About

Patrick Danahy is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Director of the Architectural Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AI-rLAB).

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University, where he received the graduating Faculty award and the Peter Lee and Kenneth Russo Award for Design Excellence. He later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Architecture, receiving the Kanter-Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation, the Paul Cret T-Square Fellowship, the Van Alen Traveling Fellowship, the Dales Fellowship, the Kohn Fellowship, the Schenk-Woodman Merit Award and upon graduating was awarded the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Silver Medal.

In 2022, he was selected as the distinguished professor to lead an Advanced Design Studio at Texas A&M University, receiving the award for Best Design Studio, while serving as the Design Innovation Fellow at Ball State University. He has taught several workshops on emerging media and digital technologies including at the 2022 ACADIA conference, the UCL Bartlett RC20 Skills-Share program, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught in several institutions including Design Studios at Texas A&M and Ball State University, Advanced Design Studios in the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and algorithmic design courses for the post-professional Robotics and Autonomous Systems program at the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick was also a lecturer and the Emerging Scholar in Design at the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching focuses on computation and robotics, integrating architectural reference with emerging machine learning technologies.

Patrick's research has been published and presented in international conferences and top research journals including the International Journal for Architectural Computing (IJAC), the 2020 Digital Futures Young conference, ACADIA Distributed Proximities, ICRA, ACADIA Hybrids & Haecceities, TRAITS Post Digital Neobaroque, SIGRADI and CAADRIA Post Carbon, where he received the award for best presentation runner up, co-authored with Robert Stuart-Smith. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, and in galleries at the University of Innsbruck, Pratt, Ball State, and the University of Pennsylvania.

While at Georgia Tech, Patrick has been awarded the Bill Kent Family Foundation Fellowship Award for AI in Higher Education and an Early Career Seed Grant for the College of Design, both awarded for his work in AI integration into robotic systems. Patrick is the coordinator of the second year, where he has implemented policies to allow every second-year undergraduate student to access cutting edge AI software platforms, and learn custom coding, while also ensuring every student has operated a robot before moving into their third year of schooling. This effort ensures that students engage in hands-on learning and address the most pressing and contemporary issues of our time. Patrick in a part of the AI Workgroup for the College of Design, advising on AI policy, as well as publishing in the AI Playbook, a textbook edited by David Joyner, detailing 70 instructional methods for AI implementation into the classroom at Georgia Tech. As a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Patrick has partnered with Dr. Edvard Bruun in the Bruun Automation Research Lab (BAR LAB) to establish the Sustainable Construction Research Neighborhood, an inter-disciplinary collaborative infrastructure to share and communicate resources across campus. This later developed into the establishment of the Intelligent Robotics for Assembly and Design Vertically Integrated Project (VIP), which allows for undergraduate involvement in leading research across multiple semesters.