Architecture

The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning is mourning one of its own. Michael Kuenstle, the longest-tenured faculty member in the School of Architecture, passed away on December 12. We would like to offer our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and current and past students. To learn more about Michael and his impact on our college, please click here.

Research Interests Florida Building Code Handbook: State Requirements for New Educational Facilities Construction Building Aerodynamics for Building Structures: Located in Wind Hazard Coastal Environments Coastal Construction: Building Design Principles and Practices for Sustainable and Livable Coastal Communities Daytona Beach Oceanfront Development Standards Review: Simulation Modeling for an Urban Impact Study Safe School Design Guidlines: State Requirements for New Educational Facilities Construction Project Web site Visioning for Florida Rural Waterfront Communities: Questions Concerning Place, Culture, and Community Practice

Courses Taught ARC1301 Architectural Design 1 ARC3321 Architectural Design 6 ARC3463 Materials & Methods of Construction 2 ARC6241 Advanced Studio 1

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Lee-Su Huang is a designer, educator, and researcher specializing in digital fabrication, parametric design, kinetic architecture, and interactive installations. Lee-Su received his Bachelor of Architecture from Feng-Chia University in Taiwan in 2003 and practiced in Taiwan with various firms before attaining his Master in Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2009. Afterwards, he worked for digitally innovative practices such as LASSA Architects in Seoul, Korea and Preston Scott Cohen Inc. in Cambridge, MA, specializing in complex geometry and digital fabrication.

As co-founder and principal of SHO Architecture, his research and practice centers on digital design and fabrication methodology, parametric design and computational optimization strategies, as well as kinetic/interactive architectural prototypes. His work has been published at conferences such as ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture), NCBDS (National Conference on the Beginning Design Student), DCA (Design Communication Association), and ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture). His interactive installations and artwork have been exhibited at many venues such as the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival in the United Arab Emirates, The Reed Gallery at University of Cincinnati, the Georgetown GLOW Light Art Exhibition in Washington, DC, the District Architecture Center, American Institute of Architects DC Chapter Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Lee-Su is currently a Senior Lecturer and Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s School of Architecture, teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate level design studios, as well as foundation and advanced digital media / parametric modeling courses. He has also taught research seminars/studios on digital fabrication and adaptive kinetic architecture prototypes, and as Graduate Research Faculty served as committee member for upwards of 50 Master’s Research Projects. He is the Director of the UF Architecture in East Asia study abroad program, which investigates landmark architectural projects and urban conditions in the contemporary Asian megacity. His YouTube Channel hosts more than a hundred digital media-related software tutorials, with upwards of 8,000 subscribers and 700,000 views.

Research Interests My interests focus on Phenomenological Spatial Practices and Design Process. These two underlying and linked interests manifest themselves in a variety of researches including: Color and Light Research focuses on both the history and the production of work which uses color as a way to create and inflect space. Teaching applications include 5 years of Color/Light studios, some with Professor Bernard Voichysonk. Focus on the impact of color on Space, using 1 to 1 and full scale exploration and implementation. Children’s Space Study and publication on innovative philosophies and practices in designing space for children. Focus on the Reggio Schools in Italy along with their affiliation with Domus, Italia and its research on Performative aspects of Relational space. Intersections between Art and Architecture Degree in Art History and Architectural Theory. Sustained study and publication on contemporary art, especially Minimalism and Land Art. Architectural Education and Design Methodologies Philosophies and methodologies of Architectural Education. Study and publication on Design Methodologies, especially late 20th century experiments on process generated form, poetic programming and Narrative as a source for design. American Sign Language and the potential signification in Spatial Languages Conversant in American Sign Language and familiar with the pertinent literature. Interest in Radical Formalism and the relationship between space and meaning.

Charlie Hailey is an architect, writer, and professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Hailey has received numerous awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Graham Foundation grant. He has authored six books that bring multidisciplinary approaches to the built environment, and his newest The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature (Chicago, 2021) explores the porch as method and place—an architecture where we can tune ourselves, sometimes ever so subtly, to the many changes around us. Timeless and timely, it is a book about the joy and gravity of places where inside and outside meet.

Hailey’s work focuses on emergent built environments. As a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, Hailey continued to delve deeply into vital places like camps and porches to understand how climate, building, and community overlap in meaningful ways and how architecture and the humanities intertwine. Such places are liminal yet pivotal to knowledge, ephemeral yet fundamental to human experience. His interdisciplinary projects seek to tell the stories of marginal places, to understand material cultures and cultural landscapes, and to discover links between human agency, settlement patterns, and ecology. At the University of Florida, where he was named Teacher/Scholar of the Year, Hailey teaches design, history, and theory. Inspired by work with Jersey Devil, his design/build studios mesh experiential learning with learning-by-doing and environmental design with public interest projects (Design/Build with Jersey Devil, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). Built projects include a music pavilion, community center, outdoor education facility, sustainable bike trailer, recycled mobile theater, builder’s yard, outdoor classroom, and a series of coastal installations in Cedar Key, Florida.

His design and research have also explored camping as a way of making home (Campsite, 2008) and camps across the world as contemporary spaces of freedom as well as emergency (Camps, MIT Press, 2009). Recently, in a collaborative project with photographer Donovan Wylie in southern California’s Colorado Desert, Hailey found Slab City to be both harbinger and bellwether—a camp that is indicative of 21st-century displaced settlements and a place made amid struggle and survival (Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place, MIT Press, 2018). He has also investigated human-made islands as newly emergent places that require innovative approaches to design, environment, climate, and conservation (Spoil Island: Reading the Makeshift Archipelago, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). In Spring 2021, he will be Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Professor Gold has over twenty-five years of engagement in architectural design, teaching, and research with a focus on the interrelationships among architecture, ecology, culture, and resource stewardship at urban and residential scales. He currently leads funded research-based design projects and is a founding member of the Florida Resilient Community Initiative (FRCI) at the UF College of Design Construction and Planning. His work and publications explore ecologically responsive design and sustainable living in coastal communities underpinned by the critical need for integrating resiliency, mobility, and aesthetics toward emergent urban forms. His research is both academic and applied through his small award-winning architecture firm – Martin Gold Architects. He is a registered architect in Florida; holds an NCARB certification; and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. https://martingoldarchitects.com.

As a member of the Doctoral Research Faculty, he supervises doctoral and master degree seeking students. He leads undergraduate and graduate design studios in addition to teaching lecture and seminar courses in environmental technology and ecological design. Gold served as the Director of the UF, School of Architecture from 2008 to 2014 and currently serves as the Executive Director of the national consortium of academic programs Architecture + Construction Alliance (A+CA).

Professor Gold received his Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Florida in 1991, worked in Florida as an intern architect and then returned to UF to complete is Master of Architecture degree in 1994. He taught under the supervision of Gary Siebein as a graduate teaching assistant in the environmental technologies. His thesis research studied the spatialization of sound in concert halls and the perception of spatial acoustics by listeners. His results and methodology have been published in articles and journals of the Acoustical Society of America in proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He has taught at the University of Texas San Antonio, and conducted workshops on acoustics at Cornell, SCAD, and the American Institute of Architects. He returned to UF as a member of the School of Architecture faculty in 1996.