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Position Professor
Associate Department Head

Special Assistant to the Provost
Phone 805.756.2036
Fax 805.756.1500
Email bgiberti@calpoly.edu
Office 05-219
Office Hours MWR 10am-12pm
Web Page  
Fall Courses ARCH 485 Cooperative Education Experience
ARCH 495 Cooperative Education Experience
Winter Courses ARCH 485 Cooperative Education Experience
ARCH 495 Cooperative Education Experience
Spring Courses ARCH 485 Cooperative Education Experience
ARCH 495 Cooperative Education Experience

Areas of Expertise

Profile

Bruno Giberti has three degrees in architecture: a BS from Cal Poly (1980), an MArch from UC Berkeley (1989), and a PhD (1994), also from UC Berkeley. He worked in architecture and architectural journalism, most notably for the magazine Arts + Architecture, before returning to Cal Poly in 1994 as an architectural historian specializing in topics relating to the US and to the modern period. His book, Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, was awarded the Material Culture Award by the University Press of Kentucky and was published in 2002 as the first in the series Material Worlds. He is currently serving as the Faculty Director of the WASC process of reaffirmating university accreditation.

Education

Ph.D. in Architecture, UC Berkeley, 1994
Master of Architecture, UC Berkeley, 1989
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 1980

Registration

Registered Architect in California, 2008

Teaching Experience

Associate Department Head, Architecture Department, Cal Poly, 2007-present
Professor, Architecture Department, Cal Poly, 2006-present
Associate Professor, Architecture Department, Cal Poly, 2001-2006
Visiting Professor, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Consortium, Alexandria VA, 1997-99
Assistant Professor, Architecture Department, Cal Poly, 1995-2001
Lecturer, Architecture Department, Cal Poly, 1994-95

Affiliations

American Institute of Architects (AIA)
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF)

Scholarship

News

Links

The University Press of Kentucky
Cal Poly WASC page