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Faculty Fellows

BARBARA SESTAK, FAIA - ACTING DIRECTOR

Barbara Sestak is a licensed architect and worked in architectural offices in Seattle and Portland from 1975 until joining Portland State University as the only full-time faculty member in architecture in Fall 1982. Barbara recently served as Dean of the College of the Arts at PSU, where one of her many accomplishments included securing an endowment for the Center for Public Interest Design. Barbara’s research and service centers around the integration of the profession and academia. She has been president of AIA/Portland and a delegate to the Architectural Council of Oregon. She served, by appointment of the governor, for 12 years on the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners. She currently served as the President of the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB). Her teaching encompasses design studio, structures, building technology, environmental design and leadership. Barbara’s research interests with the CPID cover a range of topics, including health and wellness as it relates to the built environment.

TRAVIS BELL

Travis Bell is is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Portland State University. He received a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from PSU and Master of Architecture from the University  of Washington. Travis’s primary interest lies in making architecture that is in closer alignment with the natural patterns of our environment. This primary interest grounds a research, teaching and design agenda focused on appropriate material choice, the prioritization of authentic craftsmanship, passive systems design, adapted historical technologies, Critical Regionalism and temporary architectural solutions. Recent projects at the CPID include the design of a community-based material recovery and recycling center. He also leads the annual design and construction of a stage for the Pickathon music festival with students focusing on sustainable material investigations, which won the 2015 AIA Portland Jury Award

TODD FERRY

Todd is Associate Director and Senior Research Associate at the CPID. Before earning a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Todd worked for over a decade in the nonprofit field. His current work investigates how social needs can be addressed by architecture in underserved communities and seeks to develop new tools and models of engagement to aid in this effort. Recent projects at the CPID include the design of a sustainable community center in Inner Mongolia, China; a collaboration with the Portland Opera to create a mobile opera stage to bring the arts to more communities; and the POD Initiative to provide new visions for addressing houselessness in Portland using a participatory design and construction process. Todd is a registered architect, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Director of the Architecture Summer Immersion Program at the PSU School of Architecture, coordinator of PSU’s Graduate Certificate in Public Interest Design, and Co-Founder of PSU’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative.

ANNA GOODMAN

Dr. Anna Goodman is Assistant Professor of Practice in the PSU School of Architecture. She has focused her work on the politics of architectural practice and the role of making and craft in defining the borders of professional identity. Her most recent project examines the concept of the citizen architect and the ways in which architectural educators have influenced the development of the profession through the instigation of humanitarian design-build projects in the twentieth century. She has published articles and reviews in publications including DIALECTIC, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Planning Perspectives, and others. She received her doctorate in Architecture with an emphasis on Global Metropolitan Studies, from University of California, Berkeley, in 2015. She also holds a Master of Science in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University. 

ANDREW SANTA LUCIA

Andrew Santa Lucia is Assistant Professor of Practice in the PSU School of Architecture. He was previously faculty with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he most recently taught courses in architecture, interior architecture, and designed objects. His research examines the ways in which the architectural discipline mediates culture, connecting design, pedagogy, and criticism through the creation of plastic propositions for lifestyle, with the aim of challenging the way we perceive architecture. He runs the architecture collaborative Office Andorus, which, as part of the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, designed No Place like House, a two-room installation of ritual and performance altars inside Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois. Office Andorus also provides design services to community activists with the goal of influencing public policy through the architectural discipline. Santa Lucia has published articles in publications such as Ampersand, Architect’s Newspaper, Artlurker, and eVolo

SERGIO PALLERONI - EMERITUS PROFESSOR, &
FORMER DIRECTOR OF CPID

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Past CPID Fellows

BD Wortham-Galvin, Founding Faculty Fellow (2013-2017)

Pedro Pacheco, Visiting Faculty Fellow (2016-2017)

Alex Salazar, Fellow of Practice (2016-2017)

Dylan Morgan, Fellow of Practice (2016-2017)