Dennis Holloway, An Architect in Northern New Mexico

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Dennis Holloway, Architect, may also be contacted at:
625 Ivory Road SE
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA 87124
Phone: (505) 994-0718
E-mail: archvr@roadrunner.com

Born: March 26, 1943; Owosso, Michigan
D e n n i s R. H o l l o w a y - B r i e f B i o g r a p h y :

Dennis Robert Holloway, a native of Michigan, attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) College of Architecture and Design and received his Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Degree there in 1966. Professors William Muschenheim , Robert Lytle, and Leonard K. Eaton (architectural historian) were important teachers in his formative architectural studies. During his undergraduate years he worked as a draftsman for Ann Arbor architect, Robert C. Metcalf, and later as a designer for architect, Alden B. Dow, (the noted student of Frank Lloyd Wright) in Midland, Michigan.

Following undergraduate work in Ann Arbor, he attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design, which awarded him a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) Degree in 1967. Professors Jose Luis Sert, Wilhelm von Moltke, Jerzy Soltan (CIAM-Team Ten), and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (Editor of Doxiodis' EKISTICS / OIKIFTIKH: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS) challenged him to understand architecture in a broader urban context.

During 1968-1969, with encouragement from Prof. Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, he studied housing design and housing system building in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands under a State Department Fulbright Scholarship in association with the University of Liverpool (U.K.).

Returning to the U.S. he worked two years as an architectural apprentice for the New York City architecture-city planning firm of Conklin and Rossant--working on designs for large housing projects and large complexes of buildings. He then took his state licensing exams in Michigan and was granted his license to practice Architecture in 1970.

From 1970 to 1977 Mr. Holloway taught at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (under Head, Ralph Rapson) where he was tenured as an Associate Professor of Architecture in 1973. In 1973 Mr. Holloway pioneered the University of Minnesota Solar House, Project Ouroboros, which as the first solar house in the upper Midwest, was designed and constructed by 450 of his freshman students over a three-year period. This visionary applications-research project was internationally recognized as a prototype for future holistic-sustainable-environmental architecture. It was the beginning of a new way of looking at architecture and human habitat.

In 1976 he helped to create the Federally funded National Center For Appropriate Technology, Butte Montana, serving for two years on the Board of Directors. During this period the Board dispersed two million dollars in grants to appropriate technology projects in low-income and minority communities throughout the United States.

His public service to the solar energy movement is nationally respected and was honored in 1976 by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Quality Award in Science and Technology. Dennis Holloway is the subject of biographical record in the first edition of Marquis Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology.

From 1977 to 1980 he was a tenured Associate Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder, during which time Mr. Holloway introduced new courses and research in solar architecture and appropriate technology design.

From 1987 through 1990 he was Director of the Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration at the University of Colorado / Boulder, and, working with Dr. Charles Cambridge, Navaho anthropologist, demonstrated applications of passive solar, solar electric, and other appropriate technologies to the traditional Navaho home--the hogan. The project has been filmed for television and has been broadcast in sixty countries via satellite. Mr. Holloway and Dr. Cambridge are involved in the long-term process of preparing a platform for the Navaho Nation to implement solar hogan designs as alternatives to the inappropriate rectilinear housing or house trailers currently implemented by the U.S. H.U.D.

Mr. Holloway was one of thirty international architects (seven from U.S.A.) to be invited by the Government of Japan to exhibit passive solar architecture projects in Ginza Pocket Park at the Passive Solar Forum, 1987, Tokyo, organized by the Japan Solar Energy Society and Architectural Institute of Japan.

Concurrent with his University teaching and research Mr. Holloway practiced his profession as a Registered Architect, first in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later in Boulder, Colorado, and Taos, New Mexico. He is currently a member of the National Council of Registration Boards (NCARB) and is registered in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. He currently resides in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and devotes his professional time to architectural and planning projects which focus on energy conservation principles, renewable sources of energy, appropriate technology, reduced-timber systems, solar-adobe, strawbale and pumice-crete construction, urban design, historic preservation, and Southwestern U.S. traditional architecture idioms.

Beginning in 1986, Mr. Holloway has been using the Macintosh computer to perform all design, drawings, graphics, and writing in his practice, and is a beta tester for state-of-the-art 3-D computer programs. In November, 1991, in a one-person show called "Virtual Realities", he exhibited his computer architecture at Philip Bariess Contemporary Exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico, and at the Gallery of San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico.

In 1990, he collaborated with Los Angeles painter, Ronald Davis, on the artist's Taos studio/residence.

Dennis Holloway's writings and architecture have been published and exhibited widely and internationally. He is co-author, with Maureen McIntyre, of The Owner Builder Experience, How to Design and Build Your Own Home, published in 1986 by Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

E d u c a t i o n :

University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Design
(Bachelor of Architecture, 1966)

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
(Master of Architecture in Urban Design, 1967)

A c a d e m i c H o n o r s & A w a r d s :

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Tau Sigma Delta Society of Architecture and Allied Arts

Fulbright Scholarship to United Kingdom in affiliation with the University of Liverpool, England,
1968 (following Masters Degree work at Harvard)

P u b l i c S e r v i c e A w a r d s &
P r o f e s s i o n a l A c h i e v e m e n t :

1976 Environmental Quality Award in Science and Technology from the United States
Environmental Protection Agency

Marquis Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology (First Edition 1984-85); Subject of biographical record.

T e a c h i n g E x p e r i e n c e :

Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, (Full-time) 1970 - 1977
Teaching Architectural and Urban Design Studios and Environmental Design Sequence

Associate Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado/Boulder, College of
Environmental Design, (Full-time) 1977 - 1980
Teaching Architectural Design Studios, Solar Design, and Appropriate Technology Sequence

Lecturer, University of Colorado/Boulder, College of Environmental Design, Fall, 1987 to 1990,
Teaching Energy Efficient Technology in Architecture, and the Freshman
introductory lecture course, Environmental Design Perspectives (200 student-
lecture). During this period, Mr. Holloway directed the Colorado Solar Hogan Project.

A r c h i t e c t u r a l R e g i s t r a t i o n :

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) - reciprocal registration in 50 states, Active: 1970 - Present) #10618

Colorado (Active: 1976-Present) #301856

New Mexico (Active: 1991 - Present) #2569

Wyoming (Active. May 16, 2000 - Present) #B-0211

B o o k s P u b l i s h e d :

1. The Owner-Builder Experience: How to Design and Build Your Own Home , (Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania) by Dennis Holloway and Maureen McIntyre, October 1986.

2. Vienna Congress on Alternatives and Environment Proceedings, (Vienna, Austria, October, 1979), published by United Nations World, Spring, 1980. Contains Professor Holloway's paper "Hard Questions for Soft Societies".

3. Resettling America; Energy Environment and Community , (Brickhouse Press) edited by Gary Coates, Fall 1980. Contains a chapter by Professor Holloway, "Appropriate Technology and the Future of Our Communities".

4. Virtual Reality in Archaeology, Edited by J.A. Barcelo, M. Forte and D.H.Sanders, ArcheoPress, Oxford, England. Contains a chapter by Dennis Holloway, "Native American Virtual Reality Archaeology: An Architect's Perspective". This book is accompanied by a CDRom containing an additional 75 color CG images and animations produced by Mr. Holloway's.

A r t i c l e s P u b l i s h e d :

1. "Some Comparative Measurements for Low-rise Medium-density Housing," by Dennis R. Holloway, EKISTICS / OIKIFTIKH: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, Volume 31, Number 183, February 1971, pp. 179 - 183.

2. "Project Ouroboros", Dennis R. Holloway, Solar Age, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 14 - 17,
30 - 33.

3. "Passive Solar Houses Without Furnaces in the High Rockies", Dennis R. Holloway, in Conference Papers: 8th National Passive Solar Conference, (American Solar Energy Society Inc.), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1983, Edited by John Hayes and Dennis A. Andrejko, pp. 961- 966.

P u b l i s h e d R e v i e w s of C r e a t i v e W o r k :

1. "A House High in the Rockies", by Steve Bliss, in Solar Age (Magazine ) March, 1983, pp. 34- 36.

2. "Houses Designed with Nature: Their future is at hand", by Sam Love, in Smithhsonian Magazine) , December, 1975, pp. 46-53.

3. Energy, Environment and Building, by Philip Steadman, published by Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 145-146, 194, 268-269.

4. Design for a Limited Planet: Living with Natural Energy, by Norma Skurka and Jon Naar, published by Ballantine, pp. 186-191.

5. The Solar Home Book, by Bruce Anderson with Michael Riordan, Brickhouse Press, 1978, pp. 46-48.

6. "Autonomous Living in the Ouroboros House", by Sharon Marcovich, cover story in Popular Science Magazine, pp. 80-82, 111, December, 1975.

7. The Self Sufficient House, by Frank Coffee, published by Holt, Reinhart, & Winston, 1981.

8. Passive Solar Performance: Summary of 1981-1982 Class B Results, by Joel Swisher and Thomas Cowing, published by the Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colorado, pp. 64- 69, June, 1983, and available through the U.S. Government Printing Office.

9. Architektur mit der Sonne, by Josef Kiraly (Innsbruck, Austria), published by Verlag C.F. Muller Karlsruhe, 1982 pp. 53-54.

10. Klimagerechte und energiesparende Architektur, by G. Hillman, J. Nagel, and Hasso Schreck (West Berlin, West Germany), published by Verlag C.F. Muller Karlsruhe, 1982.

11. "The Solar Hogan Project", by Richard Simonelli in Winds of Change (A Magazine of American Indians), published by AISES, Boulder, Colorado, Spring 1989, pp. 32-38.

12. "Passive and Low Energy Architecture - Architecture and Technology: Environment-conscious Design in the 1990's - a World Survey" Process Architecture , Tokyo, Japan (English and Japanese), No. 98, pp. 138-139.

13. Renewables are Ready, People Creating Renewable Energy Solutions, by Nancy Cole and P.J. Skerrett, Union of Concerned Scientists , CHELSEA Green Publishing Co. 1995. Containts a review of Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration.

14. Contemporary Native American Architecture, Cultural Regeneration and Creativity, by Carol Herselle Krinsky, Oxford University Press, London & New York, 1996. Contains reviews of the context and design process for work designed by Mr. Holloway.

15. VIRTUAL REALITY IN ARCHAEOLOGY, Edited by J.A. Barcelo, M. Forte and D.H.Sanders, ArcheoPress, Oxford, England, Spring, 2000. Contains a chapter by Dennis Holloway: Native American Virtual Reality Archaeology: An Architect's Perspective

F i l m s , V i d e o , & O t h e r M e d i a :

1. The Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration, (Prepared by The University of Colorado / Boulder, Office of Public Relations), 1989.

2. "The Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration", a ten-minute segment on the independent Australian television science series, Beyond 2000. (Discovery Channel) satellite telecast in sixty countries.

E x h i b i t i o n s :

1. PASSIVE SOLAR FORUM 1987 TOKYO (October 22 - November 2, 1987). Mr. Holloway was one of thirty international solar architects (seven from U.S.A.) to be invited by the Government of Japan to exhibit his passive solar design work in the Ginza Pocket Park, Tokyo. The Forum is organized by the Architectural Institute of Japan and the Japan Solar Energy Society / Japanese Section of the International Solar Energy Society, and sponsored by Tokyo Gas Company.

2. VIRTUAL REALITIES, (November, 1991) Mr. Holloway exhibited his computer architecture at Philip Bariess Contemporary Exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico, and simultaneiously at the Gallery of San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico.

3. VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE, an Internation Exhibition at the CCB Cultural Center, Lisbon, Portugal (December, 1997-January, 1998). The show is sponsored by ASA ART AND TECHNOLOGY Lisbon and London. Mr. Holloway's Virtual Reality architecture was included among twelve other international computer architects. The Exhibition may travel to Paris in 1998. (See the Virtual Architecture Exhibition Website designed by the show's curator, architect, Emanuel DM Pimenta.)

4. ARCHEO VIRTUA, First Festival of Multimedia in Archaeology, held in the Archeodrome of Bourgogne (Meursault, France), March 25-26, 1999. The aim of the ARCHEO VIRTUA festival is to review international creation in multimedia and 3D reconstruction applied to archaeology. Mr. Holloway's archaeological reconstructions of prehistoric Native American places in 3D virtual reality (Macintosh platform), have become known widely in the global archaeological community, through his web site (see above).

5. VITUAL REALITY ARCHITECTURE, International Biennial of Architecture, (November 20, 1999 - January 25, 2000), at the Bienal Internacional Sao Paolo, Brazil. This exhibition, coordinated by Emanuel Diman de Melo Pimenta and ASA Art and Technology, Lisbon and London, with support from the Fundacao Bienal Sao Paulo. It is expected that the exhition will be attended by more than 100,000 visitors. Mr. Holloway was invited to exhibit his as one of fifteen international architects working in the virtual reality architecture field. The Exhibit may be visited on the Internet at: http://www.asa-art.com/bienal.htm

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