Photo by Nathaly Marques

The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) is pleased to announce that School of Architecture alumnus Christian Dagg ’93, AIA, has been named the head of Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA).

Dagg graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Art and went on to receive his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. While living in Boston, Christian worked on a number of notable projects in the offices of Machado and Silvetti Associates and Kallman, McKinnell and Wood Architects.

In the fall of 2000, Dagg became a member of the faculty at Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. He received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the School of Architecture AIAS in 2002 and 2006, the CADC Collaborative Initiative Award in 2004 and the CADC Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005. More recently, in 2013, Dagg and his colleague Kevin Moore received the NCARB Award for their project “Studio: Urban Healthcare”.

Now, Christian is not only the new head of APLA at Auburn, he is also a principal of Hinson + Dagg Architects, which was founded in 2005 and has been recognized at the local and state level with AIA design awards.