Gregory Galford

Gregory Galford is a registered architect and assistant professor of residential environments and design in the Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management program at Virginia Tech.

His research has focused primarily on issues of housing that are non-traditional. His dissertation was a qualitative work that analyzed architectural attributes that contributed to themes of life in correctional and solitary confinement environments. He has published articles related to historic re-use of prisons and asylums, and the use of surveillance within residential environments with a historic contextual understanding. As part of an IIE/U.S. State Department grant, he has extensive experience working with universities in Indonesia and has published research on housing and water infrastructure. This work on sustainability in housing was also supported by work on an NSF grant that involved peer-to-peer student education in brownfield redevelopment. He has presented at numerous conferences that reflect his work in design education and cultural studies.

His teaching experience is now within residential design, and has previously been in architectural design and interior design. He has taught a range of courses that span both undergraduate and graduate curriculums. His classes have been a balance of technical courses, theory courses, and design studios. Within technical courses, he has specialties in residential technologies, sustainability, lighting design, acoustics, and construction methods.  In theory courses, he has taught graduate design theory and graduate research methods. For design, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate design studios regarding most building types and levels.

His professional experience and service activities support his other work. He is a registered architect with twenty years of experience in various architectural firms in Philadelphia, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Dubai. He is a LEED Accredited Professional. He has worked on a wide variety of building types. He has served on several advisory boards for non-profit organizations that supported his interest in issues of housing, sustainability, and history.