A team of four PhD students in the computation program of the Department of Architecture has recently racked up a string of impressive wins in design competitions.
Referred to as SPARC, the international team consists of Sergio Araya of Chile, Orkan Telhan of Turkey, Duks Koschitz of Austria and Alexandros Tsamis of Greece.
Together, on their own "free time," they work on projects ranging from object design to landscape architecture - often in collaboration with artists, designers and consultants - experimenting with different levels of "embedded behavior" by which designed material becomes an active interface between people and the built environment.


