Elizabeth Cooper English


General Information


Occupation: Architect, Professor

Resident City: New Orleans

Resident State/Province: Louisiana

Resident Country: United States

Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/English.html

Sources: From English's curriculum vitae


Specialties


No specialties on record


Jobs


Employer: Tulane University

Title: Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

City: New Orleans

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Lecture and Lab Courses: Structures I, II, Materials and Methods of Construction I


Employer: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture

City: Ann Arbor

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Lecture Course: Wood Structures, Seminar Course: Technology and Form--The Rise of the American Skyscraper


Employer: University of the Arts

Title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture

City: Philadelphia

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Lecture Courses: Structural Design I and II


Employer: University of Pennsylvania

Title: Lecturer, Department of Architecure

City: Philadelphia

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Seminar Course: The Skyscraper--Symbol and Structure; Design Studio Assistant for Visiting Critic Peter Rice; Design Critic (Advisor) for MArch Thesis Students


Employer: Temple University, Philadelphia

Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture

City: Philadelphia

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Lecture Course: Materials and Methods of Construction


Employer: Parsons School of Design, New York

Title: Full-Time Faculty, 1987-1989; Part-Time Faculty, 1989-1991; Department of Environmental Design

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Studio Courses: Architectural Design; Design Principles; Computers in Design. Lecture Courses: Structures--Statics and Mechanics: Principals of Physics. Seminar Courses: Architectrue and Technology--The American Skyscraper in its Urban Context, CADD Workshop, coordinated with design studio


Employer: University of Miami

Title: Instructor, School of Architecture

City: Miami

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Studio Courses: Design and Technology; Third-Year Comprehensive Design. Lecture Course: Materials and Methods of Construction


Employer: E.F.A Consultants

Title: Consultant

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Wind Engineering Consulting: Assesment of Wind load factors on the surfaces and structure of a glass-walled mechnaical services plant for the University of Pennsylvania and the 60 foot-tall elliptical plan, woven metal mesh screen wall surrounding it. Structural Consulting; Strategy for the repair, stabilization and reinforcement of a large mid-19th c. barn in rural New Jersey, damaged and destabilized in a windstorm. Architectural Consulting: Architectural design and engineering consulting services for the renovation of a large 19th-c., 3-story rowhouse in Dexter MI, with Janet Fink AIA


Employer: Structural Consultant

City: Philadelphia

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Site inspection, structural damage assessment and recommendations for the repair od abandoned late 19th-c. Philadelphia townhouses.


Employer: Matteson Library Design Competition

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Competition design submission for a community library, with James Tice. Project selected for exhibition in Chicago and New York


Employer: Robert Silman Associates

Title: Structural Engineer

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Structural design in wood and steel.


Employer: Structural Consultant

City: Providence

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Supervision of the reconstruction in Providence of a dismantled early 19th-c. house originally built in New Hampshire.


Employer: Small domestic and commercial renovation projects

Title: Architectrual designer

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Projects in Cambridge MA and Stonewall TX.


Employer: Weidlinger Associates

Title: Structural Engineer

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Structural analysis and design; engineering research. Major projects: Tropical Forest Pavillion, Frankiln Park Zoo, Boston; John Hancock Tower litigation, Boston. Projects in steel, concrete, wood and masonry.


Employer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Graduate Research Assisant, Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Administration of consulting research projects, including running wind tunnel tests, writing data analysis software, and compiling, writing and editing final reports to clients


Employer: Souza and True

Title: Structural Engineer

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Projects in Steel, concrete, and wood foundation design.


Employer: Engineers Incorporated

Title: Engineering Summer Intern

City: Newark

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Structural analysis and design; engineering research. Major projects: Tropical Forest Pavillion, Frankiln Park Zoo, Boston; John Hancock Tower litigation, Boston. Projects in steel and concrete.


Employer: Copley and Associates

Title: Consultant

City: Newton

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Acoustics analysis and computer modeling.


Employer: Energy Inverstments

Title: Consultant

City: Cambridge

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Energy transfer analysis


Employer: Haines, Lundberg and Waehler

Title: Summer Intern

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Architectural drafting and model making


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Kennan Institute, Washington DC

Description: Short-term Research Grant, for work on Moscow architecture, $2,800.


Name: Sydney University, Department of Architectural and Design Science

Description: Visiting Fellow

Notes: Through 1997


Name: National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs

Description: Interpretive Research Grant, to support research and photography for book on Moscow architecture, $78,000.

Notes: Through 1996


Name: Universit yof Auckland, School of Architecture

Description: Guest Lecturer, presnting a series of lectures and seminars to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage in New Zealand.


Name: University of Pennsylvania, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies

Description: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Russian Studies

Notes: Through 1993


Name: National Endowment for the Arts

Description: Design Arts Individual Project Grant, to support research and photography for monograph on Moscow's 20th c. architecture, $15,000.


Name: International Research and Exchanges Board

Description: Short-term Travel Grant, for research in Moscow, $2,500.


Name: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Description: Individual Fellowship Grant, for "Moscow Architecture" project, $10,000.


Name: Rhode Island School of Design

Description: Faculty Development Grant, to suppoer wind effects research.


Name: Princeton University

Description: Eponym of the Princeton Women's Hockey Team's Most Valuable Player Trophy, awarded annaully.

Notes: Through the present, English founded the PWIH in 1973


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Department: Architecture

Degree: Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, Ph.D. expected in May 2000

Notes: Dissertation title: Arkhitektura i Mnimosti: THe Origins of SOviet Avant-Garde Rationalist Architecture in the Russian Philosophical and Mathematical Intellectual Tradition


Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Department: Architecture

Degree: M.S. in Architecture

Notes: Concentration in Architectural Theory


Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department: Engineering

Degree: M.S in Civil Engineering

Notes: Concnetration on Structural Analysis and Design. Thesis Title: "A Wind-Tunnel Study of Sheilding Effects on Rectangular Block Structures."


Institution: Princeton University

Department: Architecure and Urban Planning

Degree: A.B. in Architecture

Notes: Concentration in Architectural Design, Thesis project: A Solar-Powered Multi-Purpose Ice-Skating Facility for the Princeton University Campus and Community


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: Jpurnal of WInd Engineering anf Industiral Aerodymanics

Role: Peer-reviewer for papers submitted to the JWEIA for publication.


Organization: Journal of Architectural Education

Role: Peer-reviewer for papers submitted to the JAE for publication.


Organization: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Role: Peer-reveiwer of papers submitted for presentation at the ACSA International Conference in Rome


Organization: Acoustical Society of America Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and National Council of Acoustic Consultants

Role: Congress on Acoustics, Seattle, Invited juror for architecture student design competition.


Organization: University of Michigan

Role: Structures Curriculum Review Committee, Undergraduate Preferred Admissions Committee


Organization: National Science Foundation/Civil & Mechanical Systems Division

Role: CMS Workshop for the Advancement and Retention of Underrepresented and Minorty Engineering Educators, Arlington VA, Invited participant


Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers/Structures Division

Role: Member ASCE Wind Effects Committee

Notes: Through present


Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers/Structures Division

Role: Member, Committee on Tall Buildings; Control Member since 1996

Notes: Present


Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers/Structures Division

Role: Member, Committee on Aesthetics in Design; Control Member since 1997; Committee Chair May 2000

Notes: Through present


Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers/Structures Division

Role: Member of Aerodynamics Committee of ASCE Aerospace Division

Notes: Most recent activity is the organization of a panel for the SEI/ASCE Structures Congress in May 2000; "THe Influence of Wind-Tunnel Testing on the Design of Tall Buildings," jointly sponsored by hte Aerodymanics Committee, the Committee on Aesthetics in Design and the Committee on Tall Buildings.


Organization: National Endowment for the Humanities

Role: Peer-reviewer for research grant proposlas submitted to the NEH for funding


Organization: San Diego School of Architecture

Role: Consultant to Dean Adele Santos for the design of a new technology curriculum


Organization: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Role: Founding member and Co-chair of ASCA Task Force on the Status of Faculty Women in Architecture Schools, which produced 1990 ACSA report, "Status of Faculty Women in Architecutre Schools: Survey Results and Recommendations


Organization: Building Arts Forum/New York

Role: Founding member of a study group of fourteen architects and structural engineers examining the relationship between the two professions

Notes: BAF/NY organized and raised funds for a three-evening symposium held at the Guggenheim Museum in April 1989, featuring Santiago Calatrava, Peter Rice, Kenneth Frampton, Richard Rogers, et al. Co-editor of 1991 BAF/NY publication of papers from the symposium, Bridging the Gap: Rethinking the Relationship of Architect and Engineer.


Organization: Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Reponsibility

Role: New York Member of ADPSR Schools Committee.

Notes: Committee organized inter-school design project coordinated with a similar effort at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Arranged joint lecture by Frank Gehry and Herman Hertzberger for participating students. Juried entries from eight US architecutre schools and mounted joint US/USSR exhibition at the John Nichols Gallery, New York NY. Visited Moscow and hosted Soviet delegation as part of US/USSR student/faculty exchange. Raised funds to support these activities


Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers/Structures Division

Role: Member of Aerodynamics Research Subcommittee; Co-chair 1989-90

Notes: Most recent activity is the organization of a panel for the SEI/ASCE Structures Congress in May 2000: "Engineering the Cladding for High-Rise Buildings"


Organization: Parsons School of Design

Role: Member of College Council and Chair of Academic Affairs Committee of the College Council. Building and Facilities Committee. Department of Environmental Design Curriculum Committee.


Organization: National Science Foundation

Role: Peer-reviewer for wind-effects grant proposals submitted to the NSF for funding


Organization: Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Architecture

Role: Initiated and curated an exhibit of computer generated architectural drawings from RISD, Harvard and MIT, mounted at RISD's Bayard-Ewing Gallery


Organization: University of Miami, School of Architecture

Role: Technology Curriculum Committee, undertaking the comprehensive examination of content methods of instruction and sequence of architectural technology courses


Organization: American University for the Advancement of Slavic Studies


Organization: American Association for Wind Engineering


Organization: American Association of University Women


Organization: Association for Women in Slavic Studies


Organization: Australian Wind Engineering Society


Organization: Council on Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat


Organization: National Council for Research on Women


Organization: Society of Architectural Historians


Organization: Society of Historians of Eastern European and Russian Art and Architecture


Organization: Society of the Historians of Technology


Publications By


Title: The Interference Index and its Prediction Using a Neural Network Analysis of Wind-Tunnel Data

Co-author: F.R. Fricke

Publication: Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volume: 83

Issue: November-December

Page: pp. 567-75


Title: Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovskii and his Influence on the Soviet Avant-Garde

Publication: Legacy and Aspirations: Proceedings of the 87th ACSA Annual Meeting

Page: pp. 125-31

City: Minneapolis

Date Published: March 01, 1999


Title: PRedicting interference Using a Neural Network

Co-author: F.R. Fricke

Publication: Proceedings of the 4th UK Conference on Wind Engineering

Page: pp. 227-232

City: Bristol

Date Published: September 01, 1998


Title: Reduction of Roof Wond Loads by Architecutral Features

Co-author: L.S. Cochran

Publication: Architectural Science Review

Issue: 40

Page: pp.79-87

Date Published: September 01, 1997


Title: The Interference Index and its Prediction Using Neural Networks

Co-author: F.R. Fricke

Publication: Proceedings of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering

Page: pp.363-66

City: Gold Coast

State: Queensland

Country: Australia

Date Published: July 01, 1997


Title: LeMessurier (WIlliam James) and Loleit (Artur)

Publication: L'Art de L'ingenieur: constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur

Page: pp. 263, 265-266

Publisher: Editions du centre Pompidou

City: Paris


Title: A Neural Network Approach to the Quantification of Sheilding Effects

Co-author: F.R. Fricke

Publication: Proceedings of the Third International Colloquim on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications

Volume: A III

Page: pp. 13-16

City: Blacksburg

Date Published: July 01, 1996


Title: Wind Load Reduction by Porous Fences on Low-Rise Buildings

Co-author: L. Cochran and J. Cermak

Publication: Proceedings of the ASCE Structures Congress XIII

Page: pp. 365-368

City: Boston

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Date Published: April 01, 1995


Title: Load Reduction by Modifying the Roof Corner Vortex

Co-author: L. Cochran and J. Cermak

Publication: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Wind Engineering

City: New Dehli

Date Published: January 01, 1995


Title: Shielding Factors for Paired Rectangular Prisms: An Analysis of Along-Wind Mean Response Data from Several Resources

Publication: Proceedings of the Seventh U.S. Conference on Wind Engineering

Page: pp. 193-201

City: Los Angeles

Date Published: June 01, 1993


Title: Bridging the Gap: Rethinking the Relationship of Architect and Engineer

Co-author: English was a co-Editor

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold

City: New York


Title: Sheilding Factors from Wind-Tunnel Studies of Prismatic Building Shapes

Publication: Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volume: 36

Page: pp. 611-19


Title: Shielding Factors from Wind-Tunnel Studies on Mid-Rise and High-Rise Structures

Publication: Proceedings of the Fifth U.S. National COnference on Wind Engineering

Issue: 4A

Page: pp. 49-56

City: Lubbock


Title: A Wind Tunnel Study of Shielding Effects in Rectangular Prismatic Structures

Co-author: F.H. Durgin

Publication: Proceedings of the Fourth U.S. National Congress on Wind Engineering Research

City: Seattle

Date Published: July 01, 1981


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