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Ryan Whitby

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural technology
  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Public art
  • Structures in architecture
  • Technology and art
  • Urbanism
  • Visual representation

Ryan Whitby is a designer and cofounder of the multidisciplinary design studio post-. His work spans architecture, interactive systems, and generative technologies, often exploring the intersection of computational processes and material expression. Drawing from practices in parametric design, AI, and digital fabrication, Whitby develops projects that translate between digital logic and physical experience.

Before founding post-, he served as senior designer at SOFTlab in New York City, where he led the design and realization of large-scale installations and public artworks around the world. He currently teaches design studios and advanced electives in emerging design methodologies at Cornell AAP.

Whitby holds a B.S. in Architecture from The Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural technology
  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Public art
  • Structures in architecture
  • Technology and art
  • Urbanism
  • Visual representation

Classes

  • Design I

    ARCH 1101

  • Design II

    ARCH 1102

  • Design III

    ARCH 2101

  • Option Studio: Dreamlands

    ARCH 5115

  • Special Topics in Visual Representation: Artificial Assemblies

    ARCH 4509

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Design Teaching Fellowship, Cornell AAP

    2024

  • Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts

    2024

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Exquisite Corpse: Dialogues in Material and Machine

    Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2025.

  • Canon

    East Sibley Hall, Ithaca, NY, 2023.

  • Data & Matter

    Venice, Italy, 2018.

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