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1.0 General Education
1.1 Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology M. Arch 1982
Columbia University B. A. 1976
1.2 Academic experience
University of Michigan A.Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Associate Professor of Architecture Director, Master of Urban Design Program 2001 present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Principal Research Scientist 1999 2001
Associate Professor of Architecture 1991 1999 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Associate Professor of Architecture 1988 1991
Assistant Dean for 1990 Urban Programs 1991
Director, 1990 Urban Design Program 1991
Acting Director, 1989 Urban Design Program 1990
Assistant Dean for Program 1988 Development 1990
Co-Director, New York/Paris Program 1985 1990
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Departmental Representative, 1984 Columbia College 1990
Assistant Professor of Architecture 1984 1988
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture 1983 1984
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Associate Editor, Harvard Architecture Review, 1979 Vol. 2 1981
1.3 Professional experience
Office of Roy Strickland 1992 (Also Strickland Urban Design) Present
Hudson Studio 1990 Principal 1991
Strickland and Carson Associates 1982 Principal 1990
Parks Council 1979 Director, Bryant Park Project 1981
New York City Landmarks Preservation 1975 Commission 1976 Director, Landmarks Scholar Program
I.M. Pei and Partners, Architects, 1969 Design Team Member 1971
2.0 Scholarly work
2.1 Books/chapters
Strickland, Roy, Architecture and Urbanism in Film, Book in preparation.
Strickland, Roy, Designing the Big Small School. Book in preparation.
Strickland, Roy, “Integrating Urban Design and Educational Reform in the Post- Industrial City: Paterson NJ as a City of Learning” chapter in Jacqueline Tatom,
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ed., Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism: Essays on Design, Modernity and American Cities. New York/London: Routledge Press, 2009.
Strickland, Roy, “The City of Learning: Schools as Agents for Urban Revitalization,” in Sharon Haar, ed., Schools for Cities: Urban Strategies. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Strickland, Roy, "Between Party Walls: Nineteenth-Century New York Residential Architecture and Urbanism," in Rethinking the 19' Century City, Attilio Petruccioli, ed., Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
Strickland, Roy, "New York City Public Housing," in The Encyclopedia of New York City, Kenneth Jackson, ed., Yale University Press, 1994.
Strickland, Roy, "The 1961 Zoning Revision and the Template of the Ideal City," in New York City's Zoning: Past, Present and Future, Todd Bressi, ed., Rutgers University Press, 1993
2.2 Articles
Peer reviewed journals
Strickland, Roy, “Research and Reading for Use in Urban Design,” Urban Planning and Design Journal, Institution of Civil Engineers, Britain, vol. 166, April, 2013.
Strickland, Roy, ed., “Media and the City” issue, Places vol. 18, Summer, 2006.
Strickland, Roy, “Background into Foreground: Film as a Medium for Teaching Urban Design” in Places vol. 18, Summer, 2006.
Strickland, Roy, “From Tiles to Pixels: Media and the City” in Places vol. 18, Summer 2006.
Strickland, Roy, and Jean Riesman, “Place-Making as an Expression of Teaching and Learning: The Hilltop, Washington, DC” in Places vol. 17, Fall, 2005
Strickland, Roy, "New American School Design Project," in Journal of Architectural Education, accepted for publication.
Strickland, Roy, "Neighborhoods for Learning," in Places vol. 11, Winter, 2000.
Strickland, Roy, "Architectural Alternatives to the Post-World War II
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Public School: Designs by the New American Schools Design Project," in Architectural Research Centers Applied Research in Architecture and Planning, vol. 2, Spring, 1996.
Strickland, Roy, "Designing the New American School: Schools for an Urban Neighborhood," in Columbia University Teachers College Record, Winter, 1994.
Strickland, Roy, "In Place of Pentimento," in Space and Society, Vol. 26, June, 1984.
Strickland, Roy and James Sanders, "The Harlem River Houses," in the Harvard Architecture Review, Vol. 2, 1981.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Paper Publications
Strickland, Roy, “From Schools to Cities: Evolving and Applying the City of Learning, a Strategy for School and Community Planning and Design,” 48th Making Cities Livable Conference, October 2010
Professional journals
Strickland, Roy, “Re-Imagining the Tower-in-the-Park,” Urban Omnibus, August 2010
Strickland, Roy, “Saving Public Housing by Building Anew” City Limits, November 2009
Strickland, Roy, "De-Constructivism," Techniques & Architecture France), September, 1988.
Strickland, Roy, "Exploring Otto Wagner's Vision," Progressive Architecture, April, 1988.
Strickland, Roy, "Infill Housing in New York," Progressive Architecture, January, 1988.
Strickland, Roy, "Rebuilding the, Boston Waterfront," Architectural Record, February, 1987.
Strickland, Roy, "Reviving the Urban Apartment House," Architectural Record, June, 1985.
Strickland, Roy and James Sanders, "Bryant Park's New Lease on Life,"
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Place Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 7, July/Aug. 1983.
Strickland, Roy and James Sanders, “First Houses: Where It All Began,” The Livable City, March, 1978.
2.3 Other published works
Strickland, Roy, “Transforming Public Housing Minus the Wrecking Ball,” The Atlantic Cities, May 9, 2013.
Strickland, Roy, “A Bold Concept for Post-Sandy Manhattan,” The Atlantic Cities, December 28, 2012.
Strickland, Roy, “Right Idea, Wrong Place: Why Cornell’s High-Tech Campus Belongs in the Projects,” Op Ed, New York Daily News, December 21, 2011.
Draft Committee, including Roy Strickland, “Educating Urban Designers for Post- Carbon Cities,” manifesto product of University of Pennsylvania/Rockefeller Foundation “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the Age of Oil” Conference, November, 2008.
Strickland, Roy, “Introduction,” in New York Over Time, by Jaeseung Lee, Seoul, Korea: Sigongart Press.
Strickland, Roy, “Urban Design and War Without End,” in Post Urbanism and ReUrbanism, Michigan Debates on Urbanism: Volume III, Roy Strickland, ed., Douglas Kelbaugh, general ed., University of Michigan, 2005.
Strickland, Roy, “Eight Challenges to Integrating Schools and Communities,” in Designing Healthy Communities, Robert Lane, ed., Regional Plan Association, 2004.
Strickland, Roy and Douglas Kelbaugh, “Ten Principles for Redeveloping Detroit’s Waterfront,” in 2003 East Riverfront Detroit Charrette, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, 2003.
Kelbaugh, Douglas, Janice Harvey and Roy Strickland, eds., Detroit Downtown Charrette, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, 2002.
Strickland, Roy, “Notes from the Homefront” in Urban Design Premises Conference Proceedings, 2002
Strickland, Roy, “Use School Billions to Revive New Jersey Cities,” Op. Ed., New Jersey Star Ledger, 2000
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Strickland, Roy, School and Boulevard, catalogue for the author's exhibition held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum Compton Gallery, 1993.
Strickland, Roy, ed., Between Edge and Fabric: Battery Park City, catalogue of author's exhibition of student designs for Battery Park City held at the World Financial Center Gallery, New York City, 1991.
Strickland, Roy and Linda Gatter, Boulevard/Manhattan, catalogue for the author's exhibition, Columbia Miniseries #6, 1991.
Strickland, Roy, "Apartment Houses, Frederick Douglas Boulevard: Notes on Donation to Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library," in Contemporary Architectural Drawings, Janet Parks, ed., Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991.
Strickland, Roy and James Sanders, "The Ultimate Hotel," Vanity Fair, May, 1983.
Strickland, Roy and James Sanders, "At Home in the City," exhibition catalogue, Graduate Center at the City University of New York, 1983.
Strickland, Roy, "In Search of a School," Plan Magazine, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981.
2.4 Citations and reviews
Plane, David, “Making the Metropolitan Landscape,” book review in Journal of American Planning Association, vol. 77. Winter 2011 (re. Strickland chapter, “Integrating Urban Design and Educational Reform in the Post-Industrial American City: Paterson, NJ as a City of Learning.)
Langdon, Philip, “Move Toward Neighborhood-Scale Schools Slowly Gains Momentum” in New Urban News, vol. 12, April – May 2007. (re. City of Learning)
Henderson, Tom, “TechTown Unveils $1.3 Billion Plan” in Crain’s Detroit Business, December 18-24, 2006. (re. TechTown Project)
Archambault, Dennis, “TechTown is a People Place” in Model D (Detroit), May 9, 2007. (re. TechTown Project)
Stern, Robert A. M. et. al., New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Milenium. New York: Monacelli Press, 2006. (pp. 1020- 1021 re. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Project)
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Bunkley, Nick, “Urban Village Taking Shape” in The Detroit News, March 14, 2006. (re. TechTown Project)
Begin, Sherri, “TechTown Seeks Nearly $500 Million for Redevelopment” in Crains Detroit Business, March 10, 2006. (re. TechTown Project)
City of Zurich Building Authority and Zurich University of Applied Science, School of Education, School Buildings. The State of Affairs. Basel: Birkauser, 2004. (pp. 36-37 re. Paterson Project)
Lane, Robert, Designing Healthy Communities. New York: Regional Plan Association, 2004. (Re: City of Learning)
Shoskes, Ellen, Creating Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth. New Jersey: Education Law Center, 2004. (pp. 16-18 re. City of Learning)
Carney, Sharon, “Seeing the World Through Film” in University of Michigan Record, October 25, 2004. (re. Strickland Urban Design Studio I Filmography)
Rugare, Steven, “Getting the Most form Urban Schools: Education is Essential to A City’s Future: But Can Schools Help Shape the City, Too?” in Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative Quarterly, 3:1, Winter, 2003. (Re. Paterson Project)
Moffat, David, “City of Learning: Paterson, NJ” in Places Awards Issue, vol. 15, 2003.
Richard, Alan, "Rubble Rouser" in Teacher Magazine, August, 2000. (Re. Paterson Project)
Richard, Alan, "Work in Progress: An Architect's Vision for Transforming Abandoned or Neglected Buildings into Thriving Public Schools is Reshaping the City of Paterson" in Education Week, June 21, 2000.
Hamilton, William, "Helping Paterson Get Better Grades in Urban Renewal" in The New York Times, May 18, 2000. (Re. Paterson Project)
Langdon, Philip, "Stopping School Sprawl" in Planning magazine, May, 2000. (Re. Paterson Project)
Beyers, Dan, "In Maryland Suburbs, Schools of Future Are Going Up Now" in the Washington Post, November 1995. (Re. New American School Design Project.)
Viadero, Debra, "Designing Lessons" in Education Week, November 30, 1994.
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(Re. New American School Design Project.)
Pierson, Clifford A., "Overhauling Education" in Architectural Record, August 1993. (Re. New American School Design Project.)
Kaye, Jane Holtz, "Robert Moses: The Master Builder" in The Nation, April 4, 1989. (Re. "Robert Moses' New York" conference.)
Russel, James S., "Reconsidering Robert Moses: Power vs. Paralysis" in Architectural Record, April, 1989. (Re. "Robert Moses' New York" conference.)
Branch, Mark Alden, "Moses Considered at Columbia" in Progressive Architecture, April, 1989. (Re. "Robert Moses' New York” conference.)
Lyons, Richard D., "What's the Shape of City's Housing?" in New York Times, July 19, 1983. (Re. "Housing: Renewing the Promise" conference.)
Daniels, Lee A., "Exhibit on Growth of New York as a City of Renters," New York Times, July 15, 1983, (Re. "At Home in the City" exhibition.)
Kaye, Jane Holtz, "Living in Multiples: Past Triumphs - and the Murky Future of Multifamily Housing" in The Christian Science Monitor, June 24, 1983. (Re. "At Home in the City" exhibition.)
Goldberger, Paul, "A Look at the City's Housing Down the Years," New York Times, June 9, 1983 (Re. "At Home in the City" exhibition.)
Huxtable, Ada Louise, "How Great Buildings Shape a City's Soul" in New York Times, Sunday, October 19, 1975. (Re. "Three Buildings" exhibition.)
2.5 Scholarly work in progress
Strickland, Roy, “The City of Learning of Learning Express: Integrating Regional Learning with Primary- and Secondary- Level Education.” Article in preparation.
Strickland, Roy, “ Saving New York City’s Public Housing through In-Fill Urban Design Strategies.” Article in preparation.
2.6 Project Reports
Strickland, Roy with Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, “Feasibility Study for Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School, New York City,”
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Strickland, Roy, “A Call for Action: Planning Istanbul, Its Region, and Turkey,” prepared for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, March, 2009
Strickland, Roy, The Renaissance Ballroom Project Program and Space Concept, prepared for the Abyssinian Development Corporation, New York City, February, 2009.
Strickland, Roy, Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School Program and Design Concept, prepared for the Abyssinian Development Corporation, New York City, January, 2008.
Strickland, Roy, ed., New Istanbul, report prepared for Istanbul Konut, Inc., University of Michigan, December, 2007.
Strickland, Roy, ed., TechTown, Master Plan Concepts, report prepared for TechTown, Detroit, University of Michigan, 2006
Strickland, Roy, ed., Programming, Planning and Design Concepts for Hilltop Career Academies and Campus, reports prepared for District of Columbia Public Schools, New American School Design Project, University of Michigan, 2003-2004.
Strickland Urban Design, Campus Crossing, prepared for Paterson Public Schools, 2003.
Davis Brody Bond Architects and Roy Strickland, Union City ARDA, prepared for Union City Public Schools, 2003
Icon Architects and Roy Strickland, An Honor and an Ornament: Public School Buildings in Michigan, prepared for Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries, 2003
Strickland Urban Design, MPACT Programming and Design Concepts, prepared for Paterson Public Schools, 2002
Strickland, Roy, ed., Designing a City of Learning: Paterson, NJ, for the New American School Design Project, MIT, 2000.
Strickland, Roy, Pre-Programming University of Pennsylvania-Assisted Public School, for University of Pennsylvania School of Education and Office of Real Estate, 1998.
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Strickland, Roy, ed., Pre-Programming PreK-8 and Related Facilities, Union City, NJ., for the New American School Design Project, MIT, 1998
Strickland, Roy, ed., Design and Planning Recommendations for the Berkeley Unified School District, for the New American School Design Project, MIT, 1994.
Strickland, Roy, Designing for Small Schools, for the Architectural League of New York, 1992.
2.7 Grants
External sources, University of Michigan Istanbul Konut, Inc. for Istanbul and Rize Metropolitan Area Design ($250,000 in-kind) Principal investigator 2008 2009
Istanbul Konut, Inc. for New Istanbul ($60,000 in-kind) Principal investigator 2007
Brookside Companies for Henry Ford Hospital Area Study ($4,000) Principal investigator 2007
TechTown for TechTown COL Project ($94,500) Principal investigator 2006
Genesee Institute for Flint COL Project ($4,000) Principal investigator 2005
District of Columbia Public Schools for Hilltop COL Project ($250,000) Principal investigator 2003 2004
Internal sources, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for New American School Design Project
Provost Grant ($15,000) Principal investigator 1995
Grunsfeld Grant and Bemis Grants ($50,000) Principal investigator 1977
External sources for New American School Design Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for New American School Design Project
Paterson Public Schools ($150,000) Principal investigator 2000 Paterson Public Schools ($250,000) Principal investigator 1999 Paterson Public Schools ($33,000) Principal investigator 1998
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Union City, NJ Board of Education ($75,000) Principal investigator 1997 Six School Complex, Washington, DC ($25,000) Principal investigator 1996 Berkeley Unified School District ($35,000) Principal investigator 1993
External sources for other Massachusetts Institute of Technology work
Institute for Behavioral Science, Tokyo, for Tokyo studio and report ($75,000) Team member 1999
External sources for Columbia University work
Rose Foundation, for conference, "Is New York City Dense Enough?" ($17,500) Conference principal 1991
Battery Park City Authority for Battery Park Studio and Exhibition ($35,000) Principal investigator 1991
External sources for Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Muncipal Art Society
For "At Home in the City" conference and exhibition: Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts Fred C. Lavenburg Foundation (tot. $125,000) Conference and 1981 exhibition principal 1982
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Grants for housing research
Design Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts ($5,000) Principal investigator 1980
Design Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts ($5,000) Principal investigator 1979
2.8 Invited lectures
“Architecture and Fashion in Film: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window,” State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology, November 12, 2012.
“Scene of the Crime to Urban Design,” PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, February 2012
“Beyond ‘The Wire’: Race, Politics and Representation in the Post-Industrial City,” Plenary Speaker, Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2011
“Istanbul and Rize City and Province as Parts of a National Plan for Turkey,” ULI-Europe. National Plan for Turkey Conference, Istanbul, January 2011
“From Schools to Cities: Evolving and Applying the City of Learning, a Strategy for School and Community Planning and Design,” 48th Making Cities Livable Conference, Charlotte, SC, October 2010
“United States 1950; Turkey 2010,” keynote address, GYODOR International Real Estate Conference, Istanbul, June 2010.
“Revisioning Public Housing,” New York City Housing Authority, January, 2010
“Rebuilding Manhattan’s Lower East Side,” Regional Plan Association, New York City, July, 2009
“Educating Urban Designers for Post-Carbon Cities,” University of Pennsylvania/Rockefeller Foundation “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the Age of Oil,” Philadelphia, November, 2008
“The Future of Istanbul as Part of a National Plan for Turkey,” Dialogue for Urban Quality Conference, ArkiPark ’08, Istanbul, Turkey, October, 2008
“Making Istanbul a 21st-Century Global City,” ULI/Forum Istanbul Urban Real Estate Investments Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2007.
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“Making Istanbul a European Capital,” Mimar Sinan University Annual Urban Design Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May, 2007.
“School Planning and Smart Growth,” Smart Growth and Schools Summit, Seaside Institute and Faulkner University, Montgomery Alabama, February, 2007.
“Designing and Programming Schools for Cities,”American Architectural Foundation School Design Institute, Washington DC, June, 2006
“The City of Learning, “ American Architectural Foundation National Summit on School Design, Washington, DC, October, 2005.
“The City of Learning,” Mayor’s Institute of City Design and American Architectural Foundation Schools as Community Centers Conference, Washington, DC, August, 2005.
“Young People as School and Community Designers,” Ford Foundation Working Communities Conference, New York City, April, 2005
“City of Learning Projects as Examples of Community-Campus Partnerships,” Tenth Annual Meeting of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Lansing, MI, December, 2004
Keynote Speaker, Regional Plan Association Conference: “Designing Healthy Schools and Healthy Communities: Making it Happen in New Jersey,” Princeton, NJ, October, 2004
“School Design and Planning as Urban Revitalization: New Jersey, Berkeley, Washington, D.C.,” Society of American City and Regional Planning History, Tenth National Conference on Planning History, 2003.
“Leveraging Health for Smart Growth,” Regional Plan Association 13th Annual Regional Assembly, 2003
“The City of Learning Strategy for Designing the Post-Industrial City,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, City Design and Development Section, 2003, 2002.
“Designing Schools as Community Centers,” American Planning Association National Conference, 2002.
“Notes from the Home Front, Urban Design Practices, Pedagogies, Premises Conference, sponsored by Columbia and Harvard Universities and Van Alen Institute, 2002
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“Cities of Learning: Berkeley, Paterson, Washington, D.C.,” Mayors Institute of City Design, Chicago, 2002.
“Designing School s and Cities for the 21st Century,” Building the Future Conference, University of Michigan School of Education and A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, 2001
“Schools as Community and Community as Curriculum,” Symposium on Sustainable School Design, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Office of State Planning, 2001.
"Planning Schools as Centers of Communities," New Jersey Governor's Conference on Housing and Community Development, October, 2000.
"Recapturing Old Buildings as Schools," CNU "Politics of Place" conference, Portland, Oregon, June, 2000.
"Schools as Catalysts for Community Development," Mayors Institute on City Design, University of Illinois, Chicago, March, 2000.
"Designing Cities for Learning," Washington University School of Architecture, "Design Modernity and the American City" conference, March, 1999.
"Learning as a Medium for Place Making," Seaside Institute, Florida, June 1999.
"The New American School Design Project," Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, April, 1996.
"Between Party Walls: Nineteenth-Century Residential Urbanism in New York City," Typology Conference, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, April,1996.
"Designing Small Schools" at "Schools for the 215" Century" conference, Washington, D.C., 1996.
"The City as School: School Facility Options for the New Town of Abacoa," MacArthur Foundation Planning Seminar for Abacoa, Florida, January, 1996.
Exhibition Lecture, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, February, 1995.
"School and Boulevard," UCLA School of Architecture and Planning, April, 1994.
"The City as Laboratory of Architectural Modernism," University of Massachusetts, Boston, April, 1994.
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"Creating New Schools and School Systems," Conference of the American Education Finance Association, Memphis, Tennessee, April 1994.
"New Methodologies for Designing Urban Schools," Space Organization Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November, 1993.
"The Millennium Approaches: Changing Assumptions about Dwellings and Communities," at conference "Urban Design: Reshaping our Cities" at The Institute of Urban Design and the University of Washington College of Architecture and Planning, Seattle, October, 1993.
"Designing a New Network of Schools," at symposium held by Berkeley, California Unified School District, June, 1993.
"Designing a New Tokyo Center," Institute for Behavioral Studies, Tokyo, Japan, December, 1992.
"Recapturing American Towns and Cities: Four Projects," Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Architecture, November, 1992.
"Working with Design Schools," The Mayor's Institute on City Design, Northeast, National Endowment for the Arts, April, 1992.
"The 1961 Zoning Revision and the Template of the Ideal City," New York City Planning Commission Symposium, New York University School of Law, January, 1992.
"Post-Professional Education in Architecture," University of Michigan College of Architecture, November, 1991.
"Designing the Small School," Center for New York City's Future, Columbia University, November, 1991.
"Designing for the City," Lehigh University, Autumn, 1991.
"The City of Five Cities," School of Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April, 1989.
"Recent Work," City College of the City University, College of Architecture, November, 1989.
"Recent Work," Wesleyan University, Visual Artists Series.
"Imperial Visions: McKim. Mead and White's Design for Columbia University," Columbia College, February, 1985.
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"Harlem: 1900-1920, Conference on the History of Low-Income Housing in New York City, 1901-1984, Columbia' University Seminar on the City, October, 1984.
"Emerald Necklaces: The Evolution of American Urban Parks," Women's City Club of Boston, May, 1984.
"Housing: The Legacy. An Overview of New York City's Housing and the Forces That Shaped It," Graduate Center of the City University of New York, June, 1983.
"Riverwalk: A New Approach to the Waterfront," The Urban Center, New York, February, 1982.
“The Bryant Park Project,” Architectural League of New York, Young Architects Series, October, 1981.
“The Savannah, Georgia Landscape,” The Society of Architecture Historians, Annual Meeting, Savannah, 1979.
“Housing in London: Historical Survey and Three Recent Projects,” Brooklyn College Colloquium, March 1976.
“Planning a Civic Center for the City of New York,” Columbia University, April 1975.
3.0 Professional Work
3.1 Design projects
Office of Roy Strickland (also Strickland Urban Design)
Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School/Annie G. 2009 Newsome Head Start Center Architectural Plan present (Credit: Roy Strickland with Platt, Byard, Dovell White Architects)
Urban Design for Two “Satellite” Cities for Istanbul, Turkey 2011 2012
Renaissance Ballroom Project 2007 For Abyssinian Development Corporation, 2009 New York City
Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School Concept Plan for Abyssinian Development 2004 Corporation, New York City 2008
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Campus Crossing, Paterson, New Jersey 2002 2003
Union City ARDA, Union City, New Jersey (with Davis Brody Bond Architects) 2002 2003
MPACT Academy Programming and Design Concepts, Paterson, New Jersey 2001 2002
Trenton Community-Based Schools Master Plan (with Icon Architects) 2001 2002 (built)
Morgan Transportation Academy, Paterson, New Jersey 2000 2001 (built)
Residence, Ellsworth, Maine 2000 2001 (built)
Hudson Studio, New York City
Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts 1992
Residence, Pine Cay, B.W.I. 1991 1992 (built)
West Side High School, New York City 1991 1992
Strickland and Carson Associates, New York City
Clinton School Project, New York City 1989 1990
Residence at Pierson Lakes, Sterlington, New York 1989 1990
Urban Design for Frederick Douglass Boulevard Project, 1988 New York City 1989 (built)
Residence, Pound Ridge, New York 1987 1988 (built)
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Residence, New York City 1986 1987 (built)
Museum of American Folk Art, New York City 1983 1984
Union Place Project, New York City 1982 1984 (built)
Third Avenue Revitalization Project, 1982 New York City 1983 (built)
Parks Council, New York City
Bryant Park Project, New York City 1979 1981 (built)
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Plan for New York City Civic Center 1976
Theodore Roosevelt /20th Street 1974 Revitalization Project 1975 (built)
3.2 Design and planning awards
EDRA/Places Award for “Designing a City of Learning: Paterson, NJ,” Roy Strickland, ed., New American School Design Project 2002
New Jersey American Association of Planners “Outstanding Planning Award” for Trenton Community- Based Schools Master Plan (with Icon Architects) 2002
New Jersey Planning Officials Achievement in Planning Award for Trenton Community-Based Schools Master Plan (with Icon Architects) 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Council on the Arts Award 1993
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Municipal Art Society Merit Award (for Bryant 1984 Park Project)
Architectural League of New York 1981 Young Architects Award
Certificate of Merit, Copley Square, 1981 Boston, National Design Competition
3.3 Publications
Stuebing, Susan, School Design Notebook, ch. 21: The Clinton School. Newark: New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1993.
The Architectural League of New York and the Public Education Association, New Schools for New York, pp. 31-33 and pp. 72-75. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992. (Re: Clinton School design.)
"The Clinton School" in Progressive Architecture: Schools, March, 1992.
"Harlem Renaissance Begins in the Streetscape" in Architectural Record February, 1992. (Re. Frederick Douglas Boulevard Project and "Boulevard/Manhattan" exhibition.)
Mouat, Lucia, "Restoring Harlem to Former Glory," in The Christian Science Monitor, January 14, 1992. (Re. Fredrick Douglass Boulevard Project.)
Trelsted, Julie, "Affordable Housing: Projects" in Progressive Architecture, June, 1991. (Re. Fredrick Douglass Boulevard Project.)
Genevro, Rosalie, "New York City School Designs" in Columbia University Teachers College Record, Winter, 1990. (Re. Clinton School design.)
Goldberger, Paul, "And the Winning School Is - Smaller" in New York Times, Sunday, May 27, 1990. (Re: Clinton School design.)
Fiske, Edward B., "Will New School Buildings be Symbols of New Educational System?" in New York Times, February 21, 1990. (Re. Clinton School design.)
"Park and Ride," New York Times Editorial, August 16, 1982. (Re. Bryant Park Project.)
"Counterattack in Bryant Park," New York Times Editorial, November, 1981.
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(Re. Bryant Park Project.)
3.4 Exhibitions featuring work by Roy Strickland
“Shaping Cities: Urban Design Projects by Douglas Kelbaugh, Rahul Mehrotra, Steven Peterson and Barbara Littenberg and Roy Strickland.” Architecture Gallery, A. Alfred Taubman College of Urban Planning and Architecture, 2004. (Note: Exhibition Curator and Coordinator)
"School and Boulevard" re. Clinton School and Frederick Douglass Boulevard Project. Venues: University of Washington, Seattle, School of Architecture, 1995; UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Planning Gallery, 1994; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum Compton Gallery, 1993.
"Boulevard/Manhattan" re. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Project. Venues: Rhode Island School of Design Architecture Gallery, 1992; Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, 1991.
"New Schools for New York" re. Clinton School at the Urban Center and International Design Center, New York City, 1990.
"Copley Square National Design Competition," re. Copley Square design submission, Copley Place, Boston, 1981.
3.5 Grants for professional projects
For Union Square Project:
Vincent Astor Foundation, 14th Street-Union Square Local Development Corporation,
New York City Department of Traffic, and Guardian Life Insurance (tot. $500,000) Project director 1981 1984 For Bryant Park project:
J.M. Kaplan Fund, Vincent Astor Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York State Council (tot. $500,000) Project director 1979 on the Arts 1981
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4.0 Teaching
4.1 Courses taught
University of Michigan A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
UD 722 Urban Design Studio II 2005 present
UD 723 Methodologies in Urban Design 2002 present
Arch 506 Architecture and Urbanism 2010 in Film present
UD 732 Urban Design Studio III 2009
UD 712 Urban Design Studio I 2001 2005
Arch 682/UP631 Architecture and Planning Studio 2002 2007
MIT, Department of Architecture
4.182 Architecture Design Workshop: 1993 School and Community 2001
4.221 Architecture Studies Faculty 1995 Colloquium 2000
4.288 Preparation for S.M. Arch.S. Thesis 1992 2000
4.189 Preparation for M. Arch. Thesis 1992 (alternate years) 2000
4.126 Level I Architecture Design Studio 1998 1999
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4.218 Special Problems In Urban 1993 Housing: N.Y, London, Paris 1998
4.132/4.14 Level II Arch. Design Studio 1993 1994
4.163 Tokyo Urban Design Studio 1992
Harvard/MIT Teachers As Scholars Program Seminar: Architecture and Urbanism In Film 2000
Columbia University/Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Urban Design Seminar: 1990 The City of Five Cities
A40023 Core Studio: Urban Design 1990
A4027 Architecture, Planning, 1985 Preservation: New York 1987
V390ly Senior Seminar (Housing) 1984 1988
V3202y Elements in Architectural Design 1984 1988
A4003 Comprehensive Studio 1983 1987
4.2 MIT theses supervised
Summary Title Completed (by degree)
M.Arch. Samuel DeSollar A Framework for Community Design: Worcester's Main South Neighborhood 1997
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Christopher Klein Reintegrating Living and Working Spaces: A Hybrid Development for Roxbury Crossing 1997
Kiyoshi Kaneko Creating Community: Designing for Futakotamagawa Area in Tokyo 1997
Bjorn Slate New Tracts for America: The House and its Serial Deployment 1994
Heather Hootman Lessons in Sustainable Design: Case Study of a School in Chicago 1994
S.M.Arch. S./ MCP
Helmut Lotze Housing Delivery in a Reunited Germany 1994
S. M. Arch. S.
Junfu Zhu Framework for the Development of The Southeast Tsinghua University Campus 2000
Jing Yu Reconnecting Urban Communities: Northeastern University Housing Project 1999
Ching-Yi Lin Sustaining Tradition Through Tourism: 1998 Zhan-Qi As A Model for China
Stephanie Farrell School, Community, Home; Using Architecture and Urban Design in Creating An Integrated Learning Environment 1997
Jeong Jun Ju A Variation of the New Urbanism: Provision of a Public Realm for The City of Attleboro, Mass 1997
Li Pei Wang Designing the Superblock: A Model for Taipei Redevelopment 1996 Jennifer Mecca Transforming the Suburban House 1993
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4.3 Awards for Teaching
ACSA Design Studio Award 1994 (with Gary Hack, MIT)
4.4 Invited studio juror
PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania 2012
Yale University, Department of Architecture 1999
Harvard University Graduate School of Design 1996
Boston Architectural. Center 1994
City University of New York School of Architecture 1990
5.0 Service
5.1 Exhibitions curated
“Shaping Cities: Urban Design Projects by Douglas Kelbaugh, Rahul Mehrotra, Steven Peterson and Barbara Littenberg, and Roy Strickland,” Architecture Gallery, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, 2004
"Frank Gehry: Designing a New Stata Center," Wolk Gallery of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
"Between Edge and Fabric: Battery Park City," World Financial Center, New York City, 1991.
"At Home in the City," Galleries of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Urban Center, 1983.
"Three Buildings," Gallery of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, May, 1976.
5.2 Conferences organized
“Planning and Building New Schools” sponsored by The New American School Design Project, MIT Department of Architecture, 1993.
"Designing the New American School" sponsored by The New American School Design Project, MIT Department of Architecture, 1993.
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"The Density and the City: Is New York Dense Enough?" sponsored by the Center for New York City's Future, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 1991.
"Robert Moses' New York" sponsored by the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 1989.
"Housing: Renewing the Promise," sponsored by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Municipal Art Society of New York, 1983.
5.3 Pro bono
Municipal Arts Society of New York Preservation Committee 2013 present
Istanbul Konut, Inc., Turkey, Design Advisory Committee 2007 2012 Regional Plan Association and City of Newark Office of Planning and Economic Development: Newark Draft Vision Plan 2006
Architectural League of New York, New Schools for New York Committee 1989
Architectural League of New York, Young Architects 1981 Committee
5.4 Public Service
34th Street Transitway Action Committee of the Murray Hill 2010 Neighborhood Association, New York City present
Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee for Boston Public Schools 1995
Design Arts Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts 1987
5.5 Academic Service
Urban Design and Planning Journal (Institution of Civil Engineers Britain) Member, Editorial Advisory Board 2011 present
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Places Journal Member, Editorial Advisory Board 2003 2012
Editor, “Media and the City” issue 2005 2006
University of Michigan A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Reappointment Review Committee 2012 2013
Member, MUD Task Force 2012
Director, Master of Urban Design Program 2001 2012
Chair, Master of Urban Design Faculty/Curriculum Committee 2001 present
Chair, Master of Urban Design Program Admissions Committee 2001 present
Chair, LEO Committee 2009 2010
Member, Future of Urbanism Conference Committee 2010
Chair, Urban Design Faculty Search Committee 2007 2008
Member, TCAUP Centennial Conference Committee 2006
Member, TCAUP Strategic Assessment Committee 2006 2007
Member, Detroit Charrette Committee 2001 2006
Member, Lectures and Exhibition Committee 2001
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2006
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee 2003 2005
Member, TCAUP 100th Anniversary Committee 2005 2007
Member, Center for Research and Learning and Teaching Grant Awards Committee (university-wide) 2002 2004
Member, Provost’s Faculty Advisory Committee (University-wide) 2002 2005
MIT Department of Architecture
Chair, S.M.Arch. S. Curriculum Committee 1994 2001
Chair, S.M.Arch. S. Admission Committee 1994 2001
Director, New American School Design Project 1992 2001
Exhibition Coordinator/Curator 1998 Wolk Architecture Gallery, MIT 2001
Faculty Advisor, Pin-Up, Department 1996 News Magazine 2001
Department Representative, Committee on 1995 Graduate School Policy 2001
Member, MIT, Council on Primary and 1995 Secondary Education 2001
Member, Department Council 1994 1996
Chair, Architecture and Culture Committee 1993 1994
S.M.Arch.S. Admissions Committee 1993
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M.Arch. Design Faculty Search Committee 1992 1993
M.Arch. Admissions Committee 1992 1994
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Chair, Admissions Committee, 1989 Urban Design Program 1991
Director, 1989 Center for New York City's Future 1991
Undergraduate Architecture Curriculum 1984 Committee 1990
Sudler Prize Committee 1984 1990
Kinne Fellowship Committee 1984 1989
Co-Chair Admissions Committee, 1984 New York/ Paris Program 1990
M.Arch. Admissions Committee 1984 1989
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