Principal Investigator

Andres Sevtsuk, PhD   andres_sevtsuk[at]sutd.edu.sg 

Assistant Professor in Architecture & Planning.  MIT PhD 2010, SMArchS 2006; EAMLV BArch 2003.

POST DOCS

Martin Scoppa, PhD   martin_scoppa[at]sutd.edu.sg 

Georgia Tech 2013, College of Architecture. 

Martin joined the City Form Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in May 2013. He holds a PhD in architecture from Georgia Tech, and a professional degree in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires.

He is a registered architect in Argentina since 1998, and has several years of research and practical experience in architecture, urban design, and planning. He worked in public service, as a Planning Officer for the City of Buenos Aires, and privately, as an architect and urban design consultant collaborating in projects in Argentina, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

His research focuses on measuring and describing the spatial structure of the built environment, and assessing its impact on accessibility and the location and emergence of urban centers. At the City Form Lab, he is investigating the spatial distribution of economic activity in informal settlements of South East Asia. 

Apart from his research and professional activities, he taught design foundation studios to undergraduate students at Georgia Tech for the past three years.

ResearchERS

Raul Kalvo   raul[at]inphysica.com

Estonian Academy of Arts 2009, Architecture and City Planning.

Raul is an architect, programmer, artist and humanist. Prior to joining the City Form Lab, he worked with 3+1 Architects in Tallinn and taught descriptive geometry and computation design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. At the City Form Lab, Raul has been the project manager for the SUTD Library Pavilion, the Archifest Pavilion, and the World Cities Summit exhibition.

Reza Amin Darbari   r.a.darbari[at]gmail.com 

University of Michigan 2010, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning.

Prior to joining City Form Lab, Reza was a researcher in Making the Clean Energy City Project at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and taught as an adjunct professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, in Boston. He holds a Master of Urban Design from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Architectural Technology and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tehran.  He has also practiced architecture and urban design since 2003. Reza’s research interest concerns the role that urban form plays in socio-economic and environmental performance of cities, and conversely, how socio-economic forces change city form. His interests include also advanced spatial analysis techniques and GIS technologies required for investigating this reciprocal relationship. 

Onur Ekmekci   onur[at]onur-ekmekci.com

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm 2012, Architecture and Planning.

Born in Istanbul, Onur is an architect and urban designer. He studied architecture at the City University of New York and worked at firms including Tsao & McKown and Curtis+Ginsberg Architects in New York City. He attended various academic programs, including Bauhaus Kolleg’s post-graduate level urban studies program “Cities of Tomorrow” (researching mainly on Singapore’s modernist urban development), as well as Berlage Institute (Netherlands), and TFH Berlin(Germany).  He recently received his master degree in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design from KTH-the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden).   He has contributed to journals including MONU, eOculus and Studio Magazine among others. At the City Form Lab, Onur has led documentation surveys of dense urban neighborhoods in Bugis and Punggol and explored novel analytic techniques for capturing their critical quality indicators. 

Affiliates

Michael Mekonnen   mikemeko[at]mit.edu

MIT 2013, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering.

Michael is student in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT. He loves clever algorithms and good soccer. Besides collaborating with the City Form Lab, Michael has been working for Google.  

Farré Nixon (Faye)   fayefaye[at]mit.edu

MIT 2012, Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Faye recently graduate from the Urban Studies and Planning undergraduate program at MIT. Her wide-ranging interests include art, photography, landscapes and architecture and international development. At the City Form Lab, Faye has developed new survey methods for documenting dense urban neighborhoods, participated in the design of the World Cities Summit exhibit and the Archifest Pavilion Competition.