Rate My Professor Dwaine Carver

Dwaine Carver serves as Associate Chair of Architecture and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture within the University of Idaho's College of Art and Architecture. He earned his Master of Design in History and Theory of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1992, Bachelor of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990, and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Carver's areas of expertise encompass design and the history and theory of architecture. His research intersects ecology, infrastructure, and public space, with recent works including building and urban design, public sculpture, installations, exhibits, arts and cultural planning, and essays on architectural history, theory, and pedagogy. He co-authored The Boise Public Works Arts Master Plan, a 10-year arts and culture planning document commissioned by Boise Public Works and Boise Arts and History that identifies strategic opportunities to integrate art and design into public infrastructure projects.

Since 2018, Carver has been teaching architecture at the University of Idaho, delivering courses such as graduate studios investigating the uses and limits of precedent in architecture and urban design through collage techniques, seminars on spatial form in literary fiction analyzing allegorical architectures, first-year undergraduate design and drawing coursework employing phenomenological approaches, and recurring design/build collaborations with the Treefort Music Festival. His pedagogical contributions include essays such as 'Drawing Form from Fiction' published in Representation [Forgetting/Remembering] 2023-2024 of the Design Communication Association, 'A Tectonics of Ontogenetic Materialism' presented at the Building Technology Educators' Society conference, 'A Phenomenological Epoché for Beginning Design' at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, and 'Precedent and Influence.' Carver co-authored 'PrinTimber: speculations on the technical evolution of housing' in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly in 2024. He received The Paul G. Windley Faculty Excellence and Development Award to fund presentation of The Boise Public Works Arts Plan at EDRA 53. Under his supervision, students have earned awards including the AIA Henry Adams Medal, ARCC King Student Medal, multiple Awards of Distinction from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, and University of Idaho Alumni Award for Excellence. Carver also holds the role of Director of Graduate Studies of Architecture.