Profile:

Franca Trubiano, is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2003-2004, she was the first McMahan Visiting Associate Professor at Clemson University. From 1997 to 2003 she was a Studio Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architectural Theory at Drexel University. Her teaching and research are focused on the history and theory of Architecture as well as on theories of technology and emerging materials. Her studio teaching, both at the graduate and undergraduate level, investigates questions of tectonics, materials, sectional thinking and the surface. Her dissertation research is centered on the study of 18th century architectural drawings and is entitled, 'Architecture in the Manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Ornamental Excess and the Apotropaic Function of Grotesque Representations in 18 th century Architectural Theory.'

Recipient of research grants including the Salvatori Research Grant from the University of Pennsylvania, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (1995-1999, Government of Canada) the Fonds aux Chercheurs et Aide à la Recherche (1993-1995, Quebec Government), and co- recipient of a Canada Council Artist B Grant. She was also a co-recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant for a PhD Symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania; Architecture: Imagining a Common Ground for Theory and Practice (1997).

She has been a visiting design critic at various universities including Harvard, Barnard/Columbia, Parsons School of Design, Temple University, Philadelphia University, McGill University and l'Université de Montréal. Recent scholarship is published in Chora, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture.

She received her M.Arch (Dean's Honor List) and her B.Arch (University Scholar) in 1995 and 1988 respectively from McGill University in Montréal, Canada.

Publications:

Exhibition Hall Turin Italy, Fascist Architecture, Adalberto Libera, entries in Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture, 3 vols. ed. R. Stephen Sennott, (New York, London; Fitzroy, Dearborn, 2004).

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The Birth of Venus/Nascita di Venere, The Eastern Lagoon Front/Il fronte orientale della Laguna, ILAUD 2000, (Grafica G.M. -Spino d=Adda, 2001), pp. 40-49.

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Architecture in the Manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Proceedings, Homelands, ACSA. eds. Unwin-Barkley, West and Samuels, (Charlotte; University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2000), pp. 97-103.

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Origins and Ornaments: Jean Jacques Lequeu and the Poetics of the City in l'Architecture Civile, Chora, Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, v. 3, (Québec City; McGill-Queen=s University Press, 1999), pp. 221-254.

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Reflections on the Reversibility of Vision and Touch, or The Great Peepshow, History and Theory Graduate Studio, McGill School of Architecture 1993-1995, (Montreal; McGill University School of Architecture, 1994), pp. 41-45.

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Satyrs, Centaurs, Monsters and Muses: Archetypal Memory in Serlio's Libro Estraordinario, Proceedings, Memory and Architecture, ACSA. eds. Eleni Bastea and Gia Daskalakis, (St.Louis; Washington University in St.Louis, 1998), pp. 300-307.

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The Alchemical Spirit of G.B. Piranesi in Diverse maniere d=adornare i cammini, Potential Architectural Journal August 2001, at www.waac.vt.edu

Studios

ARCH 3011 [Fall 2004]
Architecture Design Studio III

Courses

ARCH 8822
Theories & Philosophies of Technology & Architecture