Architecture & Engineering Design - CATC - Capital Area Technical Center

Intention & My Instructor Resume: Encouraging students to find their creative design interests in a wide range of disciplines, include art, architecture, and engineering of all sorts. My name is Robert J. Sherman, AIA, and I am the new instructor for the Architecture & Engineering Design Program at CATC. I bring my experiences gained from earning a BS in Civil Engineering at UMAINE, BArchitecture 5 Year Professional Degree at SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, MArchitecture II at SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY FLORENCE CENTER, PROFESSIONAL LICENSED ARCHITECT in Maine and New York, Engineering In Training in Maine/Connecticut and I have worked professionally in New York, Connecticut, and Maine, along with 10 years of college architecture teaching including all Architectural Design/Structures/Mechanical Systems/Construction Materials & Methods/Construction Techniques/Apprenticeship Experience/Portfolio Classes required for the BA in Architecture; I have also taught yearly summer architectural design for high school students and yearly science fair architectural model building for middle & high school students. I earned by MArch II in Florence, Italy through Syracuse University, and have traveled throughout Italy 5 times, including leading American Institute of Architecture Students through EF College Study Tour of 9 Italian cities. Last year I did research at Spannocchia Foundation near Siena, Italy, under the artistic instruction of Helene Farrar, Adjunct Art Faculty and Private Art Instructor. I plan to return to continue my research of renaissance era villas and gardens...I have shown my Italian Villa & Gardens research drawings and paintings at artwalk and gallery exhibitions. I have been honored to be invited to return to do research documentation of the historic villa and gardens estate/tenuta at Spannocchia Tenuta, Siena, Italy