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New DIRECTOR:
Professor Christopher Jarrett
School of Architecture
College of Arts + Architecture
UNC Charlotte
PEOPLE are the most important resource any enterprise has; it is people who produce, inspire, make, lead, and bring new skill to our School of Architecture. We have always valued the people who comprise the learning community we have created – students, faculty/staff, and academic leaders. People collaborate and it is people who make buildings, and cities, and culture.
With the creation of the new College of Arts + Architecture in July 2008, the search for a new Director of the School of Architecture began and it is our pleasure to introduce our inaugural School Director – Christopher Jarrett.
Since 2002, Chris Jarrett has been Associate Director and Associate Professor of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including serving as Acting Director during 2006-07. He teaches architectural design studios and seminars traversing a range of environmental design issues including green tectonics, eco-criticism, environmental art, post-modern environmentalism, and new media + ecology. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College in 1998. In 2005, a student from Professor Jarrett’s green building studio received 2nd Place in the National Green Architecture Competition co-sponsored by the American Solar Energy Society [ASES] and Society of Building Science Educators [SBSE]. The competition focused on architectural applications of solar and renewable energies, energy efficiency, and green design, and was exhibited at the 2005 Solar World Conference in Orlando.
He led the effort in achieving a successful full-term NAAB accreditation in spring 2008. He was Principal Investigator for Georgia Tech’s entry in the 2007 US-DOE Solar Decathlon Project, leading a 100-person interdisciplinary student and faculty team from the Colleges of Architecture, Engineering, Management, and Sciences. He and two colleagues received the College of Architecture’s Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research Award for this work in 2008. Georgia Tech’s Solar Decathlon House received the BP Solar Award for Innovation and an AIA/Atlanta COTE Award, as well as being the subject of numerous media outlets including CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, Discovery Channel, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Author of numerous articles, Jarrett’s research links contemporary environmental theory and sustainable urban development. He was a selected presenter at the AIA National Convention in Philadelphia (2000), one of the top ten attended sessions. He has served as a paper reviewer for the US Green Building Council, the US Department of Education, Places, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). He has received grants from the US Department of Energy, US Department of Education, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Georgia Humanities Council, Green Habitats, The Southern Company, Beazer Homes, the Georgia Tech Foundation and the USG Board of Regents for a research project titled, “Sustainable Rehabilitation of Industrial Urban Sites.”
In 2003-04, he was co-curator of “Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape,” an exhibit of urban landscape photographers at the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. From 1999-2003, he was U.S. Director of the International Architectural Educational Exchange, an international initiative on global cities funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the European Union. He is a founding member of Georgia Tech’s International Plan, a university-wide undergraduate initiative to build global competence within one’s major. He is currently a Fellow of Georgia Tech’s University Leadership Program.
He has served as a design critic at SCI-Arc, UCLA, USC, Woodbury, Clemson, Virginia, Tennessee, Auburn, and in the School of Environmental Design at the University of Georgia. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California during 1990-94. As a former partner in Jarrett+Suharnoko, he received numerous awards, including First Place in the Shinkenchiku-Sha International Design Competition, titled 'East Meets West,' sponsored by the Central Glass Company in Tokyo, Japan (1991); Second Place in the House for the Next Millennium Competition sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH (1993); an Honorable Mention in the Hermosa Beach Pier Competition, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in Hermosa Beach (1993); an Award of Excellence from the Department of Community Development, City of Claremont, California (1993); and a Merit Award from the Young California Architect's Competition, sponsored by the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco and AIA San Francisco (1991). He was a design consultant for Arthur Erickson Architects in 1989, and worked as an architect in New York for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1986-87) and Kohn, Pedersen Fox Architects (1987-88). Jarrett received a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the University of Oregon (1983) and a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University (1986).
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School of Architecture - UNC Charlotte
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