GREGORY A. LUHAN
Associate Dean of Research
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
Kentucky Housing Corporation-John Russell Groves Professor in Affordable Housing Design
gregory.luhan@uky.edu
859-257-6568
Expertise & Research Interest
Digital visualization leading to digital manufacturing with applications to design-build projects, full-scale assembly, and including ecological design features.
Keywords: Digital Fabrication; Design Pedagogy; Architecture; Virtual Environments; Flexible Systems Design; Sustainability; Green Building
Education and Practice Experience
- Princeton University
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Eisenman Architects
Awards, Honors, Professional Registration & Certification
- Registered Architect, New York License #027088-1
- Winner, Premios a las Mejores Presentaciones in Diseño Digital y Fabricación (Digital Manufacture)
- Winner, Best Paper Presentation East Central ACSA (Presented at the ACSA National Conference)
Memberships
- Member of the Association of Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
- Member of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH)
- Member of the Ibero American Society of Digital Graphic (Sigradi)
Selected Publications/Creative Scholarship
Luhan, Gregory A., Dennis Domer, and David Mohney. The Louisville Guide. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. (ISBN 1-56898-451-0; 450pp)
Synthetic Landscapes: ACADIA2006 International Conference Proceedings. Mansfield, OH: ACADIA Publications, 2006. (ISBN 0-9789463-0-8; 560pp)
Luhan, Gregory A., ed. The Digital Exchange-An Exhibition of Digital Manufacture and Visualization Mansfield, OH: ACADIA Publications, 2006. (ISBN 0-9789463-1-6; 96pp)
Projects
Resonance House
The Resonance House is an award-winning, contemporary, single-family residence located in the Western Suburb Historic District of downtown Lexington. The project, designed under the direction of Gregory Luhan and built by he and his students at the University of Kentucky College of Design, was enabled by a unique relationship between UK and Design Lab, Inc., a private, not-for-profit, 501c3 corporation. The project is complete and in the midst of the LEED for Homes review process.
Funding Sources
- Private Donors
- Weyhauser
- DuPont
Collaborators
- Brooks Meador
- Joe Rey-Barreau
- Ann Dickson
634 North Limestone St.
The goal of this project is to design and build a sustainable, energy-efficient home that could serve as a model for Habitat. The new building will be historically sympathetic to the existing home, but it will be completely contemporary inside. The result will be a complete spatial reorganization of the existing house & a new energy-efficient structure that is culturally derived and relates well to how we live today. This home will be part of the LEED for Homes program.
Funding Sources
- Velux
- Icynene
- Superior Walls
Collaborators
- Lexington Habitat for Humanity - Grant Phelps, Meagan Murer
- KET
The Modern House-Kentucky
This publication presents the use of advanced digital technology to represent these residential projects in light of their spatial metaphors through drawings, stereo lithographic models, and short-form animations.
Funding Sources
- TTI
Collaborators
- Clyde R. Carpenter