DON
WATTS
Professor of architecture
Don Watts, professor of architecture at Kansas State University,
studies Middle Eastern architecture and geometry in architecture. He has done extensive
research and publications on the classical Roman city of Gerasa
in Jerash, Jordan. He has traveled to more than 30 countries to study noteworthy
architecture.
Watts is the author of more than 25 publications, and has presented more than 25 papers and eight lectures. Watts won the K-State Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1998. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Architecture in Jordan in 1981. He received a travel grant from the Royal Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1986 to further his architectural research in Jordan. In 2006, Watts was a member of the K-State Assessment Team for Kabul University's Faculty of Engineering, Kabul, Afghanistan, under sponsorship of the World Bank.
His research interests include geometry in architecture, Middle Eastern architecture and urbanism, reinterpretations of the past, Middle Eastern architectural education and ongoing design projects.
Watts received his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and his master of architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He became a registered architect in Texas in 1977 and he joined the K-State faculty in 1983.
Watts can be reached for comment at 785-532-1128 or via e-mail at wattsd@k-state.edu.