Mary C Hardin
- Professor, Architecture
- Distinguished Professor
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
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Biography
UA Distinguished Professor Mary Hardin began teaching in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, and also taught at Arizona State University before joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1997. She specializes in design-build studios and the materials and methods of construction. Her research interests include affordable housing design, energy and water conserving technologies for affordable housing, and the adaptation of rammed earth production methods for low cost housing. She obtained her professional degree at The University of Texas at Austin, and is a registered architect and licensed residential contractor. Professor Hardin has received national awards for teaching, design-build project delivery, affordable housing policy initiatives and collaborative practice, as well as state AIA awards for her project designs.
Degrees
- M.Arch Architecture
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Arizona, United States
- Frameworks for El Paso: Downtown Revitalization Strategies
- B.A. Liberal Arts: Architecture Concentration
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
Work Experience
- The University of Arizona, College of Architecture/Landscape Architecture/Planning (2016 - 2017)
- Drachman Design-Build Coalition, Inc. (2011 - Ongoing)
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2011 - 2016)
- Drachman Design-Build Coalition, Inc. (2004 - Ongoing)
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2003 - Ongoing)
- Taller Penitente (1997 - Ongoing)
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1997 - 2003)
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1997)
- Hardin and Eribes, Architects (1991 - 1997)
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1989 - 1996)
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (1983 - 1988)
Awards
- ACSA Design-Build Award (Architectural Education Award)
- Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Fall 2022
- AIA Southern Arizona Design Award
- AIA, Fall 2020
- AIA Design Research Award
- American Institute of Architects Arizona, Fall 2019
- Design Pedagogy Award
- American Institute of Architects Arizona, Fall 2019
- Design-Build Award
- Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Spring 2019
- Housing Design Education Award
- American Institute of Architects and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Spring 2019
- University of Arizona Distinguished Professor Award
- University of Arizona, Fall 2018
- 2017 Educator Award
- AIA Arizona, Fall 2017
Licensure & Certification
- Architect, NCARB (1990)
- Residential Contractor, Arizona Registrar of Contractors (2011)
Interests
Teaching
Design-Build Education, Materials and Methods of Construction
Research
Design and construction of affordable housing, Thermal transfer through building assemblies, Design-build pedagogy
Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Hardin, M. C. (2018). Post-Occupancy Testing of Thermal Dynamics of Design-Build Residences in Tucson, Arizona. Technology/ Architecture + Design, 2(2), 147 - 159.
- Wheeler, B. (2017). Civic Education. Abitare, 568, 64-73.
- Hardin, M. C., & Smith, S. I. (2014). BARRIO COLLABORATION: FROM CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO PUBLIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. ARCC.
- Hardin, M., & Comella, J. (2006). The Avenue of Ideas: A Sustainable, Affordable Housing Experiment. Journal of Green Building, 1(4), 39-47. doi:10.3992/jgb.1.4.39More infoAbstract The metropolitan area of Tucson, Arizona is a repository of traditions for dwelling in extreme conditions, as well as an incubator for new ideas about desert architecture. It is also a place with a long history of poverty and struggle for existence against harsh natural elements. With these conditions in mind, the City of Tucson partnered with five non-profit housing providers to build on one avenue an array of affordable housing prototypes that demonstrate to the public a variety of building systems that work to stabilize interiors from the diurnal temperature swings through insulation or thermal mass. Beginning in 1997, local non-profit housing providers designed and constructed sixteen residences representing five different methods of building low cost housing that comfortably mitigates the summer heat and winter chill. The last of the residences was completed in 2003; all are currently inhabited and in constant use. This article proposes a comparison of the environmental control strategies, b...
Proceedings Publications
- Hardin, M. C. (2021, Spring 2021). Material Matters: When Material Studies Drive Pedagogy. In National ACSA Meeting.
- Hardin, M. C. (2019, June). Design-Build for Discovery: Applied Research on the Construction Site. In Building Technology Educator's Society 2019, vol2019, 8.
- Lee, T., & Hardin, M. (1996). Daylight visual effects: an interactive multimedia courseware prototype for beginning design students. In ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 30, 51-53.More infoBeginning design students often find that it is difficult to master the varied and complex issues of architectural daylighting within a short timescale. Daylight is very dynamic and difficult to capture, and students struggle to document and understand daylighting phenomena through the traditional approaches of physical modeling, graphic techniques and computations. However, computer graphics and multimedia technologies are becoming widely used in educational applications and can facilitate non-linear, interactive learning environments particularly suited to complex concepts.An interactive multimedia courseware prototype, Daylight Visual Effects (DVE), has been designed to provide a demonstration database and easy-to-use interface for beginning design students. Users gain or enhance knowledge about the visual effects of daylighting by reviewing relevant daylighting images, written information animations and 3D computer models in the DVE's database. A live demonstration of the DVE prototype will follow this brief discussion of its inception, development, effectiveness in the studio and potential for future modifications.
Presentations
- Hardin, M. C. (2019, January). Design-Build Pedagogy. Field Work Design-Build Symposium. Tulane University: Tulane School of Architecture.
