Sigurd Grava, a member of Columbia's architecture faculty, said: "I think he'll make a splendid chairman.
Van der Ryn is in the architecture faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
The building expansions were a collaborative design effort between architecture faculty and SMBW Architects.
He included 1924 Penn graduate Louis I. Kahn among the architecture faculty.
He has delivered many public lectures on his work and has taught in architecture faculties as a number of universities.
Many architecture faculties offer related programs in landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, property and construction.
The blasts reportedly struck an area between Aleppo University's halls of residence and the architecture faculty.
He worked for the architect and theorist Percival Goodman for a while, and then joined the architecture faculty at Columbia.
We have several sociologists on our architecture faculty.
Through these schools, over 5,000 architecture faculty are represented.