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For Thursday 02/06/25, the campus will be closed until 12 noon today due to the severe weather. All classes scheduled after 12 noon will take place as scheduled. Students should check Canvas for details on classes.

Faculty + Staff

Philip
Plowright
Department Chair and Professor

Plowright is a Professor of Architecture (Design, Theory and History). As a theorist, his research centers around cognitive processes in design methodology and cognitive semantics with particular interest in defining foundational knowledge for use in pedagogical environments.

Plowright’s writing and design work has been published in various locations and formats, ranging from academic proceedings and journals to popular architectural magazines. His most recent book, Urban Design Made by Humans (2023), was co-authored with Dr. Anirban Adhya, and addresses the fundamental conceptual concepts which are at the core of human understanding and construction of built environments at an urban scale. His previous books are Making Architecture Through Being Human: A Handbook of Design Ideas (2020) and Revealing Architectural Design: Methods, Frameworks & Tools (2014), addressed spatial semantics and design methodology from a cognitive point of view. These join more than thirty-five articles and book chapters including chapters on theoretical issues of wilderness and sustainable development in Architecture and Sustainability: Critical Perspectives (ACCO, Belgium, 2015) and Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics (Lexington Books, 2017). His design work has appeared in Boundaries: International Architectural Magazine (Italy), Architecture and Construction (Iran), Archnet-IJAR (USA), Bauwelt (Germany), Arkinka, and Revista de Arquitectura, Diseno y Construccion (Spain).  

Plowright holds an undergraduate degree in studio art and art history from the University of Guelph, Canada (BA); a professional architecture degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada (MArch), and a doctorate in cognitive linguistics from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Ph.D.).  He is a registered architect in Michigan, USA and Editor-in-Chief of ENQ: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.