Architecture

Pelin Alkan is an interior architect specialized in exhibition design. Before joining the UNC Charlotte, she contributed to numerous exhibition design projects for renowned institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna and Pera and YapıKredi Museums in Istanbul. Her experience covers a wide range of exhibition types, including contemporary, archival, archaeological, science and nature, and […]

Nadia M. Anderson is an associate professor of architecture and urban design in the David R. Ravin School of Architecture. Her work is about how power and injustice are present in the built environment and how this can be changed through creative work as praxis. She is a licensed architect with professional experience in Chicago, […]

Alexis Andrikanich received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Architecture in 2023 at UNC Charlotte and a Master’s in Architecture in 2025 at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as a Teaching Fellow at the school, hoping to encourage students to delve into understanding the process and methods of making through computation and drawing. Her research and […]

Professor Mona Azarbayjani is the Graduate Program Director at the Davd R. Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and joined UNC Charlotte in 2010. Her research focuses on energy analytics, high-performance and healthy buildings, and user-centered design with new technologies. Dr. Azarbayjani’s research examines integrated […]

Jeff Balmer is an associate professor at the David R Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. His scholarship engages the history of modernist and contemporary architecture in Italy, foundations design pedagogy, and the history and practice of the architectural diagram. He is nearing completion of the Third Edition of Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for […]

Blaine Brownell is Professor and Director of the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and an architect and researcher of emergent materials and applications. He earned a B.A. in Architecture with a Certificate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and a Master in Architecture from […]

Alex Cabral serves as the Director of Fabrication for the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, overseeing five distinct laboratory spaces in two campus locations.  Prior to arriving at UNC Charlotte, Alex led the Fabrication Lab at Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, MA).  Under his leadership, from 2011 to early 2015, Alex doubled the size […]

Kelly Carlson-Reddig is an Associate Professor of Architecture. She completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Architecture at Texas Tech University in 1986 and her graduate Master of Environmental Design at Yale University in 1992. Her scholarship focuses primarily on the conceptual dimensions of architecture’s materiality, tectonics, and architectural “marks,” and has been articulated in papers such as […]

Jonathan Dessi-Olive is a researcher, designer, and educator who joined the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte in 2022. In his role as an assistant professor in building technology + design integration, Dessi-Olive will teach architecture design studios, structures, and construction research seminars that take a critical approach to technology. He is also the director […]

Rachel Dickey is an Associate Professor in the David R. Ravin School of Architecture and Principal of Studio Dickey, a Charlotte-based art and design practice. Her work is characterized by the synthesis of architecture, art, cognitive science, and technology offering a multifaceted study of the human experience and the built environment.  While her research explores […]