Post-Arc: Studio After Dark
Mentored research and practice-based study in architecture
Welcome
Post-ARC, a design research lab led by Glenn NP Nowak, AIA, aims to link recent architecture graduates (from any institution) whose academic interests have strong promise for continued growth through grant funding and professional mentoring in collaboration with communities, organizations, and others seeking progressive solutions to a variety of potential challenges.
Having taught at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Architecture for over a decade and as the founder and coordinator of the Hospitality Design (HD) Concentration, the HD-Lab, Studio, and Seminar, alumni with focus on entertainment architecture are encouraged to engage in addition to emerging professionals in other areas that see Las Vegas as an ideal testing ground for experimental design.
Three main objectives are supported through Post-Arc:
- Fostering a diverse* group of emerging professionals on their path toward licensure,
- Community engagement through design dialogue/development, and
- Advancement of the profession via applied research.
Hundreds of design students across the country come close to significant environmental, social, technical, or economic breakthroughs in architecture every year, but few ever develop the ideas after graduation to the point of widespread impact (global change). Post-Arc posits that the discipline could gain a lot by formalizing more opportunities for the next generation of architects to shape/transform their initial or foundational experiences in the industry. Instead of immediately going to work for somebody (or in addition to that), they would go to work "with" somebody to foster these potential breakthroughs. Mentorship would be less about showing how things are done and more about collaboratively seeking new ways of doing them; challenging traditional modes of practice, production, or presentation.
* Diverse = differences in gender, racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and academic/professional backgrounds. People with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious beliefs, political beliefs, sexual orientations, heritage, and life experience
Coming Soon
Post-Arc is under construction. Prospective research collaborators are encouraged to contact glenn.nowak@unlv.edu
