Linda N. Groat
General Information
Occupation: Architect, Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Architecture, Writer
Birth City: Stamford
Birth State/Province: Connecticut
Birth Country: United States
Resident City: Ann Arbor
Resident State/Province: Michigan
Resident Country: United States
Sources: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lngroat/home
Specialties
Subject: Reports of Administrative, Scholarly and Professional Work
Description: "Contextual Compatibility in Architecture: An Investigation of Non-Designers' Conceptualizations." Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, 1984 (sole author)
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "The Public Face of Buildings: Hierarchical Ordering in Facade Composition." College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 1987.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Non-Designers' Conceptualization of Contextual Fit: Three Case Studies." Presentation for a symposium titled "Environmental Meaning: Case Studies of Contextual FIt in the Urban Landscape." the Environmental Design Research Association, New York, 1985 (symposium organizer)
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "A Guided Tour of City Form," Alumni Summer Program, University of Michigan, June 1989.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Analyzing Compositional Principles in the Service of Environmental Design Research" Presentation for a symposium titled "Architectural Theory as a Basis fo Environmental Design Research: An Emerging Paradigm?" The 20th Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Black Mountain, NC, 1989 (symposium organizer)
Subject: Reports of Administrative, Scholarly and Professional Work
Description: "IBM West Coast Development Center: Report Series." Final report sumitted by McCue Boone Tomsick Architects to IBM, 1977 (responsibility: writing, editing, graphic design, client dissemination to other installations)
Subject: Reports of Administrative, Scholarly and Professional Work
Description: "Strategic Planning Report." College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, June 1988 (primary author)
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Envrionment-Behavior and Design Theories: Foundations for Architectural Research." Workshop presentation, Envrionmental Design Research Association Conference, Ottawa, May 1987
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Conceptual Structure of Contextual Compatibility as a Construct." Wisconsin Symposium on Environment and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1985.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "A Report on Research on Contextual FIt in Architecture." Environmental Design Research Association Regional Symposium, University of Illinois, Champain-Urbana, September 1982.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: Commentary on Boulevards and Street Systems and Panelist, "Learning from Burnham" Conference, Organized by the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Graham Foundation of Chicago, November 1987
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Post Modernism and the Multiple Sorting Task." Interntional Conference on Environmental Psychology, University of Surrey, 1979.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Strategies for Contextural Design: A Partial Order Scalogram Analysis." The International Association for the Study of People and Their Surroundings, Berlin 1984
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Model of Place: Resolving the Paradigm Shift from Function to Interpretation." Regional Meeting of the Asssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Minneapolis, MN, September 1983
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Defining the Scope of Architectural Research." A paper presented for a symposium "What is Scholarship in Environmental Design? The 20th Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Black Mountain, NC, 1989
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: Commentator for a symposium on "A Phenomenological Approach to Environmental Design Research." Black Mountain, NC, 1989
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "The Architect's Reality," College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, January 1989.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Identity in Deconstructivist Architecture." A paper for a symposium titled "Changing Images of Identity: Gender, Architecture, Art." National meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA, August 1989
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Integrative Design Studio: Merging Programming an Design Process." Presentation for a workshop titled "INtegrating Teaching of Programming with Architectural Design Process." The Environmental Design Research Association, New York 1985
Subject: Reports of Administrative, Scholarly and Professional Work
Description: "Proposal for the Transfer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning (UTEP)" College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univerisity of Michigan, January 1989 (co-author)
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "uses of the Multiple Sorting Task: Linking Research and Practice." The 12th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Assoication, Ames, IA, April 1981.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Typology: A Basis for Enhancing the Domain of Architectural Research." Conference of the AIA/ASCA Council on Architectureal Research, Boston, MA, November 1987
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: Guest Studio Juror, University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL, March 1987.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Crisis of the Public Realm: Implications for Design Research." Paper for the Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Ottawa, May 1987
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Lay and Professional Concepts of Type." Workshop presentation for the Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Ottawa, May 1987
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "Good Manners on the Street: Design Stratagies for Contextual Compatibility." School of Architecture, Portsmouth Polytechnic, England, June 1986.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Do Post-Modern Buildings Really Exist for Anyone Besides Architectural Critics?" Western Addition (an architecture lecture series), San Francisco, CA, 1979.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Dual Coading in Post-Modern Architecture: Expert and Non-Expert Interpretations." Symposium on Environment, Behavior and Design Theory. The International Association for the Study of People and Their Physical Surroundings, Delft, The Netherlands, July 1988
Subject: Reports of Administrative, Scholarly and Professional Work
Description: "Proposal for Revisions to the Doctoral Program in Architecture." College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univeristy of Michigan, February, 1989 (co-author)
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "The Facet Theory Approach to Research" and "Current Issues in Architectural Theory and Research" for the Ph.D program. College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 1986.
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "A Study of the Perception of Contextual Fit in Architecture." Paper for a symposiium titled "Environmental Meaning: The Problem of Contextual Fit." The 14th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Lincoln, NE, March 1983 (symposium organizer)
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Past and Future of Research on Meaning in Architecture." The 14th Annual Conference of teh Environmental Design Research Association, Lincoln, NE, March 1983
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Contextual Compatibility: An Issue of Composition, Not Replication." Paper for the National Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, March 1987
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Contextual Compatibility: A Study of Meaning in the Urban Environment." Paper for the National Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, MN, May 1986
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "Should Architectual Design be Compatible with The Built Environment?" Public meeting of the Wisconsin Society of Architectural Historians, Milwaukee, WI, 1985
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: "The Meaning of the Past in Built Form." Regional Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Minneapolis, MN, September 1983 (competitive selection)
Subject: Papers and Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings
Description: Invited presentation at Workshop on Uses of the Sorting Task Interview Procedure, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, 1983.
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: Guest Studio Juror, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 1986.
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "Approaches to Research on Environmental Meaning." Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 1982.
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "Meaning in Modern and Post-Modern Architecture." Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1980 and 1979.
Subject: University Lectures and Critiques
Description: "Interior Design in Practice." Department of Interior Design, Solano Junior College, Solano County, CA, 1975.
Jobs
Employer: Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: Associate Professor
State: Wisconsin
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1986
End Date: January 01, 1987
Employer: McCue Boone Tomsick Architects
Title: Designer
City: San Francisco
State: California
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1974
End Date: January 01, 1977
Employer: California Institute of the Arts
Title: Teaching Assistant
State: California
Country: United States
Employer: Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz Architects
Title: Design Research Consultant
City: San Francisco
State: California
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1979
End Date: January 01, 1980
Employer: Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: Assistant Professor
State: Wisconsin
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1980
End Date: January 01, 1986
Employer: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Title: Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Administration (1987-92), Associate Professor of Architecture (1987-99)
City: Ann Arbor
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1987
End Date: January 01, 1999
Employer: Free-lance Designer/Writer
City: Berkeley
State: California
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1973
End Date: January 01, 1974
Employer: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Title: Professor of Architecture
City: Ann Arbor
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1999
End Date: January 01, 2001
Employer: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Title: Professor of Architecture and Women's Studies
City: Ann Arbor
State: Michigan
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 2001
Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
Institution: Charles Moore Associates
City: New Haven
Notes: Design Intern
Awards
Name: IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory (Juried competition)
Description: Print Casebooks 3: The Best of Environmental Graphics (juried competition; project manager for environmental graphics)
Date Received: January 01, 1978
Name: Design Research Grant
Description: National Endowment for the Arts
Name: Design Research Grant
Description: National Endowment for the Arts
Name: Design Research Grant
Description: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts
Name: Sarah Goddard Power Award
Description: for distinction through leadership, scholarship and sustained service on behalf of women, University of Michigan
Date Received: January 01, 1998
Name: Career Development Fund for Faculty Women
Description: Office of the Provost, University of Michigan
Date Received: January 01, 1995
Name: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Service Award
Description: for service as the East Central Regional Director (1992-5)
Date Received: January 01, 1995
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
No projects on record
Education
Institution: University of Surrey
Department: Environmental Psychology
Degree: Master's of Science
Institution: University of Surrey
Department: Environmental Psychology
Degree: Ph.D
Institution: Yale Univeristy
Department: History
Degree: Master's of Arts in Teaching
Institution: California Institute of the Arts
Degree: Master's of Fine Arts Design
Institution: Connecticut College for Women
Degree: Bachelor of Arts History
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Organization of Women in Architecture, San Francisco
Role: Member of the steering Committee
Organization: Association of Women in Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Organization: Environmental Design Research Association
Organization: American Institute of Architects
Role: Associate member
Organization: International Association for the Study of People and Their Physical Surroundings
Organization: National Association for Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors
Publications By
Title: "Te Past and Future of Research on Meaning in Architecture."
Co-author: D. Amadeo, J. Griffin, and J. Potter (eds.)
Publication: EDRA 1983: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association
Page: 154-161
Publisher: EDRA
City: Washington
Title: "Beyond Comprehensive: Creating a College that is more than the Sum of its Parts."
Publication: Portico
Volume: 6 No. 1
Page: 4
Date Published: October 01, 1989
Title: "Analyzing Composiional Principles in the Service of Environnmental Design Research."
Publication: The Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association
City: Black Mountain
Title: "The Multiple Sorting Procedure."
Co-author: D. Canter, J. Brown
Publication: The Research Interview, M. Brenner and D. Canter (eds.)
Page: 79-114
Publisher: Academic Press
City: London
Country: England (U.K.)
Title: "Economics of Private Rooms Charge."
Co-author: H. McLaughlin, K. Schwarz
Publication: Modern Healthcare
Page: 66-70
Date Published: May 01, 1980
Title: "Contextual Compatibility: An Issue of Composition, Not Replication."
Publication: The Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
City: Washington
Title: "Letter from Berkeley."
Publication: Architecture Plus
Date Published: February 01, 1974
Title: "Recent Developments in Architectural Theory: Implications for Empirical Research."
Publication: Journal of Environmental Psychology
Volume: 7
Page: 65-76
Title: "Typology: A Basis for Enhancing the Domain of Architectural Research."
Publication: Proceeds of the Annual Research Conference of the AIA/ACSA Council on Architectural Research
Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
City: Washington
Title: "Does Post-Modern Architecture Communicate?"
Co-author: D. Canter
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Page: 84-87
Date Published: December 01, 1979
Title: "The Meaning of the Past in Built Form."
Co-author: P. Heyer and S. Grabow (eds.)
Publication: Architecture and the Future
Page: 271-279
Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
City: Washington
Title: "Teaching Contemporary Architectural Theory: + or - Critical Thinking."
Publication: The Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
City: Washington
State: District of Columbia
Country: United States
Title: "Contextual Compatibility in Architecture."
Co-author: D. Canter, M. Krampen, D. Stea (eds.)
Publication: Ethnoscapes: Transactional Studies in Action and Place
Publisher: Gower Publishing
City: Aldershot
Country: England (U.K.)
Title: "Contextual Compatibility in Architecture: An Issue of Personal Taste?"
Co-author: J. Nasar (ed.)
Publication: The Visual Quality of the Environment: Theory, Research, and Application
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Title: "Public Opinions of Contextual Fit."
Publication: Architecture: The AIA Journal
Page: 72-75
Date Published: November 01, 1984
Title: "Measuring the Fit of New to Old."
Publication: Architecture: The AIA Journal
Page: 58-61
Date Published: November 01, 1984
Title: "Meaning in Post-Modern Architecture: An Examination Using the Multiple Sorting Task."
Publication: Journal of Environmental Psychology
Volume: 1 No. 1
Page: 73-85
Date Published: March 01, 1981
Title: "The Significance of Architectural Theory for Environment-Behavior Research."
Co-author: C. Despres
Publication: Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design, G. Moore and E. Zube (eds.)
Volume: 3
Publisher: Plenum Press
Title: Book review of "Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science by Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publication: Journal of Environmental Psychology
Volume: 4 No. 2
Page: 183-187
Date Published: June 01, 1984
Title: contextual Compatibility in Architecture: A Study of Environmental Meaning
Page: 418 pages
Title: A Study of Meaning in Conemporary Architecture: Do Post-Modern Buildings Really Exist for Anyone Besides Architectural Critics?"
Page: 223 pages
Publications About
Title: "Color is the Signal."
Publication: Domus
Page: 22
Date Published: November 01, 1970
Title: "IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory."
Publication: Print Casebooks 3: The Best of Environmental Graphics
Title: "IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory."
Publication: Architectural Record
Page: 99-104
Date Published: August 01, 1977
Title: "IBM's New Palae of Technology."
Author: A. Temko
Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle
City: San Francisco
Date Published: June 26, 1978
Title: "Honor Awards, 1978." AIA Journal
Date Published: May 01, 1978
-
© 2024 University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University