Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellow
The Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellows is an initiative at the School of Architecture intended for young faculty who are at the beginning of their careers and interested in interdisciplinary teaching and research that merges design, technology, and culture.
Michael Stradley, Ventulett Fellow 2024–2026
Michael Stradley is a designer and educator interested in the transformative, disruptive, and sometimes surprising potential of emerging and defunct technology. An architect by training, Stradley pursues methods of design research which cut across a range of scales, and borrow processes and knowledge from architecture-adjacent disciplines. Recent projects include oil paintings executed by CNC-machine; a book of computer-generated, imaginary brushstrokes; an annually-editioned, absurdist material encyclopedia; and an exploration of architectural color theory in the context of computational design.
Christina Shivers, Ventulett Fellow 2023–2025
Christina Shivers is an academic, architect, and musician whose research broadly focuses on the intersection of environmental and economic thought specifically within the design disciplines. Her Ph.D. dissertation investigated the interconnection of design and resource extraction in Canada and the United States by researching the history of surface mining and land reclamation. This work developed an analysis of the ways in which the architectural, landscape and planning professions influenced environmental policy at the national and international scales. Shivers is also a visual artist and electronic musician.
Andrew Bruno, Ventulett Fellow 2022-2024
Andrew Bruno is the Ventulett NEXT Fellow at Georgia Tech for 2022-2024. He is a registered architect and educator. Andrew’s research for the NEXT Fellowship focuses on the history of the detached house and the suburbs more broadly in the creation of the sprawling American built environment. He reimagines the standardized urban, architectural, and construction practices that have led to our present condition. New practices could create a suburbia that supports programmatic and demographic diversity, deeper bonds of community and family, and greater sustainability.
Logman Arja, Ventulett Fellow 2020-2022
Logman began his two-year term as Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellow in the Fall 2020 semester. His research focuses on RURALISM in architectural discourse and additive manufacturing technology in rural communities and contexts. As a proponent of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and experience, Logman offers his students the opportunity to work in new places, ecologies, and perhaps with new approaches.
Ryan Roark, Ventulett Fellow 2019-2021
Ryan began her two-year term as Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellow in the Fall 2019 semester and is an architectural designer and writer who focuses the role of history in building design and urban planning. She was a 2017 KPF Paul Katz Fellow in London, where she studied different typologies of design interventions into old buildings and the attitudes to history they represent. Her NEXT Fellowship research and design work at Georgia Tech will continue this formal, tectonic, and historical investigation as well as examining the role augmented and mixed reality will play in the design of the 21st-century city.
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ventulett Fellow 2018-2020
Vernelle began her two-year term as Ventulett NEXT Generational Visiting Fellow in the Fall 2018 semester. As a research scientist, computational designer, artist, and architect, Noel’s work largely focuses on craft and cultural design practices, computational making, and lightweight architecture.
Jonathan Dessi-Olive, Ventulett Fellow 2017-2019
Jonathan served as the School of Architecture's first Ventulett NEXT Visiting Fellow. His work takes a critical approach to technology while integrating history and theory of architecture, contemporary compression-only construction, and computational design. Jonathan is now an assistant professor of architecture at Kansas State University.