John Quale

John Quale (Arch ’93), who served as a faculty member in the UVA School of Architecture from 2000 to 2014, has been named the guest editor for Sustainability, an open access journal published by Taylor and Francis. While at UVA, Quale received funding to study the environmental impacts of building modular verses conventional construction. The published paper, “Construction Matters: Comparing Environmental Impacts of Building Modular and Conventional Homes in the United States,” was originally published in the Journal of  Industrial Ecology. Since then it has been cited more than 110 times. As the lead author, Quale says he was able to recruit four other co-authors to work with him. He is currently the chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. In 2017, he coauthored and coedited a book, Offsite Architecture: Constructing the Future. 

John Quale (Arch ’93 L/M) is chair and professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico. He recently coedited and coauthored a book, Offisite Architecture: Constructing the Future (Routledge), which addresses theoretical and practical applications of prefabricated design and construction. Quale was on the UVA architecture faculty for 15 years.