Evan Douglis, UG Chair

Evan Douglis, Chair, UG Architecture; is the principal of Evan Douglis + Associates, an architecture & multidisciplinary design firm committed to innovative design. Established in 1990, the firm???s unique & cutting edge research into self-generative systems, membrane technology, contemporary fabricational techniques & multi-media installations as applied to diverse projects, has elicited international acclaim. The emphasis of this multi-task research & design lab is placed on synthesizing a broad-based ecology of theoretical & pragmatic concerns, en-route to discovering new paradigms of haptic interaction in the beginning of the new millennium. Evan Douglis is currently the Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. While teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute since 1992, Douglis was also an Associate Assistant Professor at Columbia University, the Director of Columbia University???s Architecture Galleries & a Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union. He has also taught in various programs throughout the US & abroad. In 1999, the Architectural League of New York recognized him as an ???Emerging Voice??? in architecture. He also received a NYFA Fellowship in Architecture & Environmental Structures in 2002. Columbia University Books will publish Auto Braids / Auto Breeding in the fall of 2004, based on a selection of his teaching studios. In collaboration with Monacelli Press, Columbia University Books will also co-sponsor Architectures of Display: The Columbia Work of Evan Douglis, highlighting ten years of his exhibition installations as Director of the galleries. Douglis studied at the Architectural Association in London prior to receiving a B Arch from The Cooper Union & an M Arch from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University