Architect and educator Robert Alexander González selected as new Dean of University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning

The University of New Mexico (UNM)  has selected Robert Alexander González as the new Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning.  González comes to New Mexico from Texas Tech University (TTU), where he currently serves as the Director of the Architecture Program and leads the TTU El Paso Regional Site. While at TTU, González has led a variety of school initiatives, including building a new graduate degrees in Historic Preservation Studies and Retail, Hotel, and Institutional Management. González also worked for nine years to "engage TTU in the city’s downtown renaissance, and he hopes to encourage the same kind of partnerships between the SA+P and Albuquerque and Santa Fe, where he currently resides," according to the UNM website.  In a UNM announcement, González writes, “I am excited about joining the UNM School of Architecture and Planning family. I found the School to be unlike any other program with its diverse faculty and staff dedicated to serving a culturally rich regio...