The Visiting Critics
Senior Vice President, Educational Planning and Architecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.
Patricia Belton Oliver, born and raised in Southern California, received her undergraduate degrees from UCLA in Literature and Independent Studies. Her undergraduate thesis was on the "Transition from Verbal to Visual Thinking" and she completed her studies at UCLA with a Master of Architecture degree. After graduation Ms. Oliver worked for many notable Southern California architects including Frank O. Gehry, Charles Moore, Craig Hodgetts and Robert Mangurian at Studio Works, and Coy Howard. She also worked for Charles Kober and Associates where she contributed to projects as large as the re-design of several square blocks of downtown Nashville.
In 1981 Ms. Oliver opened her own office, Oliver Kurze Georges, in Los Angeles. While maintaining her practice she taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and eventually became Associate Dean of the College of Environmental Design. In 1992, Ms. Oliver became the Chairman of a new department of Environmental Design at Art Center College of Design. In this position she has developed programs in Environmental Product Design, Interior Architecture, Environmental Graphics and Entertainment Design. Currently, Ms Oliver is the Senior Vice President of Architecture, Planning, and Special Projects, working with design architects Frank O. Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung of Hodgetts + Fung, and Kevin Daly of Daly,Genik. In that capacity she is responsible for the planning, programming and management of the design projects for the 175 acre Hillside Campus, and the 7 acre South Campus in downtown Pasadena.
Ms. Oliver has served as President of the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles, Treasurer of the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and Associate Director of the Outreach Community Center for Urban Research. She has served on the Board of Directors for the InterAmerican Center for the Arts and Architecture, and on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter. She has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, North Carolina State University and Milan Polytechnic in Italy. She is a registered architect in California.
(from http://inteltect.com/AIAawards2004/info/jury.html)Marilys Nepomechie
Associate Professor, Architecture, Florida International University School of Architecture
"? Nepomechie has amassed a resume and a body of work that shout volumes about the power of creating productive links. Some 30 design awards to her name, she has traversed the globe during trips to Rome to enter competitions, St. Louis and Boston to exhibit work, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro to present lectures, Ecuador to deliver a keynote address, and the list goes on. Her publications include book chapters and articles in top academic and industry journals."
(from http://news.fiu.edu/releases/2004/03-08_nepomechie.htm)
Hernan Marchant Montenegro
Santiago, Chile
Hernan is currently Professor at the Universidad de Chile, Universidad Central and Universidad
Finis Terrae in Santiago of Chile and is working toward a PhD in Art History, He will be defending his dissertation in June of this year.
Following are some selected accomplishments from his diverse résumé:
8 years experience as Administrator
25 years experience teaching
32 years experience in practice (14 years in France and 18 years in Chile)
93.000 mt2 built in Chile
2 First prize winning competition in Chile
1 First prize winning competition in France
Gwen Amos
Professor & Graphic Design Program Coordinator. California State University Sacramento
Professor Gwen Amos, is a full-time faculty member at California State University, Sacramento. She received her MA graduate degree from California State University, Sacramento in Education and her bachelor degree from The Kansas City Art Institute. Her graduate work focused on learning modalities. She has taught at the University of Cincinnati, University of California, Berkeley, and California State University, Chico. In the past 25 years she has built a well-recognized Graphic Design program at Sacramento State. Her teaching has its focus in design theory, and how visual creative critical thinking relates to research, audience identification and message development in today?s global environment.
Along with teaching, Professor Gwen Amos has continued her design practice with clients in Northern and Southern California, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Washington D.C. She has received numerous awards from AIGA, Center for Design, and Western Art Directors Club. She has published articles on color for Step by Step Magazine and Before and After Magazine.