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Sounding Spokane--publication edited by Associate Professor David Wang

  Publications
Faculty at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute are actively published in their respective fields.  Their scholarship includes research and writing books, book chapters, and peer reviewed articles. 

Presentations 
In addition to publications, many faculty give invited presentations in the greater Spokane area, at professional conferences, and other universities and locales throughout the nation.  

BOOKS

David Wang, Architecture in the eye of the Beholder: A Comparative Introduction to Ideas and Buildings in the European and Confucian Tradition, (under peer review)

Keith Diaz Moore, Geboy, L. & Weisman G. (in press) Designing a Better Day:  Planning and Design Guidelines for Adult and Dementia Day Centers.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

David Wang, Chinese translation issued of Architectural Research Methods, Beijing, China: China Machine Press, April 2005.

David Wang, Editor, Sounding Spokane: Perspectives on the Built Environment of a Regional City 1995 - 2005.

BOOK CHAPTERS

John Turpin, Domestic Doyennes: Purveyors of Atmospheres Spokane and Visual (printed), Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, eds. Mary Taylor and Julieanna Preston.  John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York

Matthew Melcher, co-authored "The Prospective Aesthetic and the Search for an Authentic Urbanism," for Sounding Spokane: Perspectives on the Built Environment of a Regional City 1995 - 2005.

David Wang, "A New Generation of Yaodong Cave Dwellings in China," (with L. Jiaping and Y. Liu) in Alan Dearling and Graham Meltzer, Another Kind of Space: Creating Ecological Dwellings and Environments, (Dorset, UK: Enabler Publications 2003). 64-66.

Book Reviews

David Wang, Journal of Architectural Education: Wu Hung: “Remaking Beijing: Tianamen Square and the Creation of a Political Space”.  Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, Spring 2006

David Wang, Washington State Magazine, Caroline T. Swope, “Classic Houses of Seattle, Portland, Oregon”, Timber Press, Spring 2006

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

David Wang, A Form of Affection: Sense of Place and Social Structure in the Chinese Courtyard House, accepted by the Journal of Interior Design, Spring 2006

John Turpin, Out of the Living Room and Into the Lobby: Dorothy Draper Redefines the Professional Boundaries of the Interior Design Profession, 8th Annual Dorich House Conference, Kingston, UK, May 2006

Judy Theodorson, Loving Light: At the Intersection of Design and Technology.  22nd National Beginning Design Student Conference Proceedings, April 2006

Judy Theodorson and R. Mohr, Light Models: Conceptualizing Light.  Design Communication Association Biennial Conference Proceedings, September 2005

Nancy Clark Brown, "Aesthetic Composition and the Language of Light, A Subject of Academic Inquiry”, published in the eJournal of Interior Design (ejid.org) and presented at the IDEC International Conference in Savannah, GA, March 2005

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

David Wang, invited lecture and workshop leader on Research Methods for Interior Design Theses Projects.  Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2006

David Wang, invited speaker and JID Writers Workshop leader at the Interior Design Educators Council international meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, March 2006

Judy Theodorson, R. Mohr, invited speakers at the Society for Building Science Educator’s annual conference on Light’s Sweet Allure.  Savannah, Georgia, June 2005

Robert Scarfo, invited to speak to Leadership Spokane on “Healthy Communities, Healthy Environments: seeing beyond the negative hype”, November 2004

Matthew Cohen, invited to speak at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, BC April 6-10.  Peer reviewed paper titled “A Late Medieval Proportional System in Brunelleshchi’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence”.

David Wang, Invited by the Oslo Academy of Architecture (Norway) as guest instructor for a one week course on architectural research for doctoral students.  The doctoral program at the AHO is using my book Architectural Research Methods (co-authored with L. Groat), October 2004.

David Wang, invited by the Kunming University of Science and Technology (China) as a guest lecturer for one week.  Four lectures were given to architecture students and faculty: 2 lectures on architectural education in the United States, 1 lecture on Professional Practice, and one lecture on sustainability and town planning, November 2004.

David Wang, invited speaker at the Interior Design Educators Council national annual meeting, Savannah, Georgia.  Presented a workshop with Nancy Blossom on Research and Writing, March, 2005.

David Wang, invited to speak at the Environmental Design Research Association Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC.  Presentation titled “Confucius and the Solar System”.

   

 

Dementia Day Care Facility Development Workbook--publication by Assistant Professor Keith Diaz Moore

 

 

 

 

 
 
                         
                         
                         
 

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