Jose Gamez
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Architecture, Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Programs
José L.S. Gámez is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and a member of the Latin American Studies faculty. He has served as Interim Director, Associate Director, Interim Director of the Master of Urban Design program, and Graduate Program Director in the School of Architecture and he is the former Director of City.Building.Lab. He has also been a Provost Faculty Fellow, a Research Fellow with the Institute for Social Capital and a Faculty Fellow with the Urban Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research explores questions of cultural identity in architecture and urban design, the impacts of immigration upon urban space, and critical practices in Chicano Art. His work is published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Places: A Forum of Environmental Design. He is the co-editor of two books on global urbanism: Vertical Urbanism-Designing Compact Cities in China and Rio de Janeiro-Urban Expansion and Environment. He has authored essays that appear in the edited books Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader, Expanding Architecture: Design As Activism, and Global Charlotte and his contributions to the work of assemblageSTUDIO (Las Vegas) have been featured in New Museums and Architecture and the Miniature. He has taught at Portland State University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M, his Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Phone: 704-687-0104
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José Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alex Cabral, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Heather Freeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Thomas Schmidt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Closing campuses and remote learning is one result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, students, staff and faculty are working together to help communities respond to the impact of COVID-19 using the tools of design and fabrication in ways that can bring new meaning to design education. We will discuss one example from UNC Charlotte with the invitation to other faculty to share information about working with other grassroots initiatives across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm5WwYddyk&feature=youtu.be
Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities in Latin America and beyond. Complex dynamics of urbanization such as mega-event-driven development, infrastructure investment, and informal urban expansion are intertwined with changing climatic conditions that demand new approaches to sustainable urbanism. The urban conditions facing 21st century cities such as Rio emphasize the need to revisit urban forms, reintegrate infrastructure, and re-evaluate practices.
With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book’s three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.
https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Janeiro-Expansion-Environment-Studies/dp/0367031035/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1560972040&refinements=p_27%3AJos%C3%A9+L.+S.+G%C3%A1mez&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Jos%C3%A9+L.+S.+G%C3%A1mez
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With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book’s three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.
José Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alex Cabral, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Heather Freeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Thomas Schmidt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Closing campuses and remote learning is one result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, students, staff and faculty are working together to help communities respond to the impact of COVID-19 using the tools of design and fabrication in ways that can bring new meaning to design education. We will discuss one example from UNC Charlotte with the invitation to other faculty to share information about working with other grassroots initiatives across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm5WwYddyk&feature=youtu.be
Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities in Latin America and beyond. Complex dynamics of urbanization such as mega-event-driven development, infrastructure investment, and informal urban expansion are intertwined with changing climatic conditions that demand new approaches to sustainable urbanism. The urban conditions facing 21st century cities such as Rio emphasize the need to revisit urban forms, reintegrate infrastructure, and re-evaluate practices.
With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book’s three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.
https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Janeiro-Expansion-Environment-Studies/dp/0367031035/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1560972040&refinements=p_27%3AJos%C3%A9+L.+S.+G%C3%A1mez&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Jos%C3%A9+L.+S.+G%C3%A1mez
With contributions from 15 scholars from several countries exploring urbanism, urbanization, and climate change, this book provides insights into the contextual and environmental issues shaping Rio in the age of globalization. Each of the book’s three sections addresses an interdisciplinary range of topics impacting urbanism in Latin America, which will be accessible to researchers and professionals interested in urbanization, urban design, sustainability, planning, and architecture.
In the Pivot to Online Learning discussion on April 3, entitled “Schools Respond to a Pandemic”, José Gámez, a Professor of Architecture at UNCC, invited his colleagues to talk about the quick partnerships formed with local makers and hospitals to complete the production of now over 30,000 face shields for a local hospital. After the discussion, we reached out to Alex Cabrel, Director of Fabrication at UNCC, who told us more about the creation of CharlotteMEDI (more information below). This program helped create the aforementioned face shields and they were able to use injection molding to produce headbands more efficiently. Across the nation, from Alvin Huang at USC to Jenny Sabin at Cornell, professors are also organizing massive collaborative efforts to support this need.
The spatial territories and social networks within which Latinx immigrant populations live and work in the South offers robust opportunities to explore new hybrid models of spatial practices and identities. By contrast, long established Latino neighborhoods such as those in Boyle Heights or East Los Angeles, which are what James Rojas has called “enacted landscapes”, now feel the pressures of gentrification—pressures that threaten previously hybridized urban spaces with mainstream homogenization. These student essays highlight “(t)he strands that interlace race, ethnicity, and place in the South” and in the west that “are being woven into something new and potentially different through Latino migration” in Charlotte, NC.
It doesn't look like they're posted the story on their website yet but it came up in the UNCC media mentions report this morning: https://app2.cision.com/
Our story starts up just after the Greg Olsen story finishes.