Furniture Design

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

1996

Instructor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts; instructor/assistant manager/manager ,The Nemasket Group, Fairhaven, Massachusetts; designer/craftsman, Middlebury, Connecticut

Big Picture Show, Pei Ling Chan gallery, Savannah, Georgia; Craft Transformed-Invitational, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Haystack Faculty Exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine

"Best of Show," Ritz Theatre Gallery, Brunswick, Georgia

With-IT - Member Board of Governors, The Furniture Society, American Society of Furniture Designers, Sustainable Furniture Council

Articles

• Joanne McQuillan Weeks, Studies in Wood: Function and Form
• The Standard Times (Massachusetts), Feb. 12, 1995, Sec. D1, Form/Function
• The Standard Times (Massachusetts), March 17, 1996, Sec. E5

Presentations

• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
• Art Educators Forum, Savannah College of Art and Design
• Rabun Gap Preparatory School

"Colleagues and students."

• FURN 201 Design Studio: Introduction to Furniture
• FURN 241 Design Studio: Applied Universal Design
• FURN 306 Furniture Practices: Methods in Plastics
• FURN 320 Accessories for Living
• FURN 410 Design Studio: Advanced Furniture Design
• FURN 425 Design Studio: Senior Studio
• FURN 706 Exploration in Plastics
• FURN 710 Issues in Furniture Design
• FURN 718 Furniture Studio I: Conceptual Studies
• FURN 738 Furniture Studio II : Contextual Studies
• FURN 742 Directed Research in Furniture Design
• FURN 748 Furniture Studio III: Material Investigations
• FURN 749 Furniture Design M.A. Final Project
• FURN 754 Directed Studies I
• FURN 764 Directed Studies II
• FURN 790 Furniture Design M.F.A. Thesis