MS/Arch: Urban Design

Richard Dagenhart is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. An architect and city planner, he received his B.A. in Anthropology and B.ARCH. from the University of Arkansas and his M.ARCH. and MCP from the University of Pennsylvania. Dagenhart's recent studios include Projects in Chattahoochee Hill, I-75/I-85 -Incidental Urbanism, Affordable Housing in Cuyler-Brownsville, Savannah, and MARTA-Incidental Infrastructure. He also teaches the Urban Design Core course, Introduction to Urban Design, and seminars on contemporary urban design topics in Urban Design Theory. Dagenhart also directs the graduate summer program, Modern Architecture and the Modern City: Paris, The Netherlands, Berlin where he collaboratively teaches History and Theory of the Modern City, European Modernism, and Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Europe.

Douglas Allen is a Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Allen, a landscape architect, received his BLA from the University of Georgia and his MLA from Harvard University. He teaches the Urban Design Core Course, History of Urban Form and occasionally teaches seminar electives, including Studies in Landscape Architecture . Allen's most recent studios and workshops have included the Crabapple Studio and the Oglethorpe University Joint Development Workshop. Allen also lectures on urban design history and theory in the College of Architecture's Summer Program in Rome, Italy. Allen has combined teaching and practice in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design for more than 20 years, winning numerous awards for his professional projects.

Alan Balfour is Professor and Dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.His return to Georgia Tech continues a distinguished international career in education. Most recently dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Balfour was previously chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University in Houston and director of the Architecture Program in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Educated at Edinburgh and Princeton and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Balfour is a distinguished scholar with award-winning books on cities and culture including works on Berlin, Shanghai, and New York.

Michael Dobbins, an architect and former Atlanta Commissioner of Planning, is an Associate Professor of Architecture and City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Dobbins received his B.A. and M.ARCH from Yale University. He combines teaching urban design studios and courses at Georgia Tech while also serving as urban design and development advisor to the City of Atlanta. Dobbins teaches Urban Design Policy and Implementation, one of the Urban Design Core courses, and studios that address urban design questions in collaboration with the City of Atlanta. Recent studios have included Redevelopment of a Brownfield site, Atlanta's South CBD, and Atlanta's Northside Corridor.

Ellen Dunham-Jones is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Dunham-Jones is an architect and received her B.A. and M.ARCH. from Princeton University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she taught architecture and urban design at MIT and the University of Virginia. She teaches Theory and Criticism II, a core course in the M.ARCH. Program, serves as a roving critic in urban design studios and workshops, and lectures widely on contemporary topics in urban design, especially the ideas and practices within the Congress of the New Urbanism.

David Green is a Professor of the Practice in the College of Architecture, whose work at firm Perkins & Will focuses on large-scale urban design, planning and entitlement projects. He has been involved in the execution of hundreds of projects in the past twenty years ranging from the adaptive re-use of multiple historic structures in the southeastern United States to multi-thousand acre urban design and planning projects. His work and research focuses on issues of development, particularly within an urban framework, and the creation of a strategy for sustainable cities that includes aspects of public policy implementation, criteria for implementation of development controls and design guidelines as well as strategic infrastructure implementation. Before joining Perkins + Will, Green was a principal at Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture in the Housing and Mixed-Use Studio. Prior to that Green was a partner at the award winning firm Brock Green Architects and Planners, an Atlanta firm he co-founded in 1995 and recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ Silver Medal in 2003 and Bronze Medal in 2008.

Perry Yang is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Architecture whose practice and teaching focus on sustainable design and development in urban settings. His award winning work includes the 2009 World Games Park at Kaohsiung City of Taiwan; the Eco-city design at Maluan Bay in one of China's most important port cities Xiamen; and Suidong Bay Urban Design at Guangdong China. He has published more than 50 journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, reviews and design works that are related to issues of sustainability and ecological planning and design in urban environments. He is on the editorial boards of two academic journals, Progress in Industrial Ecology and Modern Urban Research. In January 2007, he was appointed the new board member of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE), an international academic community with a special interest in sustainable urban development.