Roland Sharpe Flores

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Office:

Phone: 701-231-5783

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Design Process and Thinking, Architectural Representation

Vermont: Licensed Professional Architect No. 02918

NCARB: Licensed Professional Architect (national reciprocity) No. 63393

National Council of Association of Registration Boards (NCARB)

Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University, 2022-Present

Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore, 2012-2016

Senior Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore, 2011-2012

Adjunct Professor, New York Institute of Technology, 2007-2009

Teaching Assistantship (Art History), Yale College, 2001

Teaching Assistantship (Drawing), Yale College, 2001

Teaching Fellowship (Architectural Theory), Yale School of Architecture, 2000

H. I. Feldman Prize, Yale School of Architecture, 2001

Carroll V. Meeks Scholarship, Yale School of Architecture, 2001

Who are your role models or inspiring folks?

Inspirational folks are composers, fiction authors, and keen observers, such as, Caroline Shaw, Jose Saramago, and Robin Evans – respectively.

Outside of art and design fields, what inspires you?

Contemporary classical music and literary fiction, particularly, magical realism

What do you wish you had known when you started out as a student/in this field?

Humility is an undervalued virtue.

What was your most memorable meal?

Any meal with my family and/or good friends.

In your office, you can only have three things, one book, one tool, and one picture. What would they be and why?

A sketchbook, a Prismacolor Ebony graphite pencil, and a picture of my sons on the beach in California