The Remaking Cities Institute
RCI
The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s research center for urbanism, participatory action and community design.
The RCI’s mission is to catalyze spatial equity and resilience in the future of cities. It provides a forum for transdisciplinary discourse and collaboration, radical imagination, creative advocacy and place-based activism in response to the most urgent contemporary issues in urbanism. It contributes to the Pittsburgh region’s revitalization and advances community leadership in that process.
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In conjunction with its university-industry-government partnership, the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium (ABSIC), the CBPD is engaged in ground-breaking work that investigates the impact of natural and advanced technologies on the physical, environmental, and social quality in buildings and communities.
Established in 1988, ABSIC is a university-industry-government partnership to pursue research, demonstration, and development towards improving the quality and performance of commercial buildings and building systems. Over 50 building industries and 10 government agencies have joined with the CBPD over the past 30 years to advance building systems and systems integration for environmental sustainability, human health and productivity, and organizational flexibility and performance.
Faculty, Researchers & Staff
The RCI faculty are among the world’s leading experts in sustainable design, building science, and the performance of advanced building and community systems. They are actively engaged in research, public policy, and graduate and undergraduate teaching.
Adjunct Faculty
Special Faculty in Architectural Design
Adjunct Faculty
Associate Teaching Professor & Lead of CFA Working Group on AI
Associate Professor, CBPD Co-Director, DDes Track Chair & Director for Student Relations
Professor of Practice
Associate Professor, MUD Track Chair & RCI Director
Adjunct Faculty
Special Faculty in Architectural Design
Professor of Practice
University Professor
University Professor & CBPD Co-Director
Professor of Practice
Affiliated Faculty & IDeATe Associate Dean
Adjunct Faculty
Associate Professor & PhD-Arch Track Chair
Associate Professor
News
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.
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