Education

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. Clemson University. 2017, Minor in Business Administration
Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. 2020

Biography

Patrick Danahy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Previously, he has held positions as the Emerging Scholar in Design at the University of Texas at Austin, the Design Innovation Fellow at Ball State University and a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Kanter-Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation, the Paul Cret T-Square Fellowship, the Van Alen Traveling Fellowship, the Dales Fellowship, the Kohn Fellowship, the Schenk-Woodman Merit Award and upon graduating was awarded the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Silver Medal.

In 2022, he was selected as the distinguished professor of an Advanced Design Studio at Texas A&M University, where he received the ‘Best Design Studio’ award for that year. He has taught workshops on emerging media and digital technologies including at the 2022 ACADIA conference, the UCL Bartlett RC20 Skills-Share program, the University of Kentucky, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching focuses on computation and robotics, integrating architectural reference with emerging machine-learning technologies.

Patrick's research has been presented in international conferences including Digital Futures Young, ACADIA, ICRA, TRAITS Post Digital Neobaroque, SIGRADI and CAADRIA, where his team received the award for best presentation runner up. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, the ENVD Gallery at the University of Colorado Boulder, at the Month of Modern, and in galleries at the Pratt Institute, Ball State University, the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania.

Statement of Teaching Interest

Professor Danahy teaches computation as a core design skill, opening access to AI-integrated workflows, critical digital methods, and emerging robotic tools. His courses emphasize transparent, hands-on processes that make advanced technologies—AI, vision systems, and fabrication robotics—accessible across the curriculum. He empowers students to understand, adapt, and design with intelligent systems, cultivating creativity, inquiry, and cultural awareness in an evolving technological landscape.

Statement of Research Interest

Professor Danahy’s research drives new integrations of material intelligence, emergent behavior, and Industry 4.0 automation to advance AI-enabled design and fabrication. He links high-resolution sensing, optimization, and robotic production with the traditions of craft, ornamentation, and feature-based design—treating materials as active collaborators rather than passive substrates. By fusing artificial intelligence with automated making, his work develops next-generation workflows where machines read, respond to, and reshape material systems, expanding the technical and expressive possibilities of architectural production.