New Faculty - College of Design
Nabil Kamel
Assistant Professor, School of Planning
Dr. Kamel received his Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he led numerous research projects working at the North American Integration and Development Center, the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, the Institute of Transportation Studies, and the Anderson Forecast at UCLA. He was involved in research at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M. He practiced architecture and urban design and planning in the United States, Italy, and Egypt. His major areas of expertise include urban and regional development, social and environmental justice, disaster mitigation and recovery planning, and physical planning.
Thomas J. Morton
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Dr. Morton earned his doctorate in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to arriving at ASU, he taught architectural history in the Department of Art at Swarthmore College and was affiliated with the Division of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Specializing in the architecture and urbanism of the Roman Empire, he has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Carthage, Tunisia, and on the island of Jerba, Tunisia. He served as the assistant director of the Jerba Project for several field seasons and is in the process of editing the field report for publication. He published some of his research on Roman architecture in North Africa in L’Africa Romana. Recently, Dr. Morton was invited to initiate an architectural and archaeological study of the ancient site of Pautalia in Bulgaria.
Kim Steele
Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Ms. Steele joins the faculty from Auburn University, where she taught landscape architecture and architecture for five years. She received a master of architecture and a master of landscape architecture from the University of Colorado, Denver and a master of arts in art history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on translating archive theory into a method for landscape assessment and landscape history writing. Ms. Steele is also developing graphic strategies for interpreting the physical, social, economic, and cultural significance of the United States–Mexico border region as a means for understanding current settlement patterns and developing appropriate strategies for future intervention.
Philip White
Assistant Professor, School of Design
Philip White is an ecological design strategist who develops ecologically intelligent products and systems and advanced environmental impact assessments. He chairs the ecodesign section of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) where he established a partnership between IDSA and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He organized the development of the Okala ecological design curriculum that is used by more than 40 schools of product design in North America . He writes extensively about design and ecology and published in ID Magazine (New York), Items (The Netherlands), Curve (Australia), and Innovation (US). Mr. White received his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and his master’s of three-dimensional design from Cranbrook Academy , Michigan . He designed products and was an ecodesign expert at IID (Japan), Philips Design, (The Netherlands), and Ziba and Fiori (USA). Mr. White won international product design awards (IF, ID Magazine, IDEA) and holds 14 patents. He advises on impact assessment methodology to the Sustainable Products Purchasers Coalition and is an active member of the LifeCycle Initiative of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
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