Emek Erdolu

Emek Erdolu is a Graduate Instructor and a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Design (PhD-CD) at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. His research focuses on the relationships between computation, collaboration and work in history and in contemporary architecture. His Ph.D. research investigates robotic systems in the everyday context of building design and construction practices through interpretive and critical technical methods such as archival research, ethnography, data science, physical computing and software interventions. It explores the relationship between the development of robotic systems and the ways these systems reconfigure work in building design and construction. Emek authored and co-authored publications featured in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI) and International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) and presented in conferences such as The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Emek was part of the Dense and Green Building Typologies research project of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), established by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the National Research Foundation Singapore. This research resulted in a book, Dense + Green Cities: Architecture as Urban Ecosystem (Birkhauser, 2020), and an exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2018. Previously, Emek practiced for seven years in the U.S., China and Southeast Asia, where he was involved in various architecture, landscape architecture and urban design projects with AECOM, HMD, Ecoland and Nomad Studio. Additionally, Emek lectured at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), and taught design studios at Bilkent University in Turkey. At Carnegie Mellon Architecture, he teaches the first year M.Arch Studio Praxis I.