○ As an educator, Mr. Paige has taught in both the graduate and undergraduate programs at SCI-Arc, where he previously served as Undergraduate Program Director, Head of Visual Studies, founder of the Making and Meaning program, and co-founder of the Japan Program. He has also held the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice position at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as a visiting professor at Kyoto Seika University. He is currently a Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California (USC) and Director of the Asian Landscape and Urbanism (AALU) Program, and previously served as Director of the USC American Academy in China.

○ In this lecture, Gary Paige will explore the proposition that architecture is not only a form of design research that bridges the pure and the applied, but also a critical mode of spatial inquiry and practice. The key case study is fluxHome—a collaborative project designed and built by undergraduate and graduate students at USC for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. As a net-zero energy housing prototype, fluxHome responds to the specific climatic conditions of Southern California while functioning as an experimental model that investigates sustainable residential forms aligned with contemporary lifestyles.