Professor Gold has over twenty-five years of engagement in architectural design, teaching, and research with a focus on the interrelationships among architecture, ecology, culture, and resource stewardship at urban and residential scales. He currently leads funded research-based design projects and is a founding member of the Florida Resilient Community Initiative Read more…
Areas of Focus: Sustainability (Building Energy, Built Environment Resilience, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology) My research focuses on sustainability and the built environment with a special focus on water-based cities and communities in Florida, the Caribbean, and beyond. Projects include watershed-based resilience plans that coordinate future land Read more…
Albertus teaches graduate design studios and research methods. Additionally, he conducts seminars on sacred space, emphasizing the significance of meaning and interpretation in space and place-making. He also teaches seminars on adaptive reuse, viewing it as a modality of history writing through architectural design/intervention and as one of sustainable design Read more…
William L. Tilson is Professor Emeritus of Architecture. Since 1992, he has been the Director of the Preservation Institute: Caribbean (PI:C), the College’s off-campus program in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America. Tilson has been lead researcher and consultant on numerous documentation and planning projects for historic sites and communities Read more…
Bradley Walters, AIA earned his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture with Highest Honors from the University of Florida. He has studied and taught at the Vicenza Institute of Architecture in Vicenza, Italy. His current research is centered on high-performance zero-energy buildings, Read more…
Bahar Armaghani, Director of the Sustainability and the Built Environment (SBE) Program and Lecturer at the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction, and Planning (DCP), is a key figure in advancing sustainability initiatives. As the Director of UF Green Building Learning Collaborative (GBLC), she introduced and oversees the LEED Read more…
Dr. Nawari has more than twenty-five years of experience in design, teaching, and research in Architectural Structures and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Currently, he teaches graduate and undergraduate Architectural Structures, Sustainability and Resilience, and Building Information Modeling courses at the University of Florida. Dr. Nawari has written and co-authored over Read more…
Professor Donna Cohen’s expertise and academic focus revolve around several key areas, including sustainability, where she imparts knowledge and guides students through the world of architectural design in the Sustainability Teaching Design Studio and Advanced Design Studio. Complementing her teaching endeavors, Professor Cohen also teaches Architectural Theory I & II, Read more…
Charlie Hailey is an architect, writer, and professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Hailey has received numerous awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Graham Foundation grant. He has authored six books that bring multidisciplinary approaches to the built environment, and his newest The Porch: Meditations on Read more…