Firm Description
Jason R. Chandler, AIA, is the founder and principal of Chandler and Associates. His built and unbuilt design work has received a series of awards from the Miami and Florida chapters of the American Institute of Architects. Jason Chandler’s design work has been published by Princeton Architectural Press, Trama, Florida/Caribbean Architect, The Miami Herald and has been noted in the New York Times and the MIT Press. Chandler has received several distinctions in design competitions: Second Prize in the 81st Paris Prize Architectural Design Competition, Honorable Mention in the 2001 Scattered Housing Competition, First Prize in the 2004 Miami Beach Design Life Competition and Honorable Mention in the 2008 Dawntown Waterworks Competition.Chandler is the Chair of Department of Architecture at the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University. He has taught at FIU since 1998. He is the coordinator of Graduate Design 5 and 6 and served as the department’s Associate Chair in 2012-2013. Before teaching at FIU, he taught at the University of Miami and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for its Career Discovery Program. He was appointed chair of the Department of Architecture at FIU in the fall of 2013 and served as the Interim Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design from 2015 to 2017.
Chandler’s academic activities focus on building construction systems and their integration into architecture and urban design. Professor Chandler’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Institute for Architectural Education, the International Hurricane Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Knight Foundation, the Cejas Family Foundation, the Metropolitan Center at FIU and the United States Department of Education. Chandler’s writing has been published in both national and regional ACSA proceedings and he has co-authored with Shahin Vassigh on Building Systems Integration for Enhanced Environmental Performance (2011).
Jason R. Chandler, AIA, holds the Bachelor of Architecture from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University and the Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Awards
Honor Award of Excellence for New Work for Warehouse Complex
The Florida Association of the America Institute of Architects, 2018
The William G. McMinn, FAIA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Architectural Education
The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects, 2017
Award for Leadership in Education Award
The Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 2014
Top Scholar for Creative Work
Office of the Provost, Florida International University, 2013
Honor Award of Excellence for Warehouse Structures
The Florida Association of the America Institute of Architects, 2012
Award for Outstanding Contribution
The City of South Miami, 2012
Award of Merit for Infill Warehouses
The Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 2011
Award for Public Service
The Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 2011
Honorable Mention
Dawntown Waterworks Competition, Miami, 2008
Merit Award for Unbuilt Work for The Parachute Pavilion
The Florida Association of the America Institute of Architects, 2006
Award of Excellence for The Parachute Pavilion
The Miami Chapter of the America Institute of Architects, 2005
First Prize
Miami Beach Life Design Competition, Miami Beach, Florida, 2004
Honorable Mention
Bienal Miami + Beach, Scattered Housing Competition
Little Haiti Housing Association, Miami, Florida, September 2001
Silver Award for Plaza 57 a Mixed-Used Development
Builder’s Association of South Florida, 2001
Second Prize, 81st Paris Prize Architectural Design Competition
Lloyd Warren Fellowship, National Institute for Architectural Education, 1994
