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As an artist, theoretician and practitioner, Professor Borden's research and practice focuses on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture. He is an assistant professor at the USC School of Architecture and a principal in the award winning architecture firm Borden Partnership. Gail Peter Borden attended Rice University for his undergraduate education simultaneously receiving three BA degrees cum laude in Fine Arts, Art History and Architecture, winning upon graduation the prestigious William Ward Watkins Traveling Fellowship, the AIA Certificate for Excellence, the Chillman Prize, elected to the Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honor Society, and the John Swift Medal in Fine Arts. Receiving a Texas Architectural Foundation Academic Scholarship, Professor Borden returned to Rice University to receive his professional BARCH, also cum laude. Borden completed his M.Arch, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.. Prior to joining the USC School of Architecture faculty, Professor Borden taught at North Carolina State University, Catholic University, The Boston Architectural Center and Harvard University and worked in a host of firms including Gensler and Associates, Frank Harmon Architect, and The Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris where he was a designer on the Potzdamerplatz Project and the renovation of the Centre Georges Pompidou. Founded in 1998, Borden Partnership has won recognition in multiple national and international ...