MEET THE CANDIDATES
The ARCC is delighted to announce the nominees for election to the ARCC Board of Directors (20242026). Board elections permit one vote per ARCC member institution for each of the four (4) open positions: Vice President/President-Elect and three (3) At-Large Directors.
Nominations for the Vice-president/President-Elect (2 Candidates)
Ihab Elzeyadi, University of Oregon
Dr. Ihab Elzeyadi is an architect, building scientist, and professor of architecture. He has been engaged in the design, construction, and research of high-performance buildings for more than 30 years. Dr. Elzeyadi is a full professor of architecture and the founding director of the High Performance Environments Lab (HiPE), the College of Design, University of Oregon. His lab group investigates applied research related to occupants’ comfort, health, and well-being in high-performance buildings. In addition, he has provided design assistance for more than eight million S.F. of commercial buildings. Professor Elzeyadi led student design teams that placed as finalists in the Solar Decathlon Design Competition three years in a row and won first prize and grand jury prizes in 2020 and 2021. In addition to a second place and best collaboration award in 2024. He has also led design studios that won ACSA/AIA COTE Top 10 student Awards in several cycles. Dr. Elzeyadi is currently an elected Director-at-Large of ARCC. He has published more than 155 peer-reviewed papers, twelve chapters in peer-reviewed edited books, two books, and one pending US patent. Various grants and awards exceeding $5.9 M in funding supported his research projects.
Ihab’s Brief Statement of Interest
Alexandra Staub, Penn State University
Dr. Staub is a professor of architecture at Penn State University and an affiliate faculty of Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute and Social Science Research Institute. I have served on the ARCC Board since 2019. My research examines the intersection of culture and our built environment, with three books and multiple articles and book chapters on topics ranging in scale from urban systems to building typologies. In addition to teaching studio courses in Penn State’s professional programs, I regularly offer courses on research methods for M.S. and Ph.D. students as well as a topical seminar on ethics in the built environment.
Sandra’s Brief Statement of Interest
Nominations for the At-Large Director (4 Candidates)
Ashlie Boelkins, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
Ashlie Boelkins, AIA, is a tenured Professor at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette (ULL) where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate studios alongside graduate seminar and independent research-focused coursework. As founding principal of the award-winning ARCH&also residential and creative practice in Louisiana, Ashlie’s work expands the boundaries of architecture and the role of architects while operating at the fringes through multi-scalar projects: at large, with master planning efforts in underserved communities, and the small, through residential works, exhibitions, and collaborative installations. As both an Educator and Practitioner, her outreach initiatives range from exhibitions to public performance work, such as, “10 Years, 10 Stories” celebrating the lives of Hurricane Katrina survivors in collaboration with Eskew Dumez Ripple Architects in New Orleans and “EnVision daBerry” in New Iberia, LA. Her installation projects truly embody her passion towards her interdisciplinary research exploring relationships between architecture, movement, and performance. These projects engage both private and not-for-profit partnerships such as, “UnFolded,” “Parade,” “Fragments,” and most recently, “Rounding the Edge,” at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in collaboration with Basin Arts. She brings these forms of interdisciplinary creative practice and thinking into the classroom with educational workshops and focused studios co-hosted with organizations such as “The Moving Architects” in New York City and “HUGO,” Corgan Architect’s international research division. These works and research have prompted her peer-selection amongst international and interdisciplinary cohorts such as “Moving Boundaries” in both Guadalajara, Mexico and Amares, Portugal and AIA’s “Mission 2130.” Ashlie’s work has been presented at numerous international and national architecture conferences, such as the International Conference on Architectural Communication (COCA), ACSA Annual Meeting, The National Conference for the Beginning Design Student, International Conference on Darkness, and SARCH International Conference on Architecture in Havana. Ashlie is currently the Graduate Coordinator of the ULL Master of Architecture Program, founder of the Program’s Internship Exchange Experience, and holds the College of the Arts Board of Regents / Coca-Cola Endowed Professorship in Architecture and Mid-Career Faculty Fellowship with the renowned Sarah Robinson as her research mentor. Locally, she has been recognized for her exceptional service leadership through the University’s Outstanding Masters Mentor Award and Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the ULL Office of Research. Nationally, Ashlie was the recipient of the New Faculty Teaching Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Young Architect Award, amongst other honors with her practice. She has held leadership positions with AIA Louisiana and currently serves as a delegate for the Louisiana State Selection Board – awarding state-funded projects to architects across the U.S. She has served as a peer-review critic for the EAAE, ACSA, jury member for AIA North Carolina, and invited design critic for studio reviews across many NAAB Architecture Programs – Arkansas, Cincinnati, Dunwoody, LSU, Miami, and Thomas Jefferson University.
Ashlie’s Brief Statement of Interest
Yong Huang, Bowling Green State University
Professor Huang’s design and research are centered on architecture as intervention to public space, overarching architecture, urban design, interior design, and environmental design. He co-authored Acclimatizing to Heat in a Legacy City with Sujata Shetty and Andreas Luescher, and received ACSA 2022 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. His Timber Skyscraper was shortlisted in the international competition. His design-based research paper Topological Transmutation of the Urban Heat Islands was published in The Plan Journal. He received Honorable Mention for the White House international competition, Honorable Mention for the Liberty Museum Competition, AIA Honor Award in Springfield, MO for his ARTS Plaza project, the Winner’s Prize for his Rainbow design for the Denver Downtown Prototyping Festival. In 2015, He led students designing the Library of Lagos, receiving the ACSA Steel Competition 3rd place among 500+ entries from the US and Canada; in 2013, his work was displayed in the “Best 50-Architecture Space Art from China & the US” exhibition in New York City; in 2012, his art installation was exhibited at 798 Art Gallery and Song Zhuang Art Gallery in Beijing.
Prior to his appointment at Bowling Green State University, he was Professor of Practice at Drury University and received Tau Sigma Delta Medal for Distinction in Mentorship in 2015. Invited by Pritzker Laureate Wang Shu, he taught urban design studios at China Academy of Art (CAA). He was a guest critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
As an architect, he worked with Peter Rose, Herzog de Meuron, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and other leading architecture firms for more than a decade. He founded an independent practice Atelier HAY in 2011, and designed a wide range of projects, from museums, galleries, municipal urban centers, exhibition and convention centers, CBD skyscrapers, research & development centers, to large-scale urban design and mixed-use urban landscape design projects. He received his Master’s Degrees from Harvard University and Pratt Institute, and professional Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Beijing Polytechnic University. He is a licensed architect of New York. Currently, he is a Director of American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Toledo.
Yong’s Brief Statement of Interest
Clare Robinson, University of Arizona
Clare Robinson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and B.Arch Program Chair in the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses in modern architectural history and theory. Robinson earned a Doctorate in Architecture from UC Berkeley, an M. Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a B.A. from Smith College. Since 2001, she has taught at several universities, received grants, and published award-winning research. Her current research examines architecture and planning in the mid-twentieth century, focusing on college campuses, suburban typologies, and regional planning efforts during the mid-twentieth century. In this work, she addresses socio-economic conditions and the ways architecture has served and continues to be an instrument of class realization.
Clare’s Brief Statement of Interest
Jinoh Park, University of Arkansas
Jinoh Park is an assistant professor in Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas with extensive experience in academia and practice. After his Ph.D. in Design at NCSU, he has profoundly incorporated his experience into teaching, research, and practice, particularly in the built environment. His achievements have also led to him being named as a silver medalist by the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society and Once to Watch Scholar by American Society of Interior Designer. Also, he has received research grants from AIA Upjohn Research Initiative and Nuckolls Fund Grant related to architectural technology-based research.
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