Faculty Work

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

an AI Workflow Diagram created by Kui Yang Yang

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Image Deep: /Contested Matter

Dana Cupkova, Associate Professor

a hand weaves a sweetgrass basket on top of a book cover

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Craft Practices and Computation in Three Cultures

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

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

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

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

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

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

cover of smart sidewalks guide

Smart Sidewalk Guide

Suzy (Zekun) Li and Vivian Loftness