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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 15, 2015
Summary Sentence:
New faces and new promotions bring new industry connections, innovative design approaches to College of Architecture
Full Summary:
New faces and new promotions bring new industry connections, innovative design approaches to College of Architecture
Scott Marble
Julie Kim
Roger Ball
Alex KarnerAlong with the usual (and impressive!) fall semester activity in our buildings, you’ll see a few new faculty faces. With them comes an exciting new chapter to the College of Architecture.
Through influential industry partnerships and an innovative, design-focused approach to using technology, our students are in for some of the most advanced instruction we’ve offered, to date.
New faces
Scott Marble: Professor and Bill Harrison Chair of the School of Architecture
A founding partner of Marble Fairbanks in New York and the new Bill Harrison Chair of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, Scott Marble (RA) pioneered innovative uses of digital design and fabrication. His firm builds award-winning designs for residential, educational, institutional and commercial projects by incorporating the latest technological advancements in the design and construction industries.
Scott and his partner, Karen Fairbanks, were the Charles and Ray Eames lecturers at the University of Michigan, in 2004 when their book, Marble Fairbanks: Bootstrapping, was published. In 2007, they were Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecturers at the University of Virginia, coinciding with Expanded Alliances, an exhibition featuring their award-winning design for the Slide Library at Columbia University. They were awarded the “forty under forty” design award, several New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Architecture awards, the Emerging Architect award, and Scott was a winner in the Young Architects Forum at the Architectural League of New York.
Julie Ju-Youn Kim: Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Architecture
Julie Kim’s (RA, AIA) academic research and commissioned work seeks to amplify craft, making and building underpinned by questions of technology, the environment, culture and gender. Julie is also the founder of the award-winning practice c2architecturestudio. She was invited and included as one of 12 architectural firms included in Architect (Korean Architects Association) "Young Korean Architects in the Global Context," and was also included in Architectural Record's Emerging Architect series (June 2010).
The results of her research on the relationship between the body and domestic space are currently exhibited at the Kibel Gallery (University of Maryland-College Park). She is also working on a book that offers a lens to view Detroit’s potential through new urban landscapes, architectural provocations and the inherently optimistic acts of making and building.
Roger Ball: Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Industrial Design
|Since 1983, Roger Ball is known for crafting iconic sports products for Burton Snowboards, Fisher Price, Cooper Canada, Itech Sports, Brine Lacrosse, Bell Helmets and Nike. His award winning 3D anthropometric study, SizeChina, created the first digital database of Chinese head and face shapes (wwwsizechina.com). As leader of the Asian Ergonomic Lab Roger and his team drove the development of ‘China-fit” products for local and global brands. His research clients include Luxottica, Microsoft, 3M, Cartier, Neurosky and cirque du soleil. His new book DesignDirect – how to start your own micro brand inspires designers to create their own personal brands.
Over the last 25 years, Ball led design studios in North America, Asia and Europe. He was named the Eric Yim Endowed Professor of Asian Ergonomics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he was the Program Leader for the MDes programs.
Alexander Karner: Assistant Professor – new faculty in the School of City and Regional Planning
Dr. Karner was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He earned a PhD in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, under the direction of Deb Niemeier, and a B.A.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Toronto. His work is focused on environmental justice and equity issues in transportation (including jobs-housing balance, public transit service equity), as well as climate change as a function of transportation.
Newly promoted and tenured
Daniel Castro: Associate Professor to Professor in the School of Building Construction
Brian Stone: Associate to Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning
Ennis Parker: Named Niles Bolton Professor of Practice for the School of Architecture
Baabak Ashuri: Named Director of Construction Research Center in the School of Building Construction
Nisha Botchwey: Associate Professor awarded tenure in the School of City and Regional Planning
Perry Yang: Associate Professor awarded tenure in the School of City and Regional Planning
