FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The third 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. 30.

Daniel Friedman, a professor of architecture in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle, 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.

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.

The other two candidates are Peter MacKeith, of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and Henri de Hahn of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego.

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