“BuildFest: Five Years of Peace and Building” is an edited volume that documents the activities of the first five years of the Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival (BuildFest), compiled from photos, essays, and oral histories that explore how the act of architecture (building) can function as a catalyst for civic and environmental peace.

This project conducts a full-community infrared (IR) drone scan of the Larimer neighborhood to reveal envelope performance, material behavior, and winter heat loss patterns across its residential building stock.

This project explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can mediate human experiences of non-human temporal scales in natural landscapes, addressing both climate change awareness and the critical role of AI in environmental futures.

This project investigates the structural, economic, and social potential of Pennsylvania-sourced hardwood — particularly yellow poplar — for use in mass timber affordable housing across Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and other legacy urban neighborhoods.

This project proposes a search-driven framework for integrating generative AI into architectural education, linked to the Carnegie Mellon Architecture Libraries' knowledge infrastructures that relate to architecture.

The project supports the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Symposium. A keynote dialogue between CM—A’s 2025–26 Watson Chair Arturo Escobar and David Bollier will frame the event within broader transformations in design, commons governance, and systemic change. Building on the fall 2025 RCI Faculty Dialogues, the symposium will serve as a pivotal moment in articulating and publicly announcing the agenda of the RCI. Intended outcomes include a publication through CM—A’s new imprint, the seeding of an emerging research cluster, and the advancement of more equitable and regenerative approaches to shaping cities.

This interdisciplinary and speculative design research project investigates how historical and contemporary weather control technologies are shaped by colonial power structures.

This project examines how urban design, infrastructure, and community-engaged planning can repair historic disconnections in Pittsburgh neighborhoods and address social justice in the built environment.

This project seeks to develop novel computational workflows at the intersection of digital processes, automated fabrication, and augmented reality (AR) through textile crafts.

This seminar confronts the ethical imperatives of architectural practice amid intersecting crises: climate collapse, technological acceleration, and structural injustice.

This hands-on course explores the synergy between ceramic 3D printing and the creation of soft, organic, fluid ceramic forms.

This course investigates mobility as a spatial, political, and infrastructural condition by examining how velocity is understood as the capacity, rate, and permission to move, and structures access, autonomy, and power across the built environment.

This new Core 5 Studio (formerly Praxis II Studio) will reinforce the existing B.Arch studio sequence by integrating collective housing as the design project.

This advanced elective repositions architectural representation as a critical cultural practice at a moment when the field is being reshaped by climate instability, social fragmentation, and the accelerating influence of artificial intelligence.