Trevor Ryan Patt is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut. Previously he was the 2020-21 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Profesor Invitado at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and assistant professor in Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His current research argues for a re-theorisation of the relationship between the monadological objects of architecture and their extension across the urban realm. Informed by computational analysis, design, and fabrication, a more bidirectional and co-responsive dialogue between architectural and urban design is possible: this research aims to thicken the moment of interface between architecture and the city.
Trevor completed a Docteur ès Science (Ph.D.) in the Media × Design Lab (le Laboratoire de Design et Media) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His dissertation, Assemblage Form: An ontology of the urban generic with regard to architecture, computation, and design, argues for a reevaluation of urban design and masterplanning that addresses the responsiveness, procedurality, and openness of the city.
During his dissertation research, Trevor was also a member of Swiss NSF: Research Programm 65, Food Urbanism Initiative.
He received an MArch from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he won the 2009 Digital Design Prize for his masters thesis, and a BS in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he graduated from the Honors College with additional minors in Latin, Mathematics, and a certificate in the Study of Liberal Arts through Great Books.
Trevor has exhibited, lectured, and published around the globe. In addition to this site, he occasionally writes short essays at -pli-plic-plex
