Alissa De Wit-Paul named assistant professor in Master of Architecture program

Alissa De Wit-Paul has been added to the lineup of full-time faculty for the RIT Golisano Institute for Sustainability’s Master of Architecture degree program. She will be teaching courses on architectural history and helping students prepare for their theses to complete their degree.

Professor Alissa de Wit-Paul has extensive research experience in architectural and sustainable design, which she leverages while teaching her thesis preparation students. Prior to joining RIT, she taught at Alfred State College, Buffalo State College, and Genesee Community College, as well as worked as a licensed architecture focusing on small residential, commercial spaces and educational buildings.

Architectural history being her passion, she wrote her dissertation on the history of solar and environmental design in 1970s New Mexico and its impact on how we would come to define sustainable architecture. Alissa holds a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She begins her faculty assignment full-time at the start of the Fall semester on August 19, Dennis Andrejko, the department head, announced.

"Buildings and construction account for a large part of global carbon emissions, energy usage, and resource consumption. The role of sustainability in the architecture profession is critical to accelerating the transformation of the built environment into one that is healthy, livable, productive, resilient and sustainable,” Dennis said. “Alissa's experience and course offerings will greatly enhance our students' ability to deliver practical solutions to minimize, and reverse the global carbon emissions (OMIT) negative impacts derived from buildings, and their construction and operation."