Noah Resnick is a tenure-track professor in the UDM|SOA, and a founding principal of uRbanDetail, a small research based architecture and urban design studio that operates under the interrelated concepts of the architectonics of multiple scales; the architect as urban collaborator; and the architect as community builder. In addition to teaching architecture studios and Urbanism seminars, Noah is on the SOA committee in charge of developing the proposal for a new Architecture and Urbanism graduate degree.

Noah completed his Masters of Science in Architecture Studies (SMarchS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Architecture + Urbanism stream. This degree culminated in an urban design thesis that focused on the potential for transit oriented development nodes in the city of Detroit. In addition to Detroit, Noah has lived and practiced in Chicago, Boston, and New York, as well as Berlin, Germany where he worked in the studio of Daniel Libeskind. His professional experience in architecture and urban design ranges from the conceptual and design development of a two hundred thousand sq ft mall/ spa complex in Switzerland, to in depth urban design studies and proposals for very high profile Central Artery sites above the ‘Big Dig’ in Downtown Boston, to the full service design and construction administration of a high-end townhouse building in New York City, to the landscape design of the City Hall Plaza and nearby park in Downtown Brockton, Massachusetts. Through his firm, uRbanDetail, Noah has led the collaborative pro-bono effort to design and execute a new masterplan for Roosevelt Park in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit (phase one of which was built in the summer of 2009). The design team was formed of its own volition in order to proactively intervene in the urban condition on behalf of the community, in the face of a city government that was either unable or unwilling to act. This project is the outgrowth of an unfunded research initiative being conducted by uRbanDetail, that focuses on the potential for democratic community participation in the design of public urban space. This ongoing research will be folded in to the work being proposed for the Spring 2010 semester.