MAX A. ROBINSON

Director, School of Architecture
Professor
Curriculum Vita

Max A. Robinson is a registered architect with a career combing a mixture of both professional and academic experience. Prior to arriving at the University of Tennessee in 1967, he taught at the University of Kansas and worked for several prestigious practitioners located in Austin, Texas, Aspen, Colorado, and Wichita, Kansas. His tenure at U.T. was separated by an eleven-year interval when he was engaged in practice on a full time basis with two local offices, first as an associate with McCarty Bullock Holsaple and then as a principal with Karp Associates. During this period, he was responsible for the design of a number of buildings within the Knoxville community and the East Tennessee region – several of which are located on the U.T. campus. Various residential, academic and institutional projects associated with his practice in the Austin and Knoxville firms have received design awards on local, state and national levels and have been published in several venues both regionally and nationally. Most recently, two projects for which he was responsible, the Lenoir Museum in Norris, and the Pembroke condominium adaptive rehabilitation in Knoxville, were recognized as meriting distinction in the East Tennessee AIA’s 50 Years – 50 Buildings design competition. After returning to the academic arena in 1983, he has maintained an independent practice where he has provided services both on an individual and joint venture basis, as well as, acted as a design consultant to several local architectural firms. Since 1997, he has also served as Director of the School of Architecture. Professor Robinson teaches courses in architectural design, programming and theory with his interests primarily focusing upon the areas of visual fundamentals and the phenomenology of place-making. Lately, his essay, “Place- making: the Notion of Center”, was published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group as a contribution in Constructing Place: Mind and Matter, Sarah Menin, editor.