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Alice Guess

Architecture professor

Education

  • M.Arch., architecture, Tulane University
  • M.Arch., architecture, McGill University
  • B.Arch., architecture, Tulane University

Credentials

Teaching experience

  • Professor of architecture, 2015–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    • Moderator, public panel discussion on sustainable futures, 2023
    • Graduate coordinator for SCAD School of Architecture, 2023–24
    • Graduate admissions committee member, 2021–23
    • Accreditation committee chair, SCAD School of Architecture, 2020–22
    • Third year undergraduate coordinator, SCAD School of Architecture, 2019–20
    • First year graduate studio coordinator, SCAD School of Architecture, 2018–19
    • Fourth year undergraduate coordinator, SCAD School of Architecture, 2017–18
    • Adjunct professor, 2014–15
  • Assistant professor, 2012–13, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Adjunct professor, 2010–12, Clemson Architecture Center, Charleston, SC

Professional experience

  • Co-owner/architect, 2015–present, Guess Nicholson Architecture, Savannah, GA
  • Architect, 2013–15, Alice Guess, Savannah, GA
  • Partner, 2000–13, Gibson Guess Architects, LLC, Charleston, SC
  • Architect, 2000–07, Glenn Keyes Architects, Charleston, SC
  • Architect, 1997–99, Frederick + Frederick Architects, Beaufort, SC
  • Architect, 1993–95, Wayne Troyer, Architect, New Orleans, LA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Student Hazen Soucy winner of 2024 IDA Bronze award for student projects in Landscape Architecture / Community Spaces / Parks for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Mast," 2024
  • Student Al-Kwadha Ishmael James winner of 2024 IDA Honorable Mention award for student projects in Architecture Project -Development/Commercial Category for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "The Convergence Centre," 2024
  • Student Gabriel Cachapuz Velasco winner of 2024 AIA ASPIRE graduate student design award for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Relinquetur Research Center," 2024
  • Student Gabriel Cachapuz Velasco winner of 2024 Red Dot Next Gen Award for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Relinquetur Research Center," 2024
  • Student Denzyl Ye Teo Denzyl Gineva Zhang AIA Georgia 2024 Student Design Excellence award and an Architecture Masterprize award for green architecture, 2024, for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Southern Bastion – Protecting the Marshes"
  • Student Zach Ebbers winner of AIA St. Louis Distinguished award in the Drawing Category for his narrative sectional drawing The Floating Mountain" done in ARCH 303 studio 2020, 2023
  • Student Gabriel Cachapuz Velasco winner of 2023 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Relinquetur Research Center," 2023
  • Student Denzyl Ye Teo Denzyl Gineva Zhang winner of 2023 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition for his Winter/Spring ARCH 727/ARCH 737 studio project "Southern Bastion – Protecting the Marshes," 2023
  • Student Nicolas Barrera Casteneda awarded Gold in the IDA Design Awards for his project "Pocket Complex: Arc Tower from ARCH 727/737 Studio 2022, 2022
  • Student Nicolas Richards selected for the AIA Georgia 2022 Student Design Excellence awards for Project "Catalyst" from ARCH 404 Studio 2021, 2022
  • Student Pranav Ghadashi selected for the AIA Georgia 2022 Student Design Excellence awards for Project "Kinesthetic Library" from ARCH 727/737 Studio 2020, 2022
  • Student Mateo Mantilla for the AIA Georgia 2021 Student Design Excellence award for his ARCH 727/737 Studio 2021 Project "Terminale Dell'Isola, 2021
  • Student Mateo Mantilla was named the IDA Design Awards 2021 Emerging Architectural Designer of the Year and was awarded a Gold Medal for his ARCH 727/737 Studio 2021 Project "Terminale Dell'Isola," 2021
  • Student Xiaoye Jin selected as finalist in the AIA Georgia 2020 student awards for project "Fold of Relationship," 2020
  • Student Santiago Diaz awarded Honorable Mention in the 2019 Laka Competition '19 Architecture that Reacts for "Two Pieces and a Rubberband," 2019
  • Faculty sponsor of AIA COTE 2018 Top Ten student winner Austen Goodman, 2018
  • SCAD Deans Award, cross disciplinary collaboration with Ricardo Navarro, 2017
  • Carolopolis Award, Charleston Historic Preservation Society, 2009
  • 40 under 40, Charleston Regional Business Journal Award, 2009
  • Carolopolis Award, Charleston Historic Preservation Society, 2008
  • First place, Grace Memorial Bridge Design Competition, Charleston, SC, 2006
  • Carolopolis Award, Charleston Historic Preservation Society, 2006

Organizations

  • American Institute of Architects (AIA), 2017–present
  • NCARB, 2007–present
  • Building Technology Educators' Society, 2011–present
  • Building Enclosure Council, 2003–present

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Honor Thy Neighborhood," Charleston Magazine, Oct. 2014.
  • "A Modern Fish Camp," Garden and Gun, April–May 2010.
  • "Design Evolution," Charleston Home, March 2009.
  • "The Kindness of Strangers: Charleston Restaurants Pitch in to Save a New Orleans Sister," Charleston City Paper, 2006.
  • "Present Imperfect" (co-author), Batture: LSU School of Architecture Journal, 2004.
  • "Prayer Machine," McGill School of Architecture History and Theory Catalog, 1997.

Presentations

  • "Studio Shift: An Ecological Exploration Through Material Experimentation" joint submission with Dr. Mike Hill, Talk + Chat presentation, 2024 AIA Aspire Conference, September 15-17, 2024.
  • "Leveraging recent graduates' knowledge for a sustainable and resilient future" joint submission with Bradford Watson, Steven Juroszek and David Franco. Talk + Chat presentation, 2024 AIA Aspire Conference, September 15-17, 2024.
  • "Spanning the Studio." Joint abstract submission with Scott Singeisen, ACSA National Conference, 2019.
  • "Raised Structures: Reclaiming the Interstitial as a Means of Acclimatization." Presented at ACSA Subtropical Cities Conference, Braving a New World: Design Interventions for Changing Climates, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 2013.
  • "Place Talking: A New Possibility for Preserving Sites of Cultural Significance." Presented at ACSA Subtropical Cities Conference, Braving a New World: Design Interventions for Changing Climates, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 2013.
  • "Methodist Campgrounds of Rural South Carolina — A Graphic Analysis." Poster submitted for 99th Annual ACSA Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2010.
  • "How to Draw a Crooked Line." Presented at Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2007.

Exhibitions

  • Timeless or of Its Time?, Gibson Thompson Guess Architects LLC, Charleston, SC, 2008.