Exploring how academic and industry efforts in the United States transformed computing into a medium for creative expression and aesthetic judgment.
Conference Publication – Upcoming 2026
Does acquiring design or cultural competence depend on acquiring a "visual common sense"? Evidence from the JONES-19 cultural design dataset.
Journal Article – Nexus Network Journal
How do we formulate intelligence computationally to include aesthetic judgment alongside reason and ethics? This article reclaims Kant's central concept as essential to architecture and design.
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
