Richard Dagenhart
Associate Professor Emeritus
Richard Dagenhart
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education
Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Master of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Arkansas, 1970
Bachelor of Arts – Anthropology, University of Arkansas, 1970
Keywords
Urban Design, Urban Form History, Ecological Infrastructure, Sustainable Urban Development
Biography
Richard Dagenhart’s current research and practice are based in intensively collaborative studios in the Master of Science in Urban Design and Master of Architecture Programs, weaving urban morphologies, ecological infrastructure, and design of the public domain within the urban design challenges of accessibility, diversity and equity in the era of climate change.
Educated in anthropology, architecture and city planning, Dagenhart’s academic career include visiting professorships at Tongji University in Shanghai, Rice University and the University of Maryland and many years teaching at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he has served as Interim Chair of the School of Architecture, Director of M.ARCH Programs, and Coordinator of Urban Design Programs. He founded and directed the Modern Architecture and the Modern City study abroad program in Europe from 1991 to 2012, leading the program in Berlin, Paris, London, The Netherlands, Barcelona, Copenhagen and cities throughout Scandinavia.
Dagenhart continues to teach at Georgia Tech and to engage urban design public education in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. In addition to urban design studios, Dagenhart teaches the University-wide lecture class, The History of Urban Form, a required course in the School of Architecture and a undergraduate elective in the humanities as part of the University Core Curriculum Sustainable Development Minors.
Dagenhart is the founder of Good Urbanism 101, a public education series with the Georgia Conservancy, where frequently collaborates on projects across Georgia. He is a registered architect in Georgia and Florida with his office, Richard Dagenhart: Architect, located in Atlanta, Georgia and Apalachicola, Florida.
Visiting Professor (part-time), University of Maryland, 1973-74
Visiting Professor (part-time), Rice University, 1975 -77
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, 1977-1985
Director, Graduate Programs in Architecture, 1986-1992
Coordinator, MS-Urban Design/MSUD, School of Architecture, Georgia Tech, 2004-2012
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, 1986-2012
Interim Chair, School of Architecture, Georgia Tech, 2014-15
Retired/Senior Lecturer, Georgia Tech, 2012-Present
Urban Designer, The Kling Partnership, Philadelphia. 1970-71
Project Urban Designer, Wallace McHarg Roberts, and Todd, Philadelphia. 1970-74
Consultant, USAID, and Ministry of Housing, Kuwait, Kuwait, 1974
Partner, David A. Crane, and Partners, Philadelphia, and Houston. 1974-1979
Partner, Urban Design Plus, Atlanta. 1979-1982
Partner, Wilson Dagenhart Johnson, Atlanta. 1982-1986
Richard Dagenhart, Architecture and Urban Design, Atlanta. 1987-Present
Dagenhart, Richard, Joel Jassu, Luben Raytchev (2020) Urban Dsign Downtown Atlanta: Land, Water, City, Georgia Conservancy and Central Atlanta Progress. An MSUD Studio Report.
Dagenhart, Richard, Joel Jassu, Haythem Shata, Thomas Debo (2019) Chattahoochee Riverworks: Industrial Urbanism Revisions and the Chattahoochee Riverpark. Georgia Conservancy. An MSUD Studio Report.
Dagenhart, Richard and Joel Jassu and Urban Design Studio Students (2019) “Water and Urban Design: NPU-G and the Atlanta Housing Authority Redevelopment Sites.” with the Georgia Conservancy.
Dagenhart, Richard (2016) “Stormwater and Urban Design” in Teaching Urban Design, Li Tian and Qing Li, Eds., China Architecture and Building Press, Beijing, pp 34-43.
Dagenhart, Richard, Perry Yang, Li Tian, Qing Li (2016) “Urban Design Charrette: LuJiaZui’ in Teaching Urban Design, Li Tian and Qing Li, Eds, China Architecture and Building Press, Beijing, pp 46-77.
Dagenhart, Richard with Elizabeth Ward, Cassie Branum, Jeff Williams, Ryan Gravel, Kevin Bacon, and Urban Design Studio students (2015) Mission Zero Corridor, sponsored by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. The Georgia Conservancy, Atlanta.
Dagenhart, Richard (2013) Retreat:Adapt:Defend: Designing Community Response to Sea Level Rise on the Georgia Coast, The Georgia Conservancy, Atlanta
Dagenhart, Richard (2010) “Rem Koolhaas”,“John Nolen”,“Harland Bartholomew”,“James Rouse” in Marten, Joan, Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dagenhart, Richard (2010), “Sustainable Urbanism” in WA – World Architecture, ed. Wang Lu, Winter 2009/10. Bejing.
Dagenhart, Richard, (2009) “The Re-Inhabitation of Deira and Bur Dubai’ 2A: Art+Architecture. No.8, Spring 2008. UAE. pp. 36-49.
Selected Exhibitor, Nord Haven Sustainable City, International Competition, Copenhagen. With Branum, Caimbeul, Duong, Finklestein, Kovacheva, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2008.
Second Prize, LWARPS: City of the Future Atlanta (A competition sponsored by the Discovery Channel) with Dunham-Jones, Gamble, LeBlanc, Akins, Futrell. Atlanta, 2008.