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Brook Muller
Brook Muller is the Dean of the College of Arts + Architecture, coming to UNC Charlotte from the University of Oregon, where he was a professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the University of Oregon Portland Architecture Program.
Muller’s leadership experience includes appointments as acting dean and interim dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts (now called College of Design), as well as associate dean for Academic Affairs for the school. He co-authored and directed the interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Ecological Design. In addition, he coauthored concurrent degrees: Master of Business Administration and Master of Architecture, and Master of Community and Regional Planning and Master of Architectural Design.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2004, Muller was the director of an environmental sustainability program and an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University, where he received the Wesley Ward Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002.
Muller entered academia from practice. After earning a Master of Architecture (M. Arch.) from the University of Oregon, he worked with Behnisch and Partners Architects in Stuttgart, Germany. Among other professional pursuits, he served as project co-leader on the design of the IBN Dutch Institute for Forestry and Nature Research, a European Union pilot project for sustainable design. Muller authored Ecology and the Architectural Imagination (Routledge 2014) and his next book, Blue Architectures, will be coming out in 2021 (University of Texas Press).
