PROFESSOR JOEL LAMERE TAKES THE REINS AT U-SOA

AS THE NEW GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN ARCHITECTURE DIRECTOR

Professor Joel Lamere, the U-SoA’s new Graduate Programs in Architecture Director, approaches his duties with a balance of education in core design knowledge blended with preparing students to be perpetually empowered to adapt to new tools and technology.

“The nature of architecture is flux; there’s a lot of stable core knowledge necessary to become an architect, of course, but the way we design and the way we build are both contingent on technologies that are evolving exponentially,” he said. “Even the outstanding technology and lab capabilities we have today – those will be rapidly advancing and changing during the graduate student’s career.”

Lamere praised Prof. Allan Shulman, the previous director, for solidifying essential elements of the programs and having long discussions with him to form curriculum adjustments and changes built on a solid core.

“One cannot, at this point, even imagine an architecture of the future that doesn’t engage computational design processes, augmented reality environments, and so forth,” Lamere said. “The disruptions will be more profound still: robotic fabrication, automated construction, outsourcing enabled by instantaneous communication and virtual collaboration, and A.I. replacing human labor throughout the creative disciplines.”

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