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Professor Peter E. Prugh
M.Arch, RA and Planner, AIA, APA

Teaching Area
Construction materials and methods, design, history, preservation.
Coordinates the UF Preservation Institute: Nantucket, co-directs the Research and Educational Center for Architectural Preservation.

Peter E. Prugh, AIA, APA A professional architect, planner and an Associate Professor of Architecture at UF since 1974, Prof. Prugh is the coordinator for preservation studies in the MS degree program and Director since 1996 of the Preservation Institute: Nantucket (PI:N), UF's off-campus program on Nantucket Island which has offered summer preservation coursework since 1972 and sponsors research, public awareness, professional and academic programs in historic preservation throughout the year. Prof. Prugh is co-director with Prof. William L. Tilson of UF's Research and Education Center for Architectural Preservation (RECAP), which conducts funded research in preservation related areas and provides graduate students access to research assistantships and real world professional experiences in preservation. Educated with a professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from UF (1971) and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1974).

Prof. Prugh teaches design studios at all levels, building technology, history, preservation coursework, and mentors students in thesis or masters research projects. In addition to preservation projects his research agenda includes community redevelopment and economic revitalization, design for the elderly, energy conservation and sustainability, and corporate strategic facilities planning. His professional practice has embraced a wide range of architectural and planning projects for which he has received several design awards. Public service has included many community advisory boards & committees, six years on the Gainesville Plan Board, many years serving on UF's P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School Advisory Committee, preservation boards on Nantucket Island and in 1996-97 assisting the architecture program at the Polytechnic University in Tirana, Albania with development of design education programs.

Website
http://www.preservation-nantucket.com/PIN/SummerProgram.asp
http://web.dcp.ufl.edu/peprugh/