Faculty Work
Bill Bergman
Woodshop Manager Bill Bergman Office: Greene Building, Room # 014 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-6870 Bio {SOON} Website: {website adress}
Ezio Blasetti
Recent Faculty Ezio Blasetti Bio M.S. AAD, GSAPP Columbia University Architectural Engineer Diploma NTUA Ezio Blasetti co-founded ahylo, an architectural design, research and construction practice as well as “apomechanes”, an annual intensive summer studio on algorithmic processes and fabrication. Founder of algorithmicdesign.net, Ezio’s recent collaborations include maeta design, biothing, acconci studio, a|Um studio and [...]
Francis Bitonti
Adjunct Professor Francis Bitonti Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: {email} Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Francis A. Bitonti is an architect/designer and researcher based in New York. Francis holds a Masters of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Media. Francis has worked in a variety of design offices [...]
Jonas Braasch
Assistant Professor Jonas Braasch Office: Greene Building, Room # 203 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-3864 Bio Jonas Braasch is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches in the Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics. His research interests span binaural hearing, auditory modeling, multimodal integration, sensory substitution devices, aural [...]
Todd Brooks
Adjunct Professor Todd Brooks Office: Greene Building, Room 202 Email: brookt@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-6464 Bio Todd L. Brooks is a partner in the firm Artec Consultants Inc, based in New York City. His expertise and experience span all areas of architectural acoustics and broader issues of performing arts center planning. Todd has collaborated with renowned architectural firms including Cesar [...]
Jeremy Carvalho
Adjunct Jeremy Carvalho Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Jeremy Carvalho holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. He has professional experience with a variety of architecture offices in Tokyo, Berlin & New York including Barkow [...]
Lonn Combs
Assistant Professor Lonn Combs Office: Greene Building, Room #304 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-8718 Bio Lonn Combs studied architecture at the University of Kentucky in the United States, where he received his first professional degree in architecture in 1992. He later received a post-professional degree at Columbia University in New York City, in 2001. Lonn [...]
Demetrios Comodromos
Lecturer Demetrios Comodromos Office: Greene Building, Room #304 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-8718 Bio Demetrios Comodromos received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2004 and since 2010 has been a registered and nationally accredited Architect. Since leaving Rensselaer, Demetrios has [...]
Gustavo Crembil
Assistant Professor Gustavo Crembil Office: Greene Building (mezzanine), Room # 109 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-2037 Bio Gustavo Crembil holds a Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Diploma of Architect from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. A former Fulbright scholar, he has received several grants and awards, among others: Unesco-Aschberg, and [...]
Adam Dayem
Adjunct Professor Adam Dayem Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: dayema@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Adam Dayem is an architect and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the principal of actual/office, an architecture and design studio founded in 2004. actual/office takes on a wide variety of work including multi-family housing, exhibit design, [...]
Anna Dyson
Professor & CASE Director Anna Dyson Office: 14 Wall Street 24th Floor, New York NY 10005 Email: dysona@rpi.edu Phone: 212.618.3965 Bio Anna Dyson teaches design, technology, and theory at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer. She is the director of The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) which hosts the Graduate Program in Architectural [...]
Mariana Figueiro
Associate Professor Mariana Figueiro Office: Gurley Building, LRC 3rd Floo Email: figuem@rpi.edu Phone: 518-687-7142 Bio B.S., Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil M.S., Lighting, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D., Multidisciplinary Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mariana Figueiro, Ph.D., is Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) and Associate Professor at [...]
Jefferson Ellinger
Assistant Professor Jefferson Ellinger Office: Greene Building, Room # 108 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-6877 Bio Jefferson Ellinger received his Masters of Architecture from Columbia University after completing his B.S. in Architecture from the Ohio State University. As an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute he specializes in computational design techniques. Specifically, the [...]
Fareh Garba
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Matthew Gindlesparger
Assistant Professor Matthew Gindlesparger Office: CASE / NYC Email: gindlm@rpi.edu Phone: 212-618-3959 Bio Matt Gindlesparger received his Masters of Architecture at the University of Arizona where he was a graduate of the Emerging Materials Technology program. He received his B.Arch from the University of Arizona and a B.S from Southern Illinois University. Born the son of [...]
Fleet Hower
Adjunct Professor Fleet Hower Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: howerj@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Bachelor of Arts- Georgetown University Master of Architecture – University of Pennsylvania Master of Landscape Architecture- University of Pennsylvania Fleet Hower is a designer and educator with expertise in computational methodologies. He holds a Master of Architecture and a Master [...]
Serban Ionescu
Recent Faculty Serban Ionescu Bio B.Arch, Pratt Institute Serban Ionescu, born 1984 in Romania, and grew up in New York City, attended Pratt Institute and graduated from the Architectural program in 2007. He is currently running Serban Ionescu Studio, a multi-disciplinary practice in drawing, painting, furniture, film and installation. He has worked with several Architecture [...]
Sulan Kolatan
Recent Faculty Sulan Kolatan Bio M.S. Architecture and Buidling Design, Columbia University Diploma, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen Sulan Kolatan is the Principal of KOL/MAC LLC, an architecture and design firm she co-founded with William J. Mac Donald. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. Her firm has [...]
Ted Krueger
Associate Professor & Graduate Director Ted Krueger Office: Greene Building, Room #106 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518 276-2562 Bio Ted Krueger holds a PhD in Architecture (by design) from RMIT, and a professional Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University following graduate work in architectural history at the University of Chicago and an eclectic undergraduate [...]
Carla Leitao
Adjunct Professor Carla Leitao Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Carla Leitao is an architect and writer that lives and works in New York, USA and Lisbon, Portugal. She is the co-founder, with Ed Keller, of AUM Studio in NY and Umasideia in Lisbon. She has taught architecture [...]
Russ Leslie
Professor and Associate LRC Director Russ Leslie Office: LRC Third Floor Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-687-7100 Bio Russ Leslie, M.Arch., is a practicing architect, Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Associate Director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC). Co-author of the proposal which established the LRC, Leslie is responsible for program development and [...]
Edwin Liu
Adjunct Professor Edwin Liu Edwin Liu holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California State Polytechnic, Pomona and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is the principal of ISOFORM, a design consultancy that pursues novel design through the creation of spaces, objects, [...]
Joe MacDonald
Recent Faculty. Joe MacDonald. Bio Joe MacDonald is the founding principal of Urban A&O in New York and served as Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Harvard University for ten years. He regularly incorporates his academic research into practice at the scales of exhibition, building, landscape, and master planning and his work has [...]
Ivan Markov
Associate Professor Ivan Markov Office: Greene Building, Room 006 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-2011 Bio Ivan Markov holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. Degrees in Structural Engineering from Cornell University. He received M.Sc. in Architecture along with specialization in Housing and B.Sc. in CEE from Belgrade University. He specialized in FR Concrete at TH Delft. Prior to [...]
Mark Mistur
Associate Professor & Associate Dean Mark Mistur Office: Greene Building, Room # 302 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-6868 Bio Mark Mistur is the Associate Dean of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His teaching and research focuses on innovations driven by performance criteria but he remains equally concerned with phenomena, the human experience and social consequences [...]
Nadarajah Narendran
Professor Nadarajah Narendran Office: Gurley Building, LRC 3rd Floor Email: narenn2@rpi.edu Phone: 518-687-7100 Bio Ph.D., Physics, University of Rhode Island M.S., Physics, University of Rhode Island B.S., Physics, University of Peradeniya Nadarajah Narendran, Ph.D., is Director of Research at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) and Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Narendran is well known throughout [...]
Ted Ngai
Lecturer Ted Ngai Office: Greene Building, Room # 304 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-8718 or 212-618-3959 Bio Ted Ngai is the founder of atelier nGai, an interdisciplinary research, design, and development laboratory, where he and his team develop advanced prototyping systems that explore the physiology of architectural, urban, and ecological environments. His main research area is [...]
Michael Oatman
Associate Professor Michael Oatman Office: Greene Building, Room # 113 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-3188 Bio Artist Michael Oatman calls his practice ‘the poetic interpretation of documents’. His collages and installations integrate thousands of found, modified and handmade components, including artifacts of material culture, painting, drawing, video, and food. These architectural ‘unvironments’ have been installed [...]
Zbigniew Oksiuta
Lecturer Zbigniew Oksiuta Office: Greene Building, Room # 304 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-8718 Bio Zbigniew Oksiuta is an architect and artist experimenting with the possibility of designing biological structures. He studied at The Faculty of Architecture, The Warsaw University of Technology. Oksiuta concentrates on reducing his research of space to the very necessary minimum: [...]
Elena Perez Guembe
Adjunct Professor Elena Perez Guembe Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: guembe@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Elena Perez Guembe holds a Master in Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and an Architect Diploma from the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. She has worked with renowned architects Zaha-Hadid, and Rafael Moneo, in conception, development and [...]
Chris Perry
Assistant Professor Director, Geofutures Post Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism Chris Perry Office: Greene Building, Room # 212C Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-4785 Bio Chris Perry is a graduate of Columbia University where he completed a Master of Architecture in 1997 with an Award for Excellence in Design. After ten years as principal of [...]
John Pocorobba
Adjunct Professor John Pocorobba Office: Greene Building, Room 102 Email: pocorj@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio John Pocorobba holds responsibility for EYP Architecture & Engineering’s overall operations and project profitability. He leads the firm’s Venture Team, where he applies his strategic planning skills to a broad range of initiatives including business development and corporate branding. He is also charged [...]
Mark Rea
Associate Professor & LRC Director Mark Rea Office: Gurley Building, LRC 3rd Floor Email: ream@rpi.edu Phone: 518-687-7100 Bio M.S., Biophysics, Ohio State University Ph.D., Biophysics, Ohio State University Mark S. Rea, Ph.D., is Director of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) and Professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Rea has served as Director [...]
Stephen Reilly
Adjunct Professor Stephen Reilly Office: Greene Building, Room 102 Email: stephen.reilly.aia@gmail.com Phone: 518-276-3034 Bio Stephen F. Reilly is a licensed architect and LEED Accredited Professional with more than 20 years’ experience working on some of the most important historic structures in the United States. He has a strong materials conservation and technical background, and he [...]
Casey Rehm
Adjunct Professor M. Casey Rehm Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: rehemm@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio M. Casey Rehm is a designer and algorithmic consultant based in New York. His current research focuses on the use of non-linear generative systems and contemporary interactive technology in the production of architecture, animation, and graphic design. He received [...]
Richard Sarrach
Recent Faculty Richard Sarrach Bio B.Arch., Pratt Institute M.S. AAD, Columbia University Richard Sarrach is a Principal at form-ula; a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to understand the intersection of design, engineering and its collaborative possibilities to produce high performance architecture for large and small scale projects. He specializes in computation techniques, digital material [...]
Andrew Saunders
Assistant Professor Andrew Saunders Office: Greene Building, Room # 112 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-8435 Bio Andrew Saunders is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He received his Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has significant professional experience as project designer for Eisenman Architects, [...]
Eunjeong Seong
Recent Faculty Eunjeong Seong Bio B.S., Inha University M.Arch., Columbia University, GSAPP Eunjeong Seong is an architect based in New York City. Seong’s architectural and urban design work have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and presented in lectures and conferences at MoMA as well as Columbia University and PS1. Her work [...]
Peter RH Stark
Assistant Professor Peter RH Stark Office: CASE NYC Email: starkp2@rpi.edu Phone: 212-618-3959 Bio Dr. Stark is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer and at the School of Science in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy. He works closely with teams both at CASE, the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology in [...]
Anthony Titus
Assistant Professor Anthony Titus Office: Greene Building, Room # 009 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-6861 Bio Anthony Titus is the founder of Anthony Titus Studio an interdisciplinary practice based in New York City. His studio has been a laboratory for the exploration of ideas related to the contemporary practices of art and architecture. Over the [...]
Florencia Vetcher
Adjunct Professor Florencia Vetcher Office: Greene Building, Room # 102 Email: *protected email* Phone: 518-276-4060 Bio Florencia Vetcher holds a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University, where she studied under Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA, Jesse Reiser of Reiser + Umemoto and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. She earned her Diploma of Architecture [...]
Jason Vollen
Associate Professor & CASE Associate Director Jason Vollen Office: 14 Wall Street 24th Floor, New York NY 10005 Email: vollej@rpi.edu Phone: 212.618.3965 Bio Jason Oliver Vollen is a Registered Architect and researcher focused on emerging material technologies, specifically, the integration of energy per-formative structural ceramics, dynamic and environmental simulation, and digital fabrication. Prior to joining [...]
Julia Watson
Assistant Professor Julia Watson Office: Greene Building, Room # 009 Email: *protected email* Phone:518-276-6861 Bio Julia Watson is the founder of REDE, Studio for Research and Design and an academic lecturing at both Harvard University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Commencing her teaching career in 2009, she has instructed in undergraduate and graduate design programs, teaching [...]
Tom Wiscombe
Recent Faculty Tom Wiscombe Bio Bachelor of Arts, Architecture, University of California Berkeley M.Arch., University of California Los Angeles Born in La Jolla, California in 1970, Tom Wiscombe is a licensed architect living in the United States. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Design, an internationally recognized contemporary design office. His work [...]
Ning Xiang
Associate Professor & Architectural Acoustics Program Director Ning Xiang Office: Greene Building, Room # 202 Email: xiangn@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-6464 Bio Dr. Ning Xiang earned his Ph. D. in 1990 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) in Bochum, Germany (with advisor Prof. Dr. Jens Blauert). Dr. Xiang was then employed as [...]