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TAD Journal is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design.

TAD aims to become an essential source for new knowledge about how we think, make and use technology within the building arts. Intended for researchers, educators, and practitioners, the journal advances and transforms the current discourse on building-based technologies with the goal of expanding, reimagining and challenging its role for architecture and design.

Editorial Board

Timothy Adekunle

PhD

Timothy Adekunle is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Utah. His research focuses on Sustainable Architecture, Thermal Comfort, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Building Energy Efficiency, and Innovative Building Technology. He has served as the Associate Editor for the ASEE’s COED Journal and the International Journal of the Constructed Environment. Timothy has also practiced in the US, UK, and Nigeria.

Lola Ben-Alon

Patricia Njideka Kio

Daniel Cardoso Llach

PhD

Daniel Cardoso Llach is an architect, design scholar, and researcher interested in issues of automation in design, interdisciplinary creativity, human-machine interaction, and technological cultures in architecture and design. He teaches architecture in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor, where he chairs the Master of Science in Computational Design program and co-directs the CoDe Lab.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

MS, MArch

Farzin Lotfi-Jam is an architect whose work explores the politics of technology and cities. He is an assistant professor in architecture at Cornell University where he directs the Realtime Urbanism Lab. The lab uses and invents new spatial media and technologies to visualize and simulate how algorithms, models, and notions of ”real time” govern urban life. He is also director of Farzin Farzin, an interdisciplinary design studio working across architecture, urbanism, computation, and media. From modeling the control matrices of smart cities to spatializing the cultural logics of social media, his individual and collaborative projects are research based and multimediatic. Lotfi-Jam’s work has been collected by The Centre Pompidou and the Sharjah Art Foundation, and he is a recipient of the 2022 Architecture League of New York League Prize, as well as recent grants and support for his research from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, M+/Design Trust, and The Shed, where he was an inaugural Open Call Artist. He has been exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture, MAXXI, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Seoul Architecture Biennial, the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, and elsewhere. His coauthored book Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image was published by Columbia University Press.

Matan Mayer

D.Des

Matan Mayer is an Associate Professor of Architecture at IE University in Segovia, Spain. His research expertise includes circularity, LCA, and deconstruction. He has served on multiple scientific committees including the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture International Conference (ACADIA), AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference, and the International Conference on Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability.

Lisa Moffitt

PhD

Dr. Lisa Moffitt is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of Graduate programs at Carleton University. From 2010-2020, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her PhD Architecture by Design. Her research uses physical models, prototypes, and material experiments to visualise processes and impacts associated with climate change. Her book, Architecture’s Model Environments (UCL Press, Design Research in Architecture Series) expands on histories of building technology to shed new light on how physical models conventionally understood as engineering experimentation devices enable architectural design speculation about atmospheric mediation. Her current research focuses on documenting Canadian sites of accelerated climate change and on honing methods for designing with regenerative building materials.

Winifred Elysse Newman

PhD

Winifred Elysse Newman is the Homer Curtis Mickel and Leola Carter Mickel Professor of Architecture at Clemson University. She also serves as Director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments (iMSE), promoting digital and human-machine hybrid solutions as a paradigm shift in the design and occupation of the built environment. Elysse is author of the 2017 title Data Visualization for Design Thinking: Applied Mapping.

David Newton

Dimitris Papanikolaou

D.Des

Dimitris Papanikolaou is an architect, engineer and researcher interested in the application of information and communication technology in architecture, urban logistics, and human ecology from a complex systems perspective. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens and he has been an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte where he founded and directed the Urban Synergetics Lab, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the colleges of Arts and Architecture and Software and Information Systems.

Hazem Rashed-Ali

PhD

Hazem Rashed-Ali is Professor and Dean of the College of Architecture and Construction Management in Kennesaw State University. Dr. Rashed-Ali teaches design studios as well as building technology, environmental systems, and building performance simulation and evaluation courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has supervised thesis students in both Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2014, Dr. Rashed-Ali was the recipient of the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, among the largest in the nation for rewarding outstanding faculty performance. Dr. Rashed-Ali previously served as Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in Texas Tech University’s College of Architecture and as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Anne-Catrin Schultz

Theodora Vardouli

PhD

Theodora Vardouli is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal. Her background combines architectural engineering, studies in design and computation, and in design and philosophy. She is co-editor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground and is currently working on a book manuscript on modern mathematics and architecture under contract with the MIT Press.

Malgorzata Zboinska

PhD

Malgorzata Zboinska is an Associate Professor in Digital Design, Fabrication and New Media Art at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She is a licensed architect, a member of the Swedish Association of Architects and the National Chamber of Architects of Poland. Since 2019, she is responsible for the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory as its Creative Development Leader.

Yun Kyu Yi

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Caryn Brause

AIA

Caryn Brause is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her teaching and scholarship investigate critical skills for contemporary practice, including both the technological and the interpersonal. Caryn is author of the 2017 title The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration and is an officer of the Western Massachusetts AIA Board of Directors.

Chris Ford

AIA

Chris Ford is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering (Design Group) and the 2016-2019 Hamamoto Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at Stanford University. He is a design professional, educator, and researcher in the fields of both Architecture and Infrastructure design. Chris studies the imminently urban future from a human-centered perspective through design-actionable research.

Gregory Luhan

PhD, AIA

Gregory Luhan is the John Russell Groves Endowed Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, where he also holds a University Research Professorship. He previously served administrative roles as the Associate Dean for Research and the Associate Dean for Administration. Greg is the author of six books, including the recent title Dayton Eugene Egger – The Paradox of Place: In the Line of Sight and offers coursework on design theory, systems thinking, and design computing.

Clare Olsen

Jeana Ripple

AIA, LEED AP

Jeana Ripple is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she also serves as Director of the Graduate Architecture program. She has worked previously in the Chicago office of Studio Gang and is a co-founding principal of MIR Collective. Jeana researches material performance at multiple scales and is author of the forthcoming title The Type V City: Codifying Urban Material Inequity.

Marci S. Uihlein

PE, Assoc. AIA

Marci S. Uihlein an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has professional experience in the offices of Arup and her current research includes structural integration in architecture, structural pedagogy in schools of architecture, and examining the professional relationship between architects and engineers. Marci is the 2016-2018 College of Fine & Applied Arts Design Research Fellow, and a former President of the Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES).

Julian (Jialiang) Wang

PhD

Julian (Jialiang) Wang is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University. He researches interdisciplinary applications of building science in sustainable, healthy, and interactive building environments. Julian is the recipient of a recent NSF CAREER award to research the thermal and optical behaviors of windows consisting of multi-layer functions and near infrared (NIR)-selective effects.

Andrzej Zarzycki

NA

Andrzej Zarzycki is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has taught previously at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and is a former visiting professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Andrzej researches interactive and adaptive designs that integrate embedded systems with distributed sensing.

Chad Kraus

Scott Murray

RA

Scott Murray is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has previously served as Chair of the Building Performance Program. His research and teaching focus on the cultural significance of building-envelope technologies over the last one hundred years. Scott has authored the titles Translucent Building Skins and Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture.

Advisory Board

Terri Meyer Boake, University of Waterloo

Dr. William Braham, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Ruchi Choudhary, Cambridge University

Dr. Mark Clayton, Texas A & M University

Dr. Michael Ulrich Hensel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Dr. J. Alstan Jakubiec, University of Toronto

Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University

Dr. Chris Luebkemane, ETH Zurich

Dr. Christoph Reinhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Rosa Schiano-Phan, University of Westminster

Alvise Simondetti, ARUP

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