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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