George V. Epolito

Walter Smith Architecture Bldg Room #316

MWF: 9:00am – 12:00pm

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George Epolito is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Graduate Architecture Programs at FAMU. With more than 30 years of international academic experience in North America and the UK, he has taught across all levels of architectural design studios, as well as courses in architectural history, theory, and urbanism.
His research explores the intersection of politics and cultural production through themes such as everyday architecture, alternative spatial practices, social and spatial marginalization, Italian Modernism, Latin American Tropical Modernism, and avant-garde approaches to historic structures. His work also addresses architectural pedagogy and the role of design education in fostering spatial justice.
An active contributor to the global architectural community, George has regularly published, lectured at conferences and symposia, and led student workshops internationally. His scholarly contributions include publications and presentations on African American, Puerto Rican, and immigrant Italian cultural production. His research is unified by three core themes: Displacement of Cultural Capital, Otherness, and Coexistence.
Prior to joining FAMU, he held leadership roles in UK architecture schools, including as Director of the MArch, MA in Architecture Futures, MA in Urban Design, and Degree Apprenticeship programs at the Leeds School of Architecture and as Director of the MArch at the Leicester School of Architecture. He also led Clemson University’s Study Abroad Program in Genoa, Italy.

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• Architectural Theory
• Architectural Pedagogy
• Cultural Production
• Spatial Justice
• Urban Design

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• Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Architecture, Tenure Earning • 2023- present
  Florida A & M University, SAET
• Course Director Postgraduate Architecture (Associate Professor, Tenured) • 2019 - 2023
  Leeds Beckett University, Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds, UK 
• Senior Lecturer & MArch Programme Leader (Associate Professor, Tenured) • 2016 - 2019
  De Montfort University, Leicester School of Architecture, Leicester, UK
  
• Senior Lecturer in Architecture (Associate Professor, Tenured) • 2006-2016
  Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester School of Architecture Manchester, UK                                  
• Visiting Lecturer & Academic Director • 2003 -2006
  Clemson University, College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, Clemson, SC & Genoa, Italy                                  
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture • Fall 2002 & Fall 1998
  Universidad de Puerto Rico, Escuela de Arquitectura                                  
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture • 2001-2002
  University of South Florida, School of Architecture & Community Design                                  
• Adjunct Assistant Professor • Spring 2002
  Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture                                  
• Professor of Architecture [Non-tenure Institution] • 1999-2001
  Savannah College of Art and Design - SCAD
• Assistant Professor of Architecture, Tenure Earning, • 1993 - 1998
  Tuskegee University, Department of Archtiecture

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• Andrew Mellon Foundation: Chin, A.(PI) Epolito,G. (CO-PI), Alicea-Chuqui, V. (CO-PI), Haferd, J. (CO-PI)  - “Summer Institute,” Funding by Andrew Mellon Foundation, $70,000 •  2023 -2025
• Invited Speaker, De Montfort University, UK: Artifex Viator – The Travelling Artist: DMU MArch students in Buenos Aires: • 2022
• Invited Speaker, De Montfort University, UK: Displaced Italianness in Latin America through the Lens of Italians versus (Latin) Americans -Symposium: The Architecture of Migration, Clues of Transcultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean Built Environment Migration of Italian aesthetical ideas into Latin America • 2019
• Invited Speaker, De Montfort University, UK: Displaced Italianness through the Lens of Transculturation and Acculturation. – Workshop #2 The Architecture of Migration, Clues of Transcultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean Built Environment • 2019
• Invited Exhibition: Responding to Antarctica Exhibition, Invited to exhibit as part of a collaborative project supported by the United States’ National Science Foundation, Professor Allyson Comstock of Auburn University, (PI): 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL • 2018 & University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA • 2017

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• ARC 6972 Thesis Studio & Research
• ARC 5936 Thesis Topic Seminar
• ARC 6359 Intro Thesis Planning & Research
• ARC 6976 Thesis Reflection & Documentation
• ARC 4342 Architectural Design 8
• ARC 3324 Architectural Design 5

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