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April 20, 2026 | 12 PM EST / 11 AM CST
Join TAD 9:2 Innovation issue editor Timothy Adekunle, along with authors Frank Bauer, Liane Hancock, Beril Önalan, Pablo La Roche, Larry Sass, Ted Segal, and Andrzej Zarzycki, for a discussion on inventive topics from different aspects of the built environment. This online discussion will highlight the themes presented in their contributions, including: The Impact of Patents, Large-Scale Digital Fabrication, Construction Techniques, and more.
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Speakers:
Matthew Allen is a writer and historian who studies the relationship between new technologies and aesthetic subcultures in architecture. He holds a PhD and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University, and he has worked as an architect for MOS and Preston Scott Cohen. Allen is the author of Flowcharting: From Abstractionism to Algorithmics in Art and Architecture (ETH / gta Verlag, 2023), and his writing is regularly published in journals such as Architectural Record, Log, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism. He is currently working on a book project on the history of computation in East Asian architecture.
Frank Bauer is a practicing architect and full professor of Digital Fabrication at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, co-directing the Speculative Engineering Institute (SPENI). His work enquires into methods of computational design and manufacturing in interdisciplinary formats, exploring and probing experimental building technologies in industry. He is a doctoral candidate at the Berlin University of the Arts and an associate researcher within the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity.
Liane Hancock is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on innovative beginning design pedagogy and scholarship on building materials and construction methods. In 2021, she co-wrote The Green Building Materials Manual – A Reference to Environmentally Sustainable Initiatives and Evaluation Methods with Hannah Rae Roth and Meghan Lewis. She looks forward to the imminent release of her book Perfect Concrete, which examines the design and construction of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, designed by Tadao Ando (Belt Publishing).
Beril Önalan is a doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich’s Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture, where her research develops machine learning workflows for the reuse of reclaimed materials in architecture. Her work integrates ML-driven computational design, robotic 3D capture, and digital fabrication into end-to-end workflows for circular construction.
Pablo La Roche is a Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona and a Principal & Global Sustainable Design Director at ARCADIS. Pablo has a Ph.D. from UCLA and has authored or coauthored over 150 technical papers in journals and conferences, including his book Carbon Neutral Architectural Design with a 3rd edition published in 2024.
Larry Sass is a full-time professor of Design Computation, a designer, and a researcher in the Department of Architecture at MIT. He has over two decades of experience in teaching and research in Design Computing. He is a pioneer in digital fabrication for housing and has developed innovative courses that explore the relationship between the hand, eye, and computation in design.
Edward (Ted) M. Segal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University and leads the Segal Structures Group. The group engages in material exploration, form generation, and historic analysis related to a range of engineering research, design, and teaching activities. In 2008, Ted was awarded an SOM Foundation Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship to study European physical modeling and testing laboratories as well as the structures that emerged from those facilities. In 2017, he received the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2019, Ted was selected to be an ASCE ExCEEd Fellow.
Andrzej Zarzycki is an associate professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research focuses on media-based environments with applications in gaming and mobile augmented reality, as well as interactive/adaptive designs integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and embedded systems with distributed sensing (smart buildings and cities) in the context of high-performance buildings.
Moderator:
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.
