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Sonia R.
Cháo
Title: Director,
Center for Urban & Community Design
and Research Assistant Professor
Office Location:
Building 49-B, Room 101
Office Phone: 305-284-5214
E-mail Address: schao@miami.edu
Teaching Area:
Sustainable/Environmental Design; Historic Preservation; Urban Design
Teaching and
Administrative Experience:
University of Miami,
School of Architecture Director, Center for Urban & Community Design,
2005-present
University of Miami, Research Assistant FT faculty —2003 — present
University of Miami: Research Affiliate and Part-Time Faculty, 1997-2003
Georgetown University: Fiesole Program, Lecturer 1989
Florida International University and Cornell University: Associate Director
Joint Program in Urban Development and Part-Time Faculty, 1997
Education:
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Miami
Master of Science in Architecture, Columbia University
Licensure:
Registered Architecture, Florida
Professional
Practice:
Principal, Sonia R. Cháo Architect, 1998 – present
Partner, Studio SCHEMA, 1994-1997
Historic Preservation Grant Administrator, Dade Heritage Trust, Historic
Preservation
Society (non-profit) [Fund Manager: $2.5 million], 1993-94
Academic & Professional
Honors:
Funded Research:
The J. M. Kaplan Fund, New York, New York
Havana: The Caribbean City. A history of urban codes and form.
(in collaboration with Andres Duany)
Four research awards to date: $350,000 (2002-present)
Miami Center for Urban Studies (MCUS),
University of Miami
Spanish Precedents to American Town Planning
Research Grant, Total award $5,000 (2004)
Symposia:
Speaker & Co-Chair, Under The Sun: Sustainable Innovations & Traditions,
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Spring 2007
Speaker & Session Chairperson, Florida Legacies: The Florida – Cuba
Connections (2 sessions), Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Annual
Conference: Preservation on the Move, May 2003
Chair, Tracing Parallel Cultural Experience between Cubans & Cuban-Americans,
Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, September 2001
Publications:
Editor and Coordinator of Urban Design
Publication Series, published by Ediciones Union
(Spanish):
Havana: The Caribbean City. A history of
urban codes and form, Spring 2008
Problemática del Post-Sub-Urbanisimo, Vol. II, James Howard Kunstler
(author), Ediciones Unión, Fall 2007
Teoria del Post-Sub-Urbanisimo,
Vol I, León Krier (author), Spring 2006
El Compendio Urbano, Fall 2007
Las Charlas de Andres Duany, Fall 2006, (co-edited with Gustavo Sanchez
and Maria Victoria Zardoya), Summer 2007
Practica del Post-Sub-Urbanismo, Vol III, Andres Duany & Elizabeth
Plater-Zyberk (authors), Spring 2004
Editor, The Making of Miami Beach, Rizzoli International, 2002.
Jean-Francois Lejeune and Allan Shulman (authors)
Community Service:
Advisory
Board Member, Latin American Art Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of
Miami, April 2001 – present.
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