Rate My Professor Jim Stevens

Stevens specializes in research on emerging fabrication technologies, digital design and fabrication, historic preservation, and urban planning. He is a licensed architect certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and has authored key publications, including the co-authored book Digital Vernacular: Architectural Principles, Tools and Processes (Routledge, 2015); “Post Human Craft: A Humble Attempt to Reorient Makers to the Inevitable” (Cubic Journal, 2020); “Post-Digital Craft” (MD Journal, 2019); “Operative Fragments: Projecting Shkodra: Slow Valley” (Polis Press, 2018); and “Designbuild Education in North America: Practicing the Digital Vernacular” (Routledge, 2017). His major awards and honors include elevation to the AIA College of Fellows (2025), Fulbright Specialist Award in Peru (2025), Fulbright Scholar in Albania (2016), AIA Henry Adams Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture (2008), and Mary E. and Richard E. Marburger Award for University Faculty Member of the Year (2013). Stevens serves on the South Carolina Board of Architectural Examiners and the AIA South Carolina State Board, and has led over 24 international workshops across Albania, India, China, Romania, and France, establishing digital fabrication laboratories and advancing pedagogical integration of digital tools with cultural contexts.