Ben Jacks
Associate Professor
Education
· M. Arch. University of Pennslyvania
· B.A. University of Chicago
Contact
· phone (513) 529-4916
· e-mail jacksbm@muohio.edu
Ben Jacks is an architect, writer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, where he teaches Design and Human Behavior, Research Methods, and studio design. His research focuses on the perception and experience of environment and place. He is especially interested in the connections between the everyday built environment and design aesthetics.
In teaching, Jacks is particularly interested in helping students to develop their own design processes, and to take responsibility for their own learning. See (link to Statement of Teaching Philosophy)
Journal publications include “Walking and Reading in Landscape,” Landscape Journal, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, Fall, 2007); “Walking the City: Manhattan Projects,” Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 18:2, June 2006; and “Reimagining Walking: Four Practices,” Journal of Architectural Education, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 57:3, February, 2004. He has published and presented approximately twenty-five conference papers.
He currently serves as the department’s faculty councilor to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
In 1991 he walked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Recently he became a student at the Stonecoast Brief-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing (for Non-Fiction) at the University of Southern Maine. He is currently writing a book about walking and the built environment.
Links & Downloads
- Article: "Walking the City: Manhattan Projects," published in Places 18:1, Spring 2006
- Catalog: “Walking, Poems, and Buildings,” Poets House, New York, January-March, 2005
- Poets House - Installation, New York, 2005 (.mov)
- A Discussion About "Walking, Poems, and Buildings," published in Romantic Pedagogies Commons, January 2005
-Download "Building, Teaching, Research" file
-Download "Student Work-Multidisciplinary Design Studio" file
- Catalog: Ben Jacks, Everyday Architecture, Cage Gallery, 2001
- On Teaching and Learning (.pdf)
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