Rate My Professor Dwaine Carver

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.