man drafting architecture drawings

Our Work

Projects, exhibitions, and publications from students and faculty.

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

graphic of person sitting at table

Bridging the Gap: Exploring a Design-via-Making Approach in Architecture through Digital Guidance Systems

Steve (Peiyu) Hu (MSCD 2024)

graphic of stairs

Shap-Explorer: Introducing Manipulable Text-to-3-D Generation Into 3-D Art Creation

Zain Hao (MSCD 2024)

A Design Inquiry into Negative Algorithmic Experience: Prototyping Embodied LLM Hallucination

Hongfei Ji (MSCD 2024)

Bordeaux-Le Pecq House / Axonometric Section

Claude Parent Architecture: Fonction Oblique (Paris, France)

Tai Le

colorful graphic plan drawing of downtown Pittsburgh

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: The Pittsburgh Sequence

Francesca Torello, Special Faculty

"after school" book with a brown cover and yellow text

after school

co-edited by Theodossis Issaias and Alyssa Velazquez

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

a large drawing on the floor in an exhibition space

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Sharing the Entangled Stories of the Anthropocene

Priyanka Bista, Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor