Aaron Gabriel Assistant Director Bachelor of Design, University of Florida M.Arch., Columbia University agabriel@uark.edu 479/575-4980

Aaron J. Gabriel earned a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in May of 2003 and a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida in 1997. He was awarded a traveling fellowship to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (ETH) in the spring of 2002, and was an SOM traveling fellow candidate in 2002. His graduate work has been published in the 2001, 2002, and 2003 Columbia Abstract documents of student work, as well as the publication Underground documenting two years of studio work from the ETH studio of Dominique Perrault. He and partner Katherine Chang were selected as one of five winning entries for the Common Ground Community’s First Step Housing Competition in 2003, and with others has been awarded an honorary mention for the 2003 UIA Celebration of Cities and a Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Design Award in 2002.

He currently practices and teaches at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC), where he is engaged in community planning and the design of municipal and private models of creative development in Arkansas. His most recent work is focused on the spatial and visual culture produced by sprawl, and the integration of recombinant land use models to inflect its trajectory. His professional work has been published in the periodicals Architecture and Metropolis and the 2006 book Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises. He recently won the ACSA/AIAS 2007-2008 New Faculty Teaching Award,