<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/people/park-phillip.html" dsn="people"><first_name>Phillip</first_name><last_name>Park</last_name><prefixes/><pronouns/><post_nominals/><title-1>Associate Professor, Interior Design</title-1><title-2>Coordinator, Interior Design Undergraduate and Graduate Programs</title-2><title-3/><title-4/><department>Design</department><type>Faculty</type><email>Phillip.Park@unt.edu</email><phone>940-565-3621</phone><image><img src="/images/p-park-phillip-2024-portrait-330px.jpg" alt="Phillip is facing forward and smiling. He has short gray hair, wears glasses and a blue button-down shirt."/></image><office>Art Building, Room 256C</office><address/><office-hours/><types><type>Faculty</type></types><departments><department>Design</department></departments><main-content>Coordinator, Interior Design Undergraduate &amp; Graduate ProgramsAssociate Professor, Interior Design

About
Areas of Expertise: Healing environments for pediatric patients, evidence-based design in healthcare environments
Jin Gyu "Phillip" Park joined the College of Visual Arts &amp; Design faculty in 2007. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Architecture degrees from the College of Architecture at Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, Texas.
His academic focus is on evidence-based design, and his research interest relies on the relationship between built environments and human health and performance. His current research focuses on the value of color as a component in a healing environment for a pediatric-patient-room design. His teaching involves evidence-based design and research, technology in environmental design, and space planning for commercial environments.
Park previously worked for eight years as an architectural designer. He is a professional member of the Interior Design Educators Council, the Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture, the Korean Institute of Architects, and a regular Environmental Design Research Association member.
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