Franca Trubiano

Biography

PhD (U Penn)
M.Arch + B.Arch (McGill University)
Ordres des Architectes du Quebec, OAQ

Franca Trubiano is a registered architect with research areas in construction technology, materials, tectonic theory, and architectural ecologies. While teaching design studios and electives, she also teaches ‘construction' with the aim of re-conceptualization its curricular structure given the larger professional demands of ‘integrated practice.'

She has taught most recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2004-2009) and in 2003-2004 was the first McMahan Visiting Associate Professor at Clemson University. In 2009, student work from her studio ECO-SKINS: The Design and Construction of Low Energy High Performance Building Envelopes was awarded a COTE - Committee on the Environment (AIA) Award.

She was co-recipient of a DOE/NREL Solar Decathlon Grant to design, build and operate a zero-energy house on the Mall in Washington in October 2007. As lead architecture faculty and construction project manager, she collaborated with hundreds of students, faculty and industry partners in garnering 6th position overall, 3rd place in Architectural Jury, and 3rd place in Drawings and Specifications. The fully integrated design build project also won the BP Green Award for its inventive use of new materials and technologies.

In 2005, she was awarded the ARCC - Architectural Research Center Consortium, Best Conference Paper Award and her work has been published in JAE, SCAPES, the ARCC Journal and Chora , as well as the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture.

She has been the recipient of a number of research grants including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (Canada), a Fonds aux Chercheurs et Aide â la Recherche (Quebec) and co -recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant.