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ByDesign Studio


 

BY DESIGN
Architecture

ANNE EAMON

Anne has taught second-year architectural design studios as an adjunct lecturer at the
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston, in addition to a
university-wide course in architecture for non-majors. She earned a B.S. from the College
of Architecture (2003) and since 2004 has been a principal of M + A Architecture Studio,
whose work was recognized by design awards from the Houston Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects in 2004 and 2009. The Schatz-Eamon house has been featured in
Dwell and on HGTV, as well as on AIA and Rice Design Alliance house tours. This is her
seventh year as a principal instructor and co-director of By Design.

JOHN TSAI

John has taught first- and fourth-year undergraduate and third-year graduate architectural
design studios as an adjunct lecturer at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the
University of Houston for the past two years. He earned a B. Arch. degree from Cornell
University (1999), and an M. Arch. from Harvard University, with distinction (2003). He
has also taught at the Boston Architectural Center and in the Harvard Career Discovery
Program, which is similar to By Design. His professional experience includes Frank O.
Gehry and Partners, Los Angeles, and currently, his own firm, JT Arc Studio. This is his
fourth year as a principal instructor for By Design.

Other faculty/presenters include:

Olga Bannova, B. Arch. (1987) Engineering Institute (MIIZ), Moscow; M. Arch. (2001) UH;
Associate Research Professor of Architecture, UH.

Joseph Colaco, B. Eng. (1960) Bombay University; Ph.D. (1965) University of Illinois;
Professor of Architecture, UH; principal, CBM Engineers.

Margaret Culbertson, B.A. (1973) Rice; M.S.L.S. (1974) Columbia University;
Director, Kitty King Powell Library, Bayou Bend, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Robert Fowler, B. Arch. (1989) UH; principal, ZK Building Design.

Stephen Fox, B. Arch. (1975) Rice; Adjunct Associate Professor of Architectural History, UH,
and Lecturer in Architecture, Rice University; Fellow, Anchorage Foundation of Texas.

Dietmar Froehlich, M. Arch. (1984) Technical University (Erzherzog-Johann), Graz, Austria;
Associate Professor of Architecture, UH.

Carlos Jimenez, B. Arch. (1981), UH; Professor of Architecture, Rice;
principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio; juror, Pritzker Prize in Architecture (2001-10).

Matthew Johnson, B.A. (1996) Stanford; M. Arch. (2000) Yale;
Assistant Professor of Architecture, UH.

Nora Laos, B. Arch. (1984) University of Illinois; Ph.D. in Art History (2002)
Princeton University; Lecturer in Architectural History, UH.

Shirat Mavligit, B.A. (1990) Rice; M. Arch. (2005) UH.

Joseph Manca, B.A. (1978) University of Rochester; Ph.D. (1986) Columbia;
Professor of Art History, Rice University.

Jeffrey Ryan, B. Arch. (1967) Rice; principal, Jackson and Ryan.

Ronnie Self, B. Arch. (1982) University of Texas; Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (1994)
Universite de Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne; Associate Professor of Architecture, UH.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris, 1986-98.

Rives Taylor, FAIA, B. Arch (1984) Rice, M.S. (1988) MIT;
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, UH; principal, Gensler.

Carolyn Wilson, B.A. (1968) Wellesley College; Ph.D. (1977) Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University; Visiting Lecturer in Art History, UH.


 

MOVING PICTURES
Filmmaking and Film Appreciation

KEITH HOUK

Keith is an independent filmmaker and Instructional Assistant Professor in the Jack J.
Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston, where he is responsible for
the basic film production curriculum sequence. He earned a B.S. in Radio/Television/
Film (1992) from Texas Christian University, and an M.F.A. (2003) from UH. He also teaches
in the School of Art at UH and is the founding director of Moving Pictures, now in its
seventh year.

Other faculty/presenters include:


Charles Dove, B.A. (1984) University of Illinois; Ph.D. (1995) Johns Hopkins University;
Director, Rice Cinema, and Lecturer of Art History (film studies), Department of Visual and
Dramatic Arts, Rice University.

Marian Luntz
, Curator of Film, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Paul Schneider, B.S. (1997) UH; Adjunct Instructor, Jack J. Valenti School of Communication,
UH; documentary producer/director, Paperclip Films.


 

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Reading-intensive Essays and Thematically-related Films

ZACHARY MARTIN

Zach's essays, humor and fiction have appeared in Arcadia, Lumina, and Washington
Square
and online at McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He earned a B.A. in English from the
University of Chicago (2003), an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Florida State
University (2005), and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UH. His
teaching experience includes the Gotham Writers' Workshop and undergraduate courses at
Florida State, College of Staten Island (CUNY), and UH.


 

PLAY BY PLAY
Performance-based Dramatic Literature and Plays on Film

KARYNA MCGLYNN

Karyna has directed plays for the Kids Acting Studio in Austin for the past three summers
and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UH. She has taught
undergraduate English courses at Concordia University in Austin, the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor and UH, as well as students in the Detroit Public Schools Inside/Out
Literary Arts Program. She earned a B.A. in English from Seattle University (2005) and an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan (2007). Her poetry has appeared
in Best American Nonrequired Reading (Mariner Books, 2010) and the Indiana Review.



 

POETS' CORNER
Reading-intensive Poetry and Related Films

JANINE JOSEPH

Janine has published poems in Spoon River Poetry Review, Park Slope Reader, and Fugue
as well as Best New Poets 2011 (University of Virginia Press). She earned a B.A. from the
University of California, Riverside (2005) and an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University
(2007) and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English/Creative Writing Program
at UH. She has taught undergraduates at NYU and UH, and high school students in the
Starworks Foundation program at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. She has also
been a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow as well as a Michener Fellow.

Other faculty/presenters include:

Elizabeth Gregory, B.A. (1978) Barnard College; Ph.D. (1989) Yale; Professor of English, UH.


 

STORY LINES
Reading-intensive Fiction and Films Based on Fiction

ADAM PETERSON

Adam's fiction has appeared in the Southern Review, Camera Obscura, and the Mid-
American Review (for which he won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, judged by
Aimee Bender). He earned a B.A. in English from the Drake University (2003), an M.A. in
English and Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska (2005), and is currently a
Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at UH. His teaching experience includes
undergraduate courses at the University of Nebraska, Hamilton College, and UH.


STRANGER THAN FICTION
Literary Journalism and Nonfiction and FIlms based on Nonfiction

WILLIAM DONNELLY

Will's work has appeared in the Potomac Review, Hobart, Clockhouse Review and
Smokelong Quarterly. He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (2000) and
an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (2008), where he served as an
assistant editor of The Iowa Review. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative
Writing at UH and has served as coordinator of Wonderworks' literature programs since
2009 in addition to teaching Stranger than Fiction. He has also taught undergraduate
courses in English at the University of Iowa and UH.

Other faculty/presenters include:


Bernard Aresu, License des letters (1967) Universite de Montpellier, France; Ph.D. (1975)
University of Washington; Professor of French Studies, Rice University.

 

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