Professor Emeritus
Chiu-Shui Chan PhD
Professor Emeritus, Architecture
Mailing Address
Architecture Department
158 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011
Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-8326
Email: cschan@iastate.edu
Education
PhD, Department of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990
MArch, Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, 1982
French Linguistic Diploma, COFI De Levis, Montreal, Canada, 1978
BS, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1974
On the Web
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cschan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiu-shui-chan-2b347b33/
Supporting Files
Research Interests
Virtual reality in design; cognitive modeling of design thinking processes; artificial intelligence in architectural design; simulation of style and creativity, parametric modeling in design; design cognition.
Current Projects
Project: Google Earth ISU Virtual Campus Project.
Journal paper: Study of phenomenology through spatial cognition.
Book: Style and Creativity in Design. Studies of Applied Philosophy, Epistemology, and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) Series, Volume 17, Springer Press, Switzerland, ISBN: 978-3-319-14016-2.
Book: Style and Creativity: A Cognitive Theory, China Architecture and Building Press. in print.
FPDA research project: Parametric Modeling in Stylistic and Functional Form Generation.
Current Scholarship
- Style and Creativity in Design, 03/14/2015