Faculty portfolios

PhD, MA and MAUD, Washington University in St. Louis; B Commerce, University of South Africa; BArch, University of Natal, South Africa

John Hoal teaches both studio and theory courses in architecture and urban design. His main research relates to the morphological condition of the contemporary city, and to the philosophy of architecture and the city. His private practice both in the United States and South Africa has included large-scale urban design and landscape projects, as well as recreational and institutional buildings.

From 1993-1997, Hoal was Director of the Mayor's Institute on City Design for the Midwest. From 1993-2000, he was the Director of Urban Design for the City of St. Louis, during which time he directed numerous major projects. He is the founding principal of the design and planning firm H3 Studio, one of five firms selected to lead the Unified New Orleans Plan, which will coordinate rebuilding in the city's 13 planning districts. H3 Studio has completed numerous neighborhood and downtown revitalization plans throughout the country, as well as the design for the implementation of the master plan for improvement to Forest Park in St. Louis; the St. Louis Downtown Action Plan; and the 200-square-mile conservation, heritage, and recreation corridor known as the Confluence Greenway System, for which the firm won the 2004 AIA National Honor Award for Urban and Regional Planning. Other national awards received include the 2002 Congress for the New Urbanism National Award for Excellence in Regional Planning, the 2002 Outstanding National Planning Award from the American Planning Association for the Confluence Master Plan, the 2000 Honor Award for Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the St. Louis Downtown Action Development Plan, and the 2000 Outstanding Planning Award for Implementation from the American Planning Association for the Forest Park Master Plan.