Diane Favro is a professor of architecture and urban design and associate dean of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. Her research explores the urbanism of ancient Rome, archaeological historiography, women in architecture, and new technologies in humanistic research. She has written on subjects ranging from Armenian architectural symbolism to urban armatures in Roman Asia Minor and depictions of women architects in American advertising. A new major work is Roman Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge University Press) coauthored with Fikret Yegül. As a founder of the UCLA CVRLab and the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center, Dr. Favro was an early adopter of 3D real-time digital modeling for historical research, receiving large grants (NEH, NSF, Intel) for such pioneering, award-winning projects as the Digital Roman Forum and Digital Karnak. Her current work applies the techniques of procedural modeling and BIM (Building Information Modeling) to the interrogation of historical buildings and urban environments.

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