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Our Work

Projects, exhibitions, and publications from students and faculty.

three people look at printed pages on a table

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Data Dump

Daragh Byrne, Associate Teaching Professor

cover of smart sidewalks guide

Smart Sidewalk Guide

Suzy (Zekun) Li and Vivian Loftness

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

Steve (Peiyu) Hu (MSCD 2024)

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

1960 vs. 2024, I-279 corridor.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: Healing and Hybridizing Urban Infrastructures: Mitigating Social, Spatial, and Environmental Impacts in East Allegheny

Jonathan Kline, Professor of Practice

Piraeus Housing Block Entry with Mailboxes. Image credit: Mario Ferrara.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Teaching Grant: Owning Affinity: Spatial Models for Collective Housing

Jongwan Kwon, Assistant Teaching 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

Mock-up interface of the search platform. Image credit: Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng.

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: From Archive to Generative: Beyond Prompting Toward a Search-Centric Pedagogy for AI-Assisted Architectural Design

Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng, Special Faculty

black and white photo of a group of people driving a car through a tunnel in a large tree

PJ Dick Innovation Fund Project Grant: (de)Mass(ing) Timber

Matthew Huber, Special Faculty