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Stephen Belton

Stephen Belton

School of Architecture
Associate Professor
352-294-1463
ARCH 238
sbelton@ufl.edu

M.Arch., Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2001
Architecture B.Arch., University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Courses Taught ARC4330 Analytical Drawing + Sketching ARC1302 Architectural Design 2 ARC2303 Architectural Design 3 ARC2304 Architectural Design 4 ARC3320 Architectural Design 5 ARC3321 Architectural Design 6 ARC4322 Architectural Design 7 ARC4323 Architectural Design 8 ARC4323 ARC6241 Advanced Studio 1 ARC6356 Advanced Studio 3 ARC4330 Analytical Drawing + Sketching ARC6912 Furniture Design + Fabrication

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Sheila Bosch

Sheila Bosch

Department of Interior Design
Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator
(352) 294-1439
ARCH 348
sheilabosch@dcp.ufl.edu

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Sheila Bosch is an associate professor and graduate coordinator for the Department of Interior Design. For more than two decades, Sheila has been engaged in research exploring the relationships between environmental design and human well-being, primarily in healthcare and educational environments. Healthcare design research has investigated environments serving patients of all ages, from birth to the very end of life, including intensive care units, medical-surgical units, emergency departments, behavioral health units and skilled nursing facilities. In 2014, Sheila was honored to receive the national-level HCD10 top researcher award for her contributions to healthcare design research. Her current research focuses on how the design of healthcare spaces may help reduce stress and support mindfulness among healthcare workers. Research on learning environment design has included investigations in both K-12 and higher education environments, including an externally funded investigation of mixed-use learning environments at the university level. Sheila teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, all of which include a research component. For undergraduates, she regularly team-teaches a senior design studio in which students develop innovative healthcare spaces, oftentimes working with design practitioners. Sheila also teaches both undergraduate and graduate level environment-behavior courses where students explore the complex relationships between the environment (built or natural) and the people who occupy those environments. Other graduate courses taught include Readings in Design Studies and Research Methods in Interior Design. Prior to UF, Sheila served as the Director of Research for Gresham Smith, a global design firm headquartered in the southeastern US. Having earned her PhD in 2004 from Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, Sheila also hold an MS (life science, environmental toxicology) and a BS (science education), both from the University of Tennessee.

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Frank Bosworth

Frank Bosworth

School of Architecture, CityLab-Orlando
Professor of Practice Emeritus
407-610-8325
fbosworth@ufl.edu

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986
Environmental Design and Planning B. Arch., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1976
Architecture B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1976, Building Science

Areas of Focus: 
Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Sustainable Architecture and Design)
The role of architecture and urban design in at risk (climate change) urban environments

Bio:
Frank Bosworth is Professor of Practice at UF’s School of Architecture. He previously served as Interim Director of the School from January 2020 through July 2021. Frank began his career at UF in January 2012 as Assistant Director and Program Director of CityLab- Orlando, the School’s off-campus Master of Architecture program. Frank was responsible for building the off-campus program starting with an initial class of 15 in the fall of 2012 growing the program to 79 students at the start of this academic year. Frank earned a Ph.D. at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Environmental Design and Planning, and a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Building Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York. After Graduating from RPI he practiced architecture in Clearwater, Florida as the principal a twenty‐person architecture firm specializing in housing design and physical planning. In 1986 he sold his firm to the Maguire Group of Providence, Rhode Island and entered the Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech.
After graduating, Frank began his academic career as Program Director of the Architecture and Environmental Design program at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and then moved to Louisiana as Dean of the School of Architecture at Southern University, Baton Rouge. Following his deanship at Southern University he was a Professor of Architecture at Louisiana State University for 12 years. During that period, he held multiple academic and administrative positions and was the founding director of the Office of Community Design and Development, which engaged students in architecture and urban design community-based work. As a result of this work he was elevated to a University Service-Learning Fellow. Frank’s area of research is community and urban design. He teaches advanced graduate studios, Advanced Urban Design the American City, Sustainable Site Design, and Research courses.

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Jeffrey Carney

Jeffrey Carney

School of Architecture, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
Associate Professor + Director FIBER
352-294-3373
ARCH 246
j.carney@ufl.edu

BA, Washington University in St. Louis
M.Arch and MCP, University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Focus: Sustainability  Bio: Jeff Carney is a registered architect and certified city planner working at the interface of housing, neighborhoods, and ecosystems with a focus on climate change adaptation. He is associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, director of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), and director of the Florida Resilient Cities program (FRC). Jeff’s work in Florida is focused on the resilience of communities achieved through transdisciplinary and community engaged design processes. His current projects include a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funded effort to design post-disaster modular housing, and an FRC project to assist the panhandle City of Port St. Joe to recover from Hurricane Michael that is supported by the Jessie Ball Dupont fund. Previously, Jeff was the director of the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS) where he led the development of the Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program (LRAP) that continues to assist communities throughout Louisiana; additionally, he led the design and fabrication of the 10,000sf permanent exhibition for the LSU Center for River Studies called “shifting Foundations” which told the story of coastal Louisiana’s changing landscape and the new paradigms in protection and restoration needed to create a more sustainable coast. He co-directed his team’s award-winning submission for the Changing Course competition entitled “The Giving Delta,” that reimagined Louisiana’s ecological systems and coastal communities in the context of climate change. Shortly before moving to UF Jeff initiated and led the project “Inland from the Coast,” a three-year grant supported by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Jeff’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and his projects and scholarship have been published widely. His projects have been recognized through awards including the 2018 AIABR Rose Award winner for the Shifting Foundations exhibit; the 2016 New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award, for “The Giving Delta”; the 2014 APA Planning Excellence Award for Education, for the Louisiana Resilience Assistance Program; the 2012 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, for the Coastal Sustainability Studio; and the 2011 EDRA Great Places Awards in Design Research for “Measured Change: Tracking Transformations on Bayou Lafourche.” Jeff teaches undergraduate and graduate level architecture studios and multi-disciplinary seminars on resilience design and planning at the building, neighborhood, and regional scale. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and master’s degrees in both architecture and city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Jeff was awarded the Branner Fellowship to conduct a year-long research project to study the evolution of modernist neighborhood-scale urbanism in Europe, South America, and Asia, an experience which continues to shape his work today.

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Peggy Carr

Peggy Carr

Sustainability and the Built Environment, Department of Landscape Architecture
Professor Emeritus
mcarr@ufl.edu

• Master of Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1983
• Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, 1975

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Research:

• Regional conservation strategies
• Greenway/corridor design
• Land use planning at the urban interface
• Land use planning and reserve design
• Ecotourism
• Recreational carrying capacity
• Environmental policy

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Abdol Chini

Abdol Chini

M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
Professor Emeritus
352-294-1407
chini@ufl.edu

Ph.D. Structural Engineering, University of Maryland College Park
Master of Science, Structural Engineering, George Washington University
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran

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Areas of Focus:  Sustainability (Building Energy, Building Materials, Sustainable Construction) Using the circular economy principles to manage construction waste. Retrofit and rehabilitation of existing building for energy efficiency. Recycling of construction materials. Bio: Dr. Chini is a professor of Construction Management and Associate Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. He served as Director of the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management from 2003-2011.  He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran, M.S. in Structural Engineering from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Chini has performed extensive research on the reuse and recycling of construction materials including recycled concrete aggregates, wastewater generated at concrete plants, and salvaged lumber from deconstructed buildings to minimize environmental impacts. He has also developed measures to reduce energy consumption of existing homes in Florida through a grant from the US Department of Energy. The outcome of this research is a matrix that homeowners can use to extrapolate the effectiveness and pay back of each of the common measures on their specific residence and make informed energy reduction decisions. His most recent research focused on developing the curriculum for training and certification programs in manufactured construction funded by the US Department of Labor. He has edited seven books, published more than 150 papers, and made numerous national and international presentations.  He is the recipient of the 2016 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship. Dr. Chini is teaching graduate courses in construction estimating, construction value management, and construction cost control.

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Nancy M. Clark

Nancy M. Clark

School of Architecture
Interim Director, School of Architecture, Associate Professor + Director of the UF Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (UF|CHU)
352-294-1472
ARCH 231A
nmclark@ufl.edu

M.Arch., University of Florida, 1994
B.Arch., Auburn University, 1989

Areas of Focus: Sustainability (Building Energy, Built Environment Resilience, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology) My research focuses on sustainability and the built environment with a special focus on water-based cities and communities in Florida, the Caribbean, and beyond. Projects include watershed-based resilience plans that coordinate future land use with built environment risks and social vulnerabilities, green infrastructure, and urban retrofits. Bio: Nancy Clark is Director of the UF Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (UF|CHU), an international initiative promoting prospective studies of adaptation, resiliency, environmental justice and asset preservation of waterway cities. She also serves as Program Director for UF School of Architecture’s MSAS Master’s Degree Concentrations in Sustainability and Regenerative Practices. Clark teaches courses in architectural design, urban design, and resilience planning.  Her interdisciplinary and collaborative project-based research in urban resilience and development for coastal and fluvial cities has been recognized internationally through exhibitions, awards and lectures presented globally including Mexico, Brazil, Italy, South Africa, France, Colombia, and the US. She is editor of Urban Waterways: Evolving Paradigms for Hydro-Based Urbanisms, a UNESCO series publication investigating the environmental, cultural, and economic future of cities on the water in the 21st century. She leads the Sustainable Settlements, Water Management and Renewable Energy Design Lab and is a member of the Project Leadership Team for Puerto Rico Re_Start International Research Project and Workshops an ongoing initiative that focuses on the preservation of natural resources and reconsideration of existing settlement paradigms toward a more prosperous and sustainable future for Puerto Rico investigated through interdisciplinary inter-institutional collaborations. Clark was a scientific committee member for the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) 18th National Conference and Global Forum on Science Policy and the Environment and served as Chair of the NCSE Global Forum Symposium “Designing Urban Resilience beyond the Science: The Project of the Future”. She was Chief Curator and contributor to Florida 3.0: Reinventing our Future, an exhibition at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design based upon ongoing research projects by members of the CHU who are studying the history and future of Florida’s water -based settlements and hydro-environments within the broader context of new paradigms for the evolution of water based communities.

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Donna Cohen

Donna Cohen

School of Architecture
Associate Professor + Director, Global Education
352-392-1418
FAC 215
dcohen@ufl.edu

M.Arch., University of Florida, 1999
B.Arch., Cooper Union, 1990 BA
Art History, Smith College, 1982

Areas of Focus: Sustainability  Teaching Design Studio & Advanced Design Studio Architectural Theory I & II. Research Interests Interaction of built form and culture

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Aaron Costin

Aaron Costin

M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
Associate Professor
352-273-2121
RINKER 324
aaron.costin@ufl.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-costin

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, 2016, Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology M.S. Civil Engineering, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology B.S. Civil Engineering, 2011

Areas of Focus:

Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Construction and Engineering; Internet of Things (IoT); Data Interoperability; Digital Twin (DT); Building Information Modeling (BIM); Digital Infrastructure

Affiliations:

  • Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment
  • University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI)
  • Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World
  • Artificial Intelligence Academic Initiative Center (AI2)

Bio:

Dr. Aaron Costin is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management, and holds an affiliate appointment to the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment. His academic journey led him to earn a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Costin’s expertise lies in the nuanced integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Twin (DT), Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance construction and infrastructure management. His research specifically focuses on leveraging AI to improve interoperability among diverse construction technologies and platforms, facilitating seamless data exchange and enhancing collaboration across the construction industry’s various sectors. This focus on AI and interoperability is central to Dr. Costin’s work, aiming to push the boundaries of how technology can be utilized to make construction processes more efficient, accurate, and sustainable.

Dr. Costin leads the Smart Construction Informatics (SCI) laboratory where they research emerging technologies and interoperability for the built environment. His research is at the intersection of construction management, civil engineering, and computer science, focusing on interoperability, wireless network systems, design computing, and the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in construction. His work significantly impacts construction safety, productivity, and sustainability, leveraging emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data analytics. He has collaborated extensively with industry and academic partners globally, contributing to the advancement of smart cities and intelligent transportation systems.

A multidisciplinary researcher, Dr. Costin has received substantial external funding, including a notable grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a cyberinfrastructure service for IoT-based construction research and applications. He is also a key investigator on three multimillion dollar national BIM for Bridges and Infrastructure projects. His projects aim to revolutionize construction and engineering practices by fostering a more connected, efficient, and safer industry.

An active member of the academic and professional community, Dr. Costin chairs and serves on multiple committees to advance emerging technology and interoperability and is involved in several international groups focused on developing standards for ontologies and linked data in the AEC industry. He is a pioneer in promoting BIM and Digital Twin for bridges and structures, leading efforts to create open data exchange standards, and serving as the chair for various national and international standardization initiatives.

Dr. Costin’s dedication to teaching and mentorship is evident in his dynamic and interactive approach, preparing students for real-world challenges by integrating research into education. He has been recognized for his contributions to the field with awards for both teaching and research excellence, including the University Scholars Program Faculty Mentor Award at the University of Florida.

Beyond his academic achievements, Dr. Costin is committed to student service, being the faculty advisor to Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity, CRU at UF, and the DCP entrepreneurship club. He also advises and mentors dozens of undergraduate researchers from various disciplines across UF.

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Erin Cunningham

Erin Cunningham

Department of Interior Design
Associate Professor
352-294-1433
ARCH 344
ekc@ufl.edu

Ph.D., College of Design Construction & Planning, University of Florida.
M.I.D., University of Manitoba
B.A., University of Victoria

Erin Cunningham’s research examines intersections between social justice and the interior environment. Her scholarship, published in both peer-reviewed articles and invited chapters, can be broken down into three main categories. The first examines the history and preservation of the interior environment. The second examines the development of social welfare priorities in interior design. The third, and newly emerging track, examines issues of health in the lived environment. Across these topics, Erin takes a social historical approach to the study of interiors, emphasizing issues of gender, race, and class.

One of Erin’s principal responsibilities at the University of Florida is to teach the History of Interior Design, which is a two-part required sequence. Since taking responsibility for these courses she has worked to break the strict lecture style of the course, engaging students in multiple formats, including lecture, class discussion, and digital humanities methods. Alongside her history courses, she teaches interior design studio at all levels, from sophomore to senior. These studios have touched on a range of topics, including hospitality, corporate design, and housing.

With a doctoral degree in Design, Construction in Planning, a certificate in historic preservation, a professional master’s degree in interior design, and a Bachelor of Arts, Erin’s educational background is diverse, and interdisciplinary. Prior to joining the Interior Design Department at the University of Florida, she was a faculty member in the Interior Architecture Program at the University of Oregon.

 

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