Dennis Robert Holloway, a native of Michigan, attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) College of Architecture and Design and received his Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Degree there in 1966. Professors William Muschenheim , Robert Lytle, and Leonard K. Eaton (architectural historian) were important teachers in his formative architectural studies. During his undergraduate years he worked as a draftsman for Ann Arbor architect, Robert C. Metcalf, and later as a designer for architect, Alden B. Dow, (the noted student of Frank Lloyd Wright) in Midland, Michigan. Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) Degree in 1967. During 1968-1969, he studied housing design and housing system building in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands under a State Department Fulbright Scholarship in association with the University of Liverpool (U.K.). Returning to the U.S. he worked two years as an architectural apprentice for the New York City architecture-city planning firm of Conklin and Rossant--working on designs for large housing projects and large complexes of buildings. He then took his state licensing exams in Michigan and was granted his license to practice Architecture in 1970. From 1970 to 1977 Mr. Holloway taught at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (under Head, Ralph Rapson) where he was tenured as an Associate Professor of Architecture in 1973. In 1973 Mr. Holloway pioneered the University of Minnesota Solar House, Project Ouroboros, which as the first solar house in the upper Midwest, was designed and constructed by 450 of his freshman students over a three-year period. This visionary applications-research project was internationally recognized as a prototype for future holistic-sustainable-environmental architecture. It was the beginning of a new way of looking at architecture and human habitat. After a long and remarkable carreer, in 1986 Mr. Holloway started using the Macintosh computer to perform all design, drawings, graphics, and writing in his practice, and is a beta tester for state-of-the-art 3-D computer programs. In November, 1991, in a one-person show called "Virtual Realities", he exhibited his computer architecture at Philip Bariess Contemporary Exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico, and at the Gallery of San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico. Dennis Holloway's writings and architecture have been published and exhibited widely and internationally. He is co-author, with Maureen McIntyre, of The Owner Builder Experience, How to Design and Build Your Own Home, published in 1986 by Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
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