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College / Department

College of Architecture, Art and Design
Department of Architecture

Teaching areas

Architectural Design, Computation, and Digital Fabrication.

Research areas

Digital Visualization, Parametric Workflows, Intelligent Material / Fabrication Utilization, and Responsive Environment Design.

Education

MArch, Masters Of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, United States, 2009
BArc, Bachelor Of Architecture, Kansas State University, United States, 2004

Professional experience

Co-founder, Kumquat (LLC), Kansas, United States, 2012 - Present
Principal, SHO (LLC), Kansas, United States, 2010 - Present
Ann Kalla Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, United States, 2014 - 2015
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, 2012 - 2014
Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, 2010 - 2012
Designer, LASSA, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 - 2009
Designer, Independent Architecture, Colorado, United States, 2008 - 2009
Teaching Assistant, Design,wes Jones Option Studio, Harvard Graduate School, Massachusetts, United States, 2008 - 2008
Intern Architect, Asymptote Architecture, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2008 - 2008
Intern Architect Ii, RNL, Colorado, United States, 2006 - 2007
Intern Architect, Davis Partnership Architects, Colorado, United States, 2005 - 2006
Designer, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., Massachusetts, United States, 2005 - 2005
Intern Architect, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Pennsylvania, United States, 2004 - 2005

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2810

Gregory Spaw

Associate Professor
MArch, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, United States

Gregory Thomas Spaw is an educator, designer, and scholar. He has previously held the Ann Kalla Assistant Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University and taught undergraduate and graduate studios, seminars, and electives at the University of Tennessee. Concurrent with his academic engagement, Spaw is a principal of SHO, a design collaborative that straddles the territories of teaching, research and practice. His previous professional experience includes work with the award-winning offices of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Preston Scott Cohen Inc., and Asymptote.

Publications

Gregory Spaw And Lee-su Huang. Robotically Bent Spatial Metal Knots: Re-Interpreting Spatial Knotting Through Robotic Tube Bending, Acadia 2022: Hybrids & Haecceities, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
Gregory Spaw. InterLattice, 110th Acsa Annual Conference: Empower
Patrick Rhodes, Gregory Spaw And Lamya Al Qassimi. A Perfect Failure: Speculation, Risk, and Beginning Again Through Design-Build, Journal Of Architectural Education, 10 March 2021
Gregory Spaw. Flipping the Script: Master-Student to Student-Masters, 2019 Acsa Fall Conference: Less Talk | More Action: Conscious Shifts In Architectural Education, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019
Gregory Spaw, Lee-su Huang And Jake Marsico. Resonant Stacks, Acadia 2019: Ubiquity And Autonomy: Project Catalog Of The 39th Annual Conference Of The Association For Computer Aided Design In Architecture, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019
Gregory Spaw And Lee-su Huang. Contra-Band: Hidden in Plain Sight, 2018 Acsa Fall Conference: Play With The Rules, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018
Gregory Spaw, Lee Huang And Jakob Marsico. Holo | Morph Redux, Projects Catalog Of The 38th Annual Conference Of The Association For Computer Aided Design In Architecture, 18 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018
Gregory Spaw. Hurry Up and Refresh: Jockeying Pace and Overlaps in Beginning Design, Ncbds 34 Time: Proceedings Of The 34th National Conference On The Beginning Design Student, March 2018
Gregory Spaw, Lee-su Huang, Christina Geros And Jake Marsico. Latent (e)Scapes, Acadia 2016: Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers And Cognitive Machines: Project Catalog Of The 36th Annual Conference Of The Association For Computer Aided Design In Architecture, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016

Conference Presentations

Multi-planar Robotic Tube Bending: On-going Research, Rhino User Meeting_ Dubai Design Week, 10 November 2022
InterLattice, 110th Acsa Annual Meeting: Empower, May 2022
Multiplanar Robotic Tube Bending, Caadria 2022 Post-carbon, April 2022
Neonomads, 109th Acsa Annual Meeting: Expanding The View: Prospect(s) For Architectural Education Futures, March 2021

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Multiplanar Robotic Tube Bending, Faculty Research Grant, June 2021 - June 2023
Grant, Automated Tube Bending Skillset Development Grant, Design Build Initiative Steering Committee, October 2019 - April 2021
Grant, Holo|Morph Redux Skillset Development Grant, Design Build Initiative Steering Committee, 11 October 2015 - 11 October 2015

Awards and Honors

InterLattice (Sculpture of the Year Award), Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, February 2021
2021 Design-Build Award, ACSA, January 2021

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