Joclyn M. Oats
Professor Oats is a professor and full-time tenured faculty member at Columbia College Chicago and the coordinator of the MFA Programs in Architectural Studies and Interior Design and the BFA Interior Design Program. Professor Oats received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in Interior Design and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Professor Oats began teaching at the college in an adjunct position in 1982, becoming full-time in 1992. Professionally Professor Oats has practiced architecture and interior design commercially, working for firms such as Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Perkins & Will, PHH Environments, AI a division of A. Epstein & Sons etc. Recently her practice and research centers on the development of concrete housing systems and working class housing. Regarding her scholarship and practice in the area of housing over the last five years she has worked with such organizations as CAF Chicago Architecture Foundation in conjunction with the DOH, Chicago Department of Housing, and most recently with ACBM, Center for Advanced Cement Based Material, Evanston Illinois. Professor Oats is an active member of the following professional organizations, AIA, IIDA and IDEC. Academically Professor Oats devotes much of her time towards lecture tours on architecture, interiors and decorative arts nationally and international. Her travels have spanned the country in the cities of New York, Boston, San Francisco and the globe, in such cities as London, Italy, and most recently the Czech Republic, and Poland.

Phone

312-344-7446

E-mail

joats@colum.edu