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Jose Gamez

School of Architecture
Summary

Office: Storrs 244
Email: jlgamez@uncc.edu

Academic Interests
applied geography
Architecture
community engagement
community planning
contemporary museum architecture
creative placemaking
environment
environmental design
politics
public scholarship
social capital
the New South
urban design
urbanism
Vertical Urbanism
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Ming-Chun Lee
Sharon G Portwood
David Costanza
Thomas Schmidt
Mona Azarbayjani
Eric Hoenes
Dimitrios Papanikolaou
Catty Dan Zhang
Liz McCormick
Chengde Wu
Richard Leeman
Rachel Engstrom
Tamara Williams
Kelly Carlson-Reddig
Andrew Hartley
Maja Godlewska
Jae Emerling
Kyoung-Hee Kim
Rachel Dickey
Erin Eldridge
Peter Wong
Nicole Peterson
Greg Snyder
Nadia Anderson
Chris Jarrett
Brook Muller
Ken Lambla
Thomas Forget
Bruce Arrigo
Jeff Balmer
Jonah Elrod
Lydia Thompson
Steven Falconer
Betsy West
Jefferson Ellinger
Deborah Ryan
Cathy Mahaffey
Lee Gray
Marek Ranis
David Thaddeus
Lidia Klein
Emily Makas
José Gamez is the Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Arts + Architecture and a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the School of Architecture. He has also been a Research Fellow with both UNC Charlotte’s Institute for Social Capital and Urban Institute. He served as a Provost’s Faculty Fellow and he was the 2015 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Community Engagement.  His research explores questions of culture in architecture and urbanism through action-based research and public scholarship. His work has been published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, The Journal of Urbanism, The Journal of Applied Geography, and The Plan Journal.  He is also the co-editor of the books Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (forthcoming 2019) and Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China and he has contributed essays to books such as Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, Charlotte, NC: The Global Rise of a New South City, and Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment. His design contributions to the work of assemblageSTUDIO have been featured in New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World, Models: Architecture and the Miniature and Architectural Record.  Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, he taught at Portland State University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.  He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M, his Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of California at Los Angeles.
See more on his faculty profile at coaa.uncc.edu >>
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