Professor Fowler’s teaching responsibilities include third year design and building technology courses, and directing his digital media facility founded in 1997, called the Collaborative Integrative-Interdisciplinary Digital-Design Studio (CIDS). This facility provides his students with access to the latest digital technology for use in the design and construction process for interdisciplinary community projects. During Professor Fowler’s career he has received a number of awards in recognition of his teaching and research activities, which includes: American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award for CIDS 2008, College of Architecture and Environmental Design Wesley Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, Architecture Department’s Faculty Teaching Award 2005, Nominated by Cal Poly’s College of Architecture in both 2001 and 2000 for U.S. Professor of the Year Award, “Young Faculty Teaching Award, ACSA/AIAS, 1996-1997”, and “Young Architects Selection”, Progressive Architecture Magazine, July 1994. Professor Fowler has served as paper referee for numerous conferences, published a range of papers on his design studio teaching methods and interdisciplinary project activities and has had a successful track record for successful grants for his research activities. Recently he has published an essay on teaching titled, “A Teacher’s View”, in Becoming an Architect, Lee Waldrep, editor, Wiley 2006. Professor Fowler has also served as the Associate Head of Cal Poly’s Architecture Department from 2001 - 2007, served as the ACSA’s Secretary to the Board, 2004-2006, has been appointed to serve on the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) as an ACSA representative from 2007-2009, and has had extensive experience in participating on NAAB visitation teams to 15 programs (5 of these he chaired) around the country. Professor Fowler is a Registered Architect in New York State and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA).
Articles
Intimate and Transparent Production of Space, formZ Joint Study Journal 2006-2007 (2006)
This paper illustrates the design work from an integrated third-year Architecture Design Studio and a...
Light Motion Machines, formZ Joint Study Journal 2006-2007 (2006)
Students worked in four teams of three to four each and were assigned the construction...
The Tectonics of Motion, Light and Space, formZ Joint Study Report 2005-2006 (2005)
This paper illustrates the design work from an integrated third year Architecture Design Studio and...
Digital and Analog Strategies for Design Studio, formZ Joint Study Program, 2004-2005 (2004)
In a third year design studio, assignments are crafted for students to refine skills in...
Exploring the Constructability of 'Imagined' Realities, formZ Joint Study Program Report 2003-2004 (2003)
In the third year of the 5-year Bachelor of Architecture Program, form•Z is used as...