Background Billie Faircloth began her own undergraduate architectural studies at The School of Design, North Carolina State University, where she earned the Faculty Design Award and the Henry Adams Certificate of Merit. After completing her architectural internship, Faircloth pursued graduate studies at the Harvard Design School where she focused on emerging material research; there, she earned the title of Distinction and received the post-professional Kevin Kieran Award which recognizes academic excellence. Faircloth joined the faculty at The University of Texas School of Architecture in the fall of 2002. During the 2003 - 2004 academic years Faircloth received the Texas Alumni Teaching Award and the Faculty Teaching Award for studio. Faircloth is most recently a recipient of the 2004/2005 ACSA-AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award which recognizes excellence in teaching during the formative years of a teaching career. Research Faircloth's research interrogates material as a starting point towards architectural innovation, involving performance, form, fabrication, and environment in conversation with material processes. Faircloth's current research questions the relationship between architecture and material science, addressing the ability of smart or advanced material technologies to re-systematize architecture. Studio Teaching Since beginning her teaching career at The University of Texas at Austin, Faircloth has developed teaching methodologies which are directly connected to the many questions she asks of her own architectural research. The design studio is cast as a laboratory and a partnership where questions regarding the potential of architectural invention and innovation can be pursued. Faircloth establishes a multi-scalar and multi-dimensional approach with her students, encouraging them to engage the macro and micro processes of material and environment. In the spring of 2005, Faircloth established an advanced material research studio in partnership with material scientists, chemical engineers and mechanical engineers. Practice Faircloth is committed to maintaining a constant dialogue between academic research and professional practice. In addition to her assistant professorship, she is the co-partner of designsubset, an emerging design practice and collaboration with Jim Faircloth; its goal is to develop inventive relationships among material, environment, and fabrication. In the spring of 2005, designsubset was invited to participate in an emerging practices competition sponsored by the Philbrook Museum of Art titled LANDed, Innovative Garden Structures. Their winning competition entry and first experimental project ROAMroom, is installed on the museum grounds through the spring of 2006. "ROAM"