Uli Dangel is a professor, Stott Chair, and the director of the School of Architecture & Environment (SAE) at the University of Oregon. He joined the SAE in 2024 after 19 years at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in design, construction, architectural detailing, and structural design. Dangel received a Diploma in Architecture from Universität Stuttgart in Germany and a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon. His professional career began in London, where he worked for internationally renowned architecture firms Foster and Partners as well as Grimshaw. He is a registered architect in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Texas.

Dangel’s research and teaching focus on the use of wood in construction, its influence on building culture and craft, and how it contributes to the advancement of sustainable practices at the scale of local and global economies. Birkhäuser Basel published his first two books, Sustainable Architecture in Vorarlberg: Energy Concepts and Construction Systems and Turning Point in Timber Construction: A New Economy, in 2010 and 2017 respectively. Dangel’s latest book, Time for Timber, published in 2019 by the Center for American Architecture and Design at UT Austin, documents research he completed as the Center’s 2016-2018 Meadows Fellow.