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UT Knoxville School of Architecture names Carl Lostritto as its new Director

2022-04-18T12:49:00-04:00

The College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville has appointed RISD Associate Professor Carl Lostritto as its new Director.

Lostritto joins UT after ten years in Providence, where he has taught in both the B.Arch and M.Arch professional programs, in addition to serving as the graduate program director since 2017.

Lostritto, who previously held positions at the University of Maryland, Catholic University of America, Boston Architectural College, and MIT, joins the faculty with a specialization in theories about drawing and computational design. He was instrumental in the implementation of the new Computation, Technology, and Culture concentration at RISD, and has authored several essays in addition to his 2019 title Computational Drawing: From Foundational Exercises to Theories of Representation, and the forthcoming Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture, which is due out next year.

“I know the school is committed to the impact that both ...

Jason Young has been named the next dean of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's College of Architecture and Design

2021-05-13T19:46:00-04:00

Jason Young, professor and director of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School of Architecture, has been named the next dean of the College of Architecture and Design effective July 1. [...] Young will succeed Dean Scott Poole, who announced in 2020 that he would step down and return to the faculty, continuing a successful 35-year career of teaching, professional practice, service, and leadership, with many accomplishments and accolades along the way.

"Young will succeed Dean Scott Poole, who announced in 2020 that he would step down and return to the faculty, continuing a successful 35-year career of teaching, professional practice, service, and leadership, with many accomplishments and accolades along the way." — The University of Tennessee Knoxville

Young will oversee the college’s four schools: architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and design. Before the University of Tennessee, Young taught architecture at the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley as the 2013 Howard Friedman Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, the Summer Institute for Architecture at the Catholic University of America, and served as a visiting professor at the Schwerpunkt Holz in Murau, Austria.

Jason Young’s academic research explores contemporary conditions of American urbanism in a post-city, digitally organized culture. He has lectured on his research at institutions including, the Rhode Island Schoo...

Jason Young Appointed as New Director of the University of Tennessee School of Architecture

2014-08-19T15:20:00-04:00

Jason Young has been named the new director of the School of Architecture of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He becomes acting director on August 1. Young, a researcher specializing in contemporary conditions of American urbanism, brings over twenty years of teaching experience to the College of Architecture and Design. He comes to Knoxville from the University of Michigan, where he was an associate professor in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.