Title:                          Associate Professor and Associate Dean
Office Location:        Bldg. 48E, Room 217
Office Phone:             305-284-2322
E-mail Address:         dhector@miami.edu

Teaching Area:  
Design, Structures & Theory of Technology, Environment & Green Building

Education:
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Master of Science in Architecture
University of Stuttgart, Institut für Leichte Flaechentragwerke, Research Fellow, August 1976-1977, September 1974- June 1975
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Bachelor of Architecture

Licensure:
Registered Architect: New York

Professional Experience:
FTL Associates, New York, 1979-1985
Denis Hector & Joanna Lombard, Landscape & Architecture, 1988-present
Architectural Projects:
        “A Place for Everything,” (with Joanna Lombard) Southern Living (Volume 36 No 9, September 2001)
        :115.                       
        "The Best Little House #24," (with Joanna Lombard) Home (Volume 42 No.9, November 1996): 118-123.
        “Clematis House” (Hector & Lombard) in A House for My Mother. Beth Dunlop. New York:Princeton
        Architectural Press 1999 (176-183).
        "Side-Yard House, Windsor" (Hector & Lombard; produced with Jorge Hernandez) in Between Two Towers.
         Vincent Scully. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc. 1996 (140).
         "Windsor Town House," (Hector & Lombard; produced with Jorge Hernandez) in Miami: Architecture of the
         Tropics, edited by Maurice Culot and Jean-Francois Lejeune.  Brussels: Center of the Fine Arts, Miami, Archives
         d'Architecture Moderne, 1992 (185).

Publications:
Hector, Denis, “Facing Disaster: A Five Point Plan,” in Hurricane Hazard Mitigation: A Report on the National Research Conference on Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, editors, Denis Hector and Beth Dunlop, Knight Foundation, University of Miami School of Architecture: Miami, 1996, pp.10-21. 

“The Cismone Bridge in I Quattro Libri dell' Architettura, Andrea Palladio",

A Community of Diverse Interests.  Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the ACSA.  Washington DC: ACSA Press, 1994, 225-230. 

"Geometry and Construction:  The Detail and its Biological Analogy", Proceedings of the
81st Annual Meeting of the ACSA. Washington, DC: ACSA Press, 1993, 312-315. (First published ) Body, Technology, and Design.  Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACSA Technology Conference. Washington DC: ACSA Press, 1993, 104-107.  

 “Tensile Structures (FTL Associates)” in The Tent Book.  E.M. Hatton.  Boston:    Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, 113-116.

 “Minimal Surface and Pneumatics Research” in IL18 Seifenblassen, Institut fur     Leichte  Flaechentragwerke, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart: 1987.

Service:
School of Architecture Administrative Responsibilities:
Associate Dean 2000 - present
Director of Graduate Programs 1996-2000

School Committees:
Curriculum Committee 1989 - present
Computing Committee Chair 2000 - present

University Committees:
Academic Dean’s Advisory Council 2000 - present
University Buildings and Grounds Committee 2002— present
Faculty Senate Facilities & Planning Committee (chair) 2003 - present
Continuing Studies Advisory Committee 2003 - present
Architectural Engineering Curriculum Committee 1995 - present