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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, Lee-su Huang And Ahmed Ammar. Exo-Skeleton: A Micro Design-Build, 112th Acsa Annual Conference: Disrupters On The Edge, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024

Gregory Spaw And Lee-su Huang. Augmented Reality Assisted Robotic Tube Bending, Acadia 2023: Habits Of The Anthropocene, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

Gregory Spaw And Lee-su Huang. InterLoop, Acadia 2023: Habits Of The Anthropocene, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

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 And Lee-su Huang. InterLattice, 110th Acsa Annual Conference: Empower, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

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, Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Fabrication for Complex Assemblies, Faculty Research Grant, June 2023 - June 2025

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

2024 Collaborative Practice Award, ACSA, March 2024

InterLattice (Sculpture of the Year Award), Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, February 2021

2021 Design-Build Award, ACSA, January 2021