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Studios and courses
12 entries · 6 schoolsTeaching is the lab's second laboratory. The studios below are documented with the students' names, because the work is theirs; the seminars and lecture courses carry the readers that were written for them.

Circular Market Hubs
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.

Meta-Learning
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.

Architecture Computation
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.

Visual Communication III
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.
City Architecture
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.

Inductive Sampling
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.

Research by AI Design: The Diversity of Spatial Cycles
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.

UT Austin studios 2020–22: assemblies
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.

Large City Architecture at the Bartlett
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.

The City as an Element of Architecture
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.

Innsbruck: foundations and the city, 2011–2019
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.

Elemental Architecture: Vilnius 2011–2016
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.