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(2007) Building Simulation through
a Socio-technical Lens
Presented at the Society for Social Studies of
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(2008 In Press) Keepers of the Geometry
in Simulation and its Discontents, Sherry Turkle (editor),
MIT Press |
(2007) Performance Discourse at Arup
Presented at the Department of Architecture
Manchester University (UK) |
(2007) The Culture of Simulation in Building Design
Presented at the Martin Center, Cambridge University (UK) |
(2006) PhD Qualifying Exams
Design Representations (William Porter)
Design Professions (William Mitchell)
Cultures of Simulation (Sherry Turkle)
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(2005) Information Technologies and Professional Identity: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Virtuality
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Sherry Turkle (p.i.) |
(2004 Unpublished)
The Cultural History of the Digital Fabrication Lab
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(2005) User Representations in 3D
Geometric Modeling
Presented at the Society for Social Studies of
Science (4S) Annual Conference |
(2004) Designing Bodies, Modeling Users
3D Computer Modeling in Architectural Education.
Presented at the Society for Social Studies of
Science (4S) / EASST Annual Conference
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(2004 Unpublished) The Obstacles to Ethnographic Research in Commercial Cultures of Production
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(2004) Practices of Learning:
Adopting New Media in Architectural Offices
Presented at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart |
(2004 Unpublished) Heterostructure
An essay about the discontinuous information infrastructure of the building industry |
(2003) Rulebuilding: Fabricating Designs from
End-User Programs
Master of Science Thesis. Advisors: William Porter, Larry Sass. Funded by the Center for Bits and Atoms (download pdf) |
(2004) A Generative Approach to Modeling Architectural Designs Using a 3-D Printer
with Professor Larry Sass. Presented at ACADIA "Fabrication" Conference (download pdf) |
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(2008) Surface Cities
A research initiative at Cornell, which focuses on new ways of understanding buildings and cities through the use of information technologies. Co-directed with John Zissovici.
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(2002-present) Scripting Workshops
Tutorials on automating Rhino using VBScript. Held in Cambridge, MA., London, UK., and Buffalo, NY.
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(2006 - present) Interaction Design
Consulting for Small Design |
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(2006) House for an Ecologist
No thing is off the grid. Ecological systems form webs of interdependent organisms and interactions best understood in the context of the whole. with N. Gayeski and R. Macgregor
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(2004) Design Tooling
The design tooling web is a repository of knowledge about computation for designers. Collaboration with Stelios Dritsas and Axel Kilian.
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(2004) BU Bio Project
Awareness campaign concerning Boston University plans to build a chemical weapons research lab in South Boston. |
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(2003) Master of Science Thesis
Rulebuilding: Fabricating Designs from End-User Programs. Advisors: William Porter, Larry Sass. Funded by the Center for Bits and Atoms. Animation. Image 1
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(2004) Red Neck(lace)
A wearable light sensor to be strapped on the back of the neck. Tracks sun-exposure. Image Image 1
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(2003) Concept Car
Media Lab, GM, Gehry Collaboration. Re-invents the car as a designed object and redefines the user's relationship to the car and to the city.
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(2004) www.sageandcoombe.com
Web site for Sage and Coombe Architects. |
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(2003) Evolving Moths
A
Simple Genetic Algorithm
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(2002) Psychoanalytic Coat
This worn but comforting jacket
may help you resolve conflicts which are the result of repressed instinctual forces. (download pdf) |
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(2002) Digital Fabrication Projects
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(2002) Miniature Racing Game
Possibly the smallest car racing game ever made! Quicktime 1 |
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(2001) Pool House
Schematic design, with Sage and Coombe Architects, for a freestanding house
with indoor pool. Images 1 2 |
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(1998) 40 Pools / Pier 40
A community pool for Lower Manhattan and other harebrained competitions done with Sage and Coombe Architects. |
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(1998) Pop-Up Book
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(1999) Competition Entries
with Eisenman Architects
Cultural Center in Santiago Competition, West Side Competition
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(1999) Utica A-Z
My undergraduate thesis at Cornell University. A tangible database for a city. Images 1 2 3 4 |
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Travel Sketches
Studies from Rome, Florence, Paris, Athens, Prague, etc. Images 1
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(1998) Millennium Dome
A design response to the y2k structure by Richard Rogers. Image 1
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(1998) Bowling Alley / Night Club
A mixed-use project for New York City. Images 1 2 3
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