Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture EX-CHANGE 2022

EX-CHANGE 2021–22

DESIGN TEAM

Exhibition means + methods

Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp

Identity & Catalog Group Project Jimmy Luu and Ryan Menefee (DC ’08, HNZ ’09), with Pedro Aizza

STUDENT TEAM

Spring Neha Chopra Grace Kolosek Shanice Lam Mali Tribune Yanan (Selina) Zhou

Summer Ariba Asad Rebecca Cunningham Zihan (Keanu) Dong Brian Hartman Tianshu Huang Grace Kolosek Anna Stewart Yanan (Selina) Zhou

Fall Ariba Asad Vanshika Bhaiya Neha Chopra Rebecca Cunningham Zihan (Keanu) Dong Tianshu Huang Grace Kolosek Adrienne Hin To Luk Meghna Roy Anna Stewart Ashley Su Yanan (Selina) Zhou Jing Jing Wu

2022 SPONSORS

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FACULTY-STUDENT COMMITTEE

Ray Gastil

Zain Islam-Hashmi

Bobuchi Ken-Opurum

Phyllis Kim Jon Kline

Jackie McFarland

Tommy CheeMou Yang

Akanksha Tayal (NOMAS)

Shray Tripathi (NOMAS)

Jordan Luther (AIAS)

Graana Khan (inter•punct)

Yanan (Selina) Zhou (inter•punct)

DIRECTOR

Sarah Rafson with Tommy CheeMou Yang

STAFF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to: Meredith Marsh Aaron Martin Terry Hritz Jon Holmes David Koltas

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

“The design for the exhibition explores how form and surface can bend, fold, and stretch, em bracing the multiplicity of voices, authors, and approaches to ar chitecture across the SoA. Works have been organized by themat ic focus, allowing for different and new relationships to form across various levels and pro grams within the school. Using a light structural system, the stu dent work threads through and around a permeable armature which is both defined and agile. The result is a ribbon, drawn in three dimensions through space.”

means + methods

Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp

“For the accompanying catalog, we have transformed the spatial strategy of the exhibi tion into an imaginative graphic language of encoded ribbons that punctuate and mark a dense archive of the work presented in the Great Hall. The publication embodies the sense of materiality, accu mulation and energy we saw in the work produced by students in the SoA over the past year.”

Group Project

Luu and Ryan Menefee (DC ’08, HNZ ’09)

Jimmy

EX-CHANGE is an annual exhibition and publication celebrating the work of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture from first year to PhD. Inaugurated in 2017, EX-CHANGE represents an ongoing opportunity to shine new light on the SoA’s programs and to position the work within larger questions of research and practice.

On view on campus August 29–September 11, 2022 College of Fine Arts

Khan Head of the School of Architecture

It is my pleasure to share with you student work produced over the 2021-22 academic year at the CMU School of Architecture. Ours is a complex school that houses both building design and science pro grams, each with their own unique pedagogies. EX-CHANGE offers us a chance to represent the breadth of work coming out of the school and to provide you a view into its educational and social life over the past year.

We started the school year back in person, on campus, yet still in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We welcomed a large contingent of new undergraduate and graduate students and also re turning students that had not been on campus for close to a year and half. As it was my first year in person at the school, I was finally able to observe our spaces—studios, lecture halls and seminar rooms—in action. Certain pedagogies that had been lost to us during last year’s remote teaching returned with new urgency. We emphasized physical model making and design build projects to allow students to craft with mate rials and build at full scale. Also, a return to Pittsburgh and working on site with one another allowed facul ty and students to collaborate and engage with community organiza tions and local sites.

As the year progressed, we were able to welcome visitors to the cam pus through our public programs. This year our themes of Care and World Making, for the fall and spring semesters respectively, provided an opportunity for us to reflect on the architect’s responsibilities and

accountability. We were joined in this by artist Olalekan Jeyifous, historian/preservationist Jorge Ote ro-Pailos, media theorist/curator Jor dan Geiger and world renowned Ban gladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, who engaged our students through lectures and workshops. In addition, our two visiting faculty members, Tommy CheeMou Yang and Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland, shared their research through studios, semi nars and lectures. Yang’s research explores design methods rooted in cultural fieldwork, while McFarland is exploring the construction of Black space that draws lessons from Afrofuturism. All these intel lectual engagements enriched the year with refreshing new ideas and discussions.

We also welcomed back to campus the CMU tradition of Spring Carnival. Our NOMAS chapter led the design and construction of the Carnival Gateway Pavilion. With the participa tion of forty students from different classes, the pavilion provided a stun ning entry to the carnival events. We concluded our year with a lovely graduation ceremony at the Carne gie Music Hall where we celebrated the Class of 2022 and also the 2021 and 2020 classes who had previous ly had virtual ceremonies.

Even as a sense of normalcy in academic life began to emerge by the spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the racist murder of Black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, and the imminent overturning of Roe v. Wade made the reality of politics, violence and uncertainty all too present. Current affairs are en meshed in our education and the

faculty and students addressed them in different ways through dia logue and coursework. They are rep resented on these pages through the courses the faculty have offered and the projects that the students have developed. They are also present in the materiality of this book, whose use of newsprint is a direct reflec tion of the global shortages in paper. Like us, these supply chains are still recovering from the pandemic and likewise we architects and designers are adapting and respond ing creatively to these challenges.

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Read more about Pedagogies 2020 on page 4.

Exhibition Themes

The School of Architecture’s Pedagogies 2020 initiative is at once critical, speculative and provocative. Grounded in science and evidence, but also the projective capacity of the architectural imaginary, it shapes how we teach and the work we produce. Our faculty, students and staff must represent the global society we aim to design for, and our educational and research facilities must be able to support the innovative design and research we plan to do. Thus, our pedagogy addresses three imminent challenges facing society: Climate change, Artificial intelli gence, Social justice.

EX-CHANGE 2022 uses these three challenges as the themes that organize the work presented in the following pages, along with the experiments that are inspired by a spirit of formal and technological innovation at the school.

→ Ribbon legend: the solid color in the ribbon marking each project indicates the theme the project addresses.

Climate Change

Social Justice

Climate change and its impending environmental and social problems have re shaped our world. How can architecture support living in the Anthropocene? Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence poses a challenge to human agency and what it means to live in a posthuman society. How does architecture navigate this changing landscape?

Social justice is an everpresent concern underlying the work we do. There is a constant need for greater equity and inclusion of race, gender and intersectionality in our politics and commu nities. What is architecture’s agency in working towards a more just world?

Experiments

A spirit of inventiveness and experimentation is critical to foster at a school of archi tecture. These works offer a glimpse into the formal, technological and conceptual projects that test the limits of our discipline.

Pedagogies 2020

The School of Architecture embarked on a strategic planning process, titled Pedagogies 2020, to review its mission, values and programs and to develop an actionable vision that can address some of the signif icant challenges facing architecture and the built environment in the 21st century.

The school has an established reputation in the productive role that technology plays in the art and design of architecture. Our pioneer ing work in sustainability, building science and computation has distin guished our school from our peers. Likewise, our seminal work in par ticipatory and community engaged design has laid the foundations for the values we ascribe to architec ture: that, above all, it must be in the public interest and accessible to all. These legacies put the school in a unique position to address some of the daunting challenges we face as a society that require imagination, innovation and empathy.

Pedagogy is reductively under stood as the methods of teaching; the techniques employed in lectures, seminars and studios to impart knowledge and skills to a student. In our formulation we take the term to mean the broader context within which learning takes place. This includes not only the methods of teaching, but also the physical, political, social and cultural context within which it occurs. Pedagogies 2020 takes direction from J. Dewey’s understanding of pedagogy as a vehicle for self-realization as well as the work of critical pedagogy (P. Freire, E. Said, b. hooks) that estab lished that education, research and creative practice is always in direct dialogue with society’s evolving con cerns and must critically examine its prevailing paradigms.

Pedagogies 2020 was critical, speculative and provocative, ground ed in science and evidence but also the projective capacity of the archi tectural imaginary. Our faculty, stu dents and staff must represent the global society we aim to design for, and our educational and research facilities must be able to support the innovative design and research we plan to do. Most significantly, our pedagogy must address the immi nent challenges facing society:

Climate change and its impending environ mental and social problems and how architec ture can support living in the Anthropocene.

Artificial intelligence and its challenge to human agency and what it means to live in a posthuman society.

Social justice and the need for greater equity and inclusion of race, gender and intersec tionality in our politics and communities.

To address these challenges, Peda gogies 2020 was divided into three unique but interrelated pedagogies: Fundamentals, Design Research and Race & Inclusion. Each was tasked with using the Fall 2020 semester for “stocktaking”: to engage faculty, staff and students in conversations and information gathering. In Spring 2021, we translated these efforts into actionable items that will better align our mission, programs, personnel, facilities and resources to address the challenges we have laid out for ourselves.

Fundamentals addresses the following questions:

→ What is the argument for architecture in the 21st century?

→ How does the school position and ad dress the great challenges of our time?

→ What are the fundamental compe tencies that an architect must have to design in this context?

→ What tools, skills and intellectual traditions are vital for the architect?

→ What are the ethical challenges facing architecture?

Design Research addresses the following questions:

→ What is the future of architectural practice?

→ How can research support innovation in architecture?

→ What is the role of design in contrib uting to interdisciplinary research at Carnegie Mellon?

→ What is the role of interdisciplinary research within architectural design?

→ How can community partnerships and industry engagement open opportuni ties for collaborative research?

Race & Inclusion addresses the following questions:

→ How are matters of race and inclusion woven into the world’s great challenges and how can we best respond to them?

→ What is the argument for diversity, collective action, radical inclusiveness and community-building in today’s increasingly fragmented world?

→ What is the agency of the architect in shaping the built environment to serve everyone, including those without a voice?

→ How can ethics, justice, equity and values play a more dominant role in shaping architectural education in order to better prepare our students for the increasingly agonistic future?

→ What are unique strengths and chal lenges that are specific to our school with regard to race and inclusion?

→ How can we increase the representation and support of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and underrep resented minorities (URM) in our school and in the profession?

Programs Programs Programs Programs

The SoA’s programs leverage the unparalleled academic opportuni ties at Carnegie Mellon University.

pr Undergraduate Degree Programs

The SoA offers two baccalaureate degree programs: the Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) and the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.). Both programs begin with the same studio-based curriculum in the first year, but then begin to di verge in terms of opportunities and outcomes. The B.Arch requires 10 studios, while the B.A. only requires a minimum of four studios, which can be spread out over the four years of the program.

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)

The B.Arch is a five-year, first profes sional degree program accredited by the National Architectural Accred iting Board (NAAB) with a precisely defined set of Student Performance Criteria (SPC). This program is ideal for students who want to pursue a career as a licensed architect and centers around a carefully structured set of professional and technical courses on building design and construction. Students graduate with a professional degree that prepares them to excel in practice, but that also launches them into key specialties within architecture and allied professions. Due to the techni cal nature of the B.Arch program, it is STEM-eligible, meaning that in ad dition to one year of Optional Practi cal Training (OPT) a student on an F1 visa may apply for a 24-month STEM OPT extension after graduation.

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.)

The B.A. is a four-year liberal stud ies degree program that allows and encourages interdisciplinary exploration. B.A. students have the opportunity to double major, test the boundaries of the discipline

and explore a variety of interests. The B.A. can be a good fit for those who are interested in specializing in other fields in graduate school, including the two-year professional M.Arch degree program (often called a 4+2 degree).

pr Studio-Based Graduate Programs

Master of Advanced Architectural Design (MAAD)

Jeremy Ficca, Track Chair

The Master of Advanced Architectural Design (MAAD) is a four-semester, post-professional design research graduate program that leverages de sign synthesis to forge connections across knowledge domains. It offers students the flexibility to tailor a unique path of study that builds upon core strengths within the SoA in materiality and construction, architectural robotics, computation al design and ecological thinking as vehicles for knowledge acquisition and speculation.

Master of Architecture (M.Arch)

Sarosh Anklesaria, Track Chair

The Master of Architecture (M.Arch) is a NAAB-accredited, studio-based, first professional degree program to educate tomorrow’s leaders in architecture-related careers. Students and faculty from around the world engage both the core of the discipline and tackle the great challenges of the built environment in focus areas of sustainable design, computational design, urban design and construction management. The M.Arch program’s strategically small size allows self-motivated students to shape their individual educational agendas and career paths as they interact directly with a broad array of vertically integrated studios and advanced research projects in the school, the university, the local com munity and around the world.

Master of Urban Design (MUD) Stefan

Gruber, Track Chair

The Master of Urban Design (MUD) is a two-year, post-professional, studio-based program distinguished by its emphasis on integrating socially engaged practice with new tools and techniques for representing, understanding and designing cities. The program allows students the opportunity to work in transdisciplinary teams at the intersection of the arts, humanities and technol ogy across CMU’s departments and colleges and throughout Pittsburgh, a thriving post-industrial laboratory. The program prepares graduates for careers using urban design to critically address environmental, economic, social, political and cultural issues affecting contempo rary urbanization. The studio-based curriculum allows students to explore design strategies in a variety of scales and settings, from the post-industrial city to the dense metropolis, from sprawling suburbia to informal settlements.

pr M.S. & PhD Programs

Architecture–Engineering–Construc tion Management (AECM) Joshua D. Lee, Track Chair

The Master of Science and PhD of Architecture–Engineering–Construc tion Management (AECM) programs are jointly offered by the School of Architecture and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. The AECM programs prepare build ing-delivery professionals for careers in capital project delivery dealing with the entire life-cycle of capital projects, from pre-design to design, construction, commissioning, oper ation and maintenance stages. The program focuses on the integration of design and technology, particularly advanced information systems, as a means of both improving building performance and enhancing environ mental sustainability.

Building Performance & Diagnostics (BPD)

Vivian Loftness, Track Chair

The M.S. and PhD in Building Per formance & Diagnostics (BPD) are top-ranked building science degrees dedicated to high-performance build ings for a more resilient and sustain able future. “Sustainability” was our passion and expertise long before it became a buzzword. These programs have long led the world in advanced building technologies that sustainably reshape the built environment.

Computational Design (CD)

Daniel Cardoso Llach, Track Chair

The M.S. and PhD programs in Com putational Design take a computer science view of design, applying both the science and art of computing to design problems. The program tackles design problems in relation to creation, presentation, analysis, evaluation, interaction or aesthetic expression, and in real and imagined applications, both perceived and conceived. The SoA’s CD graduate program started in the late 1960’s— among the first and best known in the country. From the beginning, the program has benefitted from close cooperation with other units of the university, particularly the School of Computer Science and the Department of Civil & Environ mental Engineering. Computing has become increasingly important in nearly all areas of design: simulation, analysis, synthesis, tangible interac tion and people-centered as well as building-centered design algorithms. Students are urged to utilize the wide-ranging expertise, facilities and personnel available throughout the SoA and the university.

Master of Science in Sustainable Design (MSSD)

Dana Cupkova, Track Chair

The Master of Science in Sustainable Design (MSSD) is a post-professional, research-based graduate program

focused on enabling deep expertise, critical thinking and investigation of innovative sustainable strategies for the design of the built environment. The MSSD program has long led the world in advanced building tech nologies that sustainably reshape the built environment. The program critically engages and investigates environmental issues related to architecture and urban systems at the intersection of building science, design and technology. The program explores technical and multicultural aspects of ecological thinking while enabling actionable expertise in sus tainable design methodologies. Based within the legacy of sustainability teaching at CMU, the MSSD program investigates research-based design innovation strategies, prepares stu dents to excel in research methods and to become experts in integrative design thinking for the future of the built environment.

Doctor of Design (DDes)

Erica Cochran Hameen, Track Chair

The Doctor of Design (DDes) (formerly Doctor of Professional Practice) is a three-year program for mid-career professionals aspiring to solve advanced problems in the fields of architecture, engineering or construction. Modes of study include conference and video calls, webbased learning, field work, profes sional practice work, international exchange and institutional meetings and conferences. Unlike academically founded graduate programs, the DDes program is based on the assump tion that mid-career professionals can develop doctoral-level research, building on their tacit knowledge acquired through years of profes sional practice. The cohorts in this program come from various AEC (Architecture–Engineering–Construc tion) fields, as well as from various states in the U.S. and nations of the world. The program is a collaborative effort with Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse.

pr Multiple Degree Options

Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP)

The SoA’s Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) offers baccalau reate students the opportunity to expedite the completion of a master’s degree, saving both time and money, and allowing them to hit the job market with specialized knowledge and two Carnegie Mellon degrees. Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students must apply to the AMP in their fourth year and begin pursuing their master’s coursework in their fifth year. Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.) students must apply to the AMP in their third year and begin pursuing their master’s coursework in their fourth year.

Dual-Degree Options

The SoA’s Dual-Degree Options offer current master’s students the opportunity to expedite the completion of a master’s degree, saving both time and money, and allowing them to hit the job market with specialized knowledge and two Carnegie Mellon degrees. Master’s students can apply to a dual-degree program at any time after enroll ing in their first master’s degree program.

→ 48-100 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 1Eddy Man Kim

This studio investigates the role and process of architectural design as three critical acts: to see, to empa thize and to deliver.

→ 48-104 - Shop SkillsJon Holmes

This course introduces basic ma terial assembly methods and the use of workshop machinery, hand and power tools, preparing students to participate in a wide range of subsequent building and fabrication projects.

→ 48-025 - First Year Seminar: Architecture Edition IHeather Workinger Midgley

This course focuses on how students learn, develop and make decisions as they transition into architecture education.

→ 62-125 - Drawing IDouglas Cooper

This introductory course in freehand architectural drawing helps build a capacity for visualizing three-di mensional space through freehand drawing.

→ 62-122 - Digital Media IMatthew Huber

This is the first in a two-course sequence that introduces digital drawing and image production as both generative and communicative processes.

→ 62-104 - Design Ethics

Introduction - Valentina Vavasis, Kai Gutschow

This course, aimed at first year architecture students, is an intro duction to social justice and design ethics, how architecture is embed ded in these issues, and how archi tects might address these issues in current and future practice, both as citizens and as designers.

→ 48-105 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 2Hal Hayes

This studio cultivates student ar chitects as citizens operating at the interface of campus and the city to inspire community engagement and inclusive design processes as the essential basis of architecture.

→ 48-026 - First Year Seminar: Architecture Edition IIHeather Workinger Midgley

This course encourages students to pursue their interests inside and outside of the School of Architec ture by introducing a range of op portunities, including study abroad, internships, academic minors/addi tional majors and research oppor tunities.

→ 62-126 - Drawing IIDouglas Cooper

This course builds a capacity for visualizing three-dimensional space through freehand drawing, using line, tone and color to represent architectural space and architectur al proposals.

→ 62-123 - Digital Media IIMatthew Huber

This is the second in a two-course sequence that introduces students to a broad range of architectural drawing techniques and practices that document, communicate and generate design possibilities.

→ 48-240 - History of World Architecture I - Diane Shaw

This course cuts a broad swath through time, geography and cul tures, surveying critical episodes in the built environment of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas from ancient times through the 19th century.

Chrysalis Performing Arts Center

Spring 2022 48-105 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 2

Ella Moon

Patrick Zheng Spring 2022 62-126 Drawing II

Anusha Modi

Fall 2021

48-100 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 1

Charlie Hymowitz

Xinran Yu Fall 2021 48-100 Poiesis Studio 1

Tristan Hineman

Pauline Zhang

→ 48-200 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 Laura Garófalo

This studio explores morphology in relation to patterns of climate, programmatic organization, and so ciocultural and ecological context.

→ 48-215 - Materials and Assemblies - Gerard Damiani

This course introduces and exam ines the fundamentals between design intent and construction materials, the science of materials (performance) and their assemblies.

→ 48-116 - Building PhysicsÖmer Karaguzel

This course introduces fundamental theories of building physics and sim ulation-aided design development skill sets in the fields of building lighting, thermal performance and room acoustics.

→ 62-225/48-783 (Second Year and Elective) - Generative Modeling - Joshua Bard

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of generative modeling using computer-aided design as practiced in the field of architecture.

→ 48-324 - Structures/StaticsIrving Oppenheim

This course examines structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction con straints that underlie the design of buildings, emphasizing the need for a designer to envision a complete three-dimensional structure.

→ 48-241 - Modern Architecture and Theory - Kai Gutschow

This history course surveys modern architecture and theory of the 20th-century from around the world.

It is the second of a two-semester global survey that serves both as a historical foundation for disciplinary specialization, and as an introduc tion to architectural history.

→ 62-275 - Fundamentals of Computational DesignEddy Man Kim

This course takes computers outside the box and outlines a journey of discovery, revealing computation as the connective tissue encompass ing multiple facets of architectural practice and experience.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: SyncopationJared Abraham

This studio proposes the use of syncopation as a technique with which to analyze, augment and dis rupt the constructed environment.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Interface ArchitectureEddy Man Kim

This studio researches and develops processes for augmenting architectural representation and computation.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a PittsburghTommy Yang

This studio explores how stories, myths, cinematography, animation, mapping, comics and design can build an argument for an architec ture for and of the people.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Untangling the ThreadsStefani Danes

This studio looks critically at the most common models of the design process and why they don’t work. The primary studio project is an International Fabric Arts Design Cen ter dedicated to the creation, study and exhibition of contemporary works in cloth and fiber.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Constructed Architecture - Stephen Lee

This spring build option studio succeeds the fall design elective for a year-long, multi-departmental project led by the SoA. Students work with campus constituents to improve the quality of life through design intervention(s) on campus.

Aidan Smith

Frazier St Theater and Suspended Living

Spring 2022 48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Syncopation

Gloria Lee

Hostel: Rooms with Different Personalities

Spring 2022 48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Syncopation

Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Syncopation

Fall 2021

48-200

Architecture Design

Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Kappelt

Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis 3 - Yang

Keanu Zihan Dong, Eric Ziyi Feng Blossom Culinary Center

Olive Bouseman

Suzie Siyi Liu, Jeff Li

Emily Franco

Journey through the patchwork

Spring 2022 48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Untangling the Threads

Alexia Tan

Thread together_Fabric art design center

Spring 2022

48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Untangling the Threads

Neha Chopra

Fall 2021

48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - King

Ashley Su, Jackie Yu Mise en Place Culinary Center

Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Rodriguez

Anqi Chen

Mascot Design for Pittsburgh Steps

Spring 2022

48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Interface Architecture

Brody Ploeger, Aditya Shinn

South Side Culinary Institute

Fall 2021

48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Markiewicz

Jacky Jia, David Warfel

Casting Pittsburgh steps

Spring 2022

48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Interface Architecture

Suzie Siyi Liu Into the pancakes Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

Tianshu

Huang, Rima Sachdeva

Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - King

Grace Kolosek, Brody Ploeger Reverbrae

Graham Murtha Porch Ecologies

Spring 2022

48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

Spring 2022

48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Untangling the Threads Alexandra Meilan Wang Guardians of the Oasis

Spring 2022 48-205

Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

Jackie Yu Human Textile

Third Year Courses

→ 48-300 - Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1Dana Cupkova

The studio’s design pedagogy is centered on architecture’s response to climate change. Emphasizing the role of landscape in shaping architecture, students focus on uncovering its social, infrastructur al and ecological histories, along with the patterns of toxicity as they relate to cultures of post-industrial urbanization.

→ 48-315/48-635 (Third Year and M.Arch) - Environment I: Climate and Energy in Architecture - Vivian Loftness

This course introduces architec tural design responses for energy conservation, natural conditioning, human comfort and the site-specific dynamics of climate.

→ 48-250 - Urbanism and the Social Production of SpaceStefan Gruber

This course introduces students to urbanism and explores architecture as a situated and relational practice subject to broader social, political, economic, ecological and cultural forces.

→ 48-305 - Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2Jeremy Ficca

This studio introduces integrated architectural design as the synthesis of disparate elements, demands and desires, situating architecture as a technological, cultural and environ mental process that is inherently contingent and entangled, yet tethered to a historical project of autonomy.

→ 48-380 - Real Estate for Architects - Tamara Dudukovich

This course investigates the real es tate development process from the points of view of both the architect and the developer, allowing students to learn how financial, economic and political issues may affect their design practices.

Fall 2021

48-300

Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1

Year Third Year Third Year

Colin Walters, Jerry Yonghao Zhang

Yunpeng Yu Spring 2022 48-305 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Brian Hartman

Fall 2021

48-300 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Shray Tripathi Library in Upham's Corner

Spring 2022

48-305 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Upham's Corner Public Library

Spring 2022

48-305

Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Fall 2021

48-300

Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1

Rebecca Cunningham

Jimmy Athan

Shellhouse Riverfront

Fourth & Fifth Year Courses

→ 48-432/48-655 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch)Environment II: Design Integration of Active Building SystemsNina Baird

This course focuses on active sys tems in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful inte gration with passive components.

→ 48-525 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) - Thesis SeminarFrancesca Torello

This seminar helps B.Arch and M.Arch thesis students refine the scope of the thesis argument, define appropriate research methods and sharpen communication about the sis work in all of its phases.

Advanced Synthesis Option Studio Courses

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650 (ASOS and MAAD) - Cultivated: From Farm to Building - Jeremy Ficca

This studio explores the potential of regenerative material flows and harvested building materials in the context of Pennsylvania agriculture.

It focuses on the ecologies of indus trial hemp to consider the prospects of farming, processing and building with hemp in the post-industrial landscape of southwestern Penn sylvania.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650 (ASOS and MUD 3) - Commoning the City - Stefan Gruber

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650Reforming Architecture: Re-purposing harmful architec ture of the past for a healthier future - William Bates

This studio revisits an abandoned state prison structure, the Penn sylvania Correctional Institution of Pittsburgh, to re-envision a new, more humane and environmentally appropriate purpose.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650 - City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern worldMary-Lou Arscott

→ 48-381 - Issues of PracticeStuart Coppedge

This course introduces students to the realm of architectural profes sional practice, focusing on the overlay of design within the context of the client’s role and the archi tect’s responsibilities in competent architectural project and practice management.

→ 48-383 - Ethics and Decision Making in ArchitectureValentina Vavasis

This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environ ment. Students learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an eth ical issue and how one might work through an ethical problem.

→ 48-497 - Pre-ThesisMary-Lou Arscott

This course is designed for B.Arch and M.Arch students a year before their final spring semester. The course develops an understanding of research methods and explores the formation of ideas for architecture thesis projects.

This first semester of the year long “Commoning the City” re search-based design studio focuses on social justice and community-led transformation of cities and culmi nates in individual thesis projects.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650 - Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the BuildingGerard Damiani

This studio goes beyond how space and time affect the role of archi tectural sequence in real time to a question of how a building is under stood throughout time.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650HELIOStudio: Designing Urban Solar Transition - Christine Mondor

This studio examines how the pivot between extractive and renewable energy technologies will reshape our use of space and test how our land scape and urban form determine how we deploy technologies.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse ExpansionHal Hayes

This studio helps students develop a strong, comprehensive and holistic design process as they learn to seek inspiration from the design com ponents and socio-cultural issues involved in a large, complex building project.

This studio moves from a critical reconsideration of Pittsburgh’s versions of modernism to formulate novel responses by experimenting with non-linear narratives in moving image.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi - Sarosh Anklesaria

This studio asks how architecture might participate in “worldmaking as praxis” through the making of living memorials at Gandhi Ashram. These serve as an ecological critique of the present day material culture of extraction, consumption and waste, as well as of a social critique of inequality and intolerance.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660 - Past Futures: The Ohio River ValleyHeather Bizon

The American Midwest presents a unique setting for the issues of accelerationism. Where East meets West, in the overlooked regions, and its neighboring geographies present uniquely American scenarios –testing beds for issues of politics, social conditions, infrastructure and identity.

SPRING 2022

SPRING 2022

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660 - Thick Skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building EnvelopeLaura Garófalo

Coupling architectural terra cotta, a medium with cradle-to-cradle potential, and the restoration of ex isting building stock, students delve deeply into the more responsive and responsible building strategies that a livable future world demands.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660Bricolage at Community Forge: Urban Collaboratory StudioStefan Gruber

In a participatory design process, this studio supports Community Forge with developing ideas for a multifunctional performance space and translates these into a de sign-build component that promises to act as catalyst in the incremental transformation of the space.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660 (ASOS and Second Year Option Studio) - The Cut, The Beach & Beyond: Campus Design-Build - Stephen Lee This spring build option studio succeeds the fall design elective for a year-long, multi-departmental project led by the SoA. Students work with campus constituents to improve the quality of life through design intervention(s) on campus.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660Critical Making: Rendering Visible Systems of ControlJackie Joseph Paul McFarland This studio dives deeper into sys tems of control to better understand who they serve and why the built environment has failed so many.

→ 48-410/48-510/48-660/48-708 (ASOS and MUD 3)Commoning the City: Negotiating Top-Down and Bottom-Up UrbanismJonathan Kline

Commoning the City is a yearlong research-based-design studio focused on social justice and com munity-led urban transformations, positioning design as an agent of change that can support citizens claiming their Right to the City. The second semester supports students in rigorously exploring their hypoth esis through design and writing.

Option Studios

Fifth Year

Fourth & Fifth Year

Studios Advanced Synthesis Option Studios

Advanced Synthesis

Fourth & Fifth Year

Qijia Li

Centennial Journey

Fall 2021 48-400/650

ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Fall 2021 48-400/650

ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

Thomas Chen Bellefield Boiler Plant

Elena Marzina

Emily Edlich, Robert Rice Hazelwood Hempcrete Factory & Second Ave.

Meghan Pisarcik, Ellen Zhu

A New Zone: The Ohio River Valley Industrial Development Operation

Spring 2022

48-410/660

ASO: Past Futures: The Ohio River Valley

Carson Michaelis Terminal Warehouse Building

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: Post-Occupied

Ankitha Vasudev

Spring 22

48-410/510

ASO: Thick skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

Yeong Il-Jo Sanitation+Empowerment

Spring 2022

48-410/660

ASO: Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi

Steven Fei

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

Algae P(H20)Tobio

Concourse

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

Clara Jieli Zhao The Imagine MachineHistory Producers

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Veronica Hernandez

Mike Lin Sensory Urbanism Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Jason Garwood

Nothing is Taboo

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Shanice Lam

Breaking Boundaries: From Disparate Schools to United Campus

Spring 2022

48-410/660

ASO: Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi

Sarah Kang

Museum

48-410/660

ASO: Thick Skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

Bobby Yang Guidebook Stacks

Fall 2021 48-400/650

ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

Vishaka Nayak Brilliant Cuttoff Viaduct Pittsburgh Fall 2021

Nick Coppula, Carson Michaelis Political Changes in the Ohio River Valley

Spring 2022

48-410/660

ASO: Past Futures: The Ohio River Valley

Mari Kubota

Spring 2022

48-410/660

ASO: Thick Skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

Seyoung Choo, Sarah Kang Review on the Flooding History of Louisville and the People: Development between Early 2030's to Late 2050's Spring 2022 48-410/510

ASO: Past Futures: The Ohio River Valley

ASO: The Cut, The Beach & Beyond: Campus Design-Build

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: HELIOStudio: Designing Urban Solar Transition

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: Reforming Architec ture: Re-purposing harmful architecture of the past for a healthier future

Fall 2021

48-400/650

ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

Aadya Bhartia, Ankitha Vasudev

Ammar Hassonjee, Shanice Lam Hazelwood Greenway

Franklin Zhu Homstead Lost Memory

Jenna Guo Solar Grow

Fall 2021 48-400/650

ASO: HELIOStudio: Designing Urban Solar Transition

→ 48-356 - Color DrawingDouglas Cooper

This course builds knowledge and provides practice in the use of color, principally with watercolor, to depict architectural surroundings.

→ 48-455 - Advanced StructuresIrving Oppenheim

This course culminates in a group project involving form-finding and analysis/design of a cable net roof, based either on a prominent built example or a 3-D boundary geometry.

→ 48-770 - Inquiry into Machine Learning and DesignArdavan Bidgoli

This course introduces students to the emerging field of machine learn ing and design, giving them the tools to make their own machine-learn ing-based design tools by adapting state-of-the-art models, developing new models and understanding how data shapes machine learning processes.

→ 48-313/48-613 - Urban Traces: Insurgent Rituals and Counter mapping the CityTommy CheeMou Yang This seminar weaves history, ethnography, storytelling and the delayering of the built environment through fieldwork to examine and counter-map the representation of the city.

→ 48-554 - Natures of Nature: Moving Toward an Eco-Centric Design Practice - Laura Garófalo

This course questions how we per ceive, define, represent, construct and reconstruct our world in relation to evolving concepts of “nature” and their manifestation in art, architec ture and landscape architecture.

→ 48-314/48-614 - Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World - Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland

This course explores how Afrofutur ism allows one to shift perspectives out of a Eurocentric, white, patriar chal, heteronormative perspective to give agency to those who see and experience the world through different eyes.

→ 48-434 - Aztec to Zacatecas: Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial ArchitectureDiane Shaw

This course surveys the architecture and urbanism of Mexico and Guate mala during the Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial eras.

→ 48-368 - Rediscovering Antiquity: Travelers, Archeol ogists and Architects in the Mediterranean - Francesca Torello

The course follows the intertwined histories of architecture and ar chaeology from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century, critically engaging with the outsized influence of classical antiquity on architectural theory and practice and its role of authority and model in the Western artistic and cultural debate.

→ 48-620 - Graduate Seminar: Situating ResearchNida Rehman

This course introduces incoming graduate students to a range of re search approaches through lectures and conversations with SoA faculty, PhD researchers and other invited guests.

→ 48-689 - Design Skills Workshop - Eddy Man Kim

This summer course for incoming graduate students helps to establish a baseline of technical skills appro priate to the expectations of the design culture at the SoA.

→ 48-783/62-225 (Second Year and Elective) - Generative Modeling - Joshua Bard

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of generative modeling using computer-aided design as practiced in the field of architecture.

→ 48-798 - HVAC and Power Supply for Low-Carbon Buildings - Nina Baird

This graduate course focuses on heating, cooling, ventilation and power supply systems for new and future commercial buildings. Stu dents consider sustainable choices for commercial building HVAC and power supply, their integrations with grid infrastructure and how those choices may vary by building type and project location around the world.

→ 48-733 - Environmental Performance SimulationÖmer Karaguzel

This course outlines a series of en vironmental design principles with emphasis on evidence-based design approaches and reviews of building case studies.

→ 48-729 - Sustainability, Health and Productivity to Accelerate a Quality Built EnvironmentVivian Loftness

This course explores the relationship of quality buildings, building sys tems, infrastructures and land-use to productivity, health, well-being and a sustainable environment.

→ 48-568 - Advanced CAD, BIM and 3D VisualizationKristen Kurland

This course introduces students to three-dimensional software tools including AutoCAD 3D, Revit Archi tecture and 3D Studio MAX.

→ 48-725 - Graduate Real Estate Design and DevelopmentValentina Vavasis

This course teaches the fundamen tals of real estate development, including its process and context.

→ 48-763 - Protean Systems: Sustainable Solutions for Uncertain Futures - Joshua Lee

This course explores the various types and scales of change and reviews various concepts through a wide array of built precedents. Students produce case studies of these examples and design their own protean systems.

→ 48-531/48-771 - Fabricating Customization - Jeremy Ficca This course emphasizes the reci procity of design and prototyping, challenging students to leverage physical artifacts as tools for thinking and to use prototyping as a means of exploration, not merely a method of production or fabrication.

→ 48-699 A2 - Environmental Racism, Injustice and Unfree dom: Lessons for Architects and Designers - Nida Rehman

This seminar examines the histories and definitions of environmental racism, environmental injustice/jus tice and environmental unfreedoms to critically assess architecture’s role as a mechanism of environ mental inequities and injustices, and learn from social movements for radical and hopeful change.

→ 48-611 - Collateral ArchitectureJordan Geiger

This seminar’s collective research into collateral architectures pro vides students with ideas for new practices, new users or clients, new uses and new experiences.

→ 48-746 A2 - Shape MachineRamesh Krishnamurti

→ 48-541 A1 & A2 - The Cut, the Beach & Beyond: Design-Build Installations for Your Campus - Stephen Lee

This fall design elective with a spring build option studio is a yearlong, multi-departmental project led by the SoA. Students work with Cam pus Design & Facility Development, the Department of Civil and Envi ronmental Engineering and campus constituents to improve the quality of life through design interven tion(s) on campus.

Design Fundamentals Courses Design Ethics Courses

→ 48-355 - PerspectiveDouglas Cooper

This freehand drawing course con siders perspective from three under standings of perceptual psychology: perspective as discovered truth, absolute truth of the visual field and as an imposed schema.

→ 48-175/62-175 - Descriptive Geometry - Ramesh Krishnamurti This course revolves around the historical techniques for manually solving three-dimensional geom etry problems by working with two-dimensional planes using basic mechanical tools.

→ 48-328/48-737 - Detailing Architecture - Gerard Damiani

This course examines the role of architectural detail in the formation/ thematic development of a work of architecture and how the detail reinforces the theoretical position of the architect.

→ 48-545/48-745 - Digital Fabrication - Joshua Bard

This project-based seminar explores the application of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) in architecture. The course focuses on transdimen sional fabrication, a manufacturing framework that forefronts design thinking across space and time.

→ 48-467 - The Cut, the Beach & Beyond: Design-Build Elective - Stephen Lee

This spring build option studio succeeds the fall design elective for a year-long, multi-departmental project led by the SoA. Students work with campus constituents to improve the quality of life through design intervention(s) on campus.

→ 48-339/48-739 - Making Things Interactive - Jet Townsend

This is a project-based course where physical computing and interaction design are used to create new forms of technology-mediated interaction.

→ 48-374 - History of Architec ture in the Islamic WorldFrancesca Torello

This course provides an introduc tion to the architecture of the lands where Islam spread over the centu ries, providing a basic understand ing of major epochs and regional variations.

→ 48-435 - Modern Mexico and Guatemala: 19th-21st Century Architecture - Diane Shaw

This course examines the architec tural history of modern Mexico and Guatemala by looking at the coun tries’ urban and rural architectural evolution as explicit and implicit expressions of identity (Mexicani dad or Guatemalidad).

→ 48-442 - History of Asian Architecture - Katheryn Linduff

This course introduces the evolution of urban spaces and the function of the architecture in South Asia, China, Korea and Japan. Organized chronologically, it examines the impact of indigenous philosophical principles on the organization of villages, capital cities and religious centers.

→ 48-336 - Architecture and Agency - Sarosh Anklesaria

This course considers the agency of architecture simultaneously through historical and contemporary forms of praxis as well as theories that inform them.

→ 48-314/48-614 - Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World - Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland

The seminar explores different ways the Black imagination has been used to create a world where African-Americans render them selves visible in the past, present and future.

→ 48-699 - Design Ethics: Space, Health, Justice - Nida Rehman

This course offers critical perspec tives on the relationships and spatial politics of health, ecology and archi tecture, conceiving architecture as cultural imaginations and grounded inhabitations of space, rather than expert prescriptions or techno-fixes.

SPRING 2022 SPRING 2022

→ 48-720 - Planning by Design: Campuses, Waterfronts, Districts and Cites - Ray Gastil

This course allows students to develop strategies to respond to the challenges cities face in remaking districts that are viable in terms of engagement and opportunity, as well as meaningful and inclusive in a so ciety that appears to be increasingly less place based.

Design Research Courses

→ 48-711 - Paradigms of Research in Architecture - Joshua Lee

This course introduces a wide range of research strategies that can be used successfully across a wide spectrum of knowledge production.

→ 48-611 - On Speed/Space, Time and Information - Jordan Geiger

This seminar focuses on relations between architecture, information and computing technologies, and society as they are conditioned by speed: rates of transfer, response, exchange, movement, cognition and more.

→ 48-557 - Formless as an Operation - Heather Bizon

This seminar focuses on the form less as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics. Students investigate the means and methods of representa tion relative to the formless and the built environment.

→ 62-706 - Generative Systems for Design - Ramesh Krishnamurti and Jinmo Rhee

This course overviews the main topics in generative systems, with historical notes and technical spec ifications addressing topics such as variational modeling, rule-based modeling, directed and dynamic simulation, optimization and learning.

→ 48-528/48-758 - IDeATe: Responsive Mobile Environments - Daragh Byrne

As part of this project-based course, students get hands-on with emerg ing technologies, concepts and applications in the Internet of Things through a critical lens.

→ 48-770 - Introduction to Machine Learning in DesignArdavan Bidgoli

This course introduces students to this emerging field, giving them the tools to make their own ma chine-learning-based design tools by adapting state-of-the-art models, developing new models and under standing how data shapes machine learning processes.

→ 48-752 - Zero Energy HousingNina Baird

This graduate-level course explores the requirements and strategies for achieving successful net zero mul tifamily housing, including design approaches, codes, policy, technol ogy and energy infrastructure that support net zero or carbon neutral performance.

Electives Electives Electives Electives Electives

Lydia Randall Collage

Spring 2022

48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Morgan Newman-Perry Collage

Spring 2022

48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Petra Floyd Collage

Spring 2022

48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Erin Percevault

Spring 2022 48-339/739

Making Things Interactive Veronica Hernandez Garrido Unveiling Shadyside

Fall 2021 48-313/48-613

Kalla Faculty: Urban Traces: Insurgent Rituals and Countermapping the City

Kirman Hanson Collage

Spring 2022 48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Takumi Davis Collage

Spring 2022 48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Zhao Histories of Porches

Fall 2021 48-313/48-613

Kalla Faculty: Urban Traces: Insurgent Rituals and Countermapping the City

Clara

Taisei Manheim Collage

Spring 2022 48-314/48-614

Afrofuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for a New World

Ryan Vas Adaptive Retail

Fall 2021 48-763

Protean Systems: Sustainable Solutions for Uncertain Futures

Sachin Dabbas, Colleen Duon, Jiyuan Sui, Xin Zhou

Franklin Zhu

Colleen Duong

→ 48-769 - M.S. ThesisGraduate Programs Faculty

This course provides both depth and breadth, while the culminating thesis project allows students the opportunity to narrow their research focus to a topic of personal and professional interest.

MAAD

→ 48-774 - MAAD Pro-Seminar IJeremy Ficca

This course explores architecture’s digital culture to introduce con temporary topics of architectural research, design, practice and con struction.

→ 48-785 - MAAD Research by Design Project

M.Arch

→ 48-630 - M.Arch Studio: Praxis I - Sarosh Anklesaria, Jonathan Kline, Emek Erdolu This studio unpacks architecture’s entanglement with extraction, exploitation and capital to explore emergent models for transformative socio-ecological praxis.

→ 48-634 - Architectural TheoryKai Gutschow This graduate seminar starts with the conviction that architecture is not only buildings, technology, form, program, environment or space, but also culturally constructed dis course and ideas.

→ 48-635/48-315 (Third Year and M.Arch) - Environment I: Climate and Energy in Architecture - Vivian Loftness This course introduces architec tural design responses for energy conservation, natural conditioning, human comfort and the site-specific dynamics of climate.

→ 48-655/48-432 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch)Environment II: Design Integration of Active Building SystemsNina Baird

This course focuses on active sys tems in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful inte gration with passive components.

→ 48-525 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) - Thesis SeminarFrancesca Torello

This seminar helps B.Arch and M.Arch thesis students refine the scope of the thesis argument, define appropriate research methods and sharpen communication about the sis work in all of its phases.

→ 48-640 - M.Arch Studio: Praxis II - Azadeh Sawyer and Matthew Huber

This course continues to understand architecture as a modulator of com plex cultural and historical flows, but aims to do so by intensively exploring, evaluating and expanding the role that tectonic cultures and their associated modes of architec tural expression play in shaping the world.

→ 48-647 - Materiality and Construction SystemsJeremy Ficca

This course introduces contempo rary methods of construction and draws attention to the material ization of architectural intent by foregrounding the historical, tech nological and conceptual basis of construction systems to understand building as process and cultural artifact.

→ 48-637 - Structures/StaticsIrving Oppenheim

This course examines structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction con straints that underlie the design of buildings, emphasizing the need for a designer to envision a complete three-dimensional structure.

→ 48-658 - Real Estate for Architects - Tamara Dudukovich

This course investigates the real es tate development process from the points of view of both the architect and the developer, allowing students to learn how financial, economic and political issues may affect their design practices.

→ 48-641 - Modern Architecture and Theory - Kai Gutschow

This history course surveys modern architecture and theory of the 20th-century from around the world. It is the second of a two-semester global survey that serves both as a historical foundation for disciplinary specialization, and as an introduc tion to architectural history.

→ 48-644 - Pre-ThesisMary-Lou Arscott

This course is designed for B.Arch and M.Arch students a year before their final spring semester. The course develops an understanding of research methods and explores the formation of ideas for architecture thesis projects.

→ 48-648 - Ethics and Decision Making in ArchitectureValentina Vavasis

This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environ ment. Students learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an eth ical issue and how one might work through an ethical problem.

→ 48-649 - Issues of PracticeStuart Coppedge

This course introduces students to the realm of architectural profes sional practice, focusing on the overlay of design within the context of the client’s role and the archi tect’s responsibilities in competent architectural project and practice management.

FALL 2021

FALL 2021

SPRING 2022

SPRING 2022

→ 48-768 - Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ): Energy, Health and ProductivityErica Cochran Hameen

The course introduces the impor tance of the indoor environment on human health and productivity, providing an overview of the metrics utilized to define IEQ and methods to identify their correlations to en ergy consumption, health, produc tivity, equitable design and design justice.

→ 48-765 - AECM Synthesis Project - Joshua Lee

This course applies the diverse knowledge and skills that AECM students have acquired during their program to a critical public interest issue related to the built environment. This semester’s topic is the ecosociotechnical impacts of construction debris.

→ 48-767 - Transdisciplinary Thinking - Stephen Quick

This course is a compendium of architectural, engineering and con struction (AEC) practice, methods and theories with an emphasis on how the AEC professions can more effectively work together by understanding each other’s roles, responsibilities and professional perspectives.

→ 48-759 - Value Based DesignWilliam Bates

This course is an in-depth explora tion of the fundamentals of project values, incentives and motivations and the diverse and sometimes con flicting perspectives of a project’s stakeholders.

→ 48-756 - Project Planning and Reporting - Najeeb Hameen and Gerrod Winston

This course exposes students to advanced project scheduling methods and familiarizes them with the primary reporting practices as performed in the construction industry, such as change manage ment, resource charts and project status reports.

→ 48-569/48-781 - GIS/CAFM: Spatial Analysis in Infrastruc ture Planning - Kristen Kurland

This course covers important geo graphic information system (GIS) and Computer Aided Facilities Man agement (CAFM) concepts.

MSBPD

→ 48-769 - Master’s Thesis Preparation in Building Performance and DiagnosticsVivian Loftness

This culminating thesis project allows students the opportunity to focus their research on a topic of personal and professional interest in the area of Building Performance and Diagnostics, including the devel opment of design innovations and tools for sustainability and indoor environmental quality as well as data analytics across the building and urban spectrum.

→ 48-692 - Shaping Light through Simulation and Virtual RealityAzadeh Sawyer

This course explores how to design with and for light, while understand ing the paradox of lighting design— that it is both science and art.

→ 48-569/48-781 - GIS/CAFM: Spatial Analysis in Infrastruc ture Planning - Kristen Kurland

This course covers important geo graphic information system (GIS) and Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) concepts.

→ 48-721 - Building Controls and Diagnostics - Tiancheng Zhao

This course addresses researchgrade concepts of building controls and diagnostics through actual building case studies and the application of field measurement techniques.

→ 48-795 A3 - LEED, Green Design and Building RatingsNina Baird

This graduate-level mini-course uses global building rating systems to gain perspective about sustainable design around the world. The course is organized within the framework of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Envi ronmental Design (LEED) rating systems.

→ 48-795 A4 - LEED, Green Infrastructure and Community Rating in Global ContextNina Baird

This graduate-level mini-course uses global community and infra structure rating systems to gain perspective about sustainability in context. The course is organized within the framework of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Cities and Communities rating system and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision rating system.

→ 48-769 - M.S. Thesis in Building Performance & DiagnosticsVivian Loftness

The culminating thesis project allows students the opportunity to focus their research on a topic of personal and professional interest in the area of Building Performance & Diagnostics, including the devel opment of design innovations and design tools for sustainability and indoor environmental quality as well as data analytics across the building and urban spectrum.

MSCD

→ 48-727 - Inquiry into Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach

This course focuses on the emer gence of computation as a pivotal concept in contemporary architec ture and other design fields.

FALL 2021

FALL 2021 SPRING 2022

SPRING 2022

→ 48-724 - Scripting and Parametric DesignRamesh Krishnamurti

This course prepares students to model geometry through script ed development of parametric schemes for architecture applica tions by introducing students to basic scripting with a focus on algo rithms relating to form-making, as well as to reinforce and extend basic concepts of parametric modeling.

→ 48-734 - IDeaTe: Possibilistic Design - Sinan Goral

This project-based design seminar concentrates on how critical design theory and powerful storytelling might pave the way for a more responsible, equitable and exciting future.

→ 48-675 A2 - Designing for the Internet of ThingsDaragh Byrne

This course charts the emergence of the “connected world” to explore the possibilities for future products and connected spaces with the Internet of Things.

→ 48-676 A1 - Connected Communities - Daragh Byrne

This seminar examines the space between the smart city and smart home.

→ 48-716 - MSCD Pre-Thesis IIDaniel Cardoso Llach

With the notion of “critical techni cal practice” as a touchstone, this graduate-level seminar draws from across design, media, and science and technology studies to cultivate an awareness of the discursive and political dimensions of technology in design and to guide participants in the formulation of a graduate thesis.

→ 48-749 - Special Topics in Computational Design: Rethinking Automation in ConstructionDaniel Cardoso Llach

This course interrogates the conflu ence of robotics and artificial intel ligence methods and its potential applications to architectural design and construction.

→ 48-715 - MSCD Pre-ThesisDaragh Byrne

This seminar introduces graduate students in Computational Design to the rudiments of graduate level academic research and offers a space to discuss inchoate research methods, questions and projects in the field.

MSSD + Design Research Elective

→ 62-709/48-743 - Introduction to Ecological Design ThinkingDana Cupkova

This graduate-level seminar offers an overview of scholarly, design-based and research-focused approaches to bio-technological design frameworks, committed to connecting critical thinking and design methodologies toward constructed ecologies across scales: from material systems to architec ture, urban design and landscape infrastructure.

→ 48-731 - MSSD Synthesis

Preparation - Azadeh Sawyer

This course ensures a delineat ed, focused scope with a refined timeline and deliverables for the fall synthesis effort. Design-research thesis projects are situated at the intersection of design, material life cycle and computation, addressing multicultural aspects of ecological thinking while enabling actionable expertise in sustainable design methodologies.

→ 48-722/48-524 - Building Performance ModelingWei Liang

This course focuses on conceptual foundations and practical applica tions of advanced and integrated whole-building energy simulation programs with emphasis on archi tectural building envelope systems, mechanical electrical building systems and their controls, and building-integrated solar photovolta ic power systems.

→ 48-731/48-732 - MSSD Synthesis - Dana Cupkova

MUD

→ 48-705 - MUD Urban Lab 1Stefani Danes

As the first of three urban design studios in the MUD program, the “Urban Places Studio” introduces students to urban design and the public realm, including the human and natural processes that define it, all in relation to existing contexts.

→ 48-707 - MUD Graduate Seminar 1 - Paul Ostergaard

This seminar introduces students to six elements of the practice of ur ban design: multi-disciplinary teams, public participation, engagement of major stakeholders, context and heritage, design communication and implementation tools.

→ 48-753 - Introduction to Urban Design Media - Heather Bizon

This course introduces students to media and representation in urban design, a cultural practice in which the built environment is composed of ecological, social and political issues and interrelationships.

→ 48-750 - Histories of Urban Design - Diane Shaw

This course examines various histories of the design and redesign of cities and the reasons for those interventions.

SPRING 2022

FALL 2021

FALL 2021

SPRING 2022

→ 48-742 - Graduate Seminar 3: Planning and Public Policy for the Future of UrbanismRay Gastil

This seminar focuses on the connections between policy, plan ning and the design of regions, cities and neighborhoods down to the scale of the individual project.

→ 48-740 - Urban Design Theory and Methods - Jonathan Kline

This course explores core urban de sign methods and theories organized into three themes intended to give students a foundational understand ing of urban design, examine key critiques of urbanization and explore urban design’s agency.

→ 48-677 - Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines CompetitionValentina Vavasis

This course is for graduate students participating in the prestigious, national Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Competition, an intensive real estate and urban design competition taking place January 10-24, 2022. The competition and course allow cross-disciplinary teams of graduate students to work collaboratively to create a complex urban design and real estate proposal on a real site in North America.

PhD & DDes

→ 48-706 - Urban Design Studio II: Urban Systems - Nida Rehman This studio focuses on the infra structures and ecologies of toxic systems and the modes of local ac tion and stewardship to fight them.

→ 48-773 - Urban Design Media: Emerging Media - Nicolas Azel This course deploys computation as a foundational instrument in design analysis and development, exploring procedure as a medium for design.

→ 48-713 - Urban EcologyChristine Mondor This course examines the shift ing regimes of urban ecology and equips students with skills and core concepts that enable them to lead or contribute to transition through design.

→ 48-712/90-805 - Graduate Seminar II: Issues of Global Urbanization - Stefan Gruber

This seminar investigates the future of cities, focusing on three exis tential challenges: the escalating environmental crisis, growing social inequity and technological dislocation.

→ 48-793 - PhD and DDes ThesisPhD and DDes Track Chairs

This course is for PhD students who have successfully completed their qualifying exams and are working on their dissertation work. In the thesis proposal phase, the PhD student completes the preliminary research needed to plan a course of action leading to a successful disserta tion on a selected topic. The thesis proposal must be publicly defended. This phase ends when the thesis proposal is accepted, whereupon the doctoral candidate is deemed to be in all but dissertation (ABD) status.

→ 48-797 - PhD & DDes Dissertation DefensePhD and DDes Track Chairs

In the dissertation phase, the PhD student writes a dissertation on a selected topic that represents a significant research accomplish ment, makes a significant contri bution to knowledge in the area of concentration and includes material worthy of publication. The disserta tion must be publicly defended. The students will be awarded the degree upon successful completion of the defense and submission of the final dissertation document.

→ 48-811 - PhD & DDes Proposal Preparation - PhD and DDes Track Chairs

This course is for PhD students who are preparing their dissertation proposals.

→ 48-793 - PhD Thesis - PhD and DDes Track Chairs

This course is for PhD students who have successfully completed their qualifying exams and are working on their dissertation work. In the thesis proposal phase, the PhD student completes the preliminary research needed to plan a course of action leading to a successful disserta tion on a selected topic. The thesis proposal must be publicly defended. This phase ends when the thesis proposal is accepted, whereupon the doctoral candidate is deemed to be in all but dissertation (ABD) status.

→ 48-793 - PhD Thesis in Building Performance & DiagnosticsVivian Loftness

The culminating thesis project for the PhD in Building Performance & Diagnostics delivers cutting edge and tested design innovations for sustainability, design tools for sus tainability and/or data analytics and policies for significantly advancing sustainable buildings and commu nities.

SPRING 2022

SPRING 2022

FALL 2021

Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate

Rahul Jha, Lulin Shan, Yuchuan Shan Missu

Fall 2021 48-675 A4 Designing for the Internet of

Things

Saloni Agarwal Community Coworking Space

Spring 2022 48-706 UD Studio 2: Urban Systems

Yongwen Dai, Michael Lawlor, Ruoyu Li Circular Life

Fall 2021 48-705

MUD Urban Lab 1

Jonathan

Pett Pasadena, MD

Fall 2021 48-753 Urban Design Media Introduction

Yongwen Dai Yizheng City Fall 2021

48-753 Urban Design Media Introduction

Gavin Hurley, Kushal Shah

Jordan Luther, Samantha Su

UNITY - Overcoming The Barrier Fall 2021 48-630 M.Arch Studio: Praxis I

Colin Cusimano, Sidra Khan, Tejaswini Rane Music's Social Performance

Spring 2022 48-640

M.Arch Studio: Praxis 2

Tommy Vite

Time+Architecture

Spring 2022

48-644 M.Arch Pre-Thesis

Cusimano

Ruoyu Li

Ariba Asad

The Free Clinic Extension

Spring 2022 48-706

UD Studio 2: Urban Systems

Theses and Dissertations Theses

Dissertations

Inquiries, Observations

and Provocations through Architecture

Coordinators: Francesca Torello (fall seminar), Sarah Rafson (spring studio)

An architectural thesis is a proposition that results from a critique and reexam ination of the role of architecture as a critical participant in the conditioning of (public) space. A thesis demands that students take a position and contribute to the ongoing discourse in the widening sphere of architecture.

Marking the transition between academic and professional practices, the thesis project is an opportunity to define an individual position relative to the discipline of architecture. Thesis topics reflect the diversity of student experiences and interests, ranging from building construction, design research, emerging technologies and materiality, social issues, landscape, urbanism, spatial perception and methods of conceptual thinking. In addition to the public exhibition and symposium, the studio culminates in a book project that encapsulates the process of research and design.

Many urban coastlines have been modified to accommodate the mod ern scale of our relationships with water that see it merely as a medi um, abandoning the traditional view of water as “nature.” Although many urban contexts are intimate to the sea, rarely do people find places that they are able to sensorially connect with the coast. The city of Tokyo has transformed from a fishing village to a modern port, which still exhibits the remnants of traditional cultures within the modernity. Bringing the two vastly different coastal inter ventions together — container ports and fishing villages — this project speculates alternative coastal life styles that facilitate the coexistence of economical, scalar and operation al differences between modernity and tradition.

retires. Relying heavily on imported products and produce, Singapore also has its major waste stream being food waste. Hawker centers as the “national kitchen” would have to respond to change and seek ways to make the city’s food practices more resilient. Thus, the thesis aims to explore the future of hawker centers, looking at ways to celebrate the food practices by facilitating the social and ecological resilience of the hawker culture.

Advisors:

Modernity has imposed a linear progression of development that separates tradition from technology and nature from civilization. Water is a medium that people have been continuously dealing with, whether it is to overcome its threat or utilize its fluidity. Humans have developed numerous ways of interacting with this medium such as fishing, sailing, rowing, exploring, trading and conquering.

B.Arch 2022

Re-imagining the Hawker Centers in Singapore: Cultural & Ecological Resilience of the Living Heritage

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Vivian Loftness, Kristin Hughes Consultants: Tommy CheeMou Yang, Nicholas Yeo (National Heritage Board, Singa pore), Mary-Lou Arscott

Singapore is well-known as a “food paradise” for its diverse range of cuisines and the unique fusion of different gastronomic cultures in this island city. The most significant symbol of Singapore’s food culture is certainly the hawker center which is a common typology where people enjoy all kinds of local food. “Hawk ing” and “hawkers” are terms used to describe street food practices from as early as the 1800s; begun as informal street vendors, they have evolved into today’s highly organized practices.

Yet, such practices are facing many challenges. As the hawker business is often not regarded as a decent job, especially among the young er generation, there are concerns about the sustainability of hawker culture once the old generation

This project discusses how a hetero topic archive for empathy for both Shanghai’s migrants and locals can challenge the power of memory and propose an alternative urban renew al narrative.

Both the migrants and the locals experience a sense of in-between ness in Shanghai. Migrant workers see Shanghai as a transition location in their life, while the rapid urban renewal process dislocates locals from their original neighborhood. This calls for a public space that can help people seek certainty in life while maintaining individuality, an archive that allows locals and mi grants to share a moment of recog nition. Instead of a curated archiving process, the visitors decide which memories should be preserved. This reimagined journey at Minsheng grain storage aims to use the act of archiving as an alternative form of bridging the two worlds and bringing the two groups together to con struct a new Shanghai identity.

Adam He

B.Arch 2022

A Fisher Ensemble: An Age of Discovery of the Urban Shoreline

Mary-Lou Arscott, Heather Bizon, Jonathan Kline, Valentina Vavasis Consultant: Stefan Gruber

Carol Huang

Clara (Jieli) Zhao B.Arch 2022

From Grain to Mind: A Heterotopic Archive for Empathy in Shanghai’s Transitioning Cityscape

Advisors: Matthew Huber, Francesca Torello, Tommy CheeMou Yang Consultant: Mary-Lou Arscott

B.Arch 2022

A Glossary of the Unvertical

Advisors:

When I was little, I would hang my head off of the sofa and imagine walking on the ceiling of our living room. The fan became a jump rope to hop over and the stairs a ladder to climb. This memory has inspired my formation of the “Unvertical.”

Verticality has long been a given in architectural space. Historically, heaven, hell and similar concepts have correlated positive notions upward and negative notions down ward. That cultural history along with factors like masculinity and capitalism have led to the growth of high-rises as images of development and ownership. Ideas of intelligence have been tied to the upright human body, leading to ripple effects in how we perceive occupying the sky and ground and how it correlates to in stitutionalized discrimination. In this project I approach unverticality like a glossary that provides a few pos sibilities, each challenging assump tions of verticality. With each world in the glossary, I will be challenging a normative expression of verticality and subverting it to become unver tical. Three core expressions that I am subverting are the vertical line, the grid, and the diagonal. I hope to create worlds that are more playful and less assumptive, that help us challenge the formal limitations that we assign upon ourselves out of tradition.

CAD has asserted itself as a staple in the contemporary design process. This change has offered many ben efits to the design manufacturing process, but these benefits come with trade-offs.

When designers run into a technical challenge, they now must decide: do they increase their technical skill such that they can create their de sign, or do they simplify the design in a way that they can achieve with their current skills? Furthermore, a design’s value is now partially con tingent on if it can be represented in a digital context.

There are many sources that con tribute to these problems, but this thesis argues one of the major fac tors is the lack of standardized for mats between software. In order to address these problems, this thesis imagines a speculative CAD pipeline that explores other ways to interact with the design process. This pipe line allows for understanding not only how geometry is represented, but how the computer stores and modifies the underlying data struc tures. Ultimately, this thesis argues that we should have software that shapes itself to our design needs, rather than shaping our design to fit the software.

collective housing. With a change able situation, residents are empow ered to customize their space. As a result, the shared ownership creates different identities and social in terfaces. A sense of ownership and belonging is established during the management and decision-making process.

A Better CAD: How Tools Shape Design

MAAD 2022

Changeable

This thesis explores how changeable architecture can help build transfor mation to facilitate different inter actions and negotiations between families, groups and other clusters living in collective housing.

Accommodating changes to archi tecture allows residents the ability to disassemble and assemble their spaces over and over again in new forms and with new qualities, allow ing for increased adaptability in

B.Arch 2022

Mediated Worlds: Transformative Bodily Interfaces

Mediated Worlds is a bio speculative response to climate change. I am designing an evolutionary adapta tion to the body to protect ourselves from an increasingly volatile envi ronment. Currently, the human body is not equipped to survive increased natural disasters, rising sea level and more extreme temperatures, so I am designing a series of bodily inter faces as an extension of our skin to mediate the borders between our bodies and the world around us.

The interface cells in our skin evolve to be able to supplement our bio logical functions externally through processes of secretion and calcifi cation. The skin is then treated as an artifact that allows us to explore the bounds of bodily transformation in response to the environment. Rejecting the necessity of clothing, this bodily condition presents itself as an integrated soft technology that can occur both as a continuous surface on the skin or patches of texture. The transformative bodily interfaces are an advanced healing process that challenges how we relate to one another and normative understandings of privacy and con trol. When our bodies are in need of healing, those points of vulnerability become new strengths. Mediated Worlds challenges the way we relate to one another and our disparate collective consciousnesses.

Juhi Dhanesha

Matthew Huber, Dana Cupkova Consultants: Mary-Lou Arscott, Sinan Goral

Lukas Hermann

B.Arch 2022

Advisors: Eddy Man Kim, Lining Yao

Min Liu

Advisors: Jeremy Ficca, Joshua Lee

Olivia Werner

Advisors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Dana Cupkova

Carol Huang

Carol Huang

Carol Huang

Carol Huang

Clara Zhao

Clara Zhao

B.Arch 2022

Material

Practice and Ecology

Advisors: Nida Rehman, Heather Bizon, Dana Cupkova Mentors: Hal Hayes, Christine Mondor, Sarosh Anklesaria

This thesis situates our planetary civilizational crisis within the en tanglement of two territories: the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro and the postcolonial city of Sukkur in present day Pakistan. It inscribes, through territorial kinships and tensions, the uncharted story of colonial infrastructure, erasure of local practice and civilizational precarity, made visible at critical points along the Indus River. Where the imposition of invasive networks of water management infrastructure concentrated power at the colonial seat, it simultaneously accelerated the erasure of ancient knowledge at Mohenjo Daro.

This thesis maps, traces and pro cesses the local stewardship prac tices of wildlife conservation and ar chaeological preservation that arise in response to civilizational crisis. Entangling timescales of crisis, two design speculations investigate spa tial practices of ecological steward ship and knowledge building. Form is negotiated through its formal, ecological and ritualistic practices. Design is leveraged as a method for investigating the interdependen cies and relational practices that collectively shape territory. Tracing through local practice implicates design in its material, ecological and labor processes, positioning design as a territorial response to the colo nial-imperialist project.

With this project, I reflect on past and present forms of education and reimagine new forms of educa tion through storytelling. Through multiple formats and media, the past, present and future will be intertwined.

To share these facets of education, I created multiple outcomes of the project to account for different learning styles:

1. I created a short film that tells the story of my own education for visual and aural learners.

2. I have been developing a book with a series of writings and images that weave together the personal, political and mechanics of education (for verbal learners).

3. There are artworks from work shops that I ran in the exhibition, as well as a workshop station for you to add to the exhibition (for hands-on learners).

4. There is also an online resource within the exhibition in which you can share stories about your education and hear stories about other people’s experiences.

5. There are a series of collages and drawings that I created that imagine new possible worlds with different forms of education.

Commoning the City Thesis Studio: Negotiating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Urbanism

Coordinators: Stefan Gruber (fall), Jonathan Kline (spring)

Who or what do you care for, care about and care with? What kind of infrastruc tures and spaces are necessary to create communities that care?

Commoning the City is a year-long research-based design studio focused on social justice and community-led urban transformations. Here, we explore design as an agent of change and how to support citizens in claiming their Right to the City. The first semester, taught

by Stefan Gruber, provides a theoretical framing and uses case study research as a stepping stone for developing individual thesis proposals. Building on the studio’s shared investigations and a commoning toolkit, students define a research question and begin testing their design hypothesis in an urban milieu of their choice. At the end of the semester each student has framed a design proposal and methodology that is theoretically grounded, geographically and culturally situated, and politically informed. Working empirically, students go back and forth between research and design throughout the semester. The second semester, taught by Jonathan Kline, then supports students in fully developing their individual projects, culminating in an exhibition. This yearlong studio is required for all second year Master of Urban Design students and is open to fifth year B.Arch students and M.Arch students. For ASOS students, the studio is an opportunity to pursue a year-long thesis within a structured research context exploring urban commoning. Jonathan Kline’s seminar Urban Design Methods and Theories is a corequisite.

Over time, humans have become disconnected from one of the nat ural resources they need to survive: water. In early civilizations and developments, water was praised and sacred. In modern times, howev er, and especially in urban environ ments, water is treated as some thing that is meant to meet our needs. While a limited natural asset, we manipulate water in such ways that are abnormal to the resource. In our cities, we displace, pump and dictate where we want water to be or not to be. This misalignment

Entangled Territories*:

Memory, Local

from Ancient Mohenjo Daro to Post colonial Sukkur, Pakistan

Taisei Manheim

B.Arch 2022

Reflect - Imagine - Create: Meditations on Education

Advisors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Nina Barbuto, Valentina Vavasis

Carly Sacco B.Arch 2022

Working with Water

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

between humans and water has led to issues that we now need to face and deal with.

Pittsburgh, a city carved out by three rivers, struggles deeply with its rela tionship to water. Hidden infrastruc ture, intense pollution, depleting biodiversity and limited access to water has encouraged a lack of understanding between people and the resource. Humans experience the negative effects of what water does and lack the experience of valuing the positive moments that can result. This project aims to give humans the experiences of positive engagement and interactions with the resource to connect with and become better educated on the ways in which water works.

After the earthquake of 2005, sever al national and international organi zations infiltrated the region of Azad Kashmir for rescue and relief. In an unplanned bid to modernize, the construction methodologies depart ed from vernacular earthen, wood and stone construction to concrete and steel framing. The project highlights how this change not only impacted the region ecologically but also socio-culturally, creating a peculiar sense of placelessness. The goal is to understand how the cur rent models of growth are bringing extreme social and gender inequal ity, environmental problems and physical and cultural desertification.

maintains the common facilities, rebuilds the community relationship and reclaims a sense of coopera tive ownership. It aims to create an affordable, adaptive and better living quality that meets diverse house hold demand.

This thesis project explores the possibility of community-led ap proaches for creating a network of cooperative mobility and care hubs that include micro-transit and com munity support services at existing major transit stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new cooperative network is an ecosystem of neigh borhood-scale mobility hubs that fosters a culture of mutual support. It aims to alleviate lower-income families’ and employees’ time and financial pressures accessing micro-transit, child care, healthcare and other support services.

The scope of the project features two broader fields: evolution in participation across the community and across gender. Applying a tri ple-bottom-line analysis to material passports, it expands the criteria for benefit-cost analysis to include so cial, communal and environmental wellbeing. As a site of intervention, it examines an all-women market, which was developed with an aim to empower women by giving them an opportunity to learn and work at the same time and revive their roles in society. As a collaborative venture with this team, this project involves an extension of this center to act as an educational prototype of old practices socially, communally and architecturally and demonstrate how these are mutually intertwined.

This project examines homeless ness in Seattle and seeks to trans form tent cities through strategic interventions that promise to enable a culture of self-care. By inserting social space between private units, the project aims to revise the stig ma that comes with homelessness and respond to the reluctance to go to shelters.

This project envisions the adaptive reuse of Beijing’s 1980s housing estates into co-living communities. The proposed participatory design framework in the renovation process enables residents to co-design and upgrade their living environment. The new collaborative network is a self-governance system that

The project begins with identifying the facilitated experience design and the users (unhoused people, staff, passerbys, volunteers, resi dents of the surrounding areas) at the center of the design concept. It will start from examining the met and unmet needs in the Seattle Union’s shelter, one of Seattle’s big gest homeless shelters. The premise of the project lies in creating an interactive edge within an educa tion district/neighborhood through design intervention. The project creates an active interface between the private and public, aiming for a place of self-driven personalization and self-actualization. The strategy and elements reimagine the spatial manifestation of an edge as an active interface creating a smooth transition between the exterior (public) and private institution, creating networks and suggesting programmatic elements to enable collaboration and interaction. The project also considers transitional institutions for homeless people as a building typology to establish inside-outside relationships as a means to create/identify spaces that meet higher-level needs like autonomy, social support and feeling respected, which are still important despite the fact that lower-level needs are not being fulfilled.

Jiayi (Jenny) Zhang MUD 2022

Integrating Mobility and Social Infrastructure Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Kashmala Imtiaz M.Arch 2022

Material Transition and Its Socio-cultural Impact: The Case of Azad Kashmir

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Lan Qin MUD 2022

Adaptive Reuse of Beijing High-Rise Danwei Housing

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Luciana Ma M.Arch 2022

A Home is NOT A House

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Olivia Werner Olivia Werner Olivia Werner

Taisei Manheim

Taisei Manheim Taisei Manheim

Shariq M. Shah Shariq M. Shah Shariq M. Shah Shariq M. Shah

Min Liu Min Liu Min Liu Min Liu

Carly Sacco Carly Sacco

Luciana Ma Luciana Ma Luciana Ma Luciana Ma Luciana

Kashmala Imtiaz Kashmala Imtiaz Kashmala Imtiaz

Mohammed T. Rahman

B.Arch 2022

Investigations into Social Tectonics: Resisting the Displace ment of People, Businesses and Arts in Brooklyn

B.Arch 2022

Circular Industry Center

Samuel Losi B.Arch 2022

Sprawl and Resilience

Advisors:

Manhattan has reached a level of peak urbanization, causing residents of the city to flood into the outer boroughs of New York in search of more affordable costs of living. Brooklyn, specifically, has been the target destination for many of these people and is currently experienc ing rapid levels of unchecked urban development as a result. While this may seem beneficial on a sur face level, this increasing wave of gentrification has prompted a mass displacement of the local people, businesses and arts that have built up the culture of the borough and have given it a sense of authentic ity. Our current capitalist system only exacerbates the issue, pushing new developments to exploit the borough’s long-standing culture and systematically erase the diverse and historic places that have belonged to Brooklyn for generations by replacing them with luxury housing for the upper class.

This project seeks to reimagine new developments by placing people and social activities, rather than economic gain, at the forefront of design. The proposal consists of a new arts and cultural district in Bedford-Stuyvesant that resists the homogenization of the borough into high-end housing and seeks to agi tate the boundaries between the do mestic and public spheres found in traditional architectural typologies. Using principles of collective care and cooperative living structures in conjunction with the traditional social and cultural practices of art and performance found in Brooklyn, the site becomes a place for the production of culture rather than the exploitation of it.

This thesis is situated in the after math of the housing crisis in Bar celona and looks at the potential of government-supported grassroots organization to provide an alterna tive vision for people’s relationship with housing in an urban context. The site of the proposed interven tion is the vacant ENMASA factory complex, located in Bon Pastor. It is a post-industrial neighborhood located on the urban periphery with a high working class population that is deeply rooted to the historic significance of industry in this area of the city. The operations of the factory are inextricably linked to the population of the neighborhood and the organization of the surrounding urban fabric, and now, with the re cent purchase of the site by private developers, gentrification and con sequential displacement of the local population loom in the future. To provide an alternative to this time line, this thesis proposes an adaptive reuse of the ENMASA complex into a cooperatively owned center for education, sharing of culture and most pressingly, the construction and renovation of housing. The proposal looks to provide a space for the local community to come together to share and preserve knowledge and ultimately address the issue of unattainable housing costs by taking direct agency in the process. Through a combination of mutual aid construction, circular material reuse, professional support and government backing, the space will begin to provide an alternate vision for the production of housing by a local community outside of the traditional capitalist model.

Critiques of the suburbs typically aim to reexamine the sharing of land, space and infrastructure. These critiques fail to recognize that the impact of shared resources is not limited to humanity, but involves all species of the natural world. This project seeks to generate a critique of the suburb within the minds of its residents, challenging the attitude of growth that enables suburban sprawl and giving a voice to non-hu man residents of pre-developed land. The suburban landscape is vast and growing; a single spatial intervention would not impact a significant amount of suburbanites. Thus, the project materializes itself as a living room board game where players work together and com pete to restrain suburban develop ment over the board. Transforming their mindset in the span of a few hours is impossible, so this project positions itself as a platform to cat alyze the imagination of collective thoughts.

MUD & M.Arch 2022

The Shape of Power

The Community Power Trust (CPT) is a novel community organization that seeks to break away from the seemingly inevitable path of a fos sil-dependent future and explore the possibilities of stewarding coopera tive cosmologies. The CPT combines three significant elements that I have identified as key transition points in a future of self-determina tion: democratic cooperative hous ing, community owned energy

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline, Jeremy Ficca Consultants: Heather Bizon, Gerard Damiani

Paul Greenway

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Schuyler McAuliffe

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

infrastructure through solar devel opment and a commitment to living within planetary boundaries. These shared resources and elements of commoning are organized around the 2,000 Watt Society. This unique community visioning framework is based around the schema that des ignates 2,000 watts per person per day for a holistic energy footprint that ranges from food, mobility and building use to consumer goods. Unlike other prescriptive urban mod els of sustainability, the 2,000 Watt Society is a relational model that supports the diversity and self-de termination of each community to pursue this goal on whatever path they choose. The CPT harnesses the collective social power innate in communities and combines it with power from the sun to cooperatively build wealth through housing and a shared energy infrastructure that benefits all members of the organi zation.

Takumi Davis

B.Arch 2021, MUD 2022

Braddock Wellness Center

Advisors & Consultants: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline, North Braddock Residents For Our Future

Xinye Wang MUD 2022

A Home for Children Left Behind

Siqing Ge

MUD 2022

Hutong Reunion aims at a soft urban renewal of Beijing’s Hutong focusing on the reimagining between private, common and public spheres while preserving history embedded in the city. It devises a strategy of community engagement that brings residents together in shaping their neighborhood, transforming densely-populated spaces into de centralized community spaces and classrooms for further expanding the local educational resources, and preparing them to resist gentrifica tion and displacement.

Braddock, PA and its small, predom inantly Black population are located alongside polluters such as the U.S. Steel and the Edgar Thomson Plant, yet residents have access to a num ber of community resources such as the Braddock Carnegie Library and the Hollander Project. This proj ect seeks to address the systemic lack of resource distribution that hinders the health and well-being of Braddock residents — to teach the people how to fish — through a coalition of local institutions called the Braddock United Coalition (BUC) to readapt the former Braddock Junior High School and create the Braddock Wellness Center (BWC), a community center that combines existing Braddock resources with facilities that locals can utilize to harness skills including art, entre preneurship, gardening and physical activity. The BWC is predicated on five wellness sectors: healthcare and addiction, entrepreneurship cache, information production, art curation and nutritional nourishment. It is through the BWC that Braddockers can imagine and eventually create their own future on their own terms. Despite their disadvantaged position, anything is possible for them, including a future driven by their communal relationships and care rather than a competitive urge to gain profit at the expense of each other and the environment.

This project explores the history of how a small fishing village gradually became a world-famous factory through the rapid urbanization of Shenzhen. The change that hap pened here brought about economic prosperity, but it also brought a series of urban problems, among which the phenomenon of left-be hind children seems especially heartbreaking. Left-behind children refer to the kids who have to be sep arated from their parents (mainly migrant workers) due to the high expenses in big cities.

Based on the research on the urban milieu around the site of the Long hua Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, the demographic data, developed public facilities and infrastructures all show the promising potential that could provide affordable shared spaces for migrant workers to raise their children with them. This project aims at taking advantage of the power of workers, the afford ability of the surrounding urban villages and the shared facilities in the factory to create different types of spaces for children that would otherwise be left behind to thrive with the physical companionship of their parents. The whole process will take place in three different phases. Beginning with only the migrant workers, the influence of the project will expand through each phase and more stakeholders will participate in the development. The project also considers new ways of multigener ational living for families consisting of migrant workers to live collective ly in limited space, which provides a workaround to mitigate the phe nomenon of left-behind children.

Hutong Reunion

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

Paul Greenway Paul Greenway Paul Greenway

Samuel Losi Samuel Losi

Samuel Losi Samuel Losi

Mohammed T. Rahman Mohammed T. Rahman Mohammed T. Rahman

Schuyler McAuliffe Schuyler McAuliffe Schuyler McAuliffe Schuyler McAuliffe

Rutuja Dhuru Rutuja Dhuru Rutuja Dhuru Rutuja Dhuru

Takumi Davis Takumi Da vis Takumi Da vis Takumi Da vis

Grant Johnson Grant Johnson Grant Johnson Grant Johnson Grant Johnson

Xinye Wang Xinye Wang Xinye Wang Xinye Wang

Weston Fortna Weston Fortna Weston Fortna

Engineering–Construction

Management

Rutuja Dhuru

MSAECM 2022

Deconstruction Assessment Feasibility and Toolkit

The building and construction industry consumes up to 40% of all raw materials extracted from the lithosphere and is accountable for almost 50% of the global green house gas emissions. Additionally, the industry also produces large amounts of waste during extraction, transformation, construction and demolition. In contrast to demoli tion, Deconstruction — the disas sembly of buildings to maximize the reuse and recycling of their ma terials safely and efficiently — has social, environmental and economic benefits.

Through case studies, literature research and expert interviews, I created a multi-step process for identifying properties for which demolition would be feasible. The process identifies properties through three levels. The first level assesses the building based on four questions — (1) Vacancy, (2) Maintenance Costs, (3) Structure Age and (4) Exterior Finish. Once this stage is cleared, the property will go through two more levels of assessments. The second level will be on the condition of the property based on visual damage that can be observed. The third and final as sessment will be through a detailed materials assessment. These three steps will determine the feasibility of the properties for deconstruction and whether it will be a salvage, par tial or full deconstruction. This sys tem may also be helpful in assessing the feasibility and setting priorities for the other condemned properties throughout the city.

2021

Laser Scanning and BIM to Estimate Deconstruction Recovery Potential

The city of Pittsburgh recently be gan promotion of a deconstruction pilot program that may eventually impact more than 1,700 condemned buildings in order to eliminate blight and promote community develop ment in a manner that is sustainable and economically viable. The pro gram is currently in the early stages and working to identify potential techniques that can aid in stream lining the program. The use of 3-D scanning and building information modeling (BIM) technology is be coming increasingly popular in the architecture, engineering and con struction (AEC) industry and aids in creating 3-D visual models of build ings that can provide key building information such as material type and quantity. However, the current use of this technology is primarily applied to early stages of the project lifecycle and lacking in the decon struction and demolition phases. This report evaluates what aspects of 3-D scanning technology could be joined with BIM tools for application to the deconstruction and demoli tion phases of condemned buildings within the city of Pittsburgh. These methods can supplement current evaluation practices and be opti mized to align with city goals and improve on-site safety while saving on costs and time in the decon struction evaluation process.

housing units in the U.S. are vacant. This building abandonment issue can bring negative economic, social and environmental consequences to urban areas. Demolition is the default and prevalent solution to ad dress these issues while leading to significant environmental, econom ic, and social costs and generating large amounts of construction and demolition (C&D) debris.

To improve the cost prediction of deconstruction, this study propos es cost prediction models such as case-based reasoning (CBR) models based on machine learning. Defining predictors and the weights of each predictor are critical first steps. Therefore, this study seeks to extract and weigh the relative im portance of relevant criteria related to deconstruction by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The in formation given by several experts yields the averaged AHP weights of each criterion, which shows that building materials, design complex ity and building story affect the cost of deconstruction most. These results can help decision-makers consider how to apply the weighting of these influencing factors to real deconstruction cases to improve deconstruction cost prediction mod els. The weights of these criteria can be used as the coefficients of the various factors in the cost predic tion model formula.

MSAECM 2022

Factors Affecting the Cost of Deconstruction Projects in the Pittsburgh Area

Many U.S. cities suffer from a wide range of vacant and abandoned residential, commercial and industri al properties. According to census data, approximately 10.7% of the

MSAECM 2022

Barriers to Deconstruction & Visualizing Building Removal in Pittsburgh, PA

Conventional building demolition produces more than a third of the waste in the United States, contrib utes to the release of particulates and includes the use of heavy equip ment. Many professionals within the AEC industry have expressed interest in deconstruction as a way of reducing waste and reclaiming materials. However, even with this focus, deconstruction has yet to be come standard practice. This paper specifically investigates the barriers

Weston Fortna MSAECM

Zhihan Fu

Grant Johnson

to deconstruction in Pittsburgh and the impacts of standard demolition.

Several methods were used to pur sue this area of study: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), expert interviews and rephotography. In ad dition to the standard industry-wide barriers, major findings include the lack of proper deconstruction project management in Pittsburgh as well as the challenges associated with the current building stock. Fi nally, the ease of demolition allowed for properties to simply be removed and forgotten, leading to vacant lots throughout the city. Identifying these barriers is the first step in identifying solutions and imple menting deconstruction correctly.

impact minority and low-income communities. It is not a suitable solution en masse without a plan for the land following the practice. Rec ommendations include engaging the Avenues of Hope leadership once property selection begins in the pilot program as well as providing a ded icated plan that hosts a community benefit for each vacant lot following deconstruction.

the design for deconstruction and deconstruction implementation.

Bobuchi Ken-Opurum

PhD-AECM 2022

Re-HOUSED Decision Support Toolkit: Promoting Flood and Heat Stress Resilience in Self-build Housing, A Coastal Nigeria Case-Study

MSAECM 2022

(AHP) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

PhD Committee: Dr. Erica Cochran Hameen (Chair); Dr. Joshua D. Lee; Dr. Jared Cohon, President Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, Pro fessor, Civil and Environmental Engi neering, Carnegie Mellon University

Just Deconstruction: Investigating the Social Impacts of Pittsburgh’s Deconstruction Pilot Program

In April of 2021, the City of Pitts burgh announced they will be initiating a Deconstruction Pilot Program. A few cities across the U.S. have already made great strides in implementing deconstruction as a tool, with several studies providing informative background knowledge of deconstruction in other cities. However, these studies do not in vestigate the neighborhood politics specific to the Pittsburgh region. This study uses expert interviews, GIS analysis, and rephotography to answer the following questions: what are the current plans for the Pittsburgh Deconstruction Pilot Program? What are the potential im pacts of concentrating deconstruc tion within Pittsburgh’s Avenues of Hope? In order for a successful Pilot Program to begin in the spring of 2022, the City of Pittsburgh needs to engage the Avenues of Hope leadership. In addition, the main mo tivator for engaging in a widespread deconstruction policy is for the environmental benefit, but a mass loss of property in a neighborhood can have significant impacts to the wellbeing of communities and busi nesses. This would especially

The City of Pittsburgh currently has 1,700 condemned properties and 340 are owned by the city. Typically, these properties are demolished within a few years, but the mayor recently announced a program to explore the possibility of decon structing these properties instead to promote the reuse of construction materials.

Past research in several U.S. cities has highlighted a variety of criteria influencing the decision to sta bilize, demolish or deconstruct condemned properties. For example, construction materials and deci sion-making processes are locally and regionally specific. Therefore, it remains unclear which factors may be most impactful in Pittsburgh. This study uses expert interviews to establish the relative importance of various spatial, environmental and economic factors by using the ana lytic hierarchy process (AHP). This data is then used to produce spatial map overlays that illustrate the distribution of potential deconstruc tion projects and the various factors. I found that environmental criteria are the most important, followed by resources, health effects on labor and surrounding residents, potential recyclable and renewable materials and the commercial interests from deconstruction are the decisive factors in decision-making. For decision-makers in Pittsburgh, more attention should be paid to these factors as well as a variety of proac tive considerations such as

Floods and heat stress are respon sible for significant loss of lives and property in tropical countries in the Global South. Pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, and the elderly are disproportionately impacted and are most at risk in both flood-affected locations and high-temperature conditions that last several months at a time. All communities in the Tropical Global South, especially demographics with pre-existing health conditions are vulnerable to floods and heat due to dynamic climatic, biologi cal, social, political, economic, and institutional systems. Adapting to climate vulnerabilities and stressors is paramount to saving lives and reducing significant redevelopment costs. Widespread education and methodologies for resilience are especially important as a large part of the populace develops and builds their own homes in a widely prac ticed process called self-building. The dissertation’s decision support toolkit will help improve the adaptive capacity of people in some of the most vulnerable dwellings in the world. It will also help alleviate the financial constraints that many of the populace currently face and help promote safer design and construc tion strategies to a wider community of people. The findings will also gen erate an improved understanding of flood and heat risk management and design options available for different housing contexts in coastal Nigeria.

Alyssa Mayorga

MSAECM 2021

Zehan Zhang

Analysis of the Major Influencing Factors on Deconstruction in Pittsburgh Through Analytical Hierarchical Process

Lipika Swarup

PhD-AECM 2022

Influence of Project Priority and Efficiency Factors on Project Outcomes in a Group of Multiple Projects

PhD Committee: Dr. Erica Cochran Hameen (Chair), PhD, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, Director of DEI, Assistant Professor, School of Archi tecture, Carnegie Mellon Univer sity; Dr. Matthew Mehalik, Adjunct Professor, Heinz College, School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University; Dr. Peerasit Patanakul, Professor of Management, Black School of Busi ness, Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College; Dr. Sinem Mollaoglu, Professor and Program Director, Construction Management, School of Planning, Design, and Con struction, Michigan State University

The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between implementational project priority, application of project efficiency factors and project outcomes within the same Group of Multiple Projects (GrMP). This dissertation followed a Multiple Methods approach where it was divided into two distinct com ponents, each with its own inde pendent research question. The first component of the thesis addressed the question, ‘What are the terms and definitions used to address the various structural and hierarchi cal levels of project arrangement within a portfolio?’ Utilizing industry surveys and a systematic literature review, the research resulted in identifying differentiations within the existing project management nomenclature. The dissertation made the following key contribu tions: 1) Identified a new project classification hierarchy and recom mended terminology and defini tions to provide consistency across project management disciplines; 2) Established that project priority affected the odds of project success and failure, 3) Confirmed generality of efficiency factors across multiple industries, and 4) Established that efficiency factors when compared to each other affected project out comes with different intensity.

Building Performance and Diagnostics

Jamie Ho

MSBPD 2022

The Biophilic Clinic: Biophilic Design Guidelines for Improving Patient Health Outcomes in Dialysis Clinics

2 in every 1000 residents in the US have kidney failure each year, resulting in four-hour treatments in a dialysis clinic every other day for the rest of their lives. One missed dialysis session is considered dangerous and two consecutive missed dialysis sessions become life threatening. In collaboration with a dialysis organization and archi tecture firm in Washington State, this thesis develops a taxonomy of biophilic design scalars and investi gates the relationship to patient and staff outcomes. Through an online survey, the biophilic design scalars were scored and ranked by dialysis patients, medical staff and experts in healthcare design. 20 dialysis clinics were then evaluated with the scalars to support statistical analysis of reported patient health outcomes, including patient absen teeism and hospitalization rates. A toolkit with the range of biophilic design strategies can incentivize the investment in biophilic clinics for improving patient health outcomes and working conditions.

Kari Leif

MSBPD 2022

The Biophilic School: A Toolkit of Biophilic Interventions for Schools to Enhance Student and Faculty Health and Performance

School designs have a direct impact on both student and faculty out comes, yet the current lack of fund ing for school facilities challenges both health and performance.

Biophilic design is a growing field of design that offers significant op portunity to improve existing school environments with benefits for both students and faculty. Through case study research, this thesis proposes a toolkit of 42 biophilic retrofits for existing schools through a set of stakeholder cards that illustrate precedent, known impacts and rele vance to high performance schools. A stakeholder card sorting study was conducted to establish perceived viability and impact. A toolkit of biophilic interventions for schools is critically needed to improve student and faculty conditions.

The Power of Data Analytics with Building Advanced Meter Data to Identify Significant Electricity Savings

Advanced meters offer deep insights into energy use in commercial buildings, revealing time of day, day of the week, month, season, and year-over-year changes in energy demands. This thesis uses machine learning and other data analytic tools to develop graphic explora tions of base loads, peak loads, sea sonal shifts, and start-up/shut-down times. After intensive database development and data cleaning efforts for a federal portfolio of 290 buildings with time series data from 2018, the graphic and statistical exploration of interval electricity use of individual buildings and portfolios of buildings supported the identifi cation of goals and mentor buildings within the portfolio that would ensure significant electricity and carbon savings.

Haipei Bie, Yinan Wu and Jinzhao Tian

MSBPD 2022

Christopher Leininger

PhD-BPD 2021

Food Producing Façades Key to a Sustainable Future

PhD Committee: Volker Hartkopf, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (Chair); Vivian Loftness, University Professor, Paul Mellon Chair, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University; Patricia DeMarco, PhD, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty, Chatham University

The built environment uses signif icant and increasing amounts of energy, more than 1,000 times the energy density per unit area of the natural environment, contributing to Urban Heat Island effect. Simultane ously, population growth and urban development have outpaced food production globally. In response, there has been a growing trend to further develop the ancient tradition of incorporating plants into the built environment via green roofs, green façades, urban agriculture and other green infrastructure. Research is limited, however, into the appli cation of growing food producing plants on a living façade to improve total building performance. This dissertation investigates the role of integrating food producing plants into a living façade to positively impact four outcomes: food pro duction, thermal performance, air quality and rainwater management in a temperate climate.

The design, construction, operation and end-of-life disassembly and recycling of a food producing living façade on the south and west of the Robert L. Preger Intelligent Work place at Carnegie Mellon University successfully demonstrates the critical value of living façades for this climate. A maximum average production of 2.64 kilograms of produce per square meter of façade panel can be generated annually (0.54 lbs./ft2) which could effec tively meet 9% of summer nutrition al demands for building occupants. The façade temperatures can be reduced between 10oF-36.95oF (5.56oC-20.53oC) with approxi mately 20% reductions in cooling energy, and positive impact on reducing urban heat island. A living façade can effectively remove pollutants from the natural ven tilation air stream, measured at a maximum of 5.6% reduction in PM2.5 for the living façade com pared to the control. An average of 14.26 liters of rainwater per square meter of façade per day (0.35 gal/ ft2/day) can effectively redirect all the rainfall on the roof from storm drains into primary irrigation. In addition, field observations revealed enhanced access to nature for build ing occupants, wildlife habitat and biodiversity.

Humans spend 90% of their time indoors, a condition that makes in door environmental quality (IEQ) ex tremely important to human health and productivity. High levels of IEQ promotes occupant satisfaction and positively affects worker productiv ity and health. IEQ is often captured in four outcomes: thermal, air, acoustic and visual quality. Visual en vironmental quality is complex since the positive contributions of daylight and views can be compromised by glare and brightness contrast. Due to this complexity, eight measured variables and 14 building systems variables defining the visual environ ment should be considered together to correctly evaluate six visual sat isfaction variables. Existing research predominantly limits the scope to one or two environmental metrics and/or building system variables to be paired with occupant satisfaction, to define one-to-one relationships which do not reflect the interactions. With a holistic approach, this thesis considers the interaction of multiple variables in visual satisfaction, measurements and building systems collected from 1,200 workstations in 39 office buildings.

The Importance of Measured Visual Conditions and the Design of Lighting and Daylighting Systems for Satisfaction with the Visual Envi ronment in Office Workspaces

PhD Committee: Vivian Loftness, Uni versity Professor, Paul Mellon Chair, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (Chair); Ömer Tugrul Karaguzel, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Archi tecture, Carnegie Mellon University; Carolyn Penstein Rose, Professor, School of Computer Science, Carne gie Mellon University

Young Joo Son PhD-BPD 2021

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Computational Design

Malika Khurana

MSCD 2022

keeping in touch: Situating myself amidst the incomprehensible sys tems of the modern world through intimate, everyday interactions.

Committee: Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin, Mark Baskinger

In our modern world of networks, sensors, and interfaces, there is a promise that technology will allow us to connect to others and better understand and predict the world around us. Our digital tools manage our experience of time, space, and relationships to make them sup posedly better: efficient, seamless, and accessible. In that convenience, we stop effortfully orienting and noticing for ourselves, and grow dis connected from phenomena around us. Rather than striving for interac tions that are so seamless that we do not feel or register anything, we need to create more seams in how we experience the world: the way we mark months, perceive glob al-scale distances, and/or check the time of day. These seams give us opportunities to stay engaged and anchor ourselves in time and space through our relationships with the natural world and other people. In this thesis, I outline my criteria for experiences that create these an choring opportunities, as a directive for this project and my future work. I design three intimate, daily interac tions with a situated and embodied approach, to anchor myself in the relationships and contexts in which I am entangled. I enable myself to participate in the passage of time with a textile calendar that I unravel each day, direct my thoughts to loved ones in other parts of the world through an orientation-based

radio, and reference the time of day through a web application that shows a photograph of the sky. I find that the interactions that ask for some effort from myself, through physical movement, time, and attention, are most enriching and anchoring. The craft of designing interactions that ask something of a person, without feeling like work, requires nuance and understanding that this thesis explores in detail.

Zhenfang Chen

MSCD 2022

Just Listen: Prototyping with TinyML to Augment Everyday Sound

Committee: Daragh Byrne, Dina El-Zanfaly

Willa Yang MSCD 2022

Robotic Metamaterials: An Integrated Modular Approach for Users to Create Robotic Applications Hands-on

Committee: Joshua Bard, Alexandra Ion, Daniel Cardoso Llach

I propose augmenting initially passive structures with novel active units to enable dynamic, shape-changing, and robotic appli cations. Inspired by metamaterials that can employ mechanisms, I build a framework that allows users to configure passive, modular struc tures to perform complex tasks. A key benefit is that these structures can be repeatedly (re)configured and pneumatically actuated by users to turn the passive material into crawling robots, kinetic sculptures, or physical notification interfaces. To this end, I present a mechanical system consisting of a flexible, passive, shearing lattice structure, as well as a rigid, and an active unit cell to be inserted into the lattice for configuration. The active unit is a closed-loop pneumatically con trolled shearing cell to dynamically actuate the macroscopic movement of the structure. The passive rigid cells redirect the forces to create complex motion with a reduced number of active cells. Since pre dicting the placement of the rigid and active units to produce a de sired behavior is challenging, I assist users by contributing an inverse de sign workflow using a software tool, which optimizes the cell placement to match the macroscopic, user-de fined target motions and generates the control parameters for pneu matic control of the active cells.

This thesis presents an investigation into everyday sound through a series of speculative experiments and one final refined interactive prototype. The everyday sound here refers to non-verbal sounds, such as the sound of a door opening or someone sneezing. Based on the findings of a series of speculative experiments, the final prototype considers the ubiquitous everyday sound as a ma terial for interaction design. The in tention behind the final prototype is to help people become more aware of the prevalence of everyday sound and rethink what it might offer to us in designed interactions. Sound can be thought of as an intangible mate rial. Although it is invisible, it can be captured with the help of electronic sensors and sensory organs, then it can be modified and utilized as any other physical material. It is every where and permeable, whether you actively listen to it or not, it is there. Sound conveys certain informa tion, but only through listening do people decode the information and understand the context it provides. The ability to decode and process sound is gained and polished as time passes; the more you have heard and experienced, the more you can learn from sounds.

Interestingly, as media technology develops, people seldom question the source of the sound they hear from the media. They might take it for granted, even if the sound is a fabricated sound effect. They de code the information from the

sound in the way that is expect ed by the sound creator. People are less likely to ask the question “Why does it sound like that?” and “What information can I get from that sound?” Gradually, people tend to accept a “standardized” sound system in everyday life through all kinds of interfaces and regard other sounds as outliers. People certainly benefit from the “standardized” sound system, either because of its efficiency or sweet-sounding. With such a system, less attention will be paid to the everyday sound and less familiarity/intimacy people will relate themselves to the object (the sound source). If we can become more aware of our relationships to sound/everyday sound, we, as a con sequence, might be able to become more aware of the environment in which we dwell and realize the influ ence that we may pose on the peo ple with whom we share the same space through the sound of our body movements. The final project pre sented in the later chapters explores how new forms of intelligence might creatively respond to every day sound/interactions. In this, I am particularly interested in non-verbal communication and expression as a design material for interaction design. A prototype illustrating this opportunity is presented: a TinyML-enabled helper that aug ments the Google Home and enables it to recognize and respond to every day phenomena such as a sneeze, a door opening, or rapping on a table. The helper offers a creative toolkit for designers and end-users to quickly explore, understand, and imagine the affordances of everyday sounds.

Collaging the Landscape Histories and Constructing Memories Through Augmented Reality

Committee: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Located at the intersection between collage, multimedia narratives, and contemporary media technology, this thesis explores how an aug mented reality (AR) environment may help people to explore a land scape’s history. This work develops a digital walk with historic elements in AR deployed at Allegheny Com mons West Park, a historic site in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Traditional ly digital cultural heritage experienc es tend to be organized in a linear narrative structure and static con tent. The experience design of this project challenges this convention and uses a non-linear collage based approach. Audiences are guided to positions that offer a viewpoint where virtual content collages assemble into a complete scenario. Viewed from this point audiences can then perceive the historical ele ments such as people, buildings and environment. In addition, audiences find and form their own trajectories through the designed scenarios, and develop an understanding of the history of the landscape through open-ended exploration of the AR collages. By detailing the technical structure of the system, the thesis also introduces a preliminary work flow for the design of digital cultural heritage experiences with non-linear collage-based narratives.

Yanwen Dong

MSCD 2022

Designing with Senses: Creating Interactive Multisensory Experiences in Public Space

Committee:

Daragh Byrne, Dina El Zanfaly

Public spaces are made to be shared and accessible to the general pub lic. As spaces for social lives and activities, public spaces act as the platform for spontaneous events to temporarily connect people. They are engaged with almost all human senses, including the five basic senses – sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch – and along with the bodily senses of proprioception and kinesthesia. This thesis proposes the inquiry of how to prompt new ways of social interaction in public space through multisensory digital experiences establishing contextual information on public space, sen sory and multisensory perception and studying research and design precedents that follow sensory design. This thesis then identifies potential design opportunities and begins with on site observation and pilot prototypes to experiment with modes of interaction and participa tion. After reflecting on the initial explorations, I produced two rede signed prototypes—an interactive sound-material interface that uses artificial grass to defamiliarize natu ral materials, and a computer-vision enabled sand table interface for sound composition.

Chengyu Chen

MSCD 2022

Emek Erdolu

PhD-CD Candidate

Robotic Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Building Design and Construction Work

Dissertation Committee: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne, Molly Wright Steenson

Robotics researchers have sought to understand how humans perform various work activities and skills in order to inform the development of software and hardware, models, and user interfaces that constitute robotic systems. Through robotic systems, researchers have also reimagined and aspired to change the ways work activities are per formed and organized to improve productivity, safety, and quality in various domains including building construction.

My research investigates the con nections between robotic develop ment, systems, and how they recon figure work in building construction by combining computational techniques and prototyping with historical and ethnographic research methods. The investigation focuses on the historical and contemporary sites of robotics and robotically-sup ported construction in the United States, including Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMURI) and the Department of Civil Engi neering (DCE) in the 1980s; Canvas, a construction robotics company in San Francisco; and the CodeLab Re thinking Automation in Construction (ReAC) project in Pittsburgh.

The two major outcomes of my research will be a historical and a two-sited ethnographic account of construction robotics development within the selected sites. A third outcome will be a “design in ethnog raphy” framework that involves data science and visualization, network analysis, and software intervention and a set of ethnographic research

tools developed by these tech niques. Ultimately, my research will shed new light on the development of construction robotic systems, and on its connections to the so ciotechnical changes for building construction work and organizations these systems inscribe. At the time of a growing interest in the Archi tecture Engineering Construction (AEC) industry towards robots, and a reciprocal interest in the Robot ics industry and research towards construction sites, understanding these connections is important to converge and carefully reshape the construction robotics and construc tion work practices.

PhD-CD Candidate

Painting Algorithms

Dissertation committee: Ramesh Krishnamurti; Daragh Byrne; Jun-Yan Zhu, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

This proposal presents new ap proaches for painting algorithms based on optimization methods and learning models. My thesis focuses on artistic stylization of images un der a stroke-based painting frame work. That is, given an image, an algorithm generates a set of strokes that results in a painting. The two main problems that this thesis will address are finding the right com bination of strokes for a particular artistic style and, by extension, how such a combination follows a painting strategy that leads to certain styles. The former is not fully resolved under a stroke-based painting framework, as there exists a trade-off between reconstructions of the input image and a controlla ble stylistic variation. Existing works that address style are still limited in style variations and controllability and principally use different stroke models and textures to output styles. The latter task is unresolved and challenging. State-of-the-art algorithms normally output strokes

in an uncontrollable manner without a planned strategy that might help stylization. However, human artists employ painting techniques such as “blocking in,” grouping by semantics or colors, “background-foreground” or “color-then-contours” that help them convey artistic styles. My thesis will aim to disentangle such a complex landscape of painting styles and strategies, and will try to leverage some artistic vision under some perception of art. Finally, my thesis will dissect existing common artistic styles with the use of deep nets which might find their under lying patterns and inform painting models. Ultimately, my thesis will shed some light as to whether paint ing algorithms can be creative or not, under a definition of creativity, and whether it is possible to model a notion of self-awareness in the painting process.

Doctor of Design Oscar Kang

Doctoral Committee: Dr. Daniel Cardoso Llach; Dr. Azadeh Omidfar Sawyer (Reader); Dr. Sean Hay Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Reader)

Traditionally and historically, archi tectural designers have focused on qualitative elements of daylighting, such as the play of light and shadow. However, with improvements in the science of daylighting over the past several decades — including cli mate-based metrics and simplified analysis tools — there is increased interest in incorporating quantifiable factors of daylighting into the

Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara

DDes Candidate

Daylighting Design in Architectural Education: A Novel Transdisciplinary Approach to Incorporating Daylight in the Architectural Design Studio Environment

architectural design process. Based on recent efforts towards trans disciplinary education and the integration of theory and practice, this research proposes to develop, document, and evaluate a pedagog ical framework to incorporate day lighting design into the architectural design studio setting.

Expected contributions of the research include the documentation of a novel transdisciplinary archi tectural design studio pedagogy centered on daylighting and drawing on state-of-the-art daylight analysis methods. While existing research has documented how daylighting may be successfully incorporat ed into a building technology or elective class, efforts to incorporate daylighting design in an architectur al design studio setting have been limited, dated, or scarcely docu mented. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, a detailed documen tation of a transdisciplinary design studio focused on daylighting is yet to be published.

profit, and the use of collaborative teams to solve dynamic challenges. As a result of these professional and technical changes in practice, architects see the need for a new kind of team member, and by exten sion, a new kind of education. Yet a majority of architectural studios still emulate the Beaux Arts or Bauhaus model, using a master-apprentice model of skill, design and informa tion transfer. This thesis tests the value of the Harkness Method for studio education in comparison to more traditional studio approaches. The Harkness method is a stu dent-centered, discussion-based approach where the instructor is largely silent, relying on student discussions of carefully curated exercises. As a result, a Harkness studio does not use the traditional studio tools including desk-crits, formal pin-up reviews and lecture.

Two years of architecture design studios were taught in parallel using the Harkness and traditional studio approaches to test the efficacy of the Harkness method for enhancing the five desired outcomes (engage ment, collaboration, critical thinking, leadership and domain skills). The efficacy was measured with both objective and subjective surveys of students, faculty and professionals, pre- and post-course completion, as well as an outcome-based assess ment of student work. The tradition al studio model has been dominant for more than 100 years; it is time for alternatives.

Buildings have a significant impact on energy use and the environment. The US Energy Information Admin istration predicts that rising living standards and populations in nonOECD nations, including Lebanon, will inevitably lead to a significant hike in electricity demand, lead ing to a 50% rise in global energy consumption and exacerbating climate change. However, realiz ing energy efficiency in residential buildings remains a significant challenge for many countries such as Lebanon due to limited legislative frameworks and inadequate green construction practices. As a result, energy consumption in Lebanon is a significant source of econom ic distress, social inequity, and air pollution. Despite this, energy conservation measures (ECMs) have not been widely adopted in standard Lebanese apartment buildings, the most prevalent archetype of housing in the nation.

Adopting a nZEB approach offers households resiliency, autonomy, and improved financial stability. They also offer robust options for improving environmental justice, social equity, and economic stability. The dissertation promotes sustain able residential building practices to reduce energy use, mitigate air pollution, combat climate change, and eliminate energy inequities. The dissertation findings clearly show that nZEB is feasible as a new design and construction paradigm within Lebanon’s multi-family sector and that transitioning the existing residential market into Net Zero Energy is now within reach.

Over the last 150 years, the archi tecture, engineering and construc tion (AEC) fields have changed significantly. Changes in architec tural practice and its economic and cultural context include a shift to digital production, an increasing de mand to balance people, planet

John Barton

DDes 2022

The Value of the Harkness Method for Improving Student Engagement, Skill Development, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Leadership in Early Architecture Studio Education

Doctoral Committee: Vivian Loftness, University Professor, Paul Mellon Chair, School of Architecture, Carn egie Mellon University (Chair); Har rison Fraker, University of California at Berkeley Department of Archi tecture; Tom Hassan, D.Ed., Phillips Exeter Academy (retired); Michael Lepech, PhD, Stanford University De partment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Naim Jabbour

PhD-DDes 2022

Design Optimization for Net Zero Energy Apartment Buildings in Lebanon: A Parametric Performance Analysis

Committee: Dr. Erica Cochran Hameen (Chair); Dr. Ute Poerschke, Penn sylvania State University; Dr. Rob Cooley, Pennsylvania College of Technology

Yanwen Dong Yanwen Dong

Yanwen

Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara

Suarez

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Chengyu Chen Chengyu Chen Chengyu Chen Chengyu Chen

Yanwen Dong

Louis Suarez

Louis Suarez

Sustainable Design

Kirman Hanson

MSSD 2022

MSSD 2022

Building as Material Flows in Systems of Energy & Extraction

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Robert Heard, Matthew Huber

All buildings are complex systems with life-cycles and material forma tions that span beyond the geomet ric boundaries of the envelope. For any particular building, its material logics and processes share com mon characteristics with all other buildings: the matter is extracted, transported, processed, assem bled, and demolished/dismantled. Each of these processes requires energy, which, in most cases, means burning fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gasses into the at mosphere. Thus, it can be deduced, when building is defined as process and flow rather than merely geome try and form, architecture is a suffi cient condition for climate change. Carbon is a necessary condition for building. This paper proposes a new form of drawing that engages building within its larger ecological context and tracks material flows directly to the design domain.

This paper explores drawing of a building not as a discrete form, but any possible building; repeatable, ev er-changing systems, networks, and flows. The computational approach is not just a practical methodologi cal solution for problems involving mathematically describable systems in the world, but it speaks more deeply to an epistemological and on tological conception of computation in architecture.

Hyperlocal: Aesthetic and Environmental Implications of Material Reuse

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Stephen Lee

In order for architecture to be truly sustainable it must move towards a circular model of design and pro duction, wherein building materials are continually deconstructed and reused such that little new virgin materials are to be put towards new construction. Reusing building materials impacts both the design process and the environmental impact of buildings. This paper engages processes of material flow and its availability through a case study development. Focused on the concept of hyperlocality as a design resource for new mores of creativ ity, this thesis draws connection between impact metrics visualiza tion relative to design scenarios with only available reused materials for a typical house construction. It (a) documents available reused ma terials in post-industrial context, (b) how they might be reused in a case study residence, (c) the way that reused materials impact the design process, and (d) the environmental impact of implementing reused materials using photogrammetry as a proposed method for documenting and designing with reused materi als. Possible future applications of photogrammetry in aiding design capabilities with a real-time 3d scanned material assets into usable assemblies. The operations of the building material reuse sector are discussed, as well as current barriers to reuse.

Based on the comparative global warming potentials of the materials the priority for replacement with reused materials identifies spe cific material assemblies with the greatest impact. All these materials fall into the “space plan” and “skin” categories of the building layers that are then testet with local material assets in digital models. Arguing that material reuse requires design ers to evolve their design process in order to accommodate for the variance in the availability and qual ities of reused materials. Some of these issues can be overcome with use of photogrammetry, which adds qualitative effect to digital model building. Use of photogrammetry has proven to be an effective meth od for documenting and modeling with deconstructed materials. Colleen Duong

MSSD 2022

Tactical Sedimentation of Architectural Reef System

Coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change and anthropo genic activities. Because these sensitive ecologies are critical to ocean health, new approaches for designing synthetic reef systems have emerged in the last 50 years to sustain and promote coral diversity. However, despite the success of many artificial reefs, these studies lack larger-scale and higher-lev el ecological analysis that takes human-caused threats to these ecosystems into account. Without a consideration of the ways in which contemporary near-shore environ ments are hybrid, novel landscapes; artificial reefs miss an important opportunity to design for shared

Louis Suarez

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Marantha Dawkins

ecologies. Tactical Sedimentation is a simulation study that builds on new analytical modeling methods and it allows us to visualize and test eco-spatial phenomena within dynamic systems to better identify a design space for intervention, while considering human presence. With the goal of mitigating the con ventional human-reef relationship, this study investigates how we can design hybrid architectures with an artificial reef system for corals and humans by identifying dynamic phenomena of sedimentation.

Designing for Sick Soil

to human health risks, the thesis explores land use possibilities within the historical and projected soil toxicities based on physical dataset features of Pittsburgh neighbor hoods. The study aims to evaluate a matrix of localized soil use and remediation strategies appropriate to the given industrial neighbor hoods. Analysis aims to identify the current and future trajectory of soil pollution through representation for either pollution prevention, remedi ation, or cooperation with toxicity. Livability and land use will be the long-term focus on approaching per manently polluted grounds. Repre sentation acts as a tool for introduc ing these current and trajectory of soil pollution in new areas into focus and attempt to address more nu ances strategies that can be used to negotiate between pollution, surface water dispersement, topographic slope and urban systems.

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, approximately 19.4% of residents lack consistent access to adequate food for a healthy and active life. Pittsburgh locals struggle with food insecurity due to economical affor dances and physical limitations of transportation access. Despite the high land availability, reestablishing the vacant lots for community living may involve major cost and environ mental challenges. Integrating food sources for improving securities and healthy living may be more compli cated due to site restrictions of soil health. Despite the high real estate, reestablishing the vacant lots for community living may involve major environmental challenges. However, integration of food sources for im proving residential securities, knowl edge, and access to health may be more complicated due to the cost and operational limitations in reme diating soil health. In understanding the ecological conditions linked

Woven Growth Mycelium

In the US, the construction industry produces approximately 600 million tons of waste each year, with the majority of that waste coming from demolition. Additionally, the manu facturing of new construction mate rials uses high levels of nonrenew able fossil fuels and creates high levels of carbon emissions, which

can have negative impacts on the surrounding environment. Mycelium has the potential to replace tradi tional building materials and doing so will reduce our carbon footprint and construction waste from sites.

Currently, we are aware of myceli um’s environmental benefits and material characteristics. However, mycelium is often manufactured using unsustainable methods, such as plastic and metal casts. Addi tionally, many previously completed projects using plastic casts do not take the natural growth patterns of mycelium into consideration. This synthesis project will combine macrame with mycelium to create a new design framework for flexible and knitted architecture, through material explorations with myceli um and rope to de-cast the myceli um design process. When compared to traditional architecture, these new mycelium structures will allow for a reduction in waste and carbon emissions and a stronger ecological connection to the surrounding envi ronment. It also opens possibilities for alternative construction meth ods, such as on-site fabrication and community-based design integra tion that does not rely on traditional large scale manufacturing frame works. This study focuses on soft woven infrastructure processes that provide a multi-variable framework for growing architectural materials. This completed design exercise on mycelium structures will help ed ucate designers and building users about the benefits of this material while providing a new fabrication method for mycelium, thus increas ing its use in the construction indus try to help combat larger issues of climate change through alternative building construction and local craft practices.

Longney Luk

MSSD 2022

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer

Tanvi Harkare

MSSD 2022

Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Sinan Goral

Public Programs

The Carnegie Mellon SoA Public Programs bring together diverse voices to reflect on pressing issues in the field. See the 2022–23 lineup of events at soa.cmu.edu/public-programs.

The 2021–2022 school year has been a time of significant shifts in the way the SoA organizes its public-facing events. We’ve opened what for many years was the school’s “Lecture Series,” into a line up of “Public Programs.” With that change, the SoA now hosts a range of lectures, workshops, discus sions, and screenings under themes that bring to gether unexpected perspectives to tackle big ideas.

But it’s not just what events we organize, it’s how we plan them; Public Programs is a collaboration with a committee of faculty, staff, and students who help ensure the events we organize reflect the interests of the whole school. We’re ushering in a sea change that broadens who we see and how we see each other as part of a dynamic, innovative,

and inspiring architectural community. Did I men tion our events are now eligible for AIA Continuing Education Units? We want the SoA to be part of nurturing architectural discourse and imagination at every level. Hope to see you at the next event!

—Sarah

Rafson

Curator of Public Programs

Curator of Public Programs Sarah Rafson

2022–23 Public Programs Committee

Jared Abraham, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Jeremy Ficca, Najeeb Hameen, Christine Mondor, and Mary-Lou Arscott (ex officio).

2021–22 Public Programs Committee

Matt Huber, Heather Bizon, Azadeh Sawyer, Sarosh Anklesaria, Nina Barbuto, Jeremy Ficca, Carly Sacco (AIAS), Lydia Randall (NOMAS), and Robert Rice and Taisei Manheim (Interpunct)

2021–22 Student Assistants

Taisei Manheim, Aarushi Jain, Jason Garwood

FALL 2021

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Care

What if we built a world that located “Care” as its central value, measure and ethic? And what if Care replaced the pe rennial human desires for growth, progress and expansion?

How does our engagement with architecture and the built environment change if we emphasize processes and relation ships that change through time, rather than the design object alone? Our speakers this fall considered sites that encom pass a range of living, nonliving, materials and processes, geographies and landscapes, applying care theory to architec ture, planning, and material studies as a way to shine light on the political stakes of architecture.

Koolhaas Houselife Direct ed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Film screening Monday, October 18, 2021

Taking Care Through Mobility Justice Karina Ricks David Lewis Lecture on Urban Design and Social Equity Monday, October 25, 2021

Care for the Self and the Other in the Sensorimotor City Brian McGrath Lecture Friday, October 29, 2021

The Sensorimotor City Work shop Brian McGrath and Tommy CheeMou Yang Workshop Saturday, October 30 to Sunday, October 31, 2021

Da-Me to Bastards: Architectural Space as Matrix of Care Tommy CheeMou Yang , Ann Kalla Visiting Professor 202122 Lecture Monday, November 1, 2021

Design-Build Follies on Campus The Cut, The Beach and Beyond Studio Input Session Friday, November 5, 2021

(Un)Learning Privilege and Power CMU participants of the Design Futures Forum Teach-In and Workshop Friday, November 5, 2021

Gehry’s Vertigo Directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Film screening Friday, November 5, 2021

Care for Materials, Buildings and the Planet: Toward Circular Construction Felix Heisel , Circular Construction Lab, Cornell University Lecture Monday, November 8, 2021

Listening Site-Specific Rebecca Gates Workshop Friday, November 19, 2021

World Making

How are worlds made, experienced and contested? This se ries of lectures, discussions and hands-on workshops explore notions of the real, fictive and possible. Marignalized commu nities rely on worldmaking—queer worldmaking, anti-colonial worldmaking, feminist worldmaking—as an exercise in libera tion, or means of resistance within a hostile world. The writer Octavia Butler once described her process of worldmaking as “a handful of earth, a handful of sky, and everything around and in between.” This description captures the many dimen sions of worldmaking: optimism, grounded in reality, and a wonderful openness for the imagination. As architects, plan ners, computational designers, and builders, what does it mean to build physical worlds in the age of the metaverse? How do the spaces we design shape our experience of the world, and our understanding of what is possible? Worldmak ing can help us interrogate the meaning of design.

Butohouse Directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Film screening and discussion with filmmakers Monday, January 31, 2022

A Reconstructed World Olalekan Jeyifous , Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland

Workshop Saturday, February 26 to Sunday, February 27, 2022

Olalekan Jeyifous Hans Vetter Memorial Lecture Monday, February 28, 2022

The Ethics of Dust Jorge Otero-Pailos Alan H. Rider Distinguished Lecture Monday, March 14, 2022

A Tinkerer’s Guide to the AI Galaxy CMU

Machine-Learning Workshop organized by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Friday, March 18 to Saturday, March 19, 2022

Collateral Architecture Jordan Geiger , Visiting Scholar in Computational De sign Lecture co-presented with the Computational Design Lecture Se ries Thursday, March 24, 2022

Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor 2021-22 Lecture Thursday, March 31, 2022

Marina Tabassum William Finglass Lecture and Alan H Rider Lecture and Workshop April 4–5, 2022

World (Re)Making: The Future Life of Sacred Spaces: Remaking Community Legacies Remaking Cities Institute Panel Discussion Monday, April 11, 2022

HomeScapes—Cities, Color, Belonging Sarah Akigbogun Workshop presented with the Heinz Architectural Center & Carnegie Museum of Art Saturday, April 30, 2022

In Conversation Zoe Zenghelis with Theodossis Issaias , Hamed Khosravi and Sarah Akigbogun Roundtable discussion presented by the Heinz Architectural Center & Carnegie Museum of Art Saturday, April 30, 2022

Alumni Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose

Computational Design Lecture

Series: ReThinking/ ReMaking Spaces of Containment and Care Speaker Series

The Spring 2022 Computational Design Lecture Series at the SoA brought together researchers from both academia and industry to critically explore the discipline’s material and con ceptual reconfigurations in response to computational ideas and methods across visual, material and interactive domains.

Collateral Architecture Jordan Geiger Visiting Scholar in Computational Design; Partner, Gekh Lecture co-presented with the SoA Public Programs Thursday, March 24, 2022

Software Timelines: New Research into the Origins of Today’s Architectural Software Culture Teresa Fankhänel , Independent Curator Lecture Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Mediating Form and Matter: From Control to Uncertainty and Back Benay Gürsoy , Assistant Professor, Penn State; Founder, ForMat Lecture Thursday, April 7, 2022

Formulations: Practices of Design Mathematics Andrew Witt , Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design Lecture Thursday, April 14, 2022

Reinforcement Learning for Building Construction and De sign Rodger Luo , Principal AI Research Scientist, Autodesk AI Lab Lecture Thursday, April 21, 2022

Parameter, Material and Function in Computational Fabrication Chengyuan Wei , Co-Founder, Morphing Program LLC Lecture Thursday, April 28, 2022

Curated and organized by Associate Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach. Design and coordination assis tance by Stella Shen (MSCD ‘22).

This project is concerned with the social and spatial produc tion of the built environment during epidemics. It examines the architectures of containing and controlling infectious diseases, both as sites of often violently imposed bound ary-making and heightened division, but also as hopeful in stances of care and community wellbeing. Drawing from critical studies of public health, hygienic modernity, epidemi ology, quarantine, disease surveillance, and urban design and planning, the project builds research and dialogues on the urban and spatial dimensions of infectious disease

Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi Joint Design Charette and Symposium: 4 Schools, 40 Students

School of Archi tecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Anant Fellowship, Anant Nation al University, Ahmedabad

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Archi tecture, Mumbai School of Plan ning & Architec ture, New Delhi

transmission and control, as well as practices of care in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and its as-yetunknown afterlives.

Embodied Environments

Sara Jensen Carr Lecture Friday, March 25, 2022

Zoonotic Urbanization Matthew Gandy Lecture Friday, April 29, 2022

Part of the Center for the Arts in Society’s Borderlines Initiative 2020–23 . Project Director: Nida Rehman

“Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi” was an online, week-long joint symposium and design charette from February 19-26, 2022, organized by the SoA in association with three schools of architecture in India. The charrette considered questions of design ethics and justice related to broad issues of worldmaking, and in particular, to the contested futures of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.

This symposium and design charette were part of the SoA’s Advanced Synthesis Option Studio (ASOS). The event was made possible by funds from the SoA’s T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professorship.

Event Coordinators

Sarosh Anklesaria, T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Ar chitecture, Track Chair, M.Arch program, CMU

Colin Cusimano, M.Arch student, CMU

Sudipto Ghosh, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi

Sidra Khan, M.Arch student, CMU

Shantanu Poredi, Dean, Academics, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Archi tecture, Mumbai

Shubhra Raje, Architect and Professor, CEPT University

Priyamwada Singh, Anant Fellowship, Anant National University, Ahmedabad

Riyaz Tayyibji, Architect, Coor dinator of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission

The Center for Architecture Explorations (CAE) cultivates lifelong learning at the intersection of arts and technology.

Center for Architecture Explorations

The CAE supports architecture education for all ages. Building on the SoA’s experience with youth education, university service learning projects, engagement with architectural practice, and aca demic research, we create dynamic architectural education pedagogy with an emphasis on building equity and diversity within the design professions.

The mission of the CAE is: 1) to facilitate links between architecture organizations, K-12 educators, and K-12 students, particularly in underserved neighborhoods; 2) to provide scalable training courses, work shops, and mentorship opportu nities for professionals and un dergraduate/graduate students to better prepare them to teach in K-12 and higher education contexts as well as better com municate with the communities they serve as designers; and

3) to conduct research into STEAM and design pedagogy to develop innovative educational materials and curricula.

The CAE oversees Pittsburgh’s Architecture Learning Network (ALN), a collaboration among more than 10 non-profits in the region.

Programs, Courses & Workshops

K-12 YOUTH PROGRAMS CAE youth programs are a collection of architecture-based extracurricular and academic enrichment programs for students in kin dergarten through high school. Through our programs we aim to foster knowledge of and appreciation for the built environmental, encourage creative expression and critical thought, and inspire civic responsibility. The CAE is an APOST Quality Campaign Member and all youth programs are part of the ALN.

SATURDAY SEQUENCE The K-12 Saturday Sequence emphasizes the problem-solving skills central to the ar chitectural design process and guides students through an architectural project. The multi-week program is held Saturday mornings on the CMU campus during the fall and spring semesters.

TOURS AND WORKSHOPS Register for a CAE Tour or Workshop and join us on CMU’s campus to learn more about our programs, an architecture career, or a specif ic-interest topic. Past tours have explored architecture and technology, green roofs and sustainability.

SUMMER CAMPS During the summer, the CAE partners with fellow arts organizations to offer a variety of summer day camps. Join us at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where the museum becomes a classroom and work from the museum’s permanent collection as it inspires architectural projects; at Assemble, to engage with art and technology through making; on the CMU campus, for a variety of special-topic courses; and at one of the many ALN Partners throughout the region.

SoA SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS & COURSES The SoA offers undergraduate and graduate students opportu nities to work on projects that impact our communi ties. The SoA also works with CMU’s Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach to offer courses that support outreach, education, and non-profit work after graduation.

PRE-COLLEGE Pre-College Architecture is an intensive and immersive summer program at CMU that engages high school students in the creative energy and specu lative culture of the college-level experience in studying the discipline of architecture. The Pre-College Archi tecture program introduces design practice, creative problem solving, and critical thinking to young designers through a complex matrix of programming, pushing curiosity and providing a strong basis for architectural education. Pre-College Architecture is a powerful tool serving to build skills and prepare participants to be future undergraduate students.

Students in the Pre-College Architecture program ex perience the dynamic of learning through making in a studio environment, supported by structured, integrated coursework in digital media, drawing, seminars, and workshops expanding their exploration of the theory, process, and methodology of contemporary design prac tice. Principles of architecture are introduced through full-scale installation projects. Intensive spatial develop ment is explored through advanced work in digital and analog media, with workshops allowing experimentation with robotic and digital fabrication technologies.

Summer 2021 Pre-College Team Director of Pre-College Architecture: Jenna Wizzard Kappelt Design Studio Co ordinator: Annie Ranttila Design Studio Faculty: Sarosh Anklesaria, Heather Bizon, Guanzhou Ji Media Instructor: Talia Perry Teaching Assistants: Sharon Fung, Henry von Rintelen, Shanice Lam, Amy Hu, Colin Walters, Erin Gorman-Stack

Architectural Education Research

The CAE’s research interests include equity and diver sity in architecture education and related professions, systems thinking and spatial intelligence, and design thinking and assessment.

The CAE offers professional development workshops for university students and building industry professionals. The workshops were developed and are implemented in partnership with CMU’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation, Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time (APOST), and Pittsburgh’s chap ter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The workshops have two goals: 1) provide architects with knowledge and skills to teach, and 2) provide knowledge and skills in emerging architectural technologies.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

2021 - 2022 Outreach Education Team

Director of Outreach Programs: Jenna Wizzard Kappelt Outreach Associate: Anne Chen Team: Sharon Fung, Lily Hummel, Graana Khan, Shanice Lam, Eesha Nagpal, Nihar Nitin Pathak, Jayla Patton, Lydia Randall, Henry von Rin telen, Colin Walters, Andrea Wan, Esme Williams

CAE partners include: regional schools, libraries, and community groups as well as the members of the Architecture Learning Network; The ACE High School Mentorship Program, Assemble, Carnegie Mellon Uni versity School of Architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, , Chatham University Interior Architecture, Drafting Dreams, Fallingwater, The National Organization of Mi nority Architects Pittsburgh Chapter, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, University of Pittsburgh Ar chitectural Studies Program, and Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh.

Remaking Cities Institute

Director:

Ray Gastil Researcher: Ritika Narang

The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI), established in 2006 at CMU, is an urban design research and program center which responds to the questions of how we are remaking our cities. The post-indus trial transformation of the city of Pittsburgh and its region, including the role of planners, designers, and communities in that transformation, is crit ical to RCI’s inquiry, from urban design to urban policy.

In 2022, RCI launched the Re making Cities by Design Series, a series of relatively brief one-onone interviews on the insta gram Live platform, connecting thought leaders to new audienc es. RCI brings together leaders in the fields of public realm design, restorative landscapes, places of memory, streets for people, mass timber, and urban analytics and modeling.

Interviews to date include:

→ Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art

→ Chris Reed, Stoss, Harvard GSD

→ Glenn LaRue Smith, PUSH studio

→ Matthew Lister, Gehl

→ Karina Ricks, FTA/USDOT

→ Carla Swickerath, Studio Libeskind

→ Susan Jones, atelierjones

→ Jeff Speck, Speck & Associates

→ John Cordier, Epistemix

Career Celebrations

The SoA celebrates the careers of professors Irving Oppenheim and Ramesh Krishnamurti, who retired at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.

Since starting as faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Irving Oppenheim has bridged the fields of ar chitecture and engineering. For 50 years, he has taught, advised PhD students and pursued his own scholarship across both fields.

Inspired by his thesis advisor, Jacques Heyman, Irving’s scholarship seeks to understand how historic masonry structures actually work.

In the 1980s, he was involved in early research on computer aided design of buildings. Since 2000, Irving’s research has been centered on civil engi neering, specifically exploring novel microelectron ic sensors. Between interactions in the hallway and conversations with PhD advisees, Irving was always prepared to be awed by student insights.

“Though I graduated 35 years ago, I still benefit from his wisdom today. Irving underlays technique with rock solid eth ics and resolute questioning of what is the appropriate moral stance in a situation. This is what I value most in him. I can always count on him to ask ‘what is right’ in both thought and action.”

—Rob Woodbury, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Arts and Technology; MSc, PhD, Architecture, Computa tional Design ‘87

“Professor Oppenheim is one of the most generous professors I have encountered at Carnegie Mellon. When we were taking classes virtually, he pre-re corded lectures and worksheet walk-throughs to make our learning experience better.”

— Dickson Yau, B.Arch ‘24

“He’s an amazing professor who is willing to help his stu dents and others. When I told him about my more struc ture-based studio, he offered to lend me a hand with the struc tural elements of my project.”

— Xiaojie Zou, B.Arch ‘24

Irving Oppenheim

Professor, Architecture and Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ramesh Krishnamurthi has been an integral part of the school’s Computational Design program since 1989. He coined the name computational design in the early ‘90s and fought to get the program its STEM designation. While he taught numerous courses, Ra mesh’s favorite was his Descriptive Geometry course. He put his heart and soul into it, eventu ally developing a 400-page textbook. The course centers on the transition between hand drawing and machines, leveraging machines as part of a problem-solving toolkit. Ramesh supports using machines to lower the cost of building green and leverage its benefits for social good. Ramesh attri butes his success to his students, who bantered and argued with him.

“Ramesh’s persistent patience with me as an over-enthusi astic, over-ambitious, un der-skilled young designer provided the stability and encouragement that I needed to tame my eagerness into a well-honed craft.”

— Madeline Gannon, PhD-CD ‘18, Founder and Principal Researcher, ATONATON

“Nothing is difficult, just un familiar.’ I still vividly remem ber Ramesh’s words, which became our family motto.”

— Kui Yue, PhD-CD ‘09, Software Engineer, Google

“Ramesh has had a lasting im pact on the field of computa tional architecture. I truly con sider him one of the pioneers. If Ramesh had not helped lay the foundation for the still fledgling field of computation al architecture, it would not have the bright future it now manifests.”

— Victor Okhoya, DDes ‘19, Research Architect at Perkins+Will

“If there was ever a champion for student causes at the SoA it was Ramesh! He will be remembered for his strong ad vocacy for student rights and privileges.”

— Noreen Saeed, PhD-CD ‘20

Professor, Track Chair of PhD in Computational Design (PhD-CD)

Ramesh Krishnamurti

August 2021

→ The SoA welcomes faculty new to the school and in new roles with the school for the 2021-22 academic year. Visiting faculty Tommy CheeMou Yang, 2021-22 Ann Kalla Visiting Professor, and Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland, 2021-22 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor, join the school. Jordan Geiger joins as a Visiting Scholar in Computation al Design. Sarosh Anklesaria, T. David Fitz-Gib bon Professor of Architecture, continues in this position and becomes Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program. Heather Bizon begins a full time Special Faculty position. In the studios, Bruce Chan returns to the SoA for First Year Studio Teaching. Tonya Markiewicz joins for Second Year Studio Teaching, Jared Abraham for Third Year Studio Teaching, and Michael Esposito for Third Year Studio Consulting.

→ The SoA co-presents the 2021 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW) along with partners Boston Valley Terra Cotta and the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. Teams from around the world consist ing of industry experts and students showcase terracotta designs that push the limits of what is possible with clay.

→ The SoA announces Sarah Rafson as the school’s Curator of Public Programs. In this new role, she organizes lectures and exhibitions and continues to edit EX-CHANGE, the school’s annual publica tion and exhibition of student work.

→ Re-Thinking the Future features the SoA in an article on the top schools to earn a master’s degree in digital architecture.

→ Dr. Mary Ellen Poole joins the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts as Dean.

→ Expertise from adjunct Stephen Quick and Department of Physics professor Diane Turnshek informs Pittsburgh’s “Dark Sky Lighting” ordinance for all city parks, facilities and streetlights.

→ EX-CHANGE 2021 celebrates the work of the SoA from first year to PhD through a custom video game, exhibition and catalog designed by alum Leah Wulfman (B.Arch ‘16) and Studio Elana Schlenker

September 2021

→ Carolyn Ristau joins the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) as a Visiting Scholar. Her research examines the origins of zoning and development regulations to find ways that they could support more inclusive communities.

→ The exhibition Vers un imaginaire numérique curated by SoA Associate Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach in collaboration with McGill Assistant Pro fessor Theodora Vardouli opens at the Centre de design de l’UQAM in Montréal, Canada. The exhibi tion explores the emergence of new methods for design representation, simulation, and manufac turing linked to digital computers’ capacities for information processing and display, and reflects on its contemporary repercussions across archi tecture, art and design.

→ Assistant Professor Azadeh Sawyer and PhDBPD candidate Jiarong Xie publish and present the paper “A Simplified Open Loop Control Strategy for Integrated Shading and Lighting Using Machine Learning” at the Building Simulation 2021 Confer ence in Bruges, Belgium.

→ Associate Professor Stefan Gruber presents “From Postal Networks to Community Resilience” at the AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference, co-au thored with School of Design professor Kristin Hughes, based on a course they co-taught on bridging the postal and placemaking divide.

October 2021

→ Associate Professor Jeremy Ficca and his stu dent team of Thomas Chen (B.Arch ‘23), Frank lin Zhu (B.Arch ‘23) and Howie Li (B.Arch ‘24) receive a Design Pittsburgh 2021 Honor Award for the “Incremental House – Hempstead” in the Unbuilt Project category. The project re-imagines the farmhouse as the site of bio-based material construction.

→ Students Tory Tan (B.Arch ‘24) and Jerry Zhang (B.Arch ‘24) win third place in Buildner’s first annual Modular Home Design Challenge for their project “Standardization / Customization.”

→ Alum Karen Welsh (B.Arch ‘89) is featured in Penn State’s Celebrating Professional Women in Building Week. Welsh is a leader in the residential construction industry as principal and owner of UpStreet Architects based in Johnstown and Indi ana, Pennsylvania.

→ PennDOT and the Quaker Valley Council of Governments publish a strategic design guide that draws on the Route 65 Ohio River Boulevard Corri dor case study developed by Remaking Cities Insti tute (RCI) Research Fellow Michael Baker, adjunct Stephen Quick, and RCI Director Ray Gastil

November 2021

→ Adjunct and alum Phyllis Kim (B.Arch ‘13) discusses environmental justice and community involvement in her article “Embed Yourself in the Community,” part of Architect Magazine’s Inclusion in Design series.

→ Industry partner ExOne leverages Associate Professor Dana Cupkova and adjunct Matthew Huber’s research on material reuse and shape fac tor in the company’s design of low carbon material systems while using binder jet technologies and granular material waste streams.

→ Carnegie Mellon alumni couple Jack Butler and Sabrina Estudillo (B.Arch ‘16) establish a for ward-thinking giving plan to support generations of Tartans with a gift to the Carnegie Mellon Black Alumni Association Endowment.

→ Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Senior Research Fellow Don Carter’s research and insights on remaking post-industrial cities are highlighted in the interactive report “Transforming Industrial Regions of North America and Europe: Opportunity and Imperative.”

December 2021

→ The Washington Post quotes student Henry Youngren (B.Arch ‘26), one of the high school students who swept the Indiana state architecture competition.

→ Assistant Professor Erica Cochran Hameen is named the 2021 AIA Pennsylvania Impact Designer of the Year for her research, teaching and initia tives, which provide significant social, humanitar ian, community and environmental benefits.

January 2022

→ Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Director Ray Gastil publishes the article “Adapting Preservation: Lessons Learned from Challenges and Opportuni ties in Two Large-Scale Pittsburgh Projects” in PER: Preservation Education & Research (University of Minnesota Press). The piece features recent adap tive reuse projects Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green and the Produce Terminal in the Strip.

→ Tommy CheeMou Yang, 2021-22 Ann Kalla Pro fessor in Architecture, co-authors “Opening Day of the New Jersey Turnpike, 1951” in the first issue of DENSE magazine. Yang also receives the 2022 Soci ety of Architectural Historians Opler Membership Grant for Emerging Scholars and Professionals.

→ Assistant Professor Nida Rehman delivers the keynote lecture at the Cornell AAP History of Architecture and Urban Development program’s symposium “Writing the History of the Built Environments of Asia: Materiality, Translations and Colonialism.” She also publishes the paper “Unsettling a sanitary enclave: Malaria at Mian Mir (1849–1910)” in Planning Perspectives

→ Professor Paul Pangaro joins the SoA as a Cour tesy Appointment from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII).

→ The Mayor of Pittsburgh appoints Professor Vivian Loftness to the city’s Arts Commission. The SoA now has two faculty, including adjunct Chris tine Mondor, Chair of the Planning Commission, serving on the city’s design commissions.

→ Associate Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach and Robotics Institute professor Jean Oh receive an AMI Research Award for their project “Rethinking AI and Automation in Architecture.” The award recognizes creative applications of machine learn ing (ML) and cultural research related to ML.

→ PhD-BPD candidate Surekha Tetali, Assistant Teaching Professor Nina Baird, and Department of Engineering and Public Policy Research Scien tist Kelly Klima publish “A Multicity Analysis of Daytime Surface Urban Heat Islands in India and the US” in Elsevier’s Sustainable Cities & Society February 2022 issue. The paper is later cited in the March 21, 2022 edition of The Times of India

→ Associate Professor Stefan Gruber publishes the essay “On the Possibility of Public-Commons Part nerships” in New Geographies 12: Commons. The essay reflects on alternatives to public-private part nerships and Vienna’s recent citizen-led housing initiatives.

February 2022

→ Student Jordan Luther (M.Arch ‘23) is named a 2022 AIAS CRIT Scholar. Luther’s research explores an eco-ethical approach to healthcare design that investigates the role of the environment in pro moting wellness, health and healing.

→ Alum Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman (MSCD ‘19), now a PhD student at the Penn State Stuckeman School, and his advisor Benay Gürsoy, receive $50,000 in Autodesk grants to support proof-ofconcept for their research project on adaptive robotic fabrication, “See-Sense-Respond.”

→ Alum Carter Nelson (B.Arch ‘17) wins the SoA’s 2022 Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship for his proposal “Dovecotes of Tinos.” He will fully docu ment a selection of dovecotes on the Greek island of Tinos in order to help support their preservation.

→ Associate Professor Stefan Gruber is appoint ed to the steering committee for the 111th annual ACSA Update Conference in St. Louis, taking place March 30–April 1, 2023. The theme “In Commons” examines how architectural research, design and pedagogy can expand cooperativism and commoning.

→ PhD-BPD candidate Suzy Li wins second place in Carnegie Mellon’s 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Her research analyzes how adopting smart neighborhood surfaces is critical to addressing climate change, human health and global equity.

March 2022

→ The SoA reappoints Nida Rehman at the rank of Assistant Professor and Daragh Byrne at the rank of Associate Teaching Professor.

→ Associate Professors Dana Cupkova and Stefan Gruber win 2021 ACSA Creative Achievement Awards for their studios “Architecture of Ecological Attunement” and “Roaming Porches,” respectively.

→ A team of MSAECM students — Rutuja Dhuru, Poornima Krishnan, Yu Sugimoto, Riti Talreja, Ryan Vaz and Johns Thomas Vellikara — are the first team from Carnegie Mellon to win first place in the Constructors Association of Western Penn sylvania (CAWP) Student Estimating Competition.

→ PhD-BPD candidates Zhan Shi and Bingyu Guo win first place in the HOME competition. Their project focuses on the basic principle of design ing and constructing a shelter in a climate crisis, based on developing refugee camps in the Central Sahel area in middle Africa.

→ SoA faculty receive 2022-23 Carnegie Mellon Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) grants. As sociate Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach receives a grant for “Innovating Construction Through Man ufacturing: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robotically-Supported Cooperative Construc tion,” to be located at Carnegie Mellon’s new Mill 19 facility. Associate Professors Dana Cupkova and Joshua Bard receive a $98,000 MFI grant for their ongoing research “CRuMBLE (Construction Rubble Manufacturing for Building Lifecycle and Environ ment).”

→ Professor Emeritus Khee Poh Lam co-authors an article for the World Economic Forum, “Singapore’s Methodical Approach to Becoming a Net-Zero City.”

April 2022

→ PhD-AECM candidate Kushagra Varma receives a 2022 Emerging Scholar Award from the 12th International Conference on the Constructed Environment.

→ URA staff provide a tour of the B’Nai Israel Synagogue to SoA students learning about passive house construction with Assistant Teaching Pro fessor Nina Baird. The historic synagogue, which has sat vacant since 1995, is being redeveloped into affordable housing and community space.

→ The SoA ranks in the top 100 architecture schools in the world in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.

→ SoA professor Doug Cooper’s exhibition “Steel Skies” at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh features his watercolors of Pittsburgh as well as drawings of New York.

→ Assistant Professor Nida Rehman’s paper “Epidemic Infrastructures and the Politics of Responsibility in Lahore” is published in AntiPode Online as part of a forthcoming special issue on the spatial politics of infrastructure-led development in Pakistan.

→ Alum Curran Zhang (B.Arch ‘21) is named a winner of the 2022 AIA National/ACSA Update COTE Top Ten for Students. Curran’s winning project, “Transformation of Waste,” began in Studio Profes sor Hal Hayes’ fall 2020 studio.

→ An exhibition of student thesis work, including both independent work and work from the Com moning the City studio, opens at Platform Gallery in Pittsburgh.

→ Assistant Professor Erica Cochran Hameen is interviewed by The Washington Post for her insight on companies’ plans to rethink and rebuild their offices as they adjust to employees’ new ways of working.

→ Professor Vivian Loftness receives a fourth energy data analytics contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) entitled “Evaluation of GSA Total Estimated Cost Impacts (TECI) for Federal Facilities.” This $175,000 contract will en gage three PhD-BPD and several MSBPD students to establish energy retrofit priorities for the US government as it seeks to achieve net zero energy by 2050.

May 2022

→ Professor Emeritus Volker Hartkopf receives the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from Global Pittsburgh, which honors the accomplishments of foreign-born entrepreneurs, professionals and immigrant champions.

→ An interdisciplinary team of nine students, led by Professor Stephen Lee and Civil and Environ mental Engineering professor Sarah Christian, complete the yearlong design/build studio project “The Cut, The Beach and Beyond,” creating an out door seating area for the Carnegie Mellon campus community.

→ Tommy CheeMou Yang, 2021-22 Ann Kalla Professor in Architecture, is selected as one of 11 artists to participate in the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program for 2022-23 to explore innovation and new imagination for more sustain able and green cities.

→ Student Anishwar Tirupathur (B.Arch ‘24) is selected as a NOMA Foundation Fellow. The fellow ship, presented by the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT) in partnership with the National Organi zation of Minority Architects (NOMA), matches fellows with top architecture firms across the country for an 8-week internship.

The American Institute of Architec ture Students (AIAS)

The Carnegie Mellon chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) creates a con nection between students and the professional and academic world of architecture by offering members a diverse set of events and experi ences including firm visits, local and national networking opportunities, community service build initia tives and exposure to cutting edge developments within the field of architecture.

AIAS CMU PRESIDENT: Carly Sacco

AIAS CMU ADVISOR: Alexis McCune Secosky VICE PRESIDENT: Dickson Yau TREASURER: Jeffrey Li OUT REACH PROGRAMMING COORDINA

TOR: Eesha Nagpal PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR: Susie Kim PUBLIC RELATIONS: Gloria Lee

FIRST YEAR LIAISON: Julia Kasper GRADUATE STUDENT LIAISON: Jordan Luther (M.Arch ‘23)

Freedom By Design™ (FBD)

Freedom by Design™ (FBD) is a community service program of AIAS that uses the talents of architec ture students to radically impact the lives of people in their commu nity through modest design and construction solutions. The Carnegie Mellon chapter of AIAS has an FBD program that provides students with real-world experience through work ing with clients, learning from local licensed architects and contractors, and experiencing the practical im pacts of architecture and design.

The chapter’s signature outreach program is the Weatherization Kit project, a box of items that helps Pittsburgh residents prepare their homes for winter. Distribution events for the kits instruct residents on proper installation techniques to allow them to install on their own, giving them greater comfort and re

Student Organizations

duced heating and electric bills. This spring semester, the team spent time prototyping new boxes based on the feedback of the community. The new box includes more room for popular weatherization items, produces less waste in the produc tion process, and avoids the use of adhesives and colorants to ensure it is easily recyclable.

FBD DIRECTOR: Gabrielle Benson

FBD ADVISOR: Jenna Wizzard Kappelt

PROJECT MANAGER: Mai Tian PUBLIC RELATIONS: Amy Hu DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: Hannah Haytko-Desalvo

helped make possible the first ever Carnegie Mellon Spring Carnival Pavilion designed and built by CMU NOMAS. The project allowed the or ganization’s members and the larger architecture student community to work together to create a structure for the whole campus. CMU NOMAS is excited for the new executive board to continue the initiatives established this year and to begin new initiatives for the organization’s growing family.

2021-22 Leadership

CMU NOMAS PRESIDENT: Lydia Randall CMU NOMAS ADVISOR: Erica Cochran Hameen

2022-23 Leadership

PRESIDENT: Akanksha Tayal VICE PRESIDENT: Shray Tripathi SECRE TARY: Rebecca Cunningham TREA SURER: Ternilla Robinson PUBLICIST: Anishwar Tirupathur

National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)

In alignment with the mission of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the Carnegie Mellon chapter of the National Or ganization of Minority Architecture Students (CMU NOMAS) focuses on creating safe spaces for minority and underrepresented students in the SoA.

This school year, most of the group’s work focused on providing fun and supportive programming for members. CMU NOMAS focused on building and strengthening its community through check-ins and other gathering events, which allowed students to stay connected and share experiences. CMU NOMAS is incredibly excited to have wel comed many first- and second-year students into the organization this past year. These new members

SoA Peer Mentors

SoA Peer Mentors, provided by CMU NOMAS, offer a wide range of support through personalized, one-on-one communication. SoA Peer Mentors give guidance related to any issues that may arise during a student’s time at Carnegie Mellon. They can assist to whatever degree the student is comfortable with and connect the student with other external resources that provide help. Students in search of emotional, academic or professional help are invited to contact the peer mentors.

Student Organizations

inter·punct

inter·punct is a platform for ideas, theory and discourse — sometimes about architecture and sometimes at its periphery. The group was founded by students at Carnegie Mellon in 2011 and has released five issues: para·meter (2013), inter·view (2016), now is time to panic (2021), we only dream the night before tomorrow (2021) and just listen (2022). Through guest interviews, group discussions and writing, in ter·punct seeks to better understand the past and future.

INTER·PUNCT CO-EDITORS: Robert Rice and Taisei Manheim IN TER·PUNCT ADVISOR: Mary-Lou Arscott WEB DESIGN: Christoph Eck rich, Daniel Noh, Paul Greenway

EDITORIAL BOARD: Mohammed Rah man, Juhi Dhanesha, Paul Greenway

INCOMING CO-EDITORS: Graana Khan and Selina Zhou

into the SoA, establishing an early, mutually beneficial relationship.

APM COORDINATORS: Susie Kim and Kaitlyn Hom APM ADVISOR: Heather Workinger Midgley

Undergraduate Architecture Student Advisory Council (SAC)

The Undergraduate Architecture Student Advisory Council (SAC) provides a formal means of inter action between students, faculty and administration. The student representatives are responsible for communicating the efforts of the council to their colleagues, bringing to the council issues forwarded by fellow students and contributing time, energy and ideas to improve both the SoA and Carnegie Mellon.

Elections are organized at the begin ning of the fall semester. Students from each year of the undergraduate program elect three SAC represen tatives from their year. Represen tatives serve a one-year academic term. In the event that a student cannot fulfill their duties, nomi nations are solicited and students within that class will vote for a new representative.

1ST YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Khoi Do, Dana Lau, Julia Kasper 2ND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Henry Von Rin telen, Eesha Nagpal, Grace Kolosek 3RD YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Brian Hartman, Brenna Robinson, Sharon Fung 4TH YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Susie Kim, Melinda Looney, Ankitha Vasudev 5TH YEAR REPRESENTA TIVES: Robert Rice, Juhi Dhanesha, Olivia Werner SAC ADVISOR: Heather Workinger Midgley

planning and funding of graduate social events and offers programs that benefit SoA graduate students. Representatives meet regularly with the GSAC advisor and school head over the course of the semester to address the concerns of graduate students and develop solutions. SoA graduate students are invited to speak with their representatives about the changes they would like to see in their programs or facilities.

GSAC liaisons to the Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) advocate on behalf of the SoA to the greater GSA network, connecting students with opportunities and funding. Campus-wide, GSA and departmental committees strive to improve academic support and collegiate activities for graduate students.

MAAD REPRESENTATIVE: Hari Vard han Sampath M.ARCH REPRESEN TATIVE: Meghna Koushik MSAECM REPRESENTATIVE: Johns Thomas Vellikara MSBPD REPRESENTATIVE: no nominees for 2021-22 MSCD REPRESENTATIVE: Malika Khurana MSSD REPRESENTATIVE: Sanjana Nagaraj MUD REPRESENTATIVE: Saloni Agarwal PhD-AECM REPRE SENTATIVE: Nihar Pathak PhD-BPD REPRESENTATIVE: Jiarong Xie PhDCD REPRESENTATIVE: no nominees for 2021-22

Architecture Peer Mentors (APM)

Architecture Peer Mentors (APM) connects first-year students with upperclassmen to encourage a com munity of mentorship, learning and inter-year collaboration. Mentors assist students with their transition

Graduate Student Assembly Com mittee (GSAC)

The Graduate Student Assembly Committee (GSAC) is the student body that represents SoA gradu ate students. GSAC oversees the

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

EPIC Metals Competition

The EPIC Metals Corporation spon sors this competition for third-year B.Arch students to design an inno vative object utilizing metal deck systems. The project brief for the 17th annual design competition was to design a SoA Assembly and Proto typing Pavilion (SoAPP) to comple ment shops and maker facilities while rendering more visible the ac tivities and work of the school to the campus community. The pavilion is intended to provide open-air covered space to support the production and testing of architectural prototypes and assemblies. SoAPP will be sited along the western quadrant of the CFA parking lot, where it can lever age proximity to the SoA Shop for material and equipment access.

Jury: EPIC Metals: Michael Schuyler; Praxis II Studio Faculty: Erica Co chran Hameen, Gerard Damiani, Jere my Ficca, Jeff King, Katie LaForest

1st Place: Brian Hartman, B.Arch ‘24 and Colin Walters, B.Arch ‘24 Project: SoAPP Gateway Award: $1,000

2nd Place: Tory Tan, B.Arch ‘24 and Jerry Zhang, B.Arch ‘24 Project: EP Pavilion Award: $800

3rd Place: Jai Bhatnagar, B.Arch ‘24 and Shenyuan Li, B.Arch ‘24 Project: Fine Arts Pavilion Award: $600

Honorable Mention: Gabrielle Benson, B.Arch ‘24 and Hannah Hay tko-DeSalvo, B.Arch ‘24 Project: SoAPP

Measuring & Monitoring Services, Inc. Internship Fund

This award provides financial

support to undergraduate students who wish to undertake a summer internship or related program under the guidance of established profes sionals.

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Bill Bates, Erica Cochran Hameen, Stuart Coppedge, Victoria Acevedo (NOMA/ BCJ)

Winner: Susie Kim, B.Arch ‘23 Internship: Architectural internship at Gensler Award: $3,200

Deller Prize in Sustainable Architecture and Real Estate

This award encourages architecture students to pursue non-traditional career paths, specifically to grow their skills in the specialty of design, construction and sustainability under the umbrella of the real estate business.

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Dana Cupkova, Tamara Dudukovich, Laura Garófalo, Valentina Vavasis

Winner: Ankitha Vasudev, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $4,500

Payette Prize in Building Science

This award recognizes the accom plishments of a B.Arch student who has achieved exceptional perfor mance by integrating the funda mentals of building science in their design work.

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Nina Baird, Vivian Loftness, Azadeh Sawyer

Winner: Madeline Cotton, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $4,500

David Lewis Community Engage ment Design Scholarship

This award provides financial support to a student who demon strates a commitment to working within diverse communities through

participatory architectural design processes and who demonstrates commitments to social justice and community service.

Jury: Stefan Gruber (Chair), Sarosh Anklesaria, Stefani Danes, Ray Gastil, Christine Mondor, An Lewis

Winner: Shanice Lam, B.Arch ‘22 Award: $2,500

Burdett Assistantship

This award supports a B.Arch stu dent pursuing their first professional degree in architecture with projects and activities that will enhance their future work. The winner “shall pos sess love of their subject, integrity, patience, fairness and respect for others.”

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Laura Garó falo, Hal Hayes, Eddy Man Kim

Winner: Olivia Werner, B.Arch ‘22 Proposal: Mediated Worlds: An Exhibition of Transformative Bodily Interfaces Award: $4,000

Fourth-Year Design Awards

The SoA recognizes design ex cellence through the Fourth-Year Design Awards program. Fourth-year B.Arch students are invited to sub mit a digital portfolio and personal statement positioning their work in relation to the year’s theme. The 2022 theme is WORLD MAKING, which asks, how are worlds made, experienced and contested?

Jury: Laura Garófalo (Chair), Dana Cupkova, Gerard Damiani, Jeremy Ficca, Hal Hayes, Eddy Man Kim, Tommy Yang

Ralph H. Burt Jr. and Alva L. Hill

Scholarship

This award provides financial sup port to a B.Arch student whose work focuses on sustainable environ

ments, performance-based design and systems integration throughout the design process.

Winner: Xiaoyu Kang, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $2,200

Luther S. Lashmit Traveling Scholarship

This award recognizes design ex cellence and supports international travel and research.

Winner: Jackson Lacey, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $5,000

Louis F. Valentour Traveling Scholarship

This award recognizes design ex cellence and supports international travel and research.

Winner: Madeline Cotton, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $9,000

John Knox Shear Award

This award recognizes exception al design and representation as demonstrated through studio work.

Winner: Franklin Zhu, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $10,000

Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship

This scholarship recognizes profes sional promise in terms of attitudes and scholastic achievement.

Jury: Select members of the Pitts burgh AIA Chapter: Bea Spolidoro (Fisher ARCHitecture), John Ryan (DesignGroup), Dina Snider (Strada Architecture LLC)

Winner: Ankitha Vasudev, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $9,000

This award provides financial support to a M.Arch student whose work focuses on sustainable en vironments, performance-based design and systems integration throughout the design process.

Jury: Sarosh Anklesaria (Chair), Mat thew Huber, Jonathan Kline, Azadeh Sawyer

Winner: Hardik Makrubiya, M.Arch ‘22 Title: PLAYSCAPE: Inclusive Early Childhood Education Center, The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh Award: $2,200

Burdett Assistantship

This award supports a M.Arch stu dent pursuing their first professional degree in architecture for projects and activities that will enhance their future work. The winner “shall pos sess love of their subject, integrity, patience, fairness and respect for others.”

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Laura Garó falo, Hal Hayes, Eddy Man Kim

Winner: Kashmala Imtiaz, M.Arch ‘22 Proposal: Material Transition and its Socio-Cultural Impact – The Case of Azad Kashmir Award: $4,000

George W. Anderson Jr. Award

This award recognizes graduate stu dents who demonstrate through their work an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community.

Jury: Joshua Bard (Chair), Sarosh An klesaria, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Erica Cochran Hameen, Dana Cupkova, Jeremy Ficca, Stefan Gruber, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Joshua Lee, Vivian Loftness

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

Ralph H. Burt Jr. and Alva L. Hill Scholarship

First Place: Jamie Ho, MSBPD ‘22 Title: Biophilic Design Strategies in Dialysis Clinics to Improve Patient Health Outcomes Award: $2,500

First Place: Kashmala Imtiaz, M.Arch ‘22 Title: Material Transition and its Socio-Cultural Impact – The Case of Azad Kashmir Award: $2,500

Second Place: Tabeer Tariq, M.Arch ‘23

Title: Architecture of Empathy: A Cancer Care Home Award: $1,000

Second Place: Chengzhi Zhang, MSCD ‘23

Title: Biophilia Informed Internet of Things Design Award: $1,000

Gindroz Prize for Summer Travel and Study in Europe

This award was established to enrich lives and enhance education through travel and the study of tra ditional architecture, urbanism and music in Europe.

Jury: Omar Khan, Denis Colwell

Winner: Meghan Pisarcik, B.A. ‘21, M.Arch ‘24

Proposal: Drawing Portugal: Archi tectural Experience Captured by Hand Award: $15,000

FACULTY AWARD

Isabel Sophia Liceaga Discretionary Fund

This award supports faculty-led projects that critically engage students and advance the mission and reputation of the School of Architecture.

Jury: Omar Khan, Mary-Lou Arscott, Erica Cochran Hameen, Kai Gut schow

Winner: Francesca Torello

Title: Virtual Fresco: Vault Mapping Award: $2,000

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Robert J. Armitage, Computing Administrator

Alycia Barney, Financial Assistant

Anne Chen, Outreach Associate

Darlene Covington-Davis, Graduate Program Administrator

Kristen Frambes, Assistant to the Head, Director of Alumni & Professional Relationships

Jon Holmes, Shop Director

Terry L. Hirtz, dFAB Lab Manager

Jenna Kappelt, Director of Outreach Programs, Director of Pre-College

David Koltas, Business Manager and Assistant Head

Todd Luckey, Office Assistant

Meredith Marsh, Marketing and Communications Manager

Erica Oman, Academic Advisor

Sarah Rafson, Curator of Public Programs, Director of EX-CHANGE Exhibition and Publication

Alexis McCune Secosky, Director of Recruitment and Enrollment, Architect Licensing Advisor

Heather Workinger Midgley, Senior Academic Advisor for Undergraduate Studies

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AFFILIATED FACULTY

Burcu Akinci, Paul Christiano Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Stuart Candy, Associate Professor, School of Design

David Dzombak, Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering

John Folan, Professor & Head, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

Susan Finger, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Associate Dean, Integrative Design Arts & Technology (IDeATe)

Berangere Lartigue, Visiting Researcher

Golan Levin, Associate Professor of Art; Director, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

H. Scott Matthews, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy

Pingbo Tang, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Molly Wright Steenson, Senior Associate Dean for Research (SADR) in the College of Fine Arts; Associate Professor, School of Design

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY

Jared Abraham, Adjunct Faculty

Sarosh Anklesaria, T. David FitzGibbon

Professor of Architecture

Mary-Lou Arscott, Associate Studio Professor and Associate Head for Design Fundamentals

Nicolas Azel, Adjunct Faculty

Nina Baird, Assistant Teaching Professor

Nina Barbuto, Adjunct Faculty

Joshua Bard, Associate Professor and Associate Head for Design Research

William Bates, Adjunct Faculty

Ardavan Bidgoli, Robotics Fellow

Heather Bizon, Special Faculty

Daragh Byrne, Associate Teaching Professor

Daniel Cardoso Llach, Associate Professor

Donald K. Carter, Adjunct Faculty; Senior Research Fellow, Remaking Cities Institute

Bruce Chan, Adjunct Faculty

Jill Chisnell, Art, Architecture and Design Librarian

Erica Cochran Hameen, Assistant Professor and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Douglas Cooper, Andrew Mellon

Professor of Architecture

Stuart Coppedge, Adjunct Instructor

Dana Cupkova, Associate Professor

Gerard Damiani, Associate Professor

Stefani Danes, Adjunct Faculty

Jeffrey Davis, Adjunct Faculty

Tamara Dudukovich, Adjunct Instructor

Emek Erdolu, Graduate Instructor

Michael Esposito, Adjunct Faculty

Jeremy Ficca, Associate Professor and Director dFAB

Laura Garófalo, Associate Professor

Ray Gastil, Director, Remaking Cities Institute

Jordan Geiger, Visiting Scholar in Computational Design, Adjunct Faculty

Sinan Goral, Adjunct Faculty

Stefan Gruber, Associate Professor

Kai Gutschow, Associate Professor and Associate Head for Design Ethics

Najeeb Hameen, Adjunct Faculty

Volker Hartkopf, Professor Emeritus

Hal Hayes, Studio Professor

Matthew Huber, Adjunct Faculty

Elijah Hughes, Adjunct Instructor

Jenna Kappelt, Special Faculty

Zaid Kashef Alghata, Adjunct Faculty

Omar Khan, Professor & Head

Eddy Man Kim, Associate Teaching Professor

Phyllis Kim, Adjunct Faculty

Jeff King, Adjunct Faculty

Jonathan Kline, Associate Studio Professor

Ramesh Krishnamurti, Professor

Kristen Kurland, Teaching Professor

Katie LaForest, Adjunct Instructor

Khee Poh Lam, Professor Emeritus

Joshua D. Lee, Assistant Professor

Stephen R. Lee, Professor

Wei Liang, Graduate Instructor

Katheryn Linduff, Adjunct Faculty

Vivian Loftness, University Professor, Paul Mellon Professor Tonya Markiewicz, Adjunct Faculty

Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland, Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor

Christine Mondor, Special Faculty

Irving Oppenheim, Professor

Paul Ostergaard, Adjunct Faculty

Paul Pangaro, Courtesy Appointment, SoA; Professor of Practice, HCII

Stephen Quick, Adjunct Faculty Research Fellow, Remaking Cities Institute

Sarah Rafson, Special Faculty

Nida Rehman, Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design

Jinmo Rhee, Graduate Instructor

Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara, Studio Instructor, Research Assistant Noreen Saeed, Visiting Scholar

Azadeh Omidfar Sawyer, Assistant Professor

Diane Shaw, Associate Professor

Daniel Tompkins, Adjunct Faculty

Francesca Torello, Special Faculty

Valentina Vavasis, Special Faculty

Gerrod Winston, Adjunct Faculty

Heather Workinger Midgley, Senior Academic Advisor for Undergraduate Studies Tommy CheeMou Yang, Ann Kalla Professor in Architecture

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