Assistant Professor
Hans Tursack is a designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a BFA in studio art from the Cooper Union School of Art, and an M.Arch from the Princeton University School of Architecture where he was the recipient of the Underwood Thesis Prize. He has worked in the offices of LEVENBETTS Architects, SAA/Stan Allen Architecture, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. His writing and scholarly work have appeared in Perspecta Journal, Pidgin Magazine, Plat, Crop Journal, Thresholds Journal, Log Journal andAcadia. He was the 2018-2021 Pietro Belluschi Fellow at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis (2022-2023). Hans is currently a PhD student in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
EDUCATION
- M.Arch, Princeton University School of Architecture
- BFA, Cooper Union School of Art
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Tursack, Hans. "Spectral Ruins: Empathy with Inanimate Material Movements." IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing.
2022 Tursack, Hans, and Viola Ago. "A Pavilion in Parts: Exhibit Columbus." In ACADIA Conference Proceedings Publication, 2022.
2022 Tursack, Hans. Interview in Crop Journal, no. 09. Texas Tech School of Architecture.
2022 Tursack, Hans. "As Cultural Artifacts: A Conversation with Hans Tursack." Interview in Plat, no. 10. Rice School of Architecture.
2021 Tursack, Hans. "Anxious Vision: The First Person Perspective View in 3D Gaming Culture." Impossible and Hyper-Real, edited by Carl Lostritto. Invited chapter.
2020 Tursack, Hans. "Theoretical Notes on the Aesthetics of Texture Mapping." In ACADIA Conference Proceedings Publication, 2020.
2019 Tursack, Hans. "Late to the After Party: Neo-Geometric Architecture." Perspecta 52. Yale School of Architecture.
