Exploring how academic and industry efforts in the United States transformed computing into a medium for creative expression and aesthetic judgment.
Journal Article – Nexus Network Journal
How do we formulate "intelligence" so it assimilates aesthetic judgment alongside reason and ethics? This article reclaims Kant's central concept on value judgment in architecture for the "AI age."
Talk – UPenn School of Design
Can a computational system judge the design of architecture’s products? Is aesthetic value judgment central to evaluating architecture?
Conference Publication – ACM KUI 2025
Are "design archives" an untapped frontier for human-aligned AI? A new dataset, JONES-19, provides the testbed.
Design Collections | Design Knowledge
Are design or architectural archives an encoded form of human intelligence? What distinguishes them from typical ML datasets?
Conference Publication – CAADRIA 2025
Can AI code generation and multimodal reasoning democratize design computing tasks traditionally performed by experts?
Talk – metaLAB (at) Harvard
Talk focusing on the term “generative” and the computational interpretations it receives in design computing in architecture and related design areas.
Conference Publication – Nexus’25: Architecture and Mathematics
How do we encode change and innovation into design data for AI? This paper proposes rule-based methods for encoding architectural innovation computationally.
ES96 Design & Engineering Project – Harvard University
Design studio on "New Design Systems" in collaboration with New Balance Athletics, Inc.
ES138 Computing Design & Values – Harvard University
Research-oriented course on the foundations, use, and prospects of computing in design. Jointly offered by Harvard's Computer Science and Architecture areas.
Talk – New York Institute of Technology
Title of Talk: "The Generative in Design, Science and Technology"
Mathematics of Shape | Description and Computation
A new way of describing shape and spatial form with applications to computability, morphology, human perception, and AI
Talk – Harvard University
Title of Talk: "Calculating the Built Environment"
Book Chapter – Springer Nature and MIT Architecture
A geometric system for perceptually processing parts of 2D or 3D shapes as “visual queries,” with applications to shape embedding and comparison.
Black City Astrolabe – Venice Biennale 2023
The BLACK city Astrolabe is a digital database and a physical data sculpture.
Public PhD Defense – MIT Department of Architecture
Public presentation of my PhD work at the intersection of computation, mathematics of shapes, and aesthetic intelligence
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – MIT CSAIL
Teaching and curriculum development on artificial intelligence
Journal Article – Environment and Planning B
Publication of the journal article: “Analysis of shape grammars: continuity of rules”
Journal Article – Computers and Graphics
Publication of the journal article: “SHREC’21: Quantifying Shape Complexity”
Workshop Track – Eurographics 2021
Organization of the workshop track: "Quantifying Shape Complexity," at the 2021 Eurographics Workshop Series on 3D Object Retrieval
Journal Article – Journal of Math and the Arts
Publication of the journal article: “Structure from appearance: topology with shapes without points”
Salina Municipal Park
Competition entry on urban and landscape design for the Salina Municipal Park in Cyprus
Advanced Architectural Design Studio – Boston Architectural College
Development of a new course "Research in Design Computing" for M.Arch. and upper-level B.Arch. students in Architecture
NASA Centennial Challenges Finalist
NASA’s Centennial Challenges: 3D Printed Habitat for deep space exploration
Material-Aware Basic Grammar – MIT
Material-aware basic grammar for generating designs with embedded joints
Computational Structural Design – MIT
Computational methods for computing gridshells and trusses for architectural design applications
Research Thesis – AUTh
Research on the organization of architectural practice from an information-processing perspective
Algorithmic Cover Design for Music Records
Sound data visualization for the algorithmic design of electronic music record covers
Decomposition of House El Even Odd – AUTh
Research project investigating the formal decomposition of House El Even Odd
