Max Underwood Professor School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Office: 307 Phone: 480.965.5795 max.underwood@asu.edu

Academic Credentials

MArch	Princeton University
BArch	University of Southern California

Research Interests

Teaching

Great Practice
Spaces of Silence

Sponsored and Applied Research

I believe that taking an active and contributing role in ones community, assisting in the creation and maintenance of an environment that sustains and supports well being, is the responsibility of all professionals. For over 32 years as a teaching architect, my studios have under taken 36 collaborative visioning projects in the community that subsequently evolved into commissions for local professionals. Each research and design project has enabled the studio to educate the client, helping them to understand the rich potential of their project, while involving future "architects" in the real issues of contemporary practice within the local community. Highlights of our collaborative design work includes the Grand Canyon Heritage Education Campus, Phoenix Public Library, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Kartchner Caverns State Park, Tucson City Hall, International Surfing Museum, and Desert Botanical Garden. In addition, my design-build studios have obtained funding to construct the digital orientation display in the lobby of Antoine Predock's ASU Art Museum and interactive toys for the ASU Child Development Lab.

Links to research and faculty pages

http://myprofile.cos.com/underwom67

http://www.spacesofsilence.com

Bio

Max Underwood is an Architect and Professor of Architecture at Arizona State University. He has a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and worked in the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Known primarily as a Master Teacher, he is the recipient of the ACSA National Distinguished Professor Award, the AIA Arizona Educator Award, and has received three National AIA Honor Awards for his teaching innovations. In addition to Max's built work, he has written articles, given invited lectures, curated exhibitions, chaired symposia, and led international art/architecture and Smithsonian tours. His current research focus is investigating spaces of silence worldwide.

Curriculum Vitae