Architecture Department Faculty

Keelan P. Kaiser, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Department Chair

Keelan P. Kaiser is an architect and educator. He explores contemporary practice and education through a lens of passivity, or passive systems including daylighting, passive solar and natural ventilation. He is involved with the AIA/SBSE Carbon Neutral Design Studio Curriculum Project, an international education resource development initiative, developing and refining architecture pedagogy in conjunction with the 2030 Challenge. He believes the creation of healthy buildings that lead to improved quality of life and edify the human spirit are among the highest callings of the architect. His teaching has spanned the spectrum of architectural education, from history to building technology to design, and from first year studio to graduate theses. Professor Kaiser is an active practitioner with the green design firm Serena Sturm Architects in Chicago, exploring passivity in contemporary design. He was an ACSA-nominated member of the NAAB board of directors where he was President during the final term of a three year appointment (2009-2012), and is a past ACSA board of directors member (2006-09). He currently serves on the board of the Design Communication Association. BLOG

Christopher C. Miller, PhD, Assistant Chair for Graduate Programs

Christopher Miller contributes to making urbanism an important feature in the program’s character as he teaches the Architecture of Cities and the Architecture of Conviviality and by directing senior and graduate architecture and urbanism studios. He has presented papers advancing human-scaled city-making and traditional architecture as a culturally sustaining activity. Dr. Miller and Nathaniel Brooks, M.Arch., organized Judson’s first student charrette for Quincy, Illinois, in 2005. A program concentration in Traditional Architecture and Urbanism, of which sustainability is a foundation, was initiated in 2008. For the Department of Art & Design he teaches the History of Art and a theory of modern objects and images. Miller practiced architecture in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia; currently, he consults for the not-for-profit Jericho Ministries in Honduras. BLOG

Jhennifer A. Amundson, PhD

Jhennifer A. Amundson teaches courses in the history of architecture and architecture theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her areas of special interest are American architecture, modern architecture and aesthetic theory, and the history of building technology. She has lectured and published on topics from Thomas Jefferson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the history of metallic construction and the phenomenon of architectural demolition as spectacle. Her current project is a book-length monograph on the career of Thomas U. Walter, the architect of the US Capitol dome. BLOG

David M. Ogoli, PhD

Curtis Sartor, Jr, PhD, Dean of the School of Art, Design and Architecture

Dr. Sartor has been teaching architecture for over twenty years and has practiced with architectural firms in San Francisco and Atlanta, with specific experience in the design and planning of commercial, residential and institutional projects in both the public and private sector. He teaches courses in environmental design & earth stewardship and multiculturalism & non-western architecture. Dr. Sartor’s teaching interests are in the area of sustainable design, beginning architectural design, environmental design, cultural anthropology, architectural programming, applied research methodologies, diversity education, African American and Native American cultures.

Stacie Burtelson

Stacie L. Burtelson teaches courses in design and digital representation at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  Her design and research interests include digital technologies, modern material systems, methods of representation and the communication of architectural form.  She has lectured and published articles on topics from Scottish architecture to digital media in architectural design and the integration of computers within architectural education.  Professor Burtelson has previously taught at the Mackintosh School of Architecture; part of the renowned Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland.  Her current work is project development and environmental impact assessment in consultation with the non-profit Adventure Learning Centre Ministry in Nassau, Bahamas.

Ian Hoffman, Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Programs

Professor Hoffman has spent his career in architectural and acoustic design committed to examining and understanding the curious interactions of sound and space, specifically as they affect the human experience.  In his teaching, research and practice, he addresses the complex sensitivities of architectural and acoustic design, bridging the technical and creative, calculated and perceived, aural and tectonic.  He teaches design studio, environmental technology and structures courses in the third and fourth years, as well as an upper level elective in advanced acoustic design. Design and research interests include the future of performing arts space design, the role of acoustic design in sustainable buildings, building tectonics as form, three-dimensional digital fabrication, material explorations, and the intersection of visual and aural space.

Jeremy P. Lindsey

Jeremy P. Lindsey sees architecture as the most common way in which we make sense of our immediate environment and the world at large, meaning that how and what we design is tantamount to one’s worldview. Professor Lindsey teaches in Judson’s undergraduate program, primarily in first and second year design studios, and seeks to not only train the most capable beginning designers, but to also instill a sensitivity to spatial and aesthetic experience and their direct relationships to human perception and understanding. His current research and pedagogical focus includes the significance of the physical act of making, and its resulting artifacts, within the design process and its relationship to the actual built environment. Professor Lindsey is actively committed to a sustained engagement with the built environment through private practice. He is serving as Faculty Councilor for Judson University to the ACSA as well as being involved in the NCBDS.

Jae Cha

Jae Cha teaches at the first, second and graduate year levels in design studio. With expertise in community development, third-world development, and support of NGO work in the remotest parts of the earth, Jae has a remarkable set of experiences in crafting spaces to serve local communities. Her work has won international awards for its numinous qualities, most notably, Architecture Review awards. Her work is published in Good Deeds Good Design. She recently was an invited speaker at Rhode Island School of Design and the Boston Society of Architects symposium: Where are the Utopian Visionaries? Architecture of Social Change.

Sean M. Gallagher

Sean Gallagher teaches at the third and fourth year levels in design and technology, with graduate level classes focusing on the practice of architecture.  He is an active practitioner with an office in Geneva, Illinois.  His practice serves communities on Chicago’s north shore and suburbs of the Fox Valley. His design teaching and interests focus on the potential for architecture to reveal and connect humanity with the created order through the tectonic integration of natural phenomenon.  Professor Gallagher also serves as the programs Intern Development Program Education Coordinator (IDP-EC).

R. Thomas Jaeger

Tom Jaeger is an architect and academician with over 50 years of simultaneous service in both professions. He co-ordinates and teaches in thethe fourth year comprehensive architectural design courses.  He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture where he served as acting director, Chair in Structures, Design and Technology for the Graduate and Undergraduate Programs.  He has received applied research grants from the Kettering Foundation, Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been a Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Michigan State University, and served by appointment on the National Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia.

Susan Harris

Susan N. Harris is a visiting professor of design.  She has spent the past several years working in the Chicago firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and Serena Sturm Architects, and traveling for a book she is currently researching and writing. She has had the privilege of working on projects locally as well as those on other parts of the globe, from small scale residential to high-profile skyscrapers. Her research interests include the psychology of human interaction and cognitive response to the built environment. She teaches in the first and second year design studios where she challenges students to recognize the implication and strength that space has on the human experience.