Rula Awwad-Rafferty

Department of Design and Environments chair, professor, design UI service learning fellow

Ph.D. interdisciplinary: anthropology, architecture, interior design, political science ’95

M.Arch. vernacular Architecture ’90

B.Arch. ’85

College of Art and Architecture portraits
Areas of expertise
  • Environment and behavior interaction
  • Factors affecting quality of life in the built environment: physical, cultural, social, and psychological
  • Culture and resettlement: resettlement of cultural groups, elderly, health care applications, and military
  • Adaptive reuse applications and community building
  • Sense of place: place attachment and identity, conflict and place, security and place attachment
  • Vernacular architecture
    Interdisciplinary design education
  • Experiential approaches to understanding the physical and metaphorical parameters of interior spaces
  • Studio applications
Contact me
rulaa@uidaho.edu

208-885-6832

Art and Architecture, Room 306

Art and Architecture

Interior Architecture and Design