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 of Arts in Architecture in 2023 at UNC Charlotte and a Master 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 […]

Nicholas Ault is a Principal at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, where he leads the firm’s Mixed Use practice. His professional work spans urban mixed-use developments, adaptive reuse, corporate and industrial buildings, and medical office projects. In parallel with practice, Nick has taught architecture for many years, including full-time appointments at UNC Charlotte and Clemson University. […]

Professor Mona Azarbayjani is the graduate program director at the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and joined UNC Charlotte in 2010. Her research focuses on building energy performance, thermal comfort, and high-performance building systems, emphasizing climate-responsive design, environmental analytics, and computational […]

Carol Bacon, AIA is a Principal at ADW Architects and a part-time Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture, where she has taught design studios, writing seminars, and interdisciplinary courses since 2014. She currently serves as the Integrated Path to Licensure (IPAL) Coordinator and advises students and emerging professionals pursuing […]

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 […]

Loren P. Bartlett is a registered architect in North Carolina and Tennessee. She graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2013. Loren attended Istanbul Technical University while studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey and completed her thesis at Auburn’s Rural Studio where she and her team designed and built Eddie’s House 20Kv12. With […]

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 […]