Kirk Martini

B.A., U.C. Berkeley;
M.Arch., U.C. Berkeley, M.S., U.C. Berkeley;
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Associate Professor

Kirk Martini teaches structural design as well as photography at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, a Master of Science in Structural Engineering and a Master of Architecture in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1990: all from U.C. Berkeley. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in California and used to work with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco. In 1989 he worked as a graduate student summer intern at Taisei Construction in Tokyo, and completed post-doctoral studies at Tokyo University in 1992. Since then, he has taught at UVa, where he received a Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellowship, two Teaching and Technology Fellowships, and a resident fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. In 2007 his computer program Arcade won the Premier Award for excellence in engineering education software. His research interests include design and planning for wind and earthquakes, non-linear structural analysis, and interactive computer animation.