Scott Poole:
CLASS OF 1969
Pascack Valley High SchoolClass of 1969
Hillsdale, NJ
Scott's Story
Scott is from Knoxville, Tennessee. Scott is separated. Scott's schools include Pascack Valley High School. Scott later attended Tulane University (Architecture), Temple University (Anthropology). Scott works(ed) at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Virginia Tech.
Books Scott likes include The Bilko Athletic Club.
More about Scott:"John Scott Poole was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture + Design at the University of Tennessee in spring 2011. His primary strategic initiatives have been to build collaborations and external partnerships, elevate the academic profile of the college’s students, and recruit and retain superior faculty members. In fall 2012, the entering class of each of the college’s undergraduate and graduate programs enrolled the most qualified students in college history. For excellence in education, and education administration, DesignIntelligence named him, in 2012 and 2014 one of ‘America’s Most Admired Educators.’
As a design teacher, scholar, and academic leader Professor Poole has influenced the lives and professional careers of more than a thousand students. While at Virginia Tech, he taught over 100 design studios and seminar courses, receiving both his college’s Excellence in Teaching Award and its Professional Development Award. Students he taught and mentored have become prominent partners, principals, and leaders at award winning firms and top academic institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
As Director of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design (2004-2011), Poole forged new relationships between architectural education and the profession, advanced curricular innovation, and led initiatives that brought about long term financial stability, including the addition of nearly $1M to the School’s annual budget. Moreover, during his administration he sparked multi-disciplinary collaboration with the School being named a University Exemplary Program for its collaboration across disciplinary boundaries in 2007.
Through his leadership and guidance Virginia Tech’s four design programs––architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and industrial design––became ranked in the top ten nationally 31 times during his 7+ years as School Director. In 2008, the undergraduate architecture program was ranked #1 in America and in 2010 the undergraduate landscape architecture program ...Expand for more
was ranked #1. In 2009, DesignIntelligence recognized Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design as one of America’s World-Class Schools of Architecture.
For his leadership in bringing national and international recognition to the Virginia Tech architecture program, and for establishing key relationships between his university’s architecture program and the architectural profession––and, in particular, for his initiative to establish the professor of practice position that subsequently led to two Virginia Society AIA award winning projects and an NCARB Prize top award by the first professors of practice––Poole received the Honor Award for Distinguished Achievement from AIA Blue Ridge. Upon leaving Virginia Tech, he was honored with the title Emeritus Professor of Architecture.
Poole’s study of the relationship between art and architecture led to his organization of symposia in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1996 and 1998. Each two-day symposium––attended by over 400 students, academics, and professionals––featured world-class artists and architects. The results led to publications supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts. Through this work, he was invited to lecture, lead workshops, and teach design studios at the Royal Academy of Technology in Stockholm, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
Over the course of his academic career, Poole’s primary scholarly and outreach contribution has been increasing the awareness of contemporary Nordic Architecture in general, and contemporary Finnish architecture, in particular. Through publications, lectures, exhibits, symposia, conferences, study tours, professional continuing education, and academic exchanges, he has elevated appreciation and understanding of Nordic architecture within America and across the globe.
His most prominent work in this area includes The New Finnish Architecture, a book published in three languages and reprinted twice by Rizzoli International. Poole has lectured on Finnish Architecture in American and European Institutions. In support of his scholarship, he has received grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.".
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