Master Lecture: Vishwadeep Deo

Vishwadeep Deo is a Senior Associate and Façade Designer with Front Inc. Front is a cross-disciplinary collective of architects and engineers who bring specialized façade system design expertise to owners, designers, consultants, and contractors. With over eighteen years of construction industry experience, Vishwadeep has worked as lead façade consultant for prominent cultural, institutional, public, commercial, sports, transit and residential projects in North America, Europe and Asia. Vishwadeep is interested in deconstructing complex enclosure challenges using a convergence of research and practice. His expertise includes activating façade system design with optimization, analysis, fabrication processes, material behavior, advanced computation, and industry collaboration. 

Prior to Front, Vishwadeep worked with the Digital Design Group at Skidmore Owings & Merrill in New York, Digital Fabrication Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Ashok Dhawan Architects in New Delhi. Vishwadeep is a contributing studio façade consultant at University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University. Vishwadeep has presented at international symposiums like Facades+, Advanced Architectural Geometry and Façade Techtonics, and regularly participates in architecture studio reviews.

Vishwadeep is a Graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology with an M.S., with a concentration in Building Technology, and from School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi with a B.Arch. 

This event is part of Master Lectures, a new series designed for second-year Master of Architecture students, featuring presentations from experts in their field. For more information, please contact Associate Professor Simon Kim.

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