Jeremy Ficca
AIA, Associate Professor, Director: Digital Fabrication Lab
Phone: 412 268 6667
Email: jficca@cmu.edu
Bio
Jeremy Ficca is a licensed architect working in the professional, five-year Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) program. He has a post-professional MArch from Harvard University and a BArch from Virgina Tech. Jeremy teaches advanced design studios, digital and analog fabrication, media and is coordinator of the spring semester 2nd-year architectural design studios in the School of Architecture at CMU. As both an Academic and Practicing Architect, Jeremy is devoted to the importance of singular and collective making as a cornerstone for architectural education. He seeks to foster a critical and opportunistic attitude amongst students towards the utilization of digital and analog design and manufacturing processes. Fundamental to this understanding is the belief that the physical realm of design investigation is a necessary complement to virtual simulation. Jeremy joined CMU in the fall of 2007 as the founding Director of the Digital Fabrication Lab at CMU, a facility intended to bridge the digital and physical, while also equipping young professionals with the a critical knowledge base to thrive in an increasingly fluid and technologically sophisticated model of practice.Jeremy's professional practice and research involves the multi-scale utilization of common and emerging materials related to topics of tectonics, culture and customization. Fundamental to his work is an opportunistic attitude towards the use of technology as an instrument, serving larger agendas, as opposed to an end unto itself. Jeremy is particularly interested in evolving models of practice that afford deeper levels of collaboration between architects, associated disciplines and fabricators that reinvigorate the process of design and making.