academic administrative positions

2022- Director, Digital Design Center, College of Design and College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn.

2019-2022. Director of Graduate Studies. School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn.

academic teaching positions

2018- Professor of Architecture. School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn. (Tenured faculty position.)

2017-2018. Professor of Architecture. Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, nd. (Tenured faculty position.)

2012-2017. Associate Professor of Architecture. Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, nd. (Tenured faculty position.)

2006-2012. Assistant Professor of Architecture. Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, nd. (Tenure-track faculty position.)

2005-2006. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture. Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn. (Full-time adjunct position.)

1997-2004. Lecturer. Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn. (Part-time adjunct position.)

academic credentials

1997. Master of Architecture (m. arch.). Conferred by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn. (Terminal professional degree.)

1995. Bachelor of Environmental Design (b. e. d.). Minor concentration: Mathematics. Conferred by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, mn.

licenses and certifications

2011- Licensed Architect, State of North Dakota (#1976).

2008- Licensed Architect, State of Minnesota (#46420).

2009- Certification, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (#66438).

professional practice

2011- Architect and Principal, Design and Energy Laboratory, llc.

2001-2005. Intern Architect, Architectural Alliance, Inc., Minneapolis, mn. 

1997-2001. Intern Architect, Stageberg Beyer Sachs Architects, Inc., Minneapolis, mn. 

1997. Intern Architect, Julie Snow Architects, Inc., Minneapolis, mn.

1996. Intern Architect, Vincent James Associates Architects, Inc., Minneapolis, mn.

BOOKS

1. (2019).  Mike Christenson. Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation. New York: Routledge.

2. (2015).  Mike Christenson. Beginning Design Technology. New York: Routledge. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. (2021). Julia W. Robinson and Mike Christenson. “Design Studio as Research Site: Generating Hypotheses and Test Cases,” in Collegial Design: Thinking and Making at a Community Engaged University (Delong, M., Fisher, T., Hokanson, B., Asojo, A. & Strohecker, C., Eds.), Minneapolis: College of Design, University of Minnesota.

2. (2013). Mike Christenson. “Scripting Parasites,” in Unconventional Computing: Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture, Rachel Armstrong and Simone Ferracina, editors. Toronto: Riverside Press.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. (2025). Mike Christenson. "Differentiation in existing-building modelling: The case of the Barcelona Pavilion." Visual Resources: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2025.2516931

2. (2025). Mike Christenson. "Parametric analysis as a tool for hypothesis generation: A case study of the Federal Archive Building in New York City." Infrastructures 10(4): 71. https://www.mdpi.com/2412-3811/10/4/71

3. (2024). Mike Christenson. "Parametric analysis of existing-building geometry: Generative, dissective, and morphological approaches." International Journal of Architectural Computing. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771241310209

4. (2024). Mike Christenson and Kallie Self. “Architectural epistemology, existing buildings, and single-image modeling.” Enquiry: The ARCC Journal 21(1), p. 38-53. https://arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/article/view/1216

5. (2024). Mike Christenson. “An emergent ontology for digitally modeling existing buildings: Examining Kyoto’s Nishiki market.” International Journal of Architectural Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/arch-12-2023-0322

6. (2023). Mike Christenson. "The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility," Design Studies 85, 101169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2023.101169

7. (2023). Mike Christenson. "Problematizing the model-building duality: Examining the New Sacristy at S. Lorenzo, Florence, Italy," Frontiers of Architectural Research 12 (4), p. 651-663. [doi: 10.1016/j.foar.2023.05.008]

8. (2017). Mike Christenson. “Critical dimensions in architectural photography: Contributions to architectural knowledge,” in Architecture_MPS 11, 2, p. 1-17. [doi: 10.14324/111.444.amps.2017v11i2.001]

9. (2017). Mike Christenson. “Kinds of designing and their functions in analyzing,” in International Journal of Technology and Design Education 27, 4, p. 611–626. [doi: 10.1007/s10798-016-9370-3] 

10. (2016). Mike Christenson. “The photographic construction of Urban Renewal in Fargo, North Dakota,” in Buildings & Landscapes 23, 2. [doi: 10.5749/buildland.23.2.0116] 

11. (2014). Mike Christenson. “Isovist-based occlusion maps representing critical variations in Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Extension,” in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 41, 1, p. 39-52. [doi: 10.1068/b39122]

12. (2012).  Mike Christenson and Malini Foobalan. “Spherical mapping of a perforated-wall model,” in Architectoni.ca 1, p. 14-22. [doi: 10.5618/arch.2012.v1.n1.2]

13. (2011).  Mike Christenson. “‘From the Unknown to the Known’: Transitions in the architectural vernacular,” in Buildings & Landscapes 18, 1, 1-13. [doi: 10.5749/buildland.18.1.0001] 

14. (2011).  Mike Christenson. “On the architectural structure of photographic space,” in Architectural Science Review 54.2, 93-100. [doi: 10.1080/00038628.2011.582365] 

15. (2010).  Mike Christenson. “Registering visual permeability in architecture: Isovists and occlusion maps in AutoLISP,” in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37 (6), 1128-1136. [doi: 10.1068/b36076] 

16. (2009).  Mike Christenson. “Testing the relevance of parameterization to architectural epistemology,” in Architectural Science Review 52 (2), 135-141. [doi: 10.3763/asre.2009.0022] 

17. (2009).  Mike Christenson. “On dependencies between architecture and media: Considering the remote work,” in ARCC Journal 5, 1. [doi: 10.17831/enq:arcc.v5i1.24]

18. (2006).  Mike Christenson. “Accident and predictability: An analytical methodology for persistent forces in the American city,” in ARCC Journal 3, 2, 9-14. J. Brooke Harrington and David J. Perkes, editors. [https://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/repository/article/view/795]

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. (2025). Mike Christenson, Abigail Green, Xiaotong Liu, and Kallie Self. “Testing free alternatives to proprietary software in architectural education.” Proceedings, 2025 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Raleigh, North Carolina.

2. (2025). Malini Srivastava and Mike Christenson. “Architectural tactics for visualizing embodied carbon.” Proceedings, 2024 Annual Conference, European Association of Architectural Educators, Munster, Germany.

3. (2024). Mike Christenson, Robert Gay, and Malini Srivastava. “Embodied and operational carbon analysis: A Grasshopper-based method for visually comparing impacts of material choices.” Proceedings, 2024 ACSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

4. (2023). Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. “How much does your building (model) weigh? On heightening awareness of embodied carbon in the design studio.” Proceedings, 2023 Conference of the Building Technology Educators’ Society, Arcosanti, Arizona, 225-232.

5. (2023). Mike Christenson, Andrew Runde, and Malcolm Brom. “The thick interface: Digitally modelling the Hawa Mahal from a distance.” Proceedings, 2022 Conference, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society: (In)tangible Heritage(s), Canterbury, United Kingdom, 186-196.

6. (2023). Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. “How much does your digital model weigh? Introducing embodied carbon to beginning-design students in architecture.” Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 38, Fargo, North Dakota, 427-434.

7. (2022). Mike Christenson. “A beginning course in building technology.” Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 37, Muncie, Indiana, 74-81.

8. (2021). Mike Christenson. “On conflicting priorities within digital models of urban form.” Proceedings, 2021 ARCC Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 353-359.

9. (2021). Malini Srivastava and Mike Christenson. “Play in architectural pedagogy: Shifting allegiances and trading projects.” Proceedings, 2018 ACSA Fall Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 16-19.

10. (2021). Mike Christenson. “Exchanging projects: Matchmaking in the architecture studio.” Proceedings, 2019 ACSA Fall Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 198-203.

11. (2021). Mike Christenson and Erin Kindell. “The Skyway as an Inhabitable Mode of Urban Representation,” in Proceedings, 2020 EAAE-ARCC International Conference, Valencia, Spain, v. 1, p. 252-260.

12. (2021). Malini Srivastava and Mike Christenson. “Play in Architectural Pedagogy: Shifting Allegiances and Trading Projects,” in Proceedings, 2018 Fall Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, p. 16-19.

13. (2021). Mike Christenson. “Exchanging Projects: Matchmaking in the Architecture Studio,” in Proceedings, 2019 Fall Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, p. 198-203.

14. (2018). Mike Christenson. “On the Foregrounding of Photographic Biases in Architecture,”  in Proceedings, 2018 Conference of the Design Communication Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, p. 320-325.

15. (2018). Noor Abdelhamid, Benjamin Dalton, Mike Christenson, and Malini Srivastava. “Energy Analysis of Public School Buildings Through Visualization,” in  Proceedings, 2018 Conference of the Design Communication Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, p. nnn-nnn.

16. (2017). Mike Christenson. “Parasitical Analysis in the Built Environment: Scales of Complexity,” in Proceedings, 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, p. 72-79.

17. (2017). Mike Christenson. “Photography in the Urban Renewal Toolkit: The Case of Pruitt-Igoe,” in Proceedings, 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, p. 155-163.

18. (2016).  Mike Christenson. “On the Construction of Digital Models and the (Non-)Significance of Gravity,” in Proceedings, 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, MT, p. 185-189.

19. (2016).  Mike Christenson. “Current Questions on Parasitical Analysis of Architectural Form,” in Proceedings, 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, MT, p. 79-83.

20. (2016).  Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. “Additive Manufacturing: A Convergence of Form and Material in the Digital Age,” in Proceedings, 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, MT, p. 303-309.

21. (2016). Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. “Passive House Design-Build: Generative Full-Scale Pedagogy,” in Proceedings, 2016 Passive and Low-Energy Architecture Conference, Los Angeles, CA, p. 1798-1804.

22. (2016). Mike Christenson. “Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Extension: Spirals and Occlusion Maps,” in Proceedings, 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Seattle, WA, p. nnn-nnn.

23. (2015). Malini Srivastava, Peter Atwood, and Mike Christenson. “Design-Build as a Reversal of Professional Practice,” in Proceedings, Fall 2014 Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, p. 628-636.

24. (2014). Mike Christenson. “Comprehensive Parasites,” in Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, p. 771-780.

25. (2014). Mike Christenson. “Making Architecture ‘Thinkable’: A Drawing Course in Beginning Design,” in Proceedings, 30th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, p. 31-36.

26. (2013). Brad Benke and Mike Christenson. “Differentiation as a Form of Knowledge Production in Architecture,” in Proceedings, 2013 Spring Research Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Charlotte, NC, p. 207-213.

27. (2013). Bakr Aly Ahmed, David Crutchfield, and Mike Christenson. “Expanding the Learning Experience: The Integration of Technology into Architectural Education,” in Proceedings, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Conference, Fargo, ND, p. 381-387.

28. (2013). Bakr Aly Ahmed, Khaled Nassar, and Mike Christenson. “A Verbal Communication Game for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Students,” in Proceedings, 2013 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Conference, Fargo, ND, p. 388-396.

29. (2012).  Mike Christenson. “Mixing Algorithms in Urban Analysis and Transformation,” in Proceedings, EAAE/ARCC International Conference on Architectural Research, Milan, Italy, p. 578-581.

30. (2012).  Mike Christenson. “Breaking the Box: Beginning Design Technology,” in Proceedings, 28th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 53-58.

31. (2011).  Mike Christenson. “Parametric Variation Revealing Architectural Untranslatability,” in Proceedings, 2011 Regional Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, p. 267-273. 

32. (2010).  Mike Christenson. “Photography and the Vicarious Experience: Implications on Urban Safety?” in Proceedings, YAF-2010, Indian Institute of Architects Young Architects’ Festival, Jaipur, India. cd-rom.

33. (2010). Mike Christenson. “On the Architectural Structure of Photographic Space,” in Proceedings, 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, CD-ROM.

34. (2010).  Mike Christenson. “Digitally Cultivating the Accident in Urban Analysis,” in Proceedings, 2008 West Central Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CD-ROM.

35. (2010).  Mike Christenson. “Spaces of Photography: The Digital Translatability of Old Ways of Seeing,” in Proceedings, 2008 West Central Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

36. (2009).  Mike Christenson. “On the Use of Occlusion Maps to Examine Additions to Existing Buildings,” in Proceedings, 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, Chicago, IL, p. 267-269.

37. (2009).  Mike Christenson. “Google Street View and the Transition From the Unknown to the Known,” in Proceedings, 2009 Southwest Regional Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Albuquerque, NM, p. 76-81.

38. (2008).  Mike Christenson. “Questioning the Primacy of Visual Simulation in an Epistemology of Digital Models,” in Proceedings, 26th Conference on Education and Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, University College of Antwerp, Belgium, p. 889-895.

39. (2008).  Mike Christenson. “On the Relevance of Parameterization to Architectural Epistemology,” in Proceedings, 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, p. 1-7.

40. (2008).  Mike Christenson and Mark Barnhouse. “Structure, Memory, and Visibility,” in Proceedings, 2008 West Fall Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, p. 50-57.

41. (2008).  Mike Christenson. “Capabilities and Limitations of Autodesk Revit in a Construction Technology Course,” in Proceedings, 2006 Building Technology Educators’ Symposium, University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, p. 55-62.

42. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “Ownership and Media: The Architectural Case Study as an Articulation of Theoretical Stance,” in Proceedings, Design Communication Association 20th Anniversary Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, p. 247-258.

43. (2007).  Mike Christenson and Bakr Aly-Ahmed. “The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Architectural Case Studies,” in Proceedings, 5th International Conference of the Design Educators' Forum of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, CD-ROM.

44. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “Architectural Knowledge and Iterative Mediating Artifacts,” in Proceedings, 5th International Conference of the Design Educators' Forum of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, CD-ROM.

45. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “Stewardship and Mediating Artifacts: Forwarding the Incomplete,” in Proceedings, 2007 ACSA Southeast Conference, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, p. 213-217.

46. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “The Architecture School Building Structuring Perception of the City,” in Proceedings, 2007 ACSA Central Fall Conference, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, p. 5.3-5.11. 

47. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “Re-representation of Urban Imagery: Strategies for Constructing Knowledge,” in Proceedings, 2007 Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, Halifax, Nova Scotia, p. 212-219.

48. (2007).  Mike Christenson. “Memory, Periphery, and Globalization: The Freeway and Construction of Knowledge,” in Proceedings, Second International Conference of the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, Volume III, 807-817.

49. (2006).  Mike Christenson. “Confidence in the Presence of Conflict: Digital and Analog Media in Architectural Representation,” in Proceedings, Design Communications in Architecture Biannual Conference, 55-64.

50. (2005).  Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. “A proposal for a cross-disciplinary design pedagogy: Generative full-scale investigations,” in Proceedings, International Conference on Design Education, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, 231-238. 

51. (2005).  Mike Christenson. “Productive Accident in Student Analysis of Urban Form and Space,” in Proceedings, 2005 Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research, Jackson, MS, CD-ROM.

52. (2005). Mike Christenson. “Accident and Predictability: An Analytical Methodology for Persistent Forces in the American City,” in Proceedings, 2005 Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference on Architectural Research, Jackson, MS, CD-ROM.

53. (2005). Mike Christenson. “Promoting Conditions for Productive Accident,” in Proceedings, 2005 International Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Mexico City, Mexico, 279-283.

INVITED PUBLICATIONS

1. (2019). Mike Christenson, David Gerber, Wassim Jabi, Mara Marcu, and Andrew John Wit. “Editorial,” in Special Issue: Means, Methods, Machines and Making in Architecture, Architectural Science Review 62.5, p. 367-370. [doi: 10.1080/00038628.2019.1664462]

2. (2019).  Mike Christenson. “Review: Google Earth and Google Earth Voyager,” in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78, no. 1, p. 132-134. [doi: 10.1525/jsah.2019.78.1.132]

3. (2016). Mike Christenson. “Foreword,” in Design Computing: An Overview of an Emergent Field (Routledge), by Brian R. Johnson.

4. (2015). Mike Christenson. “Editorial,” in Special Issue: Architectural Computing, Architectural Science Review 58. 3, p. 185-188. [doi: 10.1080/00038628.2015.1037536]

5. (2011).  Mike Christenson. “Review: The Place Matters Project of City Lore and the Municipal Art Society - Census of Places That Matter,” in Buildings & Landscapes 18.2, 120-122. [doi: 10.5749/buildland.18.2.0120]

PRESENTATIONS OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

1. (2025). “Knowledge Effects of Interoperability for Existing- Building BIM Models: The necessity of Friction.” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson, Xiaotong Liu, Ciera Hanson, and Malini Foobalan. 2025 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Washington, DC.

2. (2025). “Testing free alternatives to proprietary software in architectural education.” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson, Abigail Green, Xiaotong Liu, and Kallie Self. 2025 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Raleigh, North Carolina.

3. (2024). “Embodied and operational carbon analysis: A Grasshopper-based method for visually comparing impacts of material choices.” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson, Robert Gay, and Malini Srivastava. Presented by Mike Christenson and Robert Gay. 2024 ACSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

4. (2023). “How much does your building (model) weigh?” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. 2023 Building Technology Educators’ Society Conference, Cosanti, Arizona.

5. (2023). “How much does your digital model weigh?” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson and Malini Srivastava. National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 38, Fargo, North Dakota.

6. (2022). “The thick interface: digitally modeling the Hawa Mahal from a distance.” Presentation of paper co-written by Mike Christenson, Andrew Runde, and Malcolm Brom. (In)tangible Heritage(s) Conference, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

7. (2022). “A beginning course in building technology.” National Conference on the Beginning Design Student 37, Muncie, Indiana.

8. (2021). “The thick interface: Digitally modeling the Hawa Mahal from a distance.” Presented remotely to the 8th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment (S.ARCH), Rome, Italy.

9. (2021). Mike Christenson. “On conflicting priorities within digital models of urban form.” Presented remotely to the 2021 ARCC International Conference, Tucson, Arizona. 

10. (2020). “The Skyway as an Inhabitable Mode of Urban Representation.” Presented remotely (with credit to co-author Erin Kindell) to the 2020 EAAE-ARCC International Conference, Valencia, Spain.

11. (2019). “Exchanging Projects: Matchmaking in the Architecture Studio. Presented at LESS TALK | MORE ACTION: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education (2019 ACSA Fall Conference), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

12. (2019). “The Death of the Desk Crit.” Presented with co-author Malini Srivastava, with credit to co-author John Barton, at the 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference June 28-29, 2019, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

13. (2018).  “On the Foregrounding of Photographic Biases in Architecture.” Presented at the 2018 Conference of the Design Communication Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

14. (2018). “Play in Architectural Pedagogy: Shifting Allegiances and Trading Projects.” Presented with co-author Malini Srivastava at the 2018 Fall Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

15. (2018). “On the Foregrounding of Photographic Biases in Architecture: A Study of Pruitt-Igoe.” Presented at the 2018 Dean’s Challenge Grant Panel (College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, NDSU), Fargo, North Dakota.

16. (2017). “Parasitical Analysis in the Built Environment: Scales of Complexity.” Presented at the 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Salt Lake City, Utah.

17. (2017). “Photography in the Urban Renewal Toolkit: The Case of Pruitt-Igoe.” Presented at the 2017 Conference of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Salt Lake City, Utah.

18. (2016).  “On the Construction of Digital Models and the (Non-)Significance of Gravity.” Presented at the 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, Montana.

19. (2016).  “Current Questions on Parasitical Analysis of Architectural Form.” Presented at the 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, Montana.

20. (2016). “Additive Manufacturing: A Convergence of Form and Material in the Digital Age.” Presented (with credit to co-author Malini Srivastava) at the 2016 Design Communication Association Biennial Conference, Pray, Montana.

21. (2016).  “Passive House Design-Build: Generative Full-Scale Pedagogy.” Presented (with credit to co-author Malini Srivastava) at the 2016 Passive and Low-Energy Architecture Conference, Los Angeles, California.

22. (2016). “Le Corbusier’s Museum of Unlimited Extension: Spirals and Occlusion Maps.” Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Seattle, Washington.

23. (2014). “The Urban Renewal Program in Fargo, North Dakota: Questions of Architectural and Urban Epistemology.” Presented at the 2014 Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

24. (2014). “Comprehensive Parasites.” Presented at the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Asia, May 2014, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.

25. (2014). “Making Architecture ‘Thinkable’: A Drawing Course in Beginning Design.” Presented at the 30th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, April 2014, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

26. (2012).  “Mixing Algorithms in Urban Analysis and Transformation.” Presented at the EAAE/ARCC International Conference on Architectural Research, June 2012, Milan, Italy.

27. (2012).  “Breaking the Box: Beginning Design Technology.” Presented at the 28th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, March 2012, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

28. (2011).  “Parametric Variation Revealing Architectural Untranslatability.” Presented at the 2011 Regional Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

29. (2010).  “On the Architectural Structure of Photographic Space.” Presented at the 2010 Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZASCA), UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. 

30. (2010).  “Three American Buildings: A Comparison of Approaches and Systems.” Presented at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. 

31. (2010).  “Corbusier’s Square Spiral: A Comparison of Structured Visibility.” Presented at the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh, India. 

32. (2010).  “Photography and the Vicarious Experience: Implications on Urban Safety?” Presented at the Young Architects’ Festival, Indian Institute of Architects, Jaipur, India. 

33. (2008).  “Questioning the Primacy of Visual Simulation in an Epistemology of Digital Models.” Presented at the 26th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (ECAADE), Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences, University College of Antwerp, Belgium. 

34. (2008).  “Structure, Memory, and Visibility,” with co-presenter Mark Barnhouse. Presented at the 2008 West Regional Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

35. (2008).  “Digitally Cultivating the Accident in Urban Analysis.” Presented at the 2008 West Central ACSA Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture. 

36. (2008).  “Spaces of Photography: The Digital Translatability of Old Ways of Seeing.” Presented at the 2008 West Central ACSA Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture. 

37. (2008).  “On the Relevance of Parameterization to Architectural Epistemology.” Presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Sciences Association, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. 

38. (2008).  “Adding to the Square Spiral: Architectural Interpretation Through Architectural Extension.” Presented at the 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.

39. (2008).  “On the Criticality of Artifacts to Architectural Interpretation,” with co-presenter Stephen Wischer. Presented at the 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic. 

40. (2007).  “Ownership and Media: The Architectural Case Study as an Articulation of Theoretical Stance.” Presented at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Design Communication Association (DCA), Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. 

41. (2007).  “Stewardship and Mediating Artifacts: Forwarding the Incomplete.” Presented at the ACSA-2007 Southeast Fall Conference (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

42. (2007).  “The Architecture School Building Structuring Perception of the City.” Presented at the ACSA-2007 Central Fall Conference (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), University of Waterloo, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. 

43. (2007).  “The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Architectural Case Studies” (co-written with Bakr Aly Ahmed). Presented at the 2007 Conference of the Design Educators’ Forum of South Africa (DEFSA), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 

44. (2007).  “Architectural Knowledge and Iterative Mediating Artifacts.” Presented at the 2007 Conference of the Design Educators’ Forum of South Africa (DEFSA), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 

45. (2007).  “Re-representation of Urban Imagery: Strategies for Constructing Knowledge.” Presented at the 2007 Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

46. (2006).  “Capabilities and Limitations of Autodesk Revit in a Construction Technology Course.” Presented in Plenary Session at the Building Technology Educators’ Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 

47. (2005). “Generative Full-Scale Investigations in Architecture: The Potential of the Unquantifiable.” Presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii.

48. (2005).  “A Proposal for a Cross-disciplinary Design Pedagogy: Generative Full-scale Investigations” (co-written with Malini Srivastava). Presented at the International Conference on Design Education: Tradition and Modernity, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. 

49. (2005).  “Accident and Predictability: An Analytical Methodology for Persistent Forces in the American City.” Presented at the ARCC-2005 Conference (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), Mississippi State University, Jackson, Mississippi. 

50. (2005).  “Productive Accident in Student Analysis of Urban Form and Space.” Presented at the ARCC-2005 Conference (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), Mississippi State University, Jackson, Mississippi.

51. (2005).  “Promoting Conditions for Productive Accident.” Presented at the ACSA-2005 International Conference (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), Mexico City, Mexico.