Michael Halflants
, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, teaches graduate design and tropical architecture courses. As a project designer with the Polshek Partnership in New York, he drew designs for theaters and offices in Manhattan and for the Kansas University Spencer Museum. Working in a joint venture with Arata Isozaki’s Tokyo office, he was on the design team for the Brooklyn Museum addition.
Halflants was the recipient of the 2005 Eduardo Garcia Award which recognizes an architect 40 and under who practices within the seven counties around Tampa Bay. In 2007, the University of Florida honored him with the Young Architect Award for significant design contributions in the architecture profession. In an upcoming issue, Architectural Record will identify him as an emerging architect in the US.
Halflants’ designs are expansive, taking advantage of site-specific views, embracing constraints as design attributes and inspiration. His design for the Solstice Residence was on the cover of the 2008 Spring Issue of Florida/Caribbean Architect, the regional publications of the American Institute of Architects.
Halflants studied architecture in Brussels and earned his Masters Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida, receiving the Henry Adams Gold Medal, the department’s highest honor. He is co-owner of Halflants + Pichette Studio for Modern Architecture.
Website: Studio For Modern Architecture