Three candidates are finalists for the dean of the College of Architecture. Selected by a search committee, the candidates are separately visiting campus March 26 through April 3. Each candidate will participate in a public presentation during his visit. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend the presentations, each of which will conclude with a reception.
The candidates are George Thrush, Northeastern University, March 26-27; Craig Barton, University of Virginia, March 29-30; and Daniel Friedman, University of Washington, April 2-3.
Thrush’s public presentation and reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 26 at the Sheldon Museum of Art auditorium.
Thrush is professor and director of the School of Architecture at Northeastern University in Boston. He has been affiliated with Northeastern since 1990 and has directed the school since 2006. His research, practice, writing, and teaching all revolve around contemporary urban issues in architecture and he is among the lead authors of a comprehensive transportation and development proposal for the Boston metropolitan area. He was one of three recipients nationwide of the 1996 American Institute of Architects Young Architects Citation. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee (1984), and his Master of Architecture from Harvard University (1988). In 2005 he was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
Barton’s public presentation and reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 29 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in the Steinhart Room.
Barton has been associated with the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture since 1995 and is an associate professor. He chaired the school’s department of architecture from July 2007 to August 2011. Since October 2010, he has been academic dean for UVA’s International Shipboard Exchange Semester at Sea program. Prior to joining UVA, he was at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he directed the New York/Paris Program. His practice, research and teaching have focused on cultural and historical preservation and their interpretation through architectural and urban design. He holds an Bachelor of Arts from Brown University (1978); a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1978); and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1985). He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Friedman’s public presentation and reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. April 2 in the Sheldon Museum of Art auditorium.
Friedman has been dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington since 2006. Prior to joining CBE, he served as director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and before that as director of the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati, where he taught from 1990 to 2002. Friedman lectures and writes on professional education, public architecture, and 20th century theory. He was the 2010-2011 president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rockford College (1973), a Master of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1981) and doctorate in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (1999).
For more information on the search, go to http://go.unl.edu/coadeansearch.