Denis Hector

Teaching Area:

Design, Structures & Theory of Technology, Environment & Green Building

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Master of Science in Architecture
University of Stuttgart, Institut fur Leichte Flaechentragwerke, Research Fellow, August 1976-1977, September 1974-June 1975
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Bachelor of Architecture

Licensure:

Registered Architect: New York

Professional Experience:

FTL Associates, New York, 1979-1985
Denis Hector & Joanna Lombard, Landscape & Architecture, 1988-present

Architectural Projects:
“A Place for Everything,” (with Joanna Lombard) Southern Living (Volume 36 No 9, September 2001):115.
“The Best Little House #24,” (with Joanna Lombard) Home (Volume 42 No.9, November 1996): 118-123.
“Clematis House” (Hector & Lombard) in A House for My Mother. Beth Dunlop. New York:Princeton Architectural Press 1999 (176-183).
“Side-Yard House, Windsor” (Hector & Lombard; produced with Jorge Hernandez) in Between Two Towers. Vincent Scully. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc. 1996 (140).
“Windsor Town House,” (Hector & Lombard; produced with Jorge Hernandez) in Miami: Architecture of the Tropics, edited by Maurice Culot and Jean-Francois Lejeune.
Brussels: Center of the Fine Arts, Miami, Archives d’Architecture Moderne, 1992 (185).

Publications:

Hector, Denis, “Facing Disaster: A Five Point Plan,” in Hurricane Hazard Mitigation: A Report on the National Research Conference on Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, editors, Denis Hector and Beth Dunlop, Knight Foundation, University of Miami School of Architecture: Miami, 1996, pp.10-21.

“The Cismone Bridge in I Quattro Libri dell’ Architettura, Andrea Palladio”, A Community of Diverse Interests. Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the ACSA. Washington DC: ACSA Press, 1994, 225-230.

“Geometry and Construction: The Detail and its Biological Analogy”, Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the ACSA. Washington, DC: ACSA Press, 1993, 312-315.

(First published ) Body, Technology, and Design. Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACSA Technology Conference. Washington DC: ACSA Press, 1993, 104-107.

“Tensile Structures (FTL Associates)” in The Tent Book. E.M. Hatton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, 113-116.

“Minimal Surface and Pneumatics Research” in IL18 Seifenblassen, Institut fur Leichte Flaechentragwerke, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart: 1987.

Service: School of Architecture Administrative Responsibilities: Associate Dean 2000-present Director of Graduate Programs 1996-2000

School Committees:
Curriculum Committee 1989-present
Computing Committee Chair 2000-present

University Committees:
Academic Dean’s Advisory Council 2000-present
University Buildings and Grounds Committee 2002-present
Faculty Senate Facilities & Planning Committee (chair) 2003-present
Continuing Studies Advisory Committee 2003-present
Architectural Engineering Curriculum Committee 1995-present