Riley Studebaker
Lecturer
Office: Greene Building, Room # 304
Email:
Phone: 518-276-4066
Bio
Riley Studebaker is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture where he focuses on robotic labor embedded in the built environment. He holds a Master of Robotics and Autonomous Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Arch from the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies. He has taught at the Weitzman School of Design and oversaw the Advanced Research and Innovation Robotics Lab. As a Research Associate in the Weitzman Autonomous Manufacturing Lab his work was internationally published, and as a UPenn Praxis Research Fellow he installed the largest robotically hot-wire-cut relief in the world, Deep Relief. In 2022 he co-lead a workshop in ACADiA on gestural robotics named A Molten Gesture, and will continue the study by co-leading an upcoming workshop at ROB|ARCH 2024 named Gestural Topologies. Professor Studebaker’s peer-reviewed work has been internationally published in ACADiA, Traits of the Post-Digital Neo-Baroque, and DigitalFutures, as well as shown The Architect’s Newspaper.
Riley Studebaker is also the co-founder of the educational-robotics solution consultancy EDU Robotics and the founder of MetaOrnate, a bespoke façade supplier scheduled to install the first permanent 3D-printed ceramic façade in the western hemisphere in early 2024.”
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