Lecture series: Structure and computational Design

Monday 03.06.2024, 15:00 at i.sd main space: Rasa Navasaityte

Rasa Navasaityte is an architect and scholar specializing in the field of environmental design strategies. She is co-founder of lab-eds and a lecturer for Architecture Design at UT Austin School of Architecture. Rasa Navasaityte teaches courses in research by design, architecture composition, and the implications of computation on housing and the city’s ecologies. Her recent design research focuses on implementing circular design strategies that allow for decarbonizing urban areas by including environmental contexts and opening collaborative opportunities.

Before joining UT Austin, Rasa led the Large City Architecture Research Cluster at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, part of the Postgraduate Program. Furthermore, Rasa was a Research Fellow at Innsbruck University, where she is also conducting her PhD “Between the Parts” contributing to an architectural framework of ecological form at urban scales. She held workshops and design studios at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania and the University of East London. Rasa studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she completed her master’s degree with distinction, at the Studio Hadid. Her work has been exhibited at the Experimental Architecture Biennale in Prague, and in Innsbruck, Graz, Vilnius, Fort Worth, London, and Austin.