2023

Structures Instructors: Richard Farley, Masoud Akbarzadeh, Mostafa Akbari (TA)

This seminar covers the study of static and hyperstatic systems and design of their elements. Flexural theory, elastic and plastic. Design for combined stresses; prestressing. The study of graphic statics and the design of trusses. The course comprises both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored., [...]

2023

Developing Computational Solutions for Design Problems Instructors: Mostafa Akbari, Yao Lu

This seminar aimed at students who seek to identify, investigate, formulate, and resolve design problems in Architecture and Structural Design using advanced computational techniques. This course goes through the critical knowledge and technical foundations that current computational design and Computational Structures are built upon, [...]

2018-2019

Digiblast Instructors: Danielle Willems, Ezio Blasetti , Mostafa Akbari (TA)

Digiblast is an intensive workshop that outlines digital modeling, representation and fabrication for incoming Master of Architecture students. The workshop operates as an introduction to contemporary computational geometries and digital workflows. [...]

2019

Material Formation Instructors: Robert Stuart Smith, Mostafa Akbari (TA), Mariana Righi ( TA ), Yi Dazhong(TA)

Material Formations introduces principles of generative design into the discipline of architecture, providing opportunities for architects to synthesize multiple performance criteria within design that leverage organizational principles in order to negotiate relations between[...]

2019

Next Generation Airport Terminals Instructors : Masoud Akbarzadeh, Mostafa Akbari ( TA)

The main research objectives of the studio can be summarized as formal structural explorations of the efficient structural typologies suitable for infrastructural design; material computing research, including tectonic studies on the design of structural forms using various [...]