Ellen Carole Phillips Soroka

 

Ellen Carole Phillips Soroka - Professional Summary: Ellen Phillips Soroka has a broad range of professional experience as an architectural writer, professor, designer, photographer and thinker. At the IAUS in the 70's under the tutelage of Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman she was introduced to the formal and social implications of architecture before entering The Cooper Union and later MIT where she received an M. Arch. Introduced to the language of Corbu and the environmental focus at MIT following the oil crisis during the 70's were foundations of the language of design she now pursues.

 

Her research on Carlo Scarpa over a 20 year period has covered a range of topics beginning with his noted play of modern design in counter-point to historical fabrics. Her research on the Great Zimbabwe involved exploring the language of the Shona ‘musha' and its relationship to the stone culture surrounding the Great Zimbabwe.

 

Committed to architecture as engagement and dialogue, she has practiced and taught architecture. More recently she started her own company after investigating architecture as a modulator of daylight through a Rome Prize Fellowship in 2001-2. Her photography and architectural design reflects an appreciation for architecture that resonates with nature while maintaining the critical edge that identifies her as an environmental modern designer. She lives in Atlanta.

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honors

Rome Prize 2001-2 FAAR 2002
Rome Prize Finalist 2000-1 (Urban Planning/ Revitalization)- Venice
Research Teaching Fellowship, (invited but declined) University of South Africa
1998 ASU Research Provost Grant ‘FGIA Investigation of smaller dzimbabwes 1996
JAE Outstanding Article for 1995 "Restauro in Venezia"
University of Virginia Resarch Grants 1988, 1989, 1990
Fulbright Award Nomination 1986: Carlo Scarpa's Drawings

 

skills
photography: 35mm digital/mechanical slr , view camera, digital, photoshop, In-Design, AutoCAD, microsoft office Adobe, sketch-Up

strengths:
conceptual architectural and environmental design: day-lighting, photography material research, writing, analysis, editing

 

experience,

2009 light building studio, consultant and writing, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, GA

 

2008-9 Instructor SPSU Marietta GA, Studio teaching, Daylighting

 

2005-8 light building studio Alexandria VA Fairfax House, Alexandria House

 

2003-4 Clark Nexsen, Norfolk, VA environmental design coordinator

 

2001-2, American Academy in Rome Rome, Italy Rome Prize Fellow, Awarded Rome Prize to study the application of daylight in architecture based on geography and climate. Photographed in time lapse 6 buildings in four seasons. Lecture to AAR Fellows - "Carlo Scarpa and Light"

 

1996-2001 CAED, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
Assistant Professor Third year through 6th year architectural design studio, Theory and Thesis development.
Design studios focused on day-lighting, renovation and urban planning. Coordinated Symposium on Renovation at ASU with a resulting publication. Lectured: Munich, Rio, Florida, Columbia U, Kentucky, Florida, Partnered with Phoenix Planning Department w/students on the recovery of a 1 mile stretch of 7th Avenue. Review at City Hall; Respondents: Phoenix Planning and Architecture,

 

1995-6, School of Architecture Renssalaer Polytechnique Institute, Troy, NY
Visiting Professor Discussed revision of architectural program w/faculty, Taught two architectural studios at once. Lectured Carleton U, University of Utah, ASU, and Florida

1992-3, School of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Visiting Professor, Taught First Year Graduate architectural studio; lectures on housing and planning in Charleston, SC

1989-1990, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Professor, Taught First Year Graduate architectural studio: Lectures on Modern Architecture

1986-89, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Assistant Professor, Taught 2-6th year architectural studio, Graduate level Intro to Theory and 19th century theory, Committee work, student counseling.

 

School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

Assistant Professor Taught 2-5th year studios and organized Theory Program, 2nd thru 4th year theory, Study of small towns in Mississippi
Committee Work and student Counseling, lectured MSU and Atlanta AIA

 

practice experience prior to teaching:

Design and Layout, Tony Ames, Atlanta, GA.1986 (contact Tony Ames AIA) Contact Tony Ames, AIA

 

Designer and Project Architect, Dean Dale Dean and Ivy re-roofed five buildings at Mississippi University for Women 1985 - working drawings and specifications. Conceptual Design of Research LAB at Mississippi State conceptually - presentation.

 

Designer ,1980-82 Benjamin Thompson Associates Cambridge MA South Street Seaport, Baltimore Waterfront, Washington Post office - all conceptual and design development.

 

Project Architect 1982-3, The Architects Collaborative Cambridge MA Department of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad. Part of a team of four that broke down the DD of the Fine Arts College.

 

Job Captain - 1980-81 Frid, Ferguson Mahaffey and Perry - Hartford CT Working Drawings on Emergency and ICU at Hartford Hospital.

 

Job Captain, Arrowstreet, 1979-80, Land Use Study of Laguna Niguel CA

 

 

Ellen Carole Phillips Soroka - Education:     [ Not Updated Yet ] 

education

MIT, Cambridge, MA, M. ARCH 1979
The Cooper Union (Architecture transferred to MIT)
The Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies 1973-5
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, B.F.A. cum laude 1973
Columbia University, New York, New York, 1972-74 (no degree)

 

 

Ellen Carole Phillips Soroka - Interests:     [ Not Updated Yet ] 

cultural geography, environmental design, anthropology, architiecture, history, art, media, documentary, literature, music, yoga, sports of all kind

 

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