The Living Design of Guyana’s Silica CIty

Panellist:

Jose A. Gelabert Navia is a Professor and former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami

Jose A. Gelabert-Navia is a Professor and former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. A graduate of Cornell University, Jose has been part of the Faculty since 1981. His primary teaching focus has been in Architectural Design and the History of Colonialism and Globalization in Architecture. He was the founder of the School’s Rome Program and as part of it, he teaches a course in Italian Culture every Spring. Prof. Gelabert-Navia has authored numerous articles and has also been practicing architect, directing the Miami office of Perkins + Will. He has lectured in Europe and Latin America, most recently on the Sustainable Hospital in Brasilia and in Santiago, Chile this year.

Moderator:

Jay Mandle, W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Colgate University

Jay is the W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Colgate University. He is a highly prolific scholar and author of some 14 books, over 100 articles and several book chapters on economic development. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Swarthmore College, Bryn Maw College, Lincoln University, and the University of the West Indies; and he taught as well as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Guyana and Nankai University China. Jay has published and lectured widely on Caribbean Economic Development and the need for the region to respond to the impact of global climate change. Jay is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Guyana GREEN Institute.

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