Each issue of Dialectic takes fifteen months from the
inception of the theme to its current form. During
this period its editors accumulate imprints of many
interlocutors, colleagues, staff, students, and friends.
We cannot thank the contributing authors enough for
their willing and enthusiastic engagement with a process
that required numerous exchanges and revisions. Their
engagement reflects a mutual commitment to the topic
at hand and to positively changing the field as we know
it. We would also like to thank Ole W. Fischer and B. D.
Wortham-Galvin for their input on the issue from day
one and their advisory role at each stage of the process.
Thanks are also due to Kenny Cupers, Ipek Tureli, Yael
Allweil, Thomas Mical, and Sharone Tomer for their
thoughtful comments on an early draft of the call. Initial
conversations on this issue were supported by Portland
State University’s Distinguished Visiting Professor
program, which generously brought Shundana Yusaf to
Portland. Thanks are also due to Mimi Locker who has
encouraged the journal as an inspiration for curriculum
revision at the University of Utah, School of Architecture.
Sam Ball has been a consistent and hardworking addition
to the team, organizing submission and producing the
layout and cover design. Thank you to Jackie McFarland
for granting us permission to use his artwork for
the cover and for his own thinking on the Eurocentric
nature of the architectural profession. Finally, we’d like
to thank our anonymous reviewers for their deep and
helpful engagements with the texts, without which we
would not have been able to present such a clear and
diverse showing of ideas and approaches.
Anna Goodman and Shundana Yusaf

Dialectic is the journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. In the spirit of dialectical thinking, the journal brings together distinct voices in the discipline today on issues, values, methods and debates most important to the community of educators at the University of Utah and beyond nationally and globally. It supports the most pertinent scholarship on the issues at hand.

Themes for each issue arise from concerns that inform our teaching in studios, lectures and seminars alike. Dialectic publishes some of the best student works of the year related to the chosen theme and provide an editorial commentary on them. This should theorize and showcase the fruits of pedagogic practices prevalent in the University of Utah and invite comparison with practices elsewhere.

This makes Dialectic a critical venue for articulating our positions on the challenges and opportunities for architects in the highly interconnected, yet tragically disconnected world of contemporary practice. This kind of incessant self-inquiry and self-reflection makes the journal a vital force in the continued education of faculty and students while supporting the evolution of the school’s pedagogic mission. Dialectical and comparative analysis broadens our horizons and add criticality to our strategies. More importantly, it gives us and our concerns, a prominent voice in the space of global disciplinary ideas. Equally important to the mission of the journal is to attract a newer generation of undergraduate and graduate students from across the world, by offering them a much more sophisticated understanding of the kind of training we offer at the University of Utah and how it compares to competing schools.

MICHAEL ABRAHAMSON
Visiting Assistant Professor
BOGART McAVOY
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
JAMES AGUTTER
Associate Professor, Design
Studies Information Visualization
RIMA AJLOUNI
Associate Professor, Architecture
and Preservation Geometry,
Computation and Fabrication
ANDREW BALSTER
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Chicago Lab Archeworks
LINDA BASTYR
School of Architecture
Administrative Officer
LISA HENRY BENHAM
Associate Professor,
Architectural Design and Theory,
Gender and Race Studies
CORD BOWEN
Associate Professor (Clinical),
Multi-Disciplinary Design
MARTHA BRADLEY
Professor, Public History, Gender,
Religion, and Community
DAVID BREMS
Adjunct Associate Professor
JACK BUCHANAN
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
MIKE BUELL
Associate Instructor
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY 2018/2019
ERIN CARRAHER
Associate Professor, Architect,
Design and Computation
DAVID CASSIL
Adjunct Assistant Professor
SAMUEL W. CHUNG
Emeritus Research Associate
Professor
CRAIG COBURN
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Attorney at RBMN
MICHEAL CROXTON
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
MATT DAINES
Associate Instructor
OLE W. FISCHER
Associate Professor,
Architectural History Theory
Criticism
Modern and Contemporary
CASEY FRANKLIN
Visiting Assistant Professor
JOSE GALARZA
Assistant Professor, Design-
Build Practice and Theory
KELLY GARFIELD
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
DIANA G. GARDINER
Assistant Professor Lecturer,
Artist, Architectural and Analog
Graphics
DAVID GRIFFIN II
Associate Instructor
HUNTER GUNDERSON
Adjunct Assistant Professor
LIBBY HASLAM
Adjunct Associate Professor,
GSBS Architects
BRIAN HEBDON
Associate Instructor
MICHELLE HOWARD
Associate Instructor
ASHLEY IORDANOV
Associate Instructor
CORY JENSEN
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Utah
State Historic Preservation Office
HOLLY JOHNSON
Adjunct Assistant Professor
JILL A. JONES
Adjunct Associate Professor
KENNER KINGSTON
Associate Instructor,
Regenerative Design at Nexus
YONG HEE (DIMITTI) KIM
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Multi-disciplinary Design, Digital
Matters Lab Faculty Fellow
TYLER KIRK
Associate Instructor
CHAMONIX LARSEN
Associate Instructor
SHALAE ANN LARSEN
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Landscape Architect
WARREN LLOYD
Associate Instructor
MIRA LOCHER
Chair, Associate Professor,
Architect, Community
Engagement in Architecture
Japanese Architecture, Gardens,
and Design
DARIN MANO
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Raw
Design Studio
PAUL MCMULLIN
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Ingenium Design
RUSSELL MERRILL
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Realize Structural Engineering

JONATHAN MILLS
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Multi-Disciplinary Design
JARRETT MOE
Associate Instructor
ANNE G. MOONEY
Professor, Applied Research in
Architecture, Sparano + Mooney
Architecture
KEITH DIAZ MOORE
Dean of the College of
Architecture + Planning,
Professor
Architect, Design & Health
PRESCOTT MUIR
Professor, Architectural Design,
Prescott Muir Architects
CHRISTOPHER NELSON
Visiting Instructor, Architect,
Consulting Architect Inc.
KRIS PARIES
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
SCOTT C. PETERSON
Visiting Instructor, Photography
JOHN WOODSON RAINEY
Adjunct Assistant Professor
JOERG RUEGEMER
Associate Professor, Energy-
Efficient and Cost-Effective
Design Practice, Atelier Jörg
Rügemer
BRENDA CASE SCHEER
Professor, Architecture & Urban
Planning Design & Planning
Policy
DAVID ROSS SCHEER
Research Associate Professor,
Architect
MIKIO SHOJI
Adjunct Professor
TRENT SMITH
Visitor Instructor, AJC
Architecture
STEPHEN TOBLER
Associate Professor (Clinical),
Architect, Stephen Tobler
Architects
PATRICK TRIPENY
Professor, Architectural
Structures, Teaching and
Learning Excellence
ELPITHA TSOUTSOUNAKIS
Assistant Professor Lecturer,
Designer & Printer, Multi-
Disciplinary Design
HANNAH VAUGHN
Associate Instructor, Architect
MIKE VELA
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Construction Documents, HKS
Architects
JASON WHEELER
Associate Instructor, Architect,
ASSIST Inc.
ANDREA WITCZAK
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design, Associate
Director, Bennion Center
RBOERT WUEBKER
Associate Instructor, Multi-
disciplinary Design
DWIGHT YEE
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Process Studio
ROBERT A. YOUNG
Professor, Stewardship of the
Built-Environment Sustainability,
Preservation & Reuse
ATSUSHI YAMAMOTO
Associate Instructor, DesignBuild
Bluff
HIROKO YAMAMOTO
Associate Instructor, DesignBuild
Bluff
SHUNDANA YUSAF
Assistant Professor, Architectural
History
Media Studies in Architecture