ALAN BRUTON
NEW FACULTY
Alan Bruton, NCARB, NCIDQ, has joined the University of Houston’s Gerald D.
Hines School of Architecture and Design as Director of Interior Architecture.
Prior to joining the University of Houston, Alan taught full-time in the School of Constructed
Environments at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York. Alan is principal of
Alan Bruton Studio, an interdisciplinary design studio founded in 2000 after more than a decade
of working with architects, exhibition and interior designers, curators and artists on a wide range
of projects.
As an associate with the Architecture Research Office, he won several awards as the Project
Architect for the Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station. He has contributed to projects
for photographer Larry Clark, Gianni Versace, the Catholic Church, the Dalai Lama and Prada.
Direct commissions have included exhibition designs for the International Center of Photography,
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been
exhibited at the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Gandi Galerie in the Slovak Republic, SouYun Yi
Gallery and Gallery B in New York.
With his Masters in Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a Bachelor of Environmental
Design from Texas A&M University, Alan’s practice and research critically
explore relationships
between material, procedural, formal, spatial, economic and sociocultural issues, in ongoing
dialog with practitioners of diverse modes of cultural research and production.
Alan Bruton can be contacted at:
apbruton@uh.edu
*Designs by Alan Bruton
