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Michael Szivos
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B. Arch., Louisiana State University; M.S. Advanced
Architectural Design, Columbia University;
curator of the GAUD Exihibtion; founder (in 2004) of
SOFTlab, a new media and digital design practice
specializing in the intersection of video, space,
interactivity, and branding through digital media and
emerging production; SOFTlab designed and produced
the portfolio website for the GAUD; SOFTlab has
participated in many group exhibitions and produced
digital video and interactive media for MoMA, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Alen institute, and
The New York Times, as well as work for various artists,
architects, and designers; recipient of the Honor Award
for Excellence and Award in Visual Studies at Columbia
University.
Jeffrey Taras
Visiting instructor
B.A., M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor; M. Arch.,
Columbia University; currently a partner at both
Associated Fabrication and 4-pli Design in Brooklyn,
New York; professional focus has been on bridging the
gap between design and digital fabrication.
Meredith TenHoor
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Princeton University;
research focuses on the architecture and urbanism
of consumption; currently writing a history of food,
architecture, and biopolitics in postwar Paris; other
recent projects include Street Value, a book about
planning and politics on Fulton Street Mall in Brooklyn;
an essay on architecture and agriculture (in Above
the Pavement the Farm); and a Downtown Brooklyn-
themed exhibition and lecture series at Brooklyn’s
Metropolitan Exchange.
Maria Ludovica Tramontin
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Cagliari, (Italy);
M.S., Columbia University GSAPP; Ph.D., University of
Cagliari (Italy); registered engineer in Italy; in 2004,
cofounded ASPX, an architectural research practice
based in Italy/UK; the firm’s work has received several
awards, most recently (First Prize) in a competition for
a 600,000-square-foot General Hospital with a project
that engages the latest trends in renewable energy
sources; while at NOX she worked on built projects:
Son-O-house, an interactive artwork in The Nether-
lands, and Maison Folie, a cultural center in Lille.Nanako Umemoto
Adjunct Professor
B.A., Osaka University of Art, Japan; B. Arch., Cooper
Union; a principal and co-founder of Reiser + Umemoto,
an internationally recognized multidisciplinary design
firm, which has built projects at a wide range of scales:
from furniture design, to residential and commercial
structures, up to the scale of landscape, urban design,
and infrastructure; she has previously taught at various
schools in the U.S. and Asia, including Columbia
University, the University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong
University, Kyoto University, and the Cooper Union; and
she has lectured at various educational and cultural
institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and
Asia.Jason Vigneri-Beane
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor; coordinAtor,
M.s., Architecture
B.P.S. Arch., SUNY at Buffalo; M. Arch., Iowa State
University; coordinator, M.S. Architecture; media co-
coordinator, M. Architecture; coordinator, Graduate
Architecture in Rome Program; founder and principal,
Split Studio; LEED-accredited professional, who has
lectured, taught, exhibited, published in the United
States, Europe, and Asia.Aaron White
Visiting instructor
M.S. Arch., Pratt Institute; B. Arch., M. Arch., University
of Idaho; lives and works in New York City; recipient
of the Stanley Katz Award for design excellence while
at Pratt; a co-founder of Out-fo Design (outfodesign.
com), whose work centers on issues of speculative
fabrication, new forms of urbanism, material
intelligence, and information systems.John Christopher Whitelaw
Visiting instructor
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M. Arch., Columbia
University; co-coordinator of digital media; director of
research and development at Evans & Paul, a global
leader in the production of custom architectural
interiors; he has lectured and taught in the United States
and Europe; his work seeks to accelerate the bridging
between computation and construction; while at Evans
& Paul, he has constructed a number of high profile
projects for a list of architects, including DS+R, Herzog 7
de Meuron, Richard Meier, Asymptote, and KOL/MAC.Shundana Yusaf
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
S.M. Arch.S., MIT; B. Arch., National College of Arts
Lahore.