DENNIS DOXTATER - Peace Corps Peru Training, Cornell University, 1965
DENNIS DOXTATER - Peace Corps Peru Training, Cornell University, 1965
DENNIS DOXTATER
Associate Professor, Full-Time, Tenured
Adjunct: Renewable Natural Resources; Member: Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies
CURRENT TEACHING
Design Studios, Arch 596a Theory of Design & Human Behavior, Arch 487/587 Space: A
Socio-Cultural View
EDUCATION
D.Arch, University of Michigan, 1981
MA (Socio-Cultural Anthro.), University of Washington, 1971
Peace Corps Peru Training, Cornell University, 1965
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Washington, 1965
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, College of Architecture, UA, 1984-Present
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, UA, 1980-84
RESSEARCH & PUBLIC SERVICE
Works in progress: Sacred Geography in Scandinavia, Environmental Evaluation.
Committees: Environmental Design Research Association; Society for Applied Anthropology; Board Member, Old
Fort Lowell Neighborhood Association & Orchard River Townhouse Association.
A new perspective on Scandinavian Middle Ages Churches, $3,000, 1997; S.A.L.T. Evaluation/ Programming (with
Management Info. Sys.), (UA internal, approx. $4,500), 1995; UA Provost�s Subvention Grant, $600, 1994;
Evaluation of University of Arizona Student Union, $5,000, 1993; Dwelling in Scandinavia Symposium, Norwegian
state funding, $2,500, 1992; Norwegian Information Service, $500, 1992; U of A Travel Grant, Ankara, Turkey, $350,
1990; U of A Faculty Grant, Architecture as Medium in History of Southern Sweden, $3,000, 1990; NEA Design
Exploration/Research Fellowship (sabbatical), 1986-87; UA Foundation Grant, UA/Humanities Grant, 1985; NEA
Fellowship, 1983-84; UA/Humanities Grant, 1983; Rackham Graduate School Grant, University of Michigan, 1976-77;
Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, UM, to Norway, 1975; Doctoral Program Grant, University of Michigan, 1974-75.
PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES
Architecture, Ritual Practice & Co-Determination in the Swedish Office Ethnoscapes
Series, David Canter & David Stea, eds. Aldershot (UK): Avebury, 1994; Summary of preceding book,
�Självbestämmandets Arkitektur� (�self-determined architecture�: Arkitektur 2:92 (Swed. Journal of Architecture),
1992; �Structuration of individual and community in Scandinavian time and space: three conditions of architectural
expression� Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Conference, 1995; �Beyond Pieces and Places: Situational views of
architectural form as a bridge between anecdotal programs and design prototypes� paper submitted to the Society
for Applied Anthropology 1995 Annual Meetings, 1994; �Ritual and Ceremonial�, �Axis Mundi�, and
�Norwegian-Americans�, three contributions to Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture, Paul Oliver (ed.) Oxford:
Basel Blackwell (in press), 1994; �Building as Political Process or ... Architecture as Human Information?� in
Architectural Education and the Built Future. N.Y.: National Institute for Architectural Education: 1992; �Reflections
of the Anasazi Cosmos� in Social Space: Human Spatial Behavior in Dwellings and Settlements; Gron, Engelstad,
and Lindblom (eds); Odense: Odense University Press, 1991; �Socio-Political Change and Symbolic Space in
Norwegian Farm Culture after the Reformation� in On Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental
Response; Ethnoscapes Series, Vol. 4) Mete Turan (ed); London: Gower Press, 1990; �The Meaning of the
Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Expression as a Process in Design� in Symbolics and Artifacts: Views of the
Corporate Landscape, Pasquale Gagliardi (ed); Berlin & New York: Walter DeGruter & Co., 1990.
LICENSES & PRACTICE
Washington, 1973
Jon Decker, AIA, Architects, Seattle, 1971-73; Lloyd Thorson, Landscape Architect, Seattle,
1969-70; William Teufel, Landscape Architect, Seattle, 1969; Joyce, Copeland, Vaughn Architects & Planners,
Seattle, 1968; Architect with Peace Corps, Peru, 1965-67.
