Kirk Martini

Education

University of California, Berkeley, PhD, M.S., B.A.

Biography

Professor Emeritus Kirk Martini taught structural design as well as photography at the University of Virginia School of Architecture from 1992 to 2021. 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 has worked 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 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 Arcade software for interactive non-linear dynamic structural analysis won the Premier award for engineering education software. In 2008 he won a UVA All-University Teaching Award, and in 2016 won a UVA Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award. His research interests include non-linear structural analysis, interactive computer animation, and structural optimization.