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Nina Sharifi

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:11:33 +0000

Nina Wilson, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the 黑料不打烊 School of Architecture, with over 15 years of experience in building technologies research and design. Wilson鈥檚 work questions the anthropocentric lensing of resilience in architecture through circular ecological framing of design, sustainable policy, and technology in buildings. With multi-year research awards exceeding $9 million in federal, state, and foundation funding, Wilson currently leads projects developing low-carbon material technologies, active building enclosure systems, deployable bioconstruction methods, and deep energy retrofit approaches for cold climates.

Wilson is Principal Investigator on the聽, a research & demonstration project that develops low-carbon design approaches that integrate energy, human health, and life cycle criteria for affordable housing. Wilson advises PhD, Master of Science, Master of Architecture, and Bachelor of Architecture thesis students, and teaches sustainable building technology and design research courses at the 黑料不打烊 School of Architecture. She operates her interdisciplinary research lab as a Faculty Research Fellow from the 黑料不打烊 Center of Excellence.

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Sin茅ad Mac Namara

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:41:16 +0000

Sin茅ad Mac Namara teaches structural engineering courses and electives for the School of Architecture and the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). Her teaching has been recognized by awards from 黑料不打烊, the American Society for Engineering Education, and Princeton University. Her research focuses on collaboration among architects and engineers; innovation and creativity in structural engineering education; structural art; and the structural performance of shell structures.

Her book,听Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering聽(Clare Olsen, co-author), was published by Routledge in 2014. She also recently co-authored book chapters in聽The Design Build Studio; Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education聽edited by Toyla Stonorov. Routledge, 2017 and聽Green, Hidden and Above – The Most Exceptional Tree-houses聽edited by Sibylle Kramer. Braun Publishing 2015.

As a structural engineer, she collaborates with colleagues and students on design and design build projects, and this work has been recognized by design awards from the American Institute of Architects, the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the Mayor of New York City.

Mac Namara co-led a study abroad course聽Mexico City: Myth Mechanics and Modernity聽to study the engineering of Felix Candela and the modern architecture of Luis Barrigan in 2011. In 2009, she was awarded an NSF grant: Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure; to research how well architectural pedagogical paradigms can merge with civil engineering education.

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Iman Fayyad

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:29:45 +0000

Iman Fayyad joins the School as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and will direct a new research lab in the area of computational geometry and design with a specific focus on tectonics, construction, and representation. Fayyad is founder and director of聽, a research practice that places constraints of architectural geometry in dialogue with material economy, visual perception, and the politics of physical space and building practice. Her independent and collaborative work has been published and exhibited in Nexus Network Journal (Architecture and Mathematics),听Log,听Pidgin,听Archinect,听PLOT,听Rumor, Yale Architecture Gallery, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Roca Gallery in London.

Before coming to 黑料不打烊, Fayyad was a Lecturer in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she taught graduate core architecture studios and courses in projective representation and served as the coordinator of the Digital Media Workshop Program. Previously, she served as lecturer at Princeton University and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Fayyad was the inaugural John Irving Innovation Fellow at Harvard GSD where she conducted research on historical and contemporary geometric techniques in architecture, examining the relationship between three-dimensional form, representation, and construction in digital media and culture.

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Yutaka Sho

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:20:39 +0000

Yutaka Sho鈥檚 research and practice investigate the roles of architecture in the global development industry and in post-atrocity reconciliation and rebuilding processes. Sho has practiced, researched and taught in the U.S., Rwanda and Japan.

Sho is a partner and co-founder of nonprofit architecture firm聽聽(GAC) that works with underrepresented communities to build aesthetically engaging spaces while using the construction sites for end-user training. GAC鈥檚 work includes self-build homes funded by the 2012 Arnold Brunner Grant, which received the 2014 EDRA Great Places Award; the Masoro Health Center, which was recognized by AIA Virginia, Dezeen, Architizer, SARA NY and Architecture Masterprize in 2020; and the Masoro Learning and Sports Center in 2021, which has been recognized by SARA NY, ArchDaily, Dezeen and Architizer. GAC is currently working on the masterplan and design of 22-acre campus for Kigali International Community School, Rwanda Housing Project to survey and document 370 rural homes with architecture students from University of Rwanda and 黑料不打烊, among others. GAC was the recipient of Best of Practice Award for Architect (Small Firm) in the Northeast by The Architect鈥檚 Newspaper in 2021 and was named the Game Changers by Metropolis magazine in 2020.

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Mark Linder

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:11:57 +0000

Mark Linder鈥檚 research explores design theory and history considered in a transdisciplinary framework with a focus on modern architecture since 1950. His forthcoming book,听That鈥檚 Brutal, What鈥檚 Modern?: The Smithsons, Banham and the Mies Image,聽argues that the intellectual formation and design practices of The New Brutalism are early, exemplary instances of modern architecture coming to terms with the question, 鈥淲hat would architectural practice become if imaging were its acknowledged means and ends?鈥�

As Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow in the Humanities (2011-14) his annual seminar and ongoing event series focused on imaging theories and the ways that the precise analysis, application, and understanding of images invite innovative research methods and collaborations. A website,听, documents the results of that work and subsequent courses. Most recently, his in multi-media installation, NeuroArchitectureImaging (2019), explored intersections of imaging practices in architecture and neuroscience. A prior long term transdisciplinary project (2000-2015) investigated the potential of Geographic Information Systems as an urban design media with the capacity to transform census and other data, with its discrete categories and boundaries, into more pliable, or fluid, relational images that can suggest new spatial densities, intensities, gaps, affiliations, networks, communities, and territories. His most recent GIS project was exhibited at McGill University in 2012 and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in 2015.

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