Faculty Work

Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival (BuildFest). Image credit: Breyden Anderson.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: BuildFest: Five Years of Peace and Building at the Historic Site of Woodstock

Neal Lucas Hitch, Special Faculty

1960 vs. 2024, I-279 corridor.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Healing and Hybridizing Urban Infrastructures: Mitigating Social, Spatial, and Environmental Impacts in East Allegheny

Jonathan Kline, Professor of Practice

Piraeus Housing Block Entry with Mailboxes. Image credit: Mario Ferrara.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Owning Affinity: Spatial Models for Collective Housing

Jongwan Kwon, Assistant Teaching Professor

Mock-up interface of the search platform. Image credit: Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: From Archive to Generative: Beyond Prompting Toward a Search-Centric Pedagogy for AI-Assisted Architectural Design

Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng, Special Faculty

drawing

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Of Mothers and Dragons: Tracing the Life Worlds of Chiang Mai's Peri Urban Through Water and Craft

Tommy CheeMou Yang, Special Faculty

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

a large drawing on the floor in an exhibition space

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Sharing the Entangled Stories of the Anthropocene

Priyanka Bista, Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor

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

architectural design of triangular shaped balconies with patio furniture and plants

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Mixed Use in Pittsburgh's “Climate Haven”

Jared Abraham, Associate Studio Professor