Carnegie Mellon Architecture is pleased to announce Stefan Gruber as the new director of the Remaking Cities Institute. Stefan is an architect, urbanist and associate professor in the school where he directs the Master of Urban Design program. He succeeds Ray Gastil in his new role, formally known as the David Lewis/Heinz Endowments Directorship of Urban Design and Regional Engagement.
In this edition of the e-SPAN Newsletter, we explore how social justice work can happen in the architecture field. We speak with two alumni who put these principles to work in their professional lives: Nina Barbuto (B.Arch ‘07), Executive Director of Assemble in Pittsburgh, and Paúl Moscoso Riofrío (MUD ‘18), whose work at the US-Mexico border pursues cross-border solutions to environmental and social challenges. We also showcase student work tackling social justice issues, advised by Stefan Gruber and Jonathan Kline, and look forward to the relaunch of the UDream program and Spring Carnival.
In this edition of the e-SPAN Newsletter, we speak with two computational design leaders within the field of architectural design, Ardavan Bidgoli (PhD-CD ‘22) and Ji-Hyun Lee (PhD-CD ‘02). Both researchers embrace the unknowable potential of artificial intelligence while training emerging designers to keep their own ingenuity at the center of the process. We also highlight compelling examples of computational design work being done by the Creative AI + Design Launchpad (CRAIDL), a research group founded within the CMU SoA by Bidgoli, Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara (MAAD ‘18, PhD-CD expected ‘23), Jinmo Rhee (MSCD ‘19, PhD-CD expected ‘23), and Pedro Veloso (PhD-CD ‘22).
