Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: School of Architecture & Design

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Jeannette Sordi, Ph.D., visiting associate professor at the School of Architecture and Design, was invited to give a keynote speech at Autonomous University in Juarez, Mexico on April 12, 2024. The conference was organized within the international workshop and research collaboration landscapes of Rio Bravo/Rio Grande. She presented her research on landscape urbanism as well as her work on ecological design and climate adaption for vulnerable cities developed with the Inter-American Development Bank.

Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, delivered a presentation on his double-blind peer-reviewed research paper, "Whose Land Are You On? Accounting for Land Acknowledgments in NAAB Accredited Schools of Architecture in the United States," at the 112th annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) held in Vancouver, Canada, on March 15, 2024. In addition, his expertise in urbanism was recognized through an invitation to moderate a session titled "Urbanism: Urban Ecology & Community," which closely aligned with his research interests at the same conference.

Evan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, was invited to serve on the distinguished jury panel of 2024 "Urban Design Lab Competition Publication," alongside seven other panel members with urban expertise from universities around the world. Registration for the publication began on March 15, 2024, and the date set for jury consideration of submissions was July 20, 2024.

Jeannette Sordi, Ph.D., visiting associate professor at the School of Architecture and Design, presented her work on ecological design and climate adaption for vulnerable cities at the Città in Scena in Rome, Italy, on December 13, 2023. The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, opened the event.

Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his capstone thesis architectural design studio "Architecture & Applied Utopias: Envisioning a Resilient Sag Harbor," which is closely working with the community was mentioned in the WLIW-FM's Long Island Morning Edition on December 8, 2023, and in the Sag Harbor Express on December 5, 2023.

Andreas Theodoridis, Ph.D., assistant professor in the architecture department, organized the Climate Change and Tourism conference that was was held December 1 to 3, 2023, at the Center of Mediterranean Architecture (CAM) location in Greece. Theodoridis organized it on behalf of the CAM Advisory Board. He also moderated and participated in sessions with various professionals, including architects, public servants, legislators, hoteliers, and policymakers, who are related to the country's tourism and architecture industries.

Sandra Manninger, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture, and Athina Papadopoulou, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture, spoke at the Design Without Boundaries: Bridging Research and Teaching Through International University Dialogs, a conference held in Venice, Italy, on November 23, 2023.

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., Ph.D., associate professor of architecture and author of Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence, was reviewed by Parametric Architecture on October 25, 2023. The review discusses the use of robotics and artificial intelligence in architecture and urban design.

Andreas Theodoridis, Ph.D., assistant professor in the architecture department, gave a lecture titled "Air Cycles in the Built Environment: United Atmospheres for Improving Urban Air Quality/Inequality" at Kean University, Michael Graves College, Robert Busch School of Design, School of Public Architecture, Union, New Jersey in October 2023. He was invited to speak as part of the Fall 2023 Public Lecture Series.

Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, had his research work, “A Construct The Koreas (Never) Made Together: Deconstructing the DMZ For The Imaginary – 2019," invited to the "Negotiating Borders" exhibition and displayed at the Korean Cultural Center Canada in Ottawa, Canada, from October 13, 2023, to January 27, 2024.