Joshua Nason, M. Arch I/II, MBA

Office: Hammons School of Architecture 101
Phone: (417) 873-6996
E-Mail: jnason@drury.edu

Spring 2024 Office Hours

Monday
By appointment

Tuesday
2 – 3 p.m.

Wednesday
11 a.m. – Noon

Thursday
By appointment

Friday
By appointment

Joshua Nason

Professor of Architecture
Dean of the Hammons School of Architecture

Joshua M. Nason is Dean of Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University. He directs the experimental design research collaborative Iterative Studio. Before joining Drury in 2024, he taught at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Arlington where he was assistant director for the School of Architecture.

Educated at Texas Tech and Cornell University, Professor Nason teaches courses in architectural design, making, mapping, urbanism, theory, and design-build. For Nason, teaching is cultivating a series of experiences that help students realize their authentic potential to impact the build world. As an educator, he emphasizes quality instruction and curricular innovation to imbue students with skills and confidence to advance architecture. He works across mediums, including writing, drawing, and building, all of which he considers acts of architecture that mediate between people and places.

Nason, with Jeffrey Nesbit, edited “Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations” and is featured in the “Nature of Enclosure” podcast and book. Nason is editor of the forthcoming book, “K-Rob @ 50,” and is hosting and producing, “Drawing Conclusions,” a podcast investigating pressing questions of architectural representation. Joshua’s exhibited and published designs and research explore dynamic connections, relationships, and reciprocities in architecture, landscape, and urban projects – looking specifically at the inherent duality within the representation of people and place and design’s narrative, connective, and advocative potentials. Some of his recent lectures include “Design: A Work in Process,” “Draw In/Draw Out: Participatory Maps as Event Urbanism,” “Awkward Mapping,” “Mapping + Change,” “Drawing [on] Urban Complexity,” “Anomalic Urbanism,” and “Place Pavilions: Inhabiting the Map.” His drawn and built work has been featured in exhibitions such as “Divergent Convergent: Speculations on China,” in Beijing, “Common Ground,” in New York City, “Profiling a City,” in Ithaca, and “The Place Pavilions,” in both Lubbock and Dallas.

Drury University faculty member since 2024
Professor since 2010

Education

B.Arch, Texas Tech University, 2004
MBA, Texas Tech University, 2007
M.Arch., Texas Tech University, 2007
PP M.Arch (ADD), Cornell University, 2009

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