M. Beth Tauke
Associate Professor of Architecture
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
office: HayesAnnex B 01O
phone : 716 829 5892
e-mail : tauke@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor Beth Tauke holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Design from the University of Iowa, and Bachelor of Arts in psychology, studio art and education from Clarke College. Her research focuses on inclusive design and its relationship to the senses. Professor Tauke directs university education activities for the Center for Inclusive Design & Environmental Access (IDEA), the leading research center on inclusive design in the built environment in the U.S. She is the director of the Universal Design International University Education Consortium, a group of educators whose mission is to promote inclusive design practices. Professor Tauke is co-founder and editor of Universal Design Education Online, the primary website for UD education. Her publications include chapters in The Universal Design Handbook (McGraw Hill), Living for the Elderly (Birkhauser), and Universal Design: Seventeen Ways of Thinking and Teaching (Husbanken) and articles in Building Material, Design Issues, Utopian Studies, Representation, and Foundations in Art, Theory and Criticism. Tauke co-edited Universal Design: New York with Dr. G. Scott Danford and is currently working on two books, one on diversity in design and another on inclusive and sensory issues in housing.
Professor Tauke’s awards and grants include two National Endowment for the Arts Universal Design Leadership Grants, a U.S. Department of Education Field-Initiated Development Project Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Creation and Presentation Grant, a National Institute for Architectural Education Award, the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Robert R. Taylor Award, a Lily Endowment Teaching Fellowship, and the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Tauke has given presentations on inclusive and sensory design issues at more than 100 national and international conferences, and is regularly invited to speak at universities both in the U.S. and abroad.
