Steven Cook
, architect and Associate Professor in the School of Architecture & Community Design teaches design, theory, and technology courses. His research focus is design benevolence – the aspect of care given to making events and things.
Cooke serves as program director for the USF The Arts and Architecture of Italy summer education abroad program.
He developed a new prototype for classroom design that is relocatable and related to the Florida environment as part of a grant he received from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project followed from his previous study where he was principal investigator for the Florida Department of Education’s “Study of the Use of Relocatable Classrooms in the Public School Districts of Florida,” He was also project architect for the nation’s first solar electric charging station for electric vehicles.
He presented a book synopsis of The Care of Making to the American Institute of Architects Tampa Bay chapter and lectured on Two Views of Polis in the Academical Villages of Jefferson and Wright at the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference.
Cooke won two teaching awards, the USF TIP award, and Outstanding Professor of Architecture Awards; and the Florida Central chapter of the AIA awarded him the Eduardo Garcia Design Award for his architecture. His furniture won a citation award in the International Conceptual Furniture sponsored by Progressive Architecture and NEOCON.
Cooke earned his Bachelor of Design in Architecture at the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.