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BelcherArchitect is real.

Nathaniel Quincy Belcher is the Creator of the Aesthetic Curious.  The Aesthetic Curious a self-sustaining entrepreneurial design consultancy with a broad interest in identity, architecture, urban built environment, material culture, and contemporary culture as a platform for design, branding and exploration.  Aesthetic Curious is also a creative practice that operates as a programming enterprise to develop and launch ideas to market.

 

Belcher has worked with several communities in South Florida including Liberty City, Overtown and most recently serving as architectural advisor former board member for the Little Haiti Housing Association in Miami. He has also served on the American Institute of Architects’ Development Program Advisory Committee, as a former Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board, as a former treasurer for the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture and as a former board member for Tigertail Productions, a presenting and producing arts organization in South Florida.  He served as faculty advisor for Florida International University’s participation in the 2002 Solar Decathlon, an international competition to design and construct a completely solar powered home on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

 

Belcher has over 25 years experience in architecture as an academic and licensed professional including; design, development, Project Management, education, planning services, landscape and interior design, and development.  He is academically inclined and has worked for many significant intuitions in the Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio.

 

Begun the summer 2013, a powerful team of research leaders in building science, design, community behavior, renewable energy, and materials research were convened by Tom Richard (Director of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment) to discuss the process of instigating a game changing initiative in the areas of housing and sustainability. Moreover, the goal was to engage in sustainable approaches to residential prefabricated multi-family housing in the context of the urban environment and surrounding communities.

 

Academic Credentials:

Harvard University, Master of Architecture 1992

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and state University, Bachelor of Architecture 1988

 

Administrative/ Teaching Experience:

The Pennsylvania State University,H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School, Professor of Architecture- Fall 2010 – Present  [Previous and Visiting: Harvard University, Florida International University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Tulane University, The Ohio State University].

 

Professional Qualifications:

Licensure State of Pennsylvania [Inactive: Florida, Louisiana, Ohio]

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards record

 

Professional + Academic Boards / Service:

Designing Futures Foundation, Advisory Board Charter High School for Architecture and Design, Spring 2013

Penn State Philadelphia Extension Board, Spring 2013

Director Emeritus, National Architectural Accreditation Board (2015-)

Director, National Architectural Accreditation Board (2011-2014)

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Alumni Council (2011-2017)

Membership in the American Institute of Architects 1999 – Present

Design Futures Council, Design Intelligence, Leadership

Architectural Advisor and Board Member, Little Haiti Housing Association, Miami, Florida. (Fall 2001 –Spring 2011)

Villa Jardin III ,24 unit residential building, Miami, Florida, project consultant (2005-2011)

American Institute of Architects: Intern Development Program Advisory Committee (IDPAC)  (2008- 2010)

American Institute of Architects: Knowledge Committee Board ACSA Observer

Association of Collegiate School of Architecture National Treasurer (2009- 2011)

Architectural Design Review Committee, Housing Finance Authority of Miami-Dade County (2000 – 2010)

 

Publications, Presentations and Lectures:

“Why Activism in Architecture: Lessons from History of Activist Architecture”, co-authored chapter with Mitra Kanaani and Joe Kennedy, Handbook on Architecture, Edited by Mitra Kinaani, Pending Publication Fall 2015, ? Press

“Working in the Jazz Architectural Workshop”, authored chapter Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio, Edited by Carla Jackson Bell, Pending Publication Fall 2014, Taylor & Francis/ Routledge Press

“Miami’s urban surgery: Reinvigorating mythologized centers of Miami’s African-American Culture”  Sites of Memory: Landscapes of Race and Ideology Edited by Craig Barton.

Commemoration of the Place: The Future Development of Virginia Key Beach Park.  Article, written concerning the Historic architectural character of South Florida’s African-American Community.. – 2000

Little Haiti Housing Association –Villa Jardin III, Design Competition

Architectural Design Competition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts..  Spring 2006-ongoing

Little Haiti Housing Association -Scattered Site Housing Project (LHHA-SSHP) Architectural Design Competition.  For the Design of Affordable Infill single unit new construction in the Little Haiti Neighborhood of Miami City.  Spring 2002

Reclamation Garden Project design/development Collaborative project for a community garden in Little Haiti Neighborhood of Miami City.  Other Principle participant include Little Haiti Housing Association and Operation Green leaves incorporated. 1998 -2011

Active member of the Board of Directors of The Black Archives History & Research Foundation.  A community based foundation dedicated to historical and continual presence of the African-American community in Miami.  1999 -2005

Vice Chair of the Historic Overtown Folklife Village Development Committee for The Black Archives History & Research Foundation.  1999 -2005

Nature Preserve competition – Organizer and Management of a school wide design competition and exhibition for the development proposals for the FIU Nature Preserve.  This Exhibition took place at the FIU Green Library.  Spring 2003

Little Haiti Housing Association -Scattered Site Housing Project (LHHA-SSHP)

Architectural Design Competition.  For the Design of Affordable Infill single unit new construction in the Little Haiti Neighborhood of Miami City.  Fall 2001

ADRAC Board,  Architectural Design Review Board For Miami-Dade County Housing Authority.  2000- 2010.  This board is charge to assist the development community and approve their design proposals for moderate and low income housing in Miami-Dade Housing.

Vice-chair of board of directors for Power University for Social Change.  The organizing and training institute for social change in Southern Florida through community origination. 1999 –2003

Miami Art Museum  Education Advisory Board  1999 –2003

 

Exhibitions:

National Building Museum,  Washington DC- Gallery at Penn Design- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Elmaleh Gallery at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,  Charlottesville, Virginia- Extension Gallery for Architecture, Chicago, Illinois, International Architecture Exhibition: Orléans, France, the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York City, MOCA North Miami, Project Rowhouses, Documomo 2000 in Brasilia, Brazil., City, Space and Globalization  Exhibition at University of Michigan, Korean Community in Los Angeles , The Ohio State University, Paris Goose Game, Berlin Germany, Fort Mason Art Center- -San Francisco, California, University of California Berkeley.  University Art Center- Spring 1990.  University of California Berkeley.

 

CV: https://issuu.com/nathanielquincybelcher/docs/belcher_cv_long_02172016

 

Nathaniel Quincy Belcher

Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, is a Professor of Architecture and former director of the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

Belcher’s research and teaching specialization includes Brazilian architecture and modernism; avant-garde practices in diverse cultures; and African American architecture, urbanism, artifacts and culture. He has done field research and presented lectures throughout the United States and in Cuba, Brazil, Lisbon, London, Panama, France, China and other international locations.

Belcher Has worked with several communities concerning historic and cultural preservations in South Florida including Liberty City, Overtown neighborhoods and most recently serving as architectural advisor former board member for the Little Haiti Housing Association in Miami. He has also served on the American Institute of Architects’ Development Program Advisory Committee, as a former Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board, as a former treasurer for the Association of Collegiate School of Architecture and as a former board member for Tigertail Productions, a presenting and producing arts organization in South Florida.  He served as faculty advisor for Florida International University’s participation in the 2002 Solar Decathlon, an international competition to design and construct a completely solar powered home on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

 

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