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Upcoming Talks and Workshops
April 2013: Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania
The workshop will focus on the role of diagramming in architectural design and introduce specific exercies that can help students develop their diagramming techniques.
http://www.marywood.edu/architecture/news/lecture-series.html
June 2013: Field Sketching in Istanbul and Central Turkey
Eric will lead a three-week sketch course through Turkey in which students will examine, among other things, Turkish vernacular and Islamic architectural traditions.
July 2013: Smithsonian Associates: Architectural Drawing on the National Mall
Sat., July 13-27. The buildings that frame the National Mall represent a range of styles, from Romanesque (the Castle) to Beaux Arts (Museum of Natural History) to Expressionist (American Indian Museum). Learn to capture their distinctive essences as you produce freehand sketches of Smithsonian buildings and other places in and around the Mall.
http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/index.aspx
For more information about lectures or workshops, please contact Eric at jenkinse@cua.edu
ERIC J. JENKINS, AIA
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric J. Jenkins has received several teaching awards and design awards. He is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning where he teaches design, theory and analytical sketching. He earned a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and has previously published To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans. (http://toscale.blogspot.com/)
Before CUA, he taught at Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Consortium, Florida A&M University, Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey and the University of Maryland. He has lectured for the Smithsonian Associates Program and conducted drawing workshops at the National Building Museum. Also, he has organized architectural tours in Washington, DC for Corcoran Gallery of Art and the District of Columbia Preservation League as well as university travel programs in Japan, the Czech Republic, Spain, Morocco and Hungary.
Eric’s research and writing has focused on design epistemology and urban design. He has published in Centropa, MIT’s Thresholds and Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Paratactics.
Eric is the recipient of several teaching and design awards. In 1996, the University of Maryland honored him with a Certificate of Teaching Excellence. In 2006, CUA honored him with the James E. Dornan Memorial Undergraduate Educator of the Year award. This award recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding classroom teaching ability, academic advising and publications. Also, in 2006, Eric was nominated for the Provost’s Excellence in Teaching award. Most recently, he was nominated for the 2008 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Creative Expression for his book To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans published by Routledge this past December.
He is a registered architect and former member of the AIA-DC board. When not teaching and writing, Eric works chiefly on residential projects. His design for a Washington, DC loft renovation, which was published in Remodeling and seen on HGTV’s “Building Character”, earned an Inform design award in 2002. Most recently he developed the technical research and schematic design for a prototypical prefabricated house with the firm Studio 27 Architecture which earned a Design Excellence Award from the Virginia Society of the AIA in 2007.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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