Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

Professor Underwood has been a faculty member of the Design School in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts for 23 years. Few faculty members in the discipline of architecture in the United States are as highly respected and recognized as Professor Underwood, an extraordinary achievement. The focus of his scholarship intertwines the art of teaching with the realities of professional practice. Professor Underwood's design studios are consistently considered some of the most inspiring among undergraduate and graduate students. He transmits his scholarship and genuine enthusiasm to his students. His commitment to the art of teaching, the strategies of instruction, expands design, architecture and the environment. He is a teacher's teacher.