José Gámez elected vice president of international architecture association

José Gámez has been elected the second vice president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. A professor of architecture and urban design in Charlotte’s David R. Ravin School of Architecture, he also is the associate dean for research and graduate programs for the College of Arts + Architecture.

Gámez will serve on the ACSA board for a four-year term, beginning July 1, 2023, with the first year as second vice president, the second year as first vice president/president-elect, the third year as president and the fourth year as past president.

Founded in 1912, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools representing more than 40,000 students. It provides venues for international peer review and recognition in the form of scholarly journals, conferences, awards and student design competitions.

As a researcher, Gámez explores questions of culture in architecture and urbanism through action-based research and public scholarship. His work has been published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, the Journal of Urbanism, the Journal of Applied Geography and the Plan Journal. He is co-editor of the books “Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment” and “Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China.” Additionally, he has contributed essays to books such as “Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader,” “Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism,” “Charlotte, NC: The Global Rise of a New South City” and “Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment.”