Nick G Liadis
Nick G Liadis is an avian conservation biologist and architect based in Pittsburgh. His work takes him across the human landscape gradient into urban, suburban and rural areas to better understand how birds coexist with humans. Trained as an architect, he became involved with bird conservation by studying bird-window collisions. He founded a non-profit called Bird Lab, dedicated to studying and implementing solutions to human-related sources of avian mortality, particularly within cities.
Fall 2024 Teaching
Inside to outside and across a range of scales, the studio will collect data—empirically, experientially and theoretically—to generate propositions for guiding billions of birds safely around cities and buildings. Through an understanding of complex systems, designs will be data-driven and will explore how humans could adapt to live within the natural world without conflict.