Harry Giles
Harry Giles is Professor of Practice in Architecture as well as a designer, engineer and educator, specializing in buildings, materials, and structures, within an interdisciplinary and sustainable design framework.
Harry extends his teaching and practice through research and competitions and is engaged in applied research projects funded by the Partnership for Advancement of Technology in Housing, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Professor Giles also lead a team on an EPA P3 (People Prosperity and Planet) funded project, researching the applications of bio-composite and recyclable polymer facades in buildings. The project was one of the winners at a recent EPA Expo competition in Washington D.C.
He is also the principal investigator on a PATH/NSF funded research project which includes a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across the university together with industry collaborators, researching technological innovations in an industrially designed and manufactured modular housing concept for low energy, prefabricated, medium-rise affordable housing. He is also collaborating with college faculty on the deployment and performance assessment of a prototype prefabricated and transportable solar house that incorporates a number of passive and solar energy features.
Areas of research interest include: fabric and membrane structures, grid and shell structures, advanced composite materials structures, structurally integrated transparent shading facade systems, industrially designed and manufactured modular housing, and passive, solar, and low energy systems in buildings.
Harry Giles is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.