HOWARD TRENT SMITH portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School Of Architecture
  • Adjunct Faculty, School Of Architecture
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Presentations

  • 2014 Portfolio Workshops for the School of Architecture Served as main organizer and presenter of a series of portfolio how-to's for the graduating 2015 class of undergraduates for the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. Curated list of interdisciplinary speakers on a range of topics, as well as a set of professional portfolios shown in a gallery style setting. Critiques with jurors on student portfolios were also part of the presentations per the workshop format of the course. Presentation, Presented, 11/2014.

Languages

  • English, fluent.
  • Japanese, basic.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Germany
    Studio abroad in the summer of 2010.
  • Honduras
    2009 Thanksgiving Build Week. Worked with Torch Missions to construct 7 homes throughout the region with teams from Southern United States.
  • Panama
    2 Separate trips to Native villages in Panama to study context and culture.
  • Spain
    Madrid and Barcelona, architectural study.

Publications

  • A Native Identity Crisis: A Look at the Navajo Nation and its Disappearing Architectural Identity The Navajo Nation, culture, and architectural manifestation, is most often found in ruin, both figuratively and physically. Focusing on people and place, who have undergone a continuous disruptive renovation process since their first visitors arrived hundreds of years ago, this paper looks at important disruption of traditional Navajo culture, the turmoil behind it, and how efforts are being made to reintroduce ancient concepts and forms at differing scales and the benefit they bring. Published, 06/2014.
    http://www.acsforum.org/symposium2014/papers/SMITH...