Associate Professor Dennis Robert Holloway - the well-known American architect
Associate Professor Holloway comes from Michigan in the USA and has devoted his life to architecture. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design in 1966. A year later he received his Master’s of Architecture degree in Urban Design Degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He studied Architecture at Liverpool University in England under a Fulbright Scholarship in 1969. After receiving his license to practice architecture in 1970, he began teaching and research at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Holloway was one of the thirty architects worldwide to be invited by Japan to participate in the Solar House Display, which was held in Tokyo in 1987. He also used to be a member of the US Energy Commission.
Professor Holloway pioneered the University of Minnesota’s Solar House, called Project Ouroboros, which was the first solar-powered house in the upper Midwest. This visionary application-research project was internationally recognized as a prototype for future sustainable holistic environmental architectural design.
Furthermore, in 1988 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, he demonstrated how solar architectural principles could be applied to the traditional Navaho home, which opened up new doors to housing architecture not only for native Americans but for many others too.
After moving to New Mexico in 1990, Professor Holloway focused on researching the cybernetic architectural possibilities of the Macintosh computer. By virtual-reality 3D software modeling and imaging of the ancient Indian architecture of the southwest, he learned the indigenous architectural language of the contemporary native people.
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