Faculty Work

rendering of a gray building with a wooden roof structure

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Farm to Prototype

Jeremy Ficca, Associate Professor

black and white photo of an architectural model by student Shray Tripathi

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Contestations of Modernity

Sarosh Anklesaria, Assistant Teaching Professor

black and white image of a river from afar

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: South Asian Urban Climates

Nida Rehman, Assistant Professor

Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival (BuildFest). 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

colorful graphic plan drawing of downtown Pittsburgh

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: The Pittsburgh Sequence

Francesca Torello, Special Faculty

color drawing of Arctic Town by Ralph Erskine (1958)

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Urbanism and Social Production of Space

Jongwan Kwon, Assistant Teaching Professor

cover of smart sidewalks guide

Smart Sidewalk Guide

Suzy (Zekun) Li and Vivian Loftness

lighting system diagram

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Leveraging AI for Equitable Lighting

Azadeh O. Sawyer, Assistant Professor in Building Technology

Aerial photo of the Court of Ideas, Hill District, Pittsburgh, 1967. Designer: Architecture 2001/Troy West. The Court of Ideas was a community-built outdoor theater and cultural hub in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in the late 1960s, created as a public platform where residents could gather, speak, and assert their own narratives in the face of urban renewal and displacement.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Making Alive! Reworlding Cities: Decommodified, Regenerative, Pluriversal

Stefan Gruber, Associate Professor