Presentations/Publications

Contemporary research on the human genome has directly influenced new biological metaphors for architectural design. The architectural historian Martin Bressani has summarized this tendency as a new form of “Architectural Biology,” which the critcs Reinhold Martin and Manuel Delanda have related to historical paradigms of architectural organicism. 1 The intent of this paper is to […]

The black lives matters movement has risen in response to social injustice in the African American community in the united states, specifically concerned with police shootings and brutality. Similar to many modern movements in the age of information, there has been many protests around the United States that utilize mobile technologies and social media to […]

The variety of quantitative optimizations available in BIM software has the potential to leave more human factors to become secondary considerations in design. Computational tools can begin to embrace predictive models of human behavior in order to generate solutions which better serve their occupants and better represent basic knowledge of human conditions. This project explores […]

Design methods and digital/spatial environments that combine augmented reality (AR) and architecture are presented, with particular focus on synthesizing a novel design process. The architectural brief is an archeological museum/excavation site that directly confronts issues of occupation, circulation, form, and large archives of data. Combining the efforts of twelve architectural designers with a team of […]

This is our primary question: with the inexorable advance of digital technologies along all fronts of human endeavor, whither architecture? We identify performance as the primary criterion to revealing a new paradigm for architecture. We do not delimit this definition to the role traditionally played by mechanical and quasi-mechanical technologies in the optimization of environmental […]

We present research on the integration of augmented reality and architecture using a design science research methodology. Our goal is to consider the design of architectural space and augmented reality (AR) applications simultaneously. The architectural brief is an archeological museum/excavation site that directly confronts issues of occupation, circulation, form, and access to large archives of […]

The growing consciousness regarding ecologically conscious architecture mandates a deeper understanding of the strategies that may be adopted by designers towards achieving this goal. With the advent of building information modeling (BIM) and the associated paradigm shi in the design process, it has become increasingly possible to make informed decisions earlier on in the design […]

Parametric design environments (Building Information Modeling) are transforming architects into agents of their own systems, at the expense of systemic logics too complex for us to control. This agency is often defined by a system devoid of adaptive or responsive tools. The work in this paper proposes a hypothetical response to this condition by designing […]

Many architects understand that learning to program can be a challenge, but assume that time and practice are the only barriers to performing well enough at it. However, research from computer science education does not support this assumption. Multinational studies of undergraduate computer science programs reveal that a significant number of students in their first […]

Architects and designers have recently become interested in the use of “big data”. The most common paradigm guiding this work is the optimization of a limited number of factors, e.g. façade designs maximizing light distribution. For most design problems, however, such optimization is oversimplified and reductive; the goal of design is the discovery of possibilities […]

Through an investigation into material phenomenology and digital fabrication a codependent relationship evolved revealing the possibilities that these new technologies can having with respect integrating the architect more fully in the construction and fabrication of architecture. These studies used an digital and analog generative design process as an approach to reveal the characteristics and possibilities […]