Patrick Danahy

Patrick Danahy is a Lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design and a Lecturer and Emerging Scholar in Design at the University of Texas at Austin.

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, while serving as the Design Innovation Fellow at Ball State University. He has taught workshops on emerging media and digital technologies including at the 2022 ACADIA conference, the UCL Bartlett RC20 Skills-Share program, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught in several programs 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 Computation courses in the MSD–RAS and M.Arch programs at the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching focuses on computation and robotics, integrating architectural reference with emerging machine-learning technologies.

Patrick's research has been presented in international conferences including 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 with Robert Stuart-Smith. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, and in galleries at Pratt, Ball State, and the University of Pennsylvania.