EX-CHANGE 2022

EX-CHANGE 2021–22

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Exhibition means + methods Aviva Rubin (B.Arch ‘07) and Carolynn Karp

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

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

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

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PERKINS EASTMAN Strada | Design With People In Mind® PWWG Architects Sota Construction Services, Inc. Desmone Architects GBBN Akhil Badjatia

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

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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

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Introduction Omar Khan Head of the School of Architecture

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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 programs, 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.

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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 returning 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 materials and build at full scale. Also, a return to Pittsburgh and working on site with one another allowed faculty and students to collaborate and engage with community organizations and local sites.

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As the year progressed, we were able to welcome visitors to the campus 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 Otero-Pailos, media theorist/curator Jordan Geiger and world renowned Bangladeshi 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, seminars 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 intellectual 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 participation of forty students from different classes, the pavilion provided a stunning entry to the carnival events.

We concluded our year with a lovely graduation ceremony at the Carnegie Music Hall where we celebrated the Class of 2022 and also the 2021 and 2020 classes who had previously 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 enmeshed in our education and the

faculty and students addressed them in different ways through dialogue and coursework. They are represented 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 reflection 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 responding creatively to these challenges.

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Exhibition Themes The School of Architecture’s Pedagogies → Read more about

Pedagogies 2020 on page 4.

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 intelligence, 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.

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Climate Change

Social Justice

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

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 communities. What is architecture’s agency in working towards a more just world?

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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?

Experiments

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

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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 significant 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 pioneering work in sustainability, building science and computation has distinguished our school from our peers.

Likewise, our seminal work in participatory and community engaged design has laid the foundations for the values we ascribe to architecture: 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 understood 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 established that education, research and creative practice is always in direct dialogue with society’s evolving concerns and must critically examine its prevailing paradigms.

Pedagogies 2020 was critical, speculative and provocative, grounded in science and evidence but also the projective capacity of the architectural imaginary. 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. Most significantly, our pedagogy must address the imminent challenges facing society: Climate change and its impending environmental and social problems and how architecture 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 intersectionality in our politics and communities.

To address these challenges, Pedagogies 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 address the great challenges of our time?

→ What are the fundamental competencies 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 contributing to interdisciplinary research at Carnegie Mellon? → What is the role of interdisciplinary research within architectural design? → How can community partnerships and industry engagement open opportunities 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 challenges 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 underrepresented minorities (URM) in our school and in the profession?

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

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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 diverge 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.

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The B.Arch is a five-year, first professional degree program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting 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 technical nature of the B.Arch program, it is STEM-eligible, meaning that in addition to one year of Optional Practical Training (OPT) a student on an F1 visa may apply for a 24-month STEM OPT extension after graduation.

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Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.) The B.A. is a four-year liberal studies 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).

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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 design 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, computational 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 community and around the world.

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Master of Urban Design (MUD) Stefan Gruber, Track Chair

Building Performance & Diagnostics (BPD) Vivian Loftness, 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 technology 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 contemporary 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.

The M.S. and PhD in Building Performance & Diagnostics (BPD) are top-ranked building science degrees dedicated to high-performance buildings for a more resilient and sustainable 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.

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M.S. & PhD Programs

Architecture–Engineering–Construction Management (AECM) Joshua D. Lee, Track Chair The Master of Science and PhD of Architecture–Engineering–Construction Management (AECM) programs are jointly offered by the School of Architecture and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

The AECM programs prepare building-delivery professionals for careers in capital project delivery dealing with the entire life-cycle of capital projects, from pre-design to design, construction, commissioning, operation 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 environmental sustainability.

Computational Design (CD) Daniel Cardoso Llach, Track Chair The M.S. and PhD programs in Computational 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 & Environmental Engineering. Computing has become increasingly important in nearly all areas of design: simulation, analysis, synthesis, tangible interaction 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 technologies 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 sustainable design methodologies. Based within the legacy of sustainability teaching at CMU, the MSSD program investigates research-based design innovation strategies, prepares students 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, professional practice work, international exchange and institutional meetings and conferences. Unlike academically founded graduate programs, the DDes program is based on the assumption that mid-career professionals can develop doctoral-level research, building on their tacit knowledge acquired through years of professional practice. The cohorts in this program come from various AEC (Architecture–Engineering–Construction) 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.

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Multiple Degree Options

Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP)

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The SoA’s Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) offers baccalaureate 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

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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 enrolling in their first master’s degree program.

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FALL 2021 → 48-100 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 1 Eddy Man Kim This studio investigates the role and process of architectural design as three critical acts: to see, to empathize and to deliver. → 48-104 - Shop Skills Jon Holmes This course introduces basic material 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 I Heather Workinger Midgley This course focuses on how students learn, develop and make decisions as they transition into architecture education. → 62-125 - Drawing I Douglas Cooper This introductory course in freehand architectural drawing helps build a capacity for visualizing three-dimensional space through freehand drawing. → 62-122 - Digital Media I Matthew 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 introduction to social justice and design ethics, how architecture is embedded in these issues, and how architects might address these issues in current and future practice, both as citizens and as designers.

SPRING 2022 → 48-105 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 2 Hal Hayes This studio cultivates student architects 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 II Heather Workinger Midgley This course encourages students to pursue their interests inside and outside of the School of Architecture by introducing a range of opportunities, including study abroad, internships, academic minors/additional majors and research opportunities. → 62-126 - Drawing II Douglas Cooper This course builds a capacity for visualizing three-dimensional space through freehand drawing, using line, tone and color to represent architectural space and architectural proposals. → 62-123 - Digital Media II Matthew 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 cultures, surveying critical episodes in the built environment of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas from ancient times through the 19th century.

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→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh Tommy Yang This studio explores how stories, myths, cinematography, animation, mapping, comics and design can build an argument for an architecture for and of the people.

SPRING 2022 → 48-324 - Structures/Statics Irving Oppenheim This course examines structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction constraints 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 introduction to architectural history.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Untangling the Threads Stefani 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 Center 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.

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→ 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.

→ 48-205 - Second Year Option Studio: Syncopation Jared Abraham This studio proposes the use of syncopation as a technique with which to analyze, augment and disrupt the constructed environment.

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→ 48-116 - Building Physics Ömer Karaguzel This course introduces fundamental theories of building physics and simulation-aided design development skill sets in the fields of building lighting, thermal performance and room acoustics.

→ 62-275 - Fundamentals of Computational Design Eddy Man Kim This course takes computers outside the box and outlines a journey of discovery, revealing computation as the connective tissue encompassing multiple facets of architectural practice and experience.

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→ 48-215 - Materials and Assemblies - Gerard Damiani This course introduces and examines the fundamentals between design intent and construction materials, the science of materials (performance) and their assemblies.

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→ 48-200 - Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 Laura Garófalo This studio explores morphology in relation to patterns of climate, programmatic organization, and sociocultural and ecological context.

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Elaine Zhuyun Jin Melodies of the City Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

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The Cut, The Beach & Beyond Studio Sansui

Spring 2022 48-205/48-510 Second Year Option Studio: Constructed Architecture

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

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48-215 Materials and Assemblies

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Henry von Rintelen

Olive Bouseman Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Syncopation

Suzie Siyi Liu, Jeff Li

Keanu Zihan Dong, Eric Ziyi Feng

Blossom Culinary Center

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

48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis 3 - Yang

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Journey through the patchwork Spring 2022

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Ashley Su, Jackie Yu

Mise en Place Culinary Center Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Rodriguez

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

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Mascot Design for Pittsburgh Steps Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Interface Architecture

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Brody Ploeger

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Tianshu Huang

Squirrel Hill Guide Book Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

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Olive Bouseman, Jaden Luscher Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Yang

Michael Bi, Tewei Song Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - King

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Jamie Espinosa, Nakshatra Menon Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Kappelt

48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Interface Architecture

Eric Ziyi Feng, Elaine Zhuyun Jin Stormeye

Spring 2022 62-275 Fundamentals of Computational Design

Keanu Zihan Dong The Distillery Palace Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

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Brody Ploeger, Aditya Shinn

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South Side Culinary Institute Fall 2021 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: Poiesis Studio 3 - Markiewicz

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Jacky Jia, David Warfel

Casting Pittsburgh steps Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Interface Architecture

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Human Textile 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

Graham Murtha Porch Ecologies Spring 2022 48-205 Second Year Option Studio: Once Upon a Pittsburgh

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FALL 2021

→ 48-380 - Real Estate for Architects - Tamara Dudukovich This course investigates the real estate 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.

→ 48-250 - Urbanism and the Social Production of Space Stefan 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.

Colin Walters, Jerry Yonghao Zhang Fall 2021 48-300 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1

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

→ 48-305 - Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2 Jeremy Ficca This studio introduces integrated architectural design as the synthesis of disparate elements, demands and desires, situating architecture as a technological, cultural and environmental process that is inherently contingent and entangled, yet tethered to a historical project of autonomy.

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→ 48-300 - Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1 Dana 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, infrastructural and ecological histories, along with the patterns of toxicity as they relate to cultures of post-industrial urbanization.

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

Sharon Fung Fall 2021 48-315/48-635 Environment 1: Climate and Energy in Architecture

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Shray Tripathi

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48-305 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Tory Tan Dunn Fall 2021 48-300 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1

Colin Walters

Walters Family Residence Retrofit Fall 2021 48-315/48-635 Environment 1: Climate and Energy in Architecture

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Rebecca Cunningham

Upham's Corner Public Library Spring 2022 48-305 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 2

Jimmy Athan

Shellhouse Riverfront Fall 2021 48-300 Architecture Design Studio: Praxis Studio 1

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Fourth & Fifth Year Courses FALL 2021 → 48-432/48-655 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) Environment II: Design Integration of Active Building Systems Nina Baird This course focuses on active systems in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful integration with passive components.

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→ 48-525 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) - Thesis Seminar Francesca 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 thesis work in all of its phases.

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→ 48-381 - Issues of Practice Stuart Coppedge This course introduces students to the realm of architectural professional practice, focusing on the overlay of design within the context of the client’s role and the architect’s responsibilities in competent architectural project and practice management. → 48-383 - Ethics and Decision Making in Architecture Valentina Vavasis This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environment. Students learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an ethical issue and how one might work through an ethical problem.

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→ 48-497 - Pre-Thesis Mary-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.

Advanced Synthesis Option Studio Courses FALL 2021 → 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 industrial hemp to consider the prospects of farming, processing and building with hemp in the post-industrial landscape of southwestern Pennsylvania. → 48-400/48-500/48-650 (ASOS and MUD 3) - Commoning the City - Stefan Gruber This first semester of the yearlong “Commoning the City” research-based design studio focuses on social justice and community-led transformation of cities and culminates in individual thesis projects. → 48-400/48-500/48-650 - Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building Gerard Damiani This studio goes beyond how space and time affect the role of architectural sequence in real time to a question of how a building is understood throughout time. → 48-400/48-500/48-650 HELIOStudio: 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 landscape and urban form determine how we deploy technologies. → 48-400/48-500/48-650 Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion Hal Hayes This studio helps students develop a strong, comprehensive and holistic design process as they learn to seek inspiration from the design components and socio-cultural issues involved in a large, complex building project.

→ 48-400/48-500/48-650 Reforming Architecture: Re-purposing harmful architecture of the past for a healthier future - William Bates This studio revisits an abandoned state prison structure, the Pennsylvania 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 world Mary-Lou Arscott 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.

SPRING 2022 → 48-410/48-510/48-660 Monuments 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 Valley Heather 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.

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

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→ 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.

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→ 48-410/48-510/48-660 Bricolage at Community Forge: Urban Collaboratory Studio Stefan Gruber In a participatory design process, this studio supports Community Forge with developing ideas for a multifunctional performance space and translates these into a design-build component that promises to act as catalyst in the incremental transformation of the space.

Qijia Li

Centennial Journey Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

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48-400/650 ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

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Alcoa Monument Warehouse Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

Urban Collaboratory Studio Spring 2022 48-410/510/660 ASO: Bricolage at Community Forge: Urban Collaboratory Studio

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Elena Marzina Spring 2022 48-410/510 ASO: Thick skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

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Emily Edlich, Robert Rice

Hazelwood Hempcrete Factory & Second Ave. Development Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Cultivated: From Farm to Building

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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

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Ankitha Vasudev Spring 22 48-410/510 ASO: Thick skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

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Sanitation+Empowerment Spring 2022 48-410/660 ASO: Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi

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Steven Fei Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

Clara Jieli Zhao

The Imagine Machine History Producers Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Veronica Hernandez

Algae P(H20)Tobio Concourse Fall 2021

48-400/650 ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

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Sanitation+Empowerment Spring 2022 48-410/660 ASO: Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi

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Mike Lin

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

Emily Edlich, Steven Fei

Relocalize Appalachia Spring 2022 48-410/660 ASO: Past Futures: The Ohio River Valley

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Jason Garwood Nothing is Taboo

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48-400/650 ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

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Shanice Lam

Breaking Boundaries: From Disparate Schools to United Campus Spring 2022 48-410/660 ASO: Monuments of Everyday Practice: Living Memorials to Gandhi

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Sarah Kang Sky Museum Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

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Hari Vardhan Sampath Spring 2022 48-410/660 ASO: Thick Skin: Emergent Ecologies of the Ornamental Building Envelope

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Vishaka Nayak

Brilliant Cuttoff Viaduct Pittsburgh

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Bobby Yang

Guidebook Stacks Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

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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

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Jasmine Lee, Yingying Yan Solar Barge Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: HELIOStudio: Designing Urban Solar Transition

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Seyoung Choo, Sarah Kang

Review on the Flooding History of Louisville and the People: Development between Early 2030's to Late 2050's

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The Cut, The Beach & Beyond Sansui

Spring 2022 48-205/410/660 ASO: The Cut, The Beach & Beyond: Campus Design-Build

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Aadya Bhartia, Ankitha Vasudev Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Reforming Architecture: Re-purposing harmful architecture of the past for a healthier future

Ammar Hassonjee, Shanice Lam Hazelwood Greenway Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: HELIOStudio: Designing Urban Solar Transition

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Homstead Lost Memory Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Post Occupied: Weathering and the Lifecycle of the Building

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Carol Huang, Xindi Lyu Impasto

Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: Terminal: JFK Terminal 4 Concourse Expansion

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Clover Chau

Conflict+Dialogue Spring 2022

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“I Used to Live Here” Fall 2021 48-400/650 ASO: City as Film: Architectural thought and imagination for futures in a non-modern world

Elective Courses FALL 2021 → 48-356 - Color Drawing Douglas Cooper This course builds knowledge and provides practice in the use of color, principally with watercolor, to depict architectural surroundings. → 48-455 - Advanced Structures Irving 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 Design Ardavan Bidgoli This course introduces students to the emerging field of machine learning and design, giving them the tools to make their own machine-learning-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 Countermapping the City Tommy 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 perceive, define, represent, construct and reconstruct our world in relation to evolving concepts of “nature” and their manifestation in art, architecture 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 Afrofuturism allows one to shift perspectives out of a Eurocentric, white, patriarchal, 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 Architecture Diane Shaw This course surveys the architecture and urbanism of Mexico and Guatemala during the Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial eras. → 48-368 - Rediscovering Antiquity: Travelers, Archeologists and Architects in the Mediterranean - Francesca Torello The course follows the intertwined histories of architecture and archaeology 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 Research Nida Rehman This course introduces incoming graduate students to a range of research 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 appropriate 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. Students 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 Simulation Ömer Karaguzel This course outlines a series of environmental 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 Environment Vivian Loftness This course explores the relationship of quality buildings, building systems, infrastructures and land-use to productivity, health, well-being and a sustainable environment. → 48-568 - Advanced CAD, BIM and 3D Visualization Kristen Kurland This course introduces students to three-dimensional software tools including AutoCAD 3D, Revit Architecture and 3D Studio MAX. → 48-725 - Graduate Real Estate Design and Development Valentina Vavasis This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate development, including its process and context.

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Design Fundamentals Courses SPRING 2022 → 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.

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→ 48-531/48-771 - Fabricating Customization - Jeremy Ficca This course emphasizes the reciprocity 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.

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→ 48-699 A2 - Environmental Racism, Injustice and Unfreedom: Lessons for Architects and Designers - Nida Rehman This seminar examines the histories and definitions of environmental racism, environmental injustice/justice and environmental unfreedoms to critically assess architecture’s role as a mechanism of environmental inequities and injustices, and learn from social movements for radical and hopeful change. → 48-611 - Collateral Architecture Jordan Geiger This seminar’s collective research into collateral architectures provides students with ideas for new practices, new users or clients, new uses and new experiences. → 48-746 A2 - Shape Machine Ramesh Krishnamurti

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→ 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 Campus Design & Facility Development, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and campus constituents to improve the quality of life through design intervention(s) on campus.

→ 48-355 - Perspective Douglas Cooper This freehand drawing course considers perspective from three understandings 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 geometry 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 transdimensional 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.

Design Ethics Courses SPRING 2022 → 48-374 - History of Architecture in the Islamic World Francesca Torello This course provides an introduction to the architecture of the lands where Islam spread over the centuries, providing a basic understanding of major epochs and regional variations. → 48-435 - Modern Mexico and Guatemala: 19th-21st Century Architecture - Diane Shaw This course examines the architectural history of modern Mexico and Guatemala by looking at the countries’ urban and rural architectural evolution as explicit and implicit expressions of identity (Mexicanidad 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 themselves visible in the past, present and future. → 48-699 - Design Ethics: Space, Health, Justice - Nida Rehman This course offers critical perspectives on the relationships and spatial politics of health, ecology and architecture, conceiving architecture as cultural imaginations and grounded inhabitations of space, rather than expert prescriptions or techno-fixes.

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→ 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.

→ 48-557 - Formless as an Operation - Heather Bizon This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics. Students investigate the means and methods of representation 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 specifications addressing topics such as variational modeling, rule-based modeling, directed and dynamic simulation, optimization and learning.

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→ 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.

→ 48-752 - Zero Energy Housing Nina Baird This graduate-level course explores the requirements and strategies for achieving successful net zero multifamily housing, including design approaches, codes, policy, technology and energy infrastructure that support net zero or carbon neutral performance.

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→ 48-770 - Introduction to Machine Learning in Design Ardavan Bidgoli This course introduces students to this emerging field, giving them the tools to make their own machine-learning-based design tools by adapting state-of-the-art models, developing new models and understanding how data shapes machine learning processes.

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Design Research Courses

→ 48-528/48-758 - IDeATe: Responsive Mobile Environments - Daragh Byrne As part of this project-based course, students get hands-on with emerging technologies, concepts and applications in the Internet of Things through a critical lens.

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→ 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 society that appears to be increasingly less place based.

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Graduate Courses SPRING 2022 → 48-769 - M.S. Thesis Graduate 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.

→ 48-655/48-432 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) Environment II: Design Integration of Active Building Systems Nina Baird This course focuses on active systems in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful integration with passive components.

→ 48-658 - Real Estate for Architects - Tamara Dudukovich This course investigates the real estate 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.

MAAD

→ 48-525 (Fourth and Fifth Years and M.Arch) - Thesis Seminar Francesca 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 thesis work in all of its phases.

→ 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 introduction to architectural history.

FALL 2021

→ 48-774 - MAAD Pro-Seminar I Jeremy Ficca This course explores architecture’s digital culture to introduce contemporary topics of architectural research, design, practice and conSPRING 2022 struction. → 48-785 - MAAD Research by Design Project

M.Arch FALL 2021 → 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.

→ 48-640 - M.Arch Studio: Praxis II - Azadeh Sawyer and Matthew Huber This course continues to understand architecture as a modulator of complex 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 architectural expression play in shaping the world.

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

→ 48-647 - Materiality and Construction Systems Jeremy Ficca This course introduces contemporary methods of construction and draws attention to the materialization of architectural intent by foregrounding the historical, technological and conceptual basis of construction systems to understand building as process and cultural artifact.

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

→ 48-637 - Structures/Statics Irving Oppenheim This course examines structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction constraints that underlie the design of buildings, emphasizing the need for a designer to envision a complete three-dimensional structure.

→ 48-644 - Pre-Thesis Mary-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 Architecture Valentina Vavasis This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environment. Students learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an ethical issue and how one might work through an ethical problem. → 48-649 - Issues of Practice Stuart Coppedge This course introduces students to the realm of architectural professional practice, focusing on the overlay of design within the context of the client’s role and the architect’s responsibilities in competent architectural project and practice management.

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→ 48-768 - Indoor Environmental → 48-569/48-781 - GIS/CAFM: Quality (IEQ): Energy, Health Spatial Analysis in Infrastrucand Productivity ture Planning - Kristen Kurland Erica Cochran Hameen This course covers important geoThe course introduces the imporgraphic information system (GIS) tance of the indoor environment and Computer Aided Facilities Manon human health and productivity, agement (CAFM) concepts. providing an overview of the metrics utilized to define IEQ and methods MSBPD to identify their correlations to energy consumption, health, producFALL 2021 tivity, equitable design and design justice. → 48-769 - Master’s Thesis → 48-765 - AECM Synthesis Preparation in Building Project - Joshua Lee Performance and Diagnostics This course applies the diverse Vivian Loftness knowledge and skills that AECM This culminating thesis project students have acquired during allows students the opportunity to their program to a critical public focus their research on a topic of interest issue related to the built personal and professional interest environment. This semester’s topic in the area of Building Performance is the ecosociotechnical impacts of and Diagnostics, including the develconstruction debris. opment of design innovations and tools for sustainability and indoor → 48-767 - Transdisciplinary environmental quality as well as Thinking - Stephen Quick data analytics across the building This course is a compendium of and urban spectrum. architectural, engineering and conSPRING 2022 struction (AEC) practice, methods and theories with an emphasis → 48-692 - Shaping Light through on how the AEC professions can Simulation and Virtual Reality more effectively work together by Azadeh Sawyer understanding each other’s roles, This course explores how to design responsibilities and professional with and for light, while understandperspectives. ing the paradox of lighting design— SPRING 2022 that it is both science and art.

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→ 48-759 - Value Based Design William Bates This course is an in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of project values, incentives and motivations and the diverse and sometimes conflicting 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 management, resource charts and project status reports.

→ 48-569/48-781 - GIS/CAFM: Spatial Analysis in Infrastructure Planning - Kristen Kurland This course covers important geographic 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 Ratings Nina 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 Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems. → 48-795 A4 - LEED, Green Infrastructure and Community Rating in Global Context Nina Baird This graduate-level mini-course uses global community and infrastructure 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 & Diagnostics Vivian 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 development of design innovations and design tools for sustainability and indoor environmental quality as well as data analytics across the building and urban spectrum.

MSCD FALL 2021 → 48-727 - Inquiry into Computational Design Daniel Cardoso Llach This course focuses on the emergence of computation as a pivotal concept in contemporary architecture and other design fields.

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MSSD + Design Research Elective FALL 2021 → 62-709/48-743 - Introduction to Ecological Design Thinking Dana 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 architecture, urban design and landscape infrastructure. → 48-731 - MSSD Synthesis Preparation - Azadeh Sawyer This course ensures a delineated, 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 lifecycle and computation, addressing multicultural aspects of ecological thinking while enabling actionable expertise in sustainable design methodologies.

→ 48-722/48-524 - Building Performance Modeling Wei Liang This course focuses on conceptual foundations and practical applications of advanced and integrated whole-building energy simulation programs with emphasis on architectural building envelope systems, mechanical electrical building systems and their controls, and building-integrated solar photovoltaic power systems. → 48-731/48-732 - MSSD Synthesis - Dana Cupkova

MUD FALL 2021 → 48-705 - MUD Urban Lab 1 Stefani 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 urban 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.

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→ 48-742 - Graduate Seminar 3: Planning and Public Policy for the Future of Urbanism Ray Gastil This seminar focuses on the connections between policy, planning and the design of regions, cities and neighborhoods down to the scale of the individual project.

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→ 48-740 - Urban Design Theory and Methods - Jonathan Kline This course explores core urban design methods and theories organized into three themes intended to give students a foundational understanding of urban design, examine key critiques of urbanization and explore urban design’s agency.

→ 48-677 - Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Competition Valentina 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.

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→ 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 Ecology Christine Mondor This course examines the shifting regimes of urban ecology and equips students with skills and core concepts that enable them to lead or contribute to transition through design.

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→ 48-712/90-805 - Graduate Seminar II: Issues of Global Urbanization - Stefan Gruber This seminar investigates the future of cities, focusing on three existential challenges: the escalating environmental crisis, growing social inequity and technological dislocation.

→ 48-793 - PhD and DDes 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 dissertation 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 Defense PhD and DDes Track Chairs In the dissertation phase, the PhD student writes a dissertation on a selected topic that represents a significant research accomplishment, makes a significant contribution to knowledge in the area of concentration and includes material worthy of publication. The dissertation 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.

SPRING 2022 → 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 dissertation 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 & Diagnostics Vivian Loftness The culminating thesis project for the PhD in Building Performance & Diagnostics delivers cutting edge and tested design innovations for sustainability, design tools for sustainability and/or data analytics and policies for significantly advancing sustainable buildings and communities.

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Inquiries, Observations and Provocations through Architecture Coordinators: Francesca Torello (fall seminar), Sarah Rafson (spring studio)

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An architectural thesis is a proposition that results from a critique and reexamination 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.

Adam He B.Arch 2022 A Fisher Ensemble: An Age of Discovery of the Urban Shoreline Advisors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Heather Bizon, Jonathan Kline, Valentina Vavasis Consultant: Stefan Gruber 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.

Many urban coastlines have been modified to accommodate the modern scale of our relationships with water that see it merely as a medium, 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 interventions together — container ports and fishing villages — this project speculates alternative coastal lifestyles that facilitate the coexistence of economical, scalar and operational differences between modernity and tradition.

Carol Huang 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, Singapore), 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. “Hawking” 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 younger generation, there are concerns about the sustainability of hawker culture once the old generation

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.

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

Both the migrants and the locals experience a sense of in-betweenness 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 migrants to share a moment of recognition. 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 construct a new Shanghai identity.

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Juhi Dhanesha B.Arch 2022 A Glossary of the Unvertical Advisors: Matthew Huber, Dana Cupkova Consultants: Mary-Lou Arscott, Sinan Goral

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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.”

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Verticality has long been a given in architectural space. Historically, heaven, hell and similar concepts have correlated positive notions upward and negative notions downward. 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 institutionalized discrimination. In this project I approach unverticality like a glossary that provides a few possibilities, each challenging assumptions of verticality. With each world in the glossary, I will be challenging a normative expression of verticality and subverting it to become unvertical. 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 benefits 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 design, 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 contingent on if it can be represented in a digital context.

There are many sources that contribute to these problems, but this thesis argues one of the major factors is the lack of standardized formats 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 pipeline allows for understanding not only how geometry is represented, but how the computer stores and modifies the underlying data structures. 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.

Min Liu MAAD 2022 Changeable Architecture: Reconfiguration in Cooperative Living

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Lukas Hermann B.Arch 2022 A Better CAD: How Tools Shape Design Advisors: Eddy Man Kim, Lining Yao

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

Accommodating changes to architecture allows residents the ability to disassemble and assemble their spaces over and over again in new forms and with new qualities, allowing for increased adaptability in

collective housing. With a changeable situation, residents are empowered to customize their space. As a result, the shared ownership creates different identities and social interfaces. A sense of ownership and belonging is established during the management and decision-making process.

Olivia Werner B.Arch 2022 Mediated Worlds: Transformative Bodily Interfaces Advisors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Dana Cupkova Mediated Worlds is a bio speculative response to climate change. I am designing an evolutionary adaptation to the body to protect ourselves from an increasingly volatile environment. 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 interfaces 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 biological functions externally through processes of secretion and calcification. 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 control. 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.

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Shariq M. Shah B.Arch 2022 Entangled Territories*: Material Memory, Local Practice and Ecology from Ancient Mohenjo Daro to Postcolonial Sukkur, Pakistan

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Advisors: Nida Rehman, Heather Bizon, Dana Cupkova Mentors: Hal Hayes, Christine Mondor, Sarosh Anklesaria This thesis situates our planetary civilizational crisis within the entanglement 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 processes the local stewardship practices of wildlife conservation and archaeological preservation that arise in response to civilizational crisis.

Entangling timescales of crisis, two design speculations investigate spatial practices of ecological stewardship and knowledge building. Form is negotiated through its formal, ecological and ritualistic practices.

Design is leveraged as a method for investigating the interdependencies 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 colonial-imperialist project.

Taisei Manheim B.Arch 2022 Reflect - Imagine - Create: Meditations on Education Advisors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Nina Barbuto, Valentina Vavasis

With this project, I reflect on past and present forms of education and reimagine new forms of education 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 workshops 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 infrastructures 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.

Carly Sacco B.Arch 2022 Working with Water Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline Over time, humans have become disconnected from one of the natural resources they need to survive: water. In early civilizations and developments, water was praised and sacred. In modern times, however, and especially in urban environments, water is treated as something 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

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

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Pittsburgh, a city carved out by three rivers, struggles deeply with its relationship to water. Hidden infrastructure, 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.

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This thesis project explores the possibility of community-led approaches for creating a network of cooperative mobility and care hubs that include micro-transit and community support services at existing major transit stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new cooperative network is an ecosystem of neighborhood-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.

Kashmala Imtiaz M.Arch 2022 Material Transition and Its Socio-cultural Impact: The Case of Azad Kashmir Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

After the earthquake of 2005, several national and international organizations infiltrated the region of Azad Kashmir for rescue and relief. In an unplanned bid to modernize, the construction methodologies departed 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 current models of growth are bringing extreme social and gender inequality, environmental problems and physical and cultural desertification.

The scope of the project features two broader fields: evolution in participation across the community and across gender. Applying a triple-bottom-line analysis to material passports, it expands the criteria for benefit-cost analysis to include social, 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.

Lan Qin MUD 2022 Adaptive Reuse of Beijing High-Rise Danwei Housing Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline 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

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

Luciana Ma M.Arch 2022 A Home is NOT A House Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline This project examines homelessness in Seattle and seeks to transform 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 stigma that comes with homelessness and respond to the reluctance to go to shelters.

The project begins with identifying the facilitated experience design and the users (unhoused people, staff, passerbys, volunteers, residents 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 biggest homeless shelters. The premise of the project lies in creating an interactive edge within an education 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.

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

Sprawl and Resilience

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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 experiencing rapid levels of unchecked urban development as a result. While this may seem beneficial on a surface 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 authenticity. 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.

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

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 agitate the boundaries between the domestic 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.

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This thesis is situated in the aftermath of the housing crisis in Barcelona and looks at the potential of government-supported grassroots organization to provide an alternative vision for people’s relationship with housing in an urban context.

The site of the proposed intervention 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 recent purchase of the site by private developers, gentrification and consequential displacement of the local population loom in the future. To provide an alternative to this timeline, 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.

Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline 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-human 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 compete to restrain suburban development over the board. Transforming their mindset in the span of a few hours is impossible, so this project positions itself as a platform to catalyze the imagination of collective thoughts.

Schuyler McAuliffe MUD & M.Arch 2022 The Shape of Power Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline The Community Power Trust (CPT) is a novel community organization that seeks to break away from the seemingly inevitable path of a fossil-dependent future and explore the possibilities of stewarding cooperative cosmologies. The CPT combines three significant elements that I have identified as key transition points in a future of self-determination: democratic cooperative housing, community owned energy

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infrastructure through solar development 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 designates 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 models of sustainability, the 2,000 Watt Society is a relational model that supports the diversity and self-determination 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 organization.

Siqing Ge MUD 2022 Hutong Reunion Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline

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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 decentralized community spaces and classrooms for further expanding the local educational resources, and preparing them to resist gentrification and displacement.

Takumi Davis B.Arch 2021, MUD 2022 Braddock Wellness Center Advisors & Consultants: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline, North Braddock Residents For Our Future Braddock, PA and its small, predominantly Black population are located alongside polluters such as the U.S. Steel and the Edgar Thomson Plant, yet residents have access to a number of community resources such as the Braddock Carnegie Library and the Hollander Project. This project 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, entrepreneurship, 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.

Xinye Wang MUD 2022 A Home for Children Left Behind Advisors: Stefan Gruber, Jonathan Kline 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 happened here brought about economic prosperity, but it also brought a series of urban problems, among which the phenomenon of left-behind children seems especially heartbreaking. Left-behind children refer to the kids who have to be separated 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 Longhua 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 affordability 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 multigenerational living for families consisting of migrant workers to live collectively in limited space, which provides a workaround to mitigate the phenomenon of left-behind children.

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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 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the industry also produces large amounts of waste during extraction, transformation, construction and demolition. In contrast to demolition, Deconstruction — the disassembly of buildings to maximize the reuse and recycling of their materials 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 assessment 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, partial or full deconstruction. This system may also be helpful in assessing the feasibility and setting priorities for the other condemned properties throughout the city.

Weston Fortna MSAECM 2021 Laser Scanning and BIM to Estimate Deconstruction Recovery Potential The city of Pittsburgh recently began promotion of a deconstruction pilot program that may eventually impact more than 1,700 condemned buildings in order to eliminate blight and promote community development in a manner that is sustainable and economically viable. The program is currently in the early stages and working to identify potential techniques that can aid in streamlining the program. The use of 3-D scanning and building information modeling (BIM) technology is becoming increasingly popular in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry and aids in creating 3-D visual models of buildings 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 deconstruction 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 demolition phases of condemned buildings within the city of Pittsburgh. These methods can supplement current evaluation practices and be optimized to align with city goals and improve on-site safety while saving on costs and time in the deconstruction evaluation process.

Zhihan Fu 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 industrial properties. According to census data, approximately 10.7% of the

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 address these issues while leading to significant environmental, economic, and social costs and generating large amounts of construction and demolition (C&D) debris.

To improve the cost prediction of deconstruction, this study proposes 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 importance of relevant criteria related to deconstruction by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The information given by several experts yields the averaged AHP weights of each criterion, which shows that building materials, design complexity 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 models. The weights of these criteria can be used as the coefficients of the various factors in the cost prediction model formula.

Grant Johnson 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, contributes to the release of particulates and includes the use of heavy equipment. 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 become standard practice. This paper specifically investigates the barriers

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to deconstruction in Pittsburgh and the impacts of standard demolition.

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Several methods were used to pursue this area of study: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), expert interviews and rephotography. In addition 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. Finally, 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 implementing deconstruction correctly.

Alyssa Mayorga MSAECM 2021 Just Deconstruction: Investigating the Social Impacts of Pittsburgh’s Deconstruction Pilot Program

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In April of 2021, the City of Pittsburgh 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 investigate 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 impacts of concentrating deconstruction 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 motivator 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 businesses. This would especially

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

Zehan Zhang MSAECM 2022 Analysis of the Major Influencing Factors on Deconstruction in Pittsburgh Through Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 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 deconstructing 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 stabilize, demolish or deconstruct condemned properties. For example, construction materials and decision-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 analytic hierarchy process (AHP). This data is then used to produce spatial map overlays that illustrate the distribution of potential deconstruction 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 proactive considerations such as

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 PhD Committee: Dr. Erica Cochran Hameen (Chair); Dr. Joshua D. Lee; Dr. Jared Cohon, President Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Floods and heat stress are responsible 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, biological, 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 practiced 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 construction strategies to a wider community of people. The findings will also generate an improved understanding of flood and heat risk management and design options available for different housing contexts in coastal Nigeria.

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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 Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University; 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 Business, Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College; Dr. Sinem Mollaoglu, Professor and Program Director, Construction Management, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, 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 components, each with its own independent research question. The first component of the thesis addressed the question, ‘What are the terms and definitions used to address the various structural and hierarchical 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 contributions: 1) Identified a new project classification hierarchy and recommended terminology and definitions 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 outcomes with different intensity.

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 architecture firm in Washington State, this thesis develops a taxonomy of biophilic design scalars and investigates 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 absenteeism 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 outcomes, yet the current lack of funding for school facilities challenges both health and performance.

Biophilic design is a growing field of design that offers significant opportunity 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 relevance 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.

Haipei Bie, Yinan Wu and Jinzhao Tian MSBPD 2022 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 explorations of base loads, peak loads, seasonal 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 identification of goals and mentor buildings within the portfolio that would ensure significant electricity and carbon savings.

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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

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The built environment uses significant 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. Simultaneously, 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 application 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 production, 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 Workplace 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 effectively meet 9% of summer nutritional demands for building occupants.

The façade temperatures can be reduced between 10oF-36.95oF (5.56oC-20.53oC) with approximately 20% reductions in cooling energy, and positive impact on reducing urban heat island. A living façade can effectively remove pollutants from the natural ventilation air stream, measured at a maximum of 5.6% reduction in PM2.5 for the living façade compared 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 building occupants, wildlife habitat and biodiversity.

Young Joo Son PhD-BPD 2021 The Importance of Measured Visual Conditions and the Design of Lighting and Daylighting Systems for Satisfaction with the Visual Environment in Office Workspaces PhD Committee: Vivian Loftness, University Professor, Paul Mellon Chair, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (Chair); Ömer Tugrul Karaguzel, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University; Carolyn Penstein Rose, Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Humans spend 90% of their time indoors, a condition that makes indoor environmental quality (IEQ) extremely important to human health and productivity. High levels of IEQ promotes occupant satisfaction and positively affects worker productivity and health. IEQ is often captured in four outcomes: thermal, air, acoustic and visual quality. Visual environmental 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 environment should be considered together to correctly evaluate six visual satisfaction 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.

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Malika Khurana MSCD 2022 keeping in touch: Situating myself amidst the incomprehensible systems of the modern world through intimate, everyday interactions.

Theses & Dissertations

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 supposedly better: efficient, seamless, and accessible. In that convenience, we stop effortfully orienting and noticing for ourselves, and grow disconnected from phenomena around us. Rather than striving for interactions 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 global-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 anchoring opportunities, as a directive for this project and my future work.

I design three intimate, daily interactions 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.

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 applications. Inspired by metamaterials that can employ mechanisms, I build a framework that allows users to configure passive, modular structures 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 controlled 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 predicting the placement of the rigid and active units to produce a desired behavior is challenging, I assist users by contributing an inverse design workflow using a software tool, which optimizes the cell placement to match the macroscopic, user-defined target motions and generates the control parameters for pneumatic control of the active cells.

Zhenfang Chen MSCD 2022 Just Listen: Prototyping with TinyML to Augment Everyday Sound Committee: Daragh Byrne, Dina El-Zanfaly 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 material for interaction design. The intention 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 material. 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 everywhere and permeable, whether you actively listen to it or not, it is there.

Sound conveys certain information, 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 decode the information from the

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Chengyu Chen MSCD 2022 Collaging the Landscape Histories and Constructing Memories Through Augmented Reality Committee: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

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sound in the way that is expected 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 consequence, might be able to become more aware of the environment in which we dwell and realize the influence that we may pose on the people with whom we share the same space through the sound of our body movements. The final project presented in the later chapters explores how new forms of intelligence might creatively respond to everyday 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 augments the Google Home and enables it to recognize and respond to everyday 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.

Located at the intersection between collage, multimedia narratives, and contemporary media technology, this thesis explores how an augmented reality (AR) environment may help people to explore a landscape’s history. This work develops a digital walk with historic elements in AR deployed at Allegheny Commons West Park, a historic site in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Traditionally digital cultural heritage experiences tend to be organized in a linear narrative structure and static content. 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 elements 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 workflow 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 public. 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, sensory 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 participation. After reflecting on the initial explorations, I produced two redesigned prototypes—an interactive sound-material interface that uses artificial grass to defamiliarize natural materials, and a computer-vision enabled sand table interface for sound composition.

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Emek Erdolu PhD-CD Candidate Robotic Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Building Design and Construction Work

Theses & Dissertations

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 performed and organized to improve productivity, safety, and quality in various domains including building construction.

My research investigates the connections between robotic development, systems, and how they reconfigure 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-supported construction in the United States, including Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute (CMURI) and the Department of Civil Engineering (DCE) in the 1980s; Canvas, a construction robotics company in San Francisco; and the CodeLab Rethinking 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 ethnography” framework that involves data science and visualization, network analysis, and software intervention and a set of ethnographic research

tools developed by these techniques. Ultimately, my research will shed new light on the development of construction robotic systems, and on its connections to the sociotechnical changes for building construction work and organizations these systems inscribe. At the time of a growing interest in the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) industry towards robots, and a reciprocal interest in the Robotics industry and research towards construction sites, understanding these connections is important to converge and carefully reshape the construction robotics and construction work practices.

Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara PhD-CD Candidate Painting Algorithms Dissertation committee: Ramesh Krishnamurti; Daragh Byrne; Jun-Yan Zhu, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University This proposal presents new approaches for painting algorithms based on optimization methods and learning models. My thesis focuses on artistic stylization of images under a stroke-based painting framework. 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 combination 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 controllable 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 underlying patterns and inform painting models. Ultimately, my thesis will shed some light as to whether painting 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.

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Oscar Kang DDes Candidate Daylighting Design in Architectural Education: A Novel Transdisciplinary Approach to Incorporating Daylight in the Architectural Design Studio Environment 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, architectural 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 climate-based metrics and simplified analysis tools — there is increased interest in incorporating quantifiable factors of daylighting into the

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architectural design process. Based on recent efforts towards transdisciplinary education and the integration of theory and practice, this research proposes to develop, document, and evaluate a pedagogical framework to incorporate daylighting design into the architectural design studio setting.

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Expected contributions of the research include the documentation of a novel transdisciplinary architectural 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 incorporated into a building technology or elective class, efforts to incorporate daylighting design in an architectural design studio setting have been limited, dated, or scarcely documented. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, a detailed documentation of a transdisciplinary design studio focused on daylighting is yet to be published.

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DDes 2022 The Value of the Harkness Method for Improving Student Engagement, Skill Development, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Leadership in Early Architecture Studio Education

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Doctoral Committee: Vivian Loftness, University Professor, Paul Mellon Chair, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University (Chair); Harrison Fraker, University of California at Berkeley Department of Architecture; Tom Hassan, D.Ed., Phillips Exeter Academy (retired); Michael Lepech, PhD, Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Over the last 150 years, the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) fields have changed significantly. Changes in architectural practice and its economic and cultural context include a shift to digital production, an increasing demand to balance people, planet and

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 extension, 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 information 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 student-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 (engagement, 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 assessment of student work. The traditional studio model has been dominant for more than 100 years; it is time for alternatives.

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, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Rob Cooley, Pennsylvania College of Technology

Buildings have a significant impact on energy use and the environment.

The US Energy Information Administration predicts that rising living standards and populations in nonOECD nations, including Lebanon, will inevitably lead to a significant hike in electricity demand, leading to a 50% rise in global energy consumption and exacerbating climate change. However, realizing 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 economic 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 sustainable 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.

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Hyperlocal: Aesthetic and Environmental Implications of Material Reuse

Building as Material Flows in Systems of Energy & Extraction

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

In order for architecture to be truly sustainable it must move towards a circular model of design and production, 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 creativity, this thesis draws connection between impact metrics visualization relative to design scenarios with only available reused materials for a typical house construction. It (a) documents available reused materials 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 materials. 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.

All buildings are complex systems with life-cycles and material formations that span beyond the geometric boundaries of the envelope. For any particular building, its material logics and processes share common characteristics with all other buildings: the matter is extracted, transported, processed, assembled, 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 atmosphere. Thus, it can be deduced, when building is defined as process and flow rather than merely geome try and form, architecture is a sufficient 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, ever-changing systems, networks, and flows. The computational approach is not just a practical methodological solution for problems involving mathematically describable systems in the world, but it speaks more deeply to an epistemological and ontological conception of computation in architecture.

Based on the comparative global warming potentials of the materials the priority for replacement with reused materials identifies specific 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 designers to evolve their design process in order to accommodate for the variance in the availability and qualities 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 method for documenting and modeling with deconstructed materials.

Colleen Duong MSSD 2022 Tactical Sedimentation of Architectural Reef System Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Marantha Dawkins Coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change and anthropogenic 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-level ecological analysis that takes human-caused threats to these ecosystems into account. Without a consideration of the ways in which contemporary near-shore environments are hybrid, novel landscapes; artificial reefs miss an important opportunity to design for shared

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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 conventional 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.

Longney Luk MSSD 2022 Designing for Sick Soil Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer

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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 affordances and physical limitations of transportation access. Despite the high land availability, reestablishing the vacant lots for community living may involve major cost and environmental challenges. Integrating food sources for improving securities and healthy living may be more complicated 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 improving residential securities, knowledge, and access to health may be more complicated due to the cost and operational limitations in remediating soil health. In understanding the ecological conditions linked

to human health risks, the thesis explores land use possibilities within the historical and projected soil toxicities based on physical dataset features of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. The study aims to evaluate a matrix of localized soil use and remediation strategies appropriate to the given industrial neighborhoods. Analysis aims to identify the current and future trajectory of soil pollution through representation for either pollution prevention, remediation, or cooperation with toxicity.

Livability and land use will be the long-term focus on approaching permanently polluted grounds. Representation acts as a tool for introducing these current and trajectory of soil pollution in new areas into focus and attempt to address more nuances strategies that can be used to negotiate between pollution, surface water dispersement, topographic slope and urban systems.

Tanvi Harkare MSSD 2022 Woven Growth Mycelium Advisors: Dana Cupkova, Azadeh Sawyer, Sinan Goral 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 manufacturing of new construction materials uses high levels of nonrenewable fossil fuels and creates high levels of carbon emissions, which can have negative impacts on the surrounding environment. Mycelium has the potential to replace traditional building materials and doing so will reduce our carbon footprint and construction waste from sites.

Currently, we are aware of mycelium’s environmental benefits and material characteristics. However, mycelium is often manufactured using unsustainable methods, such as plastic and metal casts. Additionally, 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 mycelium and rope to de-cast the mycelium 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 environment. It also opens possibilities for alternative construction methods, such as on-site fabrication and community-based design integration that does not rely on traditional large scale manufacturing frameworks. 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 educate designers and building users about the benefits of this material while providing a new fabrication method for mycelium, thus increasing its use in the construction industry to help combat larger issues of climate change through alternative building construction and local craft practices.

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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

Public Programs

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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 lineup of “Public Programs.” With that change, the SoA now hosts a range of lectures, workshops, discussions, and screenings under themes that bring together 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,

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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)

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2021–22 Student Assistants Taisei Manheim, Aarushi Jain, Jason Garwood

FALL 2021 — Care

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

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

Koolhaas Houselife Directed 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 Workshop 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

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

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

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

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SPRING 2022 — World Making

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How are worlds made, experienced and contested? This series of lectures, discussions and hands-on workshops explore notions of the real, fictive and possible. Marignalized communities rely on worldmaking—queer worldmaking, anti-colonial worldmaking, feminist worldmaking—as an exercise in liberation, 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 dimensions of worldmaking: optimism, grounded in reality, and a wonderful openness for the imagination. As architects, planners, 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? Worldmaking 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

A Tinkerer’s Guide to the AI Galaxy CMU Alumni Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose Machine-Learning Workshop organized by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Friday, March 18 to Saturday, March 19, 2022

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

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

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

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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

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Computational Design Lecture Series: ReThinking/ ReMaking

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 conceptual 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

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

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

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

Formulations: Practices of Design Mathematics Andrew Witt , Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design Lecture Thursday, April 14, 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 assistance by Stella Shen (MSCD ‘22).

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

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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

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

Gandhi Joint Design Charette and Symposium: 4 Schools, 40 Students

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.

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Sudipto Ghosh, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi Sidra Khan, M.Arch student, CMU Shantanu Poredi, Dean, Academics, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai

Shubhra Raje, Architect and Professor, CEPT University Priyamwada Singh, Anant Fellowship, Anant National University, Ahmedabad Riyaz Tayyibji, Architect, Coordinator of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission

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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 academic 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, workshops, and mentorship opportunities for professionals and undergraduate/graduate students to better prepare them to teach in K-12 and higher education contexts as well as better communicate 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.

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Programs, Courses & Workshops K-12 YOUTH PROGRAMS CAE youth programs are a collection of architecture-based extracurricular and academic enrichment programs for students in kindergarten 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.

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SATURDAY SEQUENCE The K-12 Saturday Sequence emphasizes the problem-solving skills central to the architectural 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 specific-interest topic. Past tours have explored architecture and technology, green roofs and sustainability.

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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 opportunities to work on projects that impact our communities. 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.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS 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 chapter 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.

PRE-COLLEGE Pre-College Architecture is an intensive and immersive summer program at CMU that engages high school students in the creative energy and speculative culture of the college-level experience in studying the discipline of architecture. The Pre-College Architecture 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 experience 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 practice. Principles of architecture are introduced through full-scale installation projects. Intensive spatial development 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 Coordinator: 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 diversity in architecture education and related professions, systems thinking and spatial intelligence, and design thinking and assessment.

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 Rintelen, 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 University School of Architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, , Chatham University Interior Architecture, Drafting Dreams, Fallingwater, The National Organization of Minority Architects Pittsburgh Chapter, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, University of Pittsburgh Architectural Studies Program, and Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh.

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The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI), established in 2006 at CMU, is an urban design research and program center which responds to the questions

Remaking Cities Institute Director: Ray Gastil Researcher: Ritika Narang

of how we are remaking our cities. The post-industrial transformation of the city of Pittsburgh and its region, including the role of planners, designers, and communities in that transformation, is critical to RCI’s inquiry, from urban design to urban policy.

In 2022, RCI launched the Remaking Cities by Design Series, a series of relatively brief one-onone interviews on the instagram Live platform, connecting thought leaders to new audiences. 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

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Since starting as faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Irving Oppenheim has bridged the fields of architecture 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

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.

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 engineering, specifically exploring novel microelectronic 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 ethics 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.”

Irving Oppenheim

Professor, Architecture and Civil & Environmental Engineering

—Rob Woodbury, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Arts and Technology; MSc, PhD, Architecture, Computational 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-recorded 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 students and others. When I told him about my more structure-based studio, he offered to lend me a hand with the structural elements of my project.”

— Xiaojie Zou, B.Arch ‘24

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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

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While he taught numerous courses, Ramesh’s favorite was his Descriptive Geometry course. He put his heart and soul into it, eventually 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

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leverage its benefits for social good. Ramesh attributes his success to his students, who bantered and argued with him.

“Ramesh’s persistent patience with me as an over-enthusiastic, over-ambitious, under-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

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“Nothing is difficult, just unfamiliar.’ I still vividly remember Ramesh’s words, which became our family motto.”

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

“Ramesh has had a lasting impact on the field of computational architecture. I truly consider him one of the pioneers.

If Ramesh had not helped lay the foundation for the still fledgling field of computational 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 advocacy for student rights and privileges.”

— Noreen Saeed, PhD-CD ‘20

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

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News 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 Computational Design. Sarosh Anklesaria, T. David Fitz-Gibbon 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.

→ 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.

→ 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 consisting 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 publication and exhibition of student work. → 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 Professor Theodora Vardouli opens at the Centre de design de l’UQAM in Montréal, Canada. The exhibition explores the emergence of new methods for design representation, simulation, and manufacturing linked to digital computers’ capacities for information processing and display, and reflects on its contemporary repercussions across architecture, art and design.

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News → 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 Conference in Bruges, Belgium.

→ 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.”

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→ Associate Professor Stefan Gruber presents “From Postal Networks to Community Resilience” at the AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference, co-authored 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 student team of Thomas Chen (B.Arch ‘23), Franklin 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.

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→ 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 factor in the company’s design of low carbon material systems while using binder jet technologies and granular material waste streams.

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

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

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News → 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 initiatives, which provide significant social, humanitarian, community and environmental benefits.

January 2022 → Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Director Ray Gastil publishes the article “Adapting Preservation: Lessons Learned from Challenges and Opportunities in Two Large-Scale Pittsburgh Projects” in PER: Preservation Education & Research (University of Minnesota Press). The piece features recent adaptive reuse projects Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green and the Produce Terminal in the Strip. → Tommy CheeMou Yang, 2021-22 Ann Kalla Professor in Architecture, co-authors “Opening Day of the New Jersey Turnpike, 1951” in the first issue of DENSE magazine. Yang also receives the 2022 Society 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 Courtesy 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 Christine 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 learning (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 Scientist 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 Partnerships” in New Geographies 12: Commons. The essay reflects on alternatives to public-private partnerships 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 promoting 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.”

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

→ Associate Professor Stefan Gruber is appointed 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.

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→ 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.

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→ 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 Pennsylvania (CAWP) Student Estimating Competition.

March 2022 → PhD-BPD candidates Zhan Shi and Bingyu Guo win first place in the HOME competition. Their project focuses on the basic principle of designing and constructing a shelter in a climate crisis, based on developing refugee camps in the Central Sahel area in middle Africa.

News → SoA faculty receive 2022-23 Carnegie Mellon Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) grants. Associate Professor Daniel Cardoso Llach receives a grant for “Innovating Construction Through Manufacturing: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robotically-Supported Cooperative Construction,” 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 Environment).”

→ 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.

→ 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 Professor Nina Baird. The historic synagogue, which has sat vacant since 1995, is being redeveloped into affordable housing and community space. → 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 Professor Hal Hayes’ fall 2020 studio.

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

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News → An exhibition of student thesis work, including both independent work and work from the Commoning 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.

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→ 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 engage 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.

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→ 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.

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→ An interdisciplinary team of nine students, led

by Professor Stephen Lee and Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Sarah Christian, complete the yearlong design/build studio project “The Cut, The Beach and Beyond,” creating an outdoor seating area for the Carnegie Mellon campus community.

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

→ 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 sustainable and green cities.

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

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 production 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

AIAS CMU PRESIDENT: Carly Sacco AIAS CMU ADVISOR: Alexis McCune Secosky VICE PRESIDENT: Dickson Yau TREASURER: Jeffrey Li OUTREACH PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR: 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 architecture students to radically impact the lives of people in their community through modest design and construction solutions. The Carnegie Mellon chapter of AIAS has an FBD program that provides students with real-world experience through working with clients, learning from local licensed architects and contractors, and experiencing the practical impacts 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-

helped make possible the first ever Carnegie Mellon Spring Carnival Pavilion designed and built by CMU NOMAS. The project allowed the organization’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 SECRETARY: Rebecca Cunningham TREASURER: 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 Organization 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 welcomed 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.

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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, inter·punct seeks to better understand the past and future.

INTER·PUNCT CO-EDITORS: Robert Rice and Taisei Manheim INTER·PUNCT ADVISOR: Mary-Lou Arscott WEB DESIGN: Christoph Eckrich, Daniel Noh, Paul Greenway EDITORIAL BOARD: Mohammed Rahman, Juhi Dhanesha, Paul Greenway INCOMING CO-EDITORS: Graana Khan and Selina Zhou

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

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 interaction 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 beginning of the fall semester. Students from each year of the undergraduate program elect three SAC representatives from their year. Representatives serve a one-year academic term. In the event that a student cannot fulfill their duties, nominations 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 Rintelen, Eesha Nagpal, Grace Kolosek 3RD YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Brian Hartman, Brenna Robinson, Sharon Fung 4TH YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Susie Kim, Melinda Looney, Ankitha Vasudev 5TH YEAR REPRESENTATIVES: Robert Rice, Juhi Dhanesha, Olivia Werner SAC ADVISOR: Heather Workinger Midgley Graduate Student Assembly Committee (GSAC) The Graduate Student Assembly Committee (GSAC) is the student body that represents SoA graduate students. GSAC oversees the

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 Vardhan Sampath M.ARCH REPRESENTATIVE: 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 REPRESENTATIVE: Nihar Pathak PhD-BPD REPRESENTATIVE: Jiarong Xie PhDCD REPRESENTATIVE: no nominees for 2021-22

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS EPIC Metals Competition The EPIC Metals Corporation sponsors this competition for third-year B.Arch students to design an innovative object utilizing metal deck systems. The project brief for the 17th annual design competition was to design a SoA Assembly and Prototyping Pavilion (SoAPP) to complement shops and maker facilities while rendering more visible the activities 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 leverage proximity to the SoA Shop for material and equipment access.

Jury: EPIC Metals: Michael Schuyler; Praxis II Studio Faculty: Erica Cochran Hameen, Gerard Damiani, Jeremy 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 Haytko-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 professionals.

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 accomplishments of a B.Arch student who has achieved exceptional performance by integrating the fundamentals 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 Engagement Design Scholarship This award provides financial support to a student who demonstrates 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 student pursuing their first professional degree in architecture with projects and activities that will enhance their future work. The winner “shall possess love of their subject, integrity, patience, fairness and respect for others.”

Jury: Omar Khan (Chair), Laura Garófalo, 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 excellence through the Fourth-Year Design Awards program. Fourth-year B.Arch students are invited to submit 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 support to a B.Arch student whose work focuses on sustainable environ-

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

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

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Luther S. Lashmit Traveling Scholarship This award recognizes design excellence and supports international travel and research.

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Winner: Jackson Lacey, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $5,000 Louis F. Valentour Traveling Scholarship This award recognizes design excellence and supports international travel and research.

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

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John Knox Shear Award This award recognizes exceptional design and representation as demonstrated through studio work.

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Winner: Franklin Zhu, B.Arch ‘23 Award: $10,000 Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship This scholarship recognizes professional promise in terms of attitudes and scholastic achievement.

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

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

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GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS Ralph H. Burt Jr. and Alva L. Hill Scholarship

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

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

Second Place: Tabeer Tariq, M.Arch ‘23 Title: Architecture of Empathy: A Cancer Care Home Award: $1,000

Jury: Sarosh Anklesaria (Chair), Matthew 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

Second Place: Chengzhi Zhang, MSCD ‘23 Title: Biophilia Informed Internet of Things Design Award: $1,000

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

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 traditional architecture, urbanism and music in Europe.

Jury: Omar Khan, Denis Colwell

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

Winner: Meghan Pisarcik, B.A. ‘21, M.Arch ‘24 Proposal: Drawing Portugal: Architectural Experience Captured by Hand Award: $15,000

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 students who demonstrate through their work an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community.

Jury: Joshua Bard (Chair), Sarosh Anklesaria, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Erica Cochran Hameen, Dana Cupkova, Jeremy Ficca, Stefan Gruber, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Joshua Lee, Vivian Loftness First Place: Jamie Ho, MSBPD ‘22 Title: Biophilic Design Strategies in Dialysis Clinics to Improve Patient Health Outcomes Award: $2,500

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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 Gutschow Winner: Francesca Torello Title: Virtual Fresco: Vault Mapping Award: $2,000

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AFFILIATED FACULTY

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

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

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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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