Professor Randall Korman has been named associate dean of the Syracuse University
School of Architecture, effective Aug. 1. A faculty member at the school for the past 30
years, Korman served as interim associate dean from 2005-08. As associate dean,
Korman will serve as a senior member of the dean's cabinet and help further the
school's academic and fiscal agendas.
"We are very fortunate to have Randall as our associate dean. He is highly respected
among faculty, staff, students and alumni alike and has dedicated his career to
excellence in architectural education. We look forward to his further contributions to
the school and within the University," says Dean Mark Robbins.
Korman received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the Cooper Union and
a graduate degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was a
graduate intern at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City
and worked in the architectural offices of Kenneth Frampton, Peter Eisenman and
Michael Graves. He established his own practice, Randall Korman, Architect, in 1975,
with a range of work including commercial, institutional and residential projects.
At Syracuse Architecture, Korman has served as head of both the undergraduate and
graduate architecture programs and played a significant role in support of architectural
study abroad. Between 1980-82, he established the Syracuse University Florence
architecture program, and served as its director in 1989. In 2007, he was instrumental in
establishing Syracuse Architecture's program in London. He has also organized short-
term study programs in Austria, Italy, Great Britain and Russia and has been a visiting
critic at the University of Texas and Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan.
During a sabbatical in the spring of 2009, Korman was the Batza Visiting Professor of
Art and History at Colgate University-the first architect awarded that position. He is
currently working on two books, "The Art of the Facade" and "Reading the Facade: An
Anthology of the Vertical Surface."
Syracuse University School of Architecture is the fourth-oldest program in the United
States and is consistently ranked among the top architecture schools in the country. For
more information on the school, visit http://soa.syr.edu.
