University of Miami School of Architecture 

Faculty

Part-Time Faculty

  • Muayad Abbas
  • Jim Adamson
  • Nelson Alvarez
  • Gilbert Atick
  • Rene Basulto
  • Wyn Bradley
  • Wendy Caraballo
  • Manuel Clavel, Visiting Critic
  • Gerald De Marco
  • Sebastian Eilert
  • Ted Evangelakis
  • Andrea Heuson
  • Tim Kelley
  • Adam Krantz
  • Austin Matheson
  • Armando Montero
  • Stephen Nostrand
  • Joachim Perez
  • Brian Phillips, Visiting Critic
  • Albert Rodriguez
  • Miguel Rodriguez
  • Victor Santana
  • Edgar Sarli
  • David Tenenbaum
  • David Trautman
  • Ellen Uguccioni
  • Rachel Valbrun
  • Veruska Vasconez

Adjunct Faculty

  • Muayad Abbas
  • Alessandro Camiz
  • Andres Duany
  • Jan Gadeyne
  • Heidi Johnson-Wright
  • Michael Katz
  • Leon Krier
  • Rosario Marquardt
  • Laurie Nuell
  • Susan Peik-Dickey
  • Alessandro Pierratini
  • Andy Taylor

Administration

  • Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Dean
  • Denis Hector, Associate Dean
  • Jean-Francois Lejeune, Director of Graduate Studies
  • Rocco Ceo, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Richard John

Title: Associate Professor
E-mail Address:
Web Site: intranet.arc.miami.edu/rjohn

Teaching Area:

History and Theory of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism; Classical Architecture Design

Education:

Peterhouse, University of Cambridge: BA 1987, MA 1990
Columbia University, New York: MA in Classical Archaeology and Architectural History 1988
The Warburg Institute, University of London: MPhil in Combined Historical Studies 1990; PhD 1994
Merton College, University of Oxford: MA (by incorporation), 1992

Teaching and Administrative Experience:

Architectural Association School of Architecture: History and Theory Tutor. 1990-1993
Merton College, University of Oxford: Junior Research Fellow,1991-1994; Post-Doctoral Fellow and College Lecturer, October-December 1994
University of Oxford: Member of the Faculty of Modern History, 1992-1995
The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, Director, 1995-1996
The Prince of Wales’s Summer School in Architecture and the Building Arts
(USA), Director, 1996-1998
The Institute of Classical Architecture, New York: Director of Summer School, 2002
University of Miami, School of Architecture: Guest lecturer and Guest Juror, 1998;
Visiting Lecturer, 1999 (affiliated with the Knight Program in Community Building in 2000-2001); Assistant Professor (2004-2010); Associate Professor (2010 – present)

Professional Experience:

Monument to the Centenary of the Modern Olympic Movement, Atlanta, Georgia; conducted competition for sketch design, chaired jury, supervised design development, monitored execution of sculptural programme and final monument. Completed 1997.
Directed live community planning and urban design projects in Richmond, Virginia, USA, (1996), El Cerrito, California, USA, (1997) Berlin, Germany, (1997), and New York (2002). Member of charrette team and co-editor of final report (Coral Gables 2002).

Publications: (selected)

The Vitruvian Path, Oxford 1994, (joint author with Dr. Monique Kornell)

Various articles in Macmillan Dictionary of Art, (Jane Shoaf Turner, ed.) London, 1995, and Dictionary of National Biography, (Brian Harrison, ed.) Oxford 2004

Julian Bicknell and Associates: Buildings and Projects 1972-96, London, 1996 (joint editor)

Creations and Recreations: Alec Cobbe, Thirty years of Designs and Paintings, London 1996, (editor and contributor)

“Alec Cobbe” in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, Leipzig 1998

Thomas Gordon Smith and the Rebirth of Classical Architecture, London 2001

John Simpson: The Queens Gallery Buckingham Palace and Other Works, London 2002, (joint author with Prof. David Watkin)

The Classicist No. 8 (editor), New York 2009

Robert Adam and the Search for a Modern Classicism, Mulgrave, Vic. 2010

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