Tim Frank has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture. Professor
Frank currently teaches Architecture Studio, Design Communication II, and Thesis Research
in addition to working as Design Communication Coordinator. He teaches a responsibility
to serve both society and the environment and believes that architectural education
should prepare students for a practice where social, environmental, and material factors
work hand-in-hand within a cohesive building domain. In addition to his work at Kennesaw
State, he also owns a nationally recognized interdisciplinary architecture studio
in Atlanta. He has had work published in several publications such as the Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Journal of Technology, Architecture, and Design.
Arief Setiawan has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture.
He teaches in the areas of design and architecture: history, theory, and criticism
(HTC), teaching Architecture Studio I and II, Introduction to Architecture, and courses
in architecture history. He serves as the coordinator of the First-Year Design, developing
a design pedagogy based on the notion of thinking through making. He integrated the
First-Year course and studio through Learning Community: Fundamental in Design Thinking.
Professor Setiawan has been researching design pedagogy and HTC focusing on the questions
of modernity and identity, which he has presented and published in conferences. He
helped lead the Architour program taking students around the country to experience
masterful work in architecture and urbanism.
Lecturer of Architecture, Marietta Monaghan, recently completed her dissertation entitled 鈥淏uilding a City in the Wilderness: Construction Camps of the Alabama Power Company鈥 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, earning her PhD in December of 2020.
Marietta teaches within our Introduction to Architecture, Cultures, and Thesis Research
courses. In addition, Marietta contributes to our local community through leadership
and support roles in the Atlanta Center for Creative Inquiry (ACCI) Summer Academy
and within her outreach to Marietta High-school. Additionally, Marietta has led efforts
within our Architecture program to develop opportunities for international travel
and local community engagement.