Interview Steven Fett, 17 January 2017

Gilda Santana joined the faculty of the University of Miami Libraries in 2007 as Head of Architecture Information and Resources to direct the Paul Buisson Architecture Library. She led the expansion and redesign of the library now called the Architecture Research Center (ARC) in 2018. Her research interests include facilitating the culture of design research through studio embedded-librarianship and the evolution of digital humanities in architecture and the arts. In 2013 she became the Librarian for Art & Art History. Santana has a Master of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture, University of Miami, a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a Bachelor of Art from Bard College where she majored in Art History. She actively serves in the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) and the Art Libraries Association of North America (ARLIS).

Steven Fett is a full-time lecturer at the University of Miami, School of Architecture. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Minnesota, and a Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design at the University of Miami. Steven, a licensed architect, is the founder of his own architectural design and planning firm, Steven Fett Architecture. Located in downtown Miami, the firm has won a number of important awards including the Florida Redevelopment Association’s President's Award, and the American Public Works Association’s, “Public Works Project of the Year” for his built redesign of Commercial Boulevard in downtown Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida, a project he co-authored with fellow professor, Jaime Correa. Steven is a regular contributor to the School’s Open City Studio program, an itinerant urban laboratory that travels to international cities each summer.