Severino Alfonso Dunn
Title: Adjunct Professor
Department: Architecture
Campuses: Long Island, New York City
Educational Credentials: M.S.
Joined New York Tech: 2013
Severino Alfonso Dunn graduated with an M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in 2011 and holds a Master's degree in Urban Design from the Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM). He is cofounder of New York City-based PLB Studio (plbny.com) and Fabula&Syuzhet (fabulaandsyuzhet.com), and has two research-based platforms with a common objective: how body, architecture, and city space coexist in contemporary thought.
Dunn has worked at well-known international architectural studios such as Carme Pinos, Angel Fernandez Alba and Federico Soriano in Spain; Lomar Arkitekter in Sweden; and Per-forma Studio and KDF Architecture in the United States. He has collaborated with Natalie Jeremijenko in multiple art installations in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and he is currently participating in Project Intersection, a joint project built on the collaboration of various groups of artists, scientists, filmmakers, architects, and urban designers.
Dunn has given lectures at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University; the Environmental Health Clinic at New York University; the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute; and the Architectural Department at City College of Technology in New York. He has taught studio at the Department of Architecture at Parsons, The New School and at Barnard + Columbia Architecture, Construction Documents at New York Institute of Technology and at City College of Technology and Advanced Digital Fabrication at City College of Technology in New York.
Recent Projects/Research
- Zeichen in Gelb, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany, The New Bauhaus Museum, Competition. (2015)
- Epidermic, Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Urban Preservation, Competition. (2014)
- De.part, Downtown Detroit, Mich., USA, Urban Preservation, Competition. (2013)
- Urban Trail, Nashville, Tenn., USA, Landscape Masterplan, Competition. (2012)
- Pruit Igoe, Saint Louis, Ill., USA, Residential, Preliminary design. (2012)
Publications and Presentations
- 9th Annual City Tech Faculty Research Conference, New York City College of Technology, Selected Speaker. Presentation of a research study titled Digital Poetry: Gesamtkunstwerk in the digital world; integrating liberal arts and technology.
- GRE>NYC Exhibition, GIANY, Greek Institute of Architects in New York // Project Exhibit. Exhibited Project Titled: Urban Trail, Nashville, TN, USA, in collaboration with Loukia Tsafoulia.
- 10th Annual CUNY CUE Conference: "Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom," LaGuardia Community College, New York, Selected Speaker. Presentation of two research proposals with Loukia Tsafoulia. Titled respectively: The Digital Poem Initiative, "Welding" the Educational Pipeline. An Interdisciplinary Collaboration btw Digital Technologies & the Liberal Arts and The class as a micrography of the professional space. Mapping "behavioural" city patterns to produce architectural space.
- 12th Annual Poster Session, Faculty Research Recognition, NYCCT, Research Exhibit Presentation of research posters, in collaboration with Loukia Tsafoulia
- Columbia University, GSAPP. Urban Metamorphosis I. Paris/New York studio with Moji Baratloo.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- ARCH 240: Visualization II
- ARCH 340: Visualization III
- ARCH 327: Computer Aided Construction Drawings