Carl Lostritto

Carl Lostritto is a Professor and Director at the School of Architecture, College of Architecture + Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A former student of MIT's Design and Computation group, he teaches, practices, and researches at the intersection of computation and architectural representation. His work involves speculative architecture with experimental techniques and custom computational tools.

His research centers on computational drawing and algorithmic representation, with a significant body of work produced via code-controlled vintage pen-plotter machines. Exploring the conceptual and practical relationships between rendering, drawing, and digital culture, his publications include the book Computational Drawing and the forthcoming Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture, both designed to instruct and provoke.

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Lostritto served as the Graduate Program Director for Architecture at RISD from 2017 to 2022, leading initiatives to reform and expand the M.Arch program. He also co-created RISD's interdisciplinary Computation, Technology & Culture undergraduate concentration, demonstrating his commitment to innovative architectural education.