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Julie Rogers Varland

Architecture professor

Education

  • M.Arch., architecture, Columbia University
  • B.A., social science, Spring Arbor College

Credentials

  • Professor of architecture, 1999–present
    Graduate coordinator, 2007–2010
    • Coordinated incoming graduate students, planned, and advised for the graduate program in the Department of Architecture
    Fundamental year master, 2002–2010
    • Coordinated faculty, pedagogy, and facility issues pertaining to Introduction to Architecture; provided the chair with a quarterly report concerning coordination as facilitator for these classes and their faculty
    Chair, Interdisciplinary Initiatives College Council, 2007–2009, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    • Chaired and moderated quarterly council meetings, set agenda, conducted follow-up meetings with appropriate college personnel, presented council summary and action items at quarterly Leadership Council meetings, discussed and generated ideas
    • Architecture professor, 1992–1999, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Presidential Fellowship Grant, "Interdisciplinary Research of Japanese Architecture, Materiality, Space, and Design: Translations of the Traditional into the Contemporary," SCAD, 2008
  • Presidential Fellowship Grant, "Choreography of Space," SCAD, 2003
  • Competition winner, Amphibious, exhibition for Main Street/Art Street, Buffalo, New York, 1998
  • Faculty Award, voted by AIAS - State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994

Organizations

  • Smart Growth Savannah, Founding Member, 2016–present
  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 1994–present
  • U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 2008–present
  • Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), 2009–present
  • Creative Coast Alliance, 2010–present
  • Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy, 2006–present
  • Coastal Heritage Society, 2005–present

Publications and presentations

Published articles

  • With Dr. Susan Falls. "Designing Relationships: Investigating Community and Constructed Environments," The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, Champagne-Urbana: Common Ground Publishing.
  • "The Qualitative and Quantitative World of Robert Wilson’s Theater," Conference Proceedings, Bridges 2010, Pecs, Hungary, Summer 2010.
  • "The SPACE of Robert Wilson's Theatrical Works," Intersight, Spring 1997.

Juried papers presented

  • "Designing Relationships: Investigating Community and Constructed Environments." Paper presented with Susan Falls at Constructed Environment Conference, Chicago, Oct. 2011.
  • "Story Savannah: Ethnography + Design." Paper presented at SECAC, Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, Oct. 2010.
  • "The Qualitative and Quantitative World of Robert Wilson’s Theater." Paper presented at Bridges 2010, International Conference, Pecs, Hungary, July 2010.
  • "Engawa and More: Japanese Concepts and Architectural Behaviors of Liminal Spaces." Paper presented at SECAC 2009 Annual Conference, Mobile, AL, Oct. 2009.
  • "The Electronic Sanctuary." Paper presented at the Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Built Form & Culture Research, Making Sacred Places, the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Oct. 1997.
  • "The Color Room: A Phenomenological Approach to Color." Paper presented at annual College Art Association Conference (CAA), Toronto, Feb. 1998.

Invited presentations, exhibitions, and installations

  • "3 Professors, 2 Trips, 1 Country: Exploring Japanese Meaning, Materiality and Space." Presented with Amy Wynne and Joel Varland at the School of Building Arts Lecture Series, SCAD Museum of Art, March 2012.
  • "Interdisciplinary Programs: a contextual and philosophic consideration." Presented at ACSA Administrator's Conference, Savannah, GA, Nov. 2008.
  • Roundtable discussion of Architectural Vernacularism, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2007.
  • "Urban Laminate for MLK Boulevard." Presented at Humanities Consortium Annual Meeting, Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, GA, April 2006.
  • Homogenization. Installation and performance with Joel Varland, ARTillery Punch and RenaZance, for the Starland Arts Complex, Savannah, GA, Fall 2004.
  • Amphibious for Main Street/Art Street. Installation in downtown Buffalo storefront, Buffalo, NY, 1998.

Performances

  • Choreography of a Boston Space. Choreographed, directed, and performed at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery Program, Aug. 1987.
  • "Layered Projection and the Collapse of the Line." All-School Charette competition organized and juried by Daniel Libeskind, Wood Auditorium, Columbia University, New York, Spring 1990.

Published design work

  • "Homogenization," Drain Magazine, Issue 01: Silence, 2004
  • "Housing for Greenpoint, Brooklyn," Abstract, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 1988-89
  • "Pilot Plant for Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ," Abstract, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 1989-90