Governance
President
Julio Bermudez
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Julio Bermudez, DPACSA, directs the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies program at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning. His scholarship focuses on architectural phenomenology in relationship to culture and spirituality. He has published two books: “Transcending Architecture” (CUA Press 2015) and “Architecture, Culture and Spirituality” (Routledge 2015).
Chair
Thomas Barrie
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Thomas Barrie, FAIA, DPACSA, is Professor ofArchitecture at North Carolina State University, where he served as SchoolDirector from 2002 – 2007. He is the author of House andHome: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles (Routledge,2017), The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge,2010), and Spiritual Path, Sacred Place: Myth Ritual andMeaning in Architecture (Shambhala, 1996), and co-editorof Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality (Barrie,Bermudez, Tabb, Routledge, 2015). At NC State he directs the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community Initiative.
Nader Ardalan
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As President of Ardalan Associates, he is a recognized expert in the field of Environmentally Sustainable and Culturally Relevant Design and Planning. He holds BA from Carnegie-Mellon University and MArch, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, where he served as Senior Research Associate.
Roberto Chiotti
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Roberto Chiotti is a Toronto architect and founding partner of Larkin Architect Limited, an award-winning firm specializing in the design of Sacred Space. In addition to obtaining his professional architectural degree in 1978,Roberto completed his Master of Theological Studies degree from University ofSt. Michael’s College, University of Toronto in 1998, with a specialty inTheology and Ecology granted by the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology andEcology at St. Michael’s. His firm’s widely published St. Gabriel’s Church is the first worship space in Canada to achieve LEED® Gold Certification and is the recipient of an internationalAIA/IFRAA Merit Award and the 2007 City of Toronto Green Design Award. Roberto has been invited to write and speak extensively on the topics of Sustainable Design, Sacred Space, and the Cosmological Response to the Ecological Crisis as it relates to Architecture and Education at Universities, Colleges, religious conferences, architecture conferences, and professional organizations in Canada and the United States.
Michael Crosbie
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Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., FAIA, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Hartford, as well as the former Associate Dean and former architecture department chair. He is the editor-in-chief of Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art, and Architecture. Dr. Crosbie is the author of more than 20 books on architecture, and has edited and contributed to approximately 20 others.
The ACSF Board of Directors maintains the following Standing Committees
Membership
Chair: Trent Smith
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Publications
Chair: Michael Crosbie, FAIA
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Awards and Recognitions
Chair: Michael Crosbie, FAIA
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Communications
Chair: Tammy Gaber
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Web Weaver
Mikesch Muecke
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