B.S. Engineering, B.Arch., Kansas State University; M.Arch., University of Southern California

Professor Regnier holds a joint professorship with the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, the only joint appointment of this nature in the US.  From 1992 until December 1995, he served as the interim Dean of the School of Architecture.  He has published six books and research monographs, as well as nearly 60 articles and book chapters dealing with various aspects of housing for the elderly, including a most recent book entitled “Design for Assisted Lioving: Guidelines for Housing the Mentally and Physically Frail.”  As a researcher, he has directed 20 research projects dealing with the social and behavioral impact of the of the environment on older people, children and the homeless.  His design findings have been presented at over 160 professional and scientific conferences, as well as more than 60 university symposia.  He has served on the editorial board or advisory board of nine scholarly journals or professional magazines.  He has also received teaching awards, including selection as a USC Mortar Board Professor of the Year.  He has consulted on over 300 building projects in 38 states, Canada, Germany and England.  Projects for which he has consulted have won 40 state and national design awards in the last decade.  His scholarly work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, Phi Kappa Phi, the Swedish-American Foundation, as well as two Progressive Architecture Awards for Research.  A former Fulbright scholar, he received the prestigious 1999 Gerontological Society Powell Lawton Award for applied research.  In 2000, the journal, Contemporary Long Term Care selected him as one of five national leaders whose work has made a difference in the quality of life of older people.  In 2004, The National Association of Home Builders named him the academic “Icon of Senior Housing” for his research and teaching activities.  Recently, he was named the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus from the USC School of Architecture.  He holds the singular distinction of fellowship in both the American Institute of Architects and the Gerontological Society of America.