Ann Gerondelis AIA, IDSA is the Head of the Design Department in 91制片厂’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. A passionate design evangelist, and inclusive leader, she draws on her broad range of experiences in educational innovation and design in multiple disciplines.
Ann is an architect and practiced for 12 years before joining the National University of Singapore, then later the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work in design representation related to inquiry fueled curricular innovations in Industrial Design, Architecture and Building Construction. Funded research projects include the development of a high school Bio-Inspired Design Learning Community, Design Integrated with Middle School STEM Courses, and the design of Bio-Inspired Design learning tools. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Woman of Excellence Faculty Award.
Professor Gerondelis leads a wide range of disciplines in the Design Department including undergraduate programs in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, Photography, and Design & Merchandising, and graduate programs in Retail & Merchandising and Fashion Design.
Ann remains fascinated by embodied perception and its relationship to the design of human experiences – from the scale of the built environment to objects that surround us.
BSc Arch, Georgia Institute of Technology 1981
M Arch, Georgia Institute of Technology 1985
鈥楢ttafit: A Leafcutter Ant based Fitness App鈥. Proceedings of the Second Digital Naturalism Conference, Gamboa, Panama 2019. Pp 216-219.
Gerondelis, Ann. Open Our Hearts. Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow UK, 2018.
Gerondelis, Ann. Open Our Eyes. Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow UK, 2016.
鈥楳aking Space: for Design and Construction in the First Year鈥 Materiality: Essence and Substance. Ed. Kathleen Nagle. Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Chicago. IL, 2014. 225-231. Print.
鈥楪rounds for Sustainability in the Beginning Design Studio鈥 End of|in the Beginning: Realizing the Sustainable Imagination. Ed. Jodi La Coe. State College: Penn State, 2012. 119-124. Print
Singapore: Architecture of a Global City, Robert Powell editor. Archipelago Press, Singapore. 2000. Contributing Author.
鈥楰atong Community: Bournemouth Eight鈥. Singapore Architect. No. 199, 1998. pp. 28-33. 鈥楳aking connections: UE Square鈥. Singapore Architect, No. 196, 1997, pp. 18-27.
鈥楤ig Business: Millenia Tower鈥. Singapore Architect, No. 194, 1997, pp. 26-35.
AIA Architecture. Photograph 鈥淧enang Monastery鈥. Universe Publishing, NY, NY, 1996.
鈥楪eorgia Institute of Technology Design Competition鈥, Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art & Architecture. Spring 1986.
鈥楾aratoot Renovates Church Street Property鈥, Decatur Focus. January, 1992.
鈥楥ritter Cards鈥. Bio-Inspired Design Learning Tools, 2017-2018.
FUNDED
Bio-卢Inspired Design Learning Community Improving Teacher Quality Grant with Atlanta Public Schools, 2015-卢 2016. Co-PI with Marc Weissburg, School of Biology.
Drew Charter School / Georgia Tech STEM Innovation Partnership, Georgia Race to the Top, 2011-卢2014.
Gerondelis, Ann. Open Our Hearts. Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow UK, 2018.
Gerondelis, Ann. Open Our Eyes. Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow UK, 2016.