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College / Department

College of Architecture, Art and Design
Department of Architecture

Teaching areas

Design Foundations.

Research areas

Design Foundations Pedagogy, Design Based Learning in Secondary Education, Design Build Pedagogy, Community Based (Public Interest) Design, Interdisciplinary Design, Materials and Building Technology.

Education

Bachelor of Design, University of Florida, 1996.
MARCH (Architecture) , Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, 1999.

Professional experience

Director of Foundations, College of Architecture, Art and Design, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2013-2016.
Lecturer, Department of Architecture, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, 2011-2013.
Founder and Executive Director, Project Locus, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2001-2012.
Head of Design Department, Priestley School of Architecture and Construction, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2010-2011.
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA, 2009 -2010.

Memberships

Social, Economic, and Environmental Design (SEED) Network

Contact

prhodes@aus.edu

Patrick Rhodes

Associate Professor
Master of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA

Patrick Rhodes' work emphasizes social, economic and environmental design and has been awarded, published and exhibited widely. In 2001, he formed Project Locus, a nonprofit corporation, to design and build community structures in areas of need. Over the past decade, it has developed a successful model for community-based design, operating within the margins of society among populations that are extremely underserved. He teaches empirically toward developing students who are critical, socially engaged, lifelong learners.

Conference Presentations

Rhodes, Patrick. "Ghostlands: celebrating community in the dying towns of America?s Midwest." In Proceedings, 2017.
Rhodes, Patrick. "Unprincipled : Toward New Values for Foundations Education in Architecture and Design." Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 104th Annual Meeting Seattle Washington USA, March 5, 2016.
Rhodes, Patrick. "1:1(00) : Meeting Course Outcomes Effectively in Beginning Design Studios with High Student-to-Faculty Ratios." Paper presented at the 2016 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, February 5, 2016.

Awards and Honors

Caad Outreach Initiative.Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF), 2015
Iowa State University Alumni Association Impact Award.Iowa State University Alumni Association, 2013
Iowa State University Professional & Scientific Council Team Award, Iowa State University Professional & Scientific Council, 2012
Collaborative Practice Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 2007
Places Design Award. Project locus, and the House of Dance and Feathers by Environmental Design Research Association, 2007

Other creative/research

Rhodes, Patrick. "Algorithmic Futures: the analog beginnings of advanced parametric design in first year studios." The Design Journal 20, no. SUP1 (2017): S822-S834. doi: 10.1080/14606925.2017.1353029. url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14606925.2017.1353029., 2017

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