a forest clearing. Nine Houses for Istanbul, Turkey - 1985-86. Unrealized proposal for a new development on a hitherto unused, steep slope facing the Golden Horn, in collaboration with Shirin Karanfiloglu. Alteration and Renovation of a 19th-Century Residence in Istanbul, Turkey - Fall 1985. Unrealized project, in collaboration with Shirin Karanfiloglu. Small Addition to Daiss Residence, Rochester, NY - realized, Fall 1984. Adding a gable-roofed porch to a two storey Victorian house in a residential neighborhood. New York Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Competition - Spring 1984. Competition entry. Chandler City Plazas Competition - Spring 1984. Urban design competition entry for two plazas in Chandler, AZ (with Elizabeth Dean Hermann). Three Houses and a Mixed Use 'Center' for the High Desert Community of Silver Lakes, CA, 1983-84. Unrealized proposals done as consultant for Christian Bergum Associates, Fullerton, CA.

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Private Practice, Competition Entries, continued Residence in Umberg, Austria - 1979-80. Design for a new 3,000 SF residence (altered during construction subsequent to my departure for the US). Retirement Home in Himberg, Austria, competition entry, Fall 1979. Proposal for expanding an existing facility (in collaboration with Herbert Schmölzer, Helena Schmölzer, and Erich Woschitz). A New City Hall for the City of Schwechat, Austria - Spring 1978. Entry, 1978 UIA-Student Competition, in collaboration with J. Gritzner and E. Mayr. Friedrich Zotter Gedächtnispreis - February 1978. Entry in a national student competition "A Cultural Facility for a Town near Vienna", Austria.

Exhibitions “Interiography” - triannual Exhibition of the Department of Interior Architecture, RISD, Nov/Dec 2008. Co-coordinated exhibition in Woods Gerry Gallery, and designed display structure for central gallery. The Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University,” Newport News, VA, included in US Exhibit “Performance Spaces for a New Generation: Training Facilities for the Performing Arts in the United States,” 2007. I was design leader for its 450 person theater, experimental theater, and lobby for Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in Norfolk, VA (associated with Pei Cobb Fried & Partners), while serving as a senior designer with Hanbury Evans Austin, Cambridge, MA. "The William A M Burden Residence in Northeast Harbor, Maine", 2006/07. In Faculty Exhibition, Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Bristol, RI. “The Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University,” Newport News, VA, included in the International Prague Quadrennial, 2006 (see credits above). "Modes of Inquiry: Doctoral Research at the GSD, 1990-95", Feb. 27 - March 10, 1995. Participation in Group Exhibition, Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design. "Non-Fellows of the AAR Community", Spring 1987. Participation in Group Exhibition, with two 'cityscapes,' Gallery of the American Academy in Rome. "A House for Silver Lakes, California", August/September 1984. Participation in Annual Faculty Exhibition of Mass. College of Art, Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. "Ten Exercises: Works by a Third Semester Studio", November 1982. Gallery, School of Architecture, Montana State University, week-long show of works produced by my third semester studio section. "Works on Vienna", May 19-26, 1982. Week-long exhibit of MArch Thesis, East Sibley Hall, Cornell University. "Arbeiten der Meisterklasse für Architektur W. Holzbauer: Projekte, Studien und Skizzen, 1977-1981", November 1991. 1978 UIA-Competition Entry, "A New City Hall for the City of Schwechat, Austria" (with J. Gritzner and E. Mayr), included in exhibition at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. "Universität Salzburg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Freisaal, Entwurf und Modellvision", Austrian daily "Salzburger Nachrichten", Oct. 1980, and State House of the State of Salzburg, Oct. /Nov. 1980. I contributed significantly to the design and exhibition of the proposal for Salzburg University's new natural sciences complex. It alleviated neighborhoods’ fears and led to the building commission award for the "Architektengruppe Universität Salzburg" whom I served as a designer. "Eine Mexikanische Botschaft für Wien" (“A Mexican Embassy for Vienna“), February 1979. Exhibit of MagArch Thesis (two-week university-wide thesis exhibition) Gallery, University of Applied Arts in Vienna. "Friedrich Zotter Gedächtnispreis 1978" (A Cultural Facility for a Town near Vienna), March 1978. Exhibit of competition entry (as part of two-week exhibition of all entries) Gallery, University of Applied Arts in Vienna. "Die Meisterklassen der Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien", Fall 1975. Second-year studio project, "A Housing Block for 57 Families," included in show of works by students of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, at the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts.

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Bibliography “Catching the Wave: the rebirth of a Classic Modernist House,” feature article by Pilar Viladas and slide show, on the recreation of the William A M Burden Residence on the coast of Maine. First essay in the new online series “DOMESTICITIES,” NEW YORK TIMES, February 24, 2010. “On Teaching the Design of Poetically/Spiritually Evocative Spaces and Environments,” in 2A – Architecture and Art Magazine, Volume 12 (Dubai, UAE: Fall 2009), pp. 24-35. "A Masterpiece of Modernism Risen from the Ashes on Mount Desert Island," by Brad Favreau, illustrated feature article on the recreated Burden Residence, Portland Magazine, Portland, ME, summer 2010. Int|AR Journal, RISD Department of Interior Architecture, dedicated to interventions and adaptive reuse, co-founder, co-editor and co-designer of vol 01 (with Markus Berger and Liliane Wong), Autumn 2009. “‘Sea Change:’ Re-creation as Preservation,” in Int|AR Magazine, Issue 01, RISD Department of Interior Architecture, autumn 2009, pp. 46-57. Journal of Architectural Education, Peer Reviewer for issue on “Immateriality in Architecture", Fall 2008). ‘Sea Change’ in Northeast Harbor, ME, by Harrison and Noguchi: the Recreation of a Mid-20th C. Modern Masterpiece, book in preparation on the detective-story-like historic preservation experience by the author as he directed this path-breaking residence’s recreation, between 2000 to 2006 (following its 1999 total loss to fire) and what creativity and imagination it took to rebuild it faithfully in spite of, among others, its location within the flood plane, of critical building materials no longer being available, and the original design’s seeming incompatibility with contemporary code requirements. Dimensions of Experience: The Affective Properties of Interior Spaces Book in preparation, building on framework and theory formulated in 1995 PhD dissertation on three paradigmatic works by Louis I. Kahn, Le Corbusier, and Gunnar Asplund & Sigurd Lewerentz, and applying it to fundamental categories of contemporary architecture. "On the transcendent in landscapes of contemplation," in Contemporary landscapes of contemplation, ed. Rebecca Krinke (London: Routledge, 2005), pp 36-72. “Lebanon Gives Housing the Old College Try”, article by Mark Davis about the presentation to the Planning Board of the City of Lebanon, NH, of proposals by Heinrich Hermann and students of his Spring 2005 Housing Studio at Roger Williams University. Valley News, West Lebanon, NH, May 14, 2005, pp. 1, 9. "The Forest Refuge: A Long-Term Buddhist Retreat Center for IMS in Barre, MA", in WORK in progress, Issue 6, Spring 2002, Department of Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, pp. 22-25. Spiritual Dimensions In 20th Century Architecture: A Study of Three Paradigmatic Works by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, Le Corbusier, and Louis I Kahn, PhD Dissertation in History and Theory of Architecture at Harvard University. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1995. "Space and Spirit," Illustrated feature article on dissertation, text by Craig Lambert, images by Heinrich Hermann, Harvard Magazine, March-April 1995, Volume 97, Number 4, pp. 34-41. "The Roman Forum Transformed" Places, Vol. 5, Nr. 1, MIT Press, 1988, pp. 25-27. A Feasibility Study for the Center for European Studies - Busch Reisinger Building, Harvard University Report (unpublished) for presentation to Center for European Studies and Office of Physical Planning in the FAS, Harvard University. Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Boston, July 1986. "A House for Silver Lakes, California," in Montana State Architectural Review 4, School of Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Spring 1986, pp. 6-7. "A House for Silver Lakes, California" in Transverse Architecture, Quarterly #3, Ithaca, NY, February 1985. 13 Houses: Works by a Summer Studio, School of Architecture, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO Report (unpublished), Washington University in St. Louis, Summer 1984. Montana State Architectural Review 1 School of Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 1983 (co-founder and co-editor of inaugural issue). "On Contextualism and Countercontextualism" in Montana State Architectural Review 1, School of Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 1983, pp. 24-25. Dream Architecture: Fourteen Design Exercises by a Third Year Studio, School of Architecture, Montana State University Report (unpublished), Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Fall 1982. Works on Vienna MArch Thesis (unpublished), Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, NY, August 1982.

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Bibliography, continued "UIA-Wettbewerb" (1978 UIA-International Student Competition) "A New City Hall for the City of Schwechat, Austria," with J. Gritzner and E. Mayr), in Arbeiten der Meisterklasse für Architektur W. Holzbauer: Projekte, Studien und Skizzen, 1977-1981 (Works by the Masterclass of Architecture Prof. W. Holzbauer: Projects, Studies and Sketches, 1977-1981), Vienna: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, 1991, p. 53. Universität Salzburg: Studie Adaptierung der Universitätsprovisorien in der Akademiestrasse, Architektengruppe Universität Salzburg. Report (unpublished) for presentation to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, the City of Salzburg, and the Federal State of Salzburg (I contributed all drawings and the text supporting the design proposal). Architektengruppe Universität Salzburg in Vienna, Feb. 1980. Eine Mexikanische Botschaft für Wien (A Mexican Embassy for Vienna) Magister Architecturae (MArch) Thesis (unpublished), University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Feb. 1979.

Lectures, Conference Papers, Presentations “Aiming at a palpable sense of the spiritual in a private home”, on architectural strategies for incorporating these dimensions in the design of a private home commission, to be presented at the second symposium of the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum, Abbey at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN, June 17-19, 2010. “The Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden: Landscape and archetypal cultural symbols of the collective human past”, in Course "Sacred Sites - Contested Sites," Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, April 10, 2009. “On teaching the design of poetically/spiritually charged environments,” presentation at inaugural symposium of the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Symposium, at Mount Angel Abbey, Mount Angel, OR, March 22-24, 2009. “Strategies for manifesting the spiritual in architecture”, in Course "Sacred Sites - Contested Sites," Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Dec 3, 2007. “The New Hall of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival”, presentation of feasibility study to the Board and invited members of the public (with William L Porter), Rockport, MA, Nov. 10, 2005. “Four Projects for Affordable Prefabricated Housing for Lebanon, NH”, public presentation of Roger Williams University student works to Planning Board, City of Lebanon, NH, May 13, 2005. "The Wm A M Burden Residence by Wallace K Harrison and Isamu Noguchi", in lunch time lecture series, Ann Beha Architects, April 14, 2003. "The Burden Residence by Wallace K Harrison and Isamu Noguchi: Reconstructing a 1947 Modern Masterpiece", Charles A. Favrot – H. Mortimer Favrot Lecture, Tulane University, School of Architecture, New Orleans, February 20, 2003. "The Transcendent in the Modern Contemplative Landscape", paper delivered at conference "The Modern Contemplative Landscape", College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, October 18-19, 2002. "The Burden Residence in Northeast Harbor, Maine: History and Reconstruction," Presentation (with Elizabeth Dean Hermann), to Maine Historical Society, Augusta, ME, August 2001. "Architectural Research between 1980 and 1995," Presentation, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, April 10, 1995. "Spiritual Dimensions in Twentieth-Century Architecture," Presentation at PERC Colloquia, Spring 1994, Harvard University, Philosophy of Education Research Center, May 9, 1994. "Disclosing Spiritual Dimensions in Secular and Religious Architecture, through Devices that induce Transcendence of the Finite", Paper, Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York City, February 19, 1994. "The Salk Institute: Architecture at the Intersection between the Finite and the Infinite," Guest Lecture in Course "Buildings, Texts, Contexts," Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, May 4, 1993. "Architecture at the Seam between the Finite and the Infinite: Spiritual Dimensions in Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute for Biological Studies", Paper, Conference on Sacred Space, Miami University, Oxford, OH, March 4-6, 1993. "Notes on John Hejduk in Form of a Fiction," Paper, Fourteenth Annual Student Symposium, New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, Boston, MA, March 21, 1992. "The History of Copley Square and 'Copley Place,’" Presentation at Sasaki Associates, Landscape Architecture Division, Watertown, MA, April 1990.

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Lectures, Conference Papers, Presentations, continued "Projects for Vienna," Lecture, Department of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, January 26, 1986. "Architectural Projects 1980 to 1985," Lecture to 3rd Semester Core Studios, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Oct. 1985. "The Architecture and Landscape Architecture of Vienna," Lecture, St. Louis Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architecture, June 1984. "In Search of New Inspirations for the City," Lecture, Spring Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 1984. "Architectural Projects, 1980 to 1982," Guest presentation in studio of Prof. Hans Rott, Department of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, October 1983. "Architectural Investigations 1979 – 1982," Lecture, School of Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, January 1983.

Design Honors, Awards (incl. for works I had contributed to significantly) Design Citation, 2008, Education Facility Design Awards, AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA. I was design leader on its 450 person theater, experimental theater, and lobby portion for Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company in Norfolk, VA (associated with Pei Cobb Fried & Partners), while serving as a senior designer with Hanbury Evans Austin, Cambridge, MA. Walter Taylor Architectural Award, 2008, American Association of School Administrators, AIA Council of Education Facility Planners, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (credits above). Pinnacle Award, 2007, American Council of Engineering Consultants, ACEC, Virginia, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (credits above). AIA-Excellence in Design Award, 2006, by the Hampton Road Chapter, Norfolk, VA, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (credits above). Grand Prize Award, 2006, by College Planning and Management Magazine, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (credits above). Louis I Kahn Citation, 2006, by American School & University Magazine, for Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (credits above). Award for Excellence, 2003, by the Urban Land Institute, for Millennium Place, Boston (now the Ritz Carlton on the Boston Common), a 400 FT tall multi-use complex on the Boston Common. I served as senior designer and a project architect on this complex with CBT Architects, Boston, who were associated architects of the complex with Handel Architects of New York. Project of the Year Award, 2003, National Commercial Builders Council, for Millennium Place, Boston (credits above). Charter Award, 2002, Congress for the New Urbanism, for Millennium Place, Boston (credits above). Award of Merit, 2002, Concrete Industry Board, for Millennium Place, Boston (credits above). Pillars of the Industry Award, 2002, National Association of Home Builders, for Trinity Place at Copley Square, a 200 ft. tall luxury condominium tower next to the Boston Public Library (I served as a senior designer on this project with CBT Architects, Boston). Harlston Parker Medal, 2001, for the Renovation and Restoration of the McKim Mead Wing of the Boston Public Library, awarded to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott (I served for more than a year as designer on this project under Dan Coolidge prior to returning to Harvard for my PhD studies). Proposal, accepted for implementation, 2001, for an Augustinian Garden Memorial, Merrimack College, Andover, MA (pending funding). I proposed a much expanded scope as more fitting for their memorial and designed it as a senior designer with Hanbury Evans Austin, Cambridge, MA. 2nd Place, invited competition for “The Forest Refuge,” 2000, the long-term Buddhist retreat center of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Based on my PhD dissertation’s subject matter and an interview IMS invited me personally to participate, through Hanbury Evans Austin, Cambridge, MA. Preservation Award, Boston Society of Architects, 2000, awarded to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott (see credits above).

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Design Honors, Awards (incl. for works I had contributed to significantly), continued 1st Place and Award of Commission in invited competition for the adaptation of Boylston Hall to serve as Harvard University’s second Humanities Center, for Robert Olson + Associates, Fall 1995. My threefold prior experiences at Harvard - as a faculty member, PhD student and senior teaching fellow - proved critical to designing this winning entry with Robert Olson. Massachusetts Historical Commission Modernization Award 1999, awarded to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott (see credits above). Design Excellence Award, Boston Society of Architects/AIA, 1995, awarded to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott (see credits above). Preservation Award, ASID and Boston Magazine, 1994, awarded to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott (see credits above). Architecture Prize by the State of Salzburg, Austria, 1986, for the New Natural Science Complex of Salzburg University, awarded to the Architektengruppe Universität Salzburg, Prof. Wilhelm Holzbauer’s joint venture in which I served as a designer for 1 ½ years for prior to my leaving for the US.

Academic Honors, Awards Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, for co-founding and co-editing the first issue of Int|AR Magazine, Department of Interior Architecture, Spring 2009, with M. Berger and L. Wong. H.W.S. Cleveland Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Landscape Architecture, Fall 2002. Post-Doctoral Research Grant, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Summer 1995. James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholarship, Harvard University, Spring 1995. Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1994/95. Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship, selected as First Alternate, Harvard GSAS, 1994/95. Harvard Whiting Fellowship, selected as Fourth Alternate, Harvard GSAS, 1994/95. Caspar Henry Burton, Jr. Memorial Scholarship, Harvard University, 1993/94, for dissertation research. Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Harvard University, 1992/93, for dissertation research. Grant from the College of Arts and Architecture, Montana State University, for producing the inaugural issue of Montana State Architectural Review (with Christian Bergum), Spring 1983. Graduate School Fellowship, Cornell University, Summer 1982. George Lewis Coleman Fellowship, Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, 1981/82. Fulbright-Hays/IIE Travel Fellowship, for two years of advanced studies at Cornell University, 1980-82. Research Grant from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, for research at Cornell University, 1980/81. Fellowship for Outstanding Students, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, while studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 1975/76 through 1978/79. Full Fellowship, Austrian Ministry of Education and Art, for study at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 1973 through 1979.