uacdc@uark.edu 479 575 5772 (7045 FAX) 1 E Center St Ste 220 Fayetteville, AR 72701
Stephen D. Luoni
Director and Principal Designer
sluoni@uark.edu
Stephen Luoni is Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC) where he is the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies and a Distinguished Professor of Architecture. Under his direction since 2003, UACDC’s design and research have won more than 100 awards, all for urban design, research, and education. His work at UACDC specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban, and architectural design. Luoni was appointed a 2012 United States Artists Ford Fellow. He has a BS in Architecture from Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Linda Komlos
Executive Assistant to the Director
lkomlos@uark.edu
Linda has worked at the UACDC since 2008. She has more than forty years of professional office experience. Linda graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arkansas in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in geography and a minor in business administration, and completed a master’s degree in geography in 2008. She won numerous awards during her academic career, including Outstanding Geography Undergraduate Student Awards in 2003 and 2004, a Fulbright College Senior Scholar Award in 2004, and an Outstanding Physical Geographer of the Year Award in 2008. The UA’s Staff Senate recognized Linda in May 2010 as an Employee of the Third Quarter.
Victor H. Cardozo H.
Project Architect + Designer
vcardozo@uark.edu
Victor H Cardozo H is an architect and designer with more than twelve years of professional experience working in diverse scales and types of projects, and just recently joined the University of Arkansas Community Design Center as a Project Designer/Architect. Victor has a bachelor of architecture from the Cristobal Colon University in Mexico and a Master of Design Innovation and Technology degree with honors from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia. During his Masters program he received a scholarship to attend a design workshop at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and also joined an outbound course at the Palo Alto Foundation for Future Planning in Barcelona, Spain. Victor has designed residential, institutional, retail, urban, landscape and government projects. He is a registered Architect in Mexico where he worked for five years before moving abroad. Victor also worked part time in the housing sector in Australia for two years. Most of Victor’s work is located in China, where he worked for more than five years.
Shail Patel
Project Architect + Designer
sp130@uark.edu
Shail is a Project Designer/Architect at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center. He is an architect and designer with over seven years of professional experience in the field. Shail received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology in Gujarat, India. He started his professional career as an architect in Ahmedabad, India honing his skills in design, project management, and client communication while working on both residential and commercial projects. Shail later moved to China where he was involved in designing large-scale commercial public buildings, institutional, retail buildings, and landscape urbanism projects. As an early adopter of AI in architecture, Shail constantly pushes the boundaries of what is possible.