Mahesh Senagala

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Research

210.458.3090 / MNT 3.360C

www.mahesh.org

Mahesh Senagala is a tenured Associate Professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research in the College of Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include smart and sustainable environments, fabric structures, digital fabrication, complex systems, and academic management. He is the recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Achievement for Creative Production at UTSA in 2007 and the 2007 IFAI Outstanding Achievement Award . He has been elected 2007-8 President of Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture , an international professional organization. In addition to the Master of Architecture from Kansas State University with John F. Helm Award , he holds the General Management Executive Certificate from UT Austin McComb's School of Business . As a recipient of a joint partial fellowship from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2007, he has attended the Nonprofit Management executive education program (PMNO) at Harvard University. Professor Senagala was the 1990 A.P. Riding Club Gold Medalist from School of Planning and Architecture, JNTU Hyderabad.

He is the author of over 65 research and creative works, including 45 refereed works in the last eight years. He has won Best Publication and Best Presentation awards at various international conferences. He has delivered over two-dozen invited lectures and an equal number of technical presentations world-wide. He has raised grants, gifts, in-kind donations, and sponsorships worth more than $645,000 for the college and $650,000 for his individual research . He has raised funds worth $103,000 for UTSA within four months to build two full-scale, well-published tensile fabric structures, named UTenSAils . The project, designed and built by his design-build research studio at UTSA in collaboration with 24 international industry partners, has now been chosen as a Best Practice by American Institute of Architects .

Professor Senagala was a keynote speaker at the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in America (ASIOA) conference in Denton, TX in 2007 and at the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGRADI) international conference in Rosario, Argentina in 2003.

Prior to joining UTSA, he was a visiting assistant professor at Kansas State University. He was also a designer with the Kansas City firm Gould Evans Goodman Associates , where he played a key role in winning the 2001 AIA Kansas City Merit Award for the design of Baron BMW Auto Dealership . He has received the second prize in the U.S. Department of Energy+AIA's Sun Wall national competition , Washington, D.C. in 2000 from the then Energy Secretary Bill Richardson.

Refereed Book Chapters

1. [In press] “Circuits, Death and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras,” in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Critical Digital Studies, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Other authors include Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich and Donna Haraway. ISBN: TBA

2. “formZ in flatWorld,” in Murali Paranandi, ed., Digital Pedagogy, Columbus, OH: AutoDesSys, February 2007. ISBN: TBA

3. “Solar Sails and the Triad of Sustainability,” in R. Longoria and K. Tanzer, eds. The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity, Routledge, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415415002. ISBN-10: 0415415004

Refereed Journal Publications

4. “Rethinking Smart Architecture: Some Strategic Design Frameworks,” in G. Vasquez de Velasco and Jose Ripper Kos, et al, eds., the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Multiscience, V.?, December 2006, pp. 33-46. Quarterly, ISSN 1478 0771 The International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) is a peer-reviewed journal founded by international organizations dedicated to promoting collaborative research and development of computer-aided architectural design. There are four issues of IJAC per year: published in both electronic and hard copies by Editorial Board members from its four founding organizations: eCAADe - Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; ACADIA -Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture; SIGraDi - Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica Digital; CAADRIA -Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia.

5. “Deconstructing the Software Interface: A Critical Close Reading of AutoCAD,” in J. Bermudez and Jose Ripper Kos, eds., the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Multiscience, V.7, December 2004, pp. 299-314.

Refereed Conference Publications

6. “Pushing the Boundaries: Lessons from A Tensile Membrane Design-Develop-Build Studio” paper forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of ACSA, Philadelphia, 2007.

7. “Light Exchange,” refereed project and narrative published in the Proceedings of the ACADIA International Conference, Louisville, KY, 2006

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