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Christine Gorby
Associate Professor

Education

  • Harvard University. Graduate School of Design, Master of Architecture, 1988
  • Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture, Second Degree Graduate Program, 1984
  • Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Management, Bachelor of Science Industrial Management, Minor in Finance, 1981

Teaching and Research

  • Assistant Professor of Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Arts and Architecture, University Park, PA. Courses taught include “The History and Culture of Cities”, “Architectural Theory”, Second year design studio, and Fifth year thesis design studio. August 1997 to present.
  • Assistant Professor of Architecture. Ball State University, College of Architecture, Muncie, IN. Courses taught include “Visual Communications” and “Second Year Design Studio”. August 1995 to May 1997.
  • Research Fellow under Professor John Heskett. Harvard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. April 1988 to May 1989.
  • Teaching Fellow under Professor Clive Dilnot. Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. January 1988 to April 1988.

Select Professional Work (partial list)

  • Venturi Scott Brown and Associates. The Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories of the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, CA (pre-registration U.S.) May 1993, to February 1995.
  • Colin St. John Wilson and Associates. The British Library in St. Pancras, London, U.K. (pre-registration U.K.)  Nov 1990, to December 1991.
  • Scogin Elam Bray Architects. Atlanta  GA. Academic Village, Emory School of Theology in Atlanta GA (pre-registration U.S.) June 1987, to September 1987.

Publications

Parts of Books Accepted and Forthcoming

  • Gorby, Christine. “Diffused Spaces: A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” Memory and Architecture. Ed. Eleni Bastea. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Forthcoming 2004.
  • “Pincushions, Dormitory Kitchens and Seed Gardens: Gender Identity and Spiritual Place at the West Union Shake Village.” GenderScapes: Renegotiating the Moral Landscape. Eds. Lorraine Dowler, Josephine Carubia and Bonj Szczygiel. International Studies of Women and Place Series. New York and London: Routledge. Forthcoming 2004.

Multi-Media CD-ROM Published

  • “REBOOT: Rethinking the Design Thesis.” (Multi-media CD-ROM and Interactive Website) The Graham Foundation for the Arts, sponsors, and others. Project Director with team of four students. The CD-ROM was distributed to three hundred architecture schools, professional institutions and journals worldwide.

Proceedings and Journal Articles Published

  • “Jane Blaffer Owen: Her Modern Spiritual Landscapes of New Harmony, Indiana.” Landscape Architecture The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects. June 2004. This article was an edited and rewritten version of the original.
  • “Jane Blaffer Owen: Her Modern Spiritual Landscapes of New Harmony, Indiana.” Critiques of Built Works of Landscape Architecture. Volume 8. Ed. Bruce Sharky. Louisiana State University Press. Fall 2003.
  • “Evaluative Results: REBOOT: Rethinking the Design Thesis CD-Rom and Web Site.” Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: Finishing School. November 2003.
  • “Field Work: Reinterpreting and Reconstructing the Gendered Landscape.” Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. March 2000.
  • “Diffused Spaces: A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture: Memory and Architecture. October 1998.
  • “Diffused Spaces: A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. March 1999. This article was submitted by the chair of the ACSA West Regional Conference to be refereed for the ACSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.

Research Reports to Sponsors Completed

  • Chrisinte Gorby and Michael Rios. “Sarah Allen Workshop: Final Report.” (57 pages) Sara Allen Rehabilitation Program, West Philadelphia, PA, January 2002.
  • Christine Gorby and Michael Rios. “Achieving Social Justice: Evaluation of the Charter Plan for Downtown Lewistown.” (30 pages) Lewistown Downtown Development Task Force and Downtown Lewistown, Inc., Lewistown, PA, August 2001.
  • Christine Gorby, “The Modern Chair Collection.” (20 pages) Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, IN, November 1997. Object and archival research of the Museum’s decorative arts collection, considered the most significant holdings in the state. Principal information was disseminated to the public through an exhibition and the museum’s university-wide database.

Scholarly Awards Received

  • 2003 Roy C. Buck Award. College of Arts and Architecture for the article, “Field Work: Reinterpreting and Reconstructing the Gendered Landscape.” Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, March 2000. This award recognizes the best-refereed article published by a tenure-stream faculty member in a scholarly journal.
  • Fulbright German Studies Seminar: Urban Planning in Germany. Council for International Exchange of Scholars. New York and Berlin, June 2001.

Research Fellowship Awarded

  • Resident Scholar. Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Resident Scholars and Artists Program. “The Sacred Dimensions of Experience: Women and Spatial Environments.” Spring Semester 2004 (one-semester release time from teaching and $1,000 for research to further develop a book manuscript in progress).

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (partial list)

(All Competitive and blind reviewed)

Conferences Completed

  • Presenter. ““Florence Knoll, Isamu Noguchi, Ezra Stoller and the Case of Connecticut General: Corporate Office Space into Spiritual Dwelling,” for the panel, Capitalist Culture Imaged, with Professors David Gissen and Alexandra Staub, Society for Photographic Education 41st Annual Conference on Photography and Place: Home-Neighborhood, Nation, World at Goat Island, Rhode Island, March 2004.
  • Presenter. “Narratives of Gender Identity and Spirituality in the Rural Landscape: U.S.D.A Films 1917-1931,” European Social Science History Conference at Humbolt University in Berlin, Germany, March 2004.
  • Presenter. “Dwelling-Oriented Spirituality Censored: Cultural Agendas and Claims Upon Domestic Place in Government Films During the Progressive Era,” for the panel, Cinematic Geographies Exploring the American Cinematic Landscape, with Professors Eric Olmanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anna Dempsey, James Madison University; Christina Dando, University of Nebraska-Omaha and; Christopher Lukinbeal (discussant), Arizona State University, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, March 2004.
  • Presenter. “POOR Mrs. Jones! Provisioning the City-Rural and Urban Environments Contrasted: U.S.D.A Cooperative Extension Service Films 1917-1931,” The Social Science History Society Association Annual Conference at the University of Rouen in Rouen, France, January 2004.
  • Presenter. “Evaluative Results: REBOOT: Rethinking the Design Thesis CD-Rom and Web Site,” ACSA Northeast and Southeast Regional Conference on “Finishing School, Inquiries into the Completion of an Architectural Education,” at the University of South Florida in Tampa FL, November 2003.
  • Presenter. “A Cultural Landscape Approach: The Museum Village at New Harmony.” Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference on, Interpretation and Museum Villages, at Colonial Williamsburg, VA, May 2002.
  • Presenter. “How Florence Knoll Remade the Womanly Profession of Interior Design.” Women’s History Network Conference, Women, Gender and the Rewriting of History, Guildhall University, London U.K., September 2001.
  • Presenter. “The Sacred Dimensions of Experience: Jane Owen and the Ritualized Landscapes of New Harmony, Indiana.” The Bruce Centre and School of American Studies, Interdisciplinary Conference on American Mourning, Keele University, Staffordshire U.K., May 2001.
  • Presenter.  “Field Work: Reinterpreting and Reconstructing the Gendered Landscape.” The National Conference on Women and Historic Preservation at Mount Vernon College. Washington D.C., May 2000.
  • Presenter. “Field Work: Reinterpreting and Reconstruction the Gendered Landscape.” The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting. Minneapolis MI, March 2000.
  • Presenter. “Dissenting Reconstruction: A Gendered Shaker Landscape.” The Gendered Landscape Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA, May 1999.
  • Presenter. “Diffused Spaces:  A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” Presented at The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting. Minneapolis MI, March 1999.      
  • Presenter. “Mythical Mapping and Diffused Sacred Space:  An Urban Study of Belfast, North Ireland.” The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Central Regional Conference, Memory and Architecture, Washington University. St. Louis MI, October 1998.
  • Presenter. “Dissenting Reconstructions: Gendered Shaker Geographies.” The J.B. Jackson and American Landscape Conference at The University of New Mexico. Albuquerque NM, October 1998.

FUNDED PROJECTS, GRANTS and AWARDS (partial list)

Grants Completed

  • Penn State Incentives and Innovations Fund. “ARCH 316: The History and Culture of Cities.” April 2003 ($3,700). To further the diversity of this course by broadening the urban locations and issues explored.
  • Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant. ““The Sacred Dimensions of Experience: Women and Spatial Environments.” October 2002 ($7,500).
  • Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. “The Sacred Dimensions of Experience: Women and Spatial Environments.” October 2001 ($2,500).
  • Penn State Public Scholarship Associates Grant. Co-authored with Michael Rios, Director, Penn State Hamer Community Design Center. “Urban Poverty in the Constructed Environment: A Design-Build Construction for Public Service.” May 2001 ($3,000).
  • Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant. “The Sacred Dimensions of Experience: Women and Spatial Environments.” October 2001 ($1,300).
  • The Graham Foundation for the Arts and Humanities. “REBOOT: Rethinking the Design Thesis.” December 2000 ($3,700).
  • Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant. “REBOOT: Rethinking the Design Thesis.” March 2000 ($4,000).
  • Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant. “Technical Innovation and Modern American Chair Design: 1935-1965.” November 1999 ($3,600).
  • Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Research Grant. “Diffused Spaces: A Sacred Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” November 1998 ($4,000).
  • Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. “Technical Innovation and Modern American Chair Design:  1935-65.” May 1998 ($1,500).
  • Penn State Global Fund. “Mythical Mapping & Diffused Sacred Space-An Urban Study of West Belfast, North Ireland.” March 1988 ($500).

SELECT OUTREACH, MEMBERSHIPS, AND OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES (partial list)

National Conference Organized and Completed

  • Conference Co-Chair with Dean Stephen Schreiber and Professors Ron Dulaney, and Francis Lyn (USF). Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Northeast and Southeast Regional Conference Finishing School, Inquiries into the Completion of an Architectural Education at The University of South Florida, Tampa FL. November 2003.