Dale Clifford 
Faculty at CalPoly School of Architecture

At CalPoly, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Arizona, Clifford has initiated coursework and research programs to develop building technologies based on regional building practices, biomimetics, and advances in materials science. The vehicle for Clifford’s research is prototyping, and includes full-scale demonstration projects to field-test transitional building technologies that promote the sustainable and sensorial integration of the built and natural environments. He is a founding member of the UA Emerging Materials Technology Graduate Program and the Bio_Logic Research Group. Clifford has worked on grants and contracts to forward applications of collaborative design research with BuroHappold, IDEO, DARPA, DOE, MIT, NASA, NSF, and Carnegie Mellon University. To encourage knowledge exchange between disciplines, Clifford held appointments with the CMU College of Civil and Environmental Engineering and as a Research Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.