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    DCG Alumni
    2011: Xiaoji Chen
    SMarchS: Seeing differently : cartography for subjective maps based on dynamic urban data
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura & Carlo Ratti
    2011: Sergio Alejandro Araya
    PhD: Performative architecture
    PhD Adviser: George Stiny
    SMarchS: Parametric constructs : computational designs for digital fabrication
    SMarchS Adviser: Ann Pendleton-Jullian
    2011: Saeed Abdulkarim Arida
    PhD: More seeing in learning
    PhD Adviser: George Stiny
    SMarchS: Contextualizing generative design
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    Website: NuVu Studio
    2011: Joseph Choma
    SMarchS: A pedagogical guide into trigonometric transformations
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2011: Dina E El-Zanfaly
    SMarchS: Active shapes : introducing guidelines for designing kinetic architectural structures
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2011: Ari David Kardasis
    SMarchS: The Soft Grid
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry Knight
    2010: Yaniv Ophir
    SMarchS: UDesign : toward a user-centered architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson & Una-May O'Reilly
    2010: Varvara Toulkeridou
    SMarchS: Dynamic descriptions : steps towards a design machine
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2010: Steffen H Reichert
    SMarchS: Reverse engineering nature : design principles for flexible protection inspired by ancient fish armor of Polypteridae
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight & Christine Ortiz
    2010: Skylar Tibbits
    SMarchS: Logic matter : digital logic as heuristics for physical self-guided-assembly
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight & Patrick H. Winston
    2010: Shani Sharif
    SMarchS: The confluence of digital design/fabrication and biological principles : systematic knowledge transfer for the development of integrated architectural systems
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight & Lawrence Sass
    2010: Neri Oxman
    PhD: Material-based design computation
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2010: Murat Mutlu
    SMarchS: Generative morphologies of architectural organization in matter force field
    SMarchS Adviser: Generative morphologies of architectural organization in matter force field
    2010: Mark Masamitsu Watabe
    SMarchS: The shape of digital content : a computing language based on Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception and the theory of shape grammars
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2010: Joseph Gabriel Nunez
    SMarchS: Prefab the FabLab : rethinking the habitability of a fabrication lab by including fixture-based components
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2010: German Walter Aparicio
    SMarchS: Holzbau : timber construction and material information exchanges for the design of complex geometrical structures
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2010: Adela Kalenja
    SMarchS: The hard hat and the hand-held : communication with hand-held computing in the construction process
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight & Takehiko Nagakura
    2009: Yuchen Liu
    SMarchS: Robotic design construction : digital fabrication strategies for freeform masonry casting and mobile assembly
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2009: Somnath Ray
    SMarchS: Invention, Form & A New Architectural Prosthetic
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. MItchell
    2009: Shih-sang Chiu
    SMarchS: Trig'r : collective perception of architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2009: Lin Yang
    SMarchS: BIM Game : a "serious game" to educate non-experts about energy related design and living
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson
    2009: Huei-Sheng Carl Yu
    SMarchS: Parametric Architecture: Performative/Responsive Assembly components
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2009: Franco Vairani
    PhD: bitCar : design concept for a collapsible stackable city car
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    SMarchS: Behind the screens : digital storytelling as a tool for reflective practice
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2009: Daniel Rosenberg
    SMarchS: Designing for uncertainty : novel shapes and behaviors using scissor-pair transformable structures
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2009: Daniel John Smithwick
    SMarchS: Architectural Design 2.0 : An online platform for the mass customization of architectural structures
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2009: Ayodh Kamath
    SMarchS: Integrating digital design and fabrication and craft production
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2009: Anastasios Dimas
    SMarchS: D-work innovation : where, when and in which social context do good ideas evolve in the distributed work environment of knowledge workers?
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson
    2009: Anas Faris Alfaris
    PhD: Emergence through conflict : the Multi-Disciplinary Design System (MDDS)
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2008: Yanni A. Loukissas
    PhD: Conceptions of design in a culture of simulation
    PhD Adviser: William L. Porter
    SMarchS: Rulebuilding : exploring design worlds through end-user programming
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter & Larry Sass
    Website: Personal Website
    2008: Thomas Clayton Plewe
    SMarchS: Besting the tract home : a software-based bricolage approach to affordable custom housing
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry Knight
    2008: Simon Yoo-Hyun Kim
    SMarchS: I/O: input/output : design strategies : an inquiry into thinking / making
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2008: Si Li
    SMarchS: Data structures for context responsive modeling in architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2008: Rachelle Bentajado Villalon
    SMarchS: Reasonable computing for architectural fabrication
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2008: Magdalini-Eleni Pantazi
    Current Position: Faculty member, Instructor of the Academic Program, Boston Architectural College
    SMarchS: Dissecting design : exploring the role of rules in the design process
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2008: Lu Yi
    SMarchS: A new approach in data visualization to integrate time and space variability of daylighting in the design process
    SMarchS Adviser: Marilyne Anderson & Takehiko Nagakura
    2008: Joshua M. Lobel
    SMarchS: Building information : means and methods of communication in design and construction
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2008: Eleftheria Fasoulaki
    SMarchS: Integrated design : a generative multi-performative design approach
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry Knight
    2008: Dimitris Papanikolaou
    SMarchS: Attribute process methodology : feasibility assessment of Digital Fabrication Production Systems for planar part assemblies using network analysis and System Dynamics
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2008: Alise Upitis
    PhD: Nature normative : the Design Methods Movement, 1944-1967
    PhD Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2007: Xiaohua Sun
    PhD: A study of temporal visual composition
    PhD Adviser: William L. Porter
    SMarchS: Using space to think
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2007: Taro Narahara
    SMarchS: The Space Re-Actor : walking a synthetic man through architectural space
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2007: Matthew Giles Phillips
    SMarchS: Design by searching : a system for creating and evaluating complex architectural assemblies
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson
    2007: Maria do Rosário Thompson
    PhD: Psychophysical evaluations of modulated color rendering for energy performance of LED-based architectural lighting
    PhD Adviser: Terry W. Knight & Una-May O'Reilly
    2007: Maher Sami El-Khaldi
    SMarchS: Mapping boundaries of generative systems for design synthesis
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2007: Kenneth Chun-Wai Cheung
    SMarchS: Understanding behavior with ubiquitous computing for architectural design
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson
    2007: Kalaya Kovidvisith
    SMarchS: Open source building alliance ecology : the Internet framework for consumer driven participative design
    SMarchS Adviser: Kent Larson
    2007: JunSik Moon
    SMarchS: Shape grammar for Mies van der Rohe's high-rise apartment
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2007: John Hershel Rothenberg
    Current Position: Founding Partner, Sosolimited Interactive Design Firm
    SMarchS: Indeterminate liberal form : public space in sprawl
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2007: James Maclain
    SMarchS: Design - Make : the translation of design intention to fabrication
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2007: Daniel Cardoso
    SMarchS: A generative grammar for 2D manufacturing of 3D objects
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass & Terry W. Knight
    2006: Shouheng Chen
    SMarchS: Embedding methods for massing and detail design in computer generated design of skyscrapers
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2006: Onur Yuce Gun
    SMarchS: Narration of light : computational tools for framing the tonal imagination
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    Website: Personal Website
    2006: Mitchell W. Joachim
    PhD: Ecotransology : integrated design for urban mobility
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2006: Marcel Botha
    SMarchS: Customized digital manufacturing : concept to construction methods across varying product scales
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2006: Lira Nikolovska
    PhD: Poetics of furniture : augmenting furniture with technologies
    PhD Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2006: Kenny Verbeeck
    Current Position: Project Engineer, Ney & Partners Structural Engineering, Brussels, Belgium
    SMarchS: Randomness as a generative principle in art and architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: George Stiny
    2006: Kenfield Allistair Griffith
    SMarchS: Design computing of complex-curved geometry using digital fabrication methods
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2006: Kaustuv De Biswas
    Current Position: Co-Founder, Sunglass.io
    SMarchS: A computational model of visual interpretation
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2006: Jacquelyn Martino
    PhD: The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation : from visualization to representation
    PhD Adviser: Gregory Stiny & Terry W. Knight
    2006: Emily Whiting
    SMarchS: Geometric, topological & semantic analysis of multi-building floor plan data
    SMarchS Adviser: Seth Teller & Takehiko Nagakura
    2006: Carlos Roberto Barrios-Hernandez
    PhD: Design procedures : a computational framework for parametric design and complex shapes in architecture
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2006: Axel Kilian
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Computational Design, Princeton School of Architecture
    PhD: Design exploration through bidirectional modeling of constraints
    PhD Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    SMarchS: Defining digital space through a visual language
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    Website: Design Explorer
    2005: Tripti Chandorkar Gore
    Current Position: Manager, Design & Interactive Services, Sapient Corporation
    SMarchS: Users, technology and space in libraries in the digital age
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. MItchell
    2005: Sotirios D. Kotsopoulos
    PhD: Constructuing design concepts : a computational approach to the synthesis of architectural form
    PhD Adviser: Terry W. Knight & George Stiny
    SMarchS: Point, line, plane : basic elements of formal composition in Bauhaus and shape computation theories
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry Knight
    2005: Panagiotis Chatzitsakyris
    Current Position: Private Architectural Practice, 0.27 Architects & PhD candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    SMarchS: The man with the movie camera : an event-driven approach to architectural design
    SMarchS: Takehiko Nagakura
    Website: 0.27 Architects
    2005: Nicholas Shane Senske
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    SMarchS: Fear of code : an approach to integrating computation with architectural design
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2005: Marianthi Liapi
    Current Position: Co-founder, 124|SKG Architects & Lecturer, School of Architecture,TU of Crete
    SMarchS: Spatial diagnosis and media treatments
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2005: Luis Antonio Dos San Romao
    PhD: A study of illegal housing of Lisbon built in 1974 to 1984 : from description to computation
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell & George Stiny
    2005: Johanne Blain
    SMarchS: Translations of culture and identity : a study of Internet use in the Haitian community
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2005: Han Mai Hoang
    SMarchS: Automated construction technologies : analyses and future development strategies
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass
    2005: Akira Gunji
    SMarchS: Inferring Design Environment (IDE) : (re)shaping a design pattern as a learning process
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight & George Stiny
    2004: Victor Gane
    SMarchS: Parametric design : a paradigm shift?
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Stylianos Dritsas
    Current Position: Associate Principal,  Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
    SMarchS: Design operators
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Sameer Kashyap
    SMarchS: Digital making : exploring design with computer controlled fabrication
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter & Lawrence Sass
    2004: Rita Saad
    SMarchS: Parametric tools and digital fabrication for the design of luminous ceilings
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass & William L. Porter
    2004: Paul E. Keel
    PhD: Knowledge trading : computational support for individual and collaborative sense-making activities
    PhD Adviser: William L. Porter
    SMarchS: Process and relation analysis : capturing architectural thought
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Mine Ozkar
    PhD: Uncertainties of reason : pragmatist plurality in basic design education
    PhD Adviser: George Stiny
    2004: Maria Sinisterra
    SMarchS: Rethinking emergency habitats for refugees : balancing material innovation and culture
    SMarchS Adviser: Richard K. Goethert and William L. Porter
    2004: Keru Feng
    SMarchS: The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Jennifer Seely
    SMarchS: Digital fabrication in the architectural design process
    SMarchS Adviser: Lawrence Sass & William L. Porter
    2004: James Tichenor
    SMarchS: Electronically modulated materials : effects and context
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Haldane Liew
    PhD: SGML : a meta-language for shape grammar
    PhD Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2004: Goncalo Soares
    SMarchS: Audio-visual frameworks for design process representation
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2004: Altino Joao Rocha
    PhD: Architecture theory, 1960-1980 : emergence of a computational perspective
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2004: Alejandro Zulas
    SMarchS: Adaptable architecture : a computational exploration into responsive design systems
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2003: Sophia J. Lee
    SMarchS: Wireless bridges : the laptop experience in the learning environment
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter & Francis Duffy
    2003: Qiong (Julia) Wu
    SMarchS: Bracket Study: Textual, Computation, Digital
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2003: Min-Jung Cho
    SMarchS: Workspace in transition : rethinking workspace through the design of reconfigurable worksurfaces
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2003: Meredith S. Elbaum
    SMarchS: BridgeGreen : bridging the disconnect between design professionals and resources fro environmentally, socially, and economically responsive architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: John E. Fernandez
    2003: Guoqing Janet Fan
    SMarchS: Learning environment assessment
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2003: Dorothy J. Shamonsky
    PhD: Tactile, spatial interfaces for computer-aided design : superimposing physical media and computation
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2003: Chiu-Fai Eddie Can
    SMarchS: Choreographic assemblages : an archaeology of movement and space
    SMarchS Adviser: Stanford O. Anderson & Joan Jonas
    2002: Singh Intrachooto
    PhD: Technological innovation in architecture : effective practices for energy efficient implementation
    PhD Adviser: William L. Porter & Andrew M. Scott
    2002: Maria Gabriela Celani
    PhD: Beyond analysis and representation in CAD : a new computational approach to design education
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell & Terry W. Knight
    2002: Ian Sheardwright
    SMarchS: Three-dimensional sketch tool
    SMarchS Adviser: Wiliam L. Porter
    2002: Dennis Robert Shelden
    PhD: Digital surface representation and the constructibility of Gehry's architecture
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2002: Byong Mok Oh
    PhD: A system for image-based modeling and photo editing
    PhD Adviser: Julie Dorsey
    2001: Susan Yee
    PhD: Building communities for design education : using telecommunication technology for remote collaborative learning
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2001: Rolando Jose Mendoza
    SMarchS: Mapping form/ constructing context : an operatic proposal for Boston
    SMarchS Adviser: Fernando Domeyko
    2001: Osama S. Tolba
    PhD: A projective approach to computer-aided drawing
    PhD Adviser: Julie Dorsey & Leonard McMillan
    2001: Miranda Clare McGill
    SMarchS: A visual approach for exploring computational design
    SMarchS Adviser: Terry W. Knight
    2001: José Pinto Duarte
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Coordinator Doctoral Program, School of Architecture,Technical University of Lisbon
    PhD: Customizing mass housing : a discursive grammar for Siza's Malagueira houses
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    SMarchS: Order and diversity within a modular system for housing : a computational approach
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2001: Fred Mburu
    SMarchS: Context modeling : extending the parametric object model with design context
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    2001: Evan Smyth
    PhD: Designing aesthetically pleasing freeform surfaces in a computer environment
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2001: Birgul Meryem Colakoglu
    PhD: Design by grammar : algorithmic design in an architectural context
    PhD Adviser: George Stiny
    2001: Andrew I-kang Li
    PhD: A shape grammar for teaching the architectural style of the Yingzao fashi
    PhD Adviser: George Stiny
    2000: Patrick Paul Charles
    SMarchS: Perspectives of the role of the body in the design process : observations from an experiment
    SMarchS Adviser: William F. Porter
    2000: Megan Webster Yakeley
    PhD: Digitally mediated design : using computer programming to develop a personal design process
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    2000: Lawrence Sass
    Current Position: Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    PhD: Reconstructing Palladio's villas : an analysis of Palladio's villa design and construction process
    PhD Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    SMarchS: Precedents in African American architecture
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter
    2000: Heather Crichfield
    SMarchS: Spatial manifestations in pluralist cultures : the case of the Isleta de San Juan
    SMarchS Adviser: William L. Porter & Sibel Bozdoğan
    2000: Gregory L. Demchak
    SMarchS: Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    1999: Michael C. Monks
    PhD: Audioptimization : global-based acoustic design
    PhD Adviser: Julie Dorsey
    1999: B. Joseph Press
    PhD: Building community : design in the organizational mind
    PhD Adviser: William L. Porter
    1998: Bryant P. Yeh
    Current Position: Principal & Founder, Yeh Studio
    SMarchS: Kinetic wall : an exploration into dynamic structure
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell & Takehiko Nagakura
    Website: Yeh Studio
    1997: Projjal Dutta
    SMarchS: Moksha--design of disposable objects for second uses as construction components
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    1997: Mark Sich
    SMarchS: Articulating Architectural Design through Computational Media
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    1997: Alvise Simondetti
    Current Position: Leader of Arup Virtual Design Network
    SMarchS: Rapid prototyping in early stages of architectural design
    SMarchS Adviser: William J. Mitchell
    1996: Michael A. Fox
    SMarchS: Novel affordances of computation to the design processes of kinetic structures
    SMarchS Adviser: Takehiko Nagakura
    Website: Fox Lin Architectural Design and Consulting
    1993: Glenn Edward Wiggins
    Current Position: Professor & Dean, College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Management, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    PhD: Architectural drawing as designing and creating : a constructionist perspective
    PhD Adviser: Donald A. Schön and William L. Porter
    SMarchS: Methodology in architectural design
    SMarchS Adviser: Donald A. Schön
    Website: Personal Website