{"id":50199,"date":"2016-01-06T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/greg-snyder\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:44:08","slug":"greg-snyder","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/greg-snyder\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Snyder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greg Snyder is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. His research interests are in issues that arise out of acts of making and construction, and the phenomena and meaning that accrue in and around these acts. The current set of projects that he is pursuing these research interests through is Case Goods \u2013 an investigation of furnishings as expandable environments, and The Metal Building in the Expanded Field \u2013 a body of work that looks to develop alternative ways to employ standardized building systems and catalogue componentry. His class First Year for Life is a recurring seminar elective that examines relationships between one\u2019s architectural education and the practice of everyday life. His most recent class An Environmental Ethic seeks to introduce students to a set of interdependencies between Nature, Civilization, and Culture as a background to addressing critical issues of stewardship and design in the contemporary moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EXPLORE HIS&nbsp;RECENT WORK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Container \/ Contained: Phil Freelon:\u00a0<\/strong>Together with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/emily-gunzburger-maka%C5%A1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emily Makas<\/a>, Snyder designed this series of exhibitions critically examine\u00a0Freelon\u2019s work, including museums, libraries, cultural centers, public parks, and educational buildings. The\u00a0focus on projects that foreground African American communities and identities and tell African American stories through architecture.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganttcenter.org\/exhibitions\/container-contained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more\u00a0about the Gantt Center exhibition \u2192\u00a0<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ncartmuseum.org\/exhibition\/container-contained-phil-freelon-design-strategies-for-telling-african-american-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more about the NCMA exhibition \u2192\u00a0<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ncartmuseum.org\/from-ideas-to-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more of Maas on Freelon\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YQBua6tV_CU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Watch a making of video\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The \u00a0Metal Building \u00a0In an Expanded Field (2019):\u00a0<\/strong>The ambition of this exhibit is to suggest ways in which the metal building can participate in a broad set of architectural discourses and the set of other cultural discourses that have adjacencies to architecture and architectural education. The collection of artifacts that are on display, and their adjacencies and relative proximities, might come as a surprise or appear to be a stretching of logic that might even elude the most tortured storyteller, but they are intentional. A legacy of toys, games, and carefully considered art and design practices and critical are a fertile ground to mine for ideas and cultural significances that can inform the metal building with rich meanings and associations.\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninertimes.com\/arts_and_entertainment\/a-timely-kit-of-parts-underestimating-the-metal-building\/article_0005919f-9903-57eb-b5a4-35d4925265d3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more \u00a0\u2192\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Snyder is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director at the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. 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