Architectural Studies

Dr. Ruth Brent Tofle
Professor, Department Chair

Interests: environment & aging, design education & research, place attachment, residential environments
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Dr. Benyamin Schwarz
Professor

Interests: environment and aging, dementia special care units, nursing homes, assisted-living, design process and design theory, international residential environments
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Dr. Ronald Phillips
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Interests: environmental gerontology, research methods, organizational systems, design programming and evaluation, behaviorally-based design more info »

Dr. Newton D'Souza
Assistant Professor

Interests: architectural design process, creativity research, design cognition & learning, environment behavior studies, digital and manual design media more info »

Dr. Bimal Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor, Design with Digital Media Program Coordinator

Interests: architectural design process, design computing & cognition, virtual reality, human-computer interaction
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Michael Goldschmidt
Teaching Assistant Professor, State Housing & Environmental Design Extension Specialist

Interests: ecological interior design, specification writing, distance learning & continuing education
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Lyria Bartlett
Instructor

Interests: architectural design process, design pedagogy, creativity research, sustainable technology, professional & community relationships
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