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College of Architecture, Art and Design

Department of Architecture

Teaching areas

Architecture and Beginning Design.

Research areas

Beginning Design, Representation, Cultural Sustainability and Identity.

Education

B.S. in Architecture, The Ohio State University, USA, 1990 .

Master in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA, 1994.

Professional experience

Professor of Architecture, The American University of Sharjah (AUS), 2014-persent.

Associate Professor of Architecture, American University of Sharjah (AUS), 2005-2014.

Assistant Professor of Foundations and Architecture, American University of Sharjah (AUS), 2002-2005.

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 1996-2002.

Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), Lafayette, LA,USA, 1994-1996.

Memberships

Registered Architect (State of Louisiana #6015) 2004-present; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB #60752) 1995-present

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2837

William Eirik Heintz

Professor | Director of Foundations

Master of Architecture, Harvard University, USA

Eirik Heintz has taught in architecture departments for more than 20 years at institutions such as Louisiana State University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His areas of research and teaching interest include beginning design, representation and visual identity. He is a registered architect in the US state of Louisiana and a member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Publications

"Post-Suburbia Arabia" HBRC Journal, Vol. 1, Number 2, July 2005 Cairo, Egypt

"Veil No. 6" (collage) published in Art Calendar, Dec. 1999. vol. 14, No. 2

"Bi-National Communities and the Unregulated Colonia"Published in AD (Architecture Design) “Architecture of the Borderlands,” vol. 69 7-8/1999 Academy Editions, a division of JOHN WILEY and SONS, Ltd

Conference Presentations

"Arabian Sandcastles: Reinventing Dubai for the Tourist" Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Conference, Miami, FL

"Inserting a Design Culture into a Multicultural Environment" The 21st National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, University of Texas San Antonio

"Building a design Culture in the Middle East" Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference, Salzburg, Austria

?The Flattening of Architectural Education? International Conference on Architectural Education (ICAE) Beijing, China

Awards and Honors

Reexamining Arabia Petraea.American University of Sharjah, 2011

Constructed Landscapes; New Perspectives, American University of Sharjah, 2006

Third Place, 1998 Third Annual North Shore Invitational Art Competition, Hammond Arts Center, for In the Shadow of the Living Room (mixed-media). Juror: Doug MacCash, Visual Arts Curator, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center

Juror Award, Arts of the River, 20th Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. Zygoma 4 (mixed-media) from the series titled Filters was purchased for inclusion in the Savannah College of Art and Design's permanent collection. Juror: Paul Schimmel,...

Professor of the Year, awarded by the American Institute of Architecture Students, LSU 2001-2002

Other creative/research

Heintz, W. Eirik. "Transforming the Familiar." Paper presented at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED) Valencia, Spain, March 7-9, 2016.

Heintz, W. Eirik. "Empty Houses". Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA USA. Juried. 2016. [Type: Collective, Significance: International, Comments: Curated by Susan Berstler and Jesa Damora], 2016

Heintz, W. Eirik. "Landscape No. 1". Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY USA. Juried. 2016. [Type: Collective, Significance: Regional, Comments: Juror: Bleu Cease, Executive Director Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY],2016

Heintz, W. Eirik. "House 363 and House 79". River Oaks Art Center, Alexandria, LA USA. Juried. 2016. [Type: Collective, Significance: International, Comments: Juror: Mark A. Tullos], 2016

Heintz, W. Eirik. "House 23, House 47, House 29". Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Juried. Curated by Erika Lynne Hanson. 2016. [Type: Collective, Significance: International], 2016

Global Team Leader, Habitat for Humanity Mongolia, Darkhan, Mongolia; Post earthquake relief work in the Seran Valley, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan; Design research (with film credit) for Spartan a film by David Mamet