Scott Wall
Professor, Residency Director, Finland Summer Architecture Institute
Scott Wall is a registered architect, author, artist, and teacher. He has practiced professionally in Houston, New Orleans, and Knoxville, Tennessee, and has taught at Rice University, Georgia Tech, Tulane University, and the University of Tennessee. His professional and academic careers have explored issues of design and design pedagogy. Professor Wall has taught across both undergraduate and graduate curricula at Tennessee and served as Director of the School of Architecture from 2009-2014. He teaches the School of Architecture’s course for non-majors, seeking to give students a sense of architecture’s diverse cultural history in shaping the present. His research and creative work has focused on Finnish architecture and design culture. Wall served as a Fulbright Fellow in Finland in 2003, and in subsequent summers has served as the Residency Director of the College’s Finland Summer Architecture Institute in Helsinki. He is currently preparing a book, 100 Maps of Finland, which explores the representational characteristics of digital cartography to orient us and to convey meaning through the medium of visual narratives.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in European History, Davidson College
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee
Master of Architecture, Rice University
Expertise & Interests
- G. B. Piranesi
- Cartography
- Landscape architecture
- Finnish architectural and product design