Visiting professor
Beatriz Colomina
Princeton University, School of Architecture
Short Term Visiting Professor 2024; Long Term Visiting Professor 2025
Bio
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written and curated extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality, and media. She is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture, the founding director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University, and the Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. program) in the School of Architecture. Her scholarly work has been published in more than 25 languages. Colomina has been the recipient of diverse awards and fellowships, including the Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship at the CASVA (Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts), SOM Foundation, Le Corbusier Foundation, Graham Foundation, the CCA (Canadian Centre for Architecture), The American Academy in Berlin, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, and the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin.
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During her stay at DAD as short term visiting professor, Beatriz taught the summer school course: “Healing Architecture” together with short term visiting professor Mark Wigley. The School, open to Bachelor and Master students from Architecture and Design, explored the long-lasting bond between architecture, illness and care, and will harness the architecture’s capacity to act as a form of prevention and cure. Beatriz and Mark gave an open lecture titled “Towards A Trans-species Architecture”.
During her stay at DAD as long term visiting professor, Beatriz taught the elective course “FORM FOLLOWS BACTERIA? Lessons from Modern Architecture” which was open to MA and PhD and included guided visits to the Milan Triennale. Beatriz also coordinated a PhD seminar titled “Towards A Trans-species Architecture” exploring the concept of Radical Pedagogy in architecture in the 1960s and 1970s, from the experiments in the classroom, the battles in the streets and the performances on the beach, to the encounter with other species in the wilderness.
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Fredy Fortich
MVRDV
Short Term Visiting Professor
Bio
Fredy Fortich is an Architect and Engineer specializing in computational design, has been pivotal in advancing MVRDV's integration of artificial intelligence and BIM into architectural practice. He holds a degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and a MSc Science Building Technology degree from Technical University Delft, Netherlands. Since joining MVRDV, he has served as a Technical Architect and BIM Manager at the French and Asia Studios, contributing his expertise in BIM coordination, performance-based design, generative design, and machine learning methods. His role has evolved and now shares a dual role as BIM coordinator as well as lead AI researcher at MVRDV's R&D department NEXT.
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During his stay at DAD, Fredy taught the Summer School “MVRDV AI-enhanced Architecture”, 13-20 September 2025.
The Summer School “MVRDV AI-enhanced Architecture” explores how AI can be systematically integrated into different design stages to enhance the critical roles of architects and designers in the design process. The course immerses students in MVRDV’s design methodology and evolving project workflows, focusing on how AI-driven processes are reshaping design generation, influencing spatial and structural analysis, informing material and lighting selection, and structuring increasingly complex computational methodologies. Through case studies and hands-on applications, students will explore how AI can reshape the organization and interpretation of design data, automate iterative tasks, and refine predictive modeling within architectural projects.
Dave Murray Rust
TU Delft
Short Term Visiting Professor
Bio
Prof. Murray Rust’s work centres on human-
algorithm interaction: creating systems that support novel, natural forms of humanmachine interaction and creativity, using data as a medium for design while exploring social and technical issues. He is antidisciplinary, carrying out research that touches on computer science, design, installation art, music, environmental sciences and beyond.
The core of this practice is a synthesis between the practices and ways of working of design, the possibilities computer science and the understandings of philosophy and design theory. This comes together as prototyping relational AI – developing strategies for understanding and shaping the social and human relations around AI systems.
Through the AI Futures Lab, he is leading work on how speculative and critical design can inform the creation of more just AI systems in the emerging practice of remote and distributed working. Through developing novel educational methods within the Interdisciplinary Technology Design course he is developing better ways to understand and prototype AI systems, drawing on metaphors, roleplay and other experiential practices as part of technological process. Through work with AITech, he is developing fundamental models of human AI interaction that build functional bridges between designers and AI engineers. With the DCODE project, he is looking at how theories, values and practices come together to shape the principled design of AI systems.
Mark Wigley
Columbia GSAPP
Short Term Visiting Professor 2024
Bio
Mark Wigley is Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. He is a historian, theorist, and critic who explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. He received both his Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and his Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center, Columbia University, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Power Station of Art. He was the co-curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial in 2016 with Beatriz Colomina, the curator of The Human Insect: Antennas 1886-2017 at Het Nieuw Instituut, Rotterdam in 2018 and most recently “Passing Through Architecture: The 10 Years of Gordon Matta-Clark” at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2019–20).
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During his stay at DAD as short term visiting professor, Mark taught the summer school course: “Healing Architecture” together with short term visiting professor Beatriz Colomina. The School, open to Bachelor and Master students from Architecture and Design, explored the long-lasting bond between architecture, illness and care, and will harness the architecture’s capacity to act as a form of prevention and cure. Beatriz and Mark gave an open lecture titled “Towards A Trans-species Architecture”.