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CURRICULUM VITAE
Edson G. Cabalfin, Ph.D.
Born in Manila, Philippines
Works and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Education
2012
Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urban Development
Cornell University
2003
Master of Science in Architecture
University of Cincinnati
2001
Master of Architecture
University of the Philippines
1996
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
University of the Philippines
Professional Experience
2023 to present
Associate Professor (Tenured)
School of Architecture
Tulane University
2020 to present
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
School of Architecture
Tulane University
2020 to present
Director
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Program
School of Architecture
Tulane University
2020 to 2023
Professor of Practice in Design Thinking
School of Architecture
Tulane University
2017 to 2018
Curator, Philippine Pavilion
16th Venice Architecture Biennale
2017
Consultant
Village Life Outreach Project
2017, 2007
Instructor
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
2016 to 2018
Faculty Research Fellow/Project Leader
Live Well Collaborative
2016 to 2020
Coordinator, Interior Design Program
School of Architecture and Interior Design
University of Cincinnati
2015 to 2020
Associate Professor (Tenured)
School of Architecture and Interior Design
University of Cincinnati
2009 to 2015
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture and Interior Design
University of Cincinnati
2007 to 2009
Senior Design Architect
Cadiz International
Manila and Dubai
1998 to 2001
Teaching Associate/Instructor
College of Architecture
University of the Philippines
1996 to 1998
Design Associate/Associate Architect
D.A. Silvestre + Associates
1990 to present
Principal/Designer
Talyer Kayumanggi / Brown Workshop
Grants & Awards
2017 to 2018
Curatorship, Philippine Pavilion
16th Venice Architecture Biennale
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
2017
Faculty Excellence Award,
University of the Cincinnati
2014
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award,
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati
2013
Finalist,
Curtains Competition
Center for American Architecture and Design
University of Texas at Austin
2013
Awardee, 55 Design Heroes and Mentors of the Philippines, BluPrint Magazine
2013
Finalist, Humanities Category
International Convention of Asia Scholars
Ph.D. Thesis Prize
2006
Society of Architectural Historians Junior Annual Meeting Fellowship
2003 to 2007
Sage Graduate Fellowship
Cornell University
2001 to 2003
Fulbright Fellowship
U.S. Department of State
Courses Taught
Tulane University
Ecuador Architecture Research Studio
First Year Architecture/Design Studio
Design Thinking for Collective Impact
Design and Society
University of Cincinnati
Senior Interior Design Capstone Studio
Southeast Asia Foreign Study Design Studio
First Year Architecture/Interior Design Studio
Third Year Interior Design Studio
Human-Dimension of Space
History of Interior Design
Research Methods
Advanced Drawing and Rendering
Materials and Construction
Millwork
Fabrics and Fiber-based Materials
Cornell University
Restaurant Design Charette
Interior Design Preservation Studio
Advanced Tagalog
Volunteer Work
2023-2024
Chair, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Leadership Committee
2022-2023
Chair, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Leadership Committee
2021 to present
Member, International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) - Sustainable Development Goals Working Group - Heritage and Gender (2021 to present)
2021 to present
Member, Pluriversal Working Group, Future of Design Education, led by IBM, World Design Organization and UC San Diego
2021-2022
Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Leadership Committee
2016
Consultant, Village Life Outreach Project, Cincinnati and Tanzania
Skills
Critical Thinking
Design Thinking
Human-Centered Design
Design Strategy
Spatial Design
Strategic Planning
Historical Analysis and Interpretation
Design Research
Information Management
Project Management
Visual Communication
Verbal Presentation
Written Communication
Publications
2023 (forthcoming)
Cabalfin, E. "Archival Stories: Historical Context and Contemporary Responses" in "Tripa de Gallina: Guts of Estuary" Catalogue of the Philippine Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. (Manila/Venice: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
2023 (forthcoming)
Cabalfin, E. Shifting Sands: Visions, Propositions, Reimaginations (Mandaluyong City: BArchan)
2023 (forthcoming)
Cabalfin, E. "Philippine Architecture and Neoliberalism" in Manila Architecture Guide, edited by Bianca Martin (Berlin: DOM Publishers)
2023
Cabalfin, E. "Appropriating the Native: Shifting Definitions of the Vernacular in Twentieth Century Philippine Architecture", in Design and the Vernacular: Interpretations for Contemporary Architecture Practice and Theory, edited by Paul Memmott, John Ting, Tim O' Rourke, and Marcel Vellinga (London: Bloomsbury)
2023
Cabalfin, E. "The Platform City: Skywalking in Metro Manila", in Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, edited by Gregory Marinic (London: Routledge)
2023
Cabalfin, E. "Towards Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Tulane School of Architecture", in The ReView: How and What For, edited by Andrea Bardon deTena (Barcelona: Actar/Tulane School of Architecture)
2022
Cabalfin, E. What Kids Should Know About Filipino Architecture, Second Edition (Manila: Adarna Books)
2020
Cabalfin, E. "Kawilihan: Constructing a Fascination" in The Vargas Collection: Art and Filipiniana, edited by Patrick Flores (Quezon City: U.P. Vargas Museum), pp. 58-95
2020
Cabalfin, E. (Zikang Zhang, trans.), “Posuto-koroniaru jidai no aidentiti -poritikusu to bankokuhakurankai ni okeru firipin-kan 1958-1992” (Postcolonial Identity Politics and Philippine Pavilions in International Expositions, 1958–1992), in Mayuko Sano, ed., Banpaku-gaku: Bankokuhakurankai to iu sekai o haaku suru hoho (Expo-logy: Expos as a Method of Grasping the World), Kyoto: Shibunkaku shuppan, 2020, pp. 225-239.
2020
Cabalfin, E. "Book Review - Deco Filipino: Art Deco Heritage in the Philippines", Spirit of Progress: Journal of Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia, Spring 2020, 21(4): 32-33
2020
Cabalfin, E. "Bahay Kubo as Iconography: Representing the Vernacular in Postwar Architecture in the Philippines" in Fabrications: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians - Australia and New Zealand, 30(1) (London: Taylor and Francis)
2018
Cabalfin, E. editor. The City Who Had Two Navels: Official Catalogue of the Philippine Pavilion, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (Manila/Venice: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
2018
Cabalfin, E. “A Manifesto Towards Architecture that is Inclusive, Humane and Empowering” in BluPrint Magazine: Architecture and Design Sourcebook, Special Issue (Manila, October 2018)
2017
Cabalfin, E. “Postcolonial Identity Politics and Philippine Pavilions in International Expositions, 1958-1992” in Asia, Expos and Human History, edited by Mayuko Sano (Kyoto, Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
2016
Cabalfin, E. “Conquest and Resistance: Intersections of Colonialism and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Philippine Architectures” in Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture, No. 13 (Singapore: National University of Singapore)
2015
Cabalfin, E. What Kids Should Know About Filipino Architecture (Manila: Adarna Books)
2015
Cabalfin, E. “Nasyonalismo at Arkitekturang Filipino (Nationalism and Filipino Architecture)” in Kritikal na Espasyo sa Kulturang Popular (Critical Spaces in Popular Culture), edited by Roland Tolentino and Gary Deviles (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press)
2015
Cabalfin, E. “Rampa: Dynamics of Queer Space and Sex Work at Quezon Memorial Circle, Philippines” in Ways of Queering, Ways of Seeing, edited by Jillian Cox and Jo Grez (Oxford, UK: Inter-disciplinary Press)
2015
Cabalfin, E. “Allure of the Native: Representing Philippine Vernacular Architecture in International Expositions, 1887-1998” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, 258 (Berkeley, CA: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, IASTE)
2015
Cabalfin, E. “Condensing the Country: Identity Politics in the Design of the Nayong Pilipino (Philippine Village) and the1998 Expo Pilipino” in Espasyo: Journal of Philippine Architecture and Allied Arts, 1(6) (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
2015
Cabalfin, E. “Revitalizing a Historic District” in BluPrint Magazine: Architecture and Design Sourcebook, Special Issue (Manila, October 2015)
2014
Cabalfin, E. The Politics of Nation in the Urban Form of Informal Settlements in Quezon City, Philippines” in Reading the Architecture of Underprivileged Classes, edited by Nnamdi Elleh, (London: Ashgate Press)
2010
Cabalfin, E. “The Other’s Other: Self-Exoticism and National Identity in Postcolonial Philippine Architectures, 1946-1998” in Espasyo: Journal of Philippine Architecture and Allied Arts, 1(1) (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2010)
2008
Cabalfin, E. “Drama Unfolding: The CSB-SDA Building” in Tsuper Magazine, Vol. 1 (Manila: October 80 Publications, December 2008)
2007
Cabalfin, E. “Space and Place in the Livable City” in “You are Not a Tourist” Exhibition Catalogue, Joselina Cruz, curator, Curating Lab, Singapore Art Show, (September – October 2007, Singapore)
2006
Cabalfin, E. “Modernizing the Native: The Vernacular and the Nation in Philippine Modern Architectures” in DOCOMOMO Journal, No. 43, (Paris, France: DOCOMOMO – International Working Party on the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, March 2006)
2005
Cabalfin, E. “Pagbalangkas/Paghulma ng Tanong: Usaping Nasyonalismo, Pagkakakilanlan at Postcolonial na Paglinang sa Arkitekturang Filipino” (Outlining/Shaping the Question: Discourse of Nationalism, Identity and Postcolonial Development in Filipino Architecture) in Muhon: Journal on Architecture, Landscape Architecture and the Designed Environment, No. 2 (Quezon City: University of the Philippines – College of Architecture)
2003
Cabalfin, E. “Mala-Baklang Espasyo sa Arkitekturang Filipino: Estetika, Morpolohiya, Konteksto (Bakla-like Spaces in Filipino Architecture: Aesthetics, Morphology, Context)” in Tabi-Tabi sa Pagsasantanbi: Critical Notes by Lesbians and Gays on the Arts, Culture and Language, edited by Eugene Evasco, Roselle Pineda and Rommel Rodriguez (Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press)
2003
Cabalfin, E. “Intersections, Representations and Exoticism: Reconfiguring the Historiography of Philippine Art Deco Architecture” in Bulawan: Journal on Philippine Culture and the Arts, No. 8 (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
2002
Cabalfin, E. “Contextualizing Culture and Identity in Architecture: The Postcolonial Development of Filipino Architecture” in Arkitekturang Filipino: Spaces and Places in History (The Multimedia CD-ROM Edition), edited by Gerard Lico, (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
2001
Cabalfin, E. “Pagbalangkas ng Arkitekturang Filipino: Alternatibong Kritikal na Kategorya sa Filipinong Historyograpiyang Arkitektural (Reframing Filipino Architecture: Alternative Critical Categories in Filipino Architectural Historiography)” in Humanities Diliman: Journal of the University of the Philippines – Diliman, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Quezon City: Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research Coordination, University of the Philippines – Diliman): 31-55
2001
Cabalfin, E. “Nasyonalismo at Arkitektura: Postcolonial na Paglilinang sa Arkitekturang Filipino (Nationalism and Architecture: Postcolonial Framing in Filipino Architecture)”in Bulawan: Journal on Philippine Culture and the Arts, No. 3 (Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts)