Faculty Profile

Yanni Alexander Loukissas teaches design theory and studio, with a focus on computational methods. He holds a Ph.D. in design and computation from MIT, as well as a Master of Science in architecture studies, also from MIT, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell. He has written and lectured extensively on the culture of computation in architecture and related fields. His latest publication, "Keepers of the Geometry," is an ethnographic essay about information technologies and professional identity in architecture offices that will be released by MIT Press in 2009, as part of an edited volume entitled Simulation and its Discontents. He is currently working on a book based on his dissertation, Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation, which tracks the evolving meaning of design at Arup, a global design and business consultancy. Before coming to Cornell, he taught at MIT and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He also practices as a design and technology consultant. Most recently, he worked with Small Design Firm on an art information and wayfinding system for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.