Texas Tech University

Bennett Neiman

Professor

M. Arch, Yale University
B. Arch, University of Cincinnati

A Full Professor at Texas Tech University's College of Architecture, Neiman has received honors for a series of self-generated architectural design projects, competitions, and teaching involving improvisation, order, and variation on a theme. He earned the American Institute of Architects Education Honors Award in 1994 for “The Poetic Potential of Computers: Design and Architecture with the Macintosh” and 1998 for “Between Digital and Analog Civilizations: The Spatial Manipulation Media Workshop.” He has conducted analog-digital design workshops and lectures at Carleton University (1994), University of Utah (1996 & 2001), California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo (2001), Catholic University (2011-2013), Montana State University (2018), and the University of Kentucky (2019). In March 2020, he lectured at El Paso Community College.

 

Neiman received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Award, in 1990 for "Surrealistic Landscapes" in 2006 for "bebop SPACES," and an honorable mention in 2010 for "Constructed Improvisations." He published the article "Bebop Performances" (2014) in Center 18: Music in Architecture–Architecture in Music. In 2015, his photomontage "Super Relief" was selected as a finalist in the 41st Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition. In 2018 he won a Juror's Choice Award for drawings he exhibited in the Design Communication Association Conference hosted by the Department of Design + Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.

Contact

bennett.neiman@ttu.edu
806.834.3830
1002F (Lubbock), by appointment