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Rebecca & John Voyles Professor of Architecture
Expertise: architecture and engineering, structural engineering, building technology, membrane technology, air structures, robotics, technology transfer, technology integration, enclosures and environments
Bio:
Donnelly is an internationally recognized architect known for buildings that fuse cutting-edge technology with imaginative designs. He is both an architect and a registered professional engineer. Throughout his academic career, Donnelly has maintained his professional practices, as a principal in Paul J. Donnelly Architects and Engineers and as a principal and co-founder of The Associated Architects, both located in Boston.
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Education:
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M.S. at Columbia University
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B.Arch. at Boston Architectural Center
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B.S. in Structural Engineering at Northeastern University
Additional Background: Donnelly joined Washington University as a visiting professor of architecture in 1996, became a professor in 1997 and was named the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor in 1999. His research interests include membrane technology, air structures, robotics, technology transfer, technology integration and enclosures and environments. He previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
His administrative contributions to the School of Architecture include heading the school's Technology Committee, serving as interim director of computing and interim director of graduate admissions and chairing the Curriculum Committee. He also has directed the Graduate Program.
Donnelly received a bachelor's degree in structural engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, in 1968 and a master's degree in engineering mechanics from Columbia University, New York, in 1970. He also conducted graduate studies and research work at McGill University in Montreal. Donnelly earned a bachelor of architecture degree from Boston Architectural Center.
For his innovative integration of technology and architecture, Donnelly has received recognition in national and international design competitions as well as numerous awards from the ACSA and the AIA. He and associate professor Andrew Scott of MIT were awarded a First Prize Citation in the "Building Integrated Photovoltaics Competition," sponsored by the AIA Research Foundation and the United States Department of Energy, and also received a Design Citation Award for the "Unbuilt Boston Competition."
Donnelly's work has appeared in a number of publications, including Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Architecture, AIArchitect, Competitions, Der Architekt BDA, Archtektur Wettbewerbe, the Japanese architecture journal Shinkenchiku, and Building Research and Information.
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