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Our Work

Projects, exhibitions, and publications from students and faculty.

timber graphic

Pine-ing for the Skies: Reaching New Heights with Mass Timber (Oslo, Brumunddal, Magnor and Bergen, Norway)

Lora Marks

works on a table in an exhibition

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

Jongwan Kwon, Assistant Teaching Professor

Image of Mira Teng Thesis

RE:MAKING MEMORY

Mira Teng (B.Arch 2024)

Scaled assembly by Sarah Kwok and J. Li produced for the 2024 ASO Studio “TerraForming,” and the terracotta rainscreen assembly produced by CMU students in a seminar in 2020.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Soft Form — Burnt Clay

Laura Garófalo, 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

A1 48626 Fall 2024_ Student's work ( Master Image)

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Bending Active Systems_ Bamboo Research Pavilion I Prototyping material and spanning systems in Bamboo_ using robotic arms and steam-bending

Vicky Achnani, Associate Studio 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

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

black and white image of a river from afar

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: South Asian Urban Climates

Nida Rehman, Assistant Professor