Greg Hall Greg Hall, Ph.D., AIA, NCARB, Director, Education Greg's professional background includes work in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States, and teaching and academic administration in the United States and Asia. He was part of the design team for several notable international building projects: the Kansai International Airport Passenger Terminal Building, Osaka, Japan; the Sea Hawk Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan; and Sky Central Plaza, Guangzhou, China. Greg holds an NCARB Certificate and is licensed to practice architecture in North Carolina and South Carolina. He has received several architectural design awards including the Paris Prize and an award from the Van Alen Institute. Greg holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Hong Kong, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow and taught part-time. Prior to joining NCARB in 2007, Greg taught in the department of architecture at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Greg G. Hall, AIA, Ph.D. 202/879-0535 ghall@ncarb.org

The Savannah College of Art and Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Paris Prize-winning architect and educator Greg Hall, Ph.D., AIA, NCARB, as chair of the SCAD architecture program.

The idea, says Greg Hall, chair of SCAD's architecture department, is to create a video game that will add some fun and excitement to the school's required architectural practices course, which covers such mundane topics as office and corporate structure, administration, public and client relations, consultant and contractor relations, project administration and procedures, and compensation. "Students," Hall says, "are initially drawn to architecture for the design aspects. But when they start working, they suddenly realize that what they spent 90 percent of their time on in a design studio only takes up about 10 percent of their time in a firm. The rest of their time is spent on construction documents, coordinating with contractors and clients-all of the logistics of getting a project built." Hall and several colleagues in the architecture school are collaborating on the project with SCAD's interactive design and game department. Hall envisions a competitive video game (which is untitled for now) in which students make "real-time judgment calls and decisions" that an architect would make-basically playing the role of the architect working in a firm. Hall believes interactive video games have the potential to "revolutionize" architectural education by making topics more exciting and relevant for students. "Most students are very familiar with this type of media," he says.

The Savannah College of Art and Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Paris Prize-winning architect and educator Greg Hall, Ph.D., AIA, NCARB, as chair of the SCAD architecture program.