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Campuses Closed on Sunday, January 19, and Monday, January 20, Due to Weather

Due to the winter weather forecast, all classes and activities at Kean’s main campus in Union, Kean Ocean and Kean Skylands are canceled on Sunday, January 19, and Monday, January 20. Normal operations are expected to resume on Tuesday, January 21. Only personnel who are essential during weather emergencies should report to work as required on Sunday and Monday. Employees with questions about their status should consult their supervisors. Keanu’s Kitchen will be open for on-campus residents from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday and 9 a.m. to midnight on Monday.

Gabriel Fuentes is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Architecture at Kean University’s Michael Graves College where he is launching and coordinating the new Master of Architecture program. His research interests are at the intersection of architecture, aesthetics, and politics, especially as these participate in world-making projects (e.g. heritage, utopias, modernities, imaginaries, revolutions, etc.). Along these lines, his teaching and writing focuses on ways in which architecture reconfigures scales and territories of power, identity, and culture. His recent scholarship examines relationships between heritage, architecture, and urbanism in UNESCO-designated Havana, Cuba. He has also written about the environmental aesthetic dimensions of architecture in/of the Anthropocene, referencing sources in science and technology studies, philosophy (political, aesthetic, and eco-ethical), and cultural theory. His writing has appeared in Thresholds, Future Anterior, Log, The Journal of Space Syntax, and e-flux Architecture.

Education

  • M.S. Architecture + Urban Design, Columbia University GSAPP,  2010. 

  • M.Arch, Florida International University, 2005.

Courses Taught: 

  • ARCH 5109: Studio 9 (Grad. Complex Program), 

  • ARCH 6112: Studio 12 (Thesis Studio)

  • ARCH 5209: History 9 (Theory Seminar)

  • ARCH 5210: History 10 (Thesis Prep. Seminar)

  • ARCH 6602: Professional Elective (Work Systems: Ecologies of Practice)

  • ARCH 5404: Building Systems 2

  • ARCH 5501: Professional Practice 1 

Research Interests

 

  • Architectural / Urban Design 
  • History, Theory and Discourse 
  • Public Interest Design Practices 
  • Critical Preservation