Faculty Work

cover of smart sidewalks guide

Smart Sidewalk Guide

Suzy (Zekun) Li and Vivian Loftness

Scaled assembly by Sarah Kwok and J. Li produced for the 2024 ASO Studio “TerraForming,” and the terracotta rainscreen assembly produced by CMU students in a seminar in 2020.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Soft Form — Burnt Clay

Laura Garófalo, Associate Professor

rendering of a bamboo pavilion and a greenhouse

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: The Second Life Greenhouse Design-Build Project

Vicki Achnani, Associate Studio Professor

colorful graphic plan drawing of downtown Pittsburgh

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: The Pittsburgh Sequence

Francesca Torello, Special Faculty

Lukasa memory board, hourglass-shaped wooden tablet covered with multicolored beads and carved symbols

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Unreasonable Architecture

Tuliza Sindi, Ann Kalla Visiting Professor in Architecture

Composite created by CMU School of Architecture. External thermal and drone images are adapted from U.S. DOE Energy Saver and European Commission CORDIS resources. All building photographs and construction sections are from the research team’s existing work.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Seeing Heat: Drone-Based Thermal Signatures and Design Strategies for Pittsburgh Housing

Azadeh Sawyer, Assistant Professor in Building Technology

map of pipelines

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: From Pipes to People and Places: Regime Change in Urban Water Infrastructure

Christine Mondor, Special Faculty

black and white image of a river from afar

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: South Asian Urban Climates

Nida Rehman, Assistant Professor

wooden handtools

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Building, Builders and Built-Things: Pittsburgh, Charleston and Chiang Mai

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture