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

cover of smart sidewalks guide

Smart Sidewalk Guide

Suzy (Zekun) Li and Vivian Loftness

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

three people look at printed pages on a table

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Data Dump

Daragh Byrne, Associate Teaching 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

works on a table in an exhibition

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Material Regeneration: Prototyping Material Circularity

Jongwan Kwon, Assistant Teaching Professor

The gallery of the completed Thorne Residence showing the concrete walls in context. Image courtesy of Gerard Damiani.

Thorne Residence

Gerard Damiani

Poplar Forest, Drazen Nesic CC0.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Rural–Urban Timber Economies: Hardwood CLT for Scalable Affordable Housing

Jared Abraham, Special Faculty in Architectural Design

Nexus-Artery and Reservoir, a taxonomy for an embodied perception of infrastructures. Image credit: Maryam Karimi.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Ethics and Decision Making in Architecture

Maryam Karimi, Special Faculty