Birmingham Architect, Former Rotary Club President Receives Lawrence Tech Faculty Award

In a special ceremony acknowledging faculty accomplishments, the president and the provost of Lawrence Technological University presented the 2013 Teaching & Learning Using Technology (TLT) Faculty Award to Birmingham architect Mark Farlow.

The Teaching & Learning Using Technology Faculty Award was initiated in 2009 to honor the faculty member who has used or is using technology in innovative and exemplary ways to improve her or his student’s learning.

Farlow, an architect with the Birmingham-based firm, Victor Saroki & Associates, is an adjunct professor at the school's College of Architecture and Design. 

Farlow is also a former president of the Birmingham Rotary Club.

Farlow has been teaching at Lawrence Tech as an adjunct professor since 1995. He received the TLT Faculty Award for his innovative contributions in teaching the online Advanced Design Sequence for the Master of Architecture program.

Lawrence Tech is the only university in the world that teaches studios online and Farlow was one of the first in the country to launch this class. Using advanced software applications, Farlow introduces his students to the trend of collaborative technologies and digital communications media used in the architecture profession. 

Farlow explains that he has advanced the possibility of a truly interactive learning process by engaging in a conversation about architectural design in a real-time online studio. This advancement was accomplished by integrating conventional studio discourse and professional practice protocols into a saturated interactive educational experience. 

Farlow is an enthusiastic advocate for the architecture profession, speaking at local schools and community groups at every opportunity. He began his teaching career in 1983 at the University of Cincinnati, yet three years ago he was invited to teach in the online Advanced Design Studio sequence of the LTU graduate program.

This report provided by Lawrence Technological University