Studios and courses

Advanced design studio at UT Austin, shown Fall 2024: marketplaces designed as circular ecosystem hubs for Innsbruck, integrating food production, energy, water and community resilience.

Three advanced design studios at UT Austin, spring 2024 to spring 2026, that extend design beyond geometry to material chains and life cycles: a playhouse at Deep Eddy, a school and its generative material intelligence, and midrise types for the Synthetic Grounds of the I-35 cap.

A fall seminar at UT Austin since 2023 that uses startup creation to ask how generative AI reorganizes architectural practice: each team builds a working demo app and a venture film, from supply chains and synthetic materials to the plural uses of the single-family lot.

Foundation course in digital architectural visualization at UT Austin, 50 to 70 students per semester: art movements as references, AI-driven visuals across urban, architectural and interior scales, and layered visual narratives, in three assignments, since 2023.

A required, writing-intensive lecture for all fourth-year students at UT Austin, taught for six years with three teaching assistants and a reader rewritten every year: the city examined through the lens of architectural practice, with research reports, a Pecha Kucha event and a peer-reviewed award.

A Design V studio that taught sampling as a design method: students built kinetic and sectional models first and asked image models to complete them second. Projects by Jasmine Way and Brynn MacDowell, fall 2025.

One-week workshop for the ARID LOGICS thesis unit at Taubman College, University of Michigan, February 2025, guest instructor Rasa Navasaityte, coordinated by Kathy Velikov: generative AI as a research-by-design tool for the Las Vegas Valley, shown as Research by AI Design, February 10 to 17, 2025.

Rasa Navasaityte's Design IV studio at UT Austin, 2020 to 2024: housing as time-active ecological infrastructure, with trees woven into the building from the outset and the city read through its natural, nonhuman and human voids.

Advanced studios and fully simulated building assemblies at UT Austin, 2020–22: peer-to-peer habitats for Austin, stair networks that become structure, and a 382,659-part tower.

Three years of research clusters at the Bartlett B-Pro, 2016 to 2019, composing buildings as cities from architectural parts: walls, stairs, courtyards, corners, shares. Twelve student teams, three research reports, a UCL Gold and a Silver Medal.

Second-year urban design exercise at the Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck, 2016 to 2019: each student reads one building for the public it gathers and rebuilds it as a white model of its city-forming parts. Shown in Urban Inventories, Montreal 2019.

Nine years of first- and second-year teaching at the University of Innsbruck: basic design exercises for 52 beginners, figure and ground, part-to-whole aggregates, and E1 studios that read London, Manhattan, and the Regent's Canal as urban textiles.

Six years of seminars at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2011–16: from architecture as an organisational matter to roofscapes, figures, and elements, with workshop models exhibited at the National Gallery of Art and Gallery Titanikas.