Robert L. Amico. Professor. Phone: 574-631-5862.
As design studio professor, Prof. Amico continually has received high
student assessments. In 2003-2004, he was recipient of the University
of Notre Dame Kaneb Award for teaching excellence. In fall of that year,
he initiated his Harvard
Project design studio dealing with difficult town and gown conditions
reviewed in Cambridge by professionals associated with the university,
city and Boston area. Prof. Amico has directed 311 design thesis, 190
at Notre Dame and 121 at Illinois, and numerous competition awardees
including the prestigious Chicago Award at Notre Dame and Paris Prize
at Illinois. As student advisor, he supported successful admission to
top graduate programs at Cal-Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, London’s
Architectural Association, MIT, Northwestern, Penn, Stanford, Syracuse
Florence Program and Yale. In a number of roles, his Church interests
include: author, "Design Revelation" (draft); co-advisor,
Bishop D’Arcy’s "Millennium Celebration," new
church design for Our Lady of Guadeloupe; chairman, Bishop’s Art
and Environment Committee; designer, Chambers of Reconciliation, Notre
Dame’s Sacred Heart Basilica; and designer, St. Matthew Church,
Peoria Diocese, Illinois. In research, a current design project, “The
Kinetic Skyscraper/Vertical Traditional City ®,” received
invited international third-party professional recognition on five occasions
in six and a half years: Conferences in Antwerp, fall 2004; London,
summer 2004; Hong Kong, spring 2000; Kyoto, summer 1998; and publication
in deutsche bauzeitung, db, spring 2002. As design consultant,
Prof. Amico served on former Indiana Governor Orr’s Design Advisory
Committee on $100 million Government Center Complex, and advised the
Board of Directors on the design of Northern Indiana’s History
Center museum complex. In Illinois, he was cited for his service and
design studies for state facilities for chronic mentally-disabled citizens
at Governor Walker’s “Humanization Day.” As designer,
Prof. Amico is a nationally certified U.S. State licensed architect.
His work has been featured nationally and internationally, including
the New York Times, published in the Princeton Architectural
Press The Experimental Tradition, Competitions in Architecture
and exhibited at the Architectural League of New York, National Academy
of Design and National Building Museum. He practiced with the Architects
Collaborative during the directorship of Walter Gropius in the studio
of Benjamin Thompson, chairman of architecture at Harvard University.
Prof. Amico is trained in Beaux-arts and Modern design approaches. Supported
by fellowship resources, Prof. Amico is a Harvard University Graduate
School of Design alumnus. His thesis was an interdisciplinary collaborative
(Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning) titled “Design
of a Community Development with Special Emphasis on the Poor.”
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