jberman@maryu.marywood.edu

Joshua Berman is the Associate Director for Graduate Studies at Marywood University’s School of Architecture in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Through an integrated approach to history, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse, his teaching emphasizes the importance of experiential learning and public engagement as change agents for community empowerment. Joshua is passionate about developing action-oriented projects that focus on creating places where people reflect on a sense of shared inheritance and collective consciousness as a means of community building. His interdisciplinary approach to public design projects bridges the gap between education, service, and networking to strengthen bonds between students and their neighbors at the local scale. He holds a master’s of Interior Architecture from Marywood University and a bachelor’s in History from King’s College, Pennsylvania.