Paul Emmons

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Since 1998, Paul Emmons has held various leadership positions at Virginia Tech, specifically within the WAAC. Emmons assumed leadership of a PhD program founded by Marco Frascari after Frascari departed from the university. Emmons organises international Frascari Symposia to continue developing Frascari’s research agenda. Emmons was named the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture.

In addition to teaching and research, Emmons has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies since 2018. Among his contributions, Emmons chaired the committee for the creation of the new College of Architecture, Arts, and Design and instituted and organized the college's Research Forum to promote and share faculty research. He also served as editor and member of editorial boards for journals, including the Journal of Architectural Education, as well as manuscript reviewer for publishing houses.{{Cite web |title=Researchgate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Emmons-2}}

Before his long-term role at Virginia Tech, Emmons held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota. Internationally, he was the Haas Visiting Professor at Newcastle University.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Emmons practiced at several architecture firms in Minneapolis from 1983 to 1995. Clients he worked with include leading institutions, such as the Minneapolis Public Library, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and numerous universities including the University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University.{{Cite journal |last1=Emmons |first1=Paul |last2=Kulawik |first2=Bernd |last3=Ranogajec |first3=Paul |last4=Ronnes |first4=Hanneke |last5=Leach |first5=Andrew |date=2019-06-21 |title=Reviews Spring 2019 |url=http://journal.eahn.org/article/id/7577/ |journal=Architectural Histories |volume=7 |issue=1 |doi=10.5334/ah.409 |doi-access=free |issn=2050-5833|hdl=11245.1/74144412-b317-4e95-bdd8-ee0a5c27784b |hdl-access=free }}

Since moving full-time into academia, Emmons has continued a small practice of competition entries, residences, and creative works including a collaboration with his sister, artist Carol Emmons. Their work has resulted in exhibitions at galleries such as the Philadelphia Art Alliance and has been reviewed and published.{{By whom|date=January 2024}} The pair were selected to complete a permanent sculptural installation, titled Mneme XXXI: Dwelling in the Plan, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's School of Architecture and Urban Planning Building.{{Cite web |title=Art @ UWM {{!}} Campus Planning and Capital Budget |url=https://uwm.edu/campus-planning/home/art-uwm/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |language=en-US}} Emmons has curated several exhibitions featuring other artists and architects at WAAC, both group shows and solo exhibitions of drawings by architects such as Douglas Darden.https://caac.sites.clemson.edu/upload/files/1988.CV.2023.05.18.8.00.26.pdf

Emmons graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1979 with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He later received a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |title=Paul Emmons |url=https://arch.vt.edu/people/waac-faculty/emmons-paul.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106161240/https://arch.vt.edu/people/waac-faculty/emmons-paul.html |archive-date=2025-01-06 |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=arch.vt.edu |language=en}}https://web.archive.org/web/20250106161633/https://arch.vt.edu/content/arch_vt_edu/en/people/waac-faculty/emmons-paul/_jcr_content/rightcol-content/download_copy/file.res/Paul-Emmons-CV.pdf

• {{Cite book |last=Emmons |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwaQDwAAQBAJ&q=9780367730574 |title=Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices |date=2019-04-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-17952-8 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Foote |first=Jonathan |date=2019-12-31 |title=Paul Emmons. Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices. Routledge, 2019 |url=https://mar.mcgill.ca/article/view/57 |journal=Montreal Architectural Review |language=en |volume=6 |issn=2368-6952}}
• {{Cite book |last=Emmons |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTkhOAAACAAJ |title=The Image of Function: Architectural Diagrams in Handbooks and Normative Practices in the Twentieth Century |date=2003 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |language=en}}

• Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending (Routledge, forthcoming). Co-edited with Marcia Feuerstein and Negar Goljan.
• Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (Routledge, 2019): Co-edited with Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe.
• Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge, 2018 [softcover], 2017 [hardcover]): Co-edited with Marcia Feuerstein and Carolina Dayer, the book features 226 pages and 59 colour plates.
• The Cultural Role of Architecture (Routledge, 2012): Co-edited with John Hendrix and Jane Lomholt, this book is 228 pages long and explores the impact of culture on architectural design.

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• [https://arch.vt.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/emmons-paul.html Virginia Tech – Paul Emmons]
• [https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Paul%20Emmons Routledge Books – Paul Emmons]

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