Germane Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity. Mining architecture’s social and political agency, he examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. He is the 2021 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize winner, Rome Prize Fellow and winner of the Architectural League Prize. His design and research contributions have been published and exhibited in several international institutions. Most notably, The Museum of Modern Art, Pin-Up Magazine, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, The Swiss Institute, Metropolis Magazine, Curbed, and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.
Professor Charles Bohl is the founding director of the graduate program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where he previously directed the interdisciplinary Knight Program in Community Building from 2000-2008. Dr. Bohl is an expert on place making, mixed-use development and the public process for planing and community design. He is the author of Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages, a best-selling book published by the Urban Land Institute. He co-edited (w/ Jean-Francois Lejuene) the book Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis: Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges (Routledge). Research and academic programs carried out by Dr. Bohl have been supported by more than $4.2 million provided by major foundations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute. Dr. Bohl serves on the Governance Committee of the 1000-member ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council, where he previously served as Chair (2015-17). He also served as Chair of the Florida Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism from 2010-2012 and currently serves on the board. Dr. Bohl was elected by the faculty to serve as Speaker of the School of Architecture Council for three successive terms (2017-2020) and currently serves as Deputy Speaker. Prior to joining the University of Miami Professor Bohl was a Senior Research Associate at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, where he established the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program and served as the Senior Fellow for the Weiss Urban Livability Program. Dr. Bohl holds a doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lectures and consults widely on mixed-use development, place making and community building in the U.S. and abroad.
