Mentor of the Year Award

 

Dean Brian Carter, RIBA

 

 

As both an award-winning architect and a distinguished academic, Dean Brian Carter has dedicated his career to bridging academia and architectural practice.

 

AIA Buffalo/WNY praises Dean Brian Carter for inspiring and developing architectural students, interns and architects with his professional guidance and wisdom.

 

As Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), he has combined his professional experience, critical insight and proactive engagement of students to achieve a learning environment based on theory and research while grounded in community ties and the practice of architecture. His own scholarly work examines design research through practice and the consideration of modernism in contemporary architecture.

 

Throughout his tenure at UB, Dean Carter has been diligent in ensuring a strong, collaborative relationship between the School, alumni, the community-at-large and local practicing architects. The University at Buffalo hosts many AIA programs, collaborates on others and has sponsored the AIA Buffalo/WNY Architecture + Education Program, in which students participate and receive academic credit.

 

The School’s widely attended lecture series presents internationally renowned and emerging architects. Through the efforts of Dean Carter, signature annual lectures have been introduced, such as the Martell Lecture and the Bethune Lecture, which is sponsored by AIA Buffalo/WNY and features present-day women pioneers in architecture.

 

Dean Carter has authored several books, including Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower (Architecture in Detail) and Patkau Architects: Selected Projects 1983-1993, and has contributed to international architectural journals.

 

Demonstrating his commitment to the community, Dean Carter has collaborated with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on numerous exhibits, such as Mori on Wright and Drawing Architecture: The L.J. Cella Collection. He has also worked with the Darwin Martin House Restoration Corporation and serves as an Ex Officio on the Board of Directors for the Richardson Architecture Center, Inc (RAC).