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.
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.
Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom
From Computer
Log in and start your Zoom session with participants
From Phone
To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera