Architecture

Peter Sprowls

Peter Sprowls

School of Architecture, CityLab-Orlando
Instructional Assistant Professor
352-294-1457
ARCH 232
peter26@ufl.edu

Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Sustainable Architecture and Design)
My work and teaching focuses on the use and nature of public space in the contemporary city. This impacts/intersects with sustainability by identifying and designing the organization of urban spaces – their use and their resiliency is critical to social structures, community equity and engagement, as well as energy use (i.e. transportation, passive systems, distances between points of activity).

Bio:
Peter Sprowls is a lecturer at the University of Florida School of Architecture and CityLab-Orlando as well as a founding principal of House Champagne – an architectural design and research firm focusing on public space in urban and sub-urban contexts. He was educated at the University of Florida and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and
is pursuing his professional licensure as an architect.

Sprowls teaches design, history and theory. Through this and his professional work, he explores the contemporary boundary between the natural and the built worlds; the anterior and posterior spaces of modern human life. This exploration can describe new forms of public space in developer-driven markets and how our vast, built landscape can be measured again by nature. Leading to this interest in modern public space is a history of research, investigating potential forms of public space that could evolve with the growth of autonomous vehicle technology and future forms of transportation. Sprowls has worked with MIT Media Lab in the City Sciences group on the CityCar, studying the behavior of autonomous vehicles in urban spaces and has used this research to propose a series of potential public spaces mixing modes of transportation with technology of the near future.

He has worked within the profession on institutional, multi-family housing and commercial spaces at NADAAA, Preston Scott Cohen, and Merge Architects in Boston, MA. His practice, House Champagne, is completing a series of residential projects focused on natural phenomena, specifically the volumetric quality of light in humid environments.

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John Maze

John Maze

School of Architecture
Associate Professor
352-294-1476
ARCH 264
maze@ufl.edu

Master of Architecture, Arizona State University, Highest Distinction
Bachelor of Science, University of Virginia

John Maze is an Associate Professor and former Assistant Director of the University of Florida School of Architecture where he teaches design and humanities. During his twenty years at the University of Florida and previous time at The University of Virginia, he has authored four required digital architecture and design courses, two University Humanities courses – ARC1000 Architecture + Humanity and IDS2935 Places and Spaces – which is also a University International Quest 1 course. Maze served on the development and oversight team responsible for another University Humanities Quest 1 freshman course: What is the Good Life. He has taught design studios at all levels as well as collaborated in interdisciplinary graduate seminars as affiliate faculty with the Digital Worlds Institute.

His research focuses on the digital interface and its role in the architectural design process. He has written numerous publications on the relationship between architecture and music, a common theme throughout his pedagogy. He has funded research studying Building Information Modeling technology, advanced modeling and animation, and has developed an online database of texture maps with the help of the Office of Academic Technology. In 2004 through 2006, Maze collaborated with Dr. Robert Ferl and Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul of the NASA-sponsored center at the University of Florida, Space Agriculture and Biotechnology Research and Education to model and visualize modular greenhouse prototypes for lunar and Martian exploration. John Maze is also an award-winning multi-instrumentalist currently playing with Irish recording artists An Triur, acoustic Americana quartet Lucky Us, and formerly In Crisis who performed three times at Gator Growl. John has performed twice as a guest of the Chieftains during their visits to the Phillips Center, and for over a decade has led Commencement exercises for the College of Design, Construction & Planning as the bagpiper. In the fall of 2019, Maze soloed with the Pride of the Sunshine State, Fighting Gators Marching Band at halftime during the Vanderbilt Game’s Veteran’s Day tribute.

His professional work includes PA Award winning projects with Eisenman Architects and Roto Architects, as well as projects with Taliesin Architects. He was instrumental in integrating
architectural computing and design both at Eisenman Architects and Roto, who previously did the majority of their work with traditional media types. John Maze received his Bachelor of
Science in architecture from The University of Virginia, and his Master of Architecture with Highest Distinction from Arizona State University. His research with the Pima Maricopa tribes of Arizona won him the thesis prize in 1996.

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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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Jason Alread

Jason Alread

School of Architecture
Professor
352-294-1455
ARCH 144
jalread@ufl.edu
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Areas of Focus:
Sustainability ( Building Materials, Built Environment Resilience, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology)
Primarily focused on high performance materials and assemblies, embodied energy, sustainable decision making in professional practice, building flexibility/longevity, and sustainability in construction.

Bio:
Jason Alread, AIA, LEED AP is a Professor and the former Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. He was educated at the University of Florida and Yale University, and has been a registered architect in professional practice for over 25 years. He was a founding partner in Substance Architecture and an Associate at HLKB Architecture, the 2001 AIA National Firm of the Year.

He is the author of Design-Tech: An Integrated Approach to Building Science and Technology with Thomas Leslie and Rob Whitehead and A Century of Iowa Architecture. Professor Alread has been recognized with over 40 design awards, including two National AIA Design Honor Awards, an AIA National Education Honor Award and two IIDA International Design Awards. The ACSA has honored him with New Faculty Teaching, Faculty Design and Creative Achievement Awards. In 2014 Design Intelligence named him as one of the 30 Most Admired Design Educators in North American Schools.

Professor Alread’s teaching and research focus on the integration of craft and technology, building performance, design methodologies and critical practice. He teaches beginning design and graduate comprehensive studios, methods and materials of construction, detailing and design history. He also coordinates the summer Design Exploration Program for high school students with Professor Emeritus, Martin Gundersen.

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Hui Zou

Hui Zou

School of Architecture
Professor
352-294-1470
ARCH 134
hzou@ufl.edu

PhD in Architectural History & Theory, McGill University, 2005
MS in Archi., University of Cincinnati, 1998
Dr Engi. in Architectural History & Theory, Tongji University, 1995
M Archi., Tongji University, 1991
B Archi., Chongqing Inst. of Architecture & Engineering, 1989

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Fellows

  • Fellow of the Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), 2001-2002
  • Kenneth and Nelly Fung Fellow, Asian Cultural Council (New York), 2012-13

Research Fields

  • Architectural history, garden history, architectural philosophy, comparative cultural studies in the built environment

Book Publications (single author):

  • A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture (2011)
  • Suipian yu bizhao (Fragments and Mirroring) (2012)
  • The Chinese translation Jianzhu zai ai zhishang (2018) of Alberto Perez-Gomez’s book Built Upon Love

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Albertus Wang

Albertus Wang

School of Architecture, CityLab-Orlando
Instructional Associate Professor
352-281-7610
CLO 514
aslwang@ufl.edu

Core Studios
Advanced Graduate Design Studios
Adaptive Reuse; History and Methodology
Sacred Space; Religions and Spirituality in Architecture Design

Albertus teaches graduate design studios and seminars. He has supervised students pursuing doctoral  and master’s degrees. Albertus has worked on a wide range of built projects in the US and abroad over the past twenty-two years. His designs have received international and AIA awards, and have been published in international  design magazines and publications, including a critique by Dr. Hui Zou on his article,  “Translation, Communication and Crossed-Cultural Poetic Architecture” (New Architecture, p 34, n 127, June 2009, China); an article in a book by Amir Sidharta, “t house” (p 202, 25 Tropical Houses, Periplus Publisher, 2008, Singapore); his public lectures and interviews in the US and abroad. His paper, “The Distribution of Powers in Post-Colonial Batavia/Jakarta”, on the topic of post-colonialism and orientalism, presented at the First International Symposium on Pacific  Architecture at the University of Manoa (1995), resonates into his later work, addressing some critical East-West dialogue in urban design and architecture. His latest paper on adaptive reuse, “(In) Between Old and New, Resurrect Revise Reuse of Old Buildings”, delivered as a keynote presenter at 2017 New Architecture Forum, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, was published in New Architecture No. 183, February 2019. Albertus received his Bachelor of Design in Architecture from UF (1990) and his Master of Architecture from Harvard (1995). He returned to UF in 2007 where he became involved in co-coordinating UF Hong Kong/China Program (2008-2009) and co-directing UF East Asia Program (2010-2015). Since 2015, Albertus has been participating in several summer design studio collaborations, lecture series, seminars and exhibitions in Venice (Italy), Athens (Greece) and Wuhan (China). Albertus is a guest editor for New Architecture Magazine (2020-2023) and a peer reviewer for the 2021 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture & European Association for Architectural Education Teachers Conference/Curriculum for Climate Agency, Design (in)Action.

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Bradley Walters

Bradley Walters

School of Architecture
Associate Director of Graduate Programs + Edward M. Fearney Endowed Associate Professor
352-294-1462
ARCH 236
bradley.walters@ufl.edu

Bachelor of Design in Architecture, Summa Cum Laude (University of Florida, 1995)
Master of Architecture (Princeton University, 1999)

Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Building Energy, Building Materials, Built Environment Resilience, Renewable Energy, Smart Buildings/Cities, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology,)

Bio:
Mr. Walters teaches studio design, drawing, materials coursework, and architectural detailing. His current research is centered on high-performance zero-energy buildings, within a broader context of social, artistic, and cultural production. This work engages building science, thermal/energy modeling, climatic responses, and materiality. Secondary areas of research include teaching methods, pedagogy, and visual communications.

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Franca Stocco

Franca Stocco

School of Architecture
Vicenza Institute of Architecture Administrative Director
fstocco@ufl.edu

Accounting Certificate, Vicenza Technical Commerical Institute, 1988
English Language Certification, Weybridge Brookland College, 1984
Diploma, Veneto Regional Institute, 1977
Diploma, University of Padua, 1975

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Alfonso Perez-Mendez

Alfonso Perez-Mendez

School of Architecture
Professor
352-294-1473
ARCH 258
alfperez@aol.com

Master of Science in Architecture, Columbia University, 1990
Master of Construction Engineering, Madrid Polytechnic School, 1983
M.Arch., Columbia University, 1980

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Research Interests My research focuses in the evolution of modern architecture in the decade after the Second World War. Examples of projects completed and under development are : Completed 1. The Houses of El Pedregal, 1947-1968, book in print, appears July 2005 Co-authored: Alejandro Aptilon Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona , Spain In print, ISBN pending 2. Craig Ellwood, Houses, Published December 2004 Sole Author Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona ISBN 84-252-2010-6, Bilingual English-Spanish Edition. 3. “Craig Ellwood: In the Spirit of the Time”, Published, February 2003 Sole Author Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona ISBN 84-252-1806-3, English Edition: ISBN 84-252-1803-9, Spanish Edition Under development 1. Cuban baseball stadiums 1962-1968, upcoming report in collaboration with graduate student Quilian Riaño 2. Brazilian 1950’s modernism, archival research, seminar preparation 3. Cuban 1950’s modernism, field and bibliographical research, seminar preparation Books on other research interests are: “Genetic Architectures”, Published August 2003 Co-authored: Dennis Dollens, Alberto Estevez, Alfons Puigarnau, Ignasi Perez Arnal Published by Universitat International de Barcelona and Sites Books, New York . ISBN: 0-930829-51-4, bilingual English-Spanish Edition. “F.C.I. Alvaro Siza”, chapter title: “Traveling to Santiago ” Book chapter published in May 2002 Published by Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and Labirinto Editors, Santiago , ISBN 84-932280-I-X, bilingual English/Spanish

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Nawari Nawari

Nawari Nawari

School of Architecture, College of Design, Construction and Planning
Professor
352-294-1467
ARCH 254
nnawari@ufl.edu
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Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Smart Buildings/Cities, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Technology)
Research activity that focuses on sustainability and resilience. This exploration aims to generate new theoretical, technological, and practical knowledge for the sustainability and resiliency of the built environment.

Bio:
Dr. Nawari has more than twenty-five years of experience in design, teaching, and research in Architectural Structures and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Currently, he teaches graduate and undergraduate Architectural Structures, Sustainability and Resilience, and Building Information Modeling courses at the University of Florida. Dr. Nawari has written and co-authored over 120 publications and six books as well as advised more than 75 Master and Ph.D. Students. He is a frequent contributor to and invited speaker at national and international conferences. He has contributed to the design profession with several innovations (e.g., the Structure and Architecture Synergy (SAS) Framework and the Generalized Adaptive Framework (GAF)) and during his career. Nawari’s works open the door to new paradigms in teaching and designing building structures using the Structure and Architecture Synergy (SAS) Framework. Also, his research in BIM standardization has led to significant advancement of BIM standardization, particularly in the built environment. Moreover, he has contributed significantly to the concept of encoding building rules and regulations and methods for automating building code conformance checking in BIM workflows, such as the innovative Generalized Adaptive Framework (GAF) and Blockchain Technologies (BCT). He is a member of the BIM committee of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and co-chaired the subcommittee on BIM in education. For over 20 years, Dr. Nawari is a board-certified professional engineer in the State of Florida and Ohio. Notably, Dr. Nawari was inducted as a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2016 for sustaining records of contributions to the field.

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