Bryan Norwood

EDUCATION

[in progress] Ph.d. [philosophy], Boston University.

B. Arch [architecture] and BA [philosophy], min: political science, Summa Cum Laude, Mississippi State University, 2009.

WORK

Research Associate, Jackson Community Design Center, December 2008 – August 2009

Teaching Assistant, College of Architecture, Art, and Design, Mississippi State University, Architecture History III, January 2008 – May 2008

Intern, Dale and Associates Architects, May 2005 – August 2007

PUBLICATIONS

[book chapter]. “Carnal Language and the Reversibility of Architectural Language: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Signs.” Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception [tentative title]. Eds. William Hamrick, Duane Davis, and Ivan Kolev. [forthcoming]

[refereed article] Bryan Norwood and The Jackson Community Design Center. “Mania: an emergent sustainability of density and intensity.” MONU: Magazine on Urbanism 12 (August 2009): 116-26.

[b.arch. thesis] “Metropolitan Mania: The Future of State Street.” Mississippi State University School of Architecture. May 2009.

[refereed article] “The Epistemic Nature of Beauty: Locke, Descartes, and the Architectural Theory of Claude Perrault.” Logos: The Cornell Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy IV (2007-2008): 61-82.

[refereed article] “Experiencing Complexity: The Aesthetic Argument Against Reductive Physicalism.” Aporia: Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy XXVI, vol. 1 (Spring 2008): 41-7.

[conference proceedings] Bryan Norwood and Aaron Speaks. “Reversing and Folding the Language of Architecture.” Veils: First Annual Philosophy and Art Conference, Stony Brook University Manhattan (March 28-29, 2008): 108-16.

PRESENTATIONS

[invited presentation] “Consciousness at the Limits of Phenomenology: rethinking architectural phenomenology with Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.” Graduate Student Presentation Series. Boston University, Boston, MA. November 19, 2009.

[refereed, national] “Consciousness at the Limits of Phenomenology: rethinking architectural phenomenology with Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.” M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture. International Merleau-Ponty Circle Annual Conference. Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. September 10-12, 2009.

[refereed, international, colloquium presentation] “Epistemopolis: Anti-Utopia, Anarchy, and the Architecture of Postmodern Epistemology.” American Philosophical Association: Pacific Division Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC. April 8-12, 2009.

[refereed, international] “Epistemopolis II: Chaosmos and Mixture as Post-Human Urban Ideology.” Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Meeting. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. December 3-5, 2008.

[refereed, international] “Carnal Language and the Sedimentation of Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Signs.” Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. June 3-5, 2008.

[refereed, national] “Experiencing Complexity: The Aesthetic Argument Against Reductive Physicalism.” Dartmouth Annual Undergraduate Conference. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. April 5, 2008.

[refereed, national] “Reversing and Folding the Language of Architecture.” Stony Brook Manhattan: First Annual Art and Philosophy Conference. SUNY Stony Brook, New York, NY. March 28-29, 2008.

[refereed, international] “Carnal Language and the Sedimentation of Architecture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Signs.” 100 Years of Merleau-Ponty: A Centennial Conference. Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. March 14-16, 2008.

[refereed, regional] “Experiencing Complexity: The Aesthetic Argument against Reductive Physicalism.” MidSouth Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. February 22-23, 2008.

[invited presentation] “Why you don’t (and can’t) know what beauty is . . . .” MSU Chapter of Tau Sigma Delta Friday Forum. Mississippi State University School of Architecture, Starkville, MS. September 7, 2007.

[refereed, national] “Empiricism and Rationalism Resolved by Architecture? Locke and Descartes Reexamined through the Architectural Theory of Claude Perrault.” Pacific University’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR. April 20-21, 2007.

[refereed, regional] “Empiricism and Rationalism Resolved by Architecture? Locke and Descartes Reexamined Through the Architectural Theory of Claude Perrault.” Mississippi Philosophical Association Annual Conference. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS. April 13-14, 2007.

[refereed, national] “Constructing Order After the Cosmos: Renaissance Architecture and the Teleological Argument for the Existence of God.” Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. March 29-31, 2007.

[refereed, national] “The Dialectic of Ethical Involvement: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics.” University of Southern Mississippi’s Human Rights Conference. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS. March 23-24, 2007.

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Metcalf Fellowship, Boston University, September 2009-May 2013.

Mockbee, Hall, Drake, and Hodge Scholarship, August 2008-May 2009.

MSU Honors College Research Program Fellowship, May 2008.

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Award, March 2007; December 2008.

COMPETITIONS

[submitted] Jackson Community Design Center. “Continu(C)ity: making the American city a body without organs,” WPA 2.0: Whoever Rules the Sewer Rules the City, CityLAB, August 2009.

[submitted] Jackson Community Design Center. “Continu(C)ity: making the American city a body without organs,” Pamphlet Architecture 30: Investigations in Infrastructure, Princeton Architectural Press, July 2009.

[3rd place] “A Modern House.” Trimjoist Sustainable Design Competition Traveling Grant, Feb 2007.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

M. C. Dillon Graduate Paper Award: Merleau-Ponty Circle 34: September 2009.

AIA Henry Adams Certificate, Feb 2009.

School of Architecture Academic Achievement Award, May 2009.

College of Architecture, Art, and Design Undergraduate Research Award, April 2008.

College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, April 2008.

2nd Place Best Essay: Dartmouth Undergraduate Conference, April 2008.

Phi Alpha Theta Shannon M. Mallard Undergraduate History Research Paper Award, April 2007.

Honorable Mention: Pacific University Undergraduate Conference, April 2007.

Mississippi Philosophical Association Student Essay Award, April 2007.

Student Work Display in Faculty Symposium, November 2006.

Mississippi National Peace Essay Winner, June 2003.

MEMBERSHIPS / ACTIVITIES

International Merleau-Ponty Circle, August 2007 – Present .

American Philosophical Association, August 2007 – Present.

NOMAS Forum Moderator, February 2007; March 2008.

SARC Reformation of Studio Culture Task Force, January 2006 – May 2007.

Tau Sigma Delta, August 2006 – May 2009, [secretary] August 2007 – May 2008.

Architecture Dean’s Council, [freshman representative] August 2003 – May 2004.

GRADUATE COURSES

Heidegger’s Writings, 1930-1950 – Daniel Dahlstrom

Heidegger and the Question of Truth – John Sallis [Boston College]

Graduate Proseminar: method and style, essences and kinds, personal identity – Aaron Garrett

[in progress] Kant – Manfred Kuehn

[in progress] Hegel’s Aesthetics – Klaus Brinkmann

[in progress] Lacan – Jeffrey Bloechl and William Richardson [Boston College]

[audit] Buildings, Tests, and Contexts – K. Michael Hays and Erika Naginski [Harvard]

[audit, in progress] The Architectural Imaginary: experimental architecture of the 1970s – K. Michael Hays [Harvard]