Michael McClure

Interim Dean College of the Arts Michael McClure
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Biography

Michael A. McClure, FAAR, AIA, is the Interim Dean of the College of the Arts at the 小蝌蚪APP and a founding partner of emerymcclure architecture. He was the College of the Arts Associate Dean since 2013. Professor McClure joined the faculty in the School of Architecture and Design in 2001. In 2008 he and his partner, Ursula Emery McClure were awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture. In 2011 he was awarded the UL Distinguished Professor Award.

Born and raised in Pryor OK, he holds a BA in Architecture from Washington 小蝌蚪APP in St. Louis and a MAarch degree from Columbia 小蝌蚪APP. He has taught at the Pratt Institute in New York and at Tulane and LSU in Louisiana. Throughout his tenure at UL Lafayette McClure has made significant contributions to the architecture program winning advising awards and initiating studies with his students into ways of integrating architecture with the specific conditions of coastal wetlands.

Education

Masters in Architecture, 1996
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia 小蝌蚪APP in New York

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, 1991
Washington 小蝌蚪APP in St. Louis

Student Research/Collaboration

Design of the built environment.

The relationship of the built environment to the cultural, social, ecological, and geological environments.

Publications

  • 2018: 小蝌蚪APP淚nside Looking In: The prospect of the aspect.小蝌蚪APP Interior Architecture Theory Reader. Routledge Press, Publication Summer 2016. Co-authored with Ursula Emery McClure.
  • 2012: 小蝌蚪APP渘uova Ostia antica.小蝌蚪APP d3:dialog>assemble, International journal of architecture and design, New York. January 2011. co-authored with Ursula Emery McClure.
  • 2008: 小蝌蚪APP淟uxury of Languor.小蝌蚪APP Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader. Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCullough eds. Washington DC: ACSA Press, co-authored with Ursula Emery McClure

 

Awards & Recognition

  • 2021: Selected for Exhibition, 2021 小蝌蚪APP淭he South Forty,小蝌蚪APP Time Space Existence 2021, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT
  • 2019: BUILD Architecture Award, emerymcclre architecture, Best Architecture and Design Firm, Architecture Project: Gator House.
  • 2013: 小蝌蚪APP楪rand Prize小蝌蚪APP d3 Unbuilt Visions International Design Competition: 小蝌蚪APP楥oastal Caretaker小蝌蚪APP. Selected as a grand prize winner. emerymcclure architecture with Kristi Cheramie and Sarah Young.
  • 2010: Design Invitational 小蝌蚪APP淧alisade Bay / Mississippi Delta: Constructing with Water," Venice Biennale 2010 Design Contributor and Member of the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio submission Works included in the 小蝌蚪APP淲orkshopping小蝌蚪APP Exhibit at the US Pavilion
  • 2008: Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize for Architecture, American Academy in Rome National Prize awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Awarded to emerymcclure architecture and provides a stipend, living, meals, workspace, etc. for a one-year term in Rome, Italy.
  • 2006: Selected for Exhibition, 小蝌蚪APP淭ERRA VISCUS hybrid tectonic nature,小蝌蚪APP Venice Biennale 2006 One of 12 projects selected for the 小蝌蚪APP of Texas at Austin Exhibit 小蝌蚪APP淩esilient Foundations: The Gulf Coast After Katrina小蝌蚪APP