man drafting architecture drawings

Our Work

Projects, exhibitions, and publications from students and faculty.

rendering of a gray building with a wooden roof structure

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Farm to Prototype

Jeremy Ficca, Associate Professor

Photography collage showcasing select aspects of living in social housing around Paris

Urban Sociology in Architecture: Communal Space & Social Housing (Paris, France)

Sarah Meronek

Manuscript of Maintenance

Tending to Life: Ecology of Maintenance in Japan (Japan)

Rupal Singh

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

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

Thorne Residence

Gerard Damiani

The Life Within the Barbican

London Public Infrastructure: The In-Between (London, United Kingdom)

Sanjana Bandaru

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Projection from “Fluid Geography,” 1946.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: [Velocity as Frame] Mobility as Access

Gloria Chang, Special 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

Reframing Brutalist precedents in Buenos Aires

Brutalist Buenos Aires: Between Monumentality and Everyday Life (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Reese Posey