Faculty Papers and Presentations
The Architecture Department at Cal Poly is committed to the support of faculty research. Our faculty are actively engaged in a range of scholarship activities in keeping with the definitions provided by the Boyer Report (scholarship of application, discovery, integration and teaching) and their work is an example of the efforts made to create a synergy between teaching and learning –a paradigm that continues to nurture many debates and adjustments in the academic environment.
Each of the entries on this page are also published by the Architecture Department’s AeDPress in the annual compilation titled Faculty Scholarship Pamphlets. For additional information about these publication and other faculty books, please visit the Architecture Department Publication web page.
AY 2016-2017
- Minka: Vernacular Houses in Japan
Don Choi - Book review, Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision by Francesca Hughes in the Journal of Architectural Education
Jonathan Foote - Animate tracings in Michelangelo’s paper modani at San Lorenzo
Jonathan Foote - Crossing Boundaries: Blurring the Lines Between Engineers and Architects
Thomas Fowler & Kevin Dong - This House is Just Right
R. Thomas Jones - Active Learning for a Large Architecture Technology Course
Kent Macdonald & Clare Olsen - Representing Landscapes: Hybrid
Brian Osborn - Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Reconceptualizing Design and Making
Brian Osborn - Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
Stephen Phillips - Situating meanings of sustainability within the architectural discourse
Meredith Sattler - Architectural Education Circa 2030: Results of Master Planning Research
Meredith Sattler - Cybernetic Urbanism: Systemic Design Processes as Eco-System Instigator
Meredith Sattler - Technology as Design Driver: Professor and Student Perspectives on a Breakthrough Studio Project
Meredith Sattler - How Veridical Are Digital Representations of Architectural Space
Jennifer Shields
AY 2015-2016
- WatersEdge: Framework Meets Earthwork
Robert Arens - Academic|Practice Partnerships: Developing Responsive Architecture
Dale Clifford - Responsive Architectural Interventions: Mediating Between the Built and Natural Environments
Dale Clifford - Animate profiles in Michelangelo’s full scale template drawings at San Lorenzo
Jonathan Foote - INTERNNECT: An innovative Work-Based Learning Model
Thomas Fowler, Gilbert Bareng, Kerry Hydash, Lesley Taylor, & Joy Soares - The InstaBooth Project
Thomas Fowler & David Gillette - Collaboratory In Grasshopper
Thomas Fowler & Kevin Dong - Scan Fab Lamps: ACADIA Conference, Computational Ecologies
Gabriel Kaprielian - A Hands-On Experiences for Future Green Building Professionals through Coursework
Ansgar Killing - The Creators Project
Karen Lange - National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Margot McDonald - Between Ataraxia and Hēdonē: Affective Architecture
Michael Lucas - Intergenerational Ethics and Transformational Infrastructure: a Case Study at Morro Bay
Michael Lucas - Contested Place: An Ecophenomenological Battle for Cerrito Peak
Michael Lucas - Three Stacks and a Rock: Monuments of Morro Bay
Michael Lucas - Questioning Fundamentals: Pedagogical Experimentation in Beginning Design Studio
Clare Olsen - Enigma: Defamiliarizing the Familiar
Stephen Phillips - Surface Effects and Spatial Affect in Digital Fabrication
Jeff Ponitz - Interdisciplinary Synergy
Ralph Roesling - Returning to The Retina: The Original Projection Surface as Tactical SITE:SIGHT
Meredith Sattler - Solar Cal Poly | Solar Decathlon 2015
Sandy Stannard - Habitat Temporanei: Proposals for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing
Sandy Stannard - Learn, Explore and Be Inspired By Nature: A Design/Build Case Study
Sandy Stannard - Begin with the City
Carmen Trudell - Point Clouds, Constellations, Coordinates and Other Lists
Emily White - Surface Scratches: Drawing as a Material Investigation of the Wall
Keith Wiley
AY 2014-2015
- Natural Response: Luxe Interiors + Design
Ryan Brockett - Simplexity: Unitized FRP Facade Systems
Mark Cabrinha - Learning Networks: Accelerating Creativity through the Entanglement of Social Interaction, Constructed Artifacts, and Dynamic Environments
Mark Cabrinha - Lattice Shell Methodologies
Mark Cabrinha - Mass Customization of Concrete Masonry Units
Mark Cabrinha - Abroad in the World: Some Thoughts on Ever-Expanding Off-Campus Programs
Don Choi - Visualizing Change
Dale Clifford - Devices for Modulation of Temperature and Light Based on Phase Change Materials
Dale Clifford & S.C. Yao - CONFABULATIONS: Storytelling in Architecture
Tom Di Santo - In medias res: Michelangelo’s Wall Drawings at San Lorenzo
Jonathan Foote - Extracting Desire: Michelangelo and the forza di levare
Jonathan Foote - Workflow as a ‘Dance’: On-site Agency in Filarete’s Trattato di Architettura
Jonathan Foote - Rethinking the Information Master Builder: Milan Cathedral, 1386-1400
Jonathan Foote - Cal Poly Architecture and Architectural Engineering Studio: A Collaboratory
Thomas Fowler, Mark Cabrinha, Kevin Dong, & James Doefler - Learn by Doing: Cal Poly’s Signature Pedagogy
Bruno Giberti - Resilience Energizes the AIA’s Philanthropic Efforts
Andrew Goodwin - Aiding the Tenderloin through Design
Andrew Goodwin - The SHED: A Modern Grange in Healdsburg
Andrew Goodwin - Swings for Dreams
Andrew Goodwin - Book Review: Adrian Forty Concrete and Culture: A Material History
Stephen Phillips - L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture
Stephen Phillips - Review: Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 by Gabrielle Esperdy, In Society of Architectural Historians
Stephen Phillips - Adventurous Los Angeles, by Michael Webb
Stephen Phillips - Phillips Interviews L.A. Architects
Stephen Phillips - Simplexity: Unitized FRP Façade Systems
Jeff Ponitz - Composite FRP Unitized Façade Systems
Jeff Ponitz - Control Structures and Volatility Engines: Dialectic Design Agents for Glocal Public Space
Jeff Ponitz - Expanded Atmosphere: A High-Performance, Low-Waste Aluminum Envelope
Jeff Ponitz - Synthetic Practices: Molecular Gastronomy and (im)Materiality in the Design Studio
Jeff Ponitz - SFC2: Sustainable Future of Coastal Cities
Jonathan Reich - The Palpability of Literature and Architecture: A Library in New Orleans
Jonathan Reich - A Critical Analysis of Hazard Resilience Measures within Sustainability Assessment Frameworks
Meredith Sattler - Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations
Meredith Sattler - Backpedaling via. Upcycling: Sustainable Material-Logics as Re-Instigator of Foundational Studies
Meredith Sattler - Collage as a Mechanism for In-Situ Analysis
Bryan Shields - Ground Up Journal Issue: Landscapes of Uncertainty
Bryan Shields - Slowness: The Dialogue between Architecture and Landscape in Scandinavia
Jennifer Shields - The NAAB Live Project Paradigm
Christine Theodoropoulos - Dreaming about Bricks: Passive Particulate Filtration with Wall-Embedded Cyclones
Carmen Trudell - Asian Americans in the Architectural History of the United States
Christopher Yip - Ethics and Aesthetics of Recycled Water: A Flat Ontology Primer for a Small Coastal Town
Michael Lucas - Regrounding in Place: Native American Place as Gateway to Truths at the Margins
Michael Lucas
AY 2013-2014
- The SLO_Gen Table: Cultivating Industry/Academic Partnerships
Mark Cabrinha - Encoding Material, Encoding Architecture Publication
Dale Clifford - The On-Site Architect: Millimetric Translations in Construction
Jonathan Foote - The Interdisciplinary Design Studio: Identifying Collaboration
Thomas Fowler, Kevin Dong, & James Doefler - A Resilient Urban Edge Along the San Francisco Bay
Gabriel Kaprielian - Crime Obscured: Mapping and Its Discontents
Gabriel Kaprielian - Freeway Megastructure: Architecture, Design, and Discourse
John Lange - Futures+Design
Karen Lange - Art Installations You Want To Live In
Karen Lange - Book Show Installation by Cal Poly Students
Karen Lange - Innovating at the Core: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Design for Second Year Studio
Clare Olsen - Pushing C.A.D.: Digital Design and Fabrication as Site Reading Tools
Brian Osborn & Jeana Ripple - Meta-Artifact: Linking Methods of Thinking and Making Through Computer Numerically Controlled Site Reading
Brian Osborn & Jeana Ripple - Open House: Performative Materials in Architecture and Design
Brian Osborn & Francis Bitonti - H*Comb, Digital Architecture: New Applications
Brian Osborn - Parasite, Interstice, Phenotype: Three Approaches to Site
Brian Osborn - SurfaceFX
Brian Osborn - TECMat
Brian Osborn - Architecture Industry: The L.A. Ten
Stephen Phillips - Collaborative Crafting: Arena Screen Wall
Jeff Ponitz - (re)Constructed Ground(s): Place-Making Through Place Seeing
Jeff Ponitz - Nonstructural vs. Structural: Strategizing Long-Duration Coastal Protection in Southern Louisiana
Meredith Sattler - Performing Sustainability: Life Support Inside Biosphere 2’s Glass Box Theater, 1991-1993
Meredith Sattler - Genealogy of Collage and Architecture
Jennifer Shields - A Polydisciplinary Journey: From Coffee to Prototype
Carmen Trudell - Four Weeks: UFO [I Want to Believe]
Carmen Trudell - Horn of LA
Emily White - Neo-Conservatism in Architecture
Christopher Yip
AY 2012-2013
- FlatPack: Optimizing an Emergency Relief Shelter
Robert Arens & Edmond Saliklis - Laid Bare: Debating an Expanded Role of Infrastructure at the World Trade Center
Robert Arens - Risky Business: From Direct Fabrication to the Abstract Workshop
Mark Cabrinha - Synthetic Digital Ecologies
Mark Cabrinha - Emerging Materials Research: Application of Organic Phase Change Materials to Meet the Living Building Challenge
Dale Clifford - Collaborative Design + Build University and Housing Project for Same, Tanzania, Africa
Thomas Fowler & Kevin Dong - Sea-Level Hi-Rise: Populating the Staged Retreat
Gabriel Kaprielian - ARCHIVE 100 "Event Space" Video Competition
Karen Lange - Transforming the Traditional Lecture: Active Learning, Knowledge Surveys, and More
Kent Macdonald - The Performative Potential of Ceramics Systems for Prefabricated Construction
Clare Olsen - Collettore di nebbia Il sistema per catturare H20 dall'aria umida: Urban Fog Collector System
Jonathan Reich - Roofless Gallery for [Con]temporary Art
Bryan Shields - Making Community Design Work: A Guide for Planners
Umut Toker - Remediating Modules: Prefabricated Components for IMproving INdoor Air Quality & Content
Carmen Trudell - Combined Active, Passive, and Biological Methods for Cleaning Indoor Air
Carmen Trudell - Power[Tools]: paraSITE's progress
Keith Wiley, Michael Lucas, Brent Freeby, Brian Kelly, JoAnne Moore, & Bryan Ridley
AY 2011-2012
- VERSIONING: Design and Fabrication of a Flat Pack Emergency Shelter (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens & Edmond Saliklis - Cultivating the Material Imagination in Digital Culture
Mark Cabrinha - Risky Business: from Direct Fabrication to the Abstract Workshop
Mark Cabrinha - Scale Matters
Mark Cabrinha - Subverting Gender in the Design-Build Studio
Mark Cabrinha - Crossing the Digital Divide Through Digital Dexterity
Mark Cabrinha - Project Nervi_ Technology and Aesthetics
Dale Clifford - Ethos Logos Pathos: Architects and their Chairs
Jonathan Foote - Proximate Distance: Tactice Musings on Digital Productions' in Horizonte: Zeitschrift fur Architekturdiskurs
Jonathan Foote - The Capstone as an Engine of Integration
Bruno Giberti - Blink House
Doug Jackson - Abstract: Catalog of 5th Year Thesis Display in Chumash Auditorium
Karen Lange & Tom Di Santo - The Value of Collaborative Design Education for Structural Engineers and Architects
Clare Olsen - ACSA National Conference Project: Diagram + Detail
Bryan Shields - Collage and Architecture
Jennifer Shields - Traditional Chinese and Indian Architecture Compared: Black and White or Shades of Gray?
Christopher Yip
AY 2010-2011
- Versioning: Interdisciplinary Design of a Flat Pack Emergency Shelter (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens and E.P. Saliklis - White Space: Beginning Students from the Abstract to the Architectural (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens - Interdisciplinary form finding in the development of a sustainable emergency shelter (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens and E.P. Saliklis - Triple Grounding (.pdf)
Jim Bagnall, Brent Freeby, Michael Lucas, JoAnn Moore, Bryan Ridley, and Keith Wiley - Power[tools]: paraSITE's Progress (.pdf)
Brian Kelly, Brent Freeby, and Michael Lucas - Material Assembly: the Moveable Feast (.pdf)
Mark. N. Cabrinha - Craft and Culture: the F-Stop Student Lounge (.pdf)
Mark N. Cabrinha - Trans-Form: An Alternative to Formal Perfection in Architecture (.pdf)
Doug Jackson - The Write Stuff: Stealth Theory for Beginners (.pdf)
Michael Lucas - Apologues, by Carlo Lodoli (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - La finta pazza di Venexia: Masking, performance and identity in Seventeenth century Venice (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Myron Goldsmith: the development of the diagonally braced tube (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu and E.P. Saliklis - Slow Time: Reading the Work of Scarpa (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Theses for a Thesis (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu
- Traditional Chinese and Indian Architecture Compared: Black and White or Shades of Gray? (.pdf)
Christopher Yip
AY 2009-2010
- Formative Material Studies: Developing Tectonic Awareness in
Beginning Design Students (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens - Laying Bare: The Potential of Materials Collections (.pdf)
Robert Arens - Material imagination in Digital Culture (.pdf)
Mark N. Cabrinha - The Interdisciplinary Design Studio – Understanding Collaboration (.pdf)
Jim Doerfler, and Kevin Dong - Survival Form: Architecture's Disciplinary Tragedy (.pdf)
Douglas Jackson - Wiki-tecture: The DRAPE Artist Residence and Gallery (.pdf)
Douglas Jackson - Play: Ludic Furniture Studies in the Design Studio (.pdf)
Douglas Jackson - Revisiting The Transcendental: Design and Material in Architecture (.pdf)
Michael Lucas - Revisiting the Transcendental: Design and Material in Architecture (.pdf)
Michael Lucas
- Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning Styles (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Is Criticism Critical? (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Indole of Education: the Apologhi immaginati of Carlo Lodoli (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Architectural Technique and the Deformation of Dialogue/Discourse (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Educating the Reflexive Practitioner (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - studia | studio (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning Styles (.pdf)
Adrienne Greve, Anika Leithner, Marc J. Neveu, and Shikha Rahman - Towards An Affective Architecture: The Use of Constructs to Develop Design Concepts (.pdf)
Eric Nulman - Using "High Dynamic Range Photography" as a Design Tool (.pdf)
Troy N. Peters - Simulation Before Design? A New Software Program for Introductory Design Studios (.pdf)
Troy N. Peters - Engagement in the Real: Seven Pedagogical Advantages to Working in the Physical Real of the Real (.pdf)
Associated Poster: diSanto_poster (.pdf)
Thomas di Santo
AY 2008-2009
- Thesis for a Thesis (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Textual Origins of the Professional Architect (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - On Stories: Architecture and Identity (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Neo-Colonial Treaty Port Cities on the China Coast (.pdf)
Christopher Yip - Architecture Student Designs to Support Microhab Sortie Mission (.pdf)
Donna P. Duerk - Connecting Architecture and Transcendence: the work of Nelson Wu (.pdf)
Christopher Yip - Educating the Reflexive Practitioner (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Gridshell Tectonics: Material Values Digital Parameters (.pdf)
Mark Cabrinha - Grounding: Developing Material and Tectonic Awareness in Foundation Studios (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens - ICODES Global Services (GS): A Single Load-Planning Capability (.pdf)
Jens Pohl - Indole of Education: the Apologhi immaginati of Carl Lodoli (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Indole of Material and Form: an analysis of le fòrcole (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Installing' a Studio-Based Collective Intelligence (.pdf)
Mark N. Cabrinha - Journals of a Digital Design Studio (.pdf)
Sarah Jester and Thomas Fowler, IV - Life Size: Environmental Knowing through Full Scale Installations (.pdf)
Mark N. Cabrinha - Material Libraries: promoting materiality and interdisciplinary collaboration (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens - Making Materials Matter (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens - Movable Feast (.pdf)
Mark N. Cabrinha - Studia | studio (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Teaching Architects and Engineers: Up and Down Bloom's Taxonomy (.pdf)
Robert M. Arens, Joseph P. Hanus, and Edmond Saliklis (ARCE) - Teaching Integrated Practice in a Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum After Two Years (.pdf)
Jim Doerfler - Thesis for a Thesis (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Total Design + Stealth Sustainability (.pdf)
Thomas di Santo - Unmaking: Disassembly as a Mode of Inquire (.pdf)
Keith A. Wiley - Who's Afraid of Total Design? (.pdf)
Thomas di Santo - Wiki-tecture: An Open-Content Strategy for Architecture (.pdf)
Doug Jackson - Wiki-tecture: Architecture, Value, and the Digital Age (.pdf)
Doug Jackson
AY 2007-2008
- Alternative Paths to Intelligent Systems (.pdf)
Jens Pohl - Challenging Computer Software Frontiers and the Human Resistance to Change (.pdf)
Jens Pohl - Educating the Ethical Practitioner (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - ICODES: A Multi-Agent System in Practice (.pdf)
Jens Pohl - Implementing the 2010 Imperative in a beginning Architectural Design Studio (.pdf)
Troy N. Peters - Intimate and Transparent Production of Space (.pdf)
Thomas Fowler, IV - Knowledge Management Enterprise Services (KMES): Concepts and Implementation Principles (.pdf)
Jens Pohl - On Stories: Architecture and Identity (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Prato della Valle, Reconfigured (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - Textual Origins of the Professional Architect (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu - The Boundaries of a Trans-national Survey of Asian Architectural and Urban History (.pdf)
Christopher Yip - University of M: a Projective Case Study (.pdf)
Marc J. Neveu
AY 2006-2007
- A Hole in the Heart of the City: Framing Memory at the World Trade Center (.pdf)
Robert Arens - Amid Sediment and Drift: Projecting a Post-Industrial Morro Bay (.pdf)
Michael Lucas - Factors Affecting the Feasibility of Urban Infill Development Over Freeways. Another shade of green: Implementing complex multidisciplinary work (.pdf)
Jonathan Reich - In Sediments of Time: Locating a Post-Industrial Morro Bay (.pdf)
Michael Lucas - Materials Labs as a Collaborative Teaching Tool for Architects and Engineers (.pdf)
Robert Arens - M:OME Modern Sustainable Living: A Paradigm Shift Toward Intuitive Mapping (.pdf)
Tom di Santo - Non-Western Architecture and the Roles of the History Survey (.pdf)
Don Choi - Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, Architect, and the Development of Engineered Lumber (.pdf)
Jonathan Reich - Seeing Brown/Projecting Green: An Eco-phenomenological Reconciliation? (.pdf)
Michael Lucas - Scales and Meanings of Japanese Urbanism and Architecture in Sapporo (.pdf)
Don Choi - Size Matters: Solar Cal Poly and the 2005 Solar Decathlon (.pdf)
Sandy Stannard - Teaching Integrated Practice in a Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum (.pdf)
Jim Doerfler and Kevin Dong (ARCE) - XYZ: Horizontal, Vertical and Progressive Integration in the Practice Curriculum (.pdf)
Robert Arens and Jim Doerfler