First Fay Jones School Dean Candidate Holds Open Forum

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Peter MacKeith

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The first of three candidates for the position of dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas will speak to the campus community Thursday, Jan. 16.

Peter MacKeith, associate professor of architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will make an open forum presentation from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. 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.

The other two candidates are 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.

A half-hour reception will follow MacKeith’s talk. Complete vitas for all of the candidates are available online at http://architecture.uark.edu/1195.php.