Research and Community Outreach
Areas of Scholarship
Research and Community Outreach
Research and community outreach are vital components of the core mission of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and are fully integrated into the interdisciplinary educational experience. Within the College, the Drachman Institute serves as a locus for interdisciplinary research and community outreach activities among Architecture and Landscape Architecture faculty and students.
Although often considered distinct components of a university’s mission, the College encourages the development of interdisciplinary projects that combine research and outreach objectives, offering students and faculty opportunities that reflect professional practice in today’s world. This approach also reflects Ernest Boyer’s four definitions of scholarship (from Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, 1990, pp. 17-25):
the scholarship of discovery: research that increases the storehouse of new knowledge within the discipline;
the scholarship of integration: including efforts by faculty to explore the connectedness of knowledge within and across disciplines, and thereby bring new insight to original research;
the scholarship of application: which leads faculty to explore how knowledge can be applied to consequential problems in service to the community and society; and
the scholarship of teaching: which views teaching not as a routine task, but as perhaps the highest form of scholarly enterprise, involving the constant interplay of teaching and learning.
Areas of Scholarship
Utilizing the Sonoran Desert and its characteristics, the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has developed a strong reputation for research and outreach not only in the American Southwest, but also in arid regions throughout the world. Through its faculty, academic professionals, and facilities, the College fosters an environment of scholarship that is represented in a variety of critical issues:
Arid Land Plant Communities
Margaret Livingston
Environmental Research Lab
Community Design and Housing
Drachman Community Outreach Partnership Planning and Design Center
Drachman Design + Build Coalition
Patrick Hwang
Tejido/Mark Frederickson
Design and Resource Conservation
Rocky Brittain
Nader Chalfoun
Environmental Research Lab
House Energy Doctor
Larry Medlin
Water CASA
Design-Build
Drachman Design + Build Coalition
Mary Hardin
Pavel Getov
Design Education
Mark Frederickson
Ron Stoltz
Pavel Getov
Digital Media, Visualization and Design Communication
Oscar Blazquez
Christopher Domin
Patrick Hwang
Emerging Material Technologies
Environmental Design and Planning
Lauri Macmillan Johnson
Margaret Livingston
Ron Stoltz
Tejido/Mark Frederickson
Pavel Getov
Preservation and Revitalization of Buildings, Landscapes and Communities
Drachman Community Outreach Partnership Planning and Design Center
R. Brooks Jeffery
Lauri Macmillan Johnson
John Messina
Smith House/Center for Preservation Studies
History, Theory and Criticism
Christopher Domin
Dennis Doxtater
Steven Ehlbeck
R. Brooks Jeffery
Lauri Macmillan Johnson
John Messina
Annie Nequette
Patrick Hwang
Urban Design