Administration

Sabir Khan
Associate Professor and Associate Dean

Education

• Rice University School of Architecture.
  Master of Architecture. May 1987.
• Princeton University, School of Architecture.
  Bachelor of Arts in Architectural History and Theory. June 1983.
• Cadet College, Hassanabdal, Pakistan.
  Baccalaureate. June 1978.

Academic Experience -- Administrative

• Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture.
• Associate Dean. July 2002-Present.
• Responsibilities: Undergraduate Studies; College-wide Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Initiatives.
• Director, Common First Year. Fall 1999-Present.
• Responsibilities: Budgetary; Personnel; and Curricular Development, Implementation, and Supervision for Inter-disciplinary 'Foundations' Program -- 280 students, 16 faculty.

Academic Experience – Georgia Tech Committees

• University Leadership Council, 2005-2006.
  Selected for the inaugural year-long program for faculty in leadership positions.
• Institute Honors Program Committee, 2004-Present.
  Appointed to the committee charged with developing and implementing an Honors College for Georgia Tech.
• Institute Planning Committee, 2004-Present.
  Appointed to the committee charged with re-visioning and planning the new Library and Undergraduate Learning Center.
• Institute Technology Fee Committee, 2005-Present.
  Appointed to the committee charged with selecting proposals funded by the Student Technology Fee (3.5 million dollars annually).
• Institute Undergraduate Research Advisory Group, 2004-Present.
  Appointed to the committee charged with developing a common research track for all undergraduate majors.

Academic Experience – Other Committees and Memberships

• Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
  Board Member 2005-2007.
  Elected Treasurer, Spring 2005.
  Chair, Finance and Planning Committee.
  Member: Scholarly Meetings; Publications; and Education Committees.
  Chair and Organizer, Odysseys – Worlds On the Move, Southeast Conference, Atlanta 2002.
• Mayor's Public Art Advisory Committee. Chair, Member.
  Appointed to Mayor Shirley Franklin's inaugural Public Art Advisory Committee for a two-year term. December 2004.
• National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB).
  Member, Accreditation Teams, 2003-Present.

Academic Experience -- Teaching

• Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture.
  • Associate Professor. Fall 2001-Present.
    
    Architecture Program, Courses and Seminars:
    Near and Far: Cross-cultural Practices in Art, Architecture, and Design.
    Hyphen-nation: Ethnicity in Exurbia.
    
    Public Art and its (Dis)contents.
    Design Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate and Doctoral Students.
    
    Common First Year, Courses:
    Introduction to the Designed and Built Environment.
    Design in the World: I and II.
  • Assistant Professor. Fall 1995-Spring 2001.
  • Visiting Instructor. January 1993-June 1995.
• Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.
  Barcelona Study Abroad Program. Summer 1999-Present.
  Responsibilities: Organization and Instruction for a 50-student cross- disciplinary 10-week summer program.
  Courses: Architecture, Design, Material Culture. City Literacy.
• University of Oklahoma College of Architecture.
  Assistant Professor. Fall 1990-December 1992.

Design and Research Awards

• AIA Georgia Residential Award. 2005.
  Merit Award. David Hacin, Jury Chair.
• PA/Architecture Award for Architectural Research. 1999.
  Citation. Richard Eribes, Jury Chair.
• American Institute of Architects Education Honor Awards. 1999.
  First Place. Max Underwood, Jury Chair.
• ACSA National Faculty Design Award. 1997.
  The National Diet Archive, Kansai Science City, Japan.
  Michael Rotondi, Jury Chair.
• Public Space in the New American City. Competition. 1994.
  Honorable Mention. Michael Sorkin, Jury Chair.
• ACSA National Faculty Design Award. 1993.
  Suburban Addition: A Backyard House: Karachi, Pakistan.
  Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jury Chair.
• ASCA National Faculty Design Award. 1992.
  Suburban Villa for an Extended Family: Islamabad, Pakistan.
  Michael Dennis, Jury Chair.

Other Awards

• Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture Early Career Achievement Award. May 2000. Peer nominated and reviewed.

Research Grants

• Georgia Tech Foundation Research Grant. $11,055. Awarded June 2000. Principal Investigator. The grant supported research on cross-cultural aspects of international practice.
• US General Services Administration. Administrative Office of US Courts. $169,400. Awarded August 1999. Co-Principal Investigator. The grant funded a feasibility study for a national facility to support research in courtroom design and technology.
• Georgia Institute of Technology. Technology-Enhanced Curriculum Development Grant. $41,308. Awarded June 1999. Co-Principal Investigator. The grant funded the experimental use of collaborative web environments to support design teaching.
• Georgia Board of Regents' Teaching and Learning Grant. $ 20,000. November 1997. Co-Principal Investigator. The grant funded the development of a Collaborative On-line (COOL) Graduate Design Studio.
• Georgia Tech Foundation Research Grant. $6,116. June 1997. Co-Principal
  Investigator. The grant supported the development of Case Studies of Courthouses Commissioned Through the General Services Administration's Design Excellence Program.
• Proctor and Gamble Foundation. Learning For Global Competitiveness: Preparing Students for the New Design Workplace Initiative. Co-Principal Investigator. $150,000. May 1996. The three-year grant supported the development of a Curriculum for Pre-disciplinary and Inter-disciplinary Design Courses for the College of Computing and the College of Engineering.
• EduTech Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology. Education Initiative Grant. 1996.
• Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology. Fellow. 1995.

Refereed Paper Presentations

• Double Frame: The Brise-Soleil in Post-war Indian Architecture. April 2005.
  Vancouver. Society of Architectual Historians (SAH) Annual Meeting.
• Flânerie on the Fly: Learning from Lagos and Mexico City. February 2005. Atlanta.
  College Art Association (CAA) Annual Meeting.
• Learning from Lagos: Koolhaas on the Periphery. December 2004. Sharjah/Dubai.
  International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)
  Ninth Conference.
• Double Lives in Art and Architecture: Marjetica Potrc and Jae Cha. July 2003. Helsinki. ACSA International Conference.
• Framing the Indian Interior. February 2002. Sixteenth Annual Conference,
  Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
  Also presented at the ACSA International Conference. June 2002. Istanbul.
• Listening to Friday: Renzo Piano at Tjibaou.
  October 2000. Bari, Italy. IASTE Seventh Conference.
• The Traffic in Culture: Policing Heritage and Modernity. August 2000. Montreal.
  XXXVIth International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS).
• Salon Indien, Baithak, and Mixed Society: the Domestic Interior in Colonial India.
  June 2000. Coral Gables. SAH Annual Meeting.
• Cultural Baggage and the White Man's Burden. June 2000. Hong Kong.
  ACSA International Conference.
  Also presented at the ACSA Southeast Regional Conference. October 1999.
  San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Net Effects: The Web and the Space of Design. June 2000. Hong Kong.
  ACSA International Conference.
• The Chadur and the Architecture of the Everyday. April 2000. Atlanta.
  Narrative Studies Annual Conference.
• Pavimenti Romani: Organizational Strategies for the Periphery of an Old City.
  May 1999. Rome. ACSA International Conference.
• COOL Studio: Opening Up the Discursive Space of Design. April 1999. Cambridge.
  4th International Symposium on Design Thinking and Representation at MIT.
• Baker, Jeanneret, and Stein: Three Émigré Architects. April 1999. Houston.
  SAH Annual Meeting.
• The Enunciation of Space: Two South Asian Accounts. March 1999. Minneapolis.
  ACSA Annual Meeting.
• The Home and the World: The Architecture of Autobiography. October 1998.
  St. Louis. ACSA West Central Regional Meeting.
• Going Native, Becoming Modern. October 1998. Knoxville, Tennessee.
  ACSA Southeast Regional Meeting.
• Euro-American Émigré Architects in India. October 1998. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  ACSA Northeast Regional Meeting.
• Imagining Chandigarh. May 1998. Rio de Janeiro. ACSA International Conference.
• Reëngineering the Design Curriculum. April 1998. Charlotte, North Carolina. Architectural Research Consortium Conference.
• Assessing Design Skills and Knowledge: A Developmental Approach.
  November 1997. Pittsburgh. Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference.
• Indian Furniture: Between the Body and the Building. March 1997. Dallas.
  ACSA Annual Meeting.
• Enormous Programs, Anonymous Terrains. March 1997. Dallas.
  ACSA Annual Meeting.
• Safe Houses, Whole Earths. April 1997. Eugene, Oregon.
  Eco-Design Arts Conference.
• The Architectural Studio in the Next Design Age. April 1997. Atlanta.
  Architectural Research Consortium Conference.
• Bedsteads and Prayermats: Bodies in Rest and in Motion. October 1996.
  Buffalo, New York. ACSA Northeast Regional Meeting.
• Non-aligned Traditions, Off-color Modernism. December 1996. Jakarta, Indonesia.
  International Conference on Traditions and Modernity in Southeast Asia.
• Atlanta Mobilization Project. March 1995. Seattle. ACSA Annual Meeting.
• Charpai Protocols. January 1995. Chandigarh, India. International Conference:
  Theatres of Decolonization: Architecture, Agency, Urbanism.
• Suburban Addition: A Backyard House. March 1993. Charleston, South Carolina.
  ACSA Annual Meeting.
• Through the Looking Glass: Problematizing Mimar. March 1992. Orlando, Florida.
  ACSA Annual Meeting. Also presented at the November 1991 ACSA Southeast Regional Meeting in Charlotte.
• Suburban Villa for an Extended Family. March 1992. Orlando, Florida.
  ACSA Annual Meeting.
• Class Structures: Reframing Technology. February 1991. Cambridge,
  Massachusetts. ACSA Technology Conference.
• Consumption and Consummation: Private Acts, Public Spectacle: Disney and the Hajj. April 1991. Washington DC. ACSA Annual Meeting.

Publications

• "The Earthquake and the Line of Control: Kashmir". Log 7. New York. Forthcoming.
• "Mixed Society: Domestic Interiors in Colonial India". Chapter in Constructing Colonial Modernity, edited by Peter Scriver. Routledge. Forthcoming.
• “Memory Work: The Reciprocal Framing of Self and Place in Émigré
  Autobiographies”. Chapter in Memory and Architecture, edited by Eleni Bastea.
  University of New Mexico Press. 2004.
• “Road Kill on the Gallery Floor”. Review of Axis Mexico: Common Objects and
  Cosmopolitan Actions, San Diego Museum of Art. Aula: Architecture and Urbanism
  in Las Americas 4. Summer 2004.
• “Shanty to Go”. Review of Urgent Architecture, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
  Art. Art Papers. Summer 2004.
• “Double Lives in Art and Architecture: Marjetica Potrc and Jae Cha”. Proceedings of the ACSA International Conference. August 2003.
• "Cultural Baggage and the White Man's Burden". Proceedings of the ACSA
  International Conference. August 2000.
• "Using an Unstructured Collaboration Tool to Support Peer Interaction in Large
  College Classes". Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the
  Learning Sciences. June 2000.
  "COOL Studio: Opening the Discursive Space of Design". Automation in
  Construction. Special Issue. January 2000.
• "Pavimenti Romani: Organizational Strategies for the Periphery of an Old City".
  Proceedings of ACSA International Conference. 1999.
• "COOL Studio: Design and Educational Technology". Architecture. Annual Awards
  Issue. April 1999.
• "Roots and Routes: Articulations of Self and Place". Proceedings of the Second
  Conference of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA). 1999.
• "The Enunciation of Space: Two South Asian Accounts". Proceedings of the ACSA
  Annual Meeting. 1999.
• "Approaches to Four Rooms". Work in Progress. Journal of the Rhode Island School
  of Design Department of Architecture. Fall 1998.
• "Imagining Chandigarh". Proceedings of the ACSA International Conference. 1998.
• "Assessing Design Skills and Knowledge: A Developmental Approach". Proceedings
  of the Frontiers in Engineering Education Annual Meeting. 1997.
• "Trojan Horses: Indian Bodies, Indian Furniture". The India Magazine of Her People and Culture. New Delhi. May 1997.
• "Lost City: What Happened to Chandigarh?" The India Magazine of Her People and Culture. New Delhi. April 1997.
• "The National Diet Library, Kansai Science City, Japan". Proceedings of the ACSA
  Annual Meeting. 1997.
• "Indian Furniture: Between the Body and the Building". Proceedings of the ACSA
  Annual Meeting. 1997.
• "Conversation with Jacques Herzog". Reverberations. # 2. Georgia Institute of Technology. 1996.
• "Bedsteads and Prayermats: Bodies in Rest and in Motion". Proceedings of the ACSA Northeast Regional Conference. 1996.
• "Suburban Addition: A Backyard House". Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting. 1993.
• "Suburban Villa for an Extended Family". Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting. 1992.
• "Sonnets to the Portuguese: Two Books on Alvaro Siza". Design Book Review. Winter 1989.
• "The Work of Habib Fida Ali". Mimar: Architecture in Development. #6. Singapore.

Exhibitions

• National Diet Library, Kansai Science City, Japan. ACSA Annual Meeting. Dallas.
  March 1997. Also exhibited at the American Institute of Architects National
  Conference. New Orleans. 1997.
• Concorso Internazionale de Idee per la realizzazione del Parco di Centocelle. Rome.
  July 1997.
• The Environs of the Barcelona Football Club. XIX Congress . International Union of
  Architects. Barcelona, Spain. July 1996.
• Public Space in the New American City: Atlanta 1996. Atlanta. May 1994.
• Suburban Caravanserai. American Institute of Architects, Young Architects
  Exhibition. Atlanta. October 1993.

Conferences: Chair, Co-Chair, Discussant, Panelist, Reviewer

• Session Organizer and Co-Chair: “Not Design Not Art: Studio-based Pedagogies”. College Art Association, Annual Meeting. Seattle. February 2004.
• Session Chair: “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries”. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, International Conference. Helsinki. July 2003.
• Conference Chair and Organizer: "Odysseys -- Worlds on the Move". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Southeast Conference. Atlanta. February 2002.
• Conference Topic Co-Chair: "Housing and Settlements". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, International Conference. Hong Kong. June 2000.
• Panelist: "Emerging Pedagogies". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual Meeting. Los Angeles. March 2000.
• Discussant. "Reinventing Pedagogy Through the Lens of Culture". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual Meeting. Los Angeles. March 2000.
• Session Chair: "Technology and the Morphology of the City". Association of
  Collegiate Schools of Architecture, International Conference. Rome. May 1999.
• Session Chair: "Constructing a Sustainable World"; "Constructing a Modern World". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, International Conference. Rio de Janeiro. May 1998.
• Session Chair: "Culture and Technology". Association of Collegiate Schools of
  Architecture, Technology Conference. Cleveland. March 1998.
• Session Chair: "Design Pedagogy". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Annual Meeting. Dallas. March 1997.
• Paper Reviewer. “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries”. ACSA International. July 2003.
• Paper Reviewer. "Architecture and Design". ACSA Annual Meeting. March 2000.
• Paper Reviewer. "Emerging Pedagogies". ACSA Annual Meeting. March 2000.
• Paper Reviewer. "Technology". ACSA International Conference. June 2000.
• Paper Reviewer. "Technology and the City". ACSA International Conference.
  May 1999.
• Paper Reviewer. "Open Sessions"; "Constructing a Sustainable World". ASCA International Conference. May 1998.
• Paper Reviewer. "Culture and Technology". ACSA Technology Conference.
  March 1998.
• Paper Reviewer. "Design Pedagogy". ACSA Annual Meeting. March 1997.
  

Seminars and Workshops

• AIAS Summit on Studio Culture. ACSA representative. Minneapolis.
  October 2004.
• Architectural Space and the Electronic Apparatus. ACSA/AIA Teachers' Seminar. Cranbrook. June 1998.
• EnvironDesign2. Conference and Workshops. Monterey, California. May 1998.
• IBM Corporate Design Foundation. Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. July, 1996.
• Shenyang Architectural and Civil Engineering University. Shenyang, China.
  Shenyang Summer Institute, in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology. Summer 1996.

Student Awards

• Spring 1999. SGF Thesis Prize, Third Place. Joseph Minatta.
• Spring 1996. SGF Thesis Prize, Second Place. Julia Stainback.
• Spring 1995. SGF Thesis Prize, First Place. Nadine Coulton.
• Spring 1995. Independent Thesis Prize, Second Place. John Bealle.
• Spring 1994. Undergraduate Velux Competition, First Place. Amy Simon.
• Spring 1993. Undergraduate Velux Competition, Second Place. Tara Coterman.

Office Experience

• Cottle Khan Architects. Atlanta.
• Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Architects Inc. Boston.
  February 1989 to August 1990.
• Woo & Williams, Architects. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  November 1987 to February 1989.
• Bergmeyer Associates. Boston.
  May to November 1987.
• Registered Architect. Massachusetts.
• Registered Architect. Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners.