FAU SOA WELCOMES DUSTIN WHITE OUR NEW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

FAU School of Architecture would like to welcome Dustin White as our new Assistant Professor of Structural Design. The mission of his research and design practice is to collaborate with and explore interdisciplinary partnerships within and across art and design professions including interior design, architecture, furniture design, exhibition design, patent development, material development, and digital fabrication. Computation, sustainability, and fabrication strategies drive and inform all aspects of his process and work. Maximizing ideas, material resources, and energy, as well as value engineering time and human effort inspire him to employ inventive hybrid practices merging traditional, digital, and emerging technologies that integrate tools from across a spectrum of shared disciplines. His work has been invited and shown around the world including at the Marmomac Stone Expo “Italian Stone Theater Exhibition” in Verona, Italy (2019, 2022, 2023), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), The PASEO art festival in Taos, NM, Italian Consultant in Washington DC and has led to being a finalist for competition awards from Surface Awards (London), NYCxDESIGN, SXSW Eco in Austin, TX, and the Friends of the High Line in New York. Projects include residential, commercial interiors, hospitality, exhibition design, installations, furniture, and prototypes. Prior to FAU he was the Director, Digital Technologies and Fabrication and an Associate Undergraduate Chair at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design. Dustin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Politecnico di Bari in Bari, Italy, and received his M. Arch degree from Clemson University School of Architecture.