Professor Emeritus, Architecture
E-mail address: mfazio@caad.msstate.edu
Website: http://www.michaelfazio.info
Michael Fazio is an architect and architectural historian. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Auburn University, a Master of Architecture Degree from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University. He practices architecture in the southeast region, most often as a preservation and restoration consultant preparing historic structure reports. He teaches undergraduate architectural studios and architectural history and is Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He is also an actively publishing scholar whose articles have appeared in the Society of Architectural Historians Journal, Arris (the journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians), and the Journal of Architectural Education. Along with his colleague, Patrick Snadon, he is currently completing a book-length manuscript on the domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. As a teacher, he has been closely involved with the School of Architecture's efforts to integrate the computer into design studio teaching. He has worked to develop a program where all second-year students purchase laptop computers and use them in class as design instruments. As such, he has worked with faculty colleagues to create a distinctive pedagogy integrating traditional drawing, using various media, traditional model building, using various materials, and digital drawing and modeling, using a variety of software packages.
Dr. Fazio retired from Mississippi State University in 2005.
