June 19, 2019December 18, 2019

Temples as Text: The Swinging Pendulum of Shifting Ritual-Architectural Priorities

Earlier this month I was privileged to present the following peer-reviewed paper titled “Temples as Text: The Swinging Pendulum of Shifting Ritual-Architectural Priorities” during the 54th Annual Mormon Historical Association Conference in Salt Lake City on June 8, 2019. ABSTRACT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to grow beyond its headquarters in […]
June 19, 2019December 18, 2019

The Hermeneutics of Gendered Sacred Space: Multivalent Perspectives from the Christian Tradition

I was privileged to present the following blind peer-reviewed paper titled “The Hermeneutics of Gendered Sacred Space: Multivalent Perspectives from the Christian Tradition” during the 11th Architecture Culture Spirituality Symposium at Taliesin West in Arizona on May 18, 2019. ABSTRACT: One social construct that is sometimes overlooked in the study of sacred architecture involves how […]
March 8, 2019December 18, 2019

Philosophy on Design and Teaching Architecture

STATEMENT ON TEACHING PHILOSOPHY As both an architect and teacher, I am a believer of Winston Churchill’s saying “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” My goal as an educator is to awaken within my students the reality of this ethical situation and promote an existential awareness of their surroundings. It is particularly […]
February 10, 2019December 18, 2019

Thinking with our Hands, Drawing with our Minds: Preserving the Embodied Wisdom of Sketching and Drawing

There is embodied wisdom in sketching and drawing. The architect’s ability to think with their hands and draw in their minds has become a powerful tool for imagining the spaces of tomorrow. From neurological and haptic connections between the eyes, mind, and hand to serving as a mnemonic device to improve our recollection, the creative […]
April 17, 2018December 18, 2019

Understanding the Impact of School Design on Academic Performance

Understanding the impact of school design on academic performance is critical for educators and designers. How one goes about evaluating the quality of a learning environment is a fundamental aspect for studies seeking to understand the value of architectural design and its functional performance on educational outcomes. Surveys are one means to address this challenge. […]
September 2, 2016December 18, 2019

Templum Dei: Exploring the Language of Sacred Architecture

Any study in search of the language of sacred architecture will eventually come to focus its attention on the temple. In fact, the building typology most often referred to by comparative historians of religion and sacred architecture is the temple. Templum Dei, Latin for Temple of God, is a fitting title for an exploration of sacred architecture; […]
January 15, 2016December 18, 2019

Understanding Extraordinary Architectural Experiences through Content Analysis of Written Narratives

Sir. Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” Architecture has the power to positively affect human beings. Survey research is revealing how certain buildings can transform our understanding of the world, since they affect the human experience on sociological, physiological, metaphysical, neurological, psychological, spiritual, and pedagogical levels. But what makes the experience of a building […]
June 24, 2015December 18, 2019

Sacred Time as One Eternal Round: Understanding the Chiastic Pattern of Temple, Cosmos, History

What does temple architecture, the revolutions of the cosmos, and the narrative of sacred history have in common? It is the cyclical nature of sacred time which is embodied in the phrase “God’s course is one eternal round.” I was privileged to present the following blind peer-reviewed paper titled “Sacred Time as One Eternal Round: Understanding […]

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

Oklahoma City Temple Receives Pinnacle Award of Excellence

July 13, 2020October 15, 2020

ARC 4110 – Architecture Design Studio V

July 13, 2020October 9, 2020

ARC 1010 – Classical Architecture Workshop

July 11, 2020August 22, 2020

ARC 4520 – Architectural Theory

June 13, 2020July 13, 2020

Paper accepted for IETC 2020

June 1, 2020August 8, 2020

Classical Architecture Workshop: Spring 2020 Student Work

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020

In Memoriam Lindsay R. Jones

April 19, 2020July 10, 2020

Sacred Geometry in New Church Symbol

January 7, 2020July 13, 2020

ARC 3210 – Architecture Design Studio IV

January 6, 2020July 13, 2020

EGDT 2740 – Special Problems in Architecture

December 21, 2019January 27, 2020

Memphis Temple Watercolor Rendering

December 18, 2019January 27, 2020

Studying Classical Orders and their Capitals

November 25, 2019December 19, 2019

Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple

October 28, 2019December 19, 2019

Raleigh North Carolina Temple

August 19, 2019July 13, 2020

ARTH 3080 – History of Architecture, Prehistory to 1700

August 11, 2019August 11, 2020

Latter-day Saint Sacred Architecture: A Reading List

June 30, 2019August 11, 2020

Idaho Central Credit Union – Moscow Branch

June 19, 2019December 18, 2019

Temples as Text: The Swinging Pendulum of Shifting Ritual-Architectural Priorities

June 19, 2019December 18, 2019

The Hermeneutics of Gendered Sacred Space: Multivalent Perspectives from the Christian Tradition

June 18, 2019August 14, 2019

Brandon Ro appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture at Utah Valley University

June 3, 2019December 19, 2019

Oklahoma City Temple

March 8, 2019December 18, 2019

Philosophy on Design and Teaching Architecture

March 7, 2019April 11, 2019

Reinterpreting Architecture with Watercolors

March 2, 2019March 5, 2019

Sketching in the Gem State – Idaho

March 1, 2019March 5, 2019

Paper Accepted to ACSF 11 Symposium

February 10, 2019December 18, 2019

Thinking with our Hands, Drawing with our Minds: Preserving the Embodied Wisdom of Sketching and Drawing

February 4, 2019February 26, 2019

Rome Visitor Center

February 1, 2019March 1, 2019

Archetypal Forms of Sacred Space

January 31, 2019February 26, 2019

Rome Italy Meetinghouse

January 30, 2019March 5, 2019

Paper Accepted to 2019 MHA Conference

November 21, 2018March 5, 2019

Latter-day Saint Temples – Paintings and Sketches

August 16, 2018March 5, 2019

The Experience of President Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018

Sketching in the Beehive State – Part 2

June 29, 2018December 19, 2019

Memphis Tennessee Temple

April 17, 2018December 18, 2019

Understanding the Impact of School Design on Academic Performance

February 10, 2018March 1, 2019

From Precedents to Master Copying

January 9, 2018

Sketching in the Beehive State

October 24, 2017March 5, 2019

The Transformative Power of Sacred Architecture: Exploring Ritual-Architectural Priorities and Evidence-Based Design for Sacred Spaces

December 15, 2016March 5, 2019

Ornament is (not) a Crime

September 2, 2016December 18, 2019

Templum Dei: Exploring the Language of Sacred Architecture

August 31, 2016March 5, 2019

Studying + Sketching Holiness to the Lord

June 16, 2016February 26, 2019

Garff Executive Education Building

May 5, 2016March 5, 2019

From Esquisse to Analytique: Learning Design Composition through Analytical Sketching & Measured Drawings

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016

The Mormon Temple Ritual-Architectural Experience: Connections to Jewish and Catholic Ritual Contexts and Sacred History

January 15, 2016December 18, 2019

Understanding Extraordinary Architectural Experiences through Content Analysis of Written Narratives

December 22, 2015

Evaluating Quality Learning Environments: A Case Study

October 30, 2015March 10, 2019

The Sacred – A Design Charrette

October 20, 2015March 5, 2019

Out of Obscurity: Bringing your Architecture into the Limelight – Competitions, Publications, Research

July 15, 2015April 29, 2018

EMC2 – Dell Office Building

One Eternal Round, Temple, Cosmos, History

June 24, 2015December 18, 2019

Sacred Time as One Eternal Round: Understanding the Chiastic Pattern of Temple, Cosmos, History

June 12, 2015February 22, 2019

The Box City Experience: Educating Elementary Children Through Architecture

February 23, 2015March 5, 2019

Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space

November 6, 2014June 12, 2015

What is a Temple? Mormon and Non-Mormon Architectural Perceptions

August 12, 2014April 28, 2018

European Meetinghouse Prototypes

July 1, 2014March 5, 2019

Architecture, Cosmos, History: Lessons from Sacred Space

June 23, 2014June 12, 2015

Measuring Architectural Phenomenology through Qualitative Analysis

May 14, 2014April 29, 2018

doTERRA Global Call Center

August 23, 2013June 12, 2015

Memory, Social Interaction, and Communicability in Extraordinary Experiences of Architecture

July 14, 2013February 22, 2015

(Re)Interpreting the Cosmic History of the Mormon Temple Experience

June 12, 2013June 12, 2015

Effects of Catholic Sacred Architecture on Transformative Human Experience

June 12, 2013January 12, 2015

Tale of the Tongs

May 14, 2013June 12, 2015

The Effect of Gender, Age, and Education in Extraordinary Aesthetic Experiences

April 22, 2013February 22, 2019

Learning Architectural History in situ: Italy Travel Sketches

April 14, 2013June 12, 2015

The Idealized Temple Morphology: Surveying the Public Perception of Sacred Architecture

January 17, 2013April 29, 2018

Genesis Medical Center

December 14, 2012January 14, 2015

Eternal Return – Nature Observatory

October 20, 2012January 14, 2015

Portrait Drawings

October 14, 2012January 14, 2015

David’s Tower – Monastery

September 23, 2012March 5, 2019

Projects Published in Márgenes Arquitectura

September 23, 2012March 5, 2019

Extraordinary Architectural Experiences: Comparative Study of Three Paradigmatic Cases of Sacred Spaces

August 16, 2012April 28, 2018

Bailey’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Station

July 24, 2012April 27, 2018

Reston Presbyterian Church

May 3, 2012January 14, 2015

Extraordinary Architectural Experiences: Comparative Study of Three Paradigmatic Cases of Sacred Spaces

December 22, 2011January 12, 2015

Mortem Obire, Funerary Chapel

December 11, 2011January 11, 2015

Ultimate Existence: An Urn ‘in memoriam’ of Donald Judd

September 13, 2011March 5, 2019

The Sacred Return Home: The Existential Narrative of Sacred Space

August 23, 2011March 5, 2019

Project Published in Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design

June 8, 2011January 12, 2015

The House of the LORD

March 3, 2011March 5, 2019

MOD 5 House

January 10, 2011January 14, 2015

Figure Drawings

June 22, 2010February 22, 2019

Port of L.A. Visions: Reclaiming the Port of Los Angeles Waterfront

April 11, 2010January 12, 2015

BESS Exhibition Easel

February 4, 2010March 1, 2019

L’ Hotel di Palladio Finale

February 3, 2010January 14, 2015

Living Cycles of Ephemeral City

August 14, 2009April 29, 2018

Bronco Student Center – Watercolor Rendering

May 15, 2009January 11, 2015

ECO_plexity Luminaire

March 8, 2009January 14, 2015

Cahuenga Elementary School

January 22, 2009March 10, 2019

Palladian Pallazzo

June 10, 2008January 10, 2015

China: Travel Sketches

January 3, 2008January 10, 2015

Inter-Cambio

January 10, 2007January 9, 2018

Drawings of Architecture

June 16, 2006April 29, 2018

Rancho Santa Fe Residence

January 10, 2006January 10, 2015

Paintings

January 10, 2005January 10, 2015

Still Life Drawings