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Charles Pipal

Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Education: Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1986, and Master of Architecture, 1990, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Concurrent positions: Principal architect, Charles Pipal AIA; Chair, Riverside Preservation Commission.

Personal Statement

Professor Pipal's areas of academic and professional expertise include documentation of historic buildings and sites, historic resource surveys, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, permit review and construction project management. His personal and scholastic interests include historic site interpretation as it applies to tourism and the understanding of the role of social and political history as it is seen and expressed in the built environment.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Thesis studio asks students to determine and research an original problem with pertinent issues, and design an innovative response to some aspect of architectural production.

Course Goals and Objectives
1) Give individual students the opportunity to discover, define, and research a significant aspect of architectural production in depth.
2) Develop a personal approach to an important issue of contemporary significance to the field of architecture and communicate it concisely.
3) Work with originality, clarity, and high production values at the end of an architectural education.

Class Number

1845

Credits

6