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“Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. In my clients and in myself, I find that when life is richest and most rewarding it is a flowing process. To experience this is both fascinating and a little frightening. I find I am at my best when I can let the flow of my experience carry me, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals of which I am but dimly aware.”
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“In thus floating with the complex stream of my experiencing, and in trying to understand its ever-changing complexity, it should be evident that there are no fixed points. When I am thus able to be in process, it is clear that there can be no closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles which I hold.“
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“Life is guided by a changing understanding of principles which I hold. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.”
- Rogers, Carl . 1961. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 27.
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Walters was kind and constructive, and his professionalism is unmatched by anyone on the faculty. He listened deeply and asked the best questions. Bradley is a special kind of faculty member who always searches to understand what a student is aiming to achieve. He not only looks at student work, he sees its potential, and on more occasions than I can count, he has opened up entirely new avenues for discovery with just a few well-considered words. He is the educator I aspire to be.”
Elizabeth C.
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Walters is a professor I am deeply grateful to have as my mentor, leader, and role model. He is a once-in-a-lifetime educator who continually shapes the school through his work, leadership, and example. He is the kind of person, educator, and learner of the world that I aspire to become. I have seen his impact on the lives of many students, including myself.”
Michael D.
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Dwelling on Climate: Using Comparative Design Methodologies to Develop Responsive Architectures in Hot and Cold Climates
Bradley Walters and Chang He “A well-designed house not only fits its context well but also illuminates the problem of just what the context is, and thereby clarifies the life which it accommodates.”1 In his Notes on the Synthesis of…
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UF Team Wins First Place in the US DOE Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge New Housing Division
The University of Florida won First Place in the New Housing Division of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge. Competition award winners were announced at the conclusion of the Solar Decathlon Competition Event in Golden, Colorado,…
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Rituals of Place: Measure and Meaning in Ephemeral Landscapes
Carley Rynar, Bradley Walters, and Adeline Hofer When we engage the physical world outside the studio, site and landscape become more than passive tableaus or inert media within which we operate. The lands within which we work are, in fact, complex and nuanced…
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“Oculata Manus” published by Routledge
The essay “Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds” was published as a chapter in Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design, edited by Stephen A. Temple and published by Routledge, an imprint of…
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Quinlivan Net-Zero Energy House included in 2018 National Solar Tour
The Quinlivan Net-Zero Energy House was included in the 2018 National Solar Tour, organized by the American Solar Energy Society and Solar United Neighbors. Visitors toured the house and were able to study the ground-mount photovoltaic system as well as…
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“Here be Dragons: On the Value of Incompleteness in Drawing” published in Representation Journal
The essay “Here be Dragons: On the Value of Incompleteness in Drawing” was selected for publication in Representation, the Journal of the Design Communication Association, edited by M. Saleh Uddin, Ph.D. This essay was originally prepared for the 2014 Conference…
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Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds
Bradley Walters and Lisa Huang Young designers and beginning design students are often motivated more by emotion, immediacy, and sensuality than by ideologies, theories, or abstract principles. Causal relationships that are remote in perception, time, or space are less relevant…
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Walters Curates UF Superstudio Exhibit at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017
Bradley Walters curated and prepared the Superstudio exhibit of student work from the University of Florida at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Citation:Walters, Bradley. 2017. “Superstudio: University of Florida.” AIA National Convention on Architecture, Orlando, Florida,…
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“Oculata Manus” published in Vorkurs Journal
The essay “Oculata Manus” was included in the inaugural edition of the Journal Vorkurs, edited by Zachary Wignall and Elizabeth Cronin. The essay probes pedagogies based in materiality and making, with particular reference to a new curricular structure introduced in…
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Vicenza 3.0: Imparando dal Passato International Exhibition of Student Work
Working with Giancarlo Busato and Sotirios Papadopoulos, Bradley Walters co-curated an international exhibition of work prepared by students from the University of Florida School of Architecture. The exhibition included prints and engravings prepared by students in the Vicenza Institute of…
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Visiting Critic, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Bradley Walters served as an Invited Visiting Critic at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for the Fall 2014 reviews. Walters, Bradley. 2014. “Final Undergraduate and Graduate Studio Reviews.” School of Architecture, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee. For…
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The End of Innocence
“Ralph looked through him. Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life. Ralph’s lips parted in a delighted smile and Piggy, taking this smile to himself as a mark of recognition, laughed with…
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Here be Dragons: On the Value of Incompleteness in Drawing
As a warning to unwary seafarers, the Lenox Globe (ca. 1503-07) included the following cautionary inscription on the eastern coast of Asia: “HC SVNT DRACONES” (hic sunt dracones). The Latin phrase offers an ominous warning, translated directly as “here be…
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Dead Letter Office
To speak of “live” projects is also to acknowledge the presence of “dead” projects, those for whom there is no client and at the end of which there is no plan to implement or full-scale project to occupy. The dead…
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Ends and Means: Inquiries Into the Role of the Solar Decathlon in Architectural Education
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Architectural education…
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On Tightness and Looseness
Unique amongst sustainable building programs, the Passive House Building Energy standard is both a building energy performance standard and a set of design and construction principles used to achieve that standard. Buildings that meet this standard use 80 percent less…
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Urban Seams and Sutures: Strategies for Intervening in Pre-Industrial Urban Landscapes
The urban condition has become “a space of spontaneous self-organization and emergence, it is inherently dynamic, connected, interactive, a messy assemblage of networks, systems, ecologies, all competing with and contaminating, each other” (Furján 2008, 52). While these conditions and phenomena…
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Detours and Denouements
Architectural education is challenged by the pressing needs of a changing profession. With increasing costs and diminishing fees, firms deploy digital tools and/or outsource work to more efficiently deliver design services. Schools are similarly streamlining processes, responding to charged professional…
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Sketch: An Exhibition of Speculative Drawings at Lincoln Center’s Center Gallery, NYC
Sponsored by the Fordham University School of Visual Arts in association with New York-based curators d3, the Sketch exhibition for 2013 seeks to investigate the possibilities of drawing by embracing the full range and potential of sketching in conceptual design.…
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So you want to be an Architect?
Assistant Professor Bradley Walters, AIA, NCARB serves as the IDP Education Coordinator for the University of Florida. In this annual lecture, he introduces the Intern Development Program (IDP) and provides an overview of steps required to become a licensed architect in…
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Drawing Space
To say that the drawing has been displaced by building may be all too self-evident, both in practice and in academia. It is interesting that the displacement has been caused in part by the success of architectural drawings, drawings that…
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Unmoored Architecture: On Modules, Mobility and Manufacturing
In many classic variants on design/build as implemented in our schools, architects learn how to build or builders learn how to design, with individuals expanding their skill sets laterally such that they are able to understand more aspects of the…
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Speculative Making: Engaging Mass and Matter
Young designers and beginning design students are often motivated more by emotion, immediacy, and sensuality than by ideologies, theories, and/or abstract principles. Close and/or causal relationships that are remote in perception, time, and/or space are less relevant than those that…
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Figures and Fields
Figures and Fields: A Lecture by Bradley Walters This lecture weaves together professional work, research, and student work within a narrative that engages space, field theories, surface, landscape, environment, and ecology. Poster background image: Mapping of bee movements, responding to specific environmental…
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Active Lines: Liminal Marks + Material Constructions
The planning and development of large-scale projects requires investors to commit significant capital resources to their realization. These commitments are made based on the promise of a return, whether it is in the form of financial gain, an icon in…
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Solar Decathlon Europe 2010: Towards Energy Efficient Buildings
From the introduction by William Gillett, Head of Unit for Renewable Energy, Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation European Commission, Brussels (page 8): The EU is committed to the reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions by 20%, mainly by using…
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Out of Thin Air
We cannot expect to extract ideas and schemes from the student without first feeding his mind and imagination. Bernhard Hoesli and Colin Rowe, 1954 (1) As informational networks bind us ever more tightly together, they also introduce unseen gaps and…
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Materialisms and Excess
Waste not, want not.1 Austerity is in the air. Excess is out; efficiency is in. Quantitative measures supercede the qualitative just as performative and operative strategies displace poetics and play. And in these historical moments, the serious obligations of professional…
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Independent Research in the Final Year: Masters Research Projects at the University of Florida, 2000 to 2010
Submission to the Journal of Architectural Education JAE 65:1 Ending Design | Spring 2011Collaborative Work with Martha Kohen, Ann Lindell, and Kevin Fitzgerald Abstract The Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Florida is conducting institutional research regarding the…
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Instrumental Lines and Productive Paths
The territories of contemporary cultural production are marked by those at the extremes. On the one hand, we find a sustained fascination with celebrity and stardom; on the other is an enduring pursuit of the commonplace and/or normative. While seeking…
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Urban Fabrications
As the physical topography of the city is displaced by its constituent processes, flows, and non-physical motivators, these become the precise embodiment of a changed urbanity. As Manuel Castells has written, the “informational city is not a form but a process, a process characterized…
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Analog Alchemy and Digital Digressions: Hybrid Practices
Over the course of the last decade, the critical discourse around contemporary architectural practice has tended to eschew celebration of singular, expressive, and emotive authors in favor of collaborative team-based practices. It has been represented increasingly by a successive shift…
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Knots and Nurbs: Relational Spaces in Variable Fields
Legibility of constructed space is largely based on relationships internal to a work, relationships that can be read or understood through the terms of the construct itself. Components are set in relation to one another, marking purpose and intent, shaping…
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Powder Puffed Faux Fat & Safe Sex
Following completion of my undergraduate studies in architecture at the University of Florida and work in practice, I prepared a portfolio of work to accompany applications for graduate studies. This document, compiled in January 1997, was titled “Powder Puffed Faux…
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