Jin-Ho Park is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture at UH Manoa. He believes that a combination of interaction, collaboration and inquiry-based pedagogy encourages students to develop curiosity and grow intellectually. He applies research-based knowledge to stimulate students’ creative process and builds personal relationships with students to create more confident, energized and prepared classes. Ultimately, Park believes that seeing his students fulfill their academic and professional potential is a great reward.

Park’s focus on instruction in use of computers as a design tool has resulted in the architecture school’s growing reputation as a source of experts in this new part of architectural practice. “What impresses me most about Jin-Ho’s skill as a teacher is the balancing act, found in the students’ work, between theory and reality,” observed a colleague. “The design problems have real sites that the students can visit and make observations.” Park has developed and implemented a series of teaching and research programs that combine spatial and formal design theory and methods, computational theories, real-time virtual reality and computer visualization.

Telling is Park’s expertise on the life and work of the Vienna-born architect Rudolf M. Schindler. The current flurry of interest in Schindler’s work re-affirms the relevance of Park’s own research on the underlying spatial order of projects.

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