Dean Candidates for Fay Jones School to Visit Campus, Hold Forums

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The three final candidates for the position of dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas will visit campus over the next three weeks for interviews and public forums.

The candidates are Peter MacKeith of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis; Henri de Hahn of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego; and Daniel Friedman of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Peter MacKeith is associate professor of architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He will make an open forum presentation at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall.

MacKeith received a bachelor’s degree in English and international relations from the University of Virginia and a master of architecture from Yale University. He has taught at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts since 1999 and recently completed 12 years of service as the school’s associate dean. He also serves as adjunct associate curator for architecture and design at Kemper Art Museum. Before joining the Sam Fox School faculty, he was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and was a visiting lecturer at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, where he also held the position of director of studies for their master of architecture – international program. He has worked in architecture and design practices in both the United States and Finland and has written and lectured extensively in the United States, Finland, and across the Nordic countries on modern and contemporary Finnish and Nordic architecture, with particular emphasis on the work of Alvar Aalto. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and research grants from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts and the Brookings Institution.

Henri De Hahn is provost of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego. He will make an open forum presentation at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall.

De Hahn received a baccalaureat scientifique from College Saint-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland, and a master of architecture from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. He also did postgraduate work in architecture at The Cooper Union in New York and studied at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. He has been provost of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design since 2012. Previously, he was professor and head of the architecture department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Prior to his appointment at California Polytechnic, he spent 19 years at the University of Kentucky, last serving as an associate professor in the school of architecture. In addition, he was an assistant professor at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich and was a visiting professor at the Aayojan School of Architecture in Jaipur, India. He has published many articles and lectured about design and education.

Daniel Friedman is a professor of architecture in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle. He will make an open forum presentation at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall.

Friedman received a bachelor’s degree in English and art from Rockford University, a master of architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and both a master of science and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed a seven-year term as dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, where he is also adjunct professor of urban design and planning. Previously, he served as director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was a faculty member for 12 years at the School of Architecture and Interior Design in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati, where he also served two years as director. For two years, he also served as director of the college’s Center for the Study of Practice. He was an associate director of the Center for Environmental Design and Planning and a teaching fellow in the architecture department, both at the University of Pennsylvania, and an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He has written and lectured on professional education, public architecture and 20th century theory. He is the recipient of grants from the American Institute of Architects, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

A half-hour reception will follow each of the candidate’s talks.

Complete vitas for all of the candidates are available online at http://architecture.uark.edu/1195.php.