Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology

05/06/2025

This September, the Wentworth School of Architecture & Design will host the ACSA Intersections Research Conference on AI Design Practices (Sept 25–27):
https://www.acsa-arch.org/.../2025-intersections.../
This timely conference will showcase original research, design projects, and critical conversations exploring how AI technologies are transforming design thinking, pedagogy, and creative practices.
We invite you — creative educators, practitioners, and members of the design & computational communities — to submit abstracts, project case studies, or posters by June 11.
Stay tuned for more details on keynote speakers, roundtable discussions, and an exhibition of emerging AI research and work.

The 2025 Intersections Research Conference: AI Design Practices conference invites faculty, practitioners, and advanced students to explore, propose, or challenge new and existing practices and paradigms in using AI technologies.

03/12/2024

Join us at Wentworth for a series of important conversations with key figures that are shaping the discourse of Architecture & AI, in-person in the Ira Allen lobby and available via zoom: https://wentworth.zoom.us/j/81179579079?pwd=endOUFhHWVZWQjQycVVDZjJUU2dZZz09

Phil Bernstein - March 13th, 10am
Associate Dean & Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Architecture
https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/339-phillip-bernstein

Nikita Klimenko - March 21st, 6pm
MIT Senseable City Lab
Research Fellow
https://senseable.mit.edu/

Wanyu He - March 27th, 10am (via zoom only)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Florida International University
founder of XKool 小库科技
https://zakworldoffacades.com/speaker/wanyu-he/

09/21/2023

Join us for the fall ’23 Wentworth Design Lecture Series, Design Ethics & Climate Change. We are excited to bring together a group of design leaders who are redefining environmental ethics through practice. The series is formatted to engage designers, Wentworth Students, and faculty in discussion around research and design practices. All events will be at 5pm in CEIS Lounge & and simulcast in Blount Auditorium

Below is a list of speakers and dates.

09/27 - Kiel Moe
Architect, Builder, Researcher

https://camd.northeastern.edu/faculty/kiel-moe/

10/25 - Urge Collective
Ella Doran, Founder Member, and Director of Ella Doran Interiors

https://urgecollective.com/

11/15 - Climate Designers.org
Marc O’Brien, Climate Designer and Strategist

https://www.climatedesigners.org/

More about the Design Ethics & Climate Change series: Climate change is directly transforming everyday life, how designers work, what is made, and what we value. As a design community, we have an ethical obligation to make choices that better our environment and propel life. To engage with climate change, designers must understand their relationship with environmental ethics and improve social equity, now, and for the future. The lecture series invites leading designers to critically discuss design processes, practices, and the shifting world of what excellence and elegance are in design.

Many thanks to Alumnus, Thomas Welles, owner of TG Arc in the San Francisco Bay Area for his generous support of the Wentworth Design Lecture Series.

03/27/2023

Join us Wednesday at 12pm for a lecture and conversation with Sabrina Verhage, Creative Technologist from Tellart, part of the Design & AI spring ’23 Wentworth Design Lecture Series.

The lecture series is in-person and available via zoom: https://wentworth.zoom.us/j/88544292558?pwd=QnI2bU1rWkhUcXdFVEJjcnNObEJsUT09. This event will be in Beatty Hall #426.

For more information about Tellart, the UX-Experience Design studio from Amsterdam, take a look at the information below:

https://www.tellart.com/
https://metropolismag.com/profiles/tellart-matt-cottam-profile/

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03/23/2023

Join us today, Thursday, at 6pm for a lecture and conversation with Jordan Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of Vizcom, part of the Design & AI spring ’23 Wentworth Design Lecture Series.

The lecture series is in-person, in Blount Auditorium, and available via zoom: https://wentworth.zoom.us/j/88544292558?pwd=QnI2bU1rWkhUcXdFVEJjcnNObEJsUT09

For more information about Jordan Taylor and Vizcom, take a look at the website & video below:
https://www.vizcom.ai

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03/10/2023

Join us Thursday at 6pm for a conversation with Onur Yüce Gün, Creative Manager of Computational Design for New Balance, part of the Design & AI spring ’23 Wentworth Design Lecture Series.

The talk is in Blount Auditorium and available via zoom: https://wentworth.zoom.us/j/88544292558?pwd=QnI2bU1rWkhUcXdFVEJjcnNObEJsUT09.

More information about Onur Yüce Gün below:

Onur Yüce Gün is a seasoned computational design leader, researcher, and instructor. Trained as an architect, Onur holds a Masters in Design and Computation, and a Ph.D. in Computation with a minor in Media Arts and Sciences earned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Recognized by TEDx, and Time Magazine's best inventions lists, Onur's work has been internationally published, exhibited, and awarded. His papers won awards at eCAADe and CAADRIA. His work has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture AIA New York Chapter, SIGGRAPH, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tokyo Gallery A4. His computational architecture work got published in Routledge's seminal book, Elements of Parametric Design.

Onur has been building and leading computational design teams across industries and academia. He instituted the Computational Geometry Group at Kohn Pedersen Fox, NY, in 2006. In 2009, he co-developed the curriculum and co-directed İstanbul Bilgi University's undergraduate program in architecture. In 2016, he joined New Balance Athletics to build the internal Computational Design Team. In 2022, he consulted Samsung Research America to help the tech giant build their first ever Computational Design Department. Onur taught at MIT, RISD, and Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile.

Onur is currently the Director of Computational Design at New Balance, where he develops end-to-end computational design workflows and futuristic concepts. Onur played a crucial role in the R&D process of Triplecell, New Balance's 3D printing technology, and designed the 3D-printed forefoot component of the limited-edition Fuel Cell Echo Triple that was published in Popular Science in 2019. Today, Onur leads the New Balance Computational Design Team with value-driven innovational thinking while attending to the broad history of computational thinking and making, from Turing to AI diffusion models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4WYCsRziy4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6EeUCARp-0

03/07/2023

Join the conversation on “AI’s Impact on Architecture” at today’s AIA symposium with Wentworth faculty members Al Spagnolo (Chair/Founder, SGA) & Antonio Furgiuele (Associate Professor), and other panelists:

Advances in AI are contributing to an immersion of new technology and automation, which is just breaching the threshold of architecture. This discussion will explore the breadth of opportunities AI provides. Our goal is to inform about AI trends, its current capabilities, where it’s going, new inn...

03/03/2023

Join us for Design & AI, the spring ’23 Wentworth Design Lecture Series. We are happy to bring together a group of designers that are defining the field of artificial intelligence and the built environment. The invited speakers are key figures that have expanded the potential of AI to engage in design practices. The lecture series is hybrid and will be in-person and via zoom: https://wentworth.zoom.us/j/88544292558?pwd=QnI2bU1rWkhUcXdFVEJjcnNObEJsUT09

Below is a list of speakers, dates, and lecture locations:

02/15 @ 12pm
Foster + Partners, Applied Research and Development
Martha Tsigkari & Sherif Tarabishi, Senior Partner and Design Systems Analyst
https://www.fosterandpartners.com/expertise/applied-r-d/
Blount Auditorium

03/16 @ 6pm
New Balance
Onur Yüce Gün, Creative Manager of Computational Design
https://medium.com/
Blount Auditorium

03/23 @ 6pm
Vizcom
Jordan Taylor, Ceo + Co-Founder
https://www.vizcom.ai/
Blount Auditorium

03/29 @ 12pm
Tellart
Sabrina Verhage, Senior Technologist
https://www.tellart.com/
Beatty 426

Many thanks to Alumnus, Thomas Welles, owner of TG Arc in the San Francisco Bay Area for his generous support of the Wentworth Design Lecture Series.

11/15/2022

Caleb Hawkins, Wentworth architecture alum (M.Arch ‘17), director of MASARY Design (https://www.masarystudios.com/projects), recently installed his installation titled Memory/Diffusion in the Boston Arts Academy Building. For more information about Caleb and his recent work, look at the latest news story:
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2022/10/26/making-memories-past-collides-with-present-in-boston-arts-academy-interactive-installation/?fbclid=IwAR1BjzQe07BjPv7TrRWNP9gfcTzB238PworG6VTqlOny3Q9LH9gg7M7XgV0

Below is some additional news about MASARY Design:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/03/arts/boston-ballets-ni-public-art-offers-360-degree-views-dance-under-portable-dome/

11/14/2022

Adjunct Professor Linda R. Weld, AIA Emerita, has been appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her engagement with the National Trust’s programmatic priorities will complement her responsibilities as a member of Milton’s Historic Commission and the Community Preservation Committee which disburses funds from the Community Preservation Act. On November 1-4 Prof. Weld participated in the National Trust’s PastForward Preservation Conference. For others interested in learning about the work of the National Trust for Historic Preservation here is the link to the online conference: SavingPlaces.org/pastforward-faqs

11/14/2022

Students from Wentworth's Architecture program are currently studying in the historic Italian city of Urbino.
https://wit.edu/news/architecture-students-learning-italian-history-and-culture-urbino