Above: Unfolded Perpsective Sketch of Providence, Marthe Rowen

CRAIG BARTON

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Since 2023, Craig Barton has been the coordinator of the concentration. He also serves as University Architect, where he works with the university leadership on capital planning, project planning, execution, design guidelines and architect selection. Craig has worked for a number of architectural firms, led his own design practice, and has held faculty appointments and academic leadership roles at the University of Virginia and Arizona State University. Most recently, he served as the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He holds a Bachelor degree from Brown and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design from 1994 to 1995.

MARTHE ROWEN

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Marthe Rowen is an architect, artist, and teacher.  She received her bachelor in architecture from Princeton and an M.Arch from Columbia. She has taught drawing and architecture at many universities, including Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University and  Arizona State University. Marthe has also led travel drawing study abroad programs to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and to other ports around the Mediterranean.

“For an architect, to draw is to learn. The travel sketchbook is a critical component of an architect’s self-education. The drawing itself is not the object of the endeavor - and if it is sometimes beautiful, this is not the purpose, which is to look and to see more clearly, and to convey a sense of place.” Marthe Rowan

Website: https://www.martherowen.com/

JULIAN VON DER SCHULENBURG

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Julian von der Schulenburg is a licensed architect in New York and Berlin with his own practice in Brooklyn since 2007. His architectural work aims to explore the relationship of spatial form and natural light and the application of massive timber in buildings. Prior to starting on his own, Julian worked with architects Caruso St. John in London, Peter Zumthor in Switzerland and the Office for Metropolitan Architetcure in New York. He received the Master of Architecture from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland mentored by Prof. Valerio Olgiati and Prof. Peter Zumthor. After continuously teaching architectural design studios at various universities in Europe and USA, Julian became Professor of the Practice in Architecture at Brown University in 2022.

Website: https://www.vschulenburg.com/

DIETRICH NEUMANN

Dietrich Neumann was one of the co-founders of the architecture concentration when it started out as a joint project between Brown and RISD in 2015 and developed the key pedagogical concept of the deep integration of architectural training with the humanities. He led the concentration from 2015-2022 after teaching Intro Studios for about a decade before it was launched. Dietrich Neumann was trained as an Architect at the Techncial University in Munich, Germany  and the Architetcural Association in London, UK and has been a professor at Brown University since 1990 teaching classes on 19th and 20th Century architecture.

Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/dneumann

JONATHAN KNOWLES

Jonathan Knowles was one of the co-founders of the architecture concentration when it started out as a joint project between Brown and RISD in 2015. He is a Professor at Rhode Island School of Design where he headed up both the 2005 and 2013 submissions to the Solar Decathlon Competition. He is currently working on affordable housing for the City of Providence and conducting research into new forms of building enclosure systems. He has taught at the Parsons School of Design, the City College of New York, and Columbia University. His degrees, a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts, are from the Rhode Island School of Design. 

Website: https://briggsknowles.com/

LAURA BRIGGS

Laura Briggs, MA, was one of the co-founders of the architecture concentration when it started out as a joint project between Brown and RISD in 2015. She is a Senior Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Previously, she was head of the Department of Architecture at RISD and Director of Sustainability at the Parsons New School for Design. She has taught architecture studio and construction technology at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University New York/Paris, Yale University and the University of Michigan where she was the Muschenheim Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master’s Degree from Columbia University's Advanced Architectural Design Program.

Website: https://briggsknowles.com/

TEI CARPENTER

Tei Carpenter taught the Intro Studio in the early years of Brown’s Architecture Concentration. She received received her BA from Brown University and her MArch from Princeton. She is founder and director of Agency—Agency, a New York City–based architecture and design practice, specializing in cultural, residential, and public installation projects. Tei Carpenter / Agency—Agency has been honored as a winner of the League Prize by the Architectural League of New York and the 2018 New Practices New York competition by the American Institute of Architects, and inclusion in Domus magazine’s list of the Best 100 Architecture Firms. The studio’s work has been featured in publications such as PIN-UP, Cultured, and Fast Company. Carpenter is a critic at the Yale School of Architecture.

Website: https://agency-agency.us/

YASMIN VOBIS

Yasmin Vobis taught Intro Studio for several years at Brown’s Architecture Concentration in its early phase. She is is a registered architect and co-founding principal of Ultramoderne. Prior to co-founding Ultramoderne, she worked with Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers, and Steven Holl Architects. She studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, where she received her Master in Architecture. In addition to teaching at Brown, she has taught at Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, the Cooper Union, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is currently an assistant professor at UC Berkeley, where she teaches design studios and courses on construction. She was awarded the Founders—Arnold W. Brunner—Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize in Architecture in 2016.

Website: https://www.ultramoderne.net/