Architecture dean advisory committee appointed

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has appointed an advisory committee to assist him in the search for the next dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

Both the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design are part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, a new academic and administrative unit that also includes the College of Art, the Graduate School of Art and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

The new individual will succeed current Architecture Dean Jerome J. Sincoff and will report directly to Carmon Colangelo, the recently appointed dean of the Sam Fox School, who will arrive on campus July 1.

The Advisory Committee for the Appointment of the Dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is charged with identifying 3-5 individuals with the intellectual, administrative, personal and leadership qualities sought for the new dean, said Wrighton, who hopes to complete the appointment process by July 1.

Wrighton has named William A. Peck, M.D., the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor, as the committee’s chair. Peck, former dean of the School of Medicine and executive vice chancellor for medical affairs, is director of the University’s Center for Health Policy.

Other committee members are:

Rachel A. Doniger, a graduate student in Architecture; Paul Donnelly, the Rebecca & John Voyles Professor of Architecture and co-director of the Architecture graduate program;

Crystal R. Ellis, a senior in Architecture; Iain A. Fraser, co-director of the Architecture undergraduate program; John Hoal, Ph.D., co-director of the Architecture undergraduate program;

Adrian Luchini, the Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and co-director of the Architecture graduate program; Peter MacKeith, associate director of the Sam Fox School and associate dean of Architecture;

Eric P. Mumford, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Master of Urban Design Program; Jeff Pike, dean of the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art;

Alumna Susan Pruchnicki, principal of Bond & Wolfe Architects in St. Louis; William E. Wallace, Ph.D., the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences; and Heather R. Woofter, assistant professor of Architecture.