Architecture

1999

Design principal, Sottile & Sottile, Urban Design and Civic Architecture, Savannah; urban research fellow, Florence, Italy; city architect, city of Beaufort, South Carolina; professor of architecture, SCAD Savannah; apprentice, John C. LeBey, FAIA, Architect, Savannah

Establishing Sottile & Sottile as an international, award-winning urban design and civic architecture practice with its primary focus on civic design and master planning, emphasizing historic research, urban analysis and community-wide engagement. Leading the design of the new SCAD Museum of Art, a historic preservation project that revived the freight sheds of the Central of Georgia Railroad complex, a National Historic Landmark and the only extant antebellum railroad complex in the U.S.

Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter Award, SCAD Museum of Art, 2012; Historic Savannah Foundation, Preservation Award, SCAD Museum of Art, 2012; AIA National, Emerging Professional, Curated Exhibit, Washington D.C., 2012; International Interior Design Association, Georgia, Best of the Best, SCAD Museum of Art, 2012; Congress for the New Urbanism, Art of the New Urbanism, Curated Exhibit, 2012; National Council of Arts Administrators, Art Leadership Award, 2011; AIA National Honor Award for Urban Design, 2010, 1998; Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter Award, 2009; Government Finance Officers of the United States, 2009; AIA Georgia Honor Award, 2008, 2005, 1996; Georgia Department of Community Affairs, 2008, 2005; Historic Savannah Foundation, Preservation Award, 2008, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000; American Planning Association, 2008, 2005, 2004; Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, 2003; USA Today, Top 100 Academics in the Nation, 1998

Preservation magazine: "New Life for an Old Depot: Remnants of an 1853 railroad depot contribute to a major expansion of a Savannah Museum"

SCAD press release:

• SCAD names Christian Sottile as dean, School of Building Arts

American Institute of Architects; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards; National Council of Arts Administrators; National Charrette Institute; Veritas Academy Rhetoric School; Savannah Development and Renewal Authority; Creative Coast Alliance; Congress for the New Urbanism; American Planning Association

• Architect Magazine, SCAD Museum of Art, May 2012
• AIA Designs of the New Decade, Civic Master Plan, April 2012
• Architectural Digest, SCAD Museum of Art, February 2012
• Blueprint, UK, SCAD Museum of Art, February 2012
• Preservation Magazine, New Life for an Old Depot, December 2011
• Architect's Newspaper, Foundation Studies, November 2011
• Il Giornale dell'Architettura, Torino, SCAD Museum of Art, November 2011
• Wallpaper, SCAD Museum of Art, November 2011
• TEDx Conference, Recovering Humanity in the Built Environment
• China, Jiujiang City, U.S. Planning and Historic Preservation
• Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, The New City
• Georgia Conservancy, Blueprints for Successful Communities
• New York Project for Public Spaces, Livability Forum
• Urban Land Institute, The Next Big Ideas
• United States Urban Forestry Program, Savannah's East River
• American Planning Association, National Conference, Human Design Principles
• International Making Cities Livable Conference, Design Districts
• National Public Radio, History of Ellis Square
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Sustainable Urbanism

"To engage in discourse about our collective future, to dissolve perceived boundaries between design disciplines and to re-establish art as the shared language of the built environment. The future is the city. It is the place where all design disciplines come together and where all design disciplines are needed at the same time. At SCAD, we are doing nothing less than preparing students in the School of Building Arts to be the designers of the new city."

• ARLH 306 Reading Urban Form
• ARCH 302 Architecture Design Studio II
• ARCH 303 Architecture Design Studio III
• ARCH 421 Advanced Architectural Presentation
• ARCH 707 Architecture Design Studio VII
• ARCH 765 Emerging Urban Issues
• INDS 321 Interior and Exterior Illustration

2004

Director, education, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Washington, D.C.; professor of architecture and year-four studio master, department of architecture, SCAD Savannah; independent private practice, Greg G. Hall Architect PC, Cashiers, North Carolina; design consultant, project manager, Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects and Engineers, Hong Kong; teaching assistant and part-time lecturer, department of architecture and department of landscape architecture, University of Hong Kong; project manager/designer, building design department, Takenaka Corporation, Osaka, Japan; project manager/designer, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris, France, Genova, Italy, and Osaka, Japan; project manager/designer, Massimiliano Fuksas Associés, Paris; project manager/designer, Jean Nouvel et Associés, Paris; project manager/designer, Carlson Associates/Société Auxiliaire d'Entreprise, Atlanta, Georgia; intern architect, Derek Walker Associates, Milton Keynes, U.K.; intern architect, Avery Associates Architects, London; undergraduate intern, American Embassy, U.S. Department of State, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; teaching assistant, Summer Academy in Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

Working in architecture firms in a variety of overseas locations and the United States and collaborating with international interdisciplinary design teams, and establishing and operating an independent architecture practice in the U.S.; learning to speak, read and write Japanese; making a difference in students' educational experience and preparation for licensure and practice

Fulbright Fellow, 1993-1994, William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Li Ka Shing Fund Management Grant, 1994, University of Hong Kong; the Outstanding Young Persons Award, 1994, Osaka Junior Chamber, Osaka, Japan; Robert Black College Scholarship, 1993, University of Hong Kong; Paris Prize/First Prize, 1987, Lloyd Warren Fellowship Competition, Van Alen Institute (former National Institute for Architectural Education and Beaux Arts Institute of Design), New York City; School Prize, 1982 and 1984, Innovative Use of Aluminum, ACSA/ Reynolds Aluminum, Washington, D.C., and New York City; Second Prize, 1982, William Van Alen Architect International Architecture Design Competition, Van Alen Institute, New York City; Dik Vrooman Scholarship, 1982, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

American Institute of Architects; Architectural Society of China; Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture; Hong Kong University Alumni Association; International Association for Continuing Education and Training; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards; National Eagle Scout Association; Ex-students' Association of the University of Texas; United States Green Building Council

Books/Articles

• "Issues in Professional Practice," scheduled for publication in 2013.
• Construction in Hong Kong: Issues in Technology Transfer and Labour Supply. London. Avebury Press, 1996; Co-author with S. Ganesan and Y. H. Chiang; Author, Chapter 7; "Innovations Abroad and Potential for Adaptation in Hong Kong."
• 8 AIT, Architecture, Imagination, Technology, Octavo Design Limited, Hong Kong. Chinese-English language journal of architecture and building technology for the Asia-Pacific market, 1997; founder, editor and publisher.
• "Defining Design," in International Yearbook, Volume 4:20-23. Images Publishing, Sydney, 1998.
• "Can We Increase Labour Productivity Further in Hong Kong?" Hong Kong Papers in Design and Development. 1:95-102. Centre of Architecture and Urban Design for Hong Kong and China, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong; Co-author with Y. H. Chiang and S. Ganesan, 1998.
• "Building for Hong Kong's Modern Century" (in Chinese) Time + Architecture, 2:20-23; 3:239-240. Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, June 1997.
• "Pacific Rim Country Report - China." Architectural Record, PR5, July 1996.

Presentations

• "Professional Architecture Education at SCAD," AIA Principals' Roundtable, Atlanta AIA, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012
• "Essential NCARB," NCARB annual meeting and conference, Washington, D.C., 2011
• "Leveraging Academic and Professional Partnerships: Inspiring Future Architects," AIA National Convention, Miami 2010, and ACSA annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
• "Design Management and Design Collaboration," School of Architecture, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010
• "Alternate Paths to NCARB Certification," Build Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2008; 2009; Alien Architects Committee, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts, 2008
• "Design, Global Practice, and Collaboration," School of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2009; department of architecture, Texas A&M University, 2007
• "Kansai International Airport and Renzo Piano Building Workshop," department of architecture, SCAD Savannah, 2005
• "Architecture Design Management," American Institute of Architects, Savannah, 2005
• "Architecture Projects: Management and Collaboration," Department of Architecture, SCAD Savannah, 2004; School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University, 1997; College of Architecture, University of Houston, 1997; College of Architecture, University of Arizona, 1997

The potential to have a positive impact on students' experiences, to help them begin the path to licensure and practice, and to help them understand the realities and responsibilities of practice and the satisfaction of collaboration.

• ARCH 241 Construction Technology I
• ARCH 404 Architecture Design Studio IV
• ARCH 405 Architecture Design Studio V
• ARCH 406 Architecture Design Studio VI
• ARCH 471 Architecture Practice
• ARCH 490 Portfolio Preparation and Presentation
• ARCH 706 Architectural Practices
• ARCH 707 Architecture Design Studio VII
• ARCH 708 Architecture Design Studio VIII: Thesis I
• ARCH 709 Architecture Design Studio IX: Thesis II
• ARCH 730 Architecture Design Management
• ARCH 745 Graduate Seminar in Architecture
• ARCH 770 Graduate Architecture Portfolio
• ARCH 775 Global Architectural Practice