CURRICULA VITAE
Name: Richard Scherr Address: 380 Rector Place, #18B New York, N.Y. 10280 Telephone: (212) 786-1632 E-Mail [email protected]
EDUCATION
Cornell University 9/67 - 5/72 B. Arch. Columbia University 9/72 - 5/73 M.S. Arch. (Spec. in Urban Design)
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
June 1999- Director of Facilities Planning and Design, Jan 2014 Pratt Institute
May 1999- Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Present Pratt Institute
Sept. 1989 - Chairman and Professor, Graduate Programs May 1999* in Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt Institute
Sept. 1986 - Professor of Architecture, School of May 1989** Architecture, The University of Texas at Arlington
Sept. 1983 - Graduate Advisor, School of May 1986 Architecture, UTA
Sept. 1980 - Associate Professor of Architecture May 1986 with Tenure, School of Architecture, UTA
Sept 1975 - Assistant Professor, School of May 1980*** Architecture, UTA
Sept 1973 - Instructor, Department of Architecture, May 1975 University of Texas at Arlington
Sept. 1978 - ***Leave-of-Absence May 1979
Sept. 1987 - ** Leave-of-Absence May 1988
Feb. 1999- *Sabbatical June 1999
AWARDS
May 1972 -Eidlitz Travelling Fellowship, Cornell University May 1975 -Organized Research Grant Award, UTA May 1976 -"Teacher of the Year", School of Architecture, UTA May 1976 -AMOCO Teaching Award, UTA (Honorable Mention) May 1977 -Organized Research Grant Award, UTA May 1980 -Organized Research Grant Award, UTA Apr. 1982 -Plaza Hotel Renovation, "Merit Award," Dallas A.I.A. (w/ Woodward & Assoc.) Sept. 1982 -Knights of Pythias Building Renovation, Texas Society of Architects Award (w/ Woodward & Assoc.) May 1986 -Terry Cunningham Award for Faculty Development, School of Architecture, UTA Sept 1991 -Finalist, Salem Witch Trial Tercentenary Memorial Design Competition April 1997 -Finalist, Oklahoma City Memorial International Design Competition (w/James Rossant) March 2000 -Faculty Development Award, Pratt Institute March 2003 -Faculty Development Award, Pratt Institute April 2006 -Pratt Store, “Building Brooklyn Award,” Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS/PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1972 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Cornell University 1980 Texas Architectural Registration 1983 NCARB 1985 New York State Architectural Registration 1991 National Institute of Architectural Education 1991 Municipal Art Society, New York 1992 Fellow, Institute For Urban Design, New York 1993 The Architectural League, New York 1994 Honorary Member, Architecture and Art Association, Paris 1995 International Committee of Architectural Critics, CAYA 1999 Van Alen Institute 2003 American Institute of Architects
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1973 - l989 -Sophomore Basic Design 4 sem. School of Architecture -Junior Urban Design Studio 6 sem. University of Texas -Junior Architecture Design Studio 7 sem. at Arlington -Senior Design Studio 3 sem. -Urban Design Theory 5 sem. -Architectural Theory 3 sem. -Environmental Mapping 1 sem. -Modern Indian Architecture 1 sem. -Historic Rest./Adaptive Re-Use 3 sem. -Urban Issues Honors Course 1 sem. -Graduate Levelling Design Studio 2 sem. -Graduate Design Studio 6 sem.
1989 - 2013 -Urban Design Studio 6 sem. Pratt Institute -Graduate Architecture Studio 8 sem. -Architecture Thesis 9 sem. -Arch. Thesis Research 16 sem. -Urban Design Culmination Project 2 sem. -Directed Research in Urban Design 2 sem. -Second Year Design Studio 3 sem -Third Year Design Studio 6 sem. -Graduate Studio, ARCH I Program 1 sem.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Grid: Form and Process in Architectural Design, (New York: USA Books/Universalia Publishers, 2001).
Articles:
"Strip Mining Reconsidered: Towards an Understanding of Landscape," North American Review, Fall, 1977.
"Art in Architecture: Does It Fit?" Texas Architect, January/February, l978.
"Uttam Jain--A Modernism Rooted in Tradition," Indian Architect and Builder, September, l987
"Architecture as Index," Proceeds of the 78th Annual Asssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, l990.
"Architecture as Index: Towards A Theory of Contingency," Journal of Architectural Education, May, l991.
"The Urban Streetwall Redefined," Proceeds of the 80th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, l992.
"The Shifting Ground: Figuration Within the Grid-Iron City," Proceeds of the 81st Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, 1993.
"Chance Encounters: Public Attachments in the City of Private Parts," Proceeds of the 82nd Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, 1994
"Restructuring the Suburban Landscape," Proceeds of the 83rd Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, 1995.
"Interventions Within the Voided Context," Gowanus Canal: Investigations, Graduate Architecture Program, Pratt Institute, 1995
"Action Space," Proceeds of the 84th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Meeting, Washington, D.C.: ACSA Press, 1996
“Notes on the Private City: In Search of Shadows,” Space (Seoul, Korea) #371, Nov.,1998.
“The Private City,” Proceeds of the ACSA International Conference “La Citta Nuova,” Rome, 1999
“Action Space,” Octogon Architectura & Design (Bucharest, Romania), March, 2000.
“The City as Index,” Proceeds of the ACSA International Conference “Oriental-Occidental,” Istanbul, 2001.
“Robert Smithson’s Extended Site: Thoughts on the Dialectical City,” Proceeds of the ACSA International Conference “The Challenges of Globalization,” Havana, 2002.
“The Cinematic City”, Proceeds of the ACSA International Conference, Helsinki, 2003
“The Synthetic City: Excursions Into The Real-Not Real,” Places Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 2, Summer, 2006.
“Action Space,” in Douglas A Kelbaugh and Kit Frankel McCullough, Editors, Writing Urbanism, (New York: Routledge Press), 2008.
Book/Exhibit Reviews:
Reviews of film and videos by and about artists, including Acconci,Baldessari, Benglis, Guston, Hockney, Oppenheim, Serra, Weiner and others, Art + Cinema Magazine, November, 1972, January, 1973 and Fall, 1973.
Architecture in Context: Fitting New Buildings With Old by Brent Brolin, reviewed in Journal of the American Planning Association, January/February, l981.
Bruce Goff Retrospective, Amon Carter Museum, reviewed in Fort Worth Star Telegram, June 4, l989.
The Indian Metropolis: A View Towards the West by Norma Evenson, reviewed in Asian Thought and Society, May, l990.
The Minneapolis Riverfront: Vision and Implementation reviewed in Places Magazine, Winter,1997.
Publication of Professional Work:
Jackson Residence (designed with Richard Davis), A.I.A Bulletin (Dallas Chapter), October, l981.
Scherr Residence Renovation (designed by Scherr & Shirazi), Dallas-Fort Worth Home and Gardens, March, 1983.
Grid Synthesis Studies, The Poetics of Architecture by Antoniades, Athens: Anthropos and Chocos Editions, l985, pp. 33-34.
Stewart House Addition (designed by Scherr & Shirazi), Texas Architect, January\February, 1991.
Salem Witch Trial Tercentenary Competition Submission, Competitions, Vol. 2, Winter, 1992.
African Burial Ground Design Competition Submission, Reclaiming Our Past, Honoring Our Ancestors ed. by Edward Kaufman, New York: African Burial Ground Coalition, 1994.
"Beyond the Box" Project (w/ Bressi and Rossant), Progressive Architecture Magazine, December, 1995.
Oklahoma City Memorial Competition Finalist Submission (w/James Rossant), New York Times, Sunday, April 20, 1997, p. 20.
Oklahoma City Memorial Competition Finalist Submission (w/James Rossant), Architectural Record, June, 1997
Oklahoma City Memorial Competition Finalist Submission (w/James Rossant), Architecture Magazine, June, 1997
Oklahoma City Memorial Competition Finalist Submission (w/James Rossant), Competitions, Vol. 7, Fall, 1997.
Oklahoma City Memorial Comopetition Finalist Submission (w/James Rossant) in Edward T. Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing, Oklahoma City in American Memory (New York: Oxford Press), 2001.
Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing, Oklahoma City in American Memory (New York: Oxford Press), 2001.
“A Search for Non-Resolution: A Ceiling Prototype fro Pratt Institute,” Architext, July, 2004
“An Anchor Bookstore for a College and Its Neighborhood,” The New York Times, January 12 2005
Publication of Supervised Student Work:
Introduction and Studio Projects, Oak Lawn Redevelopment Study, SAED, Spring, l982.
Graduate Studio Project (2nd Prize) in Competition Summary, Design + Energy 1984, ACSA Student Design Competition.
Graduate Studio Projects, Texas Architect, Vol. 35, No. 5, September/October, l985.
East Lancaster Urban Design Study in East Lancaster Avenue Commercial Revitalization and Redevelopment, Fort Worth City Planning Department, October, 1987.
Graduate Studio Project (Honorable Mention) in Competition Summary, London: Design in the Historic Context, AIA/ACSA Research Council-Otis Elev. Co. Design Competition, 1988-89.
Graduate Thesis Projects, In Process, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, 1994.
Graduate Thesis Project, In Process III, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, 1997.
Graduate Urban Design Studio Project (w/ Rossant), In Process IV, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, 1998.
Third Year Studio Project, In Process VI, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, 2000.
Graduate Thesis Project, Third Year Studio Project, In Process VII, School of Architecture, 2001
Editorial Responsibilities:
SAED News, Spring, 1981, Vol. 1, #3.
SAED News, Spring, 1982, Vol. 1, #4. Oak Lawn Redevelopment Study l983, SAED (w/ Lisa Welgehausen).
Gowanus Canal: Investigation, Graduate Architecture Program, 1995 (w/ Peter Franck)
Unpublished Manuscripts
The Synthetic City: Excursions Into the Real-Not Real, 1992-99 “Las Vegas Transformed” “Orchestrating the Synthetic” “The Marginal Site” “Potsdammerplaz: The Blurring of the Historic City”
RESEARCH
May 1972 Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, Cornell University Project: “Development of the Ijsselmeerpolders, the Netherlands”
Six weeks travel and documentation of polder reclamation and new town development.
Apr. 1975 (Organized Research Grant, University of Texas at Arlington Project: "The Strip Mine as Manscape--Industrial Processes and Artifacts"
Ground and aerial documentation of lignite strip mining in Texas and New Mexico.
Apr. 1977 Organized Research Grant, University of Texas at Arlington Project: "Development and application of a Graphic Language to Describe Environmental Systems"
Ground and aerial documentation of the University Drive district, Fort Worth, Texas, producing large-scale graphic analysis and mapping of district.
May 1980 Organized Research Grant, University of Texas at Arlington Project: "Environmental Fields: An Investigation of Gridded Structures as a Determinant of Regional and Architectural Form"
Documentation and analysis of environmental systems in Oklahoma and other Public Land Survey regions, generating typologies of gridded design structure.
May 1982 Organized Research Grant, University of Texas at Arlington Project: "The Form of Grids: The Use of Gridded Structure as a Form Generator in Architectural and Urban Design"
The design and documentation of strategies and diagrams describing architectural concepts.
May 1982 Summer Stipend Award (for 1983), University of Texas at Arlington Project: “Contemporary Indian Architecture, 1960-1980"
3 month study of the translation of contemporary Western architectural models into non-Western contexts, based on documentation of work in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and Bombay, and interviews conducted with Balkrishna Doshi, Charles Correa, Uttam Jain, Anant Raje, Arvind Talati, Moran Chowdhury, Ram Sharma, Aditya Prakash, Romi Khosla, Jeet Malhotra, Joseph Stein, Rajit Sabiki, and others.
EXHIBITIONS
1970 - 1972 -"Recent Sculpture," (two one-man shows, two group exhibitions), Sibley Dome, Cornell University Apr. 1973 -“Lines” (Ijsselmeer Polders), Gallery, SAED, UTA Mar. 1975 -Untitled Sculpture,The Southwest -Tarrant County Annual, Fort Worth Art Museum Apr. 1983 -"Peak" competition entry, Gallery, SAED, UTA Aug. 1983 -"Peak" competition entry, "Dallas Architects Design," Republic National Bank, Dallas Nov. 1983 -"The Form of Grids," Gallery, SAED, UTA Mar. 1984 -"Recent Work," SAED Faculty Exhibition, Gallery, SAED, UTA Mar. 1991 -"Recent Work," Pratt Faculty Show, Gallery, Higgins Hall, Pratt Jan. 1992- -Finalist Submission, Salem Witch Trial Tercentenary Memorial Mar 1992 Design Competition, Essex Institute, Salem Nov. 1993 -"Recent Work," Pratt Faculty Show, Gallery, Higgins Hall, Pratt Feb. 1994- -Design Submission, African Burial Ground Design Competition, The Apr . 1994 Urban Center, Manhattan Oct. 1994- -"Chance Encounters" and Polder studies, Art and Architecture Feb. 1995 Faculty Show, President's Gallery, Pratt Institute Apr. 1995 -"Extruded House," Pratt Architecture Faculty Show, Gallery, Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute Oct. 1995- -"Beyond the Box" Project (w/Todd Bressi, James Rossant), The Dec. 1995 Urban Center, Manhattan Jan. 1997 -Design Submission, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Design Competition, Billings Public Library, Montana July 1997 -Finalist Submission, Oklahoma City Memorial International Design Competition (w/James Rossant), Leadership Square, Oklahoma City Apr. 1998 -“Pratt Interventions,” Pratt faculty Show, Gallery, Higgins Hall, Pratt Feb. 2001 -Oklahoma City Memorial International Design Competition (w/James Rossant), Romanian Consulate and Cultural Center, New York Jun. 2001 -Oklahoma City Memorial International Design Competition (w/James Rossant), Hartell Gallery, Cornell University
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
Apr. 1975 -Roosevelt Island Housing Competition, Urban Development Corporation, N.Y. (w/Todd Hamilton) Feb. 1976 -Singer Island Urban Design Competition, City of Rivera Beach, Florida (w. Todd Hamilton) May 1977 -Shinkenchiku Housing Competition "Comfort in the Metropolis," Peter Cook/Japan Architect Magazine Dec. 1982 -The Peak, Hong Kong, (w/ Andrzej Pinno) Jul. 1984 -One Times Square Competition, Metropolitan Arts Society, New York Oct. 1987 -Woman's Rights National Historic Park Design Competition, National Park Service, Seneca, N.Y. Nov. 1988 -Suffolk County Vietman Veteran's Memorial Design Competition, Long Island, N. Y. Aug. 1990 -Mobile County/City Building Design Competition, Mobile, Alabama Apr. 1991 -Evanston Public Library Design Competition, Evanston, Illinois (w/Botner, Rosenkranz) Aug. 1991 -Salem Witch Trial Tercentenary Memorial Design Competition, Salem, Mass. (Finalist) Sept. 1992 -Center for Civic Activity in the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia Dec. 1993 -African Burial Ground Competition, N.Y. Apr. 1994 -Public Space in the New American City, Atlanta, 1996 Dec. 1994 -KOMA: Korean Museum of Art, Los Angeles Nov. 1995 -Williamsburg, Virginia Urban Center Competition (w/ Renato Severino) Jan. 1997 -Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Competition Apr. 1997 -Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial International Design Competition (w/ James Rossant), (Finalist) Apr. 1998 -Channahon Village Center Competition, Channahon, Illinois Nov. 1998 -Gateway New London Design Competition, New London, Connecticut Dec. 2000 -Absolut Art and Technology Competition, “Proposal for Development of an Interactive Website for Artists” (w/ Aaron Erimez) Jun. 2003 -World Trade Center Memorial Competition, New York Apr. 2009 -Building Tehran, Benneton Multi-Use Building
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Friday Lecture Series The School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Arlington:
Apr. 1974 -"Art and the Environment" Mar. 1975 -"Manscape--A Documentation of the Ijsselmeerpolders, Netherlands" Mar. 1976 -"Wholistic Architecture" Feb. 1977 -"Extruded Architecture" Mar. 1978 -"The Wall vs. The Machine—New Architecture in Columbus, Indiana" Apr. 1979 -"Italian Fragments--Notions About Non-Object Form" May 1980 -"The Drawings of Le Corbusier" Sept. 1981 -"Landscape as Construction" Nov. 1983 -"Contemporary Indian Architecture" Mar. 1986 -"Mario Botta: The Generic Context" Apr. 1987 -"Figures and Fragments: Buildings and Projects, 1982-1986"
The Graduate Architecture/Urban Design Seminar Series School of Architecture, Pratt Institute
Feb. 1990 -"House as City, City as House" Apr. 1991 -"La Villette and the French Spatial Tradition" Sept. 1991 -"Mobile City Hall Competition" Feb. 1992 -"Finalist Submission, Salem Witch Trial Competition" Apr. 1992 -"The Streetwall Redefined" Sept. 1992 -"Figuration in the Manhattan Grid" Feb. 1993 -"Blacksburg Competition" Sept. 1993 -"Temporality and the City" Feb. 1994 -"African Burial Ground Competition" Sept. 1994 -"Fragments and Temporality" Sept. 1995 -"The Architecture of the City" Mar. 1997 -"Pratt Interventions" Sept. 1997 -“Oklahoma City Memorial Design Competition” Oct. 1998 -“The Beautybar—or, the Paradox of Spatial Composites” Nov. 1998 -“Partial Fragments: Work from 1982-1998”
Misc. Invited Lectures:
Apr. 1977 -"The Architecture of Columbus, Indiana," School of Architecture, Texas A & M University
Mar. 1980 -"Manscape--A Theory of Environmental Form," Friday Fellowship of Architects, Dallas
Nov. 1981 -"Environmental Design in the Netherlands," Civitas Organization, Dallas
June 1982 -"Alternative Urban Development for Oak Lawn," Urban Design Task Force, Dallas City Hall
Mar. 1984 -"Contemporary Indian Architecture," School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Apr. 1984 -"Contemporary Indian Architecture," School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Feb. 1987 -"East Lancaster Revitalization Project," Fort Worth City Council, Fort Worth City Hall
Jul. 1993 -"Space, Time, Architecture.and the City," International Summer Seminar, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Oct. 1995 -"The Architecture of Chance," VI Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, CAYA
Mar. 1996 -"Interventions within the Voided Context: Gowanus Canal lnvestigations," Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Villemin,
May 1999 -“The Private City,” Stadtebau-Institute, Universitat Stuttgart
May 1999 -”The Private City and the Marginal Site,” Corso di Dottorato di Recerca in Architettura, Politecnico di Torino
July 2001 -“The Theory of Grids,” International Summer Seminar, Pratt Institute
June 2002 -“The Problem of a Memorial for the World Trade Center Site,” Makor Institute, New York
Conference Presentations:
Apr. 1978 -"Extruded Architecture," 9th Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Conference, Tucson, Arizona
Oct. 1983 -"Regional Units: Towards An Alternative Model of Regional Form," American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, San Francisco
Oct. 1986 -"Architecture and the City: The Formation of Public Structure," Eighth International Conference on Urban Design, Institute for Urban Design, Dallas
Mar. 1990 -"Architecture as Index: Towards a Theory of Contingency," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Mar. 1992 -"The Urban Streetwall Redefined," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida
Mar. 1993 -"The Shifting Ground: Figuration Within The Grid-iron City," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC
Mar. 1994 -"Chance Encounters: Public Attachments in the City of Private Parts," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Montreal
Mar. 1995 -"Restructuring the Suburban Landscape," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Seattle
Nov. 1995 -"The Urban Streetwall," Places Magazine Streets Conference, Berkeley, California
Mar. 1996 -"Action Space," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Boston
July 1996 -"Housing Transformations, Lower Manhattan," Union of International Architects Congress, CICA, Barcelona
May 1999 -“The Private City,” ACSA International Conference, Rome, Italy
June 2001 -“The City as Index,” ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
June 2002 -“Robert Smithson’s Extended Site: Thoughts on the Dialectical City,” ACSA International Conference, Havana, Cuba
May 2003 -“The Cinematic City,” ACSA International Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Panel Respondent:
Apr. 1993 -"Atlantic Center: Imaginative Planning for a Major Transportation Hub," presented by Stan Eckstut, Fellows Dinner, The Institute for Urban Design, Century Association, New York
Oct. 1995 -International Committee of Architectural Critics Panel, VI Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, CAYA
July 2002 -Presentation on “Criteria for a World Trade Center Memorial,” w/ Alex Garvin (Lower Manhattan Development Corporation), sponsored by Makor/92nd Street Y, New York.
Additional Conference Attendance
Nov. 1976 -National AIAS Conference, Columbus, Indiana Nov. 1977 -Moderator for Symposium, "The Role of Large-Scale Sculpture in the Environment," Department of Art, UTA Mar. 1979 -Preservation Technology Workshop, School of Architecture, UT-Austin Apr. 1980 -Preservation for the 80's, Texas Historical Commission, Corpus Christi Sept. 1980 -Second International Conference on Urban Design, Institute for Urban Design, Harvard University June 1981 -ACSA Teacher's Conference, Cranbrook Oct. 1981 -Third International Conference on Urban Design, Institute for Urban Design, Galveston, Texas March 1983 -Harford Architecture Conservancy, Conference, Hartford, "Rehabilitation and Renovation Techniques for Old Buildings" March 1984 -Hartford Architecture Conservancy Conference, Hartford, "Urban Design: Theory and Practice" June 1984 -Texas Historical Commission Conference, Austin, "Conservation and Repair of Building Materials" June 1984 -ACSA Teacher's Conference, Cranbrook Feb. 1986 -Co-Moderator, Gorilla Zoo Facilities Symposium, Dallas March 1991 -ACSA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Oct. 1992 -"Living at the Center, Working at the Edge," Institute for Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania May 1994 -ACSA European Conference, London Nov. 1995 -Streets Forum sponsored by Places, School of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley April 1996 -Streets: Old Paradigm-New Investment, Places, Pratt Institute April 1997 -"Doctoral Education in Architecture Schools," Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta April 2000 -“Beyond Brownfields,” Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environment March 2001 -ACSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD March 2002 -SCUP Regional Conference, Yale University March 2003 -SCUP Regional Conference, MIT May 2004 -National AIA Convention, Chicago May 2006 -National AIA Convention, Los Angeles May 2008 -National AIA Convention, Boston
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 1999- Pratt Institute January 2014 Position: Director of Facilities Planning and Design
Projects -Pratt Incubator (Completed, 2014) -GIS Lab (Completed, 2014) -Pratt Manhattan Computer Docking Station (Completed 2013) -Steuben Café (Completed 2012) -Memorial Hall Conference Rooms (Completed, 2011 -Bicycle Commuter Station (Unbuilt, 2011 -DeKalb Hall Gallery (Completed, 2011) -Nancy Ross Gallery (Completed, 2010) -Atrium and Fashion Program Move, Steuben Hall (Unbuilt, 2009) -DeKalb Hall Studio Renovation (Completed, 2008) -Young-Woo Conference Room, Higgins Hall (Completed 2009) -Furniture space planning, selection for 524 Myrtle (Completed, 2009) -Programming for 524 Myrtle (Completed, 2008) -Renovation of Main Cafeteria Serving Area -(Completed, 2007) -Renovation of Main Cafeteria Dining Halll (Completed, 2006) -Campus Master Plan: Programming and Coordination (Completed, 2005) -Faculty Housing Renovation (Unbuilt, 2005) -Campus furniture standardization -Renovation of Administrative Offices, Main Building, Phase II (Unbuilt, 2005 -Campus Art Supply and Bookstore Building (Completed, 2005) -Main Building Historic Window Replacement (Completed, 2003 -100 Grand Avenue Housing Entry Canopy and Lobby (Completed, 2002) -Steuben Hall Gallery (Completed, 2000) -Steuben Copy Center (Completed, 2001) -Art History Department Offices Expansion (Completed, 2001) -Expansion of Media/Computer Graphics Lab, ARC Building (Completed, 2001) -Willoughby Health Center Expansion (Completed, 2002) -Publication Office (Completed, 2001 -Renovation of Coffee Gallery, Phase II) (Completed, 2001) -Sakier Industrial Design Lab/Communications Center (Completed, 1999) -Space Planning for Pratt Manhattan 14th Street Facility (Completed, 1999) -Higgins Hall Café (Completed, 2000) -Renovation of President's Office, Main Building, Phase I (Completed, 2000) -Pratt Community Strategic Plan (w/ Ehrenkranz Eckstut) (Completed, 2000)
June 1995- Pratt Institute Feb. 1999 Position: Facilities Planning Consultant
Projects -Renovation of Admissions Reception, DeKalb Hall (Completed, 1995) -Renovation of PUCK Building Entry, 4th Floor : (Completed, 1996) -Renovation of PUCK Building Library, 4th Floor (Completed, 1997) -Renovation of PUCK Building Exhibit/Lounge, 4th Floor (Completed, 1997) -Renovation of Main 231 Lecture Room (Completed, 1998) -Renovation of Coffee Gallery, Phase I (Completed, 1999)
Jan. 1994- Richard Scherr and Aydin Erimez, June 1999 New York and Miller Place, LI Position: Partner
Projects: -UBC Corporation Sales Building (Unbuilt) -Earl Residence Renovation (Unbuilt) -Ercot Corporation Sales Building (Completed, 1997) -Just Looking Boutique, Laguna Beach, Calif. (Completed, 1999)
Jan. 1991- Richard Scherr, Architect, New York Dec. 1993 Position: Principal
Projects: -Stewart Residence Foyer/Kitchen Renovation, Arlington, Texas (Unbuilt) -Single Family House Prototype (Unbuilt) -Scherr Residence Renovation, New York (Completed, 1993)
Jul. 1987- Stephen B. Jacobs & Associates, New York Jan. 1988 Position: Project Manager
Projects: -Kensington Condominium, Great Neck, Long Island (Unbuilt) -The Apthorp Apartment Storefront Renovation, New York (Completed 1988)
Jan. 1988- Cecil-Pierce, Architects, New York Jul. 1988 Position: Project Architect
Projects: -House #8, Mamaroneck, N.Y. (Unbuilt) -PNM Law Offices, New York, N.Y. (Unbuilt)
Jan. 1981- Scherr + Shirazi, Architecture and Interior Design June 1987 Arlington, Texas Position: Co-Principal
Projects: -Scherr Residence Renovation, Arlington, Texas (Completed 1982) -J.W. Shelton Duplex, Fort Worth (Completed 1983) -Europaische Mode Boutique, Dallas (Completed 1983) -Dr. Morteza Shirazi Residence, Rasht, Iran (Unbuilt,1983) -Sophisticated Lady Boutique, Arlington (Completed 1984) -Burgess Residence Renovation and National Register Application, Mansfield, Texas (National Register Application Completed, 1984) -Just Looking Boutique, Laguna Beach, California (Completed 1984) -Chojnowski Residence Renovation, Fort Worth (Unbuilt, 1984) -J & D Furniture Building Addition, Fort Worth (Completed 1985) -Mrs. Isabelle French House, Arlington (Unbuilt, 1985) -St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Mansfield : (Completed 1986) -Stewart Residence Renovation and Addition, Arlington (Completed 1987) -Consultation for Main Street Renovation, Mansfield (Unbuilt 1987)
Jan. 1981- Richard D. Davis & Associates, Sept. 1981 Dallas, Texas Position: Designer/Project Architect
Projects: -Jackson Residence (w/Richard Davis) (Unbuilt,1981) -Ortega Residence (w/ Richard Davis) (Unbuilt (1981)
May. 1978- Thomas E. Woodward and Associates, June 1980 Dallas, Texas Position: Project Architect, Project Manager. Promoted to Associate, Aug., 1979 Projects: -Shopping and Entertainment Complex, Fort Worth Stockyards (Unbuilt, 1978) -Intensive Care Unit Addition for "The Leaves" Christian Science Sanatorium, Dallas (Completed 1979) -Main Street Renovation Project (Sundance Square), Fort Worth; Design and renovation of two city blocks into a shopping/office complex, developed by Bass Brothers Enterprises, incl.: -Plaza Hotel Renovation (Completed 1980, awarded Dallas A.I.A. Award, 1982) -Knights of Pythias Building Renovation (Completed 1981, awarded Texas Society of Architects Award, 1982)
Apr. 1978- Trinity Forge Co., Mansfield, Texas June 1978 Position: Design Consultant
Project: -Administrative Office Addition (Completed 1979)
May 1972- McClintock, Craig and Wardlaw, Aug. 1972 Architects, Engineers and Planners, Springfield, Mass. Position Designer/Job Captain
Projects: -Chicopee Branch, Valley Bank & Trust Company (C.D.'s) (Completed 1973) -Condominium Housing, Longmeadow, Mass. (Design) (Unbuilt, 1972)
May 1971- Sporri & Valentin, Architects Aug. 1971 Bern, Switzerland Position: Designer
Projects: -Central Bern historic house renovations (Documentation, Design) (Completed 1974) -Perry-Markt (Design) (Completed 1973)
May 1970- Savin Construction Co Aug. 1970 Bloomfield, Connecticut Position: Field Engineer
Projects -Waste Water Treatment Plant, Enfield, Conn. (Completed 1972)
May 1969- Olson & Miller, Architects, Aug. 1969 Hartford, Connecticut May 1968- Position: Draftsman Aug. 1969
UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committees:
Sept. 1973 - -Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair 4 yrs 1 yr Chair May 1989 -Curriculum Committee 4 yrs 1 yr Chair School of Architecture -Academic Standards Committee 3 yrs UTA -Faculty Search Committee 2 yrs 1 yr Chair -Organized Research Committee 2 yrs -University Research Committee 3 yrs -SAED Film Series 2 yrs -Media Center Committee 3 yrs 1 yr Chair -Lecture Series Committee 2 yrs 1 yr Chair -University Graduate Assembly 4 yrs -University Library Committee 2 yrs -Graduate Studies Committee 6 yrs 1yr Chair -Dean's Review Committee 1 yr -SAED Building Committee 2 yrs -University Research Awards Committee 1 yr -Piper Teaching Awards Committee 1 yr -SAED Council 3 yrs -University Librarian Search Committee 1 yr -Dean's Search Committee 1 yr -Director's Review Committee 1 yr -Urban Design Symposium Committee 1 yr
Fall 1989 - -Master Plan Committee 6 yrs Chair Present -Dean's Search Committee 1 yr School of Architecture -President's General Committee 2 yrs Pratt Institute -Academic Senate 3 yrs -Trustees Buildings and Grounds Committee 6 yrs -Trustees Design Committee 2 yrs -EPC Resources Committee 1 yr -Higgins Hall Renovation Users Committee 1 yr -Undergraduate Architecture Chair Search Committee 1 sem Chair -Institute Master Planning Committee 1 sem -Graduate Architecture Faculty Search 1 sem
Campus Planning
June 1995 - -Facilities Planning Consultant, Pratt Institute Feb. 1999 Responsibilities: Survey all campus space; make recommendations on future programming and renovation; coordinate campus projects, space moves; design and/or design coordination of renovations and new constuction, develop and coordinate Master Plan process.
Misc. Projects and Activities:
April 1974 -Co-organizer of regional seminar on "The Rapid Transit Corridor as a Determinant of Urban Form," focusing on the potential of a public transit system extended from the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport; University Of Texas at Arlington.
Feb. 1975 - -Coordination with the Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission in May 1975 developing urban design plans for the Thomas/Hall neighborhood.
Feb. 1982 - -Coordination (w/A.J. Diamond) with the Dallas City Planning Department May 1982 and the Oak Lawn Forum on the development of plans for Oak Lawn, Dallas. Projects of graduate studio presented to community, and results documented in the Oak Lawn Planning Study, adopted by the Dallas City Council in 1983.
Sept. 1983 - -Trustee of the Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County, Texas, May 1986 representing the Fielder House Association
Sept. 1984- -Treasurer, Preservation Center of North Texas May 1986
Sept. 1986 - -UTA representative on the East Lancaster (Fort Worth) Revitalization Feb. 1987 Committee, with participation by the City Planning Department. Alternative plans by graduate design studio presented to ELRC and the Fort Worth City Council.
Dec. 1986 -Participation in Texas State Architects School Visitation Program, Rice University
Sept. 1990 -Urban Design Studio program coordination with Battery Park City Authority in the development of design alternatives for the North Residential Sector. Participation in exhibit “Battery Park City Imagined” (w/ Columbia School of Architecture), Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center.
Sept. 1991 -Urban Design Studio program coordination (w/ Allen Swerdlowe) for Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition in the develop of design alternatives for Brooklyn Heights Piers 1-5.
Sept. 1992 -Urban Design Studio program coordination with New York City Planning Department in the development of waterfront alternatives for Greenpoint, New York. Participation in Urban Center exhibit, "Perceptions On the New York Waterfront"
Sept. 1994 -Urban Design Assistantship coordination to provide service for "Millenium Sculpture Garden" project, Riverside Park, Manhattan
Sept. 1994 -Urban Design Assistantship coordination to provide service for community initiatives (sponsored by Robert Makla) to restore the Flower Garden sector of Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Oct. 1995 -Invited participation in Beyond the Box project and exhibit (w/ Rossant and Bressi), proposing possibilities for large-scale retail intervention on 125th Street, Harlem, and exhibited at the Urban Center, Manhattan
June 1996 -Affiliation (w/ Rossant and Graduate Assistants) with Wilmington 2000 Group, Wilmington, Delaware, to develop urban design plans for Market Street and Quaker Hill Districts
May 1997 -Urban Design Assistantship coordination for Carroll Garden Subway Plaza Renovation, Cobble Hill Association
Jan. 1998 -Urban Design Assistantship coordination (w/Rossant) on Central Beirut Master Plan Revision, commissioned by Solidaire public development agency, Beirut Lebanon
Aug 1999 -Participation in Pratt Community Strategic Plan (w/Pratt Center and Ehrenkratz, Ekstut and Kuhn)
Sept 2001- -Member of Memorial Process Committee, New York New Visions, Van Alen Sept. 2002 Institute
Sept. 2002-4 -Member of New York New Visions Plan Review Task Force